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Sponge cake with whipped cream and strawberries is very popular in Sweden, especially in the summer with fresh Swedish strawbwrries. Traditionally it's made for special occasions such as the midsummer celebration and birthdays.
It's simple to make but it requires a lot of beating and a few different steps that are well worth it…
This cake is incredibly moist and with rich, clean flavours from the ground almonds, dairy free lemon curd (made with honey, coconut oil), vanilla, coconut cream, and strawberries … the whole thing flour, milk and sugar free as usual.
Make it low carb-friendly by replacing the honey and agave with stevia and replace the lemon curd with mashed strawberries or bananas.
- 6 eggs, separated
- 150 ml / 0.6 cups of honey or agave
- 1 tsp vanilla powder
- 180 g coconut oil or butter
- 450 ml / 1.9 cups almond flour
To assemble
- 100-150 ml lemon curd or to taste
- about 2 cups coconut cream (ie, the white solid in a jar of coconut milk that has separated from the coconut water.
- 1/2 tsp vanilla powder
- About 4 cups of strawberries
- Make lemon curd if you have not already prepared it in advance. Look up a recipe and replace butter with ghee or coconut oil. Replace sugar with agave and decrese the amount (measurement of sugar) with about ¼.
- Let the lemon curd cool until room temperature, then in the fridge or freezer to allow it to solidify.
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C
- Melt the coconut oil or butter and allow to cool slightly.
- Grease a large spring-tin with either coconut oil, butter or ghee and dust the insides of the tin with almond flour or fine coconut flakes.
- Place the egg whites in a large bowl and whisk until they are stiff but not "dry". If you turn the bowl upside down the whites should be stiff enough to not drip.
- Place the egg yolks in a separate bowl with honey or agave and whisk with an electric mixer (it works to use the same whisk as for the whites without washing it) for 2-3 minutes or until it's reached a thick and creamy consistency. The whisk should leave ribbon-like trails when the whisks are lifted.
- Pour in the melted cookin fat into the egg yolk mix and stir gently until it's well combined.
- Add half the amount of the egg whites into egg yolk-mix and stir gently. Then add a little egg white at a time and gently fold it into the batter to keep as much air as possible.
- Add the almond flour and stir gently.
- Bake in the oven for about 40-45 minutes until the cake is golden brown until risen and the top feels firm in the middle. Keep track towadrs the end of the baking time so it doesn't go too brown too quickly, if it starts – cover with tin foil towards the end of the baking.
- Remove the cake from the oven when fully baked and let it cool completely.
- Whip the coconut cream with the vanilla powder.
- Cut the cooled cake base in half and spread lemon curd over the surface of the lower half. If you want you can slice strawberries thinly and spread out on top of the lemon curd.
- Add back the top sponge layer and cover the surface with coconut cream.
- Decorate with lots of strawberries.

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MBC Secures Affiliation with WBC Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council
MBC Secures Affiliation with WBC Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council
Malta Boxing Commission (MBC) Vice President and co-founder Gianluca Di Caro announced earlier today that their request for affiliation with the WBC Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council (EPBC) has been successful.
Speaking earlier Mr. Di Caro said. "We are overjoyed to have been granted affiliation with the WBC Eurasia Pacific Boxing Council and are most grateful to WBC EPBC President Mr. Alan Kim for assisting us to secure the affiliation and the opportunity to have MBC licensed boxers campaign for this prestigious championship.
I cannot begin to stress how important this affiliation is to the MBC and our members, as this will open the doors for our boxers to challenge for WBC EPBC championship honours not just in Malta and the UK but also across Europe, Asia and the Pacific region.
2016 is already proving to be a pivotal and busy year for the MBC, we have nine Championship bouts lined up, five of which are World title fights, with another four in advanced negotiation.
Since announcing to our members yesterday, a number of boxers have already stated their interest in campaigning for WBC EPBC titles, and more importantly we also have two promoters that are keen to host WBC EPBC championship bouts.
Hopefully within the next few weeks or so we'll be in the position to announce the first WBC Eurasia Boxing Council Championship bout featuring an MBC boxer…watch this space."
MBC Joins Forces with WKA To Sanction Pro Boxing In Scotland
MBC Joins Forces with WKA To Sanction Pro Boxing In Scotland
Malta Boxing Commission's Managing Director and Vice President, Gianluca Di Caro and World Kick Boxing and Karate Association (WKA) Scotland President Stewart Allan today announced that they have joined forces to sanction professional boxing events in Scotland.
The new venture will not only present opportunities for Scottish Professional boxers to be able to compete more, but also will enable fighters from the Kick Boxing world to compete both as professional Boxers and Kick Boxers.
Whilst the intention of this venture is to sanction pro boxing events in Scotland, it also opens the doors to the possibility of combined pro Boxing and Kick Boxing events, with the boxing sanctioned by the MBC and Kick Boxing sanctioned by the WKA, not just in Scotland but also at any event sanctioned by the MBC in Malta, the United Kingdom or Ireland.
On making the announcement Mr. Allan said.
"We are very excited to be working with the Malta Boxing Commission, it can only be good for the sport to bring such a progressive professional boxing organisation to Scotland.
To join those from the pro boxing world with those of the Kick Boxing world is an exciting prospect, up to now the powers to be in the UK were quite happy for our Champions to switch disciplines and compete as pro boxers.
Unfortunately it has always been at the expense of the fighter's Kick Boxing career, that's been because once they have switched to pro boxing they are no longer allowed to compete as a Kick Boxer.
That will change, under our joint venture with the Malta Boxing Commission our fighters will be licensed and compete as pro boxers, as well as continue to campaign as Kick Boxers under the WKA.
For our fighters this means so much, they want to compete in both sports and have so much to offer to both.
This new partnership isn't just about our fighters being able to fight in both disciplines, we will be actively be looking to develop the pro boxing side in Scotland, give Scottish boxers the chance to be more active than they have been in the past, we want to build up the MBC to benefit fighters from both disciplines.
We also want to bring more genuine 50/50 fights to Scotland, we don't want it to be an extension of the current scene, we want to bring the fans genuine exciting closely matched fights, each and every show."
MBC's Mr. Di Caro then added.
"I couldn't agree more with Stewart, this is a seriously exciting development for the sport, one that will benefit fighters from both Boxing and Kick Boxing.
When Stewart approached us with the concept we were open to it straight away, not for the reason many people will think, but because we had already made the decision that should anyone that competes in another pugilistic art that also wants to pro box, should be allowed to do so.
This decision was made some time ago, in fact it was when thirteen time World Champion Marlon Hunt first approached us about pro boxing under our banner.
