Miami's really got fashion cred now.
The fashion, art and design school was founded in 1935 in Milan and has trained some of the top professionals in the industry.
The prestigious institute currently educates 4,000 students per year from 107 countries at its schools, located in such cities as Paris, London, Shanghai and Mumbai. Famous alumni include such designers as Domenico Dolce, Franco Moschino and Paula Cademartori.
The new school's president, Hakan Baykam, is building an advisory board in the Americas that includes fashion luminaries such as designers Cademartori and Esteban Cortazar, as well as developer Craig Robins.
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Ratings Info mild threat
Genre(s) Animation, Children
Director(s) Eric Summer,Éric Warin
Cast includes Elle Fanning (voice), Dane DeHaan (voice), Maddie Ziegler (voice), Carly Rae Jepsen (voice)
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BALLERINA is an animated family film about a young girl who runs away from an orphanage in order to try to achieve her dream of becoming a dancer.
Scenes of mild threat including children being chased by a man on a motorbike as they fly on home-made wings and race in an out of control cart. A character is also chased up some scaffolding by a woman who threatens her with a large hammer. In a still image some knives fly towards a young boy as he relates his adventures in the city. Characters are seen practising their dance moves on the roofs of buildings.
There is also some very mild violence as a character is struck on the stomach and head.<
There's some very mild rude humour as characters make jokes about farting.
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Webinar - Future of work
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering; IAO (Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Digital ageNew forms of employmentWorking conditions and sustainable workAnticipating and managing the impact of change
This 2-hour webinar covers the impact of new technology on work and skills in the EU, and the opportunities and challenges of platform work in the EU. Moderated by Barbara Gerstenberger, Head of the Working Life Unit at Eurofound, with contributions from: Donald Storrie, Eurofound's Chief Researcher; Martina Bisello, Research Officer; Irene Mandl, Head of the Employment Unit; and guest speakers Rhona Murphy, Head of Employment Law Services at Ibec, Ireland's largest employer organisation; and Louis-Charles Viossat of the French Government.
On-demand webinar: Future of work
This webinar was recorded on 4 December 2018 as part of the Virtual World Tour. As part of the Work research conference, the virtual world tour was a 24-hour virtual tour of the world through different time zones. The tour features a total of 12 different contributions from leading academic institutes based all around the globe.
Virtual World Tour: Arbeitswelten der Zukunft/Working world of tomorrow
Are robots taking our jobs? The impact of new technology on work and skills in the EU
In a session based on Eurofound's project on the Future of Manufacturing in Europe and related research on the task content of jobs, the panel will explore how technological progress and other drivers of change are transforming the nature of work throughout the economy. Speakers will respond to questions on the impact of digital developments on employment, whether technological progress means robots are becoming smarter than humans or is it that tasks in work are changing and new skills are required to perform them. The participants will also look at how shaping these developments can promote economic growth and improve working conditions.
Shaping the future for platform workers in the EU: Opportunities and challenges
Platform work – the online matching of supply and demand for paid work – remains small-scale in Europe but is evolving rapidly. While challenging established institutions and structures, this employment form provides opportunities for the labour market, economy and society. Based on recent Eurofound research which identifies specific types of platform work, a panel of government and social partner representatives will discuss the potential positive and negative implications of platform work and ideas on how to deal with this new form of work.
Welcome and introduction by Barbara Gerstenberger, Head of Working Life Unit, Eurofound
Moderator: Barbara Gerstenberger, Head of Working Life Unit, Eurofound
Donald Storrie, Chief Researcher/Coordinator, Eurofound
Martina Bisello, Research Officer, Eurofound
Shaping the future for platform workers in the EU: Challenges and opportunities
Irene Mandl, Head of Employment Unit, Eurofound
Rhona Murphy, Head of Employment Law Services, Ibec, Ireland's largest employer organisation
Louis-Charles Viossat, Inspector General for Social Affairs, Ministry of Labour, France
Ger Gibbons, Senior Policy Officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Concluding remarks and closing session
How the EU is tackling challenges and shaping the future of work
Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director, Eurofound
Juan Menéndez-Valdés is, since 2010, Director of Eurofound, the EU Agency providing knowledge to assist in the development of social, employment and work-related policies. He is responsible for the development of Eurofound´s strategy and work programmes and leads a team of more than 100 staff members in their implementation. From 2015 to 2016, he was chair of the Network of EU decentralised Agencies.
Barbara Gerstenberger is Head of the Working Life Unit at Eurofound, which researches working conditions, industrial relations and developments in working life. She joined Eurofound in September 2001 as a research manager in the European Monitoring Centre on Change and she previously worked as senior research officer in the European Metalworkers' Federation in Brussels.
Donald Storrie is Chief Researcher/Coordinator in the Eurofound Directorate and project leader for the pilot project on the Future of Manufacturing in Europe. He has coordination responsibility for research at Eurofound, including survey development and ad hoc requests. He was previously Director of the Centre of European Labour Market Studies (Sweden).
Martina Bisello is a Research Officer in the Employment unit at Eurofound. Her research interests include structural changes in the labour market, the effects of technological change on the economy, and gender gaps. Currently, she is also involved in the analysis of socio-economic convergence among the Member States and regions of the European Union.
Irene Mandl is Head of the Employment Unit at Eurofound. She is mainly involved in research on labour market developments (including new forms of work and employment, digitalisation, restructuring and related public policy approaches) and topics at the intersection of employment and entrepreneurship (such as job-creation, workplace practices, small and medium-sized enterprises, business start-ups and scale-ups and internationalisation).
Rhona Murphy is Head of Employment Law Services at Ibec, Ireland's largest employer organisation, which she joined in 2005 as part of the Legal and Equality Unit. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1999, she worked in private practice for a number of years, representing employers, employees and trade unions.
Louis-Charles Viossat is Inspector General of Social Affairs at the Ministries of Labour and of Health and Social Affairs in France. He is the author of recent policy and evaluation reports on collaborative platforms, on social security for the self-employed and on labour in the public radio and television sectors. Currently, he is drafting a government report on regulation of the taxi and private hire vehicle sector.
Ger Gibbons has worked as Social Policy and Legislative Officer with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) since February 2018. He previously worked in the research unit of the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU), as an adviser to Members of the European Parliament, with EU public affairs consultancies and in the European Commission.


