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View from the Couch: Cinema Paradiso, Sudden Fear, Luis Buñuel box set, etc.
View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what's new on Blu-ray and DVD. Ratings are on a four-star scale.
Phillipe Noiret and Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (Photo: Arrow)
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Columbus Short, Justin Long, Adam Herschman and Jonah Hill in Accepted (Photo: Mill Creek)
ACCEPTED (2006). Movies focusing on "the slobs versus the snobs" have generally been on a downhill trajectory since the one-two punch of 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House and 1980's Caddyshack, but here's one that offers a smattering of decent chuckles amidst all the predictable piling on of pilfered plotlines. Plus, fans of playing "Spot the Rising Star" will enjoy catching Jonah Hill and Blake Lively each tackling one of the earliest roles in their respective careers. After getting rejected by every college to which he applied, Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) has the bright idea to create a fake university in order to fool his parents. With his best friend Sherman (Hill) designing the website, fellow underachievers Glen (Adam Herschman), Darryl (Columbus Short) and Rory (Maria Thayer) helping him convert an abandoned mental hospital into the front for the school, and a nutty ex-professor (Lewis Black) agreeing to serve as the face of the nonexistent administration, Bartleby's ruse gets off to a promising start as he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology (abbreviate it to witness major lameness on the part of the scripters). But once the obnoxious frat boy (Travis Van Winkle) who's dating Bartleby's dream girl (Lively) starts to get suspicious, the misfits have their hands full keeping the illusion alive. With a PG-13 rating, Accepted isn't as raunchy as others of its kind; it's also not consistently funny, with Herschman playing an especially insufferable character. Other cast members fare better and actually manage to elevate the proceedings, with Hill garnering most of the laughs as a droll pessimist.
Blu-ray extras include audio commentary by Long, Hill, Black, Herschman, and director Steve Pink; a making-of featurette; deleted scenes; and a gag reel.
Movie: ★★½
Buster Keaton in Go West (Photo: Cohen)
THE BUSTER KEATON COLLECTION: VOLUME 4 (1925-1927). After releasing three volumes of Keaton classics over a four-month span during the summer of 2019 (those reviews can be found here, here, and here), the Cohen Film Collection label finally returns with another twofer featuring the silent-cinema star.
Arguments continue to rage among film fans and scholars as to who was the greater comedian of his time: Keaton or Charlie Chaplin (alas, Harold Lloyd rarely enters the conversation, although he absolutely deserves to be included). One of the reasons I've always preferred Chaplin is because while both men had no problem bringing the funny, Chaplin was far more adept at infusing genuine pathos into his works — for instance, the ending of City Lights always leaves me a blubbering mess no matter how many times I've seen it. With Go West, Keaton attempts to get sweet and sentimental, with decidedly mixed results. He plays Friendless, an Easterner who ends up working on a ranch; there, he becomes the protector of a pitiable cow named Brown Eyes. It's a cute premise, but it's far from Keaton's forte, and it results in one of the lesser pictures from the star's most robust period of production. Still, while the climactic chase scene (thousands of cows storming through city streets) isn't as strong as similar scenarios from other comedies (including Keaton's own Seven Chances), there are nevertheless several strong gags scattered throughout the film.
Buster Keaton in College (Photo: Cohen)
College is no match for Harold Lloyd's similarly themed 1925 masterpiece The Freshman, but it contains no small measure of uproarious sequences. Keaton plays a brainy student who realizes the only way he'll catch the eye of a popular girl (Anne Cornwall) is by becoming a star athlete. He tries his hand at various competitions (baseball, pole vaulting, etc.) but proves to be hopelessly inept at all of them. The film's pace flags toward the end with a protracted scenario involving the school's rowing team, but the track and field segments are first-class, and there's a priceless bit involving a trampoline and an open window.
Blu-ray extras consist of the 1923 Hal Roach short Go West (with an all-monkey cast); an audio recording of Keaton discussing his story idea for the hit TV series Wagon Train; and restoration trailers.
Go West: ★★½
College: ★★★
Cinema Paradiso (Photo: Arrow)
CINEMA PARADISO (1988). An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, this Italian import is a movie of extraordinary passion, capturing the synergy which exists between the starry-eyed moviegoer and the medium he or she comes to worship. Like Federico Fellini's Amarcord (reviewed here), writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's picture looks at the events that help shape a boy as he comes of age in his small hometown. Salvatore Cascio plays little Toto, whose best friend is Alfredo (Phillipe Noiret), the projectionist at the town's only movie house. In most regards, Alfredo's life is over: Poor and uneducated, he clings to his job as the only pleasure in what one feels was largely an unfulfilling existence. Toto, however, is young and full of promise, but he'll eventually need to take that step to break away. Alfredo pushes Toto to do just that, and it's the bond between this pair — as well as their love for the movies that grace the theater — that provides the picture with its emotional wallop. In 2002, the 124-minute original version was re-released in a 174-minute Director's Cut, and both edits are included on Arrow's exemplary Blu-ray release. As was the case with Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Now Redux, less is more: The additional material changes the entire feel of the movie, making it less a heartfelt ode to cinema and more a familiar meditation on the vagaries of love (the extra footage largely centers on Toto as an adult, pining away for his childhood sweetheart). In its longer version, Cinema Paradiso is still an excellent film, just not a transcendent one.
Blu-ray extras include audio commentary by Tornatore and film scholar Millicent Marcus; a making-of piece; and trailers.
Theatrical Version: ★★★★
Director's Cut: ★★★½
Buddy Baer in Giant from the Unknown (Photo: The Film Detective)
GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN (1958). The big news regarding this low-budget effort is the participation of Jack Pierce. Arguably the greatest makeup artist Hollywood ever produced (I say arguably because cases can be made for Rick Baker and Lon Chaney), Pierce worked at Universal for decades, where he created the iconic monsters seen in such classics as 1931's Frankenstein, 1932's The Mummy, and 1941's The Wolf Man. Pierce was eventually let go by the studio, and he spent the remainder of his years plying his trade on indie cheapies and television series, winding down his career as the staff makeup artist for TV's Mister Ed. Giant from the Unknown finds him designing the look of the titular behemoth, a hulking Spanish conquistador who emerges from a 500-year stint in suspended animation and begins terrorizing a rural California town. Boxer Buddy Baer plays the awakened brute, veteran Western star Bob Steele co-stars as the doubting sheriff, and Gary Crutcher appears as a nerdy kid named Charlie Brown. Amusingly, one might wonder whether Arch Hall Sr., creator of 1962's all-time turkey Eegah!, ripped off this movie, since each involves a hero, a damsel in distress, and the damsel's father discovering a fearsome giant from Earth's distant past. Unlike Eegah! (reviewed here), this one is average rather than incompetent, with decent performances but a pedestrian storyline.
Blu-ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historian Tom Weaver; audio commentary by Crutcher; a look at Steele's career; an interview with Crutcher; and the theatrical trailer. It also comes with a booklet. For the hardcore fan, The Film Detective is also offering a limited edition set; this includes a calendar, bookmark, magnet, card deck, lapel pin, bonus Blu-ray, and a 1-year subscription to TheFilmDetective.tv.
