Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings.
To enter to win Suzanne's painting, "El Presidente" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.
Tell us a bit about how you first started painting.
First, thank you for selecting me for this interview. Interest in my work and some of the things it entails is greatly appreciated.
I started painting as a teenager in art classes in high school. Serious studies began when I majored in drawing and painting in college. Oils attracted me because I felt a kind of endurance was needed to really understand and apply them successfully. I knew they would take years to learn about and that was exciting. It still is.
Did you have any stops and starts in your painting career?
I have had my share of stops and starts in my career as an artist. There was even a short, difficult time in my life when I did not paint at all. Ironically, creativity is a discipline and each one of us makes a conscious decision to pursue it and to commit to it.
Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the home page announcing Suzanne's interview.
What mediums and genres have you experimented with?
Besides oil and graphite, past medium experimentation includes charcoal, pen and ink, acrylic, and many years ago I briefly worked with Photoshop and Illustrator. Right now I am exploring chalk pastels. I am not sure what to make of them just yet. Genre experimentation includes expressionism, realism, surrealism, illustration, and very experimental abstract.
Which ones have "stuck" and which ones have fallen away?
Oil painting has become my focus and I work in an expressive narrative manner. I do feel I am finally learning an appreciation for abstract, but I do not feel compelled to create in that way.
Which ones are you looking forward to exploring?
I am looking forward to the chalk pastels. In the back of my mind is a little voice that keeps asking with glee, "What to do? What to do?"
My inspiration has two main sources. As far as technique, I am inspired by natural light. It is something to puzzle over and contemplate again and again. It creates color in the most amazing way and I am very aware of light when I am working. Secondly, as far as subject matter, I am inspired by our uniquely human condition. It is interesting to me that culture and society can create such tremendous differences between people and I am intrigued with creating visual narratives which instead show our universal connections. The more evocative works reflect ruminations on loss, memory, and death. The whimsical pieces speak to love, harmony, and humor.
What does procrastination look like for you?
What techniques work to ensure that you make time for your art?
I don't make the time for my art; I take the time. It just needs to be done.
How do you generally arrive at ideas for your paintings?
My work is generally a response or a connection I have found to an event, observation, conversation, or even an occasional dream. I enjoy visual narrative and find myself recording in a visual way all the time. So the idea for the actual image that I paint is created in my mind as my answer to whatever has caught my attention. Sometimes it is very personal, and sometimes it is very humorous. I feel art is communication. Why do we speak? How do we decide what to talk about and what words to use?
How do you keep art "fresh?" What techniques have helped you avoid burnout and keep your work vibrant and engaging?
I think my difficulty with focusing inadvertently keep my work fresh. What some have called innovative, I would say is really just a natural restlessness. I have different veins of thought I tapped into and they are extreme. Going from one to the other helps avoid burn out. A major way to stay engaging, I find, is to look at other people's art and be active in the local arts community. It is another aspect of your career, and it keeps you in that creative zone as you interact with other artistic and refreshingly like-minded people. Being able to talk to someone who completely understands when you freak out about a certain shade of blue, or you chatter on about textured paper is not only healthy for the creative psyche, it can feel life affirming. I can become very isolated in my studio and so sharing with other artists is very important.
What do you feel you are learning about right now as an artist?
Right now I am learning about strategy and commitment. I am learning about which of my paintings make the strongest connections and why. I am involved in a couple of painting series that are pushing my ability to commit and endure in order to complete them.
Also too, as we all know, a career as an artist is so much more than creating works of art. The tenacity, courage and confidence every artist has when in their studio can be applied to these other important aspects and I am steeped in figuring out that as well. It should make for some great paintings.
What makes you happiest about your art?
What makes me happiest about my art is a responding viewer. It does not matter if they love it or hate it; to have any reaction at all means I have made a connection. A place for sharing and conversation has been created.
To enter to win Susan's painting, "Party Cupcake" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.
During my childhood, I often enjoyed drawing and painting. When I was in the sixth grade, I saw Dali's "Absence of Time" painting on the cover of a magazine and I decided then that I was going to be an artist when I grew up. My mother was an artist also and she encouraged me with art supplies and my first easel. I was also fortunate to attend a high school that offered a vocational program of commercial art and I participated in three hour daily art classes for two years.
Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the home page announcing Susan's interview.
Did you have any stop and starts in your painting career?
I have survived lots of starts and stops during my painting career. For instance, having to work as manager of an art department and only being able to express ideas through directing others on how to do the actual artwork. I also worked as a photographer in photography studios which helped to satisfy my creative desires but left no energy to do any painting on the side. I was an art teacher for many years and during that period my personal art production suffered. I recently retired from instructing and in the first two weeks I produced ten paintings, so you might say I am back in the saddle.
What medium and genres have you experimented with?
I think I have worked in almost every medium throughout my artistic life. I have settled into working in watercolor, acrylic, oil and mixed media. I would say my favorite medium is watercolor and enjoy the challenge of the medium. My main genre is realism and any subject that piques my interest.
Which ones have stuck and which ones have fallen away?
Actually, my watercolor painting has taken a backseat at this time because of the cost of mats and framing and I have been concentrating on acrylic or oil on canvas. I have been involved in many years of alla prima portrait/figurative groups in the past, however, I am not participating in any currently.
All of God's creation is a catalyst for my imagination to want to create. But because I live in Florida, I am inspired by the preponderance of it's beautiful landscapes, birds, flowers, sunsets. Still life is also something that inspires me; I enjoy setting up vignettes and photographing them, then painting from the photos. I don't have the space to leave them set up for days or paint quick enough to always work with them from life.
I am the president of Florida's chapter of Procrastinators of America, however we have yet to decide when to have our first meeting.
Since I have retired from teaching art, I have tried to devote four hours a day, at least five days a week, to my painting. So far, it's working.
I have thousands of photographs from years of shooting and I set up still life photo shoots at least once a week to add to inventory of photographs to choose from. My fiance is a professional nature photographer and we go out into nature to shoot regularly.
How do you keep art "fresh"? What techniques have helped you avoid burnout and keep your work vibrant and engaging?
I think my photography helps to diversify my mindset and painting. Also, I have a group of artist friends that meet monthly and we have a "Monthly Challenge" that we work on throughout each month. The challenge can be a particular technique, style, genre. In the evenings, instead of spending time watching TV, I watch videos of artist's painting techniques and research the masters' works.
At this juncture, just learning to use only large brushes and use an economy of brushstrokes more. I am also trying to be less precise about the details in my paintings; trying to let go and let loose.
To me art is about communication, I love that people understand what I am trying to communicate and allow me to share with them through my art. It's a great joy when someone offers their hard earned money to purchase one of my paintings because it speaks to them. Teaching art used to be my mission, but now "my" painting is my passion and my mission.
To enter to win Jacinthe's painting, "Merry-Go-Round" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.
I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil in my hand but I started painting about twenty years ago in Fashion School. I was disappointed when I realized Fashion Design was a lot more sewing and a lot less drawing. So I learned the basic of watercolor in my weekly art class, and started painting before and after my school day. Watercolor never appealed to me very much, so I taught myself oil. But I would say that I really became a painter when I found the daily painters "way of life". It just made sense to me! I did not have the stress of painting a masterpiece, just a small piece of what I see every day. There was no pressure to perform!
Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the home page announcing Jacinthe's interview.
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I stopped painting and started again the day she began kindergarten. Five years!! I don't think I realized how much I missed it until I sat back at my easel, smelled the oils... and cried. I knew I could never stay away that long again.
Last March, I decided to go back to work full time (sometimes I have crazy ideas like that), so I took a one year contract. I can't paint much, but I still find the time to do a few portraits. This year, I call myself a "weekend painter." I think I needed to find out if being a full time painter was really what I wanted. Sometimes, you just need to do a shot-down in order to restart better then ever!
I don't know why but I need to paint on a canvas. So anything on paper is off my list, although I tried most of them. I sometimes use acrylics, but I always go back to oils. Oil is so forgiving! It's the Mother Teresa of medium! As to genres, I tried to experiment with different ones but I felt like an impostor... I'll stick with mine (whatever it is) until I master it and then I might try again. That's the exciting part of being an artist, I never know what kind of artist I'll be next year!
Oil stuck. Watercolor was cruel to me. Pastel was too messy. Acrylic is sometimes my friend.
I actually don't know what my genre is... I just paint things as I see them the only way I know how. I sometimes wish I was more like this painter, or that artist, but then I remember that people actually spend their hard earned money on my paintings - they like the way I paint. That helps me accept that I'm good in my genre!
Faces! Faces are the most beautiful thing I can think of painting. I can't explain it. I could paint my daughter every day of the week but I realize it's not what most would hang on their living room wall. So I paint everything else I find pretty in this world, and everything, in the right light, right angle or cropping, has the potential to be a work of art. Even the bearded lady from the circus!
I never feel I HAVE to paint, therefore I don't think I've ever procrastinated in my art career.
Getting everyone out of the house and calling my cleaning lady. That's my technique!
I do a lot of commission portraits and I love it. But if I'm free to paint what I want, I get my inspiration from pictures I take, Pinterest, other artists... I usually don't have to think much because even if I lived to be one hundred years old, I would not have the time to paint everything in my "painting idea" folder! I truly think everything is worth painting if you can find the right tone, shade and color!
I really think that what keeps my art fresh is this daily painting community. I see what others do and I want to contribute. I want to be just as good as the best of them! It drives me to try more difficult subjects, to outdo myself and take chances. I love the weekly challenges Daily Paintworks gives us! They take me by surprise and bring me out of my comfort zone. It reminds me that there's something else other then faces and blue boxes to paint. What also drives me is my ultimate goal, to someday teach. When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said I wanted to be an artist or a teacher. I swear it only dawned on me recently that I might get to be both at the same time! There is no better motivation than that!
I am learning everything still! I love that I'm only a fraction of what I will be next year if I don't close myself up to learning. Right now, in the middle of my "sabbatical year," I'm learning to reflect about my art and I'm learning about the values I want to have as an artist.
I'm in my studio with the sun shining in. I listen to the same CD's that have been in my CD player for years. Bruno Mars, Jewel and Kenny Rogers. I'm painting something I've never painted before and I'm nailing it! When it's done, my husband and my daughter come home, praise my work and actually make me believe it. Then, someone loves my art enough that they want to own it! All THAT is what makes me happy!!!!
To enter to win Laura's painting, "Blueberries and Melon" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.
Creating art has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Traditionally, my paintings have been on the larger size. However, I have found that creating a small painting almost every day gives me the opportunity to explore design, color and style without fear. Most of all, I try to have fun and not get too serious about the process or my subject. I hope you enjoy watching my journey! Please let me know what you think. Laura is represented by the Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville in Greenville South Carolina.
As a child, I loved paint-by-number kits. In school, I took every art class available. But what really started my journey was buying my first art book, "Watercolor, You Can Do It!" by Tony Couch.
Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the home page announcing Laura's interview.
I painted off and on during my career in the computer software industry. When I left the corporate world in the early 2000's, it was my "now or never" moment. I had always wanted to be an artist so I decided it was NOW!
My initial focus was watercolor, painting landscapes and seascapes. I love the loose washes and interactions of colors you can only get with watercolor. Oil is my current medium, painting alla prima.
Both watercolor and oil have continued to "stick" with me.
I am not sure where my journey will lead me. I am fascinated by mixed media and encaustics. However, I feel that I still have so much to learn with my current mediums that I do not see a jump anytime soon.
The effect of light on an object intrigues me. Making the flat canvas appear to hold the three dimensional subject is my challenge. There are so many wonderful artists that inspire me. Two off the top of my head are John Singer Sargent and Richard Schmid.
My computer can be a time vampire. It is a great aid in viewing other artist's work and can be a source of inspiration. It can also steal valuable painting time.
I paint first thing in the morning, after taking the dogs for a walk and having breakfast, but before getting involved in any other activities.
Ideas come from my everyday life, flowers from my garden, pets, local landscapes and items in the grocery store. Being a member of DPW has been a wonderful source for ideas and encourages me to stretch my abilities.
My paintings are either still life setups in my studio, plein air excursions, or photo references from family trips. As with most artists, I get bored very easily. Changing between studio and outside painting helps to keep me excited in this journey.
Let go, paint loose and above all, have fun!
Just painting makes me happy. I do get a thrill when my plain, white, flat canvas magically transforms into a subject hit by light. And all I had to do is place just the right color in just the right place. Sounds easy, right?


