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Your electric mobility experts
Jeff Allen
Jeff has served as Executive Director of Forth since December 2011. He previously served as Executive Director of the Oregon Environmental Council and worked as an organizational development consultant to several nonprofit organizations. He holds a Master's degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan.
Jeanette Shaw
Senior Director, Policy
Jeanette serves as Forth's Senior Director of Policy and develops transportation electrification and e-mobility legislative and regulatory policies. Jeanette holds an Executive MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gina Avalos
Gina manages Forth's operations, leads our financial and human resource programs, and drives Forth's diversity, equity and inclusion work. Prior to Forth, Gina provided program support to rural communities in South Texas and has held roles in both the public and private sector. Gina holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Steffani Cuff
Steffani serves as Forth's Programs Director, leading the team that manages all of our demonstration projects and consumer engagement work. With a diverse background in social services, healthcare, and technology, Steffani brings strong skills in process improvement, quality assurance, and organizational leadership to Forth. Steffani holds an MBA in Healthcare from Oregon Health and Science University and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Oregon.
Ashley Duplanty
Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships & Events
Ashley works to raise Forth's growing international profile. She manages Forth's presence at the International Electric Vehicle Symposium and organizes the Roadmap Conference. She also works with Forth's European and Asian partners. Ashley holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a B.S. from the University of Puget Sound.
Kevin Friedman
Kevin manages Forth's communications department to help promote the organization, its projects, goals and accomplishments. He has experience in journalism, publishing and as an educator. He holds a Master's in Writing from Portland State University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Steve Gutmann
Steve oversees several of Forth's new mobility programs and leads the coordination of Forth's Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge work. Steve has held business development roles at a number of early-stage green businesses including ShoreBank Pacific, Flexcar (Zipcar), Green Leasing, EcoSecurities, Getaround, Stuffstr and moovel.
Kelly Yearick
As Senior Program Manager, Kelly works to bring together diverse stakeholder groups such as utilities, government agencies, community-based organizations, and industry players to design and implement impactful programs. She currently manages the DOE-funded CRuSE project, a rural carsharing program, and brings her experience around workplace charging to the Electric Vehicle Adoption Leadership Program (EVAL). Kelly holds a Master's in Environmental Management and Sustainability from Portland State University, a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and sits on the board of Solar Oregon.
Alexa Diaz
Senior Policy Manager
Alexa manages the Towards Equitable Electric Mobility Community of Practice project. She works directly with environmental and equity organizations to advance equitable electric mobility policies. Alexa has a Masters of Public Policy from Oregon State University and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Steven Alaman
Steven manages the EV Ambassadors program and organizes Ride and Drive events in Oregon, Washington, and California. Prior to Forth, Steven worked for Multnomah County on Urban Forest Management and Community Outreach. Steven holds a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Oregon.
Quentin Arnette
HR Associate
Quentin supports Forth's culture improvements and daily human resources functions. Prior to Forth, Quentin worked for CenturyLink as an HR Coordinator Intern. Quentin holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Washington State University, Vancouver.
Christal Beauclaire
Events & Marketing Associate
Christal assists Forth's consumer engagement team and staffs the Forth Electric Showcase. She has experience in new mobility, equity, and sustainability. She holds a Master's of Science and Technology Policy from ASU and a B.A. in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, QC.
Barrett Brown
Barrett manages the TNC electrification program at Forth. Previously, he worked in micro-mobility running operations for a startup in Portland in addition to Citibike in New York. He holds a B.A. in Media Studies with a focus in journalism he attained from Fordham University while working full time as a Paramedic.
Maria Clark
Finance & Operations Associate
Maria manages Forth's organizational administration and develops best practices for Forth's database. She also supports Forth's finances, accounting, and personnel. Maria holds a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Portland State University.
Akanksha Dureja
Akanksha Dureja serves as Forth's Communications Manager. Akanksha brings extensive experience as a dual-centric marketing communications manager with a successful career covering external and internal communications in the transportation sector. Akanksha studied Public Relations & Advertising at India's International Institute of Mass Media. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, in English Literature from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.
Connor Herman
Connor is on Forth's Programs Team, where he develops and manages projects to accelerate the market adoption of electric vehicles. Connor has worked with dozens of public utilities in the Pacific Northwest, along with a variety of stakeholders including car dealerships, local governments, community organizations, and car-sharing companies. Previously Connor worked at Clean Fuels Ohio and conducted development consulting services to several Oregon-based nonprofits. Connor has a B.S. in Environment, Economy, Development, and Sustainability from The Ohio State University.
Eric serves as a program manager at Forth to promote electric vehicle adoption. His work focuses on building codes and policies that promote EV readiness in residential and commercial buildings. He holds an MPA in Public Policy Analysis and MSES in Energy from Indiana University and is a proud nerd of clean technologies and cars.
Brodie Hylton
CEO, Cascadia Mobility Inc.
Brodie has spent over 10 years launching and operating large-scale urban bike-share projects and bike-share businesses, and now a nonprofit: Cascadia Mobility. Cascadia Mobility is an advocate, operator, and partner to cities interested in operating equitable shared transportation programs at scale. Cascadia Mobility is the operator of Eugene's bike share, PeaceHealth Rides.
Pramodh Jacob
Pramodh is on Forth's Programs team, helping facilitate projects that further the adoption of electric mobility among a variety of stakeholders. Currently, he is assisting with St. Louis Vehicle Electrification Ride for Seniors (SiLVERS), a program that seeks to demonstrate a fleet of five electric vehicles and supporting infrastructure for use by social service agencies in a low-income community in the St Louis area. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Whit Jamieson
Whit applies his technical expertise to the Go Forth Electric Showcase and at ride and drive events. Prior to joining Forth, he spearheaded a team that secured funding for six level-2 electric vehicle charging stations on Western Washington University's campus where he earned a B.S. in Energy Systems Sciences.
Rhett Lawrence
Rhett joined Forth in January 2020 as Policy Manager and will be coordinating Forth's policy work in the Pacific Northwest. Rhett has 20 years of experience working collaboratively on energy and environmental programs in Oregon. He has a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Emory University.
Manuel Morales
Manuel assists Forth's consumer engagement team, manages Forth's social media, and supports Forth's consumer programs. He previously served as a Community Engagement Intern at Forth and helped with the application process for Forth's work on the PGE Drive Change Fund grant applications. Manuel holds a B.S in Business Administration: Marketing from Portland State University.
Anne Ramzy
Anne is a program manager at Forth and staffs the Go Forth Electric Showcase. She also supports Forth's consumer engagement initiatives, grant-writing projects and web content development. She holds a B.A. in History from Lewis & Clark College.
Sam Schanfarber
Sam leads business development in the Southwest and develops proposals for state and federal funding opportunities, including stakeholder and program development. Formerly, Sam worked with early-stage startups on product and program design. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Lindsay Schuelke
Lindsay works in the Program Department on pilot programs. One of the programs she supports is the equity financing pilot, which brings fair financial options, education, and outreach to TNC drivers in Portland, Oregon. Lindsay holds an AAS in Radiography from Lakeshore Technical College. Her background in social and environmental nonprofits informs her methods to build a more just and sustainable future using EV technology.
Joe Wachunas
Joe serves as a Program and Development Manager at Forth. His focus is on electric school buses and tractors, as well as business development and grant writing. Prior to Forth, Joe worked in clean energy at Solar Oregon. He is a regular contributor to the blog CleanTechnica and serves on the board of Pace Ghana.
Simbiat Yusuff
Member Relations Manager
Simbiat supports Forth's events, marketing and membership program. She holds a bachelor's degree in Strategic Communications with a focus in Public Relations from Washington State University.
