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How to Create an Audio Drama Series on Little-to-No-Budget
June 1, 2016 June 1, 2016 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
by Pete Lutz
So you say you're a creative type who has always wanted to put together some kind of artistic endeavour that will enthral the masses and make you big bucks at the same time? Well, that's really quite wonderful, but I'm sorry, you're reading the wrong article. No, this is for somebody who is desperate to provide a bit of entertainment to anyone who may listen, and to create that entertainment on an absolutely near-invisible shoestring budget.
Actually, this is more of a story about how I did it, and there are some steps here that I don't recommend for everybody, but you should still know everything. Well, almost everything. I won't bore you with all the sleepless nights I spent weeping over it like it was my own child. Oh. Looks like I just did. So, why not read on?
1. COME UP WITH A WONDERFUL IDEA.
Audio dramas are stories that are told so well that the listener can see it like a movie in his mind. It's your job to come up with that story. You can do what I did, which is create an anthology series called Pulp-Pourri Theatre (each episode a standalone story with a beginning, middle and end), or you can go the way of a serial and have several episodes with a longer, drawn-out story. The choice is yours, and you should go ahead and write the outline for your series. No, go ahead. I'll wait right here until you're done. Got any magazines?
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YAP Audio Production
May 21, 2016 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
Meet Robert Cudmore, one half of YAP Audio Production, along with Matthew McLean. They're the audio drama production company behind "Aftermath & Other Audio Drama Stories" which tells tales of the post-apocalyptic, horror, sci-fi and comedy; now blending their two-series post-apocalyptic drama Aftermath with a series of short, one-off pieces.
Ryan Watson, who runs the Juice Festival Blog, wanted to find out more.
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Pete Lutz: The "Pulp-Chaser"
April 12, 2016 April 12, 2016 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
Texas-based audio drama writer & producer Pete Lutz is a self-proclaimed king of "making radio drama on no budget whatsoever". (Tongue firmly in cheek as he adjusts his crown.)
Considering producing audio drama involves finding a troop of acting talent, recording (ideally together) with quality microphones, sourcing/creating fitting music and sound effects, and hours upon hours of writing, editing and promotion… That's a pretty noble claim to make.
Nick Wommack, left & Pete Lutz, right. Photo by George Tuley/Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Pete learned a great deal of his craft from listening to the masters: the creators of Old-Time Radio programs aired decades before he was born. Even his stories come from that era, for the most part, or are inspired by them.
"Back before any of you lot wuz born, eh? Well, 'ere wuz summat called radio, eh?"
[Cue dramatic fanfare music…] Ladies and gentlemen, he's the man with a face for radio, and more radio than you can face… Mr. Pete Lutz!
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Episode 19 – Making the Most of your Creative Degree
October 2, 2015 March 19, 2016 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
It's somewhat ironic that what followed the episode entitled "Never Stop" was an absence of podcasts for an entire month. Let me start with an apology. I'm one-man-band; making this podcast alongside everything else in my life. I've started a new semester at the University of Sunderland, where I'm now lecturing three radio/journalism classes, which has taken up a great deal of time & energy. I'm also working for the arts networking organisation ArtWorks-U, making occasional videos for the university, producing four weekly radio broadcasts, and sporadically working on a handful of other projects.
Life is chaotic, unpredictable and hectic… And I love it.
As such, I put 99% Perspiration on the back burner. To my own detriment, as much as yours. It's not good practice, I know. But. The show must go on.
You can expect weekly episodes from 99% Perspiration once again.
Episode 19 is the very first live special of 99% Perspiration. It was broadcast during Freshers' Week at the University of Sunderland, where I work as an Academic Tutor of radio. They invited us to create a special, live, one-off programme tailor-made to incoming students – "Making the Most of your Creative Degree".
Click here to listen to Episode 19
A big thanks is in order for Matthew Donnachie and Grant Lowery, who were our sound-designers on the project.
I'd love to hear back from you about whether this is useful (or not) if you're not based at the University of Sunderland – our Twitter is @99Podcast.
Our guests on Episode 19:
Click here to listen to Jill on Episode 19
Jill Kirkham is the Programme Leader of Fashion Product & Promotion at the University of Sunderland, and there are tons of opportunities and tips available for fashion students which will be applicable to fashion-conscious listeners.
Click here to listen to Lily in episode 19
Lily Clifford is the Learning and Engagement Officer at the National Glass Centre, based in Sunderland. Lily began volunteering at the NGC whilst she studied at the University, and this volunteering experience led her straight into her current role.
Click here to listen to Sarah on Episode 19
Sarah Heseltine is currently a Graduate Intern within the Student Recruitment team at the University of Sunderland. She joined us to give us insight into extra-curricular opportunities at the University; in particular the Student Ambassador scheme which she was involved in.
Click here to listen to Sinèad on Episode 19
Sinèad Livingston is a graduate from BA Community Music, in partnership with the Sage Gateshead. She's currently setting up a musicians' creative network, and working alongside me on a radio programme called ArtyParti on Spark FM (Wednesdays at 3pm) – and you can hear more from Sinèad on episode 4 of 99% Perspiration.
Click here to listen to James on Episode 19
James Hamilton is currently studying BA Journalism at the University of Sunderland, and currently presents Drive Time on the student/community radio station Spark FM.
Click here to listen to Rute Correia on 99% Perspiration
And Rute Correia, who you can hear more from in Episode 18 of 99% Perspiration, is an incoming student of MA Radio (Production and Management). She previously studied at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, worked with Nintendo of Europe, and now creates the weekly White Market Podcast and runs creative company Rute's Loot.
Episode 17 – New Paths
July 30, 2015 March 19, 2016 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
Hello creatives!
Episode 17 was one of those late night jobs. It took a few days to get the pieces together, but I've made it! Been a busy month for me this month.
Basically, I've found myself in a new temporary job working with ArtWorks-U, and a central part of my role is producing/presenting a new weekly radio broadcast/podcast called ArtyParti.
More news to follow, lots to update you on…
On Episode 17 of 99% Perspiration:
After 30 years working in a non-creative industry, Diane Gray now manages the community radio station Hive Radio, based in Jarrow, UK. In 2014, Diane won the silver Charles Parker Prize for her radio documentary; and is now working on radio drama alongside her role at Hive.
Click here to hear Diane Gray on 99% Perspiration
Richi Jones is a singer/songwriter, and music production student based in the Midlands, UK. This year, Richi won the well-recognised national Open Mic competition, and he's currently working on his new EP.
Click here to listen to Richi Jones on 99% Perspiration
Stay productive, stay awesome!
99% Extra – Here's Ben Tompkins Trying to Get a Job in Radio
June 10, 2015 99% Perspiration Leave a comment
Back in Episode 3 of 99% Perspiration, soon-to-be radio graduate Ben Tompkins shared that he was making a documentary for his dissertation project. It's a one-off piece where Ben interviews several people who work in radio careers.
"Ben Tompkins travels around the North East of England searching for advice on how to get a job in the radio world."
Included in Ben's awesome documentary…
Giles Tanner – Managing Editor of Global North East
Tom Campbell – Drive Time Presenter, Heart Radio
Tom Davies – Head of Careers and Employability Service at the University Of Sunderland
Emma Snook – Producer at Amazing Radio
Jay Sykes – Freelance Producer and Lecturer in Radio Drama


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Hadroconus sibogae is a species of extremely small deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.

Description
(Original description by M. Schepman) The height of the shell attains 6.5 mm . The umbilicate shell has a conical shape with concave sides, a sharp keel and a slightly convex base. It is nacreous under a thin, yellowish-white layer. The 7 whorls are slightly convex, especially the lower ones. The nucleus is smooth and shining. The suture is well marked by the strong keel, which is also visible on the upper whorls. The sculpture consists on the upper whorls of thin, strongly curved, radiating riblets, which are rather crowded, but much more distant on the lower whorls, and nearly disappear on the last two. These riblets are slightly thickened towards the upper suture and below towards the keel, which is crenulate by their crossing it. One or two spiral elevated striae may be observed on part of the upper whorls. Moreover the whole shell is covered with fine growth striae, which form a large sinus above near the suture and are protracted below near the keel, following the direction of the riblets. The base of the shell is rather smooth, but sculptured by similar striae as on the upper part, being partly riblike. The whole base is covered with spiral striae, most conspicuous towards the umbilicus and keel, leaving a smoother median space. The pervious umbilicus is funnel-shaped. Its largest diameter occupies nearly ¼ of that of the base. Its margin is bordered by a strongly
beaded rib, which can be followed still a little in its interior, which is otherwise rather smooth, though sculptured by very fine radiating and spiral striae. The aperture is rhombic. Its upper margin is thin, slightly broken, but judging after the growth striae, sinuous above, protracted towards the keel, which appears to have been tooth-like. The basal margin is sinuous in the same manner;. The columellar margin is sinuous, reflected, and forms an angle with the basal margin. The operculum is very thin, corneous, with few whorls.

The rhachidian tooth (R) of the radula has a subquadrate body, with rounded posterior corners, enlarged sides and a short, reflected cusp, with a few denticles. The lateral (l) is subtriangular, with a short, reflected cusp, with small denticles at the distal margin. I can detect no more teeth, belonging with certainty to the median part. The uncini (U) are long, slender, with distinct smaller teeth near the top. (described as Basilissa sibogae)

Distribution
This marine species occurs off Sulawesi, Indonesia.

