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Book Summary: Feminist Theory by bell hooks
August 6, 2012 Ashley F. Millerbell hooks, book summary, communcations, feminism5 Comments
For one of my classes this summer, I had write annotations/summaries for several books. I enjoyed many of them and I thought that the annotations might be useful for other people, so I will be posting them here. They're somewhat rough, but considering how much everyone loves when someone at FtB posts about feminism, I doubt it matters.
This is one of the more important pieces of feminist writing, and it is very critical of the feminist movement at large. I think it is a useful resource for the skeptic/atheist movement because it addresses the problem of contention within a movement. The discussions and infighting within the feminist movement parallel very closely the kind of discussions and blindnesses and privileges on display with the atheist movement around questions of race and gender. She also addresses the problem of being a minority within a minority — something that women in the atheist movement deal with.
hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.
Question(s) Investigated: What is the role of black women in the feminist movement, and what has it been? What can be done to make feminism work towards ending all oppression, not just that of upper-class white women?
Time Period: Originally published in 1984, about the feminist movement in the 70s.
Geographic Region: US
Subjects studied: The intersection of gender, race, and class and their interaction with capitalism. The importance of including all people in social movements. Education, Parenting, and Violence.
Place in the literature: Considered a very important piece for pushing the feminist movement to be more inclusive of men, people of color, and different classes. hooks also argued against women being separatist and that sexism negatively impacted men as well. She criticized the movement for focusing on small goals and not systemic change. Essentially, she saw the limits of contemporary feminist theory and addressed them. Established hooks as a key figure in feminism.
The book begins immediately with her key argument, that feminist theory and feminism as a movement has been led by middle to upper-class white women who ignored the plight of poorer, non-white women. In her first paragraph, she criticizes Betty Friedan, not because white women didn't need liberating, but because Friedan ignored the problems that the majority of women faced. hooks comes back to this later in the book, but one of her main arguments is that work is not liberating, it is oppressive, and the white women who sought careers to get out of the home ultimately found that work and capitalism were not fulfilling, as lower class women who had always had to work already knew.
She goes on to talk about how not everyone is oppressed equally, and it has been the least oppressed women who have set the goals and tone of feminism. "Being oppressed means the absence of choices. It is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. Many women in this society do have choices…" (5)
White feminists have ignored the needs and causes of black women or treated black women with contempt, and so black women have not been pushed away from the movement. Black women are the only group that has no "other" – black men and white women both have privilege over black women (16).
One of the main problems with feminism has been its willingness to accept small victories rather than to push for large change. hooks argues that "society is more responsive to those 'feminist' demands that are not threatening, that may even help maintain the status quo" and reforms often reinforce "capitalist, materialist values (illustrating the flexibility of capitalism) without truly liberating women economically" (23). The movement cannot be about small, personal goals, but about changing ideology.
Minority women often reject the feminist movement in response to the white bourgeois leaders. hooks' main argument is that capitalism supports an oppressive paradigm generally and being a feminist shouldn't mean excluding other fights against oppression. In other words, feminism should be one part of a broader anti-oppression ideology. The system hurts everyone.
There is no "hierarchy of oppression" but "[s]exist oppression is of primary importance not because it is the basis of all other oppression, but because it is the practice of domination most people experience…" (36). Sexist oppression occurs within family units, the hierarchy of sexes can be introduced before exposure to people of different classes or races happens. Feminists have argued for the elimination of the family unit and that is problematic for black women, who get a great source of love and support that they cannot get from institutions richer, white women have access to (39).
The idea of sisterhood of women is important, but the white bourgeois version insists that all women are equal, while hooks believes the movement must learn to accept and embrace differences and except that there is no sameness (44). They must also drop the victim mentality (45). The rest of the chapter rehashes this idea in various ways.
(From pages 54 – 67 there is a very interesting discussion on the idea of minorities within minority movements. The discussions and infighting within the feminist movement parallel very closely the kind of discussions and blindnesses and privileges on display with the atheist movement around questions of race and gender.)
Chapter 5 focuses on how important it is to include men in the feminist movement and how sexism hurts men as well as women. In the feminist movement, there has been some push for complete separation of women from men, which is neither realistic or possible, relationships between women and men are important to many women (79).
Chapter 6 focuses on power and how white bourgeois women have focused on increasing the power that women have rather than examining how problematic power is because it depends on dominating others (85).
Chapter 7 goes back to the idea that work in a capitalist society is not necessarily rewarding and is often exploitative and that white women insisting that working was a key to liberation made no sense to the poor women who were not liberated and already had work. There needs to be a new system and women need to learn not to devalue their own work and low-wages are considered a sign of personal failure in this culture (105).
Chapter 8 introduces the importance of education and how many poor women and many people of color are not literate so the feminist focus on transmitting ideas through writing necessarily was exclusive (109). Although the feminist movement has been interested in education, it has been interested in higher education not teaching basic skills like literacy. There is also a tendency in black feminists to be anti-intellectual, to think that theory doesn't matter, while white feminists in the academy often neglect to understand real world problems when they create theory, both sides need to learn to embrace the other.
Chapter 9 discusses the feminist movement's attempt to end domestic violence, which is a way of establishing dominance. Related closely to the previous chapters on power and on how sexism hurts men, this chapter focuses on how economic exploitation makes men feel powerless despite the fact that they are told they should be powerful (118-119). They take the resulting frustration out on their home life rather than at work. The entire culture is violent, including women.
Chapter 10 discusses parenting and the movement of feminism away from dismissing motherhood as something that stops women from achievement towards embracing it. This shift has made black women feel more welcome because family life is very important to them. The problem now is that motherhood is being romanticized when the reality is that men still do not contribute equally and society as a whole doesn't provide infrastructure for taking care of children – children need a community and are not individual possessions (145).
Chapter 11 is about sexuality and sexual freedom. The feminist movement was successful in creating a world in which women could be sexual but didn't remove the stigma that came with women who were openly sexual (151). It also didn't remove heterosexism – the lesbians in the early feminist movement were known as the "lavender menace" (152-153).
Resources used: There is a very long bibliography, it focuses heavily on works written within 10 years of the publishing of this work. Much of what she cites is to point out flaws in seminal feminist works. Key works cited, in style of book:
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1963.
Brown, Rita Mae. "The Last Straw," in Class and Feminism. Eds. Charlotte Bunch and Nancy Myron. Baltimore: Diana Press, 1974, pp. 14-23.
Barber, Benjamin. Liberating Feminism. New York: Dell, 1975.
Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Boggs, Grace Lee and James Boggs. Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974.
Morrison, Toni. "What the Black Woman Thinks about Women's Lib," The New York Times Magazine, August 22, 1971.
Spelman, Elizabeth. "Theories of Race and Gender/The Erasure of Black Women," Quest, Vol. V, No. 4 (1982), pp. 36-62.
Schechter, Susan. Women and Male Violence: The Visions and Struggles of the Battered Women's Movement. Boston: South End Press, 1982.
Book Summary: "You play like a girl" by Elena Bertozzi
July 6, 2012 Ashley F. Millerbook summary, gender competition, video games, women and video games, women in the media1 Comment
She teaches, makes video games, and writes novels? I'm in love.
Bertozzi, E. (2011). "You Play Like a Girl": Cross-Gender Competition and the Uneven Playing Field. In G. Dines, & J.M. Humez (Eds.), Gender, Race, and Class in the Media: A Critical Reader (pp. 443-454). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Question(s) Investigated: What is the environment in video games like for women? Does gamer culture encourage cross-gender competition?
Time Period: 2000s
Subjects studied: Video games, competition, gender relations
Women play as many video games as men, but different ones, generally ones that involve less developed skill. Because gamer culture and the culture at large are so gendered, even in gender-neutral gameplay, the gender of the players impacts the way that the game is played – especially when there is a lot of interacting with other players (444). Civility is taught as something men should always show women, and violence towards women is abhorred (445), yet violence against female characters may be necessary when playing against women.
Men are also extremely hostile when they are beaten by a woman (446). Women and girliness are associated with gayness and weakness and are to be avoided at all costs – to play a woman means that victory will be hollow and loss will be humiliating (447). Women know this as well and it makes them uncomfortable when playing against men (448).Friendly open aggression between men is ok, but there's no equivalent for women and no equivalent for inter-gender interaction. Women do not use games to establish a dominance hierarchy the same way that men do; women use beauty not skill for their hierarchies (449).
The article ends with suggests as to how to make the gamer community and gaming in general more friendly to women and to crossgender gaming. Normalize crossgender play, create a broader range of female character types, etc.
Resources used:
Alix, A. (2007) 'Online Game Talk and the Articulation of Maleness,' in Flow TV 5
DeBoer, K.J. (2004). Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently.
Levy, A. (2005) Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.
Lucas, K. and Sherry, J.L. (2004) 'Sex Differences in Video Game Play: A Communication-Based Explanation'. (this link is a pdf)
Taylor, T.L. (2005) Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture.
And here's a video of her talking about teaching and play: http://www.uww.edu/news/videos/why-i-teach-elena-bertozzi "
If there were more women involved in making games, then we would see a lot of different kinds of games. We will also have more women running corporations that run technology. We'll have a female Bill Gates and a female Steve Jobs.
Book Summary: Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas
July 5, 2012 Ashley F. Millerbook summary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, celebrity culture, enlightened sexism, feminism, mass communications, riot grrl, susan j douglas, women and the media8 Comments
Susan J. Douglas is one of my new favorite writers. She is clever, into pop culture, and one of the funniest academic writers out there. Her book Enlightened Sexism is one I highly recommend if you are interested in television culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena, or good writing.
Douglas, Susan J. Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done. New York: Henry Holt, 2010.
Question(s) Investigated: What do representations of women's power in the media mean? Is feminism's work over because we see powerful women in the media? How are women's interests being harmed by the media? What harm is done by spreading the belief that sexism is over and feminism's work is done?
Time Period: 1990s-2000s
Subjects studied: Media portrayal, stereotypes, equality, beauty
Place in the literature: This is a very recent book, but it is an important response to reactionary anti-feminism and claims that the world is post-feminist. Despite many claims to the contrary, Douglas claims that feminism's work is not done, and the lie that it is done has caused ground to be lost in the fight for equality. Partially a call to action and partially a denunciation of those who claim that the fight is over.
CH1 – Teenage Girls
The focus here is that teenagers, particularly teenage girls, became an important demographic in the 1990s. Beverly Hills 90210 became the most popular television show for young women in the 90s, along with shows like Melrose Place and Murphy Brown. Depiction of women in these shows generally were stereotypical, either of superficial women who used sex to get power or women who were too busy with their careers to have lives. Women were always beautiful. Even in shows that were theoretically empowering, like Murphy Brown, employed tropes like motherhood was "natural" for women and careerism was not (40).
Interestingly, shows with strong female leads were highly rated, even when they did not have traditionally attractive women as leads: Roseanne, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, Murder She Wrote, and Grace Under Fire (43).
She also talks about Riot Grrrl, a rock movement from the early nineties that mixed punk with feminism, dealing with complex and troubling problems facing women, problems that were ignored by the mainstream. The mainstream press did not appreciate that and were very dismissive, but the terms of the movement found their way into a sanitized mainstream version of "girl power" (45).
Douglas then goes on to talk about the magazine "Sassy," which she is a fan of and which, frankly, I'm upset I didn't have when I was a teenager, it sounds pretty amazing. An article went backstage to reveal the codes used behind the scenes at Miss America: WC, H, BB for Weak Chin, Heavy, and Big Butt (48). The chapter also addresses the problem of being a teenage girl: "if they behave like true adolescents, they can't be feminine, and if they adopt the mantle of femininity, they aren't really adolescents." (53). The briefly powerful moments of Riot Grrrl and "Sassy" were immediately co-opted by major media outlets and tamed into something profitable and not good for women.
CH2 – Violent Women
Lorena Bobbitt in Vanity Fair
Framed within news stories surrounding destructive women like Lorena Bobbitt, Amy Fisher, Tonya Harding, and Janet Reno, this chapter focuses on the anxiety around changing/evolving gender roles. The stories in the media reflected themes in TV and film at the time (56).
"Enlightened sexism rests on that ever-quaking and shifting fault line about female sexuality: it should be exploited and stoked (especially to sell products) but it should be policed and punished (to keep girls and women in their place)" (57).
I was 8 when Amy Fisher was news, and I never heard anything about it. I was 9 when the Bobbitt's were news and there were lots and lots of penis jokes. I didn't realize how young they were, she was only 22 when she attacked her husband. Also, this is the picture I found of her when Googling:
CH3 – Warrior Women
This chapter is about Warrior Women like Xena and Buffy with whom "we saw the proliferation of a new kind of heroine, a sexy, mouthy, physically violent ass-kicker whose duty it was to save the entire world from really monstrous evildoers" (77). In the 90s, feminist concerns had moved from explicit discrimination, particularly in the work place, to sexual politics and more subtle discrimination and personal violence (79).
And then there was Charlie's Angels, which brought back women using their sexuality to defeat men. And then La Femme Nikita, which included the line "there's no weapon as powerful as your femininity" (95). Dark Angel emphasized that female sexual desire was dangerous, by having the lead go into heat (96).
CH4 – Feminism as Ugly
Focuses on media that dismisses feminism as a thing of the past or unattractive. Clueless heralded the beginning of female narrated films, but those narrations came with a focus on "girly" things like fashion and whether boys wanted them. And this happened at the same time as the warrior women (104). The idea of essentialism, that women and men were fundamentally different, was promoted (105).
She goes on to discuss Ally McBeal, which managed to be both feminist and anti-feminist; Miss Congeniality and Legally Blonde, which were about balancing feminism with girliness; Down with Love, which implies that women aren't really feminist they just want men to be good to them.
CH5 – Black Women
This chapter focuses on the black female power and how the media represents black women. There's focus on what she calls "Black Speak" and sass and powerful women's ability to move from speaking white middle-class to speaking black. This is escapist for white and black people. The problem is that black women are represented as having power giving the impression that in the real world, feminism isn't necessary.
Black women earn "62.5 cents to every white man's dollar (in Louisiana it's 48.9 cents to his dollar)" (130). Even as representation of women got more complex in general, it embraced stereotypes of black women, such as in shows by Martin Lawrence (141) and crime shows generally (144).
Douglas writes at length about Oprah. "Oprah and her audience construct a fantasy, a utopia where white and black women come together as allies and friends. And how many black women, besides Oprah, have launched a magazine named after them, featuring herself on the cover every month, and have it be a hit with white women?" (147). Although Oprah herself is committed to helping people, she focuses on individual self-improvement in a world where not everyone with the will to succeed necessarily will, these problems "can't be overcome simply by pulling up your bootstraps or finding your spiritual center" (150).
CH6 – Sex in America
This chapter is about American sex culture and how it focuses on women and very young ones at that. There is a "culture that is prudish and pornographic – how's that for a contradiction to navigate?" (155). She introduces the idea of the "sexpert", someone who is an expert at sex and openly talks about it – sexual empowerment got twisted into self-objectification (156).
Then she goes on to talk about very young girls who are exploited by the culture, including those on Toddlers & Tiaras (she drops the ampersand for an 'and') and the tragic case of JonBenet Ramsey (157-158). She also addresses how horrible Cosmo and Maxim are in their advice to women.
CH7 – Television
According to her, "a close look at reality TV reveals it to be the ground zero of enlightened sexism" (189). She discusses several different television shows and then, from pages 198-210 offers the top 10 sexism in action:
Women are to be judged first and foremost by their appearance
"if you're beautiful, you have it knocked – all else will follow. But at the same time they show us that we can never be beautiful enough… such shows provide an excellent selling environment for the multibillion-dollar diet and beauty industry…" (201).
Women need to compete over men
Women can't get along with one another and will stab each other in the back
Women are overly emotional and obsessed with relationships
Women should be sexy, but not overly sexual
The worst thing a woman can be is a bitch: strong women are bitches and rich women are bitches
African-American women are lazy, threatening, have a chip on their shoulder, are not marriage material, or all of the above (except for Tyra Banks)
Women (especially blondes) are shallow, materialistic, and live to shop
Housework and child rearing are a woman's domain
Lesbians? What lesbians?
Reality TV resurrects these stereotypes, leads to approval of them, lets women know how they are judged on appearance.
CH8 – Dieting
This chapter is about the rise of diet culture and the mean girl culture. Women failing to live up to the ridiculous standards of beauty, requiring extreme thinness and giant breasts, has lead to them being angry, and they turn that anger inward and towards each other rather than at the media (220). She complains about the increased spending on cosmetic surgery and the focus on cosmetic surgery in television – I would point out that, like many medical fields, the technology and results have improved massively over time and the costs have come down, I'm not sure it's reasonable to entirely blame this growth on a change in the media landscape. It is certainly based on a beauty ideal that is unattainable, but that ideal has existed all along.
She then goes on to address the mean girl phenomenon, something that isn't new and isn't particularly widespread, despite the focus on it. She argues that the focus is to create the idea that women themselves are the problem, not the culture, and women need to be put back into their place because they can't do that for themselves (236-237).
CH9/CH10 – Celebrity Culture
These chapters are about celebrity culture and how obsessed the media is with controlling the femininity of women celebrities and politicians. Magazines tear women apart for being too fat, too thin, too controlling, lacking children, lacking a husband, aging, and just about anything outside of the cultural model of perfection for women. "Losing your man is a tragedy, but remaining childless is a thermonuclear disaster" she says of how magazines cover women's family planning choices (259). Meanwhile, women with political power give men like Tucker Carlson castration anxiety (269). She then goes on to talk about the representation of female power in fictional television, and how it focuses on women who are in typically male jobs and not very feminine, rather than focusing on jobs where women usually work (279-280).
She also writes about the lack of representation of lesbians in the media, with the exception of the occasional straight girl make-out session (290). She mentions Ellen and Rachel Maddow, but argues that their sexuality remains in the background, but I think that this isn't true – they both speak often about LGBT issues and certainly their sexuality more openly impacts what they report on than most people with talk or news shows. Her point about fictional representation stands, though. The root problem is that lesbians are politicized and anti-consumerism (291).
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2006)
Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007).
Angela McRobbie, The Aftermath of Feminism (London: Sage, 2009).
Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer, How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
A. Susan Owen, "Vampires, Postmodernity, and Postfeminism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Journal of Popular Film and Television 27 (Summer 1999).
Dawn Heinecken, The Warrior Women of Television (New York: Pete Lang, 2003).
Kristal Brent Zook, Color by Fox (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Laura S. Brown, "Outwit, Outlast, Out-Flirt? The Women of Reality TV," in Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of the Media, ed. E. Cole and J. H. Daniel (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2005).
Jackie Stacey, "Feminine Fascinations: A Question of Identification?" in The Celebrity Culture Reader, 252-85.
Amanda Lotz's work in general


