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Thomas Heaphy is a British born artist from Brighton currently based out of Berlin
His works are a black and white trip through distorted visions composed by occult images and stunning hypnotic patterns.
His obsession with words and letterings lends homage to the fact that Tom is also a writer and a self-taught tattooer.
Let's take a closer look!
Hello Tom and welcome to Visual Satiation!
Let's start with an introduction. Would you like to tell us a bit more about you?
Hi! I'm a degenerate artist, national traitor and antisocial networker, currently spending my self-imposed exile in Berlin for as long as I can.
My primary creative neurosis is drawing, although I also enjoy painting, collaging, writing and trolling (both in IRL and on the WWW).
What's the background that feeds your imagination?
I was privileged enough to grow up in a house full of books, which not only instilled an obsessive reading tendency in me but also germinated my taste for bizarre, macabre and grotesque imagery.
From a young age I would engross myself in medieval woodcuts, Hieronymus Bosch paintings, the devils of Michelangelo's The Last Judgement; depictions of hell and fantasy worlds held great appeal to me.
I was a strange child, meditating in the playground and drawing occult symbolism on my bookcases with felt tips.
By the time I was a teenager, I had started writing tags around my middle class neighbourhood like any self-respecting little shit
Brighton had a good scene back then and walking to school every day I would see burners from style masters such as NEMA, PETRO and NYLON.
Graffiti influenced and continues to influence me in multiple ways: the aesthetic, the attitude, the adventure. It is perfect stupidity; bold, reckless and joyful.
In my twenties, I developed a strong interest in philosophy and radical politics, as well as modernism and the 20th century avant-garde movements.
Dada's nihilism, the aggression of Futurism, Surrealism's rigorous experimentation, the Situationist International and the events of May 68, Fluxus, King Mob, Up Against The Wall Motherfucker – all that energy, revolt and disgust sat well with my punk sensibilities.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, "The Last Judgement", 1536 -1541
Fortunato Depero "New York", 1930
How do you usually work?
I am forever drawing half ideas and fragments, writing down words and phrases, plagiarising bits and pieces – the struggle is consolidating them into final works.
I keep lots of sketchbooks and notebooks.
I tend to stick half-finished things on a board so I can think about where I'm going with them.
For me, the creative process is just as important as the product.
If I feel blocked in one direction, I'll try a different medium or go back to something old.
I try and maintain an artistic mindset in everything I do and experiment as much as possible.
Walking back home from work, I'll rip interesting patterns and textures off of billposters for collages or take photos of things I can utilise.
Recently I've been fucking about and distorting drawings by moving them around whilst they're scanning.
What themes do you find yourself returning to in your art?
I don't really enjoy having to explain my work.
I guess I particularly like drawing organic shapes, anatomical forms, letters, architectural elements, doodahs, tattoo flash, weird shit.
I hate the overuse of the term "surreal" so I'll forgo it here.
As we mentioned earlier, you also come from a graffiti background. Can you tell us a bit more about that?
I'd feel somewhat deceptive presenting myself as coming from a graffiti background as I never really threw myself into the writer lifestyle.
It's simply a hobby that has given me plenty of hilarious and interesting stories, and allowed me to meet tons of eccentrics, idiots and adults that never grew up.
It is also a useful tool for navigating cities that you've never been to, entertaining yourself on train journeys, fucking up all your clothes, and exploring police holding cells in foreign countries.
I get bored when it takes itself too seriously and I despise the conservative and puritanical streak that lots of writers seem to hold ("you can't do that", "that's not graffiti", "wah wah wah").
For me it will always be about tagging: the various mediums in which a tag can be applied, its flow, structure, messiness, the spontaneous quality to it, its condemnation by the general public as "mindless".
Have you had any trouble with authorities while practising your art?
I got fined a lot and briefly jailed when I was 19. I was an idiot and my room was full of evidence.
Some handwriting expert wrote a 15 page dossier about my handstyle which makes for a riveting read. I'm keeping it in the off-chance I have grandkids.
Street Art and its events seem to be just about everywhere these days. Speaking as someone living in Berlin (AKA the hottest spot in Europe for Street Art) what is your opinion about this sort of "Renaissance"? And back to the graffiti side of things, are there differences between Brighton's and Berlin's graffiti scene?
90% of what is categorised as Street Art is formulaic and unimaginative, perfect for signifying the completion of the gentrification process in bourgeoisified neighbourhoods and providing backgrounds for a tourist's selfies.
I can't really comment on Brighton's graffiti scene as I haven't lived there for many years.
London has had a train writing renaissance recently which has been great to see but to be honest I'm not really concerned with scenes or what's going on back in the UK.
In my opinion the scene in Berlin has a level of innovation rarely seen in other places.
It's an invigorating city to live in and seeing fresh graffiti every other day warms my cockles.
I've seen your tattoo work, and it's great! Would you like to tell us a bit more about that too?
I started doing very unhygienic stick and pokes at parties when I was in my early 20s with sewing needles tied to a pencil.
A few years later I started drawing flash and practising handpokes on myself and some close friends.
I just recently picked up a machine and started thinking about it a bit more seriously, tattooing my legs and getting a feel for it. It's early stages at the moment – I'm currently developing a portfolio and thinking a lot about how to bend the traditional formula whilst still maintaining solid structure and contrast.
I like to use a lot of black in my drawings so I'm not so into all the ignorant stuff that's trendy at the moment.
We know you are also an avid reader, what are you reading at the moment, and who are your favourite authors?
I'm currently reading Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain – a bit of an old classic really.
My favourite writers include Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce, Jean Genet, Arthur Rimbaud, Comte de Lautreamont, Malcolm Lowry, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Albert Camus, Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Blaise Cendrars, Mina Loy, Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Allen Poe, Tristan Tzara and Raoul Vaneigem.
The two philosophers that have had the biggest influence on my way of thinking are undoubtedly Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner.
What music are you obsessed with at the moment?
In the last month I've been listening to lots of rap and grime like Gzuz, Slowthai, Ghetts, Lee Scott, Conway the Machine, Westside Gunn and post-punk bands like Institute and Exit Group.
In your opinion, what British word do Americans wish they had?
I've never heard an American say "knobhead" and I never want to.
What's your favourite place in Berlin?
Görlitzer Park at the height of summer.
Lastly, let's give you a few minutes to draw a caricature of yourself and see how it goes! Ready? Go!
Cheers mate! We wish you all the best!
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Another unusual feature was the "money log".
The styling is so creative with many subtle yet stylish details like the keys in the trees, and the pretty table stationery.


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· Finally, the outward movements give corporate expression to the worship offered by the entire congregation.
Bottom line: the outward movements of the service prompt, inform, and unite our devotion.
Liturgical Location: You have come to church expecting to actively participate in worship. Prior to the service you have undertaken a time of sacred preparation. The preparation concludes and now the service begins.
Notice at once that the start of worship is announced with an opening sentence of Scripture. This sentence serves as a call to worship. As such, it reminds us that worship does not originate in man's decision but God's call. We worship because God has commanded/called all creation to worship Him. In other words, worship is not a favor we do for God nor is it optional. Rather, worship is what we owe God as His creatures. Second, the opening sentence reminds us that God determines how God is to be worshiped. God calls us to worship according to His Word. Therefore, we ready ourselves to worship by fixing God's Word as our standard. Third, the opening sentence reminds us that we worship by God's grace not by our own merit. Therefore, we come to worship by turning to God for His mercy and renewal.
Not only that notice, we proceed under the banner of our King (the processional cross). The processional cross serves as both a profession of our allegiance (we belong to Christ and come in His name) as well as an indication of our dependence (we approach not on our merits but His).
