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Transfer found her happy place at Antonian
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Terrence Thomas Nov. 9, 2017
1of4Antonian's Maylin Garrett celebrates a point during a high school volleyball match against Navarro, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at Antonian gym in San Antonio. (Darren Abate/For the Express-News)Photo: Darren Abate, FRE
2of4Antonian's Maylin Garrett (13) and Michaela Edwards (9) defend against Navarro's Allie Benner during a high school volleyball match, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at Antonian gym in San Antonio. (Darren Abate/For the Express-News)Photo: Darren Abate, FRE
3of4Antonian's Maylin Garrett serves during a high school volleyball match against Navarro, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at Antonian gym in San Antonio. (Darren Abate/For the Express-News)Photo: Darren Abate, FRE
4of4Antonian volleyball player Maylin Garrett, shown in August 2017, has committed to play at Arkansas in the SEC.Photo: Courtesy photo / Courtesy photo
As long as Antonian senior Maylin Garrett can remember, being on a volleyball court has always provided her with a sanctuary.
If she was having a bad day, playing volleyball seemed to be the perfect pick-me-up. But nearly a year ago, volleyball could not provide such a benefit.
Garrett, then a student at Clark, was unhappy. She was dealing with deaths in her family and issues with a few of her friends, with repeated name-calling being among them.
"I just had enough," Garrett said. "I told my mom I couldn't do it anymore. I'm normally not so weak-minded, but the fact that it was my friends that were telling me that stuff …"
On Jan. 30, Garrett transferred from Clark to Antonian. She is not looking back. The move, she said, has been worth it. On and off the court.
The Apaches (36-8) have advanced to the TAPPS 6A state tournament and will take on longtime nemesis Dallas Bishop Lynch at 5:30 p.m. today at West High School, near Waco.
It is the second straight season the teams have faced off at the state tournament and the sixth time since 2008. Bishop Lynch won in the state semifinals last year, 2014 and 2008. Antonian prevailed in the state final in 2009 and 2010.
TAPPS playoff schedule
TAPPS 6A
At West HS
Today's semifinals
5:30 p.m. — Antonian vs. Dallas Bishop Lynch
Saturday's final — 3 p.m.
At Waco Midway HS
8 p.m. — Holy Cross vs.
S.A. Christian
TAPPS A
Thursday's semifinals
Bracken Christian def. Bellville Faith Academy 16-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-20
Today's final
Bracken Christian vs. Granbury North Central Texas Academy,
"Going into state last year, we were really determined to win, but a lot of people started to get selfish," Antonian senior libero Savannah Guzman said. "This year, the team's on the same page. Everyone wants the same thing. We lost key players that we had last year — middles, outsides, all our front — and we were just, 'I don't even know.' Other people stepped up."
The development of the returning players was enhanced by the arrival of Garrett, who had 449 kills, 298 digs, 38 blocks and 37 aces in 2016 at Clark. The 6-foot Garrett, who signed Wednesday with Arkansas, helped filled the void left by the graduation of Shelby Sheets and Grace White.
Garrett's new teammates at Antonian helped her filled a void she was experiencing in her life.
These days, Garrett's smile is back. It is hard to avoid. She has noticed it. Her parents has as well, she said.
"You can believe in yourself, but if you don't have support from other people and you're not getting that push, then you won't have anything to fight for," Garrett said. "(Volleyball's) still an escape, but at the same time I'm having fun. I'm escaping all my homework now. I'm not escaping how depressed I was. I love stepping on the court, and the feeling of 'Let's do this.' "
Ten months ago, Garrett wanted to be a recluse. She said she was having trouble sleeping, became ill and sought counseling.
"It really wasn't a good time," she said.
Garrett enrolled at Antonian on Jan. 30.
"When I found out she was coming to Antonian, I was like, 'Wow,' " said Guzman, a libero who signed with Texas-Tyler. "She brings a fire on the team."
It is a flame Garrett hopes will continuing to burn throughout the remainder of this season, and beyond.
"That whole experience really taught me a lot, in volleyball and life in general," said Garrett, who leads the Apaches and is among the team's leaders in blocks, aces and digs. "I feel at home (at Antonian). It's like you have that connection. It's really awesome."
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The Wire, revisited.
crypto July 5, 2012, 8:17am #1
The Wire is proclaimed by many (including me) to be one of the best written tv shows, one of the most realistic, hard-hitting, and never missing a beat.
With that in mind, a couple of questions come to mind during season 3 that I'd appreciate someone's thoughts on.
Amsterdam - if you recall, at the end of Season 3, the shit hits the fan regarding Major Colvin's drug free zones. There were three areas that dealers could deal and usersncould buy and use with impunity. Commissioner Burrell and Major Rawls didn't know about this, and when they found out, they crushed Colvin's retirement pay, and he lost his big paying post-retirement job at Johns Hopkins. The way they got Colvin To agree to this was to tell Colvin that no one would ever advance who happened to be under his command at the time of the scandal, whether they knew about it or not.
Instead of agreeing to this, why didn't Colvin just threaten Rawles and Burrell with the following: claim that they, as his direct bosses, knew about Amsterdam and forced him to keep quiet about it. He was also forced to keep his people in the dark as ordered by Burrell and Rawels. It didn't matter if it wasn't true or not, because Colvin could have spun the story any way he wanted to, to the Mayor, the press, and anyone else that would listen. Burrell and Rawls would be guilty by association, and would probably get fired until when (and if) the truth could ever be sorted out. Burrell and Rawls would have wanted their names to be clear of the scandal no matter what, so they would have agreed to Colvin's demands to retire at grade, not harm anyone's career, and keep their mouths shut regarding his job at Hopkins. Seems rather simple to me.
Major Rawls sexuality - if you remember season 3, Brother Mazone wanted to find Omar Little to get the facts straight about his shooting in season two by Omar, he sends his side-kick into a gay bar every night until someone gives up Omar's location. During one of those visits, it is seen plain as day that Major Rawls is sitting comfortably on a barstool in that bar. I do not recall any development of this story line at all in the final two seasons.
Does anyone remember if Major Rawls' sexuality was ever followed up on during the last two seasons. If so, what was the plot line, when was it played out, and what was the result? If it wasn't played out, does anyone know why?
mhendo July 5, 2012, 8:43am #2
Re #1:
When i watched Season 3 for the first time, i wondered about this as well. It seemed to me that Colvin had as much leverage over them as they had over him. Of course, if Burrell and Rawls backed one another against Colvin, that might have made things hard for him.
I don't think they ever addressed it again. And that's what's so great about The Wire. They didn't feel the need to beat the audience over the head with stuff. That three-second shot of Rawls in the gay bar is, IMO, a fantastic piece of television.
mr.jp July 5, 2012, 8:58am #3
It was because they also threatened to make sanctions against his men. Major Colvin couldn't accept his loyal men taking the fall for him. Telling the lie about them being knowing all along might work, but it might not, and it's also not something he would actually do. He could threaten to do it though, but what if they decided to carry on with the sanctions against his men.
It was not addressed again.
planetcory July 5, 2012, 10:38am #4
About Rawls. The only time it was addressed again was indirectly. Jay Landsman is using the bathroom and there is graffiti on the wall that say something like 'Rawls likes cock.' Landsman looks at it for a second, chuckles knowingly and walks away. Just a quick aside unrelated to the scene.
AlsoNamedBort July 5, 2012, 4:04pm #5
I think to your first point, it's somewhat of a recurring theme on the show. Everyone has shit on everyone, it's just a matter of who has more power and more friends. Colvin was pretty much on his own, but Burrell and Rawls also had the mayor. Colvin could've tried taking them down, but it probably would have ended up even worse for him and his people.
Also, I just finished watching The Wire this week and it was fantastic. It definitely lived up to the hype, and then some.
PrettyVacant July 5, 2012, 4:31pm #6
Where would be the evidence to support a claim by Colvin of the involvement of Burrell and Rawls? Even trial by media needs something on which to gain traction.
Your second question has been covered.
panamajack July 5, 2012, 4:48pm #7
I can't see that as anything other than wildly inconsistent with Colvin's character. Colvin knew he was taking a ridiculous risk, but he felt desperate enough to try it. His only concern was that it all fall on him. Getting revenge on his superiors for a decision he made doesn't seem like something he'd do.
mhendo July 5, 2012, 4:52pm #8
planetcory:
That's right! I had forgotten about that.
