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The conference before the storm: Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2019
Posted on 9 October 2022 | 4 Comments
Looking back on the last pre-Covid International Medieval Congress seems like a different world by now, even though we've but recently had the 2022 one, where, ironically or not, I caught my first dose of Covid. I guess that, because of that and because of the big push towards online hybrid participation that the pandemic gave us, it's clear already that we're never going back to quite the same experience of a campus full of medievalists meeting and interacting, but will now live with the sense, firstly, that that may be dangerous as well as desirable and that some people just aren't going to be able to take part, and secondly that a lot of the action is in fact happening off-stage, in the ether.1 So this was the end of an era, or the last stop before a change of trains, or some other metaphor. And, to be honest, because of that, before picking up my notes on it I would have said I remembered very little of what happened at the 2019 Congress, as opposed to any other year since the IMC moved to the Central campus. I didn't organise anything myself, is all I would have told you this morning, and on inspection that is completely untrue: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier ran for a full day, with people speaking from two continents about places from the Canaries to Kashmir. So as it transpires, I was there (obviously) and was pretty busy (nearly as obviously) and learnt a good few things (thankfully), and it was actually an impressively international and intersectional gathering that had all kinds of promise for the future threaded through it, and it still seems worth writing a report on it. It's just that the future took a different turn… Because these reports are always huge, however, and not necessarily of interest to all (certainly not throughout), I'll do what has become my practice and give you the running order of my conference experience, and then put actual commentary below a cut and let you decide (the few of you reading on the actual site rather than in your e-mail, anyway) how much further you care to go.
Monday 1st July 2019
119. Materialities at Birkbeck, I: between mind and matter in medieval monetary policy
Rebecca Darley, "Discourses on Absence, or Kalabhra and Vakataka Monetary Policy in Early Medieval Southern India"
Chris Budleigh, "Surplus and Scarcity: the contested relationship between monetary supply and aristocratic land management in Comnenian Byzantium"
Sidin Sunny, "The Lighter Dirham: power relationships in medieval Spanish society and tendencies in coin fineness and debasement."
240. The Use and Construction of Place, Space, and Materiality in Late Antiquity
Edward James, "Materiality and the Holy in Gregory of Tours"
Guy Halsall, "Trace, Space, Place: the materiality of identity"
Catherine-Rose Hailstone, "Place and Space: Gregory, Materiality, and the Fear of God"
334. Seas and Floods in the Islamic West
Andrew Marsham, "Nile Flood Levels and Egyptian Revolts in the Early Medieval Period"
Xavier Ballestín, "Ships, Seafarers, Sails and Bows: a source approach to marine networks and coastal settlement in the Western Mediterranean basin on the eve of the rabaḍ uprising in Córdoba, 202 AH/818 AD"
Maribel Fierro, "Sea in the Life Narratives of Andalusi Scholars and Saints"
Tuesday 2nd July
530. Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 2018, I: Iberian Spaces
Jonathan Jarrett, "Ends of Empire: Two Island Frontiers between Byzantium and Islam"
Stacey Murrell, "Centering the Marginal: concubines on Castilian frontiers, c. 1050-1350
Sandra Schieweck, "Iberian Border Regimes: the case of Castile and Navarre in the late Middle Ages"
630. Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, 2018, II: Administration and Control
Luca Zavagno, "'The Byzantine Liquid Frontiers', or How to Administer Insular and Coastal Peripheral Spaces and Stop Worrying About It"
Davor Salihović, "The Distribution of Bordering in Late Medieval Hungary"
730. Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 2018, III: between religions
Roberta Denaro, "Far from the Corrupting City: building the frontier as a stage for martyrdom and asceticism, 8th-10th centuries"
Turaç Hakalmaz, "'Islandness' of a Coastal Kingdom: the case of Cilician Armenia"
Aniket Tathagata Chettry, "Exploring the Complexities of a Brahmanical Frontier in Bengal"
830. Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 2018, IV: dealing with power on the frontier
Jakub Kabala, "Claiming Authority over the Edge of the World: Frontier Strategies in Salzburg, c. 870″
Zeynep Aydoğan, "Conquest and Territoriality in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontiers"
Andreas Obenaus, "To Whom Might/Do They Belong? Claims to Newly-Discovered Atlantic Islands in the Late Medieval Period"
Wednesday 3rd July 2019
1048. Forging Memory: false documents and historical consciousness in the Middle Ages, I
Graham Barrett, "Charters, Forgeries, and the Diplomatic of Salvation in Medieval Iberia"
Daria Safranova, "Using and Detecting Forged Charters in Northern Iberia, c. 900-1100″
Levi Roach, "True Lies: Leo of Vercelli, Arduin of Ivrea, and the Struggle for Piedmont"
1140. Byzantine Materialities, II: Ephemera and Iconoclasm
Rachel Banes, "You Can't Write That Here! Mapping Religious and Secular Graffiti in Asia Minor, c. 300-700 CE"
Daniel K. Reynolds, "Images, Icons and Apologetic: Christian Iconoclasm in Early Islamic Palestine"
Leslie Brubaker, "Dancing in the Streets: the ephemera of Byzantine processions"
1252. Transport, Traders, and Trade Routes in Early Medieval Europe
Ewa Magdalena Charowska, "Dugout Builders: the trademark of the Sclaveni in the 6th and 7th Centuries"
Daniel Melleno, "From Strangers to Neighbors: Franks and Vikings in the late 9th century"
Thomas Freudenhammer, "Rafica: early medieval caravan trade between the West Frankish kingdom and al-Andalus"
Victor Farías Zurita, "Response"
1340. Byzantine Materialities, IV: workshops, trade and manuscripts
Shaun Tougher, "Macedonian Materialities: the Menologion of Basil II"
Chris Wickham, "Materialities of Middle Byzantine Exchange in the Aegean"
Flavia Vanni, "Men at work: stucco workshops on Mount Athos"
Thursday 4th July 2019
1509. Gold, Coins and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Marco Cristini, "The War of the Coins: Numismatic Evidence for the Gothic War"
Nicholas Rogers, "Angels and the King's Evil: projections of royal authority"
Vera Kemper, "'All that glitters is not gold': heroes and material wealth"
1652. The Monetary System and Currency in Eurasia in the Pre-Modern Era, II: money and its circulation in British Isles and Scandinavia
Yuta Uchikawa, "Commerce and Coin Circulation around the Irish Sea in the 9th and 10th Centuries"
Hiroko Yanagawa, "The Irish-Sea Imitations and their Circulation during the Middle Ages"
Kenji Nishioka, "The Use of Money in Scotland during the 12th and 13th Centuries"
Takahiro Narikawa, "Church and the Money Circulation in High Medieval Norway"
1738. Materialities and Religion in Medieval Armenia and Byzantium
Katherine New, "The Representations of Material Objects in Medieval Culture: statue or doll in Byzantine mythography"
Carmen Morais Puche, "Medieval Byzantine Coinage in Patrimonio Nacional: image, materiality and religions"
So what to say about this from this distance, especially given how shamefully little of it I apparently remember? Well, that failing memory is why I take such notes, isn't it…
Double-pierced silver dirham of 'Abd al-Rahman III al-Nasir struck in al-Andalus in AD 930–31, Tonegawa Collection 3b
To start with, I obviously couldn't or didn't want to make it to the initial keynote lectures, as my conference began with the Monday 11:15 session, and there my choice was made because I was moderating one, not that I might not have been there anyway given the subject and people. Rebecca's paper raised for us the possibility of a state whose ability to act in its world we can see primarily in the coinage which it didn't let circulate within its borders, as the mysterious Kalabhra polity of early medieval India is notable for not showing finds of the Byzantine gold coin that otherwise thinly permeated the south of the peninsula, raising all-but-unanswerable questions about whether they feared economic or ideological damage. Chris Budleigh showed us the possibility that eleventh-century Byzantium was partly maintaining its Adriatic coastline (because it still had one then) by feeding the cities along it from imperial estates. And Sidin looked at reasons the Berbers of North Africa might have been trying to cut down the size and standard of coins they fed into al-Andalus, and had lots of fun possibilities. This is a research complex that has since moved to Leeds, at least in part, from which doubtless hang further possibilities for projects about money and metal flow in the Mediterranean world in which I hope I get to take part! But I might need to start by remembering those in which I already have…
Modern statue of Saint Gregory of Tours in the Louvre, Paris, image by Jastrow (own work), licensed under CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
After that, a session in which the dynamics were interesting, in so far as I think it was a Ph.D. student arranging a session in which her supervisor and his supervisor both spoke alongside her, not an easy thing to face. Ms Hailstone did perfectly well all the same, but for me the stand-out in this session was Guy Halsall using a range of French literary-philosophical attacks, including Derrida, Lacan and Latour, to raise problems in intelligible language with the idea of objects as things that create identity, rather than being victims of others' perceptions of identity. However, in questions Edward James also offered the interesting text-critical point that Gregory of Tours' saints' lives are, naturally enough, full of miracle cures, but that often resort was only made to the saints after resort to doctors had already failed; it's just that Gregory was writing about saints, not doctors, both of whom were nonetheless obviously available.
