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Learning a new powerful library such as React always take some time. One of the topics people seem to be having a hard time to get their heads around is how to use React together with an external widget. This "external" widget is managed outside of React's state and changes in that widget are not reflected in a React component. In general, when working with widgets you have two options;
- Completely rebuild the widget in React. A widget executes API calls to a backend server. If you can perform these API calls yourself you can also build the logic of the widget yourself in React. This is definitely the method that keeps you closest to React but will also bring you (much) more work. Of course, if someone else already rebuild the widget in React and shared it online (such as through npmjs), you can use that version.
- Wrap a React component around the widget. If you can subscribe to events published by the widget you can duplicate the state in React and work this component as you normally would.
In this blog post, we pick option 2 and build a React component around the Google Maps widget. Any state changes in the widget are published as events, allowing us to subscribe to those events and store the state in our component.
I am going to assume you already know at least the basics of how to work with ReactJS and have some experience with the create-react-app. The widget will be built around this Google Maps Autocomplete example from the Google documentation. As always, the full code that we'll incrementally build in this blog post can be found in my GitHub repository.
Let's get started!
Setting things up
By far the easiest method to get started with React is the create-react-app. Set up your new application with the following command:
create-react-app google-maps
This will take a few minutes, so grab a beer or a coffee while you're waiting. Once it's done,
cd into the new directory and run
npm start to start the application.
In the source folder, delete every file except for App.js, index.css and index.js. Fill the index.css with the CSS from the above autocomplete example. Replace the first element in the CSS with the following (don't worry; we won't be touching the CSS again):
#root, #app, #map {
height: 100%;
#state {
width: 200px;
float: left;
#map {
margin-left: 200px;
We can leave the index.js as is; all it does is render our application in the HTML. For starters, create the App.js file as follows:
import React from 'react';
import './index.css';
export default class App extends React.Component {
componentDidMount() {
let map = new window.google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
center: {lat: -33.8688, lng: 151.2195},
zoom: 13,
mapTypeId: 'roadmap',
render() {
return (

We don't do nothing more yet than include the CSS we copied from the Google documentation and the mandatory text to start with. In addition, we load the Google map inside the
#map element in our HTML. We do this in the
componentDidMount() lifecycle function so that we know for sure the page has already been rendered. Next, change the public/index.html file so it looks as follows:
<!doctype html>

<meta charset='utf-8'>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no'>
<title>Google Maps</title>

YOUR_API_KEY with your API key. Check out the Google documentation to learn how to get an API key. The way we include the Google Maps Javascript file will block further rendering until it is loaded. This way, we can be sure that the Javascript is loaded once the
componentDidMount() function executes.
Finally, start the application using
npm start (make sure you are in the root directory of your project). You should now see a Google Maps interface filling your entire screen except for some white space on the left (we'll get to this in a second):
Great. So let's recap what we've been up to;
- We load the Google Maps API in the 'old-fashioned' way: through a script element in the HTML. We also load the places API so that we can search for places.
- We have a basic, minimal React application up and running with a single component.
- In the React application, all we do is use the Google Maps API to load the default map into an HTML element.
Next, let's figure out how to grab state changes from the API and store these into our React component.
Catching Google Maps events
Let's see how easy it is to store the state of the Google maps widget into our component. First, add the following constructor to the component (remember, if you prefer you can already check the final code in my GitHub repository):
constructor() {
this.state = {
zoom: 13,
maptype: 'roadmap',
As you can see, we are going to store two properties of the widget in our state. We initialize these properties with the same values as we load the map right below. Next, at the end of the
componentDidMount() function, add the following:
map.addListener('zoom_changed', () => {
zoom: map.getZoom(),
map.addListener('maptypeid_changed', () => {
maptype: map.getMapTypeId(),
This is where the magic happens and as you can see, it's just plain ol' Javascript. We listen to events triggered by the widget and store the state in our component. Be sure to check out the events documentation to learn what other events you can subscribe on.
Finally, let's show the React component state in the empty part of our screen by prepending the following HTML right before the
#map element:

Zoom level: {this.state.zoom}

Map type: {this.state.maptype}
Save the changes to the file and open up your browser tab again. Change the map type (for example to "Satellite") and zoom in and out a bit. You will see the state on the left keeps up to date with whatever you do. Looks like we properly wrapped the React component around the Google Maps widget!
Adding autocomplete
Let's go a bit more advanced and add search functionality with autocomplete to our map. We add an HTML input element and load the Autocomplete API using this input. When we start typing we will see location suggestions generated through the Google Maps API. This is where we see the most benefit us using the Google Maps widget and wrapping the React component around it. It's very easy to add the autocomplete functionality whereas with the other option - completely rebuilding it in React - would be more work.
We are going to store some extra state. In the constructor, change the
this.state object so it looks as follows:
this.state = {
zoom: 13,
maptype: 'roadmap',
place_formatted: '',
place_id: '',
place_location: '',
Next, within the
componentDidMount() function, add the following at the end:
let marker = new window.google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: {lat: -33.8688, lng: 151.2195},
// initialize the autocomplete functionality using the #pac-input input box
let inputNode = document.getElementById('pac-input');
let autoComplete = new window.google.maps.places.Autocomplete(inputNode);
autoComplete.addListener('place_changed', () => {
let place = autoComplete.getPlace();
let location = place.geometry.location;
place_formatted: place.formatted_address,
place_id: place.place_id,
place_location: location.toString(),
// bring the selected place in view on the map
placeId: place.place_id,
location: location,
This code requires some explanation. First, we add a marker to the map so that we can pinpoint the selected location. Next, we initialize the autocomplete functionality by using the
google.maps.places.Autocomplete API. We feed this the
#pac-input element so that the API knows to provide autocomplete to whatever is typed in this element.
Next, we add a listener so that we are notified of selected locations. We first store the location in the React state and then update the map and marker so that the selected location becomes pinpointed and in view within the map.
Finally, we add some extra elements to the HTML to see our state updates and to add the referenced
#pac-input element. First, add the following to within the HTML
#state element:

Place: {this.state.place_formatted}

Place ID: {this.state.place_id}

Location: {this.state.place_location}

Then, in-between the #state and the #map element, add the following:

<input id='pac-input' type='text' placeholder='Enter a location' />
That's it! Save your changes and you will now see the added input element to your map. Start typing a location, select it and the map will update to the location you selected. Also, on the left you see that we track the state within React as well.
In this blog post I've shown how easy it is to wrap a component around the Google Maps widget. We use the widget's events to keep the React component up to date with state changes. The alternative - completely rebuilding the widget within React - is much more work. I'd like to think my pragmatic side sometimes wins from my desire-to-perfection side. Happy coding!