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MoD has settled 417 Iraq war compensation claims this year
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The Ministry of Defence has quietly settled 417 Iraq compensation claims and paid out several million pounds to resolve accusations that British troops subjected Iraqis to cruel and inhumane treatment, arbitrary detention or assault.
Individual claims that have been settled run into the low tens of thousands and follow high court rulings that concluded there were breaches of the Geneva conventions and the Human Rights Act, during the military operation that followed the invasion in 2003.
Martyn Day, a senior partner with Leigh Day, the solicitors that brought the action, said: "While we've had politicians like David Cameron and Theresa May criticising us for supposedly ambulance chasing, the MoD has been quietly settling claims.
"The settlements here cover a mix of cases, instances of false imprisonment, assault," the lawyer added. "What this shows is that when it comes to what amounts to policing in a foreign state, the military are simply not the right people to do it."
Many of the details of the cases remain confidential, although one involved the death of a 13-year-old boy. But the financial settlements were based on four test cases concluded in the high court in 2017. The four were awarded a total of £84,000 based on three separate incidents.
At the time one claimant was awarded £33,000 by Mr Justice Leggatt for unlawful detention and a beating it was determined he had suffered in 2007, by "one or more implements" probably rifle butts.
Two Iraqi merchant seamen received payments after their detention in 2003: one was awarded £28,000 after an assault and hooding; while a second was awarded £10,000 because they had also been hooded.
Many of the fresh claims also involve hooding – where a sandbag or other hood is thrown over the head of a detainee. The practice was banned in 1972 by Ted Heath, when he was prime minister, although some British soldiers have admitted they were not aware of the order while serving in Iraq.
The MoD has not made any public announcement about the claims, but an official disclosure out this week showed that the civil actions had been resolved. It noted that 417 "Iraq private law" claims had been settled during 2020/21 and a further 13 relating to Afghanistan.
But there is no prospect of any criminal action following 417 civil settlements, after several years of often politically charged debate about the conduct of British soldiers in Iraq during the years of combat operations, which ended in 2011.
The government shut the Iraq historic allegations team in 2017, following the conclusion of the controversial al-Sweady inquiry three years earlier.
That inquiry found that allegations that British troops had murdered detained Iraqis and mutilated their bodies were fabricated. The lead lawyer that had brought those claims, Phil Shiner, was subsequently struck off.
In April, the government passed the Overseas Operations Act, which introduced a presumption against criminal prosecutions for five years after the event and a longstop to prevent civil claims being brought after six years.
At one point, Day and two colleagues were also accused of professional misconduct for the way in which they had brought claims. But the three lawyers were exonerated following a hearing at the solicitor's disciplinary tribunal.
An MoD spokesperson said: "Whilst the vast majority of UK personnel conducted themselves to the highest standards in Iraq and Afghanistan, we acknowledge that it has been necessary to seek negotiated settlements of outstanding claims in both the Iraq civilian litigation and Afghan civil litigation."
They added that Service Police and the Service Prosecuting Authority remained open to considering criminal allegations should new evidence emerge.
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Complex crop rotations
By Trudy Kelly Forsythe
Data collected during long-term research trials at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Elora and Ridgetown research facilities continues to provide researchers with invaluable information about the complexities of crop rotations and their impact on crops.
The long-term trials, conducted between 1982 and 2012, focused on increasing the efficiency of production and reducing the environmental impact of corn and soybean production in Ontario. They revealed that long-term corn-soybean rotations, the most widely used rotations in the province, are vulnerable to moisture extremes and are associated with reduced soil organic matter leading to poor soil quality and the lowest average yields.
A new four-year study at the University of Guelph, initiated in June 2014, is building on those results to look deeper into the effect weather has on crop system resilience over time. Using yield and weather data obtained from the long-term rotation and tillage trial in Elora, the researchers tested whether crop rotation diversity is associated with greater yield stability when abnormal weather conditions occur.
"The use of more diversified rotations has been advocated as a solution to sustainably increase the long-term resilience and productivity of Ontario field cropping systems," says Bill Deen, the research lead and an associate professor with the department of plant agriculture at the university.
Using parametric and non-parametric approaches, Deen, along with Dave Hooker from the Ridgetown campus and Amelie Gaudin from the University of California, Davis, is examining how rotation complexity in tillage and no-tillage systems alters the amount of soil water available to plants, the ability of the corn and soybean to use the water resources and the effect imposed drought stress has on yields.
Preliminary results indicate that crop diversity increases corn and soybean yields over time, lowers the risk of crop failure and mitigates yield loss due to hot and dry conditions. They also show that yield benefits of crop diversity are less pronounced in wet and cool weather and that rotation diversity decreases soybean yield variability in abnormal years with hot-dry or cool-wet conditions.
"Our preliminary conclusions reveal that diverse crop rotations do indeed add diversity to a system and that by adding some diversity, such as wheat to a corn-soybean rotation, we can reduce drought effects induced by climate change, poor soil quality and high yield potential," Deen says. He explains the research will help identify management practices instrumental to adapting Ontario's most abundant cropping system to changes in climate. "It will also improve productivity and water use efficiencies under an increasingly challenging environment."
The study is attempting to further understand how including winter wheat in a corn-soybean rotation, with or without red clover, impacts water availability in tilled and no-till systems. This understanding will lead to better predictions of the future value of rotation diversification.
The researchers also believe that the value of rotation diversity is currently underestimated and that its value could increase in the future. Under a changing climate where higher frequency of excess moisture or drought is predicted, water availability could be a larger constraint on the system in the future. Independent of climate change, as average corn yield increases, demand for water by the plant will increase and the role of rotation diversity in enhancing water supply could also increase.
Finally, residue removal from simple rotations could accentuate drought responses in simple rotations and increase the value of rotation diversity. Increasing understanding of rotation diversity should lead producers to reassess the use of simple corn-soybean rotations. This can increase average per acre corn and soybean yields, stabilize corn and soybean yields when weather extremes occur and increase soil carbon and quality.
In addition to improvements in average yields and stabilization of yield, previous studies using these long-term trials have demonstrated that rotation diversity increases soil carbon and quality and also results in increased nutrient and energy use efficiency of corn and soybean production. While not yet measured, it is probable that rotation diversity will also reduce offsite movement of nutrients from corn and soybean fields by improving water and soil retention in the system.
Many producers believe that a corn-soybean rotation is still more profitable than rotations that include wheat with or without red clover. Deen and Hooker's research provides evidence that suggests the contrary is true.
"Adding wheat into a corn-soybean rotation increased corn yield two to six per cent and soybean yield nine to 14 per cent," Deen says. "There is also a substantial reduction in a producer's nitrogen requirements."
Although the magnitude of rotation benefits varied with crops, weather patterns and tillage, yield stability significantly increased when corn and soybean were integrated into more diverse rotations. Introducing small grains into short corn-soybean rotation was enough to provide substantial benefits on long-term soybean yields and their stability while the effects on corn were mostly associated with the temporal niche provided by small grains for under-seeded red clover or alfalfa.
Crop diversification strategies also increased the probability of harnessing favourable growing conditions while decreasing the risk of crop failure. In hot and dry years, diversification of corn-soybean rotations and reduced tillage increased yield by seven per cent and 22 per cent for corn and soybean respectively.
"Simple rotations have a lower probability of high yields, a higher probability of low yields and are particularly susceptible to low yields under hot dry conditions," Deen says.
This research supports the practice of using more diversified rotations as a solution to sustainably increase the long-term resilience and productivity of corn-soybean cropping systems.
Deen says over the next two years, the researchers hope to look at the effect moisture has over the span of a year by imposing three different moisture regimes – ambient, moisture replete and drought. In this way, they will exclude rainfall and irrigate so they can compare their results to ambient conditions within one year.
"We are applying these moisture treatments to continuous corn, corn-soybean, corn-soybean-wheat (red clover) and corn-alfalfa rotations," Deen says. "From these treatments, we will measure soil properties, soil moisture, plant response using various measurements and, obviously, yield.
"This will conclusively demonstrate the effect of rotation under different moisture regimes."
A four-year study is examining whether crop rotation diversity is associated with greater yield stability when abnormal weather conditions occur. Data collected during long-term research trials at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Elora and Ridgetown research facilities continues to provide researchers with invaluable information about the complexities of crop rotations and their impact on crops.
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Heavily championed by Bestival founder Rob Da Bank, This Is The Kit is the solo project of one Kate Stables, a Hampshire-born expat now living in Paris. Produced by no less a talent than Mr John Parish, Krulle Bol is an utterly enchanting debut album full of captivating stories about socks, moths and soulmates. Warm fuzzy feelings abound as Stables saunters endearingly through a dozen tracks of modern folk that have seen her grace the stage with the likes of Jeffrey Lewis, José González and The National, sung in a plaintive, comforting, unshowy manner that inflames the imagination and appeals to the heart. Perhaps even more perfect as a winter warmer than as a prelude to spring, Krulle Bol rewards many, many listens and will still be on our stereo long into 2009. Of course, by then Kate plans to be back in the studio recording the follow-up, as well as a new EP with Whalebone Polly (her ongoing collaboration with Bristolian Rachael Dadd), so there's a good chance you'll be seeing her on this list in 12 months' time.
Dirty Birds was a long time getting off the ground and threatened to be eclipsed entirely by the success of other homegrown modern folk acts like Laura Marling, but for those in the know – and obviously there are quite a few of you! – Kat Flint's long-awaited debut is something of a revelation. Running just shy of an hour, the album pulses with an almost unhealthy amount of wisdom for one so young. The arrangements, too, occasionally surprise with unexpected adornments like the muffled conversation overlaying 'The Blinking' and the kazoo that appears out of nowhere on the fantastic 'Anticlimax', and Flint proves herself more than adept at upping the tempo without losing her profundity. She may not have all of Marling's hooks but catch this pretty pigeon and you won't regret it.
Following almost too hot on the heels of their Mercury-nominated Ballad Of The Broken Seas, Sunday At Devil Dirt loses much of that album's element of surprise and some of the dark sexual tension that made their first unholy union so deliciously seedy. Of course, there are still moments that smoulder with lust, but it's of a more romanticised variety. Strings blossom through the wrongness on the single 'Come On Over (Turn Me On)', for instance, and the heartfelt sweetness of 'Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart' is less likely to have you break out in a sweat than reach for the cocoa and a sappy DVD. Campbell is even less of a vocal presence this time around, finally emerging to the fore on the sultry junkyard shuffle of 'Shotgun Blues', a creaky, creepy relic from the school of Waits and Brennan. Sturdy, if not stellar.
What we say now: With Obama about to be installed in the White House, Day After Tomorrow's uncluttered songs of trials and salvation are well worth revisiting. Baez's wisdom-tempered optimism resonates strongly in the age of Change, and those dark days of the soul she sings of seem a little further away. For now.
What we say now: Dienel's flirtation with the rigours of proper diction remained entirely non-committal on White Hinterland's follow-up EP, Luniculaire, but it mattered far less once the complex, wilful charms of Phylactery Factory had fully sunk in. What both records show is an impressive dedication to threading magical tapestries of everyday beauty observed through a refracting frosted glass darkly that, while not immediately accessible, profit those who take pains to listen.
What we say now: With our first few listens to Frontier still fresh in the memory, additional perspective is marginal at best. It's still an ambitious, challenging album that revels in its alien strangeness. We've forsaken any attempt to unravel it to be honest. The temptation to simply immerse is too great, and much less tiring.
What we say now: It's not hard to see at which end of the line Holly Golightly was stood when they were handing out talents (not that she believes in a Them or Him or Her). Dirt Don't Hurt is just as rollicking as last year's You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying, and the brash, brilliant spirit at its heart is resplendently unquenched. An intoxicating mix of gloriously percussive barn-party stompers, country bruisers and boy–girl showdowns, it's fantastically unforced and hard to ignore.
What we say now: Homegrown female rock acts don't tend to fare too well commercially for reasons we don't have room to go into right now, but if anyone deserves to buck that trend then it's fearlessly creative Bristolian Rose Kemp. Unholy Majesty is a massive leap forward from last year's A Hand Full Of Hurricanes, revealing a depth of talent, fury and vocal dexterity that's well worth investigating.
What we say now: Online buzz for this album has yet to translate into a UK physical release for this wonderful debut, but it surely can't be long – I Love Your Glasses is much too good to languish in digital purgatory. As a tremulous, wavering essay on unrequited love it's really very good. As an outpouring of sumptuous melodies and creative arrangements, it's damn near impeccable.
What we say now: This did not look good on paper. Nobody messes with Dusty In Memphis, right? Wrong! Of the many covers albums that emerged this year, Lynne's is unquestionably the finest. The novelty factor has long since worn off but we keep returning to this elegant album for more. An incredible display of restraint and sensitivity, A Little Bit Of Lovin' shows Lynne to be in a whole different class of interpreter. Cat Power take note.
It's fair to say that ornithology is not my strong suit. I couldn't tell a sparrow from a skylark, a chickenhawk from a Peregrine falcon. I would, however, like to think I could distinguish between a crow and a magpie. How shaming to discover I had failed to do so when discussing the amazing artwork for Rose Kemp's staggeringly good new album Unholy Majesty, out this week. One for embarrassment, two for oh boy. Luckily Rose is just about the nicest lady you could wish to meet so we quickly shrugged that off and got into the nitty gritty of what really counts: the music.
From fey folk maiden to genre-mashing rock vocal powerhouse in just three albums, Rose Kemp's bloody-minded determination to succeed on her own terms has been remarkably effective. She may not be the discerning household name her parents once were – Rose is the daughter of Steeleye Span legends Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp – but integrity-wise she's our new hero. Talking to her you just know that Rose lives, breathes and, quite possibly, eats music. For breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's in her blood. Unholy Majesty is an album of awe-inspiring breadth and artistry, taking in everything from intense doom metal to simple piano balladry, absorbing some progressive rock along the way and still leaving room for the occasional flourish of Celtic folk.
Simultaneously tough and tender, straight-talking and oblique, Rose is a fascinating woman, an inspiring creator and a good laugh to boot. She's on tour from next week. Read the interview, listen to the songs, and buy your ticket with haste.
With the release of her third album, the follow-up to her 2003 solo debut Glance and last year's A Hand Full Of Hurricanes, Rose Kemp's metamorphosis from demure folk maiden to fully-fledged rock chick continues apace. First introduced to the world as a dulcet-voiced harmony singer at her mother Maddy Prior's live shows and on the memorable a cappella album Bib & Tuck, Kemp has subsequently moved in a far heavier, rockier direction than may have been anticipated, trading acoustic for electric guitar and drawing upon a range of influences outside of the traditional idiom, including Black Sabbath, The Melvins, Earth and Om. Glance's experiments with loops and programming felt a little tentative, as if Kemp was eager to broaden out her sound but wasn't entirely sure how best to go about it. However, …Hurricanes, her first recording for One Little Indian, was a much more confident affair that began to reveal where her true musical interests lay. Unholy Majesty builds on the promise of that album, boasting an assertive, heavy, balls-to-the-wall sound, which, while consistently exciting, doesn't sacrifice nuance either.
Wears The Trousers favourite Emiliana Torrini releases her third international album, Me & Armini, on September 8th. Produced by long-time collaborator Dan Carey, the album is said to be "a hugely ambitious and aspirational pop record" (so presumably miles away from 2005's hushed and intimate Fisherman's Woman).
The album's first single, the summery title track, will be released on August 18th, followed shortly after by 'Jungle Drum', a "surging, breathless" beast of a song, on September 29th. That's all we know so far, but you can listen to 'Me & Armini' on Emiliana's Myspace RIGHT NOW.
Support for the Roundhouse date comes from six-man goth-country outfit O'Death. See you there!
Kicking off in September, The Ting Tings embark on a 15-date jaunt around the nation in support of their chart-topping album We Started Nothing. Yes, that is its name. Tickets go on general sale on Friday.
Also in September, the volatile Rose Kemp heads out a mini-tour of the UK in support of her third album, Unholy Majesty, due for release on the first of the month. Pre-order the album here. More dates to be announced.


