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Feb 21 The Little Foxes - The Lyric Stage Company
James Wilkinson
Photo credit: Mark S. Howard
The Little Foxes – Lyric Stage Company
Review by James Wilkinson
The Little Foxes is produced by Lyric Stage Company. Written by Lillian Hellman. Directed by Scott Edmiston. Assistant Director: Kate Franklin. Scenic Design: Janie E. Howland. Costume Design: Gail Astrid Buckley. Lighting Design: Karen Perlow. Sound Design/Original Music: Dewey Dellay. Fight Director: Jesse Hinson.
At the first intermission of Lyric Stage Company's production of The Little Foxes the woman next to me bumped into my leg as she got up from her seat. "I'm so sorry" she said, looking a little unsteady on her feet. "It's just that it's so visceral." I smiled and nodded because I'm the kind of person who likes to play with his cards very close to his chest. I also try to reserve judgement until taken the whole thing in, but I knew what the woman meant. So much of Lyric's production aims to overpower you and I think that on a technical level, there's no question that it achieves that goal. It's a solid piece of work, put together in a way that makes you want to stand back and admire the craft at work. The play is Lillian Hellman's best-known and has (I think) rightfully earned its place not just as a classic but as a uniquely American classic. It's the play's American spirit that I think the Lyric's production is trying to tap into.
Lillian Hellman is one of those writers seems to occupy strange no-man's-land middle ground where she's both highly esteemed and yet not highly esteemed enough. This might (hell, probably does) have something to do with her being a female voice at a time when male voices dominated the theatrical landscape (her first play premiered in 1934, her last in 1960). Present day, we don't see many productions of her work besides The Little Foxes (though my theatrical wish list includes a queer artist-driven production of The Children's Hour). The press notes the Lyric provided me with say that critics would often dismiss her work as melodramas. I'd actually agree but I'd also question why that should be a bad thing? Certainly the play is no more or less melodramatic than The Glass Menagerie or Death of a Salesman. In fact I would argue that the melodrama is part of the point. In her best work, Hellman how the personal and the political can collide in daily life and how the lives of ordinary people are woven into the march of history. Which brings us to The Little Foxes…
The Hubbard siblings, brothers Benjamin, Oscar and sister Regina (Remo Airaldi, Will McGarrahan and Anne Gottlieb), are looking to broker a deal with Chicago businessman, William Marshall (Bill Mootos), which will bring his factories to their deep-south town and make them an enormous amount of money. The only thing holding them back is getting together the cash for their half of the deal. Oscar and Benjamin put up their shares, but Regina needs her husband Horace (Craig Mathers) to write a check for her third. Horace has been away in Baltimore for five months receiving medical treatment for a heart condition and it doesn't look like he'll be returning any time soon. Time is of the essence as the brothers don't want to have to go outside the family to get the missing funds. The siblings' greed soon takes over and as each schemes to get a larger portion of the reward we learn just what kind of rot has taken hold in the Hubbard clan and how it spreads out, infecting the community around them.
The Lyric's production begins working on you the moment you enter the theater and get the full view of Janie E. Howland's truly spectacular set design. I happened to catch a preview photo of it in some internet advertising last week. I wish I hadn't, as it somewhat spoiled the reveal; but I understand why the Lyric was so proud of it. Before a single line of dialogue is spoken, we're dropped into the world of the play. The lush green background, imposing mahogany columns that stretch to the sky and imperial furniture impeccably placed around the room let us know that we've entered the land of the incredibly wealthy. A sense of opulence practically dripping off Gail Astrid Buckley's gorgeous costume design. Scott Edmiston doesn't so much direct the show as he conducts it with a consuming sense of grandeur. The production opens with a blast of instrumental music like in an old MGM film as Anne Gottlieb's Regina descends a long curved staircase half lit, her blue dress practically glowing as it trails after her. It's a beautiful image in a show that (if nothing else) is always beautiful to look at.
Thankfully, there's a bit more to it than just looks. Hellman's script provides a rock solid foundation for the actors to dig into. I suppose that it's inevitable that the actress playing Regina will walk off with the show as it's the biggest part (both in number of lines and emotionally), but that shouldn't detract from just how good Anne Gottlieb is in the role. In Regina's more fiery moments, Gottlieb digs in her heels and finds the grit that makes the character a force of nature. She has a great sparring partner in Craig Mathers' Horace who can match her beat for beat. The two are surrounded by actors who do well in the "quieter" parts including Will McGarrahan and Remo Airaldi as Oscar and Benjamin and Cheryl D. Singleton as Addie. Singleton has the particular challenge of taking on a character that could easily be a stock stereotype, the African American maid. In her hands, though, Addie not only feels like a complete character, but also like a crucial part of the play's emotional arc.
If I have a misgiving with the production (and it seems that I have to have at least one) it's that it seems kind of strange to have this searing indictment of American greed and corruption to feel so…well...respectable. I think it's what prevented me from connecting to the production at the same level as the woman next to me. It never felt like the audience turned against the Hubbard siblings at any point in the evening. Instead, everyone around me seemed to view the wheelings and dealings with a kind of benign amusement as though it were something that occurred in a bubble rather than as a symptom of a corrupt system. And Lyric's production seems to encourage this reading. There's a climatic action that Regina takes in act three (for spoiler reasons I won't divulge it here, but if you know the play, you know what moment I'm talking about), and it's interesting to see how Lyric's production handles the moment. It's played not so much as a "deal with the devil" choice Regina is making but as something she supernaturally wills into being.
In fact, during the home stretch of the play it very much seemed as though the audience was on Regina's side and rooting for her. And truthfully, I understand that sympathy because I felt it for her myself. Looking at the play in a 2019 post second-wave feminism/post-#metoo context, you can't help but notice the ways that she was kept down simply because she was a woman. Her father left the family fortune to her brothers. She had to marry in order to gain any sort of standing in the world. It couldn't have been easy and you can argue that she's simply playing the hand she's been dealt, but at the end of the day, she's not exactly giving the money to school children. Her financial windfall comes from exploiting blue collar workers.
"There are hundreds of Hubbards in rooms like this throughout the country" Ben says and in 2019, Hellman's rage against the machine rings out with an eerie prescience. Maybe one day we'll listen.
The Little Foxes is playing at Lyric Stage Company February 15-March 17, 2019.
For tickets and more information, visit their website: www.lyricstage.com
Lyric Stage Company, Scott Edmiston, Lillian Hellman
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Sources: Dallas' Elliott won't play in preseason
August 26, 2018 Sources: Dallas' Elliott won't play in preseason2018-08-26T19:17:47-04:00 - NFL - No Comment
ARLINGTON, Texas — For the first time in his three seasons, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will enter the regular season with no carries in the preseason.
With starting offensive linemen Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin dealing with issues ranging from minor to severe, quarterback Dak Prescott and Elliott will not play Sunday night against the Arizona Cardinals, according to multiple sources.
The third preseason game is usually treated as a dress rehearsal for the regular season, but the flux on the offensive line caused the Cowboys to call an audible.
Frederick was diagnosed last week with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system, and is likely to miss multiple weeks of the regular season. Smith (hamstring) and Martin (knee) are expected to be ready for the Sept. 9 season opener. Right tackle La'el Collins missed practice time during the week with an ankle injury and an illness, but he could see some action.
The Cowboys close the preseason Thursday at the Houston Texans and traditionally have not played any of their starters in the final game under coach Jason Garrett.
Elliott played in the first preseason game in each of his first two seasons, carrying seven times for 48 yards in 2016 and six times for 18 yards in 2017.
Prescott played 39 snaps in the Cowboys' first two preseason games, completing 13 of 18 passes for 125 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions.
In Friday's practice, the only Week 1 starters up front were rookie Connor Williams at left guard and Joe Looney at center. Cameron Fleming replaced Smith at left tackle in practice during the week with Kadeem Edwards at right guard and Chaz Green at right tackle.
The Cowboys also will be mindful of the work they give their defensive starters, including linebacker Sean Lee, who will not play, according to sources. Lee played in 10 snaps last week against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Cowboys also will monitor the work of defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, but he should see some action.