The closest I can find to an Andalusī ship, a 13th-century depiction of a 7th-century boat carrying Abū Zayd al-Harith on the Euphrates, in al-Ḥarīrī's Al-Maqāmāt, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Arabe 6094 fo. 68r
In the third session, although I personally learnt a fair bit about ships in the Western Mediterranean for my core period, the paper that probably filled up the session room was Professor Marsham's, arguing that while Egyptian tax revolts can be broken down along many sectarian and political lines as well as simple economic ones, very high Nile floods do seem to have lit the touchpaper for a lot of them, I guess bringing already-present tensions to breaking point but with no particular discrimination over which tensions.
Masthead of the Rethinking the Medieval Frontier project
Then there was our full day of frontiers sessions on the Tuesday, in which I'm delighted to have been able to showcase such a variety of speakers working on such a variety of areas but almost viscerally ashamed of not having been able to do anything ever about publishing any of the really interesting work that the project has generated. I need to write about this on its actual blog, so will not add yet more weight to this post right now but refer you to that when I've done it. I do, however, want to thank all my friends and colleagues who made those sessions go and made the conversations afterwards so much fun, despite the very low energy I've been able to put aside for the project.
Not forged as far as I know, but the right kind of document, a charter of donation by Diego Fernández y Gelo to San Benito de Sahag&uacuteln, 1063, Archivo de la real cancilleria de Valladolid
I should also probably apologise to Graham Barrett for arriving late to his paper in the first Wednesday session; it doesn't seem to matter when his papers are scheduled, except that he is almost always first in the session because of being earliest in speciality; muggins here charges in ten minutes late for some reason or other anyway. He did, however, even in what I saw, give a good body-blow to the idea that a charter of this era, really anyway, might be found false because of not being in the proper legal form: anyone who spends much time with these things should know that, beyond a certain sense of what order elements come in, there clearly wasn't a legal form and we just need to stop thinking in terms of secret codes of diplomatic and come back to what the texts actually say.
A graffito from Aphrodisias's South Agora, showing two athletes (apparently) overlaying an inscription commemorating a goldworker
In the second of the Byzantine Materialities sessions, I was struck by the variety of graffiti which Rachel Banes had to show us, including an apparent plan of a church building from Aphrodisias theatre; was an architect watching the games that day who couldn't get work off his mind? Dan's paper, also, was as ever really interesting, skewering over-simple explanations of the deletion of figural art from Palestinian churches in the period after the Islamic conquests simply by sitting those places where it happened alongside those where it didn't, often next-door or even in the same building. Whatever was going on here, straightforward policy-level iconoclasm it wasn't.
Reverse of a Hedeby penny recovered from one of the town's Viking burials, image by Christer Åhlin
Ms Charowska started from the premise that the migrations of Slavs into the Balkans described in the sources of the Byzantine Empire mobilising to reconquer that territory were all genuine movements of popular groups and that we can track those movements using material culture, and I'm afraid I gave up on the paper at that point; pots don't mean people and we're not even sure there were peoples involved here.2 Dr Melleno pitched an interesting idea that the ninth-century missionary bishopric at Hamburg was out to enable trade through funnelling coinage northwards because trade was a conduit for conversion, i.e. material wealth being used as a spiritual tool, which I liked. And Herr Freudenhammer's paper was extremely interesting, being one of those premises with which I would have quarrelled initially but then had to back down in the face of evidence, that there were organised trading caravans moving between the Carolingian/Frankish world and al-Andalus as early as the 9th century, on routes we can more or less map by records of the tolls taken from them, which is what the mysterious revenue that we see called rafica in our texts was. He's subsequently published this with full documentation, albeit in German, and it is slowly transforming my thinking about the way that interaction worked and, perforce, how it affected Catalonia, through which, of course, it had to pass.3
Tenth-century manuscript depiction of Bulgars slaughtering Byzantine 'martyrs', in the Menologion of Emperor Basil II, Vatican MS Gr. 1613, here obtained from Wikimedia Commons
After that, we seem to be down into single remarks: one needs making, for example about how Professor Tougher's paper about the famous Menologion of Basil II alerted me to the fact that there are fragments of enough such massive, illuminated compilations of saints' lives from the Byzantine world as to suggest that the Menologion might not even have been the most splendid one out there, and how Leslie Brubaker, Professor Tougher and I then got into an argument about whether Basil II's one, full of images of Bulgarian violence against Christians, would have been taken on campaign against the Bulgars Basil so famously combatted.4 Another needs making about the sheer cultural bravery of session 1652, four Japanese scholars coming all the way to Britain to tell a predominantly British audience about the British (and Scandinavian) medieval economy, in English, and doing so with sound scholarship throughout; they also taught me that several people I didn't know issued coins did, not least Hywel Dda the lawmaker king of Wales. And a third remark for Dr Morais Puche, who had come to England largely to tell people about a coin collection she now had charge of that had hardly been touched since the 19th century, and basically had only me to tell about it; but you might ask, whom better could she have hoped for? If only I'd been able to do something with the knowledge since!
