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A Rainhill athlete has handed a shot at a Team GB slot for the Rio Olympics.
Jamie Webb has been chosen to represent British Athletics at the European Championships where he hopes to qualify for the Olympic Games.
Obviously I always want to win so it still leaves me hungry!Jamie Webb
Webb was selected after finishing second at last weekend's British Championships, he was pleased with his performance but said being deprived of first place has left him wanting more.
This is the first time he has been selected for a GB senior team.
He said: "The time was fairly irrelevant with it all being about position, I'm very happy to come second but obviously always want to win so it still leaves me hungry!
"I am delighted to make my first senior team, it's a big step up from under-23s last year so I'm heading in the right direction."
The 22-year-old Liverpool Harrier will compete against new British champion Elliot Giles and Michael Rimmer, who Jamie overtook on the home straight at the British Championships.
The Manchester Metropolitan Sport scholar is the current British senior indoor 800m champion after winning the gold medal in Sheffield at the start of the year with a time of 1:51.25.
The soon-to-be graduate says that his three years at university has helped him to develop as an athlete and now he has his sights set purely on Rio this summer.
"My time at university has been my transition from an average athlete to what will hopefully be a professional level this summer," he said.
Webb has already achieved four PBs this year, twice in the 800m and also in the 600 and 1500m.
He is coached by his dad Adrian.
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What's it like to be the creator of the key lime tart that's become Dallas' most-Instagrammed pastry? "I'm actually surprised it has been such a craze, because we have so many beautiful patisseries," says Commissary's chef Ruben Toraño.
"This building is a very inspiring and unconventional space," he says. "I wanted to draw off that by creating a key lime tart that's nothing like the traditional." With its cream spikes and bright petals, the tart is one of many treats on Main Street that blur the line between art and sustenance. Proof that creative chefs work in artists' ways, using canapes and plates rather than canvases and paints.
The Details: (Clockwise from top left) Key lime tart, Commissary; Carolina rice and grain bowl, CBD Provisions; Gulf red snapper with smoked trout roe, cucumber, tomato, and deep fried bone broth poured table-side, Mirador; Panzanella salad with watermelon, tomato, cucumber, and basil, Americano.

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FORMER Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg was smacked in the face by a water bottle as he took charge of game in the Saudi Professional League on Sunday.
The 42-year-old quit English football to take up the position of Head of Refereeing in the Gulf State last year.
Despite his senior position, he still likes to keep himself involved with the action on the pitch - but he got more than he bargained for yesterday.
Clattenburg was officiating Al-Ettifaq's clash with Al Feiha when a stray container hit him in the head as a player attempted to throw it back to towards his side's physio.
Al-Ettifaq left-back Hussein Sayed was the guilty party as one of his team-mates was being attended to by the medic.
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Luckily for Sayed, the only card he received was an imaginary yellow one as the experienced ref saw the funny side.
Clattenburg admitted earlier this season that he "allowed Tottenham to self-destruct" against Chelsea during the infamous Battle at the Bridge in 2016.
He handed out nine yellow cards during the bruising encounter and admitted he consciously did not send anyone off to protect his reputation.
Clattenburg told the Men In Blazers podcast."It was theatre. I went in with a game plan - that I didn't want Tottenham blaming Mark Clattenburg that they were going to lose the title.
"There should have been three red cards for Tottenham. I allowed them to self-destruct.
"All the media and people in the world went 'Tottenham lost the title'. If I send three players off, what's the headlines? 'Clattenburg cost Tottenham the title'.
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—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) is urging residents who received drinking water contaminated with PFAS to attend a meeting next week where the results of the pilot program testing for PFAS in the blood of those who drank local water will be discussed.
The meeting was arranged at the request of Stephens who asked
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"This important meeting will give residents a chance to ask question about the most recent testing and have their concerns heard," Stephens said.
The meeting will take place Wednesday, Dec. 19, 6 p.m., at Upper Dublin High School,
800 Loch Alsh Ave., in Fort Washington
. The results of the PFAS pilot study will be discussed by state epidemiologist Dr. Sharon M. Watkins. Dr. Christopher M. Reh, associate director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, will discuss the National Exposure Study.
