For the last few days I've been playing a new game on my phone. Nothing exciting there really, games have been on phones since Snake (Sam was a master on her old Nokia 6110). The game itself isn't that original either, basically it's capture the flag. So why the title?
Several years ago I was the Business Manager for an education technology charity in Bristol called Futurelab. One of their flagship projects, completed before I joined, was very much touted as an example of leading edge technology in learning situations.
Savanah involved teams of school kids, running around their playing field pretending to be lions on the African Savanah. They had to capture territory, attack other animals for food, and so forth. All this was achieved with HP PDA's, GPS units in rucksack, and a not inconsiderable army of tech support from HP Labs in Bristol who camped out in the school to manage the field trial! An amazing idea, but even if the legal challenges over copyright and who actually owned the idea could have been sorted out – it was a looong way from being implementable, let along a profitable proposition back in late-2002. This was bleeding edge, proof-of-concept stuff.
Flash forward 10 years, and I'm running (ok, mostly walking) around Bristol city centre as part of a team, trying to capture territory, attacking the other team's bases, collecting energy, and so forth. Location by GPS (check), real time updates (check), massively complex backstory (check, no I've not paid much attention to it, but then I'm not sure the kids playing Savanah really paid that much attention to the accompanying natural history lesson). So far, so 2002.
However, this is on my fairly standard Android smart phone. I don't have a rucksack with batteries & ancillary equipment; and the game is being played on a global level, has real time chat with team mates, a funky Alternate Reality Map overlay, and is freely available (though its closed Beta at the moment).
Welcome to 2012, welcome to Ingress!
But hang on – if it's free, where's the business model? Well Niantic Labs are part of Google, so just as the game is being played on a global level, so the business model is part of a larger strategy.
Players are uploading photos of real world places trying to get them nominated as 'portals', giving Google masses of additional data to crunch into a 3D view of the world at street level. Most of the teams have set up local groups within one of the two global factions dictated by the game; and most of these are on G+. I've not used G+ so much since, well, ever.
Would I pay for in-game gear? Possibly. Running out of ammo just as you're about to capture the other team's flag, could trigger a purchase (depending on price point obviously). Being able to upgrade a flag to capture most of Bristol might be worth splashing the Google Wallet about.
At the moment, there's little incentive spend as there's no defined 'end-game' or winning state. So there's no sense of urgency, however, that could change with a couple of lines of code.
What ever Google's longer term plan is (if there even is one at this point), its going to be fun seeing what happens; and playing along obviously!
So: Resistance or Enlightenment – you choose!
And if you're not sure about the bleedin' title – watch this!
What happens when 110 Year 4 & 5 Primary School children meet a 1,000 mph car?
Last week I was lucky enough to give a talk at a local (Bristol, UK) Primary School about the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (Bloodhound SSC) project. I signed up as a 1K supporter pretty much as the scheme launched (Aug 2009) and as an Ambassador shortly after that. Having done a couple of STEM / Bloodhound Ambassador events and activities, this was my first Primary School and first solo talk.
The pupils at the school had been making their own cars and were keen to know more about how Bloodhound SSC is being made. As a mechanical engineer by first degree, it was an excellent opportunity to talk with the children and pass on some of my passion for engineering!!
One of the great innovative technologies being used with Bloodhound SSC is the use of composite fibres in the monocoque shell that houses Andy Green & the HTP (High Test Peroxide) tank. While a primary school probably doesn't have access to carbon fibre and autoclaves, they do use papier-mâché (which is a composite material) – so I could legitimately say they were using the same basic engineering technologies as Bloodhound SSC!
I also had the opportunity to show a video of some of the high speed machining that Hanson's are undertaking for the space frame. While there was no direct link to what they're doing in the classroom, I wanted to show them actual metal cutting and the preparation needed before you slam £25k of spindle into aircraft grade aluminium.
I had a couple of key things to communicate (mainly around what engineers do, and the level of teamwork and cooperation needed in modern engineering challenges), plus lots of facts & figures about the car itself. I had to decide what to start with to engage with the children, and keep them engaged for 30min. The animation of Bloodhound SSC racing a Eurofighter is great for this – it's high tempo and has lots of reference points that helped keep momentum through the talk.
I followed this with some background details on the car, fortunately the Education Team at Bloodhound SSC make all this stuff available for Ambassadors. We just need to pick it up and flesh out the narrative, and make it appropriate to the audience. At each point when I started to talk about fabricating the structure, or the composite shell – I could pull up a video from BHTV (Bloodhound Television) to illustrate what I was talking about.
I ended the presentation with the video of the rocket test in Newquay on 3 Oct 2012. A really great high point to end on!
Communicating effectively is critical to success in any field; engineering, business, primary school teaching. Having a clear message, sound facts, and a simple presentation really helps tell the story, whether it's an investor pitch or a class of 8-10 year olds!
That's (part of) what I do; clarify objectives & ambitions, into plans & narratives, that can be communicated & acted upon.
A couple of years ago (whilst at Science City Bristol) I was fortunate enough to have a tangential involvement in BioBlitz 2009 out at Ashton Court and to be able to consolidate that support the following year, focusing on their innovative social media activities. Since then Bristol BioBlitz has gone from strength to strength; and from Ashton Court, to Blaise Castle (2010), to Tyntesfield (2011) and this year Arnos Vale Cemetery.
That success has been amplified by the national explosion of BioBlitz's, most of which have implicitly or explicitly linked back to Bristol's success and approach. Just to be clear, the first BioBlitz was in 1996 and was part of the US National Parks Service, but isn't 'owned' by anyone. In the same ethos, the UK national BioBlitz network might be hosted by Bristol Natural History Consortium (BNHC), but it's an open and inclusive network. The real success of the BNHC is in being able to innovate faster and 'better' than anyone else.
The BNHC are constantly on the lookout for new ideas and excel at absorbing and transforming those ideas into their own innovations. They're also extremely good at executing on those innovations so that everyone has a fantastic day out. All of which means they can be open about those ideas and share their experiences widely, knowing that they're already working on the next one. That open sharing is a key strength; search for bioblitz (I just did using Firefox & Bing – a combination I almost never use) and Bristol's BioBlitz features 3 times in the top 10, in positions 2,3 and 6; second only to the Wikipedia entry! The US National Parks (the originators of the idea remember) are in 4th place. Sharing your innovations works!
What else have we learned? Well, hedgehogs have footprints that look a lot like little tiny hands (see above). And that doormice can hollow out an acorn forming a 'cup' with an almost perfectly smooth rim. And that there at at least 454 different species of animal living in Arnos Vale Cemetery!
That's the great thing about Bristol BioBlitz, a social day out and you can learn lots (not just about natural history). What's not to like?
This is a great series of UK events offering fast-growth companies the chance to find senior executives and non-executives to help their company proceed to its next stage of growth. It's a testament to the local entrepreneurship community that the first "Pitching for Management" event outside London, was in Bristol!
At each event, 6 companies present their businesses and the roles available to a room of highly talented individuals ranging from sales, marketing and finance board positions to mentorships, chair, CEO and non-executive director positions.
Join the hundreds of businesses have already presented at these events and have employed talented individuals as a result. Click here to read a great case study from a recent pitching company.
I was invited to join John Darvall on his BBC Radio Bristol show to discuss if this was a good time to start a new business? Of course it is, but then I'm an optimist like most entrepreneurs!
After a bit of banter about starting up a new business, he asked me for 3 Top Tips, we sort of skated over them so I thought I'd repeat them here and extend a bit on the chat on-air.
There are lots of people out there that want your business to success, more than want it to fail! Locally we've got the excellent BRAVE organisation that provide clear, simple advise to anyone thinking of starting their own business. Most cities will have their equivalents.
There are also loads, and loads, of business networkings and networking events. People do business with people (mostly), so get along to a couple and talk to other small business owners and company founders. It'll help you understand the realities of being your own boss, as well as the perks.
There are also some great online resources like Start-up Donut and of course BusinessLink (though this will soon be a web repository of guidance notes).
You can also track down the many start-up schools, incubator facilities, seed-camps, etc that are all trying to assist you towards a successful business.
I'm not sure I quite got the right message over on-air about this. If, after talking to some impartial people, you are still passionate about starting a business, then sit down and work out why you want to be in business.
Are you looking to develop a nice little company that will keep you busy for 6 months a year leaving the rest of the time for skiing? Or are you looking to transform your industry? Or are you looking to build sufficient value to exit at £20m in 5 years with a minimum of 50% equity and no earn-out? Or are you looking to build a company that will grow ahead of inflation and still be here in 30 years time?
What is your strategic intent?
The other side to strategic intent is your risk profile. Are you willing to bet everything on one idea, or are you more cautious?
How risky can you afford to be? Work out how much money you have (redundancy payouts, savings, mortgage, etc), then work out how much you need each month to live and how you can minimise this (you don't need to live in the dark eating value baked beans, but champagne & oysters are probably off the menu), then work out how long your money will last.
That should give you some idea on how risky your position is, and how quickly your business needs to be a success.
This is critical. You don't need a 200 page, glossy book, but equally you need to be able to describe your business and what you're trying to achive.
Describe your strategic intent (Mission, Vision, etc). If you don't know why you're in business, why should anyone care?
Describe your product / service. This is important but actually, less so than most people think. Is there any unique intellectual property (IP) that can be protected? Do you actually know how your going to make, store, distribute your product to markets? If its a service, what is it and what additional support do you need to deliver it?
Who are you going to sell to and why should they buy from you. Who is your market, where are they, what do they like, what don't they like, why do you and your idea fill a burning need in their lives or businesses? Market Segmentation, this is good, do it.
Who else is out there? Just about any idea will have some competition. Either directly from other companies offering the same or similar solutions. If you have a one in a million idea, there are around 1,300 people with the same idea in China, 1,200 in India, 500 across the EU, and 300 in the USA. Of course they won't all be thinking of launching a business, but one of those 3,300 people might.