Next, notice as the cross passes it is customary to bow. However, please note: when we bow before the cross we are not reverencing (worshiping) an object or thing. Rather, we are responding in our hearts to its declaration. In other words, our bowing says this too is our banner, we too are Christ's people, covered in Christ's blood, and we too have come to worship our God. Bowing then is like an outward Amen (remember, amen is an expression of agreement and consent). Therefore, by bowing we are literally joining ourselves to the procession.
Notice the result: our bowing reminds us that the procession is something in which each member of the congregation participates (even if on most occasions practical concerns limit the number in the actual line). It is as a church that we come to worship. As such, the outward movement of the procession literally directs the inward movement of our hearts. Each of us is coming into the presences of the Lord to worship, to hear His Word, and to share His Table.
Importance: the service opens with the notion of liturgy as the work of the people. Later, at the end of the service we will once again process as a congregation. However, at that time, we process out into the world as God's witnesses.
Finally, remember to bow before a King was literally to offer him your neck (i.e. the whole of your life). Your life was at his disposal to do with as he wished.
Bottom line: the motions throughout the service are not just fancy decorations. Rather they are prompts given to indicate what you are to be doing at that point in the service. When you respond and join your heart to the action being represented, you make worship something that you are doing not just something you are attending.


This topic provides instructions to define rule criteria by writing an EPL query. EPL is a declarative language for handling high-frequency time-based event data. It is used to express filtering, aggregation, and joins over possibly sliding windows of multiple event streams. EPL also includes pattern semantics to express complex temporal causality among events.
Write an advanced EPL rule when rule criteria is more complex than what you can specify in Rule Builder.
It is outside the scope of this guide to explain EPL syntax.
For EPL Documentation, see http://www.espertech.com/esper/documentation.php.
You must know Event Processing Language (EPL).
You must understand ESA Annotations to mark which EPL statements are linked to generating alerts.
In the Rule Library, select > Advanced EPL.
Select Trial Rule to automatically disable the rule if all trial rules collectively exceed the memory threshold.
To define rule criteria, write a Query in EPL.
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What Is the Difference between Fiction and Nonfiction?
Alan Rankin
"Little Red Riding Hood" is an example of fiction.
Fiction is the term for works of imagination and invention. Nonfiction describes any work in any media that is not fictional, that is, purports to describe real events, ideas, or people. The phrases are most often used to describe written literature or other media. This specialized use means that the terms fiction and nonfiction are commonly confused by the general public. In popular media formats such as film and television, fiction is the basis of comedies and narrative dramas, while nonfiction includes documentaries and news coverage.
Fiction may contain superheroes, tasked with saving the world.
The word fiction derives from the Latin word fingere, meaning to shape or create. The same word provides the root for the English words finger and figment. This connection with the word figment may help some people remember the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Associating fiction with the phrase figment of the imagination, which fiction describes, may provide a helpful mnemonic, or memory aid. Nonfiction is thus anything that is not created in the imagination.
Works of fiction may use real life events as an inspiration.
Since prehistory, stories and fables have blended elements of fiction and nonfiction. Even in modern times, the differences between them are not always distinct. Writers commonly borrow events and ideas from real life to color their fiction with realistic detail. Reporters and historians add speculation, educated guesses, and invented dialogue to their nonfiction narratives or condense and delete facts for the sake of brevity and clarity. Media formats like reality television and documentary dramas further confuse the issue.
Some fictional works feature characters and scenarios that explore contemporary social issues.
A key difference between fiction and nonfiction is the creator's intent. Fictional stories may use invented characters and worlds to discuss real issues and problems. For example, the TV series The Twilight Zone and Star Trek used science-fiction concepts, such as alien races, to examine issues of racism and prejudice. Writers of nonfiction, on the other hand, intend to portray real events. The term nonfiction applies even if the work is later revealed to be inaccurate or partially invented.
Science fiction commonly uses aliens, such as Vulcans.
Although the terms fiction and nonfiction originated with written literature, they apply to most forms of popular media. The documentary is a nonfiction film format, while United 93 and Silkwood are examples of films that tell fictionalized versions of real events. Television news journalism is supposed to be nonfiction, while dramas and comedies are pure fiction. Reality TV, by employing coached spontaneity, often manages to be neither fiction nor nonfiction. Comic books, audio recordings, and stage performances all have formats that encompass both fiction and nonfiction.
What Are the Different Types of Nonfiction?
What Is Narrative Nonfiction?
What Are the Different Types of Realistic Fiction?
What Is Contemporary Fiction?
What is Flash Fiction?
Discussion Comments
chivebasil
There is less of a fine line between fiction and non fiction than people expect. Some writers have blended the two to beautiful effect.
Just last month I read Truman Capote's masterwork, In Cold Blood. It tells the true story of two killers that savagely murdered a family in a small Kansas town. The book was a remarkable act of reportage that examined the crime from a number of perspectives and to exacting detail. In this way it is an excellent piece of non fiction.
But Capote also seamlessly weaves in conversations that he has invented and internal thoughts from the characters minds that he could never have known. Though they are based on educated speculation, these parts of the book are imagined and therefore fiction. But the contrast is never made clear. The book skips back and forth between the sources to offer one of the most thorough descriptions of a crime offered in either fiction or non fiction.
Anyone that hasn't read it should really pick up a copy. It's a stunning piece of writing and a chilling story.
MrMoody
@Charred - So called reality TV is mostly hype in my opinion. I think the drama is contrived. Participants know that they are supposed to be producing fireworks for the camera, so they oblige, eager to get that fat paycheck.
I feel sorry for the participants and the public that watches these shows. Many people believe that it's real just because it says reality TV, in the same way that many people believe world heavyweight wrestling is real too, instead of the choreographed production that it is.
Charred
@hamje32 - I love the Star Trek series. I can pick up on a lot of the social issues being discussed in Star Trek. I watched one episode where this one captain kept thinking that a war with the enemy was still going on, when it had ended decades ago. I thought of Vietnam and the song "Still in Saigon."
It's amazing how writers are able to take contemporary social events and pluck them down into science fiction settings. Another great classic in this regard is "District 9." On one level it's an alien film, but nearly everyone knows it's about apartheid. The film is brilliant in my opinion.
hamje32
@NathanG - I think the lines do get blurred sometimes when you're talking about fiction or non fiction. For example, when I was in college I took an English class in non fiction prose. We read Joan Didion's The White Album and other works of non fiction.
The authors narrated real life events, but they used a lot of the devices of fiction to tell their story. It made for very exciting reading in my opinion. Was it fiction or non fiction?
Clearly it was non fiction, but you never know how much embellishment there may have been. Sometimes authors use artistic license to paint things over a certain way, to make it more exciting.
NathanG
I can't imagine why anyone in the public would be confused by fiction vs nonfiction. I think the distinctions are pretty clear personally.
I realize that there are some documentaries that provide dramatized, fictional accounts of some of the events portrayed in the documentary. However, even with these programs there is usually a disclaimer at the beginning of the program telling you that what you're watching is a dramatization.
I think that should make it clear enough. Perhaps the dramatizations are so real and vivid that people choose to accept them as fact anyway. That's more a testament to the power of our contemporary media than it is anything else.
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Arkansas Overcomes NKU in Tight Game, Remains Undefeated
Jackson McAfee // Sports Reporter // @JacksonMcAfee2
Missed opportunities for the Northern Kentucky Norse in the waning seconds of the game allowed the Arkansas Razorback basketball team to come away with its seventh-straight win Saturday night, 66-60.
The Hogs (7-0) were coming off a victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Nov. 25. NKU (5-3) came into the game with a fast offensive attack and was looking to hit from the three-point range early.
