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Tactics Ogre: Reborn Releasing On Multiple Platforms
Tactics Ogre Reborn Cover Art - Source: Square Enix
Tactics Ogre: Reborn is the upcoming remake of the original classic released almost two decades prior. The strategy RPG has been confirmed to be receiving a remake earlier and will feature a whole host of new features. While not as big as other RPGs released during its time, Tactics Ogre still has its fair share of fans, so this news should be great for old fans looking to replay the game, as well as fans looking to get into the franchise.
Arise, and revive your legacy.#TacticsOgre: Reborn releases on PlayStation 5/4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on November 11th.
Pre-order the digital version to receive the Digital Mini Soundtrack which includes 3 in-game music tracks: https://t.co/MBVsdLnXHY pic.twitter.com/oU3pcjhzs3
— Square Enix (@SquareEnix) August 4, 2022
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is a tactical role-playing game that was released in 1995 for the Super Famicom, known as the SNES in other regions. The game was brought over to the Sega Saturn a year later and got a release in North America in May 1998 on the PlayStation 1. The game was praised when it was released for both its story and gameplay and sold over 500,000 copies in Japan alone. The art style and music of the game were praised as well, being noted as one of the more beautiful 2D games of that era.
Tactics Ogre received a remake in 2010, also titled Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling together. The remake was released on the PSP and featured various enhancements over the previous versions of the game. It seems as though this is the version that Tactics Ogre: Reborn will be based on. While we described it as a remake earlier, Tactics Ogre: Reborn may be better described as a remaster.
Below are the new features and enhancements in Tactics Ogre: Reborn.
High-Definition Characters and Backgrounds.
Fully Updated User Interface.
Sound improvements.
A redesigned battle system, featuring the unit-by-unit leveling system.
Battle AI overhaul.
Playability improvements.
The story remains largely the same but features new additions. Tactics Ogre: Reborn will feature new scenes and characters which weren't present in the original version.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn will be released on November 11th for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch.
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Fathers Invest in Your Kids!
Something on the front page of a New York Times Sunday Business section (1-15-06) caught my eye. (Disclosure: I already know that the market goes up and down and am bored by financial news so I almost never read these pages.) But the words "Where to Invest Now? In Your Children" were intriguing so I turned to Ben Stein's piece in his weekly "Everybody's Business" column.
Stein used his column to give advice to busy fathers. Wait, that's my job, I thought, but I have to admit he wrote a great parenting column. His bottom line advice: no matter how busy you are at work spend time with your children, help them as they walk along the road to adulthood, encourage them every step of the way.
Ben Stein tells a wonderful story about the 5-year-old daughter of a friend. She wanted to look at the stars in his back yard after dinner. He told her to look up at the sky but she complained she couldn't see the stars even though they were shining brightly. Her father said he would hold her on his shoulders and when hoisted up there she exclaimed, "Now I see all the stars, they're beautiful." She was, of course, but infinitesimally closer to the stars but she was infinitely uplifted by her father's attentive love.
He went on to admit there were lots he didn't know about finance and economics despite his status as a financial columnist (Disclosure number two: there's lots I don't know about parenting and children but I manage to learn something new every day which keeps me going as a parenting columnist.) he was sure that investment in your children is a good bet and it pays off.
I agree! Because mothers generally spend more time with their children, even those moms who are in the workforce, fathers are somewhat overlooked and underestimated in their importance to the well-being and development of their children. One of the healthiest side effects of the increase in maternal employment has been the parallel increase in participatory fatherhood.
But, alas, not all men realize how important they are to their children. We still hear stories of men who take off when they learn their girlfriend is pregnant. We read about deadbeat dads who do not financially or emotionally support their children after a divorce. We hear about men who are indifferent to their children and are convinced child-rearing is not their job.
I remember my own father's encouragement. I can still hear him saying to me, a day after my sixth birthday, for example, "A big girl like you, almost seven years old, of course you can do it!" I remember him patiently helping me with my math homework and, more important, helping me get over my fear of math. I remember how he imparted his love of science, his curiosity about the world, his wonder about the new technology that he lived to see.
An engineer, he always carried a slide rule in his shirt pocket as well as a notebook and sharp pencils so he could write down questions he though of that he wanted to find answers too. He taught me how to use a slide rule when I was still in grade school. He also taught me how to play chess and find the constellations in the sky. When I started college he suggested I go to one of the Boston newspapers and offer to write college news for them. They hired me and actually paid me (a dollar an inch). This "job" which would have never occurred to me gave me confidence in my writing skills.
My father believed in me and because of this I began to believe in my self. I instinctively knew as a child how important my father's time and attention were. Now I know that ENCOURAGEMENT and high EXPECTATIONS are the essence of good parenting.
So I ask all you dads out there to lift your kids up so they can better see the stars and become the very best they can become here on earth.


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Davao City (1 June) -- A growing support and awareness on reproductive health issues has been noted by the non-governmental organization, the Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development.
"Sagad ang awareness ng media," (awareness by the media is in the extreme.) Maida Ojeda, media officer of PLCPD, describes the national media's awareness and support on reproductive health. She describes that all forms of media from TV, radio, print had been very supportive in their cause.
Ojeda cites last 2010 elections when reproductive health and population was mainstreamed by the media as one of the issues for discussion among the many political candidates. A growing awareness by the media also reflected an equal growth in the consciousness of the public.
This consciousness might have shattered the myth of a Catholic vote when a very strong supporter of the RH bill, Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino is anticipated to be proclaimed as the country's next President.
Senator Noynoy was very firm on supporting the Reproductive Health bill, there were others who backed out of supporting the bill, but he (Aquino) maintained his stand, Ojeda said.
According to Ojeda these successes will be measured when the RH bill will be passed. Currently a deluge of first-time legislators elected into congress has reduced the number of pro-RH legislators from 200 plus to only about 70.
Meanwhile to further drum up media support, the PLCPD will be rolling out the 6th Population and Development Media Awards which aim to give distinction to exemplary news articles, photos, reportage, blogs about population and reproductive health issues.
Ojeda said that submitted entries to the awards can be a gauge on media's support for its causes. For example, in 2005 when the maiden staging of the awards was held there were about a hundred plus entries. The number of entries for 2009 had a significant 345% from 2005.
Ojeda added that aside from quantity, the quality of submitted works has also improved. According to the award's board of judges, they noticed that contents of the articles were getting better, well-written and well-researched.


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Archbishop Alexander Sample blesses the new food center in Springfield.
Workers staff the new food distribution center in Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD — A Catholic aid organization here has turned an unused Episcopalian chapel into a food distribution site for the poor.
"We think it is a good repurposing of a place that was sacred," says Tom Mulhern, executive director of Catholic Community Services in Lane County.
The agency provides more than 1.5 million pounds of food to more than 22,000 people each year at locations in Springfield and Eugene. It is the largest distributor of free nourishment in the county.
Archbishop Alexander Sample visited May 20 to bless Springfield's new "Joe Softich Food and Resource Center." The site, with vaulted ceilings and large cross on the wall, is named for the longtime employee who 20 years ago pioneered the shopping style of food pickup, which has become an industry standard. People in need are guided through food stocks and allowed to choose what they will use. That reduces waste and increases dignity, Mulhern says.
In his remarks at the dedication, Archbishop Sample focused on human dignity.
