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AppleThink – Call for Participants
August 17, 2012 Cultura21Apples, Artefacts, Berlin Germany, Collaborations, Community Activists, contemporary arts center, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Camp, Curators, Different Perspectives, Disciplinary Group, Downshifting, Fecundity, Francesca, Helsinki, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Kolkhoz, Latvia, Letter Of Intent, Metaphor, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Rasa, Resilience, Sacha, Science Researchers, September 13, Survival Strategies, Vitality, Welcome Proposals
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Creative Camp in Aizpute, Latvia. September 13-15, 2012
AppleThink is a collaboration between The Center for New Media CultureRIXC, Latvian Contemporary Arts Center and Serde from Latvia, as well as Pixelache Helsinki from Finland.
Apples are one of the most harvest-rich, yet under-exploited resources available in Latvia and other post-kolkhoz (collective Soviet farms) countries. The AppleThink event aims to re-approach the 'habitual' apples from a variety of different perspectives. The event will bring together an international trans-disciplinary group of participants, who will be sharing their knowledge and experience by approaching apples as a 'real' resource of food and energy, as well as as a cultural metaphor for fecundity and wealth.
The AppleThink event will also include presentations and discussions by artists, curators, science researchers, and community activists who will be discussing different survival strategies ranging from the concepts of 'downshifting' and 'withdrawal', to the approach of 'resilience' and a 'techno-ecologies' perspective. The camp will end with a local outdoor market together with local farmers, where the artefacts created during the creative camp will be put out for symbolic sale-exhibition.
Call for participation: They are inviting participants who are interested in transdisciplinary collaborations, but they also welcome proposals for AppleThink workshops and presentations. Please send your proposals or letter of intent to participate to rixc [at] rixc [dot] lv, and/or rasa [at] rixc [dot] lv (Rasa Smite). DEADLINE: August 20, 2012
For more information, please visit http://renewable.rixc.lv
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New metaphors for sustainability: a stranger's compass
December 18, 2011 Ashden DirectoryCo Editor, Compass, Coordinates, Cumbrian, Decisions, Geology, Granite Face, Guidance System, Improvisation, Landscape, Left Behind, Magnetic North, Metaphor, Metaphors, Mud, Orientations, Safe Passage, sustainability, Walking With A Stranger, Wit
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Our co-editor Wallace Heim continues our series of new metaphors for sustainability with a guidance system that changes hands.
Walking an unfamiliar Cumbrian fell with a compass, often without a map, links me to the land in a special way. The invisible, magnetic north that spins into place on the device is often perplexing and counter-intuitive. However reassuring it is to know there are vast forces of geology beyond any I can see, forces that co-ordinate my safe passage, I still have to negotiate the land right in front of me: that granite face, that swamped mire, that fast river. There is no picture in which to find myself, only wit, the land and the pull of a distant polar force.
A few times, I've come across a dropped compass. There's a moment when clearing the mud from its face when I wonder whether it was left behind because it was broken, or not believed. Is the north that was found in a stranger's hand the same as in mine?
I don't think sustainability can be likened directly to a compass, as if there was a pole of certainty to it. There are orientations that guide, but they fluctuate with a landscape that is continually shifting. The incremental decisions made in response to immediate conditions themselves change the situation, alter what is possible to do. I see sustainability as a response to change, one that keeps alive the capacity to respond to further change. What kind of compass would show this light-footed improvisation that makes sure those in the future can navigate their own way?
Walking with a stranger's compass comes closer as a metaphor. The compass is given, handed over, and it connects me to those I will never know, while helping me cross the land that I am in. The instruction is not reliable; maybe not safe. Or maybe it is, and the coordinates are sharper than on my own compass, signalling a clearer route. Is it pulling me in a direction I couldn't have imagined? This uncertain magnetism invigorates the walk. One day, I'll leave my compass behind.
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New metaphors for sustainability: why we started
November 18, 2011 Ashden DirectoryAnomaly, Associate Editor, Climate Change, Definitions, Dissent, Everyday Life, Expression, Features Interviews, Flowers, Interviews News, Metaphor, Metaphorically, Metaphors, Paradoxes, People, Reflection, Robert Butler, Six Ways, sustainability, Timeline, Twitter
Wallace Heim writes:
We began thinking about metaphor and sustainability when we noticed that there weren't any strong or imaginative metaphors for the concept, or ones that we could easily use in conversation. Metaphors are pervasive in human thought and communication. 'Sustainability' stood out as an anomaly, a common concept with many definitions, but no metaphors.
So in April, we asked four people to suggest a metaphor and we filmed their responses. We weren't looking for 'the' metaphor. We were experimenting to see whether it was possible to think metaphorically about sustainability, in all its promise, its limitations and paradoxes.
Since then, we've added 14 more metaphors, (18 if you count everyone in the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home), and will add another 6 through November and December, here on Ashdenizen and collected on the Directory.
Too, we'll be posting comments on the project itself, which for some contributors was challenging; for others, playful; and for others, a delicate expression of meaning taken from their everyday life.
oil and tree cycles: art and activism – join global cycle day 24 Sept
September 10, 2011 An Arts and Ecology NotebookAfrican Artist, African Heritage, Breaking Point, Documentary Film, Documentary Photography, Explosions, Fossil Fuel Industry, Global Fossil Fuel, Irish Museum, Jerry Cans, Local Materials, Masks, Metaphor, Parallels, Photography Work, Plastic Canisters, Political Concerns, Predicament, Tate Modern, Visual Artists, World Environment Day
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Image left: Bidon arme (Loaded Drum), 2004 Romuald Hazoume Right: Treebike – image from the International freecard alliance for World Environment day, 5 June 2009
An exhibition that I stumbled upon accidentally a few months ago has stayed with me. On a visit to the Irish Museum of Modern in April 2011 I came across African artist Romuald Hazoume's very thought provoking and surprisingly enjoyable installations of 'masks', sculptures, documentary film and photography work.
"Mon Général", 1992 by Hazoume
Romuald Hazoumè, one of Africa's most important visual artists, creates playful sculptures and masks made from discarded plastic canisters commonly found in his native Benin (a small country neighbouring Nigeria) for transporting black-market petrol (known as kpayo) from Nigeria. As can be seen in his image (above left) these jerry cans are expanded over flames to increase their fuel-carry capacity, sometimes to excess resulting in fatal explosions. Hazoume's work richly references mask making culture from his African heritage to commenting on his country's predicament of being caught up in the day-to-day and often unacknowledged misery of the global fossil fuel industry. His work is engaging on very many levels and to a wide audience; from children who love the use of his found objects to adults that can see the political concerns in his work, to others who see a continuation of identity expressed in local materials made into masks. 'Hazoumé has used the cans as a potent metaphor for all forms of slavery, past and present, drawing parallels with the vessels' role as crucial but faceless units within commercial systems, dangerously worked to breaking point before being discarded (Tate Modern, 2007)
From across this side of the planet my own work attempts to touch some of these concerns too. My long term project the hollywood diaries to transform our conifer plantation to a permanent forest has real long term energy returns as we are very shortly to discontinue use of oil for our home heating (a common and increasingly expensive form of domestic heating in Ireland) and use our never-ending supply of forest thinnings. In fact, I was startled to learn recently from my forestry contacts, that our ongoing selective harvesting to keep the forest vibrant and encourage the native tree seedlings to flourish, will mean that we'll have 70 tonnes of wood every three to four years from our small two acres!! Crikey!
