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Junior high school student and under must be accompanied by supervising adult(+18).
One adult (18+) may supervise up to tree children.
High school student can do the course unaccompanied. Adult must still supervise from the ground.
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Parents or guardian must sign a waiver for all 18 and younger.
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African bows tend to have a low draw weight and for hunting tend to be short....this allows stalking and firing from concealed positions. Larger bows would get tangled with vegetation.The low draw weight is compensated by getting close to the intended prey and by the use of poisoned tipped arrows. This usually have a small barbed arrow head bound to a foreshaft which is then fixed to the main shaft. This arrangement prevents the animal rubbing against objects to remove the entire arrow . The barbed head remains in place as the thinner, weaker foreshaft breaks, leaving the main shaft behind. The poison is not fast acting and requires the hunters to stalk the injured animal for many hours.


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But wouldn't 'Chow down' make a great headline?
Posted on October 22, 2012 by biglychee
In a city where homes have become unaffordable to the majority of families, what does it make more sense to do with 20 hectares of space: build housing, or build a white-elephant stadium for bores who want to run/cycle/hop backwards round and round in circles? Under the administration of Donald Tsang, the answer would have been obvious: you do whatever best suits the tycoons who profit from both housing scarcity and pointless infrastructure construction. But in the zany, Mainlandizing-but-pro-welfare world of Chief Executive CY Leung, some officials dare to think otherwise.
Some things, on the other hand, never change – like the Big Lychee's embarrassing families. I was wrong about the role of US education consultancy IvyAdmit concerning the family of Gerald Chow, dentist and director of Chow Sang Sang jewellery chain. IvyAdmit did provide tutoring and hand-holding for the Chows' two boys in the US, and is being sued by the Chows for return of US$2 million intended to help get the kids into Harvard. But the consultants' tutors also researched and wrote essays for Gerald himself as he did (or 'did') his Masters in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government. Lots of snarky discussion here, here, etc, and the campus paper joins in, with some readers demanding that Harvard withdraw the degree.
I'm most freaked out by the fact that it's Chow's own legal team that submitted such damaging evidence for all the world to see. They presumably feel that the documents bolster his case against IvyAdmit's Mark Zimny, and to hell with however else the materials might incriminate their client. The only explanations are that Chow needs his money back really badly, or has a hypersensitive attachment to principle, or – could it just be? – simply doesn't think that paying for essays for a degree is in any way wrong. (You mean you're supposed to do all that yourself?) But he must have studied in person for his DDS dental degree, right?
As a story about the deranged lengths people go to in order to get their kids into a particular school, it's sordid enough. Now it's doubly, trebly, and deliciously, horrible. If Gerald Chow were, say, the Under-Secretary at the Education Bureau – and in the wacky CY Leung era it's bizarre that he's not – this would of course be a big story in the Hong Kong press. As it is, his main public role apart from directorship of the listed family company is a 2010-11 part-time spell at the government's so-called think-tank, the Central Policy Unit. Under Donald Tsang's administration, such appointments were mostly pats on the head for docility (spot the tycoons' kids and second-tier plutocrats in the current line-up). It is quite possible that Chow did no meaningful think-tankery, thus it's not much of a 'Government advisor cheated to get degree' story.
One possible angle is that Chow is not the first Hongkonger to get a Masters in Public Administration at KSG: Donald Tsang is a fellow alumnus (and yes, that does make you wonder what sort of qualification it is). But will the South China Morning Post news editor think that makes it any more newsworthy? Probably not. File under 'pathetic' rather than 'scandalous'. The story's worth – especially if Harvard strips Chow of his degree – is as a morality tale and a reflection of Hong Kong's values (which is a euphemism for 'lurid, embarrassing, crashing of someone's reputation that we can't take our eyes off'). Tons of stuff for investigative reporters to browse. But this just doesn't rank with taking photos up schoolgirls' skirts or offering half a billion bucks to straighten out your gay daughter. Perhaps the real story is one of desperate, Kamikaze legal tactics (neatly summarized as a), b) and c) here).
Chow Sang Sang have frequently taken advertising space in the South China Morning Post; I'm sure nothing will happen that will prevent us from seeing the ads again.
