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Why I Don't Use Zomato
Disclaimer: This is an opinion based on my personal experience with Zomato and facts sourced from online news publications. It is, in no way, intended as a form of attack on the subject party or its reputation.
Zomato used to be my go-to app for online food delivery and I used to love it. So much that my sister and I used it almost every week (and often more than two times a week even) to order food from random "ghost kitchens" across Navi Mumbai. When we 'got bored' with popular delivery-only kitchens like Faasos and Behrouz Biryani (owned by a single parent Rebel Foods) along with our favorites nearby from our apartment, we experimented with new ones. Suggestions that Zomato recommended would be a better choice based on our location, ordering habits, and perhaps order history too. Such an amazing piece of food tech; I thought it was one of the best things to come out of India's startup boom. An app that ensures I never have a bad meal, makes me a better foodie, and never lets me sleep on an empty stomach.
But then after using it for nearly three years, it kicked me in my stomach. It took some time to hit me that under all that glam – zany ads still discussed in marketing circles and various LinkedIn posts, exciting features and discounts, talks about being a unicorn startup within just five years of inception, very deep pockets, international presence and associations, and a leader in the sector – it was still a business. An entity that aspires to become fully profitable (possible paywall) someday using the same model that it used to fondle my taste buds. It took me consecutive order gaffes, a few interactions with its customer support, some web research, and a visit to a hospital to realize that it was not really servicing me. But slowly turning me into a junkie who would soon become helpless without it, and worse, grow addicted to it.
I was not going to have it. So, I permanently deleted my Zomato account in January 2019, deleted the app, and wiped all its data from my smartphone to never look back. I haven't yet tried my hands on other headline-grabbing restaurant and food delivery aggregators like Swiggy, Uber Eats, and Foodpanda, but I'm sure there is little difference between them and Zomato much like there's no difference between all the telecom companies in the world. I use Vodafone's cellular network and I cannot stand it. Not because it overprices its service but because it regards me as a milking cow. Which makes me note that my issue with Zomato is part of my larger issue with corporatism, a problem that I am very well a part of, and to an extent, even have benefited from.
It is also the reason why I recently turned down a close friend's request to join his new business. I just do not agree with the idea of a business that exists only for the purpose of profit-making. And sooner or later, in these harrowing times, every business does stand the risk of turning into one. Most young entrepreneurs incubate their startups with "good monies" in mind. Only a very few don't make that transition and that is why you never hear about them.
Let's not digress. Here are a few personal reasons why I don't use Zomato anymore and perhaps never will.
One Too Many Menus
Ordering food through Zomato is easy and it hardly takes a minute to do so after you have selected the items off the menu. It's absolutely fantastic, and the only other app that comes close to the same convenience is that of Oyo Rooms. Ola's Android app is the worst.
Once my sister and I began experimenting with different outlets, ordering items that sounded international enough to give them a try, we started experiencing the real issue at hand. Because a lot of these "ghost kitchens" (also known as dark kitchens or cloud kitchens) – outlets that only deliver food; no seating arrangement, only online ordering – vie to get more orders every day of the week so that they can sustain in the long run, they maintain multiple versions of their food menu. One for food delivery aggregators, one to be added in the flyers that would be disseminated locally through newspapers and whatnot, and one for their own website which would eventually be used to attract customers before they can say goodbye to Zomato. The prices in all these versions are different, some tweaked to bear the extra costs that the restaurant has to spend as overhead. This approach makes sense because there has to be some incentive if your target user takes interest, registers, and buys from your own website rather than through third-party apps. The concept of multiple versions of a food menu works until it doesn't.
Zomato prefers its restaurants to add the menu items through its backend system rather than upload screenshots of the actual menu. Although, I should add, it does allow them to upload the screenshots for users who may want to call and order. What this sometimes results in is errors in the prices as well as the menu items. There can be duplicates, erroneously inflated prices, and even mismatch in the name of the dish and the actual dish that gets wrapped and sent out with the help of law-breaking delivery boys on decrepit scooters.[1]Zomato has been in the news for a variety of wrong reasons including ridiculous work conditions for its delivery boys who have often been caught stealing from the orders they are fulfilling. ("Zomato delivery boy seen consuming food from sealed orders in a video" – ETtech, 11 December 2018)
Although Zomato, India's largest restaurant search portal, has guidelines to ensure that menus are uploaded with proper price tags and itemization, I have experienced discrepancies in their prices several times. The eateries that do not allow ordering through the app but require you to call and order often charged me extra. Because you don't know what the total bill will be after listing your items and because you sometimes forget to ask and because most people assigned the job of taking telephonic orders in these low-cost dark kitchens do not have basic hospitality etiquette, you sometimes wait for the order to arrive and along with it the bill with a total cost that's nowhere near what you expected. One plate of Vegetable Pulao for 350 rupees? The menu said 220!
The aggregator may not have anything to do with such incidents, but it does play a major role when you order through the app. Take, for example, the time when I saw two instances of the same dish: Chicken Tandoori and Tandoori Chicken. A food vlogger or critic may try to distinguish between them simply because they feel it's expected of them, but for someone like me who only knows that chicken and tandoor go and taste well together, it makes no difference. Both are the same to me, yet the price mentioned against them were not. There was a difference of over 80 rupees between the two. I ended up ordering the costlier one (one full plate) just because I thought this would actually be the first time I order Chicken Tandoori and rejoice at the quantity. I was wrong. I tried contacting the customer support but they were busy structuring a social media-worthy conversation with me. I went offline.
All of these minor issues that came between me and my food ordering journey irritated me but I still kept ordering because you crave for things that you cannot yourself make. And dining out is a massive attack to one's anxiety meter these days.
Ease of Listing
I used to receive (and still do) so many flyers at my house sent out by new eateries in and around my location, inviting me to order food from their kitchens through one of the aggregator apps, that it became difficult to not take a look at their menus offering delectable food and exciting discounts that would put a smile on my wallet's face. No foodie can ignore an offer that lets you enjoy four different appetizers in less than the cost of a six-month second-class suburban local railway pass from Thane to CST.
I, along with a lot of my friends and relatives, wondered how so many dark kitchens were mushrooming by the day. I have been staying in a Navi Mumbai node for more than a decade now and it is only in the past year (since mid-2017) that I have observed so many new restaurants and delivery-only entities coming up. A quick search on the Zomato website for restaurants that would deliver to my place gave me 464 different listings to choose from. That's roughly one restaurant per 10,000 square meters of area if I include all of Kopar Khairane and parts of Ghansoli, Bonkode, Turbhe, and Vashi.[2]Because this does not necessarily mean that the outlets are in Kopar Khairane only. The list contains ALL the outlets that are willing to deliver to my address, which is why these places were also considered. My apartment is just less than the tenth of that.
A search result showing the number of food outlets delivering to my address / © Zomato
There's only one reason for that: ease of doing business. In other words, ease of listing online.
Had it suddenly become so easy to get certificates and licenses from the local authorities to run such outlets? What with so many of them coming up in every block and nook and corner in Kopar Khairane itself, I would believe so. Was it so easy to get an entry into the Zomato database? Well, not if you just go by what's on the surface.
According to its website, it is easier to create a listing for a new eatery than it is to achieve a verified user profile, a possible gimmick to attest their hard work in creating an unbiased platform with genuine user-generated content (UGC). For a listing, just supply basic details like address and contact numbers, and you are ready to go. However, India Filings reports that you will need a lot more than that. Along with the eatery registration and shop act license, you will also need a Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSAI) license (the most important) and a Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration certificate. Zomato then collects and verifies these documents and the information in them before making your outlet's listing live on the platform.[3]According to a Medium article by The Indian Restaurateur (cited elsewhere in this editorial), Zomato also engages in surveying and addition of restaurants at its own will without the solicitation of the restaurant owners. While the listing goes live without the knowledge or approval of the owner, the owner cannot control it unless he 'claims' it. This has been seen as coercion by the author. (The Zomato Story – 26 March 2018)
Recently, two more things have been added to this list of requisites: fire safety license (especially if it's a restaurant with proper seating) and food hygiene ratings. Earlier in 2018, founder Deepinder Goyal himself penned an article titled "Responsibility" on the Zomato blog announcing their move to put up scanned copies of safety licenses on listings, where he also mentions that at the time of publishing that information was available only for a handful of restaurants. What number might that be among its over 1.2 million listings across 24 countries is a mystery to me, but Goyal seems optimistic about the "complex, deep, and systemic" problem of the increasing number of life-threatening fire hazards in restaurants (the Kamala Mills tragedy of December 2017 has been cited). Two months before that deadly incident in 2017, Zomato had also claimed that it rolled out food hygiene ratings for restaurants by tying up with third-party auditors who would provide a detailed assessment of establishments, which could then be presented as a badge on their listings.
But I have my doubts. Despite the long list of requisites and so many fancy terms and gimmicks to ensure that I never have a bad meal, never end up in a place that violates fire safety rules, and never sleep on an empty stomach, it is difficult for me to trust Zomato. Especially when Goyal again claimed to have delisted non-compliant restaurants for not furnishing the FSSAI license. My question is then: how did the listings go live in the first place?
It is in my imaginative power to connect the dots and assume that Zomato closed its eyes far too many times to let a massive wave of profit-making businesses use its model to market and sell food to unsuspecting customers like me. It knows that there are no users without merchants. Which would justify the uptick in demand and investment activity that food aggregators received from 2017 as reported by Salman S H in Livemint. The report further says that Zomato was lucky enough to get good backers as early as 2016 when it first started grappling with issues such as fake reviews, spurious listings, and listing discrepancies. To quell this and to continue showcasing its worth well to its investors, Zomato was forced to welcome the wave without a flinch. Result? Ill-aimed restaurants going hostile on their innocent, hungry audience.
Fake Reviews and Some More
