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The game theory of everyday life inspired by the work of Erving Goffman – Introduction
Posted on May 3, 2018 by christoph kuzmics
In April 2018 I spent a week at the Research Center for Social Complexity (CICS in Spanish) at the Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) teaching a PhD research course on game theoretic modelling. The idea of this course, developed together with Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, was to make it an experiential course of model building from question to model. We would start by reading parts of chapters of two books by Erving Goffman that deal with how people interact in public places and then attempt to provide game theoretic models of what we read.
The books we used were "Behavior in Public Places – Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings" published by The Free Press (1966), from which students decided to read Chapter 6 "Face Engagements" and Chapter 9 "Communication Boundaries", as well as "Relations in Public – Microstudies of the Public Order" published by Basic Books (1971), from which we discussed the preface as well as parts of Chapters 1 "The Individual as a Unit" and 2 "Territories of the Self".
In this first of at least seven posts that I have planned on this subject, I explain why Goffman's work is very amenable to game theoretic analyses and what game theory could possibly add to Goffman's work.
Goffman's is, in his own words, a "naturalistic" study of the "public order". He identifies the often subtle norms of behavior that underlie everyday human interaction and provides insights into why these norms are as they are.
So why is this suitable for a game theoretic analysis? The everyday human interactions that Goffman describes and discusses are often between a small and well-defined group of individuals. These are the players in the game. In fact often it is about two individuals only. It is often relatively straightforward to see what possible actions people can take and Goffman describes the possibilities very well. In fact he employs, among other things, an extremely clever method by comparing everyday human behavior in the "normal" sphere with human behavior in a mental hospital. This allows Goffman to see what possible actions people could have chosen, but typically do not choose in the "normal" world. Finally, Goffman identifies the goals that people have in these interactions. This is what a game theorist calls the individual's payoffs or utility. These are here rarely in monetary terms. But this is all we need for a game theoretic analysis: players, actions, and payoffs.
Well, one more thing should be discussed: information. Who knows what? In fact in most of the human everyday interaction that Goffman discusses there are bits of information that not everyone who participates in the interaction has. One of Goffman's other books has the title "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life". We would not need to present ourselves in some way or another if our co-players in the interaction know everything about us from the beginning. In fact information, and who knows what, will be important in most of the examples that I will discuss in this series of posts. By the way, Goffman was well aware of the game theory of his time, such as von Neumann and Morgenstern's 1944 book "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" including zero-sum games as well as Schelling's work including that on coordination games, focal points, and conflict. He could hardly have been aware of Harsanyi's important work on incomplete information game theory as that came in the very late 60's and early 70's and most of Goffman's work predates this. But this theory of incomplete information game theory will be very useful to us in our game theoretic modelling attempts of selections of Goffman's work.
So I have argued that game theory is highly suitable to study human everyday interaction as Goffman describes it. But game theory is actually not one theory; it is a collection of many theories. In fact it is probably better termed a collection of models and solution concepts. A solution concept, as much a misnomer as the term "game theory" itself, is simply what we expect the outcome of the game to be. Game theory, however, is awash, if this is the term I want, with solution concepts, from the many concepts of dominated strategies and rationalizability (in simultaneous and sequential interaction) to the many possible refinements of Nash equilibrium. And, by the way, I have already implicitly restricted attention to non-cooperative game theory. There is a whole world of additional solution concepts for models of cooperative game theory. I think, however, that for the most part Goffman's work is best understood using non-cooperative games (as described above) with the solution concept of evolutionary stability, typically a particular case of Nash equilibrium.
This is so because human everyday interaction satisfies all the assumptions of evolutionary game theory. The interaction is relatively small-scale, short-lived, and simple (much simpler than chess, for instance), the interaction is "recurrent" meaning we face the same kind of interaction many times in our life and with often changing "opponents" (not like the interaction we have with our family members or co-workers – which however could also be studied, albeit with somewhat different tools and solution concepts – see e.g. my blog post on lying II and III). This is the setting in which theory finds that we can, in many cases, expect Nash equilibrium play. In fact we can even expect special Nash equilibrium play, equilibrium play that is also evolutionary stable, stable, that is, with respect to small changes in behavior. For an overview of the findings of evolutionary game theory see for instance the books "Evolutionary Game Theory" by Jörgen Weibull, MIT Press (1995), "Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics", by Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund, Cambridge University Press (1998), and "Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics" by Bill Sandholm, MIT Press (2010).
Now, finally, why is Goffman's work especially amenable to game theoretic analyses? This is because Goffman's view of these everyday human interactions and the norms that guide them is already very close to those of an (evolutionary) game theorist. For instance, on p.xx of the preface to "Relations in Public" he states that "the rules of an order are necessarily such as to preclude the kind of activity that would have disrupted the mutual dealings, making it impractical to continue with them." Translated into the language of game theory this means that the rules are such that individuals cannot benefit from deviating from them. In other words these rules constitute a Nash equilibrium. On p.xx he states further that "However, it is also the case that the mutual dealings associated with any set of ground rules could probably be sustained with fewer rules or different ones,…". In other words Goffman recognizes that many games have multiple equilibria. On p.xx he continues the last sentence as follows: "…, that some of the rules which do apply produce more inconvenience than they are worth." In other words he realizes that Nash equilibria are not necessarily efficient.
Another quote from "Relations in Public" on p. 59 perfectly demonstrates Goffman's game theoretic view: "Second, the traditional way of thinking about threats to rules focuses on a claimant and a potential offender, and although this certainly has its value, especially when we examine closely all the means available for introducing remedies and corrections, still the role of the situation is usually thereby neglected. A better paradigm in many ways would be to assume a few participants all attempting to avoid outright violation of the rules and all forced to deal with the contingencies introduced by various features of various settings. Here the various aims and desires of the participants are taken as given – as standard and routine – and the active, variable element is seen to be the peculiarities of the current situation." The participants are the players, their various aims and desires are their goals or payoffs, and the situation is the collection of the sets of available actions (based possibly on whatever information players have). Goffman, thus, suggests we can keep players and their goals fixed and consider how the structure of the game, the situation these people are in, induces human behavior. This is very much the view of game theory as well.
To show you that a formal game theoretic analysis can provide additional insights over those gained by Goffman himself, I will, in at least the next six blog posts, actually build game theoretic models based on Goffman's work (and based on the class discussion the students, Carlos, and I had at CICS). You can then check for yourself whether or not you see added value in these formal models. The "proof of the pudding is in the eating" as they say.
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this day in crime history: november 2, 1979
November 2, 2018 November 1, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime	1979, Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army, crime, fbi, fugitive, history, Joanne Chesimard, New Jersey, prison break, terrorism, true crime
On this date in 1979, three members of the Black Liberation Army broke fellow BLA member Assata Shakur (aka Joanne Chesimard) out of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, NJ. The escape began when the BLA members, posing as prison visitors, drew .45 pistols and took two guards hostage. They seized a prison van and used it to flee the prison with Shakur. Once outside the prison, they switched cars and made their getaway. The two hostages were released unharmed.
Shakur, step-aunt of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, was serving a life sentence for her role in the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. After escaping prison, she lived as a fugitive in the U.S. She eventually fled to Cuba where she was granted asylum by the government.
FBI Podcast – JOANNE DEBORAH CHESIMARD
Wikipedia – Assata Shakur
this day in crime history: october 20, 1981
October 20, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime	1981, armored car, Black Liberation Army, Brinks, crime, history, murder, Nanuet, officer down, robbery, true crime, Weather Underground
On this date in 1981, members of the Black Liberation Army and several former members of the Weather Underground robbed a Brinks armored car in Nanuet, NY. The robbery resulted in the deaths of a Brink's guard and two police officers.
The incident began when the Brinks truck was making a pick-up at the Nanuet Mall. The robbers ambushed the guards, killing guard Peter Paige and wounding his partner, Joe Trombino. Trombino managed to get off one shot before he was hit, but failed to hit any of the robbers.