Cashflow forecasting. Cash flow is king for a small business. You won't be able to produce a detailed financial model of your business before it's even trading, but you need to have some idea of the basic cash flow through the business and where your break even point is. What's your burn rate (monthly cash spend) and runway (how long before you've spent all your savings)?
My reply about the Apprentice was wrong, their business plans weren't rubbish because they didn't have good advice; they were rubbish because they didn't listen to that advice!
Innovation is generally held to be a "good thing". Companies that are innovative or that produce innovative products are lauded with praise, awards, not to mention investment funding. Innovative individuals are highly sought after and richly rewarded.
So how can we be more innovative, in our personal and corporate lives?
Most of the good ideas are already out there, you just need to find them. Some of them are protected & that's fine, respect that. But may more aren't, so use them.
An important concept here is that of being a "boundary spanner", of having eclectic interests. Research has shown that in looking for innovative solutions, individuals that had weak ties to many different disciplines were more effective than those that were tightly bound to a single one.
No not the Borg, but you need to be able integrate any new information with what you already know. There's no point reading the latest article in hyperbolic geometry, if you failed Maths 101. This is the foundation of constructivist learning models (but that's for another post).
The important thing is to be able to relate the new knowledge you've acquired to that which you already know in some way. This may sound like a contradiction to being eclectic, but it's not. Remember, you're not looking to be a global expert in the new topic but you do need to understand enough to be able to address your challenge.
After all, the name of the game is innovation, so we're looking to adapt our newly assimilated knowledge to produce a new product or service. Many of the most innovative products in recent times haven't been ground breaking in their fundamental technology, but they have combined and adapted technologies in highly innovative ways.
Think iPhone, Toyta Prius, Facebook, etc.
Remember, innovation is different to invention.
This doesn't necessarily mean a Dickensian, Mr Burns kind of exploitation. But you need to translate your new solution into a business proposition, otherwise it'll remain an idea.
Note: While the points above are in a list (because that's the easiest way of presenting them in a blog) they are not sequential and linear. It's also worth noting that most innovation is a team sport, so make sure that within your team you have people that can find new ideas, bring them within your group, use them to solve problems and then commercialise those solutions.
The above ideas are collectively understood as "Absorptive Capacity" and have been applied to individuals, teams, divisions, companies and whole regions. A good place to start is wikipedia (as always) and follow the trail from there. The key academic texts are the original article by Cohen & Levinthal (1990) & the expanded theory from Zahra & George (2002).
The comments about weak network ties come largely from Tushman (1977) and developed by Hansen (1999). The background Wikipedia article on interpersonal ties is here.
This is a different style of post to previous ones I've written. I'd be very grateful for comments on areas that need expanding / simplifying or just explained in a different way. I hope to be writing more articles along similar lines as my current work with the iNETs is bringing all of this into sharp focus (if only from an academic research perspective).
I normally don't get too excited about photos of me, but when you're thinking of changing your online image it's quite a big deal.
I really like the image I've been using for the last 3 and a bit years, it was taken on holiday so is a bit relaxed but sufficiently smart to be used in a business context as well. Had I been thinking about using it as a portrait (which I obviously wasn't) I would have made a couple of changes. The main change would have been to my glasses. They weren't sunglasses but my normal ones go dark in sunlight, we were on the North Devon coast so there wasn't much sun but evidently enough. I'd also get rid of the rucksack and probably pick a better background, etc, etc, etc.
However, I was generally very happy with that image, which is why I didn't change it (other than the occasional twibbon).
Then I took part in Ignite Bristol last October and was photographed by the excellent Simon Skies. To be honest, when the photos didn't come out at the same time as the video went live (nearly 700 views and counting, and on the video wall for Ignite Phoenix as part of Global Ignite Week), I kind of forgot.
Simon now has the full slide show of shots from Ignite Bristol 3 up and while I'm still not sufficiently narcissistic to enjoy looking at photos of myself, its a great shot and with Simon's kind permission I'll be using it around the web in future.
How smart are your houses?
A number of years ago, when I was the Business Manager for Futurelab Education, we looked at a couple of projects around technology in social housing and how internet access could transform lives. I began talking to George Grant (Founder, Housing Technology) about several projects across Bristol that were refurbishing PCs and providing them to communities at no, or very low, cost. This great work is continuing with ByteBack and the associated projects through Connecting Bristol.
Anyhow, I stayed in touch with George from those conversations and always looked forward to the latest issue of Housing Technology. One of the keys to being a good connector of business opportunities is to be aware of what's going on in sometimes seemingly unconnected sectors. Those sectors connected towards the end of 2010 when George and I were catching up over a coffee in Hamilton House and I mentioned a couple of recent technology innovations that I'd become aware of.
George suggested that I write some of my thoughts down about how the massive potential of social games and device level smart metering could be used to bring about motivated social change. That rather than trying to make people feel guilty about their energy consumption through financial penalties, we use anthropomorphism and social games to align energy efficiency with game design strategies.
So I did, you can download the full article as part of the January issue of Housing Technology or read the png file linked from the thumbnail.
Ok, minor confession; I haven't pulled this list together. Iain Gray (CEO, Technology Strategy Board) is a passionate champion of all UK technology & innovation, and he recently tweeted a list of technology and innovation examples from Bath & Bristol. Enjoy!
After the excellent Ignite Bristol #2, I wanted to have a go myself. I decided not to present anything connected to the 'day job' and thought that Octopush would make a great topic.
Specifically 5 minutes quick. And you have 20 slides, that automatically advance every 15 seconds, whether you're ready or not!
Octopush was an easy choice. Its not that widely know so I'd be enlightening folks about a new sport to them, and it has great entertainment potential! This is a dissection of how my talk was put together.
Any presentation takes much longer to put together than deliver. I had a broad outline for the talk fairly quickly but making sure I had enough to fill 5 minutes, without over running or leaving … long … pauses … took a lot longer.
There needed to be a gentle introduction, assuming no one in the audience had ever heard of the sport. I wanted to give a bit of history, talk about the equipment and the basic rules. In the end I didn't really cover the rules, but I think there was enough other information, and some entertainment.
I had a great title that I borrowed from Sam's undergraduate psychology dissertation "Octopush: Whether 'tis nobler to push lead'. We'd just had the World Cup and Paul the "Psychic' octopus was all over the news so that was a good opening slide. I was doubly lucky (though Paul was less so) as he died on the Tuesday before the talk. That required a bit of a last minute re-write but actually made the introduction much smoother.
For some time I then had a slide referencing the Shakespearean aspect of the title, but somehow that never quite worked for me in this context. It was only when I went back to the slides after putting them aside for a couple of weeks that I decided I really wasn't happy. I took another angle on the 'pushing lead' and found the Pencil Museum and that gave me my second introduction slide and a good link into the fact that the lead I was pushing was a hockey puck, specifically underwater hockey or octopush. So that was slides 1 & 2 sorted out, though slide 2 as shown was almost the last one into the deck.
I wanted to have some humour but I know that I'm not a natural 'funny man' so decided to let my slides do the jokes and play the straight man. The first picture of an octopush game, taken by me at the Student Nationals in 2009, was intentionally not a great picture but gave the first 'joke' of not being a great spectator sport. Slide 3; and getting into my stride.
Slight aside; the guy that introduced me to Octopush way back in Gibraltar (Steve Warren) now runs the fantastic Ocean Optics.
The pretty picture of the fishes was a good 'filler' slide to introduce some of the history, but I couldn't get everything into 15 seconds so put in the diver shot & made a joke about UK diving at the same time. The exact invention of octopush is genuinely lost in time (though it is mentioned in the club's magazine which is how we know the year). However, I was introduced to octopush by pushing a diving weight around with a snorkel so figured that was a good story to go with. Slides 4, 5, 6 & 7 sorted.
Finding the photo of players in 1977 was a godsend as it made a great link and showed some of the older kit. I could then talk a bit about the modern kit. The image of the Dacor Bandit mask was one I'd used over 10 years ago when I first did the Plymouth University club's website, its still a great mask and one of the lowest volume ones on the market. I can't remember where the 'wet poodle' bit came from but I do remember using my Dad's Jet Fins and they were as heavy and hopeless as described. However, the reason they're not used in Octopush is more to do with their metal buckles than anything else. Slides 8, 9, 10 (halfway), 12, and 13 sorted.
Fortunately, there are some really good photos of Octopush on the web and I was able to find a couple that show how the game is played at international level. The bit about having around 20 seconds to do something useful with the puck is true, and something that most people don't believe. I'd found the closing shot of the puck flying towards the camera that would give a strong visual finish. Slides 15, 16 and 20 sorted.
The eagled eyed will have noticed that I'm still a few slides short!
I had lots of content, but not many laughs. The 'Answer List' was something that Sam & I put up on the Plymouth University Octopush Club website back in 1998/99 and I think was originally taken from a newsletter. I wanted to have a shot of me playing to prove that this wasn't completely made up, there aren't any decent in-water shots but the shower photo does the trick I think. That gave me 18 & 19.
I was still a couple of slides short, but hadn't really talked about the game or its rules so pulled slide 14 in as a link from the kit description to the great photos of game play.
Finding a picture of a puck 'in flight' was a nightmare! I ended up with a couple of YouTube videos and screen grabbing them, paused at the appropriate moment. I eventually had nearly a dozen frame grabs with blurred orange, green or pink blobs on them. As I mentioned in the talk, orange is medium hardness, you also have green for the hardest coatings and pink for the softest (though its still coating a metal core so 'soft' is a relative term). I had my final slide (17), and a new respect for video editors!
So that gave me my slide deck and basic framework. A couple of trials identified where I had too much to say, and overran, and where the long pauses were. Fortunately, I had begun this some time before the event so was able to put everything to one side for a couple of weeks and come back refreshed to put together the talk as delivered (mostly as prepared) on 31st October. Right until Sunday afternoon I was refining the talk and making small changes.


