Today I'm sharing two pesto recipes using the Arugula leaves, which I have made using the Maharaja Mixer Grinder. The mixer grinder was sent to me for a product review by Maharaja Whiteline. Maharaja Whiteline as a brand is not new to me, I've used it's old model of juicer-mixer-grinder extensively during my college days at my Mum's place. My Mum has used the appliance till few years back.
I've already reviewed the Maharaja TurboMix King Hand Blender a few days back and appreciated it's power and effective usage and I'm more than happy repeating myself with the Flora mixer grinder too. Yes, it's a decently powerful mixer with 550W and grinds quickly. The mixer works like charm with the sharp blades.
To start with I always grind the dosa batter and chutneys to see how fine and quickly the mixer- grinder grinds and I was extremely happy with the outcome. It runs efficiently. I used it for a few weeks to come to a conclusion that it's a very good quality Mixer Grinder.
The only drawback if I've to point out and probably is applicable to all mixer grinders and this one's no exception too, is the sound made during the functioning of the appliance. Most people will not find it excessive, I found it loud only for the reason that I have been using a mixer grinder for a decade now, whose highlighted feature is that it's 'Silent'.
To go along with the Arugula in the first version of the pesto, I have used a winter special green, that's the fresh green garlic, which is abundantly available currently. And in the second version of the Arugula pesto I've added the freshness of basil to the contrasting sharp taste of the Arugula. Both versions make excellent dip, can also be used as a sauce for making pasta or a dressing for salad.
Finally I made a bruschetta using the Arugula Pesto (you can also use basil pesto) and topped it with grilled zucchini, tomato and microgreens. It made an excellent snack/appetiser. My fussy teen kid happily savoured them. This version of bruschetta is perfect for parties as it needs very less effort and can be fixed in no time.
Take the pine nuts, garlic, parmesan cheese in the mixer grinder and pulse it.
Add both the leaves and pulse it again.
Add about 1/4cup of EVOO and pulse again. Grind to a coarse paste. Add more oil if required.
Transfer to a jar and pour more of EVOO on top, seal the jar. Can be used for a week or more.
Take the almonds, garlic, parmesan cheese in the mixer grinder and pulse it.
Add the leaves and greens, pulse it again.
Add about 1/4cupof EVOO and pulse again. Grind to a coarse paste. Add more oil if required.
Apply garlic butter on bread slices and grill them.
Dip the microgreens in ice water for 10mins to make them crisp.
Spread pesto on the grilled bread slice and then layer it with slices of grilled zucchini and cherry tomatoes and finally top it with microgreens. Serve immediately.
This looks just lovely and those photos look so so good .


Dear Doctor: Does eating for one's blood type really work? For my own blood type, I am supposed to avoid foods like avocados, bananas, strawberries and many other foods that I would consider healthy choices. I certainly don't want to feel guilty for eating foods that this plan suggests avoiding. What is your take on this?
Dear Reader: You're referring to an eating plan that was popularized by a diet book published in the mid-1990s. The author's premise was that what you eat, as well as the way in which you exercise, should be based on your own particular blood type. For instance, individuals with Type A blood are advised to become vegetarians, substituting plant-based proteins for meat, which the diet refers to as "toxic." The plan also recommends they seek out gentle and calming exercise, such as yoga and tai chi. For those with Type O blood, by contrast, the dietary emphasis is on meats, with advice to limit grains and dairy. Type O individuals are urged to take up vigorous exercise like running, contact sports and martial arts. Those with Types B and AB blood also have personalized diet and exercise guidelines. Each of the eating plans, which also includes vitamins and supplements, is quite specific and even restrictive. The outcome of following the diet, according to claims made by the author, is improved health and a lower risk of disease.
The argument for this dietary approach hinges in part on the differences in blood group antigens, which are markers that are present on the membranes of red blood cells. These antigens will set off an immune response when they encounter foreign antigens. For example, someone with Type A blood cannot receive a transfusion of Type B blood because the antigens in the Type B blood will set off alarms and cause the immune system to go on the attack. Someone with Type AB blood can receive either Type A or B blood but, due to the blood antigens, can safely donate only to someone else with Type AB.
It's true that blood can reveal a lot about a person's overall health. Physicians rely on blood tests to learn a patient's glucose and cholesterol levels, hormone levels, how well the liver, kidneys and vascular system are functioning, whether the body is fighting some type of infection, and whether the signs of certain cancers are present. In addition, it is now generally accepted that specific blood types are associated with a higher risk of certain diseases and conditions, including pancreatic cancer, deep vein blood clots and heart attack associated with coronary artery disease. But whether blood antigens dictate food choices and exercise methods in the ways that this diet lays out remains up for debate. At this time, rigorous studies in peer-reviewed journals are lacking.
Diet is a highly personal choice, and as we all know from the ever-shifting content (and lately, the shape) of the so-called food pyramid, it's not an exact science. In our opinion, as long as you're eating a healthful and balanced diet, you have nothing to feel guilty about.


Extracted from: Status of the CMOS Image Sensor Industry report – Release date: September 2018.
Proliferation of cameras for imaging and sensing is driving CIS growth.
Image sensor proliferation is benefiting both volume and revenue generation.
The rising market tide is buoying the entire ecosystem.
LYON, France – Oct. 4, 2018: "2017 was an excellent year for CIS , with growth observed in all segments except computing," comments Pierre Cambou, Principal Analyst, Technology & Market, Imaging at Yole Développement (Yole). Driven by new applications, the industry's future remains on strong footing.
Yole announces its annual technology & market analysis focused on the CIS industry, from 2017 to 2023, titled: Status of the CMOS Image Sensor Industry. In 2017 the CIS market reached US$13.9 billion. The market research & strategy consulting company forecasts a 9.4% CAGR between 2017 and 2023, driven mainly by smartphones integrating additional cameras to support functionalities like optical zoom, biometry, and 3D interactions.
Yole proposes this year again a comprehensive technology & market analysis of the CMOS Image Industry. In addition to a clear understanding of the CIS ecosystem, analysts detail in this new edition, 2017-2023 forecasts, a relevant description of the M&A activities, an impressive overview of the dual and 3D camera trends for mobile. Mobile and consumer applications are also well detailed in this 2018 edition, with a deep added-value section focused on technology evolution.
In collaboration with Jean-Luc Jaffard, formerly at STMicroelectronics and part of Red Belt Conseil, Pierre Cambou pursued his investigation all year long and reveals today the status of the CIS industry.
2017 saw aggregated CIS industry revenue of US$13.9 billion. And 5 years later, the consulting company Yole announces more than US$ 23 billion. The YoY growth hit a peak at 20% due to the exceptional increase in image sensor value, across almost all markets, but primarily in the mobile sector. "CIS keeps its momentum", confirms Pierre Cambou from Yole.
Revenue is dominated by mobile, consumer, and computing, which represent 85% of total 2017 CIS revenue. Mobile alone represents 69%. Security is the second-largest segment, behind automotive.
The CIS ecosystem is currently dominated by the three Asian heavyweights: Sony, Samsung, and Omnivision. Europe made a noticeable comeback. Meanwhile, the US maintains a presence in the high-end sector.
The market has benefited from the operational recovery of leading CIS player Sony, which captured 42% market share. "…Apple iPhone has had a tremendous effect on the semiconductor industry, and on imaging in particular. It offered an opportunity for its main supplier, Sony, to reach new highs in the CIS process, building on its early advances in high-end digital photography…", explains Pierre Cambou in its article: Image sensors have hugely benefited from Apple's avant-garde strategy posted on i-micronews.com.
The CIS industry is able to grow at the speed of the global semiconductor industry, which also had a record year, mainly due to DRAM revenue growth. CIS have become a key segment of the broader semiconductor industry, featuring in the strategy of most key players, and particularly the newly-crowned industry leader Samsung. Mobile, security and automotive markets are all in the middle of booming expansion, mostly benefiting ON Semiconductor and Omnivision.
CIS sensors are also at the forefront of 3D semiconductor approaches. They are a main driver in the development of artificial intelligence. Yole's analysts foresee new techniques and new applications all ready to keep up the market growth momentum… A detailed description of this report is available on i-micronews.com, imaging reports section.