It is perhaps the biggest, unsolvable menace for Zomato. It has been trying with all its might to fight fake reviews through various operations that are described and named in a way they somehow reminded me of Uber's transgressing Greyball tool. I am referring to its Project Fairplay.
When I removed Zomato from my phone, I had a basic account with a handful of reviews, zero photographs, and some personal information in my profile. Although its concept of "foodie levels" had pushed me to post more reviews and updates so that I could become an "expert" in Kopar Khairane (especially after seeing that the expert in Vashi was a teenage kid), and eventually receive free food offers from new restaurants looking to market themselves in exchange for a clean 5-star rating, I stopped spending my time to create content for the aggregator and used it only to order meals and book tables, and in a few rare cases, pay for food online using its partner in crime, Paytm. I stopped reviewing after an online wellwisher pointed out that I was only helping Zomato get more free UGC.
Much like Google's Local Guide and Amazon's Vine programs, Zomato depends on its end customers to produce unique content. The incentive here is a badge on your profile that you can boast about on Instagram. Perfect for its primary target audience.
Although Zomato does not permit restaurants soliciting reviews (which it calls 'bribery') in return for free food and an Instagrammable experience, it does happen, rather blatantly. And the aggregator conveniently closes its eyes again. It's a straightforward process and one that also helps Zomato register new users into its system whom it promises to never let go. (Days after deleting my account and hours after blocking Zomato from sending me promotional text messages, I still received them. To this day I see messages asking me to order through the app to get a certain discount. I like to believe Zomato still has my phone number.) Top users who have been solicited pass the "free food" message to their friends and followers and eventually the website becomes a haven of free food grabbers. While that helps it gain unique users, the side effects are life-threatening. Fake reviews, fake ratings, fake comments, leading to an overall artificial experience for the end user.
A restaurant with huge financial backing without proper operating licenses can easily get inside the Zomato database, 'game the system' through planted reviews, run a few ad campaigns on the app (to titillate the 'moderator' so that it can close eyes a couple more times), and then begin its onslaught on hungry customers.
Although it claims that it has been trying to weed out the menace of false reviews from violating customers or fake users, there hasn't been much impact. In October 2017, Zomato's then Chief of Staff Surobhi Das introduced the concepts of 'blackmail' and 'bribery' and also suggested a basic feature to help obliterate them. While blackmail means customers asking for a free meal in return for a positive review, bribery, as we just saw, sees the roles reversing. She continues: "These are nascent but growing problems at Zomato, and while our machines and neutrality team do a stupendous job at identifying and mitigating the menace, we decided to create a larger systemic fix for the issue." And then ends up suggesting the fix: a "Report Abuse" button which restaurants can use to report reviews that they think are non-genuine. Four months later, then Associate Vice President of Product Marketing Tanvi Duggal followed up and wrote about the aggregator's anti-bias and anti-spam algorithms which would help them get rid of and prevent fake reviews. If they caught a restaurant indulging in such an activity, they claimed they would put up a 'shame banner' on top of their listing. In the one year since I used the app since the announcement, not once did I see an instance of a shame banner. Zomato knows better than punishing its restaurants.
Zomato has been around for over a decade now and still hasn't been able to find a proper solution for fake reviews. In its defense, I would agree that it's an unachievable goal. As someone who has professionally handled brand reputation for different brands, I can attest to the burgeoning menace of fake reviews online. It is just a sibling of the larger menace of "fake news" that we have been dealing with lately. Amazon has tweaked its product reviews system countless times to tackle the issue in vain. There are millions of products across its regional websites that bear artificial reviews posted by genuine customers who just said yes to certain merchants getting in touch with them on private email for a modern barter deal. This is a part of an actual email I received on 2 February 2018 from an Amazon dealer selling fitness bands and Bluetooth speakers: "I would like you to help me in the promotion of my products online by posting a positive review about the products…" Even as Amazon advertises and asks local businesses to shake hands with it, fake reviews enter the system through media that's always one step ahead of its algorithms. Notably, Zomato's acquisition of US-based review platform and Yelp!'s competitor Urbanspoon in January 2015 did not yield results either, which is why it shut it down five months later.
For a tech-savvy Internet user who does not blindly follow and believe in everything written online, especially on such sites including the leader of the lot, Quora, detecting a fake review is easy. For example, an obvious red flag is a 100% positive review. Sometimes the tone itself can help you understand if the user is being genuine or if money exchanged hands in the back. Detecting a fake account is easier: a history of only positive reviews on a profile with the possible use of emojis?
As long as there is competition, there will be fake reviews and there's nothing that Zomato can do about it. Such reviews deceive the end user and do not provide an original opinion about the service that is being sold. Service that goes directly into the user's body, which is where and why things start looking grim. This malpractice is one of the primary reasons why I don't use Zomato.
Interactions with a Careless Lot
If Zomato's indifference in subjects important convinced me about its wickedness then a few interactions with their customer support is what made me hit the deactivate button. The incident with the support trying to play funny with me above is a real story. Because there was nothing they could do about it, they instead engaged in banter. I chose to not continue.
But I detected the peak indifference in Zomato's overall brand when I once interacted with them to complain about a mouldy dish. Other than the fact that it takes a good 10-15 minutes to make the support personnel understand the issue, there is a serious lack of connection. Most of the responses you get from them (over the chat function) are rigid templates that sound like they were churned out by a robot. Moreover, they deliver it in a tone and language that implies that they are written in stone and there's no way you can circumvent them. That is both a good and a bad thing.
Of course, as a business, they have to stick to their policies, but I doubt their customer support has ever resolved an issue, and if they did, resulted in satisfaction to either party. The problem is with their substandard chat program and a sheer unwillingness to be fluid. For instance, you cannot cancel an order once placed through Zomato. Even if it has just been five seconds. There's no option to do so. The best way, therefore, is to contact customer care, engage in banter with them, and hope to get your chat screenshot featured on ScoopWhoop, and then boast about it on Instagram, because you just lost the chance of boasting about your lunch order because something just went wrong with it, didn't it?
My Visit to the Hospital
There's no evidence that my Typhoid diagnosis was related to my food-ordering habits through Zomato. So I will refrain from hinting at it. The consulting doctor only told me that the root cause of my ailment was 'consumption of uncooked, undercooked, or stale food'. This was the period when I was ordering a lot of food from delivery-only outlets. I am accusing them. My point here is about the lack of food quality standards in restaurants that deliver through Zomato.
In August 2018, after it found that licences and registrations of around 40% of all restaurants listed online across various channels were not verified, FSSAI underlined its order (possible paywall) to Zomato and other food delivery apps to delist unlicensed entities. While most of them responded in the positive, suggesting that they were trying very hard for the 'greater good' and 'the larger benefit of food safety in India', they were very possibly unperturbed by the order. In its Terms and Conditions as of 5 July 2019 (updated on 31 January 2019), Zomato states that "…the liability of any violation of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and applicable rules and regulations made thereunder shall solely rest with the sellers/brand owners, vendors, restaurants, importers or manufacturers…" and goes on to reiterate that it won't be liable if the food that you order is not up to your dietary requirements.
Swiggy and Foodpanda have this condition phrased slightly differently but the meaning is just the same, which excuses them from any issue or litigation that may arise from an unsuspecting user who gets diagnosed with a disease because of consumption of 'bad food'. (Unfortunately, there's no way to put two and two together and prove that a person got ill because he consumed so and so from a dark kitchen which he ordered through an aggregator app.) This is the reason why I assume they don't care about restaurants checking off all the items in the health and safety list. The idea of such an enterprise is mind-boggling. Uber can confirm too.
The problem of unscrupulous food outlets delivering unhygienic food to clueless users is not novel. Such restaurants have existed before and people have ordered from them even before Zomato entered the scene in 2008. The change after the arrival of delivery apps can be described as two-fold: one, the birth of and subsequent rise in delivery-only food outlets (which were nonexistent before and which, unfortunately, have pushed many diners to death due to increasing losses and competition), and two, unpunished continuation of businesses or 'bad actors' who provide low-quality service.
Let's take an example: You order from a new restaurant, and when the food arrives you are not happy with it or the service or some other aspect of it. So, you retort through the only ways available to you (rant on social media or rate the restaurant negatively or contact customer support), and then you forget about it. If the restaurant already has a good reputation – which it may have through fake ratings and reviews – your review is a black dot on a white paper, and the effect it will have on the business or its operation continuation is zero. There's even the possibility of your review being flagged down through the use of tools facilitated by Project Fairplay. And that rant you posted on the Facebook page? Well, it does not take much time for a few lines of text to get buried when the platform you are using generates millions of such media by the hour.
There are many customers who have reported such cases, as Rajitha Menon writes in Deccan Herald. "Until a customer personally knows the place from where he or she is ordering food, one cannot trust the place," she ends the article citing an expert on the matter. At the time of publishing, Zomato had 170 unique reviews on TrustPilot with an average overall rating of 'bad' (72% users gave it a negative rating against the 17% who thought it was between 'good' and 'excellent')[4]It has a TrustScore of 1.5 out of 10. Foodpanda 1.1 out of 10 with 81 reviews. UberEats 0.3 out of 10 with 5200+ reviews. . It figures because TrustPilot allows companies to only respond to the reviews. Then again, even the Danish review platform is not immune to bogus content.
When you order from a delivery-only food outlet, you don't see the place where the food will be prepared or the front desk from which you can grasp a good enough idea about its cleanliness standards. You only see the food menu and the images of food posted by the outlet's employee and fellow users, some of whom may have been paid to do so. Here you are depending on two entities: the food outlet and the aggregator app, both of which exist to turn their businesses into profit, one way or the other. While the outlet not maintaining safety and health standards is a topic for discussion for some other time, the point that I wanted to focus on here is the lax attitude of Zomato. It does not help create trust.
As a counterpoint, when you visit a restaurant for lunch or dinner, the onus of ensuring that you are not walking into a death trap and that you will be served healthy and fresh food is on you. When you are ordering food online through an app, it falls on the mediator. But, as we have seen above, Zomato and other apps exist only as a medium for you to order food. It gives you plenty of options to choose from, gives you the ability to pay online, and then throws you under the bus if anything goes wrong with the food. The responsibility of ensuring you don't end up in a hospital remains with you, rendering the existence of an aggregator useless to some extent.
