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Amazing Grace: An Exclusive Interview With RICKY WARWICK Of BLACK STAR RIDERS
By Cynthia Fields-Jalil, Writer/Photographer
Sunday, October 20, 2019 @ 9:57 AM
"We don't sit down on go "we need to sound like THIN LIZZY". That's never been on the agenda. We sounded the way we do because we have a guy called Scott Gorham in the band."
Live Photos By Larry Petro/Petrofyed Photography
Band Photo Credit Robert John
Hey there all, it's Cynthia here with another KNAC.COM exclusive interview! This time around I had an opportunity to chat with BLACK STAR RIDERS lead vocalist Ricky Warwick about BSR's 4th and latest studio release Another State of Grace, released on September 6, 2019. We discussed the guys' new release, THIN LIZZY, and a few things in between! Ricky is not just an amazing vocalist, he is also one of the nicest, family-oriented, down to earth musicians that I have ever had the pleasure of chatting with! I hope y'all enjoy reading this chat as much I enjoyed conducting it!
KNAC.COM: I had the pleasure of seeing and shooting you, Scott (Gorham, guitarist ), Damon (Johnson, guitarist), Marco (Mendoza, bassist) & Jimmy (DeGrasso, drummer) here in Houston, TX at The Concert Pub North when y'all first started BLACK STAR RIDERS aka "The New THIN LIZZY".
WARWICK: Oh, I remember that! Yeah, it was one of our first tours in the states!
KNAC.COM: It was! It was truly a magical evening for all of us Houston fans that were there. Watching you nail all of those THIN LIZZY songs with so much passion & energy left me completely blown away!
WARWICK: Awww, well that makes me feel great, thank you so much!
KNAC.COM: Now that BLACK STAR RIDERS has 4 album credits (All Hell Breaks Loose '13, Killer Instinct '15, Heavy Fire '17 and Another State of Grace '19) under your belts, can you please share with us how you & Scott came together to birth this band?
WARWICK: Well, I think it's been well documented. The band was formed out of the version of THIN LIZZY that was touring in 2012. And there was talk of writing a new THIN LIZZY record and so we started writing some songs and we decided that wasn't a good idea - that it was disrespectful to write a new LIZZY record without Phil (Lynott, original THIN LIZZY singer), the great man not being here and rightly so! So when we decided that we'd do that, we were obviously left with all of these songs and I said to Scott Gorham, "These songs are great, people need to hear them, let's put a band together, and change the name!" BLACK STAR RIDERS was born - here we are four albums and seven years later!
KNAC.COM: Was BSR a side project during the band members' downtime from their other bands & projects, or was it something that you all hoped would turn into what it is today?
WARWICK: No, I mean it WAS born out of myself, Scott, Damon, and Marco that were in that touring version of THIN LIZZY that's when we played on that first album. Jimmy DeGrasso came in and played on drums and we made the record. We didn't know if the record was going to be successful. We didn't know if people would take to the idea of this band coming from where it did, but you know thankfully they did! And we got behind the band and now BLACK STAR RIDERS morphed into…it's a stand-alone band. Like I said we're four albums into this thing and we're very much our own band. You know we don't really play any more THIN LIZZY songs anymore, we're a full-on functioning BLACK STAR RIDERS.
KNAC.COM: Since I first saw BSR, bassist Marco Mendoza has been replaced by Robbie Crane - formerly of RATT, ADLER'S APPETITE & LYNCH MOB, Jimmy DeGrasso ultimately by drummer Chad Szeliga - formerly BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, BREAKING BENJAMIN & Scott Stapp and Damon Johnson recently by guitarist Christian Martucci - formerly STONE SOUR, Cory Hart & Dee Dee Ramone making you & Scott Gorham the only original BSR members today.
WARWICK: (Laughing). Yeah, me and Scott must be really hard to get along with!
KNAC.COM: (Laughing). So, what led to all of those changes?
WARWICK: Hmmm, well Marco went off and joined THE DEAD DAISIES and so that was Marco. Jimmy left and went back to RATT very briefly so that was Jimmy. And Damon wanted to concentrate on his solo career and really kind of tour under his own schedule. We would do long tours in Europe, and I think Damon was finding that increasingly difficult. He has a young family and he just decided he wanted to be more in control of his own destiny and so he went off to concentrate on his own career, and so that was Damon.
KNAC.COM: Well ya know Marco is no longer in THE DEAD DAISIES either.
WARWICK: I do, yep!
KNAC.COM: We're kinda bummed because he was amazing with y'all and with every other thing he's done. He's just a great guy overall!
WARWICK: You know Marco's a fantastic guy and an amazing musician but you know with no disrespect to Marco, for us getting Robbie Crane in the band was amazing! Robbie is unbelievable and such a great fit for BLACK STAR RIDERS and he's brought so much! He's been in the band for five years believe or not! He's brought so much to BLACK STAR RIDERS. Yeah, we lost Marco which was a real shame but we found Robbie which was amazing.
KNAC.COM: So, here's my next question which kinda leads into that. So, what are some of the character and musician traits that helped you & Scott decide if Robbie, Chad & Chris would be a good match for BSR?
WARWICK: You have to have a certain sort of swagger and attitude. I mean anybody can play but, I guess you've got to play in the right way. Obviously, if you're a guitar player, you're playing a lot of gelled songs with Scott Gorham and so you have to be able to adapt to that and be in harmony with Scott which is not an easy thing to do. And then I'd say honestly fifty percent of it is about the hang! Are you a good person? Can you hang? Are you polite? Are you respectful? Do you want to be apart of "the band?" I think fifty percent of that IS really personality and being able to hang, to be honest with you.
KNAC.COM: Wow, okay - it makes sense. Many congrats to you and the guys of BSR for your recently released fourth album titled Another State of Grace. Can you please share with us what the writing and recording process for the new album was like considering the band is now made-up of musicians with backgrounds in heavy metal, classic rock, alternative rock, grunge, punk-rock, jazz and several other genres of music?
WARWICK: Well, that's the great thing about music - is that we're made up of so many diversified musicians who all listen to so much stuff! But when we come together as BLACK STAR RIDERS we have a defining sound that I believe is very unique about BLACK STAR RIDERS. I don't think anybody sounds like BLACK STAR RIDERS and I'm very proud of that! The writing process was really easy. We start working on ideas, we send them back and forwards to each other, I do the majority of the writing. I did a lot of time with Christian working on demos. Scott and Robbie would bring in their guitar ideas and once we put like sixteen/seventeen songs together we did about a week of pre-production in Los Angeles and then we got together with our producer Jay Ruston, went into a studio in LA and recorded very quickly in about two and a half weeks! And recorded it as live as we possibly could. And yeah, great process - had a lot of fun in the studio! We recorded it in a studio called Sphere Studios in Burbank in Los Angeles - a great studio, a beautiful studio in fact! And we just had a blast, we just had a really good time! We knew the songs were strong and we felt good going into it. The new guys in the band brought a lot of positive energy to the band, and they played their asses off on the record, and all around it was just a wonderful experience!
KNAC.COM: So, I've noticed that BSR's latest release has stepped even further away than the last album from the classic THIN LIZZY sound. Was that intentional?
WARWICK: Well, we've never really tried to sound like the classic THIN LIZZY like ever…maybe on the first album when we were writing some songs and like I explained and we thought that they might come out on a LIZZY record. We don't try to sound like THIN LIZZY at all. We don't sit down on go "we need to sound like THIN LIZZY". That's never been on the agenda. We sounded the way we do because we have a guy called Scott Gorham in the band. He was a huge part of that THIN LIZZY side and the way he plays guitar is unmistakable because of that! So, we've got that guy in our band so that's going to give us that sound - that's just the way it is, that's just a fact (laughing) and we love that and it's great! But, we're very much BLACK STAR RIDERS. We don't sit and go "we've gotta recapture the sound that LIZZY had". We just try and write uplifting good rock and roll songs that we like and then we just hope that when we put them out there, everybody else likes them!
KNAC.COM: So, will BSR continue to play THIN LIZZY classic songs like "Whiskey In The Jar" or "The Boys Are Back In Town" live or do you plan on gradually eliminating those from your live performances altogether?
WARWICK: We already have! On the last tour, we were just playing one…one THIN LIZZY song live. This time around there won't be any. I mean we're four albums into this now and seven years!
KNAC.COM: Yeah, I think so…I think it' a great idea! I mean you guys are definitely a solid band and you're on your way!
WARWICK: Well you know like I said we're BLACK STAR RIDERS, we're not THIN LIZZY.
KNAC.COM: Yes! Well, I just remember on the posters and things you were promoted as "The New THIN LIZZY" is what the catch was…
WARWICK: You know promoters go for that to sell tickets and I totally understand why they do that. They want to try and get as many people as they can through the door as possible and I'm totally fine with that! Ya know when we did our first tours we didn't have enough material to play a full BLACK STAR RIDERS set (laughing)! And so we kinda had to play THIN LIZZY songs. On one record you've only got eleven songs - you need to play for an hour and thirty minutes and so you need another six songs. So, you know you dip into that THIN LIZZY catalogue. But, gradually over the years, anybody will tell you that gradually that's gotten less and less as we've made more albums. And now that we're four albums into this and out of respect for ourselves, and I think out of respect for THIN LIZZY as well, it's time to sort of close that door and concentrate on being BLACK STAR RIDERS.
KNAC.COM: So, according to Scott, the THIN LIZZY band will never die and will continue to perform in the future, will you continue as the lead singer as well?
WARWICK: As long as Scott Gorham wants me to!
KNAC.COM: What do you do to maintain your vocal ranges and things like that? Do you have any kind of special thing that you do with your voice?
WARWICK: Nope (laughing)! Listen, my vocal range is pretty limited. You know I don't have a great vocal range I have a baritone voice and I know what my limitations are. I try extremely hard to stay within those limitations because I know what I'm good at doing. I'm not going to be able to hit those notes like say Robert Plant (LED ZEPPELIN) or Chris Cornell (SOUNDGARDEN, AUDIOSLAVE) or any of those amazing singers can hit. I just can't do that you know, it's not in my DNA! But, I know that I'm good within my limitations and I work on that and I sing and play as much as I can just around the house basically you know. But really, there's no real regimen. I mean I look after myself. I'm fit, I go to the gym four or five times a week. I run, I don't smoke and I don't really drink, I don't do any drugs you know so... I'm fifty three years old and I feel like I'm twenty-three! And that's really all I can say and it works for me! It might not work for anybody else, but it works for me!
KNAC.COM: There are so many different messages in the makeup of each new song on Another State of Grace and so I thought it would be fun if you could please give the BSR fans a quick summary of what each song is about?
WARWICK: Alright, well that's never easy! (Laughing) All ten of them? I can't even remember what order they're in!
KNAC.COM: (Laughing) You don't have to necessarily do it in order, I just would like to know.
WARWICK: I can tell you basically what I write about, I think that's easier. I hate to sort of go into that because if somebody listens to it, and they think it's about something different to them, then that's what it's about!
KNAC.COM: Oh, okay gotcha!
WARWICK: You know what I mean? I kinda like that idea. I mean I wrote it about something but if they hear it and they go "Oh, he's singing about this" and I'm not, but if they think I am and it means something to them - then I've connected with them so that's okay! I mean I'll write about politics. I write about friends. I write about family. I write about what I think. I write about what's going on in the world. It's really…it's my opinion's on life and this crazy world that we live in. And that's all I'm doing, I'm not preaching, I'm not saying "this is the way it should be", cause I don't have the answers - far from it! I'm just giving an observation and what I see that affects my family, my friends and where I live and where I'm from you know. I'm very much a prophet of my culture. I write a lot about Ireland. I write a lot about growing up in Ireland. I write about the effect that it had on me growing up as a kid there and you know, it's almost like a therapy for me the songwriting. I'm not very good at explaining myself to people when I'm talking and I'd rather put it in a song. And for me, that's what they are. They're almost little 3 1/2 minute therapy sessions.
KNAC.COM: So, which of those songs is your favorite & why?
WARWICK: (Pauses) It's hard to pick one, it's like choosing your favorite kid. It changes every day you know. I love the song "Why Do You Love Your Guns" a lot. That's a very personal song to me. And I really love "Another State of Grace", the album's title track. It's just such a great uplifting bombastic Celtic rock tune and it always puts a smile on my face when I play - when I hear it! So, those are the two this week, it'll change next week!
KNAC.COM: So, here are a couple of fun questions for your fans. When you're not on the road with the guys what is your favorite thing to do?
WARWICK: We're on the road so much! And when I'm home…I have 4 children and so I just want to spend as much time as I can with them and my wife obviously. And I'm just a home bird I don't really go out. I like to go out to eat at restaurants with my wife. I live in a beautiful part of the world. I'm in Beverly Hills (CA), not far from Santa Monica (CA), so I'll go to the beach with my kids. And you know just stuff like that.
KNAC.COM: Very nice!
WARWICK: Oh and I'm a big soccer fan and so I watch a lot of soccer as well.
KNAC.COM: Oh, very cool! So if you can share, what are your weekend plans? It's Friday, woohoo!
WARWICK: It's Friday! I mean we've been fairly busy. We've been out a lot and there's been a lot of stuff going on recently and I just got back from the UK (United Kingdom) about 10 days ago. I'm leaving again in less than 2 weeks for about 7 weeks and so again, I'll just be quite at home with the family maybe for the barbecue and do something like that - but a pretty chilled weekend.
KNAC.COM: What's your favorite thing to barbecue?
WARWICK: Well I don't eat red meat anymore. So, I guess fish and stuff like that so, I eat a lot of fish. Sorry fishes (laughing)!
KNAC.COM: So, do you cook some of your traditional meals?
WARWICK: No, I'm terrible at cooking! I'm awful at cooking, I'm an embarrassment to cooking (both laughing), but my wife is AMAZING! My wife is from El Paso (Texas), so she does Tex-Mex.
KNAC.COM: Oh wowww, she's a Texan!
WARWICK: Yes, she's a Texas gal! She's a wonderful cook, and I just can't even compete and so I don't. And you know she loves to cook as well - she's all about it!
KNAC.COM: Oh, that's AWESOME! And so you get a lot of Tex-Mex at the house?
WARWICK: We get a lot of Mexican, a lot of Tex-Mex, but she can cook anything! She's very passionate about it. There's a lot of cooking shows on TV all of the time, and it's definitely her passion and I'm alright with that!
KNAC.COM: What type of musical and personal legacy do you hope to leave for your loved ones and fans?
WARWICK: You know the great thing about making music is that it never dies. And what I can't understand about people is that when people pass on, is that you shouldn't be….you write music to leave a legacy you know, let's why you write it. You write it so that it's timeless and so that people can listen to it 500 years from now! And enjoy it and that's…for me as an artist, that's what I'd want! I would be thrilled after I'm gone if somebody would go and play my songs. I would love it, that's why I'm writing them! I'm writing them as a legacy. I don't want them to die with me. God no, I mean I want them to live on forever so, to me the songs are the legacy.
KNAC.COM: And then your personal legacy would be your family, your children.
WARWICK: Yeah! Of course, you want to make sure that they're well provided for and that when you do pass on that they're looked after. You know I'd hate to burden my kids with anything. I want them to enjoy what I did and if it helps pay for some stuff after I'm gone, isn't that great!
KNAC.COM: Do they enjoy your music?
WARWICK: No, God no they hate it!
KNAC.COM: (Laughing). How old are your children if you don't mind me asking?
WARWICK: My oldest is 22 years old and she's into different music. And my other one is 21 but he's more into hardcore like real hardcore stuff! My other daughter's 19 and she's got a real eclectic taste. She listens from everything to current stuff to THE WHO, HENDRIX, and then my 12-year-old is just obsessed with Billie Eilish right now.
KNAC.COM: Ahhhh, that's cool! So, you know we just recently had two musicians pass - Eddie Money and Ric Ocasek (THE CARS). Did you have the opportunity to meet either one of them? And did they have an impact on the type of music and the way that you play?
WARWICK: No, I've never met them, Cynthia. Eddie Money - I wasn't too aware of because "Two Tickets To Paradise" you know was not a hit in the UK or Ireland when I was growing up, and so I wasn't really aware of that song till I started coming to the states. I'm very sorry for him and for his family's loss. Obviously, he seemed like a great guy - obviously, it was a great song! Just THE CARS. I mean I loved THE CARS! It was growing up sort of in the early eighties and loving new wave and punk. THE CARS were definitely a band that anytime I heard them on the radio, I would turn it up!
KNAC.COM: Did the music of THE CARS inspire you in any way within your writing?
WARWICK: (Pausing) Not so directly no! I mean I love a good pop song, I love a good new wave pop song as well! It's a bit edgy and so I think the inspiration is there for that more than anything!
KNAC.COM: Very cool! So, do you have any parting words for your fans?
WARWICK: THANK YOU! Thank you for everything that you do for me and for the band because without you none of this would happen. And I wouldn't be here to leave any parting words because if you didn't support what I do, I wouldn't get to do what I do!
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When we looked at the Golden Globes list of acting nominees, we were struck by how these characters would make really compelling fashion icons. Seriously. Aside from being a spectacular year for film, it's been a spectacular year for costume design. American Hustle alone is like a hair and wardrobe fever dream—you know you're enjoying everything about a film when you could mute it and still marvel at what's on display. And a look at the characters our nominees played shows that we've got so many eras and so many styles represented, we could build an entire wardrobe based on their various looks.
So we've gone through some of our favorite characters from this years crop of Golden Globe nominated actors and actresses to assess what they're wearing, and how you might style yourself in 2014.
Best Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy—Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
We can get behind both of these characters' signature styles, but we'll stick to our nominee-only rule, and focus on Julia, her tribute to tie-dye and appropriately bohemian accessories. This whole look sums up the appeal of Southern California living—laid back, fun loving and colorful. But Eva isn't just into SoCal beach-style—at a party, she wears a vibrant scarlet scarf and a slinky black dress, looking as ravishing as anyone could hope to.
Best supporting Actor in a motion picture—Daniel Brühl, Rush
Things that are cool: aviators, racing jackets, signing autographs (without looking), patches (the six-legged animal log for 'Agip' is especially awesome), popped collars, jumpsuits and getting away with wearing a turtle neck. If you want to challenge your own fashion limits, and perhaps test the sensibilities of your friends and family along the way, just take 2014 by the scruff and make Niki Lauda your new fashion icon.
Best Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy—Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Ah, to be young. To be spontaneous. To be able to wear a knee-length black skirt and rumpled Oxford and feel fantastic about it. Wait a minute? Ladies, you can wear that, no matter your age, because it's just about the perfect ensemble. You just need a little bit of Frances' groovy /millennial hipster joie de vivre to transform this otherwise secretarial outfit into a downright stylish getup.
Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy—Christian Bale & Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Let's just all come clean right here and now and admit that we've all dreamed of wearing an ascot with a straight face. Yellow-tinted aviators indoors? Another dream. Yes, the fat collars and fat ties might be a little too obviously 70s-fashion-horror-show, but there's a lot to like here. Vests are always fun because, when you think about it, they're totally unnecessary. Watches are cool in a sort of anachronistic way (looking at your wrist to tell time, instead of your phone?) and houndstooth jackets have never even gone out of style. Get your American Hustle on, America.
Best Actress in a motion picture, drama—Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Chanel, Vuitton, Hermès—Jasmine's life may be falling apart, but her wardrobe is always coming together. Go forth, reader, and fear not pallid earth tones paired with accessories that are chunky and gold—you could do a whole lot worse than look like Jasmine next year.
Best Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy—Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Perhaps Spike Jonze is trying to tell us something. Here he is, setting his film in the near future, and yet look how he dresses his lead. The high waistline on those wool pants, the bold, highly saturated red shirt (and contrasting undershirt), the black glasses—fashion is cyclical, but some eras simply age better than others. Theodore, the protagonist in Spike Jonze's Her, dresses with a nod to the 1950s, and he looks good doing it. Theodore's style reminds us, once again, that simple simply works.
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy—Amy Adams & Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
The sequins, the plunging neckline, the astounding skin-to-fabric ratio—that's no Bat Mitzvah dress that Amy Adams' Sydney Prosser is wearing. And Jennifer Lawrence's fantastic floor-length number isn't exactly temple-friendly either, but both of these dresses are total knockouts. If you're hoping to snag one of these gowns for an upcoming trip to Atlantic City, you're out of luck. All of these pieces were made specifically for the film, so we suggest you consult with costume designer Michael Wilkinson for the details.
Best Actor in a motion picture, drama—Robert Redford, All is Lost
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Featured image: Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) & Richie Dimaso (Bradley Cooper) walk down Lexington Ave. in Columbia Pictures' American Hustle. Courtesy Columbia Pictures. (Christian Bale suit, tie, shirt, glasses: vintage / Amy Adams dress: Halston, glasses: vintage Christian Dior, bag: Gucci, shoes: vintage / Bradley Cooper suit, tie shirt, belt, glasses: vintage.
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Well, that went by quick didn't it? I am talking about this year. Holy crap! It seems like I was wrapping up my last podcast for last year just a few weeks ago. Is this what happens when you get old? Time to sleep less and do more. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to anyone who has bothered to listen over the past year, to my podcasts as well as every other Razorcake podcast. In case you might not be aware, creating a quality podcast (not implying mine are high quality) from start to finish takes a shitload of time and they are truly labors of love for all of us, if my fellow RC podcasters don't mind me speaking for them. Also, big thanks to the Razorcake staff, Board of Directors, and sponsors who give us a platform to even do this stuff. Here is to next year, everyone!


