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Monthly Salary: $3,066.34 - $3,600.00/mo
Veterans, Reservists or members of the Guard with a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) code of OS - Operations Specialist , YN- Yeoman, 16GX – Air Force Operations Staff Officer or other related fields may meet the minimum requirements for this position and are highly encouraged to apply.
This position handles a broad range of administrative, technical, and program support duties to support the work of the Office of the Governor's Economic Development and Tourism Office (EDT) and reports to the Director of Business and Community Development (BCD). Coordinates and conducts general office operations, procurement, administrative support, and special projects, as assigned. Demonstrates efficiency, superior customer focus and strong interpersonal effectiveness whether communicating with others over the telephone or in-person. Works under moderate supervision, with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Monitors and maintains the front desk during normal business hours ensuring the desk and phone lines are covered at all times.
Responds to high number of complex and routine information requests — both written and oral.
Backup to the Public Information Request Coordinator-Coordinates and distributes requests for information to proper personnel for response and monitor for completeness and timeliness.
Performs general office duties such as ordering supplies, performing bookkeeping work, purchasing and processing travel, as needed.
Maintains awareness of staff schedules, division calendars and visitor traffic to assist in maintaining customer service efficiency.
Cheerfully greets visitors and callers and responds to general questions.
Develops and maintains filing, recordkeeping, and records management systems.
Handles sensitive documentation/information and maintains confidentiality of data at all times.
Coordinates meetings, conferences, and seminars. Assists in planning, including logistics, gathering and shipping of materials and development of materials for special meetings, events and conferences, as assigned.
Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs, keeping up Receives, interprets, and appropriately disseminates and/or re-directs calls, visitors and mail to EDT leadership and other appropriate staff in the agency.
Announces visitors, annotates and relays clear messages according to EDT reception desk procedures and management expectations.
Monitors and maintains with inventory and maintenance requirements as appropriate, and coordinates office safety matters including acting as the additional duty safety officer.
May provide administrative and technical assistance to an agency executive.
Provides administrative and technical assistance to EDT staff as directed, including maintaining files, contacts, and calendars, as directed.
Participates and works with others on economic development and tourism projects.
Assists in the development of policies and procedures.
Trains others, as needed.
Remains well-informed of division and OOG initiatives, operations, new releases, web content, programs, statewide trends, OOG policies and procedures.
Maintains regular attendance and may work extended hours, as needed.
Performs all other duties as assigned.
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university,
One (1) year experience in administrative support, office work, program support, or customer service-related position.
Must be able to start work at 8:00 a.m.
Regular attendance required.
Note: Experience and education may be substituted for each other on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications: Bilingual in Spanish. Prior experience with multi-line phone system.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Requirements:
Knowledge of office practices and administrative procedures.
Skill in gathering and analyzing accurate and relevant information.
Skill in providing outstanding customer service to internal and external customers.
Skill in written and verbal communication.
Skill in the use of standard office equipment, personal computers and software applications.
Skill in using Microsoft Word and Excel and ability to create spreadsheets and presentations.
Skill in inventory control, planning and general organization.
Skill in attention to detail.
Ability to maintain professionalism and confidence in stressful situations.
Ability to implement administrative procedures and to interpret rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Ability to work within a team environment.
Ability to communicate effectively and train others, as needed.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Ability to exercise discretion and sound judgment in making critical decisions.
Registration, Certification or Licensure: Valid Texas Driver's License.
Physical Requirements and/or Working Conditions: This classification functions in a standard office environment. Ability to move up to 35 lbs. Ability to drive as needed. Must be able to remain in a stationary position for 50% of the time. Will need to occasionally move about the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, to distribute correspondence, etc. Must be able to lift, grasp, bend, overhead reach and kneel as required to perform repetitive duties, keyboarding, filing and other related office support duties. Must be able to communicate and exchange accurate information via phone, computer and in person. Must be able to observe and/or identify visitors and staff entering the building in person and/or via video monitor or phone call. Must have the stamina to work a regular 8-hour work day and to work extended hours, as needed. Must be able to work hours during a legislative session that include holidays and as needed.


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One of Boeing's Most Important Customers Says 777X Debut Could Slip Beyond 2022
The plane has been plagued with setbacks and delays.
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Lou has followed the markets for more than two decades, developing extensive contacts including industry leaders, consultants, regulators, and labor representatives. He spends a lot of time these days focused on the industrials and financials. When not arguing on Twitter or writing about the markets, Lou spends his free time out in nature, complaining online about the Baltimore Orioles or Watford FC, or listening to early 1990s alt rock. Follow @louwhiteman
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Boeing's (NYSE:BA) 777X, already delayed until 2022, might not arrive until 2023 or even later, according to the plane's most important customer.
In an interview today with Reuters, Tim Clark, president of Emirates, said his airline is not assuming the plane will arrive in 2022 as anticipated. Emirates represents about one-third of the 777X order book, but the airline has said previously it could consider swapping some of its orders with different planes depending on market conditions and how long it will take for the 777X to arrive.
Boeing's 777 assembly line. Image source: Boeing.
The 777X is an update on Boeing's long-haul workhorse, and will be the first new plane the company attempts to get certified since the 737 MAX. The MAX rollout did not go to plan, with the plane grounded for 20 months after a pair of fatal accidents, and Clark is expecting heavy regulatory scrutiny to be applied this time around.
He told Reuters the 777X certification could happen in 2022, or "could be '23, it could be even longer," saying Emirates "will just wait and see as to what Boeing will do with regard to that, and we will take a view as to how they fit into the fleet at that particular time."
Boeing had originally hoped to have the 777X ready by now, but a combination of tepid demand and failed tests pushed back the timetable. The plane flew for the first time last year, but even prior to the pandemic, Boeing seemed unlikely to start deliveries until at least 2021.
The 737 MAX, which makes up the bulk of Boeing's order book, has been cleared to resume service. The company is likely to lean heavily on 737 sales and deliveries in the years to come as airlines plot slow recoveries and de-emphasize larger jets like the 777 and the 787 Dreamliner.
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The Enterpreneurial Journey of Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk, co-founder and CEO, VaynerMedia, sits down with Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent at CNN, to share about his entrepreneurial journey and lessons he's learned along the way at the Techweek Chicago Summit 2015.
Gary first ventured into building businesses when he took over his family's wine business from his father and grew it to become a $60M (previously $3M) business in a five-year span. As a young man in the mid-90s, he used to sell items in dollar stores to earn a quick buck. Gary's success is a result of his natural talent when it comes to sales.
Some of our key takeaways from the conversation:
Every Business Thrives on Money and Audience Analysis:
Gary feels the concept of garage selling and posting the details on eBay is the "in" thing nowadays. This can allow an individual to earn at least $1000 per week. Money making is an art, but a social media agency like VaynerMedia does not spend money on marketing behavior. Gary invests in companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, as social media provides the opportunity to re-assess an audience's tastes as well as their likes and dislikes.
Effective Time Management is the Key to Success for an Entrepreneur:
Gary's daily schedule rounds up to 18 hours of work, which to him is "80% of VaynerMedia, funds, and the rest is Wine Library TV and personal stuff." In New York, an entrepreneur can't afford to wrap up his or her work by 7pm and then relax with a cup of coffee. To create and successfully own a business on your own terms, requires hours of hard work.
Today's Fake Entrepreneurship Creates Hindrance for Businesses in the Making:
Gary considers the concept of entrepreneurship today to be quite vague and fake in nature. The reason being that today's young entrepreneurs think they are capable of easily starting up their own business and getting funded quickly. Gary stresses that that is not today's reality. Disruptive businesses not only need a strong foundation, but also an efficient sales team to make sure the products are sold to the right demographics and in the right locations.
Creating and Distributing Content for Audience is Crucial:
Be it Wine Library TV, the AskGaryVee Show, or VaynerMedia, Gary's agencies are all in the process of content creation. The most intriguing way of creating content is through Q&A sessions. This allows a constant flow of original content every day. Gary believes that Facebook, Snapchat—although underestimated by techies—are the best platforms for distributing content.
Below are some of the key points and moments from the conversation:
0:02 – Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent at CNN, introduced Gary Vaynerchuk, co-founder & CEO of VaynerMedia, to the audience
0:28 – Gary shared his ideas on businesses and brands, tracing his entrepreneurial roots
3:09 – Gary explained that every minute of his 18-hour day is allocated to his businesses
4:20 – Lack of self-awareness and indulging in fake entrepreneurship can be quite dangerous for next-gen business owners
12:30 – Re-assessing audience is critical as it involves a re-engineering method
13:50 – Gary expressed interesting viewpoints on making strategies for building and distributing content
19:52 – Q&A session begins
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Believers in the West are understanding more about Christians struggling in other parts of the world. However, many of the accounts of the persecuted church are missing an important part of the story--the women.
