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World Digital Preservation Day in Armenia and Artsakh
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For many years, Calfa has been involved in the digitization and promotion of handwritten and printed documents in Armenian, notably assisting the institutions in Armenia and in diaspora with their digital preservation projects. One of the core purpose of our commitment is to facilitate the access of this written heritage to the general public and simplify the study of these documents, through the development of dedicated tools for specialists. Several institutions in Armenian and in Artsakh are involved in this transition to digital preservation and knowledge sharing, essential for the understanding of the past and present Armenian history. For the World Digital Preservation Day, we choose to highlight some of the ongoing initiatives of our partners in Armenia and in Artsakh, at the very moment when Azerbaïdjan is also working to remove all traces of the Armenian heritage.
The Matenadaran, the largest library of Armenian manuscripts in the world, has engaged in the digitization of its collections, since several years. The digitized manuscripts quantity has now reached approximately 6000 and some digital copies are available online, for instance the illuminated lectionary of king Hetoum II of 1286. In 2015, the Matenadaran opened a research center at Gandzasar, one of the most important medieval center for the copy of Armenian manuscripts in Artsakh. The oldest manuscript kept at Gandzasar dates back to the 13th century.
The TUMO Center in Yerevan offered a workshop on 3D digitization of historical monuments (churches and monasteries) in 2019-2020. They have notably digitized the Ghazanchetsots cathedral of Sushi (damaged by Azeri strikes in October 2020) and the Gandzasar monastery in Artsakh, dating back from the 13th century.
The 3D Models are available here :
Ghazanchetsots Cathedral of Shushi (Artsakh) : access to 3D model
Gandzasar Monastery (Artsakh) : access to 3D model
3D Model of Ghazanchetsots Cathedral of Shushi
The National Library of Armenia and the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia have massively invested during the last several years in the digitization of the Armenian newspapers both in Armenia and in the Diaspora, of the classical literature and of scientific articles. Today, more than 3.000.000 pages and 147.000 digital objects are available for free on their website and their new platform .
Lastly, the American University of Armenia teams have created and been nourishing the Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature (DIGILIB) since 1999. They offer most of the Armenian production from the 5th to the 18th century in digitized form.
It would be impossible to list all the current projects in this field. They all share a core belief that is the conservation, the preservation and the promotion of the national and world heritage. A conference on current initiatives in the field of digital preservation in Armenia and in the diaspora was supposed to take place in November 2020. The Transcaucases Festival has been postponed due to the lockdown of November 2020, we will keep you updated on the rescheduling of the conference.


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Bethenny Frankel is an entrepreneur speaker, reality TV star, bestselling author, and the founder of Skinnygirl Cocktails. While starring on Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City, Frankel single-handedly created the low-calorie cocktail category with the launch of her Skinnygirl Cocktails. She has been named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities by Forbes magazine.
She has had five New York Times bestselling books, including Skinnydipping and A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out Of Life.
Bethenny Frankel is a self-made businesswoman, TV producer, multiple New York Times bestselling author, and mother. Bethenny recently made a multi-year deal with MGM Television and Mark Burnett to generate unscripted television projects that she will produce, representing the shift in the conversation for women. She is the Founder & CEO of Skinnygirl, a lifestyle brand offering practical solutions to women, including the recent launch of the Skinnygirl Jeanswear Collection, which sold out on HSN within its first few hours. Bethenny can be seen as a guest shark on ABC's critically acclaimed series "Shark Tank." She became an instant fan favorite, showcasing her entrepreneurial prowess and gut instincts alongside the panel of investors. Bethenny recently left the popular Bravo series "The Real Housewives of New York City," after eleven seasons to focus more on her daughter, her philanthropy, and her partnership with Mark Burnett. Bethenny has also been named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities by Forbes. Bethenny is always ahead of the curve and identifies and capitalizes on business opportunities.
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From becoming a natural food chef and marketing Bethenny Bakes, her healthy baked goods service, to selling "Princess Pashminas" at house parties and creating the low-calorie cocktail category with the launch of Skinnygirl Cocktails, Bethenny has always identified and capitalized on business opportunities. A true entrepreneur, to further build Skinnygirl Cocktails, Bethenny partnered with Beam Suntory in 2011 to grow her portfolio to include wines, flavored vodkas, and ready-to-drink cocktails. Since the launch of Skinnygirl Cocktails, she has expanded the Skinnygirl brand into a global lifestyle empire, featuring products for women that offer practical and stylish solutions to everyday problems. With the launch of the Skinnygirl Jeanswear collection in September 2018, Skinnygirl has become more than a brand, but also an attitude that helps empower women to lead healthy lives and feel strong, honest and fearless. Some of the many other Skinnygirl products include microwave popcorn, candy, salad dressings, coffee, tea, liquid sweeteners, water enhancers, shapewear, and most recently candles, skin and body care.
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GRAF is a tool to improve the communication and coordination between the spaces of contemporary art in Catalonia. The agenda of those who share their agendas.
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GRAF invites you to be part of the community that allows you to share your programme with the rest of spaces of the platform in order to offer the audience a coordinated and balanced cultural choice.
GRAF is an open, plural and interdisciplinary community of spaces that program contemporary art in Catalonia. They share the same context and contribute to strengthen it.
If you want to be part of GRAF, fill the application form and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible
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Access to the internal organization tool for GRAF's spaces. It gathers the information of all the activities planned for the future or in the process of being programmed. The aim of the calendar is to share this information in the mid and long term, in order to generate valuable knowledge and enable the strategic planning of new activities. The advantage of this is the optimization of resources. GRAF provides direct contact with the rest of GRAF's spaces.
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Bring to light and spread the programme of the spaces in the public access agenda. The agenda offers a quick consultation site of GRAF spaces' programme, proposals from different fields of contemporary art and from all over the Catalan geography. The aim of the agenda is to make the programme of institutional and independent spaces/projects more accessible and to contribute in the development of new audiences, facilitating the transfer between different disciplines.
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Conquest of the useless. Adrià Julià
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Conquest of the Useless, which takes its title from Werner Herzog's book of the same name, is the first retrospective exhibition of Adrià Julià (Barcelona, 1974). It presents a selection of projects carried out from 2006 to the present.
Julià's works trigger very arduous processes of research into the historical, political and scientific regimes under which the successive cultures of the image developed. Based on an experimental understanding of the document close to that of the avant-garde filmmakers or their forerunners in optical engineering, his works adopt languages ranging from photography to performance, from expanded cinema to installations, and they invoke an equal variety of keys for understanding them. Julià operates with procedures analogous to those of the micro-historical tradition, as he rescues aspects that are sometimes anecdotal or neglected by the prevailing accounts and that he uses to address the contextual specificities through which he carries out each project.
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ACTA: haunted by the Telecoms Package
The latst ACTA leak reveals provisions which are reminiscent of the Telecoms Package copyright amendments. But it also reveals that it presses much harder on the liability of the ISPs. Could ACTA make them use deep packet inspection?
The latest document to leak from the Anti-counterfeiting trade agreement ( ACTA ) discussions reveals active negotation over ISP liability.
Option 3, Paragraphs 3ter and 3quater on pages 30-31 reflect concepts addressed by certain of the Telecoms Package amendments. 3 quater reflects the "co-operation" amendment [now Article 32a of the Universal
Services Directive (Harbour report).], that telecoms regulators should promote the co-operation between network operators and the sectors interested in the promotion of lawful content] . In ACTA, this provision is being re-worded as "mutually supportive relationships between online service providers and rights holders"
And it is being extended, because these 'mutually supportive relationships' are to "deal effectively with patent, industrial design, trademark" as well as copyright infringement.... And it is being specified that these could be non-legislative, self-regulatory or voluntary arrangements: " including encouragement of establishing guidelines for the actions which should be taken"
From an EU perspective, it is the extension of the provision to other forms of intellectual propoerty, and the implementation of the provision, that is critical.
3 ter reflects attempts in the Telecoms Package to weaken EU privacy law, which did not succeed, and the recent comments by the European Data Protection Supervisor are relevant here.
Other proposed provisions appear to increase the liabilty of ISPs. Option 3, points i and ii, on p30 could have the effect of making ISPs liable to police their networks because it seems to say that they could be sued if it is a/ technically possible to take measures preventing infringement, and b/ they have grounds to know that an infringement is occurring.
This proposal is very concerning. Its impact on the "mere conduit" provision, would need to be closely examined.
I note that the ACTA negotiators are 'dealing' on the mere conduit provision, even though it is outside the scope of copyright law. ( See also (Option 2 ( a ) i on page 26).
Apart from the obvious concerns regarding the substance and implications, questions should be asked whether the European Commission has a mandate to renegotiate key principles of communications law, such as mere conduit. Note 23 on page 26 is relevant here.
Michael Geist has more extensive analysis of this latest ACTA leak, including the other ACTA chapters and non-EU matters.
The actual leaked document is available online here .
For the full story of the Telecoms Package, see my book The Copyright Enforcement Enigma: Internet politics and the Telecoms Package
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK:England and Wales License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ It may be used for non-commercial purposes only, and the author's name should be attributed. The correct attribution for this article is: Monica Horten (2010) ACTA: haunted by the the Telecoms Package http://www.iptegrity.com March 2010