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Graduate students at the University of Regina are also rewarded for their excellence in teaching and teaching assistantships through the Graduate Student Teaching Awards.
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Aspenites honored
News News | Jan 3, 2007
Mary Eshbaugh Hayes
Marian Ruby, center, was honored at the Sojourner Salutes event. Here she is congratulated by granddaughter Neal Ruby, son Robert Ruby and daughter-in-law Sheela Ruby. (MEH)
Every year, one of the highlights of the holiday season is the Sojourner Salutes party, when Sojourner magazine recognizes a few Aspenites for their contributions to the community and their overall character.
Honored in 2006 were Marian Ruby, who helped start the volunteer program at Aspen Valley Hospital (formerly called The Blue Ladies) and is an ongoing supporter of the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation, as well as being one of the founders of Christ Episcopal Church; Klaus Obermeyer, who founded and still runs Sport Obermeyer; and Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis.
This is a story of perseverance: Gette and Bob Vhrin originally were married more than 30 years ago in Gette's home country of Romania. They wanted to be married again, and it took months of negotiations with the Catholic Church to get approval for their Sept. 20, 2006, ceremony in St. Mary Catholic Church in Aspen. Members of Bob's family who came for the new ceremony included mother Margaret Uhrin of Indiana, brother Don Uhrin, of Indiana, sister Jude Mojzik, of Illinois, and sister Elaine Herrmann, of Indiana. Gette and Bob changed their name from Uhrin to Vhrin when they were first married. The new wedding day was a gorgeous autumn day in Aspen, and the newlyweds rode in a flower-bedecked carriage all around town.
This has been such a couple of weeks of parties that I will just do several weeks of photos.
Undercurrent … I feel as if I have spent half my life waiting to cross the street at the corner of Main and Mill in front of the Hotel Jerome.
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 Pierre Guilleaume Fréderic Le Play (1806–1882), französischer Ingenieur, Ökonom, Soziologe und Sozialreformer

