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The Flash Season 3, Episode 9: The Present
This week on The Flash we get the big mid-season finale, or winter break as the networks like to call it. How I loathe these artificial interruptions in the show's storyline.
For several weeks now, Cisco has been the president of the "I Hate Barry Allen Club." He's actively resented his former friend for altering the timeline, which inadvertently killed his brother Dante. Suddenly in this episode all is forgotten, and Cisco and Barry are buds again. So what the heck happened?
See, last week in Legends Of Tomorrow, Cisco himself went back in time to 1959 and inadvertently caused an alien invasion in 2016. He then realized how easy it is to screw up a timeline, and immediately forgave Barry.
I can't imagine why, but apparently the writers thought it was a good idea to wrap up a major Flash storyline on a different series. What about people who didn't watch the Legends episode? They're going to be totally in the dark. The least they could have done was throw in a line explaining why Cisco's no longer mad.
It's always good to see the real Jay Garrick on the show. Kudos to actor John Wesley Shipp, who somehow plays Jay different from Henry Allen, despite the fact that they have the same face.
We also got a surprise visit from Mark Hamill, as the Earth-3 version of the Trickster. Hamill was in full Joker mode here, as he even looked like the character. At this point they might as well get it over with and just start calling him the Joker.
We flash back to Julian Albert (Barry Allen's nemesis) on a Mummy-style expedition in India. He finds an ancient artifact, and like an idiot, opens it. His face is bathed in a blue glow. Sadly, no Ark-ghosts melt it off.
In the present day, the STAR Labs Gang is discussing Savitar, the God Of Speed. Cisco discovers that Julian published a paper about an ancient relic called the Brahmastra, which can allegedly create metahumans. The Brahmastra is also known as— the Philosopher's Stone! Barry goes to the Central City PD and questions Julian about the Stone. He says he used his personal fortune to find it, but unfortunately failed. Barry senses he's lying, and asks about Savitar. Julian looks shocked at the name, and tells Barry not to waste his time on the matter.
Meanwhile on Earth-3, the Joker the Trickster robs a bank. He's stopped by Jay Garrick, the Earth-3 Flash. The Trickster sets off a bomb, but before it can explode, Barry leaps out of a dimensional breach and disarms it. He ties up the Trickster and leaves him for the police.
Barry asks Jay if he knows anything about Savitar. He says he's heard of him, as he was the world's first speedster. He follows Barry back to Earth-1 to help him take down Savitar.
At the CCPD, Joe asks Cecile to the West Family Xmas Party. HR trains Wally, and notes he's becoming faster than Barry. At STAR Labs, Cisco keeps seeing visions of his late brother Dante. He also whips up a device which can sense when the Philosopher's Stone is activated. Is there anything he can't do? Caitlin finally gets a line, and says she found out everyone on Julian's expedition was killed. Except him, or course.
The Philosopher Stone alarm goes off, and Barry and Jay rush to the source of the signal. There they find Alchemy, surrounded by acolytes as he attempts to summon Savitar. Hilariously the followers bugger off the second they see the speedsters. Savitar appears, and Jay goes after him. Unfortunately the God Of Speed throws him around like a rag doll. He throws him against a wall and is about to stab him in the heart. Just then Barry yoinks the Stone from Alchemy and puts it in a special box. Savitar instantly disappears. Really? Has he ever done that before? Barry pulls off Alchemy's mask, revealing Julian, which we've known for a couple weeks now.
Back at STAR Labs, Jay recovers from his battle. Cisco tests the Box, and says it doesn't show up on any of his instruments, as if it isn't there. Joe's furious with Wally again for using his speed, and even furiouser at HR for training him. Barry puts Julian in the Secret Super Jail. He asks Julian about being Alchemy, but he has no idea what he's talking about. He says he needs Julian to trust him, so he removes his mask and reveals his identity to yet another cast member. He asks Julian if he's been blacking out, and he says yes.
Julian says his sister died, and then began appearing before him. She said if he found the Philosopher's Stone they could be together again, so he formed an expedition to find it. He did, and that's when the blackouts started. When he awoke and saw everyone on his team was dead, he fled to America in fear. He says when he blacks out, he hears a voice in his head.
Meanwhile, Dante appears to Cisco again. He tells him if he opens the box, they can spend the holidays together. HEY, CISCO! JULIAN JUST TOLD A STORY ABOUT THE SAME THING! TOO BAD YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT AS WELL! Cisco opens the box, and right on schedule Savitar appears. Barry and Wally begin fighting him inside STAR Labs. Caitlin pleads with Cisco to close the box. He reluctantly does so. Savitar disappears just as he was about to kill Barry and Wally.
Barry lets Julian out of his cell, and tells him that Savitar's been speaking through him. They ask if he's willing to let them hook him up to a technobabble device so they can speak directly to Savitar. He agrees. Cisco hooks up Julian and activates the machine. Julian is immediately possessed by Savitar and says, "Hello, Barry. It's been a while." He tells them he's from their future, and knows all their destinies. He says "One shall betray you. One shall fall. One will suffer a fate far worse than death." Sounds ominous.
Barry asks what Savitar what he wants. He says that Future Barry trapped him in eternity (?), and he wants revenge on him in the past. Barry takes the technobabble device off of Julian to shut Savitar up.
Barry wants to destroy the box so Savitar can never be freed. Cisco say it's indestructible. For some insane reason they decide to toss it into the Speed Force, since, as Jay puts it, it's an infinite void.
Barry and Jay run as fast as they can around the particle accelerator. Barry somehow siphons off some of Jay's speed and opens a breach into the Speed Force. He throws the box into it. Unfortunately explodes and blows Barry five months into the future (!).
A confused Barry wanders the streets. He stops when he sees his future self confronting Savitar, who's holding Iris. Savitar kills Iris and disappears. Future Barry cradles her lifeless body in his arms, as our Barry looks on in horror. Suddenly Jay Garrick appears and yanks him back to the present.
Barry's terrified by what he's seen. Jay tries to calm him down, saying the future's always changing, and what he saw isn't set in stone. He tells him to focus on now, and returns to Earth-3.
Everyone goes to the West Family Xmas. Joe and Iris give Wally a present— a Kid Flash suit. What happened to them not wanting him to ever use his powers? HR gets drunk on eggnog. Julian even shows up and joins the party. Cisco's sad that it's raining, so Caitlin uses her Killer Frost powers to make it snow. It's a Christmas Miracle!
Iris asks Barry when they're going to exchange gifts. He says right now, and zips her off to a spacious new apartment, and says both their names are on the lease. He says, "I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but I want to spend every single moment with you, Iris." Until you're murdered by the God Of Speed.
• At the beginning of the episode we see Julian on his expedition to find the Philosopher's Stone. He sits in his tent and writes the following in his journal: "It's been six months since I arrived here in India. Though I have faith it's out there, the voice that once drove me has waned. And I fear my quest may be for naught."
Why is he dressed like Indiana Jones and writing like someone from Downton Abbey? According to the onscreen caption this expedition took place four years ago!
• This episode gives us our first-ever (I think) look at Earth-3. Of course it's federal law that every establishing shot of a parallel world must contain at least one blimp floating above a city.
• Mark Hamill makes a brief appearance in this episode as the Earth-3 Trickster, battling John Wesley Shipp as the Earth-3 Flash.
Of course Hamill and Shipp played the same roles in the 1990 Flash series. Cool!
• Since the character was introduced, Hamill's Trickster has always been sort of a poor man's Joker, becoming more and more like him with each subsequent appearance. That's never been more true than in this episode. He's even standing like Heath Ledger's Joker in this scene!
Note that with his pale complexion, dark circles around his eyes and ghastly teeth, the Trickster looks a lot like Conrad Veldt in The Man Who Laughs.
And Veidt's character Gwynplaine was famously the inspiration for the Joker! So they've come full circle here. Hamill's imitating the character who inspired the character he's imitating!
• Cisco does some digging and discovers Julian Albert wrote a paper about the Brahmastra. Oddly enough, according to the google search it appears his real name is Julian Albert Desmond. Wha…?
So according to this episode, Albert Desmond mounted an expedition to find the Philosopher's Stone in India. He found it, was possessed by Savitar and blacked out. When he woke, everyone on his expedition was dead, presumably by his possessed hand. He then fled India in fear and came to America. He then assumed the false identity of Julian Albert, marched into the CCPD and was hired on the spot.