Music is a powerful communication tool, yet many agencies and marketers relegate it to the soundtrack of television commercials. Increasingly marketers are embracing the power of music to engage their audiences and to build communities around the brand. But here are some tips on how to get greater value from music in your marketing.
1. Make sure you have the right concept for your brand first, as this is the most important element of a successful campaign and the artists and/or music you want to associate with your concepts are secondary.
VW developed a relationship with the band Wilco beyond simply providing tracks for their television commericals.
3. Record companies and music publishers will always encourage you to use their artists exclusively, regardless of whether they are the best act for your brand.
4. Decide, do you pursue superstars or back unknowns? One direction will enhance your brand by association, or you can get involved with emerging young talent (who may become superstars one day) and provide support at the grass roots level.
5. Be flexible with lead times to take advantage of current music trends and emerging talent. Every artist has a writing, recording, promoting, touring life cycle, with more opportune times for your brand during this cycle than others.
6. Consider the merits of working with local Australian artists, instead of international superstars, and trade off between profile and accessibility in this marketplace.
7. Regardless of the 'promotional value' your concepts give, the artist's managers can't take 15% of 'promotional value'. But if you can genuinely help sell more music or tickets to events without compromising your objectives use this in the negotiations.
8. Obtain a warranty or indemnity against loss, such as copyright disputes, non-performance and contract infringements, beyond the fee paid and ensure they have sufficient insurance to underwrite the warranty or indemnity, otherwise they are worthless.
9. Music polarises public opinion, with risks and rewards associated with each act or genre of music. Genres such as pop can become old news quickly for young music fans, while genres with older demographics are less fickle.
10. Contact TrinityP3 for advice on dealing with the music industry. There are many rewards for music savvy brands, but also many pitfalls.
How has music worked for you? Or not? Lets us know in the comments below.
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Take Me Outdoors Fest is scheduled for Saturday at Discovery Green.
Houston is one of the largest cities in America, both in terms of population and sheer size. The city, particularly inside the Loop, is laden with tall office buildings and other infrastructure. And yet, right in the middle of downtown resides Discovery Green, which serves as a constant reminder of the beauty of the great outdoors. This weekend, the park – which spans nearly 12 acres – will once again host an event that aims to connect those in the city with nature and the outdoors.
Discovery Green will host the ninth annual Take Me Outdoors Houston Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday; the event is free and open to the public. The event will feature hands-on exhibits and activities and various other opportunities to better engage those who don't gain too much exposure to the outdoors.
Of course, as anyone familiar with recent events is aware, Hurricane Harvey led to the postponement or outright cancellation of many outdoor events in the coming months, as people turn their focus to rebuilding their homes or helping out friends and loved ones aiming to do the same. Mitchell admits that Discovery Green officials gave thought to postponing Take Me Outdoors Houston, but in the end, decided that – some three-plus weeks after Harvey struck – the time was right for Houstonians to get back outdoors.
"We believe recreation leads to conservation," says Heidi Rao, a TPWD hunter-education specialist.
It's also convenient that, as many in the greater Houston area have spent money rebuilding their homes or donating money to charitable causes, Take Me Outdoors Houston is a free event.
Take Me Outdoors Houston will feature a variety of exhibitors, including Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Texas Outdoor Family, Wetlands Center and Baytown Nature Center, Laser Shot Shooting Simulator, Youth Hunting Program and much more.
Take Me Outdoors Houston will feature exhibitors including the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Texas Outdoor Family, Wetlands Center and Baytown Nature Center.
The festival will also host a pair of educational demonstrations of live hawks by falconer John Karger of Last Chance Forever – the Bird of Prey Conservancy. Those events are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Take Me Outdoors Houston, like Discovery Green itself, doesn't sell itself on bells and whistles and high-tech gadgetry. In fact, it's quite the opposite.


