ad:tech has, and always will be, a unique opportunity to break through the everyday barriers that constrict us in advertising and marketing.
It's a chance to explore the topics of today to literally create tomorrow. Ideas are crashed together, new thinking discovered and partnerships formed.
Populated by people with the passion to not only disrupt their industries but blow them up. We live in a world where technology has lit a rocket under how customers experience brands. It's no longer just the Nikes and Adidas creating new. Every category is ripe for gamechangers. AMP did in insurance with the My AMP app. Pokemon Go took augmented reality and sent the Nintendo share price through the stratosphere. NRMA connected with every learner driver with their Driver Log app. ASB did in banking with Clever Kash, their cashless moneybox. If you're not going to light the fuse in your category, then who will?
The beauty of ad:tech is the diversity of thinking that encourages gamechangers. Technology and ideas crashed together. The combined knowledge and talent of people from leading brands, big thinkers, media specialists, technologists, data crunchers, strategists. All contributing to pushing the boat out as far as it can go, and then going further.
And that's why this year's theme is all about Lighting up the next room. Literally illuminating the future, finding out what's next and informing how we attract, communicate with and add value to our customers' experiences.


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Mapping maternal mental health services
Dr Alain Gregoire of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance calls for an end to the postcode lottery and the roll-out of perinatal mental health units across the UK.
In April, the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) launched new maps showing the provision of specialist perinatal mental health teams across the UK. The maps, part of the MMHA's Everyone's Business campaign, show that women across nearly a quarter of the UK (24%) still cannot access any specialist perinatal mental health services.
Since the publication of the maps, NHS England has announced that it will be rolling out community perinatal care to 35 new sites (covering 134 clinical commissioning groups) and is on course for full geographical coverage of England. Progress in other UK nations is variable.
Why are these services needed?
Perinatal mental health problems include those that existed before pregnancy, as well as illnesses that develop for the first time, or are exacerbated in the perinatal period. Examples of perinatal mental illness include antenatal and postnatal depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), postpartum psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder and experiences of trauma. These illnesses range from mild to severe and require different kinds of care.
More than one in 10 women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or within the first year after having
a baby (NSPCC, 2013). Women with the most severe perinatal illnesses need to be able to access vital specialist services wherever they live; if left untreated, these illnesses can have a devastating impact on women and their families (Bauer et al, 2014). In the most serious cases, perinatal mental illness can be life-threatening: suicide is a leading cause of death for women during pregnancy and one year after giving birth (MBRRACE-UK, 2016).
Many of you in your day-to-day roles in the community come into contact with women with perinatal mental health problems who need specialist services but who cannot access them. Health visitors, midwives and those who work in the voluntary and community sector, for example, can play a key role in identifying women who may need support and signposting to the right services.
One of the mums who works with us on our campaign, Kirsten, told us that she experienced OCD during her first pregnancy that led to an all-consuming terror. She felt desperate, invisible and exhausted and, despite speaking to 11 different professionals about her mental health, she was unable to get the help she needed. During her second pregnancy there was a specialist team in her area; she was offered coordinated care, advice on medication, and support. It was life-changing for her, and shows the huge difference services can make when they are available.
What do the maps show?
Our map of specialist perinatal mental health service provision shows that 43% of areas have improved their colour rating since 2015, when the maps were last published. They were created with data collected from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and regional perinatal mental health networks last year. Each area was rated using nationally accepted criteria, including the
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) Standards (2014). The maps are colour coded: red means that no specialist perinatal mental health provision at all is available to mothers and babies, and green means that the area has a team that meets national standards. Pink means extremely basic provision exists, and amber that basic provision exists.
Improvements have not been consistent across the country (see Mental health map, above).
What are the implications of gaps in services?
Specialist perinatal mental health services save lives; they provide specialist treatment and can also act as a catalyst for change across the whole care pathway, providing expertise and delivering training to a range of health and social care professionals including health visitors, GPs and midwives.
Women across all levels of need benefit too: health visitors and midwives can carry out the identification of unwell or high-risk women with the confidence that specialist advice or care will be available if needed; and can access local, up-to-date training opportunities, knowing that they are participating in a coordinated pathway of care.
Government investment
Different nations have received different levels of investment. NHS England has made great strides in implementing large-scale improvements in perinatal mental health services using new government funding. Four new in-patient mother and baby units (MBUs) have been commissioned in Dartford, Exeter, Chorley and Norwich, due to open in 2018-19. NHS England is also enacting a range of changes that will improve quality and sustainability of these services. In Wales, all health boards have received some funding for specialist community teams and have rapidly implemented staffing on the ground, but without sufficient funds in most areas to meet national standards of care. There is still much to be done until women can access these vital services across the UK. Currently, there is no MBU in Wales. In Northern Ireland, the government has given no funding to date and there is no MBU; the great majority of women have no access to any specialist perinatal mental healthcare at all. In Scotland, the government has provided no new funding to date.
Without a totally green UK map, women and families will continue to miss out on essential life-saving care. The MMHA is calling for an end to this postcode lottery.
Alain Gregoire is founder and chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.
Time to reflect
What could you do to help raise awareness of these gaps in services and to champion specialist services in their local area? Join in the conversation on Twitter @CommPrac using the hashtag #MaternalCare
Become familiar with the level of specialist perinatalmental health services in your area using the maps at bit.ly/MMHA_maps
Look at the statistics from a report (Bauer et al, 2014) that highlight why this is important at bit.ly/perinatal_costs
Share the maps on social media using the hashtag #everyonesbusiness as well as with your local media, highlighting where funding for services is still needed or indeed to celebrate progress to date and inspire others.
Invite the MMHA's Everyone's Business team to deliver presentations along with lived experience champions in your area. Contact info@everyonesbusiness.org.uk to arrange.
Bauer A, Parsonage M, Knapp M, Iemmi V, Adelaja B. (2014) The costs of perinatal mental health problems. See: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/59885/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Bauer,%20M_Bauer_Costs_perinatal_%20mental_2014_Bauer_Costs_perinatal_mental_2014_author.pdf (accessed 23 May 2018).
Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MMBRRACE-UK). (2016) Saving lives, improving mothers' care. University of Oxford: Oxford.
NSPCC. (2013) Prevention in mind: All babies count: spotlight on perinatal mental health. See: nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/research-reports/all-babies-count-spotlight-perinatal-mental-health.pdf (accessed 23 May 2018).
Royal College of Psychiatrists. (2014) Service standards: second edition. See: rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Perinatal%20Comunity%20Standards%20Cycle%203.pdf (accessed 23 May 2018).
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In Science, Strategy and War; The Strategic Theory of John Boyd, Frans Osinga notes that "By some the OODA loop is perceived as the concise representation of (John Boyd's) ideas. Thus the neat graphical depiction of the OODA loop has become the symbol of Boyd's entire work." He further argues "that the features that merit Boyd's work the status of a general theory of strategy, do not lie solely in the rapid OODA loop idea but in several additional overarching insights concerning individual and organizational survival.
He continues that Boyd's OODA loop concept, as well as his entire work are much more comprehensive, deeper and richer than the popular notion of "rapid OODA looping"that includes several additional overarching insights concerning individual and organizational survival.
Larger networks of organisms form ecosystems, together with various inanimate components linked to the animals, plants, and microorganisms through an intricate web of relations involving the exchange of matter and energy in continual cycles. Like individual organisms, ecosystems are self-organizing and self-regulating systems in which particular populations of organisms undergo periodic fluctuations… The flexibility of an ecosystem is a consequence of its multiple feedback loops, which tend to bring the system back into balance whenever there is a deviation from the norm, due to changing environmental conditions. Disturbances are ever-present because things in the environment change all the time.
It is the capacity to learn, to propagate successful traits and schemata, and to recombine in novel relationships that leads to the emergence of adaptation and evolution. Boyd would make this – the reveling in novelty, combined with the pervasive presence of uncertainty – key themes. If uncertainty is indeed pervasive, it is imperative for organizations to create the ability to operate comfortably in this condition, in fact, they need to embrace it and turn the capacity to their advantage by introducing uncertainty and novelty into the environment themselves.
Novelty is not only endemic property of our environment, it is also a fundamental characteristic of social systems and activities. Our own schemata and the interaction among schemata of people produce mismatches. The OODA loop is both the way we make sense of the world as well as the source of further uncertainty. Novelty is produced by a mental/physical feedback process of analysis and synthesis that permits us to interact with the world so that we can comprehend, cope with, and shape that world as well as be shaped by it.
Novelty enters strategy when Boyd concludes that winning and losing revolves around the capability to deal with uncertainty and to exploit this feature of novelty in the contest with opponents: Since survival and growth are directly connected with the uncertain, ever-changing, unpredictable world of winning and losing we will exploit this whirling (conceptual) spiral of orientation, mismatches, analysis/synthesis, reorientation, mismatches, analysis/synthesis.
The comprehensive OODA loop model can be applied to almost all levels as an explanatory tool. Boyd is persuasive in showing the relevance and the applicability of it at the individual, tactical, operational, strategic and, the grand strategic level. …Boyd's work should not be regarded solely as a very valuable study of patterns in human conflict, although that is the nature of his work he started out with.
In Boyd's later work he approached and explained those patterns from a more abstract point of view and drew parallels between evolution theory, complexity theory and military history. He moved beyond military history and warfare and shifted his focus to a number of similar, deep, underlying processes that unite various modes of survival and evolution. He examined the processes and factors that are at play when complex adaptive systems face challenges to their existence. He extended this to economies, societies and even to science and technology, showing how in these fields too self-correcting processes, the discovery of novelties, mismatches and anomalies, the continuous interplay of destruction and creation and the dialectic of analysis and synthesis that keep the process going. He then introduced the 'theme for vitality and growth'… Osinga states that this strongly suggests A Discourse is a general theory of organizations in conflict, not only containing suggestions for winning battles, but also for maintaining organizational fitness, for organizational learning and change.
Osinga surmises that one could perhaps better describe Boyd's work not as a general theory of war but as a general theory of the strategic behavior of complex adaptive systems in adversarial conditions. Importantly, his study of Boyd's A Discourse on Winning and Losing shows that the larger theme of Boyd's work, which is also embedded within the comprehensive OODA loop graphic, is multidimensional organizational adaptation in a dynamic non-linear environment.
The rapid OODA loop idea is a very important one, but in itself often misunderstood. Whereas rapid OODA loop is often equated with superior speed in decision making, Boyd employs the OODA loop model to show how organisms evolve and adapt. Boyd regards the OODA loop schematic in general as a model for organizational learning, or even more general, the way organisms adapt and thus evolve.
Novelty is produced continuously, if somewhat erratically or haphazardly. In order to thrive and grow in such a world we must match our thinking and doing, hence our orientation, with that emerging novelty. Yet, any orientation constrained by experiences before that novelty emerges introduce mismatches that confuse or disorient us. However, the analytical/synthetic process permits us to address these mismatches so that we can rematch thereby reorient our thinking and action with that novelty. Over and over this continuing whirl of re-orientation, mismatches, analysis/synthesis enables us to comprehend, cope with, and shape as well as be shaped by novelty that literally flows around and over us.
————————————————————————————–Note: If the reader has followed Project White Horse 084640 to any degree since its beginnings in the Fall of 2006, he/she will have some knowledge of John Boyd, his work and the relevant books, plus the work of Boyd friend and only family authorized briefer of the Boyd work, Dr. Chet Richards. For those interested in greater level of detail, the Boyd Compendium on the Current Articles page is a quick link to the main body of work.
While all will be used as reference throughout the year, Frans Osinga's Science Strategy and Warfare: The Strategy and Theory of John Boydwill be used extensively in these offerings. Osinga's book focuses on providing a better understanding of the strategic thought developed by Boyd, and presents the material and analysis in the order in which Boyd evolved it with in depth look at the original sources. Osinga's book has been described as the book Colonel Boyd himself would have written. Col Osinga has graciously provided a complete PDF version with permission to include in the White Horse Library.


