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GROWING UP FREE: Encourage Your Kids to Explore, Dream, Play, and Build Forts
by Matt Jacobson
Last night, the wind whipped through the trees, flailing against the house. Each new gust stronger than the last. For a moment, I get a little anxious. Will my youngest three (8-12) be safe, camping out in the shed with their dog, Jesse?
Then I have to smile at myself . . .
If your parents are pioneers at heart, it can hardly be surprising when they take you to a remote corner of Canada, trading the urban sprawl of Portland, Oregon for the relative wilderness of the interior of British Columbia.
I was 10 when our red and white Volkswagen Bus pushed its way through Fraser River canyon in 1970, my mind aflame with the prospect (necessity!) of wearing a six-shooter to school. A sharp lookout was kept on the surrounding cliffs as the violent, impassable river threatened from below. Would Indians attack before we met up with Dad who had gone on ahead, 3 months before, to begin building our house?
Such were the dreams of this young adventurer when a few short days later, the pinched quarters of the Conestoga were left behind for the limitless expanse that was my new back yard. What was that huge mountain towering over our property, there in Tete Jaune Cache, little more than a wide spot in the road?
There was lots of work to do, wrestling 20 acres from the wilderness. We cleared trees, planted a massive garden, and split cedar shakes by hand (for the roofing material of our house). And then there was "B.C. Beef". . . what everyone called moose meat. Hunting and processing an animal that large is a major undertaking, but one that became as common to us, year in/year out, as the sunrise.
It was a dream come true, made more complete the day Dad and Mom gave me a horse to call my own. A saddle was included but I wanted to ride bareback, like the Indians. I hunted, fished, rode, whittled on sticks, built forts, ate wild strawberries, Saskatoon berries, and huckleberries, camped overnight with friends . . . there wasn't a valley left unexplored, a creek that wasn't crossed, or a trail I didn't follow in those years of wild freedom.
And that's something my parents did so well. You want to take off on your horse 'till dark? Go for it. We weren't raised with the fear of the unknown and a schedule that ordered and controlled every moment of our lives with risk-averse activities. Freedom was given to explore, imagine, and try new things . . . to just be kids.
Certainly, my childhood was atypical in many ways and I'd never give my young kids the extreme freedom I grew up with. That the world has changed for the worse is a reality we all live with. But, the principles of encouraging kids to explore and enjoy where their fertile minds take them can be employed no matter where you live.
And, that's why I have to smile . . . at myself . . . at how uptight I can be. Time to lighten up, Dad. The kids are going to be fine – just like you were. Smile.
It's so easy to forget those moments of our own upbringing that have left us with the best memories and inculcated important character qualities. Encourage your kids to explore, dream, play and build forts, even if they look like giant burn piles!
Do your kids like building "hideouts" in the living room? Camping in the back yard? "building" a cabin with whatever they can find in the garage (what many short-sighted parents refer to as making a mess)? Encourage them to "go for it". The encouragement, approval, and freedom you give – and yes, those "messes" – make fantastic memories that will surely return to you with interest one day, like it did for this mom: 9 Things I'd Say My Mom Got Right
Messes and scheduled activities come and go. Fond memories of encouragement, approval, imagination, creativity, and freedom (where appropriate) last a lifetime.
I need to be reminded to "lighten up" from time to time. How about you, Dad & Mom?
What memories are you building today?
~Matthew
Matt Jacobson
Matt Jacobson is a biblical marriage coach and founder of FaithfulMan.com a biblical marriage, parenting, and discipleship ministry providing written and audio teaching, as well as couples marriage coaching. He is the co-host (with his wife, Lisa) of Faithful Life Podcast and is author of the bestseller, 100 Ways to Love Your Wife. Matt is pastor of Tumalo Bible Fellowship and is married to Lisa, founder of Club31Women.com (they have 8 kids!).
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Great Minds Gala to honor actress, chef
Actress Marcia Gay Harden and chef Madison Cowan will be among those honored March 19 by LeadingAge and Integrace at the Great Minds Gala.
The gala is a fundraiser held in conjunction with LeadingAge's PEAK Leadership Summit to help improve the care offered to people with Alzheimer's disease and the support options available for their caregivers. Sponsors include Marriott Washington Wardman Park. This is the fifth annual event.
Harden and Cowan will share the 2018 Proxmire Award in recognition of their efforts to raise awareness of and advocate for families living with Alzheimer's disease around the world.
Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed in Harden's mother in 2008. She chronicles her experience as a family caregiver in the upcoming book "The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers," slated for May publication.
Cowan, who was the first-ever grand champion on the Food Network show "Chopped," experienced Alzheimer's through his father and father-in-law. He now has a proactive attitude toward cognitive health and uses his global platform to advocate for dementia awareness, according to LeadingAge.
Two additional awards will be bestowed during the gala.
St. Paul Elder Services in Kaukauna, WI, will receive the Excellence in Dementia Care Award in recognition of its Passages program, which supports individuals as they experience various stages of dementia.
Sandy Schocker will receive the Exceptional Friend or Family Care Partner Award. Schocker's late mother lived at Garvey Manor, a continuing care retirement community in Hollidaysburg, PA, and she continues to visit, sharing birthday and holidays with residents and celebrating their special moments.
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Replace your grains with tangy, creamy ricotta cheese in this low-carb take on oatmeal. Topped with cinnamon, it's a great way to fuel up for a busy day!
Over medium heat in a small sauce pan, heat up 4 tbsp of butter until melted.
Turn off heat and stir in 1/2 cup of ricotta cheese.
Serve in bowl and enjoy.


