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Apostles' Creed (Symbolum Apostolorum). A statement of Christian belief that is used by Western churches, both Catholic and Protestant. While it is explicitly affirmed only in Western churches, it reflects traditions that were affirmed officially by the entire Church in the Nicene Creed. Although its roots are much earlier, in its present form it dates to about the eighth century.
What we now know as the Apostles' Creed is an enlargement of the Old Roman Creed. The first known occurrence of the Apostles' Creed, in a form that is nearly equivalent to its final form, is in the Latin tract De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus by the monk Priminius (sometimes spelled "Pirminius") from the early eighth century. The process by which the Old Roman Creed became the Apostles' Creed cannot be exhaustively known, though Kelly notes that creeds that are "practically identical" to the Apostles' Creed began to appear in South Gaul in the fifth century (Kelly, Creeds, 413). Over the next few centuries, the Apostles' Creed in its final form gained acceptance throughout France and Germany. It was officially recognized by Charlemagne throughout the Frankish Empire in the early ninth century, and was eventually incorporated into the liturgy of the Church of Rome.
Grudem argues that the phrase "He descended into hell" is a late addition to the creed. This phrase is commonly understood as a reference to the "harrowing of hell," which is based on one interpretation of 1 Pet 3:19. The phrase is first mentioned by Rufinus in the late fourth century, and does not appear in any other versions of the creed until AD 650. Rufinus himself notes that the clause "is not added in the Creed of the Roman Church" (Symb. 18), though he includes it in the version of the creed that was accepted by his own church of Aquileia (see Symb. 3). Moreover, Rufinus makes clear that he did not believe Christ literally descended into hell, but rather that the phrase merely meant He was buried. The Greek form of the creed has ᾅδης (hades), which can mean merely "the grave" rather than a place of punishment. Thus a more accurate version would be, "He descended into the grave" or "He descended to the dead" (Grudem, "He Did Not Descend," 102). This understanding of the phrase is reflected, for example, in Question 50 of the Westminster Larger Catechism.
Instead of "holy catholic church," some Protestant churches, particularly in the Lutheran tradition, recite "holy Christian church" to avoid misinterpreting the phrase as a reference to the Catholic Church. The creed seems to use "catholic" in the sense of "universal" or "global" (the Latin uses the adjective catholicam); this interpretation fits with the historic nature of the creed, which predates in its tradition the split of the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
The Apostles' Creed seems to represent some form of what the early church called the "rule of faith." The early Christians were guided by the "rule of faith," the Holy Spirit working in community and individuals, and the authoritative Scriptures. Before the "rule of faith" was called such, there were general references to the teachings and traditions of the apostles. It is these core teachings that seem to make up the Apostles' Creed.
Signs of these "core teachings" are seen as early as the New Testament book of Hebrews, which speaks of a need for Christians to grasp and embrace the basic concepts of faith so that they can move into deeper parts of their Christian faith, while at the same time realizing how essential it is that they never depart from a core belief in the real and living Christ (Hebrews 5:11–6:12). The Apostles' Creed represents a set of uncompromisable core beliefs for Christians. As such, the core tradition of it is also found in the Nicene Creed. The Apostles' Creed, like all creeds, functions like a filter for orthodoxy; it indicates what is and what is not "Christian." It is a public profession of belief in historic Christianity.
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Qld counter-terror cop accused of stalking, domestic violence offences
May 3, 2017 1:55 pm in National by Jaydan Duck
A POLICE officer from Queensland's Counter-Terrorism unit has been suspended from duty pending a disciplinary investigation into a series of alleged domestic violence offences.
The 39-year-old male Constable from the Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism and Major Events Command has been charged with one count of stalking under section 359E of the Criminal Code 1899.
A domestic violence application was also made at the time of the officer's arrest.
The additional allegation of stalking and further allegations of domestic violence will now be considered as part of any future disciplinary action.
"In keeping with our commitment to high standards of behaviour, transparency and accountability, we have undertaken to inform the public when an officer faces serious allegations of misconduct," police said in a statement.
"This does not mean that the allegations against the officers have been substantiated."
The officer is currently suspended from official duty and is due to front Brisbane Magistrates Court on May 16.
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Help will soon be available more quickly for people making emergency calls from mobile phones in New Zealand.
The location of 111 callers will be verified, enabling a faster response in an emergency.
Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Kris Faafoi said enhancements to the Emergency Caller Location Information service will improve this potentially life-saving technology.
The Emergency Caller Location Information (ECLI) service was introduced to New Zealand in May 2017, offering high-precision location information for smartphones running Google's Android system — approximately 70% of the New Zealand market — and lower-precision location information for most other mobile devices. The high-precision location solution was extended to mobile phones running Apple's iOS operating system in April 2018.
"We will be extending the ECLI service to all other mobile phone calls to 111, and increasing the number of calls supported by high-precision location," Faafoi said.
"This includes calls made from basic non-internet-capable phones and by international visitors using their phone roaming on a New Zealand network.
In its first year, ECLI was used to help verify locations of nearly 400,000 emergency calls. When these enhancements are complete, that number is expected to jump to 780,000.
The ECLI service is overseen by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, and run in partnership with emergency services (New Zealand Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, St John and Wellington Free Ambulance), Datacom, Comtech Telecommunications Corp and mobile network operators (2degrees, Spark and Vodafone).
ECLI can operate on 3G and 4G LTE mobile networks and can be extended for 5G technologies.


