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More on those inflated digital circulation numbers
On December 18, 2013 By Dan KennedyIn Media2 Comments
Jon Chesto of the Boston Business Journal takes on a subject that I tackled recently: trying to make sense of The Boston Globe's paid circulation figures at a time when no one seems to know how to count print and digital sales.
As Chesto and a number of us have observed, the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), whose numbers are considered to be the industry standard, has gotten carried away with digital subscriptions, allowing the Globe and other newspapers to count some subscribers two or even three times. Chesto writes:
This potential for discrepancies and confusion is one reason why the AAM board, which oversees how newspaper circulations are reported to advertisers, is weighing whether to tighten its rules.
It's hard these days to get a precise number for unique paying subscribers, a figure that AAM was generally able to provide, back when it was known as the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and readership was essentially measured by the number of copies sold.
There's no question we need a standard that everyone can agree on and that makes sense. Paid digital has enabled the Globe to improve its circulation numbers, and that's fine. But the AAM system is so out of whack that it's in danger of not being taken seriously.
The challenge of counting digital subscribers
On November 14, 2013 By Dan KennedyIn Media4 Comments
How many digital subscriptions has The Boston Globe sold? According to Globe spokeswoman Ellen Clegg, there were 45,971 "digital-only subscribers" in September — an increase of nearly 80 percent over the 25,557 who had signed up a year earlier.
That sounds impressive. But it's a pittance compared to the numbers compiled by the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), which recently released a report claiming the Globe had an average of 86,566 digital readers for its Monday-through-Friday editions for the six-month period ending Sept. 30.
The difference is in how you count digital subscriptions. I've written about this before, but the AAM's methodology is becoming increasingly controversial, as some readers are being double- or even triple-counted.
Here's how it works. As Clegg says, the number reported by the Globe represents only customers who have signed up for paid online access through the BostonGlobe.com website, the iPhone app, the ePaper replica edition or an edition for e-readers like the Kindle.
If anything, that methodology undercounts digital readership. For instance, we pay for home delivery of the Sunday paper, which entitles us to digital access at no extra charge — and that's how we read the Globe Monday through Saturday. Yet according to Clegg, because we have not specifically purchased a digital edition we are counted as Sunday-only print subscribers.
By contrast, under the AAM methodology you could sign up for seven-day home delivery of the print edition — and if you also regularly log on to BostonGlobe.com at work, you'd count as a digital subscriber as well. If you download and use the Globe iPhone app to check the headlines while waiting for the subway, well, there's a good chance you'll be counted again. Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab recently broke it down:
AAM wrote a blog post in May explaining that a paying print subscriber at a paywalled newspaper can actually count as two "subscriptions" if publishers provide proof that the subscriber activated their username and password for digital. And there's no reason to stop at two: "each digital platform," like an iPhone app, can count as its own sub too.
And in a considerable understatement, Poynter's Andrew Beaujon — noting that the AAM methodology allowed USA Today to claim a 67 percent increase in paid circulation — wrote that "the new figures make many comparisons challenging."
The good news for the Globe is that paid circulation more or less held its own during past year even if you use the paper's own understated figures. From September 2012 to September 2013, print circulation of the Monday-through-Friday edition fell from 180,919 to 166,807, according to the AAM. On Sundays it fell from 323,345 to 297,493.
But when you factor in digital-only subscriptions, the Globe had a paid Monday-through-Friday circulation of 212,778 this September, up from 206,476 a year ago — an increase of 3 percent. On Sundays, total paid circulation declined from 348,902 to 343,464, or about 1.5 percent.
The picture looks considerably brighter if you use the AAM's figures. By those measures, Monday-through-Friday paid circulation at the Globe rose from 230,351 to 253,373, an increase of about 10 percent. Sunday circulation rose from 372,541 to 384,931, or 3.3 percent.
What is the most accurate measure? The AAM figures may be exaggerated, but it's also clear that the Globe's measurements undercount paid subscribers — especially Sunday-only print customers who read the paper online during the rest of the week.
My best estimate is that paid circulation at the Globe is stable or growing slightly. And though digital advertising is not nearly as lucrative as its print counterpart, the far lower costs of digital publishing should help John Henry and company offset the loss in ad revenue.
Certainly Boston Herald publisher Pat Purcell must be looking closely at the Globe's strategy. According to the AAM, paid circulation of the Monday-through-Friday Herald dropped by 9 percent, to 88,052, over the past year. The Sunday edition fell by 7.5 percent, to 71,918.
At the Globe and the Herald, what's up is down, etc.
On October 31, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media1 Comment
On Tuesday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) released data showing that the Boston Globe's paid circulation is rising thanks to digital subscriptions, and that the Boston Herald's is falling. (Here is how the Globe covered it.)
Today the Herald counters with a story claiming that the reverse is actually true, citing a private report from Scarborough Research.
It's an exact replica of what happened six months ago. So if you'd like some perspective on the ABC numbers, click here; and if you want background on the Herald's pushback, click here.
Just to be clear, the ABC figures are public and are widely regarded as the industry standard. If you read what I wrote earlier, you'll see that there's some double-counting going on with respect to print and digital subscriptions. But what ABC is doing is transparent and understandable to everyone.
I would love to read the Scarborough report. But unless it somehow magically appears in my inbox, I have no way of parsing the findings that the Herald cites.
Globe versus Herald: Scarborough edition
On May 30, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media3 Comments
About a month after the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reported that the Boston Herald's paid circulation was falling and the Boston Globe's was rising, the Herald today offers the results of a new Scarborough survey that claims exactly the opposite.
OK, not exactly the opposite — the Scarborough report counts total print and Web readership, not papers and digital editions sold. Overall, according to Herald reporter Frank Quaratiello, "The Herald's print and Web audience rose 6 percent while the Globe's combined audience dropped 6 percent."
Unlike ABC reports, I do not have access to Scarborough surveys, which clients such as the Globe and the Herald pay for. So I'm not in a position to endorse or dispute the Herald's take. (But if anyone wants to send me a copy …)
And though it doesn't merit its own item, I'll note a final Globe-versus-Herald brief for today: a Herald story quoting an unnamed union source who says the New York Times Co. is shutting the Globe's suburban bureaus in the near future — "another sign that the Big Apple company is setting the stage to sell the Hub broadsheet."
More: I should note the latest ABC figures, which show the Globe's total paid circulation on Sundays is 365,512, whereas the Herald's is 81,677. On Monday through Friday, it's 225,482 for the Globe and 103,616 for the Herald.
For Web traffic, the best I can do is Compete.com, whose overall numbers are suspect, but which has some usefulness in terms of making apples-to-apples comparisons. According to Compete, the Globe's free Boston.com site attracted 2.8 million unique visitors in April, compared to 1.2 million for BostonHerald.com.
It depends on what you mean by "bureaus." Update: The Herald story refers to the Globe's "remaining suburban bureaus." But two Globe sources tell me that the Globe only has one — in Danvers.
For newspapers, a digital break from the bad news
On May 2, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media5 Comments
It's hard to know what to make of the latest numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations given that the New York Times gets credit for a paid-circulation boost of 73 percent. Yes, it makes sense to add print and digital subscriptions together. But some of the numbers reported on Tuesday are anomalies that won't be repeated once digital subscriptions grow into maturity.
Still, good news is good news. Thanks to digital subscriptions, the Boston Globe registered a 2.5 percent circulation boost on Sundays (now 365,512) and a 2.9 percent increase on weekdays (225,482) — the paper's first increases since 2004. Those numbers, though, do rely to some extent on favorable ABC rules when it comes to counting digital readership.