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23 Responses to But wouldn't 'Chow down' make a great headline?
Lois Beluga says:
Oh enough of these nonentities surely. They have a simple line in their minds…
Money=success=potency=face=rapture.
Let us rejoice instead at the news that a bus has flattened a taxi in TST. Not as rapturous as a Mercedes crashing into a taxi or the nirvana of two taxis colliding but all the same…
Then there is the Coq D'Argent restaurant in London where four bankers have committed suicide the past few years. A few weeks ago, the last one also demolished part of the restaurant on his way down.
You see, it's all question of attitude. There is sunshine out there for everyone. It's a wonderful world full of rainbows and Maltese Terriers. Say yes.
arm bears says:
Given that the typical Chow Sang Sang customer these days can't speak English or Cantonese, one wonders why they bother advertising the South China Morning Toady at all. Maybe it's just to ensure they have editorial influence when needed, similar to paying one's local triad for 'protection'.
Real Tax Payer says:
Interesting that you picked up on the Kai Tak stadium story
That also struck me in a kind of very positive way as step forward in the right direction.
Seems the main objection from the reactionaries is that to scrap (or move) the stadium goes against some 2 – year long public consensus exercise back in 2008, which de facto over-rules anything that has happened in HK and world since then.
Did you know that the brain of an ostrich is smaller than one of its eyes, which is why, assume, ostriches bury their head in the sand when they are scared.
Hmmmmmm seems we have more than a few ostriches as well as dinosaurs in govt
stanley gibbons says:
@Lois Beluga
George – Have you now taken to drinking in the mornings?
Old Timer says:
Did Gerald Chow name himself after fellow foot-in-gob shiny-trinket pedlar Gerald Ratner, I wonder?
Vile says:
To play devil's advocate for a moment, the question raised by Mr Ma bears answering: "If the stadium can be built elsewhere, why can't those residential buildings?". Wouldn't more and denser public housing be better located in the upcoming Yuen Long NDAs, possibly diluting their future mainly-mainland-population, rather than in overcrowded East Kowloon?
Admittedly a stadium wouldn't be the best use of the space, personally I would turn the entire Kai Tak site, runway and all, into a sort of NY Central Park. The area is already overly developed as it is and it will be more so with the huge number of units being constructed downhill of Anderson Road. If you want more housing around there, redevelop some redundant industrial units ("convert" would be too radical).
Maugrim says:
In a territory where an honorary doctorate can mean someone can shamelessly demand, and be called doctor without any social ostracism whatsoever, the only 'wrong' thing that Gerald did was not to have donated the whole $16m to the University as an honorarium, thus enuring both he and his spawn got both face and a nice gown. It works for everyone else.
I think Kai Tak should be developed into a city airport, like the one in London, for regional commuter/business flights. Then we woudn't need a third runway at CLK.
@ Real Shit Sayer
I refer to yesterday's a), b), c) summation, and must take issue with a). If our Gerald was running true to form, instead of "a) deliberately shitting in your pants", we should have "a) deliberately paying a tutor to shit in your pants". b) and c) work fine with this amendment. Please review and revise (6 marks) (fee: USD 2,137.48, including new pants).
Real Shit Sayer says:
@ Big Al
I stand / sorry sit / sorry shit corrected
The check is in the male
Joe Blow says:
It seems that 'Richard Branson' has also taken to drinking in the morning.
Maybe you and Bela could start a Monday Morning Club at the OCH.
Does Gerald not have one of those Grand Bauhinas or at least a JP? He's pretty shite even King of LKF, Dr Allen Semen has a bauhina as well as his hononary Doctorate.
BTW wasn't the whole stadium thing supposed to be a swap for the current one that can't be used due to noise – except sevens noise which must be different ?
isomoliu says:
Papa Chow apparently had no complaints regarding the tutoring he received as he did get his "MPA (HARVARD)". His one-year course may well be part of the "Plan" to get First Son and Second Son into their dream school.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8389843&ticker=116:HK
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/07/IvyAdmit.pdf
Chimp says:
"The story's worth – especially if Harvard strips Chow of his degree – is as a morality tale and a reflection of Hong Kong's values (which is a euphemism for 'lurid, embarrassing, crashing of someone's reputation that we can't take our eyes off')."