Rotmell Castle is said to have been a royal residence in the 14th or early 15th centuries, although no trace of it now remains.
According to the Statistical Account of Scotland, written in 1843, a castle at Rotmell was occasionally occupied by one of the King Roberts (Robert the Bruce reigned from 1306 until 1329, Robert II from 1371 until 1390, and Robert III from 1390 until 1406).
The last remnants of it were removed around 40 years prior to writing, when a number of coins were discovered under a foundation stone. The coins were in the possession of the Dalguise family at that time.
The RCAHMS lists the Rotmell Castle site as a possible fort, although when it was visited by the Ordnance Survey in 1975 they found no evidence to suggest that it was what it once was. The suggestion that it was a fort may have been due to the origin of its name (ie rath / rait) however a few kilometres further north along the River Tay is a castle named Rath of Logierait which perhaps sets a precedent. It is also worth noting that the Rath of Logierait was a favourite haunt of Robert II.
Rotmell Castle is in the parish of Dunkeld and Dowally and the county of Perthshire.
Published on the 26th of October 2014 at 11:59 am. Updated on the 26th of October 2014 at 1:01 pm.


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Courses and hands-on experience in internetworking technology can teach you to set up a computer system for a business, allowing locations around the country to receive data from a single source. Read on to learn more about internetworking technology and how you can obtain an education in the field. Schools offering Computer Networking degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
Internetworking technology deals with the management, creation and implementation of technology used to connect computers. For example, wide area networks (WANs) are systems that allow multiple computers to exchange data or draw from the same source over an extended area. Local area networks (LANs) achieve the same thing, but in a smaller capacity. You can learn about internetworking technology on your own, through a degree or certificate program or through on-the-job computer system training.
Work Environment Network and computer systems administrators work with the physical computer networks of a variety of organizations and therefore are employed in many industries.
There are several things you can do on your own to learn more about internetworking technology. At the high school level, you may benefit from participating in as many computer science courses as you can. Not only can you develop familiarity with computers, but you can learn about the basic usage of LANs and WANs. If your school offers technical programs, you might get involved in one related to computer science to learn more about this field.
Additionally, you can perform independent research using the library and other resources. If you have computers and an Internet connection, you might buy routers, hubs and other internetworking devices with which to practice. By setting up these basic devices on your own, you may explore the facets of internetworking and gain hands-on preparation in this computer science field.
Many internetworking professionals hold bachelor's degrees in computer science; however, you might instead earn an education specific to the field through certificate or associate's degree programs in internetworking technology. Coursework may cover network routing, LAN and WAN concepts, routing protocols, wireless systems and network security.
Work experience is one of the primary ways to learn internetworking technology. Practice and regular application in the field allows you to familiarize yourself with the occupational techniques and technology. Starting out, you might enter into an internship, externship or work-study program.
You might also find employment in an entry-level position, such as in a technical support or assistance role. When you're new to a job, employers might have you shadow an experienced worker in internetworking technology or have you complete a work-training program. With experience, you may go on to more advanced positions in the field, such as in network administration.
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Sheffield United's Chelsea loanee Ethan Ampadu "applauds" clubs for social media boycott in bid to stamp out racism
Ethan Ampadu, the Sheffield United defender, has backed the football clubs that have announced a week-long boycott of their social media channels in a bid to stamp out online abuse and racism.
By Danny Hall
Swansea took a stance over online abuse on Thursday after three of their players were targeted, declaring "enough is enough" as head coach Steve Cooper said he hoped other clubs would follow their example.
Birmingham and Rangers quickly did so, with the newly-crowned Scottish champions starting their week-long boycott of all social media channels at 7pm on Thursday night.
And Ampadu, revealing that United are also in discussions about how they can possibly support the movement to stamp out online abuse and racism, said: "Only time will tell whether it works or not, all we can do is applaud them for trying to do good things.
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"It's 2021 and things that shouldn't be happening still are. They're trying something different and hopefully it works and some action comes from it.
"It's just to make more people realise that we're trying to do something about it and it's time, these things shouldn't be happening. Social media is big and if this is the way to do it and get change, then we'll do it.
"As a club we're all talking about what we're going to do next, but we'll wait to see if it works and hopefully it will."
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The West Brom boss said: "I would like an accumulation of football clubs across the board to all do it together.
"That would for me be the only way that a difference may be made, if a united front was put up by all 92 professional clubs."
United's players have been victims of social media abuse in the past. South Yorkshire Police confirmed that they were investigating a report of abuse sent to a United player online earlier this year, while Bramall Lane strikers David McGoldrick and Rhian Brewster have both shared examples of racist messages they have received on Instagram.
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Once the cartilage of the bones has been boiled down, an abundance of valuable compounds are extracted, including glucosamine (which helps to reduce joint inflammation), collagen, gelatin and trace minerals that also improve digestion.
The following is an immune-boosting, joint loving broth recipe you can easily make at home.
Place bones, vegetables, onion, garlic & ginger on baking tray, cover with coconut oil and roast at 180 degrees until bones turn golden brown.
Placed all bake bones and vegetables into a big stockpot (or slow cooker) with all remaining ingredients. Fill to the brim with water.
Cook on the lowest possible heat on the stovetop or in the oven (or follow your slow cooker instructions for a very long, low cook). Ideally you should cook on less than 90 degrees for 12 – 24 hours. The longer you cook it for the more intense the flavour will become and the more nutrients the broth will hold.
Once cooked, take the pot off the heat and let it cool until warm and safe to handle (be careful handling hot broth – the fat layer on top can burn easily).
Remove all large pieces of bone and veggies then strain the broth through a very fine strainer or muslin cloth. The broth can then be poured into clean glass jars for storage. If you plan to freeze some in the jars, leave 5cm at the top to allow room for the broth to expand when frozen.
Broth will keep for roughly four days in the fridge or up to three months frozen.
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Last summer, my parents celebrated their 33rd anniversary at Chef's Restaurant in Buffalo with pasta doused in marinara sauce. Over a plastic gingham tablecloth, they quietly reaffirmed their commitment. Their relationship is remarkable and inspiring by any standard. But according to many in the autism world, including professionals who should know better, its endurance marks it as some sort of mythical unicorn, made all the more inspiring by the fact that it survived me.
I am autistic. An oft-repeated claim holds that 80 percent of marriages with an autistic child end in divorce. In a 2007 episode of one of the most-watched television shows in America at the time, Oprah Winfrey noted the supposed 80 percent divorce rate, citing a study from Autism Speaks. No such study exists, but that hasn't stopped plenty of others from using the figure — or otherwise suggesting that autistic children pull families apart. NPR unquestioningly promoted former football player Rodney Peete's claim of an 80 percent divorce rate on "Tell Me More" in 2010. Jenny McCarthy has said that her then-husband asked for a divorce the same week as her son's autism diagnosis. A 2008 article in the Denver Post claimed an 85 percent divorce rate, disturbingly followed by a list of autistic children and adults who were killed by their parents, as if somehow their disability makes filicide understandable.
I'm not a monster. I didn't slither out from my mother's loins ready to wreak havoc upon all who had the misfortune to stand in my terrifying presence. I'm just a person with a relatively common disability. According to the most recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 59 children in America, or about 2 percent, are on the autism spectrum. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disability characterized by three core traits: difficulties in social communication, intense interests and repetitive behaviors. It is often accompanied by conditions like epilepsy, gastric distress, intellectual disability and mental illness.
I showed a precocious and incredible command of facts at a young age. In one of my earliest neuropsychiatric reports, the tester noted that at the age of 5, I had a remarkable knowledge of the difference between veins and arteries and how they worked. I did not have a remarkable knowledge of how to make and keep friends. Instead, I preferred the company of adults, who were, at least initially, impressed by my monologues on whatever interested me. I was the consummate little professor. I was also deeply unhappy. I was kicked out of a children's choir because I moved too much. I pulled out my hair. My peers and teachers hated me. In one particularly memorable incident, my eighth-grade homeroom teacher suggested in front of my entire eighth-grade class that perhaps if I didn't talk so much, I'd have more friends. That same year, my math teacher pushed me into a swimming pool at an end-of-year celebration while I was fully clothed. The other children laughed, and the school later made the teacher apologize.
My parents, like all good parents, were concerned about me. They did their best. They thought perhaps I was unhappy because I was smarter than the other children or because they had done something wrong. They didn't understand why I didn't smile. They assumed I would grow out of it. Later, in high school and college, when I didn't grow out of it, they tried therapy and medication. That didn't work, either. We fought. At the time, it was commonly believed that Asperger syndrome was vanishingly rare in girls. I didn't get an accurate diagnosis of why I was different from other people until I was well into my 20s.
I was not an easy child to raise. Despite that fact, my parents stayed together. Sometimes they argued, like all couples do, but never for a moment was I made to feel that it was my fault. In a 2012 survey from the Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University of nearly 78,000 parents, 913 of whom had an autism diagnosis in the family, the divorce rate was no higher than among the general population. The divorce rate in the general population is still about 40 to 50 percent, which isn't low by any stretch of the imagination, but autism doesn't make things worse. Few scientific questions are conclusively decided, but with a sample size that large, this question is about as settled as science gets.
Another ugly claim that rears its head in autism circles is that mothers with autistic children experience trauma on par with the post-traumatic stress disorder experienced by combat veterans. There are no facts to back up this claim, either, but it is, at least, inspired by an actual study from 2010 , which found that mothers of autistic children were more likely to show "a blunted cortisol response." The study irresponsibly notes that the same is true for combat veterans and Holocaust survivors but does not compare precise cortisol levels with those populations.
For some reason, the same kinds of numbers don't exist for parents of children with other neurodevelopmental disabilities, even if those children exhibit behaviors that are similar or even identical to those associated with autism. A 2014 study on parents of children with Down syndrome indicated that maternal stress was largely a function of whether mothers had a positive outlook about their children's futures and even suggested that children with Down syndrome benefit from their parents' positive ideas about the disorder. More recently, research from 2017 seems to indicate that the same is true for parents of autistic children. These studies all have small sample sizes, so it is difficult to reach real conclusions, but it seems likely that when autistic children do lead to familial stress, it's because parents believe that they'll be stressful.
In other words, negative ideas about autism — not anything inherent to autism itself — lead to negative family outcomes. We are destructive and ruinous because we are expected to be. If expectations change, so does the stress our parents feel regarding our existence. The parents of autistic children could have happier lives just by letting go of toxic myths, or never letting those myths into their lives at all.
This year, I celebrated my third anniversary with my boyfriend. I hope our relationship lasts to our 33rd anniversary and beyond. I aspire to the kind of unconditional love and partnership my parents have. I learned it from them. Their relationship isn't an anomaly or a superhuman accomplishment. I'm not a villain or a monster. We're all just people, and we're doing our best.