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"In 2018, you shouldn't have to file lawsuits so that kids get access to teachers and books," says Mark Rosenbaum the lead attorney in a lawsuit filed by Public Counsel, a Los Angeles based law firm, on behalf of Detroit students against state officials including Gov. Rick Snyder. The lawsuit sought to hold them accountable for systemic failures that deprived Detroit children of their right to literacy.
Lawyers for the state of Michigan argued to dismiss this lawsuit saying there is no fundamental right to literacy, subsequently the plaintiffs lawyers opposed the motion to dismiss and maintained that the city and state officials were, "all too familiar with illiteracy's far reaching effects." They went on to claim illiteracy contributed to Detroit's inability to connect people to good paying careers, to fill job openings within local government, as well as growing the city overall.
After both sides presented their arguments, U.S. District judge Stephen Murphy III began his ruling. He spoke on what he believed to be the importance of literacy.
However, Judge Murphy contained that those measures, "do not necessarily make access to literacy a fundamental right." Judge Murphy then regarded literacy as a good or service as if it was something citizens could go and obtain at a local market or have a serviceman make a service call if it was to ever need fixing.
What is so problematic about these so called protections is that they are bound by the interpretation of judges who sit on the Supreme Court. A citizen needs a certain level of literacy to begin to understand their rights. Literacy basically ensures you fully understand the Constitution and Bill of Rights that was penned to protect you and your rights. Without the ability to read, write, and comprehend, this is impossible to accomplish. Historically, we have seen how groups of individuals suppressed literacy to oppress, enslave, and hold back generations of people. The ability to read, write, and comprehend are essential to a man's freedom, freedom that is protected by the Bill of Rights as fundamental rights.
I personally contend that Judge Murphy and any other interpreter of the law are dead wrong when they determine that literacy is not a fundamental right. Any basic ability that allows a citizen to understand their rights has to take precedent in the determination of whether it is fundamental or not. One must be literate to understand one's rights. That is common sense. What I am seeing here though is a continuation of the practices of yesteryear. Individuals like Judge Murphy know the way to control a group of people is to make them unable to understand and comprehend in a basic manner. It seems as if Judge Murphy may be just fine going back to a time when a human being could be killed for learning how to read. What is ironic is that as a representative of the state of Michigan, Judge Murphy could have set the bar for education nationally by determining literacy as a fundamental rights since state can add to fundamental rights. Instead, Judge Murphy decided to take the low road and go against the students of the state of Michigan and city of Detroit. I guess Judge Murphy is just doing his part in making America great again one ruling at a time.