I don't normally have too much to argue with, re: Hemmers, but this is a bit much.
If "Gerald" Chow's values are Hong Kong's values, then those values are universal, as that kind of thing goes on everywhere. Proving the many from the few is a logical absurdity (forget the name… Lois would know).
I guess the real moral of the story is that if you want to get your teeth fixed do NOT go to Dr. King Sing Chow, Gerald, DDS, MBA, MPA (HARVARD) ( Executive Director of Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Ltd. )
Cerebos says:
Why is no one wondering why this guy is a dentist in the first place? He's in exalted company. Is it for the same reason that Bashar al-Assad is also a dentist?
If Lance gets stripped of his Tour titles, then Chow should get stripped of his MBA. They both cheated.
I think Dr. Assad -at least he is a real doctor- is an eye-specialist. Never mind that he can't see the obvious.
PCC says:
Good point. Zell, the White Angel of 'Marathon Man' fame, was also a dentist.
The news about Armstrong is just out on the wire : " sickened" was the key word.
I must say, Armstrong was a viable – nay worthy – idol … for a while. And I indeed admired the man , and somehow emotionally still do so ( although now proven wrongly)
But cheats are cheats, and eventually all the cheats in the world will eventually be exposed , whether before death or posthumously (e.g Jimmy Saville) … and dare one also say Mao ?
CY is slowly and arduously rolling back Donald Duck's dismal legacy. Call that "progress" if you wish, or something worse, depending on your political persuasion.
As for me , I'm just grateful that the awful henry tang did not get in, otherwise come 2017 the roll-back would have become so huge that maybe it could never be rolled back.
I think that CY is destined for just one term. He will have to do so many totally unpopular things in his 5 years that he will have no chance to ever be re-elected in 2017.
But if that's the case, I do hope and trust that history will eventually judge CY correctly in his own little cabbage patch of HK, just as now history is starting to judge correctly the legacy of Deng Xiaoping in the huge open field of China.
Deng didn't give a rat's ass about what people thought about him during his lifetime as long as he did the the "right thing" for the long-term future of China ( and HK ) , and Deng was confident enough to let history write his life's verdict correctly long after he died.
Of one thing I am certain – it's that Deng will eventually go down in perpetuity as one of the greatest Chinese leaders of all time.
No cheats there.
Tang was/ is at heart a cheat on a par with the Chows.
But I somehow feel that CY is no cheat at heart, even though he is biased and whatever.
bau gua says:
there's rumours he used a lot of hooker the year he "studied" at Harvard.
changsze says:
now SCMP is writing about it, little late:
http://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1067505/harvard-gerald-chow-took-tutoring-extreme
take away this chap's degree already like lance's medals!
Well spotted, Changze.
Big Lychee, Oct 22: "One possible angle is that Chow is not the first Hongkonger to get a Masters in Public Administration at KSG: Donald Tsang is a fellow alumnus (and yes, that does make you wonder what sort of qualification it is). But will the South China Morning Post news editor think that makes it any more newsworthy? Probably not."
SCMP's deputy news editor, Oct 23: "Oh, ex-chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was a fellow alumnus, too. A lot of good that did us."
I missed that Alex Lo op-ed
Thanks to Changsze for highlighting it
Alex is always top ball / right on target / NO SHIT

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Did Delta's SkyMiles update for 2021 get lost in the mail?
The holiday season is upon us, and Delta frequent flyers still have a big-ticket item on their holiday wish-lists.
The carrier has yet to update its Medallion elite-qualifying criteria in light of the depressed demand for travel.
Of course, the Atlanta-based carrier could deliver customers a last-minute holiday surprise, but the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.
In fact, both American and United — Delta's two largest competitors — have already reduced the qualifying thresholds by as much as 33%. That's an apparent recognition that 2021 won't be the year when we see passenger volumes return to pre-pandemic levels.
