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Welcoming two new WordPress Core contributors
by Donna French August 13, 2020
Joost de Valk
Joost de Valk is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Yoast. He's a digital marketer, developer and an Open Source fanatic.
I'm happy to welcome two new members to team Yoast, who will spend their time making WordPress core better. Justin Ahinon and Ari Stathopoulos are both joining our ranks. This means they'll have even more time than they already did to spend on making WordPress better for everyone. All of this in line with our core values of sharing and collaboration and making the web better.
A little while ago we made it known in the WordPress community that we were looking for a couple of new WordPress core contributors to join our team. We had a number of great applications, but Ari and Justin really stood out. Let me introduce them to you:
Meet Ari Stathopoulos
Ari got a strong recommendation from several people in the core community. He has a long history in the WordPress world, is active in the Themes team and well, he checked all the boxes. When I asked Ari why he was excited to join our team here at Yoast, this was his answer:
I've been a fan of Team Yoast for years… It is a team striving to improve things for everyone building an online presence, a team committed to open-source with strong principles.
Joining team Yoast will allow me to work alongside people with the same passions and drive as I, towards a common goal: Making life easier and better for everyone online. I've always thought of Yoast as a company with a holistic approach to SEO, and an understanding that accessibility and sustainability on the web are important, a true pioneer. Having the opportunity to work with a team like that is exciting!
You can find Ari on the WordPress Slack, or learn more about him on his WordPress profile.
Meet Justin Ahinon
Justin is a prolific member of the documentation team. If you ever read make.wordpress.org, the site to follow all core development, you'll have seen some of his posts. Recently he coordinated the documentation for the WordPress 5.5 release, a hugely important task that we're very happy to support him doing. I asked him the same question as Ari, and his answer was:
I knew that Yoast was a company that was committed to giving back to the WordPress project and advancing the community. This information alone put Yoast in the places where I wanted to work, because it's also something that's close to my heart. Plus, after reading the description of the position I applied for, I immediately felt like it was a role I would be comfortable in.
I just had to take this opportunity to join this wonderful team.
You can find Justin on the WordPress Slack, here's his WordPress profile.
We look forward to improve WordPress further with these two gentlemen joining us. But, even with these brand new colleagues, we have not yet fully completed our hiring goals. So… If you or someone you know would be a good fit, see this WordPress core developer opening!
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One of the undoubted success stories on the Dreamcast was Crazy Taxi. Hitmaker took the simple concept of picking up and dropping off passengers against a strict time limit and in turn produced a game that was as much fun as it was addictive.
Before long this game had earned itself a loyal following of Crazy Taxi devotees, whilst it was widely recognised as being a prime an example of what the Dreamcast can do so well with the right developers backing; that is to bring excellent pure-bred arcade games into the home with little in the way of compromise. Naturally, furthering this successful game was an opportunity far too good to miss, and now the second incarnation has arrived in the form of the predictably named Crazy Taxi 2.
Those who have played the original will find themselves in very familiar territory with Crazy Taxi 2. You have a choice of options at the start; Around Apple and Small Apple are the first two and form the main part of the game. The Crazy Pyramid is a continuation of the Crazy Box mode in the previous game and consists of the usual selection of bizarre and increasingly difficult challenges, from jumping onto ever increasingly high platforms (more on jumping later) to a quick round of Crazy Golf with you as the putter. Completion of these challenges unlocks vehicles and other bonuses to be used in the game. Select a city and you are presented with a choice of four characters to choose from. The characters are nicely designed and can be quite amusing at times, there is punk-rocker Slash, Iceman, Cinnamon and Hot-D to choose from.
After your selections have been made, its time to "Go and make some C-raazzzy Money!" Once again Sega have done a great job in rendering the cities which this time round is based loosely on New York. Bright, colourful graphics that are also crisp and appealing were a trademark of the original and have thankfully been carried over to the sequel. The streets are crowded with all sorts of pedestrians, whom always manage to dive out of the way just in time as you fly hurtling towards them. Stores are instantly recognisable; HMV and Burger King and the Hard Roc Café all make appearances. The roads are packed with traffic; busses, lorries and cars are everywhere. It is highly impressive how Sega have managed to construct such a detailed city with so much going on, and yet there is precious little slowdown to hamper the games fast and fluid motion. The soundtrack once again comes courtesy of Offspring, whilst in game sound effects are similar to Crazy Taxi's but this time round the passengers are far more talkative, particularly when you pick up a group at once.
From then on its business as usual in terms of the gameplay. Belt around the city at ridiculous speeds then slamming on the brakes when you spot a potential customer, whose destination distance is determined by the colour of the circle around them. The introduction of multiple drop-offs adds to the sequel. If you spot a crowd of people surrounded by a blue circle that means that there will be more than one drop off point, and more money to be earned. The turbo's remain from the original, whack the car into reverse then back to gear and accelerate and you will propel the car to even greater speeds, yes, the original Dreamcast Joypad wrecker is back and be careful as the shoulder buttons really will get a work out with this game.
You would be forgiven for thinking this is merely an extension of the first with very little in the way of new features, and to an extent you would be right as there is fundamentally little to differentiate the two in terms of gameplay. However, Sega have made one very important change, as your taxi is now able to jump, very high. Infact, timing this right can sometimes send you up to the top of buildings, with a little assistance, where you are free to shortcut the bustling roads below. Jumping is a simple case of pressing the "Y" button, perhaps too simple for this reviewers liking, as before long it becomes simply a case of jumping over the oncoming traffic rather than using your driving skills to manoeuvre your way through the city.
It is this new feature that I feel is detrimental to the gameplay of Crazy Taxi, as it removes some of the intenseness there was in the first when frantically trying to dodge through traffic to reach your destination in time. Where once you would have been required to weave through traffic you are now simply able to jump over it which is fine at first but becomes an all too easy way out too often and requires far less skill to achieve. The cities are now even bigger, and you will be hard pushed to remember all of the roads and locations as you could in the first. The Pyramid challenges are generally up to standard, but you feel that Hitmaker were sometimes struggling to come up with new ideas for the sequel. You are unable to set the amount of time to play as you could in the original, which will disappoint those whom enjoyed the longer gaming experience.
All said, Crazy Taxi 2 is still a worthwhile purchase for any Dreamcast owner who enjoyed the first. It is more of the same, with bigger cities and new characters to use and unlock, whilst the graphics have been improved as they are more fluid than the first, however pop-up is still very evident although it does little to effect the gameplay to any large degree. The crazy jump may appeal to some people, but personally I would rather have seen innovation I different areas as I feel it does not improve the gameplay, rather diminishes it.
Crazy Taxi 2 encapsulates the feeling and the fun that was to be had out of the first, and as such is an above average title that will be enjoyed by and will not disappoint many people and is a worthwhile purchase for any Dreamcast owner who is a fan of the genre.


Carbonite Reviews  - Is it a Good Online Backup Provider?
Carbonite is a reputable and widely used, set it and forget it type of online backup and cloud storage. One of its main selling points is the unlimited online backup space it offers, so running out of online storage is something that you'll never have to worry about. Carbonite is used by a large number of customers across the globe, and the company backs up over 350,000,000 files each day. Carbonite has adopted a successful marketing strategy and worked on increasing brand awareness through several celebrity endorsements, which also account for its great popularity.
Is Carbonite all that it's cracked up to be? It so happens that Carbonite's claim to fame is based on a solid product that provides good value for your money. Let's delve into the details of what makes Carbonite an online backup service worthy of your attention.
Carbonite has several subscription plans and useful features for all types of users. Carbonite's customer care team has received 25 major awards and the customer satisfaction rating is at 94%.
Carbonite offers two types of plans – for home and for office. Those looking for a cloud backup for their home PC can choose from the following subscriptions: Basic for $59.99/year, Plus for $99.99/year, and Prime for $149.99/year. All these plans come with unlimited cloud storage for 1 PC, automatic cloud backup, and remote access to your files from your mobile phone. The mirror image backup (local backup of your hard drive and OS) and external hard drive backup are only available in the Plus and Prime plans, while currier recovery service and automatic video backup are features available in the Prime plan. While the Basic plan works on both Windows and Mac, the higher tier plans are only compatible with Windows. The mobile app can be downloaded to your Android, iOS or other mobile devices. You can try Carbonite Home plans for free for 15 days.