Marlon is one of the top competitors in the Kick Boxing world, how could we possibly tell him that he has to give up fighting on the Kick Boxing circuit if he pro boxes, I mean he has World titles in Kick Boxing, K1, Muay Thai, with us he can defend those titles as well as begin challenging for Championships in boxing also.
I have to say, since I've mentioned Marlon, that when he joined us we didn't quite realise what an asset he would become, he is a great ambassador for the MBC, with the fans and boxer's alike, so much so that early last year he was unanimously elected onto the MBC Executive Committee.
Now, not only do we have the chance to have more of the top Kick Boxers competing in the pro boxing, but also have the opportunity of Kick Boxing World Champions from around the world competing for Championship honours as pro boxers.
On the business side of things Stewart will be the Chairman of the new MBC Scottish Region, as well as join the Executive Committee of the Malta Boxing Commission.
Stewart has big plans for the new venture and to that end has already signed up a couple of Scottish promoters, one of whom plans to promote the first MBC Scotland sanctioned event quite soon, probably in April or May.
I for one am so proud to be involved in this exciting new venture, I honestly feel that this will prove to be one of the best things to happen to our sport in a long, long time.
What's more it will provide the boxing fans with a whole new breed of genuinely outstanding World class fighters to get behind, as well as present opportunities for Scottish boxers to be more active, which can only be good for the sport."
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Malta Boxing Commission Inform The BBBofC They Are To Sanction Twenty Plus UK Events In 2015.
Malta Boxing Commission Inform The BBBofC They Are To Sanction Twenty Plus UK Events In 2015.
Malta Boxing Commission's (MBC) Managing Director and Vice President Gianluca Di Caro today announced that he has formally written to Mr. Robert Smith, the General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) informing him that due to the success of previous MBC sanctioned events in the United Kingdom, that they have received numerous requests to sanction further events in the UK over the coming year.
The letter, which was also sent to all World Sanctioning organisations and the European Boxing Union (EBU), Mr. Di Caro not only informed the BBBofC of the MBC's intention to sanction further events in the United Kingdom, but also provided additional information regarding the medical standards and Insurance levels for MBC sanctioned events, which are superior to virtually every other European Country's, so that the BBBofC would be able to confidently give permission for their license holders to box on MBC sanctioned events in the UK.
Mr. Di Caro also informed the BBBof C that the level of events that they anticipate to sanction over the coming twelve months will be in excess of twenty, seven of which are set to take place before the 1st April, which is an impressive increase in the number of UK events sanctioned by the MBC, as the total of UK events sanctioned by them in 2014 was just five.
The first of the 2015 events is the rescheduled George Hillyard title fight headed show promoted by Shyam Batra, which now takes place at York Hall in London on Friday January 30th.
One week later, on the 6th February, Lee Murtagh promotes his second MBC sanctioned professional boxing event at the Bramley Villager in Leeds.
On the 28th February Malta Boxing Commission will be sanctioning two events, the Stephen Vaughan Jr. promoted double title headed event in Liverpool and a Dave Murphy promoted event in London.
A week later, on the 7th March, Matt Scriven promotes an event in Nottinghamshire and then on the 14th March the MBC team crosses the Irish Sea to sanction a Peter Turley promoted event in Belfast.
The final event of the first seven mentioned is another Lee Murtagh promoted show, this time in Bradford on the 29th March.
Earlier today Mr. Di Caro briefly spoke about the upturn in interest of the MBC within the UK.
"Exciting times for all involved with the Malta Boxing Boxing Commission, it really is.
The increase in events, to be sanctioned by us in 2015, is testament to the quality and professionalism of our UK based officials, I couldn't possibly thank Mickey Vann, Ken Curtis, Billy Phillips, Lee Murtagh, Seamus Dunne, Gino Picconino, Dave Smith, Ken Honniball, Brian Gentry, Terry Clarke, Fred Little, Steven Smith, Ehsen Qureshi, Phil Jones, Micky Conway, Winston Stone, Phil Jones, Jason Lowe and Matt Amos enough for their excellent performances over the past twelve months, I also have to thank our excellent European based officials, Alf Sprung and Jan Telecki, that came over to officiate on the Championship events here.
I can't help but feel that a major part of this increase in awareness of the MBC in the UK is also due to people like Dave Murphy, Lee Murtagh and Stephen Vaughan Jr. promoting events with MBC sanctioning, these are serious boxing people, hugely respected by most people within the business and they have chosen to be licensed by us.
Between them they promoted some seriously great events over the past year, featuring some fantastic fights, which I'm sure didn't go unnoticed by the boxing world.
Dave's October York Hall event was truly first class and of course as British #1 female boxer Marianne Marston, who is licensed by us, won her first title on that event, no surprise then that this event received a huge amount of media coverage and rightly so.
Stephen's December show at the Titanic in Liverpool was something really special too, again another title headed event, this event received excellent coverage and of course had the additional benefit of being broadcast in parts of Europe.
I'm sure those events have a lot to do with the increase in popularity of the MBC sanctioning here, with both boxers and promoters alike.
So much so that we now have forty two UK based boxers licensed with us, with many more due to take out licenses before the end of January.
More impressively we now have twelve promoters around the Country, with at least another five due to be licensed by us over the coming month or so.
It really is exciting times for the MBC in the UK, which can only be good for the sport."
For further information on upcoming events or the Malta Boxing Commission and the MBC International Championship please go to www.maltaboxingcommission.com or www.mbcchampionshipboxing.com
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"A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom."
What can I possibly write about this remake that hasn't been said before about every remake which doesn't match up to the original? If you avoid the notorious shill reviewers, you can pretty much pick any negative review of "Carrie" (trust me, 99% of them are very negative!) and they will all say exactly the same things as I want to: This remake of "Carrie" is a soulless and generic cashgrab.
If you've done the same thing as me and rewatched Brian De Palma's 1976 version recently, comparing the two movies is a bit like explaining the difference between Coke and Pepsi to other fizzy cola drinkers. Both use the same source material, but the American classic is bolder and more effervescent than the flatter and milder newcomer. The allusion is a good one, but it has to end there because some would argue that it's about taste rather than universals and discernment. If you don't know what those are, it's time for you to go back to Aristotle and re-aquaint yourself with basic aesthetic criticism. Some dramatic elements can be qualified, others not so easily, but at the end of the day, it's all about how the combination of elements evokes emotion and the catharis of emotion.
Before I begin my dissection, let me remind you that I'm not a nostalgist. I am just as willing to accept a new movie as I am an older one as long as it's good. I'm certainly not going to buy into the bullshit about a remake being better and more suitable for the younger generation than the original unless there's been an improvement. Sadly, the new version of "Carrie" adds a couple of extra scenes, removes a few others, and doesn't improve on anything.
|"Plug it up! Plug it up!"