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Free Fares Now!
By Babs Delay
I had the opportunity to serve for two years on the Utah Transit Authority Board of Directors before the Utah State Legislature put a kibosh on a board of any kind and turned over the major decisions to a few people appointed by the Governor. It was a fast and fascinating education about mass transit in our state—what we had at the time and what was being planned.
I developed mad respect for the bus drivers of the vehicles used for special, differently-abled riders and the TRAX drivers who have to hit a button every 15 seconds to ensure they are alert and not having medical issues in driving the light rail trains. Most of my fellow directors were mayors of cities serviced by UTA and several, like me, were in favor of free mass transit for all. There is a free zone in the downtown area that is poorly advertised for TRAX and buses, but generally riders pay $2.50 to jump on a bus or TRAX.
Albuquerque, NM just became one of the largest cities in the U.S. to pilot a zero fare program for 12 months. They recognize that most riders are low-income travelers and although it only cost $1.00 to ride a bus, that fee made an impact on thin wallets.
Who's picking up the bill? The feds, of course, will throw most of the monies at this for a year. The zero fare program is going to put this western city on the road to reducing traffic and pollution and move them in the right direction for an equitable public transportation system. It should also help promote healthy lifestyles and boost ridership throughout the system.
Some detractors think that crime on the system will increase. But the city council is committed that this is really going to help their city. Not spending money on transportation allows people to spend more on rent, food and utilities.
As Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front grows, the argument to woo Utahns away from their cars is valid in reducing our awful inversions. And now that our ski resorts have a great snowpack, the parking lots could be a lot emptier with regular, free bus service. We are going to be getting a great deal of funding this year from the feds for infrastructure improvements and some transportation costs, and our Legislature has the tools to put UTA on a free fare track virtually anytime they want.
It's about time the free fare zone downtown is expanded to the entire UTA system. Beginnin recently, if you show your airline boarding pass you can hop on TRAX or a bus to ride to the airport free of charge. And sometimes, they instigate a "free fare day" when the air is too thick to breathe, but this needs, in my opinion, to be 365 days a year.
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said a few years ago that "There isn't a person in the county who doesn't understand the importance of clean air." Well, it's time! Good luck Albuquerque—I hope Salt Lake City is the next experiment!

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Today's report from the foreign affairs select committee on the 2011 military intervention in Libya has taken another axe to his reputation. Coming just two days after Cameron's announcement that he will stand down as an MP – which brought a torrent of criticism for breaking an earlier promise to serve out his term – it shows just how roughly posterity is likely to treat him.
The committee piles on its condemnation, attacking the Libya operation at every stage: before, after and during. It says there was insufficient analysis of the intelligence in the lead-up to battle. That the mission changed once it began. And that next to nothing was done for Libya after the bombs had fallen. It's a long, detailed endorsement of the verdict recently delivered by Barack Obama on the Libya adventure: that it was "a shitshow".
Cameron might well feel that dumping all the blame on him is a bit rich, considering that almost the entire House of Commons backed him on his Libya decision. On the day, 557 MPs voted for intervention. They include the man who is the lead author of today's scathing report, foreign affairs committee chair Crispin Blunt, and almost all Labour MPs. True, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were among the 13 from all parties who voted no – unsurprising given that they tend to vote against any use of force anywhere, at any time, whatever the circumstances. But Corbyn ally Diane Abbott voted with Cameron and so did the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.
Doubtless, they were persuaded – as was I – by the need to repel what appeared to be an imminent threat from Muammar Gaddafi to slaughter the civilians of Benghazi. Blunt's committee now says that threat was "overstated". But it clearly didn't strike him that way at the time, or else he – like those 556 other MPs – would not have voted yes.
The more incisive charge is that Cameron allowed the original mission to creep into an undeclared pursuit of regime change. The report says that if the primary purpose was "the urgent need to protect civilians in Benghazi, then this objective was achieved in March 2011 in less than 24 hours". (Which is why some voices, myself among them, were calling for military action to stop so soon after it had begun.) But Cameron carried on, apparently determined to topple Gaddafi.
Worse still is the lack of interest Cameron paid to Libya after the bombing was done. Sure, he was happy enough to pose for a liberators' photo-op with Nicolas Sarkozy. But afterwards, nothing. Obama puts it kindly when he says Cameron became "distracted". And so the PM did nothing as Libya slid into civil war, anarchy and mayhem – to the point that the country is now easily branded "Somalia on the Mediterranean".
It all adds yet more colour to the sketch history is likely to draw of Cameron. That he was hopelessly short-termist, too often acting for the moment, doing what he needed to get out of an immediate hole but failing to think things through. Sometimes, in the day-to-day tumble of domestic politics, that approach did little harm and served him well. It made him agile. But when blood and lives were at stake, it was a fatal flaw.
Grave though the Libya case is, however, it will not be the one that defines him. That will always be Brexit, and Cameron's decision to gamble with something as vital as Britain's membership of the EU. But the same character flaws were present in both episodes: the recklessness, the lack of preparedness, the failure to weigh up all the possible consequences. The European calamity of 2015 will be Cameron's lasting legacy. But the warning signs were there four years earlier.


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Q: RegexFilter log4j2 i am using log4j2. This is my xml:

 <Appenders>
    <Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
        <RegexFilter regex=".*\\binsert\\b.*|.*\\bupdate\\b.*|.*\\bdelete\\b.*" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY" />
        <PatternLayout pattern="%mdc{usuario} - %m%n" />
    </Console>

   <RollingFile name="file-log" fileName="c:/logs/SIGE.log"
        filePattern="c:/logs/SIGE-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
        <PatternLayout>
            <pattern>[%-5level] [%mdc{usuario}] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t]  %c{1} - %m%n</pattern>
        </PatternLayout>
        <RegexFilter regex=".*\\binsert\\b.*|.*\\bupdate\\b.*|.*\\bdelete\\b.*" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY" />
        <Policies>
            <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
        </Policies>
    </RollingFile>

</Appenders>
<Loggers>
    <logger name="org.hibernate.SQL" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
        <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT" />
        <AppenderRef ref="file-log" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.hibernate.type" level="TRACE" additivity="false">
        <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT" />
        <AppenderRef ref="file-log" />
    </logger>
</Loggers>

My idea is to filter to log only the update , insert and delete statements of hibernate. But with this it's not logging anything, if i comment the regexfilter line it logs perfectly. I am using the last hibernate release.
Thanks in advance!
Nicolás.

A: Since the regular expression is the value of an attribute of an XML element, you do not need to escape the \ character as in strings literals in the Java language, but only if the character is single quote (') or double quote ("). In which case, you should use ' and ", respectively. 1
Therefore, your regular expression can be:
<RegexFilter regex=".*\b(insert|update|delete)\b.*"
             onMatch="ACCEPT"
             onMismatch="DENY"/>

Notes

*

*http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#syntax

To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as " ' ", and the double-quote character (") as " " ".

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This paper examines the concept of commons-based peer production (CBPP) in the context of public health information systems in the South. Based on an analysis of the findings from a global network of software development and implementation, an approach to preserve the importance of local user participation in distributed development is presented. Through practical examples, we discuss the applicability of the CBPP model for software production aimed at improving the public health sector in the South, and propose the concept of a "snowflake topology".
Staring, Knut and Titlestad, Ola Hodne, "Development as a Free Software: Extending Commons Based Peer Production to the South" (2008). ICIS 2008 Proceedings. 50.


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Q: How to let rsnapshot continue after backup error? I have implemented a multi-server backup system, which is working quite effectively.
I have a backup server with a large disk-array, and every night it runs rsnapshot to backup relevant data on all servers on the LAN (linux/windows). Connection to server is via regular ssh connections.
This is the relevant (simplified) part of my rsnapshot.conf:
...
backup   user@server-one:/etc/            backup-server-one/
backup   user@server-one:/opt/            backup-server-one/
backup   user@server-two:/etc/            backup-server-two/
backup   user@server-two:/var/            backup-server-two/
backup   user@server-three:/etc/          backup-server-three/
backup   user@server-three:/home/user/    backup-server-three/
...

So far so good.
The problem is that, when for some reason one backup fails (typically because that server is down...), the whole rsnapshot process dies, and all following snapshots are not executed...
The question is: is it possible to persuade rsnapshot to proceed to next 'backup', even in case of an error?

A: I did implement myself a solution...
In sub handle_rsync_error I did change
if (0 == $retval) { bail('retval == 0 in handle_rsync_error() ('.$$bp_ref{'src'}.')'); }

with
if (0 == $retval) {
    print_err ("$config_vars{'cmd_rsync'} error 0 on $$bp_ref{'src'} (check host is up and accepting ssh connections...)", 2);
    syslog_err("$config_vars{'cmd_rsync'} error 0 on $$bp_ref{'src'} (check host is up and accepting ssh connections...)");
  }

Testing right now, but quite confident... :-)

A: @MarcoS: nice ;-)
I wrote myself an rsnapshot-wrapper and have one configuration file for one host, so even if one rsnapshot run fails, it will continue with the next one.


