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Quartet of swimmers produce 'the best season Nazareth's ever had'
By Michael Blouse
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Brendan Alvino, left, Blake Nesbitt, Gabe Laslo and Logan Holt received seventh-place medals in the 200 medley relay Friday night. (Michael Blouse / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)
Their coach calls them the "Fabulous Four." Their principal is among their most passionate fans.
Nazareth's foursome of seniors Logan Holt and Blake Nesbitt and juniors Gabe Laslo and Brendan Alvino put the finishing touches on their record-breaking season this weekend at the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell University's Kinney Natatorium.
The highlight of the two-day aquatic extravaganza came Friday night when the 200 medley relay team re-established their school record, and earned a state medal, with a seventh-place finish in the final.
Nazareth's team timed 1:32.79.
"As far as relays, this might've been our best," said Holt, who swam the first leg — the 50 backstroke. "Not everyone went their fastest but for Nazareth swimming, I think this was definitely the fastest relay we've ever swam."
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The Blue Eagles' first-year coach, Mike Rinde, called their performance "satisfying."
"It's just fantastic," he said. "We've had so much fun working toward this all year and to see it all come together, I'm just really proud of them."
The same four also competed in the 400 (10th) freestyle relay at states. Nazareth's individual medalist was Holt, who placed sixth in the 100 backstroke — with a school record 50.06 seconds — in Saturday night's final.
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Rinde's Blue Eagles placed a District 11-best ninth overall, with 66 points, in the 3A team standings.
The quartet of Holt, Nesbitt, Laslo and Alvino, either as a team or individually, established four school records at the PIAA championships and totaled an amazing 13 pool or school records this season.
"We had a new coach and it was kind of a transition," Holt said, "but I think we handled it really well. This is probably the best season Nazareth's ever had, at least on the boys' side. We got it done."
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On the girls' side, junior Raquelle Roesch placed 15th in the 50 freestyle and 23rd in the 100 free at the state meet.
Nazareth principal Alan Davis was in Lewisburg to watch the "Fabulous Four" compete Friday night. He frequently highlights the team's accomplishments, both boys and girls, on his Twitter account.
"I'm really proud of our swimming and diving teams," Davis said. "I've always been impressed with the work ethic and dedication of our team. The last several years, I believe Nazareth swimming and diving has been put on the map along with all of the other great Lehigh Valley programs, and that's a credit to our coaches, the athletes and the great parents and community fan base of the Blue Eagles."
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Senior salute
The PIAA championships marked the final scholastic meet for seniors from all around the state.
It was the end of an era at Emmaus, too, as the accomplished 12th-grade trio of Katie Champagne, Chelsea Gravereaux and Abby Heilenman teamed up for a final time in three relays. All three finished in the top 10, with the 200 medley team of Champagne, Gravereaux, Heilenman and freshman Lauren Sharp earning a fifth-place medal.
"Keeping them together and putting them in three relays was a very positive move," Emmaus coach Tim O'Connor said. "They might not be performing as high as they would've liked [illnesses and injuries hampered all three in the postseason] but starting the meet with that medley relay was absolutely fantastic for them.
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"They've done really great things here and these girls were gems to work with," he said.
Emmaus' senior class, on the girls' side, included key contributors Reilly King and Maggie Champagne, as well.
O'Connor hoped his senior leaders had an effect on several of the team's promising underclassmen.
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"After Saturday's prelims, with freshmen Avery King and Lauren Sharp and sophomore Peyton Rautzhan, we asked, 'What can we do to plant seeds for their success in the future?' " O'Connor said. "Because these girls [the seniors] have seen it all. It's enjoyable and bittersweet. I hope our younger girls learn to appreciate their remaining years here because it does go fast."
Move of the meet
Emmaus junior Brendan McCourt won the Class 3A diving title at the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships with 542.75 points. (SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)
Emmaus' Brendan McCourt, one splashdown away from securing the state's Class 3A boys diving title, checked his Twitter account and "liked" a tweet, then re-focused on his task at hand. McCourt hit his 11th and final dive of the meet for a score of 51.25 points to clinch his championship. The junior amassed 542.75 total points to prevail by 50-plus.
Rapid recap
District 1's North Penn captured the girls team title with 243 points. Emmaus was 14th with 64 and Parkland 16th with 48. ... Upper Dublin senior Abbie Amdor collected two individual golds at the meet, Friday in the 200 freestyle and Saturday in the 100 free.
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North Allegheny of District 7 won the boys team championship with 279 points. Nazareth was ninth with 66 points, Emmaus 15th with 50 and Liberty 23rd with 29. ... Upper St. Clair sophomore Josh Matheny set a state record in the 100 breaststroke in 52.52 seconds. State College's Matt Brownstead picked up 50 and 100 freestyle titles this weekend.
MEDALIST LIST
District 11 Class 3A medalists from the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell:
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4th place: Alison Lin, Parkland (500 freestyle)
5th place: Lexi Lehman, Parkland (diving); Emmaus 200 medley relay (Katie Champagne, Lauren Sharp, Chelsea Gravereaux, Abby Heilenman)
7th place: Alexa Brinker, Parkland (diving)
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1st place: Brendan McCourt, Emmaus (diving)
2nd place: Jake Evert, Liberty (50 freestyle)
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6th place: Logan Holt, Nazareth (100 backstroke)
7th place: Jake Evert, Liberty (100 freestyle); Logan Choma, Parkland (diving); Nazareth 200 medley relay (Logan Holt, Blake Nesbitt, Gabe Laslo, Brendan Alvino)
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On Thursday, the PCB will meet with the PSL franchisees for more consultation.
LAHORE: According to reports, the schedule for the eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) would be released on Friday.
The schedule for the tournament's eighth edition has been finalised, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will meet with PSL franchisees for further consultation tomorrow (Thursday), according to sources.
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According to reports, the PSL's opening ceremony will take place in Multan on the existing timetable.
According to the reports, the tournament's matches would be held at four separate locations. They also said that the PSL will begin on February 13 and conclude on March 19.
According to the sources, PSL matches would be held in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, and Rawalpindi. They also stated that the matches at the four locations will be played concurrently.
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13. Do I Have to Go to College to be Successful?
So many grownups are always telling kids they need to go to college in order to be successful adults. But what if college isn't the right path for everyone? And maybe there are other ways to become successful adults.
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This is the transcript of our conversation:
Brittany: Hey Connor.
Connor: Hey, How are You?
Brittany: I'm wonderful. Thank you. So I have an interesting thing I wanna talk about today. Okay. College. Did you go to college?
Connor: I actually graduated from college. Yeah.
Brittany: Okay. That's exciting. I did not. And if I am to believe I know anything, my parents told me growing up, I should be poor and homeless and not have a job and not be successful.
Connor: Is That, true?
Brittany: I'm actually, it's, not true. I'm pretty okay with where I am right now. So yeah. That's what we're gonna talk about today. I was wondering, do you have to go to college to be a successful adult?
Connor: You know, that's really interesting cuz I know of a number of entrepreneurs, people who have started businesses who did not graduate from college, they either never went or they dropped out along the way. So I'm gonna have to say that no, in order to be successful professionally or be fulfilled in your life and excited about what you do. I don't think you have to go to college.
Brittany: Okay. So if that's the case, what can you do instead? You know, a lot of
Connor: What, did you do? You're
Brittany: Clearly you're on me.
Connor: Exhibit a right. You didn't To college.
Brittany: So I did go to college for a little bit. I have to admit that I did go for a couple years, but I didn't graduate. And I actually think the reason I didn't graduate brings up a really good point. I didn't graduate because it had kind of served its purpose and I was being offered jobs. So it got to the point where you go to college for what you go to college to get a job, right?
Connor: In Theory. Yeah.
Brittany: So you could, yeah. So you can pay for your, family. You can have a family, you can buy a house. Well, for me, my options were stay in school for another year and a half where I miss out on real world experience or take a job, which I was being offered as a teacher where I could get trained to teach a specific way, which lots of schools retrain teachers anyway, after they have their college degrees. So I made the decision that I was going to drop out. And that was very, very hard for me because I heard so many people telling me, well, you were throwing in your life, horror stories. You know, my brother drops outta college and now he's, you know, a gambler like all this, all these crazy things. But I think I did it right. I don't have any regrets. The only regret I have is that I stayed too long. That's my only regret.
