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This is not an easy album to rate. First of all, Ludor is a fictitious band – they don't really exist. This is a made up band for a Swedish movie called "Mammas Pojkar" (Mama's Boys) and the music here is specially written for this movie by singer Mats Levén (Candlemass, Therion, Krux, Treat, Yngwie Malmsteen, Abstrakt Algebra) and producer / engineer Jimmy Lagnefors who both play everything on the album, except for the drums which are done by Henke Johansson (Clawfinger). So, Ludor (a name that will call for a smirk if Swedish is your native tongue) isn't a real band, but a live debut has already been done and at the premiere of the movie three songs were played by Levén, Lagnefors, drummer Chris Antonopolous, guitarist Pontus Norgren (Hammerfall, Poodles, Talisman, Great King Rat) and bass player Nalles Påhlsson (Therion, Treat, Last Autumn's Dream) and apparently, more shows might be added due to demand. But the hard thing to do here is to rate it the right way. I mean, when I listen to the songs, the lyrics mostly make me smile a bit because it's easy to hear that the boys aren't one bit serious with this and the whole thing comes off like a bit of a piss take. I don't wanna use the word joke here because that would be to disparage the writers. But shall I rate this as just another metal album or rate it for the fictitious band it is?
A little bit of both, I guess. What I can say for sure though, is that if you find the lyrics to be somewhat cliché and pubertal, then this album is not to be taken seriously. This is tongue-in-cheek all the way and even if it's nothing like Steel Panther, the principle is the same. Take it for what it is – some cool music and a bit of a laugh!
So here we go. The first song, "Ride The Vapor", kind of sets the standard for the record. Heavy Metal à la Judas Priest and a very good metal track no matter how you see it. The title track reminds me of Saxon but this is a bit too goofy and cheesy lyrically for comfort, even if not taken seriously, "Betrayed" is a very good metal ballad, "Hellfire" sounds like Accept and that can only be a good thing, "King Of All" is a killer, metal with a groove and some Eastern touches and "Believe" is a brilliant ballad. We get some classic heavy metal in "Golemn's Alive" and "Rise And Conquer" might just be best of all, a metal track with a big 70's feel, but the Manowar lyrics are just a bit too much.
To sum it up, this is a really good metal album and the very talented people involved here makes this spell quality all over – even for you who might look at this as a joke. Many of the songs would easily stand up on their own, had they been written for a serious project with other lyrics. Also, despite a couple of fillers, there are no bad tracks on here and the production is faultless, very much a metal one. For somebody who is into metal I can't any reason not to get a hold of this. I mean, people still buy Manowar and Helloween albums and this Ludor album, fictitious or not, is better than said bands latter efforts by any standards.


I picked up this vest a couple of years ago from a clearance rack at Dillard's. And it has hung in my closet ever since. I'll occasionally try it on and decide it just makes me look wider than I am and back it goes. But for some reason, when my friend Elizabeth called and said they were headed to Vino's for a little Saturday afternoon fun, I threw it on without any second thought. I added a belt at the last minute for some waist and E said it was one of her new favorite outfits of mine. Perhaps I'll get dressed like I'm meeting my girls in 10 minutes more often.
What's that? New boots? Yes, again (plzdontjudgeme!). Forever 21 had an insane 50% off sale and I'd been eying these a while as a potential cute travel bootie, so I picked them up for $5! Can't beat that with a stiletto.
And after this, we went and got Elizabeth's tragus pierced and then went downtown and ate cheese fries at Dugan's. A fabulous time was had by all.
And when I found this gem on my camera today, I couldn't NOT share it. Why I was doing this, I couldn't tell you. This sort of thing happens sometimes. Happy Monday.
Vest, Dillard's (this one from Wet Seal is cute!).
Boots, Forever 21 (not $5. but fab).
In "chambray", "clothes", "colored jeans", "justfab", "ootd", "outfit", "style", "taupe", "teal", "vest"


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Q: $wpdb->get_results(...) with $wpdb->prepare(...) returns empty array despite correct query My MySQL query is correct, but $wpdb->get_results(...) produces an empty array. Here's my code:
$key = 'user-input-key';
$value = 'user-input-value';
$value = '%' . $value . '%';
$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->prefix}postmeta WHERE meta_key=%s AND meta_value LIKE %s";
$prepared_query = $wpdb->prepare($query, array($key,$value));
$query = $wpdb->get_results($prepared_query);
// result: array()

I found the following Q&A that looked similar but did not address this exact problem:

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*$wpdb->get_results(...) returns empty array despite correct
query (where $wpdb->prepare() was not used)

*$wpdb->prepare returns empty array (where $wpdb->prepare() did
not contain LIKE)

As well as many other cases of empty results, none of which was quite what I needed.
Below is the solution I found.

A: This string, meta_value LIKE '%user-input-value%'", contains percentage wilcards (%) that indicate that we're looking for a row where meta_value column contains user-input-value as part of its value.
$wpdb->prepare converts them into hashes, and the MySQL server gets something like this: meta_value LIKE '{399038939300d2c307c53b29a166ee90101da7b2aba7978a898694010bf1bfe6}user-input-value{399038939300d2c307c53b29a166ee90101da7b2aba7978a898694010bf1bfe6}'. Naturally, I was getting no results!
The wpdb::prepare page reads, 'Literal percentage signs (%) in the query string must be written as %%. Percentage wildcards (for example, to use in LIKE syntax) must be passed via a substitution argument containing the complete LIKE string, these cannot be inserted directly in the query string. Also see wpdb::esc_like().'
So, the LIKE part must be prepared like this (example from the wpdb::esc_like() page):
$wild = '%';
$find = 'only 43% of planets';
$like = $wild . $wpdb->esc_like( $find ) . $wild;
$sql  = $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_content LIKE %s", $like );

Where $wpdb->esc_like() should go before $wpdb->prepare().
And if one wants to replace percentage wildcard placeholders manually, they should use $wpdb->remove_placeholder_escape() after $wpdb->prepare().
I ended up with this code, which worked:
$key = 'user-input-key';
$value = 'user-input-value';
$value = '%' . $wpdb->esc_like($value) . '%';
$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->prefix}postmeta WHERE meta_key=%s AND meta_value LIKE %s";
$prepared_query = $wpdb->prepare($query, array($key,$value));
$prepared_query = $wpdb->remove_placeholder_escape($prepared_query);
$query = $wpdb->get_results($prepared_query);

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Christopher Gomez is an elementary school teacher at IDEA Academy Mission.
As families from across the nation share their stories of the importance of education and why school choice matters in recognition of this week's National School Choice Week, I want to explain it from a teacher's point of view. This week is set aside to educate communities about effective educational options, which include public schools, private schools, homeschooling, and charter management organizations.
When it comes to school choice, I am reminded of the choice I made to become a teacher and the choice my students make every day to commit to success.
I have seen firsthand the benefits and the opportunities that are offered to children who are able to choose a school that best fits their needs. This is a right that all families deserve and is a reason I decided to join the IDEA Public Schools team, a public charter school family that is currently educating more than 36,000 students across the Rio Grande Valley, Austin, San Antonio, and soon to be in El Paso and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
I worked a desk job for 10 years in the business sector before I transitioned into education, on the suggestion of my mother, who is also an educator. I was born and raised in Edinburg and like many in the Rio Grande Valley, I'd heard of the great things IDEA Public Schools was doing for its students. So, on a whim, and on the nudges from my mother, I switched careers and started my education career as a co-teacher at IDEA.
Fast forward a few years, and I've grown more confident in my teaching, developed a love for working with kids, and finished my teacher's license program. I am now a lead teacher, guiding 28 budding students as they learn how to write. We play grammar games, memorize our conjunctions via song, and use them to create our own complex sentences. We develop brainstorming anchor charts together, organize persuasive arguments about the importance of recycling, and tell our very own personal narratives. For expository, step-by-step writing, we set up our own campsite on school grounds — erecting our tent and rolling out the sleeping bag — so that we're able to more vividly write about it.
IDEA provides these opportunities and opens students' eyes to a world of possibilities. Even at the elementary level, I have witnessed the commitment IDEA has made to developing all students for success in college and in life. I've learned that education works best when it's synonymous with having fun and developing worthwhile experiences. I'm proud to say that my students have gone on to score exemplary results on state writing tests, proving mastery of the subject, and paving the way to be great writers in whatever field they may pursue in high school, college and beyond.
I'm a teacher who brims with excitement, who loves what he does, and is so glad he made the career choice to switch from working at a desk all day to teaching children how to write. Just as I chose to become a teacher, my students, and their parents, chose to be part of the IDEA team and family.
I am fortunate to have the ability to choose what I want to do for a living. I want all of my students to be just as fortunate, to go out into the world and be whatever they want to be, and choose the best path for their education and life. I'm glad to be doing my part to help, through education, and through writing.