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Keeping competitive flames burning strong in the new normal
From school games to the Olympics, sporting events have been affected by COVID-19 pandemic. With so much uncertainty, how do athletes adapt? We speak to a HomeTeamNS trainer to find out.
It has been a rough two years for athletes since the pandemic began.
Amid competition delays and gym closures, it has not been an easy journey for those striving for peak performance – regardless of discipline or age group.
And yet, the competitive spirit finds a way. Athletes around Singapore continue to train hard, adapting to the new normal to keep themselves in top shape whether training at the local park, fitness corner or at home.
To help would-be competitors along this journey, here's what the HomeTeamNS pros have to say about keeping athletes well-tuned and in their prime in spite of the pandemic.
CONSISTENCY AND ADAPTABILITY ARE KEY
Consistency is the name of the game when it comes to staying in top form. Context matters: Athletes need to make adjustments to their personal training routine that are compatible with the reality of their respective situations.
Aidid Haidil Bin Mohamed Said, a fitness trainer at Fitness Workz, empathised that competition delays can affect an athlete's mindset and mentality. He is a sportsman himself, having played soccer for the Singapore Armed Forces Warriors FC and the H-TWO-O Dream Team. He stressed the importance of staying active during the pandemic instead of staying sedentary or taking a break.
"Active rest periods would be recommended – like going for a swim, cycling or even brisk walking. Athletes should not stop their training as they want to avoid any muscle atrophy or strength loss," shared the fitness trainer, who has also had successful stints in track-and-field events.
To hit their peak performance, athletes must also factor aspects such as emotional wellbeing and nutrition, especially during the pandemic.
"Focus on what you can control and plan your day! During this pandemic, it may be hard for you to cope with everything in your mind. So, take a deep breath before you push on," encouraged Aidid.
He also shared how HomeTeamNS gym trainers sought to keep athletes informed and motivated about good eating habits during the pandemic.
"The trainers regularly give advice on good foods that can help gym members achieve their fitness goals. Fitness Workz also used online posts to share tips about good nutrition, so even non-members can benefit," he added.
FITNESS ISN'T TIED TO A PLACE; IT'S A STATE OF MIND
Without being able to hit the gym, athletes around Singapore found ways to adapt – be it by setting up home gyms, frequenting fitness corners or making laps around the island.
When restrictions hit, the HomeTeamNS crew at Fitness Workz adopted alternative means of bringing the gym to the homes of their athletes.
For example, tapping into social media, the Fitness Workz crew has created educational content about fitness routines, crucial exercises and specialist gym equipment that can be incorporated into training programs.
"We also offer virtual classes like Zumba, KickFit, Pop Pilates and Towel Fit. Most of these sessions are aimed at improving and maintaining endurance and cardiorespiratory health," explained Aidid.
He added that athletes under the NSMen category, and are part of the NSFIT program, have access to classes like CORE60, CARDIO60, POWER60, PUMP60 – all of which help to strengthen athletes in core aspects of IPPT tests.
As an avid gym-goer himself, Aidid admits that it was difficult to not have access to a physical gym during circuit breaker measures. But he realised that the gym isn't irreplaceable – it all comes down to an individual's discipline towards their fitness regime.
"If you have discipline and have a goal that you have already set in your mind, success is in your hands," mused the trainer.
STAYING SAFE SO ATHLETES CAN STAY AT THEIR PEAK
With the transition to Phase 3 (Heightened Alert), many athletes will now look to head back to the gym in order to supplement their training regimens. Aidid emphasised that safety should be the top priority for athletes to safeguard their wellbeing and ensure their training efforts aren't affected.
"First and foremost, they should keep their distance from another person and train at a place that is less crowded. Secondly, they should sanitise their hands after touching public places," he advised.
"They should also bring along towels, so they don't touch their faces with bare, sweaty hands."
A slew of measures has been put in place at Fitness Workz gyms in Phase 3 to uphold strict safe distancing requirements and standards for hygiene. These include:
Mandatory SafeEntry Declaration
Gym time being limited to 90-minute timeslots (bookings via the HomeTeamNS mobile app are highly encouraged!)
Increased frequency in cleaning and disinfecting of high-contact surfaces
Social distancing measures, including revised maximum capacity per gym
With these in place, one can rest assured knowing they can now safely incorporate regular gym visits back into their fitness regimens.
Whatever the case, while you are training hard, eating healthy and resting well, don't forget to also prioritise personal hygiene and observe appropriate safe distancing to ensure your body is always geared for competitions to come.


