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How To Use A Vocoder | Vance Powell
Watch the full video here
One of the many advantages of working with Vance Powell as a producer is that he knows so many creative studio techniques. He's always coming up with ideas, both big and small, to improve the sound of existing parts or create new ones. You'll see an example of one of these techniques in this excerpt from Start to Finish: Vance Powell - Episode 9 - Vocal Editing And Background Vocals. In it, Vance takes the lead vocal track and runs it through a vocoder several times to create a cool texture to layer underneath the choruses.
Singing Synth
We pick up the action in the control room with band member Jeff Gorman sitting in front of a Korg MicroKorg keyboard, which is a compact synth with a built-in vocoder. It comes with a microphone attached on a gooseneck, which allows you to sing into the vocoder.
Jeff Gorman plays the chords to the chorus into the MicroKorg creating synth like pads from his lead vocal track.
Before discussing what Vance ends up recording, let's talk a little about vocoders and how they work. As we know them today, vocoders, both hardware- and software-based, are used in music production to create robotic-sounding vocal parts and more.
A vocoder requires two different signals to work: The modulator (which is usually a sung or spoken voice, but can also be an instrument, even a percussion instrument) and the carrier, which is usually a synth sound—either an external one or one generated in the vocoder. The vocoder essentially morphs the modulator onto the carrier sound. As a result, you get the characteristics of the modulator superimposed onto the carrier's audio. With a voice used as a modulator, the result sounds like a talking synth or robot voice.
If the carrier is a single-note melody, you'll get a single note result from the vocoder. For thicker and richer results, it's useful to have the carrier playing chords.
Triple-Layer Vocals
Back to the excerpt, Vance has Jeff test out how the vocoder setting they've dialed in on the MicroKorg by singing into the built-in mic. Once he's got the sound he's looking for, he uses the lead vocal track as the modulator and has Jeff playing the chords of the chorus into the keyboard—controlling the carrier sound.
Vance records the vocoded copy of the lead vocal on the choruses to a new track in Pro Tools. He then records another pass with Jeff playing the chords up an octave (which changes the results from the vocoder) and eventually records a third layer.
Vance uses several effects on the aux bus for the vocoder tracks, including this Valhalla FreqEcho.
Now that he's recorded the vocoder tracks, Vance wants to sweeten the sound—add some "schmaltz" as he puts it. He routes the three layers of vocoded audio through an aux bus and starts adding effects on the return channel.
The first one is a free plug-in from Valhalla called Valhalla FreqEcho, which is a frequency shifting delay, that's available free from the Valhalla website. Vance sets it with a short delay of 25ms and with a relatively small frequency shift frequency of 39Hz.
He uses a Softube Summit Audio TLA Level Amp plug-in (based on an LA-2A but with some cool extra features) for compression, with a fast attack and release, and the Gain Reduction just under halfway up. For the final effect, he uses another Valhalla plug-in, Vintage Verb, which emulates hardware reverbs from the 1970s and 1980s.
Powell compresses the vocoder bus with a Softube Summit Audio TLA Level Amp plug-in.
He selects a hall setting with a 1.92 decay time. Not an overly long reverb, but with enough decay time to add the perception of a large space. You can hear the effects pretty clearly when he solos the vocoder tracks. In the end, the vocoded vocals add a lush layer of sound under the chorus.
Some vocoder plug-ins, such as Waves Morphoder, are designed as processors that you insert on a channel. Others apply their vocoding as software instruments. The examples in this article feature the Logic Pro X EVOC 20, which is the latter. You set it up on a MIDI instrument track and it functions as the carrier. You can bring the modulator in via the sidechain. What's cool about the EVOC 20's architecture is that you can play the vocoded sound via a MIDI controller or MIDI track, to match the harmonic or melodic structure.
EVOC 20, one of the instruments included in Logic Pro X, lets you combine vocal tracks with its internal synth sounds to create vocoder effects.
Example 1: If you want to go for the robot voice effect, use a single note pattern in your carrier. Here, EVOC 20 is the carrier and the modulator is a spoken voice track. The MIDI note is transposed starting at measure 5.
Example 2: The same voice track acting as the modulator, but this time the carrier track has chords playing, and at bar 5, bass, drum and keyboard tracks come in to give a flavor of a vocoded vocal within an instrument track.
The MIDI on the carrier track determines the melodic or harmonic structure. So even if your modulator is a sung voice, you can play the MIDI part to make it fit any key.
Example 3: Here's an example with a guitar instead of the voice as the modulator playing the same chords as in Example 2. It's a wah guitar part, which is reasonably expressive. You want a modulator with expressivity, otherwise, you'll be missing out on an important part of the vocoder sound.
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This displays why it is so important to keep watering your cut Christmas tree. As long as it keeps taking in moisture your safe. As soon as it stops taking moisture it becomes very dry and is very unsafe. Be safe this Christmas!
Thank you for this explanation. When I saw a photo of one of these neighborhoods destroyed by fire, but with many trees still standing, I wondered the same thing.
There was a bit on NPR (? can't find it though) the other day about how the trees may be standing, but they may be very weakened, and crews are going through felling trees that may be unsafe. It is apparently quite a difficult thing to assess, especially with oaks. Trees may appear ok, but have smoldering centers, and just drop in a wind storm. Or, large limbs high up just drop. Still more damage to happen, I regret to say.


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I already have the .jrxml file generated. After that I have created the front end (a form) and on clicking "Submit", I need to print the report. On Clicking "Submit" button, I am calling the below code in my Action class (Struts 1.2),
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To set this up, I have used JasperReports 5.5.0 (executable JAR file) in a folder in my project.
Case 1:
When I click on "Submit" button, i am able to get the JasperViewer window with the necessary report i wanted. Then if i am closing the report the Tomcat Apache Server (Tomcat Apache V 7.0) is getting shut down automatically.
Case 2:
But if i am clicking on "Submit" again without closing the previous opened report, then its fine.
Can anyone please help me to solve this issue?

A: Try replacing
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It works for me just fine in Tomcat, in Glassfish doesn't.

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Today we're speaking with Catherine Nyambura, Advocacy Officer at FEMNET - the African Women's Development and Communication Network. She is also a board member at AmplifyChange, a multilateral donor fund aimed at supporting civil society working on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She was the 120Under40 Winner for her work in family planning and a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2016. Additionally, she is a Women Deliver Young Leader and a member of Youth RISE International working group.
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Machine learning and statistical modeling share a common goal of data learning. These two are different.
Since both these concepts drive similar end-goals, the amount of confusion surrounding whether they are similar or opposites, synonyms or antonyms sprouts up.
Before understanding the differences, first, let's quickly go over the definitions of each.
Machine learning is more like enabling your computer to learn from the data on its own without having any manual feed of rules and instructions. When handling huge data sets, it is manually not possible to feed instructions for each data set. Instead, programmers design algorithms that enable the computer to keep learning with time and achieve the final goal that remains pre-defined mostly.
Statistical modeling is a part of mathematics. It is mostly concerned with establishing a relationship between two variables that can predict a proper outcome. This is entirely in the form of mathematical equations.
The end goal for both is same but with some basic differences. One difference is pretty evident from the above definitions. While machine learning is part of artificial intelligence and computer science, statistical modeling is about mathematical equations. The former learns from the data, and the later predicts an outcome.
Without much ado, let's get straight to the points of difference.
The very first thing that sets both apart is their time of inception. Both belong to two different eras, understandably one followed by another only to evolve the way data is handled. Statistical modeling is oldest among the two and has been around for several centuries. But machine learning came into the picture only in the late 1950s, credited to computer scientists Arthur Samuel and Tom Mitchell. The concept of machine learning took time to emerge, and it was not before 1990's that pattern recognition and theory of computational learning in artificial intelligence made way into the mainstream programming world.