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Additionally, Delta's Big 3 rivals have also made it easier to fast track to elite status in the new year. American will roll over all elite-qualifying activity earned from Oct. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020 into 2021, giving flyers an early-year boost to achieving status.
United, on the other hand, is incentivizing first-quarter travel, with a promotion offering up to double Premier Qualifying Points (PQPs) for the first three qualifying trips of 2021.
Yet, without a peep from Atlanta, Delta passengers are left wondering if there's any news coming before the end of the year.
Is Delta dropping the ball? Or maybe the carrier thinks that its most loyal flyers will take to the skies in pre-pandemic numbers, despite the raging pandemic?
For now, Delta says there's nothing to announce regarding reduced requirements.
"We're extending current Medallion Status through 2021 and rolling over 2020 Medallion Qualification Miles to 2021 to give Medallion Members a head start on qualifying for Status in 2022," an airline spokesperson told TPG. "We'll evaluate further adjustments to support the needs of our most loyal customers in the new year."
Though Delta hasn't yet reduced the qualifying criteria for earning status in 2021, it may not much of a choice going forward unless it decides to significantly thin its elite ranks.
With international flying still largely off-limits for most Americans, earning 125,000 Medallion Qualifying Miles (MQMs) and $15,000 Medallion Qualifying Dollars (MQDs) just isn't happening for many current top-tier Diamonds.
What's perhaps most interesting, however, is flashing back to earlier in the pandemic, when Delta led the way with elite status extensions for all its members.
In April, the airline extended all currently valid Medallion status through Jan. 31, 2022, meaning that flyers didn't have to step foot on a plane in 2020 to keep their status through the 2021 program year.
As part of the news, Delta also announced that it would roll over all MQMs earned in 2020 to 2021.
Sure, this move definitely makes it easier for some frequent flyers to earn status in 2021. However, there's still a large portion of the population that hasn't yet flown since the pandemic hit. For those, rolling over MQMs is effectively useless and doesn't make it any easier to requalify in 2021.
Even if you have taken to the skies in 2020 — and plan to fly enough in 2021 to hit the MQM threshold — you still need to hit the full Medallion Qualifying Dollar (MQD) requirement in 2021, which could be a tough task with fares at historic lows and business travel still largely off-limits.
While Delta was the first major U.S. airline to announce status extensions in April, it now appears to be the last to reduce next year's qualifying criteria — if it ultimately does so at all.
Related: All of the elite qualification changes you need to know about for 2021
For years, Delta's been a trailblazer in the industry. But it's had a few recent stumbles, including a seemingly "rushed" decision to eliminate change fees and an usually poor operational performance over Thanksgiving, leaving at least some loyalists questioning what's going on in Atlanta.
"While the challenges of COVID has affected every airline, Delta has literally had all year to think about what changes it'll make to SkyMiles," said Henry Harteveldt, president at Atmosphere Research Group, in an interview with TPG.
He continued to explain that "it's almost like the wax is melting in the wings of Delta Air Lines. I'm not sure what's causing this, but between the lack of transparency on SkyMiles, the Thanksgiving meltdown, the spartan inflight experience and the lack of creativity in the route network, something is not quite right."
To be fair, Delta recently introduced a status boost offer for select cobranded cardmembers. Those eligible for the promotion can earn 25% more MQMs for all spend on the eligible cards in 2021.
Still, — like Delta's MQM rollover — this promotion doesn't help make it easier to earn MQDs, nor does it help those who earn status with butt-in-seat miles. Note that there is an MQD waiver based on eligible cobranded spend — $25,000 for Silver, Gold and Platinum and $250,000 for Diamond — but Delta hasn't lowered any of the thresholds for 2021.
So, with the holidays right around the corner, Delta frequent-flyers may be left hoping for a last-minute turn of events.
If not, many will enter 2021 with a fully reset status tracker — and a really far goalpost that likely won't be achievable for most.