Tim Miller brings over 30 years of management and senior leadership experience to his role as President of the Forth Board. His experience spans manufacturing and operations, marketing, sales, and general management in sectors ranging from low-tech manufacturing, high-tech (Intel), internet businesses, and includes launching an electric vehicle start-up. He now works with several non-profit organizations focused on equitable policy solutions to climate change. He previously served as the CEO of Enhabit, a non-profit that helped over 6,000 families improve the energy efficiency and health of their homes. Tim also serves on the Board of Climate Solutions, the Northwest's leading climate policy and advocacy organization. He earned his MBA and BA, both with honors, from Stanford University.
Ben Farrow
Ben Farrow is the manager of product development at Puget Sound Energy. Ben currently leads PSE's strategy and product development to diversify customer offerings in new energy technologies, including electric transportation, renewable energy, and distributed resources. He currently serves on the Board of Forth, and on the advisory committee for the Western Washington Clean Cities Coalition.
Román Partida-López
Román is the Environmental Equity Legal Counsel with The Greenlining Institute. He works to ensure that lower-income communities of color have a seat at the table and see direct benefits from climate investments to help improve air quality and economic opportunities within their communities.
Sean Bagsby
Sean serves as the President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 46, in Kent, WA. Sean also serves as a Labor Trustee for the Puget Sound Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust (PSEJATC) located in Renton, WA. Mr. Bagsby has been involved with several local and regional renewable energy and sustainability organizations and has been an active member of the Greater Seattle Community for over 20 years. Since 2009, Sean has served as the President of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus (EWMC) Seattle Chapter. He is an appointed P.C.O. with the 47th L.D., and a Founding Member of the organization Democrats for Diversity and Inclusion (DDI). Sean is the alternative energy director at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Patti Best
Patti is a program specialist at Idaho Power and currently coordinates the	company's strategic transportation electrification efforts. Prior to joining Idaho	Power, Patti worked for the state of Idaho where she helped advance alternative transportation fuels and worked to secure the Boise area's Clean	Cities designation. Patti holds a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University	and M.S. from the University of Colorado.
Leslie Kilgore
Leslie D. Kilgore, MPA, MSME is the Vice President of Engineering and Technology at Thomas Built Buses. She is responsible for leading the engineering operations from ideation concept design to full production across all product lines. She adds to the Thomas Built Bus team extensive global experience from both automotive and the aerospace/defense industries in product design, development, launch, innovation and technology insertion and program management. She has specializations in vehicle interior design and integration, product safety and compliance, and public policy.
Wayne Killen
Wayne Killen is a Senior Advisor to the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office and provides business development focused on vehicle OEMs and their supply chains, charging companies and other related segments eligible for the nearly $18B Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program. These low interest rate loans are designed to spearhead further U.S. investment in advanced vehicle technologies to improve fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gases and fortify the global standing of American innovation and the clean tech/transportation value chain. Previously, Wayne was the Director of Charging Infrastructure Planning & Business Development at Electrify America after working as an Electric Vehicle Architect for Audi of America, a role designed to prepare Audi for the electric age from headquarters' readiness through dealer network, marketing and charging infrastructure. Killen has over 30 years of experience with American, Asian and European car companies in various product planning, portfolio strategy, and product launch roles.
Karen Laughlin
Karen Laughlin is a program officer for the Climate and Clean Energy program at the Heising-Simons Foundation where she leads on transportation and federal planning. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2017, Karen has served in government and the non-profit sector on climate, transportation, and clean energy policy. As a senior analyst at Climate Policy Initiative, she jointly led the U.S. Program to analyze and recommend policies to lower the costs of low-carbon economy transition. She has served as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transportation and Air Quality focused on biofuels regulation and led the office's international transportation team. She earned a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University and holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science and policy from Duke University.
Tim McMahan
Tim McMahan is a partner practicing in the areas of energy, land use, real estate development, environmental and municipal law. His principal office is in Portland, Oregon. Tim has extensive experience in representing energy facility developers, property owners and municipal clients in Washington and Oregon. Tim focuses his practice on leading interdisciplinary teams advocating for and defending energy facilities and other major infrastructure projects facing opposition. Tim chairs Stoel Rives' Climate Change Practice Initiative.
Maurice Muia
Maurice K. Muia hails from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His passion for sound clean energy policy is shaped from his experiences in the Caribbean and Missouri. He has worked throughout the State of Missouri for numerous electric utilities as a power systems electrical engineer. Currently, he advises the City of Saint Louis on innovative building code solutions such as Solar Ready and EV Ready. Recently, Maurice was elected as a Councilman in Richmond Heights, MO. He stands for equity and service for all in his professional career and most importantly his constituents in the City of Richmond Heights.
Nick Nigro
Nick Nigro is the founder of Atlas Public Policy and has led Atlas as the company has become a respected voice in the public policy field. Nick has nearly 20 years of experience managing teams of various disciplines and sizes with a focus on innovation and value creation. He is a nationally known expert on climate change policy, transportation electrification, and the greater use of data in policy analysis. Nick holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Paul Stith
Paul is the Director, Global Transportation Initiatives for Black & Veatch's Growth Accelerator where he builds ecosystems needed to plan, finance, deploy and operate sustainable transportation and distributed clean energy infrastructure at scale. He advises and leads teams supporting investors, utilities, fleets, and energy and transportation providers to electrify and automate ground, aviation and marine fleets. Previously, Paul was a Director at EV Grid, where he led Vehicle Grid Integration and Storage roadmaps with California Energy Commission, California PUC filings, National Institute of Standards and Technology on EV fueling and participated in the CA Governor's ZEV Action Plan.
Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson
Jessica Vega Pederson serves on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. Before being elected to the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Jessica served as a state representative in the Oregon legislature where she was the first Latina elected to the House. In the legislature, Jessica fought for issues impacting working families such as paid sick time and pay equity to improve the lives of working Oregonians. As chair of the House Energy and Environment Committee, she championed the renewal of the Clean Fuels Program and passage of a bill to remove coal from Oregon's energy mix. As a County Commissioner, Jessica chaired the Preschool for All Task Force and spearheaded the effort to build a quality, universal preschool in Multnomah County and fought for its passage on the November 2020 ballot. She also represents the County at various regional transportation tables and has championed the County's efforts to combat climate change and build a just renewable energy economy. Jessica serves on the boards of the Portland Children's Levy, Forth, and NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon. She lives in east Portland with her husband and two children.
Pia Wilson-Body
Pia Wilson-Body is the President of the Intel Foundation and Director of Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Impact. She oversees the Foundation's approach for achieving impact in alignment with realizing and achieving Intel's mission and goals. Ms. Wilson-Body holds a bachelor's in Economics from historic Spelman College. She recently was appointed to the Oregon Future's Commission. In addition, she currently serves on the numerous boards, including YWCA USA Board of Directors, Council of Foundations, Chair, Portland State University's Center for Women's Leadership Board and Oregon Futures Commission.
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Q: Write embedded executable binary from a C program to a file I'm trying to embed an executable binary inside an other one and then write the first binary to a file.
I successfully achieved this with a plain text file but when it comes to  writing an executable I cant make it work.
So for example I want to copy /usr/bin/ls to ls2, so here what I tried

