Do you know what it's like to be hated. I mean really hated? To grow up with the belief that you would grow into something disgusting and evil? Told so often that you would grow to became a feared monster that you knew it to be fact. A creature who feeds on the souls of humanity.
Do you know what it does to a person to be constantly reminded that your birth was the cause of another's death. To see the hate, and even fear, in the eyes of the one who is supposed to love and care for you the most?
How do you think you would feel growing up with your guardian telling friends and neighbours that you should not have survived your own birth? Then to have the whole town avoid and openly scorn you. To have your very existence regularly questioned and denied.
Do you understand how torment, self loathing and self blame can be a person's constant companions throughout life, forever eating away at whatever passes for a soul in a doomed monster? That at a certain age you would cease to be human.
That is how I grew up. Being told I was condemned to be a 'Monster" long before I knew that it referred to those who became Sime. As a child I had dreams of hideous overgrown creatures that looked nothing like a human. Then I dreamed of becoming a Sime with grotesque features and tentacles that controlled my mind and made me attack everyone I came near. In my dreams I could feel my tentacles draining the life from anyone I touched. I learned to fear myself as I got closer to my teens.
I had never actually seen one so I had no real idea of what they looked like but I feared them, and I feared becoming one even more.
Yes I grew up believing that when I became one of these Simes that my soul and my humanity would just shrivel up and die and the thing I would become would have no memory of the life before it. I would have no logic, no love, no compassion, and no humanity. I would only have an instinct for hunting and killing..
I think I feared myself more than my guardian ever did, but they never knew that and I doubt they would have cared anyway. I was cursed from birth. An accident that caused a death by merely being born.
When I was twelve years old I ran away. I wasn't going to let the people of my home town see me become a monster and have the enjoyment of purging me from this earth. I wondered hungry and dirty for weeks, eating whatever fruit and bush food I could find. It was at the end of that fourth week that I saw my first Sime.
It looked human and as it spoke It sounded human. It wasn't until I saw it's arms that I realised what it was. All my nightmares and fears rose and I was so scared I couldn't even move to save my life. The Sime just stood there. Why wasn't it attacking me? That's what they did wasn't it? Maybe it was waiting for me to change as well and join it.
The longer we stood staring at each other the more I realised that it looked as scared as I did. Now I was confused. It was talking but I couldn't understand the language.
It looked like it was trying to resist something. It dawned on me that it was talking to someone else who was off to my right but I was too frightened to take my eyes from the Sime in front of me.
With resignation to my fate I somehow relaxed a little. Maybe they hunted in pairs. I slowly turned to face the second one who I thought was sneaking up on me only to find that it was approaching the Sime and not me. As it got closer it held it's arms out to the Sime. His arms were bare, he was not a Sime. He was human and he was willingly going to be killed. So that was why people were so terrified of them, they could control people's minds and make them come to them.
This person was talking to the Sime, and in it's own language. I was beyond confused by this point and stared at what I knew would soon be the death of this poor person. He looked calm and he even grinned at the Sime as his arms were grabbed roughly by it. I watched in horror as tentacles lashed viciously about the mans arms and was pulled hard against the Sime, their lips meeting.
Within about a minute, which felt like an hour, they parted. Instead of the human falling dead at the Simes feet it was the Sime that collapsed into the other's arms. The man was talking soothingly to the Sime and it appeared comforted by this. It didn't kill. The man didn't die. Was everything I was told a lie? As if a spell had been broken I now felt the urge and ability to run. To run as far away as possible from….…. Before I even put thought into action the man called out to me and said not to be afraid.
He spoke English this time. He approached me saying that his friend, he called it his friend, was not going to hurt me. He said that I had "established" sometime during the last few months and that my "field" had enticed his friend. I had no idea of what that all meant except that I had the idea he was blaming me for his "friends" problem, whatever that was.
Well it's now been two months since that time and I've learned a lot about Simes, and Gens. That's what they call people. I am learning to help keep Simes from killing, and they say I'll be really good at it some day.
Are Simes dangerous? Oh yes, and many do kill to stay alive. Are Simes monsters? Some, but not to the definition I grew up believing, and not in the sense of becoming mindless, soulless evil creatures. Monsters are not in the species, they are in the individual.
I went back home to visit, mainly to let them know I did not become what they all believed I would. I didn't tell them of the Simes, the people, I met and now share my life with. They wouldn't believe me anyway. I just wanted to show them I had survived something worse than a Sime's attack, and that was their slow destruction of my heart and soul. They were the callous, cruel monsters and they couldn't even see it.
I still fight the self hatred and that inner fear, that can't be easily explained, deep inside. Being home awakened a lot that I had managed to bury.
Now that my guardian knows I'm human he wants me to come back. As if all those years had never happened, he now wants to show his love and acceptance of me. He wants me to love him in return.
What should I do? Should I now forgive him, and the town, their ignorance. Should I forgive my guardian his cruelty? I try but I don't know if I can. What would you do?


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Q: Did the witches know that the Wizard of Oz was a fraud? I'm not familiar with Baum's Oz universe enough to know for sure, but it seems to me that in most cases, true experts in any field can spot a fraud.  So I'm simply wondering if there is anything mentioning that the witches (any of them) know that the Wizard was a fraud, but chose not to expose him for some reason, or were they truly fooled?

