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Dispatches from #AWP18
Posted on March 9, 2018 by englishkstate
Thousands of creative writers descended on Tampa this week for the annual AWP Conference. We asked three Kansas State graduate students to weigh in on their conference highlights — so far anyway.
The Fifth Annual Rock and Roll Reading took place in Ybor City — a pocket of Tampa where stray roosters strut past strip clubs and cigar shops. The location was The Reservoir Bar — a dive bar lacquered and fumigated with cigarette smoke — a bar crowded with bikers, pool players, pub-crawlers, and, for that night, many many writers.
The readings were quick: some violent, some rebellious, some pensive. Kristen Arnett dissected an alligator. Lyz Lenz dissected motherhood. Brandon Taylor dissected his complicated fandom for Bon Iver.
There were Rock and Roll legends, too. Jim Warner belted out his homage to DLR (David Lee Roth). Mo Daviau regaled us on Elliot Smith. Megan Giddings gave a shout out to Coltrane.
I don't really know the definition of Rock and Roll. But as far as writing goes, this definitely fit the bill.
— Peter Williams (BA '15, MA '18)
In "Writing Fatherhood: Changing the Metaphor," a panel consisting of Shane Seely (MA '98), Geffrey Davis, Douglas Brown, Steven Church, and Jarod Rosello read from their own works as well as other father/writers. Their goal was to create a new metaphor for fatherhood, and they were inspired by last year's keynote speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who called for more men to write about fatherhood, Seely said in his opening remarks.
The fathers spoke of the beauty and fatigue of fatherhood: checking that doors and windows are locked, conjuring playful voices that give life to stuffed animals, and sharing sleepless nights with sleeping rascals sandwiched between them and their partner.
Writing about fatherhood, they're sure, wrestles not only with their own sons and daughters, but with their own fear-soaked images of fatherhood that children want to call "love." Recalling prenatal parental moments, Church reflected on the sonic connection he latched onto, his only relationship through sound and sound-generated images.
— Gavin Colton (MA '18)
"The Literary Twitterati" was a panel with Kaveh Akbar (@KavehAkbar), Eve Ewing (@eveewing), and Dorothea Lasky (@poetastrologers), the reigning royalty of Twitter, poetry, and Twitter poetry. Ewing, in her opening remarks, called poetry an "ivory tower." People in the room nodded when she said that — we are familiar with that idea. But then Ewing, in her graceful and assertive and ultra-engaged manner, said, "I need to trouble something you just said." She talked about growing up in Chicago, and writing and performing poetry on the streets with her friends. For her, poetry wasn't an ivory tower until she was 23 and attending her first AWP. She remembered "some of the best poets in the world" reading their work and the audience sitting, listening in silence. Then, and now, she rails against that kind of experience; poetry should be community and voices and excitement.
This panel, more than the other ones I've gone to, offered all of that: community and voices and excitement. The room was electric, even though it was also the smallest panel I've been to — maybe 30 people. People all around me snapped their fingers while the panelists spoke. We collectively gasped as Dorothea Lasky read her poem "Snakes" ("Oh, write what you are, poets / Everyone's a snake / Most of all, including you"). The room was full of audible affirmation and acknowledgment.
The panelists talked about social media, and there was the obligatory conversation about Rupi Kaur, but mostly this was a panel about how amazing and important it is to be able to share what you love with the world. So when Kaveh Akbar shouted this James Dickey quote to the room: "Poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe," it was all I could do to keep from shouting back, "Yes! Yes, you are right!"
— Maddie Pospisil (MA '19)
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Q: How is this Android function being kept alive after my app is destroyed, only dying when the app is swiped off? If I connect to a Bluetooth Low Energy device on and Android device, and then destroy (i.e. hit Back and then see the OnDestroy callback get hit) the app with which I called BluetoothDevice.ConnectGatt(), the connection does not actually get dropped, though the UI does start over if the app is restarted. What part of the app stays alive after it is supposed to have been destroyed, and is it possible to re-access it instead of re-creating it?
This is not a question about not knowing how to use Android's BLE APIs. I can disconnect programatically just fine. The connection does get dropped when the app is "really killed", i.e. swiped off of the Overview, so there is apparently some difference between destroyed and "dead" states and that is what I want to know about. BLE is just the avenue that I've used to discover this lifecycle behavior. For all I know, this behavior may be reproducible with other peripherals such as GPS.
The plugin I'm using for the BLE functionality does not appear to be creating a Service to maintain any background work, which is the only method I know of to keep stuff going after an app is destroyed.
(EDIT Re. possible duplicate: In addition to my clarifications above, I do not use the socket or stream APIs that were giving that other user trouble. This is BT Low Energy, not BT Classic.)
(EDIT: Emil makes a good point, so I removed the mention of BLE from the question title)
I've seen this with both a Samsung Galaxy S7 with Android 7 and an LG Nexus 5 with Android 6.

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In my first article on "How to Get a Mentor" I touched on a) What is a mentor? b) Why we should have a mentor and c) Who makes a good mentor. In this article my focus is on a) How do we approach mentors, b) What you can expect from your mentor, and c) The importance of being prepared when you get on the phone or in a meeting with your mentor.
Firstly, how should you approach a mentor? When I was teaching the Flash Forward workshops a few years ago I suggested that people write a dynamite, personalized mentor request letter. This letter would basically be three paragraphs. Paragraph one is the actual request… that you would like them to be your mentor and including the specific terms that you are requesting. For example, three ten-minute conversations (on the phone or in person) over a 4 week period. The second paragraph is about why you've chosen them to be your mentor. And the final paragraph would be something about yourself. You can mail the letter or put it in an email. In the letter you can mention that you will be calling in a couple of days to get their response. It always helps to create a little urgency with people. In addition, I suggest that you read the letter to a few friends first to get their feedback.
What can you expect from your mentor? Some of what you can look forward to receiving from your mentor is advice and suggestions on the names you have listed on your target list. You will also get advice on your goals, timeline and action plan. As well as suggestions on your overall strategic plan and career path. You can practice your pitch (of yourself or your projects) and get feedback from them and also request guidance on areas where you may be stuck. And remember to find out about them. How did they get to where they are? What lessons, did they learn? You have the opportunity here to create a powerful relationship. And remember, you are asking for their guidance and advice. You're not asking them to watch your actor's reel or read your screenplay. If they ask you, that is fine, but never put them on the spot. You are requesting their wisdom, not their rolodex!
When it comes time for your call or meeting, make sure you are prepared. Have your questions ready. PLEASE don't have them generate the conversation. If you need to, call some friends and brainstorm questions to ask. During my 10 Tips YouTube series on "Getting a Mentor" I interviewed Kevin E.West, a wonderful actor, speaker and president and founder of Actors Network. He feels as strongly as I do about this whole notion of being prepared. Here's what Kevin had to say. "What do you really want from your mentor? Always know what you really want. Write it down. Make sure you have a list of questions. Write them down. Role play those questions with yourself and others before you get on the phone and understand that they are going to ask you questions. So you have to do research… you have to know your audience. You can't go into a conversation asking someone to help you out if you don't know a little bit about what they do… maybe where they're from… how their day goes. Do as much research as you can to find out all the moving part of this person's life.
Take Kevin's brilliant advice and be prepared. Do your research about your mentor and have your questions ready.
In my final article, I'll address the topic of mentor etiquette… the important do's and don'ts to keep in mind when you are interacting with your mentor. In the meantime, I would suggest you continue to work on your list of possible mentors, begin work on your letters and start preparing questions. And certainly tune in to the Master Talent Teachers' website to watch my video on this topic.