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Archives for the month of: December, 2011
"horses, horses, horseshit"– patti smith and 70s NYC music scene– book review
just finished reading "love goes to building on fire", penned by a mr. will hermes, a music critique for the rolling stone and a contributor to NPR, entertainment weekly, etc. i read hermes' record reviews in the past and some were really good. he is not one of the "fun" critiques who you read even if you don't care for the music they're reviewing– those select few are an endangered species: good writers you just read because you want to read 'em. rob sheffield used to be one. now he is trying to be the malcolm gladwell of pop-culture. not so much fun anymore. or tony rettman and moe bishop of vice. or like anthony lane reviewing films for the new yorker– even if i don't care for the film he is reviewing, i still read anthony lane because he is anthony lane. same with eileen jones of the exiled.
will hermes belongs to the other school of critiques– not really funny, lacking an original unmistakable voice and any original criticism; they instead rely on their encyclopedical knowledge and utilize it to make musical connections. you read them only when you need to know about a certain band or an album. you read them for information with no expectation of fun or enjoyment. alas, they serve an important purpose– pure information and musical associations & history is sometimes precisely what you need. and most music critiques fall (or file) into this second group.
mr. hermes, who interestingly is named after a famous scarf maker, is a prime example of this second (and predominant) group of critiques. the depth of his music knowledge seems infinite. he can probably make a 3-step association between the creaking of your kitchen floor and pre-bleach michael jackson. a walking, talking google of modern music.
but, unfortunately, he is not fun to read. as simple as that. he is as fun as a public radio DJ. very knowledgeable but scared of his own shadow; opinionated, but in a very inoffensive, politically correct manner. he is where he should be– he belongs in post-1980 rolling stone and NPR. who, incidentally, if was writing for this blog, would have consistently fallen under the "circle jerk" category. that's why NPR is fitting– it is the biggest circle jerk of all things considered on this planet…
buildings is a very noble undertaking– a play-by-play musical history of the new york scene in the '70s– specifically between '73 and '78. the book's full name is "love goes to buildings on fire: five years in new york that changed music forever". it has tons of information, trivial facts and anecdotes but it still fails for three simple reasons, first objective, second slightly and third purely subjective:
1. because mr. hermes picked a narrative style that doesn't fit him and one he simply cannot pull-off; and
2. because the music that came out of new york, with a few minor exceptions, was pure, unadulterated shit… but he got the title right– that shitty music coming out of new york really changed music forever (for worse); and
3. because he has a huge crash on patti smith.
let's start with the criticism on style first: mr. hermes tries to tell his story (and information) by personifying the events and anecdotes. he attempts to do this by using present tense while describing anecdotes or background stories. it is a good technique to draw the reader into the heart of the story. a few random examples:
"Patti Smith walked to Electric Lady Studios from her apartment at 107 MacDougal Street on September 2."
"Saturday night, March 15, Felt Forum, early show. Al Green is falling apart onstage."
see– he is trying to make you visualize the scene. like i said, it is a good technique. but it is a good technique in the correct hands. mr. hermes doesn't have the chops to pull it off. he should have sticked to dry writing instead of throwing in random paragraphs reading like bad, bad fiction… then i would have had no qualms with his style.
but, the way he is switching between his tenses, and with his cheap shots in new journalism, he completely turned me off, making me seasick. mr. hermes ain't no tom wolfe and buildings ain't the "the right stuff"– but that was precisely what mr. hermes aspired to write and failed miserably in his attempts.
if he sticked to his regular writing style, which is dry and informative, with its breadth of information, buildings would have been a great book for those who want to know more about '70s new york music scene. but he simply had to go third-rate tom wolfe wannabe on us and it literally funked up the book for me…
which brings me to my second (and subjective) criticism of the book– its content. no matter how well mr. hermes could have written buildings, this criticism would have stood.
i'll repeat myself: the music that came out of new york, with a few minor exceptions, was pure, unadulterated shit… and that shitty music coming out of new york really changed music forever (for worse)…
the book consists of five chapters, one for each year it is reporting on. and each chapter alternates constantly between six major musical styles: rock, jazz, early hip-hop, new york salsa, its evil offspring disco and avant garde music. he worships each style and it is all flattery– there is no criticism here.
avant garde music– i don't get it. call me stupid, ignorant, whatever, but i don't think there is anything to get. unless you dissect it with someone who "knows" or you read a monographs on what you're listening to. it is finnegan's wake without the genius. at least, even though finnegan's wake is next to impossible to read cover to cover, if you shuffle through it randomly, you'll find sentences (and sometimes paragraphs) of sheer genius. what i feel about avant garde music, on the other hand, is similar to what i feel about conceptual and performance art.
just like conceptual and performance art, if you find the right guide you'll find moments in avant garde music to make you exclaim "ah!", but that is about it. it is just a scam like its "art" counterpart– it makes every pseudo-intellectual cream his pants because they've been told they should cream their pants. it is "good" because it is weird and is hard to understand. it is "genius" because it requires learning a backstory to make sense of.
i once asked a composer friend, who is also a renowned professor of music, what he made of avant garde music, which he taught to his students. he simply said "i only listen to it because i'm expected to listen, know and write about it. but i never listen to it because i want to listen to it". enough said…
nicholas payton recently wrote "jazz died in 1959". i fully concur. what is left is "post-modern new orleans music" as he calls it. i love jazz. and i respect the musicianship of them modern guys, from chick corea to herbie hancock, but i simply don't like their music. i find it overproduced and lacking soul. preach me all you want on mahavishnu orchestra, weather report, yellowjackets, chuck mangione, whatever– it is all overproduced soulless musical calisthenics.
give me ellington, give me gardner, give me miles, monk and coltrane in the 50s, give me django, give me bix, give me gillespie, give me the bird, give me goodman, i'm in heaven… give me anything modern, ie. after a love supreme, for five minutes, and i'll confess to the kennedy assassination.
hermes canonizes all the '70s jazz, with its overproduced fusion nightmare with jazz flutes. he has a few nice anecdotes about miles and monk, two of my heroes, but that is about it. that 70s fusion will not stand the test of time and was terrible, terrible music. i don't want to hear it, i don't want to read about it.
early hip-hop– i was happy to read about it. kool herc and his clan– those were some of the best parts of the book for me. but then hermes ruins it all by coming out with his boy crush on jay-z and ruins it all up… cool hip-hop died with eazy muthafa e…
don't even get me started on the new york salsa. i like brazilian music, i like spanish music, i like cuban music, i like west african music. but i hate new york salsa with its shrill trebles and beat-box rhythms. it is an abomination. furthermore, it begat disco. case closed, fire up the ole sparky, read new york salsa its death sentence and get it over with.
disco is the worst thing that happened to music. started mostly in NYC, thanks to homegrown salsa, and ruined the entire 70s and the 80s, leading up to techno and other assorted crap. before disco music was a social force. in the heydays of disco and its resurrection in electronic dance music, the force diminished. disco and electronic dance music begat yuppies. disco and electronic music cut the brains of the youth in half… and mr. hermes glorifies disco. i'm not even sure if a more detailed statement against disco is necessary here. res ipsa loquitur…
that brings us to what i know best– rock music… 70s rock, in new york city, was shit with a few minor exceptions. good rock was coming out of elsewhere, not new york city. granted, there is television with marquee moon, one of my favorite albums from the 70s. there is also talking heads' '77. two albums mr. hermes raves about, and rightfully so. i occasionally play '77 at my parties and many people who heard it for the first time think it is a new band with a new album. it is that timeless. ditto on marquee moon– verlaine was a genius…
hermes also raves about springsteen and born to run, again rightfully so. and of course dylan's divorce masterpiece blood on the tracks. two albums i can't live without.
but these are exceptions. good rock was not coming out of new york city in the 70s. it was coming out of UK, it was coming out of elsewhere in the US. bowie, clash, sabbath, costello, gang of four, buzzcocks, zappa, purple, floyd, the list is endless, leading up to joy division and then taking a very different turn.
suicide was decent but punk was really coming out of merry ole england, not CBGB. CBGB is where it landed. X was the first great american punk band and they came out in 1980.
hermes has a boy crush on them, but spare me the ramones. they were nothing but a glorified party band. like cowboy mouth (ironically also the name of the sam shephard play he performed with patti smith) in the 90s. a precursor to the hairbands of the '80s. just entertainment. just a few opportunist boys who saw room for themselves in the CBGB scene. they won't stand the test of time. that's why they're a frat-party staple now.
lou reed– what about lou reed? his post velvet underground work is shit at best. a few good songs, rest is worthless. and this is coming from a velvet underground fan…
television, talking heads, springsteen and maybe some suicide– these were pretty much the only keepers that came out of the NYC rock scene of the '70s…
which brings us to patti smith– i really tried to like her. as i am writing this, i am listening to horses one last time to find some redeeming words. but the words won't come…
patti smith was (and still is) an opportunistic scenester. hermes has a big crush on her. like most rock critiques have. the male of the species has a crush because she was the quintessential female rock star– easy wet dream material for any horny rock loving boy of the 70s. women critiques loved her because she was the one feminist voice of 70s rock.
but her music was (and still is) shit. patti smith is nothing but a glorified cover artist. there, i said it.
she tried to break into the scene as the female reincarnation of jim morrison. she even tells tales of crying over jim morrison's grave. granted, her poetry was as bad as morrison's, but ole jim had the very musical the doors. patti did not. jim was a true rock star, patti was a scenester channeling a rock star. if patti was able to find herself a the doors, she may have pulled something off. and she tried with verlaine, among others. but she failed.
even her first major hit was a cover of gloria, a song jim morrison made his own. and her best song was "because the night", actually written by springsteen…
hermes even drops a shameful jewel when he is writing about patti smith's final set in CBGB, where most of the songs are actually covers, "[she played] the Who's "My Generation," which has been part of her repetoire for so long, she's really a co-owner of it". "she's really a co-owner of it"– my ass. hendrix is a co-owner of all along the watchtower, otis redding is a co-owner of satisfaction, van (not jim) morrison is a co-owner of gloria, and talking heads is a co-owner of take me to the river. dylan, jagger/ richards, and reverend al green wouldn't object. but i would like to hear what pete townshend would say to patti smith co-owning my generation. yeah, right…
patti smith is the ultimate opportunistic scenester– starting off with bad poetry and worse acting, she found her niche as a pseudo-feminist jim morrison– without the balls (and i am not saying this in a sexist way)… her music had no balls. it was just the right music for the right opportunistic time.
she was a party girl who saw an opportunity and took it. like nico before her, but with stronger constitution and better con skills. joan baez would probably be a better analogy though… same shit, different decade…
she became a drooling icon of horny boys (and hornier male critiques) and a role model of feminist rocknrolla girls. all part of the master plan for the production "patti smith". she is still milking it like the elder feminist rock star– her recent album trampin' broke out her new persona– as the elder but more sensitive feminist rock star. the con never ends. and she just had to include gloria again in the deluxe CD set– just to play it safe…
the male critiques who creamed their pants in the 70s simply by staring at the record sleeve of horses for five minutes ate trampin' up and the female critiques beatified her as the joan of arc… but, if you take a step back, ignore all the rave reviews and actually listen to her oeuvre, it is just shit– some barely talented musician playing to the choir…
and this brings me to my conclusion and the best tidbit i got out of buildings: apparently johnny rotten of the sex pistols said about patti smith and her performance "see the hippie shaking tambourines: 'Horses, Horses'. Horseshit".
"horses, horses, horseshit"– it sums up patti smith in three simple words– i can't agree more…
Tags book reviews, books, culture, music, new york, patti smith, reviews
less than a day after the pisses.me christmas special…
…the times published a report on the resurrection of public school prayers. naturally the reports are coming from the deep south, the deadweight of america, still trying to cling to its long past glory days, it is still a serious threat with all the fundamentalist, especially evangelical sentiments spreading around the nation like an arizona bushfire. seems the shame of religion in public schools will never go away.
as usual, the religious zealots are playing the victim once again, claiming persecution. yeah, right. they learned, long ago, if they cry incessantly, they'll get what they want like a child…
the zealots know the best time to indoctrinate a person is in their most depressed and trying times. what better time than high school where every kid is blue?
the religious come-ons, like the come-ons of prostitutes, never speak to the happy and the content. they speak to the miserable: no one turns to god due to happiness and contentment. depression, misery, illness and other assorted woes make you hooked to that drug.
and that's why junior and high-schools, with the blues, isolation, inferiority complexes, cliques, girl-boy troubles, parent issues, etc that come along with matriculation, are the prime recruitment grounds of religious nuts… and that's why they're the main battleground of free speech in america– from the scopes trial and evolution to school prayers…
if we want our society to advance and be peaceful and content, we need to keep these zealots, these religion pimps out of schools. we need to protect these young impressionable minds from dogma. if we can't, we'll lose these minds and all they could have achieved if they were not fried out by religion..
despite their usual infantile tactics, gotta give congratulations to the zealots– they know how to use demagogy. while intellectuals go on their logical academic tirades about the danger evangelicals (and other hardcore religious nuts) pose on our society and our future, zealots speak to the lowest common denominator. and this is where the left fails famously– they never learned to speak to the lowest common denominator. they see themselves too good for it. or they overestimate the people who they should communicate to.
either way, unless we learn how to fight demagogy by demagogy, we will never win and we'll always be cast as the persecutors.
we should swallow our pride and learn to drop ripostes such as the jewels the times reported:
"I definitely think that we should try to get our relationship with Christ back into the schools, Jesus represents everything we want our students to live by."; or
"I want these kids to know that eternal life is real, and I don't care what happens to me, they're going to hear it today."; or
"Please pray for the dark forces out there who would seek to do harm in this situation".
well, the dark forces are already unleashed– as the times reported shortly after school prayer in public schools, the GOP zealots are pushing religion like heroin in their ad campaigns… again, shameless demagogy…
save our future– keep religion out of our schools. and fight demagogy with demagogy… maybe then the south shall finally rise again….
stop genetic experiments on subway cars!
this will make sense mostly to NYC denizens, sorry…
just saw this ungodly abominations the other day. genetic testing on subway cars. old D-R subway cars interbred with A-C cars by the unethical hands of a mad MTA scientist. DR chromosomes mixed up with AC results in this freak of rails.
subway genomes, kawasaki car DNA helixes, where will the buck stop? we need a new geneva convention on human experiments custom designed for subway cars. this needs to stop.
call up your rabid preachers, vicious republican representatives, religious groups, etc and petition the president to stop genetic experiments on subway cars. your protests and self-righteous evangelical dogma worked for stopping stem-cell research, which would have had scientists play god and mess with _____'s (insert the name of the deity of your choice: yahweh, allah, zeus, keith richards, whatever) intelligent design only for the paltry ends of curing cancer, epilepsy, spinal injuries, blah blah– it should also work for genetic tests on subway.
go, pen up and write your petitions!
Tags mta, new york city, subway
housebreaking a new tyrant…
ah, the media is full of photos of north koreans mourning kim jong il, or, as that late rascal jesse helms used to call him, kim jong 2, mixing up his roman numerals with korean names, later ascending him to kim jong the third– ole jesse was not one to let knowledge and intelligence get in the way of good demagogy. oh, how i miss ole jesse but enough on him already– besides, hitchens, who i am really mourning, already told the kim jong the third story much better than i can….
i think i'll miss kim jong il as well. like i miss dubya. when 0le kim died, my first comment on facebook was "the international relations and global politics lost its nabakovian humor, amisian slapstick and kubrickian political leadership… rest as the MC of hell mr. kim jong-il!" and i stand-by my original comment. he was the 21st century version of chaplin's immortal adenoid hynkel, in flesh. team america did him justice, transposing him to ole hynkel with less chaplin grace, but decent humor…
let's face it– we'll always have tyrants. it is a natural byproduct of being human. we don't have tyrants, we're not human anymore. same for psychopaths, same for greedy motherfuckers who suck out and dispose of all our resources, etc. i love lennon as much as anyone, nonetheless "imagine" was nothing but unfettered utopia and gets on my nerves each time i listen to it– "imagine all the people living life in peace"– my ass.. what he calls for is nothing but the end of being human– without the bad we can't have good, sans hate, no love… good ole yin and yang… it is the human nature. c'est la vie…
humor is what gets us through that whole process of life. when we lose our humor, take everything too seriously, this earth becomes hell. pure and simple…
that's why we need to laugh at our tyrants. and some make it too easy– like kim jong il, or like dubya and his sugardaddy cheney before him. if all tyrants were like mugabe, zuma, milosevic or ________ (fill-in the blank with your favorite dictator without anything to poke fun at- north, south, east, west, past, present doesn't matter), our collective sanity would be in jeopardy. hence political parodies, hence saddam on SNL, hence ole kim in "team america"… chaplin, of course, was the granddady of it all, like rabelais before him, with his political satires…
and that's precisely why i'll miss kim jong il…
now, back to the mourning part of this rant– the media prints the photos of north koreans mourning, like the one below. of course then they say "it is all crocodile tears and the photos are nothing but propaganda"…
tell you what: i really believe they're sincerely mourning. they're mourning because now they'll have to housebreak a new tyrant, junior… kim jong-un (or, kim jong one, if ole jesse helms was alive, with his southern drawl, he would have called him, like his young 'uns) just when they got used to living with one devil, as much as you can get used to living with one, now they'll have to start all over again.
i am mourning for them north koreans as well… and nothing i can do for them. but, at least for the collective sanity of the rest of us, hope junior proves to be as eccentric and nuts as his daddy before him… and i sincerely hope we don't get stuck with a reversed bush, sr and dubya situation… hope it is dubya and dubya junior…
keep mourning north koreans and my sincerest wishes for more power to you… you're starting over like you did 63 years ago, again with a puppy tyrant, on his way to becoming the supreme leader…
…a puppy tyrant hellbent on proving himself is always much worse than a lazy old fat tyrant…
techie & the city…
finance-investment types and techies are going gaga with facebook's brand spanking new NYC engineering operation and cornell's new science school in roosevelt island… not a day passes without the "silicone alley" is chanted all over the wires…
when the facebook center was announced, according to bloomberg news some facebook talking head said "New York has a strong history of innovation and is home to thousands of talented technical people, and we want them to help us solve the challenges of designing and building the next generation of Facebook" and, bloomberg himself said, according to the times "We want the next Facebook to start here the world's No. 1 hub for information technology and social media", noting the increase in tech investment and employment in NYC…
the reason ain't "innovation". the reason is simple: NYC is cool, silicone valley (or silicone hills- whatever happened to austin?) ain't…
and the driving force is the transformation of techies. techies are finally conforming to the central casting's description of hackers. it took about 20 years for the actual techies to catch-up with their hollywood images but they finally did. and now they don't want to live in ranch style adobes or hacienda style apartment buildings on the edge of the dessert with occasional pilgrimages to san francisco. they want to live in lofts in the city. they want vibrant nightlife, to use a cliche, not lame start-up parties where you'll have to worry about driving afterwards.
the techies are getting hip, as in hipster, five years after gap caught up with hipsterism…
gone are the days of nerd geniuses of the valley and indian workhorses of coding centers. the nerd geniuses simply cannot relate to social media and web 2.0 (let alone 3.0) and the indians are happy in jersey, virginia, kansas or academia, building their LANs, typing their codes away…
now is the time of the techie on spotify. granted, they're still in their earlier stages of evolution, still thinking the strokes are cool, but they're getting there (if you don't believe me check the spotify list of a programmer friend)… some even discovered moby– the moby who even forgot himself.
they dress up like their williamsburg cousins, circa 2005 (ie. urban outfitters, ben sherman, thrift shops and other assorted cool stores of the decade past and the target's and gap's of today) and get drunk to obscure brooklyn rock bands in east village dives, or get googly eyed in the presence of their holly dj's. hell, some are even forming obscure rock bands or dj'ing themselves…
and they want to get laid. not dream about getting laid, mind you, but actually aspire to get laid… pre-marital sex is in the realm of possibilities for techies now…
you simply can't retain this new techies in the valley. they're the techie 2.0s. they need to be in NYC… hence the shift… RIP the valley.. trust me, it is a good thing– we need more techie 2.0s…
time to jailbreak art…
time to confess- i hate conceptual art. performance art chokes me. there. it is the truth.
and i believe it is time we jailbreak art from the deep confines galleries, dealers and critics are keeping it.
art is no longer in the hands of artists– artists are a commodity manipulated by their brokers in chelsea, soho, basel, armory, wherever… insider trading, stock manipulation, short-sells, fraudulent investment instruments and other assorted deceit is more rampant in the art market than any other stock market. the art world needs its own rule 10b-5.
the dealers, gallery owners and the critics are the gordon gekko's of the art world. and the artists, especially contemporary artists are its bluestar airlines…
bear in mind, i am making the analogy between the artist and the bluestar airlines– not the actual pieces of art and bluestar. art is not the commodity anymore– even that was somewhat noble. artists are the commodity in 21st century art.
and it is a major industry. when we talk about the "art market", we are really talking about a high dollars and high stakes industry.
nowhere the deceit is more obvious than conceptual and performance art…
take this week's times for instance– there is a puff piece, i am sure considered to be serious art criticism to be taken to the bank by most times readers, on the MOMA retrospective of sanja ivekovic. a conceptual and performance artist. samples of her work "sweet violence" makes me wanna puke in anger…
art is not art, or should not be art, when you need to read three paragraphs of very smal print to "get it". i sincerely believe this.
unfortunately conceptual and performance art comes with a verbal explanation thicker and more dense than most cellphone user's manuals. that's the only way it makes sense. that ain't right…
and art doesn't have to make sense. it needs to move. it may please you, it may piss you off. but it moves you. conceptual art will not move you without reading the user's manual…
art doesn't have to be a statement, but sometimes it is. it can be for its sake or the greater good. i don't give a flying fuck either way. but i shouldn't need to read a treatise to "get it"… if i can't get it by seeing or experiencing it, it ain't art…
"those who can't do teach" goes the old cliche. they teach and preach about the very thing they can't do… same with conceptual and performance artists: those who can't do become conceptual and performance artists…
conceptual and performance artists are no different than professor and lecturers: they preach and tirade about what they simply can't do. narrate the thing they don't have the tools, skills or creativity to express as art…
akin to a bad literature teacher, they ruin art for us… i had my share of bad literature teachers (though i had a few who were amazing)… couple of them managed to ruin poetry for me, by dissecting beautiful poems they really did not get according to the textbook dissection charts… monotonously chanting essays about each and every word of the poem instead of letting each one of us feel its music, its movement…
that's precisely what conceptual and performance artists are doing right now and thanks to the stockbrokers of the art world, its late night tv sellers, we eat it all up…
a hit is a hit and a piece of shit is a piece of shit. no longer true. if a piece of shit has a good power dealer behind it, it becomes the next big thing, selling for millions. as if warhol wasn't bad enough.. enough already.
yeah, hate me if you must, but my summons are addressed to the grave of warhol– pollock and rothko contributed but warhol was the one who pulled the trigger and should be tried for crimes against humanity posthumously… he rolled downhill the snowball which became this tragic avalanche, transforming the dipshit artist wannabe with charisma to the commodity it is today– a sick cult of personality…
that's why i only respect so few modern day artists and that is why conceptual and performance art chokes me. that's why i like outsider and street art. simply because they're outsiders, not in the machine yet. that's why i like banksy, even though the stockbrokers of the art market are trying to transform his ass to a commodity as well– and they're about to succeed.
that's why "exit through the giftshop" and "f is for fake" makes so much sense to me, summarizing what i just ranted about clearly and concisely, outing the artist as a commodity and the cults of personality…
time to say a big fuck you to all those conceptual and performance artists with their teary, soulful eyes, their exemplary and trying life stories, their fake political correctness, or, worse, if that is the trend that rocks their boat, their pseudo political un-correctness… and their bullshit statements and tirades about the things they can't express without subtitles and treatises…
they sense and know what is sellable and they package and offer it without any substance or any shame… then an art stockbroker takes them under her wings and tells them what else is sellable… or whether they should continue recycling the same bullshit… with critics and monographs and A-4 sized descriptive labels tagged to their works, telling us what we should feel, sense or understand in the presence of this particular piece of shit…
time to jailbreak art from its confines. time to take it out of basel, armory and the late, late nights of cocaine and piss-weak-vodka laced modern day studio 54s, and unleash it on humanity once again…
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You're never too old to defend yourself. In Eastpointe, Mich., a 91-year-old man was getting out of his car outside of a pharmacy when he noticed a man approaching him in a threatening manner. The armed citizen declared that he was a permit holder. He waited in his car until the stranger disappeared. But when he got out a little while later to enter the store, the assailant came toward him and raised a weapon over his head at the older man. Warning the miscreant that he was armed, the 91-year-old pulled his .38 Spl.-chambered revolver from his side and opened fire, striking the attacker in the neck. "It doesn't have to be a gun or a knife," said Eric Keiser, Eastpointe deputy police chief. "The suspect had a piece of metal fashioned as a weapon. [The armed citizen] felt his life was in danger." The suspect was transported to an area hospital and was later charged. (MacombDaily.com, Eastpointe, MI, 8/23/16)
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Early one Sunday morning, a masked, hatchet-wielding man walked into a 7-Eleven. He proceeded to attack customers and a clerk, who received a gash to the stomach. Another customer who was drinking his coffee near the register was attacked, but being a licensed concealed-gun carrier, he drew his pistol and shot the suspect before anyone else was hurt. (KIRO7-TV.com, Seattle, WA, 3/14/16)
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Minister for Health and Medical Education, ARI and Trainings Choudhary Lal Singh today said that Government is keen to create better sports infrastructure across the State to give impetus to the sports activities.
The Minister said this while interacting with the media persons, here today.
Ch. Lal Singh, who is also Chief Patron of JKAMSA, informed that J&K Adventure Motor Sports (JKAMSA) is organizing 10th Speed Dirt Track Racing Championship (SDTR) from December 17 to 19 at M A Stadium, Parade Ground.
The JKAMSA is also conducting the events including, Ladakh Motor Expeditions Women Car Rally, Mobike Rallies and Dirt Track Races for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir.
Elaborating the details, the Minister informed that about 30/40 bikers are expected to participate in the race in the category of below 180 CC, covering Aprox 9 km distance.
The kilo-meters are being laid specially for the event with all safety measures putting in place. A cash prize amounting to Rs. 50 thousand shall be awarded amongst the winners besides trophies and mementos to the participants.
The Minister hailed the contribution of JKAMSA for the promotion of open speed mobike dirt track racing sports activities in three regions of the State and said that the Government is endeavouring to promote such sports activities in J&K to provide opportunities to the budding sports persons.
He said the objective of organizing such competitions is to promote safe driving and discipline on roads besides creating awareness about the traffic rules in view of alarming number of deaths occurring due to road accidents.
Chairman JKAMSA J P Singh, President JKAMSA Ranjit Singh, Vice President JKAMSA Sunil R P Sethi besides other representatives of JKAMSA were also present on the occasion.


