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Conference 2015: Collaborate and innovate
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Lecture videos and gallery
Watch videos of the Whitcombe Lecture and closing lecture, and see a gallery of pictures from the 2015 conference
Reports from the 2015 conference at the University of York
Whitcombe Lecture
Half past nine on a Sunday morning is not usually a time for concentrating on a fascinating view of the world of trade publishing in the UK and the US. But, as Paula Clarke found, once Professor Thompson started presenting the Whitcombe Lecture, he had us hooked.
The buzz of 'big books': John Thompson
In at the deep end
After the coffee break on Sunday morning, work began in earnest, as the first batch of individual sessions got under way for the next two hours.
Indexing in the editorial process: Max McMaster
Using Word professionally: Kathleen Lyle and Anne Waddingham
Finance for freelances: Nigel Jones
Building your client base: Moyra Forrest and Alan Rutter
Editing the future: Peter Dennis
The magic of the movable book: Paul Johnson
Collaboration and rule-keeping
After lunch on Sunday, the second set of sessions began, and there was just as much to take in as in Session 1.
Collaboration and innovation through technology: Janine Burr-Willans
Both sides of self-publishing: Clare Christian and Hattie Holden Edmonds
Editing English: what are the rules? Geoff Pullum
After-dinner speech
The after-dinner speech at the conference is always eagerly anticipated. It is difficult for a speaker to tell whether the audience will be benevolent or critical, depending, probably, on the amount of wine taken. This year, as Julia Sandford-Cooke reports, for the SfEP's honorary vice-president, David Crystal, it was definitely the former kind of audience.
Adverbs are more expensive: David Crystal
Monday morning enlightenment
The sessions first thing on Monday covered a range of subjects: fiction editing, thesis editing, work–life balance, social media marketing, relationships with clients and the history of typefaces.
Structural fiction editing: Allyson Latta
Changing faces – 500 years of type: Rob Banham
The ethics of thesis editing: Ashley Craig
Work–life balance for freelances: Alison Rutter and Janette Griffin
Building a good client relationship: Jane Read and Philip Stirups
Social media marketing: Ruth Ellis
Corpora, ebooks and self-publishing
To whet our appetites for lunch, Monday morning continued with a busy hour of knowledge intake.
Corpora for editors: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
From print book to ebook: Chris Jennings
Invisible no longer! Alison Baverstock
Closing lecture
Dr Eben Muse brought the conference to its conclusion with his closing lecture dealing with 'possibilities in a world of speculation'. As Andrew Coulson describes, he took us time-travelling, to the past of reading and then to the future.
Reading the future: Eben Muse
Editing Matters asked Linda Byrne to write about attending an SfEP conference for the first time. Being a 'newbie' can feel daunting, but, as Linda discovered, it can also be a very positive experience.
The advantages of a red dot
These edited articles first appeared in the conference supplement of the November/December 2015 issue of Editing Matters.
The buzz of 'big books'
Reported by Paula Clarke
The Whitcombe Lecture was 'The transformation of Anglo-American trade publishing' by John B Thompson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He began by stating his sociological approach, based on Bourdieu, introducing 'fields' as places of power, each with its own 'logic of the field'.
The field of Anglo-American trade publishing is at a critical juncture because of recent social and economic changes. First is the growth of retail chains, with fewer independent booksellers, escalating discounts and the 'hardback revolution'. Second is the rise of literary agents, where today's 'super-agents' (such as 'The Jackal', Andrew Wylie) are prepared to poach authors and make enemies. Third is the emergence of publishing corporations dominating the industry, such as Penguin/Random House.
These changes have led to polarisation of the field, with medium-sized publishers dying out. Huge author advances are problematic, such as that for Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons, which lost 'shedloads of money'. A preoccupation with big books (ie 'hoped-for bestsellers') attempts to maximise sales on a smaller list of books. Big books require 'buzz' (talking up) but are a gamble. This can mean extreme publishing – 'closing the gap' in profits by bringing 'pretty bad' books to market quickly (see Hilton, Paris). Publishers face shrinking windows in bookstores ('visibility does not come cheap') and high returns. There is also the impact of the digital revolution, with a surge in demand for ebooks from 2008 but a levelling off since 2012.
Looking to the future, Professor Thompson concluded that existing pressures will only intensify for the co-existent cultures of print and digital. This thought-provoking lecture covered much important ground (and for me was mercifully light on Bourdieu). This 'logic of the field' is in revolution: who knows where it will lead? In the end, as John Thompson admitted, his hunch may be no better than anyone else's.
Watch the video of the 2015 Whitcombe Lecture.
Indexing in the editorial process
Max McMaster
Reported by Caroline Orr
This workshop, led by Max McMaster of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Indexers, began with an invitation to consider the differences between an index and a table of contents. That's easy, we said, one is at the back and the other is at the front! Joking aside, we all agreed that an index is more specific than a table of contents and more discriminating than a text search. So, how does it get created?
The first half of the session covered how to commission an indexer. We discovered that editors and indexers share many concerns: subject, audience, length, timescales, budget. Indexers have to read the text with just as much care as editors in order to identify the relevant concepts to be indexed and at what level. But there are also some concerns that are specific to indexers. Are any specialist indexes (such as botanical names or cited authors) required? Is there a restriction on the number of pages (or entries)? Is it to be supplied as a stand-alone document or embedded in a Word or InDesign document?
The second half gave us a chance to flex our editing muscles on an index. How many faults could we find? Some errors were obvious, eg spelling, capitalisation and order; but others were more subtle, eg classification, ambiguity and bias. It was a very interactive session that amply demonstrated the theme of the workshop, and indeed the conference: that cooperation between editors and indexers is good for us both.
Using Word professionally
Kathleen Lyle and Anne Waddingham
Reported by Mandy Bailey
I normally work with PDF files and so I'm wary about taking on Word document jobs. I was keen to see what this workshop had to offer.
The topics covered were file management, navigation, shortcut keys and controlling Word's bad habits. Starting with the basics of file organisation, we quickly learned the importance of file compatibility, particularly if dealing with equations. This type of 'simple to more advanced' approach ensured there was something for everyone throughout the session. The 'keeping Word under control' section was most illuminating – who knew you could create a personal tab with links to all the things you need the most? Certainly not this newbie! The tips about customising the ribbon (and importing this to a different machine), understanding icons, using a quick-access toolbar and turning off those annoying 'Word knows best' auto-corrections were invaluable. The session also covered working with different languages, creating your own shortcuts, the usefulness of the 'more' tab to use the subtleties of some non-intuitive tools, how to find the 'hidden horrors' in a document and how using the navigation panel can help identify problems.
The pace and variation of the session could have been improved slightly by a more even time-split between the two presenters. This might have also helped contain the frequent 'personal anecdotes' from the floor, which although interesting, and sometimes helpful, occasionally took us off on tangents costing valuable time.
All in all, it was very worthwhile. I definitely have more confidence in using Word professionally now.
Finance for freelances
Nigel Jones
Reported by Stephanie Gardham
As a newcomer to the world of being a freelance, I signed up to the session on finance to check that I was ticking all the right boxes for the tax man. The attendees appeared to be a mixture of newbies like me and members nearing the end of their editing career, looking for retirement advice.
Nigel Jones, a local accountant, who has run his own business since 29 February 1988 (he has a thing for numbers and dates!), led the session. First, Nigel showed us a basic spreadsheet to help us work out what we needed to earn each hour in order to achieve the net salary we wanted each year; there is a calculator on his website (jonesandco.co.uk).