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Contact the Fool
Thomas Atwood
The democracy of moss
This essay was first published on the website of Fools Mission, a volunteer lay ministry of supportive companionship that I co-founded in 2012.
In the past, I've described Fools Mission as a "radical" social experiment; yet I've recently come to think differently about that language. The original sense of the word radical comes from French and Latin: "of or pertaining to the root, having roots." One possible image is a return to foundational ideas or principles in the past. Another is linear cause and effect. People speak of "root causes" to assign them more weight than peripheral causes, or deceptive causes associated with rhetoric and spin.
My purpose in writing this is to show that that the liberal activism we're familiar with today neglects rhizomatic insights; that is to say, policy and legislative demands uninformed by direct human relationships with the "underprivileged" don't reflect the deeply entangled reality of our situation. Without a fool's sense of the primacy of relationship, our attempts to "fix" social problems through coercion and control will be met with continuing cycles of frustration, burnout, and failure.
Before attempting to tie all of this into a bow, I offer three brief vignettes to illustrate the point:
1. An intake appointment with a lawyer
While it's an otherwise congenial July day in 2016, the interview isn't going well. A member of Fools Mission has been charged with crimes she didn't commit, and we're looking for an attorney to take her case. The stakes are high. If convicted, she will lose her green card and likely be deported. If deported, she will probably spend the rest of her life running from the drug cartel that murdered her father — one of a multitude of rhizomatic causes behind her immigration to the U.S. nearly thirty years ago. She works as a nanny, and the infant child she's caring for lies sleeping in a carrier by her side. I'm on the right, getting a real-world education.
Not all lawyers are sleazy, of course, but this one wears the stereotype proudly. His stocks-in-trade are intimidation, threats, and fear. He conducts the meeting more as inquisition than interview, peppering her with a barrage of condescending and insulting questions designed to set her off balance and soften her up for capitulation, signature, and retainer. "Why did you do THAT?" he demands, in a stunning presumption of guilt. "You're looking at serious jail time," he lectures her, secure in the certainty of his convictions and the inevitability of hers. If we retain him, the prosecution will have a zealous partner, indeed.
Though visibly irritated by my presence, he doesn't inquire into the reason I'm there or the nature of our relationship. As my sister fool will relate to me later, he already knows the answers: I'm white; the baby is white; so, I'm the father of the baby. Quod erat demonstrandum. Why else would a white man accompany a brown-skinned Latina from Mexico? Something is wrong, here. So, he starts directing his cross examination at me.
His next presumptuous question is my final straw. "I won't be answering any more of your questions today, but thank you for your time," I smile at him, as I stand up to leave. His all too predictable response? "Get out of my office!" Authoritarian personalities hate to be beaten to the punch. "Let's go," I beckon to her. Now he's shouting: "If you ever bring him with you to another interview, no lawyer will ever take your case!"
On my way to the outside door, I realize that my haste to vacate the premises is premature. My dear sister fool is still sitting across from him, immobilized under the spell of the man behind the desk. The lawyer's associate is bringing the carrier out of his office, and I ask him whether she authorized him to take charge of the baby. He hands the child over to me without comment. I walk back into the office, collect the beleaguered defendant, and we make our way to the front door before the apoplectic boss can summon security.
2. Same story, different day
As though to punctuate the first event, a week later I find myself invited to another law office to accompany a mother and son—also cherished members of our community of fools—to their own "interview" with a different attorney. The encounter smacks of deja vu. As he reviews the charges against her son, the lawyer wastes no time getting down to the intimidation stage of his interrogation. In response to their plaintive pleas for help, he exclaims, "You're guilty, aren't you?" and proceeds to threaten them repeatedly with the dire consequences of their sins.
At one point in the meeting, he turns to me and blurts out, "You have a look on your face like you don't believe a thing I'm saying!" "You really know how to read a room, Counselor." I reply. As before, my friends remain paralyzed in their seats. Do they think of this abusive treatment as their inescapable lot in life? In their minds, is this just the way the world works? In their experience, probably so. Inexplicably, the lawyer refrains from kicking me out of his office, and continues his torrent of insulting behavior as if it were the only game in town. In his world of patriarchal presumptions, plentiful prey, and obscene threats, it probably is.
A rhizomatic pattern is emerging. My privileged expectations of respectful, professional advocacy from an attorney I might hire to defend me spring from different nodes of the rootstalk, and don't apply to those who struggle with poverty, skin tone, or the English language. Authoritarian personalities encounter these struggles and see only subordinates and inferiors to prey on. As the logic goes, "If domination strategies fail to bludgeon them into working with you, break their spirit so they can't work with anyone." I exit with the family, increasingly uncomfortable with their apparent willingness to consider this guy — and praying that this sort of experience doesn't always come in "threes."
3. An asylum hearing
In April of 2018, another of our privileged fools joins me at a hearing in San Francisco immigration court that will decide the fate of an asylum seeker who requested our accompaniment. Walking with her and her three children has been challenging for us fools. Raised in rural Mexico, the mom didn't have access to a Western education. She's a trauma survivor who's been subjected to unspeakable treatment at the hands of a drug cartel. She's also functionally illiterate, even in Spanish. She's found work as a house cleaner, but has trouble holding down a job because she's unable to communicate with co-workers over text messaging.
Life hasn't prepared her to embrace an organized life, drive a car, or maintain a calendar; so our efforts to offer the family transportation to our meetings are only sporadically successful. Increasingly, when we pull up to their doorstep, no one is home — yet for a time, we manage to connect them with a therapist who was able to provide a psychiatric evaluation for the court. Alexander, Augustus, and Isabella haunt her story as surely as Juan Pizarro, Emiliano Zapata, and Milton Friedman. Is her origin story root-like, or rhizomatic?
Her time with the judge today is what's called an Individual Hearing, where the court reaches a decision on an asylum claim after a series of Master Hearings. They put the mom on the stand for a grueling hour of testimony characterized by increasing frustration for petitioner, judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney alike. The court-appointed interpreter struggles valiantly to help her understand the questions, but she's unable to respond directly. Instead, she repeatedly changes the subject and wanders off on tangents. The prosecutor and judge ratchet down to an excruciatingly slow and methodical pace intended to disclose a single factoid at a time and elicit a coherent story, as only skilled prosecutors can. Despite the absurdity of expecting a trauma survivor to deliver coherent testimony on cue and under duress, I find myself strangely inclined to believe that everyone is doing their best to get a fair hearing on the record. Eventually, her anxiety and stress reach a breaking point and she experiences a moment of confusion about her own children's birthdays.
The judge abruptly calls the hearing to a halt and clears the room, sending us into the lobby so the parties to the case can have a private conference. In about twenty minutes, her lawyer comes out with an explanation of what took place. The court is willing to grant the family time to retrieve school records and photos from Mexico to prove that the kids are actually her children, and a new hearing might be scheduled after reviewing the documents. But the judge's first thought is that she is sexually trafficking the kids, and we privileged fools in business suits are the traffickers. Maybe we're all aliens and perpetrators on this bus.
A rhizomatic social experiment
To have concrete learning experiences like these requires direct personal relationships. When we apply root-like thinking to a rhizomatic world, we reinforce the old stories of ourselves that cast us as solitary, separate root structures in competition with the rest of life in a world of Other. This vision of the world has no future that includes happy or free human beings.
While it may feel easier to avoid relations with vulnerable people whose lives spring from different roots and shoots, our avoidance exacts a price. For one thing, we conduct our advocacy for the "underprivileged" in the abstract. We make easy judgments about people we don't know, aside from arms-length encounters over business transactions. We fail to challenge assumptions that would soon unravel if interrogated by experience.
It doesn't help at all to retreat into silos of privilege. As hard as it is, it's also necessary to confront our own worst prejudices and fears in the mirror of reflection. Frustration, self-loathing, depression and despair can be dogged companions on the journey of an activist, and reflection in community is powerful medicine. It's so easy to underestimate the power of water and sunlight — which fall on the just and the unjust alike — to nourish the destructive roots and shoots in our minds. Authoritarian shoots in the thrall of power and control are weeds; sadomasochistic shoots reinforce the world of pain; necrophiliac shoots persist in the service of all things death. To those who feed these tendencies and project them onto others, anyone and everyone starts to look like an alien or a perp.
