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A Year With the Apple Watch
Until a year ago, I don't think I had worn a watch since high school, if not earlier. I was interested in an Apple Watch for nebulous reasons of "that looks kind of cool," but I wasn't going to buy a first-generation product. By the time the Series 3 came out, I was sorely tempted, but I held off until the beginning of 2019, when thanks to a gift card to B&H the price of a Series 4 was far more palatable.
My main interest in the Watch at that point was as a fitness device; while there are certainly cheaper fitness bands out there, the Apple integration with the Health app appealed to me, and I was dissuaded from some of the cheaper options by the experience of friends and family members burning through plastic FitBits at a rate that made an Apple Watch actually seem more cost-effective.
At the time I was working a remote job, and so my main interest with the Watch was having something to prod me into more activity. The Apple Watch's Activity application, in particular, seemed like it fit right into an achievement-hunting and gamification strategy for success. But I still didn't know if I would find the hassle of another device to charge and the cost of the device to really move the needle for me.
After a year with my Series 4, I can confidently say that I love the Apple Watch, and more importantly, it has made a difference to my day-to-day life, in ways both expected and totally unforeseen.
Since I'm not one to spend a ton of cash on items of unknown value (and B&H was selling White Apple Sport models for $15 less for whatever reason) I picked up a 40mm Apple Watch Sport in silver. I have small wrists, and when Apple unveiled the larger Series 4 case dimensions I was a bit concerned about not having a 38mm option. Overall, though, the 40mm fits me well without looking ridiculous.
The fit and finish of the Watch itself is still interesting to me. It's the only Apple device I own I want to be thinner, but it sits far better on my wrist than I would have expected given its bulbous proportions. The ideal Apple Watch of multi-day battery life in a slim package still isn't here, but with the Series 5 it's inching closer (and I think Apple's right to prioritize battery life and processing power over thickness at this point.)
Roughly half a year into owning my Series 4, I made an ill-advised decision to remove the watch in my bathroom, with the end result being a drop onto tile and a smashed corner and crack across the face of the Watch. This hasn't resulted in any noticeable performance or display degradation (besides, you know, the crack across it) and I've lived with the cosmetic damage; really the only downside is I'm pretty sure the water resistance of the thing is shot, but that just means a little more consideration when it rains. Apple's repair quotes for the screen (and the cost of doing it yourself) are ridiculous, and so I'll keep running with the battle-scarred version I have until I eventually replace it.
Even before the smashed screen, however, I'd ended up with a fair few minor scratches across the watch face. Training my brain to walk around with a wristwatch again took longer than I expected, and I'm pretty sure the majority of the scratches were accumulated by just running into doors or walls with my wrist because I'd gotten used to being able to do that without consequence. The stainless steel or Edition models with their sapphire glass would probably have survived that damage, but on the other hand, they may have fared worse in the drop. Either way, I don't think these devices are hardy enough (nor long-lived enough) at this point to make a more expensive watch worth it. When I was purchasing the Watch, there wasn't really any question I'd get aluminum anyhow—leaving aside the cost, the stainless steel models felt like too much flash for a guy who doesn't wear any jewelry otherwise. The Series 5's titanium finish looks higher-end than the aluminum without tripping that flashy line for me, so in the future if that material sticks around, I might consider it.
As a fitness device, the Watch has absolutely served its purpose. I was averaging only around 6,100 steps a day in 2018. For 2019, I averaged 10,280, and ended this January with in excess of 11,000. The Watch prodding me to get up and move around a bit also helps get in more activity and sit a bit less. The achievement aspect especially proves a tremendous motivator; I've reached an unbroken streak of 380 Move goals, which enforces a much higher minimum amount of activity to my daily routine. That sort of push was not there just using my phone's tracking capabilities. The other health aspects are a mixed bag. I turned off the Breathe notifications within a week, but the newer noise monitoring feature has been great whenever I'm out at a bar or concert. I do not have a large social circle using Apple Watches to compete against, but fortunately personal motivation works just fine.
More interesting has been the ancillary benefits of the Watch beyond its fitness functions. I would regularly miss notifications when out on a walk or placing my phone down in my apartment; the Apple Watch makes it much harder to not see notifications when I'm on the go. It's also amazing how nice it is to be able to deal with some things from my wrist and not pull out my phone—especially things like calls from unknown numbers, or sending a quick voice message or acknowledgement thumbs-up to a text update that doesn't need a substantial reply. These are saving just a few seconds at a time, but once you're used to that convenience, it's hard to let it go. The ability to send directions to my watch and have it quietly tap me where to go when I'm out walking so I'm not running around with my phone out is also a very nice benefit.
That said, there are some annoyances with the product. Battery life is of course always less than I'd like it to be, and I'd prefer a more slim look for my wrist, but many of my nitpicks come from software, not the hardware.
I've bounced between several different watch faces. WatchOS has added more options and ameliorated some of my concerns, but the jump between faces has less to do with a sense of style and more that no single Watch face does exactly what I want it to.
I appreciate the visual component to time-telling, so I'm an analog watch face guy. But the Simple and Utility faces have some deficiencies; the utility doesn't let me fine-tune which numbers show up on the face as much as I want, and the Activity complication is stubbornly colorful in the corner. The Simple watch face banishes the color, but I'm left with two complications on the bottom which don't provide as much information as the single one on Utility. Infograph now comes in a monochrome option, but its analog face is hard to read quickly with its very thin hour and minute ticks, and populating the complications just makes it feel like information overload. Recently I've settled on Meridian; while it still isn't monochrome, it's at least two-toned. The complications being in the middle of the watch face makes them a bit harder to read depending on where the hands are, but they are generally fuller-featured (the temperature complication gives me the high/low plus current temperature like Infograph, instead of just current temperature like Simple and Utility.) As part of the trade you get a more legible analog face that takes up the entire screen, which certainly looks much nicer and embraces the fact that the Apple Watch is square rather than pretending it's round.
Still, this all screams for richer complication customization, and true custom or modular watch faces. It'd also be great to have a machine that feels more capable when away from the phone. But the Apple Watch has become one of my favorite gadgets, and I'm looking forward to Apple continuing to push the frontier of health.
Maxon and Red Giant merge
This is interesting news for the motion graphics community that I missed over the holidays. Red Giant makes the universe of After Effects plugins that are pretty much essential, such as Particular and Form, along with the random and niche, like Psunami. Maxon, of course, is the company behind the very popular 3D program Cinema4D. Perhaps most interesting is this isn't an acquisition, like how Maxon acquired Redshift earlier this year, but a merge. I wonder what this will all mean in the near future, if anything.
Mac Pro Day
After six years since the last revision, two years since Apple admitted they whiffed on said revision, and six months since they unveiled it at WWDC, Apple's new "Wrath of the Cheesegrater" Mac Pro is available for order. You can spec it out to an eye-watering $50K, although I imagine most setups will be south of $10K. Since RAM and extra SSD space (via PCIe cards) can be purchased from third-parties, the gulf between the price Apple offers and speccing a machine yourself is vast.
As is, the higher-entry level price—it went from $3000 base price to $6000—makes it pretty hard to justify buying for me. But I'm hopeful that the Mac Pro gets back to a regular update schedule and marks a return to Apple fighting for the high-end business. It's a beautiful machine, and I hope—unlike like its diminutive predecessor—it's not a one-off.
I've played many good to great video games in my life, but the ones that left me inspired, or reeling, or kept me up at night thinking about them after completing them is a much shorter list. One such game was Oxenfree, from developer Night School Studio. It was another entry into the surprisingly large "story-based games where Pacific Northwest teenage girls encounter the supernatural" genre, but it ditched the standard "game stops so you can make a dialogue" choice dialogue mechanics of previous games and let you have natural conversations while traversing beautiful, hand-painted landscapes, set to a chilling soundtrack by scntfc that merged digital and analog sounds into a haunting mix. Add a dash of timey-wimey looping action and a mind-bending New Game+ ending, and it was my game of the year for 2016.
Night School is back, and last month they released Afterparty. The game can be boiled down into a high-concept pitch: "Two dead people attempt to escape Hell by outdrinking Satan." The dead, in this case, are best friends Lola and Milo, celebrating the end of college one moment, and then the next, finding themselves in the Underworld. The only way out is through the aforementioned contest with the Devil—but the remarkably chummy Lucifer isn't interested in making it quite so simple, so Milo and Lola end up traversing Hell's neighborhoods to make their roundabout shot at escape. And when the chance to get out of hell finally arrives… it doesn't feel like the victory Milo and Lola hoped for.