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*First: objcopy --input binary --output elf64-x86-64 --binary-architecture i386 /usr/bin/ls lss.o

*the C code:
#include <stdio.h>

FILE *f;

extern char _binary_lss_start;
extern char _binary_lss_end;

main()
    {
    f = fopen("lss", "w");
    fprintf(f, &_binary_lss_start);
    fclose(f);
    return 0;
}

*Compilation: gcc main.c lss.o
The Code successfully compiled but when i'm trying ./a.out nothing is written to lss.
(I'm using Arch Linux 4.18.5 and gcc 8.2.0.)
Can I achieve this?

A: As @jww mentioned you should use fwrite.  fprintf is looking for a 0 terminated string at _binary_lss_start which it might encounter in the very first byte and not write anything.
#include <stdio.h>

FILE *f;

extern char _binary_lss_start;
extern char _binary_lss_end;
int main(int c, char *v[])
{
    size_t size_to_write = &_binary_lss_end - &_binary_lss_start;

    f = fopen("lscpu2", "w");
    if (f != NULL) {
        printf("Writing %ld bytes\n", size_to_write);
        fwrite(&_binary_lss_start, 1, size_to_write, f);
        fclose(f);
    } else {
        printf("File not found [%s]\n", "lss");
    }
    return 0;
}

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Q: Syncing network folder with Google Drive I am not a developer but was looking into google drive for my business. I asked if they could sync a folder on a networked extrnal harddrive. I was instructed to write an app. I run a business I am not a developer. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A: You can try something like gdrive_sync
You don't have to write any code but you will need to install python, download this program, and do some typing in a command line window.
After you download and install python... download gdrive_sync and extract it to a directory with 7zip.  Then open a command line and go to the directory you extracted to and type
setup.py install

to install the program.  Then follow the instructions under the "Usage" section of the link above to synchronize your drives with google drive.  It's a powerful and free way to use google drive if you are willing to spend a bit of time on it.


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Q: Phantom Queries in PyMSQL + SQLAlchemy on Lambda I'm trying to debug an issue that one of our developers recently revealed.
We're using AWS Lambda functions to periodically query our MySQL DB.
These functions are written in Python 3.7, with a Lambda layer added to support using PyMSQL, SQLAlchemy, and Pandas.
The (summarized and redacted) code looks like this:
import pymysql
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
import pandas as pd

mysql_connector = create_engine('mysql+pymysql://' + oltp_username + ':' + oltp_password + '@' + host + '/' + db_name)
query = """
        SELECT sum(field) + """
        FROM schema.table;
        """
df = pd.read_sql(query, mysql_connector)

The works just fine, and returns the expected results, however there is a strange side-effect. Our query-logging software indicates that two queries are being received from this function: the expected query in its proper format, along with a mysterious query that looks like this:
DESCRIBE `
        SELECT sum(field)
        FROM schema.table;
        `

In MySQL this is obviously a malformed query, since DESCRIBE operates on tables. Our query logging software indicates that this error appears for every single query that is run from this Lambda function.
Does anybody know where these phantom queries might be coming from? I presume it's some option in either PyMYSQL or SQLAlchemy, but I can't find anything in the documentation. Also, why are these being sent? Including a DESCRIBE makes no sense. I suspect it's just sending the raw query string to the DESCRIBE function, due to an expression like DATE_FORMAT(datefield,"%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H:%%i:00") appearing with the consecutive %, instead of being properly escaped, as it is in the correct query.

A: snakecharmerb and Ilja Everilä provided a few answers in the comments, all of which work. Thanks!

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*Upgrade SQLAlchemy to version 1.4

*Don't use pandas to execute the SQL.

*Use pandas read_sql_query function instead of read_sql.


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Bhubaneswar, April 16: A second-half strike by Dudu Omagbemi gave East Bengal a 1-0 win over FC Goa at the Kalinga Stadium here on Monday (April 16) and sent them to the final of the Super Cup. The Nigerian striker struck in the 78th minute to see his team through 10-man Goa. East Bengal will take on the winners of the second semi-final between Mohun Bagan and Bengaluru FC in the final.
The Kolkata side's coach, Khalid Jamil, went in with a 4-5-1 combination with Dudu the lone striker upfront and Ugandan Khalid Aucho getting his first start in midfield. FC Goa's coach Derick Pereira fielded a 4-4-2 with Manvir Singh partnering Spaniard Ferran Corominas in attack.
It was a scrappy first-half which ended goalless. East Bengal had the better chances with Syrian midfielder Mahmoud Al Amna missing the first real chance of the half in the 19th minute. Al Amna failed to tap in a cross from inside the box by teammate and Japanese midfielder Katsumi Yusa. Then, Dudu broke free from an Al Amna-flicked header a minute later but with just the Goa keeper Kattimani to beat, the Nigerian hit straight at him. Katsumi Yusa then missed two gilt-edged chances between the 33rd and 35th minutes and Goa got their best chance through Coro in added time, when his solo run found him in-front of East Bengal goalie Ubaid, but he could not convert.
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East Bengal continued to press hard for a goal in the second half and Dudu and Katsumi again missed at least three golden opportunities to score between them, the Nigerian being the more profligate. The deadlock was finally broken in the 78th minute when another quality cross from the left flank by Katsumi found Dudu, who tapped in past Kattimani.
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I must admit my strong feelings about this quilt maybe effected slightly because I designed the quilt block. You can find the free paper piecing pattern and details about my inspirations here on the original post.
I had a lot of fun making this quilt slowly, piece by piece. Using colour pencils and paper I worked out each square in advance.
The central stars are made from lots of little bits from my scrap pile. The black and white fabrics were a little bit of scrap pile and a lot of stash cutting.
I wanted bright colours for the stars and mainly worked with red, yellow, orange, blue, green and purple with a smattering of apricot, fuchsia and citron.
The finished quilt top is 62 inches square – five blocks across five blocks down. This of course meant there was a lot of paper to pull off the back.
I am now off to vacuum up the paper and thread pieces that are littered all over our living room floor, before my husband comes home!
That is fabulous! What a great way to use scraps.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.
To funny. I am taking that as good wows.
gorgeous and colorful! love it so much.
I really love the black and white!! I need to get my hands on more of it, seems like my stash is completely full of color at the moment. Beautiful quilt top, can't wait to see it finished.
Wow. There are no words. This is my all time favorite of yours!!!!
Totally gorgeous! The icing on the cake is that you used up a bunch of scraps too!
I couldn't not stop in my tracks to say how uber impressed I am with you, your design, fabric selection, and assembly. This is out of the park! Sparkle on!
This quilt is so fantastic! The colors and layout! I can't wait to see how you're going to quilt it.
Gorgeous! I love that you could use LITTLE scraps so well.
Just fantastic!! I cant' get any words out… i keep scrolling up to look again and again!! I will absolutely need to try this! Gorgeous!
Thank you so much. I am so glad other people like my idea.
I'm like drooling over here!
Absolutely stunning!!! I think this one may be on my bucket list now!
Love your quilt and all your fabulous black and white prints! It turned out wonderfully!
This quilt is a show stopper! I love the brights against the low volume background and the pattern is just fantastic!!
Cath ……I love love love this quilt……..amazing. You really are a Star!! no pun intended. I just love the way the colour pops with the black and white backgrounds. Thanks for the inspiration!!
WOW and WOW again! What an incredible quilt top! I am off to get your pattern – tank you for linking up to TGIFF!!!
Beautiful!! I love your design and the pops of color with the black and white!
Absolutely stunningly PERFECT! Love, love, love it! Hope you don't mind if I share it with a link back on my facebook page at http://facebook.com/sewfreshquilts. It's just too beautiful not to share!
Not a problem at all. I love this pattern and can not wait to see what other people do with it.
This is just gorgeous and fun! Thanks for sharing your pattern with us.
This came out so so great!! I love those scrappy stars. Having also just finished a paper pieced top, I can also appreciate the huge amount of work in removing all that paper. Congrats on such a wonderful finish!
Your wonderful pillow started all this. I love the pattern you created and had to find a way to make it as a quilt.
Wow! What a great pattern. Love the fabrics.
Now that I've studied this pattern, I've decided to give it a try, if you don't mind. You'll find it on my blog in some days.
I can not wait to see what you do with the pattern. Please let me know when you have photos up.
Your quilt is brilliant. Incredible choice of fabrics that make the final result really really outstanding!
LOVE a rainbow quilt, and LOVE a rainbow + low volume quilt! Incredible, Cath. I can't wait to see it all quilted up!
Congratulations on such a wonderful design. Excellent choice of colours, too. It looks great.
So gorgeous, the colours look fantastic against the black and white!
Beautiful quilt! I love the colors and the star patter is gorgeous!
This is so ah-maz-balls! Great finish!
LOVE it! Pure gorgeousness (is that a word?).
I am sure it is a word because I se it all the time! Thanks for the kind words.
Absolutely beautiful – already commented on Flickr, but had to read the post. I love scrappy quilts.
Thanks for the kind comments Julie. I am really proud of this quilt so far. I am now ummming and ahhhing about backing and quilting.
Love this! What a great collection of scraps you have here, too–all the colors, plus the blacks and the lights. Beautiful!
Gorgeous! Love the color array and use of the black and white.
Thanks Dorothy. I do love me some scraps, as you know.