The remainder of the session was focused on tax. Two things I wasn't going to claim for, but now am: travel (even on a bike!) and my mortgage (including the interest). The suggestion of claiming mortgage payments was questioned by many, because of implications regarding Capital Gains Tax. However, Nigel said that you are only liable if you use your house exclusively for business.
Of course, there was a caveat: rules change. So, make sure you check before you fill out your tax return each year, and seek professional advice if in doubt! The session was really useful, and has given me the confidence to run my own finances.
Building your client base
Moyra Forrest and Alan Rutter
Reported by Katherine Trail
As a new freelance, a session entitled 'Building your client base' seemed something of a no-brainer to me, and I was eager to find out what nuggets of advice fellow editors, proofreaders and indexers would have for someone just starting out on a new career.
It quickly became apparent, however, that the issue of building your client base is not one suffered just by those new to freelancing. It was interesting to hear the perspectives of experienced freelances who were looking to diversify and expand their client base, having perhaps become uncomfortable with relying on just one or two big clients.
Unfortunately, the magic bullet was not forthcoming, but to me, as a naturally curious (nosey) person, the session was fascinating, as it provided a real insight into the career paths of colleagues and also gave rise to quite a healthy discussion on various successes (and failures) we had suffered with marketing. The consensus was that editors and proofreaders are often quite a modest bunch, and marketing is something that many of us could improve on.
Transferable skills were highlighted, and the subsequent round-table discussion was extremely illuminating as it highlighted the wide skillset we all have and can use as freelance editors, proofreaders or indexers – whether from a previous, unrelated job or a personal interest (eg involvement in amateur theatre giving an insight into play editing). And one look at the transferable skills checklist we were provided with has made me realise that, yes, I do actually have some useful skills!
Editing the future
Peter Dennis
Reported by Claire Handy
Rather than taking the approach of trends and gizmos of the future, as the session title implies, Peter Dennis opened an interesting discussion on how we as freelance editors could help and protect ourselves in the future from low-paying publishing houses.
With a substantial background in publishing, Peter talked about the processes of the publishing house and exactly where we fitted in. Owing to a lack of time and money, he stated, publishers are not able to care about the level of quality above a certain threshold. They are not able to care about the editors they employ any more. It is down to us who – by the nature of our personalities – do care to absorb the 'care buck' and be out of pocket in either time or money.
Peter's discussion centred around the fact that publishers are interested in blocking time out for projects, and he forwarded the idea of freelance editors being available to book that time in advance, through a type of associate/ retainer scheme. This has benefits for both parties, as it offers advance schedules for project managers and assured work and an understanding of the job for the freelance editor. As producing an adequate brief is one of the casualties of a lack of time, repeat work will certainly make life easier for the confused editor! Peter's session allowed for a lively debate, and it certainly opened some eyes.
The magic of the movable book
Reported by Gillian Clarke
I wasn't certain what I'd signed up for, but the description of Paul Johnson as a pop-up book artist was a good clue to part of this session. Paul travels the world with his scheme for developing literacy through book art. To help children get to grips with writing, he works with them in folding sheets of paper to make a little book each. Pupils then plan the content and write in the pages.
We had great fun working on sheets of paper, from A4 to A2, folding and cutting them according to his instructions. He also gave us two double-sided sheets with diagrams showing how to fold and cut paper to make a wide variety of shapes. Something to do in the winter evenings?
Paul had a wonderful array of items to show us. Some were copies of the little books made by pupils but others were examples of his paper engineering. They were amazing: complicated structures that were made out of strong paper he'd coloured using dyes. Because the structures are so easy to damage when travelling, he has developed ways to construct them so that they fold down flat for transport. The structure often has a story tucked away, such as the 'Three Little Pigs' and 'Old Mother Hubbard'. Paul concluded by showing us his flat Noah's Ark, and then (one, two, three!) flicking it open to its glorious 3D shape. What talent!
Collaboration and innovation through technology
Janine Burr-Willans
Reported by Philippa Sage
How much does keeping an author happy really matter? This packed-out session gave a comprehensive insight into how Emerald (an academic publisher) works with its authors to keep them coming back to publish again. Emerald uses an 'author as customer' model, so 'customer experience is key'. It uses an exhaustive quarterly feedback survey to research exactly what its authors want (including a section about freelances). Fittingly for a publisher of leading management journals, this leads to an evidence-based approach to innovation. As the speaker, Janine Burr-Williams, the content management editor at Emerald, commented, having all the data 'allows me to cherry pick projects to focus on'.
Emerald's brick-based strategy for author relationships starts with the 'basic' bricks, such as ease of submission. These are built on with 'enhancers': for example, a pre-submission language polish. Getting these bricks right leads to 'rewards' – repeat authorship or recommendations. However, previous enhancers, including having processes online, are now becoming basics.
This leads to a forward-thinking approach with content. As with most academic publishers, Emerald uses an XML-based set-up. 'Content is content' no matter what the format, and 'content informs what the workflow needs to be'. The session touched on XML style sheets, tagging for subject areas with very few technical words ('metadata keeps me awake at night') and the meaning of 'quality' in different geographical areas. For a session with the same title as the conference itself, having more time for discussion as to how this feedback model could be useful or is desirable across different sectors of the publishing industry would have been welcome.
Both sides of self-publishing
Clare Christian and Hattie Holden Edmonds
Reported by Sara Donaldson
This session attracted fewer delegates than I thought it would, but it made for a lovely, intimate session that allowed us to chat rather than just listen. Clare Christian, from Red Door Publishing, and Hattie Holden-Edmonds, an author and comedy writer, gave us their own views on self-publishing.
It was explained how the publishing landscape has come full-circle, from the 19th century when authors thought nothing of self-publishing, through to 'traditional' publishing and the emergence of vanity publishing, to today when self-publishing is again becoming popular. Clare explained the difference between service-led self-publishing services and author-led self-publishing, and how we, as freelance consultants, can make it easier for the authors we choose to work with. She talked us through how Red Door Publishing works, why she is selective about who to publish and what authors can expect from the service. The focus was very much on how to manage authors' expectations, helping them to understand the process and the realities of publishing.
Hattie told us how difficult, as an author, it is to understand the publishing process, and how one-stop shops can be very appealing. Collaboration, not competition, is the key to a happy author. With self-publishing, authors and not the publishers are the ones taking the risks, so we need to be transparent and open about what we do and what to expect.
The session finished with a chat, and we left in an upbeat mood.
Editing English: what are the rules?
Geoff Pullum
Reported by Sarah Perkins
Professor Geoff Pullum has a mission. He wants us to beware of bullies who misrepresent departure from their preference as ignorance and error.
English doesn't have strict rules, so we cannot reach for a book to check what to do. Correct English is demonstrated by the best writers, but what is correct depends on a range of factors: comprehension, aesthetics, level of formality, style constraints, and readers' prejudices and reactions.
Many people believe exactly what they were told about grammar when they were seven. Other subjects have changed since then. Why shouldn't grammar change too? We should look at the facts about how we use language. Grammar is not what is traditional, what is generally accepted by the hoi polloi, or what older people know. It violates general rules and survives empirical investigation.
Rogue advice about language is often negative. Ignoring it often follows the example of those setting the 'rule'. Orwell encouraged avoidance of passive verbs, but used them twice as often as other writers of his era.
We rushed through examples of 'condemned constructions', some of which are merely style discrepancies, and many of which can be found in esteemed texts like the King James's Bible and Shakespeare's plays. John Simon says 'the lapses of the great ones do not make a wrong right', but if there are enough lapses, it tells us something.
This was a lively and interesting presentation, where the only fault was that there was too much material for a single hour.