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Tag Archives: crime
December 17, 2010 | Montreal, Public transit
Lies, damn lies and metro statistics
Yellow (4)*
Criminal acts
Ridership
87.7M 91.3M 34M 22.2M
Crimes per million
6.17 4.33 12.62 4.05
The Gazette leads today's paper with statistics on crime in the metro system gleaned via an access-to-information request. Montreal police wouldn't break down the crime by individual station – citing security concerns – but would do so by line (kinda). The Gazette concludes that the green line has the most crime, with 541 reported acts, compared to 395 for the orange line, which has more ridership.
It's not surprising that the green line shows more reported crime (even though the numbers in absolute terms are pretty darn small, averaging about 1.5 crimes against a person – including theft – 2 crimes against property – theft burglary, vandalism – and less than one other criminal offence per day across the 64 Montreal police-patrolled stations). The green line not only has the busiest stations, but goes through the downtown core, as well as some of the city's poorer areas, like Pointe St. Charles and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. But, of course, this is just conjecture until more detailed statistics come out.
*The STM curiously decided to lump the four transfer stations in with the yellow line statistics, even though only one of those four transfer stations actually serves the yellow line. Considering the Longueuil station isn't included in the statistics (because it's in Longueuil police territory) and the traffic through the Jean-Drapeau station is negligible (about 5% of the total traffic for the five stations included in that statistic), you can basically read "yellow" above to mean the four transfer stations.
The statistics show that it's those transfer stations that are the most likely to result in crimes when you divide the total crimes by station. But then, even those statistics lie, because ridership numbers only count passages through turnstiles, they don't count transfers between lines.
So all we can really say here is that statistically, crimes are more likely to happen on the green line than the orange line or the blue line, not counting the transfer stations. Which is hardly going to stop people from taking the green line.
And while we wait to see if The Gazette can get the access to information commission to force the police to release more detailed data, we can just take some comfort in the fact that, on average, a metro station will see a criminal act worth reporting only 22 times a year, or once every 16 days.
Tags: crime, metro, statistics
December 15, 2009 | Montreal
Yes, he was a sexual predator
Nicolas Stone, a man I interviewed in 2007 about his opposition (for the sake of his children's safety) to an extension of Cavendish Blvd. into Cartierville, has pled guilty to 71 charges of sexual assault, illegal sexual contact and child pornography. He has admitted to using the Internet to lure girls from 12 to 15 into acts from taking naked pictures of themselves to having actual sex with him.
A date for sentencing will be set on Feb. 8.
I was welcomed into this man's home, and he looked entirely normal to me. Just goes to show…
Tags: crime, Nicolas Stone
June 15, 2009 | In the news, Media, Montreal
It's a crime wave!
Editor: Hey reporter, do a story about all these shootings, will ya?
Reporter: Sure.
(Later)
Reporter: Police say they have no evidence there's a link between these shootings. It doesn't look like there's anything in common other than they all happened within 24 hours of each other.
Editor: Be sure to put that in your story somewhere near the bottom, you know, after you've convinced everyone that the entire city is on a shooting spree.
Reporter: Uhh… ok.
Tags: crime
February 7, 2009 | Montreal, Video
Who steals a Subway tip jar?
Apparently, this lady does, while leaving her CV.
Asks the video's poster: "On l'engage ou pas?"
Tags: bad ideas, crime, Subway
May 15, 2008 | In the news, Montreal, Navel-gazing
Worried about his kids
Last year, I wrote on my blog with some opinions about the proposed Cavendish extension to Henri-Bourassa Blvd. and Toupin Blvd., which would connect two neighbourhoods that would otherwise need a much longer detour to get between. I criticized complaints from residents in Cartierville as selfish NIMBYism from people who live in McMansions along the waterfront and drive their Hummer SUVs and BMWs to work every day through other people's neighbourhoods.
One of the comments I got on that post was from one of those residents, who said he was worried about his kids having to cross a busy street to get to school every day.
I decided to interview the man for a Justify Your Existence piece. I figured I'd totally get him on that, but turns out I learned a thing or two (something I always enjoy doing as a journalist). Rather than drive to work every day, he takes a bike when he has to, and the rest of the time he works at home. His wife will use the family vehicle, in order to take the kids to school (they have three, ranging in age from about 3 to about 9, if I remember correctly). He's very pro-environment and anti-car, despite living in a modest home in the suburbs.
Though still somewhat NIMBYish, the guy came off as a concerned father criticizing the creation of roads for the benefit of personal vehicles over public transportation.
Nice guy, nice wife, adorable kids. A fun way to spend an evening.
So why do I bring this up again?
The guy, 34-year-old Nicolas Stone, was arraigned in Longueuil today on charges he lured a 13-year-old girl into exposing herself online, and then had sex with her at least twice. I got a call from work to double-check it was the same guy.
The photo at right is stolen from his Facebook profile, since a scheduled photo shoot for that article fell through (had it happened, the paper would be running file art of the guy and his kids tomorrow).
All this to say, you can never tell just by looking at someone.
And this guy was worried about his kids crossing a busy street…
UPDATE: Let's be careful with wording (unlike 940 News who don't think they have to qualify calling him a "predator") since he hasn't been convicted of anything yet. All of this is alleged by police. And you never know, there could be a completely innocent explanation for a 34-year-old father of three having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
UPDATE (May 28): He's been denied bail.
UPDATE (Aug. 4, 2010): After pleading guilty, Stone has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, minus time served.
Tags: crime, Irony, Nicolas Stone, pedophilia
January 8, 2008 | In the news, Montreal
This city kills
Congratulations Montreal. We've managed to accomplish in seven days what Quebec City couldn't do in a year.
Pat yourselves on the back. Mind the knife.
Tags: crime, Quebec City
December 6, 2007 | Business, Media, Slow News Day, Technology
Symantec survey thinks highly of Symantec
In today's press-release-masquerading-as-news, comes "Calgary is Canada's safest cyber-city," an edited version of this press release by anti-virus software maker Symantec.
Reading that, you might ask yourself how geography is relevant to online security or other stupid questions. But rather than take a comprehensive look at online fraud, bank/mail fraud, or information security practices of businesses and government, it commissions a poll that rates cities based on how many people say they've installed up-to-date anti-virus software on their computers.
Talk about thinking highly of yourself. Naturally, the solution to all this is to get more people to install anti-virus and other security software on their computers. And it just so happens…
The press release cherry-picks selections of some other data, without giving any idea how to get full breakdowns from them. Either way, all the data is based on what people say, not on what kinds of online crime actually happen in those cities.
Any bets on how many other news outlets will overlook these facts and run this as if it was a StatsCan report?
Tags: crime, media-manipulation, press releases as news, Symantec
August 28, 2007 | Canadiens, West Island
I'm Jacques Demers, bitch
Jacques Demers: Coach, analyst, motivational speaker, superhero crime-fighter.
Is there anything this guy can't do?
(via sam)
Tags: crime, Jacques-Demers
June 20, 2007 | In the news, Montreal, Public transit
Kitty Metrovese
For those of you following the buck-passing on metro security passing the buck, we're getting some interesting and, of course, contradictory reports from all sides. The STM says it never ordered anyone to stand by and laugh do nothing while some guy beats up on his girlfriend. The security workers union spokesperson says the police told them not to intervene while calling it "absurd". And the public safety minister wants an investigation.
A few comments from the peanut gallery here. First, why is nobody talking about the report that the employee in the ticket booth refused to call 911? That doesn't require putting anyone in danger, yet for some reason it was apparently refused. It's unclear if that led even in part to delaying police arrival (they came 17 minutes later), but if it did I would expect that to be an even more serious story.
Second, why didn't anyone do anything? There were plenty of ordinary people around who had plenty of time to bark at the metro employees. Why did they not intervene? The guy didn't have a weapon. You could argue that putting people in harm's way like that is dangerous, but if so why are these metro employees who don't have arresting power, don't carry firearms and are not supposed to intervene in these cases expected to do so?
Finally, with over a hundred police officers patrolling the metro, why were none in the system's busiest station? Or the library or bus station next door? Why did it take police 17 minutes to get there?
UPDATE (Sept. 6): An "error in judgment" but no disciplinary action.
Tags: crime, metro, security, STM


