With three daughters ages 16, 15 and 8, I have a hard time thinking of activities we all like to do together. Blokus falls into that rarified category. It's an addictive strategy game in which each player tries to connect all of her weirdly shaped pieces on the board while blocking opponents' attempts to do same. The game is quick -- it takes about 20 minutes to play a tense, emotionally fraught, fight-to-the-death round at the kitchen table -- and so far none of my children has noticed the educational component. Playing Blokus is an ingenious way to improve spatial abilities.
I read with interest at breakfast the intimate details of New York Gov. George Pataki's medical condition as he attempts to resume a normal diet in the aftermath of an emergency appendectomy: "Doctors had been concerned, saying last weekend that he had not had a bowel movement since the appendectomy; yesterday's statement did not say if that condition had changed."
Think of the Garden Watchdog as a specialized Better Business Bureau for plant buyers. The database rates -- with customer reviews -- more than 4,700 online merchants who sell gardening products. Among the top 30 most highly rated companies are Just Joey's Roses ("Very impressed with the quality of the yellow rose plant I received in the mail"), Oakes Daylilies ("Love them! Love them! Love them!") and Classy Groundcovers ("Received bare root liriope today in excellent condition").
Thanks, Bob, for suggesting the site.
Put 2 cups of flour into a large plastic freezer bag, along with salt and pepper to taste and a tablespoon of dried thyme. Add about three pounds of beef stew cubes to the bag and shake to coat. Then brown the beef on all sides in olive oil in a deep pot; remove beef and pour out excess oil. NOTE: Although the original recipe said not to wash out the pot at this stage, I always find that the bits that adhere to the bottom are so burned that they taste burned, so I give the pot a quick rinse in hot water, removing the most blackened stuff. Return pot to medium heat, pour in a cup or so of red wine and scrape up the remaining bits. Then add a cup or two of beef broth, a cup of crushed tomatoes, 2 tablespoons of ground cumin and a teaspoon of chili powder. Bring to a boil and return the beef to the pot. Cover the pot and either put it in a medium oven or simmer on a burner for an hour or so. Meanwhile, saute a sliced medium yellow onion and six chopped cloves of garlic over medium low heat until they soften and just start to turn gold. Add the onion and garlic mixture to the stew. A few minutes later, add a half cup of chopped parsley and a cup of chopped green olives to the stew. Take off the cover and reduce the liquid. Then serve in bowls.
Note: I served the stew in bowls over noodles (but would have preferred to serve it over couscous, if that hadn't required a trip to the store) with sauteed pea shoots on the side.
In the mid-Nineties we moved into a house we figured we'd never be able to afford. It had many separate zones to heat, a big yard and ... a flagpole? A neighborhood boy had a suggestion: "A pirate flag would look neat, Mrs. Quittner!" "Mrs. Quittner is my mother-in-law," I hissed. "But I like the cut of your jib, young man." In those early days of online shopping, it took an hour of searching to find a Jolly Roger. Today, I'd look no further than Portroyaltradingco.com, which has every kind of pirate flag (and other booty) imaginable.
Here's a postcard view of my grandmother's hometown of Martin, Kentucky. Tim Reynolds, whose grandfather was the town's first mayor and who owned the five-and-dime, emailed the image to me a few days ago. After I started writing a book about the town's history, I also started collecting pictures. This one is particularly interesting because of its idealized view of a calm, blue Beaver Creek. No hint of the floods that plagued the town for a hundred years and eventually led to its demise.
First, don't make the terrible mistake of winning a bronze medal at the 2002 Olympics. That's where speed skater Joey Cheek went wrong. Then to make matters worse, instead of hiring an SAT tutor and a private college counselor to "package" him, Cheek insisted this year on winning a gold medal in the 500 meters and then donated his $25,000 Olympics bonus to a humanitarian organization, starting a trend that prompted the Gap and others to pledge an additional $300,000 to help disadvantaged students. Maybe the problem was a boring admissions essay?
Some years back, a reader who heard about my family problems (a lot of screaming in the car on long trips) sent a suggestion that made me believe again in vacations.
"Dear Michelle," she wrote. "I am a great advocate of books on tape for those longer trips, and here is a site that is a wonderful resource. GreatTapes.com sells a larger selection of children's literature on tape than I have found in stores, has a delivery time of a few days and is very prompt with email responses to questions."
Reader, I picture you in a station wagon, serene even as the car passes a road sign that says, "Grand Canyon -- 500 miles."
A little doubt plagues me at Amazon.com. Every time I prepare to Click to Buy, I wonder: Would this book cost me less if I bought it from Amazon's British site at Amazon.co.uk? Or from Amazon.de? Or from its Japanese site at Amazon.co.jp? I answer the question at Pricenoia.com. Type the name of the book you want to buy into the search box on Pricenoia.com's homepage and the site will calculate exchange rates and compare prices (including shipping) at all Amazon sites.
Could someone please explain the lure of metal-studded purse to me? The fashionistas at Splendora.com are recommending this satchel for spring. The shape is nice, but wouldn't it look better without all the rivets?


In my previous post I introduced you to what Moodle is and why it was chosen as the Learning Management System at St Andrew's College. There was also a link to our Moodle Site so you could see the home page and other publicly available content on it. The reality is that the majority of the teaching and learning on Moodle happens behind a username/password protected area that is available only to students and their teachers.
Teachers can have complete confidence all students have access to all resources, therefore creating a "no excuses" environment. If a student has misplaced a resource, they can simply download it again anytime they choose.
Typing errors are eliminated – once logged in a student can easily click to whatever link they need within their class Moodle site – they would never need to directly type a URL or link into their browser to access a site or content their teacher directs them to.
A centralised platform for students to "start" from is provided. Many teachers will branch out from there with links to other content and resources and this is actively encouraged. However, Moodle means teachers do not have to maintain their own blog or wiki sites to make content available for their students – StAC's Moodle site takes care of that.
Students can co-create content alongside their teacher and help create new directions and learning pathways online.
Reduced dependency on paper based resources – with electronic resources online, and full submission of various forms of assessment a move towards a "paperless environment" is achievable, making marking faster whilst being kinder on the environment.
These are just some of the benefits of Moodle – I will touch on others in future posts, but will now demonstrate some of the ways it is currently being used.
Building on an established tradition at St Andrew's of celebrating student success, the fantastic Communications Team within the College regularly posts on the front page of Moodle. Examples include Natasha Lloyd's Gold Medal swimming efforts, the StAC Boys Golf Team winning the Canterbury Championship, to cultural events like the Prep School Kapa Haka performance and student reflections on a trip to Vietnam. Additionally, internal events are promoted to students as well, such as upcoming Productions.
Various files uploaded to Moodle for students to access.
At the most simplistic level, Moodle can be used as a place to "put stuff" for students to access – here is an example from a Level 1 Economics course that includes PDF's, Powerpoint Presentations, links to Video Tutorials and a copy of the Achievement Standard that the students are working towards.
An embedded copy of "Heavenly Creatures" from ETV into Moodle – all students can access this.
Whilst there is a huge range of activities and resources included as "native" in Moodle, one of the strongest features is the ease of adding in third party content, allowing the teacher to maximise the benefits of other resources on the Internet. One example that some staff use is embedding multimedia content from either http://www.youtube.com or http://www.etv.org.nz. ETV is a resource that all staff and students have access to and provides real time and pre-recorded access to a wide range of TV channels (both free to air and SkyTV).
In the example on the right, a Yr13 English class has the entire film of Heavenly Creatures embedded into the class Moodle site. This way the students can view the movie, or specific scenes, at their own pace and from anywhere – both in the classroom and at home – without requiring access to the physical DVD of the movie. This allows for a massive shift in teaching focus, since now students are not dependent on the teacher choosing 2-3 scenes for them to examine, and then showing it on the classroom projector. Instead, students can choose their own scenes, pause and rewind as necessary, freeing the teacher to provide support in the learning, rather than concentrating on the management of the DVD player and projector.
This is one of the most popular functions within Moodle for both Teachers and Students as it allows for the online submission of marking meaning no "lost" homework by the students and no need for the teacher to take home lots of paperwork for marking.
On the right is an activity prepared for a Yr9 Science class – there is an image from the classroom whiteboard taken by camera during the lesson when the teaching took place.
When a student submits their homework assignment, the teacher is automatically notified via email that there is work to mark. In the screenshot to the right you can see a student's work that has been submitted and date/time it was "handed in" (including how early / late based off the due date).
In this example the student was given a "Relational" grade which is then emailed back to them, and recorded in the teacher's markbook for that course. Optionally, the teacher can write a comment and/or attach a file such as an exemplar to the marked work, before clicking on the "next submitted assignment" to be automatically taken to the next piece of homework available for marking. This is just one example of the many different ways that homework or assignments can be easily submitted and marked within Moodle (another common one is for students to be required to attach a file of their work e.g. a Word document or a Video clip).
Yr8 Students using a Forum and creating their own questions for each other to comment on.
One of the more powerful features of Moodle is the wide range of assessment activities, ranging from the basic "type your answer into the browser" like the homework submission example above, to very complex, self-marking quizzes.
The example on the right (click to view full size) shows different question types in a Physics Quiz. Depending on what score the student makes in the quiz, individual learning pathways can be implemented e.g. a low score may have to complete additional revision activities before re-sitting the test, whereas a high score may allow a student to progress to new activities and resources that are not visible to other students. This allows for learning at the pace of the student, rather than a one size fits all approach.
Another way quizzes have been used at St Andrew's College is in conjunction with "conditional access" – until a student has passed NCEA "Achieved" level questions, they can not progress to Merit level questions e.g.
The last feature of Moodle that I will highlight today is Choice Activities – these are basically a simple poll of the students in the class that allows the teacher to gain quick feedback e.g.
To solicit feedback from the students in terms of how comfortable they are with the content or strategies they've just learnt.
An example of this is from a Yr8 Math class where the teacher wanted to know which strategies relating to Addition and Subtraction they required further assistance with.
Although blanked out in this screenshot, each student's name was visible in the column and the teacher needs only to select the student(s) to email them and arrange additional help or provide links to further resources on Moodle or elsewhere. Alternatively, the teacher can allow students to see the results of the Choice Activity, either after a specified deadline (to avoid students being influenced by other choices), or immediately upon voting.
I recognise this was quite a lengthy post, however the aim was to highlight some examples of how Moodle is being used at St Andrew's College already and the impact it is having on eLearning. There is certainly more to do in terms of professional development for staff and increasing awareness of the variety of activities and resources available, and this will continue in 2014 as more students, particularly those in the Yr9 1:1 Programme, start to use Moodle on a daily basis.
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It's fantastic seeing Moodle being used to its full extent as an e-learning tool! How would you recommend teachers learn to fully utilise Moodle as an e-learning resource?