A: In the opening chapter of "Glinda of Oz", the fourteenth (and last written by Baum himself) of the series, the audience is introduced to "Glinda's Great Book of Records". The book is described thus:

on the pages of which are constantly being printed a record of every
  event that happens in any part of the world, at exactly the moment it happens.
  And the records are always truthful, although sometimes they do not give
  as many details as one could wish.

So it seems entirely likely that Glinda, using the Book of Records, would know the origins of the Wizard and his actual magic abilities (none).
On the other hand, it is a virtual certainty that none of the wicked witches knew. If they had known, they would certainly have attempted to kill him (they were, after all, wicked). Their ability to succeed in killing him would not necessarily have been a sure thing. While the Wizard had no magic abilities, he exemplified some of the better qualities of stage magicians including creativity, resourcefulness, dedication, attention to detail plus a better than average understanding of people.
There is an interesting thing about the Wizard.

 In the fourth book of the series the Wizard returns to Oz and eventually
 becomes an apprentice of Glinda's. By the seventh book he was capable of
 performing significant (real) magic of his own.

A: In the original book, the witches definitely don't know about the true nature of Oz: the wicked witch of the East feared Oz enough to use one of the precious uses (out of 3) of the winged monkeys against him.
Edit: It is very likely that the good witch of the North also didn't know who Oz really is, because she suggested Dorothy to travel and seek his help.

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Head of School, Frank Wang, attended the official opening of Turing College on the Canterbury Campus on Friday 27 November and met Alan Turing's nephew, Sir John Dermot Turing.
Dermot is the nephew of Alan Turing (1912-1954), who is well known as one of Bletchley Park's leading cryptanalysts as well as a founder of computer science. Naturally enough, Dermot has followed closely the gradual revelation of the achievements of the Bletchley codebreakers from the first release of materials in 1975 and the re-opening of Bletchley Park to the public in the early 1990s. In 2012, the School of Computing organised all its members of staff to visit Bletchley Park in memory of the Father of Computer Science's 100th anniversary.
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Ferrari always show up to these things but never move near the top class. Which is fair enough really - always worth being involved in the talks just in case.
I wouldn't hold our collective breath for any sort of Ferrari LMP1. Even the Sauber Alfa Romeo deal is just stickers so far.
Looks to be a no-go on anything Ferrari related to the top class. Endurance-info saying the the stand for Ferrari's press conference has a 488 Pista pedestal. I guess the conference is going to be related to that car and possibly tying into Ferrari's GTE titles from last year.
If the ACO is legit moving towards the roadcar styling path, then that wouldn't actually be indicative of anything.
That said I agree with Akrapovic - Ferrari is always around yet never moves up, so we shouldn't hold our breath. Maybe someday it will happen, but it's so unlikely at any given moment that it's foolish to get our hopes up.
Besides, if we keep our expectations low it'll be all the more mindblowingly exciting if they ever DO make the move.
The Sauber deal was always a deal for current spec Ferrari power units, a huge deal compared to their year old ones, and Alfa branding on the cars. I'm not sure what else you expected, they've done 100% of the announcement. It was NEVER going to be a new power unit just for Sauber, ever.
It does show that branding excercises work. There are way too many people who think Alfa Romeo actually have something to do with the engine. Or with Sauber.
Yeah, I know? They've done exactly what they said they'd do, and it's exactly what everyone expected. But that's the point - even when they do use the other brands, it's purely an engine and branding exercise. So I wouldn't expect that to translate into an Alfa Romeo LMP1.
But that would have less than zero bearing on whether they build a P1/GTP/whatever car in the future. They committed to providing an engine with branding stickers, they did just that thus have provided 100% of what was asked.
And as Ferrari is NOT the controlling interest in Alfa (FCA is and Ferrari does NOT control those strings), the brief was to give Ferrari cash from FCA to provide advertising for the Alfa brand within motorsport. And as FCA is promoting and building Alfa internationally building a P1/GTP/whatever with an upcoming 8C style project could be a similar paying Ferrari for the engineering know-how and building a car through Dallara or other chassis. Using the Sauber deal as an example of X future thing won't happen is ignoring WHY the deal occurred in the first place, I think purely to crap on Ferrari for doing what they've done for decades now, build cars and sell them without much factory support.
I think I'm missing your point. Ferrari, and the associated companies, aren't particularly interested in using other brands to enter other series and classes. They've shown that time and time again, and that's why we shouldn't hold our breaths for a Ferrari LMP1.
If we want to take a different look at why Ferrari won't be in LMP1 - because they haven't shown any interest in the top class at Le Mans for a good 50 years. The 333SP only existed to sell to customers and they gave them the bare minimum of support at that.


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Original Player
Peter Beckett
JC Crowley
John Friesen
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Booking 2020
JC CROWLEY-KEYBOARDS/GUITAR/LEAD VOCALS - FORMER BAND MEMBER
An award-winning artist who has blazed his own trail as a songwriter, singer, musician, composer, screenwriter and poet.
