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Metaverse Fashion Week: How Can Fashion PR Capitalise on the Metaverse?
Decentraland's Metaverse Fashion Week, the first of its kind four-day event, received far more industry attention than any digital fashion event before it.
Our analysis found that the media discussion focused on luxury fashion, with brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce & Gabbana being among the most influential ones, while Estee Lauder gathered media attention as the only cosmetics firm taking part.
We suggest that fashion brands can capitalise on the metaverse by moving the industry's needle forward in the direction of both inclusivity and innovation.
View a one-page infographic summary of the analysis.
Two years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, the fashion industry was grappling with how best to present collections and keep brand narratives strong in the digital sphere. Since then, many high-tier labels (not to mention a handful of celebrity ambassadors) have been embracing NFTs and crypto, utilising the virtual landscape to stay culturally relevant, curate experiences and extend influence to reach a whole new digitally-savvy online audience.
Two oft-cited examples of positioning fashion brands in the digital world involved the metaverse concept: Balenciaga's collaboration with the video game Fortnight and the virtual Gucci Garden experience on the online platform Roblox. The metaverse, while it might seem to be a buzzword and an overhyped concept being pushed by zealots, is increasingly viewed by the fashion indusry as a way to immensely enhance life's interactions and experiences beyond the physical and temporal boundaries.
And now came the Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW): the first of its kind four-day event, which was held on the blockchain-based platform Decentraland from 24-27 March 2022. The glittering event was not just a milestone for the world of fashion but was also a cornerstone for the concept of the metaverse and everything it is going to become in the near future. It curated a compelling mix of fashion, art, brand activations, panel talks, music, and commerce that emphasised its staying power.
Its arrival was timely — peak hype even, as the metaverse and NFTs moved into the popular lexicon. The media's verdict has been mixed: according to the reviews, the graphics were rudimentary compared to previous digital fashion events, such as the Gucci's Roblox garden in 2021, and the experience was often compromised by glitches, including massive delays or events turning into black screens of code. But according to brands and metaverse consultants, the event was a success in terms of excitement and eyeballs.
More than 60 brands, including Dundas, Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Imitation of Christ, Tommy Hilfiger, and Estée Lauder, presented 500 looks—some strictly for the metaverse—while others offered physical counterparts. The event was covered by a number of industry publications, such as Vogue and Elle, as well as more general outlets like Forbes and Fortune.
Luxury fashion in the spotlight
Analysing 274 English-language articles published in top-tier outlets in March and April, we found that Luxury fashion was the most often reffered-to segment in the media debate around the event:
Media outlets noted that while luxury fashion brands have built their legacies on being inaccessible to most, virtual reality is changing their approach. In this regard, Metaverse Fashion Week was an opportunity to introduce premium brands to new customers and to expand their points-of-entry. Not everyone can sit front row at New York Fashion Week–but anyone with WiFi and computer access could experience Metaverse Fashion Week.
The most widely covered part of the show was the luxury shopping district modelled after Avenue Montaigne, where brands including Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Elie Saab, Etro, Dundas, Jacob & Co., Franck Muller, Imitation of Christ, and Nicholas Kirkwood had virtual stores. Journalists noted that it looked less like the famed Paris shopping street and more closely resembled the Miami Design District, where all the stores are modern architectural gems, and the wares inside are displayed like museum artefacts.
For example, Dolce & Gabbana and Dundas used their respective spaces as retail storefronts for wearable designs, which were sold following their runway presentations, while Elie Saab used his virtual presence to present a selection of gowns and drive traffic back to his e-commerce site.
Cosmetics was the second most talked-about sector by share of voice because of the many media mentions of Estée Lauder, the only cosmetics brand to participate in the metaverse. In doing so, it spotlighted one of its most popular products, the Advanced Night Repair Serum, by giving avatars a free virtual glow—a nod to the product's hydrating qualities. Creative director Alex Box designed a so-called "radiance aura" that avatars could try out by standing under a supersised, digitised version of the signature brown bottle and activating a full-body glow.
Digital fashion brands including The Fabricant, Auroboros and DressX also received attention: for example, Auroboros has collaborated with architecture studio Voxel Architects to create a rocket-shaped virtual building to host the closing event of Metaverse Fashion Week. In addition, a small part of the discussion focused on watchmaking, with high-end luxury Swiss watchmakers leading the way in crypto and metaverse themed watches.
Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce & Gabana lead the way
We used Commetric's proprietary 'media conversation impact score' metric to identify the organisations with the biggest impact on the media discussion around Metaverse Fashion Week.
We found that Tommy Hilfiger, a brand that isn't considered luxury but rather premium, emerged as the most influential one.
Tommy Hilfiger joined the Metaverse Fashion Week conversation with a pop-up virtual retail space in Decentraland, showcasing its spring 2022 collection and opening a digital store for visitors to buy NFTs connected to the label. Visiting avatars were met with floating 3D incarnations of physical merchandise, something which, in the real world, is more of a runway novelty than standard practice in visual merchandising.
When it comes to digital retail, Hilfiger has long operated at the forefront of innovation. The American powerhouse has been hosting see-now buy-now fashion shows with shoppable live streams and integrated AR technology since 2016.
But Hilfiger first entered the Metaverse via the gaming space, creating a Tommy Hilfiger Island community within the social simulation video game series Animal Crossing in 2020. Most recently, in December 2021, it partnered with the Roblox community creators who reinterpreted some of the brand's signature pieces. The resulting collection of 30 digital wearables was available for players to purchase for their avatars to wear within the Roblox gaming universe.
Dolce & Gabana came second in terms of influence for unveiling 20 full looks of Metaverse wearables that were specifically designed for the Metaverse Fashion Week. Playing on the term catwalk, it used cat-faced avatar models to showcase the collection. After the show, the full collection became viewable in an exclusive Dolce & Gabbana pop-up in Decentraland's Luxury Fashion District, curated by luxury-focused marketplace UNXD, one of the core partners of Decentraland in curating traditional fashion brands at MVFW.
#DolceGabbana showcases at the First Metaverse Virtual Fashion Week hosted by @decentraland in partnership with @unxd_nft.
Enter the metaverse and explore the Dolce&Gabbana pop-up at https://t.co/intOw2lxfy pic.twitter.com/pjo7rn4BMQ
— Dolce & Gabbana (@dolcegabbana) March 25, 2022
Recently, Dolce & Gabbana sold a series of NFTs for about $6 million as part of another collection co-created with curated NFT marketplace UNXD. D&G's next step into the Metaverse was the launch of the DGFamily NFT Community, which intends to give members exclusive access to physical and digital drops and wearables.
Another brand that collaborated with UNXD was Elie Saab, which said that embracing digital innovation allows it to expand the horizons of its universe to new communities and push the boundaries within this world.
D&G was followed by London's iconic luxury department store Selfridges, which teamed up with Paco Rabanne to launch a virtual shop in Decentraland. The launch took inspiration from Selfridges' location in Birmingham and featured plenty of immersive experiences as well as story-telling that highlighted work from the past through NFTs. Commentators noted that as more brands are becoming interested in the digital space, it seems like few are getting it right like Selfridges, whose store launch combined its own storytelling with new and exciting technology, resulting in the perfect entry to the metaverse.
Meanwhile, Italian brand Etro staged a virtual catwalk show within Decentraland's digital Luxury Fashion District featuring 20 looks from its new Liquid Paisley gender-fluid capsule range, which was a contemporary take on one of the house's most iconic codes in a vibrant palette of fresh and joyful shades.
The brand attracted media attention namely with its emphasis on a collection without gender boundaries. Analysts remarked that Etro has always epitomised the spirit of travel and now this represented a new journey into the magic of the metaverse. In addition, the label hosted its first virtual pop-up store, allowing customers to purchase its ready-to-wear and accessories by landing directly on etro.com or to customise their avatars with collection items.
For more insights into this topic, read our analysis: "Gender-Neutral Fashion: A Millennial Whim or a Trend to Stay?"
Philipp Plein was under the spotlight with its top-selling item on the Decentraland marketplace – a reassuringly expensive digital $17,610 gold puffer jacket complete with an ultraviolet backpack and floating monster accessory on a snowboard.
CEO Philipp Plein, the maverick showman behind the eponymous label, thinks that the metaverse will develop much faster due to current technology. To address a vast untapped market — according to research by Finder.com, only 2.8% of American internet users currently own an NFT — he's embarking on an education drive to make the metaverse more accessible to regular folk.
Like the rest of the population, the majority of Plein's consumers don't have crypto wallets, so when he launched NFTs he sold them on his own website where people could pay with regular credit cards or ApplePay as well as cryptocurrency. Last year, he began offering cryptocurrency as a payment option for physical goods on both e-commerce and in-store.
The closing show was by Dundas, which also showcased a series of its digital dresses at its pop-up store in the Luxury Fashion District. A curated capsule of the brand's latest styles were showcased at the fashion show and store via UNXD. These were available for pre-order at the official site of the brand, while bespoke styles by Peter Dundas were designed specifically for the MVFW.
Some brands were part of the conversation even though they didn't take part in the actual show. Many journalists gave an example of digital fashion's success by mentioning that last year, a bee-embroidered Gucci bag sold for 350,000 Robux — roughly $4,115 — and is only available for use on Roblox.
In fact, Gucci emerged as the most influential company in our recent digital fashion analysis, as many publications reported that it's no longer just designing physical products, but also virtual clothes, shoes, and accessories that exist entirely in the digital realm. It's part of the brand's bet that in order for luxury fashion to thrive in the next decade, it needs to be seamlessly integrated into the digital worlds where consumers are increasingly spending their time.
For more on this topic, read our analysis: "Digital Fashion: Will Virtual Clothes Become a Real Fashion Trend?"
Metaverse artists
We also found that the most influential spokesperson in the debate was Alex Box, a prominent female artist in the metaverse space, who partnered with Estеe Lauder to create an original NFT wearable inspired by the brand's serum, Advanced Night Repair.
Alex Box was quoted as saying that the metaverse opens up new possibilities to experience the narrative of beauty. She also explained that for this exclusive Estee Lauder wearable, she's translating the essence of Advanced Night Repair by immersing users in 'Radiance Aura', a twinkling constellation of glow and magic.
In this context, media reports also quoted Stéphane de La Faverie, global president of Estee Lauder, who said that when people discover the brand in the metaverse, it's a gateway for them to engage with it online and in the physical world.
In the meantime, Alissa Aulbekova and Paula Sello, co-founders of Auroboros, explained that their space in the metaverse was built as an explorative scape for the visitor to not only learn more about the collection and Auroboros, but to engage in a way that would not be possible physically: "Inspired by organic, mystical shapes, it is designed for all guests to enjoy the performance and see the collection up close from a 360-degree angle."
The most influential non-fashion spokesperson was Andrew Kiguel, chief executive and founder of Tokens.com and executive chairman of the Metaverse Group, who commented that companies were using the event partly to figure out how a potential new wave of customers will want to shop in digital environments: "This is the next way the internet is going to get used, and in two, three years, no one's going to be talking about the metaverse' it is just going to be part of your everyday life."
And metaverse expert Cathy Hackl, who is popularly known as the 'Godmother of Metaverse' and who serves as chief metaverse officer at consultancy Futures Intelligence Group, was cited as saying that the event sent a signal that virtual fashion is here to stay and will continue to be something that is of interest for brands.
Echoing her comments, the Decentraland Foundation's guest curator David Cash said that his company sought to present fashion in every form possible, from runway shows to retail experiences, fashion presented as art, film, photography, and even fashion presented in ways that extend beyond the confines of reality.
In a similar fashion, Decentraland Foundation's Creative Director Sam Hamilton said that through MVFW, the company endeavoured to broaden the horizon of what 'metaverse' means: "We just levelled up the playing field for the world of fashion and decreased the limitations. Even in the metaverse, you'll be needing a 'fit'."
The most prominent celebrity in the debate was TV fashion guru Gemma Sheppard, who was the first stylist to enter the metaverse, where she charged real money to style people in a virtual world. Partnering with Metaventures, a company funding start-ups on the Metaverse, as well as the gaming platform Roblox, Gemma, who found fame on Channel 5 's 10 Years Younger in 10 Days, offered fittings and styling tips to metaverse.
How can fashion comms capitalise on the metaverse?
According to Morgan Stanley, Web 3.0 revenue opportunities for the fashion and luxury industries could amount to $50 billion by 2030 with the bank's analysts predicting that NFTs and social gaming presented the main areas for growth. In a way, the MVFW offered a glimpse of what might happen by 2030.
But what insights can PR and comms draw from the first-ever metaverse fashion show? Here are a few tips, based on our analysis:
Move the industry's needle forward in the direction of both inclusivity and innovation. To a certain extent, MVFW could be viewed as a legitimate effort to "democratise" fashion, rendering a traditionally expensive and exclusive event (Fashion Week) accessible to the countless people who would otherwise be barred by geographic or economic barriers. However, those barriers in the real world aren't going anywhere anytime soon: a Dolce & Gabbana show in real life will still be reserved for an elite audience. At the same time, the event moved the industry's needle forward in the direction of both inclusivity and innovation, and brands should continue pursuing this by validating the metaverse as a new venue for advertising and reaching consumers. In today's highly-fragmented media landscape, luxury fashion in particular has a hard time making an impact on younger generations. The metaverse presents a great opportunity for these brands, as many metaverse-based platforms are dominated by younger audiences. By effectively and authentically becoming a part of the metaverse, brands can execute strategies to not only become noticed by younger audiences, but to change the perception of their brand among this much-valued cohort.
Don't overhype it. The risk of hyping a metaverse fashion event is there because the 3D design capabilities of platforms are currently restrictive and the end result can be underwhelming – thus those who aren't evangelists of digital fashion might find it off-putting and could be turned off from other events in the future. Because digital fashion events are still so nascent and vulnerable to criticism, and because the crypto community is so powerful, multiple experts approached by the media declined to go on-record with criticism for fear that it would jeopardise future projects. "Someone always has to be first, and by going first you don't always get it right," said Max Vedel, co-founder and creative director at Swipe Back, a metaverse creative agency that has worked with Gucci, Nike and Swarovski. "That shouldn't be seen as a negative. [MVFW] is the first foray for a lot of big names into the metaverse and while they didn't always get it right, there were some pretty amazing shows on display."
Don't forget to engage with the real world. Existing in a digital world doesn't mean forgetting about the real one and addressing its problems via corporate activism. Our recent analysis showed that political activism – a new territory for the fashion industry – can actually bring very favourable media coverage for brands. Around the 2020 US election, some fashion houses did a good job of making their campaigns non-partisan and managed to engage users in discussions about the importance of voting. As such, the fashion brands we analysed demonstrated that corporate activism doesn't always have to mean taking sides. Moreover, non-engagement brings risks too at a time when consumers, especially millennials and Gen Z-ers, expect brands to take stands, with more and more US shoppers starting to understand their purchasing power not just only in economic terms but also as an enactment of practical ethics. For fashion houses, corporate activism could bolster their reputation when it authentically aligns with their pre-existing brand values, even in the digital world.