Like Oxenfree, the walk-and-talk mechanics comes over pretty much unchanged, but the difference with Afterparty one of your dialogue options only appears when you've been drinking, and that third dialogue option is influenced by just what you drank. You could sound like a pirate, a lovesick Romeo, a quippy movie star, or a sports-obsessed doofus. You can also choose to give yourself liquid courage or unrelenting aggression, and in some cases these choices unlock the paths forward. The characters and voice actors are up to the task, and by far the most enjoyable part of Afterparty is the denizens you come across and how they are portrayed.
There were a few criticisms of Oxenfree, and Night School seems to have taken them to heart with improvements here. Oxenfree didn't have a whole lot of gameplay beyond the dialogue options; mostly it was just walking around, and then tuning some radios. Afterparty adds a bit more to the toolbag. While it never really feels quite like a LucasArts item-based puzzle game, there are more branching paths and mini games (such as beer pong, dancing, and building shot glass towers) to spice things up for the people who don't just want to talk through every beat. As a result, Afterparty feels a bit more varied and less linear.
The shame is that, despite these changes, and keeping many of the same ingredients as Oxenfree (scntfc returns as composer, and some of the same voice actors return as well) Afterparty feels like a pale imitation. The problems start with the setting: Hell is populated with a number of demons and other souls, but you can interact with very few of them, and the game doesn't offer the same rewards for exploration that Oxenfree did. Hell ends up feeling… rather pedestrian and ordinary. Barren, even. The story, too, never really embraces the setting. Satan is depicted as still smarting from his breakup with dad, but the game surprisingly avoids a lot of interrogation of what Hell represents. Here, people end up tormented eternally for minor jackassery, and Lola and Milo themselves don't really ever learn exactly why they're down there. The justness of Hell versus Heaven, how Demons are forced into the job of torment, and how everyone just goes drinking after work hours—it ends up feeling rather low-effort and low-stakes for the characters. Add in technical issues and poor performance on many of the platforms the game was released on, and it just feels underdone. It's a more ambitious throw than Oxenfree, but Afterparty doesn't really sink the shot.
Photoshop for iPad
Bloomberg has a piece out today that suggests the iPad version of Adobe Photoshop is coming soon, and profoundly disappointing in its featureset:
Adobe has been testing Photoshop for iPad under the codename Rocket with a small group of beta testers since earlier this year. Participants have told Bloomberg News that some beta versions don't include well-established features they expected to be part of the release. They complained about less advanced or missing features around core functionality like filters, the pen tool and custom paintbrush libraries, vector drawing, color spaces, RAW editing, smart objects, layer styles and certain options for mask creation. Their disappointment about these limitations stems from Photoshop's established reputation as a leading professional photo-editing program on the desktop.
To be fair to Adobe, Photoshop is an ancient program that is the bedrock of a huge chunk of all media production on the planet. You can't easily replicate that featureset in a 1.0 release on a platform with a different user interface paradigm.
But Adobe is also nearly a decade late to the party here. After the success of the iPhone and the instant success of the iPad, it should have been obvious which way the wind is blowing in computing, and Adobe was still trying to keep a dead platform limping along rather than embrace the future. Since Adobe hasn't stepped up, smaller developers have made very nice programs that are great in part because they are designed for the iPad first.
I'm starting to wonder if Adobe is paving the path for its future ruin by its relative inaction. The switch to a subscriber revenue model and the power of the interconnected Creative Cloud synergy between applications is not to be trifled with, but while some parts of Adobe CC have no real peers, that's not the case with Photoshop. A lot of work will continue to be done on the "real" computers of yesteryear, but if Adobe can't demonstrate that it can produce a first-class tablet experience, it's basically ceding the market and the mindshare of an emerging generation.
Apple's iPhone Event to be Streamed on Youtube
This story courtesy 9to5Mac:
Over the last several years, Apple has gradually been expanding the ways people can tune into its various keynotes. This year, Apple is further expanding its efforts and will stream the September 10th iPhone 11 event on YouTube.
For those with long memories, for a long time the only way you could actually stream Apple's events was through Safari and/or an Apple device, and then Microsoft Edge. Grabbing the direct stream via something like VLC was possible but required a level of technical know-how; expanding to Youtube dramatically boosts the potential audience for this. A fun little historical footnote on the slow trend of a far more open Apple under Cook.
Insights From Wikipedia's Pageviews Tools
The use of Google Trends to document interest in topics is well-understand, but using Wikipedia for the same purpose is less common. To be fair, Google Trends exposes far more details about search terms—where people were looking, and what other searches were paired—but Wikipedia offers an interesting extra detail given that it's very often the end-result of those Google searches. The result is that it can often tell you more granular insights than Trends can provide. Let's look at some examples:
League of Legends is the most popular multiplayer online battle arena (or MOBA) video game out there, followed by Dota 2, the official sequel to the grandaddy of all MOBAs. The Google Trends graphs gives you an indication of both game's ebbs and flow:
But Wikipedia via the Pageviews analysis tool surfaces some more interesting details:
The peaks in August of each year show spikes in traffic to Dota 2, which correspond with their yearly International tournament—still the biggest prize pool in eSports. What isn't clear from Google's graphs is there are similar constituent spikes for League as well for its own yearly tournaments in October and November, but it's dwarfed by Dota's spikes—during those months, Dota is more popular—sometimes much more so—than League, despite being less popular overall the rest of the year.
While just like Google Trends, you're not necessarily mapping popularity per se but discovery and surfacing of key words, in some ways I find Wikipedia's trends more useful because Google tells you inputs—what people are searching for. Wikipedia has the advantage of telling you what people landed on, at least on the site (which is a limited view, but given that Wikipedia is the fifth most popular site on the planet, isn't nothing either.)
Apple's Acrylic Era
It may be hard to remember, but before the iPhone and the modern era of Apple1 Apple made computers not of highly recyclable BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free, low-carbon aluminum and glass, but of that boogeyman of our more environmentally-conscious world, acrylic plastic. It was with acrylic that Jony Ive first made his mark at Apple, and it was acrylic that ultimately saved the company entirely.
The first hints of what was to come were found in small touches across Apple's product line in the late 90s. The Power Macintosh 8600/9600 and successor Power Macintosh G3 all had small translucent plastic touches; more heavy usage was found on the eMate and LCD display. Perhaps most infamously, there was the G3 All-in-one or "Molar Mac", which in many ways feels like the Postosuchus to the iMac G3's Coelophysis—superficial cousins, but an evolutionary dead end. The Molar Mac was heavy and unapologetically still a Platinum-era Mac, despite its translucent shroud.
(Image by Stephen Hackett)
Then the Bondi Blue iMac came along, and everything changed.
(Image by Rama, CC-by-SA)
With the iMac's success, Apple quickly moved to a completely different design language, but it was expressed in different flavors. The first short phase I'd call "smoky". This was expressed in the original iMac and Blue & White G3, which were less translucent and more understated compared to what was to come.
The second phase was "clear", and it was exemplified by the more transparent, more saturated colors of the later iMacs, along with the introduction of the Apple Studio Display and PowerMac G4 in 2000. The pro Macs were more restrained in colors (the early G4s had a pinstriped, vaguely blueish-grey called "graphite" that changed to a more neutral "quicksilver" in 2002) and used clear plastic prominently for handles and accents, while the iMacs went through a total of 13 variations, including the still-bananas Flower Power and Blue Dalmation, before settling down. The iMacs introduced in 2000 did have a harbinger of the next phase of Apple's products, however—the white "Snow" color.
(The "snow" iMac G4s. Image by Omega21, CC-by-SA)
After this exuberant use of acrylic, Apple began a slow migration away from it. The PowerBook, which never got a clear acrylic makeover, was the first to switch in 2001 to an opaque grey metal-and-plastic enclosure—first titanium, and then the now-omnipresent aluminum. The PowerMac line would follow with the G5 "cheesegrater" in early 2003. What followed was the "opaque" phase, where Apple's products became defined by opaque white plastic and/or aluminum across all their computers, monitors, and peripherals. In retrospect, this period seems less a serious design era on its own, and more a slow evolution to where Ive and the rest at Apple really wanted to go. The iMac added aluminum in 2007 and became fully jacketed in 2009. The Mac mini followed in 2010. The iPhone became glass-and-metal with the iPhone 4, and the final vestige of the plastic era was the polycarbonate MacBook, which was discontinued in 2011.
(Though ultimately a failed product, the Power Mac G4 Cube was perhaps the apotheosis of Apple's acrylic Macs. Photo by BinarySequence, CC-by-SA)