Connor: So that, that's interesting. Right. As you reflect back on your college experience, do you feel, I mean, obviously there's a social benefit for a lot of people and they kind of like the college scene.
Brittany: That's How I met you. Actually Connor was through internships and stuff like that. Right. So it served me, it served me well.
Connor: So, there's a lot of still opportunities. Yes. That's not to say it's always horrible all the time, right?
Brittany: No And doctors and lawyers and there are some careers, right where you right now, you have to.
Connor: Right. And so as you reflect back on your college experience, do you feel like what you do now? You know that, what was it a year and a half or two years that you were in college? You said three years. Okay. Or I think you said, yeah, you had like a year, year and a half left. So three years in college, as you look back, was that critical for you? You know? Sure. You didn't graduate, but how do you not gone at all? Wouldn't you have, you know, missed out on certain education and learning that would've hindered you from what you're doing now or do you not feel that that's the case?
Brittany: I think for, me personally, it was good for me to be there for a little bit because I, learned some things and I made some connections with people who helped me get jobs later on, but I don't think it was necessary. I don't think it's necessary for everybody. And in fact, college was not always something that everybody in the country did. I think we have this idea now that you have to go to school, graduate, go to college. Right. That is, what you do when you turn 18. Right. But that hasn't always been the case. That's actually a very new thing. There are lots of other ways you could get education, you know, before college became so widespread.
Connor: Yeah. I think that's right. And now in my case I did graduate from college, but I was kind of on the conveyor belt in, my whole education process. By that, I mean, you know, when I was a kid, I was on the conveyor belt. And, I was just heading in one direction and I was doing what I was told. And I went from one grade to the next. And clearly when you graduate, you know, high school, you apply for college, you go to college and it's just what you do. And I didn't know anything other than that, those expectations were there. I just assumed that was the natural progression of life. That once you finish high school, you have to go to college. Now, in my case, it was interesting. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do when I first started college, but I had an idea because later in high school I was starting to build websites for people. This was like 1998, 1999,
Brittany: Geocities,
Connor: Geo. Oh yeah. Back when like the animated GS would like, you know, new, article, little flashy JS that are oddly now all back in style, which is funny. But you know, the internet was very new back then. Myspace pages were the big thing. And, and so I was learning how to build websites. And I actually got a client someone who, as a matter of fact, was running for their state legislature in California. She knew my mom. And so she's like, Hey, I want a website. And so, you know, she paid me some money. I'm like, oh my gosh, like I can make money doing this thing that I'm learning how to do. And so it really signaled me to this idea that I could become, what's called a web developer. I could develop websites. And so all throughout college, I started doing it a little bit more, a little bit more. I had some jobs, I, built kind of my own company doing websites for the people. And I kid you not, I would be sitting in college classwhere they were talking about different aspects of building websites, like graphic design, right. And things like that. And I would be sitting in class listening to some professor while I was on my laptop, building a website for a client, a customer.
Brittany: So making money at time,
Connor: Making money that's and doing it on my own. I was kind of self taught. And I was starting to learn more than my teachers. Plus they were also teaching me a bunch of things that I wasn't really interested in, but they were still requiring me to learn. So I would memorize it all. I would take the test and then I would just like, get dumped outta my brain. Cause I'm like, I don't care about this anymore. Now, in my case, when I graduated college, I found myself becoming really interested in American history and economics and Liberty. And so I started reading a lot of books. I was introduced through Ron Paul to a lot of these ideas when he was running for president Yep. And so I started reading a lot and because I was done with college at that point, I had time. Right. Cause I didn't have tests and projects and homework that was taking up all my free time. And so I had time to just read and read and you know, what's amazing, Brittany is, it's kind of awkward in college. There were three subjects that I did really poorly in. The one was, economics the second was English. And the third was history, which is hilarious because now there're the things that I love and I'm proficient in, I've written 21 books. Like my mom at one point told one of my teachers from like high school that she saw. She's like, oh yeah, Connor. At that point I'd written like 14 or 15 and like mind explosion. Right.
Brittany: So do you think, school made you not like these things, do you think it actually had like a reverse effect on You?
Connor: I, so in my case, I think it did and I, you, and I can see one another you're smiling, you know? Yeah. My, answer to that question is what it is because when it was like forced on me, you know, I kind of resisted, but also I think that when we're in a classroom environment, we are often being taught things in a way that we don't really use in real life. So here's an example. So I've written a lot of books, right. And I've gotten good at writing books mostly because I read a lot and I started to kind of absorb ideas from other people. I would see like, oh, here's how we wrote a really good sentence. I really like how she wrote this, way. This makes a lot of sense. And I would start to kind of, you know, absorb and internalize a lot of these ideas from these other authors. And as I started writing on my blog and later in books, I was able to put into practice the good ideas that I, kind of mimicked, if that makes sense. I kind of borrowed and copied and, and I was able to kind of make it my own. That is how I became a good writer where nowI write a lot of books. I edit, like I have a team here at Laberta's Institute and I edit everyone's content just because I've become really good at writing and fixing typos or not just typos, but like grammar, you know, and writing
Brittany: What do you making A little better? Yeah.
Connor: Yeah, absolutely. So here's why that's interesting, in my opinion now in English class, they'll sit you down with a textbook and they'll say, well, what is the past partisan subjunctive of, you know, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you lost, you lost me. Like what? Like, they'll, teach you these like really technical, really specific things about language that you're just supposed to learn the rules and the, and I'm just like, oh my gosh, you know, I'm sitting in this class. Like when it, doesn't, it wasn't taught to me in a way that seemed very applicable. And all of us who have been students or who are students right now, we've all had that experience where we're learning something that we're supposed to. And we raise our hand maybe in the teachers like, Hey, what do you want? Like, well, my question is, when am I ever gonna use this? Right. Like, why am I having to learn this? And for our listeners who are young, probably a lot of our listeners are homeschooled. Maybe they haven't had that experience. And to that, I
Brittany: See very lucky.
Connor: You're very fortunate, right? Yes. Okay. So fast, fast forward though. So college, right? The question is if people skip college, how do they get a job? Yes. How do they succeed? Cuz a lot of parents might even be listening and they might think, well, these are good ideas. And I agree with some of them, but I'm just so worried that if my kid doesn't go to college, they won't get a job or a kid might be thinking that I wanna, be successful. I wanna have a good job in the future. And if I don't go to college, maybe I won't have a good job. How do we how do we resolve that concern? Right?
Brittany: Yeah. So there, are three main points and I'll list them and then I'll kind of go into detail and, have you chime in as well. So entrepreneurship is one of them. Apprenticeships and internships. And I'm gonna start with the last one because that's what I did. So I was a teacher for a while and then I decided to switch careers because I wanted to be a writer. I'd always wanted to be a writer. The problem is I never had anything to write until I got very passionate about Liberty. And then all of a sudden I had all these things I wanted to write about so I don't know why I decided that try about Liberty. I needed to move to DC, a place where Liberty does not always exist, but that's what I did. But I had to make a hard choice because I had no writing skills and I had no writing background. So why would people hire me? Right. They wouldn't wanna hire me when I couldn't show them anything. Right. So I took internships now. I was lucky where I got some paid internships. So I was able to make a little money, not a lot, but I was able to make a little bit of money enough to, you know, live, with a bunch of people and, kind of don't go out to eat a lot. Right. But I was able to, go to DC and I interned, I think for three or four organizations here and each place I got to work under somebody who knew a little bit more than me. And so I was able to just, like you said, observe to take what I really liked for them. Maybe, you know, ignore some of it, take, what I liked. And that helped me become a writer. And it also helped me get my foot in the door. So these establishments knew who I was and they could say, oh, I remember when you interned for this person. That was great. I remember when you interned for that person. In fact, one person I got to intern for was Senator Michael in Utah, your Senator. I learned a lot about writing there. So, internships I think is a great, option. The other thing, if you wanna talk a little bit about apprenticeships, that's another one that's similar, but a little different,
Connor: I'm a big fan of apprenticeships. So the way that I am planning on doing this for my children, for example, is using my network to find people who work in a career or in industry that my children are interested in learning more about. So let's, say for example, that my son really likes snowboarding and he wants to learn all about the snowboarding industry. Maybe even like making snowboards. So I'm gonna use my network and say, who do I know, who am I friends with or contacts with, who works in that industry? And I, wanna say, look, my son wants to come apprentice with you. He'll work for free. He'll be with you for a month. Basically. It's kind of like job shadowing, where you can just kind of follow someone, observe what they're doing and kind of learn. Now there's, different ways to do this. There's an apprenticeship where, you know, clearly what you wanna do and you're gonna do an apprenticeship. Let's say for like two years where the, the person in charge is kind of teaching you along the way, slowly giving you more, more
Brittany: It's be anything. Right. Cause I know I had a hair stylist too, instead ofshe would train new hair stylist instead of them going to hair school. Right? So it could be hairstyle. It could be anything
Connor: Right? It could be anything, right. It's someone who wants to learn is willing to work hard. And if they find someone who's willing to give them an apprenticeship and teach them along the waythe things that they need to learn andyou know, in exchange, they're basically getting help from another person who can maybethey hire, you knowat the end of the apprenticeship or that person can then go start their own job. So you're right. This can be for any type of job under the sun. Some jobs, you know, as we pointed out, you know, you're required to get like a license. So like, if you're a doctor, you can't really just kind of go follow a doctor and Hey, I wanna be an apprentice
Brittany: Lawyers, you used to be able to, there was a time and this is, you know, this is founding father time. And before where you could apprentice, you could be a student of the bar if they called it in England and you could apprentice under a lawyer who was more experienced than you. And you could get that.
