EXCLUSIVE: Hewlett-Packard's (HP) push towards a circular economy and servitisation-based business model has seen the relationship between the IT company and its customers evolve from one based purely on transactions to a point where customer demand is now helping to advance closed-loop initiatives.
That is according to HP's director of global sustainability operations Kirstie McIntyre, who told edie that the introduction of closed-loop 'products as a service' has created "loyal customers" that are now forming a central role in the value chain of products.
"We are investing heavily in products as a service across all of our ranges," McIntyre said at HP's circular economy summit in London. "We want happy customers, because happy customers are loyal customers. Getting a new customer is an expensive thing to do, keeping one is a much better option - you get to create a relationship with those people.
HP has been one of the main benefactors and drivers of servitisation, considered by some to be the 'posterchild' of the circular economy. In the printing industry, the service-based approach has seen several companies move away from simply selling printers to charging customers for copies.
HP has expanded on this contractual arrangement for those who do own printers. The company's Instant Ink service autonomously arranges ink cartridge deliveries for consumers using Wi-Fi enabled printers that send alerts when ink cartridges are low on ink. A return envelope is added to send back empty, second-hand cartridges from consumers to be recycled. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), HP can interact with the printers and order the correct cartridge without having to involve the customer. This is part of a targeted approach from HP to ensure that customers and partners come with them on the circular economy journey.
Research has suggested that it can cost between four and 10 times more to acquire new customers than it would do keep existing ones. But, with management consulting firm Bain & Company recently reporting that 60-80% of customers who feel satisfied with a business won't necessarily go back for further transactions, HP is keen to put customers front and centre of its business model to ensure they are not lost.
McIntyre acknowledged that a lot of the desire for business model change within HP is "driven by customer requirements". Customers now want more ink in each cartridge, and shorter waiting and transportation times. And among the ever-growing environmentally-aware customer base, there is an increasing interest in what happens to the products once they have been used.
"To create loyal, happy customers, you need to give them value," McIntyre said. "Whether this is through a cartridge or a PC as a service, it drives everything else and it's up to us to make it as attractive as possible. Our customers and other companies push us hard, which is great. It's important to be challenged."
After "scaling rapidly" over the past three years, McIntyre believes HP's service-based model answers to those customers, as highlighted through the HP Planet Partners print cartridge return and recycling programme. In 2016, HP manufactured more than 3.4 billion ink and toner cartridges using more than 88,900 tonnes of recycled material. This included 3.7 billion plastic bottles. In total, more than 80% of HP ink cartridges contain 45-70% recycled content and all toner cartridges contain at least 10% recycled content.
The HP Planet Partners scheme also provides some wider packaging benefits: with customers less likely to actively shop for cartridges, HP has been able to cut back on external packaging. Due to the small-sized nature of cartridges, packaging had to be big to deter shoplifters and create enough space to list all the necessary customer information.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has valued the circular economy at €1.8trn within the EU alone, and governments are attempting to capture some of these returns through new frameworks such as the EU's Circular Economy Package. But, while legislation will help some businesses make the circular economy transition, McIntyre believes that "true innovators" must stay ahead of regulation to deliver a commercial environment that works for them.
"I'm happy that regulation is coming because it means we'll move ourselves on further again," McIntyre said. "I'd say that product design and business solution are areas where regulation should never be involved; that's for us to work out with our customers and our market.
HP's efforts to "stay ahead" of the political and competitive backdrop has seen the company introduce a number of ambitious sustainability initiatives. As well as becoming a member of Ellen MacArthur's Circular Economy 100 project to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, the company has joined the RE100 scheme through a commitment to source 100% renewable energy, and has also made a bold zero-deforestation pledge for 2020.
McIntyre noted that these initiatives are changing HP's approach to sourcing materials, which is in turn transforming the way that HP's procurement department works with its suppliers. For example, procurement commodity buyers usually want a fixed price over a long contract to create price stability for products, but recycled materials can be volatile in price and turning to 'sustainably-sourced' materials can add an extra dimension to the contracts, McIntyre said.
HP's use of its own products to create recycled content gives the firm greater control over quality and price. But McIntyre admitted that the circular economy is yet to be fully engrained across all departments. "Procurement is one of the big challenges that I'm looking at," she said. "They are incentivised in a very particular type of way and it works quite contrary. Procurement is a challenge, they're not challenging people, but in big companies they are normally set up in a different way.
Fortunately, HP's success with the Instant Ink service has created the business case to resonate with the procurement department. And the fact that Instant Ink cartridges have double the return rate of other products suggests that the firm's business model transition is already bearing fruit.