The archbishop said the project reflects a spirituality in which we see the face of Jesus in the poor.
Catholic Community Services' Springfield center has for more than a decade been located at the former Episcopalian/Presbyterian church. Until recently, people in need picked up food in a cramped space, with overflow outside. Check-in was confusing. The old chapel, with a high arched ceiling, was used for storage until officials decided on the new plan.
The newly renovated center includes a centralized intake and larger waiting area, two handicapped accessible restrooms larger storage and distribution zone.
Major funders of the $150,000 renovation were the Murphy Family, City of Springfield, The Collins Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation and Oregon Food Bank.
Christine Lundberg, mayor of Springfield, called Catholic Community Services an asset to the people of the city.
"This is an excellent addition to all you do and all we look to you to help with in our community," Lundberg said.
During the recession, need for emergency food climbed in Lane County. Hardship has not dropped off. About 15,000 households per year are helped at each of the Catholic Community Services locations, some of them families asking for food for the first time.
The average household helped here comes for food three to four times per year, even though the rules allow them to come up to 20 times.
"People don't like to ask for help," Mulhern says.
Typical clients include a 30-something mother of three young children whose husband just died and a single mom who drove around the block three times before getting up the courage to stop. Neither had money for both rent and food.
The two centers also provide clothing, personal care items, bus passes, utility assistance, temporary shelter and short-term financial aid.
On a recent morning, Father David Cullings is working at the Eugene distribution center, letting clients know when their turn has come to pick supplies. Retired Marist chaplain and parish priest, he wanted to do something clearly in response to a call from the gospel. He has been volunteering every week for a couple of years.


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Consultative Committee aims to give Cha-Cha report by Duterte's SONA
Feb 8, 2018 2:50 PM PHT
Pia Ranada
(UPDATED) The committee plans to meet 5 days a week until July to study possible changes to the 1987 Constitution
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The Consultative Committee (Con-Com) studying amendments to the 1987 Constitution aims to submit its report by President Rodrigo Duterte's 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA) this July.
Con-Com member and former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr told reporters this was the biggest decision made by the 19-member body during their first ever meeting on Thursday, February 8, at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).
"Basically, they want us to submit the proposal by towards the end of, 'yung SONA sa July (the SONA in July) so the President can already report the results of the Consultative Committee recommendations for Congress to take up," said Pimentel after leaving the meeting.
Duterte will deliver his 3rd SONA on July 23. The committee wants the President to be able to hand to leaders of both houses of Congress their report during the SONA. (READ: Is there a need to change the 1987 Philippine Constitution?)
The committee has 6 months or until July to come up with its recommendations and proposals for amending the 1987 Constitution.
Asked if he thinks Congress should wait for the Con-Com's report before convening as a Constituent Assembly, Con-Com chairperson Reynato Puno said, "Yes, that should be ideal."
The former Supreme Court chief justice said he prefers to engage members of Congress only when the committee is able to finish its recommendations.
"Personally, I would prefer that we be given enough time to revise, revisit this Constitution, separated and independent from Congress," he said.
A majority of the current 19 members are pro-federalism, said Pimentel, himself a staunch advocate of that form of government.
Asked if he is confident that Congress will adopt the committee's proposals, he said he remains hopeful.
"Hopefully. We are a free country and I don't think we should dictate. We should allow the representatives of the people to have their say. If they are convinced, fine, and if they are not, then too bad," said Pimentel.
He expects the most contentious issues to be changes to the economic provisions and the inclusion of an anti-political dynasty provision.
Aside from the submission target, Pimentel said the Con-Com members, led by former Supreme Court chief justice Reynato Puno, also discussed "general guidelines" and schedule for meetings.
It was agreed that the members are to meet Mondays to Fridays until July at the PICC.
Pimentel said he suggests for committee meetings to be open to the media in order to engage the public in discussions about reviewing the charter. (READ: A comparison of Cha-Cha proposals: From federalism to foreign equity) – Rappler.com
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Pia Ranada is a senior reporter for Rappler covering Philippine politics and environmental issues. For tips and story suggestions, email her at pia.ranada@rappler.com.
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Nancy Pelosi: Rashida Tlaib's Impeachment Comment 'Nothing Worse Than the President Has Said'
The newly elected speaker said she would not have used such language, but said that Tlaib is entitled to her free speech.
Gideon Resnick
Political Reporter
Updated Jan. 04, 2019 11:59AM ET / Published Jan. 04, 2019 11:47AM ET
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on Friday that she views impeachment as a "divisive" issue, but partly defended newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) Thursday evening remark that "We're gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker."
Speaking with MSNBC host Joy Reid, Pelosi was adamant that she is not in the business of policing the language of her colleagues. Furthermore, she noted, the president himself has used far worse language.
"I probably have a generational reaction to [Tlaib's comment]," Pelosi said in the MSNBC interview set to air Friday night. "I'm not in the censorship business," she said. "I don't like that language, I wouldn't use that language, but I wouldn't establish language standards for my colleagues."
Tlaib's comments, the speaker added, were "nothing worse than the president has said."
Asked about the concern that even appearing to pursue impeachment would invigorate the president's core supporters, Pelosi replied that it "consolidates his base, but I don't think they need much consolidation."
"That is not the position of the House Democratic caucus," Pelosi declared. "That's freedom of speech of an individual member. As I say, generationally that would not be language I would use. But nonetheless, I don't think we should make a big deal of it."
Tlaib's office doubled down on the comment on Friday morning saying that "Congresswoman Tlaib was elected to shake up Washington, not continue the status quo. Donald Trump is completely unfit to serve as President. The Congresswoman absolutely believes he needs to be impeached."
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I had known that my cousin Carla's marriage was an unhappy one, and so therefore it did not come as a surprise to me when she announced her divorce. As Carla was childless and without familial responsibilities I was also not surprised when she e-mailed to say that she planned to emigrate to New Zealand to make a fresh start. She told me that she already had a job lined up and was excited about her future prospects, but that she desperately needed to see me before her departure. One week before Carla left I drove over to her home in Retford, the house had been sold and the majority of Carla's possessions packed or disposed of. We sat in the garden chatting for a while until Carla suddenly became very serious and asked me if I would do something to help her.
Carla explained that some time ago she had gone to visit a friend who had been studying to become a hypnotherapist. During the course of the conversation Carla had questioned her friend about past life regression, a subject which had always interested her. The friend was reluctant to talk about it at first saying that it was a very controversial technique. After a while however, Carla had persuaded her friend to attempt to regress her. The attempt had been a successful and Carla had had a very vivid experience in which she was located not in another time or place but in a totally different world. She then described how she had been approached by a child who had given her a strange compass like object which the child had described as a 'talisman'. The child had entreated her to 'follow the talisman'. At that point Carla's friend had bought her out of the hypnotic trance.
Later, approaching her own front door, Carla had reached into her shoulder bag to find her house keys, and to her astonishment had found the talisman just as she had visualised it in her trance.
Carla had clearly been very disturbed by the experience and was ashen faced after telling her story. As she had begun the conversation by asking me to help her, I asked what I could do. She picked up a plastic carrier bag from beside the bench on which we were seated and drew out a parcel which she then unwrapped. As she folded back the paper I saw that the parcel contained a strange object. It was the talisman –the talisman from the other world. Carla wanted me to look after the talisman until she was settled in New Zealand, then to send it on to her. I agreed to do so, but made her promise to get in touch as soon as she arrived in Christchurch, where she planned to settle.
