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Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven elected to Hall of Fame
Roberto Alomar, a 12-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winning second baseman, and Bert Blyleven, a 287-game winning pitcher who ranks fifth on the all-time strikeout list, were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in balloting verified by Ernst & Young.
They will be inducted into the Hall July 24 at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., along with executive Pat Gillick, who was elected last month by the Expansion Era Committee. Also to be honored over Induction Weekend will be Bill Conlin of the Philadelphia Daily News with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing and longtime Montreal Expos voice Dave Van Horne with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting.
Results | BBWAA inductees
A record 581 ballots, including five blanks, were cast by BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years' service. Players must be named on 75 percent of ballots submitted to be elected. This year, 436 votes were required. The previous record total of ballots submitted in a BBWAA election was 545 in 2007 when Cal Ripken Jr. was elected with 537 votes and Tony Gwynn with 532, the two top individual vote totals.
Alomar, who was in his second year on the ballot, received 523 votes, the third highest total in history, for a 90-percent plurality. He was the 26th player to reach the 90-percent level in BBWAA elections. Blyleven, who was in his 14th and next to last year of eligibility, was named on 463 ballots for 79.7 percent. Their election brings to 295 the number of elected Hall members. Of that total, 205 are former major-league players, of which 111 have been through the BBWAA ballot. Alomar is the 20th second baseman (18th former major leaguer) and Blyleven the 72nd pitcher (63rd former major leaguer) elected to the Hall.
Alomar batted .300 with a .371 on-base average and a .443 slugging percentage over a 17-season career with the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks. The switch hitter totaled 2,724 hits, 1,508 runs, 504 doubles, 80 triples, 210 home runs, 1,134 runs batted in and 474 stolen bases. Alomar, whose father and brother, both named Sandy, played in the majors, was on Toronto's World Series champions of 1992 and '93, was the Most Valuable Player of the 1992 American League Championship Series and MVP of the 1998 All-Star Game at Coors Field in Denver.
Blyleven pitched in 22 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians and California Angels and compiled a 287-250 record with a 3.31 ERA, 242 complete games, 60 shutouts and 3,701 strikeouts in 4,969 1/3 innings. The righthander pitched a no-hitter on Sept. 22, 1977 for the Rangers against the Angels and shares the AL single-game record for the longest one-hit complete game of 10 innings June 21, 1976. He, too, was a key part of two World Series champions, the 1979 Pirates and the 1987 Twins.
The only other players to gain more than 50 percent of the vote were shortstop Barry Larkin with 361 votes (62.1%) and pitcher Jack Morris with 311 (53.5%).
Players may remain on the ballot for up to 15 years provided they receive five percent of the vote in any year. There were 17 candidates who failed to make the cut this year, including 15 of the 19 players who were on the ballot for the first time. First-year candidates who received sufficient support to remain were Jeff Bagwell with 242 (41.7%), Larry Walker with 118 (20.3%), Rafael Palmeiro with 64 (11%) and Juan Gonzalez with 30 (5.2%).
Other holdovers that will remain on the ballot in addition to Larkin and Morris are first basemen Mark McGwire, Fred McGriff and Don Mattingly; outfielders Tim Raines and Dale Murphy; designated hitter-third baseman Edgar Martinez; shortstop Alan Trammell and relief pitcher Lee Smith. In his 15th and final year on the ballot, Dave Parker received 89 votes (15.3%).
Roberto Alomar 523 90.0%
Bert Blyleven 463 79.7%
Barry Larkin 361 62.1%
Jack Morris 311 53.5%
Lee Smith 263 45.3%
Jeff Bagwell 242 41.7%
Tim Raines 218 37.5%
Edgar Martinez 191 32.9%
Alan Trammell 141 24.3%
Larry Walker 118 20.3%
Mark McGwire 115 19.8%
Fred McGriff 104 17.9%
Dave Parker 89 15.3%
Don Mattingly 79 13.6%
Dale Murphy 73 12.6%
Rafael Palmeiro 64 11.0%
Juan Gonzalez 30 5.2%
Harold Baines 28 4.8%
John Franco 27 4.6%
Kevin Brown 12 2.1%
Tino Martinez 6 1.0%
Marquis Grissom 4 0.7%
Al Leiter 4 0.7%
John Olerud 4 0.7%
B.J. Surhoff 2 0.3%
Bret Boone 1 0.2%
Benito Santiago 1 0.2%
Carlos Baerga 0 0.0%
Lenny Harris 0 0.0%
Bobby Higginson 0 0.0%
Charles Johnson 0 0.0%
Raul Mondesi 0 0.0%
Kirk Rueter 0 0.0%


Nearly half of Winter Park Magazine's 2018 list of the city's most influential people have a connection to the College.
Every year, Winter Park Magazine publishes a list of the city's most influential residents in its summer issue. Not surprisingly, Tars tend to appear prominently. Rita Bornstein '04H '04HAL, Polly Seymour, Micki Meyer, and Ena Heller made the 2017 edition of the list. Four more Tars, including President Grant Cornwell and Peg Cornwell, made the cut in 2016, and the inaugural list in 2015 included Allan E. Keen '70 '71MBA '10H, Thaddeus Seymour, and Harold Ward '86H.
This year, more than half of the honorees boast a past or present connection to the College. To celebrate, we put together a sneak peek of this year's collection of influential Tars. The full list appears in the magazine's Summer 2018 issue, which is available now.
Why he's on the list: The magazine's editors call Ginsburg, who is the CEO of AHG Group and a Rollins trustee, one of the region's most respected and generous philanthropists.
Why he's on the list: Because "his management savvy" and "his accessibility and pay-it-forward personal philosophy" have helped the AAA Four Diamond hotel rank among the best in the world.
Why she's on the list: Because McKinnon has helped spearhead some of the area's most significant developments through her consulting firm, McKinnon Associates.


