What Does LMDC's Demise Mean for Battery Park City?
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. After siphoning Battery Park City surplus revenue in an effort to close the State's budget deficit, Governor Paterson has decided to dissolve the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) citing years of ineptitude in running the disbursement of funds allocated to the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
One could easily agree that little has been seen from the LMDC– but might also argue that the dissolution of the organization might be a heavy handed option for a community still reeling from the after effects of 9/11 nearly a decade later. Although the LMDC will not be completely shut down, the Governor is proposing cutting the organization by 85% from 35 fulltime staffers to 5.
This is cause for some concern for residents of Lower Manhattan but especially Battery Park City being that the LMDC is the owner and responsible agent for the dismantling of the former Deutsche Bank building, a behemoth skeleton of a visual reminder of how much work is left.
As if it's not dangerous or confusing enough to cross the West Side Highway to reach the subway, how will a 5-person team be optimized to make sure that our safety is maintained during the construction at Ground Zero? The implementation of crossing guards in our area, although fiscally insufficient, was still a step in the right direction. With all the confusing bridge detours being built and constantly changed — who will notify us of these changes? High winds during the winter also pose a serious safety risk during construction, if the falling glass panes from Goldman Sachs' construction site can be used as an example.
The history of the former Deutsche Bank building post 9/11 has been riddled with corruption and safety concerns. From the issues surrounding the decontamination of the building to the safety of the workers dismantling the building, who will be accountable if something goes wrong? According to the LMDC, concerned residents can call a hotline to report incidents at the site as to avoid what happened on August 18, 2007 when a fire spread through the site killing 2 firefighters.
The progress reports that are issued by the LMDC are important for our community as the demolition affects the health of the air we breathe during its decontamination. Although most of us probably haven't even seen one of these reports — it's important that they be maintained in order for us to be aware of the hazards that might exist during the demolition.
The lack of business real estate means the lack of foot traffic of businessmen and women, which translates into the decimation of small businesses in our area. As we roll into our 9th year of waiting for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site — who will help the small businesses that residents rely on in this underserved area? Although disbursements of small business grants have been slow from the LMDC — there is still almost $800 Million dollars of yet to be disbursed funds. These funds were meant for the development of Lower Manhattan distributed through the LMDC. When the governor dissolves the LMDC, what will happen to that funding?
These are four compelling reasons as to reconsider dissolving the LMDC. If the organization needs less ineptitude and better people to run it — why restructure and re-organize the LMDC instead? There must be a better option for the betterment of a still embattled Lower Manhattan.