References

External links
 To Encyclopedia of Life
 To World Register of Marine Species

sibogae
Gastropods described in 1908

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Stuart Lorne has recently joined Barwood Products.
Following a successful year in 2014, Barwood Products has now appointed a new member to the team to further bolster the sales effort and to develop new opportunities for the company's range of inclusive bathroom products.
Stuart Lorne has joined the company as regional sales manager - Midlands and the North - and will be responsible for servicing existing customers, including key merchant accounts and developing new business for the full range of DOC M packs, grab rails, showers and accessories. As part of his new role he will provide a full technical back up, which is a critical element of any inclusive project.
Mr Lorne is no stranger to the wider bathroom sector having previously worked in both technical and sales capacities for Style Products whose extensive portfolio included Siamp and Svedbergs, as well as a small range of inclusive products. A spell with Siamp UK followed where Mr Lorne was responsible for selling valves, wall frames and cisterns. This experience will be invaluable in his new role at Barwood Products.


This four-day autumnal walk will explore the northern Jagungal wilderness of Kosciuszko National Park, approaching from the west from the direction of the Dargals Range and exiting to the north at Round Mountain. Compared to the other ANUMC Easter walk to Jagungal (led by Stef and approaching from Guthega Power Station in the south), it will be a more leisurely pace, covering perhaps half the distance in the same number of days (ie about 12-20km per day), mostly along old fire trails or across grassy alpine valleys.
The route is likely to include ascents of, and awesome views from, Dargal Mountain (1726m) and/or Big Dargal Mountain (1714m) and magnificent Mt Jagungal (2062m). Many bushwalkers consider Mt Jagungal to be the outstanding peak in the region. It certainly has some of the best views. Over Easter you can expect to see several groups on the summit so, like Stef's group, we will aim is to avoid the crowds by taking routes that are more creative and finding more secluded campsites. In doing so we will also likely visit various historic huts and huts sites, including picturesque Wheelers Hut near the old Toolong goldfields, as well as numerous mountain streams and waterfalls.
Depending on the level of interest and the availability of transport, participants will be in two groups, walking in opposite directions and meeting in the middle on the second night. An introverted old man with a camera and decades of experience in the mountains will lead one group, an extroverted woman with a passion for inclusion and lightweight long distance walking the other.
This trip is suitable for people with previous overnight bushwalking experience. Be prepared to answer a few questions intended to gauge your capacity to safely complete and enjoy this great trip.


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Q: Auth.federatedSignIn({provider: "Facebook"}) in react native returns [ERROR] OAuth - Error handling auth response. [Error: invalid_client] I am trying to configure a Social Sign In for Facebook in my react native mobile app using Cognito's hosted UI. My intention is to have any user that signs in with Facebook to have an enabled user in my Cognito User Pool.
However, when I click my "Login with Facebook" button and redirected to Cognito/Facebook's auth flow, it closes the embedded browser immediately and shows the following error in the logs:
[ERROR] 19:02.561 OAuth - Error handling auth response. [Error: invalid_client]
I have a manually configured aws backend with the following configuration:
export default awsConfig = {
    Auth: {
      "aws_project_region": "us-west-2",
      identityPoolId: 'us-east-1:xxxxxx',
      region: 'us-east-1',
      userPoolId: 'us-east-xxxxx',
      userPoolWebClientId: 'xxxxxx',
      mandatorySignIn: false,
      oauth: {
        domain: "myapp.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com",
        scope: [
            "email",
            "openid",
        ],
        redirectSignIn: "myapp://",
        redirectSignOut: "myapp://",
        responseType: "code",
        urlOpener
      },
      federationTarget: "COGNITO_USER_POOLS"
   }
}

This is my Facebook Login configuration:

And here is my react native code:
import React, { Component } from 'react';

import Amplify, { Auth, Hub } from 'aws-amplify';
import awsConfig from './aws-custom-exports';

const configObj = Amplify.configure(awsConfig);

import {
  SafeAreaView,
  StyleSheet,
  ScrollView,
  View,
  Text,
  StatusBar,
  Button
} from 'react-native';

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    user: null,
    customState: null
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    Hub.listen("auth", ({ payload: { event, data } }) => {
      switch (event) {
        case "signIn":
          this.setState({ user: data });
          console.log("Sign in event recorded.")
          break;
        case "signOut":
          this.setState({ user: null });
          break;
        case "customOAuthState":
          this.setState({ customState: data });
          console.log("Custom OAuth event recorded.")
        default:
          console.log("Other auth event: ", data)
      }
    })
    Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser()
      .then(user => this.setState({ user }))
      .catch(() => console.log("Not signed in"));
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <StatusBar barStyle="dark-content" />
        <SafeAreaView>
          <ScrollView
            contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior="automatic"
            style={styles.scrollView}>
            <View style={styles.body}>
              <Button onPress={() => {
                Auth.federatedSignIn({provider: "Facebook"})
                  .then(data => {
                    console.log(data)
                  })
                  .catch(err => {
                    console.error(err)
                  })
              }} title="Login with Facebook" />
            </View>
          </ScrollView>
        </SafeAreaView>
      </>
    );
  }
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  scrollView: {
    backgroundColor: Colors.lighter,
  },
  body: {
    backgroundColor: Colors.white,
  }
});

export default App;

My Info.plist file has the CFBundleURLSchemes set to myapp and have added the RTCLinking code snippets to my AppDelegate.m

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Mandy's fourteenth birthday's come and gone. For breakfast, she got homemade waffles with strawberry syrup and whipped cream. Her presents were practical this year - some clothes and shoes and a new bag for school.
Fourteen years into this, I have to say she's a good kid for the most part - a little disorganized, a little lazy, a little thoughtless. But when we think about the other teenagers I see, with their skin-tight shirts and their sneery attitudes and their noses in their text-phones, we're glad we have her. She's smart and funny and wise and cheerful.
Happy birthday, Mandy. Let's make this next year a good one, too.


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Deloitte to Open Up $20 Million USD Regional Services Center in Mexico
Deloitte recently announced that it will open a $20 million USD delivery center in the Mexican state of Querétaro. The "big four" auditing and business consulting firm, through its Deloitte Consulting Group division, plans to make this new location its regional hub for technology services and consulting throughout Latin America.
Jorge Castilla, national director of Deloitte Consulting Group, made the announcement late last month and was joined by Querétaro Governor Francisco Dominguez. He said that the firm expects the center to create around 1,000 jobs over the next three years. Operations will have a tech focus and center on support, development, testing, and maintenance.
"This regional center, which will be one of the four most important in our global network, is a strategic decision by Deloitte," said Castilla. "And we have chosen Mexico, an extremely important bet for not only our development in the country but also at the regional level."
"This center is critical to our operations, and will be practically embedded in 70% of what we do in Mexico," he added. "And I hope that it is makes up a high percentage globally, as do the other three regional centers."
Queréraro has been attracting more and more attention from global firms in recent years. On top of Deloitte, MetLife announced earlier this year that it would invest around $10 million into a center in the state.
Overall, according to statistics from Mexico's Secretary of Sustainable Development, the state has grown by 50% over the past six years when it comes to the the business process outsourcing, IT services, and data center industry.
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Johnny Simmons
Born in November 28th, 1986
From Montgomery - Alabama - USA
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Johnny Simmons Biography
Johnny James Simmons (born November 28, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Dylan Baxter in Evan Almighty (2007), Chip Dove in Jennifer's Body (2009), "Young Neil" Nordegraf in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and Brad Hayes in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
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Have you been to Halloween Scare Walk? Then share photos of your experience!
We try to make it to this one-night event every year, I even went as a kid. Really enjoy the setting, nature trail lit with tiki-torches has great ambiance. The scenes are well done, one year they had a working guillotine, wish that would come back! Last two years have been less scary than usual, most creatures just walk by you or chat with you, no real startles from the dark of the woods, nobody getting uncomfortably close and creepy. Maybe a little more coaching for the ghouls on that, and let them tap you on the shoulder at least and I could give 5 pumpkins again! Won't miss it again next year though, its fun.


Has Church Really Become More Relevant?
Relevance has been a huge buzzword for the church over the past several years. The line of thinking is that the traditional way of "doing church" was failing to connect with the general public on a variety of levels and a considerable disconnect began to take place. Efforts were then made to start "doing church" differently which ranged from designing a church building not in the traditional cathedral-style but in a more multi-purpose (gymnasium) type of building. Music has changed, mixing in audio/visual elements such as Powerpoint on the screens, the use of drama, words to the songs on the screen rather than hymnals, "casual Sunday" dress codes, lights, stage decor and even the use of smoke/fog to list just a few of the new-age differences.
For the record, I am in favor of much of this. The Vineyard practically wrote the book on several of these elements from launching the contemporary Christian music/worship era, wearing shorts, flip flops & Hawaiian shirts back in the day to holding worship services in warehouses and storefronts rather than traditional sanctuaries. With all of that said, I have been concerned that instead of relevance simply being an important issue for church leadership to consider it has instead become preeminent.
This is one of my most favorite passages as Jesus is essentially announcing the Kingdom here and I love the picture He creates. My concern is that, in an effort to make sure we have good sound, lights, graphics, printing, an inviting atmosphere, etc, that we might have inadvertently forgotten the message that Jesus saves, heals, restores, delivers, gives hope to the hopeless... is actually what's preeminent (superior, supreme, of most importance for those in Michigan reading this).
The good news is that we don't have to choose to only do one or the other, we can be a "both/and community" to borrow the phrase from Rich Nathan. Rich uses the phrase "both/and" all the time. It means we don't have to choose between relevance (good light, sound, musicians, decor...) or a solid message, we could and should do both.
To take it a step further, even the message isn't enough (let me explain before hurling insults). In the passage above, Jesus merely made his message known and as a result, few believed him. In fact they tried to throw him off of a cliff, but we don't have to read much further before we see where an audience was amazed by his teaching because it had authority and he demonstrated that authority by delivering a man who was oppressed.
The truth is that Jesus didn't just proclaim the Kingdom (talked a good game) but he demonstrated it as well. My prayer is that we, as leaders within the church (not just pastors & paid staff by the way), would be about the proclamation AND demonstration of the Good News of the Kingdom. Lights, sound, stage decor and quality music/ musicians, video, etc, are all great, they really are, but nothing will ever be more relevant to an individual or a community than helping those who are poor, giving sight to those who are blind and setting free those who are imprisoned and bound.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this so feel free to share, comment or ask questions!