A lot of time in July was spent putting in some new monsters that completed all their art and animations, adding new behaviors for some monsters that already had art, and adding some game engine features to support the new behaviors and skills.
First off is the Fire Giant, we've had his artwork and animation in for a while now, but he didn't do anything but a basic melee swing with his axe. Now the Fire Giant has a magic spell that shoots rays from his axe to several locations around him. At every location a burning fire hotspot is created which remains for a few turns. Additionally, any items at the location of a fire ray hit will be permanently destroyed and can't be picked up.
Alex and Aden finished the artwork and animation for the Disturbling, a super crazy cosmic creature. He's got a bite melee attack, but has this really twisted looking magic attack where a hand comes out of a portal that opens in front of his mouth. Not sure what that's gonna do yet.
The Thiefling is a new creature that can steal items from the player. He'll prefer to steal items that are currently equipped or on the shortcut bar of your player, but sometimes also dips deep into your backpack and can steal any item. Watch out if he steals a stack of magic materials, you might quickly find you can no longer cast that fireball spell you had readied.
– New Creature: Thiefling … these rat like hunchbacks can whip you with their tail or steal an item from your inventory and quickly flee with it.
– Fire Giant now has a ranged magic attack in which he raises his weapon and fires 3-6 bolts at surrounding cells causing a fire hazard to appear at the target and permanently destroying any items on the ground there.
– When you destroy an item for the first time, you now get a confirmation dialog to make it clear that the item is being destroyed and not un-equipped or dropped or something.
– Refactored rope chain skills so that base classes of DoSkill() are always called where important things like storing the turn action id happen etc.
– RopeSkill and RopeSkillPrototype are now abstract classes from which to build more complex skills like RopeChainSkill, FireRaySkill etc.
– Loot tables can now specific "All" instead of a random number of picks … in this evaluation order, every entry is evaluated once in the order that they appear in the table.
– The InputManager is now capable of pushing and popping listener/controller pairs without having to have the code itself be bookend structured with push1->push2->pop2->pop1 … we can now support push1->push2->pop1->pop2 to allow for a more natural flow to writing the code in some situations.
– Fixed pooled actors immediatly destroying themselves upon re-use if the last animation they played was a "die" animation, which is actually pretty common. Actors are no longer destroyed when a "Die" aniamtion is ended, only when it is completed. A pooled actor that last played die, and then plays idle, "ends" the die animation … which shouldn't be a trigger to fade out and destroy.
– Fixed the stolen loot dropped by a Thiefling having a scale of zero (and therefore being invisible) if you killed the Thiefling via the Banish spell, the banish logic now restores the actor scale to 1.0 before killing/destroying them which also restores scale on any contained child game objects / items.
– Fixed spine objects having one frame of wrong animation upon instantiation if later in that same frame they were directed to play a different animation … there is an old field _animationName that is serializable and casuing the issue, so I've nulled it for the player and Esoteric is going to refactor their code sometime in the future.
– Fixed human female item right animation pop after playing attack_02, for some reason there were two "Item Right" bones in the dopesheet … will send the messed up file to Esoteric Software for fixing.


He graduated Three Rivers High School in 2002 after receiving the Golden Hammer award for CTE Building Trades. He worked at Armstrong's, cared for his grandma, and spent the rest of his time with friends and family. He was a lifetime member of Splatmandu Paintball Club where he received many awards including the Sportsmanship Award, as well as an avid Splatmanboo participate. Their Motto: Play with Honor was something he applied everyday not just on the field.
He loved time with his nieces and nephews playing a wide variety of games or hanging poolside. He always had of way of making the kids feel safe in the water. He enjoyed online gaming and made friends worldwide he enjoyed spending time with them especially making them laugh. He was always good for a smile no matter the situation.
Alex is preceded in death by his grandparents, Robert T. and Twila M. Kirchner Sr. and Robert F. Baker Sr.
He leaves to cherish his loving memory grandmother, Wiletta Baker; his parents, Robert F. and Roberta A. Baker; siblings, Jon (Amy) Baker, Angela (Kurt) Kunz all of Three Rivers, Mich.; several nieces, nephews and cousins as well as two great nephews Jace and Michael. As well as extended Splat and WoW families.
Per the family's wishes cremation has taken place a public visitation will be held on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 at Hohner Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. with Mr. Ted Cross officiating. A separate celebration of Alex's life will be held at a later date yet to be determined.


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The study of German electoral politics has been neglected of late, despite being one of the most pervasive elements of the German political process. This book argues that concentration on electoral politics facilitates deeper understanding and appreciation of the German political system. It provides explanations and analysis of the federal electoral system, its evolution and the challenges that have been made to its format; discusses the role of electoral politics in relation to political parties and to the public; and the influence of second-order elections in the German political system. The book goes on to evaluate the effectiveness of the German electoral system in relation to its functions, and challenges the premise that electoral politics makes a difference in Germany. Ultimately, it aims to reconcile the apparently limited role that elections have in determining the composition of governments with the notion that there is a 'permanent election campaign' in existence in German politics.
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largest single party in the Bundestag. So had the Christian Democrats succeeded in displacing Brandt, the outcome would have been contrary to the desires of the electorate. The point of this survey of changes in governments is that Bundestag elections do not usually directly affect the composition of governments. The 1998 election was an exception, since relatively large transfers of support from the Christian Democrats and FDP to the SPD took place (the Greens lost vote-share in that election). In 1969 the new coalition partners (SPD and FDP) together had a slightly
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responsibility (Cabinet Office, 2010a ). Published at the same time as Our Programme for Government was a separate document entitled the Constitutional Agreement for Stability and Reform , which mapped out further details on how the coalition would work, explaining, for example, issues around the composition of government, how the principles of collective responsibility would operate, and voting in
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tables 4.3 and 4.4). However, factors other than the ethnic one must be considered in assessing the likelihood of secession and the prospects for democratic consolidation in the republics. The most important additional factor is the overall wealth and economic status of the federal subjects and the degree to which they are economically dependent on the centre and this is one of the topics we now turn to in chapter 5. Table 4.3 Nationality Bashkir Russian Tatar Others Ethnic composition of government elite in Bashkortostan, 1990–97 % of population Secretaries of
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generally – is affected by several factors including the balance of forces the between capital and labour, previously embedded patterns of the welfare state, the current composition of government, and electoral sentiment. The challenge for the CVP was to achieve its goals taking account of shifts in some of these independent factors and to get its timing right as between economic and political cycles. Increasingly, CORI Justice got into the fray as the leading voice on the issue of relativity between social welfare and average earnings. This campaign is instructive, both
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App Updates on your iPad: Should You Download Them?
Do you see that red bubble above? It indicates the number of apps that I have on that device that currently have updates. Does that bother you? I know people who must always have their apps updated. On the contrary, for myself, that number in the red bubble grows every day. On my iPhone, it is up to 117, on my iPad: 53.
For the most part, updates are a good thing. Bugs are often fixed, and improvements are made. Features are added. Added hardware support can greatly improve the look of an app (e.g. when apps were optimized for the larger iPhone 5 screen).
How do you update apps?
Basics: Go to App Store, and tap the Updates tab on the far right. A list of apps will appear. Tap "What's New" to view the new features. Then tap UPDATE if you wish to do it. That's it. The next time you open that app, it will be the updated version.
iOS7 will have a new feature called Automatic Updates. Your iPads and iPhones will have the ability to download all updates without you ever having to worry about doing it manually. Sound convenient? Well, I for one, will turn this feature off (You will be able to turn Automatic Updates OFF in Settings).
Why don't I update all my apps?
I have a TON of apps. It's probably obvious that I spend a lot of time checking out new apps, both for education and personal uses. Honestly, there are apps that I have not touched since downloading them. Occasionally, I will go through them and delete the ones that I never intend on using.
When I do update, I actually like to review what the changes are before updating it. There are times, believe it or not, when it is NOT beneficial to update an app. Sometimes, developers will actually remove features that people like. Once an app is updated, there is no going back to any previous versions. An example would be the app Airfile, which I profiled a few months back. It was great: you could link multiple Dropbox and Google Drive accounts and move files between them. Then they got greedy and decided to limit the number of accounts, while charging an additional fee to users for the same features. I have even occasionally read in the update notes developers encouraging users NOT to update that version.
Warning: If you (accidentally) press UPDATE ALL, they will indeed all get updated, even if you turn your device off. This can be bad news if there is an app that you love that has "negative" update features.
All this being said, all the major and popular apps will receive new updates for iOS7 coming out. New, flat icons have been created, and are awaiting the upcoming software update. The current icons will look outdated on the new iOS. New updates will take up more space on your device! If you have a smaller capacity iPad, definitely delete the apps that you won't be using. Also, make sure you are on WIFI and not a data connection when updating, you don't want to use up your data on this.
How about you? Do you automatically update an app when it comes up or are you selective? Let us know in the comments!
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I like to have the latest versions, salivating over any changes, welcoming "bug fixes", and generally getting rid of the annoying notifications bubble.
As a side note, if you sync with a computer you should be able to "roll back" to an older version of an app. Update the app on your phone, but do not update it on your computer. Then play with the app, and if you don't like the update delete it and re-sync to your computer, adding that app back in manually. The older version saved to iTunes will then load. Just know the potential consequence – depending on the app you may lose data or have to go through a long setup process. Even if you accidentally update the app in iTunes, you still have a chance. At least on my Windows 7 computer, when iTunes updates an app it sends the old version to the Recycle Bin. Delete the app from iTunes and Restore the app from the Recycle Bin and go about your business… This can be particularly helpful if a major bug sneaks into an update and makes an app unusable until the developer can push an additional fix.