After the attack on the guards, the robbers took $1.6 million and fled the scene in a van. The went to a nearby parking lot where they ditched the van and made their getaway in a car and a U-haul truck that were waiting for them. A college student who lived across the street saw the robbers making the switch and called the police.
Police spotted the getaway vehicles at an on-ramp to the New York State Thruway. As they approached the U-Haul, they suspected they may have had the wrong vehicle. The two people in the cab of the truck were white, but all of the robbers were described as black. The driver of the U-Haul, former Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin managed to convince the police that she was innocent. As they lowered their guard, several armed men emerged from the back of the truck and opened fire. Nyack Police Officers Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown were killed. Officer Brian Lennon was injured. Lennon managed to return fire but wasn't able to hit any of his attackers.
Boudin fled the scene on foot, but was apprehended by an off-duty corrections officer. Former Weather Underground members Samuel Brown, Judith Clark and Chris Dobbs were arrested after they crashed their getaway car while fleeing the shootout scene.
Police traced the license plates of the getaway car to an apartment in New Jersey. A search of the apartment yielded weapons, bomb-making materials, and blueprints for NYPD stations in Manhattan. They also found an address in Mt. Vernon, NY, not far from the robbery scene. When they searched that location, they found weapons and some bloody clothes.
After running the license plates of cars seen near the Mt. Vernon address, they managed to track down two of the robbers, BLA members Samuel Smith and Sekou Odinga. When NYPD detectives tried to pull the two men over, they crashed while trying to flee. After a shootout with police, Smith was killed, while Odinga was taken into custody.
The investigation continued with several more arrests following over the next few years. The last suspect arrested was former Weather Underground member Marilyn Buck, who had rented one of the apartments that the gang had used. It was Buck's blood that was found on the clothes at the Mt. Vernon apartment. She had apparently shot herself by accident when she tried to draw her gun during the shootout with the Nyack police officers after the robbery.
The participants were all tried and convicted. All received lengthy prison sentences. Kathy Boudin was paroled in 2003. Marilyn Buck was released in 2010 and died of cancer shortly afterword.
Wikipedia – Brink's Robbery (1981)
ODMP pages – Waverly Brown and Edward O'Grady
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Yeah- it's over!!!!! Boooooo! No more Valentines!
What DID hit me was the fact that I am NOT the mean teacher and it is not their fault that this is an over blown holiday.
It is also NOT their fault that all three of the Littles rec'd a valentine from MR and I did not.
AND Squirrel note cards- for when you need to acknowledge that NuttY friend!
I got the original idea from Create- Share-Teach. So simple to do. The tool box is 22 drawers and it cost 16 at Home Depot; 19 at Lowes. I have gotten rid of all cups, pencil holders, baskets, etc....if it does not have label on the drawers- then it does not have a home on my desk! I can email or post the template I used for the labels....just cut scrapbook paper to fit my printer and VIOLA! The font is Elise from K&A.
Are kidding me?!?!?! This is what my desk can look like? I hot glued this fabric on last year bc it looks like someone took a woodburning coarse on it...There is the rack for my laptop, ONE folder, my sweeties pic, and that little notebook next to the folder, it will show up later in the post. (I love me some binders, too). And holy macaroni- I just noticed the WMD shoes are right there in the corner!!! It was a "workout" day after school that day.....good thing no one was left in the room...whew!
I bought this monstrosity last year from Staples, thinking it would help. It is called the Desk Apprentice...more like the "dish-barrel-box- that -they-know-you-can't-see-over-so-that-is-the-blindspot-where-they-misbehave-box". My remotes for my technology, nurse notes, and a few files (graded, recorded, etc).
Ah, the note book- I have banned Post-its (unless I am using them for a lesson, anchor chart, or a writing assignment with them). This is a $4 index card sized notebook that i bought at Wally World. I write the note I need for myself and when am done with it, I draw a line through it.
Now I always know where I wrote 'that thing" and all I have to do is take this one little notebook with me at night to make sure I accomplish what I wanted to do.
And last picture...My new center chart. I hot glued adhered the cards that I made (Just So Scrappy Scrap Kit) and ribbon to my closet door. Painted the clips white. The ribbon is not glued- just the cards- so I can (hopefully) easily move the clips.
I'll get a close up on the cutie ribbon.
OK, now yawn and stretch...you have more stalking to do!
Looks wonderful! I love to see how everyone is organizing their rooms!
I would love the labels! The box looks awesome!!
Love this, would love a copy of your labels.
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Love your new center chart!! So cute!
Love it all! Thanks for sharing. I'm so touched to have given you some inspiration!!
I LOVE your toolbox! Everything you need is right at your fingertips.
I would love it if you posted the template!
Ohhh. The drawers. The labels. The pretty paper. Pitter Pat Patter. That is my heart skipping a beat with delight. LOVE!
The shoes made me chuckle. Every time I post a picture, I find myself thinking: Why didn't I notice THAT before I snapped the picture?
Jodi has inspired me too. But I'm un-crafty, so I just line stuff up.
That tool box has been sitting in the middle of my floor since Christmas break! I think you've inspired me to get busy! Would love the template-Elise is one of my favorites!
Awesome! You have been busy :) I've definitely fallen off the bandwagon on decluttering. I may need help getting back on, lol.
I would love the template you used...thanks!
I love the tool box idea too!!
I reread your post, too!! You crack me up! I would love the templates as well if you are sharing. Thanks so much!
Cute + organized = perfect! Love the centers with the ribbon. Red, black and white sounds fabulous.
I love your ideas. I want to be this organized. Please send the labels!
I would love your template for the tool box. I love the stripes and polka dots.
I absolutely love your toolbox with labels! I would love if you could send me a copy please! You can such great organizing ideas!
I have seen this post many times on pinterest. Since it is my summer now, it is time to get my room organized. I would love this template. You are awesome.
Hi I am so grateful for your ideas! Thank you for sharing. I would love the templates for your tool box.
I would like the template you used for the toolbox!
I would love a copy of the template too. I bought one a couple of days ago so I can get it done this summer. Thanks!
I would love a copy of the template too. I have another idea for your toolbox- I made an ABC box for my Writing center. It has the letters on the outside (peel and stick scrapbook letters) and on the inside I have pictures and words of the pictures so my Pre-K students can see and write the words ex-picture of a ball and the word ball. The students can then refile the words in the correct drawer-makes for great beginning letter recognition.
Thanks for sharing and I love your posts.
I love your blog and would also love a copy of the tool box template! I will be sharing a room this year so I have no choice but to stay organized! Thanks!


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Raysonic CD128S - £1,850
Ed Selley | Jan 9, 2012
Ray of light How many features can you cram onto a CD player? Raysonic's latest appears to have all the bases covered, says Jason Kennedy
The CD 128S is a brightly lit and styled-up player and just a glance at the back panel reveals that it has balanced and single-ended outputs, as well as digital in and outputs of all the key varieties.
More importantly, it's a fully balanced machine with a Class A output stage driven by no fewer than four triode valves, all this in a toploading aluminium chassis. It looks like an awful lot of hardware for the money. The question is, does the sound match the appearance?
Raysonic is a dedicated to valve electronics and has a wide range of amplifiers and a growing portfolio of CD players. The CD128S is its sixth model and sits just above the entry level. The distinctive styling of this player, and a number of other models, comes down to in-house metalwork fabrication (there is a photographic factory tour on the company's website that makes it look like a pretty serious operation by valve electronics standards, but there are no workers on the factory fl oor, and no grime either!).
The S in this player's name indicates that it's a variation on the older CD128 which doesn't have what are essentially digital preamp features found here. Not only does it have digital inputs, but it has a digital volume control as well and thus can be connected straight to a power amp or active speaker. The digital inputs include USB, so you can hook up your PC as well as audio sources, which gives it a degree of future-proofing that everyone should be looking for in a CD player today.
