In recent years, more and more companies have been embracing a design-centric ethos. As a result, user experience design has acquired enormous momentum. In order to fulfill the rising demand of UX professionals, world-class programs are being offered by design schools around the world. Just a few months ago, I graduated from one such program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During my two years of studies in the User Experience Design Program, I had the opportunity to intern at Cooper, The Understanding Group, and The Design Clinic, a design service initiative led by the School of Information.
While being exposed to a professional practice alongside a student perspective by taking design courses, I realized certain gaps between the real world and the academic world. The existence of these gaps used to be one of the hot topics I would discuss with my peers. Today, as I look back at my experiences through the lens of a user experience designer, there are a number of gaps that are easily recognizable.
At my school, a design challenge event also known as a "Design Jam" is very common. It serves as an engaging platform for students to collaborate and brainstorm solutions to interesting problems. Design Jams are also a smooth escape for students from a hectic semester with a promise of free food (see Figure 1). Like a lot of my friends, I participated in quite a few of these Jams. From designing a more "visible" Google Wallet, to a futuristic meeting room, Design Jams always had a competitive atmosphere and participating in them certainly shaped me into a better team player.
Figure 1: Free food and Design Jams go hand in hand!
But after a couple of challenges, I realized that I was being deprived of the very basic principles of user experience design. These challenges rarely required us to conduct user research with the people for whom we were designing the solutions. Instead of empathizing with users and understanding the real problem, we were falling prey to a pretentious competition. We were not looking for answers to the right questions—we thought about "how" rather than "why". Everyone, including myself, was trying to come up with the coolest idea only to impress the judges of the event. And more often than not, these judges were representatives of companies looking for a diamond in the rough. Our design decisions were not really catering to users' actual problems and it felt like I was disrespecting the user-centered design process.
As designers we often come across situations when we have to choose one idea over the others. While interning at Cooper, I learned the importance of the decision-making process not only at a feature level, but also at a much more granular level of interactions and micro-interactions. The biggest takeaway was that for a design to be successful, all of the design decisions we make must be based on end user—and in some situations—stakeholder requirements. This not only helps in building the right product but also in justifying the design. In my experience with Design Jams and most of the courses I had taken, I sensed a lack of attention toward the relationship between design decisions and research findings. Students often get carried away in delivering a "cool" design rather than one that is usable and informed.
Of all the courses in the design program, the most challenging were those that required us to deliver a final project presentation. During the presentations we were expected to walk the audience through our process, the problem statement, challenges faced, and the solutions we came up with (see Figure 2). After doing a handful of these presentations at school, I felt confident and prepared for a real-world client presentation. My confidence was soon put to the test.
During my summer internship I had an opportunity to present some of my designs to clients. During the preparation, as I observed my teammates tailoring their portions of the presentation, I soon realized how different client presentations were from those at school. There was a disconnect: I was preparing points on the process I went through while the rest of the team was getting ready to show how the new design would make the user's life easier.
After a couple of client interactions I learned an important lesson: the clients don't want to hear about the process of how you went from user research to hi-fidelity mockups. They want to hear how well the design solves their problems. In fact, they would rarely want to listen to the designers' process from concept to finalized design. Client presentations are less about the designer's journey and more about communicating the user's journey through the design solutions.
Figure 2: Design presentation in front of peers and professor.
It is not too hard to figure out why presenting for the first time to a real client was so tough even after having done plenty of presentations in school. First, the audience for project presentations in school was primarily my peers––who were competing against me for a better grade, and a professor––who was going to give me grades. Secondly, in a process-focused curriculum, like all of my peers I ended up describing the process in greater details rather than discussing how the design decisions would affect the users. As a result, I never really presented designs as I would for a real client. There was less focus on what was being communicated and to whom and more on receiving high scores. I like to think that communicating design is as important as the design itself.
Designing software excites me, but what excites me even more is applying the same principles of user experience to the design of objects in the physical world. On one school project we worked on designing a spice dispenser for visually impaired people. It was interesting to see how design concepts of feedback, mental model, mapping affordances, and visibility apply to physical objects in the same way as they would to a website or mobile app. We performed usability tests on a 3D printed model of the dispenser with a group of visually impaired users and received really helpful insights into the user behavior and patterns. We also got feedback from industry experts, professors, and peers with regards to materials, internal mechanisms, feedback cycles, and more (see Figure 3). Unfortunately we received all of this feedback during our final project critique towards the end of the semester. While part of our final report had an account of this feedback, it was never used to better our original design. Even though the feedback was extremely meaningful, without putting it to work for the design, it was ultimately not valuable or productive.
Figure 3: My teammate getting feedback on the spice dispenser project during a Design Exposition.
Design critique is constructive only if the feedback can be put to use. It is well accepted within the industry that an iterative process results in a better design. I find it surprising that like the spice dispenser project, most other academic projects had the critique session at the end of the semester, leaving no room for students to redesign and rebuild.
When I was a design consultant at Design Clinic, it was a young design service initiative led by students. Project management protocols had not yet been adopted, and there was room for students to experiment with concepts learned in school. Here, I worked on a college planning and tracking application for high school students. Both the client and my team agreed upon a process to achieve the deliverable of a mid-fidelity mockup of the mobile app. With the target set and the schedule outlined, we took a deep-dive into the project to work out a good solution. We made a mistake at the start in not paying enough attention to its documentation. As a result, we spent extra time having to recall and document decisions that had been made almost a month earlier (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: My team trying to recall undocumented ideas discussed a while ago.
I learned that documentation is a crucial part of the process that needs to be done at every stage. Plus, it's not just about documenting only those sketches and ideas that make their way to the final design, but of keeping a record of all the rejected ideas as well. Because there will come a time when the client will discuss an idea that you had rejected long ago, but you don't remember why.
With most academic projects, documentation is the last assignment for the semester, a final report for upload to the class website. Needless to say, many students start putting the documentation together only on the last day of the project. In my industry experience, I had to hand over designs to visual designers, developers, and business analysts. And for each of these instances I had to document my designs for easier communication.
Over time, I have come to realize that learning design processes is extremely important. But it is not sufficient to groom a budding designer stepping into the industry. This account of my experiences and observations is meant to kindle a conversation among design students, professors, and industry professionals on how to make UX education even better than it is today. Perhaps one way of providing students with a more holistic experience of the design process would be having them work on projects that span multiple courses, each of which teaches different aspects of the process. By having projects centered on actual users and real problems, the focus can be shifted from winning good grades to winning the hearts of the users.
Malpani, R. (2015). UX Education: Some Missing Pieces. User Experience Magazine, 15(4).
My perspective is that graduate programs in HCI tend to fit the bill of incoming students who already demonstrate an eagerness to learn and investigate more about what goes on BEYOND the design process, e.g. research, human behavior, maker movement, etc. In short, we're nerds in our own way, and we don't mind spending a year or two immersing ourselves in such an environment. In fact, no one with an incumbent penchant for design and design thinking needs a degree of any sort in HCI or UX in order to break into the field and "make it big." With that said, our graduate program is still shaping a compromise between the professional component and the academic components of our curriculum.
The issue becomes further segmented as people discuss undergraduate vs graduate programs (i.e. I believe HCI/UX is better as an undergraduate field of study due to its inherent interdisciplinary reach and its ability to fulfill the sundry liberal arts components that an undergraduate student ought to experience). I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this.
If I were to restart my college education anew, I would have prescribed myself to an undergraduate program in HCI, as some programs currently strive towards under the auspices of the cognitive psychology and human factors folks. (Though this is not to say I didn't appreciate my undergraduate degree in architecture)! After working in industry, it would have been ideal to have discovered what I wanted to specialize in as a long-term career. If it turned out to be UX design, I would choose a program that looks for students who appreciate depth and mastery, as opposed to being the jack-of-all trades, "unicorn" UX'er. As an aside, it's my recommendation that budding UX'rs expose themselves to classes in the art and architecture departments.