Happy birthday, T.S. Eliot! You had suspect beliefs, unimpeachable poetry. Did you know the OED lists Eliot as early evidence of the word salonniere? Befitting of a guy in a world where women come and go, talking of Michaelangelo.
Adam Wilson thinks through Louie at the LA Review of Books.
"You have no idea how many books I have," Salman Rushdie says. We'll guess: a lot?
This is a lovely interview with Colson Whitehead over at Tin House.
Oh hey, Brandon Stosuy talked to Jacob Bannon about Converge's new album.
Have a lovely Day of Atonement, those of you who are online and thus not strictly fasting. Tsk, so lazy.


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Launch of EU industrial strategy – a step in the right direction
With the announcement of a new industrial strategy in last week's State of the European Union address, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has answered long-standing calls from the European Parliament, Council and industry representatives for a renewed commitment to European manufacturing at EU level. Today, the strategy was formally launched by Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, and Jyrki Katainen, Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness.
By tying together the multiple policy strands that impact on manufacturing investment, the strategy – as detailed in the Communciation 'Investing in a smart, innovative and sustainable industry: A renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy' – is a welcome first step towards a truly holistic approach at European level. By underlining the importance of digitisation to the future of EU manufacturing, while acknowledging where improvements are necessary in areas such as governance, infrastructure, investment and innovation support, it provides the foundation for a policy which delivers real European added value for strengthening the EU's industrial base.
Orgalime has long advocated precisely this kind of joined-up approach to policy in support of European manufacturing. As Adrian Harris, Director General of Orgalime, put it in a press release published last week: "If policymakers are to put in place a framework that enables manufacturing firms to grow their business and create jobs, they need to connect the dots between the many different policy areas impacting the sector. This Communication is a step in the right direction."
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Court rules handing out leaflets near abortion centers in New York is illegal
This is beyond outrageous and absolutely ludicrous.
by Scott Boyd
Protections for people who want to kill preborn babies has been out of hand for a while, but it ramped up to ludicrous speed in New York when a panel of judges decided it is illegal for people to hand out pamphlets near abortion clinics. Their reasoning? If there's a delay of "one second" in which someone must deviate from their path on the way to kill a child, that's obstruction and violates protections for abortion access.
You can't make this up. In a world in which some states protect the rights of "protesters" to block traffic and cause ambulances and other emergency vehicles from reaching their destinations, the act of handing out pamphlets causes far too much harm for the radical left to accept. It's a backwards world.
Pro-life activists are fighting back. According to Bob Unruh at WND:
A petition has been filed that asks the full 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a dispute over counselors who offer help to abortion-bound women outside an abortionist's business in New York.
The move comes after a panel of judges from the court went rogue, calling it a "physical obstruction" under the federal FACE Act, which requires access to abortion businesses, when a counselor hands out a leaflet.
Or when a patient must "deviate slightly from their path" and is delayed by "one second" in going into the abortion business.
Or when a patient must "walk around" a counselor.
Or when a driver stops his or her car voluntarily, and rolls down a window to communicate, and is handed a leaflet.
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And when there is any "even minor, inadvertent contact with a patient or 'escort,'" the court said, that would be "use of force."
"A person commits 'harassment' under a local ordinance if she continues speaking, even for a moment, with a person who has indicated even implicitly that he or she does not welcome the message. The court decided that such an implicit indication has occurred where a person remains silent or declines to receive printed information," a legal team at the Thomas More Society explained.
The battle over First Amendment rights for peaceful, pro-life advocates erupted several years ago over actions by Brooklyn's [email protected], whose members, and their pastor, Rev. Kenneth Griepp, originally were targeted by now-disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
A federal lawsuit was brought against Griepp and nine members of his congregation in June 2017, and accused them of harassing abortion-bound women outside of the Choices Medical Clinic abortion facility in Jamaica, Queens.
That came after the attorney general's lengthy targeted surveillance campaign "produced no evidence that they violated the law," the legal team said.
But Schneiderman labeled their speech "harassment" and asked the court to declare it to be "obstruction" under the Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the team said.
"The FACE Act specifically exempts constitutionally protected advocacy from its prohibitions," explained Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Stephen Crampton. "We argued that almost the entirety of the attorney general's case consisted in prosecution for just such protected expressive activity. The district court agreed, rejected the credibility of the state's witnesses, the merits of the state's arguments, and the request for the injunction itself."
After a sexual abuse scandal forced Schneiderman out of office, his successors, first Barbara Underwood, and then Letitia James, continued to persecute the pro-life activists, the legal team said.
The lengthy trial was "marked by notorious moments. The owner of the Queens abortion facility – one of the biggest and oldest in the country — called pro-life advocates the 'American Taliban.' A prosecution witness falsely accused the church members of violence, but her testimony was later shown to have been lifted from an article about the actions of other people at a different abortion clinic several years earlier," the legal team said.
In a 2018 decision, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York, denied the state's request for a preliminary injunction in People v. Griepp et al.
But then this year, the appeals court reversed, adopting the radical pro-abortion agenda presented by the state earlier.
Crampton explained that if the attempt to completely silence the pro-life advocates is successful, the abortion industry will be filing similar cases across the nation.
The radical left goes out of their way to make sure as many abortions as possible can happen. This isn't about obstruction. It's about the left preventing life-saving information from reaching the hands of would-be baby murderers.
'The Purge' by Big Tech targets conservatives, including us
Just when we thought the Covid-19 lockdowns were ending and our ability to stay afloat was improving, censorship reared its ugly head.
For the last few months, NOQ Report, Conservative Playbook, and the American Conservative Movement have appealed to our readers for assistance in staying afloat through Covid-19 lockdowns. The downturn in the economy has limited our ability to generate proper ad revenue just as our traffic was skyrocketing. We had our first sustained stretch of three months with over a million visitors in November, December, and January, but February saw a dip.
It wasn't just the shortened month. We expected that. We also expected the continuation of dropping traffic from "woke" Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but it has actually been much worse than anticipated. Our Twitter account was banned. Both of our YouTube accounts were banned. Facebook "fact-checks" everything we post. Spotify canceled us. Medium canceled us. Apple canceled us. Why? Because we believe in the truth prevailing, and that means we will continue to discuss "taboo" topics.
The 2020 presidential election was stolen. You can't say that on Big Tech platforms without risking cancellation, but we'd rather get cancelled for telling the truth rather than staying around to repeat mainstream media's lies. They have been covering it up since before the election and they've convinced the vast majority of conservative news outlets that they will be harmed if they continue to discuss voter fraud. We refuse to back down. The truth is the truth.
The lies associated with Covid-19 are only slightly more prevalent than the suppression of valid scientific information that runs counter to the prescribed narrative. We should be allowed to ask questions about the vaccines, for example, as there is ample evidence for concern. One does not have to be an "anti-vaxxer" in order to want answers about vaccines that are still considered experimental and that have a track record in a short period of time of having side-effects, including death. One of our stories about the Johnson & Johnson "vaccine" causing blood clots was "fact-checked" and removed one day before the government hit the brakes on it. These questions and news items are not allowed on Big Tech which is just another reason we are getting canceled.
There are more topics that they refuse to allow. In turn, we refuse to stop discussing them. This is why we desperately need your help. The best way NOQ, CP, and ACM readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We are on track to be short by about $4100 per month in order to maintain operations.
The second way to help is to become a partner. We've strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn't seem necessary. Now, we're struggling to pay the bills. We had 5,657,724 sessions on our website from November, 2020, through February, 2021. Our intention is to elevate that to higher levels this year by focusing on a strategy that relies on free speech rather than being beholden to progressive Big Tech companies.
During that four-month stretch, Twitter and Facebook accounted for about 20% of our traffic. We are actively working on operating as if that traffic is zero, replacing it with platforms that operate more freely such as Gab, Parler, and others. While we were never as dependent on Big Tech as most conservative sites, we'd like to be completely free from them. That doesn't mean we will block them, but we refuse to be beholden to companies that absolutely despise us simply because of our political ideology.
We're heading in the right direction and we believe we're ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only "get in on the action" but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above.
As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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I love your work..your asparagus..your recipes,,and your totally diffferent than me persona.
Susan, Yes, they do actually open almost like those ornithogallum bulbs with their beautiful starsshaped flowers.But they are so delicious, if you can find them, do try it.
Y's, Monique, ghow different we are in some aspects and isn't that great? I could never do what you do like you do it…which is why I adore you so much.
I just visited your other blog and your work is amazing. I was in France, for the 1st time, in February. I could not believe all the different veggies we found at the market. I have never seen wild asparagus in Canada, I wish because your dish looks delicious. Bonne journée!