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More Tolerance
More from the "tolerance" and "diversity" crowd.
It's the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks that claimed almost 3,000 American lives. It's a day for reflection, remembrance, and a coming together as a nation. If there's any day for us to unite, it's today. That wasn't the sentiment exhibited by some at Occidental College, where the local Young America's Foundation chapter had their 9/11 memorial vandalized (via YAF):
Vandals destroy 9/11 memorial, toss American flags in trash at Occidental https://t.co/WOr0qWMGsY #neverforget pic.twitter.com/s7yfnvVZTn
— YAF (@yaf) September 11, 2016
Today is meant to be a day of respect and remembrance for all the victims and heroes of 9/11. Last night, our club sponsored a memorial for the 2,997 who died exactly 15 years ago. Students of all backgrounds came out and planted 2,997 American flags in our quad here at Occidental.At midnight early this morning, vandals crushed, snapped, and threw in the garbage every single flag. Not one was left in the ground. Not only did they destroy the memorial, they put posters and flyers up that shamed the victims of 9/11.
Most of Occidental was asleep at 1 A.M. but not fifteen of us. Students rallied together to get those flags out of the garbage and up in the quad. This is beyond politics, this is about those lives that were so tragically taken.
Later that morning, a few of us stood guard at the memorial. Four Occidental students came up and snapped a few flags right in our faces. When we confronted them, those cowards got away as fast as they possibly could.
We had thought the storm had passed, however, we were very wrong. This morning, students woke up to another lazy attempt at vandalism. Hundreds of flags kicked and smashed, and fifty or so back in the trash. Of course, we put them back in the ground.
We ask that all students respect the memorial for the remainder of its time in the quad. If you try to destroy it, we will rebuild it.
Katie wrote about a professor taking down 9/11 memorial posters at Saddlebackk College on Friday. It's the liberal rot that permeates college campuses. It's a disgusting display of disrespect to the victims of this attack, the first responders who put their lives on the line (some sacrificed their lives in the process), and their families. Only liberals would act in such a manner with regards to the worst terror attack to ever come to our shores. Maybe these cowards were trying to make their ultra-liberal professors proud. There is a disconcerting narrative emanating from the Left with regards to radical Islam, that it's somehow still more dangerous than fanatical Christianity; it's not. Islamic terrorists control wide swaths of land, have influence in various political systems (like in Lebanon), and have or had a wide network of terrorist training camps. Far right Christian groups don't have any of this. It's a false equivalency.
Radical Islamic terrorists attacked us on 9/11. They killed scores of Americans. We must remember these people. Moreover, what does busting up 9/11 memorials accomplish besides making you look like petulant fools? All I can say that it was a dark day for Obama's alma mater.
While disappointing, YAF program officer Amy Lutz commended the efforts by the conservatives at Occidental for doing their part to remember what today means for millions of Americans
"It's a shame that leftists would target such a heartfelt memorial, but this is just further evidence that the 9/11 Never Forget Project is more important than ever," said Lutz. "Kudos to the conservatives at Occidental for bringing this important memorial to their campus."
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It's Worse than We Thought
It's reality but not as we know it
John Hawkins: How radical, weird and out of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office? It's worse than you ever thought and although there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across how bad things have become.
1) "College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims…. The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended."
2) "Portland State University Offers Course Teaching How to 'Make Whiteness Strange'…According to Portland State University Professor Rachel Sanders' 'White Privilege' course, 'whiteness' must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved. The course description states that 'whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States" and claims that 'to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.' Students taking the course will 'endeavor to make whiteness strange.' In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must 'interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.'"
3) "A University in the San Francisco Area Actually Told Students To Call 911 if They Were Offended….Administrators at a Catholic university in the San Francisco Bay Area have rescinded an official school policy instructing students to clog up the regional 9-1-1 emergency reporting system to report 'bias incidents.'
The school is Santa Clara University, reports Campus Reform…Until this month, however, Santa Clara administrators have been instructing students to report 'bias incidents' using the emergency service reserved for dispatching police, firefighters and ambulances.
'If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,' the Santa Clara website instructed students in fierce, all-capital letters."
4) "Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville's Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
…For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her – here's a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr."
5) "A Professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student after she refused to concede that Jesus is a 'myth' or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college. According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, a non-profit public interest law firm, Humanities Professor Lance 'Lj' Russum gave a student a 'zero' on four separate papers because the 16-year-old did not 'conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.' The law firm has called for a full, private investigation of the professor and the course curriculum."
6) "College Codes Make 'Color Blindness' a Microaggression…wait, what?…. UCLA says "Color Blindness," the idea we shouldn't obsess over people's race, is a microaggression. If you refuse to treat an individual as a 'racial/cultural being,' then you're being aggressive."
7) "The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university's 'Just Words' campaign is the work of UWM's 'Inclusive Excellence Center' and aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact'—microaggressions like 'politically correct' or 'PC.'"
8) ) "'American,' 'illegal alien,' 'foreigners,' 'mothering,' and 'fathering' are just a handful of words deemed 'problematic' by the University of New Hampshire's Bias-Free Language Guide….Saying 'American' to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes 'U.S. citizen' or 'Resident of the U.S.' The guide also tries to get students to stop saying 'Caucasian,' 'illegal Immigrant,' 'mother,' 'father' and even the word 'healthy' is said to shame those who aren't healthy."
9) "Late yesterday afternoon, ACLJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of Brandon Jenkins against officials of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Maryland for denying Brandon admission to its Radiation Therapy Program in part due to his expression of religious beliefs. As one faculty member explained to Brandon, on behalf of CCBC, the 'field [of radiation therapy] is not the place for religion.'"
10) "A California school co-founded by a firebrand who once called for an 'intifada' in the U.S. has become the nation's first accredited Muslim college."
11) "According to Coastal Carolina University, sex is only consensual if both parties are completely sober and if consent is not only present, but also enthusiastic. This is a troubling standard that converts many ordinary, lawful sexual encounters into sexual assault, and it should frighten any student at CCU."
12) "Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food…Students took to Twitter to call the event culturally insensitive and to question the school's efforts to promote diversity….Clemson Dining issued an apology to 'offended' students after hosting a 'Maximum Mexican' food day."
13) "All-Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because it Excludes Women Without Vaginas."
14) "The 'Black Lives Matter' leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party."
15) "Assistant Dean (at Cornell) Tells a Project Veritas Investigative Journalist that the University Would Allow an ISIS Terrorist to Hold a 'Training Camp' on Campus, Saying: 'It Would be Like Bringing in a Coach to do a Training on a Sports Team.'"
BE AFRAID of the Crybaby Generation, Be very Afraid.
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Everything's Offensive
<hum "everything's Awesome" from The LEGO movie, just change it to "offensive" while reading this wallop of crybabiness.
Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns that Muslim students would be offended.
Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative realized that the university wasn't doing anything to memorialize 9/11.
So, on October 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to asking the university to institute a "moment of recognition" during the mornings of all future September 11ths.
The resolution in no way referred to Islam or to whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. "It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year." (Star Tribune)
Islamophobia and racism … are alive and well. I just don't think that we can act like something like a moment of silence for 9/11 would exist in a vacuum when worldwide, Muslim and Middle Eastern folks undergo intense acts of terrorism around the 11th of September each year, and have since 2001.
Should some tell these mindless idiots that Muslims are not a race? That Arabs are not a race?
This has had a serious impact on the mental health of many Muslim Americans. A 2009 study of New York Muslims found that the vast majority of participants said they felt extremely safe prior to September 11. After the attacks, however, 82 percent reported that they felt "extremely unsafe. A study two years later. In 2011, a study of Muslim Americans led by psychologist Mona M. Amer, found that many of the subjects suffered from anxiety, depression, and even Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from being doubly traumatized, first by the attacks themselves and then by the blame they received afterwards. (muftah.org)
THEY ARE THE VICTIMS! how Liberal is that…
But according to the Minnesota Republic, the resolution proved oddly controversial. MSA Director of Diversity and Inclusion, David Algadi, voiced "severe criticism" of the resolution.
At-large MSA representative and Director of Diversity and Inclusion David Algadi voiced severe criticism of the resolution. He also made sure to emphasize 9/11's status as a national tragedy in his response.
"The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe," said Algadi, "Islamophobia and racism fueled through that are alive and well."
"The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe," he said. Algadi expressed concerns- in an email to the Washington Post – that efforts to recognize 9/11 are sometimes "thinly-veiled expressions of Islamophobia."
Algadi was not the only one with this opinion. A majority of student government representatives sided with him, voting down the resolution in a 36-23 vote this month. If students had their way, there would be no moment of silence at UMN on Sept. 11, 2016.
But after the university became "inundated" with demands for a rebuke of the vote, UMN President Eric Kaler announced that he would formalize the moment of silence anyway. Kaler told the local press that he "wanted to make sure folks were aware that the U is committed to honoring the victims."
As the writer for the Daily Beast noted: "…there are people who blame all Muslims for the actions of a radical few…we should argue against these sentiments, and we should work to end the terrible acts of revenge-violence against innocent Muslim Americans." But he also added that Americans should still be allowed to take a "single moment out of our days to mourn the thousands of victims—Muslims among them—of the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
According to the Daily Beast, "the everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low." (Leo Affairs)
Then we have Paris. 🙂
The response, on the student association's Facebook site, was swift.
"Are we allowed to publicly, on campus, mourn for Paris or would that be too offensive to some?" wrote one commenter.
"Absolutely despicable," wrote another. "You should be ashamed of yourselves."
On Friday, the association released a statement, saying: "Much of the coverage of this resolution has revolved around the discussion of the potential perpetuation of Islamophobia. While this was certainly a valid and unanswered concern of the body, much of the discussion … on this resolution also revolved around logistics of how a moment of recognition could be implemented."
It went on to say that many members "voiced support for holding a moment of recognition for the victims of 9/11," but faulted the resolution for not spelling out how "this could be done." It said the group had "reached out to the author" to work on redrafting the resolution for a future vote.
Let the The Blame Game begin. Along with denial…
Surprised by opposition
Menon, a 17-year-old freshman from Rogers, Minn., who sponsored the resolution, said the opposition took him by surprise. "I did not believe that this would be at all a point of contention," he said.
Of course not, your tiny, mindless Orwellian brain could conceive of it. After all, your reality says you are "sensitive". 🙂
He said there was no mention at the meeting of bringing the issue up for another vote. "They did not table it; they voted it down," he said. "Only after this … backlash from the public did they release this statement saying it was going to be reconsidered."
Leaders of the student association declined a request for an interview.
But the U, which said it supported the resolution, released a statement responding to what was described as "a great deal of confusion" about the vote.
The only confusion is in your tiny Liberal minds that couldn't conceive or handle the criticism.
"Following the vote, the students decided to take a step back and ensure that any 9/11 resolution that is passed includes the detail necessary to successfully implement a worthy form of recognition on campus," said the statement from Vice Provost Danita Brown Young. "The maturity to want a more comprehensive resolution should be applauded."
The immaturity of having to "show maturity" after the fact is the problem, buttheads!
Menon said that he's rewriting the resolution and that he plans to submit it for a vote at the next meeting, on Nov. 24. This time, he said, he believes it will pass. (Star Tribune).
It did, apparently from the Executive Board but the MSA still has it "on it's calendar".
So Islamophobia is alive and well… 🙂
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When I see young kids these days, one of the thoughts I have is, that they don't have connection to this history and the Politically Correct will water it down to nothing because it's not Agenda Correct to remind people that every single terrorist was a Muslim.
So, as I do every year on this date. I remind people, "Oh yeah, that happened today"
Because, unlike Hillary, It does matter.
So how many Leftist out there want to call me a racist for singling out Muslims? 🙂
How children are oblivious to this day's importance because The Ministry of Liberal Education has watered this down to insignificance by now?
How many Liberals have banned this from their collectivist memory and are absolutlely sure it was a plot cooked up President Bush?
On just as a reminder this also happened…
But don't worry, that was our fault. These Libyan muslims just happened to passing by the Consulate in Benghazi on 9/11 with their Rocket Launchers, Snipers, grenades, and Molotov cocktails and remembered that they saw a You tube video in June and got pissed off at that very moment and wam! 4 people are dead because of it.
That's the Obama/Hillary story.
But don't worry, it's all a partisan witch hunt by right wing extremists now. 🙂
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Campaign War
"We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are," Mr. Obama declared in a 14-minute address. "That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq," he added, using an alternative name for ISIS. "This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."
How many believe this is campaign rhetoric? How many actually believe Mr "Red Line" is serious?
Certainly not the terrorists.
The Left has completely forgotten 9/11. They had to, so they did.
"They were at war with us, but we weren't at war with them" — 9/11 Report. Sound Familiar?
"These American forces will not have a combat mission; we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq," Mr. Obama pledged, adding that the mission "will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; it will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil." (NYT)
Don't you love how he telegraphs everything in the media? 🙂
Then we can't possibly win. But then again, he's just looking to win just enough to get the critics off his back so he can go back to golfing and the Democrats stand a chance in November.
Another "campaign" war. More "symbolism" and "jingoism" that's his "strategy".
Make it look like's doing something….ANYTHING…Just get off his back so he can go back to be King!
We need more Winston Churchill and less Ward Churchill.
Those people who say that President Obama has no clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy.
First the strategy — which is to get each crisis off the front pages and off television news programs as quickly as he can, in whatever way he can, at the lowest political cost. Calling ISIS a junior varsity months ago accomplished that goal.
Saying before the 2012 elections that "bin Laden is dead" and that terrorism was defeated accomplished the goal of getting reelected.