Connor: That's exactly right. Yeah. Sad. Sadly, we've missed out on some of that, but for, most careers, these still exist. So there's the apprenticeship where like, Hey, I'm gonna legit become, you know, a welder. And so I'm just gonna learn from this welder, how to weld and I'm gonna be with you for a year or two, and then I'm gonna be, become good enough at my job that I can then go off and do jobs all on my own. And that's a cool way to yeah. Get your foot in the door. What I'm thinking more about for my kids. And especially for the kids listening is a lot of times you don't know what you wanna do when you're growing up. Even I can't tell you Brittany, how many times when I was in college, I would see people graduate who still had no idea what they wanted to do. They spent so much money. They sat through all these classes and they come out on the other end. They're like, yeah, I don't really know what I wanna do with my life. And they're in debt now. Right. And I'm just like, why have you not thought through this? So here's what I wanna do with my kids. It's kind of like mini apprenticeships. Okay. And, I alluded to it a moment ago where, I want to kind of arrange all these little job shadowing opportunities where, Hey, I want you to go for a week and I want you to follow my friend. Who's an accountant. And you're gonna sit in on the meetings, you know, cuz you've expressed an interest in numbers and spreadsheets and you're good at math. So maybe let's have you shadow this accountant and help him kind of like a mini internship or a mini apprenticeship. Yeah. And that way you can say, oh, this is what it's like to be, you know, an accountant. And maybe on the other hand, it's a, you know, video game developer, Hey, if you're good at math, maybe you're good at programming. Why don't you do a little mini apprenticeship for a programmer and just kind of get some appetite to see if this is something you would like to do, because then it gives you so much more information to know. Is this something that I would wanna spend a lot of my life on? And then if so, then you can go invest a lot of your time and money, to become really good at that one thing. But so often when we're growing up, we're like, I don't know what I want to do. I'm not sure
Brittany: Even as Adults, we don't know.
Connor: Even as adults, right? You switched careers. I switch careers. You know, I used to be a web developer. So I think, that is a good way to give my kids or other kids an exposure to a lot of different things so that they can start thinking through, Hey, you know what? I really liked my time, you know, going to the TV station and I did this little like one week apprenticeship internship kind of thing. And I saw how it worked. And that was really exciting. I think I would feel really excited to be a journalist. So I'm now gonna go to learn how to be a journalist. I, think that would just be a fun model to give my kids, in my case, since this is what I'm thinking of doing these little mini apprenticeships, where they can just spend a little bit of time. There's not a lot of risk. There's not a lot of commitment, but they might come away and think, Hey, that was really cool. I might wanna spend life doing that.
Brittany: There's a school actually in Texas that does this with their students. It's not a normal school, it's a private school, but, a lot of the time is spent gardening and doing things you want to do. In fact, the kids get to control their own day, but when they turn, I think it's 10. They go and find apprenticeships. And there was one girl I spoke with years ago. She wanted to be a fashion designer more than anything. And she got an apprenticeship, I think at 10 years old, she learned very quickly. She did not wanna be a fashion designer that was not the world for her. So she was able to switch gears at such a young age and say, you know what, I've tried this not for me. What else can I explore? And that is so much fun and freedom that I don't think you or I had as kids, which is just great. Another thing I think is important and I saved this one for last, for a reason, because it's not the easiest path to take, but entrepreneurship. Yeah. So I like to call that just being a problem solver, right? Entrepreneurs, who are some of your favorite entrepreneurs?
Connor: Well, I mean, we've talked in the past about people like Elon Musk who are these really popular entrepreneurs, but you know what? I get really excited by the, small business entrepreneurs.
Brittany:
That's What I was hoping you would say.
Connor: Yeah. Because it's really hard to, you know, build a really big business and become this like national company. You know, I like to think of myself as an entrepreneur. I like to think of you as an entrepreneur. What I mean by that is people who kind of are creative in figuring out how to build their own life. Maybe you're working three jobs, you know, and you've kind of figured out a way to make money in different ways so that you can have different things happening in your life or rather than being an employee. In other words, rather than just getting a job, you kind of are your own company and people can be your clients. Like when I was a web developer. Yeah. There were times when I was. I had a job as a web developer for a company, but then I figured out, you know, what, if I am my own company and, these people, they can be my customers. I get to control when I go on vacation. And how many hours I work and I'm kind of when you work. When I work, I'm the boss and that's really exciting. And I can, maybe even if I'm successful, I can hire other people and maybe over time I can do less work and, I can get paid for doing less because I've built my own company. So I think there's so many small business owners out there, who are excellent entrepreneurs, because like you say, they see a problem in their community. And they're like, Hey, there's, no type of business like this there's no, You know, gymnasium or there's no, you know, private swimming pool or whatever. And they, whatever it is, whatever it is. And they go fill that need and create that business. And, that's how I think our economy gets really exciting is when a lot of people out there are solving these little problems, being an entrepreneur, they're creating a little business, they're helping serve other people who are like, oh man, Creating value for other people. That's what I get really excited about.
Brittany: Same. And I think it's, it's pretty cool that none of that is, only possible through college, right? College isn't necessary for you to be an entrepreneur for you to be any of these things. There are other paths you can take. So I don't know what advice you'd give to our listeners, but I mean, I would tell them, College might be the best choice for you. I don't wanna say college is always bad. College is not always bad. I had some great college experiences. College might be the right choice for you, but it doesn't have to be that there are other options.
Connor: I think that's right. And we would be remiss. Brittany, if we conclude this episode, we didn't mention the, orange bright orange elephant in the room. And that is you. And I contributed to a book by the name of Skip College, which for the parents listening, you can find on Amazon, which is written more for teenagers and young adults to, like you just said, it's not to say never go to college. It's just to say, well, there are a lot of other ideas out there and ways out there that you can be successful in life. Maybe college is right for you. No, problem at all. But if you're gonna go to college, make sure that it's intentional, make sure you've thought through the alternatives to make sure there's not a better or cheaper or more effective way. And for the little kids out there, it's like, well, oh my life is my own. I don't have to go on this conveyor belt like Connor did, or like Brittany did. And you know, the world expects me to just, you know until I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm gonna be sitting in a classroom chair and that's just the way it's gonna be. Life is so much more exciting. There are so many more opportunities. And I don't know about you, Brittany. But when I look back on my teenage and young adult self, I wish that I could go back in time and say college wasn't right for you. You probably could have saved a lot of time and built and money and built a much more exciting life. Kind of taking that entrepreneurial or independent route early on. So we're not here to say everyone should skip college, but it's something we should at least think through because especially for us who care about freedom, I think it's important that we try and figure out how to be independent. And how to make our own decisions for ourselves rather than doing what other people think we should or what society thinks we should. So good topic, Brittany. And for those interested, go check out, Skip College on Amazon until next time. See you later, Brittany
Brittany: See you later
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What's going on in Paris? Watched by the foodies indulging at Ladurée, the Champs Elysée has all of a sudden been transformed into a gigantic cycle track. The venerable Champs de Mars looks like a beach volleyball court. And beneath the magnificent and newly restored glass roof of the Grand Palais, two fencers are standing ready en garde.