In this stirring book, Anneke Companjen sheds light on the lives of eleven women suffering persecution in nine different countries around the world. Through their true stories of imprisonment, full of loss and pain, and unexpected joy, these women inspire Western readers to persevere and endure their own hardships for the cause of Christ. At the end of each chapter there are questions for deeper study, whether for individual use or as a guide for small groups seeking to understand and pray for our persecuted sisters. Readers will be deeply moved by the strength and faith of these courageous women.


Advancing age is associated with declines across numerous physiological systems, leading to an increased risk of chronic disease and disability. Whereas aging itself is inevitable, the rate at which physiological impairments occur is highly variable among individuals. Differences in the trajectory of physiological decline are due to complex biological processes; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying physiological impairments are not well understood. Metabolomics provides the unique opportunity to investigate systemic molecular changes in vivo by capturing perturbations in metabolic signaling linked to changes in physiological function. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation was to determine the relation between metabolomic signatures and age-associated physiological declines in humans.
Global metabolomics profiling of plasma from young and older adults demonstrated changes in metabolomic signatures with advancing age. Pathway analysis of altered metabolites identified amino acid and lipid metabolism as primary pathways modified with age, and targeted metabolomic approaches confirmed these differences. Furthermore, changes in small molecule profiles were related to numerous clinically relevant indicators of human healthspan.
Additionally, in a systems biology approach to further investigate the molecular underpinnings of age-associated physiological declines, metabolomics analyses were applied to a model of biological aging. In a longitudinal study of older adults, biological age was quantified by integrating numerous clinical and physiological measures of human health. Importantly, biological age was significantly related to plasma metabolomic profiles, and these small molecule signatures were also associated with, and predictive of, rates of biological aging.
Collectively, these studies indicate that changes to the plasma metabolome with advancing age are related to physiological dysfunction in older adults. Moreover, these findings not only present valuable insight into pathways that may modulate healthy aging, our results also provide evidence for easily accessible blood-based markers of age-associated physiological declines in humans.
Johnson, Lawrence Cody, "Aging and the Plasma Metabolome: Relation to Physiological Function" (2017). Integrative Physiology Graduate Theses & Dissertations. 60.


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Roasted strawberries amp up the flavor in no-churn ice cream
Chula King
No-Churn Roasted Strawberry Ice Cream is a dream come true for strawberry lovers.
Intense strawberry flavor is folded into a in a creamy ice cream base for the ultimate in simplicity and decadence. No-churn means that you don't have to lug out your ice cream maker, or if you don't have an ice cream maker, you don't have to wish you had one.
Why roast the strawberries?
If you're thinking that roasting strawberries is an odd thing to do, think again.
One of the reasons is that strawberries contain a lot of water. Water translates to ice crystals in ice cream. Roasting the strawberries removes excess water resulting in a creamy dreamy ice cream.
The second reason is that roasting the strawberries intensifies their flavor resulting in an amazing ice cream that rivals the best you've ever had.
Why No-Churn Works
No-churn works because of science.
If you've ever made regular churned ice cream, you no doubt experienced the increasing volume and lightness of the ice cream from start to finish. The increasing volume and lightness are the result of air being incorporated into the ice cream mixture during the churning.
A key ingredient of no-churn ice cream is whipped cream. As the cream is whipped, its volume increases with the incorporation of air and it becomes lighter. Therefore, you have the same principle at work – whipping the cream introduces air and lightness into the mixture in the same way that churning introduces air and lightness in the ice cream.
The other key ingredient in no-churn ice cream is sweetened condensed milk. The reason is two-fold. First, sweetened condensed milk has a high sugar content. Sugar lowers the freezing point which keeps the ice cream from becoming rock hard.
Second, the milk has been cooked down to reduce the amount of water that could otherwise lead to the formation of ice crystals.
The result is a velvety smooth ice cream!
Chula King is the blogger behind PudgeFactor.com.
No-Churn Roasted Strawberry Ice Cream
2 pints fresh strawberries
1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1 Tablespoon Grand Marnier
Rinse, dry and hull strawberries. Cut into quarters and place on non-stick aluminum foil lined rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle strawberries with 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar; toss to combine. Spread in a single layer on baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes. Toss and return to oven for an additional 30 minutes. Watch carefully to ensure that juice remains syrupy. Cool.
Place strawberries in food processor fitted with steel blade. Add sweetened condensed milk and Grand Marnier. Pulse process 5 to 6 times to puree the strawberries and combine the ingredients.
Whip cream on with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes.
Add about a cup of whipped cream to strawberry mixture. Pulse process 5 to 6 times to lighten strawberry mixture.
Add lightened strawberry mixture to whipped cream. Beat on high until well combined. Transfer to freezer container with lid. Freeze for at least 6 hours.
Yield: 10 servings.


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Пабло Посо (; ) — чилийский футбольный арбитр. В свободное от судейства время работает аудитором. Владеет испанским и английским языками. Арбитр ФИФА, судит международные матчи с 2003 года. Один из арбитров розыгрыша финальной стадии Чемпионата мира 2010 в ЮАР. В среднем за игру 5,08 раза достает желтые и 0,58 раза — красные карточки, максимум — десять желтых и одна красная (Данные на июль 2010 года).

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Zach Railey (born May 9, 1984) is an American sailor and Olympic athlete. Zach won a silver medal in sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and competed in the 2012 Olympic games in London. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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As most of you know, sweeping tax proposals were made by the federal Liberal government on July 18, 2017 that had some of the most significant changes to the taxation of Canadian private corporations since the early 1970′s. Following a dramatic and strong negative reaction to these proposals from tax practitioners, taxpayers and the business community, the government has since made pronouncements by news release that will adjust the original proposals. However, details about these changes are yet to be made public.
We have summarized the original proposals from July 18th, 2017 below with updates from the most recent news releases from the federal government. We have noted the items that are now off the table, however, there remains a great deal of uncertainty as to what the actual rules will be as of January 1, 2018 for those items that are still on the table.
In the initial proposals, there were rules that would eliminate the ability for family members to claim the capital gains exemption on shares of a private corporation where those family members were not active in the business. By way of news release, these proposed rules have been removed.
There were a number of rules that proposed to re-characterize capital gains into income. As well, they affected the ability to pay out a capital dividend account when assets were sold to a related corporation. Both of these proposed rules have been removed by way of news release.
These were the most detailed and far ranging rules. The aim of these rules is to tax family members at the highest marginal tax rate on dividends or income received from certain private corporations. In the past, dividends to minors were taxed at the highest tax rate. The new proposals are to tax family members up to 24 years old as well as all family members who have not worked in the business or contributed capital to the business.
These new rules propose a "reasonableness" test to determine if the amounts paid to the family members should be taxed at the highest tax rate or not. This concept is called tax on split income ("TOSI"). The notion of reasonability that is being proposed obviously makes this very subjective and we have many concerns about how these rules would be applied. In the draft legislation, these rules were to be effective January 1, 2018. So far, this is still on the table but it is unclear if the government will still go ahead with this.
In the past, an active business could accumulate funds after paying corporate tax and invest those funds in whatever manner decided upon by the shareholders. The new rules are proposing to set a limit on the amount of investment income that can be earned using active business income. At present, the government has proposed a $50,000 annual limit and have indicated that they will table the draft legislation in their 2018 budget.
The details of how the income will be taxed are not available. The general idea is that if capital has been injected into the company from personal assets, then these rules would not apply. However, if the capital to invest in the business has been accumulated because the company or its subsidiaries engaged in an active business then these rules will apply.
The proposed rules would be that there is a tax of approximately 50% in the corporation and then full personal dividend tax upon payment out of the corporation. The difference between the proposed rules and the current rules is that under the current rules, the corporation would get a refund of a portion of the corporate taxes paid when dividends are paid. The net effect is that an individual taxpayer would be indifferent to earning investment income in a corporation versus personally. Each province has different tax rates and therefore there is not perfect integration. However, under the new rules the effective tax rate in Ontario, would go from 56% to 73% when considering the corporate and personal taxes.
Given the extremely high tax rate noted above, there has been a significant response to the government about changing these rules. However, there is currently no draft legislation and there is no effective date. It is unclear how the government will proceed with these rules.