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A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness.
Mar 19 Why did you decide to make a documentary about hygge?
Rocky Walls
There are a few questions that always get asked during the Q&A after we screen Finding Hygge. One of those questions is, "Why did you decide to make a documentary about hygge in the first place?" In order to answer that question, we have to do a little bit of history on 12 Stars Media, the team behind the film.
In 2007, my cofounder, Zach Downs, and I started 12 Stars Media to help people create and share stories using video. Like the world around us, a lot has changed over the last decade since we started the company. We grew from two to twenty team members and from producing videos within a ten-mile radius to internationally. To date, our team has visited over a dozen countries, including Morocco, Denmark, Iceland, and the Philippines.
Walls (left) and Downs (right) soak in the Icelandic countryside after a long week of leading the Finding Hygge crew through principal photography in Denmark and the UK.
As we've grown, we've always looked for new ways to live out the convicting Spider-Man mantra, "With great power, comes great responsibility." That sense of responsibility is what ultimately led us on our journey to produce our first-ever feature-length documentary to share an amazing story that we believe can help change the world.
Every year at 12 Stars Media, we establish a theme. In the beginning, we didn't know what the theme was until the year was over. Our first three years in business were: "Do anything for anybody," "Do certain things for anybody," and "Do certain things for certain people." Today, we establish our themes in advance and use them to shape the path we take as a company throughout the year.
2015: Our theme was "Be the best at what we do," and we kicked off the year by taking our team (a dozen at the time) to Disney World for a best-in-class experience.
2016: We focused on our organizational structure and processes to "Be the best at how we do what we do."
2017: "Be the best in believing in why we do what we do" helped lead the way to our team's decision to create Finding Hygge.
Visiting Denmark for the first time…
In 2016, Zach and I visited Denmark to meet with a few clients and potential clients. Right away, we noticed some differences between Denmark and America, beyond the architecture and language. Everything and everyone seemed less busy. In the middle of the workday, people were taking breaks in the park and lying in the grass soaking up the sunshine, not their smartphones. When dining out, a server will almost never bring you a bill until you ask, encouraging you to stay as long as you like.
This trip is when I learned about the word hygge. Although hygge is often translated as coziness, less than half of Danes believe hygge can be translated at all (according to Meik Wiking, author of "The Little Book of Hygge"). This concept stuck with me as a back-burner musing for months until our team members advocated for a documentary as a way to celebrate our company's 10-year anniversary. The two streams of thought came together instantly, and the idea of producing a film that explored the concept of hygge was underway.
Some initial debate…
Grant Michael, Associate Producer (right), and Director, Rocky Walls (center), answer questions during an engaging Q&A hosted by author and journalist Rachel Giese (left) after a Hot Docs DocSoup screening in Toronto, Canada.
There is another fun fact that we never have time to share during those rapid-fire Q&A sessions. There was some initial debate about whether or not our crew should be seen in the film. As in, should this film actually be the story of how our team was trying to find the true meaning of hygge for ourselves? Or should we be invisible? Who is the main character going on a journey of finding hygge?
Ultimately, we decided that our team should fade into the background. Sure, you hear the occasional question being asked or if you listen very closely you might hear a laugh or two from our crew, but the one searching for hygge in the final cut of the film is you, the viewer. We wanted that to be as clear as possible without coming right out and saying it. I felt if we were featured as characters in the film, it would put the viewer into a position of viewing from the outside, and, perhaps, not experiencing the journey for yourself in quite the same way.
The deeper meaning of the title, Finding Hygge…
The explosion in popularity, all of the books written on the subject, all of the blog posts and hashtags - they were all saying something, but the definition of hygge still remained elusive. One of my favorite quotes from the film comes from TED presenter and happiness expert Nic Marks. He says, "Hygge is a balancing force. It's saying something to us. The very fact that everyone's so interested in it is saying to us that, actually, we're out of balance. This is why this is so appealing." So, one thing I always try to be clear about is the order of our priorities when it came to the message of the film: pinning down a clear and concise definition of hygge was second to making the point that finding hygge, like everything else in life, is more about the journey than the destination.
The only thing more interesting than defining hygge was looking deeper into the reason why people were so interested in it to begin with. But that'll be my next post. Be sure to sign up for our email list so you don't miss it!
Rocky Walls makes his directorial debut with the documentary feature film Finding Hygge. The co-founder of 12 Stars Media, a video production company focused on telling stories that help make the world a better place, Walls led his team on a mission to discover what role hygge plays in making Denmark one of the happiest countries on the planet. He and his wife Jessica live in Fishers, Indiana, with their three sons.
Jan 18 Toronto Packs the House (Twice!) at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Theater
Dec 4 Hot Docs Screenings
Dec 7 Now Streaming (Almost) Worldwide
Finding Hygge is a documentary by 12 Stars Media. © 2019. All Rights Reserved.