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Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Siobhán Forshaw
010_09 / 21 March 2017
It is in the digital realm, in the dissolution of territory and nation, where art and ideas are made free, or so informs the concept proposed by Beyond Boundaries: Art By Email, an exhibition that brings art from the Middle East to the North of England. Initiated as a collaboration between Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and ArtRole, the exhibition comprises around twenty new works with contributions from eighteen artists. Initially conceived as an opportunity for artists from the Middle East to travel to YSP and display their works, the curators were forced to review their approach in order to circumvent the border restrictions experienced by artists who attempt to travel from the region to the UK to exhibit their works. Instead, an open call invited submissions to be transmitted by email, from artists who would find travel to the UK prohibitively difficult. The outcomes are more interesting than might originally have resulted from a more general commission, as the exhibition poses questions about the function and efficacy of border procedures, and its limits on creativity.
Younes Mohammad, Yezidi Refugee, 2014. Photograph.
Courtesy the artist, ArtRole and YSP.
The collaboration between YSP and ArtRole has a decade-long history, and Beyond Boundaries appears as part of a wider endeavour in partnership with Asia House and the Caspian Arts Foundation – an educational trust that exists to support visual arts students in the Middle East. Titled De[con]struction | Reconstruction: Living in a State of Creative Uncertainty, the project aims to 'explore in depth the role of institutions and architecture and the preservation of cultural heritage and collective memory within the Middle East and Asia'. ArtRole, founded in 2004, has an intrinsic link with Iraqi Kurdistan through the identity of its founder and CEO, Adalet R. Garmiany, a British artist of Kurdish-Iraqi origin. This connection is reflected in the exhibition, where out of eighteen artists, ten are described as Kurdish-Iraqi, or from disputed Kurdish territories in Iraq. Other nationalities represented are Egypt, Iran, Turkey and the UAE.
Situated in the intimate Bothy Gallery – 'Bothy' taking its name from a Scottish term for a hut dwelling – the majority of the works take the form of photographs, emailed and reproduced on plastic boards. Large windows enable a contrast between the innate interiority of digital collaboration with the expansive outside setting of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which combines 500 acres of outdoor sculpture gallery and a series of interior spaces, each usually engaged in individual exhibits. Ranging from Henry Moore, one of the park's earliest patrons, to James Turrell and Roger Hiorns, the ever-changing outdoor displays work in collaboration with – and sometimes in resistance to – the landscape, itself an ergonomic land form designed in accordance with landscape architecture practices associated with Capability Brown. The Bothy Gallery sits at one of the highest points in the Park, and may be one of the first stops for visitors, who have the opportunity to engage with books on Arab art, before entering the exhibition, spread across four snug spaces within the gallery.
Awder Osman, New Democracy in Iraq, 2016. Series of photographs.
Courtesy the artist.
The second room is where we encounter some of the largest works: Iranian artist Sahand Hesamiyan's 3D-printed sculpture Pardis (2015–16) stands in a corner, busily etching an abstract geometrical structure that recalls the principles of Iranian architecture in hollow, spindle-like objects that are intended to fit together and hang from the ceiling. The piece is an extension of Hesamiyan's shortlisted work for last year's Jameel prize, held last year at Istanbul's Pera Museum, which showcased large-scale welded metal sculptures, the strength of which is opposed to the delicacy of the plastic printed forms seemingly wrought from air on show in this gallery. The shapes, small enough to hold in your hand, reference Cypress trees, and are called into relief by their juxtaposition with a large Lebanese Cypress tree in the Park itself, visible from the gallery window.
YSP's first virtual residency is assumed by Azar Othman Mahmood, who in 2010 was among five artists denied entry at the UK border, despite participating in a comprehensive survey of contemporary art from Iraq to be held at Manchester's Cornerhouse Art Gallery that year. His work in Beyond Boundaries replicates his 2013 piece People's Questions in a City, which collaborates with the audience to interrogate their relationship to the urban and political environment. The project extended beyond the display in a virtual conversation with YSP curator Helen Pheby on 21st January, which further problematized the notion of audience participation with an artist separated from the work by political embargo.
Bnar Sardar, The Garden of Eden is likely to disappear, 2015.
The strengths of this exhibition lie in the challenge posed to the potential expectations of the viewer, to engage with the exhibition's stated aims to 'share the resilience, hope and creativity that thrives throughout the region, often despite the circumstances'.[1] Taking place in the wake of the 'Brexit' referendum result to leave the European Union, some of the most decisive 'out' voters are resident in the immediate locality of YSP, with 66.3% of the residents of Wakefield, the closest town, having voted to leave. Much of the rhetoric of the campaign to leave overspilled mere nationalism to invoke right wing, racist and reactive narratives, exploiting the migrant crisis and stoking an uninformed uncertainty about Middle East regional politics. As 95 percent of visitors to YSP hail from the surrounding area, the curators are certainly well poised to create this challenge, and, when probed about the subject of political neutrality within art institutions, are confident that by choosing pieces that reflect aspects of ordinary life, the exhibition creates an understated challenge to prevalent stereotypes of the region.
Such political subtlety is manifest in one of the largest photographs in the exhibit, Bnar Sardar's The Garden of Eden is Likely to Disappear (2015), which captures a young girl and a calf; an image that initially appears somewhat innocent and anodyne, yet is part of a larger series that documents the livelihood of the Marsh Arabs, whose survival was seriously jeopardized during the regime of Saddam Hussein, and whose homeland is now protected by UNESCO. Here, the necessity of context raises important questions for the curators of whether to provide full detail that situates the photograph within its complex socio-political narrative, or to leave the viewer uninformed. The resulting companion text strikes a successful balance between the two extremes, allowing the viewer an accessible insight into the political import of an image of a child and her pet.
Similarly imbued with quiet power is Mohamed Khalid's photographic series Dirty Messages, which examines fleeting graffiti tags scrawled into the dust that rests on cars and walls in abandoned construction sites. Four images from the total sequence recalls a nation bent on refuting its natural environment, battling against the desert winds that sweep sand across cities and encroaching on the urban territory. Whilst the viewer will recognize the impulse for mark making, the photographs also present an opportunity to find familiarity in languages that have been implicated in prevalent anti-migrant attitudes in the UK.
Sabr Dri Photography, The Deer on the Road, 2016. Photograph.
Courtesy the artist, YSP and ArtRole.
The exhibition goes some way to fulfil its proposal of expanding the opportunities available for artists constrained by the frustrations of bureaucracy, by initiating a network of artists to participate online. Yet, in the absence of a more comprehensive attendant public programme, aspects of these political messages are unfortunately muted. Moreover, the full potential of 'digital art' is not explored, with the significant majority of the work comprising photography and video installations. These include works from Rozaghar Mustafa (Iraq) and Sarah Kahlil (Egypt), whose video works are played on a loop, sharing the same monitor. This decision may be a nod to their comparable autobiographical engagement with struggles of selfhood, though it is not made clear whether this decision is a curatorial juxtaposition, or an imperative due to spatial constraints. While Mustafa's piece, I am Similar to My Father (2013), is a claustrophobic portrait of the conflicting emotions she encounters in her experience as a female artist, told via nine frames playing simultaneously with overlapping audio, Khalil's video Clown Inside Me (2016) documents her childhood fantasy of becoming a clown, a dream when realised late in life becomes politically charged as we see her performing to children in Beirut refugee camps. Playing in the fourth and final space is Mai Al Shazly's Undercurrents (2015), which creates a visual opposition between two footage streams; one of the artist beating a punch bag, the other a subaqueous ocean scene, which also provides the soundtrack for both videos, resulting in a discordant audio-visual conflict that parallels the theme of political violence juxtaposed against the maintenance of personal life that threads through the exhibition.
In prioritising works of photography and video – mediums that are more easily translatable across email – the exhibition misses some opportunities to fully engage with the limitations of the digital realm as a site of freedom. Of course, when recruiting art via open call, curators naturally limit their own power for selection, and so in some ways this results from a necessary negotiation with the material that is submitted for review. So, whilst the final exhibition perhaps lacks some of the ambition of its original concept, it offers a welcome intervention that transports personal experiences in the Middle East to the Yorkshire countryside, building distance and intimacy within a digital landscape.
Beyond Boundaries: Art By Email was on show between the 07 January – 05 March 2017 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
[1] http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/beyond-boundaries-art-by-email
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Siobhán Forshaw is an independent writer and curator, based in London.
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Farther Than Language Can Reach
On the Work of Basma Alsharif
Mahmoud Abu Hashhash
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An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History
Shiva Balaghi
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Rugby 2005 is a game in the Rugby series by EA Sports.  The game allows players to play as many Rugby nations, both major and minor, and includes many tournaments, such as the Rugby World Cup, the Tri Nations, the Six Nations, and the Super 12.