Movie: ★★
Gloria Grahame and Jack Palance in Sudden Fear (Photo: Cohen)
SUDDEN FEAR (1952). Joan Crawford nabs one of her best roles in this sharp thriller with film noir undercurrents. Crawford stars as Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who uses her authority to get actor Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) fired from her play during rehearsals because she doesn't think he possesses the right qualities for a romantic lead. After some time has passed, Myra and Lester bump into each other; all seems to be forgiven, and they fall in love and get married. What Myra doesn't know is that Lester, with the help of his slinky girlfriend Irene (Gloria Grahame), is planning to murder her for her money. Director of photography Charles B. Lang Jr. was already an expert at maximizing tension through his use of light and shadows (The Uninvited, Ace in the Hole), and he delivers similarly inspired results here. As for the performances, Crawford is excellent as the frightened woman who must keep her wits about her as she devises a scheme to save her own life, with Palance suitably menacing in one of his signature heel roles. Grahame is typically terrific, although she won the year's Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her turn in The Bad and the Beautiful (reviewed here). For its part, Sudden Fear earned Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Crawford), Best Supporting Actor (Palance), Best Black-and-White Cinematography, and Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
DVD extras consist of audio commentary by film historian and author Jeremy Arnold (the TCM tie-in books The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter, Volumes 1 and 2), and the re-release trailer.
Movie: ★★★
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Photo: Criterion)
THREE FILMS BY LUIS BUÑUEL (1972-1977). One of the true giants of cinema, writer-director Luis Buñuel began making classics as far back as 1929, when his shocking short film Un Chien Andalou (the one with the razor blade and the eyeball) was released. Yet it was perhaps during his final stretch, when most of his films were steeped in his celebrated surrealism, that he most consistently captured the hosannas of critics and audiences alike. His 1962 oddity The Exterminating Angel is my favorite of these efforts, with Criterion having already released it on Blu-ray in 2016. Now arriving on the scene is this Buñuel box set offering the final three films he made before his retirement. All three of these French productions are co-scripted by Jean-Claude Carrière, and all three fearlessly tear into class hypocrisy.
An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film (with an additional nomination for Best Original Screenplay), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) follows six people (including one played by frequent Buñuel star Fernando Rey) as their repeated attempts to enjoy a meal together are always interrupted, whether it's because there's a corpse in the backroom of a restaurant or because a popular eatery has run out of tea and coffee (but not water, thankfully).
The Phantom of Liberty (Photo: Criterion)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) is a dreamlike endeavor in which the disparate sequences are generally connected by a different character moving from one vignette to the next. A perceived pedophile gives two little girls at a park a stack of postcards, and the parents are shocked by the images of opulent monuments and buildings. A married couple are frantic after the disappearance of their daughter, even though she's actually standing next to them the entire time. And, in the most famous interlude, various guests sit on toilets around the dinner table but must slink away to eat in private.
Carole Bouquet and Fernando Rey in That Obscure Object of Desire (Photo: Criterion)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, is based on the same novel that inspired the 1935 Marlene Dietrich vehicle The Devil Is a Woman (reviewed here). An older man (Rey) finds himself driven crazy by the young woman who has entered his life. If this sounds rather conventional for Buñuel, be aware that the role of the temptress is played by both Carole Bouquet (later a Bond woman in 1981's For Your Eyes Only) and Ángela Molina — a brilliant casting decision on Buñuel's part since one actress is elegant and cool and the other is earthy and hot.
Blu-ray extras include the 2000 documentary Speaking of Buñuel; archival interviews with Carrière, Rey, and others; a making-of program on The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; an analysis of The Phantom of Liberty; and excerpts from 1929's silent French film The Woman and the Puppet, based on the same source material as That Obscure Object of Desire (and The Devil Is a Woman).
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: ★★★½
The Phantom of Liberty: ★★★½
That Obscure Object of Desire: ★★★
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Government of Canada and Brain Canada announce a $10-million grant to establish a platform that will help researchers share data more widely and efficiently
From Health Canada
February 19, 2018 – Montreal, Quebec – Health Canada
Neurological conditions affect an estimated 3.6 million Canadians. New and ground-breaking research is the key to improving the lives of those living with brain-related diseases and disorders.
Today, on behalf of Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, David Lametti, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, joined Brain Canada to announce a $10.17-million grant to establish the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP). The CONP is a partnership of 15 universities that will facilitate the dissemination of data that support research to advance treatments for Canadians suffering from neurological diseases. The announcement was made during the CONP's inaugural meeting at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University.
Neuroscience research can produce massive amounts of data in multiple forms such as genetic, behavioural data and brain imaging. This information can support a wide range of research, such as work to identify early signs of Alzheimer's disease or research to advance drugs that could stop neurodegeneration.
Through the CONP, leading neuroscientists from across Canada will be able to pool data from diverse sources making this information easier to access and share. Access to the CONP and the data within it will help researchers find patterns that can potentially lead to breakthroughs to prevent, diagnose and treat neurological conditions. Ultimately, the CONP will help researchers collect, link and analyze data from across the country more easily, leading to better and faster outcomes for patients.
The $10.17 million in funding for this project was provided through the Canada Brain Research Fund, and includes $5.08 million from the Government of Canada.
"The Government of Canada is committed to supporting Canadians with neurological conditions. The platform being created with this funding will be a central repository for innovative brain research. With access to such data, researchers will be better equipped to pursue medical breakthroughs that will improve the lives of Canadians living with brain diseases and disorders."
The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor
"Brain Canada is excited to have been the catalyst for this national platform to '"hardwire"" Canadian neuroscience—to collect, link and analyze data from across the country, to get to improved patient outcomes more rapidly."
President and CEO of Brain Canada
"This project will enable researchers to effectively share, store and process data and maximize the potential of research that already exists—research that could lead to new ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating neurological conditions."
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
The CONP is made up of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Western University, Brock University, University of Toronto, York University, Queen's University, Concordia University, McGill University, Université de Montreal, Université de Sherbrooke, Université Laval, and Dalhousie University.
The Canada Brain Research Fund is a public-private matching fund of up to $240 million administered by the Brain Canada Foundation.
The Government of Canada has committed up to $120 million to the fund to help improve the health and quality of life of Canadians affected by brain diseases and disorders, such as depression, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, autism and Parkinson's disease
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A Tribe Called Red's musical activism
Dan McPeake
Although I am a big fan of A Tribe Called Red's music – which has been described as powwow meets hip-hop – I definitely had a very specific idea of what their show was going to be like. Given that ATCR is a first nations hip-hop/DJ trio from Ottawa, I figured that I would be one of the only white kids at the show. I couldn't have been more further from the truth and have never been prouder to be so wrong.
What I didn't know before stepping foot in the Commodore was that the night – which was dubbed by host OSTWELVE as "Salish Coast Live" – was one big giant protest against the pipeline – mainly Kinder Morgan – and one big middle finger to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Because of this, it was one of the most varied audiences I have come across recently: old people, young people, white people, native people, straight people, queer people, and more. It was also a night where art and politics converged, where music was used as a weapon, and as healing, and where pride was front of centre.