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Nov. 28--
Jonah Selber is an unlikely philanthropist.
When he was born, doctors told his parents that he was severely retarded, so damaged that he should be put in an institution for the rest of his life.
"Thank goodness," his mother said, "I was young, strong, in denial, and unwilling to accept that condemnation."
Judith Creed, a speech language pathologist, has dedicated most of her life to helping her son overcome a daunting array of physical and intellectual problems. She stood by him through years of therapy and multiple surgeries, enrolled him in schools where he learned to become more independent, and, several years ago, even gave him one of her kidneys.
Now 41, Selber has exceeded the most audacious expectations his parents ever dared to dream for him.
For 17 years, he has worked at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he is considered a model employee.
And while the income from his 20-hour weeks and Social Security disability payments are not enough to support him, let alone create a surplus, Selber is able to give back in a way rarely possible for people with disabilities.
Through his stepfather's private foundation, Selber recently donated $15,000 to charities close to his heart.
"I feel like one of the celebrities in Hollywood," Selber said, describing the thrill of giving money to good causes.
On the job earlier this week, Selber was hurrying down Chestnut Street, delivering business cards to various offices in the Jefferson system.
A middle-aged man with thick dark hair, wearing a red fleece jacket, black trousers, and scholarly glasses, he blended into the stream of pedestrians. No one noticed the subtle tic as he bobbed his head, waiting to cross an intersection, or the unusual determination that drove him to heedlessly splash through a puddle, as he headed to his destination.
Selber is aware of his limitations. "I feel a little bit different," he said. "But not much."
The tremor in his hands, trouble with hand-eye coordination, and difficulty with numbers do not interfere with his work.
"At Jefferson," he said, "the bosses, they appreciate and love me there."
A few years ago, when Selber's previous job at Jefferson was eliminated, his bosses were determined to find him a new position.
"Jonah keeps this place going," said
Larry Lawhorn, his supervisor in the department of information services and technology. "He is attentive to details and focused, and he's highly intelligent."
Selber is exceptional in many respects -- but not in his success at holding a job, said
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility USA, an advocacy group in Washington.
"Only 20 percent of individuals with developmental disabilities are employed," Mizrahi said. "But unless there's another disability that is particularly involved, almost all of them should be able to work."
Her organization aims to correct misperceptions.
"People who have an developmental disability usually qualify for about $14,000 a year from the government, plus medical coverage," she said. "The expectation is that they will sit on their parents' couch, wait for them to die, then sit on their brother's couch."
These low expectations, she said, lead to isolation, poverty, and low self-esteem.
There are some signs of improvement, Mizrahi said. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which recently passed Congress with bipartisan support, will help move more young people with disabilities into the workforce. And Mizrahi said she has increasingly heard about programs such as Project Search, which was started by a nurse in Ohio and trains 2,700 people with cognitive disabilities each year for jobs in nursing homes, hotels, and health-care facilities, including Bryn Mawr Hospital.
About 70 percent of the program's graduates are employed. And although most earn only minimum wage, Mizrahi said, the extra $10,000 a year can be life-changing.
"Someone like Jonah, who has a job, can go to the movies, pay for the ticket himself, and even take a friend," she said. The psychological benefits of getting a paycheck and feeling valued "are huge."
Selber lives in a small community of adults with developmental disabilities who are supervised and supported by the staff of Judith Creed Homes for Adult Independence, a nonprofit his mother helped found in 1987.
Every evening, the group gathers for a communal dinner. They are moving to a new apartment complex near Bala Cynwyd, and this week, Selber, one of the first to relocate, has been hosting the meal in his two-bedroom unit, where he is living alone for the first time.
After work a few days ago, he rode to his new home for the first time on SEPTA's Regional Rail line. "I have so much respect and so much pride over what he's been able to accomplish," said his sister,
Jennifer Selber, chief of homicide in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
"He couldn't speak until he was 5. He couldn't sit up, he couldn't walk, he couldn't even eat his food well for a long time. Every normal developmental stage was a mountain for him to climb," she said. "I didn't hear him say, 'I can't.' He would just always try."
Three years ago, their stepfather,
Robert Schwartz, invited Jennifer, Jonah, and their brother, Jesse, an associate professor of plastic surgery at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, to join the board of his foundation, along with his two children from a previous marriage. This year, each received $15,000 to donate to causes of their choice.
At board meetings, they must make a case for chosen charities. "Jonah has been terrific," said Schwartz, president of Food Sciences Corp., a Mount Laurel company that researches and manufactures nutritional products.
Jonah donated $7,500 each to Jefferson and to Adults With Developmental Disabilities, a nonprofit based in Jenkintown that organizes social activities for people like him. It was Selber's idea, Schwartz said, to fund a scholarship so that others less fortunate can take part.
The organization honored Selber for his contribution at a ceremony in May.
He delivered each word of his acceptance speech with precision.
"In real life, people with disabilities can be very lonely and isolated," he said. "I am lucky."
mdribben@phillynews.com
@dribbenonphilly