The federal and the Ontario government have both announced corporate tax rate reductions for small business corporations. The Ontario rate will decrease by 1%, effective January 1, 2018. The federal rate will decrease by 0.5% effective January 1, 2018 and by an additional 1% effective January 1, 2019. Although these tax cuts will benefit small business corporations, they will have a detrimental effect to the shareholders. To maintain integration, there will be a corresponding increase in the personal tax rates on dividend income. Consequently, individual shareholders receiving dividends after 2017 will be facing a higher personal tax rate.


12/9 or 12/10 seems massive, can i ask why soo stiff?
Probably because the R33 is so damn heavy. People run 8 and 10 on track Silvias (depending on the event of course) and they weigh considerably less than an R33.


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A New Era Rises ? AVENGERS A.I!
The AGE OF ULTRON is over. The AGE OF A.I. is NOW!
New York, NY?March 29th, 2012? This July, red hot writer Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and artist Andre Araujo (FF), shine an entirely new light on an all-new, all-android Avengers team ? Avengers A.I.! Spinning out of the critically acclaimed event Age Of Ultron, Avengers A.I. sends fans deeper into the synthetic core of the Marvel Universe, great for new and lapsed readers alike!
A brave new world is unleashed and only one team of Earth?s Mightiest Heroes can save us from the future. Gathered together by Hank Pym, The Vision leads Victor Mancha, Doombot, and the mysterious Alexis in a race to contain an unfathomable Pandora?s Box of destruction! And which side will Monica Chang, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., find herself on?
?Springing out of the increasingly razor-thin crawlspace between the organic and synthetic worlds comes 'Avengers A.I.'," said Axel Alonso, Editor In Chief, Marvel Entertainment. ?When one of the Marvel Universe's preeminent brainiacs, Hank Pym, embarks on a long road to redemption, he must assemble a team unlike any other, a team composed of heroes that will challenge the very definition of 'Artificial Intelligence' and the way you look at super heroes."
Following the harrowing events of Age Of Ultron, can Hank Pym & The Vision lead a team into the digital unknown?
"I could not be more psyched to be ushering the Avengers and the Marvel Universe into the Age of A.I.? explained Humphries. ?This book is futureshock crashing into the world outside your window. Once the A.I.s are unleashed, there is no turning back. Even the phone in your pocket could be a threat against humanity. It's an exciting and dangerous new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes."
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Walzenaufnahmen Japanischer Musik/Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music 1901-1913 (review)
Jay Keister
Walzenaufnahmen Japanischer Musik/Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music 1901–1913
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Walzenaufnahmen Japanischer Musik/Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music 1901–1913. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historische Klangdokumente [Historical Sound Documents]. Series Editor: Artur Simon; Co-editor: Susanne Ziegler. Recordings by Otto Abraham, Erich M. von Hornbostel, Erich Fischer, Erwin Walter, and Heinrich Werkmeister. Notes in German and English by Ingrid Fritsch. One compact disc. BphA-WA 1. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2003.
This collection of wax cylinder recordings from the Berlin Phonogram Archive offers a little something for everyone in the field of Japanese music research. While it is obvious from the outset that the limited sound quality of wax cylinder technology is a poor instrument for capturing the subtlety of timbre and dynamics so central to the appreciation of traditional Japanese music, these historical documents from the archive, and the well-researched, extensive notes by Ingrid Fritsch in the 96-page booklet accompanying this disc, are an invaluable contribution to Japanese music research. Although recordings of such low fidelity are not recommended for use in general survey courses of world music, this package provides a useful historical reference for any scholar of Japanese music, as it contains recordings ranging from theater music to court music to folk songs played on shamisen, shakuhachi, koto, and gagaku instruments.
This CD represents the first release of most of these recordings, with the exception of fifteen cylinders recorded by Abraham and Hornbostel and one cylinder recorded by Erwin Walter that were released on a 1920 demonstration disc by the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv and later released on a 1963 Ethnic Folkways recording. Tokumaru Yoshihiko selected the same fifteen cylinder recordings of Abraham and Hornbostel for a 1985 Nippon Columbia release. This new release includes recordings from three collections, Archiv Japan I (Abraham and Hornbostel, 1901), Archive Japan II (Fischer, 1909), and Walter/ Werkmeister (1911/1913), that comprise a total of sixty-six cylinder recordings, each cylinder consisting of about two minutes of music on the average. Not all cylinders within these collections are included on the CD due to unacceptable sound quality of certain selections. What is made available to our ears is a fascinating glimpse into Japanese traditional music as it actually sounded at the end of the Meiji era (1868–1911).
Archiv Japan I contains the earliest musical examples on the disc as recorded by Otto Abraham and Erich M. von Hornbostel in 1901, just two years before publication of their 1903 treatise, Studien uber das Tonsystem und die Musik der Japaner (Studies on the Musical System and the Music of the Japanese). These recordings informed their landmark study of Japanese music and the transcriptions [End Page 149] they created are included in the accompanying booklet. Recorded entirely in Germany, Archiv Japan I consists of performances of traditional music by Japanese musicians that underwent significant recontexualization in their European setting, the story of which is a fascinating tale of cultural encounter and is described in great detail in the booklet by Fritsch.
The majority of these recordings feature an 18-member theater troupe led by legendary Japanese theater stars, the actor Kawakami Otojirô and his wife, Sada Yakko, a former geisha musician, during a tour to Germany in 1901. Although Otojirô's theater background was based in contemporary agit-prop theater of Japan's citizens' rights movement (jiyû minken undô) of the late nineteenth century, he based his foreign tours on theatrical presentations drawn liberally from kabuki and nô drama and reduced the amount of language to the point of emphasizing the pantomimic visual elements of colorful costumed dances and dramatic combats. Otojirô's compensations for his foreign audiences were criticized by German scholars of the time, who questioned the authenticity of this "Europeanized" version of Japanese theater, and outraged the Japanese public upon their arrival back home. In spite of the controversy, Hornbostel and Abraham concerned themselves only with obtaining the best recordings possible of the musical accompaniment to these creative collages of Japanese theater.
Shamisen music from the second half of one of these plays, "The Geisha and the Knight," based on scenes from the famous kabuki play Musume Dôjôji...


What overwhelms you? Either for good or ill – what knocks you off your feet?
According to the Bible, either life overwhelms you and we call that fear. Or God overwhelms you and we call that faith. In the end only faith is the answer to fear.
Here is the primal fear that lurks beneath all our lives. And if we want an answer to it, we're going to need faith.
So who better to teach us than Abraham. He is repeatedly held up in the Bible as a man of faith. But what does that mean? Does that mean Abraham possessed a special 'believing capacity' that was out of the ordinary? Was 'faith' some substance like 'the force' from Star Wars? Did it run through Abraham's veins like midichlorians in Jedi blood?
No, faith is not something within us. Faith comes from outside. Faith is being overwhelmed by God. And in Genesis 15, Abraham has his great fears overwhelmed by an even greater God.
His first fear is understandable enough. In Genesis 14 Abraham had gone to war to rescue his nephew, Lot. He was successful in battle but refused to take any plunder. Now that the adrenaline has soured, Abraham fears reprisals and fears he's lost out on the spoils of war.
Fear is met by a more overwhelming reality – Christ Himself is given to us. Why should we fear?
You see it's fine to have an appearance of the Word of the LORD, but what the human race really needs is for the Word of the LORD to be born into our race. What we really need is for the Word to become flesh (John 1:14). That's our hope for true deliverance and reward. But here is the problem: even though the Seed has been promised to come through Abraham, he and his wife remain childless.
Do you hear the fear?
Here is one of the most crucial verses in all the Bible. Because here is how our ultimate fear is allayed. Here is how we can be counted as righteous in God's sight. Not by doing righteous deeds, but by trusting in Christ. This righteousness is what fearful people desperately need.
Adam was afraid to be exposed in the LORD's presence. And, ever since, humanity has feared and hidden from the God who made us. But here is how we can appear righteous in God's eyes: Trust in Christ and – instantly, perfectly and eternally – righteousness is counted / gifted / accredited to our account.
In this way, Abraham finds the ultimate covering. He is arrayed in a robe of righteousness (Isaiah 61:10). His fears are overwhelmed by a gracious God.
How can anyone know that these promises hold true?


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In His First Week Back as Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz Made a Brilliant Move. It Just May Save ...
The Company ... imagine that and just so simple. As Lean Practitioner we are constantly hounding people to get to the Gemba and watch where the work is being performed and observe, talk to the people.
So when this following article appeared in the HR Dive Blog after being published in the "INC" newsletter i just had to share with you. So simple, so profound but also so very simple ...
Want to build trust and solve your company's biggest problems? Take a page out of Howard Schultz's playbook, and listen first.