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East London (; ) is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province. The city lies on the Indian Ocean coast, largely between the Buffalo River and the Nahoon River, and hosts the country's only river port. , East London had a population of over 267,000 with over 755,000 in the metropolitan area.

History

Early history
John Bailie, one of the 1820 Settlers, surveyed the Buffalo River mouth and founded the town in 1836. There is a memorial on Signal Hill commemorating the event.
The city formed around the only river port in South Africa and was originally known as Port Rex. Later it was renamed London in honour of the capital city of the United Kingdom, hence the name East London. This settlement on the West Bank was the nucleus of the town of East London, which was elevated to city status in 1914.

During the early to mid-19th century frontier wars between the British settlers and the local Xhosa inhabitants, East London served as a supply port to service the military headquarters at nearby King William's Town, about  away. A British fort, Fort Glamorgan, was built on the West Bank in 1847, and annexed to the Cape Colony that same year. This fort is one of a series of British-built forts, including Fort Murray, Fort White, Fort Cox, Fort Hare, Fort Jackson and Fort Beaufort, in the border area that became known as British Kaffraria.

With later development of the port came the settlement of permanent residents, including German settlers, most of whom were bachelors. These settlers were responsible for German names of some towns in the vicinity of East London such as Stutterheim and Berlin. Today, German surnames such as Gehring, Salzwedel and Peinke are still common in East London, but the descendants of the settlers rapidly became Anglicised.

The existing port, in the mouth of the Buffalo River, adjoining the Indian Ocean, began operating in 1870. In 1872, the Cape Colony, under the leadership of its first Prime Minister John Molteno, attained a degree of independence from Britain. The new government merged the three neighbouring settlements of East London, East London East and Panmure in 1873, forming the core of the current municipality, and in 1876 it began construction on the region's railway lines, commencing on the river's east bank. At the same time, it began construction of the East London harbour. This new infrastructure rapidly accelerated development of the area into today's thriving city of East London.

The unusual double-decker bridge over the Buffalo River was completed in 1935, and to this day is the only bridge of its type in South Africa. Modern day attractions include the Gately House, City Hall, Cape Railways, Nahoon Museum, East London Museum housing the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish, thought to be extinct, discovered live at the Chalumna River mouth near East London by fishermen in 1938, and numerous memorial statues.

Apartheid era

In 1948, the National Party came to power in South Africa, and began to implement the policy of apartheid. Apartheid as a doctrine envisaged the total segregation of races in South Africa, and East London was no different. In 1950, the Group Areas Act was placed upon the statute books making absolute segregation in all urban areas mandatory. In 1951, the Land Tenure Advisory Board, the body created to enforce the act, conducted initial investigations into the reallocation of space along racial lines in East London. Residential segregation had long been practised in East London prior to the advent of apartheid. In 1941, the East London Municipality moved residents from East Bank townships to the newly built township of Duncan Village.

In 1951, all inter-racial property exchanges were prohibited in East London. In 1955, the Amalinda area was zoned as a White Group Area by Government Gazette Proclamation number 21. This meant that the municipality's plans to extend the area in order to accommodate the Black African population were abandoned. In 1953, residents in the East Bank were forcibly moved to the new township of Mdantsane. In February 1966, the South African government defined Mdantsane as a separate homeland township. In 1956, Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd, who was the architect of apartheid, forbade the East London municipality from extending the existing Duncan Village township and sanctioned the building of Mdantsane.

In 1961, these plans provided for the allocation of a distinct wedge of the city for Asian and Coloured residence, which "incorporated the areas of North End and the recently proclaimed Buffalo Flats location. This plan occasioned tremendous resentment in the city prompting petitions and letters of complaint from numerous organisations including the Black Sash, trade unions and various Black community groups. In 1967, the East London Municipality proclaimed the majority of the city an area for White occupancy, with the exception of a broad sector of land encompassing the Parkside, Parkridge and Buffalo Flats areas which was zoned for Coloured residence. Certain parts of Duncan Village were abolished and its African residents removed, new coloured and Asian locations were built and proclaimed upon land in 1973. In the same year, the newly constructed location of Braelynn was proclaimed an Indian area while Buffalo Flats Extension and Pefferville were proclaimed as Coloured areas. The construction/ extension of Coloured areas and the Duncan Village were suspended in 1983.

Post-apartheid
At the end of apartheid in 1994, East London became part of the province of Eastern Cape. In 2000, East London became part of Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, also consisting of Qonce, Bhisho and Mdantsane and is the seat of the Metro.

Geography and climate

East London has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb), bordering on a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with the warm temperatures and moderation typical of the South African coastline. Although it has no true dry season, there is a drying trend in the winter, with the wettest times of year being spring and autumn. There is also a shorter and lesser dry period in December and January.

The all-time record low is , and the all-time record high is  on 13 March 2021. The hottest temperatures have been recorded in springtime and autumn, rather than the summer months,due to violent berg (foehn) winds. Temperatures above  have only been recorded early in the season, from August to December. Berg winds contribute to these high temperatures, as already warm air from the arid interior is further heated through compression as it drops over the escarpment to sea level. Although temperatures have never dropped below freezing since records began, East London has recorded snowfall in 1985 and 1989.

Economy

East London is the second largest industrial centre in the province. The motor industry is the dominant employer. A major Daimler plant is located next to the harbour, manufacturing Mercedes-Benz and other vehicles for the local market, as well as exporting to the United States and Brazil. Other industries include clothing, textiles, pharmaceuticals and food processing.

The period of international sanctions that followed in the 1980s damaged the economy of East London's harbour. Enormous investment in recent years, by corporations such as Daimler AG, has resulted in the harbour being developed to include a new car terminal.

From the 1960s until the 1990s, the apartheid government created tax and wage incentives to attract industries to the then black "independent states", including nearby Ciskei. Investment thus flowed into surrounding areas such as Fort Jackson and Dimbaza, leaving East London in relative isolation. Transport infrastructure deteriorated and port activity wound down.

To encourage investment in East London, the East London Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) was established on the West Bank in 2004, close to both the port and airport. 1500ha of land has been made available, and the site is one of four duty-free development areas in South Africa.

Suburbs

Quigney
Southernwood
Belgravia
Amalinda
Winchester
Chiselhurst
Beacon Bay
Berea
Arcadia
North End
Beaconhurst
Nahoon
Stirling
Woodleigh
Bunkers Hill
Bonnie Doon
Vincent
Baysville
Selborne
Cambridge
Morningside
Saxilby
Braelyn
Duncan Village
Parkridge
Parkside
Buffalo Flats
Bebelele
Gately
West Bank Village
Brookville
Sunnyridge
Rosemount
Fullers Bay
Siyakha
Collondale
Willow Park
Gompo
Haven Hills
Highway Gardens
Scenery Park
Wilsonia
Dorchester Heights
Quenera
Gonubie
Mdantsane
Potsdam
Fort Jackson

Sports

Cricket is very popular around East London. A combined Border/Eastern Province cricket side known as the Warriors take part in the top provincial competition. Former Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher who currently holds the Test record for most dismissals by a wicketkeeper hails from East London. Buffalo Park Stadium in East London hosted a match during the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2003 and two matches of the 2009 Indian Premier League.

The Buffalo Road Running Club of East London has created two established events that have gained international recognition. They are the Old Mutual Buffalo 42,2 km marathon, which is held in February/March each year, and South Africa's oldest 160 km extreme ultra marathon, the Washie, over a picturesque and undulating coastal route from Port Alfred to the city.

Triathlon is a popular sport and in particular the world-famous Ironman 70.3 South African event that takes place annually in January. Ironman 70.3 consists of a 1.9 km swim, 90 km of cycling and a 21.1 km road run. The event starts and finishes at Orient Beach in East London.