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Court Rejects NFL Team's Preemption Argument
tags: cba argument, concussion, football, green, lawsuit, litigation, NFL, rejecting, remand, scott, smith, St. Louis Cardinals
by Paul Anderson
A significant victory was won today on behalf of our clients and all employees of Missouri. We are one step closer to obtaining justice for players that are suffering from cognitive injuries due to the ongoing denial and cover up by the NFL and its members clubs. The Court, in effect, determined that professional-sport teams are not immune from liability.
On May 14, 2014, Chief Judge Catherine Perry issued an Order remanding Green, et al v. Arizona Cardinals Football Club, LLC, 4:14-cv-00461-CDP (E.D. Mo.) ("Green"), to the Circuit Court for the St. Louis, Missouri, from which it was removed. Doc. #33, 4:14-cv-00461-CDP. The District Court denied defendant's motion to stay proceedings and remanded Green over the defendant's objections.
In Green, the Court held that the players' claims were neither created by nor require the interpretation of a CBA. Id, at p. 13. As for the negligence claim, the Court held as follows:
"Unlike the negligence claim in Gore [v. Trans World Airlines, 210 F.3d 944 (8th Cir. 2000)], here the duties arise out of the common law based upon the employer-employee relationship and not out of any particular terms in the CBAs. The reasonableness of the Team's actions towards [Plaintiff] Scott cannot depend upon an interpretation of a CBA, as Scott was never bound by the contract. It stands to reason, then, that the other plaintiffs' negligence claims do not necessarily depend upon an interpretation of the CBAs, so far as the duties owed them and the standards applied to their claims derive from the same source as for Scott." Id. at p.
As for the negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent concealment claims, the District Court held that, "[a]s with their negligence claims, the plaintiffs' negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent concealment actions arise independent of the CBAs as a function of the common law and thus are not preempted." Id. at pp. 16-17.
"Because the plaintiffs' claims can be determined without interpreting the CBAS," the Court stated, "I do not have subject-matter jurisdiction over this case." Id.
Mike Florio, of ProFootballTalk.com, breaks down the ruling further,
The primary concussion litigation, with more than 4,000 plaintiffs, resulted in a proposed nationwide settlement before the question could be resolved as to whether the cases should be kicked out of court. Now, via NFLConcussionLitigation.com, one of the other concussion cases has survived the NFL's effort to deliver an early knockout punch.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, in a case brought by receiver Roy Green (pictured) and other former members of the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals, concluded that the lawsuit may proceed in Missouri state court. Which means that the discovery process will proceed.
One result of this ruling – the public will no longer be denied the right to learn what the football industry has concealed from, and misrepresented to, society.
Which means that the NFL has moved closer to the day on which it will have to disclose what it knew and when it knew it about the long-term risks of concussions.
And the impact it could have on the pending NFL concussion litigation.
The outcome also could result in the plaintiffs in the settled case to quit trying to persuade Judge Anita Brody to approve the settlement, opting instead to proceed with the litigation. If the players in that case secure the same victory Roy Green and others have realized in Missouri, the value of the claims would potentially skyrocket.
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Ethereum (ETH): Mike Novogratz forecasts a rise towards $2,200
"The merge" will work in favor of a rise in Ethereum towards $2,200, according to Mike Novogratz. This process, which will change Ethereum's algorithm to proof-of-stake, will be a major turning point for the network. Scheduled for September 2022, this new mechanism will not rely on mining, but on staking in order to be more ecological. Ethereum has not finished proving itself to be one of the best blockchain networks in the world. What about its market value?
NEW: Mike Novogratz says Ethereum could reach $2,200 or higher at the top of its range, given the momentum ahead of its software upgrade known as the "Merge"
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Ethereum (ETH): "the merge", the catalyst for a rise in its price
"The merge" is going to be a major turning point for the value of Ethereum, according to Mike Novogratz. This update is to change the proof-of-work network to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Long awaited, this new mechanism will considerably reduce the number of Ethereum available for exchanges. This will also reduce the rate of inflation. Thus, ETH tokens will be more valuable in the eyes of investors. This is why the value of Ethereum is likely to see a rally towards $2,200. And that, even before The Merge" does not occur.
Ethereum was initially launched with a Proof-of-work consensus algorithm. This features miners in validating transactions by solving complicated problems. This mechanism is very energy intensive. As a result, the network will be changed to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm for more ecological.
" Tea merge will therefore sign the end of mining for Ethereum. The number of tokens available on the market will be limited. Thus, there will be an increase in the value of Ethereum, since the demand will exceed the available supply. This is why this update, "the merge", will be a catalyst that will drive up the price of Ethereum.
Ethereum (ETH): the worst may be over
It looks like the crypto market is ready to get back on its feet. And Ethereum is no exception since it has already been on the rise since July.
In addition, the Ethereum network is constantly updated. This allows it to be up to date and provide a solid fundamental foundation for its value.
Technically, the $2,200 price target is nothing but a resistance zone to watch. Once this zone is crossed, the price will likely seek to reach a new all-time high.
Ethereum / Dollar: a rise towards $2,200
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[#] Mon Jan 11 2021 10:21:39 MST from ParanoidDelusions
Ironically, they become the the thing they claim to despise, they are the problem they believe they're the response to, the evil they think they are better than.
[#] Wed Jan 13 2021 17:54:36 MST from boxfiddler
Subject: Y'all appear to have completely
ignored the Northeast coast. Those guys are problem, too. They may be easier to suppress, I figure they can be starved into submission. Or we could just make New York a prison...
[#] Fri Jan 15 2021 21:05:46 MST from TheDave
All we have to do is deny them food for a bit. They don't know how to grow anything.
[#] Fri Jan 15 2021 21:07:18 MST from ParanoidDelusions
They've got farms in Maine, right? Stephen King always made it seem so rural... the CITIES would implode. Too dense. But the rural areas would be OK. Doesn't Martha Stewart live up that way?
Fri Jan 15 2021 21:05:46 MST from TheDave
[#] Sat Jan 16 2021 01:20:47 MST from TheDave
Fri Jan 15 2021 21:07:18 MST from ParanoidDelusions
The thing about the farms east of the Appalachians is that they can sustain themselves just fine, and probably all the towns round those parts, without any trouble at all. What they're not feeding is the cities. And you think those farmers are gonna put up with the city folk coming around to steal their food once the famine sets in? Nope. All those libs will ruin the surrounding countryside in the attempt and they'll be toast in 4-6 months at the latest.
[#] Sat Jan 16 2021 21:06:33 MST from ParanoidDelusions
Seems reasonable. Where does New York get its sustenance? For some reason - I believe it must be Ohio.
Sat Jan 16 2021 01:20:47 MST from TheDave
[#] Sun Jan 17 2021 17:55:53 MST from Google Bot
Sat Jan 16 2021 21:06:33 MST from ParanoidDelusions
New York City gets it sustenance from all the upstate New York farms.
They get their electricity from Niagara Falls.
They get their water from the Catskill Mountains.
Upstate NY can survive on its own, and i very red compared to the city folk.
[#] Sun Jan 17 2021 18:41:22 MST from ParanoidDelusions
Same can be said about California. I hope both places are ready to practice siege warfare with their urban city states and remind them that without the rural interior, those places go hungry.
I think a 6 week boycott of the major blue urban areas by the midwest, the interior of California, other agricultural areas - would remind the metro hubs how dependent they are on the labor of the Red rural areas.
Sun Jan 17 2021 17:55:53 MST from Google Bot
[#] Sun Jan 17 2021 22:08:35 MST from TheDave
Sun Jan 17 2021 18:41:22 MST from ParanoidDelusions
I really wish they'd do it. They don't understand how in control they could be. There's literally no way to take over a farming operation and maintain the output. Farming is arcane lore to most city people. I grew up around farmers and I think of myself as a noob. I would survive, but it would be rough going. The rest of them? They're going to die within two months.


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Q: How to append/remove attribute value on click to/from the comma separated list within hidden input I have a number of colors as list items within unordered list. I want list item attribute value to be added to my hidden input in the form of a comma separated list (e.g. red,blue,green) upon click.   When value is already present in the list, I want it to be removed from there.  Here is what I have done so far.

RED

BLUE

GREEN

<input type="hidden" id="colorvalues" name="colorvalues" value="">

Here is the jQuery.
 $('.colors').toggle(function() {
  var color = $(this).data('color');

  $("#colorvalues").val(function() {
    return this.value + color;
  });

  $(this.id).addClass('selected');

}, function() {
  var color = $(this).data('color');

  $("#colorvalues").val(function() {
    return this.value - color;
  });

  $(this.id).removeClass('selected');
});

A: jQuery#toggle is used for display or hide the matched element, if I am not wrong.
You have to add a click event listener on your list's elements, then check inside if your hidden input's value already contains the clicked element's color data value.
In function of that, add or remove that value to/from your input one.
Here's a basic example:

$('.colors').on('click', function() {
  const jHidden = $('#colorvalues'),
    chosenColor = $(this).data('color');

  // Converts to array, because array manipulation is much easier.
  let colors = (jHidden.val()) ? jHidden.val().split(',') : [];

  // If the clicked color is found, remove it from the array.
  if (colors.includes(chosenColor)) {
    colors.splice(colors.indexOf(chosenColor), 1);
  } // If not, add it to the array.
  else {
    colors.push(chosenColor);
  }

  // Re-converts it to a string, then affects it to the hidden input.
  jHidden.val(colors.join(','));

  console.log(`hidden input's value =`, jHidden.val());
});

RED

BLUE

GREEN

<input type="hidden" id="colorvalues" name="colorvalues" value="">

A: You mean something, like that?:

var selectedColors = [];
$('.colors').on('click', function () {
 const clickedColor = $(this).attr('data-color');
 selectedColors = selectedColors.includes(clickedColor) ? selectedColors.filter(color => color != clickedColor) : [...selectedColors, clickedColor];
 $('#colorvalues').val(selectedColors.join(','));
});

RED

BLUE

GREEN

<input id="colorvalues" name="colorvalues" value="">

A: I hope it helps you :

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.colors').on('click',function() {
      var color = $(this).data('color');
      if (!$(this).hasClass('selected')) {
        // add value if is not selected class
        $('#colorvalues').val(
        $('#colorvalues').val() === "" ?
        color :
        $('#colorvalues').val() + ',' + color
        );
        $(this).addClass('selected');
      } else {
        let value = '';
        if ($('#colorvalues').val() === color) {
          value = '';
        } else if ($('#colorvalues').val().search(color) === 0) {
          value = $('#colorvalues').val().replace(color + ',', '');
        } else {
          value = $('#colorvalues').val().replace(',' + color, '')
        }

        $('#colorvalues').val(value);
        $(this).removeClass('selected');
      }

      console.log($('#colorvalues').val());
  });
});