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Anything and everything about Thailand
Gaybutton
Re: Bar Reports
Post by Gaybutton » Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:27 pm
Jun wrote: ↑
That was back in the day and times change.
There is one thing that never changes - except for the amount . . .
Also, unless something else has changed, I know of no laws, ordinances, or whatever that dictates what the boys are allowed to wear. As far as I know, as long as their genitals are covered, no laws are being broken. Whatever the reason is, if money would resolve the problem, if I were a bar owner, unless the amount demanded is outrageous, I would want to at least give it a try and see if it works to draw in significantly more customers.
BKKDreamer wrote: ↑
he would have a hard time to get enough customers in there to spend 2.833 every single day of the month.
That is true, but it doesn't have to be every day. Maybe he makes enough to cover it on particularly busy days, such as weekends or something. Nevertheless, if the bar is surviving, somehow he is making it. But he needs to do more than mere survival. He has to make a living along with it.
I don't know how some of these bars are doing it, but I'm glad they manage it somehow.
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Post by Jun » Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:04 pm
Gaybutton wrote: ↑
I know of no laws, ordinances, or whatever that dictates what the boys are allowed to wear. As far as I know, as long as their genitals are covered, no laws are being broken. Whatever the reason is, if money would resolve the problem
Of course. Also, genitals are on display in certain gay bar shows, plus certain female gogo bars in Pattaya and probably Bangkok. So money solves that problem. Whether it's economic for a small gogo like Hot Male is another question.
Do the brown shirts vary the tea money pro rata according to the size of the premises? Or do bigger bars get a better deal ?
As for the separate matter of a Jomtien host bar, well the gross margins seem OK. We just need to attract customers. In an ideal world I'd attract customers by putting the boys in speedos. Since we're not in an ideal world, lets compromise on tiny shorts and under sized sleeveless T-shirts. Or something similar. Give any boy who follows the dress code 70 baht per boy drink.
Coach them to smile and look after their customers well.
BKKDreamer
Post by BKKDreamer » Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:57 pm
Perhaps that's for the bartender, who needs to be there and couldn't really be freelance ?
The other aspect is what upselling can be done ? e.g. Higher margins on premium beer. Bar snacks. Anything else WITH A LONG SHELF LIFE.
Also, if he later wants to expand and move to better premises within the complex, is it another 30,000 ? Or can that be transferred ? I would want to know the answer.
Give any boy who follows the dress code 70 baht per boy drink.
The additional staff line in the proposed budget is for 10.000 baht is for the bartender who needs to always be there. Also, the prospective new owner wants 1 day off per week so the bartender would need to backstop him.
So Jun, what would be the revised break even point considering the need to pay the bartender a salary ?
For upselling - we thought of the following ideas:
- to have a fixed popcorn machine on site where the first cup of popcorn is free then additional refills can be had for a nominal fee - 20 baht ?
if the popcorn is salty enough that creates $thirst$ :>))
- the current owner told the new prospective owner that many customers ask for coffee/tea - so this could be another upsell item
To draw people in we thought of maybe having a movie night 1 or 2 times a night. The space could accommodate a small movie screen. Do you think that this could draw customers in?
When I lived in Rome, Italy - two of the gay bars there had movie night where they would show a gay film - artistic, drama, action, etc. They would do a little short talk about the film, director, actors, etc. When the annual gay film festival was in town then they would show films all week and often the local gay directors and/or actors would make an appearance and speak to the audience.
Other ideas were for a mini-golf, dart board, etc.
can you think of other things that could draw the customers in ?
of course naked guys dancing around a pole is prohibited in Supertown - especially in one of these pop-up small outside bars.
The 30.000 damage security deposit held with the Jomtien Complex office is refundable (assuming no damage has occurred to the rented premises). Also, it can be transferred as part of the sale deal from one bar to another if the current owner who is due the 30.000 signs off to relinquish it to the new owner.
Jun, you wrote, "Give any boy who follows the dress code 70 baht per boy drink."
This is an EXCELLENT idea and gives the guys some financial incentives to perform to entertain the client base....
I would argue that if the guest bar guys can get enough customers into the bar and there is an excess profit - that some of this excess profit should be shared with the guys each month - like what we would do in the USA = Profit Sharing ....
Post by Jun » Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:37 pm
OK, so about 26 drinks per day to break even. Assuming we have all the fixed costs covered.
Also ignoring depreciation on fixtures and fittings. Fridges, chairs, tables and anything else needed for a bar. We shouldn't ignore that. The chairs need to be comfortable, not those that look stylish, but are unfit to sit on for any length of time.
The electricity bill seems modest. I trust you have a good source of data for that ?
Now whilst I like some popcorn with a beer, I don't think it's going to pull that many customers. In Silom Soi 4, the Circus with popcorn has about 1/3rd fewer customers than Balcony, the latter with no popcorn. The Circus popcorn allocation seems to be random. I didn't get any on my first Dec visit, asked for some on the second visit and still didn't get it and still none on my third visit. Some tables have it, including people with the same drink as me and numerous other tables do not.
The Circus had lots of overweight customers torturing themselves to stay off the popcorn. I would have shamelessly downed an entire bowl, had they provided one.
I think I'll try a different bar next time, as the seats look more comfortable across the road and I think the service is better.
I would cost out the popcorn. Materials, electricity and equipment depreciation. If less than 5 baht a bowl, it's a no brainer. If over 10 baht, I'd think carefully, as that's cutting your gross margin
I most definitely wouldn't go for a movie screening in a bar, but perhaps others would. You might need to turn up the volume to drown out the neighbours. Also licensing fees ?
If selling coffee, try sourcing and promoting a tasty blend from one of the local roasters in Pattaya (e.g Benjamit) rather than that awful Bon Cafe stuff.
Asia Traveler
Post by Asia Traveler » Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:01 am
Dragon beer bar Patpong 2 Alley, Surawong Rd Bangkok
Located street level just before the stairs to Fresh Boys. If open boys will be in the street asking you to come in.
Hours 17:00-01:00
Pool table and music played a reasonable level.
Host bar with a few boys all from Laos. Lao boys from Hot Male beer bar would come by to talk with staff as well so you get a preview of some of the Hot Male beer bar staff.
Drinks whiskey 120 beer 110. Drinks for boys add 50 to price.
Off fee 500 boy minimum tip 1,500
Post by Gaybutton » Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:37 am
Asia Traveler wrote: ↑
As I've said, it's been a long time since I have been in any of these bars and it has been years since the last time I was in a Bangkok bar. For me, apparently these prices are the "new normal".
Speaking only for myself, while I realize living in Thailand is a totally different perspective from being in Thailand for a holiday, I wasn't happy with the "old normal" Bangkok prices, so I'm definitely, shall we say - less than thrilled, with these expected prices.
Obviously, either be willing to pay those prices or don't go to the bars. If nothing else, at least those reading these posts won't get "sticker shock" when you see these prices since you'll know in advance what to expect - that is unless the "new normal" prices go up again . . .
Post by Jun » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:37 am
Salaries in Thailand are going up at 5~6% per year according to the Bangkok Post. From memory, they have been reporting similar levels for a few years.
If we apply 10 years of compound 5% increases, that's a 63% increase. So if bar boy tips go up in line with other jobs, 1000 in 2013 becomes 1630 now.
I didn't write down what I was tipping back in 2013, but very much doubt one could have got away with 1000 from a Bangkok gogo. I do have a note referring to a Toy Boy asking for 1500 in 2014. Which he didn't get and I mostly went elsewhere after that.
Now I write down who I see, where they are from, what I pay and whether they were any good. I use the Color Note app.
As an alternative reference, Trading Economics reports the Thai minimum wage increasing from 300 then to 354 baht now. Just an 18% increase.
On some undermoderated forums, any comparison to the minimum wage will result in a troll attack. Of course any rational person understands that we expect money boys to earn a multiple of that. Perhaps 3-5 times the DAILY minimum wage for short time. Or six times from a Bangkok gogo.
Of course, in 2023 off fees and above average tips are easily avoided with phone apps.
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Post by SP55 » Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:29 am
Winner Boys Again.
The most promising lad in the bar appears to be the bar tender. Slim, cute and nicely groomed, in the style that was fashionable about 10 years ago. Further investigations will have to wait, as I'm travelling out of town soon and I have other delightful young lads lined up until then.
LOL! That lad isn't a lad - but a tomboy, a lesbian female
Post by Gaybutton » Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:43 am
SP55 wrote: ↑
I'm afraid to ask, but how do you know?
A gay boy go-go bar seems like kind of a strange place for a lesbian to work. Unless her gender was obvious, I probably would have been fooled too.
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Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop Review
Mama's sweeter than ever
Reviewed by A.J. Maciejewski playing a 3DS on May 23, 2017
Over 10 years after her debut, Mama's still serving up delicious treats. This entry in the long-running series has you help Mama make a variety of goodies for her bakery so pick up some flour and sugar and let's get baked!
Be careful; you don't want to lose another finger, do you?
For those unfamiliar with Cooking Mama, the series basically involves mastering a succession of mini-games in order to create a final product to the best of your ability. Sweet Shop is no exception. Apparently, there are over 160 mini-games which is an astronomical amount. They range from tedious tasks such as peeling bananas and mixing ingredients in a bowl to more complex feats like arranging objects in a refrigerator in order to make room for something to chill. One mini-game involves carrying a tray of food across the kitchen but you'd think your character's been in Mama's liquor cabinet the way they almost constantly tip it over. If you ever mess up, you may have to wipe batter off the screen or blow flour away via the microphone. It's fun stuff and there's so much variety that you'll play for hours and still come across new scenarios that'll test your skills with the stylus.
My only issue with the mini-games is that many of them are a bit too basic which can end up making parts of the experience feel tedious. I guess this is like baking in real life in that you have to do some annoying things along with the fun stuff.
That's not Pear Charlotte, that's Mama!
Believe it or not, Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop contains 60 treats to make. Considering each one requires mastering a bunch of mini-games, this is an impressive amount. It'll take many hours to complete all of them yet there's still a lot to do even after you make every dessert. As you progress, a savvy businesswoman will start to show up at your shop and if you happen to have the treat that she's looking for and did a good job making it, she'll open a store based on that treat. These stores eventually open up all over the globe and each one can be played as a separate mini-game where you try to achieve a high score. For example, seeing how many cupcakes you can sort or macaroons you can assemble. These World Challenge mini-games may be fun but I sure wish there were leaderboards.
There's also a simulation element where you can setup your sweets in a shop. Upon entering the shop, you can wait for customers to come who then purchase items that they think look yummy. After earning some dough, you can buy different aprons and head scarves for Mama, renovate your kitchen, collect new kitchen utensils, and even purchase items to decorate your shop with.
Oh boy! These little fellows sure love my sweet shop!
Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop also includes a local multiplayer Download Play mode known as "Let's Play Together!" which consists of 15 mini-games that you can play competitively with up to four players. Doing so can be rather enjoyable but there's no defined structure as all you do is earn medals as you play the games then just turn it off whenever you get bored. Instead, I wish there was a structured tournament of mini-games so that you could see who the best player is by the end.
Fans of the series will be grateful that the classic charm remains as adorable as it's always been. The soft colour palettes, cheerful animation, and cute decorations make it a joy to play. Mama's voice is still the same, too. The actress is obviously Japanese yet she tries to pronounce things in English which is quite funny and charming. That being said, she only ever says a handful of lines so they repeat far too often. Another downside is that the graphics can be a bit dated. Some objects are very polygonal and have low-resolution textures. Thankfully, the 3D effect is implemented very well and it makes ingredients flying through the air look pretty cool.
Time for a delicious pancake after such a hard day's work...
Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop is bursting with charm and tons of enjoyable content. Fans of the series will gladly spend hours in Mama's kitchen but those who find stylus-based mini-game compilations boring probably won't be won over.
+ Huge variety of mini-games to master
+ Classic adorable presentation
+ Oodles of content that'll take hours to unlock and work through
- Many of the mini-games are very basic
- Dated graphics and repetitive voices
- Download Play multiplayer mode could use more structure
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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 938(3): 456-460.
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La Vallée des Moomins (Finlandais: Muumilaakso, Suédois: Mumindalen, Anglais: Moominvalley) est une série d'animation 3D CGI finlandaise et anglaise de 2019, adaptée des romans et bandes dessinées de Tove Jansson et de son frère Lars Jansson.