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How students and recent alumni are creating their own journalism projects
By Kayla Zhu • 2 years ago
Working on side projects helps young journalists build valuable hands-on experiences in lieu of professional work, but side hustles can be draining
In an already precarious job market exacerbated by COVID-19, journalism students and recent graduates say that working on side projects is more necessary now more than ever to stand out and show their initiative to employers. For many, starting their own projects is a way of filling in the gaps of their journalism education or the coverage they see in mainstream media.
With layoffs across Canadian journalism organizations and the cancellation of internship programs from the onset of the pandemic, early-career positions for students and recent graduates are disappearing across many major news companies.
The scarcity of paid internships in the industry, the shortcomings of formal journalism school and the desire to find new ways to deliver stories are some of the motivations behind young journalists' side projects.
For some students, side projects double as a passion project and a way to gain valuable, hands-on journalism skills like editing and video production outside of internships.
Here's how some emerging journalists are creating innovative ways of teaching and delivering journalism, prioritizing underrepresented voices and charting their own paths into the industry.
Aaron Guillen, a 2019 graduate of British Columbia Institute of Technology's broadcast journalism program, was temporarily laid off from his multimedia journalist gig at Goldstream News last spring. While Guillen was rehired by Goldstream News through a workshare agreement, he said the journalism job market can be difficult to navigate as a young journalist.
Image courtesy Aaron Guillen
Guillen, who has since left Goldstream News and started working at Capital Daily as a reporter in February, said he thinks it's "almost necessary" for student journalists to have a side project to stay passionate about journalism and show future employers that they can take initiative.
On the other hand, he said that this can be a "double-edged sword" — that the culture of passion and side hustling can be used to undervalue young journalists' work once they start working at a newsroom or freelancing.
"Even before the pandemic, young journalists are willing to do anything they can to get in the door," said Guillen. "I don't have a problem with trying to get your foot in the door and doing whatever it takes, but you really have to understand that your time is money."
Guillen said that sometimes early career journalists might take low pay or work overtime "for the sake of nothing."
"I was working, God knows, like an hour or two extra after I finished my job for a couple of months, thinking that I needed to prove myself and not knowing my own value as a journalist," said Guillen, referring to his job at Goldstream News.
He said he was not compensated for his overtime between September 2019 and December 2019.
For Guillen, his own project — the Before I Die podcast — was something that renewed his interest in radio and podcasting.
While Guillen was temporarily laid off, he found himself contemplating his work prospects, feeling lost, until he asked himself a question: "What do I want to do before I die?'" And a new podcast was born.
"Throughout that week of realizing that I didn't have a job, I kind of questioned what my value was if I wasn't a journalist," said Guillen.
In Before I Die, first launched in June 2020, Guillen interviews his friends on their experience of crossing off items on their bucket list. Guillen said the podcast gave him the chance to slow down and think about what he was "putting out there in the world" and helped sharpen his radio and podcasting skills.
While Guillen said he really enjoyed working on it and that it takes up a special place in his heart, he said he still had to find a way to make the project marketable to a wider audience. It was another way for him to add to his radio and podcast portfolio, an area of journalism he wants to pursue in the future.
"Potential employers could hear this and say, 'maybe he would do well on CBC radio,'" said Guillen. "It's my way of saying, 'Hey, this is what I can do without any help or assistance from a larger company. So hire me.'"
More podcast projects:
Extracurricular Podcast
Setting it Straight
Rebelium
Two Ryerson journalism students interview experts on their life experiences and "about ideas that aren't taught in the classroom."
A podcast on projects, people and events that enhance the Halifax community created by two Dalhousie and one University of King's College student.
A recent graduate of the University of Regina's journalism masters program interviews people who were involved with or had friends and family involved with the uprisings that took place around the world from 2019 to 2020.
A recent grad from University of Regina's journalism program looks into the history of the Scooby-Doo franchise through interviews with people who have worked on the franchise over its 51 years, including cast, artists, writers, and more.
Magazines and online publications
Trick Magazine
Last summer, Ryerson journalism student Natalie Michie managed to land an unpaid internship with a magazine. She said she's happy to get experience writing, receiving edits and being published, despite not being compensated, because it's been difficult finding journalism work during the pandemic.
Image courtesy Trick Magazine
"I feel like as a journalism student, you can't just be a journalism student," said Michie. "You always have to be freelancing, always be writing for a publication, always working on some side hustle because that's how you get real work, real life experience."
She said that while working on journalistic activities outside of school gives students the opportunity to know what it's like to be a journalist, her work is still valuable even though it is unpaid.
But the culture of having so many side projects, said Michie, promotes an unhealthy standard of productivity among students.
"There's like this overarching feeling of no matter how much you do, you still might not be successful, you might not break into the industry," said Michie. "I don't know what the future holds for me or for student journalists in general. But I feel like it's definitely not as simple as just going to school, doing an internship, and then getting a job."
Michie said that running an intersectional feminist magazine, Trick Magazine, with her friends has helped her practice her editing skills and taught her a lot about managing a publication. Michie has gone on to work as an editorial intern at Chatelaine.
Creating new magazines and online publications can hone journalistic skills while zeroing in on the content and coverage that student journalists feel is lacking in mainstream media.
Michie, Cheyenne Bholla and Raviya Singh founded Trick Magazine in March 2020. The arts magazine covers social, political and issues through an intersectional feminist lens and publishes poetry, art, personal essays and articles.
Michie said she found student publications at her school limited in terms of mostly covering Ryerson-related stories, and wanted to create a space "inclusive of all storytelling."
Michie said one of Trick's objectives was to "talk about things that legacy media won't" by providing radical perspectives and voices in their coverage.
She said she noticed that bigger media corporations approach Indigenous issues or Black Lives Matter through an establishment angle.
"The coverage of the Wet'suwet'en protest, I feel like it's always very centered around the government and the establishment," said Michie. "Same thing with Black Lives Matter. I feel like, a lot of times, we get the police perspective, and we don't hear enough from the people, the protesters and the organizers."
From poems about speaking out against systemic injustices to politics pieces on the forced removal of Indigenous land defenders from Mount Rushmore for a Trump rally, Trick's coverage centers around the stories and experiences of the marginalized.
Trick's Twitter account frequently retweets threads about defunding the police and Indigenous issues and the team hosted a virtual film screening of Black Panther in partnership with Climate Justice Peel in August 2020.
Michie says that Trick is a leftist political publication and looks at politics through a "radical" lens. In response to the series of racial injustices over the summer, the magazine created a politics section to explore current social issues more deeply and posted a call-out in the summer for Black and Indigenous artists to "uplift those voices during that time."
"It's made us think more critically about the work we're putting out," said Michie. "We like to post resources, and we definitely are in support of those movements. I feel like our coverage has definitely shifted towards that, because that's our priority."
After three Durham College journalism alumni graduated from the Oshawa, Ont. school, they decided to revive their school radio show, The Collective, into a multiplatform news website.
Shanelle Somers, Meagan Secord and Jackie Graves launched The Collective's website and YouTube channel in June 2020. Somers says that at first, the group envisioned the project as a social talk show, similar to The Social on CTV, but they pivoted towards longform news with a talk show aspect where they could "have (people) tell their stories."
From left to right: Shanelle Somers, Meagan Secord and Jackie Graves. Photos courtesy of The Collective
Graves said that they had all been interested in humanitarian-centered stories and wanted to "focus on amplifying marginalized voices."
The team has interviewed Black activists, wrote features on gaps in Canada's mental health services and filmed short documentaries on Indigenous students experiencing intergenerational trauma.
Somers initially thought she would go into entertainment and arts journalism but gravitated towards hard news and longform multimedia stories during journalism school.
"We spent a whole year focussing on Indigenous peoples and how to report and tell their stories properly," said Somers. "So when we started doing more with The Collective, we could quickly realize that, 'Hey, we have a voice.'"
Graves said she feels that big news organizations don't get into "the deeper side" of Indigenous issues and Black Lives Matter whereas The Collective tries to dive into these topics through the perspective of one individual. She said that The Collective is a platform where "people of colour, people of Indigenous backgrounds" can tell their own stories.
"We're giving them the ability to access our audience in a way where we're not interfering too much, which isn't to suggest that regular news institutions do, but you get a more personal feeling from the material that we create," said Graves.
In their advanced reporting class at Durham, Somers and Graves were taught the "community-based model of sourcing out stories" which Somers describes as the practice of prioritizing the experiences and insights of community members during the newsgathering process.
"It was flipping the switch. Instead of being like, 'There's this event that's happening, I'm gonna go cover it and look at it from our lens,' we were looking at an issue from their lens," said Somers. "And I think we've adapted that for The Collective."
This spring, before they picked things up again with The Collective, Graves and Somers were getting ready for the last semester at Durham — the internship placement.
They were both excited to start the internship they had secured; Somers had landed an internship at CBC's Ontario Morning show while Graves was asked to return to Metroland Media's Oshawa branch, where she had previously done seven-week general reporter placement.
Unfortunately, both their placements were deferred or cancelled due to the pandemic. To get a grade for their term, Graves took on a managing editor role for the college paper and Somers, who works a retirement home, wrote a series about her experience working during COVID-19.
Despite losing out on professional opportunities, Graves and Somers think the pandemic also presents an unique opportunity for students to start their own projects and be able to reach more people with their content.
"For us, it was very much like, 'We have the time now, why not do it? We have the platform, why not do it? People are sitting at home, why not do it?'," said Somers.
Graves also said that the network of young journalists starting independent publications is a supportive community. The Collective did an interview with The Pigeon's social media manager and staff writer, Brandon Wright.
"We support each other," said Graves. "I think that as long as we, journalism students, journalism grads, stick together and we continue to hone our skill sets and build each other up, we'll make it through this difficult time."
More online publications:
The Pigeon
Burnout Digital
A longform journalism online publication with young Canadian journalists. The Pigeon was founded by multiple student journalists from Queen's, Carleton, Western and other universities.
Femme is a print magazine on women's issues and founded by two Mount Royal communications alumni.
A digital publication on current affairs tailored to the Gen Z audience, created by a group of Ryerson and York University students.
The Intermission is a digital sports publication created by a Ryerson journalism student with team members from Brock University, Durham College and American universities.
Interactive/experimental
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Unsatisfied with the lack of diverse faculty and unempathetic approach to teaching journalism at her journalism school, Sarah Krichel decided to find a way to provide mentorship to young BIPOC and LGBTQ writers without having to go to journalism school.
"I think in a very interpersonal way, J-school did not show me that they cared about my success and about my career," said Krichel.
In July 2020, she launched a Patreon campaign, with tiers supporting everything from a twice-monthly newsletter to one-on-one story meetings to pitch email editing.
Krichel said that she felt journalism school taught journalism in a one-size-fits-all approach and didn't consider the individual experiences and situations of its students. She said that journalism school failed her because it wasn't there for students with mental health issues, which she experienced during school.
