I think we've all been there … but we don't have to stay there. We can find the clarity and the confidence we need to do more than just survive in ministry, we can thrive.
Here's the problem: as worship leaders, we often link our value as a person to our performance on our platform. When we perform well, our self-esteem is soaring. When things go awry, so does our self-confidence, and with it, our self-worth.
More than that, we equate the value of our influence as a leader with the size of our platform. We don't consider our potential for impact until we lead at a megachurch; we amass thousands of Twitter followers, or write a New York Times Bestseller. "That day," we say, "all of this work will finally mean something! I will finally be able to make my mark." Until that day comes, we strive and strain, longing for the day when we can be seen as valuable.
Let's be clear: those ambitions are not wrong. We were created to dream. God himself placed those desires in us. When seated in the right motivations, they can create momentum behind us, propelling us forward as we advance God's kingdom.
What we often forget is that we already have someone who sees us in that light. If you are a parent, you have your children. If you are a husband, you have your wife. It may be your life group or your congregation of 75 people.
They're not waiting for you to reach "superstar status" to listen to you. You have their ear and their attention now. You have an opportunity to make an impact right where you are.
You are not your platform. Your usefulness is not dependent on the size of the bat you bring to the table. You are uniquely designed by a Creator who placed in you infinite worth. There is nothing that can devalue what God values. Be confident in the One who began the good work in you. He will be faithful to complete it.
You are not your platform. There is nothing that can devalue what God values.
1. Commit to being your best, here and now.
Don't wait until "that day" to better yourself. Start today.
2. Treat few as if it were much.
This is a foundational biblical principle. You have to prove faithful with little before you can be entrusted with much.
3. Invest without expectation of returns.
The worst kind of leader is one who loves with ulterior motives. Don't look at people or opportunities as your stepping stones.
4. Promote the success of others.
Instead of seeing others as a stepping stone, try to be one for them. When others see you as someone who sincerely desires them to be the best they can be, they'll bring you along on the journey.
5. Remember your real audience.
God knows the desires your heart, and He sees behind the curtain. Trust in His promise and His providence. Believe that He only wants the best for you, and be content as He shows you what that is at every step.


A huge Thank You to The Navigation Coach TaraRafter for speaking to some of our Senior Cycle Students today. The recently crowned ICF Ireland Life Coach of the year 2018 gave an inspirational talk about the challenges she faced in her life and overcoming fear. The Students absolutely were enthralled by everything they heard today. Thank you once again Tara and we look forward to welcoming you back to Moyne College again very soon.


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From AI-driven logo generators like Tailor Brands to rapid-fire design contests like 99Designs and Fiverr, speedy "economy" options won't deliver the deep insight your brand deserves. If you truly want to differentiate your business (and you should), it's in your best interest to invest the time and effort in a process-driven approach.
Case in point: We recently completed on a logo redesign project with All About Aging, an aging lifecare management firm that offers a full range of planning and management services—all highly individualized to each client's stage of life and particular needs. They contacted us after trying some of the art options listed above, which left them with a fat stack of logos and even more confusion.
So what did we do differently? Dive into our brand process and find out what sets a deliberate design approach apart from the quick and cheap, the DIY and the well-intentioned work of your artistic friend who could, you know, just take a stab at it.
Immensely important yet frequently overlooked, discovery helps us establish clear communication goals for our designs. We pin down the landmark elements of your brand, then try to connect them in a strategic and cohesive way.
In our discovery meeting with All About Aging, we learned they are the only local care management firm that provides such individually customized care plans for each of their clients.
A logo generator pulling popularly used fonts and symbols can't explain that. They brought several logos that they'd had made, none of which felt personal or authentic to their brand.
Some of the logos skewed trendy and generic. Others were too cliche. All pointed to a discovery process that had been more perfunctory than purposeful.
This is what gets us giant strides ahead in the design process. And even more importantly, it's what keeps the work honest.
Obviously, it's hard to aim in the dark. Before even notching the arrow (or pencil), we get familiar with all the surroundings. What else speaks to this audience? What is the competition up to? How can we get beyond any cliché symbolism that dominates the industry?
At its core, design is an exercise in empathetic thinking. Although I am rarely part of the target audience, I find myself imagining how I would think, feel and act in their position. It's always helpful to seek out members of the target audience, but when that's not feasible, let empathetic thinking be your guide in the research process. According to our Creative Director, Mark Adkins, research is the strongest element of the conceptual cocktail we're mixing. And because we want the process to be fun and rewarding for you, we always measure carefully.
Alright, let's talk analog. In this next step, we cozy up with our inspiration, a pencil and some paper and give ourselves permission to get lost down all the rabbit trails. We bounce around several ideas, then iterate on those ideas, until we have pages and pages of possible directions. The key is to keep moving. If you're a photographer, you don't stop to edit photos mid-shoot. Instead, you keep hitting that shutter, trying every possible angle until you capture the perfect moment or composition. The same is true in logo design. If you fall in love with a solution too quickly, you risk missing out on better ideas.
After the sketching phase, we vectorize and refine our ideas. Typically, the designer will bring several concepts to the team and gather feedback. We discuss gut reactions, suggestions for improvement and alignment with the creative brief. These subjective eyes are invaluable for gauging the reactions of people unfamiliar with the client and creative brief and often point out things that I was blind to before.
We hang works-in-progress on the wall so we can get feedback from people passing by.
The refining stage doesn't just apply to our concepts; it applies to our strategy as well. We put ourselves through consistent gut checks to make sure we're still aiming true. Through our collective brain power, we're able to reach better solutions for the client than one person (or computer) could ever achieve alone.
Some clients will say, "Yes, this is the one!" right away; others will want to have more of a hand in the final molding. All About Aging was the latter, and that's just as well—we enjoyed how involved they were. We refined further, discussed purposefully, and now we all agree that we have reached the best possible outcome: an authentic visual identity that isn't just trendy, it's truthful.
Better yet, we'll let the client tell you.
Shannon is a production designer who brings her whimsical thoughtfulness and unbelievably perfect handwriting to every project that comes her way. She joined CNP in 2015, just a few short weeks after snagging her BA in graphic design and advertising.