Students will find an assortment of links pertaining to Social Studies. There are games and videos that pertain to the fourth and fifth grade Social Studies classes.
About.com- Provides a database of sites with activities.
American Explorers- Read about the brave souls that explored the North America.
Civics On-line- A database of lessons and activities for students, teachers, and parents.
I know That- Assorted educational games for kids.
Constitution Center-Using Educational Links, learn about the Constitution's history.
Constitution Day- Lessons and activities for the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and various other documents.
Digital History- Interactive timeline, essays, videos and a reference area with speeches, music, maps, and images. Play games or watch a movie.
Gold Rush! California, the Untold Stories- Gold Fever, Art of the Gold Rush, Quiz and more!
gold rush as you make decisions that will effect your future.
Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark-Figure out the best trails, what to pack, and direction.
Have Fun with History- View short film clips of different time periods and events.
Native Americans- You will find games, paper dolls, beadwork and many more interesting things to do related to Native Americans.
Native American Activities- Games, dances, poems and more!
Our America- (Scholastic site) Read diary entries, write an entry, design a period room, explore various trails, and on-line activities.
The Roaring Twenties- View maps, read about the issues of the period and the historical figures of the time period.
Time Capsule- Type in a specific date and see highlights including music, politics, TV, movies and the price of goods.
U.S. History: Westward Expansion- View powerpoint shows of different time periods and activitites during the Westward Expansion.
Westward Expansion Timeline- Timeline starts in the year 1800 and ends in 1889.
Worldwide Table Manners- Yes it's true we do not eat with our feet on the table. But what about eating at Khartoum in Sudan? This is an interactive game with manners that pertain to the whole world.