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Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) private placement team has lent £50m to a UK social housing landlord in order to fund the development of new homes.
The loan was given to A2Dominion Housing Group to help grow its development opportunities and strengthen liquidity.
Aberdeen Standard Investments said the funding was provided on behalf of its strategic partner Phoenix Group, and will provide it with a reliable income stream until 2045, helping to meet future liabilities. The loan is secured against social housing assets, includes a deferred settlement feature to March 2020 and fully amortises over the last 10 years, resulting in a weighted average life of 20 years.
ASI has a long track record of investing in the UK social housing sector. This was the first housing private placement investment for Phoenix Group, which is keen to explore further funding opportunities in the sector.
Fiona Dickinson, Investment Director at Aberdeen Standard Investments, commented:
"Our insurance and pension fund clients continue to look for cash flows over the long-term which are secured against UK social housing. A2Dominion's strong credit rating, which is higher than the average rating in the sector, is attractive to clients. The bilateral approach in negotiating this privately placed investment, helped to reduce the execution risk that's associated with public bonds, given the level of uncertainty in the GBP market at present."
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Leland Duplicate Bridge Club
Club Motto
"For the love of the game --- Play Nice."
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Release 2.19q
Welcome To Our Friendly Club
Welcome to the Leland Duplicate Bridge Club. We strive to make our games very friendly and newcomers to duplicate are always welcome. Our games start on time, use a clock, utilize Bridgemates, and provide a partner if requested by an email. Our club takes maximum advantage of the many special games permitted by the ACBL. We are a Zero Tolerance club. This website is generally updated with game results and hand records within an hour of each game. Our web address is www.lelandbridge.com.
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Winter Bridge Classes
The Leland Duplicate Bridge Club offers classes appropriate for both social and duplicate beginner or intermediate players. We are teaching single session half-day classes focusing on specific areas of interest. Focus areas are Basic NT Bidding Conventions, Advanced NT Bidding Conventions, and Basic Doubles.
Registration is now open for the 8 week 2 Over 1 Game Force Bidding in the 21st Century Class which will begin in mid January. A Beginner's class is now running and the next Beginner's Class is scheduled for February.
Classes are scheduled on Thursday, Friday or Saturday mornings. Click on the Bridge Classes menu button (on the left) to view class details. Please contact the instructor listed in the class outline if you have questions or wish to register. Please be sure to inform your social bridge friends about the upcoming classes.
New Rank Achievements as of 12/07/22
Congratulations to these Leland DBC players
who recently earned a higher ACBL rank.
Jay Railey
Silver Life Master
1,000+MPs
Peter Macy
Ruby Life Master
Barry Nowling
Gold Life Master
2,500+ MPs
2022 Ace of Clubs & Mini-McKenney LEADERS as of 12/07/22
Leland Bridge Club players who lead the 2022 Ace of Clubs and/or Mini-McKenney competition for their MP rank among all Unit 118 players:
Noelle Speers
Ace of Clubs &
Mini-McKenney
0-5 MPs
Bob Coulter
50-100 MPs
Ben Reischer
1,500- 2,500 MPs
Donna Parker
3,500 - 5,000 MPs
Ken Parker
5,000-7,500 MPs
Shirley Dail
(tied for)
10,000+ MPs
David Klein
Ace of Clubs & Mini-McKenney
Above MP categories are based on lifetime
masterpoints earned as of January 1, 2022.
Ace of Clubs & Mini-McKenney Races
♠ The annual Ace of Clubs race recognizes the top 10 masterpoint earners in the Unit for each rank. Players are listed according to the rank they held at the start of the calendar year. Included are masterpoints earned in ACBL club games since the beginning of the year. This list is updated on the 7th of each month. We usually have a great share of the top players! Click on the Ace of Clubs Race menu button at the left to see if your name is on the top 10 list for your rank.
♥ The Mini-McKenney race is similar, but includes masterpoints earned at all ACBL club games and tournaments. This list is updated on the 7th of every month. Click on the Mini-McKenney Race menu button and see if your name is on the top 10 list for your rank.
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The Player Directory menu button has been made public and no longer requires a password. Please email the webmaster at ben.reischer@gmail.com to request being added, removed, or to update your information. Please use this Directory to assist you in finding a partner.
There are two menu buttons at the left that are getting very little use. Please read the information below to get a better understanding of these menu items.
♠ The 5th menu button at the left is Leland Player Profiles. Many of our regular players have provided some biographical information about their bridge journey, where they lived, what they did for a living, etc. It would be wonderful if all our regular players provided such information about themselves. If you will allow us to add your profile, please send your background information to our webmaster at ben.reischer@gmail.com.
♥ The 6th menu button is Player Photos Only - No Bio. This button provides a means of getting to know your fellow players. If you have not yet submitted a player profile, then your picture probably appears here.
Club Manager Messages
♠ We have partnered with Brunswick Virtual Club!! Most of our games will now award masterpoints at least triple the normal rate with no extra fees. Small downside is that the game results may not appear in our results page. If this happens, go to See Results and look for the Leland game and the hands and results will be visible there.
♥ January is membership renewal month. New benefits are available for members. Discount of $1 for all games. And 1/2 price entry for members who play with a partner who has not played in our club since the pandemic started. New Partner gets two 1/2 price entries. See details below.
♣ Continuing Education!! In late/January or early February we will be offering the popular 2 Over 1 Game Force Bidding Class for folks who want to dramatically improve their bidding. We are currently running a Beginners Class and will offer it again in February for your friends who are interesting in learning about the game. The Club continues to offer special Half-Day Classes on NT Bidding and Doubles Bidding when requested. Class details can be found at the top Center Box.
♦ Where? When? We play in Brunswick Forest -- Tuesdays at 1120 East Cutlar Crossing, and Thursdays at 2160 Shelmore Way. Plenty of free parking with handicap spots close to the venue. Please arrive NLT 12:30. Games start at 12:45. Click the About Us button on the left side for more details about our location, fees, etc. Click the Leland Face to Face Calendar button to view this month's schedule.
♠ Not getting enough bridge? Our online Partner, SE Carolina, offers limited and Open games at 9:25 AM & 12:55 PM daily. Afternoon Games are $4 and Morning Games are $5.50. Or play 12 Board Speedball Games with a robot daily at 8 AM, 12:00, 4:00 and 8 PM. These fun games run for about 50 minutes and cost only $3. Click the Virtual Games Schedule to view exact times for these games. And you can click on See Results to view BBO and Leland game results.
To play in a SE Carolina Virtual Game, Logon to BBO, click on Virtual games, then click on ACBL - North America and our games will pop up.
If you wish to play but have no partner, add your name to the Partnership Desk (PD). Sepop is an avatar that appears in the PD just before game time. If no one is available, then invite Sepop to be your partner. Once the game starts, Sepop magically becomes a very good live person!
SE Carolina Virtual Bridge has an e-mailing list. Click Add My Email to be added.
Game Fees & Membership
♠ All players are welcome to play in our club. Regular game fee is $9. However, the Leland Bridge Club offers players an opportunity to join our club by buying an Annual Membership for $20. Members always get a game fee $1 discount for games all year long and also get a 1/2 price entry whenever they bring in a new player and partner with them. New players get two 1/2 price entries.
♥ All of our games are stratified for A, B, and C players. Masterpoints are issued at approximately 3X the points awarded at regular games. Our club does not charge extra when we run these games.
♦ We also run Colored Point Games whenever ACBL permits us. Colored point games offer Red, Silver, or Gold masterpoints. There is a $1 surcharge for all players for these colored point games.
New and Returning Players
Welcome to our new players.
Burma Chase
Diane Carrigan
Pete Speers
Sue Blair
Brigitte Karloff
Sandra Chandler
Fritz Keifer
Welcome back returning players.
Linda Patch
Shara Graham
Bunny Macon
Bob Harper
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♠ Who can play in our Virtual Online Games?
Anyone who has played in our club can play if you have a BBO Account. You can invite anyone to be your partner even if (s)he has not played at our club.
♥ How do I join BBO to get a free account and become familiar with BBO?
The easiest, fastest way I know for you to get familiar with BBO is to review the following tutorial www.sagamorebridgeclub.com/help-everything-bbo.
♦ How much does it cost to play an online game?
Our regular game fee is 5 BBO dollars. Players must have a BBO account and must buy BBO Dollars using a credit card. One dollar US buys 1 BBO dollar. The Fee is automatically deducted from your BBO account when you register to play a game. If you do not have enough BBO dollars in your account, you will be prompted to add money to your BBO account or else BBO will not allow you to play.
♣ How can I tell what games are currently scheduled and what my game results are?
Simply click on the appropriate SE Carolina Link in the box below to view the weekly game schedule and results for Virtual games already played.
♠ Great! I've checked the schedule, have a partner, and want to play today. How do I find the game and register to play??
Logon to BBO, then click on "Virtual Clubs" and then click on "ACBL - North America" and our games will pop up. Games will appear in the list of ACBL Virtual Club games two hours before start time. It is strongly recommended that you register early. Unfortunately, sometimes people are blocked when they try to register. If you try to register too close to the start time, we may not have enough time to resolve the issue before the game starts and you won't be able to play in that game.
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Bridge Tales
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A Hand I Will Never Forget!
Submitted By Ken Parker
This hand is from a 1976 Swiss Teams regional tournament event played at the Pheasant Run Resort in the suburbs of Chicago. My partner was Neil Campbell and our opponents were Richard Katz and Larry Cohen who were regarded as one of the ACBL's most successful partnerships in the mid-1970s.
An auction with multiple bidding mistakes resulted in a contract of 7♥. The opening lead was ♣Q. Shown below are our hands:
♠ AKQxx
♥ J
♦ KJ982
♣ Kx
♠ x
♥ AQ98xxx
♦ QT7
♣ Ax
What an awful contract! I'm missing the ♥K and the ♦A. Recognizing that the ♦A is very likely in my RHO's (right hand opponent's) hand because it wasn't led at trick one by LHO, I quickly recognize a false-carding opportunity to possibly avoid my diamond loser.
I win the opening lead in my hand with the ♣A, leaving the ♣K in dummy as an entry I will need later. Then I lead my singleton spade to dummy's ♠A. Then I play the ♠K, discarding the ♦T. Then I play the ♠Q, discarding the ♦Q. (By discarding the ten and then the queen of diamonds, I have made it appear as though I have no more diamonds.)
Next, I call for the ♦2 from dummy. With dummy's remaining KJ98 of diamonds, I have made RHO think I'm going to trump the ♦2. RHO can't play the ♦A because that would make dummy's diamonds all winners. RHO smoothly plays low and I produce the carefully hidden ♦7 and win the trick!
Next, I play my remaining club to dummy's ♣K and then call for the ♥J from dummy. RHO plays the ♥T and I overtake dummy's ♥J with the ♥Q. I then play the ♥A and RHO's ♥K falls under my Ace.
At this point I claim all the remaining tricks because I have nothing left but winning hearts in my hand.
How remarkable! Winning a diamond trick with the hidden ♦7 while winning all 13 tricks against world class opponents. -- Certainly a hand I will never forget!
But I Was Going to Make Six Diamonds!
Submitted by Robert Munger
My first wife and I were playing in a club game in Freehold, NJ in 1972.
It was the last round and LHO, a woman in her twenties, was in 6♦, concentrating hard on planning the play. Meanwhile, in the next row and one table over, where I could see but declarer couldn't, West had a heart attack, fell on the floor and died!
Several people jumped up, rushed over and tried to help, but it was too late. George was gone.
Our declarer was oblivious to all of this, intent on playing six diamonds, which makes.
The director canceled the last round, of course. LHO was incensed that her slam wasn't going to count.
Rest in peace, George.
Hung-Over Pro
We didn't have a team for the Swiss, so we planned to get there early. But partner had car trouble and we arrived five minutes before game time. He asked a friend and learned of a pro team looking for a pair.
So we teamed up with two pros, Steve and Tommy, and their sponsor, Julia. Tommy, from New Orleans, was too hung over to play right away, so he sat out the first two matches. Julia had a great time playing with Steve, so Tommy sat out the next two matches as well.
After lunch he was ready to play, but Julia insisted she would keep playing with Steve. So Tommy played match 5 with my partner and match 6 with me. Julia left to catch her plane and finally the two pros played at the same time. Going into the eighth and final match, we were in fifth place. We had a shot to win, but it was quite a parlay. The second-place team had to beat the first-place team by a little; if they won big we couldn't catch them. The third and fourth place teams had to play a close match. And we needed a blitz.
And it all happened!
I was in my twenties, playing in a Sectional Swiss in Beaumont, Texas. We were doing well and drew Bobby Nail's team for our next match. (Bobby played in the Bermuda Bowl in 1963.)
He had a five-person team, the other four being strong female players. Since they were playing against a bunch of nobodies, Bobby decided to sit out this match.
Six of the seven boards were totally flat games, making an overtrick if a finesse worked.
On the seventh board, I was 3-5-3-2 with 20 points and a 5-card heart suit. The bidding went 2♥ – pass – pass to me. Not knowing what else to do, I bid 2NT. Partner bid 3♦ , which we had not discussed. RHO doubled and partner made 3♦ , +470!
Our teammates hadn't finished playing. I was so sure we had won – they doubled us into game, after all – that I took a walk.
When I returned, I learned that the player holding my cards had bid 3NT, making 400. The other hands were indeed flat and we won the match 2 – 0.
Dr. Steve, the Lying Doctor
Submitted by Steve Goldman
Having played kitchen table bridge since moving to Brunswick Forest in 2016, I met my close friend, Tom Cerjak, at the homes where we would play bridge each Wednesday. Tom, after noticing my enjoyment of wanting to play and learn, asked if I might partner with him at a duplicate bridge game being started here by a one of our neighbors. So began my journey playing duplicate, initially at the Fitness Center whose game was started and directed by Ben.
Tom introduced me to a number of standard bridge conventions, one of which was the strong 2- Club opening. We agreed to respond to 2-clubs using Steps. It seemed easy to understand and did not require a great deal of memorization.
So we practiced our conventions and began our very first duplicate game at the fitness center. Ben introduced himself and began introducing the many new faces to the world of duplicate bridge to which many of us had never played before.
I recall quite vividly one of his many points of duplicate play was on how to use that new contraption called a Bidding Box to make your bids! The bidding box seemed unfriendly and not sociable at all, but that was the rule and Ben stressed on more than one occasion that day that once you placed the bid on the table, it was final! Unlike when were kids when we wanted to take back a move or something we might say to our child playmates when playing a game that, if allowed to take back that move, "I will be your best friend with sugar on top". Ben emphasized that once a bid is down, it is down, period, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
So we begin my adventure into duplicate play. On the second hand that day I wanted to bid a 3C preempt, but by error pulled out the 2C and placed it on the table. Hearing Ben's previously remarks over and over again in my head, I had no choice but to continue playing. Tom had 12 HCP and began his bidding as we had practiced over and over again prior to that day. When the bidding came around to me, I began making up some wonderful and colorful rebid responses that flooded my brain. Tom, upon seeing them, had no idea what in the world I was doing. By his facial expressions, I knew he did not understand the meaning of my rebids. Tom would then rebid appropriately, trying as best he could to get me back on track to which I again made up other remarkable and interesting rebids. Well, needless to say, we went down 4.
During a short break later in the game, Tom took me aside and began questioning my bid and rebids on that hand. When I explained that I mishandled the bidding box and was trying the give him notice that something was amuck, he finally understood all the fabricated rebids I made.