"There is vast disagreement in the scientific community about whether there is a 'safe' level of consumption for the chemicals in question and, if so, what that level might be," Stephens wrote. "Further evidence of the lack of understanding of the harm these chemicals may cause may be found in the national effort underway to study the health effects resulting from exposure to these chemicals. To best protect Pennsylvania residents, I firmly believe we must not tolerate any detectable level of these chemicals in our drinking water in Pennsylvania."
In 2016, Stephens called for the federal government to provide carbon filters to remove PFAS from drinking water, blood testing, a comprehensive health study and biomonitoring for any residents exposed to the chemicals to understand the long-term health effects of this exposure.
Fire suppressants used during training exercises at the naval base contained PFAS which leached into ground water. The blood testing performed on a sample of residents from around the base showed elevated levels of the contaminant.
PFAS is a family of compounds resistant to heat once used by industry and in consumer products including carpeting, apparel, upholstery, fire-fighting foams and metal plating.
While some communities are now using carbon filters to remove detectable levels of the contaminants from their water, more work must be done," Stephens said.
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"Those who polluted our drinking water must be held accountable," Stephens wrote. "Accordingly, I continue to believe the federal government should provide blood tests and continued biomonitoring for anyone who has been exposed to these chemicals in addition to the aforementioned comprehensive study of potential health effects. In addition, any entities responsible for the pollution, including the federal government, should be forced to bear the costs of remediating contamination they caused, not the ratepayers or municipal governments."
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Soul Wanderings is a weekly show on KGRAradio.com dedicated to raising spiritual awareness and fostering connections through shared stories and personal experiences. Each week host AJ Rasmussen talks with special guests to reflect on life's journey, to learn, laugh, inspire, and heal. On this episode of Soul Wanderings, THE Q.PSIENCE PROJECT's own Jill Hanson will be AJ's guest!
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Agraria farming fair opens doors in Cluj-Napoca
The biggest Romanian farming and food industry fair Agraria opened doors in the central-western city of Cluj-Napoca on Wednesday, with the event being attended by a large number of officials who praised the way the event is organised and highlighted the chief role that farming has in the welfare of humanity.
State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development Liviu Harbuz welcomed the ambassadors of Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, who attended the event.
He said 'Romania can have a serious future in agriculture', since the countries represented at Agraria on a diplomatic level 'invested and continue to invest confidently in our country'.
Harbuz also welcomed the participation of the European Commission representatives by two directorates, DG Sanco and DG Agri respectively and he thanked the traditional partners and the fair organisers for the efforts made so that the 15th edition of the fair may take place under the best conditions.
The fair displays a large number of farming machinery of the last generation and materials meant for farming in the stands of more than 180 participating companies and it hosts the stand of the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, with the European body taking part in the Cluj-Napoca event for the first time.
Attending the Agraria Fair over May 6-10 are renowned farming companies from Romania, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Hungary. A show of traditional products has been opened as part of the fair along with a show of organic products organised with the support of the Agriculture Ministry's Department for organic farming.


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The last time, I did not understand the award well enough to praise it properly. So, I decided to use this opportunity well. The award http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/ carried certain rules with it which I'll be more than happy to oblige.
I would like to thank Sarah http://12monthscreativity.wordpress.com/ for nominating me for this award. I would thank http://poetrybytheclueless.wordpress.com/ too again for nominating me previously for this award.
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- I am one of those people who love to stay with their family. I think they are the best thing that have ever happened to me.
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- I cannot sit in a place for long. I love to walk and think the most then. This habit has given quite a me bad pain in legs during exams !
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Here + Now, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum & Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. January 27 - March 31, 2017.
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The sanitary building is centrally located and equipped with ladies and gents toilets and showers. There is also a separate bathroom for the disabled. Use of the sanitary building is free.
Bike rental
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Sujoy Mukherjee, the webmaster of John Abhraham's website, has revealed that the website gets 7 million hits per month. Sujoy will need to understand that the assessment of web statistics in terms of "hits" is an obsolete method, in case he doesn't want to mislead the audience with wrong statistics. I think this statistics includes the hits of Bots and Spiders, and hits of image files ( including small graphics of design corners) as well.
