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Richard "Richie" Tozier is a fictional character created by Stephen King and one of the main characters of his 1986 novel It. The character is a member of "The Losers Club" and is seen to be the comic relief of the group; however, his loudmouthed antics often get him in trouble, leading to him being called "Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier" and his friends often using the phrase "Beep Beep Richie" when they want him to be quiet. He was portrayed by Seth Green as a child and Harry Anderson as an adult in the 1990 miniseries adaptation of the novel, and by Ankur Javeri as a child and Nasirr Khan as an adult in the novel's 1998 television series adaptation. He was later portrayed by Finn Wolfhard as a child and Bill Hader as an adult in the 2017 film and its 2019 sequel.

Fictional character biography

Richard (Richie) Tozier was born on March 7, 1946 (novel), 1950 (miniseries), or 1976 (films) and is the son of Maggie and Wentworth Tozier. Richie is known for his loudmouthed and sarcastic personality, which led to him being called "Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier" by his peers. Richie is good friends with Bill Denbrough and the other members of The Losers Club Stanley Uris, Eddie Kaspbrak, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, and Mike Hanlon. After Bill's younger brother Georgie is killed by Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Richie and his friends each have individual encounters with Pennywise before facing It collectively at Neibolt Street. After this encounter, they believe they have killed It, but they take an oath that if they have not succeeded, they will one day return to Derry to finish the job.

27 years later, Richie is a disc-jockey in Beverly Hills and one of the only members of The Losers Club to have never married. Richie receives a call from Mike – who remained behind in Derry – that It has returned, causing the death of Adrian Mellon. Richie returns to Derry and reunites with The Losers Club, with whom he encounters It once again. Eventually, the group descends into the sewers to kill It by performing the Ritual of Chud. During the ritual, It mortally wounds and kills Eddie, leaving Richie devastated.

Adaptations
Richie was portrayed by Seth Green as a child, and by Harry Anderson as an adult in the 1990 miniseries, and by Ankur Javeri as a child and Nasir Khan as an adult (named "Raja") in the 1998 television series. The adult portrayal is well known for a scene where Pennywise taunts him in a public library, which has become iconic for Tim Curry's over-the-top performance.

Richie was portrayed again by Finn Wolfhard in the 2017 film and as an adult by Bill Hader in the 2019 sequel. This interpretation of Richie tends to make more pop-culture references and becomes a stand-up comedian as an adult rather than a DJ. A popular fan theory of Wolfhard's interpretation of the character is that his family has a tendency to neglect Richie and that he struggles with ADHD.

Richie's sexuality

In the adaptation of It Chapter Two, Richie is portrayed as being secretly in love with Eddie Kaspbrak until the latter's death, and Eddie remained unaware of these feelings. It is confirmed that Richie's reason for making jokes are just in part a defense mechanism to hide his feelings for Eddie, as most of his jokes target him, as opposed to just trying to be humorous as in the book or other adaptation of IT. This film incorporates a scene where, when Eddie is killed by Pennywise, Richie is visibly more upset than the rest of the Losers' Club. It is revealed in one of the final scenes of the film that Richie recarves his and Eddie's initials into a bridge.

Director Andy Muschietti has stated that the decision to depict Richie as gay in It Chapter Two was based on this interpretation of the book. Stephen King said that while he didn't intend for there to be an unrequited romance between the two characters, he approved of the storyline, saying "it's one of those things that's kind of genius, because it echoes the beginning [with Adrian Mellon's gay bashing]. It comes full circle. At least there's love involved. Somebody cares for [Eddie,] and that echoes the love that Adrian's partner has for him. So that was cool."

Comedy

Richie is known as being the comedian of The Losers Club, often telling jokes at inappropriate times, which leads to his friends often saying "Beep Beep, Richie" when they want him to stop talking. Richie's humor has been viewed as being either a defense mechanism, or a call for attention. It has been speculated that Richie uses his comedy as a defense mechanism, to hide his fear of not only Pennywise, but his fear of not being accepted by The Losers Club. Once Richie has his first encounter with Pennywise, his comedy turns into a coping mechanism as well, hiding his fears of the supernatural being and the possibility of his death at the hands of the creature. Strictly in It Chapter Two, it has been interpreted by some fans that Richie's comedic defense mechanism also doubles as him hiding his romantic feelings for Eddie Kaspbrak. It has also been speculated that Richie's comedy derives from a feeling of neglect by his parents, and as a cry for attention from his friends. He wants to have the attention and love from his friends that he doesn't receive at home from his parents.

Appearances in other King stories

Richie briefly appears in a cameo appearance in King's novel 11/22/63. In the novel, after the events of Pennywise, Richie is seen dancing with Beverly preparing for a talent show. The two are approached by time traveler Jake Epping, who enquires about the Dunning family. Afterwards, Epping teaches the two how to dance properly. However, this meeting is erased by the end of the novel as Epping removes his mark on history.

In King's novel Duma Key, the song excerpt in the beginning is by a band called Shark Puppy. In the credits page of the book, the song is written by R. Tozier and W. Denbrough.

Reception

The portrayals of Richie in the 2017 remake by Wolfhard and the 2019 sequel by Hader were both highly praised and considered to be "show-stealers". Both portrayals were noted for their comedic relief and chemistry with their fellow cast members, in particular between Wolfhard and Jack Dylan Grazer for the first film and Hader and James Ransone in the second. Hader's portrayal was noted for its blend of comedy and drama when required, as well as the subtle references to Richie's sexuality and his implicated love for Eddie, referred to by Pennywise as his "dirty little secret."

References

Characters in American novels of the 20th century
Drama television characters
Literary characters introduced in 1986
Fictional characters from Maine
Fictional comedians
Fictional LGBT characters in film
Fictional LGBT characters in literature
Fictional gay males
Horror television characters
Stephen King characters
It (novel)
Fictional DJs
Male characters in literature
Male characters in film
Male characters in television


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Transition-metal(ii) complexes with a tripodal hexadentate ligand, 1,1,1-tris[2-aza-3-(imidazol-4-yl)prop-2-enyl]ethane, exhibiting incomplete total or absolute spontaneous resolution
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CrystEngComm_22_3_458_466.pdf 2.02 MB
Matsushima, Misaki Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
Wada, Koki Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
Takahara, Kazuma Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
Sunatsuki, Yukinari Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
Suzuki, Takayoshi Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University ORCID Kaken ID publons researchmap
Crystal structures and crystallisation behaviours of a series of first-row transition-metal(II) complexes bearing 1,1,1-tris[2-aza-3-(imidazol-4-yl)prop-2-enyl]ethane (H3L), [MII(H3L)]Cl(ClO4) (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Zn) were examined. These compounds crystallise in an orthorhombic crystal system with a non-enantiogenic (Sohncke) space group P212121, resulting in spontaneous resolution of the chiral complex cations. Hydrogen bonds between the imidazole N–H atoms in the tripodal ligand and chloride anions give enantiomorphic crystals with a homochiral three-dimensional network structure. In order to verify the spontaneous resolution of these compounds, solid-state circular dichroism spectra of the resulting single crystals were measured (KBr disk method). Unexpectedly, the observed spectra indicated that imbalanced formation of the enantiomorphic crystals (i.e., left-handed Λ-form vs. right-handed Δ-form complex cations) in all cases. Moreover, in the cases of NiII and ZnII compounds, predominant enantiomorphic crystals formed by spontaneous resolution were always the same (in at least ten of our recrystallisation experiments). These observations suggest that there is a certain (but as yet unknown) factor that affects the predominant deposition of either enantiomorphic crystal when spontaneous resolution takes place from a solution of a racemic mixture in which rapid racemisation occurs.
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CrystEngComm
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Social Problems, Law, and Society
Edited by Kathryn A. Stout; Richard A. Dello Buono and William J. Chambliss
This collection of articles presents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. By exploring the interstitial area between the sociology of law, social problems and social movements, the initial chapters trace out a theoretical trajectory which points to the need to move beyond traditional and social constructionist approaches. A variety of empirical studies together explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race and gender in both a national and global context, illustrating the dialectical interplay between the state and social movements. Employing a wide range of perspectives so as to convey the great diversity found in the contemporary sociology of law and justice studies, these authors collectively share a broad consensus concerning the need to explore how social movements and the larger political economy play a pivotal role in shaping state reactions to the challenges presented by contemporary social problems. With its integrated presentation of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, this unique anthology will be useful in a variety of sociology, criminology, and justice studies course offerings such Law and Society, Social Problems, Crime and Social Justice, Social Movements, Law and Social Control, Social Change, Law and Public Policy, Introduction to Legal Studies, and others. Undergraduate and graduate students alike will appreciate that these articles, selected for their academic rigor, are highly readable and strongly oriented towards high profile social issues, including those of class, race, and gender inequalities as well as social movement and legal struggles in community, national and global settings.
Pages: 480 •
978-0-7425-4206-8 • Hardback • July 2004 • $137.00 • (£105.00)
978-0-7425-4207-5 • Paperback • July 2004 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
978-1-4616-4242-8 • eBook • July 2004 • $58.00 • (£45.00)
Series: Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
Subjects: Social Science / General, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Sociology / General
William J. Chambliss is professor of sociology and codirector of the Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections at George Washington University. He is a pioneer in the field of critical criminology and former president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Chambliss has published many well-known articles and books, including Power, Politics and Crime and On the Take. Richard A. Dello Buono is associate professor of sociology at Dominican University and former SSSP vice-president. He was visiting professor of political studies and international relations at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, Fullbright Professor at the University of Panama, and invited Graduate Studies Professor at both the University of Havana, Cuba, and at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. Dello Buono was formerly the editor of Social Problems Forum and is currently an associate editor of Critical Sociology. A. Kathryn Stout is associate professor of sociology and director of criminology at Dominican University. She is active in the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the American Society of Criminology, and various scholar-activist and social justice organizations. Specializing on the intersection of law and social movements, she is author of 'Political Prisoners as an Emergent Contradiction of State Repression' (with R. A. Dello Buono) and Sanctuary in the 1980s: the Dialectics of Law and Social Movement Development.
Chapter 1 Critical Perspectives on Law and Society: A Social Problems Approach
Chapter 2 Law and Social Change: Bringing Social Movements into the Dialectic
Chapter 3 Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations
Chapter 4 Deviant Behavior and the Remaking of the World
Chapter 5 A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy
Chapter 6 Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict
Chapter 7 Empiricism and the Critique of Marxism on Law and Crime
Chapter 8 Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U.S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal
Chapter 9 The Racial Bias of Capitalism and the State, and the Impact of the New Deal on African Americans
Chapter 10 Promoting Civil Rights through the Welfare State: How Medicare Integrated Southern Hospitals
Chapter 11 Managing Differences and Making Legislation: Social Movements and the Racialization, Sexualization, and the Gendering of Federal Hate Crime Law in the U.S., 1985-1998
Chapter 12 Negotiated Meanings and State Transformation: the Trust Issue in the Progressive Era
Chapter 13 The New Politics of Immigration: Balanced-Budget Conservatism and the Symbolism of Proposition 187
Chapter 14 Acting Locally: Environmental Injustice and the Emergence of Grass-Roots Environmental Organizations
Chapter 15 Citizenship and Inequality: Historical and Global Perspectives
Chapter 16 Transnational Mobilization and Civil Rights in Northern Ireland
Chapter 17 Exploring the Organizational Dilemmas of Coercive State Conduct: Israel's Repression of the Palestinian Uprising
Chapter 18 The Space Between Laws Revisited: Corporate Crime in a Transnational Context
Chapter 19 The State, the Legal Order, and Social Problems
—Social Problems from a Sociology of Law perspective.
—Critical, dialectical approach to social problems, law and society.
—Explores the dialectical relationship between law and social movements and social problems.


