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James retired on 28 February 2019. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.
In 2011 James became a member of the Lords Select Committee on Communications, and he was subsequently appointed spokesman for the Church of England on media issues. In 2019, he chaired the independent inquiry into the malpractice by surgeon Ian Paterson.
On 23 February 1993, James was consecrated a bishop by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service at Westminster Abbey. He was the Bishop of St Germans in the Diocese of Truro from 1993 to 1999. Since 1995, he has been a member of the General Synod of the Church of England and since 1999 the 71st Bishop of Norwich. He was installed at Norwich Cathedral on 29 January 2000. In 2004, James became a Lord Spiritual and to sit in the House of Lords. Since 2006, he is also a member of the Archbishops' Council and Chair of the Ministry Division, Church of England. He chairs the BBC's Standing Conference on Religion and Belief.
James has been married to Julie Anne Freemantle since 1978. They have two surviving children; another died in infancy.
James was ordained deacon at Michaelmas 1975 (21 September) and priest the next Michaelmas (26 September 1976), both times by Douglas Feaver, Bishop of Peterborough, at Peterborough Cathedral. He was assistant curate of Christ the Carpenter Church, Dogsthorpe from 1975 to 1978. From there he moved to Christ the King, Digswell, from 1979 to 1983, became a member of the Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry in 1983 and held this post until 1987. Between 1983 and 1985, he was Selection Secretary and Secretary for Continuing Education and between 1985 and 1987 Senior Selection Secretary. He was Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1987 to 1993.
James was born in Bideford, Devon, the son of a priest Lionel James and his wife Florence. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School, the University of Lancaster, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1972, the University of Oxford, where he received a diploma in theology in 1974 and Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford.
Graham Richard James (born 19 January 1951) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Norwich in the Church of England from 1999 to 2019.
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Learning from Role Models: Category 5: Workforce
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Baldrige Criteria Blog Series
In this blog series, we are highlighting some of the learning (successful strategies and programs) shared by Baldrige Award recipients to highlight the categories of the Baldrige Criteria and how your organization might consider using them as inspiration.
Part of the purpose of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-107) is to disseminate information about the successful strategies and programs of Baldrige Award-winning organizations that "practice effective quality management and as a result make significant improvements in the quality of their goods and services." Such sharing by Baldrige Award recipients is done at the Quest for Excellence® Conference, as well as at the Baldrige Fall Conference. Baldrige Award recipients also often host sharing days after their wins to share best practices.
What is Category 5?
Category 5 of the Baldrige Criteria covers your organization's workforce.
Category 5: Workforce
This category addresses key workforce practices—those directed toward creating and maintaining a high‐performance environment and toward engaging your workforce to enable it and your organization to adapt to change and succeed.
Category 5 asks about your workforce capability and capacity needs, how you meet those needs to accomplish your organization's work, and how you ensure a supportive work climate. You are also asked about your systems for managing workforce performance and developing your workforce members to enable and encourage all of them to contribute effectively and to the best of their ability.
Baldrige Award Recipient Best Practices
Following are some practices shared by Baldrige Award recipients (Adventist Health White Memorial, Howard Community College, and Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund) in the realms of workforce capability and capacity, support, engagement, performance development, and learning. What could your organization learn/adapt?
Adventist Health White Memorial
2019 Baldrige Award Recipient, Health Care
In alignment with its community-based vision, Adventist Health White Memorial (AHWM) ensures health, wholeness, and hope by focusing on people.
For example, in addition to programs to support community members (e.g., employing a former gang member to serve as a 24/7 gang liaison, raising more than $1 million through annual employee giving, and offering literal "showers of hope" for homeless community members), AHWM ensures that its clinical staff are supported and retained.
Credit: Adventist Health White Memorial
Over nearly two decades, AHWM has worked closely with its partners in the Hispanic-majority community to train local residents in nursing. AHWM's Health Careers Pathway Partnerships with local high schools and colleges provide mentorship opportunities through hands-on activities, leadership development programs, and community service projects. Almost half the nursing scholarships awarded since 2018 went to residents in AHWM's impoverished service area, resulting in a nursing staff that reflects the demographics (including culture and preferred language) of the community. Of more than 224 local trainees since the year AHWM won the Baldrige Award, 100% received registered nurse licensing, 70% pursued advanced degrees, and 90% stayed at AHWM for more than three years.
Associate retention is part of a five-year core strategy called Business Transformation. To support ongoing retention, an Engagement Council monitors associate retention data (in measures of capability and capacity) and shares best practices among departments. In addition, a culture of empowerment promotes shared governance, an evidence-based practice that promotes joint accountability and responsibility for making decisions that affect work, including patient outcomes.
As a result of a focus on retention and culture, performance is at or very near the top quartile nationally for physician engagement factors, including for highly satisfied patients, according to a third-party physician engagement survey. In addition, AHWM's medical resident retention rate has increased consistently at levels better than competing, regional hospitals since 2014, from 6% in 2014 to more than 40% in 2019.
2019 Baldrige Award Recipient, Education
Credit: Howard Community College
For 11 years in a row, Howard Community College (HCC) has been named a "Great College To Work For" (GCTWF) by the Chronicle of Higher Education based on employee ratings of collaborative governance, compensation and benefits, confidence in senior leadership, diversity, facilities, security, professional development, respect/appreciation, and work/life balance. This is not an easy feat, as HCC is one of only two community colleges in the nation to be recognized as a GCTWF in every year possible.
HCC says this honor was accomplished by crafting and nurturing its workforce through
Capability and capacity planning (e.g., through multi-year staffing plans, cross-functional teams, and robust surveys),
Recruitment (e.g., through local, regional, and national searches),
Onboarding (e.g., through new employee info sessions, a buddy system, and a three-year development program for new faculty),
Focusing on the drivers of engagement (e.g., through a merit system, 360-degree feedback, and faculty MAPs), and
Refining and improving the drivers of engagement (e.g., through professional development, faculty mentoring, and professional learning communities).
In alignment with nurturing the workforce, processes are reviewed for continuous improvements and have resulted in the college adding behavioral interviewing training for supervisors, a new initiative to measure the engagement of minority employees, and a new employee web page. As a result, HCC's overall turnover rate—defined as the number of full-time workforce employees who leave the college because of resignation, retirement, dismissal, or reorganization—was 6% better in the year it received the Baldrige Award than the Bureau of National Affairs annualized national rate.