Synopsis
Un voyage dans le monde magique de la vallée des Moomins, un lieu idyllique où les Moomins vivent en harmonie avec la nature. Rejoignez Moomintroll dans cette histoire fantasque de famille et d'amitié.

Épisodes

Saison 1 (2019)
1x01 - Petite Mu emménage (Pikku Myy tuli taloon)

1x02 - Un air de printemps (Kevätlaulu)

1x03 - Le dernier dragon (Maailman viimeinen lohikäärme)

1x04 - Le fol été de Moomin (Kelluva teatteri)

1x05 - Le panache doré (Kultainen häntä)

1x06 - Le Secret des Hatifnattes (Hattivattien saari)

1x07 - Mumrik et le gardien du parc (Nuuskamuikkunen ja Puistonvartija)

1x08 - Le poisson géant (Muumipapan kalajuttu)

1x09 - La nuit de la Courabou (Yksin kotona)

1x10 - La Misaline (Muumimamman apulainen)

1x11 - Un fantôme de poche (Kummitustarina)

1x12 - L'enfant invisible (Näkymätön lapsi)

1x13 - L'ancêtre des Moomins (Taikatalvi)

Saison 2 (2019-2020)
2x01 - Un hiver sportif pour Moomin (Latua, herra Virkkunen!)

2x02 - Le feu follet (Nuuskamuikkunen ja tulenhenki)

2x03 - Moomin père et fils (Muumipapan uusi yritys)

2x04 - Petite Mu déménage (Kohtalokas pulloposti)

2x05 - L'étrange cas de Madame Filigonde (Rouva Vilijonkan katoamismysteeri)

2x06 - Le chapeau du magicien (Taikahattu)

2x07 - Zotte et Zezette (Tiuhti ja Viuhti)

2x08 - Le procès (Omituinen oikeudenkäynti)

2x09 - Adieu, Mademoiselle Snorque (Jäähyväiset Niiskuneidille)

2x10 - L'île de Papa Moomin (Muumipapan saari)

2x11 - La Fresque de Maman Moomin (Muumimamman muraali)

2x12 - Moomin et les chevaux de mer (Muumipeikko ja merihevoset)

2x13 - Novembre à Moominvalley (Muumilaakson marraskuu)

Saison 3 (2022)
3x01 - (Kotiinpaluu)

3x02 - (Muumipeikon suuri seikkailu)

3x03 - (Reippailija-Virkune)

3x04 - (Keksijä-Niisku)

3x05 - (Haisuli ja varkaudet)

3x06 - (Tuhton tarinat)

3x07 - (Talven salaisuudet)

3x08 - (Yksinäiset vuoret)

3x09 - (Vilijonkan viimeinen hurraa)

3x10 - (Nuuskamuikkunen ja kevätmessut)

3x11 - (Hattivattien kutsu)

3x12 - (Muumimamman ihana unelma)

3x13 - (Juhannuksen taikaa)

Saison 4 (2023)

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Série d'animation finlandaise
Série d'animation britannique
Série télévisée de fantasy
Série d'animation 3D
Série télévisée pour la jeunesse
Moumines


Depending on your practical needs, you can choose between various ways of setting up a computer-based marketing database. The least expensive option is to create a simple system yourself for recording customer contacts using tools that you already have. For example, you could collect existing data – such as invoices, other sales records for existing customers, and customer contact lists – and put it all into a single spread sheet. You can then regularly update your customer contact records.
You'll need to make sure that you comply with privacy and data protection rules about sales and marketing databases that hold personal information.
If you want to do more with your customer sales and marketing data, you could buy a basic software package, which could fit in with your current computer systems. This kind of software package allows you to create an office-wide database that all your staff can use for sales, marketing and service activities.
Alternatively, you could buy a dedicated CRM package designed for smaller businesses. Software providers like Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft, Microsoft, Onyx and Pivotal offer applications that integrate with existing accounts and transaction processing packages. However, dedicated CRM packages generally require servers, staff training, and customisation for your requirements, so setting them up can be more complicated than installing simpler software packages.
You could commission bespoke software. Consultants and software specialists can customise or design a software solution and integrate it with your existing software and your website. This can be expensive and may be more appropriate for larger and more complex businesses.
You can use information already held about your customers – whether on manual or computerised systems – to build a database. It is a good idea at this point to check the accuracy of this data, before compiling your database.
In total, this information should give you an idea of who your best and worst customers are, and what they buy from you.
You might include areas such as the response to previous promotions. Your purpose is to establish the 'how' and 'why' of responses or sales.
When compiling information, check that you have complied fully with legal requirements, particularly those of the Data Protection Act 1998.


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6390 Hirabayashi è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1990, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 2,8791971 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,1783794, inclinata di 6,07735° rispetto all'eclittica.