Skiers leave their traces in the winter mountain world. Skiers and snowboarders will fall in love with Schattwald-Zöblen.
The 3-passenger chairlift Wannenjoch is also in operation in summer and is the starting point for wonderful hiking tours!


A tough and effective little box, thanks to strongly curved sides. Midband detail is a little hyped, but the overall balance is quite smooth and the end result is entertaining and communicative.
Some eighteen months back, we reviewed an Avanti A.10 DC, where the DC postscript stood for the company's premium price Design Collection. This came in a high-gloss black lacquer finish and did rather well at £450 per pair, so the portents look pretty good for this non-DC equivalent Avanti A.10 at a less costly £350 per pair.
Despite the Swedish ancestry, all the cues suggest that the Avanti A.10, like so many these days, is probably made in the Far East. It's a small and simple two-way standmount, with a 130mm paper cone bass/mid drive unit using a diaphragm roughly 100mm in diameter.
The tweeter is smaller than most, with a fabric diaphragm around 20mm in diameter. The narrow back accommodates a tiny port, tuned to around 42Hz and a single terminal pair, arranged vertically, is fixed straight through the woodwork.
The result is a very attractive speaker. Its MDF enclosure is very compact and physically discreet and distinguished by dramatically curved sides that give a boat-shaped plan view and virtually eliminate a back panel entirely. Such a shape has the multiple advantages of diffusing rear-panel reflections and internal standing waves, as well as increasing stiffness.
Positioning the A.10 proved a little tricky, as it's one of those (all too common) models that tends to thump a bit when close to a wall, but sounds a little lacking in bass drive and enthusiasm if it's sited in free space. Finding the happy medium proved tricky in our particular room, but speaker/room interaction is an unpredictable and fickle phenomenon, so do take the time and effort to try and achieve the smoothest results.
Under our test conditions, best results were obtained with the speakers about 25cm out from the wall. The bass still sounds a bit resonant and weak in harmonic warmth and richness, but the overall sound – probably assisted by the slightly forward and peaky midrange – is delightfully entertaining and communicative.
It's fair to say that the sound isn't the sweetest around, but it is essentially smooth and very even-handed, with a lively and expressive disposition and an impressive openness that is particularly engaging with voices in general, but especially on speech.
Thanks to the fine acoustic behaviour of the enclosure, there's a commendable lack of boxiness here. Overall coherence is very good, too and stereo images are well focused with good airy spaciousness.
With its attractive shape, engagingly lively yet substantially smooth and open sound quality, criticisms are minor and a recommendation seems appropriate at the price.