In retrospect, the acrylic era really only lasted roughly five years as the predominant look of Apple's products, but that timeframe was the key turning point for the company. It saw Apple kill its old products and start over with the simplified 2×2 product matrix, the introduction of the iPod and the very start of Apple's iTunes empire, and the creation of the "digital hub" strategy that would define Apple until the success of the iPhone. And it might just be nostalgia speaking, but those computers still look great. While some PC makers have in recent years gotten much closer than ever before to getting close to Apple's fit-and-finish with metal or carbon fiber computers, no one has touched Apple's use of acrylic in the nearly twenty years since they showed what could be done, and it's entirely possible no one ever will.
What is the modern era of Apple at this point? It's easy to use Steve Jobs' death as a marker, but now we're nearly eight years out from that moment—Jobs' passing is closer to the release of the iPod in 2001 than the present. With Ives' departure, it's possible we're entering a new epoch of Apple history—but like with all history, it'll be a while before we can truly see the differences.↩
On Jony Ive and Apple's Future
The big Apple news of last week was ruminating over the announced departure of Jony Ives, Apple's longtime chief designer. John Siracusa opined that no one save for Steve Jobs himself was more instrumental in Apple's renaissance in the late 90s and early 2000s, and I'd agree. While his designs have always been occasionally divisive, there's no one in the 21st century who has had as large a role in shaping the look and feel of technology everyone uses—because where Apple goes, most other manufacturers follow.1
From the outside-in it's incredibly hard to say how much this really matters, but I'm inclined to think "not much." While Apple clearly didn't want to dwell on this news—you don't drop it late in the week for no reason—they also clearly have a plan in place for Ives' departure, and there has always been a team of talented designers at Apple who have had to realize Ives' visions, and who now have a better shot at realizing their own.
The punditsphere is of course filled with contradictory takes of "Jony Ive was hurting the company" smashed together with "…and Apple is doomed," but I feel like neither approaches the truth any more than they can harmonize. Ives was ultimately responsible for design under his watch, and Apple put out some lemons—but they *always* have, and every criticism that can be thrown at Apple's current lineup can be thrown at the Jobs-Ives golden era as well. Stripping legacy ports? Ill-advised miniaturized machines without internal expansion? Chasing thinness to the point of leaving out old features? They're all there in Apple's history.
Leaving aside the problems with Apple's recent crop of keyboards (which are certainly serious, from a public relations perspective if not in terms of absolute numbers)2 I'd say that Ives will be leaving an Apple doing better than it has recently during his tenure. A large number of Apple's deficiencies recently were in operations and strategy (a confusing lineup of products) and software (buggy yearly releases) whose connections to Ives are not directly clear. Even if they were caused by Ives, they've been getting steadily better. While I'm still not convinced yearly MacOS updates are a good thing, there hasn't been a problem like borking your networking in quite a while.
More than anything, I'm excited rather than fearful. Apple is or should be too big for any one departure to irreparably harm it, and invariably you need new voices to have a chance of keeping things fresh.
Speaking of Apple's woes, they've been addressing a lot of them recently. The biggest was simple: not updating their Macs. 2018 and 2019 has seen the revival of previously neglected models, as well as welcome minor spec bump and refreshes that make getting a new Mac feel like a good deal rather than fretting over when you might actually get a new product to buy.
Today was another welcome stitch in that pattern, as well as dealing with one of the most frustrating elements of Apple's recent Mac strategy: a confusing mess of old 'zombie' products and overlapping offerings. Apple killed off the old MacBook Air, updated its retina replacement while dropping the price, and in one fell swoop removed the Retina MacBook Pro without Touch Bar (or MacBook Escape) as well as the one-port, ultraportable Retina MacBook (or MacBook Adorable.) Last fall there were three Macs around $1200–1300 to buy, and none of them were great—the MacBook Escape hadn't been updated, the MacBook Adorable was underpowered (and also hadn't been updated), and the MacBook Air was expensive compared to what you got for the money versus just buying said outdated MacBook Escape. Now, with a lower $1099 starting price, the MacBook Air carves out a better niche, and the Touch Bar model drifts down to the $1299 line instead of being a more expensive feature locked away (some people probably prefer the physical function keys, but I wager far more care about TouchID to unlock their Macs.) Given that the Air was less than 12 ounces heavier than the MacBook Adorable but more powerful and featured, its loss is not keenly felt unless you were a road warrior who absolutely prioritized size above everything. The end result is that with the new Mac Pro at the high end and cheaper portables at the low end, the Mac lineup is finally starting to shape up and feel vibrant in a way it really hasn't since 2012.3
There's still issues, to be sure—while the higher-end flash storage options also got a welcome price cut, getting 256GB of storage still costs $200 extra, so that's basically a $200 increase to all Apple's low-end products to make them decent machines for most users.4 The iMac, meanwhile, still has spinning 5400RPM hard drives standard (and the entry-level model is now the only device Apple sells without a retina display.) But it's heartening to see that, even as its steward of the past twenty years departs, Apple seems to be course-correcting its way out of the reefs.
It's hard to imagine what phones would look like today without the success of iPhone, or laptops without the PowerBook 100. It seems obvious they'd end up where they are, but that's just it—they are so successful because they felt like obvious designs in retrospect.↩
John Gruber has gone so far as to say the MacBook keyboards are Apple's worst product ever. I'm not sure I buy that, but given Apple's massive reach these days it's possible that it's one of Apple's costliest mistakes. The first-generation MacBook Air or Titanium PowerBooks all had their issues, for example, but they simply didn't sell in the volumes of current MacBook Pros.↩
That year gave us the retina MacBook Pro and the last solid update to the Mac mini until four years ago, as well as the last (minor) revision to old cheesegrater Mac Pro.↩
This stubborn resistance to boost base storage on their machines reminds me of Apple's similar stubborn resistance to boosting their iOS devices' storage past 16GB.↩
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019
This year at WWDC John Gruber hosted Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on-stage for the live edition of The Talk Show. Some impressions:
The ASIC in the Mac Pro used to accelerate ProRes workflows is reprogrammable. I wonder if Apple's going to offer different flavors for other industries to try and help push adoption into areas that Apple has very little toeholds in; while they remain very strong in desktop and web publishing, video, and color correction, high-end post production and niches like scientific modeling are often dominated by UNIX or specialized tools.
No price on the Mac Pro's wheels were given.
With Sidecar, Apple is doubling down on the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar, offering it in virtual form on users' iPads regardless of the Mac you're using the iPad with. I'm guessing that alongside the rumors of a 16″ MacBook Pro that retains the Touch Bar and only adds back the escape key, they are going to keep it around, and having it be "universal" even to Macs that don't have it is a way of encouraging developers to use it.
There are some good tidbits about crafting the keynotes, including the fact that there are metrics for how many slides each presenter can get through in a minute.
Apple will probably never be able to replicate Jobs' personality and showmanship, but I think it's inarguable that Federighi is the most entertaining of Apple's presenters and certainly the one who seems to have the most rapport with the WWDC especially. Joswiak and Federighi's banter is part of what gives Apple a real personality instead of feeling scripted.
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2013 From Colonies to TEQSA: Vortices and thermals of legislative change. In Safe, Successful and Sustainable Education: Is the law a sword or a shield? the 22nd Australia and New Zealand Education and Law Association (ANZELA) conference, Hobart, Tasmania, October 2013.
2012 Cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking: New challenges in law and education. In Woteva Nxt! Legal and Social Challenges in Education, conference proceedings edited by Jane Battersby, the 21st Australia and New Zealand Education and Law Association (ANZELA) conference, Rotorua NZ, 3-5 October 2012.
2009 Art and Event: Photographic practices as political procedures in public discourses. In The Ownership and Dissemination of Knowledge, Conference Proceedings, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 37th Annual PESA Conference 2008, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, 4-7 December.
2007 Creativity and the Return of a Political Will: Art, language and the creative subject. In Creativity, Enterprise, Policy – New Directions in Education, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 36th Annual PESA Conference Refereed Proceedings, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, 5-9 December.
2006 Creativity, Culture and Identity: Questions of art and art education in a global knowledge economy. In Politics, Business and Education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 35th Annual PESA Conference Refereed Proceedings, University of Sydney NSW, 23-26 November 2006.
Where the Creative Arts Lie with our Humanity: and What the Creative Arts do for our Society. In Speculation and Innovation – Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries Refereed Conference Proceedings, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
2005 The Condition of Artist as Global Cosmopolitan. In Critical Thinking and Learning: values, concepts and issues. PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 34th Annual PESA Conference, 2005 Refereed Proceedings, Hong Kong.
Steering the Current in Art Education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Te Whakatere: Navigating through the Arts in the Pacific, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings Vol 2.