The Globe reports 18,000 digital subscriptions. ABC gives the Globe credit for about 33,000 digital readers. The difference is that the 18,000 figure counts Globe readers whose only subscription is digital. The higher ABC figure encompasses those whose subscriptions include some combination of print and digital — "engaged home delivery print subscribers who access BostonGlobe.com at least once per week," according to an email from Peter Doucette, the Globe's executive director of circulation sales and marketing.
Boston Herald publisher Pat Purcell has talked about a paid-subscription model for his paper, and I'd imagine that talk is likely to increase after Tuesday. The Herald's daily paid circulation fell by 12.3 percent, to 108,548; on Sundays it declined by 6.2 percent, to 81,925. In its own story today, the Herald emphasizes the popularity of its free website, traffic to which it claims is up 25 percent over the past year.
One point the Herald does make in its rather snippy account of the Globe's numbers is that paid digital circulation simply isn't as valuable to advertisers as paid print circulation. That's true, and, if anything, the situation may be deteriorating. According to newspaper analyst Alan Mutter, the share of online advertising going to newspaper websites dropped to an all-time low in 2011.
What that means is the question of who will pay for journalism remains as vital as ever. The newspaper business is proving that at least some of its users are willing to pay for online news. Will there be enough of them to make a real difference — and will they be willing to pay enough to offset the continuing loss of advertising revenues?
Those are questions that will have to be answered. For now, we should all be glad that the issue is whether the new circulation numbers are as good as they seem. That's a nice break from wondering if the bottom is about to fall out.
Sunday morning coming down (but not by as much)
On November 2, 2011 By Dan KennedyIn Media1 Comment
Stories about declining newspaper circulation have become so routine that they're hardly worth commenting on unless some deeper meaning can be found. So I'm looking closely at the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which show smaller losses for the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald on Sundays than on weekdays — especially in the case of the Globe.
The Globe's weekday circulation for the six-month period that ended on Sept. 30 was 205,939, a drop of 7.5 percent. On Sundays, it was 360,186, down just 2 percent.
At the Herald, weekday circulation is now 113,798, a decline of 8.7 percent. On Sundays, it's 85,828, down 4.8 percent.
Significantly, the period in question precedes the Globe's new print-and-digital strategy. The Globe charges less to take home delivery of the Sunday paper and receive BostonGlobe.com for free than it does to subscribe to BostonGlobe.com seven days a week. At the Globe, as at most newspapers, the Sunday edition is by far the most profitable, and the idea is to preserve Sunday print no matter what.
It will be interesting to see what effect this strategy has on print circulation when the next figures are released in the spring of 2012. Needless to say, the real threat to the Globe is the possibility that readers will content themselves with the paper's other website — the still-free Boston.com — and not pay for anything online.
The numbers also suggest that the Herald needs a better digital strategy of its own. Although the tabloid has a nice iPhone app (my preferred method for reading the Herald), its website is in serious need of an upgrade. For those who want to read the entire paper electronically, the Herald's only offering is a hard-to-navigate electronic edition that's basically a PDF of every page.
If the Herald were to offer an easy-on-the-eyes, reasonably priced digital option, I would pay for it. So, I suspect, would a lot of other people.
Globe, Herald circulation continues to slide
The Boston Globe is the 25th-largest Monday-through-Friday paper and the 20th-largest Sunday paper, according to the latest figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Both the Globe and the Boston Herald continue to slide. And the Wall Street Journal enjoys the largest Monday-through-Friday circulation nationally, while the New York Times is tops on Sunday.
Locally, the most interesting news is that the Globe's circulation has stabilized following a huge plunge between 2009 and 2010, which followed significant price increases. Those increases have reportedly improved the paper's bottom line, but have left the Globe with a much smaller subscriber base.
The Globe's paid Sunday circulation for the six-month period ending on March 31, 2011, was 356,652, down 22,297, or 5.9 percent, over the six-month period ending on March 31, 2010. The Monday-through-Friday picture was similar: 219,214 in the most recent reporting period, down 13,218, or 5.7 percent.
By contrast, the Globe's circulation figures for the six months ending on March 31, 2009, were 466,661 on Sunday and 302,638 Monday through Friday, meaning that Sunday circulation last year was down 18.8 percent over the previous year, and Monday-through-Friday circulation was down 23.2 percent.
Over at One Herald Square, circulation during the past year dropped at roughly the same rate as the Globe's. On Sunday, circulation is 87,296, a decline of 4.1 percent. The Monday-through-Friday editions averaged 123,811, down 6.6 percent. Two years ago, paid circulation at the Herald stood at 95,392 on Sunday and 150,688 Monday through Friday.
Both the Globe's and the Herald's circulation figures include exceedingly modest numbers for their paid electronic editions, which were folded into their total paid circulation.
Finally, the Globe reported 6.8 million "total uniques" for its website, Boston.com, whereas the Herald did not report. According to Compete.com, which counts unique visitors per month differently, Boston.com over time has attracted an audience about two to three times larger than that of BostonHerald.com.
The next big story will be what happens when the Globe begins charging for online access to most Globe content later this year. Will it slow or even reverse the decline of the print edition? Will paid electronic editions such as GlobeReader and forthcoming apps for the iPad and iPhone get a boost? How badly will the paywall hurt Web traffic? Stay tuned.
Circulation drops at Herald, too
On April 27, 2010 By Dan KennedyIn Media6 Comments
The Boston Globe today reports that Audit Bureau of Circulations figures show the Boston Herald's weekday paid print circulation is down 12 percent over a year ago, to 132,551. The Sunday Herald is down 4.6 percent, to 91,040. Here is the Herald's story.
At the Globe, higher prices, lower circulation
If you take a look at the new list of the top 25 daily newspapers in the United States, you might notice something odd: the Boston Globe, a longtime fixture, has disappeared. In fact, the Globe's weekday circulation has plunged so much that it now sells fewer papers than the Oregonian, the San Diego Union-Tribune and Newark's Star-Ledger.
In a memo to Globe staff members that was obtained by Media Nation, publisher Chris Mayer says the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show the Globe's weekday paid print circulation is now 232,432, down 23 percent from a year ago. On Sundays, a category in which the Globe is still a top-25 paper, circulation is 378,949, a decline of 19 percent.
Circulation continues to drop almost everywhere. But the Globe's particularly steep decline was the calculated result of a 30 percent to 50 percent (depending on the geographic area) hike in home-delivery rates, Mayer writes. The move is credited with helping to stabilize the Globe's shaky finances. And it drove even longtime print subscribers like the Media Nation household to switch to home delivery on Sundays only; the other six days we subscribe to GlobeReader, a paid electronic edition of the paper.
Mayer also reports that the local audience for Boston.com, the Globe's website, is up 16 percent over the past year.
I don't have any hard figures for the Boston Herald, but Jon Chesto of the Patriot Ledger reports that the Herald's weekday circulation fell by 12 percent over the past year. That would put the Herald's Monday-to-Friday current circulation at about 140,000. Sunday circulation at the Herald was about 95,000 a year ago.
The full text of Mayer's memo follows.
As you may know the ABC March Fas-Fax six-month circulation numbers were released today, and as we anticipated, the Globe has shown significant year-over-year declines, as a result of our pricing strategy instituted last summer.
The Globe's circulation, now at 378,949 on Sunday and 232,432 daily, still leaves us the most dominant newspaper in New England. The year-to-year decreases of about 19% on Sunday and 23% daily were just about what we budgeted. We raised prices last summer in most areas by 30% to 50% to grow circulation revenue and stabilize the business.