It's a high bling-factor design, thanks to the circle of control switches and output valves that are bathed in a wash of blue LEDs. Fortunately, for those of a sensitive nature, it's easy to switch the lights off so that you can focus on the music. The case is very stylish with its rounded corners and 8mm-thick aluminium construction.
What you don't see is that the transport has its own isolation system to keep its resonances away from the internal electronics and those coming from speakers away from the critical laser/disc interface, agitation of which is a prime source of jitter.
The top-loading aspect involves both an aluminium puck to clamp the CD and a lid to seal off the transport bay, which makes it a bit slow to change discs but is always going to be more reliable than motorised drawer systems.
Under the cover it has an AD 1955 decoder chip, which upsamples to 24-bit/192kHz with no option to avoid this particular process. It has some fashionable names on key capacitors: specifically Mundorf and Solen metallized polypropylene fi lm types. Incoming mains power is catered for by a C-core transformer.
Raysonic includes a warm-up function that slows down turnon, but enhances valve life as a result. Given the ease of access, it would not be diffi cult to replace the glassware and this would be an easy way of experimenting with the sound should the urge to tweak get the better of those that buy a CD128S. Just make sure the valves are matched pairs. The four 6922EH Russian valves supplied should give plenty of good service, however.
This is an awful lot of fi ne metalwork for the price. Only Chinese-made products can hope to compete in terms of build, while the company that appears to offer the most alongside well-regarded sound is Shanling.
We wrote about the Shanling CD-T2000 (£1,985) in HFC 350 and it made a very good impression. It doesn't, however, have the AES/EBU and TOSLINK digital in and output socketry of this Raysonic nor such substantial casework, which gives the newcomer the edge on in terms of features. The balanced operation might give it the sonic edge, but that would depend on the partnering amplifier's ability to take advantage of the fact.
Unlike the majority of high-end players closer to home, the CD128S has a very nice all-aluminium handset, which can be used to directly access tracks, adjust output level (in very small increments) and select inputs among other functions. In the grand scheme of things this player faces stiff competition from all points of the audio globe. Another Chinese built machine, the Consonance Mini Droplet 3.1 (£1,995), also has a tube output but eschews digital inputs and balanced outputs in favour of variable oversampling and a 16-bit chipset.
Sim Audio, a Canadian company to the core, makes the CD3.3 at £2,200. This is a less fancy player that produces very engaging sounds from a 24-bit/192kHz convertor. The real contender, however, at this price is Naim's CD5 XS. It doesn't have the open fi nesse of this player, but produces a thoroughly engaging and powerful sound that drives the music like few players at the price.
The CD128S was played through a Leema Tucana II integrated amp and Bowers & Wilkins 802 Diamond speakers, a system that showed it as an open and airy-sounding player with no shortage of delicacy. We were particularly impressed by the texture of instrumental tone on an early instruments disc. The harmonics were brought forth in a distinctly fresh and lively fashion, while the tempo of the piece was marked out with a light precision that made for a strong sense of flow.
Further listening to a variety of discs enhanced this impression of a fast, lively sound, albeit one that's a little short on grip. The bass is not as heavy as we're used to with solidstate output stage equipped players and this takes a bit of getting used to, yet the presence of chewy lumps of synth bass on Cornelius' Fit Song, among others, suggests that it's quite capable of delivering fully textured, if not wholly substantial low end when the music demands it.
Its sound has a lot of the positive qualities of valves, more so than many glass-powered CD players we've encountered. Transparency through the mid and top is clearly in a higher league than the majority of alternatives at the price, but some will miss the sense of gravitas that CD can deliver so effectively. With a Mac running Audirvana Plus software to the USB input you get a very similar result, but better imaging, while the sax on Take 5 has rarely felt more breathy and alive in the room than it did with the Raysonic's conversion.
You get a similar result with both single-ended and balanced outputs and its qualities are apparent through alternative amplifi cation, too. We hooked up a NaimUniti one-box system to see how it matched from the opposite end of the spectrum and got a more grounded and beguiling sound, that worked extremely well with certain material, the jazzy work out at the end of Steely Dan's Gold Teeth being one such example.
Light fantastic
It makes a refreshing change to hear a player that, rather than compromising one aspect of the sound in order to achieve a normal perceived response, makes the most of the output stage's abilities in order to provide a sound that will divide opinion. It won't be to all tastes, but those that appreciate the timbre and air of acoustic instruments and voices will undoubtedly forgive its slightly lightweight balance.
It's a charming player and one that provides insights into the music that few at this price can. This, combined with its comprehensive array of features and impressive build quality, makes it a product that we're happy to recommend to those who look to the light.
LIKE: Open, transparent, dynamic, fast and fluid sound
DISLIKE: Some will prefer a more substantial sound and a less bling aesthetic
WE SAY: A change from the usual CD player balance that emphasises the strengths of the valves
Raysonic CD128S
Canada/China
CD player/digital
(WxHxD)
• Analogue outputs: RCA phono, XLR balanced
• Digital outputs: coaxial, AES/EBU
• Digital inputs: coaxial, AES/EBU, USB, optical
• DAC: AD1955 upsampling to 24-bit/192kHz
• Valve complement: 4x 6922EH
Zepher Audio
raysonicaudio.com
Exposure XM CD
Mitchell & Johnson S800 CD Player
Pro-Ject CD Box S2
Métronome Technologie Le Player 2S
Audiolab 8300CDQ
Audiolab 6000CDT
Do you still buy CDs?
Cyrus CD XT Signature - £1,750
Rega Saturn-R CD player/DAC - £1,580
Creek Evolution 50CD - £950
Marantz CD6005/PM6005 - £350/£380
Audiolab 8200CDQ - £950
Shanling CDT-2000 - £1,595
Ayon CD-07 CD player - £1,890
Audiolab 8200CD - £700
Creek Evolution 2 CD - £680


Twitter has been such a blessing for me.
I honestly can't even put it into words without sounding like a giant cheeseball of emotions. If it wasn't for this blog, I would have never even considered creating an account, so I owe a lot of thanks to you lovely readers for helping me grow this site enough that it lead me down the social media rabbit hole.
Furthermore, I want to thank Randi from functionalrandi.com who recently shared a post announcing her new blog.
Later on I will share my answers, but I encourage you all to head over to Randi's post and create your own. In less than 30 minutes you can open the door to ideas and an understanding of your top five personal values and why they matter to you.
Trust me, even if you aren't feeling out of sorts or just killing time, this exercise is well worth the effort.
Have you ever wondered what the meaning is behind the things you spend your time doing? What your purpose is? We know what we are doing and how we do it, but many of us never take the time to find the WHY behind our actions. If you find yourself not passionate about what you do, or no longer find the joy in it…you may want to examine the WHY behind it.
I spent 8 years as the Clinical Supervisor for a Community Mental Health Agency. I spent my time meeting the demands my boss asked of me day after day, that I did not have the time to ask myself WHY I was doing it. Eventually, I could not find any aspect of my job that made me happy. I was miserable and exhausted. I had lost all passion and enthusiasm, and I fell into a deep depression.
It did for me, not specifically of course, but the overall wonder of why I was breaking myself as a wife, mother, blogger and in general what the hell was my goal in life?
Was I even aware whether or not I had one anymore?
This feeling of being lost is one of the common comforts (like a frenemy) that often leads me down a very dangerous road. Without a proper grasp of my own awareness I quickly become consumed by self-doubt and eventually give into the familiar fear of worthlessness.
Never before have I come across an exercise that actually helped me snap out this damaging cycle. Muffle the noise, yes. Postpone the emotional and mental withdrawal, absolutely.
Well, let's just say it was enough that I not only felt the need to share my answers for others with similar struggles; but heard the call to spread this message and exercise as far as possible.
Thank you again, Randi. I pray your writing inspires others the way it has done for me, no doubt it will.
