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At least three people have died after a catamaran sunk off a popular tourist island in Malaysia on Sunday, according to Chinese state media.
The boat, carrying mainly Chinese nationals, sunk in rough seas off the coast of Sabah.
In a press conference on Sunday, the Malaysian Prime Minister's Department said tug boats and fishermen had rescued 23 people, according to Xinhua.
According to the Director General of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Ahmad Puzi Ab Kaha, of the 23 people rescued, three later died, informs CNN.
The cause of death was not immediately clear.
At least 31 people, including 28 Chinese tourists, were on the catamaran headed to an island popular with tourists on Saturday. A police report lodged 13 hours later said that the vessel was missing.
The boat is believed to have sunk near Mengalum Island after it sailed from Kota Kinabalu, and two crew members managed to make their way to land to seek assistance, the report says.
The incident occurred during the Chinese New Year celebration period.
The maritime agency enforcement agency, the navy and the air force were conducting the search, which was hampered by bad weather, Xinhua said.
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OuiShareFest Paris: Venture Capital vs. Community Capital
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I am in Paris this week for OuiShareFest, and spoke yesterday morning during the opening session. OuiShareFest is in its third year as a large international gathering of folks interested in the peer/collaborative/sharing/networked society, put on by the community organization OuiShare.
The topic of this year's fest is "lost in transition", and the prevailing feeling from the community here is a growing concern about the relationship between peer economy platforms and participants, specifically regarding distribution of value, control, etc. This is not really a big surprise, given the huge financings and staggering valuations that many corporate platforms in this space are putting up.
At the same time, the rise of the blockchain as an application platform has put a lot of people (ourselves at USV included) on to the possibility of a practical, functional alternative to centralized web services.
So, whereas I gather that the tone of the first OuiShareFest in 2012 was unabashedly glowing about the peer economy in all its forms, this year's fest is much more pensive and reflective about the power dynamics built into web platforms, and in particular their relationship to established power in the form of capital investment.
For my talk, I wanted to take this issue head on, place it in a historical perspective, and help people think practically about what might come next and how to get there.
I'll give a condensed, annotated version of the talk here:
The title "venture capital vs community capital" is an intentionally provocative strawman. The point I want to make is that of course there is a natural tension here, but it's not a brand new dynamic, an either/or choice, or a zero-sum game.
Rather, it's part of a recurring pattern that we can see dating back decades (if not much longer) in the history of technology. Viewed this historical lens, we can see the patterns of this cycle and use them to help us understand where the viable opportunities will be in this phase.
But first, I want to point out that the reason we're all here is that we believe in the power of networks — of the connected society — to expand knowledge, deliver economic opportunity and solve big problems (energy, health, education, etc) in ways that haven't been possible previously.
Right before my talk at OuiShareFest, Robin Chase went on and made a compelling plea for us to come up networked, scalable solutions (both venture-backed and community-backed) to the biggest issues facing the planet today, her biggest one being climate change. I am a firm believer that this model will continue to have profound, deep impacts on how we live, how we work, how we learn, and what we make, and that we are still in the very early stages.
But, as we become more and more familiar with this model, we're starting to pay more attention to the particular architecture of these networks, and the power dynamics built into them.
1/ The Problem (opportunity)
So, the problem that many in this space have identified is a growing concern about the imbalance of power between peer economy platforms and the participants they support, especially as the most mature platforms (Airbnb and Uber being the elephants in the room, but there will be many more) grow to be very large, wealthy and powerful companies.
The problem is essentially one of trust. And specifically in the case of peer economy platforms and workers, it's about economics and control. One way to think about this is that as this space has matured, platforms have a tendency to "thicken" — to do more, take more, and exert more control. So the question becomes, are participants here getting a fair deal, and do they have an appropriate amount of freedom and control? There is a growing sense that they may not be, and that alternative architectures need to be investigated.
While this may feel scary to many observers of the space, especially those coming at this from a public interest perspective, we shouldn't be surprised to see this happen. Rather, this is what always happens as companies explore new spaces and establish profitable business models.
So rather than look at this phenomenon simply as a brand new problem to be solved today, it's more useful to see it as yet another phase in a recurring cycle, that presents both known challenges and known opportunities.
Looking back at the history of major tech platforms over the past 30 or so years, we can see this cycle turn (note: this is not intended to be exhaustive or complete):
(Note: the green boxes are companies, and the blue bubbles are "open" technologies like free software and open protocols — i.e., venture capital and community capital, respectively)
IBM and AT&T once had a monopoly on the PC and the telephone network, respectively, which was opened up by the PC clones and the modem going over-the-top of the telephone network (not to mention the government break-up of AT&T).
Next, Microsoft had a lock on PC software through Windows and Office, and AOL (along w Prodigy, Compuserve, etc) had the online market locked down. This lasted until the proliferation of Linux and IP protocol stack, which poked a hole in Microsoft's desktop OS as well as AOL's walled garden, giving us the open internet.
Then, on top of that newly open platform, today's leaders in web (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, etc) and mobile (Apple, Google, Xaomi) built their businesses. It's worth noting that, with the exception of Android, there hasn't been a really meaningful hole poked in the business positions staked out by this generation of companies (though there have been attempts, such as Diaspora for Facebook and Pump.io for Twitter)
Finally, we're left with today's peer/sharing/collaborative economy marketplace platforms. These are the new, venture-backed companies staking out territory and building what will become the next generation of powerful incumbents. And while we have seen the beginnings of open protocols that directly challenge their power (like the La'Zooz ridesharing protocol), it's all very very early.