To stress the point, these decreases were forecast and taken into account before launching our strategy. We set out in this direction not only to cope with the effects of the recession on advertising, but to compensate for the structural shift of advertising to the Web.
In terms of readership, also included in the ABC Fas-Fax report, we reach 32% of all adults in the metro market on Sunday and 20% each weekday. In contrast to our print circulation declines, Boston.com's local audience grew by 16%. When you factor in Boston.com, our readership is even more impressive. Currently, during an average week, the Sunday Globe, the daily Globe and Boston.com together will reach more than half of all adults in the metro Boston area.
We are also developing additional news platforms to attract audiences. For instance, our mobile product usage is growing considerably, as is our recently launched app for the iPhone. We launched GlobeReader, and are working full-speed on other initiatives. Our goal is to be available wherever and whenever the consumer wants – on whatever device they prefer.
No local media can point to such a large audience or dynamic media portfolio. It's heartening to know that hundreds of thousands of adults choose to rely on the Globe's quality news each and every day, and that the newspaper has a core loyal audience who is willing to pay a premium for our product.
Thank you for your continued commitment to our mission.
— Chris
A double whammy for the newspaper business
On October 27, 2009 By Dan KennedyIn Media2 Comments
In my latest for the Guardian, I argue that the long-predicted newspaper-circulation death spiral now under way wouldn't be such a big deal if online advertisers weren't fleeing newspaper Web sites as well.
On a cheerier note, Jonathan Knee writes in Barron's that recession and crushing debt are masking the fundamental soundness of many newspapers — especially monopoly papers with a circulation of 100,000 or less.


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Poll: Majority No Longer Worried About Contracting the Chinese Coronavirus
Most Americans are no longer worried about contracting the Chinese coronavirus, a survey from The Economist/YouGov released this week found.
The survey asked respondents, "Taking into consideration both your risk of contracting it and the seriousness of the illness, how worried are you personally about experiencing COVID-19?"
A majority, 56 percent, indicated that they are generally not worried, and of those, 25 percent are "not worried at all." On the other side, 44 percent expressed concern, but of those, just 15 percent identified themselves as "very worried." Notably, those who are fully vaccinated are still more worried about experiencing the virus than those who are not, 50 percent compared to 31 percent.
The survey was taken March 12-15, 2022, among 1,500 U.S. adult citizens and suggests Americans are beginning to leave the stress of the pandemic behind them.
Over the last month, Democrat leaders have lifted the final restrictions in their states and cities — from mask mandates to vaccine passport requirements — but most Americans are suspicious of the timing and believe that politics, not science, is driving those decisions.
While Americans remain divided on the pace of lifting restrictions — 29 percent said it is moving "too slowly," 32 percent said it is progressing "too rapidly," and 29 percent said it is happening at the "right time," a majority, 65 percent, agree that politics — not science — is driving the decisions to lift restrictions. This sentiment is shared across the ideological spectrum by Democrats (58 percent), Republicans (75 percent), and independents (65 percent).
Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci has refused to say that the country is done with the virus, particularly in terms of vaccinations. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is also calling for a fourth jab, deeming it "necessary."
"It is likely that we're not done with this when it comes to vaccines," Fauci told CNBC. "The problem here and throughout the world is that the memory of what happened fades very quickly.
"I would hope that this completely catastrophic experience that we've had over the last two-plus years will make it so that we don't forget, and we do the kind of pandemic preparedness that is absolutely essential," he added.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced an amendment to remove Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

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Biblioasis International Series
Biblioasis
Clear Vision: Zachariah Wells on Goran Simic's From Sarajevo, with Sorrow
Deceptively simple: the shopworn phrase of the blurbing alchemist who would gild a leaden text with an effortless attribution of hidden complexity. Deceptive simplicity is often attempted and often diagnosed but rarely achieved. The world has many more Rod McKuens than Robert Frosts. Deceptively simple is deceptively hard. So when Goran Simić announces that he "would like to write poems which resemble newspaper reports," the connoisseur of poetry is apt to balk. Why ever would anyone want that? Should not the rich, deliberate language of poetry oppose the rushed, plain, fact-obsessed prose of journalism? Isn't this asking of poetry something that it cannot and should not be made to do?
Nine times out of ten, the connoisseur is probably right. But the majority of British or North American poetry readers bring to a book a privileged set of assumptions forged in relative peace, security and prosperity. For most Western poets, writing about war and genocide is a voluntary act and can only be done abstractly. But for a poet who has witnessed a period of horrible violence—and the florid rhetoric that invariably accompanies such tumult—the exigencies of her craft are radically different. As Theodor Adorno famously said, "writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
Paul Celan, a Holocaust survivor writing in the language of that atrocity's perpetrators, responded by writing poems of hyper-compressed indirection. As a Bosnian Serb who lived through the siege of Sarajevo and whose brother was killed by a sniper, Simić, now resident in Toronto as a PEN writer in exile,[1] takes a radically different tack: "I simply wrote what I saw." Indeed, "What I Saw" is the title of one poem and vision is one of several leitmotifs that give From Sarajevo, with Sorrow its form.
Twenty-nine of the forty-four poems in this new collection appeared in 1997 in very different English translations. These versions were written by David Harsent, who worked from "cribs" prepared by Amela Simić. Reading Harsent's adaptations, published by Oxford University Press as Sprinting from the Graveyard, beside these new/old versions (as translated by Amela Simić alone), one quickly gets the sense that Harsent was uncomfortable staying true to what Goran Simić saw and to the poet's own stated aims. Harsent writes in his foreword that he used Amela Simić's "literal texts … to get what I wanted. My purpose was to make new poems in English from this raw material. … I made changes, some extravagant; excisions, some radical; and additions, some substantial. … There's nothing particularly new about this technique, though I think I may have taken it further than most."
There's nothing inherently wrong with such a technique. The loose adaptation of extant texts is a literary staple and poets such as Robert Lowell, Robert Bly and Peter Van Toorn have created wonderful poems in English by taking liberties with a text in another language. But context matters. The spirit of the original poem matters. When the subject of a work to be translated is the very "raw material" of an actual war zone, as witnessed firsthand by the poet himself who is still living—pace a newspaper report to the contrary published during the siege—then greater sensitivity to formal intention is required of a translator, lest he be guilty of the sort of lyrical barbarism of which Adorno is rightfully leery. "Taking it further" in such a context is nothing to brag about; "extravagant" changes are unforgivable. What the translator wants must be secondary to what the source poem demands.
Looking at the differences between two translations of one poem is a good way to get a sense of how Harsent went wrong and why the "new" version, if less polished, is superior. The first poem in From Sarajevo is "The Beginning, After Everything." In Sprinting, this is the thirteenth poem and Harsent has shorn the definite article from the title to accommodate the move. Opening with this poem is crucial because it contains the programmatic statement of artistic intention I quoted above; this is the beginning, not merely a beginning, setting the stage for what follows.
