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Interview: Neuicon at The Monolith
So I sat down for a virtual chat with Neuicon, the Editor-in-Chief and creative brain behind Crushpop Productions and the Monolith (whose work I have reviewed here and here) to dig into how the companies evolved. We did this interview in early December, but it's taken me this long to get organized enough to format the thing, and for that I am sorry! I'd blame the holidays, but I think I might actually just be disorganized. Thank you all for reading and for being patient with me. Especially Mr. Neuicon!
CPOP's Goremageddon tabletop game in action!
S: Thank you, Neuicon, for taking the time to talk to me today. Can you tell me what CPOP is and how it started, and how you got into the gaming side of things?
N: I have been a big gamer all my life, really. I started designing rules for existing tabletop games back in 2008. I worked on these with friends. I also created games that revolved around established game universes, like Warhammer 40,000 and Starcraft.
It was in 2010 when I decided that it would be interesting to try and establish my own games. I began with GROMM, which was originally free, a Dark Fantasy universe and was created under the influence of another great game at the time, Shattered Verse, by Adam Isherwood. I was given his blessing to use the rules as a platform, and GROMM was born. This lead to me wanting to create a brand that would look over this and future games, leading to the creation of Crushpop Productions, later nicknamed CPOP. GROMM become our flagship title.
S: That's perfect! Does GROMM stand for something, or is it just the name? And how does Goremageddon come into play?
N: GROMM is the name of the world. You need a little bit of reference, here, too. GRAXX is the name of the planet in Goremageddon, after the fantasy world of GROMM phased out, it was named GRAXX. Essentially, GROMM evolved with our real planet Earth in an alternate reality. So they've got computers, iphones, the United States, North Korea, etc. It's the same world, but with fantasy races like Elves and Orcs alongside Humans. This is why places like Los Angeles, New York, San Bernardino, etc. are all mentioned and referenced.
S: Cool! Okay, so when did you start thinking you wanted to expand into fiction? How did that come about?
N: I have always enjoyed writing. I really began diving into that during Junior High when creative writing had me hooked. I remember creating this wild Sci-Fi universe with various races vying for control of the galaxy. It was insane, but I loved writing it, and reading it over, again and again. So, the passion for creativity has always been there.
With the success of GROMM and the first two editions of Goremageddon, it became apparent that people were really hooked by the theme and story. I was getting so many emails about expanding the story and adding more to expansions so that people had more to read, because they found it so entertaining. The first two editions of Goremageddon were really niche, but the second edition started to gain traction. I decided to launch the Monolith upon the success of Goremageddon and just how much people loved the universe.
On Free Comic Book Day 2015, I unveiled "Ling Ling Conquers GRAXX" as a teaser for what to expect from the Monolith (Ling Ling is a popular character in Goremageddon, based entirely on my wife.) It went over incredibly well and again, emails poured in about seeing Ling Ling in her very own mini-series.
It was a huge decision. I invested heavily in our first ongoing mini-series and brought Tom Haswell on board to write Absolute Valentine, a series based on the Synthwave musician of the same name, and a good friend as well. I was terrified at the start of the launch, and was overwhelmed by its success. It later led to my moving forward with a full brand, entirely dedicated to fiction—not only revolving around the universes of our games, but unique fiction, as well.
S: That's really cool! Okay, so how does 80's synth tie into all of this? I'm really fascinated by the cross-genre and cross-medium world you've built. Can you describe how one inspires another, or is that "too big" a question?
N: I am a big fan of the music and theme. The first edition of Goremageddon was more raw and heavily thrash metal-based. Then I decided to indulge in the glamour of the synthwave movement as, to me, it really captured the 80's style of things and Goremageddon is truly like stepping into a badly produced Italian post-apocalyptic film in the 80's.
If you want to know why so many people love Goremageddon, the game is heavily inspired by: 80's Italian horror, gore, post-apocalyptic films, synthwave, cyberpunk, noir, crime drama, 80's action films, thrash metal and even includes fantasy themes (magic, vampires, werewolves, orcs, elves all in the post-apocalyptic setting.) It's really one of the only places you will see such a massive mash-up of ideas and themes.
S: I love that. So what are your main series' right now? And where do you foresee the Monolith going in the next 5-10 years?
N: Absolute Valentine is still our best-selling series. Tom really blew it out of the park with that one. He turned an idea I had into this massive story with twists, turns, action and an incredible writing style. Fans of the Monolith have been asking for a Ling Ling Conquers GRAXX series, too. But I'm massively busy, and it's going to take time. I am currently writing it, but a release date is still TBA. Chinatown is another popular title and fans are already looking forward to another season. Chris Reynolds has agreed to it, and I am so stoked to get that up and running soon!
We also offer other titles in conjunction with other brands, such as Super Chibi Clash, from MidKnight Heroes. We currently are scheduled to release another mini-series for that publisher in the near future.
S: Can you explain a little bit about how these other titles tie in to the brand?
N: The Monolith is primarily a platform. This is how I view the brand, overall. While the focus is on games and universes of CPOP products, I don't want it to be all the Monolith is. I hope it will become a platform for indie authors to release their work on. MidKnight Heroes adds to this, as both a friend of CPOP and a brand producing their own games and IP. They have chosen to allow the Monolith to release their fiction; Super Chibi Clash is based on their games' universe and is presented in a similar way to how traditional Monolith products are released, in seasons and episodes per season.
The Monolith has truly been a dream come true and its success has really blown me away. I would love to see it bigger and broader in 5-10 years' time, the place more and more indie authors can come to to see their hard work brought to life. I want it to be a place where fans and new readers alike will always find something that they can get into. I think we have the ability to continue doing just that, so all I can do is continue to move forward and this, being such a huge passion of mine, is something I will continue to do with much hard work behind it.
S: I love that idea. So what is your day job? Do you come from a creative background, beyond personal interests?
N: While I have so much going on in the creative world—CPOP, the Monolith, Solitarius (our merchandise brand) and the Nightvine Temple Society (an indie music label)—I am, by day, a Personal Trainer. I have four licenses and absolutely LOVE my job. I am currently in school for a degree in Sciences; I promised my father before he passed away that I would one day acquire a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.
As far as a creative background goes, I did enjoy a short stint working on indie comic books, doing both pencils and inks. I tried illustration again a few years ago, but am pretty rusty; at least I think so, lol. Aside from being a gym enthusiast, I enjoy video games, reading, writing, illustration, painting (both on canvas as well as tabletop miniatures) as well as things like sports. I practice Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling and my wife practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
S: You've mentioned that you are married. Do you have kids? How do you manage the work/life balance of a full time job and managing this huge creative passion on the side?
N: I am married, yes. I met my wife in 2005 and have been with her ever since. She engages in just about everything I enjoy and is incredibly open-minded. She games, reads comics, loves novels, enjoys tabletop games, watches football and MMA with me and even practices brazilain jiu-jistu. As for kids, no, I don't plan to ever have kids of my own.
As far as managing all this goes, my sleep cycle is often screwed up and usually, 4-5 hours is all I get or need, really. I am an incredibly busy person, but it keeps me motivated and moving forward.
S: I think I'd die if I got that little sleep! And your wife is the inspiration for Ling Ling? How does she feel about that?
N: She is! She loves the game, the setting, and has fallen in love with her character. Ling Ling is a really complex character to understand. I think it is this alone that really made her so popular. In Corrogatio 2, there is a Ling Ling story that introduces two new characters, Rowena and Marie Antoinette, who are based on my wife's real-life sisters, too.
S: That sounds awesome! I need to read some more Ling Ling! Okay, now I need some of the business stuff. If a writer is interested in writing for the Monolith and the Goremageddon universe, how do they proceed?
N: Writing for the monolith is easy! The CPOP website has a contact section where messages can be sent to us in regards to various topics. Direct submissions are the best way to inquire about writing for the Monolith. We're always looking to provide writers with a platform that will encourage them and allow them to see their work published.
S: And what are you plans for the game, now?
N: Goremageddon is finished and is currently being put together, the release for the game should come early 2018 (Q1). It is a tabletop miniatures game. You play on a table, using miniatures to represent the members of your gang, dice to determine the outcome of battles, a tape ruler to determine measurements, and a playing area to represent the battlefield. It features a more rich history, background, an updated set of rules. To date, this is the biggest investment I have made for a CPOP produced game. I am incredibly excited to see it released.
There are other titles the Monolith will be unveiling soon, too. I have finished GROMM: Rise of the Queen, which is being edited right now. It's a story that takes a look at and alternate history for GROMM. In the original GROMM, Elizabeth succumbs to evil forces and is put to death by her father. In Rise of the Queen, her father and brother fall in battle and she's forced to rule her nation, and she does.
S: Well, this all sounds really exciting, and I can't wait to follow your progress in 2018. Thank you so much for talking with me!
N: Thank you!
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we have an idea to use a "fair exchange" solution for trading without money (goods & services earn and cost points instead of normal money). Is there a mobile-first app or software that can work offline or in a LAN for managing how many points everybody has? Maybe including basic social tools like account/login + chat and groups or pages?
"Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment.
Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty."