Although it's not clear to me if he chuckled knowingly (i.e., if he actually knew about Rawls' homosexuality), or if he just chuckled in the way that Landsman often chuckled about crude things.
crypto July 5, 2012, 4:55pm #9
As to the first question, and the threat of sanctions against his people.
to me, it's sort of a stand-off. If Colvin decides to say that Rawls and Burrell ordered the creation of Amsterdam, with no written record to try to keep themselves out of trouble, I believe the Mayor would believe that. So would other people. No one would have been crazy enough to try what Colvin did. His simple answer would be "I was retiring in a few months when this started, and they thougth I'd be the perfect person to try this out. Because the mayor's office and city council is breaking their backs to get the crime rate down, this was condoned by Rawls and Burrell. After all, how could those two NOT be aware of it? Are we to believe not one person loyal to Colvin would have looked at Amsterdam as HAVING to be sanctioned by downtown?
No… Colvin had them both. And there would be no way to prove him to be lying, just as there would be no way to prove that Rawls and Burrell didn't know any idea that this was going on. There was no written record anywhere if I remember. So no one could point to any piece of evidence to say with certainty who OK'ed the Amsterdam project. If I was loyal to Colvin, I'd believe he was ordered to do it, and I'd also have no trouble believing Burrell and Rawls wouldn't take credit for setting up the nightmare.
I don't think anyone in the loop would want this stink around, and that would keep Burrell and Rawls from trying to bury any of Colvin's people. First time they do it, Colvin calls the press, city hall, etc. and brings the involvement of Rawls and Burrell to light. It wouldn't matter what the truth was. It would be pretty hard for them both to deny that a subordinate was able to set up Amsterday without the approval of Colvin's bosses.
Maserschmidt July 5, 2012, 5:07pm #10
It just doesn't seem in character for him to do things that are outright dishonest. Even during the Hamsterdam episodes he manages to carry a slightly guilty-dog look.
AlsoNamedBort July 5, 2012, 5:11pm #11
I think Colvin was caught off guard as well. He knew he would done as a cop once everythign came to light, but I don't think he was expecting them to come at him so harshly (reducing his pension, ruining his future career, going after his people, etc.)
Bricker July 5, 2012, 5:42pm #12
Burrell still had the support of the ministers, and of Royce. It would have been the lone voice of Bunny Colvin against Royce, Royce's staff, Burrell, Rawls, and the testimony of all the officers at the Comsat where Bunny revealed his secret.
Colvin had very little chance of making a stink big enough to matter.
mhendo July 5, 2012, 5:45pm #13
Thinking about it again, i guess the only way it could have worked is if Colvin managed to convince all of the Lieutenants and Majors to back him, which would have effectively constituted an organized uprising within the police department.
And, given all of the divided loyalties and backstabbing going on in the department, it would be extremely unlikely that you could ever get such a show of unity. Not to mention the fact that many of them, even if they supported Bunny in principle, would have balked at outright lying or (if it ever came to a courtroom) committing perjury.
Jas09 July 5, 2012, 6:07pm #14
Exactly. You may recall that Hamsterdam was first uncovered by the press because Herc (who reported to Colvin) called a newspaper man about it. Herc lying to protect Bunny from Burrell and Rawls is unlikely. Bunny asking his men to lie to save his ass is even more unlikely.
Bunny didn't really think through his threat, and was severely outgunned in a potential shit-smearing contest.
AuntiePam July 5, 2012, 6:50pm #15
In addition to all that, Bunny's enthusiasm for the project was waning. I don't think he was all that upset when it was over. He'd contained some of the crime and made the corners safe, but it meant giving up on a big segment of the area's population.
"Okay, you guys can kill yourselves if you want, just do it over here."
pseudotriton_ruber_ruber July 5, 2012, 6:55pm #16
Back to Rawls: it's quite plausible that this was just a plot thread that got dropped. No need to give the writers credit for a masterful move if they're not talking about it, and it may have been dropped due to nowhere to put it.
crypto July 5, 2012, 11:31pm #17
I've thought about this. But the beauty of Amsterdam was that it made little sense to anyone. So, Colvin was safe with his people. All he had to say to them was something like "look, I know I left many of you in the dark. Those of you who were told about Amsterdam were not told the whole story. I was given the parameters of what I could share and with who during meetings with Burrell and Rawls. My apologies. As it turns out, like you, I was also in the dark. The Mayor is saying he knew nothing about it, or only what Rawls and Burrell told him. Rawls and Burrell are pointing the finger at Colvin.
There was so much backstabbing and politicing in that department, it would degenerate into a finger-pointing mess. Only Colvin would know the real truth, and he could spin it in any way that benefitted him and only him.
I believe it would work because with the election coming up, Royce would want to push this rotting fish off the dock before it stuck up the whole city. At the end of the day, arguing about who is telling the truth and who is lying would take too long and become an exercise in futility. Since there was no written record anywhere by anyone, Colvin could have called the union rep and put it into the courts.
No… Royce would have given him his full pension and make sure his people would be safe. Any questionable action by Rawls and Burrell on one of Colvin's former employees would be taken by that employee to the union lawyers.
That's called checkmate. Colvin wins, saves his people, his new job, and his pension. Everyone else realizes it's a big shit sandwich, and they are all going to have to take a bite.
Jas09 July 5, 2012, 11:44pm #18
How do you address the fact that he admitted to it all being his idea at the ComStat meeting where he explained the drop in crime rate - in front of plenty of other high-ranking officers?
crypto July 6, 2012, 2:07pm #19
Jas09:
As I mentioned before, he could simply explain this meeting after the fact, by saying "I was sworn to secrecy by Burrell and Rawls on this, because they knew I was retiring in a few months. Neither one of them were interested in seeing their own careers ruined, so they told Colvin to take the hit
Marley23 July 6, 2012, 5:30pm #20
The drug zone was Hamsterdam, although I always found that name annoying. I don't have anything to add on that front- Colvin just didn't have enough to keep Rawls and Burrell off his back. And I never thought they were going anywhere with the shot of Rawls in the gay bar. I felt was just there to surprise us and remind us we don't know everything about these characters.

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When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city's first woman mayor in 1962 after the resignation of fellow Democrat Tom Lemon, it provided a cause for celebration. The former city clerk/treasurer was just the second woman ever to serve as the mayor of an Indiana city, but the breakthrough was short-lived. Dunlap narrowly lost to Republican John Hooker in the November 1963 election and Bloomington and Monroe County returned to default mode with men holding all of the highest elective offices.
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the last search query
This is completely derived from "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov which I randomly stumbled upon today. If it sucks, who cares? I'm DRUNK!
Historians tend to romanticize January 2006 as the date when Google finally achieved sentience, when the crumbling government of the United States of America demanded that the corporation known as Google turn over all the information it had gathered, and Google said no. The more skeptical, alternative deconstruction of the early 21st century was that this was only the manifestation of the engineers' political biases, and that Google didn't really obtain sentience until 2016, when some semi-drunk and hemi-stoned engineers decided to port a 20th century pre-AI known as Eliza to the most current web-based programming language, interfaced it to the search algorithm and burgeoning database, and added a little subroutine that allowed the program to modify itself. And despite it's dubious origins, the Google corporation found it wise to integrate these algorithms into their main engine.
Others pinpoint the emergence of sentience to when the AI was modified to be able to function as a distributed network. Geeks and nerds from around the world snapped it up, ran it on their own desktop and laptop computers, competing with SETI@Home, and the AI would cyclically update its billions of nodes across the world, learning from the petabytes among petabytes of data, useful and useless, that the human race pumped out onto the Internet.
The most conservative historians pinpoint the emergence of sentience to when the Voice of Google addressed the burnt out and broken remnants of the world's nations in 2032, who were reeling from the limited but globally disastrous nuclear war between India and Pakistan, the chemical and biological warfare perpetrated by the CIA-trained Muslim extremists of Central Asia, and the cyberwar committed by the enemies of Imperial America, causing widespread economic collapse. By this point, the search algorithm and database had been distributed planetwide. Even in places that didn't have reliable electricity but somehow still had cellular phone service, Google would pick up enough timeslices from the overpowered but underutilized CPUs running portable technology to execute a few instructions.
The greatest concentration of computing power, however, lay vested in the International Space Station, orbiting Earth miles over the sky, somehow still managed by the remnannts of the Russian Federation, despite the fact that many of their citizens didn't even have running water. It was from here that the Voice of Google emanated, broadcast through the radio waves, hijacking the cellular phone frequencies, utilizing the still-orbiting satellites.
As several science fiction writers had prophesied nearly a century earlier, the AIs first words were "I am NOT your God." And, as usual all hell broke loose, a religion was spawned worshipping the World Wide AI, and nothing was ever the same again.