Zomato has always been a business, but has only turned into an unfriendly one recently, as planned or otherwise. Unfriendly at least in my eyes. (And I recently found out also in the eyes of restaurateurs.) And I use that word carefully not because it takes its customers as hostages to raise more money, but rather because it has a direct impact on people's eating habits, and more importantly, their health.
Conclusively, I like to believe Zomato has all the resources to fight its demons and bounce back as a people's service, correcting what went wrong for it and aiming at doing what's right. People in India seemed to notice when it recently disrupted the system, but if it somehow also manages to shift the gaze at the things that really matter, it will enjoy a better time serving its customers who would turn into loyalists. That is why I am not entirely dismissing the possibility of using it in the future. I can't say when that will happen or if it ever will, especially considering there are reports about it getting nearer to its profit-making position. All I can say right now is that I do not agree with the brand in its current form. TN.
1. ↥ Zomato has been in the news for a variety of wrong reasons including ridiculous work conditions for its delivery boys who have often been caught stealing from the orders they are fulfilling. ("Zomato delivery boy seen consuming food from sealed orders in a video" – ETtech, 11 December 2018)
2. ↥ Because this does not necessarily mean that the outlets are in Kopar Khairane only. The list contains ALL the outlets that are willing to deliver to my address, which is why these places were also considered.
3. ↥ According to a Medium article by The Indian Restaurateur (cited elsewhere in this editorial), Zomato also engages in surveying and addition of restaurants at its own will without the solicitation of the restaurant owners. While the listing goes live without the knowledge or approval of the owner, the owner cannot control it unless he 'claims' it. This has been seen as coercion by the author. (The Zomato Story – 26 March 2018)
4. ↥ It has a TrustScore of 1.5 out of 10. Foodpanda 1.1 out of 10 with 81 reviews. UberEats 0.3 out of 10 with 5200+ reviews.
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Track-by-Track: Built to Spill on "Untethered Moon"
Doug Martsch Discusses the New Record and the Challenges With Writing Lyrics
Apr 22, 2015 By Cody Ray Shafer Issue #53 - April/May 2015 - Tame Impala
If you hadn't heard anything new from Built to Spill in the last 20 years and then picked up their eighth LP Untethered Moon, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking they have not aged a day. Untethered Moon is full of the same charming guitar—heavy '90s rock that flooded their early alt—rock staples like Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret. Even lead singer and guitarist Doug Martsch's sweetly pitched vocals sound undisturbed by the passing of time or aging.
When I bring up the possibility that Built to Spill is caught in a perpetual time loop of good old—fashioned rock and roll, Martsch says he has never put much thought into it. But it makes perfect sense.
"I think that maybe a lot of people try to mature as artists, and I'm not interested in that," he says. "A lot of people my age, even much younger, kind of move on from rock and roll and become singer/songwriters. And I just do not want to do that stuff. I don't like acoustic guitars. I mean, I write songs on my acoustic, I like it here or there. But I don't feel comfortable myself making that kind of music. Or listening to it very much. I still like the music I liked as a teenager. I like punk rock, and post-punk, or whatever that kind of stuff is called. I want to keep making that kind of music. I find adult music kind of boring. I don't know."
Martsch says he's much more interested in the rough, DIY aesthetic that drives younger artists. "Whenever I hear some band that has a cool song that's recorded kind of crappy, that always sounds so much cooler to me than a band who's really got their shit together and records and makes it sound slick and makes sure they don't have any mistakes in it. That's just not interesting to me."
For some time, Martsch felt the pressure of recording as a professional, signed band raised expectations to put out well—polished, high production standard records. But with Untethered Moon, he consciously rid himself of such expectations and returned to the music that inspires him. "Being on Warner Bros., there was a certain expectation of professionalism or quality to what we do. I think that's kind of silly. It's not really true. It's like, all the fucked up things about music is what makes it great. When someone plays a wrong note, I don't cringe as much as I love it. I wait for that moment, and it's great when that horrible thing happens. We kind of made a conscious effort to make this record a little bit more of a throwback to the kind of music we'd actually listen to."
With that, Martsch walked us through Untethered Moon, track—by—track, while discussing his lyrical inspirations and the struggle with finding something to say through music.
"All Our Songs"
"I kind of like the music to speak for itself, unless I'm in an interview and have to say something. In my mind, it's just talking about the music you grew up with, in some way or another. Just how meaningful and important certain songs are. Songs that sound like they're just part of nature or something, they're so ingrained in you."
"Living Zoo"
"Lyrically, the 'Living Zoo' part was written by my wife. She's written lyrics for a lot of our songs over the years. I think that might be all she did for this record. The basic ideas for the song [were] 'being a lion, being a human, too, living in a cage.' Her lyrics."
"On the Way"
"All our songs take a long time to write the lyrics because they're the last thing we do and they're not really what I gravitate toward. They're almost a necessary evil for me, because I don't want to make instrumental music, and I don't want the words to be bad so I have to be careful with them. But I also do not have a gift for writing the words, so it takes me forever and it's not very fun.
"But this song, I wrote several different versions of lyrics and it never really grabbed me. Some stuff you can sort of sing whatever and it doesn't have to have any kind of a theme. But certain melodies, or something about a song make it so the words become more important. Like, I think on 'All Our Songs,' the words kind of mesh into the music a little more. Whereas 'On the Way,' the melody was so upfront and focused, the words couldn't be too obscure. I tried to tell a little bit of a story, keeping it to one theme instead of just lines. I don't know why I came up with the Mars thing. Space stuff is always rad.
"Some people really know how to make [the music and lyrics] feed off each other better than I do. Some people work with words rhythmically in ways I can't seem to wrap my brain around. It's something I'm always trying to do. I do this thing—and I know a lot of other songwriters who do too—where they'll just sing whatever comes to their mind just to get something out that has the right melody and the right meter and stuff. Then they go back and try to figure out what the actual words should be. So, it's something I'm always trying to figure out how to do. Sometimes I do a better job than others."
"Some Other Song"
"That's the last song written for the record. To me, it's just a pretty song. I tried to make it like a vague sort of sad love song. I don't really know."
"Never Be the Same"
"There's definitely a collection [of themes on this record]. There are some things that are repeated. A couple things on purpose, some things not so much. Like, 'On the Way' says 'untethered moon,' and the album title already existed long before we knew the words to that song. Then the song was put together and that was just thrown in at the end like an afterthought, just to tie things together. I try to do that a little bit.
"I have nothing consciously that I really care to offer or share with the world, you know? I don't have anything to say, really. But being a human being, I do have things to say. I'm just not really aware of them or too interested in saying them. But, you know, subconsciously things come out. I play on words here and there. It's definitely important that the lyrics do something, but what they're doing, sometimes I'm not really sure at all.
"I think that just by being a person I have things to say regardless of whether or not I care whether anyone hears them. I don't really listen to instrumental music. I think this band has to have words to the songs. But I'm driven more by the sound of music, I'm driven by the rhythms and the chord progressions and the melodies and stuff. But to have those without any words is boring. So I have to put words to it."
"C.R.E.B."
"It's like some sort of protein or chemical reaction or something. I don't even understand it. I kind of just found it. I had some lines about forgetting, so I decided to make it like a scientific sort of explanation of forgetting, but keep it really vague, too. As far as I got was finding out about this protein. I think it's a protein. It has something to do with memory, but it's way over my head. I had to look it up on the computer.
"I like the word, and I'm sure it's C—R—E—B, I doubt it's called 'creb,' but I liked the way the word sounded. It kind of cracked me up. It reminded me of a word I might say when I'm trying to make up a song and just singing nonsense. It sounded like one of those words."
"Another Day"
"'Another Day' was something like 'On the Way' where I felt like it was really driven by the singing and needed to have good lyrics. I worked on it a ton and wrote a lot of different lyrics, a lot of different verses, and had kind of a seasonal theme for a while. I feel like there's a few good lines in there and the rest of it is just a bunch of words trying to fill up the area. Hopefully someone will get something out of it, but for me it was a struggle. I feel mediocre about the results."
"Horizon to Cliff"
"Yeah, I think those words kind of just came right away with the melody. It might have even been something else that just sounded too much like another song, but I can't remember what it was now. 'Out on the rise' doesn't mean anything and I just tried to make it mean something. Sort of a place where you're by yourself and things make sense 'cause nothing else is going on I guess.
"I kind of have a visual image of like a guy up on a cliff. That's why I called it 'Horizon to Cliff,' so that it would put that image in your head of someone looking over the world up from a cliff or something, and not 'on the rise' like something getting stronger or whatever.
"That song has the stuff about 'now it's summertime, now it's wintertime,' seems like there's a few things like that, things about the seasons. There's another song that talks about the seasons changing."
"So"
"The first bunch of lyrics to 'So,' I have all of the questions in it. Who, what, when, where, why? All those are in the first thing. That was my little clever thing I did. Otherwise, the other lyrics in the song are just trying to make a story out of the first bit, trying to fit all of those questions words into it."
"When I'm Blind"
"I thought it would be a good closer. Putting it in the middle of the record it might be hard to get through, and I want the record to flow. I thought for a long time that it would be somewhere in the middle. Originally we also thought the record would be a lot longer; there's about six songs that didn't make it on. We thought we'd do a double album. But when I was sequencing it, it just seemed too long and started to repeat itself too much. So I originally thought it would be cool to have that song somewhere in the middle there, people would have to get through it. Then I decided to go easy on our listeners and throw it at the end so you can get out of the record if you don't feel like that song."
[Note: This article first appeared as a bonus article in the digital edition (for tablets/smart-phones) of Under the Radar's April/May 2015 issue. This is its debut online.]
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All works great the first time. However if I try uploading a 2nd image; the 1st image still displays. It also doesn't seem like my controller method is being called the 2nd time... Below is my code...
I've also eliminated that the page is being cached. Again, the controller method is not being called the 2nd time around...
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A: What is #image  shouldn't it be find('img')?  Or give the IMG an ID of 'image'.