The image on the above right, Treebike, is a pointer to this month's global day of cycling, Moving Planet lead by Bill McKibben and his global 350.org organisation to invite us all to get on our bikes this Sept 24th, 2011. I've always been amazed at the huge response to these events and how often the arts help mobilise such activities.
Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ztEgLXSiek – as in the past you can goto 350.org and join in the fun but its also a serious campaign too
'Circle September 24 on your calendar–that's the day for what we're calling Moving Planet: a day to move beyond fossil fuels…
On 24 September we'll be figuring out the most meaningful ways to make the climate message move, literally. We'll show that we can use our hands, our feet, and our hearts to spur real change. In many places, people will ride bicycles, one of the few tools used by both affluent and poor people around the world. Other places people will be marching, dancing, running, or kayaking, or skateboarding. Imagine the spectacle: thousands of people encircling national capitals, state houses, city halls.
But we won't just be cycling or marching–we'll also be delivering a strong set of demands that can have real political impact."
Note: some of you might be aware that I have returned to art college to undertake in-depth research on experimental film and ecology in the last year – if you want to follow along, my research site is www.ecoartfilm.com
I've recently created a small film sketch on how our small conifer plantation is being transformed, comments welcome!!
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New metaphors for sustainability: the timeless meal
August 16, 2011 Ashden DirectoryCurated, Decorum, Doom And Gloom, Ethical Problem, Feast, Film Photo, Life On Earth, Metaphor, Metaphors, Notion, Share Conversation, Share Food, Share Ideas, Social Relevance, Sums, sustainability, Tendency, Tim Mitchell, Twitter, Urbanist
Carolyn Steel calls herself a 'food urbanist', and she brings a notion of the 'good life' to our series of New metaphors for sustainability.
What is it we're trying to sustain? For me, the meal is the emblematic, wonderful situation that sums up the whole point of sustainability.
I think in metaphor all the time and food has become this way of seeing the world not just in terms of 'how are we going to feed ourselves in future?' – this kind of doom and gloom thing – but also in terms of asking 'what kind of society is it that we are trying to create as well as sustain?'.
When you talk about food, there's a tendency to talk about 'how much grain can you produce on that much land with that much water'. That's very important, but you have to relate every conversation you have about food with the kind of life that you are talking about. It's about a vision of society, an idea of the good life.
The table is a place where you don't just share food, but you share ideas, you share love, you share conversation.
It's a beautiful metaphor of the kinds of things that we're trying to sustain. It's society. It's 'good life' in every possible sense – not just good in terms of wonderful food – but also good in terms of the ethics of what you eat. If I am hungry I have a practical problem. If you are hungry, I have an ethical problem.
This business of sitting around a table with other people, the decorum of the table, and the sharing food – it brings the social relevance of sustainability into the conversation.
A timeless meal, a meal that is enjoyed through time that has a past that we all intuitively understand, but a future as well, sums up for me the idea that food is life on earth.
Carolyn is included in our film.
Photo: Feast on the Bridge, 2009, curated by Clare Patey. Photo by Tim Mitchell.
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A metaphor from politics: 'Be a part of better'
August 14, 2011 Ashden DirectoryBallance, Battle Of Bannockburn, Campaigns, Election Victory, Green Party, Hustings, Literary Quotation, Metaphor, Metaphors, Opponents, Owned Company, Parliament, Party Member, Playwright, Referendum, Sacrifice, Scottish Parliament, Snp, Stone Walls, sustainability
In response to our New metaphors for sustainability series, Chris Ballance wrote to us and agreed we could post his email. As a playwright, Chris was one of our earliest listings on the Directory. He was Green Party Member and Member of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 – 2007, and now works for Moffat CAN, (Carbon Approaching Neutral), a community-owned company and charity.
One of the ideas that's concerning some of us here is 'how do we tell the cultural story of how good it could be to go green'? It's inspired by the recent success of the SNP who – helped admittedly by dreadful campaigns by their opponents – based their huge election victory by selling independence as 'Be a part of better'; a direct reference to a literary quotation from the author Alasdair Grey 'Live each day as if you were in the first day of a better nation.'
A quotation doubtless unknown in London, but well enough known here in Scotland to be inscribed into the stone walls around the Scottish Parliament. The phrase has passed into commonplace so much that I've even seen 'Be a part of better' used to advertise merchandise in a shop. The SNP are using a cultural story and cultural references to achieve independence. (That's to say nothing about planning to hold their referendum shortly after the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.)
How do we create a cultural story which can then be used to make sustainability attractive? So often it is seen as 'sacrifice', doing without, enforced change. (I often remember being on an election hustings with a UKIP candidate who told me "Look, we all know your green world is coming. It's just that we don't want it, and we're going to do everything we can to put it off for as long as possible.") How do we conjure up images of something that people will actually want?
Your exploration of metaphors is definitely a step towards this. It's not just sustainability – the whole concept of environmentalism lacks it: the only metaphors to have attached themselves to environmentalism are those framed by our opponents; 'yoghurt knitters', etc. Thank you.
(And I love the Madagascan-based tapestry.)
New metaphors for sustainability: symbiosis
August 9, 2011 Ashden DirectoryAusterity, Bees, Consumption, Discourses, Honey, Human Benefit, Human Relationship, Ingenuity, Interaction, Metaphor, Metaphors, Negative Thinking, Pollen, Reciprocity, Researcher, sustainability, Symbiotic Interactions, Theatre Director, Thinking About Things, Time Benefits
Zoë Svendsen, theatre director and researcher, continues our series New metaphors for sustainability by turning to 'symbiosis' as a better term.
When I was given the challenge of thinking about a metaphor for sustainability, I realized I didn't really know what it was, other than the idea that maybe you shouldn't do quite so much of something so that you could do things again in the future. But then I got to thinking about the underlying questions. What do we need to sustain? What's the idea of sustainability? It's linked to current discourses against consumption and to ideas about austerity and about doing less.
What could you replace sustainability with as a metaphor that would allow you to do something as opposed to just not doing something? I was thinking about things like conversation and reciprocity and some kind of interaction with your environment that didn't deny the pleasures of exchange and of use. I eventually arrived at the term 'symbiosis' and symbiotic thinking.
What's interesting about the term 'symbiosis', is that as a metaphor it takes us away from the 'nature versus culture' idea or 'human benefit versus benefit for nature or the environment', and rather asks us to think about how there might be certain kinds of human symbiotic interactions and at the same time benefits for the environment.
The symbol for this kind of activity are bees, and bee-keeping. There can be a human relationship to these kinds of symbiotic practices that happen in the environment already – such as the spreading of pollen and the creating of honey.
And around that word 'symbiosis', there's a whole series of other underlying terms or thoughts that could be replaced. Instead of thinking about 'austerity' – which is a negative thinking towards the future – that we can always only do less and life isn't going to be as good – you might replace that with 'ingenuity'. This celebrates invention and entrepreneurialism and thinks about what's at hand and what possible in what may be limited circumstance but treats those circumstances as a pleasureable challenge.
Part of the problem with austerity is that it makes you want to rebel. I have occasional bouts of recycling rebellion – I go 'fuck it' and throw it away. 'I want to waste, I don't want to be sensible'.