That was ten months ago, and I have still not heard from Carla. The address which she gave to me proved to be false, and all attempts to trace her have failed.


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A couple of cool guys are celebrating birthdays today ... well, maybe one cool guy and one with a bad rep. Guitarist Zakk Wylde (born Jeffrey Wielandt) turns 49 today. He's best known as the 3rd replacement for Randy Rhoads in Ozzy's band but I liked him best as the guitarist for Steel Dragon! The other guy is Geoff Tate, the vocalist of Queensryche in their prime, who turns 57 today. Geoff had issues with his bandmates, and has had issues with audiences before, so he may not be popular with some circles. But he was a great vocalist, you can't deny that.
So happy birthday wished to 2 guys who are not yet too old to rock 'n roll!


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maxon motor Australia is Official Supplier to Emirates Team New Zealand. We follow their progress and will give regular updates on their journey to Defend the America's Cup.
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The beauty of winning the America's Cup and bringing it back to New Zealand is it gives us the ability to try to restimulate what has been a stagnant or declining industry over the past few years. "The real performance benefits of bringing the boat building 'in-house' for Emirates Team New Zealand is the ability to shift resources and schedules to suit the team's operations which enables a more efficient link between the Emirates Team New Zealand designers at the team base in the Viaduct and the production team on the North Shore.
Typically, in with the objective of extracting every last detail of performance gain, the designers leave handing their final designs over to the production until the very last opportunity. Not only that, they continue to refine designs beyond specific deadlines so now we can make changes as the priorities shift which allows us to make design decisions a lot later but more advanced than we ever have been able to."Integral to the set-up of the base as always with Emirates Team New Zealand has been a number of key suppliers of the team.
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BIRTH OF FOILING IN THE AMERICA'S CUP.
In late August 2012 a grainy photo of a boat emerged online. Most hardened America's Cup followers will clearly remember the image that was the talk of the sailing world for many weeks.
A high angle shot, looking down on a giant 72 foot red and black Emirates Team New Zealand catamaran seemingly flying above the waters of the Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
An image that was so far outside the realms of the imagination of most people – but not those inside the base of Emirates Team New Zealand.
The cat was out of the bag, foiling had arrived. But there had been many months of secretive R&D meetings at Emirates Team New Zealand that went into developing a concept that would transform the world of America's Cup racing forever.
Rewind to 2011, two years out from the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco. A time of any campaign where teams are thinking outside the square with weird and wonderful ideas having been studying the AC72 class rule, looking for loopholes and testing or attempting to validate some of the most innovative theories. A crazy concept was continuing to circle within Emirates Team New Zealand.
Was there a way to design a control system within the rules to move the daggerboards in the water to create enough lift to support the weight of five saloon cars on a surface area the size of a desk?
In 2011, simulation was not at the required level of technology that it is today, so testing and ideas had to be validated on the water.
The challenge was how to keep such a crazy concept of foiling secret.
Auckland Harbour was a goldfish bowl to tens of thousands of eyeballs which would gawk at a vessel levitating above the water and sailing faster than most engine powered boats on the harbour, so a more discreet location was required.
And so, the first testing of the concept of foiling for America's Cup all started on a remote and narrow lake in the middle of the Waikato region – Lake Arapuni – as a covert mission with a boat affectionately nicknamed, 'The Waka'.
Things got off to a rocky start. Early on in the ultra-covert project, while towing the Waka south, a small group of team members (who shall remain nameless) had to call the team CEO Grant Dalton to explain there was a slight curveball in the operation. The top-secret test platform was now firmly the centre of public attention because they had neglected to tie it to the trailer appropriately and it had slipped off and was causing a multi mile traffic jam on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The issue was swiftly resolved, and adversity overcome. The operation was back on track.
Glenn Ashby was relatively new to the team back then and quickly understood that foiling was not just a whacky fad but something that had to be kept under wraps.
It wasn't an instant success, but it didn't take long for the gigantic gains that foiling presented to emerge.
"After a couple of weeks of tuning and building new foils we got to the stage where we were able to tow the boat and pop out of the water and fly stably.
The concept continued to grow legs and the operation eventually moved back up to Auckland and the backblocks of the Hauraki Gulf.
Ultimately the innovative foiling golden bullet from New Zealand didn't win the 35th America's Cup for Emirates Team New Zealand, but it did change the face of top-level yacht racing forever. And it did install the belief in the team that being different and pushing the boundaries, throwing the ball as far as we could in innovation was the secret to success which eventually came in Bermuda in 2017.
Now, two years out from AC36 in 2021, as quiet as it seems from all America's Cup teams, you can be rest assured there are plenty of innovative ideas being tested within design offices around the world, that could be the next quantum leap forward in technology on or off the water.
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Is Ghana's search for third and fourth strikers necessary?
By sportscrusaderonline.com
Coach Kwasi Appiah admitting of lack of depth up-front in the Black Stars' team calls for tactical questions. The coach is limited to only two strikers – Asamoah Gyan and Abdul Majid Waris. "We need to have back-up in the striking department of the senior national team," He said.
The wish of the Black Stars' coach seems to have a "stronger pool" of strikers to choose from for the World Cup. The coach has sensed the danger of over relying on only Gyan and Waris hence, his concern to have additional strikers.
The idea of having more choice of strikers brings up a lot of tactical questions. What system is Coach Appiah going to employ at the World Cup? Is he going to play the 4-4-2 or he has systems like the 4-3-3, 4-1-2-3 or 4-2-1-3 in mind?
If Kwasi Appiah has these kinds of systems in mind then his clarion call for strikers may hold water. In the 2006 World Cup headed by Ratomir Djukovic, Ghana relied on Asamoah Gyan and Matthew Amoah, whilst Milovan Rajevac in 2010 World Cup had only Gyan up – front in a 4-2-3-1 system.
The 4-4-2 has being the success of Kwasi Appiah as the head of the Black Stars. As Gyan and Waris have led the attack, the Black Stars team has struggled to get Jordan Ayew and Dominic Adiyah to compliment the effort of the two starters.
Ghana is unfortunate in the choice and availability of front players but the country has no known potent striker who can be able to fulfill the kind of quality Appiah is looking for. All across Europe no Ghanaian striker has showed up to offer Black Stars a different option.
The danger that the coach seems to see ahead – the probability of either of the strikers attracting a suspension card or injury – has necessitated his quest for a striker. But for these Ghana do not actually have to get worried for having two fantastic strikers in Gyan and Waris.
What this means is that teams at the last World Cup teams were no longer using two strikers, relying instead on a single striker supported by attacking midfielders or wingers. Due to these changing circumstances, Ghana has to adapt the strategy of using one striker at a time.
If Kwasi Appiah dream is actually to keep employing the 4-4-2 then, what this means for him is to look for the third and fourth strikers. But with the change in tactical trend at the World Cup you ask if the search is necessary?


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Employer Branding | Now More Than Ever, Your Employer Brand Matters
Employer Branding - May 2021
Now More Than Ever, Your Employer Brand Matters
By Lisa Fraser
Editor of Recruitment.com
Lisa Fraser is a workplace inclusion expert who has advised Fortune 500 companies on their diversity and equity strategies. She has been featured in Black Enterprise, Working Mother, and other notable publications.