Anyways, thanks for posting your article. As a current student of the same program and specialization, I empathize with many of the realities and disconnects that exist between the curriculum and the UX field. I hope this gains traction in the academic circles.
Thanks for your response. Some of the points that you have mentioned are interesting, especially about the benefits of HCI as an undergraduate degree. You are absolutely correct, graduate HCI program at the University of Michigan is still shaping. The point of this reflection is only to help (in my own little way) the school shape the program better. What I am looking forward to is a positive discussion among faculty, students and industry folks around this topic.
While it may be true that someone who has a passion for design, doesn't need a degree to prove, in my opinion a degree is not just for you to prove your capability and break into the industry. Getting a formal training in any field of study is a way to learn more and dive deep into what you like. A job after that is only a side-effect of what you have learnt.
All in all, really good points made by you.
Great read. Having pored through a draft version of the same much earlier – I knew what to expect. At a broad level I think your arguments are extremely well laid out and I agree with all the individual points you have made. A couple of things I thought were worth bringing out.
2) Design Jams are a waste of time – for the most part (apart from the free food of-course). But if evaluated at a granular level, I think there are certain skills we can gain from it. For starters – to be able to think on your feet, since they are generally time bound and specify deliverables for the same duration – it prompts us to think a tad quickly (although no consideration is given to the user and his/her goals and that we begin way down the design process). In addition, there is a certain deal of team work involved – basic brainstorming, ideation, evaluating pro's / con's etc. These are valuable skills although the environment and the mood in these jams rarely prompt any learning.
I have scrutinized two very fine points because I agree with the article as a whole. Great job.
Both of your points are extremely good findings from what you have experienced.
1. To your first point, I completely agree with what you mean by the difference between a 'design school' and an 'information school'. The program that you and I graduated in at the University of Michigan doesn't have its roots in a pure 'design school' environment. Plus, as you say, it is more Human-Computer Interaction than UX. But then why is it that most students who graduate in HCI hunt for a UX job? I am not suggesting that the school should mold a program in a way that caters to the needs of industry. The larger idea behind the article is to rethink about the program in a more pragmatic way. And like Michael Nguyen mentioned in his comment, the HCI program (specifically at the University of Michigan) is evolving.
2. With regards to 'Design Jams', yes one definitely learns to think quickly and brainstorm in a team setting. These have been my biggest takeaways from such competitions. Although I very strongly feel that designing for 'people' is much more meaningful than designing for an imaginary problem. What is ironic about these design exercises is, the very organizations who make students do a 'User-less' design exercise, are in fact trying to hire 'User Experience' designers.
Great points Vaishnav! Your perspective made me, and I am sure all the others who have read the article and your comment, think even more deeply about aspects around UX education discussed thus far.
Thank you for this. It was really insightful and I will keep it in my mind as I continue my early career in UX. I'm from a science background, having worked as a Doctor for 3 years, so imporatnce of documentation is not a foreign concept. However, its easy for me to disregard bad designs and not keep them, but as you have explained, it is useful to keep them.
I am glad you enjoyed the article and found it insightful.
As far as discarding bad ideas/designs during the initial phase of design is concerned, I have had an experience where I regretted not having saved some of the discarded sketches. In a client presentation, on seeing the final proposal some of the client members asked questions – the answers to those were in the discarded sketches. While you can always say "we thought about it", showing some of those sketches and backing them with reason why you discarded them, would make the case more powerful. I feel, when you are in the process of designing, it is very easy to forget to document as you go. But a conscious effort in saving all the artifacts can be very helpful in the long run!
Would love to hear your experience of learning UX, given your background in Medicine and transition into design.


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Mentors and Media Literacy
It has been three months now since our school principal, Derrick Nelson, passed away. His life and impact have been honored and celebrated in many ways, from the floor of the House of Representatives to the flags at half-staff across New Jersey to the local Memorial Day parade in his honor. Our students, staff and parents have continued talking about Derrick. We still recognize him as a role model, and still hear his words and laughter in our minds.
But even so, time passes. Our school held a prom, awards night and graduation without Derrick. A new principal was appointed last week. Derrick's family cleaned out his office this week. The school keeps opening its doors every day, and we have work to do.
On the Friday before he became ill, Derrick allowed me to present a professional-development workshop on media literacy to several staff members. There was a lot of enthusiasm for this topic during and after the workshop, but I had not been able to follow up on it because our school year changed so dramatically when we returned after that weekend in February.
Today, I found myself in an empty office, the sole administrator on duty this day after July 4. So I opened up a textbook on media literacy and got back to work, preparing for ways to support our staff as they address media messages with their students.
I first noticed our country's need for media literacy long before smartphones and social media changed our means of communication. Twenty-five years ago, just before summer began, a low-speed car chase took place throughout Los Angeles, and as millions upon millions of Americans became aware of this event, the name O.J. Simpson stood to symbolize a sea change in media consumption.
Throughout my childhood, media messages were consumed at certain agreed-upon times, and in certain agreed-upon ways. The TV news could be watched at 5, 6 or 11 p.m., on a square television set in the living room. Sports and weather would air at 20 minutes past the hour. Movies were watched in theaters or via VCR, and private telephone conversations required stretching the cord from kitchen to bathroom. Video games could be played with a console, and music could be listened to via tape, then CD. Newspapers and magazines were printed, on paper.
Media technology was already changing quickly by 1994, but the O.J. chase and subsequent trial saw us develop a collective mindset in which we could no longer wait until a certain time of day to learn what was happening in the world. The 24-hour cable news stations sensed this, and they hustled to provide us with at least one new nugget of info on O.J. each day. The internet soon blossomed with more messages than we could possibly consume, and late-night talk show hosts provided satirical commentary. It would take more than a decade before we were holding iPhones in our hands and posting "Michael Jackson RIP" tributes on Facebook. But the groundwork had been laid, and we were hungry for new information, all the time. When the O.J. trial was over, we devoured new, juicy tales, from a president and his intern in the Oval Office to hanging chads in Florida to the children of O.J. lawyer Robert Kardashian.
The devices we now hold have taken this all to an entirely new level, of course, to the point where we are media consumers nearly every moment of the day. Educators have been reflecting on how they wish to address media consumption through their lessons and units, considering just how much media-saturated their students are.
But media literacy is not about trying to change students' habits or shaming them for spending so much time on Instagram. It is, instead, about critically analyzing the media messages we consume and create, and reflecting on the impact these messages have on our society and on ourselves. Becoming media literate goes beyond merely knowing that our current president is the first to use Twitter so extensively. It asks us to analyze the impact of his Twitter use, from his choice of words and punctuation to the audience response to the impact on traditional news media. It asks us to compare his social media communication to other presidents' use of new media, and to consider where this takes us as a society. It asks us to compare his use of Twitter to our own, and to determine if there's a difference, and why.
As I worked and reflected on media literacy today, it felt good to get back to this. I look forward to talking about it with my peers again in the year ahead. Thanks to a statewide mentoring program, a veteran administrator has been assigned to help me during these first two years as an assistant principal, and she is interested in the media literacy work as well. When we spoke last week, my mentor asked how things were going; she has used multiple forms of media to check in on me (text, email, phone and, of course, in-person meetings). As we sat in my office, she noticed that my room is filled with one particular medium – books – and asked me to share a few titles that have impacted me as an educator. I'm not sure she knew what she was getting into – after I had told her about five or six books, I finally stopped myself.
Another piece to being media literate is knowing which forms of media your mind and body need at certain times. After a year that has been trying in ways I never could have imagined, I need some time to rest and reflect this summer. So I am reading. And writing. And listening to music (currently going through Elton John's albums from the '70s).
Just as Derrick did, my mentor recognizes that I work hard and strives to support that. But she also wants to make sure I'm taking care of myself. My late boss would want nothing less. So pardon me while I finish this up and grab my book. I just started one about baseball stadiums and their impact on America's concept of public spaces. It's not Instagram, for sure. But it's what I need right now.