This is something to do with the moral imperative around the idea of austerity – it's just not fun. Part of the idea about 'symbiosis', is that you don't have that same kind of moral anxiety around all of your actions. You're directed to a positive action instead of endlessly thinking about the negative – which just makes you want to be naughty and not do it.
Zoë is included in our film.
New metaphors for sustainability: "Come into my house" (DVD)
August 7, 2011 Ashden DirectoryAlchemist, Associate Editor, Climate Change, Doorstep, Drama Critic, Editorial Adviser, Global Policy, Hester, Independent On Sunday, Metaphor, Metaphors, Paradigm Shift, Patricia Morison, Poetic Imagination, Practice Art, Reeve, Richness, Robert Butler, Shelley Sacks, Term Sustainability, Twitter
When we asked Hester Reeve, artist and lecturer, to suggest a metaphor for our series New metaphors for sustainability, she offered to make this DVD, "Come into my house."
The term 'sustainability' is rightly used first and foremost in the contexts of both local and global policy changes. Whilst acknowledging the crucial role played by activist pressure in ensuring sustainability is on the agenda in the first place, I see its implementation chiefly as the responsibility of politicians (shame on them).
I made my metaphor in my house. The camera is out on the street and I open each door/window in turn and call out for various thinkers to "Come into my house."
As an artist, I am more interested in restoring richness to the 'cult' of everyday life and in incorporating the force of poetic imagination than in reflecting/interacting with culture at large. My metaphor therefore reflects this sensibility.
I suppose the only thing someone like me at this point in the environmental direness of 2011 can do is to come back to the doorstep, where the agency of the single being starts and to call for that paradigm shift in our thinking that might finally allow us to dwell as an act of loving the world.
New metaphors for sustainability: my sweet pea
August 3, 2011 Ashden DirectoryAspiration, Beehive, Bees, Climate Change, Co Editor, Connectedness, Directory Co, Earth Summit 1992, Ecological Systems, Edging, Environmental Change, Environmental Justice, Head And Heart, Human Species, Metaphor, Metaphors, Parfitt, Petals, Rio Earth Summit, Sweet Pea, Twitter
In a recent series of seminars on site-based performance and environmental change, our Ashden Directory co-editor Wallace Heim met Alison Parfitt, of the Wildland Research Institute, and writer on conservation. Here, Alison considers her sweet pea as a metaphor in our series New metaphors for sustainability.
Sustainability. After the Rio Earth Summit 1992, I was impassioned about this challenging aspiration, with head and heart. Many of us struggled over complicated diagrams, wanting to encompass everything. We talked about ecological systems and the need for the sacred and spiritual, the connectedness of all. We explored social and environmental justice and quality and equality – with diversity. Models and metaphors came and went, bees in a beehive.
Now I see this challenge of understanding the potential and power of sustainability in a more intimate way. And I suspect that the full and inspiring notion of sustainability (sometimes understood but often not) is showing a way, a direction for the human species to evolve, if we can.
As I write this there is a sweet pea, picked this morning, beside me. A soft fresh fragrance. This flower is creamy pale with a purple, or even nearing indigo, fine edging on the petals. It looks and feels precise, very clear yet fragile. It moves in the air coming through the door. The flower is here today but gone tomorrow, the plant goes on and I shall gather seed. It is everyday and uniquely precious.
I accept that my sweet pea is not really a helpful metaphor for sustainability but for today, now, it enlightens me and reminds me of my relationship within all else. And how I could be more human. And that's where my quest to understand has got to. I suspect it will move on again, soon.
New metaphors for sustainability: water on a fire – helping turn the page – a child asleep – the family – failing better
July 30, 2011 Ashden DirectoryAtheism, Biological Parent, Body Mass, Brain Wiring, Dissent, Everton Liverpool, Friendships, Good Chance, Indirectness, Love Affairs, Mates, Metaphor, Metaphors, Midst, Pope, Queer Family, Rapid Eye Movements, Ruin, Secularisation, Water Sustainability
The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is two adults and three children living in Everton, Liverpool. They talked together about sustainability, and here are their metaphors for our series.
Neal (aged 10): The world is big plank of wood and it's on fire. The only thing to save it is water. Sustainability is water – that's what it is.
Gabriel (aged 8): It's a big round book, the world is a big circular book, but it needs help to turn the next page, it can't do it by itself so we all have to help the big book turn its next page. That's sustainability – helping to turn the page.
Sid (aged 3): (Sid was asleep on the couch when we asked him. That struck a chord with us. Sustainability is Sid asleep, rapid eye movements, visceral dreaming, thoughts shooting round his brain, wiring and rewiring the connectors in his head, trying to sort out what happened today ready for some sort of tomorrow. But his body mass seems to rest, refuel. It digests its food, slowly, carefully, puts things in place biologically, mentally, spiritually even so that when he wakes up he'll have a good chance at getting what he needs and be in a good enough mood to share what he has with his mates at the nursery.)
Gary (aged 39): A family is the best metaphor I can think of for sustainability. Not the family that the Pope, in Croatia in June, said was in the midst of ruin under the new atheism of secularisation, but the queer family, the radical family, the family that depends – indirectly – upon the reproduction of itself with difference. That's what having kids has been for us. They are us, with difference. You don't need to be a biological parent for this to happen, though. It happens through friendships, encounters and love affairs.
It's the indirectness that is crucial. Indirectness is at the heart of all family-making, and sustainability has an element of indirectness about it. I won't actually suffer climate chaos in Bangladesh or the terrible local effects of the Alberta Tar Sands extraction, except indirectly. That's partly what makes it so tricky to get hold of. How can everyone act in all-powerful acts of solidarity with massive numbers of people? The indirectness is what stops us.
But we have to embrace the indirectness, like we embrace the difference that is produced in our own kids every day as they grow into and away from us. Embracing indirectness is the only way to be happy in the long-run.
The relationship between me and my kids is the best metaphor I have for sustainability. Maybe because it's not even a metaphor but a living, loving struggle.
Lena (aged 36): sustainability is allowing difference, allowing impossible encounters to take place and surprise you. sustainability is being naughty. sustainability is getting out of the box you are in, getting out of networks you belong to, seeing beyond your own group. sustainability is travelling the world, learning a new language, but a really new language, a new method, a new skill. sustainability is beyond the local. sustainability is the provocation that stops you being righteous.
fail. fail again. fail better. go for the impossible.


Comparing Julia Gillard with Baroness Thatcher is like comparing lead with gold. The Baroness was a lady of class, constant ideals and the courage to act on them. Unfortunately our PM seems to lack any of these attributes. She has no class, her ideals are what suits her at the time and the only action she takes is to preserve her grip on power. The sooner we are rid of her the better off we will be.
I'm sure there will be many leftie academics willing to talk up her achievements in print, though. I suspect that in the future she will be remembered by lefties as a great PM, much as conservatives remember Thatcher.
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And some of her other beauty faves, too.
Meghan Markle might just be the next Royal to grace our headlines, but unlike the Princesses and Queens before her who preferred pricier scents, Meghan likes to keep things a little more simple when it comes to fragrance.
According to Today, the actress and philanthropist loves Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap in both lavender ($11) and almond ($17). Meghan alternates between the two and says that the almond scent is perfect if you prefer something more warm and sweet. Bonus? The former Suits actress says the scent lasts and lasts.
Diorshow Iconic Mascara, $37 at Sephora.
Will these products make us shine as beautifully as Meghan does? Nothing's for certain but we're definitely adding all this, plus a Nivea body cream, to our beauty regimens, just in case.


