Nepathya is a centre for excellence in Kudiyattam, operating since 1998 in the village of Muzhikkulam in central Kerala. Muzhikkulam is one of the major sites for Kudiyattam, which has flourished there for several generations. Many famous Chakyars belonging to the Ammanoor tradition were based in this village, to which the family migrated from its original home in Koppam (Malabar). Having inherited this legacy, Nepathya functions as one of the prime centers of Kudiyattam, which is taught, performed and preserved in traditional format, emphasizing the basic and characteristic aspects of this ancient art form.
Other fields of interest are: basic research into the history and evolution of the art form; conceptualization and performance of new texts; and re-creation of old Kudiyattam performances no longer current. The conceptualization process includes the literary study of the text, together with the study of its language and grammar; creating an aattaprakaram (performance text); rehearsing and performing. The focus of this process is on the acting potential, avoiding disturbance to the poetic and dramatic beauty of the text. Development of new performance texts, design of costumes (aaharya) and music, and documentation of the whole process will undoubtedly influence the performance scenario of Kudiyattam in the coming years.
Accordingly, in collaboration with the International centre for Kudiyattam, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Kalady, Nepathya has revived and enacted the following works: Kamsavadham prabandham, Karnnabharam, Doothaghatotkacham and Kanchukeeyam, performances which were well received by critics and connoisseurs of Kudiyattam. Other artistic events were the adaptation and performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth into Kudiyattam, and a six-week appreciation course in Kudiyattam for local people in Muzhikkulam. All the while, Nepathya has been performing in different parts of Kerala, elsewhere in India and abroad. In January 2009 the troupe performed in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University. Every year Nepathya presents an award to a young artist in the field of Kudiyattam and Kathakali in the name of D. Appukkuttan Nair, a great scholar of Kudiyattam and the founder of the Margi theatre in Trivandrum, Kerala.
The Mukhya Aacharya (prime-master) of the institution was the famous Kudiyattam artist Padmasree Guru Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar, who was the torch bearer of the Ammannoor style of acting in the last century, together with his cousin – Padmabhooshan Ammannoor Madhava Chakyar. Today the center is headed by Kochukuttan Chakyar's disciple and son, Margi Madhu, an important practicing Kudiyattam artist who continues the Ammanur tradition and style. Madhu has participated and presented papers in International Seminars and published articles and books on Kudiyattam. He has traveled and performed both in India and abroad, including Japan, USA, Singapore, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, etc. Madhu's wife, Dr. Indu G., is a leading young Kudiyattam actress, who has written her Ph. D. on the topic of Kudiyattam in the department of Malayalam in the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Kalady, Kerala. In her articles, Indu connects literature and performance. She is one of the only performers to have performed Sreekrishnacharitham in full. The center also includes three Mizhavu drummers: Kalamandalam Ratheesh Bhas, Kalamandalam Anoop, Kalamandalam Manikandan; one edakka artist – Kalanilayam Rajan; one Make-up (chutti) artist –Kalamandalam Satheesan; one senior male acting student – Nepathya Saneesh; four junior male acting student: Nepathya Yadukrishnan, Nepathya Vishnuprasad, Nepathya Rahul, Nepathya Sreehari. M. Chakyar; one junior female acting student – Nepathya Anjana; one senior mizhavu student – Nepathya Jinesh; and one junior Mizhavu student –Nepathya Aswin.
Nepathya's current interest is in full depth performances, now rare in Kerala; we aim to enact at least one full performance a year, after training the disciples for such performances. Sharing this vision, Nepathya has been collaborating with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 2008. This connection has allowed the full enactment of the following acts: Asokavanikaankam, Mayasitaankam and Balivadham, and produced a scholarly and creative interchange of thoughts. Nepathya believes that performing Kudiyattam without compromising with the mechanical changes of the modern world order is a mode of resistance to violence of any kind.


Mayoral Candidate Alderman Zielinski on Chief Flynn's Retirement How Much Suffering Will It Take Before We Have Realistic Gun Control?
While supposedly working on a bipartisan compromise on immigration and a bill to help Dreamers, President Trump complained about immigrants coming from shithole countries. Most of those immigrants would be people of color of course…and wondered why we couldn't get more immigrants from like…Norway.
I'll tell you why…they would have to give up universal health care, better job opportunities, a superior free educational system, sick leave, maternity/paternity leave, and other social benefits totally unavailable in that shithole United States. Why would anyone want to leave the happiest country in the world?
Happiest or most highly medicated?
Happiest except for the dead Norwegian blue parrot.
Canada will need to build a wall on THEIR southern border soon. ????❄☃❄????


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Q: Copy from char * to char arrray My character pointer points to some memorry say "Hello world" and i want to compare this with other pointer and later want to do strcpy. I sit possible to do with char *
char *A ="hello"
char *B ="";

strcmp(A,B); // this compares correctly because B points to diff string
strcpy(B,A); // will this statment copies the string alone or both will point to same memory

A: char *B ="";

This means that B is a pointer and you have pointed to the constant string "".
Copy the A string to the B with strcpy(B,A);
This means that you are copying the string of A to the memory which the B is pointing (and B is pointing to a constant string) so this will cause undefined behaviour
To avoid a such problem the B pointer should be pointed to a memory space for example you can point the B to a dynamic memory space allocated with malloc:
char *B = malloc(10*sizeof(char));

and you can make the size of the memory exactely the same of A string size with:
char *B = malloc((strlen(A)+1)*sizeof(char));

The +1 is for the null terminator character for the string
Another solution to avoid the problem: Define the B as an array of chars and not as a pointer:
char B[10];

A: your code will compile successfully as strcpy needs destination and source char * as argument.
char * strcpy ( char * destination, const char * source );
but you will get segmentation fault when you execute it...bcoz B points to no where first you have to allocate block of memory where B points at, by B=malloc(6);
char *A ="hello";
char *B;

B = malloc(6);

strcmp(A,B);
strcpy(B,A);

once you do this, yes strcpy will copy a total new string. A and B both will point to two different locations.