Generally speaking, social legislation that aims to protect the most vulnerable members of society is fiercely debated and opposed in the legislature. Well-intentioned policies and rule-making face similar opposition in boardrooms and executive offices. Space doesn't permit me to relate all the stories we've encountered on our journey as fools that illustrate this disturbing truth: our best efforts to create justice are as vehemently opposed in the administrative offices of bureaucracy and service providers as they are in the halls of power. This isn't to say that decent and humane people aren't at work in the system; it's to acknowledge the existence of the rhizomatic reality.
Lawyers are supposed to advocate for their clients; not work for the prosecution. They are supposed to counsel and console them; not demonize them to their face. It would be nice if immigration judges read the psychiatric evaluations of asylum petitioners and took them into account instead of jumping to conclusions. The best efforts of activists to create justice on a state, national, or global level are thwarted time and time again, because coercive actions are soon followed by reaction and reprisal. To misunderstand the rhizomatic structures in play is to ignore an entangled multitude of wounded souls who have more power over that pesky implementation stage than one might imagine.
For fools like us, audacious enough to declare every human being as sacred, the takeaway is clear enough. Until we populate the landscape with many more "fools with a mission," revulsive reactions to solidarity like those described here will continue to be the norm. Quoting Unitarian Universalist minister Molly Housh Gordon:
One way we white liberals fail in our engagement with the movement is our insistence upon policy demands and measurable goals at the expense of relationship-building and personal transformation. I see this at play in white activist circles: a rush to move past the discomfort of individual, embodied relationships into the systems-level work of policy change. The systemic work feels easier, because it is a way to control our unjustly entangled relationships. For example, we are eager to legislate an end to bias in policing, but less eager to police the bias in our own psyches.
Things will change for the better in a world where showing up and standing up for each other in public is the norm. This rhizomatic vision of a human future worth living in calls us to a change of heart. Fools are here to offer water and sunlight to the roots and shoots of love.
Impeachment, illusion, and the Godfather factor
What's all this "Fool" stuff about, anyway?
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By Gray Rinehart | July 12, 2019 - 9:20 am | July 12, 2019 Science Fiction, Writing
Here we go, NC folks! The ConGregate science fiction and fantasy convention runs Friday through Sunday in High Point, with all the usual festivities! It's a small but extremely well-run convention, full of fun and friendly people — plus me! 😂
Here's what I have going on:
1:00 p.m. — "Science Fiction Writer's Showcase"
3:00 p.m. — Open Filk
4:00 p.m. — Solo Concert!
8:00 p.m. — Reading
11:00 a.m. — Open Filk
1:30 p.m. — Baen Books Traveling Slide Show & Prize Patrol
4:00 p.m. — More Music (in the "Cantina")
9:00 p.m. — Panel, "How Much Science Should a Science Fiction Writer Know?"
9:00 a.m. — Prayer & Praise Service
Noon — Open Filk
1:00 p.m. — Round Robin Music Fest
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the Research Triangle Writers Coffeehouse on Sunday, but a friend volunteered to moderate that session so it will go on as scheduled!
Here's looking forward to a lot of fun with my fannish friends!
Tagged convention, fantasy, filk, music, science fiction
By Gray Rinehart | June 28, 2019 - 9:24 am | June 28, 2019 Science Fiction
Take your bourbon shots
And put your Jayne hats on …
It's that time of year again! The fannish family reunion known as LibertyCon starts today!
(Illustration by Todd Lockwood, from the year I was the LibertyCon MC.)
I'll be busy right out of the gate, and tonight is packed:
1 p.m. — Author's & Artist's Alley — come by and chat!
4 p.m. — Autograph Session — again, come by and chat!
5 p.m. — Opening Ceremonies — at which I will sing, so beware
6 p.m. — CONCERT (or, "LibertyConcert") — at which I will sing more, almost certainly including "LibertyCon Oddity" (quoted above)
8 p.m. (until 10:30) — Terraforming Mars — playing the game in front of an audience
11 p.m. — Open Filk — at which I will sing even more, and hopefully other folks will, too!
Noon — Banquet — always a fun time!
2 p.m. — Baen Books Traveling Road Show
4 p.m. — Panel, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Writing Advice" — and remember what free advice is worth …
11 p.m. — Nerd Music Free-for-all — like Open Filking, but nerdier? (is that even possible?)
10 a.m. — Kaffeeklatsch — which for me involves something other than coffee
1 p.m. — Reading — with my friend David B. Coe!
I played my first game of Terraforming Mars last night, and had a lot of fun, so the convention's already started well for me! If the rest of the weekend goes as well, it'll be a fine time. Let's make it so!
Thus Quoth the Raven: RavenCon!
By Gray Rinehart | April 5, 2019 - 7:00 am | April 4, 2019 Music, Science Fiction, Writing
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This weekend I'll be at the RavenCon science fiction and fantasy convention in Williamsburg, Virginia. RavenCon is a terrific convention, run by a great group of people, and I've enjoyed attending and serving as a guest at it for many years.
This year, in addition to a number of panels, I get to play two concerts! Here's what I have going on, if you're curious:
5 pm — Guests Meet and Greet
7 pm — Opening Ceremony
8 pm — Panel, "Music and Art Influences in SFF Stories & Novels" (Moderator)
10 pm — Open Filk
10 am — Concert: Gray Sings Silly Songs! (one of which might be "Tauntauns to Glory")
11 am — Reading
1 pm — Panel, "Purple Prose" (Moderator)
4:30 pm — Baen Books Traveling Slide Show & Prize Patrol
10 am — Concert: Gray Sings Serious Songs (one of which might be "Taking You Out to See the Stars")
Noon — Panel: "Spirituality and Religion in SFF"
I hope to debut a new serious song (that I just finished last week!) in my Sunday morning concert, and I may also debut a work-in-progress silly song during one of the open filking sessions. Should be fun, all around!
Safe travels to everyone who's headed anywhere, and especially to all my fannish friends coming to the con!
Related Items of Interest:
– Enter to win one of several free downloads of the Walking on the Sea of Clouds audiobook by signing up for my newsletter at this link — and check out the audio sample on the Audible site or at Amazon
– Listen to both of my albums for free at Bandcamp — Distorted Vision, and Truths and Lies and Make-Believe — or, if you prefer, buy them there or at Gray's Online Store
Tagged convention, fantasy, science fiction
I Thought I Was Signing Up for Elon Musk's Mars Venture
By Gray Rinehart | January 18, 2019 - 7:00 am | January 17, 2019 Science Fiction
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Alas, it turns out I signed up for an entirely different thing! This weekend, I'll be at the MarsCon science fiction and fantasy convention in Williamsburg, VA.
All kidding aside, I went to MarsCon once before, many years ago — in fact, at a science panel at that MarsCon I was inspired to write my first "official" filk song! It's a fine convention, with a nice mix of tracks and entertainment, and I'm pleased that they're letting me take part in it.
And they're keeping me busy, as you can tell:
5 p.m. — Panel, "Future Laws"
6 p.m. — Opening Ceremonies
9 p.m. — Panel, "Adventures and Disasters in Space"
1 p.m. — Baen Books Traveling Slide Show & Prize Patrol
5 p.m. — Panel, "Was the Planet Killer a Keynesian Stimulus?"
7 p.m. — Panel, "Tech in the Classrooms"
8 p.m. — Panel, "The Delphic Oracle"
10 p.m. — Open Filking
9 a.m. — Worship Concert — songs at the intersection of faith and fandom
11 a.m. — Panel, "Parody Song Writing Techniques"
2 p.m. — Panel, "The Words, They Are a-Changing"
The MarsCon theme this year is "The Land of Faerie."
I look forward to having a good time with a bunch of great people!
P.S. In case you're wondering … I might just have with me a copy or two of Distorted Vision, Truths and Lies and Make-Believe, and even Walking on the Sea of Clouds….
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It's Only Logical that I'll Be at illogiCon
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It's time again for illogiCon, our local Research Triangle, North Carolina, science fiction and fantasy convention, happening this weekend at the RDU Embassy Suites (with some events in the nearby Hampton Inn).
(Professor Schrodington, the illogiCon mascot.)
Here's what I've got going on:
7:00 p.m. — Opening Ceremonies — wherein I will play my "Convention Oddity" cover song
8:00 p.m. — Panel, "That's Just Wrong"
10:00 p.m. — Panel, "I Spy with My Little Eyes"
11:00 a.m. — Panel, "Ground Control to Major Tom" — oddly appropriate
1:00 p.m. — Panel, "Networking for Introverts"
2:00 p.m. — Filk Music Hour
3:00 p.m. — Panel, "What Should We be Reading?"
4:00 p.m. — Panel, "Star Trek: Worst. Episode. Ever."
8:00 p.m. and after — More Filking
10:00 a.m. — Reading (Time Changed from 2 p.m.)
There's no "Baen Books Traveling Road Show" this year, because I didn't realize until too late that I was the only Baen representative and didn't ask for a time slot.
On Sunday, I'll be skating out after lunch to head to north Raleigh to host the monthly Writers Coffeehouse at Quail Ridge Books from 2-4 p.m. All writers are welcome!
Let's have some fun!
– Speaking of filk, listen free to both of my albums: Distorted Vision and Truths and Lies and Make-Believe
– Speaking of reading aloud, watch my Public Speaking Tip: The Value of Inflection
– Speaking of nothing in particular, visit my Online Store
Coming this Weekend: the 'All Types of Media Arts Convention'
By Gray Rinehart | November 28, 2018 - 7:55 am | November 27, 2018 Science Fiction
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Otherwise known as ATOMACON!
If you're looking for something to do in the Charleston, South Carolina, area this weekend, why not swing by the AtomaCon science fiction and fantasy convention in North Charleston? It runs Friday through Sunday at the Hilton Garden Inn near the airport. You'll find a friendly atmosphere, activities and panels to please fans of many different fandoms and genres, and a Musical Guest of Honor who could use some encouragement and support. (By which I mean, me!)
In addition to just hanging out with interesting people, I'll be performing a couple of solo concerts (plus another concert with friends), showing off the newest and upcoming releases from Baen Books, and I'll also be the auctioneer at the charity auction! They're raising money for the South Carolina Aquarium's Sea Turtle Care Center, which is pretty cool.
Let me know if you can come by, or if you want to donate to help the sea turtles!
Ten Days Until AtomaCon!