IMC 2019 book haul
Now, of course, the point of a physical-space conference is, or at least used to be, only partly the papers and much more happens outside the sessions, be it around the coffee urns, at bookstalls, in bars or, for some brave souls, at the dance—I don't like the venue the IMC now uses for its dance at all and am always too exhausted by the Wednesday night to overcome this, especially when, as happened this time and very often happens, I have been rostered for the graveyard shift next morning. I can't now recover any of that from memory without notes, however (and I don't take notes on my socialising, in case that was a concern), except for the group in the Old Bar after the frontiers sessions, discussing what we might do with the material from the sessions, the profession or our lives. Again, none of us knew what was coming here; but it was a good evening. But the book fair bit I can partly reconstruct from material evidence, plus a good collections database (i. e. Zotero), which seems fitting to the conference theme. And you know what, I have actually started reading one of them…
1. One might argue that this was not so new, given the efforts being made in various places both to encourage and to quell live-Tweeting of conference sessions a few years back; but someone pointed out to me the other day that that seems to have died out now that half of all conference papers are simultaneously available on Zoom or similar anyway. I don't know how true this is, though…
2. I realise that this is not the view of everyone, not even everyone in the field, so I should make it clear what I'm resting that fairly strong statement on, which is, inter alia, Florin Curta, The Making of the Slavs: history and archaeology of the Lower Danube region, c. 500–700, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 4th Series 52 (Cambridge, 2001) and idem, "The Early Slavs in Bohemia and Moravia: a response to my critics" in Archeologické rozhledy Vol. 61 (Prague 2009), pp. 1–30.
3. Thomas Freudenhammer, "Rafica: Frühmittelalterlicher Karawanenhandel zwischen dem Westfrankenreich und Al-Andalus" in Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Vol. 105 (Wiesbaden 2018), pp. 391–406. I have to thank Herr Freudenhammer for a digital copy of this article, sent to me soon after our talking at this very conference.
4. Professor Tougher had raised this possibility first bruited by another scholar, but thought it unlikely because of the very great value of the manuscript. I therefore put in that there are quite a lot of very valuable things in the list of stuff the emperor takes on campaign that is discussed in Michael F. Hendy, Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy, c. 300-1450 (Cambridge 1985), pp. 146-154. To that, Leslie responded that the valuable things in that list were gifts, but the manuscript was not meant to be given away. She is right about that, but I'm still not sure it actually counters my point…
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4 responses to "The conference before the storm: Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2019"
Curt Emanuel | 12 October 2022 at 13:07 | Reply
Thank you for this summary. Returning from the dead to mention that I expect to make my first ever (possibly only) Leeds next year as well as Kalamazoo for the first time since 2015.
Jonathan Jarrett | 15 October 2022 at 11:07 | Reply
Wow, long time no see, Curt! We must be in touch before you get here, as I've pretty much decided I'm not doing this next IMC. I may get pushed out of that position, but not unless they're going to take a sight more care (read: any) over Covid. But if you're here, we should meet up anyway; that would be grand.
The plan is to spend about 2 weeks in an air bnb or other similar-type lodging at Leeds. Everyone recommends York but IMC is in the middle of my "North England" plans so moving seems impractical. Also looking at ten days or so in Worcester as well as a few days each in London and Scotland.
I'll be in-country June 14-July 17. I'd think we could at least grab a meal/have a drink together at some point. I'll make a blog post re this eventually. Only thing confirmed/bought are flights.
There is absolutely scope for a plan here. I will get myself in touch by mail, or you can presumably find mine (left-hand sidebar of any of my Chiark pages).


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Second Half Surge Sends Graceland Into Quarterfinals, 67-59
Yellowjackets Continue Debut Appearance By Downing Lions in Defensive Battle
Story By Eric Montgomery | NAIA Media Coordinator Photos courtesy of Referee Photo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (Box Score) No. 5-seeded Graceland (Iowa) kept its championship dreams alive in its first-ever trip to the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship with a 67-59 win over No. 8-seeded Langston (Okla.), Friday evening inside Municipal Auditorium. The Yellowjackets will play Montana Western, a 75-72 winner over Campbellsville (Ky.), on Saturday, March 17 at 5:30 p.m. CDT
Graceland improved its record to 26-10
Langston concluded its season with a record of 21-12
Higher seeds in the tournament improved to 12-10, while 18 of the first 22 games have been decided by 10 points or fewer
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
LT Davis led all scorers by matching a season-high with 29 points on 6 of 10 shooting from three-point range for Graceland
Will Nelson added a double-double with 13 points and a game-best 13 rebounds for the Yellowjackets
Kevin Booze hit 3 of 4 three-point shots to lead Langston with 13 points
Diamante Langston hit 9 of 10 free throws to tally 11 points for the Lions, while Brandon Eboigbodin pulled down 11 rebounds
Offense was at a premium in the first half as Graceland led 26-24 at the half after trailing 9-2 almost four minutes into the game
Davis hit the first two of his six three-point shots to spark a 12-0 run that he finished off with a drive to the basket
Langston grabbed a three-point lead after two free throws by Diamante Langston at the 14:05 mark of the second half, but went over 10 minutes between field goals as Graceland took a 48-38 lead with 5:21 remaining
Full court pressure sparked a 12-1 run for the Lions to close within three with 1:19 to play, but the Yellowjackets converted seven late free throws to earn the win
HOW THEY SAW IT
Graceland head coach Craig Doty – "Langston is the toughest defensive team we have seen this season. They deny, they take charges, they close out, and they made our offense very inconsistent tonight. LT (Davis) was huge. He has been doing this for a long time. He is used to the spotlight and he showed up big with 29 points which included big-time plays down the stretch. We again rebounded and defended at a high level with a 48-35 rebounding advantage while holding our opponent to .316 from the field. Big time effort from our guys."
Langston head coach Stan Holt – "I'm proud of our guys, proud of their effort. They didn't give up in those last few minutes and played extremely hard. I'm sad for our five seniors right now because their college careers are over, but extremely proud of how hard they competed, and I enjoyed coaching them a tremendous amount."
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Graceland dominated the game on the glass, posting a 48-35 advantage that included 13 on the offensive end leading to 14 second-chance points
Half of Langston's 18 field goals came from three-point range and 33 of its 57 total attempts were from beyond the arc, where the team shot 27.3 percent
GAME NOTES:
The Yellowjackets are a first-time qualifier in the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship and won the program's debut game Thursday night, defeating defending national champion Texas Wesleyan, 70-61...Graceland is one of four Heart of America Athletic Conference teams in this season's tournament field...Heart teams are 4-2 in the national championship thus far...Graceland is 6-4 against tournament qualifiers this season... Graceland head coach Craig Doty has led the Yellowjackets to back-to-back 20-plus win seasons after winning two NJCAA Division III national titles and a third national title game appearance at Rock Valley College (Ill.)...Graceland has won its last eight games, nine of its last 10 and are 16-2 since Jan. 17.
Langston is making its sixth appearance at the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship, including the past three-straight seasons...The Lions advanced to the quarterfinals in 2017 as a No. 6 seed, defeating Biola (Calif.) and Dillard (La.) before losing to William Penn (Iowa)...Langston is 3-6 all-time at the national championship, including a 1-1 record in second round games...The Lions are one of four Red River Athletic Conference teams in the tournament, with all four teams advancing to the second round (the only conference to do so)...Red River teams are 6-1 thus far in the tournament...Coming into the game against Graceland, the Lions had won five of their last six games.