Machine learning algorithms can learn from n-number of observations, going over each one by one. It accesses each observation and learns over time to predict the exact combination of actions that can help in achieving the end-goal. Usually, machine learning deals with data that has numerous attributes and a large number of observations.
On the contrary, statistical models encompass series of assumptions that deal with a long lineage of observed and similar data. It does not rely on predictive accuracy like machine learning. In fact, you can define machine learning as model and assumptions checking without the statistical touch in it.
Now let's talk about the extent of human intervention in both these concepts. Machine learning requires almost no human intervention because it is about enabling a computer to learn on its own from a large set of data without any set instructions from a programmer. It explores the various observations and creates definite algorithms that are self-sufficient enough to learn from data as well as make predictions.
That's not how things work in statistical modeling. It is about mathematics equations and requires the modeler to accurately understand the relationship between two variables before they are fed into the data.
Despite these points of differences, the line separating the two is slowly getting blurred with time. Machine learning and statistical modeling are apparently related to the concept of predictive modeling. With time, these two concepts are evolving to learn from one another to sustain in the dynamic data world. Analysts and data scientists have voted equally for the importance of learning both these concepts because staying relevant in the data-driven world is the ultimate goal for data analysts and scientists. That cannot happen by ignoring or choosing one over the other.


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Is it possible to retrive all elements from all allFilteredGroups by one query, smth like
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A: I'm not quite sure what you mean by "to retrieve all elements". allFilteredGroups has all the Group objects. As they are linked to the Elements objects, you can easily iterate through them:
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There is currently no easy way to flatten the last and have all the Element objects in a single RealmResults.


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High-frequency trading in the Jungle
#Finance #High-frequency_trading #Refugees #Europe #Radical_geography
Alexandre Laumonier keeps a sharp eye on the algorithms ruling over globalized finance, and maps the way their orders consume space, in the game known as "high-frequency trading" (HFT). The stakes are high: microseconds are literally worth fortunes. Information flows at the speed of light, and those who manage to make it travel on the shortest path between markets are poised to make millions. It is no coincidence, as Alexandre writes in this radical geography essay, if that path precisely crosses, in Calais, the refugees' paths. Indeed, the only difference between the financial networks and the migrants' trajectories is speed.
Alexandre Laumonier is an anthropologist and a publisher (Zones Sensibles), author of 6¦5
What do people make of places? The question is as old as people and places themselves, as old as human attachments to portions of the earth. As old, perhaps, as the idea of home, of "our territory" as opposed to "their territory," of entire regions and local landscapes where groups of men and women have invested themselves. [...] In this convulsive age of uprooted populations and extensive diasporas, holding onto places and sensing fully the goodness contained therein has become increasingly difficult, and in years to come, I expect, it may everywhere be regarded as a privilege and a gift.
Keith Basso, Wisdom sits in places, 1982
I am not a fan of zombies, but in cases of insomnia TV series are a good way to relax. The first episode of The Walking Dead, season 6, did not disappoint (for those who do not know The Walking Dead, this is the story of human survivors who try to stay alive in a world full of walkers who look like zombies). In this episode the human "refugees" found out about a camp of zombies locked in an old stone quarry.
There was a risk the zombies could escape from the quarry and invade the relocation camp where the heroes have been "living" since season 5, so the human refugees decided to release the zombies by creating a long path (with, sometimes, fences) where they could guide the walkers. The idea (that turned bad — this is TV) was to evacuate the walking dead from the relocation camp area.
We have this kind of shot, where the zombies are walking along the roads:
The first thing I thought of was: that really looks like the videos of the Middle East migrants made with drones in Eastern Europe, where long lines of refugees are walking in the countryside:
AP Photo/Darko Bandic
In The Walking Dead, one of the heroes is driving a motorbike and takes the zombies through a road...
... and in the real life, in Macedonia, police takes the human refugees through a pathway:
Brezice, Slovenia, 20 October 2015. Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters
I don't know if the The Walking Dead screenwriters had the migrants in mind, but I'm pretty sure they did. After all, a lot of people think the human beings fleeing wars or dictatorships are not "like us" — because they are predominantly Muslim, allegedly poor, and so on. They are "The Other" invading "our territory". The way The Walking Dead heroes build fences and paths against the zombies and the way some countries in Eastern Europe build fences against the migrants are similar. I won't share my political thoughts about how the European Union (the suit-and-tie guys working at 2,5 kilometers from me) is managing the refugees (in three words: this is shameful). I just want to focus on an area where the migrants "meet" high-frequency trading (HFT): the Channel.
From the Banana Land to the Jungle
For a few microseconds, let's quit the Banana Land of Richborough (the long Part IV will be released later this week) and let's go to the Jungle, on the other side of the Channel. The Jungle is a location in Calais, France, where thousands of migrants "live" in a camp. It's said to be the "worst" refugees camp in Europe, where 3,000 people (including a lot of children) survive in the mud — they were 6,000 two months ago.
The Jungle looks like a city now (the southern part was demolished last week):
BBC News, "Migrant crisis: Business in 'The Jungle'", 15 September 2015.
Why this shanty town is located in Calais? Because the migrants want to do what high-frequency traders are doing: to cross the Channel. The Calais-Dover path is the shortest one between the continent and UK, that's why the first microwave transmission test made in the world occurred between Calais and Dover, in 1931, and that's why the refugees are there in 2016: because it's the shortest path; because there is a port with ferries going to the kingdom; because the Eurostar terminal is full of trucks that offer the possibility of a new world (for what it's worth). There are a lot of paths to cross the Channel around the Jungle — if you are lucky, because the French national authorities put a lot of fences around the critical areas, including heartbeat sensors used to check if the trucks carry human beings.
Because of geography, Calais is an ending point for some of the Middle East migrants who want to go in England. That's why the Jungle is there. Now let's have a look to the refugee's trajectories. In the high-frequency world, the best technology (at least for now) to carry information from an exchange to another is called "a microwave network". As I detailed it before, different competitors (trading firms such as Optiver or Vigilant Global, or microwave providers such as McKay Brothers) have built their networks for the same purpose: being the faster between two points (here, around my backyard, the two points are three: Frankfurt, Slough and Basildon); and being the faster implies to build a network of dishes that is as close as possible to the straight line between the points. This is the Banana Land story, the reason why Vigilant Global wants to erect a 320-meter tower in Richborough: with this mast, the firm would get a full path very close to the straight line between Frankfurt and Slough:
It seems that the refugees have the same problem: find the best straight path between where they come from to (let's say) Calais. Here is chart detailing the trajectory of Khan, an Afghan young boy, who travelled from Kabul to Calais via Greece. I added the straight line (in black) between Athens and Calais (this straight line crosses the Eastern Europe countries, that's the reason fences reappeared there):
© Migreurop (2012) Atlas des migrants en Europe. Géographie critique des politiques migratoires européenne, Paris, Armand
Colin, 144 p. Carte réalisée par Thomas Honoré.
Here is another chart showing different refugees' trajectories. Calais is the black dot, and we can see that the Jungle seems to be the ending point of a lot of lines:
Here are two more charts, from the New York Times; again I added Calais, which is the penultimate step before what the refugees think to be "El Dorado" (the kingdom):
(On this one, I also added the very straight line between Damascus and London through Calais:)
The only difference between a microwave network and the migrants' trajectories is speed. Khan needed a full year to join Calais from Kabul, and most of the migrants from the Calais jungle wait for months before having the opportunity to join England. After this long wait, if they have the chance to break into a ferry or a truck, they will cross the Channel in one hour and half, while high-frequency traders data passes through the sea in 25 microseconds. Calais (and its surrounding region) is now the place where two extreme worlds meet: the extreme condition of the refugees and the extreme speed of high-frequency traders.