In addition, the college's effort to increase diversity in the employee applicant pool by targeting advertisements and announcements to minority-specific groups has resulted in a minority draw rate 3% higher than the minority population of the area it serves. In fall 2018, the percentage of minorities among full-time faculty was 28.4% and among administrative/professional staff was 31.9%--both the highest figures since records have been kept.
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
2019 Baldrige Award Recipient, Nonprofit
Credit: Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Performance management is just one of the 10 drivers of employee engagement for which the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) equals or outperforms the top 25% on a national survey; other drivers for which IMRF excels are empowerment, culture, customer focus, rewards and recognition, co-worker relationships, department relationships, company potential, manager relationships, and senior manager relationships.
One of the ways that IMRF supports high performance is through its six-step Performance Management System, which also leverages compensation, reward, recognition, and incentive practices.
Clarify expectations: Expectations for high-performance are communicated through job descriptions and performance standards. Standards are aligned with customer and business requirements such as accuracy and timeliness.
Evaluate performance: Part of mid-year and annual reviews is goal accomplishment, which is aligned with action plans and set to achieve top-decile performance.
Provide feedback: Feedback is aligned with the Leadership Scorecard and action plan performance measures. Voice-of-the-customer surveys provide another source of feedback to coach/train staff. As part of feedback and to reinforce intelligent risk taking, staff suggest improvements and participate in strength-weakness-opportunity-threat analyses.
Recognize performance: Recognition is provided through "Kudos" awards, as well as town hall meetings, service anniversary celebrations, staff emails, and newsletters.
Appraise performance: All staff receive a written performance appraisal that includes an evaluation of performance for the past year and goals for the next year. New hires receive a written appraisal at three months, mid-year, and annually. Appraisal forms are aligned with the key results areas of the Strategic Plan and Leadership Scorecard.
Compensation: Since 2015, IMRF has been using a methodology to assess the compensation level of non-exempt staff based on years in role relative to the mid-point. This evaluation is completed annually to ensure appropriate placement within the salary range and helps to maintain internal equity.
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Leslie Palmer, wife of Seventh Metro Baptist Church pastor Ryan Palmer, prays for community members June 7 outside the church building in Baltimore as part of the Southern Baptist Convention outreach initiative Crossover Baltimore. The church, where legendary SBC missionary Annie Armstrong was baptized, relaunched on Sunday, June 8, after the evangelistic events on Saturday.
BALTIMORE, Md. (BP) — Dante Carter wanted Crossover Baltimore to communicate compassion to the hurting people he often encounters in the city.
Joined by volunteers from Clark-Venable Baptist Church in Decatur, Miss., First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Va., and Baltimore's Towne Baptist Church and Canton Baptist Church, Northeast Baptist hosted a block party. The event included a presentation by a group of professional Christian athletes called the Strength Team and drew residents from the surrounding row houses.
Mother and son joined six other people from the audience who came forward as Northeast Baptist pastor Bill Higgins lead the group in prayer. During the church's week of community outreach another nine people came to faith in Christ.
At many of the Crossover Baltimore sites seminary students were putting into practice what they had received training for earlier in the week — the "3 Circles: Life Conversation Guide." The guide is a new resource from the North American Mission Board.
One of the venues where seminary students served was the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware's Collegiate Ministry beach volleyball tournament held at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
"We as Christians should be witnessing to those who are not," Carter said.
After being provided with everything from free groceries to free clothing, lunch and more, one particular Baltimore man had a natural next question — why? Pastor Hal Kitchings, who planted The Bridge Church in Memphis, Tenn., was ready with an answer.
Kitchings then prayed with the man and connected him to Captivate. Community Day, staffed by more than 300 volunteers from Georgia and Baltimore, included gifts of groceries and clothing, light medical and dental care, entertainment and lunch. It is one of five such events that Southern Baptists from South Georgia are spearheading in major cities around North America. The first of those events — all designed to serve the community and aid new church plants — was held in Memphis in partnership with Kitching's church in the spring.
Saturday was marked on Cornelius Woodson's calendar. It brought the chance to get out of the house and practice his favorite sport. Woodson, 7, of Parkville, Md., took third base at Hamilton Little League Park.
"This is really the first time our church has reached out to this community in this way," Parkville Baptist pastor Kurt Wesolowski, who began leading the church eight months ago, said.
Stephen Arrington, outreach pastor of First Baptist Monroe, said the day's events are important for the mission of local churches.
"I'm out here because this community needs to know that we are in this community and that we care about the people here," Colonial Hills member Will McClamb said.


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March 2, 2010 in Discussion
Is anyone going to be playing this on PC? Co-op looks all manner of amazing fun but I don't have any friends who're PC gamers
or any friends, come to think of it
moosegrinder
I reckon I'm going PC, do I have you on Steam?
I doubt it, I don't know what my Steam name is! I'll find out. I didn't realise there was a Steam subforum
It's whatever you use to log in with. Mines evildeve, add me up
Vaya.
Username- Vaya. join the rllmuk group on steam!
I'm on Steam, hit me up on mubblegum if you fancy - pre-ordered the Steam version ages ago.
The comic part 1 is awesome - they're fantastic at marketing - it's just left me more excited and eager to release (and part 2)
The first 7 minutes of coop...
Sorry. Now we all have to resist clicking
(and I've broken the link on purpose so it doesn't show embeded! Now you know the youtube code anyway)
Surprisingly spoiler free, (it's basically the tutorial) but as there's not long left until the game hits, it's probably not a good idea for those who've avoided all media to watch it.
Some interesting info about the co-op,
hub-world
Not really a spoiler, just being overly cautious.
So I'll probably get it on Steam but ideally I'd like a demo which everybody seems to be hinting at. Not because I'm not sure if the game will be good - just not sure if it will run on my set up...
God it looks fucking amaaaaaazing.
ive added a few of you guys on Steam - so if you get requests from punchmans9000 don't worry.
Some quick q's.
Is co-op online only or is there local too? Is the co-op a separate game to the single player and any ideas on rough length?
I really enjoyed the first portal, especially because it was the perfect length but i do worry with portal 2's darker tone and talk of expended game time it might not be quite as fun as the original.
If I'm remembering right Valve said that solo and co-op will both contain 6 to 8 hours each.
I've been putting all this in the HL3 thread (out of optimism more than anything else...) but the Valve ARG has kicked up some cool concept art and music from Portal 2. Here's the tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otTiphQHGY
And here's all of the concept art
Yoshimax
I saw an advert for this on TV last night.
