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Starting Fires on Purpose — When and How Leaders Need to Break the Rules
When Paul Berry was CTO of The Huffington Post — where he grew their audience from zero to more than 110 million monthly readers — President Greg Coleman and CEO Eric Hippeau had a running joke that they needed an armed military vehicle to bring him to and from work, because he was too darn valuable.
"If you die on the way here, Paul, we're all screwed," they'd say. "You have to start hiring people who are as good as you so that we can replace you if we have to."
So that's exactly what Berry did, and his management style attracted incredible talent. His secret: he instituted very little process for the technology team as it grew. As you'll see, structure isn't really his thing.
Now as Founder and CEO of publishing platform RebelMouse, Berry compares the magic of a startup's early days to the way Jimi Hendrix pursued his music career.
"We were the startup that never knew the startup rules," he says. "I did everything very intentionally not by the book. We never talked about management, team, structure, or process. The rules felt wrong to me."
But inevitably at both The Huffington Post and RebelMouse, Berry had to shift gears from operating like Jimi Hendrix to implementing structure and procedures that would allow scale without stifling originality. To keep things fresh, he built a rule-breaking mindset into this structure.
In order succeed and do something really creative, you have to know when to break your own process.
In this exclusive interview, Berry details the four scenarios when the best leaders should break the rules, and how to rally the people who will lead the charge.
How to Start a Fire on Purpose
The first step of breaking the rules is distinguishing between projects that are important and projects that are truly vital — being very conservative and brutally honest about these labels, and actually documenting what falls into each category.
First, accept that 70% of the features you develop will and should follow some sort of traditional process. This will keep business as usual on the rails.
"But for your most critical projects, the 10 to 30% of projects that absolutely change the game for you and separate your company from competitors, you have to break the process completely," says Berry. "If you follow process on those, it will take far too long, and you'll lose your advantage."
For example, let's say a huge industry leader is about to release a product that will change your company's market. Your team has the chance to build a feature that will tie directly to this release and allow you to ride its momentum.
When confronted with this type of situation, your first course of action should be to assemble a small breakout group with the synergy to rapidly execute and achieve your goal. For the 30% of projects that break the rules, these team members will operate in 'firestarting mode' while the rest of your employees follow traditional process.
Berry cites Ze Frank, President of Buzzfeed Motion Pictures, for the three phases of this rule-breaking framework — Firestarting, ember tending, and managing the bonfire. These are the phases Berry communicates to the "breakout groups" he charges with breaking rules on purpose.
Breakout groups are generally comprised of five team members: A fire-starter, ember tender, two engineers (four at most), a product manager or business lead, and the bonfire manager.
Fire-starters are engineers who spearhead the backend development of these projects, such as single handedly coding a new feature. They think obsessively like a product person and derive energy from creating something out of nothing. They need little direction and are often capable of working alone and very quickly.
As your team grows, you'll have a few fire-starters who you should keep incredibly close to you. Berry's been working with pretty much the same ones for over eight years.
"You need to know who they are and have a really good relationship with them that you build on over every project. You want history and legacy with these people," he says.
Ember tenders are project leads who excel at maintaining, scaling, and iterating products. They work closely with your fire-starter to cultivate a thorough understanding of how and why the work is being done. Once the project is complete, your fire-starter will pass the baton to your ember tender who will integrate and manage the new feature in the broader company's process.
The engineers, product manager, or business lead are added to the breakout team to streamline communication across departments. Long feedback loops can be detrimental to the group's success when operating under a tight deadline.
As a founder or senior leader, your role is to be the bonfire manager. You're responsible for distinguishing which projects are vital, assembling the breakout group to execute them, and maintaining the pace by providing nearly instant feedback and removing high level roadblocks for your fire-starter.
Below, Berry walks through the four scenarios when you'll want to bring a breakout group in to do some serious rule-breaking, why it's necessary, and how to do it responsibly so the fire you set doesn't get out of control.
Scenario 1: Catching Industry Waves
The first and most urgent indication that you need to break the rules is when you have an opportunity to connect your product to an upcoming, influential release in your industry.
When Facebook announced Connect in 2008, media companies were skeptical about giving up their logins to a social network. But under Berry's leadership, Huffington Post was the first to lead the charge.
"We knew it was going to be hard to build our social graph on top of Facebook's, but having a really strong integration was something that Facebook could take to the entire industry and say, 'Look what Huffington Post did,'" he says. "It was a lot of work that suddenly had to happen in its own bubble. In a way, protected from all of our other priorities. It changed and elevated the way that brands thought of us."
Berry immediately assembled a breakout group to ensure that the project would be completed by Facebook's targeted launch.
"You want the people who derive energy from this kind of work," he says. "It's not something that's going to bog them down or make them feel uncomfortable."
He cites, Valery Jadlovsky, Senior Developer at RebelMouse, as a demonstrative example of a fire-starter who is capable of excelling under an industry related deadline.
"He understands a project, puts his headphones on to hardcore death metal music, and disappears into a cave until he emerges five days later with exactly what you need," Berry says. "If you make him follow the normal process of communication and passing the baton it would take twice along."
Breaking process in the right way is about instinctively knowing when to give people that creative freedom.
Rapid feedback is the driving force fueling these projects and is the chief reason that you assemble a breakout group to support your fire-starter. "The CEO, CTO, or a product person needs to be there to obsessively answer questions for these people."
Fire-starters are obsessed with very quick feedback. Every spark they create is an exciting moment that needs recognition.
For the 70% of projects that abide by your company's traditional process, taking 12 to 24 hours to respond to a product or sales related inquiry is acceptable. But when breaking the rules, extended feedback loops are "extremely demoralizing to developers."
"They're working like crazy on a tight deadline. They can't wait hours to hear back on an answer," says Berry. "Everyone has to move at the same speed together."
As CEO, or a senior leader, your involvement plays a critical role here, requiring you to go back to your Jimi Hendrix roots to help execute a project.
You should be on call to give nearly on-demand feedback as your fire-starter executes. At RebelMouse, Berry responds to developers on these teams in minutes.
When the project is complete and ready to be tested, rather than undergoing extensive QA and client feedback checks, the feature may be tested by the fire-starter themselves and the teammates working in the breakout group.
"It can be done at midnight, released at 2 a.m, and pulled back at 4 a.m. It's a very unique type of process because the risk and reward ratio is so different," Berry says. "The reward for being on time for an announcement like this is so impactful to the business that you can take on higher risks."
In late 2015, when Facebook announced that they were going to release Instant Articles, "It became a huge obligation for RebelMouse to have a team that would do nothing but make it to that first release."
There are moments when a major titan in your industry releases something that you can get early access to and you have to be ready to react.
"It's hard for companies because they already have a product roadmap, but these are the moments that you have to pay attention to. You need to break the rules on everything and build an extremely fast track to integrating and building something the right way."
Fire-starting is like a performance. When you launch a product in time for an industry release, Berry encourages founders to give their fire-starters a few weeks rest.
"They can't work on fire starting projects too long," he says. "Even your rock stars need sustainable lives where they aren't under pressure every day."
This is when your ember tenders — the individuals who worked alongside the fire-starter in the breakout group — will take the lead and oversee execution.
"They'll come in and say 'I get it. We need to refactor this piece, touch on this, and update this. Alright, I'll take it from here.' Ember tenders are really good at maintaining, scaling, and iterating the product."
For example, when The Huffington Post rallied around creating their first iPad app, the fire starters coded the app while the ember tenders now maintain and improve the features in existence today.
"The best way to balance your fire-starter is to pair them with someone who is going to be a good ember tender. They have to be there as a part of the logical process of the fire starting so that when they inherit the ember they understand what they've received."
Again, your desired goal is that your ember tender approaches the situation as if the fire-starter passed him or her the baton. Consider this the revival of your traditional process.
External forces are a constant influence on your company's growth informing Berry's assertion that you will always have at least one fire-starting project thriving amidst your established roadmap. The best way to prepare and capitalize on them is to identify your fire-starters, inform and involve your ember-tenders, and be ready to helicopter in and out when you're needed as a leader.
Scenario 2: Speeding Up Your Product Roadmap
Internally, you're responsible for identifying which of the projects your team is currently working on that are vital and convening breakout groups to catapult them.
The obligation on the CEO level is to know better than anyone else on the team what things are really important.
Reflecting on his experiences at Huffington Post, Berry cites Huffington Post Chairman Ken Lerer's instinctive vision of where to lean forward as a company to gain recognition.