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"This is the biggest group we've had yet," someone remarked as they gathered to pose for a picture. The "group" is lib*interactive, formerly sxswLAM (libraries, archives, and museums), and they were at the MugShots bar in Austin, Texas, at the first LAM meetup of the SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival(March 13–17, 2015). LAM representatives are a growing presence at the technology-focused conference for two main reasons: Interactive exposes the LAM fields to new and emerging tech trends, and it's a great place to advocate on behalf of LAM institutions. lib*interactive gives attendees a way to connect with other LAM representatives and engage in concerted efforts to spread the word about all of the new ways LAM spaces are engaging with technology.
"I spend a lot of time talking with folks [at Interactive] and enlightening them about what libraries do or talking about what some of our issues are, and inevitably, I'm always surprised at how people say, 'I didn't know libraries do that, that's fantastic.' And then when I talk about some of our issues, you get a lot of creative folks [talking] to you about how they would go about solving problems. And it's generally a different perspective than I'm exposed to on a day-to-day basis," says Oli Sanidas, director of digital and library material services at Arapahoe Library District in Colorado. The conference "takes us out of our normal neighborhood, and we explore new neighborhoods. … Libraries are about ideas, and this is a convention of ideas. It's sort of this perfect marriage."
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The lib*interactive group members are just as welcoming as you'd expect them to be. They go to the LAM-related sessions to support each other, attend meetups, and even have their own home base—a rented two-story residence (with guesthouse) called the ER&L + ProQuest + DLF #IdeaDrop House, which celebrated its third anniversary in 2015. At the #IdeaDrop House breakfast the day after the EveryLibrary-sponsored MugShots meetup of about 50 group members, Carson Block (president at Carson Block Consulting, Inc.) emceed as the 20-some participants introduced themselves and spoke about the goals they hoped to accomplish at Interactive. For the rest of the conference, the group hosted speakers in the living room; the conversations were livestreamed on Ustream and archived on Vimeo.
The creators of the #IdeaDrop House, sisters Sandy and Bonnie Tijerina, have worked in the LAM space for years coordinating the Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) conference together, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Bonnie first attended Interactive in 2012. "I went because I'm interested in technology and what's new … and as I went to sessions, I kept thinking to myself either 'librarians need to hear this,' or 'librarians should be in the room,' or 'they should be in on this panel.' These are topics we think about and we care about," she says. "It's such an interesting, eclectic group of people all coming together around how we use technology and what's the future of technology." After she left, she knew she needed to figure out a way to bring the conference's conversations to people who either hadn't heard much about the conference before or who couldn't afford the trip (and the registration fee).
She decided that the best solution was to rent a house for the 2013 Interactive conference and see how much interest she could drum up. "I was thinking people who are attending Interactive will kind of come back to the house, and bring their ideas, drop them there for us to talk about, and just kind of pull together all these ideas that we learn while we're there, and be able to share them more broadly with the library community," she says. ProQuest, ER&L, and the DLF (Digital Library Federation) signed on to subsidize the cost, and the DLF offered to livestream the conversations occurring at the house by setting up a miniature studio in the living room. Bonnie started emailing presenters she found on the schedule for the next year's Interactive to invite them to the house—"anyone from big-name featured speakers to individual activists who were doing things that I thought whether directly or tangentially would be of interest to the library community, or at the very least, of interest to me." To her surprise, almost all of the speakers she emailed said they'd love to talk to librarians.
One of the first speakers was Henry Jenkins, who presented at the conference to an audience of more than a thousand people and then came to the #IdeaDrop House to hang out with a group of about 15 LAM attendees, says Bonnie. The house has hosted individuals and groups who talked about topics such as privacy, how libraries help the LGBT community, and Big Data. "We hit such a variety of topics the first couple of years. … It kind of comes together last minute. … It's so loose—it's such a loose conference, people kind of come and go and do a variety of things while they're there; either attending sessions or going to parties, just being stopped on the road and talking to random people," Bonnie notes. She attributes the speakers' interest in coming to the house to the fact that, in general, people like libraries. "I was surprised the first year [at the nonlibrarians' interest], but over time, I realized that people want libraries to help some of the emerging problems that are happening on the web," she says, such as data collection and privacy.
"I know that people have used the [Vimeo] videos to kind of help create a justification for their institution funding them to come. I think it's a hard thing to get your institution to fund something like Interactive because it's not a library conference, not directly related, so it can be a little challenging. … What the house is doing is showing how the topics are related to libraries in some way. So hopefully that has helped people," she says.