The Razorbacks' 7-0 start is their best since the 2014-2015 season, when they started 6-0. Along with the victory, the Razorbacks also won their region of the Collegiate Hoops Roadshow, going 4-0. Senior Jimmy Whitt Jr. was voted the MVP of the event while sophomores Isaiah Joe and Desi Sills were named to the All-Tournament team.
Whitt Jr. scored a team-high 24 points Saturday night and went 9-for-15 (60%) shooting. He also had nine rebounds, two assists and a team-high plus-minus of 17. Whitt Jr. topped his night off by scoring his 1,000th career point.
"For me, personally, I loved it," Whitt Jr. said. "Not every game in college is going to be a blowout. The closer you get toward the end of the year, you gotta be able to grind out wins. That was good for us. We really needed that."
Sills scored 17 points and went 7-for-16 (43.8%) shooting but continued to struggle from beyond the arc, failing to notch a three-pointer. He also had four rebounds, four assists and a plus-minus of five.
"I'm going to keep on shooting'," Sills said. "Eventually they are all going to fall. Jimmy keeps on telling me to keep my head up high and don't ever hold it down. Just keep on shooting and try to get a rhythm."
NKU's Dantez Walton, who was also voted to the All-Tournament team, scored a game-high 30 points and went 10-for-14 (71.4%) shooting. He also recorded 10 rebounds, four steals and two assists. Walton's 30 points were the most points scored by a Razorback opponent since Colorado State's Prentiss Nixon put up 31 on Jan. 20, 2017.
There were only two lead changes in the game and once the Razorbacks and the Norse tied. NKU had zero bench points, which proved costly near the end.
"I'm never okay with a loss, obviously," NKU head coach Darrin Horn said. "But we're really proud of our guys and how we competed. We've been really challenging, especially from last week, that we need to put a game together and compete for 40 minutes where we follow the game plan."
The Razorbacks gave up eight three-pointers in the game, while only giving up a total of 13 all season coming into the game. The Hogs went 3-for-18 (16.6%) from three-point range.
"It was a hard fought ballgame tonight," head coach Eric Musselman said. "I thought that our bench was phenomenal: 11 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists."
Arkansas struggled defensively throughout the game. The Razorbacks were allowing just 50 points per game coming into the matchup and averaged 19 turnovers per game. The Hogs forced only 11 turnovers against the Norse.
"Defensively, we've got to get back to being who we are," Musselman said. "We gotta defend better. We didn't do a very good job on their star player. We didn't defend the three-ball like we have through six games. Two huge areas of concern that we need to correct before we play on Tuesday."
Junior Mason Jones, who hit a game-winning shot against Georgia Tech earlier last week, did not play Saturday because of a shoulder injury.
The Hogs were barely holding on with 23.4 seconds to play and were preserving a 61-60 lead over the Norse. Joe converted one of his two free throws after getting fouled, and NKU lost their chance to take the lead by missing a wide-open three-pointer.
Adrio Bailey got the rebound, was fouled and made both of his free throws to ice the game.
The Arkansas Razorback men's basketball team will look to keep its undefeated status when it faces the Austin Peay Governors (3-3). Tipoff will be at Bud Walton Arena on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.
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The Crowther Lab is made up of earth scientists, remote sensing experts, community ecologists, ecosystem ecologists, earth system modellers, programmers, physiologists, mathematicians, molecular biologists, physicists and biochemists. While most research teams in the world focus on one of these areas, the Crowther Lab has an interdisciplinary approach. This allows them to come at big questions from different angles and to focus on holistic results. Their aim is to develop scientific solutions for the fight against climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
Scientific solutions for the fight against climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
By developing quantitative earth ecology models, their research has contributed important insights into how restoring global ecosystems can combat climate change. The focus of the research has now turned to developing ecological mapping instruments to guide the global restoration efforts. These maps can shed light on which areas they should focus their renaturation initiatives on to achieve the greatest impact on carbon sequestration and biodiversity. It also helps them to understand the climate-related consequences of these measures. This global ecological research is necessary to understand and tackle climate change.
Nature-based solutions against climate change: the global potential for carbon restoration and storage
The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich researches nature-based solutions for the fight against climate change. In a new study, the researchers show for the first time where in the world new forests could grow and how much carbon they would store. Jean-François Bastin, study director and, at that time, postdoc at Crowther Lab, explains: "One aspect was especially important for us when performing the calculations: we excluded cities and agricultural land from the total surface area with the potential for reforestation since humans need these spaces regardless."
The researchers calculated that under current climatic conditions the earth could be covered by around 4.4 billion hectares of forest. That is 1.6 billion more than the 2.8 billion hectares currently available. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares are not used by humans. This means that currently an area the size of the USA would be available for reforestation. Once they have grown, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon. This is about two-thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that have been released into the atmosphere due to human causes since the Industrial Revolution.
ETH professor Tom Crowther, co-author of the study and founder of the Crowther Lab, has the following to say about this: "We all knew that reforestation could make a contribution to climate change, but until now it was unclear how great the effect would be. Our study shows in no uncertain terms that reforesting the designated areas is an important tool in the fight against climate change. However, we must act quickly because it will take decades for the forests to mature and reach their potential as natural CO2 reservoirs. And it goes without saying that reforestation cannot replace the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is imperative that we exploit all solutions in order to counteract climate change."
Total available area on which trees could grow (current existing forests and areas suitable for reforestation)
The study also shows where reforestation would be most viable. The majority of this area is concentrated in six countries: Russia (151 million hectares), USA (103 million hectares), Canada (78.4 million hectares), Australia (58 million hectares), Brazil (49.7 million hectares) and China (40.2 million hectares).
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Mediterranean agroecosystems are particularly vulnerable to soil degradation, and alterations in ecosystem services need to be predicted using appropriate approaches. In the present work, we perform an integrated assessment of soils under different long-term management practices—tillage vs. covered soils—under semiarid conditions by using a complementary soil biochemical, genomic, and transcriptomic approach. Dehydrogenase, β-glucosidase, phosphatase, urease and arylsulphatase activities were determined, as well as both overall and metabolically active bacterial population number and community structure. In addition, this is the first report linking β-glucosidase activity with genes encoding bacterial β-glucosidases in soil, a key enzyme involved in soil–carbon cycle. In our work, data on bacterial biomass or β-glucosidase gene copy number has provided no additional information regarding the effect of management or profile depth on soil bacteria behaviour other than those derived from traditional biochemical methods measuring overall microbial activity potential. Nevertheless, a different trend resulted when gene transcripts were considered pointing to the relevance of using RNA-related properties as sensitive indicators of bacterial physiological state in semiarid soils. The results evidenced the influence of management and soil depth on the expression of bacterial β-glucosidase genes, which was by no means related to available C-nutrients. The results also pointed out overexpression of ribosomal RNA genes in tillage soils. This fact was not an indication of higher bacterial biomass but probably the response of the bacterial community to stressed conditions. Consequence of this would be the positive effect of spontaneous cover crops on soil biological stability, where bacterial metabolic expense was much lower.
Rosa Cañizares and Beatriz Moreno contributed equally to this work.
The online version of this article (doi: 10.1007/s00374-012-0663-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
This work was supported by ERDF-co-financed grant CGL2009-07907 from the Spanish Ministry of Science of Innovation. R. Cañizares is supported by the JAE-CSIC predoctoral Program. We would like to thank David Nesbitt for the valuable English editing on the latest version of the manuscript. Finally, we would also like to thank Prof. P. Nannipieri and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that greatly improved the manuscript.


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King of Pop Michael Jackson highest paid dead celebrity of 2018
According to Forbes magazine, Michael Jackson is the highest paid dead celebrity for the sixth year in a row.
The late King of Pop, who passed away in June 2009 at 50, reportedly earned around £313 million over the last year, boosted by the sale of his EMI Music Publishing stake to Sony. Earnings will also have been helped by Michael Jackson's Halloween - an animated TV special which first aired in 2017.