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Rachel C. Mayer '10 chalks an advertisement on Monday for Poetry Night at The Number Six Club.
Melissa A. Showers '13 pulls ahead of runners from Brown and Sacred Heart during the Women's cross country race on Saturday. MIT went on to finish 4th out of 49 teams.
The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble performs "Quietude" by Thad Jones at the "Technology on the March" Family Weekend Concert on Friday evening.
The MIT Cube Club held its first cubing competition on Saturday. Dozens of competitors gathered from around the country in 26-100 to test their skills at solving Rubik's Cubes. Puzzles varied in difficulty; 5x5x5 cubes are seen here.
Workers began removing the tarp on the scaffolding around the Great Dome on Monday. The dome has been receiving repairs to prevent leaking and water damage since the summer.
Melissa A. Showers '13 pulls ahead of runners from Brown and Sacred Heart during the Women's cross country race on Oct. 10. MIT went on to finish 4th out of 49 teams.
South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo blends gospel and dance during their concert at Sanders Theater on Saturday night.
MIT Natya performs during the Laasya Indian Classical Dance Competition in Kresge on Saturday. Natya and Dheem, of Boston University, co-hosted the competition, and teams from six other universities competed.
Early on the morning of March 18th, a student fell from this roof hatch on the ninth floor of the Stata Center's Dreyfoos Tower. The student lay immobilized for hours before being found by police around 8:30 a.m..
Steam Café: Located on the fourth floor of building 7, Steam is the result of a collaboration between the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Dining, and Sodexho Corporation. The cafe serves mainly organic and nutritious food.
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Q: flexbox vertical align child top, center another I've got the following markup:

.row {
  display: flex;
  align-items: stretch;

  margin: -16px;
  background: #ddd;
}

.row .col {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;

  flex: 1;

  margin: 16px;
  background: #fff;
}

.header, .content, .footer {
  padding: 16px;

  background: red;
}

Header #1

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Footer

Header #2

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Unfortunatly the second header isn't align vertically to the top. Is there a way to archive this with flexbox? I need the ".header" to be aligned the the top and the ".content" to be centered within the rest of the box.
Greetings!