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New York City based lifestyle and portrait photographer, Jeremy Cohen, joins me on today's episode of Unstoppable.
Also known by his social media name, Jerm Cohen, Jeremy's creativity and photographic style has caught the attention of major brands such as Beats By Dre, BMW, The New York Knicks, Jameson, and Everlane.
Jeremy tells us about how he became the successful photographer that he is today, the passion that drives his projects, the challenges of being an entrepreneur, how he started working with major brands, plus much more on today's show.
Kara Goldin: Hey, everybody, I'm super-excited today to welcome one of my favorite photographers, Jeremy Cohen. Here we are talking about everything creative. We're so excited to have Jeremy. As we were just chatting about, he is our first photographer, and really, really excited to have him here today. Thanks so much, Jeremy, for coming over.
Jeremy Cohen: Yes, thank you for having me, Kara. I'm honored to be the first photographer, and excited to do this podcast.
Kara Goldin: Very, very excited. Today on Unstoppable we're going to chat with Jeremy for a few minutes about just being creative. Whenever I think about people who are creative in general I feel like it's something that goes against the grain for sort of traditional education in schooling, and it takes a lot of bravery to just jump outside of maybe what even your friends are doing, or maybe what your parents thought that you should be doing. Anyway, I really admire that entrepreneurial spirit that you've shown.
Kara Goldin: Obviously, you've got a talent for doing what you're doing. Tell me a little bit about how you got started.
Jeremy Cohen: Speaking of that, actually, I got the creative bug from my mom.
Jeremy Cohen: She's one of the most creative people I know. She started off as a professional storyteller telling Jewish folk tale to synagogues and middle schools and high schools growing up. Her way of storytelling was actually interactive storytelling. She kind of created this genera of storytelling where she would bring up puppets and different costumes and have the kids act-out these stories. At the time I didn't think of it, but that's totally shaped a lot of my art today, just seeing how she works and how she tells stories because a lot of my photography I consider storytelling. As for friends, so growing up all my friends growing up were very much into sports, including myself, football, basketball, ping pong, loved it all. Deep down I'm more of an artist, and my friends were never into art, so I never got the chance to try it out until one day I did.
Kara Goldin: How old were you at that?
Kara Goldin: With all of it.
Kara Goldin: He had to get one.
Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, and he had to get one. I'm a huge advocate for bidets now. That's another conversation.
Jeremy Cohen: He brought this camera on this trip, and I have a younger sister, just a grade below me. She borrowed it from my dad and started taking photos of just nature and flowers and just different animals we saw. Being so close in age we're naturally really competitive, and I saw the photos she was taking, and I thought they were pretty cool.
Kara Goldin: So it was her first that was the photographer.
Jeremy Cohen: She was first. I credit her. I wanted to be better than her, so when she wasn't shooting I would take the camera, take some photos, mess around with a couple of features this camera had. That's when I had the first feeling. I took a photo, and just had this feeling inside of me. It felt right to take photos. I knew right away I just really enjoyed it. I think later that year when it was my birthday I asked my parents for a camera. It was my 16th birthday, and I got my first camera then and started taking photos mostly on weekend adventures with my friends where we'd go to abandoned buildings or did some hikes. I'd kind of document just behind-the-scenes and make Facebook albums with the photos. That's where it slowly got started.
Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Well, you know, clearly, I think the first place that I saw you was just on Instagram. Obviously, your profile just really highlights uniqueness. I think that that really is such an amazing place to sort of share just exactly what you're thinking about too. I feel like that that's what's so cool just about Instagram in general, that you can really not just see where people are going and where they've been, but I think that your photos really share a lot of your thoughts. You mentioned like abandoned buildings, for example, that kind of stuff, it really goes back to, as you said, what your mom taught you around storytelling and how do you engage people in a way that really allows them to let them know a little bit about you and sort of what you're thinking, which is super, super cool. How have people found you? Do you think Instagram has just been instrumental in finding you and your business?
Jeremy Cohen: Absolutely. Yeah, extremely grateful for Instagram, which has allowed me to, most importantly, to find a community of like-minded creatives, mostly photographers, but also all types of creatives. I joined Instagram right when it started, actually. I was a freshman in college when Instagram came out in September 2010, I think it was. Then I think a month later my room mate, who was all in-the-know, told me about this app to download, and I downloaded it. I think I took one photo and posted it, and then kind of forgot about it for two years.
Then, it was three years later, 2013, I just completely randomly saw on Instagram that this guy was having an Instagram meetup. It was for people who liked taking photos and riding bikes, and those are two of my favorite things. It was 9:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I saw it, and then I was like, "Uh, I don't know if I want to do this." I thought about it a little bit, and I was like, "You know what? I'm not doing anything. I should just go." Because I went to that, it's funny looking back on things, just making a tiny decision how much that can affect your whole path. From that day, just from this Instagram meetup I met so many people that I met, and I'm friends with today as well as creative partners.
Jeremy Cohen: Instagram meetups are a little different now. They're still happening and they're still great, but this was when people were first signing up for Instagram, and it was very new. Sorry, I'm losing my train of thought a little bit. Can you repeat the question?
Jeremy Cohen: I found that Instagram meetup by following this guy, Tim Kau, who I loved his photos. He took photos of bikes around the city combined with the architecture he saw. He would just place his bike, and it would be a very simple photo of just the lines of a building lining up to meet his bike. Then he just posted about this meetup where we would bike from, I think we all met in Manhattan and took a train to New Jersey, and biked around New Jersey and back. That just sounded really interesting to me. The way you could find it is follow people and follow photographers or people you look up to, and hopefully they'll post a meet. If they do it might be a little nervous to go, but you should totally go. People are a lot friendlier than you might expect.
Kara Goldin: I think what you touched on too, for me, is I always hear people, no matter what industry, there's two types of people. There's people that will actually say, "I can do better." Whether they're calling out, "There's certain people that I look up to or I wish I had as a mentor or I admire something that they're doing." Then there's other people who are saying like, "Oh, I don't need to listen to anybody. I'm the best, and I'm just going to do my thing, and no one's going to be better than me." I always think that the people that really believe that they're the type that can always learn, and will, whether it's hiring people that are smarter than you or know more than you do about something, that the more time you can spend around those people. I think it says something about you not only as an artist, but as an individual that you want to go learn from people, which I'm constantly telling people that that's an important aspect.
Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, I always consider myself a student. I feel like I'm learning more now than when I was in school just through people and just experiences. It's important just by talking and learning their stories. I do a project called "Today I Photographed" where I take a portrait of someone every day. I was doing it every day for 614 days in a row.
Jeremy Cohen: I recently stopped don't it every day, but I still take portraits of people, just not as common, and share their story. It's just a little bit more high-production and not as frequent now. Just through approaching strangers on the street and just listening to them I surprised to find out how much I can learn from someone else's perspective on life.
Kara Goldin: That's awesome. That's really, really, that's super-cool. Freelance work, so that's another aspect. I know that there's a lot of Instagram or, I should say, influencers that are probably at these meetups as well that are really trying to figure out, "How do I actually go and make a living out of this?" Whether they are photographers or doing other things that is freelance work, writers, whatever. What kind of roadblocks do you think exist for people who are really trying to go out there and be the freelancer or sort of have that kind of freelance role? What challenges do you see are out there?
Jeremy Cohen: For me, I think the most over-looked challenge is time management. I've found over the last couple of years it's so important. As a freelancer, you're your own boss, which is a blessing and curse. It's so easy, if you allow it to be, to fall behind. It's very easy to also get comfortable. You never want to get comfortable. Always keep challenging yourself and setting goals and pushing forward, as well as just balancing everything in life. The most important thing to do, for me, it's having my routine, wake up early, get my exercise in so my mind is strong.
Kara Goldin: I'm like that too, I have to get it in the morning.
Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, I have to do it in the morning. Get my morning routine down, and then I'm ready to work. Keep up with all the emails and all the types of communication through all the different apps, Facebook messenger, text, email, Instagram DM. I shoot very often, almost every day, so I don't like to let work fall behind, so I have to constantly just keep it grinding, keep it moving. If I forget about something or don't edit some photos that I like taking one day, it's just going to keep falling back, and I may not ever see them.
Kara Goldin: I know that you're working with some very, very large brands in print and social and billboards, websites, social media campaigns. First of all, how did that happen? How did they find you? Do you have an agent?
Kara Goldin: Did they just find you on Instagram? I think that when I look at your career, it's very homegrown where you did it out of a passion, and now you're starting to be hired by these large brands, corporate, stay in the lines. Is that challenging for you as an individual? What advice would you give to other people who are looking at working in that way?
Jeremy Cohen: First of all, the most helpful thing is being passionate about it. I genuinely love photography, so that alone just makes this all easier. It makes it easy to do this. If you love it you can make it happen. I got started when I was a junior in college. Reality started to kick in, and I knew I had to start making a plan for once I got out of college. At that point I wasn't even sure if I wanted to be a photographer. I just knew I wanted to work somewhere in the creative industry. I looked up to a lot of these photographers in New York. Being in New York was a blessing.
Kara Goldin: Did you go to school in New York?
Jeremy Cohen: I went to school in New York at a school of visual arts.
Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, I think it's better on both ends. I would send emails just saying how much I would like these photographers' work and what I enjoyed about it, and that I was a student at SVA and I wanted to learn, and if they ever needed an assistant, I'm here.
Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, no, it was between 50 and 75 I would say.
Jeremy Cohen: To all different types for photographers.
Kara Goldin: A lot of people probably didn't respond.
Jeremy Cohen: Oh, yeah. It was only a few that responded. Those few, I'd say I learned more from these photographers than I did in my four years at school. It's unteachable stuff in class, I think. I saw how everything went down with photo shoots from different photographers' perspectives. All these photographers that I worked with work differently. From just seeing how they did things I naturally found out how I like to work. Some of the photographers did a lot crazier things than other ones. From that not only did I learn, but I built the confidence to be able to go out in the field and photograph.
Jeremy Cohen: … in their perspective. That's some advice I got at one point, and it kind of stuck with me. At that point that summer right after I graduated I started working on some personal projects. Looking back on them they're so silly and so much different than my work now, but no shame. The projects that I worked on, at that point my work was a lot more quirkier, and very more Instagrammy, just fun and quirky. My first project was called "Pizza Portraitz". The way my projects were viewed is I slapped a hashtag on them, so if someone wanted to see the whole series they could just click on the hashtag on Instagram, and they'd see the whole series until some trolled it and put their own photos in there.
My first one was "Pizza Portraitz" which was spelled #P-I-Z-Z-A and then Portraitz, except with a Z at the end, so it was a unique hashtag because Pizza Portraits, there are a couple of posts. They were like six posts of people eating pizza under that, so I wanted to make it unique so it was only my photos. This series was literally just I had this pizza costume. I had this pizza costume from Halloween a couple of years ago, and I love pizza. It's a fun object to work with, so I had people wear this pizza costume at different places and took portraits of them. It was just very silly stuff, but I got- Kara Goldin: In the pizza costume? Jeremy Cohen: In the pizza costume. Kara Goldin: I've got to check this out. Jeremy Cohen: Yeah. Then, the next project that I did after that was called emoji portraits, #emojiportraits. This was more of an interactive project, which I didn't plan from the beginning, where I made this hashtag, and then people started creating their own work to add to this project, which I thought was pretty cool. This was when I just took portraits, and I used Photoshop to incorporate emojis in the portraits. This was when it was like the ogee emojis, so first generation. It was the basic emojis, so there wasn't much to work with like we have now. For example, the star emojis or different hand emojis, I would just layer it on top of photos and it was cool. People tended to enjoy it, I think, and made their own versions of it too, which was the best part about the project.
From there is when I got the attention of this agency called 24/7 Laundry Service. They were looking creators. They were doing a project with Beats by Dre. It was this video series that they were working with different creators to make short, 15 second videos of filming a camera going from ear-to-ear and looping three times in three different settings. I guess through those projects they thought I could have an interesting idea for this video, even though never did video at the time. This was my first-ever photo gig with Beats by Dre, which I was super-nervous. Kara Goldin: That's huge. Jeremy Cohen: Yeah, which I was super-nervous with at the time. I couldn't really believe it. I almost said no because I had a trip planned to go snowboarding with my friends to Utah and it was during this campaign, but then I knew I couldn't say no. This was too big of an opportunity. It was the easy thing to say. I almost wanted to say no because I was scared to do it, even though it was an amazing opportunity. I said yes, and I had to do it in Utah, an unfamiliar place for me at the time. I just did this video. I used a GoPro. I'm trying to even remember it now. It was three different takes. One was while I was snowboarding down a hill. I did the camera ear-to-ear. Then I did one in a hot tub, and then the third take, it wasn't even me, it was of a snowman. I really liked it, they really liked it, and from there we started working together. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Jeremy Cohen: Then the snow ball kept rolling from that snowman. Kara Goldin: Obviously, Beats by Dre is super-cool. If you're a CMO or brand manager that is thinking about, "How do I actually make my brand cool?" I always think that having sort of this social media angle and really having kind of an influencer strategy is something that a lot of people are thinking about today. How do you think brands, what types of brands do influencers and creators really want to work with? At what point is it just not making sense for other brands, for example, that you look at that are just too in the rails that you really wouldn't be interested in doing something? Obviously, I don't think Beats by Dre is one of those because I think that they've been out of the box, really grown to be a brand that takes risks, for example. I'd love to hear sort of your perspective on it too. Jeremy Cohen: First of all, I love to work with brands that I love myself. I think it's a win-win for both sides. I think it's always good to work with a brand that you actually love. One brand that I would love to work with that I never have would be- Kara Goldin: Besides Hint, right? Jeremy Cohen: Besides Hint. Also, by the way, I do love Hint, so, naturally, I wanted to do this podcast. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. That's great. Jeremy Cohen: Don't like sugar. Sorry, I'm addicted to sugar, like mostly chocolate, so for me it's easy to not have a sugar intake, or not have sugar on a daily via beverages. It's just easier to drink water or seltzer. Kara Goldin: Then you can have your chocolate. Jeremy Cohen: It's so nice to have something with a little flavor that doesn't even have any sugar or anything. It's great for me. Kara Goldin: That's what we do. Jeremy Cohen: Living in Brooklyn, going in the deli, it's amazing. I don't even know if amazing is the word. It's awful how you go to the drink section, and every drink in the section is packed with sugar, packed, like, 40 grams of sugar. Kara Goldin: Yeah, it's crazy. Jeremy Cohen: Every drink, even the juices that are advertised as healthy have all this sugar in it. I think it's great that we have an option now that is water, but also has some flavor and tastes delicious and is health for you, and also has a good podcast. Kara Goldin: I love it, yeah. Jeremy Cohen: What was the question again? I'm talking- Kara Goldin: Just about influencers and sort of how you, ultimately, pick brands and what do you look for in a brand. Jeremy Cohen: Right now one of my dream clients would be Nike. Knowing a brand story, I think, is very helpful. Right now I'm reading this book called "Shoe Dog". It's a memoir of Phil Knight. You've read it? Kara Goldin: Yeah, it's a great book. Jeremy Cohen: Just reading this book and learning this guy's story just makes me want to work with this brand or be a part of it, help tell its story. I also learn about a lot of different brand stories through this other podcast. It's an NPR podcast called "How I built this". I get emotional listening to some of these stories, just listening how people get started from the ground up creating this huge business that we're so familiar with today, and just seeing all the obstacles that they overcome. It's incredible. For example, Patagonia was one of the ones, just amazing story, would love to work with, as well as like Whole Foods. I don't know if I'd ever work on a photo shoot with Whole Foods. I can't really see that, but it would be cool to. What's the one that I love the most? I can't think of it right now. I really want to mention this one. Kara Goldin: These are all like disruptors, right? Jeremy Cohen: These are all- Kara Goldin: These are all people that are really doing something that is purposeful, which has a back story to your point, and you can really tell that story. Jeremy Cohen: Right, purposeful, and also just taking a huge risk and just flipping the whole script, and just making something so obvious. Oh, yeah, Airbnb is the one I'm thinking of. He failed so many times, but now it's something that I use today and I love using. Kara Goldin: Yeah, I love Airbnb too. It's great. Jeremy Cohen: It makes it so much easier for traveling, and also it connects people. I love it when people create something that brings people closer together. Kara Goldin: I think photos connect people too, right? Jeremy Cohen: Oh, yeah. That's why I love photography. I'm mainly a people person, and I kind of just use photography as a tool to meet more people and just connect with more people. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Very, very cool. Besides like the brands that you're really hoping to work with, what do you think the next five years are like? Obviously, you're taking off this afternoon to do a big photo shoot in Europe. You were just sharing. You're going to go explore. I think you should go take the pictures of people every single day, and that'd be really fun in all these different cities. Jeremy Cohen: I'm really excited for that. Kara Goldin: I'm very, very excited to watch that and follow what's going on with your travels. What else, what do you think the world is like for Jeremy over the next, I don't know, three to five years? Jeremy Cohen: Wow. I don't think of this too much, but as long as I don't get too comfortable and keep pushing myself to try new things, whether it's not even necessarily photography. Like right now, I'm actually trying to get more into video. The gear I have, my camera, they're totally capable of making amazing videos. I'm not that confident in it, but I know I want to do it. Lately I've been going out of my comfort zone and making more work in motion. Who knows? Maybe in three years I might be more of a videographer more than a photographer, or maybe I'll be doing something totally different. Last night I couldn't sleep that well, so I started writing lyrics to a song. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Jeremy Cohen: I don't know, just kept my brain a little fresh trying something different. Maybe I'll record it. I don't know, we'll see. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. I think that the idea of you just being open to what's going to come, and storytelling I think is really the core aspect of that, which is- Jeremy Cohen: Totally. I think that's the one factor that I don't want to change because storytelling is something I genuinely love to do, and I like to think I'm really good at. No matter what medium I'm telling stories with, that's what I want to be doing. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Jeremy Cohen: Maybe on a bigger scale in three to five years. Kara Goldin: That's super-great. I'm excited to keep following you and see where Jeremy Cohen will take us. What's the best way for people to find you and see what you're up to? Jeremy Cohen: You can find me on Instagram @jermcohen, that's J-E-R-M C-O-H-E-N. On YouTube I think it's YouTube.com/jermcohen. I just started making videos. I have two videos so far, more coming. They're not as good as my photography, but I just got to keep getting better. That's what it's about. Kara Goldin: That's awesome. Very, very cool. Well, thanks so much, Jeremy. Jeremy Cohen: Thank you for having me. Kara Goldin: We really appreciate it. All right, cool. Jeremy Cohen: Thanks so much. Speaker 3: Cool.