Adverbs are more expensive
David Crystal
Reported by Julia Sandford-Cooke
'It says on my badge,' began David Crystal, '"After-dinner speaker".' He is, of course, far more than just that. As a linguistics professor, prolific writer, consultant and broadcaster, his contribution to the study of language has been immense. In his role as the vice-president of the SfEP, he has entertained editors at many conferences, and began his talk by endearing himself to indexers too: 'Good evening or, to members of the Society of Indexers, evening, good.'
As usual, Professor Crystal was candid about the opportunity to promote his new book, this time Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation. He recalled advising Lynne Truss not to write about the subject because 'nobody buys books on punctuation'. 'Three million books later,' he added, 'I hate her.'
A skilful and confident speaker, Professor Crystal made what was really a series of snippets and anecdotes into a coherent talk, aided, of course, by humour and a shared understanding with his audience. He concluded with an unlikely but hilarious story from his time working at the Survey of English Usage in the 1960s. Alone in the office one day, he answered the phone to a man asking the price of supplying adjectives for a shoe advertisement. Convinced the caller was a mischievous colleague, he replied that they were sixpence each and cheaper by the dozen. 'We also have a very good line in adverbs: they're more expensive as they depend on the verbs, which themselves are essential to the clause structure, so they are a shilling.' Of course, the order turned out to be real, and the linguists duly supplied the words 'via Roget's Thesaurus'. The customer was effusive in his appreciation.
Judging by the length of the queue for a signed copy of Professor Crystal's book, the SfEP audience was, too.
Structural fiction editing
Allyson Latta
Reported by Margaret Christie
Does the opening sentence of a novel make you want to read more? And is it in keeping with the rest of the book? Issues to do with opening sentences took up roughly the middle third of this session, which included an exercise in which we wrote alternative opening sentences for the same story and discussed (in small groups) which worked better and why.
I learnt that structural editing involves alerting authors to problems, not fixing them, though the editor may make suggestions. Allyson Latta, an independent structural editor, said that she always has a long 'brainstorming' session with the author, usually by phone or Skype, throwing in ideas. She gave tips on how to give feedback to authors: praise what works; work from big issues to smaller ones; never criticise an author personally; and don't criticise the content – it's about the writing, not the writer.
She would not recommend anyone to attempt structural editing before having copy-edited fiction. Her own progression was from proofreading via copy-editing and stylistic editing to structural editing. She also teaches memoir writing, and said that as many of the same issues come up in that as in novels.
Structural editing is not something that many publishers use freelances for: most such work is for authors, both those hoping to be published and those intending to self-publish.
Allyson reads the start and end of books she's working on before reading the whole book. Some participants disagreed with this approach – you can only be surprised once!
Changing faces – 500 years of type
Rob Banham
Reported by Richard Hutchinson
Rob Banham, an associate professor in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (a felicitously apposite homograph), took us on a fascinating journey through the history of typeface development. In a session that definitely whetted the appetite to find out more, he outlined the personalities involved, the technological developments that led to changes, the techniques and craftsmanship required to manufacture the type, and the terminology involved – which has left its mark on our language (so that's why capital letters are called upper case!).
We saw the divergence of roman and broken scripts, the changes in letter shapes from Venetian type to old face to transitional and modern faces, and the development, disappearance and emphasis of serifs. We were also able to handle examples of the punches, moulds and matrices used for the casting of type.
Hand-cut cast type was dominant from the mid-15th century until the 1930s, but then changes in technology led to increased mechanisation in the production of the printed word, and techniques such as wood-cut type, chromolithography, linecasting, phototypesetting and, finally, digital fonts each led to developments in the design and variety of available typefaces.
The overwhelming sense at the end of the session was respect for the ideals and perseverance of the typeface designers, who are often immortalised in the names of the fonts we use today, and in particular for the skills of the craftsmen who did the actual work.
The ethics of thesis editing
Reported by Peter Norrington
Ashley Craig, a freelance science editor, led an interesting and lively session. She introduced material on the purpose and basic structure of a (PhD) thesis, ethical concerns, challenges (and levels) of editing and appropriate types of service. For the last two, there was hands-on practice material. Given the range of content and comments, the session was a solid introduction of benefit to those new to this area as well as the more experienced.
The session couldn't be expected to address in full all student levels or the career paths, or all disciplines, universities and their support systems. It focused on the PhD and the academic path, a science and one UK university. This implicit scope might leave some present and, more likely, readers of the slides available afterwards, with a view that all theses are similar in content, context and needs.
But there's no doubt that the discussion and materials can help individual members working with theses, and the SfEP, to consider the many issues in this kind of work, starting with: would you do it at all; under what circumstances; and for how much? The templates she handed out will likely stimulate discussion and be used in different ways by different editors, eg the development of a code of practice or a style sheet.
Working with students can generate heated discussion about educational standards, which makes open discussion important for sharing concerns and workable approaches. Ashley's session certainly made a positive contribution to this. This was the key conference working session for me; I left satisfied.
Work–life balance for freelances
Alison Rutter and Janette Griffin
Reported by Luke Finley
First session, the morning after the gala dinner, and I wasn't quite ready to do more than 'just exist', but duty calls … Besides, any new tips and techniques on this subject are particularly relevant to me: I have a chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia, which only exacerbates the strain we all face from long hours hunched over a keyboard.
Occupational therapist Alison Rutter and Alexander technique practitioner Janette Griffin gave a good basic overview of the risks of ignoring work– life balance or the physical aspects of working style. There was some relevant discussion of the added pressures of freelancing – such as the pressure to say 'yes' and blurred lines between work and home life.
But in the two hours available, we could have gone deeper. More focus on real-life examples from participants, discussion and suggested solutions would have gone further in answering the key question: 'what can I do about it?' We came away with useful handouts, for example detailing how to apply the Alexander technique in practice, but the workshop itself missed the opportunity to teach this by example by demonstrating on volunteers.
Most attendees had their own examples of problems caused by posture, etc, and few said that they had their work –life balance right, so this subject is undoubtedly worth revisiting at future conferences. This session was maybe best seen as a 'taster' for a more in-depth, solution-focused approach next time around.
Building a good client relationship
Jane Read and Philip Stirups
Reported by Amelia Smithers
Jane Read, a full-time freelance indexer, and Philip Stirups, an in-house editor at Ashgate Publishing who has project managed over 150 books, spoke about how to build up a good relationship with your clients. Philip Stirups said: 'Negotiation skills are the key to managing relationships; it is not just about getting enough money. It is about building a relationship with the people you are going to be working with.'
He advised his audience to think in advance about what they were going to say and what they needed to know about the job. He also advised them to always end discussions on a positive note but to remember that it was always possible to turn down a job if the conditions were not right: 'Even the most experienced of us needs to sleep!'
There was some discussion with the participants about whether to negotiate with clients by telephone or by e-mail. Jane Read emphasised that with new clients it was important to be as professional as possible and to at least obtain an agreement in writing, as opposed to just a verbal agreement. She said that it was important to remember that good relationships take time to establish and could be destroyed in minutes.
There was quite a bit of discussion about how to negotiate fees, and advice on how to renegotiate deadlines and chase up bad debts.
Ruth Ellis
Reported by Denise Cowle
Ruth Ellis from the Society of Indexers took us through how to use social media to market ourselves. We looked at the importance of having a presence online for prospective clients, both to locate you and to verify who you are. Ruth showed us how to link our own website to other social media sites, and the importance of back-links for search engine optimisation.