With an impending mass exodus and a sharpened focus on company missions and actions, a bold, authentic employer brand can attract aligned, high-quality candidates.
Touting company perks and career paths is no longer enough. Now, just as customers look to brands to speak out about social issues, so do job seekers, through empathy-driven communication and actions. The pandemic forced employers to do more for their employees' mental health and work-life balance, and candidates want to know that their future company takes these concerns seriously.
"A lot of companies big and small wanted to shy away from certain things because they thought they weren't appropriate. But it is in times like these where you get more visible," says Precious Williams, CEO of Perfect Pitches, who helps her Fortune 100 clients boost their brands and storytelling prowess. "This is where you really reach out to your target market and other markets that you may have deemed insignificant at one time but now they are significant … how are you going to talk to them?"
That's where a bold, authentic, and strong employer brand comes in. As the anticipated post-COVID-19 hiring boom approaches, companies must prioritize their employer branding—whether building or reshaping it—to be what today's candidates expect. It can improve your organization's reputation and also help fill open roles up to two times faster—and with the most highly skilled and aligned candidates, according to LinkedIn.
Why Your Company Needs a Bold, Authentic Employer Brand
"The great resignation is coming," Anthony Klotz, Associate Professor of Management at Texas A&M University, who focuses on employee exits, told Bloomberg Businessweek. Workers had put off job searches while the pandemic raged. Now that vaccinations are readily available in the US and companies are calling workers back to the office, those who want more flexibility than their current job can afford will seek better opportunities. A good recruitment strategy is only half the battle. In this candidate-driven era, a strong, genuine employer brand is necessary to bring in the best candidates.
A 2018 Gartner survey found that 75% of employees expect their employer to take a position on current societal or cultural issues, whether or not they relate to their company's products or services. With 2020's surge in social justice demonstrations, those expectations have only heightened. Couple that with a 2020 Gallup report finding that only 40% of employees know what their company stands for. If your employer brand doesn't speak to candidates' needs, you're missing out on top talent.
"When a company has a clear message and mission, it's so much easier for a candidate to say, 'I want to work there,'" says Austin Belcak, CEO of job search coaching firm Cultivated Culture. The Microsoft alum shares ideas on optimizing the hiring process with his nearly 800,000 LinkedIn followers. "Instead of 'a job,' they want to work at a company that aligns with their specific goals and values. Company branding creates opportunities for those people to connect the dots between their values and the company's."
Belcak admits that being upfront about what your company stands for might lead to fewer applicants, but those who apply will be higher quality. "And they're going to be excited to come to work because that alignment is there," Belcak says.
Data backs that up. A positive employer brand can yield 50% more qualified applicants, according to LinkedIn's employer brand statistics, and make companies three times more likely to hire a high-quality employee. It can increase employee satisfaction and retention, too, reducing turnover by 28%.
How a Positive Employer Brand Benefits Recruiters
Besides improved mission alignment, a solid employer brand can also allow recruiters to hire twice as fast at half the cost per hire. For many companies, that equates to millions of dollars saved, notes LinkedIn.
Plus, there is a direct link between employer branding and employee engagement. And strong employer branding attracts highly skilled and aligned candidates, which "in turn leads to employees that are more apt to work for your company, and love working with you," writes Sara Pollock, Vice President of Marketing at ClearCompany, a talent management software company.
This all can lead to employee referrals, resulting in reduced recruitment efforts and time to find high-quality talent.
Jennifer Newbill, former Director of Global Employer Brand at Dell, told Forbes that an employee referral program's performance is a "litmus test" for an organization's employer brand. Leaning on employees who understand how a particular department works can help recruiters source highly qualified candidates, she notes.
Recruiters therefore might spend less time on outreach, but even if not, Belcak points out that "outreach will be more effective because people are excited to engage with your company."
Communication That Amplifies Your Employer Brand
Companies need two things, says Belcak: visibility and a clear message.
"The associations we have with companies aren't an accident. They're curated by that company, and the ones with the largest presence tend to be the ones that we feel the most clarity around." That's why your company should use many digital channels, including social media and a careers page—to tell stories—and not consider these an "ancillary" part of their strategy, says Belcak. "They can be some of the most powerful tools for growth."
To begin, Curtis Grajeda, Founder of LevelUP, which delivers recruitment management solutions to Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, recommends brands decide how they want to be perceived, including what they want to be known for, and then to promote it.
"Start at the top with your company's mission and values, then work down to how you communicate with your employees during a crisis," he told Forbes. "Remember, you want to attract people who will thrive within your culture, so your employer brand should be authentic, not just what is cool or trendy at the moment."
Sharing your story must go beyond simply a corporate page on Facebook or Twitter, advises Craig Fisher, Founder of TalentNet Media, an employer brand and recruitment strategy firm. Fisher has led talent acquisition teams at Fortune 500 companies and strategized digital branding for Toyota, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Yum! Brands, and more. "There really should be either subpages or separate pages for careers on all social media sites that tell the story of employees at all levels … on why it's great and fun to work there."
The aforementioned LinkedIn survey found that 52% of candidates first seek out a company's website and social media pages to learn more about a potential employer. So, Fisher recommends employees scatter their day-in-the-life stories across social media, professional networking sites, and employer review sites.
For example, Nestlé USA found that not being able to meet colleagues in person was one of the greatest barriers to candidates making a job change. In an effort to emphasize their strong remote culture, Emily Rutt, Manager of Social Media and Community Management, tweaked existing content to ease candidate concerns about adapting.
She and her team converted the Nestlé BFF series, which got co-workers together in casual conversation, to Nestlé Remote BFF. At the 2021 RallyFwd Virtual Conference, held by Rally Recruitment Marketing, a community that shares innovative employer branding ideas, she revealed that the company saw a 50% year-over-year increase in digital engagement from potential talent.
Fisher also suggests executives lead forums, host Twitter chats and LinkedIn Lives, or invite job seekers to a Clubhouse session to chat with a particular team to strengthen the employer brand and push authenticity.
Commitments Companies Should Make to Support Their Employer Brand
"Many companies talk a big game but are slow to take action," says Belcak. "You need to commit with public statements, rebranding, commitments to employees and customers, and a space for continued feedback."
Companies taking bold, authentic actions to back up their statements and employee stories show that they are committed, which can lead to aligned, passionate candidates.
For example, Microsoft committed to going carbon negative by 2030 and is touting this widely.
"Employees can feel like their work is making an impact beyond just dollars," Belcak says. "The positive sentiment associated with that branding makes employees proud to say they work at Microsoft."
That extends to candidates and customers too. Belcak told Toptal's Talent Economy Podcast that he notices a rise in connection with brands that feel "a little bit more human." "Wendy's is famous for having a humanized Twitter account; Netflix does the same thing," he says.
In 2020, the latter company adjusted its employer brand to match the new work and social landscape. For example, the company shares stories of Asian American entertainers and African American employees to express solidarity and has showcased their employees by sharing a photo of team members wearing the colors of the rainbow during a video meeting.
A Bold Employer Brand Is Crucial to Long-Term Recruitment Efforts
As more candidates look for companies that hold strong stances on social issues, take meaningful action to support employees, and highlight how their talent thrives within the culture, recruiters will increasingly focus on employer branding, LinkedIn predicted in their latest Future of Recruiting report.
The report also found that 63% of talent professionals expect their employer branding budget to increase or stay the same.