The html source code of the website doesn't show any client side web Analytics code which means the statistics is derived from the web log files. I have always find it very difficult to exclude the traffic of bots and spiders from statistics of log files, this is the reason why I use Google Analytics. My suggestion to Sujoy Mukherjee is to signup for Google Analytics, it is free and very reliable. You can also find lot of other interesitng statistics through Google Analytics. Check the Google Analytics website for more information on Google Analytics.
Where does John Abraham's website stands?
I have done a bit of research on the internet and gathered couple of ranking reports of http://www.johnabraham.com website, which shows different statistics.
|Alexa.com Report
|The Alexa rank of the website is 361371 which I interprets to approx 2000 unique visitor a month and around 6000 page impressions.
|Ranking.com Report
|The Ranking.com website shows 80,173 which I interprets to approx 1800 unique visitor a month and 6000 page impression.
|Urltrends.com Report
|The Google link popularity is 19, alexa link popularity is 50 and yahoo link popularity is 540.
|Quantcast.com Report
|The Quantcast report shows 2000 U.S. monthly uniques with 6,168,239 rank
Talking about John's website, Sujoy says,
If you do a Google search for John, you will get around 1,750 pages sources from various fansites. This is the maximum number of pages devoted to any actor. Also, he has people logging in from the remotest parts of the world.
His statement doesn't make any sense to me. If it does make any sense to you please leave a comment on this post. Anyways, Here is the Google search trend of John Abraham against another Bollywood hot shot Salman Khan, where Salman is leading against John.
Google Trends Report of John Abraham and Salman Khan
What are the web analytics terms means? [Source: Wikipedia]
- Hit – A request for a file from the web server. Available only in log analysis. The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to assert its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity. A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website's actual popularity. The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity.
- Page View – A request for a file whose type is defined as a page in log analysis. An occurrence of the script being run in page tagging. In log analysis, a single page view may generate multiple hits as all the resources required to view the page (images, .js and .css files) are also requested from the web server.
- Visit / Session – A series of requests from the same uniquely identified client with a set timeout. A visit is expected to contain multiple hits (in log analysis) and page views.
- First Visit / First Session – A visit from a visitor who has not made any previous visits.
- Visitor / Unique Visitor/UniqueUser – The uniquely identified client generating requests on the web server (log analysis) or viewing pages (page tagging) within a defined time period (i.e. day, week or month). A Unique Visitor counts once within the timescale. A visitor can make multiple visits.
- Repeat Visitor – A visitor that has made at least one previous visit. The period between the last and current visit is called visitor recency and is measured in days.
- New Visitor – A visitor that has not made any previous visits. This definition creates a certain amount of confusion (see common confusions below), and is sometimes substituted with analysis of first visits.
- Impression – An impression is each time an advertisement loads on a users screen. Anytime you see a banner, that is an impression.
- Singletons – The number of visits where only a single page is viewed. While not a useful metric in and of itself the number of singletons is indicative of various forms of "Click Fraud" as well as being used to calculate bounce rate and in some cases to identify automatons ("bots").
P.S : Don't get me wrong, I am not anti John or anti Bipasha. Just expressing my views on the incidents.


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Why Date Night Matters
A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I went to an Argentinian cooking class in Culver City (HipCooks, if you're in the market for a fun afternoon and a delish meal. Highly recommend!).
– – The menu (if you were wondering), was 2 different kinds of empanadas, thick cuts of steak with chimichurri, zucchini ribbons stuffed with ricotta and lemon, dulce de leche, and sangria – –
When we got there, the lady in charge had everyone–couples, BFFs, and strangers alike–gather in the kitchen and go around in a circle introducing ourselves and explaining how we came to hear about the class.
My boyfriend was up to bat first, all eyes affixed on him.
After introducing himself to the room, he casually explained to inquisitive eyes that he "hadn't heard about the class until approximately 15 minutes ago. We're on a date night. It was a total surprise to me. My girlfriend brought me here."