Michel Stone is a writer, speaker, educator, and community volunteer. Her critically acclaimed novels Border Child (April 2017, Doubleday/Anchor) and The Iguana Tree (Hub City Press, 2012) have been compared to the writings of John Steinbeck and both books have been optioned for film. She is the 2018 recipient of the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and her novels have been favorably reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Charleston Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, The New York Journal of Books, Kirkus (starred review), Publishers Weekly (starred review) and many others. Stone has published numerous stories and essays, and she is a recipient of the South Carolina Fiction Award. She's a graduate of Clemson University with a Master's Degree from Converse College, and she's an alumna of the Sewanee Writers Conference. She's the immediate past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project and currently serves on the President's Advisory Council for Wofford College. Michel is a Spartanburg Regional Fellow, a Liberty Fellow, and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and she has been awarded full fellowships to attend the Wildacres Writing Residency and the Rowland Writers Residency. She is at work on her third novel. Michel lives in Spartanburg, SC with her husband. They have three children.


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Nothing it more classic (or timeless) than blue and white.
We've been crushing on blue and white chinoiserie these days (well, always) and have found some key items you should include in your classic home. Don't worry, today's post works really well with what you'll see on Monday.
But why blue and white?
They take your home up a notch. You can go from trendy to timeless in a matter of seconds. Favorited by dynasties and royalty for generations, we aren't just limited to a fancy set of china. In fact, we are taking it out into the garden, onto our walls, and our favorite outfits. It's a dose of instant chic.
Needless to say, we are big fans. We've already started our ginger jar collection and adding pieces of whimsey to our shelves, but if you're looking to get started, here are some key pieces you need. In fact, check out our instagram stories for what we found today!
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Despite slowdown, investors continue faith in IGT
Investors continued to give strong support to International Game Technology (IGT), the country' largest manufacturer of slot machines, last week boosting the company's share price to $49.40.
This was substantially higher than the $38.10 per share price seen shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The increase was consistent with the rationale expressed by Robin Farley, gaming analyst for UBS Warburg, in a research note. She lowered her earnings per share figure for fiscal 2001 from $2.80 to $2.77 but suggested that the company would hold better than casino operators.
"In terms of gaming operations, a slowdown in gaming revenue levels will affect IGT's share of play from progressive units. However, IGT is better positioned than operators are because it shares in the revenues but not the expenses of a gaming operation," she wrote.
Her references were to the company's so-called participation games whereby a portion of each day's revenue is shared by the casino operators with the machine manufacturer. "Overall play" wrote Farley, "was back to 94% of normal levels by last week."
Shares closed Monday at $49.08, down $0.32 for the day.
Rising, in concert with IGT, was the share price of Anchor Gaming (SLOT), the company that has agreed to merge with its joint venture partner. Anchor Gaming closed Friday at $49.70, an increase of almost 40% over its post-attack low of $35.88.
The share prices are important because IGT and Anchor set a so-called collar of $50 a share for IGT's stock in the merger. Farley explained that in her opinion "that collar was to protect Anchor from a change in IGT's business, not a change in the overall U.S. market. We believe the reasons for going ahead with the merger are still intact "" Anchor will get IGT's capital and IGT will bring the joint venture in house."
Improved earnings
Despite the economic slowdown and the problems caused by the attack on America, Boyd Gaming Corporation reported earnings of $0.09 a share, a 29% increase over the $0.07 earned in the same period last year.
Diversification was given as the reason the company held up so well during the period since its Central Division felt almost no impact from the Sept. 11 problems, as opposed to the properties in Las Vegas.
Record revenues were posted by the company's Par-A Dice facility in Illinois, the Treasure Chest property in Louisiana and Blue Chip casino in Indiana. Also showing improvement was Sam's Town in Las Vegas where the revenues jumped to $33.2 million from $31.7 million.
Showing a greater impact from the problems that followed last month's tragedy was the Stardust Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Revenue was at $34.4 million, down from $36 million.
The company said it was looking forward to the future when by year end they hoped to have slot machines operating at Delta Downs racetrack in Louisiana. And, in 2003, they hoped to be operating, in conjunction with its 50% partner, The Borgata, the first destination resort to be built in Atlantic City.
Overvalued?
Is MGM MIRAGE (Inc.) share price overvalued at its present level? That was the question posed Monday by Barron's Mike Santoli in an interview with CNBC.
Santoli said that even though current share price of $24 is down substantially from its 52-week high, the company appears headed for hard times and probably will not meet its previous earnings this year or even next year.
He said his Barron's associates believe that since MGM MIRAGE has its principal properties on the Las Vegas Strip it is very dependent on air travelers whose numbers have decreased substantially since the Sept. 11 attacks.
In order to attract customers, he said, the company has had to cut prices for its high-prices hotel rooms, thus affecting their bottom line.
August visitation
No question Las Vegas has felt the impact of last month's tragedy but in numbers just released by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority the community showed a 2.4% increase in visitation during the month of August.
The Authority reported that visitor volume reached 3,205,249 this August as opposed to last year's 3,130,362.
Helping to boost the numbers was an increase of 16.2% in convention attendance and a jump of 5.2% in the number of total passengers that passed through Las Vegas' McCarran Airport.
Showing a decline was the number of automobiles counted at the Southern California traffic station at Yermo, Cal. The total number of cars counted amounted to 520,250, down 5.3% from last year's 549,228.
Dockside issue
The efforts by Indiana riverboat casino operators to get state approval for dockside gambling continue to be thwarted by Gov. Frank O'Bannon and his administration.
Last week, Indiana's House of Representatives approved a measure that would have permitted the boats to remain moored while conducting their gaming session. But, the bill failed to clear a Senate committee.
Particularly frustrating to proponents was the issue of increased revenues needed to ease the state's fiscal crisis, caused by the first decline in revenues in the past two decades.
Said one legislator, "I can't believe the governor's aversion to dockside gambling is stronger that his aversion to a general tax increase."
Affected by the dockside ban are riverboats operated by Argosy Gaming Co. (AGY), Aztar Corporation (AZR), Boyd Gaming Inc. (BYD), Hyatt Gaming Corp., Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (DJT) and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (PNK), as well as privately-held Don Barden's Majestic Star and Jack Binion's Empress Casino.
Slots at issue
There's a new man in the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., and that has prompted slot machine advocates to revive their efforts to place the gambling devices in the Pennsylvania's racetrack.
Spearheading the drive is Tom Kauffman of the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Association who underscores the disadvantage the state's racetracks face in competing with tracks in Delaware and West Virginia where slots provide the revenue to boost race purses.
"Pennsylvania purses are 35% below the national average and only half the size of our regional competitors," Kauffman said. "As track attendance continues to fall it has become all too clear that Pennsylvania horse racing can no longer effectively compete with neighboring racing industries," he said.
The tracks involved are The Meadows, operated by Magna International Entertainment Inc.(MIEC), Penn National and Pocono Downs, operated by Penn National Gaming Co. (PENN), and English-owned Philadelphia Park.
Louisiana license
Three companies are awaiting a decision by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board relative to the state's 15th and last riverboat gaming license. The decision could be announced this week.
Seeking the license are Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (PNK), Horseshoe Entertainment, and Louisiana Horizons LLC, a partnership involving local investors and publicly-traded Isle of Capri Inc. (ISLE).
In recent hearings, all three companies have been faulted in one way or another.
Board investigators have suggested that Pinnacle's $220 million resort in Lake Charles might be financially unsound in light of the country's economic slowdown. The Horseshoe Shreveport proposal was criticized because its owner, Jack Binion, recently was forced out of Illinois because of past relationships. And, Louisiana Horizons said they would depend on support from the local market prompting the suggestion that "it would be taking dollars away from (local) families."
Some observers have already suggested that the Board may elect not to award the license to any of the applicants.
Tribal exhibit opens
An exhibit depicting the historical role played by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe in the region of southeastern Connecticut has been opened at the Foxwood Resort.
The 1,200 square foot exhibit at the information center for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, features new exhibits about the Tribal Nation and its award-winning museum located about a mile from the casino.
Additionally, the new exhibit will display a highly-detailed scale model of the half-acre Pequot Village, one of the signature attractions within the 308,000 square foot museum.
Mandalay Resort Group announced on Monday that the opening of its planned convention center at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino has postponed to January, 2003.
Three conference calls during which gaming companies will report on their most recent fiscal experience have been scheduled. Both Aztar Corporation (AZR) and Anchor Gaming (SLOT) will report on Wednesday, Oct. 17; Aztar's call will be at 8 a.m. and Anchor 1:45 p.m., PDT. Penn National's call will be at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25.
Gaming revenues in Missouri may have been impacted by the events of Sept. 11 but it wasn't obvious in the totals. The state's Gaming Control Board reported that revenues for September were $94.5 million, a 10% increase over last year.
GTECH (GTK) has signed a new nine-year facilities management contract with the Texas Lottery Commission.
Aristocrat Technologies Inc. says it has begun installations of its CASH EXPRESS linked progressive gaming platforms after having received approval from regulators in several jurisdictions.
GEM Communications, sponsor of the World Gaming Congress & Expo, reports that its magazine, Indian Gaming Business, has been named the official publication of the National Indian Gaming Association.
Nevada Gold & Casino Inc. has moved its trading from Nasdaq to the American Stock Exchange. It now trades under the symbol UWN.
VSS Enterprises, operator of the Castaways Hotel/Casino on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas, says it has scrapped plans for a Tahitian Isles project on property in Henderson and will instead build a 30,000 square foot Tuscan-themed casino with two hotels each containing 200 rooms.
President Casinos Inc. (PREZ) reported a net loss of $2.3 million or $0.46 a share for the three-months period ended on August 31. This compared with a net loss of $15.7 million or $3.13 per share last year for the same period.
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Reaching the grand age of 15 years old my son (of whom I am very proud for many many things) has changed a lot.
First, he's outgrown me by nearly a head now and doesn't seem to get tired from mocking my small person now.
He also gained some maturity and a long lost object we purchased 3 years ago resurfaced : his pair of glasses !
- My eyes are tired was the way he put it.
- No kidding, you spend your days in the dark in front of a computer screen and your eyes hurt ?
But as anyone raising teenagers will know, parent's words are of little importance so we treated the little (big) boy to a consult with an ophtalmologist.
And guess what, her diagnosis was the same as mine ! His eyesight hasn't budge an iota and is good but he's starting to get strabism, meaning his eyes muscles are weak and struggle to adapt to change of distances.
Also we discovered the last 3 years spent in front of a computer in spite of the many fights, many arguments, many punitions etc… with no blue light filtering surely will have damaged his retina and for good.
Now my son being intelligent and reasonable his reaction was that of a chain smoker who know they have to quit but still try to get their way (and if I only keep smoking like 5 a day… I know the feeling I've been there).
- No more computer inside a dim lit cabin.
- 20 minutes on, 20 seconds break looking something at a min distance of 6 meters.
- exercises to retrain the eyes.
As my son was struggling to understand this although it was very well explained I cut it short : "Look Tom you have 2 options; either you listen to the professional's advice and do as she says or you don't and keep doing things you way; but if you don't follow the advice then you cannot complain to me that your eyes are sore and you have 1 set of eyes for a lifetime".
I'm upset because I've been giving Tom a hard time about screens for years and I never went as far as my gut feeling was telling me to go (throwing the damn screens out of the house).
Family pressure around me was too great.
- You can't do that, it's their generation, you can't understand, they all do it.
Also, I weakly gave in because at least I knew what he was doing and at some point I really didn't want him out with the kind of friends he was making at school.
Raising kids is a complicated one (says the man whose 13 year old daughter went within a few months from calling me Dad with love in her eyes to referring to me as "him" with pity looks at best) and this era is not making things easier for willing parents to make a good job.
So this is also my thank you to all the people who counter work the way I raise them by supporting my kids 100% through their fuss and tantrums while making me look like the bad guy.
Well, the monster I am who has decided to teach them life on a sailboat rather than standardised life with consumerism is giving you the same piece of advice as the title of this post… Maybe you should be… changing glasses !