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Scenario: The Galactic Empire is once again striving to gain complete power of the Universe. Throughout conquering multiple different solar systems, they decide to come across earth. They decided to send down a transmission to warn all nations to surrender or die. All nations surrender except for one The United States of America... Let the fight begin!!!!!
The U.S. has defeated menacing armies before.
-Here is footage of a menacing earthly enemy that the U.S. has found victory over.
-Here is footage of the U.S. response.
*Area 51 is a real place that does exist. I present its demographics.
Airport type Military
Owner U.S. Federal Government
Operator United States Air Force
Location Southern Nevada, U.S.
Elevation AMSL 4,462 ft / 1,360 m
Coordinates 37°14′06″N 115°48′40″W
The base's current primary purpose is publicly unknown; however, based on historical evidence, it most likely supports development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
Who works at Area 51?
Now we ask ourselves, "how has the U.S. responded to nonEarthly enemies? We have many examples of the U.S.' response to alien invaders.
*This is an example of where the
U.S. had to defend against a "mysterious alien species."
-The U.S. declared its independence not from tyranny, opression, or persecution, but from
annihilation. Here is video of the U.S. President's speech.
-Here is footage of the cataclismic finality of the battle between the U.S. and the alien invaders.
*The Men in Black Headquarters is the main base of the Men in Black. It is located at 504 Battery Drive in New York City. The HQ is a pivotal role in the organization, and it where the agents and aliens meet.
Men in Black: 2 particular agents categorized as "galaxy defenders".
1)"Agent K"
2)Former NYPD officer James Darrell Edwards III, AKA "Agent J"
*The real Men in Black
*Galaxy defenders
1)The Arquillians delivered an ultimatum to M.I.B: return the galaxy within an hour or they will destroy Earth. M.I.B. countered the threat and were victorious.
2)The evil Kylothian, Serleena came to Earth looking for the Light of Zartha, a source of great power that would destroy the entire Earth if it didn't leave the planet soon. With its great power the M.I.B. countered her and she was defeated.
3) Boris the Animal, escaped from prison and went back in time to kill the younger "Agent K" in order to allow his species, a ruthless alien race known as Boglodites, to attack Earth. This forced "Agent J" to go back in time and team up with K's younger counterpart on a mission to save his partner and the world.
Note: The Men in Black are undefeated against Alien invaders.
The Predator race of aliens, whom we only know that they are not from Earth, have been distilled off of the Earth by Americans multiple times. Here is footage of the first victory.
So I would like to start off with this. The Galactic Empire are ruthless and VERY powerful. If they wanted they could used one of their star destroyers and blast earth out of orbit. Thats how powerful their ships are! However im just going to assume that the Empire wants to fight with you instead of destroying you from the start. So They deploy thousands of troops (stormtroopers) to the surface of earth to attack. Stormtroopers are programmed to kill and not worry about their surrounding or casualties. That is something that the US lacks. Also if the Empire thought it was necessary they could send down AT-ATs (All Terrain Armored Transports) and AT-STs (All Terrain Scout Transports) and those would have no problem in wiping out ANYTHING the US throws at them.
So we are currently attacking your troops in an all out war, so next we need to take out your leaders aka the President or in fact we will take out your whole entire government. So to do that we will send down our lead in command Emperor Palpatine and Lord Vader, we will also send a crew of stormtroopers to assist. So we get into wherever you have all your leaders and Palpatine and Vader will have no problem in taking them out. And even if the MIB were there, Vader could easily take them out because im pretty sure the MIB have never battled with the force.
The Galactic Empire brought their best. They sent their fleets. They sent their minions. They sent the armada...
Here was the U.S.' answer to At Ats and stormtroopers in the olden days. How cute it was.
There was a time of past, a time when the Galactic order knew of no one their equal. But times have changed, the future became the present, and the U.S.A. was ready for them. They knew not of the U.S.stargate. They knew not of the U.S.'s new leader. A sinister figure had controlled the stargate, came through it, and he claimed the highest position of the United States for himself. He kept the initials U.S.A. for his new kingdom and changed it to be initials for "United Stargate Armada". The "United Stargate Armada was the name he gave to his new world order. He ruled Earth now. But who was he? What was his name?
"Anubis" is his name. He rules the U.S.A. which now stands for United Stargate Armada, which now controls all of Earth, with an iron fist. He fears no one. He has labled himself the "Absolute God" of what was once called Earth. He is the Supreme Leader of the "U.S.A."
Anubis defends the "U.S.A." with his Kull Warriors. Here is footage of the Kull Warrior.
Kull Warriors (also called Anubis drones or Supersoldiers) are creatures created by the Goa'uld Anubis for use as his personal army.
The U.S.A. shows a demonstration of their military fefenses and might in past battles under Anubis' rule.
Anubis showed the defenses of the
U.S.A. when he defeated the replicators.
Here is footage of what happens if you mess with the new U.S.A.
Here is the footage of the U.S.A.'s Dragon Warrior Program. The dragons are in Anubis's giant cages ready at a moment's notice.
Anubis has a modest army of Krakens in underwater cages ready for any assault on the Earth.
Footage of Makhai Warriors bred in the confines of Area 51.
So I would like to start off with say that at any given time the Empire can do this to your earth...
So with that threat on the table, I would like to go to our star destroyers. On these two website that I will provide a deeper understanding into what our star destroyers can do. Our class 1 and class 2 destroyer will easily destroy anything you throw at us.
Also this is our response to what you did to our AT-ATs
Then our tie fighters will go and take you that aircraft you used to destroy our AT-ATs
Space Message sent to Darth Vader: We know this "Death Star" can be destroyed and we know how. Bring it.
We plan on jamming your radar Vader.
We also know about your A-Hole army Vader. You won't catch us off guard!
Here is footage of the commander of the armies of the Galactic Empire being defeated by Obi Wan Kanobi. This defeat forced him into his "Darth Vader suit".
-Here is footage of Darth Vader turning on the Emporer of the Galactic Empire.
-This is proof of a chink in the army of the leadership of the Galactic Empire. Footage of Darth Vader demonstrating many weaknesses
Sokar, the Vice Supreme Leader of the U.S.A. is upon the scene.
The footage of Darth Vader's weaknesses was sent abroad to the allies of the U.S.A. via the Stargate.
Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet has arrived through the stargate to help defend the U.S.A.
The Asgard Fleet has arrived through the stargate to help defend the
Orici, the Leader of the Ori Army has arrived through the Sargate to help defend the U.S.A.
"This is Lord Vader, Leader of the Galactic Empire. You humans have done quite a good job at protecting you peuny earth. I have been holding bacl my complete wrath, but enough is enough. You destroyed our death star so you will witness the full wrath of the me and the Emporer. This opens up the perfect opportinety to test our far more powerful weapon, Starkiller Base. And as for you Anubis, expect a special visit from the Emporer and I. We will show you the consequences when you defy us. Remember this Anubis, you may have conqured one planet, but I have conqured galaxies. You are no competition to me."
~End of transmission~
Earth getting destroyed by starkiller base
Darth Vader and Emporer Palpatine and a crew of stormtroopers board Anubis's ship to destroy him. And while that is going on a whole fleet of star destroyers lead by Boba fett go to destroy Thor.
Darth Vader is on quite the killing spree. So ruthless...So nasty...
Darth Vader and the Emporer board Anubis' ship, but...
But Anubis stepped through his ship's stargate just in time. And he had the book. He would look for answers to his miscalculations. He would look for a strategy...
Transmission: Anubis, you must face Vader. Go back with and finish it...
Anubis: Yes, my master...
Anubis stepped back through the stargate and saw Darth Vader.
Anubis: "Anakin. I am your brother."
Darth Vader: "I have no brother!"
Anubis: "We were both born to Mom. We are brothers. I was born for this very moment."
Darth: "I have no brother!"
Darth Vader ripped Anubis' hood back, and here is what he saw under Anubis' hood.
They were identical twins.
Darth Vader: "No! It can't be!"
Anubis pulled out his light saber and the fight began. Palpatine stepped out of the shadows and began to laugh. He put his hands out in front of him and the lightning shot from his fingers and into Anakin and Anubis' bodies.
Vader pushed his light saber through Anubis' chest. Anubis ripped off Vader's helmet, grabbed him and jumped, hurling them both off the ledge into an abyss.
Anakin Skywalker and Anubis fell into the abyss, deeper and deeper and deeper...to their death.
Palpatine stood there alone. He had his death star. He had his fleet. He had his army. Earth had been destroyed. What would he do now?
Let the credits roll.....
The credits rolled and rolled, but then there was a final scene.
Transmission: excellent. Just as I planned. Hello Palpatine. It's me. I see you've met my apprentice, the young Anubis. I've been watching you. You have been quite the menace to my associates. I am here now.
Darth Plagueis stepped into the light. "It's me Palpatine. I know. You thought I was dead. But some things are not so easy. Some parts of the dark side are so dark that not even you can see them...But I can."
"I was the one who knew the sciences of the midi-chlorians, and you thought you could kill me???!!!"
(Cackling laughter)
"I am the dark lord that led the U.S.A. from Area 51. The secret is revealed! Okay Palpatine. Bring it you insidious poop bag!"
-And the masses rejoiced!
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The sunset was beautiful tonight; A dark orange and pink gradient resting on grey clouds. I've been reading a book series; The Mists of Avalon by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley. I love it. I'm on the second book. It's the perfect series to tide me over until Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson is released. I played my drums today. It's the first time since I burned out. It was weird not to need to play.
It feels like I'm squeezing back into my skin, in a way. Like remembering what I used to do and trying it again with a foreign timidity. My (weak to begin with) ability to track time hasn't returned. Reading is painfully slow right now because my mind wanders more than usual. Good thing the story draws me back. I've been playing with my cat. She only plays one game: I'm Gonna Getcha.
She's really good at it. Each time we play, I think it'll be the one time I get her before she gets me. That time has yet to come. (She has better patience and is an athlete, where I'm merely athletic-ish.) It always results in me laughing so hard my body forgets it has bones. I'm so rich to have her in my life.
M. was in a car accident. He hurt his hand, which is a problem for a surgeon. He's recovering with his cousins in Denver, but we've talked since. He's confident he'll be back to work soon. I haven't met anyone in his family that doesn't work in the medical field.
I've already thought of several jokes to tell about this phenomenon. They'll probably only work if the people who hear them are about four drinks into the gathering. (However, I've never let this stop me before.)
I haven't left my apartment since I crashed and burned. Tomorrow I'm going back to work. Mostly because I'm afraid if I don't soon, I'll convince myself I can't. That's not entirely accurate… I'll convince myself I'd be wiser staying home. That's closer.
I enjoy being home alone way too much, I suspect. It's incredibly appealing to me, but if I allow it for too long, it becomes a comfortable cage. Nailed it. It's too easy to work from home as a code monkey, but I've already sprung that trap. I'm going to dress up just to put an exclamation point on it.
(Dressing up, when you don't do it often, is an excellent anti-Depression Monster strategy.) My usual uniform of jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers has regressed to yoga tights, t-shirt, and bare feet. And a ponytail, because Amelia Bedelia is no fashionista. I'd better give myself a lot of time to get ready in the morning. I'm off to try on everything I own, then pick the first outfit I thought of.