By Gray Rinehart | November 20, 2018 - 10:02 pm | November 20, 2018 Science Fiction
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Starting just ten days from now, I'll be the Musical Guest of Honor at the AtomaCon science fiction and fantasy convention in North Charleston, South Carolina.
AtomaCon is sometimes rendered as ATOMACON, an acronym for "All Types of Media Arts Convention." It's a family-friendly show, run by some terrific people, that encompasses many different fandoms and genres. It's still a youngish convention, now in its fifth year of operation and still growing.
I'll post more about it as we get closer to the event, but one thing I know is that I'll be serving as the auctioneer at the charity auction to benefit the Sea Turtle Care Center at the South Carolina Aquarium. If you want to donate something to the auction, let me know!
And better yet, if you're going to be in the area then make plans to come to the show!
Another Atlanta Labor Day Weekend
By Gray Rinehart | August 31, 2018 - 7:00 am | August 30, 2018 Science Fiction
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Once again I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, where I will spend the weekend with thousands of my closest friends — at least 80 thousand, I believe — at Dragon Con, one of the largest science fiction and fantasy conventions in the world. This year I get to kick off the Filk Music Track's concert series; I'm playing music twice for Art Show patrons; and I'm part of several other shows as well!
Here's my schedule, at least as it exists right now:
10:00 am: What is Filk? / Meet, Greet, Filk (Hyatt Hanover F/G)
11:30 am: Gray Rinehart in Concert (Hyatt Hanover F/G) — mixing a few favorites from Distorted Vision and Truths and Lies and Make-Believe with some Dragon Con debuts!
2:30 pm: Art Show music (Hyatt Grand Hall East)
7:00 pm: Princess Alethea's Traveling Sideshow, with Alethea Kontis, Leanna Renee Hieber, Mari Mancusi, Diana Peterfreund, and Mikey Mason (Marriott A707)
10:00 am: Art Show music (Hyatt Grand Hall East)
2:30 pm: Baen BooksTraveling Slide Show & Prize Patrol, with Toni Weisskopf, James Minz, Christopher Ruocchio, and many more (Hyatt Regency V)
5:30 pm: Panel, "Tooting Your Own Horn: Marketing Yourself," with John Hartness, Cecilia Dominic, Courtland D Lewis, Quincy J Allen, and Matthew Kressel (Hyatt Embassy A/B)
7:00 pm: Peter S. Beagle & Authors Perform (Hyatt International North) … I'll open this show, then head over to …
7:00 pm: World of Harry Potter Tribute Show, with Brobdingnagian Bards, Hawthorn & Holly, Nick Edelstein, Toucan Dubh, Foot Pound Force, Mikey Mason, and Misbehavin' Maidens (Hyatt Hanover C/D/E)
On Sunday, my only official event is at 5:30 pm, when I'll be giving a reading and special guest Nick Edelstein will play some music. If I can arrange it, I may have some other guests, too! That will be in the Hyatt's Marietta Room.
As usual, when I'm not performing or working I'll probably be attending concerts by my musical friends, or hanging out with my writerly friends or Baen Barflies. Or trying to catch a little bit of sleep!
If you're in the area, I hope I get to say hello — but whatever you've got going on this weekend, I hope it goes well!
Writing that Crosses the Spiritual Divide
By Gray Rinehart | July 7, 2018 - 8:07 am | July 7, 2018 Faith, Writing
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(Cross-posted, with some light edits, from my 12 June 2018 guest post on the Speculative Faith blog.)
The conventional wisdom is that authors shouldn't read reviews of our own work.
If the reviews are good, they can inflate already outsized egos, and if the reviews are bad, well — egos don't always just deflate. A hot-air-balloon-sized ego, pierced by a bad review, might slowly settle into a mass of hard-to-wrangle canvas, but a smaller, more fragile ego might burst into shreds that are impossible to reassemble.
Nevertheless, some of us are drawn to reviews like moths to flame. If we're lucky, the flame is a gentle candle and we just get singed if we get too close. If we're unlucky, it's a napalm-spewing flamethrower and we get terribly burned.
Sometimes we just get confused, as I was at two contrasting reviews of my novel, Walking on the Sea of Clouds. First, an Amazon reviewer gave the novel three stars and noted that it was a "good story" with strong character development but was "a bit bible-preachy [sic] for [their] tastes in hard science fiction." Then the first issue of the Lorehaven online magazine included a brief, positive review that warned those seeking discernment that the story "only briefly referenced Christianity."
Same story. Bible-preachy. Only briefly referenced Christianity.
I think this illustrates the fact that every reader brings their own experiences, attitudes, and expectations to the stories they read. Orson Scott Card told us in his writing workshop that whatever we've written is not the story, because the real story is in the reader's head — and what's in your head when you read a story is different from what's in another person's head when they read the same story. You might agree on some points, but you'll disagree on others, and that's okay.
In the case of my novel, someone who was not used to reading about believers and faith in the context of hard science fiction was put off by it. I have no way to know whether that person is a believer who was just surprised or a nonbeliever who was repulsed, and that really doesn't matter. Their reading of the text is just as valid as anyone else's — including the Lorehaven reviewer who might have been looking for more overt Christian themes. Was that person disappointed not to find them, or just surprised? I have no way of knowing, and again it hardly matters because however they read the story was the right way, for them.
Same story. Different readers. Different results.
It reminds me of what the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, about the message of the cross seeming foolish to the lost, but representing the very power of God to those of us who believe (1 Corinthians 1:18). Same message. Different audience. Vastly different results.
Even within the body of believers, though, we can differ in our interpretations of Scripture. How much more should we expect to differ in reading science fiction and fantasy stories?
My friend Keith Phillips (Colonel, USAF, Retired), with whom I served in the 4th Space Operations Squadron, showing off his copy of Walking on the Sea of Clouds.
What does it take to cross the spiritual divide effectively in a literary or artistic work? Is it foolish even to try? I hope not, because in this age of growing doubt and disbelief I believe that Christian ideals, values, and themes still have a place in literature and art, whether science fiction, fantasy, or more mundane creations. And not just Christian principles, but Christian characters belong in fantastical stories — even in technology-heavy hard science fiction — just as surely as Christian people belong in every profession.
Unfortunately, sometimes the Christian characters in these stories end up being caricatures more than characters, reflecting the authors' preconceptions rather than being portrayed as individuals, as people. I've found this to be true in stories by believers and nonbelievers alike, and it was something I tried to avoid.
That is, I tried to cross the spiritual divide by including Christian characters where they're not always found — and by representing them as individual people with their own virtues and flaws, and even with different attitudes toward and expressions of faith. Some talk about it, some hide it, some deny it. Some ignore it, some sneer at it, some question it. That seemed realistic to me, and above all I tried to make the story seem realistic.
And maybe those two contrasting reviews — too much Bible to some people, not that much to others — show that I struck the right balance after all.
If you've read the story, I'd love to know what you think! And if you haven't read the story, then now you know a little more of what you might find in it.
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Only 10 More Days to Volunteer for LIVE SLUSH
By Gray Rinehart | March 21, 2018 - 2:11 pm | March 21, 2018 Science Fiction, Writing
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Want to have your novel submission evaluated LIVE and nearly in-person?
A couple of years ago I did a series of workshops at science fiction and fantasy conventions in which I did just that: gave direct personal feedback to participants who brought in material for review. Now Baen Books publisher Toni Weisskopf has agreed to join me while we put on a similar workshop, live over the Internet — if we can get enough volunteers!
Here's the official announcement that went out a couple of weeks ago (emphasis added):
See and hear a recreation of Baen's Slushmaster General's Face-to-Face convention workshops, wherein actual slush manuscripts are considered and sorted out loud by real live Baen editors. The mysterious process is made clear. All we need are some volunteers! If you have a manuscript under consideration, just send us the submission number at e-editors@baen.com. If you have a new, completed manuscript you'd like to be considered, submit it now and e-mail us the submission number you receive. We will keep the names of the submitters anonymous in all cases. We need 10 volunteers by April 1 — no fooling! — and will livestream the session in May. If no one is brave enough to volunteer, we won't do it. Stay tuned for details about how and when to watch!
So folks only have 10 more days to volunteer! If you want your manuscript included, send us a note to let us know — and if you know some writers you think would like to volunteer, please share this blog post and encourage them to sign up!
Thanks, and have an awesome day!
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San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was forced to use a silent count during the team's home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday.
San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was forced to use a silent count during his team's home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday, according to ESPN.com.
After the game, Rivers said that the crowd noise in Qualcomm Stadium made the environment difficult to play in.
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin acknowledged Pittsburgh's strong road support after the game.
"First, I'd like to thank Steeler Nation," Tomlin said. "How about the support that we had in the building tonight? We get that type of support just about all of the time we're on the road, but it doesn't get old. We appreciate it."
The Chargers lost the game 24–20, giving up a touchdown to running back Le'Veon Bell in the final seconds of the game.