"Behind the scenes, it's very much about the reporter themselves and what they're personally pouring into a story," said Krichel, adding that she thought J-schools didn't teach journalism humanistically.
She wanted to create a place where she could provide journalism education to young reporters without having to go through the academic and bureaucratic barriers she went through.
Krichel, a former editor-in-chief of Ryerson's campus newspaper The Eyeopener, said she used a case-by-case approach when working with reporters, being cognisant of personal experience, access to resources and privileges.
She said she enjoys mentoring young, racialized writers from her time at The Eyeopener and helping them build their confidence in writing. Her patrons include high school and university students, particularly people who "just really need somebody to say that somebody believes in them."
In her Patreon description, Krichel says she is "anti-journalism school." Her newsletter, with membership costs ranging from $5 to $13 per month, aims to teach her audience that journalism school isn't necessary in order to have a successful career.
"How to teach journalism is to be aware of the way that traditional journalism has failed, not only a lot of communities, but a lot of people who need work," said Krichel. "Labour rights is another huge issue in this industry."
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Adam Chen, a recent graduate from Ryerson's masters of journalism program explored different kinds of journalism during his program but it wasn't until he came across live journalism that he found what he wanted to do.
Live journalism, as Chen describes it, are live events where journalistic content is presented on stage and sometimes performed, oftentimes with a mix of multimedia art, live music and other disciplines that enhance the storytelling.
He started his own company, Talk Media after applying for some jobs after he graduated and realizing he would rather work on live journalism instead.
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"I feel like this is something that I see looking towards the future and creating opportunities as opposed to clawing after the ones that are disappearing," said Chen.
Talk Media is currently working on two different pilots, with around two to five team members ranging from journalists to artistic directors. Since the pandemic hit, he's been creating live interactive digital projects instead of in-person events.
The company is also a part of two Ryerson startup incubators, the Social Venture Zone and Transmedia Zone. They were also recently accepted into the Google News Initiative bootcamp.
Chen said he gained an understanding of the potential of collaboration outside of journalism through Talk.
"So bringing in people, not just as sources, but as collaborators in storytelling," said Chen. "I think there's a lot that can be learned from people from different backgrounds, different creative or technical background.
Chen said a main trait of his project is being "anti-algorithm", bypassing social media and getting people to consume journalism in person. He said that he spends a lot of money on events and sharing experiences with friends.
"It's kind of like realizing that if I just align high quality storytelling with existing behaviors, I think that's something that has the potential to work," said Chen.
He compared that with news outlets aligning journalism with free Internet reading that gets users used to free online articles, which poses problems as outlets move towards paid articles or subscription models.
While he isn't certain if entrepreneurship or the startup space is the best option for aspiring journalists, he does believe that the future of millennials involves some entrepreneurial qualities.
"Being able to organize your time, understand marketing, understand the business side of things on top of the journalism side of things, is the future of journalism, if there is a future," said Chen.
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The House at Tyneford Readalong - Week 4
The fourth and final part of the House of Tyneford readalong is here! And, whew, what a ride it was to the end.
Beware of spoilers below. I will try to avoid them, but some are inevitable as we are in effect discussing the last section of the book and the book as a whole.
In some ways there were not that many surprises in the wash up in terms of relationships, but there were in other ways. We knew what was going to happen with Tyneford as we saw that in the opening pages of the book. It was just a question of when really. I called very early on that Elise wouldn't find her parents again, and in a lot of ways I was relieved that Kit doesn't make a miracle return. I have seen that happen far too often - you know the one I mean....if you haven't seen the body they likely are not really dead.
Similarly, I was not surprised when Elise ended up in a relationship with the man she did. I did find the whole switch of identity to be quite interesting as a tool. It was not that unusual for immigrants to change their names during or after the was, so the transition from Elise Landau to Alice Land was easy to imagine. I found Daniel's transition to be much more interesting because not only did it symbolise the new found intimacy between the two of them, but it also represented the new start that was forced upon them all, not only as a result of Kit's death but also as a result of the fate of Tyneford as a whole.
There were so many scenes that I enjoyed in this section of the book. I loved the jitterbugging scenes before the party for the WAAF ladies who were billeted in the house, I was scared stiff in the Run, Rabbit, Run chapter and the open, raw grief that was shown after that episode:
I didn't really rest anymore. Not since Kit died. I saw him in my dreams; he as exactly the same as before, but even in my sleep I knew he was dead. In the morning when I woke, my grief choked me, thick as smoke. When I was a child, I imagined that if my parents died, or Margot, that I would die of grief; I'd cleave in two like an elm tree in a lightning strike. But I didn't die. I as hollowed out, scraped clean inside. I imagined myself to be like an empty Russian doll, filled with nothing. Sometimes when I paced beside the sea, the shingles washed as the waves and withdrew, I wondered whether I ought to slip into the tide. I could fill my pockets with pebbles and wade out beyond the black rocks, beyond the peak of Worbarrow Tout, until the saltwater trickled down my throat. It seemed a quiet, easeful death. Perhaps Kit waited for me beneath the waves, as he did in my dreams. It was an idle thought, brought on by misery and the sad call of the sea. That afternoon, when the Messerschmitts had chased me, I only wanted to live. I had thought for a second that I ought to embrace death and join Kit. As I ran, sweating and feral with terror, I discovered I was greedy for life.
Carrie has asked us to look at the reading guide questions, so here goes.
What is your opinion of where Mr. Rivers and Elise's relationship ends up?
I was okay with where the relationship ended up. There relationship was forged through tough times in so many ways and I suspect that strengthened the bond between them. I did find the way that Elise was able to separate the emotions that she felt for each man and how those feelings were linked to her two identities as discussed above very interesting.
Tyneham - images from Wikipedia
As you see it, what events led to Tyneford's fate?
The war is the only thing that really directly led to Tyneford's fate. I did, however, find myself wondering if the somewhat shadowy work that Poppy was involved in didn't come into play.
Reading this book sent me looking for more information about the real village that Tyneford was based on. Tyneham is located exactly where Tyneford was in the book, and it is fascinating to see the pictures that are available. It must have been heartbreaking for the people of Tyneham to realise that they were never going to get to go home again despite the original promises of the government. The other interesting thing is that Tyneham was not the only village to be taken over in this way.
What significance did Tyneford have to Elise, Kit, and Mr. Rivers?
The strength of the bond to Tyneford was different for Elise, Kit and Mr Rivers. For Mr Rivers, it represented stability, past and future. It represented home and hearth but also responsibility for all the people who lived there and in the village.
For Kit, some of the same things applied, but I think that Kit was still being shaped by the experiences he had there. I suspect that for Kit, Tyneford was the place where he could really be himself.
Elise is different again. For her, Tyneford represents safety, but it also represents isolation and loss. That however evolves into new beginnings and to a life fully lived.
Can a place like Tyneford exist in today's world?
It's hard to imagine a place like Tyneford existing today. When you consider that even in the deserts of Africa there are mobile phones everywhere, that sense of total isolation would be incredibly rare. I am sure that there may times during the extremes of winter where there might be places that are isolated for a period of time but not permanently. I could be wrong though.
In some ways, Tyneford felt like a place out of time in the 1940s, let alone today!
Why do you think the novel in the viola was blank?
As soon as I read that the pages in the novel were blank, the thing that came to mind was that Julian pretty much knew that he was saying goodbye to both of his daughters. By giving Elise blank pages, he was giving her and Margot permission to write their own stories, which is what they did. It was a bit of a disappointment that the story that the two daughters wrote included such a long estrangement though.
Overall, I liked this book a lot. I think I would like to reread both this one and Mr Rosenblum's List to be sure, but on balance I think I liked Mr Rosenblum a bit better as it had a different type of charm. Regardless, I will definitely be lining up to get hold of Natasha Solomons' next book!
By the way, don't forget to head over to the author's website (to the bottom of the home page) and listen to the music that was especially composed for the launch of this book! Very evocative.
This book counts for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge.
In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother's pearls beneath her uniform, and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it.
At Tyneford she learns that you can be more than one person - and that you can love more than once
Thanks to Carrie for hosting the readalong
Labels: Historical Fiction, HIstorical Fiction Reading Challenge, House at Tyneford Readalong, Natasha Solomons
Carrie K. April 30, 2012 11:57 pm
Thank you so much for reading along, Marg! You had some interesting insights that I never put together - especially the Poppy connection. I do wonder if that had anything to do with it!
I find the whole story of Tyneham sad - it seems like no matter how many books I read on World War II, there are a never-ending supply of sad stories still waiting.
I'm off to listen to the music!
Marg May 01, 2012 6:38 am
Carrie, there is a never ending supply of stories that I find satisfying to read.
Thanks agsin for hosting the readalong and giving me the kick I needed to actually start reading this book. It had been on my TBR pile since it first came out!
Zibilee May 01, 2012 7:28 am
When, oh when will I get the time to read this? It sounds like such a great read, and I am enjoying reading the discussion. Can't wait to see what I think!
Marg May 02, 2012 8:40 pm
I hope you do enjoy it if you read it Zibilee
Teddyree May 02, 2012 7:44 pm
I've seen some positive reviews of this one, I love stories in WWII time frame. It's on my wishlist :)
Teddyree, this book is a little unusual since the action is all the at-home experience.
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New Windsor NY, May 31, 2018 – DocuWare, provider of cloud solutions for document management and workflow automation, announces its first annual Customer Appreciation Week to recognize its valued customer community.
Five honorary customers will be celebrated across North and Latin America, during the week of June 4-8, 2018. DocuWare will provide breakfast, lunch, or corporate swag as gifts to each organization.
Based on customer success stories submitted by Authorized DocuWare Partners, the company selected five customers for their innovative uses of DocuWare to move their business forward by digitally managing documents and automating workflows within their organizations. Each customer exhibited creative ways to solve tedious, recurring manual tasks. The resulting digitization of their documents along with rapid, reliable workflows led to higher efficiency and productivity by staff.
The chosen customers represent a wide range of industry sectors including biochemical, nonprofit, packaging, fashion and automotive - evidence that DocuWare is the leader in providing scalable, cloud and on-premises office automation solutions across diverse business scenarios.
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ZHMICRO has announced availability of Visual '09 Linux, a C++ IDE that provides a built-in editor, debugger, compiler, and memory-leak detection, among other features. When used with the the Z47 Virtual Processor, applications written with Visual '09 can run on multiple desktop and enterprise operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, LINUX, and UNIX, as well as mobile operating systems such as Palm, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC. This combination of applications written with Visual '09, and the use of the Z47 Virtual Processor enables rapid development and the integration of these applications within a wide range of frameworks.
The Z47 Virtual Processor is a self-contained distributed operating system of about 500K for all platforms. Z++ applications become processes of the Z47 Virtual Processor, which manages its own threads, processes, local and remote inter-process communications signals, and exceptions without making system calls to the underlying operating system.
"This release of the Linux Visual '09 continues ZHMICRO's commitment to provide developers with a truly 'complete' Linux IDE that is feature rich, easy to use, and gives software development organizations a one-stop solution that allows them to greatly reduce their development costs and make the most efficient use of their development resources," says ZHMICRO's Daniel Hatton.