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the greatest depression Mar. 20, 2009
The AIG Bonus Tax Makes People Queasy
By Dan Amira
Yesterday in the House of Representatives, about half of Republicans joined with Democrats to pass a bill that would tax bonuses from AIG and other bailed-out companies at 90 percent (Charles Rangel, who introduced the bill, said he "figured that the local and state governments would take care of the other 10 percent"). This was clearly an attempt to quell the bloodthirsty rage of their constituents, and hopefully put the whole messy affair behind them and move on to more important matters. And perhaps today Mr. and Mrs. Middle-class Bonus Hater opened their morning paper and smiled, because the government was fighting for them. But why, then, is nearly everyone with a blog or a newspaper column simply more distraught than before?
• The Daily News' editorial board calls it "economic populism run amok." Congress "distorted the tax code into a political weapon as a way to blunt the fury of the American public," potentially producing "dire consequences for the drive to revive America's financial system." [NYDN]
• Paul Krugman says the bill is "clumsy, and it will punish some innocent parties while letting the most guilty off scot-free," but "there wasn't much alternative at this point. And for that I blame the Obama people." Why? Because the administration has "managed, in an astonishingly short time, to create the impression that it's owned by the wheeler-dealers. And that leaves it with no ability to counter crude populism." [Conscience of a Liberal/NYT]
• Noam Scheiber worries about the consequences we know ("productive, non-nefarious" workers could be affected) and those we can't even foresee. He also claims that "there are third-world juntas that would think twice before doing this." [Stash/New Republic]
• Ezra Klein responds that "we might be a little overly concerned about the feelings of our financiers. If wealthy bankers living amidst a junta had tanked the national economy and thrown millions out of work, I imagine they'd have more to worry about than heavy taxation of their yearly bonuses." [American Prospect]
• Josh Marshall fears the bill cuts too broad a swath. While we shouldn't reward "CEOs who drove their companies into the ground … it's not clear to me why a couple, both of whom work in the financial services industry, and make $150,000 each should essentially have their entire bonuses taken back in taxes." [TPM]
• Nate Silver, concurring with Marshall, understands "why the bill was written this way — it had to be broad enough to fend off a constitutional challenge — but the cure is worse than the disease. Much worse. I can't imagine a credible defense of it along economic lines, and so far as I've seen nobody has even attempted one." [FiveThirtyEight]
• Michael Gerson wonders, "What sane money manager would want to partner with a government that blames others for its mistakes, urges the violation of inconvenient contracts and threatens to tax benefits retroactively?" We're undermining this essential "trust and confidence." [WP]
• Ian Bremmer and Sean West believe Congress has been motivated by "political expediency" to, among other things, pass a bill that "in other circumstances would clearly be labeled retroactive and unfair." [WSJ]
• Conor Clarke ultimately thinks this "won't really matter a great deal," but even so, "the theory and origins of this bill are questionable." [Atlantic]
• Henry Blodget calls the "Populist Rage Tax" a "new low in the US government's response to this crisis." What's distressing is that many of the people who "had NOTHING to do with the gambling addiction that bankrupted their firms … will quickly decide that now is a good time to pursue their careers elsewhere." [Clusterstock/Business Insider]
• Michael Lewis agrees that "if the government insists on punishing those valuable employees they will understandably leave, and leave behind a company even less viable than it is, and less likely to give the taxpayer back his money." [Bloomberg]
• Jay Newton Small suspects the bill "will probably cause many of [the affected companies] to simply give back the TARP money sooner than they probably should, to avoid losing their best people to foreign banks, boutique firms or hedge funds that can pay bigger bonuses." [Time]
• Charles Krauthammer contends that "common law is pretty clear about the impermissibility of ex post facto legislation and bills of attainder. They also happen to be specifically prohibited by the Constitution. We're going to overturn that for $165 million?" [WP]
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In the glorious autumn sunshine, Civil Service ran in four tries to defeat Hardwicke & Quedgeley 15-26 in a hard-hitting game, securing their first league win of the season.
Catching H&Q off guard from a scrum early on, Service were the first to score with winger Georgie Keene dashing past the defence and towards the posts following a smooth pass out from fly-half Jacqs Haines six minutes in.
The Service pack certainly earnt their stripes as ill-discipline from both sides led to numerous tough scrums throughout the first half. Captain Elly Holliday ignited the pack during a much needed break in play and spurred on, Service were victorious in turning over a crucial maul, with flanker Amber Coxhill serving a final blow barrelling down on the whitewash after a hard series of pick-and-goes inches from the line.
Despite Service being in possession most of the half, a wave of attack soon ensued from H&Q. After a long slog of questionable tap-and-go penalties going against Service, the hosts were eventually rewarded through sheer brute force with their first try shortly before the halftime whistle.
The second half kicked off in similar style to the first. Off the back of yet another scrum, the backs were released into action with a darting line from Jacqs and simple swift pass from centre Lucy Burnett into the hands of Georgie who dodged into a gap to score her second try of the match.
H&Q started to fire into action and continued to threaten throughout the remainder of the game funnelling Service deep into the danger zone on multiple occasions. Hard-nosed tackles from Helen Stanton, Flora Hodges and Katie Lake kept H&Q in check for the majority, however a slip of hands and a mistake from Service led to H&Q capitalising on the loose ball only inches from the line, eventually pushing over to score.
Following the restart and a knock-on from H&Q, newly subbed fly-half Hannah Smith brilliantly sucked in the defence and gifted Georgie a sublime pass to dart up the wing to run in a personal hat trick of tries.
Making use of their physical pack and centres, H&Q had the last say and bounding through in the closing moments, pressed hard to go down over the line before the final whistle. The efforts were too little too late as full squad collaboration from Service secured the win, with an extended gap thanks to the boot of Amber Coxhill.
Special thanks to the many familiar faces in the crowd who made the trip away to cheer the team on and witness a hotly anticipated win! The Service Ladies now have a weekend break before meeting Banbury Ladies at home on Sunday 2ndDecember.