As your company invests in employer branding, first consider: "What truly differentiates your company from another? Why should somebody work with your company?" asks Williams. "If you can't answer those types of questions, if you can't differentiate your zone of genius, your secret sauce, then you're already dead in the water."
Because mere differentiation isn't sufficient anymore, companies must additionally publicize how they're supporting employees, customers, and communities, including partnerships with nonprofits, employee assistance programs, and acts of kindness. That storytelling across channels will optimize recruitment efforts—as well as your workforce—for years to come.
Lisa Fraser
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Reel Progress
The push for gender parity in entertainment media
by Cathy Goddard
Story by Cathy Goddard, Illustration by Louise O'brien
Reel Progress The push for gender parity in entertainment media
As we celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, the spotlight is on more than just women's achievements—the aim of this year's event is to tenaciously and unapologetically challenge bias. The International Women's Day theme for 2019 is #BalanceforBetter, a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world.
Progress has been made. Open dialogue, heated debates and unified protests send out urgent calls to continue shifting our social landscape. There is, of course, still massive change needed and we can either turn our backs, or come together to fight it because this battle must be fought by everyone. As writer and activist Gloria Steinem once said: "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
Outrage has indeed been festering in the entertainment industry over the last couple years with the explosion of the Me Too and Time's Up movements. Although the genesis of these revolutions may have happened amidst a consistent trickle of shocking stories of abuse and a political arena that felt like a huge step backwards, the narrative of gender inequality is not new.
But in this era, perhaps the most optimistic sign is a unified front committed to combating sexual misconduct and increasing pay equity across industries. And those signs are everywhere.
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Regina King at the 2019 golden globes
A rallying cry
At January's Golden Globes ceremony, actress Regina King used her platform at the podium to issue a rallying cry for gender parity. Accepting the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, she said: "I'm going to use my platform right now to say: In the next two years, everything I produce—I am making a vow and it's going to be tough—I will make sure everything I produce is 50-per-cent women."
On this side of the border, the rallying cry is reverberating in Whistler as well. The Whistler Film Festival has made gender parity a key focus, and executive director Shauna Hardy Mishaw has worked tirelessly to bring innovative events and programs to showcase this very real issue in the industry.
The catalyst for the film festival's drive to close the gender gap stemmed from a notable increase in female-directed films and female participants in their programs at past events. "This issue of gender imbalance, both on screens and behind the scenes, has been going on forever and we felt it needed to be formally addressed," Hardy Mishaw says.
"I am making a vow and it's going to be tough—I will make sure everything I produce is 50-per-cent women." click to tweet
- Regina King
Fuelled by a lofty mandate of "50/50 by 2020" set by the industry's major government agencies: Telefilm Canada, The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and The Canadian Media Fund, the Whistler Film Festival started to explore how to forge forward and hold these organizations accountable to achieve equal representation. This was before the Me Too and Time's Up movements had sprung to life—but our local film fest is well-known as a driver of innovation in the Canadian film landscape.
Founded in 2001, the festival's intention was to showcase independent film, put Whistler on the map as a cultural destination and to promote British Columbia's burgeoning film industry. Today, the organization is known as a well-respected event on the international film festival circuit, with more than 3,000 unique attendees to last year's event, a nine-per-cent increase from 2017. And if last December's festival is any indication, the event now serves as change-maker in the fight for gender equality.
At the 2018 festival, 21 feature films and 18 short films were directed or co-directed by women or non-binary individuals. That made up 45 per cent of last year's programming, the highest percentage for the festival to date.
The launch of the Women on Top Series further augmented its programming mandate. The series aims to inspire women and men in an environment that promotes networking, learning, and growth around the issues of gender equity and cultural diversity in media, both on the big screen and behind the camera. The success of 2016's inaugural Women on Top event inspired Hardy Mishaw to investigate ways to expand its impact, which, consequently, led her to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Founded in 2004 by Academy-Award-winning actor and advocate Geena Davis, star of such films as Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own, the institute is the only research-based organization working within the media and entertainment industry to engage, educate, and influence content creators, marketers and audiences about the importance of eliminating unconscious bias, highlighting gender balance and challenging stereotypes.
Several years ago, Davis noticed severe gender disparity in children's media. Women and girls make up 51 per cent of the population in the 21st century, but entertainment media severely lacks female representation onscreen by a ratio of approximately three to one. Although the gender gap was obvious onscreen, the industry was resistant because of a lack of research. To counteract the complacency, Davis pioneered studies and eventually partnered with Google to develop The Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient, a revolutionary media measurement tool that pushes the boundaries of how the imbalance of the representation of specific demographics and stereotypes in media are identified, including screen and speaking time.
Hardy Mishaw recognized The Geena Davis Institute as a thought leader on gender in media, its groundbreaking expertise prompting significant change in messaging throughout the industry. She set the stage to bring Davis to British Columbia last June for a follow up Women on Top event that honoured her journey as a passionate advocate to create systemic change in entertainment media content creation.
Building on the success of that event, a second Women on Top Series brought leaders from every major organization in Canada's film industry to the 2018 Whistler Film Festival. The keynote speaker, Madeline Di Nonno, CEO of the Geena Davis Institute, captivated a sold-out audience with a powerful talk on why equal representation of women onscreen matters.
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L to R: Geena Davis and Shauna Hardy Mishaw at the 2018 Whistler Film festival
Large steps
As a Whistler Film Festival Board Member, Sue Brouse contends that the festival is not only a jewel in Whistler's art and cultural scene, but a leading innovator affecting change for gender disparity issues—even before several high-profile sexual assault scandals emerged in the entertainment industry.
Coming from Brouse, this is a ringing endorsement as she, herself, is perceived as a trailblazer that has played a key role in the march for gender equality. In the 1970s and '80s, she had a career in film production and is now director of member services, communications and community relations at the Union of BC Performers (UBCP/ACTRA), the second largest and fastest growing ACTRA Branch.
With the Me Too and Time's Up movements exploding on the scene, the latter role at UBCP/ACTRA landed her firmly in the eye of the storm.
"One good thing that came out of that crisis was an awareness that the systemic problems that exist in this industry—and in many other industries—are because there is a lack of gender balance," Brouse says. She postulates that historically, the decision-makers and hiring roles were first provided to men, thereby creating power structures that led to systemic bias and inequality.
Indeed, the crisis galvanized the fight for rapid change. "It shone a light on why that fight for equality shouldn't just be in incremental inches, and that we need to take large steps, because the time to fix this is now and it starts with us—in this industry," reflects Brouse.
"I can say with all confidence that it was very gendered in terms of what women were allowed to do, the funding they were able to access and the roles they were able to do on sets" click to tweet
- Sharon McGowan
Like Brouse, Sharon McGowan started her film career in the 1970s. She is a documentary filmmaker, feature film producer and teaches film production at the University of British Columbia.
McGowan recalls rampant sexism in the film industry when she was coming up. "I can say with all confidence that it was very gendered in terms of what women were allowed to do, the funding they were able to access and the roles they were able to do on sets," she remembers. "There were very few women in leadership roles and creative jobs. And although there were more women in the industry in the 1980s and '90s, they generally ended up in lower-level decision-making roles and didn't receive anywhere near the equity of funding that the male-led projects did."
She uses the National Film Board as an example. "In the early years, probably 95 per cent of their films were directed by men and 100 per cent were shot by male cinematographers. Although there were a few women editors, it was pretty much a closed shop."