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The late Middle Ages was a time of intense religious ferment in Europe marked by countless calls for reform of the Church. Within monastic orders, the Observant movement was one such effort to reform religious houses, sparked by the widespread fear that these houses had strayed too far from their original calling. In Convent Chronicles, Anne Winston-Allen offers a rare inside look at the Observant reform movement from the women's point of view.
Although we know a great deal about the men who inhabited Observant religious houses, we know very little about their female counterparts--even though women outnumbered men in many places. Often what we do know about women comes to us through the filter of men's accounts. Recovering long-overlooked writings by women in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Winston-Allen surveys the extraordinary literary and scribal activities in German- and Dutch-speaking religious communities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. While previous studies have relied on records left by male activists, these women's narratives offer an alternative perspective that challenges traditional views of women's role and agency. Women were, in fact, active participants in the religious conversations that dominated the day.
With its rich depiction of women as transmitters of culture, Convent Chronicles will be invaluable to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of women's monasticism and religious writing.
"Anne Winston-Allen breaks new ground in Convent Chronicles, studying texts that are all but unknown and challenging the notion that there were no, or too few, texts written by women in the Middle Ages. By exploring broad-ranging issues, she puts to rest the 'woman as victim' question. She shows that, quite to the contrary, women fought for what they believed in and actively resisted when their positions were challenged. Likewise, women were producers of important works that give us entirely new insights into female religiosity and its distinctiveness in the late Middle Ages."
"This highly readable study deftly handles these difficult issues and suggests numerous avenues for further research. What is most interesting, however, is how clearly the women's voices surveyed in this work echo those of contemporaneous women writers across a wide geographic area (in particular those on the Italian peninsula)."
"The perspective of this work is invaluable as an aid to exploring the history and writing of women during this time period."
"This is a very exciting study, which draws on a large body of rarely explored primary sources written by nuns, and reconstructs their lives, and their role in monastic reform."
"Anne Winston-Allen sheds a bright light on such an era [of reform] in Convent Chronicles: Women Writing About Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. She takes the reader beyond the few well-known writers of a mostly earlier time, such as Hildegard of Bingen, to explore the writings of many women whose lives were influential in ways large and small."
"Convent Chronicles focuses on the literary and textual production of fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and early sixteenth-century women's religious communities in Germany and the Low Countries. Winston-Allen does an excellent job bringing together the published material from these centuries and is thoroughly conversant with the growing secondary literature on women religious in the later Middle Ages, much of it in German and Dutch. Her study promises to be a significant one, providing a link between the recent work of Walter Simons, Gertrud Jaron Lewis, and others on Beguines in the Low Countries and the fourteenth-century German convent chronicles and Merry Weisner's work on convents during the Reformation and Counter Reformation. I can think of no other study in English that covers this material so amply or so well. It will be of use to scholars in the field, as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in exploring the history of women's monasticism and religious writing. I can easily imagine this becoming an important book for classroom use since there is littleif anything else available that deals with this particular moment in Christian women's monastic and religious history."
"In this interesting, timely study, Winston-Allen (Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale) sets out to demonstrate the significance of convent women's literary activities to the religious reforms under way in the period leading up to the Reformation. Focusing primarily on the 15th century and convents in German-speaking areas, the author examines such primary documents as sermon collections and summaries, personal letters, convent inventories, financial documents, and guidebooks, all of which were brought together within a loose chronicle format in convent anthologies, the 'sister books.' These texts, the author argues, indicate that women were major participants in the religious discourse of the later medieval period. She devotes six chapters to examining primary documents, paying particular attention to the Observant reforms that raise questions for scholars about the autonomy of women and the role of the convent in the social, financial, and spiritual lives of those entering and supporting them. Complementing two recent studies, Charlotte Woodford's Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany (2002) and Rebecca Garber's Feminine Figurae (2003), this thoughtful, informed treatment of an oft-neglected area has much to offer those interested in late medieval and early modern literature and culture."
"This book is a treasure trove of information that has never before been gathered together in such a comprehensive fashion or with the particular focus on female agency and literary production. . . . With its extensive notes and bibliography, it is a fantastic resource and a must read for anyone working on or teaching the history or literature of this period."
"In Convent Chronicles, Winston-Allen has written a masterfully engaging and important analysis. This book should be required reading for any scholars interested in female monasticism and women's literary production."