*JC Crowley is no longer a band member as of 1979
John Charles Crowley was born from an Irish family on November 13, 1947, in Houston TX. He enjoyed traveling, sailing on the shores of Galveston Bay, and flying planes. After a series of rugged jobs ranging from ranch hand in Texas to forest-fire fighter and boat pilot in Alaska, his heart always brought him back to his love of music. He formed several different local bands there while growing up, none of which he was satisfied with. A tape of his early songs found it's way to Jesse Ed Davis, then with recording artists Taj Mahal. Davis asked J.C. to come to L.A. in 1972, and try his singing and writing skills there. It was a few years later, in 1977, when he met Peter Beckett at a Hollywood posh party. They then got together to collaborate on writing songs and jamming in J.C.'s garage. J.C. became co-founder of Player, and co-writer of "Baby Come Back", their number 1 smash hit. He also shared the vocals on both albums, 'Player' and 'Danger Zone', contributing his keyboard, guitar, bass and songwriting skills to the band. J.C. left Player after their second LP, when the group's musical direction proved to be too confining for what he wanted to persue.
He continued as a successful song writer, signing with RCA. His biggest success was a song he had written and performed himself called "Beneath the Texas Moon" in '88, which was from his only solo LP, also titled Beneath The Texas Moon. This song appeared on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac. Crowley had a few famous friends lend vocal support on this solo CD; Roseanne Cash, Vince Gill, Timothy B. Schmit, Bonnie Raitt, and J.D. Souther. J.C. was nominated for 'Best New Male Country Vocalist' in 1989.
Through the 80's and 90's, his songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Smokey Robinson, Little River Band, the Oak Ridge Boys, and many more. He also wrote for many TV shows such as The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live. He reappeared with Player again in 1982, on the Spies Of Life LP, as co-writer with Dennis Lambert on the song "I'd Rather Be Gone". Communicating through his music is prime and above all to J.C. His feelings and soul come out through his songs: it's J.C.'s way of letting you know what's going on inside of him. He fought and won a battle with cancer 1994-1999, and continues writing and producing from his home in Topanga, CA. John also joined original members Peter Beckett and Ronn Moss on stage in 2009 to perform 'Baby Come Back' with them once again in Palm Springs for the show "Dennis Lambert-man Behind The Music".
J. C. Crowley's career as a recording artist and hit songwriter began in the 1970's when a tape of his songs found its way to Taj Mahal's guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, who encouraged J. C. to come to Los Angeles. As a founding member of the band Player, Crowley co-wrote the group's number one debut single, Baby Come Back. Crowley's songwriting earned him several BMI Million-aires Club and other distinguished writer/publisher awards. His trademark vocals, guitar, keyboard, and bass work helped earn the band two certified gold LPs, Player and Danger Zone.
After two albums with Player and tours with Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, and Heart, J. C. left the band and returned to his Texas roots with the critically acclaimed RCA Records release Beneath the Texas Moon in 1988. Crowley was joined by an A-list of musical luminaries that included Bonnie Raitt, Vince Gill, Rosanne Cash, J.D. Souther, and Timothy B. Schmidt. Crowley was nominated Best New Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music and performed on the awards show. He was also nominated Best New Act of the Year by Cashbox Magazine in 1989 and toured as Special Guest with Willie Nelson.
Crowley's publishing roster continues to grow alongside his album credits with recordings in the R&B, country, rock, and jazz genres by a diverse group of artists including Smokey Robinson, Johnny Cash, Jefferson Starship, the Little River Band, Tim Weisberg, the Oak Ridge Boys, Guy Clark, and many others. His music can be found in everything from Dodge truck commercials to Muzak to stage plays and feature films like Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac, FM, Five Aces, Safe Men and others, as well as television shows such as Ed, The Simpsons, The Net, Saturday Night Live, NBC Nightly News, and many more.
In 1990, Crowley branched out into screenwriting, partnering with Alice Randall to develop a Nashville-based company, Black & White Pictures. The pair captured the interest of major studios and production companies, selling projects to Warner Brothers in a joint venture with Danny Glover and Quincy Jones and to Paramount Pictures. At his recording and post-production studio The Tree House, JC continues to expand his vision as a songwriter, musician and producer. He coached and recorded Kevin Costner at Capitol Studios for Universal's For Love Of The Game and produced and performed on Steve Young's Primal Young CD, a Billboard Critic's Choice in 2001. Guest musicians included Van Dyke Parks, who had this to say in the liner notes for Young's Japan release: "I got to play on this close-to-the-vest CD at the invitation of JC Crowley, (whose work I've long admired)."
JC also wrote the score for the independent film 97 Brooks in Los Angeles. He now lives in Topanga, California composing for film and television productions
BENEATH THE TEXAS MOON
BMG MUSIC 1988
1. Beneath the Texas Moon
(Crowley, Routh)
2. Beyond the Great Divide
3. Boxcar 109 (Leo, Stinson)
4. Dirty Shoes (Leo, Stinson)
5. Harder Than It Sounds
(Crowley, Silbar)
6. I Know What I've Got
7. Living for the Fire
(Crowley, Leo, Waldman)
8. Paint the Town and Hang the Moon Tonight
(Crowley,Routh)
9. Right as Rain
10. Serenade (Crowley, Routh)
Beneath The Texas Moon RCA 1988
Paint The Town And Hang The Moon Tonight
I Know What I've Got
Boxcar 109 / Living For The Fire
(7", Single)
© 2020 PETER BECKETT'S PLAYER. All Rights Reserved.