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Ariana Valderrama December 9, 2017
The Guardian's Max Liu highlights several rising star Asian American authors, including Year in Reading 2017 participant Jenny Zhang. "After years on the peripheries of US fiction and poetry, Asian American authors have stepped into the spotlight during 2017. Books by writers of east and south-east Asian heritage are one of the hottest trends this year. […] Transcultural writers, born to immigrant parents in the US or immigrants themselves as children, they are channelling their experiences into writing that, with perfect historical timing, challenges readers to resist attacks on immigrants' rights and to see refugees as individuals with unique stories."
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Now is as good a time as there ever will be to go and check out the Art Institute of Chicago. A new exhibit, "Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem," combines the photography of Parks, who eventually went on to gain a measure of fame in the '70s as a Hollywood movie director, and the writing of Ralph Ellison, in an attempt to offer a portrait of Harlem in the post-World War II years.
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Heavy Feather Review's Call for Submissions
Nick Moran February 9, 2014
As they begin preparation work on "Vacancies," a special double-issue of their magazine, the folks at Heavy Feather Review have issued a call for writing that explores "the dimly lit corners of the unoccupied, unassuming, or idle." For inspiration, look toward Philip Levine's poem, "An Abandoned Factory, Detroit."
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Bret Easton Ellis is collaborating with Taxi Driver director Paul Schrader on a new "psychological horror" movie about sharks. Coincidentally, HTMLGiant's Blake Butler just revisited Ellis' infamous novel American Psycho.
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The Limits of Good Taste
Matthew Schantz August 2, 2012
In his review of a collection of rejected New Yorker covers titled Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant To See, Jeet Heer details the magazine's history of straddling the divide between bourgeoisie complacency and bohemian angst.
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A Foreign Body within Oneself
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From Fantasy to Allegory
Kaulie Lewis March 1, 2015
"Fantasy is a tool of the storyteller. It is a way of talking about things that are not, and cannot be, literally true. It is a way of making our metaphors concrete, and it shades into myth in one direction, allegory in another." Neil Gaiman reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant for the New York Times Book Review and considers the power, and risks, of fantasy. Pair with Ishiguro's talk with The Telegraph about the 10 years since the publication of Never Let Me Go.
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Kia Strikes Advertising Gold With Its Australian Open Sponsorship
Kia has joined OSAKA AND DJOKOVIC AS AUSTRALIAN OPEN WINNERS THANKS TO ITS SPONSORSHIP OF AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
A Roy Morgan report revealed nearly 3.5 million Australians now associate Korean car company Kia with the year's first Grand Slam tournament, which is equivalent to 17 per cent of the Australian population aged 14 or older.
Australian Open Associate Partner ANZ is associated with the tournament by nearly two million Australians, equivalent to 10 per cent of the population.
Roy Morgan CEO, Michele Levine, said major sponsors of the Australian Open Kia and ANZ are the most recognised sponsors of the tournament, particularly by Australians who play tennis.
She said: "The Australian Open, which wrapped up last week, had a record-breaking year with over 780,000 Australians heading to Melbourne Park during the two weeks of the tournament – an average of over 55,000 each day.
"The stunning success of the tournament means companies the world over are keen to be associated with such a huge event watched by tens of millions of fans around the world, including millions of Australians".
Adidas and Nike – who both personally sponsor several leading tennis players – are associated with the Australian Open by nine per cent and eight per cent of Australians respectively.
Nearly a third of Australians who play tennis associate Kia with the Australian Open and 19 per cent associate ANZ with the tournament.
Adidas (14 per cent of tennis players) and Nike (13 per cent) are regarded by many tennis playing Australians as being associated with the tournament while official sponsors Emirates (seven per cent), Dunlop (four per cent) and Optus (four per cent) are also associated with the Australian Open by those Australians who play the sport.
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Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to Richard Aleas' 2004 crime novel "Little Girl Lost" reports Entertainment Weekly.
The story centers on John Blake, an NYU dropout-turned-private-investigator who learns his high school girlfriend who he thought went to medical school actually became a stripper and has been murdered.
Jonathan Levine ("The Wackness," "I'm With Cancer") is set to direct while "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" co-writer Michael Bacall is attached to write the screenplay.


An exhibition of paintings and prints by Hannnah Blackmore.
Hannah Blackmore's fluid, luminous and cool structural depictions of iconic Tasmanian scenes are a refreshing new approach to this genre.
I grew up on the English Channel Island of Jersey, and have always loved island life. After completing a foundation course in Art and Design, followed by a Fine Art Degree in Cheltenham, UK; I continued to paint and commuted to London to complete a nutritional therapy degree. However, Jersey eventually pulled me home (some say it is the magnetic pull of the granite it is built on) and I returned to live on the island for a few more years, before making the departure to Tasmania in 2012….
I have exhibited fairly frequently over the years, either as part of a group or alongside my mother, who is also an artist. I have also completed numerous commissions, for individuals as well as corporate clients. My style has developed considerably over the years and I look forward to seeing where it will go next.
After moving here, I immediately felt settled, as there are a lot of similarities between Tasmania and Jersey. Good food and produce, stunning landscapes and a great sense of community spirit being just a few! I find the environment most inspiring and feel lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
In April 2015 I became part of the Salamanca Arts Centre and moved into Studio 242 upstairs. It has been wonderful being based in such a vibrant arts community such as this. Do come by some time and say hello!