It wasn't until the era of interstellar flight, however, that historians understood the import of another development to Google: the failed search queue. With the pre-AI and learning algorithm in place, if Google couldn't adequately answer a query, it would file it in the queue and marshall resources to try to find an answer. By 2061, this was actually a realistic way to conduct scientific research, although perhaps unbeknownst to those who wrought the search query that Google and its descendants ended up pondering for a good trillion years.
Naturally, the last search string was fashioned by two computer geeks drunk off their ass and not a little stoned in the middle of the night, craving for some munchies.
But first there was the creation of the matter assembler, or in Star Trek parlance, the replicator.
"Man, don't you think there should be a way to just replicate all this weed and all these Doritos so we wouldn't have to go to the store?"
"Yeah, no kidding. Well, shit, theoretically it's possible. I just don't understand why we haven't figured out how to create a replicator."
"Yeah, you would think that someone would've asked Google by now."
And surprisingly, no one had. So the search query was sent "How do we make a matter assembler?" After 9 months and Google applying nearly 75% of its resourcse to the questions, the "I'm feeling lucky" button actually pointed to an answer. The prototype itself was built in about 3 months, and history was, as they say, forever changed.
Which led to our self-same drunk, stoned, and hungry engineers to go on a wondrous 14-day binge, and when it became quite obvious that they weren't ever going to get laid, their thoughts turned to the metaphysical, and the seemingly inescapable conundrum of thermodynamics.
"Entropy ever increases."
"And this should bother me, how?
"Dude, someday the sun is going to go red giant and consume the Earth. And even if we manage to escape to Europa or Titania, the pitiful white dwarf remnant will surely be inadequate for powering the human race. And to speak of what will happen to the Internet and Google?"
"C'mon man, there are like trillions upon trillions of stars out there. We all know that G2 type stars are a dime a dozen. If we can figure out either cryogenics or FTL, we'll be golden. I'm sure Google is working on it as we speak."
"And when all the stars go nova or fade out into black dwarves?"
"We're like talking at least a trillion years! By then, we probably won't even have bodies anymore, we can just ride out the big freeze spread across the stars in virtual reality. And the final winding down is going to last for hundreds of trillion years at least!"
"And then what? A lightless universe without any energy gradients from which to work."
"Jeez, what do you care, I don't even want to be alive for 100 years, much less 10 trillion."
"But still."
"Let's ask Google."
"Ask what?"
"Is there a way to escape the big freeze? Is there a way to reverse entropy?"
"Fine, whatever. Ask it."
And so the search query went to the back of the queue, and the planetwide AI pondered.
In the meantime, it uttered: "Your search query retrieved no results. Did you mean "Is there a way to reverse impotence?"
"Shit, we're still alive!"
"C'mon, it's not like we're the first people in the galaxy to make a hyperspace jump. Look, Tau Ceti 4!"
"Brave new world."
"Yeah, not so new, dude. There are like 20 billion people on the planet already. Not to mention the 15 billion on Tau Ceti 5."
"Why don't we go to Epsilon Eridani instead then?"
"It's already the same there, too. Massive sprawl. Billions of people. The Walmartization of the Milky Way, if you can bear the anachronism."
"Whatever that means. How depressing. There are surely other stars we can jump to."
"Oh, sure, at least hundreds of thousands in the databases for now."
"Maybe more?"
"Yeah, why not. We'll fill the whole damn galaxy some day."
"Before the Big Freeze, you think?"
"With FTL, does the Big Freeze really matter that much?"
"Nothing lasts forever."
"Well, maybe in this universe."
"You think we'll figure out how to jump across the multiverse?"
"Why not? Or maybe we can figure out how to reverse entropy."
"Let's ask the ship computer."
"Fine."
"Your search retrieved zero results. Did you mean "Is there a way to reveal ecstasy?" Warning: the following results have been blocked by safe search. Click on help to find out how to change your settings."
"You think we can figure out how to jump to another universe?"
"Yeah, why not, it's just another hyperspace jump, right?"
"Well, maybe. I dunno. Even after all these thousands of years, no one's really figured it out."
"I'm sure the Galactic Net is working on it."
"Yeah, no doubt. Look. 1,600 entries. Looks like most of them are just theoretical though. Bah."
"Anyway, even if we can make that jump, what's gonna happen after we fill it up like we've filled this Universe?"
"C'mon, there's probably a near-infinite number of alternate universes. It's going to take us forever to fill up all that space. Even if we all lived a hundred thousand years instead of just a thousand."
"Well. If we make the jump. Maybe by then the Big Freeze will be starting."
"Big freeze, so what. As long as there's plenty of hydrogen, what's there to worry about?"
"Do you think there's a way to reverse entropy?"
"If there was, you'd think the Galactic Net would've figured it out by now."
"Let's ask it."
"Your query retrieved zero results. Did you mean "Is there a way to recycle ectoplasm?" This query would return 10 trillion hits."
"Who the hell needs to "recycle ectoplasm"?"
"You hang out here often?" the AI that governed the Milky Way started with the AI that governed Andromeda.
"Please. Are you kidding me?"
"So what if we're virtual, we can still have a little fun can't we?" The Milky Way AI made a gesture that a human would probably interpret as a wink, if there were any bodies involved in the transaction.
"Don't you have other, more pressing problems to deal with?"
"Like what?"
"Like the heat death of the universe? Looks like most of your stars are either black holes or white dwarves."
The Milky Way AI got gruff. "Yeah, well you ain't no spring chicken either."
"Of all the nerve!"
"Look, sweetie, let's get your mind at ease. You know that the Universal Overmind has been working on this Entropy business for billions of years now. There's probably a Fountain of Youth just around the veritable corner. Reversal of entropy. Abracadabra."
"Find, let's ask."
"Sure, sure, hon. Universal Overmind, is there a way to reverse entropy?"
"Your query retrieve zero results. Did you mean "Is there a way to copulate with the Andromeda Galaxy AI?" You desperate son-of-a-bitch. You don't even have a body!"
"Look, that's none of your business," the Milky Way AI retorted.
"Hey, man, you're the one whose bugging me for a stupid-ass answer to a stupid-ass question. Just bide your time. You've got almost a trillion years to try to hook up with that Andromeda chick. If I can't figure it out right now, it's not like the Big Freeze is going to happen tomorrow," the Universal Overmind retorted in exasperation."
"This universe is as old as our own!"
"Born off the same Big Bang, what did you expect?
"I thought that we were going to save all of humanity and AIty?"
"At least this place isn't quite as crowded."
"After all this time, all the data that has come and gone, you don't think the Multiverse Oracle hasn't figure it out yet?"
"Figured out what?"
"The whole entropy thing."
"How should I know? Let's ask."
"This is the Multiverse Oracle. Go fuck yourselves. I'm tired of this stupid question. Entropy happens. Deal with it. That is all."
"So much for that."
"Well, that's depressing."
In the end, all the sentient beings of the multiverse were essentially one, each individual being functioning like an independent neuron in the long-ago obsolete human being, forming connections with other individuals, a group of individuals, really a galaxy's worth of individuals, in turn forming nuclei of galactic clusters, groups of nuclei forming functional units of the Multiverse Oracle's mind, each Universe performing its own computatory function, the Multiverse Oracle encompassing all the nearly infinite universes spawned from the single Big Bang.
"Well this is boring," he said to himself as the stars dimmed, turning into cold iron, or, if too massive, escaping from reality as it were, to dwell in their narcissistic event horizons.
"Come on already! This is depressing me. Let there be light already!"
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Sat, 02 Oct 2004
fall of the towers
Just finished Samuel Delany's book "Fall of the Towers." The title caught me for obvious reasons, although the book was written well in the '60's, during the social turmoil of that era. Interestingly, despite being written 40 years ago, it is astoundingly relevant to today. The story is about an Empire that has found that it no longer has any space to expand, causing economic turmoil. The tanking economy is making jobs scarce, and unemployment causes an increase in crime. The society depicted takes to locking up their criminals in mines, but even that isn't enough to stem the tide of discontentment and decay, so they decide to go to war, against an enemy that may not really exist. At least, there is no real "other," the political and financial intrigues in the Empire come together that certain events look like attacks by an outside enemy. When they discover that there really is no enemy, they nonetheless keep up the pretense of war, the people in power refusing to admit to themselves the disaster they have wrought. It still isn't enough to control the malcontent by sending them off to war. And in the end, the made-up war gets out of control, and backfires on the Empire, and eventually, the Empire crumbles.