Rugby is popular in East London. The provincial team, the Border Bulldogs, currently plays in the First Division of the Currie Cup competition. Most national games in East London are played at the Buffalo City Stadium, which holds around 15000 people and was a host stadium during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. East London schools have produced many fine rugby players, including (in recent times) André Vos, Keith and Mark Andrews, Christiaan Scholtz, Brent Russell, Rory Kockott, Akona Ndungane and Odwa Ndungane.

Football is also very popular in the city. East London was home to the Blackburn Rovers, prior to its sudden dissolution in 2014.

Motocross is also popular and many national events are held in the area surrounding East London, due to the challenging terrain there and in Transkei. East London is home to the ELMCC (East London Motor Cycle Club), which organises most of the motorcycle events in the area.

East London is home to the Prince George Race Circuit, opened in 1959 (renamed East London Grand Prix Circuit), a historic motor racing track that hosted three Formula One South African Grand Prix during the 1930s and 1960s. The circuit is run and managed by Border Motor Sport Club on a shoestring budget. South Africa's only Formula One World Drivers' Champion, Jody Scheckter, started his motor racing career with a Renault Gordini on this track.

Golf is another favoured pastime in and around East London. East London Golf Club is a highly regarded championship golf course and is currently ranked No 12 in Golf Digest's Top 100 courses. Some of the other golf clubs in the region are the West Bank Golf Club, Gonubie Golf Club, Olivewood Golf Estate and Fish River Sun Country Club (a Gary Player-designed golf course). East London has also hosted the Africa Open tournament multiple times. Golfers can also hone their skills at the East London Golf Club Driving Range.

Martial arts are also very popular, with numerous clubs available for training in aikido, judo, karate, t'ai chi and many other forms of martial arts. The East London Aikido Club is taught by a 3rd dan local instructor who has trained under a number of international instructors in South Africa and overseas. Club members of the East London Aikido Club regularly represent their club at national aikido events. Fort Hare Karate and East London Goju Kai have also hosted many memorable events and training weekends.

Rowing is on the Buffalo River. The annual Buffalo Regatta began in 1881 and has become the largest in South Africa: in 2018 there were 1000 competitors participating in 200 events over three days.

Surfski is ideally suited to East London. The Port Elizabeth to East London Challenge organized by East London's Border Canoe club is the world's longest surfski race at 244 km long, often in extremely challenging conditions, takes place every second year, attracting competitors from around the world. It began in 1972 to see who was faster, ultra-distance runner John Ball over land, or surf lifesaver John Woods over water. John Ball won.

Education

Secondary education
Clarendon High School for Girls
Hudson Park High School
Port Rex Technical High School
Selborne College
Stirling High School
West Bank High School

Tertiary education
University of Fort Hare
Walter Sisulu University
University of South Africa

There are also a few private colleges.

Points of interest

Other points of interest include:
East London Museum
Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve
Amathole Museum
Hood Point Lighthouse
East London Coast Nature Reserve

Transport
East London is serviced by two national roads: the coastal N2 highway connects it to Qonce, Makhanda, Gqeberha and Cape Town to the west and Mthatha and Durban to the east. It is the southern end of the N6, which runs north via Komani and Aliwal North to Bloemfontein. Older sections of the N2 have been renumbered the R102. The R72 is an alternative route to Port Elizabeth, via Port Alfred. The R346 is an alternative route to King William's Town. East London, like South Africa's other major cities, uses Metropolitan (or M) routes as a third tier for its major intra-city roads.

East London railway station offers long-distance passenger services to Cape Town and Johannesburg via Springfontein, and local services.

King Phalo Airport is a commercial airport with service to other large South African metropolitan areas.

Notable people
Anthony Clifford Allison - Geneticist and medical scientist
Mark Andrews – Rugby player
Masali Baduza – Actress
Wendy Botha – Four-time world surfing champion
Mark Boucher – International cricketer
Vuyani Bungu – Boxer
Jean-Michel Byron – Singer who sang with American rock band Toto in the 1980s
Norman Catherine – Artist
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer – Museum curator who discovered a living coelacanth, a fish that was previously thought to have been extinct for millions of years
Colin Cowie - Hollywood events planner
Hlomla Dandala – A notable South African actor and television personality
The Dealians – Successful 1970s pop group
Ryan de Villiers – Actor
Ernie Els- International golfer
Allan Gray – South African investor and philanthropist
Joan Harrison – Swimmer and 1952 Olympic champion
Rory Kockott – Rugby player
Jacob Maliekal – National badminton player who represented South Africa at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016
Makazole Mapimpi -South African Rugby world cup winner 2019
Lana Marks – South African-American fashion designer and former United States Ambassador to South Africa
Msaki – South African singer-songwriter and composer
Welcome Ncita – Boxer
Tats Nkonzo – South African comedian
Makhaya Ntini – Test cricketer with over 100 caps for the South African national team
Steve Palframan – Cricketer
Soso Rungqu – South African Actress
Ian Scheckter – Racing driver
Jody Scheckter – Formula 1 racing champion in 1979
Jonty Skinner – Swimmer and US swimming coach
John Gordon Sprigg – Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
Wayne Taylor – Racing driver
André Vos – Rugby player
Wouter Wessels – Senior FF+ politician
Donald Woods – Author and anti-apartheid activist/born in Transkei
Zahara – South African musician

Coat of arms
The East London municipality assumed a coat of arms on 29 August 1892. The arms were : Argent, a cross Gules between in the first and fourth quarters a garb and in the second and third quarters a fleece Or; on a chief Azure a demi-sun Or. A golden anchor was placed behind the shield, no doubt to show that the town was a seaport. The motto was Animo et fide.

The arms were improved in the 1950s by the town clerk, H.H. Driffield. He changed the shield from silver to ermine, removed the anchor and devised a crest consisting of two crossed anchors and a mural crown. Heraldist Ivan Mitford-Barberton added two buffalo as supporters. The improved design was granted by the College of Arms on 15 December 1959. It was registered with the Cape Provincial Administration in 1960, and at the Bureau of Heraldry in 1967.

References

External links

Official website of Buffalo City

East London

Populated places in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
Populated coastal places in South Africa
Port cities in South Africa
Second Boer War concentration camps
Port cities and towns of the Indian Ocean
Populated places established in 1836
1872 establishments in the Cape Colony
1872 establishments in South Africa

