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'Lowest White Boy' offers honest, self-examination about race, racism
By Jody DiPerna May 14, 2019 No Comments
Lowest White Boy by Greg Bottoms
By Jody DiPerna
Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer
jody@pittsburghcurrent.com
What does it mean to be caught up in a history you don't understand? A history happening in real time all around you which is hidden and withheld? How do you interrogate entrenched political and social and economic forces? How do you confront systemic white supremacy?
These are all questions that undergird Greg Bottoms' book, Lowest White Boy, new this month from West Virginia University Press. The book takes its title from Lyndon Johnson's quote, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket."
The lowest white boy in question is Bottoms himself, now a professor of English at Vermont University, but who grew up in a white working-poor family in Hampton, Virginia. The book is an innovative collection of short essays drawn from his childhood in the 1970's. Bottoms' evocative prose quickly establishes this place and his place in it, as a way of pointing up the racism and white privilege baked into American culture.
"These are real memories, very powerful memories that have stayed with me," Bottoms told the Current recently by phone. "I'm imposing my adult mind and adult understandings around race and history and policy and politics. I'm trying to write my honest memories — these charged images and the feelings around them — and they are haunted constantly by history."
In an essay about the public pool where he swam in as a child, he reckons with the fact that it was all white; black kids who simply stopped to rest in the shade of the woods beyond the pool, beyond the fence, were rebuked and threatened.
Bottoms writes, "And I thought the boy on the bike was right, about the shady woods being a free place for anyone, from anywhere, to rest. Months later, though, I began to understand we neighborhood kids were part of something bigger, this unspoken apartheid, a reality so plain and present it took the magic of American myth-making to make its causes vanish each second of every day …"
The essays are short and beautifully crafted, landing the reader right alongside Bottoms as he rides shotgun on the school bus full of black students that his mom drove (the only white bus driver who would drive black students.) He recalls being egged on to shout 'n****r' at a group of guys playing basketball. He remembers his grandmother telling him stories in which she describes the behavior of black people as hateful. And then those same stories told again, differently, by his father.
Bottoms is writing about big, nation-defining things: Brown v Board of Education, red-lining, segregation. But in these stories he's trying to capture the drip, drip, drip of racism and how it shapes the lives of all Americans, but specifically white Americans.
Interspersed throughout the book are black and white newspaper photographs chronicling the slow, volatile integration of Virginia schools, all of which were found at the Valentine Museum of Virginia History in Richmond. One photo stands out to Bottoms. It shows a very middle class looking woman talking to a man who is wearing a placard that says school busing will lead to either Nazism or Communism.
"They're smiling at each other. It's just a fun day out. It's like a bake sale," Bottoms said. "Except it's a fun day out and a bake sale that's trying to keep young people of color from having equal education in America. I feel like we have to look at that. We have to look at that photograph."
In all of these stories, he's writing from the perspective of a white boy shielded by and from all this ugliness. Underneath that is an adult acknowledgement of the forces which made it possible for his white parents to buy a house in the 'good' neighborhood. And how that would not have been possible for a similar working class black family.
Lowest White Boy is Bottoms' effort to face his history, our history, one that shaped his childhood and continues to shape this nation, Trump's America, in an authentic way.
Whatever we do moving forward, he wants to say, it can't be a lie.
"We are shaped by history, whether we know a damned thing about it or not. And those people out in those McMansions — they're shaped by history. It's much easier to not acknowledge that. To not know. Once you get into the sticky spaces I want to take us straight to, it just gets so uncomfortable."
Jody DiPerna
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Q: Inflection point of a function For what values of $a$ does the function $f(x)=e^x+ax^3$ have an inflection point?
It is an old question in my mind and wanted to bring it out.

A: $$
f(x) = e^x + ax^3.
$$
$$
f'(x) = e^x + 3ax^2.
$$
$$
f''(x) = e^x + 6ax.
$$
Suppose first that $a>0$.
Since $f''(x)\to\infty$ as $x\to\infty$ and $f''(x)\to-\infty$ as $x\to-\infty$, and $f''$ is everywhere continuous, there must be a point where $f''$ changes signs.  And since $f'''(x)= e^x+6a$ is everywhere positive, $f''$ must be a strictly increasing function and hence can have only one point where it is equal to $0$, and there it must change signs.
Therefore there is only one solution to $e^x+6ax=0$, and that is where the inflection point is.  I don't think there's a closed-form solution, but you could apply Newton's method to solve this equation.
If $a=0$, then $f''(x)= e^x$, and this is always positive, so there are no inflection points.
Now suppose $a<0$.  Since $e^x\to0$ as $x\to-\infty$ and $6ax\to\infty$ as $x\to-\infty$, we have $f''(x)\to\infty$ as $x\to-\infty$.  But $f''(x)\to \infty$ as $x\to\infty$ as well.  Therefore the behavior of $f''(x)$ as $x\to\pm\infty$ does not necessitate any changes in sign of $f''(x)$.  If $a$ is a long way below $0$, you get a steep line plunging downward faster than $e^x$ grows when $x$ is near $0$, and $f''$ will become negative at some point where $x>0$, and then will become positive again to the right of that point.  You'll have two inflection points.  I think Newton's method will find them.  But if $a$ is negative and closer to $0$, the line going below $0$ will not move fast enough to outweigh the $e^x$ that is growing, and the graph of $f''$ will never go below the $x$-axis.  How do we know which values of $a$ are far enough below $0$ that there will be two inflection points?  So far all I can suggest is numerical experiments.

A: $$f''x=e^x+6ax$$
now,
$f''x=0$ when $e^x=-6ax$   ------[eqn1]
fram the graphs of $y=e^x$ and $y=-6ax$ it can be said that a solution to this will surely exist if $a>0$ ,
but when $a<0$ we things get complicated,
if a is too small the line $y=-6ax$ may not meet $e^x$ at all,
if a is too large, the line will meet the curve twice,
so we need to find the borderline case, when the line just touched the curve, i.e it is  tangent to $e^x$
Let the line touch the curve at some $x=x_1$
slope of the line $y=-6ax$ is $-6a$
slope of $y=e^x$ at for some $x=x_1$  is $e^{x_1}$
so we have $-6a=e^{x_1}$
also since the line and the curve are touching we have,
$-6ax_1=e^{x_1}$
from this and previous results we have,
$-6ax=-6a$
this gives the solution either $a=0$ or $x=1$
putting x=1 in [eqn1] we get,
$e=-6a$ or $a =\frac{-e}{6}$
hence the complete and final solution is ,
$$a \in [0,\infty)\cup(-\infty ,\frac{-e}{6}] $$

A: Actually there is a very nice closed-form solution to this problem.