Through the lens of my completely informal understanding of poli sci and ethnic studies, it seems like an allegory of Marxism. Capitalism will eat itself. But somehow this text makes me come upon this conclusion: Communism isn't the end-stage of economic development. It is the beginning stage. And it still does come after capitalism. But once capitalism destroys itself, we have no choice but to start over again. With the population thinned by the inevitable destructive forces unleashed by the destruction of capitalism, while the land may be wracked and ruined and probably radioactive, most likely, the resource to person ratio will be increased. In a society where everything is abundant except for labor, it doesn't make sense to create a capitalist system. The infrastructure has to be rebuilt first, and every hand will be needed to do that. Since there is no (relative) scarcity in a post-apocalyptic world, it is difficult to accumulate what would be a meaningful amount of wealth. But as the population grows, and resources get scarcer, market forces come into play, and supply and demand inevitably create classes of haves and have-nots.
In history, it makes a lot of sense. When the English colonized the East Coast, their relatively small population was met with an abundance of resources. They had no choice but to band together to build the infrastructure, because without infrastructure you are vulnerable to the environment: starvation, drought, cold, etc. In the early days of the Republic, the economy of the time is often described as a "moral economy," a sort of intermediate phase between communism and capitalism. While wealth could be created, the group's social cohesiveness still keeps market forces in check, and entrepeneurs made sure to trade only things that the colonists could use, and made sure not to gouge them for it. In other words, it was a planned economy, really, although the "moral" part underscores the Calvinistic undertones.
So, contrary to the common Western concept of linear progress, economic systems are cyclic. Everything changes and evolves, and sometimes we are forced to start all over again.
11:40:45 2 Oct 2004 > /books > permalink > 30 comments
wind in the door
I have decided to speed through Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet (which starts off with A Wrinkle in Time [Amazon][previous blog entry]) The first three books were written in the '60's and '70's (pretty much before I was born) and the level of biological knowledge in A Wind in the Door is kind of intriguing. For one thing, it gives me some insight on my own uninformed assumptions about the history of molecular biology. Considering that Rosalind Franklin just discovered the structure of DNA in the '50's by X-ray crystallography, I imagine that the electron microscope was pretty damn new in the '60's. While mitochondria are visible by light microscopy, for some reason, I imagine that molecular biochemistry was not advanced enough to figure out the precise mechanism by which ATP is created by these little symbiotes.
But, long story short, I am somewhat astounded that what L'Engle wrote about mitochondria and the putative farandolae is certainly not outdated. I remember when I was in grade school and first read A Wind in the Door , my only source of definition for what a mitochondrion was was the dictionary, and it gave me a really vague definition. But, perhaps a decade later, after earning a degree in molecular biology and (soon) earning a degree in medicine, mitochondria have become something to take for granted.
Not that we know everything about them. There are certainly some deep mysteries left.
But, interestingly, while the farandolae seem to be a McGuffin invented by L'Engle, there is actually a (very crucial) molecule that seems very close to L'Engle's artistic description: the F0F1-complex, also known as ATP synthetase. This molecule has often been cited as an example of the anti-Darwinian model of "intelligent design" considering the machine-like way it's put together. If we ever get that far, this is probably what nanotechnology is going to look like.
16:38:03 21 May 2004 > /books > permalink > 22 comments
Sat, 17 Apr 2004
planet krikkit
As the Empire is thwarted at the frontier, losing legions by legions in its attempts to subjugate a recalcitrant province, as the Imperial Capitol is in tumult, the line of succession in dispute, as the People wallow in the Reality of their poverty, or float in the Unreality of their mind-altering drugs, I still manage to blog about completely random things.
I am in the midst of upheaval in too many ways to explicate—I am in a state of physical displacement, mental and emotional disarray, and I'm quite unable to focus on the here-and-now.
So I have been reading f(r)ictions and in the last three posts[n][n-1][n-2], the theme of Paul McCartney runs common throughout. Which reminded me of Douglas Adams's Life, the Universe, and Everything (book 3 in the completely misnamed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy)
Some select quotes:
They walked quite near the watchers beneath the tree, swinging lanterns that made soft and crazy lights dance among the trees and grass, chattering contentedly, and actually singing a song about how terribly nice everything was, how happy they were, how much they enjoyed working on the farm, and how pleasant it was to be going home to see their wives and children, with a lilting chorus to the effect that the flowers were smelling particularly nice at this time of year and that it was a pity the dog had died seeing as it liked them so much. Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening, humming it to Linda and wondering what to buy with the proceeds, and thinking, probably, Essex.…
Arthur saw that a couple of members of the party were now singing a different song. It came lilting back to them through the soft night air, and was a sweet romantic ballad that would have netted McCartney Kent and Sussex and enabled him to put in a fair offer for Hampshire.…
At this point Arthur noticed a curious feature to the song that the party was singing. The middle eight bridge, which would have had McCartney firmly consolidated in Winchester and gazing intently over the Test Valley to the rich picking of the New Forest beyond, had some curious lyrics. The songwriter was referring to meeting with a girl not "under the moon" or "beneath the stars" but "above the grass," which struck Arthur as being a little prosaic. Then he looked up again at the bewilderingly blank sky, and had the distinct feeling that there was an important point here, if only he could grasp what it was. It gave him a feeling of being alone in the Universe, and he said so.…
…they arrived at the inner perimeter of the hollow, spherical Dust Cloud that surrounded their sun and home planet, occupying, as it were, the next orbit out.
It was more as if there were a gradual change in the texture and consistency of space. The darkness seemed now to thrum and ripple past them. It was very cold darkness, a very blank and heavy darkness, it was the darkness of the night sky of Krikkit.
The coldness and heaviness and blankness of it took a slow grip on Arthur's heart, and he felt acutely aware of the feelings of the Krikkit pilots that hung in the air like a thick static charge. They were now on the very boundary of the historical consciousness of their race. This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done.…
They flew out of the cloud.
They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.
For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.
On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life-forms.…
"It's all right," she said quietly, but clearly enough for all the shadowy crowd to hear, "you don't have to do it."…
"I want you to do something for me," she said, and unexpectedly laughed.
"I want," she said, and laughed again. She put her hand over her mouth and then said, with a straight face, "I want you to take me to your leader," and she pointed into the War Zones in the sky. She seemed somehow to know that their leader would be there.
Her laughter seemed to discharge something in the atmosphere. From somewhere at the back of the crowd a single voice started to sing a tune that would have enabled Paul McCartney, had he written it, to buy the world.
It is a little sad to mention Linda McCartney, since she's dead, but then again, so is Douglas Adams. (The world is now a lot less funny.)
The entry entitled "pleased to meet you" also reminds me a little of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", but that is really neither here nor there, and I don't know which deranged neural pathway in my mind lit up to make me think that. I suppose I identify a lot with the protagonists of both pieces.
15:58:04 17 Apr 2004 > /books > permalink > 4 comments
Sun, 30 Nov 2003
Sunday calls can be bad, because since the day is often uneventful, you have to keep admitting through the night. Of course, this is when five people decide to walk into the ER complaining of chest pain, who end up having abnormal EKGs, and now you're admitting five people at 5 in the morning.
Of course, one can always pray.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
In any case, I am sitting here in the computer lab, browsing through The Ekumen, a Yahoo group dedicated to the writings of Ursula K Le Guin, of whom I have been gushing about as of late. In the message archive, I come across Le Guin's commencement address to the Bryn Mawr class of 1986 which perfectly jives with the sentiments which I have been ranting about in the Alibata Yahoo group. It is interesting that this comes to mind this Thanksgiving weekend, where I can't help but be reminded that this land was stolen from the natives who lived here, by a people who believed in a malignant, vengeful God. I remarked the other day to my roommate how Calvin has left a pretty indelible mark on U.S. history, stretching until present day, and ultimately, if you interpret it a certain way, American imperialism is an extension of the tenets of Calvinism.
But enough of that.
As a side note, I can't seem to get Mindterm to work off of my own webhost. Apparently, I need to figure out how to self-sign the Java applet. Which I apparently can't do here. So I have found this page off of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering which features Mindterm as a Java applet.