PETER BECKETT'S PLAYER	Hermosa Beach
70's ROCK AND ROMANCE CRUISE	MIAMI, FL • SAN JUAN • SAMANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • LABADEE
LITTLE RIVER BAND/PETER BECKETT'S PLAYER	Durant
Peter Beckett/Voice of Player
Peter Beckett's Player Songs

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Target Confirms Unauthorized Access to Payment Card Data in U.S. Stores
MINNEAPOLIS - December 19, 2013
Target today confirmed it is aware of unauthorized access to payment card data that may have impacted certain guests making credit and debit card purchases in its U.S. stores. Target is working closely with law enforcement and financial institutions, and has identified and resolved the issue.
"Target's first priority is preserving the trust of our guests and we have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with confidence. We regret any inconvenience this may cause," said Gregg Steinhafel, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Target. "We take this matter very seriously and are working with law enforcement to bring those responsible to justice."
Approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been impacted between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013. Target alerted authorities and financial institutions immediately after it was made aware of the unauthorized access, and is putting all appropriate resources behind these efforts. Among other actions, Target is partnering with a leading third-party forensics firm to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident.
More information is available at Target's corporate website. Guests who suspect unauthorized activity should contact Target at: 866-852-8680.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at 1,921 stores – 1,797 in the United States and 124 in Canada – and at Target.com. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit through community grants and programs; today, that giving equals more than $4 million a week. For more information about Target's commitment to corporate responsibility, visit target.com/corporateresponsibility.
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Good Riddance, 2021! 75 Funny New Year Quotes For Literally Any Mood
Originally Published: Oct. 5, 2020
This is officially the year we say, "Thanks, but no thanks, 2021!" Just because we're faced with another looming pandemic year, though, doesn't mean we can't have a fun New Year's Eve. As a matter of fact, doesn't that seem like all the more reason to celebrate (safely)? We can only hope 2022 will be happier and healthier, right? Right? Bueller?
If you're forcing yourself to be optimistic about next year, you're not alone. If you're genuinely optimistic: Good on you! Share some of that energy with your more cynical friends. This is the New Year's Eve we've waited, well, at least nine months for. So, let's find a way to put our best foot forward. Whether your NYE plans are filled with glitter, streamers, and socially distanced besties, a night of Netflix and chill, or gazing up at the stars in existential angst, you'll probably take time to acknowledge the new beginning on social media, right?
Snap a picture and feel free to use any of these funny New Year's quotes and sayings for your captions. We've got a little something for everyone… no matter how optimistic or pessimistic they are about our future.
New Year's Eve Captions for the (Cautiously) Optimistic
8 p.m. is the new midnight!
My resolution: Stop procrastinating. But, ya know, it's a holiday. I'll start next week.
Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.
Any excuse to wear sequins.
But first, champagne.
No wishing. No hoping. This year, I'm just "doing."
All that glitters is…probably part of my outfit.
New year, same me.
Have a sparkling new year!
Devote this year to loving yourself.
Before I get drunk and get naked, happy New Year, bitches!
"May all your troubles last as long as your resolutions." — Joey Adams
New year. Who dis?
Headed into the new year like…
Hats on. Masks on. Party's on. 2021, let's do this!
New Year's Quotes and Captions for the Realist
Welcome, 2022! Here's hoping you can't be worse than last year.
Seriously? We saw how 2021 went. Do we really want to do this, again?
Happy 2022! Spoiler Alert: We're still social distancing.
Whatever you do, don't ask what's next!
On the bright side, thanks to lockdown we never got used to writing 2021 on things, so 2022 should come easier.
Here's hoping 2020 really is hindsight!
We're social distancing from 2022 until we see how it goes…
First rule of 2022: No one talks about 2020-2021.
I lived through 2021. Please don't kiss me at midnight.
Here's hoping 2022 figures out which Zoom meetings could have been emails!
After 2021, my 2022 expectations are lowering faster than the ball in Times Square.
Sorry we couldn't come to your NYE party. We're socially distancing.
A wish for 2022: May the dumpster fire belong to someone else.
Pop, Clink, Fizz! (That's Alka Seltzer, not champagne. #thanks2021)
"Every New Year's I have the same question: 'How do I get home?'"
New Year's Quotes from Famous People
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." — Bill Vaughan
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." — Thomas Jefferson
"You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do." — Dr. Seuss
"To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure." — Ben Jonson
"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever." — Neil Gaiman
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I'm only going to dread one day at a time." — Charlie Brown
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." — Bill Vaughn
"First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." — Prince
"New Year's Day — now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." — Billy Crystal
"'Out with the old, in with the new' is a fitting expression for a holiday that is based on vomiting." — Andy Borowitz
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey
"Don't make resolutions without an action plan. The secret to success is right in your hands." — J. Allen Shaw
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." — Oscar Wilde
"Most people will passively do exactly what they did last year. Whatever you do, don't let that person be you." — Richie Norton
"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall." — Aleister Crowley
"This New Years I was going to make a resolution never to be late again, but I didn't wake up until January 2nd." — Melanie White
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." — David Bowie
"New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future." — Munia Khan
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." — Micheal Altshuler
"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again." — Buddha
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
"You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind." — Hillary DePiano
"In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours." — Beyoncé
"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life." — Robin Sharma
"Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!" — Mehmet Murat ildan
"I would quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter." — Unknown
"So tonight I'm going to party like it's 1999." — Prince
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change." — Taylor Swift
"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals." — Melody Beattle
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." — Henry Moore
"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress." — Charles Kettering
"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." — Rainer Maria Rilke
"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice." — T.S. Eliot
"New Year— a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." — Alex Morritt
"The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create." — Craig D. Lounsbrough
"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year." — Vern McLellan
Other Funny New Year's Quotes
"So excited for you guys to ruin another year of your life. Have a merry and Happy New Year."