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The Weekly MUBI Digest | 6th October 2018
Staff Reporter | On 06, Oct 2018
How do you follow the provocative Chinese animation Have A Nice Day? The controversial film is just one of many notable acquisitions by MUBI in the last year, including Luca Guadagnino's remake of Suspiria and Godard's The Image Book, both of which MUBI is screening at the London Film Festival this month. Even as MUBI continues to celebrate Hitchcock classics, its showcase of modern releases finds room this week for unsung modern maestro James Gray, American director Kevin Everson, and – through MUBI GO (which offers a free cinema ticket every week to its subscribers) – A Star Is Born, available at participating cinemas.
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This week on MUBI
We Own the Night – 6th October
One of America's best, James Gray makes heart-felt, precisely evoked dramas as if the New American Cinema era was still happening. In 1988, New York's police wage an all-out war on drugs. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), manager of a nightclub that is often frequented by gangsters, tries to remain neutral but hides a potentially fatal secret: his brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) are both cops.
Hitchcock Classics: Frenzy – 7th October
MUBI moves to the Master of Suspense's natal London for its season finale. Wickedly violent and perversely funny, Frenzy is a self-referential, serial killer thriller variation on the wrongly accused man theme. Hitch does it again: he has us at the edge of our seats, and fully aware of his genius.
Kevin Everson: Cinnamon – 11th October
In his debut film, a multi-faceted exploration of drag racing in the Midwest, Kevin Jerome Everson fully encompasses the community, ecstasy, and expertise of this unusual sport. Gently drifting between fiction and reality, Cinnamon is an eloquent expression of black unity and excellence.
Other new releases on MUBI
Exclusive: Have a Nice Day
A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. News of a robbery spreads fast, and over the course of one night everyone starts looking for the stolen swag. A whirlwind neo-noir, and a pioneering slice of independent Chinese animation. Read our full review
I Love You Phillip Morris
If you thought you would never see Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor passionately in love, think again. Based on the real life of a police officer-turned-con man, the naughty boys behind Bad Santa deliver an outrageously funny black comedy about love and deception, as hysterical as it is subversive. Read our full review
Landscape in the Mist
Young Voula and her 5-year-old brother Alexandros board a train from Athens bound for Germany, in search of their father, whom they have never met. Over the course of this coming-of-age road trip through Greece, director Theo Angelopoulos depicts the failure of contemporary society.
With the London-set Anchor & Hope in cinemas, MUBI brings back Carlos Marqués-Marcet's debut, which sees a couple try to maintain a long-distance relationship between Los Angeles and Barcelona. Natalia Tena and her co-star David Verdaguer both earned Goya award nominations for Best New Actor.
byNWR: Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
A late entry in the "hicksploitation," country music, drive-in movie genre, this eye-poppingly colourful oddball corrals a motley crew of lesser-known music performers and fading Hollywood legends (Lila Lee and Sonny Tufts) into a moonshine-soaked sort-of-chase picture, punctuated by great tunes.
"We are excited to present this regional curiosity in its new sparkling restoration, made from the original 35mm negative. Previous releases were plagued by murky sound and dull colors that didn't do justice to the Florida-location photography. Here's your chance to watch it as never before! " —NWR
Prolific French filmmaker François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Frantz) crafts this creative thriller: a cat-and-mouse game between a teacher and his creative writing student, whose ever-elaborating story-within-a-story begins to entwine everyone around him. An inventive and entertaining literary comedy. Read our full review.
Gaspar Noe: Enter The Void
MUBI's Gaspar Noe double-bill concludes with this tale of an American drug dealer living with his sister in Japan. Killed during a drug bust, Oscar's spirit enters the astral plane. His journey through life after death takes him back to the past and through the present neon club scene of Tokyo after dark. The result is a stunning, scandalous, hallucinatory experience that's as divisive as it is visceral.
Gaspar Noe: Irreversible
Told in reverse chronological order, Gaspar Noe's graphic, controversial feature explores the nature of revenge through a story about a beautiful woman who is raped in an underpass in Paris.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Using archival footage to tell the story, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s-1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978.
The directorial debut of Brandon Cronenberg, set in a scathingly satirical future where fans buy celebrities' illnesses to be closer to their idols, feels a lot like something his dad would make. In this case, that's no bad thing. Read our full review.
Automatic At Sea
On a whim, Eve, a Swedish traveler, accepts an invitation from Peter to vacation on his family's private island off the coast of New England in Matthew Lessner's 2016 drama.
N is coming from the desert to reach North Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. He steals a boat, but it soon sinks into the middle of the sea. N then embarks in an imaginary surrealistic odyssey where he makes intense and fleeting encounters, and rediscovers his relationship with nature.
Eros Plus Massacre
In the 20s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. He spends his time doing nothing but philosophizing about political systems and free love and visiting with his lovers Yasuko and the earlier feminist Noe Ito.
Jordan, 1967: displaced in a refugee camp after the occupation of their West Bank village, an 11-year old boy and his mother enact the emancipating dream that every refugee has imagined countless times. With Wajib in cinemas now, don't miss the chance to catch up with Annemarie Jacir's 2012 film.
Kevin Everson: Tonsler Park
Election Day, 8 November 2016. In Tonsler Park, Charlottesville, the workers in the polling station hand out voting slips and see rows of voters pass by. Democracy in action. MUBI begins a retrospective of Kevin Everson's work.
Kevin Everson: The Island of St. Matthews – 27th September
Years ago Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt about old family photographs. Her reply — that "we lost them in the flood" – was the catalyst for this film, a poem and paean to the citizens of Westport, Mississippi, the hometown of the filmmaker's parents.
Kevin Everson: Quality Control
Consisting of a series of 16mm single take shots filmed in the summer of 2010, Quality Control represents the careful labour of workers on the production line of a large-scale dry cleaning operation in Pritchard, Alabama.
Hitchcock Classics: Rope
After strangling a former classmate in pursuit of the perfect murder, two friends hold a dinner party for their victim's friends and family in order to raise the stakes. Using a wide range of innovative cinematic techniques, Hitchcock's "one-take" film is an audacious thriller starring James Stewart.
Hitchcock Classics: The Trouble with Harry
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body. As the sheriff gets involved and local artist Sam offers his help, the community slowly unravels the mystery.
Hitchcock Classics: The Man Who Knew Too Much
A rare example of an auteur remaking his own movie, Hitchcock's Hollywood version of his earlier film is pure 1950s: Technicolor, widescreen, and about marriage: a rocky relationship between Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. When their son is kidnapped, the couple beautifully unites to get him back in this classic thriller.
Hitchcock Classics: Marnie
When Mark falls obsessively in love with Marnie, an icy pathological liar and common thief, he blackmails her into marrying him. However, he soon discovers that she has severe psychological issues, and he resolves to help her come to terms with her past trauma. The relevance of this psychosexual masterwork (and its troubled production) in the current climate is uncanny.
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In 2011 a sensational find came tolight in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's artistic talents. He used iconic photographs and magazin illustrations, many of which were taken from LIFE magazin, as inspiration. This publication explores these sources and presents them in juxtaposition.