A: No, not really, not without another wrapper which is a flex-container.
As flexbox is, to a certain extent based on manipulting margins, there is no method (AFAIK, although I'd be interested to find out if there is) to justify-content: center and then align-self a child element to somewhere else other than center.
I'd go with something like this: Add a wrapper to the "content" div, give it flex:1 to fill the remaining space below the header, then make that wrapper display:flex with justify-content:center.
This seems to be the most logical method

.col {
  height: 150px;
  width: 80%;
  margin: 1em auto;
  border: 1px solid grey;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
.header {
  background: lightblue;
}
.content {
  background: orange;
}
.flexy {
  flex: 1;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;
  background: plum;
}

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A: Flexbox opens up all sorts of opportunities with margin: auto; this is one of them. Setting margin to auto along the flex axis (vertical in this case) will absorb any extra space before dividing it up between the flex items. Finally it's possible to vertically center stuff without creating a div soup.

.row {
  display: flex;
  align-items: stretch;

  margin: -16px;
  background: #ddd;
}

.row .col {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;

  flex: 1;

  margin: 16px;
  background: #fff;
}

.header, .content, .footer {
  padding: 16px;

  background: red;
}

.content {
  margin-top: auto;
  margin-bottom: auto;
}

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Footer

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Home News Pixel 4 camera is far from the best, shows DxOMark score
Pixel 4 camera is far from the best, shows DxOMark score
Ashish Kumar
"The Google Pixel 4 is the first smartphone in the lineup to sport dual rear cameras"
The Google Pixel 4 smartphone's DxOMark camera results are out, and they aren't as impressive as one would have expected. The latest flagship from Google managed to score 112 points on the camera benchmarking site, which is well behind Huawei's Mate 30 Pro that tops the list with 121 points. The Pixel 4 is there at the eighth position, behind the Honor 20 Pro, Galaxy S10+, OnePlus 7 Pro, Galaxy S10+ 5G, Huawei P30 Pro, and Galaxy Note 10+ 5G smartphones. However, it should be pointed out that the handset is said to a solid performer in most areas such as exposure, colour accuracy, detail preservation, autofocus speed.
The Pixel 4 is the first handset in the lineup to pack dual rear cameras, including a dedicated 16-megapixel telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom at the back. The introduction of a second telephone lens makes the Pixel 4 "one of the best performers for zoom on the market that we've tested," claims DxOMark. Google's famed Night Mode continued to impress on the Pixel 4. The mode is capable of producing noticeably better results than the standard mode in difficult conditions, even in very low light. The results have an accurate white balance and colour rendering, with details both on the subject and in the background.
The front 8-megapixel selfie camera on the Pixel 4 is as good as it gets. The phone, based on the benchmarking site results, is capable of capturing nice selfies with good exposure, wide dynamic range, and pleasant colours in most conditions. However, due to Google's decision to go with a single front-facing cam instead of dual on the Pixel 4, bokeh mode is not quite as good as on the Pixel 3, with noticeably more depth estimation artefacts. If you're a selfie lover, take note of that. With an overall score of 91, the Pixel 4 couldn't set any new records, but it's the best among the most out there.
In the video department as well, the Pixel 4 has been ranked among the bests. The handset scored 101 points, which is the same as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G video score, with exceptional results for colour, noise, and artefacts in moving images. This is despite the Pixel 4 capturing videos at 1080p HD resolution instead of 4K (2,160p).
The downsides of the Pixel 4 include its inability to capture enough details to reduce noise in "all conditions," localised loss of acutance, ringing, and moiré patterns in bright light; and occasional depth estimation artefacts in bokeh mode. The video footage captured from the phone lack "fine detail" in low light and shows some residual motion in walking videos.
Google Pixel 4 Specifications
Octa core (2.84 GHz, Single Core + 2.42 GHz, Tri core + 1.78 GHz, Quad core)
5.7 inches (14.48 cm)
1080x2280 px, 443 PPI
12.2 MP + 16 MP Dual Primary Cameras
USB Type-C port
Best 90Hz display phones: Realme X2 Pro, OnePlus 7T, Pixel 4, and more
Google Pixel 4 XL fails the bend test as frame gives in
Pixel 4 supports 15W wireless charging and 20W wired charging
Google Pixel 4 face unlock update with eye detection coming soon
Pixel 4 Live Caption and Astrophotography features coming to Pixel 3 and 3a
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Q: Performance analysis of HorizontalScrollView on PowerVR G6230 I tested the performance of HorizontalScrollView on a few devices and I noticed something I didn't expect. On a GPU that should perform pretty good, like 64-core PowerVR G6230, the scrolling is not as fluid as I'd expect in 1080p. What I see by inspecting with dumpsys is something like this while scrolling:
        0.64    2.54    0.82
        0.65    2.35    0.81
        0.71    2.12    10.37
        0.79    2.18    27.93
        0.42    1.12    0.71
        0.62    1.36    0.42
        0.54    1.32    0.41
        0.47    1.28    0.40
        0.42    1.13    0.68
        0.44    1.06    0.59
        0.40    1.11    0.70
        1.52    2.18    0.93
        0.70    2.12    0.81
        0.67    2.31    0.81
        0.66    2.35    0.81
        0.65    2.44    0.81
        1.00    2.00    0.99
        0.67    2.33    0.81
        0.81    2.02    0.89
        1.33    1.98    0.82
        0.65    2.34    0.81
        1.42    2.01    0.81
        1.79    2.15    0.83
        0.67    2.35    0.82
        0.66    2.37    0.82
        0.65    2.31    0.80
        0.64    2.34    0.81
        0.65    2.43    0.80
        0.98    2.00    6.06
        1.61    1.99    0.83
        0.66    2.37    0.82
        0.76    2.33    0.81
        0.64    2.35    0.82
        0.65    2.50    0.81
        0.63    2.33    0.81
        0.65    2.32    0.80
        1.31    1.98    0.81
        0.73    2.34    0.81
        1.26    2.04    0.81
        0.66    2.42    0.81
        0.63    2.33    0.80
        0.64    2.30    0.81
        0.62    2.37    0.80
        0.62    2.30    0.80
        0.64    2.30    0.80
        7.77    16.80   1.47
        0.52    6.15    0.47
        0.41    1.33    0.35

Which is exactly what I see: fluid scrolling with "interruptions", like frame drops. Anyone who has an explanation for those high values?
I've been able to improve a bit the frame rate by disabling hardware acceleration from the manifest and by enabling drawing cache on the ImageView's I place inside the scroll view, but still the result is not what I expected. Any idea why disabling the GPU results in better performance?
This is what I place in my Activity:
public static View getTestView(Context c) {
      LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(c);
      ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
      ll.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);

      Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(c.getResources(), R.drawable.colors_1);

      for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
         ImageView iv = new ImageView(c);
         iv.setImageBitmap(b);
         //iv.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
         ll.addView(iv);
      }

      HorizontalScrollView sv = new HorizontalScrollView(c);
      sv.addView(ll);

      RelativeLayout rl = new RelativeLayout(c);
      rl.addView(sv, new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
              RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
              RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

      RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
              RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
              RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
      params.leftMargin = 0;
      params.topMargin  = 0;
      rl.addView(new FpsImageView(c), params);

      return rl;
   }

Is there any possible optimization that I can apply to make the scrolling better? Maybe this is simply the best the GPU can do?
Thanks!