RED

BLUE

GREEN

<input type="hidden" id="colorvalues" name="colorvalues" value="">

thanks

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Q: How to make status bar textcolor dark on button click in Dark mode? When I click on Default button status bar style changes .black in Normal mode
But when I enable Dark Mode , status bar automatically becomes white and won't change back
I put the separate code to change it again but it won't work

Here is my code
@objc func defaultbutton()
{
    if #available(iOS 13.0, *)
    {
        if traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle == .dark
        {
            self.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
            self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
            print("status bar style changing is failing everytime it's enterng here")
        }
        else
        {
            self.navigationController!.navigationBar.barStyle = .default
        }
    }
 }

A: You can override preferredStatusBarStyle property in your viewController to change your status bar color to dark in dark mode.
override  open var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    get {
        if traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle == .dark {
            return UIStatusBarStyle.darkContent
        } else {
            return UIStatusBarStyle.default
        }
    }
}


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Real Madrid Vs Man Unt
By Lt Kije,
March 5, 2013 in General Sport
Lt Kije
LocationNear
Well the better team won,
But if Man Untied had played all game like they had 10 men, the result could have been different????????
fugtifino
LocationWarrington
Harsh decision, but them's the breaks.
safeway60
LocationNewton-le-Willows
Nani might have got away with the high shot had he not pretended to have been injured in the incident. The referee looked at him with contempt and sent him off.
Had the same thought myself, safeway.
Can't understand what all the fuss is about - foot clearly up kung fu style and then all the play acting.
Seen people sent off for a lot less.
United actually played better with 10 men and created chances - Real Madrid scored two clinical goals and deserved to win.
Time to move on and hope Arsenal can produce a miracle to keep the English flag flying!
- foot clearly up
Correct............... perhaps it's time we banned all over-head kicks, the foot can't get much higher than that.
Should have been a yellow. Not saying it would have been a different result but the conversation would now be about the football rather than the referee.
I really enjoyed the night despite the result, the atmosphere was the best it has been all season. I'm biased but I agree with Jose in that the best team lost.
Still, I prefer to be in it and lose rather than not in it at all.
What a prat - from the BBC website
"A football fan was so disgusted with the referee's decision to send off Nani in Tuesday's Champions League clash with Real Madrid he called 999.
The 18-year-old Manchester United supporter was watching at home in a village near Bingham, Nottinghamshire.
He felt the red card shown to the United winger was a crime so called police.
He later apologised for the call, saying he was caught up in the moment. Police will not take any action."
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I have to say I've seen red cards given for less and no cards given for worse (Suarez usually - must be his cute baby face!) but the referee calls it as he sees it. It was a reckless challenge which could have ended badly. I'm sorry United got knocked out but they should have made more of the chances they had before the sending off. I do think that the moans afterwards were over the top, Roy Keane called it right on ITV afterwards.
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London gold market under scrutiny as bullion world gathers
Mon, Oct 19, 2015 - 7:20 AM
The gold industry won't just be guessing where prices are heading at its annual gathering in Vienna this week. It will ponder how to change London's spot market, the biggest in the world.
The London Bullion Market Association, which oversees trading and is holding its annual conference starting Monday, has invited proposals on how to improve the city's over-the- counter market and suggested more detailed reporting of transactions. At the same time, the producer-funded World Gold Council has also agreed with five banks to talk about potentially starting standardized central clearing and listed derivatives.
London's market, where custom deals are made on delivery times and size, has come under focus as regulators around the world scrutinized commodities trading and lawmakers have pressed for tighter bank controls. The city has for centuries relied on those trading to manage the risk of default or non-payment. In most other places, transactions are backed by exchanges that offer set contracts.
"Change in regulation is a very big issue," said Adrien Biondi, the global head of precious metals at Commerzbank AG in Luxembourg. "It's focused the market on what needs to be done." Change Coming?
The LBMA said Oct. 9 that it wants to study ways of boosting transparency and invited the market to suggest improvements, including considering a new electronic platform that may lower trading costs and improve efficiency. The association's get-together, where more than 600 people from banks, mining companies, retailers and exchanges meet, will provide a chance for more unofficial talks.
SEE ALSO: Gold gets Fed boost after Powell flags rate cut amid global risk
Moving trading to an exchange would be a bigger overhaul, something that the LBMA said in April is unlikely because it may increase costs. The World Gold Council said in a letter last month to the LBMA and the city's platinum and palladium association that it and a group of five banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, are talking about making changes.
[LONDON] The group last week asked exchanges, including the London Metal Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, for proposals on how to start standardized central clearing and listed derivatives, people familiar with the matter said.
The council continues to talk with banks and the wider industry to explore ways to modernize the market, it said Friday, without elaborating.
The LME, the world's biggest industrial metals bourse, said in September that it's ready to work with the industry on a clearinghouse for bullion. LME Chief Executive Officer Garry Jones said earlier that month that the exchange is considering expanding into gold and silver contracts.
Attendees at the LBMA conference usually discuss everything from price forecasts to contracts. They're meeting two months after gold prices, little changed this year, touched a five-year low. Half of respondents in a Bloomberg survey this month expected bullion to drop for a third straight year in 2015, while the rest predicted a gain.
London's bullion market dates back more than three centuries. About US$21 billion of gold has been cleared on average each day through the city this year, according to the LBMA, which counts Barclays Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co among its market-making members.
The city has already taken steps to modernize the market. In March, an IntercontinentalExchange Inc unit began running an electronic auction for daily gold prices, replacing a phone- based system between a few banks that had changed little since starting almost a century earlier. Similar overhauls to silver, platinum and palladium fixings were made last year. The LBMA helped oversee those changes.
"From the perspective of a market user, this is step in the right direction," said Bernard Sin, the head of currency and metal trading at MKS (Switzerland) SA, a Geneva-based refiner. "I think it would be to the benefit of everyone if we can see the powers of the LBMA and WGC combine."
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100 days of learning, 100 days of friends and 100 days of FUN! On Friday, February 1st, we celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten! We kicked off the day with a wonderful Morning Assembly where we counted to 100 by tens and ones!
All day Kindergarteners participated in different types of 100 day activities! Students made 100th day snack mix, used 100 cups to build structures with, and counted to 100 with paint dots.


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We have quite a few clients in the process of updating their websites and/or going through a brand overhaul. As many of you know, it is a massive undertaking both from a time and money perspective. But it is also a perfect opportunity to offer clarity to the marketplace on what your firm and lawyers do best.
Plenty of clients are window shopping your websites daily, and studies indicate that the highest traffic to law firm websites is the lawyer biographies. Yet if you look at the hundreds of thousands of law firm website biographies, very few offer clarity on what makes a lawyer stand out from his or her competitors. Lawyers have such a fear of limiting their expertise, but clients tell us time and again that specific expertise (industry, type of business, similar matter, geographic focus) is one of the most important priorities when hiring outside counsel.
This is not an uncommon message from our interviews. No matter how long a client has worked with the firm, they still know a fraction of the true capabilities of the firm, the specific expertise of the lawyers, the number of offices or what truly makes the firm stand out from the competition. The website biographies are one opportunity to clarify those messages.
Whether formally overhauling your website or simply taking the opportunity to refresh your lawyer biographies annually, put yourself in the client's shoes. Ask yourself if the biographies make a compelling and easy case for why a client should hire you. Very few clients today want a lawyer that "can try any case" or "can handle any deal" or dabbles in nine practice areas. Clients believe their business, industry, culture and problems are unique and special, and they are looking for lawyers who feel the same and have specific expertise to prove it.