Nano@IAState is a single day meeting to bring together ISU, Ames Lab and industrial scientists and researchers working on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and applications of nanoscience.
The second annual meeting will be held on Friday August 3rd 2018 in the Scheman Building. The meeting will consist of oral presentations and a poster session. The meeting is open to ISU and Ames Lab graduate and undergraduate students, staff and faculty, and members of local industry.
Invited oral presentations will be given by ISU/Ames lab faculty and members of local industry (see the preliminary program below). Contributed oral presentations from ISU graduate students/post-docs will be 15 minutes in duration. The poster session is open to all participants.
Registration closes Wednesday August 1st, 2018. There are only a few slots remaining. Register Here.
Rizia Bardhan (Vanderbilt University) and Peter Collins (ISU MSE) will give 45 minute plenary lectures. Invited 20 minute presentations will be given by Robbyn Anand (ISU Chemistry), Balaji Narasimhan (CBE/Nanovaccine Institute), Pat Thiel (Chemistry/Ames Lab), Xuefeng Wang (ISU Physics), Randilynn Christensen (3M) and Richard Lopez (John Deere).
A complete program with abstracts can be downloaded here.
Iowa State University Research Park, The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ames Laboratory, ISU VP Research, The College of Engineering, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The Department of Chemistry, The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and The Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Contributed Oral Presentations will have a total duration of 15 minutes, including a few minutes for questions from the audience. Please prepare your talk so that it lasts 12 – 13 minutes.
The boards for Poster Presentations will be 4′ x 4′. Please make sure your poster is 4′ wide or narrower. Poster boards will be available in the second floor Scheman lobby at the start of the meeting. Please hang your poster in the morning when you arrive. The poster session will take place from 4:40 to 6:00 pm.
Cash prizes will be awarded for the best student poster and oral presentations.
The meeting will take place in the Scheman building.
• Conference badges will be available for pickup starting at 8 am. Light breakfast will be provided from 8:00 am to 8:25 am.
• Poster stands will be available in the second floor Scheman lobby all day. Please hang your poster early in the morning so that the are available for discussion during coffee breaks and the lunch hour.
• Lunch is included with your registration. Lunch will take place in the main meeting room.
• The cocktail hour/poster session will take place in the lobby. A drink ticket is included with your registration.


Now is the time to grab select designer duds for both men and women at this sale that has amazing collections up to 40 percent off. Some of our favorite brands include Stella McCartney, Chloe, Rosie Assoulin, OAMC, Prada, Valentino, Berluti, Gitman Vintage, Givenchy, and more. Run, don't walk.
Still sad that the Goop store at Highland Park Village wasn't permanent? Well wipe those tears, sisters, because Goop Dallas has been resurrected as a pop-in at Nordstrom now through June 25. The pop-in features wellness-focused products spanning across apparel, accessories, beauty, fitness, self-care, and home. Our favorites? Salts and scrubs from French Girl and the magic, but pricey, Vinter's Daughter serum.
All of our bikini-on-a-budget dreams are coming true with luxury women's apparel designer Rachel Roy's chic new swimwear line, available now at Macy's. With separates starting at just $34.99, you can get a suit that looks fresh off the runway for less. From wonderful one pieces with back detail to minimalist bikinis, the selection is impressive — but we are sure it will sell out fast.
The new 1,814-square-foot Dallas outpost of Shinola — retailer of watches and bicycles, plus leather goods and curated gift items — is located on level one between Nordstrom and Macy's. It features the brand's full lineup of modern goods, as well as the Willard Bar, a custom watch program. As with all locations, the Dallas store also has Shinola's signature, free monogramming station.
Hurry into Stag Provisions to hit up the Pop Shop (see what they did there?) in time to get your dad a groovy gift for Father's Day. From classic laid-back weekend wear to grill sets and hammocks and everything in between, this Knox-Henderson boutique is hooking you (and your dad) up.
Scheduled for a soft opening on June 17, this Los Angeles-based online suit and tux rental company is setting up a permanent shop at 2323 North Henderson Ave. Think Rent the Runway for the most dapper of dudes. The 1,400-square-foot showroom features the entire Black Tux collection of tuxedos, suits, shirting, and accessories. Make sure to attend the grand opening party on June 29 from 7-9 pm for sips, suits, and savings galore.


White bird of paradise (Strelitzia nicolai), also known as giant bird of paradise, grows in warm, humid climates and can grow as tall as 30 feet, with huge, flat leaves that resemble paddles arranged in fan. The white bird of paradise blooms, which are often hidden in the upper reaches of the plant, are blue and white. White bird of paradise can be divided to propagate a new plant in late spring or early summer.
Select and prepare a planting site for the divided white bird of paradise ahead of time. Choose a sunny spot. Although bird of paradise will grow in partial shade, at least six hours of bright sunlight each day will bring out the biggest, brightest blooms. Use a shovel or garden fork to work the soil to a depth of 10 inches. If the soil doesn't drain well, add 4 to 6 inches of peat, compost or manure to the soil.
Remove an offshoot growing at the base of the plant. Dig completely around the circumference of the offshoot, then use a shovel or garden fork to lift the offshoot carefully from the ground and away from the mother plant.
Rinse the roots with a garden hose to enable you to see the natural divisions. Divide the offshoot into sections, each with four or five stems. You may be able to divide the offshoot with your hands, or use a sharp knife or a trowel.
Water the offshoot deeply, and keep the soil moist. A 2-inch layer of organic mulch around the plant will retain moisture, enrich the soil and deter weeds.