Most of the poems that were published in Sprinting are typeset in From Sarajevo as columnar prose paragraphs "which resemble newspaper reports." They look more like cribs than poems. Harsent breaks prose into verse lines and paragraphs into stanzas, so that the poems are now only "like newspaper reports" (emphasis added). In From Sarajevo, Simić wants his poems to be "so bare and cold that I could forget them the very moment a stranger asks: Why do you write poems which resemble newspaper reports?" Harsent, bareness be damned, has jazzed this up with emphatic repetitions to read "so heartless, so cold, / that I could forget them, forget them / in the same moment that someone might ask me, / 'Why do you write poems like newspaper reports?'" Elsewhere, a "hungry dog licking the blood of a man lying at a crossing" becomes a "ravenous dog / feasting on blood / (just another corpse in snipers' alley)." The melodramatic phrasing—ravenous, feasting, corpse—and loaded place name are so patently opposed to the chilled restraint Simić espouses that one feels embarrassed for Harsent's enthusiastic adornments. It's regrettably ironic that Harsent changed Amela Simić's "stranger" to "someone" because it reinforces the message of the poem that strangers can't possibly understand the situation and the poet's response to it.
Comparative reading suggests that some of the "radical excisions" Harsent has permitted himself function to cleanse the poems of references that might be particularly offensive to outside observers. This is most evident in "Love Story," a poem about two lovers from opposite sides of a bridge who are killed trying to cross it. The new English version contains the following paragraph:
Newspapers from around the world wrote about them. Italian dailies published stories about the Bosnian Romeo and Juliet. French journalists wrote about a romantic love which surpassed political boundaries. Americans saw in them the symbol of two nations on a divided bridge. And the British illustrated the absurdity of war with their bodies. Only the Russians were silent. Then the photographs of the dead lovers moved into peaceful Springs.
But we should be careful of taking Simić's stated intention too literally. A poet's manner of seeing is not the same as someone else's vision. The poet has "X-ray eyes"; he sees in metaphors, in images, in allegories. And he sees not so much in pictures as in words. There are references in these poems to a gremlinesque angel who "rewrote the prescription for my glasses" and "officers with gold buttons for eyes [who] enter my back door and look for my glasses." For Simić, keeping his vision clear is crucial and constantly threatened by partisan propaganda and the psychological trauma of life in a combat zone. Besides the cold bare facts of war, Simić's poems, as the above-quoted lines illustrate, are full of hallucinatory, paranoid nightmares. Which are also facts of war.
Simić is never aloof or self-righteous in his role as witness. In his preface, he sounds like Joseph Conrad's Marlowe when he writes that, for all the "horror that I went through … as a poet, I would be deeply sorry if I hadn't stayed, in the middle of horror, a witness to how cheap life can be." There is inevitably something parasitically self-serving and self-consuming in the poet's transformation of life into art, regardless of how noble that art ends up being, an irony to which Simić, ever clear-sighted, is not blind. He captures it with sangfroid in the very unjournalistic sonnet, "I Was a Fool":
I was a fool to guard my family house in vain
watching over the hill somebody else's house shine,
and, screaming, die in flames. I felt no sorrow and no pain
until I saw the torches coming. The next house will be mine.
If I wasn't somebody else, as all my life I've been,
I wouldn't say to my neighbour that I feel perfectly fine
upon seeing his beaten body. I should offer my own skin
as a tarp. Will the next beaten body be mine?
I was a fool. I love this sentence. Long live Goran and his sin.
There is no house or beaten man. There is no poetry, no line,
there is no war, there are no neighbours. There's no tarp made of skin.
But there's a pain in my stomach as I write this. It's only mine,
this sentence, the one I swallowed, whose every word
is each of the flames I saw, every scream a sword.
Here, the poet looks back on the conflict—both external and internal—and manages simultaneously to damn and praise his role in it. It is significant that he does this in a form more conspicuously poetic than the prose columns that predominate in From Sarajevo. This marks the poet's transition from a poetry of immediate witness to a poetry of reflection and recollection, inhabiting traumatic spots of time. It also marks the migration from one home and language to another, the Shakespearean sonnet being a quintessentially English form. Simić tells us in his acknowledgments that sixteen of the poems in this book he "either wrote in English or translated into English himself." Coyly, he doesn't specify which ones and I would have a hard time trying to guess them all. If, as I suspect, "I Was a Fool" is an original English poem, then I would have to say that Canada and the English language are the recipients of a great blessing improbably born of a brutal war.
[1] Review originally published in 2005; republished in Career Limiting Moves, Biblioasis 2014.
Zachariah Wells is the author of the poetry collections Unsettled and Track & Trace; co-author, with Rachel Lebowitz, of the children's book Anything but Hank!; and editor of Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and The Essential Kenneth Leslie. Over the past decade, his critical reviews and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies in Canada and the US and he has won Arc Poetry Magazine's Critic's Prize four times. Originally from Prince Edward Island, Wells now lives with his family in Halifax, where he works as a freelance Zach-of-all-trades.
Labels: Amela Simić, BITSblog, Career Limiting Moves, David Harsent, From Sarajevo With Sorrow, Goran Simić, Serbo-Croatian Literature, Zachariah Wells
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Adam Swetlik, who used to work as a bouncer for the Walrus, is running for city council (again). With no endorsements or experience, he received the second-fewest votes in the 2017 race.
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019 (Updated Oct. 13, 2019)
When Adam Swetlik ran for city council the first time, he had no endorsements and no political experience. He pulled in 1,940 votes, the second fewest of all 14 candidates on the 2017 ballot.
Things have changed for Swetlik. He joined PLAN-Boulder County and served on its board. He is the chair of the city's Housing Advisory Board. This election, he is one of five preferred candidates for two slow-growth groups.
What hasn't changed is Swetlik's reason for running: Boulder's housing affordability crisis.
"Most of the people I worked with in town didn't live here, and if they did, they had four roommates and at least two jobs," he said. "We're all working our asses off just to be able to live in this town."
Others have simply moved away in order to buy a house and start a family. "All these really smart, successful people Boulder is not an option for them."
Boulder is far from alone: Cities big and small are experiencing rapid escalation of prices. But Boulder is among the least affordable: Boulder County has the sixth-highest median single-family home price, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Such a high-level problem requires high-level solutions, Swetlik believes. His suggestions for tackling the affordability crisis are government interventions like rent control and transfer taxes. But those measures are nearly all beyond the scope of Boulder's authority; state laws preempt municipalities from implementing them. His primary role as a city council member would be to advocate for changes to those laws.
"This is a rare, rare opportunity to make this happen since we have Democrats in all levels of government right now at the state level," he said. "There's almost no advocacy for these issues."
Boulder does pay a lobbyist to advocate at the state and federal level. The 2019 lobbying agenda did include a transfer tax, and city council has expressed support for overturning Colorado's ban on rent control. But Swetlik said that when he attended a state legislature hearing on a (now dead) bill to do so this past winter, he was the sole representative of Boulder's political scene.
"Not a single staff member from Boulder, not a single city council person — no one was there to speak for that issue," he said. He acknowledges that the hearing was held during a snowstorm, possibly complicating travel for some, but stands by his criticism. "It makes me think, how important is this stuff? You say you want all the tools in the box, but no one showed up. We need leaders that will."
There are some things Swetlik thinks Boulder can be doing, such as raising taxes and fees to pay for affordable housing. He's also a fan of the middle-income down payment assistance program awaiting voter approval.
What he doesn't want to see in the affordability toolbox is density. He was one of two participants in this summer's Raucous Caucus to say he doesn't believe in compact urban development as a means of combating climate change — an issue that is dividing environmentalists.
Increased density might help reduce emissions, Swetlik agrees, but only up to a point. And then there's the fact that he and many others don't want to live in a bigger town; 10,000 to 20,000 more residents might be reasonable, he said, but even adding those people would exacerbate Boulder's affordability woes, he fears — at least under the current, broken housing system.