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Karnal is a city and the district headquarters of the Karnal district in Haryana. The city and the district are famous for their tourist monuments and attractions. The city is believed to have been founded during ancient times of Mahabharata by King Karna, a mythological hero in the epic tale. It is located on the National Highway 1 and is about a three-hour drive from Delhi.
Karnal is home to several world-class institutes for research and development including the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR), Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI), National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) and Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).
The city is also famous for its lush green pastures and production of high quality Basmati rice. In addition, it is an important centre for the manufacture of agricultural implements and its spares.
Karnal is one of the most famous tourist destinations in North India. Apart from being an important research centre, it is home to several interesting monuments and buildings. You can visit many sites, such as Kos Minar, Kalander Shah's tomb, the Karan Tal and Babar's Masjid.
The main highlight of the town is the Karna Tal (lake). Legend has it that it was here that the mythological hero Karna, after whom Karnal is named, gave away alms to the poor and needy. Managed by the Haryana Tourism Authority, it offers several facilities including dining.
You can also visit Pukka Pul, located at about 7 km from the city. There is a shrine here which plays venue to several events and therefore, it is very popular with the local people.
Another must visit offered by Karnal tourism is the Kalandar Shah's tomb made of pure marble. The complex also contains a mosque which is believed to have been built by the Alamgir. Then there is the Miran Sahib's tomb, which also houses a mosque. Karnal is also home to several religious sites, such as Durga Bhawani Temple and Gurudwara Manji Sahib.
The British too have left their imprints in Karnal. You can visit the Karnal Cantonment Church Tower and the Christian cemetery. For some peaceful moments, you can head to the Oasis complex and if your holiday is incomplete without a round of golf, you will find the perfect destination in Karnal golf course. Karnal tourism offers several scenic places that you can visit including Gogripur and Taraori.


Maybe some of you out there know which part of the Main Convent building this is……do let us know. And do tell us if this building is still there today (perhaps it has been restored / renovated?).
We await for some good news……….
Hey it looks very nice. I cannot quite make out of the place. I think it is the hall, where we usually conduct our singing, concerts and many other activities. Cannot quite remember there is an attachment to the hall.
Must ask my other convent old girls to comment.
Thanks for the photo. I was pleasantly surprise to see my old, old school.
I believe that's the block of toilets between the senior high and Form 1 and 2 classes. ((1980-84) when I was there.
Hi again. I am trying to locate some long lost friends. Age is catching up. I would like to reconnect with my former boarding camarades : Zaini, Lucy Tong, Valerie (who become the headmistress), Janaki, … I got in touch with Enid Ratnam who's à well known artist/painter in Melbourne.
Did I mention that I am living in Paris. We have a Malaysian Association here. I was one of the found in members.
I did not mention about a Mrs Pillay in the primary school. She was a chinese married to an Indian. A horror she was.
Hi Ms Pereira, I am a former student of Main Convent. The mention of Mrs Pillay compelled me to comment here. She was my class teacher way back in 1973 when I was in Std 1. A horror she was! I remember Sis.Martha who used to conduct Catechism classes next to the primary school library. A very good reminiscence.
this building from the school hall(left side), but apparently the nostalgic steps could have been hacked down. During our time, the school canteen is on the left side of the school hall if you enter from the front and that's probably where this building was once upon time there. Correct me if I am wrong.
I am trying to look for some old school friends who attended the main Convent School from 1960 – 1970. My parents had a fruit stall in the central market.
Hi I'm from Ipoh Convent from 1960-1970 I am also trying very hard to look for my classmates . The Principal at that time is Sister Fidelma.
Do check out the database. Happy browsing!
Hi, I went to Ipoh convent secondary school. I commenced in form 2 up to Form 5 and did my senior Cambridge in 1967. My maiden name was Gabriel and am wondering if any of my class mates remember me. I now live in Sydney, Australia.
I did e-mail to them. They claim alzheimer's disease. Cannot remember. "Orang yang tua muda lupa." Anyway I am waiting for some of them to reply to me.
One of them remember that the nuns went there for food. I marvel at her. How on earth she can remember and I cannot.
Welcome to the blog, Sien Fong! interesting find…..
seems to me to be near the shortcut entrance to the secondary school canteen area back in the early 80's and near the nunnery lodgings. I think the staircase is no longer around back in the 80's.
After having spent all my primary and secondary school years at Ipoh Main Convent, I thought I'd be able recognise every nook and cranny of the premises without having to strain a single grey cell. After all, I still have the occasional dreams of my alma mater despite the passage of time. How wrong I have been. Is there any indication on the back of the photo as to when it was taken, I wonder.
Phoebe….couldn't agree with you more! having been a Convent girl myself, i could hardly identify this part of the school. this picture is just a scan…i'm not sure if there was anything written on the original.
I dont remember seeing this structure in the primary and secondary school.Maybe the structure was torned down before my time.Maybe,the building could be part of the hall used for our singing, concerts and many other activities in the secondary school or the wooden structure is part of the new secondary canteen or the corridor leading to the back gate of the school.
The convent holy infant jesus has a kindergarten operated by the nuns.This structure could be torned down when the kindergarten no longer operate.
if i'm not mistaken, that is the bilik kh, the first building of main convent ipoh. now, right behild the bilik kh is ipoh parade. when i was schooling in main convent, the passage and the stairs was torn down already though.
Hi OV. like you mentioned, maybe this building was part of the hall…..but with all the suggestions we've had so far, this is still a mystery to us!
Yes I remember the orphanage very well. We use to park our bicycles and walk along the corridor to the main hall.It was really so nice to recall back our old times at CHIJ.
Phoebe, do you know if boys were in the convent in the early years 1905 to 1913?
I have a letter from the convent dated 1913. In the right hand corner are the letters JNJ and it is signed from the Superior. Does anyone know what these letters might represent? I don't think it is the address because it says CONVENT IPOH at the top right hand corner. Could it have been the name of the mother superior or other official. Perhaps Registrar.
Hello Bevo. If it's not too much trouble, you could send us a scan of this letter you mentioned (minimum 300 dpi scan). We could put it up on our blog and see what our Readers have to say.
Hi I was at the orphanage from 1967 to 1972.Finish Form 5.My sis Beatrice and Shirley and Caroline and myself were at the orphanage.
She was in my secondary class from 1967-1972.
I have a twin sister, Lai Kam also at the same school.
Are you, by chance, the same Sally I know?
Hi, yes…and you are Phoebe F…..? I just realised I've 'lost' you in my fb list….how did that happen? I don't 'check into' all the friends' profiles all the time….some of them are not very 'active' in their updates…so, I didn't notice when their profiles are 'missing' from my list. How are you?
I remembered the orphanage building you mentioned. You follow this site too and also Ipohtalk….
Let's get in touch again…..
Nice to 'bump into you' again, so to speak. Yes, do drop me an email some time.
funny, the same thought crossed my mind too….but during my time, the Form 3 block was already built and running….perhaps that's why i don't recognise the building in the picture.
Sue could be right – it could be the original convent. The trees behind the low building could be where Ipoh Parade is now! Anyway, I'm printing out the picture and gonna ask Sr. Mary Michael or Miss Rosy Yan or some very senior ex-girls/teachers if they can remember. BTW, I see these lovely teachers in St.Michael's church opposite the school every Sunday.
It was near the other canteen.
I met up with Mrs Selvamany and Mrs Valerie Ho when I went back to visit. And, managed to talk to Miss Hew on the phone. I live in Adelaide and 2 of our former teachers are here too…Mrs A.Loh and Mrs Cho. I do see them every now and then and keep in touch..
And, there are a few ex-Convent girls here too.
Now I know which part it belongs.Thanks.
Send my regards to all the teachers in Convent.
Best is to see the MB or look out for the former students ie. world-known Datuk,businesswoman in clothing industry, isetan or 'heir to the throne' wife to see what can be done.