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Q: How do I parallel direct-path load using Oracle external tables? Some years ago, Thomas Kyte said this (here):

My favorite use of external tables:
Load this really big file ASAP. In the past, setup the scripts to parallel direct path load. Coordinate the firing of said scripts. Review log files to make sure they all finished. Split up input file or use skip and load to slice the file up. In short, a pain in the butt.
Now:
create table ET parallel;
create table new_table (...) parallel
as
select * from ET;

parallel direct path load made trivial.

Except this isn't valid syntax...
How do I use Oracle's external tables to perform a "parallel direct path load"?

A: The parallel capabilities of external tables are somewhat limited. As far as I know, you need to either have several files with the same format that can be processed in parallel (see below) or a single file with a fixed-length format:
CREATE TABLE WORKING_HOURS_EXT
( employee_id       NUMBER(8),
  project_id        VARCHAR2(20),
  start_time        VARCHAR2(25),
  end_time         VARCHAR2(25)
)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(
  TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
  DEFAULT DIRECTORY loader_data_dir
  ACCESS PARAMETERS
  (
    records delimited by newline
    fields terminated by ';'
    ( employee_id, project_id, start_time, end_time
    )
  )
  LOCATION ('hours01.txt', 'hours02.txt', 'hours03.txt')
)
PARALLEL;

ALTER SESSION ENABLE PARALLEL DML;

MERGE INTO WORKING_HOURS a
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D-M-E Co. to shutter Illinois site
Mold components supplier D-M-E Co. is closing its Melrose Park, Ill., manufacturing operations and consolidating production at three other North American sites.
The move, which will cut 40 jobs, will improve efficiency, said Dave Lawrence, president of Madison Heights-based D-M-E, in an August telephone interview.
The firm will consolidate hot-runner production at its CMI site in Windsor, Ontario. Specialty mold-base production will shift to its Master Unit Die facility in Greenville, Mich., while D-M-E's Youngwood, Pa., site will take over standard mold bases.
The production shifts will take place over the next several months, the company said.
D-M-E will have a sales and distribution office in the Chicago area, employing four to five people. The company is looking at potential sites for that office.