There he sat, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, in the middle of a circle of chairs in a small conference room. It was less than a week since Schultz has retaken his post as chief executive, this time surrounded by Starbucks employees who had been gathered to share with him their complaints, their challenges, their personal stories on what's gone wrong over the years since Schultz stepped down.
"We are traveling the country, trying to, with great sensitivity, understand from you, how can we do better," said Schultz.
As he listens intently to one Starbucks employee after another, a pained look comes over Schultz's face. Employees lament about the lack of training, increased turnover, and extreme pressure they've been forced to endure as company profits soared, but worker conditions plummeted.
"What we say we value and what we do is not lining up," said one Starbucks employee. "I feel like that kind of encapsulates all of this."
In his first weeks back on the job, Schultz has prioritized these collaboration sessions, which the company says have been arranged in multiple cities. It's a brilliant move by Schultz--one that teaches an invaluable lesson in emotionally intelligent leadership:
In order to build trust, you have to listen first.
Let's break down why these collaboration sessions are so important, and what every business leader can learn from them.
How a listen-first approach builds trust and reveals better solutions
To understand why these listening sessions are so remarkable, we have to remember that this isn't the first time Schultz has led the company. It's actually his third stint as CEO, and the second time he's taken over in a time of crisis. Back in 2008, Schultz returned after sales faltered for several years, hit especially hard by the financial crisis of that same year, after which he conducted one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
This time, though, the problem is different. The company's earnings of $4.2 billion last fiscal year were the second highest ever, according to the Wall Street Journal. Instead, the company is dealing with dissatisfied employees, including a push to unionization.
Nonetheless, Schultz could have come in with the attitude of, "I've fixed things before, I'll do it again." But he isn't doing that. Instead, Schultz is inviting the employees themselves not only to share their problems, but to become part of the solution.
And Starbucks isn't inviting just long-tenured employees, like seasoned shift supervisors and store managers, to share their opinions. It has also included baristas in these collaboration sessions, some who have been in their roles for only a few months.
To facilitate idea-sharing at one session, employees were asked to identify changes to current company policies "that could improve their professional and personal lives and make them feel more supported." Employees then wrote ideas on sticky notes and "upvoted" their favorite ideas by placing a sticker on them.
Listening to employee complaints isn't easy. Schultz has been accused of being tone-deaf at times, including recent attempts to explain why he believes unionization would be bad for Starbucks. But if the company is to succeed at regaining the trust of employees (or, as Starbucks has traditionally referred to them, partners), that listening is vital.
Finally, by personally visiting with store leadership in cities around the country, Schultz accomplishes a further goal: Beyond just empowering employees, he teaches other leaders within Starbucks to do the same.
"When Howard visited my store way back when, I remember how he listened and truly made everyone feel valued," said April Sabal, a former Starbucks manager who now runs her own e-learning company. "This laid a good foundation for me as to how to lead."
What you can learn from Schultz and Starbucks
People lose motivation when they sense you don't care. But the simple act of listening creates goodwill. When your people feel understood, they'll be motivated to contribute and can help you discover insights you wouldn't otherwise.
So, when it comes to solving your company's biggest problems, don't ignore your most helpful resource: your people.
Schedule time to meet together, in small groups if possible. Listen carefully, without interrupting. Allow them the chance to share their problems, as well as to propose solutions. Meetings like these will reveal key insights, and they will transform your people from employees to partners.
That's something Starbucks has been trying to do for a very long time. Maybe this time, as Schultz leads the company through another new phase, it will actually be able to make it happen.
originally written BY JUSTIN BARISO, AUTHOR, EQ APPLIED@JUSTINJBARISO
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Austin Okere to Speak at the Lagos Business School Executive Programme Graduation Ceremony
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Austin Okere, the Founder of CWG Plc, the largest Systems Integration Company in Sub-Saharan Africa has been announced as the guest speaker for this year's graduation ceremony of the Lagos Business School 2016 Executive Programme. The event is billed to hold on Saturday, September 17th in Lagos.
The information was disclosed by the dean of the school, Dr. Enase Okonedo.
Mr. Okere is expected to share details of his personal entrepreneurial experience alongside personal values and beliefs that have contributed to his successful career with the grandaunts at the event. Past guest speakers at the executive programme graduating ceremony includes notable players in the Nigerian economy and outstanding entrepreneurs. These include Mr. Philips Oduoza, the immediate past CEO, UBA Plc, Mr. Demola Aladekomo, the Chairman, Chams Plc and Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde, the CEO, Nigerian Brewery Plc.
The Lagos Business School is renowned for the provision of comprehensive education for professionals in Africa drawing on the experiences of multinational faculty and other participants. The Executive Programme, in particular, has been designed to enhance the management knowledge and skills of decision makers for organisations and indeed the industry.
Austin Okere anchored the Digital Economy and Legal Resolution' seminar for Lagos State officials at the LBS
Austin Okere is an entrepreneurship enthusiast. He is focused on mentoring and inspiring young people around the globe to achieve their full potential. Recall that he delivered the commencement speech at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Graduation Ceremony in 2012. He also facilitated the "Lean Launch Pad Block Week" with serial entrepreneurs, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, co-authors of the bestselling Start-up Owner's Manual.
He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Columbia Business School (CBS), New York and a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Business Council on Innovation and Intrapreneurship.
Austin Okere also serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Business School Network (GBSN), a body dedicated to advancing the cause of knowledge sharing to inspire and transform business education across the globe. Austin Okere is an incumbent member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria, as well as the Advisory Council of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON). He is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS).
He was named the ICT Personality of the year 2014 by the Nigerian Computer Society. He is also a recipient of the NCS special Presidential Award in 2016, in recognition of his invaluable contribution to the growth and promotion of ICT and enhancement of professionalism in the sector. He was listed on UK's C.Hub Magazine's 100 Most Influential Creatives in 2016.
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Monday: Tex,s morning spinning class at the Oval . Started stripping the varnish off the Carbitubo only to find paint stripper isn't what it used to be.Evening spinning class at West Kirby.
Tuesday: Morning spinning class at West Kirby cancelled due to Barbara throwing a sickie . Spent 30 mins on the exercise bike in the gym at 150 watts.
Couldn't get a replacement evening class as they are all full on the online booking system.
Route for the Bob Clift memorial came.
Wednesday: Spent most of the morning stripping and cleaning cassettes trying to get to grips with the jumping chain under load. Set up the rear mech from scratch. Cut back the inner sleeve to make sure that wasn't fouling. Headed out to the Eureka, saw Keith Boardman doing some secret training on the Brimstage time trial circuit.
Got caught in a shower at Willaston so hid under a tree till it passed.
BLT toastie and it was time to head back with Keith Boardman coming back from his secret training.
Still having a problem with the gears so ordered a new cassette from Vita.
Back up Rest Hill it was as bad as it's ever been with me getting off the bike to see which gear was worst.
Thursday: Beckies morning spinning class, with one of the newcomers getting off the bike. More work on the bike and another round of throwing a way the past. The Colnago stickers came through the post.
Broke the belt on the vacumn cleaner hoovering up a sock so off to Grange Electrical for a new one. Beats internet shopping hands down.
Leasowe for a spinning class as it was all I could book online, too many chest presses and the like for my liking.
Friday: Waiting in for a new phone and replanning the route for Sunday.
Another disaster with the route planning with Chrome locking up and altering the sheet causing another route loss.
Saturday: Trip up to Vita to see if the the cassette is in, left with a few gels for the ride tomorrow. Planed ride again , this time in Windows and it work. I should know this ride off pat the number of times I've done it and lost it.
Bumped in to Peter at the Eureka who has recently come back from a ride through France including a climb of the Ventoux. It was still freezing at the summit despite being about 30 deg C at the bottom.
Sunday: Bob Clift Memorial Ride, 100 miles, think this is my 4th. Forecast is grim, just how grim I was to learn about an hour into the ride.
Unable to get a new cassette in time I had to make do with the one I had fitted in an attempt to cure the jumping. Well it didn't work as it started to slip around Willington Hall with me falling off the front I'd bee sharing with Phil. Things got worse going up the switchback at Delamere despite using the cable adjuster.
The weather front finally moving in just before arriving at the first stop at the Ice Cream Farm, Great Budworth. Caught up with Phil and the other two riders and had a chat inside before setting out on the next stage.
Riders much reduced on the 100 mile route with only 19 opting for it, in contrast 90 plus opted for the 50 mile route with over 30 signing up on the day.
Before I forget, the 800 came up with " Truncating Route" when I fired it up at the start which is a new one on me but didn't bode well.