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I have been unacceptably delinquent with my blogging lately. I could try to blame it on the fact that I just moved house, but the reality is that it's probably more a function of the summer lazies. Why cook dinner when you can order sushi, crank the AC and watch four back to back episodes of Downton Abbey? Who's with me? Whatever the reason for my delinquency, please forgive me, and allow me to make up for it with smoothies.
I'm going to to out on a limb and suggest that smoothies are the **perfect** busy family breakfast food. Simple, fast and portable, a smoothie can be whipped up using ingredients you can buy, and store, in bulk. And a smoothie done right is a nutritional powerhouse: a great way to sneak in lean protein, leafy greens, fibre, and even a hefty dose of iron. (Try getting that from a sesame bagel with cream cheese.) And most importantly, especially if you have a little mouth to feed: smoothies look beautiful and taste like dessert. Yum.
I've given you our favourite "recipe" below, but it's really more of a formula that you can adapt to use up what you have and what you like. The basic components?
Frozen berries: This is the backbone of a yummy smoothie, and a great source of fibre and antioxidants. Frozen is key to leaving your smoothie thick, frosty and creamy; I don't recommend using fresh berries. I buy organic frozen berries in bulk when I find them on sale (they are usually no more expensive than their conventional counterparts) and store them in my deep freeze.
Banana: Frozen or fresh, the banana is the sugar for your smoothie. More banana = sweeter smoothie. I typically use a half banana for sweet berries like cherries, strawberries and blueberries, and a little extra banana for tart berries like raspberries.
Leafy greens: Imagine how awesome you will feel after consuming two whole cups of greens…for breakfast! Fresh (not frozen) pre-rinsed baby spinach is the gold standard, in my humble opinion. When blended with everything else, the spinach turns velvety smooth and is totally undetectable. Kale works too, but imparts a grassy flavour that I don't much love.
Plant protein powder: Protein is the nutritional lynchpin, and the key to keeping you fuller, longer (and if you believe the hype, leaner too). And I'm not talking that supersonic sugar-laden bodybuilder stuff here. There are some amazing, minimally processed, single-plant protein powders out there. I particularly like hemp protein, which packs a whopping 15 grams of protein, 8 grams of fibre, and 25% of your daily iron intake. All in a measly 2 tablespoons! If you find the nutty flavour comes through too strong for you, add a little bit of extra banana to take the edge off.
Yogurt: Yogurt adds creaminess, calcium and extra protein. Skip the sugary stuff (you won't need the extra sweetness) and use plain, either regular or greek.
Liquid: Pretty much anything will do–juice, water, cow's milk, almond milk, coconut milk. The amount will depend on how thick you like your drink–the less liquid, the thicker the smoothie. Duh.
What's your favourite smoothie formula?
Put all the ingredients in a blender, and blend at the highest speed for 60 to 90 seconds, adding additional liquid if necessary to achieve the consistency that you like.
This is my favorite smoothie….perfect for fast breakfast.