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British Business Investments – Full Year Results for the Period Ending 31 March 2021
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, today publishes its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020/21.
Key highlights include:
· A record number of 18 commitments to new and existing delivery partners, totalling £473m
· In its seventh year of operation, cumulative commitments are up 19% year-on-year to over £3bn
· Support for almost 30,000 smaller businesses across the UK, 85% of which are outside of London
· A strong returns performance, delivering pre-tax profit of £107.4m
Judith Hartley, CEO, British Business Investments, said: "We are pleased to report a strong performance by British Business Investments during 2020/21 and a record year in terms of a number of new commitments and diversification of our portfolio. We have continued to make commitments throughout the pandemic, as we wanted to help ensure the UK's smaller businesses could continue to access finance. We are now invested in every nation and region of the UK, and are supporting almost 30,000 small businesses, 85% of which are located outside London. Our financial performance has also been strong this year, with pre-tax profit of £107.4m"
In 2020/21, British Business Investments continued to deliver strongly against the four objectives set by its parent, British Business Bank plc:
1. Increase the supply of finance to smaller businesses across the UK: As at 31 March 2021, British Business Investments had made total commitments of over £3bn to finance providers to support funding to UK smaller businesses since its inception in 2014. New commitments in 20/21 were £473m. Third parties invest alongside us and in addition to our new commitments of £473m, they have invested a further £1.23bn, meaning that total funding of more than £1.7bn has been delivered to the UK market this financial year.
2. Help to create a more diverse finance market: In 2020/21, British Business Investments made 18 commitments, including to nine new delivery partners. This increases total portfolio investments to 77, up from 59 last year, through 50 different delivery partners.
3. Identify and help to address regional imbalances in access to finance: British Business Investments is providing funding to almost 30,000 businesses, 85% of which are based outside of London.
4. Manage taxpayer's money efficiently, whilst generating a commercial rate of return: Income from investments was £120.5m, delivering pre-tax profit of £107.4m, compared to £35.4m and £22.2m respectively in the previous financial year
Francis Small, Chair of British Business Investments, said: "As the pandemic tested the UK economy, British Business Investments continued to invest to make sure finance was available to support smaller businesses. By remaining alert to its impact on the UK's smaller businesses and our delivery partners, we were able to adapt our response throughout the year. Consequently, we've achieved strong results in extremely challenging circumstances."
British Business Investments supports the development of more diverse debt and equity finance markets throughout the UK. To increase the choice of finance for smaller businesses, British Business Investments provides funding through a wide range of finance providers – including peer to peer lenders, small-cap private debt funds, challenger banks, asset finance providers, equity funds-of-funds and regionally-based early-stage investors.
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All products and content including the Service, the Software, or any content provided as part of the Service, including all modifications thereof, and all acts or omissions undertaken or not undertaken relating to any of the foregoing are provided on an "as available" and "as is" basis. Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, Buffini & Company disclaims all representations, warranties and commitments of any kind with respect to the subject matter including, but not limited to, any and all implied warranties or other commitments of title, merchantability, quality of information or fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event shall Buffini & Company be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, incidental or consequential damages (including, without limitation, lost profits, revenue or savings, lost data or content, loss of or damage to business opportunity, business interruption or the like) arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or your use of the Service. In any case, Buffini & Company's entire liability under this Agreement or in any way related to the subject matter hereof shall be limited in the aggregate and regardless of the number or timing of the claims asserted to the greater of $2,000.00 or the total fees received by Buffini & Company hereunder for the twelve (12) calendar months immediately preceding the month in which the claim is first filed or asserted against Buffini & Company. These terms shall apply whether or not Buffini & Company has been advised of the possibility or likelihood of the loss, injury, damage or liability suffered or excluded and regardless of the theory of relief asserted (e.g. whether in contract, tort, negligence, breach of warranty, strict liability in tort or by statute or otherwise). Any action against Buffini & Company for relief of any kind must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of the action arose. The terms of this section represent important agreed and bargained for understandings of the parties and Buffini & Company's compensation hereunder reflects such terms.
You agree to indemnify Buffini & Company as well as its directors, officers, agents, employees, and independent contractors and hold them harmless from any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees arising from your use of Buffini & Company products or services or from your breach of this Agreement.
You may not assign this Agreement and any attempted assignment shall be void. Buffini & Company may delegate all or part of the performance of its obligations under this Agreement to independent contractors or other businesses.
If a court holds any provision of this Agreement to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable the rest of this Agreement shall remain in effect and this Agreement will be amended to give effect to the eliminated provision to the maximum extent possible.
All legal issues arising from or relating to your use of Buffini & Company products or services or this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California. By accessing or using such products or services you consent to personal jurisdiction and exclusive venue in the State and/or Federal Courts of the County of San Diego, State of California with respect to any disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the use of this site.
This Agreement may be terminated at any time by Buffini & Company for cause which shall include the breach of this Agreement by the client, abusive or unprofessional conduct, or conduct which would tend to hold Buffini & Company up to embarrassment or contempt. It may be terminated without cause by providing you with thirty days written notice of termination. Any refund of prepaid fees will be calculated as described in Paragraph 5.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Buffini & Company with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any other agreement, proposals and communications, written or oral between Buffini & Company and you with respect to the subject matter hereof.
Client shall participate in a Certification Course which will be offered online at a cost reflected on the Buffini & Company web site which shall be paid by Client. Upon successful completion of the Certification Course, the Client may represent himself to be a "Buffini Certified Mentor™." The Client may then train Qualified Students in one Authorized Program of the Client's choosing. There will be a charge for each additional Authorized Program which the client wishes to train.
This Agreement constitutes a non-assignable license, personal to the Client during the term of this Agreement, as follows: (a) For the Client who has successfully completed the Certification Course to hold himself out as a Buffini Certified Mentor™; (b) For the Buffini Certified Mentor to offer and train Authorized Programs only to Qualified Students during the term of this Agreement using the materials, methods and instructions provided by Buffini & Company after paying any fee that may be charged for each Authorized Program. Any duplication or other dissemination or use of said materials or information is prohibited.
A Related Business is a separate real estate services business which is owned, in whole or in part, by the owner of the title, lending or real estate brokerage business with which Client is associated.
For Buffini Certified Mentors, a "Qualified Student" means: (a) a person employed by or associated with Client as an independent contractor in the same title, lending or real estate brokerage business with which client is associated or in a Related Business; (b) a person who has entered into a valid Student Order Form and License Agreement with Buffini & Company for an Authorized Program and agreed to the terms of the license restrictions contained therein; and (c) a person who has paid the fees and performed the other obligations required under that Agreement.
Client shall participate in a Certification Course which will be offered online at a cost reflected on the Buffini & Company web site which shall be paid by Client. Upon successful completion of the Certification Course, Client may represent himself to be a "Buffini Certified Facilitator™". The Client may then train Qualified Students in one Authorized Program of the Client's choosing. There will be a charge for each additional Authorized Program which the client wishes to train.
This Agreement constitutes a non-assignable license, personal to the Client during the term of this Agreement, as follows: (a) For the Client who has successfully completed the Certification Course to hold himself out as a Buffini Certified Facilitator; (b) For the Buffini Certified Facilitator to train the Authorized Program only to Qualified Students during the term of this Agreement using the materials, methods and instructions provided by Buffini & Company after paying any fee that may be charged for each Authorized Program. Any duplication or other dissemination or use of said materials or information is prohibited.
For Buffini Certified Facilitators, a "Qualified Student" means: (a) a person who has entered into a valid Student Order Form and License Agreement with Buffini & Company for an Authorized Program and agreed to the terms of the license restrictions contained therein; and (b) a person who has paid the fees and performed the other obligations required under that Agreement.
For purposes of this Agreement, the "Client" is a person who has entered into this Agreement with Buffini & Company and paid the Certification Course fees as provided herein.
As a condition to this license, Client shall train a minimum of one Qualified Student in one Authorized Program during each 12-month period. This 12-month period shall commence on the first day of the month following the commencement of the Certification Training described herein and shall continue in 12-month increments thereafter.
Clients who have become Buffini Certified Mentors or Buffini Certified Facilitators may attend a Buffini & Company Success Tour™ and/or a Buffini & Company GameChangers™ live event at no additional charge, subject to space and availability.
Clients who have a pre-existing license with Buffini & Company for training Buffini & Company's Peak Producers® Program shall be granted this Mentor or Certified Facilitator License as appropriate, without the requirement of taking the Certification Course or paying additional Certification Course fees. Pre-existing clients may continue to train Qualified Students in the Peak Producers Program subject to the other terms and restrictions set forth in this License Agreement. There shall be an additional charge for each additional Authorized Program which the Client wishes to train. This License Agreement shall supersede and replace the Client's pre-existing License Agreement with Buffini & Company.
The term of this Agreement, and the license described below, shall begin on the first day of the Certification Course training described herein and shall continue thereafter month to month from the first day of the following month until terminated.
For purposes of this Agreement, "Authorized Program" means a training program created and owned by Buffini & Company that Buffini Certified Mentors and Buffini Certified Facilitators are authorized to present to and train Qualified Students pursuant to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth herein. The training programs which are Authorized Programs may change from time to time. An up to date list of the training programs which are Authorized Programs can be viewed on the Company website at https://www.buffiniandcompany.com.
Client shall not hold himself out to be an agent, partner or representative of Buffini & Company.
Client is granted a personal, revocable license during the term of this Agreement or until its earlier termination by Buffini & Company to use the promotional material made available by Buffini & Company for download relating to an Authorized Program solely to promote classes, events or training to potential Qualified Students relating to an Authorized Program.
Except as provided in this Agreement and except pursuant to the license contained herein, no rights in any Authorized Program or any materials related to an Authorized Program or the Certification Course shall pass to the Client under this Agreement. All materials relating to an Authorized Program, materials relating to the certification course as well as the content included in any workbooks, DVDs, computer websites or other materials provided and all copyrights and trademarks related thereto shall remain the property of Buffini & Company.
Client shall not: (a) Train or attempt to train any person in all or part of an Authorized Program unless authorized by this agreement and the license contained herein; (b) use Buffini & Company's products in a way which is inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement or the License; (c) directly or indirectly charge Qualified Students for participating in an Authorized Program amounts or impose restrictions in addition to those required by Buffini & Company; (d) Train others to conduct an Authorized Program or Certification training or training related to an Authorized Program within or outside Client's organization; (e) copy, reproduce, capture or modify in any fashion any written materials, DVD's or other items provided except as authorized by Buffini & Company or the license granted in this Agreement (unless pursuant to the systems taught as part of an Authorized Program); (f) Create or permit the creation of any writings or things containing information derived from the items provided hereunder (unless pursuant to the systems taught as part of an Authorized Program); (g) sell or attempt to re-sell all or any portion of the workbook or other materials provided under this Agreement; (h) grant any sublicense or any other subsidiary use of an Authorized Program or Buffini & Company products except pursuant to this Agreement; (h) violate any law, rule, ordinance or statute in providing training for an Authorized Program.
This Agreement, and the License previously described, shall terminate upon any of the following: (a) This Agreement and License shall terminate automatically if the Client fails to satisfy the condition of training at least one Qualified Student in one Authorized Program during each 12-month period as provided in Paragraph 2 of this Section C. Upon the breach by the Client of any of the terms, conditions or restrictions of this Agreement, including but not limited to any financial obligations undertaken herein; (b) If Client or anyone acting under or in concert with him engages in any illegal, abusive or unprofessional conduct or conduct which would tend to hold Buffini & Company up to embarrassment or contempt; (c) if Buffini & Company, in its reasonable discretion, determines that the Client's presentation of training for an Authorized Program is unsatisfactory.
Upon termination of this Agreement, Client's access to the website portal for Buffini Certified Mentors or Buffini Certified Facilitators shall be terminated. Client shall return all training DVD's, workbooks, writings, or other materials provided to him under this Agreement, shall cease to hold himself out as a Buffini Certified Mentor™ or Buffini Certified Facilitator™ and shall cease providing training relating to an Authorized Program. Client shall certify in writing that he has complied fully with the obligations of this Agreement. Client shall further certify in writing that no unauthorized copies, summaries or things containing information derived from the DVD's, workbooks or other material provided hereunder exist.
Client and Buffini & Company agree that Buffini & Company will be irreparably harmed in the event that Client breaches any of the provisions of this Agreement. Accordingly, all of the provisions of this Agreement shall be specifically enforceable and Buffini & Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief against Client, as well as his agents, employees, affiliated persons or anyone acting under or in concert with him in addition to other available remedies for the breach of any provisions of said paragraphs.
Client agrees to take appropriate action to prevent or discourage any conduct or actions on the part of student participants or others which may be an infringement or other violation of, or which may result in an unauthorized use of an Authorized Program or the writings or other products which are a part of an Authorized Program. If a Client, during the term of this Agreement or any extension, becomes employed by or associated with a different real estate business, he will notify Buffini & Company promptly.
Client shall indemnify, defend and hold Buffini & Company harmless from and against any and all damages, claims, liabilities, losses or expenses that arise out of Client's use or training of an Authorized Program or the writings or products that are a part of that Program.
Client shall have no right to assign, delegate, transfer or otherwise encumber this Agreement without Buffini & Company's prior written consent.
The failure of any party to enforce its rights under this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver or continuing waiver of any of its rights or remedies.
If any provision of this Agreement or any part of the Agreement is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, each and every other provision or part thereof shall nevertheless continue in full force and effect.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements whether oral or written. This Agreement may not be modified except by a writing signed by each party. Each party acknowledges that there have been no promises, assurances or representations leading up to the execution of this Agreement which are not expressly set forth herein.
All disputes arising from or relating to the enforcement or interpretation of this Agreement shall be resolved in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Diego. Client consents to jurisdiction and venue in said courts for that purpose.
This Agreement constitutes a personal, non-assignable license for the Student to use products, services or information provided for or in connection with the Authorized Program in conformity with the systems or methods presented for his/her personal or existing business purposes not related to training or coaching. Any other duplication, dissemination or use of said products or information is prohibited. For purposes of this Agreement, "Authorized Program" means the training program created and owned by Buffini & Company that the Student has elected to enroll in by agreeing to the terms of this Student License Agreement and by paying the Student License Fee charged for such program. An up to date list of available Buffini & Company Authorized Programs can be viewed on the Company website at https://www.buffiniandcompany.com.
The Student shall not hold himself/herself out to be an agent, partner or representative of Buffini & Company.
Student shall not: (a) Train or attempt to train any person in all or part of the Authorized Program unless authorized by this agreement and the license contained herein; (b) use Buffini & Company's products in a way which is inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement or the License; (c) Train others to conduct Authorized Program or Certification Course training within or outside Student's organization; (d) copy, reproduce, capture or modify in any fashion any written, printed or digital materials, DVD's or other items provided except as authorized by Buffini & Company (unless pursuant to the systems taught as part of the Authorized Program); (e) Create or permit the creation of any writings or things containing information derived from the items provided hereunder; (f) grant any sublicense or any other subsidiary use of the Authorized Program or Buffini & Company products except pursuant to this Agreement; (g) sell or attempt to re-sell all or any portion of the workbook or other materials provided under this Agreement; (h) violate any law, rule, ordinance or statute in utilizing the Authorized Program.
This Agreement, and the License described previously may be terminated at any time by Buffini & Company for cause which shall include the breach of this Agreement by the client, abusive or unprofessional conduct or conduct which would tend to hold Buffini & Company up to embarrassment or contempt.
Student and Buffini & Company agree that Buffini & Company will be irreparably harmed in the event that Student breaches any of the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 or 3 hereof. Accordingly, all of the provisions of said paragraphs shall be specifically enforceable and Buffini & Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief against Student, as well as his/her agents, employees, affiliated persons or anyone acting under or in concert with him/her in addition to other available remedies for the breach of any provisions of said paragraphs.
Student shall have no right to assign, delegate, transfer or otherwise encumber this Agreement without Buffini & Company's prior written consent.
All disputes arising from or relating to the enforcement or interpretation of this Agreement shall be resolved in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Diego. Company consents to jurisdiction and venue in said courts for that purpose.