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The Guardian view on the climate emergency: a dangerous paralysis
(The Guardian, 10 Jul 2019) The closer the prospect of disaster becomes, the less the government manages to do.
The difference between speed limits and speed cameras is that speed cameras work. They arouse fear and frustration, but they are in the end obeyed. Speed limits, on the other hand, are generally treated as moralistic exhortations which no one ought to take literally. The distinction between exhortation and enforcement is fundamental to understanding what governments intend when they announce a policy; and the latest report to parliament of the government's Committee on Climate Change makes it clear that the government's commitment to mitigating the effects of the climate emergency is still very much at the stage of announcing speed limits: targets and exhortations without any enforcement or real effects on behaviour. As a result, there is a smashup coming. A global rise of 4C in mean temperature is equivalent to the entire rise in temperature since the last ice age, and whereas the preceding rise was spread out over 10,000 years, this one will be a compressed into a century.
The committee's language is remarkably blunt: "Targets do not themselves reduce emissions", the report says – any more than speed limit signs make drivers slow down – but even the targets are badly placed; "There are no areas where the government is planning properly"; and, from the former chairman of the Conservative party, Lord Deben, "the whole thing is run by the government like Dad's Army … this ramshackle system … doesn't begin to face the issues. It is a real threat to the population."
Of the 25 targets announced last year, one has been met; work on 10 has not even started. The number of civil servants working directly on policy has been slashed since 2013, and central funding for services to help businesses and regions adapt to the coming changes has disappeared. At the same time the problem has grown larger and more urgent. Few people now believe that we can restrict the global rise in temperature to two degrees; virtually no one believes that the Paris target of 1.5 degrees is realistic; but 4 degrees, which the latest report urges we should be planning for, promises to be catastrophic.
The Guardian, 10 Jul 2019: The Guardian view on the climate emergency: a dangerous paralysis
"The voice for renewable energy producers"
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Butterflies are the quintessential symbol of renewal through change. In a world that is rapidly changing, the Highland Wonders educational series provides opportunities for our community to learn more about the natural world, with the hope that these experiences may renew our enthusiasm to take care of the rich biodiversity around us.
On Sunday, June 17, 2018, renowned naturalist David Droppers led us on a butterfly tour through the Okanogan Highlands, with the help of two butterfly aficionados from the Methow, Joyce Bergen and Cheryl Bellin. This exceptional butterfly team helped us observe the butterflies we encountered at each site, opening our eyes to the intricacies of butterfly biology and ecology. We visited locations on MaryAnn Creek road near Chesaw and on the north side of Mt Hull near Molson/Oroville, and saw a very interesting diversity of species! We discussed the different habitats and ecosystem elements that support the life stages of butterflies, and the unique species that we have in our region and how to identify them. Thanks to the support of local community members, we were able to fund this event as well as provide several copies of Caitlin LaBar's Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Washington for the field trip, as well as a copy of her most recent publication, Butterflies of the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area.
Download our list of species observed during the field trip!
Special thanks to Cheryl Bellin and David Droppers for putting the species list together, and to David, Cheryl, and Joyce for leading this event. And congrats on your "lifer" butterfly species, David (Silver-bordered fritillary) and Cheryl (Garita skipperling)!
As an avid naturalist, David Droppers has worked with a variety of wildlife species in a variety of habitats, and has put his skills to work for many agencies and organizations. His background is in teaching, field research, statistics, and data management, with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and Resource Management and a minor in Quantitative Sciences, and a Master's degree in Environmental Education. As an engaging public speaker and field instructor, David has given presentations on wildlife, natural history, and conservation issues for numerous organizations, from the Mountaineers and Audubon society chapters to the Master Gardeners and gardening clubs.
David is currently engaged in a pollinator inventory project with the Forest Service, creating inventories of butterfly, moth, and bumblebee species along many popular trails along the Mountain Loop Highway in Snohomish County, as well as assessing resource use of these pollinators for potential restoration work.


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Joe Biden met son Hunter's Ukrainian energy contacts
Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Wednesday dismissed an explosive story about Hunter Biden after emails purported to come from Hunter's laptop appeared to show Hunter making an introduction between his powerful father and a Ukrainian energy firm.
A trove of emails obtained from Hunter's laptop and revealed by Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani showed Hunter making an effort to introduce his father to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm before the then-vice president lobbied for the firing of a prosecutor who had investigated the company.
Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015, according to the stash of data given to the New York Post by Giuliani.
Hours after the story landed, the Biden camp blasted the report, and said a records search indicated no such meeting occurred.
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said the paper 'never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story…moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.'
Bates said: 'Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as "not legitimate" and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump Administration officials have attested to these facts under oath,' he said.
The email is just one among a trove being referenced by Giuliani and his team.
Giuliani lawyer Bob Costello said there are some 40,000 emails on the hard drive including thousands of texts. It also includes images of Hunter 'in very compromising positions,' Costello told Fox News.
Trump's campaign seized on the Biden campaign's response, claiming it constituted confirmation of the material on Hunter's hard drive was real, evan as some outside observers raised the prospect it could have been hacked or altered.
'The Biden campaign does not dispute the authenticity of the emails published by the New York Post, which serves to confirm that they are real. And if Joe Biden never met with Vadym Pozharskyi, the Biden campaign would say so,' said Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh.
'They do not say that. Their answer basically is that the entry 'Meeting with Ukrainian businessman buying access to the Vice President' does not appear on Joe Biden's official schedule. Their response is so carefully worded that it reveals the truth in what they don't deny. They also don't address the overarching question of why Joe Biden lied to the American people about never discussing with Hunter Biden his corrupt business dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Americans deserve a full accounting of the conversations Joe Biden had with Hunter, and what Joe Biden discussed with Vadym Pozharskyi.'
A year after the 2015 email, Joe Biden successfully pushed for the prosecutor's removal, amid concerns at his failure to tackle corruption which were shared by other countries.
The files also show Hunter repeatedly apparently referring to his father as 'my guy' while writing to a colleague at Burisma, and pictures of him engaged in sex, smoking drugs, and partially-naked selfies.
Their publication at 5am in New York set off a series of developments including:
The Senate Homeland Security Committee helmed by Republican Ron Johnson said that it has been contacted by the 'whistleblower' who had the laptop and is looking into the matter;
Giuliani promised there was 'much more' to come from the laptop;
Facebook said the story was 'eligible for fact checking' and that it was 'reducing its distribution on our platform' prompting the president's son Don Jr. to accuse the platform of 'election interference';
Democrats accused Giuliani of being untrustworthy, with Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tweeting: 'Remember he's been parading around with a Russian secret agent for the last year.'
The Republican-led committee only weeks ago wrapped up a report on Hunter's business dealings and accusing him of corruption.
The Post says the collection of messages and images were recovered on a MacBook Pro laptop that was brought into a Delaware computer shop by someone looking like Hunter and never picked up. It had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it.
Giuliani said the FBI had investigated it and produced a grand jury subpoena as evidence. It is unknown what the FBI investigation was into or what has happened to it. The Bureau has declined to comment.
The emails shed new light on the younger Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, which were at the center of the Trump impeachment probe and which the president has repeatedly tried to use against the Democratic nominee.
Joe Biden, who leads the polls with 20 days left until the election, has previously said he never speaks to his son about his overseas business dealings. His campaign offered no comment but Hunter's attorney accused Giuliani of pushing Russian disinformation.