An Art Educator's Narrative: 'Where am I in the text?'. In Te Whakatere: Navigating through the Arts in the Pacific, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings Vol 2.
2004 The Creative Subject: Towards a Philosophy of 'Creativity' and the 'Knowing Subject'. In Education and Values: Identity and the Development of Human persons. PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 33rd Annual PESA Conference, 2004 Refereed Proceedings, Melbourne Australia.
Methodology and Interpretive Procedures in Education: Risk, imagination, reflexivity. In Educational Risks and Dilemmas, Refereed Conference Proceedings NZARE AARE (NZ & Australia) Association of Research in Education, University of Auckland, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 29 Nov-3 Dec 2003.
Excellere: Seeking What?. In Seeking Educational Excellence. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Teaching Learning Forum, 9-10 February 2004. Perth: Murdoch University.
2003 Mobilising the Power of Culture through the Arts in Education: UNESCO Strategies & NZ Challenges. In NGA WAKA ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings, edited by Elizabeth Grierson & Jill Smith, CD Rom, ISSN 1176-4589.
The Arts and Creative Industries: New alliances in the humanities. In Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, Refereed Conference Proceedings, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, 12-16 January.
2000 Cultural Identity and Global Flows. In Cultures and Transitions, Refereed Conference Proceedings InSEA, International Society of Education through Art and AAAE Australia.
2016 Invited Speaker, Restorative Justice. University of 3rd Age [U3A] Devonport, Auckland NZ, 14 Sept.
2014 Invited Speaker, What Laws am I Transgressing? Constructing a discourse of art, language and the human subject. Symposium The Sociolinguistics of Art. Department of English, The University of Hong Kong, 8-11 Jan.
2013 Invited Speaker, Cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking: New challenges in law and education. Australia and New Zealand Association of Law and Education (ANZELA) Seminar, Law Week, presented at Kelvin Club, Melbourne, Victoria, 14 May.
2013 Panel Contributor, Tertiary Education Panel: TEQSA Legislation in higher education in Australia, ANZELA Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association, Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, October.
2012 Invited Keynote, New Maps for New Spaces: The Poetics of Creative Knowledge, and panel member, International Conference on Research Creativity – Praxis, at Lam Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong, presented by Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University Hong Kong, 21-23 November 2012.
Invited Speaker, Designing Sound for Health and Wellbing: a trans-disciplinary 3-year research project bringing together sound art and emergency medicine, Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Faculty of Education, the University of Waikato, New Zealand, August 17.
Invited Plenary Panel speaker, Critical Response, University of Arts London, March 29.
Invited Speaker, Footnote, RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition, 11th cohort of graduates from Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, July.
Invited speaker, opening of Working Drawings/Private Concerns, Exchange Exhibition of works on paper from RMIT BA (Fine Art) Painting students, at Draakon Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia, organized by Dr Phil Edwards (RMIT) and Professor Kaido Ole (Estonia Academy of Art), February.
Invited Speaker, Art as Research, opening of Thinking through Practice: Art and Design as Research, International Exhibition curated by Associate Professor Lesley Duxbury and Professor Sand Helsel, at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, March.
Chair of Conference, chair of Keynotes and Plenary session, Drawing Out Conference. RMIT University and the University of the Arts London, held at RMIT University Melbourne, April 7-9.
Invited Presenter at UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education, Hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea and UNESCO, Seoul, May.
Opening speech Magnetic Islands Exhibition of artists from RMIT University and Seoul National University, Exhibition curated by Associate Professor Peter Ellis, at Project Space, Cardigan Street, Melbourne, April.
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Keynote Speaker, Women: Making a Difference at Zonta International, District 16, Area 1 Forum, at the Auckland Club, Auckland, New Zealand, 27 February.
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2003 Invited Speaker, Trafficking of Persons: A Global Problem at Zonta International Auckland Meeting, October 2003.
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Invited Chair for Vision Arts Forum, School of Performing Arts & School of Education, University of Auckland, June.
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2001 Keynote Speaker, Landscape of Debate, at ANZAAE 6th National Conference, Hamilton New Zealand, 17-20 April.
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On NZ Art. NZ Institute of Civil Engineers National Conference, Wairakei, NZ.
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Women in Art, a social contextual approach. Women in Management International Convention, Auckland.
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Tamarac Talk Interviews Candidates for City Commission District 1
September 27, 2020 by Selene Raj	No Comments
Commissioner Marlon Bolton and Michelle Jones.
Elections are underway in Tamarac as residents are already receiving their mail-in ballots. In the District 1 race, incumbent Vice Mayor Bolton is facing challenger Chef Michelle Jones.
Bolton, first elected in 2016, won against an eight-year-incumbent to become the first Black elected official to the city commission. In 2019, he was appointed vice mayor. In his first term, his focus areas have ranged from mandating baby-changing tables in men's bathrooms and working on a multicultural festival to advocating for improved infrastructure in East Tamarac and renovating Caporella Park. He hopes to oversee those projects in his second term, as well as work on new ones, such as a living wage ordinance. To date, he has raised $78,984 in campaign contributions.
Jones, a psychology rehabilitation consultant, and a chef, has lived in Tamarac for two decades. Prior to running, she has been involved in the community both as a chef and an advocate—ranging from teaching cooking classes to kids to serving on the Diversity Board. Her focus areas include creating more affordable housing for senior citizens, a better water delivery system, and more promotion for local small businesses. She hopes to bring her affinity for service as a commissioner and to bring unity to the dais. To date, she has raised $13,077 in campaign contributions.
Tamarac Talk caught up with the candidates and asked them about their proposed policies, priorities, and why they believe they are the best candidates for the job. We asked that their answers were concise. They are listed in order of their last names.
Why are you running for office?
Bolton: I'm running for reelection to continue the work that I started. I won against an eight-year incumbent who did not advocate for everyone in my district. When I got there, there were projects for other districts, and there were none for Tamarac District 1. So, I rolled up my sleeves, and I got to work. I started to advocate for infrastructure projects, beautification projects, advocated for facilities on the Eastside, and I was largely successful with advocating for those things. So, now that they are identified in the budget, they're happening, I want to remain in my seat to oversee the projects that I proposed, and I want to remain commissioner to propose new ones that will affect positive change in the community.
Jones: I'm running for office because I see the city that I've loved for almost two decades is not going in the direction when it comes to our community leaders. And, that's not something that I want for the city because I've invested here, and I love the city, and so I want to make sure that the people of Tamarac, in District 1, to get some hope back, because people have lost hope. They've lost hope in our community, they've lost hope in our government, and so, I'm running because I truly, with every beat of my heart, want to bring the hope back to the people of Tamarac in District 1.
Marlon, what policies or ordinances have you voted on to help improve Tamarac residents' lives in your district and in the entire city?
Bolton: Ordinances—number one, the baby-changing tables in men's bathrooms, that one I love, absolutely, because men are now able to change their babies. Lots of women wanted the help from their husbands, or lots of couples want help from their partners, and one could not help the other because they had the challenge of the baby-changing station being in the female bathroom. This was important to me to happen because it really positively affects the quality of life for Tamarac residents. There is also an ordinance that I co-championed with Commissioner Gelin, for the small business preference programs, giving small businesses and minority-owned businesses, including women-owned and veteran-owned businesses, a better shot at city contracts and winning bids for the city. Finally, I'm also now working on a living wage ordinance, which is my new baby. It's on an upcoming agenda which would provide a living wage for Tamarac employees and any resident of the city of Tamarac who becomes an employee of the city.
Michelle, what policies do you plan to introduce to help improve Tamarac residents' lives in your district and in the entire city?
Jones: One of the policies that I can tell you, that I'm definitely going to do, is to be more connected with the people in my district—to continuously be connected to the people, and to educate them, and examine how the city is run. From knocking doors, what I've realized is, they are not connected as community leaders, and they really don't understand how things are run. They have no idea. All they see is pictures, and they feel like they never get a chance to do things, and they don't know their commissioners. So, what I'm going to do is to make sure that I'm connected with the people of Tamarac.
What local organizations are you a part of, and what committees do you sit on?