To say I was surprised (pleasantly) would be an understatement.
I just pre-ordered this from Game for £30.49 with triple reward points, which I thought was quite decent. I'm not one for the overarching Valve universe, but I am looking forward to more brain bending portal craziness.
V3zna
I just pre-ordered this from Game for £30.49 with triple reward points, which I thought was quite decent.
I've went for this as well. Seems like a decent deal from Game for once.
JPR
Just used built up reward points for the £2.50 off or are there any codes? Annoyingly I've £2.45 in reward points.
Grobbelboy
This Dutch website states that the release is this thursday. Let it be true
This Dutch website states that the release is thursday next week
HeyMykie
For any Yanks in the building.
Amazon by far has the best deal. 5 dollars off if you pre-order and a 20 dollar gift card to match.
54.99 + 20 GC = Amazing
Just reward points in my case.
Suspected as much, thanks. I do wonder about the release date as well, most sites still seem to have it as next Thursday or Friday yet Steam says Tuesday, don't know if it's just a case of people not updating the sites yet.
Valver
So did the rumour of cross platform play and "buy it on PS3, get the Steam PC version thrown in for free" come true do we know?
I want this on PC, but Im happy to pay a few more quid if I can grab the PS3 version and get the PC version gratis too (I do have a PS3!)
Game.co.uk and Amazon dont seem to mention it...
In addition, those who purchase Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 may unlock a Steam Play (PC & Mac) copy of Portal 2 at no additional cost by linking their PSN and Steam accounts.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/portal-2-on-ps3-features-cross-platform-chat-multiplayer-and-a/
PS3 pre-order get!
Something people need to be aware of.
When you buy a game on Steam, you register it on Steam. It ties to your account across multiple platforms.
So I assume, when you buy the PS3 version of Steam, you aren't getting two different versions, you simply register 'Portal 2' to your account, and it shows up on PC, Mac and PS3.
So, any attempt to 'buy both and sell the PS3 version on' etc won't work, I wouldn't have thought. It would be like trying to buy Portal 2 on PC and 'sell the Mac version on'.
I imagine there will be a unique CD-key in the PS3 version which you redeem on PSN while linking to Steam.
You'd get the PC version to play online with then, but the CD key is then used up, so the next purchaser (if I traded the PS3 disc) just gets the single player experience only
I also dont expect that you can play the PS3 version co-op against the free PC version - as Steam will detect you logging in twice and lock out one version temporarily.
I'm very very worried that the PS3 version will be tied to the account and will require you to be connected to PSN to verify it on boot up, like DC Universe Online.
Yavimaya
Pre-ordered this, at long last. The adverts have been brilliant and I really can't wait for the release now. Although it does show much much they've given away the original, as I got my free copy for pre-ordering and couldn't find a single person on my friends list who didn't already have it. Had to resort to posting it on Facebook to find someone to pass it along too.


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Three sequence boundaries (SB1, SB2 and SB3) are documented in the Upper Aptian martinioides to jacobi zones of the Lower Greensand Group of southern England. Correlation shows how folding affects only the strata of the lowest depositional sequence, indicating a discrete phase of tectonism in the nutfieldiensis zone/subzone (SB2). No similar tectonic deformation occurs at the sequence boundaries above or below. The regional features of this unconformity surface demonstrate that tectonically enhanced sequence boundaries may be discerned from those of eustatic/global tectonic origin. The tectonically enhanced sequence boundary (SB2) was initially interpreted as a transgressive surface at individual outcrops, but the regional pattern of truncation indicates that the transgressive surface is amalgamated onto a sequence boundary. Comparison of the geometry of each sequence on a regional (basin-wide) scale shows clearly the structural origin to truncation. Correlation of the three depositional sequences is made using their bounding surfaces, and the variable deposits of fuller's earth bentonite, estuarine sand and lagoonal muds between SB1 and SB2 are resolved as time-equivalent facies deposited at the turn-around from sealevel lowstand to transgression. This correlation can be compared to that achieved by two conflicting ammonite zonal/subzonal schemes: the older biostratigraphy suggests diachroneity of the deformed lower sequence, whilst a new zonation shows this same sequence to be approximately synchronous.


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Thursday, July 7, 2011 Jesse Willis Audio Drama, Online Audio
Some stories adapt better than others. I think a straight narration of an audiobook of Daniel Keyes' novelette of Flowers For Algernon would be an easy and natural way to experience most of the story's power. Sadly, that's still yet to happen.
The original story, of course, makes great use of spelling mistakes which could not fully be illustrated in any audiobook narration, but a straight single voiced reading of the story still provides the main thrust of the tale's dramatic technique; we get the grammar of the main character, his account of what his doctors ask of him, and we get what his"friends" think of him.
The film and television versions that I've seen have, with video's visually orientation, have all eliminated much of the very valuable power inherent in the epistolary.
Indeed, as editor James Gunn puts it in his introductory essay to Flowers For Algernon, found in The Road To Science Fiction #4 – From Here To Forever, "Part of the appeal of the story is the comparison of the reader's knowledge to Charlie's, and the ability to see more in Charlie's reports than he knows is there." Once you actually get out of Charlie's head you lose his perspective and lose the unreliable narration.
So I was thinking about all of this as I was downloading a 1991 BBC Radio dramatization, via torrent, from RadioArchive.cc.
I was pretty skeptical of any radio dramatization's ability to convey the story's full power. Now though, after listening, I've come away convinced that it retains much of its power, and offers up a very innovative use of the aural medium. It is actually quite a tricky balance but it totally worked in the way it is put together.
Bert Coules, who adapted the novelette had this to say:
"In 1991 the BBC asked me to suggest some SF material for a short season. I drew them up a list and at the same time put in a claim to do Flowers, which I think is a tremendous story: it completed knocked me out when I first read it as a kid. I was delighted when I got the commission."
In Flowers For Algernon the central character keeps a diary – in fact, the entire story consists of his diary entries. I changed the diary into a series of audio recordings made on a personal tape machine, and interspersed them with dramatised scenes which are mentioned or implied in Daniel Keyes' original but which don't actually appear in the story at all. When you're writing new material like that, the challenge of course is to keep it consistent with the stuff that does come more or less straight from the book.
Flowers posed a particular problem: if you've read the story you'll know that Charlie Gordon, the central character, goes through some huge changes which are brilliantly depicted by the way his diary entries are written: as he develops, so does his spelling, grammar and punctuation. I had to find a spoken way of reflecting the same journey."