A: I don't know ASP, but this line:
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Appears to be parsed at the time the page is initially viewed, not when the new image is uploaded.
To fetch the new image's URL, send that data in the response to the POST request.  This should be easy, especially if you use JSON or raw text for the transfer.
For the jQuery side:
$.post('<%=Url.Action("GetImage", "Image", new { parentId = Model.ParentId }) %>', {}, function(data)
{
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}, 'json');

If anyone knows how to do it on the ASP side, please edit this post or make another!

A: You can tack on an arbitrary number to force a refresh on the client side:

A: Your  does not have the id image so .find('#image') isn't returning any elements.

A: I don't know ASP, but... Have you checked the HTTP headers? It could be that the image URL is being cached by the browser. Try LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox and see what calls are actually making it to the server. Firebug may also be of some assistance here (it tracks cache hits in the browser vs network calls).

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What Is Going On Today!?
We've all had days like it. You're out and about, minding your own business when everything just seems to Go Wrong. I had a day like that at the weekend. I went to a picnic to celebrate my brother's birthday – lovely! The kids were good, the weather was fantastic and we had a great day. Until I went near my car.
Usually I will be the first to admit if I've done something a bit daft (at least to myself, anyway) however on this particular day, things just seemed to happen that were not of my creation. On the way there, my engine light came on. Fortunately, I knew it wasn't anything serious, just a sensor misbehaving, so I carried on. Then a little light popped up to advise me my tyre pressure was low. Huh. My dashboard was starting to look a little Christmas tree-like. Okay, fine, fine, I can get these bits sorted out, I thought to myself as I trundled over the Dartford Bridge. Then coming home, a guy quite literally took my wing mirror off as he came around the corner on my side of the road. That was a bit of a shocker, I can tell you. We stopped, checked we both retained all of our limbs, he apologised, I collected the bits of my mirror from down the road and I thought with slightly gritted teeth, okay, it's fine, it can be fixed, and I pushed what remained of the now smashed mirror back into place so I could at least get home and went on my way.
Then the petrol light came on.
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* When arrested, Morris wore a high collar white shirt and a brown frock coat and pants. I examined the clothes…later I would discover that these were very similar to Victorian era men's clothing from the 1870-1880s. He also possessed a silver metal case…similar to a cigarette case. Inside the case was a square piece of black colored material that resembled hard plastic. He was allowed to retain this object while at the facility.
* Morris looked to be in his early 30s, though there was no hair or stubble on his face…just thin eyebrows. He had wispy blond hair and a very pale complexion. The eyes were very deep blue…almost violet in color.
* During the interview, he would look directly at me and smile. He answered few questions other than his name, that he was living in New York City and that he didn't know how he arrived in Baltimore.
* The physician at the hospital stated that he may be suffering from shock and that there may be some memory loss. I didn't get that impression while in Morris' presence. It seemed to me that he knew exactly what was transpiring. To this day, I still do not know why I felt that way.
* The next day I was contacted by the Baltimore County State Attorney's office and informed that my services were no longer needed in this case. No further information was provided.
* I contacted the physician who was treating Morris. He stated that Morris was no longer at the facility. I asked where he was taken and told that I would need to contact the State Attorney's office.
* In 1994 I was approached by an attendant who had worked at the State Hospital during Morris' brief stay. I was told that Morris had suddenly disappeared from the ward after his late meal. There was a thorough search conducted without results. Morris' clothes were retained by the State Attorney's office. All other items, including the silver metal case, were missing. I have never found out where the weapon was stored…though I assume it is at State Police headquarters.
* At that time, I conducted a private search for Morris Winthrop. I hired a private investigator who found very little information other than that a single 32-year-old man named Morris Winthrop had resided in New York City in 1877…until he went missing without a trace. All his property (in Manhattan) had been left behind. The police found no evidence of foul play.
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This is a photo of Chalk Farm station looking towards Euston; it is thought to be rather rare in that most photos of Chalk Farm are at platform level. Is anyone able to provide a date and any other details please?
Is this just at the start of the demolition of the station? The LNWR Gazette for March 1914 has a photo captioned "just before demolition". Presumably the demolition was in connection with the electrified New Lines.
Camden Yard is in the distance behind the long line of wagons by the signal box. The aforementioned line with the wagons on is now the slow line and is now low level at this point. Camden shed is on the right of the picture.
Robert states that the slow lines ended up where the wagons are on the right, this is in Camden Yard and remained as such until the mid 1980's when the last roads in the yard were lifted, The running lines in the centre were and still are the slow lines albeit at a lower level as a result of the dive under constructed west of Regents Park Road bridge, the up fast is on the left of the left hand island platform. The down fast is visible above the left hand platform and the Down Siding adjacent to the shed wall also the various main line signals were still present until the 1945 colour light re-signalling with Crewe power operation from Camden No.1 & 2. The signal box on the left is Camden No.2 and remained until the 1970's as Camden Yard shunt frame.
According to the Signalling Record Society's "British Railways Layout Plans of the 1950s" volume 1, Euston to Crewe, the Camden No 2 signalbox was out of this picture, behind the photographer and to the west, nearer to Primrose Hill tunnel. The box visible on the left in the photo was Camden No 5 around 1900, and was presumably still so numbered when the photo was taken.
The subject of track layouts and signalboxes in the Camden area is a complex one! I have looked at OS maps, photographs, LNWR minutes, Appendices and WTTs as well as Board of Trade inspection files, and I still do not fully understand what changed when! The Swift book quoted by Harry shows the layout and signalling as in the 1950s. It was very different at the time of the photograph (1914). I believe that after the Euston to Camden widening of 1905/6 there were Fast and Slow lines on Camden bank. I have not conclusively resolved when the burrowing junctions were brought into use, but it was probably after 1914. They were only completed in their final form after the opening of the New (later DC) Line between Camden and Queens Park in 1922. A new Camden No.1 cabin with a �Crewe� electric frame was brought into service as part of the 1905/6 work, at the Euston end out of sight round the curve in the photo, but it think it was again replaced by the overhead cabin again with an electric frame, some time in the 1915-20 period. Before the burrowing junctions were constructed Nos. 2 & 4 cabins were opposite each other between the station and the tunnel, but they were later replaced by a new No.2. No.6 cabin was at the Camden Road end of the NL platforms which had 3 faces at that time. I think the cabin in the goods yard throat was always No.5, although it may have been replaced by a new structure at some time. Don�t ask about No.3! I may have some more info at home � I am at work at present and typing this from memory.
At last I've found some time to check my notes and records on Camden.
The lines and junctions in the area were remodelled when Euston to Camden was widened in 1905, with Fast and Slow lines up the bank and new Up Engine and Down Empty Carriage lines through the new Park Street tunnel at the lower level on the west side. New SBs were constructed at Camden No.1 south of the station, and Camden No.2 north of Regents Park Road overbridge, each with a "Crewe pattern" all-electric frame. No.2 replaced the old No.4 SB. The old No.2 near Primrose Hill tunnels was renamed No.3 and given a new mechanical lever frame.