I have memories of those long table benches too. And, I remembered watching some of the orphans making curry puffs (the pastry)…rolling it out on those benches. Yes, the piano too. Wow! "Flashback"……….
I meant to mention that it was the orphanage building, but, somehow….slipped typing into the comments.
Oh yes! Some former Convent students are famous now and successful in their careers. Proud to be from COnvent Ipoh!!!
What I had described aren't 'flashback' images as such because I'd never physically seen this building first-hand with my own eyes before. Hence, I couldn't possibly have seen the inside of it either. I'm not sure where those vivid mental images I described came from. I feel I can almost sketch the remaining features and layout of this large room. This building definitely wasn't there when I started my schooling. Was it there during your time some years earlier?
going by your comments, this picture is probably part of the orphange….many, many years ago!
I meant 'flashback' for me. I started schooling here in 1961….so, I vaguely remembered that building was still there. Then, they built the new blocks………..
Don't know how you have those images in your mind?? Perhaps, you have some 'special powers/senses'….wow!!!
i surely remember miss hew of all of em but sad 2 say i've lost contact with all the ex there at '76. hello 2 all ex teachers there n esp sr mm, by the way sr mm, sr gertrude gave u a compliment u never guess!
aaah! whenever the dental van came to pick up the students, I'd do my 'trick' and went to the toilet (excuse for nature's 'long call')…thus, missed going on the van coz they cannot wait for me. But, just couldn't do this all the time and eventually HAD to go to the dentist. (yes, hated those dental visits)!
We had bible studies and went to the chapel (first lesson)in the morning….I enjoyed the folk dancing classes and arts, cookery..
Was chosen to perform dances with the group on Merdeka day celebrations at the field opposite St Michael School.
This is the staircase leading to the Main Hall, beside the netball court. Next to the netball court would be the primary school hall.
Welcome to the blog, June!
Was this pretty girl Josephine Lena Wong a former beauty queen, a Miss Perak or Miss Malaysia or something like that? The name does ring a bell. I have heard my elder sisters mentioning this name in the early 1970s as somebody famous from Ipoh. Of course I was still a young girl of barely 10, so I don't understand what the fuss was all about then. Just curious.
I remembered a beauty queen, either Miss Ipoh or Miss Perak in my class. Her name is Yap Kim Heong, wonder where she is now?
Katherine, yes there was always 'competition' among the mission-schools. i do agree that it did motivate us to work harder.
Yes, I remembered Josephine Lena Wong, the Miss Malaysia of yesteryears! Didn't she become a Mrs. Fonzeka (may not be the correct spelling). Recently her daughter got married and it was highlighted in the newspaper!
Welcome to the blog, Valiant Knight. thanks to You and Rosebud, now i'm VERY curious to know MORE about this Josephine Lena Wong 😉 hahahaha….
Just because you are curious, I'll add to your curiosity! I think she was the only Malaysian contestant to get into the Finals (last 5)! This was in the early 70s! Yes, I would agree with Rosebud that she was a stunning beauty!
i do wonder where she is now though…..
I was in form 5B in 1972 too. Your name, I am afraid doesn't ring a bell.
I have a twin sister and we lived in Brewster Road then moved to New Fair Park in the late 60's.
I now live in the U.K. and am in touch with a few ex convent girls. In fact we just celebrated Merdeka Day with a Vietnamese meal in London Soho.


SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have won 12 out of 13 games, and there is no question that they are riding their arms to victory. They are riding their lungs, too.
How nice it must've felt, then, to exhale for once.
Buster Posey hit a tiebreaking double in the sixth inning and the Giants feasted in the eighth. Brandon Crawford lofted a bases-clearing triple, recent call-up Jarrett Parker followed with a shot into the kale garden and the Giants beat the San Diego Padres 8-2 Tuesday night.
It was the first time the Giants scored six runs in a game since May 6. Remarkably, they had managed to win 12 of 16 since then — including 1-0 victories the previous two days.
But a guppy can survive at ebb tide for only so long.
The Giants (29-19) received a typically stern start from Jeff Samardzija while beating the Padres for the eighth time in eight games this season. But they also benefited from a strong arm in left field. And right field. And second base.
The Giants twice cut down Matt Kemp on the bases and Samardzija held the Padres to a run in 6 2/3 innings — his shortest outing out of five in May, impressively enough — to win his third consecutive start.
And although the runs didn't come till the end, a lineup without Angel Pagan (placed on the disabled list) and Hunter Pence (whose hamstring remained too sore to play) amassed their most productive game since May 2.
Before the game, the Giants could have glanced around the batting cage and wondered whose turn it would be to score the run. They were coming off the franchise's first consecutive 1-0 victories in 36 years. Only one team in modern history, the 1913 Cardinals, had won three 1-0 games in a row.
It was beginning to look like the Giants might join Miller Huggins' Cardinals. Just like Johnny Cueto a night earlier, Samardzija was dealing against the Padres for the second time in five days. Unlike Cueto, the Giants gave him a lead to protect following a replay challenge in the third inning.
Gregor Blanco singled, advanced on a sacrifice and dragged a back foot across the plate after Denard Span's single. Plate umpire Mike Muchlinski called Blanco out, but replays showed that he slid under the tag of Padres catcher Derek Norris.
Span's hit snapped a team-wide 0-for-17 streak with runners in scoring position.
It remained a 1-0 game until the sixth, when Jon Jay ended the Padres' scoreless streak after 23 innings — and a 23-inning scoreless run by Giants pitchers, too. His home run into the right field arcade tied it.
The Giants responded in the bottom of the inning. Joe Panik drew a leadoff walk from Andrew Cashner, the fourth bases on balls that the Padres right-hander issued, and the Giants didn't waste it. Matt Duffy made a productive out that advanced Panik, and with a base open, the Padres did not try to pitch around Posey.
Cashner threw a first-pitch curve that stayed over the plate and Posey, who was batting .178 with runners in scoring position and let slip a chance in the third, lashed it down the left field line for a tiebreaking double.
Crawford followed with a single to right that scored Posey to give the Giants a 3-1 lead.
Duffy's double started the five-run eighth. Posey drew an intentional walk from reliever Keith Hessler, Brandon Belt drew a conventional walk to load the bases and Crawford drove his triple over Kemp's head in right field.
Then Parker, who was leading the Pacific Coast League with 13 home runs, connected to dead center.
Defensive contributions have been a constant in the winning run and Tuesday's victory was no exception. In addition to Panik's smooth backhand pickup to help Osich in the seventh, Parker made an immediate impact upon joining the roster. He played Kemp's drive off the left field wall and fired to second base to throw him out in the first inning.
The Giants threw out Kemp on the bases again in the eighth when he tried to stretch a double. Blanco and Panik made accurate throws and third baseman Matt Duffy secured a short hop while applying a simultaneous tag. Although Kemp initially was called safe, the Giants won their second replay challenge of the night.
They placed Pagan on the 15-day disabled list and called up Parker from Triple-A Sacramento. While Pence isn't a candidate for the disabled list, he wasn't ready to play Tuesday and likely won't return to the lineup until Friday's road trip opener at Colorado.
Pagan had an MRI on his left hamstring after coming out of Monday's 1-0 victory following a hobbling sprint down the first base line in the eighth inning. It's the same hamstring injury that caused Pagan to miss 11 games after pulling up lame on the bases May 1 in Arizona.
The Giants took the wait-and-see approach with Pagan last time. They aren't doing it again.
At least the MRI showed that Pagan's strain is no more severe than before.
Pence, who was credited with a walk-off double after the Padres' Matt Kemp misplayed a fly ball in the ninth inning Monday, was out of the lineup for the fourth consecutive game.
Ideally, the Giants would have promoted a right-handed hitter to platoon with Blanco in left field. But Bochy noted that Parker was swinging a hotter bat than others (e.g. Mac Williamson, who has a reverse split at the moment).
Vogelsong told Bochy that he'd be all right.
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Q: Silverlight VisualStateManager list of states I know I've seen a list before of the predefined VisualStateGroups and states for a VisualStateManager, including CommonStates, CheckedStates, etc., but I can't seem to find it again.
Does anyone know where such a list might be found?