John Branca, the Jackson estate's co-executor, said: "You see 'Charlie Brown Christmas' and 'Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' every year, so now we're looking to have 'Michael Jackson's Halloween' every year. We
hope that it'll become evergreen."
Meanwhile, Elvis Presley, who died aged 42 in 1977, follows in second place having made £31 million over 2017. As well as record sales, the superstar's earnings also come from the new 'Elvis Presley's Memphis' entertainment complex created at his famous Graceland home. The new development is described on the official website as:
"A state-of-the-art entertainment and exhibit complex over 200,000-square-feet in size, [which] enables you to follow the life path that Elvis took, surround yourself with the things that he loved,
and experience the sights and sounds of the city that inspired him."
Fellow musicians Bob Marley, Prince and John Lennon found themselves in the top 10, which also features golfer Arnold Palmer, 'Charlie Brown' creator Charles Schulz, children's author Dr. Seuss, 'Playboy' founder Hugh Hefner and sliver screen icon, Marilyn Monroe.
See Forbes' full list below:
1. Michael Jackson: $400 million
2. Elvis Presley: $40 million
3. Arnold Palmer: $35 million
4. Charles Schulz: $34 million
5. Bob Marley: $23 million
6. Dr. Seuss: $16 million
7. Hugh Hefner: $15 million
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An Avocado a Day Keeps Bad Cholesterol at Bay
Holy guacamole! Medical science has just given the green light to avocado aficionados to indulge every day. And the science says we can do it guilt-free because it's actually good for our health.
Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton led the delicious study at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), where she and her research team enlisted 45 adults to see how cholesterol is affected by three different diets. Each study participant was:
Had baseline LDL levels in the 25th to 90th percentile (LDL is the "bad" form of cholesterol).
The Diets
Each study participant was randomly assigned one of three diets that they followed for five weeks. Their cholesterol levels and other measures of health were monitored throughout the entire study. At the end of the first 5-week period, diets were switched and then switched again until all study participants spent five weeks on each of all three diets:
Low-fat diet — an abundance of fruits plus low-fat dairy products, whole grains, poultry, and minimal amounts of red meat. Daily fat consumption was 24% of calories consumed.
Moderately high-fat diet — Nuts and oils were added to the low-fat diet to bring the daily fat intake to 34% of all calories consumed.
Avocado diet — Similar to the moderately high-fat diet but one Hass avocado was added per day and other fats adjusted to maintain a total fat consumption of 34%. One Hass avocado weighs approximately 136 grams (4.8 ounces).
All diets produced a significant decrease in baseline LDL levels but the avocado diet was approximately twice as successful as the other two:
Low-fat diet — LDL levels dropped by 7 milligrams per deciliter of blood (7 mg/dL)
Moderately high-fat diet — LDL dropped 8 mg/dL
Avocado diet — LDL dropped 14 mg/dL
Kris-Etherton suggests there may be fiber or bioactive compounds in the avocados that contribute to the avocado's ability to lower blood cholesterol levels. Further study is needed to pinpoint the exact LDL-lowering mechanisms of the fruit.
Avocados are frequently consumed with high-fat foods such as chips, burgers, and mayo-laden sandwiches. The fats in these accompanying foods will cancel out the LDL-lowering effect of the avocado if total dietary intake of fat is not limited to levels similar to that of the Penn State study.
The Funding
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources and by the Hass Avocado Board. Government funds available for research have declined in recent years. Industry research groups increasingly supplement government funds for research such as this Penn State study. The avocado board played no part in design of the study or interpretation of its results.
Kris-Etherton, Penny M., et al. "Effect of a Moderate Fat Diet With and Without Avocados on Lipoprotein Particle Number, Size and Subclasses in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Randomized, Controlled Trial." JAHA / Journal of the American Heart Association 2015 (2015). Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
Fresh Avocados: Love One Today. Hass Avocado Board, 2015. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.


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Shinkansen 500 series
Number: 144 cars
(originally 9 trains)
Manufacturer: Kawasaki HI , Hitachi , Kinki Sharyo, Nippon Sharyo
Year of construction (s): 1996-1998
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over coupling: 404 m (W variant)
204 m (V variant)
Length: End car: 27,000 mm
Middle car: 25,000 mm
Height: 3,690 mm
4,490 mm (including pantograph cover)
Width: 3,380 mm
Empty mass: 688 t (W variant)
Payload: 702 t (W variant)
Top speed: 270 km / h (Tōkaidō)
300 km / h (San'yō / W variant)
285 km / h (V variant)
Continuous output : 18,240 kW (W1 set)
17,600 kW (W2-W9 sets)
8,800 kW (V variant)
Acceleration: 1.6 km / h / s
Braking delay: 2.7 km / h / s
Wheel diameter: 860 mm
Power system : 25 kV 60 Hz ~
Power transmission: Overhead line
2 pantographs
Number of traction motors: 64 (W variant)
32 (V variant)
Brake: Engine brakes , disc brakes
Train control : ATC-1, ATC-NS
Seats: 200 / 1.124 (W variant),
(1st / 2nd class)
608 (V variant)
Floor height: 1,300 mm
Classes : normal (2nd class),
green class (1st class: only W variant)
The Shinkansen series 500 ( Japanese 新 幹線 500 系 電車 , Shinkansen 500-kei densha ) is a Japanese high-speed train that began service on March 22, 1997 and 9 units are available. It is operated by JR Nishi-Nihon (Engl. JR West ), among others Kawasaki Jūkōgyō ( Kawasaki Heavy Industries ) and Hitachi Seisakusho ( Hitachi ) are involved in the production.
1 Technology & Design
2 interior furnishings
3 use
4.1 Variant W (16 cars)
4.2 Train composition
4.3 Variant V / 500-7000 (8 cars)
5.1 Round design
5.2 Noise emission
5.3 Dimension of the vehicle nose
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion Project
7 HelloKitty Shinkansen
10 individual proofs
Technology & design
All axes of the series 500 are 285 kW strong AC motors driven. It thus has a drive power of 18,240 kW. It is technically approved for 370 km / h, but due to the strict environmental protection regulations, it is only allowed to drive the San'yō Shinkansen at 300 km / h.
The train has a computer-aided active suspension .
The design was largely developed by the German designer Alexander Neumeister . For the design of the 500 series, Neumeister, along with other participants, received the Grand Prize in 1999 - the second-highest category of the annual Imperial Invention Prize from the Japanese Institute of Invention and Innovation. For the first time, the prize was awarded to a foreigner.
The first class has 2 + 2 seating, while the second class has 3 + 2 seating. Travelers can get snacks and drinks from vending machines in two cars . There is no bistro or on-board restaurant.
Class 500 near Tokyo Station
After the completion of the fourth train , the first vehicles went into service on March 22, 1997. By mid-1998, the fleet was increased to a total of nine vehicles, with this comparatively low production figure due to the very high cost per train of an estimated 5 billion yen.
The trains were originally called Nozomi connection between Tokyo and Hakata. They needed 4:49 hours for this 1069 kilometer route. In the summer holiday season, the trains were also used as a Hikari Rail Star connection . With the increasing availability of the N700 series trains , the 500 series was withdrawn from the Nozomi connections.
The 500 series has been in use exclusively as a Kodama connection on the San'yō Shinkansen between Shin-Ōsaka and Hakata since March 2010 and disappeared completely from the Tōkaidō Shinkansen .
Variant W (16 cars)
The variant W was announced by JR West in 1994 and the prototype was delivered in 1995. The entire fleet of nine vehicles was delivered by 1998. The 500 series was the first Shinkansen series that was operated in regular passenger service at 300 km / h.
The wagons 5 and 13 of variant W are equipped with a "T" -shaped pantograph .