So what's the big deal? Welp, it means that the CCPD apparently doesn't perform simple background checks on potential employees, else they'd know that "Julian Albert" doesn't exist.
By the way, there is an Albert Desmond in the comics. It's a long, long story, so I'll try to be brief. Albert Desmond was a scientist who suffered from multiple personalities. One of those personalities called itself Mr. Element, and built a gun that could change one element into another. Like alchemy, get it?
While in prison, Desmond learned about the Philosopher's stone from a fellow inmate. He broke out of jail, tracked down the Stone and became Doctor Alchemy. The comic version had nothing to do with Savitar though.
• Barry goes to the CCPD to question Julian about his expedition. Julian says, "Many years ago, I heard about the Brahmastra, or as it's colloquially called, the Philosopher's Stone."
In-jokes Ahoy! Tom Felton, who plays Julian, played Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, or as it's known everywhere else in the world, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone. Wakka wakka!
• Jay seems to know a lot about Savitar, despite the fact he's never actually seen him. When Barry asks him how he knows so much, he says, "Speed Force myths, legends, and rumors." I guess maybe there's some kind of speedster newsletter or magazine?
• Barry reveals his secret identity to Julian in an effort to gain his trust.
Sigh… Why in the name of Bruce Wayne does Barry even bother wearing a mask anymore? At this point every character on the show with a speaking role, with the possible exception of Cecile and Capt. Singh, knows he's really the Flash. He might as well tear off his mask and throw it in the trash, for all the good it does.
I bet the only reason he still wears a mask is because the character has one in the comics and all the merch.
• So ever since Julian's been possessed by Savitar, he's been keeping his Alchemy costume in a drawer in his office at the CCPD. Got it.
• When Savitar speaks through Julian he tells the STAR Labs Gang, "One shall betray you. One shall fall. One will suffer a fate far worse than death."
Let's see if we can figure out this prophecy. Who's the betrayer? My money's on either Caitlin or HR. There's no way the Killer Frost storyline is over, as it was resolved WAY too easily. I would not be surprised if she takes over Caitlin again before the season's over and betrays the Gang.
There's also something slightly sinister about HR, and I think he's more than a harmless, hipster doofus. Savitar calls him "Fake Wells" here, and a few weeks ago we saw that HR has a piece of Earth-19 technology that can alter his face. Do not be surprised if he turns out to he someone other than who he says he is.
The writers would like us to think "the one who falls" is Iris, since we saw her future death in this episode. That would probably be too obvious though, but then again that's what I said about Julian being Alchemy, and look how that turned out.
Is Julian the one who'll fall? I could see him sacrificing himself to save his former enemy Barry. I think he's the most likely suspect, as I can't see Tom Felton wanting to stay on the show for more than a season.
So who's the one who'll "suffer a fate far worse than death?" My money's on Wally. There's a fan theory out there that he somehow becomes Savitar in the future. In this episode Savitar is pretty pissed at Barry, saying he took everything from him and trapped him in eternity or something. Maybe something happens and Barry accidentally sends Wally into the Speed Force, and can't get him out?
• The Gang figures out that Savitar can only appear when the Stone is released from its magic box. Unfortunately the box is indestructible. So they come up with the brilliant idea of tossing the box into the Speed Force to get rid of it forever.
I honestly don't understand how this is a good idea. Yes, they say the Speed Force is an infinite realm, and the box will be lost forever inside it. But Savitar lives in the Speed Force. Why risk him stumbling onto it?
This plan is like tossing your keys in your car to keep a thief from stealing it.
Why not just shoot the box into the sun? I bet that would take care of it. And if Cisco can't do that, he knows some people with a time ship who could.
• When Barry's thrown into the future, he sees Iris murdered on Infantino St.
This is a reference to Carmine Infantino, the most famous of all Flash artists, and the one who designed the all-red suit. In 1961 he drew the Flash Of Two Worlds issue, which introduced the concept of the multiverse to DC Comics.
• Last week in Invasion!, Cisco mentioned that Supergirl is from Earth-38. This was a shoutout to 1938, the year in which Superman was created. Being the pedant that I am, I wondered why they didn't say she was from Earth-59, since the character was created in 1959.
Several readers noted that in DC Comics, there are currently only fifty two earths in the multiverse— the result of the New 52 miniseries or something. So it would be impossible for Supergirl to be from Earth-59.
I knew about this was a thing in the comics, but wasn't sure if it was the same on the show. I couldn't remember anyone on The Flash ever stating there were fifty two earths. Besides, when I hear the word "multiverse," I think of millions of worlds, not just fifty two.
Welp, looks like Jay Garrick just confirmed I was right. During his conversation with Barry, he says, "This is why speedsters don't travel to the future. Nobody should know this much about their own. Just as their are infinite Earths in the multiverse, there are infinite possibilities to the future!"
So there are millions of worlds, and Supergirl could have been from Earth-59.
• After Barry screwed up the timeline a few months ago, he was dismayed to see that the holographic newspaper in his secret Time Closet in STAR Labs had changed. The headline article is no longer written by Iris West Allen, but by Julie Greer.
Now we know why it changed. Iris is scheduled to be murdered by Savitar in five months.
By the way, I'd just like to point out once again that The Flash believes that we'll all be reading holographic newspapers in 2024. Hear that, Science? You have eight short years! You better get busy!
• All season long, Joe and Iris have done nothing but bitch and moan at Wally for wanting to use his new speedster powers. Suddenly at the West Family Xmas Party, they give him his own Kid Flash suit. What. The. Hell. So what changed? Did they finally realize he's gonna use his powers no matter what they think, and give up?
Whatever their reason, this is one storyline I'm glad to see go. Their constant whining was getting old.
Oddly enough, the suit Joe and Iris give Wally looks identical to the one he wore in the Flashpoint timeline, which is something they can't possibly know about. Did they have Barry draw them a quick sketch from his memories of that timeline, so Cisco could make it?
• A contrite and apologetic Julian shows up at the West Family Xmas Party and is welcomed into the fold. Now that Julian's warming up to the cast, that means he's doomed, right?
• At the Xmas party, Joe and Cecile have a "nog-off," as they each pit their grandmother's eggnog recipe against the other. When they taste the respective concoctions, they sputter and cough. Joe says, "Damn, that's strong. Our grandmothers are alcoholics."
By the way, during the party, Cecile gets a call from her daughter, and I'm pretty sure this is the first ever mention of her. Does this mean a new character will be showing up soon?
• Drunk HR, complete with ugly Xmas sweater, was a lot of fun. He approaches Cisco and Caitlin, saying, "Caitlo... Caitlo, Ciscan! OK. Whoo. You got to try the eggnog a holiday concoction done by Joe and his hot girlfriend!"
• Cisco's sad that it's raining on Xmas. Caitlin sees him moping and apparently thinks, "Eh, what the hell. I'll just risk turning into a super villain again by whipping off my dampening bracelets and using my unstable powers to makes some snow for Xmas."
• By far the most unrealistic part of this week's episode wasn't the speedsters, the parallel worlds or the interdimensional scrap metal monster. Nope, it was the idea that Barry could ever possibly afford a vast, luxurious apartment like that. No wonder Iris was upset that all she got him was a wallet!
I don't know what the real estate market is like in Central City, but that looked like it was $5,000 a month if it was a penny. How the hell did Barry afford a place like that? He didn't even have a job until Julian asked him to come back to the CCPD!
Maybe housing's cheap in Central City due to all the supervillain activity, which results in constant property damage?
We know that Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash gave STAR Labs to Barry in Season 1, but… does that mean anything? Is STAR Labs a business? Does it actually produce some sort of product or do anything that turns a profit? I guess it somehow generates enough income to keep the lights on and pay Cisco and Caitlin a living wage.
Does owning STAR Labs mean Barry's rich? If so, why does he still work as a CSI? Why not just devote all his time to being the Flash?
So many questions. And absolutely no answers.
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SPILL FESTIVAL REVIEW: BLACKOUT FEST 2019 @ BRANTFORD, ONTARIO
SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: JACQUES GREENE - DAWN CHORUS
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BLACKOUT FEST 2019
@ BRANTFORD, ONTARIO
Check out the Spill Magazine coverage of the 2019 Blackout Fest in Brantford, Ontario!