"I don't disagree with a lot of densification principles," he said. But "If you actually were building stuff that I believed would help people who are low-income, you could build the shit out of high density.
"If we keep saying, 'More and more, right now' without things in place to actually capture that value and disperse it to the people who need it, it's just going to make the problem even worse. You have to have rules in place to capture the benefit."
Swetlik doesn't have a particular plan for ensuring that Boulder will ever get to Part 2 of his vision: actually building housing. Even if 100% of new housing in Boulder were to be affordable — which Swetlik would like to see, even if he admits it's unlikely and maybe impossible — there is still likely to be significant pushback.
Palo Parkway and Attention Homes were both affordable housing projects, the latter for homeless youth. Both were hotly contested by neighborhood groups, though they won the approval of slow-growth majority councils.
In lieu of a plan, Swetlik has a promise.
"If I don't do the second part, I'm not fulfilling my goal," he said. "I have no illusions about how hard these problems are and what we can actually do. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying."
Who he says he represents: Working people, neighborhoods
Endorsed by: PLAN Boulder County, Together4Boulder, Indian Peaks Sierra Club, (Not an endorsement, per se, but Swetlik received 100% on the Planned Parenthood questionnaire)
Campaign filings: 14 days before election
Priorities: Housing, community engagement
Relevant op-eds: "Affordable change for Boulder's ADU future"
Why you might want to vote for him: Swetlik shows up. Aside from his Housing Advisory Board duties, he has attended nearly every city council meeting for several months. Swetlik is also the only PLAN-endorsed candidate* who attended the March for Police Oversight and the city council listening session on racism, and speaks on issues of race and homelessness with comfort and knowledge. *(Editor's note: This does not include Corina Julca, who declined to interview.)
He also handles criticism and crisis well. He attributes his ability to keep cool in stressful situations to the four years he spent as a bouncer at Walrus and being a child of divorce.
"I learned a lot about trying to find compromise and make things work in a bad situation," he said. "It's not something I love to do, but it's something I can do. I've fallen into these things — bouncing, politics — because I can utilize those skills.
Why you might not want to vote for him: A handful of times throughout the interview, Swetlik made a claim and then, when asked for supporting evidence, admitted it was "a feeling" or was based on what turned out to be incorrect information. Most troubling was his take on CU South, in which he repeated false (but persistent) claims popular among opponents of development. However, Swetlik responds well when presented with information that is counter to his statements, either admitting the need to do more research or the possibility that his sources of information are problematic or just plain wrong.
He was less willing to be swayed by another criticism. Swetlik paints all arguments for density as being driven by business and development interests. While there is still debate to be had about the pros and cons of compact urban development in Boulder, the voices in the conversation are vast and varied: The New York Times, the Atlantic, nonprofit and environmental groups have all argued for the need to address restrictive zoning and to build more housing, more compactly. To write them all off as somehow profit-driven is lazy and uncritical, two traits that don't otherwise apply to Swetlik. Rather than relenting when questioned, Swetlik doubled down on his claims that even the Sierra Club is succumbing to the pressures of monied interest groups.
Swetlik on the issues
Housing: Swetlik's approach to housing would be to do as much capital-A Affordable (subsidized by government cash) as possible. He personally advocated for Boulder upping its affordable housing goal to 20% rather than 15%, though he spoke to council on behalf of PLAN to support the lower threshold.
He's for every type of tax on the table, even regressive measures like sales tax: "I'm more than willing to pay more in sales tax if that's going to go toward housing people," he said.
The effort to cap the allowable size of homes in Boulder has been postponed, but Swetlik would have voted for it, if he was on the council at the time. "You don't need that much space," he said. "I'm one of the biggest people in this town and I live in 650 square feet very comfortably. If you're trying to keep people from building things that are going to price their neighbors out, why the hell would you not put a limit?"
He also believes that the University of Colorado should build more student housing and require sophomores to live on campus, in addition to freshmen. Like with his pursuit of rent control and transfer taxes, it's not something he would have the power to do as a city council member. Swetlik acknowledges this and stresses the need for advocacy at the state level.
"I might not have all the local solutions (but) at least I have the intent to make things better," he said. "I may be yelling from the same bullhorn as everyone else saying the system is broken, but at least I'm one of those people yelling."
Something else Swetlik suggested that is definitely out of reach: Reserving some of the city's affordable housing for people of color, an almost certain violation of fair-housing rules meant to prohibit discrimination based on race.
Homelessness: Swetlik is in favor of year-round sheltering and critical of the city's camping ban, which he sees as "sweeping the problem under the rug." During the Chamber forum, he called for increased investment in services — bathrooms, lockers, showers — and to fund the countywide housing-first approach.
"No one should ever die from exposure outside," he said during this interview. "That is the barest of minimums."
He also critiqued measures the city has taken to discourage unhoused residents from sleeping in public, such as landscape changes, as a waste of money.
"I hate to see stupid things like paying $50,000 to put boulders around things so people can't sit on them. That type of ideology needs to go away forever. Any dollar you would spend on stuff like that should just go toward the benefit of that person, not trying to remove that person."
CU South / Flood mitigation: Swetlik's views of the process are, as he puts it, "a bit back and forth." He questioned if the flood mitigation plan designed by consultants would even work, a frequent bogeyman argument by groups opposed to CU's development of that land. (He backed off when asked directly if he was questioning the conclusions of paid experts and city staff.)
But he is also critical of some of those same people who argue that CU shouldn't build anything there and feel the land should be preserved as open space.
"To me, it is CU's land," he said. "I don't know what happened 30 years ago when they bought it, but you have to face the realization of today. And today, you have a chance of people dying."
He wasn't aware that the university has agreed to limit the number of housing units there to 1,100 and keep buildings below the city's 55-foot height limit, but he didn't agree with the restrictions. The land is a perfect place for student housing, he said, and lots of it: "If they want to build them tall, you're not blocking any views. It's on the end of town."
Muni: Swetlik is "firmly" pro-muni. At a PLAN forum, he said the effort was "worth every penny," according to a Camera article — especially if it pushes Xcel toward faster adoption of carbon-free energy, as he believes it does
Hill hotel: Swetlik is "generally not in favor" of a hotel in that spot. "I definitely understand that the Hill needs some revitalization of some sort, but I think there's a lot better way to go about doing that." Other projects would be more "interesting" and beneficial, he said, though none have been proposed or are on the table at this point.
Lethal control of prairie dogs: Swetlik supports council's vote to explore this option. "Your first go-to shouldn't be, 'Let's just murder everything if something gets out of whack.' But once something gets to a point where it's uncontrollable by any other means, that's when you have to at least look into if lethal control is going to be helpful to the ecosystem."
Budget: Like many candidates, Swetlik wasn't very familiar with the budget, saying he needed to "inform myself much better." The few policies he mentioned were charging more for parking and raising hotel taxes. He is in favor of the sales tax extension to fund open space. In terms of cuts or shifting spending priorities, Swetlik would like to either cut Boulder's economic vitality spending — $150,000 in the proposed 2020 budget to pay for unspecified "business incentives programs" that include things like small business microloans, retention rebates and employee parks and recreation discounts — or perhaps shift it to focus on efforts to preserve and promote small business.
Neighborhood input on development: Swetlik was one of the candidates at the Raucous Caucus to argue that neighbors should get more say over projects than residents citywide. He is critical of the city's engagement process, praising Think Boulder's efforts despite the group's questionable practices.
"A lot of that is people feeling like things are being done to them. I don't think in past years the city has had really good communication with neighborhoods."