Witnessing this widespread discrimination inspired McGowan to get involved and strive for change. As a founding director of Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV) and currently the co-chair of the Advocacy Committee, she led a charge six years ago to aggressively lobby the NFB on the topic of equity. The NFB has actually been ahead of the curve on these issues and, in fact, was the first national funding organization in this country to make the commitment to 50/50 by 2020. Further, the NFB made international news when it committed to devoting half of its projects, as well as half of its production budget, to female filmmakers. Since then, the organization has expanded that to other realms, such as cinematographers, editors and other roles.
Even so, the numbers are still disappointing today. According to research done by The Geena Davis Institute, the number of females behind the camera still lags far behind their male contemporaries and women in the industry remain at a distinct disadvantage. In fact, only seven per cent of directors, 13 per cent of writers, and 20 per cent of producers are female. Sadly, men outnumber women in key production roles by nearly five to one.
Sharon McGowan
Whistler resident and longtime filmmaker Angie Nolan isn't surprised by these numbers. Her first foray into the entertainment industry was fresh out of high school, in 1988, starting as a production assistant on CBC's long-running series, The Beachcombers, which shot in her home town of Gibsons, B.C. Nolan eventually worked her way up to assistant directing roles.
"Coming up through the assistant-director world was challenging," Nolan acknowledges. "I saw a mini-epidemic of men moving up fast to assistant director and director jobs, often passing women who were training them—particularly in the 1990s. And if women were actually able to climb the ladder to second assistant director, they would get stuck there because these were highly administrative roles."
However, Nolan acknowledges that one of the gifts in today's climate is a more level playing field in which women can speak out without fear of repercussion. She credits the Me Too and Time's Up movements for shining a light on what has not been working and what is no longer acceptable in terms of the lack of gender equity and diversity in our society.
"We have been living in the confines of a structure that has never been based on balance, continuously fuelling and giving power to those who demand it," she says. Nolan suggests that this is our opportunity to "work together to utilize, recognize and reward people equally, and to essentially rebuild the foundation for what hopefully grows into a more inclusive, aware and balanced way of being."
Sue Brouse
Sue Brouse applauds Nolan's thinking and admits that changes are noticeable. She praises those that have worked tirelessly to lay the groundwork so younger women can experience progress.
"I'm a woman who has lived (through) most of my career now—and those of us with long careers have been the only women in the room on many occasions—but we want different opportunities and fairness for the women that are following in our footsteps," she says.
"One thing I notice with younger women is that they are actually excited by these studies of imbalance in funding and opportunities," Brouse acknowledges. "Younger women were often raised with parents telling them that they could be anything they wanted to be and that they just had to work hard enough. And yet, when they haven't succeeded in this industry, they feel it's their fault. They are not pretty enough, not smart enough, not assertive enough, but now they realize it is the systemic biases that are in place and blaming themselves isn't part of it."
With a common goal to break through bias and unfairness, everyone is now looking towards the future. "It is now on everyone's agenda and we are exploring ways to partner with government on what seems to be an equally shared vision for the employers, for the government and for the workers throughout this industry," Brouse says.
"Gender inequality is an employment equity issue for the screen-based industry and we are a major sector of the Canadian economy," Brouse continues. "Many speculated that the crisis started with us because our industry is broken, but I believe it's because many of our UBCP/ACTRA (actors) have the ears and eyes of the nation because they are on our screens. When somebody you know from this television show or that film says, 'This happened to me too,' it emboldens people, workers, women in all industries to say, 'Me too.' The recognizability of people on screens opens up the ability to be spokespersons."
Brouse suggests that when high-profile actors started to speak up, the tide turned and encouraged those in other industries to do the same. This is especially important for organizations with precarious work environments and employment income insecurity, because challenging the development of a gender-equity strategy instigates massive change in power structures.
Progress is being made. An increasing number of countries are focusing their aid on projects targeted at helping girls and women. Canada was at the forefront when, in 2017, the Trudeau government launched its Feminist International Assistance Policy. This policy recognizes that supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the best way to build a more peaceful, more inclusive and more prosperous world. That means supporting targeted investments, partnerships, innovation and advocacy efforts to close gender gaps and essentially, to help women and girls achieve more equitable access to resources they need to secure ongoing economic and social equality.
"I saw a mini-epidemic of men moving up fast to assistant director and director jobs, often passing women who were training them—particularly in the 1990s. And if women were actually able to climb the ladder to second assistant director, they would get stuck there because these were highly administrative roles." click to tweet
- Angie Nolan
Angie Nolan
This is not just political rhetoric. A recent 2018 study from the World Bank found that limiting girls' education costs countries between $15 trillion and $30 trillion in lost lifetime productivity and earnings. Countries can't afford to turn away from aid projects that promote the rights of girls and women, and need to forge forward on efforts to stem sexual assaults, domestic violence, spousal rape and closing the worldwide gender pay gap. It works to improve the world—not just for girls and women, but for everyone.
And yet, while a sense of humanity rises, there is still backlash.
Some fear that the pendulum may swing too far and favoritism will be given to right a historical wrong, rather than being based on merit. McGowan, the longtime filmmaker, often comes up against this ideology but she steadfastly retorts that, even if the pendulum swings so far that 100 per cent of the creative and funding opportunities in the industry are given exclusively to women for the next 100 years, it still wouldn't make up for a long history of inequality.
She explains that in Canada's 1984 Broadcast Act, there is a clause requiring this country's broadcasting opportunities benefit men, women, Indigenous people, French Canadians and children equally. "If you go from 1984 and actually look at the amount of money women leaders have got for programming and representation on screen, it's miniscule," McGowan claims. "It's not equal and not representative of our population. There really is no pendulum. There has been massive economic and creative disparity for a really long time."
When counteracting the backlash, these trailblazing women are bound by their belief that it is a fundamental human right to be treated equal. They also unequivocally agree that balance drives a better working world. Organizations do better when there is diversity, inclusion and equal representation. They do better financially, they do better in a holistic sense, and employees are more productive.
The International Women's Day campaign doesn't end on March 8. Instead, it is an ongoing reminder that everyone—whether female, male or non-binary—can take pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. From personal mindsets to grassroots activism to worldwide action, we can pledge to move from talk to action within our own spheres of influence.
We are in a pivotal period of history when much of the world expects balance. We notice its absence and celebrate its presence.
Everyone has a part to play.
Cathy Goddard is the founder of Lighthouse Visionary Strategies and Lighthouse Mentor Network. She lives in Whistler.


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Thomas McCraney (July 22, 1791 - May 21, 1855) was an Iowa settler who served as a member of the 1st Wisconsin Territorial Assembly during the era when the Iowa District was still part of Wisconsin Territory. He later served in the 1846 Iowa constitutional convention.

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trade you for staggered 19 CSL replicas painted time attack with almost new tires?
way OT but Terry when did you buy that e39 M5?!?
Sorry. Love these wheels. GLWS.
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bump. 19" trades now considered. Must Fit e92 chassis.
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^how about my CSl's as mentioned previously?


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Folk Toys of South India
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Author: Nanditha Krishna
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The wide panorama of Indian folk toys speaks of the heritage of the people, a heritage re-created in almost every existent material, constituting a range that is almost incredible in its diversity. And yet, underlying this rich variety, the keynote is the Indian craftsman's desire to capture and reproduce the indigent folk spirit into a tangible whole in ways that never cease to delight the one person for whom it has been exclusively designed - the Indian child.