The newer version of this game is Rugby 06, also by EA Sports.  It also includes a fictional "World League" where teams from the Guinness Premiership, Celtic League, Top 14, Super 12, and other domestic leagues compete against each other in a three-stage promotion and regulation structure with a knock out cup also contested.  Commentary is provided by Ian Robertson and Murray Mexted.

Rugby 2005 is the first EA Rugby title for Xbox, while the Windows version was canceled in the US.

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The PC and Xbox versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 2 version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

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Healthcare Information Technologies Performing Very Well in Overseas Markets ?
The healthcare IT of Korea has expanded to global markets such as the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and is performing very well overseas. Especially since the number of the cases in which professional medical IT companies and big corporations centered on medical institutions are jointly entering foreign markets is increasing, this package type expansion is expected to gain momentum.
The consortium of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and SK Telecom formed a contract to export Best Care 2.0, the next-generation hospital information system, with Health Affairs, the Ministry of the National Guard of Saudi Arabia, in June, and started to build the system last month. This is the very first case in which a medical institution and a big telecommunication company have jointly entered the overseas medical IT market.
Best Care 2.0 is the next generation hospital information system created by ezCaretech last year. This system was built in Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and is being successfully operated. The consortium plans to construct the system in one hospital this year and in five more hospitals next year. In addition, they plan to establish a joint venture with the government of Saudi Arabia and export the hospital information system to other Middle Eastern countries.
Inje University Paik Hospital built a medical information system at Base Hospital Avissawella in Sri Lanka early this year, and successfully stabilized the system. The system served 42,000 patients during the first half of the year. All the procedures in Base Hospital Avissawella have been computerized, which means there is no need for handwritten records any longer. Furthermore, hospital visit information is available in the system, which was impossible before the program was implemented, so that accurate prescriptions based on patient medical records is possible.
Telemedicine systems, which are not doing well in Korea, are welcomed in overseas markets. Soon Chun Hyang University, together with a medical IT company BIT Computer, will construct an international online collaborative treatment system in three local hospitals in Cambodia, including Preah Kossamak Hospital. Through this system, Soon Chun Hyang University will provide remote collaborative treatments and chronic disease management systems to those hospitals. This is the case in which the u-health system of Korea was imported to an official development assistance (ODA) country, and could lead to exports of services and medical tourism to Korea afterwards.
Korea Digital Hospital Export Agency (KOHEA) is trying to export its own 3D ultrasonic remote diagnosis (telesono diagnosis) system to developing countries. Telesono diagnosis technology enables ultrasonic images to be stored in a cloud server, transmitted through a 3G telecommunication network, and read in remote places. As nonprofessionals would be able to conduct 3D scanning after a simple training session, this system is considered very useful in developing countries, where professionals capable of reading ultrasonic images are in short supply.
Since the competition to predominate the global healthcare IT market is getting fiercer, many professional companies are struggling.
UBcare, a strong player in the clinic-level electronic medical record (EMR) market, liquidated its branches in Malaysia and Thailand that it established in 2008 and 2012, respectively. The company planned to penetrate into the medical information market in Southeast Asia based on these two branches, but decided to close them in the end after a series of losses. Platinum MD, the US branch established through the acquisition of a local EMR company in 2012, recorded 1.2 billion won (US$1.18 million) of sales revenue and 600 million won (US$589,134) of operating losses during the first half. Infinitt Healcare, a company specialized in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) with nine overseas branches in major advanced countries and emerging markets, scored net losses in all overseas branches except the U.S., China, and Southeast Asia.
As the Obama administration has mandated EMR starting from 2015, many companies including UBcare, BIT Computer, and Business On entered into the US market with a lot of expectations. However, since competition is very intense following the high growth potential, there was no significant outcome.
Competition is also very fierce in Middle Eastern countries, since the possibility of expansion became higher than before due to a partnership between the governments. As the government of Korea and Saudi Arabia formed an agreement last year, many private contracts were expected from the national medical information system business in Saudi Arabia. Yet, since many global IT companies joined the competition, international bidding, divided by projects, took place. Currently, Korean companies as well as many multinational companies including GE, Cerner, and Epic are studying one another carefully to win the bidding over the medical information system construction business for national hospitals of Saudi Arabia.