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What's Going on at Air Force Academy? God's Word vs. Pentagon's Word
Posted: Mar 14, 2014 10:55 AM
The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition, a group of two dozen like-minded religious liberty organizations, announced Thursday that they are ready to offer assistance to any Air Force Academy cadet who faces repercussions for writing Bible verses on their hallway whiteboards.
The Air Force Academy admitted Wednesday that a cadet leader had to remove a Bible verse he had displayed outside his dorm room because it offended non-Christians and could "cause subordinates to doubt the leader's religious impartiality."
The controversy started when a cadet leader posted a passage of scripture on his whiteboard with a quote from the New Testament book of Galatians. "I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live, but Christ lives in me," the verse from Galatians 2:20 read.
The brave cadets who spoke to me said it's disturbing to watch the academy trample on the Constitution.
Friends of the cadet tell me the young man had posted the verse several months ago and considered the New Testament passage as a source of inspiration.
Mikey Weinstein, director of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told me that 29 cadets and four faculty and staff members contacted his organization to complain about the Christian passage.
"Had it been in his room -- not a problem," Weinstein told me. "It's not about the belief. It's about the time, the place and the manner."
He said the Bible verse on the cadet's personal whiteboard created a hostile environment at the academy.
"It clearly elevated one religious faith [fundamentalist Christianity] over all others at an already virulently hyper-fundamentalist Christian institution," he said. "It massively poured fundamentalist Christian gasoline on an already raging out-of-control conflagration of fundamentalist Christian tyranny, exceptionalism and supremacy at USAFA."
Exactly two hours and nine minutes after Weinstein complained to Air Force Academy Superintendent Michelle Johnson, the Bible verse was erased from the cadet leader's whiteboard.
A spokesman for the Air Force Academy confirmed that the religious text was cleansed from the board – even though there is no specific rule against posting religious messages.
"The whiteboards are for both official and personal use, but when a concern was raised we addressed it and the comment was taken down," Lt. Col. Brus Vidal, Air Force Academy spokesman told me in a written statement.
Johnson said in a written statement that the verse was removed because there was a "potential perception" problem.
"The scripture was below the cadet's name on a white board and could cause subordinates to doubt the leader's religious impartiality," the superintendant said.
The original complaint was filed by an unnamed cadet, she added.
"Another cadet promoted a discussion of appropriateness, according to policies that leaders will avoid actual or apparent use of their position to promote their personal religious beliefs to subordinates."
Johnson said the Christian cadet "voluntarily elected to erase the scripture."
Anybody else have trouble believing that?
The Christian cleansing of the Bible verse led to a small uprising among cadets. At least a dozen posted Bible verses on their personal white boards and some even went so far as to post passages from the Koran. Those verses were not removed, presumably because the cadets were not in leadership positions.
So I posed the following question to the Air Force Academy. Would they have directed a Muslim cadet leader to erase a passage from the Koran? The academy has yet to answer my question – but I suspect well all know the answer.
Retired Army General Jerry Boykin, now with the Family Research Council, told me the superintendent's statement is an example of "politically correct double speak."
"What about the rights of the Christian cadets who have a constitutional right to express their individual faith?" he asked. "If a scripture scares the faculty this much, then it is unlikely that they will be very effective when confronted by a committed enemy who is willing to die for his or her beliefs."
Boykin accused the academy of violating the constitutional rights of the cadets.
"This academy should be training warriors who can deal with difficult situations and determined enemies," Boykin said. "A scripture is hardly a threat."
Several cadets reached out to me by phone and shared with me their grave concerns about how Christians are being treated at the Air Force Academy. They agreed to be interviewed, provided I did not reveal their identities.
"It's been suggested that we keep our faith to ourselves," one of the cadets told me. "It's even too risky to go out into the hallway and talk to a Christian friend about your faith. It's because there are people here who are so easily offended. If someone overheard us talking about Christianity, they could file a complaint. They could say we were having that discussion in a public space."
"It's gotten to the point where you can't walk to class without stepping on somebody's toes," another cadet told me.
The cadets told me many of their peers are outraged over the anonymous person who complained to Weinstein's group.
"Whoever did that, do so without even addressing the cadet first," the cadet said. "It's incredibly disrespectful to the cadet – going behind his back. Is that the kind of officer you want in the military leading people?"
The cadets said they are sick and tired of the "uber-sensitivity" that's infected the academy.
"People are so apt to be offended by something that is totally respectful," he said. "If you read the verse the guy put on his door – it's a personal expression of faith. There's nothing disrespectful about that at all."
But the Air Force Academy may not agree with that assessment.
Both cadets told me that yesterday afternoon, they were told by their leadership to "be respectful with what you put on your bulletin board and what you put in public places."
"The implication was that the Bible verse was somehow disrespectful," the cadet told me.
Weinstein is vowing to take the Air Force Academy to court unless they punish every cadet who posted a Bible verse on their bulletin boards.
"This is an absolutely horrible, shameful disgrace," he told me. "I don't think I've ever seen such an open rebellion like this happening at any military academy. It's like they're sticking their middle finger up at what the academy did."
Weinstein likened the posting of the Bible verses to racism.
"You cannot put a picture in front of your room of a white person whipping a black person," he said. "You can't put a picture of anything that's denigrating outside your room."
He also wants the military to consider court martial proceedings against the cadet leader who originally posted the verse from Galatians. He called the cadet a "fundamentalist."
So how does Weinstein define "fundamentalist?"
"When they want to follow the Great Commissionin a time, place or manner that violates the Constitution or DOD directives," he said. "In this case, this is a perfect example. Putting those messages up are a violation of time, place and manner and that moves you into the fundamentalist Christianity perspective."
The Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition announced it stands ready to represent any cadet brought up on charges. The coalition includes the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel, Liberty Institute and Thomas More Law Center.
"Suppressing religion is wrong whether it is done behind an Iron Curtain or in a dorm hallway," said Gary McCaleb, of the Alliance Defending Freedom. "Certainly such raw anti-religious discrimination has no place in America's Air Force."
The brave cadets who spoke to me said it's disturbing to watch the academy trample on the Constitution. They said the current state of affairs at the Air Force Academy can be summed up by a message someone had posted on their dorm wall.
"You can't pick and choose what freedoms you're going to defend," the poster read. "You can either defend them all or you can defend none of them."


Micallef Cigars is a relatively new brand (the first lines date back to 2016) that has a good variety of cigars. The website lists thirteen lines, but the Weatherford (Texas) company is expanding. The name of the brand derives from the owner: the entrepreneur Al Micallef (longtime cigar smoker, also active in the restaurant sector).
The new line, called Micallef Grande Bold, will debut at the 86th IPCPR trade show in Las Vegas. The company highlights how, within its portfolio, there are mainly medium-bodied products; "the addition of the line will allow us to expand our offer with more full-bodied cigars". Steven Henrickson from Micallef underlined how the new product should be available starting from July on. The entire production of the brand is entrusted to the Gómez Sanchez family, who make cigars in Nicaragua. The Grande Bold line is characterized by a blend that should provide a smoother experience with a fuller flavor.
The cigar Micallef Reserva Limitada Privada, in the portfolio, is the premium selection, whose price is 42 dollars.