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Meet the Next Generation of Advertising Lions
From left to right: Ben King & Michael DiSalvo (Gold in PR), Paula Cunha & Hugo Miguel Sousa (Silver in Cyber), Nagore Mieres Redondo & Paola Castiel (Silver in Media).
Who are the rising stars in advertising? At the Cannes International Festival of Creativity, the Young Lions competition aims to identify the best of the next generation of industry talent and celebrate their early career achievements. With over 400 talented millenials from all over the world participating, you can imagine how fierce the competition is, as contestants are put through a sort of 24 hour advertising boot camp to see who can come up with the best and most innovative ad campaigns.
After the Lions are divvied up into teams, they're given a brief and just one short day to impress the judges under intense conditions. With the United Nations as this year's client, teams had to develop campaigns focusing on subjects such as the sustainable development goals, sexual violence against women and education.
We were lucky enough to chat with some of the award winning Lions in the PR, Media, and Cyber categories to learn more about their experiences living the Cannes dream.
Ben and Michael – Gold in PR
Name: Ben King
City: New York, USA
Dream personality to work with: Influencial world leaders
Dream brand to work on: The iconic Obama campaign in 2008
Music or not while working?: Yes, jazz! Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis. Name: Michael DiSalvo
Dream personality to work with: Elvis Presley
Dream brand to work on: Kellogg's
Music or not while working?: Yes, but my music choices are embarrassing haha! It can go from Against Me! to country patriotic music.
Hugo and Paula – Silver in Cyber
Name: Hugo Miguel Sousa
Agency: VML
Dream personality to work with: Björk
Dream brand to work on: Google
Music or not while working?: Always. From FKA Twigs to Nine Inch Nails throughout the day. Name: Paula Cunha
Agency: SapientNitro
Dream personality to work with: Ryoji Ikeda
Dream brand to work on: Gareth Pugh Studios
Music or not while working?: Always! Mostly electronic with minimal lyrics like Burial.
Nagore and Paola – Silver in Media
Name: Nagore Mieres Redondo
City: Bilbao, Spain
Agency: IPG Mediabrands
Dream personality to work with: Barack Obama
Dream brand to work on: Apple
Music or not while working?: Definitely music. Always from Spotify, mainly "good vibes" playlists. Name: Paola Castiel
City: Madrid, Spain
Agency: UM
Dream personality to work with: David Droga / Beyoncé & Jay-Z
Dream brand to work on: The only important thing for me it's that the brand has a strong believe in the power of creativity.
Music or not while working?: Yes, depending on what I have to do! In Common by Alicia keys is playing right now.
CANNES LIFE AS A YOUNG LION ?
1- How difficult was the brief at Cannes compared to real life briefs?
Michael (PR) : In a way, it was easier because there was no budget and no timing associated with it, and there wasn't a client involved who had certain objectives they wanted to achieve on a personal level. But, on the other hand, it was more difficult because it was such a large issue. The brief they had given us from the UN was in relation with their Sustainable development goals, and the particular goal they wanted us to attack was to eliminate food waste from a consumer and retailer perspective. That was difficult because it was such a large problem to tackle, but more importantly, because it was at Cannes, which is the festival for creativity, the idea had to be big, creative, and had to be approached to solving the problem.
Paula (Cyber) : Being a developer, I don't get creative briefs very often, so this was definitely more challenging than what I experience in real life. I always try to be part of the creative process, but it's hard to reconcile that with building large-scale websites for other clients. Cannes gives me a chance to prove to myself and others that I can do it. And I have to admit that I felt a little bit scared when I received the brief. Our topic was Sexual violence against women which is a very sensible and serious reality that still happens too often. The approach behind our campaign was in the aim of starting a conversation on sexual assault, so we were looking for ways to target everyone with our message.
Nagore (Media) : The fact of having the United Nations as a client made things more challenging from the beginning. The work they do is so important for humanity that our level of commitment necessarily elevated to very high standards. The issue of Education around the world was a really tough one. The organization required us to make people not only become aware of the problem, but also take action, a much more difficult objective than selling any kind of product or service.
2- Can you briefly describe the process of the competition?
Michael (PR) : Once you're in France, it's super intense, it's almost like a movie! You show up on the first day, they give you the brief and then they say "Tomorrow at 8AM, the room will open and you'll have access to a computer for twelve and a half hours." And then within that twelve and a half hour period, you have to put together a 10 slides presentation with all these criteria, as well as a one-page Word document overview and a summary slide of everything. In addition to that, you need to prep for the next morning where you end up in front of three fairly intimidating judges who you have five mins to present to. For me, presenting anything in five minutes is difficult! I can't even introduce myself in five minutes…
Hugo (Cyber) : We got the brief from the client on Monday afternoon. After that, we definitely went to the "the darkest place of creativity", a.k.a "being afraid of not getting the right idea on time". But then, before going to bed, we conceived a concept we were proud to work on. The next morning we started to design the creative boards and all the rationale behind it, so that we could present it in a proper way.
Paola (Media) : The Media competition starts on Sunday morning when you get the brief. From that moment to Monday at 8AM, we were locked in the hotel to think and rethink. It was such a long day because we wanted to get the idea before going to the competition area the next morning so that we only had to decide how to tell the story from there. We didn't have it clear until 3AM when we went to bed. On Monday, 8AM we were already at the basement in front of the computer: 10 slides maximum to convince the jury. We used every minute of the available time and at 8PM we sent and printed our work. Tuesday was presentation day. Luckily we had to follow an alphabetical order to present so we did it at 4:15PM. 5 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of Q&A. And finally at 6PM they told us the results!
"The biggest surprise from Cannes was how much French people like Lenny Kravitz" – Ben King (PR)
3- Most pleasant surprise from your experience in the competition? Or in Cannes in general?
Ben (PR) : The biggest surprise from Cannes was how much the French people like Lenny Kravitz (laughs). There were three Lenny Kravitz songs playing in every bar we went to and I couldn't figure out why, Americans don't even like Lenny Kravitz that much! In terms of the festival, I think the involvement of the tech companies, Google and Facebook, showing how codependent our industry is with theirs right now, was a big surprise too. If you went there five years back, it would have looked very different.
Paula (Cyber) : Probably the judges' comments after announcing the winners. They showed that they really believed in our idea and even encouraged us to pitch it to YouTube and make it happen in real life!
Nagore (Media) : The most pleasant surprise was probably receiving the Silver Prize. We did our absolute best but the quality level was so high at Cannes that we never expected to win. It was wonderful receiving recognition from the jury and all the colleagues that congratulated us for our idea.
"They really believed in our idea and even encouraged us to pitch it to YouTube and make it happen" – Paula Cunha (Cyber)
4- Do you have any advice for those attending Cannes for the first time?
Ben (PR) : Plan it. The festival does a very good job of getting the information out beforehand. There's the app with all the speakers and events ahead of time. I'm really interested in political communications and there was a fantastic panel thrown by this former staff list for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and a political journalist that covers the American elections and the rise of Trump. Look out for those niche ones that are just for you.
Hugo (Cyber) : Plan every conferences and events that you want to see, as well as the parties you want to attend. Otherwise you won't have much things left to do, even if you're in a place where you feel that everything's happening.
Paola (Media) : DO arrive with enough time if there's a talk that you don't want to miss because the line can be long, but DON'T get stressed if the room is full because you are going to have access to all of them on the website for months. DO swim in the sea at least once but DON'T spend the entire week on the beach. DO talk to everyone. People are willing to meet you so DON'T forget your cards!
5- What are you most proud of in your work during the competition?
Michael (PR) : It's the ability to recognize our shortcomings and figure out where our weaknesses are and how to get around them. Ben and I have very complementary skill sets. We're both good at different things and throughout the competition, be able to recognize what I wasn't particularly good at and relying on Ben to fill in those gaps, I think it's what really helped us in the end. To be able to find out the benefits of having a team approach versus doing things yourself was a big takeaway for me.
Paula (Cyber) : I'm proud to have represented the UK in this competition while being Portuguese. I moved to London last year and everyone made me feel so incredibly welcome. Some might see it differently but, for me, this was also a chance to give something back.
Nagore (Media) : I feel very proud for the chance I had to work for the United Nations, I had never imagined that I could be so fortunate. The only thing that would make me even more happier than receiving the Silver Prize would be seeing how the organization takes our idea and runs it as part of its communication and world-changing project.
Best of luck to this year's competitors. We anticipate all participants will make their friends and coworkers at home proud.
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School to expand campus access controls
Yun Sol
More identity card readers have been installed on Ewha campus amid rising concerns over security, as the school plans to install 400 more readers to establish an unmanned security system by 2021, according to university president Kim.
A total of 53 card readers have been installed so far, and the Student Government Organization (SGA) is working on the final steps to rearrange unnecessary installments and omissions. 11 of the readers were fitted in shower and locker rooms and 42 in student union rooms.
Starting from Nov. 14, gates 11 and 12 of Ewha Campus Complex(ECC) will also require an ID card to enter.
Students have frequently complained about outsiders entering restricted areas on campus, with
numerous student bodies denouncing the school's loose control of visitor access. Recent cases on and off campus have heightened anxiety over safety on school grounds.
On August 27, a delivery man was booked without detention for intimidation after threatening
to "kill" two students with a box cutter inside Ewha Law Building. Following the incident, the school announced that all students are required to receive deliveries outside or at the entrances of each building.
On September 27, a man in his 50s illegally entered Ewha-POSCO Building and molested a student. According to Seodaemun Police Station, the trespasser was booked without detention for sexual harassment. After the incident, Office of General Administration(OGA) said that it would install more CCTV cameras in currently uncovered areas and will move chairs and tables from CCTV blind spots to more visible spaces.
Outside of school, netizens discovered a Twitter account of a man who photographed himself naked and committing sexual acts inside Dongduk Women's University classrooms and several other public spaces. On October 15, police arrested the 28-year-old for trespassing and circulating obscene materials online. This was followed by an almost identical case a few days later at Gwangju Women's University, and the intruder was arrested on the spot for indecent exposure.
Ewha's student consultative group, the Central Operations Committee, met with school officials
and university president Kim Heisook on Oct. 11 to discuss ways of enhancing campus security, among other agendas.
The school accepted the committee's proposal, and has set up identity card readers on shower
rooms, locker rooms and student council rooms.
"We hope to implement 400 more card readers around the school campus to establish a non-manned security system by 2021," said President Kim at the meeting.
"Through the non-manned security system, we expect to tackle the problem of outsiders trespassing into vulnerable campus areas," head of OGA said.
The SGA have officially welcomed these recent measures, while some students expressed wishes for stronger action.
"This may be a sign that school officials have realized the seriousness of this matter, which is good," said a junior from Ewha's College of Liberal Arts, who wished to remain anonymous. "But securing student council rooms isn't going to comfort students who are asking for card readers at all building entrances."
Many students also pointed out that the most severe security problems occur at ECC. The building has 12 entrances, and floors B1 to B3 are restricted for Ewha students and staff only. An ID card is needed at the building's entrances 1 and 2 after 7 p.m. and on weekends. However, B4
is open to anyone through entrances 3 and 4.
"Unidentified visitors and tourists are entering restricted areas and taking photos of students," said Jeong Ga-min, a freshman from the Department of French Literature & Language. "We need a stronger and customized security plan for a building like ECC."
In addition to the measures agreed at October's meeting, OGA also announced that more card readers will be installed at ECC. Starting from Nov. 14, all students and staff will need an actual ID card to enter Gate 11 and 12.
Other than card readers, the school has promised to install additional "No trespassing" signs on classrooms and restricted areas by next March. OGA also said that it would strengthen public relations with Ewha's situation room, and make sure they act immediately upon student reports of security threats.