It's Friday the 18th of October, aka the first day of Blackout Fest 2019. This festival is a haven for fans of all things punk, as bands from across North America meets to jam it out in Club NV, The Marvellous Lounge, and Two Doors Down in downtown Brantford.
PLANTS open on stage 1 in NV and the bowl soon start filling up to the sound of grounded vocals, sci-fi riffs, completed by a sick isolated bass solo. Vegans of the punk scene rejoice. The eerie silence I was expecting between sets is interrupted by the sound of Holy Smokes. Stage 2 is intimate, which matches the low and sultry voice of the lead singer.
With the two venues and a fair walk between each, there's a sense of urgency when you're trying to get the timing right. The Late Kings start un-royally vibrating through the tin can that is the Marvellous Lounge, with low gravely vocals and frazzled instrumentals. Suddenly, it's 2003 and The Beach Boys have washed up after a bender, to find that their great-great-great grandkids have formed The Antisocial Surf Club. With covers of "Bowling for Soup", and "Walk The Moon", among originals that I swear pine for Blink 182's "Josie", I think I'd rather stay in the early 2000s.
Can't stay at the beach forever though, but thankfully the energy flows back to Club NV with The Barrel Rejects. Luckily for the crowd, they don't belong in the barrel, and with a heavier sound and heavier power-stances, they bring a grungy tone to the scene. I think the party is getting started.
Back over on stage 1, school is back from summer, and so are The Skraggs (sorry, I'm not sure if it's "the skraggs" or "the mother-fucking skraggs"). The lead singer's mom keeps them topped up with drinks on stage, and they have their own homemade banner which makes their stage presence feel like a high school bake sale, so please, take all my money.
The Bonnavilles steer straight in after the last note of The Skraggs, although their instrumental is louder, their vocals are airy, and their screams are in harmony, which creates a choral sound. You know when it's 2am and "Wonderwall" comes on and you can feel your scream go into a dark and drunken abyss? This is it, only with The Bonnavilles it's 10pm, and Club NV is still only half-full.
The bonus of a small crowd means zero lines, so at least there's no waiting at the door when you get to the next venue. On return to The Marvellous Lounge, UP NORTH sound like they indeed, went up north, found a bear, and asked: "what does a bear trap feel like?". The answer, in a long and drawn out rumbly growl, has the general consensus of "fuck". Coming back down south, Bad Buzz, takes a heavy bass line to send us out of the woods with tip-toe-bopping into the middle of the road with a 2006 punk drop out the sound.
Dropping out to NV takes us to The Anti-Queens. It's like a live showing of 'girls to the front', only the real action is in the back with a treasonous drum solo. I've never wanted to be a riot grrrl more in my life, and this seems to be mirrored in the crowd as the energy peaks with the amps at 11. With another perfect transition between stage 1 and 2, Soft Limits pull us back down into a lullaby of guitar lines that sends you into a nightmare with vocals that are anything but soft. With a back-to-back of these bands, Friday night of Blackout Fest reached its headlining event early.
Having only been away for an hour, the Marvellous Lounge transformed into a truck stop. Trucker meets punk rocker embody the core of Space Weather. Minus the repetitive screaming of a vocabulary that only contains two words, "fuck you", the guitar track is wholesome sounding. Their energy is unmatched by the calming feminine voice of The Culture Crooks that ends up calming me down, and they seem to calm the rest of the crowd too as only two are left headbanging in the centre of the bowl. This doesn't last for long though.
If I thought Space Weather were other-worldly, it was only because I was yet to hear Welland Wasted who started their set with "fuck, fuck, fuck", aptly lowering the bar to their tone. It's as thrashy as it is trashy, I think the music itself is wasted.
The issue with two venues being far away from each other splits the headliner crowd. I stay at NV, with 24 other attendees, for Direct Hit!. In a classic Direct Hit! style, they start quietly with "Welcome to Heaven" before spiralling us into a screamo hell that leaves the first night of Blackout Fest in ashes.
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Saturday, October 20th
Day Two starts at noon, and with the low attendance last night I was interested in what the small main drag in Brantford would look like. Summing up these feelings, Nothing Special ramp up the pop-punk with some pretty wholesome sounding Cali-surf vibes. In All Fairness come crashing in with shouty vocals and movement to stir it up what Nothing Special had sat out.
An extra venue has been added in lieu of the second stage at the Marvellous Lounge, Two Doors Down is a small venue a good 15 minutes' walk away from the two other venues. Although it's far and arguably unnecessary — just have the marvellous second stage open, like last night — the bar itself is a small venue that carries a lighter, hipsterish vibe. There There open to what finally feels like a close-to-full venue with more tip-toe-bobbing, and although their drums are heavy, everything else stays mellow.
The trek from Two Doors Down brings us to Telltale who are full of the skater-boy punk vibes that everyone and their inner Avril Lavigne loves. The lead singer hypes the crowd up to a level that remains consistent over the next bands Hesitate and In Case We Crash. The low and earthy tones of Hesitate are screamed over as if they were the ones about to crash. In Case We Crash have accepted their namesake with a tight melody that along with their harmonizing creates a fresh and enjoyable sound, they said it best themselves by leading with the words "this is a groovy one".
Heading back up to Two Doors Down, I open the door (literally – the door is on the stage) on Coming Clean. It's a lil' thrashy, and in the small venue the lead singer moves to and from the stage making the entire venue himself with a cover of New Found Glory's "My Friends Over You", and honestly I don't think I'll get over them. Another thing I won't get over from this set is The Same As Always lead guitarist's bright pink and paisley patterned guitar ripping out even prettier riffs.
The 15-minute walk back from Two Doors Down is a chore but The Boys Of Fall make it worth it. If they had a CD with just their soundcheck on it, I'd buy it. The wild contrast between soft vocals and an airy scream is complemented by beautiful guitar, bass, and drum tracks, and completed by synchronized jumping. Although the bowl is only half full, their stage presence alone makes up for the other half of the crowd.
Back at the Marvellous Lounge, and it seems like this is the place to be. Young Culture are onstage with a groovy drum beat that's laid over with soft, full-bodied vocals. String vocals bleed into the next set with Carried Away with a strong female lead, giving us more of the queen vibes. The Inclines continue to move the crowd with their wholesome, tight sound and fun voice-over tracks.
The majority start to stream over to Club NV again, where the most chill, yet bad-ass band, Fortune Cove have created a pit of heavy energy to get everyone pumped up for the next couple of hours. The Wildhood carry a muddy tone to them, although not being sticks in the mud their set is full of crowd participation as the night starts to rev up with high-speed energy. They choose to slow it down though with acoustic track "losing sleep", this comes in as a refreshing change of pace. There's no slow pace with Like Pacific though as they get straight to it with help from the crowd who sing, mosh, and surf. To be expected from Like Pacific, the atmosphere is boisterous, as is the music, with the echoed mic. A sign of things to come for Moore Ave Underground and headliner, Seaway.
Moore Ave Underground keep the tempo up and lead us into what's to come with Fall Out Boy cover "Sugar We're Going Down". Headliners Seaway characterize the festival with their inclusive, fun-loving, wild personality. It's this personality, paired with the great music by talented musicians, that make punk shows what they are – just ask the crowd surfers – a fucking good time.
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Gardner-Webb University Wrestling Program Sets Records While Finding Team Focus
– Posted on April 15, 2016Posted in: Athletics, Campus News, Students
Four seasons ago, Gardner-Webb finished near the bottom of the Southern Conference wrestling standings. In the year that followed, a new group of student-athletes enrolled at the University and embarked on a journey together on the mat, with the guidance of new coach Daniel Elliott.
Many of those wrestlers are now upperclassman leaders on a team that will hold a place in the GWU program's history. The memories from an outstanding 2015-16 Gardner-Webb wrestling campaign will include a share of the regular season Southern Conference championship, the first in the program's history, as well as school records for conference wins and overall dual team victories, and several NCAA national qualifiers.
"This group of leaders is my first recruiting class of four-year seniors and redshirt juniors, and it's been awesome to see the growth of what you can accomplish over a long-term process," Elliott shares. "We've taken our lumps over the past four years, but we've continued to commit to the overall journey. Seeing them come together, believe in themselves and believe in what we're doing is the most gratifying thing to see."
GWU wrestled victories away from nationally-ranked Duke and Appalachian State universities in a nine-day stretch in January and February. "Beating Duke was big, but it was maybe even bigger beating Appalachian State because they're in our conference," reflects Ryan Mosley, a redshirt junior from Stone Mountain, Ga. "We hear the name App State so much and about how their team and Chattanooga are the only contenders for a Southern Conference title. Beating them was an amazing feeling."