I believe he's done a fantastic job with it.
Incidentally, the other plays in that series included: Brave New World, Kaleidoscope, The Midas Plague, The Chrysalids, Space Ache, Who Goes There? and Tiger! Tiger!.
So, like I was saying, if you haven't read the original novelette, I recommend you experience the story that way, as a piece of text, first. If you have read it, then I heartily recommend you try the audio drama. It's a wonderful adaptation with excellent acting and a highly innovative use of the microphone.
Adapted from the novelette by Daniel Keyes; Dramatized by Bert Coules; Performed by a full cast
Approx. 59 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4
Broadcast: September 5, 1991
Source: RadioArchive.cc
The play featured as part of a series of forward-looking productions collectively named "The shape of things to come." Tom Courtenay stars as the intellectually challenged Charlie, who as part of an experiment is offered a "cure" for his low IQ…..First published in The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction's April 1959 issue.
Tom Courtenay ………………… Charlie
Algernon …………………….. Himself
Joanna Myers …………….. Miss Kinnian
Barrie Cookson …………….. Dr Strauss
Ronald Herdman ………………. Dr Nemur
Clarence Smith ………………….. Bert
Nigel Carrington …………. Joe/Donnegan
Auriol Smith ………….. Mrs Flynn/Ellen
Alan Barker …………. Frank/Sherrinford
Adapted by Bert Coules
Produced by Matthew Walters
Recorded Books produced an unabridged edition of the novelized expansion of the story:
By Daniel Keyes; Read by Jeff Woodman
8 CDs – Approx. 9 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Recorded Books
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award-winning motion picture, Charly. In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year. Through Jeff Woodman's narration, it now becomes an unforgettable audio experience.
As mentioned earlier there have been four major video adaptations of Flowers For Algernon (three television movies and on theatrical film): Des Fleurs Pour Algernon (a 2006 French TV movie), Flowers For Algernon (a U.S. TV movie from 2000), Charly (a U.S. theatrical release from 1968) and a live broadcast teleplay that aired as a part of The United States Steel Hour in 1961 (it was titled The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon).
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The growth of disposable income generally improves quality of life and fuels the demand for chilled and frozen food and beverages. Such demand is also affected by changes in consumer habits. Improvements in the standard of living allow more people to eat out. This trend is reinforced by an increase in the number of restaurant chains and the rapid expansion of fast-food networks around the world, particularly in India, China, South East Asia, and Japan. These trends positively affect demand for commercial refrigeration equipment used for the conservation of food and beverage. Over and above the demand generated by the opening of new sales outlets, commercial refrigerators are used as displays, or ice cold merchandisers (ICMs) that offer a platform for visual communication and merchandising, thereby promoting impulse buying and facilitating brand recall. The concentration of populations in major urban centers and the increased participation of women in the labor market contributes to changes in eating habits. One such change is the higher consumption of frozen foods and refrigerated drinks.
Key factors driving growth of the freezer and beverage & wine coolers market include increased consumption of packaged foods and non-alcoholic drinks, growth of modern grocery retailers, and a boom in the tourism industry. With various advancements in refrigeration technology, freezer and beverage cooler products offer energy-efficient consumption and cost-effective energy saving solutions to achieve effective cooling and refrigeration for applications in various end-use sectors.
The market for SEA beverage coolers has been segmented on the basis of product types into beverage coolers and wine coolers. Beverage coolers was the largest segment in 2014, accounting for 58.3% share of the overall SEA beverage coolers market. The wine coolers market is estimated to be the fastest-growing segment, expanding at a CAGR of 7.8% during the forecast period from 2014 to 2022. Due to increased consumption of soft drinks and nonalcoholic cool beverages, there has been massive growth in demand for the installation of beverage coolers across the SEA region. The beverage cooler market is further segmented into beverage coolers and wine coolers. The SEA beverage cooler market was dominated by beverage coolers, with a market share of around 58% in 2014.
Based on the capacity range, the SEA freezer and beverage cooler market is segmented into 500 & above litres, 300 to 500 litres, 200 to 300 litres, and 200 and below litres. The growth of the service and hospitality sectors, including food chains, restaurants, and the tourism industry, as well as a change in consumer habits have led to a rise in the storage of frozen food and food-related products. In order to accommodate increased consumer demand, c-store owners, supermarkets, and other point-of-sale outlets are pitching for higher-capacity freezers, leading to a shift from traditional 200 & below liters to 300 to 500 liters and 500 & above liters capacities. The different door types for beverage coolers are categorized as 4 doors & above, 3 doors, 2 doors, and 1 door. Pubs, bars, and HORECA choose best-fit wine coolers in order to fulfill their requirements, basing their choices on factors such as space and quantity/capacity to hold wines/alcoholic beverages, in order to effectively cater to consumers, including tourists, expatriates, and locals in SEA. At approximately 58%, the beverage coolers segment held the largest market share of the overall SEA beverage cooler market.
By country, Indonesia was one of the largest contributors to the SEA freezers and beverage & wine coolers market in terms of revenue in 2014. Market growth in Indonesia is likely to be largely driven by increased spending by consumers, changes consumer lifestyles, and more locally manufactured freezers, which has led to affordability and competitiveness. This resulted in faster replacement periods and encouraged freezer end-users to have more than one capacity option to serve growing demand. Leading companies operating in SEA in the freezer and beverage coolers market include AB Electrolux, Concepcion Industrial Corporation (CIC), Frigoglass SA, General Electric Corporation, Hoshizaki Singapore Pte Ltd., Midea Group, Sharp Electronics Co. Ltd., and South East Asia Hamico Export JSC. Domestic manufacturers include PT. Royal Sutan Agung (Indonesia), The Cool Company (Thailand), PT. Indotara Persada (Indonesia), and SAMEMAX Refrigeration Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia).
This report aims to provide comprehensive strategic analysis of the SEA freezer and beverage coolers market along with the market size and growth forecast for the period from 2014 to 2022. Key factors driving the growth of the freezer and beverage cooler market include increase in packaged foods and non-alcoholic drinks, growth of modern grocery retailers and tourism industry. With advent of refrigeration technology, freezer and beverage cooler products offer energy efficient consumption and cost effective energy saving solutions to achieve effective and efficient cooling and refrigeration process for various application in end-user sectors.