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The mobile device maker from Taiwan could be working on a wearable device based on Android Wear.
Rumors have been flying about HTC and the possible release of a smartwatch based on the Android Wear platform from Google, which could be released as early as this month.
It has been heavily believed, for some time, that the company has been working on wearable technology.
Aside from the fact that it is now rumored that the smartwatch will be released before September is finished, it is also believed that the wearable technology device will be called the HTC CWZ. It is not known exactly when in September the device will actually hit the shelves, nor has it been officially confirmed that these wearables will be out this month, but the source (@upleaks) has been relatively accurate with this type of statement in the past.
The HTC smartwatch will be released in a number of countries and markets around the world.
The technology news reports have suggested that the first to receive this wearable technology will include North America, Korea, Japan, Brazil, and several others. The device, itself, is something that the technology world has known about for most of this year, as Cher Wang, HTC chairperson, made the announcement back in February that the company was working on this gadget and that it would be available to buy in time for this year's holiday shopping season.
That said, Wang did not say exactly when it would become available, nor did she make any specific mention of the type of features that can be expected from this device. This has caused the rumor mill to continually swirl, as the unveiling of the Taiwanese wearables could occur at virtually any moment.
Technology news headlines of this nature thickened this summer when a smartwatch made a brief appearance in an official HTC video. That said, the company stated that the device that was spotted in the video was not an actual product planned for release. Previous reports have also suggested that the wearable technology device would be sold under the name One Wear and that it would launch late in August or early in September.


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Even though you should really avoid eating at high altitudes, sometimes hunger can become unbearable. So, if you must eat while you're aboard, the study suggests to snack on the Hummus & Pita Chips. "It's really the best choice, and better than any of the individual snacks, which are very high in calories," says the study. If you decide to skip the snacks and take advantage of the complimentary meals, the study suggests the Penne Pasta Bolognese Sauce and green salad.


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PSYCHOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF SENSORY MARKETING New research suggests that many industries are missing opportunities to connect with customers' senses.
For two decades marketers in a variety of industries have been building ex-pertise in reaching consumers through the five senses—learning to deploy cues, such as the sting from a swig of mouthwash and the scritch-scratch sound of a Sharpie pen, that can intensify perceptions of brands. The past year has brought a rush of interest in the subject among academics. New research sug- gests that we're about to enter an era in which many more consumer products companies will take advantage of sense-based marketing.
Much of the new research centers on "embodied cognition"—the idea that without our conscious awareness, our bodily sensa- tions help determine the decisions we make. For example, people who had briefly held a warm beverage were more likely than peo- ple who had held a cold one to think that a stranger was friendly; this was demonstrated in an experiment by Lawrence E. Williams, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and John A. Bargh, of Yale. And warm ambient temperatures prompted people to conform
of our brains. The author of the 2013 book Customer Sense: How the 5 Senses Influence Buying Behavior, Krishna got into the field bec ause she was fasc inated by certain questions: Why does wine taste better in a wine glass than in a water glass? Why is an ad showing a piece of cake more engag- ing when the fork is placed to the right of the cake? Why does the smell of cinnamon make a heating pad seem to work better? Krishna realized that the senses amplify one another when they are congruent in some way. Bec ause cinnamon suggests warmth, it can enhance a heating pad's ap- peal and apparent effectiveness. Such influ- ences are subtle—and that's exactly why they are so powerful. Consumers don't perceive them as marketing messages and therefore don't react with the usual resistance to ads and other promotions.
Thinking about sensory effects is an established practice in some consumer in- dustries, such as food, cosmetics, and hos- pitality. For example, Hershey's has long been aware that the tactile pleasure people get from unwrapping the foil around a Kiss transforms an ordinary piece of chocolate into a special experience. But many com- panies are taking their thinking much fur- ther. Consider this campaign by Dunkin' Donuts in South Korea: When a company jingle played on municipal buses, an atom- izer released a coffee aroma. The campaign increased visits to Dunkin' Donuts outlets near bus stops by 16% and sales at those outlets by 29%. Another example is Olay Regenerist thermal facial products, which are engineered to generate heat upon appli- cation (although heat isn't necessary to their functioning) to signal that they are working.
Automakers have paid close attention to the senses for years: Designers work hard to optimize the feel of knobs, the solid noise of a door shutting, and the distinctive new- car smell. Recently they have turned to ad- vanced technologies. For instance, in its 2014 M5 model, BMW mikes and amps the engine sounds through the car speakers, even when the audio system is turned off. The idea is to enhance the car's sporty feel.
to a crowd, a finding of researchers led by Xun (Irene) Huang, of Sun Yat-sen University (see the exhibit below).
Marketing researchers are "starting to realize how powerful the responses to non- conscious stimuli can be," says S. Adam Brasel, an associate professor of marketing at Boston College. Work on embodied cogni- tion has begun "blowing up on the academic side," he adds. At the 2014 Association for Consumer Research's North American con- ference, Brasel heard more papers on sen- sory research presented than at any previous conference. That same year the Journal of Consumer Psychology published a special is- sue on embodiment and sensory perception, with a focus on how sensory inputs can drive consumer behavior.
Aradhna Krishna directs the Sensory Marketing Laboratory at the University of Michigan and is considered the foremost expert in the field. She says that many com- panies are just starting to recognize how strongly the senses affect the deepest parts
WARMTH INDUCES PEOPLE TO CONFORM Research participants in a warm room (versus a cool but not uncomfortable one) reported feeling closer to the people around them, and they were more likely to:
say they would buy the TV remote preferred by most of the other participants;
match their stock price predictions to those of previous participants;
and bet on the "favorite" in a hypothetical horse race.
SOURCE "WARMTH AND CONFORMITY: THE EFFECTS OF AMBIENT TEMPERATURE ON PRODUCT PREFERENCES AND FINANCIAL DECISIONS," BY XUN (IRENE) HUANG, MENG ZHANG, MICHAEL K. HUI, AND ROBERT S. WYER JR.
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Still, in wide swaths of consumer indus- tries, companies remain focused solely on visual attributes and give little thought to other sensory effects. Product developers and marketers need to change that, Krishna says. Bank executives should make sure that branch offices exude the reassuring, wealth- suggesting aromas of wood and leather. Manufacturers of products with embedded motors should think about those products' sounds—are they tinny whines or solid, low- pitched hums? Luxury clothing manufactur- ers doing business online should consider what message is conveyed when goods are shipped in bubble wrap versus high-quality crinkly paper.
For managers looking to learn about sensory stimuli, the new academic work reveals striking instances of senses' affect- ing attitude, mood, and even memory more profoundly than words ever could. An ex- periment Krishna conducted with May O. Lwin, of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, and Maureen Morrin, then of Rutgers University, is just one example. The three found that imbuing pencils with the unusual scent of tea tree oil dramatically increased research subjects' ability to re- member the pencils' brand and other details. Whereas those given unscented pencils ex- perienced a 73% decline in the information they could recall two weeks later, subjects given tea-tree-scented pencils experienced a decline of only 8%.
"In the past, communications with cus- tomers were essentially monologues—com- panies just talked at consumers," Krishna says. "Then they evolved into dialogues, with customers providing feedback. Now they're becoming multidimensional conversations, with products finding their own voices and consumers responding viscerally and sub- consciously to them."