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Chechnyan peace talks in Oslo
Neither the Norwegian nor Russian governments are formally involved, but top representatives for the ruling Chechnyan government and its exiled opposition are in Oslo for talks aimed at reconciliation. The organizer of the meetings calls them "historic."
Newspaper Aftenposten reported Wednesday that Chechnya's two leading rival factions are negotiating a political solution for the long-troubled but oil-rich Russian republic that borders Georgia in the Caucasus. Chechnyan President Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly is being represented by the leader of Chenchnya's national assembly Dukhvakha Abdurakhmanov, while Chechnyan opposition leader Akhmed Zakajev is in Oslo himself.
Zakajev is currently living in political asylum in Great Britain and is prime minister of Chechnya's government in exile. His foreign minister, Osman Ferzaouli, is also in Oslo for the meetings. Russian authorities wanted the British government to extradite Zakajev in 2003, but the British refused, not least because of worries Zakajev could face torture in Russia. Several Chechnyan opposition leaders have been murdered in exile, and Zakajev has had warnings that his life also is in danger.
The talks have been arranged by Ivar Amundsen, leader of the Chechnya Peace Forum and an adviser to Zakajev. He told Aftenposten that talks have been going on "for a while."
Amundsen said Zakajev has long sought negotiations but it was Kadyrov who took the initiative by saying that it was necessary for Zakajev to take part in a process that could unify the Chechnyan people. Kadyrov is widely viewed as currently running Chechnya on behalf of Russia, while Zakajev supports a secular policy of liberation from Russia. Amundsen called a third, militant Islamic faction in Chechnya "irrelevant" to the current talks.
"I can't reveal what kind of positions the two sides have, but the fact that they're meeting is itself an historic situation," Amundsen told Aftenposten .
Amundsen said that both the Russian and Norwegian government have been "oriented" that the talks are taking place, but neither is involved in the conversations.
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When we embarked on our MBA, there were a few books that were recommended to us to give us a flavour of what the journey would entail. One such book was "To Snapshots from Hell by Peter Robinson", a tale of a previous presidential speechwriter's journey on the Stanford MBA. He defined the non-mathematical students as poets, people like himself as well as marketing types, artists etc who were non-mathsy. He could do well to add Makeup Artists to that category too as I was also in the group that struggled with any of the math related subjects like Corporate Finance and Financial Reporting. To be fair I also own and run a Hair and Makeup Talent Agency, so thought I would have a grasp of these subjects, but they are on another level to what you would experience running a small business.
As I quickly got lost in the workload of the MBA and group work, I struggled to keep on top of the more technical subjects. Above is some of our team on the last day of working together, we decided to go for dinner to celebrate, we don't look too bad! I would encourage any Poets thinking of persuing the MBA to try and do an introduction course on Maths & Accounting, in order to give you a starting chance. The first few months of the MBA is like taking part in the Bull Run in Pamplona. You signed up for it, so you can't complain, but taking part is like running down a narrow cobbled street with other participants, trying to stay amongst the group, but not get mutilated by a giant herd of bulls(deadlines) as they come at you left, right and centre.
Just when you think you are getting somewhere, you have handed in your project, around the corner comes another deadline ready to decapitate you if you take your eye off the proverbial bull! Also, like the festival, once you get through the trauma of the event, you are filled with a sense of elation, pride and achievement that you have come out the other side, relatively unscathed.
It isn't all doom and gloom though. There were plenty of highs, including getting to know some fantastic people and enjoy some down time. Here I am at the Image Business Awards with the lovely Shitandi, Suzanne and Ankita. It was so nice to get glammed up and be inspired by some fantastic women in business.
I also managed to bring Shitandi out of her digs in "Proby" to explore a bit of the countryside that Ireland has to offer. Here we are pictured on top of the Hell Fire Club with Dublin City in the background. The mix of people in the MBA is one of the truly best features of the course. With all the different cultures and perspectives, you learn so many alternative ways of thought. I am delighted that I took on the challenge of the MBA and feel like I am getting a well-rounded education that will serve me well into the future. The leadership development and career coaching are particularly good in Smurfit and something that I think really compliments the course well. We have done a lot of teamwork analysis including SDI training and 360 feedback which is invaluable in developing yourself as a leader.
As I look to the next semester with anticipation, I shout ¡Viva San Fermín! He is the Patron saint, who blesses and guides the runners of the bull run as they set out on their treacherous journey. If he can protect them from raging bulls then I am sure he can look out for me as I head out on the next stage of my journey!
On August 27th, 31 students from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia came together for the first time. Excited to embark on this crazy adventure called the Smurfit MBA – wondering what our classmates would be like, who we would be working with in study groups and who our new friends would be.
Less than seven weeks later, it was time for us to be exposed to a whole new set of MBA students from schools across the world. Who would we meet? What would our classmates be like? Who would our new friends be? Some members of our Smurfit class set off to locations such as Vancouver, New Haven and Madrid, and some stayed in Dublin to warmly welcome students from other MBA programs to our home in Dublin. As a Canadian who spent the last decade living in Western Europe, I chose to attend the module offered at Fudan University of Management in Shanghai, China.
Enthusiastic about the opportunity to experience a new culture, eat dumplings and meet more inspiring MBA students, I bade goodbye to Dublin for the week and set off for Shanghai alone.
Navigating a big city in China proved to be harder than I had anticipated, which was the general consensus among the other GNAM students in Shanghai – and became a great source of entertainment for my friends back home and in Dublin. I honed my skills in pointing and gesturing, as I learned more about the evolving Chinese business culture and took in the sights, history and dumplings.
I heard about programmes that had hundreds of students each year, and I had a newfound appreciation for the close-knit nature of the Smurfit programme. We arrived at Smurfit strangers, and only seven short weeks later, I found myself missing the cheerful Irish accent, my Indian, Kenyan, South African and Japanese MBA family in Proby House, my brilliant and funny study group and all 30 faces that I had come to know so well in such a short time.
Now another seven weeks have elapsed since that alternate universe MBA experience in Shanghai and I can say that I've come to appreciate the UCD Smurfit community and Dublin even more with time.
In Switzerland, we say "daheim si isch ke Ort…sondern äs Gfüeu" (home is not a place, rather a feeling). I am thankful for the "Céad Míle Fáilte" (hundred thousand welcomes) I have received daheim at Smurfit and look forward to continuing this adventure.
We have reached the end of a challenging yet very rewarding semester one. But the storm clouds have arrived. And (if I may quickly jump between plays) Shylock's pound of flesh has come due. It's exam time. And unlike Antonio, who managed to find a legal loophole, we must lift our shirts and pay what's due.
Our first exam is Corporate Finance, which may explain why my brain has turned to Shakespeare to escape from all the WACC'ing it has been receiving. The Merchant of Venice does cover a lot of the core principles of finance. Bonds and repayments are key actors in the drama. OCC is a central theme. And if Antonio had carefully considered his capital budgeting, taking proper account of the risks associated with 16th century shipping to establish his risk matched discount rate, he may not have had to use as much of his equity (ie shares in his body parts) as leverage for the debt. Better capital structuring would have saved him from a potentially painful divestment. You could say it is a perfect example of Modigliani and Miller second proposition, where the return or cost of equity increases as the percentage of debt increases.
Once more unto the breach, dear MBA candidates, once more.
Whilst pursuing my MBA from Smurfit, I got an opportunity to attend the "IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards, 2018". Sounds like some academy award function? Well it was no less! In all of its glitz, glamour and dazzle, women from all across Ireland were celebrated for their dedication towards their work and their entrepreneurial skills in every field from social to digital media. Ironically the event was hosted on 19 November, "International Men's day", in the Clayton Hotel, Burlington.
It was my first opportunity to go to such even. I was excited about meeting women who had excelled at their respective domains. I was stumped by the grandeur of the venue, with the decorated pink and gold colours for the event. Every woman was dressed to the nines, beaming with pride due to being nominated for an award or due to being there to support their colleagues in their nomination or some where there like me to be inspired. Every table in the ballroom was finely decorated with feathers, candles and pearls and a beautiful gift was provided in the form of a bracelet with "success" monogrammed on it.
Sitting there listening to their stories, we could feel the fire in their heart, their determination and passion which has got them this far. Their stories exuberated that age is just a number, you can start anytime in your life and glory comes when every setback is dealt with through perseverance and most importantly by keeping your head high when things get tough.
I hope to return to such an event, not only to make my mark my time on the MBA at Smurfit, but also as a mark of my imprint on the Irish business world upon graduation.
My MBA journey began by running into school panting for breath, just in time for Economics class. The first thing I noticed – apart from the beautiful campus and the amazing cohort of students I was with – was that I was shivering despite wearing four layers of clothing. I realized then that I was going to get colder weather than I had bargained for. Not one to be put off by a few spells of rain and a breeze, I plunged into my modules.
This would soon change however, as the year progressed, and the temperature dropped in Dublin. Term one spanned over 4 months – fall and the advent of winter. Leaves morphed from green to beautiful shades of tan, auburn and orange. Trees soon shed these leaves, strewing the ground with gold medallions of crackle that the dogs loved playing in. Bare branches and sprightly conifers greeted me each morning as I made my way to class, determination in my stride and a cup of hot chocolate in hand.
And then, just like that, winter was here. For a girl from the tropics, this is bad news. Very few hours of feeble sunlight and piling assignments and group work were not a good combination. I grew so frustrated at not being able to wake up to dark mornings and feeling hungry and sleepy at odd times because of my disrupted body clock that I did what any MBA student would do – I analyzed the data and wrote a report.
The point of inflection on the graph is the ideal space to be – you're motivated enough to do your work; the weather is just perfect, and the workload is something you can easily handle. The shaded area is a zone you really don't want to get into – low motivation, terrible weather and skyrocketing workload. The red dot represents where I am at the moment.
The MBA program is however, ideal for learning how to deal with the shaded zone. I have picked up great interpersonal skills, time management skills and an enhanced ability to deal gracefully with stress. The coaching sessions and wonderful vibe of my flat-mates have ensured that I don't fall victim to the immense workload and unpredictable weather.
All in all, this experience will make me a well-rounded individual, capable of meeting challenges head-on and working with people to surmount impossible tasks. And to think it's only been four months!
I eagerly await the coming months for more things to learn. Almost as eagerly as I await spring.
Digital is dead, FinTech is Next!!!