WASHINGTON - Authorities in the United States are in the "advanced" stages of a criminal probe that could result in an indictment of Chinese technology giant Huawei, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said Wednesday that the Justice Department is looking into allegations of theft involving trade secrets from Huawei's U.S. business partners, including a T-Mobile robotic device used to test smartphones.
The move would further escalate tensions between the U.S. and China after the arrest last year in Canada of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company's founder and remains under house arrest, awaiting proceedings.
The Meng case has inflamed U.S.-China and Canada-China relations.
Two Canadians have been detained in China since Meng's arrest and a third has been sentenced to death on drug-trafficking charges — moves observers see as attempts by Beijing to pressure Ottawa on the case.
Huawei, the second-largest global smartphone maker and the biggest producer of telecommunications equipment, has for years been under scrutiny in the U.S. over purported links to the Chinese government. Speaking in a rare media interview Tuesday, its reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, forcefully denied accusations that his firm engaged in espionage on behalf of the Chinese government.
The tensions come amid efforts by President Donald Trump to get more manufacturing on U.S. soil and to slap hefty tariffs on Chinese goods for what he claims are unfair trade practices by Beijing.
In a related move, lawmakers introduced bills to ban the export of American parts and components to Chinese telecom companies that are in violation of U.S. export control or sanctions laws — with Huawei and fellow Chinese firm ZTE the likely targets.
"Huawei is effectively an intelligence-gathering arm of the Chinese Communist Party whose founder and CEO was an engineer for the People's Liberation Army," said Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, one of the bill's sponsors.
The bills specifically cite ZTE and Huawei, both of which are viewed with suspicion in the U.S. because of fears their switches and other gear could be used to spy on Americans. Both have also been accused of failing to respect U.S. sanctions on Iran.
In November, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled an initiative to investigate China's trade practices with a goal of bringing cases to court over alleged theft of trade secrets.
At that time, Washington had announced an indictment against Chinese chipmaker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd. for stealing trade secrets from U.S. semiconductor company Micron Technology relating to research and development of memory storage devices.
Last year, Trump reached a deal with ZTE that eases tough financial penalties on the firm imposed for helping Iran and North Korea evade American sanctions. Trump said his decision in May to spare ZTE came following an appeal by Chinese President Xi Jinping to help save Chinese jobs.
In Germany, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported that the government is actively considering stricter security requirements and other ways to exclude Huawei from building fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks.
Handelsblatt, citing government sources, said government officials were discussing setting security standards that Huawei could not achieve, effectively blocking its participation. Changes to the German telecommunications law were also under consideration as a last resort, the paper said.
The deliberations would mark a shift from the German government's position in October, when it told lawmakers it saw no legal basis to exclude any vendors from an upcoming 5G auction despite warnings from Washington.
The government told lawmakers in a more recent response that the security of 5G networks was "extremely relevant," and would guide its upcoming decisions, Handelsblatt reported.
U.S. officials have briefed allies that Huawei is ultimately at the beck and call of the Chinese state and warned that its network equipment may contain "back doors" that could open them up to cyberespionage.
Germany's Deutsche Telekom announced in December that it would review its vendor strategy, and France's Orange said it would not hire the Chinese firm to build its next-generation network in France.
The shift by the national market leaders, both partly state-owned, followed Huawei's exclusion on national security grounds by some U.S. allies, led by Australia, from building their 5G networks.


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Mega-stars including Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Kristen Stewart, Dwayne Johnson, LeBron James and the favorite Johnny Depp reigned as this year's favorites, winning top honors at last night's Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards. Hosted by the biggest kid in Hollywood, Josh Duhamel, the awards were broadcast from the Galen Center at USC in Los Angeles where kids honored their favorites from the worlds of film, music, sports and television. This year, a record-breaking 387 million votes were cast around the world in 22 categories.
"Nothing was off-limits for first-time Kids' Choice Awards host Josh Duhamel, from ziplining across the arena to donning a milkshake costume and SpongeBob's square pants. This year's host took funny to an entirely new level," said Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon.
In the spirit of the star-studded slimefest, Duhamel kicked off the celebration by singing a special Kids' Choice Awards version of Pitbull's smash hit "Don't Stop the Party," as he made his way from the dressing room to the main stage. Experiencing a series of random celebrity encounters along the way, Duhamel thumb wrestled with Mike "The Miz" Mizanin, was tackled by Jerry Trainor dressed as a Yeti, wore the same dress as Fergie, scatted with Steven Tyler and played an elaborate game of Rock Paper Scissors with Megan Fox, only to be transformed into Pitbull himself at the end.
WINNERS:
Favorite Reality Show
Favorite Cartoon
Favorite TV Actor
Ross Lynch (Austin & Ally)
Favorite TV Actress
Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place)
Favorite Movie Actor
Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows)
Favorite Movie Actress
Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2)
Favorite Animated Movie
Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
Adam Sandler (Hotel Transylvania)
Favorite Male Buttkicker
Dwayne Johnson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island)
Favorite Female Buttkicker
Kristen Stewart (Snow White and the Huntsman)
Favorite Music Group
Favorite Male Singer
Favorite Female Singer
Favorite Song
"What Makes You Beautiful" (One Direction)
Favorite Male Athlete
Favorite Female Athlete
Favorite Villain
Simon Cowell (The X Factor)
Favorite Book
The Hunger Games series
Favorite Videogame
Just Dance 4
Favorite App
Temple Run


The current episode of let's talk about science is about Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease, often called the disease with a thousand faces, because of its various symptoms. Both, a young girl as a victim and various experts talk about experiences, promising research results and a possible ray of hope at the horizon of that incurable disease.
Multiple Sclerosis, often called the disease with a thousand faces is one of the worst autoimmune diseases. When a person suffers from Multiple Sclerosis or Autoimmune diseases in general, the whole immune-system turns crazy. Mistakenly it recognizes natural cells produced in the own body as dangerous invaders. In the case of MS certain parts of the brain and the spinal cord get inflamed, what involves various symptoms. Conny, a 20 years young student from Salzburg suffers from that disease that comes and goes in irregular intervals. In the Radio Show 'Let's talk about science' Conny, her mother Astrid and various experts talk about the disease. This episode of LETS issues personal experiences from the victim as well as forward looking research results from award winning scientists in a language that every one can understand.
Notice: This program was produced with financial support of the European Union (6. Frameprogram, Science and Society). The European Union is not responsible for the contents of this program.