These are my personal answers as I went through this exercise. I am sharing them so that others can see how this exercise works and to prove that it did indeed help me come to a conclusion about my own why statements.
These answers are not a reflection of anyone other than myself.
You will not be able to complete the exercise by reading my answers alone, so be sure to check out the original post for a full explanation.
Step 1. Ask yourself a few questions and write down the answers.
Who in your life has helped make you the person you are today (coach, mentor, boss, teacher)?
I have been blessed to know a few different people who have taken the time to help me grow into the woman I am, however without a doubt, my grandmother would be the most influential person I know.
Write down a specific time when they exemplified what you admire most about them.
During my Grandmother's divorce she couldn't bare to bring any harm to her ex husband. Even after all he had put her through she left him the house, because he was handicap and they had made it accessible for him, she left him funds to take care of himself should he end up hospitalized and unable to pay for bills, she read all his awful letters, never once throwing the anger and hurt back in his face. When I wiped her tears as she cried, "I just don't know what I did wrong!" all I could think about was how much love she still had for a man who hardly knew what an amazing person she is.
Think of a day at work when, as you headed home, you might have said to yourself, "I would have done that for free!" What happened that day to make you say that?
I used to work as a reservation agent for a fine resort. We would get a lot of calls were people lied to us to get things for free, however, one day a man called who not only sounded sincere but had to hang up as he choked on his tears. His wife was fighting her last battle with terminal cancer. He wanted to take her back to the place they had their honeymoon, "the happiest time of our lives together" he said. He didn't have much money to spare, due to all the medical expenses, so when I created the reservation I made notes all over the place requesting complimentary upgrades to a suite, champagne and dinner at our Italian restaurant, all of which was approved by management and then even more was offered once they checked in.
At the end of his visit he wrote a very touching letter, thanking everyone who had been apart of their experience. The day they checked out we were all sad to see them leave, even through all they had been through with the cancer, his wife still glowed with joy and love for him. I will never forget his voice the day he made the call to book a simple room and the note he left us. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
What has been a pivotal moment in your life, one where you realized nothing would ever be the same?
The day I decided to quit my career in hospitality to stay at home with my family was very difficult. It's cheesy and often overused, but being a stay at home parent is not easy. It's been a real eye opener for me as someone who comes from a blue collar family, someone who has only ever known work, sleep, repeat. The isolation, the constant battles with tiny humans and the underappreciated tasks of a parent who struggles to feel like they are making enough of an impact in the household, let alone the world. Yet, it is all so very rewarding in the end.
At school, what was an experience you loved?
Highschool wasn't good for me at all, however, college came with a sense of freedom to be myself and be respected as person, let alone an adult. My first college professor had this loving way of pushing us out of our comfort zone. She would ask us to complete an essay on hot topics like, vaccinations, politics, population control and resource management. One day she took the time to show us not only the importance of fact checking but how to correctly go about questioning our sources so that our emotions didn't take over during these heated debates and essays. It was something I will forever be thankful for.
What have you accomplished that you are really proud of?
I know it sounds silly, but I am very proud of myself for accepting the reality of my mental and emotional health issues. As many do, I spent my whole life in denial, always belittling myself and thinking I just needed to get over my trauma without ever considering that I needed real help because of it. Four years with Postpartum Depression pushed me over the edge one day, as I was a complete mess on the kitchen floor literally crying over spilt milk it hit me that I was not okay. Since then I've started being honest with doctors and slowly I'm beginning to see improvements I never knew were possible.
Step 4: Develop your Personal WHY Statement: To ___, so that ___.
To persevere through struggle so that I can be a light in the darkness for others.
To continue growing as a parent so that my kids have a mother they can be proud of and not someone who gave birth without consideration for life.
To continue learning how I can make a real impact for families in need so that others not only have a helping hand but hopefully enough strength to pay it forward one day.
To connect and help spread the truth about local cultures/tribes and Natives so that future generations don't lose their heritage and the history of their people.
I really enjoyed reading this. It's great that you've highlighted Randi's blog. If I had more time in a day…and motivation…there are several self-awareness and self-care things in and on my nightstand waiting for me to take the time with. Things I know I should do for me. In my head, I added this to my list, but if I'm honest I probably won't get to it. I'm glad you were able to do this AND that it helped you!


PBS (in NY, Channel 13) has been home to several Henson productions including the beloved Sesame Street and, most recently, Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train. The original network, National Educational Television (NET), came into being in 1954, the same year that Jim started work on television. Jim's first project for it was a group of programs produced with WITF, the public station in Hershey, PA, for their "Adventures in The Arts" series. This included The Muppets on Puppets, a behind the scenes/demonstration show taped in June 1968 (just before Jims' first meetings on Sesame Street) and three additional segments taped the following year. The program won Jim an NET Award for Excellence. Sesame Street premiered on NET in November 1969, and by the time the Sesame Street Muppets appeared to help with the fundraising auction in 1975, the show was integral to the success of both the local station and the national network.
In 1994, the producers of the Great Performances series (based at New York's Thirteen) created an in-depth documentary about Jim and his work called The World of Jim Henson. It aired that November 23rd. Three years later, as part of Thirteen/WNET's annual Gala on April 17, 1997, the entire Henson family was honored for their many contributions to the station over the years in the area of family programming. The others honored that night were Tom Brokaw (news and public affairs), Peter Martins (the arts), and Alex Trotman (science and nature).
Learn more about Jim's first public television project, The Muppets on Puppets.
Thirteen's Dial magazine often covered Sesame Street and its impact, as it did here in June 1983.
The program for the Thirteen/WNET gala, April 17, 1997.
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Give your client what they need. Ask these questions.
As an independent financial adviser, you know how important it is to build strong relationships with your clients and to make sure you offer them the best possible customer care.
The truth is that, when it comes to the financial services industry, your knowledge and enthusiasm for what you do isn't actually enough to create a trusting relationship with a client or to best service their needs. You need understanding – you need to know your client, their financial profile, their needs, and their goals for themselves and their money. Getting to this place requires regular meetings and check-ins as well as asking (and answering) all the right questions.
It's important to know what your client wants to do with their money (and, related, why they work) so that you can best help them to plan for financial success today and in the future. This is also a question that you need to revisit over the course of your relationship – as your client's lifestyle changes, so will their obligations and goals. This can also be a useful question if you have couples as clients as they might not have the same financial goals and might not even have realised that this is the case.
2. What about your finances keeps you up at night?
As a financial adviser, it's essential that you understand your client's true financial situation, as well as their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to managing their money and covering their financial bases. Are they financially savvy and confident about managing their wealth, including their savings and investment choices? Do they understand how different financial vehicles work? How can you help to ease their fears and educate them about their options?
3. What do you want from me and are you getting it?
Trust takes time and it's built through solid service and honest feedback. Don't assume that you are giving your clients everything they need because you have slotted them into your way of doing business. They might want more attention or a particular service that you haven't offered them. Asking them outright what questions they might have and what they want from their financial adviser could make the difference between a client that stays long term and one that potentially moves to a different adviser.
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Allison Curtis is a Senior and Assistant Editor for the Weddington Witness. Allison has a love for writing and communications, and hopes to better inform the students and people of Weddington through regular, accurate, and entertaining updates to the Weddington Witness. Allison plans to study Genetics and Psychology after she graduates this year, but also has an interest in continuing her work with journalism in college.


The number of criminal offences carried out using mopeds in London has been revealed – including how many in each area of Croydon.
Data obtained by the BBC reveals that areas in central London and boroughs in north London, such as Islington and Camden, have the highest recorded offences.
The worst street in the capital was revealed to be Highgate Hill, in Highgate, with a huge 239 moped crimes taking place between 2012 and 2017.
The number of offences in Croydon is relatively low compared boroughs in the north of London, although there are still a significant number of moped robberies taking place.