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About the Blog – What's Cookin' @ Special Collections?!
Virginia Tech Special Collections is home to a collection relating to the history of food & drink of more than 4,600 books and publications (with additional items available in the library's circulating collection), as well as six dozen manuscript collections. In addition to sharing 350 years of recipes (with an emphasis on Virginia), the collection also helps document social history, household management, domestic economy, and food processing/technology.
In September 2011, we started the blog to share items from the collection with larger audience. Every week, you'll learn about an item in the collection. Throughout the week, we also post news stories relating to food and food history, upcoming events (usually around Blacksburg and the greater Roanoke area, but not always!), recipes from historic cookbooks (the good AND the bad), and other food-related things that catch our attention. In general, posts are written by archivist and part-time foodie, Kira Dietz, so you can blame all typos, puns (oh, there will be many), and other mistakes squarely on her!
Feel free to contact us with questions, comments, or suggestions about specific items or the history of food & drink in general. You can also see more about the collection on our website.
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Fascinating history! Thank you for this blog that is both scholarly and very entertaining.
Very cool! I love books, I love old stuff, I love kitchen stuff. I wish you had a Facebook page for this. Or do you and I couldn't find it?
Hi, thanks for commenting! We do not currently have a Facebook page, but you can occasionally also find content about the History of Food and Drink Collection on the Virginia Tech University Libraries Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/VTLibraries) and sometimes on Special Collections' other blog, In Special Collections at Virginia Tech (http://vtspecialcollections.wordpress.com/).
Thanks! I appreciate your reply!
So, just a couple of updates. While we don't have an official Facebook page for the collection, there is one now for the Peacock Harper Culinary History Friends. This is the group that helped launch the collection and they remain our biggest supporters and donor group. The page includes content from the collection and our blog posts: https://www.facebook.com/culinaryhistory/. We have also recently launched a Twitter account for our entire department, which will include some culinary history: https://twitter.com/VT_SCUA.


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Samsara was founded in 2015 by the co-founders of Meraki (now part of Cisco Systems), the cloud-managed networking leader that powers over 2 million networks worldwide. Samsara's fast-growing team of 1,300 employees is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in San Jose, Atlanta, and London. Our team has raised over $530M from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer.
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10,000+ customers worldwide
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Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Founder, Board Member
Sanjit co-founded Samsara to make it easier and more affordable for businesses to deploy sensors at a massive scale. Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012 Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking. He also serves on the boards of ThousandEyes and Highfive Technologies, and is an investor in several startups.
Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
John Bicket
CTO & Founder, Board Member
John is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks.
Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki's platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product.
John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
Dominic Philips
Dominic is the Chief Financial Officer at Samsara and leads worldwide financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, procurement, tax, treasury, corporate development, investor relations, legal, IT, and real estate. Previously, Dominic was VP of Finance and Head of Corporate Development at ServiceNow where he led several finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, investor relations, treasury, and corporate development. Prior to ServiceNow, Dominic was a VP on Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking team where he advised technology companies on a wide range of transformational financings and strategic transactions. Dominic holds a B.S. in Business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Kiren Sekar
VP Marketing & Product Management
Kiren is responsible for Samsara's product strategy, positioning, and outbound marketing. A proven technology leader, Kiren's broad experience ranges from product development to communications and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Samsara, Kiren was VP of Marketing at Meraki, where he was responsible for product marketing, brand, communications, and demand generation. Kiren was the first to bring modern, web-oriented marketing to enterprise networking, and developed innovative programs that sourced over half of Meraki's sales. Kiren's engineering-oriented business approach comes from his time as a technical leader at high-growth startups. Kiren holds patents for his work in network protocol design at Apple.
Kiren has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.
Ben Calderon
VP Hardware Engineering & Operations
Ben brings over 15 years of experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for hardware design and operations. Before Samsara, Ben was VP of Hardware Engineering and Operations at Meraki, where he led the development of over 40 unique hardware products. Working with the industry's top semiconductor companies, Ben created a nimble development and supply chain operation that enabled Meraki to rapidly bring new products to market and scale to ship hundreds of thousands of units globally. Prior to Meraki, Ben was a key member of Apple's hardware team, where he managed notebook launches and iPod supply chains. Ben has also developed PVD and CVD semiconductor equipment at Applied Materials.
Ben has an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.
Andy McCall
VP Worldwide Sales
Andy brings 20 years of sales experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for leading the team that brings Samsara's solutions to market. Previously, Andy was VP of Worldwide Sales at Meraki, and continued as VP of Sales for the global Meraki business after the company's acquisition by Cisco Systems. Over an eight year span, Andy led Meraki's sales growth from less than $10 million per year to over $1 billion. Prior to Meraki, Andy held various sales and channel leadership positions with Nokia's network security business, leading up to a sale to Check Point. Andy has a B.A. from University California at Irvine, and a MBA and doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University. His doctoral research was on measuring productivity in mobile workforces.
Aidan Madigan-Curtis
VP and General Manager, Connected Worker
Aidan leads Samsara's end-to-end Operations, including hardware New Product Introduction, manufacturing, supply chain, global logistics and Customer Support. She has played a critical role in the development and launch of all of Samsara's major hardware products, and designed and operates Samsara's robust global supply chain and quality management systems. Aidan also established Samsara's key global partnerships with major cloud and cellular service providers and semiconductor manufacturers.
Aidan brings over 9 years of experience in operations and business analytics to Samsara. Prior to joining Samsara, Aidan helped launch the first AppleWatch and the iPhone6S as a member of Apple's Global Operations team. She was also an investment analyst at the world's largest global macro hedge fund, Bridgewater, where she worked with the CIO and CEO to scale company operations from 500 to 1500 people.