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General Motors (NYSE: GM) has hit a new milestone in becoming the first car manufacturer to mass-produce an autonomous car. The Chevrolet Bolt EV is a battery-powered vehicle capable of achieving over 230 miles per charge, and now GM has announced that 130 next generation Bolt test vehicles have been completed.
The new Bolt features GM's latest technology in autonomous driving, which in itself is not a new idea, but coupled with GM's infrastructure and production capabilities this is a major play. The ability to mass produce this car means that GM can start rolling them en mass for the public at a date to be decided on this summer. The 130 cars join the 50 previously completed cars which are being used for test drives in various cities around the country. This is done in an effort to log more data and test the autonomous aspect in real world situations prior to release, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra says; "Expansion of our real-world test fleet will help ensure that our self-driving vehicles meet the same strict standards for safety and quality that we build into all of our vehicles."
While Tesla has been an early player in electric vehicles and are pushing the envelope in autonomous, self-driving cars, the goals of these two companies are somewhat different. Whilst Tesla can certainly claim to be the industry leader and have a luxury aspect to them, the Bolt is about further testing and perfecting the technologies in self-driving vehicles. The mass production of these vehicles makes this more possible, and the Bolt can quickly become a basis for further innovations in ride-sharing and public transportation. "To achieve what we want from self-driving cars, we must deploy them at scale" conceded Cruise Automation CEO Kyle Vogt, but the potential is high.


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The editor of design magazine Icon has been suspended from the title, allegedly for writing a book.
Publisher Media 10 has confirmed that Icon editor Marcus Fairs has been put on gardening leave, but refused to respond to allegations that the editor was suspended because of his book launch. Publisher Daren Newton told Press Gazette he would not comment on the matter because of ongoing legal proceedings. But according to several well-placed sources, Fairs ran into trouble after publication of his first book, Twenty-First Century Design, lat month.
The alleged cause for suspension has raised concern in the industry where journalists are regularly asked to contribute to other titles and publish their own material. Other Icon journalists have already published their own titles.
Newton declined to confirm if the magazine's staff contracts included stipulations preventing outside work.
Amanda Baillieu, editor of Building Design, CMPi's weekly paper for architects, said: "I've never heard of that before. It's accepted if you are a specialist editor or editing a magazine in a specialist sector such as interiors or architecture you will be asked to write books. You obviously don't write every book you are asked to do but it's good for the brand and the magazine. It's good to see that the editor is out there and it can do nothing but good. It strikes me as very odd that a publisher would object."
Another senior industry figure said: "Most publishers would be proud of you doing this, and I believe other people on the team have published previously, and that was fine."
Fairs started work in architecture reporting on Building Design, working his way up from news reporter to news editor before moving to Building magazine as architectural editor and then assistant editor. Media 10 recruited him to head up the Icon launch in April 2003.
Fairs was nominated in the Magazine Journalism Awards for interviewer of the year, but did not attend the event, held last Thursday, with the magazine's staff. He is also nominated for BSME editor of the year in the specialist magazine category.
Icon launched in April 2003 as a major international design and architecture magazine and previously won best-designed B2B magazine and best use of typography at the Magazine Design Awards. Media 10 has since launched a sister title, Grand Designs.