We depart from Södra Hamnen in Uddevalla at 09.00, and as we chug towards Smögen we will serve you your midmorning coffee, whilst you enjoy the outstanding nature along the route. We make some quick stops on the way before we arrive at our destination at Henån, Bassholmen and Lysekil.
Once we arrive, you are invited to spend two hours walking around and enjoying Smögenbryggan. Smögen also offers good opportunities for a salty dip in the ocean, so pack your swimwear, at 15:15 the boat leaves to return home. On our return trip dinner is served, fish dish of the day, which is cooked onboard by our eminent chef. We also do the same quick stops as we did on the outbound journey at Lysekil, Bassholmen and Henån.


WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ - Monmouth University men's lacrosse attackman Bryce Wasserman (Southlake, Texas / Grapevine Faith) was chosen by the Denver Outlaws in the seventh round of the 2018 Major League Lacrosse Draft.
Wasserman, who was the 62nd overall selection, is the first Monmouth player to be picked in the Major League Lacrosse Draft.
"Words can't describe how I felt the moment I heard my name called," Wasserman said of being drafted. "I couldn't be more honored to be one of 63 guys to continue playing the game we love professionally, and I am excited to represent Monmouth and our lacrosse program in the professional ranks."
The senior owns a number of Monmouth scoring records and is the Hawks' all-time leader in goals (96), game-winning goals (9), hat tricks (14), assists (45) and points (141). Wasserman's 31 goals in 2018 are the most in a single season for a Monmouth player, while his 16 assists and 45 points as a junior also stand as a single-season highs. He also possesses single-game records for goals (6), assists (5) and points (7 – three times).
Wasserman is a 2018 team captain and a Preseason All-MAAC selection after helping lead Monmouth to the 2017 MAAC Regular Season and Tournament Championships. A First-Team All-MAAC choice at attack, Wasserman has twice been named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
"Our staff couldn't be happier for Bryce and the opportunity that he has in front of him to compete in the MLL," head coach Brian Fisher said. "It's such an honor to be selected in the draft but also to work and play alongside of some of the best coaches and players in the sport. Bryce is an outstanding ambassador for Monmouth University and our program and we are excited to watch him play at the next level."


Dr. Charlton graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1990. Dr. Charlton practiced in Toronto for 10 years before moving to Muskoka in 2000.
He has served on the OCA Software Committee and the College of Chiropractors of Ontario as a peer assessor. In 2007 he was awarded the Presidential Award of Excellence. He has been named the Readers Favourite Chiropractor by the Bracebridge Examiner for 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Dr. Charlton practices family oriented chiropractic and is certified in acupuncture.
Dale Smith is our office manager and chiropractic assistant. She is a valued member of our team and loved by all. Dale has an extensive background in the industry and working with people in general. She has training in the use of many of our therapy machines and can help out in all areas of the clinic.


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Lake groups give millions in time and money
Minnesota study is first to measure citizens' impact on preservation efforts.
By JOHN REINAN Minneapolis Star Tribune 10/3/17
Minnesota's private lake associations contribute more than $6.2 million and 1.2 million volunteer hours each year to preserving the quality of the state's signature natural resource, according to a study released Monday.
Concordia College in Moor-head conducted the study over the summer on behalf of Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates. The authors said they believe it's the first study to measure the preservation efforts of the more than 500 private lake associations in the state.
Lake association members "are there at the lake, every day, all year long," said co-author Michelle Marko, a Concordia biology professor and co-director of the college's environmental studies program. "They have a lot of knowledge and they're providing a great resource, both in their financial contributions and their volunteer work.
"There are over 12,000 lakes in Minnesota. Managing them is a very complex task," Marko said. "We have many agencies working on that — local governments as well as state organizations and even federal. To manage each of those 12,000 lakes is a lot of work and no one person or organization can be everywhere at one time."
The study was based on a survey of members from 186 lake associations, along with interviews and field visits.
The most common concerns cited by members were aquatic invasive species, overall water control and runoff policy.
Respondents also expressed a desire to work more closely with the state Department of Natural Resources and expressed concern over the aging population of lake property owners.
The report concludes that "Minnesota's lake associations play a crucial role in protecting and managing Minnesota's lakes."
It recommends "more communication and collaboration between policymakers and lake associations."
To view the Concordia College - Moorehead complete in-depth study see the link below;
http://www.mnlakesandrivers.org/sites/mnlakesandrivers.org/files/files/mn-lake-association-survey-2017-report.pdf


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Service Station Robbed In Portadown
A service station has been robbed in Portadown.
The incident occurred on the Dobbin Road on Thursday shortly before 9am.
A masked man entered the shop with a bag containing a weapon, according to the police.
He made off with a sum of cash.
Detective Constable Paul Murphy said: "The robber is described as in his 30s, 5' 10" tall, slim build with dark hair. He was wearing a dark baseball cap, black fleece, dark blue jeans and dark gloves.
"I am appealing for anyone with information or who may have seen this male in the area last night to get in touch with detectives in Lurgan by calling the non-emergency number 101.
"I would like to make a particular appeal to a female jogger who passed by the forecourt of the service station just minutes before the robbery. She was running from the Portadown direction towards Armagh and it is possible she may have seen something that could assist the investigation. We are keen to hear from her or anyone else who was in the area at the time."
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Catholic Cowboy wins the Claiming Crown Jewel at 17-1 in 2014.
Gulfstream Park, which will play host to the $1.1 million Claiming Crown for the fourth consecutive year, reminds horsemen the nomination deadline is Sunday, Nov. 8.
The 17th running of the Claiming Crown will be held on Opening Day of Gulfstream's Championship Meet Saturday, Dec. 5. The eight-race program last year handled more than $10 million. This year's Claiming Crown has added a ninth race – a 5-furlong turf sprint for fillies and mares with a purse of $110,000. The feature event will again be the $200,000 Jewel, won last year by the 17-1 longshot Catholic Cowboy.
Nomination forms can be found at http://claimingcrown.com/images/2015nominationform.pdf. For more information email [email protected] or [email protected].
The Claiming Crown is a "joint venture" between the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA) and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). The Claiming Crown was created to be the claiming horse owner's Breeders' Cup; a special racing event, created for the "average owner," and featuring some of the most competitive horses in the country. The Claiming Crown has been held annually since 1999.
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A severe thunderstorm, cumulonimbus cloud, moves across the plains east of Denver on June 10, 2004. Heavy rain and large hail is falling in the background, dark blue or blue-green area. A downdraft of cool, moist air produced by the rain and hail is pushing toward the camera. The strong winds produce fragmented cumulus clouds known as fractocumulus or scud, lighter, lower clouds in foreground.