So there's the pattern: tech companies build dominant market positions, then open technologies emerge which erode the the tech companies' lock on power (this is sometimes an organized rebellion against this corporate power, and is sometime more of a happy accident). These open technologies then in turn become the platform upon which the next generation of venture-backed companies is built. And so on and so on; rinse and repeat.
So, all that is to say: this is not a new thing. And that seeing this as part of a pattern can help us understand what to make of it, and where the next opportunities could emerge.
Given this moment in the cycle — where we have a small number of large and powerful platforms in some sectors, and a growing sense of discomfort about that power — how might people who affect change go about doing it?
In this section, I want to really stress the "how do you get there part" more than the "what might an alternative architecture look like" part. It's quite easy to imagine a "driver-owned uber" (as many people here have suggested) in its fully realized form, but it's much more difficult to think about how such a thing might come into being. The history of technology is strewn with failed attempts to replace closed/proprietary systems with open ones.
Here, I'll point out four ideas that may be helpful in thinking about this:
"Convenience trumps just about everything"
— Steve O'Grady, analyst at Red Monk (link)
Today at OuiShareFest, Aral Balkan from Ind.ie talked about a major failure of the open source movement over the past several decades: to sacrifice short-term usability and experience for long-term (and abstract to most people) freedoms. He framed this problem as "respect for experience" and "respect for utility" (or something along those lines) as the two partner values along with respect for human rights. I would agree with that, and anyone following this space can note the failure of past attempts at open platforms that just weren't usable enough (for example: openID).
"The Lindy Effect is real. Disruption is rare. But it does exist and it is caused by non-linear changes in technology."
— Albert Wenger, USV (link)
My colleague Albert discusses the Lindy Effect: the idea that every day that a platform idea exists extends its expected overall lifespan. In other words, technologies and ideas have momentum — the longer they're around the longer they'll stay around. It is possible to "disrupt" them, but that requires a profound, non-linear technology change. And even then, they don't just disappear overnight. For example, Microsoft has endured two decades of disruption from the web — first against Windows as the dominant OS, and then against Office as the dominant productivity suite — but it still alive and kicking. So the disruption that challenged Microsoft didn't put them out of business, but it did open up the market for many many many others to enter. Looking at today, Uber clearly isn't going anywhere, though "open" challenges to them could open up the market for others.
To my mind the non-linear change in technology that has the greatest potential to challenge today's incumbent platforms is the Blockchain (and related decentralized technologies) that are in the process of externalizing data from web and mobile applications (more on that below).
"Your margin is my opportunity"
— Jeff Bezos
This profound idea is not new to the business world, but it's nevertheless instructive for new technologies looking to compete against the new incumbents. Along the lines of "convenience trumps everything", cost matters. For example, I met a blockchain entrepreneur/hacker recently who was incensed about the margin that Etsy takes on transactions (and to most people Etsy is about as fuzzy bunny as you can get as a large web platform).
"The first transaction in a block is a special transaction that starts a new coin owned
by the creator of the block"
— Satoshi Nakamoto (link)
This is a line from the original Bitcoin white paper, and I include it to point out the importance of powerful incentives in deploying open technologies. There are two primary innovations in Bitcoin: 1) the distributed, open ledger; and 2) the financial incentive that drives participating computers to cooperate: mining bitcoins.
To the extent that this incentive-to-cooperate model can be extended in other directions, we may be on to something big.
3/ What we're looking for
Given all of the above, here are a few things we're looking for at USV:
Collaborative platforms in greenfield sectors
To the first point about the value of networks (to society), there are many many important sectors still operating under inefficient bureaucratic hierarchical models, which are ripe to be re-architected in a network model (I'm thinking energy, health, education, and many others).
I suspect that these sectors will be developed by "traditional" networks (e.g., venture-backed, centralized networks), as these have the ability to move the most quickly, to experiment with new models (failing often), and to help train sectors/cultures that a networked model is possible.
Worker support services
A major concern with the emerging power of web platforms (especially in the collaborative/sharing space) is worker power. We are already beginning to see platforms emerge to serve workers in this environment (e.g., SherpaShare, Coworker, Peers, the venerable Freelancers Union, etc) and will see many many more here.
My belief is that "union 2.0" will be a platform, more than an organization, and its power will derive from the data leverage it's able to attain over the the platforms that employ its workers.
Thin platforms
One way to challenge "thick" platforms is to build "thin" platforms that do less, take less, and exert less control. We have invested in several of these (DuckDuckGo, compared to Google, Twitter, compared to Facebook, Sidecar compared to Lyft, etc) and are looking for more. Often times, "thin" also means decentralized in some way, pushing power, economics and control further out to the edge.
New protocols
Finally, new protocols that radically re-architect power, information and control. Inspired by Bitcoin and the blockchain, there is now tremendous energy in this space. It's early early days, but it does feel like this has the potential to become the next "open layer" that washes over the latest generation of big companies (see the diagram above) and cracks open the market even further.
At USV, we've made several small investments in this space (OneName, and two that are not yet announced), and are looking for more. It's not clear yet where value will accumulate at this layer, and much of it may and should remain as "community capital" in the system.
In conclusion: we are at a really interesting time with the maturity of the large web and mobile platforms, the rapid expansion of peer/sharing/collaborative platforms, and the emergence of distributed protocols. All of this has raised really interesting questions about innovation, global problem-solving, economics and control, and the discussion here will undoubtedly lead to short- and long-term impacts on how and what we build.
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William Mougayar says:
May 22 2015 at 11:38 am
Nick, brilliant analysis.