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Edmonton's new Indigenous artist-in-residence fuses cultural traditions with love for hip hop
By Phil Heidenreich Global News
Posted February 6, 2021 12:02 am
Updated February 6, 2021 12:02 pm
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WATCH ABOVE: Matthew Wood, a multi-disciplinary artist also known as Creeasian, is Edmonton's new Indigenous artist-in-residence. He spoke to Global News on Friday – Feb 6, 2021
This week the City of Edmonton announced Matthew Wood, best known as a grass dancer who has toured and performed with electronic music outfit A Tribe Called Red, has been chosen as the city's Indigenous artist-in-residence for 2021.
"It's a really cool opportunity," Wood told Global News on Friday. "(The residency provides) a support system… allowing the artist to kind of play around and use their skills to kind of grow from there and come up with a body of work at the end."
Join us in welcoming Matthew Wood (@creeasian) as the city's next Indigenous Artist-in-Residence! Wood, a DJ, dancer, and producer will spend the next year preparing for his very own year-end exhibit. https://t.co/aA7ih9dm0j.
In partnership with @artsedmonton #yeg#indigenousart pic.twitter.com/G6HQyt3JNL
— City of Edmonton (@CityofEdmonton) February 3, 2021
Wood, also known as Creeasian, plans to use the opportunity to merge his passion for longstanding Indigenous teachings and traditions with his love of hip hop, two cultures that he says have many parallels.
READ MORE: Alberta powwow dancer wearing T-shirt receives donations for regalia
"My late mom exposed me to powwow culture, round dances… so the energy from that, I couldn't quite pinpoint it at the time, but then as I matured as an artist and learned more about my heritage and also hip-hop culture, they became very parallel because of the elements," he said.
"The teachings, when I think of the medicine wheel and the values… the colours that represent the nations within that medicine wheel… think of the elements of hip hop: the values that they have within the dance, the oral tradition, like rhyming, poetry, spoken word.
"(In hip hop) you've got the DJs… they're keeping the energy alive by playing music, so that's very parallel to powwow singers and drummers… graffiti is very similar to our arts, our beadwork or even our paintings… It just made sense to me the more I learned about and studied and did my homework on the culture, it challenged me to basically question myself… 'What draws you towards hip hop?… Why do you dance the way you dance? Why do you like the music the way you like it?' And it all just basically came full circle back to my heritage and my Indigenous roots… It just made sense."
A founding member of musical initiatives like the Sampler Café Collective and Cypher Wild YEG, Wood said his evolution as a multi-disciplinary artist reached a turning point when he began working with A Tribe Called Red.
READ MORE: A Tribe Called Red releases 'The OG,' announces Canadian concert dates
"(I've had) an opportunity to meet artists on my journey and see them also tap into the same frequency, where they're also incorporating their culture from dance steps to music," he said, noting he and A Tribe Called Red have been unable to tour since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
"They take powwow music, which is dance music, and electronic music, which is dance music, and it just makes sense to put together."
He said it's been a privilege to dance for A Tribe Called Red alongside fellow dancer Angela Gladue and to show Indigenous youth that "they can have their own identity, with tradition, too."
"Touring with them (A Tribe Called Red), it was like instant family," he said.
"The synergy just clicked right away."
The 37-year-old dancer, DJ and producer said that while he was born in Edmonton and makes his home in Alberta's capital, his family's roots are on Goodfish Lake First Nation and that he spent his youth both on- and off-reserve.
"Even though I live in the city, (that) doesn't make me less of an Indigenous person," Wood said. "We all have a voice… on-reserve and off-reserve."
Aside from Winnipeg, no city in Canada has a larger Indigenous population than Edmonton. Wood said he believes there's a strong tradition of exceptional Indigenous artists in Alberta's capital, and suggested more could be done to support them.
"It's evident that there's many amazing talented artists that come from this area," he said. "There's strong Indigenous artists out here.
"Having more opportunities like this, the city will become more rich for sure. We are rich in culture, but nurturing that is definitely important."
When it comes to his dancing, Wood said exploring traditional powwow steps and street-dance styles has been "healing" for him.
READ MORE: Powwow dancing rooted deep in personal significance
"Our duty as a grass dancer is to dance for those no longer able to dance, and dance for the new ones that come into this world," he said. "It's a healing dance for yourself with many others around you."
Edmonton's Indigenous artist-in-residence program is aimed at fostering relationship-building and an "appreciation for Indigenous arts and culture."
Run through the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Arts Council's joint cultural plan, the one-year residency will see Wood be supported with supplies and a work space before he puts together a showcase of his completed work at the end of the program.
"What's fuelling… me is language and my culture and having the best of both worlds that I've come to know… street/hip hop culture — street culture — and also my heritage — Indigenous culture," Wood said. "I hope to really bring forward the seven sacred teachings within my work.
"I want to be able to share and get my point across.. and be honest."
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Boston: Whither Somerville?
September 17, 2013 By Andrew Zimmermann
[ Urbanophile reader Andrew Zimmermann sends us this tale of change in Somerville, a suburban town near Boston – Aaron. ]
Urban planners have long cast the artist and gay/lesbian communities as urban pioneers and harbingers of gentrification. We've heard the stories of North Halsted in Chicago, the Pearl District in Portland, the South End in Boston and Soho/Chelsea in Manhattan. But, ever since hipsters became part of the sub-culture lexicon, urban experts have blamed gentrification on them. From Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Mission in San Francisco hipster havens have continued to demonstrate that gentrification isn't limited to the artists or gays (although I'm not sure there is much of difference). The latest installment, not to anyone's surprise in the Boston area, is Somerville, which was the subject of a recent piece by Beth Teitell in the Boston Globe.
Somerville's back story is what you would expect of a turn-around tale in urban terms. Inner Ring suburb — check. Architecturally rich yet deteriorated housing stock — check. Mass transit connectivity — check. Cheap rents — check (well not anymore). Walkable, dense urban neighborhoods — check. Enter artists, gays but more overwhelmingly, hipsters, or so portends the title of the Globe article "Somerville worries it's growing too hip". Somerville is noteworthy however in a couple ways. First, it is the densest city in all of New England, almost exclusively achieved through low-rise residential housing types — think triple deckers, condos and townhomes. Second, local government has proved not to be a hindrance, instead turning it from a crime ridden place known as "Slummerville" to among the state's best run municipalities. The schools however have a long way to go (we'll discuss later).
As the story points out if gays, artists and hipsters are the first adopters, it won't take long for the effects of gentrification to show themselves through drastic changes to the retail sector and the good ol' barometer of choice, housing prices. Let's take a look at both, since the retail and real estate sectors approach gentrifying neighborhoods much more systematically than do our hipster friends.
If you've visited Davis Square recently, you know that the retail landscape has changed drastically in the last decade. Walgreens and Starbucks are among your anchor tenants. The food and beverage offerings have gone from cheap working-class linoleum floor eateries to upscale bistros and kitchens and cantinas. Alfresco's, a modest Italian restaurant got rebranded as M3, a "concept in southern dining" replete with catfish, chalkboard paint tables straight from a Pinterest board and plenty of canned beer you've never heard of. Likewise, the Painted Burro, which calls itself a "Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar", expanded in less than a year into the space occupied by Spike's Junkyard Dogs — a blue collar, fluorescent lit hole in the wall. It won't be missed — and no you still can't get a table midweek at the "burro" without a reservation. That doesn't even begin to describe the explosion of fro-yo shops in Davis which saw its count jump from zero to three in the last year. Even if the new smell wears off, as Teitell's article depicts, top local chefs are elbowing their way into Somerville to be part of the action.
Elsewhere in town, the loveable loser Johnny Foodmaster grocery chain has been supplanted by Stop & Shop and Whole Foods. You don't need to be from Boston to know that when Whole Foods takes over for any grocer, things they are a changing. The fact that national behemoths like Starbucks, Chipotle, Pinkberry and Whole Foods are betting on Somerville is telling of what stage of gentrification the city is now experiencing. If retail is said to follow rooftops, then clearly retailers are paying attention to who is underneath those rooftops. Somerville's population has largely remained static while its demographics have changed considerably. It's now home to the second largest concentration of 24-35 year olds in the country — a Neilsen analyst's version of shooting fish in a barrel.
Population hasn't changed since 1980 – but WHO composes that population has.