Aidan has an MBA and electrical engineering training from Stanford, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
Melissa Yeh
Melissa brings over 15 years of experience to Samsara, where she is responsible for leading the People & Places team. Before Samsara, Melissa led People Operations at Meraki and focused on creating a great employee experience from its high growth startup stage to a successful integration as part of Cisco. In addition to her experience with Meraki, Melissa previously held leadership positions at Medallia and Altman Vilandrie & Co. bringing expertise in recruitment, HR operations, employee engagement programs, and workplace services.
Melissa has a B.A. in Cognitive Science from University of California at Berkeley, and an M.S. in Organizational Learning & Development from Suffolk University.
Rushil Goel
VP, Product Management
Rushil leads Product Management at Samsara, and is responsible for product vision and strategy for its connected fleets platform. In his role, Rushil leverages years of experience bringing disruptive technology products to market. Before Samsara, Rushil introduced several key product lines at Ola, one of the world's largest ride-sharing and mobility companies. As Head of Ola Money, Rushil launched and scaled Ola's payments business to $1 billion in annual transactions, making it one of the top mobile wallets in India. Rushil also co-founded and led product development at AirCare, a digital health start-up for telemedicine and remote monitoring, which was later sold to Cardinal Health. His previous experience includes consulting for major technology companies at BCG, and Ph.D. research on machine
Rushil holds a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Bombay, and an MBA from Wharton.
Ryan Reading
Ryan leads Samsara's high performance software engineering team. Ryan has played a central role in scaling the team and the Samsara platform to meet the rapidly changing needs of a company in hyper-growth. Ryan's teams iterate quickly and enjoy a high level of autonomy, ownership, and impact that is central to Samsara's engineering culture.
Ryan brings over 16 years of experience in engineering and engineering leadership to Samsara. Prior to Samsara, Ryan led teams at Cisco Meraki making network security and analytics easy to deploy and use. Ryan also served 13 years in the United States Federal Government in engineering and engineering leadership building, securing, and deploying communications systems of national security interest.
Ryan has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Missouri S&T
VP and General Manager, Industrial
Pete is responsible for leading the Samsara Industrials business - helping customers unlock the power of data through easy to deploy, and easy to manage, internet-connected sensor systems. Previously, Pete spent 7 years at Meraki where he built a world-class Channel team and led the integration of Meraki into Cisco's channel programs and strategies post-acquistion. He then went on to lead a 700 person organization as VP of Worldwide Sales for Cisco Meraki. Through both of these roles, Pete helped grow Meraki from less than $100M per year to nearly $2B. Prior to Meraki Pete spent 6 years as a management consultant, helping industrial companies gain business value through better environmental performance.
Pete has a B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
Amit Vyas
VP Mid Market Sales
Amit brings 20 years of experience across IT, networking, and sales to Samsara, where he is responsible for the global mid-market sales organization. Previously, Amit was VP of Worldwide Sales at Highfive, where he was responsible for building and managing direct and channel sales, sales operations, and sales engineering. He successfully grew revenue the first year of product launch and transitioned the sales organization from a hardware-only business to a recurring revenue model. Prior to Highfive, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the inside sales team. During his 4 years, Amit grew his team to over a $100M annual run rate at Meraki, and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki's acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. Prior to Meraki, Amit held various IT and sales positions within the hardware industry.
Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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Transcript of Minister for Health, Greg Hunt's interview on 2GB with Steve Price regarding the Health Budget, Pension Loan Scheme and new hospitals agreement.
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STEVE PRICE:
One of the biggest announcements in last night's budget was money for health. The 2018/19 Budget is really putting the asset on this argument from Labor, the Mediscare argument of the last campaign. There will be a $12.4 billion increase in the health budget and $414.5 billion investment in health, aged care and sport. The Health Minister Greg Hunt joins us on the line. Thanks for your time.
GREG HUNT:
And good evening Steve.
Can we afford it?
Yes we can because all up as a country we've got a much stronger economy and that actually allows us to deliver these essential services and get back to surplus as well as to deliver the tax cuts and the tax reliefs. So they're the big three things; the services, the surplus and the tax cuts and the tax relief.
The states agreement, you've still got South Australia and Queensland, is that right, holding out, what happens to them in terms of funding?
So two states still to go and it's Victoria and Queensland actually...
And what I think is that it looks like one of them — I won't give it away — is preparing to sign on and then the other one everyone says will sign on after their state election if not earlier. We've provisioned the funding for them and if they sign on they get the funding and obviously in the end we expect everybody to sign on but we've added an extra $30 billion for hospital funding over the period 2020 to 2025 and it's there in the Budget, long term budgeted, funded and what that means is more services for people who want to go to their hospitals.
Yeah, I don't expect you to give away which state it is but there's a November state election happening in Victoria and I wouldn't want to be a state premier or state health minister going into a state election saying, well, we may not be able to fund hospitals because Canberra won't give us the money and then Canberra says well that's because you haven't signed the agreement.
Oh look it's a case of, every other state has said, wow this is a great deal. An extra $30 billion. If Victoria doesn't seem to be very interested at this point, Queensland is much more interested and they are being very constructive I've got to say. So at the end of the day I think we'll end up getting all of the states and that — we don't need all of the states to sign on because for New South Wales they've signed on, they'll get their funds, for Tassi or for South Australia, Western Australia, ACT, Northern Territory, three Liberal, three Labor.
To your broader package, I'm very taken with the longer life package that you announced. Parts of it are complicated but I think the underlying message of it will resonate. You've recognised that a big bubble of baby boomers is coming through Australia.
There's going to be a large number of Australians close to retirement or getting toward retirement. There's going to be a lot more pressure on the aged care sector. Can I ask you a couple of things about that? You've put in the Budget an additional 14,000 high level home care package packages, that's in addition to I think 20,000 that you'd already funded. That doesn't sound like a lot but is it?
Yes it is. So what you see is there's very significant growth. More people are getting older but more people want to stay at home and get their treatment at home if they are starting to lose mobility or the capacity to take care of themselves than to go into a residential place. So what you'll see is that there's very, very significant growth across all of the home care packages.