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I'm catching on to the fact that lots of these obvious reference lists are built in to Expression Blend, which Microsoft apparently assumes everyone will buy.  That or they hope that by not making this stuff easy to find, we'll cough up the money and buy the thing out of sheer frustration.
I'm a contractor for the federal government, and we've ordered EB, but of course it will take months for the order to get approved and processed and delivered.  In the mean time, my trial download has long since expired and I'm stuck here in hand-coding land (where I honestly would prefer to stay).  In the mean time, any help is appreciated.

A: I don't recall coming across any list of "predefined" groups.  However the place where you can find lists of groups in close proximty is in the Control Styles and Templates documentation.  But for general reference the list of Groups shared by multiple controls found here are:-

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*CommonStates

*FocusStates

*PopupStates

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Trolley Scan (South Africa) develops a new transponder with massive range performance.
Trolley Scan (Pty) Ltd, a Johannesburg, South Africa based developer of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technologies announced the development of a new passive transponder that has approximately 100% improvement in range over previous versions. Announcing the development, Mike Marsh, Managing Director of Trolley Scan (Pty) Ltd said - "Trolley Scan have developed an amazing passive UHF transponder with a measured operating range of more than 25 meters. Bearing in mind that passive transponders do not have onboard energy, but have to collect energy radiated from the reader, a transponder that is passive and can work at 25 meters has to operate on minute amounts of radio power. In this case the transponder needs just 40 microwatts of radio energy in its collecting area. The transponder is specifically designed to be attached to metal and metal like objects." Previously, the maximum range with passive transponders with Trolley Scan readers was 13 metres.
The impressive performance comes from the combination of a new integrated circuit specially made for Trolley Scan and from Trolley Scan's spectacular RF antenna developments for transponders.
The new transponder has been specifically designed to be used with tracking laptop computers and office equipment, but also finds use in tagging metal items.
Trolley Scan make UHF RFID fixed readers. UHF portable readers, UHF RFID-radar systems and a range of transponders for different packaging requirements. The new transponder technology is compatible with all the reader products made by Trolley Scan and with all the earlier ranges of transponders.
By way of an explanation for those technically interested.
The staff at Trolley Scan were involved in the first developments of UHF transponders for retail applications, namely the development of Supertag in 1990 in Pretoria, South Africa.
At that time we aimed to build a single chip transponder for use in tagging items in a grocery trolley. Then semiconductor technology was at such a stage of development that there were analogue type devices which could handle RF components, and a separate type of technology was in use for digital circuitry for data handling. Hence we ended up with two chips on each transponder. About ten years later single chip devices were practical that had both the RF and the digital circuitry on a single device and single chip transponders became available.
The transponders get their power from the energising field and to visualise the power distribution back in 1990, we made a number of small dipoles with light emitting diodes. Attaching these to the wall of the office and aiming the energising antennas at the wall from about 3 metres away, together with a fair size RF power generator, we could get the LEDs to glow if they were in the main beam and hence see the power distribution. Those devices needed about 54 milliwatts of power in the collecting area and had an operating range of about three metres with the transmitters and antennas we then used. The two chip transponders needed similar power.
Since January 2004, Trolley Scan have been supplying 200uW versions of transponders, that is a 250 times improvement on the originals. We now have a new transponder which is also passive, is attached to metal items, and uses just 40 microwatts (uW) of power, that is 1350 times less power than the originals.
This dramatic improvement over time, has meant greatly increased range for operation. It also has led to reduced energising power being needed from the reader, which means smaller RF amplifiers and the ability to use lower gain antennas which can spread the power over a wider angle increasing the area of coverage. The lower power needs of the new transponders also means that portable readers which can operate on batteries for a reasonable time and yet give a 10 metre read range are practical.
Trolley Scan have proven to be a major creative force in the development of UHF RFID technologies.
The staff of Trolley Scan, which was founded in 1995, have a pedigree that goes back to 1990 when the first low cost RFID protocol was developed by the founder while working for a South African government research organisation, culminating in 1994 in the demonstration of a supermarket trolley containing 38 items being scanned automatically in a supermarket in Pretoria. In 1998, the founders of Trolley Scan developed an entirely new set of protocols for UHF RFID which they have been actively promoting. They also have addressed the situation of the 3 dimensional scanning of goods, and have developed a very low power RFID version which they commercialise under the EcoTag trademark.
In August 2005 Trolley Scan invented RFID-radar. Trolley Scan are based in Johannesburg South Africa.
Trolley Scan licence their patents and technology to companies around the world who wish to produce this technology. Trolley Scan have sold RFID systems to users in 50 countries.
Complete systems can be ordered via their website at www.trolleyscan.com.
RFID systems comprise of a transponder that is attached to the goods to be identified and a reader that converts the information in those transponders to a computer compatible format for processing. The transponder can consist of a simple antenna and a small integrated circuit that can be produced at low cost. Operating in the 860 to 960 MHz (UHF) band, the transponder can be identified meters away from the reader, can be identified in a group with up to 1000 other transponders when being read, and can be identified very quickly. In view of the system using radio waves for energy and information transfer, it is not necessary for the transponder and reader to be in line of sight.
Potential use of these systems is extensive, from herd animal tracking, library books, pallets, warehousing, bank and postal bags, asset tracking, laptop tracking, airline luggage, vehicle monitoring (access and parking), to intelligent buildings (tracking files, documents and assets moving around an office to minimise finding time).
The ultimate goal is to use these transponders with their inbuilt anti-shoplifting features to replace the barcodes labelling goods in a retail store allowing filled supermarket trolleys to be scanned in seconds in unmanned self-service checkout aisles.
A photograph of the new transponder can be supplied.


Why are so many writers and artists turning books into albums?
For a brief few weeks around the close of 2014, it felt as if you could divide your acquaintances into two groups: those who were listening to Serial and those who were not. Devotees of this spin-off from the popular podcast This American Life soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true-life murder case. But, beyond the fascinating, disturbing facts it forensically investigated, Serial's enormous popularity suggested that the spoken word might have become the 'new rock and roll'.
Spoken word has long been treated as if it were a genre, although, being pan-generic by definition, it's more of a market category than anything else. At its most functionally archival, it consists of audiobooks read by actors (aimed at the visually impaired or frequent travellers), bbc releases of radio drama and comedy, or the British Library's curated compilations of historical authors and poets reading their own work. But, somewhere between Richard Burton's 1954 BBC rendition of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (rightly celebrated for its phantasmagoria of Welsh accents and evocative sound effects) and William S. Burroughs's experiments with cut-up tapes of his own voice, beginning around 1960 (and collected on the excellent CD Break Through In Grey Room, 2001), spoken-word recordings began to take on a life of their own, occupying a hinterland between avant-garde sound practice and dramatic recital – an interzone recently reopened as a site of exploration by a surprising number of contemporary writers and artists.
On tape, Burroughs mumbles the phrase, 'The silver smoke of dreams'. These words could certainly apply to the remarkable Sleeping Tapes, a sequence of intimate, stream-of-consciousness monologues by the American actor Jeff Bridges, which appeared early this year as a download, cassette or vinyl (including a limited-edition wax-pressing in a die-cut, gold-leaf sleeve). It plays out as if inside the head of The Dude (as the actor is also known), yet it's clear the vocal, soporific ambient music and nocturnal field recordings were all captured around the house of the Hollywood star. Another high-profile figure, novelist Michel Faber – author of Under the Skin (2000) – recently teamed up with uk experimental musician Andrew Liles to create Ohrwurm (2014), in which Faber reads a creepy tale not so much accompanied by, as battling against, an eclectic array of twisted samples and electronic cut-ups.
It's a powerful and innovative combination: the experimental sound assembler and the literate speaking voice. The Hackney-based imprint Test Centre recognized this when it launched in 2011 with the release of Stone Tape Shuffle, an LP by Britain's psychogeographer general, Iain Sinclair. His collage of book extracts, off-the-cuff musings, found noises, sound effects and improvised ephemera were layered onto a soundscape by Dan Scott. Much of the record feels like a private tape or voice memo made on the hoof with a mobile phone. It puts you right there at the author's shoulder mid-dérive, reading aloud from Lud Heat (1975) and Suicide Bridge (1979) as traffic zings past. At one point Sinclair sounds like a frazzled David Attenborough, anthropologist of the modern city, larynx tightening against the encroaching smog. An incantation near the end of side B, imagining the route to Wessex and the Holy Grail while plodding the alleyways of east London, approaches the rapture of prayer.