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The Gilets Janues have been protesting in France due to high oil taxes and a poor economy. Recently the protestors received concessions from the French government. What are the results of these concessions for the French economy.
Should juvenile offenders be punished punitively or restoratively? The Convention on the Rights of the Child endorses a restorative approach, emphasizing the rehabilitative promise in young offenders. Norway and 195 other jurisdictions have adopted this approach; however, the United States has not. This blog discusses Norway's restorative juvenile justice system and urges the United States to adopt the same.
Diesel Vehicles in Germany: A Thing of the Past?
Diesel was once thought to be a potential solution to global warming because it produces less carbon dioxide than regular gasoline. Now older model diesel vehicles are being banned in cities across Germany to help improve air quality.
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International Dissatisfaction over Canada's Legalization of Marijuana.
Violations of International Human Rights and Criminal Law: Should Myanmar Generals Face Genocide Charges for Rohingya persecutions?
Cat-astrophe or Conservation? New Zealand and Australia Propose Eradication of Cats to Conserve Endangered Bird Species.
Employers v. Employees: Has New Reforms to French Labor Laws Finally Declared Employers Victorious?
A Global Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Moral Dilemmas?
Uyghur Camps . . . What Really is Happening?
Zimbabwe's Government Takings: The Need for Undeniable and Equal Rights to Property.
The continuing house arrest of pastor Andrew Brunson has caused increasingly bad U.S.-Turkey relations. However, Brunson's case has shed a light on the relatively new law that defines terrorism in Turkey, specifically on the immense power they give the government in the name of imposing public order.