Bucknell University (www.bucknell.edu) seeks a leader with a vision for innovation in library services and resources to assume the newly created position of Executive Director, Research Services & Digital Scholarship (RS-DS). Reporting to the Vice President for Library & Information Technology (L&IT), the Executive Director will join a team committed to ensuring that Bucknell's integrated Library and IT organization sustains a culture of innovation, inclusiveness, and excellence in service to the students, faculty, and staff of the University.
The Executive Director, RS-DS will provide strategic and operational direction to two departments within L&IT: 1) Research Services & Information Literacy, which supports information resource evaluation and selection, assignment design, research skill and information literacy development through classroom and individual instruction, and direct assistance to students and faculty in their scholarship and 2) Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship, which partners with students and faculty to drive the integration of technology in teaching, learning, and research, and leads campus efforts in faculty research in digital scholarship.
The Executive Director, RS-DS will be an innovative leader with strong collaboration and interpersonal skills and an articulate vision for the role of technology and library services that supports teaching, learning, and scholarship in a premier liberal arts university setting. They will be an agent of change, sustaining classic library programs that remain relevant to 21st century while cultivating high-impact resources in emergent fields of theory and practice.
Well-qualified candidates will have proven experience as a skilled and empowering leader and manager, demonstrated appreciation for and participation in efforts and initiatives designed to recruit and retain a diverse and high-performing staff, budgetary experience, and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with constituencies across the campus community – including the ability to translate technical issues and terminology into language understood by the broader community. Significant experience in progressively responsible leadership roles in information technology and/or library services is required, as is a master's degree; a terminal degree such as MLS or PhD is preferred.
Bucknell University is an undergraduate-focused institution that stands at the intersection of top-ranked liberal arts, engineering and management programs. The University's 3,600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students enjoy a low 9:1 student-faculty ratio, and students choose from more than 50 majors and 60 minors in the arts, engineering, humanities, management, and natural and social sciences. Located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Bucknell's beautiful 450-acre campus includes first-rate facilities while the surrounding community offers charming shops and boutiques, access to outdoor activity, a relatively low cost of living, well-rated public schools, and an easy drive to major cities.
Bucknell University has engaged Opus Partners to support the Executive Director, Research Services & Digital Scholarship search. Please contact Katie Dean, Associate Partner, (katie.dean@opuspartners.net) to apply or to learn more. All communications will be managed confidentially.
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*** Limited to 500 of each color (clear/pink, green pink), with random placement in the usual cool OWS gatefold! ***
One Way Static Records proudly presents: Joe D'Amato's 'PAPAYA, LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS' (Original 1978 Motion Picture Soundtrack by STELVIO CIPRIANI) on vinyl and cassette tape.
The late Joe D'Amato who directed the film sure was quite the character in horror cinema. Directing over 200 films including Spaghetti westerns, war movies and countless (s)exploitation flicks, D'Amato was a force to be reckoned with. His credits include genre classics such as 'Anthropophagous', 'Buio Omega AKA Beyond The Darkness', the 'Emanuelle' series, 'Absurd', 'Troll 2&3'…and many, many more. Next to directing, Joe also took to the producer & screenplay writing chair for films like 'Stage Fright', 'La Casa 3,4 & 5', 'Pieces', 'Ghosthouse', 'Zombie 5'… just to list a few.
In 1978 D'Amato directed the erotic cannibal shocker 'Papaya', capitalizing on the Cannibal genre and adding his signature 'soft core porn' to the mix, Papaya turned out to be a better than average exploitation film that genre fans happily revisit from time to time.
To underscore PAPAYA, LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS (original title: Papaya dei Caraibi) Joe turned to Stelvio Cipriani who delivered a sensual & jazzy soundtrack. Some say the compositions delivered here were 'too damn good' for the type of film it was paired with.
Stelvio Cipriani (born 1937) is an Italian composer that actually needs little introduction. Starting his scoring career in 1966, Cipriani composed countless soundtracks to some of the best spaghetti western & police/crime films winning him some very prestigious awards in the process. Horror & Cult fans will know Stelvio from his scores for genre favorites such as 'Pieces', Mario Bava's 'A Bay Of Blood AKA Twitch Of The Death Nerve' & 'Baron Blood', Umberto Lenzi's 'Nightmare City' & 'Voices From Beyond', Sergio Martino's 'The Great Alligator' and James Cameron's 'Pirhana II: The Spawning'. We can't even begin to list his many exploitation film scores like 'Sister Emanuelle', 'Deported Women Of The SS' … and many more. In 2007 Cipriani was brought to the public's attention again when Quentin Tarantino used his 1977 main theme for 'Tentacolli' in the film 'Death Proof'.
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IWDA statement to parliamentary hearing on Myanmar: Australia must do more
by Benjamin Murdoch
International Women's Development Agency has joined Australian civil society organisations calling for the Australian Government to take further action against the military coup in Myanmar. Women's rights activists are at the frontline of peaceful protests calling for a federal democracy in Myanmar. They are risking their lives for justice and peace, and the global community must stand with them.
On April 13, we shared evidence at an inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.
Here is the opening statement we delivered:
International Women's Development Agency has partnered with women's rights organisations from Myanmar since the mid-1980s. These organisations are now taking a leading role in protests against those attempting to deny Myanmar a democratic future.
In speaking today we aim to amplify their voices.
We would like to begin with a quote from a representative of our partner, Women's League of Burma (WLB):
In the past two months, Burma has turned into a pool of blood.
The violence against peaceful protestors is deepening the wounds in our country that have formed during over 70 years of civil war.
Women's rights activists are frightened. We are fearful for our safety and the safety of our families. We're not sleeping in our homes at night – we change locations regularly. For myself, I walked through the forests of Karen State with my 2 year old daughter to reach a more secure location.
We are gravely concerned for the safety of the founder of WLB and Mizzima news, Thin Thing Aung, who was detained on 8 April. We are also mourning the death of the Director of Women for Justice, and our dear friend, Ah Khu. She was murdered by the military while protesting on 28 March.
This quote speaks to the gendered impacts of the coup. Our partners on the ground have observed that around 60% of protesters on the streets are women. They know keenly that extended military rule brings significant threats to women, particularly from ethnic minorities.
Women human rights defenders face direct threats to their physical safety. The Tatmadaw is using indiscriminate violence against peaceful protesters, including women, to try to terrorise civilians into submission.
Women and girls are now more vulnerable to sexual violence. There is a well-documented history of the Tatmadaw using sexual violence as a weapon of war, particularly against ethnic minorities. Our partner, Women's League of Burma, has received reports of sexual assault against those women protestors who have been detained.
The gender equality gains made over the last decade are deteriorating. Australian aid contributed to these gains, including increased women's political leadership. While a record number of women were elected to Parliament in November, these women are now largely in hiding.
Women's rights organisations are also facing substantially increased military surveillance, reducing their ability to provide critical services, such as support to survivors of gender-based violence.
I will now turn to suggested actions. Australia should draw on its middle power status and leadership role in the region to support the women of Myanmar in their fight for safety and an inclusive, federal democracy.
Australia should urgently increase targeted sanctions, advocate for a global arms embargo and use diplomatic leverage to restore the democratically elected government and support a transition to an inclusive, federal democracy. The alternative is looking increasingly like deepening civil war.