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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Second Session Thirty-fifth Parliament, 1996-97
Chair: The Honourable SHARON CARSTAIRS
Third and Fourth meetings on: Examination of the Regulations pursuant to Section 118 of the Firearms Act
INCLUDING: THE EIGHTENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-347) AND THE NINETEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-63)
Minutes of Proceedings
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Reports
Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (morning sitting) (47K)
Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (afternoon sitting) (105K)
WITNESSES:
Morning sitting:
On the examination of the Regulations pursuant to section 118 of the Firearms Act
From the Coalition for Gun Control:
Professor Wendy Cukier, Ryerson Polytechnic University, President;
Mr. Arn Snyder, Canadian Criminal Justice Association;
Ms Marylou McPhedran, Chair, METRAC.
From the Conférence des Régies régionales de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec:
Dr. Robert Maguire, President, Injury Prevention Committee of the Réseau de la Santé publique du Québec, Director, Public Health in the Lower St. Lawrence Region;
Dr. Antoine Chapdelaine, ex-member, Canadian Advisory Council on Firearms, Centre de Santé publique de Québec.
Afternoon sitting:
From the Provost and District Fish and Game Association:
Mr. Dale Blue, President.
From the B.C. Wildlife Federation:
Mr. Robert Paddon, Chair, Firearms Committee;
Ms Linda Thom, President, Association of Women Shooters of Canada.
From the Canadian Association for Adolescent Health and the Canadian Paediatric Society:
Dr. Danielle Grenier, Associate Executive Vice-president, Canadian Paediatric Society;
Dr. Katherine A. Leonard, MD, Advocacy Committee, Canadian Association for Adolescent Health, Member, Canadian Paediatric Society.
The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, Chair
The Honourable Pierre Claude Nolin, Deputy Chairman
The Honourable Senators:
Beaudoin, Doyle, *Fairbairn, P.C. (or Graham), Ghitter, Gigantès, Jessiman, Lewis, Losier-Cool, *Lynch-Staunton, Milne, Pearson, Petten.
* Ex Officio Members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to Rule 85(4), membership of the Committee was amended as follows:
The name of the Honourable Senator Doyle was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Murray (January 8, 1997).
The name of the Honourable Senator Moore was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Stanbury (January 16, 1997).
The name of the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Bryden (January 24, 1997).
The name of the Honourable Senator Petten was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Moore (January 24, 1997).

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Working with Whoever Finds You a Home First?
Newport Beach home buyers will often call me up as a result of a listing that they have found on the internet. I had a call recently where the buyer told me that he made an offer on another property and it did not go through. So I ask him if he is still working with that particular agent, and he explains that he hasn't "signed anything". He further explained that there were three agents he was working with, and he was going to buy from "whoever can find him the house first".
That is really the beginning of the process.
If a Newport Beach home buyer is working with several agents at the same time, I will tell them to stay with their agent(s) so as not to do a disservice to the other agent or myself or even the buyer.
The unfortunate part of the story is that this buyer has been working with an agent who already submitted an offer on a property which apparently did not go through. And now he is talking to other agents. I asked if he was still working with that agent, and he said that he was.
Most agents I know will not work with buyers like this. If you are not sure of who to work with then my recommendation is the following.
Are they full time Realtors?
How many homes have they closed?
Select a Realtor and work with that Realtor.
Now that is not to say, that there are times when a relationship between two parties do not work out, and then it can be remedied. That's why it is important to conduct your due diligence in the beginning of the process. Keep in mind, this is most likely the single largest purchase/investment you will make in your lifetime.
Let me ask you a question. Let's say you are an Accountant, and someone calls you to prepare tax documents. However, during the conversation, they say they are talking to two other Accountants - and whoever gets it done first? Do you really think you would hurry up to "win" the business.
In this instance with a buyer talking to multiple agents, the buyer is only doing himself a disservice, and the other agent(s) who are "trying" to find him his home first are doing the Real Estate professionals a disservice. There is no loyalty.
Select a Realtor and commit to that person. You are hiring them to perform a service for you, and guide you through a very complicated process.
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The pieces in this exhibition will be 10 different paper on canvas collages that illustrate scenes of cities such as New York, Paris, Los angeles and Tokyo. The image Butterfly Man, Paris (2010, inkjet on canvas) depicts the Eiffel Tower at sunset with a great number of butterflies, ranging in size and color, surrounding it. Also, at the bottom of the image, there is a small bearded man shown in a blue green color holding out one arm with a butterfly resting on it.
This sophisticated hotel was home to the Round Table Room, home of writer Dorothy Parker and the famous "Vicious Circle" of the 1920's. Opened in 1902 in one of the most stylish locates in New York, The Algonquin quickly became a favorite of theater goers. The Ziegfeld Follies performed at the Hippodrome across the street. Several new theaters opened shortly afterward. The hotel was established as a gathering spot for influential literary and theater personalities.
Hotels in New York City are notoriously expensive. You can easily pay 0 for a tiny hotel room in Manhattan. And I do mean tiny, I've stayed at hotels in the city that were not much bigger than a closet. Space is at a premium in Nyc. In other cities I could get a room three times as big for 10 times as cheap. But then, of course, I wouldn't be in New york city. They can charge the high prices because it's worth it to stay in the greatest city in the world.
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I think it's an important question to decide whether a teenager can be a sex addict and is the treatment any different? Teenagers, you know, in general we save diagnosis until adulthood in most of the categories where you see diagnosis being made, so I think you have to be more careful when you start using labels like addiction or sexual addiction in teenagers. We sometimes just don't know whether they're exploring and whether it'll stop until they reach further ages. Having said that we do begin to see some teenagers who have the hallmarks of being addictive, but we're I think it's important certainly as a treatment community that I belong to and also just as a culture that we not impose sex addict on a teenager as a label when we're not certain whether or not they're going to have a full blown addiction. Although we do some teenagers that are at a more higher risk, they tend to come from troubled backgrounds, families with low empathy, high dysfunction, you know, a difficulty with bonding, attachment, not alot of love going on and those kids generally are turning to addiction. So if they're, if that teenager is using pot, cocaine, drinking alcohol, and compulsive with sex, that probably is a pretty good recipe for that kid to be looking at addiction as a possible diagnosis down the road. So certainly at those times, we will want to use addiction approaches, but we have to be very careful. You can't send a teenager to a twelve step meeting with adults, for example. So the programs have to be specialized to the teenager and the developmental exploration that goes on wtih kids has to be considered as part of the normative curve before you start labeling everything problematic. At my practice we have a special program for teens, for example, and so we're very careful about using labels. We're also very considerate about the possibility that some of their behavior is exploratory. And so what we do is we look at high risk behaviors and we help them to put boundaries around that like we would with an adult sex addict, but we're more careful about how we label that and how we introduce that, and the support group or the therapy group is run by a counselor as opposed to them going to a meeting with other adults, which we don't like to see happen.