"He'd tell me 'You've got to work on Twitter. Twitter is going to be huge. Have a team work on it. He said that before it was certain how big Twitter would become. He was just certain of it," he says. "The difference between an okay CEO and a great CEO is the ability to have that vision for the company, understand where you fit into the industry, and know which things are most important for your team to focus on."
If you're a CEO but not a product person, it's important to establish your Head of Product as a right-hand team member who you can align with, trust, and delegate that responsibility to.
Berry inhabited this role when Eric Hippeau was CEO at Huffington Post. The ability to distinguish which roadmap stops are vital is "part art and part science," he says.
You can achieve this by unveiling and exploring projects that your team members, particularly your senior leaders, deeply believe in (similar to Ken's conviction on Twitter), as well as ensuring that you're delivering a product that far exceeds your customers conscious and unconscious expectations.
It starts with your whole team having a strong understanding of company priorities.
"You don't want to be sidetracked by an attractive distractor — something that looks really cool and sparkles, but if it's not at the core of your business you end up breaking the process too often. It's about picking the right moment, and aligning it with the core things that you're looking at."
To identify and manage your own vital projects, ask these three questions about the change at hand before assembling a breakout group:
How much will this affect the business when it's live?
Will this change our audience and revenue numbers when we release it?
How challenging is it to execute?
You want your team to actively generate a hypothesis. "Sometimes people like an idea in the abstract and think, 'Oh my god! It will be so cool when we have it.' But when you ask them 'How do you think it will change things? They have to really think about it."
Berry is currently spearheading this at RebelMouse as the team pioneers new features to elevate their clients' social discovery.
"RebelMouse clients don't necessarily know where to ask for features. They just want growth and for us to power properties that will help them achieve that," he says. "Your customers will have requests but many products have to come from inside your organization when you know something is going to make a difference."
This recently occurred with the team's release of RebelMouse 2.0. Their new product Rebel Runner is specifically designed to enable clients to seamlessly share their content across multiple media properties amidst the conversations surrounding ad-blocking and the rise of social publishing platforms like Facebook Instant Articles.
"We knew that if we could make the best practice clear for their workflow that it was something that would be vital for us," Berry explained.
"To get that done, we had three breakout groups who each took a piece of the project and worked super fast. They weren't waiting for tickets to get updated or for code to go to QA. They worked knowing that Megan, RebelMouse's Head of Product, or myself would answer in minutes," he says.
Breakthroughs in social discovery are a paramount initiative for RebelMouse and has enabled the team to scale partnerships with companies like General Electric, Time Inc., and Sports Illustrated.
Scenario 3: Quashing Internal Politics
The next critical tenet of breaking of the rules, which Berry often witnesses being neglected at startups, is managing your team's internal politics. This manifests in two ways: New and past projects that arise during intimate conversations with your senior leadership team and when you have to make thoughtful exceptions to traditional process.
While it's important to engage your entire team in creative discourse, critical roadmap goals often arise during unfiltered conversations with your co-founders and senior leaders.
"Jonah Peretti (Huffington Post's CEO at the time) and I used to chat from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. One night, during the early days, we realized that we could build a search tool to optimize results for editors," Berry says. "We knew it would move the needle on traffic and it was a fun one where Jonah could see how fast we made it a reality, and the team could feel how quickly something they did made an impact on the company."
Other late-night conversations will highlight pipeline projects that may have been neglected and are critical to the company's development. In the early days at Huffington Post, Paul made it a habit to check in with Jonah, Ken, and Arianna Huffington to uncover when and if a project dropped off the roadmap.
There are moments when someone on your management team needs something and you have to get it done for them very quickly; To make sure that they feel the momentum, you need to break from business as usual.
Not all of your internal rule-breaking scenarios will be complex which is why cultivating a fluid approach to process enables you to make minor, but influential, exceptions when necessary.
"The things that people often miss are the last touches that make an enormous difference," Berry says.
There are times when your fire-starter needs "three days of hyper focus" to get the job done and other situations where a few hours, or even minutes, of heads down work will drastically influence your final product.
For example, if a feature can be ready for a partner meeting you have the following day it's wise to make an exception and have your fire-starter finish the project so you can present it to your client.
As you make these decisions, be prepared to justify breaking the process to your senior leadership team.
"That's where it comes back to the science," Berry affirms. "It's not just about the people on the product and engineering team understanding it. It's about educating the management team too."
This reinforces the value of sharing quiet time with your senior partners like Peretti and Berry did during the early days at The Huffington Post. This is where you'll discuss, choose, and validate which breakout projects to pursue.
It's equally important to balance aligning your senior leadership team with ensuring that everyone in the organization understands what is happening and why it's happening.
"The more support there is inside of an organization for this way of working the easier it is for everyone."
Regardless of your scale, you want to foster an environment where everyone can help shape and understand how things get shaped at your company. This will inspire deeper involvement from your team, leading individual members to pioneer solutions that further your mission.
Scenario 4: Finding Your Future Fire-Starters
The last rule-breaking situation that Berry encourages leaders to actively address is giving their creative team members the ability to explore and develop their own individual passions. This often uncovers a company's next generation of fire-starters.
"One thing that comes up regularly, is that you have a very creative person on your team and you want to give them space, with blind faith that they're going to go out and come up with things that are important," says Berry. "You want to look out for these individuals and let them come up with the ideas that will lead to breakout groups."
The drawback here is that when someone introduces a project that they spent the whole weekend on and are super excited about it, the team reflects on the 70 things that are already on your roadmap.
This happens at RebelMouse frequently.
"Without asking permission or collaborating with anyone, a developer falls in love with an idea, works all weekend on it, and brings it in on Monday," says Berry.
Most recently, a developer created a simple solution to represent tweets on a page related to a specific vertical.
"It was an awesome project that he did over his own weekend, yet it bugged a bunch of people, including the team member formally in charge of Twitter," he says. "There are so many things to do and then there's this prototype. The funny thing is that projects like these almost always ring alarm bells in an organization rather than celebrating a person who worked overtime when they could have been recovering."
Not every weekend project will be the catalyst of a breakout group. However, the manner you acknowledge your team members efforts is critical to the way ideas are generated in your organization.
Many team members will question why you're focusing on a prototype during a meeting when they feel that previously established projects are more important.
While they're addressing valid points, according to Berry, you do have to control it because some things are right and useful, but others are wrong. However, it's a good thing, not a bad thing because this was someone's passionate moment. As much as possible, you want to recognize and guide those people to build the things that matter most to them.
"Where organizations regularly mess up is that they give bad feedback to a person for all of the extra credit hours. These projects and individuals are extremely meaningful to your organization," he says. "Your job as CEO is to to walk them through why these features are awesome and how you can learn from them."
In short, breaking the rules isn't a one size fits all act. However, by cultivating an awareness for these four instances, you'll be capable of recognizing vital projects and assembling the right breakout teams to get them over the line.
As you navigate each, you want to establish a shared understanding among your team that these are vital internal goals that must be hit or a catalyst. They cannot be delayed. Your company's future is dependent on them.
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For scholarly journals, this is the best of times and the worst of times. The past two decades have seen a massive explosion in the number of scholarly journals in all fields, and a parallel growth in their price.
Sounds like success. If so, that very success is pushing journals to the brink of their own extinction: libraries can't keep up with their proliferation and their cost, and across the country, academic libraries are taking dramatic steps to curtail the number of journals being ordered. It's natural selection time on the library shelves, and only journals with broad audiences or with unquestioned centrality to important fields can feel confident that they will survive in their present form. Others may manage to mutate into electronic form and survive that way.
In any event, a bloodbath is definitely coming.
Bring on the gore, then.
I can't think of anything more overdue in academia than a massive and wrenching transformation of the world of journals. It's not just a question of having too many or a question of the price of various journals (though some publishers have mercilessly exploited the presumed centrality of certain journals, especially in the sciences). The real issue is the content, purpose, and governance of journals. My comments below mostly address journals in the humanities and the social sciences--scientific journals are in some ways a different kettle of fish.