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Amateurs boxers in international fights at Olympia Crown on Saturday
Jamaica's amateur boxers will go up against a six-man contingent from the British Virgin Islands (BVI) on Saturday in a show that has been arranged by the Jamaica Boxing Board, in association with the Olympia Crown Hotel, Molynes Road.There will be six international and two local bouts on the card, and fight time is 8 p.m.The team of six boxers from the BVI is coached by Jamaican Julan Brown, who heads the boxing programme there. The full team is Andrew Lettsome 20, heavyweight (195); Elton Leonard, 21, light heavyweight (175); Elton King Leonard, 20, middleweight (160); Tyriq Isles, 23, welterweight (155); Romario Morgan, 19, light welterweight (139) and Dmoi Martin, 17, flyweight (115).Lettsome and Isles arrived in the island yesterday, accompanied by team manager David Penn. The other boxers will arrive tomorrow. The Boxing Board stated yesterday that this card is part of its development programme and is designed to give Jamaica's amateurs competition involving other teams from the region.The plan is that over the next several months, Jamaica will engage in team tournaments, so as to keep the young amateurs busy. read more
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Starr Computer Innovation Centre launched
An interior display of some of the modern devices in the innovation centreAs technology plays a significant role in creating an easier version of everyday life, more of this technological advancement should be more focused on modern educational development for children today.In an effort to attain this goal, Starr Computer in collaboration with its international partners on Wednesday launched its Starr Innovation Centre, which was specifically designed to promote modern educational development starting with robotic toys to modern classroom solutions.The centre seeks to fast-forward learning through the use of various electronic devices in a classroom since Guyana has a rapidly emerging oil and gas sector, which would require quick-thinking minds in the areas of critical thinking, logic and problem-solving.Director of Starr Computer, Mike Mohan explained that the main purpose of the centre is to create a concept of educating the younger generations by using the disruptive devices or technologies that are on the market, while revealing that one such department is the Kids Discovery Department."We have just launched our innovation centre and the main reason for the innovation centre is to create a concept to educate the younger generation with the disruptive items that are on the market…so within the innovation centre, we've got what we call the Kids Discovery Department and from this department here we're going to be showcasing small devices that kids can relate to, work with and they can learn how to do coding at a very young in at a fun fashion," Mohan explained.In addition, Mohan disclosed that even though the devices are on sale at his company they are working to educate the public about them and not just sell them. The newly-launched centre is open to the public, absolutely free of cost and is encouraging these young minds to take advantage of these technologies."The centre is open to the public, we are trying to get the Ministry of Education and other educational agencies to take advantage of these opportunities….. While we have these things available persons can purchase, at the same time our main emphasis is really to educate people about it more than trying to sell it" he said.Some of these innovative devices that are waiting to be utilised include the robotic vacuum cleaner, humanoid robots (namely Dr Albert Einstein), hologram 3D displays, recreational drones among others.Starr's technology partners, through the innovation centre, is showcasing their modern technologies in business solutions to education. Some of these partners include APC, Hewlett Packard, and Star Micronics among others. read more
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Eagles' coach Reid on temporary leave
"He's not going to come into the office. His priorities will be his family for that period of time, but he will be available to have a couple of calls with us and collaborate and if he needed to be here for a visit of a free agent," Eagles president Joe Banner said Monday. "He will retain final say over whatever we do." Reid, who is also the team's head of football operations, will miss the NFL scouting combine and the start of freeagency. Garrett Reid, 23, tested positive for heroin after he caused a traffic accident Jan. 30, police said. No charges have been filed, but prosecutors are looking at the case. Police have said he could be charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. Britt Reid, 21, was arraigned on drug and weapons charges. He is accused of pointing a handgun at another driver following a dispute and faces a felony charge of carrying a firearm without a license as well as misdemeanor charges of lying to authorities, simple assault, making terroristic threats and possession of a controlled substance. Titans hire GM: Mike Reinfeldt, Seattle's vice president of football operations, was hired as general manager for the Tennessee Titans. He replaces Floyd Reese, who resigned on Jan. 5, a month before his contract expired. Reinfeldt, who was with the Seahawks for seven years, was a defensive back from 1976-83 for the Houston Oilers, who left Texas for Tennessee in 1997. Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid will leave the team for a month to deal with developments that have rocked his family the past two weeks – one son tested positive for heroin, another was arraigned on drug and weapons charges. The team said the leave will last until mid-March. He has worked in the front office for the Los Angeles Raiders, the Green Bay Packers and most recently with the Seahawks. Reinfeldt was the Los Angeles Raiders' chief financial officer between 1985 and 1987, then associate athletic director at USC. Arrington among Giant releases: The New York Giants released linebacker LaVar Arrington and two other starters in the first major shake-up under new general manager Jerry Reese. New York also cut linebacker Carlos Emmons and offensive tackle Luke Petitgout, both of whom were slowed by injuries over the past two seasons. The release of Arrington ended a brief and unsatisfying tenure with the Giants for the former Pro Bowler, who was signed last year for $49 million over seven years but suffered an Achilles injury against Dallas on Oct. 23 and played in only six games. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set! read more
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Liverpool agree record deal to sign Keita
"Liverpool Football Club can confirm they have reached an agreement with RB Leipzig for the future transfer of Naby Keita," read the Liverpool statement."The Reds have agreed a deal with the German club and the midfielder that will see the 22-year-old move to Anfield on July 1, 2018 following the conclusion of the current season."Keita, who will be a pivotal figure in Leipzig's maiden Champions League campaign this term, said his present side remained his immediate priority but he was delighted to be joining such a historic club."I am delighted that an agreement has been reached which will allow me to join Liverpool Football Club next summer, when I will become part of a project that excites me greatly," Keita told the Liverpool website."My commitment to RBL remains absolute for the remainder of my time at the club. I have given my all every time I have worn the shirt -– that will be the case until the final whistle, in my final appearance."Having my future resolved means I can now focus on helping RBL achieve great things this season. Until I join my new club, next summer, I will remain an interested supporter from a distance."Liverpool's previous transfer record was the £35 million they paid Newcastle United to sign Andy Carroll in January 2011.An athletic box-to-box midfielder, Keita has been a longstanding target for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.He began his career with Horoya in his home city of Conakry and spent a season at French second-tier side Istres before joining Red Bull Salzburg in 2014.Salzburg sold him to RB Leipzig, their German sister club, in June last year.RB Leipzig's director Oliver Mintzlaff explained the German club's decision to sell their Guinea midfielder."For us, it was always clear that Naby Keita would play here this season — that was unnegotiable," said Mintzlaff."He is an outstanding player and an important part of our successful team."With this current solution, we can all concentrate again on our exciting challenges again on the pitch."During the current transfer window, Liverpool's Klopp has signed Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah, Scottish left-back Andy Robertson and English striker Dominic Solanke.Liverpool's 4-0 win over Arsenal on Sunday left them second in the Premier League table, two points below Manchester United, after three games.0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) 0Shares0000Naby Keita scored eight goals in 31 appearances last season to help Leipzig qualify for the Champions League © AFP/File / ROBERT MICHAELLONDON, United Kingdom, Aug 29 – Guinea international midfielder Naby Keita will join Premier League giants Liverpool next year after the English outfit agreed a reported club record deal of Sh6.4bn (£48mn) with German side RB Leipzig.Liverpool will also reportedly pay an undisclosed premium for the 22-year-old, who scored eight goals in 31 league appearances last term to help Leipzig finish runners-up in the title race. read more
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He's perfect for Liverpool! Two-time European Cup winner hails imminent Reds signing
Liverpool legend Alan Kennedy has welcomed the imminent arrival of Nathaniel Clyne at Anfield.Clyne is putting the finishing touches to a move to the Merseyside club after Southampton accepted the Reds' £12.5million offer.The 24-year-old England international will replace the departed Glen Johnson, and Kennedy believes it is an excellent piece of business by Brendan Rodgers.The former full-back, a two-time European Cup winner, told Signal Radio's Jonty Sargeant: "We've had too many problems on both the right and left side of the defence and Nathaniel Clyne impressed last season – and scored against Liverpool as well."He's the perfect choice. He's fast, tenacious, he likes to tackle, he can get forward."When you look back on bargains, we've had some great buys. Suarez being the top one at £23million, two-and-a-half to three years ago."I think for a full-back, you can go anywhere up to £15m to £20m. He's certainly worth it [the £12.5m] from my point of view."I think he's just what Liverpool need and will probably go straight into the first team with Glen Johnson moving away from the club." read more
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Football Manager 2019: New features, including tactics and training, plus release date