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Current Affairs Daily Quiz
Daily Current Quiz: 1-Jan-2020
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1. Who took charge as new Army Chief?
A. V.K. Singh
B. Praveen Bakshi
C. Dalbir Singh Suhag
D. Manoj Mukund Naravane
Manoj Mukund Naravane
Vice Chief of the Army Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane took charge as a new Army Chief. He will succeed Gen Bipin Rawat after a three-year stint as Army chief. He took charge as vice-chief of the Army staff in September, Lt Gen Naravane heading the Eastern Command of the Army takes care of India's nearly 4,000-km border with China.
2. Which city topped the Swachh Survekshan League 2020 for first and second Quartersin the 10 lakhs plus population category?
A. Jamshedpur
B. Ranchi
C. Indore
D. Amravati
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri announced the results of Swachh Survekshan League 2020 for first and Second Quarters. In the 10 lakhs plus population category, Indore (MP) secured first place in both the quarters. In one lakh to 10 lakh population category, Jamshedpur.
3. What is the new name of Pragati Maidan metro station?
A. Kendriyametro station
B. Pradhan Mantri metro station
C. Ujjwal Shakti metro station
D. Supreme Court metro station
Supreme Court metro station
The Pragati Maidan metro station will now be known as Supreme Court metro station, while Mukarba Chowk in Jahangirpuri will be known as Shaheed Captain Vikram Batra Chowk. The Delhi government's naming committee approved the name changes in its meeting on December 31.
4. Which state's assembly has recently passed a resolution demanding to scrap of the Citizenship Amendment Act?
A. Odisha
B. Telangana
C. Kerala
D. Maharashtra
The Kerala Assembly on December 31 just about unanimously passed a resolution pressurising the Centre to withdraw the "patently anti-Muslim" Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
5. Which institute's alumni has committed $3 Mn For Alma Mater's Research Work Scholarship?
A. NIT Trichy
B. NIT Surathkal
C. NIT Kurukshetra
D. NIT Hamirpur
NIT Trichy
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy committed a sum of about $3 million for research activities at their alma mater and for the institute's scholarship programs. The Global Alumni Meet 2020 scheduled to be held in Chennai.
6. Fausta, which recently died in Tanzania was the world's oldest?
A. Elephant
B. Rhino
C. Turtle
D. Tiger
Fausta, a female black rhino, who was believed to be the world's oldest rhino has died at the age of 57 in a Tanzanian conservation area. Fausta died of natural causes in captivity in Ngorongoro Crater, which lies in Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Tanzania.
7. S. Sundar, who recently resigned as the CFO of which bank?
A. City Union Bank
B. Lakshmi Vilas Bank
C. Dena Bank
D. Indian Bank
Lakshmi Vilas Bank
Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd. (LVB) has announced the resignation of its chief financial officer (CFO) S. Sundar.The resignation comes months before the expiry of his two-year tenure. The board of directors, at its meeting, accepted the resignation. Mr. Sundar took charge as CFO during April 2018.
8. How much amount will be invested in National Infra Pipeline plan in the next 5 years?
A. 56 Trillion
B. 75 Trillion
C. 94 Trillion
D. 102 Trillion
102 Trillion
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a National Infrastructure Pipeline coordination mechanism with an investment plan worth 102 trillion in the next five years. The economic affairs secretary Atanu Chakraborty submitted its first report after consultation with 70 different stakeholders for four months.
9. South Asian Photography Educators Symposium will be organized at which city?
A. Bengaluru
B. New Delhi
C. Chennai
D. Bhubaneshwar
To discuss the future of photography in higher education, several educators will be gathering in Delhi for the South Asian Photography Educators Symposium to be held on January 6 and 7.
10. Who has recently won the World blitz crown?
A. Hikaru Nakamura
B. Vladimir Kramnik
C. Fabiano Caruana
D. Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen again proved why he is the best chess player around by retaining the World blitz title, after winning a playoff against Hikaru Nakamura. Veteran Vladimir Kramnik won the bronze medal.
11. Who will hold the additional charge of the CRPF DG following the retirement of current CRPF DG?
A. RR Bhatnagar
B. SS Deswal
C. Kumar Rajesh Chandra
D. V K Johri
SS Deswal
Deswal will continue to head the force as an additional charge after retirement on the superannuation of RR Bhatnagar. Bhatnagar, 1983 UP cadre IPS officer, demitted the office on 31st December. He was appointed as CRPF DG in April 2017.
12. 14th Global Healthcare Summit will be organized at which city?
A. Visakhapatnam
B. Puducherry
C. Coimbatore
D. Madurai
Visakhapatnam will host the prestigious three-day 14th Global Healthcare Summit from January 3, 2021.Being organised by the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), the conference will see the participation of over 500 doctors from the US, Australia, Britain and other countries.
13. Which of the following has passed a controversial bill aimed at countering China's influence on the self-ruled island?
A. Taiwan
B. Hong Kong
C. Vietnam
D. Singapore
Taiwan passed a controversial bill on December 31 aimed at countering China's influence on the self-ruled island, less than two weeks before it goes to the polls to elect a new President. It bans "hostile" foreign forces from activities such as campaigning, lobbying, making political donations, disrupting social order or spreading disinformation related to elections.
14. Which city is to organize the Hero Indian Women's League?
A. Raipur
B. Vadodara
C. Bengaluru
D. Ranchi
The Hero Indian Women's League (IWL) will be held at the Bangalore Football Stadium in Bengaluru. The IWL is scheduled to commence on January 24. A total of 12 champion clubs from various state leagues will feature in the league-cum-knockout event.
15. Which country has commenced the world's largest-ever vaccination programme to control FMD?
A. Russia
B. USA
C. India
D. Canada
India commences the world's largest-ever vaccination programme to control FMD & Brucellosis in 2019; Aims to provide unique Pashu Aadhar to 535 million animals. National Animal Disease Control Programme for FMD and Brucellosis The Union Government launched a new scheme National Animal Disease Control Programme for FMD and Brucellosis with a financial outlay of Rs. 13,343.00 crore for five years (2019-20 to 2023-24) by vaccinating 100% cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, and pig population for FMD and 100% bovine female calves of 4-8 months of age for brucellosis to prevent loss of Rs. 50,000 crores.
16. Which country has recently fined Facebook $ 1.6 million for improper sharing of user data?
A. USA
B. Brazil
D. Russia
Brazil's Ministry of Justice had found that data from 4,43,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called 'thisisyourdigitallife'. It fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data.
17. Railway Protection Force has been renamed as which service?
A. Indian Railway Protection Force Service
B. Force for Railway Protection
C. Central Railway Protection Force
D. Indian Railway Protection Group
Indian Railway Protection Force Service
The Railways has renamed its security force RPF (Railway Protection Force) as Indian Railway Protection Force Service. The ministry has accorded organized Group A status to RPF and renamed it according to an order issued.
18. Who has been retained as the Chairman of Railway Board for a period of one year?
A. Ashwani Lohani
B. Pradeep Singh Kharola
C. V K Yadav
D. Hardeep Singh Puri
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on December 31 approved the re-employment of V K Yadav as the Chairman of Railway Board for a period of one year. Yadav had taken over as Railway Board Chairman from Ashwani Lohani, who had retired from the post in December 2018.
19. Alajangi Viswanath Swamy, who recently died at 91 was a famous person of which profession?
A. Lawyer
B. Mathematician
C. Writer
D. Social Activist
Noted social activist and former Rajya Sabha member from Odisha, Alajangi Viswanath Swamy, dies at 91. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian Parliament from Odisha as an Independent candidate. From 2012 through 2018 he was in the parliament. Swamy was born in Nabarangpur, Odisha. Swamy died at his home of cardiac arrest on 31 December 2019 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha at the age of 91.
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Policy Orientated Research: The seduction of science and the teacher researcher
James Avis
This paper focuses on the way methodological debates in the social sciences are appropriated by teacher researchers to inform practice. It argues Hammersley's prescriptions for ethnography and the development of the sociology of education, if taken up by teacher researchers, leads to a truncated practice. A practice that folds into empiricism and has difficulty in grasping the complexities of social relations and therefore produces an inadequate practice. This aligns with pre-occupations present in the training of teacher researchers which focuses on the solution of immediate practical problems. An alternative model of educational research would recognise our positionality as researchers and take seriously the notions of oppression and social antagonism.
Educational Review
sociology of education
Social Relations
Avis, J. (1993). Policy Orientated Research: The seduction of science and the teacher researcher. Educational Review, 45(3), 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191930450301
Avis, James. / Policy Orientated Research : The seduction of science and the teacher researcher. In: Educational Review. 1993 ; Vol. 45, No. 3. pp. 195-204.
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AU - Avis, James
N2 - This paper focuses on the way methodological debates in the social sciences are appropriated by teacher researchers to inform practice. It argues Hammersley's prescriptions for ethnography and the development of the sociology of education, if taken up by teacher researchers, leads to a truncated practice. A practice that folds into empiricism and has difficulty in grasping the complexities of social relations and therefore produces an inadequate practice. This aligns with pre-occupations present in the training of teacher researchers which focuses on the solution of immediate practical problems. An alternative model of educational research would recognise our positionality as researchers and take seriously the notions of oppression and social antagonism.
AB - This paper focuses on the way methodological debates in the social sciences are appropriated by teacher researchers to inform practice. It argues Hammersley's prescriptions for ethnography and the development of the sociology of education, if taken up by teacher researchers, leads to a truncated practice. A practice that folds into empiricism and has difficulty in grasping the complexities of social relations and therefore produces an inadequate practice. This aligns with pre-occupations present in the training of teacher researchers which focuses on the solution of immediate practical problems. An alternative model of educational research would recognise our positionality as researchers and take seriously the notions of oppression and social antagonism.
U2 - 10.1080/0013191930450301
JO - Educational Review
JF - Educational Review
Avis J. Policy Orientated Research: The seduction of science and the teacher researcher. Educational Review. 1993 Jan 1;45(3):195-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191930450301
10.1080/0013191930450301Licence: Unspecified