It was also a night where I had some of my best interactions with people. A conversation with a half-Cree girl got me thinking about culture, history and my own person ancestry. When she asked me where I was from, I replied Canadian. Thinking I was native, she asked me what tribe I was. I clarified that I was not a First Nation of any kind but was born in Canada. After telling me that to be 'Canadian' means to be native (a point I actually agree with to a certain extent) she repeated her initial question.
The actual music portion of the night was amazing. There were great openers – more on those in a later post – that were culturally diverse, yet also shared the same activism-through-music ideological spin that the night was about. The Commodore's dance floor was packed and the crowd was in a rave-like mentality. I think I saw one chick dance for about three hours straight. I even found myself moving side-to-side and was subsequently dragged into a quasi-conga line by a friend of mine. (I often try to remain as objective as possible during shows and thus try to remove myself from the action, but at a venue like the Commodore that is not always beneficial or possible).
Unsurprisingly, given that it was a hip-hop-esque show, the term warrior was thrown around. The slogan on my new bandana even says 'warrior up' – it was a bargain at $5. We have to warriors for the environment, warriors against capitalist corruption and stand with the stewards of our land – the Salish people of greater Vancouver and the Coast of British Columbia. It is time to take action.
While DJ and trip-hop music is not always my thing, I do enjoy A Tribe Called Red because of their original spin. It is traditional electronic music combined with rap and native culture (Such as tribal chants). Yet people across all races and cultures are embracing it in droves. They have twice been longlisted for the Polaris Prize and recently won a Juno, the first time a first nations group won a Juno in a non-native music category. They are ambassadors on multiple levels. Through their music, A Tribe Called Red takes on a journey, and on this Friday night it was for something that affects everyone.
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Very cool way to sing/pray the Psalms!
They also use salms and short sentences with a fantastic music.
Taize is a ecumenical community in France. They produce incredible music, helps prayer and helps to mantain God's presence all through the day.
Hi Kathy, thank you for sharing! I'll have to check out those songs!


All right. Who pissed off God?
Last week, we drove through the same violent thunderstorm in a windy and wet trip from Floyd County to Arlington. On Sunday, sun warmed the highway as we left Arlington for the return trip.
Until just north of Ironto on I-81 when the skies opened and dumped rain and hail all over the place. Traffic slowed from the usual 75 mph to less than 20 in just a few seconds. A tractor-trailer passed us, then fishtailed as the SUV in front of the truck panicked and hit the brakes. From the sound of the golf-ball sized pellets rattling against the Wrangler, I was sure a trip to the body shop would be the first order of business on Monday.
We cleared the storm at the top of Christiansburg mountain and got off I-81 at Virginia Route 8, stopping at the Shell Station in Riner for gas and a chance to assess the damage. Amazingly, the Wranger escaped the hail of ice pellets without a dent, ding or scratch.
Inside the station, a Virginia State Trooper told Amy that hail fell for 45 minutes in Carroll County, yet Willis was dry when we arrived at 9:30.
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Seat 1 announces raise and the sweet guy says "I call whatever". Seat 1 hadn't announced what he was going to raise chip wise. After about 50seconds deliberating what hole he'd dug himself into, seat 1 says "s*d it, I'm all in, no pressure". Sweet guy looks at me and then I have to break the awful news, that because he had verbally announced "I call" he has to call his raise.
Well, seats 3 and 4 fold faster than you have ever known! Because seats 1 and 2 were the two chip leaders. It turns out that seats 1 and 2 both have exactly 31k in chips, identically matched stacks, quite spooky. Seat 1 was on a semi steal and didn't want a caller with his A8 offsuit and seat 2 had 9 10 hearts.
The flop is 8 10 5, turn K, river ace.
Its one of those rulings that you really don't want to do. Firstly, because he is such a gentleman and secondly because his live experience is only a few months only and he wasn't aware that a verbal declaration is a binding one. That ruling cost him the tournament because he was chipped up.
I spoke to him, the week after the tournament, and he told me it was a very costly mistake that will never happen again.
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Taylor Speedway hosting first-ever Hit to Pass Races this weekend
by Energeticcity.ca Staff June 15, 2017
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Taylor Speedway will be hosting its first-ever Hit to Pass races this Father's Day weekend.
Sam Hunt, who is originally from Victoria, says that he was inspired to bring the race format to the B.C. Peace after driving in other Hit to Pass races in the province. The race format, which is said to have originated at Langford's Western Speedway near Victoria, is similar to a normal stock car race, except drivers must bump a vehicle in order to legally pass them.
Beaumont explained that the racetrack used to host a Demolition Derby every Father's Day weekend, but ended the event several years ago due to a lack of drivers. He says that the Hit to Pass format offers the best of both worlds, which should make for a more exciting event for spectators.
Hunt says that there are so far 12 confirmed drivers that will be competing in the races, though he explained that some drivers from other places such as Quesnel and Grande Prairie are waffling on coming, which would bring the total number to 16 if they turn up. The race format will see drivers compete in drag races that will culminate in a 4-car trophy race. After that, there will be up to eight heats of races, culminating in a main event races involving all of the registered cars. The points race will be tallied up at the end of the day on Sunday. Prizes of $2,000, $600, and $400 will be awarded to the Top 3 drivers at the end of the weekend.
Hunt explained that with the additional races, the action will start earlier than usual on Saturday. The pits will be open to spectators beginning at around 1:00 p.m., with races beginning at 2:00 p.m. Sunday's races will begin at the usual time: noon. Admission is $10, students and seniors pay $5, while kids 5 and under get in for free. The Speedway will also have a beer garden and concession open, along with free camping.


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National FFA officers: Ag connects us all
By Ann Hess, Former Staff Writer Published: October 13, 2016
Taylor McNeel and Sydney Snider believe in the future of agriculture … so much that they both took off a year from college to lead the world's largest agricultural youth organization.
Since 1928, millions of high school students have proudly put on the blue corduroy jacket and recited the words, "I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds …" but it takes a dedicated leader to step up to the position of National Officer for the National FFA Organization.
"I was encouraged because of my dad, and when I think about the students this year and what encourages them, I really think it is their curiosity of agriculture," McNeel said. "Once they get involved in agriculture, they see that it is something that connects us all."
"Serving as a state FFA officer developed my leadership abilities and involvement with agriculture far past my expectations," Snider said. "My time as a state officer also helped me realize that service is a value that is rooted deep in my heart. My desire to serve as a National FFA Officer stems from my passion for agriculture and a yearning to serve others."
McNeel has served as the 2015-2016 national FFA president; Snider as Eastern region vice president. They, along with the four other officers on the team: Nick Baker, secretary; Abbey Gretsch, Southern region vice president; Abrah Meyer, Central region vice president; and Sarah Draper, Western region vice president; committed the last year to serving the National FFA Organization.