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The Dosadi Experiment
Thread starter OutofThisWorld
OutofThisWorld
I'm getting the Frank Herbert book "The Dosadi Experiment". Have any of you guys read this before? Do any of you guys like this better than Dune?
What are your opinions on The Dosadi Experiment?
Mad crazy poet
Yes, I've read that one quite a few years back, have to say very intriguing well written novel. Unfortunately, it's the only Herbert work I've read outside Dune Saga. So I can't say how it compares to his other non-dune books but wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be his best work excepting Dune, of course.
Cheers, DeepThought
chrispenycate
resident pedantissimo
Jory X McKie(?; it's been a long time) and the bureau of sabotage? I would read "Whipping Star" first, if you cn get hold of it.
But there are quite a lot of good Herbert stories outside the "Dune" saga; personally I'm very fond of "Hellstrom's Hive", while I would avoid "The Godmakers", but that's personal, as usual.
I quite enjoyed The Godmakers. Admittedly, it reads like what it is: which is three stories welded together. The Heaven Makers I'd avoid. The Santaroga Barrier I'd certainly try.
I used to like The Dosadi Experiment better than Dune, but I reread Whipping Star (the first of the two BuSab novels) and wasn't so impressed. The universe of the Dune books tends to over-shadow everything Herbert wrote, even if some individual books are better than any in the Dune series. Whether The Dosadi Experiment is still one of those... well, I'll have to reread it to find out...
Perpetual Man
Tim James
Many years ago I went through a phase of trying to get and read all the Frank Herbert books, and after trundling off to London came back with them all. Actually I got onto the bus with them all, but Whipping Star was missing when I got home - I have my suspicions about what happened to it...
However as I made my youthful way through the pile, The Dosadi Experiment was the one book I just could not read. I hated it. And I tried on two other occasions to read it and failed. But That's just me.
I always liked The White Plague and loved the three books he wrote with Bill Ransom - The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect and the Ascension Factor - all of which were sequels to the earlier novel Destination Void.
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Way on Down South, London Town
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Clansman
Lochaber Axeman, QC
The only non-Dune of Frank Herbert that I read was The White Plague. Talk about a scary novel, which was no doubt partially inspired by the AIDS epidemic (as it then was. Now it is a pandemic). Really good stuff though, with a socially disturbing ending. I believe he got labelled a women-hater for that book, quite improperly (the disease kills only women).
Definitely worth a read in this era of genetic manipulation. Excellent speculative fiction.
I read it quite awhile back, and I didn't care for it much. That's probably because I was looking for something more like Dune, which it isn't. My opinion may have been different if I hadn't been looking for another Dune like book.
dommer2029
I just finished re-reading The Dosadi Experiment, and there are several places where Herbert gives us dialogue, tells us that there is a lot being communicated but not said ... and then shows us the result without explaining what was communicated. As a result, I have a couple of questions.
::Spoiler Alert::
When Aritch allows the Dosadi to leave the planet, it's after a tense conversation with McKie. But I don't understand why he makes that choice. If he thought that choice posed a real threat to the ConSentiency, what was the leverage McKie applied to force him to make the choice McKie wanted?
When Keila Jedrick gets killed, it seems to be a deliberate choice on her part, but I don't understand it. Even if she survives on in McKie, they were more powerful with two bodies, and her Dosadi training was to seek power. If she had other options, why did she choose that one?
::End Spoiler::
Truth. Order. Moderation.
nearly the New Forest
My take on the Keila bit is that with her body dead, Broey will think himself safe -- it expressly says "He believed Jedrik dead and, while McKie was clever, McKie and BuSab were not a primary concern" -- so he will consolidate his power without worrying about any threat from her, the only person he thinks could possibly defeat him, and thereby he would "create a single target for BuSab". If she were still known to be alive, he would presumably act more cautiously and perhaps kill McKie at once (which, personally, I'd do anyway if I were him).
Can't help you with the other part, though. I found lots of the plot and the rationale behind actions incomprehensible -- not sure whether they are genuine plot holes or me missing things.


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Ownership and infringement of copyright in greeting card designs.
In the judgment of this Intellectual Property Enterprise Court case, the judge dealt with both issues of copyright ownership and authorship in the designs of greeting cards.
Business impact
This case serves as a reminder that the language of any assignment of intellectual property should not only be clear but also properly assigns the intellectual property in question.
It is important to note that a director of a company will not necessarily be employed under a contract of service. Also, a managing director, even if he occasionally acts as though he's an employee as part of his managerial role, will not necessarily be an employee for these purposes. As a result, although this case is an exception to the rule, the legal title to the copyright will not vest in the company (i.e. the employer). Instead the director, who is not an employee, will hold the copyright in any work carried out as a director on trust for the company.
Moreover, directors who own the majority, if not all, of a company's issued share capital should be aware that they will normally be held liable for any wrongdoing committed by the company.
Mei Fields Designs Ltd ("MFD") contended that it owned the copyright in the greeting card designs which were designed by Mrs Mei Fields. MFD alleged that Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd ("SCG") infringed this copyright and also claimed that the sole director and shareholder of SCG was jointly and severally liable for SCG's infringement.
The greeting cards which were, allegedly, copyright infringing were categorised as Group A and Group B. Group A consisted of the greeting cards which were designed by Mrs Mei Fields before being produced and sold by SCG after 21 March 2016 – the date on which MFD's licence with SCG allowing SCG to produce greeting cards designed by Mrs Mei Fields was terminated. Group B encompassed 12 allegedly copyright infringing greeting cards which had been designed by SCG's designers.
In respect of Group A, SCG claimed that Mrs Mei Fields never owned the copyright to her designs and that, therefore, the relevant copyright was not owned by MFD. MFD contended that Mrs Mei Fields assigned the copyright in her greeting card designs to MFD. However, SCG argued that Mrs Mei Fields was employed by Metropolis Worldwide Ltd ("MW") when she designed the greeting cards and, as a result, the copyright in the designs was owned solely by MW.
As an alternative argument, SCG claimed that the greeting card designs were created by Mrs Mei Fields with numerous MW employees and, therefore, the relevant copyright was owned jointly with MW. Indeed, SCG argued that MW had sold its intellectual property to SCG back in 2014 so any enforceable rights in such property were no longer held by MFD.
With regard to Group B, while SCG admitted that it had access to Mrs Mei Fields' designs, SCG argued that the greeting cards were not copyright infringing as they were not similar enough.
The judge ruled that ownership of the copyright vested in MFD and that SCG as well as SCG's sole shareholder and director were liable for copyright infringement. They were liable not only for selling copies of the greeting cards after the licence agreement terminated in March 2016 but also for designing greeting cards which took the expression of the skill, judgement and creativity that went into the design of the greeting cards designed by Mrs Mei Fields.
In the context of employment, this case raised some important points in respect of both ownership of copyright and authorship with the judge, ultimately, pointing to the defendants taking "the expression of Mrs Fields' skill, judgement and creativity" which is consistent with the test set out in Infopaq v Danske Dagblades Forening ECJ C-5/08which refers to labour or effort.
All of the circumstances need to be taken into account when it comes to deciding whether intellectual property was created during the course of employment. Indeed, this will involve looking through employment contracts as well as any other employer-employee agreements which are in place in order to ascertain what each party's role involves.
Employers should take note and always ensure that contracts are not only clear but that they encompass all of the creations that they are engaging their employee to create. Moreover, employers should remain alive to the fact that contracts should be constantly reviewed in order to adapt to any role change within the organisation by the employee.
Case Mei Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd [2018] EWHC 1332 (IPEC) (6 June 2018).