The file (112 KB, documented in German) allows a graphical view on one or more employees of one or more days. Also you see the operation's occupation and the time variance analysis of the chosen subset.
The employees time-clock is a scalable, text-based Gantt graph. The operation's occupation fits to it, though done in a graphical chart (not working in Excel for Macintosh).
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9 to 5 Musical at the Savoy theatre
April 26, 2019 · by ninapixelpixie	· in Theatrical Design, Theatrical Design News, Video design.	·
A brand new production of '9 to 5' has opened at The Savoy theatre in London and will celebrate its 100th performance tomorrow. The show is written by Patricia Resnick, who wrote the original 1980 film and features songs by the queen of country music herself, Dolly Parton. But far from being a jukebox musical, the show revolves around the same narrative as the film, which describes three women's triumph over the workplace oppression of the early '80s. The story is sadly still all too relevant 40 years on but it is delivered with a huge heart and plenty of humour by the talented cast.
Nina was brought on board to design video for the show. Since video complemented and completed Tom Roger's set with an LED wall in the centre of the stage picture, this involved conceiving what the visual centre point of the design would look like throughout the show. It also involved extensive consultation on some of the custom engineered equipment used as well as a trip to Nashville to film Dolly Parton for her appearances within the show.
This was a hugely collaborative process across the creative and technical team. Nina worked with Tom Rogers (set and costumes), Jeff Calhoun (director) to set the tone of the spaces with video imagery and with Lisa Stevens (choreographer) on the stylisation of the numbers and animation. She also collaborated with the producers and writers to finalise the scripts for Dolly's appearances.
Howard Hudson lit the show with sparkling clarity and Nina and Howard's team linked their systems to allow colour control to be shared between lighting and video on occasions to ensure the stage picture came together harmoniously – even automatically in some instances.
The video design provides an ever-changing view through the office bullpen windows and out over the city and during transitions, it shows the journeys from place to place within the office – up to boss' office; down to the foyer, across to the xerox room and the coffee counter that features an extended version of the set that matches so seamlessly to to the real stage that it's hard to tell where the set ends and the video begins.
It also takes us into a world of fantasy for numbers such as 'One of the Boy's and starts the show with a title-sequence treatment taking us from alarm clocks at sunrise, through the streets and into the city to arrive at the doors of Consolidated Industries where the story begins.
Harrison Cooke, her video engineer, took on the job of finalising the right product and spec for the circular LED screen that is set within the clock of the logo treatment on which Dolly appears and with Blue-i to obtain the LED panels for the back all and proscenium screens. The rig consisted of a 5m x 5m LED wall with 2.5mm Absen black face LED units; and 13 LED panels set within the proscenium and a 1.8mm LED clock face. These were all fed by the disguise media server and linked to sound with timecode and lighting via an EOS lighting desk, programmed by Lauren Kunicki.
The animation team consisted of Letty Fox, Paul Roberts and Virginie Serneels with assistance from Ben Bull. The production co-ordinator was Laura Salmi.
The show is playing to ecstatic full houses each night and is currently booking until August 2019. You can find out more here: https://9to5themusical.co.uk/
Here's what the press had to say:
[…] the show also has another coup: Dolly Parton herself introduces the show and joins in the title opening song "9 to 5" by video. The priceless presence and spirit of Dolly hovers over the entire show.
Director Jeff Calhoun and choreographer Lisa Stevens keep the show bubbling with a sparkling, propulsive effervescence, and Tom Rogers's design is dominated by receding banks of office computer screens and Nina Dunn's video projections that supply their own wit.
★★★★ Mark Shenton www.londontheatre.co.uk/
A partly digital set by Tom Rogers and video designer Nina Dunn adds to the slick, colourful look.
★★★ The Stage
The set and costumes (Tom Rogers) are spot on, and the videos (Nina Dunn) are all easy on the eyes.
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package authz

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"github.com/almighty/almighty-core/application"
	"github.com/almighty/almighty-core/auth"
	errs "github.com/almighty/almighty-core/errors"
	"github.com/almighty/almighty-core/log"
	tokencontext "github.com/almighty/almighty-core/login/tokencontext"
	"github.com/almighty/almighty-core/space"
	"github.com/almighty/almighty-core/token"

	"github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go"
	"github.com/goadesign/goa"
	goajwt "github.com/goadesign/goa/middleware/security/jwt"
	uuid "github.com/satori/go.uuid"
	contx "golang.org/x/net/context"
)

// TokenPayload represents an rpt token
type TokenPayload struct {
	jwt.StandardClaims
	Authorization *AuthorizationPayload `json:"authorization"`
}

// AuthorizationPayload represents an authz payload in the rpt token
type AuthorizationPayload struct {
	Permissions []Permissions `json:"permissions"`
}

// Permissions represents an permissions and the AuthorizationPayload
type Permissions struct {
	ResourceSetName *string `json:"resource_set_name"`
	ResourceSetID   *string `json:"resource_set_id"`
}

// AuthzService represents a space authorization service
type AuthzService interface {
	Authorize(ctx context.Context, entitlementEndpoint string, spaceID string) (bool, error)
	Configuration() AuthzConfiguration
}

// AuthzConfiguration represents a Keycloak entitlement endpoint configuration
type AuthzConfiguration interface {
	GetKeycloakEndpointEntitlement(*goa.RequestData) (string, error)
}

// AuthzServiceManager represents a space autharizarion service
type AuthzServiceManager interface {
	AuthzService() AuthzService
	EntitlementEndpoint() string
}

// KeycloakAuthzServiceManager is a keyaloak implementation of a space autharizarion service
type KeycloakAuthzServiceManager struct {
	Service             AuthzService
	entitlementEndpoint string
}

// AuthzService returns a space autharizarion service
func (m *KeycloakAuthzServiceManager) AuthzService() AuthzService {
	return m.Service
}