The first problem with the new "Carrie" is the age of the actors. In Brian De Palma's version, everyone was older playing younger. Sissy Spacek (the original Carrie White) was 27 years old at the time, not 16 like Chloë Grace Moretz. I'm not sure who the youngest cast member was in the original, but it's probably a toss up between John Travolta and Michael Talbott who were both in their early 20s. Consequently, they had a certain physicality, presence, and expressiveness about them which these younger pudgy-faced actors don't.
I know that if you use Nancy Allen as an example, things tend to not match the pattern, but despite only having two screen credits to her name before "Carrie", Nancy Allen (a 26-year-old) playing the bitchy but sexy Chris Hargensen was from a different world and fleshed out her character with natural charisma. Her replacement, Portia Doubleday, even though she's 25, is not only plainer but would be completely miscast if she tried to pull off the same role. Substantial changes to the character have made Chris Hargensen more cowardly, deceitful, and unlikeable, but turning her into little more than a stereotypically bully is at the expense of what made Nancy Allen's performance outstanding.
The same is true of every re-imagined character in this remake. The characters in the 1976 version simply have more depth to them which comes from who is playing them more than what they do or what comes out of their mouths. The originals have a look, an attitude, and vitality which the newcomers don't. The casting choices for this remake are okay-ish, but there's no star potential here. The cookie-cutter actors and actresses are as bland as the ones from the "trendy teen" slashers of the '90.
|"Eve was weak! Eve was weak!"
Chloë Grace Moretz is a tiny, pretty girl, but she's not convincing as Carrie White. Her portrayal has no change from ugly ducking into a swan like Sissy Spacek's, and she only turns a pretty girl into a vengeful witch who can make CGI things float in mid-air and Hulk-stomp cracks into the road. The new Carrie doesn't sparkle with delight at the prom or make you want to fall in love with her when she smiles. Sissy Spacek nailed that role, and Chloë Grace Moretz is like a reject from "Charmed" in comparison.
Carrie's relationship with her mother is much the same as in the original, and Julianne Moore is occasionally better as a religious nutjob than Piper Laurie, but they don't resemble each other physically. Perhaps that's why a birthing scene was added to stop any speculation about whether the new Carrie might be adopted because, lamentably, there really are people who haven't seen other "Carrie" movies or read Stephen King's novel. As I'm not in that category, all I noticed was that Julianne Moore has the freckliness about her which would have made her a good match for Sissy Spacek, but if you tried to do the same thing with Chloë Grace Moretz and Piper Laurie, the mismatch would be more ludicrous.
The scenes between Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore are the best in the movie, give or take some stupid CGI levitations which aren't as good as the more realistic effects from the original, but they still feel like parody re-enactments when compared to the powerful and iconic performances by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Judged on their own merits, they work.
The next problem is the pacing. Everything seems to be much faster, although if you time it, the acts are almost the same length. So what went wrong? The most obvious answer is the additional scenes of Carrie's birth and the posting of a YouTube video of Carrie being bullied in the shower. Neither of these scenes add anything to the story, and the latter isn't made as much of as it could be in light of recent media attention about bullying cases involving the internet. It's a contemporary update which some kids can relate to, but Carrie doesn't know about it or have any reaction to it, so what's the point? Adding these superfluous scenes just shortens the time which should have been used on better characterisation.
|"They're all gonna laugh at you."
For something which is mostly a scene-by-scene remake in other respects, the new "Carrie" reveals some bizarre directorial decisions in what it ignores from the 1976 version. Admittedly, the scene with Tommy (William Katt) and his friends renting tuxedos (which is harshly remembered for the silly speeding-up in the middle) isn't very important apart from creating some comic relief, so I'm kind of glad that it's gone, but it did show that Tommy was just as happy to hang out with the nerdier kids as he was with the popular ones. The new rich kid, limo-hiring Tommy, played by Ansel Elgort, however, doesn't seem to have any friends!
In fact, the same could be said of all the kids in this movie. There's no rhyme or reason why any of them would want to know each other except for going to the same school. None of them are very friendly, and they don't behave like mid-teenagers normally would. They are so poorly differentiated that there's not one who you can care about either in a good way or a bad way; most only exist to fill space on the screen. Maybe it's because of the notable loss of lingering shots on the actors' expressions which makes the kids in this look like a bunch of console-gaming Aspies who don't have any contact with other people in the real world, or maybe it's bad acting, but there's no chemistry between them.
Let's also not forget the more "adult" stuff such as the opening shower and locker room introduction from the original with all that lovely nudity! That's gone due to a combination of Chloë Grace Moretz's age and what some might say is prudishness by a woman director. I'm not being misogynistic about it, it's a fact. Based on this director's grittier previous work, however, I suspect a lot of producer interference. You can clearly see for yourself how more "politically correct" hypocrisy is responsible for giving short-shrift to Chris Hargensen and Billy Nolan's memorably fiery relationship from the original "Carrie", and it's turned their new versions into two-dimensional bullies with no motivation for what they do to Carrie White other than being bullies for the sake of it.
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I'm not going to go into any great detail about the prom scenes and the ending because you'll go to see "Carrie" no matter what I say, and I've given you far too many spoilers without warning already. Suffice it to say that there's no heart involved in the scenes between Carrie and Tommy, and you won't feel Carrie's joy or see Tommy's temptation turn into wish-fulfilment. They don't even dance to a song with words which complement the moment! There's beauty and depth (and lots of flute music) in the original which you won't find here.
When the action kicks off, some of the stunts are rushed and others are too drawn out, but as the original "Carrie" is flawed with dated split-screen effects, the final third may seem cleaner overall. Because of test screenings, the much publicised additional scenes from Stephen King's novel were left out of the theatrical release. Hopefully, they'll be on the eventual DVD and Blu-ray, but they'll probably be as "Special Features" rather than a director's cut if they get included at all.
At the end of the day, this is a remake which replaces subtleties and characterisation with spectacle, so I'll concede to personal tastes about that. I didn't care for it—too many punches are pulled horror-wise to make it satisfying for me—but your mileage may vary.
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Godrej to create new growth categories
The Hindu, Hindu Business Line, 18 December 2014
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) is looking at a mix of mass and premium products to further its growth in the FMCG segment.According to Sunil Kataria, COO – sales, marketing and SAARC, the company will not just look to foray into "adjacent products", but will also aim at creating new categories.One such recent move saw Godrej enter the mass face-wash segment under the 'No. 1' brand. Previously, its presence was restricted to soaps only. Another first has been the introduction of 'Good Knight fast card' – which, when burnt, acts as a mosquito repellent.