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Q: CMake Windows implicit linking What is the defacto way of handling implicit linking in CMake projects?
In windows, .dll's are linked during runtime, thus CMake only needs to link the .lib files during compilation. This is better done using find_package. However, during compilation, CMake never copies over the .dll corresponding to the linked .lib file to the linked executable's output path.
Is this something that CMake leaves up to the user?
It seems kind of messy, not to mention non-cross platform, to have to manually find dll's for each library you link and either manually copy them over to your output directory or write individual CMake commands, as shown below, to do this per package you find/library you link.
add_custom_command(
        TARGET MyTarget POST_BUILD
        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
        "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/SDL2.dll"
        $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:MyTarget>
    )

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"Finnish black metal veterans BAPTISM return with 'V: The Devil's Fire', their first new album in four years and their Season of Mist debut. As tracks like "Abyss", "Satananda", "Malignant Shadows" and the title track illustrate, BAPTISM founder and visionary Lord Sargofagian is unwavering in his pursuit of crafting of black metal anthems. BAPTISM are among the black metal elite, and 'V: The Devil's Fire' refines the grim art of black metal orthodoxy into a sharper, more vicious weapon. "
5th Studio album "V: The Devil's Fire" released by Season of Mist worldwide july 2016.


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Q: Display Field Validators Manually (ASP.NET/C#) Imagine the scenario of a contact form, whereby data is to be collected and further transmitted via email to the appropriate address. One of the important fields asks for an email address, pretty vital to instrumenting the call-back.
So say I check for the entry of something, anything, in the mail address field using a RequiredFieldValidator; a further check in code will determine if the mail address supplied is usable, or not.
Given that both of these checks are essentially validation, I would simply like to reuse the RequiredFieldValidator from my code-behind; is this possible?
For example, something as simple as:
MyValidator.Show();
return;

What I have done in the past is add a Label to the form as well, and just use a similar tactic, only making the control visible as needs be and returning. Ideally I'd like to get rid of this altogether and simply use one control to output my error message.
For an idea of current code, below is a skeletal listing, which, even as such, is the concept in its entirety:
Within the page:
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="MailAddressTextBox" />

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator runat="server" ID="MailAddressValidator" ErrorMessage="Enter a valid mail address" ControlToValidate="MailAddressTextBox" />

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="MailAddressError" Text="Enter a valid mail address" Visible="false" />

And within the code-behind:
MailAddress enquirerMail;
try
{
    enquirerMail = new MailAddress(MailAddressTextBox.Text);
}
catch
{
    MailAddressError.Visible = true;
    return;
}

The pitfall with the approach of hiding/showing error labels, other than the obvious of extra controls, is the maintenance of their visibility, and also a label for each error, or lists of messages and in-code alterations to the display.
Also, multiple validators is something I want to avoid, at least in this particular instance; a RegularExpressionValidator won't cut it here, as we all know just selecting the 'best' regex for parsing mail addresses can be a feat in itself, or maybe it will contain more characters than the actual page content + markup.
Another reason for my aversion to regex, should you need one, is that, ultimately, I have to implement the above try/catch validation regardless, as even a 'validated' address may cause failure in the MailAddress constructor.
So, just to reiterate: Can I activate/reuse my validators from code-behind?

A: I really think that if you're validating two things (the fact that the field is not empty AND the fact that it's a valid address), then you should have two validators.
However, to answer your question, you could do:
MailAddressValidator.ErrorMessage = "Invalid email address";
MailAddressValidator.IsValid = false;

A: If you really want to avoid using multiple validators (I can understand why, generating "in-line" error messages will not be as neat with two or more validation controls), I suggest using a single custom validator.
This means you can write your own validation code (including a case where the user has not provided ANYTHING and another case where they have provided an invalid email address) and have precise control over the error message rendered.