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Serverless Computing: Beyond the Hype
Function-as-a-service may be the future of cloud, but not all applications are candidates.
By Paul Gillin September 19 2019
As Ryan Kroonenburg prepared to apply for a solutions architect job at Amazon Web Services in 2015, he was stunned by the cost of training required for the necessary certifications. Many online courses cost $2,000, with as many as five required for each credential he needed.
The situation sparked an idea to create his own training courses. The first one, which he recorded in his London apartment, was a viral success. That's when he knew he needed a scalable platform to take his venture to the next level. After enlisting his brother, a software developer, to help, the two realized they didn't have the funds to pay for dozens of physical or virtual servers needed to run their fledgling business. That's when they discovered Lambda, an Amazon "serverless" platform that offers almost infinitely scalable computing.
"Serverless is the next big revolution," Kroonenburg said in a video interview at AWS Summit 2017. "You don't have to worry about servers; you can just focus on your code."
That's possible because serverless abstracts away most of the burdensome, often repetitive tasks like provisioning infrastructure. It allows operations to focus on the business logic at the heart of an application, explained Nande Konst, a developer, in a contributed article to Medium.
Kroonenbug also discovered that the cost for serverless was "ridiculously cheap." He said workloads that would have cost him $30,000 per month on cloud servers were now a small fraction of that, thanks to a combination of promotional pricing and the much lower cost of serverless functions.
The cost plummets with the serverless public cloud model because it allows users like Kroonenburg to pay for the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than having to pre-purchase units of capacity. The cloud provider owns and runs the server and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources, keeping a tally and charging only for usage.
[Related: Everything You Need to Know About AWS Firecracker]
In this way, serverless advances cloud computing's "pay by the drink" model with pricing that's pegged to the service rather than the overhead of the supporting infrastructure.
Serverless computing allowed the Kroonenburg brothers to found A Cloud Guru, which has more than 850,000 customers who pay less than $30 per month for unlimited access to a growing library of more than 60 courses. The infrastructure cost is a fraction of conventional servers and scalability has never been an issue, allowing the Kroonenburg brothers to run their small business on a tight budget.
Making Infrastructure Invisible
Whereas cloud computing made the management of physical servers invisible to the user, serverless computing does away with the need to set up and administer servers altogether by supplying software functions as a service.
Unlike full-blown software-as-a-service applications, functions can be tasks, such as checking a credit card number against a list of stolen accounts. Users access software functions without knowing or caring where they run. Developers can be more productive because they're freed from the need to attend to infrastructure. Businesses benefit from lower costs and the ability to build applications that are easier to scale and modify.
These are the reasons that serverless offerings such as Lambda, Microsoft's Azure Functions, and Google's Cloud Functions may be more accurately described as function-as-a-service offerings. They deliver software functionality rather than virtual servers. Applications built on serverless technology can be smaller, faster and easier to modify than applications running on owned hardware or in traditional cloud services because users pay only for the few milliseconds of time it takes for an application to complete a workload.
"[Serverless is] more storage-efficient, CPU-efficient and memory-efficient" than conventional cloud infrastructure, said James Kobielus, an analyst at the research firm Wikibon.
Because serverless applications are assembled from services in a modular fashion rather than vertically integrated, "the programming logic is far less involved than traditional programming with fewer dependencies," he said.
That translates into quicker development of applications that can be more easily modified.
Demand for serverless is rising. GrandView Research expects the global serverless architecture market to grow 26% annually to reach $19.84 billion by 2025. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called it "the core of the future of distributed computing." AWS CEO Andy Jassy recently indicated that if the Amazon e-commerce engine was being built today, it would be largely on serverless platforms.
Stateless and Event-Driven: Both Pro and Con
Not all software developers are rushing to serverless platforms, in part because the paradigm isn't the right choice for every application.
"Serverless doesn't take over everything," said Wikibon's Kobielus.
Two of the best features of serverless architectures are also its greatest drawbacks, he noted. One is that functions are stateless, meaning that they don't preserve the context of an interaction but rather treat each one as new. This makes them fast, but also a poor choice in areas like e-commerce, where knowing the contents of a shopping cart is important as a customer traverses a website.
Serverless computing is also event-driven. It's designed to respond quickly to a stimulus, such as a search query or keystroke. This makes it ideal for occasional or unpredictable requests, such as checking a photo against a database of copyrighted images.
However, repetitive functions like crunching payroll or rendering video work better with more traditional approaches, said Lee Atchison, senior director of strategic architecture at software analytics company New Relic.
"If you know traffic will be higher from nine to five each day, traditional scaling can handle that effectively," he said. "But in any situation where your workload is variable, you're going to see the biggest savings with serverless."
Statelessness and event-driven processing enable serverless platforms to smoothly scale up and down, since the infrastructure isn't tied to the application, said Rohit Akiwatkar, a technology consultant at Simform LLC, who has published extensively about serverless development. He said that can translate into big cost savings.
Akiwatkar cites the example of a publisher who must accommodate spikes in web traffic when a content item goes viral. With a serverless content delivery platform, "they wouldn't have to run virtual machines at peak capacity all the time because the functions would scale automatically," he said.
Changing the Traditional Mindset
The real challenge to serverless adoption may be changing the developer mindset that applications and their infrastructure must be bound together, but Wikibon's Kobielus believes that can be overcome.
"When you think about it, orchestrations that happen at the database transaction level can be executed as services on a separate cloud platform," he said. "The vast majority of what most applications do can be rendered as serverless functions."
Serverless computing is one of the most recent developments in the evolution of applications away from underlying hardware. It's a trend that began with virtualization in the late 1990s, continued with public cloud infrastructure and is maturing with the advent of fully integrated software containers, application program interfaces, microservices and container orchestration. The new breed of cloud-native applications run practically anywhere, scale almost infinitely and adroitly integrate functions from across the Internet. The promise of truly distributed applications may be just around the corner.
Paul Gillin is the former editor-in-chief of Computerworld and founding editor of TechTarget. He's the author of five books about social media and online communities.
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2000 vintage single cask bottled for the Old & Rare Platinum Selection.
Laphroaig 18 Year Old 2000 Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill hogshead bottled October 2018 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Old & Rare Platinum Collection. 209 bottles. Laphroaig Distillery was established in 1815 on the rocky south coast of the Isle of Islay off the west coast of Scotland. This malt whisky distillery continues to malt barley using its traditional malting floors and malt kiln. In 1994 the distiiley was awarded the Royal Warrant. The core range is quite extensive and supplemented by limited releases including a 21 year old was issued in 2015 to celebrate 21 years of Friends of Laphroaig. Independent bottlings are also available from Signatory, Cooper's Choice and Hunter Laing. Laphroaig distillery also participates in Feis Ile, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music.


With this space, we can share new, useful vocabulary that is being compiled by scholars in Tibet. This is very useful for teaching a new generation living all over the world. As parents, we are committed to teaching Tibetan to our children. But in this modern age we were lacking the vocabulary for all things that were not traditionally part of Tibetans' lives. I hope this is helpful for everyone, and that we can continue to gather new vocabulary that comes from scholars in Tibet and elsewhere.
All of the pages at present come from a book called "New Daily Vocabulary" by Khenpo Tseltrim Loedu.