At least in the humanities and the social sciences, I can identify a number of types of journal article that we could do without.
The Draft Chapter From the Upcoming Book article.
I've published one or two of these myself--it's practically an expectation that a junior scholar should do so while the ink is still drying on the dissertation--but I hope to avoid repeating the same mistake in the future. In a couple of cases, I'm grateful that articles of this type that I submitted were turned down precisely because they were draft chapters.
It's not impossible to write a compelling article which anticipates material from a book-length project--such articles can serve as useful think-pieces for the author and for his or her audience.
However, most of the time, such articles are no more than a first draft of a more fully realized work. Even if it were sound practice to publish first drafts--which it isn't--journals which rely too heavily on book chapters posing as articles rapidly become out-dated. Who needs to go back and read an article which is later published as part of a longer monograph? With library shelves groaning from the accumulated weight of journal collections, each issue of a journal is going to have to justify its existence not in terms of its value at the time of its publication but as a resource with continuing value.
The Everyready Battery Bunny article.
I'm always thrilled to encounter a seminal article which compactly rearranges my thinking about a particular subject. I'm less thrilled when I encounter it in its fourth or fifth incarnation in journals and anthologies, mutated only slightly by cut-and-paste necrophilia.
It's one thing to use journal articles to work on different aspects of a single theme or issue, and another to basically regurgitate the same article repeatedly. This republication isn't usually done with dishonest intent--once a single influential article appears in print, the author often finds himself or herself fending off multiple invitations to publish something very similar to the original. However it happens, this increasingly common kind of publication adds little shelf life to the journals themselves: no need to have six issues of various journals with approximately the same content.
The Cliff Notes for Scholars Too Busy to Read About the Latest Thing article.
There are scholars--and journals--that specialize in publishing articles which do little more than summarize (and cannibalize) a number of recent arguments on some hot topic without adding much in the way of original analysis to those debates. This kind of synthesis article is typically choked with citations and offers few insights on its subject matter. It therefore has little or no lasting value.
The Incredibly Dull 25-Page Treatise on Trivia article.
For journals that favor a more stodgy, conservative image, densely written and researched articles with a heavily traditional methodological approach remain the favorite. If this kind of article suits the identity of the journal in question, it's generally okay. Where this sort of article goes badly wrong is when it occupies a large amount of space in order to refine scholarly knowledge on little more than empirical or analytic trivia. One scholar's trivia is another's life work, to be sure. But when material which can be effectively summed up in a concise 2-page research report--and would be useful in that format--gets encrusted with an extra 20 pages of empty prose or mind-numbingly repetitive evidentiary analysis, something has gone badly wrong.
Some senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences tend to label virtually everything written after 1975 as jargon or trendy. I'm not endorsing that kind of instinctive crankiness. However, it's not unfair to say that some journals routinely publish articles which resemble a random assemblage of the hottest words and concepts currently in circulation and forget those little frills like argument and analysis in the process.
Some of these types of article could be thinned out by reforms that have little to do with the journals themselves. The easy way to get rid of draft chapters or multiple-repeat articles, for example, is for colleges and universities to stop assessing their faculty in terms of the quantity of their publications and look instead at quality. One good article should be worth twenty retreads. One important if brief research note should be accredited in the same way we accredit a longer article. However, for journals in the humanities and social sciences to acquire some particular lasting value, to be something fundamentally different than monographs or anthologies, many of them will have to embrace a complete transformation of the way they work.
What are the most urgent reforms?
First, all journals need a strong editorial philosophy and identity.
It's not enough simply for a journal to claim to cover some particular field or speciality and act as if that coverage is sufficient reason for its existence. Such a justification only worked in the now-vanished era in which there was overwhelming consensus between scholars about where particular academic fields began and ended.
At this point, any claim to comprehensive representation of any field, to intellectual centrality, is almost intrinsically farcical. Some of journals nevertheless survive off of a kind of blackmail. They haunt contemporary scholars with the ghostly memory of their former power to define and structure a field or discipline, and so maintain a readership who read the journal superficially, uneasily, as a kind of seismometer which sketchily records major intellectual disturbances whose epicenter lies far away.
Journals need to stand for something on their own and remain aloof from specialties and disciplines. It's okay to have a particular subject matter, but that's not enough. Journals need to have attitude, perspective, argument. They need to have an angle, a polemical vision. As disciplines blur and specialties relentlessly intermingle, only a journal which connects particular affinities, politics and positions across the broad range of academic divisions- while also keeping a sharp, distinctive edge to the style of its connections-- can hope to forge a distinctive profile in the midst of a crisis of overproduction.
Second, the role of an editorial board needs to be strengthened and the importance of peer review needs to be reduced.
I have many friends and colleagues who have told me of endless cycles of revisions and delays demanded by journal editors who like a particular article but feel constrained by a somewhat negative peer review. Sometimes the editor seeks another peer review, and another one, until they get an assessment which is positive. Sometimes they demand revisions to match the negative review, even if the editorial board doesn't particularly agree with or care for the negative review.
Peer review is a complex institution and almost needs to be addressed in a separate piece. I think detailed, lengthy, aggressive peer review is an absolute necessity with book-length manuscripts: it is helpful to authors, publishers and to disciplines as a whole. I'm less certain that it works appropriately with regard to journals.
Junior scholars get very little explicit guidance from senior figures when it comes to interpreting reviews of their own work or writing reviews of the work of others. You sort of invent your own procedures as you go along, and slowly tease out over the years how your friends and colleagues deal with peer review. Until now, I have tended to write fairly detailed, argumentative reviews of journal articles--which I hold separate from my judgement of whether the article should be published--figuring that any feedback for writers is useful feedback.
Increasingly, I have come to feel that this more detailed assessment is a kind of frill that I can provide to the author if I'm so inclined, but that such an assessment is not my primary job as a reviewer. The primary job, I think, is to tell the editorial board simply this: are there major errors, inaccuracies or serious omissions in this article? And perhaps, minimally, I can also advise the editors as to whether the argument or results are novel or interesting within the confines of a particular specialized field.
The judgement as to whether the article is worth publishing, whether it has merit and fits the mission of the journal,whether it is interesting to read and so on should lie solely with the editors, in accordance with their disciplined sense of the journal's distinctive identity and slant.
At the least, some editorial boards need to reclaim this capacity from peer reviewers and reduce the role of outside reviewers accordingly. It may even be worth considering the elimination of peer review altogether. Yes, that can get you into hot water, as the editors of Social Text discovered when they gave the green light to Alan Sokal's hoax. Yes, it can lead to painfully self-indulgent journals which largely feature pompous, airy nonsense written by the close friends of the editorial board. But on the whole, the elimination of peer review would speed up the cycle of publication and allow editorial boards to shape the identity of their journals in accordance with a distinctive vision.
Third, authors should approach a journal article as a distinctive genre of academic writing with its own stylistic demands. Short pieces should be written deliberately AS short pieces, not merely as exerpts from longer work.
A novel and a short story are very different kinds of creative animals, and you'd think the same would be true for journal articles. But it isn't: they are written in the same heavily qualified and densely written prose that most monographs favor.
A journal article needs to get in and get out quickly and with intensity. Some kinds of works are peculiarly well-suited to journals: debates between several authors, commentaries, research notes, articles about material which doesn't properly fit into a larger monograph, and so on. Editors need to be more aggressive about making the journal form a distinctive kind of academic writing.
Fourth, journals need to speed up the publication cycle or abandon the kind of material that needs to appear promptly.
The easiest way to do this is to pursue electronic publication. In this format, journals could have timely reviews of books, update their material, and have interesting exchanges between scholars in the form of letters.
If you can't go electronic, don't do book reviews, or do book reviews only as review essays, designed to spark debate about the state of a particular field. Or do short "book notices" written by the editors so that they can be somewhat timely.
Eliminating peer review would speed things up as well.
Journals that refuse to reform in some fashion won't survive the coming shakeout--and won't deserve to survive. Nothing too bad about that: the academic world could certainly use a few less journals than it has. More importantly, we desperately need to move the publication of most journals into an online, cheaply distributed, format.
Of course, fewer journals means fewer publications, and so we come back to the inevitable underlying issue in academic life, namely, tenure. Fewer publications--better publications--means that senior scholars will need to learn to evaluate the work of their peers and their juniors in new ways.