Ineffective sanctions against Iran and Russia likewise serve a clear purpose. They serve to give the illusion that Obama is doing something that will stop Iran from getting nuclear bombs and stop Russia from invading Ukraine.
This forestalls the massive and enraged outcries there would be if the public were fully aware that he was doing nothing serious enough to prevent either of these things from happening. Generations of Americans yet unborn may curse us all for leaving them hostage to a nuclear terrorist Iran. But generations yet unborn do not vote, so they carry no weight with Barack Obama.
No one has a perfect batting average in any field, so Obama has been caught in some dicey situations, such as the sudden eruption of ISIS on the world stage, with their videotaped beheadings that make it hard to get them off the front pages and off the TV newscasts.
Caught off guard, the president has played for time — time for Iraq to get its internal politics fixed, time for our allies to come together, time for the military to create a strategy. Ideally, from his standpoint, time for the whole ISIS crisis to blow over.
There is always someone else to blame for whatever goes wrong in the Obama administration. Supposedly the intelligence services had not kept him informed about how imminent the ISIS threat was. But others who received top-secret briefings by the intelligence services say otherwise.
Some people are wondering how someone of obvious intelligence like Barack Obama could be so mistaken about so many things, especially in deadly foreign policy issues. But there is no way of knowing whether anyone is succeeding or failing without first knowing what they are trying to do.
If you assume that Barack Obama is trying to protect the safety and interests of the United States and its allies, then clearly he has been a monumental failure. It is hard to think of any part of the world where things have gotten better for us since the Obama administration began.
Certainly not in Iraq. Or Iran. Or Libya. Or China. Things went from bad to worse after Obama intervened in Egypt and helped put the murderous Muslim Brotherhood in power. Fortunately for Egypt — and for the whole Middle East — the Egyptian military took the Muslim Brotherhood out of power, in defiance of Obama.
If you start from the assumption that Barack Obama wanted to advance America's interests, this is truly an unbelievable record of failure. But what is there in Obama's background that would justify the assumption that America's best interests are his goal?
He has, from childhood on, been mentored by, or allied with, people hostile to the United States and to American values. His mentors and allies have all been very much like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, even if they were not as flamboyant.
Barack Obama has succeeded in reducing America's military strength while our adversaries are increasing theirs, and reducing our credibility and influence with our allies. That is completely consistent with his vision of how the world ought to be, with the West taken down a peg and humbled.
We are currently at a point where we can either kill as many of the ISIS terrorists as possible over there — where they are bunched together and visible against a desert background — or else leave the job half done and have them come over here, where they will be hard to find, and can start beheading Americans in America.
Everything in Barack Obama's history suggests that he is going to leave the job half done, so long as that gets the issue off the front pages and off the TV newscasts. (Thomas Sowell)
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Boston Herald: For those who lost their dearest loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, the grief never really subsides — for some the pain never leaves their consciousness.
For most Americans, though, 12 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it isn't until the anniversary comes around and official observances take place that they pause to remember the horror of that day.
Sadly, Americans now have another reason to pause on 9/11 — to remember that this nation's security is never certain, that our enemies never cease plotting against us.
Today marks an even fresher anniversary — one year since the launch of a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the murder of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, Christopher Stevens — as well as a native son of Massachusetts, a Winchester kid, former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty.
Amid the 9/11 observances and the swirl of events in Syria I suspect this anniversary will be overlooked by many Americans, and there are those in positions of authority who may be just fine with that. The Benghazi attack was both a tragedy and a security debacle — but the aftermath in Washington was a preventable, political disaster.
And Obama's vow to find and punish who did it will be in line behind O.J. looking for "the real killer" on the golf course and in jail.
But we are secure in the knowledge that, at least in the Benghazi case, that the Political Left which has buried the story as best they could still want you to believe in their "internet video" lies.
Media Matters: In a desperate attempt to revive the manufactured Benghazi "scandal" in advance of its one-year anniversary on Wednesday….
Substitute "plans" for Benghazi investigation in this homage to The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy:
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display …"
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Boston Herald continued…
But as we mark this one-year anniversary of the beginning of that two-day assault not a single person has been prosecuted for the murder of those four Americans in Libya. Some criminal charges were announced in August, but it appears no one is going to great lengths to track down the accused.
But Eric Holder is going after Voter ID laws though! Yeehaw!! 🙂
One year after the attack a review panel has just now concluded that the State Department must draw clearer lines of authority and place a higher priority on oversight of security at U.S. diplomatic posts, according to a recent internal review reported by The New York Times.
And as recently as July, President Obama was scolding his Republican critics for trying to distract Americans by harping on "phony scandals" — one of which, his spokesman confirmed, was the controversy over the attack in Benghazi. It was a true low point for the president.
Today, as we pause to honor the memories of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, we keep our promise to their families — and to ourselves as Americans — to "never forget."
We owe nothing less to the victims of Sept. 11, 2012.
But we shall live up to that commitment because of politics, I know.
Or put in the vernacular of what to do with Vogan Poetry (Hitchhikers again):
They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
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Abstraction is showing only the essential details.
In real life we have example like mobile, TV where we show only what is required. For mobile there is screen, port for charging and headset and buttons. For TV we have Screen, On-off button and ports for connection.
In terms of Application, We only expose the API's that other user needs. Internally which other API is used, what is sequence that is hidden from user.
Abstraction is achieved using Abstract class and Interface.
Encapsulation is hiding the unessential details. Encapsulation is also called data hiding.
Encapsulation is a process of binding or wrapping the data and the functions that operates on the data into a single entity. This keeps the data safe from outside interface and misuse.
One way to think about encapsulation is as a protective wrapper that prevents code and data from being arbitrarily accessed by other code defined outside the wrapper.
One example of Encapsulation is private methods; clients don't care about it, You can change, amend or even remove that method if that method is not encapsulated and it were public all your clients would have been affected.
In term of real life example, for mobile how the button functionality is implemented, how validation is done and where data is stored is hidden from user.
In term of Application we decide how that API works internally.
Encapsulation is achieved using Private modifier.
Now you need to decide which API to expose. Whether 1 API is sufficient or multiple API's will be required.
How that API works is hidden from user.
Inheritance is a way by which user can create a new class called derived class from Base class.
Derived class inherits the properties and functions of base class.
Inheritance is a way by which we achieve code reusability.
For example in real word we have Vehicle class or Shapes class.
Vehicle will have Body, Engine, Seats, wheels etc. Common functionality can be kept in base class and derived class will have required functionality.
It is moving from generalization to Specialization.
Polymorphism means one name many forms.
Giving different meaning to operator. + operator is used for addition. Same can be used for concatenation.
Achieved using virtual and override keyword.
The base class method is overridden in derived class using override keyword.
A Teacher behaves to student.
A Teacher behaves to his/her seniors.