I think the smart companies will benefit both from venture capital AND community capital, if the latter is well architected into the fabric of their services, either via open platforms (where the community contributes), or by embedding a self-perpetuating value (where the user contributes) into the services.
Nick Grossman says:
May 22 2015 at 12:10 pm
yes I think so too
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Long post, but brilliant one too.
Thanks julien
fredwilson says:
May 23 2015 at 3:33 pm
Great post Nick!
thanks fred
Simone Cicero says:
May 27 2015 at 8:13 am
Fred, next year you should be with us, of course with Nick, and stay for the party ;)
Michael R. Bernstein says:
Good analysis and explanation of how it relates to USVs investment thesis (or theses?). I am curious, are you also looking at investment in attempts to 'poke holes' in huge non-IT monopolies or oligopolies like the Big Six seed/pesticide companies (Monsanto et al.), or Pharma?
Hey Michael — that is a great question. I was just talking to someone about monsanto's seed patents (as they attempt to expand into the EU). For USV at least, I'd say it depends. We recently invested in http://casetext.com, which is challenging the lexis/westlaw oligopoly on US case law, trying to build an open alternative. If there was a way to do this in other places, for us it would need to be done via a lightweight online platform (like casetext)
Good to know. Will keep you updated on my efforts.
Michael Gebert says:
great post – hope to see you at crowd dialog europe too !
any excuse to go back… :-)
BillMcNeely says:
The biggest thing in the sharing economy getting ignored is PEOPLE/RELATIONSHIPS
Speaking to the ridesharing sector of this economy companies like Uber ignore the input of their drivers.
We don't get a say in how much is charged to the customer, how much of a cut of the ride goes to the company and we don't get to share insights that could improve service.
Data is important but observation from a human can't be discounted.
Also you don't see an UberCON put on by the company.
Driver's are striking the best way they know how through lawsuits and "strikes".
They really don't want be employees they want a fair deal.
Driver unhappiness is a growing Tsunami it's going to have unattended consequences
If this continues, I don't expect it to make a meaningful difference for uber in the short term, but longer term it should open up opportunities for others. (see comcast / verizon)
I'm starting to see people go back to driving for cabs.
Drew Meyers says:
In which city?
Seeing a lot of activity on FB. Here is a solid article on the subject from NY http://nypost.com/2015/05/25/nyc-uber-drivers-converting-cars-to-yellow-taxis/
I'm not in the inner circle of either Uber or Lyft, but from the outside, it seems Lyft gets "community" & Uber does not. Uber may crush it in the short term by switching to self driving cars (so maybe they don't need community among drivers)…but community wins long term every time. If you don't have community, you don't have much at all.
yeah, I wonder
my feeling is that the Uber consumer network is so so so strong, it might not matter
I'm still long lyft: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-im-long-lyft/
But to be clear, that does not mean I think Uber will fail.
right — dont' think the two positions are at odds
javi creus says:
In many cases Uber drivers don't own the cars they drive which belong to large fleet owners. When third parties build business upon yours, then you're become a platform that will stay.
pointsnfigures says:
Belief in totally free markets will get you there faster. It will be messy-but that's the true promise of blockchain. Free markets allocate resources more efficiently than centralized ones. As marketplaces unbundle, they become freer. Ironically, climate change is a problem that can be solved with a free market-but I find most of the people that believe that climate change is a problem don't believe in free markets!
lostdiaspora says:
I'm not so certain, see Peter Thiel's thesis about establishing monopolies which are among the largest blocks to "Free markets" and functionally no different to centralised ones.
@mikeriddell62 says:
Jun 13 2015 at 3:12 pm
Matan Field says:
Thanks Nick, great post; was pleasure meeting you in the fest.
Thanks matan — likewise!
was a pleasure to create a space for you to connect :)
thanks Simone — had a fabulous time
Besset says:
Free markets and ecology can be strategically implemented !
http://www.libgreen.fr
vinit_jain.90 says:
Hey Nick..Great post!! Got to now many new things and also a new perspective on the known things. Thnks.
Vineet says:
Nice way of framing areas of interest. We're plowing the path on collaborative and thin (fueled by data, of course) in education and are seeing very positive results on learner engagement (40+ mins per session, 2-3 sessions per week online) and instructor efficiency leading to superior satisfaction. The other nice twist is we're curating / rebundling open education resources – basically borrowing a page from the original textbook publisher playbook from a century ago and applying it to a screen-led experience. Social / peer interaction helps as well.
The critical piece is to wrap it together into a seamless / full stack / whole product experience. I just wrote a short piece about this on Medium a few days ago (shameless plug, ignore if you're not interested) https://medium.com/@carsly/the-full-stack-education-startup-d4b78ffdbcbc
Fun times, no doubt!
gotcha. where do you get most of the ed resources from?
Nick, there is a very exciting project taking place in the UK call Hullcoin. It's like Bitcoin for good.
There is significant interest from Blockchain developers who are very very interested in helping develop the proof-of-concept project that tackle the social problems of Public Health // Criminal Justice // Employment & Skills.
Coin will be earned into existence in exchange for resources that are supplied by people, brands and organisations that help tackle these problems.
Please get in touch if you need a way in.
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The Civil Justice Reform Act of 2020 has been called the most relevant package of legal reforms in Louisiana since the 1990s. People writing to your newspaper and other venues have created unreasonable expectations and are saying the reforms failed because insurance rates have increased in the last year. Insurance rates in Louisiana have increased for a number of reasons, none of them that could have been affected by the legislation.
It's not like you hit the brakes and the car stops.