"We created the mass face-wash category by extending the No 1 brand; and the Good Knight fast card has been another success. Similar ideas are being explored in the premium segment, too," he told Business Line.Interestingly, Godrej's experimentation with the Cinthol brand of personal care offerings focuses primarily on its journey towards "premiumisation".New portfolioApart from soaps, the Cinthol portfolio now includes bodywash and other products. Some products of Cinthol, however, continue to cater to the mass premium segment.Other product categories – such as hair gels – may be explored too. "We will not be in a segment for the heck of it. But will be there only when we can make a difference," he said.There are also plans to introduce premium hygiene products under the 'Godrej Protekt' brand to kirana or mom and pop stores. Currently, such offerings are restricted to organised retail formats only."Over the next six months, we hope to introduce the Protekt brand in neighbourhood stores," Kataria said.The product portfolio consist of an anti-mosquito skin spray, specialised handwash to take care of kitchen odour, spray hand sanitizer and a regular hand sanitizer. Products come at a 10 to 20 per cent premium.According to Kataria, GCPL will also focus on taking to e-commerce to reach out to a wider customer base. It is also in discussion with some e-commerce players. A new organisational structure has already been put in place to explore the online model."Although e-commerce has little impact on the FMCG sector, I believe there is huge scope here," he said.


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Our learners are empowered through the fostering of the following VALUES:
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- 'Being the best that we can be'
Our values give us meaning and motivation. They are our taha wairua – our school's inner spirit. These values help us make decisions for our learning community.
We strive to encourage our students to value personal excellence by setting high goals and persevering.
Our values are expressed in everyday actions and interactions within the school which develop a sense of community.


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As an expanding software and IT organization, we believe in a set of basic principles to maintain sanity during the blistering pace. These are our values, approach, process and expertise.
- Values: foundation for our business
Our set of values are abnormal in being more human and less corporate, more fundamental philosophy and less superficial business.
Nothing exists without integrity, be it human relationships or business. Integrity is so fundamental that it is often forgotten, whereas there is nothing greater to be valued.
Freedom is the story of civilization, of progress. We worship and preserve freedom in all our relationships. Never a "service agreement" that bonds candidates to stay a minimum tenure, nor a lock-in clause to prevent clients from switching partners if they so wish. Having an environment that allows free exit makes us focus and work hard on what counts: why should they stay?
Goodness arrives in multiple forms, resides in different shapes, and appears in various shades. Impossible to define, easy to ignore. Goodness is subjective, can be interpreted in any manner by many parties. We make it easy: as individuals and as a business, every act needs to have clear heart and positive intent. Even a negative action could have positive intent, and that is the point.
Life is growth. Together, we have to create growth for all concerned. Be it ourself as an organization, or clients and their businesss, or people working with us and their careers and capabilities - growth is pervasive. Our actions reflect this simple core value: growth is life.
- Approach: atmosphere for our business
We take pride in our approach. We are professional, positive, creative and energetic. We don't just look at the next client payment date, we look beyond, contributing to the long run. We take a holistic and win-for-all view of our clients' and our own business. Our clients' deadlines are our deadlines, and their successes are our successes.
- Process: thriving on order
We believe that while software can thrive on chaos, it's not a sustainable model, nor is it scalable. To grow and maintain a software organization at peak efficiency, the discipline of process-driven work is required. However...
Software development is a sphere of human endeavour that is barely developed enough to be called science/engineering, and that is regularly referred to as art and craft, and that is frequently defined by gravity-defying acts of cowboy programmers, and is normally tested for presence of black magic. Ok, maybe not the last one but you got the point ;) And therein lies the rub.
Blind application of industrial-engineering processes (6-sigma anybody? Or the CMM thing?) to such a field is recipe for disaster. It is a judicious mix of team process and individual discipline, progress and creativity, freedom and responsibility, that makes great software.
- Expertise: core ability in our business
For our clients to derive business benefit from our relationship, this is what we bring to the table. Expertise in our area helps us contribute faster, and better. We employ a mix of people to create the right combination of experience and energy, expertise and excitement, mind and fire. And in an organization with tempered processes, it is expertise that allows employees to display their wizardry!
May the cowboys and lone rangers and wizards flower and produce magic - let us create an environment and culture to breed more such expertise!
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I'm from New Jersey.
I'm from New York.
I'm from Georgia.
I'm from Maryland.
My father worked for Xerox, and we moved. Not a lot as compared to military children (we once met a family who had moved nineteen times). A lot, however, compared to people who grew up in one place.
It's easy to confuse someone, especially on social media, where I'll connect with people and comment on things as if I'm from an area, and the person thinks I'm from somewhere else. "I thought you were from--?" is a common question. "I'm so confused," wrote one person.
I find people who are from one place kind of fascinating. They went to elementary school, middle school and then high school within a relatively small radius. I'm probably raising two people like that, who will grow up and Face-or-whatever-book about how "you know you're from Annapolis when...." People who have a place in their blood.
I know I'm from the east coast. I'm hip and The Beach Boys really dig those styles I wear.
Other than that, where I'm from depends on what we're talking about. And who I'm talking to. Or how where you're from is currently being defined. Sometimes it's where you were born (one place), other times it's where you grew up (three places). Sometimes it's just me remembering something significant that happened when I lived... there.
Raising my youngest kids in Annapolis means I'll probably whittle down to a single answer when I'm old. I'll be in the old ladies' home during social hour, and I'll say I'm from Annapolis.
And someone will answer, "I thought you were from New Jersey? I'm so confused."


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Academics at Noah Webster
Studies have shown that children who are given a digital advantage—such as in a laptop or tablet enabled classroom—reach junior high school and high school with a firm lead over their peers. At Noah Webster Schools, we believe in a quality education that uses all of the technology and educational trends of the 21st century, paired with tried and true teaching methods to help your child gain the best education possible.
We nurture a partnership between our school and your family regarding the benefits of the technology programs and new technology based learning models. We also invite parents to participate in multiple technology and curriculum trainings and presentations throughout the school year. This commitment to technology helps each student extend learning beyond the classroom and into their home environment. Putting a strong emphasis on not only technology, but on science, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and the fine arts as well, our schools introduce students to a wide range of subject matter, allowing them to find what they excel at and what truly makes them happy!
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Our Noah Webster Schools STEM academy, curriculum design, and technology programs teach students how to apply specific knowledge and skills necessary to their future success in higher education and careers. Our curriculum is aligned with and goes beyond the Arizona State Standards. Through a program called Beyond Textbooks, teachers not only have access to the hardcopy textbooks in their classrooms, but also to other engaging digital lessons, providing our teachers with easy access to the finest lessons available! With a few simple taps of the teacher's finger, the library of material and lessons they have in their classroom grows considerably, allowing the curriculum and subject matter to be customized throughout the school year.