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Q: If an entire function grows slower than a polynomial, then it is a polynomial! I was investigating the following corollary to Liouville's Theorem in Complex Analysis:
if $f(z)$ is entire and $\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}z^{-n}f(z)=0$, then $f(z)$ is a polynomial in $z$ of degree at most $n-1$.
My proof uses the complex L'Hospital Rule and Induction on $n$. The base case $n=0$ is obvious.  To illustrate the idea: for the case $n=2$ Suppose that $f(z)$ is not bounded, so that $$\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{f(z)}=\infty.$$  Then by using L'Hospital, we have $$\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f(z)}{z^2}}=\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f'(z)}{2z}}.$$  If $f'(z)$ is not bounded, then we have further $$\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f(z)}{z^2}}=\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f'(z)}{2z}}=\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f''(z)}{2}}=0.$$  Thus, by Liouville's Theorem, we know that $f''(z)$ is equal to some constant, and since it approaches 0 at infinity, is simply 0.  Then $f'(z)=A$ (technically this actually leads to a contradiction though, since then $f'(z)$ is bounded, contrary to assumption) for some complex number $A$, and thus $f(z)=Az+B$ for complex numbers $A$ and $B$.  To complete the case analysis, if either $f(z)$ or $f'(z)$ were bounded, we could have applied the Liouville's Theorem to see that they were both constants, and thus $f(z)$ would be a polynomial in $z$ of degree at most 1.
Now suppose for the induction hypothesis that $\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f(z)}{z^n}}=0$, we know that $f(z)$ is a polynomial in $z$ of degree at most $n-1$, and consider the case $n+1$.  Then if $f(z)$ is not bounded, we know that $$\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f(z)}{z^{n+1}}}=\lim_{z\rightarrow \infty}{\frac{f'(z)}{nz^n}}=0$$ so that by our induction hypothesis we know that $f'(z)$ is a polynomial in $z$ of degree at most $n-1$, and thus $f(z)$ is a polynomial in $z$ of degree at most $n$.
Is this proof correct?  My main concerns are the use of L'Hospital's Rule, for which there seems to be little information about its validity for complex valued functions.  Searching around I could find the following link, but it deals with complex-valued functions of a real variable, rather than the more general complex-valued functions of a complex variable.

A: This exercise is solved using Cauchy's Integral Formula:
$$
f^{(m)}(0)=\frac{m!}{2\pi i}\int_{|z-z_0|}\frac{f(z)\,dz}{z^{m+1}}
$$
and hence, for $m\ge n$:
\begin{align}
\lvert f^{(m)}(0)\rvert&=\frac{m!}{2\pi}\left|\int_{|z-z_0|=R}\frac{f(z)\,dz}{z^{m+1}}\right|
\le \frac{m!}{2\pi}\cdot \frac{2\pi R}{R^{m+1}}\max_{|z|=R}\lvert f(z)\rvert
=m!\frac{\max_{|z|=R}\lvert f(z)\rvert}{R^m}\\&=
\frac{m!}{R^{m-n}}\frac{\max_{|z|=R}\lvert f(z)\rvert}{R^n}.
\end{align}
By hypothesis
$$
\lim_{R\to\infty}\frac{\max_{|z|=R}\lvert f(z)\rvert}{R^n}=0,
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and thus $f^{(m)}(0)=0$, for all $m\ge 0$, which means that the power series of $f$ at $z=0$ is a finite sum missing all the terms higher than the $(n\!-\!1)$-th. Hence $f$ is polynomial of degree at most $n-1$.

A: Let $f$ be an entire function and suppose that there exist constants $M\geq0$, $R>0$ and an integer $n\geq1$ such that
$$|f(z)|\leq M|z|^n,\quad\text{for all $z$ with $|z|>R$}.$$
Show that $f$ is a polynomial with degree less than or equal to $n$.
Due to Cauchy's inequality $|f^{(k)}(0)|\leq k!M(\rho)\rho^{-k}$, where $M(\rho) = \sup_{|z|=\rho}|f(z)|$.
As $|f(z)|\leq M|z|^n$ then
$$M(\rho)\leq M\rho^n\quad\text{for}~\rho>R.$$
Therefore
$$|f^{(k)}(0)|\leq k!M\rho^n\rho^{-k} = k!M\rho^{n-k}\to0,\quad \rho\to\infty,\quad \text{for $k>n$}.$$
As $f\in\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{C})$ then $f(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{f^{k}(0)}{k!}z^k$, and because of what was calculated before, the sum is finite, that is
$$f(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{n}\frac{f^{k}(0)}{k!}z^k,$$
which implies that $f$ is a polynomial with degree less than or equal to $n$.


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How international development institutions are becoming hubs for addressing violent extremism | Brookings Institutions
By Eric Rosand | October 19, 2017
Observing recent developments in the United States, one might assume that countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE or PVE) is a quickly disappearing policy fad of the Obama administration. These efforts encompass a range of law enforcement and non-law enforcement means to prevent individuals from being radicalized to violence, with a focus on addressing the grievances that make individuals vulnerable to recruitment to terrorist organizations and intervening before individuals become violent.
The Trump administration has zeroed out the short-lived Department of Homeland Security CVE grants program, effectively disbanded the inter-agency CVE task force, and showed nothing but disdain for the CVE policy of the Obama-era that sought to empower communities and catalyze locally-led interventions to build resilience against violent extremism across the ideological spectrum. Most recently, in her Congressional testimony last month on "Threats to the Homeland," Acting Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Elaine Duke eschewed the "countering violent extremism" framing of the Obama-era, pivoting instead to what the current White House views to be the more muscular and targeted label of "terrorism prevention."
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National governments and international bodies consistently highlight a lack of evidence of what works in preventing violent extremism (PVE) as a challenge to building support for PVE policies, programmes, and resources. RUSI-led work in phase 1 of the Prevention Project identified over 1,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the field of PVE in approximately 100 countries. Yet, few PVE interventions have been evaluated publicly, and empirical research on the impact of PVE is limited.
This evidence gap will not be filled by a single project. However, with support from the Royal Norwegian Government, and building on research conducted during phase I of the Prevention Project and as a contribution to the Global Solutions Exchange, RUSI will help address it through the development of a global PVE impact database that will seek to capture information on all known PVE civil society-led interventions as a basis for a global meta-evaluation of the impact of PVE intervention.
10 Steps Governments Can Take to Support the Critical Role of Civil Society in Preventing Violent Extremism
Evidence demonstrates that efforts by governments and multilateral actors, particularly security-focused initiatives, are not sufficient to prevent violent extremism. Governments and multilateral institutions need to work more closely with other sectors of society to address the relevant underlying drivers of this phenomenon. Civil society organizations (CSOs) are especially important as they are citizen-led, locally rooted entities that have the access and long-term commitment needed to foster social cohesion and respect for equal rights and pluralism in their communities. This call for collaboration and inclusion is enshrined in the former UN Secretary-General's Plan of Action on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) and in a growing number of national PVE action plans.
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Q: How to fit multiple equal references into table structure? How to fit multiple equal references into table structure? How could I do that? For example: I have list of classmates:
1 Peter
2 Jack
3 John
4 Mary
5 Birgit
6 Stella
7 Janus
8 Margo
9 Fred

Now I want to define fellowships. In first place, let's limit that every kid may belong to one fellowship. So we could have 3 fellowships:
[Peter, Jack]
[John, Mary, Birgit]
[Stella, Janus, Margo, Fred]

All members are equal, so they all should reference to other members. Is there better ways to define such relations than just to have table of pairs? Like:
1 2
3 4
3 5
4 5
4 3
5 3
5 4
6 7
6 8
6 9
7 6
7 8
7 9
8 6
8 7
8 9
9 6
9 7
9 8

If using table of pairs, is it better to describe relation both way (like above), or is it enough to have link just from one way to another? What are the benefits of both ways?
Table of pairs does not constrain any member into just one fellowsip, but how would it possible?
I was looking for SQL table solution, but maybe there are better tools for handling such data-structures, so I added nosql-tag too. I am looking for right tools for such data, but I am eager to know, how to fit it in SQL tables too.

A: Yes, there is another way.  If you have "fellowships", then you do not have pair-wise relationships.  STart with a Fellowships table that has a FellowshipsId.
Then you would have a FellowshipsKids table.  This is called a junction table, and it would have one row for each member of each fellowship.  It would have rows like this:
FellowshipId   KidId
     1            1
     1            2
     2            3
     2            4
     2            5
     . . .