Train composition
Pantograph of variant W
Car no.
Mc M1 Mp M2 M ' M1 Mp Ms2 Ms M1s Mpkh M2 M ' M1 Mp M2c
521 526 527 528 525 526 527-400 518 515 516 527-700 528-700 525 526 527 522
53 100 90 100 95 100 75 68 64 68 63 100 95 100 90 63
Variant V / 500-7000 (8 cars)
Due to the criticism of the vehicle concept and the increasing availability of the N700 series, eight of the nine W variant trains were reassembled into 8-car units between 2008 and 2010. Since then, they have been used on the Kodama connections of the San'yō Shinkansen. The first train converted to variant V was presented to the press on March 28, 2008 and has been in use since December 1, 2008.
The top speed of variant V is reduced to 285 km / h. Instead of the "T" -shaped pantograph of variant W, a classic single-arm pantograph was installed on wagons 2 and 7.
Mc M1 Mp M2 M. M1 Mpkh M2c
521-7000 526-7000 527-7000 528-7000 525-7000 526-7200 527-7700 522-7000
Previous designation
521 (car 1) 526 (car 2) 527 (car 3) 528 (car 4) 525 (car 13) 516 (car 10) 527-700 (car 11) 522 (car 16)
53 100 78 100 95 68 51 63
2nd class interior view
In addition to the extremely high costs per vehicle, there were several points of criticism of the 500 series, which meant that only a small number was procured.
Round design
The round shape of the vehicle means that the interior is much narrower than that of other Shinkansen trains. This is especially true for the window area with the inwardly curved side walls. As a result, the 500 series is very unpopular with passengers.
Noise emission
Despite the extremely aerodynamic shape of the vehicle, there is a high level of noise pollution when entering tunnels. The 700 series Shinkansen with its angular design has about 10 percent less air compression at tunnel entrances (the first 700 series designs had a similarly round hull as the 500 series and were therefore rejected).
Dimension of the vehicle nose
Another point of criticism is the extremely long nose. It is 15 m long and therefore more than half as long as the 27 m long railcar itself. As a result, the first and last wagons fit twelve fewer seats than in the 700 series. If now a 500 series train instead of the 700 series is used, some passengers have to move to other seats in the reserved seats.
Neon Genesis Evangelion Project
Special train 500TYPE EVA
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the start of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion , the V2 set was redesigned to the 500TYPE EVA Project in November 2015. The exterior color scheme and graphic design was based on the Evangelion unit 01 (Shogōki). A car was redesigned as an exhibition space for the anime series, including a cockpit simulator of the fighting robot. In the passenger cars, seat covers, sun visors and guidance systems are based on the graphic style of the series. The train comes between November 2015 and May 2018 as a Kodama connection, used once a day between Hakata and Shin-Ōsaka.
HelloKitty Shinkansen
HelloKitty Shinkansen in Himeji
In March 2018, JR West announced that from the summer of 2018 another 500 series train will be given a special design: Building on the success of the 500TYPE EVA Project , the train was designed in the style of Hello Kitty and also comes between certain Kodama connections Hakata and Shin-Ōsaka are used.
Shinkansen class N700
Commons : Shinkansen Series 500 - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Website of the operating company
Information on the website of N + P Industrial Design
↑ a b c d e f 高速 鉄 道 物語 - そ の 技術 を 追 う - (Tale of high-speed traffic). Seizandō Syoten, Japan 1999, ISBN 4-425-92321-9 , p. 41.
↑ Railway and Model Railway Magazine. 1/97, p. 54.
↑ http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/publish/newsletter/pdf/01/RTA-01-05.pdf
↑ Armin Scharf: Sprinter with a 15 m long nose. In: VDI news. No. 14, 1999, April 9, 1999, ISSN 0042-1758 , p. S3.
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↑ 新 幹線 : エ ヴ ァ ン ゲ リ オ ン プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト ~ JR 西 日本 × 阪急 交通 社 共同 企 画 ~ 「500 TYPE EVA」 車 両 運行 終了 記念 最後 の 完全 貸 し ツ 発 す ー を を
↑ Official website of the HelloKitty Shinkansen
Shinkansen series
Current Shinkansen series
500 • 700 • 800 • E2 • E3 • E4 • E5 • E6 • E7 • H5 • W7 • N700 • L0
Historic Shinkansen series
0 • 100 • 200 • 300 • 400 • E1
1000 • 951 • 961 • 962 • 500-900 (WIN350) • 952/953 (STAR 21) • 955 (300X) • E954 (FASTECH 360 S) • E955 (FASTECH 360 Z) • Kikan Kahen Densha • E956 (ALFA- X) • MLX-01
911 • 912 • 921 • 922 • 923 • 925 • 941 • E926
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9-1220. CHARLES ARTHUR BOATWRIGHT (JAMES L.9, JAMES D.8, DRURY7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 02 Dec 1864 in Marengo County, Alabama, and died 19 Jan 1948 in Lee County, Florida. He married HATTIE EUGENIA CULPEPPER 28 Dec 1892 in Thomas County, Georgia, daughter of WILLIAM CULPEPPER and JANE TURNER. She was born 21 Mar 1875 in Thomas County, Georgia, and died 25 Nov 1955 in Bowling Green, Desoto County, Florida.
Charles and his sister Matilda are listed twice in the 1870 census, first living with the Agee family and the second living with their father.
Family History Library Film: 545527.
Enumeration District: 98; Image: 0103.
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10-1757   vi. MILDRED BERNICE BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1915, Thomas County, Georgia.
9-1221. MATILDA BOATWRIGHT (JAMES L.9, JAMES D.8, DRURY7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1866 in Marengo County, Alabama.
Matilda and her brother Charles are listed twice in the 1870 census, first living with the Agee family and the second living with their father.
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The Shortest Day, by Susan Cooper and Carson Ellis
"So the shortest day came, and the year died…" begins The Shortest Day, an extraordinary picture book by Susan Cooper, with illustrations by Carson Ellis, a celebration of solstice, Yuletide, and rituals that light up the darkness. "And everywhere down the centuries/ of the snow-white world/ Came people singing, dancing,/ To drive the dark away." In her illustrations, Ellis shows those centuries progressing in Northern European cultures, as people move from the Neolithic era, carrying spears, and then "down the centuries" to the contemporary moment, children revelling in a warm and cozy home decorated with an evergreen tree and boughs, candles and a menorah, traditions that connect us to our ancestors and to the earth. This is one of the loveliest "Christmas" books that I've ever come across, a book that celebrates what, to me, are the most sacred parts of the season.
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The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle, by Anne Renaud and Milan Pavlovic
For some reason, unless they happen to encyclopedic catalogues fun to flip through but with no overarching narrative, non-fiction gets short shrift with the young readers in my house. We've got a whole stack of titles about history and animals, dinosaurs, guides to crafting and science experiments, none of them appreciated as well as they should be, and my children read Archie comics to tatters instead.
But The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle, by Anne Renaud and Milan Pavlovic, is the exception to that rule, primarily because it's a fabulous hybrid of a book—a great story that's fun to read aloud; a biography based on Frank Epperson who really did invent the Popsicle; a gorgeous book with great design (endpapers to die for!); and it's got science experiments—on mixing oil and water, how to make fizzy drinks, how to lower the freezing point of water—each one connected to the narrative, which is not only engaging, but also demonstrates the experiments' real-world implications.
One of my favourite picture book biographies ever is Monica Kulling's Spic-and-Span!: Lillian Gilbreth's Wonder Kitchen, and The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle is kind of a companion, a story that blends the scientific and domestic realms, that shows how having children can inspire an inventor's ideas, a story that makes the familiar extraordinary by taking an every day item (the popsicle!) back to its origins. It also shows how childhood dreams can transform into reality, and how curiosity and an insistence on asking questions can serve a person throughout his life.