This research study on the SEA freezer and beverage cooler market provides detailed analysis of freezer and beverage cooler at country level. The study also aims to explain the driving forces behind the rising demand for freezer and beverage coolers in various application sectors. The report also offers an in-depth analysis of various factors such as market drivers, restraints, and growth opportunities affecting the market dynamics. These factors enable the analysis of various trends that would impact the market during the forecast period from 2014 to 2022. This report includes comprehensive coverage of the underlying economic and technological factors under key trends analysis influencing the SEA freezer and beverage coolers. Furthermore, this report intends to provide strategic insights into the ecosystem of SEA freezer and beverage cooler market by value chain analysis. The market positioning analysis of key players, market share analysis by brand and manufacturer sheds light on the prevalent competition in this market. Various factors that affect the growth of SEA freezer and beverage coolers market have been identified in this report.
The report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the SEA freezer and beverage coolers market across product types, capacities and door types. Also, the report provides a competitive landscape of the SEA freezer and beverage coolers market and identifies various business strategies adopted by manufacturers. Under the company profiles section, the report provides an overview of companies operating in the market, strategies deployed by them in the bid to gain competitive advantage, annual revenue generated by them in the past two years, and recent developments. Companies profiled in this report include AB Electrolux, Concepcion Industrial Corporation, Frigoglass SA, General Electric Corporation, Hoshizaki Singapore Pte Ltd., Midea Group, Sharp Electronics Co. Ltd., South East Asia Hamico Export JSC, PT. Royal Sutan Agung, Samemax Refrigeration Sdn Bhd., Sanden Intercool and The Cool Company among others.


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Q: DataDog metric query explanation Struggling figuring out what exactly this thing means in DataDog:
avg:system.io.r-s{app:you} by {host}.rollup(avg,3600)
Why do we use first avg here in case we've already defined one datapoint that is avg of values within 3600.
What the first avg does here?

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first avg controls space aggregation. second one controls time aggregation.

if you have a dozen servers how should those servers be combined into a single line? that is what space aggregation decides. for system.io you coud imagine sum could be more interesting than average sometimes. In this case because are you grouping by host there is only 1 "group" per line, so the space aggregation does nothing.

when you zoom out far enough on a graph, you eventually aren't physically able to draw every single data point for every second measured. Each data point will represent a 5 minutes or 10 minute or 48 hour set of data. How do we decide how to combine all the seconds in a 5 minute window? that is what time aggregation decides. If you are zoomed in close enough (or the data is sparse enough) there is one one measurement per data point, and so time aggregation does nothing.
https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/query-to-the-graph/

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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Story still not done because Christmas stuff overtook me.
It should be up by tonight. Meanwhile go have fun!
Christmas stuff overtook you? GOOD! Let the rest next installment of the story be the Boxing Day post.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let the fires burn bright, and G=D rest ye merry.
I wouldn't complain if the next installment came after boxing day.
When I was a kid, a lot of days were boxing day. I got picked on – a lot – by bullies. Nerd, you know.
Seconded! Actually, Sarah, you're making me feel somewhat guilty; I already have my presents, and probably more than I deserve.
"If I dood it, I get a whuppin'… I dood it!" ?
Merry Christmas to all. Keep on keeping on. You (plural) are appreciated.
The smoked turkey is carved, the sweet potatoes are baking, and the Christmas books have been distributed.
A very merry Christmas to all Huns, Hoydens, lurkers, and Usual Suspects.
Gee. I'm just making Mac-n-cheese.
Omaha Steaks, slow cooker, apple bbq, mac-n-cheese.
Hrmm… Not Hoyden. Not lurker. Hun? Usual Suspect? Or… yes?
Could also see Unusual Suspect, perhaps.
Back during Sad Puppies, "Usual Suspects" was my name for our critics, who were usually the same dozen or so people over and over.
Don't know you well enough, (nor am I bent that way) to call you hun, but you may well be a descendant of Attila, so who knows?
Huns are men and hoydens are women.
Or at least that is how they identify. Those that don't identify as animals, beasts and mythological critters.
Tom isn't here much. He's too busy writing at PJ media.
Orvan, I'm not certain how much confusion you're actually subject to in that comment, but as I don't remember seeing you here that far back, I'll treat it at face value.
About five years ago, I think, either Sarah was compared to Attila the Hun, or the commenters here were compared to the Mongol Horde (hey, I have a poor memory, gimme a break), and thus we took on the title of Hoyt's Huns (and the therm "Hoydens" was brought in shortly after, because the ladies didn't appreciate being referred to as men, or some such nonsense – Runs!). So, despite your not-quite-human countenance, I would say you qualify as Hun.
I figured I qualified as "Hun" (though with some German ancestry and awareness of WWI… well, it's not always positive.. I suspect that's at least part of why Grandpa insisted on the Americanized pronunciation of a name). The 'Suspect(s)'.. well, lets just say there are some things it might be best that no official records exist.
And that was sometime before my arrival here, so thanks for the short history lesson.
In the spirit of punctilious pedantry it ought be noted that Huns references the entire tribe of Attila's followers, and thus incorporates women as well as men. it is not a gender defining title.
Hoyden, however, being defined as "a boisterous girl" is indeed gender limited and distinctly apropos for this lot.
I do wonder, however: what is the correct term for a girlsterous boy?
For myself, that is whether you celebrate the day or not.
Dunno if that be me, but if so, delay alright. Ox slow anyway.
I, too, will be patient, for I have many, many years of practice at being patient. Purty dang good at it, now. Fortunately, only a few days of being a hospital patient.
That's a was. 30+ years ago an ulcer.
And it hasn't recurred? You're lucky!
Heavy doses of Ibuprofen. I don't do that any more.
I had surgery and lots of meds. But I still have reflux and Barrett's esophagus and a 1 mm tumor in my tummy that was extracted during my latest endoscopy. I am old. My illnesses are my most interesting topic. Sigh.
Makes you the hit of the party, no doubt. Keep FIGHTING.
Hospital patient is a special category of patient, as is being the immediate loved one of a hospital patient. I would advise anyone considering a specialization to chose neither of these.
I thought Orthodox Christmas was January 6?
January 6 is twelveth night.
I point out to my students that the Soviet Union had their October Revolution in November – and joke a little that it should have been a sign to everyone else that things might not go well.
Merry Christmas again on January 7 !
Merry Christmas, hope all of you have a great new year.
We're doing Cornish game hens for the two of us (other relatives are scattered throughout the country), and the Martinelli's sparkling cider is chilling. I get my best Christmas present (I hope!) on Wednesday when the bandage contact lens comes off.