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PinkFae Archive #31: Crossplay: A New Adventure in Geekdom
This week's entry is another PinkFae archive. The article is another entry in my series that I wrote on Gen Con 49 in 2016. It was a fascinating look at an interesting phenomenon in the geek community: crossplay and gender bending cosplay. It was originally published on 27 August 2016.
Gender identity is a hot topic at the moment. With issues like the current assault on the rights of transgender individuals in Texas, the nature of gender is at the forefront of socio-political discourse at the moment. This points to a current major trend in modern culture, with gender at the centre of that trend. Many people still firmly believe that sex and gender are binaries, and equivalent binaries at that. However, others realise that sex and gender are spectra which do not always correspond to one another. One of the more fascinating phenomena resulting from this is the concept of crossplay.
What Is Crossplay?
Perhaps you have heard of crossplay before. It is the act of cosplay in which the person dresses as a character of a different gender. The photo above shows an example; a male has dressed as a female character. In contrast, gender bending is when the cosplayer alters the character's gender to match that of his/her/their own. An example is seen in the photo below, showing a female cosplayer who has made a 'female Mario' outfit for herself.
Of course, the line between the two is fine and indistinct. It can sometimes be difficult to tell if the person is doing crossplay or gender bending. But given that gender is often an indistinct entity in itself, this seems only fitting.
Crossplay as Social Commentary
There are many reasons that people would choose to crossplay or to gender bend. Sometimes, it's because the cosplayer really likes a specific character that happens to be of a different gender, but isn't willing to let that stop him/her/them from dressing as that character. I overhead one male talking to his friends at Gen Con. He was describing a conversation he had had with his friends in which he told those friends that he was planning to cosplay as his favourite superhero: Sailor Jupiter. So he did exactly that: he dressed as Sailor Jupiter.
Others may crossplay in support of their friends or family. One example is the father who dressed as Leia for Halloween in support of his daughter who wanted to dress as Han Solo.
Still others may do so as a sort of social commentary. I myself dressed as Rosie the Riveter for Halloween last year, partly as an expression of my feminism and support for LGBTQ+ rights.
Intersection of Cosplay and Socio-political Issues
In Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics, there was a storyline called 'A Game of You.' One of the main characters in this story was a transgender woman named Wanda. In the resolution of the story, we meet Wanda's family, who refuse to accept that Wanda had chosen a different identity for herself. At one point, Wanda's aunt says, 'God gives you a body, it's your duty to do well by it. He makes you a boy, you dress in blue. He makes you a girl, you dress in pink. You mustn't go trying to change things.'
I will avoid pointing out the obvious hypocrisies in such a statement. I will simply say that more and more, people are realising that things aren't that simple. That there's a whole world of possibilities to explore. That we, as humans, have the ability to choose the course of our own identity and our own destiny. What better way of expressing who and what we are than by throwing off cultural expectations and dressing as a different gender for a while?
Geeks and Gender
In some ways, geeks (like we gamers, be it video gamers, board gamers, or roleplayers) have it easier. We have an excuse to dress up in outlandish clothing. Pushing the boundaries of gender identity is just one more absurdity on top of a mountain of absurdities. When someone goes to a convention dressed as a video game character, or a character from a movie or TV series, there's already a level of absurdity going on. Especially when you have outlandish cosplay like this one of a mutated William Burkin from Resident Evil. We're already doing something kind of strange. Why would we feel the need to limit ourselves by gender when doing something so awesomely bizarre?
Still, it's kind of sad that we need the excuse of 'I'm going to a convention' to wear unusual clothing. Wouldn't it be better if we could all follow Portland, Oregon's example and just be weird all the time?
A special note on Ghostbusters
In the past, the Ghostbusters film was a popular source of crossplay. I saw many examples of females dressing as Venkman, Spengler, Stantz, and Zeddemore. But now, with a reboot film with all four lead roles recast as females, there's an even more exciting opportunity! So females can cosplay as Ghostbusters, or they can crossplay as Ghostbusters! And males now have that opportunity as well! I, for one, am very excited about this possibility.
I do wish we lived in a more accepting society. I wish that we didn't feel the need to make petty distinctions based on gender. I wish that people could be free to dress and act however they want. I wish there were no societal customs dictating what was 'right' or 'acceptable.' I wish that other subsets of culture were more open and accepting of new ideas as the geek subculture can be. And I wish that even within the geek subculture, we didn't need to use the excuse of going to a convention to exercise that expanded freedom.
But still, we're making steps in the right direction, and that's a good thing. So here's to crossplay and gender bending, long may it be a thing!
I'd like to say a special word of thanks to the wonderful cosplayers, crossplayers, and gender benders at Gen Con who graciously posed for photos to be used in this article. And even those who I wasn't able to photograph, I respect and admire your willingness and ability to step outside of normal gender roles, if only for a brief time. Thanks to all of you for being awesome!
Stay tuned! Next week is my first Gen Con board game review as I continue my series of articles from that convention! Until then, have fun and remember how awesome we can be! As always, remember to
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Do you work from home, or are you planning on working from home? Here's 6 tips to make the most of telecommuting and getting you through the work day.
This may sound silly, but it will really help you mentally speaking. When you have a defined working environment, when you are in that space you'll have the right attitude to work. If you don't have a specific working space, and say you work from your living room. When work is over you'll find it much harder to unwind and switch off.
Mental overload can kill your productivity. Take a break, step away from 'the office', and take some you time. When working from home you must make sure that you take time for yourself. Sitting at a desk for 8 hours straight is not good for your health either.
Telecommuting can feel a little lonely. Network online, and over IM. Talking to colleagues in the office over say Skype or even Slack can make you feel a lot more integrated with the team, regardless of how far away you are. Been invited to a LinkedIn group? Accept it. Engage.
Try not to blur the lines between work and housework. It can be tempting, but it also becomes an easy way to procrastinate and avoid getting harder tasks done. If you need to take a break, take an actual break and don't do any work at all.
Working from home this can be so easy. Packet of biscuits in the larder? Strawberries in the fridge? Nuts in the cupboard? Forget about them. The odd snack of course is okay, but don't spend the day nibbling on bits of food and skip actual meals. Take time out to eat something proper away from your desk. Avoid being the muncher.
You're working from home, you don't need to look your best and being at home you have a shower/bath. Take a break, go for a run or a jog for 15 minutes to half an hour. Working from home can be very sedentary. Exercise can boost productivity and creativity.