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The Girl Who Rode a Shark, by Ailsa Ross and Amy Blackwell
I'm not yet bored of stories of brave and uncommon women, and this is not even a genre that began with Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Virginia Woolf published several biographical essay throughout her career—it was from "Lives of the Obscure," in The Common Reader, that I learned about the Victoria entomologist Eleanor Ormerod, for example, and without Woolf we wouldn't even know about Shakespeare's Sister at all. Truth be told, I actually found Good Night Stories... a bit wanting…but that's because I'd read Rad Women Worldwide before it, and liked it so much better.
But another similar book, The Girl Who Rode a Shark, by Ailsa Ross (who lives in Alberta!) and Amy Blackwell, has managed to live up to my expectations. My favourite bit is the Canadian content—we're almost at the Roberta Bondar essay. And Indigenous hero Shannon Koostachin is included in "The Activists" chapter.
The women profiled in the book come from places all over the world, include many women of colour, and also women with disabilities. Even better—while many of the profiles are of historical figures, just as many are contemporary, young women who are out there doing brave and groundbreaking things as we're reading. A few of these figures are familiar, but more are new to us, and their stories are made vivid and compelling through the book's beautiful artwork and smart and engaging prose.
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It Began With a Page, by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad
It Began With a Page, the new picture book collaboration by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad—who are already known for their picture book biographies(ish) of Julia Child, Elsa Schiaparelli, Anna Pavlova (illustrated by Morstad, written by Laurel Snyder), and Virginia Woolf (written by Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault)—has everything. And to have Kyo Maclear, a leading Asian-Canadian author writing about THE pioneering Asian-American children's author/illustrator, with illustrations by Julie Morstad who does such justice to her source material. Which is, of course, Gyo Fujikawa's babies, an adorable array of little people from different ethnic backgrounds, all playing together—Fujikawa has clearly been an inspiration to Morstad since the beginning of her career. But what contemporary readers might not appreciate until reading It Began With a Page—which tells Fujikawa's life story—is that it wasn't long ago that picture book illustrations of children with different skin colours all playing together was revolutionary, and before that even not condoned.
Which is a convenient metaphor with which to tell a story of a society in which, just say, people from a certain ethnicity have their land and belongings confiscated and are sent to concentration camps. Although Maclear eschews metaphor altogether here, and sticks with the facts: "In early 1942, terrible things were happening. Bombs and gunfire rocked the world. America was at war with Japan. Kyo was shocked to discover that anyone who looked Japanese or had a Japanese name was no suspected of being the enemy… Gyo's family was sent to a prison camp far, far away from their home."
But first: "It began with a page, bright and beckoning." A five-year-old girl with a pencil in her hand. "The dance and glide of a line. How a new colour could change everything: a bright splash of yellow, a sleep stroke of blue." The girl fills her pages with drawings, and as she grows older, her talent is natured by a supportive teacher who pays for her art lessons Gyo Fujikawa is one of the few girls, let alone Asian-American girls, who goes to college in 1926. She travels to Japan, her ancestral homeland, to learn about the tradition of Japanese brush painting, and after she returns to America gets a temporary job designing books at Walt Disney's studio in New York. Which means she is far away from her family when the Japanese internment takes place, but the distance only increases her heartbreak at what is happening in her country.
After the war, Fujikawa continues to work as an artist, and Maclear shows her awareness of the dawning civil rights movement. "Still, there was so much that hadn't changed. At the library and bookshop, it was the same old stories—mothers in aprons and fathers with pipes and a world of only white children."
But when Fujikawa submits her manuscript featuring "Babies! Chubby cheeked, squat-legged, bouncy-bottomed babies," the book is rejected. "No to mixing white babies and black babies. It was not done in early 1960s America, a country with laws that separated people by skin colour."
Fujikawa, however, does not give up on her vision. And eventually, the book is accepted, and is a huge success, the beginning of an incredible career for this illustrator whose drawings would create "a bigger, better world."
The story includes a timeline of Gyo Fujikawa's life, and photographs, and a note from Maclear and Morstad to readers about Fujikawa's legacy ("Gyo as a TRAILBLAZER…and a RULE BREAKER") was and how her family supported this book (Fujikawa died in 1998), providing access to stories, photos and archival materials.
Ruby's Birds, by Mya Thompson and Claudia Dávila
Having recently read and loved Ariel Gordon's celebration of urban forests, not to mention still coming off a recent trip to New York City, Ruby's Birds, by Mya Thompson and Canadian illustrator Claudia Dávila (we're big fans of hers) is high up on our list at the moment. It's the story of Ruby, a young girl with too much energy—so much so that she's driving her family batty as they're cooped up in their apartment. And so when a neighbour offers to take Ruby on an adventure to Central Park, she's totally game, and brings her usual merrymaking self—which is a bit of a problem. Because they've gone birding, for which a person must necessarily be quiet, and be patient. Which does not come easy to Ruby at all, but then her patience is rewarded at the sight of a golden-winged warbler.
"We move carefully. We're serious. We pay attention. We watch for tiny movements in the leaves. We try and try."
Ruby's Birds is published by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, whose mission is advancing the understanding and protection of the natural world. The story is fun, the illustrations interesting and dynamic, and the book concludes with information about city birds, the Cornell Lab's Celebrate Urban Birds project, a list of 14 different species that can be located in the pages of the book and even in the reader's own city, plus a list of inspiring tips for nature walks. It's a great book to inspire readers to get outside and get exploring, and perfect for spring.
A Little House in a Big Place, by Alison Acheson and Valériane Leblond
We are in love with A Little House in a Big Place, by Alison Acheson and Valériane Leblond, a picture that manages to combine an old-fashioned sensibility with a storyline that's utterly surprising. It's the story of a young girl who lives in a house on the edge of a small prairie town, and every day she stands at her window and wave that the train engineer who goes past. "…[A]nd she wondered. About where he came from and where he went. And if she might go away too, someday."
And we hear the story too from the point of view of the engineer, who waves to the girl everyday. The prairie landscape informing the narrative's perspective: "His train came over the horizon every morning. One moment there was only sky, and the next moment there would be a dot/ that got bigger/ and bigger/ and bigger [the text getting larger with each line] and the dot would become the train." And the train rushes away until it becomes a dot again. "But his wave and her wave together made a home in [the girl's] heart."
The girl wonders about the engineer, as he no doubt wonders about the girl in the window of the small house on the prairie, and they're connected to each other, though neither knows the other at all. The girl has no idea that one day will be the train engineer's last day on the job—but then he throws something from his window that she runs through the fields to find. And he will never know it, but the girl will carry it with her through her life.
I have a theory that this book is a secret ode to Joni Mitchell, because the end of the story finds that small girl who grew up in a prairie town living in a place far eastward, strumming her guitar in a coffee shop. But there is a universality about the story too, about the anonymous people who touch our lives, and about the places where we come from, which set us on the road towards where we're meant to be.
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Alice At Naptime, by Shea Proulx
Sometimes I think that the story of motherhood is too big to fit onto a page, or into a book. Because having a baby is this way, and it's that way, and it's never one way, ever changing, impossible to properly articulate. Heather Birrell writes about this in her essay "Truth, Dare, Double Dare" in The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. She writes:
"The trend..is toward a certain gross-out honesty—a "come join me here in the trenches" mordancy ("I just let her chew on the stroller tire!") which, although funny and often a welcome release, leaves out the deeper resonances and rewards of being a mother and co-parent. Why is this? Because it's hard to put your finger on the glint of joy in the dirty dishwater of drudgery. It slips away, seems a trick of the light, impossible to photograph, let alone articulate."