The policing wards with the highest recorded offences in Croydon are jointly Broad Green and West Thornton, with both wards having 55 moper robberies in five years.
This makes the two wards the 125nd worst out of a possible 654 wards in Londonthat there is data available for.
Not far behind Broad Green and West Thornton was Norbury with 54 and Selhurst with 41 recorded crimes.
Neighbouring ward Thornton Heath, by contrast, was slightly lower with 34 offences.
The data also allows to see which street in Croydon has the most offences taking place on. In West Thornton, it was recorded as Campbell Road.
For Broad Green, the most offences took place jointly on London Road and Whitestone Way.
The wards with the lowest recorded offences was Coulsdon East, with only one offence taking place.
This ranks it as the 629th worst, out of 654.
Other wards with low recorded instances of crime were New Addington, with two, Coulsdon West, with three, and Kenley, with two also.


This was my first time taking acid, and I had only previously ever smoked marijuana before that. I was kind of nervous, but very excited. On Halloween day, I met up with my boyfriend, who had taken acid before and reassured me that it was going to be fine. We placed the blotter on our tongues and texted our friend M to do the same. We then walked to the nearby middle school to meet up with M. None of us began to feel the effects until we were sitting at a bench in a secluded park. It had hit us all at different times too, from me, to M, to my boyfriend (B).
The first thing I had noticed was that I was very warm, despite the 45 degree weather outside and my inability to ever really be warm. I also noticed that all the autumn leaves and naked trees seemed very distinct and never-ending, yet also connected to each other. I became very excited and asked B and M if they were feeling anything, to which they replied that they felt pretty warm, but nothing much yet. By this time it was about 45 minutes after we had taken the acid. I put my arm out in front of me and began waving it, only to see that the image of my arm would repeat itself and trail behind it. I was doing this for awhile, until I noticed B and M staring at me. They laughed and told me I was tripping.
Once the effects were more set in, we all started staring at a leaf on the table. M and I both saw little black dots moving all along the leaf! B said he could not see them. I realized that I still had to text my father and tell him where I was, and could not focus on the task. I did not want to do it, mostly because I couldn't remember how I talked in text conversation. I also was very averse to lying to him, although it would have been a petty lie. Eventually I calmed down and began to mess with my phone. It was very hard to use it, and took a pretty long time to think of the words I could use to sound normal. Once I sent it, I felt liberated.
I began scratching swirls into the table with a stick, and looking for all the little things that were appearing in it. B and M wanted to go walk around, after all, it was Halloween. I was scared to get off of the bench but with some encouragement from B I was able to.
We walked out of the forest and onto the sidewalk. We saw tons of little kids walking around dressed as witches and ghosts, and it felt like the most ridiculous thing. I couldn't grasp why we celebrate this, it was such a weird thing. We were pretty paranoid about people "knowing" and found ourselves walking very fast. It felt like everyone was looking at us. We would find ourselves walking very fast and would slow down rapidly, only to find that the pace had picked up again.
We decided to walk to my friend S's house, who lived a ways away. Along the way, I started to see letters in everything. They would be made of the grass, or trees, or whatever I was looking at. If I looked at a blank surface, a concentric circle pattern of letters would appear and repeat itself on it. Later on I realized that this came from the swirls I was drawing on the table. Neither B nor M were having any visuals as strong as I was. We eventually got into the neighborhood where S lived and sat on a hill. B began to talk with M about philosophy; M was unusually quiet. He seemed involved in his own thoughts. I began to tell the others that I needed to get warm, even though I was already. I also became obsessed with the thought that my body and brain were separate. I always said "My body is telling me to…" and wanted my brain to connect what my body needed. I knew that my body was actually cold, but my brain was warm. I hadn't eaten much all day, so I knew that my body was hungry, but my brain was full. It worried me and I began to feel bad about not taking care of my body.
All throughout the trip I was very emotional and felt in tune with everyone. I wanted to talk with everyone, even though I knew that I shouldn't. I especially wanted to talk to family members and friends. At one point while we were walking, B brought up his cat, who had died recently. I immediately started to tear up and become extremely sad, even though I never had an emotional tie to the cat. We quickly switched topics when it became apparent that it was depressing everyone.
Eventually we got to S's house and asked her for trick or treating bags (we had forgotten them). She gave us a few and stood outside and talked with us. S did not know that we were tripping, and was a little suspicious. She began playing with something that B was holding while M and B were talking. To me, it had looked entirely ridiculous and I couldn't help myself from laughing. She kept asking me what was so funny and I just couldn't tell her. We said our goodbyes and started to head home.
The letters had become much stronger and now said words like "dream", "mesmerize", "capitalize", lights", "sublime", and "peace" which have strong meanings to me. All the letters took on a purple or green haze, and looked as if they were standing up on the surface they appeared. Patterns were much more prominent than ever. Clothes felt very restricting and unnatural. We got back to the school and parted with M, then went back to B's house. We discussed our ongoing trip, and ways of thinking. I felt as if I had all the answers to questions, but no questions. I also felt that the letters were extremely important and I had to unjumble them. It soon got late and I walked home.
Once home, I got paper and a pen and drew the swirls on a paper, tracing the letters that I saw. They had faded significantly, but I managed to get a lot of them down. It seemed like there were an infinite amount. I tried sleeping but couldn't and occupied myself for a few more hours until school the next morning. I went about the day in a more positive and uplifted state and the visuals faded even more. They were completely gone by the next day.


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On Solo Performance
Clyde Jevne in "One-Man Hamlet"
(Theatre Inconnu, 2011)
The best production of Hamlet I have ever seen was a solo performance created by Dr. Clayton Jevne, Founding Artistic Director of Theatre Inconnu (Victoria, British Columbia). Titled One-Man Hamlet, it was one of the several productions I attended at the Minnesota Fringe in 2003.
"... Nick, Denny and I went to see One-Man Hamlet at Bryant-Lake. That kicked ass, the man is a freak, and not only that, but a Canadian freak and we sat in the dark eating cheeseburgers and drinking pints of Summit and watching this guy charge around the stage with music stands with balloons on them representing all the different characters, it was a whoot." - I Hate This Blog, 8/9/2003
The cheeseburger was only part of what made it special. The Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis is a bar and grill, bowling alley and cabaret theater all under one roof. We'd placed orders before the show and fifteen minutes in, a server brought my dish and it was passed down to me by friendly audience members.
"I Hate This (a play without the baby)"
(Red Eye Theatre, 2003)
I wasn't the only one served. This is totally a thing that they do at Bryant-Lake.
"... Denny and I are going to see Heretic [a solo performance by Niki McCretton] this evening at 6. Toni got to see [Staggering Toward America, a solo performance by Rik Reppe] this afternoon ... and I did my last performance." - I Hate This Blog, 08/10/2003
That would be my last performance for I Hate This. My trip to Minnesota nineteen years ago was the first time I brought my solo performance on stillbirth to an audience of almost complete strangers.
"Forty people in the house, a strong Sunday afternoon showing … Clayton the One-Man Hamlet man was in the house, and his lovely wife. Our midwife's daughter made the show! And there were rumors ... maybe Matthew Everett made it (and his mom) [more on that here]. I am grateful for the attention." - I Hate This Blog, 08/10/2003
The solo performance is a particular kind of drama, but it can be so many different things. Ten years or so ago there were several traveling shows in which one guy would tell all of The Lord of the Rings or the entire Harry Potter saga in a single evening, which is a kind of parody. It's for the fans, but it's also meant to be hilarious.
Jevne's One-Man Hamlet is much more than that. It is very funny, to be sure. But he's playing something like an addled street performer with the least expensive props possible and what is remarkable is how he just keeps going, playing all the characters, telling the entire story.
My favorite part is how he takes all of those moments that a character describes something that happened in the recent past (Ophelia telling her father what Hamlet did in her closet, Hamlet telling Horatio about the pirates) by opening a foot locker pulling out puppets and miniatures.