There is significant support for these actions by the Australian public. With support from IWDA, a young woman in Myanmar launched a petition asking for these specific actions from Australia. In less than 6 days, 12,039 members of the public have signed the petition. We'd like to table that petition here today.
We would like to close with words from a representative from our partner, Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN):
Our people are calling for the international community to urgently respond. Some countries are responding, adopting targeted sanctions, which is the most critical action that each individual country can take. We are waiting for the Australia Government to also stand with us and urgently limit the Tatmadaw's access to funds. We have always considered Australia a supporter of human rights and have gratefully received Australian Aid in support of our work.
In the past I have never lost hope in international mechanisms to fight against this brutal regime. Today I am not so sure. I am starting to feel hopeless. However I keep breathing every day so I continue to dream that one day I will witness the fall of the military regime.
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to these discussions on what actions Australia should take.
Story source: International Women's Development Agency
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THE SORRY PLANE
REST, PLAY, GROW
Who Will Take Care of the Bully?
Alpha | Bully | Emotion | Parenting | School | Self Esteem
Lucy was the name of my bully in grade 6. At the age of 11 her mother had died suddenly from a cancer leaving behind 4 children and a husband. Lucy didn't get mean right away; she seemed lost and sad at first. I remember my teacher telling us we should show her compassion and we did, for awhile. It's hard to say when her transformation occurred but her sadness gave way to a cold and hardened deamenour around the time her father remarried. We all understood on some level that you couldn't go through something like that and stay the same person, but I wasn't prepared for the bully she became.
Lucy seemed to take great pleasure in trying to make me feel invisible and in sending a message that I was unimportant. She worked hard at school, not on academics but on alienating me. While I remember being sad about it, I just moved on, avoided her, and played with other people. I remember feeling sorry for my friends who followed her, like sheep to the slaughter.
It was only when Lucy started the rumours that I got really upset. My friend Natalie would rush to tell me, with flushed face and rapid speech, the latest 'secret'. I quickly realized it was just Lucy using Natalie to get to me. At some point I had enough of her hurtful words and in exasperation I reached for the only desperate solution I could think of. I told Natalie that if Lucy continued to spread rumours, I was going "to wait for her after school and we would fight it out." As I saw Natalie's naïve but kind brown eyes widen I decided to emphasize my message. "I don't care if I get in trouble, I am going to beat her up so she learns her lesson." What I didn't tell Natalie was that I was terrified of getting in trouble, of getting hurt, and of hurting Lucy, but I just couldn't see any other way through. One day later Natalie found me, tense with the weighty burden of being a peacemaker, and said, "Lucy doesn't want to fight you. Will you still beat her up if she stops?" Shocked, I managed to assert, "okay," and a sense of relief overwhelmed me.
When I was 11, there were no anti-bully campaigns, counsellors to talk to or a zero tolerance policy at my school. I am not sure how these would have influenced my decision-making or helped. What my 11-year old self believed was that if I had gone to an adult for help they would have made me a bigger victim. My mother would have been up at the school demanding action and calling Lucy's father. While today I understand these actions as a parent, I intuitively knew at 11 years of age that the last thing you did in front of a bully was show vulnerability. If Lucy saw that my adults needed to rescue me, I would have been subjected to further torment and ridicule.
While I was 'fortunately successful' in stopping Lucy from bullying me, I know it didn't change the bully inside of her. She started bullying another child in the class who was quirky and came from a poor family. What Lucy really needed wasn't consequences, punishment, empathy lessons, zero-tolerance or me threatening to beat her up. What she needed was to be understood and taken care of. Lucy had faced more separation than she could bear and she was lost. She had a mother that had disappeared unexpectedly, a father who had a new wife, and she was facing her adolescent development without a female guide. These were the separations I knew of, but there could have been more. Was her father available to her or was he lost in his own grief or new wife? Did she move to a new house as a result of her father's remarriage and away from the home her mother had cared for her in? What became of her brothers and how did they deal with the loss of their mother? Was Lucy bullied at home too? Did she have grandparents or other adults that could hold onto her as she faced all that she had lost? While I don't know the answers to these questions I do know that the bully she became was created from the seeds of facing too much separation.
What Lucy couldn't say was that her wounds were too much to bear and her brain had moved to defend her against these vulnerable feelings. There wasn't anything wrong with her brain but with her world – it had come undone. The firm footing she had grown up on had been torn away overnight. It wasn't that she wasn't capable of caring but that if she did, she would have had to face a cascade of emotions flooding and overwhelming her. How could she possibly find all the tears and words for a mother that had been lost, let alone all the changes that had unfolded? On the outside Lucy had a tough, untouchable, cold demeanour as she moved to exploit the vulnerability in others. She used shame, putdowns, and intimidation and took great delight in wounding me. This was not who Lucy was, but who she had become in light of facing too much separation. She had grown dark inside and moved to exploit other's vulnerability, a projection of all that she could not bear inside herself. Her heart had grown cold and her feelings were numbed out, she was surviving but no longer fully human.
If you were to ask me what I would have wanted for Lucy and I, it would have been for the adults to take the lead while preserving our dignity. I wish they could have seen what was occurring and moved in to take care of us both. Our problem wasn't for us to figure out and 'bully' or 'victim' labels would have done little to help. Being called a bully would have only increased Lucy's wounding and separation while being labeled a victim would have done little for my self worth. What prevented her words from sticking to me was that I never saw them as personal but more of a reflection as to how she was hurting and that I was her favourite target.
There were many ways adults could have moved to take care of us without our knowledge. From lunch yard supervision to adult lunch dates for Lucy, there was no shortage of ways to intervene naturally. Lucy needed to feel again and when she did, the bully inside of her would have been made human once more. The question was how to protect and shield the kids around Lucy's wounding ways until this happened. If the adults had eyes to understand her they would have seen her dominance and lack of empathy. Why did there have to be a victim before they could see the bully inside of her? She was free falling but no one knew how to catch her.
When I reflect back on Lucy I no longer want to beat her up, I want to put my arms around her and tell her I am sorry. I am sorry I scared her because I was too frustrated and hurt. I would tell her I hold nothing against her and understand why she was moved to wound others. I would tell her that I am sorry life handed her too much to bear. I would tell her that I hoped someone had taken care of her so she could find her tears and be made fully human again.
Copyright Dr. Deborah MacNamara
Deborah MacNamara is a clinical counsellor and educator, on faculty at the Neufeld Institute and author of Rest, Play, Grow – Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one). She has more than 25 years experience working with children, youth, and adults and speaks regularly about child and adolescent development to parents, childcare providers, educators, and mental health professionals. Please see www.macnamara.ca for more information.
Dr. Deborah MacNamara
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1a) The other big moment was sitting for about 20 minutes or so in the cruelly windswept lower busway of Ruggles Station with a colleague who was drinking an iced coffee.
2a) Why yes, that is Alice Ghostley.
2b) The obituary did not include her uproarious appearance in that outlandish comedy of 1976, The Ritz, OR her little-known photo as one of the nurses on page 8 of First Lady: My Thirty Days Upstairs at the White House, by Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield, as told to Patrick Dennis and with 172 Photographs by Cris Alexander.
3) The only other thing worth noting is that, in an actual FB update, I misspelled vocabulary with an A. And I now have a definition for it: Vacabulary: noun; va-ˈka-byə-ˌler-ē; plural: vacabularez. Definition: a collection of words destined to be misspelled by hurried and/or careless typists.