His final comment prior to our resuming after that short break was, " So you made up all those rebids?" To which I answered most emphatically, " Yes." Tom responded, "Well you made up some good lies." For years thereafter , Tom referred to me to others as " Dr. Steve, the Lying Doctor."
PS: Tom did weeks later inform me that a "mechanical error", if caught quickly, would be allowed to be corrected. Despite this, Tom continued his usual Dr. Steve, the Lying Doctor, reference when introducing me to others.
The Broken Table
It was about 1966 that this incident occurred. I can place the time because of the memorable conversation that evening about how so many fellow Americans were expressing distrust in the findings in the Warren Commission Report. I was living in Wauconda IL and had found about 6 or 7 other bridge enthusiasts who would play money bridge many Friday evenings at one of our houses.
The Broken Table incident occurred at our host Patrick Lueder's house. Pat's partner was a hothead high school teacher named Bill Sandvos. On the memorable deal, I was Bill's LHO (left hand opponent) and my partner was the Rector of the local Episcopal Church, though I don't remember his name.
Bill opened 1NT with the popular 16-18 HCP range used back then. Pat raised his partner's bid to 3NT. I made the opening lead and Pat tabled an awful dummy that clearly should have passed his partner's 1NT opener.
Declarer Bill became outraged with his partner's garbage hand. He slammed his fist into the center of the table saying, "You bid 3NT with that shit?"
With that, the table caved down the middle and fell to the floor, along with drinks, ashtrays, cards, etc. It was a big mess! We all started cleaning up this mess and, all the while, Bill made one apology after another for his behavior. With each apologetic gesture he made, the other 3 of us piled on because we were enjoying making Bill feel like the jerk he could sometimes be.
As we were putting the two halves of the table back together, Pat's 13-year old son, Arthur enters the living room from another part of the house and says, "Oh, I see the table fell apart again." Of course, Bill's demeanor changed and he had a big smile on this face as we all laughed and laughed.
If weren't for Arthur, this story would have been much less memorable, perhaps not very memorable at all.
Winning 7-0 vs. Who's Who?
submitted by Donna Parker
Ken and I were playing in a Swiss Team event in the Atlanta Summer Nationals in 2013. Our teammates were Len and Eden Perkins from Macon GA. In the first match, when our opponents came to our table, Ken seemed to know them. I thought that the man was Mike Passell and I knew him as being a somebody. After playing the 6-board match, our teammates came back to our table and we compared scores. We had gained IMPs on 4 boards and tied 2 boards. Unbelievably, we had won by a score of 7-0, a shutout!
Our 4-person team had total lifetime masterpoints of 9,531. Afterwards, Ken looked up our opponents and located their 2013 masterpoints:
Mike Passell 72,058
Carolyn Lynch 11,864
Lew Stansby 27,067
Bart Bramley 21,242
Team Total 132,231 Lifetime Masterpoints
Our little team had been outgunned in masterpoints by 132,231 to 9,531. Yet, by playing our best, we not only won, but we also shut them out. Three of our opponents were household names in the Who's Who of Bridge.
We won all four of our matches that day, but finished 2nd overall in the event. After losing their first match to us, the pro team won their next 3 matches by larger margins than our next 3 wins and they finished 1st overall.
Ken was so proud of our team's achievement that he framed our score card. This is what hangs nicely framed on our office wall:
My Funny Drury Story
It was in the early 1970s and I was in Los Angeles on a business trip. As I often did when I was not traveling with associates, I sought out the local bridge club. I phoned the Los Angeles Duplicate Bridge Club and asked if they could find me a partner for that evening.
They told me they happened to have someone needing a partner and I then asked them to ask my partner to arrive 30 minutes before game time so we could detail a convention card. I was also informed that I might be lucky and see John Wayne that night because he often played there between movie roles. (No such luck.)
I arrived 30 minutes early and began waiting for my partner to arrive. I waited and waited. At game time, precisely 7:30, my partner, George Goldring, walks in and we get introduced. He says to me, "Make out a convention card. I'll play anything you want to play. I need to have a chat with someone."
I quickly make out a convention card and George returns, glances at the card, and says, "What? NO Drury?"
I say "I didn't know if you played Drury."
He says, "You didn't know if I played Drury? -- Hell, I WROTE THE BOOK!"
Needless to say, I quickly added Drury to our card. We never had a Drury auction that night and I do remember that we were 1st overall in about a 15-table game.
At some point during the evening, George told me that he really did have a role in writing the book on Drury. (BTW, Drury originated in the 1950's as an artificial 2-club response by a passed hand responding to partner's 1H or 1S opener. The 2C response showed limit raise values and support for partner's major suit opening bid.) The convention has undergone numerous revisions since its inception.
At home after the business trip, I confirmed much of George's story. Douglas Drury invented the convention because of his partner's ridiculously weak 3rd chair opening bids of one of a major. As the convention grew in popularity, Doug began writing The Drury Two Club Convention. It was published in 1965, before Drury's death. Due to Drury's failing health, the book was allegedly finished by his wife Peggy and his friend George, using Doug Drury's outline and notes for the book. Peggy is shown as the book's co-author and, per George, in the Acknowledgements she credits George Goldring for his assistance in completing the book.
So, that's my Drury Story!
But I must add what happened on two subsequent games at the Los Angeles DBC. On the second night there, my arranged partner was a former Miss Tall America. She was about 6'5" and had stunning beauty. We won that night, too.
On my 3rd and final visit to the club, my arranged partner was the father of the great ULCA point guard, Henry Bibby. We must not have won that night because I don't remember the outcome of the game.
Jordan 2NT Convention Adjunct
In the early 1990's, I began playing the Jacoby 2NT convention to show opening hand values and 4-card support for partner's opening bid of 1♥ or 1♠. Opener's rebids to my 2NT response were as follows:
Opener's rebid of 3 of a new suit showed shortness in that suit
Opener's rebid of 3 of the major opened showed 17+ points and no shortness
Opener's rebid of 3NT showed 15-16 HCP and no shortness
Opener's rebid of 4 of the major opened showed a 12-14 point hand with no shortness
Opener's rebid of 4 of a lower ranking suit than the major opened showed a second 5-card suit with a quality suit
In addition to Jacoby 2NT, I was also playing the Jordan 2NT convention with most partners. In Jordan, over partner's 1♥ or 1♠ opening bid, if the next chair doubles for takeout, my 2NT bid shows a limit raise (10-12 points) of partner's major and promises 3-card support of the major.
One day it dawned on me that we had no specific agreements regarding opener's rebids (like we had with opener's rebids after a Jacoby 2NT response). I recognized we could use the same opener's rebids we were playing after the Jacoby 2NT bid. However, it was necessary to flip-flop the meanings of opener's rebidding 3 and 4 of the major, allowing us to pass 3 of the major with a minimum opener opposite a minimum 2NT response.
Well, you know what? I had just created a new adjunct convention for Jordan 2NT responses. Of course, I called it "Parker". This would be shown on the back side of the convention card in the box for OVER OPPS T/O DOUBLE.
Fast forward a couple of years …
Donna and I are playing in a 3-day sectional in Harrisburg PA in early 1997. In a Friday pairs game, an opponent looks at my convention card and asks "What is this "Parker" thing?" I quickly explain, "Its using opener's Jacoby 2NT rebids after a Jordan 2NT bid, but flip-flopping the meaning of 3 and 4 of the major." The opponent says, "I like that."
Two days later in the Sunday Swiss, we are playing against players I never saw before. I glance at one of the opponent's convention card. In the proper place is entered "Parker". I point to it on their card and show Donna. The opponent pipes up, saying, "Want to know what that is?"
I say, "There's no need to explain – I'm Parker." And of course I give Donna a wink and a smile. It was a moment I shall not forget.
Married Couples Do Not Necessarily Make The Best Partners
submitted by Ben Reischer
One of my memorable stories happened at the Crystal City bridge club in Arlington, VA. For several weeks an excellent player had been trying to teach his wife how to play duplicate. Each week he would get less patient and nastier to his wife as the game progressed.
The finale occurred one week. He kept getting louder and redder and was admonished several times by the Director. He finally lost it and screamed out at the top of his lungs -- "You Play Bridge Just Like You Screw". The club broke out in hysterics, the wife was mortified and stormed out, and that was the last time we saw her.
Another noteworthy event occured at a major bridge tournament in Stuttgart, Germany. I was sitting North and the North South French couple behind me were getting louder and started shouting steadily at each other as the game progressed . The director came by twice and politely told them to calm down. At the second time he warned them they would be penalized if he had to come back.
They started fighting again and this time the wife (North) threw a board at dear hubby, missing him. It came flying by my head (missing me) and knocked down a water glass at the next table. They literally started physically fighting and it took three directors to separate them and throw them out. When things settled down, a director took the microphone, apologized for the disruption, and calmy said that we should continue playing, adding that it was not considered proper bridge etiquette to throw objects at your partner.
Very Memorable Flannery Hand
Flannery is a convention some players like for its preemptive and descriptive value. When a partnership agrees to play Flannery, their 2♦ opening bid shows a hand with 5 hearts, 4 spades, and 11-15 HCP (high card points). A further benefit of playing Flannery is that when partner opens 1♥, partner's 1♠ response promises 5 or more spades.
At a Chicago regional tournament in the early 1970s, I was playing in an Open Pairs event with a partner named Margo Brockett. Opponents come to our table who we immediately recognize. One is the famed, world champion Jim Jacoby and the other is John Wachter, a pro from Milwaukee. On the first hand, with both sides vulnerable, Margo opens a Flannery 2♦ . Wachter doubles for a minor suit take-out, and I bid 2♥ holding ♠x, ♥xxxx, ♦xxx, ♣Axxxx.
Jacoby doubles my 2♥ bid to show he holds good cards. Margo now jumps to 4♥ which is doubled by Wachter. Three passes follow.
Jacoby leads the K♣ and Margo lays down this dummy (declarer's hand shown below dummy):
♠ xxxx
♥ AKxxxxx
♦ x
♣ x
♥ xxxx
♦ xxx
♣ Axxxx
I win the opening lead with A♣ . With just the Q♥ and J♥ missing, both fall as I lead to the A♥ at trick 2. At this point, I claim all but 2 of the remaining tricks (conceding a diamond trick and a spade trick). We score +990 for 4♥ doubled making 5, with only 11 HCP in our combined our hands. The opponents held 29 HCP.
As soon as Jacoby concedes the outcome, he turns to Margo and says, "Nice bid, young lady." Jim Jacoby was always known as a class act. Instead of being resentful after being swindled by Margo, he compliments her on her double swindle (opening 2♥ and then bidding 4♥).
Margo made this strange 2♦ bid because she had expected an otherwise poor result against Jim Jacoby. Instead, we earn a top board and a tale we can tell for the next 50 years!
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It's not about tomorrow, 1: Ursula Le Guin
January 6, 2021 January 5, 2021 Mechanical Dolphin
In the introduction to her book The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin writes that "Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. 'If this goes on, this is what will happen.'"
Ursula Le Guin, by Marian Wood Kolisch CC BY-SA 2.0
"A prediction is made", she continues:
"Method and results much resemble those of a scientist who feeds large doses of a purified and concentrated food additive to mice, in order to predict what may happen to people who eat it in small quantities for a long time. The outcome seems almost inevitably to be cancer. So does the outcome of extrapolation. Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrial life."
Le Guin writes that "it's lovely to be invited to participate in Futurological Congresses where Systems Science displays its grand apocalyptic graphs, to be asked to tell the newspapers what America will be like in 2001, and all that, but it's a terrible mistake. I write science fiction, and science fiction isn't about the future. I don't know any more about the future than you do, and very likely less."
The same might be said for those of us whose work includes scenario planning. It's not about knowing what will happen tomorrow, or even having a sense of what's probable. What you're really doing is imagining different tomorrows in order to change your perspective on today: informing decisions in the here and now.
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Planning for 2021: Value-Creating Systems
December 28, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
Every year, around this time, I share a simple tool which might help people think ahead when making personal plans. In 2019 and 2018 I offered variants of the "Arrows of Time" diagram. The arrows provide a way to reflect on the things which may await us in the coming year, and those from the past which will still be with us on our journey into the future.
This year, I want to share a different tool. You still don't need anything more than a pen and paper to use it.
This year, I want to think about relationships and values.
2020 has been a strange and difficult year for many of us, with more of our life than ever before spent online: in Zoom meetings and conference calls, online quizzes and get-togethers in new, sometimes awkward, digital settings. All of the emotions, frustrations, and opportunities of these spaces have been magnified by the pressures of COVID-19.
We increasingly expect, and are expected, to deal with constant streams of information from many sources. There's more stimulation, but we might also be more distractible, less focussed, less aware of our environment, less able to process everything cognitively and emotionally. We might not be tending our relationships as well as we might.
So why not take a moment, map your relationships, and see what difference they're currently making? It might guide you in the decisions you make as 2021 arrives.
As always, I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, trying to bring together the work of a few different thinkers and writers in a simple tool. I'll tell you more about the sources I'm drawing on at the end of this piece.
But before then, if you're willing to join me, it's time to get started.
We're going to draw a map. Let's begin by putting you at the centre.
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"2050 was last year": Times of COVID-19
December 18, 2020 December 16, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
Together with the University of Oslo's Dr. Steffen Krüger, I've written a short piece on the Norwegian education scenarios, set thirty years hence, which we published at the start of this year – plus how the COVID-19 pandemic both confirmed some of our insights and challenged our perceptions.
Seeking an imagined future that would threaten a data-driven, corporatised health and care system, we created a world with distinct similarities to Norway's coronavirus experience in 2020. In the essay, we talk about our scenarios, the cabin fever of homeschooled lockdown days, and how to bring the stuff of dystopian sci-fi into the realm of plausible policy discussion.
You can read "2050 was last year", at the Times of COVID-19 blog.
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Interview with Paul Bowers, Part 2: Bureaucratic Radicalism
Late in November 2020, I caught up with Paul Bowers, CEO of the Australian sustainability organisation Renew, for a brief chat. (You can read the first part here).
Renew evolved from the Alternative Technology Association of Australia, and today it advocates for sustainable living in homes and communities across the nation. In the second part of our conversation, Paul and I spoke about systemic change, revolution and reform, and encouraging the choice to live sustainably.
Parliament House, Canberra, by Wikimedia user JJ Harrison – CC BY-SA 3.0
You've written on "bureaucratic radicalism", which seems to speak to this issue of what happens when the green hackers of the 80s find themselves represented on federal committees and contributing to the building code.
Bureaucratic radicalism was my attempt to think through how you systematize good practice, and using existing power structures in order to do that. My first thought is to consider what we need to learn from First Nations peoples, from communities where environmental sustainability and good practice is part of what you learn from childhood.
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Interview with Paul Bowers, Part 1: What do you do when the revolution is over?
Late in November 2020, I caught up with Paul Bowers, CEO of the Australian sustainability organisation Renew, for a brief chat.
Renew, which evolved from the Alternative Technology Association of Australia, advocates for sustainable living in homes and communities across the nation. Paul, following a storied career in the Australian museums & galleries sector, joined Renew as CEO in March.
In our conversation, we talked about Paul's journey across sectors, the nature of creativity, the challenges of a sustainability organisation's evolving mission, and the opportunities which await.
You joined Renew in March. What's it like taking up a CEO role in the midst of a crisis like this?