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NHL TELLS DEVILS, 'SORRY ABOUT TIE'
By Mark Everson
February 23, 1999 | 5:00am
TAMPA – It's sort of official. The Devils were robbed on a decision that may have cost them a point that could prove precious in the coming weeks. It may even cost them home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
NHL VP Colin Campbell told The Post that he agrees with Robbie Ftorek that the Devils should have gone on a potential game-winning power play as a result of Tie Domi's thuggery on Randy McKay last week.
McKay had been flattened in front of the Maple Leafs' net at the Meadowlands last Monday, midway through the third period of the game that was tied, and would remained tied, at 3-3. While McKay was being pancaked by another Leaf, Domi skated in and twice speared McKay in the face. McKay rose indignantly, and began to demonstrate his objections, only to find his arms restrained by Leaf Kris King.
Domi then proceeded to give McKay an all-time face wash, shoving his head backward over the net, bending McKay so that it appeared his back might break.
For all that, Domi received only a roughing minor, and McKay an equalizing goalie interference call. The Devils did not wreak any vengeance on Domi, expecting a power play advantage that never came.
Campbell reviewed Domi's actions, but did not suspend the Leaf.
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Graphic Organizers are useful educational tools in any subject area. They help students organize their thoughts and ideas for answering questions, function as a pre-writing tool for essays, and provide a visual display of information. They can be an easy way to differentiate instruction for a variety of learning styles as well.
Teach students how to use the graphic organizer you've chosen for the activity. Explicitly explain the situations in which certain Graphic Organizers are used and why they are effective for use at those times.
Give students time to practice using various Graphic Organizers. While one student may find T-charts especially helpful, another student might prefer Venn diagrams.
After exposing your students to several different types of Graphic Organizers and showing them the proper ways to use these organizers, you've given them a chance to find a new tool that they can use on their own for future projects.
Try this Venn Diagram organizer to help students compare and contrast information.
Help students classify new information using this Classification organizer.
Use this Classification organizer to help students to classify information on even more items.
The Analogy organizer allows students to cement their learning on a particular concept by applying the learning to a new context.
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The Q & A Transcript of the Miss Universe 2016 Top 6 Finalists
8:40 AM by Runner RockyNo comments
The most beautiful day in the universe which took place in our very own land has just been concluded. And Iris Mittenaere, the aspiring dentist from France was crowned as the Miss Universe 2016.
Let's recap the most important part of the competition, the Q & A portion which determined the Top 3 winners.
FRANCE: Iris Mittenaere
Question: "Given today's worldwilde refugee crisis, do countries have an obligation to accept refugees or do they have a right to close their borders?"
Answer: "The country should have the right to open or close their borders. Throughout the world, people can choose to open or close their borders. In Europe, we have open borders. In France, we want to have the most globalization and we want to have the biggest exchange of people that we can. Maybe someday that will change, but now we have open borders. Having open borders allows us to travel the world and to find out more of what's happening in the world."
PHILIPPINES: Maxine Medina
Question: "What is the most significant change you've seen in the world in the last 10 years?"
Answer: "In the last 10 years of being here in the world, is that I saw all the people being in one event like this: Miss Universe. And it is something big to us that we are one. As one nation, we are all together. Thank you. Maraming salamat po."
KENYA: Mary Were
Question: "What are you most excited about and what concerns you when it comes to the presidency of Donald Trump?"
Answer: "Donald Trump having been elected the president of the United States may not have been the choice of most people in the United States, because of the divided support system for the outgoing president, Barack Obama, who was supporting an upcoming woman president. So many people oppose [Trump's] position, but I feel that once he took up his position, he was able to unify the entire nation."
THAILAND: Chalita Suansane
Question: "Name a current or past world leader whom you admire, and why?"
Answer: "Mabuhay, Philippines. For me, that would be the King of Thailand. His Majesty has been working tirelessly in behalf of the Thai people ever since I was born. For all the Thai people, His Majesty has been a father to us."
HAITI: Raquel Pelissier
Question: "On January 21st, an estimated 4.8 million people marched worldwide for human rights, women's rights, and other issues. If you were able to to participate, what would you have been marching for?"
Answer: "One of the women I admire in the world is Eleanor Roosevelt because she fought so much for human rights, and I feel like that's what we need in the world. We are just one. A hundred thousand years ago, six species of humans lived in the world. Now, we are just one. We all need each other. We need to respect each other."
COLOMBIA: Andrea Tovar
Question: "Why do you think violence is so prevalent in today's society, and what can we do about it?"
Answer: "I come from a country that does have violence, and this is my reference point. And although there are presidents who don't get along with others, we work together to be able to unite. Campaign, respect, and inclusivity, to be able to have a social transformation that will educate our children."
Once more, congratulations to these Top 6 finalists! You all did the good job! And all of you were already winners! 01/31/2017 (TV Series Craze)
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Mentha oil futures was among the top performing agriculture commodities on Indian bourses last week. All the active contracts of mentha oil rallied to their five-year high on account of strong buying support. The most active November contract marked a high of ₹1,474 per kg from a low of ₹1,272 per kg.
However, in the last trading session, profit booking dragged the contract from its highs; it closed the week up about 16 per cent.
The spot market also witnessed a surge in price, from ₹1,443 per kg to ₹1,578 per kg in Chandausi market. In other markets such as Sambhal, the price rose to ₹1,580 per kg from ₹1,440 per kg and in Barabanki market too, the price saw an uptrend from ₹1,460 per kg to ₹1,560 per kg. One of the reasons for this rally is the increase in demand, and fall in supply, due to the start of the winter season. Besides the domestic (demand) market conditions, increase in export demand for mentha oil and its derivative products also aided the price surge last week.
For the week ahead, the corrective fall can extend in the early trading sessions. However, strong demand may help in limiting the downside in the price and keep the overall uptrend intact.