HFT in the Jungle
Early December 2015, I was contacted by an English activist, Richard, who is a volunteer with the WorldWide Tribe organization — Richard is also a PhD researcher and a freelance economist specialising in spectrum and telecoms. Richard and other volunteers were trying to improve the lives of refugees in the Jungle of Calais by installing Wifi. They spent a week-end to put a mast in the Jungle (a very small mast compared to those needed by high-frequency traders) and connecting it up to the 4G mobile network. The mast was installed on a van ("the miracle street trailer"). You can read the full story on the WorldWide Tribe website.
The WorldWide Tribe, December 2015.
"Everyone seemed over the moon at the prospect of the internet. Not only does this bring them communication with their families, but also information about their asylum options and equal opportunities with the rest of the connected world." Wifi was fine, but Richard tried to extend the operation by "connecting the Jungle via microwave link to the fibre network", so that the refugees would get a better bandwidth. That's why I have been contacted: because of my (presumed) knowledge of microwave connectivity in North of France. For once, working on HFT would have a real social value.
At that time, Richard and its friends had different options to improve the network: to deal with a local fibre operator (there are a lot of them in the industrial zones in Calais); to get a business fibre connection in Gravelines and attempt a microwave relay to Calais (Gravelines is another city on the French coast); or to build a microwave link between the Jungle and the top of one of the tower blocks of public housing in the west of the city ("most of the towers here have excellent line-of-sight to the Jungle"). The volunteer had found a "tall" building at 50.953476 N, 1.893397 E, two kilometers from the Jungle (the white line is the microwave link):
They wanted to use a Ubiquiti AirMax equipment because the "performance/cost ratio is excellent" and "5Ghz is a sweet spot of capacity and performance" — the same equipment is used by some HFTs for their networks. Richard came with these questions: "How does one approach the managers of a building to arrange the use of roof space? What is the process for sharing towers in France? Would any of the HFT firms be willing to shared some tower space?" Given my exploration of the HFT microwave world, this was the kind of questions I could answer. I gave some calls to my "industry contacts" about that and tried to help a bit (it seemed that the Ubiquiti AirMax dish was just perfect), but ultimately Richard and its friends did not use microwave. They made a deal with fibre operator Orange, which provided a fixed line offering 50Mbps for a low cost and a low monthly subscription. That was just perfect... until the activists discovered that "to comply with French anti-terrorist laws [voted after the Paris attacks last November], details had to be collected and stored of every user", so they had to switch the network off until they found a solution. They finally figured out a way by using a cheap cloud storage and the network came back. That's how about 1,500 migrants could connect to the Internet and get some news from their families. A very nice job.
HFT above the Jungle
"Would any of the HFT firms be willing to shared some tower space?" Even if the WorldWide Tribe activists didn't need a microwave path to bring the internet into the Jungle, the question was interesting — and certainly motivated by the fact some HFT firms may have had dishes around the Jungle at some point in the past:
As shown in the picture above, you have the former Jungle (destroyed in 2009) and the actual Jungle of Calais. At the bottom of the picture, very close from the building Richard had identified, we have McKay Brothers, and at the left we have Jump Trading, New Line Networks and the McKay bros again (the big white line at the top right of the picture is the straight line between Damascus and London — I thought it was interesting to see how the migrants trajectories meet the HFTs microwave paths here). I had found these names back in 2014 by exploring Cartoradio (the public website of the French radio regulator), but most of the data are irrelevant now (and not available on Cartoradio anymore), as the high-frequency traders have better paths, as we will see. I'm pretty sure the McKay bros would have accepted to share a space, but they are not in Calais anymore. The only HFT microwave provider who may be in Calais is perhaps New Line Networks (that's what I understand by comparing Cartoradio data and Ofcom data), but it is likely that these HFT microwave paths in Calais are now are a part of history. They all moved elsewhere. Because, as the migrants, they want to find the perfect straight lines. The most interesting here is that the migrants are now moving north these days, until Belgium, exactly as some HFT microwave network did — but not for the same reasons.
Here is a picture showing the development of the HFT networks around the Channel over time:
Back in 2012-2013, some of these networks crossed the Channel from Calais to Dover/Swingate (the old historical microwave route). In 2014-2015, some networks were updated and go from Dunkerque (or Grande-Scynthe) to Ramsgate (McKay Brothers, Optiver), or from Houtem to Ramsgate (Jump Trading/New Line Networks):
And now, in 2016, Vigilant Global, Jump Trading and New Line Networks (and others ;) are trying to cross the Channel between Oostduinkerke and Richborough (the Banana Land story):
They all moved North because they had (and/or still have) to find the best paths that are close to the perfect line between Frankfurt and the London area:
That's really striking because this move, from Calais to Dunkerque and now Belgium (the white arrow just above), from 2012 to 2015, is exactly the same move some migrants are doing in 2016. Some of them, as they failed to cross the Channel from Calais (because of the police checkpoints), are trying other spots where they can find trucks where they can hide. That's the reason there is another Jungle, in Grande-Scynthe, the so-called Basroch jungle, which has been regarded as "worse" than the Calais Jungle (I just can't imagine that), five kilometers from the place where HFT firms/microwave providers have dishes.
This jungle was recently shot down and replaced by a relocation camp. Why this jungle in Grande-Scynthe? Because it was located near a gas station where trucks stop. But it's not over. Since some migrants from the Grande-Scynthe jungle fail to break into the trucks, they are trying to reach other areas, not in France anymore but in Belgium (obviously, the Belgian Prime Minister wrote to the French Prime Minister and complained that France was not able to manage "their" refugees — poor Europe). Various newspaper articles testified that some refugees take the Belgian tram going from the France-Belgium border to Ostende, meaning that they are passing by the Oostduinkerke building where HFT firm Vigilant Global and microwave provider New Line Networks want to install dishes. But other migrants seem to walk through the country side to reach Veurne (also known as Furnes in Dutch), where there is an industrial park with a lot of trucks going to England:
I know the Grande-Scynthe-Veurne path because between the two cities there is a small village named Houtem (part of the Veurne city), and Houtem is now famous because of the 243-meter tower Jump Trading purchased in 2013 for $5,000,000 to cross the Channel (the tower is very close to the France-Belgium border):
I know this place quite well, and I can confirm that if you want to cross the France-Begium border, this is the perfect and discrete way to do it. You just have to walk in the silent fields, there is no fence there, no police — only this giant tower the Belgian State sold to Jump in 2013:
That's how the migrants meet the high-frequency trading world — again. It's quite probable some refugees crossed the border around the tower, and it's obvious they never imagined that the eyes of the towers, the dishes pointing to England, allow a high-frequency trading firm to cross the Channel in 25 microseconds. The big difference, here, is that by going North the migrants move away from the shortest path between the continent and the kingdom (the Calais-Dover route), whereas Jump is in Belgium because the firm could achieve the best possible path. The refugees and the HFT dishes are lurking in the same area — same purpose, but different temporalities; two extreme worlds in my backyard. We live in fascinating times.
↬ Alexandre Laumonier.
#Finance #Trading_à_haute_fréquence #trading_algorithmique #Réfugiés #Europe #Asile #Migrations #Cartographie #Cartographie_radicale #Cartographie_critique
This article first appeared on Alexandre's website, Sniper in Mahwah. We thank him for the permission to reproduce it here. For any queries please contact the author at contact@visionscarto.net.