When was the last time that you bought a cassette tape? The funny thing is that this tape comes with a download link like you see with vinyl. Welcome to the age of digital music! Well, it is a normal tape, not chrome or metal, so that is perhaps for the better.
"Nice n' Sleazy" is a 60 minute tape with live recordings, trial recordings and unreleased tracks and versions. It is not a step forward in the musical direction of Thorofon, so "Nice n' Sleazy" is not more poppy or discoish. As a matter of fact, the live version of "Riot Rude Dictator" reminds of the noise of early days. Most of the tracks are in the 'intermediairy' industrial style. Sometimes a bit rougher, sometimes less so. There are some experimentations with different approaches such as the somewhat 'rocking' opening track.
As we are used to of this great project, this newest offering is a good release. Not brilliant like "Exkarnation" but certainly a thing you should have when you like Thorofon or 'modern industrial' in general.


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• Since I was a kid that I loved to have gadgets that were in James Bond movies or Batman's table.
• I have a great passion for Filmo Graphy, Photography, Manage and Cleaning Wires, Fix OS bugs.
• Since 2006 that I develop projects regarding Motion Graphics, mainly for local business purposes and personal / friends requests.
• The Youtube channel started as a hobby so that I could share my experience with some of the gadgets, AppleTV 2 and Kodi Former was known as XBMC ANd computers, other devices that I use in my daily usage.
• In 2013, the channel started to get a bit more of attention to Android box reviews.
• In Jan 2015, I made the decision of opening our YouTube Channel to other product reviews too.
• Love spending time with my family/friends, in particular, my 2 Kids.


Clean the air in your car automatically every time you drive or ride.
Negative ions also act as antioxidants, since they give extra electrons to your lungs with every breath.
An antioxidant is an electron donor by definition.


Woodbridge, Ontario, February 6, 2019 – Upstream Works Software today announced its inclusion in the Frost & Sullivan's North American Contact Center Buyer's Guide as a "company to watch". The report, published by the Global Digital Transformation Research Team, discusses key industry trends, including the move to omnichannel, and evolving technologies like Big Data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
The report provides analyst commentary on the key players in the market today, including Cisco's collaboration portfolio. The research also speaks of Cisco's expanded SolutionsPlus program, which now includes Upstream Works, one of the providers that "impact the contact center landscape with offerings tailored for integration into other vendor offerings or customer deployments". Upstream Works for Finesse extends Cisco solutions for a compelling and feature-rich end-to-end CX offering.
Included in the report is a discussion of Upstream Works features that enable proactive customer service and a simplified agent experience, including omnichannel visibility and management, full context, knowledge base, reporting, and ease of integration.


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Contabilidade Administrativa é a expressão que se usa para denominar uma ramificação de Contabilidade, que reúne funções cujo objetivo prático é o atendimento às necessidades de  administradores e gestores sobre informações quantitativas e qualitativas em relação ao andamento dos negócios dos quais sejam os responsáveis.

Na Contabilidade anglo-americana, a Contabilidade Administrativa tem como elementos principais os provenientes da Contabilidade gerencial e da Contabilidade financeira. Em outros países, todavia, difere da Contabilidade Gerencial a medida que observa os  Princípios Contábeis, o que não é a regra do segmento Gerencial. Também é mais abrangente que a Contabilidade Financeira, ao incorporar elementos de Planejamento e não somente um sistema voltado para a estruturação de um Balanço a ser publicado.

Evolução Conceitual

Até meados do século XX, podia-se afirmar que não havia nítida distinção entre funções contábeis e administrativas, dentro de uma organização. As diferenças já haviam despontado no século anterior, quando o italiano Cerboni indicara como objeto da Contabilidade destacar as  relações jurídicas entre proprietários e consignários (o que incluia os administradores) e correspondentes (Escola do Personalismo).

Essa relação jurídica, tradicional nos países de cultura latina, não era bem vista pelos liberais, como os anglo-americanos.  Henri Fayol foi mais influente quando, ao procurar estabelecer os princípios abstratos que regem uma Organização, definiu como uma das funções principais da empresa as funções contábeis (segundo Chiavenato, as relacionadas com inventários,  registros, balanços, custos e estatísticas). Fayol reforçou a diferenciação da atividade contábil com a administrativa, embora entendeu a primeira como componente da segunda.

A organização vista como um sistema de partes interdependentes consta do enunciado de Werner Sombart (traduzido por Herrmann Júnior), a saber:

"São três os sistemas em que a inteligência atua e que servem de base à exploração: um sistema de normas (administração); um sistema de instrumentos (máquinas, aparelhos e operadores); um sistem de cifras (contabilidade e estatística). Os três sistemas não funcionam separadamente, mas apoiam-se um nos outros e entrepenetram-se.".

As amarras das normas ou relações jurídicas não agradou países liberais. Preferiram se basear na Sociologia ou relações humanas, financeiras e comportamentais, em conceitos tais como o da "A Teoria das Decisões", de Herbert. A. Simon, que resultaram em colocar a Contabilidade como sistema de apoio ao Planejamento. Ou na Contabilidade de Custos e Controladoria, na função de controle da produção e demais atividades administrativas centradas no manuseio do dinheiro. Para a Contabilidade Administrativa, podemos dizer que o objeto é a informação financeira, sobre o capital monetário ou dinheiro investido no negócio. Mesmo a adoção dos objetivos econômicos como as informações sobre o Patrimônio ou a Azienda, idéias que procuraram corrigir as falhas do Personalismo e que são predominantes da Ciência Contábil segundo a escola européia, não surtiram o efeito na contabilidade administrativa.