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Press Release – Canada's agriculture and food sector has been identified as a key area poised for significant growth and export opportunities. With a world population of nine billion estimated by 2050, significant investments are being made in Ontario to meet the global demand for food. The sixth annual Halton Agricultural Forum will focus on initiatives that will help local farms and food businesses drive growth and innovation in the agriculture and food sector.
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 7 – 9 p.m.


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NEW: Asian American Literary Review, A Special Issue on Mental Health (January 2017) featuring six tarot card designs by Monica Ong
(March 2019) "Woman's Place in the Universe," a poem about Chinese astronomy Wang Zhenyi, selected for the anthology Spectral Lines: Poems about Scientists.
OI FUTURO
(September 2018) Selected poems included in Brazilian anthology Poesia Visual 5 co-edited by Terri Witek and Alberto Saraiva.
WAXWING LITERARY JOURNAL
(February 2018) Spring 2018 Issue featuring "Syzygy," "Woman's Place in the Universe," and "Feather."
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW
(January 2017) Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health. Designs for tarot card writing collaboration on "The Adoptee," "The Ancestor," "The Survivor," "The Lecher," "The Patient," and "The Deportee."
(June 2015) "The Glass Larynx" and "The Vessel."
Seneca Review
Beyond Category Issue. (Spring 2014) "Lingua Profundae," "The Attic," and "Medica Visits the Witch Doctor."
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Issue 2.1. (Spring 2013) "Catching a Wave."
Glassworks Magazine
Issue 6. (Spring 2013) "Innervation." (p.29)
Tidal Basin Review
Featured artist. (Summer 2012) "Bo Suerte," "Perfect Baby Formula," "Silent Treatment," "Old Timer's Dis-ease," "Oral Whitening Rinse," "Whitening Solution," "Love Potion No. 8."
Issue 15. (Spring 2012) "Metal Lungs."
The New Sound Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Art
Issue 1. (Spring 2012) "Elegy."
Lantern Review
(Summer 2011) "Corona Mestiza."

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Saarijärvi – jezioro w gminie Taivalkoski w Ostrobotni Północnej w Finlandii. Wody jeziora pokrywają pozostałości starego krateru uderzeniowego.

Krater Saarijärvi powstał pomiędzy 0,60 a 2,45 miliarda lat temu, w proterozoiku, w archaicznych skałach krystalicznych. Wypełniły go osady powstałe w ediakarze i kambrze, tworzące sekwencję o grubości 156 m. Stożki zderzeniowe w otaczających skałach wskazują, że cała struktura może mieć ok. 2 km średnicy. Krater nie ma idealnie okrągłego kształtu, ale w przybliżeniu sześciokątny. Przyczyną tego jest najprawdopodobniej istnienie sieci spękań w skałach przed impaktem. Podłużna wysepka znajdująca się pośrodku jeziora nie jest pozostałością wyniesienia centralnego krateru, ale raczej młodszą strukturą, związaną z procesami tektonicznymi. Z kraterem wiąże się anomalia magnetyczna i anomalia siły ciężkości; wskazują one na impaktowe pochodzenie tej struktury. Koronnym dowodem jest brekcja wydobyta dzięki wierceniom w osadach, nosząca ślady metamorfizmu szokowego.

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Jeziora w Finlandii
Jeziora meteorytowe
Kratery uderzeniowe w Finlandii

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Arnd Goldschmidt (born 9 June 1981 in Karlsruhe), is a German flatwater canoer and former world champion.

A junior world champion in 1999 with Germany's K-4 1000 m crew, Goldschmidt was called up to the senior K-4 200 m boat which reached the world championship final in Seville, Spain, in 2002. However, he had to wait until the 2004 retirement of Olympic medalists Stefan Ulm and Mark Zabel to get his chance in Germany's flagship K-4 1000 m crew.

His patience was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.

In 2006, a surprising failure in the German test event meant he was unable to defend his world title.

His elder brother Björn is also a German international. Both are members of the Rheinbrüder Karlsruhe club.

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1981 births
German male canoeists
Living people
Sportspeople from Karlsruhe
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Please send me a note on social media (@lindork on Twitter or @lindork on Instagram) if there's an event you think should be added to this list!
Note: a version of this blog was also cross-posted on Explore Edmonton's Blog.
1. New Year's Eve Downtown Festival & Fireworks!
Time: 6 p.m. to ~ midnight (ish) Fireworks are at 9 p.m.
Details: Celebrate the arrival of 2019 at the Alberta Legislature grounds. From 6-9 p.m., join the fun inside the Federal Building for activities the whole family can enjoy, including live music, roving performers, games, lantern-making, a brand new light installation, and more! The celebration continues outdoors on the Capital Plaza with main stage performances featuring the band Rule of Nines, ice carving, fire pits, and bannock-making. This is a fun, free, family-friendly (alcohol-free) celebration. This year's fireworks show will be enhanced with the addition of pyrotechnics and music. The best fireworks viewing locations are from the Capital Plaza and in front (north side) of the Alberta Legislature.
Details: Ring in the New Year with a little… murder! That would be a pretty unique way to welcome 2019, wouldn't it? I've always wanted to participate in a Murder Mystery and Tom Goodchild's Moose Factory hosts one every year. This New Year's Eve-themed Murder Mystery includes cocktails, dinner, and seven professional actors dispersed among guests incognito until.. all hell breaks loose! There's also dancing after the Murder Mystery. This event often sells out so be sure to get your tickets quick if you're interested!
Details: My husband is obsessed with the Edmonton Oilers (like most of Edmonton), so ringing in the New Year by cheering on his favourite hockey team would be right up his alley! The Edmonton Oilers are playing against the Winnipeg Jets in this New Year's Eve game. This is a risky event to partake in because if they lose it might start your 2019 off on the wrong foot… but if they win—woo!
Cost: $28/person early show only. $58.80/dinner and early show.
Details: Bring in the New Year laughing! Say Goodbye to 2018 with The Comic Strip's headliner JR Brow, Mike Lynch and David Dempsey.
Note: this is just one of a few NYE comedy shows taking place in the Edmonton area. You can also catch a New Year's Eve show at Yuk Yuk's or the New Year's Eve Comedy Gala at Urban Tavern.
Details: New year, new beginnings at the World Waterpark! Come celebrate at World Waterpark featuring live entertainment, good food, a spectacular indoor fireworks show, and great company! There's no better way to ring in the new year with your friends and family.
Partake in a Sugar Swing Dance New Year's Eve! Photo Credit: Nathan Hayashi Photography.
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Details: Step into a 'Louisiana Fairytale' as we dance our way into the new year! This year's Sugar Swing Dance Club New Year's Eve party is a bayou bash, a nod to the birthplace of jazz. Don your most colourful outfits—purple, gold, green, and blue, or get inspired by mardi gras styles. A beginner dance lesson will get you on your feet and all set for an evening of party! Includes live swing music, live swing dance performances, soul food to put pep in your step, and more! Will this be the year that I finally get to sugar swing my way into the New Year?!
Details: Live and Let Die is a full multimedia experience celebrating the music if Paul McCratney. Ring in the New Year to the music of Paul McCartney at the River Cree Casino! Beforehand, grab dinner at the River Cree's SC Restaurant, and maybe hit the slots afterwards.
Note: this is just one of a number of live music performances and NYE events at different music venues and casinos in the Edmonton area. You can see a full list of live New Year's Eve performances on YEGLive.ca, including shows at Have Mercy Table & Bar, Black Dog Freehouse, the Starlite Room, and the Rocky Mountain Icehouse.
Details: Celebrate New Year's in style, with a party like no other, at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald! Your ticket includes reception food, entertainment, and sparkling wine. Purchase a $199 ticket for a six-course dinner and dance package too. Ring in the New Year in Edmonton's 100+ year-old castle.
Experience some Cirque de Soleil inspired acrobatics at the Edmonton International New Years Eve Gala! Photo Credit: Eventbrite.
Note: this is just one of a few New Year's Eve dinner + entertainment events taking place at hotels in the Edmonton area. You could also have a vintage New Year's Eve at Hotel Selkirk Fort Edmonton Park, celebrate at Minutes to Midnight NYE Gala at the Radisson Hotel, or attend one of the other two big hotel celebrations listed below.
Cost: $60/person dance only. $115/person dinner & dance.
Details: ETOWN SALSA presents its 3rd Annual Felizaño Glitz and Glam Latin New Years Eve for December 31, 2018 to be held at the luxurious Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel. It is sure to be a fantastic NYE fiesta as this year the theme is Glitz and Glam! Join hundreds of people ringing in the new year with Latin dance performances, dance lessons, live music, entertainment, and more!
Details: Ring in the New Year with a celebration of the wonderful music of ABBA, and other classic bands of the era, as Jubilations tells another tale of love lost, love found and love rediscovered. Take a step back to the crazy 70s when these characters first met and see how lifelong friendships began. Your ticket includes a three-course dinner and the show!
Note: there is also a Canada-themed show playing at Mayfield Dinner Theatre for New Year's Eve as well.
Details: Is there anything more Edmonton (at least the last few years anyway) than visiting the Ice Castles in Hawrelak Park? The Ice Castles are getting ready to open and they *might* *should* *hopefully are* open for New Year's Eve. Be one of the first to experience this year's Ice Castles as part of your New Year's Eve celebrations! You can currently pre-order tickets, but keep checking to see when the Ice Castles actually open (I'm thinking it should be ready by New Year's Eve but you can correct me if I'm wrong lol). Alternate idea: A Very Outdoor Christmas—just do a bunch of snowy, outdoor activities… snowshoeing… cross country skiing… etc.
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 3 a.m.
Details: Would you make a deal to trade in your corkscrew for a prize? Will you pick door number 1, 2 or 3? How lucky will you be this New Year's Eve? Celebrate NYE at Northlands! Your ticket includes: A delicious celebratory buffet dinner in the Paddock Theatre. A $10 Free Play Voucher. A complimentary glass of champagne. One entry into the Let's Make a Deal game. And a Live DJ/dance!
Location: Your choice. Most restaurants in Edmonton have New Year's Eve special menus and seatings for dinner. Call your favourite restaurant to see what they've got going on, or check out their Facebook Page or Facebook Events. OpenTable lists some restaurants with special NYE menu items but I encourage you to call or look up any local restaurant's social media to see what special menu or experience they may be planning for New Year's Eve!
Details: Build your own Explore Edmonton New Year's Eve Adventure! What were some of your favourite places to visit in 2018? Restaurants to eat at? Activities to do? Stretch out your New Year's Eve so it's all day. Start with a your favourite brunch spot of the year, visit one of your favourite bakeries, go to your favourite park or river valley trail, visit your favourite local stores, do some impromptu photoshoots at some of your favourite Instagrammable Walls of Edmonton, do a New Year's Eve dinner at your favourite restaurant, and if you miss the fireworks because they're earlier this year (9 p.m.) just head to one of the city's best spots for a view out to our beautiful skyline. Imagine taking in that breathtaking view (fireworks or not), as you close one year and start another! Okay, I wrote this exact same thing last year, but I think it totally still applies this NYE!