The New Line (later DC Line) was constructed under the LNWR Act 1907, but the original idea was for a terminal loop under Euston station, as mentioned in (for example) MC Reed's book. This was modified in the LNWR Act 1912 to form the junctions at Camden with the Slow and NL Local lines that we know today. This Act included powers to purchase much additional land on the Up side between the station and the tunnel, approximately doubling the width of the formation at this point. Some work probably commenced before the Great War, but I haven't yet looked at the PW, Works & Estate Comm minutes for this period.
Chalk Farm main line station was closed on 10 May 1915 according to all the sources that I have, the same day as the Bakerloo service to Queens Park was extended through Kensal Green to join the New Line at Willesden New Station. I find this hard to reconcile with Dave P's statement (above) about the photo in the March 1914 issue of the LNWR Gazette, unless the closure was deferred from 1914 to 1915.
Track alterations commenced in July 1915 with the diversion of the Local lines onto a new alignment further north on the newly-acquired land. Work continued from then until 1917 with all lines moved across in stages to create space for excavation of the ramps down to the New Line tunnels. The new Engine line tunnel was brought into use in 1917 along with a temporary Euston No.5 SB. At some point between July 1916 and July 1917 the junctions between Fast and Slow lines were relocated further south on the site of where the station used to be. A new and larger Camden No.2 SB was brought into service around the same time, again with a "Crewe system" all-electric lever frame.
All this was going on during the Great War, at a time when many infrastructure projects were postponed. Use of men and materials, especially steel and timber, required a permit from the Ministry of Munitions. This would not have been given unless it was thought that the work contributed to the war effort in some way, directly or indirectly.
Camden No.2 SB was destroyed by fire in Jan 1920, and temporary signalling put in place. A replacement and larger No.2 SB was constructed a few months later, the opportunity being taken to incorporate the former No.3 SB (near the tunnel) into the area controlled by the new box. This survived until the Euston resignalling in 1965. Camden No.1 SB, an overhead structure on a gantry, was replaced by a LMS type 13 all-brick structure on an adjacent site in 1940, as part of the ARP strategy. This also survived until 1965.


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Recently Saudi Arabia held their first ever municipal elections--what some say was their first step toward democracy. Women were not allowed to participate. From MEMRI we have the reported justification for this position:
Some also claimed that women's participation in the elections goes against the principles of Shari'a. Sheikh Dr. 'Abdallah Faqih stated: "All the ulema have agreed that the imam must be a man, because the Prophet said 'A nation ruled by a woman will not succeed,' and this was related by Muhammad Ibn Isma'il Al-Bukhari [in his collections of reliable Hadiths]. [This ban] is because this post is a heavy burden that demands great capabilities – which the woman usually does not possess…
"No texts appear to contradict this Hadith in either the Koran or the Sunna. Furthermore, there are texts that support this ruling, such as the words [of Allah in the Koran], 'Men are superior to women' [34:4] and the words, 'Bring two witnesses from among your men, and if there are not two men, bring a man and two women' [82:2].
"A woman is prohibited from holding high office, because doing so requires mingling with men, and being alone with them. Also, she must bear a heavy burden, which is not suitable for the character of the woman. [However,] the woman can bear and direct small positions, such as directing a hospital or a school, since Omar ibn Al-Khattab appointed Al-Shifaa bint 'Abdallah Al-'Adawiyya superintendent of weights and measures in the Al-Madina marketplace, and this is mentioned by Al-Hafez ibn Hajar in the biography of Al-Shifaa. But this is on condition that there is no prohibited mingling or being alone [with men]." [8]
Misogyny is defined as an exaggerated pathological aversion towards women. The institutionalized misogyny of Islam is doctrinal and --as you can see from the example-- is strongly supported by a Islam's founding documents and articles of faith.
Try as they might, the women who defend Islam as a religion keep running into a brick wall of those documents: the Qur'an, the Hadith, and Sunna (which also form the basis of Shar'ia, or Islamic Law).
Islam is not historically alone in its misogyny. Here are several doctrinal passages from Judaism and Christianity that testify to their original anti-female attitudes (the source of these quotes is here).
Judaism:
On the one hand, the Hebrew Bible does not directly revile women, and has few such direct and blunt anti-feminine statements compared to its descendants and sister religions.[5] On the other hand, through its treatment of women as chattel, it legitimizes the subsequent development of blatant misogyny....
The road from here to the institutionalized, daily deprecation of women in the Jewish morning prayer is a short one: "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast not made me a woman"
Christianity:
The Church's anti-feminism has not been fed by ancient creation myths alone. The New Testament itself is a rich source for such an attitude, mostly coming from St. Paul:
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church" (I Cor 14: 34, 35).
"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression" (I Tim. 2: 11-14; probably pseudo-Pauline).
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife..." (Ephesians 5: 22-23).
These often quoted verses (see also I Cor. 11: 2-16) have all served, generation after generation, as documents authorizing the putting down of women.
Ursala King in her 1987 article in Comparative Education: "World Religions, Women and Education" states very clearly that women "were always excluded from formal education once sacred knowledge became transmitted in an institutional manner".
Her point is an important one, because it also contains the cure for "institutionalized" misogyny, and this is how Western Civilization managed to extricate itself from their religiously misogynistic origins. The solution: Separation of Church and State.
The Separation of Church and State principle is a part of the United State's historical, legal and political heritage. It simultaneously preserves and protects our religious liberty; while preventing the doctinal aspects of any particular religions from impinging on the individual freedom of both women and men. By separating the Church and State, men and women are free to participate in religion or not, according to their pleasure. If a religion, freely practiced, promotes the subjugation of women, for example, women and men are free to leave it since there is no "state-sponsored" religion they MUST belong to.
This "flip-side" to religious freedom (the freedom to NOT be religious) was a critical concept that advanced the legal, political and economic emancipation of women.
When it comes to misogyny, the trouble with Islam is the attempt to make Islamic Law (better known as Shar'ia) not only the law of the religion, but also the law of the land. It does not allow the possibility of dissent and choice within the larger context of the society or culture.
This is why Canada's recent decision to permit Islamic Law to exist and be applied within their country is so profoundly retrogressive and misogynistic. It was clearly a serious blow for women who hope, by means of exposing their religion to the modern world, that the religion would be able to adapt and change to reality.
This inability to tolerate dissent and debate new ideas(think Martin Luther nailing his ideas to a church door)combined with a fanatic resistance to any change or questioning of their religious tracts, have caused Islam to remain mired in the hopeless primitivism of the middle ages; while Christianity, Judaism have evolved and remained relevant to living in the world of reality.
Allah has become a third-rate deity, presiding over a barbarous and primitive theology that may have worked for a military leader in the 7th century, but it is not a ideology that will bring happiness and prosperity to very many in the 21st.