What you have is an m-n relationship between fellowships and kids -- one fellowship can have multiple kids, one kids can be in multiple fellowships.  A junction table is the standard way of represent this in a relational database.


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Southland Academy junior guard Max Foster scored 16 points to lead the Raiders to a 50-41 win over Terrell Academy in the Raiders' second game of the Brookwood Holiday Shootout in Thomasville, GA. ATR Archive
Foster's record-setting performance leads Raiders to victory
Published 1:51 pm Wednesday, December 11, 2019
AMERICUS – Southland Academy (SA) junior guard Max Foster broke the school record for number of three-pointers made in a game in the Raiders' 75-50 victory over Crisp Academy (CA) on Tuesday, December 10, at the Melvin Kinslow Gymnasium on the SA campus.
Foster led all scorers with 33 points, including a school record nine three-pointers.
The previous SA record for three-pointers made in one game was seven. Four former SA players tied that record: David McDuffie, David Mixon, Justin Davis and Harrison Bell.
With the win, the Raiders improve to 3-0 on the season.
SA head coach Rundy Foster was also pleased with the performances of Nathan Duke, Owen Exley and Hunter McCain. "Duke shot the ball well, was seven for seven from the free throw line and ran the offense well," Foster said. "Hunter McCain and Owen Exley did a great job against some bigger post players."
Both Duke and Exley scored in double figures. Duke scored 15 points and Exley poured in 14. McCain did not score, but according to Coach Foster, he had a solid game defensively on the inside.
The first quarter was a back-and-forth affair between both teams, with the Raiders owning a slight 18-16 lead at the quarter's end. However, the Raiders outscored the Wildcats 18-4 in the second quarter to take a 36-20 lead into halftime. From that point on, SA was in total control of the game. The Raiders outscored CA in the third quarter 25-13 and went on to win 75-50.
Up next for the Raiders is the Brookwood Holiday Hoops Shootout Friday and Saturday, December 20-21, at the Brookwood School in Thomasville, GA.
The Raiders will play Westwood on Friday at 1 p.m. and will take on Terrell Academy on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
After the Christmas break, the Raiders will travel to Phenix City, AL for the Border Wars tournament at the Glenwood School Friday and Saturday, December 27-28. Their game on Friday will be against Edgewood Academy (AL) at 1:30 p.m. EST. The Raiders will then take on Lee-Scott Academy (AL) on Saturday, December 28, at 1:30 p.m. EST.
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Is Something Wrong With Single Payer?
By: Brian KingSeptember 18, 2011
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With all the advocacy efforts expended over the last 20 years, it might be reasonable to expect some results by now for the Single Payer (SP) movement. Of course, SP would be a great way to provide health insurance in America. Instead of thousands of private insurance companies (payers for health care services) competing with each other to see who can fool the most people, there would be one source of payment, the federal government, for doctors, clinics and hospitals. Healthcare would be much more accessible, distributed more fairly, be a whole lot cheaper, and everybody would be covered. What a deal!
So why does it look like the chances of passing an SP bill in Congress, like the ones proposed by Jim McDermott or John Conyers, are next to nil? It's more than a little perplexing, isn't it?
We need to look into a couple of sources power and money in our political system, and then it gets a little easier to understand. First, we should keep in mind that the top priority of every member of Congress is to get re-elected. Democrats, Republicans, & Independents—all have to raise millions of dollars for their campaign war chests, or they will lose the next election and be looking for a job. Raising money to spend on the next campaign is priority number one for members of Congress.
Among the most lavish sources of campaign money, for both Democrats and Republicans, are the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), the private insurance industry, and the healthcare industry. I don't think anybody would expect any of these three to be very friendly to SP. Least of all insurance, which would be obliterated in healthcare by SP. According to the website MapLight.org, these three together contributed over $100 million to members of Congress during the 2009-10 biennium. That's a lot of financial oomph to overcome, no?
For many years, progressives have accepted the challenge of all that money and power by saying, "Our arguments are sound, and we're going to organize mass support around our ideas in order to overcome the huge financial advantage of our opposition." Makes sense, so far.
But, SP is complicated and difficult to understand. This is nobody's fault, it's just the nature of the beast. There are many "what if's" involved. Like, "what if they won't let me stay with my doctor?" or "what if my father's illness isn't covered?" We can point to Canada, and say these things won't be problems. But it would take a huge educational effort backed by big-time resources to overcome the hesitations in everyday people's minds. An educational program is needed that is big enough to help a large portion of the American people join a movement capable of swaying members of Congress away from those huge campaign contributions.
For most progressives, the force in America that would be capable of overcoming the big money, by rallying a mass movement, is the labor movement. This is the nub of the whole business, in my opinion. Should we look to the unions to do all they can to win SP? A little history helps answer that question.
Right after World War II, most people expected labor to exercise its power and make life fundamentally better for all American workers. This would happen by winning good labor contracts. Also by influencing the political process to win a better social contract for all Americans, both those inside and outside of unions. Instead, the U.S. experienced the McCarthy era. For the most part, communists and socialists were purged from the unions. The Taft-Hartley anti-union law, passed in the late forties, ushered in a period of slow and steady decline for unions that continues to this day. At their peak in the 50's, American unions represented roughly 1/3 of the American workforce. This has dropped to about 12% today, with less than 8% of non-government workers in unions.
No one knows exactly where this is headed, but it doesn't look good. One thing it seems to have caused is a hardening of big labor's attitude toward fighting for reforms relevant to all workers. When presented with a choice, you can easily imagine a labor official saying, "let's do this so that my members will have an advantage in their contract provisions over people doing the same work who aren't part of a union. Otherwise, why would my members want to keep paying their dues?" For labor officials, that's the main problem. Under SP, everyone would get exactly the same health care, union member or not. Healthcare benefits would no longer be a reason to join a union and pay your dues.
I can almost hear the chorus of criticism from SP advocates. They will say that many union organizations, perhaps more than half, have taken a position in favor of SP. My answer is that these shrewd, dynamic leaders are well aware of what it would take to build the kind of mass, public movement capable of overcoming the big money against SP. It would take ALL HANDS ON DECK to effect that big a change in America. There would have to be thousands of union members going door to door in all our cities, to explain the complications that the big money guys would keep throwing at people. Demonstrations would have to be mounted across the U.S. on the scale of the anti-Vietnam war and Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960's. It wouldn't hurt to have a few city-wide general strikes on the scale of the WTO demonstrations in Seattle a few years back.
Union officials are simply not going to mount a campaign on a scale like that, especially when they feel like they would be cutting their own throats, if successful.
I realize that there is a lot of support, at least verbal support, coming from the labor movement for SP. Don't be fooled. Posturing, pretending to be in favor of something you're sure will fail, is a long established tradition here in the U.S. For example, take the California Legislature. As long as Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor and a veto was assured, California Democrats were only too happy to pass SP. But, with Democrat Jerry Brown as governor, SP can't get through the legislature. Most believe this is because there is a chance that Brown might sign it into law!
Recently, Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, attended the national convention of a group called "Labor for Single Payer." This group represents a goodly (thousands?) number of people (probably mostly union staffers) associated with the labor movement. Why, you might ask, would the national leader of the union movement go to this meeting, if he wasn't truly in favor of SP? Well, it looks good, and there is little chance SP will happen. Remember, it would take all hands on deck, and the biggest campaign ever waged by labor in the U.S. In front of some audiences, it looks good to say you're for SP, even if you're really not.
I'm not saying that labor could have pulled it off, had they really tried. Maybe even all the unions together don't have the strength necessary to win SP. I am saying that they've never really tried, and they aren't likely to.
Maybe we should try a route that requires a little less of an educational effort. That way, we could proceed without the total and immediate commitment of the labor movement. Here's what we did in Seattle, back in 2005.[1]