A: I'm surprised you're not getting random OutOfMemory exceptions, because basically what you're doing is inflating and allocating memory for 200 imageviews at the same time, which is a huge no-no.
If you want to see your app fly, what you really need is a RecyclerView with a horizontal LinearLayoutManager. That's not a 3 line change in the code, but the final result will be impressively fast, I guarantee. Here you have a nice tutorial, but you can find a lot more in the web.


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Long-term monitoring is not innovative and is never going to result in spin-off businesses, but it is still the best way of observing human impact on the environment. The use of trained personnel to take outdoor measurements is being called into question, however.
The UK Countryside Survey, for example, relies on experienced botanists to go out in all weathers to find out how habitats and species are changing. Their ability to recognize a particular species of grass among other vegetation, for instance, cannot be replaced by technology. In my view, expert volunteers (citizen scientists) who are willing to monitor particular ecological environments or species are no substitute, because their botanical expertise does not usually focus on the commonplace and the widespread.
Doing the same observations in the same way and at the same places no longer seems to light up potential funders. If they underrate the valuable expertise of fieldworkers and field botanists, we stand to lose one of the most highly regarded ecological monitoring programmes in Europe and the world.
The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own, and do not reflect the view of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.


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import materialUseAutocomplete, { UseAutocompleteProps } from '@material-ui/lab/useAutocomplete';

type Result<T, GroupKey extends keyof T> = {
  groupedOptions: Array<
    Record<GroupKey, T[GroupKey]> & {
      index: number;
      options: Array<T>;
    }
  >;
  getRootProps: () => {};
  getClearProps: () => { onClick: () => void };
  getListboxProps: () => {};
  getOptionProps: (props: {
    option: T;
    index: number;
  }) => { 'aria-selected': boolean };
  getInputProps: () => {};
  focused: boolean;
  value: T;
  inputValue: string;
};

const useAutocomplete = <T, GroupKey extends keyof T>(
  // @ts-ignore
  props: Omit<UseAutocompleteProps<T>, 'groupBy'>,
  groupKey: GroupKey
): Result<T, GroupKey> => {
  return materialUseAutocomplete({
    ...props,
    multiple: false,
    // Typescript gave up here before I found it
    groupBy: (option: any) => option[groupKey] as any,
  } as any) as any;
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Officials of Nortran and the union that represents its bus drivers, mechanics and other employees reported progress Tuesday as they planned to resume contract negotiations. Hank Jozwiak, president of Local 1028 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents more than 200 Nortran employees, said that a new agreement may come before the present contract expires Thursday. Jozwiak said the union has no plans to strike. Timothy Doron, the transit agency`s executive director, said agreement has been reached on 60 of 66 contract sections.


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One of the Tranquility® High Efficiency (TRC) Series console heat pumps installed in ASHRAE headquarters.
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Some second-floor offices in the ASHRAE building. The second floor is conditioned using ClimateMaster geothermal heat pumps.
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Posted every Monday morning, see a quick analysis of one key trend in the Tallahassee real estate market. A really quick read. Short and sweet, just the facts.
9 page report featuring charts, graphs, and analysis of the Tallahassee real estate market. Enjoy forecasts and understand current cycles and trends.
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VMBlog speaks with CloudVelox during vmworld 2014 as part of a series called "Tea Garden Talks".
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CloudVelox automates critical hybrid cloud infrastructure processes — from discovering the constituent hosts to replicating and provisioning and launching groups of systems — all with drag and drop menus. CloudVelox also extends the enterprise data center to the Cloud so that these distributed multi-tier applications can access any necessary services residing back in the enterprise. The cloud becomes a seamless extension of the data center.


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Explore the many custom guitar options available to you.
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Contact Jay to share your ideas, ask your questions and to get your custom acoustic guitar onto his build schedule.
What model guitar do you love playing the most? Body style and size impact every aspect of an instrument's playability and sound. The acoustic guitar models that Jay builds include Small Jumbo, Parlor, Dreadnought, the Lichty Dream guitar and many more.
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Savannah man sentenced to life without parole in 2007 rape
Jan Skutch
A Savannah man on Thursday was convicted on rape and related charges in a 2007 assault and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jerry Lewis Howard, 50, also was convicted by the Chatham County Superior Court jury on charges of aggravated assault and child cruelty.
Judge Michael Karpf sentenced Howard, who has five prior felony convictions and was tried as a recidivist, which makes him ineligible for parole.
Assistant District Attorney Frank Pennington II told jurors that on Nov. 29, 2007, the victim returned to Howard's home on East Waldburg Street to retrieve belongings she neglected to collect when the pair broke up a month prior.
The two had a disagreement and Howard subsequently choked the 28- year-old victim to near unconsciousness and raped her in front of her 1-year-old daughter, Pennington's evidence showed.
The woman was able to escape by convincing Howard to let her call a cab to retrieve her car.
Evidence submitted included phone recordings of Howard later apologizing for his actions.
Howard was also convicted and found guilty of these crimes in a prior 2010 case but was granted a retrial by Chatham County Superior Court Judge John E. Morse.


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السبت، 7 يناير 2023
ICT Supervisor - MSF
0101/2023 ICT Supervisor
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.
MAIN PURPOSE:
Executing the maintenance, follow-up and monitoring of all IT and Telecom equipment, tools and services, as well as ensuring onsite technical support and training of users under his/her responsibility in accordance with MSF standards, policies, protocols and procedures, in order to guarantee the efficient use of all IT and Telecom services and infrastructure.
Place of work: Gaza office
Starting date: 1st February 2023
Working Hours: 08:00 - 16:30 Sundays to Thursdays
Fixed term contract: 6 months (with 3 months' probation period) - possibility of renewal
Required travel: mobility across Gaza and Jerusalem can be requested based on operational need
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Monitoring, maintaining and following up on all Information Technology (IT) and Telecom equipment, tools and services in the mission, in accordance with MSF standards, policies, protocols and procedures;
- Supervising, implementing and improving data security protocols (data saving, firewall, User Access right, backup, security for equipment and software, etc.) to ensure data security, availability, and immediate operational recovery and continuity in case of emergency;
- Providing technical support and presenting MSF standards, policies, protocols and procedures to all users. Providing advanced technical support to logistics experts dealing with IT and Telecom systems. When needed, liaise with the Information Systems (IS) Specialist and/or HQ Technical Referent for 2nd line support, as well as with external providers, to ensure any incidents or problems that cannot be solved at his/her level are appropriately escalated;
- Providing educational support (briefing, training and support, etc.) to all users. Providing advanced educational support (briefing, training and support, etc.) to logistics experts dealing with IT and Telecom systems;
- Providing regular activity reports for the sites under his/her responsibility in accordance with MSF guidelines. Updating and archiving all user and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) related documentation due to changes in the IT and Telecom infrastructures;
- Participating in the establishment of the annual budget of the IT and Telecom families. Providing his/her technical expertise in the local purchase process;
- Planning, preparing and reporting the visits to the site(s) under his/her responsibility to ensure the preceding points;
- Performing any other task, specific to his/her area of specialty, as defined in his/her job description and according to the line manager.
University degree in Computer Engineering / Computer Science
Preferably 1-2 years of proven experience in IT or technical functions
General English (reading, writing, speaking) AND Technical IT
- Expertise in latest version of Microsoft Operating System and business applications (Office365)
- Good knowledge of computer hardware and maintenance processes, network theory and their respective protocols, main email systems, IT security best practices and IT service management tools (ITSM)
- Understanding in Server Management (latest version of Microsoft Operating System, Active directory) and virtualization (Hyper-V).
- Understanding of radio telecommunication concepts (HF, VHF, GSM, Satellite).
- Teaching and supporting skills.
Results and Quality Orientation - Teamwork and Cooperation - Behavioural Flexibility - Commitment to MSF Participles - Stress Management
* Applicants must show their willingness by submitting an updated CV with Motivation Letter (not only a cover letter), previous working experience certificates, diploma and certifications no later than Monday 9th January 2023 at 16:00 h to the following email address: msff-gaza-recruitment@paris.msf.org
stating the job title in the subject line:
0101/2023 ICT Supervisor – Gaza Project
Applicants currently under work contract with any government are excluded from this recruitment
ONLY APPLICATIONS IN ENGLISH WITH THE ABOVE MAIL TITLE WILL BE CONSIDERED VALID