For me, the idea of being in charge of an organization while not being in lockdown feels strange! Because I knew nothing else, it became normal so quickly. On the third or fourth day of my role, I had to shut the office and put in place rules and procedures for working from home.
We've been doing that for seven months, over two lockdowns. We're only just starting to go back to the office now.
It's much easier to apply the technical and functional requirements of management and leadership at a distance. What's hard is putting the emotional aspect back in, especially when that's a relationship of one to many. I'm very happy and open when it comes to one-to-one emotional relationships, but having to hold that relationship to an entire community – and on an unfamiliar medium too – was hard.
Was there ever really one normal? Discussion with Murray Cook and Brendan Fitzgerald
November 22, 2020 November 22, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
Today's blog features a discussion between two colleagues, Murray Cook and Brendan Fitzgerald.
Murray helps organisations and leaders in the use of scenario planning to explore the future and its impacts upon current strategy. He works on understanding disruption, detecting early signals of the emerging future, and developing responses to the changing environment. Alongside his consulting work, Murray also works in executive education, most recently at Saïd Business School, and has previously led large, complex transformation programmes.
Brendan, director of 641 DI, works to build capacity for the library, government, and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and New Zealand. Formerly Manager of Digital Inclusion at Infoxchange, his focus is digital & social inclusion, its ability to reduce social isolation and loneliness in community. Working with clients across Australia and New Zealand including Hitnet, Grow Hope Foundation, State Library of New South Wales, LIANZA, City of Newcastle Libraries, and the Victorian Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, 641 DI delivers research and project evaluation services, digital inclusion planning and practice, as well as strategic consultation.
Last month, Murray & Brendan got together for a wide ranging discussion covering foresight, localism, their experiences in different sectors on opposite sides of the world, and even the nature of change itself.
Murray:
Some topics we might discuss: How things are changing, how change itself has changed, and how we might use scenarios to attend to things we haven't looked at before. There are never any facts in the future – but that's more apparent than ever now, isn't it?
Brendan:
I think it's also important to look back; to consider those things in the past that you bring with you into the present – or leave behind. One of the things I know we've both been pondering: was there actually a "normal" in the first place?
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7 magic words to challenge the wisdom of systems: getting your head around Claudio Ciborra's Labyrinths of Information
November 18, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
The late Claudio Ciborra (1951-2005) was an information systems researcher, organizational theorist, and Chair in Risk Management at the London School of Economics. Energetic, pioneering, unafraid to take a contrarian position, his work remains thought-provoking for readers today – even though he wrote on information, communication technologies, and organizational theory for a pre-smartphone age.
The Labyrinths of Information, published three years before Ciborra's death, is a slim but densely written volume which sets out to "challenge the wisdom of systems". It puts the complex and ambiguous realities of human existence and interaction at the heart of research into information systems and business processes.
Among other questions, Ciborra asks: Why are systems ambiguous? Why do they not give us more time to do things? Is there strategic value in tinkering even in high-tech settings? Are age-old practices valuable for dealing with new technologies? What is the role of moods and emotional concerns in influencing how we think and act?
As he reminds us, "the very definition of information systems as a set of technical […] and human resources devoted to the management of information in organizations spells out the composite nature of the field." Humanity is always woven into the fabric of information systems.
Ciborra challenges our tendency to describe how information technology is used in terms of rationality and formal method. Academics, management consultants, journalists and other commentators tend to frame what is happening in business in terms of established concepts, neat little pigeonholes for the messy business of the world.
They tend to share basic assumptions: "there is a complex problem to be solved or a task to be executed; a corresponding strategy is deployed to achieve the goals and solve the problem; and a new structure is put in place to implement the solution."
"To be sure," Ciborra goes on to say, "decision makers would admit that day-to-day management is run in a more organic, ad-hoc fashion, and that textbooks and journal articles seldom seem to capture the intertwining of market events and managerial responses."
Often rationalizations are brought in after the fact, and the "gap between what theoretical, ex post explanations and models can deliver and the actual garbage-can style of managerial choice is considered to be a fact of life by practitioners, and an unavoidable result of the limitations of any modelling approach[.]"
Yet Ciborra wants to move away from this approach, attending precisely to what he calls "the hidden or dark side of information systems […] focussing on the obvious, the workaday, and the very well known to any practitioner in the field." He's not excited by the latest management buzzwords or theories, and he's disdainful of their "hospitality on PowerPoint slides by consultants and practitioners."
Ciborra seeks improvisations, hacks, awkward real-life experiences, and the hard work involved in taking care of complex systems. He probes at the blank space papered over in presentations by phrases such as "You know no organizational model will fully capture the actual flow of events", "The strategy was well laid out, but then, as you know, life is interesting because it is full of surprises", and, simply: "You know what I mean."
He builds his collection of essays around seven words, deliberately chosen for their unfamiliarity to English speakers – words that are meant to stop us in our tracks, shake us out of routine thinking, and apprehend the world of organizations and information systems anew.
No précis can fully do Ciborra's rich, complex little book justice. But I can take you through a tour of those seven magic words to get you started. Magic for beginners, if you like.
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An empathy for the future: Interview with Sara Gry Striegler and Oskar Stokholm Østergaard, Danish Design Centre
Today I'm joined by Sara Gry Striegler and Oskar Stokholm Østergaard of the Danish Design Centre to talk about their work developing design approaches which allow people, communities, companies, and organisations to better understand the futures which may await them.
Sara is Programme Director at the Centre, leading their Future Welfare work, and Oskar is Project Manager for a range of ventures including the new Living Futures scenario toolkit.
Matt: The Design Centre has had an evolving role and remit since it was founded in 1978. What's it been like, coming to the point where the Centre is using design as a futures-oriented tool?
Oskar: We're currently in the process of finalising our own new strategy, with a focus on being mission-oriented and finding ways to not only create growth through design practices, methods, and mindsets, but also help in solving systemic issues at a wider level. We are becoming more systems-oriented in that sense, and the futures work helps us to tackle those big issues, pulling back from a narrow focus on using design to solve particular issues in isolation, one at a time.
Futures thinking flips that focus on its head; we try to take in the broader lines first, and then consider where we want to go – or where we want to avoid going! – in the future.
Image courtesy of Danish Design Centre
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The Only Winning Move: Interview with Peter Scoblic, Part 1
November 2, 2020 November 7, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
Dr. Peter Scoblic is a co-founder and principal of the strategic foresight consultancy Event Horizon Strategies. A former executive editor at The New Republic and Foreign Policy who has written on foresight for publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Science, and Harvard Business Review, Peter is also a senior fellow with the International Security Program at New America, and an instructor for the Professional Development Program at Harvard University. Previously, he was deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he worked on approval of the New START agreement and was the chief foreign policy speechwriter for Chairman John Kerry.
On the eve of a particularly fraught election and a turbulent moment in US political history, Peter joined me for a discussion about his career, ranging from post-Cold War nuclear arms policy to the relationship between policymaking and pop culture, plus the practical question of how and to what extent we can usefully predict the future. The interview will appear on this blog in three parts, but you can read it in its entirety as a PDF download here.
I began by asking Peter if he'd always been ambitious to work in foreign policy.
Foreign policy is something I've always been interested in, especially national security work, and particularly nuclear weapons work. There's been a wonky streak running through me over the years, often focussed on these dark existential issues.
It goes back to being a child of the 80s; I believe the second movie I ever saw was War Games, starring Matthew Broderick, in which a teen hacks into the computers of NORAD, the aerospace defence command. I was probably too young to see it and the experience, combined with the actual headlines of that decade, planted a seed which I was able to explore as a student at Brown.
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Life After Missions: Hindsight for the Next Big Thing
October 27, 2020 October 27, 2020 Mechanical Dolphin
Societal challenges are complex. More complex than going to the moon, which was mainly a technical feat. To solve them requires attention to the ways in which socio-economic issues interact with politics and technology, to the need for smart regulation, and to the critical feedback processes that take place across the entire innovation chain.
Mariana Mazzucato, Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation In The European Union
Every strategy, every approach, every angle of attack that we take in life – whether individually or as a collective – has its moment. Insurgents become incumbents, if they succeed; and the most novel or surprising innovations will, in time, become yesterday's news.
The UK's Wellcome Trust has just launched a new strategy built around three global challenges.
To do this, we're building three programmes of work focused on each of these global challenges.
And we're putting the communities most affected at the heart. https://t.co/eU9HirwEpk
— Wellcome (@wellcometrust) October 20, 2020
Wellcome is far from the only organization taking this approach. Using challenges to structure strategy echoes the new trend towards "mission-led innovation", where systemic public policies draw on grassroots and frontline knowledge to attain specific goals. Whether it's clean air in congested cities, continued independence in a healthy old age, or the challenges of cancer, climate change, and digital exclusion, missions are intended to help us apply big thinking to big problems – setting a clear direction for innovation while still enabling bottom-up solutions.
I think the mission-led approach is really promising, and I've been pleased to collaborate with organisations like Business Finland and Nesta as they explore what mission-setting might look like for them. But I'm also realistic about the limits of any one approach to ever serve as a panacea for the ills of our time. Inevitably, even the best strategies will have gaps and blindspots; no human endeavour escapes the need for tradeoffs, and omniscience is still an attribute which eludes us.
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Home News Hot Tuna to Perform at 20th Century Theater on 3/15
Hot Tuna to Perform at 20th Century Theater on 3/15
HOT TUNA: LEGENDARY ROOTS ROCKERS IN CONCERT!
Thursday, March 15th, 8:00 pm
The 20th Century Theatre
Tickets: $25 adv / $30 door
(512) 731.8000 – www.the20thcenturytheatre.com
Hot Tuna celebrates the release of Steady As She Goes, the first new album in twenty years from the legendary roots rockers. Featuring Rock & Roll Hall of Famers and Jefferson Airplane founding members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen, the band celebrates over four decades of playing together. Now, with the release of their Red House debut, they prove that they remain one of the most innovative bands in American music.
Why did it take so long for Hot Tuna to record a new album? "Well, it just worked out that way," Kaukonen says. "Hot Tuna never quit playing. The moment just wasn't right before; now it is, and we have a great project to show for it."
Returning to upstate New York decades after Kaukonen and Casady first played Woodstock, they went into Levon Helm's studio over the winter to record twelve new tracks with mandolin player Barry Mitterhoff and drummer Skoota Warner (Cyndi Lauper, Matisyahu, Santana). Working with famed producer Larry Campbell (who Kaukonen worked with on his last solo album River of Time) the band plugged in for the electric Hot Tuna album that fans have been waiting for.
Taking no prisoners, the band tears into it, kicking off with the rocking Americana number "Angel of Darkness" (co-written by Kaukonen and Campbell). From there, the album easily weaves between hard-driving blues and acoustic tunes, including six originals and covers of songs by blues legends Papa Charlie McCoy and Reverend Gary Davis. Incorporating the live energy that Hot Tuna is known for, the recording mainly features the four members of the band, being joined only by Larry Campbell (guitars, fiddle, organ, vocals) and Teresa Williams, whose powerful harmonies hearken back to Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick.
As Casady and Kaukonen celebrate over fifty years of playing together, Steady As She Goes has them reflecting on their past and present life, as in their song "Smokerise Journey" and Kaukonen's "Mourning Interrupted," written about their roots, growing up in DC in the 1950's. Whether going to town on a gospel number like "Children of Zion" or playing a soulful ballad like "Second Chances," Hot Tuna proves that they are a force to be reckoned with, bursting with creative energy while remaining rock steady as one of today's truly iconic bands.
Following their blues tour with Charlie Musselwhite and Jim Lauderdale, Hot Tuna begins their CD release tour, playing acoustic and electric shows across North America and Europe. For the latest news and tour updates, visit www.hottuna.com or www.redhouserecords.com.
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Most marine fish (and invertebrates) have a complex life cycle that involves a dispersing, planktonic larval stage—the time from egg hatching to juvenile development. These fish generally produce high numbers of eggs with larvae that develop in the open ocean for long periods (weeks to months).
Fish larvae are fascinating animals. They are rarely seen underwater; enormously diverse in their developmental patterns; and physiologically, morphologically, behaviorally, and ecologically different from adult fishes. At hatching, they are generally microscopic (2–4 mm) and undeveloped, living off yolk, and incapable of feeding and swimming against currents. They learn to swim, hunt, and avoid predators as they mature through various stages. Many fish larvae are odd looking and have temporary specializations to survive in the pelagic environment such as freakishly large fins, heads, or eyes, as well as intricate and/or elongated spines, body armor, and/or various pigment patterns. When larvae are close to transitioning into juveniles, they typically use the sun, currents, and reef sounds and smells to find a new home. They make their final approach at night because the reef has many larval predators. Divers rarely encounter fish larvae. In fact, less than 10 percent of fish larvae have been described, much less photographed. Fish larvae are important in many aspects of aquaculture, fisheries conservation, and biology.
show the diverse morphology, pigmentation, and natural beauty of live marine larvae using photography.
The project primarily raises fish larvae from wild eggs. Collecting eggs from the ocean lets me work on a diversity of species without having to spawn them in captivity. Eggs are separated based on size, and similarly sized fractions are reared through settlement or to mortality in small 10–20 gallon (37–75 L) tanks. Using small tanks conserves water, algae, and live foods; allows for more replications in my space-limited hatchery; and lets me easily transfer the larvae when water quality deteriorates. The larvae are reared with wild and cultured copepod nauplii and ciliates. Isochrysis species (phytoplankton used to grow copepods) are added to the rearing tank to feed the live foods and provide a better feeding environment for the larvae. Species/genera that survive and show promising larval culture traits are then brought into the hatchery to spawn and further develop the larval rearing technique.
Collecting wild eggs in the ocean has helped locate spawning areas and determine reproductive timing of Hawaiian fish species and is a cost-effective method to obtain a diversity of species for laboratory rearing.
Laboratory rearing has provided information on the larval behavior and culture requirements of the various species and has also allowed the development of live and healthy larvae to be documented.