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Elijah the Tishbite
By Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
XIV.-RENEWED MISSION.
ONE of the most affecting narratives of the Old Testament, is that of the wonderful preservation of Moses in his infancy, Exod. ii. 1-10. Lo, at the brink of the Nile, among the reeds, there floats a small ark or basket, made of bulrushes, and carefully secured from leaking by cement of slime and pitch! For a treasure indeed lies concealed in it—a goodly infant acceptable to God, and dear and precious to its mother above every thing in this world. She has therefore thus secured it, that in its floating cradle it may, if possible, escape the destruction which Pharaoh's cruel sentence has denounced upon all the new-born males of Israel. A mother's love has prepared this infant's couch, with many silent tears and unspeakable anxiety; and while it lies there, in peril on the waters, the sisterly love of Miriam fixes her within sight of it, to watch its fate. providence of God brings to the banks of the river the daughter of Pharaoh, who, noticing the strange object, sends one of her maidens to fetch it. "And when she had opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the hebrews' children." Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: "Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?" And she said, "Go." And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages." Thus, by the Divine disposal, were the mother and the child again brought together.
Much spiritual comfort is derivable from this narrative. As many of us, my friends, as belong to Christ, are hidden as it were in an ark, which cruelty cannot penetrate, nor the floods of the ungodly submerge; this ark is His heart and His love. But many of us, like the infant Moses, who lay in the ark and wept, know not how safely we are thus preserved. Many of us float upon the waves of this troublesome world, in the region of the leviathan and the piercing serpent, amidst many anxieties
and terrific apprehensions. But be not afraid, my beloved brother; remember who watches over thee! If thou perish, the eternal love of God must perish too: for into that ark hast thou been received, and none shall pluck thee out of the Saviour's hand. Nor shalt thou float upon the waters for ever. Be of good cheer though thou see nothing but darkness and death before thee, the providence of God, the Keeper of Israel, is nigh thee to watch over thee, as over all the Israel of God. The tion of sacred history now to be considered will show how needless are all our distracting cares and anxieties.
1 KINGS XIX. 13-17.
"And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay."
THIS part of the narrative presents at first sight much that is strange, when viewed in connexion with the great event just before related. Who, for instance, would have expected that the prophet should renew his former complaint, or that the Lord should dismiss him with commissions and disclosures like these? Yet it only requires a closer consideration of the matter, to elucidate most satisfactorily what thus is doubtful and obscure.
Let us, I. Take another glance at the Divine manifestation on Horeb; then, II. Listen to the prophet's complaint; after which we shall, III. Pause and consider the instructions he receives; and lastly, Inquire into the nature of those commissions with which the Lord dismisses him.
I. The majestic scene of wonders on Horeb has already passed before us, and its meaning has been in some degree developed. It depicted the character of the Old Testament dispensation, and the office of the law as our schoolmaster, to bring us to Christ; while, in the "still small voice," we discern the gentle whisper of gospel grace. Thus we are enabled to see these grand occurrences as taking place not for Elijah's sake only, but for ours also; and we must not leave them without a glance at their rich import.
The Lord often comes to those, to whom he graciously reveals himself, as he came to Elijah on Horeb. Has your own experience furnished nothing similar? Do you know nothing of the storm which he sends before him, as it were, rending the mountains; of the earthquake, which subverts every thing within us and casts down imaginations; of a fire of terror and dread preceding the Lord of glory? Are your rocks still unbroken? Have your heights not yet been cast down, nor the deceitful ground of self-righteousness and self-sufficiency removed from under you? And yet you imagine you have heard the gentle voice of grace? You are not perhaps aware that the father of lies approaches men sometimes as an angel of light, and whispers smooth things in their ears. This destroyer is able to pervert the promises of God into the snares of death, and he considers those secured as his prisoners, who suffer themselves to be caught by his false assurances of Divine favour! Oh tremble at the artifices of the old serpent; and remember, that the comforter who seeks to quiet your conscience without mortifying your flesh, is not the Lord, but the wicked one! For Jesus does not draw near with his still small voice, without first overthrowing every high thing that exalts itself against him, and subverting the power of the old man within us. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life." Many shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Seeking is not sufficient here there must be striving. The new creation within us rises upon the ruins of the old and corrupt nature. Wherever grace builds, it first pulls down, and it is by bringing to nought things that are, that God makes out of us what we by
nature are not.
There was, some years ago, not far from this place, a very gifted preacher, who for several years preached with great earnestness and success the doctrine of the cross; and who, on that very account, was violently opposed. One of his opponents, a well-informed person, who had for a long time absented himself from the church, thought, one sunday morning, that he would go and hear the gloomy man once more, to see whether his preaching might be more tolerable to him than it had been before. He went; and that morning the preacher was speaking of "the narrow way," which he did not make either narrower or broader than the word of God describes it. "A new creature in Christ, or eternal condemnation," was the theme of his discourse; and he spoke with power, and not as a mere learned reasoner. During the sermon, the question forced itself upon this hearer's conscience, "How is it with myself? Does this
that you,
man declare the real truth? If he does, what must be the inevitable consequence?" This thought took such a hold upon him, that he could not get rid of it, amidst any of his engagements or amusements. But it became from day to day more and troublesome, more and more penetrating, and threatened to embitter every joy of his life; so that at last he thought he would go to the preacher himself, and ask him, upon his conscience, if he were really convinced of the truth of that which he had lately preached. He fulfilled his intention, and went to the preacher. "Sir," said he to him, with great earnestness, "I was one of your hearers, when you spoke, a short time since, of the only way of salvation. I confess to have disturbed my peace of you mind, and I cannot refrain from asking you solemnly before God, and upon your conscience, if you can prove what you asserted, or whether it was an unfounded alarm." The preacher, not a little surprised at this address, replied with convincing certainty, that what he had spoken was the word of God, and, consequently, infallible truth. "What then is to become of us!" replied the visitor. His last word, us, startled the preacher; but he rallied his thoughts, and began to explain the plan of salvation to the inquirer, and to exhort him to repent and believe. But the latter, as though he had not heard one syllable of what the preacher said, interrupted him in the midst of it, and repeated, with increasing emotion, the anxious exclamation, "If it be truth, sir, I beseech you, what are we to do?" Terrified, the preacher staggers back. "We!" thinks he, "what means this we ?" and, endeavouring to stifle his inward uneasiness and embarrassment, he resumed his exhortations and advice. Tears came into the eyes of the visitor; he smote his hands together like one in despair, and exclaimed in accents which might have moved a heart of stone, "Sir, if it be truth, we are lost and undone!" The preacher stood pale, trembling, and speechless. Then overwhelmed with astonishment, with downcast eyes, and convulsive sobbings, he exclaimed, " Friend, down on your knees, let us pray and cry for mercy!" They knelt down, and prayed; and shortly afterwards the visitor took his leave. The preacher shut himself up in his closet. Next sunday, word was sent that the minister was unwell, and could not preach. The same thing happened the sunday following. On the third sunday, he made his appearance before his congregation, worn with his inward conflict, and pale, but his eyes beaming with joy, and commenced his discourse with the surprising and affecting declaration, that he had now, for the first time, passed through the strait gate. You will ask what had
occurred to him in his chamber, during the interval which had elapsed. A storm passed over before him-but the Lord was not in the storm; an earthquake-but the Lord was not in the earthquake; a fire-but the Lord was not in the fire. Then came a still small voice; on which the man enveloped his face in his mantle, and from that time knew what was the gospel, and what was grace.
No sooner was Elijah favoured with the still small voice, than he wrapped his face in his mantle. This is an emblem of the christian's state of mind, who veils his face with humility and self-abasement before God. The law fills him with apprehension; the knowledge of sin casts him down to the ground; but the holy shame, the deep and silent contrition, which is so pleasing to God, begins to be felt when the Lord has come with his still small voice. "Behold," it is said in Ezekiel xvi. 62, 63, "I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God." Yes, when such a whisper of the most unmerited mercy breathes upon us, our high looks are lowered our lips are silent-we are overwhelmed with shame. But it is shame without distress; it is a trembling without slavish fear; it is a humiliation replete with love and blessedness. Oh how well-pleasing is it to the Lord! We have already seen the prophet in various positions. We have seen him clothed with strength and intrepidity, contending like a lion with God's enemies; we have seen him in the tempest, with undaunted front, like a rock in the sea, unmoved by the winds and waves—but surely he never appeared more noble and amiable than here on Horeb, when at the still small voice of Divine peace, he bowed his mighty spirit, and, trembling with confusion and delight, wrapped his face in his mantle.
II. We further read, that he then went forth and stood at the entering in of the cave. He does not yet appear to have fully understood the meaning of these wonderful manifestations. And, while he stood there, "behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?" This question, repeated the second time, seemed to direct him back to the scene of activity. We should have supposed that he would not have needed to be thus aroused again, but would, after such a gracious experience as had just before been given him, have hastened back, with winged feet, to the work of reformation. But instead of this, he breaks out again, to our astonishment, into his former


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Corralejo es una localidad turística española del municipio de La Oliva, al norte de la isla de Fuerteventura, en la comunidad autónoma de Canarias. Su población era de 17.808 habitantes en 2018, lo que la convierte en la segunda entidad de población de Fuerteventura, solo por detrás de la capital, Puerto del Rosario.