With all of the success, the season wasn't without its adversity. Following a pair of difficult defeats in road matches against Buffalo and Bucknell in December, coaches and wrestlers gathered for a team meeting. Boyce Cornwell, a redshirt junior from Conyers, Ga., recalls the events that followed the get-together.
"Everybody realized we had to change our efforts to bring our team together," Cornwell recounts. "We came in for a home match against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, had a great crowd on our side, wrestled great and clicked from that point. We needed the meeting we had to refocus."
As teammates rallied around each other, wrestlers thrived on the support they felt during competition, adds Tyler Ziegler, a senior from Cincinnati, Ohio. "Having your team cheer you on is important. You feed off each other," he explains. "Looking up and seeing the faces of your teammates helps more than actual words. It's been amazing to earn respect from other people through what this team has accomplished."
In addition to achievements on the mat, the GWU wrestling program has also registered outstanding classroom performances in recent years. Gardner-Webb posted top-five NCAA Division I team GPAs multiple times the past several seasons, finishing among Harvard University and other institutions known for elite academics.
"It all puts Gardner-Webb on the map and gets the University's and program's name out there a little more," Elliott related. "This team has built on the foundation set before they arrived. Expectations are higher, and we will build on the success."
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CAD vendors have taken two approaches to browserCAD. A small number enthusiastically embraces it, while a larger number is limiting their involvement to online collaboration. It is, after all, a lot easier to display a file than it is to edit it online.
BrowserCAD systems display drawings in Web browsers and allow users to edit them interactively, while saving files and executing other tasks on remote servers. BrowserCAD is not so unusual anymore, and so the challenge becomes making Kudo stand out.
To do so, Graebert developed a three-pronged approach to gain market penetration. CEO Wilfried Graebert, CTO Robert Graebert, and sales and marketing executive Cedric Desbordes joined me on GoToMeeting to describe the latest steps in their strategy.
Whereas some browserCAD systems read and save files only on the CAD vendor's proprietary online storage site (a private instance of Amazon AWS Web service, usually), Graebert connects Kudo with nearly all services.
Box and OneDrive are required by large accounts. Google Drive and Dropbox very popular among small- and medium-size companies. Onshape and Trimble Connect reach specific CAD ecosystems. WebDAV is required for private cloud storage.
Box. "We never thought we would be building viewers; we see viewers as a light version of Kudo," said Robert Graebert. Box has no viewer for DWG, which is not what I would have expected. So Graebert wrote a plug-in that opens DWG files from Box in the view-only version of Kudo. It's available on the official Box Apps page free to all, even non-Graebert customers -- as is Autodesk's DWG viewer. Graebert will release the same for Google Drive.
Dropbox. Autodesk coordinated with Dropbox to add a DWG viewer.
Google Drive. "We find that Google Drive is the most popular solution among small and medium businesses, probably helped by the [15GB of] free storage and the influence of Gmail + Google Docs," said Mr Desbordes.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business. This is a different service from the ordinary OneDrive found on Windows 10. It integrates with Sharepoint, and so on. But more importantly, large businesses use OneDrive for Business a lot, so naturally Graebert added it.
Trimble Connect. Trimble's viewer converts DWG to PDF before displaying it, which I find inelegant.
WebDAV. Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning is important to link Kudo to private storage and Amazon. Graebert is certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an Advanced Technology Partner. "With AWS we have now the ability to offer ARES Kudo for enterprise customers on dedicated servers," said Mr Desbordes. The private cloud is required by large companies to maintain security for their intellectual property.
Integrating iCloud is not possible, as Apple is peculiar in not providing an API [application programming interface] for accessing files stored on iCloud by online apps, such as Kudo. iOS apps, such as ARES Touch, can.
Making OEM deals is in Graebert's DNA, and so making OEM [a.k.a. private brand label] versions of Kudo and creating collaborations with other cloud-based solutions is no surprise. It may be its saving grace: "We realize that evangelizing our traditional users takes time, but on the other hand Kudo is helping Graebert penetrate new markets. It gives us a competitive advantage to attract large accounts who see the cloud as a great method to circulate technical information in a secure way," said Mr Desbordes.
When you edit a DWG file with Kudo under this arrangement, changes to the drawing are saved to Onshape's storage. This arrangement works also with ARES Commander on the desktop and with Touch on tablets, as each has an integrated file manager that handles files stored online. Graebert's annual subscription includes all three programs.
Kudo is sold together with ARES Commander and ARES Touch at $250/year. Graebert calls this their "Trinity" strategy, because it gives you a power-convenience trade-off: CAD will always be fastest and most powerful when running on the desktop, but it is more convenient to use on tablets and Web browsers. The single-license Trinity lets you use Commander on your primary design workstations, employ Touch on mobile devices (tablets, primarily), and deploy Kudo on any other device (without an install) by opening the Web browser to https://kudo.graebert.com/.
"Kudo has now enough commands to really work online, far more than competitor AutoCAD Web," said Mr Desbordes. Not only that, but "in March, Autodesk announced that AutoCAD Web is to be included in a same offer with AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mobile. From our perspective, this came as a validation for the Trinity strategy that Graebert introduced," added Mr Desbordes.
Both Touch and Commander integrate the Kudo online file manager to access and edit files stored on cloud storage services. No surprise, but Kudo generates view-only links for others to view files using the view-only version of Kudo. The linked file only displays the latest version of files to avoid versioning problems.
You can try out the version of Kudo for 30 days from https://kudo.graebert.com/, after creating an account.
Formerly, you could only buy Kudo from Graebert directly or its resellers, but now you can purchase Kudo from the app stores hosted by Apple and Google, and soon from Amazon AWS Marketplace and Microsoft Store.
Well, indirectly. In the mobile app stores you actually pay for and download ARES Touch, but then get Kudo and Commander "free." The fee from the online app stores is, however, charged monthly at $29/month. This works out to $348 a year, so you save $100 by buying direct from Graebert or its resellers.
Once it becomes available, AWS customers will access Kudo at enterprise pricing. With a certain volume of AWS and marketplace usage, you get a discount on what you pay Amazon for both. You pay Amazon a single bill for AWS usage and all marketplace apps.
"AWS users are already cloud-friendly, and so they are more likely to need a cloud-based DWG editor. We want to go after these communities where cloud is already an important criteria for selecting products, such as in Box and AWS," said Robert Graebert.
Kudo is no Commander. Nevertheless, Graebert keeps adding to the user interface and including all commands that are possible to include in a Kudo-style program. "We are adding commands progressively as we look at what people use every day. We started with command-line features, which are the easiest to implement [in a Web browser]; progressively, more difficult commands were added, such as ones that involve dragging entities. Third-party technologies, such as ACIS 3D modeling, are the last major block of features missing," said Robert Graebert.
The UI has a toolbar (with a selection of commands), menu (with all commands), palettes (as in desktop CAD), and a command bar (!) -- because so many people are used to typing in commands and options. The command line expands automatically while the user is inside it. The Properties panel changes the properties of selected entities, as well as the working layer, and so on. See figure 3.
Printing is still a pain, as Kudois forced to go through the Web browser's print preview, which is not the richest printing environment.
share DWG and DXF drawings.
Nothing to install. It runs in your Web browser and your files follow you on any device. ARES Kudo is integrated with cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business -- and industry-specific solutions such as Onshape and Trimble Connect.
The new T-FLEX VR module views the model in virtual reality.
Autodesk acquired Assemble Systems for its SaaS [software as a service] to query and connect BIM data to bid management, estimating, scheduling, site management and finance. It will be integrated with BIM 360. I'd have thought Autodesk already had something like this, but I guess not.
"Generative design turns the traditional design-then-analyze paradigm on its head, disrupting common design workflows." CIMdata offers a one-hour Webinar about "Topology Optimization: Changing the Face of CAD" on Aug 9 @ 11:00am EDT.
Dual-kernel CAD systems are rare, with IronCAD being the only one I know of (it runs ACIS and ParaSolid). Now NanoSoft wants to be the second (ACIS and C3D), as shown by this slide from a C3D Labs conference earlier this year.
More details will be revealed at the Open Design Developer Conference 2018 conference in September.