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Home Web Specials Double-edged sword that is NEP
Double-edged sword that is NEP
Youth are the torchbearers of the future - FILE PHOTO
Given the various challenges the affirmative action policy has posed to the Malays as a whole, has it become an unnecessary crutch for them, wonders Mustafa K Anuar.
Given the sense of entitlement that some Malays harbour and the dependency syndrome that afflicts others, the New Economic Policy has given rise to a form of social stigma.
This 'affliction' affects particularly confident and assertive Malays or Bumiputeras who have achieved success in their respective fields.
And for Malay-Muslim women, there is that additional gender dimension.
Being a Malay-Muslim woman wearing a headscarf in the legal profession, Fadiah Nadwa Fikri often gets this remark: "Oh, you speak good English!"
"When I was younger, I didn't quite understand why people would say this. Then I realised there existed stereotypes about Malays and Muslim women who don the headscarf – that Malays are lazy and women who wear the headscarf are backward."
It is also because English proficiency is always associated with the middle or upper class that is presumably modern, educated, and respected, she added.
"I was troubled by this, but I had no choice but to ignore it. It still doesn't make it right."
Prejudice, if not derision, haunted Mahfuzah (not her real name) when she started working after her return from overseas.
"I joined a Chinese-majority work environment and used English predominantly in my first job. When I first came back and started working, I had a strong American accent, which irked a few of my colleagues who thought I was showing off.
"One colleague who was known to have a scathing way of communicating even gave me a nickname – 'Bumiputera with wax in her ears' – when I made a mistake in identifying his name at a time when I was still a newbie.
"He may not be typical but it did cross my mind that being Bumiputera or Malay may be a big influence on how others see me."
She didn't think, though, that her other colleagues saw her identity as 'Malay' first.
"I also was not conscious trying to prove or disprove any idea they had of me, if there were any. I worked on being true to myself.
"It's not an easy thing to do but it gets easier the older I get."
The myth of the lazy Malay native is a powerful one, even for her.
"I am a conscientious worker, at times bordering on being a workaholic. So, in a mixed-ethnic work environment, it is interesting to witness the myth being debunked.
"I have encountered lazy colleagues, yes-men middle management who only listen to the top boss, and major apple-polishers from all ethnic groups.
"My experience working in a non-Malay majority environment ended more than a decade ago. Since then, the situation has changed where the influence of state Islam is very pronounced and the work of 'policing' to ensure media coverage toes the line of state Islam, is parcelled out to 'Malays' in a workplace where Malays are the minority.
"Another myth I fight to this day is that which presupposed all Malays as Umno/BN voting, lazy, just waiting for handouts, Muslim chauvinist, and Malay chauvinist."
Dr Kamaliah didn't encounter such unpleasant treatment as she works in a public university where non-Malays are a minority.
READ MORE: Race-based policies - yay or nay?
"However, my friends in the corporate world often talk about this experience of being second-guessed.
"Outside the public university, yes, often outsiders overlook or make certain assumptions about my appearance (Malay Muslim) and then they are surprised when I am not what they expected."
She felt that there are ingrained stereotypes about different races in Malaysia – even among the progressives.
"This was initially shocking for me to meet with people who are 'progressive' yet racist. I like to break these stereotypes and shake up people's assumption.
"My qualifications have allowed me to navigate many different places. People are often surprised at my qualifications but they quickly show respect.
"I like to let my work speak for itself. As an academic, I write for a bigger audience, I 'compete' at a global level."
Prof Zaharom Nain didn't get derision or prejudice the last two decades or so as he to was working a public university.
He said: "I wasn't one of those Malays primarily because Malays dominated my workplace for more than two decades. They still do, even more so now, which is a bad thing.
"It's time to get rid of the ethnic quota system, certainly in the public service. I was one of those Malays who mocked the other Malays who didn't do much work but demanded respect. They deserved no such thing."
Prof Ahmad Fauzi, on the other hand, has a different experience.
"I am not one of those," he said.
"On the contrary, judging from the numerous speaking invitations that I have received, I believe that I have become a sort of role model for young academics, Malays and non-Malays alike, to excel in research and publication in their own fields of expertise.
"I publish mostly in international outlets and in English, so I don't rely on the advantage of having Malay as my mother tongue to prove my ability in academia."
Dr Eric Loo, senior fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia, who also worked at a public university in Malaysia for a long while, views the NEP as a double-edged sword.
"It enables as well as disempowers because it is inequitably implemented. The NEP has evolved into a tool to sustain the support of the Malay heartlanders.
"To break the dependency syndrome, the Malay community needs to develop new transformative mindsets, work ethics and the 'can-do' goal oriented values."
Scholarships and discontent
Dr Lee Hwok Aun feels that preference in scholarships and higher education opportunities should more clearly target the disadvantaged and those showing potential, "but I feel that these efforts are not systematic and vigorous".
"Increasingly, many Malays have been born into the middle or upper class, and may feel judged that their achievements ride on their ethnicity rather ability.
"One issue that drives wedges between Malaysians – both Malays and non-Malays – is the scholarships (although scarcer these days) reserved for Malays to study abroad, even to those who are clearly able to afford it."
Non-Malays, and Malays who cannot afford it, feel marginalised, maybe resentful, he said.
READ MORE: Fifty years of NEP: The challenge of social cohesion, national unity and bangsa Malaysia
"I don't think the solution is to prohibit high-income Malays from receiving scholarships, but to create prestigious new scholarships that select competitively and holistically – but also offer financial aid based on need, ie families will be required to contribute financially in accordance with their income and ability to pay."
He felt that Malays should also be spurred to pursue higher education opportunities and scholarships independently.
Challenges in the community
Challenges also come from within the Malay community.
For Fadiah, one of the challenges is when she's perceived as not being "Malay enough" for being what or who she is, and for being always critical of power, the Malay construct and racial politics.
A similar problem is faced by Fauzi. He complained that just because he's working in a state institution, he's expected not to go beyond the political rules of the game as a civil servant serving the government of the day.
"Hence, once I had to withdraw from a speaking engagement, after receiving a call from the university legal officer, which would have involved me sharing the stage with a prominent opposition party personality. Apparently five complaints had been lodged to the university authorities."
For Zaharom, the challenge now is getting the younger Malays to stop their welfare, entitled, privileged mentality.
"They need to stop being snowflakes in need of constant support, especially when they have gone this far in their careers.
"They need to stop talking about 'unfairness' and 'suffering' when they have no idea how their non-Malay counterparts have been treated unfairly and have suffered all these years."
These and other challenges face squarely the direct and indirect beneficiaries of the NEP. What can be done?
Dr Kamaliah said politicians need to stop playing up the siege mentality sentiment.
"We need to look at needs-based and meritocracy," she said, "but we also need to address historical injustice and take into account diversity and inclusivity.
"We need to ask who is under-represented and historically excluded – we need to address issues of inequality here."
An example she cites is certain public universities set very high cumulative grade points average (CGPA) requirements for admission.
"Anyone below that CGPA will not able to get in. We are proud to say university admissions are now purely by merit, but here we have such a limited view of what constitutes merit.
"As it gets more competitive, the CGPA cut off keeps getting higher. At the end, you will find the students coming into our top public universities will be of a certain class and background.
"What if you are an Orang Asli student whose CGPA is just a point below the requirement, what if you are the first generation who graduated high school, what if you are from a poor farming community, they may be all good students but whose grades are just below the CGPA cut-off mark.