Taylor McNeel, Courtesy of National FFA
Sydney Snider, Eastern region vice president
Each traveled more than 100,000 national and international miles to interact with business and industry leaders, thousands of FFA members and teachers, corporate sponsors, government and education officials, state FFA leaders, the general public, and more. The officers spent 300 days on the road, hitting every state convention (except Vermont due to a board meeting scheduled at the same time) and even Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Snider herself traveled to 30 states. Coming from a traditional beef operation in Moscow, Ohio, Snider valued seeing the different aspects from traditional agriculture. From learning about aqua and regional fruit production on the coast to unique water challenges in California and Nevada, Snider said she gained a "wealth of knowledge." Alaska was her favorite stop this year.
"The agriculture there was so much different and it was neat to learn how ag is not their number one industry," Snider said.
The officers also led personal growth and leadership training seminars for FFA members throughout the country and help set policies that will guide the future of FFA and promote agricultural literacy.
"One thing our team is really proud of is we get to select what we call a legacy platform and something that we really feel passionate about and want to help promote over a year. At the beginning of our year we chose the alumni as a group initiative with FFA," McNeel said. "It is estimated that there are about 8 million FFA alumni out there but how we can get those people engaged using their time, talent, treasures at the local level and really help our students? To have FFA to continue to grow and become relevant to students and continue to be an incredible organization, we really have to rely on those alumni to fill this out."
The National FFA Organization announced a record-high membership this year with 649,355 student members who belong to one of 7,859 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. However, it was the national FFA Alumni membership that exploded with 225,891 members, growing from 62,705 in 2015. This year, graduating high school seniors automatically received alumni membership, which the growth numbers reflect.
The officer team also helped to develop a grant to help boost alumni chapters and helped to spread the message that you don't have to be a past member to join the alumni program, but just have a deep appreciation for what FFA does for students and an eagerness to help out.
"FFA is really strong at high school and that's where our membership lies and it's been how we can connect with students on the alumni side after they leave that high school setting and getting them more involved as alumni to give back to the organization," McNeel said.
Snider echoed McNeel's words, saying the alumni program is a great opportunity to consider "when the time wearing the blue jacket is coming to a close."
The highlight of the year for the officer team is, of course, the National FFA Convention. Last year's convention in Louisville, Kentucky, had a record-breaking attendance of 65,000, and the officers hope to break that again next week when the 89th annual convention returns to Indianapolis.
"It is an incredible opportunity for students, one to not only celebrate the year, but also be involved in different service projects around the city and be involved in leadership workshops. Our career expo will have about 300 different agriculture businesses represented and about 100 colleges from around the country," McNeel said. "It's a really cool opportunity for students to have that, but also learn those leadership skills and take some things back to their local community."
After convention, McNeel will return to Southern Arkansas University to pursue an agricultural business major with a minor in Spanish. Snider will go back to The Ohio State University to study agricultural communication. Before passing on the gavel to the next team of officers, both McNeel and Snider along with the other officers will make retirement addresses at the national convention.
McNeel is looking forward to hearing what her teammates have learned this year, with the hope that it will help inspire other students' journeys in FFA.
"To that student who is maybe considering agriculture, but knows nothing about FFA, my advice is to try it and know that ag connects us all," McNeel said. "We can all find a home in ag and FFA, and there is something for everyone within the organization."
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A Rhoad(s) map
Music professor Mark Rhoads reflects on his time here at Bethel University as retirement nears.
By Nick LaFrombois
Mark Rhoads sat fence-side in his launch chair on a bright, sunny day as he waited for his daughter Allison to compete. The smell of horse sweat and manure fills the air. Dressed in boot-cut jeans, a white-frilled western shirt and an old beat-up cowboy hat, Allison sits on her chestnut colored horse, hooves stamping in place in anticipation. She takes off, and the race is over in five seconds. No matter how short the memory is, for music professor Dr. Mark Rhoads, the memory lasts a lifetime.
These are some of Rhoads' favorite memories with his daughter Allison. Hooking up the horse trailer to his 81', ¾ ton, forestry green Dodge pickup, driving Allison and her horse, Rags, to various horse tracks around the Twin Cities to compete, and eating at whatever fast food restaurant was nearest to the track.
Rhoads lives with his wife Maryline, his daughter Micaela and her 4 sons in Lino Lakes Minnesota, and regularly visits Allison, who works with the horses at Canterbury Park in Shakopee.
That love for his family bleeds into his care and compassion for his fellow faculty members and his students. That is the legacy he will leave at Bethel University.
Music professor Dr. Mark Rhoads meets with a student in the CC lounge. Rhoads finds time to meet with his students to check in with how they're doing. "He cares about his students as persons, not just students," Sophomore Joe Werden said. Photo by Nick Lafrombois
Mark Rhoads has been teaching at Bethel since 1988 as a music professor. He has taught general music education, choral music, led multiple choirs, and has become a hymnologist, teaching students the ins and outs of the history and writing of hymns. Rhoads has been teaching at Bethel for 30 years, this year being his 31st and final year, and out of everything in his 31 years here, he loves spending time interacting with, encouraging, and caring for students the most.
"I could very well end up missing interacting with young people on a regular basis," Rhoads said. "Because I think, perhaps, that this keeps me young."
He often stops in the halls to talk with his students, ask them the extra questions, invites them into his office, and gets coffee with them at Royal Grounds just to chat. He is known for being intentional with the students, being a counselor, an adviser and a friend.
"He takes interest in his students as persons, not just students," sophomore Joe Werden said. "When I went into his office and told him what I wanted to do [change major from music to missional ministries], he was the only one who conveyed interest in what I wanted, and what I was wanting to do."
Being a professor isn't just about teachings students, getting paid, and getting off work for Rhoads. He makes an effort to make a personal connection with students as well as help the students personally connect with what they're learning.
One of Mark Rhoads' deeper connections with a student is with Bethel University junior Keziah Wiita. Wiita has known Dr. Rhoads for all of her memorable life, and mentions her close relationship to him that they have maintained for 10 plus years, calling him "Uncle Mark".
"He really cares about people, especially his students," Wiita said. "Mark Rhoads is probably one of the big reasons I came to Bethel."
Rhoads has had his ups and downs while at Bethel. He has dealt with his duties and positions being cut, helped his family members through mental illness, dealt with insecurities of teaching, conducting and working alongside others, but has never stopped loving others, or trusting God. He mentions his faith and how dealing with various issues while at Bethel has strengthened his relationship with God.
"That's really the only way you get to know him and trust him," Rhoads said. "That is – through adversity."
In terms of his legacy at Bethel, his care, encouragement and love is how he wishes to be remembered by students and faculty.
"My goal is to encourage and inspire," Rhoads said. "That's always at the front of my mind: to inspire and encourage engagement, not just get students to do stuff for a grade, but to actually get them to think about stuff – that's how I would like to be remembered."