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Friday, July 26, 2013
And Then My Heart Went Ka-Boom
My pal Shiloh asked me if I'd bought Edie her own dictionary yet, or if I was going to pass her mine, like an heirloom. The answer is, I hope my dictionary gets passed down, but only after it's ripped out of my cold, dead, no-longer-needing-to-look-things-up hands.
I bought this dictionary for myself, from Borders, right after high school. My dad has a dictionary, it's old and worn and just his, and I guess I just thought everyone should have a good one that's just their own. And this is a good one. I mark the words I look up, which is fun to remember first learning to use the word alacrity, but annoying when I realize I've already looked up animus.
I was reading some research the other day and had it out on the table when Edie discovered it after her nap. She looked through the Ds for a while, then flipped around a bit. As she turned one of the newsprint pages, it ripped about halfway up. I made an involuntary face, then pulled it away from her (see: cold dead hands, above). I taped the page back together, then wrote, next to it in the bottom margin, "Edie, 2013".
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Love this. Both adorable and tender.ReplyDelete
Also, you can hold her to this years from now. "Oh yeah? Well YOU ripped my dictionary!! I have proof!" I'm sure that's what you intended.
Lastly, this.
I like the idea of using a dictionary. I think I will quit googling definitions on my iphone and I will just text you and have you look it up for me.ReplyDelete
I love that you marked the incident "Edie 2013". Its funny, nice to remember that kids will be kids and they will leave a mark, you can be furious about it, or just remember it with a little humor. I think I will "mark the incident" next time. Thanks.
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For those looking for tickets to the House of Blues, please go to ticketmaster.com or the House of Blues web site. The GAR Hall in Peninsula is SOLD OUT. THANK YOU ALL FOR A SOLD OUT SHOW AT THE MUSIC BOX!!!
This year The Ohio City Singers are celebrating 10 years of Holiday Rock & Roll with the release of All Wrapped Up: The Best of the Ohio City Singers.
All Wrapped Up spans the band's 4 studio albums, highlighting fan favorites that have become staples of their energetic live performances. The Ohio City Singer's 58-song catalogue has become the soundtrack of Northeast Ohio's Christmas Season, and a mainstay on Majic 105.7 radio with songs like "White Cleveland Christmas", "Snowflake", "Snow Day" and more. The album is available NOW on all digital outlets inluding iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby.
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The 2018 exhibition has now finished. Please keep a look out for 2019 dates.
The 2018 exhibition has now finished. Please keep a look out for 2019 dates.
AppArt's Easter Art Exhibition & Sculpture Trail 2018
A selection of some of the 650 artworks on display at AppArt Easter Exhibition at Prior's Field School, Godalming.
AppArt was founded in 2012 by Evelyn & Gwyn Phillips to encourage interest in the visual arts in the Surrey area. They hold an annual exhibition at Prior's Field School and smaller events at their Grayswood Studio. They have been curating exhibitions for over 20 years. Click the button below to read more.
Artists from all over the South East of England take part in our annual exhibition and they encouraged us to set up AppArt to continue to hold eclectic art shows in the Surrey area. Click the button below to see more about the artists who have exhibited at our exhibitions.
Our annual Easter exhibition is held at Prior's Field School, Godalming and includes an indoor exhibition of ceramics, glass art, paintings, photography and sculpture and an outdoor sculpture trail in the Gertrude Jeykle inspired gardens. Click the button below to read more.
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Artist: Trigger10d
CD Title: Trigger10d
Label: WTII
Homepage: www.trigger10d.com
Genre: Electronic Rock, Alternative
Reviewer: Robert Eaton
Date: 12 14-10
Trigger 10d's second, self-titled, album showcases the band's shift in direction to a much more organic, live sound. The band's sound is a raw indie-rock sound, with live drums, guitars and live bass. Electronics are kept to a supporting role, the album's 10 tracks showcase a female-fronted, straight-forward rock album. The album opens with the rocker, "Misplaced." The song even includes a decidedly un-electronica cow-bell. "Lullaby" makes the most of a distorted bass groove and meandering guitars. "Skies Gone Dark" pairs shimmering, clean guitars with orchestral touches, record scratches, and soft, understated vocals. "A-list" is lo-fi rock, and good fun. "Kiss the Door" is slower, with almost a lounge-music feel. "Roadside" is an instrumental guitar track. "Whip You Wicked" is very jazzy, and is the better of the softer-rock songs on the album. All the songs are within the context of indie-rock, but this album tries on a lot of hats.While Trigger 10d's album marks a major departure from its previous release, it could find an audience with those who favor indie-rock. Trigger 10d's fans that remember the band as an electronica act may be slightly put off. However, for what the album is, it's not a bad alt-rock album.
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Dark Matter is an indispensable ingredient to our universe; however, its nature remains one of
the greatest puzzles in fundamental science. Potential Dark Matter candidate particles can be
produced and studied under controllable laboratory conditions at high-energy particle colliders
such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). So far, the experimental collaborations
operating the large multi-purpose LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS have published the
results of searches for Dark Matter independently. Theory groups have then provided
interpretations in many models at different levels of sophistication.
With this HeiKA project application we propose to lay the groundwork for a novel and
systematic approach of analyzing and interpreting Dark Matter data from the LHC: The
experimental ATLAS and CMS groups publish their results as unfolded data within the same
fiducial phase space. Using these data, theory groups can provide consistent and reliable
interpretations in Dark Matter models. This approach requires close collaboration of the Uni HD
group working at the ATLAS experiment, of the KIT group working at CMS, as well as of the
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- A Guide to Our Future
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- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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- Release date: 03-06-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, PostCapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change and how we can build a more equal society.
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system by which entire societies function, has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new.
At the heart of this change is information technology: a revolution that, as Mason shows, has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work, production and value and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership; in fact, he contends, it is already doing so.
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By Peter on 01-02-17
A fascinating perspective on economic history...
The historical aspect of this book with especially its critique of Marx and the direction Soviet Russia took was very interesting; some new stuff learned. In this regard it was quite a balanced book. As for a vision of the future it seemed somewhat naive and hopeful. The idea that software theoretically lasts forever for example was naive. It doesn't. The machines on which it runs die and their replacements often cannot run the older software at all. Software has the same legacy issues that most products have; in fact software is often more short lived than common household electrical appliances. It also comes with a maintenance cost due to security issues/bugs etc.
The idea that information is free is also flawed. Storing the information is massively expensive - Google's huge data centres are acknowledged in the book but somehow the cost of maintaining and replacing hardware, cabling and having the energy to run the servers does not get factored into the cost of information. Neither does the cost of accessing the information via data charges, ISP fees, standing charges (to maintain the cabling infrastructure etc.). This audio book is verbal information recorded as digital data - it was not free. The servers where it is stored are not free. The device I listened to it on was not free. The internet connection I used to download it was not free.
The idea that Wikipedia is free is also demonstrably false. It may be free at the point of access but Wikipedia regularly has fundraisers - it actually costs millions of dollars a year to run in hard cash.
As for the vision of the future much of the concerns and observations about capitalism are bang on the money (it does indeed seem to be beginning its death throes). However, I found the vision of a future information economy to be somewhat incomprehensible. Yes a citizens income paid for from savings gained by technology would seem like a good idea (but is highly unlikely to happen) but the repetitive mantra of the (not so) free information economy just didn't make sense to me. It is almost on a par with modern theoretical physics.
I wish I could share the positive future vision held by the author but he has a somewhat utopian view of humanity. Capitalism is a system that has grown as a reflection of humanity on the whole. While people have their good side (some more than others) the predominant forms of behaviour are manipulative, self serving, competitive and adversarial to the point of violence. The author does not address the fundamental state of human nature and how the world we see is really a reflection of it. Yes we can blame leaders but we collectively put them there. We (the masses) choose to listen to the media lies, to have the scope of our reality shaped by outside forces. Most people are not looking for a new way of shaping the economy, they are trying to get more money for a better house or car. Trying to pay for the kids holidays. Very few people have the slightest interest in economics, how fractional reserve lending works etc. We are tribal and defensive.
From considering history and the current state of world economics, including many salient points addressed by this book, I can only see a big war coming. A big one. The one that most people think can only exist in Holywood movies.
On the reading - yes the author restarts many sentences in this reading and why they were not edited out is somewhat mystifying. At first I thought this was a subversive reminder that a real fallible person had written the book and hence a nudge for us all to remember that we too are fallible humans but there were so many it did get quite annoying. Especially given that the fab technology and the ease with which this commercial paid-for release could have been made error-free.
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By Anonymous User on 02-10-17
Good stuff m8!
Fascinating critique of this 300 year old system in which we live (capitalism) and why it cannot survive in its current form due to the emergence of market destroying info-technologies, rising global (and aging) populations, migration and climate change.
Explores the complicated history of the global labour movement (Bolshevism, Marxism, socialism etc.) in a way that mainstream economics glosses over in collusion with power and describes the role of the networked individual as the new proletariat pushing for social change against an increasingly technocratic and dystopian elite.
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By Frans Sporsen on 20-09-16
Typical socialists not minding the quality
Interesting thesis that is well needed for the modern leftists, and quite a healthy read even for a "neoliberal" as myself (tired of being clumped up with neocons as usual). The problem is that the narrator has frustratingly many breaks where he just quits mid sentence and starts over again.
This is the shit you get when you just leave work when it's not done because your work day is over.
By Tom W on 27-07-16
Lots of food for thought, shame about the editing
Mason's overall premise is that capitalism is in crisis and is now in a position where it has to evolve into something new, due to the rise of automation and the sharing economy. He argues that capitalism is inherently unstable, especially in a time of abundance driven by the increasing importance of infinitely copyable information goods in the economy. He spends a long time (perhaps too long) seeking to understand the current situation by looking back at the 200 year history of capitalism, and its critics, particularly Marx. He also spends a good chunk of the book discussing the labour theory of value, and how it relates to an economy where less and less work is done by humans. He finally moves on to outlining a programme for the future, including positing the introduction of a universal basic income to ease the transition from capitalism to postcapitalism.
All in all, a very interesting listen. It's easy to find things to agree with and to disagree with in this book but Mason's enthusiasm and style had me coming back for more. I wish he'd spent a bit more time on the future, and bit less time on the past; every time he seemed about to start talking about the future he seemed to get distracted by putting it in its place the historical context of the Left.
Mason's narration is very good, but a minor niggle that spoiled an otherwise enjoyable listen is that the final product is really badly edited; there are lots of places where the narrator retakes a line that are left in the final audiobook.