Sometimes a solo performance is in the service of a familiar tale, like Jevne's, or when we saw local artist Terry Canendonk perform I Dreamed of Rats, his adaptation of the Inspector General. Or it is autobiographical, like Reppe's Staggering Toward America, in which he told the true story of his journey across the nation after 9/11. He becomes the people he met along the way, but it's no different than a good friend telling a great yarn over a fire. There's a personal connection necessary in these kinds of performances, and Reppe's personality was big and he embraced the crowd with it.
Nina Domingue
"The Amazing and Absolutely True Adventures
of Ms. Joan Evelyn Southgate"
(Cleveland Public Theare, 2002)
While we're on the subject of solo shows I saw almost in Minnesota almost two decades ago, Heretic was yet another kind of one person performance, a play with one character, and little or no text. Utilizing video, a big open stage and a large aquarium, McCretton is a woman who has been exiled to the surface of the moon for the crime of having religious belief, and may not return until she has filled the fish tank with her tears.
It's a flex, standing on stage, by yourself, for an hour or so. You are the only person holding the attention of an entire audience.
My good friend Nina Domingue has written and performed several solo shows, most recently The Amazing and Absolutely True Adventures of Ms. Joan Evelyn Southgate, which opened to a full house at Cleveland Public Theatre last weekend. Watching Nina play is a masterclass in catching and keeping an audience, not only skilled in portraying all manner of characters, but also staying in tune with and reacting to the assembled.
I have written and performed two solo shows. This spring I have been writing an essay, meant to be read aloud, about my mother's death, called Falling. I have no idea what I might do with it, though I am glad to have written it.
Cleveland Public Theatre presents "The Amazing and Absolutely True Adventures of Ms. Joan Evelyn Southgate" performed by Nina Domingue and directed by Nathan Henry through May 14, 2022.
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Process LXIV
End of Play (Week Four)
Scenes From a Night's Dream: First Reading
Process LXIII
End of Play (Week Three)
Process LXII
End of Play (Week Two)
"Dog Act" at convergence-continuum
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End of Play (Week One)
Process LX


What if I told you that for less than $10 and with only a few minutes a day you could improve your instrumental proficiency in a short period of time? Would you believe me? Does it sound too good to be true?
It's not the total solution to all your problems.
It will not magically make a master improviser out of you.
It will not get you a multi-million recording deal.
It will not guarantee you a stream of successive top-10 releases.
No such thing - but I do want to share this simple, fun way that helped me personally improve. I'm talking about juggling.
Sorry for the low resolution example. That clip is more than 8 years old, but the juggling in it is just insane.
Juggling? What's juggling got to do with improving on your instrument? That's not a music related activity - so what's the point?
I'm not 100% sure but I think the first time I heard Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor was in the late 70's or early 80's when I was a child watching TV commercials. Back then it was especially popular to use classical music as backdrop for TV ads, at least here in Austria.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons for a coffee brand, some local Bank (ab)used Mozart for their life insurance package – what the Adagio was supposed to peddle, I don't remember.
I do remember though, that this haunting piece somehow grabbed me and I couldn't get it out of my head and would constantly whistle and hum the melody anytime I had seen the TV spot.
Mind mapping is an extremely powerful tool. It's easy to quickly capture your brainstorms and then to organize them and get a visual overview.
The main idea and concept is to start from a central topic and branch out – grouping together all your associated ideas and thoughts.


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Suzuki (disambiguation)
Suzuki Motor Corporation (Japanese: スズキ株式会社, Hepburn: Suzuki Kabushiki-Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan, which specializes in manufacturing automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. In 2011, Suzuki was thought to be the ninth biggest automaker by production worldwide. Suzuki has over 45,000 employees worldwide and has about 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133 distributors in 192 countries.
In 1909, Michio Suzuki (1887–1982) founded the Suzuki Loom Works in the small seacoast village of Hamamatsu, Japan. Business boomed as Suzuki built weaving looms for Japan's giant silk industry. In 1929, Michio Suzuki invented a new type of weaving machine, which was exported overseas. The company's first 30 years focused on the development and production of these machines.
Despite the success of his looms, Suzuki believed that his company would benefit from diversification and he began to look at other products. Based on consumer demand, he decided that building a small car would be the most practical new venture. The project began in 1937, and within two years Suzuki had completed several compact prototype cars. These first Suzuki motor vehicles were powered by a then-innovative, liquid-cooled, four-stroke, four-cylinder engine. It had a cast aluminum crankcase and gearbox and generated 13 horsepower (9.7 kW) from a displacement of less than 800cc.
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The Japanese seabass, also suzuki (鱸) (Lateolabrax japonicus), is a species of Asian seabass native to the western Pacific Ocean, where it occurs from Japan to the South China Sea. They inhabit fresh, brackish, and marine waters of inshore rocky reefs and in estuaries at depths of at least 5 m (16 ft). This species is catadromous, with the young ascending rivers and then returning to the sea to breed. This species can reach a length of 102 cm (40 in), though most do not exceed 16.1 cm (6.3 in). The greatest weight recorded for this species is 8.7 kg (19 lb). This species is important commercially, popular as a game fish, and farmed.
Japanese seabass have shiny white flesh with an easily recognizable, broad-flaked structure and a mild flavor. They have traditionally been one of the most popular targets for Japanese anglers. In the Kantō region, including Shizuoka Prefecture, it is called seigo when under 25 cm. At three years of age, when it has attained a length of near 60 cm, it is called fukko or suzuki. Because their name changes as they grow – in Japanese such fish are called shusseuo (出世魚) – the Japanese have associated them with advancement in life and believe Japanese seabass symbolizes good fortune.
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Suzuki may refer to:
Suzuki (name), a Japanese family name
Suzuki Motor Corporation, a Japanese motorcycle and automobile brand
Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation, a Japanese company that produces musical instruments
Suzuki method, a philosophy of music education, which had been run by Shinichi Suzuki
The Mooney Suzuki, an American garage rock band
Suzuki (album), album by duo Tosca
The Suzuki Reaction, a Nobel Prize–winning cross-coupling chemical reaction
Suzuki (fish), Lateolabrax japonicus, (also Japanese sea bass), a fish of Lateolabracidae family
Suzuki sporadic group in group theory
Suzuki distribution in statistics modeling of wireless communication channels
Aguri Suzuki, F-1 driver
Airi Suzuki, singer
Akiko Suzuki, figure skater
Akiko Yano, born as Akiko Suzuki
Akira Suzuki (disambiguation)
Ami Suzuki, singer
Anju Suzuki, a.k.a. Kakko, actress
Chihiro Suzuki, voice actor
D. T. Suzuki (a.k.a. Suzuki Daisetsu), Buddhist scholar
Daichi Suzuki, Japanese swimmer
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'Suzuki' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Adult 24sai no Koi (2011)
Actors: Takahiro Ariyama (actor), Taigo Fujisawa (actor), Juokaei Ikeguchi (actor), Ini Kusano (actor), Yûki Sera (actor), Aya Kanai (actress), Shô Nishino (actress), Sayoko Ohashi (actress), Manami Tanabe (actress), Shungiku Uchida (actress), Saku Nakamachi (director),
É Proibido Fumar (2009)
Actors: Antonio Abujamra (actor), José Muylaert Abujamra (actor), Roberto Andreoli (actor), Lucas Machado Candeias (actor), Eduardo Chagas (actor), Seaung Yong Cho (actor), Emerson Danesi (actor), Marcos de Andrade (actor), Maurílio de Oliveira (actor), Jairo Degenszajn (actor), Marat Descartes (actor), Ubiracy Parana do Brasil (actor), Eduardo Duque (actor), Antônio Edson (actor), André Abujamra (actor),
Plot: In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment and is addicted in her only companion, the cigarettes. She has a constant friction with her two sisters, the executive Pop and the housewife Teca, because of the inheritance of the couch of their deceased Aunt Dinah. When the musician of a barbecue place Max moves to the next-door apartment, Baby has a crush on him. Sooner they have a love affair and Baby quits smoking with the support of a fellowship. However the insecure Baby feels jealous with the relationship of Max with his former woman Estelinha that keeps stalking him. One night, Baby follows Estelinha and when she leaves the building, Baby accidentally hits her; the hit-and-run Baby calls 911 but Estelinha dies. When the doorman Chico watches the tape of the surveillance camera, he hides the VHS tape from the police. Meanwhile Max moves to Baby's apartment and she lives a conflictive situation.