Welcome to our farm and to our website. Strawberry Hill Farm is our family farm where we live and grow over 50 types of organic vegetables and berries plus organic pasture raised livestock. We believe that the fewer the chemicals used to grow our food the better from the point of view of our families' health, the health of our workers, the environment, and for the sake of our many customers who enjoy the vegetables, berries, and other farm products.
Our main focus is on growing vegetables, fruits, and berries for our weekly vegetable boxes during the summer plus enough to supply a modest winter delivery program. We have cows to utilize portions of the farm that we cannot crop and we keep pigs on pasture in the summer. We raise broiler chickens and keep a flock of laying hens also on pasture in the summer as a key part of nutrient cycling and crop rotation creating an organic farm system where the many parts work together to produce high quality nutritious food.
You can learn more about us and about the farm by going to the About Us page listed in the website header.
The majority of our vegetables are sold through Our Weekly Boxes program. We are offering this program at select locations in the Fredericton, Woodstock, Nackawic, Moncton, Hartland, and Florenceville. When you go to the Sign Up page you will be able to choose box size along with delivery locations pick up times and days of the week. You will have your own personal customer profile on our website from where you can see past orders, future orders, and from where you can add additional items to your box.
This box to the left was an early July box. The first boxes have more greens and fewer items until more crops mature. Generally by the fourth box of the season the boxes fill out to 10-12 items weekly and the value is more than made up for in the remainder of the boxes through the summer and fall.
Below is a sample of a winter box. There is more information and more pictures under the Box Options tab above or you can click the Sign Up tab to Order your box right away.


The Big Torii from Matsubara Itsukushima, Aki, c. 1910.
Big Torii at Miyajima, Inland Sea, c. 1910, at high tide.
"The apparition thanked [Taira no] Kiyomori for the repair of 'our pagoda' and urged him to attend next to 'our shrine' of Itsukushima in Japan's Inland Sea. The Itsukushima Shrine, the apparition explained, was another place where the Great Sun Buddha manifested himself. If you rebuild the ruined shrine you 'shall rise to high office. None will be able to keep abreast of you in your rise to glory.' With this promise the apparition vanished, leaving behind only the fragrance of incense.
The Big Torii at low tide, from Matsubara Itsukushima, Aki, c. 1910.
From the wiki: "Itsukushima Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its 'floating' torii gate. The shrine has been destroyed many times, but the first shrine buildings were probably erected in the 6th century. The present shrine dates from the mid-16th century, and is believed to follow an earlier design from the 12th century. That design was established in 1168, when funds were provided by the warlord Taira no Kiyomori. The shrine was designed and built on pier-like structures over the bay so that it would appear to be floating on the water, separate from the sacred island, which could be approached at low-tide by the devout.
"The dramatic gate, or torii, of Itsukushima Shrine is one of Japan's most popular tourist attractions, and the most recognizable and celebrated feature of the Itsukushima shrine, and the view of the gate in front of the island's Mount Misen is classified as one of the 'Three Views of Japan' (along with the sand bar Amanohashidate, and Matsushima Bay). Although a gate has been in place since 1168, the current gate dates back only to 1875.
"Sun-set of Big Torii," Miyajima, c. 1920.
"The torii appears to be floating only at high tide. When the tide is low, it is approachable by foot from the island. Gathering shellfish near the gate is also popular at low tide. Many locals add the shellfish they gather to their miso soup.
"Famous view of Miyajima", c. 1920, showing the Big Torii located at far-left.


Algeria – repression of unemployed activists. We've shared this with the IUF and are waiting for their decision; they may run a campaign themselves which of course we will support.
Turkey campaign – we've been approached about the possibility of another Turkey campaign, this one targetting a well-known consumer brand; more details when we have them.
Martina will be reviewing all the responses and writing up a report. We've received a small grant from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation to do a study of our work, and this is part of it.
They now have a (blank) website and a joint email address, as they requested. They've drafted a founding statement which will go on to the site.
I've improved the home page and we're working on including an RSS and Twitter feed as well.
Campaign initiatives: We've asked BWI about possibly supporting striking forestry workers in Gabon; Andy passed this one on and we're waiting to hear back. We asked the ITF if there's any Iranian campaigns coming up, as some comrades in the UK have been keen to get us involved in that issue again. We approached Unite in the UK to try to get a campaign going in support of their effort to block the docking in the UK of a ship named for a Nazi war criminal; Shell eventually backed down and there was no need for a campaign.
Donations: We've gotten substantial commitments from unions in Norway and Canada; thanks very much to Derek and Espen for making the push. We received a generous donation from IndustriALL.
Greece: We did a mass mailing several languages in support of the German trade union leaders' appeal. Several thousand people responded but many had difficulties both with the language (much of the appeal was not translated from the German) and the software, which was unreliable. Nevertheless, our effort was appreciated and thanks to Andrea, Silvana, Gisela and the comrades in Berlin for encouraging us to do this.
Mailing lists: We picked up a fairly large number of new subscribers to our English list thanks to the Rio Tinto campaign, and we now have 86,705 subscribers to that list. The French list, our second largest, is up to 8,224. In the last year, the English list has had a net gain of about 1,500 and the French one has gained 800.
New correspondents: Among new correspondents we've added recently is a Norwegian trade unionist based in Palestine; I hope this will help improve our coverage of Palestinian trade union news.
Right to strike: We were asked by a Canadian union to do a special mailing to support their campaign on the right to strike, and did so yesterday. We've also been providing news coverage of actions around the world.
Rio Tinto campaign: We launched this two weeks ago and had an immediate reaction from the company. Working together with our partners in IndustriALL and two NGOs, we've sent the company a very short letter in response. More details coming soon. At the moment, the campaign has 8,822 supporters and appears in 12 languages.
Support for existing GUF campaigns: We publicized both a BWI and IUF campaign in a recent mailing. The IUF campaign focusses on Sheraton and highlights the struggle in Addis Ababa — the local union leader there will be familiar to some of you as he attended our conference in Berlin last May; we have been passing on details of their fight to the IUF and are delighted to have helped support them.