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Mikhail Larionov
Born 1881. Died 1964.
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Mikhail Larionov Biography
A linchpin in the development of the avant-garde in Russia, Mikhail Larionov is often seen as a bridge between modern French art and Russian visual culture of the early twentieth century. Born in Tiraspol in the sunny South of the Russian Empire, he spent his youth in Moscow and revolutionised the local art scene, reinventing the concept of a national art in Russia. As a student he was suspended from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture not once but three times and later scandalised the good citizens of Moscow by going about with futurist face paint and clothes. He emigrated to France during the First World War where his limitless energy found expression in the world of theatre and ballet, notably in collaboration with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Perhaps unusually for an artist Larionov was an efficient organiser of people and exhibitions. He was also as a skillful self-promoter, he often pre-dating his canvases to make them appear earlier than they were. He founded the radical Jack of Diamonds group in 1909 only to abandon it in 1912, accusing the other members of an over-subservience to Western art and went on to found the even more radical but short-lived Donkey's Tail which promoted a re-orientation towards Russian popular culture, folklore, crafts and lubok prints as the sources of a truly modern Russian art.
One of his most significant contributions to art history was his neo-primitivist canvases of the end of the 1900s. Works such as Kneading Dough, sold at Sotheby's for £1,875,000 in 2014, show his familiarity with the development of Western, in particular German, art and the works of Alexei Jawlensky, whom he had known since his student days. In its depictions of Russian provincial life however it also marks the stirrings of a new national school. As Camilla Gray wrote in her introduction to the catalogue of his 1961 UK retrospective 'Without Larionov, it is impossible to imagine how Malevich and Tatlin could have reached their historical conclusions'.
Although not the earliest abstract artist (as he would have us believe from his pre-dating) Larionov was certainly among the first artists to produce abstract works. Together with Natalia Goncharova, his life-long partner and collaborator, Larionov developed a new movement, Rayonism, which was an important early contribution to non-figurative painting.
He was the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow last year and although not yet the household name he deserves to be in the West, his paintings can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Tate, LACMA and the Centre Georges Pompidou. His current auction record was made at Sotheby's in 2007 with the sale of Still Life with Jug and Icon which sold for £2,260,000. In June 2019 Sotheby's sold another Still Life from the same period, which sold for £2,175,000 joining Still Life with Jug and Icon and Kneading Dough as the three most expensive works by the artist to have sold at auction.
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Critically examining the politics of the Jaggaban of Borgu, the man who claimed to be richer than Osun State, the Lion of Bourdillon, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT), one finds an emptiness that is corrosive and perched on the dreg of toxic moral dirt. Hitherto, one had characterized his politics as a mercantilist one. But with a deeper study, Tinubuism has been discovered to be mephitic and perilous political philosophy for the Yorùbá Nation and its people.
"Lies never last, History never dies and the Truth is always constant."
Every political philosophy has a purpose. Or if you like, a vision that it fosters through governance. And one believes that we all agreed or is it just assumed, that the main purpose of any political group or philosophy is to advance the welfare of the governed through a selected method entirely unique to the group. It is a method that the group is known for and identified with.
Governor Akinwumi Ambode is a dream governor of Lagos State. In three and half years, he has surpassed the combined 16 years of ABAT and Alhaji Babatunde Fashola as governors of Lagos State. In the annals of Lagos State history, he is only second to Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ) who governed the State between 1979 and 1983 under the platform of the Obafemi Awolowo led Unity Party of Nigeria.
Governor Ambode is the kind of leader that the people look unto God for. He is a kind of Governor for whom the faithfuls in the Churches, Mosques, Traditional Religions supplicate to God almighty, Allah and Elédùmarè. Even, the atheists, non - believers had something to believe in him. He is the kind of Governor that the genuine Human Rights Communities want to die for. He is a dream come true for the ordinary people who for so long have been wallowing in the desert of misery and the simmering pool of uncaring, visionless, selfish and pilfering leaders.
Yes, kudos to whoever contributed to Akinwumi Ambode becoming the Executive Governor of Lagos State, including Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But obviously, Tinúbû did not expect an independently minded individual with evident bent to the needs of the people. Tinubu only wanted to consolidate his continued accumulation of wealth at the expense of the people of Lagos State. Governor Ambode was expected to play the role of a facilitator of this despicable mission.
While one is not painting Governor Ambode as a "Saint," and sinless in all this imbroglio, the measurement of performance of any governor, ruler, king, dictator, emperor, President, Prime Minister or what have you is the welfare of the people. The well-being of the people, their happiness, their satisfaction and joy is the ultimate measurement of any governor. Ambode, without any reservations, and with his limitations, has met this expectation.
He has made a very historical impact on Lagos and Lagosians. He has surprised them and make them believe. He made them to believe that nothing is impossible if you have the will. He made them believe if you could dream it, you could do it. He made them believe that governance is not difficult as it has been made to look. He made them believe that not even the sky could be the limit, and that the heavens could be penetrated. He placed priority on the interest of the people of Lagos over and above that of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
On the other hand, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has been a plague to the people of Osun State. He has been deleterious and pernicious in his governance. He has been wicked, utterly. He has been mean, cruel and heartless. Rather than build, he has destroyed. He destroyed education and schools. He destroyed the economy. He destroyed the religious harmony of the people. He destroyed everything good in sight. He subsumed the interest of Osun people to that of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He made Osun people hungry and turned them into beggars. He took away their dignity. He pinched their pride. He took away their self respect. He made them a laughing stock. He humiliated them. He planted and pasted opprobrium all over the facets of the State and the people. The workers were dropping dead. The hospitals became slaughter slabs. He gave a single uniform to all the schools in the state and his wife was the single supplier and seamstress.
He claimed to be an Ìjèsà man. But his roots have since been queried for authenticity. He promised to rehabilitate Atakumosa market. He never did. He promised to tar all the linkage roads in Ilesa, he did little. He promised to make tap water run in Ìjèsà land, it never materialized. He promised to construct a dual carriage through the town, he never did. The biggest industry in Osun State, the International Breweries PLC in Ilesa, needed help to expand, Aregbesola frustrated the effort until the company went to Ogun State for the expansion. He destroyed our Ilesa Grammar School.
One could have taken each town in Osun State and write about their stories of woes; their tales of torment. One could write about their miseries and tears under Aregbesola. From Ile-Ife to Sekona. From Gbongan to Odeomu. Okuku to Ikirun to Ila-Orangun and Oke-Ila Orangun. From Otan Ayegbaju to Iree to Ada and Iragbiji. From Ikire to Iwo to Ede to Ejigbo to Awó to Ilobu. It had been gnashing of teeth all over. It had been tragic tales everywhere.
Most importantly, Aregbesola has no remorse. He has no regrets. He is not bothered. He doesn't care. He gallivants round the State telling lies upon lies, taking Osun people for fools. He engaged endlessly in false propaganda, taking Osun people for idiots. He lives and breaths falsehood. All that matters to him is the happiness of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and not the comfort of the people of Osun State.
This is where Bola Ahmed Tinubu comes in. Whether we like it or not, he represents a political school of thought in our firmament That School of Thought is christened TINUBUISM. Tinubuism represents a predatory political ideology that has been put in place to fleece the people and povertize them. It is a larvicidal political ideology meant to drive people into penury and the polity into unmitigated economic lechery.
Watch the position, plans and reaction of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the events in both Lagos and Osun States. Governor Akinwumi Ambode is doing well for Lagos State and its people. The people are very happy. They are excited. They look forward to him continuing his good work by getting him elected to a second term as the Governor of Lagos State. But Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the godfather of mercantilist politics is really riled. He is upset with a good and performing governor. He is trying to destroy a pro - people Governor. Tinubu is determined to deny Ambode the needed second term because advancing the interest of the people is not what Tinubu stands for.
Even, let us agree that truly, there are differences between Tinubu and Ambode. Tinubu should have looked at the interest of the people. As a leader, he should and could have found a common ground with Ambode, resolve the differences and allow Ambode to continue in the interest of the State and its people. But what does the people matter to the Lion of Bourdillon? He doesn't care about anyone, least of all the people. All he cares about is money, money, money and money.
In Osun State, where Rauf Aregbesola has destroyed the State and the lives of the people, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is more than happy for continuity of tears and misery. He is determined to impose, through hook or crook, an anti people candidate on the State. Aregbesola, with Gboyega Oyetola, the current APC candidate in Osun, as the Chief of Staff, destroyed Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Oshogbo, to make way for Tinubu's business empire. It is reported that all the roads constructed in Osun State were done by a company jointly owned by him and Tinubu. Roads being constructed for between NGN 450m to NGN 500m per one kilometer in other States of Nigeria were being constructed at the cost of NGN 1.2 billion per kilometer by Aregbesola. Many of those roads are now death traps.
This is what Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants and likes. It is not difficult for him to take a position on the matters of Lagos and Osun States. Choosing Gboyega Oyetola through crooked primaries as against what the majority of the party members want was and is easier for Tinubu. Junking Akinwumi Ambode against the desire of the people of Lagos is also easier for Tinubu. The same despicable philosophy is what is driving the Jaggaban and the self styled "Asiwaju" Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the so called Lion of Bourdillon - political mercantilism or Tinubuism - a perverted political philosophy aimed at the destruction of our society and the povertization of our people.
Take a look across Yorùbá land. Look at the social and economic devastations that the leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu has brought to bear on our land and our people. Look at the agonies on our streets. Look at the unending tears of our children. Look at the perverted morality represented by Tinubu and his crowd. From Lagos to Ogun States, to Oyo, Osun and Ekiti States, look at the disaster that Tinubu and his crowd represent to the Yorùbá Nation and our people. He has been repeatedly resisted in Ondo State.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a self declared enemy of the Yorùbá Nation and its people. The proofs are self evident. His actions are self pronouncing. Tinubu has no interest in the welfare and the well being of the Yorùbá Nation and its people. All he wants is to use the Yorùbá votes as a negotiating chip to further his morbid ambition. If one understands this, it won't be difficult for every observer to see why Bola Ahmed Tinubu is trying to bring back an odiously incompetent, audaciously murderous and nauseatingly corrupt, Mohammadu Buhari to the Yorùbá Nation to be voted for again in 2019.
Tinubuism is a vacuous political philosophy anchored by a moral reprobate seeking to lead a people conscious of probity and accountability. A destructive political concept, fueled and sustained with and by cronyism, as well as permeated with unending treacheries and perfidy. A season of anomie has been foisted on the Yorùbá Nation by Tinubu and his cronies. An era of ruins was foisted on our people by Tinubu and his foot soldiers. Tinubu is trying hard to foreclose the future of our children.
He is not satisfied with selling the Yorùbá Nation into slavery. He is not contented with impoverishing the Yorùbá people. He is consistently destroying our moral fibre. He advocates the worship of money at the expense of due character. He is an apostle of money without due diligence for the edification of labour. He represents a moral anathema to our polity.
But the good news is that our people are waking up. They are smelling the coffee. They are able to decipher the lies of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. They are about to set themselves free. The freedom song is ringing everywhere. Lies never last, history never dies and the truth is always constant.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."