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Insurance rates are based on certainty, and since March 2020, we have seen nothing but uncertainty in the state. This legislation was a first step in making the judicial system more predictable. There are multiple factors that made 2020 unique for the legal system in Louisiana, and we are just now beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The Civil Justice Reform Act became effective Jan. 1; give the reform time to make the impact the Legislature, as your representatives, believed it could.
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While I think the internet provides a great medium for the dissemination of information, I've always ascribed to the notion of "quality over quantity." Any Joe can start a blog and add their voice to the mix. All of this noise can create problems for readers in separating the wheat from the chaff. How do you know what you're reading is worth your time?
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I started training at Indianapolis Fitness and Sports Training (I-FAST), with Mike Robertson and Bill Hartman. Their guidance and support helped push me toward my first competition in April 2009. It was through this competition I was put in contact with Grant Gardis who became my weightlifting coach. These three helped me continue to grow as a lifter, and the natural progression was to move to Shreveport, La., to train under Dr. Kyle Pierce who is the director of the USA Weightlifting High Performance and Development Center.
The influence of these four individuals has left a lasting impression and set the course for my journey as a coach. From Mike and Bill, I have learned to examine the body as an interdependent system, where local and global issues can impact each other in a very chicken-or-egg fashion. Rufus instilled the importance of Long-term Athlete Development. My time with Kyle has given me a front row seat at what goes into a successful weightlifting system, as well as how to integrate the weightlifting movements into a strength training program for other sports.
For the past three years, I have been training and competing in the sport of weightlifting. In addition to weightlifting, I'm currently finishing my master's degree in kinesiology. I have been fortunate to be part of such a successful program and train alongside some of the nation's best weightlifters, as well as the many international teams that hold training camps at our center.
One of the key inspirations behind Five Rings Athletics is Miyamoto Musashi and his Book of Five Rings. The philosophy outlined in that book serves as a guide for me and how I approach learning. Every experience is an opportunity to learn. I strive to take advantage of such opportunities and to draw connections between ideas that don't always appear related.
This blog will primarily cover topics related to strength training and coaching. However, I think Sport offers many lessons outside of itself, so I also plan to address some of the psychological and philosophical components of Sport. I aim to share my experience and insight with others so that they might be able to use that information for themselves or with others.
I hope you enjoy what's to come!


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I am loving the new makeup palette from Fresh called Memoirs of a Geisha. The colours are inspired by the new film, which is inspired by the book. The cheek colour is fabulous (so the guy at Bloomgdale's Stila counter tells me), and the lipgloss sheer and natural. I don't leave home without it!


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Inspired by a rainy day, I wanted to make a more melancholy song that would be great to listen to while studying or relaxing. It is also on my SoundCloud. soundcloud.com/everettclemons
Recorded by Tsarina on June 10th, 2017 at The Sound Wall in Opelika, Alabama. Vocals - Libby Riordan Rhythm Guitar - Keegan Haanschoten Lead Guitar - David Horn Tin Whistle - Jon Elgan Bass - Matt Kucera Percussion - Adam Brown Mixed by Jeremy Leff.
By Zack Saddekni
This track is essentially my impression of Nujabes, a producer whose music I have been studying to for the past 8 years. I often wonder how my GPA would appear without his catalog. The lyrics reflect the overly self-conscious outlook I sometimes hold in the face of love. Surely childish, but hopefully relatable. I composed the beat from scratch and am very happy with it, please enjoy.
By Everett Clemons
The Recovery
This is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. The tension caused by the chord progression is completely contrasted by the easy guitar. The entire song has an effect on it called LFO. What I used this for was to bring the volume down every 2 beats and back up again immediately. This creates a very "wavy" effect that plays directly into the drums I played. This is an easy going song and is perfect to study to.
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Reflections On The Paintings Of Vincent Van Gogh, No. 1 Undergrowth With Two Figures
Of all the artists, composers, and authors I have come to revere and appreciate, Vincent van Gogh is one of the few that I cannot remember being unaware of.
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Can we talk about carbon pricing in ways that keep the door open to dialogue and increase understanding of and/or support for carbon pricing? Research over the last two years, including most recently in Canada, shows that it is possible to find frames and narratives that resonate with both the centre-left and centre-right.
This webinar was hosted by Dr. Louise Comeau, Honorary Research Associate at the University of New Brunswick, and George Marshall. They focused on New Brunswick but spoke to comparisons with the rest of Canada, in particular Ontario.


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'An incentive to abscond': Julian Assange denied bail by UK judge
Assange saga
By Latika Bourke
January 6, 2021 — 10.35pm
London: A British judge has denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bail, saying there was a risk he might flee justice while the US tries again to secure his extradition.
It comes just two days after Judge Vanessa Baraister ordered his discharge from extradition to the US to face spying charges.
The US government is appealing the ruling and on Wednesday evening (AEDT) successfully argued that the Australian be kept in Belmarsh Prison while the High Court challenge take place.
Julian Assange's fiancée Stella Moris has urged the US President to pardon him. Credit:Getty images
"Mr Assange still has an incentive to abscond from these, as yet, unresolved proceedings," she said.
"Mr Assange has already demonstrated that he has been willing to flout the order of this court.
"I am satisfied that there are substantial grounds for believing that if Mr Assange is released today he would fail to surrender to court to face the appeal proceedings," the judge said. "The remand therefore, is in custody."
Clair Dobbin, a lawyer for the US government, told Westminster Magistrate's Court that Assange had the "resources, ability and sheer wherewithal" to flee the country.
She reminded the court that Assange, in 2012, had evaded extradition to Sweden by entering the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he lived for seven years until he was kicked out by his hosts.
Dobbin said Mexico's offer of political asylum to Assange this week made him a flight risk.