Classrooms are grouped based on ability, allowing teachers to adjust the learning pace for each group and provide individual attention, therefore boosting the confidence and determination of students as they realize their individual progress. Additionally, Noah Webster Schools adds another component of differential learning by implementing a standard-based technology program. Our curriculum allows the generation of student achievement data that provides teachers and their education design teams with the ability to identify concepts and topics that the individual student has either mastered, or needs additional help with.
Our curriculum is designed using A AnyWhere Learning System, an individual student performance management reporting system which provides feedback to parents, students, and educators throughout the school year. At our Mesa campus, each student, third through sixth grade, has their own laptop assigned to them for use throughout the school year. Kindergarten through second grade students have scheduled laptop computer time during school hours. At our Pima campus, each student, kindergarten through sixth grade, has their own Samsung tablet assigned to them for use throughout the school year.
Choose a grade level to learn more about each specific curriculum at Noah Webster Schools!
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An excerpt from a 6th grade alumni to his 6th grade teacher: "I just wanted to thank you for pushing me and my classmates as hard as you did. I recently took a math test to determine whether or not I should be placed in an advanced seventh grade class. Just yesterday, the results were received, my work was dubbed exceptional and they wish to place me in a freshman algebra class in high school! Of course I wasn't the only one to do so, but one of the few. Thank you so much for everything, you will never be forgotten."
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Guarding the disabled
Cuomo plans justice center to protect those with special needs
ALBANY — Hoping to move beyond a tragic and sordid record in state government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said he plans to create new state entity to consolidate oversight of the agencies that care for approximately 1 million disabled New Yorkers.
"People deserve fairness; people deserve justice — that's what this initiative is all about," Cuomo said in unveiling his proposed Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.
Under the plan, a new 400-person agency would investigate and in some cases prosecute allegations of abuse and neglect at facilities run by a slew of state agencies, most notably the state Offices for People with Developmental Disabilities, as well as Office of Mental Health and the Office of Children and Family Services.
In addition to those agencies, the new center would also police the departments of Health and Education as well as the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services as they pertain to the disabled.
The Justice Center would consolidate the self-policing and investigatory functions that these state agencies now have, and it would take over much of the work currently done by the state Commission on Quality of Care.
The CQC as well as investigative functions of agencies like OPWDD have long been criticized as ineffective and unable to prevent abuse of the state's most vulnerable.
People with conditions such as severe autism, cerebral palsy or developmental disabilities frequently live in residential centers operated by OPWDD or in centers run by non-profit state-funded groups. Those with mental illness such as schizophrenia are cared for by the Office for Mental Health.
The state has weathered a history of complaints about lax punishment of workers who mistreat or neglect people in their care.
A recent New York Times series, for instance, detailed how OPWDD employees who were caught abusing residents were simply shuffled off to other facilities instead of being fired.
Stories about abuse and neglect have appeared on and off for years, ranging from the scathing 1970s exposes of treatment at the notorious Willowbrook Center to articles in the Times Union in recent years about lax safety standards that led to a fatal fire in an OPWDD residential center in the Adirondacks.
Cuomo acknowledged as much, blaming some of the problem on a steady decline in the quality of government administration over the decades. "This is a state government where dysfunction is rampant," he said.
Under the governor's proposal, the Justice Center would include an inspector general as well as a prosecutor who could subpoena accused workers and bring findings to a grand jury.
If the abuse in a given instance rises to the level of criminality, the prosecutor could work with county district attorneys to bring charges.
The agency would also maintain a 24-hour hot line where abuse allegations can be reported, as well as a registry of those found to have abused the disabled and therefore banned from such jobs.
Legal penalties for abuse also would be toughened; the law would establish that people in residential facilities cannot consent to sex with employees — a change that would make it easier for prosecutors to prove sexual abuse when the victim may not be able to testify adequately.
Legislative leaders including Assembly Democratic Majority Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who were at the announcement — signaled their support for the measure, saying it would likely be passed into law as Cuomo wants by the end of this legislative session.
Michael Carey, who has emerged as a key proponent of reforms after his autistic son Jonathan died in 2007 while in state care, said the package wasn't perfect. He believes there could be more emphasis on prevention rather than policing the agencies, and he has pushed for wide use of surveillance cameras in residential centers.
Others believe cameras could raise privacy issues since the centers are homes for the people who live there.
When asked about prevention during his press conference, Cuomo replied that "locks keep honest people honest," meaning that deterrence can serve as a good preventive tool.
And public employee unions who represent workers in residential centers and facilities may push back against some of the changes. Unions and OPWDD have been tangling for months over developing a new table of punishments for staffers who are found to be abusive.
Also, staffing the new entity could prompt some scrutiny: Cuomo's Secretary Larry Schwartz said the new Center would be staffed by both new hires and people pulled out of the existing agencies.
Critics might question the use of people from those agencies, where the abuse has long been overlooked, in a new watchdog function.
On Monday, unions said they were supportive of the improvements, but stressed that they still need to see details.
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You can use Test Builder to create custom objective‐based tests using objectives from the Compass Learning curriculum, your standard state objectives, or your own custom district or school objectives. As part of the test‐building process, you first select a standard set, subject, and level; then, you select the desired associated objectives to include in the custom test.
You can make changes to the order and number of objectives for each test and to the test item property settings. All of the tests you create can be saved and edited.
Objective-Based tests are independent from assignments. If you copy an assignment that contains an objective-based test, you will have control over the assignment properties, but not the test properties (unless you also created the test).
To build an objective-based test:
Depending on the curriculum your school or district has purchased, you may see an "End of Course" standard set (for high school curriculum) and/or a state-specific standard set (for English Language Arts and Math). For example, TAKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) is the state test for English Language Arts and Math in Texas.
Note: If you are creating a test that you intend to share with the entire district, ensure that you use the district standard set. Using one school's standard set for a district test makes the test items unavailable for teachers at different schools in the district.
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While she has shot digital, she finds it "too compressed" for her liking. Plus, how can you argue with Portra 400. The great thing about film, which I think many people overlook, is lack of input from any clients, art directors, assistants, subject or hangers on. When you produce an image,…it's all yours.
She just finds something about film that adds a whole new level of life and atmosphere to a photo. Especially the relatively humongous 6×7 negative from the Mamiya RZ 67. I loves the colors and skin tones that she from shooting on film. And with only 15 frames on a roll of film, (645), she views each and every shot as "the image". The idea of "fixing it in post" is negated. In a strange way, this frees both the photographer and subject when they know how precious each capture is.