As shown $f^{\prime\prime}(x)=e^x+6ax$. And inflection points are then solution to equation $$e^x=-6ax.$$
This have an analytical solution using so-called Lambert W function, i.e., the inflection points are:
$$x^\star = -W\left(\frac{1}{6a}\right)$$
From conditions on existence of Lambert function we know that if $\frac{1}{6a}\geq -\frac{1}{e}$, then $x\in\mathbb{R}$, otherwise $x\in\mathbb{C}$.
This leads to the same conditions on $a$ as Tomarinator mentioned, i.e., if $a\in(-\infty,-e/6]\cup(0,\infty)$, then $x\in\mathbb{R}$. For other $a$ (except $0$), $x\in\mathbb{C}$, where in both cases, $x^\star=-W\left(\frac{1}{6a}\right)$.

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But I hardly care about Sarris championing auteur theory or about his rivalry with Pauline Kael (even though I learned all about those things in perhaps the greatest course I've taken at any level of my education, "The Critic as Journalist and Essayist," taught by Mike Janeway at Columbia Journalism). Sarris was more important to me because he somehow seemed to share my movie tastes exactly.
I always feel validated when I see that he likes a movie that I desperately want to like before it comes out (say, Kill Bill vol. 1, which made his top ten list in 2003), and I'm always intrigued when he likes a movie I thought looked like real clunkers (say, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, which Sarris and I might be alone in liking). And he picks out little-known ones that I wouldn't have known whether to like or not (Croupier, for instance, which introduced us to Clive Owen).
It's not foolproof. I find choices like A Beautiful Mind vaguely embarrassing, even if they are critically lauded. And I won't stand by him for putting Dr. T & The Women on a top ten list. But on the whole, we agree. And he surveys the field, without snobbery, but with taste, helping me find movies that I'll like, even if they're not the big box office winners. And even sometimes in spite of being big box office winners.
And that's all you can really ask of a critic.
By the way, see The Hurt Locker. If you're curious about it. Deserves the hype.


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GENNADIY V. IVANOV
TRANSITIONS 2019-2020
TIMELESSNESS project 2020
Transitions project exhibition at Rossotrudnichestvo,
37 Kensington High Street, London. Extended till end of December.
Online exhibition catalogue https://issuu.com/nsag/docs/doc15
Norfolk Artist and Scientist Fuse Art and Science over Climate Change.
North Norfolk recently declared a climate emergency; quickly followed closely by the House of Commons. This is hot on the heels of the first phase of an exciting Norfolk project to increase public engagement by fusing art with the science of climate change.
Norfolk artist Gennadiy Ivanov and Trevor Davies, former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Director of the Climatic Research Unit at UEA, have combined to represent aspects of climate change and its impacts in visual art in order to increase awareness in a wider section of people. They have just returned from Canada, a country which is amongst those most greatly affected by climate change.
Gennadiy Ivanov had already produced paintings related to sea-level rise and coastal erosion in Norfolk when he approached Professor Davies, who says "I was impressed by Gennadiy's paintings. He interpreted and visualized coastal erosion in a way which I found striking, and I thought that his impressionistic images could have a wider impact".
From Gennadiy Ivanov's perspective, he knew that Norwich was a hot-bed of climate research and wanted advice on how best to develop his work in the climate change theme. "Professor Davies explained the principles of climate change and its impacts and convinced me that, together, we could produce a real fusion of science and art in this project. Everyone we spoke to in Norfolk was enthused by the project, including those who had experience of art in education as a means of getting over a story to those who might not otherwise be interested".
The real breakthrough came when Professor Davies contacted a colleague in Canada, Professor John Pomeroy, who had spent time at UEA in the 1990s, and with whom co-operation had since continued. Professor Davies explained that "John is Director of a very effective and important research project in Canada called Global Water Futures (GWF). It is addressing the major climate change related events which Canada is experiencing: more severe floods, droughts, fires, recession of snow and ice-cover, and perma-frost melting. I felt that witnessing the impacts of these changes in landscapes which were very different to those in Norfolk could give scope Gennadiy to produce even more striking pictures".
The two have just returned from a research trip in Canada in which Gennadiy Ivanov was able to join in GWF activities at a number of research sites in the Yukon, North West Territories, and the Rockies in Alberta. He says "I am very grateful for GWF support and feel enormously privileged to have witnessed the incredibly hard work put in by the scientists, involving sophisticated instrumentation in remote and difficult terrain. Sometimes the only way in was by helicopter or ski-plane. It made me realise the effort put in by scientists to understand and the effects of climate change and that sometimes it is necessary for them to use modes of transportation which emit global warming gases in order to better prepare us for the future".
Gennadiy Ivanov was able to produce paintings in the field, of the research activities and landscapes which have been affected by climate change, which he is now using as a basis for his impressionistic images. Professor Trevor Davies said "Everyone who watched Gennadiy produce his paintings in the field was impressed by his speed of work, and by the way he was able to capture the important elements of what he was seeing".
Amongst the scenes Gennadiy Ivanov witnessed were the outcomes of rapidly retreating glaciers, the effects of quick changes in lake-level, vegetation changes, the results of catastrophic floods, and forest fires. Even whilst the two were there, climate records were being broken in parts of Canada, including record floods in Ottawa and Montreal and record high temperatures in the North West Territories.
Art galleries and museums in Canada have invited exhibitions of the resulting art, combined with climate interpretations, and there is also an invitation to put on an exhibition in London. The pair plan exhibitions in Norfolk, with the hope of developing links with the Canadian galleries.
"I want to do justice, in my own terms, to the incredible landscapes which I saw in Canada, and the way in which they are being deeply affected by man-made global warming. I also want to use this experience to inform my future paintings representing environmental change in Norfolk, and link the changes in the gentler landscapes in our county to those in the more dramatic landscapes of Canada. I also want my art to be a tribute to the dedicated scientists whose work I saw", said Gennadiy Ivanov.
Professor Davies remarked "I have no doubt that the exhibitions based on Gennadiy's work will be successful. Many landscapes in Canada have changed dramatically since my first scientific visits there, and Gennadiy is able to represent this in an imaginative way. It was exciting to be part of this project to fuse art and science, and I look forward to adopting this approach to Norfolk. It was sobering to catch a quick snapshot of the nature of changes in large parts of Canada: perhaps the most sobering was to see the very large areas of landscape slumping resulting from the thawing of permafrost. It may have been this which prompted the Chief of the Gwich'in Indigenous Peoples to give his impression of the effect of climate change on his people: "It's like watching a nuclear explosion in slow motion"".