Thus, even as one gains an insight into the bewitching world of South Indian folk toys, one observes that is imbued with a spirit that is purely rural. Against this backdrop of a unity in purpose, theme and spirit, one endeavours to understand the meaning of the various folk toys, whether they are of wood, clay, terracotta, palm, saw dust, or metal. Generally speaking, in the South of India, perhaps the most extravagant array of toys are those created by the artists of Andhra Pradesh. Although the Kondapalli, Nirmal and Ettikoppaka toys are almost synonymous with the Andhra Pradesh toy industry, the latter owes its reputation to toys which boast of a unique folk splendour. But what the other states lack in quantity is made up by a uniqueness of conception, skilled design and mastery in execution. Whether they are the clay toys of Pondicherry and Kancheepuram, the world famous lacquer ware of Chennapatna or the fresh, spontaneous, palm toys of Kerala, the folk spirit is so dynamic and powerfully represented that the toy at times ceases to be a toy. It seemingly lives. The irony is that, although toys are the fruits of fantasy, they take the child closer to the world of reality.
Since wood plays a very important part in the folk toy industry, some light must be thrown on the folk tradition of wood carving which finds expression in the manufacture of several toys and ritual objects associated with the life of the people. A number of folk forms have been developed in wood all over India. These can be divided into figures made for religious purposes, such as the Jagannath figures of Orissa, wooden masks or Saki Jaba, the variety of Andhra toys of softwood used for producing vahanas of different gods reproduced at the Nirmal village and Kondapalli and the temple towns of Tanjore and Madurai. Also included are the tribal carvings of Bastar. Light wooden toy animals and birds as well as occupational figures are prepared all over the South. These miniature toys, recreating the real and imaginary worlds, bring joy to children as also a sense of identification with the world of adults. These toys are indeed an indispensable part of the child's life. The Tirupathi and Thanjavur dolls thus not only form part of the rituals observed by the South Indian families but are also used for educating the child, who sees them every day, who handles them and assists his or her mother on special occa-sions to dress them up for festivals.
Change in Demand Pattern
Historically, the survival and growth of these industries were, for the most part, dependent on the patronage of the rich feudal society, although the toys were purchased by rich and poor alike. The rapid social changes in recent decades, particularly after the attainment of independence and the growth of the urban industrial society, have brought in their trail changes in the pattern of demand. Handicrafts and handlooms have acquired added importance by registering phenomenal gains in the field of export. Various measures were initiated under the Five Year Plans, whether in the matter of promoting institutions, setting up design development centres, technical improvements, training, product innovation and diversification, quality control or marketing. The broad guiding factor has been that since goods are produced for sale it should be the endeavour of the state to secure the maximum degree of public acceptance, both within the country and abroad.
The arrival in the market of more sophisticated mechanical, battery-operated and electronic toys have relegated the traditional toys to the role of a decorative craft item rather than a useful cultural toy to be used by children.
The need for design assistance as an important vehicle of handicrafts has been recognized from the beginning. Keeping in view the existence of a large number of handicraft centres in India, several design centres were set up in the country. Simultaneously, the handicrafts units have also been availing the assistance offered by the Regional Design Centre of the Office of the Development Commissioner for Handicrafts (formerly All India Handicrafts Board) at Bangalore. It has been the endeavour of the design centres to impart utility and content to the traditional forms through the process of designing and redesigning. By working in close coordination with the emporia, the design centres have made the benefits of their work reach the artisans and the public at large more quickly. The Design Centre at Hyderabad is also engaged in doing research on tools and techniques.
Overseas trading in Indian handicrafts dates back to times immemorial. Post-independence, since the commencement of the Five Year Plans, interest in export has revived. There has been a greater stimulus to export handicrafts from all parts of the country, resulting in a diversification of production. The total handicrafts export earnings increased from Rs. 10,933.67 crores in 2002-3 to Rs. 13412.92 crores in 2005-6. Unfortunately, we do not have separate figures for toys, which may come under items made of metal, wood or other materials.
Folk toys are under increasing pressure, unable to compete with the onslaught of metal, plastic and imported toys, which have the advantage of both quantity and quality. Earlier, the temple festivals and village fairs were the mecca of traditonal toy makers of every hue. Today, even the traditional outlets have been supplanted by branded varieties, leaving the tradition toys as a curio to be placed in a showcase.
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Gond Painting Folk Art of Madhya Pradesh (Do it Yourself Educational Activity Kit)
Publisher Rimika Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Indian Folk Arts and Crafts
By Jasleen Dhamija
हिमाचल की लोक कलाएं और आस्थाएं: Folk Arts and Beliefs of Himachal Pradesh
By मौलू राम ठाकुर (Maulu Ram Thakur)
Block Printing: Folk Art of Hand Block Printing (Do it Yourself Educational Activity Kit)
Folk Arts of West Bengal and The Artist Community
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Santhal Painting Folk Art of Orissa (Do it Yourself Educational Activity Kit)
Patua Painting Folk Art of West Bengal (Do it Yourself Educational Activity Kit)
Chittara Painting Folk Art of Karnataka + Sand Painting (Do it Yourself Educational Activity Kit)
Early Rock Art and Tribal Art in India (An Anthropological Revelation)
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A Critical Survey of The Madras Art Movement [1950s to 2000]: Including The Madras School of Arts and Crafts
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The Arts of India Virgina Museum Of Fine Arts
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Timeless Art (Indian Art Series)
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The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings
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Folk Games of Tamilnadu
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Indian Folk and Tribal Paintings
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In The Land Of Women
By Patrick Z McGavin2007-04-20T05:00:00+01:00
Dir/scr: Jonathan Kasdan. US. 2007. 99mins.
A first feature about a romantically failed young writer whose ideas and attitudes about women are dramatically shaken by a beautiful older woman and her daughter, Jonathan Kasdan's In the Land Of Women shows promise and ambition, abetted by strong acting and colourful writing. At the say time it suffers from the limitations and problems of many autobiographically shaped first works, its naturalness and grace undercut by an erratic tone and a director's reach exceeding his grasp.
The movie's antecedents are clear, pirouetting and bouncing off Cameron Crowe's early comedies Say Anything and Singles, Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset diptych and most significantly, Zach Braff's Garden State. Like those titles, the new film's dominant mode of expression is talk and the elastic forms of language, conversation and self-revelation that reveal character, feeling and action.
The 27-year-old Kasdan is the younger brother of Jake Kasdan (Zero Effect, The TV Show). His father, Hollywood studio director Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat, Silverado) is the movie's executive producer; the senior Kasdan's longtime collaborator, co-editor Carol Littleton, helps administer the movie's polish.
JoBeth Williams, so memorable in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, has a small, pivotal role playing the hero's mother. Furthermore, Jonathan Kasdan has acknowledged the inspiration of his father's 1991 ensemble work, Grand Canyon, in developing his own script.
Domestically, Warner Independent Pictures opens the movie on April 20, and it has the prominent hook, of Meg Ryan. But the movie's more attuned to the younger players; as such In the Land Of Women seems more likely to engage the young, weekend date crowd than young professionals and slightly older women who typically gravitate around Ryan's films.