Occupancy limits: Swetlik is not in favor of of Boulder's rules barring three or four unrelated persons from living together. "It's an unenforceable rule."
Police oversight: Swetlik called the creation of the task force "a really, really good step in the right direction," saying "it probably should have happened a long time ago."
Though he said he has never personally witnessed police mistreating people of color, he admits it could be happening and recounted numerous instances of racism shared by his friends and co-workers downtown. He referred to the confrontation of Zayd Atkinson as "racially motivated," calling it a "terrible" incident.
He also believes that police should make interactions with unhoused residents "their lowest priority."
"People just living their lives, trying to exist in a public space, those people shouldn't be harassed. Right now I don't think that's the case in what's happening."
Attended March for Police Oversight: Yes
Attended city council listening session on racism: Yes
Council's use of moratoria: Though Swetlik does not favor the use of moratoria generally — "There is a lack of a long-term, agreed-upon vision that creates these" situations, he said — he supports both the moratoria put in place by this council.
Opportunity Zone moratorium: "I definitely would have voted for" this, Swetlik said. He spoke in support of the moratorium at city council ahead of the 6-3 vote to implement it. "That is a huge tax giveaway to companies; huge. That area is one that still has some affordability naturally because it has older buildings. What would be built there would not be affordable. It made sense to slow things down, try to capture as much value as possible."
Height limit moratorium: Swetlik is also in favor of lowering the charter-mandated height limit of 55 feet. "In certain parts of the town, it makes sense. A big part of what the city wants to maintain is views out to the west. If you're not affecting that, 55 foot makes sense. If you are, (lower) is probably better."
Author's note: This article has been updated to include endorsements.
— Shay Castle, boulderbeatnews@gmail.com, @shayshinecastle
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Patrick H Murphy
I like so much of his enthusiasm and effort, but his ignorance of the Muni faults and the arrogance of thinking that Boulder is influencing Xcel rather than regulations, economics and good ideas (which Boulder has none) is disqualifying. I won't vote for him unless he wakes up to the Muni folly.
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One of the enduring questions about caring for children after their parents divorce was debated in Parliament again at the start of this month, as Conservative MP Nigel Huddleston raised the issue of access rights for grandparents once again.
It is around a year since the topic was last raised; unfortunately at that time, the 2017 UK General Election was imminent, and purdah rules meant no formal progress could be made.
"Divorce and family breakdown can take an emotional toll on all involved, but the family dynamic that is all too often overlooked is that between grandparents and their grandchildren," Mr Huddleston told the House of Commons on May 2nd 2018.
"When access to grandchildren is blocked, some grandparents call it a kind of living bereavement. Unlike some other countries, grandparents in the UK have no automatic rights to see their grandchildren, and vice versa."
He agreed with a point raised by fellow Conservative MP Edward Argar that access to grandparents can even prove to be a stabilising factor for young people during the process of divorce itself.
How can grandparents gain access after divorce?
Mediation is of course another way to add a sense of stability to divorce proceedings, but can also be a remedy for grandparents who want to gain access to grandchildren after divorce.
"What can grandparents who have been cut off from their grandchildren do? If appealing directly to the parents' good will does not work, the first step is to go through mediation," Mr Huddleston said in the Commons.
Labour MP Gloria De Piero added that family disputes can be complex and sometimes court action is unavoidable, but that "arbitration and mediation are, of course, more amicable, preferable and cheaper routes, and they have been found to work in many cases".
Across the contributions from different, opposing political parties, there was a broad consensus that grandparents deserve to be considered and involved where possible, especially when it is likely to result in a better standard of care for their grandchildren following their parents' divorce.
Marcia Mediation believe in involving all directly affected family members – including asking young people to express their own wishes about what should happen after their parents separate – in order to create an amicable, mutually agreeable outcome wherever possible.
Ultimately this allows everyone to have a voice and to feel that their views have been respected as far as is reasonably possible, ensuring that every member of the family is able to maintain a sense of dignity in divorce.
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While Philips Hue bulbs have long been compatible with HomeKit with a bridge, the official Philips Hue Dimmer Switch, which launched in 2015, was not HomeKit compatible prior to a recent update.
Previously, the switches could be configured via the Hue app to turn specific Hue bulbs on or off. Beyond that, the switches were not recognized by HomeKit, and could not be viewed or customized through the iOS Home app.
But the firmware update allows the switches to now be reprogrammed as the user sees fit, allowing any of the four face buttons to control any compatible HomeKit accessory, or groupings of accessories.
Priced at just $24.99 on Amazon, the update makes the Philips Hue Smart Dimmer Switch one of the most affordable HomeKit switches available — provided you already own a Hue hub.
And because the switch actually pops out of its wall plate for completely wireless use, it's also a portable remote control, allowing users to bring the switch to their bedside at night or to put on the coffee table while watching TV.
Somewhat paradoxically, to get the most out of the Philips dimmer switch, you'll need to disable controls through the official Philips Hue app. This is because the controls will overlap in both the Hue and Home apps if you leave both enabled.
For example, if you reconfigure the dimmer buttons to control an accessory like a ceiling fan, connected Hue bulbs will still get brighter or dimmer as you press the buttons, in addition to turning the fan on and off.
Before you get started, make sure your Hue hub and accessories are running the latest firmware. You can open the Hue app, choose Settings, then scroll down to Software update to check for the latest update.
Next, to disconnect dimmer controls from the Hue app, go back to the Settings tab, but this time select Accessory Setup. Here, you will see any official dimmer switches you have connected to your bulbs.
Tap on the dimmer you want to customize, and you'll see which bulbs it controls. Tap the Where? menu and deselect any rooms or bulbs currently connected. This will leave controls to the Apple Home app.
Conveniently, the Hue app now includes a quick link to configure your specific switch in the Apple Home app. Simply go back to the controls overview for your switch (which should now show "0 rooms" and have no controls in the Hue app), and scroll down to a small Configure in Apple Home app link at the bottom. From there, you'll authorize configuring in the Home app, and then you'll be presented with an App Store link for the app (assuming you already have it installed, just tap "Open").
You can open Apple's Home app on your own or be whisked away to it through the Hue app. If you launch the app separately, you'll need to find your dimmer in your list of accessories and either long press or 3D Touch on the switch to bring up an overlay with the Details button at the bottom. Tap that.
Once you have the configurable controls open, scroll down to see a list of all four buttons on the front face of the dimmer. Here, you can configure them as you see fit.
Simply tap on the button you want to configure, then choose Add or remove Accessories and Scenes. This will present you with all of the scenes and accessories in your HomeKit configuration, and you can mix and match them as you see fit.
For example, in my configuration, I have a HomeKit-connected Lutron wall switch that turns a (dumb) ceiling fan on and off. But the physical switch for the fan is in a rather inconvenient place, while my Philips Hue dimmer is mounted in a more accessible location.
I don't use the dimmer controls on my bulbs very often, so I instead replaced the dimmer buttons on the Philips switch to turn my ceiling fan on and off. The top "brighter" button (button 2) turns the fan on, while the lower "dimmer" button (button 3) powers it off.
The remaining "On" and "Off" buttons (buttons 1 and 4) on the Philips switch continue to control the lights in my living room. But now they are configured to do so through the Apple Home app instead of the Hue app.
The aforementioned setup is admittedly rather simple —the magic of HomeKit is that you can get nearly as complicated and specific as you see fit.
For example, because it is now connected to the larger HomeKit ecosystem, a single button push can now control non-Hue lights in tandem with Hue lights.