Como síntese da Contabilidade Administrativa podemos eleger o layout informatizado dos Sistema de Informação Contábil em uso nas empresas contemporâneas, estruturado para fins de atendimento de necessidades administrativas tais como o planejamento e o controle monetário das atividades.

Contabilidade Pública Brasileira

A Contabilidade Pública do Brasil, estruturada juridicamente em 1922, trazia o aspecto de ser um exemplar da ramificação administrativa, pois destacava o regramento das gestões financeiras e  orçamentárias integradas à Contabilidade. Mas o intervencionismo governamental na atividade privada resultou que a lei 4.320/64, procurasse apreender em determinados aspectos a contabilidade privada, no afã de produzir um demonstrativo unico das diversas organizações brasileiras. Dessa forma estabeleceu dispositivos  patrimonialistas que se referiam a um "resultado econômico", o que não se aproxima dos conceitos de uma contabilidade administrativa, como foi exposto neste artigo.

Como exemplar de uma forma de Contabilidade Administrativa que poderia ser usada na atividade pública, mas sob os preceiros anglo-americanos, podemos citar a chamada Contabilidade de Fundos, atribuída a W.J. Vatter por Sérgio de Iudicibus. Conforme expõe o autor brasileiro, o conceito da Teoria dos Fundos Contábeis é a de que o capital investido representa uma restrição financeira ou legal para uso dos ativos. A fórmula algébrica seria a seguinte:

Ativos = Restrições sobre os ativos (fundos).

Em nossas palavras, como restrição legal no caso brasileiro podemos citar as leis orçamentárias. A restrição financeira seria a impossibilidade imposta de geração de déficits ou prejuízos por esse modelo.

Referências Bibliográficas

Administração de Empresas, uma abordagem contingencial, Idalberto Chiavenato, Ed. McGraw-Hill do Brasil, 1982;

 Organização Econômica e Financeira das Empresas Industriais, Frederico Herrmann Júnior, Editora Atlas SA, 5ª Ed., 1957.

  Teoria da Contabilidade, Sérgio de Iudícibus, Ed. Atlas, 1ª Edição, 1981.

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I Will See You in Seattle!
A few weeks ago, I teased good news.
One person hypothesized that I'm joining Microsoft (it seems to be the thing to do lately) and another jumped to the conclusion that I must be pregnant. Both creative responses, but not quite correct.
I'll be at PASS Summit 2018!
If you're attending Summit, let's meet up! I'll be on Twitter, Slack, and Instagram (@alevyinroc across the board) all week and roaming the convention center & various evening events so ping me there to find out where I am.
Because Summit starts on Election Day here in the USA, be sure to either get to your local polling place that morning or follow your state's process to request & submit an absentee ballot. Every election is more important than the one before it (that's the most political I'll get on this blog, I swear).


David Liptak's music has been described as "luminous and arresting," "richly atmospheric," and having "transparent textures, incisive rhythms, shimmering lightness." His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad by the San Francisco Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Group for Contemporary Music, EARPLAY, the Ying, Cassatt, and JACK String Quartets, the Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, the 20th-Century Consort, baritone William Sharp, soprano Tony Arnold, and by many other soloists and ensembles. In 1995 David Liptak was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize, given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of distinguished achievement in the field of chamber music composition. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, both in 2002; he has also received the 2006 Lillian Fairchild Award; and commissions for new music have included those supported by the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the California Music Center, and the Hanson Institute for American Music. Recordings of David Liptak's music can be found on Bridge, Innova, Albany, Centaur, and other recording labels. He is President of the American Composers Alliance, and his music is published by several publishers, including Keiser Classical, Alfred Music - Donald Hunsberger Wind Ensemble Library, and the American Composers Edition. Much of his music written very recently has explored the poetry and magical quality of stars and starlight, imagined and real. A dedicated teacher of composition students for the past three decades, David Liptak is Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he has taught since 1986.


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John Ignatius Rigoli's experiences as both a cradle Catholic and former US Naval officer informed his world view in a rather unexpected manner, opening his eyes to the proposition that those who seek power are the last people who should hold it. John is an unabashed social justice advocate, outspoken liberal, and a patriot – and he sees no dichotomy in this. As a talented and inquisitive amateur historian, John became interested in the stories of the earliest women in the Church. Diane Cummings is a California girl, a UCLA alum, and is currently sweating in Atlanta, Georgia, with the world's smallest Persian cat. Diane has worked as a radio reporter and a TV news director. Deciding that truth was too much stranger than fiction, she turned in her microphone and press pass and set about applying her passion for writing and editing to the world of literature. Diane has edited or ghostwritten more than 50 titles – and now she wants her name on the cover. The Vatican Chronicles Trilogy has encompassed six years of research and writing, and she hopes you enjoy Book 1 – The Mystery of Julia Episcopa as much as she has enjoyed writing it.


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Q: RTL excel Arabic report - C# In my application, I have the following requirement.
An excel report is to be generated in English and Arabic. In English (or any other non-Arabic language) report should open in left to right direction. And in Arabic it should open from right to left.
I have created the excel document using C#. Now the issue is:
The Arabic report I am generating in  my code is opening in Left to Right direction even in the Arabic Pack of excel.
I am using SpreadSheetLight

A: SpreadsheetLight doesn't support Right to Left layout at the moment.

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Q: Sorting all values from "keys" and "values" essentially I am trying to do this:
Return a "last name to first name(s)" dictionary with the people
    from the "person to friends" dictionary person_to_friends.
And I am not able to get the names from repeating
>>>def get_last_to_first(
...person_to_friends: Dict[str, List[str]]) -> Dict[str, List[str]]
... get_last_to_first(P2F) == {
...    'Katsopolis': ['Jesse'],
...    'Tanner': ['Danny R', 'Michelle', 'Stephanie J'],
...    'Gladstone': ['Joey'],
...    'Donaldson-Katsopolis': ['Rebecca'],
...    'Gibbler': ['Kimmy'],
...    'Tanner-Fuller': ['DJ']}
True
P2F =      {'Jesse Katsopolis': ['Danny R Tanner', 'Joey Gladstone',
            'Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis'],
            'Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis': ['Kimmy Gibbler'],
            'Stephanie J Tanner': ['Michelle Tanner', 'Kimmy Gibbler'],
            'Danny R Tanner': ['Jesse Katsopolis', 'DJ Tanner-Fuller',
            'Joey Gladstone']}
"""
person = {}
person1 = {}
for key in person_to_friends.keys():
    num = key.rfind(' ')
    person[key[num:]] = [key[:num]]
for val in person_to_friends.values():
    for item in val:
        numf = item.rfind(' ')
        if item[numf:] not in person:
            person[item[numf:]] = [item[:numf]]
        else:
            person[item[numf:]].append(item[:numf])
print(person)

A: Using set instead of list will fix it automatically for you:
def get_last_to_first(
        person_to_friends: Dict[str, List[str]]) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
    """Return a "last name to first name(s)" dictionary with the people
    from the "person to friends" dictionary person_to_friends.