We should have a plan for our social media marketing, particularly for what we want to say, and be clear about what results we want to get from it. The ways to engage online are by sharing, teaching, helping, complimenting and referring. The definite no-no is hard selling – your followers won't like that, so don't do it!
The main focus of the session was on Twitter – which is public, up-to-the-minute and versatile – and LinkedIn, which is strictly professional and a good forum for connecting with colleagues and prospective clients, although we also looked at Facebook. Ruth covered the basics of how Twitter works, the different types of tweets, and how to set up lists to categorise and filter who you are following.
This was an information-packed session, with lots of really useful tips, even for those familiar with these platforms. My suggestion would be that in future it could be split into two sessions: one for absolute beginners covering the basics of starting out, how-to information, the etiquette of connecting and posting, dos and don'ts, etc, and the other for dabblers who want to learn more about its effective use – scheduling, using lists, marketing techniques, etc.
Corpora for editors
Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Reported by Hazel Bird
In 'Corpora for editors', Ana Frankenberg-Garcia of the University of Surrey introduced us to corpora: vast bodies of text that can be analysed to find patterns in language use. She explained how corpora must be natural (composed of real examples); principled (focused on a specific area, such as legal French or American English); representative (by multiple authors); and digital (to enable the use of specialised, efficient corpus software).
Corpora are valuable because they represent the combined intuition of potentially millions of writers or speakers. They give real-life results that cannot be found in dictionaries, and can provide reassurance when working in unfamiliar domains.
Four types of search – concordances, frequencies, collocations and word lists – can be run. These can help with non-native English (eg confirming that 'married with' is considerably less common than 'married to'); with translation (eg showing where a language component usually falls in a sentence); with technical writing and editing (eg use of 'electric' versus 'electrical'); with regional variations in English usage (eg choice of prepositions); and to other varied ends (eg establishing that 'ensue' is usually collocated with negative concepts).
There are various corpora available. The British National Corpus is considered the gold standard, though it is small and now dated. Sketch Engine is a recommended (though paid-for) portal to many corpora. Alternatively, Google's N-grams, which draws on Google's book collection of over 150 billion words, can be searched for free, and shows usage changes over time.
Thank you to Ana for a solidly useful and entertaining presentation.
From print book to ebook
Chris Jennings
Reported by Denise Holden
For those like me who don't work in traditional publishing this was an informative overview of the different types of ebook (fixed or reflowable layout), the common production workflows (digital or print book first) and the issues for editors. In a print book the designer has control of the appearance of the page but in a reflowable ebook the page does not really exist.
The user of the device can change the font, the font size, and the line and text spacing, which affect how the text flows on a device's 'page'. Editors therefore need to consider elements such as headers and footers (eliminate for an ebook), footnotes and references (move to the end of chapters or the end of the book), tables (may need reworking as lists), diagrams (anchor within the text, keep the image and caption together) and in-text references to page numbers (use hyperlinks instead).
Chris Jennings, an ebook consultant and lecturer in digital publishing at Oxford Brookes University, proposed that the ideal approach was to consider both print and ebook formats from the outset, and find solutions that work for both rather than produce in one format and then adapt for the other.
With this approach, editing of the source text is done only once, and page layout procedures (such as anchoring images, threading text, exporting tags and including dynamic TOCs) ensure it is suitable for reflowable text in an ebook. Software such as Calibre can be used to simulate the appearance of an ebook on various devices as a means of quality control.
Invisible no longer!
Alison Baverstock
Reported by Pat Baxter
Alison Baverstock, an associate professor of publishing at Kingston University, demonstrated how editors are well placed to benefit from current changes within publishing – and also in what way she, herself, is well placed to illustrate just how, as she has researched and published her detailed results on the self-publishing industry.
Alison explained that many common perceptions of self-publishing have been dispelled, negating myths that this form of publishing is somehow a lower breed of authoring, that it is 'a measure of last resort'. Her opinion is that editor input has contributed to this change.
Alison has looked in detail at the demographics of those working in self-publishing by gender, age, employment status and educational attainment, resulting in some surprising statistics that can be found right across the spectrum. Responses showed that job satisfaction included, for example, variety of material, flexible working, good client relationships, steady workflow, expansion of potential clients, sight of the finished product, good rates of pay reimbursed timeously, wider appreciation of the editor's role and owning work patterns.
These perceived advantages contrasted favourably with declining standards currently being experienced within traditional publishing, such as editors' diminishing roles at the mercy of management from overseas, subject to late payment and the loss of close and satisfying client relationships with project managers. Publishers' retrenchment generally has meant that editors are increasingly expected to cover more functions beyond traditional ones, while discussions and negotiating opportunities with editors are more limited, with fixed-fee contracts the order of the day.
The opportunity to quiz Alison elicited a range of pertinent questions, revealing that this is indeed an area that can only develop and increase, promoted and encouraged by Alison's continuing and valuable research.
Eben Muse
Reported by Andrew Coulson
Dr Eben Muse's closing lecture looked at the future of reading. He is well qualified to talk about this as a self-confessed book fanatic, a part-owner of a bookstore and a professor of digital media. He described his interest as coming from the work of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who founded the World Wide Web; from EPUB, the open ebook standard; from his students' reaction to a new development in digital reading; and from his own awareness of the possibilities of what readers might want.
The lecture took us time-travelling through the history of reading, from the stone tablet to moving type. He highlighted the enormity of this advancement in making reading portable, private and indexable. En route, we visited some early innovations in reading that hinted at the developments we are now seeing.
Arriving at the present day, Eben described convenience as a key measure of the success of any reading technology in a world where 'we used to read intensively; we now read extensively'. He used the 'shadow industry' of inexpensive, self-published books (now accounting for about 30% of all books sold but not appearing in the official sales figures) and the growth of audiobooks as examples.
We then tumbled on into the future and met the idea that books could respond to our moods and actions. This might mean we could influence how a story would evolve, or be told from different perspectives. Turning to non-fiction and textbooks, he identified how we 'satisfice', just wanting key information quickly. He sees this as a key problem holding back digital technologies in this field. Ultimately, he expects a solution that combines and allows indexing and searching to evolve.
He finished up by sharing his belief that any digital solution that can make reading immersive, enjoyable, chaotic and personal is likely to succeed. Ending on a positive note, he highlighted the central role for human input in content creation, such as editing or indexing, to make these technologies work most effectively for the reader.
Watch the video of the 2015 closing lecture.
Linda Byrne
A few days before the first joint SfEP–SI conference, I was asked to write a short piece about my experience as someone attending for the first time. I can only assume my name was picked out of some sort of digital hat, and, having agreed to write something, I decided to make a few notes at the end of each day and to keep it simple.
Day 1 – feeling relieved
Earlier in the year I had attended another annual conference for the first time and found it to be very cliquey, with several awkward moments, especially when it came to finding somewhere to sit at meal times and chatting to people (or not) in the breaks. Today has been quite different and not in any sense an ordeal. The idea of having a red dot on your name badge as a first-timer is simple but effective. It immediately gives you something to say to introduce yourself and strike up a conversation. So far, no awkward moments and some interesting people and conversations.
Day 2 – feeling positive
It had been hard to choose which sessions to attend, and some were more useful than others, although it is interesting to see how a few good ideas can drop into your mind even during a session that is not quite what you were expecting. Then there was the gala dinner, the part of the conference with the greatest potential for awkward moments. I had forgotten to put my name down on the seating plan, and was therefore allocated a space on a table with people I had not spoken to before. I needn't have worried, either about what to wear – the general dress code seemed to be smart but not over the top – or about not knowing anyone. I found myself seated next to one of the directors of the SfEP, who was very easy to talk to, as were all the others at my table. Two of the most notable features of the conference for me were the lack of any sense of hierarchy or superiority on the part of those who have been in the editing or indexing business for much longer than I have, and the readiness of everyone to engage in conversation. It may sound odd that I was so struck by this, but I certainly did not find the same to be true at the conference I had attended earlier in the year.