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SDCC 09: Ray Badbury's CHRYSALIS gets a release date and new poster!
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We've been following this post apocalyptic Bradbury flick for some time and while we're not at SDCC we do have some goodies for you, including news that it's finally got distribution, not to mention winning Best Sci-Fi Feature Award at the 2008 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival.
Here's the press release:
Lightning Entertainment has picked up Urban Archipelago Films' production of Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis for domestic distribution. The film will premiere November 5, 2009, via On Demand through the Time Warner, Charter, and Bright House digital cable providers. Additional dates for multiple other providers including Comcast and digital satellite services will be announced shortly.
Visit www.chrysalismovie.net for the latest details!
And now for the SDCC details, Ray Bradbury will be in attendance!
Fans attending the 2009 edition of the San Diego Comic-Con can join legendary fantasy and science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury on Saturday July 25th for a special hour as he discusses his latest projects, including all the latest details on Chrysalis' domestic and international release dates. Fans can also register for updates and a chance to win exclusive Chrysalis prize packs, including books personally signed by Ray Bradbury, as well as posters and DVDs.
Send your name, address, and age to: register [at] chrysalismovie.net. Visit the news section at www.chrysalismovie.net for the winners. There will also be some exclusive giveaways for Twitter followers only. Fans can follow Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis on Twitter.
Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis has also been picked up for international distribution by Arsenal Pictures and will begin airing worldwide in the fall. Some of the initial international territories include Russia and Japan -- two of the largest non-U.S. markets for Bradbury's work. More territories and release dates will continue to be announced in the coming months.
Comic-Con Spotlight: Ray Bradbury
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Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database. There are two goals of the normalization process: eliminating redundant data and ensuring data dependencies. At the work we discuss methods achieving the normalization of data XML. In the case of XML data, this problem is more difficult than for relational data – we must also take the hierarchical data structure into consideration.
Abiteboul S., Hull R., Vianu V.: Foundations of Databases. Reading, Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Arenas M.: Normalization theory for XML. SIGMOD Record, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2006, s. 57-64.
Jixue L., Millist V., Chengfei L.: Functional Dependencies, from Relational to XML. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2890, 2003, s. 1063-1079.
Kolahi S.: Dependency-Preserving Normalization of Relational and XML Data. DBPL, LNCS, G. M. Bierman and C. Koch, Eds., Springer, Vol. 3374, 2005, s. 247-261.
Libkin L.: Normalization theory for XML. LNCS, Vol. 4704, 2007, s.1-13.
Millist V., Jixue L.: Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML. LNCS, 2003 vol. 3671, 2005, s.4-17.
Nečaský M.: Conceptual model based normalization of xml view. Dateso, 28 Annnal International Workshop of Databases, TExts, Specifications and Objects, CUR-WS, Vol. 330, 2008, s. 13-24.
Nečaský M.: Conceptual model for XML. Phd thesis, Carles Univeristy, 2008.
Pankowski T., Piłka T.: Transformation of XML Data into XML Normal Form. Informatica, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2009, s. 417-430.
Piłka T., Pankowski T.: Zależności funkcyjne w danych XML. Studia Informatica, red.: S. Kozielski, B. Małysiak-Mrozek, P. Kasprowski, D. Mrozek, Vol. 30-2A (83), 2009, s.7-19.