It wasn't long ago that "Slummerville" was a moniker real estate agents had to overcome when selling homes in Somerville. The days of getting bargains in town have largely disappeared as developers have chopped up large three story homes into condos and townhomes that routinely sell for $500/sf or more. Hipster populations in Somerville's Davis Square have migrated within city lines to places like Union Square, Magoun Square and East Somerville. Even with a red-hot real estate market in greater Boston, Somerville remains white hot.
Red Fin reports a 103% sale to list ratio with a median home price of $470,000 and an average of 28% down in the second quarter of 2013. Clearly its not 24-35 year old hipsters putting down an average of $131,000 to claim of piece of Somerville as their own. White Collar professionals and families are among the early late majority that are betting on Somerville just as much as Starbucks and Whole Foods are. The loss of affordable housing and diversity would be lamentable if it weren't so inevitably predictable. It's not as if riders of fixed gear bikes wearing skinny jeans have disappeared, they just have to dodge baby strollers on the sidewalks and VWs, Mini Coppers and Audis in the streets.
Davis Square and Inman Square are no bargain any more.
Lastly, all the kids in strollers will need a place to attend school someday. If only Somerville were that place. SchoolDigger.com recently rated the city 299th out 325 school systems state wide. For all the progress Mayor Joe Curtatone has made, he's clearly focused on the early adopters and the hipness of the city, with the schools as a longer term project. It might be sensible, but he and the city are running out of time. The Wellesleys, Newtons and Miltons might lack hipsters or artists or gays but they have a leg up on schools, an advantage suburbia has always had over the urban core. Undoubtedly its schools will have to do better and they will as gentrification will lead to higher standards, be they in the retail, real estate or city services sectors.
Somerville finds itself (by definition a suburb, yet still a city) in an interesting position as the effects of hipness and gentrification point to seemingly distinct paths. One is like other hipster havens in Brooklyn or Wicker Park — places that have retained a shade of the counterculture tendencies that define hipster identity. Two is like mature urban inner ring suburbs, Brookline and Cambridge being two local examples. The latter can claim to be cool but lack the authenticity of Somerville's creative culture. The former over deliver on cool and trendiness and priceyness but because they are neighborhoods within New York and Chicago (or any large city) respectively, under deliver on the city services that suburbs provide. Whatever happens, the hipsters likely won't be a permanent part of Somerville history as it's usually the politicians or the wealthy elite of any given place that decide its fate. For now the trendy capital of Metro Boston can pat itself on its plaid-clad back, and keep its beanie cap-covered-head high. See you at Chipotle.
Andrew Zimmermann is an architect and urban designer with NBBJ, a global architecture firm with a presence in Boston. He lives in Somerville's Davis Square with his wife and occasionally writes about design, real estate or anything that he finds interesting on www.zimmswhim.com.
Filed Under: Boston, Demographics and Economic Development
George Mattei says
Somerville is essentially a neighborhood of Boston in a physical sense. It's just administratively that it's a "suburb".
Bob Sawyer says
No, see you at Anna's.
The Overhead Wire says
It's only going to get worse after the green line goes in unless they do something about the change. Here's a report that looks at what that could be from back in 2008 – http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/resource-center/online-tools/map-room/somerville-analysis-maps/
AlexB says
The author doesn't think there's a difference between artists and gays? Really?
Aaron M. Renn says
AlexB, I think his point is that there's no difference between today's hipsters and yesterday's artists and gays as it applies to the effects they product re:gentrification.
Andrew says
AlexB,
I was fearful that might get misunderstood. Aaron is right, functionally the two groups have gentrified neighborhoods with similar outcomes. From that standpoint the "label" doesn't matter so much as the effect the group had on its surroundings.
Thanks for the comment though.
George says
I would guess that as gentrification grows and the new residents children become a larger proportion of the school, Sommerville schools will skyrocket in the rankings. A more educated populace will value education more and the results will be obvious. Often its not the teachers but the parents that need to be changed to improve schools.
Ron Newman says
There is no Walgreens in Davis Square.
urbanleftbehind says
Doesn't CVS dominate the NE drugstore chain market? I've always felt that Walgreens was an indirect marker of diabetes and thus of less than desired demographics.
wkg in bham says
It appears that Somerville hit the pentafecta:
1. The "just right" (at least to my way of thinking) density. The three story flat layout seems ideal to me.
2. Right size for a city to be. I've always thought that a city should be big enough to support one 6A high school and its feeder elementary and middle schools. It goes without saying that the schools should be a city system, not part of a county system. Cities larger than this become unwieldy.
3. Government that stuck to basics — like public safety – and let development take care of itself.
4. Exists in the Boston Metro.
5. Didn't have a sizeable underclass to deal with.
P.S. I think it'd be even hipper if Spike's Junkyard Dogs and Alfresco were still there.
You are right, CVS occupies "One Davis Square" along with Boston Sports Club. However a new upscale, upmarket Walgreens just went in at "One Porter Square" a stone's throw from Davis though technically over the line in Cambridge. The Walgreens is part of a rebranding trend the chain is undergoing (see also Downtown Crossing). It seems to fit the gentrification narrative. See the article in the globe here:
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2012/03/walgreens_to_open_a_new-concep.html
I don't think this is a thread-jack; I don't know any hipsters. I've heard the term and after reading the article done a little asking around. My circle of friends aren't all that up on them either. I think I've got the uniform down: skinny jeans, plaid shirt (flannel preferred), beanie "hat", Converse All-Star Sneakers and black rim rectangular glasses (at least for the guys — is this a girls MO too?).
From the article old Schwinn bicycle and fondness for Whole Foods markets,
A college says they prefer Apple gadgets.
The Schwinn bikes and Converse Sneakers indicate a fondness for retro anything.
Given this sketchy information, it starting to sound and awful lot lot like what White People like (as in WhatWhitePeopleLike.com).
Any recommendations for a site that's basically WhatHipstersLike.com?
Chris Barnett says
Start here for an overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)
You will find that Aaron and Andrew have a dislike of the young educated people who are moving into cities from college towns and suburbs and use pejoratives like hipsters, gentrifiers, lake front liberals, and coastal elites to describe and dismiss them. Why someone who is passionate about cities would have such a dismissive attitude towards a group of urban immigrants is beyond me but there you have it.
Eric M (American Dirt) says
Even as recently as 2009 when I lived around there, Somerville was significantly cheaper than Cambridge. Way back then, while Inman Square was already fairly trendy, much of Somerville had the reputation of being dominated by working- and lower-class whites. Thus, I guess it should come as no surprise that hipsters would overtake it…they often settle in scrappy lower-income white neighborhoods. Does this mean that the cost-of-living differential between Somerville and Cambridge is now pretty much negligible?
Mr. Zimmerman,
Somerville is unusual in many ways. When the Yankees ran Massachusetts through the early 20th century, they chose to avoid the dominance of the Boston Mayor by freezing that city's boundaries in the 1920's. That tactic produced distinctive little high density cities like Somerville, Cambridge, and Chelsea, Revere, Brookline and Newton trapped as separate cities and towns, as if they were real suburbs. That froze their government, insulated their tax base and further produced a kind of segregation for schools that few Southern cities could even imagine.
This distinction also separated their transportation system from direct local control, leading to strange redundancies and omissions and limited accountability for one of the most expensive infrastructures of any urban area. Each of those "suburbs" had their own high school, and high schools have become, along with zoning and police, the primary focus of their politics. That's why I take strongest issue with your characterization of Somerville's schools, since they are not all that tests make them out to be — regardless of national dialogs.
Before I get to that major argument, I think its useful to look more closely at the anthropology that made Somerville a city very different from some of your other descriptions. First, it was – as your numbers show but your interpretation fails to show – the most densely populated city in the nation, when its 4.2 square miles housed 100,000 census respondents. Even then, there were many more students and immigrants not counted, for various reasons. That kind of density reflected other distinctions – 27 miles of trolley lines and a Ford assembly plant for two, equal distance from Harvard, MIT and Tufts for others, and, later, as the headquarters for the Mafia and their Winter Hill Gang (on whose hill once lived Barack Obama as a grad student).