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Q: How to remove Windows and GRUB problem At the moment I have Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed on my hard drive. Since I don't want to split my memory I want to remove Windows, but I have no idea how to do it since I am new to Linux.
Another problem I had after installing Ubuntu was that the GRUB bootloader didn't work so I googled for a bit of advice, and now I think I have an older version of GRUB. Is there a way to update it?
This is how my drive looks like at the moment:

A: The first thing you should do is to back up any files you want to keep from the My Documents Folder.
You may need to repair your GRUB which can be done by following these guidelines
Next, in gparted, the programme you used in your screen shot in your question, Right click on the Windows 7 partition /dev/sda2 and select unmount next right click on the same partition and select delete to remove the partition. This will completely wipe windows ad ALL files on the windows partition
Now you will have a blank space on your hard disk where Windows used to be. Next you will want to resize the partition with Ubuntu on it to reclaim the unused disk space.
I have never done this, so you may need to format it first. I'm afraid that you will have to either look it up or work it out with trial and error. Please see Jez W's comment below

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Empowering Personalised Medicine through Digital Solutions – this was the motto of the Final Conference of EU project PERMIDES, which is coordinated by CyberForum e.V., held on June 12, 2018, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In the framework of PERMIDES 50 innovative solutions with strong digital elements were developed. Partners in these projects were SMEs of the pharma and medicine sector on the one hand, and IT solution providers on the other hand.
Fourteen of the best of such projects presented their results at Utrecht, with close to 100 attendees from all over Europe sharing their insights and experiences in vivid discussions. At the networking, potential future cooperations were explored.
Naturally, particularly strong interest came from the Benelux region which is among the leading European regions when it comes to pharma and medicine. In that way the PERMIDES Conference benefitted a lot from the close relationship to the Benelux Precision Medicine Forum which started shortly after it.
In total PERMIDES has granted ca. 3 Mio Euro of funding for digital innovations in the pharma and medical sector. Most of this went into the development of prototypes in the framework of innovation projectsm but consulting and travel for the purpose of matchmaking was also supported.
Find more information about the project and the conference here.
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If you've started your own business, it's likely that you're passionate about running it and concentrating on the tasks you love doing. But if you're like most business owners, you might not have enough knowledge, experience or be so interested in recording all the details of every financial transaction. In this week's post we take a quick snapshot of what bookkeeping can mean for small businesses.
It's the process of recording and classifying business financial transactions. In other words, maintaining the records of the financial activities of a business or an individual. Bookkeeping's objective is simply to record and summarise financial transactions into a usable form that provides financial information about a business. Modern Bookkeepers also advise clients on compliance issues and can implement systems to streamline your business.
Determining and entering the financial transactions of the business – transactions have financial effects that must be recorded, whether the business is better off, worse off, or at least "different off," as the result of its transactions. The bookkeeping process begins by determining the relevant information about each transaction.
Performing end-of-period procedures. These procedures are the critical steps for getting the accounting records up-to-date and ready for the preparation of management accounting reports, tax returns, and financial statements.
Compiling the adjusted trial balance. This balance (a complete listing of all accounts) is the basis for preparing reports, tax returns and financial statements.
Setting up Chart of Accounts. The chart of accounts should be tailored to your business to ensure reports have the level of detail required to inform business decisions.
Setup accounting software. Using the right accounting software for your business will allow your business to grow without the need for changing later.
Reviewing the list of what bookkeeping entails, that's a lot of information to track and record and bookkeeping might not be something you enjoy or have time to understand. Without proper bookkeeping, it would be easy for transactions to go unrecorded or left to pile up until the end of a financial period. Mistakes could be made and important details could be lost or forgotten.
Using software can help make small business bookkeeping easier and more accurate. At Shelly's Bookkeeping Brisbane, we use Xero. Xero is a cloud based application that is available all over the world, meaning you can access your business's finances using any device with an internet connection, anytime, anywhere. It connects with your bank account so each transaction comes up quickly and matches up. Working with a bookkeeper using Xero is also much easier. Whenever you need their help, they can just log in and review your accounts.
The bottom line is that it takes time to keep your own books; is time you could be spending on other areas of your business. If you are not an accountant, have no experience in bookkeeping/finance or have little familiarity with software that assists with bookkeeping, the time it takes you to enter transactions into your ledger will be much higher than what is necessary. Think about cost, not just in terms of the dollar amount you could save doing this yourself, but also how much more you could earn for your business if you were not spending precious time keeping books. You may find it makes financial sense to enlist the help of a certified bookkeeper.
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Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but what should have been a straightforward six-month posting brings him far more than he expected. Then there's Father Brian Flynn, whose life is turned upside down when his reputation is threatened; and the beautiful, cheerful nurse, Fiona, who can't leave her troubled past behind . . .