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Tricky Tracks: Reading the story told in the tracks of an Imaginary, animal, or person is not always as easy as it sounds. Many creatures don't want to be tracked, and find ways to disguise their progress.
The most obvious way that a creature can muddle its tracks is to walk backwards, so that anyone trying to follow it will go the wrong way.
Some animals can do this without effort. The non-Imaginary kinkajou, a mammal that lives in the trees of Central and South America, can turn its feet backwards to get a better grip on the branches. Also, the Imaginary ape-like sisimito from Belize has backward-facing toes, which would confuse anybody trying to follow it.
Most animals can walk backwards, but don't do so as a means of deception. One Imaginary who does is the sigbin, a very smelly fox-like carnivore from the Phillipines that intentionally walks backwards to trick its enemies.
Historically, a number of humanoids were believed to have backward-facing feet – the curupira and caipora of Brazil, the abarimon of the Himalayas, and the antipodes of Libia. However, they all have feet that face forward. The curupira, the caipora, the abarion, and the antipodes are just not that fond of other people, and walking backwards to create confusion helps to keep them undetected.
The churel, a ghost-woman from India and Pakistan, actually does have backwards-facing feet, but does not leave foot prints at all, due to her ghostly nature.


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Faculty, students question Yale's fundraising priorities
Students and faculty have expressed their frustration with the University's science-based campaign focus, as well as its dissonance with ongoing calls for Yale to invest more in New Haven.
Lucy Hodgman 12:25 am, Oct 11, 2021
Yale's latest capital campaign, which launched on Oct. 2 and aims to raise $7 billion, has generated discussion among students and faculty about Yale's rising emphasis on the sciences, as well as how Yale's $31.2 billion endowment can be most effectively and ethically allocated.
The capital campaign occurs once during each President's term. University President Peter Salovey's campaign, which seeks to raise $7 billion to be directed towards various scientific and leadership initiatives, is titled "For Humanity." Members of the Yale community have taken issue with the campaign's concentration on the sciences — given Yale's historic strength in the humanities — as well as the size of the University's fundraising goal relative to its voluntary contribution to New Haven.
"This campaign is looking to raise $7 billion, and the annual contribution to New Haven from Yale is $13 million," Logan Roberts '23 said. "If they're successful in this capital campaign, they will successfully raise 538 years' worth of contributions to New Haven. It's wonderful to want to serve humanity, but humanity starts here. It starts with listening to unions and to students."
Roberts, who is the financial accessibility director of the Yale College Council and the president of the Yale First-Generation and/or Low Income Advocacy Movement, pointed out that Yale's prior capital campaign, which ended in 2011, came on the heels of a recession. Since the current campaign is beginning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Roberts said, the University should proceed in its fundraising efforts with the interests of low income communities in mind.
Activists both on and off campus have advocated for Yale to allocate its endowment more equitably by increasing its investment in the city of New Haven. In the past, University officials have pointed out that Yale has increased its voluntary payment to the city during times of need — the figure grew to $13 million last year, a 50 percent increase from several years ago. But residents contend that the contribution remains a small fraction of the University's endowment.
People also objected to where Yale allocated money within the University.
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley took issue with the campaign's launch event in particular, noting that the event's main faculty speakers came overwhelmingly from STEM fields. For Stanley, this erasure of the humanities in the opening speakers of the campaign was indicative of a broader "attack" on humanities fields in the United States that Yale is not doing its part to help prevent.
"The humanities at Yale are tough, are incredibly sterling," Stanley said. "They're just remarkable, and you can't take that for granted. I think that science is expensive and you need a lot of money for science. We should actually raise money for science. Let's bring sciences up to the level of the humanities. But constantly putting scientists as spokespeople for what humanists do is wrong. And Yale does that all the time."
While Stanley acknowledged that scientific fields also deserved recognition in the capital campaign, he suggested that Yale was "hiding the humanities," rather than sufficiently elevating them.
However, Josien van Wolfswinkel, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, pointed out that fundraising efforts geared towards the sciences were more immediately necessary because of the price of reagents, equipment and analysis services. In a January article by the News, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean of humanities Kathryn Lofton said that Yale's humanities programs already receive all the resources they need from central administration.
"Other institutes have long jumped in and started funding their science departments and graduate student programs from endowment," van Wolfswinkel said. "Frequently, successful science faculty leave Yale because they find [a] better environment for science elsewhere. If Yale wants to retain sciences they have no option but to start spending money on this."
Van Wolfswinkel added that a typical research lab spends about $50,000 each year on materials for each science student.
Associate professor of the history of science Bill Rankin proposed, however, that Yale could benefit from a conversation among the humanities faculty, as well as between the faculty and the administration, about the impact of financial support on the humanities.
"I have my own thoughts, mostly related to the issues that I see daily as a faculty member, but the point is to have the broader conversation, not just to fund my own ideas," Rankin said. "My guess is that the University can put money into the sciences and the humanities, and that transformative support for the humanities will turn out to be pretty cheap in comparison."
Rankin still emphasized the importance of funding Yale's science programs, noting that funding the sciences often involves making decisions about immediate needs, such as equipment, lab space and research staff, as opposed to the more long-term nature of humanities funding.
In general, Rankin said, Yale's fundraising mission is overall worthwhile, offering opportunities for more faculty and research, and a more substantive partnership with New Haven.
"If we think that Yale should devote more of its energy and resources to certain priorities over others, or should do more, say, to defend academic freedom, then I think that's a good argument for working to influence Yale's priorities, not an argument against fundraising," Rankin said.
Students told the News that they had general issues with the size and allocation of the University's endowment.
"Yale's endowment is rooted in the displacement of Indigenous people and the Atlantic slave trade," Josephine Steuer Ingall '23 wrote in an email to the News. "At its current value of $31 billion dollars, it is worth more than the GDP of a hundred sovereign nations. Yet Yale refuses to pay its fair share in taxes."
Ingall, an organizer with the Yale Endowment Justice Coalition, said that more than half of Yale's real estate value is not subject to property taxes because it is owned either by the nonprofit University or by Yale New Haven Hospital, and therefore qualifies for an exemption.
University spokesperson Karen Peart told the News that Yale's endowment was made up of donations made to the University over its lifetime, often accompanied by restrictions on how the earnings from invested donations can be spent.
"Yale's endowment is restricted to support various aspects of the university's core mission — from financial aid to faculty salaries, to research and scholarship, and student activities," Peart wrote in an email to the News. "The endowment supports thousands of good jobs in New Haven – faculty and staff, union and non-union jobs."
Peart added that the University spends about one quarter of its endowment every five years.
The Endowment Justice Coalition advocates for Yale to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry or from other industries that members see as unethical. According to Ingall, members of the coalition recently declined to pay their $100 student activities fees, redistributing $4,000 collectively to local organizations and mutual aid projects.
"Yale spends significantly below its projected ranges of returns on investment every year," Ingall said. "If they wanted to contribute to city services and fund climate-resilient infrastructure in low-lying Black & brown neighborhoods at particular risk of warming-induced natural disaster, they could, and they could do it right now. If they wanted to invest in Yale's academic mission, improve accessibility & health services, get rid of the student income contribution, even eliminate tuition, they could. If they wanted 'to transform society, deepen human understanding and open doors to greater prosperity and well-being for millions,' as Salovey said at the [campaign] launch, they could."
Peart told the News that the University was already spending as much as it could on supporting the New Haven community "without unfairly taking from those who will come after us."
Peart added that no city in America receives a larger voluntary payment from a university than New Haven does, and that the University continues to support the city through "various programs and volunteer efforts."
But for EJC organizer Moses Goren '23, the University's continued investment in the fossil fuel industry is a problematic contradiction of the theme of the capital campaign, "For Humanity." In September, Harvard University committed to divesting from the fossil fuel industry.
Salovey's campaign is set to end in June 2026.
Isaac Yu contributed reporting.
Correction, October 11: A previous version of the article stated that Yale annually spends $50,000 on each science student. In fact, $50,000 is what a typical research lab spends on each student per year. This money comes not from Yale, but from the labs themselves, and must be obtained through grants.
LUCY HODGMAN
Lucy Hodgman covers Student Life. She previously covered the Yale College Council for the News. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she is a sophomore in Grace Hopper majoring in English.
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Money for Haiti - not war and bankers
Cancel all debt – US troops are no solution
Published Tue 19 Jan 2010
Issue No. 2185
Over 100,000 Haitians are dead after a devastating earthquake hit the country last week.
Many more will die because of lack of clean water, food, medical supplies and the spread of disease as bodies pile up in the streets.
The earthquake was natural, but the scale of the damage and suffering that has followed is not. Haitians are dying because, in the system we live in, poor people are not a priority.
The US has pledged to give £68 million in aid and Britain £20 million.
Britain has given £1.5 trillion to the banks since 2008 and together the world's ruling classes have handed over £9 trillion.
When the US and Britain decide to go to war they can move and supply tens of thousands of troops and drop bombs in an instant.
When they want to bail out parasitic banks they can hand over billions at the touch of a button.
Yet it has taken days for even a trickle of aid to reach those left homeless and starving among the rubble in Haiti – and it's still nowhere near enough.
Haiti's debt of £546 million cripples the country and comes with harsh conditions that impoverish ordinary people and will hold
back reconstruction. Such an amount is nothing to Western rulers, who could cancel the debt overnight. But they refuse to do it – and have even increased it.
Rather than focusing on helping ordinary Haitians, the US has sent in troops. Instead of making sure that people get food and water, UN troops and Haiti's police are "restoring order".
They would prefer to see people starving in the streets than "looting" food.
Just like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, the earthquake in Haiti has exposed the rottenness of this system.
For ordinary people in Britain, the obvious thing to do is to send food, water, medical equipment and doctors to save lives in Haiti.
There are the resources to do all of these things. But our rulers care more about money than poor people.
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and i'm in conversation with informix guys. If i have a reponse i put them here.
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For 35 years, UW-Stout has been hosting the Regional SkillsUSA competition, and I can't tell you how impressed I was by the talent and ingenuity I saw on display last week as 380 students from high schools across Wisconsin came to campus.
The competition is sponsored by the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Management and involved 75 of our students and 25 faculty and staff volunteers. Brian Finder, a professor in the operations and management department, is the glue that holds the event together.
A new competition this year involved students using remotely controlled robotic vehicles to search a simulated building for artificial ordnance. The course was built by a UW-Stout student, majoring in mechanical engineering, and his father.
SkillsUSA is intended to help participants get career information as well as learn about technology and develop leadership and technical skills.
As an engineer myself, I really enjoyed visiting with the students and seeing them getting even more excited about the STEM fields. It was great seeing a longtime colleague and alumnus, Brent Kindred, the technology and engineering education consultant at the state Department of Education. Brent was back at UW-Stout to participate in the event as the SkillsUSA Wisconsin executive director.
More information about the SkillsUSA is available here.
Last Monday, I had the pleasure of welcoming our new state senator, Patty Schachtner, to campus for the first time since her election in January. She replaces Sheila Harsdorf, who is now secretary of the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Sen. Schachtner, who also is on the Somerset school board, met with the Stout Student Association, our governance leaders and my Cabinet, and I was able to spend a half hour with her. I was very impressed by her willingness to dive right into the important higher education issues in Wisconsin, especially our need for increased salaries for our faculty and staff and more operational and bonding flexibilities.
I also am pleased that Sen. Schachtner has secured a seat on the state Senate's higher education committee, which former Sen. Harsdorf chaired for many years. I look forward to working closely with Sen. Schachtner in the years to come.
This entry was posted in Updates on March 1, 2018 by University of Wisconsin-Stout.