'I wanted to capture some of the impacts of climate change in a region of Canada which has experienced some of the highest warming rates on the planet – Yukon, Northwest Territories, and the Rockies in Alberta. I was lucky enough to be able to join scientists, as they made routine visits to some of their observation stations and study sites.'
'I also returned to the Peyto Glacier in August – its shrinking form much more evident without snow-cover. GWF scientists use drones to photograph and sense the receding glacier . A brilliant sunny day on the glacier meant that my field paintings were amongst the most colourful I have produced of a glacier. Despite the bright colours, the bare moraines and sediment left by the retreating glacier gave me a sense of destruction, darkness and decay borne in rapid deglaciation due to human-caused climate change. In this painting is an example of the strange formations of cryoconite below the glacier snout, washed off the glacier by meltwater and accumulating in mini-mountain ranges about 2m high. This field painting looking down the valley from the current glacier snout gives an impression of the former scale of the glacier. At the base of the glacier were melt caverns, about 2m high, here captured in a field painting. Here I represent the criss-cross pattern of crevasses and melt channels on the glacier in an impressionistic way. '
Transitions I catalogue online issuu.com/nsag/docs/transitions/a/223078
https://issuu.com/nsag/docs/transitions_2_issuu/s/10478819
https://issuu.com/nsag/docs/transitions/a/212966
September-October Transitions collection of new paintings and drawings
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Despite the exhortations of climate scientists over decades, action on climate change has been delayed too long. In the words of David Attenborough, "the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of our natural world is on the horizon". That prospect, scientists say, will be unstoppable if major actions, not before attempted, are not taken over the next few years. Whether they are, or not, will determine to what extent the Earth remains inhabitable. The proposed project aims to represent that challenge, stimulating awareness amongst new audiences, via a range of techniques, styles, performance and media. The artist will have unprecedented access to the work of climate scientists, initially in Canada and the UK, and the project will be shown and performed at a number of venues including in the UK and Canada. The linkages between, and dislocations in, those natural systems and societies most at risk will be articulated and shown to the artist by practicing climate scientists – a fusion of science and art. Because of the unprecedented access to a global network of climate scientists, there is a realizable prospect of the project growing and evolving for exhibitions/performances around the world.
Images by Gennadiy Ivanov / August 2019: Peyto Glacier- GWF and The Canadian Centre for Water Forecasting and Prediction at the University of Saskatchewan.
Proposed artistic activity
Funding is sought for the second phase of this activity. The first phase has been successfully completed. This was making contact with climate scientist Professor Trevor Davies, former Director of the Climatic Research Unit and Co-Founder of the Tyndall Centre for Climate and being tutored by him in the fundamentals of climate change and its impact, including the importance of transition processes (phase changes, etc) in the climate system, and how representations of water (in its various phases) - or the lack of it – can be used as a messenger and impact vector of climate change. Professor Davies has put me in touch with one of his close colleagues, Professor John Pomeroy who is Director of Global Water Futures (the biggest water research programme in the world) headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada. I, therefore, have unprecedented access to the global network of climate scientists. I have been invited by Professors Pomeroy and Davies to join them on fieldwork during the snowmelt season this spring at three experimental locations in Canada in: the boreal forest; the Rocky Mountains; Wolf Creek near Whitehorse, Yukon. All logistical support will be provided and the Global Water Futures programme has awarded a grant of $5,000 Canadian.
Canada is suffering extremes related to climate change - floods, drought, fires – and I will be able to immerse myself in the scientist's work and how they organise research in extreme environments. My plan is to sketch, photograph, and video, record the parameters and features they are measuring: snow, snowdrift, snowmelt, ice movement and cracking, torrents, clouds, rainfall, wind, sunshine, etc. I want to capture the human dimension of the scientist at work, and also register how local inhabitants are impacted, and how they cope, with climate change.
I believe that I can start an effective dialogue with my new colleagues through an exhibition of paintings I am now producing on an iconic symbol of the Earth System's vulnerability to climate change; the polar bear. My first paintings have elicited an invitation to exhibit them in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and a provisional invitation to observe this autumn – to help develop my stylization of them – as they await the build-up of the (diminishing) sea ice in Hudson Bay.
The spring trip to Canada will produce the materials (recordings, sketches, videos, paintings) to make installations, films, lectures, which I will use to link with representations of the nature of climate change and its impact on Norfolk – for example, coastal erosion (water as the vector again) with the cooperation of climate scientists in Norwich. The first product of this extensive programme will be an installation and art project in my name in Norfolk and Saskatoon. A second product will be an integrated multi-participant exhibition which will include videos, paintings, multi-material (and some dynamic) sculptures, photographs, sound, light, performance (dance, theatre, music, song, etc) – in an attempt to mirror the inter-connected multi-variable, multi-dimensional nature of climate change, the Earth System and the two-way impact on societies.
Neither Prof Davies nor Prof Pomeroy have been directly involved in art projects before. However, they have both been heavily-involved in public engagement. Prof Davies has been involved in many engagement events during his time as Director of the Climatic Research Unit, Dean of the School of Environmental Sciences, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Enterprise and Engagement, all at UEA; UK Natural Environment Research Council Member, and Director of the Fudan Tyndall Centre in Shanghai. Similarly, Prof Pomeroy's roles as Canada Research Chair in Hydrology and Director of the Global Water Futures programme has public engagement at their cores. Both have extensive experience in managing large-scale international research programmes. Taken together with their research expertises in climate, hydrology, snow/ice dynamics and chemistry, and atmospheric processes, they will prove (indeed, already have) effective partners for this project. They are both seasoned expedition leaders.
Transitions: Canada Yukon, Northern territories sketches collection. Winter/Spring.
Pastels drawings.
Canada Transitions art expedition project collection. Pastels, gouache, digital art. Fusion of science and art. Climate change study, the changing environment of Western Canada: Sub-Arctic Mountains- monitoring, understanding and predicting the changing climate, land, vegetation, and water cycle at the Yukon territories and Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Transitions second expedition: Canadian Rockies and Saskatchewan prairies. Summer - Autumn.
Pastels/watercolours
Paintings from my recollection and imagination.
Геннадий Иванов, группа SKYNET, Эдвин Поуп и проблемы Арктики
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Why is this activity important for your artistic development?