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Q: How to use scipy's fminbound function when function returns a dictionary I have simple function for which I want to calculate the minimum value
from scipy import optimize
def f(x):
    return x**2

optimize.fminbound(f, -1, 2)

This works fine. Now I modify above function which now returns a dictionary
def f1(x):
    y = x ** 2
    return_list = {}
    return_list['x'] = x
    return_list['y'] = y
    return return_list

While it is returning multiple objects x and y, I want to apply fminbound only on y, the other object x is just for informational purpose for other use of this function.
How can I use fminbound for this setup?

A: You need a simple wrapper function that extracts y:
def f1(x):
    y = x ** 2
    return_list = {}
    return_list['x'] = x
    return_list['y'] = y
    return return_list

optimize.fminbound(lambda x: f1(x)['y'], -1, 2)


This is why, when someone complains of being bullied, they need to be taken seriously. I've been bullied at various times in my life by various people, and have had thoughts of suicide or just not wanting to live anymore. But I have fought through it and survived.
"I was in an abusive relationship, and I was abused," she said. "And people gave him the benefit of the doubt over and over again.
Of course, the people charged with bullying Otto, are denying it and claim that they're the victims of a witch hunt. I'm not buying it.
Today was a good day, good for healing from abuse. I work in the library at my son's school for an hour each week. Today there were no books to shelve, so I was given the job of folding programs for the Christmas program tomorrow. Another volunteer worked with me, and we had a good chat.
We like to either grab the one park bench, or stand some place while our kids play after school. We seem to be the only ones who do this, considering the jokes made by teachers who come by. Things like, When our kids leave that school, they'll have to put a memorial plaque on the bench.
I don't say much myself as the other ones chatter away, but sometimes Melissa will leave and Brad will stay, and we'll talk for a while. But even if I don't say much, I listen, and gather up all sorts of information which I store in my memory banks.
It's little things like this that help in healing, as I feel less alone, more connected to the outside. It may not be a big deal to most people, but it is to people like me.


ATLANTIC are constructing a new Administration Building to house all non essential staff and relocate them away from within the confines of the LNG facility. The 60,000 sq.ft. building will be located at Clifton Hill, Point Fortin.
Interior renovation and reroofing of existing building in St. Clair, Trinidad. Interior works included flooring, ceiling, painting and air condition works.
British Academy will be constructing a new campus in Santa Cruz on a 10 acre Greenfield site. Currently in design phase.
Interior Outfitting and conversion of 30,000 sq. ft. Warehouse to Class "A" office space for Bryden PI.
Interior outfitting of 2,200 sq.ft. of Mall space to produce a Samsung "Experience" store, the first of its kind in the Eastern Caribbean.
Full interior outfitting of 7,000 sq.f.t of space for Class "A" offices to be used as Microsoft Country office in Trinidad. State of the art design incorporated an open plan furniture system, full A/V connectivity inclusive of access control and CCTV.
PCS Nitrogen Trinidad Ltd. have embarked on a full scale relocation of the Admin & Technical buildings located at Point Lisas, Trinidad. The new site consists of over 13 acres and will house the following buildings:- Admin & Technical; Security; Health Care Unit; Laboratory; Training; Warehouse and Workshop. The construction activities will result in more than 100,000 sq.ft. of new space to be occupied.
Provide a Maintenance master Plan for use at all current Sporting Venues in Trinidad & Tobago.
New production facility to be constructed to allow for installation of a fully automated system to increase the manufacturing capabilities of the plant. Construction activities include piling to a depth of 15m with an augur pile system.
Construction of 4 new classrooms adjacent to the current building.
The Dominican Fathers in Trinidad embarked on the proposal for a Pastoral Centre for the Community in 2003 and in 2005 construction commenced on the Project located in the St. Finbar's Parish, Diego Martin, Trinidad. The 25,000 sq .ft. facility is a combination of admin offices, outreach social programs, meeting rooms, classrooms and an outstanding auditorium facility.
A 6 pole design floodlight installation to enable night cricket and sports to be played at the Venue. Work involved demanding Civil works with auger poles at each position with some of the locations very tight and located right beside existing structures. Construction activities included an augur pile system that required 4 piles at each location drilled to a depth of 14m.
Queens Park Cricket Club Members Pavilion was constructed on the site of a portion of the existing Pavilion and also adjoined the remainder of the Pavilion that remained. Designed by RBF Architects it encompasses more than 60,000 sq. ft. of usable space which includes Pub and fine dining Restaurant open to both Club Members and the General Public. Additional Members facilities include a Private Bar & Lounge, Gym, Admin Offices and Meeting Rooms. There is a Banquet Hall located on the third floor and the fourth floor is shared between the QPCC Presidents Box and BPTT who were the main sponsors of the construction.
The Trini Posse Stand was constructed in preparation for the ICC Cricket World Cup with two levels of open seating to host the Party Stand for the Event. The third level consists of Corporate Boxes with toilet and concession facilities on all levels.
Three tier stand built with sponsorship from BGTT and Scotiabank which houses more than 5,000 spectators at full capacity.
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 was played in the West Indies at 9 different competition venues and 3 additional venues for Warm Up matches. Trinidad & Tobago proudly hosted Warm Up Matches at the UWI SPEC facility in St. Augustine and Competition matches at the Queens Park Oval. There were various legacy upgrades made to both venues in terms of players and spectator facilities and in addition many overlay temporary installation to facilitate the hosting of a world event surpassed only by the Olympics and Commonwealth Games in terms of viewers.
Full upgrade and internal outfitting of more than 12,000 sq. ft. of office space which was completed whilst the office remained in operation.