"Not allowing for this diversity, you miss having a much more diverse and inclusive student population which makes for a richer education experience for all."
Fadiah said Malaysians need to rethink what affirmative action truly means and seek to achieve and separate the politics behind it. That is, how power can use this for political mileage instead of addressing structural inequality in society.
READ MORE: Malaysia, Haemorrhaging!
"We need more nuances in talking about affirmative actions and structural inequality. Affirmative actions are for the poor – they may be Malays, Chinese, or other races."
Dr Wong Chin Huat reminded that while there is value to resorting to affirmative action, there are, however, at least three costs to bear in mind when employing it:
The under-utilisation and/or exodus (brain drain, capital flight) of the disfavoured groups in pursuit of greener pastures;
The dependency culture and/or moral hazard that emerges among members of the favoured groups, thereby preventing the rise in their competitiveness; and,
The capture of affirmative action benefits and opportunities by some well-placed or well-connected sub-groups.
He said when affirmative actions are made more effective and just, successful Malays or Bumiputeras would be free from stereotypical prejudices.
Is it a crutch?
Given the various challenges the affirmative action policy has posed to the Malays as a whole, has it become an unnecessary crutch for them in contemporary Malaysia?
Zaharom said in its present configuration, "the policy needs to be dismantled, demolished even, to be replaced with a fair one for all deserving Malaysians".
It would depend on how the Malay recipients of affirmative action take it, said Fauzi.
"Crutches are meant for those in need of it, so I don't think there's any harm in extending the help to the needful among non-Malays, such that there is progressive de-ethnicisation of affirmative action."
This, he said, will give a good impression of a benevolent Malay-dominated state willing to share the nation with their non-Malay fellow citizens.
"As for Malays who have progressed up the socio-economic ladder, they need to withdraw from being on crutches voluntarily, not being greedy but rather willing to forego finite resources of the state that can be extended to less fortunate segments of society."
Dr Azmil Tayeb is of the opinion that the government and the Malays need to encourage Malays to take more risk and get out of their comfort zone.
"Middle- and upper-middle class Malays," he said, "don't need government crutches to succeed since they already have the cultural capital and financial means to compete on an equal level with others, domestically and internationally.
"For less fortunate Malays, and other less privileged ethnic groups for that matter, affirmative action programmes are still needed to help level the playing field, such as preferential access to scholarships and university admission."
Lee, however, believes that some matters rest squarely in Malay hands.
Malaysia, he said, desperately lacks a visible, meaningful and powerful demonstration of the community's capability and confidence.
"I do wish for more among the Malay professional and managerial classes to step forward and declare that they no longer require ethnic preferential treatment – and are willing to forego such provisions, especially property discounts. That would send a clear and affirming message."
Source: The Malaysian Insight


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Volunteers with Adventure Bags deliver children's knapsacks to The Salvation Army in Norcross, Georgia: (from left) Mandi Burton, Brady Jackson and Seth Craig.
In Atlanta, homeless children find comfort in 'Adventure Bags'
The story of how The Salvation Army in Atlanta, Georgia, this summer came to receive a gift of more than 200 children's backpacks began about nine years ago when a social worker for the state flew to California to retrieve three children from an undesirable situation.
She met the children at the airport to take custody and noticed all their belongings were in a trash bag. The sight was so unsettling, the social worker and her co-workers quickly found an airport store and purchased backpacks and overnight essentials for the kids.
When everyone returned the following morning to fly home, "the youngest child, who couldn't have been more than three years old, proudly carried her backpack that was almost as big as she was through the airport," Misty Manus said.
The social worker later shared the experience with her mother, Debbie Gori. Gori's response: "No one's belongings should be put in a trash bag! Especially children's!"
Yet Gori was more than indignant. She was inspired to take action.
Gori started Adventure Bags, a non-profit based in Winder, Georgia, whose purpose is to give children in traumatic situations a sense of security and comfort. It raises funds to buy backpacks and supplies; has volunteers fill them with toiletries, toys and other gifts; and works with nonprofits, child welfare agencies and others to give the bags away.
Gori, who passed away last year of cancer, was the founder and first executive director of Adventure Bags. Manus is her successor.
"We've served over 40,000 children across the state of Georgia and in 132 countries and partner with over 150 agencies – the (Georgia) Division of Family & Children Services, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and police and fire departments," Manus said.
Adventure Bags recently gifted 208 backpacks to The Salvation Army Metropolitan Atlanta Area Command in Norcross, and 120 to the Lawrenceville Corps. The packs will go to children at the Red Shield Services shelter in Atlanta, the three Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs in metro Atlanta, the Haven Atlanta program for victims of human trafficking and the Lawrenceville Corps.
Each bag contains age- and gender-appropriate overnight essentials to get a youngster through the initial 24 to 48 hours of an emergency – entering foster care, losing their home to a fire, fleeing to a domestic violence shelter, or facing homelessness.
"Each backpack comes with items such as personal hygiene items such as shampoo, soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste and comfort items such as a blanket, a stuffed animal, coloring books and crayons and small toys," Manus said. "Older kids might get Matchbox cars and army men, while the tween or teens may get playing cards, a Rubik's Cube or a girl's nail set."
"We first distributed with The Salvation Army in January," she said. "In August, we reached out and asked how they were doing with the bags and if they needed more. Donna (Roper) said they'd love to have more."
"Adventure Bags is just fantastic to work with, they're so generous," said Roper, volunteer coordinator with The Salvation Army in Atlanta. And when a child receives one of its backpacks at a food pantry or during the intake process at a shelter, "they're very excited. It's such a comfort for them. The bag gives a child a sense of ownership, that they have something that's theirs."
Kristie Wood, office administrator at the Red Shield shelter, said the Adventure Bags are a blessing to children who, due to the transient nature of homelessness, may have had to leave all their prior possessions behind. "The children who received the bags were all smiles!"
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Physician-Assisted Suicide Case
Petitioners in this case are the State of Washington and its Attorney General. Respondents Harold Glucksberg, Abigail Halperin, Thomas A. Preston, and Peter Shalit, are medical physicians who practice in the State of Washington, along with three gravely ill, pseudonymous plaintiffs who have since died and the non-profit organization that counsel people considering physician-assisted suicide, Compassion in Dying, sued in the United States District Court, seeking a declaration that Wash Rev. Code 9A.36.060(1) (1994) was unconstitutional. Washington vs. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997). The Washington State statute provided a person was guilty of the felony of promoting a suicide attempt when the person knowingly caused or aided another person…show more content…
S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and began this case as they do in all Due-Process cases by examining the nation's history, legal traditions and practices. (Casey, 505 at U. S. 833; Cruzan at 497 U. S. 261 and Moore vs. East Cleveland, 431 U. S. 494, 503 (1977). Anglo-American common law has punished or disapproved of assisting suicide for seven centuries and rendering such assistance is a crime in almost every state; such prohibitions have never contained exceptions for those who were near death; the prohibitions in recent years were reexamined and, for the most part reaffirmed in a number of states; and the President signed the Federal Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997, which prohibits the use of federal funds in support of physician-assisted suicide. (521 at U. S. 702). It has always been a crime in the State of Washington for an individual to knowingly cause or aide another person to attempt suicide. (§ 9A.26.060(1). The Court held that § 9A.26.060(1) ban on assisted suicide was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and did not result in any fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. (521 at U. S. 702). Although many liberties that are protected by the Due Process Clause revolve around personal autonomy, it does not warrant the sweeping conclusion that any and all important, intimate, and personal decisions are so protected. Id. The Court also held in order for Washington's ban to be constitutional, it had
The Debate Of Physician Assisted Suicide
Who gets to make the choice whether someone lives or dies? If a person has the right to live, they certainly should be able to make the choice to end their own life. The law protects each and everyone's right to live, but when a person tries to kill themselves more than likely they will end up in a Psychiatric unit. Today we hear more and more about the debate of Physician assisted suicide and where this topic stands morally and ethically. Webster 's dictionary defines Physician assisted suicide as, suicide by a patient facilitated by means (as a drug prescription) or by information (as an indication of a lethal dosage) provided by a physician who is aware of the patient 's intent (Webster, 1977).