We'll end up going from 111,000 packages this year, which itself is up from 87 last year, to 151 in just four years. So overall an increase of growth of 40,000. Twenty you were right, were already provisioned to grow, and then we've added 6000 in December, 14,000 overnight. Basically what does it mean? It means a lot more high care packages for people who want to remain at home rather than to go into residential care.
I know every circumstance is different but can you give me a typical example of how that works for somebody. Do they have someone come and cook for them a couple of times a week, do they get nursing care?
Yeah, no I think if you're at the lower levels of care you might have somebody who comes in to help you cook or to clean. If you're at the high care levels you may need somebody to help you out of bed, to wash you, to help you if you're in a wheelchair, you might have somebody who's got very, very serious incapacity.
They'll help with the movement of the body. You can imagine as people age in some cases they're fortunate and they'll keep their mobility. My mother-in-law is 86 and she lives at our house and she points out she does more around the house than I do.
But other people can be the same age and they'll need assistance in their own home and then others will really have huge mobility needs, they basically need to be supported but they prefer to be at home and we want to give them that choice. That's the big thing. If you're living longer we want to give you that choice whether you stay at home or if you go into residential care.
We're talking to Health Minister Greg Hunt. I tried to explain to my mother yesterday this scheme to give people greater flexibility to use the equity they might have in the family home to not have to move into a retirement village.
This is where you can draw down 150 per cent if you are eligible to the pension and it then is charged back at interest rate of around five per cent and you can then use that money to provide care for yourself at home. How exactly does that work and do you have to be on the full age pension to qualify?
No. So it's pretty simple but it's not widely known and it's one of these programs we want to promote. So it's called the Pension Loan Scheme. Until now it's only been those who were on part pensions who could access it, not those on a full pension, not those who are superannuants, it was only those in the middle. Now it's 100 per cent of people over the age of 65. So everybody over the age of 65 can access it.
What will happen here is instead of taking out a mortgage you're effectively just taking a loan against your home where the Government will pay you, they'll top you up all your pension or the equivalent it up to $907 per fortnight, and what does that mean? It means that you'll have that funding and then either when you sell your home or if somebody passes away they'll take it from the estate and it will be paid back to the Government. So it's a loan which takes the form of a fortnightly top up.
So it is a reverse mortgage scheme really?
It's similar to but you don't actually take out the mortgage. So you don't have to put a mortgage over your own home. It's a loan against the value of your house and if you're saying look I've got all this equity, I don't want to sell my house, I don't want to mortgage the house, but I'm willing to have a loan go against the house and that allows me for the next five years to live a lot better quality of life than would otherwise be the case.
I think you really have to get out there and sell that because there is inbuilt inherent suspicion among older Australians, I think, about letting someone chip away at their one last remaining tax free asset if they're on a full pension.
Well it's entirely voluntary and so it's really a response to the request and the demand from some to say well can we top up our fortnightly funds for cost of living purposes, if we're willing to do that and say that instead of, you know, at the end of our time, handing over $400,000 in equity with the estate, we hand over 350,000.
But in the meantime we've had a significantly better five years then that's the choice we want to give people. So that's all. We want to give them that choice and I think that could make a real difference.
I do too. I like it a lot. Forty million dollars to support aged care providers in regional, rural and remote Australia. This is for urgent building and maintenance work. Does that mean you're going into the business of building nursing homes?
No, what we're doing is we're actually supporting the nursing home owners. A lot of the time they don't have the capital, they have less flexibility in...
Aren't they rolling in dough though?
No. The margins in this sector are in many cases very tight, particularly in a lot of the not-for-profit rural homes. They're not charging extra fees in many cases...
So run by churches...
Yeah and what they want is to give people in towns such as Bunyip, for example, which is a case I know quite well, the ability to stay in their own town, their own community and not to have to move away from that community. You know, it's stressful, it's immensely stressful going into residential care. Even though the care can be fantastic, there's a sense severe isolation, of what does this mean for me. And if you can be near the family, near the friends and that can make a huge difference.
One last one from me. We're going to need to talk again because this is such a huge portfolio you're now running...
And I know Ken Wyatt's going to be largely in charge of this - but this idea that you're going to have an aged care quality and safety commission which is going to keep an eye on standards inside nursing homes. That's a very big and very difficult job. Are you convinced you've resourced that well enough? You put $50 million, I think an additional $50 million in there, is it possible to keep an eye on every aged care facility in the country to make sure they're doing the right thing?
Yes it is and yes we have to. So this is a genuinely tough cop on the beat who'll oversee spot checks of nursing homes as well as organised checks. So sometimes you know they're coming and everybody does the right thing. But what we want to do is have an increasing number of spot checks. So you'll never know when the cop on the beat will turn up and that will be an important discipline. We saw the tragedy of the South Australian Labor Government...
Disgraceful.
…Oakden home. We just said, well, it was a state Labor nursing home, it's not acceptable on our watch. We just have to have a tough cop on the beat so as this can never happen again.
Good luck with that. I think that's a really important move. Thanks very much for your time, we'll talk again.
Thanks Steve.


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Native plant production and marketing
By Aaron Anderson — Posted April 26, 2019
Photo 1. Iris tenax, a popular early season native wildflower. Photo courtesy of Oregon State University
There are barriers to full adoption of these plants, but also opportunities to promote their adoption
By Aaron Anderson
Native plants represent an area of untapped growth and expansion for the nursery industry. For example, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) ranked native plants and native/adapted drought-tolerant plants as the top two landscape and garden trends in 2018.3 Garden Media Group, a marketing firm focused on gardening and horticulture, included native plants in their list of 2018 Garden Trends.2
Although specific definitions vary, native plants are widely understood to be those plants that were present and naturally-occurring in an ecosystem before the arrival of European explorers. Native plants have a long evolutionary history with a particular ecosystem and are thus thought to be well-adapted to their local climate and well-defended against local pests.