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Bryan Bliven, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Chapter 3
Bryan Bliven isn't surprised that the pace of attestation to Meaningful Use stage 2 has been somewhat slow. "It's a different feel and it takes a different type of rigor to manage it," said Bliven, which is why his organization opted to do a practice run before successfully attesting in the first quarter of 2014. In this interview, he talks about the unique partnership between MU Health and Cerner that enables his team to provide feedback on the solutions they use; his role as executive director of the Tiger Institute; and the approach his team used in attaining HIMSS Stage 7 recognition. Bliven also opens up about what it's like to be a young CIO, and why he thinks MU Health's patient portal will be "a game changer."
From HIMSS stage 2 to 7 — "We treated it like a project."
Enabling the staff to "recognize the amount of change we'd taken on."
From Cerner to MU Health
A "different scope of responsibility" as interim CIO
CHIME Boot Camp – "A great resource on how to approach the role."
https://media.blubrry.com/healthsystemcio/p/content.blubrry.com/healthsystemcio/Bryan-Bliven-CIO-MU-Health-Chapter-3.mp3
If there was a gap, we looked at it like, 'why do you think that they have this as a requirement, and why aren't we there yet?' It was some great discussion; it helped us evaluate some of our processes and change them.
We see it as how we do business, and then when people come in and say, 'Wow, you're really doing a great job. This is something we'd like to take as a best practice,' then there's even more pride in that.
It's a matter of approaching it from the standpoint that these measures are in here for a reason. It's to help get benefit broadly, so let's approach it as such.
I have several industry folks that I talk to on a regular basis to try to educate myself as much as possible. It's definitely a steep learning curve, and I'm not there yet. I need to keep investing and learning more as I go.
Gamble: I wanted to ask about the HIMSS Stage 7 — what it took to achieve that from a leadership perspective and what something like that means for the organization?
Bliven: We're HIMSS Stage 7 on both the inpatient side and 46 of our clinics in the outpatient setting, and the ones that have yet to gain that are some of the ones that have been acquired or purchased recently where we're going through implementing our systems.
The first one to get HIMSS Level 7 was inpatient. At the start of the partnership, we were at about a HIMSS Level 2 solid with some functionality up to HIMSS level 4 that were in place in areas, but it's really about getting that adoption broadly, and there were large scale IT and clinical projects that we had to get done to be able to qualify. It was a target with the Tiger Institute Board of Governors that if we're looking at progressing the adoption and use of technology, what outside measures can we use to see how we're progressing. HIMSS is an industry standard, and that was one of the targets we selected to utilize to advance, and so it gave us some goals to work for.
The organization was bought in. It really was a great project, and we treated it like a project. We had a project manager assigned. We looked at the requirements. We worked with HIMSS. They were great about answering questions — we had a lot of questions about the different measurements on how to get to Stage 7, and we formed a cross-organizational group for the inpatient side.
When you attest and you have your phone call for Stage 6 validation, there are questions you go through. We received that and we wanted to schedule our HIMSS 7 visit, which is an onsite tour. We were able to select the different units that we would have as part of the tour. You can't obviously go through the entire hospital and spend the amount of time that is required, but we picked our neurosciences unit as one. You're going to go to radiology, pharmacy, medical records, etc.
We were able to grab people from each of those groups and go through the requirements. If there was a gap, we looked at it like, 'why do you think that they have this as a requirement, and why aren't we there yet?' It was some great discussion; it helped us evaluate some of our processes and change them. For example, getting outside sheets of paper scanned in within a period of time — we were able to put in a process that shortened that time greatly with working with medical records in the floors, and that was just a benefit overall. It just was something that we had not approached outside of HIMSS requirements.
There are things like that where if you approach it as 'why is this in the measures,' there's a reason behind it. 'Why do we think that? Do we agree with it? Yes, then let's move forward.' If we had questions, as I mentioned, HIMSS was great working with us on what does it mean in your barcode scanning percentage in terms of failed scan versus attempted scan? That was one of the measures that we were working with them on, and they were very helpful in what does this mean and what is the interpretation of it. It was a great QI process for us as well, picking out the different areas and moving forward.
By the time that the tour came around and the site visit came around, the floors were excited to show off. From the staff, it was, 'We'll show you how we do stuff here. We have a lot of pride in the work that we've done. With adoption of technology, it's not something where you have outside folks come in all the time and say, 'You're really advanced in this.' It just happens over time and we see it as how we do business, and then when people come in and say, 'Wow, you're really doing a great job. This is something we'd like to take as a best practice,' then there's even more pride in that.
It was great for the organization to really recognize the amount of change that we'd taken on since the beginning of the partnership, and it was the same on the outpatient. We had rolled out an ambulatory EMR project across all our clinics, and we took a similar approach and grabbed folks from the different clinics that we were going to have as part of the tours, engaged them in going through the metrics, and improved certain areas. It allowed us to, for example, implement our vitals monitoring system in the clinic so that it flows directly into the EMR. It's a matter of approaching it from the standpoint that these measures are in here for a reason. It's to help get benefit broadly, so let's approach it as such. Again, by the time we were able to do the tour, the folks in the clinics were ready and they were excited to show off.
Gamble: That's a really interesting way of looking at it; to say, let's use the HIMSS Stage 7 criteria to see how we can improve our processes. It makes it a bigger project. Like you said, it's not just about getting that label — although it is a really nice label to have — but it's also about how can we improve.
Bliven: Absolutely.
Gamble: It is nice validation, I'm sure, to have that Stage 7 icon.
Bliven: Yeah. We're very proud of being able to attain that and being able to show off on the site visit.
Gamble: The last area I wanted to talk about was your career starting with how you came into the CIO role there. I know that you started as an interim, and I wanted to talk about what that experience was like and maybe some of the challenges there.
Bliven: I've been part of the Tiger Institute really since it was formed. Shortly thereafter, my initial role was director of applications and operations. I managed our project management office and the implementation and support of all of the applications that the health system uses. I had that role for about two and a half years when my predecessor as a CIO moved on to a new role. I was named as interim and had held that title for about eight months before I was named permanent. It was different. It was definitely a different scope of responsibility, picking up a lot of the technology areas where in my previous role I had a counterpart that I would work with and could forget about some of those responsibilities. I had some learning to do to make sure that we were managing that appropriately, meeting with a lot of the physician leaders and clinician leaders around the health system to get acquainted and inform them of the directional strategy that we were working on, get feedback, and try to be a collaborative as possible.
And it was creating our governance committees. We also had a new chief medical information officer at around the same time. Forming a good partnership, working with the chief medical officer and chief of staff and really building out an inclusive, robust clinician-led governance structure was really critical. There are not any IT projects we do a lot that are clinical or operational in nature where technology is an underpinning; creating that transparency about what we're working on and what the priorities are helps the organization feel comfortable with that style. We definitely want to be transparent and turn the technology over to the organization — how do we want to wield this as a tool, and I think that that really helped to get me comfortable and to help me get introduced to a large number of the leadership folks around the health system.
Gamble: Did you have any hesitancy about being a first time CIO? Did you reach out to anyone for guidance or advice, anything like that?
Bliven: I'm a member of CHIME and I went through the CHIME CIO Boot Camp, and it was a great resource on just how to approach the role. I actually had that in my back pocket, so to speak, prior to accepting the responsibility, so I had an approach. I definitely stay in contact with my predecessor on a regular basis.
I have several industry folks that I talk to on a regular basis to try to educate myself as much as possible. It's definitely a steep learning curve, and I'm not there yet. I need to keep investing and learning more as I go. I'm still obviously just about a year in and I still have quite a bit to learn and so I'm trying to keep approaching it that way.
Gamble: Your predecessor was Joanne Burns, right?
Bliven: Correct.
Gamble: And she's now with Cerner?
Bliven: Yes, she's the chief strategy officer at Cerner.
Gamble: Okay. And finally, you're a CIO who's on the younger side. While I'm sure there are challenges there, I can imagine there are also some benefits. Do you see it that way?
Bliven: Yeah. I think there are pluses and minuses to everything, and it's really about how you approach the opportunities. Like I said, I have a lot to learn but I've also been in healthcare IT for really 15 years. I worked at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics prior to starting in the field officially. So I've had a fairly good amount of experience in that category; I've seen a lot of different hospitals, and how leadership has been approached
In a way, I like to think of a communication style in how you approach and work with people. It's really about building a team, and so I count on my team quite a bit to provide a lot of knowledge and brain trust so that we can keep moving forward. I count on my peers across the hospital leadership a great deal, and I think it's really about building those relationships and that can help you overcome a lot of your individual weaknesses.
Gamble: Overall, you feel like you're in the right place at the right time.
Bliven: Yeah. It's a fantastic place to be. I love the organization. I love our leadership here. We have a great vice chancellor and CEO. They're really excited about technology, which keeps me definitely excited. There's a ton going on, obviously, in the industry. It's a fantastic time to be here. There's so much to learn and just see how the industry's reacting to all the different changes, there's no place else I'd rather be. It's fantastic.
Gamble: Obviously, you guys are doing a lot of great stuff. We really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us and talk about it. It's been really interesting, and I definitely hope that we can catch up down the line and talk about everything else you have on your plate.
Bliven: Sure. Like I said, you need to come and visit the care tower. We'll take you on a tour.
Gamble: I would love to. If I'm in the area, I will definitely call you guys up.
Bliven: Fantastic.
Gamble: All right, thank you so much, and I look forward to speaking with you again.
Bliven: Sure, my pleasure. I'll talk you later.
Gamble: Thank you.
Where Art Meets Science: MU Health's Approach to Improving Provider Satisfaction
Filed Under: Career Path, Communication/Transparency, Professional Development Tagged With: Bryan Bliven, Cerner, Podcast, university of missouri health care