At Carbonite, multi-year subscriptions for the Basic, Plus and Prime plans come with discounts. Make a 2-year commitment and receive 25% off on your subscription, or opt for a 3-year subscription and get 30% off.
The trial period for office accounts is 30 days and plans for these accounts are available as follows: Core for $199.99/year (includes unlimited PCs, external hard drives, NAS devices, and 250GB of starter cloud storage), Power for $599.99/year (includes 1 server and unlimited computers, and 250GB of starter cloud storage), and Ultimate for $999.99 (includes unlimited servers and computers, and 500GB starter cloud storage). You can install Carbonite on any computer running on Windows or Mac, and any server running on Windows.
From the various account types, it's clear that Carbonite aims to respond not only to the file backup needs of the general public, but also that of business users.
Carbonite guides users through every step of the installation and backup process in an easy-to-understand and comprehensive way. The user-friendly dashboard interface allows customers to easily find and manage their digital data backup. You can let Carbonite work automatically, that is, to let it find and backup all your files. This setting, however, excludes videos and files larger than 4GB. While you can manually change the settings to automatically back up larger files, automatic video backup is only available in the Prime plan. If you prefer to manually select the files that you want to back up, Carbonite lets you do that too.
Remote access to files from any computer, smartphone or tablet.
Support is available for users via e-mail or 24/7 virtual assistance. Carbonite's website has a keyword searchable knowledgebase, a FAQ page, and several video tutorials on installation, backing up and restoring files. Video tutorials can be viewed in the Video Library section of the website.
Carbonite operates its own data centers, which means that it has full control over measures used to ensure that your files are always secure.
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Despite its shortcomings of not being compatible with Linux and the discontinuance of the Sync & Share feature, Carbonite is one of the most well-polished online backup services on the market. They offer a valuable product at an affordable price. Their plans are constructed to fit into any budget and they score very high on simplicity and usability. Whether for home or for business use, your important files and sensitive data will be protected and kept secure from unexpected events such as computer crashes, spilled coffee or any event that may result in the loss of your data. With Carbonite backing up your files, the thought of data loss is a lot less stressful.


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Brexit uncertainties could mean a crisis for Croydon's face lift
Posted on June 24, 2016 by insidecroydon
In the aftermath of yesterday's EU Referendum, WALTER CRONXITE finds some senior figures close to the £1.4bn Whitgift Centre redevelopment feeling very nervous about its prospects
"The real fear now must be that Westfield walk away. They've done it before, after all. Look at Bradford."
The Hammersfield mall first proposed for Croydon. Brexit might put all plans on hold
That's the view of a senior Croydon figure, closely connected with the council and familiar with the proposals to build a £1.4billion supermall to replace the Whitgift Centre, after the announcement this morning that the British public had voted to quit the European Union in yesterday's referendum.
For one of Croydon's three Remain-supporting MPs, Steve Reed OBE, the referendum outcome is nothing short of a "crisis".
"It's a crisis," the Croydon North MP told the Croydon Guardian. "It's a political, economic and constitutional crisis – but it's one the British people have voted for."
The thing is, the crisis could be a lot closer to home than anyone in Croydon imagined when going to the polling stations yesterday.
The impact of the 52%-48% vote in favour of Brexit has already been felt on the currency and stock markets around the world, with Sterling taking its biggest hit for 30 years, shares in housing firms falling by 40 per cent once the London markets opened, and the Bank of England pledging £250billion from its reserves to shore up The City's finance sector.
All of that market activity could have an impact on investment and development in Croydon, both by the private sector and for the council's own housing schemes.
But it is the biggest Croydon face lift of all time, the scheme being run by Westfield and Hammerson, which has the most at stake for the town centre.
It is nearly four years since the Hammersfield scheme was first announced, as a supermall panacea to Croydon's economic woes, and a regeneration development which had the borough's Establishment, led by the land-owners at the Whitgift Foundation and their egregiously ambitious tame MP, Gavin Barwell, doing back-flips at the prospect of coining it from the tired, old Whitgift Centre.
Gavin Barwell MP: "devastated" by referendum result
This morning, Barwell said he was "devastated about what the country has chosen to do" over the referendum. Privately, his concerns are sure to include the Whitgift Centre development plans.
Since Barwell first claimed the credit for luring Westfield to Croydon, progress has been glacially slow. Work has not even begun on the new mall, which was supposed to be open and ready for business in 2017; 2021 is now the most optimistic estimate of when the place might have regenerated.
The referendum result throws even that into doubt, as the international investment markets look very different for projects in Britain than they did just 24 hours ago. And Australian-based retail developers Westfield, part of the "Croydon Partnership" with Hammerson, who were once eager to carve up a large part of the town centre for their profits, are not known for their sentiment when it comes to their bottom line.
"The Whitgift Centre is very tired and in desperate need of some serious investment," the senior figure told Inside Croydon, on condition of anonymity. "Everything has been staked on Westfield coming in to redevelop it. If that does not happen now, you dread to think what might happen.
"Westfield are known to be ruthless in matters of business. When a smaller scheme, in Bradford, didn't add up for them, they walked away, and left a massive crater in the city centre for a decade, until they finally found someone else to come in and develop the scheme for them.
Westfield abandoned their development in central Bradford for a decade. The Brexit market slump revived fears that the developers might do the same in Croydon
"And even that continues to blight parts of Bradford now.
"I do worry that one of the first impacts of Brexit on Croydon will be to threaten the Westfield scheme.
"The new plans they have put forward include twice as much residential, most of it in very tall blocks. But if the housing market suffers a set-back after the referendum, and there's no longer the money in it for Westfield in building 1,000 new homes, they could decide not to bother."
Those fears have been voiced by the council leader, Labour's Tony Newman. The referendum result, Newman said, "has the potential to damage growth and potential in Croydon".
Newman said that the council will be seeking an urgent meeting with Westfield and Hammerson to seek assurances. "There's clearly a potential risk. I'm confident we're in a strong enough position to withstand most things but nowhere is immune if the economy really goes into a tailspin."
In other words, it could be 2008 all over again.
Jo Negrini: faces an interesting start to her new job
The prestigious "Croydon gateway" site, alongside East Croydon Station, stood derelict for more than a decade as a consequence of the global economic crash. Work only began on the Stanhope and Schroders-owned Ruskin Square site 18 months ago. Meanwhile, development blight is already showing signs of taking hold elsewhere in the centre of Croydon as other businesses wait for Westfield and Hammerson to get on with their as-yet unnamed scheme.
Today's date is significant at Croydon Council for another reason, too. It marks the last day of the last full week that Nathan Elvery, the Croydon chief executive, is employed at Fisher's Folly.
Elvery might just consider he has got out at the right time.
Jo Negrini, Elvery's Australian-born interim replacement, was widely thought to have won her job as Croydon's development chief because of her close working relationship with Westfield during her time working for another local authority as the developers built their mall at Stratford.
Now, Negrini may need all the fair dinkum help she can get from her Aussie mates now to ensure that Croydon's biggest development is not slowed further, or halted altogether.
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27 Responses to Brexit uncertainties could mean a crisis for Croydon's face lift
farmersboy says:
Don't panic! Gav's got a Plan B.
"Er, have I? Oh yes. Yes, I jolly well do. I'm proud to announce that the successful Village Outlet will take over from Westfield and all we need to do to keep them happy is rename George Street Tram Stop as the Village Idiot… sorry Outlet Tram Stop
Apparently there is a shortage of school places in Croydon. Why not turn the old Whitgift Centre into a new supersized school and call it the Whitgift School? The tram stop can then be called the Whitgift Stop which is exactly what has happened for the last decade.
The referendum was always going to be a close call. I have mentioned it in previous posts but surely the various developers, TfL, Croydon Council and their business plans etc factored in the possibility of Brexit. If not then they were taking a big gamble with much public money.
Until Friday morning the Markets had thought Brexit was unlikely. Yes they were taken a big gamble with public money. It is called property speculation !
Brexit will cause not one jot of trouble for Westfield. If anything a weaker pound will send more tourists over here to spend money in our shops.