Day 3 – sitting on the train, looking forward to getting home
I would have liked to attend several of today's sessions concurrently and was sorry to have missed the one on structural editing. Alison Baverstock's presentation and her insights into the world of self-publishing were the highlight of the day for me. By the end of the closing session, I was ready for a good cup of coffee and to go home. I'm an hour into a four-hour train journey and, looking through the paperwork, I see that there were 64 first-timers attending the conference with at least one more whose name was not on that list. That's a lot of people attending for the first time, and I realise I have only spoken to a few people in any depth. However, I feel sure I will keep in touch with the ones who live in my area and with whom it will be good to meet up as we have discussed.
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GLENDALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disney Consumer Products (DCP) today announced its collaboration with electronics powerhouse, Monster Cable, and specialty toy maker, Medicom Toy, for new Daft Punk-inspired TRON: LEGACY electronics and toys. The Grammy Award-winning musical duo Daft Punk have composed the much-anticipated soundtrack – released Tuesday, December 7 from Walt Disney Records – for Walt Disney Picture's TRON: LEGACY, opening nationwide December 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™.
The stylish and specially lighted Daft Punk Edition TRON headphones by Monster, a leader in manufacturing and design of high-performance headphones and A/V accessories, are designed as the ultimate headphones for gaming, music and home cinema and will be released beginning today at major electronics retailers with a special surround-sound mix of the TRON: LEGACY original motion picture soundtrack. Known for its signature KUBRICK and BE@RBRICK figures, specialty toy maker Medicom Toy will release in late December the Series 21 BE@RBRICK assortment, followed by the 400% BE@RBRICK two-pack and KUBRICK two-pack in mid-January, both designed to match the TRON: LEGACY suits which appear in the film during a musical cameo featuring Daft Punk.
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In addition to other TRON: LEGACY-inspired figures, Medicom Toy has created several Daft Punk TRON: LEGACY figures designed to match the suits which appear in the film during a musical cameo. Available at specialty retailers beginning this month, these limited-edition figures are must-haves for true TRON: LEGACY fans. The BE@RBRICK Series 21 assortment (SRP $4.99), which includes the Daft Punk TRON: Legacy BE@RBRICK, will be available in late December. In January 2011, Medicom Toy will release the Daft Punk TRON: LEGACY 400% BE@RBRICK two-pack (SRP $199.99) and Daft Punk TRON: LEGACY KUBRICK two-pack (SRP $19.99), followed in April by the release of 12-inch Daft Punk TRON: LEGACY Real Action Heroes (RAH) figures (SRP $229.99) featuring the musical duo in their sleek TRON: LEGACY suits showcased in their film cameo.
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TRON: Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. TRON: Legacy is directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver and Steven Lisberger. The story is by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal, and the screenplay is by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, based on characters created by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. Presented in Disney Digital 3D™, Real D 3D and IMAX® 3D and scored by Grammy Award®–winning electronic music duo Daft Punk, TRON: Legacy hits theaters on December 17, 2010.
The highly anticipated original motion picture score for TRON: Legacy, composed and produced by the iconic and critically acclaimed Grammy® Award–winning duo Daft Punk, will be released by Walt Disney Records on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. The duo assembled a symphony of one hundred world class musicians in London and recorded the orchestra at AIR Lyndhurst Studios, Britain's premier scoring facility. The album features 22 score cues, including the focus track "Derezzed," and liner notes from TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
Disney Consumer Products (DCP) is the business segment of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) that extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging from apparel, toys, home décor and books and magazines to foods and beverages, stationery, electronics and fine art. This is accomplished through DCP's various lines of business which include: Disney Toys, Disney Fashion & Home, Disney Food, Health & Beauty, and Disney Stationery. Other businesses involved in Disney's consumer products sales are Disney Publishing Worldwide, the world's largest publisher of children's books and magazines, and www.DisneyStore.com, the company's official shopping portal. The Disney Stores retail chain, which debuted in 1987, is owned and operated by Disney in North America, Europe, and Japan. For more information, please visit www.DisneyConsumerProducts.com or watch us at www.YouTube.com/DisneyLiving, "like us" on www.Facebook.com/DisneyLiving, or "follow us" at www.Twitter.com/DisneyLiving.
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Disney Consumer Products (DCP) today announced its collaboration with electronics powerhouse, Monster Cable, and specialty toy maker, Medicom Toy, for new Daft Punk-inspired TRON: LEGACY merchandise.


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GIS Internship Leads to Full-time Work
Posted by Madeline Patton on July 1st, 2013 at 11:00am .
Shaun Vester transitioned immediately from intern to full-time geographic information systems (GIS) analyst in a regional planning office this spring.
The internship was part of the 15-credit Geospatial Certificate Program that Lake Land College Geography and GIS Instructor Michael Rudibaugh developed with support from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program.
The 25-year-old Vester is glad that the certificate program is making it possible for him to earn more money.
Working as a contract GIS analyst immediately increased his income and guaranteed 40 hours of work each week through 2013 doing the detailed GIS work he likes. He also has a chance to become an employee with benefits next year, if the government entity has sufficient funding.
Vester says his internship gave him the opportunity to prove he knows GIS and can apply it in practical, important ways. His first project for pay involves converting all the rural routes of Shelby County, Illinois, into an emergency address system so people and properties can be located more quickly by safety services.
Employer Learning from Intern
Vester's boss raves about the script Vester wrote to automate the assignment of 100 addresses for each mile of roadway in the rural county. The two days Vester spent customizing the software program eliminated 30 workdays of hand-entering data, according to Kelly Lockhart, executive director of Coles County Regional Planning Office in Charleston, Illinois.
"He's great; he's fantastic," Lockhart said of Vester.
Vester is the third Lake Land College GIS intern hired at the regional planning office, which typically has one intern from the community college and two interns from Eastern Illinois University each semester.
Lockhart himself learned GIS as a work-study student in Professor Rudibaugh's office in 1998 when the technology was new and the community college did not have a GIS course. The experience set Lockhart's career direction. He eventually transferred to Eastern Illinois University and majored in geography with a GIS concentration. When Lockhart completed his bachelor's degree in 2000 he was hired as a contract employee in the regional planning office that he now runs. He interned there while attending classes at the university.
As an employer Lockhart values the GIS certificate program that Rudibaugh developed with support from MentorLinks, an ATE project of the American Association of Community Colleges, and then enriched with what he learned as a co-principal investigator of the GeoTECH Center, one of 39 ATE Centers nationally.
Lockhart offers this evidence of the quality of the GIS-certificate students' skills. Eight years ago, he had to train the community college's interns to do particular GIS tasks. Now he and his staff routinely learn about GIS innovations from the community college's interns.
"Without the community college, we'd have a much more difficult time doing our job," Lockhart said.
Lake Land College Board Learning from GIS Student's Work
Lake Land College, too, is benefitting from Vester's capstone project with Rudibaugh that analyzes students' commuting patterns in the 4,000 square mile Central Illinois college district.
By geo-coding and spatially referencing 2012 student registration data, Vester and Rudibaugh found that the cost of commuting to the college's main campus is double the cost of tuition for many students. These students are driving from the outer ring of the service area (red section in the map) and spend $600 to $1,200 per semester on gasoline to attend classes.