"May your dreams get fulfilled as well as your bills. Best of luck with the New Year, dear."
"May this New Year bring you more problems, more tears, and more pains. Don't get me wrong. I just want you to be a stronger person."
"New years are like pages in a book that's so boring. You always think that the next page will be interesting, but it turns out to be the same every time. Happy New Year!"
"The funniest part of a new year is making new resolutions. I am pretty sure you have one too. Let me know about your resolution and I'll try not to laugh as I did in the last year."
This article was originally published on Oct. 5, 2020


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Channelling Roosevelt in Asia
The waters around Asia are of growing strategic importance to the US. It's time for some Roosevelt-like attention.
By James Holmes & Toshi Yoshihara for The Diplomat
The other day we paid a call on our boss, Rear Adm. Phil Wisecup, who is president of the Naval War College. While waiting for him in the anteroom, we noticed a photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt with a group of naval officers. The photo was taken in 1908, when Roosevelt personally interceded in the intricacies of battleship construction. It's a reminder that statesmen must sometimes inject themselves into debates over operations, tactics, and even engineering—matters usually considered the sole preserve of officers and technical experts.
From a young age, Roosevelt was an avid student of naval warfare. He converted his undergraduate thesis at Harvard into The Naval War of 1812, arguably the standard work on the subject. It remains in print to this day. He subsequently became a practitioner, serving as assistant secretary of the navy during the run-up to the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt earned his post at the Navy Department partly on his record as a scholar of sea power. And, as president, he habitually involved himself in fleet tactics and technical questions. Gunnery specialist Lt. W. S. Sims, for instance, wrote to Roosevelt lamenting the 'very inefficient condition' of the US Navy, and in particular the deplorable state of marksmanship among navy crews. Not so mysteriously, Sims soon found himself assigned as Target Practice Inspector for the China Station and, within months, for the entire service.
Roosevelt's background equipped him to speak with authority about matters normally reserved for seamen. His penchant for action—Henry Adams pronounced him 'pure act,' a man in perpetual motion—impelled him to get involved. In those days, the War College student body and faculty spent their summer months holding a conference on nautical affairs. But in 1908, as our college website notes, 'Conference interrupted at direction of President Theodore Roosevelt. General Board and Dept. Bureau Chiefs join NWC staff and students in "Battleship Conference."' Feedback on ship design from the 'Great White Fleet' then circumnavigating the globe prompted the presidential intervention. Furthermore, Cdr. A. L. Key of the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, had filed a sharp critique of the designs of the battleships North Dakota and Delaware with the Navy Department.
In effect, Roosevelt ordered the Newport Conference to drop everything and consider Key's findings and recommendations on such topics as the placement of main and secondary guns, the thickness and positioning of protective armour, and the optimal configuration of battleship superstructures for ship handling and fire control. Roosevelt made the short voyage to Newport from his home at Oyster Bay, Long Island, to chair the conference deliberations on July 22. His chief concern was to determine whether the alleged defects in USS North Dakota and Delaware could be remedied at reasonable cost and without serious delay, and also whether plans for the Florida and Utah—the next two ships in the class—should be modified to meet Key's objections. 'I desire to have the whole matter before me for my judgment,' read the presidential mandate. In short, Roosevelt personally drove deliberations over the shape of the future US Navy fleet while picking the right people—such as W. S. Sims—to put his wishes into practice.
Theodore Roosevelt was by no means the first senior policymaker to immerse himself in maritime strategy and operations. Historian Julian Corbett credited England's 'great sea-king, Henry VII,' with orchestrating a revolution in naval affairs. King Henry applied himself to 'the creation of a standing Navy.' He unlocked 'the English genius for maritime warfare,' putting to sea 'a type of galleon peculiarly (England's) own and a Navy such as the world had never seen before.' At royal behest, wrote Corbett, the Royal Navy 'ignored the vessel that all ages had regarded as the ideal capital ship,' namely the galley, in favour of sail-driven men-of-war. More recently, think of John F. Kennedy, who took office five decades ago last month. While Kennedy drove few innovations in military technology, he concentrated US energies on a manned moon landing. Ronald Reagan had his Strategic Defense Initiative, or 'Star Wars,' which no longer appears so whimsical after 30 years of advances in ballistic-missile defence technology.
And now the time may be ripe for presidential intervention in the maritime realm. The US sea services fashioned a new Maritime Strategy in 2007 with little evident supervision from the Bush administration. Whether the strategy chimes with the Obama administration's strategic priorities is uncertain. Nor is it clear that the US Navy's arms purchases will fulfill Washington's aims. For instance, the navy's newest warship design, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), is intended to replace several ship classes, including frigates that act as protectors of carrier and amphibious task forces against air and subsurface attack. Yet Ronald O'Rourke of the Congressional Research Service reports that the LCS isn't sufficiently hardened to withstand the shock of high-intensity combat. During the early stages of LCS development, moreover, the navy awarded contracts for two competing designs of the vessel—only to procure both of these radically different hulls! These are surely warning signs.