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Our relationship with Hannah and Troy started as clients and blossomed into a beautiful friendship. Every time I looks at these images, I am reminded how lucky I am to have the opportunity to document love. I legitimately get extreme butterflies from thinking about this sunrise morning.
If you feel like giving up, look at how far you have come.


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Family and friends are warmly invited to his Funeral service to be held in the Garden Chapel, Allambe Memorial Park, 129 Nerang-Broadbeach Road, Nerang, Gold Coast on Thursday 14th February 2019 at 10am.
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Lighting Up The Investigative Path With Polonium-210 Conspiracy theories continue over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and polonium is suspected as the weapon of the alleged assassin. Whatever happened to Arafat, there is a case from 2006 that shows just how destructive the radioactive element can be. It all started with a sip of green tea.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat boards a helicopter in Ramallah, the West Bank, for the start of his journey to a hospital in France on Oct. 29, 2004. He died 2 weeks later. Scott Nelson/Getty Images hide caption
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat boards a helicopter in Ramallah, the West Bank, for the start of his journey to a hospital in France on Oct. 29, 2004. He died 2 weeks later.
With a Swiss forensics investigation pointing to polonium-210 as a possible cause of Yasser Arafat's death, the radioactive element is back in the news.
Confirming whether the Palestinian leader died from an assassination attempt will be difficult, given polonium's short half-life and the fact that Arafat has been dead nine years, science writer Deborah Blum says.
Whatever happened to Arafat, polonium does have a deadly history.
"Polonium only really came to public attention when we started using it to kill each other," says Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook.
One such incident took place on a chilly November afternoon in 2006, in London's Grosvenor Square.
That day, three Russians ordered drinks at the upscale Pine Bar in the Millennium Hotel.
"It's very hushed. Full of shadows and whispers, dark wood paneling and leather seats," says Will Storr, author of "Bad Blood," an essay published earlier this year in MATTER. "It's very discreet."
Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun ordered gin, and a 43-year-old Russian dissident named Alexander Litvinenko drank green tea. As far as Litvinenko was concerned, it was a business meeting with two old acquaintances.
"He goes home to his little house with his wife Marina, has a chicken dinner, watches the Russian evening news and goes to bed," Storr says. "It was just a normal night."
But within hours, Litvinenko began having bouts of severe vomiting. Litvinenko knew immediately that he had been poisoned. His wife called for an ambulance.
"He goes to the local hospital in Barnett and tells the doctors there, 'I've been poisoned by Russian spies.' And of course they suggest that he calls for a psychiatrist because he had sushi for lunch," Storr says. "So they were like, 'It's food poisoning. You've just been poisoned by some bad sushi.' "
But days passed and Litvinenko's condition worsened. He was put on a feeding tube and started losing his hair. Antibiotics were administered and tests for AIDS and hepatitis came back negative. Doctors were at a total loss.
It took over two weeks to finally discover the culprit. Tests showed polonium-210 coursing through Litvinenko's body.
Blum says death comes quickly because polonium-210 has a half-life of just 138 days.
"For a while it's hissing and spitting with radiation and energy, and then it burns itself out," she says. As it stabilizes, the polonium emits alpha particles.
"Alpha radiation is not highly penetrating radiation," Blum says. "If I was standing in front of you with a container of polonium-210, I could hold this in my hand and it would not go through my skin. So for it to be dangerous, you have to swallow it."
All the assassin had to do was put the odorless polonium in Litvinenko's green tea. From the moment he took his first sip, he was doomed.
Alexander Litvinenko died in 2006 of poisoning from polonium. Doctors spent weeks trying to find the cause — but they couldn't have stopped him from dying. Natasja Weitsz/Getty Images hide caption
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"If you can imagine that you swallow an element that's basically radiating, you can almost visualize this as a tiny dot with sparks shooting out in all directions like a sparkler," Blum says.
Minutes after ingestion, it would have already begun to destroy the lining of his stomach.
"It embeds in those tissues, it goes into your blood stream, and what happens quite often with particularly these elements that are in that radium decay chain as polonium is the structure is a little bit like calcium," Blum says. "So the body loves to deposit them in the bone."
Once it settles in the bone marrow, the victim begins to die.
"Your hair falls out, you can't eat, you can't breathe, it damages your lungs, you are hugely subject to infection, it's phenomenally destructive once it's in your body," she says.
Even if doctors discovered the poison sooner, polonium-210 has no antidote.
Litvinenko died three agonizing weeks later.
As the polonium-210 underwent alpha decay, it was a race against the clock to solve Litvinenko's murder. Blum says forensic investigators tracked the poison by following the radioactive trails it left all over London — "restaurant seats, airline seats, tea bars, sushi bars."
They were trails not only left by Litvinenko, but also by the killer himself.
"You turn off all the lights in London because polonium-210 has this faint blue glow," says Blum. "Pale blue, glowing trails lighting up the path of murder."
Andrei Lugovoi, one of the Russian men at the Pine Bar that afternoon, became the prime suspect. But he was never convicted. Lugovoi pulled out of the Litvinenko inquest in London and has since become a wealthy Russian politician.
"This has been written about as the first-ever successful nuclear attack on the West by Russia," says Storr. "It's a major situation."
Despite the evidence for the Litvinenko case, "you can't say that was a case that resolved with justice," Blum says. As for Arafat, Blum says the likelihood of finding an assassin — if there is one — is even slimmer.


(AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES.
AES is Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS-197.
AES currently supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys and encryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32 bits.


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Yad B'Yad is a uniquely inclusive touring program that takes mainstream high school students together with young adults with special needs on a tour of Israel. The program for staff begins with a two day training, followed by a high school orientation in the New York area. Your responsibilities will include caring for our Yachad members physically and emotionally, and mentoring our high school students. In addition, you may be assigned to some other jobs that will enhance our trip. Staff for this position must be a minimum of two years post high school.
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Friends and lovers: Ensemble Theatre Company's play brings the laughs about a terrible relationship
November 27, 2015 December 29, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Playing the trio of emotionally charged 40ish divorcees from "Women in Jeopardy!" are, from left, Annabelle Gurwitch as Jo, DeeDee Rescher as Liz and Heather Ayers as Mary.
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Wendy MacLeod's play "Women in Jeopardy!" started off with a familiar situation for many friends – watching their divorced friend find a new boyfriend "who we all thought was hideous. We could not fathom how she could be dating this man." From there she combined the idea of the awful boyfriend with a crime story from her local paper, and out came this new work that previews Thursday, with an opening on Dec. 5, at The New Vic. The play is so new that, despite its premiere at Rochester, N.Y.'s Geva Theater, Ms. MacLeod is in town to work a little bit more on her play, trimming it down into a "lean, mean, comedy machine."
The play stars Heather Ayers ("Sweeney Todd") and Annabelle Gurwitch as Mary and Jo, two divorcees who do not like the new dentist that their friend Liz (DeeDee Rescher, last seen at ETC in "Good People") has fallen in love with, called Jackson (Bill Salyers). His dental hygienist recently disappeared, and the two think that Jackson might be a serial killer. And Jackson's swaggering arrogance only seems to confirm their suspicions. When he invites Liz's daughter Amanda (Sophie Ullett) on a camping trip, the two friends need to both break the news to Liz and stop what they think is a crime about to happen. And that's just the beginning of this whirlwind farce.
A second slice: Ensemble Theatre takes on Sondheim and 'Sweeney Todd'
October 2, 2015 December 29, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
David Studwell and Heather Ayers are two of the actors performing in Ensemble Theatre Company's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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Last week Santa Barbara audiences sat transfixed by the odd blend of dance and theater that was Adam Barruch's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at the Lobero Theatre. In the audience watching the performance was Ensemble Theatre's Jonathan Fox, who just that day was rehearsing his own version of Stephen Sondheim's bloody and dark musical, set to open this coming Thursday. It was one of those weird coincidences in Santa Barbara theater than happens now and then – like two productions of "Other Desert Cities" in 2015, one at the Rubicon, one at PCPA – despite every company trying for a unique season.
"It's kind of a funny story," says Mr. Fox, just before rolling into a story of schedules, contracts, dropping a previous plan, and thinking of returning to the world of Stephen Sondheim. "A Little Night Music" was the first performance at The New Vic. Rick Mokler, some 20 years ago, had put on a production of "Sweeney Todd" at SBCC, but it had never returned to our city.
Ensemble closes season with 'Venus in Fur'
June 5, 2015 July 16, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Bruce Turk, new to Ensemble Theatre, plays writer-director Thomas and Annie Abrams plays Vanda in the two-character play "Venus in Fur."
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Ensemble Theatre finishes this season with "Venus in Fur," the David Ives-penned hothouse of a play that joyously blurs the line between actor and role playing, befitting a story that takes as its inspiration the 1870 novel of the same name (minus the plural letter s) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. (Yes, that's where we get the word Masochism.)
After the large cast and inventive sets of "Woyzeck," Ensemble is seeing out the season with that most modern of set-ups: two people in a room, and a relationship that changes completely over the course of its runtime.
Ensemble Theatre stages Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan's daring musical 'Woyzeck'
April 17, 2015 July 24, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
The "Woyzeck" cast includes Matt Gottlieb (Doctor), Stephen Van Dorn (Woyzeck) and Matthew Henerson (Captain).
David Bazemore
When writer Georg Büchner died at 23 in 1837, he left behind the fragments of a play that had no ending and no official structure. Yet out of all his works, the "working-class tragedy" of "Woyzeck," about a soldier gone murderously mad with jealousy, is the most read, most performed, and most interpreted. There have been operas, movies, a ballet and many stage adaptations. It is extremely open to interpretation.
Ensemble Theatre's Jonathan Fox has taken on one of the most popular recent adaptations of the play — a musical by Tom Waits and his wife/collaborator Kathleen Brennan — and brought it to the New Vic, opening tonight. And even that is an interpretation: Mr. Fox has ditched the other third of that 2002 production: Robert Wilson's direction and production design.
The Powerhouse : THE NEW VIC AND ITS NEW SEASON REDEFINES SANTA BARBARA THEATER
November 29, 2013 September 16, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
The exterior of the New Victoria Theatre
A pool and a splash zone for an upcoming Ensemble Theatre show? Who would have thought? But in the beautiful new space for one of Santa Barbara's oldest theater companies, anything is possible. Called The New Vic, the $11.5 million remodel of the building on the corner of Victoria and Chapala Streets opened this month, a mixture of state-of-the-art theater construction and a devotion to preserving this former church and its 92-year-old original structure.
When the mayor cut the ribbon at the opening several Fridays ago, it celebrated the end of a construction process that had its high and low points, as well as a new chapter in Santa Barbara's performing arts district. Mayor Helene Schneider called it the "jewel in the crown" and with its refurbished, stained glass windows glowing during a performance, the comparison is apt.
Ensemble ends an era with McNally romantic comedy
June 12, 2013 October 22, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Dee Ann Newkirk as Frankie and Rick Gifford as Johnny.
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Nearly a quarter-century old, Terrence McNally's play "Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune" has several difficulties for any director that don't seem so prevalent now in modern theater. Two people in a room, with action that happens in real time, going from a one-night stand to something that looks like full-time commitment. And though it joshes with the ideas of pre-1940s romance, it's unabashedly romantic, just unglamorous. It presents us with earnestness and asks us to take it seriously.
Fortunately Saundra McClain is up for this task and has delivered a fitting curtain call for the Ensemble's most recent season and for the Alhecama Theater. The next production will open in the Victoria, so regardless of this review, realize this is your final chance to experience the cozy ambience of the Alhecama.
Grieving from New York City : Ensemble presents Joan Didion's play about death
April 10, 2013 November 15, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Linda Purl
Here are the facts: One day in 2003, author Joan Didion sat down for dinner with her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. After some small talk he keeled over dead from a heart attack. This happened while their daughter, Quintana, was in the hospital in a coma from septic shock. Two years later, she too died.
More facts: Ms. Didion's memoir of that time, "The Year of Magical Thinking," was released to great critical acclaim, placing it in the company of other noted writing on grief. After her daughter passed away, she adapted, lengthened, and changed the book into a one-woman show for Broadway, where it starred Vanessa Redgrave. And now Ensemble Theater Company, with Linda Purl starring and Jenny Sullivan directing, opened this last weekend.
Year Staring Death in the Face : LINDA PURL PLAYS JOAN DIDION IN ENSEMBLE'S ONE-WOMAN SHOW
March 29, 2013 November 17, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Director Jenny Sullivan, left, and Linda Purl
When Joan Didion's book "The Year of Magical Thinking" debuted in 2005, it gained accolades as one of the finest contemporary books about the grieving process. Written in 88 days, Ms. Didion took on a time of double tragedy: the sudden death of her husband John Gregory Dunne from cardiac arrest, and the long illness of their daughter, who passed away just as Ms. Didion finished the manuscript.
Two years later, with David Hare directing and Vanessa Redgrave starring, "The Year of Magical Thinking" made its way to Broadway with Ms. Didion's own adaptation of the book into a play. Five years and many accolades later, our Ensemble Theater Company, with Jenny Sullivan directing and Linda Purl starring, bring Ms. Didion's one-woman play to Santa Barbara.
All in the Rhyming
February 16, 2013 December 9, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment
Currently, a very silly rap track about thrift store shopping holds the number one place in the pop charts. The newsworthiness of this event centers on its indie stature — breaking into a corporate dominated chart through new media means. But the other story — and why Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop" got passed around Facebook and Twitter — is how we all still love the humor and thrill of rhyming, especially when it makes us laugh.
This thought bubbled up while watching Ensemble Theatre's latest production, "The Liar" at the Alhecama this last Sunday. David Ives updating of Pierre Corneille's Restoration farce has kept its iambic pentameter and its rhyming scheme, and earns so many of its belly laughs with rhymes.
Closing the Book on 2012 – Ensemble Theatre gets witchy for December
November 30, 2012 January 7, 2016 tedmills Leave a comment
Clockwise from top, Leonard Kelly-Young,Thomas Vincent Kelly, Susan Ruttan, Mattie Hawkinson and Zachary Ford
David Bazemore photos
It's time for the Ensemble Theater Company to put on its big holiday show, and what can be more seasonal than… witches? With "Bell, Book and Candle," opening tonight, you can have both yuletide fun and the casting of spells. This 1950 Broadway play from John Van Druten later got made into a Hollywood film starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, their only other on-screen team-up apart from in "Vertigo," along with Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacks. Its mixture of romantic comedy and witchcraft influenced the show "Bewitched" six years later, and its domestic nature still gets played out in shows like "Charmed."
The setting is Manhattan, circa 1950, and it's Christmas time. Gillian (Mattie Hawkinson) is the young woman who is working her charms on her upstairs neighbor Shepherd (Thomas Vincent Kelly, last seen here in "Opus"). And "charms" is right: she's a witch, and he doesn't know it yet. But there's also a rule — perhaps it's in the back of a book of spells, who knows — that if a witch falls in love, she could lose all her powers. Gillian has two relatives to help her through this troubling time: Aunt Queenie (Susan Ruttan), also a witch, and Gillian's brother Nicky (Zachary Ford). Also on hand is Sidney (Leonard Kelly-Young) a crazy writer who is working on a book about witchcraft. Guest director Brian Shnipper is set to work this all up into a magical holiday brew.