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Humidity has affected the roof of a classroom in Howard W. Bishop Middle School, which also suffers from leaks and broken air conditioners. The school will receive renovations in 2020 from the Half-Cent Tax Initiative. (Christina Morales/WUFT News)
Home/Education/Gainesville City Commissioners Offer Tentative Support of Half-Cent Schools Tax Referendum
Gainesville City Commissioners Offer Tentative Support of Half-Cent Schools Tax Referendum
By Madi Spector
October 8, 2018 Education
Gainesville city commissioners Gail Johnson and Gigi Simmons had skeptical questions about the half-cent sales tax on Thursday.
The half-cent sales tax will be a referendum on the ballot in November. The focus of the tax is to modernize and revitalize public schools around Alachua County. If it passes, it will produce about $22 million over the next 12 years starting in January.
Six of the seven commissioners were present for the meeting, and all gave their support for the proposal. Mayor Lauren Poe has previously stated his support for it but was absent from the meeting.
Johnson was concerned about the makeup of a committee overseeing how the $22 million would be spent.
"The piece of this that concerns me is that we have not talked about what that oversight committee… who's on that, who's choosing the people that are on that," she said. "That's a big question mark and 'what if' for me that sometimes can be a red flag when deciding how large pots of money are going to be spent."
Alachua County School District spokeswoman Jackie Johnson assured her that the school board will be choosing who will be on the committee, but the district is looking to other organizations for help. She said the roles of the committee aren't to choose the projects, but to oversee how the money will be spent and that the plan for each project is followed.
Gail Johnson is hoping the school board would consider including people from the communities that are affected the most by run-down schools. She stated that equity is important to her. Jackie Johnson said the committee will hold a workshop in the next couple of months.
"How are the priorities assessed?" Gail Johnson also asked.
"That is still to be determined," Jackie Johnson said, stating the school board will be working with a private consultant to determine which schools receive priority. "Obviously the schools that are in the worst shape will get the first benefit."
The school board is in the beginning stages of the bidding process for design work at Metcalfe Elementary School, Howard Bishop Middle School and Idylwild Elementary School. They are "probably going to need the most amount of work," Jackie Johnson said.
Simmons also gave her support for the sales tax. But she made a correlation between the ages and conditions of some lower-grade schools.
"Will those schools be considered a priority?" she asked.
"Not based technically on their grade," Jackie Johnson said. "It'll just end up working out that way. But we didn't intentionally go in and say, 'OK, let's do the F and D schools first.'"
If the facilities at lower-grade schools are so poor, Simmons said, she would hope the school board would make them a priority.
"Motivation is key," Jackie Johnson said. "If they have a wonderful place to come to learn, that's going to make all the difference."
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Q: Mounting VMware shared folders on Ubuntu - ANSWER There are many pages on this, but they are not all careful to distinguish WHICH set of vmware tools they are describing. There are two sets that are quite different:

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*The apt package open-vm-tools (and open-vm-tools-desktop)

*The VMware tools installed from the VMWare menu (via a CDROM)

Note also that the content of #1 has changed, and vmware-hgfsmounter no longer exists. I am using VMware Fusion 8.1.1 and Ubuntu 16.04.
To install #2 you must first do "apt-get purge open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop". When you do that and run the installer from the CDROM, it says to use open-vm-tools. If you ignore that and install them, you'll get lots of compiler errors on vmhgfs (the kernel module that implements shared folders in Linux), and it will fail.
I went several times around the loop switching between the two types of VMware tools until I stumbled on a solution:
Use open-vm-tools (for me they just came when I installed Ubuntu 16.04). Reboot. In the VMware settings (on the host):

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*disable shared folders

*enable shared folders

*delete any folders

*add back the folders you want

Now they are there for me, in /mnt/hgfs. But they disappear on reboot -- disabling and enabling shared folders (in VMware Fusion settings) brought them back. I could not figure out what to put into /etc/fstab, so after each reboot I must disable/enable them.
Can anyone tell me how to make them survive a reboot?
(I would have added this to one of the other pages, but this system won't let a new user like me do that. I'm new here, not to Linux or VMwarL.)

A: Building open_vm_tools Kernel Modules
Problem
The default open_vm_tools package for Ubuntu 16.04 (and apparently other releases) do not adequately support mounting shared folders.
Environment

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*Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS desktop host

*VMware Workstation 12 Pro Version 12.5.7 build-5813279

*Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS server VM

Solution
This solution was derived from vmware/open-vm-tools#62.
sudo apt-get install build-essential libprocps4-dev dnet-progs libdumbnet-dev doxygen libglib2.0-dev libtool autotool
 git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git
 cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools
 autoreconf -i
 ./configure --without-x --without-pam --without-ssl –without-icu --
 enable-deploypkg=no
 cd modules
 make MODULES=vmhgfs
 sudo insmod linux/vmhgfs/vmhgfs.ko

Kernel Module Updates
The module must be rebuilt and reinstalled after each kernel update.
To clean up the repo after a linux kernel update: git reset --hard open-vm-tools
make distclean does not adequately reset the environment and will result in a broken module.
Module Installation
sudo mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
sudo mv linux/vmhgfs/vmhgfs.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
sudo chown root:root /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/vmhgfs.ko
sudo chmod 644 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/vmhgfs.ko

Mounting share folder(s)
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/share /mnt/hgfs

To mount automatically, edit the /etc/fstab file and add:
.host :/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults 0 0

Update #1
Upon further investigation, it appears vmhgfs has been moved to userspace and uses a fuse interface.
To mount a shared folder (assuming $HOME/Shared exists):
/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse -o auto_unmount .host:/ $HOME/Shared

To mount automatically, edit the /etc/fstab file and add:
.host:/ /home/user/Shared fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto_unmount,defaults 0 0

Where user is your userid and your uid and gid == 1000. Use id to determine your uid and gid.

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The monument celebrates Admiral Arthur Phillip. He was sent on a mission in 1780 to colonise the land Captain Cook had discovered ten years before. King George was clear in its aims: 'To remove the inconvenience which arose from the crowded state of the gaols.'
Despite the scathing verdict of the new land by some of his less perceptive colleagues, Phillip was impressed by Botany Bay and what was to become Sydney, which he described as the finest harbour in the world.
The overworked Admiral retired to Hampshire in 1793, leaving the colony in the good hands of a certain Captain Bligh.
Phillips received his due as the first Governor of New South Wales in 1932. A bust and two brass plates were unveiled at St Mildred's Church. After the blitz, the monument was placed on the outside wall of the Bank of America. It was moved round the corner when that building was demolished in the 90s.
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This is the first DVD in a series that will teach you the theory and practical aspects of rendering and lighting within 3dsmax and Maya. This DVD focuses on the theoretical aspects of light and colour, such as light reflection, colour temperature, dynamic range and much more. This DVD forms a solid foundation on which the lessons of DVD2 and beyond will be built.
This DVD is aimed at a user that has a basic practical knowledge of 3dsmax or Maya. It does not require any previous knowledge about rendering and lighting and aims to teach the topic from the ground up.


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Today, on July 12, in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, tourists from Japan visited the Buddhist temple «Gold monastery of Buddha», reported by the head of Department of Tourism and of Fund of Development of Tourism of Kalmykia.
Today a group of the USA tourists came to Elista, the capital of Kalmykia. The tourists saw the places of interest in Elista and the history of the Kalmyk people.
Kalmyk guides told a lot of interesting about Buddhism, buddhistic monks an Buddha in English.
East – a delicate matter. This is common knowledge. But one thing – to talk about it, and quite another – encounter this subtlety in life.
Many tourists have asked me this question: When time of flowering tulips in Kalmykia? Therefore, I decided to write for all at once.
Flowering tulips in Kalmykia starts around at the end of April – early May. Therefore, usually residents of Republic of Kalmykia and the tourists travel to the spring blooming steppe to admire the blooming tulips on May holidays (from 1 to 10 May).
European tourists have meeting with simple kalmykian people near KGB office in blessed Kalmykia, write KalmykiaTour paper.
Head of the NATO Information Office Robert Pszczel visited the Republic of Kalmykia. It was an unofficial visit, reports KalmykiaNews.
The Chinese government has banned foreign tourists from entering Tibet on the third anniversary of violent anti-government protests in the region.
Anyone who intends to travel to the troubled region requires a special permit but such permits will be refused to foreigners. The ban could last for up to three months.
Travel agencies in the region say they have been ordered not to allow foreign tourists into Tibet in March.


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Oh yes! Its that time again and we cant get enough. The schedules are up the times are in and everyone is buzzing to see next seasons trends for spring 2015!
Well we know that Maybelline is officially the Make up sponsor for London fashion week and their new product the Color Elixir is going to shine on the catwalk #QuiteLiterally. Looking at the collection that they have in its smooth 'soft not sticky' range is very spring! The 10 different shades are very exciting and agreeably the best way to start the fashion year.
I know you guys may already know about the Headonism tea party that haute couture milliner Stephan Jones and Wedgwood have teamed up and organised for the very first day of London Fashion Week from 4-6pm… But this collab is insane. I can only imagine the most luxurious and spirited decor at this particular event, we are all eager to see what happens.
You guys really ought to check out Regent street right now. 15 architects have come together to change the shopping experience for customers and have created an outdoor exhibition by re inventing shop windows that reflects the brand and engages with the customer. Pictures coming soon!
With all that is coinciding with London Fashion Week right now, I will be going and checking it all out and of course getting back to you here.