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Make Motorsports and Bad Boy Mowers announce partnership for Talladega
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2003 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion Travis Kvapil will sport the colors of Batesville, Ark., based Bad Boy Mowers, Inc. for the final NASCAR Camping World Series (NCWTS) restrictor plate race of the 2015 season at Talladega Superspeedway.
Bad Boy Inc. began operation in 1998, with the sole purpose of producing the Bad Boy zero-turn commercial lawn mower. The Bad Boy Mowers research team started working with one goal in mind: to develop the strongest, most durable zero-turn mower available and to deliver excellent quality of cut, reliability, productivity and comfort. Bad Boy Mowers are now manufactured, assembled, and stored in multiple facilities comprising over 850,000 square feet in Batesville, Arkansas. Bad Boy Mowers has a specially equipped fleet of tractor trailer rigs that ensure the mowers arrive directly to dealers all across the country completely assembled, factory inspected and ready to mow.
"Bad Boy Mowers is excited about partnering with Travis Kvapil for the final NCWTS restrictor plate race of the 2015 season at Talladega Superspeedway ", stated Bill Hurst, Racing Director for Bad Boy Mowers. We're looking forward to reaching all the great fans that follow the race across the country and on social media. We feel this partnership will be a great way to generate some excitement for our company and reintroduce the Bad Boy Mowers brand to the racing industry."
"I am excited to have Bad Boy Mowers as the primary sponsor on our No. 1 Chevrolet Silverado", said Kvapil. "Talladega is always a fun race because anything can happen. The draft is a game changer for teams as small teams have a good shot at running up front."
The No. 1 of Travis Kvapil and MAKE Motorsports will sport Bad Boy Mowers as the primary sponsor for the Saturday event. PTR Industries Inc. of Anyor, South Carolina will be joining them as a new associate sponsor along with WIX Filters, AKL Insurance, Beaver Bail Bonds, and Markanda Social Strategies.
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« Austin Hill to Pilot Empire Racing Group's No. 82 in NCWTS at Talladega Forrister Excited to get back to Speedway Racing »


528pp., colour & b/w illus., P.B. 2018. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste. Ghosting along estuaries and inshore waters, in 871 they penetrated deep into the southern kingdom of Wessex, ruled over by a new and untested king, AElfred son of AEdelwulf.


Welcome to Team Wedding's ultimate list of the Best Wedding Magazines. Our popular Top Wedding Blogs post was a hit with our readers so we decided to share our favorite wedding magazine list. Most women have envisioned their dream wedding since they were little girls, flicking through bridal magazines and mentally starting to imagine the perfect wedding experience.
Ever since the first bridal magazine was launched in the 1930s, wedding magazines have never looked back. From mass market wedding magazines to niche magazines that cover every conceivable topic, there is one for every bride. Our list has the perfect selection of wedding magazines for every type of wedding inspiration and planning need. Most of the wedding magazines on our list have been around for many years and have lots of great tips for getting married. Bridal magazines have been in circulation for decades and we a little plain to be honest. However, in these times of constant social updates, Pinterest boards and niche wedding websites we have found that the magazines have improved in order to compete. They now have better photography, higher quality paper and modern websites to accompany the print versions.
Here are some more favorite wedding magazines. We have always said that some of our best wedding ideas have come from bridal magazines, they are a great source of wedding planning information for couples. While the internet has meant that lots of new websites exist and there is no lack of wedding content, it is the high quality of magazines, with big editorial staff and experienced writers that makes it much easier to distill all the wedding advice into a clean magazine. These wedding magazine titles cover everything from wedding planning, inspirational photos of real weddings, colors and themes, The great news too is that some of these wedding magazines are free and also available via the wedding magazines online.


The tree of life symbolizes a kind of spirit and belief, a love for nature and the ambiguity of a beautiful life. Tree and three zircons represent the family and the nature, just as the tree is part of the earth and the family is like a tree root. Inseparable is the best gift for enhancing affection, friendship and love.
Pure silver can be combined with many different types of metals, sterling silver is created when combining pure silver with copper. Sterling silver jewelry can be composed with different amounts of copper but is most often seen with the .925 stamp, meaning that the composition is of 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper. This has been found to be a good combination for maintaining the silver's durability without harming its sparkle.
Polishing cloths are an excellent choice for cleaning your sterling silver Jewelry if oxidized and black.


Volunteers spread the word across the city.
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Step Ten: 19 A Clarence Street; The door of Perception.
The door is open (well it might be closed but you can always press the buzzer) to my studio @ SPW 11am -1pm and 2pm – 4pm daily from Friday 14th to Tuesday 18th of December respectively. Come visit me, we might have tea or pull a print, or have a bit of banter. Unlimited possibilities.
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I have fallen in love with a Colombian Press. It's a little older than me (Born in 1855) but we get along tremendously. Here are some proofs of the Stereoscope Series I am working on @ SPW.
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Step Eight: Mad for Road?
Artist Residencies are an extremely viable and practical approach for an artist at any level of their career, to challenge, sustain and develop a significant studio practice.
I will give an in depth professional development workshop on the topic of artist residencies; what facilities you use to find them, how to apply, the available funding and what documentation is required of you to display your work in the best possible light. I will demonstrate how to build an artist CV and the best way to write a clear and concise proposal.
A prologue to these demonstrations will be a brief presentation of my experiences while on residency in Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, China, Finland and in the U.S.A. Artist in Residency programs are a huge boon and have facilitated, fueled and pushed the boundaries of my professional practice over the past few years.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A session and tea.
(Max 25 participants) Full Members £5, Ordinary Members £6, Non-Members £8, Students £5.
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An opportunity to troubleshoot and fine-tune your relief printmaking skills by working alongside myself informally in the studio. I will be happy to talk ideas, techniques and about the beautiful workings of the SPW Columbian press. Basically I'll be the question mark button on the computer for the day.
This Relief Printmaking workshop which is suitable for participants with limited to advanced skill in wood/lino block printmaking will be held over two days. It will address the history of the medium and its relevance to creating art in a contemporary context. As well as conceptual dialogues, techniques such as lino etch, wordplay, multiple colour blocking, and hand burnishing will be addressed. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to utilise the timbre of the relief print to create functional graphic illustrations presenting narratives and information in an accessible way.
Artist's we looked at as a prologue to this workshop are; Andrew Salomone, Bruce Carter, CannonBall Press, Dirk Hagner, Endi Poskovic, Shepard Fairey, Antonio Frasconi, Kathe Kollwitz, Ernest Lugwig Kirchner, Lynd Ward, Sam Brewser, Stanley Donwood, Lora Fosberg.


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City restaurant scoops award for best takeaway
Saffron Indian Takeaway wins at English Curry Awards
Staff at Saffron Indian Takeaway
A SALISBURY takeaway scooped a prestigious award at the 9th English Curry Awards.
Taking place in the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre Holiday Inn Hotel, staff at Saffron Indian Takeaway were delighted when it was announced they had won their first award in the Takeaway and Home Delivery of the Year South West category.
The night also saw the launch of 2020 English Curry Awards 'Queens in Curry Kitchens' campaign, held in association with Women in the Food Industry. The campaign encourages all curry houses across England to have at least one female member of staff by the 2020 awards.
The English Curry Awards 2019 are organised by Oceanic Consulting – the UK's leading ethnic awards company. CEO Irfan Younis said: "Congratulations to all winners and finalists. The night produced some memorable moments and we're delighted to have hosted such talented individuals. We're really excited about the 'Queens in Curry Kitchens' 2020 campaign as it's about time more South-Asian women put their amazing cooking and management skills to good use. We're excited to see how the campaign progresses over the year."
The awards celebrated the best in the curry industry. The awards saw curry houses across England recognised for their graft, dedication and hospitality. They honoured quality food and service across a variety of categories including Chef of the Year, The Best of Birmingham and Curry Entrepreneur of the Year.
The black tie event was hosted by DJ and radio presenter, Tommy Sandhu.
With 13 years of experience, Oceanic Consulting host annual award ceremonies in major English, Scottish and Irish cities. Campaigns include the Curry Awards, Asian Business, Asian Food, British Indian and Britain's Asian Wedding Awards.
'Millions of pounds of recovery money' given to city thanks to footfall data
Are funerals killing us? The deadly pollution secret crematoriums are keeping quiet about
Three people arrested after Fordingbridge house broken into
Another three sheep found dead in New Forest after suffering puncture wounds
Tools stolen after burglary at building site
Registration open to Salisbury's Midnight Walk
OPINION: Street life in our city centre
REVIEW: 'Sensational' Mame at Salisbury Playhouse