On 7th November, UCD Smurfit FinTech Society organized its first event "Blockchain: Beyond Cryptocurrency" at the UCD Smurfit School. We had an exciting panel from Deloitte Blockchain lab and ConsenSys, Ireland to talk us through the innovations happening in Fintech and the role of Blockchain in industries such as finance, supply chain and food. The session started with the basics of Blockchain, but participation and inquisitiveness of society members drove discussion towards more complex topics on ethereum development and use of technology across sectors. To our surprise, many MBA students turned up for the event although it was happening on the day before Economics mid-term exam (Dear Jim, I wish this can be used as an excuse for my not so good performance in the economics mid-term exam). The part that was most fun around organizing the event and running Smurfit FinTech society has been meeting like-minded people who want to use or are using the Blockchain technology to power their own ventures and the aim of our Society is to bring together those people.
Also, the support that we got from Smurfit LDP and Careers office has been tremendous. Ailish Lynch, our MBA Leadership Development Manager, supported us from the very start when we pitched our idea to start a new club aimed at FinTech innovations. Mark Davies, UCD Smurfit Careers Manager also helped us to reach out to companies to help us with eminent guest speakers. There is a lot to explore in Blockchain technologies, and UCD Smurfit's strong alumni network is of huge benefit for people who have desire to reach out to people from the field of their interest.
It's been more than three months since I arrived in Dublin to pursue my MBA at Smurfit. The year at the business school is supposed to be nothing short of transformational, as countless others have testified before. I'm here to tell you that it doesn't take a year – I can already tell you that I have transformed holistically from the person I was three months back.
The MBA is a degree in business leadership. It has two important points of growth – educational (the theoretical aspects of business) and personal (the daily aspect of leadership). For me, that meant a solid grounding in core finance and accounting aspects that I was particularly uncomfortable with and an understanding of the practicalities surrounding marketing and strategy. Perhaps more importantly, it also meant a good hard look at myself and understanding how my particular personality can shine through and become a better leader. Smurfit provides a lot of tools and resources to help us look at ourselves and illustrates how we can become phenomenal leaders while keeping most of our personalities intact. Largely this is down to the LDP programme, the diversity of the cohort and the excellent strategy of putting students in diverse study groups.
During this "transformation", it is important not to lose sight of the fact that you need to have fun. Our intake embody the spirit of work hard, party harder (perhaps this is obvious seeing that the course is in Dublin). The MBA is an intense course, and you would soon be running on reserves if you do not let loose regularly. In addition, a lot of the learnings and "team-building activities" happen with friends at the pubs.
I knew that the MBA was going to be a transformational journey, but I am pleasantly surprised daily at the changes I have undergone. Few of the takeaways until date – a better understanding of myself, higher confidence, better presentation skills and a healthier lifestyle. And you know what? There are still nine more months to go!
1/3rd of the way through already? Surely not?
A common theme one tends to hear a lot in relation to pursuing an MBA is that of time management. Not to push a cliché too much, but it's in disbelief I find that we are in our last week of lectures of semester one. Our midterms are complete and we're certainly in the thick of the last of the assignments and preparation for the upcoming end of semester exams. Even whilst trying to be cognizant of the time with everything that's been expected of us over the last 3 months, I find myself asking "where did that time go"?
A huge amount in that time has happened and in my view that is the reason behind the sentiment of the whirlwind of the Smufit MBA experience. In the last 3 months I've lost track of the amount of new people I've met – possibly the most in my life in such a short space of time. After having travelled extensively by myself when I was younger, I can say that is no mean feat! With networking being such an important component of the Smurfit MBA there is no shortage of promotion of those values I can say with certainty!
Whilst we have been incredibly busy with our core modules, in tandem with these we have been attending Leadership Development Program sessions on team and individual dynamics. These sessions have focused on our individual and team styles of contribution that have certainly given me food for thought about where people fit in in teams, how we work in teams and even showing us parts of our personalities that we might not have been aware of. All this has assisted in the various teams we have been a part of and how we fit in to perform at our best.
Another highly worthwhile mention of the activities of the last few months is the GNAM (Global Network of Advanced Management) week here in Dublin which focused on Digital Business transformation. This was expertly organised by Nicola Dunnion and JP Donnelly, CEO of Ogilvy. So much was packed into the 5 days including guest speakers such as the Liam Kavanagh, CEO of the Irish Times, Tom Kinsella, CMO of AIB, and company visits to Facebook, Google and the Abbey to name only a few! The content, presentations, visits and organisation were second to none. We had some fantastic conversations and us Smurfiteers did our best to impart some local knowledge and wisdom to make our many guests from FGV São Paulo, ESMT Berlin, Koç University, UBC Sauder, EGADE, Yale, IIMB, Fudan, IE Business School and Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile feel welcome during their stay.
As time creeps up on us and we advance through our workload, I look forward to our Christmas break to catch up with family and friends. Equally though, I feel that having recharged the batteries I will be looking forward to the next chapter of the Smurfit MBA Journey if it's as eventful, challenging and enjoyable as this instalment which I've no doubt it will be.
Back in early August I remember receiving an email laying out the various choices for the GNAM Week and asking for an response "ASAP". "GNAM", I thought to myself – "what's that?" The MBA course wouldn't start for another 3 weeks and I was already behind! A cursory glance at the email told me that six weeks after starting the course we would have the opportunity to travel abroad to a different university in the Global Network, meeting MBA students from around the world, and attending lectures on various topics with experts in their fields. I checked the options and found that a course in 'Behavioural Science in Management' would be given at Yale University no less – 'sounds fine' I thought, 'I'll do that' I thought, 'that's ages away yet' I thought.
After what felt like five minutes, we had completed 6 weeks of lectures at Smurfit, with exams and submission deadlines looming large. At that point, I needed a trip to America like I needed a hole in my head. While I hadn't done much research into the GNAM experience, it was impossible to ignore the allusions to and mentions of GNAM that came with nearly every interaction with MBA Alumni. It wouldn't take long to see why they talked of it with such enthusiasm. Along with my classmates: Carla, Chris, Ciara, Ger, Hans, Lydia and Luzi I made my way to Yale – a week of educational hedonism lay ahead of us, an experience we won't ever forget.
On Monday morning we started early with a lecture from Shane Frederick. If you've heard of the "Bat and Ball" question – he wrote it! If you haven't heard of it, do yourself a favour and look it up, it's a great one to share with your WhatsApp groups! Like all the lecturers we would meet that week, Shane is a leader in his field, highly knowledgeable and widely published. He managed to keep us on the edge of our seats for the full three-hour lecture which seemed to last minutes – delivering the punchlines to his theories with energy and conviction.
On Wednesday we took a day trip to New York, where we met with Roland Betts, the owner of the Chelsea Piers Leisure facility, former Chairman of the Board of Yale University, responsible for financing Disneys The Little Mermaid! He treated us to a tour of his premises and engaged in a candid Q&A. He talked us through his decision to buy the piers back in the 90s, at a time when no-one wanted to visit Chelsea, explaining the difficulties he'd faced in staying afloat, particularly after Hurricane Sandy, all the way up to it becoming one of the most visited places in Manhattan. This was real insight into a real success-story, and we all finished the visit feeling energised.
The highlight of the trip came immediately after the visit to Chelsea Piers. Rather than travel back to Yale with rest of the GNAM cohort, we lucky UCD Students put on our glad rags and headed towards Central Park. Having realised that we would be in New York at the same time, the American Chapter of the UCD Alumni Association invited us to their annual Alumni Dinner. Now, I'm a big fan of the Smurfit Campus Restaurant – those pizzas are delicious – but that evening in New York we truly got to see how the other half live! In the illustrious setting of the Metropolitan Club facing Central Park on Fifth Avenue, we were lucky enough to rub shoulders with Smurfit Alumni, Smurfit Staff, Lecturers and the honoured guests of the evening. The food was incredible and the company even better! We were delighted to have been invited and to see how engaged the global UCD Smurfit Alumni network is.
Lectures continued on Thursday in the same vein as they'd started on Monday and Tuesday, with a highly engaging talk by Prof. Zoe Chance. On Friday the kilter changed slightly – rather than sit, listen and be entertained it was now our job to stand, speak and enlighten… We were divided into groups with students from Insead, ESMT, Sauder, IE, Koc and many other top business schools. Each group had to deliver a presentation about a key take away from the week's lecture series. While we mightn't have matched what had come before us, I'd like to think that we made a solid contribution.
We Smurfiteers said goodbye to all of our new friends from around the globe and took an evening train back to Manhattan, enjoying our final GNAM dinner as a group that night. We were exhausted – the week had flashed past us and we'd done our best to keep up. It had been a program full to the brim with opportunities to learn and network, and we'd made the most of it. What had felt at the start of the week like an unwelcome distraction from the impending deadlines had morphed into something truly memorable. The books would re-emerge on the flight home, as reality began to set in. We arrived back in Dublin, more tired than when we left, but we were a little bit wiser, more open-minded and most of all – happy we'd replied to that email marked "ASAP".
And so it came to pass that the MBA class of 2018 gathered in the beautiful Thomas Prior Hall in Ballsbridge, to mark the conclusion of their studies at the Graduation Ball. While this was a pre-emptive acknowledgment, with final results not due to be released for another four days, the graduates-in-waiting turned out in number with unwavering confidence that they had successfully navigated their Capstone project and final modules.
On the surface, this was an opportunity for classmates who have not seen each other for a few months to get dressed up, pat themselves on the back and to have a good boogie. In fact this event meant much more than that.
The ball marked the end of one or two years of immensely hard work and sacrifice; not just for the students, but for their partners, children, parents and friends. It marked the end of a journey of learning; about oneself, about teamwork, about leadership and about change. It marked the end of engaging lectures, expanding horizons and student discounts.
But it also marks a beginning. For many, the beginning of new jobs or roles, for others, the beginning of applying what they have learned in the workplace and the wider world. There is a justified sense of optimism and confidence in this group in what they can achieve and the impact they can make as alumni.
During the MBA, our classmates became our second family. Some weeks we spent more time with them than our first family. The bond and camaraderie forged through the demanding experiences of the MBA are strong. These are people we will always have time for, support and feel connected to. While oceans may imminently separate us as a group, we will follow each other's paths with interest and pride.
This year, the committee decided to support Fr. Tony Coote, a former Chaplin of UCD in his 'Walk While You Can' campaign. Fr. Tony is raising awareness and funds for Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association and Research Motor Neurone, having been diagnosed with MND in March of this year. Through the generosity of those at the ball, the sponsors and contributors of raffle prizes, nearly €4,000 was raised for this worthy cause. If you wish to make an on-line donation you can still do so via our iDonate fundraising page: www.idonate.ie/MBABallWhileYouCan2018.
I would like to congratulate and thank my fellow committee members Stuart Garrett, Mary Sheehan, Gwen Morgan and Lucy MacAuley for their hard work in making the ball a fantastic success.
I would also like to congratulate and thank my classmates for making the decision to pursue their MBA, for their help and support along the way, for what they have taught me and each other, for the experiences we have shared and for their companionship on our journey of change and our new beginning.