Many outsourcing countries have emerged during the past decade, but the Philippines still continues to dominate the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) arena. Why? The reasons are simple and clear: a high literacy rate with a dedicated workforce, English culture skills, low operational costs, and government support.
Currently, the literacy rate in the Philippines is 95% higher than India, China, and Sri Lanka. This is because Filipinos begin learning American English in the first grade. In India, by contrast, public schools introduce British English in the third grade. The English language is incorporated in the everyday life of Filipinos from product labels, traffic signs, and educational materials. Filipinos are also known for their neutral accent and knack of quickly imitating English accents, making the country more attractive to businesses.
Filipinos, particularly those who obtain degrees, are proficient in speaking, reading and writing English, and many are multilingual. Hard work, loyalty, and dedication are emphasized in the family-oriented Filipino culture, resulting in a work ethic not often found in modern society. These qualities are what make Filipinos the ideal contractors for any international employer.
Outsourcing is up to 80% cheaper than hiring locally in most cases. Not only that, the cost of living in the Philippines is substantially less than that in Canada, the US, and Australia, with wages being correspondingly lower as well. In 2018, full-time virtual employees make about $1,300 a month which stretches considerably further for a Filipino than it does for an American or an Australian. Working remotely for international employers is in very high demand in the Philippines, not only because of the wages received, but because this type of employment allows a Filipino to work from the comfort of their own home.
The government has been a key promoter of the outsourcing industry over the past decade. With the BPO industry expecting to add as many as 70,000 jobs and $1 billion in revenues this year, the government has increased their tax incentives. A couple of key incentives are income tax holidays, which are temporary reductions or eliminations of tax, and a 50% tax deduction. Permanent resident status is also readily available for investors. The Philippine Development Plan has listed the BPO industry as one of the top 10 high-potential and priority development areas. Due to that priority, special economic zones were created wherein BPO/contact center facilities may be established and operated.
Outsourcing to the Philippines makes sense and offers businesses all over the world the opportunity to grow their organization exponentially. The Philippines stands ready to offer every opportunity to investors, businesses, and employees in order to remain the leading global outsourcing hub all the while retooling its workforce to weather the shift to artificial intelligence.


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Building 'Bridges,' fostering understanding
By LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.com
Laurel Black
Definitions of poverty usually center on income, but research increasingly shows that living in poverty affects more than people's pocketbooks -- which is one of the reasons it can be so difficult to overcome.
Living with limited resources can alter people's mindsets, cognitive abilities and even physical health, attendees at Friday's Bridges Out of Poverty training learned. People at or below the poverty threshold must operate more often in "the crisis of the moment," and struggle with planning more than their counterparts in the middle or upper classes.
"When we think about culture, we think about countries, we think about ethnicities. But really, there is a culture of money," Jennifer Etherton, a certified Bridges Out of Poverty instructor, said as she set up for class at the McCracken County Cooperative Extension office. "Getting your head around why people (in poverty) do what they do is great, not just for our community partners, but truly for anybody."
The United Way of Paducah-McCracken County holds the Bridges Out of Poverty training once a quarter in an effort to help people and organizations address poverty in a comprehensive way. The curriculum, based on the work of researcher Ruby Payne, also includes topics such as mental models, causes of poverty, hidden rules, family structure and more.
"I like that Bridges Out of Poverty fosters understanding. Understanding people, being compassionate with people -- I think those are really important things," said Etherton, a former teen parent who was able to cross socioeconomic lines.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 17.1% of all individuals, and 24% of children younger than 18, lived below the poverty level in McCracken County in 2017. The nationwide poverty rate that year was 12.3%.
United Way has offered the Bridges training for nearly a decade, said Anne Bidwell, community impact manager at the United Way.
"We know this has worked over the last nine years. We want to make a renewed push to make sure our employers are getting here," Bidwell added.
The nonprofit recently announced it would follow up on 2012's Impact Poverty study by working to engage more area employers in the effort to reduce local poverty.
"We definitely want employers on board with us and speaking the same language, understanding the same things, because we're all going to need to come to the table with our unique experiences and expertise to try to fill this gap in our community," she said.
The United Way and other community stakeholders released the Impact Poverty study in 2012. It set forth a detailed, 10-year plan to improve outcomes in income, education and health for local residents, and the community has managed to meet several of the study's stated goals. Employment is the one area where meaningful gains haven't been made, the nonprofit said.
The response from local businesses to the nonprofit's June 4 Impact Opportunity meeting has been "gratifying," Bidwell said, with new attendees signing up for the June, September and November training.
She added that developments in the business world also indicate local companies are on board.
"Just as a broad base, some companies are having discussions about providing child care, and possible bus routes," said Heather Pierce, project manager at Greater Paducah Economic Development.
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4 Top Female Designers On The Design Industry's Gender Problem
"We exist, we're powerful, we're going to give each other a leg up."
By Diana Budds 7 minute Read
Coffee tables, sofas, and chandeliers may not seem like overtly political objects. But in Designing Women, a new exhibition curated by the New York design studio Egg Collective, they serve to illustrate that the social pathologies of gender inequity and gender bias are still ingrained in our culture–and in the design industry.
Every single piece in the show was designed and made by women, a testament to the strength, caliber, and diversity of work coming out of female-led studios today. However, put in today's broader political context–from a misogynistic president to legislators waging war against reproductive rights–Designing Women is a potent reminder of how far women still need to go to achieve equality, both in design and the world at large.
When Egg Collective founders Crystal Ellis, Stephanie Beamer, and Hillary Petrie thought about what they wanted to produce for NYCxDesign, New York's annual design festival, gender was top of mind. "There's something in the collective conscious right now about the direction the country is going and not wanting it to slip backward," Ellis says. "Women in the design industry are still a minority, especially women such as those in the show who are fabricating and designing . . . We exist, we're powerful, we're going to give each other a leg up."
I spoke to four women featured in the show, all of whom are designers and own their businesses, about how gender bias and sexism has impacted their work. What did I hear? That while artists and designers as a group tend to be fairly progressive, the industry is far from immune to gender bias and inequity–it just manifests in nuanced ways.
[Photo: courtesy Egg Collective]
"I was included in shows because they 'needed a woman.'"
"The spirit of the 1960s and '70s are back," says Lindsey Adelman, a lighting designer featured in the exhibition. "It's great to celebrate how far women have come in history while revisiting what seems to still need attention and energy."
Adelman's lighting–sculptural compositions of mouth-blown glass and metals like brass and bronze–is coveted internationally. She's the most prominent of the 15 designers in the show, and she has experienced both positive and negative impacts related to design's gender imbalance. In at least one way, the underrepresentation of women in design actually helped her business. "I certainly haven't experienced discrimination and bias in a negative way," Adelman says. "I was included in shows because they 'needed a woman.' It's worked in my favor."
Over the past few years, Adelman has noticed a shift in how female designers are discussed. More women in New York are running their own businesses and operating as sole proprietors, whereas a decade ago, women designers often worked within a couple and were discussed in that context–as part of a partnership. Additionally, the type of design work for which women are recognized has changed. "Through history you'd see women associated with textiles, jewelry, and small-scale design," she says. "These days you see women in metal shops, glass-blowing studios, woodshops, and it doesn't feel like an anomaly."
Adelman calls herself an "eternal optimist," and sees advantages for women designers today–specifically that there is a growing market of female collectors and clients. She admires the confidence she sees in twentysomething designers, too, which wasn't necessarily there when her generation was coming up. "It's a great time to be female in design," she says.
The New York-based design studio curated an exhibition of female designers and makers for NYCxDesign. [Photo: courtesy Egg Collective]
"It's a 'girls aren't good at science' bias."
Lighting designer Bec Brittain became design director in Adelman's studio in 2008 and cast out on her own in 2011. She focuses on designing lighting systems that can be custom configured–a reflection of her training as an architect. Like most of the designers I spoke with, she's experienced gender bias in the context of manufacturing.
"Beyond how living in a patriarchal world can be a bummer, my female team members and I need to be three times more knowledgeable about manufacturing [than men]," she says. "If we're talking to a machinist or a plater, we're bumping up against their bias that we don't know how to make stuff. It's a 'girls aren't good at science' bias. It's not specific to design, but it's something we run into."
She points out instances where she's been on long phone calls with a machinist trying to solve a problem, but then when a male member of her team gets on the line, "it's smooth sailing," she says. "I get those glimpses into how things aren't the same."
As challenging and frustrating as the instances of bias are in the design world, she argues that they're symptomatic of deeper cultural problems. "I don't think design, specifically, is any worse than the rest of our society right now," she says. "While I would be happy to talk about my own brand of feminism, it's not design specific; it's about what we as a culture need to do to respect women."
Additionally, Brittain points out that there are just some facts of life that make it difficult to find work-life balance. She had a baby a year ago, which was a challenge; she took a couple weeks off and hosted an exhibition when her son was eight weeks old. "There's no maternity leave," she says. "No one can substitute for the business owner for three months."
"As women, we're taught to be more low-key and demure."
Lora Appleton–founder of Kinder Modern, a boutique and gallery that sells vintage design for children and also its own line of contemporary pieces–notices gender bias manifesting most notably in the media. "There are a ton of amazing women, they're just not talked about in a big way," she says. "How many articles on Patricia Urquiola do we need? We tend to focus on the few than the many."
Before founding her company four years ago, Appleton worked as an art director in the advertising industry and ran her own branding agency. She suggests the reason that male designers receive more attention, and more brand partnerships, may be due to their propensity to speak about themselves more comfortably. "Women seem to be, and this is a generalization, head-down doing the work and not talking about the work," she says. "As women, we're taught to be more low-key and demure. It's like learning to be more communicative and willing to show off."
Recently, Appleton launched the Female Design Council, a professional group that's still in its nascent stages, to help with the challenge of getting more representation for women practitioners.
"The thought process [behind the Female Design Council] was, how do we bolster our work through a difficult economic climate, how can we educate younger designers, how do we foster contacts, and how do we build strength through a tougher [political] time," Appleton says.
Anna Karlin designed the dining table and chairs. The textured surface in the back is Callidus Guild. [Photo: courtesy Egg Collective]
"We realized we had to have solidarity again."
Yolande Batteau–owner of Callidus Guild, a studio that creates artisanal architectural surfaces–agrees that building a stronger network is essential for counteracting, and overcoming, the toxic politics and gender dynamics at play today. She mentions that coming to the exhibition and meeting women who were working in textile design, ceramics, carpentry, and metal craft was invigorating.
"You can name on one hand the women [in design] who are really influential, people like Ilse Crawford and Annabelle Selldorf," she says. "There are literally hundreds of men you could name. So the higher you crawl up the ladder, the thinner the air. There are not as many women."
Batteau, who is in her 40s and has been working in decorative art and architecture since the mid-'90s, and has experienced different waves of feminism in her career, particularly the "women can have it all" mentality that is prevalent. "Instead of more equality, you got more work," she says. "The responsibility doubled, but the share did not double."
"This show was organized because of what's going on in the world, and it's a protest," she adds. "We're talking about basic human rights again. Women in the bubble of New York City feel terrified by the direction the country is going. We realized we had to have solidarity again. There was solidarity through the show. It's talking about a big thing through a little thing."
The designers I spoke with shared a few common suggestions for improving things, most of which revolved around education. In the early years, we need to encourage girls to work with their hands and make technical tools available to them. In secondary schools and at the college level, it's about integrating discussions about gender equity and bias into coursework. For professional designers, it's building a supportive network where female designers can look to for advice and boost each other up. In a way, Designing Women became a means to this end, as the curatorial process helped bring female practitioners in the city together.
In fact, Egg Collective's show isn't the only NYCxDesign exhibition focused solely on female designers. Chamber, a Chelsea gallery that exhibits conceptual design and architecture, also staged an exhibition from an all-female roster of artists called Room with Its Own Rules. In her curatorial statement, Matylda Krzykowski says the exhibition "is an example of what is clearly not yet happening. It presents a parallel, post-patriarchal reality in which an all-female show is a normal phenomenon, rather than a specially planned 'affirmative action.'"
The fact that we're living in 2017 and women still have to say "me too" is frustrating. But it's exhibitions like these that are paving the way for a future where that won't be the case.
Diana Budds is a New York–based writer covering design and the built environment.