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Package Component – A separately licensed and fully-integrated component that enables the distribution and installation of MSI, EXE and ZIP file packages to Clients via a Package Job. When a Package Job executes, assigned Clients are scanned to determine if they have the designated Packages and whether the Packages have been installed. A Package Status page provides summary distribution and installation counts for defined Packages as well as the ability to drill into an individual Package for status by Client.
Multicast Component – A separately licensed and fully-integrated component that facilitates, via a Multicast Job, the distribution of files over a multicast network. Multicast Jobs can be scheduled and have assigned Tasks and Clients just like all other Job types. When a Multicast Job runs, assigned Clients listen for the broadcast of the Job and report back a success/fail status. Variables can be set and a unicast (Communication Server-based) Job can be triggered during the execution of a Multicast Job.
Server Jobs – A specific type of Job that runs solely on the Server but completes work on behalf of assigned Clients. This method is often leveraged for staging files for Clients since it does not require a connection to the Clients via the Communication Server.
Continuously-available Jobs – A new Job execution setting that makes a Job always available to accept inbound sessions from Clients and removes any restrictions on how frequently a Client can run the Job. Client Job records are periodically rolled-up into a single Job History record based on a defined interval in the Job's configuration settings.
Introduced in early 2014, RemoteLink provides the ability to intelligently orchestrate the movement of key business data between corporate systems and devices in remote locations or in the field. RemoteLink is being leveraged by dozens of retail and restaurant chains as well as organizations with large field forces to efficiently collect/distribute data, manage system configurations and software, and automate related processes.
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Verathon is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of medical devices. They provide reliable healthcare solutions that help providers in more than 60 countries and regions, delivering a higher standard of clinical and economic utility for those they serve. The Verathon BladderScan is a portable 3D ultrasound scanner that measures and analyzes bladder volume.
It assists medical professionals in caring for postoperative patients and preventing unnecessary catheterization. Verathon partnered with Tactile to help modernize the BladderScan form without compromising the product architecture and features by keeping the end user in mind throughout the design process.
In order to update the way the device is used, we needed to understand the changing landscape of who uses it and the variety of patients. We met with a consulting doctor and reviewed actual use-case scenarios for the technicians who would use the device every day. Through observational research and interviews, we came away with a list of questions and set to work on the solutions. We made significant changes, such as updating the screen from a push button/soft key interface to a touchscreen. Environmental factors always play a big role in the design and use of a device.
The varied ways technicians used the scanner informed the simplicity of the UI and focus of the image on the bladder. Throughout the process, Verathon conducted user testing. During the refinement phase, we incorporated actual use-case responses into the final design. The feedback we received led to improvements in the cart tray layout, the ergonomics of the scanner, and the hierarchy of information on the screen.


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By Daniele Selby
Olivia Kestin
On Election Day, New York Celebrates 100 Years of Women's Suffrage
But the US still ranks 66th for gender equality in political empowerment.
Image: Olivia Kestin
As people across the US head to the polls to vote today, women in New York have special cause for celebration: the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the state.
In 1917, after 50 years of suffrage marches and rallies, New York became the first state in the Easten US to grant women the right to vote — three years before the 19th Amendment was passed giving women across the country the right to vote.
Take Action: Sign this petition to #LeveltheLaw and empower girls and women around the world!
Though the women's rights movement in the US began in New York with the Seneca Falls Convention, New York was not the first state to recognize women's suffrage. In fact, Wyoming became the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.
Today — a year after Hillary Clinton appeared on the ballot as the first female presidential candidate from a major political party — women across New York state happily exercised and celebrated their right to vote.
In my head on repeat today, thanks to the badass new stickers from @NYCVotes commemorating 100th anniversary of Women's Right to Vote! #gotvpic.twitter.com/zo1rGpMLIs
— Lauren Silverstein (@miralleah) November 7, 2017
@womensmarch gotta have the right outfit for #ElectionDaypic.twitter.com/XOw6nxkKqT
— Melissa DOrazio (@mdorazio07) November 7, 2017
Many voters took a moment to acknowledge the struggle of those who came before them and fought for women's suffrage.
It's also almost 100 years of a Woman's Right to Vote! Do it for the ladies who fought for this privilege, and for those who don't have it.
— Narrah Murphy (@narrahmurph) November 7, 2017
Talked with a poll worker about how it's been almost 100 years since women got the right to vote. She told me to never stop fighting for it.
— Becky Spurr (@becky_spurr) November 7, 2017
Get out there & vote! Special thx to the suffragettes (including our own Susan B.) for 100 yrs of women's #suffrage here in NY. #VoteTodaypic.twitter.com/mYjw8DF1ek
— GailMSeigelPhD (@eyedoc333) November 7, 2017
Today we mark 100 yrs since women won the right to vote in NY. I commend all the women who fought for decades for this sacred right
— Debi Rose (@CMDebiRose) November 6, 2017
The state even commemorated the occasion with celebratory stickers handed out at polling stations.
Suffragist Rosalie Jones says vote! Sticker today marks centennial of women's suffrage in New York pic.twitter.com/Q8MOnxQrVN
— Allison C. Meier (@AllisonCMeier) November 7, 2017
Did it for the stickers & to celebrate 100 yrs of women's right to vote & bc it takes two minutes & is one of most imp things ill do this yr pic.twitter.com/bkhk5VGzJM
— Deanna (@Dbitetti) November 7, 2017
Read more: 250,000 Women in Office by 2030. This Group Is Making It Happen
And the Empire State Building was lit in honor of the centennial of women's suffrage in New York.
Tonight our lights will glow purple and yellow, honoring the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the New York State. pic.twitter.com/WaBVAvVvjq
— Empire State Bldg (@EmpireStateBldg) November 6, 2017
While it has technically been 100 years since New York granted women the right to vote, many on social media have pointed out that women — and most men— of color were excluded from this right for several decades more.
"100 Yrs of a Woman's Right to Vote" erases Black, Asian, Native Am women who didn't have the right to vote until long after white women. pic.twitter.com/jz8GmYbPa2
— Lisa Ko (@iamlisako) November 7, 2017
Women haven't had the right to vote for 100 years. White women have, everyone else had to wait till 1965 #votingrights#whitewashing
— tay the gay™ (@taylorcb7) November 7, 2017
Women around the world have fought for the right to vote and participate in their political systems. In 2011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia issued a decree ordering that women be given the right to vote, leaving the Vatican City as the last remaining country in which women cannot vote as the right is reserved for cardinals, who are exclusively male, and the only election held is for the role of pope of the Catholic Church.
Read more: Women Vote in Saudi Arabia for First Time, Land 19 Seats
But the right to vote is just one means of empowering women to engage with their government and political system.
Global Citizen campaigns in support of gender equality and against gender discrimination. You can take action here.
No country has closed the gender gap in political representation and empowerment, according to the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap report, though Iceland comes the closest with women holding 48% of its parliamentary seats.
Read more: 7 Feminist Laws Iceland Has That the World Needs
The US trails far, far behind Iceland, ranking 66th out 144 countries in terms of gender equality in politics, according to the WEF report. And though women in New York should celebrate this hard-won right today, the US as a whole has a long way to go before it reaches gender parity in politics.
But the first and simplest step toward achieving gender equality in politics is exercising the right to vote.
TopicsWomen's RightsWomen & GirlsVoteWomen's Suffrage


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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says he's not soft on violent crime, clarifies 'legalistic' memo that outlined prosecution policies
Drunk driver who killed three siblings in Louisiana was nearly three times over the legal limit: cops
Baton Rouge shooter Gavin Eugene Long — retired Marine — was outraged at police for Alton Sterling death
By Nicole Hensley, Alfred Ng and Leonard Greene
The gunman in the devastating Baton Rouge shooting that killed three cops has been identified as Gavin Eugene Long.
The gunman behind a deadly rampage that killed three cops in Baton Rouge Sunday was a retired Marine with an online trail of rants complaining about the treatment of African-Americans by police after Alton Sterling's death.
Gavin Eugene Long, using the life coach pseudonym "Cosmo Setepenra," groused in a series of videos, photos and online writings, about perceived law enforcement injustices against black people.
"You gotta fight back," Long urged viewers in a video recorded a week ago.
After five police officers were killed July 7 in Dallas, Long, angry about deaths of black men at the hands of police, chimed in about retribution.
Gavin Long was identified as the gunman behind the Baton Rouge shooting. He spent five years in the Marines and later published a series of self-help books. (CosmicConsciousnesss via Youtube)
"It's justice," Long said in a video defending the Dallas shooter. "You know what I'm saying?"
Long spent several days on the road in Texas hawking his self-help books leading up to the fatal gunfight in Louisiana, where he killed two officers with Baton Rouge Police Department, one deputy with East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office and wounded three others Sunday.
Authorities said the gunman rented a car in his hometown of Kansas City, Mo., and drove to Baton Rouge to carry out his horrific attacks on police — on his 29th birthday.
Multiple Baton Rouge police officers shot dead
He made stops at barber shops in Dallas and Houston in the wake of a sniper attack that killed five police officers during a Black Lives Matter rally before arriving in Baton Rouge. He documented his encounters with a cellphone fashioned into a body camera strapped to his chest. The videos were posted to Long's YouTube page under "Convos with Cosmo."
Despite suspected ties to fringe sovereign citizen group — the Washitaw Nation — Long denounced all connections to extremist groups in a video statement recorded in his at-home studio on July 8.
"If anything happened to me," Long began, listing the Nation of Islam and the Islamic State as examples. "Don't affiliate me with nothing. I'm affiliated with the spirit of justice."
Gavin Eugene Long, 29, expressed his frustration toward police in a series of online writings. (@ConvosWithCosmo via Twitter)
He filed documents to the Jackson County Recorder of Deeds changing his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, according to papers obtained by the Kansas City Star, and declared his affiliation with the predominantly black group claiming its members share ancestry with indigenous North Americans that predate the arrival of white Europeans.
The group is often probed for financial fraud for forging birth certificates, vehicle registrations and identifications and is also known for bombarding defendants with a barrage of lawsuits, according to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Long was armed with an assault rifle near a B-Quik convenience store on Airline Highway on Sunday at about 9 a.m. when he opened fire.
He was wearing a mask and body armor, and was covered in all black. After Long was killed, police used a robot to check his body for explosives.
In Kansas City, police converged on a small turquoise frame house listed under Long's name. An Associated Press reporter said some officers had weapons drawn from behind trees and others were behind police cars and unmarked cars in the residential neighborhood in the southern part of the city.
Military officials verified Long's service and said in 2005, he enlisted in the Marines as a data network specialist. He rose to the rank of sergeant in 2008 and was honorably discharged in 2010. He received several medals for serving overseas in Iraq.
My bodycam footage of me in Dallas out in them streets educating our people pt3
# Stand Tall, Stand Wild, Stand Free pic.twitter.com/PbiYsQBPSW
— Convos With Cosmo (@ConvosWithCosmo) July 10, 2016
A Facebook page associated with Long in the name of Cosmo Setepenra included a post about the need to take a stand.
"Violence is not THE answer (it is a answer), but at what point do you stand up so that you and your people don't become the Native Americans...EXTINCT?" a recent post stated
Two photographs posted on the page featured black children holding a piece of paper reading: "JUSTICE FOR ALL THE BLACK AMERICANS."
Gavin Eugene Long went on a road trip leading up to the Baton Rouge shooting and tried giving his book to strangers. (YouTube)
On a Twitter page using the Setepenra identity, Long posted a cryptic tweet just hours before the deadly attack.
"Just (because)you wake up every morning doesn't mean that you're living," he wrote, "And just (because) you shed your physical body doesn't mean that you're dead."
Although investigators did not immediately divulge the shooter's motive, Long repeatedly expressed his dismay at law enforcement in online posts, video blogs and to online radio host Lance Scurvin.
A police officer on patrol near the scene where three cops were killed in Baton Rouge. (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
Scurvin, who is based in Florida, told the Daily News he spoke with Long multiple times on the phone privately and on his show during the past year.
"I have no involvement with the man," said Scurvin. "He has called on two shows, maybe three."
"We had spoke on the phone privately — randomly. He wrote a book and he sent it to me."
In his last correspondence to Scurvin dated July 11, Long ranted about the lack of body camera footage being released to the public after Baton Rouge officers fatally shot Alton Sterling.
"Yes, they said the body cam fell off (and so allegedly that's why we couldn't see the shooting), but we (the people) still have a right to see the video no matter what happened," wrote Long, in an email obtained by The News.
"Let us see what was recorded anyway! We can't just take their word! If 2 body camera's fell off then Let us see the videos with the body Cameras falling off (IF THAT'S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED)."
In a May broadcast, Scurvin waved what appeared to be one of Long's three books published on Amazon under the Cosmo alter-ego. The first volume was titled "The Cosmo Way: A W(H)olistic Guide for the Total Transformation of Melanated People."
He published the book, along with two others, in October and November 2015 detailing his "spiritual revelation" after allegedly dropping out of Clark Atlanta University to travel to Africa.
He also attended the University of Alabama for one semester in the spring of 2012.
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Hydrology Research (1985) 16 (1): 1-10.
The geomorphological instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) proposed by Gupta et al. (1980) was compared with the IUH derived by commonly used time-area and Nash methods. This comparison was performed by analyzing the effective rainfall-direct runoff relationship for four large basins in Central Italy ranging in area from 934 to 4,147 km2.
The Nash method was found to be the most accurate of the three methods. The geomorphological method, with only one parameter estimated in advance from the observed data, was found to be little less accurate than the Nash method which has two parameters determined from observations. Furthermore, if the geomorphological and Nash methods employed the same information represented by basin lag, then they produced similar accuracy provided the other Nash parameter, expressed by the product of peak flow and time to peak, was empirically assessed within a wide range of values. It was concluded that it was more appropriate to use the geomorphological method for ungaged basins and the Nash method for gaged basins.