Those are not common distinctions, and they lend a very, very distinctive history to a culture a lot more complex than you imply. I share your frustration at the gentry of Whole Foods, but you miss the far more important feature that most of those new stores are at the borders of the city, where the yuppies of Cambridge and Arlington can buy from Somerville residents who, themselves, shop at the super-discount Market Basket local chain, which has — like the eight ethnic grocers of nearby Union Square — more diversity than the UN. In not many cities of 70,000 can you find Afghan, Indian, and Korean grocers, much less Peruvian fish markets within a six block radius.
Some of that anthropology reflects a history even more distinctive than a President's former address. When Ford Motors stopped making Edsels, for example, the company fired 4,000 auto workers with little notice, giving the Mafia a base of many, many "auto shops" to cut up every stolen car from Florida to Maine for European resale as parts. That lends both economics, politics, government, and international markets square in the center of small and very, very distinctive little city.
And some of that history has been well documented in various forms, none of which seem to have influenced your quick summary. Susan Ostrander, at Tufts, for example, recently published (through Temple University), Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City. Her book has been well received for its analysis of the dialog between immigrant and yuppie and townie populations. In spite of her careful documentation, however, I find her book still a little light. My view is guided by her book signing in Cambridge. I was a little late and slipped into a rear row seat. Soon after a friend from Somerville joined me just as Dr. Ostrander described some of the many interviews from which she built her book. "Did she interview you?" whispered my friend. "Nope, did she you?" I replied. "Nope!" my friend answered. At that point I mildly exploded, "YOU are the President of the Board of Aldermen and she's writing about politics in Somerville." Experiences like this make me more tolerant of your analysis than of some others.
Citizen Somerville, by Bobby Martini and Elayne Keratsis, is a much better example of the voice of the city, although more than a little obsessed with its Mafia history. They do catch the tone of Whitey Bulger's buddies, some of whom are still your neighbors. For that matter, Jeff Speck's Walkable City is a textbook on your model, and he has been a consultant to Somerville for the past few years in its design to maximize the value of the new subway system. Funny that you don't cite him, since he invented some of your best observations.
Your view of the city's "walkability" misses much by ignoring both that history and that anthropology. You don't seem to realize that, before they closed their Edsel home, Ford forced the city to pull up their trolleys and its residents to buy more cars. That gave this city some of the most difficult driving and parking problems in the nation since the place was built before cars, for trolley transit. And that, in turn, is the foundation of Davis Square's gentrification, since it is – as of today – the only mass transit stop in town.
With eight more stations – seven on the Green Line (the first subway in America, and, for Somerville, a revived trolley in a ditch) and one on the Orange Line (a new stop for Assembly Square, the former Ford site and now, finally 50 years later, the site of $350,000,000 housing and office development) – the city will benefit from more than $1.4 billion in transit deals negotiated from Boston's Big Dig fiasco. That's a lot of money to serve 70,000 riders from Somerville, so the changes you suggest are pending have been "in the air" for at least two decades (when that subway was first planned at $14,000,000).
These features contrast markedly with Brooklyn, Queens, and North Jersey. Five decades ago, at Columbia, I studied the New York subway development. It followed many of the same patterns of Somerville's, except that some of the first stations were to farms. (Of course, the farms were owned by Tammany Hall members who soon built high rise towers in their place.) The Somerville development and burgeoning gentrification were specific targets of the former Mayor, current Congressman, and potential Governor, Mike Capuano, who created an Affordable Housing Task Force to consider how such intense development might also incorporate some community stabilizing affordability. I was on that task force 15 years ago. Capuano then moved to Washington and left successor mayors to make deals with developers. Recent zoning changes incorporate higher inclusionary rates than the State requires, and several other of our proposals would easily have produced the kind of diversity you now consider impossible. Those proposals — like a real estate transfer tax patterned after Cape Cod's, for one example — are not yet dead, in spite of your obituary.
Finally, I am personally outraged at two specific oversights. In the 1970's, I worked for Irene Alinsky (Saul's wife) teaching at Emerson College, with Elaine Noble. Elaine moved on to become the first elected gay person in this country's history. You are more right than you seem to know about gays and gentrification, but not in terms of class and yuppies. Gay politics emboldens diverse politics, and invites activism from many different interests, most of whom were previously excluded. With the decline of the Mafia in the last twenty years, the rise of the creative community — and pivotal role of gay artists, performers, and writers — changed the social ecology. Whether feminist or Brazilian, black or South Asian, many now find it "safe" to be political where once they hunkered down to hide until they had enough money to buy votes like the Irish and Italians did. They, quite logically, presume that, "If THOSE people can do it, we can too." There are, for example, two gay candidates in our Alderman races scheduled for next week, yet few even bother noting the fact. I don't have a sense that you realize the real transformation gay politics has helped produce, even in this small, dense city.
And, regarding schools, citing "schooldigger" implies that you've got little kids and don't know how or what to look for in a school or school system. I first got involved in Somerville school politics assessing "at risk" patterns for the Regional Employment Board of Metro North regional districts, about a dozen years ago. Somerville's got many flaws, and many of its schools show them, but it's also got some unique and critical benefits that are nowhere more evident than in its school population. We then found the city's multicultural population far more diverse than most people expect — in part because of children of so many graduate students and faculty from abroad. Parents — and state educators — who presume foreign speaking children are "at risk" have not the slightest sense of this incredible wealth of culture. For example, there are 54 languages in Somerville high school; it is one of only three to integrate vocational and academic subjects; and it is one of the few in the nation to have online, multimedia, electronic portfolios for both self, student, teacher, and school evaluation and assessment. Those portfolios reflect cutting edge theory applied to real world examples, supported by Ford, MacArthur and other national foundations.
Where Schooldigger uses ONLY state tests to assess and rank schools, teachers, and kids, the portfolios produce incredibly rich documentation (and rankings, based on skills identified by decades of work with unions and corporate partners). The reason Schooldigger is — simply put, wrong — in their assessment of the Somerville schools particularly is that the high school test is administered in 10th grade, and the system gets a major jump in bilingual involvement — due to student transfers of young families — in 9th grade. For two decades a corrupt system held back 25% of that 9th grade in order to bump their test scores, and look good to naïve reviewers like you. My first political contribution was to embarrass them into changing that system, which they replaced with peer tutors from 12th grade working with those most at risk in grades 8 and 9. That is not a symptom of a failing system.
For that matter, the high school has been approved for an Innovation School, based on that same kind of portfolio based assessment and feedback system and integrated vocational and academic subject matter. That model, which it calls the STEAM Academy (for science, tech, engineering, arts and math) will be a distinctive school that runs from 10 a.m. to 5, 12 months a year, with a team of teachers and a larger team of kids from grades 8 through 12, to build projects and document their skills for employers, parents, and colleges.
It is embarrassing to see parental ignorance like yours, in relying only on one metric. Were you to ask, I could itemize many flaws in the system, but its not weak on assessment, just on testing. And that happens to be a controversy that goes way beyond our 4.2 square mile border.
So, please think a little more, look a little more, and analyze a little deeper than a superglib column in the Times. There is more to this little city than a quick survey shows.
Jim D. says
Anonymous, what is your source for the statement that Ford 'forced' the abandonment of Somerville's trolley lines? The Boston Elevated Railway and later (after 1947) the MTA were under the stewardship of the legendary Edward Dana during those years. Dana was a no-nonsense operator who ran a system that was among the more forward-thinking of American transit agencies. Faced with beginning the modernizing of a fleet of old streetcars dating back to the 1910's and 1920's, Dana's management team believed that the electric-powered 'trackless trolley' (or trolley coach) was a faster and more comfortable vehicle that would be more economical to operate than the streetcar for many suburban trolley lines. He began this transition in the early 1940's not only in Somerville but in other adjacent cities including Everett and Malden, and after the war oversaw the development of what would become the third largest trolley coach network in North America. Most of the major lines in Somerville were operated with trolley coaches until the early 1960's and the trackless almost certainly provided service equal to or better than what streetcars would have on what were primarily two-lane streets.