Such conversations, she emphasizes, should be at the center of product innovation and marketing for many brands. Every con- sumer company should be thinking about de- sign in a holistic way, using the senses to help create and intensify brand personalities that consumers will cherish and remember.KY
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Tech company employees who used their firm's social platform to chat about leisure interests like food and sports were less likely to be laid off, according to recent study.
"SOCIAL NETWORK EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY AND JOB SECURITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE ADOPTION OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOL," BY LYNN WU
TAKING SENSORY COMMUNICATION TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL" Chuck Jones is the chief design and R&D officer at Newell Rubbermaid, a 112-year-old maker of tools, pens, and other products. He spoke with HBR about the company's new emphasis on sensory marketing and design. Edited excerpts follow.
Why is Newell Rubbermaid investing in sensory inputs? The field is evolving quickly, and our corporate growth game plan, which focuses broadly on design, positions us to take advantage of the latest research. Last year we opened a design center next to Western Michigan University and staffed it with physiologists and also experts in perception. Someone familiar only with our past efforts would be stunned. And we've expanded our definition of human sciences research.
How so? Conventional marketing research looks at opinions. We also study unconscious behaviors and human cognitive and physical processing to extract principles that we can apply to Sharpie pens or high-performance pliers, for example.
Pliers? We're putting a lot of energy into the heft, feel, and ergonomics of cutting pliers for skilled trades. There's a similar effort in packaging.
Why packaging? Many of our fine writing instruments are given as gifts, so there's a ritual quality to opening the package. We pay close attention to the "hand," or feel, of the material; the resistance it presents (more is better, within limits); the sounds it makes; and the way the package opens, as a series of disclosures—an unveiling of the product, if you will. Our thinking about packaging takes sensory communication to a whole new level.
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TRADE NOT AS GLOBAL AS WE THINK Our hyperconnected world isn't as tightly linked as it was during the peak of globalization, in 2007—just before the financial crisis hit. That's the message from the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014.
The index uses flows of trade, capital, people, and information to show how entwined we citizens of the world are. It measures those flows along two dimensions: Depth reflects the volume of international activity, while breadth reflects its geographic distribution. For example, tourism in the Bahamas scores high on depth, because a lot of people travel there, but low on breadth, because most come from one country, the U.S.
The index calculates the connectedness of each nation by combining depth and breadth. It also tracks connectedness on a worldwide level.
MANY LEADERS HAVE LOST GROUND Fully half the 26 most-connected countries in 2013 have become less connected since 2007—and often the declines are steep. The financial crisis and recession caused trade flows to plummet. Capital has been largely flat, as has the number of people studying or working outside their home countries. Information flows have been rising fast, but they started from a low base; even now less than 20% of internet traffic crosses borders, and fewer than 5% of telephone calls do.
DEPTH BUT NOT BREADTH Worldwide, the volume of flows has rebounded since the recession—but those gains have been offset by continued declines in geographic distribution.
SOURCE "DHL GLOBAL CONNECTEDNESS INDEX 2014," BY PANKAJ GHEMAWAT AND STEVEN A. ALTMAN
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GLOBAL CONNECTEDNESS 1.0435
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THE MOST-CONNECTED COUNTRIES
CONNECTEDNESS SCORE (0–100)
84 IRELAND
83 SINGAPORE
81 BELGIUM
80 LUXEMBOURG
78 SWITZERLAND
76 UK
DENMARK GERMANY
72 SWEDEN
70 HONG KONG
67 HUNGARY
64 U.S.
68 ISRAEL
65 ICELAND
89 NETHERLANDS
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The success of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma at this year's Oscars has royally pissed off Steven Spielberg, so much so he's reportedly doubling down on banning streaming films from awards contention once and for all. Per Indiewire, a Spielberg vs. Netflix battle will be reaching its peak at next week's Board of Governors meeting at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where the director — who's a board member of the directing branch — is planning to "propose rule changes" that would specifically prevent Netflix, and other streaming outlets such as Amazon and Hulu, from qualifying for Oscars contention. Spielberg had previously discussed his disgust at Netflix campaigning for Oscars, equating its film slate to mere television movies.
"Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie. You certainly, if it's a good show, deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar," he said at the time. "I don't believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the Academy Award nomination." By diversifying and expanding its original film slate, Netflix has received a handful of Oscars nominations over the past two years, which include Roma, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Dee Rees' Mudbound, and Ava DuVernay's 13th. Netflix even scored a win for Best Documentary last year with Icarus, which revolved around Russia's Olympic doping scandal. Please keep Spielberg in your thoughts at this time.
Update: On Sunday, Netflix seemingly tweeted a response to Spielberg, or at least, a response to a Spielberg-ian attitude towards streaming films.
You Know Who Really Hated That 'Popular Film' Oscar? Some Guy, Steven Spielberg!


20 minute photo portfolio review session.
Photographer and famed omnivore Scott Suchman has spent his entire professional career working in Washington, DC. From an early start as a wire service stringer, he is now recognized as one of the region's top food and restaurant shooters. Scott is a contributing photographer to Washingtonian Magazine and has worked on assignment for The Washington Post Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, Southern Living, as well as other regional and national publications.
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This is a table top miniature set that was designed and photographed by Bob and Dennis Skotek. A lot of the worm action in the first film was accomplished via our amimatronic miniature puppets and the Skoteck's excellent miniature photography. We have worked with the Skoteck's in the past on Aliens. They are famous for their in-camera effects and they really added a lot to the overall impact of tremors.


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The Reprisal: A Novel
by Laudomia Bonanni
translated by Susan Stewart and Sara Teardo
Cloth: 978-0-226-06380-5 | eISBN: 978-0-226-01830-0
Library of Congress Classification PQ4807.O555R3713 2013
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In the bitterly cold winter of 1943, the Italian countryside is torn apart by violence as partisans wage a guerilla war against the occupying German army and their local fascist allies. In the midst of this conflict, a ragtag group of fascist supporters captures a woman in the late stages of pregnancy. Suspecting her of being in league with the partisans, they hastily put her on "trial" by improvising a war tribunal one night in the choir stalls of the abandoned monastery that serves as their hide-out. This sham court convicts the woman and sentences her to die—but not until her child has been born. When a young seminarian visits the monastery and tries to dissuade the fascist band from executing their sentence, the absurd tragedy of the woman's fate is cast in stark relief. The child's birth approaches, an unnerving anticipation unfolds, and tension mounts ominously among the characters and within their individual psyches.
Based on a number of incidents that took place in Abruzzo during the war, Laudomia Bonanni's compact and tragic novel explores the overwhelming conflicts between ideology and community, justice and vengeance. The story is embedded in the cruel reality of Italian fascism, but its themes of revenge, sacrifice, and violence emerge as universal, delivered in prose that is at once lyrical and brutal.
In her native Italy, Bonanni, a writer of journalism and critical prose as well as fiction, is hailed as one of the strongest proponents of post-war realism, and this is the first of her novels to be made available to Anglophone readers. Translators Susan Stewart and Sara Teardo render Bonanni's singular style—both sparse and emotive, frank and poetic—into readable, evocative English.