We decided to adopt the slogan of "Healthcare is a Right!" instead of "Single Payer." We reasoned that most people would have no problem understanding and agreeing with our slogan. When we went to the public with our petition, the most frequent reaction was for somebody to read our statement until she/he got to the part about healthcare being a right, then quit reading, smile, and sign. Unlike "Single Payer," people understood and identified with our slogan immediately. "Healthcare is a Right!" was a successful mass slogan.
From the beginning, my plan was to make Seattle a launching pad for a movement that would mobilize enough mass sentiment to influence the healthcare debate then taking place in Congress. The message would be: No minor adjustments, do whatever is necessary to make equal, high quality healthcare a right in America! We did great in Seattle, 70% yes. Then, a member of the Seattle bunch, who lived in Tacoma, Washington, ran a similar campaign where she lived with the same results; about 70% yes.
I wish we could have kept the Right to Healthcare campaign going to cities across the country. I really think it would have made quite a difference in 2009, if 30 cities had gone on record that they believe healthcare is a right. It might have helped make the Public Option (PO) part of the final legislation. The PO wouldn't have made healthcare a right in the U.S. right away, but we would have had something to fight for and improve. Maybe make it a little more difficult for private insurance to rip people off, by setting an example of what fair health insurance would look like.
The key here is that we need a mass slogan that works. That means it has to be both simple and powerful. It has to be easy to grasp by the person-on-the-street, and it's meaning has to be clear. Once organized around the idea of healthcare being a right, the people of the country could exert real pressure on their Congressional representatives to "Make it so."
Most developed countries that make healthcare a right for their citizens do not have SP health insurance systems. Some do. Many utilize private insurance companies to distribute health insurance. What those countries have in common, according to T.R. Reid,[2] is that they have all eliminated profit on health insurance and heavily regulated how insurance companies provide it. I think a strong public option would result in regulation by competition. Health insurance companies wouldn't dare to charge more or cover less than what the government does, or else people would simply switch.
But first, we have to organize a mass movement, and we're not going to be able to do that with the slogan "Single Payer." It's too confusing. We can organize people with "Healthcare is a Right!" Then we will be able to really pressure Congress.
Probably, the next few years will be spent waiting to see how Obamacare works out. If the new health reform law doesn't work any better than it looks like it will, organizing on a mass scale for health reform will again be on the agenda.
There are some particularly vulnerable sections of the new law to keep an eye on. If Republicans are successful in their court challenge to the individual mandate portion of the law, the whole thing will probably start to collapse. Individual mandate is necessary if the portion outlawing the consideration of pre-existing conditions and guaranteed issue of policies are to hold up.
The subsidies are pretty generous, limiting the amount people would have to pay for individual coverage to a reasonable amount. But it's hard to imagine Congress, in the current cost cutting climate, coming up with enough funding to cover the subsidies year after year. If that happens, look for uninsurance to be on the rise again.
Is there something wrong with Single Payer? No, not as a medical insurance system. But it just doesn't work as a way to organize a movement.
1. For more on the Seattle "Right to Healthcare" campaign, please see here at the Monthly Review website, MRZine.
2. The Healing of America by T.R. Reid, Penguin Books, 2010.
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One comment on "Is Something Wrong With Single Payer?"
George Fish says:
This is a very good summary
This is a very good summary of the SP fight, although perhaps expressing more cynicicism toward organized labor than is really warranted (but not much more). Yet, Brian's esentially right about the parochialism of the labor movement looking out for its own members first, at the expense, if need be, of the unorganized. Back when he was a real labor leader, Andy Stern noticed this, & called for a more inclusive "justice" unionism instead of a "just us" unionism–something he soon abandoned, as his attacks on United Healthcare Workers West and UNITE-HERE (not to mention the Puerto Rican teachers)soon showed.
The fight for SP becomes even more complicated when we look at the new slogan advanced by SP advocates, "Medicare for all." Medicare is semi-privatized, is arranged to give sops to the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Not just in the Part D "prescription benefit," but also in the fact that Medicare beneficiaries pay monthly premuims for Medicare coverage, in addition to the taxes charged them as workers to support Medicare; Medicare pays only 80% of the medical costs it covers, thus usually requiring private supplemental coverage in addition to Medicare; and, privatization schemes such as the Medicare Advantage programs, in which HMOs manage Medicare benefits, are also part of the Medicare program.
So it does indeed get complicated, as Brian notes.
Something Brian forgot to mention, though, that's crucial here is the role of organized labor and other "progressives" in forming HCAN, which tailed after Obamacare, tailed after what Obama advocated in terms of healthcare, which specifically abandoned not only any notion of any kind of SP program, but also any sort of "public option" that would compete with private insurance. Brain King's article makes some very good points indeed.
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Globalization has touched upon every sphere of human activities, particularly nursing that encountered many new challenges because of it. As mentioned by Crigger (2008), "With globalization, the borders of nations become porous and encounters among people become inevitable. Exchanges and changes occur among people, nations, and ideas" (p. 19). Such exchanges are obligatory for nursing where sharing experiences is an integral part of work. Nurses play an important role in the global health, and nursing migration should be paid special attention to owing to its enormous contribution to the effective healthcare system worldwide.
It is necessary to mention that the role of nurses in the global health should not be underestimated. Nurses can be regarded as a foundation of the health delivery system. Even though nursing is largely dependent on medicine, nurses are always in demand, and it is namely their work that medicine is based on. This is of special importance when it comes to discussing global health, because many developing countries have a few skilled healthcare professionals and, rather often, people cannot be cured from diseases that take a couple of days of treatment in the developed countries.
However, the role of nurses in the global health should not be limited to the healthcare delivery only. In addition, they are supposed to be leaders and educators that not only deal with treating and preventing diseases, but also share their nursing experience while communicating with their counterparts in other countries. Moreover, the nurses' role is to reduce and eliminate disparities "so that better health is achieved for all people" (Crigger, 2008, p. 17). In this way, nurses become global leaders whose primary concern is to improve the country's access to healthcare system and create educational programs that would make nursing knowledge applicable on a global scale, thus, ensuring equal access to healthcare system.
Even thought, globalization seems to be a positive process, it has entailed a number of contradictory issues, such as global migration of nurses. At first glance, migration of nurses seems to be a positive change triggered by globalization, because nurses from poorer countries are able to get well-paid and stable jobs. On the other hand, nursing migration leads to human resource shortages in poor countries, which is unfair from the perspective of global justice. It is my firm belief, however, that global recruitment of nurses is a long-term investment into the improvement of healthcare delivery system worldwide.
It seems reasonable to consider that nursing migration can eventually lead not only to the improvement of global health, but also to the elimination of cultural borders between different countries. Nurses come back to their native countries with invaluable experience they can use to improve the healthcare system of their own countries. In addition, migrating nurses learn to be culturally competent and, therefore, adopt cultural practices used throughout the world and then share them with their counterparts, contributing to the overall improvement of the global health. Moreover, human resources shortage that arises as a result of their migration can be a sufficient reason for reorienting foreign aid to deal with the issue of global justice.
In conclusion, it is possible to improve global healthcare through diversity. Nurses play an enormous role in global healthcare system enabling people to access healthcare system and raising their awareness about prevention and treatment of diseases. Furthermore, migration nurses can contribute to the elimination of cultural borders between different countries. Even though the global recruitment of nurses is a rather contradictory issue, it still has more positive aspects because giving nurses well-paid jobs can help the government of poor countries get financial aid for retaining their workforce, thus, making migration of nurses just a global phenomenon.
Crigger, N. (2008). Towards a viable and just global nursing ethics. Nursing Ethics, 15(1), 17-27.