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Q: What actually occurs when stating "private"/"protected" in Ruby? What is actually occurring when private/protected is stated within a Ruby class definition? They are not keywords, so that implies they must be method calls, but I cannot find where they are defined. They do not appear to be documented. Are the two different ways of declaring private/protected methods (shown below) implemented differently? (The second way is obviously a method call, but this is not so apparent in the first way.)
class Foo
  private
  def i_am_private; end
  def so_am_i; end
end

class Foo
  def i_am_private; end
  def so_am_i; end
  private :i_am_private, :so_am_i
end

A: Both are method calls. Quoting from docs:

Each function can be used in two different ways.

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*If used with no arguments, the three functions set the default access control of subsequently defined methods.

*With arguments, the functions set the access control of the named methods and constants.

See documentation here:

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*Module.private

*Access Control
You were looking for how the Module.private method comes into existence. Here is where that happens. And here is some more information about it. You would have to read more into it, starting from rb_define_private_method defined in class.c.
Hope that helps!

A: I'd like to add something about their keyword-like behavior, because the answers have been more about where than how; the answer lies in the complex metaprogramming capabilities of Ruby.
It is possible to use them as keywords making use of the method_added hook; an hook in Ruby is a function that is called when a specific event (i.e. the hook's name) occurs.
What's important is that the method_added hook receives as his argument the name of the method that has been defined: this way, it's possible to modify it's behavior.
For example, you could use this hook to define a behavior similar to Python's decorators; the important part is that, differently from the private and protected methods, this decorator-like method should define a method_added that undefines itself:
class Module
  def simple_decorator
    eigenclass = class << self; self; end
    eigenclass.class_eval do
      define_method :method_added do |name|
        eigenclass.class_eval { remove_method :method_added }
        old_name = 'old_' + name.to_s
        alias_method old_name, name
        class_eval %Q{
          def #{name}(*args, &block)
            p 'Do something before call...'
            #{old_name}(*args, &block)
            p '... and something after call.'
          end
        }
      end
    end
  end
end

class UsefulClass
  simple_decorator
  def print_something
    p "I'm a decorated method :)"
  end

  def print_something_else
    p "I'm not decorated :("
  end
end

a = UsefulClass.new
a.print_something
a.print_something_else

simple_decorator looks like a language keyword and behaves like private; however, because it removes the method_added hook, it only applies to the immediately following method definition.

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Er Conde Jones (Count Jones) is a Venezuelan science-fiction-comedy film written, directed and produced by Venezuelan comedian Bejamín Rausseo, who also is the main protagonist, Count Jones.

The film has, also, special appearances by Venezuelan actors Luis Chataing and Erika de la Vega. Released on August 26, 2011 in Venezuela, the film became one of the most successful national films in Venezuelan history, with, as of the end of 2011, more than 696.000 spectators. It also became the highest-grossing non-foreign film of the year. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 1, 2011. Also, Rausseo announced a sequel, tentatively named Er Conde Bond.

Plot
The films tells the story of Count Jones (Bejamín Rausseo), a far cousin of Indiana Jones, who is called by the North American government, the Interpol and other international security agencies in order to find a strange mythologic object called "The Crystal Creole Ball", which, if captured by Venezuelan military leader, Er General (Chile Veloz), could lead him to win the upcoming presidential elections.

To find the location of the mythologic ball, Count Jones needed to travel to Paris, Libano, Jordan, Egypt, the United States and finally Venezuela, in which most of the story happens. Throughout the story, Count Jones had to find his niece, Melissa Jones, who is also his love interest, and travel with her and his nephew Goyito (Honorio Torrealba Jr.), who finally betrays Jones and brings the ball to Er General.

Cast
Main actors:
Bejamín Rausseo as Count Jones (Conde Jones).
Julie Lima as Melissa Jones.
Chile Veloz as Er General.
Rodolfo Drago as Steban.

Supporting actors:
Honorio Torrealba Jr. as Goyito.
Iván Romero as Bovy.
Andreina Yépez as The Captain (El Capitán).
Romelia Agüero as Melissa's Trainer.
Carlos Sánchez as Hassan.
Hector Vargas as The Witcher.
Roy Díaz as Henri.
Juan Carlos Barry as The Spiritual Guide.

Guest appearances:
Erika de la Vega as Agent Karen.
Luis Chataing as The Priest.
Samir Bazzi as Samir.
Joselyn Rodríguez as Princess India.
Víctor Muñoz as Agent Victor Muñoz.
Luis "Moncho" Martínez as The Pilot.
Mario Bresanutti as Agent 'Cocofrío'''.
Paolo Carruzo as Agent Paolo Carruzo.

Reception

Box office
In Venezuela, the film became a big box office hit. The movie debuted at #3, grossing $465,326 for the weekend of August 26–28, 2011 only behind Cars 2, which grossed $680,206 and The Smurfs, which grossed $481,970. On its second weekend (September 2–4, 2011), the film experimented a 30.6% increase, grossing $607,887 and charted at #2, only behind the debuting Green Lantern, which grossed $625,563. Er Conde Jones was the weekend-leader in attendance, selling 30% more tickets than Green Lantern.

On its third weekend, the film dipped 37.9% and grossed $377,726, staying at #2, behind Green Lantern, which also dipped 31.9% to $425,892 and ahead of the debuting Friends with Benefits, which grossed $270,430;

As of September 11, 2011, the film has grossed a total $2,439,046 in Venezuela, and with 462.283 spectators in 17 days of its run, it became one of the highest-grossing all time Venezuelan film productions.

 Reviews Er Conde Jones received mixed reception among the press and the spectators. El Universal'' gave a positive review of the film, stating that "'Count Jones was an absurd Venezuelanized parody [...] watching Rausseo walk on tuxedo and alpargatas through New York streets is the perfect representation of the film. Pure creole in the middle of the so-called Empire."

References

External links

Venezuelan comedy films
2010s Spanish-language films
Mockbuster films

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Bossy attitude: Matiang'i asks police commanders to talk, engage junior officers
Interior CS Fred Matiangi has asked police bosses to create a cordial relationship with Junior officers and encourage them to work properly.
Matiangi said regional police commanders should sit down with officers below them and listen to them in order to achieve effective police service.
"We can only eradicate highly sophisticated criminals when officers work together," he said.
The CS was addressing regional commanders at the Loresho Police training school on Monday.
"We cannot entirely rely on arms to maintain law and order. We can only succeed if we work with communities. As regional police commanders, you must manage your people well. Don't boss them around," he said.
There have been cases where officers kill themselves out of frustrations.
In 2017 the National Police Service Commission said it will investigate why police officers are committing suicide.
"We hear some of our police officers who commit suicide in different areas… it is us who must sit down with them and encourage them..mentor them," Matiang'i said.
More on this: NPSC launches investigation on why officers are committing suicide
Read more: Cop kills girlfriend, shoots self in Nakuru
"… let us know these people. They may go through ordinary challenges…you find an officer is fighting with the girlfriend and thereby committing suicide," Matiang'i said.
He asked the commanders to have a talk with the officers and get to know what ails them either at work or at home.
"If these young people disagree with their partners, they kill themselves… talk to them and show them a way out, tell them they can always find somebody who loves them than the current person they have," he said.
Noting that counselling of individuals may not be enough, Matiangi said bosses should approach the junior officers without a 'rank' attitude.
"Let us be frank, even if we bring counselling to them it will not be enough, we have to support them.. Let us work for our people.. supervise the officers, sit down with your officers," he said.
"Let us not pull our ranks every time. You hear others saying that ooh I can't sit down with these junior people… It is your jurisdiction. Walk there and find out how they are working."
Matiangi further noted the police service will carry out a competition aimed at cleaning police stations.
"The competition will involve stations from the county, regional and national level. We identify the best police station in the country, which is friendly and clean," he said.
"Who told us that we cannot have clean police stations? When Kenyans go to the stations they want to go in a clean place."
He said some commanders and senior officers do not treat the stations as places where Kenyans receive services.
"I have been to numerous stations and in one instance you find an OCS brushing his teeth there and it is 9 am in the morning," he said.
"In another police station in Western Kenya, we could not find an OCPD. The OCS looked everywhere including under the table and he was nowhere to be seen. I had to leave the place without seeing him."
Matiang'i said the regional commanders are the nexus between government plans, vision and the thinking in the headquarters and the practical reality in the field.
"You are the conveyors of our plans and our desires to our police officers who are working out there," he told them.
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In 1958, Ford doubled the number of seats and double the number of sales with their all-new Thunderbird. For 1959, the year this handsome red T-bird was built, sales were even stronger, and it's quite likely that without this trailblazing car, the Thunderbird would not have survived.
Known as the square Birds due to their angular styling, these are extremely handsome cars. This one has been nicely restored to a very high standard, showing great attention to detail and a lot of effort spent on getting everything straight. Despite the nickname, the cars actually have a lot of intricate shapes that were surely a challenge to stamp properly when they were new and doubly challenging to restore properly. Note the peaked tailfins, the pointed side trim, and the graceful body line stretching from the headlights down through the door. Ford's obsession with the jet age continued, and this Thunderbird features four round taillights that give the 'Bird a very distinctive look. All the chrome is beautifully restored, including the massive front grille/bumper assembly which probably cost thousands all by itself. This is one of those cars that will show you something new every time you look at it.
Inside, the lovely black and white bucket seat interior offers a full-sized back seat, so you aren't limited to just one passenger. The seats feature correct patterns and materials, along with a center console that houses the radio speaker and climate controls. Matching door panels seem to echo the sweeping body line on the outside sheetmetal, along with an interesting embossed design along the bottom edges. Fresh black carpets are protected by Thunderbird-logo floor mats, and the dash continued Ford's cockpit theme. A complete array of gauges is housed in a brightly polished panel and they appear to be completely original, and restoration photos show this was a fairly clean car to begin with. Check out how the numbers on the speedometer flip between 120 and 130, as if you'll need to assess your speed at a glance.
This car received Ford's H-code 352 cubic inch V8, which was rated at a nice, round 300 horsepower, a significant jump over the 2-seater 'Birds. The neatly finished engine bay has a very industrial look to it, but I suspect the effect is intentional, with a background of satin black framing a minimalist Ford Blue engine. The original air cleaner is still fitted, as are the original valve covers, which are simple stampings that suit the engine just fine. It starts quickly and easily with a pleasant muted rumble from the dual exhaust, and the 3-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission clicks through the gears with authority. The undercarriage is original and solid, with clean floors and frame. Standard steel wheels wear full wheelcovers with spinners, as well as a set of 225/75/14 whitewall radials.
The market seems to have rediscovered the 4-seater Thunderbird, and there are few better ways to travel than Ford's upscale personal luxury car. Call today!