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Environmentalist views of ' tree-hugging hippies' back in the 60s and 70s were often laughed off. But their message to protect and respect the environment is one that some of the world's leading scientific and environmental minds now want us to listen to. Climate change has been a big topic in Australia this week, with the federal Liberal and National parties at loggerheads over the country's future emissions targets. And if you're like me, the idea of trying to understand climate science is like being asked to do a long maths equation. Net-zero? What's that? What's the difference between net-zero and zero? Is there even a difference? It turns out there is a difference. Australian National University's Centre for Climate and Energy Policy Director, Frank Jotzo, said that while it was possible to replace fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil with clean alternatives, there were some sources of greenhouse gas emissions that would be around for a "very long time, perhaps forever". And if you want to find out more about Australia's Net-Zero by 2050 target, check out this explainer. However, there's a significant roadblock to the government's goal: the National party. National MPs are seeking "compensation" for regional communities that could be affected by the plan to reduce emissions. In fact, deputy Nationals leader David Littleproud said, "money makes the world go around, mate", when asked what would be needed for the party to agree to the target. Considering towns across the country are still recovering from drought, the 2019/20 bushfire season, floods, storms, and most recently tornadoes - I don't know that we can doubt the impacts of climate change. Heatwave warnings have already been issued in the NT and just yesterday, 16-centimetre hailstones fell in north eastern Queensland. Not to mention those record-breaking temps last year. Perhaps the changing weather got the best of one Newcastle councillor who was called to order after appearing "unclothed" at a council meeting. But it's not just the weather heating up in AUS; nearly 70 per cent of people aged 16 and over have been vaccinated. Victorians are also starting to get fired up for the state's 'Freedom Day' on Friday, with retail, dining out and household visitors back on the agenda for those who are vaccinated. While happy travellers prepare for long, hot summer days in QLD before Christmas, WA's borders will probably remain firmly shut over the festive season. I think I'll end on the words of renowned environmentalist and beloved documentary maker Sir David Attenborough: "[Climate change] is an urgent problem that has to be solved. And what is more, is that we know how to do it - that's the paradoxical thing - that we are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken." Did you know you can receive this daily digest by email? Sign up here THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
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The smokey haze over Wollondilly in south west Sydney during the Green Wattle Creek bushfire in 2020. Picture: Simon Bennett
Environmentalist views of ' tree-hugging hippies' back in the 60s and 70s were often laughed off.
But their message to protect and respect the environment is one that some of the world's leading scientific and environmental minds now want us to listen to.
Climate change has been a big topic in Australia this week, with the federal Liberal and National parties at loggerheads over the country's future emissions targets.
And if you're like me, the idea of trying to understand climate science is like being asked to do a long maths equation.
Net-zero? What's that? What's the difference between net-zero and zero? Is there even a difference?
It turns out there is a difference. Australian National University's Centre for Climate and Energy Policy Director, Frank Jotzo, said that while it was possible to replace fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil with clean alternatives, there were some sources of greenhouse gas emissions that would be around for a "very long time, perhaps forever".
And if you want to find out more about Australia's Net-Zero by 2050 target, check out this explainer.
However, there's a significant roadblock to the government's goal: the National party.
National MPs are seeking "compensation" for regional communities that could be affected by the plan to reduce emissions. In fact, deputy Nationals leader David Littleproud said, "money makes the world go around, mate", when asked what would be needed for the party to agree to the target.
Considering towns across the country are still recovering from drought, the 2019/20 bushfire season, floods, storms, and most recently tornadoes - I don't know that we can doubt the impacts of climate change.
Heatwave warnings have already been issued in the NT and just yesterday, 16-centimetre hailstones fell in north eastern Queensland.
Not to mention those record-breaking temps last year.
Perhaps the changing weather got the best of one Newcastle councillor who was called to order after appearing "unclothed" at a council meeting.
But it's not just the weather heating up in AUS; nearly 70 per cent of people aged 16 and over have been vaccinated.
Victorians are also starting to get fired up for the state's 'Freedom Day' on Friday, with retail, dining out and household visitors back on the agenda for those who are vaccinated.
While happy travellers prepare for long, hot summer days in QLD before Christmas, WA's borders will probably remain firmly shut over the festive season.
I think I'll end on the words of renowned environmentalist and beloved documentary maker Sir David Attenborough:
"[Climate change] is an urgent problem that has to be solved. And what is more, is that we know how to do it - that's the paradoxical thing - that we are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken."
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This weekend's newcomer, The Huntsman: Winter's War ($20.1 million), was no match for The Jungle Book's ($60.8 million) strong word of mouth. It only dropped 41 percent from it's opening weekend, where most movies of that caliber usually drop at least 50 percent or more. The Jungle Book has already grossed $191.5 million domestically and has a worldwide total of $528.5 million. It should have another strong weekend next weekend, before that other Disney movie hit's theaters the weekend after.
As for the The Huntsman: Winter's War, Universal must not be too happy as it's $20.1 million debut greatly trails it's predecessor, Snow White and the Huntsman ($56.2 million).
In other news(just so happens to be Disney again), Zootopia has passed the $900 million mark worldwide, and is the first movie of 2016 to do so.


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Links to Contributors, Friends and Writing Resources
David Lee Summers is the editor of Tales of the Talisman.
Laura Givens is the art director of Tales of the Talisman.
Book and Audiobook Contributors
For more information about Hadrosaur Productions' books and audio books, visit Hadrosaur.com
Wayne James and his collection, When Only the Moon Rages can be found here.
Joy V. Smith is the author of Sugar Time. Her short story "Flashback" appeared in issue 16 of Hadrosaur Tales.
Tales of the Talisman and Hadrosaur Tales Contributors
Neal Asher's "Dragon in the Flower" was reprinted in Hadrosaur Tales 8. "Dragon in the Flower" forms part of Asher's well-received novel, Gridlinked. Look for more work by Neal Asher in Hadrosaur Tales 16 and issue 1 of Tales of the Talisman.
Glynn Owen Barrass is the author of "Consumed" that appears in Tales of the Talisman 3.2.
David Boop is the author of stories that appeared in Tales of the Talisman volume 2, issue 1 and volume 3, issues 1 and 3.
Mark Anthony Brennan has published numerous stories in both Hadrosaur Tales and Tales of the Talisman. His story "Loyalists" in Hadrosaur Tales 16 was recommended for the Sidewise Award in 2004.
M.H. Bonham has flash fiction appearing in Tales of the Talisman 1.4. She is also the talented author of the novel Prophecy of Swords published by Yard Dog Press.
Jim Dunlap is a frequent contributor to Hadrosaur Tales. We've featured his poetry and short fiction. In addition to Jim's personal site, you should also visit The Voices for Africa Page. This is an extremely important poetry project spearheaded by Jim. The pages contain some very powerful poetry bringing attention to the crises and turmoil in Africa.
Karl El-Koura's story "The Clickety-Clacketies" is featured in issue 1.4 of Tales of the Talisman.
Jeff Fenzel's story "The Enigma Motive" is featured in the second issue of Tales of the Talisman.
Stories and poems by Mark Fewell have appeared in issues 12, 13, 14, 16 and 20 of Hadrosaur Tales. Not enough, you say? He also has a story in the premier issue of Tales of the Talisman.
Jag Lall is an artist who regularly contributes to Tales of the Talisman.
Bruce Markuson has science fiction tales in volumes 7 and 8 of Tales of the Talisman.
David B. Riley has appeared in several issues of Hadrosaur Tales. He is the editor of Trails: Intriguing Stories of the Old West. Visit his homepage to learn about novels, The Brotherhood and The Two Devils along with his other writing.
Frankie Robertson is the author of "Koomb's Tunic" from Volume 2, Issue 2 of Tales of the Talisman and "Debts" from Volume 5, Issue 2 of Tales of the Talisman.
L.B. Sedlacek is a poet who has appeared a number of times in Tales of the Talisman and Hadrosaur Tales.
James Steimle's story, "The Clock Shop" appeared in Volume 1, issue 2 of Tales of the Talisman.
Patrick Thomas writes the column "Dear Cthulhu". It will be a regular feature in Tales of the Talisman starting with volume 6, issue 1.
One of our goals at Tales of the Talisman is to help authors grow. While we would love to publish every good story that comes to us, it's just not possible. Also, there are stories that come to us that we may consider not-so-good, but another editor will love.
Below are links to market lists, writer's groups, and individual markets that might prove of further help in your growth as an artist.
Market Lists on the Web
Ralan's Market List is the one most frequently used by Hadrosaur Tales editor, David Lee Summers. He finds it the easiest to use and the most up-to-date of the lists.
Here's a good resource for poets: The Poetry Market is a free subscription-based E-zine that features markets, contest, reviews and news.
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Multiple-award winning writer Richard Harland has assembled a page of Writing Tips that's well worth checking out for anyone serious about the craft.
Selected Magazines and Other Sources for Stories
Motherbird.com is a wonderful site devoted to poetry, music, and art.
Perplexed Puffin Press is a small press specializing in speculative fiction and the Captial Region of British Columbia.
Malinche Entertainment offers interactive Fantasy Adventure. Experience the next dimension in science fiction where you are the hero (or heroine!) in a fantasy adventure.
Kasma Science Fiction Magazine offers a quality science fiction magazine in HTML, PDF and print formats.
Robin Falls Magazine comes highly recommended. It is both a source of stories as well as a resource for writers and readers. The site also features blog talk radio shows.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Resource Guides
A good resource for fandom information is the Fandom Directory
An excellent resource for professional science fiction and fantasy writers is The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Especially for speculative poets: The Science Fiction Poetry Association.
KwMap.com - browse the Keyword Map of Hadrosaur.com
ArtsDir.net - Arts Directory
Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Links
The Unseen Gallery is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and features fantasy and erotic art.
Epilogue.net is a great resource for both artists and people looking for great artwork.
Jeff Ward is a frequent Hadrosaur Tales cover artist. He also did the cover art for the second edition of The Pirates of Sufiro by David Lee Summers.
Dee Rimbaud is a very talented artist. His on-line gallery is worth a visit.
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Johnnie Bassett
I Can Make That Happen
Johnnie Bassett - I Can Make That Happen 01. Proud To Be From Detroit (3:24) 02. Love Lessons (3:37) 03. Spike Boy (3:38) 04. I Can Make That Happen (4:36) 05. Cry To Me (4:26) 06. Teach Me To Love (4:05) 07. Dawging Around (3:23) 08. Cha'mon! (3:23) 09. Reconsider Baby (7:47) 10. Motor City Blues (3:13) 11. Let's Get Hammered (3:18)
Johnnie Bassett - guitar
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"His guitar sound is the cleanest on the planet. No jive, no distortion, no tricks. He doesn't waste a note, no flash--all content. It is a jazzman's touch amidst the deeply felt blues sensibility that makes one think of another Detroit guitar icon, Kenny Burrell." - Bob Porter, WBGO '… the Detroit based veteran exudes the kind of elegance – "discipline and style" – that the late Johnny Otis once lamented had all but disappeared from popular music. Bassett again proves himself one of our premier (if under-recognized) blues stalwarts, still at the height of his powers.' – Living Blues Guitarist Johnnie Bassett is a special bluesman, possessing a certain inspired individuality and skill set rarely found these days. In a career dating back to the early 1950s, the spry 76-year-old has earned many accolades--just last year he copped Detroit Music Awards for "Outstanding Blues/R&B Instrumentalist" and "Outstanding Blues Artist/Group." Well regarded in the Great Lakes region and blues America, yes, but arguably even more admired in Europe, where he's a favorite of festival-goers. Bassett's familiarity with jazz, R&B and soul is just as considerable as his blues knowledge; he's held his own in the fast company of luminaries from various strains of great American music including Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Smokey Robinson, Tina Turner, Dinah Washington, former neighbor John Lee Hooker and a young guitar fledgling named Jimi Hendrix. For all his talent, Bassett has made just a handful of feature albums. The best of the five is his new one, I Can Make That Happen (Sly Dog Records)--its release is cause for celebration. Bassett, even-tempered and polite, says, "My sound and the way I play and tune my guitar is different from anybody. I designed it that way when I was getting into the business. I heard all the other guitarists coming up and they all sounded the same to me - everybody wanted to be B.B. King or T-Bone Walker. I wanted to be different-sounding." He realized his goal long ago through his open tuning, his impeccable timing, his personal way of bending notes, his mix of playfulness and relaxation in phrasing, and his arsenal of signature licks. Only a few of Bassett's peers play from the heart as convincingly as he does on his trusty old Gibson, Heritage and Conrad guitars. The Florida-born septuagenarian turns in fine performances on strong original material for I Can Make That Happen, supported by ace musicians belonging to two popular Detroit bands. Keyboardist Chris Codish, bassist James Simonson and drummer Skeeto Valdez are The Brothers Groove. The Motor City Horns consists of saxophonist Keith Kaminski, trombonist John Rutherford, and trumpeters Bob Jensen and Mark Byerly. (Each of these players also contributed to the success of Bassett's 2009 Sly Dog release, The Gentleman Is Back.) "The whole experience was electrifying," says Bassett about recording the new album. "We rehearsed three days. I like what we got out of that." Codish, who produced with Kaminski, recalls, "It was a lot of fun. All of us have been playing together for a long time and we were comfortable with each other. And I think we've grown as a band since the first record." So, what's it like to play with Bassett? "Johnnie's the top of the groove pyramid,' says Chris Codish, "where he sets the time with his playing, it's very natural for the rest of the band to fall in beneath him to support and follow him. He makes it fun." Happily, Bassett and his friends show no interest in churning up the same old chord progressions on threadbare songs, as do hordes of blues recording artists year in and year out. Instead, the Motowners freshen up the blues using elements of jazz, R&B and soul on a program of superior songs mostly written by Chris Codish and his father, Bob. Bassett even refurbished rock and soul classics. The bandleader opines, "I think people will like the choices made as far as the material is concerned." Opener "Proud to Be From Detroit" is a funky blues born of a band studio-jam based on a bass riff. "We thought with all the problems in the city," comments Bassett, "this song would make people forget about them." Bassett's singing of his own words about the city's virtues has a slow-burning intensity; likewise, his guitar work is wonderfully expressive, a shining beacon of accumulated technique. Note the drama built by the mighty horns before Bassett sings. "You can dance to that all day," he laughs. "Love Lessons" has a more relaxed groove, spun off the piano rhythm; here, Bassett gives Bob Codish's risquĂ© lyrics a real-life shimmer. "I don't know why we keep using Bob's stuff," jokes the bandleader, "but it all turns out well for us." Ditto for "Spike Boy," still another bawdy tune, this one packed with wicked train metaphors and enlivened by the jaunty confidence of the crackerjack band. "There's a bit of a Henry Mancini-meets-the-blues feel to this one," observes Chris Codish. Bassett, as a singer and guitarist, has the capacity to sound fresh and involved emotionally at all times. But he seemingly outdoes himself with his excellent guitar solo on "I Can Make That Happen," a number that began life as a short duet demo by Chris Codish and fellow songwriter Jim "Moose" Brown, a top Nashville sessions guitarist and co-writer of "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere." Strikingly, Bassett translates emotions into bent phrases and tone with startling clarity and timing. Revitalizing soul great Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me," Bassett proves once again that integrity and entertainment aren't mutually exclusive. "Solomon was one of my favorite balladeers," Bassett replies when asked how they happened to cover the 1962 R&B chart hit. On Bob Codish's "Teach Me to Love," Bassett joins "Detroit Diva" Thornetta Davis in resting their splendid vocals on what Chris calls a "warm background pillow of harmony" generated by the horns. Kaminski weighs in impressively with a tenor saxophone solo. Next up is the album's sole instrumental, "Dawging Around," penned by Kaminski in honor of Bassett's Blues Insurgent Band saxophone player, the late Scott "E. Dawg" Petersen. The musicians' comfort level with swinging jazz is obvious. Let's hope Bassett, a veteran of many jazz organ combos, and always musically intelligent, records more instrumentals on the jazzy side of blues in the future. The blues, of course, is about rising above difficulties, and "Cha'Mon!" and "Let's Get Hammered" both emphasize the fun factor. Bob Codish's "Motor City Blues" acknowledges the harder times of Detroit residency but it derives its emotional clout from Bassett singing witty lyrics that are optimistic about the future. Bassett and his producers unleash the biggest surprise near the album's end with a stirring rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary." Bassett hosted a Sunday night jam session decades ago in Seattle where a young Hendrix regularly attended and performed, often picking up tips and licks from watching Bassett. The enterprising guitarist brings their connection full circle as he and his colleagues locate many new pockets of freshness in the familiar song. Bassett, after all, isn't just playing for the blues crowd. "My style of playing is laid back. I try to play my music where everybody of all ages can enjoy it," he says with characteristic graciousness. "That's what keeps you working, and I've been doing it since 1953. I hope the new album catches on." Rest assured, Mr. Johnnie Bassett will make that happen.
Compared to That
Brian Bromberg
Angelic Warrior
Tia Fuller
In The Spirit Of Jobim