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North Korean Literature in English
Thousand-Ri Road of Learning (배움의 천리길): Revolutionary tween Kim Il Sung learns about American racism
배움의 천리길 [1000-ri Road of Learning] is a novel by Kang Hyo-soon that was published by 사로청출판사 in 1971 and reprinted by 금성청년출판사 in 2013. This novel came out at an important turning point in North Korea's cultural development: Kim Jong Il had taken charge of the Propaganda and Agitation Department (of which the Korean Writers' Union is a part), but had not yet risen to successor status, and was heavily invested in transforming the arts & literary bureaucracies to serve his father's developing cult of personality. It is not a part of the "Imperishable History" series, but only because the series had not begun yet - the first official series book, 1932, would come out a year later.
Kim Il Sung as a tween on the 1000-ri Road of Learning
(Src: uriminzokkiri)
This novel depicts Kim Il Sung as a young boy. It tells of his early life with his father in Paldoku (present-day Yanji) in Manchuria, his fabled journey of one thousand ri (400 km) to Pyongyang, his schoolboy days, and his later journey back across the Yalu River. This legendary journey is something all North Korean schoolchildren learn about, and select members of the Youth League recreate the voyage every year - reading this novel as they trek along. The story has been retold in several subsequent novels, but this novel was the first attempt. It thus represents an important formative stage in establishing the hagiographic tropes and style of all subsequent leader representation novels.
Youth League members recreating KIS' 1000-ri journey
Young Pioneers visiting the Changdok school historic site.
After graduating from a four-year elementary school in Paldoku, at age 12 KIS was sent to stay with with his mother's family in Chilgol while attending Changdok Middle School. In the novel, while at Changdok the young leader organizes a secret study group comprised of his eager, if rather clueless, classmates, and begins developing his revolutionary ideology while observing people's lives in the poorer parts of colonial Pyongyang. Eventually, he gets word that his father was arrested again by the Japanese. Entrusting his secret reading club to his friends, he again crosses the Yalu River, firmly vowing not to return until Korea is liberated.
The author, Kang Hyo-soon, is a children's book writer by trade, and his style lends a more playful tone to the boys' antics. While his friends tear around and compete together over normal boy things, KIS always takes on a teacher role, guiding them to see the realities of poverty and inequality in their occupied country. Though only about age 12 in the novel, he is referred to throughout as "The Great Leader" (대원수님). This presents the author with a unique problem when he is talking with his young friends, who presumably don't know yet that he will one day be the GL, and wouldn't call him Il-sung either since he didn't come up with that name until about 1931. As far as I can tell, the author solves this conundrum by never letting any of them address KIS either by his name or any title. Mostly they talk amongst themselves, and then KIS chimes in to point out where their thoughts have gone astray.
Below is an excerpt from chapter 17 (original Korean at https://dprktoday.com/novel/6443). The chapter begins with the boys watching a soccer match in Pyongyang between rival schools Kwangsŏng and Sungdŏk. KIS uses the match to teach his friends about the value of collectivity over individuality; he observes that "Clearly, in terms of individual skills, Sungdŏk was better than Kwangsŏng. However, the Sungdŏk School players had grown conceited after scoring one goal in the first half, and they lost their lead to Kwangsŏng players while trying to show off their individual skills."
A soccer match in colonial Pyongyang, July 1925
(src: 마니아타임즈)
After the match the boys walk toward the river, passing by the rich American part of town (양촌). Passing a big mansion on the hillside, they see some American kids about their age playing with their pet dog in the yard, tossing cookies into the air for it to catch.
"Do those children feel right, giving their dog sweets that even people can't eat?" the Great Leader spoke as if to himself.
"Do you think it's just sweets? Look how fat that dog is. I heard they feed him two chunks of meat every day," [his friend] In-sam replied.
"What's with giving dogs such good food? Meat that nobody else can eat," said Yoon Byŏng-yi.
The Great Leader thought on it deeply. Here the Korean people, who are the true owners of this country, are naked and starving, and yet these barbarians from an island country are playing the role of masters of the country, and Americans from across the sea are making themselves at home in the midst of the most beautiful part of Pyongyang, the most beautiful city in Korea, living in luxury as if they own the place. What the hell happened to this world? How happy would we be if we chased away all those people and lived in harmony, just us Koreans?
American mission residences on Namsan Hill, circa 1921.
(Src: americanpyongyang.com)
This prompts KIS to remember what his father told him about Americans once, back in Manchuria. It was right after they had a visitor from Pyongyang. After the man departed, Kim's father said to him:
"At one time, that guy wanted to be a pastor and got really into religion; now at last he's found the true righteous path. He once thought Americans were good people and had great delusions about them, but now those delusions are shattered. Religion is like opium (종교라는것은 아편과 같아서), once you go crazy for it, you can't come to your senses and even if you hear that fermented bean paste is made from beans, you question it (팥으로 메주를 쑨다고 해도 곧이듣게 된단 말이다). That's why the Americans sent missionaries in first to spread religion and thus swallow up our fat country. They use religion as bait and capture the spirits of the Korean people - then they can lead them like an ox by the nose-ring (코투레에 꿰가지구) to do whatever they want."
Wanting to know more, the young KIS asks,
KIS' father Kim Hyŏng Jik
(Src: 한국민족문화대백과사전)
"Father, are the Americans as bad as the Japanese?"
"They're exactly the same kind of bandits. From the first day America came into existence, they've feasted on the blood and bones of others until their bellies grew thick. Every clod of American soil is infused with the red blood of innocent Indians, and on top of that bloody soil they make merry."
"Father, what's an Indian?"
"Before North America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, indigenous people already lived there. Because their faces appear reddish, they are also called Red People (홍인종), but they are known as Indians. From the first day the Yankees (양키놈들) set foot on American soil, they began a merciless slaughter in order to steal their land and treasure. The Yankee jackals even initiated human-hunts to wipe out the Indians. They committed the gross atrocity of taking their scalps (머리가죽을 벗겨내는 만행), awarding 100 pounds sterling for a man's scalp, half as much for a woman's or child's scalp."
"Wow, they're really vicious."
"They encouraged the Indian hunts, deliberately planning their complete annihilation. One bastard named Harrison killed an Indian chieftain who had bravely resisted the Yankees, then took the scalp and made it into a belt for sharpening razors (면도칼을 가는 혁띠), giving them out as souvenirs."
"Do they just let someone like that live in America?"
"Not only did they let him live, he eventually became president. Basically the US was a nest of jackals where they judged a person's 'contribution' to the nation by how many Indians he killed and how terrible his atrocities were."
"There are lots of black people in America too, right?"
"Indeed there are."
"If the Indians were the natives, then how did all the blacks come to be there?"
"There are about 100 million people now living in America, but the majority are Yankees who came from Europe, and about 10 million are black. These blacks are descended from Africans who were captured (붙들려온) by European merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries. These European merchants dragged them to America and sold them for money. The Yankee bastards who had a foothold in North America took them and whipped them like oxen or horses, cultivating the wilderness (황무지를 개척했지). The vast farms in the southern United States today are built on the blood and sweat of black slaves."
"In America, black people are treated worse than dogs, right?"
"That's correct. Blacks have no rights whatsoever there. You know they aren't even allowed to enter parks or restaurants where white people go? They're just made to work like oxen or horses." Father took a deep breath and went on. "In the short 150 years of its history, the path America has tread has been nothing but murdering people and extracting their blood, bones, and fat, and stealing other people's territory.
"It should not be forgotten that these American jackals with their taste for robbery have long been eyeing the lands of the East, of Asia, and have set their sights on our country. It is important to understand clearly that Americans are not only as cruel as the Japanese, but also as insidious and sneaky (음흉하고도 교활하다) as the Japanese.
"The Japanese may be thieves, but they are exposed to the world as thieves; the Americans pretend to be good people while committing their thievery. In other words, the way of robbing is just different, but in essence, they are exactly the same."
The Pyongyang Christian mission's school for boys, photo circa 1910. (Src: americanpyongyang.com)
"Are the Americans in Pyongyang like that?"
"Just the same. In Pyongyang there are American-built churches, schools, hospitals and whatnot. But all those pastors and missionaries are really military spies. They pretend to do charity work to pull the wool over Koreans' eyes, all the while they're really scouting out opportunities to devour our country. They walk around drawing maps and taking pictures, just waiting for the right time to invade our country. But some foolish people still see Americans as "good" (선량한) - isn't it pathetic? This is especially true of religious people. They don't know that Americans are jackals disguised in sheep skin."
Father paused a moment before continuing, "In a way, it's like two thieves have entered our little land of Korea. But so many of those engaged in the so-called independence movement cannot see it, and keep up their high hopes for the US thinking that they will help Korean independence – it's so frustrating. But we can't lose hope. That guest who just visited us, he also believed in Americans like heaven at first. However, after meeting and talking with me several times, his eyes have been opened."
This conversation gives a good introduction to the North Korean orthodox conceptions of religion, race and territory. In particular, there is no apparent argument here for multicultural society even as something that should be aspired to; rather there is a strong ideal of individual races as legitimate "owners" of their respective ancestral territories, living separate but peaceful lives until they are taken over or captured.
Kim Hyong Jik's description of the black experience in the US was probably fairly accurate to the time when this conversation supposedly took place, circa 1924. The bounty hunting of Native Americans, sadly, is also true, although the timeline is a bit anachronistic. The part about "Harrison" probably refers to William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh – there are some legends that Harrison killed Tecumseh personally and took strips of his skin as souvenirs. That conflict occurred long after the colonial bounty hunting era, however, and one wonders what inspired the author to select that particular example out of all the Indian-killing US Presidents (I mean, Andrew Jackson is right there on the $20).
Harder to believe is Kim Hyong Jik's description of American missionaries as jackals and military spies, since he himself had worked as a protestant missionary and his wife Kang Ban Suk came from a devout protestant family.
This probably does not seem very surprising to most readers - North Korea's reputation for erasing its Christian heritage is well-documented and often portrayed as just another typical case of communist-regime-hates-religion. But the story gets a bit more complicated in tales of colonial Korea, where Christian institutions played such a prominent role in aiding the Korean independence movement and resisting the Japanese. In South Korea today the association between Christianity, America, and colonial resistance is not too confusing, since the US was Japan's eventual enemy in WWII. But for North Korea, Japan and the US are both portrayed equally as eternal bad guys. Hence the above passage works hard to establish that even though American missionaries may have seemed to oppose Japan, they were and are no friends of Korea.
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The Mission: Interpreting North Korean fiction for a foreign audience
Greetings and welcome! This site was created to increase awareness and understanding of North Korean state-produced fiction, an important el...
My Articles and Interviews
"The abyss gazes back: how North Korean propaganda interprets sanctions, threats and diplomacy," The Pacific Review, 2020
Korea Now Podcast with Jed-Lea Henry, Sept 20, 2020
Korea Kontext Podcast (KEIA), February 2019
Korea Now Podcast with Jed-Lea Henry, Feb 10, 2019
Interview with USC Korean Studies Institute, Dec 2018 (Youtube)
"The Sun Sort-of Rises: The 'Strong and Prosperous' Slogan in Recent North Korean Fiction," KEIA Academic Paper Series, Dec 4, 2018
KEIA Presentation, Dec 4, 2018 (Youtube)
"Novel Leader: State Fiction and the Legend of Kim Jong Un," Global Asia, Summer 2018
"Inside North Korea's Literary Fiction Factory," The Conversation, January 26, 2018
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Meredith "Changmi" Shaw is an associate professor in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. She earned her doctorate in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2018. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of Northeast Asia. Follow her on Twitter at @changmishaw.
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According to the recent results posted by All Pakistan Cement Manufacturer Association (APCMA), Pakistan's cement exports to India have been declining unabatedly since the two countries unlocked their borders for liberal bilateral trade. Exports to India dropped by a whopping 39 per cent YoY.
Media reports say that Pakistan's cement exports to India have drastically come down. Discussions regarding the most favoured nation (MFN) status to India began in 2010. However, in contradiction with moves to open up trade with India, Pakistan's cement exports to India have since declined by 20.35 per cent.
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´Bees saal pehle ki yeh baat hai.´ This dialogue resonated in my mind as I tapped on my Mac to bring this editorial to life. This dialogue from epic film Sholay was the best Indian version of ´long long ago´. Yes folks, we are 20 and set to take you to India 2020 with a revised menu of offerings to arm you with information to stay ahead in the business.
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Student Science Fiction Writing Contest Announced
Dec. 7 is the deadline for the competition sponsored by UC Riverside's Eaton Science Fiction Conference
By Bettye Miller on November 9, 2012
Dec. 7 is the deadline to submit entries in the Student Short Story Contest.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Student authors of science fiction may submit their short stories in a competition sponsored by UC Riverside's Eaton Science Fiction Conference. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 7.
The Fourth Student Science Fiction Short Story Contest is open to full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students in the University of California system. First prize is $750 and second prize is $500, which will be presented at the 2013 Eaton Science Fiction Conference April 11-14 at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Riverside.
Chairing the competition is Nalo Hopkinson, an award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy and an associate professor of creative writing at UCR. Hopkinson said she is looking for "readable, well-crafted work that surprises and intrigues me, that's different than the usual, and that is strong in plot or structure."
Entries must be recognizable as speculative fiction, which can include science fiction, fantasy, horror or utopian/dystopian literature; must not exceed 6,000 words; and must follow the format outlined on the contest website (http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/contest.html). Entries must be emailed as a pdf attachment to eatonconference@ucr.edu with the subject line: 2013 Student Science Fiction Short Story Contest.
Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections & Archives at UCR and co-organizer of the Eaton Conference, said she is "very pleased that the Eaton Conference provides an outlet for aspiring writers. I am grateful to Stephanie Hammer (professor of comparative literature and Germanic studies) for establishing the contest, and to Nalo Hopkinson for continuing the tradition."
The Eaton Conference will be held at the Riverside Marriott Hotel and will examine science fiction in multiple media, reflecting the increasingly diverse forms of expression of science fiction.
Conference registration is open and may be completed online (http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/registration.html). Registration for students is $95; early-bird registration, $150 (ending Feb. 1, 2013); general registration (after Feb. 1, 2013), $170; and single-day registration, $95. The event is sponsored by the University of California, Riverside Libraries and the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in partnership with the Science Fiction Research Association.
The conference also will feature the fourth Science Fiction Studies Symposium on the topic of "SF Media(tions)" on April 11, 2013, at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa. Admission is free.
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Dennis Irwin (November 28, 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama - March 10, 2008) was an American jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums.