Hope everyone had a blessed holiday.
Brother-in-law made his traditional cannaloni. Omnomnomnom.
We've yuled rather well; spousal unit did sustain some sort of back sprain / pull / injury yesterday and missed the annual great-gathering of (almost) all of my granddaddy's family, the seventieth I'm told. Though he passed in 1950 and my grandmother in 1969, we continue. Most of my first cousins are grandparents, and I lost one those this year, a sad first. I didn't sit down to count how many there could have been if everyone who was related came and their spouses, espouses, and dates; quite a few for certain. I saw one new diamond ring on the hand of my first cousin's youngest son's girlfriend, and a few babies under a year (pretty sure I'd already met all of them). We ate supper (the menu ranged from hot dogs to chicken pastry, your choice), and did the Christmas play, and kinda bailed after less than two hours. Kinda quick, but most people had another family gathering afterwards.
Today was just my mother's family, just us nine for turkey and ham trimmings and gifts. The only fly in ointment was an iPhone that had a password put on it when I had had it powered on by the sales rep. My bad; I didn't want to buy one bad out of the box. Recipient bore that well, mostly.
Last Christmas was tame and affectionate. This Christmas was heinously stressful. Christmas *before* last I was in the hospital for a week, plus two dead cats and a totalled car on the date we took to celebrate me getting out of the hospital.
I'll take heinously stressful, kthanx.
Merry Christmas to all of you who have helped me fake sanity this year.
Hey, everybody! Have a Merry Cthulhu Christmas!
And check out ALL the links! The Old Ones will thank you…or something.
R'lyeh: Where all the Old Ones know your name.
Not massive…. so… energetic quantities?
We've found that of all possible holiday meal options, reservations are the easiest ones to make.
We have two out of our three daughters at home in Virginia (third has been going a mile a minute with the disaster response group she works for, and wisely opted to rest up with her husband in Texas). Also have one daughter's best friend from college. Did early breakfast at iHop, went to the movies, than on to a Korean restaurant in Centreville for supper.
Presents? Oh, there were some, but they were gravy. I've already got more than I could ask for, and far more than I deserve.
Oh, I could imagine some kind of Gravies of the World product being sold around Christmastime, bought by the truly desperate, submitted to office gift exchanges, and regifted as soon as possible.
It would probably be displayed next to the Cheeze/Summer Sausage/Cheap Cracker combos.
We had a stray friend over (she works float at several hospitals and happened to rotate up this way for Christmas/New Years). Sib and Sib-in-Law, along with Red 2.0, went to S-i-L's family because there is a new cousin who doesn't travel well yet.
Happy Boxing Day All and Sundry!!
After a weekend party with friends and then a nice Christmas day celebration at my brother's home, lower key than some years with the added happy news that my nephew has landed a new job, it's pleasant to be home today with no commitments on the immediate schedule.
And re the "medical topic insert" stuff above, it is amazing how keeping the conversation away from the various new maladies and medical inconveniences has become so much more difficult. We used to talk about cars and weather and such! But I guess I learned this from listening to my older relatives all these years, so it's not hardcoded – it must be a handed-down cultural imprint.
The turkey carcass has been converted to 26 cups of stock, and, as it's a miserable misting drizzle today, three of those made tomato soup to go with tuna melt sandwiches.
The leftover turkey itself has a date tomorrow with the gigantic spaghetti squash I picked up on sale, to become turkey tetrazzini.


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Kilmarnock 1 - 0 Hibernian: Advantage Killie in third place race after Eamonn Brophy penalty seals win
Eamonn Brophy scores to put Kilmarnock ahead. Pic: SNS/Alan Harvey
Moira Gordon
Published: 16:54 Saturday 11 May 2019
Kilmarnock have made sure that a season that has delivered so richly will crackle with anticipation all the way to the final day.
A comfortable victory over Hibernian at Rugby Park took them back above Aberdeen on goal difference as the two teams battle for third place and the automatic Europa League qualifying slot. But as the capital club demonstrated little fight on the park, off it their manager could not resist a verbal lunge.
Unhappy with the penalty decision that led to the only goal of the game, Paul Heckingbottom obviously felt that the jostling between his captain, David Gray, and Alex Bruce at a corner, did not warrant Andrew Dallas' decision to gift Eamonn Brophy the opportunity to net the decisive goal from the spot. When he passed his former Sheffield Wednesday team-mate on the way into his press conference, there was an angry exchange as the Leith boss called Bruce a "diver" before going on to add: "You can see it's soft. Alex felt contact, went down and the ref has seen it. The ref might have been watching from something before that incident, I don't know."
But neither he nor his counterpart Steve Clarke, who admitted that it wasn't the most blatant penalty he had ever seen, quibbled about the fact that it ensured the better team won.
"We won't be reliant on referees," said Heckingbottom, who accepted that his men had been well off their top level but said that with their league position already determined, there were reasons for the disappointing display. "It would have been harsh on Killie if they'd not won but when it's decisions like that it's down to interpretation. You want consistency, it could go either way."
Kilarnock were the team in the driving seat throughout the match. Having watched Aberdeen leapfrog them with a win over Hearts on Friday night, they needed three points to regain the advantage and ensure that they head into their final fixture at home to Rangers next Sunday simply needing to match Aberdeen's result when they travel to Easter Road the same afternoon.
"We've come a long way," said Clarke, who will consider his future after the campaign ends, with a move back south mooted, while he remains a frontrunner for the vacant Scotland job. "Credit to the players. It's nice to be in the position we are but it's a tough game next week."
Describing the thought of finishing third as "tremendous", he maintained that regardless the outcome of the last game, everyone at the club could be proud of their season.
"We have already achieved so much this season so we go into next week with no pressure and try to finish the job the supporters want us to finish."
It is a measure of the quality and self-belief of the players and management at Kilmarnock that in a game which had so much riding on it, their failure to convert their superiority into more than one goal did not translate into an edgy final spell.
Brophy's 32nd minute penalty should have been one of at least a couple of goals but an inspired showing from Hibs keeper Ofir Marciano, denied them that comfort zone. If nerves were jangling, though, they didn't manifest themselves in an obvious way as Kilmarnock resisted the urge to simply sit back and batten the hatches and instead continued to sniff out a decisive second goal right to the final whistle.