Laudomia Bonanni (1907–2002) was one of the preeminent Italian writers of the mid-twentieth century, and this is her first book to be translated into English. Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. A former MacArthur fellow, she is the author of many books, including the poetry collections Red Rover and Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently, a work of prose entitled The Poet's Freedom. Sara Teardo is a lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University.
"The Reprisal is a starkly haunting and disturbing novel, stylistically and thematically innovative; its English translation should be of interest to contemporary feminist criticism of all stripes, students and scholars of the Italian novel, neorealism, Fascism, and the literature of World War II. Laudomia Bonanni's novel, completed in 1985, was only published in Italy posthumously, in 2003. Now, The Reprisal and Bonanni can assume their rightful place in the canon of Italian novels about the war and resistance, along with authors such as Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Elsa Morante. In this eloquent and accurate translation, Susan Stewart and Sara Teardo provide a welcome rehabilitation of one of the most penetrating portrayals of cruelty and poverty under the conditions of war, and of the deep wellspring of strength of female archaic resistance."
— Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz
"I have before me the book of an unknown woman, Laudomia Bonanni. This work emerged from a competition and won a prize for literature. I am wary of such prizes, but I must admit there are exceptions and this Laudomia truly deserves to be brought out from the shadows. She reveals a narrative strength that must not conclude here. She is sure to go a long way."
— Eugenio Montale
"Bonanni's tragic, brutal novella is exquisitely translated for the first time by poet Stewart and scholar Teardo. . . . Bonanni's surreal and grotesque scenes make the madness of the men, and their primordial misogyny, graphically palpable. It is a travesty that English language readers have been denied this profound, gritty novel for so long as it raises serious questions about humanity's ability to justify violence."
"Laudomia Bonanni's The Reprisal, available in English translation for the first time thanks to the University of Chicago Press, is a disorienting, confusing novel, and all the more successful for it. Initially rejected by Bonanni's publisher in 1985 . . . this novel could have become any number of others instead, or so easily could have not existed at all. It occupies—perhaps especially in translation—a rich liminal space appropriate to its recounting of difficult-to-pin-down events. . . . Bonanni's purposes seem to be moral as much as aesthetic, as well as gendered: a driving force here is a no-punches-pulled critique of the warmongering of men. . . . Bonanni simultaneously undercuts the presumptuous foolishness of such masculine schemes and offsets that with a certain sympathy toward these men, who have been overwhelmed by and swept up in global events so much larger than their own village lives—yet she never lightens the load of culpability for their own actions. That uncomfortable, unresolvable balance makes The Reprisal a challenging, bleak, and haunting read—and a vital one."
— Steve Himmer, TriQuarterly
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August 15, 2016, by Kerry McBride
Much has been said and written about the niche market that craft beer and how groundbreaking young breweries often use their labels as a means to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Yet there are some breweries that take it much deeper, using their branding as a way to build genuine connections with local artists, musicians and community groups. Kerry McBride speaks to three breweries from Australia and overseas in order to explore how a label can be so much more than just a label.
During Good Beer Week 2016, Australians got a glimpse into the unique world of Canada's Collective Arts Brewing. Born out of a love for both craft beer and art, the Ontario brewery regularly hands creative control of its brand over to the creators and musicians within their community.
Once a new beer is in the pipeline, the team puts in motion a "Call for Art", asking artists to submit their ideas and concepts for the beer's labelling and design. But, more than that, the winning designs are then decided by a jury of artistic peers, ensuring Collective Arts (a selection of whose artwork is pictured above) stays true to its mantra of artistry at every step.
Co-founder Bob Russell sees it as a circular process, where the beer informs the art, which informs the events the brewery might hold, which range from art auctions to live music events.
"Instead of creating a singular branded label, the art and the community decides what our brands are going to look like by the work they submit," he says. "It's an ever-changing, surprising look at what is happening in real time in the art and music community."
Their first call for art received around 1,000 submissions from primarily Canadian artists, and the most recent round attracted more than double that. Since launching in 2013, they have paid more than $100,000 directly to artists, and continue to keep them involved in brewery events afterwards.
For Bob, the connection between brewing and art seems only natural.
"Both beer and art are a creative endeavour," he says. "Our brewers use a different combination of ingredients – hops, malts and yeast to create our beers – similar to an artist who chooses between colours and mediums to create their work. Each beer we create is a piece of art as the process is highly creative – as are the minds that create them."
That belief is mirrored by the team at Colonial Brewing, which initially launched in Western Australia before opening a second brewery and venue in Melbourne earlier this year. They have partnered with the Emergence Creative Festival over the last two years for the release of two of their canned beers: Small Ale and the Emergence of Astra.
Colonial Brewing's first three canned releases.
The first collaboration at the 2015 festival involved creating a label for their Small Ale, a mid-strength that, after several iterations as a draught release, was set to become the brewery's second canned brew. Six artists were given the brief "Think small" and given free rein to explore what that concept might mean. The winning artists, Dune Haggar and Ian Mutch, then had 24 hours to refine their chosen design down to something that could be printed onto the can.
The two artists then returned for a second year, helping four fellow artists to produce the can design for the Emergence of Astra for the 2016 festival.
Head brewer Justin Fox sees Small Ale as something that doesn't require tasting notes. Rather, take a look at the can, appreciate the artistry, and simply give it a go.
"You've got to just taste it," he says. "We don't want to give you tasting notes. The way I think of it, Small Ale is Gary [the imaginary muse the brewers have in mind when working on many of their developmental and limited release beers] on a Tuesday night listening to some soft jazz while he works on his putting.
"Tasting notes don't help you think. We don't want to tell you that it's deep caramel with hints of passionfruit and a touch of lemon sorbet. Just drink it. Discover it for yourselves."
In the same way that the detailed artwork for their Small Ale and Astra beers hint at the complexities held within, their Colonial Draught can is stripped right back to basics. Once again, art and the beer itself are complementary.
"Putting Draught [the beer formerly known as Kolsch] in a white can was trying to take beer a little bit away from what it had all become," Justin says. "It's almost trying to go back to a blank canvas, and taking beer back to what it used to look like.
"We just wanted it to be beer again. There's so much noise around the concept of 'craft' now, that sometimes simply having a beer is all you want to do. We used the design to pull back from that, and make it clear that sometimes beer really is just a beer."
It's hard to explore the interrelation of beer and art without the name Garage Project being mentioned. The Wellington brewery has embraced local artists from day dot, working with a huge variety of Kiwi illustrators and designers to keep up with the ever growing number of beers they produce.
Garage Project artistic collaborator Tim Gibson.
One such artist is illustrator Tim Gibson, who decided the best way to get Garage Project's attention was to turn up on their doorstep. In early 2014, he put together a portfolio, loaded it onto an iPad, and rocked up to the brewery completely unannounced.
"I literally just walked in off the street into their tasting room with an iPad of work and said, 'Hey, we should do some stuff together.' I was also arrogant enough to suggest a beer, which I didn't realise they'd almost brewed anyway two years beforehand," he says.
"That was enough for them to at least have a look at what I'd brought in."