Bouvia V. Superior Court
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County became a pivotal case in a patient's right to refuse treatment. In the initial case Ms. Bouvia and her legal team sought a court order to have the NGT removed and to stop all medical treatments she did not consent to. She argued that this treatment would not be a cure for her condition and would not improve her quality of life. The hospital staff argued the interest of the state prevailed over a patient's right to refuse treatment. They noted that the state and healthcare teams viable interests include: "(1) preserving life, (2) preventing suicide, (3) protecting innocent third parties, and (4) maintaining the ethical standards of the medical profession, including supporting the right of physicians to effectively render necessary and appropriate medical services" (Liang & Lin, 2005). Additionally they sighted Ms. Bouvia's failed previous attempt to "starve herself to death" in 1983 with the assistance of her medical team. The court denied her request citing these key interests and the fact that medical professionals felt that Ms. Bouvia could live 15-20 additional years with supplemental nutrition justified the state's interest in preserving her life. The court also stated that any other decision would be condoning a medical team to aid and abet suicide.
One of the most controversial end-of-life decisions is "physician-assisted suicide" (PAS). This method of suicide involves a physician providing a patient, at his or her own request, with a lethal dose of medication, which the patient self-administers. The ethical acceptability and the desirability of legalization of this practice both continue to cause controversy (Raus, Sterckx, Mortier 1). Vaco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg were landmark decisions on the issue of physician-assisted suicide and a supposed Constitutional right to commit suicide with another's assistance. In Washingotn v. Glucksberg, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state of Washington's ban on physician-assisted suicide was not unconstitutional.
Essay about Arguments against Physician-assisted suicide
The United States is a nation founded on freedoms and liberties, giving each citizen the ability to make their own life decisions. This freedom includes all aspects of one's life, including medical care. With freedom comes responsibility, and this is true in terms of physician-assisted suicide. The ongoing struggle between those in favor and those opposed to this subject has ravaged the medical field, bringing into question what is morally and ethically right. The fact of the matter is that physician-assisted suicide is neither morally nor ethically acceptable under any circumstance. Not only is it a direct violation of a doctor's Hippocratic Oath, but it is not constitutionally binding. Physician-assisted suicide would also lead to
Essay on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Suicide is one person's personal decision; physician-assisted suicide is a patient who is not capable of carrying the task out themselves asking a physician for access to lethal medication. What people may fail to see however is that the physician is not the only healthcare personnel involved; it may include, but is not limited to, a physician, nurse, and pharmacist. This may conflict with the healthcare worker's own morals and there are cases in which the patient suffers from depression, or the patient is not receiving proper palliative care. Allowing physician-assisted suicide causes the physician to become entangled in an ethical and moral discrepancy and has too many other issues surrounding it for it to be legal.
Assisted Suicide : Rights And Responsibilities
A woman suffering from cancer became the first person known to die under the law on physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon when she took a lethal dose of drugs in March, 1998. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act passed a referendum in November, 1997, and it has been the United States ' only law legalizing assisted suicide since then. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, more than 4,000 doctors have approved of the assisted suicide law (cited in "The Anguish of Doctors," 1996). The law allows terminally ill patients who have been given six months or less to live and wish to hasten their deaths to obtain medication prescribed by two doctors. The most important thing to notice is that this law does not include those who have been on a life support system nor does it include those who have not voluntarily asked physicians to help them commit suicide. The issue of doctor-assisted suicide has been the subject of the heated dispute in recent years. Many people worry that legalizing doctor assisted suicide is irrational and violates the life-saving tradition of medicine. However, physician-assisted suicide should be legalized because it offers terminally ill people an opportunity for a peaceful death and recognized the inadequacy of current medical practice to deal with death.
Washington Vs. The State Of Washington
Facts: The state of Washington passed a law that made it a crime to assist in a suicide that takes place within the state. The crime is listed as "promoting a suicide attempt" and is classified as a felony offense. In order for a person to be convicted of this crime it has to be proven that the defendant knowingly caused or aided another person in an attempt to commit suicide. In January 1994 Dr. Glucksberg along with four other doctors, three terminally ill patients who died before the case reached the
Doctor Assisted Suicide And Suicide
Doctor assisted suicide is a topic that has recently become a much larger debated issue than before. A timeline put together by Michael Manning and Ian Dowbigging shows that prior to Christianity, doctor assisted suicide was something that was tolerated, and was not heavily questioned (2). Yet, in the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas had made a statement about suicide as well as doctor assisted suicide, and his words shaped the Catholic teaching on suicide into what they teach today. Beginning in the 17th century, Common Law tradition frowned upon suicide, as well as assisting in suicide, and the colonies had adopted the Common Law principles. (2) In 1828, New York passed a law completely outlawing the assistance of suicide, and made it to where whomever assisted in the suicide could be tried for murder. In 1976, California became the first state to allow patients to withdrawal themselves from life saving medicines, and this Natural Death Act was seen as a gateway to assisted suicide. (3-7) As controversy about California 's Natural Death Act increased, Pope John Paul II released a statement in 1980 which opposed to killing someone out of mercy, but allowed the increased use of painkillers (8). Although, in 1994 Oregon passed their Death with Dignity act, and with it came incredible amounts of backlash. Yet, in 2008 Washington state passed the same act to legalize doctor assisted suicide. (10-12)
The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide Essay
In 1991, by a vote of 54 to 46 percent, Washington State voters defeated Initiative 119, a measure that would have permitted physicians to provide assisted suicide by a prescription for an intentional lethal overdose of drugs. After that, three attempts were made in the Washington State legislature to transform assisted suicide, which was a crime in Washington, into a "medical treatment." All three attempts failed. However, in 2008, assisted-suicide proponents targeted the state for a massive effort to make Washington only the second state to approve assisted suicide. With a voter initiative on the 2008 ballot, they succeeded, by a vote of 57.91 to 42.09 percent, in making it legal for doctors to help their patients commit suicide. There had been over 340 cases in the year
According to Westrick (2014), the terms "assisted suicide and euthanasia generally mean aiding or assisting another person to kill himself or herself, or killing another person at his or her request, often called 'active voluntary euthanasia'" (p. 349). Assisted suicide is better defined as a prescriber providing a lethal dose of medication to a patient with the intent of ending a patient's life (Westrick, 2014). Political debate concerning assisted suicide is ongoing. Currently in the U.S., physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Montana, Washington, Vermont, and California (Death with Dignity, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to review RCW 70.245, The Washington Death with Dignity Act, Initiative 1000, and to identify and address the gap in existing statutory language in the
Washington Et. Al. V. Glucksberg Case Summary
In 1975 the State of Washington enacted a law that stated that no person was to aid or encourage a person to commit suicide in any given circumstance. This law had some insight pertaining to teenagers because the state didn't want teenagers to be encouraged in committing suicide. After all, all life is valued and precious. However Dr. Harold Glucksberg in 1976 got together with four other physicians, three terminally ill patients, and a non-profit organization that counsels clients in end of life circumstances.