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I have been reading a lot more lately and got behind in having this post ready for this morning. It's a quote I've had to think about.
Wow! This is a good quote. I think it is true that when we compare ourselves to others we're setting the standard of trying to be like them – and feeling 'less' because we aren't meeting that standard. Their successes and accomplishments become our guide. That limits us!
Why do we think that others are better, smarter, cuter, wiser, or … anything-er? WHY?
Maybe because we don't trust ourselves, we don't believe the abilities God has placed within us is enough, or good enough.
So, my question for you today is … Have you ever found comparison has held you back? If not, has anything? Do you have advice for anyone who struggles with moving forward?
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I think we all suffer from comparison in this modern age. Television, magazines , the computer all contribute to the comparison issue. I love being around people and am energized by them but I still long to be as successful, attractive, fit, creative and wealthy as others. I know it is not a healthy way to live and am working on getting over it. The best thing is to be happy and thankful for what you have and who you are. An attitude of gratitude is the best cure for comparison thinking. I think young people suffer even more and it is causing a lot of problems.
An attitude of gratitude is important to have and practice. Perhaps the comparison thing is helped immensely by the crazy advertising that goes on, all for the "almighty dollar", so that what we have is seemingly never enough.
An incredible wise post, Lynn. Comparison is an unrecognized demon in most of our lives. Thank you for such a thoughtful perspective!!
That is a really thought-provoking quote!


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#include "i_msg_sink.hpp"
#include "io_object.hpp"
#include "i_encoder.hpp"
#include "i_decoder.hpp"
#include "options.hpp"
#include "socket_base.hpp"
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    class io_thread_t;
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    class stream_engine_t : public io_object_t, public i_engine, public i_msg_sink
    {
    public:

        stream_engine_t (fd_t fd_, const options_t &options_, const std::string &endpoint);
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        //  i_engine interface implementation.
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        void terminate ();
        void activate_in ();
        void activate_out ();

        //  i_msg_sink interface implementation.
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        void in_event ();
        void out_event ();

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A leading mobile company is looking for a Product Manager.
•Prioritize the engineering queue, define product requirements and be able to communicate the "why" to engineers and executives alike.
•Own and manage the backlog and roadmap for your area of responsibility.
•Interact daily with engineering team, design team, and others within the company in both the definition and development phases of the product.
•Interview and communicate with customers to understand Their needs.
•3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager.
•Strong experience with both strategy and execution.
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
•A passion for usability and simplicity.
•Ability to work with global teams, including travel and calls in evening when required.


Mexico City, November 7, 2018. IOS OFFICES, a leading company in rental services for equipped office spaces and coworking, received the LEED® Certification for commercial interiors at its certified level on November 5, in recognition of the energy efficiency and resources of its corporate offices located in Mexico City.
In addition to this certification for buildings, the company with ten years in the market constantly promotes social and labor responsibility, both internally to promote equity and maintain distinctive as "Great Place To Work", and externally to execute activities for the benefit of third parties in different cities of the Mexican Republic.
IOS OFFICES Miyana obtained the "Certified" level within the LEED scale by obtaining 45 points, becoming a new business center with this certification of the company.


All these icons you can find and changes in appropriate services article under images and links tab, please see Intro image Caption parameter.
100 = 99; 99 = 98 and so on. 101 = no graphic.
FYI - I still don't receive any e-mail notifications of postings.
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Please check your junk folder or your email provider has some filter which blocks our emails.
I check my server daily for blocked/spam e-mails. Still nothing.
What e-mail do you have on file?
What is your 'sending' e-mail address so I can also whitelist it.
Please check your site, it should be OK now.
You just wiped out everything and put in the template!
Please restore asap. Not sure what you 'thought' you were accomplishing?
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Can you please be more specific in your questions? Your site is working just fine.
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probably you have to clear your browser cache.
Cleared and different browsers and devises. The only thing that remained was the site name in the template. Show me your screen capture with updated photos and content that I did. Thanks.
Exactly. That is NOT what I had customized. Photos, content and a ton of work.
Please restore to the state before you made a change.


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Make Diversity and Inclusion Intentional Archives
Employee Resource Groups provide vital connection, support
Nov. 11, 2020—As part of an ongoing commitment to foster inclusion and celebrate diversity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, two new Employee Resource Groups have recently been formed, bringing the total to six.
Video: Dr. Jeff Balser talks about a new plan to eliminate barriers to diversity and inclusion at VUMC
Jul. 8, 2020—Dr. Jeff Balser announces the formation of a new Task Force led by the Office of Health Equity representing all areas of VUMC and the School of Medicine charged with identifying ways to eliminate barriers to racial equity through immediate and long-term steps.
Transcript: Dr. Jeff Balser talks about a new plan to eliminate barriers to diversity and inclusion at VUMC
Inaugural lecture honors Jordan's contributions
Feb. 14, 2019—Vanderbilt's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences honored Vanderbilt's first African-American resident, Harold Jordan, MD, on Feb. 8 by hosting the first lecture in his name.
VUMC named one of nation's Top Hospitals for Diversity
Aug. 23, 2018—Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been named among the 2018 Top Hospitals for Diversity by BlackDoctor.org (BDO), an online source of health and wellness information.
School of Medicine programs enhancing diversity of applicants
Jul. 27, 2017—For students, summer is typically associated with freedom from schoolwork. But for a handful of future medical school applicants, summertime means hitting the books, conducting research and participating in rounds.
Barnett honored by AHA for minority student advocacy
Jun. 29, 2017—Joey Barnett, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt and director of the Office of Medical Student Research, has received the American Heart Association's (AHA) Louis B. Russell Jr. Memorial Award for his efforts as an advocate for the career advancement of minority students and trainees in cardiovascular science, and for increased representation of underserved communities among the AHA volunteer base.
New internship programs set to benefit diverse group of students
Jun. 8, 2017—This summer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will be the site for two internship programs geared to connect diverse students interested in health care.
Melanoma study finds new way to enhance targeted therapies
Mar. 9, 2017—With the help of a drug formerly used to treat HIV/AIDS, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have found a way to make melanoma cells more vulnerable to targeted anti-cancer therapy.
Vanderbilt earns top rankings, including a No. 1, for successful minority recruitment in master's and Ph.D. programs
Dec. 12, 2016—"Diverse: Issues In Higher Education" has ranked Vanderbilt University No. 1 in the country for the number of doctoral degrees awarded to African Americans in the biological and biomedical sciences.


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Cicho – pierwszy singiel Ewy Farnej promujący jej drugą płytę Cicho. Polski tekst do singla został napisany przez Marka Dutkiewicza. Piosenka uzyskała tytuł Polskiego Hitu Lata 2009, podczas Sopot Hit Festiwal.

Teledysk
Teledysk do utworu Cicho został nakręcony między 11 a 12 stycznia 2009 roku w Łodzi. Reżyserem i operatorem teledysku był Bartek Piotrowski.

Notowania

Single popowe
Single Ewy Farnej
Single wydane w roku 2009


Families in Knox County are prepared for disaster, particularly home fires, by having smoke alarms installed in high-risk neighborhoods, youth and adult education around escape plans, and other educational programs around preparedness, lowing instances of death and/or injury in disaster.
The American Red Cross serves people affected by disasters and continually strengthens its own capacity, and the capacity of communities for disaster response, recovery, and readiness. By meeting these emergency disaster-caused needs, Disaster Cycle Services helps to stabilize families by returning them quickly to economic and financial stability. All Disaster Services activities are delivered at no cost to community members who need these services—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
The American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces program helps members of the military, veterans and their families prepare for, cope with, and respond to, the challenges of military service. Every day, the American Red Cross provides 24/7 global emergency communication services and support in military and veteran healthcare facilities across the country and around the world. From the first day of enlistment, service members and their families are eligible for Red Cross assistance.
What happens when a military member is deployed and a crisis hits home?
United Way of Greater Knoxville funded partner, American Red Cross of East Tennessee, responds to the call for service.