Before the goal there had been a spell of concerted pressure from the home side. With fullback Greg Taylor's cross-cum-shot rattling the woodwork and Chris Burke, who was a thorn in the visitors' side, sending in a corner which was met by Gary Dicker, who forced a stunningly good close range save from Marciano.
After the break Brophy burst onto a long ball but instead of squeezing it inside the far post, he steered it just wide, and the Israeli keeper had to be alert when Taylor also chased in on goal, getting there ahead of the Killie man to deny him a shot and he then dropped low to deny Brophy at the near post.
Hibs 2 - 1 Hamilton: Hanlon winner completes comeback
Hibs had looked impotent throughout but a triple substitution in the 65th minute gave them more bite, as Thomas Agyepong's pace cut them open and forced Bachmann to tip a late drive over the bar.
But if there were jitters in the stand, on the pitch Killie remained composed and the one goal proved more than enough.
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A majority of millennials between ages 18 and 34 were not familiar with candidates running in their Congressional district for the upcoming midterms, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
NBC News/GenForward at the University of Chicago survey conducted between Sept. 21 and Oct. 6 found 59 percent of millennials were not familiar with who was running in their congressional district while 39 percent were aware.
Sixty-six percent of millennials felt like Congress did not represent them, the poll also found.
Additionally, 15 percent of millennials had "a great deal" of interest in following the news surrounding the 2018 midterms, according to the poll.
Thirty-two percent of millennials got their political news primarily from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Over half of millennials felt the Democratic party cared about them, while 68 percent believed the Republican party did not, according to the survey.
One of the survey questions asked respondents whether they planned to vote for a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate for the midterms.
Forty-five percent said they planned to vote for a Democrat, 23 percent for a Republican and 35 percent for an Independent candidate.
A previous poll by NBC News/GenForward in August found that 42 percent of millennials would base their vote on opposing President Donald Trump. Fourteen percent said their vote would be in support for Trump.
The midterm elections will be held on Nov. 6.
The survey had 1,881 respondents. Thirty-six percent of millennials thought of themselves as Democrats, 23 percent as Republicans, 27 percent as Independents and 13 percent as something else.
The overall margin of error was plus or minus 3.76 percentage points.


Presenter: Chris Walker, CEA, Walker Machinery Ltd.
Chris Walker started working in the family business (Walker Machinery Ltd) in 1996 shortly after receiving his diploma from the Institute of Technical trades, Toronto, ON in CNC setup/operator/ and part programmer. Since then he has served as MDNA Canadian Chapter Chairman, Chapter representative to the MDNA board of directors and been an AMEA Certified Equipment Appraiser since 2003. Walker Machinery Ltd. has vast international knowledge of new equipment as they represent lines of machinery from Europe and Taiwan.
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The Horizontal boring mill in today's market place? Obsolescence vs Sought after….


I've noticed quite often lately that when people think about accessibility, it's often in one particular form: making things usable for people who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices. Now, of course, that's not a bad thing; any effort toward making things accessible to anyone with disabilities, assuming it's actually done well, is a much needed improvement.
But as important as this is, it's not the be-all and end-all of accessibility. And yet, so often, I see people acting as if just making things wheelchair-accessible is enough to be considered accessible. I've even seen a number of disability-specific businesses and event planners who, although they took wheelchair access into account, still failed to offer basic accommodations that would've benefited actual people with disabilities.
Remember my BADD post from last year, about the disability advocacy conference runners who failed to actually make the planning process accessible to real people with disabilities? The sorts of things I described there are not rare. They're…all too common, actually.
It's when this isn't the case—when people really do consider more than just a single facet of accessibility—that I'm truly surprised. And I can think of a couple of recent experiences that have demonstrated this to me.
This year, I was too busy and stressed to post anything on Autistics Speaking Day, despite desperately wanting to.
But there's a reason I was too busy: I had just begun my first week of work at a full-time job since leaving graduate school. Yes, even in spite of all the employment challenges I've mentioned in the past, I still managed to find work in this economy.
And it's not just any job; it's a chance to work on something I'm quite interested in. Though my life-long dream of being a contestant on Jeopardy! still remains unfulfilled, I've managed to do something that you could say is functionally equivalent.
And this opportunity wouldn't have been available without plenty of reasonable accommodation—which is exactly what I wanted to write about for Autistics Speaking Day.
A confession to make: I still have trouble with a lot of basic daily living activities.
No, it's not that I can't do them. I've proven without a doubt that I can, having lived in my own apartment for several years. It's just that they're significantly more stressful and overwhelming than they are for your average neurotypical person.
Take getting groceries, for instance. For most people, the steps are basically: Drive to the grocery store. Take as long as you need to get groceries. Get them. Cart them back out to the car. Drive home, and get them back out.
For me, it's more like: Take sufficient downtime to make sure that I can process things when I actually get to the grocery store. Wait for bus. Keep waiting, because it's invariably running late. Catch bus when it arrives. Hurry to get groceries before the next bus arrives, as there's only one per hour, and the routes in either direction are staggered. Also hurry because the fluorescent lights and noises are overloading. Buy the groceries, making sure not to buy more than you can carry in one trip. Keep waiting at the bus stop, because it's invariably running late in that direction as well. Ride the bus back, then cross the street back to the apartment with a bunch of heavy bags in tow.
Is it any surprise I need even more downtime after all that?
Similar issues hold for things like cleaning sinks, between the smell of the cleaning solution and tactile issues (I've found that I can't clean at all without wearing gloves, and even then, stuff often ends up getting under the gloves). Or cooking—I need so much downtime to prepare, and need such a clear head to actually do the cooking, that after a busy day, I'd rather just microwave, eat something raw, or go out to eat. And let's not even get started on laundry—washing and drying isn't much of an issue, but I usually just leave my clothes wrinkly because ironing is so stressful, especially with my coordination problems.
In short: because it takes me so long to handle these daily living activities, and because they're so stressful as to require more downtime, I end up getting less actual work done as a result. And my life would be greatly eased by services or accommodations to make these activities less stressful.
But that's exactly the problem: that I can do these things. Assuming I even could get services to help out with such issues (which is already in question, since I'm over 21, "high-functioning", and have an above-average IQ—but that's something for another blog post entirely), the request might still be denied, since I'm obviously able to do the things I'm asking for help for. Completely ignoring, of course, how much more difficult they are for me than for an average non-autistic person—clearly I can do them, so I don't need even the slightest bit of help, right?