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Missoula Peace Sign reassembled behind Jeannette Rankin Peace Center
The infamous and iconic symbol was removed in 2001
The infamous and iconic Missoula Peace Sign was reassembled 20 years after it's removal from the city's North Hills. It's now a permanent art installation behind the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.
By: Geneva Zoltek
MISSOULA — Twenty years ago, an infamous and iconic symbol sitting on the North Hills outside of Missoula was removed.
On Friday, the reassembled Missoula Peace Sign made its debut back to town at First Friday. Behind the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, a crowd gathered to see the image in its glory and celebrate its return. Storytelling and music ushered in the peaceful event. The event ended with a ribbon cutting of the sign.
Graffiti to some and artwork to others, the original material was a microwave reflector painted over and over again right outside of town. In 2001 the sign was disassembled - each piece separated and preserved until they could be reunited again.
Jim Parker, Jeannette Rankin Peace Center member, told the audience the story of the peace symbol, and spoke with MTN News.
"For many people who grew up in Missoula in those days, they'd always come home and they knew they were home and they'd look up into the hills and see the peace sign," Parker said.
Now, it's a 24 foot high permanent art installation for all to see.
"Over the years, peace activists, veterans for peace, and all sorts of folks from all walks of life have found something important for them about having that peace sign over their shoulder protecting our Valley," Parker said.
To learn more about the "pieces of peace" and its history visit the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center in downtown Missoula.