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Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose ORCID: 0000-0001-7935-7368, Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike, Clemmensen, Torkil and Sturm, Christian (2013) Seeing 'the obvious' as subject and object of cross-cultural HCI design. In: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, 02-06 Sept 2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
The aim of this panel is to encourage debate on the idea that the real challenge for cross-cultural design in HCI is part of a science aimed at making the 'obvious' visible. This idea will be presented to the audience from four different perspectives. The different groups involved in the design endeavor operate through their own common sense realms, which tend not to be shared across their boundaries. In cross-cultural design settings, key requirements for the things we design and key assumptions about how we design them tend to be hidden in realities for which we have limited access. This is not only a problem of physical access but also of symbolic access to local and professional cultures. By looking at their language, we can see how other stakeholder groups view their world. What we cannot see easily is their 'point of view', i.e. the frames full of values, tacit knowledge and expectations that shape language and action. The panelists will talk about the boundaries of concepts and tools in HCI and Cultural Theory used in cross-cultural design and their effectiveness in unpacking 'the obvious', i.e. enabling access to the different 'points of view' in the design process. It is envisaged that the outcome of the panel session will be an increased awareness of the panelists' proposals to address the problems faced in cross-cultural design. After more than a decade of research into culture and HCI we hope the discussion generated in the panel will reflect a high level of nuance and maturity with clear take-away for researchers and designers.


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by Jeff Solimando
The buzz continues to ring through his brain. It does not completely void out reality; somehow, strangely enough, it begins to accommodate it.
Marty sits alone on a filthy bus station bench, having to wait another hour for his transportation home. Mirroring his current mood, the sky is bleak and it is bitterly cold.
Impatient and bored, the only entertainment available is watching an equally filthy paper cup blowing aimlessly in an acidic combination of wind and exhaust.
"How appropriate," he thinks. "If there were one phrase that could actually describe my…" Suddenly it reappears. That feeling.
His sudden heightening sense of awareness begins to overpower his ability to concentrate. He shifts and fidgets, knowing this sensation all too well, and is painfully aware of the road it may be beginning to take. Uneasily, he reminds himself to follow the doctor's guidelines, or at least make a fruitless attempt to try to follow them before this menace once again claims ransom on his ability to focus.
"Here we go again. Another roller coaster ride," he thinks with mocking despair. His breathing grows labored at the realization this dreaded anxiety is not subsiding like they told him it would. The quickening of his heart, and the blood racing to and scorching his face, neck, and hands were nothing more than a screaming reminder the doctor could be, or worse yet – is – very wrong.
"Quick. Marty. STOP. Think. You can do this, you know you can." Marty begins to barter with his subconscious; all hope begins to drain from his stomach.
Abruptly, the feeling of ice water being thrown onto his face momentarily stuns him, causing him to drag a shaking finger across his surprisingly dry forehead. "OK. OK, just calm down," he whispers to himself, unaware he is rapidly running his left hand through his hair and sitting on his right.
This is the point where the numbness in his extremities usually sets in. As his heartbeat increases to a dangerously high rate (about 125 at the moment, Marty thinks), he desperately attempts to figure out a way to take his mind off his
current situation. He has to figure out a way to end this horrific "roller coaster ride," as he calls it.
"I can control this," he tries to reassure himself. "I can strike up a conversation with that pretty Indian lady sitting next to me. That can help."
Marty's mind sinks, however, fearing she won't understand his sudden urge to flee – to run and escape, should his heart rate continue to climb during their potentially pointless conversation.
Feeling increasingly trapped, sitting on the filthy bench, Marty attempts to ignore the sensation, and continues with his vain attempt to outfox his old nemesis: his Subconscious. He knows what is happening. He is intelligent and educated and it is painfully obvious to him how ridiculous this is. Why won't it stop? Why can't anyone help?
Marty shifts his gaze forward; the sudden blurring of faces and colors and the sound of voices beginning to drift away tell Marty that his subconscious is unfortunately going to win this one. This depressing resolve causes his stomach to drop and his body to start shaking.
Thinking about the strangers around him causes Marty's panic to increase. A sudden wave of nausea combined with the view of his current world (through what he now believes to be a paper towel tube) causes Marty to initiate an impromptu bargain with God. Quite appropriately, he believes, since this is the day Marty may meet him. Pure fear is beginning to set in.
"Please make this stop," he prays in a meek, almost silent voice. He is silent because his growing terror is beginning to rob him of that physical luxury. Twitching uneasily, and with an unhealthy overdose of adrenaline coursing through his veins, Marty suddenly and without reason, rises – pushing away the bench in his unexplainable haste. He has to. The Indian lady shifts and gives him a disapproving stare. She has no idea what's going on. To hell with her, he thinks.
Attempting to focus his spinning head, he peers through the glass door and sees a marble water fountain at the opposite end of the wide station foyer. On shaking legs, he heads towards it, unconsciously and obsessively tugging on his shirt and shaking out his sweaty, tingling hands. As Marty opens the door to the bus station, the blindingly bright fluorescent light hits his eyes and almost shocks him into a mini-seizure.
He tries not to focus on the pounding, racing muscle heaving in the middle of his chest. He glances down only to see his shirt rapidly thumping. Something tells Marty that his heart rate must be approaching 135, the fear of which causes the life-sustaining muscle to move closer towards a frighteningly self-destructive goal.
The striking and overwhelming awareness of this potentially fatal "Catch-22" (mental vs. physical) catapults Marty towards the zenith of his horrible experience. He now believes today is the day he is going to die. Marty manages to keep his trembling legs moving forward. Fast and forward. Visions of an ambulance, doctors, and stretchers race into his head. His mind spins out of control as he continues his lame attempt to weave through the crowd of shapeless, "normal" strangers. Calm, smiling, and oblivious people fill his immediate surroundings; they are completely unaware of his living nightmare. He suddenly feels a surge of jealous anger, but only for a brief moment.
Reaching the fountain, Marty's fear begins to overtake his sense of reality. "Help. I need… help," he thinks as he grasps the cold, wet marble; the image of an ambulance races through his mind.
Bending to sip the crystal arch of water, Marty subconsciously finds himself making plans to find a place to disappear. "Should I go lie on the bathroom floor?" he thinks. "Maybe that will help." But he knows there isn't any escape. It will only make things worse.
Marty grasps both ends of the water fountain for support, but his sweating palms abruptly give way, causing him to slide off with a bounce and a jerk. He regains his footing and spins wildly around, only able to concentrate on his pounding heart and twisted stomach. His breathing becomes irregular. Sweat forms on his forehead, and he knows he is going to pass out.
Out of the corner of his eye, and only for a moment, he catches the stare of a seven-year-old girl in a purple coat. Anxiously cramming his dripping hands into his coat pockets, Marty thinks, "Don't talk to me. Leave me alone!"
"Oh, OK, OK, please," he thinks again. "Just for a moment, let me be that little girl. Let me breathe again. Let me be anyone else for that matter – just someone who isn't going to die today."
Grasping the back of his neck and obsessively picking at the front of his beige sweater, he suddenly feels like crying. "If only I were home, this would end. I HAVE to get out of here. I can't wait for this DAMNED BUS. I can run. That's it. I can just run as fast as I can. I have to!"
Somewhere on his right leg he feels a sudden, twisting vibration. Taken by surprise, Marty spins once again comes face-to-face with the brown marble wall behind him. Leaning his hot forehead against the refreshingly cold yet dirty marble, Marty realizes his cell phone is ringing.