Es uno de los principales centros turísticos de la isla de Fuerteventura. Cuenta con extensas playas de arena fina y más de 2.600 hectáreas del parque natural de Corralejo, que cuenta con olivinos de gran interés gemológico. Asimismo, es el punto de partida para excursiones en barco hacia el Islote de Lobos.

Historia

Era de la Conquista
El área que actualmente contiene el centro turístico y las dunas circundantes fue donde Gadifer de la Salle y su expedición desembarcaron por primera vez en Fuerteventura en 1402. Habían llegado a la isla vecina de Lanzarote en el verano de 1402, donde concluyeron un acuerdo de paz con la población indígena y establecieron una fortaleza llamada Rubicón, desde la cual coordinarían su conquista de Fuerteventura. Jean de Béthencourt, quien dirigió la expedición a las islas, llevó a un grupo de sus hombres a través del agua desde su fortaleza en Lanzarote para explorar Fuerteventura.

En ese primer desembarco, Béthencourt permaneció a bordo del barco mientras La Salle y Remonnet de Levedan desembarcaron para explorar la isla y buscar lugareños. El árido norte de la isla no estaba densamente poblado y los conquistadores encontraron poco en el camino de la vida local.

Mientras La Salle estaba en Fuerteventura (él y su grupo se habían quedado durante ocho días en su primer aterrizaje), se produjo un motín en el barco donde permanecieron Béthencourt y sus hombres. El motín fue llevado a cabo por hombres que exigieron que Béthencourt regresara a Europa continental para obtener suministros. Mientras Béthencourt estaba fuera, La Salle hizo su segunda incursión en Fuerteventura, nuevamente utilizando el área alrededor de Corralejo.

Cruzaron desde la fortaleza de Lanzarote en octubre de 1402, dirigiéndose a la isla de Lobos para cazar focas que vivían allí.  Lobos está situado a unos pocos kilómetros al noreste de Corralejo, fue una base conveniente para cazar (con los sellos de la isla valiosos para la comida, mientras que sus pieles se usaron para hacer zapatos simples). Después de unos días en la isla, La Salle envió a Levedan de regreso a la fortaleza en Lanzarote para reponer sus suministros, con el grupo que necesitaba agua en particular. Lobos no tiene una fuente de agua dulce. Otro motín en Lanzarote significó que, a su llegada, el barco del que Levedan estaba al mando fuera tomado por los miembros amotinados del ejército de conquista de Béthencourt. Esto dejó a La Salle y a sus hombres atrapados en la isla de Lobos sin una fuente de comida o agua.

Aquellos que se mantuvieron leales a Béthencourt en Lanzarote usarían un bote endeble para rescatar a La Salle y sus hombres de Lobos.

Siglo XVII

Corralejo aparece ya mencionado a finales del siglo XVI en los mapas que elabora Leonardo Torriani, un ingeniero italiano enviado por el rey Felipe II de España a revisar las fortificaciones de las Islas Canarias. El historiador y sacerdote José de Viera y Clavijo nombra a la localidad en su libro Noticias de la historia general de las Islas de Canarias, en el año 1772:

Corralejo era el puerto del siglo XVII de contrabandistas y piratas era donde los alimentos importados (cabras, cereales, quesos...) sin tener que pagar impuestos. No se llegaría a fundar un pueblo fijo de pescadores hasta el siglo XIX.

Siglo XIX. Ligero crecimiento

Durante los siglos XVIII y principios del XIX, gracias a que La Oliva se convierte en capital de la isla, se refuerza la producción de trigo, de cebada y centeno para la exportación. Corralejo permanecería como una pequeña cala de pesca hasta mediados del siglo XX, dependiendo hasta entonces totalmente de La Oliva y de importaciones desde el exterior.

Siglo XX. Inicios del turismo

Corralejo ha existido durante la mayor parte de su historia como un pueblo de pescadores humilde y sin importancia, donde un puñado de pescadores pobres trabajó largas horas para mantener a sus familias. A principios de la década de 1970, con sus extraordinarias playas y extensas dunas, el turismo que había llegado al sur de la isla en la década de 1960 comenzó a aventurarse hacia el norte. Corralejo tuvo comienzos muy humildes como centro turístico. John Mercer, visitó el entonces pueblo a principios de la década de 1970 como investigación para un libro en la isla, dejó un registro de los humildes primeros pasos que Corralejo dio en la industria turística, y con ellos, su crecimiento y expansión al mando de compañías como Plalafusa:

Mercer dijo proféticamente que Corralejo "durante mucho tiempo sería simplemente un sitio de construcción en expansión, dominado por mezcladores de cemento, camiones, bolsas de cemento descartadas flotantes, escombros que caen y mirando silbidos". El turismo continuó desarrollándose en la ciudad durante las décadas de 1970, 1980 y 1990, alcanzando un pico en la década de 2000. Surgieron hoteles, apartamentos y villas. Muchos turistas británicos e irlandeses se enamoraron del complejo turístico y se sintieron felices de mudarse allí permanentemente. En las décadas posteriores al relato de Mercer sobre el desarrollo turístico de Corralejo, ese mismo crecimiento de la industria turística vio crecer significativamente la población de Corralejo y la región de La Oliva. En el censo de 1975, la población de La Oliva era de 2,900, con su población ahora siendo de poco más de 25,000.

A lo largo de la década de 2010, la ciudad ha crecido significativamente, con nuevos negocios que abren y cierran constantemente. La ciudad también está siendo peatonalizada progresivamente, comenzando con la calle principal  alrededor de 2017 . El vandalismo también ha aumentado, destacándose el incendio provocado por vándalos de la réplica abandonada del Galeón Santa Ana en el antiguo parque temático "Europa Baku" en mayo de 2019. A pesar de esto, el turismo sigue fuerte, con miles de personas visitando cada año.

Desde el 4 de noviembre de 2021, Corralejo cuenta con un casino, lo que ha vuelto a atraer la mirada de muchos en el ámbito turístico.

Situación
Corralejo está situado en el norte de la isla de Fuerteventura, desde cuyas costas se contemplan el Islote de Lobos y la costa sur de Lanzarote.

Medio Ambiente

Las Dunas de Corralejo constituyen un lugar importante para la cría de especies esteparias y la reproducción del Calonectris diomedea y la Charadrius alexandrinus, declarado Important Bird Area por BirdLife International.

Economía
Junto con la actividad turística e inmobiliaria, la pesca es la actividad más característica de Corralejo, siendo históricamente un pueblo marinero. Cuenta con una cofradía y una lonja de pescadores. Asimismo, el de Corralejo es el puerto de gestión autonómica con mayor tráfico de pasajeros de Canarias, que permite los intercambios entre Fuerteventura y Lanzarote.

Deportes
En las últimas décadas se ha convertido en un atractivo punto para la práctica de deportes acuáticos como surf, kitesurf, windsurf y stand up paddle, acogiendo el Canarias Surf Film Festival, un evento cultural y deportivo vinculado a este deporte.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

La Oliva
Localidades de Fuerteventura
Puertos de Fuerteventura