Croydon is doing very nicely thank you very much, however Inside Croydon just loves another excuse to bash this project, or indeed almost any other Croydon regeneration project for that matter.
Well I am feeling very positive for the future of Croydon.
Your usual ill-informed and error-ridden nonsense. Farridge would be proud of you.
It's a property deal pure and simple. Westfield don't care if a million exchange students turn up and buy I love Westfield t-shirts or whether it benefits Croydon.
And sorry to correct you but certain bits of Croydon are doing very well thank you. Others not so much…
davidjl2014 says:
Please, please tell us farmersboy what "bits of Croydon" are doing so well?
I was speaking demographically not geographically
Not quite sure that Westfield is the answer to Croydon's problems, but the reaction to it is, as usual, without substance, and politically absurd.
The problem is Westfield's response to Croydon problems is without substance. They haven't done anything if you haven't noticed.
Arno Rabinovitz says:
Its quite simple, really. In one monumental vote of communal stupidity the UK has been turned into an international pariah, an untrustworthy and self-seeking micro-state. Our tourism will die or wither, no money will come in. Who will come to Croydon to spend money? No one at all. It was always a second class destination with ambition and attitude. David Hamilton can dream on all he wants. The future for the UK is bleak and, for Croydon, even more so.
How on earth have we turned in to an international pariah. For your information, most of the world is OUTSIDE of the EU. Tourists come from all over the globe. A lower value pound will only increase the amount of tourists wishing to visit our uniquely historical country.
I think you also underestimate the pulling power of Westfield. It not only draws in the very best retailers it also draws in huge numbers of punters.
The future of the UK now we will no longer be shackled by the chains of the failing EU has never been brighter.
Haven't we had enough scaremongering over the last few months to last us a lifetime? The people have voted. That's democracy. Whether we like the result or not, it has to be accepted. Only an idiot would attempt to disrupt a decision that has been democratically taken. So just accept it, and move on. Sadly, there are too many idiots living in this country who cannot accept defeat through the ballot box. Those people become more of a threat to our future than the EU itself.
Such as those who did not accept the result of the 1975 Referendum. I suppose their sour grapes are why we are here now. In the midst of political and economic crisis.
But the difference was that those who didn't want to join the EU in 1975, didn't go on and on and on, ad nauseam, about having another referendum till they got the result they wanted. They just shut up and got on with it.
Or did you miss the 30 years of internecine warfare within the Tory Party, John Major's "bastards", and the rise of UKIP?
Ok, give me the name of one single politician who openly campaigned to reverse the 1975 decision and promoted a leave agenda between that time and 2005? It never happened, and you know it didn't. Try spinning these yarns in "real" working class areas of this country and you'd get laughed at. The people have finally spoken, with overwhelming authority. Middle class Croydon, along with the rest of London, are just like Jeremy Corbyn, even when the majority disagree with them, they still think they are right!
Your ignorance of relatively recent political history is astonishing.
We'll do better than one politician…
The Labour Party's 1979 and 1983 manifestos were explicitly against European integration and favoured British withdrawal from the then EEC. The later document, under Eurosceptic Michael Foot, is remembered as "the longest suicide note in political history". Am astonished you'd forgotten that. Tony Benn remained agin the EU from 1975 until his death.
Alan Sked formed UKIP in 1993. That's an entire party. They have MEPs, MPs and a leader, called Nigel Farridge. Even you may have heard of him.
Sir Jams Goldsmith, the father of the Tories' Mayoral candidate, Zac, had formed the Referendum Party in 1997 specifically for the purpose. They even had an MP when the Tories' George Gardiner, MP for Reigate, defected.
Through the 1990s, there were John Major's Eurosceptic "bastards", opposed to many principles of the European Union while holding positions within the Tory cabinet: Michael Howard, Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo are widely accepted to be the people Major had in mind.
And they have supported from the back benches by various malcontents, the likes of Bill Cash, Teddy Taylor and, more recently, Peter Bone.
So looks like you're been talking out of your arse. Yet again.
Rod Davies says:
Whether or not the British people have made an informed decision is a moot point and will be argued over for years. However what cannot be argued against are the immediate consequences, which are catastrophic as sterling fell to a new low against the Euro and many share prices fell by 50%.
It is now painfully evident that Messrs Johnson & Gove had no plan tucked up their sleeves ready for the day after, and the markets are bewildered by the lackadaisical attitude taken by many Brexiteers that the time can be taken over the next phase as UK decides what sort of relationship it wants with the EU. As Michael Heseltine made clear in his interview with Sky News today, businesses simply cannot wait for the Johnson, Gove & Farage trio to make up their minds, and that businesses will take away their funds if some certainty isn't provided rapidly.
In Croydon, Westfield is in a competitive global market for capital investment funds to put into a future Whitgift centre development. Its backers will have on offer other possibilities, and as UK Plc dithers Westfield cannot offer certainty on anything. Equally if sterling falls much more, the cost of borrowing may reach a point where it is no longer financially viable.
As for tourism should sterling fall sufficiently it is entirely possible that prices would fall sufficiently to attract shoppers. However a corner stone of the Brexiteers claims has been that wages would rise outside of the EU, and this is the case it is likely to nullify any low value sterling bonus. As a large proportion of Croydon's retail offer entails selling items made abroad, prices should rise as sterling falls in value. Sterlings relative weakness would deny UK retailers the opportunity to secure significant discounts from overseas suppliers.
The longer the gap between now and the UK govt commencing negotiations with the EU, the greater likelihood that UK will slip into recession. In a recession UK consumers are unlikely to have much disposable wealth. The big retail spenders, the young and young families, are also the same groups that voted overwhelmingly to Remain, most likely because their economic interests lay in future EU membership. It is therefore reasonable to expect these groups to be more affected by any recession and if this is the case then future footfall in Croydon will be reduced.
Brexiteers may still be claiming that outside of the EU, UK will enjoy the benefits of a strong currency, rising wages caused by the removal of cheap EU labour from the market, and control over everything. What remains unclear is how these are to be achieved.
It is clear to the markets that Brexit is a protest rather than a coherent economic strategy. They clearly have not got a clue what they are doing.
Funny isn't it. The markets recovered today. Do you both have any shares affected by it? Most people don't. Your opinions must therefore be based upon people who are loosing vast sums of money on the stock exchange. Believe me these millionaires can cope with it. Isn't it better they can claim it as tax loss rather than paying it in to HMRC only for them to waste it by paying out benefits to a percentage of people fraudulently abusing it and sticking two fingers up at us all?
So massive international companies who receive their income in foreign currencies have recovered. Nice to see our Kipper getting behind these international companies and those who have massive trading operations in the EU. I just can't believe this gentleman cannot be in a pension fund whose earnings are primarily based on FTSE investments beyond those of the FTSE 100. So are we going to receive this message of hope everyday the markets rise and complete silence when they crash.
It was a dead cat bounce.
Look at the FTSE 250, which is based on the stock prices of the next tier of businesses and includes many more British-based businesses, and the picture is far gloomier.
Globally, $3 trillion has been wiped off the value of stocks and shares since the Brexit vote. In a week.
And the casino economics of the markets affects the lives of anyone who has a pension fund, whether private or through their company. Pensions which are all worth much less today than they were before the Referendum.
But don't worry, David. We get the picture. You just don't care.
During a window of economic growth and political certainty Westfield failed to commence development. So some of the reasoning being displayed here suggests that during a period of economic recession and political uncertainty they will all of a sudden decide to commence development. The level of reasoning skills displayed by our Brexiters here.
Time now to read what John Major said in a speech dated 1st March 1995, and I quote:
"The often unspoken fear of many people – we should address it honestly and clearly and examine it – is that Europe might develop into a super-state, an overarching Government with no national veto, no control over our boarders, prescriptive decisions, a single currency imposed and the nation state retreating to a wholly subordinate role. That fear exists out there….and we should recognise the fact that it exists. I for one would find such a Europe wholly unacceptable for this country. I do not believe that it is remotely likely, but, if that were to be the future, it would not be a future that would be suitable for this country"
I suppose that's why John Major campaigned alongside David Cameron to stay in the EU.
One minor problem. What the hell has that got to do with Westfield and the Whitgift Centre?