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August 26, 2012 (CHICAGO) --A two-time Olympian from the Chicago area was honored Sunday by the city's Greek orthodox community.
Christina Loukis, who represented America as a diver at the London games and also competed at the 2008 games in Beijing, was presented with the medal of St. Paul.
The award is the highest honor bestowed upon a layperson by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese for admirably representing the church to the general public.
Loukis finished 8th overall in London.
She is a nine-time US diving champion and a graduate of Deerfield High School.


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Libyan authorities on Tuesday passed legislation governing the formation of political organisations which rules out religious, regional and tribal platforms and bans foreign funding.
Political parties must have a minimum of 250 founding members while associations need only 100, according to legislation which was agreed on late Tuesday, he said.
Libya's electoral committee warned on April that legislation on forming political parties must be adopted soon if June elections are to go ahead as scheduled.
But even without it, dozens of parties have launched in the past months with the intention of contesting elections to a constituent assembly, which should be held by June 19.
A full 120 of the assembly's seats are reserved for independent candidates but political associations are to contest the remaining 80.
Political organisations of any kind were banned for decades under the iron-fisted rule of Moamer Kadhafi, who was toppled and killed in last year's popular uprising.


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Both NFL and collegiate athletes have brought claims against the NFL and NCAA, alleging that players were not warned about the dangers of traumatic brain injury resulting from repeated blows to the head. These players claim to have suffered the long term effects of brain injury, including dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a chronic degenerative brain disorder.
In the midst of this litigation, the Journal of Neurosurgery released the results of a five-year study on the effectiveness of football helmets in preventing brain injury. Here are some key findings:
- Two helmets, both manufactured by Riddell, varied in their effectiveness against head injury. The "Revolution" model had a 53.9% reduced conussion risk when compared to the "VSR" model.
- Actual concussion rates are about two to ten times greater than diagnosed concussion rates, which confirms findings from prior studies.
- No helmet can completely prevent a concussion from occurring in football.
As the collegiate and NFL litigation moves forward, studies like this will play a key role in the litigation. An injured Plaintiff, in this case, the football players, bear the burden of proving that the repeated blows to the head caused the traumatic brain injury. Players also have to prove that helmet manufacturers or league officials were aware of the risk of long term injury, and under the law, were required to warn the players about those risks, and take necessary precautions.
Regardless of the outcome of any of these cases, youth programs, high school programs, and college football programs are changing the way they manage their players.


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What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?
Since I've pretty much only done the "rapid" approach, it's tough to make the comparison. However, our company just recently launched a new online product (not e-learning related), and it's been a HUGE hit. I bring this up because they had been working on it for over 6 months, and went through many alpha and beta tests to make sure everything was great, prior to going live. When MY team has been tasked with an eLearning project, we might get a week or two... starting with nothing and ending with a finished product.
Currently, we've got five learning modules that need to be online by March 1st... which actually means a week before March 1st, so the higher-ups can approve them. My job is basically to make sure they're not TOTALLY boring... as there's no way I could brainstorm and implement anything great, cool, and engaging with just 1 and 1/2 weeks per module.
So I guess that's the real difference. Rapid development doesn't allow for "beta tests", or innovation. By the time I research some cool, new ActionScript class that will make the module interactive, it's time to move on to the next module.