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Story: Entrapped in his apartment, Randal Hendricks, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to Emmie, a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal, named Lawyer, commit murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme. Involving Warren, his halfwit friend with unabashed lust for Pam, is probably going to cost him, but with few people to turn to, Randal does it anyway and as circumstances become more complicated, Pam is embroiled in the unravelling chain of events. Before long, a detective, named Gail February comes snooping around the neighbourhood, looking for the missing corrupt cop - her partner. As Lawyer begins his own investigation in an attempt to find his blackmailer, Emmie compounds the pressure of his looming deadline, and Detective February's investigation draws her ever closer to Randal, the wheelchair-bound Randal must rely on the physical capabilities of his reluctant girlfriend to see their plan through. With deception and greed around every corner, what follows is a thrilling ride that puts both of their lives in mortal danger.


There are no words to describe a life like his - simply - RIP.
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I wake on Wednesday morning with a headache, which has a tendency to put me in a bad mood. Not that surprising as I've suffered from migraines for the best part of forty years. They are painful but recede as quickly as they arrive, so I fully intend to ignore the banging in my head and get ready for my family breakfast meeting.
It takes me longer to get dressed this morning because of the pain, but after a cool glass of water from the fridge, and a short sit down in Jonathon's chair I feel prepared for the day ahead, and grateful that the migraine seems to have ebbed somewhat. It's early but the birds are chirping and it is another beautiful day. I debate momentarily whether or not to use public transport, but I'd much rather drive myself to Polly's house – there are too many changes and at this time rush hour will already be in fully flow.
My keys are lying, neglected, on the dresser on top of the chest of drawers in the hallway, keeping my family photographs company. As I pick them up, listening to their jangle, my fingers glide against the hand delivered note from the previous afternoon. I'd forgotten about the unopened letter, and make to open it before halting. I have an errand to run, and the last letter I opened had turned my world upside-down. I have begun to feel sorry for my husband's mistress! No, I will wait and open the letter after I have spoken to Polly.
I pick up my bag that I'd packed the night before with all the documents and snippets of information I'd collected over the last few days. I have no doubt that Polly will want to cast a highly critical eye on everything I've found and then make a judgement. My heart is in my mouth and I can't remember ever feeling this anxious before. Not even on my wedding day, nor when I found out about the other woman in Jonathon's life. I know seeing Polly and getting a second opinion on the scattered and erratic thoughts in my head is sensible, but I can't help feeling that I'm missing something.
Locking the front door my mind flickers to Peter, whom I won't have seen for several days now. I know it isn't my place to contact the postman, especially as we only know each other professionally, but it is disconcerting to think he's gone and I could have helped.
I turn the corner and open the garage. My 2001 silver Jaguar sleeps in the darkness of the garage until I turn on the lights. It is a beautiful car and drives like a cloud – a thunder cloud no less, but seamlessly. Every other year I get the latest model, a tradition started by Jonathon and his love of cars. He had his heart set on owning a piece of British automotive history and I think he could have single-handedly kept the company going for decades had I allowed it.
The car feels expectant, as if it was waiting for me and knew I would come. I try not to think of the 1974 version my husband's mistress had. A car that could become mine... That stops me in my tracks. Who knows what went on in the back of that vehicle? Do I really want to be a part of my husband's hidden relationship.
The art of former President George W. Bush. The first is a portrait of his father and the second is a self-portrait. These two are part of a series of paintings of world leaders.
It's been a year since I started posting on this website on a regular basis. There have been some fits and starts and changes to this ongoing experiment in publishing. I've posted music, stories, art, pop culture and news, sports and more. The main offering of the site is the journal of Ella Thomas - the main character of my first novel, published in October, Ella.
What I wish to know - what offering on the site do visitors enjoy? What keeps you coming back and what do you wish to see more of? I'll give you a chance with a few short poll questions. Without delay, here are the polls.
I'm trying to figure out the best mix of content on the website. Please leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments section if you don't see what you like in the poll.
Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy your day!
When I started Moran Publishing, I geared most of my efforts towards online and selling e-books through Amazon, partly on the myriad of stories from other authors telling me that's how books are getting sold nowadays in America. I published my first book, ELLA, last fall through Amazon - e-book first - to very limited success. However, when I released the paperback version of the book a month later - the response and demand was overwhelming. I physically couldn't keep the book in stock so many wanted signed copies.
This leaves me with a dilemma I haven't fixed as of yet. Seeing as my original business plan was to sell e-books online and that simply isn't how things are working for me - the question is - what now?
Readers have told me again and again - they desire paperbacks - and quality ones at that. The paperback version of ELLA is no trade paperback - it's printed on thick, cream paper for ease and enjoyment of the reading, with suitably large font. To repeat what I said above - the response to this type of product has been overwhelming. People again and again say - I want books like THAT!!
No, the readers aren't just talking about more Ella stories or more of my own fiction. Readers keep telling me to produce more high quality paperbacks. Books with quality paper, beautiful art covers, and well-produced final product.
Tell me your ideas in the comments section.
My idea is to rent a physical space and sell art-house quality paperbacks and hardcovers from a consortium of writers - call this group of writers the collective.


Phoebe : Ooh, I just pulled out four eyelashes. That can't be good.
Joey : Here's a little tip, she really likes it when you rub her neck in the same spot over and over and over again until it starts to get a little red.
Monica : Shut up, Joey!
Ross : So Rachel, what're you, uh... what're you up to tonight?
Rachel : Well, I was kinda supposed to be headed for Aruba on my honeymoon, so nothing!
'여기에 ~ 있다'라고 하고 싶을 때 'here'를 주어처럼 사용할 수 있습니다. "폴, 네가 모니카의 목덜미가 빨개질 때까지 계속 반복해서 문질러봐. 모니카카 그걸 굉장히 좋아하거든"이라고 조이가 폴에게 알려주네요.ㅎㅎㅎㅎ 모니카를 유혹하는 방법을 알려준 것 같습니다. 'over and over and over' 함으로써 계속하라는 반복을 강조했는데요, 'over' 전치사는 '반복'의 의미가 있답니다.
로스가 눈치 없게 그녀의 아픈 부분을 또 건드립니다. 눈치 없는 것이 그의 특징이죠..ㅎㅎ 'be supposed to'는 '~하기로 되어 있다'라는 의미로 아주 자주 사용되는 표현입니다. 'on my honeymoon'은 하나의 단어처럼 기억을 해두세요. '내 신혼여행에'라는 의미죠.


At Grace, we are strongly committed to Christ's command to take the gospel to every nation and culture. We believe the responsibility for this task lies with us, the local church. However we cannot do it all on our own so we have a strong partnership with Grace Baptist Mission, who bring us together with similar churches, to help achieve the goal of making Christ known around the globe.
We currently support five workers serving in Peru, UK and in Literature production and distribution around the developing world. Our support involves prayer, giving financially and pastoral visits.
Once a year, in November, we hold a Missionary Weekend, when we ask our missionary members to report on their years work as well as hearing news from other areas of the world.For those overseas, a Skype connection makes for a live and meaningful contact. Also once a month we hold a missionary prayer meeting in the home of one of our members.
On this page, you can read more about our mission work and enjoy our regular updates.


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Optima Wilmette
Optima Wilmette is comprised of 109 apartments and 8,000 square feet of street-level retail in Chicago's North Shore.
Optima Wilmette will feature 109 luxury one-, two- and three-bedroom rental units and more than 8,000 square feet of commercial space at street level, along with 28 parking spaces available for public use. Select units will have large, private terraces. Building residents will have access to a rooftop sky deck and pool, residential courtyard, a suite of amenities and 173 parking spaces, including some electric vehicle charging stations. Floors one through three will use bird friendly glass.
As an added neighborhood amenity, an original 8-foot-tall sculpture by David Hovey Sr. near the building entry will provide public art as well as surrounding benches for passers-by to enjoy the space.
The development also will feature our innovative vertical landscaping system that it has perfected at its Arizona communities. The Chicago system will include self-containing irrigation and drainage, and be complemented with hand-selected plants that will stay green year-round – even during the most extreme weather conditions.
Completed: Under Construction: Delivering in 2023