He maneuvers his badly shaking right hand into the sweat-soaked pocket of his black trench coat, retrieves the phone, and answers.
"Jesus, Marty. Why are you so out of breath?" comes the familiar voice of his annoying younger sister Kay.
"I, ugh," Marty swallows hard, trying to find his voice once again. "I'm catching the	bus," a scratchy voice – his voice – replies into the cell phone. "I'm taking the car, so don't even think about it," Kay tells him in her ever-so-demonstrative tone.
Pacing back and forth, still shaking, Marty is suddenly incensed. His concentration moves from his heartbeat to the annoyance known as his sister Kay.
"Don't think so," replies Marty. "I lent you that car for a week because you're such a loser, and I've been taking the bus since then in order to get to work. I'm stopping by Mom's tonight on my way home to pick it up. It better be there, Kay. Or else."
Kay, twelve years Marty's junior, teasingly shakes what sounds like a set of car keys into the mouthpiece of her phone. Says Kay, "Gee, ya think? At least I was nice enough to call you. I need it. I'm here, you're wherever. I'm taking it, and there's not a thing you can do about it. At least I'm a loser with a car tonight, Marty."
Enraged, Marty feels his heart racing still. Slightly dizzy, Marty thinks, "At least it's for a damned reason this time." He looks at his watch, and noticing the sweat on the hair of his forearm, realizes the bus is due to arrive in three minutes. Heading towards the gate, Marty fishes in his breast pocket for a green bus ticket, and simultaneously begins to plan his annoying sister Kay's sudden demise.
With thankful realization and a relish of sudden relief, he stops in his tracks.
"God, it's over," he thinks – or at least hopes. Checking his reflection in the glass of the bus station door, he believes he looks tired. A bit disheveled. But he's alive, and it's over – for now.
Still shaky, and feeling like the bus he's boarding has actually hit him, Marty realizes he's in for a long night ahead. Anxious sleep, crazy dreams, it's all happened before. But for now, for a while at least, the worst is over. He can breathe. He finds himself silently thanking Kay for her phone call.
Exhausted, Marty settles into his seat and closes his eyes, thinking, to himself, "What the hell – let my annoying sister Kay have the car tonight."
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Q: Trying to convert an Excel formula to work with Google Sheets I have a formula in Excel.
On a filtered table, It will check in column B for a keyword match, and then subtotal the values in the corresponding column C.
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(109,OFFSET(E16,ROW(E16:E100)-ROW(E16),,1)),--(B16:B100 = "Sell"))
The same formula isn't supported in Google Sheets and I haven't quite managed to figure out how to get it working. Any ideas please?
The error I am seeing is
SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1, column count: 1. Actual row count: 85, column count: 1.
Example:
There is a filter on the Items column. In this case "Box". I need the formula to Check if Type is "Sell". there can be multiple types. Need to subtotal the values in the price column for all rows as sell. Expected output in this case would be subtotal 11 for Sell and 3 for Buy.

A: Using SUBTOTAL
In Excel you can reference a range with OFFSET and pass it to the SUBTOTAL function but in Google Sheet this tecnique won't work in the same way.
In order to obtain a dynamic SUBTOTAL formula that updates with filters or hidden columns you will have to create an additional column: Subtotal_Helper. In this column you will use SUBTOTAL like this:
|     E     |          F          |
+ - Price - + - Subtotal-Helper - +
|     3     |  =SUBTOTAL(109, E2) |

Basically this column will contain the Price value if visible 0 otherwise.
Now you can combine this logic with any condition you need to build a dynamic SUBTOTAL cell. You can use the SUMIFS function to do so:
=SUMIFS(E2:E100,B2:B100,"Sell",F2:F100,">0")

Whenever you change the filter in your Sheet this cell will update its value without having to write the explicit condition in the SUMIFS formula.

Note: You can hide the Subtotal-Helper column so that your visual output won't be affected.
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SUBTOTAL
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A: Try below formula-
=SUM(FILTER($E$2:$E$100,($C$2:$C$100="Box")*($B$2:$B$100=F6)))

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We got back to my new home in Sheffield on Thursday night, chilled out on Friday and hit Chee Dale and the Cornice for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. As always, it's great just to be out on real rock! Yes, the routes are a little shorter than I'd like, and the variation in hold type is a bit restrictive (basically all routes consist of crimps :) but at least there's a crazy and brilliant amount of variation in the angles of the holds!
I jumped back on Cry of Despair, a 7c that I'd tried quickly a few months ago and didn't expect very much due to moving over onto routes that are much shorter than we've been doing (and hence I should be lacking in power for). Much to my surprise, I sent it first go. Definitely not due to maximum strength - I don't know what's happened this year, but my mind and skill-set on routes seems to have progressed to a whole new level.
Naomi tried one of the 7a's and was finding it a bit of a shock, very technical and tricky movement. Still though, a couple of goes over the three days meant that she romped up it. Again, it was a learning experience for her - when she first tried it, she couldn't link a lot of the moves, now she can do laps on it. Super psyched!!!!
Personally I really seem to have transitioned to something new. I can turn up at any crag now, onsight up to 7b+ (and getting oh so close on 7c and +'s now), and send an 8a in 2-3 days. It hasn't fully come to fruition yet, I've left areas having not successfully ticked a route having come ridiculously close to sending it, but it's really getting there. A real positive for me as I seem to have gotten over some of the psychological hurdles I used to struggle with - every attempt on a route really counts and that can only be a good thing.


Here are the educational tracks you can choose from at ChannelCon this year. And don't come alone; bring or send two or more employees to be sure your company accesses all this great programming.
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Cell Cycle. 2008 Oct;7(20):3112-8. Epub 2008 Oct 25.
MicroRNAs as regulators of epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Gregory PA1, Bracken CP, Bert AG, Goodall GJ.
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) describes the molecular reprogramming and phenotypic changes involved in the conversion of polarised immotile epithelial cells to motile mesenchymal cells. This process allows the remodelling of tissues during embryonic development and is implicated in the promotion of tumor invasion and metastasis. Several recent studies have identified the miR-200 family and miR-205 as key regulators of EMT and enforcers of the epithelial phenotype. The miR-200 family participates in a signalling network with the E-cadherin transcriptional repressors ZEB1/deltaEF1 and ZEB2/SIP1, and TGFbeta2 that is postulated to facilitate maintenance of stable epithelial or mesenchymal states but also allow reversible switching between these states in response to EMT effectors (such as TGFbeta). This review summarises these recent findings and their implications in both developmental EMT and tumor progression.


I saw this on the Gap Website today. I thought this was rather interesting. Between now and October 20th. you can bring your old jeans to a local Gap store and get 30% off Men's and Women's 1969 Jeans. You get 35% off if you have a GAPCARD. This offer is not valid at GapKids,BabyGap, GapBody, GapOutlet, or the GapFactory. Go to this store locator to find a store near you.
If you would like to place an order on the Gap Website, you can get free shipping on orders of $50 or more when you use the code GAPSHIP50 at the checkout.


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Darren Till offers up his services to corner Mike Perry against Robbie Lawler, Perry responds
Just when we thought Darren Till and Mike Perry may have put their differences aside for the sake of business, it turns out that may not be the case after all.