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Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D., CSAT, is a Licensed Psychologist, the Clinical Director and Founder of Kenneth M. Adams and Associates in suburban Detroit, Michigan, as well as a faculty member at the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals. As previous Clinical Director for the Life Healing Center in Sante Fe, New Mexico, a residential treatment center for trauma and addiction, Dr Adams created the first inpatient program exclusively for partners of sex addicts. In addition to maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Adams is a national lecturer, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addiction. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, the books Silently Seduced and When He's Married to Mom, as well as co-editor of Clinical Management of Sex Addiction. In 2011, Dr Adams received the "Carnes Award" for "outstanding work in the field of sexual addiction and compulsivity". He is a certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), a CSAT supervisor, and CSAT training facilitator as well as an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner. Dr. Adams is a member of the American Psychological Association, Michigan Psychological Association, Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), and International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) as well as an advisory board member to SASH and IITAP, and an editorial board member of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. For more on Dr Adams visit www.drkenadams.com.
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Say goodbye to the Smart Fortwo cars that have come to symbolize the popular car-sharing service car2go.
The company said this week it is swapping out the squat Smart cars in favor of roomier, more up-scale Mercedes-Benz models in Seattle. The roll out actually began earlier this year, when car2go switched out 200 of its 750 Smart cars in favor of Benzes in January. Today, car2go has 550 Mercedes-Benz vehicles on Seattle streets, and by the end of the year, the Smart cars will be removed from the Seattle fleet entirely.
With that change, comes an increase in price, kind of.
Today, the Mercedes models currently cost 45 cents per minute, compared to 35 cents for the Smart cars. Car2go is not raising prices on the Benzes, but the fleet changes mean all car2go vehicles in Seattle will cost 45 cents per minute.
The move also comes amid increasing competition from ReachNow, the BMW car sharing service that launched in Seattle in April 2016. Since its launch, ReachNow has focused on roomier vehicles, including the MINI Cooper four door, the BMW i3 and the BMW 3 Series. It now has 700 vehicles in Seattle, up from 370 at launch.
When the switch is complete, all 750 car2go vehicles in Seattle will be either 2018 Mercedes-Benz CLA four-door sedans, or 2018 GLA five-door SUVs. The company is re-jiggering its vehicle fleet in numerous markets, and earlier this month announced plans to shift to all Mercedes-Benz cars in Portland.
Chris Iuvancigh, general manager for car2go Vancouver, told GeekWire that the decision to shift to Mercedes models comes from customer feedback and the tech prowess of the Mercedes-Benz cars. Customers who use the Benzes tend to take longer trips and have indicated that they prefer the experience.
The new vehicles work better with the car2go app, which has been updated countless times in the five years the company has been in Seattle. The app is much quicker to unlock the Benzes than the older Smart cars.
Seattle is car2go's top market in the U.S., with more than 100,000 members joining since it came here in late 2012. Drivers have put a lot of miles on those vehicles, more than 19 million in total, according to the company.
Though the Benzes provide a more luxurious ride, the Smart cars did have some advantages. Chief among them, their small stature allowed them to fit into tighter spots that wouldn't be doable for a normal sized car, an important perk when looking for parking in crowded downtown core areas.
But car2go says the technology in the new Benzes helps bridge the gap between the tiny Smart cars and the newer, larger vehicles. The cars aren't that big to begin with, and each Mercedes is equipped with blind spot sensors, adaptive braking and a backup camera to make it easier to fit in small spaces.


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On a new episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid interviews Dr. Robert Alston, an electrical engineer working at Picatinny Arsenal and co-author of the new book Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. The two discuss the origin of the Nutshell book and the origin and fine-tuning of the universe. Though cosmic fine-tuning is often referred to as "the fine-tuning problem," Alston says it's really no problem at all — not unless you're trying to shoehorn it into the box of philosophical materialism. Download the podcast or listen to it here.
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Boeing To End Production Of The B747 "Queen Of The Skies" In Two Years Time – The End Of An Era
In recent financial filings The Boeing Company revealed that demand for the B747 has decreased so much that the company will now discontinue the production of the iconic airliner within two years.
First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years and became a favorite with travellers who would be sad to see the "Queen of the Skies" go.
The only remaining orders for the 747 are now a few cargo jets as well as the most prominent outstanding delivery: Two "Air Force One" aircraft that will transport U.S. Presidents for the decades to come.
The most recent version of the 747, the Boeing 747-800 had just 47 orders for the passenger version and 90 orders for the freighter model. The popularity decreased in times when other models such as the Boeing 777 and the 787 Dreamliner became more popular with the airlines, even pre-Covid19 times.
As Bloomberg reports now, the end of the 747 program is imminent and production will conclude as soon as the last cargo's and AF1 have been completed. Boeing has not yet confirmed this report.
Boeing Co. hasn't told employees, but the company is pulling the plug on its hulking 747 jumbo jet, ending a half-century run for the twin-aisle pioneer.
The last 747-8 will roll out of a Seattle-area factory in about two years, a decision that hasn't been reported but can be teased out from subtle wording changes in financial statements, people familiar with the matter said. …
Boeing correctly anticipated the trend with the twin-engine 777 and the 787 Dreamliner. With prodding from Joe Sutter, a famed engineer who'd led the original 747 program, the planemaker decided to develop a relatively inexpensive upgrade of the four-engine plane to steal sales from the A380.
The strategy would have been successful, had the 747-8 not been bedeviled by early mismanagement, blowing its budget and deadlines, said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with Teal Group.
The Chicago-based company has lost about $40 million for each 747 since 2016, when it slowed production to a trickle, making just six jets a year, Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu estimated. All told, Boeing has recorded $4.2 billion in accounting charges for the 747-8, which has been kept alive as a freighter. The 747 notched its last order as a passenger jet in 2017 — for Air Force One.
Boeing, meanwhile, had been preparing for years to wind down the 747 program, and its sales team has been sounding out customer interest in a potential freighter version of the 777X. If such a model goes forward, it would bolster flagging sales of the largest twin-engine aircraft in the company's lineup.
The telling omen that Boeing had written the iconic 747's final chapter came in financial filings earlier this year. Gone was any indication that the company would continue to "evaluate the viability" of the program, standard phrasing it had previously used.
"At a build rate of half an airplane per month, the 747-8 program has more than two years of production ahead of it in order to fulfill our current customer commitments. We will continue to make the right decisions to keep the production line healthy and meet customer needs," Boeing said for this story. …
Late last year Bloomberg already reported that the Triumph Group is auctioning off manufacturing equipment from their Hawthorne, California production plant that makes the 747-8 fuselage which was already a signal of things coming to an end.
While the aircraft has been the most glorious one in the skies, the 747 has also seen a good number of high profile accidents and bombings since it's inception. The most notorious ones are the Tenerife Runway Collision, Japan Airlines flight 123 which crashed into a mountain, the PanAm Lockerbie bombing, TWA Flight 800 and Air India 182.
It's sad to see the B747 disappear but of course even with production ended we'll see the Queen of the Skies as the 747 is called for many decades at airports around the world. It's not uncommon for aircraft to be in service for 20-30 years with proper maintenance. Usually the planes are being handed down from the big airlines to smaller charter companies.
Cathay Pacific operated it's last 747 flight in September 2016 with a special flight Hong Kong – Tokyo/Haneda – Hong Kong. Singapore Airlines operated their last 747 flight in April 2012. Qantas just sent all of their 747's into early retirement with an announcement this week but will hold some goodbye flights for the iconic jet.
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Hayley McKechnie, Year 6 teacher and Computing Lead at Lee Chapel Primary School in Basildon, Essex, has taught with Discovery Education Espresso News
BRINGING THE REAL WORLD INTO THE CLASSROOM
I've been using the Discovery Education Espresso News service for about 9 years, since becoming a teacher. I've always felt that it's important that children know about and understand what is happening in the world. Very few children watch any news at home and the Espresso News service is easy for them to understand.