The Death With Dignity Act
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld court decisions in Washington and New York states that criminalized physician-assisted suicide on July 26, 1997.12 They found that the Constitution did not provide any "right to die," however, they allowed individual states to govern whether or not they would prohibit or permit physician-assisted suicide. Without much intervention from the states individuals have used their right to refuse medical treatment resulting in controversial passive forms of euthanasia being used by patients to die with dignity such as choosing not to be resuscitated, stopping medication, drinking, or eating, or turning off respirators.9
Physician-Assisted Death By Sylvia Law
Sylvia Law, a published author in the University of Maryland Law Review, in her essay, "Physician-Assisted Death: An Essay on Constitutional Rights and Remedies," addresses the issues in constitutional law surrounding the controversy of a person's right to die. In the three parts to her essay, Law contends and considers whether "statutes that criminalize medically assisted suicides violate the liberty and privacy rights of terminally ill" and whether "assisted suicide should be considered a constitutionally protected right and also the ways in which these issues come before the courts". Her purpose is to analyze and inform on the laws and challenges relating to this issue in order to make readers aware of the problems that are created by the
Dr. Harold Glucksberg vs. The State of Washington Essays
'Choosing death before dishonor is seen by some philosophers and ethicists as a rational reason to commit suicide.' In the 1994 case of Glucksberg v. Washington (Otherwise acknowledged as Compassion In Dying v. The State Of Washington), Harold Glucksberg, alongside the right-to-die organization Compassion In Dying, filed a suit in opposition to the state of Washington for three fatally ill patients he treated.
Essay Moral and Ethics: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which exempted, "from civil or criminal liability physicians who, in compliance with specific safeguards, dispense or prescribe (but not administer) a lethal dose of drugs upon the request of the terminally ill patient." Oregon, to this day, remains the only state within the Union to allow physician-assisted suicide. In 1997, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case that, although there was no constitutionally protected right to physician-assisted suicide, states have permitted to pass laws allowing it. Thus, the issue of euthanasia remains widely open to philosophical, political, legal, and ethical challenges.


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Medieval Tech Support
by Tim O'Reilly | @timoreilly | +Tim O'Reilly | May 5, 2007
Saul Griffith sent me a pointer to a hilarious video about medieval tech support for the newly introduced book. It's thought-provoking as well as funny. While comparing the ease of use of books to scrolls might seem a casual jape, it strikes me how similarly trivial are the many questions that unsophisticated users have about newly introduced technology.
I remember back in the early days of the commercial internet, when my friends at UUnet, one of the first ISPs, told me that they had a white board where they kept the daily count of the "DQ" (THE Dumb Question) of the day, which was, "I heard about this internet thing, and I went out and bought a modem. Do I need a computer as well?" We also heard stories about people using removable disk drives as cup holders, and mice as foot pedals (a la a sewing machine.) But even apart from these egregious examples, I watch unsophisticated users struggle with computer programs sometimes just because they don't know where to look on the screen, or what to look for.
Attuning yourself to the gap between what experienced users take for granted and what novices find difficult is, of course, the secret of effective technical writing. And for new users, no one is better at that than David Pogue, NY Times columnist, Emmy-award winning TV journalist, and creator and author of the bestselling Missing Manual book series. David just announced that "'It's All Geek to Me,' the six-episode TV series I wrote and hosted that was supposed to air in April…has finally been blessed with a firm broadcast schedule: Friday nights at 8 p.m., beginning May 18. Each week, they'll air one new episode and one re-run, on two channels: Discovery HD and The Science Channel."
Most of the readers of this blog wouldn't likely think of themselves as the audience for David's show, but I'll bet that it's really worth watching, just to pay attention to what David notices people struggling with and explains for them. Designing great computer products requires understanding your user, and if you're aiming any of your products at beginners, David is a brilliant person to learn from. (Studying his books will provide similar insight. He's great at knowing what needs to be explained, and where people get stuck in the course of some process that was crystal clear to the product's designer, but opaque to the customer.)
But I digress. Go watch that video. You'll love it.


Central Qualifier for the British Youth Championships. Age groups: U10, U12, U14, U16, U18. This is open to those living or training in Central Section of Scotland. You can only enter if you are specified as a Scotland Central Section member in your BFA membership on Sport.80.
See this link to see which section your club comes under: http://scottish-fencing.co.uk/clubs.
If you have any enquiries about the event you can contact the organiser David Fielding at: davidfielding20@googlemail.com or get in contact with our Club Development Officer Alex Pearson.


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He specialises in licensing, commercial, banking and employment transactions. He is regarded as one of the leading licensing and commercial lawyers in Northern Ireland.
He advises many of Northern Ireland's leading companies, financial institutions and hoteliers. He is also personal advisor to Northern Ireland Hotels Federation.


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Company culture secrets. Everyone has them. Everyone wants to know yours.
Well, luckily, Fond is not shy about what makes our company culture great. This October, our team chose to be extra ambitious. Each of us submitted one non-work related goal that we hope to accomplish by the end of the month.
Seven of the fifteen goals submitted this month are related to exercising regularly, while others are vows to pick up a new hobby or revisit one that's fallen by the wayside. One of our teammates is committed to, 'eat[ing] salads every day for lunch!' So evidently, many of us strive to treat our bodies better.
Because we've all done it. We've all prioritized work at the expense of our personal plans – say, to eat healthy meals – and ended up substituting a bag of office Doritos for lunch just to meet a deadline. It's hard to justify going for a run when there's still work to do at the office, and even as a company devoted to employee wellness, we have to remind ourselves to set aside time for personal development.
So here's to giving yourself some love! With the help of our teammates and the Monthly Goals board, we hope to stay motivated about heading the gym, developing new skills, and picking up a book like we always wanted to.


Jake's Driftwood Spa is now offering a variety of yoga, pilates and dance classes every weekend.
Jake's is a fantastic place so I can only imagine what yoga at Jake's must be like!
This looks absolutely fantastic. My next door neighbour is heading to Black River next week for a month long vacation. Is that near Treasure Beach?
Black River isn't really that near to Treasure Beach, about an hour or so away…but not too too far still.


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Listen, Organize, Act! Organizing & Democratic Politics
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S2.E.3.1: Ella Baker - Part 1
This episode discusses the work of Ella Baker and the different traditions and influences that shaped her organizing and her understanding of democracy. Baker didn't write much and what she did write is not widely available. Instead, her approach is taught through accounts of it by historians of the civil rights movement and her biographers. So it is her life and practice that I focus on in this two part episode. In part 1 of the episode I discuss Baker's biography, her vision of democracy, and her legacy with my colleague, Wesley Hogan. Wesley is Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. She has researched and written extensively on the civil rights movement, particularly the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC) which Baker helped organize and within which Baker was a key figure. And in her most recent book, Wesley examines contemporary movements influenced by Baker such as the Movement for Black Lives and the International Indigenous Youth Council, which is involved in the struggle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands.
Wesley Hogan is Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. She writes and teaches the history of youth social movements, human rights, documentary studies, and oral history. Her book books include, On the Freedom Side, which draws a portrait of young people organizing in the spirit of Ella Baker since 1960; Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America (2009) and a volume co-edited with Paul Ortiz entitled, People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century. Between 2003-2013, she taught at Virginia State University, where she worked with the Algebra Project and the Young People's Project. From 2013-2021, she served as Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. She co-facilitates a partnership between the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke,The SNCC Digital Gateway, the purpose of which is to bring the grassroots stories of the civil rights movement to a much wider public through a web portal, K12 initiative, and set of critical oral histories.