But maybe you can draw it?
I am under the spell of Alice at Naptime, by Shea Proulx, who wrote in a post for 49th Shelf:
Drawings not only make clear the path of the body, but also the path of the mind, as text does, but differently from text. The world "psychedelic" is most associated with mind-altering substances, but the word breaks down from the Greek to mean "the mind…made clear." Works of art that show clearly the mental processes involved in thinking through a subject might also be described as psychedelic, especially when the subject is inexpressible in words…
Alice at Naptime is a series of illustrations that Proulx drew of her daughter when she was a baby. "I used to draw all the time.." the book begins, "but now just at naptime." And when Alice is napping, she draws Alice, her sleeping face set into kaleidoscopic scenes, a wonderland of strangeness, symmetry and doubleness that grows to fill the entire spread: "a symphony of Alices." A kind of dreamland. And fittingly, for a child named Alice with illustrations that are definitely trippy, there is wonder: "Alice is strapped down so often when she naps. It looks like we're worried she might float away." What does Alice dream about? Proulx asks the reader, "Am I boring you?" And I remember the fascination of my sleeping child's face, the smallness of my world then—I remember the day my child discovered causality while kicking an arch on a baby gym, and both our minds were blown, but nobody else cared. "It's just that I'm so in love," Proulx writes, "lost in a sea of Alice."
What I love about this book is how Proulx shows the way that motherhood can inspire art and thought and creativity, rather than be its antithesis. That there is such profound love in the minutiae of parenting. It is like a dream, like a storm, rolling waves—and she started thinking about Alice growing, wondering who this sleeping baby will grow to be. ("What would it be like to wake up in different places all the time?"—but motherhood is a little bit like that as the years go on. My daughter turns ten this year. She's known about causality for awhile now. Every day, we're somewhere new.)
"I take Alice with me everywhere, even when I leave her at home."
"Love can seem like a trap," writes Proulx, confined to the place her baby is napping, to her baby's needs and whims, "but I have roots now." And it becomes clear that this book about a baby growing into a person is fundamentally the story of a woman growing into a mother—and also how she acknowledges that these sleeping napping days with Alice were only just a blink of an eye. (A dream?)
In a gorgeous afterword, Proulx writes about how it's been years since she made these drawings. "I'm not the person I was then. You don't become a mother all at once. You have to grow into that new self. I recognize the fragility of the tenuous identity I was sorting out as I relaxed into a new rhythm… It isn't without sacrifice that women become mothers, or men fathers. But the gains are heady and by their nature, indescribable, as are many natural desires. I only hope I've done the process some small justice. I owe that to a former self, that new mom, adrift in a wonderland, wondering who she would become."
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Me, Toma and the Concrete Garden, by Andrew Larsen and Anne Villeneuve
Everything I'm hungry for in the world right now I can find within the pages of my friend Andrew Larsen's new picture book, Me, Toma and the Concrete Garden, illustrated by Anne Villeneuve. It's a book about cities and concrete, about connections and community. It's about the beautiful things we grow by accident, and how small changes can have huge ramifications. But it's also a story about two kids throwing balls of dirt over a fence, about meaningless fun, and my children like it too, compelled by the wonderful details in Villeneuve's illustrations and also Larsen's winsome narrative voice, which is my favourite thing about all his books. He writes voices that really sound like kids, kids who aren't quite aware that their stories are bigger than the story they think they're telling. There are lessons and morals in this book, but you've got to read between the lines to find them, which is what makes Larsen's books—beloved by children—especially rich for adult readers as well.
Seaside Treasures, by Sarah Grindler
This week has been aggravating for all kinds of reasons, macro and micro, and not least among the troubles is that people kept waking me up at 4am, and thereafter I'd lie awake in bed taking inventory of all the items that are weighing on my mind, which is no way to fall back to sleep, I tell you. So finally I came up with a plan, the night after I first read Seaside Treasures, by Sarah Grindler. My worries, I imagined, put away in a drawstring bag in the place where I was in my mind, which was the beach at Humber Bay Shores, a beach where the beach glass tends to be yellow, which fascinates me because out in the east end of the city it's mostly green, and I wonder why the distinction. I would leave the bag behind me as I went to explore the beach instead, picking up mussel shells, slate perfect for skipping, round stones to hurl, and others with stripes to admire, the sun sparkling on the surface.
It's possible I'm just dreaming of summer anyway, mid-April with snowflakes, but Seaside Treasures is a portal to there, and I love it so much. We're beach treasure enthusiasts in our family, collectors of two glass jars of beach glass so far (and counting), with purple being ever elusive, but the odd fragment of painted china has made up for it in the meantime. And even though our beach is not a seaside, instead by a lake (but still, a GREAT lake) and we will never find a sand dollar or an urchin shell, this book is still right up our street, and makes us excited and inspired to go exploring local beaches again.
Grindler's realistic painted illustrations are beautiful, a different hue for every page—blue sea glass, then purple—both rare. "Other hard-to-find sea glass colours are red, orange, and yellow You can find pieces of green, brown, and white glass more easily. What is your favourite colour of sea glass?" she asks, in text as engaging as the pictures are. She shows glass fishing floats, arrowheads from the Indigenous people who lived on these lands long before we did, seashells, and also pieces of china. "Do you wonder who might have used them? Perhaps sailors, merchants, or pirates!"
And then there's garbage, which washes up among the rest of it, which led to a really interesting discussion (and a general consensus that cigarette butts are disgusting). Isn't it funny that some garbage gets to be treasure and other isn't? A marble on the beach is treasure indeed, but what about the toy car with its wheels missing? Grindler writes, "When I find garbage, I collect it to help keep our oceans and beaches clean."
The final spreads invite the reader to search specific objects on a crowded page of beachy treasures, and then to imagine what kinds of art and objects could be made from these objects as well. Ending with a question: "What will you find?"
(Hopefully serenity.)
The Biggest Puddle in the World, by Mark Lee and Nathalie Dion
I've been meditating a lot on connection lately, how one thing leads to another, the ways that small things can cumulate in big things—which is the underlying message of The Biggest Puddle in the World, by Mark Lee and Nathalie Dion. But it's a message that's buried deep inside a wonderful old-fashioned story about two siblings who go to stay with their grandparents (Granny B. and Big T) for six whole days while their parents are away. In beautiful illustrations rich with gorgeous mismatched prints (damask wallpaper, floral duvet, mattress stripes to die for) we're shown the siblings exploring their grandparents house as the weather outside just rains and rains and pretty soon the two are out of playtime options. But then: "The next morning patches of sunlight appeared on the kitchen floor."
And so they head outside wth Big T. with a challenge: a search for "the biggest puddle in the world." "The wet earth and the shiny grass smelled like spring. During the rain, a clump of mushrooms had popped up on a log." They find one puddle, and then more puddles, but none of them constitute "the biggest puddle in the world." Their grandfather encourages them, "Follow the water," and they do, as the trickles from puddles turn into a stream, and then a pond. And they take a break from searching to create a puddle map, and then learn how puddles turn into clouds, which are made from bodies of waters everywhere, including that still-elusive big puddle that they're looking for. Which they find by following a river through thorn bushes and down a muddle hill to reach a beach, and there it was: the ocean. The biggest puddle in the world!
The prose is lovely to read and the illustrations soft, dreamy and detailed, as absorbing as the story is. Just the book for April, and all its showers—it's a perfect springtime read.