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Q: Should I treat age as a continuous variable or factor? Age is a predictor variable among a few others (gender, weight and height) and my response is the log-odds of a certain disease (binomial glm).
My age data runs from 21 until 40. I am not sure whether to treat age as a continuous variable or as a factor with age groups: 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40.
Are there any plots which I can produce that can help determine which would be the better approach?

A: It depends on the context.
For example if you are looking for the effect of age on children's height, it makes sense to look at it as a continuous ( integer) value.
If you're looking for e.g. the effect of age on oncogenesis then it makes sense if you look at age groups. Young vs old, above 55 and below 55, ...
For your example, unless age is a confounder of a hidden factor such as for example being college grad or still a student ( risk factor for young adults STD infection), I'd bin my data into reasonable bin sizes.

A: create some sort of distribution plot (boxplot, violin plot) with all of the ages shown discretely on the x axis. you can examine that to see if there are shifts in the mean, or in the variance. that would give you some idea on what kind of bins you could try. Then you can just try it out both ways.
Sometimes, there would be theoretical reasons to bin or not bin (or more generally, to leave as one continuous variable or to recode in some way). Take something like alcohol consumption. Here in the US the legal drinking age is 21-- there's probably a break point there. At 18 students go to college and there's probably a shift there too. So you would probably not want to use age strictly as a continuous variable if your response was alcohol consumption.
For a disease: the aging process that might change our probability of getting a disease doesn't usually happen in sudden shifts, therefore, I would tend to start with a continuous variable. However, the impact of age may not be strictly linear-- being one year older might matter more if you're 39 than if you're 22. So binning may still be something you need to try, or adding the square of the age or something like that.

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The New Year is starting off swimmingly at the Apollo Beach Racquet and Fitness Club (ABRFC) thanks to a partnership with Team Velocity, a USA Swimming sanctioned team.
Launching its second branch, Team Velocity was also eager to bring its program to the southeastern part of Hillsborough County, and is now excited to join forces with ABRFC, located at 6520 Richies Way in Apollo Beach.
The family owned and operated fitness center and sport camp has long been known for its excellence in swimming and water safety skills instruction, while serving the Apollo Beach community for the past 25 years.
In its first year of operation, Team Velocity grew its membership to 120 swimmers and rose to being one of the top 30 swim clubs in Florida.
Besides the perfect fit, timing of the partnership has also hit the mark, as Team Velocity not only has the infrastructure in place to branch out, but also boast of acquiring the talents of renowned swim coach Don LaMont.
LaMont brings more than 25 years of coaching experience to the Apollo Beach community, including coaching of the USC women's swim team and coaching 17 All-Americans and 13 Olympians. LaMont is a member of the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame.
Swim team tryouts and evaluations for group placement are held most Saturdays at 10 a.m. Coach Don can be reached at 681-8636 or dlamontcoach@aol.com regarding tryouts.
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Massive 15-foot and 2,000-pound great white shark is heading towards North Carolina's Outer Banks - just in time for Memorial Day weekend
Luna is a 2,137 pound great white shark last seen by Charleston, South Carolina
The 15-foot shark is heading towards North Carolina's Outer Banks
She, along with three other massive sharks, are near the Charleston Bump - a deep sea area about 100 miles from the coast, full of sea life
OCEARCH, a nonprofit that tracks sharks, has been following Luna as she traveled south from Canada in October 2018
Come summertime, she and the other sharks will head northeast to give birth
By Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:48 EST, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 14:05 EST, 15 May 2019
A massive 2,137-pound great white shark is swimming toward North Carolina's Outer Banks, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
The mighty beast, named Luna, is being tracked by OCEARCH, a nonprofit that tags and tracks sharks.
The 15-foot shark - that's as long as a Volkswagen Passat - last pinged off the Carolina's coast near Charleston on Thursday, in a deep sea area known as the Charleston Bump located about 80 to 100 miles off of the coast.
OCEARCH has been tracking the great white shark for months, followings its journey traveling south from the Canadian coast in October 2018 to the southern tip of Florida before turning around.
Luna is a 2,137-pound, 15-foot great white shark last seen by Charleston, South Carolina
The massive beast is as long as a Volkswagen Passat and last pinged off the Carolina's coast near Charleston on Thursday
Luna is joined by three other sharks in the Outer Banks to feast on the abundance of sea life dragged in from the Gulf Stream. Those sharks range in size from 9 feet 8 inches to 14 feet 9 inches.
'They aren't picky eaters. The great white shark diet seems to be as diverse as they come.... These fish are extremely curious creatures,' experts at SharkInsider.com say.
One of the giants swimming near Luna is a great white shark named Caroline, who is 12 feet and 9 inches long. She last pinged off the coast of Georgia.
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She and three other sharks last pinged in a deep sea area known as the Charleston Bump located about 80 to 100 miles off of the coast of Charleston, South Carolina
One of the giants swimming near Luna is a great white shark named Caroline, who is 12 feet and 9 inches long. She last pinged off the coast of Georgia
Great white sharks can grow to be more than 20 feet long and can weight 2.5tons or more, as per National Geographic.
A 'ping' takes place when a tagged shark's dorsal fins break the surface of the water and transmits a signal to a satellite, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
The underwater giants will soon be on the move in the summer months to the northeast of the country to destinations like Cape Cod and the south shore of Long Island to give birth.
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15-foot shark heading to North Carolina's Outer Banks for Memorial Day weekend