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Speaking of Chemistry is back this week with Sophia Cai explaining why "hypoallergenic" isn't really a thing.
Is the label 'hypoallergenic' helpful or just marketing hype?
You know the theme song. You know the tricks. And this month, you can see the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters in action!
Every Monday, the dark world of "Sleepy Hollow" comes to life in the hit FOX series. But did you know Georgia has its own Sleepy Hollow — one that's not quite so scary?
It's something we learn about as little children, through timeless tales like "Snow White." But do you really know the full story of poison?
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I was once among those who claim, "I could walk through a field of poison ivy and not get it." One day I learned otherwise: On a hike, I needed to relieve myself in the great outdoors and ended up with an impossibly itchy, blistering rash on a most delicate body part.
Too late I learned that you can develop an allergic reaction to poison ivy after previously uneventful exposures, which induce a sensitivity to the plant's oily sap, urushiol. Once sensitized, your skin is likely to react to every subsequent exposure. Even people repeatedly exposed who appear to be immune may react to high concentrations of the toxin.
I also learned not to rely on the popular warning, "Leaves of three, let them be," to alert me to the presence of Toxicodendron radicans, as the poison ivy plant is aptly called by botanists. It is not just the leaves that can provoke a reaction; the stems, roots, flowers and berries all contain urushiol.
Touching or brushing against any of these plant parts, even if they are dead, can cause a reaction. The sap is hardy and can cause a rash in the dead of winter, or even a year after contaminating clothing or shoes that are not thoroughly cleaned.
Zoran Ivanovich/The New York TimesPoison sumac.
Urushiol shows up elsewhere, including in the skin of mangoes (and the leaves and bark of the mango tree), as I discovered when I ate a mango still in the rind and ended up with a blistering rash on my mouth. Cashew shells also have the toxin, which is why cashews are sold shelled and processed (either roasted or in the case of "raw" cashews, steamed) at a temperature high enough to destroy urushiol. Poison ivy is not the only problem plant one might encounter while hiking, camping or simply strolling in the countryside. T. radicans has two relatives, poison oak and poison sumac, that don't always form the classic clusters but are equally toxic troublemakers.
Myths and misconceptions abound about these three plants and the reactions they can cause. Knowing the facts can help to spare you and your family considerable distress.
First, learn to recognize the plants in their various growth patterns. While poison ivy is most often encountered as a small ground plant, it also grows as a shrub and vine. The vines, which turn bright red in fall, were once used to adorn buildings in England.
Poison oak, which has compound leaves made up of three (or sometimes five) leaflets, usually grows as a shrub, but will form a vine in the Western states.
Poison sumac, which grows as a tall shrub or small tree, produces leaves with rows of paired leaflets and a single leaflet at the end. It likes a wet habitat, growing in peat bogs in the Northeast and Midwest and swamps in the Southeast.
Urushiol can penetrate cloth. Although long sleeves, pants and gloves can reduce the risk of exposure, they cannot guarantee protection. Even rubber gloves can be breached. If you must handle the plants or are likely to contact poison ivy when gardening, wear vinyl gloves.
You don't have to touch the plant directly to react to urushiol. Gardening tools, sporting equipment, even a pet that has been in a patch of poison ivy — all can cause a reaction. My brother, who has been sensitive to urushiol since childhood, once developed the rash on his arm after retrieving a baseball that had rolled through poison ivy.
Before possible exposure, use an over-the-counter skin-care product containing bentoquatam (IvyBlock) to prevent or reduce absorption of urushiol. The combination of this barrier product and protective clothing is your best defense against an inadvertent encounter.
But there is no scientific evidence that jewelweed, feverfew, plantain or other herbal remedies prevent or cure a urushiol-induced rash.
Nor do you become immune to urushiol through repeated exposures to small amounts. Quite the opposite. There is no way to desensitize a person to urushiol as there is with pollen and peanut allergies. Eating mangoes or cashews will not work.
The rash can appear on different parts of the body at various times. This may happen because the parts were exposed at different times, or because areas with thicker skin are less easily penetrated by the oil. The delicate skin of the genital and perianal areas, for example, is more easily breached than tougher skin on the hands.
Repeated tilling or mowing can eventually kill poison ivy plants, as can repeated applications of an herbicide like Roundup. The latter should be applied with serious caution and only on a warm, sunny day with little or no wind when the plants are actively growing.
If you are highly allergic, or wary of applying herbicides, clearing your property of the plants may be best left to a professional. While goats are said to have a hearty appetite for poison ivy plants, they may eat everything else in the yard, too.
Never try to burn a poison plant. Burning releases the toxin, which may land on skin or, worse, be inhaled and cause a serious internal reaction.
Should you contact a urushiol-containing plant, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends washing your skin immediately. Lukewarm, soapy water is best, but even plain water can limit exposure to the sap. Take care in removing contaminated clothing, and wash it separately as soon as possible.
You can relieve a rash by applying cool compresses with an astringent like Burow's solution, soaking the affected area in colloidal oatmeal, or using calamine lotion; all are sold over the counter. Do not apply products containing a topical antihistamine, like Benadryl, which can cause a sensitivity reaction that makes matters worse.
Severe reactions may require medically prescribed treatment with an oral corticosteroid like prednisone.
A version of this article appears in print on 06/17/2014, on page D7 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Steering Clear of Poison Ivy.