In addition, native plants have been shown to benefit butterflies and birds in the garden.3 Thus, native plants are expected to require less irrigation and pesticides, while simultaneously offering higher quality habitat to native biodiversity.
Despite these purported benefits, barriers exist to the widespread use of native plants in home gardens. For consumers, these barriers include a lack of availability, lack of knowledge about natives, and preferences for showier plants or plants that are more familiar.4
Similar barriers confront the nursery industry. Growers will not offer native plants for sale unless a market exists. Most natives don't look as pretty as other ornamental plants in the garden center and take time to establish before their true beauty becomes apparent. Gardeners may value a plant's ecological beauty but be hard-pressed to identify ecologically-valuable plants at the point of sale.
Finally, there is limited information on the performance of native plants, across a realistic range of garden settings, which limits the ability to prioritize plants for sale.
Figure 1. Limited availability of native plants perpetuate a lack of consumer knowledge of — and preference for — native plants, which limits their sales potential and a grower's willingness to produce them.
In this way, the issues that have limited the sales of native plants are self-perpetuating (Fig. 1) and could be addressed through a combination of ecological research, social science research, and marketing.
To date, there is limited research on the ecological benefits of Pacific Northwest native plants to pollinators. There is also a lack of research on how gardeners perceive Pacific Northwest natives, and whether or not gardeners would purchase and plant local natives. My Ph.D. research aims to fill this void. Specifically, I am screening 23 native Willamette Valley wildflowers for their attractiveness to pollinators and to home gardeners. You can learn more about my research by visiting our lab website (http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/gardenecologylab/native-plants-2/).
In this article, I wanted to focus on the barriers and opportunities that consumers and growers face, related to the purchase or sale of native plants.
Barriers to consumer and natives
When I began my research in 2017, it took a concerted effort to obtain enough individual bulbs, starts, or seeds to install five replicate blocks of each of my 23 native plant species. Because of the variation in plant availability, I had to source plants from multiple native growers.
The Oregon Flora Project served as a valuable resource to bridge this gap. This website contains data on native nursery availability and lists 19 niche nurseries in the Willamette Valley/Portland region (excluding tree nurseries). Though it is not an exhaustive list, it contains the majority of native plant growers in the region and allowed me to target specific nurseries that advertised my specific study plants, without having to blindly drive to multiple nurseries.
Some of my perennial flowers were more easily sourced than others. For example, Iris tenax (Tough-leaf Iris) was listed for sale at 15 of 19 native plant nurseries. Aquilegia Formosa (Western Red Columbine) was listed at 13 of 19 native plant nurseries.
However, many perennials are uncommon: Sidalcea malviflora ssp. virgata (rose checkermallow) is listed at six nurseries, while Sedum oregonense (cream stonecrop) is listed for sale at a single nursery. Though not included in my study, other rare examples of Willamette Valley natives include Aquilegia flavescens and Calypso bulbosa, both of which are listed for sale at one nursery.
Annual seed proved even more elusive, as only two of my annual species were listed as in-stock at more than one nursery. Gilia capitata was listed for sale at four nurseries, and Eschscholzia californica at two of the 19 native plant nurseries in the region.
I frequently receive email requests from home gardeners interested in incorporating native plants into their landscapes. Unfortunately, I often struggle to recommend a local nursery that grows the particular plant they are seeking. This highlights three main barriers for gardeners who are interested in purchasing natives: 1) lack of advertising by native plant nurseries or knowledge by interested gardeners, 2) variation in nursery stock among native plant growers, and 3) geographic distance that gardeners might have to travel.
Photo 2. Symphyotrichum subspicatum, highly attractive to pollinators. Photo courtesy of Oregon State University
Ways to increase native plant sales
Despite the relative difficulty in obtaining native plants, there appears to be growing public interest in landscaping with these species. Government agencies are developing a common message on native plantings, with websites from cities and counties to the USDA and EPA containing informational pages on landscaping with native plants. Recent federal level policies have created opportunities for natives, including the Obama administration's Pollinator Partnership Action Plan, and the Federal Highway Administration's efforts to manage roadsides for pollinators.
Because of this, growers have the opportunity to access a relatively underserved market, with potential for further financial gains. Studies have shown that educated consumers are willing to pay a premium for native/non-invasive landscaping plants, as well as for plants that are locally grown.5,6 Additional research found that customers will pay more for designed yards that involve native plants in lieu of lawns.7 These studies, together with a relatively open market, point to opportunities for growers of native plants.
Barriers to native plant production
Adding to the obstacles faced by interested consumers, growers also face barriers to accessing this emerging market. The localized nature of native plants means that markets are regionalized,8 so few native plants can be produced and sold nationwide.
Additionally, efficient and scalable propagation methods are not known for many native plant species. This is compounded by the fact that many smaller nurseries do not have the resources to develop these protocols.8
When grown in a pot, many native plants, even when propagated successfully, are not in bloom in the spring when consumers tend to purchase them. And, compared to showy, exotic flowers, the average gardeners may not be familiar with the ecological beauty of native plants, and may gravitate to familiar garden standards. These are practical issues that need to be addressed before the native plant market can expand.
Another barrier comes from the consumer side. Studies have identified the top issues limiting the use of native plants as: 1) availability, 2) customer preferences, and 3) lack of knowledge about natives.9 The average gardener tends to plant what they are familiar with and what they find aesthetically pleasing, which often means showy, exotic flowers.
These points are all linked; retail centers and growers do not provide native plants, and in turn customers don't always demand these species because they are unfamiliar with them.
In informal conversations, several local native plant growers brought up similar concerns. The grower or vendor will not offer a product if no one buys it, but consumers get frustrated if they desire plants they cannot purchase.