Sandy notes that the videos have accumulated more than 9,000 views in the past 2 years thanks to support from the American Library Association (ALA) and the DLF. "It's nice to know that people have been able to partake from wherever they are," Sandy says.
About six LAM attendees shared the house this year, and this location (which they've now used for 2 years) is about a mile from the convention center—a relatively easy walk and an even easier bike ride. Block says the conference doesn't offer people time to sit and reflect on what they're learning or to check in with others in the same field, so having a space like the #IdeaDrop House gives the LAM "tribe" a place to catch its breath.
What LAM Representatives Can Learn
Sanidas says going to Interactive contributed to his idea to start a "beta tech" program for his library. Throughout many years of attending the conference, he had seen demos of technologies that weren't publicly available. So he purchased Google Glass, Oculus Rift (which is available during guided events), 3D printers, and other devices for the library that patrons wouldn't be able to get exposure to on their own. "I don't always get to see the face-to-face interactions of this tech. On occasion, I get to see it, and when I do, the patrons are just blown away by what we offer. … That's pretty rewarding," he says. His library will soon open its first dedicated makerspace.
Block makes Interactive a family affair, with his wife and daughter in attendance this year (his daughter was tapped by The Denver Post to take the photos for an article on lib*interactive). He first attended 4 years ago on the advice of a friend who suggested it would help him keep up with emerging technologies, and he says the experience changed his life. The next year, he led a presentation, The Great Library Swindle: Your Rights Are at Risk, which aimed to show the technology community what kinds of issues librarians faced. (TIME's Harry McCracken wrote about his session, thus elevating the profile of librarians at Interactive, and Block presentedabout sxswLAM at Internet Librarian 2014.)
Block got to know other librarians who were attending the conference and now helps coordinate lib*interactive at the event along with volunteers who, among other tasks, spend hours working on communication and branding (Stacie Ledden, Anythink Libraries), recruiting volunteers for before and during the conference (Mel Gooch, San Francisco Public Library, and Sharon McKellar, Oakland Public Library), fundraising (John Chrastka, EveryLibrary), and coordinating local activities during the conference (Andrea Davis, St. Gallen University).
Part of the reason Block loves Interactive is that it gets librarians to look at what other industries do with technology, "and especially how tied they are to their institutional goals and how they make use of technology components to make that happen," he says.
Ledden, director of innovations and brand strategy for Anythink Libraries (the public library system of Adams County, Colo.), has been going to Interactive for the past 3 years. One of her favorite parts of the conference is her ability to talk to attendees and get libraries "on their radar, because there are so many benefits to partnering with libraries."
This year, Ledden brought her entire innovations department to the conference because she feels it's the best place to learn about marketing. "It was fun looking at all these different ideas and seeing how we could shape them for our own spaces, for our own programs, so going in with open eyes and an open mind to that is really helpful," she says.
Speaking Out About the LAM Space
Ledden presented for the first time at this year's conference. At her well-attended session, Anythink: The Brand That Sparked a Revolution, she spoke about her library's experience with rebranding itself.
Adams County had the worst-funded library system in Colorado for more than 50 years. Prior to separating from the county in 2004, "our libraries were in really bad shape and, really, people didn't know who we were," Ledden says. The system was approved to become a special taxing district, which meant it could seek funding separately from the county's offerings and operate autonomously. It also had to change its name, so it settled on Rangeview Library District. After struggling to be approved for funding and almost having to close down one of its libraries, voters finally agreed to an increase in its operating budget.
"So at that time, we came into this funding, and that was when our board said we cannot just build libraries for today, and we can't just build libraries. Let's be thinking about the future so we're never really in this same position again. So we had this unique opportunity to start from the ground up and think about what kind of library we wanted to become," says Ledden.