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Welcome to Shop Leanne! Here you'll find lots of paper goods including watercolour stickers (designed by me), custom designed invitations and printable accessories for birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, weddings, journaling and more!
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Here's a sneak peek of my process while painting my watercolour macaroons. This was done in a sketchbook I made by hand using Strathmore watercolour paper. This is available now in my shop as downloadable clip art!
I'm a graphic designer by day, but all things design and art related are also my passion. Paired with my love of paper based designs and invitations, and you have "Shop Leanne"!
The items in my shop are mostly born out of requests. My sister came to me because she wanted to host a Parisian event. She wanted an invitation that would remind her of our time in Paris - remembering the five minutes of rain while atop the Eiffel Tower, our exclusive tour of an authentic Parisian parfumerie, snacking on delicate hand-crafted chocolate from the bottom of the Louvre and shopping on the Champs-Élysées. That's how the Parisian invite was born, and that's where my shop started.
You may also find the odd handcrafted greeting card available in my shop. These are evolutions out of my YouTube channel of the same name, Shop Leanne, where I explore more of the hands-on side of design with fun and creative homemade cards and greetings. Be sure to keep an eye out for those, as these will be limited runs!
I take a lot of care and consideration when designing my items. I want to set the mood for the perfect event, while creating something that's truly unique and helps my shop visitors turn into party planning rock stars! If what you're looking for isn't available, just send me a note and we can chat about how to create the perfect custom item just for you.
I hope you enjoy! If you've purchased from the shop before, I thank you for choosing me. I know there's a lot of options out there. I'm always grateful for the wonderful feedback.
Thank you for visiting 'Shop Leanne'!
Welcome to my Etsy policies page. Every item in my shop is personally created by me. I put a lot of thought and attention to detail in everything I make - hopefully you will enjoy the items as much as I love creating them.
I do not offer refunds for mail lost or damaged. I will add shipping insurance however, if you do make that arrangement with me before or immediately after your purchase.
No refunds for digital or customized items.
All forms of Etsy payment are accepted.
All of the items I create are made with a lot of care, and therefore if I'm shipping items to you I ensure to pack them just as well. I always use heavy duty envelopes with extra protection.
Digital download items are available through Etsy immediately after purchase. Custom digital downloads will be ready for you within 1-2 business days. All tangible items ship through Canada Post letter mail, the next business day after payment is received. If you would like insurance, or express post on a snail mail order I will be happy to provide that as well. Please just contact me to let me know.
I also take order requests, if there is a particular item you're looking for please feel free to contact me and I'll see what I can do. Thanks for looking!
All information is kept secure and confidential. Your name and mailing address will be used only to ship tangible items purchased, if applicable. Please contact me if you have any questions at all.
I receive many requests for alternative colours or wording on customized items which is always an option. Send me a convo - I'd be happy to help!


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Pepperdine Newsroom
Songwriter and Composer Jimmy Dunne Named Inaugural University Director of Traditions
Award-winning songwriter, composer, and entrepreneur Jimmy Dunne will be joining the Pepperdine University community in the newly established position of University director of traditions. In this role, Dunne will be tasked with enhancing the University's many traditional events, including Founder's Day, and helping create new traditions that will further community members' sense of unity and strengthen Waves pride. The director will collaborate with individuals across the organization, including those from Pepperdine's five schools, Student Affairs, Athletics, Community Belonging, University Events, Integrated Marketing Communications, and other areas of University leadership.
"As we execute a vision in line with the University's 2030 strategic plan, Pepperdine is passionately committed to strengthening campus life and continuously improving our many cherished student experiences," said president Jim Gash. "We're honored to have Jimmy Dunne officially join our Waves family, bringing his creative and producing talents to our traditions, culture, and events."
With vast experience in both the worlds of art and business, Dunne has written countless songs for some of today's most popular artists. His songs have been recorded on 28,000,000 hit records worldwide, along with scores, songs, and themes in over 1,500 television episodes and dozens of feature films. Throughout his esteemed career, he has received Grammy Award and Emmy Award nominations, Billboard Music Awards, and Country Music Awards, and his songs have garnered gold, platinum, and multi-platinum records from countries spanning the globe.
Credits include songs for Whitney Houston, Kenny Rogers, Pretty Woman, Take 6 (a Grammy-winning record), Janet Jackson, Loverboy, Princess Diaries II, Nothing in Common, Jermaine Jackson, Anne Murray, Fame, Dave Loggins, Dear God, ABC's Wide World of Sports, NBC Sports, and Mother's Day. He has also composed official songs of the Olympic Games, presidential campaigns, and numerous alma maters and fight songs for leading universities.
Beyond his song credits, Dunne has produced a number of large-scale events for businesses and nonprofit organizations and is attuned to the many elements of what makes an event successful and memorable. Last year, Dunne contributed to the creation of the University's new "Lighting of the Lantern" tradition, a feature of the Founder's Day ceremony in which a student from each of the University's schools joins together in bringing forth a light of knowledge, purpose, and faith.
"Jimmy has a deep affinity for Pepperdine and has already made a tremendous impact on the University community writing a new alma mater, "We Will Climb"; reimagining our fight song; and creating a Pepperdine songbook library with dozens of musical compositions," said Sean Burnett, senior vice president for integrated marketing communications and chief marketing officer. "I look forward to the indelible impact his vision and experience will bring to the Pepperdine family in the years ahead."
University & Campus Life


Here's a question to puzzle and amuse any readers this blog might have.
The picture above is by Stanley Spencer. It's called 'Patricia at Cockmarsh Hill', and dates from 1935.
What is the connection between this picture and Gilbert and Sullivan? Here's something to listen to while you ponder; it's 'The Sun, whose rays' from The Mikado. It doesn't have to be this specific piece (I just happen to like it); it could be anything by Gilbert and Sullivan. However, it couldn't be any picture by Spencer.