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Think of straightening your teeth just as you would any other corrective procedure. You wouldn't entrust your GP with the task of straightening your nose: likewise, your dentist shouldn't be the one to straighten your teeth.
One reason that some people will be tempted to use the services of a dentist to perform orthodontic procedures is the apparently lower price – but it's worth bearing in mind that this can be a false economy. It always pays to get a second opinion from a Specialist Orthodontist because this really is a procedure that you want done properly. You can still go back and see the general dentist if you decide that you're happy with their cheaper alternative – although quite often, in the long run, it can be more expensive.
At Brace5 we have seen many dental disasters resulting from orthodontic treatment carried out by non-specialists, and unfortunately, by that point, it's too late to be corrected.
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Q: $\sin(x/2) + \cos(x) = 0$, Solve for x if $0^\circ \leq x < 360^\circ$ I have a pretty good grasp on what we're learning right now, but this question came up and I'm stumped. I would assume I need to use half-angle identities but would someone mind walking me through it please?
Thank you!

A: Try using double angle formulae.
$\cos(x)=\cos^2(x/2)-\sin^2(x/2)=1-2\sin^2(x/2)$
Therefore we have
$\sin(x/2)+\cos(x)=\sin(x/2)+1-2\sin^2(x/2)=0$
Let $u=\sin(x/2)$, so that you have a quadratic in $u$, which you can solve.
I'll leave you to do the rest.

A: We have
$$
\cos+\sin\frac{x}{2}=0\iff \cos x=-\sin\frac{x}{2}=\cos\frac{x+\pi}{2}.
$$
It follows that
$$
x=\frac{x}{2}+\frac\pi2+2k\pi \, \text{ or }\, x=-\frac{x}{2}-\frac\pi2+2k\pi\quad k \in \mathbb{Z},
$$
i.e.
$$
x=\pi+4k\pi\, \text{ or }\, x=-\frac\pi3+\frac43k\pi \quad k \in \mathbb{Z}
$$

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Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
by Jonina Einarsdottir
Library of Congress Classification DT613.45.P36E56 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.235086942097
In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.
Jónína Einarsdóttir is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland. Since 2001, she has conducted research on the ethical questions related to the treatment of underweight infants born in Iceland and the implication of such births for the families involved. She has done extensive fieldwork among the Papel of Guinea-Bissau.
"A fascinating study of the facts of life surrounding child death and the parental responses to it."—Dorothy D. Wills, American Anthropologist
"A well researched and clearly written critical study, narrated in an engaging style . . ."—Peter Karibe Mendy, International Journal of African Historical Studies
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Marriage Relations
2 Burdens of Birth
3 Conceptualization of Children
4 Diseases and Death
5 Nonhuman Children
See other books on: Guinea-Bissau | Kinship | Mortality | Mothers | Poverty
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Graphic Design is natural imagery combined in such a way to fill a need. My designs always start with a conceptual image, I see things and then translate it into my sketchbook. There is only one way of achieving design ideal and that is to start with a creative idea and not being afraid to change what you started with. One stroke could bring you to perfection.