Things got wetter and wetter as the ride progressed, I'd changed to waterproof gloves at the stop but knew it would be a loosing battle in the end. Hit Alderley Edge which lived up to it's name as Bentley country with one passing me. Turned on to the Macclesfield Road and knew I was in trouble, at about 10% the chain was playing up. Had to stop on the climb and adjust the rear mech so it didn't jump in the lowest gear. As long as I had one good gear it didn't matter about the rest.
Midway stop was a Polytunnel this year with the rain rattling against the polythene. It was time to move on as I'd be there all day if I didn't make a move.
I had Phil and company on my tail on the way back and held out to the Jesse Hughes institute where they opted to take the direct route to the finish.
It was a good job I had a tailwind on the return leg or I'd still be out there now.
I don't know what happened with the route but at one stage I was routed down a footpath by a stream and came out on someones drive. No wonder car satnav drivers are ending up in rivers or worse.
The run into Waverton had me in the big ring doing 25 mph with it throwing it down and the roads awash, just wanting to get it over. Interesting ride, still got a 100 miles in me despite the weather.
Saw your comment about needing a helmet-cam to record bas****s who cut you up. I got a very small mini dv camera from an online shop in Cornwall abot 18 months ago. With a 4 gig micro sd card the package came to about £100. The same camera is now available for less than £10 on Amazon! Battery charge lasts for 1hr 40 min, so it's ok for relatively short rides, but I found it useful for riding around Wirral, recording driver antics especially along the lanes (Meols-Greasby) and idiots by the Cottage Loaf who don't seem to realise what double white lines in the middle of the road mean. It's only 3″x 1.5″x.75″ and mine came with all sorts of fitting attachments.


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Building Resilience: Beekeeping in the Paso del Istmo
by Richard Joyce
Paso Pacifico Meliponiculture Intern
A lean man past middle age, Francisco Cerda still goes to work most days of the week at a limestone quarry in Las Mercedes, an area of the Paso del Istmo near the Costa Rican border. His house is rustic and similar to many in the region. Approaching it, we pass a well, an outdoor shower, and a large basin for washing clothes. Scrawny dogs lie sprawled on the ground, and chickens peck at insects in the shade of a mango tree. The house´s walls are made of rough boards with large cracks, and the smell of wood smoke drifts from the kitchen.
Our eyes are drawn to dark specks darting in and out of logs hanging horizontally from the eaves of the house´s metal roof. They are bees, and they are why we are here.
Francisco owns hives of jicote manso, a species of stingless bee that has been kept by people in Central America for millennia. The word jicote comes from the Nahuatl word xicotl (meaning bee or wasp, and manso means docile in Spanish. Francisco used to have over forty hives, but when violence broke out in the region during the 1970s, his family immigrated to Costa Rica, leaving the bee colonies behind. When Francisco returned home after the war, only about five hives remained.
Today, he cherishes those hives, marking the age of each hive by the birth dates of his grown children. Stingless bee honey is traditionally given to pregnant women as their due dates approach, maybe as a nutritional supplement or maybe just as a sweet indulgence!
My coworker Marcos and I have been visiting Francisco´s home every week since the end of January, expressing Paso Pacifico´s interest in conserving native bees, explaining the process for dividing hives, and catching bees in Ziploc baggies in order to collect pollen samples from them. Initially, Francisco seemed skeptical about our project, but it soon became clear that the maintenance of stingless bee populations was a concern that we shared.
Francisco has noted the increasing scarcity of jicote manso, attributing the population decline to the conversion of forest to teak plantations and the proliferation of both feral and domesticated Africanized honey bees. His hypotheses are quite plausible, likely compounded by pesticide use and overharvesting of honey from the forest.
The plight of bees likely sounds familiar to you; with some regularity, we read in the news about colonies collapsing and fruit orchards being left without pollinators. Honey bees support many livelihoods and pollinate many crops, but with thousands of bee species in the Americas, it is shortsighted to focus exclusively on the preservation of honey bees. Reliance on a single pollinator species makes us vulnerable, and honey bees are not great pollinators for all plants. For example, they do not perform buzz pollination, a mechanism needed by crops such as tomatoes.
At the very end of March, Francisco, Marcos, and I moved a colony of jicote manso from a rotting log hive to a brand new box hive. The brood combs were of modest size, but so far it seems that the bees are adapting well to their new home. Perhaps by working with them, we can build our resilience together.
Taken from the forest more than fifty years ago, the hollow log that housed this bee colony was falling apart. The hive´s owner stands next to his brand new box hive.
Meliponiculture expert Marcos Calero creates an access port on a log hive, allowing for the future extraction of brood comb.
Examining a brood comb, where the queen bee lays her eggs.
A stingless bee visits a lemon flower. Some of the bee-pollinated crops grown on the isthmus include mango, vegetable pear, coconut, annatto, squash, guava, cashew, noni, and bell pepper.
A honey producer looks at pollen under a microscope for the first time.
The green orchid bee is an example of the fantastic biodiversity found in the Paso del Istmo.
Honey harvested with a syringe is clearer, mixed with much less pollen, and less acidic that honey harvested by perforating the honey pots and allowing the honey to drip from the log.
Stingless bees store their honey in pots, unlike honey bees, which store honey in combs.
Stingless bee honey is finger-licking delicious!
These pollen grains, collected from the thorax of a stingless bee, belong to an important nectar plant.
This "pollen parfait" illustrates the importance of two plants, the dry forest tree Cochlospermum vitifolium and the shrub Senna skinneri, for the stingless bee Melipona beecheii during the dry season.
This project is supported by The Loyal Bigelow and Jedediah Dewey Foundation.
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Fantastic work you are doing, Richard. Your article is impressively written. I really enjoyed reading this. Thank you!
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Thanks Richard. Great stuff. Thanks for all you're doing.<br />George Gorman


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Online petition to get Piers Morgan sacked from GMB beaten by another to keep him on
More than 38,000 people have signed the "keep" petition, while the "remove Piers" campaign has so far only reached around 17,000 signatures
Charlotte SmithSenior Trending News & Video Journalist
An online petition to "Keep Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain" has surpassed another calling for him to be fired from the show.
As of 9am this morning, the petition reached more than 17,000 signatures with Piers jokingly posting on Twitter: "You can't remove me, I'm currently identifying as a penguin so it would be animal cruelty."
The "Remove Piers Morgan from Good Morning Britain" campaign on Change.org was created over the weekend after viewers were outraged by his views on gender identity.
During a live debate on the show last month regarding non-binary gender, the outspoken TV anchor said he identified as a 'two-spirit penguin'.
The petition calling for him to stay on the ITV show says he has a "common sense approach to life".
However, a separate Change.org petition has since been created calling for him to stay on the ITV show, due to his "common sense approach to life".
Author of the petition, Margaret Lowry, says Piers is funny and is "not afraid to speak out and says what a lot of us are thinking."
So far, more than 38,000 people have signed it, which is - less than half of the "remove" campaign.
Vinnie Jones lashes out at Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy and brands them an 'embarrassment' on GMB
GMB weighed in on the debate by creating it's own online poll on Twitter yesterday, asking followers to vote on whether they think Piers should stay or go.
In contrast to the online petitions, 58 per cent of followers have voted for the broadcaster to go, while 43 per cent think he should stay.
Unhappy with the poll, earlier on the show today Piers shared his disappointment with the 'snowflakes' who have 'hijacked' the votes.
During a live debate on the show last month about non-binary gender, the outspoken TV anchor said he identified as a 'two-spirit penguin'
He said: "When I left the building yesterday, the poll was 80 per cent solidly 'I should stay'.
"But it has now been hijacked by the snowflake websites and Twitter handles. So all last night they were like 'we're gonna get rid of him' - they actually think they can get rid of me.
Piers Morgan laughs at petition calling for him to be fired from GMB
"So the poll now has 300,000 votes - one of the biggest in the history of the show - and it has now moved 50 per cent against me!
Piers shared his disappointment with the 'snowflakes' who have 'hijacked' the votes on the show's own Twitter poll
During his speech, co-host Susanna Reid starting humming along as inspiring music began playing in the background.
"Now viewers, you are not the snowflake brigade, you are my people, you're my army. I need you to get busy this morning."
He added: "We cannot let the snowflakes win, we need you to get voting."


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Go West, Mr. Burns
Thomas Hart Benton's monumental painting The Kentuckian depicts the protagonists of the 1954 movie The Kentuckian, directed by Burt Lancaster. The Kentuckian follows the adventures of "Big" Eli Wakefield and "Little" Eli Wakefield (played by Lancaster and Donald MacDonald, respectively) as they head West in search of freedom from the constraints of polite society.