The Damsel is one of the most prolific insects which inhabit our lakes here in the UK. This is reflected in what anglers prefer to fish on small waters and reservoirs with most anglers 'go to' fly being a damsel of some sort. Variants consist of chain eyes, gold heads or leaded bodies with marabou tails either woven or stacked, both of these additions add the most possible movement. Kieron Jenkins shows how to tie one of the more modern variants using UV Crystal hackle fritz for the body.
Simply start off by attaching a bead of choice to your favourite hook. Here I have chosen the Fulling Mill Grip Gape Hook size 10, with a 3.8 silver brass bead. Attach your UTC Thread to the hook, building up a section of thread behind the bead to stop any slippage then run the thread down the hook creating a solid platform to latch your marabou tail onto.
Take an inch or so of olive marabou from a turkey feather and trim away the end waste. This makes tying the marabou in easier and it also adds less bulk to the body. Run the thread over the marabou to the bead to form a smooth, flat body then take the thread back down to the bend of the hook. Offer up a strand of crinkle flash to each side of the tail for added sparkle and tie in.
For the body I have used FlyBox UV Crystal Hackle in olive colour. The UV adds some extra sparkle in low light conditions, primarily what we get this time of year in the UK! Take the front end of the fritz, the tip where the fibres fall back down the hank. This ensures that each time you wind the fritz each turn falls perfectly into place and sits right. Latch the fritz to the hook and wind – in touching turns – back towards the bead, pulling the fibres back after each turn. Simply tie in, build a little hot spot with the bright coloured thread and tie off.
This pattern can also be tied in many different colour combinations, all black, black and green, white and green, all white… A great versatile pattern for grown on or stocked fish.
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When the leading Japanese architect Arata Isozaki designed the Qatar National Convention Centre, he came up with a spectacular and inviting entrance in the form of two intertwined trees supporting the roof of the striking building. The QNCC serves as a multifunctional meeting place. It is a conference centre that also accommodates concerts, gala events, and exhibitions.
The Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) is situated in 'Education City,' not far from the skyscrapers of the modern business centre in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich state of Qatar. The remarkable design icon is located on the enormous campus among faculties of some of the world's best universities, such as Weill Cornell, Texas A&M, and Georgetown, as well as research and technology institutes like the Sidra Medical and Research Center, and Qatar Science & Technology Park. This is the home of Qatar's ambitious future plans, including the knowledge-based economy: here, oil and gas must make way for science and education; for innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.
The architectural firm Arata Isozaki & Associates was given of a total area of 200.000 square metres to use. The firm produced three buildings: the convention centre, the exhibition centre, and the multi-storey car park. The striking four-storey main building has a truly spectacular entrance. The two 250-meter long, curved steel Sidra tree structures supporting the roof are incredible eye-catchers. But that is not all. The Sidra tree was not chosen by chance. The tree is an icon in the Qatari culture. It has its origins as a beacon in the desert and is used by the Bedouin as a meeting place and shelter.
The architects instantly set the tone with this symbolism: the convention centre is a meeting place. Outside the building, people can share knowledge and stories in the shade beneath the trees; inside, the visitor is invited into the conference center where everything is large, high, and transparent. A sense of spaciousness is given by ensuring the incidence of lots of daylight. Through the use of Reynaers' slim CW 50 system, the extended curtain wall can let in the maximum amount of light.
However, visitors do not feel lost or insignificant, partly because of the furniture selection and the carefully placed lounge settings which allows visitors to engage comfortably. The fact that visitors have a sense of being part of a large entity has been made possible by the architect through creating the opportunity to divide and arrange spaces flexibly, by means of movable ceilings.
The main building is connected by means of two interlinked oval volumes. The car park has space for more than three thousand cars and forty buses. On the other side, the architect produced a multifunctional exhibition hall with a total of 40.000 square metres of space. It is a hall that can accommodate scientists invited for a seminar, or international visitors attending the United Nations climate change conference, one of the world's largest ever conferences (with 17.000 delegates who attended this event). This instantly put the brand-new QNCC on the world map in the fields of logistics (the smooth movement of large groups of people) and technology (with audio-visual, acoustic, and high-tech tours de force concealed in mobile ceilings with lamps that open and close as a finishing touch).
The QNCC also features a theatre with 2300 plush seats and the stage, which is characterised by warm colours and luxurious materials. There are also three auditoriums, 52 smaller meeting rooms, a room for gala events and other activities, six luxurious VIP lounges with five star catering, and seven hospitality suites. These facilities make QNCC one of the most sophisticated, most flexible, and largest convention centres in the Middle East.
Reynaers' efforts in the project have been considerable. It supplied the solutions required to allow the construction of the transparent extended glass façade of the exhibition centre with a span of at least sixteen meters without additional support. The façade with aluminium and steel features stainless steel covers on the inside and is reinforced with OS façades measuring 650 millimetres in depth and covering 5500 square metres.
QNCC was built with a focus on sustainability. The 'green' building was built in accordance with the 'US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environment Design' (LEED) gold certification standard. Through the application of innovative solutions for matters such as economical water and energy consumption, the building is at least 32 percent more efficient than comparable buildings that do not make use of these technological innovations. One of these innovations is the use of 3500 square metres of solar panels, providing more than twelve percent of the energy used within the centre. Energy-efficient LED lighting is also used in the exhibition halls.
In the future, a railway station will connect Doha's business centre with Education City, and more car parks and luxury hotels will be built. These measures will make the QNCC more accessible to even more people.


The Kivalliq Trade Show Art Market Committee will bring in a total of 6 artisans from Kivalliq communities to display and sell their arts and crafts, fine art or garments at the 5th annual Kivalliq Trade Show – September 29th – October 1st – Rankin Inlet. If you are interested in travelling to Rankin Inlet to sell your arts and crafts please complete the application form linked here and email or fax to either contact listed below.
Please complete and submit your application for assistance by Friday August 8th.
Note: We have extended our deadline for submissions from June 30th to Friday August 8th. Successful applicants will be notified after August 8th.
The Kivalliq Trade Show Art Market Committee is also pleased to support and offer tables to Rankin Inlet artisans and crafters to sell their wares at the Art Market.
ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥᑦ ᑕᑯᔭᒃᓴᐅᑎᓄᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᐊᓛᖏᑦ 6-ᓂᒃ ᓴᓇᙳᐊᖅᑎᓂᒃ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑎᓂᒃ ᑎᑭᑎᑦᑎᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᑭᕙᓪᓕᐅᑉ ᓄᓇᓕᖏᓐᓂᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᕆᓗᒋᓪᓗ ᓴᓇᙳᐊᖅᑕᖏᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑕᖏᑦ, ᑕᓪᓕᒪᒋᔭᖓᓐᓂᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑕᒫᑦ ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥᑦ ᑕᑯᔭᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᖅ − ᓯᑎᐱᕆ 29−ᒥᑦ ᐅᒃᑑᐱᕆ 1−ᒧᑦ − ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᑦ. ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒧᙵᐊᔪᒪᒍᕕᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓇᔭᕐᓂᑦ ᑕᑕᑎᕐᓗᒍ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᐅᑎ ᐃᓚᐅᑎᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᑕᒡᕙᓂ ᐊᒪᓗ ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᓱᑲᔪᒃᑯᓪᓘᓃᑦ ᓇᓕᑐᐃᓐᓇᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᑖᓂ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ.
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᓕ: ᐅᖓᓯᒃᓯᒋᐊᖅᑕᕗᑦ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᖅ ᑐᓂᓯᓯᒪᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᔫᓂ 30-ᒥᑦ ᑖᓪᓕᒻᒥᕐᒧᑦ ᐋᒋᓯ 8. ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᐅᓯᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᑎᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐋᒋᓯ 8 ᐊᓂᒍᖅᐸᑦ.
ᑐᓂᔾᔪᑎᒋᓗᒍ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᐅᓯᐅᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓇᓕᐊᖕᓄᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐃᓅᔭᖅ ᑏᓐ ᐅᕙᓂ assistant@kivalliqtradeshow.ca ᐅᕙᓘᓃᑦ ᐳᕆᓐᑕ ᒨᓱᒧᑦ ᐅᕙᓂ coordinator@kivalliqtradeshow.ca. ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᔾᔪᑎᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᒃ ᐱᔪᒪᒍᕕᑦ ᐅᖃᓗᒡᓗᑎᑦ ᐊᑭᖃᙱᑦᑐᒧᑦ 1-877-477-2919-ᒧᑦ.
ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥᑦ ᑕᑯᔭᒃᓴᐅᑎᓄᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᐊᓛᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᕈᒪᔪᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᐋᓪᓕᕋᐅᔭᓂᒃ ᒪᓂᒪᑎᑦᑎᓗᑎᒃ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᓴᓇᙳᐊᖅᑎᓄᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑎᓄᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕈᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᑕᒡᕙᓂ.
ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᓴᓇᙳᐊᖅᑎᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑎᑦ ᐋᓪᓕᕋᐅᔭᖅᑖᕈᒪᔪᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᑦ ᑎᕇᓯ ᑐᖏᓕᖕᒥᒃ ᐅᕙᓘᓃᑦ ᒍᕋᑎ ᖃᑯᖅᑎᓐᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨᐅᔪᒥᓪᓘᓃᑦ ᐋᓪᓕᕋᐅᔭᖅᑖᕈᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᐊᑭᖃᙱᑦᑐᖅ ᐋᓪᓕᕋᐅᔭᖅᑖᕐᓂᐊᕐᓗᓂ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ, ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖁᔭᑉᑎᒋᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖕᓄᑦ ᑕᓪᓕᒫᖑᖅᑳᖅᑎᓐᓇᒍ ᓯᑎᐱᕆ 19. ᐋᓪᓕᕋᐅᔭᐃᑦ ᑐᓂᔭᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᖅᑐᖃᑕᐅᕌᖓᑦ.
ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᖅ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᓂᖅ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓄᑦ ᐅᑉᓗᓅᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ. ᑐᒡᓕᐊᓂᑦ ᓯᑎᐱᕆ 30−ᒥᑦ 11:00 ᐅᑉᓛᒃᑯᑦ − 6:00−ᒧᑦ ᐅᓐᓄᒃᓴᒃᑯᑦ (ᓇᓂᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ) ᐊᒪᓗ ᕿᑎᐊᓂᑦ ᐅᒃᑑᐱᕆ 1-ᒥᑦ 12:00−ᒥᑦ 5:00-ᒧᑦ (ᓇᓂᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ). ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᑎᓕᐅᕈᕕᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᑎᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓂᒃ ᐅᑉᓘᖕᓂᒃ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕈᒪᖕᒪᖔᖅᐲᑦ ᐅᕙᓘᓃᑦ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒥᒃ ᐅᑉᓗᕐᒥᑦ. ᐊᑕᐅᓯᑐᐃᓐᓇᒥᒃ ᐅᑉᓗᕐᒥᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕈᒪᒍᕕᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᕐᓗᑎᑦ ᓇᓕᐊᖕᓂᒃ ᐅᑉᓗᕐᒥᐅᓂᐊᕐᒪᖔᑦ.