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Faculty News Recap in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities — May 1-31, 2021
ENGLISH — David Blakesley is the Founder and Publisher of Parlor Press. The Conference on College Composition and Communication has awarded its annual Outstanding Book Award to the Parlor Press book "Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean," edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond A. Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette. To learn more about this prize and the book, see https://parlorpress.com/blogs/news/mla-prize-for-creole-composition and https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/oba.
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton and co-author Armand Derfner were interviewed on the Law360 podcast about their new book, "Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court." The podcast is available for download on iTunes and other podcast apps. On May 1, Library Journal published the second review of "Justice Deferred." On May 30, Cornell University history Glenn Altschuler published the first full-length review of the book in the Florida Courier. "Justice Deferred" was officially released on May 31.
PERFORMING ARTS — Paul Buyer has been selected to serve as a Leadership Facilitator with the Jeff Janssen Sports Leadership Center. With the program adapted for bands, Buyer is looking forward to helping high school and college band programs work toward excellence, reach their potential, and develop their next generation of leaders. As Janssen's only licensed Band Leadership Facilitator in the country, Buyer will be presenting unique, in-person Leadership Summits in the Upstate and Charlotte, N.C. areas to develop and improve leadership skills in band members, student leaders, and staff.
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Elizabeth Carney recently present a virtual public lecture, "Eurydice of Macedon: The Power of Memory," at the University of Marburg in Germany. Carney also wrote the recent book chapter, "The First basilissa: Phila, Daughter of Antipater and Wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes" in "New Directions in the Study of Woman in Antiquity," edited by Georgia Tsouvala and Ronnie Ancona (Oxford University Press, 2021).
ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma is officially the inventor of "Foldable Composite Structures," U.S. Patent Number 10,994,468. The patent was issued on May 4. See a complete description of the patent here. On May 7, Choma gave a virtual talk (to an audience of 2,800 people) titled "Designing with Mathematics" as part of Notions of India: Shaping a Billion Dreams. On May 24, Choma gave an invited presentation titled "Foldable Structures and Materials" for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS21). On May 27, Choma and his collaborators, Jefferson Ellinger and Wesam Al Asali, were selected as one of the 12 shortlisted teams out of 119 entries from 41 countries for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition.
LANGUAGES — Stephen Fitzmaurice and Salvador Oropesa published an essay titled "American Sign Language: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in One of the Most Popular Languages in the United States" in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin. This essay showcases how the Clemson University Department of Languages has gained tremendous insight into the ways in which studying ASL provides important linguistic, cultural, and professional opportunities for students of modern languages.
RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cynthia Haynes' essay "Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords" was selected as the lead essay in an important new edited collection from Penn State University Press called "Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric," edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen. Haynes writes that "the sacred belongs to no category or system of representation. It is beyond what can be communicated, perhaps beyond all knowing. Rhetoric, on the other hand, takes that barrier as its foremost challenge: seeking to permeate the impermeable, to relate to the unrelatable, to unveil so as to enlighten. It is a kind of sacred act. Rhetoric acts within the sacred, in words other than it otherwise would. This chapter aims to examine this unruly character of rhetoric by situating the two in a different kind of relationship, one that forms an organic bond — a passageway through which things come and go, ebb and flow, to and fro. To enter this forgotten passage, one needs passwords…. This chapter intends to weave rhetoric and the sacred into a passing through various forgotten passages and the passwords with which we gain entrance to 'the answer itself. The one that was waiting for us' (Cixous), even the one that is unholy."
ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust, and graduate students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, presented work online for the 52nd Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA52) Conference — "Just Environments: Transdisciplinary Border Crossings" — held May 19-23. The team's presentations included: "Comparing the Clinical Team's Perception of the Surgical Environments Between a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up and a Post-Occupancy Evaluation," "Identifying Flow Disruptions in a Physical Mock-Up of a Pediatric ICU: An Evaluation of a Three-Phased Scenario," "Designing for Family Engagement in the Neonatal ICU: An In-Depth Look at Single-Family Rooms," "The Impact of Daylight Versus Window Views on Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patients with Heart Disease in a Cardiac ICU," "Exploring the Relationship Between the Surgical Table Orientation in the OR and Flow Disruptions in the Intra-Operative Phase," "Comparison of Circulating Nurse's Workflow in Pediatric Operating Rooms Pre and Post Optimization," "Impact of Workstation Design on Noise Levels and Perceptions of Speech Intelligibility During Emergency Physician Handoffs" and "Understanding Sources of Disruptions to Telemedicine-Based Stroke Care in an Ambulance Using Simulation."
ARCHITECTURE — The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA53) Conference Organizing Committee is thrilled to announce EDRA53 Greenville hosted by the Clemson University School of Architecture. The conference will be held in Greenville, South Carolina on June 1-4, 2022. As we emerge from a global pandemic, it has become imperative that environmental designers and researchers consider health — a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being over time — as a critical goal for all design projects. Thus, the theme of the conference is "Health In All Design." Organizers hope to attract a multidisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and students to engage in conversations about the role of built environments in promoting health, equity, sustainability and resilience. Greenville is an excellent example of the conference's theme and is listed among the 10 most livable cities in the United States.
ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph and David Allison recently published an article in Instituto de Pesquisas Hospitalares (IPH) Magazine: "Design Insights from a Research Initiative on Ambulatory Surgery Operating Rooms in the U.S." IPH Magazine is an interdisciplinary Brazilian publication designed to disseminate and promote knowledge in Architecture, Engineering, Administration, and other fields that contribute to the improvement of health facilities construction and management.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Claire Kirwin was the runner-up for the 2021 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics for her paper "Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy." She presented a version of that paper at the Cyprus Metaethics Workshop via Zoom on May 21. She also presented her paper "Sympathy for the Devil?: The Guise of the Good Remastered" via Zoom at the New Mexico – Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting on May 26. Finally, she was interviewed about her work on value realism for the 'Elucidations' philosophy podcast.
LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa delivered a paper virtually, "Bajarse al Sur: 'El Niño' (2014) de Daniel Monzón y 'Bebedores de té' (2018) de José Manuel Caamaño Sánchez," at the XVI Congreso de novela y cine negro: (Re)escrituras en negro at the Universidad de Salamanca.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Mashal Saif was named a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the funding from which will be used to support research for her new book project.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Thomas Schurch has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His ASLA Fellows profile describes his impact in the field: "Thomas Schurch has demonstrated exceptional knowledge-based leadership and significant cross-disciplinary discourse between practice and theory for more than 40 years. Long devoted to advancing landscape architecture and urban design, he has made significant contributions through teaching, research, writing, and community-based learning techniques that have benefited both students and communities. … His many writings on subjects such as urban design, sustainability, and climate change have been lauded by his peers and the public."
LANGUAGES — Gabriela Stoicea's monograph "Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin" (Transcript, 2020) has just been reviewed in the official journal of the German Studies Association. Read the review here.
VISUAL ART — Anderson Wrangle's "Savannah River Watershed" and Clemson graduate Amanda Musick's "Land Unfolding" projects came together in a recent exhibition, "Topographic & Expressive Landscape Photography: Amanda Musick and Anderson Wrangle," at the Arts Center of Greenwood. The two projects created a dialogue about the ways a changing landscape is described and documented. Through their distinct processes, the artists offered a glimpse into the state of the landscape around us. The approaches to landscape in this exhibit split along the line of subjectivity and objectivity, but both approaches relied on direct observation, and immersion in the environment. These are not imaginary landscapes. Musick's landscape constructions refer to her individual sensory experience in the world, and even as her constructions form a view, they refer to moving through the landscape and the perspective of the artist doing so. Wrangle's landscapes are conceived of from an objective and descriptive position, and in most of the work he has endeavored to take the artist out of the work.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Dan Wueste was featured prominently in zippia.com's collection of experts speaking about the job market for recent graduates in philosophy. See his comments here.
VISUAL ART — Valerie Zimany's ceramic artworks, featuring ceramic 3D printed components and Japanese Kutani enamels, are on view in the group exhibition "Finding Nature" at Blue Spiral 1 gallery in Asheville, N.C. through June 25. Also in the exhibition are Zimany's graduates Nina Kawar (MFA,'14) and Deighton Abrams (MFA, '16), as well as Mike Vatalaro, Professor Emeritus. The exhibition presents works "which visually describe the way meaningful interactions with nature can make us feel whole." More info on the exhibition is available at: https://www.bluespiral1.com/exhibit/313-finding-nature. In addition, Zimany's artwork was selected for the national juried exhibition "Spring to Life," which was on view at 311 Gallery in Raleigh, N.C. from May 7-29. The exhibition explored the color and complexity of all things flora and fauna. More info on the exhibition is available at https://www.311artgallery.com/exhibitions/2021/spring-to-life.
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We're camped in Klamath Falls and I've been wondering 'where are the falls'? So I hopped on my bike this morning for a look.
There's a river that connects Upper Klamath Lake with Lake Ewauna and that looked like the spot. But when I got there, all I saw was a little damn and hydroelectric power. So that's it?
A google search of 'are there falls in Klamath Falls?' pretty much says 'no'. But there were rapids back in the day.


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The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose, manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Its primary mission was to investigate the design features of an aircraft suitable for sustained supersonic speeds, which included the first use of titanium in major airframe components. Douglas designed the X-3 with the goal of a maximum speed of approximately , but it was seriously underpowered for this purpose and could not even exceed Mach 1 in level flight. Although the research aircraft was a disappointment, Lockheed designers used data from the X-3 tests for the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter which used a similar trapezoidal wing design in a successful Mach 2 fighter.

Design and development
The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest of the early experimental aircraft, but its research accomplishments were not those originally planned. It was originally intended for advanced Mach 2 turbojet propulsion testing, but it fell largely into the category of configuration explorers, as its performance (due to inadequate engines) never met its original performance goals.   The goal of the aircraft was ambitious—it was to take off from the ground under its own power, climb to high altitude, maintain a sustained cruise speed of Mach 2, then land under its own power. The aircraft was also to test the feasibility of low-aspect-ratio wings, and the large-scale use of titanium in aircraft structures. The design of the Douglas X-3 Stiletto is the subject of U.S. Design Patent #172,588 granted on July 13, 1954 to Frank N. Fleming and Harold T. Luskin and assigned to the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.

Construction of a pair of X-3s was approved on 30 June 1949. During development, the X-3's planned Westinghouse J46 engines were unable to meet the thrust, size and weight requirements, so lower-thrust Westinghouse J34 turbojets were substituted, producing only  of thrust with afterburner rather than the planned . The first aircraft was built and delivered to Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 11 September 1952.