Keywords: guitar, hole-in-wall, neighbor, smoking, sofa
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller,
Axion (2008)
Actors: Shinsuke Aoki (actor), Masashi Arakawa (actor), Yuta Furukawa (actor), Hanawa (actor), Akimasa Haraguchi (actor), Ken Maeda (actor), Yutaka Shimizu (actor), Yoshimasa Shirai (actor), Maki Aizawa (actress), Shôko Hamada (actress), Riyu Kosaka (actress), Midori Takeuchi (actress), Yûji Amawashi (director),
Death Blow (2006)
Actors: Jonathan Cullen (actor), Joshua Grote (actor), Justin Herman (producer), Justin Herman (writer), Justin Herman (director), Justin Herman (editor),
Genres: Action, Short,
Taglines: Justice Is Coming Your Way With a Swift Kick to the Face!
Madama Butterfly (2004)
Actors: Alessandro Battiato (actor), Carlo Bosi (actor), Francesco Franci (actor), Marcello Giordani (actor), Daniel Oren (actor), Juan Pons (actor), Carlo Striuli (actor), Mina Blum (actress), Fiorenza Cedolins (actress), Cesare Bonamico (producer), David Belasco (writer), Giuseppe Giacosa (writer), Luigi Illica (writer), John Luther Long (writer), Emi Wada (costume designer),
Genres: Drama, Musical,
Waga ai no uta - Taki Rentaro monogatari (1993)
Actors: Taisaku Akino (actor), Ryo Amamiya (actor), Bengaru (actor), Takaaki Enoki (actor), Hiroshi Katsuno (actor), Gô Katô (actor), Tôru Kazama (actor), Shigeru Kôyama (actor), Kyôhei Shibata (actor), Shingo Yanagisawa (actor), Yûko Asano (actress), Fumi Dan (actress), Shiho Fujimura (actress), Miki Fujitani (actress), Saiko Isshiki (actress),
Plot: In April 1895, the talented young Rentaro Taki comes to Tokyo from his home in Kyushu to enrol in the prestigious National Academy of Music. Hoping to become a pianist, he meets another student there, Yuki Nakano, who shares the same aspirations. With his elder classmate Suzuki's encouragement, Rentaro practices furiously to perfect his technique, but loses his health in the process. Over the years, his health, as well as his devotion to and achievement level in music, fluctuates, as two friends adjust to the varying roles they can each potentially play in his life. Yuki receives the Japanese government's first music scholarship to study in Berlin. At the same time, Rentaro composes wonderful music and songs like Bloom in the Moonlight which are still very popular in today's Japan, while Suzuki quits the music school and becomes a hard labourer due to family crisis. Two years later, Rentaro obtained the same scholarship and went to Leipzig. He reunites with Yuki in Berlin and enlightens her in many ways on piano techniques and interpretations. Just when they realize that they are falling in love with each other, illness strikes Rentaro and they are forced to separate again. Rentaro dies in Japan when he is composing his last piano piece, dedicated to Yuki. Yuki later becomes an established pianist in Europe while Suzuki becomes a music teacher to teach school kids the songs written by Rentaro.
Keywords: composer, famous-score, piano, talent
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,
Kyofun no byoningen saishu kyoshi (1988)
Actors: Harry Ditson (actor), Michael Dobson (actor), Michael Dobson (actor), William Dufris (actor), William Dufris (actor), William Dufris (actor), William Dufris (actor), Blain Fairman (actor), John Guerrasio (actor), Adam Henderson (actor), Shôzô Iizuka (actor), Scott McNeil (actor), Scott McNeil (actor), Shane Meier (actor), John Bull (actor),
Plot: At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got going, so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we find out Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.
Keywords: anime, based-on-comic
Genres: Animation, Comedy,
Hatachi no genten (1973)
Actors: Takeo Chii (actor), Masaaki Daimon (actor), Akiyoshi Kitaura (actor), Mizuho Suzuki (actor), Yoshitaka Tanba (actor), Sumio Tomikawa (actor), Ikue Kawashima (actress), Chieko Kyô (actress), Yuriko Sumi (actress), Yukiko Takabayashi (actress), Kyôko Tsuda (actress), Fumiko Watanabe (actress), Keiko Yagi (actress), Masakatsu Kaneko (producer), Shirô Moritani (writer),
Koi to namida no taiyô (1966)
Actors: Santa Ariki (actor), Ryokutarô Hanai (actor), Yukio Hashi (actor), Chinpei Hayashiya (actor), Kamon Kawamura (actor), Hideaki Komori (actor), Kenichiro Kôzai (actor), Kyôsuke Machida (actor), Daisuke Nakako (actor), Nobuyuki Shima (actor), Hiroshi Tachihara (actor), Yuji Taki (actor), Sentarô Tatsumi (actor), Shin'ichi Yanagisawa (actor), Hiroshi Aoyama (actor),
Genres: ,
Suzuki Filmography
Soekarno: Indonesia Merdeka
2013, role: actor , character name: Laksamana Tadashi Maeda
Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
Suzuki, You Filmography
Kurutta Butokai
1989, role: actor , character name: Chida
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Intro, Sisqo
Infatuated, Sisqo
How Can I Love You Tonight, Sisqo
Dru World Order Interlude, Sisqo
Addicted, Sisqo
Close Your Eyes (interlude), Sisqo
Dru World Order, Sisqo
Your Love Is Incredible, Sisqo
What These Bitches Want, Sisqo
U Don't Know Me, Sisqo
Enchantment Passing Through, Sisqo
Thong Song, Sisqo
So Sexual, Sisqo
Off the Corner, Sisqo
Not Afraid, Sisqo
Last Night, Sisqo
Is Love Enough, Sisqo
Homewrecker, Sisqo
Got To Get It, Sisqo
Dream, Sisqo
Close Your Eyes, Sisqo
Without You, Sisqo
Sisqo, Sisqo
Unleash The Dragon, Sisqo
Dance for Me, Sisqo
2 Nite, Sisqo
You Are Everything Remix, Sisqo
Thong Song (Remix), Sisqo
Incomplete, Sisqo
How Many Licks, Sisqo
How Can I Love You 2nite, Sisqo
Can I Live, Sisqo
Hey Ya Ladki Hu Ya Bala, Suzy Q
Hyperactive Child, Zsk
Meow, Suzy Q
Meow (English Version), Suzy Q
Fight For More, Zsk
Business As Usual, Zsk
The Way I Feel, Zsk
Hello 1984, Zsk
Pretty Boring Lovesong, Zsk
Time To Lose, Zsk
Riot Radio, Zsk
Violent Skateboarding, Zsk
We Will Stop You, Zsk
Sunny Lies, Zsk
One Day, Zsk
We Are The Kids, Zsk
Small Steps, Zsk
Upside Down, Zsk
Say it with me, Dragon
There can be, Dragon
Dragon yeah
Say it with me, Dragon yeah
Ooh, oh, ooh, oh
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Former Suzuki boss Brivio joins Alpine as racing director
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UV market in 2020: Maruti Suzuki maintains lead, but Hyundai is fast catching up
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In the intensely competitive UV (utility vehicle) segment, market leader Maruti Suzuki managed to maintain its lead in 2020 despite loss of market share, while Hyundai, the second biggest player, achieved significant gains ... Director (Marketing & Sales), Maruti Suzuki India.....