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In 2014, I opened my first Brooklyn wedding photography studio in Crown Heights. It was wonderful to move my business out of my home, and in a dedicated studio. I loved the building that my photography studio was in, and spent three wonderful years as a tenant of that space.
In 2017, I moved my wedding photography studio from Crown Heights to Sunset Park. My photography studio currently resigns in a thousand square foot studio in Industry City. I'd love to have you come visit - it's a great space!
When I was looking to open my Brooklyn wedding photography studio, I looked long and hard for just the right space. I wanted a lovely, light, airy place that I could meet wedding clients. I also wanted some natural light. I wanted to be able to shoot headshot photography, theatre photography, and portrait photography in my studio.
As I live in Windsor Terrace, considered to be in Central Brooklyn, I first started looking to make my home as a Brooklyn photographer near to where I actually lived. I looked for a photography studio in the Prospect Park area first. I looked at studios in Kensington, on Ocean Parkway, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, in Prospect Park South, and in West Midwood. Unable to find a photography studio space there, I looked at real estate in Wingate and Midwood, finding nothing. I also carefully scoured real estate listings in Beverley Squares, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Farragut, Fiske Terrace, and Pigtown, all to no avail.
Frustrated with my search in the Prospect Park area, I expanded my search to Ditmas Park, Crown Heights, and Weeksville. I found my studio in Crown Heights, and stayed there for three years.
After my lease was up in Crown Heights, it was time to move. I looked in Barren Island, Bergen Beach, Georgetown, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, and Sea Gate. I toured studios in Flatlands, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend, White Sands, Homecrest, and Marine Park. I looked at studio listings on Craigslist for Mill Basin and Plumb Beach.
Eventually I decided that Southern Brooklyn was too far of a commute, both for myself and for my clients. I also nixed photography studios in Northern Brooklyn for the same reason. It simply took too long for me to get to Bushwhack, East Williamsburg, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint. I wish the commute hadn't been so long, since Williamsburg and Greenpoint had some amazing potential wedding photorgaphy studio spaces that would have been perfect!
For a long time, Northwestern Brooklyn was my ideal location for a wedding photography studio space. I have always loved the Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Navy Yard area, especially Admiral's Row. I love Cadman Plaza and the beauty of Clinton Hill. I looked at photography studio spaces in Downtown Brooklyn, Bridge Plaza, RAMBO, DUMBO, and Fort Greene.
Finding nothing that really suited my studio needs, I looked in Fulton Ferry, Pacific Park, Prospect Heights, and Vinegar Hill. I found a few studios that were almost perfect in Vinegar Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Cobble Hill. I came very close to signing a lease on a lovely, airy space in Gowanus.
I toured many studio spaces in Park Slope, South Park Slope, and Greenwood Heights. I considered Red Hook, lured in by the Fairway and Ikea!
Eventually I decided to make my wedding photography studio home in Western Brooklyn. After looking at Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Mapleton, New Utrecht, and Chinatown, I discovered Industry City in Sunset Park.
The vibe and vibrancy of Industry City was the perfect fit for my wedding photography studio. I immediately fell in love with both the neighborhood and the property. Industry City is home to some extraordinary business. I am so happy to be a part of that community.
As a Brooklyn photographer, I have also found a great love for many of the incredible wedding venues that Brooklyn has to offer. It's truly an incredible borough, with many amazing places to get married.
It is also important to know and understand the venues nearby. As a wedding photographer, I have to be able to shoot in a variety of difficult venues and locations. As a Brooklyn photographer, I have become very familiar with most of the venues around.
If you're getting married in Brooklyn, ask your Brooklyn photographer if he, she, or they have worked at your venue before. While it's absolutely not a prerequisite to being able to create beautiful work there, it's nice if your photographer is at least slightly familiar with the space. They don't have to have shot there to be familiar with it!
There are so many Brooklyn wedding venues that they're impossible to list, but I'll try!
I love the quiet hotel charm of the The William Vale in Williamsburg. I adore the extraordinary luxury of the Weylin, which used to be the Williamsburg Savings Bank. If you're still looking in Williamsburg, also consider the MyMoon restaurant. It's so charming, and truly captures the feel of this unique neighborhood. Dobbin Street is also located nearby, and it's a cool new factory event venue space. I used to live in Williamsburg, so I always love coming back to Brooklyn weddings here!
If you're looking for an amazing outdoor space, look no further than Patina Events at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. You could also consider the Dyker Beach Golf course, which is conveniently located right near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. I also love the lovely Prospect Park Picnic House for a scenic wedding venue! Pretty much everywhere in Prospect Park is gorgeous!
If a winery is what your wedding calls for, check out the Brooklyn Winery. It's a wonderfully unique space, with a very Brooklyn style vibe.
If you're set on a hotel venue for your wedding, look at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. It's located in a great part of Brooklyn! The Hilton Brooklyn is also a great choice. For a more boutique hotel experience, check out the Wythe Hotel. The Sheraton Brooklyn New York Hotel is also a spectacular choice for a city wedding.
If you'd like to be close to the water for your Brooklyn wedding, check out Smack Mellon in DUMBO. The River Cafe is also located in DUMBO, with spectacular views of Manhattan. I also love shooting at the Liberty Warehouse in Red Hook. The venue is located right on the water, and the sun sets just over the ceremony space. It's truly amazing there.
If you're drawn to rustic charm, The Green Building in Gowanus would be an amazing venue to check out. After you visit there, walk across the street and take a look at 501 Union. It's also a wonderful wedding venue!
Another important thing about being a Brooklyn photographer is knowing great locations for engagement pictures in Brooklyn. It's also crucial that I can suggest locations for wedding day pictures in Brooklyn.
You might want to take wedding day pictures in Brooklyn if you are getting ready here before your wedding somewhere else, perhaps in Manhattan. You might also want to take your wedding photos in Brooklyn if you're getting married here, even if you're getting ready somewhere else. I've even had Manhattan clients get ready, get married, and have their wedding reception in the city, yet come to Brooklyn for their wedding photos!
It is so important to me that I help my clients find locations for their Brooklyn wedding photos that I actually created a whole page on my website dedicated to wedding day photo locations in New York. It goes over my favorite locations, and has a part entirely dedicated to Brooklyn.
I talk about how beautiful it is to have your wedding photos taken by the water in DUMBO. I am especially fond of the cobblestone streets, views of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, and beautiful green areas by the water.
I talk about the gorgeous view of the Manhattan skyline from Sunset Park. Located close to my studio, Sunset Park is a quiet gem of a location in the bustling heart of Brooklyn.
I discuss how much I love taking wedding, elopement, and engagement pictures in Prospect Park. The foliage here is so beautiful at all times of year. Whether you want your wedding day photos taken with the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden or the fall leaves over Prospect Park, you cannot go wrong with wedding photos here!
I also love taking wedding day photos and engagement photos near my studio in Industry City. It's almost mind-boggling how many amazing photo spots are near my studio! There are cobblestone streets with their iconic New York charm. There are industrial backgrounds with metal and fire escapes and graffiti. There are trees and beautiful greenery. There are views of Manhattan. It truly is the ideal Brooklyn photo spot!
You can start your search for a Brooklyn photographer on Google. That's how many of my clients find me!
You can also search for Brooklyn photographers who specialize in weddings by searching popular sites like The Knot and Wedding Wire. Each of those sites helps you find a Brooklyn photographer by giving you search criteria to narrow the field.
You can filter the photographer search by start price, picking from a wide range of prices. You can also search by style, namely Contemporary, Photojournalism, or Traditional. You can then sort your search by average rating, number of reviews, or name.
You can go to Fearless Photographers and search there. You can search via New York Wedding Magazine, and their list of featured vendors. You can ask your venue, or your wedding coordinator. You can look on Google Maps and Groupon. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of ways to search for a Brooklyn photographer.
I would recommend that you begin your search for a Brooklyn photographer by asking family and friends. Nothing beats the power of an in-person referral from someone that you know and trust. It's especially helpful to ask close friends and family who have been married recently who they worked with.
Make sure that you ask for referrals from friends and family members with a similar aesthetic to yours! If your best friend is a super traditional person and you favor documentary photographer, her wedding photographer might not be the best choice for you.