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José Feliciano - Light My Fire
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Feliciano had mastered acoustic and 12-string guitar as a teenager in Spanish Harlem, New York where he had lived with his family since the age of five. Just as Bob Dylan had done before him, he began making a name for himself playing the coffeehouse circuit of New York's Greenwich Village where he performed folk, R&B and Latin American songs.
As his profile and reputation grew, he signed with RCA Records following a concert at New York's Gerde's Folk City. While he had some success with his initial RCA releases, which covered everything from novelty songs to flamenco, he grew tired of the musical direction in which he was heading. As a result, he returned to his roots and recorded three albums in Spanish, which made him a star in Central and South America and the US's Hispanic communities. Given his status as one of the most influential and successful Latin American music artists of all time, it would remiss for his musical heritage and background not to be represented. So, this album includes La Bamba, a 1958 hit for Latin music's first rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens and which has been performed by Feliciano since the 1960s.
Also featured on this album is Volveré Alguna Vez, a song that was first part of a Spanish-language album recorded by Matt Monro and which became a big success for the British singer in several Latin American countries. It was later included on an album Feliciano made for Motown Records after he became the first artist signed to the legendary music company's new Latin music division.
The newest song on this compilation is Right Here Waiting, originally a worldwide hit for its composer Richard Marx in 1989 but which Feliciano then made his own. The one original song included is Rain, which was written by him and his first wife Hilda and first featured on the 1969 studio album 10 to 23. It also became a US Billboard Hot 100 hit.
1. Light My Fire
2. Right Here Waiting
3. La Bamba
4. Rain
5. The Last Time
6. Stay With Me Baby
7. Time After Time
1. Jealous Guy
2. Daniel
3. Hi-Heel Sneakers
4. Volveré Alguna Vez
5. You Send Me
6. California Dreaming