An experiment in what school could be
Mail Guardian South Africa 17 Jan 2021
For every school community that has lived through what is being referred to as an annus horribilis (2020), it's not surprising that a technology-enabled future for learning is high on the education agenda ... Shunryu Suzuki once wrote. "In a beginner's mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.". A beginner is therefore. ... 1 ... 2....
Angels avoid arbitration with 5 players, add Suzuki
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Maruti Suzuki launches online financing platform
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Maruti Suzuki Smart Finance launched across 30+ cities: Easy steps to get a car loan online
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For Smart Finance, Maruti Suzuki has joined hands with financiers namely State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Mahindra Finance, IndusInd Bank, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank among many. Here is how to get a car loan online in some easy steps ... ....
Maruti Suzuki rolls out one-stop online finance facility Smart Finance
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Angels agree with catcher Kurt Suzuki on busy day for deals
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TSN Canada 15 Jan 2021
The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reports the Halos have signed catcher Kurt Suzuki to a one-year, $1.5 million deal ... Suzuki, 37, spent the past two ... Suzuki was an All-Star in 2014 as a member of the Twins....


There were 2,444 New Listings in February 2019 which was down 3.4% from February of 2018's 2,530, and also down a whopping 19.8% from the previous month/January's total of 3,048. ***This was the coolest February since 2014 when the New Listings in Feb were 2,354.
At 1,726 February 2019's Closed Sales were mixed. They cooled 4.4% from February 2018's 1,806, BUT, rose a substantial 19.0 % from the previous month/Jan 2019's total of 1,451.
February 2019's Pending Sales (accepted offers), at 2,208 were also mixed: Down 5.5% down from February of 2018's 2,337, AND, ahead 8.0% from the previous month/Jan 2019's total of 2,045.
The Average Sale Price in February 2019 of $441,100 was basically unchanged/down just slightly ($800.00!) from last year/February 2018's $441,900, and up from the previous month/Jan 2019's $435,600 by $5,500.
The "Median" Sale Price (so…the price smack dab in the middle of all sales) in February 2019 of $399,900 was up $14,900.00 from last year/February 2018's $385,000, and also up about the same, $15,000, from the previous month/Jan 2019's $384,900.


Autonomous vehicles will rely on technology, both onboard and external, such as GPS and radar to guide them. Those smart cars will also likely read road markings and signs for additional guidance and safety.
3M is developing road signs that have specially printed barcodes for self-driving cars, according to Business Insider. This approach, in which the road signs simply have specially encoded information, is much simpler and presumably cheaper than infrastructure or vehicles communicating back and forth.


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Fin whale © Christopher Swann
By Chris Butler-Stroud | 30th November 2021
Governments come together under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to make decisions that affect whales (and more recently dolphins and porpoises too) ... and what happens to whales impacts the ocean and all of us.
So as the IWC celebrates its 75th anniversary, let's explore how this international body began by attempting to conserve whales so that there were more to hunt, how it implemented one of the most iconic conservation successes of all time – the ban on commercial whaling – and how it needs to evolve into a genuine force for conservation on the frontline of the fight against the climate crisis.
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Trapped in the past
You may think that something as old as the IWC is past its sell by date, or you might hope it has gained some wisdom during the 75 years in which it has tried to manage global whaling and find solutions to the increased human impacts on whales and dolphins.
Back in 1946, the 15 founding signatories of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, emerging from the trauma of the Second World War, would most probably have been disheartened if they'd known that 75 years later members of the Commission they established (the IWC) still wouldn't be able to evolve their thinking and agree on the IWC's core purpose and jurisdiction for the 21st century. Indeed, those governments who still subsidise their commercial whaling fleets to maintain the anachronism of whale hunting in the 21st century, are trapped in 1946; rejecting the advances which have led the rest of the world to realise we need to protect whales and dolphins and help restore the populations that survived the butchery of the 20th century.
We need whales
As we saw at COP26 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow), the next 50 years will be critical for the future of this planet and the whales we share it with. The IWC must seize the opportunity to reject the failures of the past and build a future that goes beyond 'managing whales' with a vision that seeks to put the IWC at the centre of global efforts to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises as complex, social and sentient individuals; worthy of protection in their own right, as well as for being the great 'oceanic stewards', moving nutrients around, 'tending' phytoplankton forests, and allowing the ocean to capture carbon whilst maintaining a healthy marine environment. With the ocean absorbing some 93% of our excess atmospheric heat, these ocean giants are the critical oceanic engineers we all need to see thrive in the years to come if we are to meet the challenges of the ever-evident climate crisis.
Almost three million great whales were killed in commercial whaling operations in the 20th century. Attempts in the 1930s to protect the interests of the whaling industry fell away with the resumption of global hostilities in 1939 and it was from these ashes that the IWC was born in 1946 when the USA wished to use whale meat to feed a devastated Japan, and other nations were looking for a relatively cheap food source for their war-ravaged people.
For Japan this was the continuation of a policy that was used to feed its troops and underpinned its invasion of China in the early 1930s. The post-war formation of the Liberal Democratic party in Japan created a nationalist leadership who have maintained close links to their whaling interest ever since.
Commercial whaling banned
After decades of failing to keep the waiting interests in check at the IWC, it was the organisation's engagement of NGOs and the admission of conservation-minded countries that finally led to the visionary decision in 1982 to prohibit commercial whaling worldwide; a ruling that prevented the extinction of several populations and species of whales. Whilst several of the richest whaling countries ignored the ban and used every loophole they could identify to continue their whaling, the rest of the world started to evolve the IWC into a forum where conservation could really start to be undertaken. As a result, some 40 years later, a few wild populations of great whales have recovered but many are still nowhere near their pre-exploitation levels.
A group of sperm whales © V Mignon
Real conservation
The IWC's primary purpose has evolved over its 75-year history – from conserving whales in order to maximise hunting quotas, to developing a comprehensive programme of work addressing a wide range of human threats. This includes addressing the impact of climate change, noise and chemical pollution, entanglement and death in fishing gear (bycatch), marine litter, and vessel strikes. Despite the efforts of some countries intent on stopping such conservation efforts, the IWC has seen progress in the establishment of its committee for dolphins, porpoises and small whales and in the focussing of its scientific committee on examining environment threats. It has devised and implemented conservation management plans for many endangered species and pioneered some remarkable work on ship strikes, bycatch mitigation and even large whale entanglements with teams being trained around the globe to save individual whales.
Save the whale, save ourselves
In order to fulfil its potential as a conservation body, the IWC has to once and for all reject all forms of commercial whaling and focus on protection to allow populations to recover and fulfil their role as our allies in the fight against the climate crisis.
The IWC can, and should break with the failures of the past; recognising that commercial whaling serves no purpose apart from the enrichment of a few, and in doing so, seize the opportunity of a new future where it can be at the specialist centre of local and global efforts to achieve whale, dolphin and ocean recovery and fight climate breakdown – because we need to save the whale to save the world.
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I am getting excited about my trip to Las Vegas and doing a book signing at Gladys Grad's big Mah Jongg tournament at Harrah's Las Vegas. Over 400 people will be attending and I can't wait to meet everyone!
And I look forward to meeting all of you at the tournament starting on March 6th !
This entry was posted in Mah Jongg and Me and tagged Gladys Grad, Harrah's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, mah jongg on February 24, 2015 by Mah Jongg and Me.
I wish I could be joining you and Gladys in Vegas. Hopefully in the future I will join each of you. I have several friends attending.
Hi Phyllis – I totally understand! It kills me to leave my sweet Lizzie.
We will look forward to that!
I forgot to mention this – please tell your friends who are going to LV to please come up to me in the vendor room and say hello!
Did either of them come to any of my talks when I was in Naples a few weeks ago? If they bring your copy of my book with them to LV then I can write an inscription to you in it.


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