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Q: Как разделить List<> на sublist Есть List<int>. Как разделить его по элементу 6666? Засплитить так сказать.
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A: Например, так:
IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> SplitBy<T>(T sep, IEnumerable<T> seq)
{
    List<T> currentPart = new List<T>();
    foreach (var value in seq)
    {
        if (EqualityComparer<T>.Default.Equals(value, sep))
        {
            yield return currentPart;
            currentPart = new List<T>();
        }
        else
        {
            currentPart.Add(value);
        }
    }
    yield return currentPart;
}

Вы можете положить эту функцию в статический класс, объявить так:
public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> SplitBy<T>(this IEnumerable<T> seq, T sep) { ...

и тогда можно будет использовать функцию следующим образом: list.SplitBy("666"). Спасибо @pavelip за подсказку.

A: static List<List<T>> SplitBy<T>(List<T> source, T separator)
{
    int c = 0;
    return
        source
            .GroupBy(val => separator.Equals(val) ? ++c : c)
                .Select(g => g.Skip(Math.Min(g.Key, 1)).ToList())
                    .ToList();
}

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Cloud Security Startup Wiz Raises $120M In Salesforce-Led Round
Cloud security startup Wiz has raised more than $120 million in a funding round led by customer relationship management (CRM) giant Salesforce, according to Bloomberg.
The funding would be the Tel Aviv, Israel-based Wiz's third financing round in the past six months, coming just two months after the firm notched a $1.7 billion valuation following a $130 million Series B round led by private equity investor Advent International. Neither Wiz nor Salesforce immediately responded to CRN requests for comment on the Bloomberg report.
Wiz was founded in January 2020, and emerged from stealth in December 2020 with an astronomical $100 million in Series A funding from Index Ventures, Sequoia, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts. Wiz today employs 82 people, up from just 19 employees a year ago, according to LinkedIn. The Salesforce haul would bring Wiz's total funding to $350 million just 16 months after the company was launched.
[Related: Ex-Microsoft Cloud Security Head Debuts Startup Wiz With $100M In Funding]
Wiz was established by CEO Assaf Rappaport and the other founders of cloud access security broker Adallom, who sold their company to Microsoft for $320 million in September 2015, less than three years after Adallom's founding. Rappaport and his team then spent nearly four and a half years leading Microsoft's Cloud Security Group before leaving at the beginning of 2020 to start Wiz.
Wiz said its architecture facilitates scanning of the entire cloud environment across all compute types and cloud services for vulnerabilities, configuration, network, and security issues. The company offers a weighted view of risk that allows customers to assess vulnerabilities and misconfigurations based on severity, exposure, exploitability, blast radius and business impact, according to Wiz.
Rappaport said in March that more than 10 percent of the Fortune 500 are already using Wiz. The company's customers include electronic signature vendor DocuSign, materials science and manufacturing firm Avery Dennison, and life insurance provider MassMutual, according to Wiz's website. Wiz doesn't mention channel partners anywhere on the company's website.
Wiz is the fifth cloud or container security startup to achieve a valuation of more than $1 billion this year. Lacework raised $525 million in a January round led by Sutter Hill and Altimeter Capital; Aqua Security raised $135 in March from ION Crossover Partners; Orca Security raised $210 million in March from CapitalG; and Sysdig raised $188 million in April from Third Point Ventures and Premji Invest.
All the outside money flowing into cloud security startups has put pressure on incumbent vendors in the space like San Jose, Calif.-based Palo Alto Networks with their Prisma Cloud platform.
"On the Prisma Cloud side, I'd say we were doing fine, and we are doing fine," Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks chairman and CEO, told investors Thursday. "But suddenly, the equity – the venture markets have gone and provided phenomenal valuations and dumped a lot of cash in some very early stage companies, who are now dangling large paychecks to our salespeople because we've got the most qualified large security sales team."
Snowflake Reports Triple-Digit Q1 Revenue Growth, Eyes Expanded Markets
Mass Pay-It-Forward Movement Launched By New Financial Platform


In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was it a suicide, felled by his own alcoholism and mental instability? Most historians have agreed. Patricia Tyson Stroud examines the evidence to posit another, even darker, ending for Lewis.
Stroud uses Lewis's find, the bitterroot flower, with its nauseously pungent root, as a symbol for his reputation as a purported suicide. It was this reputation that Thomas Jefferson promulgated in the memoir he wrote prefacing the short account of Lewis's historic expedition published five years after his death. Without investigation of any kind, Jefferson, Lewis's mentor from boyhood, reiterated undocumented assertions of Lewis's serious depression and alcoholism.
Through a retelling of his life, from his resourceful youth to the brilliance of his leadership and accomplishments as a man, Bitterroot shows that Jefferson's mystifying assertion about the death of his protégé is the long-held bitter root of the Meriwether Lewis story.