Thomas Hart Benton, The Kentuckian, 1954, gift of Burt Lancaster, © Thomas Hart Benton Trust/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Benton energetically conveyed the spirit of the Wakefields' idealistic quest in his image of Big Eli leading his son and faithful hound to the left (west) across the canvas—a magnificent landscape beckoning and undulating before them. In more recent decades, some artists and animators have found ways to poke fun at this classic narrative of American ambition and individualism enacted by movie stars and projected onto Hollywood's big screen and Benton's huge canvas at LACMA.
In a previous post I highlighted conceptual artist Michael Asher's take on the painting in a site-specific work commissioned for the museum. Then fellow Unframed blogger Devi Noor found this great clip on YouTube of a Simpsons episode in which The Kentuckian makes a hilarious cameo appearance as a campaign image for a politicking Mr. Burns. A testament to the power of Benton's image, these riffs on the painting also underscore the way meanings of iconic images can shift depending on who is looking and when.
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LACMA is Free Today!
If it's a holiday Monday, then that means general admission to LACMA is free, thanks to Target. Tim Burton is not included, but the seven other exhibitions on view now, as well as Christian Marclay's The Clock and all the rest of our permanent collection installations, are no charge. Here's a reminder of all the special exhibitions on view:
David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy—the first major exhibition on the West Coast devoted to one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century. (Resnick Pavilion)
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection—75 objects by artists including Bruce Nauman, Glenn Ligon, Betye Saar, Nam June Paik and more, many of which are recent acquisitions that have never been on view at LACMA before. (BCAM)
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964–1966—This small exhibition looks at a brief but formative period in Celmins' oeuvre. (Ahmanson Building)
Burton Selects: From LACMA's Collection—In conjunction with Tim Burton, we asked the director to choose "Burtonesque" works from our permanent collection. Today only we'll have gallery attendants on hand to enhance your experience of this show. (Ahmanson Building)
Elizabeth Taylor in Iran: Photographs by Firooz Zahedi—In 1976 Zahedi accompanied the late Elizabeth Taylor to Iran, her first and only trip there. This exhibition marks the first time all of Zahedi's photographs from that trip have been presented together. (Ahmanson Building)
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy—The thirty-seven small alabaster sculptures in this exhibition belong to the tomb of John the Fearless (1371–1419), where they are organized into a processional. The detail given to the sculptures imbues each Mourner with its own personality. This is a small but powerful exhibition. (Art of the Americas Building)
The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin—Hakuin Ekaku was an incredibly influential Zen monk whose art and teaching continue have impact five hundred years later. This is the first exhibition in the West of Hakuin's art. (Pavilion for Japanese Art)
And if that's not enough for you, check out all of our smaller installations sprinkled around campus for something else that might hit your sweet spot. You can also pop into any of our permanent collection galleries—in the European galleries, attendants will be on hand to answer your questions.
This afternoon we'll also have two performances from Italian folk duo Musicantica in Hancock Park. Nearby there will be family art-making activities as well, so this is the perfect way to spend an afternoon with your kids.
For more information on Tim Burton tickets, check the exhibition page.
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This Weekend at LACMA: Tim Burton!
The moment many people have been waiting for has finally arrived: Tim Burton is opening to the public this Sunday. And don't forget: if you're a member, it's open NOW. This is a ticketed show, which means it's ideal if you order your tickets and reserve your times in advance. Tickets are $20—unless you're a member, in which case you get two FREE tickets to the show. (The theme of this paragraph is: why aren't you a member?)
Tim Burton, Untitled (Edward Scissorhands), 1990, private collection, Edward Scissorhands © Twentieth Century Fox, © 2011 Tim Burton
In addition to the exhibition itself, we're also kicking off a Tim Burton film series tonight with Edward Scissorhands—a special 70mm print! Tomorrow night the director himself will be on hand to introduce Ed Wood, preceded by a screening of his early short, Vincent. Again, advance tickets are recommended. Check the film page for future screenings in the series.
You'll have one other chance on Saturday to see Tim Burton in person—he'll be signing copies of the exhibition catalogue and The Art of Tim Burton from 12 to 2 pm. The signing is limited to two books per person, and you must have proof of purchase from the LACMA bookstore in order to get your books signed. We have had an overwhelming response to this event and we can't guarantee that everyone who comes will get their books signed. The signing is first come, first served and will end promptly at 2 pm. One more caveat: Saturday is a members-only preview day, so only members will have a chance to view the exhibition on the day of the signing. (Again: why aren't you a member?)
In addition to the Tim Burton exhibition in the Resnick Pavilion and the films screening in the Bing Theater, there's even more Burton-related things to see while you're on campus—check out the giant Balloon Boy outside of the Bing Theater, the deer perched outside of Ray's, and the related exhibition Burton Selects: From LACMA's Collection, on view in the Ahmanson Building, which presents a variety of artworks from our permanent collection that Tim Burton himself chose to put on view.
For those of you want to see and experience more than just Tim Burton, there's plenty more to see and do this weekend. Film buffs, don't forget that Christian Marclay's The Clock is on view in the Art of the Americas Building, just a hop and a skip away from the Bing Theater. And next door to The Clock is the sublime and serene exhibition The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Courts of Burgundy. Sharing the Resnick Pavilion with Tim Burton is David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, and across the way in BCAM is Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection.
As always, we also have free concerts all weekend long. Tonight vocalist Dwight Trible performs in the BP Grand Entrance for Jazz at LACMA; tomorrow in Hancock Park Costazul throws down some energetic salsa during Latin Sounds; and Sunday night in the Bing Theater Ensembles from the Colburn School will perform classical works for Sundays Live.
If you're looking for something to do with the whole family, there's lots of kid-friendly activities happening at the museum too. In addition to the Boone Children's Gallery, where you and your kids can make art all weekend, Sunday is our weekly Andell Family Sunday, featuring free art-making activities for the whole family. Admission to Tim Burton is free for NexGen members, but tickets to that exhibition are required for accompanying adults, and reservations are recommended.
Last but certainly not least, this is a three-day weekend! And that means that Monday is a Target Free Holiday Monday. Tim Burton admission is not included, but the rest of the museum will be open to all for no charge. There will be family art-making activities all day, plus live music in the afternoon and gallery educators in select galleries.
His Teacher Remembers Tim Burton
While preparing for the exhibition Tim Burton, opening this weekend at LACMA, we had the opportunity to join colleagues from the Museum of Modern Art for an interview with Doris Adams, Burton's high school art teacher. She can still recall exactly where he sat in her classroom.
Ms. Adams says that the young Mr. Burton stood out for his talent and imagination–and that he was a quiet, thoughtful student.
For more video interviews with Tim Burton himself, check out the handheld tour of the exhibition, for rent when you purchase tickets.
Amy Heibel
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Chef Morningstar's Garden at LACMA
If you've happened to poke your head behind the walls of Ray's and Stark Bar, you've probably come across our newest outdoor project—an herb garden.
The herb garden behind Ray's.
Ray's executive chef Kris Morningstar considered a number of things before planting the raised gardens. He focused on ingredients that can be sustainable; those that would be used regularly for his seasonal dishes and in portions that the garden can supply enough of. He also selected herbs that are difficult to find, or even if they could be, they'd never be as fresh as those picked straight from the museum's back yard.
Herbs from the garden.
Take these chive blossoms; only a pinch is needed to add fresh pops of flavor chef Morningstar's pen shell clam sashimi with backyard grapefruit, serrano chili, Maldon salt, and local olive oil. Fresh opal basil from the garden completes one his signature dishes, squid ink tonarelli with calamari, garlic, serrano chili, mint, and bottarga.
Squid-ink tonarelli with calamari, garlic, serrano chili, mint, and bottarga
Chef Morningstar does some gardening.
Like any artist, Chef Morningstar finds himself not only inspired by his ingredients, but also influenced by his environment. And like any living artwork, the garden is a work in-progress to be used increasingly as it continues to grow. The chef's work doesn't stop there; keep your eyes peeled—Chef Morningstar says another garden of tomato plants may be on the way.
Christine Choi, Communications Manager
Photos by Lauren Noble
Art and Its Afterlife
Upon first seeing Bruce Nauman's neon sculpture Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn't Know—on view in the current exhibition Human Nature—I attempted to count the nineteen (dare I say) somewhat "apocryphal" words as a collective while they flashed dizzyingly before me. I suddenly had this thought that the only words missing were "sin" and "devil" and I could have heard these on any given Sunday from a Baptist preacher. Of course, this is the absurd universe that art lives in: what could have been said, what should have been said, and what one wished was said, all leading back to the piece itself.