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SPECIAL NOTE for recent participants. We are starting at Hackney Downs and ending at Springfield Park this year, as The Russet Café by the Downs has closed. Springfield is a prettier place to finish too. There's a café in Springfield Park if you want a hot drink, comfort break or place to rendezvous afterwards.
Our urban wassail draws on the old tradition of waking the apple trees from their winter sleep, to ensure a good harvest for the year ahead. It's just a fun way to spend some time, all faiths and none are welcome.
Expect to be invited to join in with some singing, hearty and loud and no skills required! Or just join us for the craic. We provide song sheets, and there'll be some warm cider, apple juice and apple themed nibbles. Please bring some little thing to share too if you can.
How does the Wassail work?
Join us at the start on Hackney Downs, or halfway at Millfields Park, or our final stop at Springfield Park. It's roughly a 30-minute stroll between locations. The whole route is about two and half miles.
It's FREE to come along, but at each location we'll be taking a collection to cover costs, and any extra will be donated to London Action for the Homeless.
Do check our website http://hackneywassail.org.uk/ for any last-minute news, we actually had to cancel last year's wassailing due to extreme weather.
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Being who we really are
Pasquale Robustini
Sunday December 23rd, 2018
Not many of us are lucky enough to be who they really ar e. The luckiest ones at least "know" who they really are even if they actually aren't that. I've always admired people who made a life out of their passions. It takes a lot to achieve it, unless your passion is working for a bank or being a government employee: you study and work in order to get a job and you're set. But what if you want to be, say, a painter? The entire world will tell you not to do it, you will be starving, you need at least a plan B. But the ones who keep on and succeed in doing this are the ones who did not listen…
When I described myself since no long ago, the first thing I mentioned was "I am an Italian geologist". I implied I was two things: 1-Italian and 2-geologist. I should dig more into this statement. Maybe later. But for now, Geology is what I studied, what I chose for my higher education since I have always liked science and I still think about myself as a scientist, although I've done research for only a few years. I also liked to point out that I worked in both university and industry before. I attempted to become a science teacher. I like teaching, I like the relationship that builds up with the students. I like to help them growing a way to think with their own brains through science. But it lasted just one year, my contract was not renewed. Maybe the teacher role was not really for me. I didn't choose the teaching career. I just thought it was the right path when I was forced to change after I lost my job as a geologist. When I was 7 or 8, someone gave me a chemistry minilab and suddenly I was fascinated with all those compounds, test tubes, still pots. I really wanted to know how it all worked. Later I developed a passion for astronomy, which eventually evolved into one for geology. Yes, it all started early, so maybe I was actually on the right path about being my true self.
Long after my graduation, when I was 36, I discovered martial arts. Actually just one, Aikido. At the time, I would have never guessed I would have become a black belt. But I surprised myself and eventually became an Aikido instructor! I have been in love with Aikido for so many years that I often described this relationship as me living Aikido, breathing Aikido, "being" Aikido. I remember when I practiced during some tough period of my life, realizing I only felt truly myself when I was on the mat. But the hardest days were yet to come.
Science happened to me when I was 7 or 8. Aikido hit me around 36. But there was something that was with me since even earlier: I was singing before I learned how to read and write, mimicking with the sound of my voice the instrumental parts of the songs I sang. My aunts and uncles were amazed, I can still remember them commenting my performances. I met the guitar later, at 11, when my sister, who was 9, started experimenting with one. We were already singing songs from a duo that was rather famous at the time. I thought it would have been great to back our singing with a guitar. And there it started. My guitar became my best friend, my partner, my refuge, my shield, my lifeline. I played every day but I never really dared trying to get a living out of it. Because the moment I just thought about it, I already knew that all the people around me, starting from my parents and the rest of the family, would have told me I was crazy; and I also already knew I would have considered very thoroughly their advice. Maybe I did not have the balls – nor the talent – to do it.
I thought about writing this piece after I started watching the "Bruce Springsteen on Broadway" show. The Boss had been my favorite during my geology studies. I used to play and sing a lot of his tunes, strumming heavily on my Stratocaster copy. I have never felt such intensity from any other performer. The show also unveiled to me a different Bruce, a compelling and profound entertainer on stage even when he is just talking. And the words he said struck deep inside me, much like many of his songs did when I was younger and still stir something deep inside when I listen to or sing one of them today. The Boss shared memories of his first guitar, about the first time he saw one, on TV, hung at the shoulders of a "human Adonis" – who was clearly a certain Presley – while Bruce himself felt he was a creep. But he was struck. The guitar was the thing. He needed one. From there he understood what he wanted to do in life, what he wanted to be. He also said that he never liked school and this should be a sign. I didn't like school either but I did what I was told. People like those guys can't be told how to behave, how to live their own lives. Art does not come out from that. Bruce recounted how he never saw the inside of a factory, never worked from nine to five, 5 days a week. He didn't like it. I didn't like it too, but I had to do it when the time came. And as I am writing about it now, I remember the excruciating pain deep inside when I started. I thought it was because I was unexperienced and feared failure. But probably that was not what I really wanted deep inside. I have been lucky enough to do jobs I really liked for a while, so I can't complain…
I thought about writing this piece after I started watching the Bruce Springsteen on Broadway show. The Boss had been my favorite while I was studying geology. I used to play and sing a lot of his tunes, strumming heavily on my Stratocaster copy.
I sat there hypnotized as The Boss named his first inspirers. Guys who were playing in bands in his unknown hometown, so close to New York City it disappeared. People that were larger than life, too alive and true to be told they were wrong or what to do. The young Bruce Springsteen who dreamed about becoming a rockstar admired local rockers – who would never come not even close to what he has become – but those NJ rockers really knew what they wanted to be and what was the life they wanted to live and if others thought otherwise "they could go fuck themselves".
I loved that part. Sort of liberating…
I never dared thinking that people who wanted me to be what I was supposed to be could go fuck themselves.
I also loved when he talked about the magic when a real rock band forms: in normal life, which he defines "the grind", 1 + 1 makes 2. In his life 1 + 1 made 3. In order to be a real rock band you don't need the best players, but a community of souls who come together with the same intent – and the magic happens: 1 + 1 makes 3.
I had many different "seasons" in my musical tastes, that would translate in what I played and sang. I had the Springsteen period, later I had a Toto period, a Dire Straits/Pink Floyd period, a U2 period and a Pearl Jam period. Of course I love Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and I love the Pink Floyd more today than yesterday (I am 100% Italian, but when it comes to music I am not). When I sing Steve Bono's U2, or Eddie Vedder's Pearl Jam, I feel a compelling intensity comparable to the one I used to feel when I sang Springsteen in the past. But we call him The Boss for a reason. Even if it's only because he was there before the others.