Biography
Irwin attended North Texas State University with Norman Wisdom, studying classical music. Although he started out playing alto sax and clarinet (achieving first chair All State clarinet while at Westchester High School in Houston) he soon switched to the bass and joined the university's "Two O'Clock Lab Band."

After working with pianist Red Garland in Dallas, Irwin moved to New York. There he played with Charles Brackeen, and later landed his first steady gig in trumpeter Ted Curson's group in 1975. He accompanied such vocalists as Jackie Paris, Betty Carter, Annie Ross, Ann Hampton Callaway, Tania Maria and Mose Allison.

Influences include bassists Al Jackson Sr. and Eddie Jones. Irwin's first major recording session was in New York City on May 20 & 21, 1976, with Brazilian pianist Dom Salvador, My Family (for Muse Records). Beginning in 1977, Irwin played with Art Blakey for three years.

The Jazz Messengers recorded several of Irwin's compositions including "Kamal." Irwin also worked with Chet Baker, Mel Lewis, Joe Lovano, Stan Getz, Johnny Griffin and Horace Silver as well as with Brazilian musicians Duduca Fonseca and Portinho. From 1992 to 1995, Irwin played with guitarist John Scofield. He can be heard on his Blue Note recordings What We Do, Hand Jive and Groove Elation.

His battle with liver cancer, which was ultimately fatal, raised awareness of jazz musicians without medical insurance.  The Jazz Foundation of America and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center created the Dennis Irwin Memorial Fund to pay for cancer screenings for uninsured jazz and blues musicians.

Irwin died in Manhattan on March 10, 2008, the same day as a Jazz at Lincoln Center benefit concert in his honor featuring performances by Wynton Marsalis, Tony Bennett, and Jon Hendricks, in addition to Lovano and Scofield.

His partner was singer Aria Hendricks, daughter of Jon Hendricks.  His son, Michael Irwin, is a trumpet player in New York City.