"I make that point simply to illustrate that there are countries that are sympathetic to Mr Assange," she said, noting that Mr Assange would only need to enter the Mexican embassy to escape the legal processes.
"The history of his attempts to evade extradition to the United States demonstrates that he is capable of going to almost any length to avoid that possibility," she said.
The US wants to try Assange over the publication of hundreds of thousands of secret and diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks website a decade ago.
A supporter of Julian Assange outside the court after his bail application was denied. Credit:AP
It requested his extradition from the United Kingdom but Judge Barrister denied this on Monday, saying Assange would be a suicide risk if held in a US supermax prison.
Assange's QC Edward Fitzgerald said that ruling meant Assange should reclaim his liberty and that his mental health would be better served if he were able to live under house arrest, with a GPS tag at a London residence provided by one of his supporters as surety.
"The grant of bail would allow actual physical contact with his family, that would not only alleviate mental distress but it would anchor him to his family and to his community," Fitzgerald said.
"For the first time, this is a new factor ... which totally changes the position [from] 2012.
"One cannot continue to rely on the events of 2012, it's a totally different situation now."
But the judge was not persuaded and said the US government had the legal right to challenge her extradition ruling and that the publisher's decision to make himself a "fugitive of justice" in 2012 showed he could not be trusted not to abscond again.
"As far as Mr Assange is concerned, this case has not yet been won," she said.
Assange's fiancee said the decision was a "huge disappointment".
"Julian should not be in Belmarsh Prison in the first place, I urge the Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian," she said.
WikiLeaks said the bail decision would be appealed, possibly "within days".
Support is available for those who may be distressed by phoning Lifeline 13 11 14; Mensline 1300 789 978; Kids Helpline 1800 551 800; beyondblue 1300 224 636.
Latika Bourke is a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in London.Connect via Twitter, Facebook or email.


In honor of everything we accomplished this past year, I've put together a list of some of our most talked about publications of 2018 (based on Almetric scores). Enjoy!
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Narrative healing among victims of violence: The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
David Androff
Social Work, School of
Narrative interventions have been increasingly incorporated into social practice and applied to victims of violence. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are interventions that seek to provide victims of violence with opportunities for healing and validation through a narrative process. In a qualitative study of the first TRC in the United States, the Greensboro TRC (GTRC) in Greensboro, NC, this research investigated the impact of giving testimony to the GTRC on the victims of a 1979 incident of racial violence. Most victims (N = 17) reported positive healing and validating experiences from their participation in the intervention. This study provides support for the healing assumption embedded in TRC processes and discusses implications for narrative interventions with victims.
Families in Society
https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.4178
Published - Jan 2012
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Androff, D. (2012). Narrative healing among victims of violence: The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Families in Society, 93(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.4178
Narrative healing among victims of violence : The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. / Androff, David.
In: Families in Society, Vol. 93, No. 1, 01.2012, p. 38-46.
Androff, D 2012, 'Narrative healing among victims of violence: The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission' Families in Society, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.4178
Androff D. Narrative healing among victims of violence: The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Families in Society. 2012 Jan;93(1):38-46. https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.4178
Androff, David. / Narrative healing among victims of violence : The impact of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In: Families in Society. 2012 ; Vol. 93, No. 1. pp. 38-46.
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Razan Al Mubarak biodiversity and climate change challenges with Treehugger
In a wide-ranging interview with Treehugger reporter Mary Jo DiLinardo, Razan Al Mubarak discussed the significance of her 2021 election as IUCN's first female from the Arab world, how her passion for conservation began, and what she hopes to accomplish as IUCN President.
"IUCN has a critical role to play at this pivotal moment in history, especially as more and more people recognize that protecting nature is critical to solving the current challenges we face—climate change, biodiversity loss, and recovering from a global pandemic," Ms. Al Mubark tells Treehugger.
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When you think of Norse myths, you tend to think of Thor, smiting the giants, or Odin, outwitting his opponents. Or perhaps you think of Loki, causing mischief wherever he goes.
But life is not all battles and uproar. Alongside the gods of war were the gods of peace and plenty, the chief of whom was the god Njord. Poets used his name as a kenning for "warrior", so he must have been able to fight, but his real interest was good harvests, peace for his people, and wealth.
Njord's nature reflects Norse society: we often think of him as a sea-god, but he really looked after sailors, merchants and all who travelled on the sea. Equally important, the god known as Njord the Wealthy would make your voyage worthwhile.
Compared to Loki, Odin and Thor, Njord doesn't feature in many Norse myths. We know he was an important god, however, because of the number of places named for him in the middle of Sweden and western Norway. The Eddic poem Vafthrudnismal says he is "rich in shrines and temples", and Grimnismal calls him "ruler of men".
Freyr was Njord's son, who seems to have eclipsed him by the time the myths were being written down. He and his magical, warlike sister Freyja are much better-known deities than their father.
Ships made settling the northern parts of Scandinavia possible, and allowed trade with the south for both necessary goods and status items. (Some of which they were buried with.) So long before the vikings, ships, mobility and riches went together.
We know that ships were more than just a way to get places; the many Bronze Age rock carvings of ships (which inspired the sculpture at the top of this post) must have had religious significance. Whether they indicate pilgrimages to sites of worship, a voyage to the afterworld, or an early version of Njord's cult, images of ships are very common, sometimes with little rowers indicated like the teeth in a comb.
Rock carvings from Tanum, Sweden. The shoe and ship images could both relate to Njord.