    >>> get_last_to_first(P2F) == {
    ...    'Katsopolis': ['Jesse'],
    ...    'Tanner': ['Danny R', 'Michelle', 'Stephanie J'],
    ...    'Gladstone': ['Joey'],
    ...    'Donaldson-Katsopolis': ['Rebecca'],
    ...    'Gibbler': ['Kimmy'],
    ...    'Tanner-Fuller': ['DJ']}
    True
    P2F =      {'Jesse Katsopolis': ['Danny R Tanner', 'Joey Gladstone',
                'Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis'],
                'Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis': ['Kimmy Gibbler'],
                'Stephanie J Tanner': ['Michelle Tanner', 'Kimmy Gibbler'],
                'Danny R Tanner': ['Jesse Katsopolis', 'DJ Tanner-Fuller',
                'Joey Gladstone']}
    """
    person = {}
    person1 = {}
    for key in person_to_friends.keys():
        num = key.rfind(' ')
        # person[key[num:]] = set([key[:num]])
        if key[num:] not in person:
            person[key[num:]] = set([key[:num]])
        else:
            person[key[num:]].add(key[:num])

    for val in person_to_friends.values():
        for item in val:
            numf = item.rfind(' ')
            if item[numf:] not in person:
                person[item[numf:]] = set([item[:numf]])
            else:
                person[item[numf:]].add(item[:numf])
    print(person)

Edit
The reason it was not containing Stephanie J Tanner is because you were overwriting the key for the first level, changed on the code above.

You could benefit of pythons list/dict comprehension and defaultdict to make it easiar.
from collections import defaultdict
def simple(p2f):
    all_names = set(x for k, v in p2f.items() for x in [k] + v)
    person = defaultdict(set)
    for p in all_names:
        *first_name, last_name = p.split()
        person[last_name].add(" ".join(first_name))
    print(person)
    return person


Update: Minecraft 1.9.4 removes the incorrect snapshot warning when you load a world from a previous version in Minecraft 1.9.3.
This update fixes some reported issues and improves overall performance of the game. We also found some ways to reduce the memory usage, especially on servers.
First we assumed one pre-release for Minecraft 1.9.3 would be all we need to ensure a stable update. And then we had to release a second pre-release the next week to fix the remaining issues. And, because the third time's a charm, here is the third Minecraft 1.9.3 pre-release.
If everything works out as planned, we will release the update to Minecraft 1.9.3 early next week. Of course I shouldn't have mentioned that, because now I'm just asking for something else to come up and delay it.
Here it is, the second pre-release of Minecraft 1.9.3. The first pre-release last week had some stability issues, but they should now all be solved.
Here it is, the first (and hopefully only) pre-release of Minecraft 1.9.3.
Update: Minecraft 1.9.2 is now available and fixed the issue that some players could not connect to some servers or their realms.
Woooosh. That's the sound of the elytra and the main feature of the 1.9.1 release of Minecraft. The second notable change is a new property (toughness) for armor that "makes diamond armor useful again".
Apart from these awesome additions, we also fixed some reported bugs and improved the performance and memory usage of servers a bit. Command blocks in custom maps should also behave much better now, especially with long sequences that are executed every tick.
みんなが Minecraft で見つけたバグはどんなものでも bugs.mojang.com に報告してください。もし誰も報告してくれないと私たちは治す事ができないからね!
Elytra sounds are now ready, so we bundled them with a few bug fixes and decided to make a Minecraft 1.9.1 pre-release available for everyone to test these changes.
Most of us are going to San Francisco next week to attend GDC, so we will release Minecraft 1.9.1 in two weeks.
And yes, Steve was pretty happy.
Minecraft 0.14.0 is out! Skin Pack, livestream and more!
We're happy to let you know that the first update of the year for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Beta Edition is now out! So what cool things are there? Let's take a closer look!
We got a new skin pack out as well! Since we want you to build great things, we also want you to look great while doing so. These Redstone Specialists skins are inspired by the builds we've seen you create and I think they look great. We hope you'll like them as well. The Artisan and Composer are free and if you'd like to buy the whole 15 skins it costs $1.99 (or equivalent).
So yeah, that's it for now! In case you're wondering where to get this electrifying game you can grab it on iOS App Store, Google Play, Amazon and the Windows Store.


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The late eighteenth century was a time of high ideals and intense conflict, as the ideals of the French Revolution spread across Europe. For Ireland, liberty meant overcoming the heavy penalties on Roman Catholics and the dominance of England. Yet, it was young Protestants who led the movement for liberty which culminated in the rebellion of 1798.
Arthur O'Connor came from West Cork and had a disputed ancestry. He was heir to a large Anglo-Irish fortune but the ideals of liberty and modern development were stronger than his loyalty to family and hopes of inheritance. Passionate and clever, with an intense personality, O'Connor befriended Lord Edward FitzGerald, a heart-felt democrat who died in the rebellion.
O'Connor was captured and imprisoned just as revolution broke out. Spared execution, he was held for many years in a Scottish fortress and then exiled. He settled in France and married the daughter of one of the French Philosophes, whose ideas had inspired the revolution.
O'Connor's story carries within it all the ideals and tragedy of the age. He was handsome and intellectual, spent much of his youth in prison and never led his country as he had hoped. With his ideals intact, he was also riven by guilt over the loss of life during the rebellion and bitter over its failure and the union of Ireland with Britain.
Jane Hayter-Hames' biography captures the background which made the man and the ideas which inspired the moment. A friend of Fox and Sheridan, O'Connor was an intellectual but also a man of action. The rebellion failed, leading to thousands of deaths and O'Connor was forced to make a treaty with Pitt's government. The biography shows O'Connor's solitary reflections while imprisoned in Scotland and his reception by the intelligentsia in France. His own memoirs inform the book and quotes from them let the reader hear O'Connor's ideas in his own voice.
Arthur O'Connor was inspired by the ideas of a seminal moment in European history, which he in turn influenced. During his long life he was a leader among the early republicans in Ireland and in France. Hated in England and depicted in popular cartoons, his ideals never altered but his hopes for Catholic emancipation, economic development in Ireland and Irish liberty were slow to be realised. Only long after his death did Ireland gain independence from Britain and take control of her own destiny.
Jane Hayter-Hames is an author, historian and researcher.
She was born in Devon and lives on her farm on the edge of Dartmoor She also has roots in County Cork, Ireland where she has studied and written history.
She read politics and economics at the University of Oxford, but returned to the university to take a BA in history in 2009.
Jane has experience of both family and house research and is available for commissions.
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The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy).

History
Originally known as the Porta Appia, the gate sat astride the Appian Way, the regina viarum (queen of the roads), which originated at the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall. During the Middle Ages probably it was also called "Accia" (or "Dazza" or "Datia"), a name whose etymology is quite uncertain, but arguably associated with the river Almone, called "Acqua Accia", that flowed nearby. A document ca. AD 1434 calls it Porta Domine quo vadis. The present name is attested only since the second half of 15th century, due to the vicinity to the Basilica of San Sebastiano and its catacombs.

The original structure was constructed by Aurelian ca. AD 275 and included a double-arched opening surmounted by bow windows and two semi-cylindrical towers. The façade was faced with travertine. After a later restoration, the towers were enlarged, increased, and linked, through two parallel walls, to the pre-existing Arch of Drusus.