Test Centre's second LP was by Sinclair's old friend, the filmmaker and novelist Chris Petit. Museum of Loneliness (2013) featured sonic interruptions by Mordant Music, an artist associated with the loose musical subgenre known as hauntology, and his smearings and reworkings of soundtracks from Petit's films, such as Asylum (2000) and Content (2010), make for a subdued counterpoint to the author's terse, bitter prose. The A side, 'Dead Drunks', features the Robinson character familiar from Petit's fiction – and, by extension, from Patrick Keiller's films, London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997). The LP is named after, and forms a part of, his Museum of Loneliness project and, on the record, Petit explains how this ongoing 'non-institution dedicated to working in the gaps' is 'about returning to underground activity in a spirit of decommission and noncommission, in opposition to the cultural exhaustion of conventional systems. It being notable how those media have confronted the information revolution by becoming more conservative, by offering only more of the same, at the cost of any margins.' Projects such as these records, perhaps, can be seen as doodles in the margin, where fresh ideas and identities can take root without the pressure of formal publication or broadcast.
That's certainly true of another Test Centre LP, Pedigree Mongrel (2015), by the maverick (by BBC standards) art critic, television presenter and author Jonathan Meades. Like Sinclair and Petit (and recalling their common mentor, J.G. Ballard), Meades speaks in a privately educated English that sits delightfully out-of-kilter with the exploratory textual material. Meades's memoirs – drawn from Pompey (1993), Museum Without Walls (2012) and An Encyclopaedia of Myself (2014) – skitter between autobiography and fantasia, at one point dipping into Cockney slang and announcing a break to 'pop to the loo', while occasionally allowing Mordant Music to dub his vocal into a wilderness of echo. This is both a more raconteurish and a less formal Meades than the one he has allowed to appear on tv.
Stewart Home's LP, Proletarian Post-Modernism (2013), is the weakest link in Test Centre's small catalogue: a lo-fi, no-frills compilation of live readings of Home's mildly confrontational poetry and prose, in front of a tittering audience. Laboriously and fastidiously pornographic – like a revolutionary Readers' Wives column – Home's dutiful readings are surprisingly unsympathetic to his own deadpan transgressiveness and flatten out any residual humour. Home recently published a book via Penny-Ante Editions, a small imprint based in Los Angeles. After several years of print publishing, the company has just issued its first LP, What Gets Kept (2015), on which the writer, critic and frieze columnist Lynne Tillman reads selected passages from her books, such as Motion Sickness (1991), No Lease On Life (1998) and What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2014). Her mix of essays, autobiography and cultural critique is well served by a vocal style that remains flat and serious across a range of emotional tones. A nice touch is to end with a handful of her favourite jokes, and her own hilarity at their telling becomes infectious.
At a time when digital interfaces and streaming apps have, in some senses, taken the fun out of assembling and curating personal collections of audio material, spoken-word recordings offer a liberating alternative, audibly melting text from the permafrost of print. A spoken text permits freedom of movement for the listener while, at the same time, for the artists, recordings can be made in – or salvaged from – ephemeral, mobile environments beyond the clinical, dry studio of countless audio books. The microphone, the portable recorder and the phone's voice memo function allow the writer to become a performer and deliver her or his own words in a more elaborate setting than the promotional book reading. Text approaches the condition of music. And music – in the form of lengthy, unfettered improvization – can be a way of hearing afresh certain archival speech recordings, which are interesting as much for their historical grain and otherness as for what is being said.
A case in point is In Conversation: a salvaged tape of an informal evening with Wallace Berman, the American collage/assemblage artist and creator of the influential Semina magazine (1955–64). Released this year on LP by the New England-based publishing house Edition Muta, this lost recording was taped during a social gathering at Berman's Topanga Canyon home in 1968 – crickets audibly chirp from the stoop outside. It's an impromptu and rambling beat house party, Berman's thoughts zooming in and out of focus alongside those of his friends, with snatches of pop music and domestic noise. Almost an abstraction of the idea of contingent audio, this 'conversation' captures the freewheeling spirit of its age while remaining diametrically opposed to the professionalized, informal formality of Serial. Eavesdropping on this record's serendipitous weft of voices from 50 years ago, with its engaging flux of materialized and cast-off ideas, you can hear speech shaping thoughts in real time. Prior to both authored literature and to actorly performance of text, this is spoken word in its rawest, most mercurial state.


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About AACSB>Advocacy and Awareness>Member Challenges>Innovations That Inspire>2019>George Mason University, School of Business
George Mason University, School of Business
Business for a Better World Initiative
Innovation Statement
Mason's BBWI addresses the world's "wicked" challenges through innovative curricula, cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research, and robust private-public partnerships, empowering leaders to create a better world.
The Business for a Better World Initiative (BBWI) is a direct response to the complex and critical challenges facing humanity. "Wicked" problems in areas such education, health, security, equality, technology, and the environment abound. In 2016, the United Nations launched 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that address these global challenges and urged leaders to take action, and business leaders have responded to the challenge. The United Nations Global Compact, built on CEO commitments to implement and support U.N. sustainability principles and goals, has over 12,000 signatories in over 160 countries representing nearly all sectors.
Larry Fink of BlackRock represents the views of a growing number of CEOs when he says, "To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society." Universities have a significant role to play in tackling wicked problems, and Mason Business is uniquely positioned to play a leadership role in the business-for-good space. Central to Mason's strategic plan is the question, "What can Mason do—or do better—to produce the types of graduates, scholarship, and service-oriented action that will best serve society?" This question is rooted in Mason's history and culture, which defines Mason as a place that applauds diversity in thought and demographics, encourages mission-driven efforts, and rewards collaboration with community.
Mason's BBWI sparks passion, empowers changemakers, and transforms aspirations into meaningful and lasting impact and will elevate Mason into the top tier of global-impact universities as the region's premier hub for business for a better world.
Innovation Description
BBWI encourages cross-disciplinary research activities, including crucial action research, to address the world's wicked problems by providing seed-funding, faculty release-time, and support personnel; convening scholars and external partners; and amplifying these important research activities. Examples of BBWI cross-disciplinary research include the following:
Reducing interpersonal violence and increasing economic empowerment in immigrant and refugee communities through interventions at Mason and Partners (MAP) clinics (with College of Health and Human Services)
Empowering communities through multidisciplinary, experiential, and entrepreneurial approaches to sustainable beekeeping through George Mason University's Honey Bee Initiative (with science college and government, NGO, and industry partners worldwide)
Developing an interdisciplinary toolkit to transform how universities contribute to meeting SDGs through curriculum and research (with the Moxie Foundation, Conservation X Labs, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, Duke University, Arizona State University, and Middlebury College)
Reducing cancer outcome disparities by modeling social and hospital factors associated with colorectal cancer time-to-treatment and survival rates (with College of Science)
Predicting outcomes in social-welfare matters using crowdsourced, hyper-local, temporal data (with Colleges of Engineering and Science)
Combating illegal wildlife activity using data analytics and education (with Colleges of Engineering and Science, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Fostering agency in diverse populations through inclusion (with Colleges of Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution)
Improving healthcare through precision medicine and data analytics (with Colleges of Engineering and Science and Deparment of Physics)
Improving city and county government cybersecurity through cross-jurisdictional collaboration (with College of Engineering)
In addition to research, BBWI supports innovative curriculum and programming for students and began offering a portfolio of co-curricular activities in January 2019.
BBWI's impact is demonstrated by the diversity of cross-disciplinary research underway in Mason Business, the number of engaged faculty, and the traction the initiative is gaining at the university level. Business faculty are currently partnering with faculty from seven units on campus to develop cross-disciplinary solutions. Within Mason Business, more than a third of the faculty are engaging in activities related to BBWI. Faculty representatives from every unit on campus are engaged in an effort to elevate the initiative to a university-level trans-disciplinary Center for People, Prosperity, and Planet to attract extramural funding, engage more researchers across campus, and magnify the impact of the work. Further, individual projects are already having impact.