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Rise of Remote
Are You Still Unfriendly to Remote Work? Warm Up to the New Reality
Jordan DeVos is a brand designer, writer, and award-winning strategist. She leads projects remotely with clients ranging from tech companies to The Walt Disney Company.
Resting remote-unfriendly face (RRUF) affects many companies. RRUF occurs when companies think they emit a friendly policy regarding remote work but actually scowl at and discourage it. Many leading companies display it without even knowing it.
RRUF Quiz:
Do you have >50% of meetings with two or more people face to face with no alternative remote option?
Do you geographically limit hires?
Do you offer one day a week for remote work?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may inadvertently be displaying RRUF.
Despite recognizing the need for change, it's hard for many organizations to know where to begin and how to pivot practices to embrace remote working models and on-demand staffing. We'll cover some additional indicators that might mean your organization is less remote-friendly than you think, plus some key tenets for building organizations that are remote-optimal.
Are You Remote-unfriendly?
It's simple enough to recognize the benefits of adopting remote work and on-demand staffing models, but there can be an unsettling disconnect between what is promised and what is actually done. To diagnose a remote-unfriendly environment, watch for these patterns commonly found in offices that are in denial—where intentions may be said in earnest but actions fall short:
You say you want the best talent and skills, but . . . only if they're able to come into the office. Talent pools shrink if location is a deciding factor. The ability to sit in the neighboring cubicle is, unfortunately, not a skill. 100% of talented experts have a wifi connection, but you just lost their interest.
You say you want expert talent to onboard as fast as possible . . . but only if they come from your age-old talent provider, which fills roles in weeks, not days. Returning to the same providers might ensure purchasing power, but you can't catch a cheetah with a butterfly net. You miss 100% of the opportunities you don't take, and those untapped on-demand staffing rosters are 100% a missed opportunity.
You say you want to expand and diversify your employee base, but . . . the only way you plan to do it is with a new brick and mortar location. For non-remote companies, diversity is defined by who lives within commuting distance. You just excluded a broad range of talent that doesn't happen to live near one of your new headquarters.
You say you're a global company with customers around the world, but . . . you actually only hire people who work in North America. Your talent pool is instantly limited to less than 5% of the world's population. Comfort zones are never abundant; your next expert-level hire could be on the other side of the world.
You say your team now works remote, but . . . conference calls are infrequent, face-to-face meetings are common. If two or more team members are in the office, Zoom calls are never used. Or you add the link to the invite 30 seconds before the meeting starts, leaving virtual conference rooms empty. If there's no recording of a meeting, did it technically even happen? Your meeting attendees are waiting.
You say you're remote-friendly, but . . . only as long as you can digitally (micro)manage your employees. If your office believes that counting time, filling calendars with meetings, and checking over shoulders are reliable tactics for progressive outputs, you've got course-correcting to do. You just lost interest from the kind of talent that values autonomy, which is many of them.
You've built an on-demand program that expands the pool of available talent, but . . . the VMS (vendor management system) doesn't have a "remote" option for new talent. An antiquated setup can halt progress. If the integral tools don't change, how can new needs be fulfilled?
You say you have a remote work policy, but . . . only on Fridays. When employees are trusted to work remotely only one day a week, they're not really trusted. Remote work is not the new Casual Friday. Today's talent demands flexibility more than just 20% of the time.
Be (Truly) Remote-friendly with the Right Talent, Tools, and Team Programs
We've all heard (or been a character in) the horror stories of freelancers who overcharge, steal, or ghost a client. Remote isn't a panacea, and the challenges of managing remote employees do exist. Fortunately, many of these "risks" are little more than ghosts of the past given the right structures and systems.
Don't let risk breed stagnation. Planning ahead and learning from others will create a strong foundation for teams to work with agility.
The following three tips are a great place to start: trust, tools, and transparency.
REMOTE WORK TIP #1: Build a Culture of Trust
Policies that require work to be done on-site could be anchored by systems, workflows, and tools that naturally resist remote working models (see Tip #2). Yet there might be a deeper cause for hesitancy toward remote work.
Countless companies rely on the age-old art of micromanagement—requiring time-punch cards, scheduling loads of check-in meetings, and virtually watching over the shoulder of remote workers. It's most likely rooted in a lack of trust. The impact of this atmosphere can unravel into a lack of engagement, lower productivity, and, worst of all, resentment.
Managers at high-trust organizations note that the effect of trust on employees and productivity is significant. Paul J. Zak, an American neuroscientist, found that "employees in high-trust organizations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies." Productivity among trusted employees is 50% higher, and engagement is raised by 76%.
To reap the benefits of trust, companies engaged in remote work must nurture their culture by establishing trusting workflows and routines. For instance, there should be more emphasis placed on output than the amount of time spent "at the desk." Scrolling through anecdotes from today's top remote organizations, this is a clear pattern. Use project tracking tools that provide visibility, not oversight. Create a safe space and time to ask questions and challenge thinking so remote workers have a voice.
Efforts need to target relationship-building within teams. According to Zak's neuroscience experiments, "when people intentionally build social ties at work, their performance improves." Create virtual meeting spaces, encourage non-work related conversation channels, and provide experiences to get to know colleagues (such as personality tests or roundtable discussions). By amplifying the human factor, trust-building is a natural outcome within remote teams.
REMOTE WORK TIP #2: Equip the Team for Digital Engagement
As a standard requirement for the majority of modern jobs, digital tools are a key component to many roles taken on by remote workers. It's these tools that can transform and enable relationships in a remote or hybrid workforce. More than 8 in 10 middle-skill jobs require digital skills, according to a recent Burning Glass report.
To leverage remote workers to do what they do best, begin integrating digital tools by identifying which are needed for a remote workflow. Tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams are a good place to start. Video conferencing is an essential pillar to successful remote work engagements as well. Setting a requirement that the video camera be turned on in every meeting will encourage everyone to show up and interact in a professional—albeit remote—environment.
Tools that don't get used are often the casualties of remote work attempts. Consider creating a portal that houses everything for easy access and guidance. Then (and this is critical) train everyone—whether they're remote, contingent, or full-time—to use these tools. There should be a level of comfort throughout the company so that tools are never a barrier to collaboration and progress.
These digital tools should be built into the cultural behavior of an organization to create a sense of inclusiveness among all types of team members. For example, if a company utilizes Slack for office communications but defers remote freelancer communications to email, it creates an unnecessary boundary for a team that often leads to miscommunication and frustration.
REMOTE WORK TIP #3: Embrace Radical Transparency
Large enterprises are commonly plagued with the silo-effect, where communication and shared resources don't make the leap across departments or office locations. Success stories and lessons learned are hidden treasures that get forgotten soon after a team finishes one project and moves on to the next. Transparency is the key to ensuring that learnings are broadcast organization-wide.
Non-transparency can prevent remote talent from being successful throughout the organization. Encourage remote workers to share resources by creating a unified communication point for projects—a dedicated Slack channel, for example. Open access to this information can be fertile ground for unexpected crossovers.
When a company launches a remote program, progress should be shared fluidly. A strategic, shared dashboard can house progress, challenges, and KPIs for each remote employee or project. As adjustments are made to the remote work program, the entire company can see the progress and learn from what's working in other departments and what isn't.
Beyond tools for collaboration, create opportunities for open conversation where ideas, trials, and errors can be shared between remote workers or freelancers and in-office employees. One team's success story can be another team's inspiration. Ultimately, the program should promote transparency among engaged departments so everyone can learn from each other.
Confidence in the remote work program will grow as the company is exposed to knowledge and successes. It will build trust in remote workers and lay the foundation for relationships to flourish across boundaries.
Workforce practices are speeding toward uncharted territory, but if a company builds a strong, remote-friendly program that embraces both the current teams and future needs, it can embrace and leverage powerful innovations.
Get rid of the remote-unfriendly mindset and the procedures holding your company back. Build a successful program that addresses the three pillars of remote work: talent, tools, and transparency. Organizational tenets like procurement plans, digital workflows, and cross-departmental transparency will allow remote workers to thrive and your entire company to grow. As with all digital initiatives, it's all about failing fast, learning, and pivoting.