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HomeBrothers and Sisters: Coping with Loss and Grief
Brothers and Sisters: Coping with Loss and Grief
When a family member dies, often the response of children is overlooked or underestimated. This very important book makes tangible the range of emotions felt but not completely understood by children for the loss of a parent or sibling. It offers welcome channels of response that can help survivors to not only understand their feelings but also come to grips with the loss and get on positively with their lives.
ISBN 97819215231793 (PB, 140pp);
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Barbara Snook offers insights into a range of people's experiences with the loss of a family member. It normalizes the variety of experiences of grieving, that it is not a linear process, not something to get over, rather the impacts are lifelong and require developing ways to live with the grief.
– Pauline Brown, registered psychologist
This book is like a cocoon. It is beautiful from start to finish. The growth and transformation about such grief is anticipated and transparent yet mesmerising through its entire unfolding. It holds the reader, in the same way that siblings who have lost (and actually anyone who has lost a loved one) – need to be held and need to be seen, as they transit their own unique process.
– Jenni van der Schoot, psychotherapist
I recognise myself in the pages written by the brave contributors to this book, as will other readers who struggle with the complex and conflicting emotions of losing a loved sibling. Realising that others also struggle with grief and have feelings of guilt is a repeated thread in the stories that weave readers together, giving them the realisation that they are not the odd one out, but that their reactions are "normal" in a heart-rending situation.
– Tilly Brasch, author of No Middle Name
Barbara Snook
Dr Barbara Snook is a Professional Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in the Dance Studies program. She taught dance in Brisbane High Schools for 20 years and was the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance at the University of Otago during 2008. Barbara received an Osmotherley Award in 2007 for her services toward the development of dance in Queensland and she was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for services to dance education in 2006. Her textbooks, Dance... Count Me In and Dance for Senior Students are used throughout schools in Australia and New Zealand. She has also written Dance Room Book One and Dance Room Book Two for children in the first years of school. Barbara writes academic articles for publication in international academic journals and is currently working on a research project that involves arts integration in primary schools.
During Barbara's tenure as the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance, she facilitated a dance programme for people living with cancer. The dance motivated the participants to continue despite hardship and they developed a sense of pride in being part of something that was larger than themselves. They embodied a sense of courage and finally in performing they moved their audience to tears. During the Fellowship, Barbara wrote a children's book titled, Come Dance With Me about death and the healing power of dance. Barbara's teaching allows her to work with students with special needs, the elderly and many other community groups. She is particularly interested in fostering creativity through the arts and in doing so, help participants to realise their potential. Her work in this area extends into China and India.
Barbara enjoys participating in Authentic Movement sessions and dancing/acting in television commercials. Her great loves are her grandchildren who live in Perth, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. She is constantly planning holiday time with them.
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from Chapter One: Introduction
Quite some time ago when I was a newcomer to Brisbane, I developed a close relationship with my neighbor Christine over the back fence. A neighbour who drank tea and shared life's ups and downs helped me enormously in my transition to life in a new country. Although it wasn't easy, I adapted and our children grew up playing together in our backyards. Life continued through its many different stages, until Christine's 17-year-old son was killed tragically in an accident. Although she did her best to move on with her life, Christine could see that her two remaining children remained stricken with their grief.
Christine shared her belief with me that, when a child or young person dies, support is available to the parents but there is little assistance for the siblings. Counselling is available, but her children didn't know what they wanted at that time and were not always able to articulate their feelings. Skilled counselors can work within these limitations, but many young people would rather not think about their grief, and, if the adult in the situation is also struggling with the grief, then they may be of little help. The loss doesn't go away and dealing with grief as a developing adolescent is extremely difficult.
It came to Christine in a dream that a book needed to be written that contained stories of sibling loss and grief so that parents and young people in similar situations would know that they were not alone. The message of Save our Sons and Daughters (So SaD) was clear to her. She spoke with friends, including me, who had suffered the loss of a child. We were excited by the idea and hoped that our children would write and contribute their own stories. We wanted the siblings themselves to include their experiences in their own voices.
Christine's passion was infectious. Everyone in the initial group discussed the importance of reaching young adults and teenagers experiencing similar losses, and so I committed to the responsibility of bringing Christine's dream to fruition.
We believed in the vital importance of this subject. We also agreed that the book's primary aim was not to provide personal therapeutic benefit, and cathartic expression was not the primary focus of this book. Children, teenagers, young adults and adults can feel lost and unsupported in their grief, and this was the reason that we shared our stories. We hoped our testimonies would assist readers suffering a loss to find connections with their own personal journeys. While the pathway through loss and grief is different for everyone, most people agree that grief is not easy to confront. Through our stories, we identify with those who are lost in the dense woods of their feelings and, in reading the different chapters of this book, it is possible to reflect on one's own personal journey while marveling upon the sheer indomitable spirit of human nature.
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The Odyssey – Homer (Translated by Emily Wilson)
August 8, 2019 August 11, 2019 3 Comments
I first read The Odyssey in August 2014 – so it's been 5 years almost exactly since I last read it and, honestly, I think I enjoyed it so much more this time around. I don't know if that's because I listened to it as an audiobook this time around, the fact it was a different translation, or a combination of the two, but it moved it from a 3 star read to a 4/5 star read easily.
Most people are familiar with parts of The Odyssey – the stories of Circe, the Cyclops, Odysseus' journey to the underworld – so it doesn't seem worth rehashing over something that has been reviewed numerous times before in much better ways than I am capable of.
What I would like to discuss is the translation I read. Emily Wilson is the first female to translate The Odyssey in to English – and she didn't just do that, she intended to keep the same rhythm as the "original" Greek verse so rewrote it in iambic pentameter. Not only that but she made it accessible. The foreword to this edition was enlightening, and discussed her translation process and choices and is actually something I'd highly recommend you read – before or after reading the main meat of the book. She points out in this section that many translations have made the book inaccessible due to their linguistic choices to give their version that "authentic" feel – something she says is absolute rubbish as the story has an oral tradition, and would have been adapted by each generation to fit in with the language of the day. If her goal was to bring The Odyssey to a new generation, I think she's certainly going to achieve it with this translation.
Something else she's done throughout this book is stripped away the former translators misogyny. This book is always going to be problematic in the way women are treated and represented, and while she has stayed true to the original story. Previous translations refer to the women who are enslaved to Odysseus and Penelope "sluts" or "prostitutes" – Wilson addresses them as slaves, and does seem to imply that a lot of their perceived wrongdoing against Odysseus is not entirely their fault, but a nature of their station. She explores Odysseus as a "complicated" man, which he most certainly is – and she doesn't sugarcoat him or enhance his heroic deeds, which for me is appreciated.
She has stripped this story back to the roots, removing a lot of ingrained misogyny of translators along the way, leaving it to be told as simply and effectively as possible. I for one loved this translation.
The audiobook, read by Claire Danes, was also spectacular and something I would highly recommend. The story is, historically, orally told and hearing it rather than reading it was a very different experience and one I really enjoyed.
The Familiars – Stacey Halls
August 5, 2019 August 4, 2019 4 Comments
I was lucky enough to win this book in a competition run by Bibliobeth way back at the start of the year, and I'm so glad I finally picked it up. For me this book had echoes of Rebecca – high praise given it's one of my favourite books – not in the sense that it is an altered version of it, but in the characters and the general atmosphere. Rather than being a poor-mans du Maurier, Stacey Halls takes all of that style and puts it in her own setting and it really, really worked for me.
In my opinion there are not enough books about witches – witches of the historical variety that is – and certainly not enough books about British witches. This book is based around the story of Fleetwood Shuttleworth, and is a fictional account of her life around the time of the Pendle witch trials in Lancashire. At the start of the book she is 17 and pregnant for the fourth time, but fearing for her life after her last 3 pregnancies – which ended in miscarriage and stillbirth – she chooses to hire a midwife of her choosing, Alice Grey. Alice is deeply entwined with those accused of witchcraft and over the course of the novel (and Fleetwood's pregnancy) we unravel her story, and with it we watch Fleetwood grow. Fleetwood's pregnancy goes on, along with the witch trials, and both reach their peak at the same time – Fleetwood going in to labour the night before the accused women take the stand.