The Mamiya 645 and Mamiya RZ 67
Rosie Matheson loves not only the look of medium format film, but also has a love affair with the tactile feel of the cameras themselves. She mostly uses a Mamiya 645 or Mamiya RZ67, and seems to almost strive for a smooth bokeh and natural light that results in those 'dreamy' images. Both of these cameras were quite expensive when they were released, but are selling at prices that are near "giveaways" these days. Especially the Mamiya RZ67. The lenses and the negative, (at 6x7cm), are glorious! Check out more of her work on her site link below.


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Farewell to Schulz, Peanuts / As comic strip ends, fans mourn its creator
2000-02-14 04:00:00 PDT SANTA ROSA -- Charlie Brown, Snoopy and a few hundred million mortals mourned yesterday for Charles Schulz, the gentle and heartfelt Santa Rosa cartoonist who created the Peanuts strip that was read and loved by people in 75 countries around the world every day.
Hours before his final cartoon appeared in Sunday newspapers, Schulz died in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Santa Rosa, apparently from complications of colon cancer.
"Dear Friends," Schulz wrote in the final strip, which showed Charlie Brown kicking and missing a football, Lucy sitting at her psychiatrist's stand, and Snoopy typing Schulz's letter. "I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition."
Considered by his colleagues as the greatest cartoonist in history, Schulz, who was 77, had retired from drawing Peanuts in December, after suffering a series of small strokes during emergency abdominal surgery. His last daily strip ran January 3.
Schulz's death on Saturday night was a shock to his family and fans and to colleagues who planned a surprise tribute to him on May 27. On that day, every comic strip in the United States was going to honor him. The tribute had been a well-kept secret.
"We wanted him to open the paper that day and be surprised by all the cartoons," said Daryl Cagle, president of the National Cartoonists Society. "We hoped it would be a celebration of his 50th anniversary. Now, it's going to be a memorial tribute to him."
Cagle said many of the cartoons will have their characters talking to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts crowd.
In Santa Rosa, mourners streamed to Schulz's Redwood Empire Ice Arena from the Bay Area and elsewhere. Among them was longtime fan May Kobold of Santa Rosa, who paid tribute in the heavy rain that she thought symbolized the world's tears for Schulz's death.
"When Buddy Holly died, they always say it was the day the music died. Well, with Schulz's death, it is just like the day the laughter died," Kobold said.
Schulz died in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, after he spent the day watching golf on television with several of his friends. When he came home, according to his wife, Jean, "He said he didn't feel well. He said, 'I guess it's just the chemo.' "
Schulz was diagnosed with colon cancer on November 16, spent two weeks in a Santa Rosa hospital, then was forced to take time off for chemotherapy.
Yesterday, cartoonists around the United States mourned the man they considered to be the greatest representative of their profession.
"It's the end of an era, and it's hard to imagine that cartooning will ever be the same," said Scott Adams, who draws the popular Dilbert cartoon. "In basketball, you can say that Michael Jordan was the greatest ever. In cartooning, Charles Schulz was the greatest ever -- and probably the greatest there ever will be."
Guy Gilchrist, who draws the cartoon strip Nancy and who was a friend of Schulz, said, "He was the best there ever was. He was a light on this Earth."
Every day in 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the other Peanuts characters made readers laugh, chuckle and empathize with their foibles. Peanuts, which debuted on Oct. 2, 1950, was translated into more than 20 languages and read by more than 350 million readers.
The most widely syndicated comic strip in history, Peanuts inspired many television specials, starting with the 1965 CBS-TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Books of Peanuts were also published to widespread success.
"The consistency, the quality, the range -- there was so much he could capture in his strip," said John McMeel, chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal, a Kansas City, Mo., company that published several of Schulz's books, and whose Universal Press Syndicate sells such cartoons as Cathy and Garfield.
"He made our industry so much better," said McMeel, who has been friends with Schulz for more than 20 years. "To have his death occur just on the eve of the last Sunday strip -- Christ."
Outside Schulz's ice arena, hockey sticks, love letters to "Snoopy's Dad," stuffed animals and huge bunches of flowers piled up in a spontaneous outpouring of grief from mourners.
Inside, Schulz's corner table near the fireplace at the Warm Puppy Cafe, where the cartoonist regularly ate lunch and socialized with pals, still proudly bore its "Reserved" sign.
Schulz's son, Monte Schulz, 48, of Nevada City, leaned against the counter where ice skates are rented and reminisced about his father, who built the arena in 1969 just down the street from his studio.
Schulz said his father was greatly comforted by the affection lavished on him by fans after he announced his colon cancer and his retirement. Schulz said his father was "very depressed" after several strokes rendered him unable to draw anymore, but added that the influx of hand-penned cards and worldwide recognition helped "ease the pain."
"He's been a very popular person," said Schulz, the second oldest of five children. He said he and his siblings spoke together Saturday about the irony of their father dying right before his last strip was published.
"We talked about that last night. We thought that somehow it all went together, and it connected, to us, that his life was over."
"He was a good dad. He was sentimental, compassionate, instructive," said Schulz, who is working on a novel titled "Crossing Eden." "He inspired my writing. He wanted me to have big language and big writing."
The last daily Peanuts comic ran in early January, and the final farewell strip appeared yesterday in newspapers, including The Chronicle. Earlier versions of the strip will continue to be published in The Chronicle and in other papers.
Year after year in Peanuts, the long-suffering Charlie Brown faced misfortune with a mild, "Good grief!" Tart-tongued Lucy handed out advice for a nickel, and Snoopy, Charlie Brown's wise beagle, strapped on his helmet, jammed down his goggles and took the occasional flight of fancy back to the skies of World War I and his rivalry with the Red Baron.
The strip was an intensely personal effort for Schulz. He had a clause in his contract that said the strip had to end with his death. While battling cancer, he opted to retire, saying he wanted to focus on his health and family without the worry of a daily deadline.
"It's hard to overemphasize how important he was to the profession," Cagle said. "Before Sparky (Schulz's nickname), cartoons were largely slapstick and adventure. After Sparky, you expected sophistication and character development. You expected characters that have foibles and insecurities and who really are quite complex."
"He taught us all about character development, and he raised the art form to a new level of sophistication. On this level, no one else had more influence. He has more fans and daily readers than anything else that's written in the world."
Adams, who lives in the East Bay, was one of many cartoonists yesterday who said that Schulz changed their lives.
"When I was a little kid, when I was deciding what to be, I was reading Peanuts cartoons and completely captivated by them," he said. "I thought, 'This would be a good job.' "
The Peanuts strip, said Adams, was "outwardly about someone being defeated, but no matter how many times the characters were defeated, they were essentially undaunted. The characters were so distinctive. They were like friends."