If you hate subscriptions, then add PTC to your list of CAD vendors to avoid. Monica Schnitger reports that the 4th-place CAD vendor joins 3rd-place Autodesk in changing to become a software rental company as of Jan 1, next year.
"The British government says the [new Tempest] fighter should be ready for service by 2035." And here I thought CAD and PLM made design and manufacturing agile. At least that's what the marketing departments are forever telling me.
UPFRONT.EZINE (@upFronteZine): This is the same problem that has dogged BIM, with no solution to date.
It's a legislation-free way to raise taxes.
It's a way to increase taxes both on citizens who pay income tax, and those who do not, such as the poor and tourists.
It lets deficit-determined bureaucracies increase revenues patriotically.
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I've always noticed that people can waste 10x as much as they spend before anyone notices. It's more difficult to see waste than cash spent. The important point here is people see spending and will make choices based on it. With a "pay to play" business model, people will pay when they "need to" but not when they "should" or "could".
This is the benefit of perpetual licensing. It's like a physical asset that you have: as long as it's there, people will make use of it rather than let it sit idle. "As long as we have it, let's use it, it'll only cost time".
With rental services, they are only used when needed, because any other use not only costs time, but additional for access. This is essentially why experimentation and access is limited.
Perpetual licenses, like physical assets, are typically cost-justified with a purpose in mind. Any additional use beyond the cost justification is added value potential. In a rental economy, this added value is removed.
Why would computing in the cloud restrict experimentation? If you can get a fast calculation, you can only experiment more.
And have you seen unlimited.solidthinking.com/inspire/?
The editor replies: Autodesk restricts use of design generation to (a) people who subscribe to Fusion 360 and (b) those who pay extra for tokens. This means very few have access to it.
Even though it runs on the cloud, Autodesk's design generation is generally unavailable, and so few people can experiment with it. Even then, every run costs tokens, which discourages experimentation.
Mr Sardaro responds: I agree, Ralph! Paying per-calculation makes one cautious. I too like solutions better that just make you pay per-period or perpetual. And yes solidThinking Inspire has been around for a while (actually Altair has been busy developing this technology since the '80s) but is now available in the cloud.
"Around 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a ...cloud. By 2022, Gartner predicts this figure will reach 50 percent.
Roll on distributed, in all its forms!
Love your term for Autodesk as a 'software rental company'. Software subscriptions do not seem to be hurting Adobe, even though I'm still a mutinous user of CS6 and Lightroom 6.14.
The editor responds: That's because their subscriptions are cheap, with important software like PhotoShop being $10 a month.
Mr Hall responsd: They make it up in volume! To the tune of $billions.
Thank you again for a fantastic article! 'Et tu Autodesk' was great. That, and other recent stories, only reinforce my belief that for most businesses, shareholders are way more important than customers or employees. There are always exceptions, but it remains as one of the weakest points in the capitalist model.
The editor replies: It was the invention of shareholders that allowed corporations to flourish, because the shareholders took the risk of investing in a company as a group, but also shared in the profits, if any. However, greed infects everyone, and so ideals get perverted.
Mr Stein responds: True. MTV was invented to showcase "music" and the surrounding culture. Initial ideas often get hijacked and rolled off a cliff by the best intentions.
Find it a bit odd that [a CAD vendor] is changing to meet GDPR requirements now gives the user the choice to login using Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn.
The editor replies: Maybe the CAD vendor uses the Evil Three to take care of the GDPR standards automatically. I refuse to use them as logins to other sites, so this might prove problematic for me in the future. Fascinating that the CAD vendoer sees it as a solution, but maybe they get to collect info on users this way.
Mr Bourhill responds: In the Land of Google where the Shadows lie.
In the Land of Google where the Shadows lie.
If your [Nikon] D3100 is same era as the D60 I'm using, Live View sadly doesn't exist on the camera itself, so there's not a hope of Live View on Aurga or any other app. For instance, not on PC-based Digicam Control which I use. So not Aurga's fault.
I think the blog entry is spot-on. It may not be the fault of the Aurga engineers that some functionality is not exposed by the camera manufacturer to the device, but Aurga launched a Kickstarter, with people pledging money on the basis that that functionality would be present.
There are no happy stories emerging from the Kickstarter campaign right now, because Aurga is not meeting the expectations of those who have pledged money for the device. I think Aurga was not clear about the state of software development nor that the device would have limitations according to the user's camera. I had one of the early-bird pledges for the device and I'm very glad that I canceled my pledge.
R L Capper: "All the best from NZ. I rounded it up a bit in our money :) "
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Meghan Markle Reveals How Prince Harry Inspired Her Final Podcast Episode of the Season
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Meghan Markle is bringing the men into the conversation.
For the final Archetypes podcast episode of the season, the Duchess of Sussex welcomed three men — Andy Cohen, Trevor Noah and Judd Apatow — onto the show for the first time. And the idea to chat with men about the stereotypes that hold women back actually came from none other than her husband, Prince Harry.
"Now, if you've been listening to the past 11 episodes, you may have noticed that you haven't heard many men's voices. In fact, until now, outside a pop-in from my husband in the first episode, this show has featured exclusively women's voices," Meghan said, referencing when Prince Harry stopped by to say hello to Serena Williams. "And that's by design. It was important to us that women have a space to share their authentic and complicated, complex and dynamic experiences. To be heard. And to be understood."
She continued, "But through that process, it also occurred to me — and truth be told, at the suggestion of my husband — that if we really want to shift how we think about gender and the limiting labels that we separate people into, then we have to broaden the conversation… and we have to actively include men in that conversation and certainly in that effort."
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Meghan said she "enlisted very some very thoughtful men in the effort, men who've been behind some of the most successful movies and TV shows, but also, who are part of cultural conversation in such an impactful way through their roles in media, and also, for some of them, their roles as husbands and dads."
During her chat with Noah, Meghan spoke about writing the children's book The Bench, which was inspired by Prince Harry's bond with their son, Archie Harrison, now 3.
"I wrote a children's book that came out a year ago or a couple of years ago and is basically about this softer side of masculinity," she told The Daily Show host. "And how I've seen my husband as a dad and the example of that, that's the person that the young boy can look to and say, 'Oh, this is what it means to be a man. This is the example of that, that's the person that I can go to when I'm crying and that's the person that will sit with me. That's the person that can put the Band-Aid on my knee. And that that level of being nurtured can come from a male figure in, in your life just as much as it can from a female figure, but also for those male figures that it feels really good. To be able to provide that and to be able to show that part of your personality, that it doesn't make you less of a man in doing so."
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At the end of the episode, Meghan reflected on the 12 episodes of her podcast and what she's learned.
"I don't know what I'd been expecting, but what's come out of it for me has been illuminating. And also ironic. Because while this format is only audio and each week I use my voice, you can hear my thoughts without any visual, I feel seen," she said. "I had never considered that in using my voice, that I would feel seen. But I do. And so much of the feedback throughout the season from women is that they feel seen as well. As we heard today, that men see our experience differently now, too. They see us. They see us more clearly."
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The Duchess of Sussex continued, "The guests I've had join me have been so generous with their time and vulnerable in sharing their stories. And I found that in listening, really listening, I learned so much – about them, of course, but also about myself. Finding common ground and discovering that people that come from different worlds and have different life experiences still share so many of the same feelings. I learned how much more similar we are than different. So for example, I'm not Asian, but my goodness, did I connect to what I heard on the 'dragon lady' episode. And I don't identify as ever wanting to dumb myself down. But in talking to Paris Hilton about the label 'bimbo,' I learned that she didn't either. Mariah taught me about her definition of being a diva. We celebrated the choice to be single with Mindy, and we talked about business and the B-word, how our mental health is weaponized against us, the pressures we feel to be a wife and a mom. The loaded misconception that often comes with being a woman of color and the courage that it takes to step out and speak up, even when it puts everything on the line. I learned so much. And I loved it."
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On August 1, 2018, just a week after the outbreak of Ebola in the northwestern part of the country was declared over, initial testing suggests that there is a new outbreak of Ebola in the northeastern part of the DRC. The DRC Minister of Health said that four (4) people in the new area preliminarily tested positive for Ebola, and there have been 26 people with signs of hemorrhagic fever and 20 of those have died.