Bolton: I'm a board member for the Broward County Community Action Agency. I'm a board member for the Aviation Advisory Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. I was just appointed to the Affordable Housing Committee by my colleagues. I'm a member of the National Black Caucus of Local and Elected Officials. I'm a member of the Broward League of Cities Youth Leadership Committee. I'm a member of the Florida League of Cities Municipal Administration Committee and a member of the National League of Cities Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee, and I've worked as a volunteer for a couple of organizations, but I think I gave you an exhausting list.
Jones: I have served on the Diversity Board; this is my third consecutive year. I sit on the Human Rights Board, I think this is going on my fourth year, and I sit on the Keiser University Psychology Board of the Alumni. Organizations that I support: I am a big supporter of the Boys & Girls Club. I'm also a big supporter of Girls to Women. There's a quite a few more—offhand right now; I can't even think of some of them. The ones I worked with are the ones I've recently [worked with]—cause recently, I've been really bad with supporting the community cause I've been running. But the Boys and Girls Club is always my favorite. Girls to Women. Lighthouse for the Blind. I work with the Department of Education. I do work with people with disabilities. I am also part of the International Disability Association for people with learning disabilities sit on the diversity board, but I've been a mentor there for the past three years. I've been a part of so many organizations; I can't remember the rest of them. And those are people I actually give my time to—not just drop something off, but go there and work, cook food, and do things for them.
Given what is going on nationwide, and what happened here in Tamarac, what policies do you plan to enact to protect citizens from abuse by police officers?
Bolton: I asked for a public safety committee, wherein that committee you would essentially review matters of public safety—review the contracts that we have with BSO and would be a direct liaison between the city and any other BSO board. Sheriff Tony suggested a citizens' review committee and various other committees, and so our committee in the city of Tamarac would be direct liaisons between Broward Sheriff's Office and their committees. We just finished a review of the use-of-force policy for BSO and went through their entire contract before renewing their contract with the city. I want to make sure that our citizens are taken care of by reviewing who the BSO officers are—we have exactly 101 BSO employees, so I have already requested information on them—who they are, if they're a diverse group or not, I've requested all of their files, if they have any issues personal or internal. I'm also making sure that I meet with the hiring officer for BSO to make sure that new officers are assigned to Tamarac that are not problem officers. Also, making sure that the transition period between losing a BSO employee and getting a new one is five days, with the city manager reviewing who that is. I requested and was successful lowering the transition period—so, if we no longer require BSO services, if there is an uproar like what happened with the other parts of the country with George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and we no longer require services from BSO, the transition period which we terminate their agreement is no longer two years, but would now be one year. We would have the ability to discipline them from our perspective. Because we are a BSO contract city, we don't have oversight with disciplining officers, but if we were to transition to our own police department, we would be able to. Finally, I appreciate BSO and the work that they do. I've always said that publicly, that I appreciate them, so no change is needed right now, but at least the safeguards that I've just mentioned is in place if anything odd happens.
Jones: Well, I've been, there's another organization I've worked with. In the past, we've had the mentor programs. The mentor program that we've had is a program where the police officers get to mentor to— I'm also a part of Lauderhill and Lakes Middle, Lauderhill Middle. We're going to be having a meeting tomorrow. I sit on the diversity board, but I've been a mentor there for the past three years at Parkway Middle. What we have at Parkway Middle is the same thing I want here in Tamarac. We want to get these police officers involved, so I want to continue the mentor program and also continue the programs that are already set in place. We have Coffee with a Cop; we have Ride a Bike with A Cop. I think what it is is cultural differences, and one of the things that we have to learn to do—we have to learn to respect each other's cultures, whether we care for how people dress or care for how people look and what color they wear their hair—we have to learn to respect people's cultures. And I think it's the cultural differences of people, that's why people are prejudice. I mean, people are prejudiced against me, number one, just because I have a learning disability, and I think differently. I've always been bullied in school for that. But I'm brilliant, I'm very smart, and I don't learn the same way. And I think it's just understanding each others' differences and really getting into the community and getting the network of connecting people with the city officials. I think the commissioners in our city should have totally done that in the past decade. I think it's not something that was done, and I think they did not utilize the services that was already in place. And I know that, because I serve on the Broward School Diversity Board—I know a lot of things that goes in the school system, and I see the differences when it comes to culture. I've seen all these schools; I've gone to all of them, I visit them—I've seen how we can also make these schools better for our children, all children.
Marlon, with around 24 percent of Tamarac's population Hispanic, what kind of outreach efforts and programs have you introduced to engage the Hispanic community in Tamarac?
Bolton: First and foremost, I created One Tamarac Multicultural Festival, which was my idea, with the help of my colleagues. One Tamarac Multicultural Festival celebrates Tamarac's rich diversity—Hispanics, African-Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, people from all experiences, and people from all walks of life, so to speak. That's one festival that I created that impacted the Hispanic community positively. The second thing I did, just the other day, was suggesting a diversity board—I have been working on it for a very long time. I have brought forward a diversity board that will help the city understand our growing Hispanic population. I will also direct the city manager to hire Spanish-speaking receptionists, so our workforce has to look like the community. If a Hispanic resident calls, they should not have a problem speaking to somebody or understanding somebody that answers the phone. I'm going to make sure that we have bilingual personnel that will be able to cater to our residents. I will work with the human resources department to put bilingual-preferred on all job requirements.
Michelle, what kind of programs do you plan to introduce to celebrate and recognize the contributions of the Hispanic community?
Jones: I think one of the things that we're doing wrong in the community, whether it's the Spanish, the Jamaicans, the Haitians, the Americans, the Jews, the Italians—I think one of the things we're doing wrong is we continue to keep wanting to do different things for different communities—No, why? If we're fighting so much about uniting, then why are we continuously dividing? Why can't we all celebrate one culture? One in all states? Every culture in one place—every single culture—Haitians, Jamaicans, Spanish, Jewish, Italian, whatever. Why can't we all just have one big event, and learn to enjoy each other, love each other, enjoy each other's food? Why do we have to constantly, individually, separate these things? I don't believe in it. I think we should be doing things together as one nation, one all mankind. I think the Spanish people should come out and cook their food and do their dance; I think the Jamaican people should do theirs, I think the African people should do theirs, I think the Chinese people should do theirs. Every culture should have one big shindig, and everybody should be happy. Everybody should learn about each other's culture. That's what I believe.
Marlon, how important is it to you to be respectful and civil at city commission meetings?
Bolton: Very important, extremely important. I would put that as a high priority.
Michelle, what are Roberts Rules? Sunshine Laws? If the city is having a quasi-judicial meeting on the agenda in the next two weeks, when should you discuss it with your constituents?
Jones: Roberts, Rules are procedural, how you conduct a meeting. The Sunshine Law—we're governed by that when we sit on any board, there are tons of Sunshine Laws—they govern what can be happening, how you talk to people, how you say it, what's supposed to be done, it's the Sunshine Law. On every board, you have to know the Sunshine Laws; you have to go through them when you sit on the Human Rights Board, when you sit on the Diversity Board when you sit on the commissioners' board, all of that—that's what that is: A big book with a whole bunch of rules and regulations. When do you discuss that? I think when it says "new item." You can discuss new items when, but the city has times they follow the agenda, you have to wait until you want to discuss new items, and then you can bring up new things of what you'd like in the community or you'd like to revise things you've done with the other law.
Roberts Rules is a tool government uses to bring order to meetings and allow the group to efficiently and predictably take care of business. Sunshine Laws: passed in 1967, it requires that all meetings of any state, county, or municipal board or commission be open to the public, and mandates that any official action taken at the closed meeting not be binding. Quasi-judicial: city commissioners must be neutral decision-makers and are not allowed to talk to people for or against the agenda item before the meeting. If they do, must disclose those conversations at the meeting.
Marlon, why should residents reelect you?
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Michelle, Why should residents vote for you instead of Vice Mayor Bolton?
Jones: Because I am the future. Because I have lived here for almost two decades, and I love my community, and I am the future. I am the future of new politics—someone that cares about her community. Someone that truly cares about her community—I am the generation of now, honest and decent people, which is lacking in the government. Accountability—I want to be held accountable by our community.