In AD 401-402 Emperor Honorius reshaped the gate with a single fornix and a higher attic with two rows of six bow windows each; it was also provided with an uncovered chemin de ronde with merlons. The bases of the towers were incorporated within two square-plan platforms, faced with marble. A later modification yielded the gate's present form, in which a floor has been added to the whole structure, towers included. Due to the absence of the usual plate commemorating the works, some archaeologists doubt that the work has not been carried out by Honorius, who left panegyric epigraphs on any other restored part of the walls or the gates.

The latch was released by means of two wooden gates and a shutter that rolled, through still visible grooves, from the control room placed above, whose supporting travertine shelves are still existing. Some notches on the jambs could indicate that wooden beams were also employed to strengthen the latch.

Because of the importance of the Appian Way, that just here entered the town, the whole area was concerned with great traffic movements, especially during ancient Rome. It seems that close to the door there was an area designed for parking of the private means of transport (belonging to high rank personalities which could afford it) that accessed the town from here; it was what now could be defined a "park and ride", since the transit of private means within the town was usually not allowed. This rule probably was effective also for the members of the Imperial family, whose private means were parked in a reserved area (called Mutatorium Caesaris) just a little farther at the beginning of the Appian Way.

Some lumps, still visible on the travertine upholstery in the basis of the monument, are quite interesting: they could be reference marks for the stone cutters. According to historian Antonio Nibby, in the centre of the arch of the hate, on the inner side, there is a carved Greek cross inscribed into a circumference, with an inscription in Greek, dedicated to Saint Conon and Saint George, dating back to 6th-7th century, but today there is no visible trace left.

On the right jamb of the gate there is also a carved figure portraying Archangel Michael killing a drake, alongside of a blackletter inscription written in Medieval Latin, that commemorates the battle fought on 29 September 1327 (the day of Saint Michael) by Roman Ghibelline militiamen of the Colonnas, led by Giacomo de' Pontani (or Ponziano), against the Guelph army of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, led by John II and Gaetano Orsini:

In addition to such remains, that are interesting from an historic viewpoint, the whole monument is noteworthy also for the abundance of graffiti traces that, though not official at all, provide evidence of the daily life that occurred around the gate along the centuries. On the left jamb, in front of Archangel Michael, there are several crosses and a christogram (JHS with a cross above the H), probably carved by pilgrims; there are also several Italian and foreign names (a man by the name of Giuseppe Albani wrote his name three times) and dates, that can be deciphered back to 1622; somebody also carved a kind of road direction to Porta San Giovanni or St. John Lateran, addressed to foreign wanderers and still visible just outside the gate, on the left: "DI QUA SI VA A S. GIO…" (Italian for "Hither you go to S. Jo..."), interrupted by something or someone; as well as other signs and writing hard to decipher, such as the engraving "LXXV (underlined three times) DE L", on the tower on the right.

On 5 April 1536, on the occasion of the entry in Rome of Emperor Charles V, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger changed the gate into a real triumphal arch, decorating it with statues, columns and friezes, as well as arranging - through the demolition of former buildings - a triumphal way up to the Roman Forum. The event is commemorated by an inscription above the arch, which - using an adulation maybe a bit excessive - compares Charles to Scipio: "CARLO V ROM. IMP. AUG. III. AFRICANO".
On 4 December 1571, the triumphal procession in honor of Marcantonio Colonna, the winner of the battle of Lepanto, also passed through the gate. The feature of that procession that mostly raised curiosity and interest certainly was the parade of the one hundred and seventy chained Turkish prisoners. On that occasion Pasquino, the famous Roman talking statue, expressed its opinion, but this time without talking: it was primped with the blooding head of a Turk and a sword.

Since the 5th century, and at least until the 15th, the farming out or the sell of town gates and of the toll collection for their transit to private citizens is attested as a usual practice. A document dating back to 1467 reports an announcement specifying the modalities for the auction sale of the town gates for the period of a year. Another document dated 1474 states that the tender price for both Porta Latina and Porta Appia was "39 florins, 31 solidi, 4 dinars for sextaria" ("biannual payment"); the price was not so high, so the urban traffic through the two gate probably was not excessive as well, though sufficient to guarantee a congruous profit to the purchaser. The profit itself was regulated by detailed tables specifying the charge for each kind of goods, but arguably was rounded off through various kinds of abuses, judging from the number of decrees and threats being issued.

Alongside of the west tower there are remains of a walled-in postern, placed above the ground level, whose peculiarity is the absence of traces of wear on the jambs, just as if it was locked soon after it was built.

As regards the interior, the most relevant changes are recent and date back to 1942-1943, when the whole structure was occupied and used by Ettore Muti, then the Secretary of the Fascist Party. The white-and-black bichromatic mosaics, still visible in some rooms, were realized in those years.

Currently the towers house the Museum of the Walls, that exhibits, among other things, models of the walls and the gates during different phases of their building.

See also

List of ancient monuments in Rome

Notes

Bibliography
Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 334, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries

 Filippo Coarelli, "Guida archeologica di Roma". A.Mondadori Ed., Verona, 1984
 Mauro Quercioli, "Le mura e le porte di Roma". Newton Compton Ed., Rome, 1982
 Laura G. Cozzi, "Le porte i Roma". F.Spinosi Ed., Rome, 1968