Just three months ago, the world's climate scientists issued a stark warning – their starkest of many previous – that there are only 12 years remaining in which the take the necessary action to limit global warming to a level where the most catastrophic consequences can still be avoided. I believe this requires an unprecedented mobilization of all sectors of the community. Artists can play an important role in raising awareness and inspiring action. I would like to devote a significant part of my activity over the next years to this overwhelming threat and challenge to global well-being. I believe I have the appropriate techniques and skills to make a difference, especially when coupled with the expertise, experience and advice of scientists with a powerful background in climate science. It is so apposite that I am based in Norwich which is one of the global power houses in climate research. These connections will give me access to many aspects of climate research around the world. I want to be able to capture and represent subjects which give a strong sensory message about climate change, its threat and coping strategies. For that reason, I will be visiting a country where the impacts of climate change will be amongst the greatest: Canada. I will witness scientists work in forests, in snow- and ice-fields, in torrents, and sites of great drought. I will see, and talk to, communities which have been devastated by the extreme events nested in global warming. On a second trip, I hope to observe that iconic symbol of climate change: the polar bear as it waits (increasingly forlornly) for its millennia-old winter life-support platform of sea-ice to form.
I will learn how to meld such dramatic messages from another place to equally-dramatic, but less visual and consequential, in Norfolk. This will mirror the scientific connection. Prof Trevor Davies, who spent most of his career based at UEA, employed Prof John Pomeroy as a young post-doc. They worked together around the world, but especially in Canada. Prof Pomeroy is now Director of the Global Water Futures programme with 125 partner institutions throughout the world. Both are committed to continued collaboration with me, both for the first phases of this project and as it grows through future transitions – in scope and geographically.
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Inspired by Melting glaciers. Oil on canvas paintings 100x100 cm
Transitions project art expedition April 2019.
TRANSITIONS CATALOGUE PUBLISHED 19.07.2019
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Exhibition at The Forum in Norwich looks at the impact of climate change
Exhibition at The Forum in Norwich looks at the impact of climate changePUBLISHED: 18:53 25 July 2019 | UPDATED: 08:34 26 July 2019
Professor Pomeroy talk at COP25 in Madrid today. Very pleased and proud, what he shoved my paintings and mentioned my name in an important programme in the end. Great speech! Shocking and impressive!
02.20.2020 Rocky Mountain Outlook, Mountain Guide p.42 https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=625bb411-36f2-4525-9b15-fa8691fe6129&pnum=42
The Summer Glacier, oil on linen, 80x30 cm
The Snowy Mountain, oil on canvas, 76x50 cm
The Mountains paintings collection, 30x30 cm, oil on linen


COATESVILLE — Finally, for once in a city plagued by misfires, the rhetoric and reality appear to be merging.
This week's announcement that real redevelopment is planned at the corner of First Avenue and Lincoln Highway — 40 to 60 apartments along with retail space — is the first tangible proof that maybe this comeback, this new revitalization effort isn't going to dissolve like so many of the mirages of the past.
And word is coming out, that if that first phase of development goes well — and that means the city getting out of the way assuming the developer meets all zoning and construction code rules as well being able to attract tenants — neighboring properties could be added, sparking something of a redevelopment boom.
Sure, all of this might not be happening without the specter of the new train station, a short stroll up the hill from Lincoln Highway, but suddenly, say by 2020, it's not so hard to see the real beginnings of a thriving new community and burgeoning commercial center.
With announcements this week, it is this block, at First Avenue and Lincoln Highway, that could signal the real start of redevelopment in Coatesville, starting with apartments and retail at 101-109 Lincoln Highway.
If things get moving on the north side of Lincoln Highway, it seems pretty likely that the old National Bank of Chester Valley building, a true diamond in the rough, will be prime real estate for redevelopment, as office, retail and restaurant space. And when those dominoes fall, it's hard not to seeing the revitalization working its way eastward.
Still, though, before the city becomes the home of hip coffee joints, brew pubs and eateries, those who would patronize such places — be they new young adults moving into the new apartments, or folks from neighboring communities such as Caln, Downingtown and yes, even Unionville — need to be assured of two things: they can park their cars easily and they will be safe when visiting.
Interestingly, it is the former — parking — that has almost undone the revitalization efforts in places such as West Chester, Kennett Square and Phoenixville. Even now, despite the multitude of options in West Chester, many folks in Unionville won't go to dinner there because the parking is too complicated, the maze of one-way roads too confusing and the crush of college students intimidating.
A parking garage needs to be in the master plan for the area.
Crime is, and has been, a bigger concern in the city than in those places, though. So, not only will folks know they have a place to park their cars, they'll need to feel confident that they'll be in once piece when they walk back and they'll be safe walking to them.
Still, perception — especially once you get out where the sidewalks disappear — is that the city has a lot of crime. Maybe that's partially our fault, too. Maybe we don't need to run headlines for every report of a shot fired, or a car broken into — it's possible there's a more responsible way to provide coverage without going overboard. It is something we're going to be looking at in the coming weeks.
But the reality on the ground may not match what people think.
This old gem of a building, the former National Bank of Chester Valley, could become a cornerstone of redevelopment efforts in Coatesville.
The more time I spend in the city, the less I worry about it. That's not to say there aren't still serious issues, but it does seem like the city Police Department is more visible and more involved in what is going on in the neighborhoods. Maybe it isn't any safer, but it feels safer, in part because every time I find myself on foot in the city, only minutes pass before a city Police car drives by.
Folks from outside the city are going to need some reassurance and that may take a little time.
But even with those challenges — and they are large ones — the prospect for real redevelopment, a real rebirth of the city's commercial district are the best they've been in more than a generation.
It will take more — some county help and probably help from those in Harrisburg to turn Coatesville into another Chester County success story. How about creating a cut-rate sales tax district for a four-block area on Lincoln Highway? Imagine — aside from the immediate benefit to local, low-income shoppers — folks coming from all over looking to get a deal.
And yes, the City needs a food market. Maybe not some enormous Wegmans or a giant, well, Giant, but at least an old fashioned grocery market. If you don't have a car, it's pretty tough to feed a family out of supplies from local convenience stores (and more expensive and arguably less healthy, too). We keep hearing how it's not possible — but there has to be a creative way to make it both possible and financially rewarding for a business person to decide to do it.
So maybe, just maybe, we're seeing the first narrow streams if light in what will, finally, be a new day for Coatesville. But it is going to take effort and commitment from many in the city — not to mention no small amount of hard work and creativity — if we're going to see that dawn break over Lincoln Highway.
Here's hoping that this is an effort all can get behind.


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Alright, I'm just incensed at this point. I'm hugely in favor of free speech. I normally don't get angry at the fact that people sometimes spew the rankest idiocy; it's their sovereign American right, and I usually confine myself to arguing with their viewpoints, not with the fact that they presented them.
But this has gone too far.