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ROHStrong Episode 72: Alyssa Marino
Pro wrestling on-air personality Alyssa Marino talks about hosting "Beyond the Belles" on Women's Division Wednesday; her thoughts on the ROH Women's World Title Tournament; training at Santino Bros. Wrestling Academy; her stint with NXT; her YouTube interview show "Let's Get Cereal," and much more. Plus,...
ROHStrong Episode 71: Trish Adora
"The Afro-Punk" Trish Adora talks about wanting to become the first black ROH Women's World Champion; wanting to win the title for her mother, who is battling cancer; spending all her money to join the ROH Combine a few years ago; having to grow up fast while living in Southeast D.C.; winning the Pan-Afrikan World...
ROHStrong Episode 70: Rey Horus
Rey Horus talks about his close friend Bandido winning the ROH World Title; his storied history with Demonic Flamita and their upcoming no-disqualification match; being trained by Rey Mysterio Sr. and wrestling as El Hijo de Rey Mysterio (Son of Rey Mysterio); getting to wrestle alongside his childhood idol, Rey Mysterio...
ROHStrong Episode 69: Gary Michael Cappetta
Legendary ring announcer Gary Michael Cappetta reflects on his storied career, including working for the McMahons, the NWA, AWA and WCW. He also talks about his time as a backstage interviewer during the early years of ROH; his appearance in AEW last year; his history with Rhett Titus; his thoughts on Jonathan Gresham...
ROHStrong Episode 68: Dalton Castle
Fresh off helping David Arquette's team win on ABC's "Celebrity Family Feud," Dalton Castle takes time out of his very busy schedule to join the podcast. The former ROH World Champion discusses his experience on the game show; his friendship with Arquette; the status of his tag team with Joe Hendry, and...


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#include "include/private/SkColorData.h"
#include "src/core/SkCoreBlitters.h"
#include "src/core/SkXfermodePriv.h"

SkA8_Coverage_Blitter::SkA8_Coverage_Blitter(const SkPixmap& device,
                             const SkPaint& paint) : SkRasterBlitter(device) {
    SkASSERT(nullptr == paint.getShader());
    SkASSERT(paint.isSrcOver());
    SkASSERT(nullptr == paint.getColorFilter());
}

void SkA8_Coverage_Blitter::blitAntiH(int x, int y, const SkAlpha antialias[],
                                      const int16_t runs[]) {
    uint8_t* device = fDevice.writable_addr8(x, y);
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void SkA8_Coverage_Blitter::blitH(int x, int y, int width) {
    memset(fDevice.writable_addr8(x, y), 0xFF, width);
}

void SkA8_Coverage_Blitter::blitV(int x, int y, int height, SkAlpha alpha) {
    if (0 == alpha) {
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    uint8_t* dst = fDevice.writable_addr8(x, y);
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        dst += dstRB;
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    uint8_t* dst = fDevice.writable_addr8(x, y);
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        dst += dstRB;
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    if (SkMask::kA8_Format != mask.fFormat) {
        this->INHERITED::blitMask(mask, clip);
        return;
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    int x = clip.fLeft;
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    uint8_t* dst = fDevice.writable_addr8(x, y);
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    while (--height >= 0) {
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const SkPixmap* SkA8_Coverage_Blitter::justAnOpaqueColor(uint32_t*) {
    return nullptr;
}

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bd4travel are excited to announce that we have been shortlisted as finalist in 3 categories of the Travolution Awards 2016. We are among excellent company in the categories for which we have been nominated: Best Technological Innovation, Best Technology Product and Best Technology Provider.
"These nominations are a great endorsement of our commitment to innovation in support of the travel business' challenge of driving customer engagement and improving conversion" said Andy Owen-Jones CEO. "This recognition rewards the whole teams' hard work and dedication and we look forward to the awards evening".