Some publishers are repurposing fashionable classics, making simplified picture books of them for kids and reducing out the R-rated particulars.
To begin a business will submit a mortgage application to Community Sourced Capital and pay a price to develop into a member of the portal. The applying is checked for monetary integrity and group connection, history of gross sales and existing money owed which may compromise the flexibility to repay the loan. Promotional material indicate loans are at zero interest but there are month-to-month charges. Loans have to be repaid in three years or less.
You'll be able to see that each proposal for a security enterprise will embrace completely different pages to replicate the variety of companies and projects. And for optimum success, every proposal ought to be tailored to meet the needs of the social gathering receiving it. But you can also see that all safety proposals ought to comply with an identical format and construction, and you can reuse a variety of pages in a number of proposals. So the first proposal you write will be the most labor-intensive. After that, you'll develop into more environment friendly with every subsequent proposal.
In California if you sell in any craft honest, bazaar or farmer's market you can be requested in your vendor's allow and also you want it with you at the selling sight. This permit is the document the state uses to gather the state gross sales taxes you'll owe for the gross sales you make. It's broke down into metropolis or county relying on each space's tax charge. This permit is acquired at the State Board of Equalization in California. Official directions are right here.
With the event of new laptop technology new jobs have been created. As well as people employed to develop this technology there have also been jobs created to manage these applications. Many corporations have an entire department dedicated to Info Know-how. The movement on impact of the event of computer systems has created many jobs, together with creating jobs for academics who've to coach individuals to use the systems.


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WimZr iPhone Android App
wimZr came to Three29 with an idea. We turned it into a reality.
The wimZr mobile app is so simple in concept that you can't help but love it. wimZr wanted to connect locals and travelers prior to arrival, end of story. It's kind of like Tindr, but for travel. The genius of wimZr is that users are able to make their connection, de-board a plane, and already have new people to meet and connect with.
Branding visual elements.
To build the wimZr brand we started with their primary industry; travel. In looking at travel and airline companies one thing became very clear, that the industry had adopted a red and blue color palette. We decided to leverage that and build on a classic pallet to create a new app designed to be gender-neutral.
Building a globe trotting identity.
Users are travelling the globe, hopping from "pin" to "pin" and connecting on the way. What better visual to engage the user than with stylized map pins and the Earth? We explored a variety of options and ultimately ended on the logo featured below.
The Devil's in the details.
While simple in concept, it was exceptionally important that all the features of the wimZr app be outlined before design or development began. A complex set of wireframes were developed that outline each screen, feature, and path a user can take while using wimZr.
Creating a fun user-interface.
We knew one thing for sure: wimZr had to be fun. Our designers took note that the hand movements of users in competing applications were similar to people playing a gameboy. Yes, a gameboy. Thus the inspiration for wimZr's UI/UX was born.
Application design.
With our new brand, wireframes, travel and gameboy inspiration it was time to dive into design. The wimZr app came quickly and easily and was well received by the wimZr team. Each screen was painstakingly reviewed and tweaked to a final version, ready for code!
Create a Destination and a Connection!
Once a connection is made, the user receives an in-app notification or push-notification indicating a match! Voila, chat can be initiated right from the connection notification. This is where a meet-up location can be decided upon, and real connections can be made.
Click on any saved trip to browse potential connections for that location. Deciding who you want to meet in New York vs. LA is easier than choosing sandals or sneakers!
It's also just as easy to spread the word about wimZr to friends and/or family via Facebook, Twitter, or email right from the app's navigation.
We launched wimZr with a bang.
We love our town and we love developing apps for our community. During the course of the wimZr project we became a close knit team. So much so that wimZr invited our President & Founder Kevin Howe to speak at their launch party. They were even gracious enough to let him tease them on stage. A great product and long term client was born from a simple concept that we turned into a reality.
Kevin Howe President & Founder
wimZr and Three29 coined the term Teamily (Team + Family) during our project. It was a funny way to describe our working relationship but we quickly realized that it wasn't unique to wimZr. The Teamily interaction is how we treat our clients and wimZr was able to help us put it into words.
We also found, once again, the power that research plays in all our projects. Lisa didn't just sit down, pop open Photoshop, and start designing. She spent days researching other dating apps, watching staff use other dating apps, and understanding the psychology behind successful apps before digging into the wireframes or design. wimZr is fun to use and easy to understand because of the time put into researching the vertical. Research first reduces mistakes and it makes for better products. WimZr is a great example of that.
The value in what wimZr wanted (and still wants) is an extremely clear vision. The app is designed to connect travelers. It's really that simple. In version 2 we're connecting travelers at destinations and events; but still, connecting travelers. With such a simple goal in mind it was easy to help wimZr cut through the clutter towards a simple, clean, and easy to use app that does exactly what it set out to do.
I like to think that Three29's biggest role in wimZr wasn't in the design & development. It's in the name. When wimZr walked in our door the app wasn't called wimZr. It was tentatively called Connect Travelers or something similar. The name wimZr came weeks later after a conversation in which we advised Connect Travelers that they needed a new name. I'm not saying we're Justin Timberlake from The Social Network...but I'm also not saying we're not.
"Three29 brought wimZr to life. We couldn't imagine a better developer to have worked with and look forward to a long term partnership as wimZr grows."
John Parillo
Co-Founder of Wimzr
Other Fun Projects We've Worked On


Galentine's is when you and your friends don't concern yourself with romance, but instead revel in friendship.
Plan a mimosa party and hand out personalized champagne flutes. These classy gifts are almost too easy to make! Your friends will cherish them for years to come.
Make sure the glasses are dry before beginning to draw.
Draw tiny hearts from the rim until about midway down the glass. The look you're trying to achieve is falling confetti, so space out the hearts gradually as you go.
Next, around the base of the glass, use your best calligraphy or cursive to write a friend's name.
Set aside to dry fully-careful not to smudge!
Continue for each friend, until your whole squad has its own set of cheerfully decorated glassware.
You can wrap each glass, or set up a mimosa bar for the party, flutes on display, and let guests find their glass as they arrive. Cheers!


Why did you choose these fascinating animals for your documentary?
There are two reasons: first, there are not many documentaries about these magnificent longnecks. Wildlife filmmakers have overseen the tallest animal for long time. And that in spite the fact that giraffe have hundred percent sympathy by the audience. So, why isn't there not any films? Maybe it is because giraffe do not fit into the 16 by 9 formate, maybe many producers thought giraffe are beautiful but boring. That was my second reason to do the film: i think giraffe are not boring. In fact they are very interesting social animals with a lot of surprising behavior.
How long did you stay in Africa to shoot your film?
We shot the giraffe documentary in 4 months in 4 different counties: Uganda, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. We wanted to film our stars in different environments to show there fantastic adaption to harsh and challenging surroundings, not only in the savannah.
In general, giraffe, like most of other animals, do not read film scripts. So they often did not act like we have planned. Some group of giraffe were very shy and we had to be very cautious to follow them. So they sometimes forced us to overnight where they lived, in the middle of nowhere, where sandstorms and more than 40 degrees Celsius challenged the whole crew. And it took us some time to film the giraffe with a small noisy drone from they sky. First the animals mistook that machine with a bee swarm and run away. After some of trials they calmed down and became very curious.
What were the most beautiful days/aspects of your journey/work?
Every day with giraffe is a beautiful day. Their peaceful lifestyle and beauty is a present for everybody in their surrounding. The most exciting event for me was the day of catching giraffe. When the researchers narcotized them and brought them to the ground, everybody's war urgently needed to hold the one ton animal down. I laid at the body, felt its powerful muscles, its warmth and its fur. To see that this giraffe came up again healthy and safe made me happy too.
What is the most particular and strange aspect in the life of giraffe?
I think the most particular aspect in a life of giraffe is living against the force of gravity. First, there is the challenging welcome to the world. A newborn giraffe falls two meters from the mother's body to the hard soil. Ouch. Second, the heart of a giraffe has to show an excellent performance to pressure the blood into the head.How many documentaries have you shot in your life?
I didn't count them, but I guess it have been around 30 wildlife documentaries in the last 15 years.
Are you specialized in african environment?
I lived six years in Kenya and did some films in Africa at this time. But I also directed films in Europe, Asia and North America.
What future projects for your work do you have?
We are just doing a documentary about the wolves in Germany. I will go back to Africa and will film one of the ugliest but most interesting rodents called Naked Mole Rats. And we will start a film about the short necked giraffe of Europe, the cows. By the way, very challenging like giraffe.


Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She and her husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen hits during the 1960s, of which many have become standards; as a singer, her album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.
King's was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after that. She wrote her first number 1 at 17 in 1959 with Gerry Goffin, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow." In 1997 she wrote "The Reason" for Celine Dion.
In 2000 Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955-99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent album is The Living Room Tour, which reached high on the charts in its first week after being in Starbucks television advertisements.
She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her song writing, along with Gerry Goffin. She holds the record for the longest time for an album by a female to remain on the charts and the longest time for an album by a female to hold the #1 position, both for Tapestry.


I updated the home page of my umbrella site, The Republic of New Home, to actually point at live pages, instead of the same old dead links it has pointed to since 2002. No guarantees that the pages pointed to are current or anything radical like that, but at least they load instead of giving you a 404 error.
Oh, scrap. I just realized that 5 days ago I probably broke every external link on the internet to my stories. I'll fix that tonight, y'all. In the mean time, you can get to my stories from my website. The internal links are correct as of right now.
Update: links are fixed. Outside links to my stories should work properly again.
I've moved my new, incomplete website to my main page, replacing the old, horribly out-of-date and unmaintained Lair. The new site still needs pages finished, and desperately needs to be attacked with a stylesheet; I find the old styles. I used for a decade look a bit clunky now. It's at the same location as ever... just look to the right at my sidebar for the link.
First priority is to get all the content back up, minus the old stuff I don't want, and then I can jazz it up. Sign-ups for mailing lists are going away; I won't bother with that any more, I've got an LJ for notifying people of developments. In fact, my LJ feed is featured on the front page of my website.
This version of my site does have one page the old site didn't: my Transformers fanfiction page.
The Dragonball Z Fanfiction page has been converted over to the new format. In the process, I learned the uses of multiple page caches in Smarty, which turns out to be necessary when you use the same master template for multiple named pages.
The only new pages so far are the home page and the Transformers Fanfics page. The rest is "In Progress" and has links to the old versions of the pages so you can find the content.
After poking at Wordpress for a year or so, I decided that the blog/CMS was overkill for what I wanted to do. PHP templates, in the form of SMARTY, turned out to allow the right balance of "I want to hack HTML code" and "I want to automate the repetitive bits".
I got to hack PHP code, too, and that's all good clean fun.
Anyway, take a look, let me know what works and doesn't--keeping in mind that the above two pages are the only new ones. So far. Will be updating as I make progress.
I'm going to be overhauling my website over the next week, so don't be surprised if the links are a bit wonky, or if the site is missing completely. I'm going to a Wordpress-based blog architecture, with permanent pages superadded. (i.e., those stories everyone likes to read). There's a lot of ancient stuff that I don't look at, that no one else looks at that I will be weeding out. (Not stories, just link pages).


Finally, a little art news! There are two upcoming shows, back to back that I'll be participating in at the Arts Center in Corvallis.
First up is for the month of September. The piece is still in the works but stands a pretty good chance of getting completed before the drop-off date next week. Photos to come of the process.
Next show will be in October. I was accepted for the Around Oregon Annual! This was my first attempt to enter the show and I feel very privileged to have made it through the jury process.
I started with balsa or bass wood frames. Each box has a hand colored print on one side and part of my journal entry on the other. Print & journal entry paper is mulberry (I think) and the other is Thai Unryu. Boxes are connected with embroidery floss thru brass eyelets. Weight is less than 1/2 lb!
I look forward to seeing "Journal Entry" up close.


Carter Angell leads Nyhart's Indianapolis Actuarial Pension Practice and consults with private, church, and public plans to provide solutions to their employee benefit issues. Carter's proven track record in serving clients suits him for the role of helping Nyhart continue to efficiently and effectively serve clients in an ever-changing and challenging landscape. Having been mentored for success by Nyhart leadership since joining in 2008 has endeared Carter to being committed to serving our clients and helping push Nyhart forward.
Carter is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, Enrolled Actuary, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.


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Let's Explore a Complicated Thriller Archetype: The "Vengeful Bitch"
This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast
October 14, 2020 By Unlikeable Female Characters
UNLIKEABLE FEMALE CHARACTERS
On each episode of Unlikeable Female Characters, feminist thriller writers Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo, and Wendy Heard talk about female characters who don't give a damn if you like them.
Happy Spooky Season, one and all! This week, Kristen, Layne, and Wendy take on the archetype of the vengeful bitch—just in time for the release of Layne's new revenge-fueled female serial killer thriller They Never Learn. Vengeance may be wrong, but who cares when it's this much fun?
From the episode:
LAYNE: Our topic this week is the vengeful bitch, which is very appropriate because at the time that this will air, my new book They Never Learn will have just come out. It comes out on Tuesday October 13th, and it is about an extremely vengeful, bitchy female serial killer who punishes terrible men. So we thought this would be a great topic, to talk about vengeance. That's a happy thing to think about right now, as far as I'm concerned. There's so many people who need some vengeance. What do you guys think?
KRISTEN: Oh, for sure.
WENDY: I think that when your book comes out, people are going to be so thirsty for books like yours. It's such a timely book. We all want it.
LAYNE: I hope so. I came up with the idea for this book during the Kavanaugh hearings, so I was just filled with rage, and I was looking at his stupid angry face, talking about how he loves beer and never raped anyone, I don't know… and just thinking, men like this, if someone just murdered all of them, would the world really be any worse off? So that's where Scarlett came from.
You can find titles discussed in this episode on the Unlikeable Female Characters bookshop page.
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Feminist thriller writers Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo, and Wendy Heard talk about female characters who don't give a damn if you like them.
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Kids and Thrillers and Their Freaky Powers
Here goes nothing: It's me, Leon. The Leon who got to be friends with this old man in the last weeks of his life before...


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Obituaries & Notices
Davies, Clive
February 12, 1953 – May 12, 2021 Clive passed way after a courageous fight against Leukemia. Clive is survived by his wife Debbie, daughter Alexandra (Travis) and son Colton, his brothers Stuart and Leonard and sister Christine in England and many in-laws, relatives and friends in both Canada and England. Not to forget the special pets in his life Nigel, Trevor, Dexter and Roscoe, and grand pet Ace.
Born in Barnet, London, he came Canada in 1982, moved to Whonnock in 1987 and loved his chosen hometown. He was an avid fan of the Arsenal FC with his other interest being exotic cars, tennis, sailing, many other sports. He excelled at crosswords and was like a living Wikipedia.
We would like to extend a special thanks to Titan Construction for their support and friendship during his years working there as a Safety Officer and Trainer and for the past year of illness. Also, thanks to T15, T14 and BMT Outpatients at VGH.
Clive always thought of his family first and this is just one of the reasons we will miss him so much.
Forever in our hearts Clive, Dad.
Jim Findlay
Cascade Dental Centre in Maple Ridge was very moved by the news of Clive's death. Although we all enjoyed our relationship with Clive, in particular, since I was the same age and stage in life, I felt we hit it off. So Covid interrupted and halted almost everything. I had not seen Clive in a while and so I particularly mourn him now. Great family and great legacy. Sincerely, Dr. Jim Findlay