Something I loved in this book was the friendship which developed between Fleetwood and Alice. Two women of very different upbringings and classes, yet they found this very unorthodox friendship and working relationship. The love that Fleetwood has for Alice – someone she calls her first friend of her own choosing – is special. I love a good friendship in a book, especially one which is so unlikely. The transformations in both Fleetwood and Alice over this book are something to love – Fleetwood was a bit of an airheaded socialite-wife who becomes a mature woman, a woman who fights for her child and her friend; and Fleetwood's belief in the unassuming Alice gives her the confidence to grow. The true magic of this book is friendship – not witchcraft.
Womanhood is something that is also explored in this book – what it means to be a woman in 1612. At one point Fleetwood says that she "wouldn't wish a girls life on anyone" and in a time when women are treated as objects, that isn't exactly a surprise. Fleetwood, while still being a woman of the 17th century, has a (slightly) more modern monologue which enables these themes to be explored. She points out that most of the women accused of witchcraft are just poor women, using what skills they have to make their way in the world, they were mistresses to a man who wanted them to disappear, most accusations of witchcraft cam from a person of standing – and who was going to be believed in a public arena?
Having mentioned it, I can't not go back to it – the echoes of Rebecca. Fleetwood reminds me very much of Mrs de Winter, and her husband of Maxim. Their relationship is very similar to the relationship between Mr and Mrs de Winter once they're back at Manderley, a husband keeping secrets and a wife trying to unravel a mystery. We have a woman in the background who, while alive, torments Fleetwood much the same way that Rebecca did Mrs de Winter. There's also a token Mrs Danvers like character, and even a dog who is similar to Jasper. All in all, there are a lot of similarities which I actually really loved because this was very much its own story, but I can see a lot of inspiration there and (for once) it's done very well.
Ultimately this is a fantastic debut, and Stacey Halls is an author I will keenly await a second book from. I also think this would be a really good book-club book. For me, there was a few things lacking which is why this is a 3/4 star book opposed to a 5 star book. But make no mistake, I really enjoyed this and I would recommend it (especially alongside a read of Rebecca! Just for the parallels!)
Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
After what feels like a very long reading slump I thought it'd be a great idea to pick up an 850 page epic fantasy novel to ease myself back in to reading gently, I don't like to make things easy for myself after all. But I'm really, really glad I picked this up. Samantha Shannon is a new author to me, having not read The Bone Season, but as soon as I found out there were lady gays and dragons in this, I knew I had to read it. It took me a little while to get in to it, but my word once I was in to it I devoured it.
As far as fantasy goes, this book is very "traditional" in that there are two very different parts of a world, one where dragons are revered as gods and the other where they're considered dangerous. These two parts of the world are separated also by geography (East and West), and their religious views. They have differing views on what happened 1000 years ago, when The Nameless One – a dragon like creature – was vanquished and with the imminent return of this creature threatening them all, is what drives this story along. All of this is explored through our four narrators: Tane, Ead, Niclays and Loth. Tane, a young girl in the East hoping to become a dragon rider; Ead, a young woman who has been appointed as a member of the household staff to Queen Sabran Berethnet but is hiding a lot of herself; Naclays, an alchemist who is spiteful and driven by a lost love; and Loth, best friend to Queen Sabran who is sent on a dangerous diplomatic mission. All of these threads interweave perfectly by the end of this though, which is much appreciated! Something unusual for me, however, is that all of these points of view were enjoyable. Each character had a unique voice which made the jumping perspectives more tolerable, and by the time all their stories intertwined I appreciated each of them individually.
Far and a way my favourite character in this book though was Sabran – for me the central character who never got her own voice. A very deliberate move on Shannon's part. Sabran is directed in her queenly duties by those who surround her, she hasn't left the palace since her mother died, every move she makes at the beginning is very much decided by someone else and by the end of the book she's her own person, and a lot stronger as an individual than she was at the start. The whole story revolves around Sabran and her family's involvement in the slaying of The Nameless One, and Sabran feels that pressure.
The relationships depicted in this book are also something special – and not just the romantic ones – the love between friends and family is something explored beautifully in here. And while there is romance, it's not forced, it's not over the top and it's not in your face. It feels natural and organic, which is a rarity in fantasy! Romantic love comes in all varieties too – gay and heterosexual – and rather than being shoehorned in, it just is and I LOVED that.
Ultimately for me the start of this book let it down a bit. It was a bit slow going which is why it's only a 4* read for me.
Review: And the Wind Sees All – Guðmundur Andri Thorsson
February 9, 2019 February 7, 2019 2 Comments
One of my many mini-challenges to myself in 2019 is to read more translated fiction, and a good place to start with any translated fiction is publishers which specialise in it. As I always seem to go for the same few publishers for translated fiction I decided to do a bit of research and branch out this time around which is how I discovered Peirene. I had previously heard of them, but just never picked anything up from them (so they disappeared from my memory, bad Ashleigh.) Anyway, I decided to go over to their website to see what they had on offer and was happy to find a number of books from countries I've never read before. Including this little gem from Iceland.
The blurb says that this book all takes place in 2 minutes, and that is sort of the case. What I thought it was and what it became were very different things in that I thought it was from one persons perspective, but it wasn't. The book is a series of vignettes, from a series of individuals who all have one thing in common – the village in which they live. The main thread of the book is that the narrative takes place over a two minute bike journey which Kata – the choir conductor – takes through the village to the concert that evening. Each vignette from there is a snapshot in to the life of different villagers – some she encounters herself, others who observe her from their homes – sometimes we're in the present but often we're in the past.
With chapter exploring a different person it becomes more interesting the further in to it you get. I love seeing how characters from one persons past fit in to another past, or hearing a story from the other side of the fence. It really does bring the village alive, everyone is involved in everyone elses lives in one way or another. People have secrets, people have pasts, some people left the village and inevitably find themselves coming back, others have come to the village with no previous ties to it to escape from the city.
The writing in this book, and therefore also the translation, were beautiful. Parts of this were so, so poetic. I loved the more atmospheric descriptions of the landscape and whatnot, I'm a sucker for beautifully described nature and this was spot on for me. If this is the quality of all books published by Peirene I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on my next one from them (and bonus, some of the eBooks are 99p on the Kindle store at the moment, which cannot be snuffed at).
Review: Her Body and Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
Something I want to do in 2019 is get back in to Short Story Collections. I love a short story collection and they were woefully absent from my reading last year. So when I tasked my sister to pick a few books for me and she picked this up I was very excited. Not only because yes, the cover is that green, but because the content sounded right up my street.
The stories in this collection are fantastic. They're fabulist, magical, feminist and queer. There's not a lot to dislike if I'm honest. There was one story that didn't really engage me, and it seems to be a common theme among readers of this collection, and it's the one which is an episode-by-episode account of Law and Order. As someone who isn't a Law and Order fan that was a miss for me. But the rest of this collection? Amazing.
There are so many unreliable, but interesting narrators in here with stories which just err on the side of the fantastic but are grounded in reality. We have a woman who is documenting her survival in a devastating epidemic by her sexual encounters, in another story we join a woman who works in a clothes shop in a world where women are fading out of existence. There's one story, Mothers, which is so out there it's hard to follow and very open to interpretation; it's the best example in the whole collection of the unreliable narrator in that our protagonist is handed a baby by her female ex-lover and it's hard to follow what's real and what isn't after that event.
All of the stories in this collection are raw, gritty and at times difficult to read. But it's fantastic and genuinely one of the most well put together collections I've read in a long time. It reminded me why I love short stories so much. It was the perfect blend of reality and magical, it's feminist, it's queer, it's sexy. It's a lot of things. I wouldn't say this is the easiest collection to read, not when there's elements of abuse and sexual violence interspersed throughout but it's definitely a great book and one I'd recommend to people in the future.
Review: The Winter of the Witch – Katherine Arden
It is absolutely no secret that I love this series, and this book has been at the top of my most anticipated releases since I finished book 2 in the Winternight series. I will start with saying that the series as a whole from me would get 5 stars but this book didn't satisfy me in a way I had hoped it would.