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Get your chops ready! Freshly made, gourmet croissant loaves, assortments of breads, muffins, peanut butter pretzel cookies, chocolate chip cookies, biscotti, focaccia — all this and more — will be at your fingertips at the new Rockaway Beach Bakery (RBB) store.
Well-known and accoladed former Manhattan pastry chef and now proprietor of RBB, Tracy Obolsky, first set up shop in Rockaway, doling out her popular croissants, sticky buns and quiches out of a camper van. According to Obolsky, as word got around, RBB's popularity grew. "I guess it was more of an underground word-of-mouth kind of advertising. As more people found out and told others, it was just amazing how viral it all became. Even with opening RBB in a storefront location, I am worried about meeting demand. People just seem to really love it all," Obolsky said.
For example, this past weekend, Obolsky held a pop-up bake sale at Rockaway Beach Brewery, where everything was sold out within the hour. "I couldn't believe it," Obolsky said. "When I showed up with my goods, there were 20 people already queued up, waiting. People kept coming, and of course, I ran out of stuff. Everything went so quickly, even the dog treats I made for our four-legged friends! I felt so bad for the folks who came and were disappointed that everything was gone."
Obolsky shared how she got into baking. "I graduated from Pratt Institute with a fine arts degree in Illustration. I was having trouble finding work, so I became a bartender to make ends meet. The money was great, but I knew that I had to do something else. I started experimenting with my grandmother's dessert recipes, and sharing with friends. I fell in love with the whole creative process of baking," Obolsky said.
She then decided to go back to school to study culinary arts at the French Culinary Institute. After graduating, she was hired by restaurant Borough Food and Drink, where she was quickly promoted to pastry chef. Then she moved on and worked at renowned Manhattan and Brooklyn restaurants such as Madison and Vine, Five Napkin Burger, Cookshop, Esca and North End Grill. At all of these places, she was known for her signature sense of style and composition with the foundations of classical pastry. She earned a StarChefs Rising Star Pastry Chef Award in 2015 for her work at North End Grill.
However, Obolsky confessed that she got tired after working for over 10 years in the hectic and demanding restaurant industry. "I got sick of the crazy pace I had working in Manhattan, and coming home to Fort Greene in Brooklyn was not that more relaxing. After working 16-hour days, it just got old, and was not satisfying. After being so focused for years, one day I just felt like I had it. I had to figure out something else.
"I moved to Rockaway two years ago, after living in Fort Greene for 16 years. Living by the beach is definitely a great place to be when you're not in the kitchen, in the hustle and bustle of a restaurant. So it's really nice to have this kind of atmosphere and environment to try to balance out my life. I also fell in love with surfing. I love the beach and water. It was a very easy decision for me to move out here.
When I moved to the Rockaways, I saw a lot of opportunities for me to open a business that would benefit the community. I wanted to provide a service that was different, and that folks would welcome. Don't get me wrong, I still work my bum off, and I still have long hours when I bake here in Rockaway, but the atmosphere is so satisfying," Obolsky said.
Obolsky's most popular dish? "Hands down, it's the everything, ham and Swiss croissant. It doesn't matter how many I make, they sell so quickly. Before I bake the croissants, I put an everything mix on top, the same spices you see on the outside of an everything bagel. It just adds so much flavor, that makes your mouth water," Obolsky said.
RBB will be opening in three weeks at 87-10 Rockaway Beach Blvd, an 800-square-foot space that will also accommodate locals with nooks to sit. Obolsky said that all the furniture was made by local Rockaway artists.
Each day, the bakery will feature a wide variety of pastries such as freshly made breads, cookies, cakes, panna cotta, lunch offerings on homemade bread, and of course, dog treats. As for beverages, RBB will have La Colombe drip coffee, teas, fresh juice beverages based on seasonality such as raspberry lemonade and citrus-celery coolers to name a few.
Obolsky said that most of her ingredients are locally sourced from Edgemere Farm and the Food Co-op. Also, she will be growing some of the things that will complement her treats such as arugula for sandwiches and herbs for pastries and focaccia toppings.
"Each day will offer a different experience, based on what I get inspired to do on a given day," Obolsky said. "I really want to present fun favorites for those who have been so loyal following me in Rockaway, and for new faces who want to indulge in the RBB experience."BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS


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"Hunt For the Wilderpeople" (2016) Review
By Reid Ramsey (August 13, 2016)
"The film subtly invokes its message of the power of acceptance without ever feeling preachy."
If you had told me that Taika Waititi would follow up his 2014 mockumentary about vampires "What We Do In the Shadows" with a hilarious story about a foster child and his ex-foster parent living in the New Zealand jungle on the run from Child Protective Service (CPS), I probably would have believed you. Now, if you had added that it was Waititi's most cinematic film to date and included a heartfelt and honest portrayal of a complicated relationship, I may have doubted you. But that's what "Hunt For the Wilderpeople" (2016) is.
"Hunt For the Wilderpeople," as previously stated follows Ricky (Julian Dennison) a city-kid who CPS places in the care of the unconditionally loving Aunt Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and the callous Uncle Hec (Sam Neill). After a tragedy, CPS offers to take Ricky from Hec. Communication errors and the overzealous social worker Paula, who probably imagines herself as Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna from "Heat" (1995), incite a New Zealand wide manhunt for Ricky and Hec.
Sometimes I have a hard time telling if I just personally find New Zealand accents in Waititi's films to be innately hilarious or if he's purposefully using his deadpan style mixed with the accents to form the comedy. Based on other audience members' laughter, I lean towards the latter. In this film and his two previous films I've seen, "What We Do In the Shadows" and "Eagle vs Shark" (2007), he also uses this same comic technique.
"Oh look, he's giving a pig a piggyback ride," an officer calmly and dryly states as Hec ruggedly walks over a hill with a pig on his back.
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At its core, "Hunt For the Wilderpeople" explores the emotional journey of a young boy figuring out that he not only has a place in the world but also has people in the world that love him. As he continually reminds the audience throughout the film (mostly for comedy), since birth he has been destined to be a statistic to pass through foster homes and end up in prison or dead. The film subtly invokes its message of the power of acceptance without ever feeling preachy.
One of the key components of the film is Ricky's dog, who he names Tupac, given to him by Bella and Hec. The joy and responsibility Ricky enjoys while training Tupac can be read as quietly hopeful and cycle-breaking.
Essentially Waititi has made a referential broad comedy about the strength of acceptance in a child's life, and it's one of the year's best.