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Paradox just finished up their Gamescom presentation in Cologne, Germany today and have officially revealed their new grand strategy title under development. Stellaris, their new game, is being developed by their internal studio and was codenamed "Project Augustus." Partially because of this codename, there was some hope that this would be a Roman Empire-centric title. However, given that Runemaster was "Project Nero", Hearts of Iron IV was "Project Armstrong" and Europa Universalis IV was "Project Truman", cooler heads suspected that, if anything, a project codenamed "Augustus" categorically could not be a Rome game (though a few Paradox devs took the opportunity to gleefully troll the community). Speculation was further fueled by a series of hints posted by Paradox on their official forums.
Unfortunately for Paradox, their big reveal was undercut by a leak from the Steam client, with images from the upcoming title's Store page uploaded to Imgur. Today's reveal confirmed the leak: the new title from Paradox Development Studio is Stellaris, a pausable real-time strategy game set in space, with a focus on exploration and diplomacy.
Game Director Henrik Fåhraeus (former lead for the Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron series) spoke after a short cinematic trailer. Stellaris is an intriguing concept – the game map is always randomized, and the alien species you encounter will be random as well. The experience is designed to be original and unique with every session, with a focus on procedural storytelling. There is no easily-predictable tech tree. Technology is acquired individually, like "loot" or a trading card. The initial stages of the game are focused on discovery and exploration, with players sending out science ships and crewed by hand-picked officers and diplomats. In the late game, as players encounter larger alien empires, the diplomacy and war functionalities become more prominent, with the experience being similar to Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis. Also promised by Fåhraeus are a ship designer, visually-appealing space combat, and internal factions within your population.
The Swedish publisher and developer had quite a lengthy presentation before the Stellaris announcement – awkward and scripted, as these things always are. Probably most exciting was the announcement of the first major expansion for Cities: Skylines, titled After Dark and focusing on a newly added day/night cycle. Josh Sawyer came on stage shortly after with an update on Pillars of Eternity's upcoming expansion and patches.
Next on the docket was Hearts of Iron IV, with a new trailer focusing on a hypothetical successful Operation Sea Lion. Following the trailer, lead designer Johan Andersson spoke a bit about the upcoming WWII strategy game (nothing we don't already know). Probably the most entertaining part of this presentation was the spectacle of Johan – a short-ish man in what appeared to be jean shorts with a high, lilting Swedish voice – talking about blitzkrieg and coordinated assaults. This was a slightly uncomfortable trailer to watch, given the cultural context and Gamescom's location. Going on about alternate history victories for the Germans in WWII without mentioning Nazis or Hitler isn't a good look and reminds one of the Hearts of Iron III "Hitler narrates the tutorial" debacle.
At any rate, Stellaris represents an ambitious step for Paradox's developers. All their previous games have been grounded in history, drawing on nationalism and alternate history fantasies to help hook players. Stellaris is entirely their own universe. Can randomized alien races on a random map be compelling nemeses? I'm optimistic (PDX hasn't really misstepped since Hearts of Iron 3 in 2009) but we'll just have to see.
Stellaris is expected to release sometime early next year.
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Cool site. This is a meta comment so feel free to remove it if it's not in the right place.
You said this in your welcome message "We want to bring together the serious and the silly in a way that makes sense to intelligent readers. We're not here to capture the latest triple-A trailer teaser traffic; we're here because we love games and want to understand them on a fundamentally deeper level than most gaming media. "
and this article (among others) is about a cgi trailer which contains no gameplay. You've kind of got to decide if you want to be serious about digging deeper or not. I, for one, would love to see some deeper analysis of games and not the usual hype machine so if you want to go down that route I'll stick around.
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@Oh Hai Well in this article we have some commentary about the cultural context of unveiling a 'what if the Nazis won' scenario from HoI4 in Germany as well as some more information about Stellaris than what the trailer showed (which isn't particularly difficult as the trailer showed nothing really).
Elsewhere in that welcome message that you refer to, though, we also state: "we'll still tell you about upcoming titles that catch our eye." and "If a game is being covered here, it will be covered as long as the writer is interested" and "We want our readers to feel edified by reading a piece, to feel enlightened in some small way, and ultimately to share in our love of games that often don't get much of it".
As I'm sure you know as you quoted the article in question. But for anyone else that is wondering along the same lines as you, I say that this piece (as well as the piece on Gunjack, WoW: Legion, Destiny's Taken King, etc etc) fulfill at least one, if not all, of those mission statements.
If we're interested, have a comment to pass along, as well as any information you may have missed - you'll see it right here at StellarRelic.com :) I do hope you enjoy your stay, but if that's not what you're looking for I totally understand! Different strokes, etc. There's also a growing number of more in-depth features on the site that you may enjoy.
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Joao Felix excited to show what he can do in the Premier League after completing Chelsea loan move
As part of the deal, the PA news agency understands Chelsea will pay a loan fee of around £9million and also cover the player's £5.3m wages. "Chelsea is one of the great teams in the world and I hope to help the team reach their objectives, so I am very, very happy to be here and very excited to play at Stamford Bridge," Felix said on the Chelsea website. The arrival of the Portugal international, who was also the subject of interest from Arsenal and Manchester United, comes with Blues manager Graham Potter in the grip of an injury crisis. Chelsea had 10 first-team players unavailable for last Sunday's meek 4-0 surrender to Manchester City in the FA Cup.
Felix became the fifth most expensive player in the world when Atletico paid £113m to bring him in from Benfica as a 19-year-old in 2019, but his performances for the La Liga side have not consistently justified the fee and it is hoped he can rediscover his form in the Premier League.
The 23-year-old also featured in Portugal's run to the World Cup quarter-finals in Qatar last month, with him scoring in the 3-2 victory against Ghana in the group stage. Atletico confirmed Felix had extended his contract with them for one more season, until June 2027. Felix made a total of 131 appearances for Atletico, scoring 34 goals and providing 18 assists.
"From Atletico Madrid we wish Joao Felix every success in this new professional stage," the La Liga club said in a statement.
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'With Music everything is very hands on, and you're always putting what's learnt into real situations...'
Studying towards a Bachelor of Music in Performance
As someone who 'couldn't imagine doing anything other than music', Nicole has already made a name for herself as a singer and songwriter with the release of her own original music.
Being able to formally study Performance music with UC has expanded her music skills and knowledge further, particularly in music making and vocal performance techniques.
'I really enjoy learning new things about all different aspects of music; whether it's theory, computer skills, vocal lessons, music industry skills, or song writing, you have the option to study them all. With Music everything is very hands on, and you're always putting what's learnt into real situations, which makes learning so much more fun and easy.
'It's also awesome being around so many talented musicians because you can learn so much from them, and do projects with them you would never have thought of doing before going to UC.'
Nicole chose UC due to receiving both a UC Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship and Leigh and Judith Pownall Prize in Music with her enrolment, and has found the musical community to be hugely inspiring.
'If you want to learn so much more than you thought you could about music and be around so many amazing musicians of all types of genres, come to UC. The lecturers are great and studying Music is great, so just do it.'
Choosing to complete the Performance major gives Nicole practical study in voice, and also gives the freedom to pursue other aspects of music.
'It's good because you aren't just tied down to one thing; you can branch out and take any course that may interest you. My study involves a theory class, making music on computers, a one-on-one singing lesson, learning about the music industry, music history, contemporary and performance workshops, song writing, and much more.'
She also teaches singing lessons outside of study, to add to her music skills and career.
When wanting a break from her musical life, Nicole is an active part of student clubs, particularly Canoe Club (UCCC), TuneSoc, and Snow Sports Club (CUSSC).
'CUSSC was so welcoming and fun to be a part of. As a first year student who was living at home, CUSSC helped me to meet a wide range of new people who liked snow sports just like me. It was also nice to be able to get away to the lodge for a weekend and not have to think about music for a short time. Just chill with some friends and do some skiing.'
Hoping to eventually travel and perform on the world stage with her original music, Nicole looks forward to where the skills in her Music degree can take her, including releasing her first album while studying.
Nicole's music is available to listen on all music streaming platforms, and she also posts her song releases and covers on Instragram (@nicoletaylormusic).
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