// EntitlementEndpoint returns a keyclaok entitlement endpoint URL
func (m *KeycloakAuthzServiceManager) EntitlementEndpoint() string {
	return m.entitlementEndpoint
}

// KeycloakAuthzService implements AuthzService interface
type KeycloakAuthzService struct {
	config AuthzConfiguration
	db     application.DB
}

// NewAuthzService constructs a new KeycloakAuthzService
func NewAuthzService(config AuthzConfiguration, db application.DB) *KeycloakAuthzService {
	return &KeycloakAuthzService{config: config, db: db}
}

// Configuration returns authz service configuration
func (s *KeycloakAuthzService) Configuration() AuthzConfiguration {
	return s.config
}

// Authorize returns true and the corresponding Requesting Party Token if the current user is among the space collaborators
func (s *KeycloakAuthzService) Authorize(ctx context.Context, entitlementEndpoint string, spaceID string) (bool, error) {
	jwttoken := goajwt.ContextJWT(ctx)
	if jwttoken == nil {
		return false, errs.NewUnauthorizedError("missing token")
	}
	tm := tokencontext.ReadTokenManagerFromContext(ctx)
	if tm == nil {
		log.Error(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
			"token": tm,
		}, "missing token manager")
		return false, errs.NewInternalError("Missing token manager")
	}
	tokenWithClaims, err := jwt.ParseWithClaims(jwttoken.Raw, &TokenPayload{}, func(t *jwt.Token) (interface{}, error) {
		return tm.(token.Manager).PublicKey(), nil
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Error(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
			"space-id": spaceID,
			"err":      err,
		}, "unable to parse the rpt token")
		return false, errs.NewInternalError(fmt.Sprintf("unable to parse the rpt token: %s", err.Error()))
	}
	claims := tokenWithClaims.Claims.(*TokenPayload)

	if claims.Authorization == nil {
		// No authorization in the token. This is not a RPT token. This is an access token.
		// We need to obtain an PRT token.
		log.Warn(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
			"space-id": spaceID,
		}, "no authorization found in the token; this is an access token (not a RPT token)")
		return s.checkEntitlementForSpace(ctx, *jwttoken, entitlementEndpoint, spaceID)
	}

	// Check if the token was issued before the space resouces changed the last time.
	// If so, we need to re-fetch the rpt token for that space/resource and check permissions.
	outdated, err := s.isTokenOutdated(ctx, *claims, entitlementEndpoint, spaceID)
	if err != nil {
		return false, err
	}
	if outdated {
		return s.checkEntitlementForSpace(ctx, *jwttoken, entitlementEndpoint, spaceID)
	}

	permissions := claims.Authorization.Permissions
	if permissions == nil {
		return false, nil
	}
	for _, permission := range permissions {
		name := permission.ResourceSetName
		if name != nil && spaceID == *name {
			return true, nil
		}
	}
	return false, nil
}

func (s *KeycloakAuthzService) checkEntitlementForSpace(ctx context.Context, token jwt.Token, entitlementEndpoint string, spaceID string) (bool, error) {
	resource := auth.EntitlementResource{
		Permissions: []auth.ResourceSet{{Name: spaceID}},
	}
	ent, err := auth.GetEntitlement(ctx, entitlementEndpoint, &resource, token.Raw)
	if err != nil {
		return false, err
	}
	return ent != nil, nil
}

func (s *KeycloakAuthzService) isTokenOutdated(ctx context.Context, token TokenPayload, entitlementEndpoint string, spaceID string) (bool, error) {
	spaceUUID, err := uuid.FromString(spaceID)
	if err != nil {
		return false, errs.NewInternalError(err.Error())
	}
	var spaceResource *space.Resource
	err = application.Transactional(s.db, func(appl application.Application) error {
		spaceResource, err = appl.SpaceResources().LoadBySpace(ctx, &spaceUUID)
		return err
	})
	if err != nil {
		return false, err
	}
	if token.IssuedAt == 0 {
		return false, errs.NewInternalError("iat claim is not found in the token")
	}
	tokenIssued := time.Unix(token.IssuedAt, 0)
	return tokenIssued.Before(spaceResource.UpdatedAt), nil
}

// InjectAuthzService is a middleware responsible for setting up AuthzService in the context for every request.
func InjectAuthzService(service AuthzService) goa.Middleware {
	return func(h goa.Handler) goa.Handler {
		return func(ctx contx.Context, rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
			config := service.Configuration()
			var endpoint string
			if config != nil {
				var err error
				endpoint, err = config.GetKeycloakEndpointEntitlement(&goa.RequestData{Request: req})
				if err != nil {
					log.Error(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
						"err": err,
					}, "unable to get entitlement endpoint")
					return err
				}
			}
			ctxWithAuthzServ := tokencontext.ContextWithSpaceAuthzService(ctx, &KeycloakAuthzServiceManager{Service: service, entitlementEndpoint: endpoint})
			return h(ctxWithAuthzServ, rw, req)
		}
	}
}

// Authorize returns true and the corresponding Requesting Party Token if the current user is among the space collaborators
func Authorize(ctx context.Context, spaceID string) (bool, error) {
	srv := tokencontext.ReadSpaceAuthzServiceFromContext(ctx)
	if srv == nil {
		log.Error(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
			"space-id": spaceID,
		}, "Missing space authz service")

		return false, errors.New("missing space authz service")
	}
	manager := srv.(AuthzServiceManager)
	return manager.AuthzService().Authorize(ctx, manager.EntitlementEndpoint(), spaceID)
}

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News Truffles Unearthed returns with an amazing West Australian debut
Truffles Unearthed was conceived in 2020; a way to work with producers and the hospitality community at a time of great uncertainty. Little did we know that a year on many of those challenges would still exist, especially for our state's truffle producers.
The West Australian Good Food Guide is excited to launch another season of Truffles Unearthed, pushing that original concept further, and again working with WA producers, chefs, sommeliers and winemakers to celebrate one of Australia's most luxurious ingredients.
"Our reward for winter in the west is the return of fresh black truffles to our menus and our dining tables," says Georgia Moore, Director of The West Australian Good Food Guide. "Assembling this line-up of talent has been like taking a snapshot of what's great in our state's hospitality scene" she says.
"Our reward for winter in the west is the return of fresh black truffles to our menus and our dining tables,"
"Beachside icon Il Lido (June 10) kicks off the season with a meeting of this great West Australian winter ingredient and wine from our regions. Something we've been keeping under wraps is the WA Good Food Guide Special Cellar Dinner (July 24) with Ben Ing, who until last year was the head chef of Noma in Copenhagen. We'll also return to the south west with events at Cape Lodge (July 10-11), Vasse Felix (7th August), Chow's Table (6th August) and Voyager Estate (August 14-15). There's action in the CBD at Santini Bar + Grill (June 16), The Heritage Wine Bar (July 7), and close by on the banks of the Swan River at Cooee (July 22). We'll be hitting the neighbourhoods at Ethos Deli + Dining Room (July 28) and hosting a closing party at Leederville's Papagallo (August 23). And that's just the dining events," says Moore.
Asked to pin down the event that Moore is most excited about is tough. "Can I say all of them?" she says. "Matt Stone joining the WAGFG x Hart & Co Top Chef Demo Series will certainly be a highlight. Masterclasses form a big part of our calendar of events throughout the year and this is a homecoming for Matt. I think that will be really special. And of course, introducing Ben Ing to the WA dining public is huge (WA Good Food Guide Special Cellar Dinner, July 24). As head chef of Noma in Copenhagen, Ben scaled the peak of modern dining. It's exciting to think what he could do here in WA in the coming years, and that WA Good Food Guide gets to make that first introduction."
Matt Stone joining the WAGFG x Hart & Co Top Chef Demo Series will certainly be a highlight. Masterclasses form a big part of our calendar of events throughout the year and this is a homecoming for Matt. I think that will be really special.
Ing, now based in the south west, says he's looking forward to getting back into service. "There's only so much testing you can do at home, so it'll be good to get into a professional kitchen," he says. "You can think about the menu a lot and what you want to do, but it's about putting out a coherent menu, getting the flow of it. I'm excited to get back into it.
"When you think of truffles in a dining atmosphere you think of luxury and generosity," says Ing. "I want to take a little bit more of a creative aspect so not just shaving truffles all over a piece of beef or duck. I got a few preserved products from David Coomer to use, not your typical ways but still present in the dish so you can really taste the earth and feel the richness of it. I'll go crazy with truffles on one dish maybe."
As to whether Ing's dinner will be Noma transplanted to WA, is quickly answered. "Noma is a different beast, and you can't [I believe] produce what they do, anywhere in the world, let alone not having a professional kitchen to work out of." Ing says he won't so much be paring things back, more getting back to his roots and his style of cooking, "making things tasty, with soul and I want to bring the energy." Noma, he says is one thing with the food, but another with service. Having an open kitchen and interacting with the guests, having them come up to the kitchen is, he says, a way that he can bring the experience and what he's learnt from Noma."
It's not just WA newcomer Ing who is looking forward to the season ahead. Vasse Felix, head chef Brendan Pratt says, "we're definitely hanging out to get the 'Truff Bun' back on the menu – a black pudding steamed bun with burnt butter and truffle." Conceived last year for their WA Good Food Guide dinner, it was contributing editor Max Brearley who dubbed it "Truff Bun" and his hotly tipped dish of the season. "It's never actually left the menu," says Pratt. "We've been substituting truffle for pork floss out of the truffle season."
While Pratt's keen to bring back a winner he's not short on inspiration. "We've always got a number of ideas in the works and we're excited to see how they play out once we have fresh truffle to work with. This year we've been fermenting a vinegar with corn cobs. I'm excited as it's got a nice funk and earthiness to it. I'm looking at how that will work mixed with a roasted onion garum and then using this chawanmushi with kernels, eggs and of course, lots of truffle."
Who triumphs in the taste and inspiration stakes is perhaps the side show to the main star, the black truffle, which has carried the name of Manjimup to restaurant menus across the world. To once again celebrate it alongside WA's best wine and produce is truly one of the joys of winter in the west.
See the full programme and buy tickets here.
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Coach Silvestri was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Gordon Technical High School in Chicago where he played varsity baseball and football. He attended Florida State University where he graduated with a Masters Degree in Business Administration. While at Florida State, he played and coached baseball for the Seminoles. Coach Silvestri is currently beginning his sixth year as Panther Head Baseball Coach.