Photo 3. Anaphalis margaritacea, a drought tolerant wildflower with a diverse community of insect visitors.
Photo courtesy of Oregon State University
Moving forward, there are several solutions that growers could implement to overcome these barriers. The first is growing native species for retail that are attractive to consumers. There are a multitude of native plants endemic to Oregon and prioritizing plants that consumers will find aesthetically pleasing, or attractive for other reasons (e.g., pollinator-friendly, monarch host plant, drought tolerant) will increase both their popularity and their market value.
Similarly, marketing these plants can play an important role. Credible labeling programs will educate consumers about these plants and their traits at the point of purchase. As consumers are willing to pay a premium for plants labeled "native" and "non-invasive," it stands to reason that additional labeling and marketing that differentiates these flowers, such as "water-wise" and "good for wildlife," will also benefit growers.
Interestingly, when we asked gardeners to rank our 23 study plants according to aesthetic beauty, only one of the top five-ranked plants was also highly attractive to pollinators: Gilia capitata. However, when we told the gardeners about the ecological benefits of some of the high-performing pollinator plants (e.g. Aster subspicatus, ranked 14th out of 27 for aesthetic beauty or Phacelia heterophylla, ranked 27 out of 27 for aesthetic beauty), they became intent on finding and planting these natives.
We know studies found that native plant adoption is inhibited by lack of availability and lack of consumer knowledge. This suggests a simple path to increasing the market for these plants. If retail garden centers and specialty nurseries expanded their advertisements and stock of native plants, this could create a positive feedback loop,10 thereby increasing consumer awareness and demand for these plants.
Aaron Anderson a graduate student in the Horticulture Department at Oregon State University and graduate research assistant in the OSU Garden Ecology Lab. He can be reached at andeaaro@oregonstate.edu.
1. Howard, C. ASLA survey: Demand high for sustainable residential landscapes – Garden Center Magazine. Available at: https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/asla-demand-sustainable-residential-landscapes/. (Accessed: 19th November 2018)
2. Garden Media Group. Trends Report. (2018)
3. Burghardt, K. T., Tallamy, D. W. & Shriver, W. G. Impact of native plants on bird and butterfly biodiversity in suburban landscapes. Conserv. Biol. 23, 219–224 (2009).4. Wilde, H. D., Gandhi, K. J. K. & Colson, G. State of the science and challenges of breeding landscape plants with ecological function. Hortic. Res. 2, 14069 (2015).
5. Yue C, Hurley T.M., Anderson, N. (2011). Do native and invasive labels affect consumer willingness to pay for plants? Evidence from experimental auctions. Agric Econ; 42: 195–2056. Yue C, Hurley T, Anderson NO. (2012). Heterogeneous consumer preferences for native and invasive plants: evidence from experimental auctions. HortScience; 47: 1091–1095
7. Helfand, G. E., Park, J. S., Nassauer, J. I., & Kosek, S. (2006). The economics of native plants in residential landscape designs. Landscape and Urban Planning, 78(3), 229-240
8. Norcini, J.F. (2007) Native Plants: An Overview (ENH1045). Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida extension. Revised March 2008. Reviewed April 2016.
9. Wilde, H.D, Kamal JKG, and Colson, G. (2015). "State of the science and challenges of breeding landscape plants with ecological function." Horticulture research 2: 14069
10. Brzuszek, R. F., & Harkess, R. L. (2009). Green industry survey of native plant marketing in the southeastern United States. HortTechnology, 19(1), 168-172.
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Backstage in Biscuit Land review – Tourette's makes for unpredictable, joyous, must-watch theatre
Malthouse theatre, Melbourne festival
Jess Thom embraces the unexpected in a show that aims to show the surreal, creative and hilarious side to living with Tourette syndrome
Jess Thom and Jess Mabel Jones in Backstage in Biscuit Land. Photograph: James Lyndsay
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"There are a few things you need to know straight away," says Jess Thom. She then involuntarily says the word "biscuit", and thumps her chest with a gloved hand.
"Firstly, you're going to hear the words 'biscuit' and 'hedgehog' a lot in the next hour – biscuit. CATS!" she continues, thumping her chest again. "Secondly, if I say something funny – biscuit – you're absolutely allowed to laugh – biscuit. In fact it would be a bit odd if you didn't. Biscuit!"
It's a relief to be given permission to laugh, because it would have been nearly impossible not to. This 90-minute show is an absolute delight: moving, warm, generous and sparkling with the absurdly hilarious interjections of a woman who has both Tourette syndrome and an extremely Pythonesque sense of humour.
Jess Thom AKA Touretteshero: comedy at its most unpredictable
"A duck farting on an ashtray," is one such interjection. "Fourteen per cent of your mum's best ideas, but inside David Blaine," is another. Or, my personal favourite: "If you've got a geranium at home, put in a soup and pretend it never lived."
Some of these tics were written into the script in the aftermath of their utterance, and others seem spontaneous, surprising Thom as much as they do us. Backstage in Biscuit Land is not just about the experience of living with Tourette's, but the beauty and joy that can come from it.
Thom has had Tourette syndrome since she began making an involuntary squeaking sound as a child, but it was undiagnosed until her mid-20s. Tourette's, she tells us, is one of the most misunderstood disorders in the world, despite its commonality: "It is estimated to effect 300,000 people in the UK alone – and eight glove puppets!" she says, bursting into laughter at the unexpected disclaimer.
She's joined on stage with co-host and co-writer Jess Mabel Jones, whose tic-designated name is Chopin and who is armed with an emergency script. Thom cheerfully explains that she has a few seizure-like ticcing fits each day, and one could happen on stage at any moment.
Chopin doesn't have Tourette's, but comes close to matching Thom for spontaneous turn of phrase – and their enjoyment of each other's company is deeply infectious.