Hunter Biden and his father Joe Biden in 2016. Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine were at the center of the Trump impeachment case
In hot water: Hunter Biden's laptop also contained sexually explicit pictures and footage of him apparently smoking crack, the New York Post reported
Here's Hunter: The Democratic candidate's son's photos were part of the laptop which was obtained by Rudy Giuliani's attorney and has now been released by the president's lawyer
Intimate pictures: An apparent mirror selfie of a topless Hunter Biden is among the cache of information released by Rudy Giuliani
Biden in bed: A photo of the former vice-president's son apparently asleep is among the pictures Giuliani released
WHO'S WHO IN THE HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS
Joe's son and Yale-educated attorney who was a lobbyist while his father was senator. Quit lobbying and founded investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca with John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz and Kerry adviser Devon Archer and also became lawyer with Boies Schiller Flexner. Now living in Los Angeles with second wife and sixth child after rehab for crack addiction
Burisma Holdings
Ukrainian natural gas producer founded by Mykola Zlochevsky, who was minister of natural resources under Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in early 2014 in a revolution. That April Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board to 'improve corporate governance,' and at the same time Britain Serious Fraud Office accused the oligarch and his company of money-laundering. Has been the subject of on and off again investigations by Ukrainian prosecutors
Devon Archer
Biden's business partner with Heinz, who was his Yale room mate. Heinz and Archer fell out over Biden being on board of Burisma. Archer is now convicted in a separate fraud after federal prosecution in New York
Vadym Pozharskyi
Adviser to the board of Burisma who thanked Hunter in April 2015 for 'opportunity to meet' his father, then the vice-president. In September 2018 he met Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker and other U.S. officials
Viktor Shokin
Controversial Ukrainian prosecutor general from February 2015 until March 2016. Conflicting accounts of whether he ordered a corruption investigation into Burisma; the issue remains unresolved. Widely accused of hindering fight against corruption generally by European Union diplomats, IMF and the U.S. Fired after Joe Biden demanded his removal in moment he later bragged about
Petro Poroshenko
Ukrainian president from June 2014 to May 2019 and also an oligarch. Controversial record over corruption: he established an anti-corruption court but his 2019 re-election campaign was hit by claims of graft by his business partners
Other material in the cache is said to include sexually explicit images of Hunter, and footage of him smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with a woman in the course of an 11-minute video.
The Post published four pictures of Biden in states of undress, one apparently in a bath, one in bed, and smoking in two of them.
One shows Hunter with what appeared to be a pipe similar to those used to smoke crack or marijuana.
Hunter, 50, has admitted to cocaine use in the past and received an administrative discharge from the US Navy reserve for that reason in 2014.
The trove of files was given to the Post by Giuliani after the computer store owner gave one copy to the FBI and kept hold of another.
He eventually gave it to Giuliani's lawyer, and the contents were passed to the Post after the paper learned of its existence from former Trump aide Steve Bannon.
Giuliani has spearheaded claims, fiercely denied by both Bidens, that Joe Biden tried to fire Ukraine's chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin in order to stop him investigating Burisma.
Shokin had previously led an investigation into the company's owner.
Responding to the leak, lawyers for Hunter Biden said Giuliani was 'pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories'.
The lawyers did not comment directly on the content of the emails, while Joe Biden and his campaign have yet to respond.
The April 2015 email from Pozharskyi came a year after the Burisma adviser had written to Hunter asking for 'advice on how you could use your influence'.
Discussing his apparent meeting with Biden senior, Pozharskyi said it was an 'honor and a pleasure' to be introduced to the then-vice president.
However the email itself does not confirm that Biden met with Pozharaskyi, or that Hunter spoke to his father about the intended get-together.
By late 2015, Biden was lobbying for the removal of Shokin, a position supported by the Obama administration, the IMF and other Western countries who regarded him as ineffective and an obstacle to corruption.
In one phone call, then-Vice President Biden told Ukraine's president that he would commit a $1billion loan guarantee to the country once Shokin was fired.
Biden, 77, described this in a speech in 2018, saying: 'I looked at them and said: I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
'Well, son of a b****. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.'
The IMF also threatened to withhold $40billion to Ukraine if it failed to remove Shokin.
Shokin was indeed fired in March 2016, by which time his investigation into Burisma had already been lying dormant for a time, according to reports last year.
However, Burisma did have a reputation for corruption and last year's impeachment inquiry was told that Hunter Biden's involvement 'created the potential for the appearance of a conflict of interest'.
Hunter joined the Burisma board in 2014 and served a five-year term, but reputedly never visited Ukraine for company business in that time.
Joe Biden has previously accused Giuliani of peddling 'false, debunked conspiracy theories' about his son's involvement in Ukraine.
The issue came rushing back into the spotlight last year after President Trump lobbied Ukraine's new president to investigate the Bidens' dealings.
Trump's request led to his impeachment after Democrats said he had abused his powers to strong-arm Ukraine into granting him a personal political favor.
Democrats said Trump had used $391million of foreign aid as a threat to pressure Ukraine, but the president denied there was any 'quid pro quo'. He was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.
A report by the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee said last year there was 'no legitimate basis' to accuse Joe Biden of wrongdoing.
The report argued that Shokin's removal 'would have increased the likelihood that Burisma would be investigated for corruption, not the opposite, given that Mr. Shokin was widely considered to be both ineffective and corrupt'.
Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi (pictured) thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015
The files have been publicized by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani (pictured), who has spearheaded claims against Democratic nominee Joe Biden
The Hunter Biden issue came rushing into the political spotlight last year after Donald Trump (pictured) lobbied Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, leading to his impeachment
Trump tried to bring up Hunter at last month's presidential debate in Cleveland, saying he was 'given tens of millions of dollars' in his business dealings.
The president also referred to Hunter's cocaine use, while incorrectly claiming that Hunter had been dishonorably discharged from the US Navy Reserve.
The Democratic nominee's son was actually handed a less severe administrative discharge after failing a drug test.
Joe Biden said in the debate: 'My son, like a lot of people, had a drug problem. He's overtaken it. He's fixed it. He's worked on it. And I'm proud of him.'
Hunter Biden's activities at Burisma have also been the target of scrutiny by a committee in the Senate.
One email sent to his business partner Devon Archer around the time Hunter joined the company's corporate board repeatedly refers to his father as 'my guy'.
In the same email, Hunter discussed a Burisma contract which he felt 'should include a retainer in the range of 25k per month'.
It is reportedly dated just over a week before Joe Biden held a press conference in Ukraine with the country's PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk in April 2014.
'The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking – but what he will say and do is out of our hands,' Hunter Biden wrote on April 13, 2014.
'In other words it could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit.'
Unwittingly caught up in the impeachment row last year, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukrainians are 'tired' of the issue and does not want Ukraine being dragged into the 2020 presidential race.
Senate Republicans say they will probe Hunter Biden emails – amid questions over how they got to Rudy Giuliani from a Delaware repair shop
The Senate Homeland Security Committee says it is seeking to 'validate' information provided by a computer store owner who says he copied data from Hunter Biden's hard drive after the former vice president's son sought computer repairs.
The store owner says a customer dropped off a laptop containing the trove of material in April 2019 seeking repairs. After it went unclaimed, the store owner says he contacted the FBI and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Now, following publication of material said to be from the hard drive by the New York Post, the Senate Homeland Security Committee helmed by Ron Johnson on says it has been contacted by the 'whistleblower' and is looking into the matter.
'We regularly speak with individuals who email the committee's whistleblower account to determine whether we can validate their claims,' Johnson told Fox News.
'Although we consider those communications to be confidential, because the individual in this instance spoke with the media about his contact with the committee, we can confirm receipt of his email complaint, have been in contact with the whistleblower, and are in the process of validating the information he provided,' he said.
The committee's effort to look into the trove of Hunter Biden's emails just weeks before Election Day comes weeks after it issued an 87-page report titled 'Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns.'
In addition to potentially gaining access to the trove of data, the panel's investigators now have an opportunity to try to untangle the circuitous route taken by the cache of information – which includes business emails, selfies, and images of the former vice president's son smoking and taking bath. It is also said to include explicit images of Hunter.
Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been probing Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said his committee is looking into the matter after being in contact with the computer store owner
The Homeland panel in late September published a report on Hunter Biden and 'corruption'
The Post says the collection of messages and images were recovered from a MacBook Pro laptop that was brought into a Delaware computer shop and was never retrieved.
It does not identify the owner or the shop by name.
The shop owner says the machine had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it, and contains a trove of Hunter Biden's personal and business data.
The store's owner says a customer dropped off the laptop back in April 2019 for repairs. Commenters on Twitter immediately pointed to a major Apple store in Delaware off I-95 – but there is no indication that the store had any involvement, and the receipt bears no indications of Apple design features, indicating it may be an independent store.
In just one curious detail about the saga, the shop owner does not explicitly identify Hunter Biden as the person who dropped off the laptop.
The owner says the person who brought it in was seeking help with water damage to the computer and its hard drive.
Giuliani said the FBI had investigated the matter and produced a grand jury summons as evidence. It is unknown what the FBI investigation was into or what has come of it.
The Trump lawyer provided an image of a subpoena from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dated December 17, 2019. It lists a MacBook Pro computer and an external hard drive.
The paper says the shop owner could not positively identify Hunter Biden. However a computer generated receipt for the work lists the name Hunter Biden, a phone number, and an email address.
The signed receipt lists a price of $85, and fine print states that equipment left more than 90 days 'will be treated as abandoned.'
The customer never paid for it or picked it up, according to the shop owner's account.
The timeline suggests the FBI would have had access to the information for ten months.
The shop owner made a copy of the data before reportedly giving it to the FBI.
Giuliani has not said how long he has had the information, which he only provided to the Post on Sunday.
He has spent months communicating with Ukrainian officials in an effort to gather information on Hunter Biden's work there, and his name gets a few mentions in the Homeland Security Committee's Hunter Biden report.
Emails purportedly from Hunter's laptop date back to 2014 – indicating it contained a potential trove of information.
Photos published from the hard drive show Hunter Biden vacationing with family, with his father, smoking, and in a bath tub.
Other material in the cache is said to include sexually explicit images of Hunter, and footage of him smoking drugs while engaged in a sex act with a woman.
The Homeland Security Committee made no mention of the emails or data in its extensive report on Hunter's business dealings released Sept. 23. The show owner told the Post he contacted the committee the following day, and met with staff October 5.
Democrats were already blasting the committee's original investigation as a partisan exercise weeks before the November elections.
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No matter how much of a makeup connoisseur you are, we've all been there. You're doing your makeup, everything is going great, looking fly, and then all of a sudden, one of these mess-ups happens!
Whether it's your fault or not, some of these problems can be extremely annoying, and you may have no idea how to fix it besides taking everything off and starting all over!
But no worries, girlfriend I've got ya covered! I have been there too, and gathered a few tips and tricks on how to easily clean up even the most detrimental of makeup mistakes!
Alright, let's jump into some makeup problems and some tried-and-true solutions!
Problem #1: Mascara got on your eyelid, or under-eye.
Solution: Let the mascara dots completely dry, and then flick away with a q-tip.
This is probably one of the most common makeup mishaps and one that happens to me all the time! Thank God I have a solution to fix this problem up.
You may have the urge to just immediately start wiping away any mascara that got on your face or eyelid. Resist that urge! Rubbing mascara on your face that is still wet will only result in a bigger and more noticeable smudge. No good!
If you just let the mascara set for a minute (finish up your mascara or something else on your face), it will easily flake right off with a q-tip!
Problem #2: Crying with makeup on.
Solution: Dab tears with a beauty blender, or lean over so the tears don't roll down your face. Don't smear your makeup, always dab them away!
Alright, so this over-emotional mess definitely knows a thing or two about cleaning up makeup after crying. I also just have extremely sensitive eyes, which water very easily!
Believe it or not, dabbing away tears with a beauty blender is the easiest way to "soak" them up, without rubbing away makeup underneath. The beauty sponge will keep your makeup looking smooth, especially if there's already some leftover foundation or powder on it from when you did your makeup.
This is going to sound a little over the top, but if you're really desperate to stop crying and not let your tears ruin your masterpiece, simply lean over so the tears fall out of your eyes and onto the floor, and not down your face!
However, sometimes, you need to just let the tears roll and not worry about your makeup. It's just makeup! But those are a couple tips for you if you're really jealous.
Problem #3: Way too much blush.
Solution: Buff away any extra with a clean, fluffy powder brush.
I am definitely one to go a little too extreme with blush from time to time.
There have been many times when I have been taken aback by how pigmented a blush is, and immediately looked like a clown with one stroke of my blush brush!
I grab my handy dandy Morphe R2 brush (talked about in this post!) and buff away any excess product. I love my R2 for this because it is very large and fluffy, easily blending away my blush to make it look seamless.
If you don't have the Morphe R2, just use any large, clean powder brush you own!
Problem #4: Your contour turns blotchy throughout the day.
Solution: Cut your contour again with translucent powder.
Whenever I want a really sharp contour, I always "bake" my contour by applying translucent powder underneath my contour to create more of a sharp line. It's a bit hard to describe, but hopefully the pictures make sense.
Throughout the day, I find my contour can begin to look messy and a bit splotchy, especially if I've been sweating or hot! Re-applying some translucent powder with a straight end of a beauty blender can suddenly transform my cheekbones again.
Let the powder sit for a minute or two, and then dust away! Takes about two seconds, and it's such an easy fix.
Problem #5: Too much highlight.
Solution: Dab over your highlight with your beauty blender.
Similarly to our blush problem, highlight is extremely easy to over-apply. Especially if you're not in the right lighting, you can think you don't have much on, but feel very differently when the sun hits your cheek.
To fix this, simply take your beauty sponge (have we noticed this guy is a little miracle worker in fixing up mistakes), and dab over your highlight. This will take your highlight down a notch, blend it in with your skin and help the overall look to be a bit more natural.
Problem #6: Messed up winged liner.
Solution #1: Clean up your wing with a makeup wipe and your fingernail.
Even for a makeup pro, winged liner can be extremely difficult! No matter how many times I've done this on myself, I still mess up more frequently than I would like to admit.
Thankfully, I have a pretty fool-proof solution to help me when that happens!
I just grab a makeup wipe and wrap it tightly around my finger. I then use my fingernail (underneath the makeup wipe) to wipe away and sharpen up my wing! I try not to let too much of the actual makeup wipe touch my face, so I don't mess up any of my other makeup.
Next, I simply clean up any eyeshadow or foundation around the wing that may have also gotten messed up. Now, it's clearer and sharper than ever!
Solution #2: Clean up your wing with a sharp definer brush and concealer.
Another way to fix this problem is to use a precise definer brush and some concealer. I put some concealer on the back of my hand and then lightly tap the brush in the concealer. Next, I can easily sharpen up the edge of my wing!
This solution doesn't mess up your makeup as much as the first solution, but might not fix super big mess-ups on your wing.
Solution: Carve out your eyebrows with concealer.
I talk all about this process in my eyebrows post if you want a more detailed explanation!
Any day I feel like my eyebrows just aren't up to par, or turned out a bit messy, I can easily clean them up with some concealer and the same precise definer brush I used to fix my wing!
This process will make your eyebrows look extremely sharp, defined and clean. I also do this even if my eyebrows aren't necessarily "messy", but I just want them to look sharper and more dramatic!
Problem #8: Sweating off all your makeup!
Solution: Let your sweat completely dry, and then powder over top of your dried sweat.
Alright, in these hot summer months, I am dealing with this problem pretty much every day! It is easy to want to immediately rub off sweat or wipe it away.
Then, lightly blot with a powder over your entire face. This way, you aren't letting the oils in the sweat take up any of your makeup. I know, sounds disgusting. But it works, I promise!
There you have it! Let me know if you have any other makeup tips for some common mess-ups.
While you're at it, grab your FREE "Ultimate Makeup Must-Have Guide" so you never have to worry about mess-ups that come from crappy products!


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313 - Day 312 - Watch and Pray
Watch for Dangers!
It was his greatest dream. The little boy would sit on the shore of the Mississippi River and watch the steamboats go by, wishing he could take a ride on one of them. He imagined how wonderful it would be to be a captain and to go exploring up and down the river, enjoying the interesting sights. One day his dream came true! A captain invited the little boy to join him on his boat for the day to observe the skills of being a captain.
As they pushed off from shore, the boy began to gaze in wonder at all that was taking place around him. However, the captain called him over and told him that a good captain always keeps his attention focused on the water. He explained that even though the river was wide, the channel was narrow. If a captain did not discern the path of the channel and guide the boat carefully through it, he would ground the boat. He also explained that the differing shades of water must be carefully observed, because the channel's location could have changed during a storm.
At the end of the trip the boy disappointedly exclaimed, "I did not get to see the scenery along the shores!"
Watch and Pray
Pursuing a Dynamic Marriage
The love which newlyweds experience need not end with the arrival of children! This collection of practical tips offers a foundation of critical ingredients for creating a husband-wife relationship that only deepens through the rigors of raising a family.
How to Discover God Through Your Struggles
Messengers in disguise? No, this is not a sermon on false prophets or spiritual warfare.
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Born and raised in South Africa, Keith's early years were marked by hardship. When his father succumbed to alcoholism and changed his behavior as a result, Keith's mother filed for divorce. The broken state of Keith's family caused him to turn to the world for fulfillment.
God of Choices with Consequences
Satan sets deceptive traps. Believers sometimes believe his lies rather than God's truth. In this message, Karl Coke reveals one of Satan's most tempting deceptions: that man can make choices as he pleases, on his own, void of any consequences.
Watch for Fellow Believers
Watch and Pray With Thanksgiving!
Watch and Pray!
Watch for Opportunities!
He was no ordinary beggar. Friends carried him every day to the gate of the Temple, where he asked those who went into the Temple for money. Everyone knew him and no one was exempt from his pleas, including Peter and John.
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052 - Day 51 - Keep Your Word
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Well, dear readers, since when does it take a dishwasher close to two hours to wash dishes? I ask you, where else on all the Internet can you read such a sentence? Nowhere, that's where. I tell you, I find this heinous (heinous, do you hear me?), this close to two hours to wash dishes. I have no memory of any dishwasher I've ever used taking two hours to wash dishes, and yet my brand spanking new dishwasher takes two hours to wash dishes. After an hour of listening to it regurgitate, I looked in the instruction manual and sure enough under normal was the predicted was time was 115 minutes. These dishes were not that dirty. I'd rinsed these dishes. These dishes shouldn't take more than twenty minutes to wash AND dry. But, here I sit like so much fish, afraid to go to bed whilst this mutant dishwasher is still on, completing its two-hour cycle. I gotta tell you. Well, I've just spent quite a bit of time talking about how long my dishwasher takes to wash dishes. And it was time well spent, if you ask me. Do any of your dishwashers take this long? I'd like to have a survey in today's posts about length of dishwashing time. It will make for fascinating reading just as this paragraph has. What the HELL am I talking about? Don't I have notes to write? I do, and apparently I've got plenty of time to write them since the dishwasher won't finish washing until around twelve-thirty. Speaking of twelve-thirty, yesterday was a fine little day as days go. For examply, I got up. That was nice. Wait a minute. Hold the telephonic device. Examply??? What the HELL is examply? Have these here notes suddenly gone Dogpatch? I hope they haz. In any case, I got up early and toddled off to the Heim of Ana for a four-hour rehearsal. We finished some work we'd begun yesterday, then moved back to act one and did another start and stop. I really do adore this cast of players, I must say. I have no idea if they're having as much fun as I am, but their work is really good and they're all really nice folks – it makes everything so much easier. Usually there's at least one person in a cast that is problematic, but that isn't the case here – everyone is terrific and fun. And the staff is really nice, too. There, I've said it and I'm glad. The big thing in yesterday's rehearsal was going back to some older musical staging on I Need An Earthman – the newer staging was busier than the old, and it was just becoming about the movement rather than letting the wonderful gal who's playing Yoni just sing the song strongly. I'll let Adam know, just to make sure he's okay with it, but you have to protect the performer in cases like this and make sure the number is about the vocal first and foremost. Otherwise, the group numbers and Adam's staging look faboo. Before I go on, may I just say that the dishwasher is STILL washing? That is just an examply of something that drives me crazy. I haz spoken.
After rehearsal, we came back to the San Fernando Valley and had some lunch at Carny's. I was a pig and had three count them three hot dogs, but it was all I ate all day. I had two with red cabbage and cheese and one with mustard and onions and boy were they yummilicious. We also had some chili cheese fries, but I was pretty good and only ate a small amount. I then came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched two count them two motion pictures on DVD. Well, not exactly. The first motion picture on DVD I started to watch was entitled Taras Bulba, a film of J. Lee Thompson, a wildly erratic director from the United Kingdom. The film stars Mr. Yul Brynner and Mr. Tony Curtis as – wait for it – father and son. I'd never seen the film, and nothing has changed in that regard because after about five minutes I was out like a light and did not wake up until five minutes before the end of the film. So, all I can tell you is that the transfer looks excellent and Mr. Brynner was wearing a very odd hat that made him look like Harpo Marx. After not watching that DVD, I then put on the second motion picture on DVD, which was entitled Kings Of The Sun, another film of J. Lee Thompson, a very erratic director from the United Kingdom. This film also stars Mr. Yul Brynner alongside Mr. Bernardo himself, George Chakiris. The film is about Mayans. Mr. Chakiris has very nice hair in the film and it never moves. Mr. Richard Basehart's hair makes him look like Thelma Ritter. The film is a hopeless mess in just about every way. I first saw it at a sneak preview several months before its release. At the mid-way point, about seventy percent of the audience had bailed. It hasn't gotten better over the years, and the out-of-focus transfer doesn't help. There is a score by Mr. Elmer Bernstein, but it's not one of his greats.
In breaking news, the mutant dishwasher has moved to the next cycle – drying. That is a good sign.
Well, why don't we all click on the Unseemly Button below because today is a very busy day and I must get my beauty sleep.
Today I must ship three packages, I must do errands and whatnot, and I believe that 1000 cardboard CD mailers will arrive at the mail place today. I have no idea how many boxes they'll arrive in, but hopefully it won't be too many. Also arriving this week will be our brand spanking new digital postal machine. I hope it's here by Wednesday so we can play with it and figure everything out prior to Friday's all day session of addressing and attaching postage and packaging the CDs, which are supposed to be done that day. If they're done in the morning, I'll drive up and get them. If it's in the afternoon, I'll send someone else to do so. And if it's afternoon, then we won't get to package the CDs until Monday morning – but everything will be stamped and addressed, so that shouldn't take more than a few hours and then we'll just take a bunch of big baggies over to the postal office, where we get to go around back and dump them.
Tonight, of course, is another rehearsal – we'll be doing run-throughs every night this week except Wednesday, which will be a work-through and dance review night.
The rest of this week is really busy. And might I just add that if some of our lurkers haven't ordered their Evening Primrose CDs, now would be a good time to do so – orders are still coming in every day and these won't last forever. Just pay a little visit to www.kritzerland.com.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for examply, ship packages, do errands and whatnot, and pick up 1000 cardboard CD mailers, after which I must attend a rehearsal. Today's topic of discussion: It's our new initials game day – this week's initials are really fun – Mark Rothman and I did three days' worth on these. Remember, you're on the honor system – no fair looking things up on the Internet or elsewhere. Just name every famous person or character that you know with these initials – it can range from character actors, stars, politicians, sports figures, etc, but not your friends and neighbors. And today's initials are: MS. Let's have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I wait for the mutant dishwasher to finish its neverending story.


Another impressive release from this talented foursome, which differs somewhat from their previous material. Like their earlier releases, _Autumn Leaves_ is of very high quality, displaying the band's artful blending of classically-inspired melody, gorgeous female vocals, and semi-progressive metallic techniques, including plentiful black-metallish rasps. Yet compared to their previous effort, the marvelous _Soria Moria Slott_, the songs here are more compact, in two senses. First, the production features a much more prominent guitar, while beautifully balancing everything else in a dense and crystalline sonic totality. _SMS_, by contrast, had a much more wide-open sound, the faraway buzz of guitar opening up a vast acoustic space for the wispy keyboard melodies and angelic vocals. Now, the melodies vie with the rhythm guitar for sonic room. Additionally, the songs here are generally shorter than the more sprawling compositions of _SMS_ - but they arguably make up for their lessened length by incorporating more frequent and more drastic variations. Reactions to these changes will no doubt differ... Personally, I prefer the band's earlier recordings, but that's not to say that this isn't pretty cool, for it certainly is that - check out Keltziva's awesome vocals on "Simply Dead", the musical roller-coaster "Carven", the darkly anthemic feel of "Remembrance of a Shroud", and so on. However, I could definitely live without the Skinny Puppy emulation on "Splendid Horror", not to mention the ten minutes of pointless experimentation that close out the album. But maybe that's just me.


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Juba instigates demonstrations to maintain South Sudan's 32 states: SPLM-IO
January 13, 2019 (JUBA) - The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) has accused the South Sudanese government of inciting demonstrations to keep the current 32 states in a clear breach of the revitalized peace agreement
Manawa Peter Gatkuoth
Manawa Peter Gatkuoth SPLM-IO Deputy Chairperson of the National Committee for Information and Public Relations claimed that the government plans demonstrations to be staged by its employees to protest against any decision aimed at abolishing the 32 states.
"We consider this move as a clear undermining of the revitalized peace agreement and a confirmation of the statements of the presidential press secretary in which he said that Salva Kiir would not back down from 32 states," Manawa said in statements to Sudan Tribune on Monday.
He further underlined that these states have been established by an administrative decision in clear violation to the constitution and without a popular referendum or even after consultations with the political forces that signed the peace agreement.
"The SPLM-IO considers this move as a desperate attempt to circumvent the decision of the Independent Boundaries Commission, which indicated that the majority supports returning to the 10 states because it faces a problem in the demarcation of borders between these states and districts".
Several South Sudanese officials voiced their support to maintain the 32 states jeopardize jeopardizing the whole peace process.
Cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomuro last December told an IGAD consultative meeting said the 32-state system is working well adding that disrupting it would lead to a "disaster in the country".
Manawa said that the government would not authorize those who are against the 32 states to take to the street.
He also pointed out to the millions of IPDs and refugees saying they would not return to their areas of origin before to settle this issue of state boundaries and the formation of a new army to replace instead of "security services that committed ethnic cleansing from 2013 to 2016.
During the meetings of the boundaries commission, the SPLM-IO was among those who supported the 10 states.
Manawa said the with the old territorial administrative system at list the there was no problem on the level of tribal boundaries.


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ELLIOTT, Carl Atwood
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
81st (1949–1951), 82nd (1951–1953), 83rd (1953–1955), 84th (1955–1957), 85th (1957–1959), 86th (1959–1961), 87th (1961–1963), 88th (1963–1965)
ELLIOTT, Carl Atwood, a Representative from Alabama; born in Vina, Franklin County, Ala., December 20, 1913; attended the public schools of Franklin County; was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1933 and from its law school in 1936; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Russellville, Ala.; in December 1936 moved to Jasper, Ala., and continued the practice of law; served as judge of Recorders Court, Jasper, Ala., in 1942 and 1946; city attorney at various times for Dora, Parrish, Cordova, Carbon Hill, and Oakman, Ala.; served with the Seventy-ninth Division, Three Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, United States Army, 1942-1944; member of Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee 1942-1950; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1965); chairman, Select Committee on Government Research (Eighty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; member of the bar of the District of Columbia since 1965; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabama in 1966; served on President's Library Commission 1967-1968; chairman, Public Evaluation Committee, Office of State Technical Services, United States Department of Commerce, 1967-1968; member, Commerce Technical Advisory Board, United States Department of Commerce, 1968-1970; resumed the practice of law until his retirement in 1986; owned and operated an editing and publishing business; was a resident of Jasper, Ala., until his death there on January 9, 1999; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library
Papers: 1932. ca. 6,720 items. In part transcripts. Correspondence, speeches, press releases, and other papers chiefly relating to his work on congressional committees. Unpublished guide in library.
Papers: In the William Stanely Hoole Papers, ca. 1920-1980s, 13 linear feet. The papers include speeches written for Carl Elliott concerning U.S. education, 1957-1958.
Papers: In the John Will Johnson Papers, 1936-1951, approximately 460 items. Correspondents include Carl Elliott.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Papers: In the Alabama Circuit Court (8th Circuit), Judge James N. Bloodworth's Program Administration Files, 1959-1968, 19 cubic feet. Correspondents include Carl Elliott. A container list is available in the repository.
Papers: In the Sam Engelhardt Papers, 1888-1973, approximately 18 cubic feet. Correspondents include Carl Elliott. A container list is available in the repository.
Papers: In Alabama Farm Bureau Federation records, 1922-1980. ca. 47 cubic feet (1 foot congressional correspondence). Correspondence between Congressmen and Farm Bureau officials concerning legislation. Finding aid in repository. Restricted.
Oral History: In the Oral history Interviews, 1974-1975, 12 cassette tapes. Interviewees include Carl Elliott.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collection Library
Charlotte, VA
Oral History: In the Bruce J. Dierenfield Oral History Interviews, 1975-1984, 27 sound cassettes. Interviewees include Carl Elliott.
Papers: In the Papers Relating to Dierenfield's Biography of Howard W. Smith [manuscript], 1978-1985, approximately 150 items. Persons represented include Carl Elliott.
Elliott, Carl, Sr., and Michael D'Orso. The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Roberts, Charles K. "Race, Wallace, and the '9-8' Plan: The Defeat of Carl Elliott." Alabama Review 62 (April 2009): 113-44.
Silveri, Louis. "'Pushing the Fence Back Too Far': The Defeat of Congressman Carl Elliott in 1964." Alabama Review 45 (January 1992): 3-17.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, "ELLIOTT, Carl Atwood," https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/E/ELLIOTT,-Carl-Atwood-(E000120)/ (January 20, 2021)


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claiming that the average must be the right time)"
Actually if you have ten clocks that are all different and the errors of the individual clocks are ~random in both magnitude and direction then the average should be a reasonable estimate of the correct time.
Of course "the errors of the individual clocks are ~random in both magnitude and direction" does not apply to the climate models as their forward projections are all high vs observations.
My climate models say it is getting warmer.
My actual data says "nahhh, not so much"
Eventually data driven reality imposes itself on computer spew.
I'll chime in once again with "Planet Earth cannot have a greenhouse gas effect." Calculating the temperature effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide is nonsense. Solar rays that reach the lower atmosphere essentially are limited to two choices: A) They can pass through the air and warm the surface or B) They can be absorbed by air molecules (such as water and carbon dioxide) and warm the air. However, since the surface and the lower atmosphere are in thermal equilibrium, global temperatures are unchanged if the amount of B rises a bit and the amount of A falls by the same amount. Thus, no greenhouse gas effect.
How then we all don't freeze to death at nighttime because heat retention is apparently impossible?
Paul Krugman won a Nobel for some apparently legitimate economic international trade work.
He now practices amateur argumentum ad vericundium via press adoration, as nauseum, and is no longer considered a serious economist by other practitioners.
The so-called "experts" are already naked; now they are being eviscerated and skinned.
Gil, get thee to a nunnery, post haste.
The model is...rigged! I am shocked, shocked to...realize I expected that.
Theories of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming should lose their credibility because they are not Science. It is a religion that has adopted a scientific tone, using equations and graphs, but based on selective data cooked through handcrafted computer programs.
Feynman: When someone says, "Science teaches such and such," he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn't teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, "Science has shown such and such," you should ask, "How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?" It should not be "science has shown." And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments and after hearing all the evidence, to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.
Feynman also observed that real science is a method for discovering facts about our world, and requires bending over backwards not to fool others, and especially not to fool oneself. He said it was particularly easy to fool oneself, and so required the greatest dilligence and openness to criticism and disproof to avoid being that fool.
If anyone wishes to ask questions about my paper, 'Planetary Surface Temperatures A Discussion of Alternative Mechanisms" or if you believe you have an alternative explanation for the Venus surface temperature, please post your question or response below this post as I wish to keep all discussion on the one thread. There is also discussion there regarding today's article on PSI which I did not write myself, by the way.
All i can gather is that MV is doing the old "if temperatures get warmer then there'll be more cloud cover immediately negating any warming" line.
While the overall temperature of the Earth is in equilibrium, without the greenhouse effect the Earth's surface would be a chilly ≈-18°C rather than the balmy ≈+15°C that it is.
Coyote Blog: What laymen do not understand is that it is way too easy to tune and tweak and plug models to get a preconceived answer -- and the more complex the model, the easier this is to do in a non-transparent way.
Everything in science is a model, but models are judged by fit to data. There are a variety of independent measures of climate sensitivity, such as observed climate response to volcanic forcing, measures of the Earth's energy budget, and calculations based on historical climate change.
Coyote Blog: Like Ms. O'Neill, I distrust "authorities" as well, and have a real problem with debates that quickly fall into dueling appeals to authority.
The proper argument against a valid appeal to authority is to the evidence.
In this case, there is a strong consensus within climatology and related fields. The skeptics typically only argue on the fringes, rarely publish, and have yet to convince a substantial number of their peers.
Coyote Blog: By the way, this aerosol issue is central to recent work that is pointing to a much lower climate sensitivity to CO2 than has been reported in past IPCC reports.
We presume Lewis has submitted his analysis to peer review. Which publication?
Warmists cry out "the science is settled". If so, then which of the 20 or so climate models is the settled science?
Even IPCC worshiper William Schlesinger is now acknowledging that 80 percent of the IPCC membership have had absolutely no dealing with the climate as part of their academic studies.
This is a careful, scholarly, clear, and readable presentation of claims and data. Global warming is not a hoax, but catastrophic, damaging global warming is a hoax not supported by evidence.
Prof. Lindzen points out that a doubling of carbon dioxide by 2050 would be expected to increase average world temperature by about 1 degree C (1.8 deg F). The alarmists pose that natural processes will multiply this warming to 3 deg C. Current data seems to give a multiplier of .5, giving .5 deg C of warming by 2050 (.9 deg F).
A major argument against an explosive, self-multiplying warming is that we are here to talk about it. If the Earth's climate system had a multiplier, rather than a brake, then prior much warmer and much colder periods would have spiraled to either a freezing or boiling extreme. Venus would be an example. Earth has been stable for 3 billion years.
[edited excerpts] Lindzen: The debate is not about whether CO2 is increasing: it clearly is. It is not about whether the increase in CO2, by itself, will lead to some warming: it should.
The debate is how much warming the increase in CO2 can lead to, and the connection of such warming to innumerable claimed catastrophes.
The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal. The arguments on which the catastrophic claims are made are extremely weak, and are commonly acknowledged as such. They are sometimes overtly dishonest.
However, models are hardly our only tool. Models can show why they get the results they get. The reasons involve physical processes that can be independently assessed by both observations and basic theory. This has, in fact, been done, and the results suggest that all models are exaggerating the warming.
A chart of IPCC predictions compared to satellite data.
The government-run IPCC predicted between .62 to 1.5 deg C of warming. Measured warming is .1 to .25 deg.
Andrew M Garland: Who are the people who have determined that Catastrophic, Anthropogenic (man caused), Global Warming is scientifically certain?
While nothing in science is certain, the vast majority of climatologists agree that humans will radically alter the climate if they continue on their present course.
Andrew M Garland: This is a careful, scholarly, clear, and readable presentation of claims and data.
Actually, it appears to be a rehash of skeptical claims. Like so many skeptics, he just pokes at the edges in the literature, while making much bigger claims to lay audiences.
Andrew M Garland: The usual rationale for alarm comes from models.
All science is models. However, there are a variety of measures of climate sensitivity. Experts in the field believe there is a high probability of significant sensitivity.
Andrew M Garland: A major argument against an explosive, self-multiplying warming is that we are here to talk about it. If the Earth's climate system had a multiplier, rather than a brake, then prior much warmer and much colder periods would have spiraled to either a freezing or boiling extreme. Venus would be an example. Earth has been stable for 3 billion years.
That is not correct. Modern climate model do not predict runaway processes. The Earth's climate is a complex system with many positive and negative feedbacks.
Andrew M Garland: Theories of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming should lose their credibility because they are not Science.
Even if climatologists are wrong, they are certainly working in a scientific manner. And important, they are supported by many related fields of study, from observations in oceanography to glaciology to ornithology to forestry to planetology, and so on.
Models are just that: models. You can write a computer program that will predict that every man will become a mother in 2013. So what?
A usable model is one that is based on first principles, with NO fudge factors. Empirical models are worthless excwept is a very few simple cases. The more complex the system, the more essential it is to base in ONLY of first principles.
One can always fit a model to a data set via a Fourier series or some other means. Every data point can be made to fit the equation perfectly. Again, so what? This says nothing about how NEW data will fit the OLD equation. This problem shows up every time the IPCC updates their work. The following data again does not fit well.
I am all for new ideas and hypothesese. However, to charge off and destroy the world economy based on the mere assertion that "My model is right" is utter stupidity. Further, there is no viable alternative to fossil fuels in the near future, so we can't do much about it anyway. Continuing study of the climate should proceed without all this mindless zealotry.
That is comforting. "Even if climatologists are wrong, at least they are working in a scientific manner."
The point about real science is to be self-sceptical until you have proof. That does not describe the collection of government appointees known as the IPCC.
I will continue to supply skeptical data from research. You can continue to supply your personal, anonymous opinions.
All science is considered tentative, no matter how strongly supported, but some findings are so well supported that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. There is a large body of science, in many related fields, that support anthropogenic climate change.
Ted Rado: Models are just that: models.
All of science is models. They are judged by their fit to the data. Climatologists have collected data from space, the polar regions, from the stratosphere, from the land and oceans. The science of anthropogenic climate change is supported not only by climate science, but related fields, such as physics and biology.
Zachriel: There is no question that scientists have fit their equations to the data. That simply shows that data fittting works. Why did the temp not go up in the past 15 years as pedicted? Obviously, the models are wrong. They fit past data (easy to do) but bomb on future predictions.
The problem is that there is no way to stop the use of fossil fuels without wrecking the economy. To plunge ahead with this is madness.
You just posited that climate models predict a spiraling process resulting in boiling oceans, which simply isn't the case.
Ted Rado: There is no question that scientists have fit their equations to the data.
Yes, that's exactly how science works. You fit the theory to the data, not the other way around.
Ted Rado: Why did the temp not go up in the past 15 years as pedicted?
If you take out solar activity, ENSO and volcanic activity, then the trend is even more obvious. See Foster & Rahmstorf, Global temperature evolution 1979–2010, Environmental Research Letters 2010.
Ted Rado: The problem is that there is no way to stop the use of fossil fuels without wrecking the economy.
That's right. There has to be an orderly transition to the new economy.


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