Selected discography

With Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
 Gypsy Folk Tales (Roulette, 1977)
 Heat Wave (Pony Canyon/After Beat, 1977)
 In My Prime Vol. 1 (Timeless, 1977)
 In My Prime Vol. 2 (Timeless, 1977)
 In This Korner (Concord Jazz, 1978)
 Reflections in Blue (Timeless, 1978)
 Night in Tunisia: Digital Recording (Polygram, 1979)
 One by One (Palcoscenico, 1979 [1981])
 Works of Art (Recall, 2002)
With Joshua Breakstone
Echoes (Contemporary, 1987)
Self-Portrait in Swing (Contemporary, 1989)
9 by 3 (Contemporary, 1991)
Walk Don't Run (King, 1992)
 Let's Call This Monk! (Double-Time, 1997)
With Curtis Fuller
 Four on the Outside (Timeless, 1978)

With Johnny Griffin
 Take My Hand (Who's Who in Jazz, 1988)
 Woe Is Me (Jazz Hour, 1988)
 The Cat (Antilles, 1990)

With Scott Hamilton
 Radio City (Concord Jazz, 1990)
 Organic Duke (Concord Jazz, 1994)
 My Romance (Concord Jazz, 1995)
 Blues Bop & Ballads (Concord Jazz, 1999)
 Ballad Essentials (Concord Jazz, 2000)
With Joe Lovano
 Tones, Shapes & Colors (Soul Note, 1985)
 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note, 2000)
 On This Day...Live at the Vanguard (Blue Note, 2002)
 Streams of Expression (Blue Note, 2006)
With Tisziji Munoz
 Visiting This Planet (Anami)
 Hearing Voices (Anami)
With Valery Ponomarev
 Means of Identification (Reservoir, 1985 [1987])
Trip to Moscow (Reservoir, 1987)
With John Scofield
 What We Do (Blue Note, 1992)
 Hand Jive (Blue Note, 1993)
 Groove Elation (Blue Note, 1995)

References

External links

Dennis Irwin, 56, Bassist Popular in New York Jazz, Is Dead, The New York Times, March 12, 2008

1951 births
2008 deaths
American jazz double-bassists
Male double-bassists
The Jazz Messengers members
Musicians from Birmingham, Alabama
People from Dallas
Musicians from New York City
University of North Texas College of Music alumni
Jazz musicians from New York (state)
Jazz musicians from Alabama
20th-century double-bassists
American male jazz musicians
20th-century American male musicians

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The history of William Ris Gallery is rich with love and commitment, determination and hope.
In 1966, Barbara Starr Schreckengaust and her son William Ris Schreckengaust opened the Camp Hill Gallery and Academy of Art in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
Their collaboration, love and knowledge of the arts was the foundation for the continued success of the gallery which was renamed in Bill's honor following his death in 1970. Barbara and Bill shared an unequaled commitment and strength, which remains a driving force in the gallery's evolution. In 1971, the gallery opened its second location in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. The gallery's stable of artists, while still growing, has a dedicated following that is renowned and recognized nationally.
Today, the gallery is owned by Mary Cantone, the beloved daughter of Barbara and sister of Bill. Mary worked side by side with Bill and remains devoted to the memory of Bill, Barbara's high standards and the success and growth of the gallery. In keeping with their collective shared vision, Mary recently opened William Ris East in Jamesport, New York on Long Island's North Shore to continue the traditions of William Ris Gallery.
Mary's career in designing interiors and space planning has included collaborating with artists and encouraging clients to enhance, with passion, the fine arts. A bonus to Cantone's innate and nurtured abilities is her keen sensibilities for mixing mediums, styles and colors.