The DRC and the World Health Organization do NOT believe that there is any relationship between the last outbreak and the new one. They also believe that they are well prepared to manage the outbreak even though it may be more challenging due to its location. There is already a rapid access team present in the area and another team of a dozen will arrive in Beni, a medium size city nearby, to set up a mobile lab like those used so successfully in the last outbreak. Many of the personnel and equipment used for the last outbreak are still staged for readiness.
Specifically, this outbreak is occurring in an area of active conflict called North Kivu, with over one million people who have been displaced from their usual residences. Most of the cases are in a place where getting to those that may be infected is harder to reach than most of those in the earlier outbreak. Finding and testing those that may be infected, and following up on their contacts, will be more difficult with responding workers not only at risk for exposure to Ebola but also to the violence in the area. The area shares borders with Uganda and Rwanda and many people constantly move across the borders in order to trade. The World Health Organization is working with those bordering countries to make sure those countries' officials are aware and ready to respond if signs of Ebola occur.
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Harrogate vehicle crime statistics in maps and graphs.
Annual crime rate in Harrogate postcode area is 3.6, i.e. 3.6 crimes committed per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, Harrogate's crime rate is at 45%. Vehicle crime makes up 4.4% of all crimes committed in the postcode area. The total number of "vehicle crime" is 506, and this number has increased by 26.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019.
Vehicle crime rate is 3.6 crimes committed per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 15. lowest crime rate out of 104 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "vehicle crime" is 506, and this number has increased by 26.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2018 - February 2019 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes committed. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes committed in the postcode area.


Twelve months can go by in the blink of an eye or a painful minute by minute slow-mo. We have all experienced those years that cement our lives, define who we are, or are simply packed with some of the best – or some of the worst memories we have stored. I am 2 days away from finishing my junior year as a doctor in London. Looking back and re-reading some of my old blogs from July and August 2013 makes me realise how so much has changed, and how much has remained unmoved. With a year as a doctor now over, I wanted to reflect with you….
We all start out as eager pups when it comes to medicine, drunk on the knowledge and drama of episodes of House and ER, keen to become the best, most knowledgeable doctor that we can be. When I first started out, I quietly wanted to achieve this, for with knowledge comes confidence, and with confidence comes a lower level of stress! My greatest fear about medicine was being confronted with a situation or emergency crisis that I simply did not know how to handle. Many sleepless nights were had, particularly just before an on-call (where the chances of isolated emergency crises may arise with more probability), with visions of patients dying because I simply didn't have the knowledge. Thankfully this never materialised and maybe it is one of those never events – because deep down you can always do SOMETHING to make the situation better. I still love medicine as a subject. I love the human body, human physiology and the science behind how we work. Perhaps though, I am more cognisant that there is so much more to learn. This frustrates me as there is just not enough time – I want to know more about how we, as a complex biological system, work every day, but I am always just too exhausted or simply still at work. I think that my love of medicine has evolved slightly as well. The more I see of medicine, healthcare, and the people and patients within hospital, the more I realise my passion rests in their wellbeing. This is a global measure of a person and focuses on aspects like good nutrition, stress, physical activity, sleep and so on – not rather the complexities of a patient's glomerulonephritis and their anti-GBM antibody profile. There is a lot of work to be done in the area of health and wellbeing and its one I find myself increasingly drawn to it.
Being a doctor is hard. I must confess that I nearly quit medicine every year while at medical school. My poor family have been up and down with the decisions I have made or threatened to make (such as quitting medical school). The job demands you to disregard other aspects of your life and despite the glory and drama shown on televisions, the reality is very different. The pressure can be immense, the work load punishing, and the thanks for the sacrifice, well, obsolete. I hate the attitude of 'well it was hard for me so it should be hard for you' since while I agree on the right of passage to earn your spurs, we should always be striving to make the system better, work less demanding and more efficient and harness a team ethos. For a team ethos to work you need a team. Over the year I worked with brilliant teams in intensive care and anaesthetics and not so great teams elsewhere. This is not necessarily because the individuals were not team orientated but because they just were not there. The best example that I can give of this is in the general medical job that I am just finishing up, I am the only ward doctor 90% of the time – all decisions rest largely on my shoulders – and while it has made me stronger, it has emotionally exhausted me – and I feeling that at present. If I was being honest, the job as a doctor is not what I thought it would be and it has indeed left me with questions about the future and where I should be directing my career – is it in medicine or outside of it? If I am honest it is leaning to the latter. This saddens me somewhat but then excites me at the possibility of venturing out into the health and wellbeing sector on my own and using all of my energy, enthusiasm and passion to make a different. You should always follow your passions. Plus, I do like the idea of being my own boss!
I won't lie – it hasn't been great. I am yet to meet anyone and it is something that increasingly bothers me. I was optimistic at the start of my junior doctor year coming into medicine, being in London, and getting out there to meet 'the one' – but it just hasn't happened that way. When I look back at the year and ask myself "why?" I do have a number of reasons that include being too exhausted to even want to go out on a date, not being able to get back from work much before 8pm to even get to meet a date by 9pm, having the weekends to sleep and just enjoy some peace and quiet and things I know I will enjoy – rather than trek out to meet someone I may not like. Haha, yes I know, I know, writing this I do sound a little sorry for myself and well, I guess I am a little. Still, nobody likes a moaner so I will persist and hope that someone is around the corner and all these feelings will change. Rather amusingly I have been on a few dates where the girls have said "it won't work as doctors live for their jobs"…it was hard to deny. Now that's sad! Let's not mention the girl I nearly had to get prophylactic cover for after we went on a date and then I found out the next day I was potentially exposed to a dangerous airborne pathogen in intensive care…!
Thanks to my amazing family, I am stubborn, hard working, and driven. This means that I don't like to leave a job unfinished. Now while this is great in many spheres of life and I thank my lucky stars every day for having such a wonderful family – the downside is that I do stay late at work and I do the extra bit of work, or finish up the last discharge summary or missed set of bloods. This means personally I loose out on my time at home or resting. Over the year this has worn me down. And it is my own fault and people often say "oh, just leave – it'll get done eventually" – that isn't my ethos. My family have also made me kind – and because of that I will stay and talk to patients, don't stone-wall their relatives and try to make time for the things that people may often say "that's not a doctor's job". Well I would argue that sometimes we all just need to muck in and help out and sometimes that means doing the things you may not be meant to – in healthcare nothing should be above your station. I would also like to think that I have a lot of patience, rarely loose my temper and make people feel uncomfortable. Much to my disappointment, I have lost my temper at other people (staff not patients), raised my voice and made people feel uncomfortable. These instances (the most recent being last Thursday) have usually been at the end of a day in which there was chaos on the wards, no support and I was feeling the pressure. I must say I always cleared the air and apologised and we have continued working together (as are the highs and lows of any relationship or team). Worryingly for me this is a quality that medicine and working as a doctor has drawn out of me – I was not like this before. I don't like it and it does concern me that this has surfaced after only a year in the job. This is not the sort of person I wish to become and so if need be would walk away from medicine to preserve this.
I smile at the thought of this section because it is very much like a yo-yo. Some weeks I'm up, some weeks I'm down – and it is, in all honesty very difficult to decide which one predominates. Currently it is down as I have had a very tough few weeks on the wards and this may be reflected in the tone of this blog (don't worry, I am sure I'll bounce back to hyperactive Nick shortlty!). The frustrations, stress and pressure of being a doctor in combination with my personality traits of wanting to do well, hating to make mistakes, and always wanting to be better and more effective at what I do, act as a pestle and mortar slowly grinding away my mood. You see, medicine doesn't allow you to progress at the rate YOU want – it is a slow insidious process that happens at ITS pace rather than the one you set. I am inherently a positive, aspiring, a massive dreamer and a happy person – all the qualities my family instilled in me (I know I keep harping back to them but they made me who I am and I am so grateful for that!) – And medicine does not seem to have promoted these but instead demote them. This to me is utterly unacceptable. Maybe this will change as I progress into my Senior house officer (SHO) year. If it doesn't, I will take further action – he says dramatically…!