Jess Thom, Jess Mabel Jones and a sock puppet. Photograph: James Lyndsay
Backstage in Biscuit Land premiered to acclaim in 2014 in Edinburgh; like Thom's other projects it aims to celebrate Tourette syndrome as a harbinger of creativity, encourage inclusivity, and dispel some longstanding myths. Tourette's, we are told, exists on a spectrum. It is not a symptom of anxiety or low self-esteem – or of being possessed by a demon – and it does not always express itself through profanity.
"In fact, only 15% of people with Tourette's have obscene tics," Thom says, before a tic – "FUCK 'EM!" – and a perfectly timed pause: "I am one of them."
Yes, she swears, but Thom's most frequent vocal tic is decidedly more British: she has estimated she utters the word "biscuit" up to 16,000 times a day, so automatically it feels to her like blinking. We are asked to turn to the person beside us for a staring contest. That uncontrollable blinking urge – the one that brings tears to your eyes, and brings so much relief when sated – is roughly comparable, she says.
She has other vocal tics, including "hedgehog", "cats", "I'm a baby!" and "ponycunt", as well as randomly generated phrases and songs that are delightful in their absurdity and are sprinkled through her script ("Margaret Thatcher is a faaaaart!" she sings – and it's tempting to join in).
Jess Thom and Jess Mabel Jones: their enjoyment of each other's company is infectious. Photograph: James Lyndsay
Some of these tics have become props, too: "We didn't know what our set should be," Chopin explains, "so Jess tic'd a long list of stuff and we just brought what she said that day."
And so we have on stage before us: four ducks dressed as pterodactyls; a dinosaur balloon; an enormous loaf of bread named Steve; an anvil with the word "dinner" on it; a life-size statue of Mother Teresa; and "the smell of an ice cream parlour and bakery from a different age".
The last one is sprayed on the front row. It smells a lot worse than it sounds.
Thom's vocal tics are accompanied by physical ones: uncontrolled movements of her limbs that led her to her wheelchair, and the regular thumping of either hand on her chest. (She wears padded gloves now, to stop her knuckles from cracking and bruising.)
Making uncontrolled sounds and jerky movements means going to the theatre is a complicated endeavor, and being ejected from an audience midway through a show five years ago remains one of the most "humiliating" experiences of her life. Backstage in Biscuit Land is a "relaxed performance": a term that welcomes audience members who, like Thom, might not be able to sit still and quietly for the duration.
Joined on stage by a sign language interpreter, the pair careen through the 90-minute show with increasing surrealism, celebrating a syndrome that for all its difficulties – communicated through tender monologues that make the laughter even louder – can also be filled with light.
One of Thom's friends and carers once described her as "a crazy language-generating machine". Not doing anything creative with her tics would, he said, be wasteful. Her tics called this man "leftwing idiot". It's a good thing that she listened to him.
Backstage in Biscuit Land runs at Qpac in Brisbane from 19 to 23 October. Guardian Australia was a guest of Brisbane festival
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Change is a difficult process for anyone, but imagine if you were trying to change your father's munition company, which historically provided bombs for Israel against Palestine, to a firm focused on assisting with stability in the Middle East. Impossible, right? Nessa and Ephra Stein are attempting to do just that in this intense mini-series that follows their lives after a Palestinian businessman, whom they have selected to win a major project with their company, commits suicide. Nothing is as it seems--including, most importantly, everyone's relationships with each other.
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The first in the Rashis's Daughters trilogy, Joheved is a perfect blend of inspiration, religion and historical fiction. Rashi was a real person who wrote some of the most well-known and studied Torah commentaries in existence. While the name Rashi is widely recognized, little, if anything, is known about his daughters.
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Tony Todd says he knows why we might not ever see a Final Destination 6. Todd went on from the Candyman horror franchise to the Final Destination series, where he starred in the first two installments as the mortician who warns the kids that they can't cheat death. Todd had a voice cameo in the third movie and hasn't been involved with the franchise since. However, he was confident back in 2011 that the sixth installment was going to happen.
The Final Destination movies all received mixed to negative reviews upon their respective releases, but they did make a decent amount of money at the box office and they were praised for the inventive premise. A lot has changed since 2011 when Final Destination 5 was released. The horror genre is going through a resurgence with movies that can often be made on a small budget. When asked about Final Destination 6 in a new interview, Tony Todd explained why it probably won't happen. He had this to say.
"I am (surprised) but I know why there hasn't been (another sequel). It's really an expensive film to shoot. Just getting whatever accident set pieces, like for example part two with the whole traffic accident, that took a good five weeks to shoot and at least 20 million bucks. So there are other films like the Annabelle films which just focuses on a doll that they can shoot for a lot cheaper and still make money."
While the Final Destination movies continued to make money at the box office, the fifth installment made less than the fourth, though the fourth movie was the highest grossing of the franchise. Tony Todd and director Steven Quale both indicated that Final Destination 6 would more than likely happen if the fifth movie made decent money at the box office. It brought in $157.8 million compared to the $186.1 million that The Final Destination brought it. Tony Todd went on to say, "I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed but who knows? You never know. It was a good one while we had it."
Tony Todd has been very vocal about wanting to take part in Jordan Peele's upcoming Candyman remake. As of this writing, he does not have a part in the remake, but it seems that Todd is interested in even being a consultant on the movie since he knows the character better than anyone else. We'll have to wait and see, but Todd could very well end up getting his wish when the Candyman remake starts filming.
The Final Destination franchise is one of the highest grossing in the horror genre, so one can see a remake happening in the near future, if not Final Destination 6. But, like Todd says, if the studio can get away with making a movie cheaper, they will do so. But, stranger things have happened, and everything seems to be getting the remake treatment these days. The interview with Tony Todd was first published by Bloody Disgusting.