Another Bronze Age ritual also mingles wealth and religion: the ship burial. These are mounds, or later flat graves, encircled by stones in the form of a ship. They come mainly from south-west Scandinavia, an area also rich in finds of metal goods.
As the Iron Age progressed and shipbuilding improved, the burials changed, with flat graves replacing mounds, and larger burials. What doesn't change is that each ship/grave has only one occupant. Other people may be buried nearby, but the ship grave is a one-person vessel.
Niord of Noatun then took the rule over the Swedes and upheld the sacrifices; then the Swedes called him Drott (or Sovereign) and he then took scot from them. In his days there was peace, and the seasons were so good that the Swedes believed that Niord had power over the crops and the well-being of mankind. In his days most of the diar (or priests) died and all were burned, and afterwards they sacrificed to them. Niord died in his bed; he also had himself marked for Odin before his death. The Swedes burned him and wept much by his grave. (Ynglinga saga ch. 7, from Heimskringla).
The story of Njord's period of peace was so entrenched that when Icelandic scholars needed to explain the Roman god Saturn, they glossed him as "Njord", who also presided over a Golden Age.
His reputation as a god who preferred peace may explain two of the myths about him. The first tells how when the Aesir, a group of gods including Thor and Odin, met the Vanir, another group of gods including Njord, Freyr and Freyja, they fought. Neither side could defeat the other, so eventually they declared a truce, and exchanged hostages as a guarantee.
He seems to have settled down among the Aesir, even allowing them to divorce him from his first wife, because she was his sister and the Aesir frowned on such unions. (You wonder what they would have made of the Olympians of Greece.) The identity of Njord's sister is a mystery, as is that of the rest of the Vanir.
However, he didn't enjoy being single for long. When the giantess Skadi came to Asgard demanding compensation for her father's murder, the Aesir offered her a husband, with the condition that she could choose him by his feet alone. She picked the best-looking ones, assuming they would belong to Odin's son, Baldr. But she had chosen Njord.
Njord liked life by the sea, but Skadi couldn't stand the gulls screaming.
Unsurprisingly, the marriage didn't last. Skadi hated life by the sea, and Njord hated the mountains and woods where Skadi lived and hunted. She left him and went back to her father's old home. The two were famous for their incompatibility, mentioned several times in skaldic poetry.
Theories abound as to why exactly Njord and Skadi couldn't get along, assuming that they represent two different ways of life, summer and winter, life and death, or that the two, as unchanging gods, were unable to adapt to each other.
home among the wise Vanir.
We don't know what the Vanir did in the war between gods and giants, but at any rate Njord was going to face it among his own.
PS – The picture at top is of the Solfar Suncraft in Reykvjavik.
The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson/Jesse Byock, Penguin Classics, 2005.
Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson, ed. and trans. Erling Monsen and A. H. Smith, Courier Publications, 1990.
This entry was posted in Mythology, Norse and tagged Freyr, Njord, Odin, sea, sea-gods, ships, Skadi, Vanir on January 11, 2017 by solsdottir.
Good to get this more balanced view of Norse mythology, and some intimations of the nature of the Vanir.
Thanks! Balanced because Njord is Vanir?
Perhaps …. I look forward to your forthcoming post on the Vanir!
This is a very interesting post. Perhaps it is balanced because Njord is Vanir. More complex and expressed perhaps because of this uniqueness?
I wondered if Greg meant that Odin, Thor and Loki tend to hog the limelight. Njord is a quieter, peaceful god, so he would be less dramatic.
It's certainly true that those deities seem to be regarded as the 'star players' and that it is also important to notice the quieter voices for a rounded view.
But the quieter voices might be quiet for a reason, preferring to acknowledge the responses of those who take the trouble to hear them and not feeling the need to be in the limelight.
I certainly have this impression about some deities I acknowledge while others certainly seem to want to be 'out there'!
Yes, Njord is a "quiet god". I think you have to go to him, whereas Odin seeks people.
I reckon Njord's return to Vanaheim during Ragnarök is simply the result of the dissolution of bonds and laws that accompanies the end of things, thereby making the hostage agreement null and void. Which leads me to wonder if Vafthrudnismál reflects a tradition according to which only Njord was sent by the Vanir, whereas Freyr or Freyja were born in Asgard after the war and thus had a bond with the Aesir that Njord did not. Hence He goes back home when things dissolve, while They stay and fight.
Also, there's a hint to what the Vanir did during the first war in Völuspá 24, which mentions a "vígspá", perhaps profetic or battle magic, even an illusion, which seems to have allowed the hosts of Vanaheim to break a "borðveggr" or board wall. All highly criptic, but thought-provoking.
That's a good point, I never really thought about what it might mean that some lore says Freyr and Freyja were born "after" Njord went to Asgard. It also makes sense that in the midst of all the chaos of Ragnarok Njord would consider his "hostage" status no longer valid, and the peace it guaranteed no longer relevant.


Are you really gonna be the guy that passes up on a beat Hov liked?
Venerable producer Alchemist jumped on Twitter on Sunday morning in the hopes of delivering a laugh to his followers, but in the end, he also doled out some solid business advice.
Beyond the fact that the illusion of demand and exclusivity can be kingmaking business tactics, most people appreciate and respect persistence—within reason.
Are you really gonna be the guy that passes up on a beat Hov liked? Of course not.
Even if Hov never heard that beat, you're more inclined to give it a chance when a certified legend has already, supposedly, pressed play.
Conversely, are you really gonna be the guy to pass up getting an exclusive beat pack from a producer? Not in this business, where relationships trump everything.
Obviously, don't email people to the point of overwhelming them and getting yourself blacklisted. But the moral is really that a little re-framing of your product can go a long way. One day you're firing off emails, and perhaps the next you'll land a placement that goes Platinum.