And Bruce Springsteen did it again for me on his recent Broadway show: he reached deep inside my being, probably by touching some common nerve, some feeble wire that links us through a very thin common ancestry in his mother being of Italian origin, his early love for music, for performing and for the guitar. But that's it. He is The Boss and I am an "application manager". Is it because I never dared even trying what he did? We will never know. Bruce said it would have been impossible that anybody noticed a guy playing guitar in the 70s in Freehold, New Jersey. Would anybody notice one playing among the central Apennines of Italy? Even worse… So I went on to school, university, and never dared considering to become a musician, never attempted to actually work on it.
Bruce said how it would have been impossible that anybody noticed a guy playing guitar in the 70s in Freehold, New Jersey. Would anybody notice one playing the central Apennines of Italy? Even worse…
Later I found love, a good job, I got married, we had a son. I have been the happiest man on the very Earth I was studying. It was not an ordinary life: I had the job I studied for, I met my girl the way I had dreamed of, in New York City – it was actually Jersey City, Bruce! – We kissed in front of New York's skyline under an early December moon. We got married in New York's City Hall a few years later and after our son was born we brought him to New York when he was 7 months old. I didn't play guitar as I used to, I didn't have the time anymore. I was all about Geology and Aikido. But sometimes I pictured myself on a stage, with a band I never had, playing some covers in front of a small audience. I just thought it would have been nice to have achieved at least that. When I happened to see somebody playing live or heard about a friend who did it, I felt a bit of envy. I was a rather sorry I had never even tried…
During those happy early Summer days in New York with our little one, something happened that would have made me think one day. We were in Washington Square, a place we love a lot. I was taking a couple of film pictures of my wife and our kid near a fountain. I noticed a few guys who were playing guitar. Maybe driven by my own attention towards them, one of them approached me and introduced himself as Mike Scala, a young local musician (clearly of Italian ancestry), with some friends from Australia. They would have played in a nearby place that same evening and they were publicizing the event by playing on the road in the neighborhood. I explained we would have really enjoyed it but with the kid it would have been impossible, since we were staying at my aunts' place in Queens. So they performed a song for us and Mike Scala gave me his guitar pick when I told him I used to play guitar myself, although just for fun. I bought their CD and sometimes I still listen to it remembering that encounter. God, I miss New York…
Six years later I lost my job and the darkest period of my life began. In your early 50s in my country you are too young to retire and too old to be hired again. During the crisis that hit the whole world starting from when my son was born, I heard stories about people in their 50s losing their job and being unable to recycle themselves, to find other jobs (who wants to hire someone at that age?). At least not in my country. I thought it was a nightmare. Some committed suicide. An then it happened to me. To me! I can't even think about what we would have done if our families wouldn't have been there to help us. Soon after it happened, I was offered to join a cover band who played some rock music I could have enjoyed. I thought I didn't have the time, that it was not a good idea, I was all Aikido, guitar was no longer the thing to me.
I was wrong. Again…
Six years later I lost my job and the darkest period of my life began. In your early 50s in my country you are too young to retire and too old to be hired again.
My wife insisted I tried. I was overwhelmed by emotions as the day of the first rehearsal approached. I started to review some riffs, to listen to songs I had never played before in order to be of some usefulness to the other old timers with a passion for music. I rediscovered myself. Playing with those guys was not only a dream of my youth which came true. Being in touch again with my real self helped me not to lose my mind in that dark period. After all those years I found myself on a stage, singing and playing solos I had only dreamed of playing in public. It was fun, it felt like freedom. It still does. Was it stupid or naive? Am I, really? A family man in his mid-fifties, a father, a former geologist, who once a week skips dinner at home to go and rehearse with a band of old plunkers like we were still teenagers? I don't think we are behaving like teenagers. We know exactly who we are, where we stand and what we are doing. We are not childish. We just did not lose the ability of dreaming after all that's happened to each one of us. Especially to me, I dare say. And no one is dreaming to become a musician while approaching the age of retirement…
I contacted Mike Scala through the social networks. He is doing great, he has become someone. He followed his dreams and he is realizing them. I admire him for that. I reminded him about our encounter in Washington Square and I told him I was playing again …using his guitar pick. We'll keep in touch and I wish him the best. He is a nice guy with an Italian ancestry. I am sure he told the ones who told him he should not do what he is doing to go fuck themselves. I never did it and I am even lucky enough to have realized something I dreamed of anyway: being a scientist for a while, using my science knowledge to get a living, starting the relationship with the woman I love in such a spectacular way, having such a wonderful kid. Then something terrible happened, ok, but there are much more terrible things in life. We are healthy and still love each other, even if we struggle every day. I have found music again, rediscovered my love for guitar, my true love (of course I love my son and wife more than anything else in this world, but you know what I mean!). Today I know what I really am deep inside. Yes, I am a geologist, I've become an application manager and still am an Aikido instructor; most of all I am a father and a husband, but if I had grown really free of becoming what I really wanted to become, I should have been playing guitar and making music. I didn't and I'm not actually regretting it, considered what I have achieved anyway. It is just sad to acknowledge that probably I am one of the many who conformed to the common thought and did what was expected from him. At least to a certain extent.
I don't think we are behaving like teenagers. We know exactly who we are, where we stand and what we are doing. We are not childish. We just did not lose the ability of dreaming after all that's happened to each of us. Especially to me, I dare say.
Losing my job had been a nightmare come true. I am still alive and at this point this is at least something. This event triggered something else that made me rediscover my old true self. I never dared pursuing music when I was young, when it was time to take risks and live life completely and to follow the path I wanted to choose, no matter what others would say. I didn't have the guts to do so and today I know that's how it is and that if I had been able, I would have wanted to do that. I winched then and I'll never know what would have happened. But at least today, better late than never, playing with my middle-aged bandmates has kept me sane and will continue to do so because now that I have finally found my true self again, I have absolutely no intention to stop.
And if there is someone out there who thinks this is not appropriate, that it is not an acceptable behavior for a family man with responsibilities – an application manager with a science background, a father and a husband who shouldn't be playing guitar solos like a teenager, well, at this point of my life I strongly believe even I can finally say they can really go fuck themselves!
Yeah, that's me in the middle, with my Strat and my fellow old timers on stage at a home gig in 2016 – come on, we're not that old anyway! Middle age is said to come later these days… 😉
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