Examples from Reducing Interpersonal Violence:
85 women interviewed in Spanish, English, or Arabic
Student paper presented locally and submitted to National Conference for Undergraduate Research
40,000 USD in external seed funding received.
Designing a gender-based financial and health intervention that can be replicated in other regions brings future impact
Examples from the Honey Bee Initiative:
Over 400,000 USD in external funding
Considerable domestic (e.g. Washingtonian, Northern Virginia Magazine, Local Fox 5 news, ABC news, NBC4, NPR) and international (eight major Colombian newspapers, two television spots, and 45 on-line articles) press
450 percent two-year growth in Colombia project participation
Finalist for Cordes Innovation Award for Community Partnerships
Partnership with six other universities worldwide to develop International HBI.
Future impact includes partnering with two-star Michelin Chef José Andrés to design a global bee intervention
Reference Link
Video: Honey Bee Initiative
George Mason University partners: College of Health and Human Services, College of Science, Volgenau School of Engineering, College of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Schar School of Policy and Government, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, College of Education and Human Development
Colombian partners: BBVA Bank, University Industrial de Santander Confines municipality, Socorro municipality, Palmas del Socorro municipality
Other partners: Chef José Andrés, Wardensville Garden Market, Merrifield Garden Center, Women in Business Initiative, 100,000 Strong in the Americas, Community Foundation for Northern VA, Fairfax County, Covanta Energy, Moxie Foundation, Conservation X Labs, Duke University, Arizona State University, Middlebury College, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (they have offered to partner on the Center for People, Prosperity, and the Planet)


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Published on Jun 24, 2020 by Phyllis Chesler
Published by New English Review
An Obituary to Bury a Reputation
From now on, in our era of BLM, statue toppling, and no-go zones, conservatives—no matter how distinguished or brilliant they may be, had better not die—for if they do, they risk being insulted in their Obituaries, at least in the pages of the New York Times.
Today, the Gray Lady ran Jean Raspail's 1,055 word obituary in which descriptors meant to be disparaging were used no less than 18 times, beginning with the header which reads: Jean Raspail, 94, Writer Cited by Far Right, Dies. The neutral paragraphs comprise a mere 155 words which note that Raspail received the "Academie Francaise grand prize in 1981 and its grand prize for literature, for his body of work, in 2003."
The Academie Francaise? No matter. The NYT focuses only on one book and spends 900 words in which to demean and insult its author, to warn unsuspecting readers away, and to paint a big fat bullseye on the cover of The Camp of the Saints. In our time, it's Open Season on anyone seen reading this book or assigning it in a class, or mentioning it in their own books. Raspail is meant to be disappeared from history.
Raspail wrote "dozens of travel books and fictional works" and yet the Obituary focuses only on his satiric, dystopian, hilarious, sarcastic, difficult, even painful to read, quite over-the-top, and yes, please allow me to say it—his brilliant, literary novel titled: The Camp of the Saints.
Shall we likewise pillory Jonathan Swift for his A Modest Proposal, a work in which he suggested selling the children of the poor to the rich—as food? Shall we forget all about Gulliver's Travels and denounce Swift as a Monster?
A photo of Raspail's book is accompanied by a caption: "Mr. Raspail dehumanized immigrants in his 1973 book." The piece describes Raspail's followers as "white supremacists, far-right political figures;" worse yet, as one "member of the Trump administration." In addition, "many conservatives" attended his funeral; his readers were "far right," his book spawned or influenced today's "white supremacists"—and led to the shootings at two mosques, one in New Zealand, one in Texas.
Wearily, I say unto you: Islam is a religion, not a color. Muslims come in all races. Try telling this to one of our contemporary hotheads.
In case you still don't know what Raspail represents, the obituary goes on to describe Raspail as one of the "last members of the old reactionary right" in France. One of President Trumps advisers had "written approvingly of the novel in an email (!) to an editor at the right wing website Breitbart." Can't be clearer than this.
But, in case you are still unsure of whose reputation must be shamed, cancelled, and toppled, his novel has been called a "racist novel." Raspail insisted that he was not a "racist," but he also said that he would not change a single line in The Camp of the Saints, and "described himself as 'right wing, even right-right-wing.'" The Obituary continues along in this vein. The novel is a "racist diatribe."
In 2015, Raspail had a book signing at a Parisian book shop that "promotes conservative writers." Raspail is of "white European descent, a term often used in far-right circles." The inference here is that Raspail and his single book are to be viewed as personally responsible for European colonialism, imperialism, and racism. Raspail predicted that the "'white race' would be overwhelmed in the 2040s or 2050s." Finally, on the day of his funeral, Marine Le Pen, "the leader of the far-right party... urged her Twitter followers to read the book, or to read it again."
I have never seen a similar Obit for a far left-wing author in the NYT. Have you?
Guess what? The Times sure knows who to pick to perform their hatchet jobs. In November of 2019, Elian Peltier, together with Nicholas Kulish, demonized Raspail in their pages; today, Peltier has repeated much of what he previously wrote. At least it was not an Obit.
By the way: I understand how people of color must have felt day after day seeing the deeds and the deaths of mainly white folk memorialized everywhere, and I welcome more faces of color, yes, even in the pages of the NYT. And yet, I fear that an "ill wind blows" across our land, that this chapter in our history may end badly, but not before far too many people die—either of the Wuhan Virus, or are killed by guns or knives, or by the most brutal poverty, hate, and intolerance.
Cross-posted at History Scoper.


A recent Statista survey revealed that the average American spends at least 3 hours of their waking hours on their mobile phones. Aside from that, there are even jobs that mandate their employees to use smartphones for their business operations.
Mobile app development, despite the already billions of apps that exist today, is still alive and well. In fact, developers follow new trends in the hopes that people will love their mobile applications even more.
So today, I am going to talk about some trends in mobile app development that you need to keep an eye for in 2018 and beyond!
Isn't it frustrating that your internet connection just gets lost? You want to stream your favorite TV show on Netflix but you are not able to do so because your modem lost contact with the server to provide you with internet connectivity.
So, you picked up your phone and called the hotline, but there was one on the other line. You used your phone's mobile data to access their support hotline, but there is no one there as well.
This problem has actually been pervasive for quite a while now and service providers know that time is of the essence. No one wants to hear some angry customer complaints, right?
That is where chatbots come in. Chatbots are just some of the many implementations of artificial intelligence in the mobile app development industry.
This allows service providers and business owners the chance to cater to the needs and complaints of their customers no matter what time of the day it is.
As the name implies, you will be chatting with an automated chat service. But, do not be fooled- they are quite intelligent in what they do and that is to provide you with the services that you need.
More and more applications would have a chatbot implementation and I am actually very excited for that to happen soon.
If you ask your mother what her favorite food is, she would say something that is not your favorite. For instance, if she likes pasta, you might like Pizza. Where am I going with this? Well, it just goes to show you that different strokes for different folks which is why personalization is going to be mandatory in future apps.
Not one person has the same tastes as everyone. Two people might like rock music, but they might have different tastes when it comes down to actual bands.
To provide a more personalized service, business owners can use machine learning technology to bring the best possible suggestions to their customers. Whether you're manning a retail service or you own a streaming platform, machine learning can improve the lives of both you (the owner) and your customers.
As more activity gets conducted online and through the use of mobile applications, app security has now become a need and not just an option.
In fact, 75% of the pre-existing apps still do not follow strict security protocols. That will change sometime soon.


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The above quote is from a blog I read on occasion called Layers of Meaning put out there by textile artist/ designer Serena Fenton. Visually it is beautiful and the content is always thought provoking and inspiring.
Meanwhile, my friend and fellow artist Tina introduced me to an artist she found named Lisa Kokin who's use of mixed media in her sculptures and installations is brilliant. Her use of found photographs has me thinking about my own personal family photos and a potential long term project involving the use of these photos printed on fabric… more to come on that later.
Next week another dear artist-friend, Lisa, is going to show me how to make some blank books. This is exciting as not only will they potentially make great gifts but the skill will also be a natural progression in my sketchbook work as artist and teacher.
I am fortunate to be surrounded by passionate artists in my sphere of friendship who are constantly inspiring me with their work and abilities, which they readily share with me. And often it is through my friendships that I discover artists whose use of materials or content inspire my own work.