Abu Dhabi is the capital of United Arab Emirates. The city is one of the seven Emirates, which make up the federation. For many years, the metropolis was overshadowed by the much more glamorous neighboring emirate of Dubai. Nevertheless, the city is slowly making a mark for itself on the globe tourist map in the last couple of years. It is known for its gardens, parks, seaside promenades, high-increase buildings and shopping malls.
Dubai Hop-On Hop-Off Tour: You get a 24 hour ticket on a double decker bus that takes you to a multitude of sites via out Dubai. This tour also provides you totally free admission to Dubai Museum, and Arabian Dhow Cruise. It is a fantastic begin to your holiday in Dubai. You will see the metropolis and all it has to provide. This tour even allows you to produce your own itinerary.
It is the biggest shopping mall of Dubai with much more than two hundred shops. Individuals around the world love to shop branded products in this shopping mall. It is a part of 1 of the best skyscrapers of Dubai i.e. Burj Khalifa.
If you like adventure then it is advisable to plan 1 day in desert safari dubai. Tour operator delivers a wide selection of packages for the safari in Dubai. This tour provides fun activities for every member of family members. You can do sand boarding, camel using and dune bashing in the broad desert of Dubai. The most fascinating second will be one when you see the amazing sunlight established see throughout the horizon of desert dunes.
If you're contemplating Dubai as the destination for your next incentive journey, I hope that you will find some of these ideas based on what I have noticed during the last eight one/2 many years to be of worth. Maintaining these guidelines in mind will ensure your ease and comfort and help you spend an enjoyable and memorable time in Dubai. It will be a unique incentive trip that your group will speak about for many years.
Your all inclusive holiday package deal to Dubai will include of your air fare to Dubai, your lodging in Dubai, your meals, your conveyance to visit different resorts of Dubai, your entertainment in Dubai and so on. this indicates that you just require to have some spending cash with you and all other specifications will be fulfilled by your all inclusive holiday package. There are all inclusive vacation deals for families, couples and singles. You might select the one accordingly. You can also discover child care in all inclusive vacation packages for families. These deals may be economical or magnificent. You might select in accordance to your budget.
If you are ready to have enjoyable, then make your subsequent journey to Dubai and encounter all this. Following returning you will feel fresh, calm and charged up for your work. You can have sweet recollections with your cherished ones which you can seize in your digital camera. Choose off season to arrive to Dubai so that you can avail for more discount offers and schemes.


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PCBL announces new carbon black plant in Egypt
Phillips Carbon Black Ltd. released plans for a new carbon black plant to be built in Borg El Arab, Alexandria, Egypt. The plant would cost US$170 million with capacity of 140,000 tonnes/year and startup in early 2016. This project was first mentioned in PCBL's Investor Outlook from May 2013, but no details were provided at that time.
India's biggest producer of raw carbon black, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group plans to build a USD 170 million carbon black plant in Alexandria, according to a board member at the Egyptian Indian Polyester Company (EIPC). "The project will be located at Borg El Arab, Alexandria and spread over an area of 200,000 square meters," Amre Fayed, a member of Board of Directors told Zawya.
"The group will invest USD 170 million in the first stage to produce 140,000 tons of carbon black, which is used in the manufacture of tyres," he said.
The company, which is the world's sixth biggest producer of carbon black, has 'completed all technical and financial studies' related to the project and submitted required papers to various Egyptian authorities for approval to start work on the plant.
Fayed said the plant is expected to start production by the beginning of 2016; around 20 percent of production will cater to domestic demand and 80 percent to exports.
When completed, the project will provide about 1,400 direct and indirect job opportunities.