Bedroom producers have done it before, why not be next?


It's the day we've all been waiting for. Okay, maybe you haven't, but I have. Tonight, Shawn Carter will be tearing down Madison Square Garden for his 9-11 tribute concert/ album release bonanza and your boy will be in attendance for the festivities.
Though Blueprint 3 has been met with tepid reviews from critics – just peep my Brain Trust familia's reviews at The Rap Up – it's still a solid album compared to most and I'm dumb excited to see the best rapper alive perform. It's Shawn Carter, at MSG, on a historic day in both hip-hop history and the history of our great country.
For those with tickets, let's have an epic night. For those without, you can catch the concert on FuseTV at 9 PM.
Let's take a moment of silence to remember those who gave their lives during the World Trade Center attacks, then throw up a diamond 'cause the Roc will be in the building!


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"The security industry is very conservative"
At the age of 14 he started making and selling disco lights and when he was 22 he started Axis with Mikael Karlsson and Keith Bloodworth. Today, Martin Gren, 50, is ranked as the most influential person in the security industry by Ifsec Global and last autumn he was awarded the prize of "Security entrepreneur of the Year" by the Scandinavian edition of Detektor magazine.
Congratulations on the number one position and the award, how does it feel?
- It is of course a great honour. It's great to see that network camera technology has been broadly accepted and this award clarifies that even more.
You could actually have won in any year, why do you think it happened 2012?
- 2012 was the year Axis became the biggest player in the world when it comes to surveillance cameras, not just network cameras. That is the ultimate evidence that network cameras have won as we don't make analogue cameras.
What makes a good entrepreneur?
- The ability to really be enthusiastic about something and invent products that meet the right customer demand at the right time. Although our network camera was launched before the market was truly ready and with inadequate frame rate it quickly became better as time went by.
You are probably seen as an innovator by many. Do you feel like an entrepreneur or an innovator?
- I feel a lot more like an entrepreneur. Even if I and Carl-Axel Alm designed the first network camera that wasn't the hard part. The tricky bit was to bring it to the market. I have always had a great interest in business and I started trading stocks as a teenager, which wasn't common back then.
You were already an entrepreneur in your teens.
- Yes, I was fourteen years old. Back then I sold disco lights that flashed spotlights to music. It was an electrical product that was used a lot in discos. I made them and had class mates as resellers, and I learned a lot. That business financed my interest in electronics, but at the age of eleven I had already decided that I wanted to have my own business.
What kind of electronics were you interested in?
- Building hardware, and later on microcomputers which I built from scratch. I mainly did it for the fun of it. This was also how I got to know Mikael Karlsson, co-founder of Axis and CEO for sixteen years. He found out that I was good at designing things that would sell. Together we started a consultancy business called Gren & Karlsson Firmware AB and sold graphics cards to Luxor and communication solutions to Diab. In 1984 we started Axis together with Keith Bloodworth, who was a salesman and the brain behind the Axis business model.
You have created all your jobs yourself.
- Yes, apart from summer jobs all my jobs have been self-created. This was also during a time when running your own company was seen as being a failure, and only for those who weren't good enough to work for someone else. This was the general opinion in the seventies and eighties. Luckily this has changed a lot.
How have you noticed that?
- I often present lectures for universities and schools about business and entrepreneurship. The attitude is so much better now. That's great and I think it will be even better in the future.
Is there a secret to being a good entrepre neur? If a product or service is launched at the right time doesn't it have a lot to do with coincidence.
- That's correct. It's about coincidences and luck. The network camera started with mr Alm making a system for network video conferences. I didn't really believe in it, and even if it would work it wouldn't be salable through Axis channels. I proposed that we should make a camera instead and Carl-Axel thought that was a good idea. Our timing was perhaps a stroke of luck, but there was also a certain amount of skill involved. We saw that the market for surveillance cameras was entirely analogue and understood that it had to be digital some day.
How do you feel about venture capital?
- Often, what a new entrepreneur needs first is not money. He might think that he needs money, but what he really needs is knowledge. The most important thing when starting a business is to start with the customers. If you start with a bag of money you will become good at asking for more money, and then more money, and so it continues. Entrepreneurship is about solving a problem and if you succeed and the solution is good enough to create value the money part will automatically be solved for you.
You recently celebrated your 50th birthday and have worked with Axis for more than half of your lifetime, what motivates you?
- Having fun! There is nothing better than working with Axis and I plan to continue with that.
Today you're a board member at Axis, what else do you do?
- I do a mixture of things. During the last year I lectured a lot about network video. I also do camera testing a great deal and I still get very upset when a camera doesn't work as it should. On my business card it says Director, New Projects. Within that unit we produce new products that do not necessarily belong to the category of network video.
Rumour has it that Axis is going to target the access control market.
- They would have to be products that are related to security in some way and suited to being sold through our sales model of distributors and system integrators. Access control is something that some of our partners want us to do, but the access control business is quite different and no decision has been taken yet. The same goes for alarms and several other products, but we have to make careful evaluations before entering a new market. One of our big advantages today is that we are focused on networked video.
How involved are you in product releases?
- I usually bring home one of each new model and install it in my house or in my summer house. If you want to see the latest Axis cameras you should visit my summer house.
Are you sometimes involved from the very beginning of a new product?