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Q: Web Deploy/Publish Web site project using MsBuild.exe and command line with VS2010 I am trying to publish my project using MSBuild. I have been searching on the internet but can not forward at this stage. I am using below code
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" "C:\Projects\Employee\Employee.csproj"  /p:Configuration=Release /t:rebuild

This line successfully compile and deploy the project. But my web.config file is located under
obj\Release\TransformWebConfig\original
and my dlls located under
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp

My question is how can I deploy it to a specific folder. Also I could not find organized information on the Internet with all the parameters and tutorials. Do you know where can I find?
Also I am new to MsBuild and Web Deployment. Other stackoverflow answers related to my question is higher level. Could you please explain more clearly?

A: If you call MS build in the following manner for instance:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe TestApp.csproj /p:Configuration=Release /t:Package

by specifying the target "Package" you command MS to package the website.
It will proceed to build and package your website into an MSDEPLOY package (specific zip file layout).
the output from the sample build is actually very helpful and gives you clues as to where to go next, for example it tells us where it created the file:
 Package "TestApp.zip" is successfully created as single file at the following location:
 file:///C:/TestApp/obj/Release/Package

It also gives us a link to find out more:
To get the instructions on how to deploy the web package please visit the following link:
     http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124618

Then it shows you where it created a sample .cmd file for deploying the package
Sample script for deploying this package is generated at the following location:
 C:\TestApp\obj\Release\Package\TestApp.deploy.cmd
 For this sample script, you can change the deploy parameters by changing the following file:
 C:\TestApp\obj\Release\Package\TestApp.SetParameters.xml
Done Building Project "C:\TestApp\TestApp.csproj" (Package target(s)).

this should get you started in creating and executing happy deployments.

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The smell of citrus fruits has been shown to boost energy and alertness. Studies have revealed that lemon scents, in particular, can reduce stress and leave a positive impression on others.
Made by cold pressing the rind of fresh lemons, lemon essential oil smells intoxicatingly like a fresh, ripe lemon. Add a few drops to your favorite homemade cleaners to infuse the scent of lemon throughout your home. In addition, lemon essential oil can also help brighten your white clothes and remove stains from white tile. You can also use it to deodorize your fridge or combine with olive oil for a natural wood or leather polish.
Why should I use essential oils to clean with?
Essential oils are one of the best-smelling, naturally antibacterial options for homemade cleaning recipes. Adding essential oils to your cleaning routine will make your house smell "clean" without those scary toxic fumes from conventional cleaning products! Most green cleaning recipes call for ingredients like baking soda, white vinegar, oil, salt, soap and water. While these ingredients make for powerful, chemical-free cleaning, they smell quite bland except for vinegar which has a strong, unpleasant odor. This is why most natural cleaning recipes benefit from and recommend adding essential oils.
Besides lemon, what other essential oils are good to use in natural cleaning products?
Add a few drops of this refreshing minty scent to your homemade spray cleaner and spritz the mixture on areas that need particular antibacterial attention, like bathrooms and kitchens. As an added bonus, peppermint also acts as a natural pest deterrent. Peppermint mixes well with other essential oils popular for cleaning, including lavender, eucalyptus, lemon and rosemary.
Made from the Australian Melaleuca tree, tea tree essential oil works especially well to get rid of mildew and mold. It fights germs, bacteria and viruses in everything from homemade wipes to hand soap to daily shower spray. You can also use this spray to freshen any musty smells in your home. Add some drops to your favorite homemade laundry detergent to give your clothes a fresh scent. Like peppermint, tea tree oil is also a natural pest deterrent.
Rosemary's natural antibacterial and antiseptic properties make it a great addition to homemade dish soap and laundry detergent. A side benefit is the combination of peppermint and rosemary is perfect to freshen the air when you need to stay focused and on task.
Not only does orange oil have a happy scent, but it's great against fighting grease stains. There are many ways to use orange oil including homemade fabric softener, natural floor cleaner, and an energizing kitchen spray.
One of the best-smelling naturally antibacterial essential oils is lavender. Lavender pairs well with vinegar. Just add a few drops of lavender to your vinegar cleaning mixture to help mask vinegar's sharp odor. Benefit from lavender's pleasant scent in homemade dish or laundry soap, sachets, potpourri and linen spray.
This natural germicide is a powerful dust mite buster. Use it with baking soda to deep clean your mattress or dry wash your children's stuffed toys. With its clean smell, eucalyptus is great for foul-smelling jobs in the kitchen and bathroom. Eucalyptus oil is also good in cupboards to deter little pests.
Never blend essential oils in metal or plastic containers because it can create a chemical reaction. It's best to use glass containers to use and store essential oils. Also, be careful when mixing essential oils as not all essential oils can blend together due to their chemical makeup.


I'd venture to say most people don't think deeply about God, but when it comes to explaining why they don't believe in Him, they seem to be pretty convinced. How is that? We make surface judgments so easily and go by what we hear and see, but hardly get to the root of things. We live in a mad rush where nobody has time to think anymore. There was a man of God who went over to the United States in the early 20th century to speak on God. He had all his presentations booked months ahead. He got off the boat, walked around in New York a few hours, noticed the buzz and the busyness and said "these people will never listen to God". And he got back on the boat and left. This was in the early 20th century! We all know that this has just gotten worse since then.
What I'm trying to get to is that when someone says they don't believe in God, that actually means they don't believe in what THEY THINK GOD IS. When someone says they're mad at God for something, they're actually mad at something THEY THINK GOD DID. I think we all have a certain picture of God in our minds whether we believe in Him or not. Even atheists do. In the end somehow it always comes out that they have a grievance about what they think God did or said. But I can say with true honesty, most people just don't know Him. Most of the arguments you hear actually, God never meant that way or never even did.
There can be several reasons why we have a wrong picture of God. A primary one is that His people don't represent Him right, which is the saddest thing of all. I am meaning to write about religion as a whole in a later article, so I'm not going to get into it now, but I would like to say that for the most part established religion is to blame for that wrong picture. A lot of what has influenced our picture of God is rooted in the wrong perception of His actions interpreted by His own people.
It's very difficult to express a number of major things in a short article, and I'm aware that there are many things people stumble over when it comes to understanding why God did or did not do something. What I would like you to realize though is that God may not even had anything to do with the situation you're baffled about. God is blamed for a lot of things He had nothing to do with! If you haven't been seeking God in your life for years and presently can't say that you have a close friendship with Him, it is very likely that He is actually something else than you think He is. You need to spend time with somebody to truly get to know them.
The Bible says that "God is light and in Him there is no darkness". Every good thing comes from God, and whatever is not good, I can assure you, is not from God. This is such a simple rule, yet it seems people just don't see it. You need to know that God loves you deeply and His intentions toward you are only and purely just good.
Some good thoughts there, and very often that is the case that people just don't understand God, and sadly misjudge Him by some of the poor examples that religions, including Churchianity, portray of Him.


Education at the box is vital to the success of its members because it allows them to make informed decisions when it comes to their health and fitness routine. According to the Pew Research Center, 64% of adults obtain information from their Facebook account. This means that providing your members with information through a digital platform is a great way to educate them. The knowledge you share with members can lead to a positive impact and consequently making them more conscious about the health choices they make.
Needless to say, the fitness world is constantly evolving, thus maintaining box members up-to-date on the best and safest practices regarding CrossFit and nutrition is monumental. Education can prevent injuries, as well as, permanent set-backs and simultaneously promote a healthy stable environment for all athletes.
Having information available for members will provide your box and management team with the opportunity to be regarded as leaders and mentors. In addition, keeping members continuously engaged is crucial to the success of your box. Whether you are educating your members via a digital platform or if you choose another method, remember that either way it's important to keep your athletes in the loop.