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After acquiring live filter app MSQRD back in March, Facebook today has begun officially integrating its capabilities into the main Facebook mobile app, focusing first on a soft rollout in Brazil and Canada (via TechCrunch). The Olympics-themed launch will greet users with an open, front-facing camera window when first jumping into Facebook, letting them swipe between various filters that add animations and graphics onto their face, which they can then take a photo or video of and then post directly to their feed.
For now, Brazilian and Canadian users will only see filters inspired by the Rio Olympics -- like Brazilian flags and a "Go Canada!" motto -- that attach to the user's face and move around with them, similar to Snapchat's popular camera filters. Facebook is also introducing static banners in its rollout, with similar country and team-supported messages that attach to any picture or image.
"The way that people share has changed a lot" Facebook Product Manager Sachin Monga tells me. "12 years ago, most of what was shared was text" so Facebook's status composer with a big white text box. "Now, mobile changed things a little bit, but we didn't really change our tools. If you look at what people are sharing, now it's mostly photos, and soon it will be mostly videos. Our strategy is really simple. We want to make it really easy to share photos and videos" Monga explains.
Facebook has long been pushing its video content, whether created by media companies or everyday users, as a main focus of the social network in the future. Although the company didn't confirm a wider launch for the new MSQRD features, it seems like the new live filter abilities would be a logical next step for the company to make in the video space. In a different vein, but still edging closer to the popularity of Snapchat, Instagram recently debuted a "Stories" feature with posts that disappear after a day.
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Oh yes I have. And I don't like it.
I guess the point is that there are many others that like that kind of thing and would use it and enjoy it.
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I can't wait to use the safety hazard filter, or the dirty water filter, or terrible accommodation + stuff stolen filter, or maybe the doping filter
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For my first ever guest blog I'm featuring the very talented author Ian Probert. His latest book Johnny Nothing has drawn considerable praise and is available to purchase on Amazon and other outlets at the links below. In addition to being an internationally successful author, Ian Probert is also a highly respected journalist. Ian's guest blog here is divided into two parts: In the first part we read of the time he met Muhammad Ali, and his astonishment when the The Greatest quite unexpectedly kissed his then girlfriend. In Part two he moves onto a feature on his latest book Johnny Nothing…
When The Greatest kissed my girl
It was the third time I'd met him. Well, that's not strictly true. In reality I'd only met him once before. Met, in the sense of shaking his hand and getting introduced to him. Met, in the sense that he'd spoken to me and I'd actually sat at the dinner table and eaten with him (with a lot of other journalists it has to be said). The second time didn't really count as a 'meet'. On that occasion I'd queued at Sports Pages in London along with hundreds of other people hoping to bask in his presence. But then basking in the presence of Muhammad Ali – once the most famous person on planet Earth and arguably the finest boxer ever to lace up the gloves – was usually more than most people could ever hope for.
The year was 1994 and I was standing in the queue outside the Whiteley's branch of Waterstones waiting for that third meeting. Beside me was my then partner, a good-looking French lawyer named Julie. Behind me was Hugh McIlvaney, the great Scottish sportswriter who had been there to report on some of Ali's greatest triumphs, not least of which his victory over George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. McIlvaney, despite a career spent travelling the world and meeting and writing about some of sport's greatest icons, was happy to wait his turn alongside Ali's fans.
It must have been Ali's 10-millionth book signing and he was having trouble drumming up any enthusiasm for the occasion. More than that he looked ill. He was hunched over a desk in the middle of the shop, scrawling signature after signature while admirers attempted to catch his attention. 'You're the greatest fighter that ever lived,' most of them said in so many words, and Ali would move his head slowly toward them and nod weakly in agreement. Speech for him seemed impossible. The thousands of punches that Ali took in his career had turned boxing's finest exponent into its most tragic indictment.
Holding Julie's hand, the front of the queue grew closer and I found myself not looking forward to what was about to happen. After all, what was to be gained? The Ali whom I loved was the person on TV who danced the shuffle and seemed to defy any logic as he charmed his way through a quite dazzling boxing career. The person sitting before me wasn't really Ali. He was someone else. He bore no resemblance to the beautiful man who once cradled the planet in his hands.
Now it was our turn. The two of us approached the table nervously. Neither one of really wanted to shove the book we had just bought in front of the great man. But we did. We did because there was nothing else to do. Ali signed his name and passed the book to us. Then – and I don't really know why I did this – I asked if I could take a picture of him with Julie. Ali looked tired and I immediately felt guilty about asking the question.
Then something remarkable happened.
Ali slowly rose to his feet. It was painful to observe as the former champion straightened his body and shuffled toward us. Except this was no Ali Shuffle. It was the painful gait of an old man. A large part of me was desperate to look away. Before I could do so, however, Ali climbed on to his toes. Unbelievably, he began to skip and as he did so the years slipped away from him like autumn leaves in the breeze. He threw a few punches into the air and all at once he was the young Cassius Clay, the man who shocked the world by beating Sonny Liston; the man who took on and defeated the parole board.
As we stood there open mouthed, Ali seized the moment and moved over to Julie. Suddenly his arms were around her and he was kissing her. And the kiss was not a peck. The kiss lasted far longer than it should have done. But I was not disturbed by the sight of another man kissing my girlfriend. I was too busy photographing that very long moment.
And then it was over and Ali was back slumped into his seat. Suddenly forty years older. And Julie was looking back at me in shock, her face drained of blood, her lungs of air. My girlfriend had just been passionately kissed by Muhammad Ali! It was only when we got home that Julie confessed that she hadn't a clue who Muhammad Ali was.
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Johnny Nothing is best-selling author Ian Probert's first ever children's book – although adults are enjoying it too. The story of the poorest boy in the world and the nastiest mother in the universe, the book is earning rave reviews. Children and grown-ups are all laughing at this incredibly funny kids book.
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Ian Probert has been scribbling down words ever since he learned to spell the phrase: 'Once upon a time…'. He is the author of Internet Spy, Rope Burns and a bunch of other titles. Internet Spy was a bestseller in the US and made into a TV film. Rope Burns is a book about why books shouldn't be written about boxing. Ian has also written things for a shed load of newspapers and magazines. When Ian was a student he used to write lots of letters to the bank manager.
Bill had a shaven head and was wearing a blue tracksuit. He was almost seven feet tall and built like an outdoor toilet made of brick. Bill didn't realise this but he was a distant descendent of Neanderthal Man. He had only one eyebrow – one long bushy eyebrow that reached right across his forehead. He looked like what you might get if you force fed a member of Oasis with a half-tonne black plastic sackful of steroids.
And if you were brave enough to be present when he took off his tracksuit you would discover that his back was so covered in hair that he was able part it with a comb. If Bill had had more of an interest in fashion, he might even have considered giving it a curly perm and perhaps a few extensions
On his right arm, Bill had a tattoo which simply read 'Bill'. This was in case he woke up one morning and forgot who he was. This was actually less unlikely than you might imagine because standing next to him was his twin brother. His name was Ben and he was identical to Bill in every way except that the tattoo on his arm read 'Bin' (the tattooist was either South African or not a very good speller). He was wearing a red tracksuit.
Bill gave Mr. and Mrs. MacKenzie the tiniest of smiles and managed to grunt 'hello'. Ben gave the couple exactly the same tiniest of smiles and also managed to grunt 'hello'.
The two men were standing protectively close to Johnny. They were so large that in the confines of Johnny's bedroom they looked like giants, which they were. They were so enormous that each of them had their own postcode. They were so gigantic that they had their passport photos taken by satellite. They were so humungous that you could spend all day thinking up rubbishy jokes about how big they were and never adequately describe just how indescribably, earth-shatteringly ENORMOUS they were. By no stretch of the imagination could you call them small (unless, of course, you were a lot bigger than them).
The pair of Goliaths were having to stoop slightly so as to avoid head-butting the ceiling, which actually even looked a little scared itself. They were a terrifying sight. Even scarier than a school trip to a Weight-Watcher's nudist camp.
There was a long, pregnant silence in the room like this:
This eventually gave birth to an even longer post-natal silence, which, in the interest of preserving the rain forests or the battery on your Kindle, I shan't demonstrate.