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Legal Biography
Jack Sammons As Therapist, Jospeh Vining Jan 2015
Jack Sammons As Therapist, Jospeh Vining
Jack Sammons is well known as a pioneer in making the practice of law a field of academic study and teaching. He is also an original and penetrating analyst of law as such. This essay comments on his recent work, especially his putting the way we understand law and the way we understand music side by side and drawing out the parallels between them. Many will find his work a revelation.
The Imagination Of James Boyd White, Lee C. Bollinger May 2007
The Imagination Of James Boyd White, Lee C. Bollinger
For several decades, James Boyd White has been a unique voice in the law. It is a voice of extraordinary intellectual range, of erudition and of deep commitment to a life of self-understanding and of humane values. His point of access is language - all language, in every context. Armed y a lifetime of thought about words, he justifiably has regarded no field or discipline or communicative activity as foreign and outside his ken. Whoever reads him must feel his sense of intellectual empowerment that our world, sectioned as it is by expertise, would deny us.
Educative Friendship - A Personal Note, Jeanne Gaakeer May 2007
Educative Friendship - A Personal Note, Jeanne Gaakeer
In 1992, when I started my doctorate research in the interdisciplinary field of Law and Literature, The Legal Imagination was one of the first books I read. To European eyes, it was a most unusual book since in continental legal theory in those days, the Anglo-analytical tradition was predominant, and French deconstruction had for some time been the up-and coming stream. Fascinated as I became with Professor White's works, I decided to try to get in contact with him in order to ask him about the genesis of his ideas. So much for the dangers of the intentional fallacy ...
Speech, Silence, And Ethical Lives In The Law, Robin West May 2007
Speech, Silence, And Ethical Lives In The Law, Robin West
As his many appreciative readers know, James Boyd White brought his learning to bear on the relation between ethical living and ethical speaking, and particularly as it pertains to how we live and speak in law. His prodigious writing, teaching, and speaking career, as far as I can tell, was motivated by a singular, passionate belief: that the human capacity for language can and should serve as a bridge from mind to mind and spirit to spirit, so that we might cohabit the earth not only peaceably, but with the pleasures and grace of each other's company. Language, White ...
Interview With James Boyd White, James Boyd White Jan 2007
Interview With James Boyd White, James Boyd White
The occasion of the following interview was the Montesquieu Lecture at the University of Tilburg, which Professor James Boyd White delivered in February 2006. In the lecture, entitled "When Language Meets the Mind," Professor White discussed the manner of interpreting and criticizing texts, both in the law and in other fields, that he has worked out over his career. The heart of this method, as described in the lecture, is to direct attention to three sets of questions: - What is the language in which this text is written, and the culture of which it is a part? How are we ...
A Teacher, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 2007
A Teacher, H. Jefferson Powell
James Boyd White is, above all, a teacher. Of course, that is in fact an inexact statement: Jim White is many things, some of them of greater or more central human importance - husband, father, friend, person of faith. But in this essay my concern is with Jim as an academic, and in that context I believe the title teacher captures best his goals and his achievement.
Focus On Faculty - Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Rebecca S. Eisenberg Jan 1998
Focus On Faculty - Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
As a teenager, I had a passion for studying foreign languages. I loved immersing myself in an unfamiliar idiom, struggling to make sense of another system for parsing words and sentences to describe experiences and observations. I reveled in subtle differences in the meaning of words that were sometimes, but not always, equivalents in translation. Most intriguing of all were the occasional insights I gained into the limitations of my own language when I recognized that a foreign locution simply has no English equivalent.


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More Responsible Use of Workforce Data Required to Strengthen Employee Trust and Unlock Growth
DAVOS, Switzerland –Business leaders will need to implement responsible workforce data strategies if they are to build the employee trust that will help generate sustained revenue growth, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE:?ACN).
The Accenture Strategy report, "Decoding Organizational DNA," is based on qualitative and quantitative research, including global surveys of 1,400 C-level executives and 10,000 workers across 13 industries.
Among the key findings for the UK: While more than six in 10 C-level executives (62 percent) said that their organizations are using new technologies to collect data on their people and their work to gain more actionable insights—from the quality of work and the way people collaborate to their safety and well-being—fewer than one-third (29 percent) are very confident that they are using the data responsibly.
In addition, half (50 percent) of workers think that the use of new sources of workforce data risks damaging trust, and 61 percent said that recent scandals over the misuse of data makes them concerned that their employee data might be at risk too. The good news is that 89 percent of workers are open to the collection of data on them and their work, but only if it improves their performance or well-being or provides other personal benefits. More than five in 10 workers (57 percent) would exchange their work-related data for more-customized compensation, rewards and benefits, and 53 percent would do so for more customized learning and development opportunities.
The report shows that, globally, US$3.1 trillion of future revenue growth is at stake for large companies, depending on how their workforce data strategies affect employee trust. Companies that put in place responsible data strategies could see revenue growth up to 12.5 percent higher than that of companies that fail to adopt responsible data strategies.
"At a time when companies are using newly available workforce data to drive greater value, responsible leadership is the key to building employee trust," said Ellyn Shook, Accenture's chief leadership and human resources officer. "Trust is the ultimate currency — it's the path to innovation and fuels growth by unlocking people's potential."
The response of business leaders to the workforce data challenge varies widely. One-third (33 percent) of the surveyed executives said they are holding back from investing as much as they would like in workforce data-gathering technologies due to employee sensitivities, while approximately the same number (35 percent) are investing anyway and figuring out how to do it responsibly as issues arise.
"Business faces the same digital trust challenge for employees as it does for consumers. Using workforce data can unlock value for businesses and their employees, but needs to be approached responsibly, for mutual gain and with the goal of building trust," says Andy Young, who leads Accenture Talent & Organization practice in the UK and Ireland. "Yet our research shows many executives and HR teams are unclear on how to handle workforce data and only just starting to get to grips with how to establish digital trust. To build digital trust with workers, there are proactive steps leaders can take. For instance, by sharing accountability for workforce data and giving employees greater control and visibility. Our research shows employees are open to their data being gathered and used when the purpose is clear and mutually beneficial."
A Framework for Responsible Use of Workforce Data
To help ensure that employees' concerns are met, Accenture recommends the following framework for the responsible use of workforce data:
Give Control. Gain Trust. By giving employees far more control over their own data, organizations will not only gain their employees' trust but also benefit from a greater flow of workforce insights with which they can improve performance. 70% of employees surveyed want to own their work-related data and take it with them when they leave their jobs — and nearly half (48 percent) of C-level executives are open to allowing them to do so.
Share Responsibility. Share Benefits. To create benefits for all, leaders must share responsibility across the C-suite and involve employees in the design of workforce data systems. Today, just over one-third (35 percent) of businesses co-create data system designs with employees, although one-third (31 percent) plan to do so.
Elevate People. Use Tech Responsibly. Companies need to use artificial intelligence and other technologies to provide employees with more growth opportunities and improve fairness and diversity. 77% said that having reliable data gathered by new technologies will improve fairness in pay, promotions and appraisal decisions.
"Trust has evolved from a "soft" corporate issue to a quantifiable metric with bottom line impact on revenue, EBITDA and, ultimately, growth through competitive agility," said Mark Knickrehm, group chief executive, Accenture Strategy. "Today's leaders must put employee and consumer trust at the heart of their business strategies with a clear actionable plan to get it and keep it."
Investors and Boards support CEO Action on Global Challenges
Decarbonization, Digitization and Decentralization are accelerating the countdown to a new energy world faster than expected
Creating a more Inclusive and Diverse Energy Sector
Historic global treaty to end violence and harassment at work agreed
Program for Israeli Startups Targeting Tech Inflections
The Private sector must take urgent action to stop the Deterioration of Ocean Health
Study finds LGBT workers feel less supported at Federal Agencies
EY Global FinTech Adoption Index Finds Over Half of Global Consumers Use Fintech
Promoting Women's Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
Opening new doors to Indigenous employment in the tech industry


The ADeXI Framework™ is a systematic process I've developed to help my clients consistently and repeatedly assess, design, execute and improve a best in class project portfolio management processes, and to make the most of their constrained resources and budgets. The framework is based on my 20+ years of experience in project portfolio management and is aligned with industry best practices. The framework is based on what I have observed that works in the real world, and what does not. I've attempted to include in the framework only elements that I have experienced that have had a marked improvement on my clients, and I've removed any unnecessary processes and tools that have not added value. Below is an outline of the framework.
Implementing the Project Portfolio Management design in increments the organization can absorb. No big bang approaches; they don't work.
Are you challenged with identifying which areas of your PMO to improve first? Are you struggling with identifying the quick win initiatives that will demonstrate to your leadership team that implementing an Enterprise PMO can create real strategic value, increase project throughput and deliver project benefits faster? The PMO 360 Assessment helps organizations who are challenged with these issues by capturing your PMO's As Is and To Be State and building out a road map of key initiatives that will provide the greatest value to the company in less time.
"During the engagement, Gerald quickly learnt our business processes and adopted a PMO assessment process to meet our needs. At the end of the engagement, Gerald presented a professional assessment that directly addressed the issues we were facing and provided a road map which included quick win solutions that we could act on immediately."
Project Portfolio Management is the key enabler for an organization to use to execute its strategic objectives and goals. However, portfolio management requires a different skill set, tool set and mind set than managing a company's projects or programs. The Portfolio Management Professional Training course is aligned with the new PfMP certification.
Align a company's project investments with its strategic goals and objectives.
Implement a Portfolio Management Governance program that provides guidance and stewardship over the project ideation, selection, calibration, and execution processes while establishing policies and procedures to effectively manage the company's portfolio assets.
Monitor the organization portfolio performance.
Track and perform portfolio management risk monitoring while optimizing the portfolio to mitigate the risk identified.
Engage stakeholders at all level of the organization and execute a comprehensive communication strategy.
Enhancing its client's programs and projects expertise and management capabilities, which results in increase project throughput and speed to market.
Increasing its client's effectiveness and efficiency through process improvement, which results in a reduction of operational cost to the organization.
Increasing its client's visibility in managing critical resource utilization and availability across the project portfolio environment, which results in enhanced collaboration.
Providing answers to critical portfolio questions through the development of SMART reports, which results in increase efficiency and better decision making at the senior executive level.
Principles of Execution also leverages the industry best practice methodology of Hoshin Kanri to guide its clients through cascading communication and execution activities throughout the client's organization.
Installing, configuring and rolling out an EPM solution is only the first step in creating an organizational view of your company's project investment. Creating an EPM environment that enables global visibility, standardization across projects and insight into organizational resource constraint while engaging user to adopt and embrace the EPM solution is another challenge unto itself.
Enhance project portfolio management capabilities resulting in increased project throughput and speed to market.
Increase effectiveness and efficiency through streamlining your portfolio management processes resulting in a reduction in operational cost.
Improve visibility in managing critically constrained resource utilization and availability across your portfolio project environment resulting in an optimized portfolio that creates velocity in your business.
Provide answers to critical portfolio questions through better portfolio prioritization resulting in better decision making while enhancing senior executive consensus and alignment.
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Carolina House provides leading eating disorder treatment to ensure long-lasting recovery for a healthier and more satisfying life.
Anorexia nervosa: Those who struggle with anorexia nervosa will view themselves as being overweight even though they are not. As a result, they participate in extremely intense dieting behaviors, including limiting their caloric intake, which leads to malnutrition. Individuals who are afflicted with anorexia tend to become fixated on their weight to the point that they will follow a dangerously restrictive diet and weigh themselves continuously throughout the day.
Bulimia nervosa: Individuals with bulimia nervosa participate in both binging and purging. Binging involves ingesting extremely large amounts of food, often at a very quick pace. Purging can include inducing vomiting or abusing enemas, laxatives, or diuretics to rid their bodies of the food they just consumed. Those with bulimia are typically at or slightly above normal weight, and are often afflicted with extreme anxiety regarding weight gain.
Binge-eating disorder: People who have binge-eating disorder tend to struggle with controlling their eating behaviors. In response to their lack of control, they will consume large amounts of food, often very quickly. When in the midst of an eating binge, people who have this disorder may feel as though they are incapable of stopping or controlling their eating. The periods of binge-eating are often followed by feelings of shame, guilt, and self-loathing, which can prompt future binging episodes.
The National Eating Disorders Association reports that a little more than 6% of individuals battle with an eating disorder at some point in their lives. Sadly, those with eating disorders are at a greater risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Those who develop eating disorders tend to begin displaying symptoms at a median age of 12 to 13 years of age.
Genetic: Those with close family members, like parents or siblings, who struggle with eating disorders tend to also battle similar issues at some point in their lives.
Environmental: One's environment can play a significant role in the development of an eating disorder. For example, those who have grown up in homes with family members who were exceptionally critical about their own or other's physical appearance and weight are more likely to battle with an eating disorder. Peer pressure and teasing at school can also influence an individual's chances of developing an eating disorder.