President Obama can't match the maritime technical acumen of a Theodore Roosevelt. Nor could he avoid Washington policy wonks' charges of micromanagement if he tried issuing directives about ship design the way his predecessor did. But rapidly changing strategic circumstances demand adroit, bold leadership. As the nautical environment becomes more complex and competitive—particularly in Asian waters—clear US resolve will be at a premium. As a result, Obama must approach today's controversies with the same tenacity Roosevelt displayed during the Battleship Conference. If the president puts his own time and energy into solving a policy problem, he tends to get results. Now, as in Roosevelt's day, naval affairs is a subject worthy of presidential attention.
James Holmes, a former battleship sailor, and Toshi Yoshihara are associate professors of strategy at the US Naval War College. The views expressed are theirs alone.
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The last two months have been stressful and exhausting. Since December I competed in five competitions: two world cups and three grand prixs! It was a lot and I was feeling the pressure. Going into the final Olympic qualifier I was tied in second for slopestyle and tied in second for halfpipe.
The Mammoth U.S. Grand Prix was my final chance to get on the podium to qualify for the Olympic team. Mammoth is such a fun mountain and my brother lives there. I got to spend some time with him, which really made me happy. Having some quality family time was just what I needed to ski like myself. The weather can be tricky in Mammoth like we have seen in past years, and at this event we saw that again. We had all kinds of snow and wind that messed with qualifiers so things kept getting pushed back on the schedule.
Halfpipe ended up going off without a hitch and I qualified for halfpipe final and ended up in third place after the final. I stood up on the podium with my good friends Maddie Bowman and Brita Sigourney; I did what I needed to do that night and got a podium to solidify my spot, I had done it! I had qualified for the U.S. Olympic Halfpipe Skiing Team!
Four years ago I had missed the halfpipe team by one spot and I was pretty bummed about it; in fact, I had been pretty upset about it for the last four years! I felt a huge weight off my shoulders and everyone said that I was even talking differently. After this check off the list I could now focus on slopestyle with no pressure because I was already going to the Olympics. Qualifying for the Olympic team is pretty tricky and sometimes it even confuses me – throw in two disciplines and it is a complicated math equation.
Heading into slopestyle I was ranked second. I felt pretty good going into slopestyle because I knew that I would have a spot. There was a lot of pressure going into this competition because I had not done as well as I had wanted at the previous Olympic selection events. I had the run that I wanted to do, but I did not do my spins both ways like I usually do. As I mentioned qualifying for the Olympic team can be a complicated math equation. Unfortunately, I did not make finals at the slopestyle grand prix in Mammoth. This bumped me into third place for the rankings for the U.S. Olympic slopestyle team. Technically, that would put me on the team, but you never know until it is all over. I had to wait about a day and the next morning on a layover my coach came up to me and told me that I had made the U.S. Olympic slopestyle team! I was so tired that it didn't really sink in; in fact, I am still in a little bit of shock that something that I had worked so hard for for the last eight years is now my reality!


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This is a review of Thomas Friedman's book which has tackled the globalization issue. You can find two excerpts from the book further below.
In the following, I will present some of the key issues approached by the writer, starting with the metaphor hidden in the book title itself.
The Central Idea
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman, writes in his book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree", about the phenomenon of globalization and how it has instituted an international system that has replaced the Cold War. It is a system that has united the fates of peoples all over the world from Brazilian Indians to Thai bankers to multinational company executives. Here, Friedman explains how the democratization of information, technology and finance has shrunk the world into an over connected community where billions of dollars are moved from one country to another with the click of a mouse. He offers not only an astonishingly all-encompassing perspective on this globalized, Fast World but also options for countries and companies who wish not only to survive in it but also to thrive in it. He also explains how in the globalized world a balance must be maintained between the Lexus (the aspiration towards material prosperity) and the olive tree (the ancient forces of culture, race, tradition and community).
Globalization is a spawn of a free market economy. Its defining measurement is speed.
Friedman thinks globalization is built around three balances, which overlap and affect one another. There is the traditional balance between nation-states, between nation states and global markets and between individuals and nation-states.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Friedman explains the title of his book in this chapter. He reflects that explaining world events involves studying what is as new as Internet websites and what is as old as olive trees in Jerusalem. He says that while in one part of the world the Japanese are building Lexus cars with the use of advanced robotics, in another part of the world, a whole gamut of issues hinged on who owned which olive trees in Jerusalem. While the Lexus represented modernization, the triumph of technology, the olive tree symbolized everything which identifies a people as unique.
The tree signifies the core of values that make a people feel that they are part of a country or a family. The olive tree tells them who they are. Friedman's view is that to understand our world today we need to grasp the interplay between the very human desire for material betterment as symbolized by the luxury Lexus car and the need to cling to one's individual and communal roots, as symbolized by the olive tree.
Information arbitrage. Democratization of Finance and Technology. The Electronic Herd
Friedman says the Electronic Herd consists of two basic groups, the "short-horn cattle" and the "long-horn cattle". The short-horn cattle are those involved in the buying and selling of stocks, bonds and currencies around the world who can and do move their money around on a very short-term basis. The long-horn cattle are the big multinationals who are involved in foreign direct investment, building factories in different countries and long-term production contracts with overseas factories. The democratization of finance, technology and information opened up a whole field for the Electronic aHerd to play around. It has become in a sense, as US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers puts it, "the overwhelming source of capital for growth."
Friedman contends that the Electronic Herd has become so powerful that it can influence political events and even topple governments.