Or, if you want, anything other than lights. Perhaps you want to use the brightness controls to adjust the temperature settings up and down on your air conditioner, or maybe to adjust your HomeKit window shades while also changing the lights.
Consider a single button press that triggers a custom bedtime scene —dimming the lights, raising the window shades, lowering the air conditioner's temperature, and powering a smart switch that controls a white noise maker.
Unfortunately, the update does not make the switches compatible with the more complex automation controls in the Apple Home app. If you try to set up an automation using a Philips Hue Dimmer Switch as a trigger, you're told to configure the switch through the details screen.
This is different from Lutron in-wall switches, which can be configured to trigger automations within HomeKit. But those Lutron switches and dimmers are also pricier than the Philips product.
Regardless, with smart home accessories, it's good to have options. The HomeKit update to Philips Hue Dimmer Switches expands the lineup in a meaningful way, giving users more ways to control and customize their connected home.


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This wine opens with light aromas of lemon and green tea. Flavors of green apple and citrus finish with clean and dry with a touch of minerality. Recommendation: Pairs well with fried calamari, grilled shrimp and fruit and cheese plates.


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'Misery' loves company: Great Falls theatre presents a Stephen King classic
By: Tim McGonigal
GREAT FALLS — Curious about hobbling? You can find out about all you need to know when the Act Normal Theatre Troupe in Great Falls presents an adaptation of the Stephen King classic, "Misery."
The theatre company known for its murder mysteries and comedy is branching out. And just in time for Halloween, they're putting their spin on one of the all-time great horror writer's most well-known works.
As a Stephen King fan, Meghan Wakely is channeling her inner Annie Wilkes - the mentally unstable and obsessed nurse taking care of her literary idol.
"Her favorite writer in the world is Paul Sheldon and she is his number one fan, and she takes it way too far," says Wakeley who portrays the character made famous by an Oscar winning performance by Kathy Bates in the 1990 film of the same name.
Veteran actor Andy Southon jumped at the chance to play the injured writer.
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Andy Southon and Meghan Wakely in 'Misery'
"Paul Sheldon has written an anthology of books. He definitely feels like he's past that point of his life and wants to explore new options as a writer," said Southon. "And for some reason, he keeps getting pulled back into Misery's world."
David Saslav stars in his second Act Normal production, playing the observant county sheriff trying to solve a mystery.
"He doesn't know what's going on in this weird, psycho-dramatic world he's encountered because there's no evidence to suggest anything untoward is going on," said Saslav. "So it's really just a question of is he going to tumble into something before something bad happens to him?"
Director Tianta Stevens founded the Act Normal Theatre Troupe in 2013 to help fill a void left by the closing of Center Stage Community Theatre. The current production presents a departure from their usual dinner theater and murder mystery formula.
"With 'Misery,' we're kind of venturing away from that," said Stevens. "We're not doing a dinner show and we're not doing a comedy, so we're trying something a little bit dark and creepy for Halloween."
Stevens says even though the production isn't a typical Act Normal performance, it's a great entertainment option.
"There's nothing like live theater. It brings community together in a shared experience," said Stevens. "We can get people to laugh, we can get people to cry, we can get people to think maybe in situations they've never considered before.
Because of the language, Misery is not recommended for children. As for the inclusion of that legendary and gruesome "hobbling" scene that made movie goers cringe, Wakeley and other cast members wouldn't elaborate and say people will have to attend the performance and see for themselves.
"You choreograph it first," said Wakeley. "Then you practice the stage combat repeatedly to make sure that nobody gets hurt."
The troupe has six performances scheduled at Times Square in downtown Great Falls between October 20th and 30th:
Thursday, October 20 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 22 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, October 23 at 7:00 pm
Friday, October 28 at 7:00 pm
For more information and to buy tickets, click here.
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This should then install with no problems: python setup.py install.
Alternatively, you can download the latest stable release, but it usually lags a little behind the Master branch (as can be expected).
The first time you run ToPy it will do some symbolic algebra to generate the elements for the FEA, then it will start iterating through the problem defined by in beam_2d_reci_gsf_fine.tpd (tpd stands for ToPy Problem Definition, a text file describing the problem and solver parameters). After many iterations the solution should look something like the picture at the top of this post.
I also prefer to make png's of the output with the Image module using the fromarray function. I convert the ToPy design variables from floats to integers using Scipy's uint8 function. This will produce nicer pixel-for-pixel output of your topology optimization problem rather than mangling it through matplotlib.


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Q: BigQuery - Compute 0 - 100 percentiles for multiple columns, over multiple groups We have a bigquery table that looks like this:
with
  my_data as (
    select 1 as num1, 32 as num2, 43 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 2 as num1, 21 as num2, 45 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 3 as num1, 99 as num2, 47 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 4 as num1, 83 as num2, 48 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 5 as num1, 55 as num2, 49 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 6 as num1, 35 as num2, 51 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 7 as num1, 94 as num2, 52 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 8 as num1, 17 as num2, 55 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 9 as num1, 33 as num2, 56 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 10 as num1, 81 as num2, 37 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 11 as num1, 42 as num2, 38 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 12 as num1, 26 as num2, 39 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 13 as num1, 92 as num2, 41 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 14 as num1, 38 as num2, 43 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 15 as num1, 31 as num2, 46 as num3, 'a' as letter union all
    select 16 as num1, 53 as num2, 48 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 17 as num1, 49 as num2, 49 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 18 as num1, 71 as num2, 51 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 19 as num1, 67 as num2, 52 as num3, 'b' as letter union all
    select 20 as num1, 62 as num2, 54 as num3, 'b' as letter
  )

letter is the column to group by, and num1, num2, num3 are the 3 columns for which we'd like to compute 0 - 100 %iles. To be more clear, we'd like to return a table with 202 rows, and with the columns letter pctile value1 value2 value3. letter is a (101 times) and b (101) times, pctile goes from 0,1,2,3... 100,0,1,2,3... 100, and value1 value2 value3 are the values that correspond with the 0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. percentiles (for each group / letter).
I previously posted this very similar question here - Compute percentiles by group in BigQuery - where a helpful solution was provided. However, this solution was for a base case where 0 - 100 %ile rows were computed for only a single column. Now, and in our data's real example, we are dealing with multiple columns. The solution from the previous post, when expanded to our new data with 3 columns, does not work.
SELECT letter, pctile, value1, value2, value3
FROM (
  SELECT
    letter,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num1, 100) AS value1,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num2, 100) AS value2,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num3, 100) AS value3,
  FROM my_data
  GROUP BY letter
) as t,
t.value1 WITH OFFSET AS pctile

this does technically return 202 rows, however the values in each row for value2 and value3 are not individual values, but rather appear to be entire arrays of length == 100. I've tried different things to get the desired result (202 rows, each row has the correct individual value for value1 value2 value3), with no success. Is this possible to do?

A: Try below
SELECT letter, pctile, value1, value2, value3
FROM (
  SELECT
    letter,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num1, 100) AS value1,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num2, 100) AS value2,
    APPROX_QUANTILES(num3, 100) AS value3,
  FROM my_data
  GROUP BY letter
) as t
,t.value1 WITH OFFSET AS pctile
,t.value2 WITH OFFSET AS pctile2
,t.value3 WITH OFFSET AS pctile3
WHERE pctile = pctile2
AND pctile = pctile3

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In Photivo several filters rely internally on a luminance mask to restrict the effect of a filter to a certain tonal range. These masks are modelled after the common workflow in Gimp: Get a luminance representation of the image and mask the desired parts.