It's hard to review sequels – especially in a trilogy as far spanning as this one – without giving any spoilers away. This book picks up right in the action where the second book ended, and it definitely started as a 5* read. It was fast paced, exciting, starting to tie up loose ends and I loved it but I feel that some of it was unnecessary and ruined the plot for me. There is a lot going on in this book and at times, the action felt drawn out. Other times, I wanted it to move a little faster.
I love how Arden has blended medieval Russia and her fantasy world so seamlessly, I love how history, mythology, folklore and fairy tales have all been blended together. I found the afterword and the historical context to the series genuinely really interesting – not something I can often say about an afterword. I just feel there was something missing here, or maybe it was that there was too much to cram in to one final book, which left it feeling unresolved.
Vasya continues to be a fantastic character in this book; all the things I've loved about her in previous books come to a head and I felt in this book she became herself. She embraced all of her powers, and she owned them. She made decisions and stood by them. Everything she did she did of her own volition. Yet throughout the book her family is her main driving force, and I love that. I will say that there are a couple of scenes in which characters die – and those were intense, Vasya's reactions were intense and believable and I felt emotionally invested in her.
Overall I felt this wasn't the perfect ending at least for me. I will say it was a fantastic read, and I read it in the space of an afternoon. I just think it could have done with a bit of editing down, or a fourth book to properly develop some ideas. As with all the books in this series I listened to this as an audiobook and followed along with a print version and would very highly recommend this series on audio because it, somehow, makes it feel cosier. Perfect winter afternoon read in my eyes and I can't wait to reread the series over the space of a weekend next winter!
Review: Heroes – Stephen Fry
After listening to Mythos last year and really enjoying it I knew I had to have Heroes as soon as it was announced. It was one of the few audiobooks I preordered last year. So naturally it's one of the first books I picked up in 2019 as I knew it was going to be good. I really wasn't disappointed.
Heroes follows the everyday people of Greek mythology – not that the everyday people were ever less interesting. But rather than Gods themselves it's their children, and demi-gods that this book focuses on. What I love about Greek myth, and especially how Stephen Fry has reworked them, is how much they all interlink in to each other. It's often hard to tell where one narrative ends and the next begins because the transition happens so seamlessly.
There are so many myths that are familiar in here; the labours of Hercules/Heracles, Theseus and the Minotaur and the story of Oedipus to name but a few. The way Stephen Fry has reworked these and put an almost modern narrative on top of them is really a joy to read (or rather listen to in my case!) I also appreciated how interspersed throughout the stories are little bits of fact which explain discrepancies in the story through time and geography. I believe in the print version these are footnotes, but in the audio version it's just like listening to him going off on a tangent of "oh but did you know this…" and it was great!
I think it's also worth saying that the audiobook for this (and also Mythos) is incredible and one I would very highly recommend. Stephen is one of those people who it is so easy to listen to, and there is one bit which was just made magic for me simply because it was an audiobook I was listening to. Were it a print copy I'm sure it would be entertaining, but hearing Stephen Fry once again say "Yer a wizard, 'Arry" in Hagrid's voice in the middle of a very-important-factual-footnote-bit of the book while explaining the tragic orphan trope in fiction and it's origins in myth just made me laugh. It's worth it just for that.
So, for anyone interested in ancient myth I think this is a great place to go to. Stephen Fry is a brilliant storyteller, and much like with Mythos this was a joy to listen to. I enjoyed it just as much as it's predecessor, and rumour has it that he's going to be tackling another piece of myth or history in the future to add to the series. I for one can't wait.
Review: Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
January 6, 2019 January 5, 2019 4 Comments
I went in to my local Waterstones looking for a book I could read in one sitting – I really wanted a book I could just binge. I will confess I didn't actually look at this book myself, it was my sister who picked it up and said "this seems to be your level of weird" that ended up winning me over. Let me say now, she's good at picking books.
Convenience Store Woman follows Keiko Furukura – a woman in her mid-30s who has worked part time in a convenience store for the last 18 years, much to the dismay of her family and few friends. We find out very early on in the book that Keiko has never been a "normal" woman by societies standards; she's practical, needs routine, and takes social cues and conversational tactics from other people around her. As a child we see her getting told off for her way of doing things, and her natural response was to silence herself and observe, acting through imitation of her peers and putting on a facade of normality to please her family. As a 36 year old woman in her society, it's expected of her at this point of her life to be married, have children, have a full time job – or at least actively be searching for them – but that's not what Keiko wants. All Keiko wants is a quiet life, she's happy being her and she doesn't want to change for anyone; not her family, not her friends. She wants to exist in her bubble of routine.
In an effort to appease her friends and family, both of which she has been lying to in order to get them off of her back, she ends up in a very bizarre situation with an ex-coworker who is absolutely infuriating, but similar to her in a number of ways. Where she finds comfort and purpose working at the shop, he doesn't want to conform to society and lashes out. But Keiko, being her wonderful self, sees it almost as an experiment and reacts in the most incredible ways.
I won't say too much more about the plot, because at just over 150 pages, I don't want to ruin this for anyone who wants to read it.
My first impressions of Keiko as a character were that it was an almost perfect representation of someone who is both on the autism spectrum and is completely asexual – something you don't get a lot of in fiction, especially from a female protagonist. Her understanding of humans and relationships, how she mimics people in social situations to appear "normal", her need of routine and guidance and rules. I loved her as a character, and I identified with her enormously. I honestly could have read 200 pages more of her day-to-day in the convenience store because she's just so wonderful.
So, it was very easy for me to give this book 5 stars, if only because Keiko was a joy to have in my life for a couple of hours while I read this. If you want a good representation of female autism in fiction, I'd highly recommend this!
Review: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman – Theodora Goss
September 6, 2018 August 30, 2018 Leave a comment
Rating – 4*
After reading the first book in this series and loving it, I had to immediately pick up the second in the series. Now, I'll admit I was a little intimidated when I saw the size of this (700 and something pages!) but I somehow read this book in 2 or 3 sittings. I just couldn't put this down.
Just to apologise in advance, this may contain spoilers for the first book, even though I am trying my best to make it spoiler free!
This book picks up where the previous left off, the characters are just as wonderful – if not more so – than they were in the first book. All of the female characters develop more, and we are introduced to a few more amazing women including Lucinda van Helsing, Carmilla, and an interesting woman in power – Aisha. We also get to meet Count Dracula and Mina Harker, which is always a bonus! My love of Dracula made me love this book all the more. The inclusion of Carmilla, and her female lover, made me very happy. Even though this is set in the 1890s every character that met them both just accepted it, maybe it's just their nature as they themselves aren't exactly your stereotypical citizen of the world, but it was just really refreshing! Dare I say that I loved Carmilla in this more than I loved Carmilla?
The initial premise of this is that Lucinda van Helsing needs rescued, and much like with all of the girls in the Athena Club did at one point in the first book. Something weird is happening to Lucinda, and they need to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible. This journey takes them across Europe and out of the London that we became familiar with in the first book. And while there is a more in depth plot to this book than the first, it's the characters that give the book momentum to move forward. The women in this are all incredible, and it's why I loved the first book so much, and while I loved the plot it was them that made it all the better. We also get a more in depth look at their lives before they were all together, in freak shows and circuses, and all the colourful characters they knew (and new friends too!) Much like with the first book, their main motivation is understanding why their fathers created them all; it's just taken to a new, more international, level in this.
Much like with the first book there is a strong female empowerment message, even in the characters from a different generation have the same view, mainly through the persuasion and influence from the younger girls! The women are so varied in their characteristics, and skills and it's just so, so wonderful to see such a mish-mash of characters as friends. It makes me very happy.
Needless to say this has very easily become one of my favourite book series. I really can't wait for the third and final book to tie all the loose ends in this up. I just can't express how much I love this series, and a third book is going to be bittersweet when it's finally released because I don't want this series to end, but equally I can't see where it goes. I think it's safe to say I'd highly recommend this!
Review: The Geek Feminist Revolution – Kameron Hurley
I saw this collection on YouTube a few years ago and knew I needed to get my paws on it, so when I saw it in my local Waterstones I snatched it up without hesitation.
This book is a collection of thought provoking, feminist essays, focusing on female representation in geek, sci-fi and pop culture. There is such a variety of content in here, and as someone new to Hurley's work I found every essay interesting and enjoyable. I'm aware that some people who are long time followers of her blog have found this collection repetitive.