The theatrical returns are, as with the movie, likely to be somewhat modest and unprepossessing, setting up stronger returns in ancillary markets overseas, through cable and on DVD.
Brody plays Carter Webb, a bright, good looking 26-year-old whose professional disappointment -writing scripts for sordid, low budget adult films - compounds the pain of a private life now scorched by the break-up of his relationship to the beautiful actress and model Sofia (Anaya).
Determined to complete a more personal script, Carter impulsively abandons Los Angeles for a placid Michigan suburb to visit his ailing grandmother, Phyllis (Dukakis).
Wholly unprepared to deal with his grandmother's dementia, Carter finds emotional sanctuary in the unfamiliar friendship he edges toward with the beguiling Sarah Hardwicke (Ryan). Inventively structuring their interaction around a series of walks, Kasdan achieves his most relaxed and sustained work smartly playing off their emotional transactions. Carter's natural cockiness, ease and privilege are sharply refuted and countered by Sarah's smart, direct and natural manner.
Sarah urges her attractive 17-year-old daughter, Lucy (Stewart) to socialise with Carter, an action that shifts the movie's emotional balance. As Carter attempts to work out his feelings about Lucy, it naturally complicates his relationship to the suddenly very wary and highly protective Sarah.
Already emotionally ratcheted up, these sections are additionally heightened by Sarah's physical deterioration occasioned by the discovery of a serious illness.
Like Grand Canyon, the movie attempts to infuse the serious with the comic, and the results are mixed. Kasdan is not nearly experienced or skilled enough to capably layer these different strands. A sequence in the rain that leads to a powerful though awkward embrace between Carter and Sarah is emblematic of the movie's uncertainty and strangely unresolved dramatic tension.
The subplot involving Dukakis feels increasingly imported from a different film, the broader embarrassment and violation a fairly transparent effort to balance the darker material with laughter and painful recognition that often feels very strained and awkwardly incorporated.
Paul Cameron (Collateral) gives the images a tactile precision; for all of the movie's messiness, editors Littleton and Marty Levenstein help assemble a recognisable order.
But it is very much an actors' showcase, with the three leads acquitting themselves quite well. Ryan delivers a shaded, natural performance as a suburban mother coping with a private trauma, while Brody imparts a loquacious charm and tenderness well suited to the part. Stewart bracingly captures the ambiguity and alienation of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood.
Special mention is also due Makenzie Vega as Sarah's younger daughter, precocious and funny without being sentimental.
Production companies/backers
Castle Rock Entertainment
Warner Independent Pictures
Land Films
US distributor
David Kanter
Sandy Cochrane
Marty Levenstein
Carol Littleton
Stephen Trask
Olympia Dukakis
Makenzie Vega
Dustin Milligan
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It's been two years since Kobayashi's Suzuka podium with Sauber (VIDEO)
By Tony DiZinnoSep 30, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT
Oh, how long ago two years can seem.
Yeah, Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa went 1-2 in the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix – a race that marked the beginning of the end of Fernando Alonso's title aspirations that season.
But the star of that year's race in Suzuka was Kamui Kobayashi, who in one of if not the most brilliant drives of his career held off Jenson Button for the final podium position.
The result marked the second podium finish for a Japanese driver in his home race, as Kobayashi followed the mark set by Aguri Suzuki in 1990.
Kobayashi's result, two years on, stands out even more given his and Sauber's respective journeys since.
The result marked Sauber's last podium finish in F1. Although Nico Hulkenberg brought them the majority of their points in 2013, the 2014 season has been an uphill battle and currently has not seen either Adrian Sutil or Esteban Gutierrez score points. To be fair, both Hulkenberg and Gutierrez scored points in Suzuka last year, with sixth and seventh place.
Kobayashi, meanwhile, took a one-year detour into the FIA World Endurance Championship with AF Corse in a Ferrari F458 Italia, before returning to F1 this year with Caterham. Kobayashi has had his seat under threat and was pulled out before the Belgian Grand Prix, and hasn't been able to provide the same level of heroics on-track he achieved with Sauber and Toyota.
But as we head to Suzuka this week, it's only fitting to look back at the good old days for both parties.


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Automated Face Analysis Gets Real
Blog Posts, Privacy / January 28, 2014 February 13, 2020
By Brian Dipert
Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance
This blog post was originally published at EE Times' SoC Design Line. It is reprinted here with the permission of EE Times.
This week, I've invited my colleague Brian Dipert to share his perspective on various face analysis algorithms used in embedded vision. As Editor-in-Chief of the Embedded Vision Alliance, Brian regularly discovers and reports on interesting embedded vision applications, some of which he discusses here. — Jeff
Face recognition, the technology that enables cameras (and the computers behind them) to automatically, rapidly and accurately identify people, has become a popular topic in fictional movies and television. Consider, for example, the 2002 blockbuster Minority Report. If you've seen it (and if you haven't, you definitely should), you might recall the scene where Tom Cruise's character Chief John Anderton is traversing a shopping mall. Sales kiosks greet him by name, after identifying him by scanning his face, and solicit him with various promotions. Lest you think that this is just a futuristic depiction, British supermarket chain Tesco is now making it a reality.
Plenty of other real-life face recognition implementations currently exist. Consider "Tag Suggestions," the automated identification of friends' faces that Facebook undertakes each time you upload a photo to the service (a facility likely enhanced by the company's 2012 acquisition of Face.com), or the automated clustering of pictures containing the same person accomplished by Apple's iPhoto software. Don't forget about the face recognition-based "unlock" option supported in the last few Android releases (likely enabled by Google's 2011 acquisition of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), and available on iOS via third-party applications. And both the new Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 game consoles support face recognition-based user login and interface customization, via their camera accessories (included with the Xbox One, optional with the PS4).
Face recognition has made substantial progress in recent years, but it's admittedly not yet perfect. Some of its limitations are due to an insufficiently robust database of images to compare against. And some of its limitations are the result of algorithms not yet able to fully compensate for off-center viewing angles or poor lighting, for example, or subjects that are wearing hats or sunglasses, or who sport new facial hair or makeup. Face recognition's current inability to identify people with guaranteed reliability provides privacy advocates with solace, ironically. However, other face analysis technologies are arguably more mature, enabling a host of amazing applications, and are also useful for addressing privacy concerns, since they don't attempt to identify individuals.
For example, face analysis algorithms can accurately discern a person's gender. This capability is employed by electronic billboards that display varying messages depending on whether a man or woman is looking at them, as well as by services that deliver dynamically updated reports on meeting-spot demographics. Face analysis techniques can also make a pretty good guess as to someone's likely age bracket. Intel and Kraft harnessed this capability last year in developing a line of vending machines that only dispense free pudding samples to adults. And more recently, Chinese manufacturing subcontractor Pegatron has begun using it to screen job applicants, flagging those who may be less than 15 years old as a means of avoiding hiring underage workers.
The mainstream press tends to latch onto any imperfection as a broad-brush dismissal of a particular technology. As engineers, we know how over-simplistic such an approach is. While R&D and product developers continue to pursue the holy grail of 100% accurate face recognition, other face analysis techniques are currently sufficiently mature to support numerous compelling uses. How will you choose to leverage them in your next-generation system designs? Visit the website of the Embedded Vision Alliance for plenty of application ideas, along with implementation details and supplier connections. And plan to attend the Alliance's next Embedded Vision Summit, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, to be held in Santa Clara, California at the end of May.
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