This strikes at me personally, and everyone else who participated in the effort described in this blog. The new U2 and Green Day music video, The Saints are Coming, presents a huge lie (for some reason, the video on YouTube is slightly different from the one MTV is showing). Now, one argument that they seem to be making, that so many of our troops and resources are overseas fighting in Iraq, leaving us vulnerable to disaster at home, has merit: Earlier in this blog, I mentioned a sign we saw on the way into New Orleans reading "Screw IRAQ, troops come home and clean your own yard." Certainly Louisiana was harmed by having so many (40%, I heard) of their National Guard soldiers and airmen deployed to Iraq. It cost them—in money, in speed, and in pride, for having to rely so heavily on troops from other states. So far, so good, and if that was the point of the video, I might even approve.
But it's not.
The video shows fictional news footage of dozens of Apaches airlifting refugees, B2s dropping supplies, Navy jets helping to fill broken levees, and (my personal favorite) tanks patrolling the streets of New Orleans in support of Katrina relief efforts, with subtitles like "U.S. IRAQ TROOPS REDEPLOYED TO NEW ORLEANS" and "AIRFORCE LAUNCHES AID DROPS." Then the video ends with a sign reading "NOT AS SEEN ON TV."
Well, Bono, or "milk," or whoever produced this idiotic video, I'm sorry you weren't watching your TV very closely. The Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard were out in droves doing exactly the sort of things portrayed as never happening in your video. At one point, I was told by a Coast Guard pilot, there were actually more military helicopters flying over New Orleans than over the entire countries of Iraq or Afghanistan. No, they weren't Apaches—what idiot would send an Apache on a rescue mission, if any other aircraft was available? No, we didn't rescue people trapped in flood-surrounded buildings using tanks—we used 5-ton trucks, which hold a lot more people.
Or is the problem that's being lamented the fact that it was National Guard Army and Air Force troops that were called on to help in this disaster? Are they insinuating that the National Guard wasn't good enough, the States can't handle it, and the whole thing should have been Federalized? That's even more insulting. It was FEMA—a Federal agency—which handled things worse than anyone. True, it would have been nice to have troops on the ground earlier, and it's possible that if so many of Louisiana's units hadn't been deployed, that would have happened. But the video is clear that regular troops and equipment are the ones who should have been redeployed to New Orleans. Can you imagine if that happened? How many more people would have died, and suffered, and remained stranded? We, driving from Illinois, were there in about 5 days from the first notice; can you imagine how long it would have taken to get a significant number of servicemen and equipment (including tons of tanks and Apaches, if you go by the video) from Iraq to New Orleans? Weeks.
No, Green Day and U2, we did not need the troops to redeploy from Iraq to help us in New Orleans. We had it handled just fine, thanks. The last thing we want is for the Federal Government and its active military to take over domestic disaster relief too. If you think it's a good idea that all the troops come home from Iraq, fine. but—except for the fact that the National Guard is overdeployed (which the video didn't address at all)—that has nothing to do with Katrina relief.
If you're as angry as I am over this, make some noise! Write letters, post comments on websites, write MTV and ask them to stop showing the video. Free speech means that the Government has no right to censor what people say—it does not mean that we the people have to like or accept any garbage that people choose to spout; only that we may not use government power to silence them. But there are other ways. Speak up. And if you want to see thousands of pictures of actual soldiers actually helping with relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, well, take a look at the Katrina Pictures I collected.
There, I've said my piece.
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"If the truth is admitted, it would appear that the lives lost and the money spent have been in vain. Instead, more casualties must be sustained to prove a false premise. What a tragedy! If the truth is admitted, imagine the anger of all the families that already have suffered such a burden. That burden is softened when the families and the wounded are told their great sacrifice was worthy, and required to preserve our freedoms and our Constitution.
But no one is allowed to ask the obvious. How have the 2,500 plus deaths, and the 18,500 wounded, made us more free? What in the world does Iraq have to do with protecting our civil liberties here at home? What national security threat prompted America's first pre-emptive war? How does our unilateral enforcement of UN resolutions enhance our freedoms?
These questions aren't permitted. They are not politically correct. I agree that the truth hurts, and these questions are terribly hurtful to the families that have suffered so much. What a horrible thought it would be to find out the cause for which we fight is not quite so noble." --Ron Paul
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Golovkin Too Much For Murray
By Michael Carbert · On February 22, 2015
Gennady Golovkin is, without question, the best middleweight in the world. Miguel Cotto may be the lineal champion, but he will be a huge underdog if that match is ever made. But it won't be. Cotto is smarter than that. The odds against him taking the fight are almost as long the odds of him lasting the distance against this marauding monster who handled his most formidable foe to date with frightening ease. The bout was stopped in round eleven but it had been decided long before the point when referee Luis Pabon did the humane and merciful thing. Immediately after, Golovkin wore the relaxed and contented expression of a factory worker at the end of a productive shift. He appeared not the least bit fatigued or unsettled after ten plus rounds of hand-to-hand combat. In fact, he looked ready for overtime.
Carnivore Golovkin feasted on Murray.
Martin Murray is a world-class middleweight; he proved that when he gave Sergio Martinez one of the toughest battles of his career. And from the opening bell he showed both guts and some smart strategic thinking as he used clinches to blunt Golovkin's aggression and jabs and right hand leads to make the fight, at least at times, a competitive affair. But he was hurt at the end of round three and in the fourth a right hand to the body forced Murray to one knee. Seconds later, he went down a second time. To his credit, he rose and tried to fight back, but at that point it was clear he could not win. He was simply outgunned. Golovkin hurt Murray in almost every round, while Murray's punches had virtually no effect on the champion.
One word sums up Murray's performance: brave. He never gave up, never stopped trying to find a way to solve his opponent, but without the power to earn Golovkin's respect, the task was insurmountable. It was clear he could not win yet he fought gallantly in the middle rounds, finding opportunities to score while constantly working to stay off the ropes. Short right hands on the inside were finding their mark, but again, Golovkin was never hurt, never stunned, and never discouraged from his ruthless game plan: corner his man, get close and exploit openings to land the heavy artillery. The champion's efficient footwork allowed him to cut the ring off with ease and so much of Murray's energy was squandered in simply trying to stay off the ropes and out of the corners.
In addition to a chin of stone, debilitating power in either hand and a wide selection of hurtful weapons, "GGG" possesses astonishing stamina. The pace never slackened and neither did Golovkin's work rate. He hurt Murray with a left hook in round eight, bided his time in the ninth while Murray had maybe his best round since the second, but then struck again in round ten, ending that stanza by scoring a clean knockdown with a hard right hand to the head. The bell saved the challenger from a finishing onslaught but Murray's corner did not save him from further punishment, allowing him to answer the bell for round eleven. But referee Pabon had seen enough. Golovkin chased Murray around the ring and then cornered him and landed two more hard right hands, the second one snapping Murray's head back, and Pabon halted the fight. Neither Murray, nor anyone from his corner, protested the stoppage.