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Q: CodeBuild doesn't report failed tests I am using CodeBuild to build my NPM project. I have a report group specific in my buildspec and I am running unit tests using Jest and the npm test command.
When all the tests pass, they are reported to the CodeBuild report group successfully. However if one of the tests fails I get the error:
[Container] 2020/08/24 01:41:18 Phase context status code: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command: npm test -- --silent. Reason: exit status 1`

and the build stops (which is fine in general) but the failed test is not reported so the test pass rate remains at 100% and means I don't see test trends or other details.
The relavent parts of my buildspec.yml:
version: 0.2
phases:
  install:
    commands:
      - npm install
  pre_build:
    commands:
      - npm test -- --silent
reports:
  jest_reports:
    files:
      - 'test-results.xml'
    file-format: JunitXml
    base-directory: "reports/results"

The Jest config in my package.json:
"jest": {
    "reporters": [
        "default",
        [
            "jest-junit",
            {
                "outputDirectory": "reports/results",
                "outputName": "test-results.xml"
            }
        ]
    ]
}

The final part of the CodeBuild log:
Test Suites: 1 failed, 8 passed, 9 total
Tests:       2 failed, 57 passed, 59 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        3.034s
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

[Container] 2020/08/24 01:41:18 Command did not exit successfully npm test -- --silent exit status 1
[Container] 2020/08/24 01:41:18 Phase complete: PRE_BUILD State: FAILED
[Container] 2020/08/24 01:41:18 Phase context status code: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command: npm test -- --silent. Reason: exit status 1