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K. Tilden Frost
Autistic Enby Takes On Comics And Advocacy
Content is Royalty
January 9, 2018 January 9, 2018 ktfrost42
I'm Quitting Marvel Because Marvel Hates Me
I was twenty-two, and I was working as a cashier at Borders. A woman approached the counter with two celebrity autobiographies in her hands. She told me a story about a daughter who was laid up and needed some reading material. She'd seen two books on our New Bio table and grabbed them, but needed help with her final choice. I don't remember what book the first one was, but the second book was a tell all by Anne Heche. She asked me who these two people were, and I could easily explain the first one, but I was desperate to describe Anne Heche as anything other than someone's ex.
I tried a bunch of things; she was in Six Days, Seven Nights with Harrison Ford, she was in the remake of Psycho. Nothing stuck. I had nothing left. "She was married to Ellen DeGeneres."
I expected some homophobic remark; this was 2002, when Vermont was reeling from the civil unions debate and its divisive tone. I did not expect what happened. She threw the book at me and declared, loudly, "Ugh, no, I don't want something about one of them."
I'd been on my feet for 10 hours straight (figuratively), and I'd asked every single customer if they had their Borders Reward card with them. I was done with everything, and I was more glib than I've been in my entire life, before or since. "Okay. That's fine. Would you be alright with one of them ringing you up? If you'd rather, the cashier down at the end is free, and as far as I know she's one of you, but you're welcome to ask, if you want to."
And I stared. I stared until she said, in a very small voice, that no, it was fine, she'd be happy to have me ring her up, and actually she would buy both books, and thank you.
I watched her leave the store, and then I collapsed into tears and panic. Part of it was being absolutely sure that I was about to lose my job (I didn't), but a bigger piece was that it was the first time I had confronted the sheer vitriol of homophobia since I'd come out.
I was one of them.
Let's back up.
When I was 20, and I was still convinced that kissing girls was just a thing that everyone thought about sometimes, I worked at a department store, in a clothing department. I wore a pretty typical retail uniform for that time: knee length skirt, hose, some sort of blouse or sweater. And I was also desperately trying to get back into comics. As a kid, I'd been obsessed with A.L.F. and Archie and occasionally a few Disney comics. My father, however, felt very strongly that comics were for boys, and so unless I was spending my hard earned ice cream money on the newest Archie Digest, I couldn't keep up. So after a little bit, I stopped reading comics.
But I made my own ice cream money now, and I could spend it how I wanted. That meant that during my lunch break, I'd often walk down the street to the local comic book store. I'd stumbled onto Spawn somewhere along my way, and I absolutely loved the book. I'd managed to get most of the back issues, but I was desperate to read the rest of the story. Image books couldn't ship on time if McFarlane's Mark McGwire baseball collection was on the line, so I never knew when to look for it. Going weekly was the best solution. But after that summer, I gave up on the store, and I gave up on comics.
A note: at the time I thought that there were shipping delays; that would hardly have been news for Image. But during the process of writing this article, I looked up the shipping schedule for Spawn, and you know what? That comic wasn't late once that whole fucking year, and not once did the store employees ever mention the words 'pull list.' I don't know why I couldn't get copies for myself. Except that I do. And it kills me.
But I digress. Why did I quit comics overall in the summer of 2000? I was tired of being hit on, for one, but the second was more frustrating: no one would fucking recommend anything to me.
Dealing with unwanted advances and street harassment is a pretty common experience for femme and non-binary presenting folk in the world, and as much as it frustrates, annoys, and sometimes frightens me, I'm pretty used to it, and pretty good at shutting it down.
But the inability to get a recommendation was, frankly, bizarre. Nerds of any stripe love to talk about their nerd stuff. Ask a computer nerd a question, and you will learn all about hardware and software and coding, whatever their specialty is. Ask a book nerd what they're reading, and sit back and enjoy the show. Ask a Star Wars nerd if they preferred The Last Jedi or any other Star Wars movie, and watch the sparks fly. So how the hell did I spend most of a summer in a comic book shop, asking every week if there was any news on the next issue of Spawn, without finding another book to hang my hat on?
Here's how things go when you're me, a relatively femme-appearing white person who mostly passes as straight. I'd mention in passing that I really liked that movie The Matrix, and I would immediately be quizzed on my reading history within cyberpunk. I'd say that I dug Ray Bradbury, and get questioned for hours about whether I preferred Asimov or Heinlein. And these days, if I mention that I like Wolverine, there's hours of queries on the history of the X-Men or whether Logan or James Howlett is a more appropriate name for the character. If I was lucky, these interrogations were an awkward but well meant attempt to bring a new acolyte into the fold by slamming every volume of comics history over her head. But more often than not it was a game of keepaway, designed to make me fail and look stupid in front of the guys who thought I was intruding on their space.
Every week I went into that comics store. Every week I asked, "No Spawn?" They replied: no Spawn. (The Spawn which, I know now, seems to have shipped on time all year long.) "Any news?" Alas no. "So what else is good?" Silence.
That's not entirely true, I suppose. Occasionally the cashier – the one who wasn't trying to get a date – would suggest maybe I'd like Archie?
Motherfucker, if I'm reading Spawn, don't patronize me by recomming fucking Archie. Give me Preacher, give me Sandman, give me Batman Gotham Adventures, give me Ultimate Spider-Man, give me fucking anything. Try. Amazing books were available then, amazing books I could have been reading. I know they exist because people are recommending them to me now. Things they say I should have read, things they tell me I'm not an insider because I did not read. Even though they were the ones who kept me from reading them.
It was painfully clear that I wasn't wanted in that store, and honestly? I would have been okay with it if they'd just hung the "No Girls Allowed" sign where I could see.
So after that summer, I gave up on Spawn. I gave up on comics. I read Sandman and Preacher later in college when they were given to me by friends, but I stopped trying to find books on my own for about a decade. I've talked in length about how I got back into comics in the early 2010s here; to recap, I started reading comics again when I read books written about women by women. This reading trend has continued; while I've at various points read X-Men titles, Avengers titles, and every major Marvel tie-in event since Schism, the books that kept me tuned in were, over and over, the titles that had that #ownvoices connection: books about "diverse" (not cishet [cisgendered and heterosexual] white male) characters, often by authors whose marginalizations matched their characters. My recent primary reading list, either by subscription or in trade:
Unstoppable Wasp
Hulk (Re-branded as She-Hulk for the trade, so the 'real' Hulk didn't get cooties.)
Hawkeye: Kate Bishop
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
All-New Wolverine
Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart
And hey, for your handy reference, here's a list of the comics that Marvel just canceled:
Generation X, an X-Men team headed by Jubilee
Unbelievable Gwenpool
(Unstoppable Wasp, Mockingbird, and Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat are female-led titles that all got canceled several months ago)
Notice some crossover? If Twitter is to be believed, the vast majority of cishet white men did not, while everyone else really, really did. Every single canceled book has a marginalized main character; Black man, women, women of color, gay man, queer women of color.
Joe Quesada was quick to claim that the cancellations had nothing to do with diversity:
If a comic finds an audience it will stick around regardless of the lead character or creator's gender, ethnicity, sexual preference or identification. You can claim we're tone deaf but we PUBLISHED those books but you guys ultimately decide what survives. https://t.co/Uvw9pNiaXL
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) December 21, 2017
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People took issue with how the former EiC and current Chief Creative Officer were blaming them for the books being canceled (as if Marvel had nothing to do with it); he then immediately said that he wasn't blaming the readership, just, you know, the readers.
If you've been reading my tweets you'd understand that I'm not blaming readership. I've said the issue could be on the character, editorial or creative end. However, customers decide when we get it right and when we get it wrong. That's not blame, that's giving you guys power! https://t.co/IOTjG0jnVz
Yeah…no. Just no. There's this thing that happens when companies "diversify" their offerings. Goal posts get perpetually moved – and invisibly, at that. First, it's the classic, "Well if the writing was good enough, those people would get published." Then, "If those stories were good enough, they would succeed." Then, "Well, those stories that we didn't push and didn't maintain and didn't even wait to see how they'd do in trade didn't survive, and it must be because the readership doesn't want these titles."