I found the writing easy to read and follow. She has a way with words that makes the content really engaging, and it makes it all the better when I really agree with what the author is saying – which in this case I did. So much of the content rang true with me that it made for uncomfortable reading, uncomfortable in the sense that it hit far too close to home!
One thing I loved about this is how she addressed her own faults and privilege. She discusses intersectionality well throughout, and is aware that this is a fault of her own and knows the importance of hearing voices from minority groups. One of my favourite essays in the collection covers the problem of double standards in literature, how male protagonists can be anything they want to be and far more complex than a female protagonist. Female protagonists have to fit in to far more societal "norms" than a male counterparts, and in general have far more complex story arcs – and those arcs focus around the same tropes.
Overall I really enjoyed this collection. For me it was a really new perspective on feminism, and one that I've thought but never been able to vocalise coherently. The reason this gets a 4* opposed to a 5* is that, as I've found with a lot of essay collections, there is an element of repetition. Repetition in an essay collection is, in my mind, inevitable due to their nature. In being able to put them in a collection there has to be a common theme, and that just naturally going to involve repetition. I feel that if I hadn't binged on them maybe it would have been much less of an issue for me as a reader.
I'd definitely recommend this to anyone who is interested in a new take on feminism, especially anyone interested in feminism in literature. It's a breath of fresh air in and amongst a lot of essay collections on the same overarching topic, and has really built up my appetite for more essay collections in the future.
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Ryan Giggs believes Wales need to win all five remaining games to make Euro 2020
June 11 2019, 11.17pm Updated: June 11 2019, 11.27pm
Wales manager Ryan Giggs looks downcast during the 1-0 Euro 2020 qualifying defeat to Hungary in Budapest (Joe Giddens/PA)
Ryan Giggs responded to defeat in Hungary by conceding Wales must probably win their five remaining group games to make the finals of Euro 2020.
Wales lost to a late Mate Patkai goal in Budapest, their second defeat in the space of four days and one which leaves them off the pace in Group E.
Giggs' side trail leaders Hungary by six points, albeit with a game in hand, and are three behind Slovakia and Croatia in the race for a top-two spot.
"We have to probably win nearly every game now," Giggs said after the back-to-back defeats in Croatia and Hungary.
"I know it's early doors and there are still a lot of points, but we have made it really difficult for ourselves.
"We are probably relying on teams around us to drop points, which they will do because it is competitive.
"Obviously we have to start winning and if not win all the games, then the majority of them."
Ryan Giggs was frustrated following defeat in Budapest (Joe Giddens/PA)
Wales' next game is at home to bottom-placed Azerbaijan in September and Giggs will pray for his talisman Gareth Bale to return to form.
Bale, who has not scored for three months, horribly missed Wales' clearest opening after an hour.
The Real Madrid forward tamely scooped the ball straight at Peter Gulacsi from 12 yards when he only had the Hungary goalkeeper to beat.
Gareth Bale had an off-day against Hungary (Joe Giddens/PA)
It summed up a lethargic performance from Bale who looked off the pace throughout.
"You have seen it in both games, a lot of the players are short of match fitness," Giggs said.
"Asking Gareth to play two games in a short space of time, the way he plays, after not playing for six weeks.
"We are asking players to perform miracles really.
"Ethan (Ampadu) has not really played. I did well to get 50 minutes out of him. Brooksy (David Brooks) was the same.
Ethan Ampadu has been struggling with a lack of fitness (Joe Giddens/PA)
"We have given soft goals away in both games, and you can't do that as this level.
"But in our defence we are playing one game less and we had two tough away games, five weeks after the season finished."
Hungary manager Marco Rossi was banned from the dugout after being sent to the stands in the weekend win at Azerbaijan.
Rossi's assistant Cosimo Ignuscio took his place on the touchline and felt victory – Hungary's third in four group games – was based on their plan to "suffocate" Bale.
"We know what he (Bale) is good at and we did not want to leave him any room to run forward," Ignuscio said.
"That was our primary focus. We wanted to virtually suffocate him.
"He has a great opportunity to score but thanks to our goalkeeper he couldn't score.
"He had one great chance, but you must not forget that before that the Hungarian team had more than one opportunity to score too."
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Medicinal formulations in the classical texts of Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha are being transcribed and then would be patented in five international languages, including German and Japanese, to prevent their misappropriation, the Lok Sabha was informed Monday.
About 6,000 to 7,000 plants are estimated to be in use in the Indian systems of medicines, the Lok Sabha was informed Monday.
The minister said the department of AYUSH - or the department of Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and homoeopathy under the ministry - has established the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in collaboration with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in the ministry of science and technology to prevent the misappropriation of traditional knowledge by multinational companies.


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Graduate schools stress research experience as a criterion for admission. Those planning to do graduate work in psychology would be well advised to do some research with a faculty member as early as possible (please refer to Supervised Research/ Readings). Choose an area of research that is likely to be relevant to your graduate work.
Take courses that may benefit your graduate work. For example, take neuroscience-related courses if you plan to do graduate work in that area. Take computer science and biology because they are useful and relevant to many areas.
Graduate programs will be impressed if you take courses perceived to be difficult (if you do well in them) and frown on those seen as easy. But we also suggest that you take what you think will give you the best education. Getting an education is more than just a means to getting into graduate school or to finding a good job.


Lean and six sigma strategies are known the world over for their effectiveness in helping to reduce waste and variation in production processes. That said, much of the information and many of the case studies we have on these techniques are conducted within the context of businesses that operate on a much larger scale than many that we ourselves might be associated with.
While this workforce may seem large or small depending on your current palace of work, it's certainly smaller than many of the production giants that are best known for their Lean implementation. Anita wanted to know if it was possible to implement lean techniques and improve business processes even in a business with a relatively small number of employees.
Luckily for Anita, the LinkedIn community was more than happy to provide some answers. Furthermore, they seemed to be fairly unanimous in arguing that not only was it possible to implement Lean Six Sigma into a small company, but it might even be easier to do so. In fact, the strengths of implementing Lean in a small company seemed to outweigh in total the drawbacks or potential difficulties.
Strength: Lean Techniques are Easily Scale-able.
Because Lean tools don't have specific numerical goals, or even percentage ones, it becomes quickly apparent that they are able to be changed to just about whatever scale of business you're involved in.
For example, individual techniques like 5S, Gemba walks, or the various visual mapping formats associated with Lean Six Sigma all work exactly the same regardless of how big your business is. This alone makes Lean in a small business easier than perhaps originally thought.
One of the biggest barriers in any organization to successful Lean Six Sigma projects is 'the man.' The person or people in charge can make or break a campaign for continuous improvement, and there's often not much you can do once a decision is made.
That said, this is one of the areas in which small businesses are not only capable of Lean Six Sigma, but might actually have a great advantage in the early stages of implementation. Poster Hugh Chrisholm says that the success of a Lean program is often directly and positively correlated with how close those carrying out the effort are to the people in charge.
As Chrisholm reminds us, the costs of everything you do are going to be weighed against your perceived value until you can show some actual value (by way of data that shows positive changes over time). In a business where many layers lie between putting a face with the Lean work being done, it becomes easier for the higher ups to call off Lean Six Sigma efforts altogether. Plus, being able to check in regularly with your boss allows you to help garner buy-in over time. Showing why each stage of progression is important while it happens and being in constant contact make it easier to keep people on board until the real results start rolling in. Even at this point, they can appear kind of abstract without proper context, and being close allows you to do this.
Of course, Lean in small businesses isn't entirely painless. There is at least one mitigating factor that can have an impact on how easy/effective your efforts are. Namely, the very nature of a small business can sometimes foster a resistance to change.
In a large company, a more authoritarian relationship between management and employees means that changes and policies are expected and compliance is generally high. In a small business, however, especially where 'everyone knows everyone,' some workers may not feel as compelled to completely adjust their habits just because someone told them to do so.
Businesses with less employees are also less likely to experience worker turnover, meaning that the same workers will be around for longer. While this is a good thing in most cases, it can sometimes mean that employees get more and more ingrained in their ways because they've been at them for so many years.