In their report to the Lake Land College board, Vester and Rudibaugh estimate that assigning students to branch campuses nearest their homes could reduce the average students' commuting costs from $340 to $178 per semester.
Rudibaugh hopes other community colleges will use their study as a model of the type of useful information they can extract from their students' registration data.
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Pakistan's Women's Rights Organizers Accused Of Blasphemy
Cassie Ransom
Accusations of blasphemy are being used by conservatives in Pakistan to discredit the organizers of the annual "Aurat Azadi March" (Women's Freedom March). The Pakistan Penal code treats blasphemy as a criminal offence punishable by fines, incarceration or death. The law is frequently exploited to persecute minorities and groups perceived to pose a threat to the state.
The allegations are accompanied by doctored photographs and videos which depict participants from this year's march promoting blasphemous slogans. The claims are unsubstantiated and have already been dismissed in one court in Lahore. In a statement released earlier this week, the organizers of the Aurat Azadi March declared that "the incidents which are being falsely framed as blasphemous in these charges are not even from the Islamabad March and the allegations regarding them have been thoroughly debunked by both media outlets and the respective city chapters where they came up […] We are being incriminated for crimes we never committed, slogans that were never raised, and banners that were never carried."
The blasphemy accusations are merely the latest in a string of attempts by various parties to counteract the efforts of the Aurat Azadi March organizers. The march, which commemorates International Women's Day, has recently been subject to increasing opposition from right-wing groups. Writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar told DW that "Feminism is a foreign concept and these women (women's rights activists) get funding from Europe and the U.S." Prime Minister Imran Khan's government accused women's rights NGOs of advocating western values and accepting funds from foreign organizations in 2018. The crackdown resulted in the forced closure of 18 international NGOs and is widely seen by women's rights activists as a mechanism to silence their efforts. Activist Ismat Shahjahan told DW that the media, right-wing organizations and the state had engaged in "coordinated efforts" to distort the public's perception of feminism and quash support for the movement.
Accusations of blasphemy are particularly damaging to the feminist movement because of the prevalence of Islamic authority in Pakistan, which has the strictest anti-blasphemy laws of all Muslim-majority countries. Presenting feminist values as incompatible with or threatening to Islam is likely to engender significant public resistance. Human rights activist Medhi Hassan told DW that "Pakistan is not a democratic state but a religious state where clerics wield a lot of influence." Hassan notes that "Hurling allegations of blasphemy amounts to jeopardizing the lives of people here. We fear that the lives of women activists are in danger because there are so many extremists out there in the streets who could target them at any time."
Accusations of blasphemy have previously resulted in street vigilantes, murders and lynchings. The laws are famously exploited to persecute minorities and other outgroups. Activist Shazia Khan reports that she has been pressured to reduce her activism by fearful loved ones. Khan told DW: "Hatemongers and misogynistic media personalities have been spewing venom against us, jeopardizing the lives of women in a country where people are killed merely due to false accusations of blasphemy."
Creating a climate where activists' lives are threatened is likely to stifle their attempts to defend women's rights in a country that desperately needs it. According to the Journal Of Pakistan Medical Association, approximately 70-90% of Pakistani women report experiencing some form of abuse. The Aurat Azadi March spreads messages such as "my body, my choice" to protest sexual abuse.
Given that the anti-blasphemy laws are often used to legitimize intolerance toward minorities, some critics have advocated for changing the law to protect vulnerable groups. Writer Mohammed Hanif argued that "the country's blasphemy law is overwhelmingly being used to persecute religious minorities and settle personal vendettas" after an illiterate 14-year old Christian, Rimsha Masih, was accused of blasphemy. Hanif notes the reluctance of politicians to change the law despite its clear connection to violence towards out-groups. In the past week, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) was outlawed under anti-terrorist laws after violently protesting against allegedly blasphemous caricatures by a French illustrator. Altering the laws would help Pakistan honour its commitments in international human rights law to provide a "safe environment where women and girls can live a life free from violence in private and public spaces, and survivors are able to access quality essential services." Changing the laws would also help protect other minority groups, such as Christians, from persecution.
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Cassie has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Otago. She will commence postgraduate study in social psychology in 2021 and is particularly driven to understand the group processes which precede intergroup conflict. She writes about the ethics of our financial system for The Seven Pillars Institute and has just started as a junior correspondent for the OWP. Her areas of interest include women's rights and environmental issues.
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We don't eat ground beef, but do like ground turkey. These cabbage rolls have no rice in them. They are low carb and so tasty. These would be great with a dollop of sour cream.
I had some meat left and made two small turkey meat loaves.
spaghetti sauce, any flavour will do.
Put your cabbage in a large pot and boil the water until the cabbage leaves come off easily. I left mine quite a long time so it was soft down to the core.
Remove the core and remove all the leaves. Remove the outer part of the large rib from the outside of each leaf with a sharp knife. This will make the leaves easier to roll. Try not to cut through the leaf.
Prepare your chicken and apple sausage by putting it through the food processor until it resembles hamburger. Mix it with the ground turkey and then add the egg, onion and salt and pepper. Don't mix too long, this will make the meat tough.
Spread about 1/4 of the jar of spaghetti sauce into the bottom of the dish you use to cook the rolls. Keep any left over cabbage to put on top of the sauce and under the rolls. I used a 9x13" rectangular ceramic dish. It was just right.
Lay one of the softened leaves on it's back (rib side down) and put a large spoonful of meat mixture at the end closest to you and then roll, fold the sides in and roll to the end to make a nice neat roll.
Place the rolls on top of the cabbage pieces in the casserole dish.
Pour the rest of the spaghetti sauce on top of the rolls. Cover the rolls with a sheet of tin foil.
Bake at 35o'F for 45-50 minutes.


If you are to ask any avid traveler which country you should never miss visiting, chances are they would mention the name of Malaysia. It is a beautiful country that offers great weather all year long, modern and historical cities, gorgeous islands and beaches, hundreds of years old tropical forests, and the list goes on…If you still need some convincing to start buying a flight ticket and travel in Malaysia, here are the top 8 reasons why Malaysia is the best country in the world to visit – at least once in your lifetime.
When it comes to having a holiday – alone or with your family – the last thing you want to happen is boredom. This is the scenario that will never happen in this country. There are so many interesting places to visit. There is the metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur that offers you the view of skyscrapers, modern architectures, and yet, some greenery right in the middle of it.
There are also trendy shopping districts like Bukit Bintang and KLCC for shopping lovers. Looking to learn more about the practiced religions in Malaysia? You can visit attractions like Batu Caves, Masjid Negara, and countless other mosques and temples around the country.
Plus, the joy that you get when you travel in Malaysia is not only restricted in KL. You will find many tourist attractions as you travel north, south and to the east of peninsular Malaysia. As if that is not enough, you can always jump on a plane and fly over to the other part of Malaysia – Borneo Island – to enjoy the aborigine cultures and explore the deep tropical jungles of Borneo!
While some country can be quite challenging to travel, you won't experience the same when you travel in Malaysia. The country has a very extensive transportation system. If you need to fly from KL to Kota Bharu within an hour, you can take one of the low-fare local flights like AirAsia, Malindo, and Firefly.
If you wish to enjoy the countryside and get close to the locals, you can always take the train – it travels from the south (Johor Bharu) and all the way up to the north (Perlis). You can also continue your journey to Bangkok, Thailand!
In the KL City itself, you will find multiple high-speed train systems – KTM, LRT, MRT – that will get you around easily and comfortably.