It was a technique that worked, and the Garage Project crew gave Tim a shot at designing their next beer label. They worked together on a pair of beers for the 2014 GABS festival in Melbourne, and over the next couple of years Tim's role morphed into something of an artistic director, working closely with co-founder Jos Ruffell to pair new beers with local artists and decide on a look for each new release.
His work can now be spotted on beers that include White Mischief, Death From Above, Touch Wood, Bossa Nova and Pernicious Weed. In the case of Garage Project, while the process varies from beer to beer, design usually comes after a beer is already brewed.
"For White Mischief, they told me the name and I said, 'Stop right there'. I wanted to design with no other information," says Tim. "I went away and came back with five completely different ideas for what White Mischief might be."
The design they decided on has been a hit, with the stylised fornicating bunnies dotted across the label of the salted white peach sour proving to be popular with beer sorts and design lovers alike.
"As soon as the guys saw it, they knew it was the one," he says. "It just had to be put out there."
Considering the sheer number of brews coming out of the Garage each year, designs are constantly in production, Tim says.
"It's important for us and for the brewing team that the beer designs reflect not just the beer itself, but the inspiration behind it. That goes beyond, 'Oh it's a summer beer, let's make it bright and sunny'.
"They might have been exploring a certain period of music, or thinking about a particular film or book at the time. It's this balance of pairing the inspiration or vibe of the beer with the flavour at the same time."
A collection of Tim Gibson's can and label designs for Garage Project.
In some ways, says Tim, the crossover between craft beer and art is almost inevitable.
"If you look at the people who drink craft beer, there is an incredible crossover between beer geeks and illustration geeks and creative people in general. The only real difference between beer geeks and some artists out there is we might not be able to afford the fancier beers all the time.
"But, if you think about it, you are just as likely to find an illustrator with a big bushy beard as you are a brewer."
Co-founder Jos Ruffell – who does indeed have a beard – says they are lucky to be based in a city with such a creative heart, enabling them to do things such as inviting artists to paint the walls of the brewery itself, and develop beers and accompanying labels for a number of charity events and organisations.
"We're fortunate that Wellington has such a depth of talent to draw on, and we find the city itself to be full of inspiration and ideas, so it makes sense to work with other local artists who might also be experiencing that."
But it is not simply a case of making a beer look good and walking away, says Jos.
"We ultimately want to brew beautiful beers that are unique and have something to say. So it goes hand in hand with great art and design for us. We care deeply about all aspects of our beers and showing that level of care and attention right through to the presentation and way the bottle or can looks is part of the process for us.
"Ultimately, the beer in the glass is the most important thing, but you do often drink with your eyes as well. So, if we can have a complete package that is unique and adds to the story and depth of the experience, that's where things get really interesting for us."
The growing interest in craft beer labelling is catching too, with Tim and other artists who have worked for Garage Project picking up clients off the back of their beer work.
"People from cider or coffee and those types of industries are looking at craft beer design and saying that this is the kind of energy they want," says Tim.
"We're the ones out here taking risks with how we present stuff, but everyone else is still doing quite standard design stuff. We're so lucky with craft beer that the inside can truly be just as exciting as the outside. There's no point coming up with a new way to revitalise the IPA and then sticking it in a boring old paint by numbers can."
About the author: Kerry McBride is a reformed journalist who has taken the well-trodden path from Wellington to Melbourne. Her love for bad puns is matched only by her love of hoppy beers and Hallertau Funkonnay.
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From a Surry Hills vegetarian restaurant of the same name sprung Yulli's Brews. Stepping in tandem into the brewing world are Yulli's founder Karl Cooney and homebrewing staff member James Harvey. With their first of their beers now in cans, we find out more. read on
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The coach of Team Vilkai was Rimas Kurtinaitis, of Lietuvos Rytas, who received 5,490 votes. The coach of Team Ereliai was Antanas Sireika, of Šiauliai, with 3,005 votes.

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All-Star 3-point shootout

The leading scorer in 3-point percentage of the LKL was Donatas Zavackas. Besides him, one player, usually with a good 3-point percentage, was chosen from every team in the league. Below is the list of participating players. The winner received the trophy, a prize and a 4,000 Litas check.

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30/11/2016, 12:00 pm Updated: 30/11/2016, 8:14 pm
From left, Ronan Craig, Sharon Munro, Natalie Davidson and daughter Abbie Gibbs.
Residents from a block of Aberdeen council flats are in the process of being relocated due to concerns the building vibrates.
Tenants began moving into the flats on the site of the former Marchburn School in April 2012.
Aberdeen City Council said it had launched an investigation into the issue and is in the process of relocating all the residents living there.
The properties were some of the first council homes built for families in the city in 30 years.
But residents in one of the blocks have since complained the building constantly vibrates.
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Aberdeen City Council started moving out residents in April and have since relocated people from four of the block's six flats.
Mum-of-two Natalie Davidson moved into the development with her two daughters Carly, 9, and Abbie, 3, four years ago.
The 26-year-old claimed the local authority sent in a structural engineer in July who said the building was not fit for purpose.
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Natalie and her neighbour Sharon Munro, 43, who lives with son Ronan Craig, 17, have both been to the doctor with symptoms they say are caused by the vibrations including nausea, joint pain, anxiety and headaches.
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I have never been one for New Year's Resolutions… but this year I am making a few! The most important one to my blog readers is that I am reviving the Blog! I'm excited to start talking about food, cooking, and healthy living again. . . It has been a while since I have regularly updated the blog – but in 2016 I will be doing so a few times a week.
My other resolutions are – to eat healthy (for the most part), plan the meals I will be eating at work (which I started in November and I was amazed by how much better I felt when I was not having to make last minute decisions for breakfast and lunch) and getting back into a regular exercise program. In order to help facilitate the exercise, I signed up for a 5k in March and started Couch to 5K on Sunday. I don't think I needed such an extreme program to get me back in race shape, but I really love having a strick program to follow. The other exercise goal is to reach at least 10,000 steps every day (via my Fitbit). On the weekends I often have a hard time getting to 10,000 unless I go for a long walk or run.
I've started all of these resolutions before ringing in 2016 – and I feel like I am getting a jumpstart on my new goals. It is a pretty good feeling!
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Visions for the future
We are revolutionary. We recognize that our job is to make the impossible inevitable.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
SOURCEPopular Resistance
The Trump Administration is trying to take decades of the United States' neo-liberal (or neo-feudal for those who prefer that term) and militaristic policies to the extreme. Trump's proposed budget would sacrifice low-cost, but critically necessary services such as legal aid, food for the elderly and programs to end homelessness, to pay for a $54 billion increase in Pentagon spending. And much of what is not being jettisoned would be privatized to offload costs from the government to individuals.
The vision for the future laid out in President Trump's budget is one of large cuts to the federal government for necessary agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and Housing and Urban Development, privatization of services, such as air traffic control, and macho military might. It conjures visions of Nero fiddling as Rome burned.
If Trump's vision proceeds, the profiteers will continue to reap great wealth while the quality of life for more people will deteriorate. The Military Industrial Complex will swell, driving the economic draft that propels more people, particularly youth, into working for either the military or security states, which creates a destructive cycle of more insecurity and the need for more weapons, war, and austerity.