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Clearleft's Andy Budd on designing for users
Des Traynor
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Intercom
@destraynor
Andy Budd is a leading voice in the UX design community.
He co-founded the influential Brighton, England digital product and service design agency, Clearleft, more than a decade ago. Out of the office, Andy continues to push his craft forward through curating major conferences such as dConstruct, Leading Design, and UX London.
I recently caught up with Andy for a great chat. We covered a range of topics including why young startups tend to prioritize development over design, how external design expectations and internal design budgets became so misaligned, the role designers will play in the new world of voice and chat-based UIs, and much more.
If you like what you hear, check out more episodes of our podcast. You can subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud, or grab the RSS feed.
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode. Short on time? Here are six quick takeaways:
Companies like Slack and Dropbox aren't successful because they were the first technology of their kind. Rather, their unique selling point is the design of their system.
Hire the best designers you can afford early to solve the tricky, existential business problems. Then, bring in a more junior team who can evolve, maintain and support your product as it goes through its middle phases.
Consumers expectations for digital design have risen greatly. The problem? With so few designers in budget-making positions, expectations of cost within startups haven't risen to accommodate that.
Agile development has a place in design, but companies need to balance that with longer-term systems that make design, technology and products scalable.
As more startups bring design in-house, design agencies must focus on upscaling internal teams and teaching them new skills.
Voice-activated interfaces might offer the appearance of natural language, but designers will still need to define their decision trees, the logic trees, and how these interfaces react.
Des Traynor: Our guest today is Andy Budd, CEO of Clearleft and a UX designer by trade. Thanks so much for joining us.
Andy Budd: It's nice to have the opportunity to chat, because I haven't seen you for so long.
Des: The last time we did this, the audio didn't come through, but we got an amazing blog post out of it. It's actually a funny story: that blog post gave rise to what Paul later coined as "the Dribbblisation of Design," which is still one of our most popular posts.
For the sake of our listeners, could you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your career?
Andy: I am the managing director and a co-founder of a consultancy in Brighton, England called Clearleft. We were one of the first agencies in the UK dedicated to the field of user experience design. When we started in 2005, there were lots of people practicing usability and architecture, but none of them had really staked their claim on the UX space. We were really good friends with Adaptive Path. We saw what they were doing and we wanted to bring that slightly deeper, more considered design thinking into a realm where, at the time, the average agency would start by opening PhotoShop and moving things around on screen.
As user experience has grown up, we've morphed over the years into a digital product and service design agency. We help a whole range of clients – large and small, startup and traditional – tackle thorny business problems to produce some kind of new product or service.
Des: And your agency has spun out a few products in that time as well?
Andy: We have. It's more been scratching our own itch. A lot of agencies try and deliberately diversify their income, because agency income can be a little bit bumpy at times and you can often only model three months in advance. Many have been seduced by the 37signals approach of, "Let's move from an agency to a product company." It's really difficult to do both well. We never really planned to do that. What we've done with our products is we've seen things that we felt needed to be in the market and no one else was doing them, so we did them ourselves.
The first one was a product called Silverback, which is a low-cost usability testing app for Mac. Back in the day you had to use video cameras and microphones, and it was all very inefficient. We created a really small little tool, which we sell very cheaply, to democratize usability testing. It's been really well received by the community, it's been used by everybody from NASA to Twitter to the Obama for presidential campaign, and Intercom.
Silverback, Clearleft's usability testing app for designers
It's a lovely little tool, but we never set out to make it a big money business. There are other competitors charging $1,500, and that was making it difficult for small teams to test their stuff, so we wanted to put something out there that covers its development fees. I think it's $79.
Why design is the new USP
Des: When we spoke last time, you mentioned how startups are traditionally tech-heavy. They are started by developers, they create great places for the technologists to work, but for designers in those areas, it may not be a great place, because you tend to be beholden to whatever's being built. Designers are trying to catch up with the developers.
When you look at Stewart Butterfield at Slack or Scott Belsky at Behance, they're all designers true and true who have created successful companies. Has the more recent trend of popular designer-founders changed any of this? Or are those founders an anomaly?
Andy: It's definitely getting better, but there's a good way to go. Founders usually come from a business background or they've got a great entrepreneurial idea. The thing they absolutely need is a developer. There's no point being an entrepreneur and having a designer but no product that you can actually get people using. It's relatively easy to find a designer from Dribbble and get them to come in to do a little bit of design work.
I'm still seeing lots of companies start with a bias towards business and technology. Often, it's only when they're two to five years in – maybe when they've raised a couple of rounds of funding and the demands of the fundraisers or the VCs are putting more pressure on them to release better-quality products and services – do they really start doubling down on the importance of design.
Ten years ago the competitive advantage you had with a startup was only in the technology. That was where the investment was, that was where the IP was. I think with the rise of cloud computing, libraries and platforms, and outsourcing – with the exception of artificial intelligence, which I think is becoming the new USP, the new defensible property – design is still one of the few areas where you can make a big impact.
Slack is successful not because it was the first comms tool, but because it was the comms tool that provided the best user experience. Dropbox is the same. People have delivered file sharing software and management software for years, but Dropbox did it well and did it better. The USP is in the design of the system. It takes companies a long time to realize that.
I've had plenty of conversations with founders where they've got an 80-person development team and a UX or design team of one, two or three. Because the design isn't built into the DNA of the organization – and it definitely isn't built into the DNA of the founders, if they come from a business and tech perspective – it can be quite difficult to know what good design looks like, who to hire, and how to bake that culture into a company that will attract the right designers.
New startups might get the product market fit for the early adopters, but they can't produce the level of quality that's required to make it a really consumer-friendly, high growth, commercial product. That's still a tough place to be at the moment.
Des: It's hard to retrofit design. You could hire literally the best designers and stick them into an 80-person development team, but the whole process, mindset, approach and office environment all needs to change to accommodate this. It's not even just a case of teaching how to hire good designers. There's more going on.
Andy: Absolutely. At the end of the day, founders in the first four to six years have an amazing influence over the culture of the company. Their values become the values of the company. If there's a founder that prioritizes investment into technology over investment into design, that is going to seep through all the levels and layers of the organization. If you've got the CTO saying, "We need to hire three more developers," and your UX team of one says, "I need to have a second person in design," you're often going to prioritize the areas you know the best. You know what capabilities three or four extra developers will give you. You might look at your website and say, "People are using it and it looks okay to me, so I don't really get why you need another designer; we're going to invest in this area over here".
A lot of people don't understand the value that design brings and still see design as stylists that make things pretty. If your product is pretty, they think that's the problem solved. I see designers adding a huge amount of value and actually adding it very early on in the process. I advocate hiring the best designers you can afford at the start, and then once you've solved the really tricky, existential business problems, you can slowly let those designers go and bring in a more junior team who can evolve and maintain and support the product as it goes through its middle phases, rather than starting with a super cheap designer.
I've seen it happen time and time again: companies hire a really cheap designer, do a bad job, and launch. Then they're not getting the traction they need, and six months later they realize it's probably the design that isn't working. They try another person that's slightly better, and they might go through five false starts before they get a product that is really flying. They could've avoided all of that lost traction and lost time in the market had they just gone and got a great design team in the first place. It comes down to what you value and your understanding of the value design can bring.
Communicating the cost of design
Des: In the ten years since you started Clearleft, we've seen software go through another renaissance where genuinely the best designed products are starting to win, assuming they hit traction in the few of the various criteria.
The ROI of design has proven itself pretty well. Most software people use is actually impeccably designed. Expectations for design are growing, the reward is growing, but what doesn't seem to be growing is the budget. What's going on there?
Andy: There's this weird cognitive dissonance. A lot of it comes down to where design is valued within an organization, versus who is making the financial decisions. Often, those two are not tied.
All the additional stuff that was once a delighter or a performance payoff element has now become a basic, fundamental requirement. It used to be the case that caring about the speed of the interface was an unusual thing. Optimizing for responsive design, mobile and tablet-based views – all of this stuff used to once be an added extra; now it's become a fundamental. Now when you commission a digital product, there's so much more involved in it that is expected. People's expectations of costs haven't risen to accommodate that.
People are in this horrific "redesign every five years" mentality. They look back at what the cost was five years ago, add 10-20% for inflation, and assume that's going to be the budget this year, because the people who are often making these budget decisions are not savvy buyers. They don't know how far and fast the industry's moved on, they don't know the new required expectations, and they don't fully understand what the consumer market is looking for.
The budgets are often being set independently. It will be set by the finance team, without ever talking to the designers and developers to understand, "how long is this stuff going to take?"
I think it's true internally as well. The internal team will say, "We want this thing delivered in six months," and often that deadline has no relationship to any kind of agile story planning. What ends up happening is the design team has to try and squeeze in everything that the organization has asked for in an unrealistic deadline to meet an arbitrary goal, whether it's hitting a financing milestone, a board meeting, or a particular client coming on board. The people who are making these decisions don't understand what's truly involved in creating great, world-class software.
It's a challenge. The people who have the budget command more responsibility. In traditional organizations, that responsibility often comes to the CTO, who would have a much bigger team than the design team. It will come to the marketing team who is spending very large amounts of money on social media campaigns and advertising, and sadly, the design team often has a really low budget, so they have really low status in the pecking order and find it really difficult to demand significantly more. They've gotten used to making do on quite low, slim pickings. It just becomes a cyclic problem.
What's starting to change quite a lot thanks to startups and traditional companies in California, is the people that were once the doers and the makers – the people who were front-end developers, back-end developers, designers – are slowly finding themselves in a position of authority. They are finding themselves head of design, head of technology at startups, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