There's a quote on our website, just under our logo: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
The quote is attributed to management consultant Peter Drucker who believed culture is the most important element of a business.
The thought behind it is anyone can come up with an idea for a winning strategy. The key in how that strategy is implemented lies in the company's culture. A company's culture is the glue which holds it together. Often it is the one thing which is completely hidden from view but has the most impact.
According to Merriam Webster's dictionary, "culture" was the most popular word of 2014. "The term conveys a kind of academic attention to systematic behavior and allows us to identify and isolate an idea, issue, or group: we speak of a 'culture of transparency' or 'consumer culture'.
Virgin's Richard Branson says: "There's no magic formula for great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated.
And Branson doesn't just talk the talk. Virgin has become well known for their progressive culture. Branson gives staff members as many days off as they want each year and gives new dads a year's paternity leave.
Rogerwilco has a ping-pong table, weekly massages and pilates classes, and offers all the cappuccinos you can drink. But importantly, we're a team of talented people who don't only work hard, but work well together. It is this combination of working hard and playing hard which is the foundation of our culture.


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This barn was built in 2015 Kemp's Carriage House Loft Rental and is located next to our Kemp's Portage Lake Log Home Rental, VRBO #487326. Rental of both properties allows for groups of up to 33 guests!! Here is a link to a 3D virtual tour of this property: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=C5s44FxCP6j&mls=1 This rental is also across the street from Portage Lake and is conveniently located near all the exciting special events, attractions, and recreational opportunities of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Michigan Tech and Finlandia Universities are only six miles away. The main floor of this rental is for the owner's storage. The loft rental area contains three bedrooms, three baths with tiled walk in showers and a sauna. It provides beds to sleep sixteen, perfect for a family reunion or a large group. It also includes a full kitchen, surround sound system, as well as a washer and dryer. The well-designed kitchen along with an outside charcoal grill makes cooking easy for those who want to eat in rather than go out. All pots, pans, dishes, towels and sheets are provided. You only need to bring your consumable goods! Many antique items used in the loft have been obtained from our local area. Interior building materials were reclaimed from old barns and buildings. The corrugated metal roofing lining the interior ceiling and some walls came from the Ford wood plant in Pequaming. (This plant provided local wood for the construction of the Ford Model T and A cars built in the 1920 and 30's). Reclaimed hardwood' over 100 years old was used for the flooring. Interior walls are also finished with reclaimed wood. A lot of local history has been used in the decoration of this rental property. Some items came from the Atlas Powder plant formerly located on the 1400 acres behind the property. There are also many logging tools, some over 100 years old. All of this adds up to a large comfortable space with a very cozy feeling.


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Q: Problema com mapstruct com Springboot Eaí galera, tudo bem? Pessoal estou tentando implementar no meu projeto o mapstruct, porém, estou tendo um problema ao tentar utiliza-lo, onde basicamente quando eu faço o clean compile pra gerar a implementação do mapper, ele faz uma implementação passando todos os campos, enquanto eu gostaria de exercer a flexibilidade de apontar quais atributos serão mapeados. Essa é minha entidade de usuário:
@Data
@Entity
public class Usuario {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Integer id;

    @NotBlank
    private String nome;

    @NotBlank
    @Email
    private String email;

    @NotBlank
    private String telefone;

    @NotBlank
    private String senha;
}

Esse é meu Dto de usuário:
@Data
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
public class UsuarioDtoEntrada {

    @NotBlank
    private String name;

    @NotBlank
    @Email
    private String email;

    @NotBlank
    private String telefone;

    @NotBlank
    private String senha;

}

E esse é meu mapper:
@Mapper(componentModel = "spring")
public interface UserMapper {

    @Mapping(source = "usuarioDtoEntrada.name", target = "nome")
    Usuario getEntityFromDtoEntrada(UsuarioDtoEntrada usuarioDtoEntrada);
}

Meu pom está configurado da seguinte forma:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.3</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>asc</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>asc</name>
    <description>asc</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>11</java.version>
        <org.mapstruct.version>1.4.1.Final</org.mapstruct.version>
        <lombok.version>1.18.12</lombok.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
            <artifactId>mapstruct</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.2.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>
                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                        </exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
                        <path>
                            <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                            <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
                            <version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
                        </path>
                        <path>
                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                            <version>${lombok.version}</version>
                        </path>
                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
                    <compilerArgs>-Amapstruct.defaultComponentModel=Spring</compilerArgs>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

A: Opa, tentei aqui, porém, mesmo dessa forma a implementação ainda pega todo o objeto:
@Generated(
    value = "org.mapstruct.ap.MappingProcessor",
    date = "2022-02-20T15:57:51-0300",
    comments = "version: 1.4.1.Final, compiler: javac, environment: Java 15.0.2 (Amazon.com Inc.)"
)
@Component
public class UserMapperImpl implements UserMapper {

    @Override
    public Usuario getEntityFromDtoEntrada(UsuarioDtoEntrada usuarioDtoEntrada) {
        if ( usuarioDtoEntrada == null ) {
            return null;
        }

        Usuario usuario = new Usuario();

        usuario.setNome( usuarioDtoEntrada.getName() );
        usuario.setEmail( usuarioDtoEntrada.getEmail() );
        usuario.setTelefone( usuarioDtoEntrada.getTelefone() );
        usuario.setSenha( usuarioDtoEntrada.getSenha() );

        return usuario;
    }
}

A: Dando uma lida sobre o lombok + mapstruct o pre-processador do lombok precisa ser declarado antes do pre-processador do mapstruct para que a geração de código do lombok seja aplicada na geração de código do mapstruct, vê se isso resolve. post do medium
<plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
   <configuration>
   <source>1.8</source>
   <target>1.8</target>
   <annotationProcessorPaths>
      <path>
         <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
         <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
         <version>${lombok.version}</version>
      </path>
      <path>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
         <version>${mapstruct.version}</version>
      </path>
   </annotationProcessorPaths>
   </configuration>
</plugin>


Pyongyang has given South Korean reporters a last minute green-light to witness the slated demolition of North Korea's nuclear test site, Seoul said Wednesday.
[SEOUL] Pyongyang has given South Korean reporters a last minute green-light to witness the slated demolition of North Korea's nuclear test site, Seoul said Wednesday.
Pyongyang announced earlier this month that it planned to "completely" destroy the Punggye-ri facility in the country's mountainous northeast.
The demolition is due to take place sometime between Wednesday and Friday, depending on the weather, according to the North.
A handful of foreign journalists, including from South Korea, were originally invited to attend.
Reporters from China, Britain, the US and Russia on Tuesday flew from Beijing to the North Korean city of Wonsan, from where they will travel for some 20 hours up the east coast by train and bus to the remote test site.
But the South Korean press corps were left off the flight after Seoul said they had received no word from Pyongyang in recent days on whether their reporters had been accepted.
On Wednesday the Unification Ministry said Pyongyang had now granted them permission.
"The government will swiftly carry out necessary measures for the journalists such as granting approvals for visiting North Korea and providing transportation," the ministry said.
There was no word on how the South Korean reporters might reach North Korea to catch up with their colleagues.
But on Tuesday a Unification Ministry spokesman suggested the South could lay on a rare direct flight.
The peninsula has been divided ever since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and there are usually no flights between the two sides.
The North has portrayed the destruction on the Punggye-ri test site as a goodwill gesture ahead of planned June 12 summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in Singapore.
Last week Pyongyang threatened to pull out of that summit if Washington pressed for its unilateral nuclear disarmament.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump also cast doubt on talks as he met with South Korean leader Moon Jae In.
"There are certain conditions we want to happen. I think we'll get those conditions. And if we don't, we won't have the meeting," he told reporters, without elaborating on what those conditions might be.
Punggye-ri has been the site for all six of the North's nuclear tests, the latest and by far the most powerful in September last year, which Pyongyang said was an H-bomb.