Of course, another main reason why you should travel in Malaysia is to experience its melting pot of cultures. It is a unique country in which three main races live harmoniously together. They know a little bit of each other's language and mix well in schools and workplaces. The best place to see all three races eat and chat together? At the Malaysia's pride – Mamak restaurants!
The point above leads us to the next best reason why you should visit Malaysia – its finger-licking food – figuratively and literally. Why? It is the custom of the Malaysians to eat food with their hands. Since they are all flavorful and tasty, we bet you will lick your finger after savoring it.
Here, you can find all sorts of cuisines from all three different heritages – Malay food, Chinese food, and Indian foods. There are Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, Assam Laksa, Tandoori, Nasi Kerabu, Sate, Tosai, Hainan Chicken Rice, Rojak, and so much more! The best place to find all these delicious local street foods when you travel in Malaysia? At the night market!
Malaysia is blessed with many islands and beautiful beaches. The tropical weather makes it even more enticing for tourists all around the world. Langkawi, Redang, Tioman, Pangkor Laut, Perhentian, and Sipadan are some of the world's class islands to visit while you travel in Malaysia.
If you are a diving fan, Malaysia is also one of the best countries in the world for you to visit. Sipadan and Redang have been dubbed as the world's best diving spots!
You might think that the small country of Malaysia does not have any interesting highlands. Sure, there is no majestic Himalaya range here, but we do have the Titiwangsa range. It houses two of the most famous highlands in Malaysia – Cameron Highlands and Genting Highlands.
Cameron Highlands provides you a cool escape from the hot and humid weather of the lowlands. Here, you will be able to enjoy the scenic view of tea plantation while sipping a cup of hot Cameron tea.
In Genting Highland, you will be able to enjoy the outdoor and indoor theme park! There is also the new 20th Century Fox World Genting Malaysia Theme Park that is currently under development in Genting.
Another top reason why Malaysia is the best country in the world to visit is its rich heritage and history. After hundreds of years of colonization from the British, Dutch, Japan, and Portuguese, the country houses numerous old, well-preserved colonial buildings and historical sites. The rich heritage is also obvious in the local foods – Peranakan Nyonya is one of them!
Finally, Malaysia is the best country in the world to visit because it has all the accommodations needed for both backpackers and luxurious-seeking travelers. There are St. Regis, Grand Hyatt, Shangri-La, and Hilton for those who seek opulent holiday experience.
For backpackers, you can always spend a night or two at one of the boutique hotels or hostels in Malaysia. They are very affordable and comfortable – some are very stylish and well-decorated too!
As you can see from the top reasons above, Malaysia is a very interesting and fun country to visit. The list of places to explore is long, the transportation and other facilities are complete, the locals are friendly, the traveling cost is very affordable, and the foods are undeniably tasty. Give the country a visit and see how the tagline of Malaysia Airline comes to life – Malaysia, truly Asia! Don't forget, as always, let us know of any hidden finds you discover along your journey in the comment box below!


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Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald will not play in the opener.Photo Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
bySports Xchange
"Our guys certainly understand that we talk about choices and consequences and decision making and accountability."
Mississippi State's Nick Fitzgerald, who is considered one of the top quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference, has been suspended for the Bulldogs' season opener.
First-year Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead made the announcement of the suspension, saying only that Fitzgerald had violated team rules. The violation occurred in March, but Moorhead did not expand on the incident.
As a result Keytaon Thompson will start Saturday's season opener against Stephen F. Austin, an FCS school.
Senior defensive tackle Cory Thomas also was suspended for the opener for a violation of team rules.
"Our guys certainly understand that we talk about choices and consequences and decision making and accountability," Moorhead said, according to the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. "They understand that they're going to have to deal with the consequences of their choices."
Fitzgerald is expected to be reinstated for the Bulldogs' second game against Kansas State.
Last season Fitzgerald passed for 1,782 yards and 15 touchdowns and rushed for 984 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Bulldogs. He suffered an ankle injury in the final regular-season game against Mississippi.
Thompson appeared in 10 games last season, and completed 32 of 66 pass attempts for 388 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions. Thompson also rushed for 446 yards and six touchdowns.


RUSH: This is Frank in Queens. Glad you called, sir. What's happening? What's up?
RUSH: Now, wait, wait, hold it. I'm not gonna take away from the time that you called to talk about your primary point, but how does that happen? A pollster called you a racist while you're being polled on the phone?
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Hold it a moment. What street are you walking down, where were you walking, where were you going, how'd they find you?
CALLER: It was in Virginia. I wasn't in New York. I live in New York. But it was in Virginia. And he didn't know I voted for Obama twice. And then, you know, he walked away from me, turned back and called me a racist. But, anyway, and that's not the reason I called, though.
RUSH: I know. And I'm not gonna take your time… Wait a minute, now. If we have to hold you through the break, which we're gonna have to do, I'm not gonna deprive you of talking about what you want to talk about. This is intriguing. You're walking down the street, you're minding your own business in a state you don't even live in, and some guy comes up, convinces you he's a pollster, starts asking you questions. Where were you walking? Were you downtown? Were you walking in your home area? Where were you?
CALLER: I was in my son's house. I was visiting my son.
RUSH: So you're walking in the neighborhood.
RUSH: Just out walking for the sake of walking. You're not going anywhere; you're just taking a stroll?
RUSH: All right. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. I'm just… We thought polling… I didn't know it was done this way.
RUSH: Now we're back with Frank in Queens, who is home from Virginia where he was recently walking with his son in the neighborhood and he was accosted by a pollster. Did he tell you what polling firm he was representing?
CALLER: No, no, Rush. This was before the election this happened. This happened before the election.
CALLER: No, I don't know what it was. He was a Democratic pollster. He had a clipboard. I told him, "I'm not voting for Obama (sic), I'm voting for Trump," and then he called me a racist, and then my son turned to me after and said, "Didn't you vote for Obama?" I said, "Yeah, two times." But, anyway, I just wanted to point that out, this happens.
RUSH: Wait just a second. (laughing) I know you're chomping at the bit to get to your other point.
RUSH: But this is a big deal. This is exactly why people lie to pollsters. This exactly why you have the Wilder Effect. This is why people lied to pollsters and told them they were voting for Doug Wilder. He was a black candidate for governor of Virginia 'cause they didn't want a pollster accusing of being a racist if they told 'em they weren't gonna vote. So you admitted you voted for Obama twice and now you were not gonna vote for Hillary, and the guy turns around and calls you a racist.
CALLER: Yeah. He didn't know I voted for Obama twice. That was the silly part of it.
CALLER: He called me racist… Yeah, right. Right. Right.
CALLER: Okay. Well, you know, I agree with you 100%.
RUSH: Now. Hurry up. Only got 10 seconds here.
CALLER: I agree with you about the fix being in for Hillary, but I still can't figure out why Comey did this thing at the end of the election where he did the Carlos Dangerfield (sic) stuff because that doesn't seem to, you know, go, you know, for Trump. I mean… I mean, for… You know what I'm saying? That's like, why would he want to bring up that Carlos Dangerfield if the fix was in for Hillary at the end? I can't figure that out.
RUSH: Well, I think because they were required to. They had come across… This, I actually think, was legit, and I think it scared them. Here's what Frank is talking about. This is the September, October 2016 when Comey went back to Congress and said they were reopening the Hillary email investigation. She had been exonerated back on July 5. They're reopening it because they found some of her emails on a computer Huma Abedin's husband, Carlos Danger, who had been engaging in "sext messaging" with young, teenage girls.