About 5 years ago, Rangeview became Anythink Libraries, which is dedicated to creating "amazing experiences" for its customers. Staffers took hospitality training, and they were encouraged to rove around the library, greet customers, and offer help. Physical spaces went through changes too; three libraries were renovated and four were built from the ground up. Anythink got rid of circulation desks, and its books and other media are arranged by "neighborhood" instead of in long rows of shelving. "We actually group them in little neighborhoods and create little nooks throughout the space for people to read and explore," she says, and customers have responded favorably.
Slide from Ledden's presentation showing Anythink's employee mission statement
The library doesn't charge overdue fines, and it was the first system in the country to stop using the Dewey Decimal System across all of its branches. Instead, it uses WordThink, a system that categorizes by the words on books' labels instead of by numbers. Ledden says it's empowering for customers because they don't have to decode numbers; if they're looking for a cookbook, they can go to the Cooking section and find the label for Cooking, International Cooking, Italian.
"So we did a lot of these changes really quickly, and because we were changing our service philosophy and our approach to libraries so drastically, we really needed a brand that helped represent that, and that's how we ended up as Anythink," Ledden says. "We felt like, as libraries, our competition are places like Starbucks and Google and Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so if that is our competition, then we need a challenger brand that could help us be noticed within sort of those other brand messages that you see out there from day to day."
When Ledden started working at the library system in 2008, about 17% of Adams County residents were cardholders. Now, cardholders are about 44% of the population. She says it's difficult to pinpoint the exact reason usage increased, but people have "taken ownership of the library itself and the Anythink brand."
With a success story like that, it makes sense to share it not only with other libraries, but also with other industries that are seeking new approaches to marketing. After all, Anythink is always looking outside the library field for inspiration.
"[W]e look at what people are doing in retail, what they're doing in marketing, what they're doing in hospitality, and thinking about the ways that they're innovating and sort of pulling those ideas back into the library. Sometimes our industry can be very inward-looking, and so we want to look outward and say, OK, what's happening elsewhere, and all of this is, so we can 1) make sure that we are meeting the needs of our communities and 2) that we're staying relevant," she says.
Having conversations about the future of libraries and emerging technologies at library conferences is great, she says. "But to go to the source, where these things are being built and discussed, is incredibly beneficial to us—we can learn, we can build partnerships with folks down there, and then bring ideas and bring technology back to our libraries and back to our communities."
Follow @lib_interactive on Twitter and use #liblove. For more information on sessions from this year's conference that could benefit the LAM space, see "What Librarians Can Learn From SXSW" in the May 2015 issue of Information Today.
Brandi Scardilli is the editor of NewsBreaks and managing editor of Information Today.
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28 States Said 'No' to Bare-Knuckle Boxing. But 1 Said 'Yes'
SourceLeslie dela Vega/OZY
Football, basketball, soccer. Cricket, rugby, the X-games. And anything else you can dream up to make you sweat.
Because America's first legal bare-knuckle boxing event is going down tomorrow.
OZY was first to this story, putting you ahead of the curve. View More OZY Originals
By Matt Foley
The Daily Dose JUN 01 2018
This story first ran before a June 2 bare-knuckle boxing event in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A second, 14-fight event is now scheduled for August 25 in Biloxi, Mississippi. It will air nationwide on pay-per-view.
When Philadelphia-based fight promoter David Feldman met Bobby Gunn in 2008, Feldman knew he needed to get the hulking Canadian underground fighting champion onto one of his boxing cards. The pair made it happen, with Gunn battling the then-WBA welterweight boxing champion to a draw at Arizona's Fort McDowell Casino. Gunn, who won three more bouts before losing his belt in mid-2009, has fought some of the biggest names in boxing, including James Toney, Enzo Maccarinelli and Roy Jones Jr. But what drew in Feldman was Gunn's heritage and his passion for the world's oldest combat sport: bare-knuckle boxing.
"I'm a Gypsy," explains Gunn. "I'm a Traveller from Ontario — outside Niagara Falls. Bare-knuckle fighting is like a religion to my people. We settle disputes in the field, having a fight."
Gunn finished his boxing career with a record of 23-7-1, but the bare-knuckle circuit is a different animal. Reportedly 73-0 in the underground league, Gunn estimates that his undefeated record is closer to triple digits. On Saturday night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, he goes in search of his 74th victory as part of a history-making card.