All values: It is a full mask, so all parts get the same full intensity. The other three sliders have no impact at this setting.
Shadows: The darker values get more impact as the brighter ones. By increasing Lower Limit it will get even stronger in the darker areas. By decreasing Upper Limit one can mask out the bright areas of the image.
Midtones: Only the midtones of the image are selected. Lower Limit to min and Upper Limit to max result in an even effect all over the image (same as all values). By increasing Lower Limit one can mask out the dark areas and by decreasing Upper Limit the bright areas can be masked out.
Highlights: The effect is stronger in the brighter areas. By increasing Lower Limit the darker areas can be masked out, by decreasing Upper Limit the effect gets even stronger in the brighter areas.
The Softness slider brightens or darkens the layermask, which additionally controls the strength of the effect. The strength of the effect decreases with increasing softness values, which means the softness of the transition areas increases with increasing softness values.
Since the image is represented with linear RGB values in Photivo, Lower Limit and Upper Limit may differ a lot from what you expect from the (gamma corrected) histogram. To get a better response please enable Inputs › Nonlinear slider respone in Photivo Settings.


Spring is a blessing of ALLAH (SWT). This is a season of ultimate joy and happiness. Flowers bloom, trees grow and different kinds of fruits are the specialties of this season. Lush green surroundings, fresh air, pure windy nights and colorful mornings make it even more special. As this season brings too many delicacies, it is not less than a festival.
Today EME (DHA) society arranged a spring festival to welcome this beautiful season in a different style. They invited few schools to participate however, we especially thank the administration of EME that they invited The Noor Grammar school as well.
Students from the Noor Grammar school were well-prepared. They had spent weeks in rehearsals. Teachers and supporting staff also had high hope from their students because they put their all efforts and hard work in order to bring perfection in execution. Another heartwarming thing about this festival is that in the presence of the biggest private schools, our students were not behind. They put up a great show and took the entire crowd with their stunning performance. There is a lot to talk about their coordination, energy, and mannerism; everything was up to the mark.
While our students were performing, the shine in the eyes of the teachers was testifying the outcomes of their hard work. As the performance ended, the huge roar of a crowd and unstoppable round of applause gave us a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. At the end of the ceremony, the administration of the festival invited our worthy CEO (Mr. Nagi) on the stage and awarded him with a souvenir.
Despite the fact that these students belong to the underprivileged part of society, they dream big. They want to serve the nation. It is the result of the teachings at the Noor Grammar school that their mindset is changing.


For my first blog, I'd like to share with you why I'm doing it.
This serves two purposes: one to let you know what it's about so you can decide if it interests you and two, so I can figure out why I'm doing it.
Since the question was put to me at a 50th birthday party, 'What are you going to do now that your youngest child has finished school?' I found myself wondering. My role had been professional-perfect-wife and worthy mother. My husband's journey and the growth of our children had always come first. I supported them fully.
Suddenly, with this question, I was like a wriggling caterpillar in a cocoon, desperate to emerge a free butterfly.
It's common in middle age to assess what the rest of your life will look like if you stay where you are. Some people are content, some complacent, some apathetic, some restless and some miserable.
I felt I was shackled, like the life force was being drained from me. I tried to gather together good enough reasons to stay but in truth it wasn't working. I was terrified but bundled my fears into a box, gathered my strengths and dreams, and took a giant leap of faith.
As an emerging writer, I want to find my voice. Writing has become as necessary as breathing.
Being a social creature and a middle-aged woman, I've developed an interest in understanding people and relationships. Age, introspection and self-help books have conspired to put me on the road to wisdom. The more wizened I become, the more I want to share.
The natural world – scenery, environment and creatures – is my passion. I need to be outdoors every day. Taking photos is a spinoff of the beauty I notice. The desire to travel and explore gives me extra impetus to blog.
So this blog is about life, relationships, women's issues, creativity, nature, travelling and writing.


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The Psychology... Conflict
The Psychology Behind Generational Conflict
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Older people have groused about younger people for millennia. Now we know why
The generation gap has always existed
Complaining about the youth has been going on for millennia, where the older generation finds fault with the younger generation's behavior and shortcomings.
Even Aristotle said of Greece's youth: "They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it."
The "Kids these days" effect
Research observed while people may believe in a general decline, they also believe that children are particularly deficient in the traits where they happen to excel.
Authoritarian people are more likely to believe that today's youth lack respect for authority. Intelligent people are more likely to comment that kids never seem to be reading and are getting brainless.
Our flawed memory
Sometimes older people mistakenly remember kids in the past as more accomplished.
And todays youth will likely consider the generation after them to be deficient.
There's A Big Difference Between Millennials And Generation Z
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Defining Millennials
Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996.
Similar to how baby boomers were named after an increase in birth rate after World War II, millennials were named beca...
Major characteristics of millennials
Millennials are the children of baby boomers and were raised with the mindset of 'We want it to be easier for our children than it was for us.'
Millennials were around for the rise of the internet and came to age alongside the internet. A good way to describe millennials is technology-dependent, not technology-savvy.
Millennials got hammered by student loan debt, which was then compounded by the Great Recession. The results are years of economic struggle and delayed major milestones such as starting families and buying houses.
They were the first to force others to break stereotypes of their generation.
What defines Gen Z
The children of Generation X are known as Generation Z. They were born between 1997 and 2012. Gen X's main parenting goal was to raise their children so they do not end up like millennials.
Gen Z turns to the web for everything, from entertainment to news. They choose the entertainment of YouTube or TikTok over traditional outlets and spend about 50 hours per week on social media.
The homeownership obsession
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Deep dives on cities, architecture, design, real estate, and urban planning. The story starts with a gothic mansion, all stone turrets and peaked windows, a fortress-like structure. The camera descends from a dark swirling sky to a full moon to finally frame the mansion.
The two tales about houses
The one story we tell ourselves about homeownership is it is a path to a more stable, equitable future. The idea is that it is a responsible decision that requires commitment and hope. It is center...
Owning a suburban home
The idea of owning a suburban home was fed to Americans by people in power: Suburbia has always been suitable for industry.
Big houses = big appliances. This fed the coal, steel, and automaking industries. With it came cars and oil that made the postwar American suburb possible. It is all as much a creature of government as of the market.
Reconsidering the suburban house
The climate crisis and carbon dependency make potential homeowners reconsider the effects of suburban sprawl.
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attack and the market crash of 2008 sowed a sense of instability and propagated fears.
Why Are Millennials So Into Astrology?
In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac—even if they don't exactly believe in it.
Astrology in the modern times
Astrology has known different times, throughout which it was more or less important to people all over the world.
Millennials are said to have taken astrology to the next level. By allo...
Astrology and its perceived benefits
Astrology should not be perceived as a science, but rather as a system that explains each sign's evolution, including facts on personality, life cycles and relationship patterns, based on what the planets do or will do.
Having this in mind, individuals turn to astrology whenever they feel overwhelmed, whether it is about personal or professional stress. In return, they expect astrology to provide them with better perspectives and positive mindset.
Astrology and its believers
For most of the people, astrology feels like a comforting magic that allows them to escape today's too organized and predictable life.
In order to feel the need to seek for astrology, one should first realize that he or she does not want pre-established answers anymore, but rather the pleasure to discover on own ground the truth, the freedom and the meaning of things. However, there is still a great amount of individuals who believe in astrology in a more rational way, while coming to the conclusion that this is some sort of language, of a tool.