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Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio or visual mass communications medium, but usually one using electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). The receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset thereof. Broadcasting has been used for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, experimentation, self-training, news we can know what is happening all around the world and emergency communication such as popular radio or TV stations with advertisements.
Methods of broadcasting:
There are several methods used for broadcasting electronic media:
1. Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
2. Satellite Television Broadcasting
3. FM Radio Broadcasting
4. Community Radio Broadcasting
Only Bangladesh Television (BTV) is being transmitted using terrestrial television broadcasting technology. According ITU Regional Radiocommunication Conference 2006 (RRC 06) some member states have signed a treaty to switch off the analogue terrestrial broadcasting by the year 2015. Among the signatories some countries have requested five more years to switch off broadcasting in VHF band (174-230 MHz). Unfortunately Bangladesh has not signed the agreement. According to the law of Bangladesh terrestrial television broadcasting is reserved for BTV only. BTV is using 174-230 MHz spectrum in VHF band for this transmission. In NFAP, 522-698 MHz spectrum is reserved for terrestrial television broadcasting. As such, this spectrum can be allocated for digital terrestrial broadcasting in future.
The license of satellite television broadcasting is given from the Ministry of Information. Spectrum is assigned from BTRC to those operators who have license to establish TV station. So far 28 (twenty eight) satellite television channels have been assigned spectrum from BTRC. These television channels are using 6, 9 or 12MHz uplink frequency from 5.85-6.425 GHz band.
The satellite channels are playing a vital role in order to reach the news of Bangladesh and its culture to the Bengali people residing in different corners of the world.
1. FM Radio Broadcasting:
The license of FM radio broadcasting is given from the Ministry of Information. According to NFAP, frequency is assigned from BTRC to the licensee from 87.5 to 108 MHz.
Till 2013, licenses have been given to twelve organizations including state owned 'Bangladesh Betar' for FM radio broadcasting. Each organization has been assigned 200 kHz of spectrum.
Bangladesh government has passed Community Radio Installation, Transmission and Operation Guideline-2008 to provide information service to the people of specific locality. So far, 14 organizations have been given licenses.
The output power of community radio transmitter is 100 watt and its coverage area is 17 KM. In order to provide the distant population of the country with the benefit of community radio, the policy to increase the output power of the transmitter from 100 watt to 250 watt is under process. If the output power is increased the coverage area will also increase and more people could be served with information. As community radio serves in a specific area, a plan has been taken to cover the whole of Bangladesh under three spectrums, which are 98.40 MHz, 98.80 MHz and 99.20 MHz.
License Awarding:
At first, the license of broadcasting is given from the Ministry of Information (MoI). The license of satellite television broadcasting is given from the Ministry of Information to broadcast news and to make and export the video program/film.
The license of FM radio/Community radio broadcasting is given from the Ministry of Information to establish and operate radio station under the private ownership.
After awarding license from MoI, licensee(s) shall have to apply for assigning frequency and to import Earth Station and SNG/DSNG equipment to BTRC. After assigning frequency to the licensee, the licensee will eligible to import radio equipments by getting prior permission from BTRC.
Assignment Band:
Satellite Television: According to NFAP, frequency is assigned from BTRC to the licensee, 6/9/12 MHz uplink frequency from 5.85-6.425 GHz band.
FM/Community Radio: According to NFAP, frequency is assigned from BTRC to the licensee from 87.5 to 108 MHz.
Broadcasting (Satellite Television and FM/Community Radio) Spectrum Assignment Procedure
The interested entities can submit the application following the procedures to the Commission:
· Documents to be submitted with application:
Applicant(s) shall furnish the following information/documents as is applicable:
Letter of application (in letterhead pad and application to the Chairman of BTRC and attention to the Director, Spectrum Division)
Application Form (dully filed in, furnished, signed and sealed) [Download]
Copy of License from MoI. (Attested)
Copy of Brochure (General Specification) of requested radio equipment (Attested)
Copy of Trade License (Attested)
For limited Company: Copy of Memorandum of Association and Article of Association (Attested)
For public owner: Copy of Proprietorship Certificate (Attested)
Fees and Charges:
Amount in Taka
Application Form Fee
Application Processing Fee
15% VAT
The non refundable application fee Taka. 6325/- (Taka six thousand three hounded and twenty five only) to be submitted to the Commission in the form of pay-order/Bank draft for the applicants in favor of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
Spectrum Management Committee (SMC):
After getting the application with the proper documents, the Commission will place the application to the Spectrum Management Committee (SMC) for their opinion. The SMC recommends the proposal to the Commission. It is worth mentioning that the sole responsibility of assigning spectrum belongs to the commission. According to the decision of the commission the spectrum is assigned to the applicant.
· Test Transmission Report:
After getting the prior permission from the Commission to use the assigned frequency for 7 (seven) days in order to test transmission. The licensee shall have to submit the test transmission report to the Commission. The Inspection team of BTRC will inspect the broadcast method of the organization. The Commission, upon inspection report, will award the License to Operate Radio Communications Equipment to the licensee. The licensee(s) shall have to renew the license yearly.