Short-Horn Cattle
Friedman says that virtually anything can be made into a bond. In a detailed explanation, he says that any activity or product that can produce a cash flow that can be statistically predicted over a period of time ca be turned into a bond. This securitization of commodities has opened up credit markets all over the world. It has enabled poor countries to gain access to capital. But while short-horn cattle investors now have a huge array of bonds to choose from and invest in, they also need more and more information to see how these bonds perform. They also need much more money to invest. When the investment pays off, the profits are mind-boggling but then the losses can be cataclysmic as well. Global investing has become so popular through the Internet that ordinary people can be investors without ever calling a broker, investing their money in bonds in places they never heard of before. While this empowers the small investor it also makes it easy for the small investor to transfer money out. Friedman points out that it was local Mexican financiers, local Indonesian speculators and local Thai bankers who began the stampedes against their own currencies, stocks and bonds.
The Electronic Herd merely followed.
However, the explosion of information on markets does not necessarily lead to wiser investment. Instead, it can lead to impulsive speculation. Friedman reveals that in 1998 five million Americans had accounts with Internet discount brokerages and around a million of them were "day traders",
amateurs who operated mostly from their homes using their computers to obtain the share-dealing services provided by on-line brokerages. NASDAQ market insiders say that it is the short-horn day traders who push the Internet stocks up and down on the slightest information. Most buyers do not even know what they are buying into. Friedman quotes Allan Greenspan who said that "The very same financial globalization which has induced such dramatic increases in private capital flows has also exhibited significantly improved capacities to transmit ill-advised investments."
The Long-Horn Cattle
The long-horn cattle are the big multinational companies like Ford, Intel, Compaq, Enron and Toyota. In the era of globalization, they are forced to expand overseas by opening and building factories in cost-lowering countries where costs of production are cheapest. For them, this is one way to be a globally competitive market player. Through the Internet, for instance, Nike can design a shoe in Oregon; e-mail its latest design adjustments overnight to its factories all over Asia which will then start turning out the new track shoe the next day. These multinational companies are also not just building factories, they are building alliances with partners in many countries. They also provide the local factory with the very vital technology transfer.
The Electronic Herd can hold political leaders and governments hostage as well. Friedman points out that the Electronic Herd helped to trigger Suharto's downfall in 1998 by so undercutting the Indonesian currency and markets that the Indonesian public and army lost all confidence in Suharto's leadership. Friedman goes so far as to say that heads of state are reduced now to the position of governors who must continuously entice the Electronic Herd and Supermarkets to invest in their countries and do everything to make them stay there.
Friedman asks nine questions to determine a country's economic power and potential, out of which we briefly disclose the following:
How Fast Is your Company?
Change and innovation are taking place at such a fast pace in the globalized world that the fast will eat up the slow. Products will be obsolete almost immediately.
Is Your Company Harvesting Its Knowledge?
Besides being wired, a company or country needs to amass knowledge effectively and use it effectively. They must also use this information to their advantage, as information becomes a marketable commodity.
How Much Does Your Country or Company Weigh?
Technological advances have made products lighter, easier to carry and more efficient.
With digitization and miniaturization, more information can be packed into smaller and smaller products.
Globalization's major downside is the widening of the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Economists Robert M. Frank and Philip J. Cook write in their book, The Winner-Take-All Society, that globalization, "has played an important role in the expansion of inequality." In this global village the top players can earn enormous profits. Those who are only marginally skilled will
significantly earn far less, thereby exacerbating the inequality between them and the top earners.
Friedman points out that Forbes Magazine estimated Michael Jordan's non-basketball income from endorsements at $ 47 million in 1997 and his salary that year was $ 31.3 million. And yet another player on the same team, Joe Kleine, whose skills are only slightly less than Jordan's was paid a salary of only $ 272,250.
Friedman's point is that globalization will dramatically heighten the differences between the rich and the poor in many countries. The distribution of wealth will not be equal. This will lead to a certain volatility in societies.
Friedman sends the message that the US has the greatest responsibility in making sure that globalization is sustainable because it benefits the most from globalization.
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Former Bridgend College Apprentice wins 'Apprentice of the Year' 2015
Bridgend College News
08/12/2015 /by Konrad Halabuda
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2015 Bridgend Business Forum Awards
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Bridgend College success at the 2015 Sustain Wales Awards
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Bridgend College to host Stereo Kicks
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Bridgend College Annual Awards
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VQ Learner of the Year Awards
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Best HE film at the Learning Onscreen Awards
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Bridgend College win Silver at the RHS Show
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Parliamentary representative visits Bridgend College
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👷 We're so excited that 2021 is the year we get


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What's Ahead for 2021? Our CTO of Europe, Middle East and Asia Weighs in.
Empowered businesses and empowered staff require empowered technology.
Simon Bennett / Rackspace Technology – 9th December, 2020
Rackspace CTO EMEA Simon Bennett reflects on the future of work and how empowering staff, taking risks and a cloud native approach are the keys to success in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
The 2020 pandemic has changed everything, including the way we work. What does 2021 have in store for the office of the future, for corporate culture and for the underlying cloud technology that is enabling these changes? Below are my predictions for the coming year and a final thought on the potential for a surprise technological integration.