Here is a thought from another leadership consultant whose blog I follow. All to often, we are so focused on the latest trend in childcare, we can not keep up with trends in management, let alone let our mind create. But still, we are managers and leaders, and more importantly so because we lead teachers of small children. So here is a share from a great management consultant/leadership inspirer, Frank Rockwall.
Vision to see how things should be + Faith to believe it can be done + Hope that others will work with you = One Mighty Manager.
Finish the year well, girls.
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Ohio State at Michigan College Basketball Picks & Predictions 2/18/2018
by Guy Bruhn - 2/17/2018
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Get todays College basketball odds and lines on this game.
The Ohio State Buckeyes head to Crisler Center to take on the Michigan Wolverines on Sunday, February 18, 2018. The opening line for this matchup has Michigan as 3 point favorites.
Ohio State heads into this matchup with a mark of 22-6. They currently have a point differential of 9.9 as they are averaging 76.3 points per contest while giving up 66.5 per game. Michigan has an overall mark of 21-7. They are averaging 74.0 points per contest and giving up 63.5, which is a point differential of 10.4.
Valuable Ohio State Buckeyes Betting Trends
The Ohio State Buckeyes are 14-12 against the spread this season
The Ohio State Buckeyes are 6-20 against the over/under this year
Important Michigan Wolverines Betting Trends
The Michigan Wolverines are 16-10 against the spread this season
The Michigan Wolverines are 11-16 against the over/under this year
Key Ohio State Buckeyes Injuries
Key Michigan Wolverines Injuries
Keita Bates-Diop averages 19.6 points per contest while playing 32.1 minutes per night this year. He grabs 8.8 rebounds per contest and distributes 1.6 assists per game. His FG percentage is 53% while his free throw percentage is 81%. C.J. Jackson averages 12.5 points per contest in 30.2 minutes per game this year. He averages 4.1 assists per game and 3.9 rebounds per contest. His field goal percentage is 42% for the season while his free throw percentage is 82%.
Moritz Wagner scores 14.6 points per contest while playing 27.9 minutes per game this season. He hauls in 7.3 rebounds per contest and has 0.7 assists per game on the season. His FG percentage is 53% and his free throw percentage is at 68%. Charles Matthews averages 13.8 points per game this year and he sees the court an average of 30 minutes per game. He also brings in 5.4 rebounds per game and has 2.7 assists per contest. His field goal percentage is 50% and his free throw percentage is 54%.
Useful Team Statistics
Ohio State averages 76.3 points per contest this year, which is 107th in the nation. Their average scoring margin is 9.9 and their shooting percentage is 49% as a unit, which has them ranked 24th. From 3-point territory they shoot 35%, which is good for 180th in Division 1. They average 36.6 boards per contest and 14.8 assists per game, which ranks them 113th and 108th in those offensive categories. In the turnover department they are 287th with 11.8 per game. The Buckeyes allow 66.5 points per contest, which is 42nd in the country. They also surrender a 41% shooting percentage and a 34% average from 3-point range, ranking them 48th and 162nd in defensive field goal percentage. Opponents average 31.1 rebounds a game which ranks 21st, and they allow 11.8 assists per game which puts them in 63rd place in college basketball. They force 12.7 turnovers per game which ranks them 121st in D-1.
Michigan is 182nd in the country with 74.0 points per contest this season. They are 58th in the nation in shooting at 47%, while their average scoring margin is 10.4. They shoot 36% from beyond the arc, which is good for 113th in Division 1. They are 300th in the country in rebounding with 33.1 boards per contest and 92nd in assists per game with 15.1. The Wolverines are 350th in turnovers per contest with 9.3. The Wolverines give up 63.5 points per game, which ranks them 10th in the nation. Their defense surrenders a 44% shooting percentage and a 35% average from behind the 3-point line, ranking them 183rd and 206th in those defensive statistics. They rank 21st with 10.6 dimes allowed per game and 30th with 31.6 boards surrendered per contest. The Wolverines are 176th in college basketball in forcing turnovers with 13.3 per contest this year.
The Buckeyes are 52nd in the country in defensive rating with 96.9, and their offensive rating of 111.2 is ranked 53rd. They are 255th in college basketball in pace with 68.3 possessions per 40 minutes, and their eFG% of 55% is 53rd. As a unit they are 54th in the nation in true shooting percentage with 58% and they shoot 3-pointers on 34% of their shot attempts, ranking 270th in D-1. Ohio State is 258th in turnovers, as they turn the ball over an average of 15.2 times per 100 possessions while forcing 16.4 on defense. Their defensive eFG% for the year currently is 48%, which is 70th in the country.
Michigan is 350th in college basketball in turnovers, as they turn the ball over an average of 12.5 times per 100 possessions while forcing 18 on the defensive end. Their defensive effective field goal percentage for the season currently is 49%, which is 114th in the nation. The Wolverines are 43rd in the country in offensive rating with 111.9, and their defensive rating of 96.1 is ranked 39th. In terms of pace they are 336th in Division 1 with 65.5 possessions per 40 minutes, and their effective field goal percentage of 55% is 40th. As a team they are 88th in D-1 in true shooting percentage with 57% and they shoot 3-pointers on 44% of their shots, ranking 51st in the nation.
Who will win tonight's Ohio State/Michigan college basketball game against the spread?
Guy's Pick: Take Ohio State +3
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In April 2002 the OECD Education Committee launched the major Activity Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers. This is a collaborative project to assist governments design and implement teacher policies to improve teaching and learning in schools. The project is to be concluded in 2004 when the final synthesis report is published.
OECD countries are attaching rising importance to lifelong learning and active employment policies as tools of economic growth and social equity. Effective information and guidance systems are essential to support the implementation of these policies, and all citizens need to develop the skills to self-manage their careers. Yet there are large gaps between these policy goals and the capacity of national career guidance systems.
This publication not only raises the question of protecting schools physically, it underscores the need to introduce natural disaster response training and education.
The Review was initiated by the OECD Education Committee in 1996. The actual reviewing of the OECD countries began in 1998 and was completed in 2004. Twenty countries particited in the review: Australia, Austria, Belgium (two communities), Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.