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More Bad News For Bank Of Ireland Customers Today
By katedemolder
Earlier this week, Bank Of Ireland customers were experiencing difficulties with their accounts, due to a glitch in the bank's system, meaning that money which was supposed to have gone through already, hadn't.
This affected users around the country, with the bank's Twitter customer care account assuring users that the money would be in by that evening.
However, more news has come to light this morning showing that customers are now unable to access both their mobile apps and internet banking accounts.
The bank's Twitter account has acknowledged this, stating that they are ''investigating this & working to resolve asap''.
We're aware that some customers are having difficulties accessing 365 Online & mobile app.We're investigating this & working to resolve asap
— Bank of Ireland (@talktoBOI) March 1, 2017
While it hasn't exactly been specified as to when the issue will be resolved, the bank is assuring users to keep an eye on their Twitter page for up-to-date information.
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Bang, with the stroke of a pen the highest court in the land ended the federal prohibition on sports betting. The upended law is going to open the door to consequences no one expected. It is now a matter for the individual states to decide for themselves how to govern gambling on sports. That is not surprising to anyone who has been following the issue for the last year, but some of the subsequent developments could be very surprising; I certainly have been startled by some of the implications. I had expected the new legal sports wagering to be very like that in Nevada, and dated as my experience is, it is my only model. Although in retrospect it was silly to think the modern version of sports betting would be like my 20-year old model. After all, nothing using technology is the same today as it was twenty years ago. However, even if my crystal ball saw all of the implications of modern technology, I could never have imagined an American sports betting industry governed by invaders from England.
In December, the U. S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in NCAA v. Christie. In that case, the National College Athletic Association, the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and the Department of Justice sought to prevent the state of New Jersey from implementing the state's 2012 Sports Wagering Act and named the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie in their suit. The plaintiffs argued that the New Jersey law violated the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992. New Jersey argued PASPA violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, maintaining that the right to regulate and tax sports wagering was reserved for the states as it had not been expressly delegated to Congress and the federal government.
On May 14th, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling and declared PASPA to be unconstitutional. The ruling cleared the way for New Jersey to legalize, regulate and tax sports betting. The court's decision also opened the door to any state that wishes to legalize wagering on athletic contests. It has only been two months, but already seventeen states have begun the process to legalize sports gambling within their borders. A report by Eilers & Krejcik, predicts that thirty-two states will have legalized the activity within five years.
Gambling on sports has started already. Delaware became the first new state to offer a full menu of sports wagering. It has had parlay cards on NFL games, a limited form of sports betting, since 2009. Now under a new law, it has full blown betting on individual contests in all sports. Governor John Carney of Delaware placed the first single game wager on June 5th , betting $10 on the Philadelphia Phillies to beat the Chicago Cubs. Nine days later, New Jersey Gov. Murphy placed the first legal bet in his state at Monmouth Park Racetrack. Murphy bet $20 on Germany to win the World Cup and $20 on the New Jersey Devils to win the Stanley Cup. The first bets placed at a casino in New Jersey came on June 28th at the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City when actor Mark Wahlberg placed a bet on the Philadelphia Eagles to win the 2019 Super Bowl. A week later, Hard Rock Atlantic City also started taking bets.
Up to this point, the story is unfolding in the way I might have predicted. First a state legalizes sports betting, followed by the propagation of regulations, granting of licenses and then casinos begin accepting wagering on individual games, future wagers on championships and a few in-game propositions such as the number of tackles, strikeouts, over-under and half time scores. That is the way it has been done in Nevada and so far in Delaware and New Jersey, but that is not the way it will be down the road.
The states will legalize, tax and regulate the betting, but English bookmakers and technology will shape the industry in the post PASPA era. The English bookies are rushing to get into the action in the U. S. Probably nothing since the Beetles hit our shores in the 1960's will have a larger impact on our culture than the arrival of the bookies from Merry Old England. In the British Isles people have been making bets on sporting events for a long, long time and the bookies know their trade. Last year, the 65 million citizens of the UK bet $20 billion with their bookies. Because betting in England has a long history and is much less regulated than Nevada, English bookies have developed hundreds of propositions for every event conceivable and taken the betting as close to the action as they can get. During the progress of a game, betting is big, allowing the gambler - or punter as the English call them - to keep in action all of the time and keep his blood racing, even when his team is losing. He can bet on the next foul, the time before the next score, the number of times the spectators burst into song or the color of knickers on any given player; everything is fair game. Take for example, the Sport Index wager on the number of times the ball will cross the line without scoring a goal; it has nothing to do with the outcome of the game, but keeps the better engaged and excited right up to the final whistle. A spokesman for William Hill told the New York Times that it is not unusual for there to be 500 different betting lines on a single game.
The variety of events and the immense number of propositions in the English gambling world is totally unlike anything found on this side of the Atlantic and the major British betting firms are all competing for a piece of the pie in the United States. In 2011, William Hill became the first UK betting firm to come to America. It spent over $50 million buying the Club Cal Neva Race and Sports, American Wagering and Brandywine Bookmaking in Nevada,acquiring 159 betting locations in Nevada. At the time, the company had 2500 betting parlors in England, but needed new territory for further expansion. The firm was wagering that Nevada could be a beachhead in the battle for the U.S. sports gambling. It was a shrewd wager; in 2011 very few people believed sports betting could ever be a national industry here.
Ladbrokes, Bet365, Sky Bet and other English firms have joined William Hill looking for American partners. Partnerships between bookmakers and licensed entities are likely to be the common and dominant model. The licensees will need the expertise and risk taking capabilities of the bookmakers. The bookmakers will need the licenses and the bricks and mortar locations since a licensed partner eliminates the need for hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in infrastructure and the long and expensive casino licensing procedures. Even in Nevada, single stand-alone casinos are unable to afford to operate a book; that is why William Hill has been successful here. The large corporations like Caesars, MGM and Penn National could manage their own book in house, but for the rest of the industry, it is too expensive and risky. Also, with few exceptions, most of the initial legislation will grant exclusive rights to the existing casino licensees. Some states may want to operate the book themselves through a public entity such as the lottery.
As significant as the English sports betting culture is going to be, the impact of technology is going to be more pronounced. Technology is not a single thing and its impact will be multifaceted. The most visible effects of new technology will be the media with its 24-hour coverage of everything. Sporting event broadcasts, sports talk and a whole new array of sports gambling programming will be streaming across the land all day, every day. And like all television it will reflect society and act as an agent to shape it at the same time. Television has always been important, but not critical for betting; a score posted after the game sufficed. In 2018, even before gambling begins to impact coverage of sporting events, casual fans and degenerate gamblers alike demand to see the action, not just be told the score.The games are available streaming online, on special sports networks and through the hundreds of cable channels available to anyone with a couple of hundred dollars a month to spend. Besides the games, there are a mind numbing number of talk shows analyzing everything that can be analyzed. That talk programming will increase a lot under the influence of sports gambling.
When a sufficient number of states have legalized sports gambling to make it a national industry, the talking heads will begin discussing odds and probabilities on all of the games and players in earnest. The existing programs even with an adjustment to the new gambling reality will still be pretty much "old school"- that is, they will use the data that has been the common fodder of sports for years, the conventional metrics. However, there will be new programming designed and conceived using new data that will be very different and will come from the English model. In England a legion of onsite observers are employed to send back moment to moment, in-game data, making things that have never been measured before available for wagering propositions.
The technology used to capture and disseminate this data is having a profound impact in other countries and will, in time, here. In fact, according to an article in the New York Times, capturing and selling all of the possible data is becoming big business. The Times speculates that the professional leagues will try to control the data, but it seems highly probable that the betting firms will be generating and controlling their own data. That of course raises a question of integrity of the information. How is the bettor to know the data presented is true and an accurate accounting of events on the field. The control and distribution of the data is going to be as important as the game that will become just a data generator.
A new era does not necessarily mean a complete end to the old one. The legalization of sports betting does not guarantee an end to illegal betting. The illegal books will still have an edge on the legal books. Without paying taxes or undergoing licensing, illegal books will be able to offer better odds. As everyone who follows the action knows, the odds are the thing; the best odds for the gambler will always have a ready market. Although not new, this is another place where technology creates a unique event; games and betting opportunities are online for anyone looking for them. The illegal books will be using the same type of data as the legal ones, data they capture on their own. Will it be trustworthy? That question is going to loom larger for all sports betting as the world follows England into the land of quirky wagers based on quirky data.
Besides the illegal sports books, there is another wild card in the deck. Lotteries have different rules and when combined with today's technology, sports betting lotteries may grow to be very significant. The Oregon lottery is contemplating jumping into sports betting in cyberspace. The lottery thinks it can develop a sports betting app that will put a betting kiosk in the hand of anyone in Oregon who wishes to make a bet. The wagers will not be as sophisticated as those offered by the bookies, but they will be ultimately more convenient. In many states, the mandate of the lottery permits expansion into other areas, such as VLTs or sports betting without any further legislative approval. Lotteries can easily become the loose cannon of the industry, very much as the lottery in Pennsylvania has done by expanding its menu to include casinos games including slot machines. The casinos in Pennsylvania are crying foul, but in the first month the lottery generated $24 million in wagers. Oregon is likely to be the first lottery to pursue sports betting and without an existing casino industry to challenge it, the Oregon lottery may be taking phone bets very soon.
Illegal books, constant streaming of games and discussions, new data and unusual propositions are shaping sports betting in ways no one could have anticipated 20 years ago. They are also factors that are unlikely to get much consideration with ill-informed lawmakers trying to craft laws that suit their political agendas. The lawmakers are using old, simplistic models of sports betting to craft their vision of the future. They are going to pass laws that will fail to take into account both the culture of European sports wagering and the advanced technology and new forms of data that will be in play. Except for the English bookmakers, no one, not the Supreme Court justices, the governors of New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada, the professional sports leagues, the players or the average Joe in the street anticipated all of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling.
But that is just my opinion, isn't it?


Going through another of my mother's boxes. This one contains letters and scrapbooks. Today I will post a newspaper notice of my Spencer Grandparents' wedding. (This is Dora Ella Miner, daughter of Ella Colburn Miner who wrote the letter and journal I have blogged about earlier this year.) I do not know which newspaper ran this article, but as the family moved to Mississippi from Illinois, I assume it is a newspaper from somewhere around Chebasnse.
In the same box were letters written to Dora from friends and family and soon I will blog about those.
On Tuesday evening, November 19, 1912, at St. Luke's Episcopal church, Ridgeland, Miss., was solemnized the, marriage of Dora Luella, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Judson D. Miner, and John Wesley Spencer, a highly esteemed young man or that community.. In the presence or a host of friends and relatives among whom the bride and groom had grown to manhood and womanhood, they plighted their truth; the Rev. William Mercer Green, rector or St. Andrew's Episcopal church, Jackson, Miss., speaking the words which united the lives and destinies of this popular young couple. The church was beautifully decorated with arches of chrysanthemums, ivy and ferns, and, promptly at 8: 30 o'clock, to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, the bridal party entered preceded by the ushers, Mr. Enos Miner, brother of the bride and Dr. John R. DeVeling. Then came the bridesmaid, Miss Iva Weimer, gowned in white and carrying a shower bouquet of pink bridesmaid roses and ferns. She was followed by the bride on the arm of her father. The bride was daintily clad in a beautiful gown of white voile and lace and carried a shower bouquet of bridal roses and lace ferns. They were met at the chancel by the groom and best man Mr. Felix Battley, who entered from the vestry.
A reception at the home of bride's parents followed immediately after the ceremony. Delicious punch and other dainty refreshments were served by Mrs. Clifford Sykes and Miss Florence DeVeling. After viewing the many beautiful-and useful gifts which were presented by loving friends and neighbors which attested the popularity of this, charming couple, the departing guests wished them a long life or happiness and prosperity.
Judson David Miner was at one time mayor of Ridgeland.
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