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Can I be a mad scientist?
This half term year 1 became mad scientists. We learnt all about materials and different ways to use them. We took part in lots of different investigations including floating, sinking and waterproofing.
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This week sees the return to our television screens of the award-winning series The Secret History of our Streets, which peels back the curtains to reveal the hidden stories of some of the UK's city streets.
Now in its second series, the BBC2 programme which is co-produced by The Open University (OU) travels to Scotland at a key point in its history to expose the stories behind three archetypal streets in the country's great cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The streets featured in the three-part series are:
The OU academics on the series were Dr Georgina Blakeley, senior politics lecturer, and Dr Gerry Mooney, senior lecturer in social policy and criminology at the OU in Scotland.
Dr Blakeley said: "Although the second series of this award-winning documentary series now shifts its focus from the streets of London to the streets of Scotland's three great cities, it is fascinating that so many of the themes and issues the programmes raise will strike a chord with people wherever they happen to live in the UK today."
"The programme highlights the issues of power, social inequality and marginalisation that exist within Scotland's three main cities, as well as the struggles of its people to build a sense of community, a sense of place – often in very difficult circumstances. We hope that the programmes will inspire viewers across the country to uncover the secret histories of their own streets and areas." – Dr Gerry Mooney.
To dig deeper into the themes raised in the series, the OU has produced a free publication - The Street newspaper, which covers stories on class, poverty, housing and migration and can be ordered through the OU's OpenLearn website.
Viewers can also share stories of their own streets from all across the UK by adding to the OU's Secret Streets diary on the OpenLearn website.
Series two of The Secret History of our Streets begins on BBC2 on Friday 25 July at 21:00. For further information please visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bzppg
An OU/BBC co-production produced by Century Films and Halcyons Heart Films.
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If someone tells you they know how much restaurant servers make, don't believe them
The next time someone tells you how much money the average restaurant server makes in Minneapolis, you should probably take it with a grain of salt.
The topic's gotten a lot of attention as Minneapolis debates whether or not tips should count toward a $15-an-hour citywide minimum wage that looks likely to pass in one form or another (as long as it doesn't get quashed in St. Paul). And lots of people have answers: some cite a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey at an average of about $10 an hour, and others a Minnesota Restaurant Association-affiliated survey that found tipped workers make an average $28.56 an hour.
The chasm between those numbers is bigger than the $15 value of the minimum wage up for discussion at City Hall, which is to say, not trivial. The fight over the tip credit — whether or not employers will be required to pay all employees, tipped or not, at least the minimum wage if it increases — largely hinges on this issue. The problem: it's a question experts say is almost impossible to accurately answer.
What people say servers make
Currently, Minnesota is one of seven states whose minimum wage does not include a tip carve out. That means workers who are tipped and workers who aren't collect the same wage at minimum, $9.50 an hour from large employers and $7.75 from small ones.
Pathway to $15, a campaign by the Minnesota Restaurant Association, advocates changing that in Minneapolis, if the city moves ahead with a $15 an hour minimum wage. The organization argues forcing restaurants to pay servers $15 an hour regardless of the tips they make could hurt restaurants' bottom lines, and ultimately workers if businesses cut back their hours and raise prices.
In March, Pathway to $15 released the results of a survey of 72 Minneapolis restaurants during the month of October that found tipped workers made an average of $28.56 an hour, working an average 19.1 hours per week.
The survey was sent to more than 500 restaurants in the city — "everybody for whom we had email addresses," both members and non-members of the Restaurant Association, said Dan McElroy, the executive vice president of the Minnesota Restaurant Association. Responses came in from the likes of Red Cow, Crave, Hola Arepa, Manny's Steakhouse, Pizza Luce and D. Brian's Kitchen and Catering.
"We chose October because it didn't have any paid holidays (where people would be off work and dining in restaurants extra days)," McElroy said. "Patios were largely open, but it was away from the holidays."
The Restaurant Association asked respondents to record wage and tip data based on what they would report for taxes on a spreadsheet and send it in. McElroy said the group had an actuary look over the methodology.
"I am as confident as I can be that these numbers we are reporting are correct," he said.
But not everyone agrees.
After the report came out, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a national group that advocates for a flat minimum wage, released a statement rebutting the claims the Restaurant Association made. Their complaints included that the lack of information on the survey's methodology makes it unclear whether the sample accurately represents the cross-section of Minneapolis restaurants, high end to low end. They also argue that in October, a Minneapolis Restaurant Week causes servers to earn more money.
"It's clear that servers who work in fine dining restaurants earn high wages, it's true — the higher the bill, the higher the tips are going to be," said Teófilo Reyes, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United's research director. But he and others doubt that number is representative of an average across the profession, pointing out that many restaurant servers live in poverty.
Reyes said he believes the Bureau of Labor Statistics' estimates (figures compiled by the National Employment Law Project are often cited), which put Twin Cities-area waiters and waitresses at an average $10.29 an hour, are the best available. In February, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges wrote a post opposing the tip penalty on the city's website that also cited the BLS numbers.
But there are problems with the BLS estimate, too.
First, it comes from a survey of the whole wide Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan statistical area, which includes 14 Minnesota counties and two in western Wisconsin. The minimum wage debate is focused on a relatively small chunk of that area, Minneapolis, and where a concentration of higher-end restaurants likely makes workers a bit more money than in suburban and rural spots.
"To me (that) sounds low," for Minneapolis, said Celeste Robinson, with $15 Now, a group that's been advocating to raise the wage to $15 an hour without a tip carve out. "I've worked in the service industry and not in a high-end restaurant ... (but) you can make a lot of money some days, (and) might go home with very little in your pocket some days, which is why it's very important to have a baseline wage." She also pointed out that some tipped workers aren't restaurant servers, and could be making less.
Second, the BLS estimates are based on a survey of employers who might not have complete information about what their servers make.
Tips that are left on credit cards are automatically reported to employers, but it's common for servers not to report all their cash tips. That's becoming less of an issue as more customers are paying with plastic, but it still creates hurdles for people trying to compile accurate data.
"The reporting of wages and tips is dependent upon the employer both knowing the tips paid to the employee and including that in the questionnaire response," wrote Cassandra Wirth, a BLS economist, in an email. If a profession is clearly tipped, and it's obvious the employer didn't include tips, the BLS might leave a survey response out — but that depends on the bureau's ability to identify that.
The Census Bureau has data for Minneapolis alone, but it includes "food preparation and serving related occupations," which would include jobs that aren't tipped, doesn't break the number down to an hourly wage, which requires making assumptions about how much time workers spend at their jobs, and relies on workers being able to accurately report how much money they make. Wages for tipped workers can vary from week to week, said Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist and the co-chair of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California at Berkeley who studies restaurant economics (Allegretto is opposed to tip credits).
|Geographic area
|Data source
|Bureau of Labor Statistics (compiled by the National Employment Law Project)
|Waiters and waitresses
|Minneapolis-St. Paul statistical area
|$8.98/hr (median); $10.29/hr (mean)
|Occupational Employment Statistics survey, 2012-2015