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The PMBI Ride Guide is a one-day training course designed for club volunteers or local riders who wish to take other people on organized, group rides. The course provides the necessary training to learn how to organize a ride, beginning with a meet 'n' greet, bike check and safety talk. Guides will learn how to assess riders skills, perform bike checks and warm-ups safely, allowing them to plan and execute a safe, fun ride.
The course will include an online pre-course worksheet, complete with reading materials to begin your training before we even see you. Topics such as risk management, class size and terrain choice will also be discussed, as well as a chance to practice guiding the group, to gain some feedback on your own personal guiding, risk management and communication skills.
Additional workshops throughout the day will also discuss the recommended mechanic and first aid skills required by guides, and how to find this training, if necessary.
The day will mostly be spent on the trails, riding bikes and learning outside. It's a fun day with great people and also a good chance to get some tips and feedback on your own riding skills.


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September In My Kitchen
It's been a quiet month here.
Changing Seasons Outside My Kitchen Door
Early morning, first day of Autumn from my kitchen door.
A very cool rainy day after a long warm spell.
Later, we had more sun, but the leaves are turning.
The weather now is nice, and more sunshine is predicted.
Autumn evenings are lovely, but it now gets dark rather early for outdoor dining,
and soon it will be dark early and maybe too chilly for outdoor cooking.
On the table: Len's old iPhone. He has now upgraded to the newly-released version.
Cooking and Eating At Home
Duck eggs. Big but they taste pretty much like normal eggs.
The table set for four of us!
We were at home for the entire month of September, and we cooked and ate almost every meal at home. My sister and brother-in-law visited us for a few days. Once during their visit, we got some take-out sandwiches, cider, and donuts to eat as a picnic at the Dexter Cider Mill — otherwise we ate at home. I didn't take pics at the cider mill this year, as it's always the same, but here are last year's photos: Cider and Donuts.
Homemade tomato and pumpkin soup in the refrigerator.
Another refrigerator scene: chicken and roast vegetables in my
vintage CorningWare casserole which I received as a wedding present.
Cauliflower cheese, browned in the toaster oven.
Local tomatoes are becoming hard to find.
Len continues to bake many kinds of bread, all wonderful.
What passes for excitement in my neighborhood?
A huge tree fell a few blocks from here during one of the beginning-of-autumn storms.
Blog post and photos © 2021 mae sander.
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Kensington MetroPark
Several sandhill cranes at Kinsington Metropark have become tame.
I was very close to this one, which was hanging out near the parking lot.
This is a pileated woodpecker, which is slightly unusual but not rare. It resembles the ivory-billed woodpecker, which very sadly today was declared extinct, along with a number of other species that have not been found in many years. For the complete story about this ongoing tragedy see this just-published story in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/29/endangered-species-ivory-billed-woodpecker/
On the wall of the Nature Center: a reproduction of a painting from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The work is titled "Cycles," by Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007)
It depicts Ojibwa spirits of a frog, fish, bear, bird, and turtle:
animals you can see in the park — except the bear.
Blog post © 2021 mae sander.
Labels: Art and Artists, birding, Wordless Wednesday
Poets in the Neighborhood
Several famous poets have lived in Ann Arbor and taught at the University of Michigan. Three of them in particular lived in my neighborhood, and I like to think about them when I pass their one-time homes. Here are some biographical details about the poets and their presence in my neighborhood. In order to make this a manageable post, I'm not going to talk about any of their actual poetry -- though it's wonderful!
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
W. H. Auden taught at the University of Michigan during the 1941-1942 academic year. At the beginning of this time, Auden lived in a house on the site that had formerly hosted the poet Robert Frost, who had briefly visited the University in the 1920s. The Robert Frost Ann Arbor house had been moved to Greenfield Village, where Henry Ford had a collection of important American-historical buildings, so it is very well-known but also it's not in Ann Arbor any more.
During the latter part of the 1941-1942 academic year, Auden and his lover, the poet Chester Kallman (1921-1975), then a graduate student at the university, lived a block down the street from my current home. They sublet a house from a professor who was on sabbatical as often happens in university towns. I very frequently walk past this house, and think about the two poets and what living here may have been like in the 1940s. Probably not that different from what it's like now -- you can walk through the nearby park and continue to the campus in around 25 minutes, which is what they no doubt did.
Rumors in the neighborhood claim that Auden and Kallman were highly unsatisfactory sabbatical-year tenants for a respectable professor's home, and that they did not leave the house in good condition. Obviously by the time I heard people talking about this, virtually no one still had first-hand memories of these famous renters, but I did find a little information by diligently googling:
"Much to the chagrin of their neighbors as well as the campus authorities, Auden and Kallman hosted regular 'At Homes.' Unfortunately, Auden's only literary record of the group, a masque that Auden wrote for his guests to perform at one of the 'At Homes,' no longer exists: 'The Queen's Masque, by Bojo the Homo, played by Kallman's Klever Kompanions.' Auden described it as 'really obscene,' and reacted to the disappearance of the manuscript by saying, 'I do hope the F.B.I. hasn't been prying up here.'" (source)
I believe that several Auden biographies offer more details about Auden's life in Ann Arbor, but I'm not into such a big research project right now. So I've offered you some 80-year-old gossip.
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian poet who was severely mistreated by the Communist regime in his early years, and when he was forced to leave the Soviet Union, he began his exile in Ann Arbor, where he was appointed as a poetry lecturer. The University of Michigan Slavic Languages Department website describes his arrival thus:
"The crucial link between Brodsky and the U-M was the late Carl R. Proffer, professor of Russian Literature. Proffer and his wife Ellendea were co-founders of Ardis Press, which had published a number of Brodsky's works. He happened to be in Leningrad visiting Brodsky in May, 1972, when the poet received notification from the authorities that he was being issued an exit visa for emigration to Israel. After responding that he was not interested in leaving his native land and culture, Brodsky was warned that the coming winter would be very cold — a threat that was not lost on a man who had been convicted of 'social parasitism' for living on his poetry and had served a stretch in exile working on a collective farm in the Russian far north. He decided to discuss the matter with his American friend, and Proffer, in his optimistic way, told Brodsky that he could come and teach in Ann Arbor. Brodsky accepted the idea, and Proffer contacted Benjamin Stolz, who at the time chaired the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. After receiving authorization to hire Brodsky, Stolz obtained an immigration visa personally approved by William Rogers, Secretary of State, and flew to Chicago to get a federal work permit." (source)
Auden has also been given credit for assisting Brodsky to come to Michigan:
"Auden was instrumental in bringing Joseph Brodsky to Ann Arbor for a teaching position in 1972 when the Soviet Union cast him out as a danger to the State. In 1987 when Brodsky was no longer in residence at Michigan (alas!), he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1991 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States." (source)
For part of the time he was here in Ann Arbor, Brodsky rented an apartment on the top floor of a very impressive home just up the street from my house. I also walk past there often, in the opposite direction from the house where Auden had lived. Very recently, this house was completely renovated and enlarged, so it is much grander-looking than it was back then -- I once was inside it on a home tour and I think I even saw the apartment where Brodsky had formerly lived.
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Robert Hayden is considered one of the great Black American poets. A native of Detroit, he was an undergraduate at Detroit City College, now Wayne State University. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan, and received a master's degree in 1944. While studying at Michigan, he was especially encouraged by Auden, who was then teaching at the university. After teaching at Fisk University for a number of years, Hayden became a professor in the Michigan English Department, where he taught from 1969 until his death in 1980.
During the time he taught in Ann Arbor, Hayden lived a few blocks from my current home, and only one block from the house where I lived at that time. I remember seeing him and sometimes briefly talking to him when he was walking his dog around the block. His dog was named Sadie, and he told me "Sadie is a lady." At that time, I had read some of his poetry, and knew his very esteemed reputation, but of course never mentioned it in our very brief conversations.
An anonymous article at poetry.org, titled "Robert Hayden's Bus Route," included this memory:
"Hayden lived at 1201 Gardner Avenue, not far from campus; however, his severe nearsightedness made it impossible for him to drive, or even walk the rutted sidewalks to work. As a result, Hayden regularly took the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority's #5 bus that ran along Packard Street. It was short ride between the Congregational Church on State Street near campus and the intersection of Gardner and Packard. From there, he had a quick walk home, along a sidewalk bordered with hedges and lilac bushes." (source)
Recently, the Ann Arbor City Council voted to establish a committee to consider granting special historical status to the house on Gardner, in honor of Hayden and his contribution to the university. (source)
Labels: Ann Arbor, Poets
What we are watching
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
Another film by the Coen Brothers: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." The introductory song, "Cool Clear Water," was an old popular cowboy song, written in the 1930s and popular in the 1940s. It was effectively included in the movie, which is a collection of short episodes about the old west with a talented cast and lots of amusing scenes. We rewatched it a few days ago. It's a lot of fun, especially the first two or three episodes which are pretty much a send-up of classic cowboy movies.
The Great British Baking Show, 2021 Season
Friday, September 24, at 3 AM the first episode of the 2021 season of the Great British Baking Show was released on Netflix for American viewers. We watched it at around 8:30 AM. It's not that different from the previous 100 or so episodes we have watched over the years, but we like it. We will no doubt be watching every Friday until the last 2021 episode is complete and we know who won. Then we'll forget who won and what they baked, as we have forgotten the details of all the previous seasons. It's delightfully mindless and in-the-moment.
Paul, Prue, and Noel: back for another season.
The contestants this year aren't very different from prior years, including traditional British natives and a variety of immigrants to Britain who have adapted to British baking. From the Guardian review of the first episode:
"This time around we have Jürgen, the German IT guy, who brought in nuts, bolts and a spanner to aid him with the final task, and the Italian engineer Giuseppe, whose pronunciation of the phrase Jack and the Beanstalk was sweeter than sugar-cane cannoli. We have Jairzeno the Trinidadian, and Freya, the 19-year-old Scarborough vegan. Amanda is a detective who likes wild swimming; Tom seems like the sort of man who would be at home in a model railway shop. Fortunately, his family runs one." (source)
Full disclosure: I'm not that crazy about eating cake. The Great British Baking Show is all theater to me, and doesn't make me hungry or inspire me to actually perform anything in the kitchen. But as they used to say "There will always be an England."