Dr. Adam Kassab, Professor of GLOBIS University in Tokyo, invites a variety of guests from around the world to discuss people, culture and business from an "Inside Japan" perspective. The third guest is Mr. David Wagner, managing director, Asia Media Strategy.
David Wagner, master trainer and long term resident of Japan shares with us his unique viewpoints touching on; Government and TEPCO media handling of the 3.11 crisis, indirect styles of Japanese communication, Strengths of both Japanese and American ways of doing business and what can be learnt from each other, how Japan has changed over the last 30 years, erosion of Japanese values, barriers to creativity and growth, and tips on how to get on with Japanese. Many thanks to David for taking the time to visit us at GLOBIS for Inside Japan.


That said, it's not all great news for Chelsea as Don Balon claim Eden Hazard is one of the Spanish giants' priority targets in attack, alongside Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar.
Those two would undoubtedly be great up front together for Madrid, though they'll also surely be very expensive.
It makes sense, therefore, that Don Balon are claiming Real seem prepared to sell a number of big names this summer, with their report mentioning Isco, Gareth Bale and Marco Asensio as among those who could be offloaded.
Another Don Balon report recently linked Isco with Chelsea, so that could help the west Londoners ease the pain of losing Hazard to Madrid.
The Spain international, despite his struggles at the Bernabeu, is another top creative player who could fill a variety of roles in this Chelsea side.
Meanwhile, Gareth Bale is mentioned as another player who could be on his way out, according to Don Balon.
And this follows another recent Don Balon piece that claimed Manchester United were among the clubs trying to sign the Welsh winger.
Those who saw Bale in his time at Tottenham would surely welcome him back to the Premier League, with the Red Devils in need of a player like that as an upgrade on the off-form Alexis Sanchez.
Another option for them could also be Marco Asensio, as Don Balon list him as a player who could be let go by Real.
Don Balon also recently claimed Man Utd were leading the chase for the Spaniard, who has long been regarded as a big prospect even if he's lost his way slightly this season.
Like Bale, Asensio could be a fine option for MUFC to replace the struggling Sanchez.


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I never get tired of searching through caves in this game.
I wish there was some more random things to bump into down there.
Definitely agree. I like how random the layout is in them. I found a knowledge stone in one room last night. Some times the above ground transfers over in sections. I've seen butterflies, giant mushrooms and some structures.
What's the most lucrative item you've found dwelling down below?
It's a toss up between vortex cubs and pearls. Depends really on the system I sell them in.
I mean-seriously! I had to come back and do a double take because that would be the perfect shift for me if it didn't have the rudder !
I was watching come in and didn't notice the orca fin at first. Once it landed I was like no no no nooooo lol I had to pass it up. The only ships I buy with the fins are the T1 BSG Viper style. I know alot of people like them. But they just throw off the flow for me, so it's a pass, unfortunately. Agree about the customization, it's gotta happen soon, it's just gotta. Hopefully Beyond will bring it.
I'm pretty sure decals and colors would be a possibility. Full customization I'm not holding my breath for. That's fine with me, I kind of enjoy the hunt. Even frustrating as it is sometimes. Just let me choose my paint and I'll be good.
I'm in Eissentam and definitely going after this ship tonight!
I do not understand the posts of the freighters, if when I enter through the portal, I can not see the galactic map as I fight with the freighter? If I go back to my system, the freighter is farther away than the galactic nucleus! the only way is to reach the system jumping 879.000 light years?
This particular freighter is a system freighter. No battling involved. Simply fly into space after arriving through the portal. These spawn throughout the system. You need visit different ones till you get the class you want.
My most recent discovery. In 1000hrs of playing NMS, I've only ever found large Diplos in the wild one other time.
Do you still happen to have the coords for this planet?
Eissentam 07FB:007B:07F9:01B7 (REDISCOVERED) 24 slot Experimental rifle. Details in comments.
Do the tubes light up on this one when it fires?
Nope, not on this one. At least not for me.
Eissentam 0621:007D:01B4:0030 (PS4). 24 slot Experimental Rifle. Details in comments.
I made it, although sadly there's only a B class pistol here. Nevertheless, I dropped a com station in case any other PC travellers want to check it out!
edit - after reloading my save, it turned into a 16 slot S class rifle. I think I'll reload my save for a bit to see if I get the 24 slot experimental.
Yeah, sometimes PC locations are slightly different, usually close though. I'd use a signal booster and locate anothet minor settlement that's close by. Sorry to hear that!
Oh no problem, the other thing I just thought of is starting from the long and latt I gave out. Fly in a slowly widening circle, sometimes the signal booster can be, not so reliable. Good luck!


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Aelt van Holthe (Harderwijk, 14 augustus 1716 - Amsterdam, 5 december 1782) was een Nederlandse burgemeester.

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Van Holthe, lid van de familie Van Holthe, werd in 1716 in Harderwijk geboren als zoon van de Harderwijkse schepen en burgemeester Willem van Holthe en Aleida Margaretha Feith. Evenals als zijn vader vervulde hij bestuurlijke functies in de stad Harderwijk, zoals schepen en burgemeester. Ook op regionaal en landelijk niveau vervulde hij diverse regentenfuncties. Hij was onder meer gedeputeerde en werd afgevaardigd naar de Staten-Generaal en naar de Admiraliteit van Amsterdam.

Van Holthe trouwde op 4 augustus 1738 te Doesburg met Andrea Smits, dochter van de burgemeester aldaar Bernardus Smits en Barthe Gesina Feith. Hun zoon Pieter Adam van Holthe trouwde in 1771 met Roelina Gijsberta Gerdina van der Clooster, vrouwe van Rheebruggen en vestigde zich in Drenthe. Hun nakomelingen zouden in Drenthe diverse bestuurlijke functies vervullen. Van Holthe trouwde in 1771 met Catharina Barels (1725-1783).