This contradicts the vision Trump laid out for his voters of being a populist who had their best interests at heart. Jobs, at least those that people want and that pay a living wage, will not 'trickle down.' More people will lose access to health care and other safety net services. Climate chaos and war will bring greater insecurity to the world.
Ralph Nader writes in "'Making America Great' at American's Expense," that "The tower of contradictions, being constructed by Trump and the most extreme Republican Party in its history, won't be camouflaged or distracted for long." People are rising up and will continue to do so.
The corporatist's vision has been pushed for decades in the U.S. and around the world, but there is another vision that is also growing in the hearts and minds of many. It is the vision of thriving healthy communities in which everyone has health care, high quality education, jobs with living wages, a clean environment, safe neighborhoods and efficient transportation. This may sound like a utopia, but it exists in some places and it is certainly achievable in the 'richest country in the world'.
How do we get there? The simple answer is that we must change the political culture so that these solutions are the only ones that are acceptable. We've seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow. The late activist Bill Moyer called this 'Victorious Retreat' and it happens when politicians face a choice of either adopting the people's demands or losing their position (click here to read about the eight stages of successful social movements). It's why we need a positive agenda, a People's Agenda (as we lay out here) now more than ever.
It isn't sufficient to be fighting against everything. People are inspired when they are fighting for something. And as more people see that there is a vision that will improve their lives too, they will join in and then we have a mass movement capable of real transformation.
George Lakey recently reviewed the new book "Strangers in Their Own Land " by Arlie Russell Hochschilds. The author spent time in a deeply Republican area in the South to learn about middle and working-class people's attitudes in order to better understand how to reach out to them. She found that this requires avoiding conflicts over individual policies and instead getting down to values and a vision defined by those values, and then letting the solutions flow from there.
Countries that are living the 'American values' of freedom, liberty and economic well-being are those that eschewed 'welfare' programs for universal programs. Welfare programs are often of poor quality because they are designed for the poor and those who don't need them are generally unaware of or are not concerned about the poor quality. When basic necessities such as education, health care and transportation are available to and are used by everyone, then they are of higher quality. Sheila Kennedy explains in Inequality.org that we need to broaden our definition of the social safety net and view it as our membership in society:
"The true safety net consists of the many institutionalized avenues within which the citizens of a nation encounter each other as civic equals, and benefit from membership in a society built upon the recognition that all their lives matter."
What could be more basic than access to health care?
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) introduced by Republican leadership in the House has made it through the three required committees and may be presented for a vote on the floor of the House next week. If it passes, it will then head to the Senate for debate and a vote. This is a bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to Medicaid and Medicare and changes to private health insurance that will make it hard for many to afford to buy a plan, other than cheap skimpy ones.
The Congressional Budget Office released their report on the AHCA. They find that it will cut $1.2 trillion from Medicaid and subsidies for private insurance and repeal $900 billion in taxes for the rich over the next ten years. It will leave 14 million more people without health insurance in 2018, bringing the total to 43 million, and raise the number of uninsured to 52 million in 2026. Those with private insurance will still face high premiums and out-of-pocket costs that leave many unable to afford necessary care.
The AHCA must be stopped, of course, but we also have to fight for something more. Most people in the United States support National Improved Medicare for All, also called single payer healthcare, though you wouldn't know that if you only followed commercial media. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) found that the healthcare debate in the U.S. is being constricted to the ACA or the AHCA. Ellen Brown of Web of Debt explains whyNational Improved Medicare for All is the best solution to our healthcare crisis.
This past weekend, more than 200 medical students gathered in Philadelphia, PA to strategize to win Medicare for All. They are encouraging their colleagues to pledge support for Medicare for All. And Dr. Carol Paris, the current president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a steering committee member for our campaign Health Over Profit for Everyone, found a way to get the message out this week. After two letters to President Trump asking for a meeting received no response, she attended the Trump Rally in her home town of Nashville, TN. When President Trump was speaking, she held up a sign and shouted "Put your name on the bill, Medicare for All" repeatedly until she was escorted out. This caused Trump to acknowledge her and even turn his back to the audience for a moment.
There is legislation in the House of Representatives, HR 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act that already has 69 co-sponsors. Activists successfully convinced a few more members to sign on during the recent town halls. More co-sponsors are needed and those members of Congress who say they support it must be pushed to do more. A companion bill is also needed in the Senate. Use this simple tool to call Senator Sanders (it only takes a few minutes) and urge him to introduce single payer and to offer it as a substitution amendment to the AHCA if it comes to the Senate for a vote. And thenjoin the Health Over Profit for Everyone campaign. We hold regular national educational and organizing calls and there is a Lobby Day and a week of action from April 3 to 7.
Imagine a different future than the one we face now
There is majority support across the country for positive solutions to the crises we face. We can have a different future than the one we face if we are willing to organize and fight for it. First, we have to recognize that the changes we need are only going to come about if we are willing to fight for them and second, that we have the power to win when we do. It is our job to demand what we need and not let the bi-partisans, both corrupted by corporate influence, limit our choices.
Sometimes we even have to push those who ought to be natural allies. Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report writes about Our Revolution's support for a less-than-revolutionary candidate in Georgia. Dixon correctly points out:
"Revolutionaries set lofty goals that some deem achievable, and that their foes declare illegitimate. If politics is the art of the possible, politicians and political organizations who deem opposing war and militarism, fighting for Medicare for all impractical and impossible are peddling a politics of uselessness, in which the people's needs cannot be satisfied, a politics where peace, jobs and justice are impossible."
We are revolutionary. We recognize that our job is to make the impossible inevitable. As people who support a livable future, we must set a vision that speaks to our shared values and then do what it takes to make that vision a reality. Across the country and around the world, people are taking action in many ways. Let's keep building our movement of movements until we achieve the power to make our efforts unstoppable.
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Kevin Zeese is an American political activist who has been a leader in the drug policy reform and peace movements and in efforts to ensure a voter verified paper audit trail. Margaret Flowers, M.D., is a Maryland pediatrician seeking the Green Party nomination for the US Senate. She is co-director of PopularResistance.org and a board adviser to Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the Leadership Council of the Maryland Health Care Is a Human Right campaign.
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Cry, Heart, But Never Break (Hardcover)
By Glenn Ringtved, Charlotte Pardi (Illustrator), Robert Moulthrop (Translator)
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"Some people say Death's heart is as dead and black as a piece of coal, but that is not true. Beneath his inky cloak, Death's heart is as red as the most beautiful sunset and beats with a great love of life." This children's book by a Danish author and illustrator team is a marvelously wise parable about death's place in life. —Reva
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Aware their grandmother is gravely ill, four siblings make a pact to keep death from taking her away. But Death does arrive all the same, as it must. He comes gently, naturally. And he comes with enough time to share a story with the children that helps them to realize the value of loss to life and the importance of being able to say goodbye.
Glenn Ringtved is a best-selling and award-winning Danish children's author, whose books have been widely translated.
Charlotte Pardi is a well-beloved Danish illustrator, who has created numerous books since her first picture book in 2000.
Robert Moulthrop is a published playwright. He lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Glen Ringtved: Glen Ringtved is a best-selling Danish children's author, whose books have been widely translated.
Charlotte Pardi: Charlotte Pardi is a well-beloved Danish illustrator, who has created numerous books since her first picture book in 2000.
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