On Sunday, Perry took to Twitter and put out an interesting offer ahead of his upcoming fight with Robbie Lawler at UFC 255 on Nov. 21. With his girlfriend Latory Gonzalez pregnant, "Platinum" is in search of someone to corner him for the welterweight matchup.
Whoever gives me the most money can be in my corner with @latory_g ,…
— Platinum Mike Perry (@PlatinumPerry) October 4, 2020
Tuesday morning, ESPN reported that Till, a longtime rival of Perry, was "dead serious" about paying $5,000 to take that spot. "The Gorilla," who is slated to fight Jack Hermansson in the main event of the UFC's Dec. 5 event, confirmed the information and took a bit of a shot while doing so.
Now that I'm in @PlatinumPerry 's corner,
How much will someone pay me to throw the towel in.?
— D (@darrentill2) October 6, 2020
Perry recently snapped a two-fight losing skid with a unanimous decision win over Mickey Gall at June's UFC on ESPN 12 event. The 29-year-old was questioned for only having his girlfriend in his corner for the fight, but it seemed to put Perry in a positive frame of mind and became one of the big talking points following the event.
Of course, Perry had a response to Till's cornering request.
throw in the towel. Ah too late. pic.twitter.com/PqgT8gJGxq
Till had a lighthearted response right back at Perry, offering a split screen photo of his own, seemingly lowering excitement levels even more of the cornering idea.
You are probs right, I won't have tine to throw the towel in. #RawDog https://t.co/t5YowGr4ym pic.twitter.com/FUaWUv2SfG
Regardless of who will be in the corner of Perry, he will return to action next month against an opponent he's been wanting to fight for years. Following the win over Gall, the Florida native was involved in a physical altercation with several individuals at a restaurant in Lubbock, Texas. Perry later apologized to the UFC for his actions.
The UFC went on to release a statement saying that Perry would not be offered another fight until he received professional treatment, including substance and behavioral counseling. Perry reportedly completed a 30-day "intensive" anger management program.
Till will be looking to get back on track after dropping a unanimous decision to Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC on ESPN 14 in July.
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← Day 242 – love couldn't keep the flu away!
Day 243 – Where's Wally goes back to work!
This Witchery skirt from around 2002 is a fav because I feel like I can Tango my way through the day … Perhaps not today as I fight this flu I am pretending not to have! Where's Wally T from Sportsgirl always brightens my day so I hope it works.
And who could have resisted a day like this?
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The body is designed to heal itself. You experienced this when you have a cut and you see the scab form and the skin heal, or maybe you have broken a bone and seen in an x-ray that it knits itself back together. Every time you catch a cold or fight a virus, you experience the healing ability of the body. The immune system jumps in to restore health. But you wouldn't rub dirt in your cut or share a cup with someone who has the flu if you are trying to heal.
To keep your organism in sync and alive, breath and movement are essential. You intuitively know this; have you sat on an airplane or long car ride and when you finally get to stand up, you naturally stretch your arms and yawn? When Justine worked as a physical therapist in the hospital, the goal was to "get people up and out of bed." Getting up helped bowels move, encouraged better respiration, and decreased pain. Even soon after knee replacement surgery, we got CPM (continuous passive motion) machines on knees to get the joint moving. Movement is needed to improve digestion and respiration, nourish joints, and boost the immune system.
Thai style stretch and massage and Eastern Philosophies. Kim's emphatic teaching style focuses on learning to communicate with one's body for self awareness and maximum health benefits. Kim also enjoys working with Seniors to correct mobility problems and to stay in motion!
Kim approaches teaching with the proper concepts of movement theory: proper movement initiation, integrating breath with movement and spinal integrity, equipping people with the necessary tools for a lifetime of fitness and wellness. Her goal is to get clients to get a good foundation for any activity, enhance athletic performance, prolong a healthy life and insure safer workout habits. She received her Pilates' training under John Gossett at Pilates' Concepts of Houston and is certified by the Physicalmind Institute. Trained in Yoga and Thai Massage with Thai Stretching techniques With Pichet Boonthume in Chang Mai, Thailand. Trained With Donna Place, Amy Ell, Juergen Bamburger and Miriam Barbosa and Jill Denison in theGYROTONIC® Method and GYROKINESIS ® Method, and Jump Stretch Board and Leg Extension Unit.


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BRITISH ACADEMY
London/Hybrid Working
£31,350 + excellent benefits
Charities, Advocacy, Finance & accounting, Accountancy, Government & politics, Policy, Financial controller, Financial services, Policy & research
The British Academy – the UK's national body for the humanities and social sciences - is seeking a Finance Officer to join our small and busy Finance Team, providing key financial support to our trading subsidiary Clio Enterprises Limited (Clio), whose primary purpose is venue sales in regard to our premises, 10 –11 Carlton House Terrace.
The Finance Officer works closely with other members of the Finance Team (currently three people) and in particular business partnering with colleagues from the trading Subsidiary, Clio. The Finance Team is a friendly team, part of the Academy's Resources Directorate comprising Finance, HR, IT, Facilities and Venue Sales & Marketing services. We take great pride in supporting our colleagues in the Academy, providing an accurate and prompt service to all customers to the department.
A core duty of the Finance Officer role is to take the lead in financial management and reporting of Clio, providing financially analysis and advice and working with colleagues from the Venue Sales & Marketing team to monitor performance and achieve key financial targets, plus supporting milestone tasks such as budgeting, forecasting and financial statements. The overseeing of day-to-day operational transactions will also be involved, including the import of sales data to the finance system and ownership of the debtor ledger. This is a key opportunity to establish relationships and make an early positive impact. You will have a keen attention to detail as well as a proactive approach to problem solving in terms of planning, prioritisation and demonstrating resilience when faced with adversity. You will also be an effective communicator, being able to collaborate with both external and internal stakeholders.
The British Academy is the UK's national body for the humanities and social sciences, established by Royal Charter in 1902. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future. Today's complex challenges can only be resolved by deepening our insight into people, culture, and societies. With a Fellowship of around 1,400 leading national and international academics, the Academy invests in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas; engages the public with fresh thinking and debates; and brings together scholars, government, business, and civil society to influence policy.
The Academy currently has five directorates: Communications & Marketing; Development; Policy; Research; and Resources, plus a small Governance & Fellowship Team. We have increased staffing in the last 12 months and expect to continue to grow this year.
Working at the Academy
Our senior management team have worked with staff to foster a culture of collaboration, respect, and empathy, in which all contributions are recognised as we work towards our common goals. Our people strategy and working practices focus on building strengths and sharing insights, with learning & development, wellbeing, and equality, diversity & inclusion at the centre of how we operate as an organisation. Investing in our staff and encouraging a healthy work/life balance is central to our success, as we move forward and continue to grow.