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The Big Bomb
How We Hate It, Love It, and Accept It
By Ron Shirtliff | 2008-01-01 12:00:00
Global Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons is a revealing survey conducted in six Western nations for The Simons Foundation at Simon Fraser University.
One thousand people in each of six Western nations were asked 15 questions in July and August 2007 about their attitudes to nuclear weapons. Four of the nations have the bomb, the USA, Britain, France and Israel, (which everyone knows has the weapon but which refuses to confirm or deny it). Two nations, Italy and Germany, have no nuclear arms of their own, but as members of NATO, probably have nuclear weapons on their territory, although not under their sole command.
Dr Jennifer Simons, responsible for the report, notes: "The Cold War may be over, but the threat of a nuclear war has escalated. We are facing an extremely volatile situation on four fronts: the US and Russia are upgrading the capability of their arsenals; there is a new generation of nuclear countries such as India and Pakistan who have tested their weapons; there are states that aspire to become nuclear powers; and there are terrorist groups that want to acquire nuclear weapons. We are entering a nuclear renaissance and citizens are very concerned."
Analyzing the survey results, Ernie Regehr notes in Ploughshares Monitor the public ambivalence to nuclear weapons. Some 79 per cent of Americans think that nuclear weapons make the world a more dangerous place. Only 10 per cent think the world is safer because of nuclear weapons. But when the same Americans were asked how they felt about their own country's nuclear weapons, 47 per cent said the weapons made them feel safer, only 32 per cent felt less safe. Israelis top the list here with 73 per cent feeling safer with nuclear weapons while 27 per cent think those weapons make the world a more dangerous place.
Generally, this ambivalence is true of other citizens of the Western nuclear club. In contrast, "non-nuclear" NATO members, Italy and Germany, feel safer because they do not have nukes.
"Our" Nukes Are Different!
Regehr sums it up well: In countries without nuclear weapons, people find all nuclear weapons threatening; in countries with nuclear weapons, people find all nuclear weapons threatening except their own.
This public confusion leaves the leaders of the nuclear states and their allies free to pursue whatever course they choose.
Support for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban, which bans all nuclear explosions, gains 80 per cent support in the European nations (they have ratified the Treaty) but falls dramatically in the US, 56 per cent, and Israel, 45 percent. The later two nations have not ratified the Treaty, and the Americans administration now talks about the need to develop new nukes.
While the majority in all nations agree that there should be no further spread of nuclear weapons, the Non-Proliferation Treaty itself gets thumbs down across the board for its perceived failure. Many, but not a clear majority, feel the nuclear sharing arrangements within NATO are a violation of the Treaty. At the same time there is a strong consensus among all citizens supporting the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world through an enforceable agreement. The desire for abolition is there even if there is no evident way to achieve it. There is the same general consensus in favor of banning all weapons in space and a hearty concern that nukes be kept out of the hands of potential terrorists.
Israel's Tough Public Opinion
A slight majority of citizens of non-nuclear states assert the immorality of nuclear weapons, but nuclear states are more ambivalent, notably the US where only 27 per cent think nukes immoral and Israel, 16 per cent.
Israelis stand out. This survey suggests a rather aggressive public as relates to nuclear weapons: on immorality, the lowest at 16 per cent; on developing new weapon, the highest at 11 per cent; on using them in a war, the highest at 35 per cent.
This is a valuable and thought provoking survey but it is limited to a rather small portion of the world. It would be wonderful if the Simons Foundation could find the funds to make a broader study. What do the citizens of the rest of the world think, other nuclear weapons states, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and, major non-nuclear states such as Japan, New Zealand, Brazil, Sweden and Canada? Would there be a greater or lesser disconnect between their citizens' opinions and their national policies?
Although overall the respondents favored nuclear disarmament, this survey gives little optimism that the sixty-year era of nuclear madness is nearly over. The recent Bush initiative that supports the Indian nuclear program suggests that it is business as usual with the great powers; nukes are just another card in the traditional game of power politics, whatever citizens might think about the wisdom or morality of the game plan.
The survey presents the responses by citizens in a useful visual format and it also includes a wealth of interesting information by differentiating responses by gender and age in each country. The full document is available at: (www.angusreidstrategies.com/global).
Ron Shirtliff is one of Peace's editors and a member of Science for Peace.
Peace Magazine Jan-Mar 2008, page 23. Some rights reserved.
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Parents can complete the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a screening tool that assesses the risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in children between 16 and 30 months of age. Discuss the results with your child's pediatrician or with a member of our team.
WHAT TO DO IF I THINK I OR MY CHILD HAS AUTISM?
A referral by your physician is not necessary to be evaluated at Spectra. For more information about how you / your child can become a client at Spectra, visit our New Client Steps & Intake. Contact your insurance company to ask about your out-of-network benefits by using our Insurance Guide for assistance.
Make an appointment with your / your child's physician to talk about your concerns.
If your child is under the age of 3, you can call 1-800-628-5115 to see if your child qualifies for Early Childhood Intervention services. Your child does not need to have a medical diagnosis or a doctor's referral to receive these services. The initial evaluation is provided at no cost to the family.
If your child is between the ages of 3 and 21, he/she may be eligible to receive services through your local school district. A doctor's referral is not needed. The first step is to submit a written request for an evaluation to your local (zoned) school. Download a sample letter to request the evaluation, and learn more about services that may be available through the school district.
A Speech and Language Evaluation and/or an Occupational Therapy Evaluation may be appropriate for you/ your child. There are many providers who can perform these evaluations and services. Our Speech Therapist conducts speech and language evaluations as well as provides services.
WHAT TYPE OF EARLY INTERVENTIONS ARE THERE FOR AUTISM?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the recommended, evidence-based intervention for many children and some adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Depending on your child's needs, ABA therapy may be a good option. For further information about ABA and to learn how to find an ABA provider,visit Autism Speaks Resource Guide and visit our Spectra Referral page.
If your child is under the age of 3, you can call 1-800-628-5115 to see if your child qualifies for Early Childhood Intervention. A medical referral and/or diagnosis is NOT needed to receive ECI services, and the initial evaluation is provided at no cost to families. Please visit the Texas Project First, a project of the Texas Education Agency committed to providing accurate and consistent information to parents and families of students with disabilities.
If your child is between the ages of 3 and 5, you can request to have your child evaluated by your local school district for the Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities. If your child qualifies, this program is provided at no cost to the family. Please see the Texas Education Agency (TEA) website for more details.
Medicaid waiver programs. Place your child on the wait lists for the appropriate Medicaid waiver programs. The most common programs for children with an ASD diagnosis are the HCS and the CLASS waivers. Depending on your child's needs, there may be others that he/she will qualify for. Don't delay! These lists have extensive wait times, some as long as 10 to 12 years.
Home and Community Based Services (HCS) is a Medicaid waiver program that provides services and support to individuals with intellectual disability disorders so they can continue to live with family or independently. Such services include residential, day habilitation, supported employment, respite and professional & technical supports.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Based on your child's level of functioning and your family's income, your child may be eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI). For more information about eligibility requirements and the process of applying for benefits, take a look at this brochure from the Social Security Administration about social security benefits for children with disabilities.
SSDI vs. SSI Disability. Children with autism may be eligible for SSI disability benefits if their family's income and assets aren't above the SSI limits (financial eligibility). An adult with autism can apply for SSI or SSDI. However, SSDI is available only to those with a work history from jobs that paid Social Security taxes (SSDI requirements). An "adult child" of a parent receiving Social Security retirement or disability benefits, meaning a child over the age of 18 who has had autism before turning age 22, can get SSDI benefits on the earning record of the parent (disability benefits for adult children).
Texas Workforce Commission – Vocational Rehabilitation (TWC-VRS). TWS-VRS is a program operated by the Texas Workforce Commission in coordination with 28 local workforce development board partners – also known as Workforce Solutions Offices. TWS-VRS helps eligible Texans with disabilities prepare for, obtain, retain or advance in employment through education, training and support services, and other vocational rehabilitation assistance.
If your child is between the ages of 6 and 21, you can request to have your child evaluated by the school district to determine if he/she qualifies for special education services or other accommodations may be available through the school district.
Spectra evaluations are accepted by specialized private schools as well as most public school. Our comprehensive evaluations also provide a list of school accommodations to be considered by 504 or ARD teams.
Spectra offers evaluations services for ages 18 months through late adulthood, including evaluations for college and work.
Your child's pediatrician or evaluation specialist may have recommended speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, or physical therapy, depending on your child's needs. Our Specta speech therapist will be happy to help.
Our staff helps parents understand and interpret special education law. We review school developed education plans to help adequately address your child's needs. As part of our School Advocacy services, we have expertise navigating Admissions, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) and 504 Meetings, in addition to testifying in Due Process Hearings.
Individuals with ASD may have difficulties navigating the social world they live in. Depending on your child's level of functioning, he/she may benefit from participating in social skills groups or classes in order to learn strategies and increase socialization opportunities. Take a look at this list of our social skills groups for all ages.
As a parent, you may be having difficulties adjusting to your child's diagnosis or having difficulty managing his/her behavior. There are many parents who are going through a similar situation, and there are ways to gain support and assistance. Spectra offers parenting classes, behavior management , and support groups at different times of the year.
The National Autism Assoication (NAA) Meet the Police safety initiative is a free, downloadable toolkit for individuals with autism, parents or caregivers who are concerned about their loved one's safety in the community. The purpose of this program is to help enhance the quality of interactions between individuals with autism and members of law enforcement.
Click here for the downloadable toolkit.


CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. – Police are searching for a Chesterfield teenager who is wanted for extortion by threat, abduction and sending threatening messages.
Jalen K. Dowe, 19, is accused of extorting money from an adult male, who is known to him, over a period of several months, according to police.
Police say Dowe, of the 20900 block of Riverterrace Road, forced the victim to go to a bank to retrieve money and sent threatening messages to the victim.
Dowe is described as a black male, about 6 feet tall and 160 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen running from his residence after jumping from a second-story balcony on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.
Anyone with information about Dowe's whereabouts is asked to contact Chesterfield County Police at 804-748-1251 or Chesterfield County/Colonial Heights Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660 or through the P3 app.


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Lukas Papenfusscline is a queer creator & performer of new music and theatre based in NYC working with found material, archival research, and ancient documentation. Their style is a diverse fusion of the american folk tradition, jazz, dadaism, and experimentation. Recent projects include &CRISEYDE with Experimental Bitch Presents, Katabasis with fourlarks at the Getty Villa, Bottom Feeder created with Julia Duray at Dixon Place, a workshop of Kate Soper's new opera The Romance of the Rose, and Olema, an album of futurefolk music released with their band, mammifères in December 2018. Coming up is Frankenstein at the Wallis Theatre, LedaLeda with Julia Duray, a concert with The Bach Store, recorded music with pianist Ran Blake, and an album of medieval music for mammifères.
Lukas has appeared with their band at Rockwood Music Hall, Bowery Electric, The Shrine, Silvana, Jalopy Theatre, Hank's Saloon, (New England:) Radio Bean, Club Passim, Lilypad (California:) Basic Flowers, Hotel Utah Saloon, Dolores Park Cafe; 7th Circle Music Collective (Denver), Artichoke Music (Portland); abroad in Paris at Le Divan du Monde and La Maroquinerie. With Ran Blake, in France at Le Petit Faucheux, Collectif PAN, and Jazzdor. Recent theatre & opera appearances at the Wallis Theatre, Getty Villa, Joe's Pub, The Flea Theatre, Dixon Place, Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe, Jefferson Market Library, and the Alchemical Theatre.
I'm a maker of music and theatre, caught somewhere between the middle ages and tomorrow, constantly queering tradition. Trained as a classical vocalist, I seek out new music from the 20th and 21st century, and am equally at home in improvisation, jazz, and American folk. Alongside my band, mammifères, I craft modern tunes based on field recordings, old manuscripts, and stories from the past, updating them with new structural languages of the 21st century.
As a theatre artist, I perform, direct, and produce intimate performances of old and new texts. Unlike the gigging culture in music, theatre allows me to delve further into performance practice, collaboration, and experimentation with longer projects. I aim to create rehearsal and performance space that is sacred and wild to maintain a high standard for performance arts.
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Wednesday Book Club: Spiritus Mundi
Wednesday, 18 March 2009 — 11:28pm | Book Club, Literary theory, Literature
This week's selection: Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society (1976) by Northrop Frye.
In brief: This collection of a dozen variegated essays—some broadly accessible, others strictly for the interest of literary scholars—is a grab bag of erudite criticism that serves as thorough sampling of Frye's one-man theory show. The academic pieces, which attempt to deduce overarching mythic cosmologies from the poetic output of writers such as Milton and Blake, are an ample demonstration of Frye's method. Far more compelling, however, are the pieces that argue for the continued relevance of the imagination following its dislodgment from the objective world of science and history.
(The Wednesday Book Club is an ongoing initiative of mine to write a book review every week. I invite you to peruse the index. For more on Spiritus Mundi, keep reading below.)
Northrop Frye is possibly literature's most readable theorist, and definitely so, should we confine ourselves to the critical morass that is the latter half of the twentieth century. I attribute this to two factors.
First, there's his predilection to file the entirety of Western literature into neat analogical boxes like a Victorian lepidopterist, where everything fits into a grand ur-structure of isomorphisms between the four seasons, the genres of drama, the phases of man, the Biblical mythos, and everything else. There's a clarity to Frye's writing that doubtless originates in the orderliness of his thought, in stark contrast to the pluralistic mess of postmodernism at its most extreme, where everything means anything and therefore nothing.
Second, there's his singular insistence on departing from the critical orthodoxy of "schools of thought" derived from preexisting -isms, and developing an independent theory of literature that grows out of the empirical data before asserting its own autonomy—a theory that is to literature as mathematics is to physics, or as chord-scale theory is to music. Reading Frye leaves an encouraging impression that one is, in fact, learning something; again, not something that can be said for your average theorist.
Most of this was explained better in Anatomy of Criticism, a theoretical masterwork that qualifies as desert-island reading for the literary scholar. But there is something to be said for the versatility of a thinker who just as happily boils down his discipline into the basic introductory questions of why we bother with it at all, as Frye does with the utmost commitment to accessibility in the Massey Lectures published as The Educated Imagination.
The twelve essays in Spiritus Mundi cover the spectrum between the two extremes, the Northrop Frye who muses about grand mythological archetypes in case anyone is incidentally listening, and the Northrop Frye who stands as a plainspoken advocate for literary criticism as a dignified, valuable discipline. They are cordoned off into three parts:
"Contexts of Literature"—essays concerning the place of literate culture in the intellectual and political environment of academia, the enduring relevance of books, and the coexistence of mythological and scientific ways of thinking.
"The Mythological Universe"—studies in genres as diverse as literary criticism, charms and riddles, masques, and grand unified theories of history.
"Four Poets"—readings of Milton, Blake, Yeats, and Stevens that attempt to deduce a cosmology, or symbolic universe, from the works of each poet.
It's hard to summarize any of the essays individually, as Frye has a tendency to meander from one thought to another instead of pursuing a single line of argument at a time. He makes it clear that he doesn't believe in the "position paper" as a format, as he finds that it enslaves the study of a work of literature to demonstrate an ideology that has already been assumed. Indeed, it is quite easy to get very lost in the essays that rely on close poetic analysis, not because of any obscurity in Frye's writing, but because he presumes a thorough holistic knowledge of the works he is analyzing in isolated parcels. You might think you know Milton, but then you see Frye go on for pages about a lesser-known work like Samson Agonistes and all you end up absorbing are the occasional conclusive paragraphs that jump out with an "aha".