The four grown-ups eyed each other nervously. Bill and Ben looked at the Mackenzies like they were looking at insects that could be squashed into pulpy insect juice any time they so desired.
The Mackenzies looked at Bill and Ben like they were looking at two giant skinhead Neanderthal bully boys who had just appeared from nowhere in their recently and unexpectedly decorated council flat.
Johnny looked a little scared.
Finally Billy Mackenzie managed to get his mouth working a little and spluttered: 'Who are you?' And then: 'What do you want?'
There was another long silence – let's call it a pause – while Bill and Ben looked at each other as if trying to decide who was going to answer. Finally Bill spoke: 'You the boy's parents?' he demanded in a voice that sounded like an angry rhino with horn-ache. Although if he was clever enough he would have realised that this was a rhetorical question.
There was yet another long silence (you'll be relieved to hear that this is the last silence you're going to get in this chapter) before Billy Mackenzie mumbled 'Yes'.
'We're Johnny's bodyguards,' continued Bill. 'We're here to make sure that everything's hunky dory.'
'Hunky dory?' Mrs. Mackenzie suddenly found her voice. 'What do you mean 'hunky dory"?'
Now Ben spoke: 'What my brother means to say,' he explained. 'Is that we've been – how shall I say – contracted – to make sure that this young feller's affairs are in order.'
'Get out of my house!' interrupted Mrs. Mackenzie, suddenly feeling a little braver, although she had no idea why.
Bill and Ben looked at each again for a moment. They did this almost as much as your mum looks in the mirror. Or you dad looks at websites that he shouldn't be looking at. 'First of all,' said Bill, 'This isn't a house – it's a flat.'
'And second of all,' said his brother. 'We ain't going nowhere. And neither are you.'
'Johnny who are these men?' Mrs. MacKenzie asked her son, ignoring the two giants.
'I'm sorry mum but…' Johnny started to speak but Bill cut in like a pair of scissors that chops sentences into bits.
'…What the young feller means to say is that the fun's over.'
'The fun's over?' repeated Felicity MacKenzie numbly.
'That's right,' continued Ben. 'You've had a right old time. You've been spending his money like it's your own. You've been ripping the poor young feller off. And we're here to put a stop to it. From now on things are gonna be different.'
'I've had enough of this,' said Mrs. MacKenzie. 'Nobody speaks to me like this in my house…'
'Flat,' corrected Ben.
'Nobody speaks to me like this in my flat. Billy, call the police!'
As usual Billy MacKenzie did as he was told. He reached into his pocket for his mobile phone. Before he had the chance to even turn it on the gigantic frame of Bill was towering over him.
'That an iPhone?' asked Ben.
'Erm… Yes,' said Billy, who could only watch as the huge man took it from him and with one hand crushed it into a chunk of buckled metal and shattered touch screen.
'I think it's broken,' said Ben. 'You ought to take it back to the Apple store. Tell 'em that you're not getting a decent signal.'
'Right!' cried Mrs. MacKenzie. 'We're leaving! You'll be very sorry you did that. I'll fetch the police myself!'
Now the giant frame of Bill was standing in front of her. He was holding something in his hand that looked a little like a child's toy space gun.
'Know what this is?' he asked. Although once again he wasn't clever enough to recognise that this was a rhetorical question.
Mrs. Mackenzie regarded the object for a moment. Then she shook her head. Whatever it was she guessed that it was not intended to provide pleasure, happiness or fulfilment. Anything that has a trigger and a barrel and goes 'bang!' seldom does.
'Come on Billy!' she said. 'We're leaving!'
Bill stood in front of her blocking the doorway. 'Not so fast,' he said, not so slowly. 'It's called a Taser. See this little trigger at the front? If I press this it'll give you a small electric shock. It won't hurt you…Well not too much anyway.'
Bill raised the object and gently touched Mrs. MacKenzie on the arm. There was a loudish bang and a flash of blue neon light and Mrs. MacKenzie collapsed groaning to the floor. She was conscious but wasn't able to move her arms and legs
'Oh my gawd!' said Billy Mackenzie bravely charging out of the room in terror. He got as far as the stairs before there was a second flash. He, too, crumpled to the floor. Bill dragged him back into the bedroom by the scruff of his neck.
Johnny Nothing got to his feet and stood over his two parents. He looked anxious. 'Are they… Are they… OK?' he gasped.
'Don't you worry yourself,' smiled Ben. 'Give em a few minutes and they'll be right as rain.'
'But they'll think twice before they try to run off again,' said his brother.
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Geaux Teacher!: Where's our Minimum Foundation Program funds, Bobby?
Where's our Minimum Foundation Program funds, Bobby?
My columns appear each Sunday in the Eunice News. As a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, I I teach music in rural, high poverty schools because I believe that high quality education is a human right for all Americans. Years ago, I was the first woman UU chaplain to serve in the Army, and the first woman to serve in many units as a combat chaplain. I wrote two books about military life. Over the past fourteen years, I've been interviewed by CNN, NBC, CBS, NPR, C-SPAN and regional programs to discuss government reform, gender issues, affordable housing, public education and other issues that impact our society. .
Louisiana was in the fast lane of the national super highway called "Education Reform" long before other states discovered their public education systems needed to be modernized. Granted, we were further behind when we started, but, Louisiana was modernizing long before President George W. Bush passed the "No Child Left Behind Act" with strong bi-partisan support in Congress.
But, in the past few years, our progress has been stalled. One major reason for this stall: the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and Governor Bobby Jindal refuse to give the fair share of school tax dollars to local school districts.
By refusing to send the legally required fair share of Minimum Foundation Program school funds to each district, Bobby and BESE are in direct violation of our state constitution.
Our state constitution requires the Louisiana Board of Education to provide resources and funding to every district in the state, using what is called the Minimum Foundation Program to make sure that every classroom teacher can do their job right.
Specifically, Article VIII, Section 13 explains the Minimum Foundation Program funding requirements. You can look it up online and read for yourself.
The most conservative estimates suggest that in 2012-13 alone, Bobby and BESE cheated our schools of $323 PER STUDENT! In that one school year, $200 million was skimmed from funds owed to public schools.
Since 2009, we've had major teacher lay-offs every year when Bobby and BESE starved us of our funds.
I can assure you, every teacher lay-off in our schools is directly correlated with a decline in our school performance scores. But, these days, Bobby and BESE would have you believe that certified teachers don't matter. According to their theories, our kids can learn just as easily by surfing on the internet, supervised by high school graduates without college degrees.
That idea is working so badly that the NCAA listed several of Louisiana's online schools as ineligible for placement in college athletics. Bobby Jindal's highly touted K-12, Inc. is high on the list of ineligible online schools, but that's a story for another day.
Research has shown time and again that staffing our classrooms with certified teachers is a very strong predictor of student success.
But, just when school performance scoring rules got tougher, Bobby and BESE skimmed our Minimum Foundation Program funds. Our class sizes ballooned making it difficult to give our poorly performing students the support they need. Our school scores went down.
At $323 per kid, Bobby and BESE owe ¾ of a million dollars to Eunice schools for just ONE YEAR.
We could have 15 more licensed teachers in Eunice public school classrooms to coach our kids in math, reading, science, and social studies if Bobby and BESE did their constitutional jobs.
They took our children's classroom money and spent it elsewhere.
Where did the money go? To fund profit-making Charter School Management Companies, vouchers to private schools that have been rated as below standard, to set up "on-line" schools that take exorbitant fees from the state with failure rates that would put our neighborhood schools out of business.
Why are we not fussing to high heavens about this?
Probably, because most of us did not know that the Louisiana Board of Education and Governor Bobby Jindal were siphoning off our school district Minimum Foundation Program funds to pay for programs that are NOT constitutionally valid.
Bobby and BESE's spending choices ARE NOT constitutionally valid. Our state courts are saying so every time another lawsuit challenging the legality of Bobby and BESE's financial shenanigans hit their court dockets.
Our school boards did not know how to fight these constitutional violations at first. But finally, school districts across the state filed a lawsuit to get our fair share of our tax dollars returned to our schools.
Local school boards are finally leaning on Louisiana's Constitution to force Bobby and BESE to get their act together to properly fund our schools.
We will win this fight. We need your help, though. We need you to contact your BESE board member and Governor Bobby Jindal. We need you to tell these politicians that they owe us at least $323 more per student per year if they want to claim they are true Louisiana patriots.
Whenever you hear Bobby claim his adherence to constitutional principles, it is very important for all of us to respond with one voice: Where's our Minimum Foundation Program funds, Bobby?


Kamouraksa is named after a town in Gaspé, Québec. Situated on the Saint Lawrence River it is quite windy and turbulent at times. There is a lot of eel fishing in the river and Kamouraska is an Algonquin word meaning where the bulrushes grow.