The family said a private burial will take place this week. A public memorial service in Santa Rosa is being planned for next week.
Schulz is survived by his wife, Jean, of Santa Rosa; three daughters -- Meredith Hodges, of Loveland, Colo.; Amy Johnson, of Alpine, Utah, and Jill Transki of Santa Barbara; two sons -- Monte Schulz of Nevada City and Craig Schulz of Santa Rosa; a stepdaughter, Lisa Brockway, of Ashland, Ore.; a stepson, Brooke Clyde, of Santa Rosa; and 18 grandchildren.
The family suggests donations to the Bill Mauldin World War II Cartoon Art Gallery Endowment, c/o Charles Schulz's Studio, 1 Snoopy Place, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. The National Cartoonists Society said that donations can also be sent to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, of which Schulz was national campaign chairman, at 202 E. Main St., Bedford, VA 24523.
Yesterday, it was Schulz who had the final farewell, in his own domain.
His last Peanuts strip showed Snoopy at his typewriter and Lucy and Linus and other Peanuts regulars cavorting merrily about the final panel. In the center was Schulz's "Dear Friends" letter, thanking his readers for their support.
"I have been grateful over the years for the loyalty of our editors and the wonderful support and love expressed to me by fans of the comic strip," Schulz wrote. "Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy . . . how can I ever forget them . . ."
The comic ended with his signature.


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Coaches often fail to account for non-training related stressors when planning training for their athletes. This is problematic because things like psychological stress, travel stress, lack of sleep and chemical stress (poor nutrition, alcohol, etc.) all impact training adaptations. For example, in one of our most recent blogs we discussed how perceived psychological stress was negatively associated with fitness adaptations in healthy young adults. In dealing with non-training related stress, we potentially deplete our so called "adaptive reserve" or "potential" and thus cope less well to training.
Both anecdotal and empirical evidence has made it clear that performance suffers when an athlete is dealing with issues outside of their sport. What has been less studied is the effect that this has on injury in high level athletes. Just recently, Dr. Bryan Mann and colleagues evaluated the effect of training stress and academic stress on injury occurrence in over 100 division 1 football players. Throughout the course of an academic school year and football season, the researchers documented any time an athlete was restricted from training due to injury. The authors then separated the year into 3 categories:
- High physical stress – pre-season training
- High academic stress – scheduled exams periods and the week prior
- Low academic stress – regular season without exam periods
The results of the statistical analysis showed that the odds of an injury were highest during the high physical stress period (i.e., pre-season) compared to low academic stress and high academic stress. However, injury risk was twice as high during high academic stress compared to low academic stress. Furthermore, when only active players were evaluated (excluding athletes that did not regularly play in games), it was found that injury risk was higher during high academic stress than high physical stress.
This study highlights the importance of monitoring both training load and non-training related stressors for optimizing the health and performance of our athletes. Psychological stress comes in many forms and can compromise a players health and training adaptation if not managed appropriately.
Mann, JB., et al. The effect of physical and academic stress on illness and injury in division 1 college football players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Ahead of print.


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Failure is such an ugly word with so many negative connotations. We fail classes, fail to meet expectations, fail at relationships, fail to come to a complete stop, etc. etc.
Failure. Blech. It just leaves us with bad feelings and wounded self-esteem.
The ironic thing is, failure usually teaches us so more than success. When everything is going great and you're 'winning' you can typically only guess and surmise at the reasons for your success. Sometimes, success is just a matter of being at the right place at the right time – and maybe knowing the right people. There's probably some hard work and preparation in there somewhere and maybe some hard to define combinations of circumstances, timing, people and attitudes. It's hard to say what the success recipe is. It's 'murky.'
Failure, however, offers a level of clarity that almost achieves the status of an epiphany; blinding insights and poetic laments – often with wine (or whine). Maybe it's the pain that accompanies failure that makes the analysis so clear; that cause and effect element. Maybe it's the fact that we think about and dwell upon a failure so much more than a success; we learn from it. We learn where we went wrong and what we would do differently, and in the end we are stronger and wiser for having tried and failed.
Scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, athletes and innovators have been saying it for decades; failing and learning ultimately creates the conditions for success.
Why would it be any different in non-profit, human services and social innovation?
Not trying is probably the only real failure. We need to fail. So do it – fail hard and repeatedly but never stop learning and never stop trying. We should celebrate and share our failures – they're teaching us everything we need to know to succeed.
Share your best professional failure with us at our 'Epic Fails and Cocktails' session at the 2016 National Supported Employment Conference in Edmonton, June 14 – 16.


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I thought it would be a great idea to publicly commit to taking part in National Novel Writing Month this year. Now I have the expectations of my readers – all one of you! – resting heavy on my shoulders.
Everytime I tell my mother that I am taking part in NaNoWriMo she asks me what it is. NaNo is basically a personal challenge – the goal is to write 50,000 words in one month, and there are forums and word trackers available on the site to help motivate you and remind you every time you look just how much progress you have made.
I will one day fill that little word counter bar with the bluey greatness of my creativity!
Past failures.
This will be the third year I am taking part in NaNo. I can't really remember much about the first year I did it because I forgot I was planning on taking part almost immediately. Last year I had a well-meaning stab, but I had extended essays due and a College Ball to run – excuses, I know! I logged 2246 words nonetheless, which I know is shit but will claim as a valiant effort.
Future glory!
The outline is almost finished, the novel has been added to NaNo's website, and I have been going to the library after work every day (yes, even before dinner) to prepare for the gruelling road ahead. I'm thinking 2,000 a weekday and 2,500 over the weekend. Yeah. YEAH!
The project I'm working on this year is the exact same one I attempted last year, and the time before that, but with some awesome additions and much better planning. I don't want to give away too much about the plot (that's inner circle info right there) but it's something I've been enthusiastically adding to for many years, and am finally at the point where I feel I can write it. I know I said that last year too, but last-year-self was talking shite.
Word count.
I'm going to pin my word count bar to the front page of this blog for all to see, and will try to update it frequently as I go. I would say I am going to create weekly update posts, but I'm way too flakey and busy for that, and instead maywrite one large self-evaluation at the end of the month.
If anyone else out there is NaNo-ing, leave a comment! Hell, you can even make me your writing buddy. I promise to be totally non-threatening. Progress-wise, anyway.


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It's a London Thing
Dudes, radio update: Tune in to London Thing, my new show with @charmlshake on Pulse Radio.
It's about the best things happening in London, with some historical smatterings and crap jokes.
Every Thursday from noon. And you can listen again here.