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Alex Ross has been the music critic at The New Yorker since 1996. He writes about classical music, covering the field from the Metropolitan Opera to the contemporary avant-garde, and has also contributed essays on literature, history, the visual arts, film, and ecology. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His second book, the essay collection Listen to This, won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. His latest book is Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, an account of Wagner's vast cultural impact. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. | Photo: Josh Goldstine
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Buying a Safari or a Scorpio for under 5 lakh rupees will require you to settle for 5-6 year old examples. For about 4 lakh rupees, a barely used Maruti Suzuki Gypsy that is less than a year old can be had in the used car market in Delhi. Such examples are rare as the Gypsy itself is a very niche vehicle. If you do happen to find one, the owner will probably be selling out because she or he cannot take the stiff ride quality that the leaf spring suspension equipped Gypsy offers. The Gypsy is available with a 1.3 liter petrol engine that outputs 80 Bhp-110 Nm.
A workhorse that is more MUV than an SUV, the Bolero has the stance to transform itself into a mean looking SUV with just a few basic modifications such as new bumpers and tyres. The Bolero is one of Mahindra's oldest product lines, with its current platform stretching back to 2001. The Bolero is known for its ruggedness and easy to maintain nature. DI versions of the Bolero deliver great torque right from standstill and are well known for their excellent fuel efficiency figures. You can snag a 3 year old Mahindra Bolero SLE with about 50,000 clicks on the odometer for 5 lakh rupees.
The Tata Safari is India's original homegrown SUV and the latest versions come with 2.2 liter DICOR common rail turbo diesel engines. The 2.2 liter diesel engine is quite powerful (140 Bhp-320 Nm) and Safaris with this engine are generally better buys when compared with ones equipped with 3 liter DICOR or 2 liter TCIC diesel motors. For five lakh rupees, you can get a three year old, 40,000 Kms run Safari DICOR 4X4 EX variant. A well used example should do a lakh kilometers more with regular maintenance.
The Mahindra Scorpio is India's best selling SUV and a hot favourite in the used car market, where its holds its value quite well. A four year old Mahindra Scorpio LX 4X2 that has done about 60,000 kilometers, will fit a five lakh rupee budget. The Scorpio LX made in 2010 features a 2.2 liter-4 cylinder mHawk turbo diesel engine that outputs 120 Bhp-290 Nm and that is known for its smoothness and silent operation. The Scorpio isn't as spacious as the Safari and taller folks may find the middle seat too cramped for their liking. Also, the ride quality of the Scorpio is a few notches below that of the Safari.
The Mahindra Thar CRDe 4X4 might not be the most practical SUVs to buy, but is nevertheless a timeless style statement that combines the genes of the Jeep with the factory reliability of the Bolero platform. The Thar is hot property in the used car market and holds its value rather well. However, a fair number of Thars end up in the used car market early in their lives as many owners find living with a basic off roader difficult after experiencing modern day cars. If you aren't one of them, a used, 40,000 kilometers run Thar CRDe 4X4 can be bought for about 5 lakh rupees.