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Craig Gordon: Hearts goalkeeper's new targets driving recovery from double leg break
Craig Gordon has set his sights on playing for Scotland again when he returns from injury.
By Phil Johnson
26th Jan 2023, 10:07am - 2 min read
Updated 26th Jan 2023, 10:07am
Hearts boss Robbie Neilson has revealed that the 40-year-old goalkeeper, the most-capped player in the club's history, is using his rehab as extra motivation to add to his tally of 74 international caps.
"When he was playing he was always looking at the next objective, whether it was 700 games, clean sheets or appearances in Europe, so this injury has given that hunger in his belly to try and get back playing," said Neilson. "Not just at Hearts but at international level as well."
Currently sixth on Scotland's all-time list, Gordon needs two more caps to join Paul McStay in joint fifth and three to match fourth-placed Alex McLeish's haul of 77. In the meantime, Hearts teammate Zander Clark could be in contention for a call-up when Scotland host Cyprus and Spain in Euro 2024 qualifiers in March after a string of impressive performances as Gordon's replacement at club level. Scotland boss Steve Clarke could be considering Norwich City goalkeeper Angus Gunn, who qualifies for Scotland through dad Bryan, along with Motherwell's Liam Kelly.
Footage of Gordon undergoing light gym work appeared on social media this week – just four weeks after the double leg break he suffered at Tannadice on Christmas Eve. The Hearts skipper, who also announced his engagement to former Celtic TV host Summer Harl this week, has already been ruled out for the rest of the season with a predicted recovery time of six months, but fully intends to resume playing in time for the 2023/24 campaign.
Gordon's next X-ray is due at the end of February. He has been working on his knee and ankle joints, his range of movement and leg muscles after having had metalwork inserted following surgery. Neilson, who has been involving the captain in the dressing room since his operation, is not surprised by the skipper's determination and progress.
"He's an inspiration to all the players here and outwith this football club," said the Hearts boss. "At his age he is so desperate to come back and he is putting all the work in, doing everything he can. So there's no surprise from our perspective."
Speaking to Sky Sports, Neilson added: "We've not really put any kind of timeline on it. It's a case of making sure Craig gets back to full fitness, first and foremost. If you ask him, he's pushing all the time, but from our perspective we'll just give him the time he needs and when he is ready he will be back."
Craig Gordon still harbours ambitions to add to his tally of 74 Scotland caps. Picture: Ross Parker / SNS
Speaking to BBC Scotland earlier this month, Gordon said: "I'm going to give this everything I've got. I've done it before, I can't make any promises. I am going to try and do the best I can and hopefully that is good enough. I know that if I fight my hardest then I usually manage to get what I want."
Craig Gordon is the sixth most-capped Scotland international of all time. Picture: Craig Williamson / SNS
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Many of the gems found are often cut in such a way, as to preserve as much weight as possible. Keeping an eye on the right proportions is neglected. As a result, many of the stones do not reflect the light "properly". This leads to a stone with not as many reflections, or richness of color it could have.
In the end, it is the combination of all six factors that shape a sapphire into a special piece, worthy to be handed to the next generation. But some stones are being treated to reach a more desirable color, and thus are not as valuable. Size, too, can help to achieve a deep color. Sapphires from Burma or Sri Lanka tend to depict a more beautiful color. As a matter of fact, the name Padparadscha was originally reserved for stones from Sri Lanka, with a color reminiscent of a lotus flower. However, a bigger size usually makes a stone more prone for inclusions and impairs their clarity. Finding a stone of unusual clarity and size makes a gem that more special.
"We like to provide our clients with the same details, information and thus security as if the roles were reversed. This is why we also work with institutions of higher learning, such as the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)", says Vanessa Kreis.
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This series of workshops introduces social enterprise and will give a clear and practical approach to starting, managing and growing social enterprises.
A practical approach will be taken to assist participants to understand and create compelling visions and value frameworks to address social or environmental issues. Governance, legal and operational issues will also be addressed. The importance of stakeholders and networking will be explored.
Social enterprises require differential strategies for start up, growth and support as well as different business models. The importance of good leadership and management are crucial for success as are a clear understanding of marketing and procurement and supply chain participation.
Other topics will include sources of start up and growth finance and financial management as well as the importance and methods of capturing and reporting social or environmental impact.
Course outline: Click here to see the course outline.
If people would like to attend they will need to fill out the application form and other documents that can be found here.
If you are interested in applying, please fill out the application form and return to Fiona Bell. Or, they can get in contact with myself if they have any questions.
Published: June 24, 2013. Categories: Events and News.