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Arrested Development
Is apparently back for a new series and a movie! COME ON!
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FoldIt – gamers vs. HIV?
Ages ago I went to a Russell Davies talk in which he spoke about the Google ESP game, which turned a tricky task for a robot (tagging images) into a fun game for humans. Clever stuff. Though computers think quicker than we do and are great with the complex calculations, humans are still much better at solving problems with intuition and non-lateral thinking.
And that's the idea behind FoldIt, an online game where you have to solve complex puzzles about how proteins fold. Apparently that's one of the trickiest areas of biology and one that has serious impact on how we tackle diseases.
FoldIt's founders have just published research saying that players "provided the crucial insights to solve the structure of a protein-sniping enzyme critical for reproduction of the AIDS virus," according to Scientific American. "With help from game-players' strategies, researchers revealed the enzymes' structure within three weeks and identified targets for drugs to neutralize it." (my emphasis)
What? It took three weeks for gamers to come up with the solution? Alright, granted, it's not a cure for AIDS yet, but that's a hell of a thing, no? Using crowdsourcing and games to take on medical problems. And it works! What an innovative approach to research.
For more deets, or to have a go at "solving puzzles for science" head to the FoldIt site, and if you've got any more examples of this sort of thing do drop me a line.
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Wisecrack Comedy
A quick plug here for a new comedy night run by good people I've met on the circuit over the last few months. Launching tonight, Wisecrack Comedy is a new act night in King's Cross, run by Sahar Mirhadi and Lucy Jagger. It's a chance for newbies to have a go at stand-up for the first time, or older hands to get new material out.
Granted there will be some dross (there always is), but having now been to about a gazillion open mics, I'm pretty taken by the level of talent there is out there. Also, as this is run by new comics, I reckon there'll be a good atmosphere for folks to have a shot, which always makes it quite a fun event. And it's free, gratis, for nothing.
So if you're free on Mondays, you could do worse than heading over to Kings Cross for a new talent showcase. Or even better, have a go yourself. Details below.
Wisecrack Comedy, Mondays, Central Station, 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings Cross, N1 9SD. New acts should check out the Facebook page for more details.
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DWS Tumblr
Oh and while you're here, check out my new Tumblr site (I'm still messing around with the themes)
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First off, apologies for all those who've been missing the DWS molten eloquence. I've taken on a new start-up project, so it's all busy busy busy (mainly working out what I'll do with my untold riches when my ship comes in – colossal equestrian statues and gold-plated yachts, I imagine).
There have been some good non-start-up things blipping my blipper, though. A month or so back I managed to squeeze in a session at Hacks/Hackers, for example. If you don't know H/H, it's a meetup for journos (hacks) and techies (hackers) to smash around with different ideas of media and how we can make it better.
This sesh was at the Guardian stronghold in Kings Cross, and was hosted by Mozilla, so immediately attracting the right mix of techheads and embittered fag-ash journalists. And though there was a serious theme to it, it was really a chance to try out daft ideas. How do we stop trolls from sabotaging message boards, for instance? How can we take video beyond the flat-screen embedded vids? Can we ever create 'people-powered news'?
The various heads all got together over pizza and post-its. I was in a group of designers, techies and content-producers tackling the problem of getting the right people involved in the right conversations. And after a certain amount of charading, thought-showering and pissing around, we came up with Badger (TM), a tool to invite people to add expert opinion to chat rooms.
I seriously doubt it's going to win any nobel prizes or sate my desire for equestrian statues for the moment, but, as always, it's a joy to try out new forms of journalism and storytelling with curious minds, particularly when media's in such a sorry state.
If you wanna see more crap about Badger (TM), have a glance at our glossy, high-end, pitching video (which we themed to cash into the upcoming Harry Potter flick):
Oh, and this is a thing from another Mozilla sesh; some Dundee University students' anatomy of a comments thread, which made me nostril-laugh somewhat:
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New Daniel Tosh show 'Brickleberry' provides ammunition for fake outrage enthusiasts (Review)
Let me give all the fake outrage enthusiasts a head start on their Change.org petitions, their Facebook protest groups and their calls to television execs concerning Comedy Central's new animated series Brickleberry. Here are the things about which you'll be outraged: the making fun of a child quadruple amputee, animal abuse, overt racism (against blacks, Mexicans, Colombians and Koreans), jokes about AIDS, jokes about abortions, jokes about alcoholism, making light of the Klu Klux Klan, the implied imminent rape of a bear cub, jokes about rednecks and making fun of war veterans. Allow me also to apologize in advance if you feel I've missed anything once you've watched (for research purposes only, of course) the series premiere on Sept. 25 at 10:30 pm.
I write all of this because of the months-long not-so-positive rape joke-themed buzz around Daniel Tosh, one of the show's executive producers (and the voice of the aforementioned cub) and because of a report that was circulating in July about how Brickleberry producers were scrambling at the last minute to remove many mentions of rape in the premiere episode before its screening at Comic-Con. (Comedy Central declined to comment when we asked about that).
Because of this, the Tosh connection has been a blessing and a curse for the upcoming show. It seems, that although Tosh likely had very little to do with developing the series, his name is what pushed the show to series. You see, Fox had ordered a Brickleberry pilot in February of 2010, but Tosh wasn't attached to the project. At that point the show's creators Waco O'Guin and Roger Black (known for their super bizarre MTV2 sketch show Stankervision, which ran from 2005-2006) were pitching. Fox passed. But with the power Tosh now yields, Comedy Central will continue its tradition of successful animated series, including Futurama, Ugly Americans and, of course, South Park.
The premiere episode, "Welcome to Brickleberry" is a fast-paced, hilarious introduction to the lovable fuck-ups in charge of the titular national park. Tourism dollars are down and the gang of six needs to find a way to reverse the trend. Naturally, they constantly get in the way of themselves.
Steve (voiced by Dave Herman of Office Space and MadTV fame) is constantly named Ranger of the Month, despite his habit of accidentally maiming and killing living things. Head ranger Woody (Tom Kenny, SpongeBob Squarepants himself) is a war veteran with terrible ideas, Denzel (Jerry Minor) likes to bang old women and doesn't know what an owl is, Connie (Roger Black) is a giant lesbian who spends the entire first episode creeping on Ethel (Kaitlin Olson from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the new girl with an abortion-laden past. And then there's Malloy, who kind-hearted Woody took in after an unfortunate incident involving the cub's parents. Malloy likes snacks and is a total asshole.
By episode's end, there hasn't been much accomplished— but blood spills, fires erupt and punches fly. That's enough for me to tune into at least the second episode of the 10-week season.
You can check out more about the show at the official Brickleberry site.


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