How can I setup CodeBuild to report failed tests, but still prevent it from continuing the build if a test does fail?

A: In researching this, all of the examples that I see that use CodeBuild test reports, the tests are run as part of the build phase.
Since your tests are in the pre_build phase, if the pre_build fails, it won't proceed to the upload_artifacts phase and will just skip to finalizing.  See the CodeBuild phase transitions diagram for more information on this.
I'd recommend following the patterns of the user guides and putting your tests in the build phase.
User guide references:

*

*https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/test-reports-with-aws-codebuild/

*https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/sample-test-report-cli.html

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Meditating on the word Feim with Paarthurnax grants you the Eternal Spirit ability which increases health regeneration by 25% while under the effects of this shout. This can only be seen under active effects while ethereal.
Jump from heights without taking any damage.
Can be used by melee characters to get close to powerful ranged characters without taking damage or staggering.
Summoning atronachs to fight battles while remaining ethereal and out of reach is an extremely effective strategy for dealing with tough situations.
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Master level spells, such as Fire Storm and Guardian Circle, may be prepared while ethereal.
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Magicka, health and stamina can safely regenerate during combat while the shout is in effect.
You can use Become Ethereal to take aim. This is particularly useful in situations where you are outnumbered, as it gives you a window to aim at whichever opponent you prefer, without being staggered or damaged.
The visual effect of the shout is virtually identical to the night vision abilities of vampires (Vampire's Sight) and Khajiit (Night Eye), making it viable as a short-term night vision ability.
You cannot activate this shout while airborne. If you want to use it to survive fall damage, you have to activate the shout before jumping off the cliff, not right before you land.
Sprinting while ethereal doesn't drain stamina.
Most potions won't work while ethereal.
It cannot protect you from damage by light in Twilight Sepulcher, damage by darkness in The Sallow RegentDB and Filament and FiligreeDB or death by lightning in Sovngarde.
Nothing combative can be done in this form, but even a few seconds of reprieve from a particularly harrowing situation can be useful.
It is necessary to start, but not finish, The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller in order to have all three words.
It is possible to waste certain powers if they are used during this shout. Powers such Ancestor's Wrath and many of the ones added by Dragonborn will fail to work while this shout is active. With normal powers, they will be grayed out after the failed attempt, but will be usable again when an in-game day passes. In the case of the All-Maker Stones, when used the power will disappear as normal.
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What was an ambitious College of Security and Intelligence (CIS) vision just four years ago during the annual OctoberWest activities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's (ERAU) Prescott campus has now become a reality.
That vision, called Center for the Future, was conceived by Jon Haass, who was a founding CIS faculty member and professor. He later was department chair and then interim dean of the ERAU Cyber Intelligence and Security program.
"Our center will form the nucleus for technology job growth and innovation," Haass told the Quad Cities Business News.
The proposed site for the multi-story center is on the east side of the Deep Well Ranch/Chrystal Lane and SR 89 intersection near the Prescott Regional Airport. Haass and his colleagues are currently working with architects and a builder in defining the needs and concept. Construction is expected to begin this coming year, thanks to support from local individuals and groups, Haass said.
Several anchor tenants for the center already have signed on. One is Katalyst Space Technologies, which was created by ERAU grads Ghonhee Lee and Kaleb Beebout. It will focus on lower cost and more sustainable approaches to satellite operations.
Another tenant will be Simple WAN from Phoenix, a networking company focused on small and mid-sized businesses and their need to secure employee home office connectivity.
Additional innovative companies that have expressed interest include GSIS, an international global security firm with headquarters in Washington, D.C.; Cybercore International from Silicon Valley, California; and GOPADZ, from Southern California.
As defined by Haass, the mission for the center is to become a hub for incubation and innovation, accelerate growth of companies, create local jobs for local residents, and attract companies to locate in the Quad Cities area and to provide employees and their families with opportunities for high quality of life in the greater Prescott region.
When Haass first proposed the center, it was supported by then-ERAU Chancellor Frank Ayers, now retired, and several city and community leaders. Current Chancellor Anette Karlsson has enthusiastically endorsed the objectives of the center.
The advisory group, which helped define and propel the center, is now initiating the paperwork to create a separate 501(c)3 corporation. Those legal documents should be completed within the next few months. That status will allow donations, gifts and other philanthropic opportunities to have a tax advantage and to create eligibility for grants restricted to the non-profit sector, Haass said.
"Central and Northern Arizona are ideal locations to retain talent and to avoid the churn of employees that some larger tech hubs are experiencing," he said. "Faculty, students and technology at Embry-Riddle-Prescott as well as other institutions of higher education have a unique opportunity to fuel the development of companies – both existing and to-be-formed – in a variety of exciting fields."
Haass anticipates it will take five to seven years to see the center grow to the potential that has occurred in other rural communities. He speculates that over time, more than 100 jobs will be created through local incubation and 485 indirectly through attraction. He also predicts more than $111 million in additional taxable income eventually, because of the new job creation.
Emerging fields have been identified, including cyber security, global security, autonomous and robotic systems, data science, simulation science, block chain, supply chain and software.
"I believe these will be among the top areas for private and public investment in coming decades," he said. "We are forming partnerships with the Quad Cities, with regional developers, existing tech companies, and higher education institutions such as Yavapai College (YC) and Northern Arizona University (NAU). We're also borrowing ideas from other technology centers such as Skysong in Scottsdale, Plug and Play in Sunnyvale, California and the Southwestern Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs.
Haass earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Wyoming, Laramie.
Prescott Mayor Greg Mengarelli wholly endorses the Center for the Future. In a written statement following unanimous approval by the Prescott City Council to set aside up to $3.7 million in existing city funds to support the project, Mengarelli said, "We recognize the vital role the center will play in the current and future economy of Prescott. We have invaluable partnerships with many stakeholders, including our four local universities and colleges. We seek to retain a much greater proportion of the talented graduates who are educated and trained in Prescott but who unfortunately have to leave to pursue their careers."
City of Prescott Economic Development Consultant Jim Robb said of the center, "This opportunity will serve as an incubator for major high-tech companies. It will be the start of creating organically high-paying jobs for our local graduates and citizens. The proposed location near the new regional airport terminal is perfect."
Haass praised the people who have supported the creation of the center through the last four years. He specifically cited the local governments of Prescott, Prescott Valley and Chino Valley. "It takes a village to make something like this happen. We see this as a regional resource because the employees will be living throughout the Quad Cities area. Everyone will win with this venture." QCBN
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Q: php unable to open file when open and write into file i try to read a text file line by line and if any line contain "/" then i need to write them into separate file.
example line
CA,T2B,Calgary (Forest Lawn / Dover / Erin Woods),Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6