Bringing in a new program (if Lean Six Sigma is new to your workplace, that is) has to be approached tactfully then. In a small to medium business, especially one without constant policy shifts, it's a good idea to fully explain and teach the basic ideas of continuous improvement culture long before you expect them to be independently adopted and practiced.
As mentioned before, leadership is often less strict and bureaucratic in a small business. While this is good for some things, it does usually impact organization because the need to have a specific system for every little thing isn't as readily apparent when you aren't working on a very large scale.
Lean and Six Sigma simply aren't worth their effort if you're not going to track baselines, changes, and a wide range of data to allow you to accurately figure out what's effective for your business. If your workplace is lacking in these things already, however, you'll find that implementing the required structure for Lean Six Sigma can be helpful in a number of other ways. Approaching other aspects of your business in the same scientific, analytical way can really help you.
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So, can Lean find its way into your small business' heart? Absolutely, and it might not even require as large of a paradigm shift as you might expect! Of course, like anything, you'll want to be careful to educate completely anyone involved in your projects so that expectations are laid out plainly from the very start. Have you found success with Lean implementation in a small to mid-sized business? Let us know!
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Are Payments a Platform, a Utility, or Both? Central Bank of the Future Panel Recap
More than any year in the past decade, 2020 put payment systems to the test as more than 200 national and regional governments globally authorized some form of COVID-19 relief, mostly in cash transfers to individuals.
"The countries with robust digital infrastructure did a better job," said Flourish managing partner Tilman Ehrbeck on a November 17 panel on "Payments as a Utility" at Central Bank of the Future Conference. "India reached more than 100 million people with the click of a button. The U.S., for example, was not so lucky. Checks took up to three months to go out."
Reflecting on the different experiences that these countries had, the panelists discussed what the ideal payments system of the future should look like and what is actually achievable. Joining Tilman in the discussion were:
Michael Barr, Dean of the Ford School of Public Policy
Andrea Dunlop, Managing Director, The Access Group
Musa Jimoh, Director of Payments System Management, The Central Bank of Nigeria
The conference was co-hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the University of Michigan. The session was streamed live on YouTube, but you can read the highlights here.
The Ideal Payment System and the Reality
All panelists agreed that financial systems are at a crossroads between traditional roles and evolving functions. "This isn't an easy step for central banks to take," said Andrea. "How do they keep pace with technology, support their core infrastructure, and maintain a stable system?"
Andrea noted that the Bank of England has permitted a limited number of fintechs to connect to its settlement systems. Opening up helps future proof the financial system, but she believes it could raise additional risks that we hadn't considered in the past.
Many countries open up gradually, through regulatory sandboxes. Of course, every country's payments system takes a different shape based on variables including a dense ecosystem of private-sector technologies, banking networks, government regulations, public rails, identity regimes, telecoms and merchants.
In Nigeria, Musa shared, the central bank runs the real-time bank-to-bank settlement network, and performs the usual supervisory role. However, the rest of the payments infrastructure is run by the private sector. "I think the central bank should provide the guidelines, as a regulator," he said, "letting banks and fintechs perform all other functions."
Whether run by the private sector and regulated, run by a public entity like the central bank, or run by a nonprofit consortium, all panelists agreed that a payments system should be inclusive and protect consumers.
"I take two lenses," Tilman said. "One is first principles, thinking through what in a financial system is a public good. Where are there network externalities and natural monopolies? Retail payments, I would argue, have characteristics of a public utility and should be regulated as such. In an ideal system, the private sector competes at the application layer. The second lens is pragmatic. What infrastructure already exists in the country? What can we build on? Nobody starts from scratch."
Key Layers in the Payments Stack
An inclusive, consumer-centric payment system should be real-time and fully interoperable, enabling any-to-any push and pull transactions. Governments should prioritize for a more inclusive payments system with a digital identity. It was this layer that made the India Stack so successful.
A country's telecom infrastructure and the last mile, or cash-in and cash-out access points are an important part of the bigger picture. "To bring more Nigerians into the banking sector, we had to make bank accounts more appealing, so having a vast network of agent outlets was important," said Musa. Expanding that network into the hinterlands requires electricity and telecom hookups.
These brick-and-mortar barriers are not limited to developing markets. In the UK, "we still have 23% of people who struggle to access broadband," Andrea said. "And we realized after COVID hit, how many people draw cash regularly, especially elderly people."
The final point of discussion was the data layer that enables further financial services on top of payments, such as alternative credit and insurance. In 2018, the UK's Open Banking nonprofit coordinator launched a payments initiation API for fintechs to push payments to merchants, straight from consumers' bank accounts. "It's a very simple process without all the layers in between. It removes a lot of friction," said Andrea. "I think we'll see a lot of disintermediation coming in the future, around these rails."
Disintermediation could benefit consumers historically excluded from or penalized by the payments system.
It might even upend the longstanding reverse Robin Hood subsidy in America's fee structure. In the U.S., where the credit card interchange is relatively high, a share is returned to credit card users in points or cash back. However, lower-income consumers tend to use debit card or cash, transferring according to a Boston Federal Reserve study an average $1,000 a year from America's poor to rich households.
Relevant Topics: #payments, #Tilman Ehrbeck


The Skate Park is located at 700 College Avenue was opened to the public on March 26, 1999. The park was built at its current location after more than a year of meetings with a local group of parents and kids wanting a skate park.
The park is an asphalt paved area which is fenced in and gated. It includes 10 pieces of skate boarding equipment. The oldest pieces are the quarter pipe and the grind rails. The quarter pipes are second generation equipment. The other 8 pieces of equipment were bought to imitate an urban sight with a picnic table and road barricades that can be used to grind on.
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Focalization as Strategy for the production and reading of contemporary architectural text
Abass Ali Hamza
The iraqi journal of architecture and planning, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 129-143
Research examines the concept of ethical imagination as one of the influential concepts in the architectural design process. Who is known as "the Architect's ability to think according to moral frameworks to become an important source and then to be the task of balancing the poetic and the disciplined imagination to produce an ethical architectural text that benefits the individual and society. ", thus be the research problem (implications of morally imaginative concept in architecture ). So the research aims to explain the basics of moral fiction in architecture, and we are on it. Research assumes that the foundations of moral fiction have an impact on the formulation of the architectural product . For the purpose of addressing the research issue and achieving the objectives of research and verification of its hypothesis, a knowledge framework was first built . Then a comprehensive theoretical framework for the imagination of the moral architecture extracted from the architectural propositions to be finalized in three main indicators is. Principles of moral constructional imagination, the foundations of moral and ethical imagination, moral logic of the Moral imagination architecture. Then apply them to elected projects to illustrate their impact on the architectural output and to arrive at conclusions that show the architectural imagination according its basics "
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(2018). Focalization as Strategy for the production and reading of contemporary architectural text. The iraqi journal of architecture and planning, 14(2), 129-143.
Abass Ali Hamza . "Focalization as Strategy for the production and reading of contemporary architectural text". The iraqi journal of architecture and planning, 14, 2, 2018, 129-143.
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Focalization as Strategy for the production and reading of contemporary architectural text. The iraqi journal of architecture and planning, 2018; 14(2): 129-143.
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Setting goals is a lifestyle change that helps you organize yourself and plan how to get where you want to go.
Sales success demands setting your own goals and understanding how hard you have to work to get to that level. My chief strategy to helping my sales people succeed in sales has always been getting them to focus on identifying and overcoming the underlying behaviors that prevent them from meeting their goals.


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A: This would have to be a custom solution, and on a high level, you could set up something like that:
Set up a sender profile with custom RMM settings and use a Triggered Send for forwards. The email used for the Triggered Send can include a script that you would use to log the email reply into a Data Extension.

When Reply Mail Management (RMM) is enabled on an account, custom RMM
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*Send the email to an internal email address and include details of the email that the Subscriber replied to (for example, the email name
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*Strip the original email from the reply email thread

*Log the email reply into a Data Extension

*Create Tasks or Activities in Sales Cloud from the email reply

*Identify keywords used in the reply message to conditionally trigger other platform actions

Take a look here in the Reply Mail Management Strings section: https://ampscript.guide/system-strings/

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