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How do you get a psychological test?
How to Request a Mental Health Assessment
Take a Mental Health Screening Quiz. The internet provides an abundance of resources for us to learn more about mental health disorders, how to cope with them, and ways to receive treatment.
Schedule an Appointment with Your Primary Care Physician (PCP)
Seek an Assessment Center for Help.
What are the four psychological needs?
There are four basic needs: The need for Attachment; the need for Control/Orientation; the need for Pleasure/Avoidance of Pain; and the need for Self-Enhancement.
What is a chronology used for?
Chronology, any method used to order time and to place events in the sequence in which they occurred.
Why is chronology important in history?
Chronology is important because the exact order in which events occur helps us understand the cause and the effect of those events, and thereby allow us to step back and view the "big picture" of history – how and why events unfold in the way they do, and how they are related.
How do you write a good case note?
Use professional language as well as correct capitalization and punctuation.
Address the situation with relevant details.
Base notes on FACT (Observations are facts).
Avoid bias by leaving out opinions and assumptions.
Spell out acronyms before using them.
Say what you mean directly.
Which psychological test is most popular for employee development?
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator
What is chronological order for a resume?
A chronological resume lists your work history in order of date, with the most recent position at the top. It might include a resume objective or career summary before the list of work experiences. Education, certifications, and special skills follow work experience in this style of resume.
How do you write a psychotherapist report?
Writing a good report on a psychotherapy case calls for an integration of the following kinds of material: (1) background information about the case, including relevant case history, presenting problem and diagnosis, (2) the framework of research methodology that will serve as a basis for using the case material to …
What is a case summary in social work?
A brief summary of the case Your assessment of the presenting problems and prioritisation of the key risks and needs that have to be addressed. Also include, the possible strengths and assets which can be drawn on, as well as other services involved. Plan. A brief outline of your intended work.
How do you write a social work chronological order?
Entries on a Chronology should:
Be brief and succinct, for example 'Scott transferred to xxxxx School';
Specify the date of the event, source of the information and date information received;
Contain factual information or be clearly specified as unsubstantiated;
Can you fake a psychological evaluation?
Psychologists are frequently asked to assist the courts in answering a psycholegal question. Such psychological assessment is subject to malingering or deception. Examinees may attempt to either fake good or fake bad in both the interview and testing.
What is a psychological test example?
Examples of personality tests include: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Rorschach, also known as the 'inkblot test'
How do you write a chronology?
What should you include?
If you had a contract, the date it was signed.
The date you started work .
If your duties changed and/or your job changed (for example, because of a promotion) the date this happened.
The dates of any performance meetings or complaints.
How do you write a case summary?
Steps to briefing a case
Select a useful case brief format.
Use the right caption when naming the brief.
Identify the case facts.
Outline the procedural history.
State the issues in question.
State the holding in your words.
Describe the court's rationale for each holding.
Explain the final disposition.
How do you identify presenting problems?
Mood changes.
Trouble falling or staying asleep.
Mood swings.
Social withdrawal.
Changes in eating habits.
Feelings of anger.
What does Rorschach test mean?
: a projective psychological test that uses a subject's interpretation of 10 standard black or colored inkblot designs to assess personality traits and emotional tendencies.
What is an impact chronology?
What is a social work Impact chronology? Chronologies are not simply a list of events but rather a tool to capture and consider an analysis of the child's lived experience which can inform analysis and assessment. Chronologies also allow us to consider the impact on children of their life experiences.
What are the 7 types of psychology?
Here are seven of the major perspectives in modern psychology.
The Psychodynamic Perspective.
The Behavioral Perspective.
The Cognitive Perspective.
The Biological Perspective.
The Cross-Cultural Perspective.
The Evolutionary Perspective.
The Humanistic Perspective.
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Some tests are designed so that-they can be administered to a large number of people at the same time.
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Trinidad: National Footballer Among Four Killed In Fiery Crash
trinidadexpress.com- Police are confirming that one of the four people killed in a fiery crash on the Solomon Hochoy Highway near the Gasparillo overpass this morning, is Trinidad and Tobago footballer Shahdon Winchester.
The crashed vehicle, a Nissan Quashqai, was registered to Winchester, whose address was given as Buen Intento, Princes Town.
The Trinidad and Tobago Footballer Association confirmed the death on its Facebook page, writing: "This is truly tragic news for us. May his Soul Rest In Eternal Peace."
Winchester, 27, was a former Naparima College footballer, who began his professional footballing career with W Connection, and earned a contract playing professional football in Finland.
At around 5.30a.m. Winchester's vehicle spun off the south bound lane of the Solomon Hochoy highway on the approach to the Harmony Hall overpass.
It happened during heavy rainfall in an area considered a highway 'black spot' where several fatal crashes have happened over the years.
The vehicle crashed into a T&TEC electricity pole, bringing down a transformer and sparking a fire that consumed the bodies of all four occupants of the vehicle.
The bodies were so badly burnt that police investigators said it would be difficult to extract the remains from the vehicle, and instead towed the wreckage to another location to perform the crime task.
Police say Winchester was in the vehicle with two men and a woman. Their identities have not been confirmed.
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Q: Using data return from sharepoint assetimagepicker I'm working with Sharepoint 2007. I use the built in AssetImagePicker.aspx and I need to retrieve the image url from that page and use it in my custom webpart.
I want to run my javascript code to run when clicking the OK button of the AssetImagePicker.aspx but I can't find a way to do that.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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A: Not sure if I'm understanding the question properly, and I know nothing about Sharepoint (and AssetImagePicker.aspx) but it sounds like you want to add an event handler to the OK button: to run a function when the click event of the button is fired.
You can either code event handling yourself (see W3Schools or Quirksmode for examples of this) or (probably better) use a library like jQuery.

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Investors swamp IPO for K-Pop band BTS management label, prices at top of range
FILE PHOTO: BTS performs during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York
SEOUL (Reuters) – Big Hit Entertainment, the management label of hugely popular South Korean K-Pop group BTS, priced its initial public offering (IPO) at the top of its range on Monday, as hopeful buyers chased South Korea's largest listing in three years.
Institutional investors expressed interest in more than 1,000 times the number of shares on offer, with Big Hit riding on the success of the seven-member band, which has become the first South Korean group to reach No.1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with song "Dynamite".
An army of retail investors, known in South Korea as Ants, is also clamouring to buy stock, while die-hard BTS fans are bidding in hopes of securing even one share in what analysts expect to the country' hottest listing this year.
Big Hit priced the IPO at 135,000 won ($115) per share, it said in a regulatory filing, the top of an indicative price range of 105,000-135,000 won announced earlier this month.
Some 1,420 institutional investors sought shares in pre-subscription offers, looking for 1,117 times the number available, the filing said. About 98% said they would pay the top-range price or more.
"Big Hit is classified as a kind of global export firm," said Park Sung-ho, analyst at Yuanta Securities Korea.
"Not only has it proven its ability to use Youtube, social media for smart market infiltration, it has fandom platform Weverse which gives unprecedented clarity and control over its revenue sources for a label, and may grow into a true platform player as outside artists increasingly join."
Big Hit reported a 49.7 billion won ($42.4 million) profit for the first half of 2020 as its online concert and merchandise sales on the Weverse app more than offset event cancellations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IPO will make the seven BTS members multimillionaire stockholders, as Big Hit CEO Bang Si-hyuk in August gave them 68,385 shares each, worth nearly $7.9 million at the issue price.
The firm will raise 962.6 billion won ($820 million) through the offer of 7.13 million new shares, the biggest South Korean IPO since Celltrion Healthcare raised 1 trillion won in 2017.
The pricing values Big Hit at about 4.8 trillion won, taking into account common shares plus redeemable preferred shares that will be converted into common shares upon the IPO.
With plenty of liquidity in the market, some analysts predict gross bids from retail investors could hit 100 trillion won ($85 billion).
The central bank is watching the offer closely as a massive oversubscription for shares could send ripples through short-term money markets.
Institutional and retail investors' subscriptions are due on Oct. 5-6 and Big Hit is expected to list on the KOSPI on Oct. 15.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Richard Pullin)