(Noun)	Defense Business Systems Management Committee - The fiscal year 2005 defense authorization act specifies actions that the U.S. Department of Defense must take regarding review and approval of business systems. One of the requirements is that, effective 10/1/2005, funds may only be obligated for a defense business system modernization project with total cost exceeding $1 million after the approval authority designated for that system certifies to the Defense Business Systems Management Committee (DBMSC) that the system project meets specific conditions called for in the act and certification by the approval authority is approved by the DBSMC.
Usage: The Business Transformation Agency (BTA) reports directly to the vice chair of the DBMSC.


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OFFICIAL RELEASE GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hook's Little Mermaid by Suzanna Lynn
Official Release! Hear the story of Captain Hook from his own lips in this Audible version of "Hook's Little Mermaid."
"Hook wasn't always a villain. Discover what leads him on the path of destruction and how the love of a mermaid can change his heart." ~ Hook's Little Mermaid
Captain James Hook was once a good man trying to make a somewhat honest living. He is a pirate, after all. However, after getting word that a boy named Peter Pan played a part in the death of a dear loved one, Hook makes it his sole purpose to hunt down and destroy the fiend.
On his journey for vengeance, the captain encounters many new comrades, including a young girl named Red and a fairy called Tinker Bell, and both push him to reconsider his desire for justice.
The accidental rescue of a mermaid leads him on a whirlwind adventure in Neverland. The journey is not a simple one, considering Pan, the Lost Boys, mermaids, and magic all come into play. After several misadventures, Hook must choose between the possibility of a new life with love and his much-desired retaliation against Pan.
Once everything is said and done, will the captain be able to overcome his need for revenge? Will he let compassion steer him toward love? Or will Captain Hook live up to his villainous reputation?
Hook's Little Mermaid is the back story of Captain Jameson Shaw who most of us know him as Captain Hook. It is an amazing mashup of two great classics Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid. Suzanna Lynn did a flawless job of this. Meshing the stories so closely I could see them being in the same universe. The story takes you on Captain Jameson Shaw's quest to avenge his sons death caused by Pan. Yes Peter Pan!!!. Yes Captain Hook had a son!!! So if that doesn't interest you as much you also get the added bonus of the other part of the story and that is the Mermaids (as in the princess and sea witch) although they do not go by Arial and Ursula. I can honestly say this book was one of the best mash ups I have read in awhile. I love having classic story tales go in other directions but still follow some consistencies of the original story. (Captain Hook and Peter Pan Hated each other for example). Also their is a slight touch of romance . This story takes place completely in Captain Hook's POV which was really cool. Seeing he is a filthy pirate but also so much more. I have a little crush on his character now. Full of twist and turns and non stop roller coaster. Then the ending all I can say is wow and it definitely gave an awesome lead in to the next story and adventure for Captain Hook.
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Resonance launched STaRT in the year 2012. It is envisioned to be a National level bench marking test for students of Class 5th to 12th.
STaRT-2015 was launched on 7th July 2014.
1750 schools signed written consent to conduct Stage-1 test of STaRT-2015 within school premises. More than 3,50,000 students from these schools received registration forms.
1,85,606 students from more than 700 schools took Stage-1 on various dates in September and October 2014.
Answer keys of Stage-1 was uploaded on 30th October 2014 and on 30th November 2014 final result was declared.
Stage-2 test was conducted in more than 50 cities on 7 December 2014 with 14,304 students appeared from all classes.
on 3rd January 2015 Stage-2 test result was declared. Total 200 students from each class and 2400 in total were declared as winners.
Champions camp for students was organised for classes 5th to 11th on 16 & 17 Jan 2015.
A felicitation function was organised in Kota on 18 Jan 2015.
Top 100 Students from each class were invited for Champions camp and top 25 from each class along with parents were invited for felicitation function.


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20 at The Kings
20 at The Kings is one of the grand old buildings of Swindon, located in the middle of Wood Street, one of the oldest parts of the town. By any standards a magnificent place, it offers great accommodation, a centre for functions, wedding receptions, conferences and seminars, bars and a restaurant. The downstairs bars alternately attract Old Town businessmen for lunch and lively young people in the evenings and all can wallow in the sumptuous surroundings of a 19th century inn that has lost none of its old-fashioned grandeur. It still looks as if it might have been the model for one of the venues in a Thomas Hardy novel. Food is served daily, from sandwiches to Sunday Lunch carvery. The menus are created using the freshest produce sourced right here in Wiltshire and seafood from the South Coast. The food is best described as traditional English with some modern twists, providing fresh and tasty food at very affordable prices.
20 at The Kings is one of the grand old buildings of Swindon, located in the middle of Wood Street, one of the oldest parts of the town. By any standards a magnificent place, it offers great accommodation, a centre for functions, wedding receptions, conferences and seminars, bars and a restaurant. The downstairs bars alternately attract Old Town businessmen for lunch and lively young people in the evenings and all can wallow in the sumptuous surroundings of a 19th century inn thatread more
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Thank goodness it's spring in New York. A few years ago we actually had snow in May. My husband tells me that this spring is like the ones he remembers as a child. It started getting warmer in mid-March and continued into April. He hasn't seen this in twenty five years. Makes him happy that the snow is finally gone.
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Very nice 65 square meters apartment on the ground floor, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom with washing machine and terrace, color TV, Video/DVD, radio/stereo.