You can also ask your already-hired wedding vendors if they have a vendor referral list. On my wedding photography website, I have a list of common wedding vendors that I love to work with. I am thrilled to refer my wedding photography clients to event coordinators, hairstylists, makeup artists, wedding cinematographers and videographers, florists, bands, DJs, calligraphers, and so many more.
I often receive wedding photography referrals from venues that I have worked at in the past. Wedding coordinators that I have worked with before also often refer me to future wedding's clients. It is great to ask vendors are you are already working with and have established a relationship with who they think would be a good fit for you.
Whenever I am referring a wedding photography client to another vendor, I already have a good understanding of who they are and what their needs are. This helps me refer other vendors that I think would be a great fit. I know that other vendors do that when referring wedding photographers. I feel very fortunate to have the wonderful working relationship that I do have with many other Brooklyn-based wedding vendors.
Once you have obtained referrals from friends, family, and other wedding vendors, it's time to start doing some research! I highly recommend doing a basic Google search on any Brooklyn photographer that you are considering for your wedding photography needs.
You'll find a wide range of review sites for wedding vendors online. Some are very popular, such as Wedding Wire, The Knot, and Yelp. Many wedding photographers have an abundance of reviews online from past clients. Some wedding photographers, while extremely popular, have less reviews. I never solicit reviews on wedding vendor sites from my clients because I simply do not want to bother them to market for me. It is always a wonderful honor when past wedding clients and their families go on these review sites to say such kind words about their experience working with me.
When I am not photographing Brooklyn weddings, I love spending time in this incredible borough. I truly feel that I am a more well-rounded photographer because I spend time looking at my surroundings and taking pictures of everything I see. Every bit of photography that I do simply serves to strengthen my skills as a wedding and portrait photographer.
In my spare time, I love taking on personal photography projects. I do a lot of photography work with dancers, actors, actresses, and performers in the Broadway and off-Broadway community. I love photographing these portraits in my Industry City studio. I also love being outside the studio and photographing portraits throughout Brooklyn.
Some of my favorite places to photograph in Brooklyn include Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery. Since I am a resident of Windsor Terrace, both of these locations are incredibly close to my apartment.
I still remember the first time I visited Greenwood Cemetery as a chaperone on my daughter's fifth grade field trip. I was completely blown away by the incredible elegance of this historic landmark location. I love visiting greenwood Cemetery in my spare time, and photographing its extraordinary beauty. Much of the fine art work that I have done in this location has served to deepen the fine art feel of my wedding photography work.
I have also photographed many portraits in Prospect Park. Some of these portraits have been wedding related. Some of them have been portraits of families and their children. Some of them have been work for my theatrical photography portfolio. I am always drawn to the beauty of Prospect Park, no matter what season.
I love how beautiful and delicate the light in Prospect Park is during the spring months. I love how lush and green the foliage is in the summer. I love taking a walk in Prospect Park during the first snowfall of the winter, and seeing how the ice and snow cling to the trees.
I love Prospect Park best, however, in the fall. Is hands down my favorite location in all of New York to take wedding, portrait, and engagement images at this time of year. The trees absolutely explode in a riot of orange and red color. I find Prospect Park to be a much more photogenic location than Central Park. It is also much quieter, and much more secluded.
Every once in a while, I venture outside of my neighborhood to take photographs in other locations of Brooklyn. I have rented a variety of fantastic industrial loft spaces in both Greenpoint and Williamsburg. They were great backdrops to the gritty, journalistic portraits that I was commissioned to shoot in those locations.
I like to go near the water and take a walk on the Brooklyn Promenade. I've taken many excellent images of the skyline here, and gotten some great ideas for wedding photos. It is always a treat to visit a place for pleasure and then go back for work purposes. It's awesome to put ideas into practice!
Sometimes I'll see a scenic spot or a great sunset, and go back there later for engagement or wedding pictures. The Promenade is an awesome spot for photos, especially Pier 1 and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
I love taking a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge and observing the city and it's inhabitants. Doing street and city photography in Brooklyn really continually teaches me to observe my surroundings. This truly helps my skills as a wedding photographer!
It might be funny to include a section on why Brooklyn is awesome under a picture describing being a Brooklyn photographer. What does Brooklyn being awesome have anything to do with photography? I think that living and working in such an incredible location makes me a more well-rounded person, and a more well-rounded Brooklyn photographer.
Brooklyn being amazing also goes a long way towards hosting your wedding in this particular borough. Having out of town guests staying here for your wedding means that they will spend a good deal of time here. It's great to have such wonderful restaurants, landmarks, fun places to visit, and cool things to see in the same location your wedding will take place! I love hearing from wedding clients that their guests and family loved their time in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn has incredible restaurants, and the food scene is stellar. Amazing restaurants like Barboncino, the Red Hook Lobster Pound, Walters, Le Barricou, Colonie, Bergen Hill, James, the Vinegar Hill House, Frankies 457, Five Leaves, Peter Luger, and Meadowsweet are all based in Brooklyn. Brooklyn also has Smorgasburg…and who doesn't love Smorgasburg?
For out of town guests, there are dozens upon dozens of walking tours of Brooklyn. All are great fun. You can take a walking tour of Brooklyn food carts. You can do half-day Brooklyn food and wine tours.
You can do dining and drink cruises around the city. You can walk to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge on a historical tour. You can tour the Navy Yard. And these are just a few of the awesome tours you can take in this amazing borough!
The parks in Brooklyn are also wonderful places to visit and be inspired. Not only are they great locations to take wedding photos, they are great places to take a picnic, a walk, or a tour. From Brooklyn Bridge Park to Prospect Park, Cadman Plaza Park to Transmitter Park, there is a park for everyone.
I love taking walks and pictures in Sunset Park and Manhattan Beach Park. I love Columbus Park and the Canarsie Pier. There are amazing photo locations in Sunset Park, Marine Park, McCarren Park, and Fort Greene Park. Brooklyn has a great reputation for being a hipster industrial paradise, but don't forget these gorgeous parks!
If your wedding guests want to attend a sporting event or a great concert, check out the Barclays Center. I've attended many concerts here, and it's a truly gorgeous space.
I love that Brooklyn spans everything from the city to the beach. You can go to an amusement park in Coney Island, and the next day you can walk the cobblestone streets of DUMBO. Where else can you find such a versatile place to host your wedding? Where else can you gain such amazing inspiration as a photographer?
I never thought I would find myself living in Brooklyn. I was born in the South, and raised in the South. I went to college in the South. I lived for years in Tallahassee, Florida. I was a southern girl, through and through.
The summer between my junior and senior years in college, I moved to Manhattan. I crashed on the sofa of an alumni of my college, I took a job as an intern in a Broadway theater. I worked for the Roundabout Theatre Company for several months that summer.
I spent a few weeks in the casting department, and a few weeks in the education department. I spent a lot of time at Broadway theaters.
I loved my summer as a college student in the city. I saw says, acted like a tourist, eat food from everywhere, and soaked in everything that Manhattan and Brooklyn had to offer.
I still remember the first time I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn wormed its way into my heart that summer, and even though I left to go back to college in Georgia, I always thought that I might be back.
I met Brooklyn again just after my college graduation. I moved there for a few months before moving back to Florida. I knew it the time that it wasn't the right point in my life to be a city dweller, but I also knew that I would be back one day.
Even after starting my wedding photography business in Florida, I still yearned for the bright lights of the city. I would occasionally take a wedding in Manhattan or Brooklyn, and relish my time back up north.
I am so happy to have been living in Brooklyn for the past nine years. I love being a Brooklyn photographer. I love everything that this wild, crazy, dirty, chaotic, and exhilarating city has to offer. I love my apartment in my neighborhood. I love my neighbors and community. I love my studio. I love that every day I get to know Brooklyn a little bit better.
I would love to talk to you about why you got on the Internet and started searching for a Brooklyn photographer. Are you getting married? Are you about to propose? Are you engaged, and looking to take engagement photos? Are you an actor, looking for head shots? Are you looking for family photography, baby photography, or images of your children?
Please feel free to drop me an email to the contact page of my website. You can also give me a call. I hope to hear from you soon!
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