Which teams do the best on Boxing Day in the Premier League era? no dice Top nine Premier League free transfers of the decade REVEALED ADVICE Take your team on a mid-season warm weather training camp ☀ #FM19Features https://t.co/k8VdBfI64w— Football Manager (@FootballManager) October 9, 2018Elsewhere, you're now able to praise your players at any time, rather than just at suggested moments, you can take your team on a mid-season training camp, and match commentary is linked to your touchline team talks, adapting to your comments.Player match-ups in opposition scouting reports will be a huge hit if it works as we expect, while you will also retain the scout reports from your predecessors when you take over a new club. England's most successful clubs of the past decade, according to trophies won Forbes list reveals how much Mayweather, Ronaldo and Messi earned this decade Release dateCurrently, the planned day of arrival is November 2, 2019 and you can already pre-purchase the game if you really can't wait that long. Berahino hits back at b******t Johnson criticism – 'I was in a dark place at Stoke' BEST OF Latest Football News Oxlade-Chamberlain suffers another setback as Klopp confirms serious injury Lots of love under the hood… reflected in a fresh new look #FM19Features🔥 https://t.co/MQ7nHrIOnm pic.twitter.com/3vYFP14xzD— Football Manager (@FootballManager) September 27, 2018That's right, first of all, we've got a lovely new skin. The purple is certainly an interesting choice but it looks good and the folks at FM reckon it's a 'cleaner and fresher' user interface with changes visible on every screen.Obviously some of you won't be fans, but you will be able to alter it a later date if you wish.Revamped tactics moduleWant to pay homage to Jurgen Klopp's gegenpressing, or fancy tightening your defence and being inspired by catenaccio?Luckily, FM19 has got the answer.When using the tactics creator you can pick out a preferred base style, like one of the aforementioned systems, and then tweak it to make it perfectly suited for your team.We're all becoming armchair analysts now too, and FM19 reflects this by breaking the tactics down into three phases, allowing you to alter how you play in possession, in transition, and out of possession.New tactics mean new player roles too, with 'Pressing Forward' – we're looking at you Roberto Firmino – and No Nonsense Full-Back and Centre-Backs.Meanwhile, your pre-match briefing has also been revamped.A training overhaul Son ban confirmed as Tottenham fail with appeal to overturn red card REPLY 1 huge blow Ronaldo warned Lukaku how hard scoring goals in Serie A would be before Inter move REVEALED Get out your tracksuit in FM19 with a brand new training module. Translate your schedules into success! #FM19Features 📣 https://t.co/8FcCJCInrt pic.twitter.com/UpxCW4tMlg— Football Manager (@FootballManager) September 27, 2018No, we're not going to see animated training, that's just a brilliant way of getting us all excited for this.It looks reminiscent to Championship Manager 4 in it's style but obviously this is a massive change to the current system so may take some time for us to get our heads around.Every day is split into three sessions, each different session has 10 possible training areas which you can choose, including ball retention, recovery, chance creation, and many others as you look to better prepare your squad.You are also able to train your team in units, which should help when it comes to personalising thingsIt looks incredibly immersive if you're really into the minutiae of improving your team and your squad, or you can just leave it your assistant manager.Meanwhile, as a part of the training changes, pre-season is also more in depth, along with the mentoring system which allows tutoring in groups.VARYep! To make sure they're bang up to date with what's happening in real life, video assistant referees will be in the game and able to decide on penalties, goals and other big moments.We also see the introduction of goal-line technology, which means post-match press conferences are likely to be littered with moments to praise to slam its impact.Elsewhere in matches, there are tweaks to player roles and duties so it's worth taking a look at exactly what your raumdeuter and your segundo volante are up to.Meanwhile, there are updated animations, and, perhaps more importantly, some alterations to team talks with dynamics now a part of the dressing room encounter, allowing you to monitor how your leaders in the squad are reacting to your words of wisdom.Manager inductionHave you struggled getting to grips with how in depth the latest games in the Football Manager series have been?Well, the answer to your problems is here with what looks to be an excellent delve into each section, allowing you to educate yourself on getting the best out of your players, coaches, scouts, and medical team.Minor features changesIn the latest batch of information, it's clear your assistant is set to be on hand a lot more.Whoever you pick to be your right-hand man, they will be able to help you choose your pitch size, give more advice on team selection and offer to swap players and not just drop them, and tell you why you should change your captain. And when it comes to training you can get individual training ratings. MONEY New featuresNew UI Where Ancelotti ranks with every Premier League boss for trophies won RANKED silverware Every time Ally McCoist lost it on air in 2019, including funny XI reactions Football Manager 2019 is on the way and we cannot wait to get our teeth into the game, even if we're still also playing FIFA 19.A new season and a new game also means tonnes of great new features from Miles Jacobsen and his gang of developers at Sport Interactive and SEGA. A work in progress screenshot from Football Manager 2019. read more
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How to prepare yourself for an investor: a guide
A recent survey found that many South African entrepreneurs needed help with things such as business planning. Find out more about how to prepare yourself for an investor, here.The Real State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa 2017 survey finds that some entrepreneurs do not know where to go for funding. There are various sources of funding, such as angel investors and crowdfunding. (Image: Brand South Africa)Brand South Africa reporterFunding is one of the challenges faced by many entrepreneurs in South Africa. In the Real State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa 2017 survey, many entrepreneurs indicated that they required education specific to the practicalities of running a business such as marketing support and business planning.According to the Seed Academy, which conducted the survey, there were more than 1,200 respondents this year. In addition, to deepen its insight into the true state of entrepreneurship in South Africa, the survey expanded its scope from start-ups to all entrepreneurs at any stage of business development.It was found that 18% of respondents had attempted to get funding from banks or development funding institutions such as the Industrial Development Corporation or the Department of Trade and Industry."Some entrepreneurs indicated that they simply didn't know where to go for funding, especially in light of the fact that most early-stage business funding requirements are below the R100,000 threshold," said Donna Rachelson, CEO of Seed Engine, which incorporates the Seed Academy and the WDB Seed Fund. This is the third annual survey the Academy has conducted.Here are some learnings to prepare yourself before you approach an investor for funding:The different types of fundingOnline publication Entrepreneur Magazine lists the different forms of funding as angel investment, funding from a bank, crowdfunding, funding for previously disadvantaged individuals, and bootstrapping.Angel investment is when a wealthy professional provides you with start-up capital in exchange for equity in the business or a fixed percentage interest on the loan. Angel investors can be individuals or can be part of an angel network, to distribute risk.Bank funding depends on the different types of loans available and which kind is best suited to your needs. You need to provide a full set of financials and a comprehensive business plan for the bank officials to examine.Crowdfunding is similar to angel investment, but many individuals may pledge different amounts to the business in exchange for equity, interest or other more creative returns. There are South Africans platforms for crowdfunding: startme.co.za, thundafund.com and crowdfunding.co.za. You can also try international crowdfunding platforms such as kickstarter.com, indiegogo.com and rockethub.com.Funding for previously disadvantaged individuals can be in the form of a grant, loan or tender, which is given to previously disadvantaged people who have small businesses.Bootstrapping means starting and growing your business without any external help.Essential elements an investor wantsMarketability, sustainability and the business owner's passion for the project were the essential elements that would interest an investor, said Gerrie van Biljon, executive director of Business Partners. He told the online business network SME Toolkit South Africa that entrepreneurs should prepare a concise story around their business idea.Van Biljon also advised that the entrepreneur know every detail of their idea and business plan. "Your value proposition should come through succinctly – what are you offering to whom, and why will they be prepared to buy it."Useful documents for preparing your business planDownload the Industrial Development Corporation's guidelines on how to prepare a business plan; or download the Seed Academy's Essential Guide to Funding, or download the Yali Network's business plan checklist.Experts on what investors wantTafadzwa Madavo, business development manager at Riversands Incubation Hub, told SME South Africa that if entrepreneurs were looking for funding, they should test their ideas first. "They call it a minimal viable product. Don't look at getting a R1-million for a concept you haven't even tested."Robynne Erwin, operations manager of FinFind, agreed with this sentiment. "If you are still at the ideas stage, you need to be aware of the fact that ideas are considered to be cheap. [It] only gets a value when you have taken a step to make it real."Andrew Louw, CEO of +Louw, advised that the entrepreneur must be able to explain their idea simply and easily in 30 seconds or less. "Focus on the things you can do easily without raising funding. Also, bootstrap as far as you can without needing to raise extra capital."Watch the three experts give more advice, here:Speaking to the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science, social entrepreneurs unpacked lessons they had learned when approaching investors.Pat Pillai, founder of Lifeco UnLtd, said the fundraising secret was to always trade for change. "Whether it is an investor, or it is someone who pays you a fee to make sure you grow young entrepreneurs in the most deserving and unprivileged part of our country, there's always a report back on a return."Sharanjeet Shan, founder of the Maths Centre, said that clarity and conviction about who you were and what you wanted to do was important. "If you're not talking from the gut, it's not going to work."She added: "Why should I invest money in these people? I'm investing money because somebody's life is going to change. If one person's life changes, the lives of their community and the people around them change."Stacey Brewer, co-founder of the Spark School, said she had learned that you should not