I think memory quilts are an amazing way to give comfort to someone after they lose a loved one. I have done them with jeans, plaids, ties, hankies, and of course, t-shirts.
My mom's friend Lynn lost her husband shortly after they moved to On Top Of The World in Ocala so I offered to make her a r-shirt memory quilt. We got together and cut the shirts over the holidays, and I did it in between other projects.
This is a simpler option – all I did was prepare the shirts with interfacing, see them into rows and add a border. For this quilt, I didn't want dashing and other design elements to fight with the shirts which are what will bring Lynn the most comfort.
The quilting is a simple swirly end-to-end in a tan cotton thread. For the back I did pretty feathers with a touch of orange on a tan background. Again, the shirts themselves are the star of this show!
I have had quite a few requests for me to make memory and t-shirt quilts so I have added them to my Etsy Shop. I consider this a simple version, for which I charge $20.00 per shirt and a minimum of 9 shirts. I will add more complicated options another time!
I hope Lynn likes it and it brings her warm comfort!


After exercise, some cells in the bloodstream decrease substantially - sometimes falling to levels lower than before exercise started, and this can last for several hours.
Researchers have debunked a nearly four-decade old myth that strenuous exercise suppresses the immune system. A study, conducted by the Department for Health at the University of Bath, reinterprets scientific findings from the last few decades and emphasises that exercise - instead of dampening immunity - may instead be beneficial for immune health.
In their study, the authors explain that, for competitors taking part in endurance sports, exercise causes immune cells to change in two ways. Initially, during exercise, the number of some immune cells in the bloodstream can increase dramatically by up to 10 times, especially 'natural killer cells' which deal with infections.
Many scientists previously interpreted this fall in immune cells after exercise to be immune-suppression. However strong evidence suggests that this does not mean that cells have been 'lost' or 'destroyed', but rather that they move to other sites in the body that are more likely to become infected, such as the lungs.
Scientists know that these cells are not 'destroyed' for three main reasons. First, most evidence shows that cells return to normal levels within several hours, which is far too quick for them be 'replaced' with new cells. Second, studies in humans have shown that these cells have the ability to leave the bloodstream and travel to other body sites.
Third, studies with laboratory animals have shown by labelling immune cells, that following exercise, these labelled cells accumulate in the lungs, and other places, because they go there to look for infections.
The authors, therefore, suggest that low numbers of immune cells in the bloodstream in the hours after exercise, far from being a sign of immune-suppression, are in fact a signal that these cells, primed by exercise, are working in other parts of the body.
Dr John Campbell from the University's Department for Health explained: "It is increasingly clear that changes happening to your immune system after a strenuous bout of exercise do not leave your body immune-suppressed. In fact, evidence now suggests that your immune system is boosted after exercise - for example we know that exercise can improve your immune response to a flu jab."
Co-author, Dr James Turner added: "Given the important role exercise has for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and type II diabetes, the findings from our analysis emphasise that people should not be put off exercise for fear that it will dampen their immune system. Clearly, the benefits of exercise, including endurance sports, outweigh any negative effects which people may perceive."
The study has been published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology.


We're all guilty of doing certain things just because it's what we've always done. Perhaps you read it in a magazine a few years ago or someone close to you once said that it is the best or most effective approach. From the way you cook and wash up, to the cleaning products you rely on, sometimes what we've always believed to be fact, when it comes to hygiene, is actually nothing but a myth.
This is according to Gareth Lloyd-Jones, chief commercial officer at Ecowize – South Africa's leading specialised hygiene and sanitation service provider for the food and beverage industry – who notes that, given the recent Listeria outbreak, South Africans should be taking a closer look at their hygiene practices.
Public toilets aren't actually as bad as many people believe. Depending on the building management, these facilities are often cleaned regularly, with strong antibacterial and disinfectant products. That's not to say there is no risk of bacterial contamination – think E. coli, Staphylococcus (the virus behind food poisoning and a form of pneumonia) and even Hepatitis A. When using a public toilet – or any bathroom for that matter – it is vital that proper care is taken to protect yourself from these harmful germs. However, your risk of picking up nasty bacteria isn't much higher than in any other public place.
Every time you open and close your fridge, the inside temperature is affected. Likewise, if you overfill your fridge, or place food inside that is still a bit warm, the temperature can rise. Storing certain foods such as dairy and meat products in a fridge that is not cold enough increases the chance of bacteria growth. Check your fridge temperature regularly and ensure it is set between 0˚C and 4˚C at all times.
Unfortunately, there is a limit to how long fresh or cooked foods last before going bad. While this differs across all products and produce, cooked food should generally only be stored for about two days. Just as important, leftovers and precooked foods should only ever be reheated once. The more times you heat, handle and cool food, the greater the risk of harmful bacteria developing.
Freezing is by no means an effective way to make food safe to eat. In fact, many bacteria can endure freezing temperatures so, when food is defrosted, the same bacteria is likely to be present and will – at this stage – begin to grow.
The best way to kill harmful bacteria on food is actually to cook it thoroughly, ensuring an internal temperature of at least 75°C, or hotter for most meat products.
When a product is marketed to kill 99.9 per cent of germs, it is important to remember that it might not be effective at all on the specific bacteria you have been exposed to. There is no substitute for washing your hands with soap and water. Disinfectant gels should only be used as a temporary fix until hand washing facilities are available.
Firstly, it is important to note that these terms have different meanings. Perishable foods like meat and dairy products as well as prepared food, which need to be kept in the fridge, are marked with a Use-By date, noting when it is no longer safe to consume the product. Best-Before dates, on the other hand, refer to the quality of a product, so packaged produce and baked goods will include this label. With this in mind, it is perfectly okay to eat food that has passed its Best-Before date, consuming products past their Use-By date can, however, put you at risk of bacterial contamination and illness – like food poisoning.
The truth is that five isn't a magic number and food which has been dropped on the floor collects bacteria straight away.
'You're not alone if you believed any of these myths. What matters is that you implement what you know now and protect yourself and those around you from harmful germs,' Lloyd-Jones concludes.