During my years at Borders, there was this constant tension over having segregated fiction sections such as African-American Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, and Gay Fiction. There were two sides to the argument. Side 1: Pulling these titles out makes it easier for the people who want them to find them. Side 2: Pulling these titles out is segregation and separate but equal bullshit. It made us them. I was, and remain, firmly on side #2. At every relaunch, Marvel has talked about their "diverse" titles, clearly separating them out from the rest of their books. Ostensibly, this may be to try and expand their marketing base, but the incredibly poor way these announcements are handled (always, always othered, rather than part and parcel of "the world outside your window") and the nonexistent push these book gets makes it clear that Marvel is doing two things. They are trying to check off "diverse" on their Ally Bingo card, and they are making sure their typical customer base (an ever aging group of white male nerds) knows how to avoid them. How to avoid me.
Marvel likes to act like poor readership happens in a vacuum. They fail to acknowledge that the primary method of publicizing new books is through local comic stores adding things to customers' pull lists. They market things in a place where I – and people like me – have been specifically made to feel unwelcome, and then wonder why we don't buy the books.
The thing is, we do buy the books. We buy them in digital and we buy them in trade, neither of which forces us to subject ourselves to the potentially hostile environment of the LCS. I know there are some great comic stores out there – I have one near me now – but that is far, far from a universal experience. But Comixology and Amazon are on the other end of your high speed internet connection. (Which is not universally available, an outgrowth of classism that someone not me is better equipped to have.)
G. Willow Wilson's brilliant Ms. Marvel gets held up as proof that Marvel does consider trade and digital sales when it determines which books to cancel and which to retain, but G. Willow Wilson herself has commented on the sheer number of factors that contributed to Kamala's unexpected success – and how it moved the goalposts yet again for characters who were outside the cishet white male norm. There are also plenty of examples where it's simply untrue that Marvel waited for trade numbers, despite seeing how important they were to Ms. Marvel's success. To pull some numbers from this Twitter thread: Unstoppable Wasp was canceled at issue #8, a month before the first trade came out. Iceman was canceled at the end of December; the first trade came out on December 27th. I had planned to buy it for myself as a birthday present. Mockingbird was also canceled at #8, along with the digital equivalent of an Anne Heche book thrown at author Chelsea Cain's head, for bringing girls in, bring them in. The resulting publicity from her treatment was the most the book was ever talked about on comic news sites, going so far as the Washington Post. And in light of not just her treatment, but the series' quality, the first trade paperback became the number one selling Marvel comic during the height of the outrage – outrage from fans who were so angry at them, and from the them who saw we were being pushed out.
My ranting wasn't a plea for affirmation. Truly. I'm just done here. I'm amazed at the cruelty comics brings out in people.
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) October 26, 2016
If you've got a New York Times bestseller writing a critically acclaimed comic and most of her fans don't hear about it until after its been canceled, that's on you, not them. (And if you really want to hurt, click through and see how Brian Michael Bendis, that "meat and potatoes" writer who everyone loves, responded. (And Cain and Bendis are *friends*.))
Both digital comics and trades sales numbers are hard to track; you can look at best sellers lists and make some guesses, but with Diamond numbers right out there, many people latch onto these as "proof" that a book is doing well or is failing. They happily ignore that these numbers only reflect what comic book stores think they can sell, not what they can actually sell. Meanwhile, the vast majority of digital and trade numbers are almost certainly sales to them, sales to people like me, who hate their LCS but still love comics.
Most of my comics-reading friends are those outside of the typical comics demographic. They've read Batwoman, Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel, but they've wouldn't set foot in a local comic store. They all had a moment, earlier on, where they went to a store and were one of them; now they get their books through Comixology. It's a safe place for them.
So when Marvel says they count digital and trade sales, I flat out don't believe them. (For the record, neither does Peter David, though I do disagree with his sideways blaming of trade readers.) Marvel is prioritizing an outdated and dying business model because they don't know how or aren't willing to remove themselves from a relationship that is no longer serving their needs. I'm not talking about Diamond, though it's that too – it's the people who have been buying their books this way for twenty years, and who fight to make sure it stays comfortable for them and only them. Their way of doing that is pushing out everyone else.
But even if I pretend to believe Marvel that these books were canceled because of low sales, canceling them all at the same time is a terrible, terrible look. Especially when your Senior VP of Sales and Marketing has gone on record saying "people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there." When your Editor-in-Chief is a white dude who pretended to be Japanese so he could sell a comic. When there are constant, serious articles written about whether the current Marvel "diversity trend" is helping or harming the company.
So I'd like to clue you in, gentle reader, to a fun fact: diversity isn't a fucking trend. The world outside my window involves people who encompass a spectrum of skin colors and genders and sexualities and ability levels and neurology types. Maybe Marvel's windows have gotten smaller over the years, because all they seem to see is the same white guy customers they've been cultivating for decades. But reflecting the world as it is? Not a trend.
Let's do a fun thought experiment. Imagine all the people in the world. We already know there are more people who are a shade of brown than there are white, right? Just by starting with white people, we're already narrowing our group significantly.
Now think of just the percentage of white people who are men. We all know that more girls are born (assigned gender) than boys, and that women live longer than men. So our group here is getting smaller.
Now think of the percentage that is straight. Figure the most conservative estimate says that 1 in 10 people are gay (LGB) right? So that takes out another chunk of your pool. We don't have any kind of accurate estimate of how many people are trans or on the ace spectrum, but just for fun, let's say that's another 1 in 10. Getting smaller. And not every cishet white guy is a comic book nerd. So, you've got a smaller and smaller buying pool.
I write about marketing quite literally every day. When you're a micro-company, having an incredibly small and specialized niche market is the key to success. But when you're a big-ass company with serious electric bills and major shipping costs, you need to appeal to more people. And, frankly, the population of people who are brown, queer, female, etc – or sometimes more than one at once! – is a hell of a lot bigger. Why in the world would you choose to ignore them? Even if books with more diversity aren't selling as well as the major cishet white guy titles; there's a concept in business called loss leaders. I went over that in a Twitter rant here:
Thread.
So here's a thing Marvel completely fails to understand as they yet again cancel a round of titles featuring characters that fall outside of the cis white straight male stereotype of superhero comic self-insert bullshit.
— K. Tilden Frost (@KTildenFrost) December 22, 2017
Loss leaders are a necessary part of successful retail. You sell certain products at a loss to bring in customers outside your base, hoping to convert a percentage of them to regulars. This is why your favorite bookstore sells new books at an absurd discount, why Amazon sells Kindles at a loss, why your cell phone company gives you great deals on new phones, why freemium software exists…this is a standard retail practice. DC, a company which lacks self-awareness to such a degree that they were surprised that a lesbian Batwoman would be a big deal to anyone, has used the concept of loss leaders to bring in younger fans, figuring they will 'graduate' to other titles and remain long-term customers. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Marvel would do well to take a leaf from the tobacco industry.
I love All-New Wolverine; I've loved Laura Kinney since her first series by Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle and the follow up by Marjorie Liu. I loved her in Uncanny X-Force, I loved her in All-New X-Men, and God help me, I even loved her in that horrible Battle Royale rip-off mini series, Avengers Arena. Wearing the mantle of Wolverine in the All-New title, Laura is coming into her own, overcoming the trigger scent that had been her major weakness up to now, making peace with old villains from her past, and developing a relationship with her clone, Gabby, which mirrored her past relationships with Gambit and Logan, while showing her deliberately trying to give Gabby more than she ever got. It's an exceptional series, and I absolutely love it.
And it had made me start thinking that it would be worth it to get back into the X-Men again. I had been hardcore in for a little while, reading all the team books as Scott Summers and Wolverine fought about whose school would survive, as Emma Frost and Magneto tried to recover their powers after they had been broken by their encounter with the Phoenix Force, and as the time-displaced X-men tried to figure out where they belonged in this new world. (I quit over "full gay," one of the many, many times that Bendis was tone-deaf writing outside his lane, and a classic example of what happens when someone who is not marginalized tries to write about someone who is) If I started reading one X-Men title, I was going to have to read them all; it's almost impossible to read just one and know what's going on.
But now? No. No way.
Let's back up again. Because on top of the cancellations, in a one-two punch that reduced me to absolute tears, Marvel just announced a Create Your Own Comic website which, apart from being a blatant rights grab like all "we'll totally publish your fanfic about our worlds" sites, won't accept submissions that include:
"Content that could frighten or upset young children or the parents of young children."