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Q: How to call multiple rest requests with Axios I am new to React JS. I have read some examples of how to create client rest in Reactjs.
my questions - I get all courses and then I want for each course call another HTTP service. My code is below.
export default class Courses extends Component{

    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {courses: []};
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/all')
        .then(response => {
            const courseList = response.data.map(c => {
                return {
                  id: c.id,
                  name: c.name,
                  previewBase64:c.previewBase64,
                  authors:
                     axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/getAuthorsByCourseId/'+c.id+"/")
                    .then(res => {
                        const profiles = res.data.map(p => {
                            return {
                              name: p.name
                            };
                          })
                    })
                };
              })
              console.log(courseList);
              const newState = Object.assign({}, this.state, {
                courses: courseList
              });
              // store the new state object in the component's state
              this.setState(newState);
        });
    };
    render(){
        return(
            <CourseList courses={this.state.courses}/>
        )
    }
}

my CourseList.jsx :
const courseList = (props) => (
    <Grid>
    <Row>
        {
            props.courses.map((course, i)=>{
                return  (
                <Col key ={i} lg={2} sm={8} xs={12} md={6}>

{course.name}

AUTHOR NAME WILL BE HERE

                </Col>)
                })
            }
    </Row>
</Grid>
);

export default courseList;

This code works but I get "promise" for authors like that.
{id: 7, name: "HTML", previewBase64: "", authors: Promise}

A: You need Promise.all or axios.all
const baseURL = 'http://localhost:8065/api/course/getAuthorsByCourseId/';

const p = Promise.all(response.data.map(({ id }) => axios.get(`${baseURL}${id}`)));

p.then(result => {
  console.log(result);
}).catch(e => {
  throw e;
});

A: You may try this below, use this as a reference https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function
async componentWillMount() {
        let data = await axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/all').then(response => {
            return response
        })
        const courseList = data.map(c => {
            return {
                id: c.id,
                name: c.name,
                previewBase64: c.previewBase64,
                authors: await axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/getAuthorsByCourseId/' + c.id + "/")
                    .then(res => {
                        const profiles = res.data.map(p => {
                            return {
                                name: p.name
                            };
                        })
                    })
            };
        })
        console.log(courseList);
        const newState = Object.assign({}, this.state, {
            courses: courseList
        });
        // store the new state object in the component's state
        this.setState(newState);
    }

A: You can try refactor this way, Anyway it's better having just one API that return both courses and authors
componentDidMount() {
    axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/all')
    .then(response => {

      const promises = response.data.map(c => {
        axios.get('http://localhost:8065/api/course/getAuthorsByCourseId/'+c.id+"/")
        .then(res => { //for each course get the authors
            return res.data.map(p => {
                return {
                  name: p.name
                };
              });
        })
        .then(profiles => ({ id: c.id, profiles })); //keep a reference with the course
      });

      axios.all(promises, (allProfiles) => { //wait for all getAuthorsByCourseId are resolved
        const profileMap = allProfiles.reduce((map, profiles)=> {
          return map[profiles.id] = profiles.profiles;
        }, {}); // from array to map
        const courseList = response.data.map(c => {
          return {
            id: c.id,
            name: c.name,
            previewBase64:c.previewBase64,
            authors: profileMap[c.id],
          };
        }); //build the courseList with all data resolved
        const newState = Object.assign({}, this.state, {
          courses: courseList
        });
        // store the new state object in the component's state
        this.setState(newState);
      });
    });
};

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