|U.S. Census Bureau
|Food preparation and serving related occupations
|$12/hr (median)*
|2015 American Community survey
|Pathway to $15
|Tipped workers
|$28.56/hr (mean)
|Voluntary survey emailed to Minneapolis restaurants in October, 2016
Allegretto argues that talk of averages is somewhat misleading in the first place: first, depending on the type of establishment, the amount tipped workers make can vary wildly.
And second, even for the same server, wages can be volatile from shift to shift — because of the weather, because of the time of day (is it Monday afternoon or Saturday night?) and other things out of a server's control.
"Are there some workers in the industry who make lavish wages due to their tips? I'm sure there are, but you have to think of the worker working at an all-night truckstop or at a Denny's or at all the lower-end establishments that exist and how are they making ends meet?" she said.
Data quality issues
All of these issues add up to a murky picture of server wages.
"There are some serious data quality issues that make it hard to know the full story behind tipped workers," wrote Jacob Vigdor, one of the professors at the University of Washington working on the Seattle Minimum Wage Study, in an email, referring specifically to unreported income.
Asked whether there was a way to get a good estimate of average server wages, Vigdor said he's come to the conclusion it would a tricky undertaking.
It would either require restaurant owners to open their accounting books — showing any credit card tips that were "cashed out," (credit card tips that are distributed to the server in cash at the end of the night, which don't necessarily show up in wage records), or require a methodological survey of waiters and waitresses asking about income not reported on W-2s, which "might be unreliable for several reasons," he wrote.
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The Minnesota Restaurant Association is a lobbying group for restaurant ownership in the area, so their numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. It's not just the DOL, as a DEED survey independently found similar numbers. It's also worth noting that an "average" wage skews higher than the median wage, which is always the case with incomes because they have a hard floor and no ceiling. This can be seen in the DOL's $10.29/hr mean and $8.98/hr median in the cited survey.
What's interesting to me is that restaurant ownership in the area wants you to believe both that their servers are living comfortable, middle-class lives AND that gradually folding in a $15/hr minimum wage over many years is an undue burden that will destroy the industry. They've got their own set of numbers compiled by their lobbying group, and they seem ready to go to war with them instead of just doing the right thing and paying their employees a living wage. Then when questioned on why it's such a burden, they suggest proponents of a living wage don't understand the industry.
A tip credit is simply a bad idea. It was a bad idea when Tom Emmer proposed it in his gubernatorial campaign and it's a bad idea when the restaurant industry is proposing it for the city. Wage theft is already a major issue in the restaurant industry (a 2010–2012 study of 9,000 full-service restaurants found almost 84% committed wage violations) and the tip credit is one of the driving factors. Why Minneapolis would want to open that can of worms is beyond me.
There are a lot of other low-wage industries out there, but they don't have dedicated reporters to do ownership's bidding. I mean, think about how many food writers there are in this town and yet how many years has it been since there was a single reporter on the labor beat? A tip credit is a bad idea, but it's also getting way more discussion than it's due thanks to the cozy relationship between restaurant owners and food writers in this town. Thankfully the Mayor and City Council seem to be above this noise, much to the benefit of working people in Minneapolis.
For me a tip is a reward for good service. What constitutes good service is not amenable to definition and varies among people. What incentive might a server have if tips cut their wages. So the tip carve out is a bad deal. The only people that benefit from tip carve out are the rstuarant owners.
Two things...
First, it wouldn't be THAT difficult to produce reliable estimates. You can get basic wage data from the BLS, and and the census and you can break that down to geographic locations. That gives you a median salary of around $11 per hour. The only thing you may not be capturing is tip income, but that could be accomplished by conducting anonymous surveys of servers with a balanced sample. You could find out actual tip receipts, AND find out how accurate income reporting is and adjust the BLS and census data. And remember, "median" means a point at which 50% of the wages are higher, and 50% are lower. "Mean" is an average, which can be influenced by high and low samples. So if you have sample of say 30 workers at 30 different restaurants, and three or four workers who get really high tips can skew the average dramitically. For instance with sample of 30, if you have five servers who get $200 worth of tips, fifteen servers that earn $30, and ten servers that earn $20, those high end tips will double the average ($51.00) even though they only represent 16% of the sample. If you take those high end tips out you get an average of $22.
I'm making these numbers up to illustrate a point but you can see that the method Pathway to $15 used is ridiculous. There's no denominator, for instance we don't need to know how many restaurants were surveyed, we need to know how many employees were counted. The sample itself is suspect because of the characteristics of the Twin Cities restaurant environment. In the Twin Cities a large number of restaurants are owned by a small number of individuals, it's entirely possible that of the 75 restaurants that responded, we're only looking at 10 to 15 different owners. And we have absolutely no idea how those owners arrived at the numbers they provided.
Another problem with the Pathway data is that I noticed it assumes work weeks of less than 20 hours, why is that? Are there no full time servers? THAT denominator drastically affects the average as well, a full time or 40 hour work week would cut their estimate in halve, down to $14 instead of $28. Why are we only looking at part time servers? Presumably there's a mix of part time and full time but that should be reflected in the analysis. Pathway's "survey" is obviously not a serious attempt, and the fact that it yield wage estimates almost three times higher than others is probably a result of poor methodology.
I hate to say, but poor methodology isn't surprising coming from a group that opposes $15 minimum wages but calls itself: "Pathway to $15". Kind of like anti-labor legislation described as: "Right to Work" laws.
The second problem with this whole discussion if far more basic: Why are assuming that servers wages should somehow be capped in the first place? So what if some servers earn $28.00 an hour? Why are we assuming that servers can somehow make too much? We don't make that assumption about the owners do we? Has anyone done a survey to see how much owners make?
In the end it's just impossible to take restaurant owners seriously. They say they can't afford $15 but they won't tell us what their revenue is or how much THEY make. The real question isn't how much servers make, it's how much MORE they would make if they had a base of $15.00? That would tell us how much more it would cost owners, the difference between what they pay now, and what they would pay... but they never tell us that. Business is business, there's no law of man or nature that says anyone is entitled to profit, let alone a certain profit, so if owners have to pay employees more that's the price of doing business. Beyond that we have to remember this isn't a zero sum calculation, restaurants CAN raise the price of a meal or a drink if they don't want to absorb the cost of higher wages. While we see a lot of whining about high paid servers, what we don't see EVER is exactly how much the price of a burger will actually go up? And even if we did, could we trust that estimate given it's origin?
Federal studies on $15 minimum wages have repeatedly shown that it would produce zero or near zero inflationary pressure on the over-all economy, and negligible inflation in affected sectors like the restaurant industry.
I forgot to mention that it's problematic to compare means and medians, (as is done in this article) they're different calculations. BLS and the census use a median instead of an "average" for good reasons (as I explained above).
At any rate what you'd really want to see if you want to get your head around this is a scatter plot that would show you where a majority of incomes cluster. More than likely there is a "Mode" (the most frequently occurring number) or set of numbers clustered around the median somewhere, so that would tell that for instance that 15 of 30 servers (50%) make between $10 and $14 per hour. I'm making that up as an example, but you can see how that provides more useful information than a single number like an average or a median. Or you could break you sample down into deciles or quartiles or something.
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