The X-3 featured an unusual slender, streamlined shape having a very long, gently-tapered nose and small trapezoidal wings. The aim was to create the thinnest and most slender shape possible in order to achieve low drag at supersonic speeds. The extended nose was to allow for the provision of test equipment while the semi-buried cockpit and windscreen were designed to alleviate the effects of "thermal thicket" conditions. The low aspect ratio, unswept wings were designed for high speed and later the Lockheed design team used data from the X-3 tests for the similar F-104 Starfighter wing design. Due to both engine and airframe problems, the partially completed second aircraft was cancelled, and its components were used for spare parts.

Operational history

The first X-3 "hop" was made on 15 October 1952, by Douglas test pilot Bill Bridgeman. During a high-speed taxi test, Bridgeman lifted the X-3 off the ground and flew it about one mile (1.6 km) before settling back onto the lakebed. The official first flight was made by Bridgeman on 20 October and lasted about 20 minutes. He made a total of 26 flights (counting the hop) by the end of the Douglas tests in December 1953. These showed that the X-3 was severely underpowered and difficult to control; its takeoff speed was unusually high—. More seriously, the X-3 did not approach its planned top speed. Its first supersonic flight required that the airplane make a 15° dive to reach Mach 1.1. The X-3's fastest flight, made on 28 July 1953, reached Mach 1.208 in a 30° dive. A plan to re-engine the X-3 with rocket motors was considered but eventually dropped.

With the completion of the contractor test program in December 1953, the X-3 was delivered to the United States Air Force. The poor performance of the X-3 meant only an abbreviated program would be made, to gain experience with low aspect ratio wings. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest and Major Chuck Yeager each made three flights. Although flown by Air Force pilots, these were counted as NACA flights. With the last flight by Yeager in July 1954, NACA made plans for a limited series of research flights with the X-3. The initial flights looked at longitudinal stability and control, wing and tail loads, and pressure distribution.

NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker made his pilot checkout flight in the X-3 on 23 August 1954, then conducted eight research flights in September and October. By late October, the research program was expanded to include lateral and directional stability tests. In these tests, the X-3 was abruptly rolled at transonic and supersonic speeds, with the rudder kept centered. Despite its shortcomings, the X-3 was ideal for these tests. The mass of its engines, fuel and structure was concentrated in its long, narrow fuselage, while its wings were short and stubby. As a result, the X-3 was "loaded" along its fuselage, rather than its wings. This was typical of the fighter aircraft then in development or testing.

These tests would lead to the X-3's most significant flight, and the near-loss of the aircraft. On 27 October 1954, Walker made an abrupt left roll at Mach 0.92 and an altitude of . The X-3 rolled as expected, but also pitched up 20° and yawed 16°. The aircraft gyrated for five seconds before Walker was able to get it back under control. He then set up for the next test point. Walker put the X-3 into a dive, accelerating to Mach 1.154 at , where he made an abrupt left roll. The aircraft pitched down and recorded an acceleration of -6.7 g (-66 m/s²), then pitched upwards to +7 g (69 m/s²). At the same time, the X-3 side-slipped, resulting in a loading of 2 g (20 m/s²). Walker managed to bring the X-3 under control and successfully landed.

The post-flight examination showed that the fuselage had been subjected to its maximum load limit. Had the acceleration been higher, the aircraft could have broken up. Walker and the X-3 had experienced "roll inertia coupling," in which a maneuver in one axis will cause an uncommanded maneuver in one or two others. At the same time, several North American F-100 Super Sabres were involved in similar incidents. A research program was started by NACA to understand the problem and find solutions.

For the X-3, the roll coupling flight was the high point of its history. The aircraft was grounded for nearly a year after the flight, and never again explored its roll stability and control boundaries. Walker made another ten flights between 20 September 1955 and the last on 23 May 1956. The aircraft was subsequently retired to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

Although the X-3 never met its intention of providing aerodynamic data in Mach 2 cruise, its short service was of value. It showed the dangers of roll inertia coupling, and provided early flight test data on the phenomenon. Its small, highly loaded unswept wing was used in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, and it was one of the first aircraft to use titanium. Finally, the X-3's very high takeoff and landing speeds required improvements in tire technology.

Production
Two aircraft were ordered, but only one was built, completing 51 test flights.

Aircraft on display
The X-3 was transferred in 1956 to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. , it is on display in the Museum's Research & Development Gallery.

Specifications (X-3)

See also

References

 United States Air Force Museum Guidebook. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: Air Force Association, 1975 edition.
 Winchester, Jim. "Douglas X-3." Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes and Experimental Aircraft. Kent, UK: Grange Books plc, 2005. .

External links

 NASA Dryden X-3 photo collection
 NASA-Dryden X-3 Fact Sheet
 Global Aircraft: X-3 Stiletto

X-3 Stiletto
Edwards Air Force Base
NASA aircraft
X-03 Stiletto
Aircraft first flown in 1952


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My children have who can handle the chunky puzzles should be graduated to 12-piece puzzles. About this time, kids usually have a couple of attractive puzzles they have been given as gifts. Try not to be tricked by how these puzzles are simple. They include some additional dexterity test and sneaks in a little science as well.
The change from the shape puzzles to these 12-piece puzzles can be challenging for minimal ones. Give parental help and show them critical thinking systems for tackling a specific move.
The change between the 12 and 16 piece puzzles occurs at a similar time. Ordinarily, the cardboard puzzles are somewhat cheap and take up less storage room. These puzzles are usually available in various colors and sometimes feature popular characters.
Around this similar time, that casing puzzles are of high enthusiasm to most preschoolers. These puzzles normally take up a special shape and can be a few feet long. The pieces are substantial; always try to make it simple for preschoolers to assemble. Since these puzzles are big, they will take up more storage room. If you bought a couple, set up them together in two or three times and afterward give them on to your child's school for other preschoolers to use.
Preschoolers can start to explore the jigsaw puzzles beginning with 30 pieces. A first grade can also use these puzzles, so stocking up for future is certifiably a good thought. Each jigsaw puzzle can be typically under $10, and the preschooler can use about 5 to 20 minutes to finish solving the puzzle upon their expertise level. If you have children of different gender, pick puzzles that will engage all of them. Wooden puzzles for preschoolers can be used for a long time.
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Dig your skates out of storage—fall public skates start Sunday, September 28!
South Delta Recreation Centre will be open for a skate on Sunday, and other Delta recreation centres have dates scheduled in the following days. Public skates are held at Ladner Leisure Centre, North Delta Recreation Centre, South Delta Recreation Centre and Sungod Recreation Centre.
Skate and helmet rentals are available at all arenas.
Check out the public skate schedule.


Blue edition, limited to 66 hand-numbered copies.
Red and Yellow editions also exist, limited respectively to 33 and 12 hand-numbered copies.
Comes in a thin cardboard sleeve with a picture insert (yellow edition came with 2 picture inserts) and bound with coarse string with a wax seal.


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Deanes is a restaurant located in Belfast, Northern Ireland with a European kitchen style. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded a Michelin star for each year in the period 1998–2010.

It lost its star in 2011 due to severe frost damage in 2010, that forced a temporary closure of the restaurant, just in the period the inspections for the next year's guide were to take place.

Its predecessor Deanes on the Square held a Michelin star in 1997.

The executive chef is Michael Deane and the head chef is Simon Toye.

Gallery

See also
 List of Michelin starred restaurants in Ireland

Sources and references

External links

 Ireland Guide

Restaurants in Northern Ireland
Michelin Guide starred restaurants in Ireland


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Brick Breaker Hero! is easy to learn and fun to play, fans! Let's take a look at the basics, and then move on to some more advanced tactics!
First and foremost, open up the game and hit play! You'll see the mundane origins of our hero, and get ready for the first level!
Just tap "play" on the level screen to get started destroying some shrubberies! You'll see the locked areas for powerups--no need to worry about those, we'll get to them later. For now, just worry about getting rid of those bricks!
It's easy enough, fans--just put your thumb in the lowest part of the screen. Either tap to shoot a ball off straightaway, or hold to aim your ball just right. The dotted line shows where the ball will go, so feel free to test bounces and strategize!
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Catch any stars that the destroyed bricks produce--they increase your final score! Grab as many as you can when succeed and take down that hedge. When you're finished, check out your final score and voila! You know how to play Brick Breaker Hero! Check out our other articles for info on specifics!