"Midnight Diner"
Thanks to a review by the blog Intrepid Reader and Baker (here) I've begun watching the Japanese series "Midnight Diner" on Netflix. It takes place in a diner in Tokyo which opens at midnight, and which is full of colorful night-owls whose favorite foods are made by the diner's cook and only employee (or maybe its owner), known as "the Master." It's a hilariously funny show but you have to let the humor sneak up on you.
I agree with the New Yorker reviewer who wrote:
"Midnight Diner" is the rare show that I love but can't binge-watch—I need to savor the show's slow, meditative rhythms. The same goes for the food, which we see the Master prepare, and which always looks delicious. It's particularly moving when regulars ask him to make their childhood favorites—a reminder of the basic comfort that his diner provides. Nighttime is when feelings of euphoria, or despair, feel particularly acute. Yet there's a simple pleasure to eating with strangers, and swapping stories, in a small room full of people who can be alone together. (source)
I've watched the first few, and I'll be savoring my way through at least several more episodes pretty soon!
Labels: Classic films, Food in Literature, Great British Baking Show, Japan
"Ghost Wall," A Book of Abuse
"There are no surprises. They place another rope around her neck, hold the knife up to the setting sun as it edges behind the rocks. What is necessary is on hand, the sharpened willow withies, the pile of stones, the small blades and the large. The stick for twisting the rope.
"Not yet. There is an art to holding her in the place she is entering now, on the edge of the water-earth, in the time and space between life and death, too late to return to the living and not time, not yet, not for a while, to be quite dead." Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall (p. 4).
This very frightening book begins with a human sacrifice. Throughout the book, you are wondering how this starting point will become an ending point. The initial chapter, written in an omniscient voice, describes the girl who is sacrificed in front of a crowd: "her neighbours and her family, ... the people who held her hands as she learnt to walk, taught her to dip her bread in the pot and wipe her lips, to weave a basket and gut a fish. She has played with the children who now peep at her from behind their mothers, has murmured prayers for them as they were being born." (p. 4).
After this grizzly description, the narration of Sarah Moss's amazing novella Ghost Wall is done by a young modern girl, Silvie. She and her parents are engaged in an anthropologist-professor's reenactment of life in the Iron Age in the north of Britain, along with some of the professor's students, including Molly, a woman who has her own ideas of how to cope with these very odd circumstances. Molly isn't nearly as committed to Iron Age life as the others: when she should be gathering wild foods, she sneaks off to a shop that sells sweets, snacks, and ice cream, and she finds a way to have a hot shower and wash her hair, which the reenactment doesn't allow.
Yes, here I am reading one more book that features anthropology, and again, it's totally different from the books I was talking about yesterday (posted here).
Silvie's father is a bus driver and her mother works as a grocery-store checkout clerk, but her father is obsessed with learning about Iron Age living. In fact he's a British chauvinist who thinks the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain were the real deal, as opposed to immigrants throughout history. His disapproval covers these interlopers: including the Roman legionnaires, who may have brought African people with them, and of course despising much more recent newcomers from around the globe. Thanks to her father's focus on Iron Age life and purity, he has forced them to spend the family vacation living painfully in the woods without plumbing or other conveniences.
While Silvie's father, a dreadful abuser of his wife and daughter, is having fun, he insists that the three women -- Silvie, her mother, and Molly -- do all the painful Iron-Age labor of gathering roots and berries in the woods, building fires, and preparing unfamiliar foods with the tools he thinks are appropriate, like flint knives. All the inconveniences and challenges of this life are described with great vividness, which is why this book is so readable despite the cruelty. As one reviewer stated it:
"Silvie is alive to nature, and fascinated by the mummified bog people unearthed in that part of the country. But she chafes against her father's manifold rules for historical authenticity. He longs to re-create a past when, as he imagines, 'women managed well enough' toiling in submission, and true Britons had not yet been corrupted by foreign elements." (source)
Silvie lives in utter dread of her father, who beats her brutally when he feels put down by anyone. Both she and her mother have all the victim response of fear and self-blame. If I tell you more, it will be a spoiler!
Review © 2021 mae sander.
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Anthropology: Rice as Self
Katsushika Hokusai: woodblock illustration of a poem by the Emperor Tenchi Tenno (628-681).
The poem describes a sudden storm that forced the Emperor to shelter in a common rice farmer's hut.(source)
Was the Japanese Emperor a god? This turns out to be a fascinating question, because in Japanese belief, gods were quite different from gods in Western traditions. To understand the emperor's divinity, it's interesting to know that in former times in Japan, every grain of rice was also believed to be a god. The Emperor himself acted as a shaman: he played a role in various ceremonies and rituals to ensure successful rice harvests. While the Emperor is no longer seen as closely linked to the rice crop, rice remains a key to Japanese identity.
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is a challenging technical/anthropological account of the many meanings and uses of rice in Japan over more than 2000 years. Here are some of the fascinating aspects of Japanese historical culture that I learned from this book.
Rice as Self. Published 1994.
In some parts of Japan, rice was the major source of nutrition, and elsewhere in Japan other grains like millet were more nutritionally important, as well as other foods. However, rice had a major role in the way everyone thought about food, no matter what their actual diet included. Even in modern Japan, where many other foods -- for example, toast and eggs for breakfast and KFC or American burgers for lunch -- are a major part of people's diets, rice has a significance that elevates it from ordinary food. Moreover, rice that is grown in Japan is vastly preferred, and the Japanese rice paddies are envisioned as a key feature of the Japanese landscape.
In fact, the word for rice is the word in Japanese for food. A serious meal, like a formal dinner, that doesn't end with at least a small portion of rice (or more) doesn't seem complete to traditional Japanese people. The importance of rice was diminishing in the years after World War II; in the 30 years since the research for this book was completed, its importance may have diminished even more, but the material in the book shows how significant it has been.
For most of Japanese history, until the industrialization of the 20th century, a large majority of Japanese people worked as farmers, growing many types of foods. The rice they grew was identified as the source of all wealth, both symbolically through folk tales and religious beliefs, and literally. Farmers paid their taxes in set quantities of rice. At the end of this time, as money, like coins, was in the process of being invented, oblong gold coins called koban were created with a value equal to a standard measure of rice. There was a belief that rice was always a pure currency, while money was often impure. Some circulating Japanese coins still have images of rice on them, recalling the connection of rice and wealth.
A Japanese 5-yen coin, mid-20th century,
showing a sheaf of rice.
Rice was beautiful to look at, in the aesthetic sense of Japan. Appreciation of this beauty was expressed in poetry and in art such as the poem illustrated in the woodblock print at the top of this blog post. Eating pure, white rice is the ideal, and the sight of rice being cultivated, gathered, and threshed is also appreciated: "Ripe heads of rice grain are described as having a golden luster." (p. 75)
"As for the beauty of cooked rice, the most important characteristics are the related qualities of luster, purity and whiteness." According to the author Tanizaki Junichirō: "When cooked rice is in a lacquer container placed in the dark, shining with black luster, it is more aesthetic to look at, and it is more appetizing. When you lift the lid... you see pure white rice with vapor rising. Each grain is a pearl." (p. 76-77)
Rice fields also became the emblem of the changing seasons in Japanese art and literature, such as the autumn scene in the woodblock above, and many other such works by Hiroshige, Hokusai, and others. The author's discussion of rice in art before the westernization of Japan in the Meiji era (beginning in 1868) is especially fascinating:
"The recurrent motifs of rice and rice agriculture in these woodblock prints represent not rice and rice agriculture per se but something far more abstract. At the most obvious level, they signal seasons of the year. Flooded rice fields... are the most familiar sign of spring or early summer... .Rice harvesting scenes, including sheaves of rice stalks... represent fall and its joyful harvest but also the end of the growing season.
"What is striking ... is that these cycles of rice growth have become markers of the seasons for all Japanese. For urbanites, fishermen, and all other nonagrarian people, life became marked by rice and its growth.
"At an even more abstract level, travelers are often depicted agains these agricultural scenes, suggesting that the scenes of rice and rice agriculture are a backdrop for an unchanging Japan, in contrast to the transient and changing Japan epitomized by Edo (Tokyo)." (p. 90)
Although Japan was not predominantly agricultural, and definitely not predominantly populated by rice farmers, rice culture became very intertwined with Japanese identity, "just as rice has been important for practically all Japanese, whether or not it was a staple food."
There's much more to ponder in Rice as Self. I read it a long time ago, and I'm glad I finally managed to get back to it and read it again.
UPDATE: for a modern version of rice in art see this: Japan's Rice Art Festivals of 2021
... and a silly comparison
Anthropology interests me, so I really enjoyed Rice as Self despite the dense technical and sometimes jargon-filled style and too-frequent, awkwardly inserted references to the author's sources. Ohnuki-Tierney, a real anthropologist, isn't anything like the fictional Ruth Galloway, the forensic anthropologist at the center of the easy-reading detective stories by Elly Griffiths. I'm reading them fast: I reviewed The Outcast Dead last week, and read another in the series a few days ago. I bet Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, unlike Ruth Galloway, is never threatened by strange old men with antique guns, and never chases down kidnappers or identifies murder victims the way that Ruth Galloway does. It's fun to do a lot of reading at very different levels.
Labels: food in art, Food in Detective Fiction, Food in Literature, Japan
More Murals in the Creative District
The Ann Arbor Creative District again: a mural on the RR abutment.
Closeup showing the very clever mosaic of broken glass in the mural.
The other side of the RR abutment.
Is this art?
Another creature at Big City Bakery.
Posted by Mae Travels at 3:08 PM 12 comments:
Labels: AA Creative District, Ann Arbor, Art and Artists
Ann Arbor Creative District
More from the Creative District where I found the
utility boxes I posted yesterday.
This mural was only partly finished when I photographed it in August. The woodpecker is new.
Link to previous photos of this building.
Fish sculpture in the garden of an apartment building.
Autumn decorations.
An elephant near the Big City Bakery
Blog post © 2021 mae sander. More Creative District photos to be posted later.
Two Beautiful Utility Boxes
Downtown Ann Arbor
Labels: AA Creative District, Ann Arbor, Art and Artists, Wordless Wednesday
"Harlem Shuffle"
Green Tea and Michiyo Tsujimura
Grow Plots at County Farm Park
My Sister's Superb Apple Pie
An Unpolitical Man?
Another Ruth Galloway Novel: "The Outcast Dead"
Pandemic Mural, Melbourne
Dr. Faustus
The Gardens Are Back!
Around Me: Autumn is Coming
The Nature of the Future: Not Good
Here's to Summer's End
Ruth Ozeki
Argus Farm Stop
Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge
UN Food Report: Ultra-Pasteurized Foods