Having overwhelmed his most formidable opponent to date with relative ease, the post-fight question on everyone's mind is an obvious one: who has the guts to fight this guy? The next match for Golovkin should be obvious: Cotto for the undisputed middleweight title. But "Junito" has yet to indicate any serious interest in facing his fellow titlist. And really, who can blame him? To begin with, he's hardly a natural middleweight, but that fact aside, it is impossible to envision anyone without both Mayweather-type ring skills and defensive talent, plus the needed size and strength, extending Golovkin, let alone defeating him. Thus, the middleweight mess is likely to continue until Cotto decides to either face the Kazakh Krusher or vacate his title.
Murray down in round ten.
Andre Ward is likely the only opponent within 20 pounds of Golovkin who has the skills necessary to neutralize his offense. Carl Froch would be an attractive match, but he's already stated he wants nothing to do with Gennady. The winners of the upcoming Andy Lee vs Peter Quillin and David Lemieux vs Hassan N'Dam contests should provide viable opponents, but needless to say, they will be massive underdogs if and when they face "GGG." Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez would be intriguing to say the least, but the Mexican takes full advantage of the day-before weigh-in and is accustomed to enjoying significant advantages in size and weight. Something tells me he's likely not keen on a match where this would not be the case.
Like Hagler, is GGG too good for his own good?
After 19 straight stoppage wins, Gennady Golovkin finds himself at the top of the 160 lb. division but, like another middleweight champion who also dominated his division with ruthless efficiency, it looks like lucrative and truly high-profile matches are going to be difficult to secure. As the story goes, Joe Frazier told a young Marvin Hagler he would have a tough time getting the big fights because he was a southpaw, black and simply too good for his own good. Golovkin does not have identical handicaps as Marvelous Marvin, but it's clear that his power, toughness, and relentless aggression are going to limit his opportunities in the near future. If you don't believe me, just ask Miguel Cotto.
— Michael Carbert
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The instability of the Amish community
Aricat Alick
What are the Amish?
The Amish are a Christian religious community, mainly Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists, founded in 1693 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines by Jakob Amman: the term Amish comes from the familiar nickname of Jakob Amman (Wikipedia).
What do we know about their lifestyle?
They are known to lead a simple, peaceful and austere life, keeping away from progress and the influences of the outside world.
Some will say that when you come out of a world full of technology and come to Amish you feel like you are living in your grandparents' time.
But you will be surprised that the Amish community is full of surprises – let's give a few examples: people will welcome you with great courtesy, which is rare in this world, they are peaceful with each other and with other people.
You don't know where you will go during your next vacation?
Amish is the place to be as a couple or as a family, to have a good time. Then you will have a different vision of life in general. It's not just about the technology that's available in this world.
What do the Amish think of the world around them?
Or how do they live with their departure from this very closed community?
We have a very poignant testimony: Emma Gingerich is 28 years old. She lives in Dallas, Texas, and works in the administrative department of a hospital. So, a very normal life, but one that she was not destined for, because in order to achieve it, she fled the very closed community of the Amish, totally isolated from modern society.
"I ran away, on foot, one day when my parents were not at home. After six kilometers, I called an old Amish woman, with a cell phone that she had given me and that I had kept hidden, to pick me up on the road. I didn't know her, but I didn't think any further than that. There was no question of retracing my steps. I was ready to trust her, hoping with all my heart that everything would go well. She came looking for me and, thank God, that was the beginning of a journey to happiness. Now I had to learn how to manage on my own, without my parents and siblings.
In this brand new world, the most difficult part was to integrate myself. When I started university eight years ago, I was out of my element in every possible way. I spoke poor English, I had no friends, no family. I had huge identity problems during those early years. Everything was new: going to school, working to earn money, discovering a new environment. I cried more than once.
Nothing is more beautiful than following your dreams and having the freedom to be who you want to be, without pressure. I want to continue to learn, to grow spiritually, to do the best I can to be the best I can be. That's all I've worked so hard for. I have never regretted leaving the community, although I miss my family very much. I would like to be a part of their lives, but it is a more than complex process to convince them that I am still a good person, despite everything. I won't give up. "( Express newspaper )
We understand that starting from this community is not easy, but with ambition and determination we can do it, as Emma Gingerich did. Today she says she has realized her dream, her project is starting to take shape and most importantly she says she has not regretted it.
Why do some people leave this community and others stay?
Of course, it depends on each person but in our opinion, a person who has had education since baby will find himself firmly attached to this way of life but what can we say about those who leave who are not attached to it and want to know the desire for elsewhere.
Those who stay simply want to maintain this continuity but keep their traditions.
So everyone is free to choose, but knowing that this community has lasted for many centuries.


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RAISING VISIBILITY OF LOCAL STORIES IN THE WAIMAKARIRI
Laura Caygill is the Community Experiences and Diversity Team Leader for Waimakariri Libraries. Formerly a community library manager for Auckland Libraries, Laura moved back to her hometown of Ōtautahi in 2019. She recently began learning Te Reo Māori and loves building high-achieving teams that bring about transformational change. This is her presentation from the recent LIANZA 2021 conference.
When Waimakariri Libraries backs a bird for Bird of the Year, you can bet we are on Team Ngutu Pare.
Ngutu pare, or wrybills, make their home along the banks of Waitaha's braided rivers. They are small birds with distinctive curved bills that they use to dig under rocks for kai. River goers need to be careful where they place their feet lest they accidentally crush wee ngutu pare's eggs, which are tricky to spot amongst the rocks. Without that awareness they could damage these special taonga.
Ngutu pare (or ngutu parore) is the subject of one of two picture books written and illustrated with funding from the New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme (NZLPP). The project aims to bring local stories to life in partnership with manawhenua.
The two stories, one featuring ngutu pare and the other the kōwaro, or Canterbury mudfish, are written by Lynne Te Aika, chair of the Tuahiwi Education Committee, and illustrated by local artist Morgan Matthews Hale of Kaitiaki Studios. Te Reo Māori and English versions of each story are being produced.
Ngutu Pare title page. Image credit: Waimakariri Library
WORKING WITH SENSITIVITY AND RESPECT
Working with sensitivity and respect for Te Ao Māori and sensitivities pertaining to the Wai 262 claim have been front of mind throughout this mahi. The Te Reo Māori versions use the Kāi Tahu dialect, and both stories reflect information readily available in the public domain, rather than stories that would require higher iwi consultation and approval to share, such as those of local historical knowledge.