This is closely related to what several bloggers observed on Blogging Against Disablism Day, including Jennifer Fitz and Anne at The Trick Is To Keep Reading. The whole support system is designed with the assumption that because you can do something, you're consistently able to do it, and it's no harder for you than for anyone else who can do it. And if you reveal that you need support for something, but it's later discovered that you can do it—no matter what difficulty is involved!—you'll end up being called a faker.
The following list is based entirely on my own experiences with several recent self-advocacy opportunities that opened themselves up to me. Despite the fact that many of these events may sound like something out of an absurdist comedy, all of the below occurrences are things that actually happened to me in trying to participate in one conference or another.
Require physical attendance at the conference. Do not provide any way for a self-advocate to contribute via the internet, despite the fact that many autistic people find conferences to be sensory overload, and despite the fact that many people with disabilities may not be able to afford or access transportation.
Mention the date of the conference in only two e-mails— one sent a month before the conference, when attendees still aren't sure whether they'll even be attending, and one sent just two days before it. It's not as if people with neurological disabilities have bad memories.
When asked about funding for transportation, give a vague non-answer and let that be all for several weeks. When asked for further details, wait a bit longer, then give a still-inconclusive answer which does not clarify whether reimbursement will occur before or after the conference. People with disabilities can all afford a round-trip bus ride across the state and/or an overnight hotel stay, right?
When a potential attendee asks for directions via bus, suggest using a bus system that does not even cover that suburb.
Hold all communication with the team via conference telephone calls, with no provision for live captioning and no alternative meetings via text chat. When asked about this, stumble and suggest calling via relay.
Continue to suggest that self-advocates contact you via phone for further information even when they have already explained multiple times that they cannot hear well over the phone.
When a self-advocate does call in via relay, talk so fast that the relay operators can't keep up, never identify who's saying what, and never give the 'go ahead' for the relay-using self-advocate to speak his part. Continue talking even when the relay operator says to hold on because another operator has to take his place.
Ignore the self-advocate's other suggestions entirely, such as holding the meeting via Skype (which has better sound quality, avoiding the muffling from regular phone lines) or relaying the important points live via instant messaging.
Do all of these things despite the fact that the relay-using caller has explained all of these issues involved with relay via e-mail prior to the call.
After the first one goes so badly, and a self-advocate has told you as much, continue to hold meetings via conference call with no alternatives.
As another alternative, provide a screencasting feature that allows viewers to see the slideshow and its notes. Make sure it only supports Windows, with dodgy support for Linux and none for Mac OS. Don't actually test it to see whether it even works in Windows as claimed.
Promise to send summaries/minutes of the conferences within several days of the call, to make up for the failure of accessibility during the call. Never actually send these minutes.
Assume that all self-advocates who have been recommended by a particular organization are formally affiliated with that organization in a leadership role, and repeatedly ask them unanswerable questions about that role.
Assume that every national or international disability organization with members in your state has a branch within your state.
Assume that a developmentally disabled person has any sort of remotely comprehensive idea about the extent of disability-related organizations in their state as a whole, and especially about organizational resources such as funding and meeting spaces.
Assume that a self-advocate who has lived his entire life downstate has any clue about organizations and resources that are nearly all upstate, especially when inter-city transportation is so lacking.
Ask an autistic person vague questions like "What has worked in your state?" and "What are the challenges in your state?" with no further context whatsoever.
When a self-advocate e-mails to ask for clarification of these questions, be equally vague in your reply.
However, this doesn't mean I haven't been writing occasional musings elsewhere. Check out my Twitter feed and my Tumblr posts tagged "autism" for my thoughts that haven't been substantial enough to expand into full-length blog posts.
Today is the first of April— April Fools' Day. It's also the start of Autism Awareness Month. An ironic combination, since I know plenty of autistic people who can't stand April Fools pranks whatsoever, and since so many on the spectrum have trouble with untruths… but I digress.
Something I've noticed, as I keep an eye on Twitter searches and Google Reader, is that what counts for autism awareness is… rather shallow, honestly. One particular 'awareness' campaign I've seen referenced a lot lately involves putting blue lightbulbs in one's outside lights, and wearing blue clothing. If I may ask… how does this even indicate that autism exists to someone who doesn't know about it, much less indicate what autism actually is?
And that's another thing. Many of these awareness-raising efforts that I'm finding describe more about the campaign itself than about, well, what they're raising awareness for. At least one site I've seen people linking to describes the awareness campaign in great detail on the front page, but hides the actual description of autism several links deep, below the fold.
Surely I can't be the only one who sees this as a problem?
Honestly, I think we need to move beyond mere awareness. With all the public service announcements and such that I've seen, I'd venture to say lots of people are aware that there's some sort of condition known as autism, that it exists, and that a lot of people have it. But as someone who actually is on the autistic spectrum, I've also noticed that this awareness generally doesn't make people any more clued in about autism.
What we need is understanding of autism—which automatically encompasses awareness as well; if you understand something, after all, you're surely aware of it.
So today is, of course, World Autism Awareness Day.
"The Ugly Duckling" is a story that Andersen himself has admitted was based on his own experiences growing up. And it's always resonated with me as well, as an autistic living in a neurotypical world. Despite all efforts to be accepted, I've never quite felt like a duck neurotypical; I only truly felt free, free to be myself, when I learned of the autism spectrum, when I learned that I behaved and perceived things differently because I was different.
Think about it. How many times do we see autistic people described as broken neurotypicals, rather than as individuals with their own distinct thought patterns and processing styles? How many times do we see people trying to make their autistic children behave like them, rather than letting them exhibit entirely harmless behaviors that just happen to be trademarks of autism?
And isn't it all a bit like expecting a swan to look and act like a duck, when it is, in fact, a shining example of a swan?
Though it may seem a bit strange to think of a fairy tale as a shining example of autism awareness, it does seem as if people could learn a lot about it from "The Ugly Duckling." And it amazes me how many people haven't even considered that analogy.
…which means, yet another Autism Awareness Month has begun.
You all should know by now my feelings about what counts for autism awareness these days; if not, see my posts from 2008 and 2009 to get caught up.
So yes. Once again, I'll be blogging quite a bit more than usual. I'll be monitoring my Google News alerts and Twitter searches, as well as the occasional offline news source, for anything that looks blog-worthy. I'll be writing about autism advocacy and what fellow blogger SadderButWiserGirl calls "autism badvocacy". And of course, I'll be sharing some personal anecdotes to give readers a look at autism from the inside out.