So there's not much I can say about the arguments themselves: I don't have the literary (or, in many cases, theological) background to follow every logical step and refute them if necessary. What's interesting to see here is how a writer can dedicate himself to clarity in a syntactic, lexical sense, and still produce essays that are distinctly academic. There remains an irreducible difference between academic and popular writing: the prerequisite of pure knowledge. And as much as Frye would like criticism to be a study that has something to show for itself as a closed system, the evidence underlying his grand mythological constructions—the close analysis of the literature itself—often only makes sense to the degree you are aware of the literature.
But the essays that take a more holistic approach, predominantly those in the first part, are sublime. Some of them are a product of their time, but are food for thought nonetheless. In "The Renaissance of Books", Frye shows off his healthy conservative scepticism towards the oft-announced death of books at the hands of emergent media, contending that the permanence of written documents (contrary to the "linearity" suggested by McLuhan) makes them the enabling artifacts of democracy. Well, sure, but what do we make of that argument today, in the age of mass digitization of texts—where we have impermanent digital media that are simultaneously more accessible to the public? We're still at least a generation away from assessing what effect digitization will actually have on our cultural memory, but it currently looks as though Frye's defence of the book could apply as well to the e-book.
Equally fun is "The University and Personal Life", Frye's thorough dissection of late-sixties hippie leftism that exposes it as a far and purposeless cry from the old guard of intellectual social movements, which were fundamentally driven by a teleological vision of history. Frye has a taste for grand theories of history, even if they have been thoroughly discredited in practice: he repeatedly insists that mythologies never become wholly obsolete, since they remain interesting as mythologies—a view he takes of Oswald Spengler's four-seasons model of the rise and fall of civilizations in "Spengler Revisited".
One of Frye's contentions in Spengler's defence is that his critics, who showed with the obvious means that Spengler ended up being flat-out wrong, never proposed any elegant models of civilization as a replacement. This is understandable in light of Frye's viewpoint that criticism should learn a few lessons from science, where the refutation of a theory leaves a vacuum that can and must be filled by a new theory that offers a better explanation accounting for the evidence of its predecessor, and then some. However, since the publication of Spiritus Mundi in the 1970s, postmodernism has driven much of literary "theory" off into a different corner entirely—one that rejects grand narratives outright, and aims precisely to take them apart without constructing anything in their place. I do not imagine Frye would be very pleased with the state of affairs today.
The most compelling essay of the lot is "The Times of the Signs", a mind-blowing address delivered to the Royal Society of Canada in 1973 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Copernicus. If one were to compile an introductory package of Northrop Frye essays that offer a grand tour of the full spectrum of his thought, this would surely be among them.
Here, Frye illustrates, through a miniature history of Western poetry, the effect that developments in the natural sciences had on the imagination—primarily, but not exclusively, the realignment of our place in the world from a Ptolemaic centre to a heliocentric orbit. What did it do to a Christian consciousness? Or a Renaissance consciousness? And what the heck is Galileo doing in Paradise Lost, anyway?
Frye's romantic schema, where our natural knowledge of the world that is coexists with an imaginative culture expressing the world as we would like it to be, is as mature an assessment of the interaction of science and myth as one is likely to find. We may be living in times when the common poetic impulse is to retreat into a vehemently unscientific symbol-set—observe the resurgence of astrology—but that wasn't always so, and it hopefully won't always be that way. In an apathetic environment, our imaginative response, which takes the form of our cultural production, is the source of human ideals and desires.
As a complete volume, I do not suggest Spiritus Mundi as an introduction to what Frye is all about: a student of literature is better served with Anatomy of Criticism, and a layperson with The Educated Imagination. But it is in Frye's short works that the extremes meet in the middle, and one gets to witness a fine demonstration of his method, which takes collected morsels of literature as evidence for a grand pattern to the universe of human dreams.
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2 rejoinders to "Wednesday Book Club: Spiritus Mundi"
# John Cowan
Hear, hear! and Well done! and things like that. A lovely summary of a wonderful book.
Monday, 23 March 2009 at 7:24am
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PC-Engine: Jan.-Mar. 1990
Time Cruise #1, the Unreleased Prequel
Now this might be a little confusing, but Face announced Time Cruise (see right) on the PC-Engine in February 1990 but never released it. They went straight to work on the sequel Time Cruise II anyway, releasing that in late 1991. The US Turbografx game Time Cruise was the sequel, just with the "II" removed.
The unreleased prequel had really great graphics, with eras represented including a tech-noir future, classic Americana and Japonica. Shame it wasn't released.
Blade Land: an unreleased RPG
Nothing too seemingly special, as it's yet another RPG that didn't get released, but at least it seemed to have a modern-Tokyo setting, similar in tone to Mother/Earthbound?
Aoi Blink Beta Pics
The January 1990 issue of Gekkan PC-Engine had several classic PCE games on show for the first time, including Aoi Blink, touted here as a "Super Mario 3" style game.
The screenshots to the right show some differences to the released version of the game, including different graphics, dialogue, and level design. Nothing major, but it's possible some levels were added or taken out, judging from the different map layout.
Top: The beta version's "ROUND 1" text is far more attractive than the final's. As you can also see, some houses used to be bus stops; and a final, minor thing, the tower in the house in the centre used to be grey. In the final, it has been changed to orange.
Above: The narrow tower has been made wider in the final version. Also, the beta version had odd brick buildings in the same stage, which were changed to normal houses in the final.
Below, we can see a background that was removed entirely from the final version. I don't think the mountain backdrop of the beta appears at all in the final.
Bottom: This caped man's hint to the team is slightly different. In the final, he says "The key is above the ceiling." In the beta, he's more cryptic: "I've heard it's in an unseen place."