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Most of the house owner know that household appliances are quite durable, but what they fail to understand is that most of them will probably breakdown eventually. Having made sense of whether it makes sense to re-establish the appliance, most people will always try to search for the best repair experts.
How would you hire one of the most reliable, proficient, affordable and legit appliance repair companies is Mission BC? Well, this article talks about a couple of tips that could make your search for the top repair company simpler and progressively productive.
While you most likely need your household appliances to get repaired quickly, settling on a hurried choice could cost you beyond reasonable cost. This is maybe the most vital point to keep in thought while you look for the best service provider.
It's much better to endure with a little burden than it is to settle on a wrong choice and have your house burst into flames because of defective repair.
• How was their cost?
• Were the servicemen proficient in appearance and activity?
• Would they use their service again in future?
Since only one out of every odd people will know a good Whirlpool Washer Repair organization, you'll have to do some research too. This will round out your list of potential contractual workers, and your own fulfillment also.
There are a bunch of websites with testimonials and reviews of nearby household repair organizations from different clients too.
Keep in mind that such assets are significant, and you need to use them to their fullest. Also, the information that they give is in every case more telling than any marketing claim you may come across. Having a list of Repair Company compiled, you now only need to make sense of which one to hire for the undertaking.
You need to look for a company with licensed experts. Note the availability with which different firms response to your request on the experts' certification and training. You may likewise search for small scale companies where the owner really does most of the work.
Despite the fact that it requires a little exertion, finding such small scaled and effective company will frequently convert into pre-dominant nature of fix work.
Inquire as to whether the Dryer repair company can provide you with a list of their recent customers who can attest for their work. People with personal involvement with the company will have direct knowledge of their customer service.
For example, the best washing machine repair company will promptly give a list of references to enable you to judgment whether their services are right for you or not.
You might need to ask as to whether the repair company gives assurance of all work done. Moreover, ask if they have the contingencies to cover liabilities and claims that emerge from customers.
You need to hire the company that accepts payments through cards. Regardless of whether you weren't wanting to use your credit card, re-consider your decision. Paying along these lines offers customers the security of having the capacity to hold up complaints.