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Our LonRes & Co series returns for a special interview with the LonRes 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Alan Russell, Managing Director of Russell Simpson. Having founded Russell Simpson nearly 40 years ago, the company has lived through many property cycles. We chat to Alan to find out the secrets behind his success.
In today's challenging property climate, what tactics can agents employ to thrive and continue to win new business?
Strong family values, a strong work ethic, elevated customer service and embracing new technologies are a large part behind the success of Russell Simpson. Watch our quick interview with Alan Russell to learn more.
William Carrington: Welcome to the latest LonRes & Co. I'm William Carrington, Chairman of LonRes. And with me today is Alan Russell, Founder and Managing Director of Russell Simpson and recent winner of the LonRes Lifetime Achievement Award.
Alan, you founded Russell Simpson almost 40 years ago now, a business that is still going strong today. What is the secret of your success?
Alan Russell: It's a difficult one. Hard work. Determination. Giving our clients the most care and attention. We're very proactive with the way we operate. I have a number of my children working with me, which has been a great benefit to all of us. They have a similar work ethic to me. We're in at seven in the morning, we leave at seven. And I think whilst there's huge amounts of news going on all the time, I slightly ignore that and just battle through. The most important thing is just trying to sell our clients' houses.
William Carrington: Right, and you said that your children have adopted your work ethic?
Alan Russell: I think hopefully they had it anyway. Coming from a very big family, they learnt they had to work pretty hard at home, helping their mother.
William Carrington: And they've embraced modern technology?
Alan Russell: Absolutely. I mean, that has done a huge amount for us, in the sense that I'm perhaps too old to have been there at the beginning of this modern technology, but using Twitter, Instagram, has actually become very important. I think we have now over 5,000 followers. We get enquiries from our photographs that we put up on Instagram. We've had offers through Instagram. We've got instructions through Instagram.
Whilst we still advertise a lot we find we get less enquiries from the magazines we advertise in and we get a lot of enquiries from the Internet. But the modern technology which my children have introduced to the business has made a huge difference.
William Carrington: It is a tricky time in the London market. What advice would you give to somebody experiencing it for the first time?
Alan Russell: I think really to tell people to try and offer as good a service as they can. Be very proactive. I think people have become too used to sending emails to everyone and expecting people to respond. I find they don't. Whenever you expect people to call you, they never do. So, the most important thing is to be on the phone, being polite of course, chasing the enquiries that you have and making sure people feel wanted and that we want to take care of them and help them, whether they're selling or they're buying.
William Carrington: Can you tell me why your clients keep coming back to you year after year?
Alan Russell: I think probably because we give them a one-to-one service. Initially everybody asks for me, and now a lot of people have met my children. We make sure that the client who calls us is looked after by the same person. They feel their hand is being held. They feel important, and properly looked after. I think that's vitally important in any service industry, really.
William Carrington: Well, a true family business.
Alan Russell: Yes, well, it is!
William Carrington: Thank-you, Alan, for coming in and sharing your experiences with us of the London market over the years and congratulations for winning the LonRes Lifetime Achievement Award!
Alan Russell: Well, thank-you very much. I'm very touched. Thank you.
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Why We're Different: We hope that you will find every aspect of our company refreshingly and startlingly different than our competition. Our vision is to help businesses and individuals understand the complexities of insurance, work with clients to assess risk, offer sufficient protection through reliable insurance coverages, and provide value to our clients saving them time and money.
Attitude: We are confident, but humble, knowledgeable, but not arrogant. We listen. We ask questions. We love to learn about you and your needs and help you find cost effective insurance solutions. We lay out your options – we advise – you decide. Your success is our passion, and that works out to everyone's advantage.
Integrity: We are up-front when we work to identify a solution for you and admit when our solution does not fit your needs. We will not try to pull the wool over your eyes. We believe we can provide you multiple options to assist you in your decisions to adequately protect your home and business, for the best value. All we ask is a chance to prove it.
Passion: We think we have, by far, the most cost-effective offerings. We are excited to show you how we can serve your insurance needs through our extensive company partners. We are also visibly proud of our Gulf Coast and its resilient people and businesses. We are local, and we understand the complexities of insuring coastal risks. We give our clients every reason to sing our praises. When we find a shortcoming, we will work to exceed your expectations.
Technology: While we are quite confident that we have by far the best technology in our market segment, we are constantly working to improve. We offer professional, state of the art insurance processing and convenience to you, our clients, as we provide you with choice and convenience at your fingertips, and we will work with you the way you choose – high tech, face-to face, FaceBook, LinkedIn, land line, email, snail-mail, or text. You make the rules.
SouthGroup Insurance Services is Mississippi's largest privately-owned insurance agency with 23 branch locations throughout the state, including our headquarters in Ridgeland. We offer our clients more than 115 years of history and access to niche markets and specialty products and services not found at other agencies. With over 170 associates, we focus on providing risk management solutions that help our clients identify and mitigate the risks they face in business and in life.
At SouthGroup, our mission is to build personal relationships and partnerships with our clients as we help them manage risk. Our client relationships are built on a foundation of trust, integrity, teamwork and stability, and we strive to achieve these goals with every transaction and every client, every day.
SouthGroup is a Trusted Choice® independent agency. We do not represent any single insurance company; instead, we serve our client's first and work as their advocate. We help our clients uncover the risks they face and develop a portfolio of insurance and risk management solutions that address their needs.
The SouthGroup Risk Reduction System is our unique approach to risk management. It is designed to help our business and personal insurance clients control their total cost of risk and apply the best insurance coverage available. Using our comprehensive risk assessment, we can work closely with our clients to develop a plan to address and manage specific risks over time.
We are the only insurance agency in Mississippi using this approach, and coupled with our extensive experience and solid partnerships, we are uniquely positioned to build and implement risk management plans for all kinds of business and individual needs.
SouthGroup is heavily focused on investing in our communities and is highly committed to service and leadership. Our annual Make a Difference 5K benefiting the Friends of Children's Hospital and the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children in Jackson, MS is just one of the ways in which we give back to our community. We proudly sponsor this race every year, and our agency volunteers are on hand to help make it happen. In addition, every one of our branch locations works closely within its community to help support local development and other causes.
We have longstanding, solid relationships with insurance companies. Some of these relationships extend back over 100 years. Together we provide our clients with expertise, value, knowledge and experience in risks and insurance markets from the ordinary to the unique. We have access to niche markets and specialty products only available from large, national companies, as well as the local knowledge and expertise found with regional carriers.
Contact a local SouthGroup office to learn more about our Risk Reduction System and how we approach our client's unique needs.


The Vida Cup has a similar shape to many menstrual cups. It is an inverted bell with airholes along the upper rim. Near the top there is slight ridge-like grips which will help hold the cup in place while wearing. The stem is short and solid with ridges that will provide grip while removing. The cup is graduated which can help if you'd like to track your period flow.
Some may find that the relative softness of the Vida Cup makes it easier to insert, while others may find that it makes it harder to get the cup to pop open after it has been inserted.
The relatively short size of the stem and the lack of grips around the bottom of the cup may make it more difficult to remove.
The Vida Cup comes in two sizes, S and L. The smaller size is intended for people under age 25 who have not given birth or who have had a C-section. The large cup is best suited for those over 25.
Reviewers observe that it is softer or more flexible than the Diva Cup. That may be more comfortable for some users, but others may find that it makes the cup harder to insert or more likely to leak.
This cup would be no easier or harder to clean than other cups.
This is one of the cheaper menstrual cups but the lack of details on its origin means its quality is uncertain. You may want to consider buying a cup that is explicitly certified by the health board in your country and that uses materials that are transparently sourced.
While the cup reports using FDA-certified medical grade silicone, the cup itself has not been evaluated or cleared with the FDA.


Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.
These words of the centurion are among the most familiar to us if only because we say them just before we receive communion! The centurion puts his faith in Jesus' WORD and does not need to have Jesus actually come to his house to heal the servant. Jesus marvels at the faith of a "pagan" soldier and wonders why such faith was lacking in Israel! Of course, the centurion was accustomed to having his orders obeyed, which may have helped him to believe that Jesus could do the same!


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Next week our first ecoBirdy furniture collection for kids will be officially launched. All pieces will be unveiled at our own stand at Maison & Objet in Paris: Hall 7 — Stand D168. After two years of planning and working on our ecoBirdy project, we couldn't be more excited this moment has finally arrived.
Here we'll give you a preview of one piece of our kids furniture line: Charlie, the chair*. As all pieces from our collection, Charlie is exclusively made of recycled plastic. Flakes from recycled plastic toys add a unique touch of colour to the pieces. Due to the accurate sorting, cleaning and grinding during the recycling process, the plastic is pure and clean. This means it is absolutely free from harmful chemicals and 100% recyclable after his life as a chair. Charlie has been especially designed for kids starting from 18 months. After producing a large number of prototypes to examine ergonomic features, comfort and handling for kids as well as the production procedure we had finally found our perfect chair, Charlie. Its friendly, soft forms and rounded edges are complemented by a large seating surface. This makes Charlie not only comfortable for kids but offers also advantages in production. As a result of well studied shapes, Charlie is light and stable at once, a combination that makes it simple to move for kids and not easy to turnover. Featuring a smooth surface, our chair is pleasant to the touch and easy to clean. Thanks to the speckled design – we call them magic flakes – Charlie is a colourful eye-catcher as well as a recognizable product of recycling. This was important to us as we want the kids to recognize their old toys in these pieces of their first own furniture.
Designing every piece of our ecoBirdy collection we tried to see the world through children's eyes, aiming to create pieces that would enable kids to experience creativity and at the same time raise awareness for sustainability.