Bruce Nauman, Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn't Know, 1983, Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund
For Nauman, a sort of Pop Existentialist with a Conceptualist's heart of gold, this was the game! Words and meanings, anagrams, palindromes, puns, and the humorous hide and seek—Nauman had a passionate attraction to the paradox of language. That is not to say he was a romantic, as on most levels he was a consummate realist, but he thought "art ought to have a moral value," to quote Joseph Ketner II's essay "Elusive Signs." It was the 1980s: it may have been "Morning in America," but it was politically dark in South Africa and Africa in general, and Nauman took this to heart. And yet, here's a guy who fed on the intriguing ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein in which meaning was not shared by an object and its name; and Vladimir Nabokov of Lolita fame, a novel of dastardly exquisiteness; and also Samuel Beckett, the master of the haunting otherness. Language had to be this, metaphorically speaking, convertible 'mercury vapor' driving through the heart of the American dream, prepared to ignite confusion and sow tension.
Thus his neon art, a commercial appropriation, would slip through the harness of the consumer's earnest trite and in its bright glowing attempt to lay some profundities at the unexpected feet. Nauman's devilish instinct of melding whimsy and danger while lacing lascivious undertow fills his art with misdirection. Aesopian edicts in decadent clothing! It had that burst of the social shock awareness of graffiti, the New York City subway's epidemic. It spoke on the same level, hyper, imposing, a sort of in-your-face grandeur. But legible! And although it is said that he made grander sculptures than Human Nature, none quite capture its quintessential completeness. Its zany romp, a radiant moronic heartbeat chaotically circulating its speedy reminders of the human condition, and yet perversely it could be an algorithm away from being a video game. Words leaping out of ashen shadow tubes as flares in day-glo flashes, "life-love-hate-death-pleasure-pain," winking in circular stop motion, and layered, star-like with, "matters-animal-nature-human-matter," imposing blazingly with verbs of "knows-cares-doesn't know-care," and for an exhilarating second, all are lit at once. Nauman, highly self-conscious, knew the risk of these semiotic wonders. Human Nature could be a street sign rant, first cousin to "The End is Near," though in his carnival glitz, it is somehow comical and redundant, like a beer ad in his first studio or those cafes at roadside truck stops, all racy hues and tart glamour. And for all of Human Nature's faults, and maybe a defeat of its message, it remains exquisitely beautiful.
But in its afterlife, the year 2011, in the 140-character twitterverse living in the six-second attention span world of "it's cool," "it made me dizzy," "it was so psychedelic," Bruce Nauman's Human Nature, still, begs to please in its vaudevillian neon that nature in its infinite jest is entertainment and where the product of human folly never quite fails to be a laughing matter.
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This Weekend at LACMA: The Clock Returns, Zen Paintings by Hakuin Opens, Mourners Dance, and More
If you missed our twenty-four-hour screening of Christian Marclay's The Clock, don't fret: starting today it will be on view in the galleries—right next door to The Mourners—during regular museum hours.
Christian Marclay, The Clock (still), 2010, purchased with funds provided by Steve Tisch through the 2011 Collectors Committee, © Christian Marclay, photo courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
In addition to these and more exhibitions, we've got some great programs happening tonight and the rest of the weekend. Stop by the museum after work and catch the Jon Mayer Trio performing for free in front of Urban Light for our weekly Jazz at LACMA series. To give you a taste, here's the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street" at the Estoril Jazz Festival in 2009:
On the other side of campus, tonight is the conclusion of our Terrence Malick film series, and it's a special one: the extended director's cut of The New World. This version of the film has never before been screened in theaters, so you don't want to miss it. Also on hand will be Jacqueline West, the film's Oscar-nominated costume designer.
If you've been to our Korean art galleries in the last few months, you've seen conservators working in the galleries on the restoration of an eighteenth-century Korean Buddhist painting, Buddha Shakyamiuni Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak. On Saturday morning we'll be holding a free one-day symposium on their work, including talks by conservation scientists from LACMA and scholars from Dongguk University and Yong-In University, both in Korea.
Saturday is also a great day to see our recently opened exhibition The Mourners. At 2 pm the Jamal Dance Art Theater will give a free performance inspired by the exhibition, "Mourners Are Dancing Too."
Jamal Dance Art Theater: Mourners Are Dancing Too
Saturday night in the Bing is the uplifting Gospel documentary Rejoice & Shout, tracing the musical genre's evolution from spirituals and hymns to contemporary R&B-infused songs.
Sunday sees the opening of a brand-new exhibition in the Pavilion for Japanese Art: The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin. Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) is one of the most influential Zen masters of the last 500 years—he's the man who asked "What is the sound of one hand?" But in addition to his influential teachings, he was also an incredibly significant artist. The Sound of One Hand is the first exhibition in the West devoted to Hakuin's scrolls.
Hakuin Ekaku, "Kotobuki," Gubutsu-an Collection
Bring your kids on Sunday for our weekly free activities during Andell Family Sundays, where you can build your own mini-furniture!
As the day wears on, head to the Art Catalogues bookstore to hear critic David Antin discuss his latest book, Radical Coherency: Selected Essays, 1966–2005.
In the evening, the Crossroads Orchestra (Alexander Treger, conductor) will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Vivaldi for our ongoing free Sundays Live concert series.
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Choosing a Somali
If you want a cat with the high spirits of the Abyssinian but with luxurious fur — a cat that resembles a fox with its pointed muzzle, alert ears, and intelligent, brilliant eyes — look no further than the Somali. With all the virtues of the Aby plus a gorgeous semi-long coat, the Somali is a beautiful and animated addition to any household.
History and Origin of Somali Cats
The Somali first made its American appearance in the 1950s when longhaired kittens began appearing in Abyssinian litters. The gene governing long hair is recessive, which means one copy of the gene must be inherited from each parent for a kitten to have long hair. The gene can be passed on for generations without appearing, so no one knows exactly when or where the gene originated.
Two schools of thought exist about the origin of the gene. Some believe that it was introduced when European breeders bred longhaired cats with Abyssinians to save the Aby from extinction after the world wars had decimated the breed. Others believe that the Somali is a gift from Mother Nature, created by spontaneous mutation. The idea that the Somali arose from the Abyssinian lines without help from other breeds is popular with many Somali fanciers.
However the longhair gene got there, early Abyssinian breeders were less than thrilled with longhair kittens cropping up in their Aby litters and quietly sold them as pets. It wasn't until the 1960s — the decade of flower power and long, flowing tresses — that fanciers finally began seeing the appeal of a longhaired Abyssinian. Breeder Evelyn Mague spearheaded the Somali movement and worked hard to gain acceptance for the longhaired rebels. Mague came up with the name "Somali" since Somalia borders Ethiopia, the country formerly called Abyssinia for which the Abyssinian was named. The Somali is no more from Somalia than the Abyssinian is from Abyssinia, but the name has a nice ring to it.
In 1972, Mague founded the Somali Cat Club of America and began bringing the Somali enthusiasts together. Gradually, the breed won over the opposition and steadily gained popularity. Today, the Somali is recognized by all North American registries.
Appearance of a Somali
Although essentially a longhaired Abyssinian, the Somali has characteristics all its own. The most notable difference, besides fur length, is size; Somalis are larger than their Aby relatives. Dense fur adds to the appearance of size. Their bodies are long, lithe and graceful with firm muscular development. The head is a modified wedge shape adorned with large, pointed, alert ears. The large, expressive, almond-shaped eyes gleam like brilliant gold or green jewels in a rich setting of fur.
The Somali's medium-length coat is soft, silky and baby-fine. The hair is longest around the neck and breeches; the mane gives the Somali the appearance of a miniature lion. A luxurious fox-like brush adorns the tail.
Like the Abyssinian, the Somali is a ticked or agouti breed. Each hair has bands of alternating darker and lighter color that gives the fur its characteristic camouflage. The Somali's longer fur shows off the ticking to its best advantage. The ticked pattern is actually a type of tabby. While the body is free of tabby stripes, some striping can be seen on the face; dark pencil lines extend from the eyes and brows, and the forehead is decorated with the classic tabby "M."
Somalis come in the same colors as the Aby: ruddy, red, blue and fawn. All associations except TCA accept these colors; TCA accepts only ruddy and red. Some associations such as TICA and AACE also accept silver. This color is controversial, however, as some breeders believe that the inhibitor gene responsible for the silver effect will ruin the ruddy coloration.