I try to use Espresso News in any spare time that we have. The service includes both daily and weekly news bulletins and I use both depending on what is happening in the news at the time. I have used the bulletins to teach about natural disasters and political changes amongst other things. It's a quick and current resource which allows children to develop their understanding further.
ACCESSIBLE FOR CHILDREN AND TEACHERS
I like that the Espresso News bulletins are short and to the point. Children want to know the main facts, not listen to the information which often surrounds news items on conventional programmes. The Espresso News resources can be easily fitted in to lessons, whenever we have time to spare. They are really useful for 'impromptu' lessons, when the timetable has to change.
A CROSS-CURRICULAR RESOURCE
As well as teaching about world events, Espresso News can be used across the curriculum. I find it useful for creating discussion around British values and different religions. I've also used it as a literacy resource. When teaching in Lower Key Stage 2, for example, I used transcripts from the news bulletins as non-fiction texts for comprehension.
The Espresso News videos can trigger some very good discussions amongst the children and stimulate learning. They also help pupils to build debating skills. After watching a recent video, we discussed the possibility of animals becoming extinct and why this is important.
SHARING DIFFICULT NEWS
We use Discovery Education Espresso News to teach children about world events, and it helps us to talk about difficult news stories. It has been useful in helping pupils understand key events, such as political changes and the recent terrorist atrocities. It makes the news easy for children to access and understand.
Helping children to become critical news consumers is also important. Children need to be able to distinguish between what is real and what may be fake. As Computing and Online Safety Lead this is at the forefront of my teaching. Children spend a huge amount of time online and they need to become proficient at researching, which involves them being able to distinguish fact from fiction.
BUILDING SKILLS FOR LIFE
I think it's really important to teach primary school children about the news. It is imperative that children understand the world around them and the effect that world events can have upon everyone's lives. Pupils with a greater understanding learn to be more empathetic and they can transfer these skills into everyday life. Espresso News helps our pupils to be well-rounded and have a deeper understanding of the wider world.
Here's what some of our Year 6 pupils think about Discovery Education Espresso News.
Dulcie: "I enjoy learning about the news using Espresso as it is easier to understand than the news on TV."
Alex: "I enjoy finding out about what is happening in the world."
Rochelle: "I like watching Espresso News as it helps me to understand what is going on in the world."
Jodie: "I sometimes find the adult news hard to understand but it is easier with Espresso, I really like the quiz."
Lucas: "Entertaining, enjoyable, awesome."
Discovery Education Espresso News is an award-winning digital news service for primary schools. Produced in partnership with ITN Productions, Espresso News brings the world's biggest news stories to thousands of classrooms every day, helping young children to engage with current affairs and building their cultural capital.
Featuring daily and weekly video bulletins and a range of on-demand resources including newspaper articles, feature stories and a daily photograph, Espresso News helps pupils to make sense of the world around them. It also guides children to become critical consumers, building skills to identify fake news and providing support to deal with difficult stories.
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Books for Growing MindsNothing inspires growth and development quite like reading (and being read to). Here are lists of the top children's fiction and storybooks to line your child's bookshelf.
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Vote up the books you're most pleasantly surprised to discover kids still enjoy.
Publishers are coming out with amazing new books for kids on a daily basis, but some of the great children's books that kids are reading today were actually published decades ago. Stories like The Velveteen Rabbit and Where The Wild Things Are might be considered enduring classic children's books, but there are plenty of lesser-known classics of children's literature as well. Even with so many great new children's books, kids continue to curl up with Beatrix Potter's The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, and Millions Of Cats has delighted generations since it was first published in 1928.
Enduring children's classics teach today's readers about the era they hail from, nod to important issues that still impact the world today, and enchant readers with colorful characters. These old books you didn't realize kids still love are some of the best children's books of all time.
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The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter first introduced The Tale Of Peter Rabbit to the world in 1902. This illustrated classic is a cautionary tale of what happens to children when they don't listen to their parents. It's an appealing message for parents, but the cute anthropomorphic bunnies, relatable characters, and lovely illustrations make it enjoyable for children too. The book continues to sell hundreds of millions of copies in multiple languages.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? was written Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle in 1967. The book's purpose is to help toddlers associate colors and meanings to objects.
According to the publisher, "7 million copies in print in various formats and languages" are available as of 2013.
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The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit was written by Margery Williams in 1922. It tells the story of a stuffed rabbit that feels inferior because it isn't a real rabbit or a modern, mechanical toy. But thanks to the love of its owner, the rabbit finally gets its chance to become "real."
The book has been wildly popular since its publication, and has been republished and adapted countless times.
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Frog And Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel wrote and illustrated the first book in the Frog and Toad series in 1970, and the books are still going strong today. The first book is ranked on Goodread's 100 Best Children's Books list. The books depict the loving and supportive friendship between the main characters, Frog and Toad.
In a 2016 interview with The New Yorker, Lobel's daughter Adrianne claimed that, although it was never explicitly stated in the books themselves, Frog and Toad were likely meant to be in a same-sex relationship, due to her late father's identity as a gay man.
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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak was published in 1963. It focuses on a young boy named Max, who meets a group of monsters and becomes their king after disobeying his parents. When he returns home, he's met with love, acceptance, and a hot meal.
Where The Wild Things Are is just as popular now as it was when it first came out. In 1964, it won the Caldecott Medal. Since then, it's been adapted into an opera, a movie, and an animated short. In 2012, School Library Journal readers voted it the number-one picture book.
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Little House on the Prairie is the first in nine-book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. First published in 1932, the books are a fictionalized version of Wilder's experiences growing up in midwestern America in the late 19th century.
Perhaps because of the way they detail American history in a personal, relatable way, the books have remained classics that are still frequently picked up by elementary school students. In 2012, the School Library Journal ranked the first book in the series on its list of the Top 100 Children's Novels.


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When I took the "What nationality should you actually be?" quiz on Playbuzz and got "German", I secretly believed it was true. Now anyone who knows me well knows that I am as un-German as one can get — not only do I have brown skin and dark eyes, I'm also perpetually late for everything. But every autumn in Melbourne, my fictional northern European roots emerge in the form of an intense craving for and obsession with dark rye bread. I'm not entirely sure how it all started, but when the weather drops below 20 degrees, I find myself in a bakery having a jovial conversation with the baker about the difference between a Schwarzbrot and a Borodinsky — all while wolfing down a thick slice of malty, aniseed-y goodness smothered in salted butter.
This year I decided to document this obsession and as a result, I probably have enough bread to last me through to next autumn. (The Husband asked if Jesus had been in our kitchen because it looked like someone had miraculously multiplied loaves of rye to feed the masses.) Here's where I found the top baker's dozen and how much I liked each of them.


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"Macho: The Hector Camacho Story" shows a boxing legend on the ropes
Hector Camacho in "MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY". Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME.
Showtime offers up a riveting blow-by-blow look at the famous (and famously troubled) Puerto Rican boxer.
The best line comes towards the start of Showtime's documentary about the rise and fall of the gifted but troubled Puerto Rican boxer, Hector "Macho Man" Camacho. Famed trainer (and quote machine) Teddy Atlas, expertly sums up why we keep going back to boxing stories when he states, "Boxing is too damn Shakespearean."