And this all was about classified data being trafficked in, and if Huma is putting Hillary State Department classified emails on her husband's computer, then they went back and they had to report this to Congress. Now, they reported before they investigated and found that (miraculously) there was nothing to see, and so what old Frank here is asking is — as a former Obama voter — he wants to know why, if the fix was in, would they do that? Because that seemed to really have a negative impact on Hillary, and it certainly gave her an opening to use that as a reason why people turned away from her toward the end of the campaign.
I don't have an answer for you, Frank, within any context. I mean, if, for example, we assume that the FBI had the fix in for Hillary — which they did. I mean, Comey announces on July 5th that she's not gonna be prosecuted; she's exonerated. He told us that "no reasonable prosecutor" would ever pursue the case because she didn't intend to do anything that she did, and therefore getting a conviction would be impossible. That's bogus, but that's what he said. So she's cleared. That's July 5th.
And then two months later we're back and we're reopening this thing. It happened on a Thursday or Friday, and all weekend, everybody was bzz bzz bzz bzz. Then Comey announces, "Sorry, we didn't find anything; it's all over." Clinton: Big sigh of relief. But there were a lot of people angry. If the fix was in for Hillary, why do this? And I could only speculate until I get some more informed opinions from people who've worked in jobs like this and find out what could have motivated this. Why do you think they did it?
RUSH: Frank must have… He must have gone for a walk or something. Frank, are you still there?
RUSH: He must have believed me when I told him he only had 10 seconds. He might have hung up. Oh, well. I wanted to find out what he thought this was all about. Are you sure he's not there?
RUSH: That's just line noise that I'm hearing.


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Home BREAKING NEWS Japanese Architect Embraces Massive 13.5-meter Buddha Statue in Open-air Prayer Hall
Japanese Architect Embraces Massive 13.5-meter Buddha Statue in Open-air Prayer Hall
Photo by Shigeo Ogawa. From thisiscolossal.com
Makomanai Takino Cemetery was established in 1982. It covers 1,800,473㎡, and is open all year round.
Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, noted for the minimalist aesthetic of his designs, has created an expansive open-air Buddhist prayer hall to reverently house a towering Buddha statue that sits imposingly in Makomanai Takino Cemetery on the outskirts of Sapporo in Japan's northern Hokkaido Prefecture.
Originally a free-standing sculpture without any additional ornamentation, the head of the statue now emerges from a circular opening at the center of the new concrete hall—a sign of respect that avoids disrupting its connection with the sky above. To access the statue, the visitor must embark on a journey that draws them inwards through a 40-meter tunnel to their eventual encounter with the Buddha at the center of the structure.
"The site is a gently sloping hill on 180 hectares of lush land belonging to a cemetery," Ando noted. "The statue is 13.5 meters tall and weighs 1,500 tonnes. It is made of fine, highly selected solid stone. Until now, the Buddha statue has stood alone in the field, giving an unrestful impression. The client wanted to give visitors a more serene appreciation of the Buddha." (vitra.)
Hailing from Osaka, Ando, 75, is a self-taught architect whose minimalist designs place an emphasis on utilizing "nothingness" and empty space to highlight the beauty of simplicity. His work is renowned for its distinct Zen-inspired design influences, which have became a distinguishing characteristic.
Photo by Hiroo Namiki. From thisiscolossal.com
"The design intention was to create a vivid spatial sequence, beginning with the long approach through the tunnel in order to heighten anticipation of the statue, which is invisible from the outside," Ando explained. "When the hall is reached, visitors look up at the Buddha, whose head is encircled by a halo of sky at the end of the tunnel." (designboom)
Characterizing his design as landscape architecture, Ando emphasized that its appearance changes depending on the time of year—during spring and summer the site is a sea of lush greenery contrasting with vibrant flowering lavender plants, while the snows of winter offer a more austere, introspective aspect.
"The Hill of the Buddha is planted with 150,000 lavenders that turn fresh green in spring, pale purple in summer and silky white with snow in winter, Ando related. "The project might be considered on the scale of landscape rather than architecture. It required a special frame of mind to rearrange the environment, and was a challenging and precious experience for us." (vitra.)
Elsewhere at the newly redesigned site, a body of water bounded by long concrete walls and the sky above enhances the serenity and offers an opportunity for both spiritual and literal reflection. According to the cemetery, "By detouring around the water garden instead of making a straight approach, one purifies the soul, and one's mindset switches from the ordinary to the extraordinary." (The Dirt)
Although about 75 per cent of Japan's 127 million people identify as Buddhist, most seldom see the inside of a temple except for during traditional ceremonies. Some 27,000 of the country's 77,000 Buddhist temples are forecast to close over the next 25 years, reflecting shrinking populations in small rural communities and a a general decline of interest in organized religion. A 2015 survey byThe Asahi Shimbun newspaper indicated that 12,065 Buddhist temples in Japan were without resident monks, representing 16 per cent of temples affiliated with the 10 most popular schools of Buddhism in the country. The survey also found that 434 temples from nine major denominations had closed completely in the past decade.*
Although a much more expansive landscape situated within the Makomanai Takino Cemetery near Sapporo, Hokkaido, the Daibutsu at the Hill of Buddha is only fully visible from within the shallow concrete dome. From within the dome, it becomes clear that simple architectural elements play several roles,
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the The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has requested support from the federal government to overcome the constraining constraints on competitive manufacturing in the country.
The association's president, Mansur Ahmed, made the appeal during the advocacy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari recently, where he listed the challenges facing the sector, including, but not limited to, procurement. insufficient foreign exchange, electricity, the impending increase in the tax rate, limited access to long-term funds, low footfall of products made in Nigeria, among others.
Hailing the president for the many initiatives, reforms and policies that have helped stabilize the price of manufacturing, Ahmed added that the government, however, must maintain the implementation of policies that have helped the economy recover quickly from recession, to survive the onslaught of COVID. -19 and relaunch other initiatives which suddenly fell into disuse.
He noted that MAN expects the government to continue to make manufacturing a centerpiece of its economic agenda and the catalyst for increased domestic production, employment and wealth creation.
Ahmed who praised the progress made in infrastructure development; various reforms on the ease of doing business and exemplary leadership in limiting the spread of COVID-19, highlighted that manufacturers continue to struggle with an inadequate electricity supply from the national grid and high electricity tariffs for consumers. distribution companies, associated with the enormous cost of providing alternative energy to more than N72.7 billion.
This, he said, limited the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector. "While commending the government for the ongoing reform in the electricity sector, we implore Your Excellency to order that NERC remove all bottlenecks preventing manufacturers from accessing the Eligible Customer Program."
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Regarding poor long-term access, Ahmed said that limited access to long-term loans and the high cost of loanable funds also restrict the sector's ability to produce at full capacity and negatively affect manufacturing's contribution to domestic product. raw.
He recommended that a monitoring and evaluation platform involving the private sector be put in place to oversee the allocation of these funds to ensure that the funds are wisely allocated to genuine manufacturers who need the incentives. .
MAN boss urged government to urgently establish the designated competent authority that will oversee the administration of rules of origin and commission the automation of certificate of origin, export and import documentation processes for the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AFCFTA), transactions.
Regarding the impending tax rate, he said the affected sub-sectors are currently moaning under multiple taxes, levies and fees from different levels of government and the disposable income of the average Nigerian is already eroded, causing a high inventory of products. unsold manufactures. While acknowledging that the government must generate funds to meet its growing social and economic obligations, he felt that it is the tax base that should be broadened to capture the untaxed.
"Genuine and diligent corporate taxpayers should not be overburdened, as this could be counterproductive and the envisioned revenue increase may not be achieved. "
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