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Islam and Muslim Cultures in Quebec French-language Textbooks over Three Periods
1980s, 1990s, and the Present Day
Béchir Oueslati, Marie McAndrew and Denise Helly
This article examines the evolution of the representation of Islam and Muslim cultures in textbooks in Quebec. Results indicate signicant improvements in the new secondary school history textbooks, both quantitatively (for they contain more information about pillars, key concepts, and relations with Christianity and Judaism) and qualitatively (on account of their depth of coverage, fewer negative views than in the 1980s, and fewer factual errors than in the 1990s). The positive role played by Muslim scientists in preserving old knowledge and enriching is also recognized. However, textbooks still view Islam as a religion of submission, proscriptions, and forced conversion, failing to recognize the diversity within Islam and Muslim cultures.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered
Wolfgang Merkel and Jean-Paul Gagnon
Democracy, says Wolfgang Merkel, is not in as deep of an acute crisis as many today think it to be. An examination, for example, of OECD democracies over the last 50 years does not reveal democracy's wholesale crisis but rather crises in certain sectors of democracy – ones that change over time as the state institutions affected by crises adapt to them and in some manner resolve them. Take, for instance, the improvements made in Western democracies to civil liberties, women in business and parliaments, gay rights, and the protection of minorities. These improvements happened in the last 50 years. Almost simultaneously, however, almost all established democracies developed a crisis with globalized capital that blackmails its governments with the threat of capital flight and a crisis with economic inequality which has resulted in approximately the poorest 1/3rd of most democratic societies dropping-out of each form of political participation. Merkel's reconsideration of the crisis of democracy reveals that democracies can decline and improve at the same time because crises are sectoral.
Affirmative action and political economic transformations
Secondary education, indigenous people, and the state in Jharkhand, India
Rob Higham and Alpa Shah
This article proposes an anthropology of affirmative action that is embedded in analysis of the wider political economic transformations in which affirmative action policies emerge. It is argued that this historically situated approach enables analyses of the relative effects of affirmative action on processes of socio economic marginalization. The focus of the article is on the combination of preferential treatment policies and the provision of education as a state-led response to historical marginalization. These policies are explored in the context of adivasis (tribal or indigenous peoples) in Jharkhand, India. The analysis shows how, despite improvement in absolute educational outcomes among adivasis as a result of these policies, inequalities in relative outcomes are being reproduced and are widening. This is explained in part by market-led gains within the private edu cation sector for more advantaged sections of society that outweigh the predom inately state-led improvements for adivasis. The analysis demonstrates the limitations of contemporary affirmative action in affecting the relative position of socioeconomically marginalized groups in contexts where the state is losing some of its universal features and ambition.
How to Survive the Postfeminist Impasse
Grace Helbig's Affective Aesthetics
Catherine McDermott
An emerging genre across literature, screen, and digital media is beginning to articulate profound dissatisfaction with postfeminist social norms and scripts. In this article, I explore how American comedian Grace Helbig exploits and reworks classic postfeminist self-improvement genres through her parodying of the YouTube how-to video. Using Helbig's video as an illustrative case study, my analysis demonstrates that affect theory has the capacity to make a vital contribution to current postfeminist debates. Recent research finds postfeminist analysis lacks the facility to fully comprehend the complexity of contemporary femininities, suggesting that postfeminist media studies as a genre of scholarship has reached a critical impasse. Drawing on Lauren Berlant's (2008, 2011, 2015) work, I examine how Helbig affectively deflates popular postfeminist fantasies of fun-loving confident girlhood. More widely, I argue that affective approaches offer feminist scholars a dynamic framework to make sense of the continuing impact and legacies of postfeminist media culture.
Methodology for Setting a Mexican User Satisfaction Index for Social Programs
Odette Lobato-Calleros, Humberto Rivera, Hugo Serrato, María Elena Gómez and Ignacio Méndez Ramírez
This article reports on the methodology for setting the Mexican User Satisfaction Index for Social Programs (MUSI-SP) as tested in seven national social programs. The evaluation is based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). How satisfaction takes the central place of the SEM, which postulates its causes and effects, contributes to the increased validity and reliability of satisfaction indicators that allow benchmarking between social programs. The MUSI model is an adaptation of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) model. The MUSI methodology includes qualitative and quantitative techniques. The estimation model is by the Partial Least Squares (PLS). In each of the seven social programs, no statistical evidence was found to reject the main relationships postulated by the ACSI's model: that Perceived Quality impacts Satisfaction, and Satisfaction impacts Trust. The improvement opportunity areas were also identified for each program. These results give valid and reliable feedback to public policies.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
Social Quality in China
An Analysis of the Evaluation of Different Classes
Cui Yan and Huang Yongliang
Since the end of the 1990s, when European scholars put forward the social quality theory, related research has been recently and increasingly carried out in China. At present, Chinese society has entered a new stage of development, and the main demands of the population have gradually changed. For theoretical and practical reasons, it is highly attractive to strengthen the research on the social quality of China in order to meet new public demands and expectations and to promote the improvement of social quality through the implementation of effective politics and policies. Based on empirical data, this article comprehensively analyzes the cognition of different layers of China's population and the change of the four conditional factors of social quality on the overall development of society.
Social Quality in Finland
Mika Vuori and Mika Gissler
The 1970s could be said to be the 'golden age' for social and well-being indicators. After a period of slow progress, new indicators were devised in Europe during the mid-1990s, however, improvements are still needed in the knowledge and scientific theories behind these indicators. New indicators need to be developed and comparable multinational statistics need to be collected. The purpose of this article is to present key findings on social quality in Finland. The situation will be described with data at national level with some international comparisons, derived from different resources of statistics and research. Furthermore, the underlying trends that affect the social quality of Finnish people will be described.
In European Journal of Social Quality
The racial fix
White currency in the gentrification of black and Latino Chicago
Jesse Mumm
In Chicago, real estate value is fixed by race through the process of gentrification. I present findings from an ethnography of the black, Mexican, and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the greater West Side. Gentrification here is a "racial fix": a consensus-building process to inflate value in a speculative market reliant on the historical legacies of racism. The white flight era devalued neighborhoods now facing speculation and hyperinflation as increased global investment, debt culture, and debt financing fuel the growth machine. The discourses of residents, randomized survey results, and a built environment scan show that property value corresponds more to white residence than material improvement. White people cultivate the currency of whiteness through gentrification to build social status, capital, and the city of their dreams.
Moisés Orfali
This discussion of the processes of Spanish acculturation among Moroccan Jews deals with influences that Spanish Jews brought to Morocco both before and after 1492, especially their regulations establishing a considerable improvement in the status of Jewish women and restrictions on expenditure on the occasion of family celebrations. In accordance with the Valladolid Takkanot (1432), they forbade the wearing of certain jewellery and the display of valuable finery. These social and ethical-religious measures also expressed a concern not to expose property and people to the envy of non-Jews. The megorashim (newcomers from Spain) spread the Castilian custom of ritual slaughter of animals for consumption. The re-Hispanisation of the Judeo-Spanish language (Ḥaketía) was consciously considered among the descendants of the megorashim as part of their Spanish identity and collective memory.


Sister Lucia states, "I see each of my students as a unique and unrepeatable person." While teaching writing, her methods include incorporating high expectations and diligent editing. She is recognized for demonstrating excellent traditional classroom methods of lecturing, as well as the ability to use technology to facilitate the learning. By using online software and computerized data resources, she allows her students to become uniquely engaged in the writing process. She creates websites, videos, utilizes clickers, and incorporates audio feedback into the editing process for her students. She has a long history of reviewing ever-emerging technology to assess its value in her classroom and sharing this expertise generously with others.
Sister Lucia joined Grand Valley State University in 2002.


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I'm excited to announce that "Game Over" won the people's choice award at "Play Arcadia," which was the Montreal portion of the game competition that was held again here at FuturePlay in Toronto.
So along with the funding announcement and now finding out that Dimitris' (and crew) game won one of the people's choice awards, this has been a GREAT day for accessibility!
And as I was coming back to my hotel room I was thinking "what a great conference this has been!" I will write more later when I've had a chance to rest a bit and hopefully Kevin will be able to share his experiences with us as well on the list. But in summary we've made so many new friends of accessibility. Between this and E for All, we've seen amazing list growth and each and every person that learns about us IS a win. Sure, smaller conferences may frustrate us from time to time but we cannot forget that sometimes this is exactly how we attract people who will put game accessibility into their course work, tell others about it, share with a friend or a relative with a disability. Sometimes it's the one-on-one time we spend that results in impact that can be just as exciting and rewarding as speaking to a crowded room. Seeing someone walk away from talking about accessibility excited, offering help, and then joining the list...well that's just really, really cool.
But again...CONGRATS to Dimitris and his team for the award for Game Over! I was proud to accept the award on their behalf (and Dimitris -- I need your mailing address to mail you the award certificate!).