Android 4.4 Kitkat is one the newest OS for the Android Smartphone and most of the phone users are still waiting for the latest updates. If you're the owner of Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830, S5830i, Ace II, Galaxy Fit GT 5670, Galaxy Mini, Galaxy Gio GT-S5660 and want to update your device with the latest update. Thanks to XDA developer yajnab for releasing the Android 4.4 Cyanogenmod 11. All these ROM are based on 4.4 Kitkat build and in early stage, so you will find some bugs on the ROMS. If you want to try these ROM on your device, here is the complete guide which allows you to updates your device with this latest version. To flash these rom you need a rooted device with CWM recovery installed.
Step 3. Download the Google Apps package here and save the file on your desktop.
Step 4. Connect your phone to the PC with USB cable and move both the downloaded files on your device.
Step 5. Disconnect you phone and turn it off. Wait for few seconds and boot in recovery mode to flash the files.
Step 7. Now come back to the Recovery main menu and select the option Install zip >> Choose zip from sdcard and Locate the ROM file that you downloaded on step 2 and Flash it.
Step 8. After that Flash the Google Apps package that you downloaded on Step 3.
Step 9. After flashing both the files on your device, go back to the main menu of Recovery and Select the "Reboot System Now".
That's all. Your phone will now reboot and at the first time the booting process will take some time. In case at the time of restart your device stuck on Android loop or stuck on Android boot screen, then follow this guide to come out of Android loop.


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Erythrina velutina est une espèce d'arbre légumineux de la famille des Fabaceae.
On le trouve au Brésil, au Pérou, en Équateur, en Colombie, au Venezuela, en Hispaniola et dans une grande partie des Caraïbes où il a été introduit, en Ouganda et au Sri Lanka. Il pousse également dans les îles des Galapagos, mais on ne sait pas vraiment s'il s'est installé naturellement ou s'il a été introduit. Au Brésil, il pousse dans les plaines et près des rivières dans les régions arides du nord-est du pays et il est communément appelé "mulungu".

Erythrina velutina pousse jusqu'à environ 10 m de haut, c'est un arbre vivace aux grandes feuilles et aux fleurs rouges qui a de courtes épines  sur les branches. Il est utilisé au Venezuela pour faire de l'ombre aux cacaoyers.
Il est connu au Brésil sous les noms de suinã, mulungu, canivete, corticeira, corticeira-do-banhado et eritrina.

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Arbre
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Espèce d'Angiospermes (nom scientifique)


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Lynnwood man who raped dying woman gets less than 3 years in prison
LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- A 20-year-old Washington state man has been sentenced to less than three years in prison for raping a high school student as she died from a drug overdose and texting semi-nude photos of her.
The Daily Herald reports that Brian Varela pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree rape, and unlawful disposal of remains as part of a plea deal in the February death of 18-year-old Alyssa Noceda.
Superior Court Judge Linda Krese said Thursday she was bound by law to sentence Varela to 2 years and 10 months which was the most time allowed for someone with no prior record.
Police found Noceda's body in a plastic crate at the suspect's home.
Authorities say a co-worker contacted police after Varela said he didn't know if Noceda was still alive when he was having sex with her.
Police say Varela texted pictures of her to his friends and writing "LOL I think she OD'd, still breathing."
A friend later said the man said "she died having sex with me," and took that as a boast.
Once the victim was dead, the man saw a Facebook post from the victim's mom saying she was missing that asked people for help finding her. He used the victim's fingerprint to get access to her phone, and fabricated a SnapChat post on her account to give the impression she'd decided to run away from home.
He then threw the phone into the woods behind his work.
The man admitted to police he stuffed her body in a bin, which police later found in a bedroom in the mobile home.
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Q: How to address a html attribute in cypress? I have a html-element, that has the following attribute:
ng-reflect-name="arrow-down-circle"
How can I check with cypress, if this attribute has the text "arrow-down-circle"?
Below is the whole html-element:
<ion-icon _ngcontent-wyk-c151="" slot="start" name="arrow-down-circle" color="primary" ng-reflect-name="arrow-down-circle" ng-reflect-color="primary" aria-label="arrow down circle" role="img" class="md ion-color ion-color-primary hydrated"></ion-icon>
(I am really new to cypress, so I apologize for any naive question!)
I have tried two commands, but both were wrong:
1.: cy.get(filter_popover).find('#ng-reflect-name').should('contain.text', 'arrow-down-circle');
2.: cy.get(filter_popover).find('[data-cy=btn_selectDesc]').invoke('attr', 'ng-reflect-name').should('contain.text', 'arrow-down-circle');
(filter_popover is a constante, that contains a specific page where the html-element is located and data-cy=btn_selectDesc is the identifier of the html-element one hierarchy step above)

A: You can try to check attribute value using have.attr, more examples can be found here.
cy.get('ion-icon').should('have.attr', 'ng-reflect-name', 'arrow-down-circle')

A: One simple option is to use the value as part of your get selector
// any element with the attribute
cy.get('[ng-reflect-name="arrow-down-circle"]').should("exist")

// only ion-icon elements with the attribute
cy.get('ion-icon[ng-reflect-name="arrow-down-circle"]').should("exist")

In your example I see .find('[data-cy=btn_selectDesc]'). When using attributes as selectors, make sure you include the quotes. (.find('[data-cy="btn_selectDesc"]'))


A teen identified as 15-year-old Jamari Moore was killed in a hit and run in Natomas. He was riding his bike on El Centro Road, close to Radio Road. He was riding with another 15-year-old on his bike. The other 15-year-old was not hurt. Police believe the hit and run suspect was in a late model blue sedan which left the scene at over 100 MPH. Local residents noted the street dark areas with no street lights, saying the visibility on the road at sundown is limited.


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Surrounded by the unique visual displays of the Texas County Museum of Art and History on Main Street, participants in the Tai Chi classes can exercise both body and mind. The museum is a location change for the classes led by David Keymann, Tai Chi Instructor. Classes are held every Monday; weather permitting, from 12:30 – 1 p.m. and excluding holidays. Modified Sun Style is the form of Tai Chi instruction given and is a gentle form of martial art and exercise. It's noted for slow, graceful moves and is said to be excellent for stress reduction, balance and self-development. This form of exercise is beneficial for everyone. The elderly and those with fibromyalgia or other disease processes find Tai Chi to be easier to tolerate than most other types of exercise, and it can be adapted to be done sitting if one is unable to stand.


Possibly. If they don't know about the tracker each has the same likelihood, and the percentage is close.
There are some which use the Tracker, so it should be in favour for the Fairy. But it is close, so it may be just randomness.
While designing stuff for my riot set, I thought of this and figured that it belonged here.
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Just dropped another Candied Gland from the bandit. Halloween in November rocks!
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4xMysterious Idol, 1xSmoked Nauticorn. Bandit was at Return to Woodhome. I apologize for the picture size and format, as I'm no Paint Wizard.
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Found the bandit again, while leveling up some extra chars.
Today was the first time I've found the bandit at the same location for two of my accounts. Lucky for me, it was at Garnet Demon Portal and got the extra normal drop. Netted a legendary each on the co-op double dip.
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I've been tracking Hidden Bandit loots for the past 9 months. March 2016 has been the best Hidden Bandit month so far. 12/31 days I found him and even got my first ever Bandit triple dip on March 15th.
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Some impressive looting there. Almost 1k per bandit seems pretty good. If I'm not being too nosy: Are you getting roughly the expected number of Bandits for the percentage of adventures played?
Some impressive looting there. Almost 1k per bandit seems pretty good.
Yeah. For March 2016, that 12x Bandit means 25 dips, since I managed to find him on a triple dip day. 23/25 of the dips were in co-op and 10/25 were during my week of club membership, so that helps to increase the average loot as well.
If I'm not being too nosy: Are you getting roughly the expected number of Bandits for the percentage of adventures played?
That's a very good question. I haven't kept track of exact adventures run daily, but I'd say that I've run ~23/59 (~38,9 %) of modules almost each day during March, so 12/31 (~38,7 %) Bandit days seems just about right.
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If only we could find the bandit at the CoC. It would certainly be a jackpot.
True, but Flax has said the bandit only appears in modules where players use their own decks. So CoC is off the route for the same reason as MMs.
And I believe we manually removed RttCoC as well (hence it not being on the tracker).
I found the Hidden Bandit on Dungeon of the Lizard Priest!
Got the AI bundle yesterday, so I thought I'd spend some time today running the easy adventures and found the Bandit at Xorr.
Where do you expect to find bandits? At robberies, of course!
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Anyway, I figured I'd document what I found in case any of you long-time number crunchers wanted to collect what happens; in particular, does treasure rarity increase when guaranteed chest rarity increases. Beating this normally gives a guaranteed rare, and I got an epic out of the deal.
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Got a chuckle by finding the Bandit at Defense of Woodhome, cozied up next to the Fairy at The White Star.