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Recruitment is an important function of the human resource management. This is because of it has a great impact on the performance of the organization (Haccoun & Saks, 2003. Pg 207). FEGS is an organization that is involved in assisting the youth and extends its services to the entire community. Therefore, it has to be cautious in the type of employees it has. If for instance there is poor recruitment, definitely, it will affect the organization negatively and organizational goals cannot be achieved. Many public service agencies have ineffective hiring strategies. They have laws that inhibit change and management that resist the same. FEGS (Federation Employment Guidance Services) has strategies for hiring which ensure that they employ only qualified applicants. We recognize that recruitment is an investment that must be undertaken with utmost care. Since we value the recruitment exercise, we have the best human resource professionals to conduct all the interviews. The organizations' procedure begins with receiving applications. These may be through post or online.
The shortlisted candidates are invited for an interview. Qualified personnel perform the interview in an open and honest way. The formats used in these interviews vary depending on the position one is being interviewed for. A candidate who has applied for a managerial position often undergoes more than one interview. If a candidate is successful, he or she receives the letter confirming that you have the job. If we recruit the best, we know that we are going to reap the benefits of our efforts since our employees will carry outstanding performances. They will be involved in the maintenance of efficiency in their operations thus develop the organization. FEGS does not employ inefficient performers. This creates confidence in every employee since each one is exceptional. The FEGS division and youth program has around 200 hundred employees, which include full time and part time staff. The role played by each of these 200 employees is directly pivotal to the success of the organization. This makes the credibility of FEGS to be beyond doubt.
FEGS also focuses on providing employment to the youth. We have programs that enable the partnership with employers that are willing to take on the youths as interns. Every time we get opportunities from employers, we use the same recruiting programs to select the youths to be given the openings.
At FEGS, we believe that we can measure our performance based on recruitment. How then does the recruitment manager at FEGS analyze performance based on recruitment? Recruitment at FEGS is evaluated based on speed at which positions are filled. The other factors for evaluation include the desired outcome and creating clear ways of tracking these outcomes. This is why it is easier to gauge the performance of the organization based on recruitment. Recruitment is important especially in fine-tuning delivery of the benefits desired.
Performance management (PM) are activities, which ensure that the objectives of an organization are effectively and efficiently met. PM normally focuses not only an individual or a department but also the entire organization (Haccoun & Saks, 2003. Pg 237). It begins with developing a strategy. The strategy should clarify the direction the organizational objectives. Instead of assuming that strategic issues are obvious, at FEGS we clearly spell them out. This creates motivation among the teams and departments to strive to achieve the same. The other aspects are the structure of the organization and the systems created should be modified to be consistent with the strategy.
At FEGS, we develop the skills of individuals or teams that contribute to our performance. We have created strategic and integrated approaches that increase effectiveness and the overall performance of FEGS. One of the methods we use to achieve this is by allowing our employees to integrate their personal goals and the organizational goals. The benefits that accrue due to PM are numerous. Effective delivery of strategic operational objectives, this means that there is a direct connection between using PM and improving the organizational results. Other benefits include operational efficiency, reduced cost of operations, reduced project overruns, the entire organization is focused on achieving the objectives and use less time in making operational changes.
Compensation refers to remuneration in forms of wage or salaries. It can also be payment in terms of executive compensation, deferred compensation or nationalized compensation (Haccoun & Saks, 2003. Pg 187). Apart from the other significant activities, that the Human Resource department at FEGS is involved in is the compensation of its employees. Compensation is the payment that an employee receives because of his or her contributions to the organization. They include the monetary and the non-monetary benefits. Compensation motivates employees and improves their effectiveness in the organization. In FEGS, the compensation systems designed such that it is consistent with the objectives of the organization.
The factors that are considered include job work and responsibilities. The three systematic components of the compensation system are Job analysis, Pay structure and salary surveys. Job analysis is a systematic analysis of jobs, which leads to the development of job description. Some of the techniques used involve interviews, observation and questionnaire. Pay structure includes the use of grades in rewarding employees. Each grade has a minimum wage or salary. The third component is the salary survey, which is the collection of salary market information. These maybe be the average salaries or cost of living indicators. Since we understand that a good compensation system should not be focused on only attracting or retaining employees, we compensate all employees at FEGS appropriately. After recruiting talented employees, we reward them in relation to their performance and capabilities.
Personal development refers to all activities that add to knowledge, develop talents and potential (Edenborough, 2007. Pg 141). It also involves enhancing human capital and quality of life. The purpose of Personnel development is to achieve maximum utility of employees within an organization. At FEGS, we are involved in planning and implementation of specific training measures. These training sessions promote professional development within the organization. The qualifications of our employees can not only be met but also be planned carefully. The Personnel development programs have the potential of increasing job satisfaction. In all our departments, the training program has ensured that only qualified personnel who meet the required standards are retained.
The Personnel development programs are divided into two, executive development and personal development. Education and training activities at FEGS are organized in close consultation with all stakeholders. These include the superiors, the employees and the HR who administer the training. FEGS is no stranger when it comes to collaborating up with other organizations that share the same interest and goals. It is extremely important for FEGS to keep its respectability along with not losing sight of what is important and that is assisting a community in need. The plan FEGS will keep when working with other agencies is the same as it was in the past and that is finding agencies that truly have the passion and care for our youth's future. We have therefore developed a program with a team of training experts who move from one organization to another. The benefits are numerous in using this approach. In developing these training programs, we have realized that it is cheaper if we work together and the training personnel are better equipped for their job.
The company has a well-built reputation. It is operating in an ever-changing environment in which not a single company can claim to be on stable ground. Therefore, the opportunities are endless. Communication skills, Leadership skills and Interpersonal skills of the employees can be improved by allowing them to attend short seminars or classes that will impart them with the same. Such courses will enhance their skill viriety. After acquiring such skills, employees should be allowed to perform different tasks (multitasking) using various skills that they have learned. The same skills will be imparted not only to the youths but also to the communities that we desire to empower.It should use its strength by providing training and counseling services. FEGS should extend its services to people with special needs including disabled young people, women searching for jobs and prison inmates on parole. FEGS should also assist these individuals by establishing the Skills Training Division to teach new job skills to white-collar and blue-collar workers.
Understanding the attitudes and perceptions of employees enables better management in the organization. If employees in FEGS are treated with respect and their jobs made intresting and fulfilling to motivate them to a higher performance, the organization will easily chieve its objectives. Attitude is simply the mental state of readiness attained through experience thet influences an individuals' response to all situations. The mindset that one attains due to experience and temparament. It involve the pesonality, beliefs, values, and behaviors of an individual. For illustration, most of the employees at FEGS can change their attitude towards work if motivated, this to a great extent will improve performance. If the work provided generates a bad feeling, which is related to a thought or a belief, it will reduce their performance. For instance at times, our employeees work with unruly youths who lack respect. Some of the youths are drug addicts or drunkards. Such are the times when employees need motivation the most.
On the other hand if employess view have a positive attitude, it will affect every decision and actions that they make. Posivive attitude in the organization can be developed if there will be set goals and objectives in every group and department within FEGS. The setting of goals should not be done by the leaders only but through particiption of each member in the given group. Involvement of employees changes their perception about everything. Each member of the gruop should use his or her decision making skills so that the best decision is obtaned. Participation in the decision making process instils a sense of responsibility in the employees (Edenborough, 2007. Pg 211). There should also be a follow up on the implementation of the decisions made and providing the various groups with the feedback, the management should develop ways of informing the employees how they are performing. These changes will greatly improve the performance of FEGS.
FEGS has the potential to change the perception hence performance of all the workers. The appliccation of the proposed ideas has a great likelihood of accomplishing this. leaders should apply the ideas gradually and should not expect immeduiate results. The results will only be seen after a long period of time. Changing the prevailing attitude in the organization is not easy; changing corporate culture is even much more difficult. The solutions to these problems begins with a changing the attitude of the management in the first place. This should be followed by putting an effort to understand employee behavior. The management should consider various ways of ensuring that all employees are motivated such that they have a positive attitude. A change of attitude will cause them to embrace the change process.


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