SecureData is a specialist cybersecurity services and solutions company and we are currently seeking an ambitious and driven 2nd Line Support (SOC) Engineer to join our team in Maidstone, Kent.
At SecureData, we look after cybersecurity for a range of business organisations. We have a very broad range of services ranging from security assessments, implementing solutions, support and managed services. SecureData is unique due to our deep expertise and track record, our breadth of offering as a dedicated cybersecurity services business, and the quality of our work.
As our 2nd Line Support Engineer, you will report to the SOC Manager and act as an escalation point for our first line support team in our busy Secure Operations Centre. You will be able to work under pressure, possess excellent customer service and communication skills, and have a logical approach to troubleshooting.
- You will be required to undertake shift work which include early, core, and late shifts. There is also weekend work required once a month. You will also undertake on call duty, for which you receive additional pay!
- You must have at least 2 years' work experience supporting at least two of the following: Checkpoint Firewall, F5, Bluecoat, Cisco, Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Palo Alto - you must consider yourself an expert in at least one of these!
- An opportunity to join a fun, social and lively SOC team that are growing rapidly!
This role is the perfect opportunity for someone who wants to excel in the world of cyber security, we are looking forward to speaking with you! Please send your CV now for immediate consideration.
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In the final hours of Kentucky's 2018 General Assembly, AARP Kentucky is urging lawmakers to hear the voices of Kentuckians and take action to protect retirees. The state office is calling on the General Assembly and Governor Bevin to reject any tax increase on retirement income and restore deductions for medical expenses.
AARP Kentucky released a statement calling on the General Assembly and Governor Bevin to reject any changes to the state's tax code that reduce the existing level of the pension income exclusion as well as eliminate the medical expense deduction.
Working Kentuckians and today's retirees did not create the current state fiscal crisis. AARP believes it's unfair to balance a state budget on the backs of Kentuckians' with high health care expenses or those who have worked hard saving for retirement. Calls for taxing retirement income fail to acknowledge the vast number of older Kentuckians who contribute financially to the well-being of their children and grandchildren, and act as primary caregivers. Taxing retirement income will minimize retirees' ability to care for their loved one's needs and provide assistance with food, housing, transportation, and medical costs.
On behalf of its 470,000 members and all individuals aged 50 plus and their families, AARP Kentucky urges the General Assembly and Governor to find a solution to protect older Kentuckians and today's retirees from paying millions of dollars more in taxes.
AARP Kentucky recognizes the need for a comprehensive fiscal solution and believes the debate must also take into account the views and voices of all taxpayers.
The state office is mobilizing volunteers statewide and urging all concerned Kentuckians to contact their lawmakers directly and urge them to oppose these tax proposals via the Legislative Message toll-free hotline 1-800-372-7181.


It feels like no time at all since I was writing my August post - and yet everything feels different. The nights draw in so quickly in September. It's the month to get cosy - to dig out the blankets and the hot water bottles. To nest, and start planning all those things you wanted to do over the summer but never had time for as you were too busy outdoors enjoying the light and sunshine.
This month I've styled up a little corner of my craft room / office. Since my July Styling the Seasons post, I've moved my room around and made space for an armchair. I can't tell you how happy this has made me! I've wanted somewhere comfy to sit and read for so long, and somewhere to rest when my chronic fatigue kicks in.
I've been hunting for an armchair for a while now, on a very small budget. Having looked around lots of vintage/antique shops, I concluded that the classic IKEA Poäng was my best bet. Whilst I would have adored a beautifully refurbished vintage number, they were all very much outside my budget. And the Poäng is SO comfy, which is really important to me. And I think it looks lovely in the Isunda Grey cover.
I've dug out some favourite crocheted blankets, to snuggle under as I read/snooze, and teamed it with one of my favourite vintage fabric cushions. My chair is tucked into the corner, right next to the radiator, for maximum warmth (although the heating is banned until October in this house, so I've yet to try it out!). Oh and please excuse the state of the walls - they will be painted a crisp bright white when I have some strength.
I'm watched over by a shelf of Jane Foster softies, made from some beautiful vintage fabrics - as you can probably tell, I adore vintage fabrics from the 60s and 70s.
I've been spending a lot of time in my chair this month, flicking through gardening magazines looking for inspiration for my planting plan. Now that we've had our rotten, collapsed fence replaced and ivy pulled out, we are in the process of having some raised sleeper beds put in the back garden, and I have the fun task of deciding what we are going to put in them! So when the weather has allowed, I've been out in the garden, digging and preparing. Nothing finer than September sunshine, especially when it is followed by heavy grey skies, downpours and chilly days, like today. September really is a month of extremes - a transitional month, as we let go of summer's warmth and ease ourselves into autumn.
So that's it from me this month, my cosy edition of Styling the Seasons for September.
The theme for Styling the Seasons this month is vintage, in honour of the vintage jumble and prop sale that Katy has organised with a group of other bloggers.
It will be held on Sunday 4 October 1.30-4.30pm in Lindfield, West Sussex, in the King Edward Hall.


CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced the supply of customized chemical vapor deposition systems to Swiss watch manufacturer TAG Heuer.
CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems and materials, today announced financial results for the quarter and the year ended December 31, 2018.
CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, announced today that it will release its 2018 fourth quarter and annual financial results after markets close on Monday, April 1, 2019.
CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems and materials, today announced that Thomas McNeill has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective March 4, 2019. Mr. McNeill has been a Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") since 1996 and has seventeen years' of SEC reporting experience with two public companies, as well as a full range of financial and operational experience. Since April 2015, he has been CFO at Century Direct, LLC, a printing and mailing company serving the direct mail marketing industry.
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CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems has developed a family of advanced Fluid Reactors based on its innovations in nanotechnology and chemical vapor deposition technology. The Fluid Reactor is enabled by a novel reactor core element which allows the efficient transfer of gases into and out of liquids. The market adoption of this technology could supplant existing hollow fiber membrane technology for applications including filtration and liquid gasification or degasification.
CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced its third quarter 2018 financial results.
CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced preliminary results for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2018. For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we had revenues of approximately $19.6 million and an operating loss of approximately $3.4 to $3.5 million. Final amounts and further detail will be available in our Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2018 which we expect to file on November 14, 2018.
CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, announced today that it will release its third quarter 2018 financial results after markets close on Wednesday, November 14, 2018.
Should You Be Holding CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ:CVV) Right Now?
CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced that its Board of Directors has established the new position of Lead Independent Director and the Company's independent directors unanimously elected Lawrence J. Waldman to the newly created position. In his new role, Mr. Waldman's responsibilities will include coordinating the activities of the independent directors and serving as a liaison between the President/ CEO the other independent directors and helping to facilitate the Board's oversight and shareholder responsiveness. Leonard A. Rosenbaum, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board stated "We are committed to good corporate governance practices and believe that the addition of a Lead Independent Director will help to enhance corporate oversight.
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CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced its second quarter 2018 financial results.
CVD Equipment Corporation , a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems, announced today that it will release its second quarter 2018 financial results after markets close on Tuesday, Aug 14, 2018.
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Het WTA-toernooi van Stockholm is een voormalig tennistoernooi voor vrouwen dat in 2002 en 2003 plaatsvond in Espoo nabij de Finse hoofdstad Helsinki, en van 2004 tot en met 2008 in de Zweedse hoofdstad Stockholm. De officiële naam van het toernooi was Nordea Nordic Light Open.