Prediction 1: The Office as a Collaboration Space
Will offices ever be the same again? In my opinion, no. I do not envision rows of desks and workstations being staffed by people, tapping away at keyboards coding, writing reports or servicing customer requirements. Because of the 2020 pandemic and work-from-home mandates, the chain between desk and keyboard has been broken. The remote work trend is not likely to reverse anytime soon, if at all.
Instead, offices will become places of collaboration, where coworkers and customers can meet when needed to innovate and create. Working at home, distant from colleagues and customers, has led to frustration for many people who long for the face-to-face discourse necessary to help ideas flourish and evolve into great solutions that deliver business success.
Repurposing office spaces into meeting places for collaborative innovation has a double benefit: (1) with staff coming to the office for meetings only, the company can easily adhere to social distance regulations, and (2) the company can continue to harness its most important asset – intellectual capital (its people) – which is paramount to ongoing productivity, prosperity and growth.
Of course, not all job roles are suited for this type of home/office or hybrid work environment. If you are a customer service agent, for example, you can effectively work full-time from home. But, if your role requires any degree of creativity, in-person meetings are essential for discussing new ideas and turning these into reality. These brainstorming sessions can take place at a central office location or at smaller satellite office hubs more convenient to remotely-located staff.
In the past, trust was the main reason remote work was not generally accepted or adopted. The 2020 pandemic and shift to working from home has shown that people can indeed work this way, successfully and securely. More and more, we are seeing "remote work management" listed among the skills in job advertisements as talented hires can now be recruited from across the country and beyond. Proper security can help minimize data breaches. Future innovations, like 5G, will further improve connectivity and security.
Prediction 2: Risk-taking to Empower Your Business
Many of our customers took bigger risks in 2020, finding it necessary to embrace remote working and to quickly adapt to digital technologies. The usual lengthy processes to document, sign-off, approve and execute changes in their organizations were cast aside in the name of business continuity and survival.
Post-pandemic, when things return to some semblance of normality in 2021 (we hope), will companies relapse into old ways of doing business? I think not. Progressive organizations have become more lean and agile. They realize that empowering business units and individuals to operate more autonomously must remain at the center of their approach to business — at least partially. The days of rigid command and control structures are gone.
It's all about trust. Placing trust in staff to make decisions has helped businesses stay up and running in the face of ever-changing circumstances. Further, giving staff more control fosters new ideas and takes these from ideation to execution more quickly. Reward the individuals who thrive on change and have proven their value. Give these mavericks enough latitude to flourish. At the same time, respect staff members who are more resistant to change. They can be encouraged in smaller ways. A company needs both types of workers.
In my previous role, I was known for challenging the established ideas and ways of doing things. I encouraged my teams to evaluate problems from different angles, to question the norm and to do things better for customers. The establishment must be willing to be challenged, or the best staff will leave.
An organization that can leverage these new ways of working and adopt a corporate culture that empowers staff and embraces risk will be able to compete effectively. Those employees who embrace risk will likely outperform their peers.
Prediction 3: Cloud Native as a Business Differentiator
Empowered businesses and empowered staff require empowered technology. This is where the concept of cloud native fits in.
Business units are going to demand a lot more from technology than just refactoring applications for the cloud. A basic migration of existing services to the cloud is not enough for an organization to gain a competitive advantage over its peers.
Business owners must design applications from the ground up, utilizing data generated by their most valuable differentiator — the customer experience. Deeper insights into customer use of your services are essential to making your services better. Improved customer service leads to a higher level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, and ultimately, directly impacts your bottom line.
It is a cloud native approach that makes this possible. Think of cloud native as a business differentiator — an approach that can transform your business.
Cloud native means developing applications or services to take full advantage of the technology upon which they run. By fully utilizing the underlying technology, you can design your applications from the start to capture all the associated data around the customer journey, service performance and other key statistics. These insights provide a higher-level understanding of the overall customer experience, which in turn, enables your business to improve the service.
The cost of redeveloping your applications using a cloud native approach may seem unduly expensive. However, in the majority of cases, the benefits far outweigh this effort and cost. An agile, well-designed cloud native application — one that is truly scalable, secure and resilient, faster to deploy, easier to maintain and simpler to update on demand — will deliver significantly more business benefit in the end. These attributes will allow you to upsell new functions, deliver higher value services and gain new customers — all at a competitive pace.
Business owners are taking a more holistic look at the cradle-to-grave costs related to applications. This it to look beyond the anticipated costs for application development and future maintenance and expansion. More important is the long-term, ongoing value of harnessing data and analyzing these insights to improve customer experience.
Ensuring your customers have an excellent experience will be the key to the longevity and growth of your business. This is the true cost of ownership in a post-COVID world.
Final Thought: IoT+5G+Edge
In 2021, I believe that someone will create an amazing solution — a killer app that combines the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and edge computing in a manner not thought of previously. There has been a lot of hype around the promise of these three technologies, and some neat small-scale ideas, but nothing really mind-blowing has emerged yet.
Because of the new corporate culture of risk-taking noted above, 2021 may be the year in which these three technologies become integrated in a revolutionary way. We will all say, "If only I'd had that idea," as it will be obvious in retrospect.
Put your thinking caps on. Perhaps it's you who will have the true lightbulb moment.
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CTO for EMEA Simon Bennett
As Chief Technology Officer for EMEA regions at Rackspace Technology, Simon's goal is to deliver end-value to customers with world-class multicloud solutions and services. He is focused on inspiring and supporting technical leaders to find the...
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