Resources for Going Deeper
Charles Payne, "Slow and Respectful Work" & "Mrs Hamer is No Longer Relevant," I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), Ch.'s 8 & 13.
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
J. Todd Moye, Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).
Mie Inouye, "Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker's Theory of Political Organizing," American Political Science Review 116:2 (2022), 533–546.
Interview with Ella Baker (1968)
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Bay Shore, NY businesswoman is among select group of only 13 nationally to achieve this distinction.
BAY SHORE, NY, September 07, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Record numbers of home owners are using reverse mortgages as part of their retirement planning. This is driving the need for qualified professionals who can explain homeowner options and help them make more informed choices. To provide her lending professional clients with the highest level of advice about reverse mortgages, Karen Keating has achieved the title of Certified Reverse Mortgage Professional (CRMP) from The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). Ms. Keating, President and Owner of Tradition Title Agency, Inc., a Bay Shore, NY Title Company, is among a select group of only 13 professionals across the country to hold this certification. Additionally she holds the distinction of being the only person affiliated with a title company to achieve this designation. More information about Tradition Title Agency is available at http://www.traditionta.com/ or by calling 631-328-4410.
"Tradition Title Agency's dedicated staff knowledgeably explains the reverse mortgage process to help mortgage professionals complete more closings with fewer headaches," Ms. Keating said. "I take great pleasure in knowing that I am helping seniors especially to enjoy some peace of mind as they control their own destinies."
Ms. Keating has owned and led Tradition Title Agency, Inc. since founding it in 2007. The agency is well-known for providing title services for reverse mortgages, commercial mortgages and residential mortgages. She and her staff help lending professionals streamline the often-complicated process of assisting seniors who wish to remain in their beloved homes using a Reverse Mortgage. They also help lending professionals save time, aggravation and money by anticipating and solving challenges before they become deal breakers. They work to ensure that home buyers won't face unexpected expenses, claims or losses before or after the closing.
Ms. Keating began her career as a technologist, using her computer programming skills to develop a solution for streamlining the complex and time consuming process of title research through an industry-specific software application called TitleTrack. This innovation led to the founding of her own company, AKT, Inc., which she led to $7.5 million in sales and later sold to First American Title Insurance Co. of NY. Ms. Keating has taught Sales Advantage classes for Dale Carnegie and conducted seminars for New Jersey insurance title agents. She has written articles for New York Land Title Association Magazine and Settlement Services Magazine. Ms. Keating is also a sought-after industry speaker. She has led roundtable discussions on computerization and served as guest speaker at national convention in Las Vegas.
"We were intent on creating a Certification that is rigid enough to demand the respect of professionals and government officials and the confidence of America's seniors," says Peter Bell, NRMLA President. "On behalf of the entire membership, we congratulate our designees, all of whom have demonstrated a deep understanding of the product and an eagerness to continually pursue additional education. Earning the CRMP will distinguish them as having demonstrated superior knowledge and competency in the area of reverse mortgages and dedication to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards."
The CRMP designees will be honored at a ceremony at NRMLA's annual meeting which will take place November 3-5 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, LA.
The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) is the national voice of the reverse mortgage industry, serving as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for lenders and related professionals. NRMLA was established in 1997 to enhance the professionalism of the reverse mortgage business. Our mission is to educate consumers about the pros and cons of reverse mortgages, to train lenders to be sensitive to clients' needs, to enforce our Code of Conduct and Best Practices, and to promote reverse mortgages in the news media.
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Organs in Catholic churches in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (part V) by Victor Timmer
by Victor Timmer | Het ORGEL | Year 99 | (2003) | Issue 2
Victor Timmer Organs in Catholic churches in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (part V)
Het ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 20-26 [summary]
The Catholic Church manifested itself ever more strongly after the restoration of the episcopal hierarchy in 1853. This five-part article gives a survey of the Catholic organs in the northern provinces of The Netherlands (Groningen and Drenthe) around 1854. Only a few of these organs have survived. Large new churches, changing liturgical demands, and a change of musical taste required different organs.
This is part 5 of the article. The organ studied in this part is the Freytag organ in Zuidhorn (St.-Jozef), built in 1804, replaced in 1943 by a harmonium. The organ still exists. It is now owned privately in Rijssen.
Generally speaking, the churches were small and so were the organs. As the financial means of the churches increased in the first half of the 19th century, larger churches could be built. Second-hand or even new organs were installed by organ builders like Van Gruisen, Timpe and Freytag, and later Van Oeckelen. After about 1880, organ builders from other parts of the country as well worked in Catholic Churches in the northern Netherlands, like Maarschalkerweerd, Gradussen and – much later – Valckx & Van Kouteren. In most cases, the skills of the organists and their repertoire were rather limited.


Wow, this just blew me away. I was looking for something new, something to slowly sink into and I found it here. Love the atmosphere of this music. Love everything about it....the quietness, the melody, the tightness of the band, the everything. Rarely do I find a recording where I enjoy every song. Wonderful and enchanting!


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"The Blooming brings together a diverse array of sonic influences, all of which fit comfortably into a seamless current of comprehensive sound. It proves that Youssef is an effervescent force to be reckoned with, and that true artistry does not fit within social restraints." – Okayplayer .com
"Since her turn with The Roots in 2006, Youssef has proven her worth as a double-threat performer, with formidable singing and rapping talents that draw comparisons to Lauryn Hill."- The Washington City Paper
A fresh blend between Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill, Maimouna "Mumu Fresh" Youssef is a seasoned Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, producer, and emcee whose lush spirit filled vocals could bring you to tears while still being able to spit raps with the top emcees in the game.. This young starlet has swapped musical licks with the likes of Angelique Kidjo, Femi Kuti, Nas, Dead Prez, Will Downing, Cody ChesnuTT, Martin Luther, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli. In addition, she has traveled world wide as a supporting vocalist for legends such as Lalah Hathaway, Zap Mama, The Roots and Common. Maimouna has rocked the stages of many renowned venues such as Denver Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater, New York City's Legendary Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Carter Barron Amphitheater as well as international festivals and venues such as Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, South Africa's Cape Town Jazz Festival and the legendary New Africa Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria.
As a teen, Maimouna co-founded the Hip Hop/ Jazz band, Crius B, and they released their first group album independently, which won the favor of Grammy Award winning producer James Poyser. They began recording together shortly thereafter. Their partnership served as a springboard for her first world tour with The Roots where she earned the alias "Mumu Fresh" for her ability to make everything "fresher" and her big screen debut in Dave Chappelle's hip hop documentary "Block Party." Mumu Fresh received her Grammy nomination with the Roots in 2007 for her contribution to their smash hit "Don't Feel Right."
Maimouna independently released her first solo EP entitled "Black Magic Woman" in the spring of 2011 and her first full-length solo album entitled, "The Blooming" in the fall of 2011. "The Blooming" received outstanding reviews from music lovers and critics world wide including the likes of Hip Hop historian Davey D who describes her as a "breath of fresh air". The Blooming also found itself amongst The Washington Post's "Top 5 best albums in 2011" list.
And way to spread word, the lead single, "I Got A Man" produced by Hip Hop icon, DJ Jazzy Jeff, was chosen as the theme music for the BET original movie "Being Mary Jane" starring Gabrielle Union and featured on VH1's reality series Love and Hip Hop in Atlanta.
Maimouna's relentless work ethic and unparalleled artistic versatility has landed her features and honorable mentions in top industry publications such as Upscale, Rolling Stone, Essence, and Vibe. Maimouna is a rare talent. She is definitely not new to the stage or recording booth but her work, as a solo artist, has just begun. Mumu Fresh IS an Experience, and certainly on the rise.
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