After a year of medicine, there isn't a cannula I can't get in, a blood sample I can't get or an arterial blood gas that can't be acquired…I am a true blood-hound! The same goes for putting in urinary catheters (though big prostates always prove a little trickier), nasogastric tubes and, although a little harder, even the odd central line! Perhaps I have a procedure fetish? – I love that aspect of medicine – and it is perhaps why anaesthetics and intensive care was such an enjoyable rotation for me. The other aspect that has improved, that I noticed compared to starting as a doctor, is the ability to assess an unwell patient. Over the year I have written numerous blogs about how I assessed sick patients either on-call, on the ward, in A&E or even intensive care, from those with severe sepsis to those who were having a cardiac-arrest. The confidence in me to assess someone unwell has moved on leaps and bounds – a very comforting process. Of course there is still an awful long way to go and lots of learn about managing the acutely unwell patient but when asked to review a 'sick patient', it no longer fills me with the fear and dread that I had with my first few months as a doctor.
Now despite everything I have said, I am a calmer doctor than I was a year ago. When my bleep rings off I don't flinch with fear, as mentioned above, when I asked to review a sick patient, I don't panic, and when all hell is unfolding at the rate of knots on the ward, I am less panicked. There are three reasons that I can put this down to; firstly as I have gained my experiences, my knowledge bank has improved and so I am more comfortable with managing the situations (as, most likely I have experienced similar 'nightmare' days – and survived them); secondly I have realised that you cannot control everything, that some chaos does just happen and that you have to learn to let go and not hold onto control so strongly as it can be counter-productive and ineffective; thirdly, and this goes particularly for my last rotation job, I have to be 'seen' to be in control – for the nurses, healthcare assistants, patients and relatives will most likely turn to me as the doctor for the answers and re-assertion of control. Thus if I am running around panicked, this will just fuel the fire. I should also add, mind you, that we have some amazingly experienced nurses and health care professionals in the NHS who would equally and more capable of managing these situations – it is just a sad fact that there is still this perceived (and misplaced, in my opinion) hierarchy in the NHS – with doctors higher up.
As I am typing this blog on a sunny summer Sunday morning, I am in agony, just about able to lift my arms up off the table. You see I have started back at the gym yesterday (I bought new trainers to motivate myself!) after 10 months of very little deliberate gym or fitness work. Life as a junior doctor is very poorly compatible with exercising three or four times a week – well for me at least. I mean by the time I have got up at 5.30am, worked all day, got home at 8pm, eaten, I am already thinking about bed in an effort to salvage the 6 hours of sleep I may be able to muster! That said, I bet that I must cover a good 5km running up and down on the hospital wards – and that, plus all the countless missed lunches, would account for my 5kg weight loss this year. That is going to change, I will no longer, I have decided, stand by and let this happen. Hence – new gym membership. New attitude.
My year as a junior doctor has been challenging, exciting at times, and difficult. It has brought with it untold emotional and psychological questions for me about what I want from life and whether medicine can deliver it. Physically I don't think that I am better off but I do have no doubt that I am mentally more robust having experienced first hand people go through loss, suffering, stress, pain and anguish – but I have also seen joy, relief, healing and happiness. I have seen good nature and bad nature but over-all I feel comforted by the knowledge that kindness is out there in a world that the media often makes us feel is just out for itself. I feel that I have come some way as a doctor, cut my teeth in my junior year and survived it. I have only however just tickled the surface. I don't feel like I have made any inroads at all to having a family of my own and this is something that must change in the forthcoming year – which I guess starts with meeting the right person – or at least getting myself out there. If you are reading this and thinking, that this blog was more about me as 'Nick' rather than me as 'Dr Nick', well that true and it is for good reason; you see medicine is just my job – not who I am – I still have dreams and aspirations of my own to be healthy, fit, happy, settled and secure, and life as a doctor effects the ability to achieve those. We will see what the next year brings but I am determined to make it a 12 months to remember – and I do hope you will continue to read and enjoy my blogs into the forthcoming year.
Such an informative blog! I'm about to go into my fourth year as a graduate medic. FY1 is getting closer and closer! Good luck with FY2 and I hope you find an area of medicine that suits you're personalit!


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Watching Tanzania: catch all
Thread: Watching Tanzania: catch all
An odd story from Tanzania, which starts with:
Tanzanian police broke up an al-Shabaab training operation in Tanga region, arresting 69 suspects and freeing dozens of recruits ranging from 4 to 13 years old in a security sweep carried out October 28th to November 5th.....The presence of al-Shabaab in the district came to light in the last week of October (2013), when aggrieved citizens notified local government officials about the training camp located in the Lwande forest. ....four al-Shabaab trainers had arrived in Kilindi district in 2008...
Link:http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articl.../15/feature-01
A lack of official awareness is one thing, it happens. What is important is that mainland Tanzania is not know for radical Islam, let alone sympathy for the violent Joihad (Zanzibar is somewhat different). I exclude the 1998 US Embassy bombing, which IIRC was an externally sourced attack.
Tanzania has a difficult demographic:
According to recent estimates 37% of the population is Muslim, 38.1% Christian, 19.6% practices Animism, while 5.4% of the population is unaffiliated or follows other religions.[64][65] Of Muslims, 16% are Ahmadiyya, 20% are non-denominational Muslims, 40% are Sunni, 20% are Shia and 4% are Sufi.
Zanzibar is about 97 percent Muslim. On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas, with some large Muslim majorities also in inland urban areas especially and along the former caravan routes.
Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania and the wider situation:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14095868
A German link
Taken from a report on the death of a German born Turk killed in Syria; itself an illustration of radicalization. Within is this:
Karan's family blamed the Wuppertal-based Islamist Emrah Erdogan for radicalizing Karan....Emrah went on trial in Frankfurt in June of this year, charged with having been a member of al-Qaida in Pakistan and of the jihadist al-Shabaab group in Somalia.....Erdogan was arrested in Tanzania in June 2012 and extradited to Germany soon after.
Link:http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-934148.html
Heroin funding terrorism and a ship off Tanzania
An AFP report which is IMHO very significant if terrorism is directly funded by the such traffic in heroin and for regional LE. From the sub-title:
HMAS Melbourne discover vessel carrying heroin with a street value of £380 million off the coast of Tanzania during terrorism deterrent mission in the region
Link to story in DTelegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Tanzania.html
The Australian Navy statement includes:
These seizures have severely impacted the funding network of those terrorist organisations that rely on these shipments for income.
Less clear is what the RAN actually did with the vessel and crew:
A team from the frigate seized the drugs, took samples and destroyed the remainder.
A few photos here:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-0...s-haul/5246840
The ship is part of the currently Australian-led CTF 150, which:
The task force conducts maritime security and interdiction operations to deter terrorism and promote peace and security in the maritime regions of the Middle East and Indian Ocean.
I don't watch this region that closely, but cannot recall such a large seizure of heroin before. Where was the ship heading? Southwards towards South Africa I suspect.
Anyway an interesting event.
A joint operation by the British and Australian navies seized the largest ever haul of heroin at sea, weighing 1,032 kilogrammes, the MoD announced last night..... were found on a dhow, or sailboat, some 30 miles off the coast of east Africa near Kenya and Tanzania....hidden in a cargo of cement. They were later destroyed...This is the sixth seizure of heroin by the Combined Maritime Forces since January
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ul-at-sea.html
The African "Smack Track"
Shipments of heroin are unloaded from dhows and cargo ships off the shores of Kenya and Tanzania, and taken ashore on small speedboats. They are then broken up into still smaller packages before being "muled" to Europe from international airports in Kenya and Ethiopia. Sometimes they are consolidated and sent by lorry to South Africa for onward shipping. Some of the heroin enters the African market to feed nascent demand, particularly in Zanzibar, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, where heroin use is slowly rising. Heroin is also smuggled to consumers in South Africa and Nigeria. In Kenya and Tanzania criminal gangs with close ties to political and security elites control the trans-shipment.
Link, behind a registration wall:www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21639560-east-african-states-are-being-undermined-heroin-smuggling-smack-track?
Undermining development: corruption
A rare report on Tanzania in The Guardian:http://www.theguardian.com/global-de...poster-sellers
A taster:
In 2013, Tanzania was the second biggest recipient of foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving $3.43bn (£2.19m) from donors. Despite years of relative peace, and economic growth of more than 5% annually for the past decade, around two-thirds of its nearly 49 million people still live in poverty.
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The message said: "Dave Meslin is wondering how to pay rent for Feb 1. Do you think busking would be lucrative, due to seasonal sympathy? Or do you think people are unlikely to take off their gloves to dig for change in the cold?"
By 11 the next morning, he had 46 responses. Some offered funny suggestions. His best friend told him to get a job.