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Home Top News Record 800,000 refugees forced to flee their countries in 2011- UNHCR
Record 800,000 refugees forced to flee their countries in 2011- UNHCR
Geneva, June 18, 2012 (MAP)
Global conflicts in 2011 forced 800,000 refugees to flee their own countries and cross borders for safety and security, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' 2011 Global Trends report.
The report, which was issued on Monday, noted that more people became refugees last year than at any time since 2000 when it hit 822,000.
The UNHCR said that the total people the total number of newly displaced people worldwide in 2011, including people who fled their homes but not their countries, was 4.3 million.
However, the total number who were either refugees, internally displaced or in the process of seeking asylum at the end of last year declined to 42.5 million from 43.7 million in 2010
According to the same document, Afghanistan remains the world's leading source of refugees, accounting for some 2.7 million, followed by Iraq with 1.4 million, Somalia with 1.1 million, Sudan with 500,000 and Congo with 491,000.


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Robotics - A Vexing Question?
NZST recently had the opportunity to attend the 2017 VEX Robotics New Zealand National, and Asia-Pasific Competitions, held at the Rotorua Energy Events Centre. What we saw was impressive.
While we have covered such events in the past, to bring you all the excitement and news, these two events got us thinking about the Nature of Science in the context of robotics.
As addressed in our 2017 NZST journal, robotics is no longer in the realm of science fiction. Robotics is advancing faster than most people comprehend, and it is becoming pervasive in every application of technology. We are at a point where the term robot is becoming increasingly inadequate to cover the multitude of merging technologies and their applications.
Although those of us born in the last century secretly, or for some overtly, cling to the reassurance of an analog world, our children swim in the currents of the digital age. As such, we owe it to them to teach them how to 'swim'. Many of them will become highly competent and competitive 'swimmers', if we do.
So why should we be insisting that robotics is an option for all students, at all schools in New Zealand? Would such a knowledge specific option like this even appeal to all kids? To answer this question, you only have to talk to the students that get involved and their parents. The feedback I have had has been uniform in its enthusiasm and genuine surprise at the depth of learning that goes on.
"I didn't know how cool this was until I came and saw them doing it for myself!" Craig.W - parent.
Even the kids themselves don't see this as schoolwork. Yet they are involved in numeracy, logic, fair testing, self-management and collaboration to a very deep level. So, for the uninitiated, what is learning robotics actually about?
First, students need to get familiarised with the components of their machines, and how to instruct them (coding), but with this knowledge under their belts they can then get on with the real job of problem solving. No matter what type of project or competition they become involved in, there will always be design, programming or tactical challenges to solve. In this way, Robotics augments and is enhanced by STEM. Whether the students are designing, building, testing, driving or programming, they are required to use the full gambit of science tools and processes that they learn through mainstream subjects. Moreover, this helps them to consolidate their learning and entrench understanding through doing. This is why even the most technophobic anti-geek student you have will still show a glimmer of interest when you put a controller for a robot in their hands. Then pass their learning over to their robo-geek peers and the results are astonishing. Students who previously show no aptitude for science can use simple scientific language to explain how the machine operates and why various functions are necessary to win the game.
St Peter's College, Palmerston North; 2017 National Champions.
Robotics programmes are surprising easy to set-up. Even a Teacher with no previous Robotics experience can offer a Primary level programme for students. All you need is a kit and you're off! Using VEX as a model, kits for VEX IQ are about $400.00 and contain all you need to build a 'Bot' and enter a team in the VEX competitions. VEX IQ is all about collaboration, so there will be plenty of help available. The only problem will be in meeting the demand for students wanting to have a go themselves.
ASIA-PASIFIC Awards, Truly International Experience.
"VEX (IQ) Robotics is the ideal technology option, as the competition aspect provides a real-world problem, where students communicate, cooperate and collaborate to design, build and program the best possible solution to the challenge that changes every year. There are multiple levels of achievement and success, especially, when you incorporate the programming/coding aspect as well. If this doesn't give you enough scope, incorporate story writing, creating videos, blogging or vlogging about their design process." Stephan Van Haren, TIC Robotics, St Peter's College, Palmerston North.


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Enforcement Watch Issue 21 | January 2017
The New Rules on Regulatory References
The FCA and PRA have now published final rules regarding regulatory references for banks and insurers subject to the Senior Managers' and Certification Regime ("SMCR"). The new rules will come into force on 7 March 2017 (the date on which the certification regime comes fully into effect).
Whilst regulatory references may be thought to be a relatively insignificant aspect of the wider reform brought about by SMCR, the new rules have the potential to impact significantly on individuals and firms. We set out below both the reforms and some of the ways in which these different interests may be affected.
The genesis of the new rules was the perceived threat, developed in the 2015 Fair and Effective Markets Review of so-called "rolling bad apples"; employees allowed to leave an authorised firm under a cloud, yet able to take employment at another authorised firm because of inadequate references being requested or provided.
Against that backdrop, the new rules seek to bring about standardisation to the content of references sought and requested for candidates for the following roles: Senior Management Function holders, certified staff and so-called "notified NEDs" (namely NED's who are not pre-approved to perform any Senior Management Functions). For dual regulated roles, only one reference need be sought –the standard form template for FCA and PRA references is the same.
Key changes brought about by the FCA and PRA rules are as follows:
Firms subject to the new rules must take "reasonable steps" (which is not defined), to obtain compliant references from the candidate's current employer and anyone who has employed the candidate in the last 6 years.
Where the requested firm is also subject to the new rules, the requesting firm must request information in the standard form template (at SYSC 22 Annex 1R). The requested firm is under a mirroring obligation to provide this information.
The standard form template information includes mandatory information about the following in the 6 years preceding the reference request (including any period between the request and the reference itself):
Whether the requested firm concluded that the individual was not fit and proper and separately whether any disciplinary action resulted.
Whether disciplinary action was taken against an individual for breach of "individual conduct requirements" (such as Code of Conduct breaches).
The standard form template also requests any information relevant to the assessment of fitness and propriety occurring in the 6 years prior to the reference request, occurring between the reference request and the reference, or occurring at any time if it is "serious misconduct" (the meaning of which is elaborated upon in guidance). This "catch-all" requirement generated significant comment from respondents to the consultation, concerned at its uncertainty.
The PRA has noted that information provided under the "catch-all" section might include information in mitigation of mandatory disclosures, or events that did not formally result in disciplinary action or a finding that the individual was not fit and proper.
Where the requested firm is not subject to the new rules (e.g. it is subject to the Approved Persons' Regime), the requesting firm must request all information relevant to an assessment of fitness and propriety, occurring in the 6 years prior to the reference, occurring between the request and the reference, or occurring at any time if it is "serious misconduct" (see above). The standard form template need not be used. It is likely that such references will be less detailed than those provided in the standard form template and will be similar to the kinds of regulatory references provided at present.
In certain circumstances, a firm subject to the new rules must update a reference that it has given. This applies if it becomes aware of matters that would have caused it to draft the standard form template reference differently. Additionally, references must also be updated if the firm has since giving the reference reached new conclusions on fitness and propriety or taken action for breach of "individual conduct requirements" of a type that are "significant" to the assessment of fitness and propriety and which would have otherwise been disclosed in the reference.
There is specific guidance clarifying that these rules do not create per se a duty to investigate alleged misconduct by a former employee, but the FCA unsurprisingly notes that there may clearly be circumstances in which this is prudent (SYSC 22.5.18G).
Responding to concerns expressed in consultation about potential unfairness, the FCA clarifies the continuing existence of a common law duty on the requested firm to exercise due skill and care in the preparation of the reference (SYSC 22.5.4.G(1)). It goes on to note that fairness will normally require a firm to give an employee the chance to comment on allegations/issues covered in a reference, although it anticipates that this would commonly be done as part of a disciplinary process and that the absence of consultation does not prevent the allegation/issue being mentioned.
These new rules look set to heighten the significance of references for firms and individuals alike. Firms for example will need to implement systems, not only to ensure that proper references are taken up when hiring, but also to ensure that information is retained in order that they can give accurate references in relation to former employees that left the firm up to 6 years ago. Further, under the new regime, firms may find themselves less able in disciplinary situations to duck the issue of whether individuals are fit and proper or have committed Code of Conduct breaches. If so, we can see that potentially leading to increased enforcement actions against individuals. Whatever the case, the rolling 6 year coverage period may make the regulatory reference more like a provenance documents for individuals, hanging over their heads for years to come, bringing increased litigation risk for firms.
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