Punching someone repeatedly in the head, while avoiding being punched in your own skull, may not seem equal to Henry V, but no other sport attracts the kind of tragic figures, filled with rage and trauma, rising and falling from great heights, who would fit comfortably in Shakespeare's work. Also, biting someone's ear off would be a total Hamlet move.
Filmmaker Eric Drath knows the thematic power of boxing and lets the life of Camacho speak for itself. A veteran of sports documentaries with several 30 for 30s under his belt, Drath expertly pieces together footage from past fights along with sound bites from Camacho and interviews with those who knew him best. It all comes together to create a loving tribute to a man and his accomplishments without diminishing his struggles, including a cocaine addiction that plagued him his entire career up until his 2012 murder in Puerto Rico, which is still unsolved.
Hector Camacho in "MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY". Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME.
For someone like myself with only basic knowledge of boxing history, the period between Muhammad Ali's dominance in the '70s and Mike Tyson's reign of terror in the 90s is a black hole. Camacho Story fills it in nicely with strong evidence that Hector Camacho was not only the most dominant fighter of his generation, but also the most entertaining.
His constantly moving feet and lightning-fast punches is like watching a real-life Looney Tune, but with the strength of Bruce Lee, Camacho's idol growing up in Spanish Harlem. He takes the boxing showmanship torch from Ali and brings it to another level, like when he dances into the ring wearing a fireman outfit that's bedazzled on a Liberace scale before casually knocking out his opponent in the first round. Not to mention, he wears shutter shades three decades before Kanye.
These highlights are as infectious and exciting as Camacho is in the ring, but what takes the doc beyond the usual paint by numbers sports bio is the emotional presence of Camacho's mother, Maria Matias. She raises Hector, along with his sisters, trying to keep a roof over their heads while also trying to keep her son out of trouble. When his boxing career launches into orbit, she keeps being his rock through all his peaks and valleys.
This is a film about a mom's journey as much as it is about a boxer's.
Halfway through the movie, with footage after footage of his victories, defeats, and heated press conferences, I notice Maria can usually be seen nearby with a concerned expression on her face, and I realize this is a film about a mom's journey as much as it is about a boxer's. Her interviews are often the most loveable and heartbreaking segments, going into details about raising a family in tough conditions and how proud she is of her son, while also feeling helpless to stop his downfall.
At the beginning of the film, she's grieving her son's death nine years later, still searching for answers. By the time we get to the tragic end of Hector's life, the film takes a hard, almost awkward turn from sports doc to a true crime doc, jumping into the details of his murder and Maria's attempt at finding any closure.
It's a fascinating detour, especially its look at the broken criminal justice system of modern-day Puerto Rico, but it's a subject matter that is deep enough and has plenty of twists and turns on its own to be a great, separate documentary. Slapping it on the final ten minutes of Hector's life story makes it feel rushed and undercooked, like a good book that's turned in before the author can figure out the ending.
By that point though, the doc has already effectively done its job. Drath wins our hearts by simply telling the story of a boxer who comes from the gritty streets of NYC to conquering the world before getting too close to the sun and falling back to Earth. It's a typical plot, unfortunately too common in the world of professional boxing. But there's nothing common about Hector "Macho Man" Camacho, the pride of Spanish Harlem, and more importantly, his mother.
Macho: The Hector Camacho Story premieres on Showtime December 4th.
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Sean Price
Sean Price was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana before moving to Chicago to pursue improv and sketch comedy. He has written, directed and produced several short films, music videos, and feature length screenplays.
He's also performed and co-written several sketch shows, including a film-centric solo show called "Sean Price Goes to the Movies by Himself" at the Playground Theater.
When he's not contributing to The Spool, you can see him perform improv regularly at the IO Theater and ComedySportz Chicago.
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A: In multi-column indexes it is better to have columns with higher cardinalities (most distinct values) towards the beginning. In your example, assuming start_date is never null and till_date can be null, it would be better to build the index on start_date, till_date.
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In the US, 15 sailors of the Ronald Reagan nuclear aircraft carrier were arrested for possession, distribution and use of LSD.
Some of them have been subject to disciplinary action, while others are still under investigation to identify suppliers and other drug dealers among the crew and the crews of the aircraft carrier strike group. The instigators face serious deadlines.
The most important part of this story is that the narcopriton functioned within the team responsible for the maintenance of the ship's nuclear installation and some of those involved in the use and distribution of LSD were directly involved in its maintenance.
The command of the 7 fleet assures that, thanks to sophisticated reactor protection systems, the sailors addicts and LSD dealers could not damage the nuclear installation by their actions.
The Japanese, on the shores of which the "Ronald Reagan" constantly revolves, are worried, because the very idea that drug addicts under LSD can serve a nuclear reactor is alarming.
But what to say, judging by the actions of the top of the United States - they are either drug addicts or out of their minds.
He served in the operational department of the army headquarters and we had everyone who worked there and not only our department, but all the departments, I mean the rank and file, because the officer lived on its own. It is impossible, as it is on purpose and on a high, to cut oneself so that someone would die. is impossible!
Maybe you did not serve, and sat?
In the operational department of the army headquarters, private soldiers were trusted to wash the floors and no more. And the foreman of the company of protection had to be changed, since he could not look after you normally.
I used to eat life 20-25 in brands and microdots, a very kind and good drug, from which there is no physical or psychological habituation, I myself work in responsible positions, LSD helps me to work hard, and the guys in general probably knew the space, you can only dream about it. unfortunately, the opinion of the public is not very happy, but this is because it is not in the subject line and is compared with the horn, etc. + propaganda.
An exception? Who told you this? Forty on the tail brought?
So I am not surprised at all.
I am from Krasnodar region and served in the Strategic Missile Forces. In our platoon there was one such. First, they "treated" him with occupational therapy (toilets cleaned regularly), and when they did not help, they sent him to Durka.
Most Asians upon arrival in the unit had a drug. Hashish, cannabis, us and several other types of different in bubbles, boxes, in pouches wearable, I do not know the composition and actions. Skidrovat everything in the bungalow, (I'm a capter) while recruits sergeants drove to the bath. A whole corner of drugs. Quickly somewhere "lock" all cleaned out. And then these Asians (breaking), like a swarm of bees, rushed to the sergeants, ached and moaned, some kind of madness. Thank God that I lived without drugs.
Look at Peter, how the tacks are activated in this discussion. Worried zaslantsy from vivid memories.
An honor to stand next to you. Drug addicts "served" in the Russian army served the American people. Even a disbath for them is too smart. Normally, such a code serves in the US army or in the Aydar or Igil battalion. Garbage can be in any society to identify them with Russia is not worth it.
Come on, when did you serve that? When was the service an honorary duty? Now the recruits with the police catch .... and quite a while already.
I served in the rocket. For such a tribunal there you can easily get.
You're right buddy. I am a career officer. And even in the most difficult times, in 90, in the Missile Forces, on duty, on point, an ideal discipline. BELIEVE.
Everything is clear ... !!!
In the US, more than 30 officers who served in Air Force bases tried to deceive command on the exams. They learned the test questions and prepared the answers in advance. Another ten people, according to the investigation, used or stored drugs. All violators from the service were removed. It is known that some of them were responsible for the launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
We in the former military school, the cadets died from heroin overdose and nothing. Someone did not die, but serves to this day. Or jumped off the needle, and now thumps, as do the former drugs. And in the army this is a normal thing, no one will pay attention.