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I can't believe that it's Thursday already, this week is going by so quickly, it's scary. I will have to keep this blog a short one as I am due to go to an OGAE UK meet-up at 2:30pm and I have only just woken up. I felt so knackered last night, and my feet were in so much agony, that I decided to just call it a night and go to sleep. I slept for 11 hours. My feet feel marvellous now and I am more than ready to tackle this weekend's antics. I missed out on the OGAE party at EuroClub last night but I think the general consensus amongst my friends is that we were all feeling a bit deflated and tired, so a break is well deserved.
Anyway, the OGAE UK meet-up is a booked party in the daytime where members of the OGAE UK community meet up and see how everybody is getting on and get to know new members, I love being a part of the OGAE community, as they have done so much for me over the years including of course, getting tickets to all of the shows this year and also gaining fan accreditation. ITV will be there filming today along with a Eurovision winner, could it be Katrina from Katrina & The Waves? Maybe! I will be taking photos of course.
So as this blog is done in retrospect, this is all about what happened yesterday. First of all, I got up and made my way to the Slussen ferries where the ferries take you to another part of the Stockholm islands and in particular to the island where the ABBA Museum is located. We got out tickets at the collection desk and then paraded around the ABBA Museum and also the Eurovision Exhibition that is also being held there currently. They have so much of ABBA's history all in that one place, from records printed all over the world to the costumes they wore, to replications of their recording studio and even apartment, it was a fascinating look into how the global band came about and how they came up with some magnificent classic pop tunes. The Eurovision Exhibition was also really good as you got to see some of the costumes that artists have worn throughout the years and also delve into the history books, you could also sing on a Eurovision stage if you wanted to. Me and my friend declined the opportunity to do that but did witness some poor soul murder the Eurovision hit "Fairytale", all part of the fun though I guess.
From the ABBA Museum, I intended on doing lots of sightseeing around the old part of town, in the Gamla Stan area. I took some fantastic shots, Stockholm has some really great classic architecture out here and a lot of history that goes with it. I would recommend to anybody to come out here and visit if you can, such a fantastic bustling city where everybody is so hospitable and friendly. I love how everything is so efficient out here (apart from the night trains!).
I then went back to Globen for the third show of the week, this was the 2nd Dress Rehearsal of the 2nd Semi Final, otherwise known as the Jury Final. I managed to get a really good look at the stage and was also sort of behind the scenes as I saw how the camerawork team all worked together and saw how the producer of the show was putting things together. Måns and Petra (the two hosts) also walked behind me several times, I was tempted to ask for a picture but they looked rather busy and stressed, so better not!
Will I be right with any of those? We shall have to find out. Those are the acts that I think stood out with the crowd last night and who sang the best, thus gaining jury appeal.
Stay tuned for another update tomorrow, thanks for reading!


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This is such a great disc. The blend of modern and classic prog sounds with a more pop oriented element is so effective. This is quite symphonic, but it also manages to rock. This is truly artsy music. Yet it's artsy music that feels very mainstream and pop oriented most of the time. That's really a remarkable accomplishment.
Rising up gradually, there is an almost ominous heavy sound here. That is, until the vocals enter and symphonic elements along with them. Then it's more like Radiohead or Muse. After the first vocal section this gets an infusion of energy and makes me think of The Beatles or Klaatu. This is a rather pop-oriented, yet quite proggy number. The layers of sound over the top lend a lushness that's beautiful and powerful. The whole piece is quite accessible despite having an arrangement that shifts a lot. They drop it back to a more rhythmically based movement later.
On the one hand, this piece is a bit simpler and mellower than the opener. All that said, though, it's still quite an impressive piece. That's both in terms of the variations and layers of sounds and how well it works when it hits the ears. This is another modern symphonic progressive rock piece that works quite well. I love some of those symphonic melodies that come over the top. This is great stuff.
An energetic number, this is more of a rocker than the two openers were. It's more closely tied to modern alternative rock. Still, it's got plenty of that modern progressive rock sound, too. This is another especially effective song. It's perhaps closer to something like Radiohead than either of the first pieces was. The more symphonic section at the end is great.
The opening section leads one to think the cut is going to be a progressive rock ballad. They turn in one change after another, though and this is a rocking jam that's got plenty of Beatles-like elements along with Radiohead and alternative rock sounds. It's one that has a bit steeper learning curve than some of the other music does, but it's worth the extra work.
Piano opens this and the first verse is delivered with nothing other than that for accompaniment. It builds out from there, though with other layers added. Then a bouncing kind of jam ensues that again makes me think of Klaatu quite a bit. It doesn't stay there, though. This thing is all over the place. It's got quite classical moments, more hard rocking ones and more of that Klaatu sound. It even drops for a reprise of the opening section mid-track.
Parts of this have the most minimalist arrangement of the set, with the most hard rocking sound. That said, the later sections are back into the full arrangements and again make me think of Klaatu. It's another diverse and dynamic piece that's quite effective.
Piano and voice start this one off. This is another that's quite an adventure, though. It works through quite a few changes in rapid succession. At times it's a lot more stripped back. At other times it wanders near shoegaze territory. Then we also get sections more in that pop prog approach. All in all, this is an adventurous and powerful piece of music.
Folky acoustic guitar opens this in a playful way and the vocals come over the top. It works out after the first set of vocals to a more full arrangement on the same basic song concept. They keep shifting and changing this arrangement and take it out into a more dreamy symphonic progressive rock section later in the piece.
They start this one with a wall of vocals. Then it launches into a lushly arranged section and this makes me think of a combination of Klaatu, The Beatles, Queen and Jellyfish. There is a lot of old timed pop music here. The piece continues growing, but doesn't stray from the opening concept as it does so. There's a switch to a guitar based movement later that has a lot of folk and rock in the mix. They build that out later into something closer to the rest of the piece.
Folky rock sounds open this and I love the section with the vocals over the top of that. There's a playful innocence to it that works well. This gets a lusher arrangement later with a more rocking section. They drop it way down to ambient space at the end of that.