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Now that we are going bagless in supermarkets - whoop whoop - a huge dilemma arises for the nation – what to line your bins with???
Sounds pretty minor, but tens of thousands of people have been using plastic shopping bags a bin liners for years so here are a few options instead of reaching for plastic rubbish bags.
Many people say they can't go plastic bags free because they use them to line their rubbish bins but there are plenty of ways to get around the problem.
Use nothing and clean you bin out, this makes sense and is popular amongst the very committed but not everyone is ready to make the leap and get their hands dirty just yet. I must admit the yuckiness factor gets me.
2 - Make your own bin liners from old newspapers.
These are pretty easy to make and I use them for the bathroom rubbish bin but I find them a bit fragile for the kitchen bin.
3 - Use biodegradable bin liners.
Now be careful as all all bin liners are not created equal. Degradable just means that the plastic bag has an additive to help it breakdown quicker but it is still plastic.
There are also ones that are made from home PLA (bioplastic) and there are a few different varieties.
We have the EcoBag ones. These are fully home compostable (they biodegrade really quickly in the compost bin). I use these in the kitchen for my compost and general waste.
The labels "certified compostable" and "bio-based" are really important. There are plenty of products out there that say "eco friendly" or "green" but don't stack up. Avoid oxo-degradable and oxo-biodegradable bags. These are plastic bags made with fossil fuels that have an additive which means they break down more quickly than regular plastic bags – into microplastic. These are considered by many to be worse for the environment than regular plastic bags.
Bio-based - means made from plants, not fossil fuels. Sometimes they are called plant-based, cornstarch or PLA. They are still plastic made from plant material, but not made from fossil fuels.
PLA is a compostable bioplastic derived from plant sugars. PLA stands for polylactic acid. It can be made from any sugar, such as corn starch, cassava, sugar cane, or sugar beet.
Certified compostable - means that the product has been tested and is proven to break down in hot composting conditions. Certified home compostable means the product will break down in a home compost bin.
However, certified compostable doesn't necessarily mean they will break down in the environment, or in landfills,some require commercial composting at a high temperature. They are just as capable of creating litter and harming wildlife as regular bags.
Home compostable bags will however decompose in the natural environment. Mine start breaking down in the bin if I leave them too long.
Now there is some debate that nothing breaks down in landfill, which is true. The microorganisms that breakdown our rubbish require oxygen and there is precious little at the bottom of the rubbish pile.
However, a lot of rubbish blows off the rubbish pile and ends up in nature. Notably, you guessed it, plastic bags. They are light and easily blown away by the wind where they end up in the ocean ready to do their damage.
If you compare the hundreds of years for decomposition of Petroleum based plastics, it is true, PLA may take a while, but it's still a vast improvement over Petroleum based plastics. And less toxic than Petroleum based plastics if ingested by marine organisms. It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.