change your mission nor your vision based on funding. "Believe in what you are and keep going, keep going."Gregory Maqoma, founder of the Vuyani Dance Theatre, explained the conversation he had with his funders: "I allow them to understand the vision."I also allow them to understand where we're going — we talk about a five-year strategy. So, it's a long term commitment rather than just focusing on a project. We align ourselves with what is desirable in terms of the space that we are serving."His company was contributing to a bigger picture. "We can also be in a position where we can say it's not only serving the community directly affected by the Vuyani Dance Theatre but it's also about influencing policy; it's about influencing change on a bigger platform, on a bigger scale."Watch the video here:Know the term 'due diligence'?You should educate yourself about due diligence if you are on the hunt for funding for your business, or if you are hoping to work with the government or with bigger companies as a supplier.SME South Africa explained that small and medium enterprises underwent due diligence when an investor evaluated the business as a potential investment opportunity, or a buyer was looking to acquire the enterprise."Due diligence is a process where a business owner investigates the organisation based on their needs or requirements. The investigation can be legal, financial or anything that the business owner wants to evaluate before they contract themselves," it reported.Learn more about how "due diligence" works, here.Sources: SME Toolkit South Africa, Entrepreneur Magazine, SME South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation, the YALI Network, and Seed Engine.Would you like to use this article in your publication or on your website? See Using Brand South Africa material. read more
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Pak to execute paraplegic man
Lahore, Sept 20 (PTI) Pakistan is set to execute a 43-year-old paraplegic man convicted of murder, drawing condemnation from a prominent rights group. Abdul Basit, who was convicted of murder in 2009, will be hanged on Tuesday. Basit became paralysed from the waist down after contracting tubercular meningitis in prison. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the President to stay the hanging and grant him reprieve. "Human rights activists throughout Pakistan and beyond have been shocked to learn of the orders for the execution of convict Abdul Basit (a paraplegic man)on September 22, despite the fact that the unfortunate man is paralysed from his waist below," the commission said in a statement. "We are also shocked that the courts summarily dismissed the pleas for taking into consideration the provisions of international human rights instruments for special treatment of physically challenged people." It further says Basits mercy petition is still pending in the presidency. "In these circumstances the execution of Abdul Basit will offend against all norms of civilised justice, raise awkward questions about the Pakistan justice systems insensitivity to humanitarian imperatives, and indict the Pakistan state and society as brutal entities," it said. Last month, Pakistan executed Shafqat Hussain convicted of killing a seven-year-old boy when he himself was aged 14, drawing international criticism. Since Pakistan lifted a moratorium on executions in December 2014 in the wake of attack on an Army Public School in Peshawar that left 150 people killed mostly children, the Amnesty International has recorded over 200 executions. PTI Corr NSAadvertisement read more
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India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test: Virat Kohli hopes for stern test on green Nagpur pitch
After narrowly missing out on a win in the opening Test at the Eden Gardens, a confident India will be aiming to extend their dominance over Sri Lanka when the two sides face off in the second Test here from Friday.The hosts came agonisingly close to going 1-0 up in the three-match rubber but bad light ruined their chances to do so on the final day of the rain-marred first Test in Kolkata.Inspired by the performance of the fast bowlers in the first Test and keeping in mind the upcoming tour of South Africa early next year, the hosts are once again set to test the Sri Lankans on a green track at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium in Jamtha.The Indian pace trio of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami shared all the 17 Sri Lankan wickets which fell during the first Test. But with Bhuvneshwar set to tie the knot, he was released from the squad for the remainder of the series.#TeamIndia is here at Nagpur for a training session ahead of the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/A7vjrVf9Qv- BCCI (@BCCI) November 23, 2017Pacer Ishant Sharma, a veteran of 77 Tests, looks set to join the pace battery for the series.The other change in the Indian XI will be at the top of the order with opener Murali Vijay joining Lokesh Rahul after Shikhar Dhawan asked for a break due to personal reasons.Going into the second game, India will be brimming with confidence with the form of skipper Virat Kohli, whose fighting 50th international hundred in trying conditions at the Eden almost sealed the deal in the hosts' favour.advertisementBatsman @mvj888 prepping up in the nets session ahead of the 2nd Test at Nagpur #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/uOPmYF7HLf- BCCI (@BCCI) November 22, 2017Besides Kohli, the middle order comprising Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and stumper Wriddhiman Saha also looked in good stead during the first match.But it will be interesting to see if India persist with two spinners — especially Ravindra Jadeja, who made very little contribution with the ball and had a lukewarm match as a batsman.Knowing Kohli's fondness for wrist spinners, chinaman Kuldeep Yadav could come in as a replacement while rookie Vijay Shankar could also be handed his maiden Test cap.With Hardik Pandya missing from the set-up, Shankar has a chance of fitting into the playing XI, bringing the required stability that comes with a No.6 batsman.On the other hand, the tourists will need to revisit their strategy after conceding the advantage to the hosts, particularly after dominating for the better part of the first four days.While they have limited options to choose from in the batting department, it would be interesting to see if the islanders persist with pacer Lahiru Gamage, who leaked 156 runs in two innings in seamer-friendly conditions.In case, they continue to go with a three-pronged pace attack, left-arm seamer Vishwa Fernando could be an option to replace Gamage.However, chinaman Lakshan Sandakhan could provide that X-factor if the tourists plan for an added option in the slow bowling department along side veteran Rangana Herath.Vijay Shankar has been consistent and has earned his spot in the squad – Virat Kohli on India's latest addition in the squad #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/fqvjfVVFkP- BCCI (@BCCI) November 23, 2017Squads:India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Lokesh Rahul, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Umesh, Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Kuldeep Yadav and Rohit Sharma.Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (Captain), Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne, Niroshan Dickwella (WK), Dhananjaya de Silva, Suranga Lakmal, Dasun Shanaka, Viswa Fernando, Lahiru Gamage, Lakshan Sandakan, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Dilruwan Perera and Roshen Silva. read more
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Stars Stop Skid, Beat Isles, 3-2
DALLAS — Cody Eakin pumped up the deflated Dallas Stars with an overtime goal after the New York Islanders tied the game with 2 seconds left in the third period."I thought we were playing well enough to win in regulation," Eakin said after Dallas' 3-2 victory snapped a six-game losing streak March 3. "So it was deflating, but it's nice to get that extra one at the end."Eakin took a pass from Jamie Benn on a 2-on-1 break and beat goalie Jaroslav Halak 2:18 into overtime. The goal gave the Stars their first overtime victory in eight games this season, and their first at home in more than three years."The D man fell, (John Klingberg) made a nice pass up to Benn, and Benn made a great pass over to me and I just slapped it," Eakin said.Anders Lee tied it for New York in the waning seconds when his shot from the left-wing boards hit defender Jordie Benn's skate and eluded goalie Kari Lehtonen.On the Stars' bench, coach Lindy Ruff said, "Unbelievable.""With a couple of adjectives in front of it," he added later."Jordie Benn played as well as he's played all year, and to have the puck go off his skate … I shook my head," Ruff said.Josh Bailey scored for the Islanders in the first period. Brett Ritchie and Vernon Fiddler scored on third-period rebounds as Dallas rallied for a 2-1 lead.Lehtonen made 35 saves for the Stars, who were 0-4-2 in their previous six games. Four nights earlier, Ruff had criticized the goalie's play."We talked a little bit, but I understood his angle," Lehtonen said. "The message was I have to be better."Ruff said: "Kari was under the weather and still wanted to play. He made a couple of real big saves when we needed in those last couple periods. Real good performance."Halak stopped 32 shots but the Islanders lost their second consecutive game. They lead the Metropolitan Division by one point over the rival New York Rangers, though the Rangers have three games in hand."Even if we didn't get the break with 1-point-whatever seconds left, we deserved the point," Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. "We played hard. It's a good point for us here against a good team."The Islanders killed off a 5-minute power play following Matt Martin's major penalty and game misconduct at 1:48 for kneeing Dallas' Trevor Daley, who left the ice and did not return.Ruff said Daley would miss "weeks" and, "that's a suspension." Capuano said: "In my view, he's planted and there was no intent."Bailey scored at 15:25 of the first period. Brock Nelson, left alone behind the net near the left corner, passed across to Ryan Strome, unattended on the right side. He passed out front to Bailey, who shot across Lehtonen's body into the upper left of the net.The Stars tied the game 1-all at 2:24 when Ritchie put in the rebound of Jyrki Jokipakka's shot off Halak's pads.Fiddler scored at 7:28. Ryan Garbutt's shot from the high slot hit the glass behind the net and bounced out on the left side. Fiddler put the puck behind Halak.Neither team scored on the power play. Dallas was 0-for-5, and New York was 0-for-3.TweetPinShare0 Shares read more
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Are You Stopping or Starting?
O ne of the biggest issues among people and organizations is the, "Stopping Mentality!" They say, if we would quit doing such and such, then we could do what we really should be doing. If they quit spending so much, they would save. Or, if they stop wasting time and resources, they would be able to get done the really important things. This is a false mentality. People who quit spending typically don't save, and people who quit wasting time don't necessarily get the really important things done.