Once the draft version of the kōwaro stories have been finalised in both languages we will look to confirm appropriate creative commons licences for the works and discuss platforms for sharing the stories and artwork with the community.
We are excited by the idea of hosting the stories online as well as having physical copies available for loan and for sale at cost, making these stories available to schools, kura and other libraries. Other possibilities include featuring the imagery from the stories in library collateral (such as book bags and on library cards) and in-library art that connects our spaces to this local fauna.
FOCUSING ON MANAAKITANGA AND WHAKAWHANAUNGATANGA
Throughout the process a focus on manaakitanga and whakawhanaungatanga have been important. Following on from kōrero over the phone, our initial meeting to discuss the project in person was a relaxed gathering held at District Libraries Manager Paula Eskett's home, with the sharing of coffee and kai while Lynne's mokopuna played close by on the living room floor. At this hui we were able to establish shared whānau and mahi connections and set the tone of mutual care and respect for the project.
The project is a small step on Waimakariri Libraries' journey to make work in partnership with manawhenua to make local stories and Te Reo Māori more visible in our spaces, building a library service that celebrates Aotearoa's biculturalism.
• Waimakariri District aerial shot: Looking west over Kaiapoi. In the foreground you can see land red zoned after the earthquakes. Photo credit: Waimakariri District Council
RACISM IN WAIMAKARIRI
Waimakariri is a semi-rural region in North Canterbury, with three library branches in Kaiapoi, Rangiora, and Oxford. It is a rapidly growing area, just 20 minutes north of Ōtautahi thanks to recent motorway improvements. It is home to Tuahiwi Marae, the home of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, and the site of the once prosperous Kaiapoi Pā, established by Tūrākautahi around 1700 and abandoned after it was sacked by Te Rauparaha in 1831.
Despite the significance of the area for Māori, the population of the Waimakariri District is overwhelmingly Pākeha (a 2016 article on stuff.co.nz reported it as the most pākeha region in Aotearoa) and recently it has sadly made national news for shameful incidents of racism.
In May 2021, two such stories made headlines within a week of each other. "Racist rant in Farmers store," read a headline on stuff.co.nz on 20 May 2021, "woman arrested incident involving mosque shooting victim's family". One week earlier the owner of a Kaiapoi pub made headlines for what stuff.co.nz called a "racist online rant" in which he called Māori a "scourge". He later said his comments were misconstrued and then apologised following backlash from business partners.
The impact of these stories was felt acutely by the library team; the Farmers store is across the road from the Rangiora Library and the pub in the other incident is directly across the river from the Kaiapoi Library.
LIBRARIES MAHI TO COMBAT RACISM AND BUILD COMMUNITY IN WAIMAKARIRI
Making our libraries spaces where a sense of āhuratanga and safety are championed through greater representation of Te Reo Māori and local stories is a key part of our mahi to combat racism and contribute to a strong sense of community in the Waimakariri, as is a focus on youth engagement.
This is important across all our branches, but it is of particular significance for our library in Kaiapoi, where the percentage of the population who identify as Māori is higher than across the district as a whole. The age range of those in the district who identify as Māori is also notably younger compared to the population of the district.
We have recently appointed a full time Rangatahi Engagement Co-ordinator at Ruataniwha Kaiapoi Library, on a two-year fixed term contract. We hope that we will be able to show the benefits of the role for our hapori and gain permission for a permanent role.
Over the last two years we have promoted reading in Te Reo Māori with the Books Alive celebration of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Celebrations for Matariki and Te Wiki o te Reo Māori are a focus for my team this year, while planning for various traffic light settings of course.
All new members of our team attend a one-day workshop at Tuahiwi Marae to get to know the history of the area and the aspirations of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, and currently, two-thirds of our team have attended.
As awareness of where we place our feet along the riverbank protects the eggs of the nugutu pare, it is our hope that by taking small steps to increase awareness of Te Reo Māori and local stories as taonga to be respected and protected, we can see them, and all members of our hapori, truly flourish.
Ka whangaia ka tupu, ka puāwai - That which is nurtured will grow and blossom.
Two nugutapare eggs camouflaged amongst rocks. Image credit: John Hill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrybill_eggs_2.jpg


How we perceive our own bodies, as well as those of others, is likely distorted by past observations, and may have serious consequences for eating disorders.
Australian and Italian researchers set out to investigate how an inherent bias called serial dependence relates to body size. Scientists have observed that the human brain has the tendency to average data over time, skewing overall perception towards recent percepts. For instance, a 2016 study found that participants who were showed a series of portraits would judge the attractiveness of a person while bearing in mind the attractiveness level of facial images encountered up to 6 seconds prior.
Serial dependence has been reported in the perception of orientation, position, facial recognition, facial emotion, numerosity, and more.
Researchers led by Dr. Jason Bell from the University of Western Australia have now demonstrated that serial dependence can also act on body size perception. The team's experiment involved 103 female participants who were shown a series of images depicting a range of female bodies: underweight, normal-weight, overweight, and obese.
Visual depiction of the bodyline task, in which a female body image was presented for 250 ms, immediately followed by a visual noise mask for 500 ms. Participants indicated the perceived size of the image by clicking on the bodyline delineated with extreme female bodies as anchors presented a further unit of scale beyond the bounds of the numberline. Credit: Nature.
For each image, the participants were asked to judge the size of the body by marking a visual scale called the body-line. What the researchers found was that participants showed evidence of sequential bias in their own perceived body size with judgments guided by the previously viewed body. As a person's weight increases above the average, so too does the likelihood that their prior experience involves smaller bodies. Because the brain combines our past and present experiences, it creates an illusion whereby we — as well as people around us — appear thinner than we actually are.
"The research demonstrates human observers are often poor at estimating their own body size, and the size of others," Dr. Bell said.
"Crucially, body size judgments are not always accurate and can be biased by various factors. Sometimes it's influenced just by the people we stand next to," he added.
This sort of bias may make it more challenging for people to reach their weight goals. In the case of those suffering from eating disorders, serial dependence might actually cause serious problems. For example, individuals suffering from anorexia (extreme weight loss) and bulimia (excessive overeating and purging) have a distorted body image.
Scientific reference: "Past visual experiences weigh in on body size estimation" by Joanna Alexi, Dominique Cleary, Kendra Dommisse, Romina Palermo, Nadine Kloth, David Burr & Jason Bell in Scientific Reports. Published online January 9 2018 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18418-3.


Nuclear power and climate change – but is there enough uranium to make a difference?