Bare Knuckle FC will host the first legally sanctioned bare-knuckle card in America since 1889.
Twenty-eight states denied Feldman before he managed to persuade the Wyoming Combative Sports Commission to sanction a bare-knuckle event. Two states wanted no part of the action. "Twenty-six [other states] just didn't want to be first," says Feldman. "After a successful debut, hopefully they'll be lining up."
A smooth first event may help convince critics to take a second look at the sport, but much work remains. While this event will be the first legally sanctioned American bare-knuckle card in 129 years, it's technically the first legalized event of its kind — ever.
Bobby Gunn (left) and fellow bare-knuckler Dreyton Jackson.
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Back in the 1880s the sanctioning organization for bare-knuckle boxing — dominated by mythical characters like John L. Sullivan, aka the Boston Strong Boy — was National Police Gazette magazine. Sullivan won the last major bare-knuckle event in 1889, and most fighters abandoned the punishing, ancient mode of combat, opting instead to follow Queensberry rules, or gloved boxing.
Bare Knuckle FC bills itself as a modern blast from the past that Dr. Emmett Brown could appreciate. Complete with a uniquely designed combat stage, the Squared Circle, and a pay-per-view broadcast in 4K resolution — a combat sports first, according to Feldman — the promotion is focused on maintaining the underground allure that draws millions of viewers to YouTube videos of Gunn while also building a relatable, safe sport that Feldman feels can one day rival Dana White's $4 billion mixed martial arts behemoth, the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
I'd hesitate before deeming bare-knuckle fighting safe, but fewer ferocious blows to the head is a positive.
Dr. Mark Kemenosh, lead chiropractor, Glen Oaks Health and Spine Center
"We want a piece of that market," says Feldman, noting that some potential consumers still struggle to grasp the various fight disciplines that comprise MMA. "Our tagline is 'take your gloves off and fight like a man.' Who doesn't know what a fistfight is?"
Let's rewind. Did you notice the word "safe"? Bare knuckle is the safest form of striking combat, according to Gunn and Feldman. With gloved boxing, fighters no longer have to fight with gnarled, bloody knuckles and claws for hands. And gloves allow fighters to punch harder, and more often, increasing the risk of traumatic brain injury.
David Feldman (left) and Bobby Gunn.
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In a 2010 study "Boxing — Acute Complications and Late Sequelae: From Concussion to Dementia," Munich-based Dr. Hans Forstl reported that there have been an average of 10 boxing deaths per year since 1900. Eighty percent were due to head and neck injuries suffered in the ring. From 1740 to 1889, 266 deaths were documented. A number of factors — the strength of fighters, frequency of head blows and number of participants — contribute to this spike, but there's no denying that fewer deaths occurred during bare knuckle's run of dominance. "Never in my life have I heard of anyone dying in bare knuckle," says Gunn, equating boxing to checkers and bare knuckle to chess. "There are more body shots than anything. You have to pick your spots."
"It stands to reason that fewer blows to the head would make for a safer sport," says Dr. Mark Kemenosh, lead chiropractor at Glen Oaks Health and Spine Center in New Jersey. For acute brain injuries, padding doesn't much matter. "Violent force is what jars the brain," says Kemenosh. "I'd hesitate before deeming bare-knuckle fighting safe, but fewer ferocious blows to the head is a positive."
"Don't be fooled, though: Bare Knuckle FC is pugilism in its purest from. And the inaugural event is shaping up to be a rowdy affair. In addition to Gunn, former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez and Bellator heavyweight tournament winner Eric Prindle are on the card. So is Australian mixed martial artist Bec Rawlings, a UFC veteran who will be the first woman to take part in a sanctioned bare knuckle event."
Old or new, safe or not, Bare Knuckle FC is coming to a screen near you. Will it stick? The sport's poster boy believes that a more professional presentation will serve its tradition well. "Hopefully, we're paving the road for a lot of great fighters to be legitimized," says Gunn. "Bare knuckle was here long before me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone."
Knuckle up.
Correction: The original version of this story listed boxer Paul Spadafora on the BKFC card. His fight has been cancelled.
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