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'Into the Dark' April Fool's Day Episode Review: Killer Comedy Fails at Horror
Into the Dark April Fool's Day Episode Review: Killer Comedy Fails at Horror
In Hulu's new horror comedy movie, the horror elements just aren't quite as effective as the movie's comedic moments.
Jeremy Dick
I'm Just F*cking With You, the newest installment of Hulu's Into the Dark horror anthology series, held its world premiere this month at SXSW in Austin, Texas. With each movie in the series presenting a new interesting and unique premise, the Into the Dark movies are produced by the acclaimed movie studio Blumhouse. Of course, Blumhouse is known for killing it in theaters with some of their horror movies reaching insane levels of box office success. Through Hulu, they're looking to create just as many compelling horror titles on the small screen as well, with many correlating with specific holidays and other special days of the year. I'm Just F*cking With You represents April Fools' Day with its focus on practical jokes, and while it suffers from a change in tone partway through the movie, it's still intriguing enough to make for an entertaining viewing upon its release.
The odd Hulu movie begins with meek germophobe Larry (Keir O'Donnell) checking into a motel while en route to his ex-girlfriend's wedding, along with his sister Rachel (Jessica McNamee). As an internet troll, it seems Larry meets his match when he meets the eccentric night manager of the motel, a man named Chester (Hayes MacArthur). Chester wastes no time dishing out practical jokes at Larry's expense, and often utters afterward the titular phrase, "I'm just f*cking with you." Although Larry is clearly bemused, Rachel manages to convince him Chester ultimately means no harm. However, the two will find out soon enough there's a much more sinister side to Chester, proving Rachel to be deathly wrong.
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It doesn't take long to start enjoying I'm Just F*cking With You once you begin watching it. Hayes MacArthur might be incredibly annoying from Larry's point of view, but there's a certain charm to him as a viewer that makes him hilarious. It's certainly evident that something is "off" about Chester from the start of the movie, given that it quickly reveals his tendency to secretly watch those staying in the motel through the use of hidden cameras and monitoring equipment. Whether he's sneaking into Larry's room for the sake of a joke or drawing crude images of genitalia on the residents' vehicles, Chester is undoubtedly a very compelling character to watch, and MacArthur deserves tons of credit for making him feel both charming and unnerving.
At first, Chester's jokes may be highly inappropriate, but ultimately not harmful. Things take a sinister turn eventually when Larry and Rachel discover the practical jokester is actually much more dangerous than they thought. The two must then try to survive their harrowing night at the motel while at the mercy of the homicidal wannabe comedian, who just wants people to think he's funny just as much as he wants to harm them. Unfortunately, once the movie makes that hard transition from dark comedy heavier into horror, things get a bit jarring. Chester is still cracking jokes, but the sudden change in tone made me start checking out. Gone was the comedy and the movie no longer felt fun to watch, as the contrast between the comedy and the horror was perhaps just too extreme once it takes that heavy turn.
The film does present and interesting and clever ending, and getting there is undoubtedly a bizarre and wild ride. Ultimately, watching the film does make for entertaining experience, and certain parts might stick with you long after giving it a stream. Still, I'm Just F*cking With You doesn't quite reach its full potential, and I just can't help but feel it'd have been much better off as a dark comedy. I'm Just F*cking With You had its world premiere at SXSW, and is available to stream exclusively on Hulu on April Fool's Day, April 1.
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Courtland Rogers Prepares For Court: Drugs Belonged To Jenelle Evans!
Courtland and Jenelle, sitting in a car, K-I-S-S-I-N-G; First comes marriage, then comes jail, then comes Courtland with a ridic defense; Courtland and Jenelle, sitting in a courtroom, B-L-A-M-I-N-G.
These people! As you know, Courtland Rogers, the estranged husband of Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans, has been locked up since he and Jenelle were busted for heroin possession (for starters) in April. Like always, Jenelle played dumb, pointed her finger at her man, cried domestic abuse, posted bail, and walked out of jail, with Lucky Dusty beside her.
Courtland's day in court is finally on the horizon, and according to an inside source, his entire defense relies on blaming the heroin on Jenelle. Nearly three months in the slammer and that's the best he could do?
The source told Radar, "Courtland is planning to make sure his lawyer and the judge know that the drugs in the house were not his," adding, "They belonged to Jenelle."
"Jenelle is the one who brought the drugs into the house, and she even had a rhinestone pipe that she was smoking out of," added the source. "Courtland didn't know that he would be arrested too. He never thought Jenelle would say they were his drugs."
The source concluded, "Courtland was already on probation and wasn't going to risk anything for drugs."
Wait, WHAT?!? Courtland allowed drugs in his house while on probation – CHECK. Courtland expected Jenelle to have his back – CHECK. Courtland is an idiot – DOUBLE CHECK.
TELL US – DO YOU BELIEVE THAT COURTLAND'S INNOCENT?


This is not the first time I have said it, but in general, the UK decorating trade is one of the most conservative least innovative industries in existence. I started in the early 80's and I could go on almost any site now and do exactly what I was doing then. Apart from a few paint name changes, I would be pretty much up to speed and at the end the day I'd be covered in dust, stinking of turps with bits in my gloss, a bit of paint stamped through the dust sheets onto a carpet, bumping coats to get home early etc etc.
And if I wanted to make a difference and raise the bar by introducing a product that adopted an approach different to what's considered "trade standard", I would expect an instant thumbs down from 95% of the people in the trade.
Conversely, if I wanted to dress up a piss-poor but industry-standard product in a different colour or material, I would expect 95% of people to say it's fine and I would probably sell them like hotcakes.
After 30 years working at every level of decorating – I have banged out council houses at £30 a pop, as well as worked on royal households and classic wooden boats – I guess I have lived long enough to see the pot of good guys getting smaller, thanks to the inexorable mainstream trend where the lowest common denominator seems to win out. I have never subscribed to doing just OK work, because thank goodness I had a college lecturer, Mr Alan Baldwin, who showed us how far you can take this trade, and drove us to get as far along the path as we could. But the stupid thing is, never before has the average UK decorator needed to be more efficient, smarter, better educated, faster and just plain BETTER. And by definition, that goes too for the companies supplying us with materials and equipment.
Every last one of us pro decorators is very vulnerable in yet another recession, and only the ones whose work stands out and represents brilliant value for money will be able to weather the storm. Even fewer will, dare I say, move on up a level or two. If you keep on buying cheapo contractor brushes, load your van up with dusty dust sheets, use mediocre "trade quality" roller sleeves, dismiss the use of power tools, poo poo vacuum extraction, work extra hours to make up for things that keep going wrong "for no apparent reason" and do everything you can to cut corners to make money on low ball prices, the writing is on the wall and it will be bye bye.
And the jobs of the UK company men and women supplying materials and tools to the UK decorators are at risk too if they are lead from the top by folks who play into the hands of mediocrity.
There are some big changes coming on the UK decorating island, because of new paint formulas and HSE rules and economic requirements. With change comes opportunities for companies with a long history of innovation and a passion for excellence to move in ie Mirka, Festools,Toupret aren't unknown exactly in UK, but their profiles are rising – and then there are companies brand new to the UK, like Wooster and Mythic. And believe me, these foreign bods aren't even having to up their game. Their pursuit of excellence is engrained in them, and their offerings and their philosophy will suddenly make much of the shambolic olde worlde product lines in many UK decorating centres look as stale to UK eyes as they have looked to continental eyes for decades.
Anyway, deep breaths… there is hope for UK decorators, it is called competition. Finally you don't have to trawl the internet to find specialist time-saving products from n different sources. I used to source most of my stuff locally, but the service just wasn't there on scaled-up jobs. Also I would go to a onestop and still excellent online store like Trade 1st.
But now I source most of my kit from a very passionate independent decorator merchants, Trade Decorating Supplies. They have top of the range tried and tested trade perennials as well as proven cutting edge products from around the world, and most important, a big time professional service mind set. They are in my opinion, and many other fellow pros, the blueprint of how it should be done. Personal, innovative and very very high levels of customer service. Phew.
The sentiment hasn't changed, but as usual, a good idea like TDS was bought out and diluted. Fortunately, from the ashes MyPaintBrush has arisen, an online reenactment, serving the growing niche demand for better kit than you can buy from the usual suspect suppliers.
As a helping hand, check out our Recommended Suppliers page where you can see the sort of products we rate very highly, and ask them via Twitter or via their associates page on Traditional Painter where to get their great products.
Changing decorating is a big ask, but it has to change, folks, because along the lines of Einstein, don't repeat something time and again and expect a different outcome! And the 80's weren't exactly the pinnacle of decorating endeavour, so let's move it on.