- Sometimes, it varies. I have been very much involved in edge storage, which is when you store images locally in the camera. We have seen it with Axis Camera Companion and I think it will be a game shifter in the industry. The VMS won't be eliminated, it will be needed regardless of where video is stored. But with Axis Camera Companion the installation becomes a lot easier and this technology will be used to address the camera market for smaller installations, for example a small shop. It will take a while before it has it's break through, but I think it will be a game shifter just like the network camera. Finally we can get rid of the DVR!
Which are the biggest trends in the market today?
- Edge storage and hosted video. We have also seen that the transition to HD has occurred. Analogue is still competing with HD, but, I believe, analogue doesn't stand a chance.
What's your opinion on SecurityasaService and hosted video?
- The security industry is very conservative. It's one of few markets where analogue technology still has such a big market share today. That makes it hard for new ideas such as Security-as-a-Service to grow. It isn't happening as fast as we would like, but it's definitely on the rise. The logic for it is obvious. Everyone wanting a surveillance service must have it as a service. Just putting up a camera and hoping it will solve all problems isn't very smart. When this can be combined with edge storage the value will be very attractive as you have both local and remote storage of your video.
Will it change the market?
- No, all security companies already sell a "service" and I think they could improve the performance of that service with video as a service.
More and more companies are running their own camera monitoring centres.
- Yes, and when the big security companies such as Securitas and G4S really start to adapt to network video they will be able to equip their personnel with smartphones or tablets, and when an alarm is triggered they will have video access in their hands. They will be a lot more effective than they are today.
What will the market be like in the future?
- I have a strong belief in our business model. The traditional security distributor will have a tough time. I also believe in a transition to more modern IT related distributors.
And the technology?
- Moore's law can't be stopped. It shows how much more CPU can be put in a camera over time, and then it's all about figuring out what do to with the increasing CPU. There are also things that don't follow Moore's law, for example the camera lens. I love to compare a surveillance camera to the human eye, and there are areas where each of them is still better. Putting a 20 megapixel sensor on a lens is not an issue, we have done that for years. But we want it to provide an image quality corresponding to the specifications, and that is not easily done today.
Will the HD standard remain for a long time?
- Yes, I think so. But not as long as 70 years like the analogue standard.
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this information will be able to be extracted into excel.
especially number of buildings, and perhaps county as well.
databases, so you can do the extractions and downloading on your own.
other information would be mandatory.
Would this database suit your needs?
phone number of the individual college/universities.
I had found this site previously and should have included it in my original note.
It's turning out to be tougher than I anticipated putting all the pieces together.
that is only available at some schools.
ABBOTT ACADEMY OF COSMETOLOGY ARTS AND SCIENCES	2101 PARKWAY DR	ST.
The last number in each record is the new enrollment...a -1 indicates missing data.
Should I post the Excel file as an answer to your question?
that the amount of missing enrollment information is less than 10%).
have answered my original information request.
sorry...it's 2003 data.  Will that do?
certainly something you should have a look at.
and they are ranked in order of 2003 enrollees, which appear in Column H.
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That film does a thorough job of covering the biographical notes of his life and the significant elements of his approach to physical recovery and sincere spiritual practice. But it now can serve in a new role: as a valuable foundation for more fully appreciating the beautiful Netflix film, Ram Dass, Going Home. Director Derek Peck's exceptional documentary is just what the title intro says: "a short film about being." Indeed, short it is, but it is has a remarkably long emotional impact.
Going Home allows viewers to catch up with Ram Dass in Maui where we see him navigating his personal spaces while in a wheelchair. This is where he has been earnestly working on preparing for a passing grade on his final exam. He speaks of Maui as a refuge, and the glorious cinematography makes that perfectly clear to anyone who has not yet been to the island. Away from the hustle and bustle, with caregivers to assist him in his daily routine and the sanctity of his home studio with its ocean view, Ram Dass has endless moments to repeat the phrase that keeps him in the present: I am loving awareness, I am loving awareness, I am loving awareness, I am….
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I have listed just a few funny and sometimes bazaar incidents that have happened to me while on Building Surveys.
Crawling through a dark loft space and coming face to face with the doll from Chucky, it gave me nightmares for a week.
Looking out of a child's window and seeing a sea of used nappies on the flat roof outside.
Surveying a confined loft space and banging your head on a live wasps nest, you don't realise how fast you can move until you need to!
The joys of lifting manholes and finding the sewer has been blocked for a week and you wish you had no sense of smell.
Being told by the estate agent "the lock is a bit stiff you need to use a bit of force" snapping the key in the lock with the dawning realisation you been turning the key the wrong way – not the best start to the day!
Being told by the home owner that he removed the roof truss web supports in the loft so he could use it for storage, but he has no idea why his roof has started to sag.
Trying not to make eye contact with the vendor after finding certain toys in a prominent position on their bedside table.
Spending three hours with an over friendly Chihuahua with the vendor saying "oh he really likes you!" – "Yes, my leg knows!".
Being told by the agent that the Vendors not home, opening the door and finding the vendor running down the stairs half naked with a bat in hand thinking you're a burglar. First rule of surveying "never believe the agent and always knock first".
Being bought in to ascertain the cause of rotten and de-bonded window boards, having the vendor insisting that watering the pot plant with no saucers beneath has nothing to do with the issue and it must be rising damp.
Drenched from head to foot looking like a drowned rat trying to explain to the vendor you were just testing the shower, not having one.
Looking into a roof void and finding the partially removed chimney breast are being held up by a couple of bookshelf brackets and twigs "so much for Building Control".
Contractors digging a basement below a three storey building, four meters deep and three meters wide with no shoring or support wondering why I'm shouting at them to get out the hole. They see no apparent problem with this as they do it all the time. They must have divine protection or believe in reincarnation because you won't get me down that hole.
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