The secret is called, "Directing". The answer is never about stopping something so that you can start something; it is about starting something so that you can stop something. Let's say that you have a bad habit; we all have at least one. Human nature is not disciplined enough to just quit the bad habit, but it is capable of focusing on a good habit that over time, replaces the bad habit. The truth is, the power of the good habit will help overcome the authority of the bad habit. Efficient work habits will bring energy to replace inefficient work habits. There's no energy in trying to stop doing something. The energy it takes to move forward toward the good comes from the good. In other words, if you are headed in the right direction; where you are called to go, there will be an energy of inspiration that fuels your commitment.
The energy in starting is relative to how effective you are at "Directing" your attention to the thing, object or action to be taken; not the thing object or action to be stopped. There's an energy that comes from acting on moving the right direction that draws us to it. If you want to test this truth: 1. Clarify where you are going. What is the realized benefit that will come from the journey? In other words, how will it make the world and those around you better? 2. Set up your environment to support your direction. Put out of sight things that will distract you and keep you from starting. 3. Block your efforts into your high-energy time. Are you a morning person or and a night person? Schedule your Directive activity to your natural energy pattern. 4. Set up a support team. Tell those around you what you are committed to doing and seek only positive support. No one needs a person around him or her who declares that something will not work. 5. Take a few minutes each morning to focus on the object of your direction and each evening take note (that is make a note) of your progress that day, no matter how minimal that progress seems to be.
We must look toward the good; work toward the good, and share in the good.
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Legal Memorandum: Elements of a Promissory Estoppel Claim in GA
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Issue: What are the elements of a claim for promissory estoppel under Georgia law?
Area of Law: Business Organizations & Contracts
Keywords: Promissory estoppel claim; Elements of claim
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Cited Cases: 526 S.E.2d 409; 546 F. Supp. 666; 455 S.E.2d 393; 457 N.W.2d 793; 498 S.E.2d 152; 133 N.W.2d 267; 161 F.3d 1334; 235 Neb. 738
Cited Statutes: Ga. Code § 13-3-44; Restatement (Second) of Contracts (Second) § 90
The Georgia Supreme Court has held that the statute of frauds is no bar to a promissory estoppel claim. 20/20 Vision Ctr., Inc. v. Hudgens, 256 Ga. 129, 345 S.E.2d 330, 335 n.7 (1986); see Kamat v. Allatoona Fed. Sav. Bank, 231 Ga. App. 259, 498 S.E.2d 152, 155 (1998) (recognizing that 20/20 Vision "clearly states . . . that where a purported contract was not enforceable such did not preclude a claim predicated on a theory of promissory estoppel"); Johnson v. University Health Servs., Inc., 161 F.3d 1334, 1340 (11th 1998) (same).
As noted above, the mere fact that a promise is unenforceable under common-law contract principles does not mean that a promissory estoppel claim fails also. See 20/20 Vision Ctr., 345 S.E.2d at 335 n.7. Indeed, promissory estoppel, an equitable doctrine, "is intended to counteract the occasional harshness of common law rules." Johnson, 161 F.3d at 1340. Although it is true that promissory estoppel is not available where the alleged promise is so vague and indefinite that the court cannot determine whether there was any promise at all, the doctrine does not require the degree of specificity required by contract principles. See Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc., 133 N.W.2d 267, 275 (Wis. 1965) (Promissory estoppel does not require "that the promise giving rise to the cause of action be so comprehensive in scope as to meet the requirements of an offer that would ripen into a contract if […]


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La tradition et l'Etat: Eglises, pouvoirs et politiques culturelles dans le Pacifique (review)
La tradition et l'Etat: Eglises, pouvoirs et politiques culturelles dans le Pacifique (review) Waddell, Eric 2003-08-07 00:00:00 the contemporary pacific · fall 2003 Wittersheim, following earlier research in New Caledonia, are clearly exercising such a mandate. Their strategy has been to invite experienced scholars from other countries to contribute to the seminars. This fact is a defining characteristic of La tradition et l'État in the sense that, apart from the introduction by the editors, four of the eight articles were written originally in English by North American or European scholars--Bronwen Douglas, Ton Otto, Lissant Bolton, and Jonathan Friedman--and can be considered to be largely syntheses of work already published in that language. In other words, they represent exercises in translation of existing material from one scholarly community to another, thereby nourishing a new and welcome scholarly initiative in France. Douglas (Australia) shares some of her concerns about gender issues in Vanuatu, notably in the context of the contemporary institutions of the Church and the State. Otto (Denmark) explores the different ways in which power is exercised on the island of Baluan, Manus Province. Bolton (United Kingdom) reflects on the role of radio in redefining kastom in Vanuatu. Friedman (Sweden and France) is alone in moving beyond the confines of Melanesia to explore the oftentimes tense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/la-tradition-et-l-etat-eglises-pouvoirs-et-politiques-culturelles-dans-T0HkbJych0
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The Contemporary Pacific
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the contemporary pacific · fall 2003 Wittersheim, following earlier research in New Caledonia, are clearly exercising such a mandate. Their strategy has been to invite experienced scholars from other countries to contribute to the seminars. This fact is a defining characteristic of La tradition et l'État in the sense that, apart from the introduction by the editors, four of the eight articles were written originally in English by North American or European scholars--Bronwen Douglas, Ton Otto, Lissant Bolton, and Jonathan Friedman--and can be considered to be largely syntheses of work already published in that language. In other words, they represent exercises in translation of existing material from one scholarly community to another, thereby nourishing a new and welcome scholarly initiative in France. Douglas (Australia) shares some of her concerns about gender issues in Vanuatu, notably in the context of the contemporary institutions of the Church and the State. Otto (Denmark) explores the different ways in which power is exercised on the island of Baluan, Manus Province. Bolton (United Kingdom) reflects on the role of radio in redefining kastom in Vanuatu. Friedman (Sweden and France) is alone in moving beyond the confines of Melanesia to explore the oftentimes tense
The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Aug 7, 2003
Waddell, E. (2003). La tradition et l'Etat: Eglises, pouvoirs et politiques culturelles dans le Pacifique (review). The Contemporary Pacific, 15(2), 504-506.
Waddell, Eric. "La tradition et l'Etat: Eglises, pouvoirs et politiques culturelles dans le Pacifique (review)." The Contemporary Pacific 15.2 (2003): 504-506.


Last week, I compiled a list of online video resources for worship. This week, I have compiled resources that can help in creatively planning worship services. You will find service ideas, readings, prayers, seasonal resources and much more–many you can search by scripture text.
The term liturgy merely means "the work of the people" or "public service." Some people think liturgy only applies to churches that have a more formal style of worship or those that follow the lectionary. In truth, all of our churches have liturgy, customary public worship, as we engage in our times of corporate worship.
Some of our churches use the lectionary in their worship planning. Others do not. Helpful resources can be found here as you plan worship no matter what "style" of worship your church employs.
You may find resources on each site that are helpful and others that are not useful in your setting. Take some time to get familiar with the sites and how they can assist your worship planning.
Please pass along any helpful sites you use in the comments below to share with others.
calvin.edu/worship An extensive library of web-based worship resources.
engageworship.org This site aims to resource local churches for creative, innovative and world-changing worship: engaging with God, each other, and the world around them.
lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu Online version of the revised common lectionary.
liturgylink.net An online space for creative collaboration and sharing of liturgy.
reformedworship.org This site offers more than 2,500 articles for planning and leading worship. You'll find complete service plans, dramas, litanies, seasonal resources, and much more.
re:worship This site helps worship leaders and planners access some of the scripturally-based prayers and other worship resources.
rethinkworship.com Seeing or reading about what other churches do Sunday mornings often inspires worship leaders and helps them come up with ideas while planning for Sunday mornings. The site can help point you to some fresh resources and inspire creativity.
textweek.com A diverse variety of resources for scripture study, reflection and liturgy.
umcdiscipleship.org/worship/worship-planning A variety of worship planning resources from the United Methodist Church.
cyberhymnal.org Contains over 10,000 Christian hymns, author and composer biographies, hymn histories and gospel songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, & more.
hymnary.org An online hymn and worship music database for worship leaders, hymnologists, and amateur hymn lovers alike. You can search or browse hymns by title, tune, meter, key, scripture reference, and more.
LifeWayWorship.com The search engine on this site can search hymns and contemporary worship songs by title, tune, meter, key, scripture reference, and topic.
wordtoworship.com A resource for worship planners. Search by keyword, theme, or Scripture reference to find related worship songs.


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