"Historically Mez, individuals like yourself would be supported by their communities," wrote Jesse Hirsh. "Why not just ask for donations so that you can continue being Mez. That way the city and country can benefit from you being able to focus on what you do. Paypal makes such things relatively easy. No need for tax receipts. Social change can be the return you can offer ..."
Through tax breaks, we fund churches to spread the gospel, charities to serve food in soup kitchens and non-profits to fight for old-growth trees.
Why don't we fund social entrepreneurs who improve the city like Meslin?
I first met Mez eight years ago. Back then, he was a guerrilla gardener – planting sunflowers and daisies in the gaps of parking lots as a way of transforming private space back to public. He was bewitching – funny, smart, inviting, exploding with enthusiasm and ideas. And he'd figured out the key to successful community activism – making it both empowering and fun. "We're vandalizing the city with flowers," he said wryly.
Since then, he's become one of the city's foremost social entrepreneurs – brewing up an idea, researching it, pulling people together to get it started and then bowing out for the next idea train.
Sure, he's scattered. He's got many ideas. But he also delivers. His resumé was detailed in Monday's Toronto Star: setting up the public space committee, Spacing magazine, the defeat of the poster ban, the Toronto Cyclists Union, City Idol (the public competition that saw dozens of people across the city vie before a packed audience for approval to enter the race for city council. He then helped four of them run for council).
I know councillors who have done less for the city during their careers. They get paid. Mez doesn't. After raising $11,500 in an elaborate fundraiser for the nascent Toronto Cyclists Union, Mez pocketed $2,000 for eight months' work. He spent that much on City Idol.
He lives like an artist – most months scrounging odd contracts to make ends meet, but spending most of his time on political hobbies. At one point, he became a professional couch surfer, exchanging shelter for house chores, music lessons or web design. He slept in 26 homes over 14 months.
Sure, he could get a full-time job. But then we'd all lose.
Venture capitalists funnel cash into risky start-ups hoping to cash in later. Foundations, the non-profit sector's equivalent, invest in charities and non-profit organizations with a track record. Who wants to throw charity money into the unknown?
"There's no funding for social entrepreneurs. What they are missing in the non-profit sector is a sense of risk that drives the private sector. We're not doing that for the city," says Mez. "Everything I've tried to get going, at the beginning people have said 'You're crazy.' "
Imagine what he could do if Mez was paid. Imagine if all the other people like Mez – people like art-festival wizard Che Kothari and Project YouthTube's creator Christine Li and others we don't know about – were also paid. Imagine what the city could gain.
That would also mean that all the city dreamers could see a future for themselves beyond their friends' couches. They might decide not to go to law school, but to focus on Toronto's future.
The government of South Australia funds up to three "thinkers-in-residence" a year. There's an idea.
Peter MacLeod has another solution. He calls it City Patron. Instead of one banker endowing millions to an art gallery, he wants many ordinary citizens to donate small amounts to build the salaries of "social artists" like Mez.
"Just $20 a month from 200 people would fund someone like Mez," says MacLeod, who runs a public consultation firm in the city.
"For such little money, we could let our most inventive citizens get on with their work of making our city a better place."
He's launching his website Tuesday at citypatron.ca. Mez is the first candidate, but there will be more, he says.
In the meantime, Mez has February's rent covered. He has a contract running NDP candidate Cathy Crowe's Facebook and Twitter pages for the next three weeks, until the Toronto-Centre by-election on Feb. 4.
March, though, is a whole other matter.
Catherine Porter's column runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. She can be reached at cporter@thestar.ca.


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Calp calls for entries for the National Easter Week Poster Competition 2023
By Anna Ellis • 28 December 2022 • 17:03
Calp calls for entries for the National Easter Week Poster Competition 2023. Image: Calp City Council.
The aim of this competition is to promote the dissemination of one of the most important and attractive festivities of the municipality.
The winning poster will become the image that announces and represents the Holy Week of Calp 2023.
The competition is open to artists of any nationality with a valid residence permit in Spain. A maximum of three works may be submitted, which must be original and unpublished in digital format (pdf), in vertical size (50x70cm) with a resolution of 72 pixels and a maximum weight of 40 MB.
The jury will assess the originality, graphic quality and advertising and informative effectiveness of the poster and the winning entry will receive a prize of €1,500.
Entries must be submitted online (a digital signature certificate is required). The following application form must be filled out: SUB16 competition: Solicitud Inscripcion Concurso, in the Electronic Headquarters of the Calp Town Hall: calp.sed.es.
Those interested have until 2:00.PM on January 9, 2023, to register.
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In this book, Mr. Soben argues that in order to bring about local, national or even international change, an arm struggle is not always necessary. What is necessary is to change the mentality of the people for them to gain new understanding, and new perspectives about reality. He considers Mr. Barack Obama a beneficiary of the change of mentality in America from slave holding of Jim Crow's days to today where discrimination and segregation are now frowned upon. It is this change of mentality that has ushered in a Black African-American (in the true sense of the word) into the White House which Mr. Soben calls the "White and Black House." When people's mentality is changed, a quiet revolution takes place where there is no need for bloodshed or violence.
Mr. Soben does not claim that there are no longer segregation and discrimination in America. He believes there are still places considered bastions of racism; while there are still many who practice racism. However, he clarifies the fact that because there is this sweeping Change of Mentality, Black people can do things they were never allowed to do; go places they could not go before; live in places they were denied to enter; and hold positions they were never permitted to hold. It is all due to the Change of Mentality.


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Struggling through the daily challenges of raising children led them to create these recipes to help conquer parenthood. Candice noted that fans are getting to see what she has known since the couple started dating.
The couple has three children: Jones, Rivers and Hawk. Tony asked her out on a date which turned out to be a funny story. She was featured on the CMT show ."I love the show and I grew up playing sports and doing pageants, so I love competition," Candice told 5 Points Blue.
Candice's brother is actor Chase Crawford, who spoke about the couple's first date on She was doing sports broadcasting. "These girls are competing and it's so fun to be a part of that.
She also co-founded Hawk and Sloane, "an essential oil spray company," reports the Mirror.
She described how they met to Deadspin, saying, "I met him two years ago when I was an intern with the Cowboys. And I had worked there over the summer so we had met then. Then, two years later, he broke up with his girlfriend.
Tony Romo spoke to Men's Health about his life in retirement, and indicated that it's family-centered. "Around , a kid usually comes up and tackles me."He told Men's Health that he never needed to keep a calendar while playing pro football.
Now that he's retired and the dad of three sons, he needs one."Make important what is important," Romo told the publication. According to ESPN, Romo has discussed the family's immigration story."It's pretty neat how they grew up, how they came into this country and how they instilled a lot of our family values," Ramiro said to the network.
"I was just so impressed with his ability to pick it up so quickly. Tony saw her and I guess casually asked her to a movie/dinner date, where you're eating at the theatre. Candice went on to finish in the top 10 in the 2008 Miss USA contest.
I was like 'I was in school for four years to learn how to do this and I still don't think I was amazing' – you always are your worst critic."Tony and Candice got married in 2011 and had a Cowboys-themed reception with a number of former and current members of the team in attendance. Worth area as a sports broadcaster and met Tony while she was on the job. Candice also served as a judge for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders auditions in 2016.
I get that because I've done it before and I can relate to these girls and the pressure they're under.
It's been a really good experience."In addition to being a mother, Candice is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Hawk Sloane with her friend, Hollie Siglin.
He gets you excited about stories and things that you didn't even care about until he starts telling you.
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What I find especially paradoxical about the over-use of this particular accusation is that the speakers of religion are often also considered to be liars or speakers of falsity — but the moment they proclaim what religion they represent, they speak the undeniable truth.
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Arsenal showed grit and character to come back from 1-2 down at home to beat fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspurs. Elsewhere, Manchester City and Liverpool cruise on and stay at the top of the table. Manchester United continue to struggle as they came back from two goals down to salvage a draw at St Mary's stadium.
Editor's thoughts: Unai Emery must be doing something really different from Arsene Wenger because I can hardly recognise this new Arsenal team this season. It's not so much the personnel but rather the mentality of the players. In previous editions, they would probably have rolled over and played dead after going down 1-2 at home after a good start which saw them lead 1-0 via an Aubameyang penalty. Under Emery, they seem to have a new found confidence and system that allowed them to get back into the game and eventually winning it 4-2. They may not be title contenders as yet but this could be a great platform for them to build on and challenge for the EPL title in the near future.