The traditional Somali was recently accepted by TCA. According to traditionalists, the body and head type of the Somali began to change around 1983, when the other cat associations began supporting a more tubular and thin body type and an extreme wedge-shaped head. The traditional Somali has a more robust, muscular body and a head that's less extremely wedge-shaped and fine-boned.
Somali Cat's Personality
Although the Somali's beauty first attracts people, its personality turns fanciers into fanatics. Although not lap cats, Somalis are people-oriented and devoted, and want to be involved in every aspect of your life. Open a drawer, and your Somali will be there to peer in. Sit in front of the tube, and your Somali will be there for a pet and a purr.
Don't get a Somali if you want a cat that resembles a furry doorstop, however. Like the action-packed Aby, the Somali is energetic and animated, and possesses a sense of humor and a love of play. Somalis love to race around the house, opening cupboards with their agile paws and generally getting into mischief. They are also intelligent, which contributes to the mischief making. They also tend to be determined cats; once they get an idea in their furry little heads, there's no deterring them. "Tenacious" is the word most used to describe the Somali.
Grooming a Somali Cat
The Somali's soft, silky fur requires combing about twice a week. Attention should be paid to the longer fur on hindquarters and neck since mats can occur in those areas. Fortunately, most Somalis enjoy being groomed.
Association Acceptance
American Association of Cat Enthusiasts (AACE)
American Cat Association (ACA)
American Cat Fancier's Association (ACFA)
Canadian Cat Association (CCA)
Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA)
Cat Fanciers' Federation (CFF)
The International Cat Association (TICA)
Traditional Cat Association, Inc. (TCA)
United Feline Organization (UFO)
Somalis are generally healthy, hardy and vigorous. Like all purebred breeds, however, Somalis have a few cons with their pros. Like the Abyssinian, some Somalis have trouble with gingivitis and tooth decay, and require regular check ups, cleanings and tooth brushing to keep their smiles bright. Some Somali lines also have a higher incidence of renal amyloidosis — a hereditary disease found in Aby bloodlines as well.
J. Anne Helgren
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Boardwalk Bathroom Controversy (Basically) Settled in Seaside Heights
The Ocean Club and adjacent kiosks, Seaside Heights, N.J., Oct. 2021. (Photo: Daniel Nee)
There will be new restrooms open on the southern portion of the Seaside Heights boardwalk next summer, available to the public, courtesy of the Ocean Club complex.
The matter has been something of a soap opera over the last year, prompting legal action between the borough council and planning board over the business, with a resolution amenable to all three sides having been reached in October. Because of the litigation between the two governmental bodies, however, the matter had to be agreed-upon by way of a settlement that requires council approval. Further complicating the situation, because the Ocean Club complex is located in proximity to the municipal border with Seaside Park, the neighboring town had a right to formally object to the new restroom plan.
Ultimately, the solution that was forged at the October planning board meeting seems to have been met with approval by all sides.
"They will provide the bathrooms at the location we agreed on," said Mayor Anthony Vaz. "They will be free and will operate when we operate our public bathrooms, and they will also maintain an attendant while they are in operation."
The Ocean Club was required to provide public restrooms as a condition of approval of its beach club and entertainment complex that is still under construction on the Dupont Avenue pier. Initially, restrooms were placed in a free-standing kiosk on the boardwalk that is also owned by the Ocean Club principals. Over the summer, there was a row between the borough and the Ocean Club over the bathrooms being locked and subject to a fee, then there were occasional long lines at times that clogged up the boardwalk. Some backlash came from tenants of the kiosks who were operating restaurants.
The solution was to build new restrooms physically located inside the Ocean Club building, but with a public, exterior entrance. The new bathrooms will also be expanded in comparison to the kiosks, featuring four stalls in the women's room and two stalls and two urinals in the men's room. Signage will direct the public to the ultimate location of the restrooms, situated on the northern end of the complex.
Vaz said Seaside Park officials had no objection to the plan and it will move forward. The council has not formally voted on its approval, but agreed to do so during a work session meeting of the governing body earlier this month.
"Everything went well – they agreed to all our terms, so we're pleased with that," said Vaz. "And it makes me feel good to see the cooperation we're starting to receive. We have to [formally] approve it, but we've agreed."
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Many of Computer Village's learning centers charge no fees to individuals and families that attend the main facility at 4411 N. Newstead Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood of north city. Computer Village serves more than 600 clients weekly, housed in churches, community centers, schools and shelters in 22 locations throughout the area, including four sites in metro east.

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Computer Village is a community- based technology and training project founded in 1995 by Don M. Holt, a former sales executive for Xerox, to help low-income individuals learn about technology and how to use technology to their benefit. Computer Village serves more than 600 clients weekly, with sites housed in churches, community centers, schools and shelters in 22 locations throughout the area, including four sites in Metro East. Many Computer Village learning centers charge no fees to individuals and families who attend the main facility at 4411 N. Newstead Ave. in the Penrose neighborhood of North City.

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Pandemic Be Damned, PAs Still Like Their Job
— Field also continues growing, according to new workforce report
by Ryan Basen, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today July 29, 2021
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Physician assistants (PAs) reported high job satisfaction in 2020, despite much of the year being marked by the pandemic, and the field continues to grow. That's according to the annual Statistical Profile of Certified PAs, released this week by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
In the survey, which had a response rate of 85.9%, nearly three-quarters of PAs reported strong job satisfaction, with 72.9% saying they were "completely or mostly satisfied."
"What's reassuring is the high satisfaction level in spite of the pandemic," said NCCPA President Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C.
However, 26.6% reported feeling burnout, with 57.2% noting occasional burnout, and only 0.9% saying they are "completely burned out."
The number of certified PAs grew to 148,560, a 28.6% increase over 2016 (the report compared 2020 findings with the 2016 report), giving the field 45 PAs per 100,000 people in the U.S. -- an increase over 36 per 100,000 in 2016. And for the third straight year (2018-2020), more than 9,000 new PAs were certified.
More than two-thirds (69.7%) of all PAs reported that their primary employer was hiring more PAs -- and 19.7% of these employers had positions open for at least 6 months.
"The profession first of all is growing tremendously," Morton-Rias said. "It used to be, 'What's a PA and will you get a job?'" But no more.
While 5.8% of PAs noted that they plan to retire within the next 5 years, Morton-Rias said many are working well into their 60s and 70s.
Morton-Rias, who teaches at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City, attributed the field's growth in part to the increase in PA educational programs. The number of programs has increased from 148 in 2010 to 267 in 2020, according to an NCCPA spokesperson. That number was up to 275 by March of this year -- compared with 45 in 1990.
Nearly four of five PAs listed a master's as their highest degree obtained (78.8%), an increase over 71% in 2016. Those reporting a bachelor's as their top degree declined from 23% to 16.4%. The average PA educational program lasts just over 2 years (111 weeks).
Surgical subspecialties (18.7%) and family medicine/general practice (18.1%) were the two most popular practice areas for PAs. Among internal medicine subspecialties, cardiology (2.9%), gastroenterology (1.6%), and oncology (1.5%) were most popular. Orthopedic (10.9%), cardiothoracic vascular (3.4%), and neurosurgery (2.2%) led the way for surgical subspecialties.
About two-thirds of PAs change disciplines at some point in their career, Morton-Rias said.
Hospitals (41.5%) and office-based private practices (37.7%) were the most common PA settings, but those working in urgent care settings more than tripled over 2016 (from 1.7% to 5.1%).
PAs reported working 40.1 hours weekly on average and seeing 71 patients -- down from 74 patients in 2016.
Nearly all PAs (94.8%) said they practice clinically. For those not practicing clinically, the leading reasons were family responsibilities (32.9%), "other" (26.2%), and retirement (16%). Those reporting "other" most often said they were looking for a position.
Median PA income was $115,000, up from $105,000 in 2016, while the mean salary increased from $104,131 to $115,470. The percentage earning more than $200,000 nearly doubled. Specialties with the highest mean income were cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, and orthopedic surgery.
Women continued to dominate the profession (69.7% vs 30.3% men), and PAs ages in their 30s (38.3%) represented the largest age group (median PA age is 38).
More recent college graduates and other young students are entering the field directly, Morton-Rias said, though it does still see a solid share of second-career professionals.
The field is mostly white (80.8%), which has not changed much over the last 5 years, Morton-Rias wrote in a letter introducing the report.
Just over one-fifth reported using telemedicine (20.7%), with 76% of these PAs saying they use telemedicine less than 10 hours weekly. Nearly all PAs (95.5.%) reported prescribing pharmacological agents for patients and one-third indicated they were their patient panels' primary provider.
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