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How industry is preparing for the backlash against plastics
A Surge of New Production Is on the Way
BY BETH GARDINER • YALE E360
As public concern about plastic pollution rises, consumers are reaching for canvas bags, metal straws, and reusable water bottles.
But while individuals fret over images of oceanic garbage gyres, the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries are pouring billions of dollars into new plants intended to make millions more tons of plastic than they now pump out.
Companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, and Saudi Aramco are ramping up output of plastic — which is made from oil and gas, and their byproducts — to hedge against the possibility that a serious global response to climate change might reduce demand for their fuels, analysts say.
Petrochemicals, the category that includes plastic, now account for 14 percent of oil use, and are expected to drive half of oil demand growth between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. The World Economic Forum predicts plastic production will double in the next 20 years.
"In the context of a world trying to shift off of fossil fuels as an energy source, this is where [oil and gas companies] see the growth," said Steven Feit, a staff attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, an advocacy group.
And because the American fracking boom is unearthing, along with natural gas, large amounts of the plastic feedstock ethane, the United States is a big growth area for plastic production. With natural gas prices low, many fracking operations are losing money, so producers have been eager to find a use for the ethane they get as a byproduct of drilling.
"They're looking for a way to monetize it," Feit said. "You can think of plastic as a kind of subsidy for fracking."
America's petrochemical hub has historically been the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, with a stretch along the lower Mississippi River dubbed "Cancer Alley" because of the impact of toxic emissions . Producers are expanding their footprint there with a slew of new projects, and proposals for more. They are also seeking to create a new plastics corridor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, where fracking wells are rich in ethane.
Shell is building a $6 billion ethane cracking plant — a facility that turns ethane into ethylene, a building block for many kinds of plastic — in Monaca, Pennsylvania, 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. It is expected to produce up 1.6 million tons of plastic annually after it opens in the early 2020s.
It's just the highest profile piece of what the industry hails as a "renaissance in U.S. plastics manufacturing," whose output goes not only into packaging and single-use items such as cutlery, bottles, and bags, but also longer-lasting uses like construction materials and parts for cars and airplanes.
Since 2010, companies have invested more than $200 billion in 333 plastic and other chemical projects in the U.S., including expansions of existing facilities, new plants, and associated infrastructure such as pipelines, says the American Chemistry Council, an industry body. While some are already running or under construction, other projects await regulators' approval.
"That's why 2020 is so crucial. There are a lot of these facilities that are in the permitting process. We're pretty close to it all being too late," said Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics and a former regional director for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "If even a quarter of these ethane cracking facilities are built, it's locking us into a plastic future that is going to be hard to recover from."
The impact goes beyond the waste problem that is the focus of public concern. Although plastic is often seen as a separate issue from climate change, both its production and afterlife are in fact major sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Global emissions linked to plastic — now just under 900 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually — could by 2030 reach 1.3 billion tons, as much as almost 300 coal-fired power plants, the Center for International Environmental Law found. If output grows as planned, plastic would use up between 10 and 13 percent of the carbon emissions allowable if warming is to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the center reported.
Those emissions come from nearly every stage of plastic's life. First, there is the energy-intensive nature of oil and gas extraction. Then, ethane cracking requires enormous amounts of power, with a concomitantly large greenhouse gas footprint. The Shell plant has a permit allowing it to emit as much carbon dioxide annually as 480,000 cars.
An estimated 12 percent of all plastic is incinerated, releasing more greenhouse gases, as well as dangerous toxins, including dioxins and heavy metals. Industry is promoting an expansion of incineration in waste-to-electricity plants, which it describes as a source of renewable energy. What's more, new research suggests plastic in the environment releases greenhouse gases as it degrades — a potentially vast and uncontrollable source of emissions.
The industry argues that plastic delivers many benefits, including environmental ones. It makes cars lighter and therefore more efficient, insulates homes, reduces waste by extending food's life, and keeps medical supplies sanitary, among many other uses, said Keith Christman, managing director of plastic markets at the American Chemistry Council.
"These things are going to continue to be important applications that protect our health and society going forward," he said. "The key here is context. If you aren't going to use plastics, what are you going to use instead?"
Alternatives like steel, glass, and aluminum have negative impacts of their own, including carbon footprints that can be greater than plastic's, he said. And while critics focus on disposable items that seem frivolous, much plastic is put to longer lasting use, he said.
Still, convenience — like consumers' taste for eating and drinking on the go — is a big driver of plastic use in wealthy nations. And the developing world has become an important new market, too.
In parts of Asia, international companies sell single portions of products such as shampoo, soap, and lotion to low-income consumers in individual packets. But while industry points to a lack of waste management infrastructure in poor countries as a cause of the ocean plastic problem, Americans use dozens of times more plastic per capita than Indians, five times more than Indonesians, and nearly three times as much as Chinese.
In addition to its climate impacts, petrochemical production can release airborne toxins such as 1,3-Butadiene, benzene, and toluene, causing cancer and other illnesses. Many plants are in poor areas, often communities of color, although as the fracking connection drives expansion into rural areas, poor white communities will likely be increasingly affected, too.
Fires and explosions are another problem. The day before Thanksgiving, a blaze at the Texas Petroleum Chemical plant in Port Neches set off two explosions, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate their homes. A week later, authorities issued another evacuation warning after air monitors detected high levels of carcinogenic 1,3 Butadiene.
It was the state's fourth major petrochemical fire of 2019. "This is the nature of where we live, and the unfortunate side effect of all this production," said Yvette Arellano, of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services. "I think the general public has a misunderstanding of the full breadth of plastic impacts, especially regarding human health."
Still, many welcome the jobs petrochemical facilities bring, particularly in areas hit by the loss of coal and other industry. Pennsylvania granted the Shell plant a tax break valued at $1.6 billion — one of the biggest in state history — and officials in Ohio and West Virginia are wooing firms eager to build more ethane crackers, storage facilities, and pipelines.
IHS Markit, a data and analysis company, said the region could produce enough ethane to supply four more cracking plants like Shell's.
One concern for the industry is the spread of laws aimed at reducing plastic's proliferation. The European Union is banning single-use plastic items including cutlery, plates, straws, cups, and food containers starting in 2021. Eight U.S. states and a number of cities have outlawed plastic shopping bags, and so have 34 African countries.
"Despite those efforts, the demand for plastic is continuing to grow very rapidly" in both developing nations and richer ones, said Peter Levi, a lead author of the IEA's 2018 report on petrochemicals' future. Analysts predict annual demand growth of 4 percent. "The capacity additions are not there for no reason," Levi said.
Annual production has already doubled since 2000, growth driven in part by plastic's low cost and versatility. "It's a bit of a dream material," Levi said. "If you think about how much you can put in a plastic bag relative to how much it weighs, it's remarkable. That means the substitutes for it have to compete at that level."
In the case of plastic, though, demand doesn't always come directly from consumers, but from companies in the food, beverage, consumer products, and other sectors who use it to package their goods.
The American Chemistry Council aims for all plastic to be recycled or recovered by 2040, although critics dismiss the goal as unrealistic greenwash. The EU, in addition to its ban on single-use items, will also require that plastic bottles contain 25 percent recycled content by 2025.
An IHS Markit report said recycling's technical capabilities, logistics, and economics were inadequate to such ambitions. Plastic recycling is technically difficult, and China's closing of its doors to foreign plastic waste in 2018 laid bare the inadequacy of global recycling systems, leaving many wealthy nations with mountains of waste.
Recycled material is unlikely to contribute more than 10 to 12 percent of future plastic production, said Robin Waters, IHS Markit's director of plastics analysis and one of the report's authors. And the kinds of items covered by bans like Europe's only account for about 5 percent of plastic demand, he said.
The industry's critics fear the expansion of supply is likely to guarantee additional plastic usage regardless of whether consumers want it. Once new ethane cracking plants are built, producers will want to keep them running to maximize revenue, Feit said.
"So then the next concern is that there will be an innovation in ways to get plastic on the market," he said. "This is what we've seen [in the past] — more and more things come packaged in more and more plastic. There is a whack-a-mole issue." Unless production slows, he added, "they'll just find something else to wrap in plastic."
Beth Gardiner is a journalist and the author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution (University of Chicago Press). Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic and Smithsonian, and she is a former longtime Associated Press reporter.
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New York has 34% more e-Readers than San Francisco
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