In fall 2018 Even published Out of Practice, our 300-page anthology of our first ten issues. With writing from Seoul to Cape Town, Istanbul to Rio, this first book from Even collects more than 30 of the best essays on the cultural themes that define our time.
Out of Practice is now available for purchase worldwide. Here is the introduction to the new anthology, written by our editor Jason Farago.
The diagnosis was the easy part; the harder part was the cure. In 2014, when Rebecca Ann Siegel and I convinced each other (and, with more difficulty, convinced ourselves) that we should found a print magazine of contemporary art and culture, we knew the odds were long. The decade's great fragmentation of attention was well underway, and it had already grown severe enough that the writing we admired had been rechristened with a cutesy neologism: "longform," they called it now, when it could fit on a quarter-page of newsprint. But we saw that certain niche media titles were succeeding amid the mass-market buckle, and we knew something else: that a culture remains vital thanks in part to systematic analysis, from writers not climbing career ladders and not beholden to sponsors. Art had grown more publicly visible than ever before, yet somehow it was understood worse — and between the tenure-track obscurity of a few publications and the vodka-sponsored vacuity of the rest, a vast center remained unoccupied. We asked around. We did our research. Readers were eager to join in the experiment, if they could find us, and writers were ready to fill the gap, if we could pay them.
We couldn't name the thing for almost a year. In the initial production stages we'd chosen the meaningless codename Admiralty, out of the not wholly absurd conviction that liftoff, in an algorithmic age, would come more easily if we had a title beginning with the letter A. I spent countless days in libraries, combing art historical resources for inspiration, and all my ideas were bad. (For a solid week I was convinced the magazine should be called Alinhamento — "alignment," in Portuguese — for no reason I can now recall.) I was so lost that my dumb idea to name the magazine with a string of random numbers was starting to seem not so dumb. At last my friend and colleague Zachary Woolfe, over improvised pasta one night, had the good sense to force me and Rebecca to rattle off as many essential works of modern art as we could name, and after passing over luncheons on the grass and damsels in Avignon, I spat out the signal artwork of the early 20th century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic painting on glass, left "definitively unfinished" in 1923 and now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
That was the name, Zack proposed: just call it Even. Certainly it had resonance beyond the invocation of Marcel, my enduring Franco-American hero and art's ultimate punster: it suggests evenhandedness, or an even tone; and there was the idea of getting even with, or at least evening out, a discourse we found stale. Yet the word "even," or "même" in Duchamp's original, introduces a bumpiness to the title both in English and French; the adverb can serve to modify either "bachelors" or "stripped," but both in a slightly ungrammatical, imbalanced way. (There is also a theory that "même" is a pun on "m'aime," or "[the bride] loves me," but I don't buy it.) Duchamp said in one interview that it had no strict meaning, and the word "even," in this sense, is ironic. Grammatically, "even" should be clarifying the actions of bride and bachelors we see on the glass; in fact, it is the word that unhooks modern art from strict representation and lets it float in a realm of its own.
Editing the first issue was...a learning experience? At the very least it was a bumpy ride, with false starts and beginner's mistakes, many of them made at Rebecca's kitchen table. My first planned cover story fell apart just a few weeks before deadline. The one we eventually published was fine, but I had to translate it from the writer's native French. Our first major interview, with Luc Tuymans, almost didn't happen at all; my train to Antwerp broke down between stations, I had to walk the tracks through the grimmest of Belgian industrial zones, and I made it to his studio with just minutes to spare.
I didn't sleep much, but Even no. 1, its cover lime green, came together in time for the 2015 Venice Biennale, at which Rebecca and I trudged through the Giardini with hopelessly overloaded tote bags. The later issues grew more refined, and the production process got less (marginally less) hectic, but that first issue did contain the germs of an approach that became, over the nine issues to come, more like declarations of faith. One was a confidence that readers would stick with a review over eight pages, or an interview over sixteen, if they were written well enough, and if the magazine itself was designed handsomely enough, to justify the attention. Related was an insistence that good writing and serious thinking were not at odds: we wanted first-person narration, for example, to buttress historical knowledge and critical judgment, and not just serve as a get-out-of-expertise-free card. A third was a promise not to get distracted by the glossy surfaces of 21st-century high-tech, even as we also rejected the antimodern revanchism of "slow media," back-to-nature hippiedom, and pour-over coffee. (As I said: not a Brooklyn food or foraging magazine!) We also trusted in writers with different kinds of expertise, many of whom, in later issues, would come from beyond the precincts of the self-defined "art world": novelists, philosophers, ecologists, and in one case a sommelier.
The key commitment of that first issue was to think at global scale about contemporary culture, and to use the magazine to plot a more detailed, more accurate map of the world of art. That happened above all through our exhibition reviews — which were the part of art magazines Rebecca and I always found the most useless, a hangover from a lapsed time of exclusionary aesthetic judgment and slower media circulation. Nobody reads past the headlines of those 500-word reviews in the back of most art magazines. I used to write them and even I didn't read them! We therefore, as we put that first issue together, asked a quartet of writers (in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US) to think about three or more shows in tandem, and to write something that would introduce readers to the larger stakes of culture at a certain place and time. We felt that the duty of criticism could only be fulfilled, this late in the game, by placing the exhibitions of the day within a much larger network of images, objects, and ideas.
One advantage of these omnibus reviews — beyond the bare fact that, years later, you might still want to read them — was that they allowed writers outside the art world's more visible capitals to write for our proudly New York magazine on equal terms, and not have to humiliate themselves through the dreaded "city report." (You know these if you spend any time on the art world's lower-margin, click-hungry websites: "Why City X is the new Berlin"; "The 5 hottest galleries in City Y"; "Where to eat during the City Z Beanie Babies Triennial.") Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Delhi, the list goes on — and if I'm proud of one thing above all over these ten issues, it's the geographical breadth Even brought to an artistic discourse that purports to be "global," but too often betrays the laziest of frequent-flyer habits. When we devoted the lead story of our sixth issue to underground hip-hop in Luanda, Angola, it was neither willful esotericism nor the election of a next-big-thing. It was a statement of intent: if a writer as knowledgeable and as stylish as Chloé Buire could tempt you into the beachfront nightclubs of the most expensive city on earth, you would find contemporary culture with as much weight and urgency as anything in your hometown.
The 32 essays collected in this reader offer just a fragrance of Even's ten issues. The extended interviews and artists' portfolios are absent; the previews we published under the rubric Even More are absent too. But this book comes as close as I can to defining in miniature what Even stood for, and what we saw as culturally urgent in years of greater upheaval than we could ever have foreseen when we slogged through Venice in May 2015. Here we've thrown out chronology and geography both, and regrouped the magazine under half a dozen themes, from the shifting strategies of art institutions to the digital recasting of painting and, not least, the rise of rightwing populism in the US and abroad. These four years were momentous, hideously so in fact, and from a distance (who can say yet?), Even may endure less as a vehicle of critical judgment and more as a record of days of abandonment. Either way, we felt we had to say something, and to say it frankly. Critics don't build monuments; we build time capsules, and that has to be enough.
There can be no "Even generation," as a little magazine might have mustered around its editorial line a century ago. We are too young, and have been on too many planes, to fool ourselves that a single avant-garde could form that way this century. But the writers whose work we've collected here shared with me Even's gem-hard conviction that history was a material and not a limitation, and that we are not condemned, as the first issue's editor's letter had it, to prefix everything with re- and post-. They share that conviction with the younger artists I interviewed for the magazine or invited to produce portfolios — among them Camille Henrot, Ian Cheng, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Neïl Beloufa, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, and Lucy McKenzie — none of whom can be pinned down to a single style or even a single continent, but all of whom work in the historically minded present tense that Even was so avid to defend.
At last a magazine, especially one this size, is a collection of believers: people who stand by a project in fair weather and foul, and who convince themselves, against their better judgment, to undertake a journey that only goes uphill. First among our believers is Abby Sandler, Even's indispensable majordomo and employee No. 1, who made sure every issue got out on time and later launched our podcast, Hidden Noise. Lynette Lee joined us as we completed issue 2; she went on to become associate editor and assigned several of the most powerful essays in this book, including an urgent report on architecture and urbanism in ruined Aleppo, Syria. Rachel Poser, our editor-at-large, had an eye for everything from Parisian fashion to Nepalese cave painting. At Common Name, Min Hee Lee became the coxswain of Even's design team; much of the later issues' good looks are hers. Several contributors to this book, strangers when I cold-emailed them, have become good friends, especially Thomas Chatterton Williams and James McAuley, in Paris, and Silas Martí, in São Paulo. My partner, Charles Aubin, had to play sounding board, proofreader, and amateur psychologist over the last four years; I owe him for more good turns than just these. And Rebecca Ann Siegel, the finest publisher any editor could ask for, is the author of this magazine's adventure as much as me. More so, actually: she could do 90% of my job (and sometimes had to) while I could only do a shred of hers, and as she shuttled from boardroom to mailroom and back in the course of a day, she exhibited an acuity, a resolve, and a grace under pressure that any cultural institution would envy. One thing we writers often forget is how much better things can be if you trust someone else: if you get out from behind your desk, if you build something, even.
Out of Practice: Ten Issues of Even, 2015–18 is available for purchase worldwide.


While waiting on the download he was able to knock down the first forty pages of Willard and his Bowling Trophies. He definitely needed a better modem but he never got phone calls anyway, telemarketers withstanding, so what do you care?
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jerry Martabani and I sell modems. I read your article and assure you I care very much about your downloads. Your data transfer rate is sacred to me.
I could hook you up with a modem perfect for your needs. Maybe even at a substantial discount seeing as how you are my very favorite writer. I can occasionally even obtain our top modems for free. Perhaps we could discuss it over dinner sometime?
I'm not a woman. However. If you can get my downloads sped up to where they belong, perhaps we could talk about it.
I apologize for my earlier foolishness. You've made the same mistake I'm afraid. I am not a Mr. any more than you are a Ms. (That's funny, isn't it?). I'm a woman. However. I don't date men. I assumed from your writing that you were… Well, sorry.
Well, do you happen to have a goatée?
I'll be on TWA 112 on the 6th, the connection is out of St. Louis. Go ahead with the reservations you suggested last night. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. Thanks again for calling. I can't wait.


When one-year-old Marmalade was brought to an Indiana shelter along with his siblings because his family could no longer care for him, he was scared and stopped eating. Shelter staff knew they needed to find a home environment for him, and reached out to Here Kitty Rescue. Marmalade was nervous at first in the large barn that serves as a sanctuary where the cats can roam freely, but eventually came out of his shell. But it wasn't until Rick, one of the volunteers at the sanctuary, started working with Marmalade that he became a happy kitty again. For more about this beautiful rescue story, and wonderful photos of Rick and Marmalade, please visit LoveMeow.com.
If you missed any of the stories featured on the Conscious Cat this week, here's a recap: on Monday, Dr. Lynn Bahr answered reader questions, on Tuesday, we featured a wall-mounted lounging set, on Wednesday, Ruby told you about the mayhem she caused when we had a dinner guest, on Thursday, we introduced you to Triple T Studio's brand new Cat Snap Cardigan, and on Friday, we reviewed Gwen Cooper's short story Fanny Trouble.
The kitty in today's video cracked me up. Make sure you have the sound on. Apparently, birdwatching is exhausting!
This kitty will complete your day!
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Is Your Cat Chasing His Tail? Should You Ever Worry About It?
She fell asleep in the middle of destroying my 3rd charger of the month.