i need to write this as 4 lines, like
CA,T2B,Calgary,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6
CA,T2B, Forest Lawn ,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6
CA,T2B, Dover,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6
CA,T2B, Erin Woods,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6

what i've tried so far is
$file = fopen("test.txt", "r");

while (!feof($file)) {
  $my_string = fgets($file);
  $special_chars = array("/");
  if (array_intersect(str_split($my_string), $special_chars)) {
    echo fgets($file) . "
";
    $myfile = fopen("fileWithFL.txt", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
    fwrite($myfile, fgets($file));
    fclose($myfile);
  }else{
    echo fgets($file) . "
";
    $myfile = fopen("fileWithoutFL.txt", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
    fwrite($myfile, fgets($file));
    fclose($myfile);
  }
}

fclose($file);

[
file i get from "CA.zip"
how can i do this?
thank you!

A: You can use file_put_contents(file, string, FILE_APPEND) to add a line to the end of a file.
The rest is just processing the Calgary (Forest Lawn / Dover / Erin Woods) part of your string.
$string = 'CA,T2B,Calgary (Forest Lawn / Dover / Erin Woods),Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6';

//test if string needs processing
//if not, write straight to new file
if(strpos($string,'/') === false){
    file_put_contents("fileWithoutFL.txt" , $string , FILE_APPEND);
    }

//process
else{
     //get all the parts split by comma
     //$parts[2] is the one you need processing
   $parts = explode(',',$string);

     //clean up $part[2], replacing ( , ) with *
     //then split on the *
   $com=explode('*',str_replace(['(','/',')'],'*',$parts[2]));

     //loop $com, creating new arrays by replacing $part[2] in the original array
   foreach($com as $val){
      if($val == '')continue;
        //replace $part[2] cleaning up spaces
      $parts[2] = trim($val);
        //make a new line
      $write = implode(',',$parts);
        //write to the new file
      file_put_contents("fileWithoutFL.txt" , $write , FILE_APPEND);
      }
   }

Now you can read every line of the original file and output to the new file. (Tip: use SplFileObject)
$file = new SplFileObject("fileWithFL.txt");
while (!$file->eof()) {
   $string = $file->fgets();
   // ... process here with previous code

 }
$file = null;

A: You're repeatedly opening and closing fileWithFL.txt and fileWithoutFL.txt, which is inefficient. Better to just open them once before you loop through the input file.
You're also using fgets(), which makes it difficult to parse the input file. Since the input file seems to be in CSV format, you should use fgetcsv().
As for detecting rows that contain multiple cities, I'm looking for the presence of /, splitting on ( or /), removing any trailing ), and trimming the resulting name. That should give you all the cities in a neat array.
$file = fopen("test.txt", "r");

$file_with_fl = fopen("fileWithFL.txt", "w+");
$file_without_fl = fopen("fileWithoutFL.txt", "w+");

while ($a = fgetcsv($file)) {
    if ( FALSE == strpos( $a[2], '/' ) ) {
        fputcsv( $file_without_fl, $a );
    } else {
        $cities = preg_split( '/[\(\/]/', $a[2] ); // Split on '(' and '/'
        foreach ( $cities as $city ) {
            $city = trim(preg_replace('/\)/', '', $city)); // Remove trailing ')' and trim leading and trailing spaces
            $a[2] = $city;
            fputcsv( $file_with_fl, $a );
        }
    }
}

Checking for failure of fopen() and fputcsv() left as an exercise for the reader.

A: Not the best answer but its works
  $line = file_get_contents("test.txt");
  $body = "";

  if(false !== strpos($line,"/")) {
    $split = preg_split("/[()]+/", $line,-1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
    $contains = explode("/",$split[1]);
    $last = explode(",",$split[0]);
    $lastvalue = end($last);
    $search = array_search($lastvalue,$last);
    unset($last[$search]);
    $merge = implode(", ", $last);
    $body .= $merge . $split[2] . " ";

    foreach($contains as $contain) {
      $body .= $split[0] . "," . $contain . $split[2] . " ";
    }

    if(file_put_contents("fileWithFL.txt",$body) !== false) {
      echo $body;
    } else {
      echo "failed";
    }

  } else {

    if(file_put_contents("fileWithoutFL.txt",$line) !== false) {
      echo $line;
    } else {
      echo "failed";
    }

  }

Output :
 CA, T2B,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6 CA,T2B,Calgary ,Forest Lawn ,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6 CA,T2B,Calgary , Dover ,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6 CA,T2B,Calgary , Erin Woods,Alberta,AB,Calgary,,,,51.0209,-113.981,6