A lot of people in these companies have worked their way up the ranks, and now they're able to have those budget conversations. They're able to say, "No, marketing needs to be in the service of design, not necessarily design in the service of marketing. We need to focus on creating a great product, and if we create a great product and we invest in a great product, then the marketing cost will be less." The traditional companies say, "We've got a really mediocre product. How do we convince people to part with money? We need a big marketing campaign to make the product seem better than it actually is."
These tables are being turned and marketing is now being more in the service of design and product. These decision makers are finding their way into organizations, they're becoming CXOs, CDOs, VPs, and they're having broad-level influence. It's positive, but the rest of the world is slowly catching up. Until that happens there still will be this power dynamic that is difficult to shift.
The pros and cons of agile development
Des: When you talked about budgeting, you mentioned how people should estimate workload and you talked about things like scrums or sprints or user stories. One thing I can't work out is if you have a love/hate or a hate/hate relationship with agile development.
Recently you mentioned that it's excellent as an executional machine but weak in terms of strategy because of all of what you called the shearing layers that are involved. I presume, in this case, you're talking about the difference between the decision of what market are we in and what product are we building, what job are we solving, all the way down to what are we doing this week.
It feels like there is a bridge to be built between the daily scrum on what we're going to do today and the overall direction of the company. Is that the sort of role you think should sit with product management or is that where UX design comes in? What's your thinking on that?
Andy: My relationship with agile is interesting. I understand where agile development came from. It's in reaction to what was often a very old-fashioned way of delivering software, which was spec- and document-driven, having BAs do months of requirements-gathering without even even really inquiring whether it's something the business needed. Then you built a massive document before handing it over to development, who would spend a year and a half building it, only to find that halfway through the direction change the market changed.
From my perspective, the old way of doing things was broken. I'm definitely a card-carrying member of the agile manifesto. The idea of having conversations over documentation, breaking complex tasks down into simple tasks, iterating, having flexibility of process, all of those things are really good. Unfortunately, on the basis of those foundations, a lot of agile practices have emerged which are often anything but agile. They're often, "Recreate the demand and the desire that humans have for rigidity." I see a lot of people going, "Oh well, we can't possibly do that because that's not agile" when it might be a particularly useful technique or thing to try.
Agile is a really efficient production environment, but a really challenging strategic environment, thanks to the inherent shearing layers.
— Andy Budd (@andybudd) March 2, 2016
The thing I push back is creating this forced dichotomy that waterfall is bad and agile is good. There are lots of people practicing a more modern form of waterfall, who are doing fantastic work. I see an awful lot of people struggling with incredibly rigid forms of waterfall, who are struggling so much they're drowning or are doing it in a really unreformed way. It's the dogma that I fight against.
Holding these two things up, it's like mortal enemies. It's not particularly useful. We're moving into a post-agile phase, and Lean UX and lean startup is one attempt at what was broken in both worlds. The waterfall, big design, up-front approach, benefits strategic, long-term thinking and vision-making over the realities of deploying complex business software, so it tends to be a bit more long game. Because of that, it favors designers because they like to think about big systems. They like to think about the user experience, the user flow, the user journey, and creating holistic things that are consistent throughout the experience.
There's an argument to say that developers like taking complex problems and breaking them down into their smaller chunks, and I think there's a tendency that agile does that. Agile tends to favor a developmental mindset rather than a design mindset, and that's a bit of an arbitrary decision. You can have great agile-thinking designers who work really well in that framework, and you can have great developers working in a big systems-thinking approach. There's a tendency for one or the other, and that creates these frictions. That friction happens because we're trying to solve complex problems with a very simple metaphor that we have one pace. In agile you work to the pace of a two-week sprint or month-long sprint.
Pioneers, settlers, and town planners
It's more likely that organizations work across two or three different levels. There's this idea of organizations basically being broken down into pioneers, settlers, and town planners. If you look at a company through that lens, the pioneers are often very agile. They're the part of the organization that's breaking new ground, creating new products. Those are the kind of people that are probably attracted to early stage startups, but they can only get you so far. Pioneers don't want to put systems in place and don't want to settle.
The settlers are the ones in large organizations saying, "We've built this thing and it's all a bit sort of ramshackled, but how do we bring some structure into it? How do we create a design language that is consistent for the users? How do we start creating tools, how do we start dividing up the land so we can settle it and the pioneers can utilize it better." Within organizations, there are always people that are looking at that systems optimization process stuff.
Then you have the town planners, the people that are going, "We're growing really, really big. We can't just be a town full of settlers who are going out and making their own decisions and being their own bosses. We also need to create structures and put governance in place." These are the people who are often not thinking in terms of six-month or two-years visions, but in terms of five-year visions. There's this context of now, next, and future. The pioneers are often working on the now, the settlers often working on the next, and the town planners are often working on the future. You need to make sure you're working in a way that allows for all of these systems to work simultaneously.
The most successful start-ups adopt a post agile process that blends the best of fast and slow thinking.
You'll tend to find that the product teams are really focused on the now. They're focused on the thing they're working on at the moment. You tend to find that the product managers, if they're more entry-level product managers, or more entry-level UX people, they're probably somewhere focusing between the now and the next. They're probably focusing on creating design systems and figuring out what happens in the next block of work. The product and the UX directors are the ones who are trying to put these systems in place to make design and technology and products scalable.
This idea that it takes a village to raise a child. The same is true of large organizations. It's the gaps between the now and next, the next and the future, the town planners and the pioneers that create friction. Often within organizations, one culture is dominant. In startups, it tends to skew towards the "let's move fast and break things" people, and in traditional organizations, it becomes the "let's put down roots and settle and have lots of governance strategies and policies to put in place." You need to realize that actually all three are important for it to work.
The changing nature of design
Des: Recently we've seen the rise of Slack and Facebook unveil its entire bot platform. That leaves an existential question for designers: If everything's just happening in chat bubbles, what are we here for? How do you think these things change the nature of design when you can literally have products that exist inside other products?
Andy: The nature of design is changing, and it will continue to change. I don't for a minute think the number of designers that are required now will be the same as in the future. That doesn't necessarily mean the role of the designer will be diminished or that the agencies are dead and there's no future for design.
Already we're seeing a change in the market. A lot of design activities that were once reserved for local freelancers have been absorbed into Shopify and Squarespace and a more templated approach to design. If you're running a small B&B or coffee shop, why pay a local designer $5,000-10,000 when you can buy a Shopify theme and do it yourself for a tenth of the price? The market's being squeezed.
Also, a lot of big companies have realized the power of design and are trying to bring design in-house. That's reformulating the way design agencies need to engage with their clients. A lot of our work isn't just going in and building a thing or designing a thing, but it's upscaling their internal teams and teaching them new skills.
We're progressing from templated systems to in-house teams to the slow dissolution of what we would know as the interface. The interface was basically a physical screen that with buttons you'd press, whereas now we've got natural user interfaces where you control things by gestures, voice interfaces where it's all speech recognition, and the rise of bots where the interface is just a chat input.
Do I imagine in the future that every single service will be solely mitigated or delivered by voice or text input? Probably not. Do I see that the future for Uber is only by phoning, typing in a chat box or asking your virtual assistant to call you a taxi? Who knows, maybe in 10-20 years; I don't see that being a case immediately.
There will be a long time when we have a big overlap of physical UIs and voice- and chat-based UIs. After all, you look around you in your home and even though we're living in this brave new world of artificial intelligence, there are still people designing switches for buttons and lights and most of your gadgets still have a physical interface. The digital interface isn't going away anytime soon, but I think there will be a lessening. There will be people moving into Internet of Things. A lot of my digital designer friends are now moving into physical, tangible products and I'm meeting more and more people who are interested in exploring voices and interface.
Ben Sauer, who works at Clearleft, is doing a really great talk at the moment on voice-activated interfaces. These interfaces still require design. They might be giving the seemingness of natural language, but someone still needs to define the decision trees, the logic trees, and how these interfaces react to you. I'm seeing a rise of content strategy in that instance, if the interface is a content-driven rather than button-driven. You might see a reduction in the need for graphic designers, but you would still need people that are conversational designers or interface designers, and then you start to get into the idea of designing personality. If all of these things have neutral personalities, it would be really boring. I can see people building character and character animation and great character designers coming to the fore.
We will see a small, inevitable change, but I don't think it's going to be a catastrophe. The people who are now at the cutting edge of designing digital interfaces will slowly move into physical interfaces and voice-based interfaces. It's a progression.
Des: There's still so much of the world that has to be designed, I don't think designers need to be worrying anytime soon.
Andy: There is also room for lots of different complexity. A lot of the one-function startups that were all the rage a few years ago in Silicon Valley, a lot of those will end up stopping to be apps in and of themselves and will be intelligent agents. They'll be plugins to voice-activated systems. Those single-use things will basically become APIs. They'll be a really simple, dumb service that doesn't need much interface.
We might find that they are complicated things. I've been playing with Amy, which is a PA of artificial intelligence, a booking engine. The interface for that is email and my Gmail calendar, and that provides the glue between the two interfaces. Those interfaces are still important.
Artificial intelligence bots, like x.ai's Amy, have created new opportunities for UX design
There will be certain things that are just going to be too complicated to automate, at least in the short term. You might find designers moving away from these single-use apps and trying to solve some of the bigger, more complicated interface challenges. I can't see a flight cockpit being automated solely by voice with no outputs, no buttons, no dials, no altimeters anytime soon. Even if that cockpit is self-driven there will need to be designers designing dashboard inputs to monitor those activities for a good 20 years. Frankly, trying to speculate further than about five or six years is pointless at this stage.
Des: Given how dodgy Siri can be, the idea of a pilot flying using voice control would be nothing short of terrifying.
Thanks so much for your time, Andy. It's been wonderful to have you here.
Andy: It's always a pleasure chatting, so yeah, I look forward to our next opportunity.