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Government Denies Any Negligence Over Child Death in Rally by Rival political parties
Shimla: The state government today denied the allegations that there was any laxity on the part of district administration, which led to the death of a four year ailing child, Dinesh, who died on his way to the IGMC hospital Shimla, as the vehicle in which he was been carried got stuck during the rallies organized by the Congress and the BJP on August 29.
The state government maintained this in a reply submitted in the Himachal Pradesh High Court today against the notices, which sought reply from the state government, Congress party and the BJP on the issue of death of the child.
The Congress party and the BJP in their individual replies maintained that the death of child was regretful, but denied that the said vehicle got stuck in their respective rallies.
The state government submitted that the deceased child was being carried in a private car and not in an ambulance, as mentioned in newspapers. The administrative personnel's on duty extended all possible help to the family members and made efforts to get the vehicle through, it added.
The Congress party in its reply denied that the vehicle carrying the ailing child was jammed in the rally of Congress party. On other hand BJP also maintained in its reply that the said vehicle was not stranded in BJPs rally.
Hearing to the Public Interest Litigation filed by Virender Thakur, the division bench of Chief Justice V.K. Gupta and Justice Rajeev Sharma has directed the petitioner to file rejoinder in the matter.
The petitioner had filed PIL on the basis of newspaper reports which had highlighted the death of a four year child, Dinesh, who had died on his way to the IGMC hospital Shimla as the vehicle in which he was been carried got stuck during the rallies organized by the Congress and the BJP.
The petitioner i has submitted that the there should be some guidelines which will ensure that during such rallies traffic on the city roads does not come to a halt. It has also been submitted that the political parties who organize such rallies are made responsible for smooth flow of traffic.
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Forgotten Concept: Honda T880
Written by Tom Appel in Auto Shows, Concept Cars, Forgotten, Forgotten Concept, Honda, Pickup Trucks, Tokyo Auto Show, World
Honda T880 Concept
This is an installment in a series of posts looking back on show cars that we feel deserved a little more attention than they got. If you have a suggestion for a Forgotten Concept topic, please shoot us a line or leave a comment below.
Honda T880
First Seen: 2017 Tokyo Auto Salon
Description: Kei pickup concept
Sales Pitch: "Taking a classic Honda truck to the next level"
More Forgotten Concepts
Details: The Toyota Auto Salon is an aftermarket parts and tuner event not unlike the annual SEMA show here in the States. It was at the 2017 Salon that Honda rolled out the T880, A micro-truck concept based on the maker's home-market ACTY pickup. Known in Japan as a "Kei" vehicle, the Acty is smaller than U.S.-market subcompact vehicles, and is powered by an engine of less than 660 cc. Because of their tidy dimensions and low fuel consumption, Kei vehicles qualify for a number of tax breaks and regulatory perks.
The T880 concept pays homage to the TN360, a small pickup produced by Honda between 1967 and 1977. The concept features a turbocharged 3-cylinder engine and 5-speed manual transmission. The practical rear tailgate opens to the sides, Dutch-door style, and also folds down in the conventional manner. The T880 was designed and built by the maker's Honda Access division, which manufactures aftermarket body kits and performance parts.
A nifty recess in the back of the cab provides space for the wheel of a motorcycle. Additional features include a simple bench seat in the cabin, centrally located exhaust outlet, and spiffy Watanabe black-finish alloy wheels.
More Kei cars
CG Says: This Anime-looking tribute truck deserved to see production, though it's likely that a production version lifted to an appropriate (read: legal) ride height and shod with crash-worthy front and rear fasciae would lose much of the concept's charm. Additionally, Kei-car fans seem to enjoy customizing their own rides, and might not be willing to shell out hard-earned Yen for an off-the-shelf "custom" car or truck.
Cool as this spunky micro concept is, it's easy to forget that Chevrolet designed its own tribute trucklet, the HHR, and it actually saw production. The Heritage High Roof (we're told that's what HHR stood for) was designed in reference to Chevy vehicles of the Forties.
Forgotten Concept: Ford Aerovan by Ghia
1967 Honda TN360 (left) and 2019 Honda Acty Pickup
5 Bad Car Names
Written by: Tom Appel on April 24, 2019.on January 19, 2021.
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2016 Chicago Auto Show: 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD PRO
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Are you playing through KH3 again in Critical mode? Is it going to be your first time trying it?
Which game are you most hyped for right now? .
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Not the best gamer and my little thumbs are a little slow but the fk with that. I WILL BITTON SMASH MY WAY TO VICTORY!!!!✊🔥🔥🔥🔥 .
I received this mask with the #new #mortalcombat11 and I love it !!!! .
What are you all getting upto today?
The PS4 Edition only because it would be too much.
We have come to the conclusion of #batttleofthebacklog and had fun with this photo challenge. Think I'll try to participate in more challenges or make some of my own in the future. A big thank to @waywardhue and @aardimus for this! .
I have also added games I've played but haven't gotten around to finishing in this backlog...which is a bit. .
Have a great lazy Sunday!
Happy Easter!🐰🍫 Hope everyone is having a lovely day!
Anyways, the best Aliens game there is to date. Still would love to own a Xenomorph as a pet. ❤✊ We would go for nice walkssss, visit friends, rip the faces off of enemies, go out for pancakes after wards. Be fun times!
What's everyone's plans for this weekend?
Troupe of geeks and geekettes!
For the purpose of this challenge, again, I'm just focusing on PS4 backlog. Couldn't choose just one; so Hellblade, Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn are my three games I could (and have) replayed! There's others but thought to limit myself. .
Which games could you keep replaying?
The troupe of geeks and geekettes!
This should be the all nat 20s logo...oh and drink wine added at the end! Let's go dnd girls everywhere make your presence known!
Happy Saturday guys! Really been enjoying Fire Emblem Warriors as of lately 🙌🏼 but I have to work 🙃 my goal is to finish before starting a new game lol what're you guys up too today?
Also remember to check out @littleaimeekins for the gaming Easter egg hunt competition! It's coming to an end soon!
"We are all bunnies now"
It's a very cute but plan Easterwatch photo (theres no payload, I dun facked up cause I ate my easter chocolate) The idea of Easterwatch came from the minds of my friends @pinkcitygram tonight is their easterwatch party and I'm gonna try my best to go, CAUSE PARTIES ARE LIT!!!
Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain is a game I intend to get back to and finish it. Might have to do a new game again....but one day!
Which game did you put on hold?
Hope everyone is enjoying their first day of Easter (or spring) break! I saw these mini basketball eggs and had to have them 😍🏀 will you be Gaming during the break, or will you be too busy spending time with friends/family?
Do you have steelbooks? which one is your fav and should I get next?
Grabbed one of those battle figures, I think he's cute. I'll probably only focus on the ghost and fairy types if I decide to get any more.
ohmigosh late birthday post!! so i'm officially 18 as of the 18th of september (i know im so late ahhh!!) 💗 i spent my birthday playing overwatch and spending time with my besties!! p.s this is quite possibly the cutest pic i have posted yet!
More grippies! Sparkle bats and bows!


The issue of Kosovo-Metohija has indeed been neglected; it has been additionally complicated by old and new ethnic conflicts; it has been made difficult by long delays; and it has become a nightmare for European political leaders and a threat to both regional and continental peace, but we will see a way out if there is political and diplomatic wisdom. I have long said that what happened in Kosovo-Metohija is a conflict of two claims - the Serbian historical claim and the Albanian ethnic claim. The reconciliation of the two claims will bring peace to Serbs and Albanians, and all other nations in Southeast Europe.
I believe that a framework for the solution can be found in previous conflict resolutions on the ruins of the former Yugoslavia. The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina thus becomes a model, and the way that the conflict there was settled becomes an unavoidable solution.
I believe that the international community cannot offer Kosovo Albanians anything more or anything less than it gave Bosnia-Herzegovina Serbs. Kosovo Albanians can have - as they already have - wide autonomy, and can establish special ties with their motherland, the Republic of Albania. Albanian nationalists cannot realise their project. They cannot accomplish all-Albanian unification. They cannot create "the greater" Albania.
Serbs cannot unite without harming the national and state interests of their neighbours. They have figured that out and they have accepted it. Proof number one: political parties with anti-democratic ideas and policies suffered an overwhelming defeat in Serbia's elections. Proof number two: there are no retaliatory, conquering or other retrograde ideas and opinions in the Serbian media. Serbs, who have not forgotten NATO bombs, mostly declared themselves in favour of accession of the union of Serbia and Montenegro to the very Organisation itself.
The Albanians also cannot unite into a single state without causing war and harm to the national and state interests of their neigbours. Unfortunately, the majority of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo-Metohija have not realised and accepted that yet.
It is imperative that the international community handle Albanian nationalism and extremism in the same way it handled Serbian nationalism and extremism. The Hague Tribunal now prosecutes Serbs who violated laws and conventions in the Bosnia-Herzegovina war, who acted brutally and inhumanly. Only when the Hague Tribunal starts prosecuting Albanians who acted brutally and inhumanly in the Kosovo-Metohija war will the majority of people in Kosovo-Metohija realise that no single culprit has been pardoned and that no one sides' crimes have been forgiven.
Nothing can be definitely solved in a short period, and solutions that are superficial, thoughtless and wrong can be worse than any postponing and waiting.
Of course, I don't advocate postponing and waiting. I know that many of our fears, doubts and questions will disappear the day when all the countries in the region become EU members. The day all Serbs and Albanians will live in a single state, borders will lose their present divisive character.
I suggest that both Belgrade and Pristina, with the help of UNMIK and European institutions, immediately draft a sound and feasible program for the reconciliation of Serbs and Albanians.
I suggest that experts immediately launch talks on the possibility for reconciliation of Serbian historic and Albanian ethnic claims.
I suggest that the European Union increase its aid to the democratic streams of every Balkan country. Weakening of these streams would seriously strengthen the nationalists and significantly decrease the possibilities for harmonisation of interethnic relations in multiethnic states.
Only the stalemate position can save the Balkans - the position where no one has won or lost and where there is no triumph of nationalism or cancellation of national interests.
Good analysts no doubt notice that people in the Balkans continuously live with a feeling of guilt. Serbs are guilty to some for having created Yugoslavia. Croats are guilty to some for having crashed Yugoslavia. Albanians are guilty to some for having allowed the conflict of democracy and numbers, and establishing the tyranny of numbers. And everyone is guilty among other things because they have kept repeating for decades that their side is wholly right. As the old Jewish saying goes: Repeat too often that you are right and you'll be guilty!
Before there is reconciliation of Serbs and Albanians, there will be no sense in arguing over the final status of Kosovo-Metohija. This stand has also been firmly supported by representatives of the international community.
The leadership of Kosovo-Metohija Albanians gave a public statement that they have given up on the idea of 'Greater Albania.' One public statement cannot annul the interethnic, religious, and intercultural intolerance, but it can serve as an introduction to a dialogue without prejudices and dangerous and humiliating hatreds.