De WTA organiseerde het toernooi dat in de categorie "Tier IV" viel en werd gespeeld op gravel (Helsinki) respectievelijk hardcourt (Stockholm).

Ook in de twintigste eeuw vond het toernooi al enkele keren in Stockholm plaats.

In 2009 werd het opgevolgd door het WTA-toernooi van Båstad.

Toernooilocaties
 1969, 1975, 1979, 1980: Stockholm (Zweden)
 2002–2003: Espoo nabij Helsinki (Finland)
 2004–2008: Stockholm (Zweden)

Enkel- en dubbelspeltitel in één jaar

Finales

Enkelspel

 Legenda: (H) = Helsinki/Espoo; (S) = Stockholm

Dubbelspel

 Legenda: zie bij enkelspel.

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We have many old cats (late teens to twenty years of age). A goodly number spent their entire lives at 9th Life where they received quality care, great food and medical attention when needed. We thank our donors for enabling us to provide well for these cats. As more and more of our older kitties need specialized care, we are happy to announce that the Senior Retirement Villa is complete.
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There simply are not enough adopters on Maui to provide loving homes for the thousands and thousands of homeless, abandoned kitties on our island, so 9th Life Hawaii began looking to the mainland for help. We are thrilled at this new partnership but only with YOUR help can we expand it. The more cats we adopt out, the more cats we can take in (and save). The kitties below are now in Colorado. Three of them have been adopted already.
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Volunteers standing by the ladder: From left to right: Keola Sequiera, Jerry Piller, Paul Takayama, Conrad Engleke (behind Paul), Bill Immarino and John Hara. Not shown is Rodney Jung who along with Jerry Piller also put the special "cat proof" fencing up around the Senior Retirement Villa.
This special area will enable us to keep all the older kitties in one place where we can easily monitor their health. Again, we thank our supporters whose donations helped us purchase this large shed which we are using as a cattery. We are also grateful to all the volunteers who put it painstakingly together (It came in pieces like a Lego set.) and installed the fencing. A big MAHALO to you all. Many of the seniors have compromised kidney function. The more water they drink, the better they will feel and the longer they will live. We would like to put in a few Pet Fountains that supply a free-falling stream of water. This entices the cats to drink more keeping them healthy and hydrated. You can find these fountains at Petco, Petsmart, Amazon.com and other pet loving retail stories. These fountains work with submersible pumps so we would need a cat-loving electrician to donate his/her time to bring electricity to the Seniour Retirement Villa. If interested in helping, please call our main line. (808) 572-3499.
9th Life Hawaii has now sterilized about 6,800 cats, most of them in our very own fully-equipped surgery room. We are holding monthly clinics. Call our spay/neuter line: 866-3050 for information and the dates of our clinics. You can also print out a surgical consent form by clicking on the link on our website for Spay/Neuter. The form must be mailed back to us at PO Box 476, Makawao, Maui, HI 96768. We are here to help.
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PARTING SHOT......DID YOU EVER SEE ANYTHING QUITE SO CUTE?
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We are presently providing shelter for just under 300 cats. These cats receive the best of care, special foods and vet care when needed and because we are NO KILL, they will continue to receive five star care and medical care as needed. We do not euthanize an animal because its medical care has become expensive. We cut no corners. We only euthanize if an animal is suffering, the pain cannot be managed and/or there is absolutely no hope of recovery. EVERY treatable illness is treated. Never doubt for a moment: Your donations save lives every single day at 9th Life Hawaii.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
The Supreme Court's Anodyne Opinion in Sachs v. OBB Personenverkehr
By Ingrid Wuerth
Friday, December 4, 2015, 2:18 PM
This week the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Sachs v. OBB Personenverkehr. As expected, the Court held that OBB, a railroad owned by the Austrian government, was immune under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The plaintiff argued, and the Ninth Circuit (en banc) held, that an exception to immunity applied because the action against OBB was "based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States" – namely the sale of the ticket to Sachs in the United States. The ticket sale was a necessary element of her claims, so Sachs argued those claims were "based upon" the sale of the ticket. Other than the ticket sale, the events related to the case all occurred in Innsbruck, Austria, where Sachs was injured while trying to board a moving train.
The Chief Justice's opinion reasoned that conduct comprising only "one element" of the cause of action is not enough to satisfy the "based upon" requirement of the first clause of the commercial activity exception in 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2). Instead, the Court held—following the views of USG in its amicus brief—that an action is based upon the conduct which constitutes "gravamen" of the suit. In this case, the gravamen or the "core" of the suit was Innsbruck, Austria, where the allegedly dangerous conditions of the platform and faulty boarding procedures led to the accident.
Beyond this, the Court's short opinion does not say much, although it does point out (in note 2) that it the opinion is limited and it does defend (in Part III) the decision to not say more. The opinion is notably sanitized of any references to lower court cases other than Sachs itself, perhaps because those cases generally endorsed the "one element" test. They include Kirkham v. Air France which involved an unfortunate collision with a luggage cart in Orly airport. As in Sachs, the only connection to the United States was the ticket purchase, which the D.C. Circuit held was sufficient. And the Seventh Circuit endorsed the "one element" test in Santos v. Compagnie Nationale Air France, a case cited approvingly in Saudi Arabia v. Nelson. The Santos case also involved an accident at Orly airport. Be careful out there, folks.
More significantly, the Court did not analyze the case in terms of due process and personal jurisdiction, despite the questions at oral argument on this topic. This was a good decision by the Court, as I wrote immediately following the oral argument.
Finally, although the Court does not say what to do about multiple claims and multiple gravamen, it does seem to provide an implicit answer to whether a single negligence claim can have two gravamen and, if not, where the single gravamen is located. Suppose, the Chief Justice had asked at argument, negligent work on landing gear in New York causes an injury to passengers when the plane lands in Austria. Where is the gravamen or are there more than one? Chief Justice Roberts appears to answer that question in the Sachs opinion by citing to a 1915 letter from Frankfurter to Holmes saying that the "essentials" of a personal injury are at the "point of contact" – "the place where the boy got his finger pinched." Or, I guess, the place where the airplane with faulty landing gear produces an injury. Is the "point of contact" the same as the lex loci delicti rule from conflicts of law? That is left for another day, as are claims with less tangible injuries such as the misappropriation of trade secrets and other data or intellectual property-related actions, some of which may prove difficult to analyze under the Court's gravamen test.
OBB Personwnverkehr v Sachs,
Ingrid Wuerth is the Helen Strong Curry Professor of International Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where she also directs the international legal studies program. She is a leading scholar of foreign affairs, public international law and international litigation. She serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Public International Law, she is a Reporter on the American Law Institute's Restatement (Fourth) on U.S. Foreign Relations Law, and she is on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. She has won Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt awards permitting her to spend substantial time in Germany and she is an elected member of the German Society of International Law.
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