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If you are unable to attend a City Council meeting, you can send a letter to Margaret Wimberly, City Clerk at mwimberly@brentwoodca.gov. All letters sent to her for the public comment section will be added to the minutes of the council meeting and placed on the dais for all council members to see. In your email, please state that you would like the letter to be posted for the public comments section of the next City Council meeting, and then provide the full text of your letter. In your letter, you can ask the Mayor and City council to please stop the rezoning of the golf courses, and talk about why you are opposed to it. You can save your letter in your email Sent folder, and resend it every two weeks to have it placed into the minutes of the next meeting.
and simply fill out the required form and type your letter in the space provided. It says a max of 250 words, but it will let you go a bit over. You should then receive an email letting you know that your submission has been received.
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Arishadvarga
Director: Arvind Kamath
Starring: Avinash, Nanda Gopal, Samyukta Hornad, Mahesh Bung, Anju Alva Naik, Gopalkrishna Deshpande, Aravind Kuplikar, Sripathi Manjanabayalu, Sudha Belavadi
Run time: 135 mins | Recommended Certificate: 15
Language: Kannada with English subtitles | Year: 2019 | Country: India
An aspiring actor doubling as an amateur gigolo gets caught up in a sticky situation after accepting a surprise gift from an anonymous client. Anish is desperately trying to make it as an actor but his dire financial situation pushes him to look for an escape, which he finds with an anonymous wealthy client. Called to her place one day for a rendezvous, he turns up only to be met with a surprise gift, 'a murder'. He finds himself framed for a crime he didn't commit with a witness who is convinced he is the culprit. Arishadvarga is a smart and tense neo-noir thriller that will have you guessing who did it till the very end.
Please remember there are no adverts before festival screenings so we encourage you to arrive in good time.
Q&A with Actress Anju Alva Naik
Arvind Kamath
Writer and Director, Arvind Kamath, born and raised in Bangalore, began his career in the IT industry. He quit his high paying IT job to pursue film-making in 2011. He started with making short films, which made it to some of the national level short film festivals.
His skill sets include Screenwriting, Animation, Post-production, Direction and Film Production. He was selected for a cultural exchange filmmaking lab called "Understanding the other" conducted by University of Gothenburg, Sweden in association with Suchitra Film Society & Centre for Film & Drama, at Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a visiting faculty at various institutions in and around Bangalore like NICC, iReboot and Suchitra Film Society.
He is in the core team of Bangalore international film festival as a technical consultant and also on the technical advising committee of other major international film festivals across India.
In the early 2017 Arvind founded "Kanasu Talkies", a film production house aimed at producing content oriented films and "Arishadvarga" is the maiden venture from this team.
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Published on May 1, 2010 in Competition, development, entrepreneurship, event, global health, IDEAS2010, innovation, mit, News, poverty, prizes, student and Updates. Closed Tags: denovometer, green grease, komera, konbit, my city my vision, perfectsight, piecemeal vendors.
The ninth annual MIT IDEAS Competition celebrated student achievement on Monday evening, May 3, at MIT's Raymond and Maria Stata Center. Seven student teams received IDEAS awards to implement their projects over the next year. IDEAS — which stands for Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Action and Service — recognizes student teams that have developed outstanding projects that apply invention as a public service. Each award, funded by a corporate or individual sponsor, will enable a team to develop their prototype into a working solution in collaboration with community partners around the world.
Konbit was awarded the $8,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. Team members Greg Elliott and Aaron Zinman designed a service via phone, Short Message Service (SMS), and web that helps communities rebuild themselves after a crisis by indexing the skill sets of local residents, and allowing NGOs to find and employ them.
PerfectSight was awarded the $5,000 Award sponsored by the Lemelson-MIT Program. Team members Chika Ekeji, Margaret McKenna, Ankit Mohan, and Vitor Pamplona designed an innovative, mobile system for diagnosing refractive eye conditions for under $1 using cell phones.
Komera Komera was awarded the $5,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by Eberhard and Shahla Wunderlich. Team members Abdulaziz Albahar, Laura Aust, Kamyin Cheng, Amrita Saigal, Ariadne Smith, Katherine Smyth, and Zachary Rose worked closely with Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a 2008 IDEAS Competition award winning team. The team developed a method that uses locally available materials to make both the manufacturing process for sanitary pads as well as the pads themselves — made in part from banana tree pulp — in Rwanda. The Komera machine can be fabricated out of simple materials, and assembled at local workshops.
My City, My Future (ArteRio) was awarded the $3,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by the Silicon Spice Founders Fund. Katarzyna Balug, Alix Beranger, and Andy Merki developed innovative ways to empower youth in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Through high resolution mapping tools coupled with a website, children of the favelas can envision an improved and officially recognized neighborhood.
DeNovoMeter was awarded the $3,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by the Baruch family. Team members Paul Hlebowitsh, Priyanka Jain, Shichao Liang, Allen Lin, Deepali Ravel, and Yi Wang developed an optical glucometer paired with 2-cent paper test strips that provide a rapid, safe, and low-cost way for diabetics in resource poor settings to monitor their blood glucose levels.
The Grease Project was awarded the $3,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by the Coop. Team members Ana Bonomi, Sara Barnowski, Hossam El-Asrag, Samantha Fox, Angela Hojnacki, and Ana Luisa Santos addressed solutions to provide a better livelihood for Catadores (wastepickers) who collect waste vegetable oil in Brazil. With a network of partners, the team designed an inexpensive, low-tech conversion method that allows diesel vehicles to run on waste vegetable oil and married the technology with training workshops and a novel dissemination plan.
PieceMeal Vendors was awarded the $1,000 Community Choice Award. Kim Liao, Katy Olesnavage, Ashis Shrestha, and Liz Theurer designed hygienic, stable, and affordable street vendor carts that can improve street vendors' lives in developing countries. The cart features a modular design with add-ons like solar power, water filtration system, and awnings.
In addition to the award sponsors, the IDEAS Competition receives vital funding and support from many individual donors.
Article written by Camilla Brinkman. Photo caption courtesy of MIT News Office.


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Influence Analytics : Greenhouse gases, part II
by Nancy Watzman
Jul 2, 2014 10:39 am
Welcome to another edition of "Influence Analytics," a recurring series on trends in lobbying and regulations — on and off Capitol Hill — that Sunlight's Reporting Group spots using our data analysis tools.
Predicted impact of global warming by the end of this century. (Image credit: NASA)
This week, White House official John Podesta took to the Weather Channel to regale forecast junkies with the need for President Barack Obama's new plans to cut carbon emissions by nearly a third at the nation's power plants. The unusual media appearance followed not just Obama's announcement but also the Supreme Court's decision last week upholding much of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to regulate greenhouse gases over the past several years. But a look at Sunlight's influence trackers shows that, on the controversial issue of global warming, the courts and the agencies (as we wrote about last week) are not the only place where the action is.
Bills, bills, bills
At least 11 federal bills have been introduced since the beginning of 2014 opposing the Obama administration's plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions at power plants, according to searches on OpenCongress. In March, the House voted, nearly entirely along party lines, to approve a bill sponsored by Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that would require that any emissions standards for new coal-fired plants be achievable by "commercial power plants operating in the real world," and that Congress should get to decide what the deadline for compliance should be. The legislation was a direct response to the EPA's January proposal to cut emissions at new power plants, which has received more than 1.5 million comments. Both lawmakers hail from states where energy interests rule: Whitfield has collected nearly $1.3 million in campaign contributions from the electric utilities, oil and gas, and coal industries, according to Influence Explorer, and Manchin's top donors include power companies FirstEnergy Corp., Dominion Resources and American Electric Power.
In early June, West Virginia Reps. David McKinley, a Republican, and Nick Rahall, a Democrat, introduced another bill that would eliminate both EPA's January proposal concerning emissions at new power plants and also the new June proposal that would cut emissions at existing plants. McKinley's top donors include Arch Coal, CONSOL Energy and the Patriot Coal company. Much of Rahall's campaign cash comes from unions, some of which have joined with industry to oppose stronger environmental regulations.
Lots of talk, too
Members of Congress are talking more about carbon in recent months than at any other point since June of 2008 according to a search of nearly two decades of floor speeches via Capitol Words. That was when the Senate was debating the Carbon Security Act, a bill directing the EPA to establish a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill did not pass.
… And lobbying as well
Last year, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Southern Company, American Electric Power, the Edison Electric Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers were among the organizations that reported they were lobbying on issues related to carbon, according to a search on Influence Explorer. Overall, electric utilities report spending more than $38 million on federal lobbying in 2013, reports OpenSecrets.org. They hired 664 lobbyists, more than half of whom had been through the revolving door.
Meanwhile, influence in the states
On June 24, the Pennsylvania House passed a resolution calling on the EPA to "respect the primacy of this Commonwealth" to rely on state regulators when developing carbon dioxide emissions performance standards. A search on Open States shows that at half of the states are considering a total of 57 bills this year relating to carbon dioxide emissions. The state with the most bills introduced? New Jersey.
Tags: Arch Coal, Capitol Words, carbon dioxide, CONSOL Energy, David McKinley, Ed Whitfield, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ExxonMobil, global warming, greenhouse gases, Influence Explorer, Joe Manchin, John Podesta, Koch Industries, National Association of Manufacturers, Nick Rahall, Open States, OpenCongress, OpenSecrets, Patriot Coal, Southern Company
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GANNI SS18 Global Citizen
"This season, I was inspired to make a collection for the truly global citizen. I wanted to create clothes for a woman who loves to travel to new places and who has an independent spirit. It's an upbeat collection, taking cues from 90s sportswear, rave, and the hugely important Benetton ads from the 90s that challenged prejudice and encouraged diversity. I also wanted to work with creatives from around the world, from Stockholm all the way to New York, for a collection that celebrates collaboration and the spirit of international exchange. I'm constantly travelling and constantly inspired by what I see on the streets of different cities around the world. In this moment of closed borders it's important to think about new ways of living and working together, of overcoming our cultural differences. The Global Citizen represents the best of everywhere."
Flowers, fruits and bold stripes characterise Ganni's Spring/Summer 2018 collection: you'll find juicy orange tulips on woven jacquard dresses, cherries on T-shirts, and thick stripes decorating jumpers, T-shirts and dresses. The mood is exuberant, reminiscent of Brit-Pop era leisurewear, of Natalie Portman's iconic character in Léon, even of Madonna in her 80s heyday. There are lacy bodies, flower-covered bralets, and plenty of ruffles. Hero pieces include a delicate yellow skirt & dress in tulle featuring tiny anise flowers with beads; a smart dress and blazer combo in sporty grey check; and a casual tee-shirt stamped with the words "Global Citizen", a reference to the collection's international creative melting pot.
For Spring/Summer 2018, Ditte worked closely with the wonderfully inventive New York-based Serbian artist and photographer Ana Kraš on set design for the show and campaign photography. She also teamed up with Bengt Thornefors and Christopher Svensson from Stockholm, former fashion designers with a specialty in denim and sportswear, for the collection's repurposed denim items.
The colour palette is a combination of subtle and bold, with bright orange, cool blue, and the palest of yellows making an appearance. Fabrics include woven jacquard, structured patent leather, summery seersucker silk and a luxurious, sporty jersey with a subtle sheen that is also used on shoes and sunglasses. Accessories continue the oral and edible theme, with fruits and flowers variously adorning travel bags and totes. A platform trainer in patent leather is a clear nod to the 90s but the overall take is decidedly fresh and modern — a wardrobe for international, original dressers.
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