Once I had studied the Mishkat, I began to accept the Holy Quran as Divine revelation. What persuaded me that the Quran must be from God and not composed by Muhammad (may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him) was its satisfying and convincing answers to all the most important questions of life which I could not find elsewhere.
As a child, I was so mortally afraid of death, particularly the thought of my own death, that after nightmares about it, sometimes I would awaken my parents crying in the middle of the night. When I asked them why I had to die, and what would happen to me after death, all they could say was that I had to accept the inevitable; but that was a long way off and because medical science was constantly advancing, perhaps I would live to be a hundred years old! My parents, family, and all our friends rejected as superstition any thought of the Hereafter, regarding Judgment Day, reward in Paradise or punishment in Hell as outmoded concepts of by-gone ages. In vain, I searched all the chapters of the Old Testament for any clear and unambiguous concept of the Hereafter. The prophets, patriarchs and sages of the Bible all receive their rewards or punishments in this world. Typical is the story of Job (Hazrat Ayub). God destroyed all his loved-ones, his possessions, and afflicted him with a loathsome disease in order to test his faith. Job plaintively laments to God why He should make a righteous man suffer. At the end of the story, God restores all his earthly losses but nothing is even mentioned about any possible consequences in the Hereafter.


I'm constantly shocked when I try to follow Stacy's Rule three by checking Memeorandum how Talking Points Memo is constantly represented at the top-level of the site.
A day does not pass when TPM doesn't have a Top level story on the Memeorandum page, the question is how do they manage it?
During her interview with Virginia House of Delegates Republican member Barbara Comstock, O'Brien became visibly flustered and was actually caught doing finger stress exercises as she attempted to insert editorial commentary while her guest, a former skilled Republican operative, defended the House GOP budget, designed by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan.
Accidentally, a cameraman captured O'Brien furiously flipping through notes, only to cut out seconds later. What was she viewing?
So that's why TPM constantly gets on Memeorandum, the MSM would be lost without it.
the point is that rather than doing her own research on issues, Soledad is relying on people e-mailing her liberal blog posts.
The only surprise to me here, is that anyone who watches the news is the least bit surprised.
Journolist wasn't an e-mail list for the professional media left, it's their way of life.
I'm constantly shocked when I try to follow Stacy's Rule three by checking Memeorandum how Talking Points Memo is constantly represented at the top-level of the site.
A day does not pass when TPM doesn't have a Top level story on the Memeorandum page, the question is how do they manage it?
During her interview with Virginia House of Delegates Republican member Barbara Comstock, O'Brien became visibly flustered and was actually caught doing finger stress exercises as she attempted to insert editorial commentary while her guest, a former skilled Republican operative, defended the House GOP budget, designed by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan.
Accidentally, a cameraman captured O'Brien furiously flipping through notes, only to cut out seconds later. What was she viewing?
So that's why TPM constantly gets on Memeorandum, the MSM would be lost without it.
the point is that rather than doing her own research on issues, Soledad is relying on people e-mailing her liberal blog posts.
The only surprise to me here, is that anyone who watches the news is the least bit surprised.
Journolist wasn't an e-mail list for the professional media left, it's their way of life.
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Lamar bill could cut sentences for child sex trafficking victims caught in violent acts
Inspired by the story of Cyntoia Brown, state Rep. London Lamar is hoping to give sex-trafficking victims who are minors an earlier chance at redemption if they're involved in a violent act.
Lamar, a freshman Democrat from Memphis, is "very thankful" that Gov. Bill Haslam recently granted full clemency to Brown, who was convicted of killing 43-year-old Johnny Mitchell Allen at age 16 as a child prostitute and has spent nearly 15 years in prison. She was sentenced as an adult to 51 years in prison but is to be released in August instead, and will remain on parole for 10 years.
As the Legislature starts delving into bills, Lamar hopes Haslam's decision on Brown translates into the 2019 session.
State Rep. London Lamar
"I think she really set the tone of how we can really move forward and work together and show grace and compassion as a state," said Lamar, who joined other legislators in requesting a pardon before Haslam granted Brown's release. "It is truly a moment that I felt like we can get it right, and I hope that same tone and grace carries over to this new legislative session and that other legislators show that same grace that Gov. Haslam did with Cyntoia."
Under House Bill 17, which Lamar is sponsoring with state Sen. Brenda Gilmore, a Nashville Democrat, minors who commit violent acts while involved in sex trafficking would be sentenced as juveniles, not adults.
The bill would "establish a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury."
Brown has said she killed Allen because she thought she was in danger after he picked her up at a Nashville Sonic and took her home, where she agreed to have sex for $150. According to reports, she shot him in the back of the head, and prosecutors argued she intended to kill and rob him.
Brown had been abandoned by her mother and grew up in state custody, living in foster homes and juvenile facilities, which she fled before getting involved with a man nicknamed "Kut Throat," who reportedly beat her and threatened to kill her, pimping her out in Nashville. He since has been shot to death.
The case drew attention from celebrities nationwide, such as Kim Kardashian and Snoop Dogg, who called on Haslam to grant clemency.
Lamar decided to get involved because she has a background in advocating for "reproductive justice and women's rights" and wanted to incorporate those into her new position as a state lawmaker.
"I felt the Cyntoia Brown case touched the hearts of many people in the country and in the state, including mine," she said.
Memphis reports some of the highest instances of child sex trafficking in the state.
And too many children are victims of rape, molestation and child sex trafficking in Tennessee, Lamar said, noting she felt compelled to bring the legislation because of the way Brown began to change her life while in prison.
Brown earned an associate's degree from Lipscomb University with a 4.0 GPA and is working toward a bachelor's degree while mentoring other female inmates, according to reports.
In reading about Brown's case, Lamar said she found Tennessee had made strides in reducing child sex trafficking in recent years.
The 2018 Protected Innocence Challenge report by Shared Hope International gave Tennessee an A grade and 96.5 score out of a possible 102.5 points, with its strongest ratings coming in categories of enforcement, prison time and fines. The report found the state came up short, though, in areas such as the pursuit of justice because of a lack of trial protection for victims and possible hurdles for victim compensation.
The state has changed several laws dealing with sex trafficking. For instance, children caught in sex trafficking and prostitution are no longer charged as adults for that activity.
"I said, well, what's the difference between that and Cyntoia when Cyntoia committed an act of violence while doing sex trafficking?" Lamar said. "She's really being looked at as a murderer, but she's a victim" because she committed the violence while being a "victim of something harmful."
Lamar contends Brown was forced into prostitution, something girls and women usually don't do voluntarily, and had "nowhere to go."
"I think we need to kind of take the responsibility off the victim and put it on the perpetrators, and those are people who are purchasing women for sex – and more than just women, purchasing minors," Lamar said. "We have an obligation as a state and as humans to protect children because most times they don't have the physical, mental, emotional capacity to protect themselves."
Working with Lee
Gov.-elect Bill Lee, a Williamson County Republican, wants a full review of the state's criminal justice system, including sentencing guidelines. Following Haslam's decision to grant clemency, Lee said he hopes "serious consideration" of reform will continue, "especially with respect to sentencing juveniles."
Haslam, a Knoxville Republican who exits office Saturday, Jan. 19, as Lee takes the oath of office as Tennessee's 50th governor, said in an interview this week he doesn't know how his decision on Brown will affect the public's view of his time in office.
"Most people see it as the right thing to do. There'll be some folks who'll say, 'Well, you're soft on crime.' But I think what we've tried to do in office, whether it's a decision like that or something else, is to try to get to the right answer," Haslam said. "It doesn't mean we always have, but I hope we've always said, 'Forget about the political implications or forget about what our opinion was when we started working on this.' Hopefully, we've worked to get to the right answer. And in Cyntoia's case, I honestly feel like we did that."
As she ferries the legislation through the 111th General Assembly, Lamar said she hopes to work with the Lee administration.
"I'm so excited that Gov.-elect Bill Lee wants to make criminal justice a priority for him. I think we both can agree that we can make sure our criminal justice system is working on behalf of all people to help rehabilitate people and that we're not unfairly incarcerating people," she said.
Likewise, she wants to collaborate with rural lawmakers, because child sex trafficking is a statewide problem and hardly confined to urban areas.
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Grimsby regeneration kickstarted with multi-million pound boost
Thursday July 11th, 2019
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Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry unveiled nearly £4 million of new investment into Grimsby as part of the next phase of its pioneering Town Deal – and hailed the town's unprecedented regeneration strategy.
As part of the second phase of the Town Deal, North East Lincolnshire Council will work with national charity OnSide to develop a brand-new Youth Zone in Grimsby town centre. OnSide currently successfully operates a national network of 12 Youth Zones across the UK with a number of others in the development pipeline.
The additional investment confirmed today will support the development of the strategic Garth Lane site and brings the total public and private investment through the Town Deal to £88 million, including £21 million of new investment since the launch of the Town Deal in July 2018.
The Grimsby Town Deal puts skilled jobs and education at its heart, a key part of the government's modern Industrial Strategy for the UK, driving growth, productivity and boosting earning power across the region. The next stage of the Town Deal will also look at a programme to drive up educational attainment and enhance adult skills.
Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry said:
"The investment we're making through the UK's first Town Deal will help drive forward regeneration, create new opportunities for residents, young and old, and ensure the future for Grimsby is a bright and prosperous one.
"This regeneration strategy builds on our work across the Northern Powerhouse and is an essential part of our modern Industrial Strategy, creating jobs and training opportunities, while supporting businesses across the North and the rest of the UK."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/grimsby-regeneration-kickstarted-with-multi-million-pound-boost