What, for the first time?
Recently, there have been so many scandals in the US Air Force that it is possible to call this the largest, probably, only by the number of military men involved in it. An official investigation found that 11 officers who served in six air bases, used and distributed drugs. Three from this list (names and titles are hidden) were on duty on missile bases in Montana and North Dakota. There in the underground mines are American intercontinental ballistic missiles Minuteman 3 with nuclear warheads. Strategic forces are part of the US Air Force.
However, the bad news was not the only one. An investigation into the drug case has drawn another scandal. It turned out that during the monthly tests, rocket officers did not hesitate to write off, sending each other an SMS with answers. Now, not only moral character and adequacy, but also the competence of those who hold their finger on the American "red button" is in doubt.
Base Malmstrom breach in the US nuclear shield. It was there that the officers, who were on duty in the bunkers, left the armored doors open. This base was also subordinate to the former commander of the strategic forces, General Michael Carey, who became "famous" after a trip to joint exercises in Russia. In the hotel on the Tver American rocket man behaved like a hussar. He drank the night away, interfered with the musicians and flirted with the saleswomen of cigars. Another senior officer, Deputy Commander of Nuclear Forces, Vice Admiral Tim Jardine, ruined his career with a passion for the game. He was sent to resign after being suspected that he was going to the casino with fake chips.
The consequences that await the current guilty military personnel, has not yet been announced. 34 officer suspended from service. However, if the US Air Force is punished, it is not strictly. General Keri, who was strolling in Moscow, for example, was not fired, but simply transferred to another position. Now he is responsible not for intercontinental rockets, but for space ones.
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Ever since then it's been a barrage of crappy stock photos slapped at the top of every half-assed blog post across the internet.
How exactly is this creativity? In what frakked-up universe does this crapola actually add value to content?
Every time I see something like this, my stomach hurts.
Stock photos don't kill me. People using un-modified, boring stock photos kill me.
Mark Anderson at Andertoons — a great artist and a super-sophisticated marketer in his own right — tested a cartoon versus a stock photo. He had 260 people view a blog post. Half saw the post with one of his cartoons at the top. The other half saw the post with a stock photo.
But, if you read the whole article, the gap is even larger. In some versions of the test, he had 2:1 or 3:1 result.
If your post is data-driven, why not really bend reality and present the data?!
Original artwork, like a cartoon. It's not expensive. Mark offers subscription services for $20/month, for example.
A stock image, but altered. I love to use animals with speech balloons. It's corny, but it makes me giggle in a non-too-insane manner, so I keep doing it.
Anything but a non-altered stock image.
A photo of your dog, Harryhausen, ripping apart a newspaper.
A photo of that mole with a hair growing out of it that you have on your arm.
A scan of your latest belly-button lint.
The latest annoying internet meme.
Really, still, not a stock image.
This is not a sales pitch for Mark's work, by the way. I get no kickbacks. But his stuff is awfully good. Check it out.
Do web visitors simply not trust stock images? Does originality produce trust?
It's not about trust. It's about caring. If I see something that's obviously a stock image with only a distant connection to the attendant post, the odds that I'll care are zilch.
When I first started my business, we did a monthly cartoon making fun of ourselves and I miss that. We had great response. I've since been challenged to write relevant, funny cartoons … and then also line up the cartoonist as I'm no artist. I think that's the stumbling block. There are plenty of stock cartoons that get overused or hacked as well.
Good reinforcement to replace the crappy stock photos on my own website.
Jakob Nielsen did a whole write up on this that's great.
Basically, if your images do not carry information, they're fluff, and provide no benefit.
Clearly, they crush all comers.
Excellent point Ian. Being an avid cartoon-torialist I agree. However, sometimes when you have limited resources- but access to some stock photos – sometimes you can make it work. I occasionally do that for clients – but first request they bury me alive / boil me in oil / and pay enough for me to get psychological counseling.
I could not agree with this more. We use all custom illustrations for our blog and I think it presents a more powerful experience. We also encourage clients to get away from stock imagery as much as possible, moving them more toward illustration, motion graphics, and more interactive medium. It's not the cost people assume that it is. And while it may be somewhat more experience, as you show, the evidence proves it gets you seen. We all ignore stock photography because we've seen that same damn handshake picture too many times. We can only take so much!
If you want to e-mail ian at portent dot com I can post the link as additional info.
I also saw the Andertoons post and loved it. I am, of course, prejudiced since I draw. I don't draw something for every post – I don't have the time – but I do draw a monthly cartoon.
Interesting. I see you mentioned "stock" photos but didn't say that all photos are bad. So how about Flickr photos posted under a Creative Commons licence? Are they equally as bad as "stock" photos?
Also, quick idea: would be great to have a way to subscribe to comments and/or subscribe to comment replies on this blog. Without one of those options, the only way I'll see replies to my comment is if I bookmark this post.
A stock photo is a stock photo, whether you're getting it from iStock or Flickr. It's still an image lots of other people may be using, that's chosen as much to plunk a color photo at the top of a post as for its relevance to that post.
I'm a cartoonist/illustrator but I don't think it's just a matter of stock photos being overused. Unfortunately photography has become almost a commodity online. With stock services and digital cameras anyone can slap a photo on a website.
However, a professional-quality photo that tells your story in a unique way will always be valuable. Of course there's a price tag involved that scares off many clients.
But the same is true for illustrations and cartoons – you have to pay the price for a unique solution.
Look around and you'll see certain styles of illustrations, infographics and animations are becoming ubiquitous. It's just a matter of time before viewers tune them out as well.
So the answer is the same as it's always been: Invest in quality illustrations AND photos that enhance your site and convey your message in a memorable way.
The presence of the stock image is so popular in part due to the featured image that is now asked for in many themes for WordPress in particular. In my opinion that causes many people to rush around looking for an image to plonk into their posts and then they end up with the stock image mentioned.
One source that is often forgotten is Flickr and there are a lot of free images available there and even more if you attribute them.
Notwithstanding that people do love cartoons and browsing through Marks site there ARE some excellent offers there that will bring some extra weight to a blog or page.
I think you just have to get a bit more imaginative really – one tip is when you are out and about with your smart phone to snap ideas and keep them in your blog ideas folder for later use. You may end up with tons of them but some may help.
Thank you for drawing attention to this! Back in 1998 I started a company called Webtoonz.com built around creating custom animation and imagery (primarily in Flash). Back then the market was pretty limited to either corporate accounts or ISP's. However after the .com crash I couldn't give work away! Fast forward 15 years and all the changes (specifically mobile) and post's like this give me the much needed confidence to dust off and update my offerings. Cartoons / Animation can be 'witty' and relay complicated subject matter in a affordable timely manner like nothing else.
I completely agree. They're almost as bad as stock photography. Whenever somebody uses a meme on their blog post (often inappropriately, too) it screams "please like this, I'm trying really hard to appear internet savvy and funny". It's worse when they try and generate their own humorless memes.
Hi Ian, great advice and a great post. The only thing to watch out for is that some stock photo sites do not allow you to edit images in any way or you breach their ToS. So be sure to read the agreement on each site before tweaking images just in case.
This was awesome, I agree and his cartoons do rock. I'm going to try them out.
Ian, your writing is always so interesting. I agree with you that it is so irritating when stock photos are used when they have no relation to the content. Thanks for another great post!