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Q: Using @2x files for a NonRetina iPad when @2x~ipad images exist I have 3 images, file.png, file@2x.png and file@2x~ipad.png. I want to use file@2x.png on Retina iPhone and nonRetina iPad.
I want to set the images in interface builder. The iPhone works fine, where I set file.png in the xib and it loads file@2x.png on Retina iPhone. But on nonRetina iPad, file@2x~ipad.png is loaded even though I specified file@2x.png.
Is there a way to set nonRetina iPad to default to the @2x version when a ~ipad version doesn't exist through interface builder/xibs? (I'm well aware of loading images with different extensions through code by writing custom loading code) Are there any settings or plists I can change?
I don't want to make duplicates of the same image just to be able to name them differently.
Thanks.

A: One way of doing this without adding duplicate files is by naming the iPad version file@2x@2x.png. You can then set the iPad version using either [UIImage imageNamed:@"file@2x"]; or set the image to file@2x.png to have file@2x@2x.png used on retina iPad and file@2x.png on normal iPad. That way there is no duplication.

A: Use symbolic links to point myImage~iPad.png to myImage@2x.png. Source https://stackoverflow.com/a/10223119/313875
Summary of this answer (read - someone else's answer to another question, so please go up-vote them!):
Use ln -s myImage@2x.png myImage~ipad.png for each image. Or use a script:
#! /bin/sh

# Script to batch create symlinks that point ~ipad files to @2X files

# To run:
# Copy to the directory where the files are located
# Enter the following at the terminal prompt:
# bash create_ipad_image_links.txt

# For every @2x file we find in this directory we create a symlink

for file in *@2x.png
do
  echo "link: ${file//@2x/~ipad} to: $file"
  ln -s $file ${file//@2x/~ipad}
done

A: Try creating file~ipad.png. Non-retina iPads should look for that file first.