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Thread: oil pressure jet location?
some one please tell me where this thing goes in the head. I have looked all over.
You have to pull the head to get to it. Its in the block at the back just to the left of the timing chain opening and close to the intake manifold side of the block.
is it that little plug screw. behind that?
I will be putting one in a block this weekend. I'll take pics and do a tutorial.
You can use a slide hammer to get the old one out. Works great!
Tips on removing stock oil pressure jet???
Rotax Oil Pressure Jet, necessary to pull the head off?


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Firm Nabs Marconi's Telent
News Analysis Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief 5/25/2006
telent plc (London: TLNT), the former services and support business of Marconi, is set to be acquired by a private equity firm Holmar for £346 million (US$647 million), it announced this morning. (See Telent Outlines Offer.)
Telent is the network services company left behind after Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) acquired Marconi's equipment and international businesses in October 2005. It provides services in the U.K. and Germany to carriers ("Telco Services") and to enterprises, utilities, and government bodies ("Enterprise Services"). (See Ericsson Buys Bulk of Marconi and Ericsson/Marconi: The Fallout.)
Holmar is a company set up by Fortress Investment Group LLC specifically for the acquisition. Telent has accepted Holmar's offer of 529.5 pence ($9.91) per share, a 13 percent premium on Wednesday's closing price of 467.5 pence ($8.74), but a formal offer will not be made until Telent receives confirmation from "a small number of significant customers that existing contractual arrangements will continue unaffected by the proposed change of control," the company said.
Telent expects to get these confirmations in the next two to three weeks. Its main customers include BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA), Cable and Wireless plc (NYSE: CWP), ntl group ltd. (Nasdaq: NTLI), and Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC), which, following the hardware acquisition, uses Telent as its preferred U.K. services partner. Telent is also confident of landing an infrastructure development deal for the 2012 Olympic Games, to be held in the U.K.
The news sent Telent's stock up by 46.5 pence, nearly 10 percent, to 514 pence ($9.61) this morning on the London Stock Exchange .
It also shows the pace of change in the telecom sector. In April of last year, Marconi was expected to play a leading role in BT's next-generation network plans. Then BT dropped its 21CN bombshell, and little more than a year later what was once Britain's leading telecom systems company has been broken down and snapped up by a resurgent Swedish vendor and a New York-based private equity group.
News of the Fortress bid came as Telent announced annual revenues for the fiscal year 2006 ending March 31 of £312 million ($584 million), with BT accounting for 48 percent of those revenues. (See Telent Reports Full Year.)
That compares with revenues of £331 million ($620 million) in fiscal 2005, when BT accounted for 60 percent of revenues.
That dip in BT sales will come as no surprise: The breakup of Marconi followed BT's decision not to award a 21CN preferred vendor contract to the British vendor, a decision that crushed the company's valuation. (See Criston, Total Network Solutions Team Up and Marconi in Turmoil.)
Telent's 2006 profits from continued operations totaled £31 million ($58 million), up from 2005's paltry £3 million ($5.6 million). But the company recorded a group net profit of £771 million ($1.44 billion) once net proceeds from the sale to Ericsson are included.
And Telent's management is bullish about the coming year, saying that RFP and order book activity is strong, with 75 percent of its expected 2007 fiscal year revenues set to come from deals already signed.
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No they don't. Well not from a bugeye e11 corolla anyway.
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It comes with the Corolla style manifold standard as it uses the Gen3 FE engine. You will also have a different ECU, wasted spark coil setup, fine spray navy / dark green injectors, a 4 wire o2 sensor (eco/emissions) The 4wd transfer box would probably bolt to the bellhousing of an OEM LSD gearbox. Same bolt / stud pattern. The 4wd manual diff very different to a regular FWD manual diff, its about 150% larger diameter and has a splined extension into the transfer box. Chances are, you'll need one. Do let us know how you get on though, if there is a quick fix we'd like to know.
The JD ones are fine with me. All poly ones vibrate. Best bet would be to make your own with a very low shore rating. But mine never even set so didnt fit them, long in the bin. I was trying to make very near solid ones.
You would have to get custom made poly mounts made with a lower shore compound. I have red JD tuning mounts in my 85, they are 65A i believe. I once tried to make my own with a 2 part liquid compound, but ended up not setting correctly.
Most people use k20 ones as they are direct fit.
Did you get the me221 working with COP? Also where did you end up for mapping?
Lad who mapped my car was telling me about a few who have come to him with them, functions not working correctly, unable to run COP properly. One had to be soldered again for some reason. He just didnt rate them.
If it hasnt got a jasma stamp on it to identify the jap manufacturer, then it'll be some kind of rep.
Most likely be rings or ringlands letting blow by, if you are still making 100psi. Which is still too low. Anything else like melted piston or even a chipped valve, i have found, give 0 psi on a cylinder. Id say full rebuild. In theory, if it is just rings then yes you can change them but chances are piston ringlands will have cracks.
Depends what you are used to driving on, i have them on mine aswell, quite stiff sidewalls. Normally ball joints, track rods and lower arm bushes cause the most issues up front on a starlet. Aldo worth noting if the rear beam isnt solid, ie panhard and beam bushes worn, that gives a weird loose rear floaty feel.
Havent heard any feedback about the black series steering rack bushes, 50 quid for the pair. One of the best handling mods i have done was fit a 4 point under brace, ultra racing.
Do you have a 4wd starlet?


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WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty against East India Sugar.
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Home / Books / WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty against East India Sugar.
This anonymous pamphlet mounts a forceful defence of the beleaguered West Indies sugar industry and calls for the imposition of tariffs to protect it from the juggernaut of competition from the East Indies.
London: Whitmore and Fenn, 1823.
8°: [iv], 120 pp., bound in modern paper wrappers (Very Good, some marginal creasing to first few leaves, light stains to final 2 leaves).
During the early 1820s, the once mighty West Indies sugar industry was faced with a perfect storm. The Abolitionists were, day by day, making progress, as in 1807 Parliament banned the slave trade and had since placed ever greater regulations upon the treatment of slave labour (this would eventually lead to the Emancipation of slaves throughout the British Empire, from 1834 to 1838). Sugar planters and traders were also facing higher cost in production, taxes, transport, while suffering falling prices. The imperial and global market was being inundated with sugar from the East Indies, notably India and Mauritius. The prospects for the West Indian sugar industry were quickly going from grim to hopeless. Here the author exhorts Parliament to level tariffs upon East Indies sugar, to make the West Indies product competitive once again.
Ragatz summarizes the tone of the argument that "Holds that the West India colonists were possessed of vested rights like other British subjects, that they were entitled to the same restrictive duties on foreign produce that British agriculturists and manufacturers at home enjoyed, that the advantages accruing to the mother country from her relations with the West Indies were greater than those arising from her having trading posts in the East, and that it would be inexpedient to hazard the prosperity of the former in the speculative hope of uncertain and distant advantages which might be obtained from the latter. The belief that an equalization of East and West India sugar duties would lower the cost to consumers in Great Britain and would at the same time increase the export of British manufactures to India was neither justified by the experience of the past nor reasonable expectations of the future".
An academically valuable feature of the work is found at the end (pp. 117 – 120), being a chart of the Calcutta Market Price for the best sort of Cheenee Sugar, given monthly from 1812 through to 1821 inclusive.
Unfortunately for the West Indian sugar planters and traders, Parliament, declined to impose the tariffs, a decision that, along with the Abolition of Slavery, resulted in the terminal decline of the sugar industry across the British Caribbean.
References: Cundall, West Indies, 2158; Kress C1153; Ragatz, p. 272; Sabin 90729.
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