Prescription drugs or over-the-counter medication, vitamins, and dietary supplements.
"Suggestive or revealing images," including "bare midriffs"
"Sensationalism," which is not defined but elucidated with the examples "killer bees, gossip, aliens, scandal, etc."
"Obscenity, bad or offensive language" or "proxies for bad or offensive language." E.g. no "X@#%!"
"Noises related to bodily functions."
No politics, including "alternative lifestyle advocacies"
"Misleading language"
"A copy or parody of current or past Marvel advertising creative"
Any "controversial topics," including "social issues"
Double entendres
Any amusement parks that aren't Disney amusement parks
Any movie studios that aren't "affiliated with Marvel"
I mean, I guess my first question is, has Marvel read their own comics?
But look closer. I bolded it to make it easy. Social issues. Alternative lifestyle "advocacies," which is as clear a code for "social degenerates" as "ungrateful" is for "uppity." Yet more evidence that Marvel thinks of diversity as a trend, a social justice warrior checkbox to move on from, not real live breathing people who were, until recently, featured in their own damn comics. Who were providing real, honest portrayals of ways that people who looked or felt like them could be superheroes in a world that, more than ever, seems out to destroy them. Out to destroy me, a queer, autistic, enby who just wants to read some good comics without feeling like there's no happy endings in them for someone like me.
So I quit Marvel. I canceled my digital single issues. I canceled all my trade pre-orders. People assume that this sort of move is a "boycott," an organized attempt to get a company to change policy. I get why there's pushback against that, and why people point out that boycotting hurts creators, not the company itself. I really do understand. But.
First, it's my money, I will do exactly what I goddamn well want with it, and if my choice is to support indie creators and companies who value my existence, then that's what I'm going to do.
Second, these arguments are predicated on the notion that I'm taking my business elsewhere like some bitch in a huff because I think it'll get me what I want. I appreciate – and personally, know very well – the pain that comes when a creative something barely makes a ripple when you were hoping for a splash. But there are so few places I can turn for representation that when I lose a piece of that, I end up losing a piece of myself. I still remember how it felt when Joss killed Tara all those years ago; more recently, I remember when I quit The 100 after hearing that the lesbian love interest was being killed off to make way for the cute male hero all the fans shipped. And I remember how I felt, one morning in December, when I woke up to find that virtually all the books I love were being canceled because I wasn't enough.
Excuse me. Because the sales weren't enough. That's what I meant. Right?
Maybe Marvel doesn't even hate me. Maybe Marvel is indifferent to me, my existence, even my money. Maybe Marvel just thinks that to keep the readers they have, they have to agree with those readers who hate me. Marvel didn't see me there before, trying to get my foot in the door and continually ignored, interrogated, and sometimes just pushed out of the way. Why would they care about me now?
After all, Marvel only loves what it can commodify. That's a business model doomed to fail in the modern age. Successful companies now operate on passion products, items that they love so much they need to share them with like-minded customers. That model makes crowdfunding work, that makes social media work, that makes our modern digital commerce work.
But then, there's plenty of work out there – Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Angie Thomas, Roxane Gay, I can keep going – which demonstrates that you can commodify products tailored to an audience outside of cishet white men and be incredibly successful. So maybe the problem is that Marvel only loves what it already knows how to sell. It loves white Captain America and white guy Thor and their rapidly aging white guy audience that is here for their white guy characters who tell them they can be better than they are, or will ever be. The rest of us are welcome to enjoy these characters if we want – as long as we don't mind that they don't share any aspect of our perspective or identity, and as long as we show proper gratitude for being allowed in in the first place.
According to Marvel, only cishet white men get the recognition of themselves as valid. Queer Puerto Ricans and gay men and Black men and even just girls who want to be superhero detectives and get to hang out with Jessica Jones (a non-traditional, alcoholic, PTSD-ridden woman who was, it turns out, sellable enough to get her own television show) don't get a chance to see themselves saving the world, making mistakes, falling in love, having broken hearts, picking themselves up and moving on. Why don't they want there be room for all of us?
Far too many of us know the answer to that question.
I'm not quitting comics in general. I'm still going to buy the Marvel comics I love, but I'm going to buy them second hand so Marvel gets absolutely none of my goddamn money. I'm not going to quit DC or Image or other well-known companies. I like those books, and I want them to see that I'm here – and right now they've shown more than Marvel that they want me to be seen. I'm going to seek out and support indie creators who want me to get my happy ending as much as I do. I'm going to look for creators who are more marginalized than me, or who are differently marginalized, and I'm going to support their work because even someone who doesn't look or act like me is still a reflection of humanity that has value – emotionally and monetarily. I'm going to recommend the hell out of these books, and instead of focusing on them as "diverse," I'm just going to tell people that they're goddamn good. Man, if you haven't read Issue #9 of theRebirth run of Batwoman I just don't even know what you're doing with your life.
Image from Issue #9 of Batwoman (Rebirth)
But let's back up one more time. Because I did something important before I made the call to cancel all my Marvel books. I called my 10 year old into the room. She's the one, after all, who lives for Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and was ecstatic about the new Spider-Girl collection, two preorders on my personal chopping block. I explained what Marvel had done, how they kept canceling comics about people who looked and felt even a little bit differently from the people who ran the company.
She had some questions. She asked why Disney didn't make Marvel stop it. I explained that Marvel movies and Marvel comics don't actually have a hell of a lot to do with each other, and that Disney didn't really have much to do with Marvel comics. I talked about how the Marvel movies are doing some really cool things, in fact, talking about the appreciation of Thor: Ragnarok and its indictment of colonialism from the point of view of indigenous people.
She was grateful that the movies hadn't been tainted for her, but she was shocked that Marvel would cancel all these books in this way. She's still at an age where she believes that adults are inherently kind and just. After all, we condition kids pretty hard to trust the adults around them. The entire world is committed to teaching my daughter to be kind, loving, empathetic; I'm here to teach her how to be angry – why she should be, and that it's okay, even right. I have to teach her how to see those tricky little "No Girls Allowed" signs, the ones that are hidden behind sideways comments and fake geek girl memes and comics that just never happen to be in stock when you're there. I have to teach her to see the signs that warn off all the other members of the great them and teach her to tear them all the way the fuck down, and promise her that she doesn't have to be sweet while she does it.
So after explaining the situation and getting her reactions, I asked her what she thought we should do. She asked what choices we had; after all, she wanted to read about the characters she loves, but she didn't think these people sounded very nice, and she didn't think they should get paid. When I talked about buying the books used, she said she thought that was the very best idea. Marvel doesn't really understand that it lost two customers instead of one, because it doesn't seem to care very much about her either.
And you know, maybe they shouldn't. After all, Boom! Box and Viz and even DC are doing a vastly better job of catering to her interests and welcoming her through the door of comics. I'd rather have Marvel be honest that we're not welcome than lie about it. Because I don't want my daughter to feel like them in a comic book store. And if I do my job right, she won't see a them. Just the many flavors of us, and the people who try to divide us.
I'm disappointed in Marvel. Their characters taught me to love comics again after years and years of not giving a shit. But it turns out they have no use for me; in turn, I have no use for them. I don't love Marvel any more than I love Kleenex; they are a means to an end, a distribution method that used to help me explore a medium that I love.
But I can't support someone who hates me anymore. I won't.
Published by ktfrost42
A queer, autistic, enby author who writes erotica and romance (sometimes at the same time!) as well as dark fantasy. I'm a full time freelancer, and a deep lover of comics.	View all posts by ktfrost42
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Q: How to use custom widgets in django forms (datetime picker) I'm trying to implement a datetime picker in a django form, I've also tried to find a jQuery picker but none fitted me, so I got back to trying with Django forms. After looking for days for a solution I've been checking custom widgets and found one:
class TimeW(widgets.MultiWidget):
{...etc...}
But now, I don't know how to use it, I tried this:
lastcheck = forms.DateField(forms.TimeW())

But it gives me a:

AttributeError at /
'module' object has no attribute 'TimeW'

A: You get the attribute error because you are using forms.TimeW, but TimeW is not defined in forms.
Change your field to:
lastcheck = forms.DateField(widget=TimeW())

If TimeW is defined in the same module, that will work. If TimeW is defined somewhere else, you'll have to add the import to the top of the module.
from path.to.widget import TimeW