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We used to call John Paul II the "pope of surprises," but Francis clearly has demonstrated that he's more than capable of pulling a rabbit out of the hat himself. Today's surprise announcement that John Paul II will be canonized along with John XXIII seems to tell us at least three things worth knowing about the new pontiff.
In multiple ways, Francis has already demonstrated his willingness to break with convention – not living in the papal apartment, not heading off to the summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for his vacation, even pulling out of a Vatican concert at the last minute because he felt he had better uses of his time.
Today's announcement is thus another indication that for Francis, tradition is more a guide than a master.
Second, the decision to package John XXIII and John Paul II also underscores the inclusive spirit of Francis' papacy.
That's not to say, of course, that the primary logic for the canonizations is political. Francis is certainly convinced that both men lived holy lives worthy of sainthood, totally apart from their ideological appeal.
Yet Francis is no naïf either, and he knows that by putting these two pontiffs together, he ensures that the canonization ceremony can't be styled as a victory lap for one side or the other.
His inclusive ethos is also clear from the fact that today he also approved a miracle attributed to Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, the successor of St. Josemaria Escriva as the head of Opus Dei, after earlier this year signaling his desire to move forward with the beatification of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador.
Romero is typically seen as a hero of the liberation theology movement, while Opus Dei is often identified with the right-wing reaction against it. Once again, it seems clear that Francis wants to stress what the diverse expressions of the faith have in common, overcoming old animosities.
Third, although Francis could have set a date for the canonization ceremony himself, he's decided not to make that call until after a consistory with members of the College of Cardinals. Given the likely tidal wave of people that will crash through Rome whenever it happens, the choice of date is no small matter, and it's telling that Francis wants to take the temperature of the cardinals before setting it in stone.
Francis has already made clear that he wants the cardinals to play a larger role in governance, beginning with the decision to empanel a body of eight cardinals from around the world to serve as his kitchen cabinet.
The process he's following for the canonization is another small gesture in the direction of collegiality, meaning avoiding diktat in favor of ruling by consensus whenever possible, beginning with the cardinals.


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"Crimson Peak" presents an unfortunate irony for most reviewers like myself. The movie is essentially what we clamor for day in and day out: the chance for a great auteur like Guillermo del Toro to work on a sprawling canvas with a large budget of $55 million. Yet, at the end of the day, the end product feels lacking in substance. So how to respond?
If it felt like an ambitious endeavor in pursuit of a singular vision that just never quite finds its footing, I might be inclined to judge it more kindly. While del Toro's exercise in merging the Gothic romance with haunted house horror is interesting, "Crimson Peak" does not derive its strength from such a union. In fact, most of the film's memorable moments come from well-placed homages to classics like "Psycho" and "The Shining."
del Toro's immaculate eye for costume and design keep "Crimson Peak" stunning to look at, even if the events that unfold in this milieu are boring enough to encourage some shut-eye. The film shows its hand far too early as two eerily close British siblings, Thomas and Lucille Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain), arrive in Buffalo, NY, to seek a capital injection. Thomas conveniently falls for the main financier's daughter, Mia Wasikowska's Edith Cushing, and takes her back to their family estate known as Allerdale Hall.
"Crimson Peak" manages to elicit the odd thrill or chill here and there, but a moment where the Sharpes are seen plotting some unknown scheme towards the beginning of the film robs the experience of suspense. There is not nearly enough heat between Hiddleston and Wasikowska to enliven the stale romantic beats they are doomed to hit. Only Jessica Chastain, in a delightfully demented turn, manages to really excite when the final act finally allows her to come unhinged.
She's almost too good for the movie. While it's hard to fault her for wanting to collaborate with a director like Guillermo del Toro, I can't help but wish all this wrath was channeled into a more exciting work. C+ /
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Xero is preparing to add inventory management capabilities to its cloud accounting software.
Xero finally delivered a simple quoting mechanism last month, something its customers had been anticipating for years.
Now the company is preparing to check off another big item on its to-do list: inventory management.
Inventory management will appear in Xero within 90 days, Xero Australia managing director Chris Ridd (pictured) told iTWire at the company's Xero Evolve roadshow in Melbourne today. And he's clearly pretty pleased with the work that's been done: "for 80% of the market, it's an awesome solution."
The other 20% with specific requirements can still turn to the inventory add-ons available from third party developers through the Xero Marketplace.
So how does Xero manage the tension between customers' expectation of a complete and functional accounting system on one hand, and the need to foster a broader ecosystem?
"We've always been transparent about the roadmap," said Ridd. "You've got to be transparent."
So where appropriate, Xero exchanges information with outside developers under non-disclosure agreements.
When Xero added some KPI tools last year, it still left room for the "phenomenal KPI dashboards" offered by its partners, he said.
Similarly, Files (the ability to upload an arbitrary file for storage within Xero and then link it to transactions) was recently added to Xero and while there are tentative plans to improve searchability, Ridd implied that the company has no plans to compete with partners such as Receipt Bank which extract data from documents and process it into Xero data.
In some cases, functionality is added to Xero through acquisition. One example is payroll, where Xero acquired Paycycle in 2011, converted its payroll product from Silverlight to HTML5 and integrated it into Xero. And late last year Xero acquired US-based online payroll provider Monchilla to support its expansion in that market.
While business intelligence tools and online quotes are still on their way, and there's more to be done in automating SuperStream requirements, Ridd said Xero is "coming to the end of horizontal accounting" in the sense that the company is close to equalling the feature set of desktop software.
Further innovation will appear in areas such as the application of big data technology and improved integration with banks, he said.
Reading between the lines, Xero would be well placed to tell its customers how they compare with their peers on various KPIs - with the agreement of all concerned, of course. And wouldn't it be convenient if an electronic copy of a receipt could be downloaded in parallel with the bank feed for the credit card used for the transaction?


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Q: GCP Automated cost control service for multiple accounts I have used the sample code in the GCP guide https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify to create a Python Cloud Function to send out messages and disable billing for a project whenever a budget alert indicates that the project is exceeding a spend limit.  The budget alert uses pubsub to activate the Cloud Function.
Using the sample code approach the Cloud Function is within the project being monitored.  The project is owned by a specific Google account and it is the same Google account that owns the budget that uses pubsub when a budget alert is issued.
I would like to provide the Cloud Function to other Google accounts as a service.  What I want to happen is when a budget alert is triggered in a Google account other than my own then a pubsub message is sent to a Cloud Function of one of my projects under my Google account.
It seems to me that this is what pubsub is for but whenever I try to configure this approach I find that the only combination I can get to work is where the budget and Cloud Function are under the same Google account.
I wonder if the solution is to be found in IAM and setting up an Organization structure.  I am finding it difficult to get to grips with IAM.  Any suggestions gratefully received, even a "this is not possible" would be helpful.
Thanks

A: You would need to create a customized budget alert to create an email notification channel.

For Cloud Billing budget alerts, you must configure Email notification channels. Other types of notification channels are not supported.

In this section, you'll find a link on "how to send slack notifications," and even if you are not using it, the documentation guides How to set up and enable Pub/Sub programmatic notifications. It will ask you to create a pub/sub topic and then connect a cloud billing budget. Once you are done with that in the Cap (disable) billing to stop usage...

Before you start working with this example, make sure you have done the following:
Enable the Cloud Billing API. Your Cloud Function needs to call the Cloud Billing API to disable Cloud Billing for a project.
Set up a budget to monitor project costs, and enable budget notifications.

Finally, you can write a cloud function to cap your budget based on the alerts. So, in order for it to work on different accounts, you need to first create a pub/sub topic and the customized alerts.

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