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Revoking Sections of State Highway and Declaring Sections of State Highway-State Highways 16, 17, 18, 18A and 20, Auckland
Pursuant to section 103 of the Land Transport Management Act 2003, the Secretary for Transport gives notice that, with effect from 28 September 2012:
(a) The sections of State Highway 16, 17, 18, 18A and 20, described in the First Schedule, are revoked; and
(b) the sections of State Highway 16, 18, and
20, described in the Second Schedule, are declared to be State highway.
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Following the current alignment of State Highway 16 in Auckland City, commencing on The Strand (Route Position 0/0.81) and extending in a generally southerly direction along Shipwright Lane to Parnell Rise, and then along Parnell Rise in a generally westerly direction to Stanley Street (Route Position 0/1.00); a distance of approximately 0.19 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 16 in Auckland City, commencing at the western end of the
new Hobsonville Road overbridge (Route Position 19/0.10) and extending in a generally westerly direction along Hobsonville Road to Don Buck Road roundabout and then in a generally northerly direction to the old intersection with Brigham Creek Road (Route Position 19/4.02); a distance of approximately 3.92 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 17 in Auckland City, commencing at the north-western boundary of Fowler Access Road (Route Position 0/0.00) and extending in a generally southerly direction through Waiwera, Hatfields Beach, Orewa, Silverdale, to the north-eastern boundary of Jack Hawken Lane (Route Position 0/14.22); a distance
of approximately 14.22 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 17 in Auckland City, commencing at the south-western side
of the Silverdale Interchange (Route Position 16/0.00)
and extending in a generally southerly direction through Dairy Flat and Albany to the westernmost boundary of Bush Road/Mercari Way (Route Position 16/16.73); a distance of approximately 16.73 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 18 in Auckland City, commencing at a point approximately
600 metres east of the eastern side of Squadron Drive overbridge (Route Position 7/1.03) and extending in a generally south-westerly direction to the northern boundary of the new Hobsonville Deviation (Route Position 7/1.71);
a distance of approximately 0.68 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 18 in Auckland City, commencing at the junction of Buckley Avenue and Hobsonville Road (Route Position 7/1.86) and extending in a generally south-westerly direction along Hobsonville Road to the eastern abutment of the new State Highway 16 Hobsonville Road Underpass (Route Position 7/6.64); a distance of approximately 4.78 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 18A in Auckland City, commencing at a point on the Albany Highway at the southern end of the Albany Highway overbridge (Route Position 0/0.11) and extending in a generally south-westerly direction along the Albany Highway and Upper Harbour Drive to a point (Route Position 0/4.27) on the south-western side of the roundabout at William Pitcher Place; a distance of approximately 4.16 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 20 in Auckland City, commencing at a point on Redoubt Road approximately 245 metres west of Diorella Drive (Route Position 0/0.00) and extending in a generally westerly direction along Redoubt Road to the eastern end of the Redoubt Road overbridge (Route Position 0/0.18); a distance of approximately 0.18 kilometres.
Following the current alignment of State Highway 20 in Auckland City, commencing at the western end of the Redoubt Road overbridge (Route Position 0/0.24) and extending in a generally westerly direction along Redoubt Road, Manukau Station Road and Wiri Station Road to Roscommon Road, and then along Roscommon Road in a generally north-westerly direction to the southern boundary of the new State Highway 20 realignment (Route Position 0/4.66); a total distance of approximately 4.98 kilometres; and including a section commencing at a point on Great South Road approximately 375 metres south of Redoubt Road and extending along Great South Road in a generally northerly direction to the junction with Redoubt Road.
Following the proposed alignment of State Highway 16 commencing at the intersection of The Strand and Shipwright Lane (Route Position 0/0.81) and extending
in a generally south-westerly direction to the intersection
of Stanley Street and Parnell Rise (Route Position 0/0.97);
Following the proposed alignment of State Highway 16 commencing at the southern side of the newly constructed Hobsonville Road Underpass (Route Position 7/10.00) and extending in a generally north-westerly direction to the
old intersection of State Highway 16 with Brigham Creek Road (Route Position 19/0.21); a distance of approximately 3.06 kilometres.
Following the proposed alignment of State Highway 18 commencing approximately 600 metres east of the eastern side of Squadron Drive Underpass (Route Position 7/1.03) and extending in a generally south-westerly direction
to the southern side of the newly constructed Hobsonville Road Underpass (Route Position 7/6.76); a distance of approximately 5.74 kilometres.
Following the proposed alignment of State Highway 20 commencing at the junction with State Highway 1 (Reference Station 0/0.00) and extending in a generally north-westerly direction to the southern abutment of the Puhinui Road Overpass (Route Position 0/4.72); a distance of approximately 4.72 kilometres.
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FREE FLU JABS NOW AVAILABLE FOR UNDER FIVES
CHILDREN across the region between the ages of six months and five years can now can get vaccinated against the flu for free, Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall announced today.
Mr Marshall said the new $3.5 million influenza vaccination program offered by the NSW Government would help avoid a repeat of last year's flu season.
"Last year NSW saw more than 12,000 confirmed cases of influenza in children under five and our region was also hit hard," Mr Marshall said.
"This program will vaccinate more than 400,000 children across the state, boosting protection for them, their families and the broader community.
"We all know how horrendous the flu is for young and old, but it has a particularly marked impact on the youngest members of our families.
"Little children are also most likely to spread the flu so a free flu jab will not only keep them safe, but will protect others they come into contact with."
Mr Marshall said 93.9 per cent of NSW children were vaccinated last year, up 6.3 per cent since 2010.
"Our state boasts some of the best childhood vaccination rates in Australia and this free flu jab will further protect our little ones from this potentially fatal disease," he said.
Children who have never had a flu vaccination will need two doses, one month apart. The vaccine will cover four strains of influenza virus, two A strains and two B strains, likely to be circulating this winter.
For more information, see www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation