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Portrait Photography Tips: How Henry Horenstein Captured a Killer Image of Jerry Lee Lewis
Barry Tanenbaum | Mar 11, 2017
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The Killer was an hour late, but most of the folks in the audience had had a few drinks and were in a good mood, so nobody minded.
The Killer is Jerry Lee Lewis—if you want the origin story of his nickname, it's searchable—and on that night in 1975 he was past his rockabilly and rock-and-roll days and into his country music career. Photographer Henry Horenstein was at the Ramada Inn in East Boston on assignment for Country Music magazine to photograph Lewis between sets.
Things don't go quite according to plan.
"Jerry Lee finally arrives," Horenstein says, "and he sings one song, and then halfway through the second song he stops and says, 'You either come here to listen to me or you come to talk. You got a choice.' And he walks out."
At that point it doesn't look like any pictures will be made, but Horenstein stays put and an hour later Lewis's manager shows up and tells him that Lewis will see him.
"I go up to the penthouse—which is the fourth floor in the Ramada Inn—and I knock on the door and Jerry Lee himself opens it and says, 'C'mon in, killer'—it's not only his nickname, he calls everyone that—and he proceeds to set up the shots."
Wait…what? Lewis sets up the shots? Well, yes. The way Horenstein tells the story it was like, You can take the pictures I want you to take or you can leave. You got a choice.
"I didn't do much more than push the button," Horenstein says. "He'd do poses and say, 'Take this one,' 'take this one,' 'take this one.'"
Which, of course, fulfilled one of the goals of a portrait: the revealing of the subject's self. Jerry Lee Lewis is ultimately a controlling performer.
After a two-hour break, Lewis went back downstairs and played the second set—"a couple of hours," Horenstein remembers, "and no one in the audience said a word about it."
Who'd Dare?
Country Music magazine featured the photo, and it appears in Horenstein's most recent book, Shoot What You Love, a volume that's a story in itself. It's subtitled Tips and Tales From a Working Photographer, but that's just the surface of a memoir of a life in photography combined with a meditation on the nature of building a career as a professional photographer. It's the story of a photographer who has published some 30 books from how-to instruction to monographs, and an educator who is a professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design.
And who, when facing The Killer, calmly followed instructions.
Tech Talk: Henry Horenstein made the photo with a Rolleiflex Wide-Angle twin-lens reflex with a 55mm f/4 lens. He used a Honeywell flash with a bare bulb (no reflector), the film was Tri-X 400, and the settings were 1/60 second, f/8, and manual exposure. These days he chooses between a Mamiya 7 film camera and a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.
Images from Shoot What You Love: Tips and Tales From a Working Photographer, as well as photographs from Henry Horenstein's other books, are featured at horenstein.com. Music fans might want to pay special attention to the images and notes in the Honky Tonk section of the site.
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Are you filled with so much holiday spirit that it can't help but spill over to your car? Must you announce your love for this season to every person who lays eyes upon your vehicle? If that's the case then you're in luck, because there are more ways to spread some vehicular cheer than you might think.
Stand out from the rest of the cars in your town by turning yours into the most famous reindeer of all from Mystic Industries. Add antlers and a red nose with optional lights and jingle bells. Sure, all of the other reindeer may laugh and call you names, but you know you'll be the first Santa will call should the North Pole be sacked with fog on Christmas Eve. If you would prefer your car take the form of another Christmas character, you can choose to dress up your car as an elf or even mount Santa's beard, mouth and two stockings to your car's front fascia and windows.
If you choose to dress up your car in a costume, remember these decorations are not rated for highway speeds, and make sure you've engaged the window lock, or you may go down in history for the wrong reasons.
Do you think Christmas trees look their best in classic decoration? Never fear, because there are options for you as well. Try adorning your car with a simple wreath or an elegant red bow on the front. This will tell your fellow commuters that you not only enjoy the holidays, but that you have a refined taste as well. Make sure your wreath or bow is well-secured, and not so big as to inhibit proper engine cooling.
For those who really want to make a statement and enjoy spending time decorating for the holidays, consider wrapping your car with lights. The easiest option is to buy battery-powered lights and drape your cars with those. Unfortunately, these lights are pretty expensive per string, so if you want your car to be visible from space, you may end up spending a pretty penny.
If you're the kind of person who lives by the ethos "anything worth doing is worth doing right," you might consider a 12-volt converter with at least 400 watts. With a 12-volt converter, you can use the same Christmas lights from your tree and maximize what you put on your car.
That being said, it's important to check your local ordinances regarding lights. Some localities ban lights because they can be distracting to other drivers, or they may be considered in violation of ordinances that restrict colored or blinking lights to emergency vehicles.
The best way to spread Christmas cheer these holidays is not to decorate your car, but to be kind and courteous to your fellow drivers on the road. Oftentimes, people get so lost in the shuffle they forget the true meaning of the holidays. So while you rush from store to store and mall to mall, slow down and reflect on these holidays. Let people in, allow others to go before you, and practice the golden rule. Who knows, refraining from angrily blaring your horn may be the difference between a stocking full of coal and a stocking full of fun.
Photo credits: From top to bottom, North Charleston, Flickr; Mystic Industries, Amazon; Ian Lee, Flickr; North Charleston, Flickr; LadyDragonflyCC, Flickr.


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China plans to launch an 'artificial moon'
by: Kris Allred
Posted: Oct 19, 2018 / 02:06 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 19, 2018 / 02:06 AM EDT
A city in China is planning to launch an 'artificial moon' that will light up the skies as far as 50 miles around.
It's supposedly all set to happen in the city of Chengdu in 2020. The so-called illumination satellite is said to be eight times as bright as the real moon, and it will cast a 'dusk-like glow' over the area.
So far, very few details have been released on the project. But officials will say that the idea comes from a French artist who envisioned a necklace of mirrors hanging over Earth.
Wu Chunfend, chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co., Ltd, recently revealed the plan. He say the artificial moon will simply complement the real moon and make the night skies brighter, which could potentially replace conventional streetlights. The artificial moon can be controlled so that it can light up anywhere from 6 to 50 miles.
As you can imagine… when this plan was announced, there have been many skeptics. But Wu claims that the technology has been in the works for years and is nearly ready to go.
Also, some skeptics and concerned citizens say the light will have adverse effects on animals and astronomical observation. But again… officials argue that the light will only amount to a 'dusk-like glow.'
Now while this story definitely caught my attention, it turns out that this isn't even the first time that humans have tried to launch a light-reflecting object into the sky. Only thing is… these plans only ended in failure.
Just last year, a Russian team attempted to deploy what was touted to become the 'brightest object in the night sky, after the moon.' The Mayak satellite was launched despite backlash. Many astronomers said the night skies should stay dark.
Well, weeks after the launch, the team behind the project admitted the solar reflector failed.
Now I don't know about you but when it comes to my sleep environment, even the tiniest bit of extra light can cause a problem for me. Yes, you can block out the outside light… but it's hard to believe that there wouldn't be more negative effects than positive. Pretty or not… I have a feeling many see this idea as simply an April's fools joke… one to stick it where the sun don't shine ;-).

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A cardinal from Madagascar says Pope Francis is expected to visit the African island nation next year, in what is shaping up to be a year of global travel for the pontiff, the Associated Press news agency has reported from the Vatican.
Cardinal Desire Tsarahazana, the archbishop of Toamasina, said Tuesday that Madagascar bishops extended the invitation and "he will come to visit us in 2019." Tsarahazana, was one of the cardinals created by Pope Francis earlier this year.
The Vatican would not confirm a papal trip but said the possibility was being studied.
The pope is expected at World Youth Day in Panama, in South America, in January and has also said he hopes to visit Japan next year.
A Madagascar trip could co-ordinate with an invitation to visit Uganda in late July to mark the 50th anniversary of an umbrella group for bishops in Africa.
If it proceeds, such a visit would be the second by Pope Francis to Uganda.
Pope John Paul II visited Madagascar in 1989.


Today let me share a no fail recipe of Sabudana vada which anyone can make with ease. Bonus, these are not deep fried so you can eat those guilt free.
Hot, crispy Sabudana vada with minimal oil are ready.
Here I have served with Beet root raita to make it a little more healthy.
Pressure cook a medium sized beetroot for 3 whistle. Cool and peel it. Grate the beetroot. Add 1 cup thick curd, salt and little chilli powder. Mix well. A tasty, quick raita is ready.
You can cook and store beetroot in fridge upto 2-3 days so that the raita can be mixed quickly.


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Chicago PD Partners with Samsung to Give Officers More Apps on the Street
The police department is teaming with smartphone giant to turn officers' mobile devices into computers they can use in the field.
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Phil Goldstein is the web editor for FedTech and StateTech. Besides keeping up with the latest in technology trends, he is also an avid lover of the New York Yankees, poetry, photography, traveling and escaping humidity.
There was a time when it would have been fantastical for police officers to have laptops in their cars or smartphones on their belts. Now, however, they can have smartphones that function as computers.
Last month, the Chicago Police Department began a pilot program in partnership with Samsung to do just that, and to give officers more resources while they are patrolling the Windy City's streets.
The CPD is testing Samsung's DeX in-vehicle solution, which gives officers the ability to dock their Samsung Galaxy smartphones and access policing applications on a dash-mounted display and keyboard.
The pilot will showcase the technology's ability to give officers greater flexibility and the option to access CPD applications in ways they could not before.
MORE FROM STATETECH: See how police departments make use of video wall technology to improve public safety.
Chicago Police Department Aims to Give Officers Access to More Apps
Officers who use the solution will be able to access a computer-aided dispatch application and other CPD systems to conduct background checks and complete reports, according to a press release. Additionally, when officers use their smartphones to take photos and videos as evidence, they can immediately attach those media files to reports.
Nearly half of all Chicago Police Department officers have department-issued Samsung smartphones already, CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in the release. "The idea is to give officers everything they need to process a scene or respond to an incident in the palm of their hand," he said.
Jonathan Lewin, chief of CPD's Bureau of Technical Services, noted in the release that in-vehicle computing for police officers has evolved significantly over the past three decades.
"The old computers had to stay in the cars," he explained. "With this solution, it really creates an ecosystem that takes all the technology and makes it available to officers on the street in real time and at significantly less cost than we are paying now."
In a case study commissioned by Samsung, the Public Safety Network estimates that shifting from rugged in-vehicle laptops to a full one-to-one deployment of Galaxy smartphones and the DeX in-vehicle solution could save agencies more than 15 percent the first year of deployment and lead to more than 32 percent in annual savings thereafter.
At a press conference announcing the initiative, The Verge reports, Lewin said that "the system seamlessly takes an officer through the entire lifecycle of an incident" including getting dispatch assignments while officers are on the street, conducting name checks, vehicle checks and starting incident reports.
The pilot program will launch in the city's 11th District, according to ABC7 Chicago, and by the end of the year, all officers in the district will be using the technology.
DeX also offers the ability to view, tilt, pan and zoom on the district's security cameras, and lets officers view mapping data to see if an incident is part of a trend.
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Hopefully the game comes with some 'Roy: A Life Well Lived' DLC.
Rick and Morty is taking their multi-universe travels into the virtual reality with Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, a virtual reality game from Adult Swim Games and Owlchemy Labs.
The game is set to make its debut at San Diego Comic-Con.


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With Monday night's Emmys already in the bag, the annual award season is underway, and while October 1 is the deadline for nominations for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, the nominations from the region are already flowing in.
Sadly, the Gulf states have so far not nominated a film – countries are responsible for making their own nominations, with the Oscar's judges themselves cutting the longlist down to the final nominations in January.
The UAE became eligible to nominate for the first time last year following a three-year campaign spearheaded by the Dubai International Film Festival, however the 12-person UAE panel opted not to do so, despite strong support from cinephiles for Abdulla Al Kaabi's Only Men Go to The Grave. The jury members we've spoken to this year suggest that, since the pausing of DIFF, the panel has gone into stasis, and no film is likely to be nominated this year.
Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, has previously nominated two films – 2013's Wadjda and 2016's Barakah Meets Barakah. This year, however, no Saudi features have been released, despite the Kingdom's concerted push to establish itself as a movie hub following the reopening of cinemas, so again, no nomination here.
Fortunately, there are plenty of other films from around the Arab world that have been nominated for the award so far – we'll update this list as new nominations are announced.
Algeria remains the only Arab country to have won the foreign language Oscar with its very first submission, Costa Gavras' Z in 1970. Admittedly, that film was a Greek political thriller in the French language, but producer Ahmed Rachedi was undeniably Algerian, and the record stands. Yasmine's film sees an unexpected romance blossom between gravedigger Ali and Johar, a lady visiting her sister's grave.
Admittedly, Bosnia is not exactly in the Middle East, but Begic's Arabic language film, following the fate of traumatised, orphaned Syrian refugees in Turkey, warrants mention for its language and its moving subject matter. Begic's previous study of children at war, 2012's Children of Sarajevo, won a special jury distinction in Cannes' Certain Regard.
Shawky's film took home the François Chalais prize at Cannes in May and focuses on an Egyptian leper and an orphan boy, who travel to the leper's hometown in an attempt to find his family. This is Egypt's 33rd foreign language submission, and would be their first nomination.
Set entirely around a Baghdad train station one night in December 2006, Al-Daradji's film is a drama about a female suicide bomber, and premiered at Toronto in 2017. Al Daradji was previously submitted as Iraq's entry for 2009's Son Of Babylon. This film is Iraq's ninth submission to the foreign language prize, and the country is yet to receive a nomination.
Labaki's powerful drama about a neglected child who sues his parents for giving him life picked up the Jury Prize at Cannes, as well as a 15-minute standing ovation, in May, and has to be a strong contender for Oscar nomination. This could be Lebanon's second straight nomination, following Zaid Doueri's Lebanese debut at the awards last year, The Insult. Can Labaki go one step further and win?
Lakhmari's film is a snapshot of several lives in Morocco's largest city Casablanca. The film premiered in 2017 and has played several festivals, including in Dubai. This is Morocco's 14th Oscar submission. Its best result to date was in 2012, when Roschdy Zem's Omar Killed Me made the January shortlist.
Andoni's moving documentary sees him recreate traumatic experiences in an Israeli detention centre, with ex-prisoners reliving their incarceration and torture by Israeli occupiers – a kind of inverse The Art of Killing. It premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 2017. Palestine has two previous nominations in the category from ten submissions, for Paradise Now in 2006 and Omar in 2014.
Beauty and The Dogs centres on a student who, after being brutally raped by policemen, has to endure a labyrinth of bureaucracy and malevolence to achieve her basic human rights. Debutante Mariam Al Ferjani picked up Best Actress at this year's Arab Cinema Centre Awards for a truly harrowing performance in a Kafkaesque tale of institutionalised misogyny. The film is Tunisia's fifth Oscar submission, but the country is still waiting on its first nomination.


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The Wellesley Centers for Women had three full-time research trainee positions sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The training program was located at WCW in Wellesley, MA, and jointly administered by WCW senior researchers and selected Wellesley College faculty.
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The program provided systematic research training for candidates who wanted to develop expertise in research on childhood and adolescence and investigate variations in race and ethnicity, gender, and social class and how these interact with risk and resiliency factors in human development. One of the program's goals was to identify and develop scholars from underrepresented groups who will launch independent research careers through external funding. Read more...
Postdoc trainee scholars were matched with a preceptor who served as a mentor. Scholars and their preceptors met on a regular basis during the course of the scholar's residency. The preceptors in this program (Sumru Erkut, Ph.D., Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Ph.D., Nancy Genero, Ph.D., Pamela Alexander, Ph.D., and Nancy Marshall, Ed.D.) were all senior researchers who held the title WCW senior research scientist or the rank of associate or full professor at Wellesley College. In addition, Allison Tracy, Ph.D., Michelle Porche, Ed.D., and Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., WCW senior research scientists, served as co-preceptors (see below for more detail). Before completing their application, candidates were encouraged to review the current research activities of the preceptors. Upon selection, scholars indicated their first and second preceptor choices. The program directors, in consultation with the preceptors, determined the final matches. Read more...
The program offered training and career development through a combination of formal seminars and informal, regular interactions with preceptors and other scholars in the field. We devised a curriculum designed to provide instruction in child and adolescent development among understudied populations as well as research methods to better equip trainee scholars to conduct independent research on variations in race and ethnicity, gender, and social class and how these interact with the risk and resiliency factors that contribute to the development of children and adolescents. Read more...
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The Allentown School District announces the following events taking place in our schools during the month of February.
The Allentown School Board of Directors Meeting Schedule is as follows, and will be held in the Allentown School District Board Room at the District's Administration Center:
Thursday, February 14 at 6:30 pm; Education / Finance / Committee of the Whole
Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 pm; Regular Board Meeting
Special Education Early Intervention Meetings
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Secondary Newcomer Academy
Website: https:/new.allentownsd.org/
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William Penn Building
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Middle School Schedules
Harrison-Morton Middle School
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February 28; Career Day
Francis D. Raub Middle School
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February 11; Trexler and Raub visit Allen - Holocaust Survivor Assembly
South Mountain Middle School
Website: https://smt.allentownsd.org/
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February 8; 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Allentown Vision 2030 - Community Collaboration Meeting
February 17; SMMS & Lehigh Parkway Night at the Phantoms
Trexler Middle School
Website: https://trx.allentownsd.org/
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February 4-22; Mobile Holocaust Exhibit on Display
February 5; Pennies for Patients kick off
February 8; Honor Roll Celebration
February 8; Valentine's Day Dance ($4)
February 12; Black History Month event
February 13; Bulldog Choir Valentine's Open Mic Coffeehouse
February 14; Winter Sports Pep Rally
February 26; Black History Month Event: Documentary African American Leaders in the Lehigh Valley
Elementary School Schedules
Central Elementary School
Website: https://cen.allentownsd.org/
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Website: https://cle.allentownsd.org/
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Hiram W. Dodd Elementary School
Website: https://dod.allentownsd.org/
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Website: https://jef.allentownsd.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asdjefferson/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asdjeffersonelem
Website: https://jck.allentownsd.org/
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Lehigh Parkway Elementary School
Website: https://lep.allentownsd.org/
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February 20-22; Scholastic Book Fair
February 21; 4:30 PM - Book Bingo
February 26-28; Art Museum Field Trips (Grade 4)
Website: https://mck.allentownsd.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asdmckinley
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Mosser Elementary School
Website: https://mos.allentownsd.org/
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Muhlenberg Elementary School
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Luis A. Ramos Elementary School
Website: https://lar.allentownsd.org/
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February 6; Jump with Jill Assembly
Ritter Elementary School
Website: https://rit.allentownsd.org/
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Website: https://ros.allentownsd.org/
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Sheridan Elementary School
Website: https://shr.allentownsd.org/
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Union Terrace Elementary School
Website: https://unt.allentownsd.org/
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Website: https://was.allentownsd.org/
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K-6 Newcomer Academy
Website: https://new.allentownsd.org/
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February 1; STAR Student Assembly
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A piece to really tug at the heartstrings; a button from the uniform of the Queen's Westminster Rifles, set in a 9ct gold mount. We imagine a poignant story to rest with this treasured memento as the infantry fought in WW1. A piece to wear perhaps as a fob or charm.


I had the pleasure of interviewing Santi Subotovksy, who is a General Partner with Emergence Capital, a leading Venture firm that invests in people that are changing the way the world works. Before joining Emergence, Santi founded AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company in Argentina. He expanded the company to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the U.S.
Jean: Can you share your story about how you got into the VC space? I'm a native of Argentina. I lived and worked there until 2002. In 1999, I founded AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company, that I grew to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the US. Through my work at Tecnonexo I was selected to be an entrepreneur with Endeavor, an incredible organization that helps build and support entrepreneurial ecosystems outside the U.S. In 2006, Endeavor invited me to join a group of entrepreneurs visiting Silicon Valley, and there I was exposed for the first time to VC. That's when I realized I had to move to Silicon Valley, join a VC firm, learn how investors made decisions and then leave to start another company. I moved to Silicon Valley without a job and started meeting a lot of people. It wasn't easy as I didn't have a strong network and my football (soccer) was different than the football everyone was talking about… That's how I met the team at Emergence. Originally, my master plan was to be in VC for 2 years and almost 8 years later I can say I successfully failed… I'm still in VC and I love it!
Jean: What kinds of startups do you typically work with? At Emergence we typically invest in early stage startups because it allows us to partner with innovative entrepreneurs who are changing the way people work. Investing in early stage companies also allows us to build lasting partnerships with our entrepreneurs as they lead their companies through to acquisitions, IPOs and beyond. We are focused on thematic investing — one of our thematic investments is in an area we call Coaching Networks. Those companies are using artificial intelligence as an asset to help unlock our full potential in the workplace. Another area is the Deskless Workforce, a theme that focuses on technology to help the 80% of the global workforce that doesn't sit at a desk to do their job. A third is Industry Cloud, a sector in which vertical cloud applications are used to solve the challenges in an industry more effectively than is possible using horizontal software.
I'm looking for individuals and teams that want to start a company for the right reasons. Many people create a startup because they think it's a cool idea or they want to see if they like being an entrepreneur. I want to invest in someone with a strong belief–an obsession even — that they are working on an important problem they are convinced needs to be solved. It's really hard work to found and grow a company, so I look for teams that will relentlessly pursue their goal to fix that problem. When teams have that relentless desire, they will run thru walls to overcome any obstacles in their way and that's what it really takes to succeed.
Jean: Can you share a story of a successful Angel or VC investment? What were some of the highlights? When I joined Emergence in 2010 we started looking at next generation collaboration technology. Given that I had friends and family in Latin America I struggled to find effective and efficient communication tools and I knew there had to be a better way. We talked to several companies in that space that were all doing well but didn't have anything special, then we came across Zoom Video Communications, a video conferencing and collaboration platform. We reached out to Eric Yuan, its founder and CEO to arrange a meeting — I still remember it well. We are both immigrants (Eric immigrated to the U.S. from China) and both faced challenges because of that. We bonded over that fact, along with a love for soccer and deep belief in the importance of family. What most impressed me though was Eric's absolute conviction that he could create the industry's best video communications platform and make people happy!
I started using Zoom to communicate with friends and family in Latin America and I became a believer! Zoom has really great video and audio quality and it's very easy to use. I followed up with Eric to see if he'd like to meet with the Emergence team, but he said he wasn't interested in raising money for his company. Nonetheless, we extended the invite. When he did meet with us, instead of pitching us on investing in Zoom, he tried to sell us a subscription to the platform! In fact, he had all of us download the product and try it during our meeting — we were all able to get on a call right away — but it was a brave move that could easily have backfired if the Zoom platform wasn't so solid. After that meeting, we continued talking for six months or so, not even discussing business that much. Over that time, we developed a genuine bond and decided to partner. Now we think of each other more as family than business partners, which is exactly the kind of committed relationship I strive for in every investment I make. Zoom is now a six-year-old company valued at over $1B, its platform is used by 58% of the Fortune 1000 and its growing leaps and bounds. Eric was just named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Glassdoor's #1 CEO! I'm thrilled to have him as my friend and partner.
Jean: What is one piece of advice you would give a startup? Stay focused! It's easy to get pulled in a million different directions when you're a founder or executive at a startup. You'll see so many things that you think need to be done, but you simply can't do everything well all at once. Instead, be great at one thing, focus on solving one problem and doing it really well; that will earn you the right to do more.
Jean: Do you have a favorite book that made a deep impact on your life? Can you share a story? Yes! Candide by Voltaire is a favorite of mine. The main character in the story faces adversity in the most unimaginable ways, but always come out of it feeling optimistic, and seeing the glass half full. The story has had a huge impact on me because our lives as entrepreneurs are full of adversity. I found it particularly meaningful when I first moved to Silicon Valley and wanted to get into the venture capital industry. People turned me down for some of the most absurd reasons. For example, I was told that because I was Latino that I wouldn't do well in venture. I honestly don't understand what being Latino has to do with becoming accomplished in the venture industry — is there something in a Latino's DNA that prevents success in venture capital? When I pressed a few people for more specific reasons, they told me that since I followed soccer — rather than American football — I wouldn't have anything to talk to prospects about. Rather than feeling dejected, I continued networking, and considered the time I spent not just as an opportunity to meet interesting people, but also as a chance to better understand relationships. After all, whatever affects me negatively will impact other people as well. I re-read the book every now and then to give me perspective.
Jean: What are your "5 Things I Wish Founders Knew Before They Pitched Me" and why. Please share a story or example for each.
1.) That I think of venture capital investing as a relationship not a transaction. Today's popular dating apps offer a good analogy: I'm an eHarmony person; not a Tinder person.
2.) That I'm obsessed with the future of work. I keep a running list of problems people face at work and I am obsessed with finding new ways to solve future-of-work problems. Whenever I get frustrated with something work-related — for example when I encounter a problem with customer support, forget my access card to get into the office, or forget my password for something — I add that issue to the list. That obsession drives my investing decision-making process. If I cannot relate to a specific problem, then it's hard to capture my interest. I still get pitched by startups creating consumer technology; and there's definitely an important place in the world for consumer tech, but it's just not what I'm looking for. Of course, I don't mind taking the time to hear someone's consumer pitch, I just know that founders have very limited time and don't want them to devote that time to pitching someone whose interests lie elsewhere.
3.) That every member of the Emergence Capital team invests in and works with the entrepreneurs in our portfolio. We are extremely collaborative, so the fact that entrepreneurs are going to meet everyone on the team is a good thing, not a bad thing. We want everyone at the firm to know the teams we invest in, because we make all our investment decisions together and, once we partner with a team, everyone at Emergence will be helping the company reach its goals. We call it "unanimous enthusiasm". All our partners are experts in the technologies we invest in, and all can add value to vetting, guiding and growing startups we partner with. Entrepreneurs sometimes misconstrue the fact that they're meeting with multiple partners–often several times — as a tactic we're using to stall for time or an effort to pass someone off to another partner because the first partner wasn't interested. That's the furthest thing from the truth.
4.) All our partners want to share their expertise across all segments of the companies we invest in. We are not only trying to help the CEOs on a team, we want to help the entire executive team. Our goal is to lend a hand and share best practices in all areas — sales, marketing, finance and so on. It's more about our network and community and extending our expertise across the entire team.
5.) We don't believe in taking short-cuts and want to work with teams and executives that ascribe to the same philosophy. We believe that winning big in the long run is what matters. For example, it's important to build the right technology before going to market. By doing things properly from the start — even if you appear to be slower early on — you'll be able to catch up and then be in a position to scale a lot faster because you won't be taking time to fix bugs that never should have been in the product to start with. When we are working with companies, we push them to do the right thing, even if that means they're delayed and miss an important trade show or other event. We feel that doing the right things, building the right team, and building the right technology from the beginning is essential.
Jean: Is there a person in the world, or in the US whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? I would love to have breakfast or lunch with my parents. They both passed away when I was very young. I'd love a chance to share my journey, and to let them know that I'm happy and making a difference in this world.


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Nothing in Isolation: Supporting Urban Communities and Schools
Jeorme A. Steele
Discussions of K-12 education policy focus primarily on standards, testing, teacher evaluation and school choice. For urban schools charged with meeting the needs of diverse learners in the face of student and community poverty, tight district budgets and teacher shortages, this narrow concept of education policy is insufficient. In "What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm," published in the Harvard Educational Review, the late scholar Dr. Jean Anyon argues that education policy will only improve outcomes for students in urban schools if its definition is substantially broadened to include related social and economic initiatives (Anyon, 2005). She argues that "rules and regulations regarding teaching, curriculum, and assessment certainly are important, but policies to eliminate poverty-wage work and housing segregation (for example) should be part of the educational policy panoply as well, for these have consequences for urban education at least as profound as curriculum, pedagogy and testing" (Anyon, 2005).
Duncan and Brooks-Gunn's 1997 volume The Consequences of Growing up Poor, connects poverty with decreased student achievement. The authors state that "family income is usually a stronger predictor of ability and achievement outcomes than are measures of parental schooling or family structure [eg single parenthood]" (Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 1997 p. 603). Anyon cites Lee and Burkham's Inequality at the Starting Gate: Social Background and Achievement at Kindergarten Entry to emphasize the fact that "the least advantaged United States children begin their formal schooling in consistently lower quality schools. This reinforces the inequalities that develop even before children reach school age." Education policy must address this at its root if schools are to help students overcome structural inequality rather than reinforce it.
In his article "Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization," education and critical race theory scholar Henry Giroux argues that policy makers have historically responded to urban poverty and its accompanying social consequences through policies of containment and the constant presence of an increasingly militarized police force (Giroux, 2001). Reflecting on then Mayor Guiliani's decision to transfer oversight of school discipline from the Department of Education to the police force, Henry Giroux states "once it was clear that Guiliani would receive high marks in the press for lowering the crime rate due to zero-tolerance policies adopted by the city's police force, it seemed reasonable for him to use the same policies in the public schools." (Giroux, 2001) While NYPD no longer oversees school discipline in New York City, this same logic has emerged in rhetoric calling for more police presence in schools, armed veterans and even armed teachers as a solution to the plague of mass school shootings.
Giroux cites Lewis Lapham's Harper's Magazine article "School Bells" to elaborate on his connection between schools, policing and prisons. Lapham states that "high schools now 'possess many of the same attributes as minimum-security prisons - metal detectors in the corridors, zero tolerance for rowdy behavior, the principal as a warden and the faculty familiar with the syllabus of concealed weapons." The carceral concept of discipline aims to "instill the attitudes of passivity and apprehension, which in turn induce the fear of authority and the habits of obedience" (Lapham, 2000). This logic is quite at odds with education's stated goal of empowering students to develop the habits of critical thinking and self-determination necessary to be an engaged citizen in a complex society.
At a point where a significant plurality of the population is calling for increasing the presence of guards, police and weapons in schools in the name of security, it is important to recognize that this approach has already been implemented – and failed – in urban schools. The consequences of doubling down on such policies would be catastrophic, particularly for children of color. Education policy experts should look beyond standards and mandates while legislators must reject the alignment of schools and prisons. Dr. Anyon's broad definition of education policy makes the unavoidable connection between supporting students and the communities in which they live. The successes of programs such as community schools and restorative practices suggest that such an approach has the potential to make a meaningful difference in the lives of students in urban schools.
Anyon, Jean. "What 'Counts' as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm." Harvard Educational Review, vol. 75, no. 1, 2005, pp. 65–88., doi:10.17763/haer.75.1.g1q5k721220ku176.
Giroux, Henry A. "Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization." Boundary 2, vol. 28, no. 3, 2001, pp. 61–94.
Please check out Increasing Achievement in Urban Schools, a conference that will provide research supported strategies and resources to improve outcomes for students in city schoool districts.
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SLAVF Volleyball & Netball Championships Ends at Maharagama
The Inter Regiment Volleyball Championship and Inter Battalion Netball Championship - 2018 organized by the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (SLAVF) during 29 May - 1 June at both Panagoda Army Cantonment Indoor Stadium and Maharagama, National Youth Council (NYC) premises, drew to a close this afternoon (1).
The finals of the tournament and prize-awarding ceremony took place this afternoon with the participation of the SLAVF Commandant, Major General Piyal Wickramaratne as the Chief Guest at the Maharagama National Youth Council premises.
The 2 (V) Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps (SLAWC) team meanwhile secured the championship in the Inter Battalion Netball tournament held at the Indoor Stadium Complex, Panagoda while the 6 (V) SLAWC team secured the runners-up position.
During the Inter Regiment Volleyball Women's competition 6 (V) SLAWC secured the Championship. The 2 (V) Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps (SLAGSC) team became the Runners-up in the competition. 6 teams participated in the competition.
During the Super League round, 8 teams competed and the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) team was crowned as the champions. Corps of Engineer Service (CES) team was adjudged having won the second place.
Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force organizes this event as one of their annual major events. The championship is conducted under the rules and regulations recognized internationally with the stewardship of a panel of judges recognized by the governing bodies of both sports in Sri Lanka.


#055: Today I had the pleasure of talking with Quenten and Jovan of Choose Pristine. A few months ago Quenten and Jovan decided to launch an online course teaching people how to start their own SMMA and were seeing some success, but it could have been better. They decided to make a few simple tweaks to their sales processes and within the first 2 months of 2019 they had brough in over $800,000 and were well on their way to hitting $1,000,000 at 19 AND 22 YEARS OLD. In this episode Quenten and Jovan discuss how they were able to skyrocket their sales extremely quickly, the exact structure and the steps they took, and how you can implement what they learned in your business. By the end of this episode you will have a step-by-step blueprint to take your business to the next level. Enjoy! Follow Quenten on Instagram -- @quentenchad_ and Jovan on Instagram -- @ jovanstojanovic_ Find Choose Pristine on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/choosepristine If you have ever thought about buying an online course, check out The Online Course Examiner (www.OnlineCourseExaminer.com) "The Yelp of online courses!" Want to learn how to start your own SMMA? I created a free training to get you started! -->www.go.AppleCrider.com/smm Follow me on Instagram --> www.Instagram.com/applecriderofficial For 250+ videos subscribe to my YouTube channel --> YouTube.com/AppleCrider P.S. I have an Alexa Skill! Look up Apple Crider on the Alexa Store! P.P.S Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review if you enjoyed the show!
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Q: Modeling invoices and orders I have a problem in modeling a database that contains orders and invoices. Actually it's more of a problem from a business point of view, but it's related to modeling the database nonetheless.
Model of the Orders table:

Now I had another column called payment_deadline, that well had the payment deadline. What I'm thinking about is, what info should my Orders table have and what info should my Invoices table have?
Which one has Employee and Customer id? Which one has the prices? Which one has the payment info? Which one has the deadline info? I'm totally lost.
I understand that in the business world, an order signals that the provider of the goods has to act, and the invoice represents that the goods provider has fulfilled his part and the customer now has to pay for the goods/services. But I'm lost as to how model it in the database. Any insight is much appreciated.

A: Your Question is much too broad to provide any specific table design suggestions. Just this, "Which one has Employee", could mean any of dozens of things as mentioned in the Answer by Neil McGuigan: the person who first took customer inquiry phone call, the sales person who responded, the sales assistant who filled out Sales Order, the production manager who acknowledged receipt of the Sales Order, the workers who produced the items on the work order, and so on.
But I'll give you a simplified overview that might provide some of the insight you requested.
Business Transaction Life-Cycle
Using the definitions from Wikipedia, the usual work flow of vendor-customer is shown in this diagram. Colors mean:

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*Pink items = customer-vendor contact/interaction without documents

*Blue items = documents from/to the customer

*Yellow items = documents internal to the vendor.

After consulting with a sales person (optional), the customer submits a Purchase Order to a vendor, describing exactly what service/product they have decided to buy. If accepted by the vendor, a legally-binding contract is established.
The Sales Order is produced by the sales people of the vendor, reflecting the content of the Purchase Order but using the format and lingo that makes sense to the internal staff of the vendor.
The vendor's internal staff, the production-related managers (senior artisans, manufacturing managers, warehouse supervisors, etc.) create one or more Work Order documents directing their staff on what to do to render the services/products desired by the customer.
When any part or whole of the Purchase Item has been rendered to the customer, an Invoice is prepared by the vendor and delivered to the customer to demand payment. The Invoice should reference the Purchase Order number/id.
Lastly, the customer makes payment along with some kind of Remittance Advice referencing the Invoice number/id. This step completes the transaction (ignoring returns, Change Orders, or other issues).
The diagram above is not a table or entity diagram. For example, you may well have multiple work orders for one sales order. You may have multiple invoices if partial deliveries are made to the customer. Or, imagine if the manufacturing staff only builds two units of WonderWidget at a time to avoid wastage. So we must wait for another customer to order a second widget, while waiting we do not yet produce a Work Order. Meanwhile we can start on other items on the sales order, and we produce Work Orders for these early items. In this scenario we have a Many-to-Many relationship where any Sales Order can have more than one Work Order (customer wants several items with some of those items being produced while waiting for WonderWidget production to begin) while each Work Order can have more than one Sales Order attached (a pair of Sales Orders from different customers in case of double-WonderWidget production).
In-Person Retail
In-person retail is much simpler, with an work flow of three instantaneous steps, only two of which would be documents (or database entities).

A customer grabs some stuff from the store shelf, presents at the checkout counter, a register tallies up the items (akin to a sales order), payment is executed, and a sales receipt is produced. The Sales Receipt is basically the combination of the register's tally (sales order) plus the payment details (partial credit card number, date-time, and so on).
Again, this is simplified because we ignore returns and such issues.
Again this diagram is not a table or entity diagram.
Web/Phone Retail
With online web or telephone ordering, the work flow is probably a combination of the two above. If the customer pays immediately, then we don't need the Invoice & Remittance Advice. If it's a small shop, the Sales Order and Work Order may be the same single entity, whereas if this is an Amazon.com style business with multiple warehouses, then we will have multiple work orders.
Over-Simplified Partial Table Diagram
Just to give you a flavor as a newbie to table design, here is a grossly over-simplified design. Partial design, just for the sales order. This diagram uses simple crows-foot notation and Postgres data types. Abbreviations: pk means primary key, and fk means foreign key.

A: Price shouldn't be in your order table. A sales order hasMany line items. Price belongs to line item. As does delivery date.
An invoice is a request for payment. An order can have many (or no) invoices, and an invoice can be for many orders. It's a many to many relationship.
You don't really need invoices if you're doing pay-before-delivery (or don't do subscription services).
Check out the references here: Ready-to-Use Database models example . Silverston does order models well.
There can be several employees involved in an order: commissioned sales people, the order taker, etc. As well as several customers: the person placing the order, the person that will actually use the product/service, the party paying for the order, and the party to ship to.
For example, Grandma could call in to place an order for Little Suzy. Grandpa pays. The order is sent to Mom.

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Q: How to write a custom @Html.ControlFor(o => o.Property)? I want to create a custom method, to be able to call it as
@Html.PaginationFor(o => o.List)

I started looking at reflector, but I don't know exactly what it is doing over there. I tried:
public static MvcHtmlString PaginationFor<TModel, TProperty>(this Html<TModel> html,
    Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression)
{
    var propertyValue = ????????
    return html.Partial("View", propertyValue);
}

How do I extract the property value from the expression to pass as a model of the partial view?

A: public static MvcHtmlString PaginationFor<TModel, TProperty>(
    this HtmlHelper<TModel> html,
    Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression
)
{
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The endurance capacity of individuals is diminished during exercise in the heat, such that heat stress leads to an earlier onset of fatigue. Chronic exposure to hot conditions, however, may reverse this process. Exercise in cool conditions can either improve or reduce exercise tolerance depending on the severity of the environmental temperature and/or the intensity of the exercise. Research examining the effect of exercise in different ambient temperatures on muscle metabolism, in particular carbohydrate metabolism, has produced conflicting results. The definitive mechanisms whereby exercise in different environmental conditions affects muscle metabolism have yet to be determined. The studies reported in this dissertation examined muscle metabolism during exercise in different environmental conditions and in different states of heat acclimation. Furthermore, possible mechanisms proposed for such metabolic alterations were investigated.


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Microsoft's My Phone service was recently updated to version 1.6 and you should know that this backup service is free and comes with great features. In version 1.6, you'll be able to manage and edit your contacts from the My Phone Web interface, with ease.
Too bad that the service isn't compatible with the contacts from Windows Live/Hotmail, but maybe we'll see this feature as an update soon. The new version of My Phone also allows users to upload photos from the PC to the My Phone service, afterwards pushing them to the phone. Also, the software supports the use of WiFi My Phone syncing, apparently a feat not present in the service till now.
Hopefully, in the future we'll see Microsoft' My Phone syncing contacts, calendar appointments and tasks with Windows Live equivalents, possibly with the aid of Windows Phone 7 new functions.


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A new dark age
Elizabeth Bernholz aka Gazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin shares her forthcoming album Pastoral, which examines the fear and loathing behind the lace curtains of Olde England: "I felt like I was bristling with dread, like things were closing in on us all. I suddenly felt very aware of the violence and injustice that lay behind almost everything I deemed nice.''
Gazelle Twin aka Elizabeth Bernholz returns with her first full length release since 2014's Unflesh. Called Pastoral, the album examines the darker side of the often misconstrued idyllic setting of rural England. "There is a horror in every idyll," she declares, "and danger lurking beyond the 'quaint'. The village square – once host to centuries of public torture – becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled up for the summer fête. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui."
Pastoral's lead track "Hobby Horse" juxtaposes childhood innocence and playfulness with anxiety, brutality and confusion. In the accompanying video Bernholz takes on the persona of a jester, mocking the viewer while angrily proclaiming in a devilish whisper: "My eyes are stinging/My ears are ringing/My hands are tied and I can't get out of here".
"I am feeling like it's very much a tabloid demo," she explains. "It's the devil acting the fool, playing us ALL for fools."
The Wire Online Editor Daisy Hyde catches up with Bernholz to discuss notions of the idyll, far right ideologies, and the personal experiences surrounding the record's release.
Daisy Hyde: What have you been up to since the release of Unflesh in 2014?
Gazelle Twin: I toured Unflesh and its live soundtrack counterpart Out Of Body all over the place until the tail end of 2015. I was three months pregnant by that time so I began work on a new commission from Future Everything Festival to create an AV show for other performers still under the Gazelle Twin moniker. Called Kingdom Come, it's been touring festivals since March 2016, with Jez Bernholz (BERNHOLZ), Lone Taxidermist and Stuart Warwick performing all the parts.
I started work on what would become Pastoral around the time I was touring Unflesh, but had many (mostly welcome) distractions. My son was born in spring 2016, and I finished the album shortly after his second birthday this year. It was a long, slow, painstaking process and delivered much later than planned, but I still don't really know how it all got done, because most of the time I can't even make myself lunch these days.
I see you moved to the countryside. How did the move inspire certain themes on the release?
Yeah, my husband Jez and I had lived in Brighton for well over a decade, and we fancied a little adventure. We had a chance to tour the world, but to make it at all financially viable we needed to get out of the relentless, rising rent trap. It was meant to be a temporary thing, but we quickly lost track of time, and then we had a kid, and then time became a very strange thing that seemed to swing from treacle to sand falling through our fingers. We found ourselves a little bit stuck, rather than completely content or settled, but it was better than the various alternatives.
The Brexit referendum happened around the time we moved, and we were dreadfully aware of the right-shifting political mood sweeping across Europe. It all seemed to be closing in and reaching a head as soon as we became parents. In a place which should have been a very gentle safehouse for us, an easier life, and a chance to save some money, instead we have often felt like our lifeboat back to civilisation (our old life) has drifted away. Obviously we are not trapped here, but it's hard to leave a place when you feel like there's not really anywhere better right now.
I hadn't set out to write an album on the themes of rural life at all. The birth of my son slammed us into a strange and alien new role – with heightened anxiety, and a very protective, slightly paranoid and fearful state (not helped by Post-natal depression), which seemed to jar horrendously with the very idyllic and quiet setting we were living in. Loneliness is something to quickly get accustomed to when becoming a parent. The birdsong, the parks and friendly well-behaved neighbours are often a pleasant thing, but most of the time as a new mum, I felt like I was bristling with dread. Like things were closing in on us all. I suddenly felt very aware of the violence and injustice that lay behind almost everything I deemed nice. I was thinking about how country life has always been this way. I have heard it said on more than one occasion that we are hitting a new dark age. Things are reverting backwards, like they seem to do with human civilisation. Casual aggression, casual racism, casual xenophobia, casual evil, all readily in the air once again.
Can you talk me through the album title Pastoral?
I was kind of raised on a Classic FM playlist, in mostly rural settings, but also in a cul-de-sac on a Victoriana housing estate in the 1980s. As a general theme – ie something I had in my mind whilst writing it (the overarching theme and title came later), I was thinking about growing up in Britain, what it means to be English in this laughable age of over-egged national pride, and how the many tropes and cliches we have about ourselves or seen from afar tropes are reflected in art, history and in modern politics. I was thinking about the Romantic art form of the Pastoral especially, of course – the classical symphony, the landscape painting, and how that romanticism still very much continues to inform the contemporary branding of rural life here. I knew I wanted this to be my parody on that longstanding mythology.
How would you describe a rural idyll in Middle England?
In this particular one, which is largely Conservative and still very much existing in Manorial-law-style submission to the rich and privileged landowners, I would say it is: silently hateful. Subtly violent. Rustically greedy. Quietly predatory. And SUSPICIOUS.
What is it about folklore that you find so intriguing?
I take an anthropological interest in many things. I find it especially fascinating how humans of any origin, rural, urban, remote or living in high rises, cultivate rituals, as if it's a very deep-seated survival trait and/or identity building process. It's always been a thought-habit of mine to trace such things back as far as they might go to get to the crux of it, perhaps. I like to muse on and learn about what drives modern humans and their actions; their eccentricities, their tribal tendencies, their propensity to violence, their self-destruction. Folklore tradition often involves characters which represent all these traits, and I think that's why it becomes such a useful agent in revealing the darker and more subliminal aspects of these very odd times.
Dismantling collective memory or romantic notions of the past is something that reoccurs throughout your work. Do you think that reframing the past can help shed light on the present?
Yes, I do, at least for me looking at things in this way, offers clarity, together with a sense of disbelief and madness. Are we really this ignorant and forgetful?
When starting to focus on the horror behind every idyll, I was thinking about far-right history and its propensity to adopt folkloric, romanic traditions and rustic nostalgia as part of its dogma. Mussolini, Stalin and of course Hitler all utilised this in their own convenient ways. I was particularly drawn to a mid-90s Jonathan Meades programme – Unholy Relics Of Nazi Germany. He visited a thatched cottage in rural Germany. At the time the locals believed it was a sports training centre but it housed all the lectures for the SS doctors to learn how to effectively exterminate large numbers of humans.
I suddenly felt intoxicated by that image of the beamed, thatched cottage in a golden pasture, and then I thought about how this dark secret could apply to the ye olde image of merrie Englande and it certainly does, almost wherever you look.
How do you compare the "murmurs amidst tearoom chatter" to platforms such as Twitter or comment sections on Instagram and Facebook?
Those with un-PC opinions got their confidence boost, for sure. I once nearly had a nervous breakdown after getting bullied on a moneysavingexpert forum for being an artist choosing to have my income supplemented by housing benefit in order to 'build my business'. The abuse I got was severe and manic, and seemed to be from a group of sixtysomethings who claimed to have 'worked hard' all their lives not to have the likes of me scrounging off their tax. It's that same manic but mega-confident approach to telling people that immigrants are the real problem, not government or policy etc. I think it's true to say that inter-generational clashes have always been there and tolerance and progressive thinking is often the lacking aspect in that, but now it feels like you can't just laugh off casual racism as a generational or even a class quirk – the secret is out and everyone wants to find a way to justify their perspective, quite aggressively in whatever way they can.
Previously, your work has dealt with physicality and the body as a place of anxiety and something to be examined. How would you frame a connection between your own physicality and that of shared experience?
In the same way I like to dissect human traits I'm also very interested in tracing the physiological drives and effects of evolution in modern life. Costume has become a very essential tool in communicating multiple ideas about physicality (personal or not). It enables me to communicate these anxieties in an unrestricted physical form, to transcend my own flesh, and reflect, adopt, embody or caricature a range of roles to get points across. In Unflesh I used the PE kit from my school days, representing a point of extreme physical anxiety – to express ideas about my own messed up sense of being. But the act of performing this to people very quickly became something greater – it felt like a vessel for which I could carry others. I experienced many people sharing their experiences within and through this very specific figure and voice. This was, is, a very, very powerful thing.
With the red imp of Pastoral, it's less personal, so it has a slightly different role. Here I am taking the social anxieties I have about fascism in all its various forms, as a kind of scarecrow figure, maybe it's even a role-reversing concept, it's the oppressor, not the oppressed. I like mixing up stereotypes too, because they say a lot about class culture especially. But it's no one thing in particular. With the performances, the songs themselves are the agents which alter and move the puppet (me) on stage and through these various voices, movements and moods. It's pretty fun.
How can folk music and electronic music production influence/complement each other?
I think there's an interesting intersection which I have indulged in a fair bit on Pastoral. The modes and instrumentation of folk music (specifically English folk, as well as early English music) when mixed up with electronics, can end up sort of harking back to 1970s prog and psychedelia. I tried to keep it mostly quite sparse and restrained so as not to have a bit too much of a 'King Crimson' on my hands. The specific elements I wanted to include were fairly basic: the recorder (a solo shepherd, the pied piper), the harpsichord (a medieval, music of the royal courts feel), the tambourine, bells and tambour (again, to allude to the folkish, traditional dances), all offset with quite manic, machinic industrial beats, with lots of looping and repetition. I tried not to get too earnest with it all, as was definitely the risk(!). I wanted it to feel a bit jaunty at times, and for there to be a bit of frolicking going on, with a counterpoint of deep, dark, powerful driving rhythms and bass. That's where the electronics play their vital part, bringing in a bit of pylon electricity, the terror of the industrial revolution, a physical tension, a manic trance, and also lending me the freedom of voice manipulation to bring all the various voices in the story to life.
When Adam Harper interviewed you for The Wire 368, you talked about duality as something you will probably 'spend the rest of my life trying to flesh out'. I wonder how the final output of such a personal project (such as Unflesh) has affected your work since? Does it offer a sense or closure, for example? Or open up more layers to work with?
Actually, I had thought it was the former – closure – and in lots of ways it was, but since having a child some of the psychological wounds I was dealing with in Unflesh have re-opened in a fairly monstrous way, to the point where I'm now in therapy, but it's a good process to go through in more detail, and it's ALL about the detail, especially when going through EMDR therapy. It's the most amazing thing I've ever experienced.
On the other hand, I do feel as though the no-secret, brutal-truth strategy that began with Unflesh, has helped cement an artistic method. It's useful not least for scavenging ideas, but to purge the myriad everyday frustrations I accumulate as a (somewhat) repressed white middle-class low income British mum! It could very well be that one day these things overlap and I find myself operating in everyday situations, just as I do with my creative work, but that's probably a way off yet. I'm not about to start torching my local co-op newsstand for stocking the rags. I might end up in the village stocks if I do, anyway.
PASTORAL by Gazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin will perform at Rough Trade East on 27 September, and again at Somerset House on 16 November as part of a new series called Assembly. Pastoral is released on 21 September on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray.
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Palę sobie – kompilacyjny minialbum Budki Suflera z 2003 roku.

Lista utworów
 "Takie tango" – 5:09
 "Cały mój zgiełk" – 5:25
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 "Cisza jak ta" – 5:28
 "Bal wszystkich świętych" – 4:28

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My Justice First Fellowship: Brooke Toon
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Brooke Toon is Justice First Fellow and trainee solicitor at Central England Law Centre. She is due to qualify in February 2019. You can read other articles in the series here.
As a teenage parent I faced many situations that the law centre's clients face. I was on benefits, homeless, and then went on to live in social housing. I experienced many abuses of power and studying law gave me confidence to stand up for myself.
I read a quote once that strong people stand up for themselves; even stronger people stand up for others. Being able to stand up for other people, some of whom are extremely vulnerable, makes me feel good.
When I started in my first seat, doing housing, I had a client who was sofa-surfing with her 19-year-old daughter. She had given up her business to care for her terminally ill mother and moved in with her mum and her mum's partner. Shortly after her mum died, the partner asked her to leave – but she had nowhere to go. Her daughter was 19, so she didn't automatically fit into a 'priority need' category, even though she was very ill, suffering physical and mental health issues, and having just undergone surgery. She and her daughter were walking the streets all day until they found somewhere to stay that night. The council refused her homelessness application, so she came to us for help. Drafting the submissions that she should be treated as a priority for housing was my first proper piece of work as a trainee.
The local authority overturned its decision and decided it owed her a 'full housing duty'. When I called to tell her that she would be supported by the council and didn't have to sofa surf anymore, she cried.
The best thing about being a legal aid lawyer is that you can change somebody's life. These aren't trivial decisions we're fighting, Sometimes it's the difference between having a roof over someone's head or their being street homeless.
The worst thing is realising that this stuff happens all the time and unfortunately we can't help everyone. Due to cuts in legal aid some people don't even have a local law centre or anyone to help.
The three qualities a good legal aid lawyer should have are passion, determination and a sense of humour.
My legal hero is Canadian women's rights activist Emily Murphy, who became the first female magistrate in the British Empire – in Canada in 1916. A defence lawyer challenged her first guilty verdict, because she was a woman and therefore not recognised by the law as a 'legal person'. Later she and four others, who became known as the Famous Five, challenged the fact that women could not sit on the Senate. The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that women were not eligible, a decision overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain in 1929. Although she died without having served in the Senate, this was a landmark ruling that paved the way for women to enter government and helped to change society's attitudes to women in many other professions.
I think sometimes being a female lawyer, particularly as a young parent, I experience a bit of imposter syndrome. So to imagine the courage it would have taken Emily Murphy back then to challenge not only the law, but society's view of women is inspiring.
Access to justice matters because without it the rule of law is just a concept. What good is it having laws that protect people rights if they have no way of enforcing them?
The Justice First Fellowship scheme not only increases the opportunities for people to practice in this much-needed area, but also offers training outside of your training contract. This includes workshops on dealing with the press and finding funding from alternative sources, which is vital with so many cuts to legal aid. The scheme gives you the tools to be able to create a successful and sustainable career and allows you to feel like you're a part of a bigger social movement and a family.
My Fellowship project was to start a housing advice service from our office in Birmingham. We have now hired our first housing team employee and plan to hire another after a successful legal aid contract bid. The next stage will involve increasing awareness of the service, and continuing working with partner organisations to generate referrals and ensure the sustainability of the project.
To anyone looking to be a legal aid lawyer, I'd say it will be the most rewarding thing you do. The service we provide is hugely underrated and can be stressful, but when you go home at night knowing you've changed someone's life for the better, very little compares.
About Brooke Toon
Brooke Toon is Justice First Fellow and trainee solicitor at Central England Law Centre
My Justice First Fellowship: Brooke Toon - 13th April 2018


How To: Impress Your Significant Other With Breakfast | Grand Central Magazine | Your Campus. Your Story.
There are very few things in this world that are guaranteed to make everyone happy. One of them is a great breakfast.
Numerous restaurant chains and diners offer amazing breakfasts at reasonable prices, but if you're trying to impress your significant other, cooking it yourself will go much further than any iHop stack of pancakes you could buy.
"But Grand Central, I only know how to make toast. How in the world can I make an entire breakfast?" you might be thinking. Fear not, for this how-to guide offers simple tips for chefs at all levels to take your skills from average to amazing.
With these fun recipes – which seem like a lot more work than they truly are – there's no doubt you'll impress your significant other with your "new" cooking skills — just don't forget the coffee!
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Celebrate Independence Day with this unique sailing competition that incorporates a little bit of local history into the festivities. The Great 4th Race is a fast-paced race among traditionally-rigged sailing craft that takes place in the heart of Beaufort, and which is sure to be a thrilling activity for participants, and a thrilling sight for visitors.
The Great 4th Race pays homage to the roots of America's independence, but on a much smaller and close-to-home scale. The traditional sailing vessels will rally to mark the historic voyages of boats to the Outer Banks that carried the news of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and as such, a patriotic theme abounds throughout the lightly competitive event. The fleet of competing boats will be visible along the waters of Taylor' Creek – on the edge of Downtown Beaufort – and spectators are welcome to find a perch or a sunny bench along the waterfront to watch the fast-paced procession, and / or cheer on their favorites. (Potential participants are also welcome, and interested competitors can contact the North Carolina Maritime Museum for more info.) With plenty of fun and patriotic spirit, the Great 4th Race is a fine way to celebrate America's independence in the small town of Beaufort, NC.