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EpiphanyAI Top Colorado Company to Watch Winner
Jun 27, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
Denver, CO, June 26, 2017 –(PR.com)– EpiphanyAI is honored to announce they are voted one of the Top 50 Companies to Watch by ColoradoBiz Magazine. With over 600,00 businesses in Colorado, and over 65,000 workers in the Advertising and Media business calling Colorado home, we are humbled to be included in the Top 100 finalist, and blown away by the recognition as one of the Top 50 Companies to Watch in Colorado for 2017.
Colorado Companies to Watch energizes the state of Colorado by recognizing second-stage companies that are developing valuable products and services, creating quality jobs, enriching communities, and creating new industries throughout the state. Second-stage companies fuel the economic fire in Colorado by accounting for much of the economic growth and economic independence of individuals throughout the state. And on Friday, June 23 rd , 2017 Epiphany Ai was awarded one of the Top 50 Colorado Company's to Watch award,marking years of dedication and hard-work from an amazing group of people.
"Epiphany Ai was selected based on their consistent local job creation, talented team, growth of revenue, and their relentless commitment to community investment. We're excited to be part of the class of 2017, and will access the resources of the Colorado Companies to Watch Alumni network to continue tackling issues in the fast-paced global advertising industry," said Brian Allen, the company's CSO.
"It's and honor to have our community and peers recognize our efforts. Being selected into this prestigious group of Colorado companies makes us proud, and we look forward to joining the alumni in nurturing our Colorado economy by being technology leaders and mentors," said the company's CEO, Joseph Salvador.
About Epiphany Ai
Epiphany Ai builds technologies that make digital publishing and advertising better. Through its unique and proprietary platform, they are able to improve yield for publishers while providing quality scale to advertisers in one, easy-to- use mobile-first interface. With partners across the globe, Epiphany works with the industries best and brightest on a mission to bring real value to our partners. The company is head quartered in Denver, Colorado and has been recognized as one of the state's most innovative companies and was the recipient of the 2017 Top 50 Colorado Companies to Watch award.
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https://epiphanyai.com/
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