The British Academy is based at 10-11, Carlton House Terrace, St James Park, London, SW1 – a Grade 1 listed building. We offer a competitive benefits package including a 35-hour working week, with hours and location worked flexibly under our hybrid-working policy; 34 days' annual leave plus Bank Holidays; and a defined benefit occupational pension.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, in line with our commitment to create a diverse and inclusive working environment, promote equal opportunity, and address under-representation. We will make reasonable adjustments to support disabled job applicants and offer an interview to those meeting the minimum selection criteria.
To apply, and to see the full job description and our workplace values, please follow the link to access the Applied recruitment platform.
Applications must be received no later than noon on 17 October 2022.
Please contact the HR team at hrteam@thebritishacademy.ac.uk if you have any questions.
The British Academy is an independent national academy of Fellows elected for their eminence in research and publication. It is the UK's expert body that supports and speaks for the humanities and social sciences.
Our mission is to inspire, recognise and support high achievement in the humanities and social sciences throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.
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"Empire" Recap: Cookie's Health Takes A Plunge
Cookie has a major health crisis.
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It's back to business as usual at Empire Records, and there's always the proverbial snake in the grass lurking too. We start with Lucious popping awake from a bad dream about the night his car blew up, and now his Lyon senses are tingling. In other words, he suspects that Andre might have something to do with trying to kill him so he tells Thirsty to get to investigating.
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In other news, Eddie (Lucious' Uncle) and Giselle (Eddie's ex-wife) are part of Empire's staff now. They're exes, but they're in deep financial trouble so of course, they're going to try to use Empire for a come up. This is actually a good time for scheming because Empire is making money moves with their streaming service. Eddie and Giselle brought a new investor to the table and Cookie and Lucious are down with the partnership. Unfortunately, said business partner is down to steal Empire right along with Eddie and Giselle and later on in the episode, he mentions that he's actually going to buy Empire based on the moves they made, but Eddie said he'll deal with telling Lucious what's up. The other part to this sneaky takeover is that Eddie has been going around planting divisive bugs in people's ears. He lowkey convinced Jamal to drop out of the upcoming 20 for 20 Celebration, and while working with Tiana on her music, he tells her that she can't let Hakeem distract her from her music. Later on, Hakeem proposes to her and she says she needs to think about it because she can't have any distractions. It was that easy.
Speaking of 20 for 20, there's an old Empire act that they didn't invite back. It's one of Empire's first acts, a girl group called "TBD" (with Tisha Campbell guest starring as the lead), and they are so salty that they're on TV telling everyone who will listen that they got beef. They plan to release their own anniversary album, which will include a dis track that spills all the tea on Empire.
But you know the Lyons ain't having that. Cookie shows up to a TBD performance at a mall to handle her business. The group is a bunch of has-beens so they need all the money and attention they can get. Cookie offers them a deal with Empire for their anniversary album. They says they'll be in the studio as long as they get an apology from Lucious for…whatever it is that he knows he did. You know pre-accident Lucious was trash.
Later on, Lucious apologizes, but they don't accept it because they think it's disingenuous. They start talking about how Lucious sabotaged their last album, they feel some type of way about Cookie running things, etc—basically, they're returning the petty and just like that, they leave because they say that have another deal on the table anyway. However, Lucious points out that it's a smaller label with less money. Cookie is obviously annoyed when she learns it didn't work out, but Lucious says he's going to show her how to get it done the "Old fashion Empire way."
Surprisingly, the Empire way isn't violent, but there are chess moves involved. Empire acquires the label TBD decided to sign too so now they're stuck. The conditions are that they take back their dis track, apologize to Empire now, and perform at the showcase. If all goes well then they get to keep their reunion album.
Finally, the episode winds down with a Lyon family dinner. It starts off innocently enough, with Cookie and Lucious telling Dre that he's still going to be able to take the reigns of the business, not now, but down the line when he's better. However, what is a Lyon family function without the dysfunction?
Fast forward a bit. Dre and Lucious are alone in another room and Dre finally admits to Lucious he called the bomb. He said he tried to call it off if that's any consolation, then hands Lucious a gun and tells him to do what he has to do. Lucious snaps and pistol whips Jamal. Think about this, Dre almost killed Cookie too. He didn't anticipate Cookie getting in that car but that's what happened, and we know how Lucious feels about her so that's what that rage was really about. Luckily for Jamal, the rest of the Lyons rushed in and break it up. Hakeem and Jamal express how disappointed they are in Dre. They point out all the messed up things Lucious did to them, as well as the fact that they never tried to kill him. Cookie and Lucious are chatting at the same time in another room. Lucious says she doesn't know what to do but he's obviously shaken. Cookie tries to get Lucious to be positive by pointing out that Dre wasn't in his right mind and that he's getting back to his old self,, but then she collapses and says she can't feel her right arm.
Issa heart attack.
Hopefully, we'll find out Cookie's fate next week.
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Ross Mathie: Darren Fletcher is proof that exodus can benefit Scotland
FORMER Scotland youth coach Ross Mathie sympathises with SPL clubs who are being plundered by English vultures – but insists Darren Fletcher proves the exodus can benefit Scotland.
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Aberdeen are furious after midfielder Jack Grimmer, 17, joined Fulham for just £200,000, while Dundee United's starlet Scott Allan moved to West Brom earlier this month for £400,000.
And Islam Feruz made a controversial switch from Celtic to Chelsea in September at the age of just 16.
Mathie, who made Grimmer his captain at schoolboy level, understands why the Dons want safeguards to prevent players being cherry-picked on the cheap.
But he believes Scottish youngsters can excel in England.
He said: "Jack was my captain for the Scotland schoolboys teams a couple of years ago. He has been at Aberdeen from a young age and got a great grounding there.
"The chance to go down south was obviously a big pull for him.
"On one hand you don't want to lose them from this country but on the other it's a great opportunity for the players.
"There have been many examples of young players going down to England over the years and the classic one is Darren Fletcher, who has ended up as captain of our national team and been influential for Manchester United.
"You want to keep them but if they can make it down there then it could help everyone."
Mathie, who retired in November after a 30-year association with the SFA, added: "I have sympathy for Aberdeen. It's a pity they didn't get a good compensation fee for all their work with Jack."
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Square Enix has announced another Forspoken delay.
Following an initial delay to October, Square Enix has announced another Forspoken delay, this time to early 2023.
The release date delay was announced via Square Enix's official social media channels. The announcement came with an official statement which reads:
"As a result of ongoing discussions with key partners, we have made the strategic decision to move the launch date of Forspoken to January 24, 2023. All game elements are now complete, and development is in its final polishing phase.
We would like to thank you for your continued support and patience on this journey. Your excitement for the game inspires us every day and we cannot wait to share more about Forspoken with you later this Summer!"
Forspoken was originally set to release in May of this year, but the release date was intiially delayed to October 11. While this next delay isn't great news for those who are looking forward to the next Luminous Engine-powered game, it's always a better option to delay a game than release it in a buggy and unfinished state.
In case you're unfamiliar, Forspoken is an upcoming action RPG developed by Luminous Productions, the developers of Final Fantasy 15. The game is a new IP where players take on the role of Frey Holland, a young woman transported into a fantasy world. Think of it like an isekai game of sorts.
Forspoken is now set to release on PS5 and PC on January 23, 2023.
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