Home » Nuclear power and climate change – but is there enough uranium to make a difference?
The article presents a reprint of the article "Nuclear Power and Climate Change‖ But Is There Enough Uranium to Make a Difference?," by Simon Roberts, which appeared in the January 18, 2006 issue of the Institute of Physics Energy Management Group newsletter. The article offers the author's insights on the available uranium required to provide energy which could affect carbon dioxide emissions. The author examines various researches on the use of uranium ore bodies as an energy resource.


How time flies? We are already in the final quarter of 2018 as 10 months have passed. If you have not started planning your digital marketing for 2019, it's time you should. Here's the reasons why. As technology in digital marketing has not shown any sign of slowing down, there are already a few new trends that particularly outshined others which include voice search, A.I powered solutions, chatbots, machine learning to marketing automation. Although still in infancy, each is showing life in traction as we continue to witness their growth. Customers are demanding brands to be immersive and be wherever they are. The salient point—you can too, with video marketing.
As for video marketing trends for 2019, they continue to take shapes and forms that the industry may or may not have realized, and this article intends to uncover some of those new directions within the video. Although despite video being an essential form of engagement for business, smaller companies (SME) were still reluctant to pursue video as part of their overall marketing strategy compared with medium to the larger enterprise. Many are still sitting on the fence, only creating video as ad hoc solutions, tactically rather than strategically. Having said that, success with video marketing in 2018 hit a new high – with more companies (including small to midsize) realizing the power of video for marketing.
Producing exciting video content is a given in this highly competitive and attention deprived business environment while the audience are constantly seeking relevant videos to consume. Having just another video isn't sufficient if you want to grow a brand and continuously engaging with your audience. Now brands must produce video content at scale to entice their audience and to monetize any opportunities. This means that the company needs to strategize and build long-term video content instead of ad hoc videos. Tasty Videos is a great example of doing it right and at scale. Tasty, is well renowned for its eye-catching and mouth-watering treats that are posted on Instagram, featuring bright colors, along with the recipes that are demonstrated in less than a minute. BuzzFeed, the sole creator of Tasty has accumulated 5,595,916 likes and more importantly, over 10.2 million subscribers. Their Create-at-Scale strategy consists of four segments divided by recipes; Tasty Junior is for children, Tasty Happy Hour for adults, Tasty Story, and Mom vs. Chef. The last count on Google netted a 65 Million videos search result and its YouTube channel created a whopping 2,340 videos share on its social media platforms in just a few short years.
Social media is about sharing moments and discoveries with your friends and family and most of those moments are unique and real. Here, authenticity takes on a different level in how videos should be made as opposed to polished production. This applies particularly with the social media platforms where raw and even unplanned videos triumph over much fancy production. By being authentic, your followers would get to understand and learn more about who you are as a brand. Creating video content that is able to capture those real moments about yourself is priceless in the eyes of your followers because those were the reasons they started following you in the first place. Singapore Ah Lian (a stereotyped reference to female Chinese who speaks bad English, loud and with a bad sense of fashion), Lerine Yeo or better know as the S-Hook lady became the latest Singapore YouTube sensation with her typical Singlish (Singaporean broken English) pushing what else but the unpretentious S-Hook, a multi-purpose hook shaped like an 'S'. Being authentic and real is even more crucial for brands while the lack of it could damage the company's reputation or the least could cause millions in losses. Company needs to dig into its core and identify what's being said and shared on the digital media and social platform resonates truthfully with its mission and brand's DNA. What it stands for and how it conducts its business mustn't be swayed by the current trends that don't fit into its own identity. Pepsi and AirAsia made this point succinctly clear in this article. These brands are still reeling in dealing with the 'faux pas' of being inauthentic.
Direction #3 – Go Live. Go Personal.
Live video and live streaming on social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram made great leaps from 2016 to 2018. In 2016 alone more than 80% of internet users watched more live video than the year before. As reported in eMarketer, according to a May 2018 survey by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), 47% of live streaming video viewers worldwide are streaming more live video compared with a year ago. And nearly as many (44%) said they watch less live TV as a result of live streaming." If you are going Live now, you are probably late in the game but so are many of your competitors. The ones that constantly create noise and engagement with Live video are getting more love for their brand as it inspires increase activity engaging more via texting, social media comments and even email their friends about it. Live video is often perceived as being personal, building direct communication with its viewers and fans. Research indicates Live encourages more authentic engagement with audience and viewer's retention which precede prerecorded video.
Studies showed video ads are on the rise, accounts for 65% of all ad impressions on Instagram and expected to grow even further. According to *Interactive Advertising Bureau, an organization that develops industry standards conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry; advertisers will spend more than $10 million on average on their brand to create digital/mobile video ads in 2018. This is a sharp increase of 54% YOY for 3 years. Two-thirds of advertisers planned to allocate more funds away from TV budget to digital video advertising. With so much momentum going with video ads, it is unsurprising that only 15% video content was created originally for TV and repurposed for video as compared with 31% creative developed which is intended to be used for cross-screen purposes. This means video ads are created right from the drawing board as original content for all screens. Social media channel takes leads 23% in terms of video ad buy budget ahead of TV shows online 19%, with original digital video sites at 15%. User-generated content was only taking 13% despite all the hype of social media content created by users instead of planned production.
All things being said, Gen Z is, and will be the video's main consumer. They are the first generation born with video as their primary means of communication and they will continue to be video's major proponent. We do not foresee this generation letting go video consumption habit anytime soon the way boomers and Gen Y held on to the television. As the year 2018 is already into the final quarter, digital video is expected to grow from $91 billion in 2018 to $103 billion in 2023, almost entirely from online video. In the next five years, we will see significant growth as free streaming dominating many online social media and video platforms. Another exciting growth approach to video includes original digital video programming (ODV) which see advertisers increase spending with nearly 60% of digital marketing budgets going into digital video, mobile video, programmatic and advanced TV. ODV, defined as ad-supported, professionally produced for digital original video content is skewed towards young and diverse audience, are already gaining strong adoption universally such as through Netflix and Amazon Prime. That's why the money is on digital video, social media and web video ads moving forward instead of television ads. The question is, are you ready for 2019?


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Christian Apologists/Preachers vs Muslim Apologists/Preachers: Which are worse?
KMC Forums > Community > General Discussion Forum > Religion Forum > Christian Apologists/Preachers vs Muslim Apologists/Preachers: Which are worse?
Both of them can give you a massive headache, I've seen Christians make terrible arguments for Christianity and take preaching too far just like Muslims do.
Muslim ones have to do a lot more mental gymnastics these days because of how often sht happens.