Never again will all these Saints legends be in one room, so book your place to meet them at a charity dinner at St Mary's in June.
Lawrie McMenemy, Kevin Keegan, Peter Shilton, Matthew Le Tissier and Rickie Lambert are undoubted legends of Southampton Football Club and they will all be in one room at St Mary's in June.
The event is a charity dinner in aid of the Knights Foundation Charity an organisation run by another ex Saint Nicky Banger who himself went down in legend when he bagged a hat trick on his debut for the club back in 1990 in a League Cup tie at the Dell against Rochdale.
The idea is to make this event one that is accessible to the Saints supporters, it is a charity dinner but the dress code is smart casual rather than formal and at £60 a ticket including drinks on arrival and a 3 course dinner it will not break the bank.
This will be a great evening and a chance to not only mingle and talk with thse iconic names in Saints history, but also perhaps a few other ex players who will be in attendance.
It will be an evening of pure nostalgia and will appeal to Saints fans both young and old, taking in Lawrie McMenemy who was appointed manager of the club in 1973, won the FA Cup in 1976 and has been involved at times in various roles both at the Dell and St Mary's ever since.
It will take in the short Kevin Keegan era when the name of the club was on the tip of every football fans tongue in the World, followed by Peter Shilton who joined in 1982 and in his five year spell was considered not only the best goalkeeper the club had eve had, but the undisputed number 1 in the World throughout the 1980's.
Make no bones about it you didn't get much bigger than these two in World Football in the 70/80's and signings of their calibre will never happen again for club's the size of Saints.
Then we are in to the Matthew Le Tissier age, arguably not only the best player the club has ever had, but there can be no disputing the most popular, ask yourself why there are so many young men called Matt living in Southampton these days and there is only one person they are named after, sadly most of the dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters are no longer with us.
The modern age is catered for and it will be 10 years ago this coming August that Rickie Lambert, then although considered one of the best strikers in the lower divisions was little known to the Sky TV Generation arrived at St Mary's, the rest as they say is history, he was the icon and the foundation as the club rose again from it's spectacular fall, no one predicted just how iconic he would become and that he would play and score for England.
So will these five icons ever again be in the same room ? The answer is almost certainly no !
Tables of ten are available, but if you want to come in a smaller group or indeed on your own then that is not a problem, Nicky & his team will slot you in with other fellow Saints fans.
More information on the Knights Foundation and their charitable work can be found via the link below.
And here was me thinking I was the only one who named my son Matt for that very reason!
Children in their 40's & 50's will enjoy this most, there'll be a few of today's youngsters who will say Ricky Wh?


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Letters Crude campaign a sorry statement for us, for world
Post readers
Crude campaign
a sorry statement
Donald J. Trump has become the president-elect of the United States of America.
How did this happen? He announced his candidacy with an attack on Mexicans. And over the course of 17 months, he denigrated anyone who crossed his path, including minorities and women.
With his own words, he identified himself as a sexual predator. Anyone who differed with him was branded a "loser." His campaign tore this country apart, and on Jan. 20, he will officially take office.
What message has this sent to the rest of the world?
MICHAEL BAZ, TEQUESTA
How do we explain
Trump to our kids?
For me, it is a morning of mourning — a very disappointing development. It will be very painful for parents to try to explain to their children that a racist, misogynistic, egotistic, homophobic, self-absorbed, divisive liar has been elected president of the greatest country on this planet. Very sad.
The press was wrong. The world markets collapsed Tuesday night. The world is panicked. My European friends were up all night watching in disbelief and called, emailed or texted me constantly.
VERONICA KARLAN, NORTH PALM BEACH
Trump's America
looks pretty great
I have never been a big Donald Trump fan, but now that he has won the presidency via our "rigged" system, I find myself strangely excited about the future of our country.
Some of the things I'm looking forward to are:
A secure wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, funded by the Mexican government; a huge increase in military spending for both personnel and materiel, coupled with a slashing of federal taxes for individuals and corporations; an annual economic growth rate of at least 4 percent; lowering the national deficit; coal miners going back to work producing clean coal; a Republican health plan to replace the Affordable Care Act; a crackdown on undocumented immigrants; elimination of inner-city crime and poverty; the return of high-paying manufacturing jobs; improvement in all international relations, especially with Russia; new international trade agreements beneficial to the United States; and, finally, the defeat of ISIS.
RICHARD KIRK, LAKE WORTH
People still have
the real power
The demonstrators should have been getting the vote out before Trump was elected. It's too late to stop him from becoming president now.
It's not too late to control him, however. I am going to start a method that doesn't function within the system. It's been successful for over a hundred years and it works. I call it The Peoples' Lobby. It's not part of the governmental system — but Wall Street, the corporations and wealthy people have used it and it works great, for them.
This lobby will be different because it's of the people. Anyone can join — Democrats, Republicans, Independents or even socialists.
Lobbies have tremendous power to fix our Congress and control the government, for the people.
Isn't that what our Founding Fathers wanted?
JAMES HAMLIN, JUPITER
Trump's first promise
should be a WPA
President-elect Donald Trump stated in his victory speech that one of his first initiatives will be to rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals.
If so, why not reinstitute Depression-era programs like the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps?
The war on poverty has cost $22 trillion, three times more than what the government has spent on all wars in American history. Federal and state governments spend $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars on welfare program annually.
Many people argue able-bodied people who choose not to work should not receive welfare, but if benefits were to be made contingent on working, then the obvious thing to do would be to provide work programs like the WPA and CCC.
If the government provided a work program that always had jobs available, paying $16 per hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage, with health benefits, it would dramatically reduce the cost of welfare, while redirecting that same money saved from welfare payment towards rebuilding our country's infrastructure. If you want to make these jobs even more appealing, make them tax-exempt, since welfare payments already are tax-free.
These infrastructure projects would, in turn, reduce the welfare tax burden while bolstering the economy by creating even more jobs for the factories and workers necessary to produce the raw materials necessary for rebuilding.
A win-win situation that could set the new administration off on a high note.
BOB MICHALS, WEST PALM BEACH
Third parties must
rise from shambles
A stunned Democratic Party in shambles. Republicans roiled by division. A tea party renaissance. Bernie followers adrift.
Where, now, to turn to address climate change? And Wall Street greed and banking abuses, and crushing student loan debt, and grotesque wealth and income inequality that erodes a middle class? How to get health care for all? Where to look locally if you oppose unrestrained urban sprawl?
I understand that the Green Party of Palm Beach County, shortly before the election, began the process of reorganizing. The Greens, like the Libertarians, provide political choice and can influence policy inside the two big evils.
I expect third parties to field candidates next election.
ROB HORRELL, PALM SPRINGS
Be proud; support
will of Americans
Born in the USA. The Boss said it best. Be proud to be an American. Anti-Trump rallies, I don't get it. What are they trying to accomplish?
I have been fortunate enough to do extensive traveling throughout Asia. I have seen tin roofs, street gutters used as toilets, starvation, lack of medical needs and suffering.
Be glad you live in the USA. Support the will of the people.
ROY SANDERS, PALM BEACH GARDENS
We mustn't become
the ones we abhor
Are we becoming the type of people whom we look at on TV and cringe when things don't go the way we want them to? Looking at the news of late, we see the exact behavior from disgruntled citizens that we abhor in others — riots, destruction of property, disruption of our daily lives.
Though I did not vote for Trump, the fact remains that he is the next leader of our country. We also have to remember that it was not the popular vote that got him in, it was the Electoral College that got him in as our next leader — although it seems unfair to have someone elected that way, simply by the size of the state. Maybe that should be re-evaluated.
Trump's manner and personality are far different from any other president, and that is what is making people angry. Once words are said, they can't be taken back. Putting on a red ball cap doesn't change who he is or fool the public.
Having said that, let's stop making things worse by becoming the same type of people we look at on the news and at whom we shake our heads.
KAREN EISMANN, BOYNTON BEACH


This survey of Gibson's work, which includes 15 beaded punching bags, is stunning.
Kat Edmonson brings vintage jazz pop, two local writers talk about their new books, and Bergman movies come to SAM.
A Seattle comedian, a German synth-rocker, and a gesture-centric art show.
Gruff Rhys plays Barboza, Scarecrow Video turns 30, and Indian royal art lands at SAM.
Art, as it turns out, can be found amongst candied red beans and beet root whipped cream. Scoop up the treat now through August 7.


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Cluain Tarbh Attempt to Break GAA World Record
Dublin football star Jack McCaffrey - a.k.a. Brian Ború - will lead the charge by CLG Chluain Tarbh in an attempt to set a new world record for the largest Gaelic Football training session.
The attempt on Monday May 5th which takes place at Áras Chluain Tarbh on Seafield Road is timed to start at 10mins and 14secs after 4pm. It forms part of the Battle of Clontarf Brian Ború Millennium Celebrations with RTÉ sports presenter Damien O'Meara, host of 2FM's 'Game On' performing the master of ceremonies role.
Clontarf GAA has evolved into one of the biggest clubs in Dublin, with the Saturday morning nursery in St Paul's College catering for in excess of 400 boys and girls each week from the ages of four to eight.
The club has produced inter-county players at minor, Under 21 and senior level for Dublin: our current female county players feature Sara Fagan and Caoimhe O Connor ( U/14) Katie Murray (Minor) and Sarah Mc Caffrey and Margaret Mohan (Senior); our county male stars are Andrew Foley, Stephen Russell and Declan Monaghan (Minor) and last year's Young Footballer of the Year Jack McCaffrey (Senior).
Clontarf has a very strong juvenile section, highlighted by the club's victory in the Dublin Under 15 'A' football championship in 2013.
Clontarf is aiming to set a new world record for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records. The event is open to everyone, you don't need to be a member of the club and you don't need to have any experience! We look forward to welcoming lots of people from Clontarf and adjoining areas on May 5th.
Anyone who would like to join Brian Ború and participate in the event, or find out more about the world record bid, please contact Brian O Callaghan (0868256415), or at brianeastcoast@hotmail.com.
You can also follow on Twitter.com/ClontarfGAAClub and Facebook.com/ClontarfGAAClub for updates on the event