To my surprise, the room dissolved into side conversation and questions immediately. People were genuinely shocked that we were A. on a planned date night, and more importantly that B. he had no idea up until the moment he was standing in the kitchen, apron and all, what the plan was. This blew our minds. We didn't think that the concept of date night was revolutionary at all, especially not ours, but there we were, fielding questions left and right for the better half of the night. An older married couple approached us while we were eating our freshly grilled steak and chimichurri to ask us how long we'd been doing this for, what the rules were, and how we got it started. A shy, but sweet woman approached us–individually (so as not to ruin our "surprises")–while we were chopping herbs to ask us what we've done on past nights and what things we both had up our sleeves for the next couple of months. She feverishly scribbled down all of our ideas as we spoke, explaining that she just started dating this guy and wanted to surprise him, too. Other couples chimed in their preferences for twilight concerts, movie nights in the park, or picnics when they found the time for a date in their busy lives.
I'm still really shocked that my little surprise became such a centerpiece at this cooking class. We only just recently incorporated date night into our lives after moving in together, as a simple (but potentially powerful) means of keeping things fun, spontaneous, and exciting. The rules of our date night are simple:
Each person will take on the responsibility of date night every other month (to alleviate the stress of planning and the potential cost involved. And, ya know, because it's nice to not have it be your responsibility all the time)
The date has to be something that we don't already do together in our everyday lives (to make it special)
There is no minimum or maximum expense (A picnic of Trader Joe's sandwiches and grapes is as fair-game as a sunset cruise and fancy wine), as long as it follows rule #2
It has to be a surprise until the day of!
For us, this was a natural discussion when we were talking about what our lives would look like once we lived together. We knew we didn't want to get sick of each other, and we knew that it'd take extra work on both of our parts to make sure that that never happened. Date night was one of the solutions born out of this discussion, and up until recently, I assumed that it was something that the majority of couples out there were already doing. The fact that my little cooking class was met with such surprise and awe honestly makes me a little sad. Everybody should make this a habit. Everybody deserves to plan something special for someone else, and in return have something special planned for them! Not for any particular reason, but for the sole fact that being in a relationship is a full-time job. It's not something that you can work for until you have it and then take it for granted, like a new pair of shoes or the latest iPhone. Yeah, date night can sound kind of lame to some people. I get that. But the beauty of doing it is that it manifests differently for everybody. We like listening to music, trying new food, traveling, and trying new, random activities. For you, it could be training for a half marathon, going to the dog park on a random Sunday, or hitting the beach.
The point is, it doesn't have to be big, or grandiose, or expensive, or well-planned. It just has to be about you, and the other person, carving out some time to spend together that doesn't involve your routine, your work, or anything else that comprises your everyday lives. And no, I am not saying that our relationship is perfect and I am not trying to couplesplain. But I do think that everyone deserves to feel the same spark you got the first time you exchanged eye contact. I think that everyone deserves to feel loved and to want to give love in return. I've had my fair share of relationships that didn't allow me to feel like I was loved, or cared for, or needed. And for a while, I thought that was normal. I'm re-learning that it doesn't have to be that way. And I hope that can be the case for everybody else, too.
I'm excited by the idea of looking forward to planning something every other month. I already have a couple ideas up my sleeve for my next few turns…. :) If you are in a relationship, what are some things that you do to keep things fun and spontaneous? Do you have your own version of date night? If so, what are the rules in your book? I'd love to hear them!


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University Legal Education in Canada is Corrupt Beyond Repair
Right at the top of my ever-lengthening list of "things about Canada which I cannot understand" is the fact that, every year, we spend billions of dollars on institutions which we are pleased to call universities.
People arrive at university after completing lengthy processes, which we call education, of idiotisation and moronification. [1] They have also spent years immersed in a barbarous popular culture which is, in my view, vulgar, coarse and infantile. The universities, thus, face a severe challenge,[2] one which they largely fail to meet.
Each fall a horde of illiterate, ignorant cretins enters Canada's universities. A few years later, they all[3] move on, just as illiterate[4], just as ignorant[5] and rather more cretinous[6], but now armed with bits of paper, which most of them are probably not able to read, called degrees.[7] There are two major factors which have contributed to this dismal result. We will address each in turn.
Canadian universities have generally adopted the corporate model. This model has necessitated certain transformations. Students have been metamorphosed into consumers and, correspondingly, professors into customer service representatives. The primary responsibility of the customer service representative is to keep customers happy. Thus, a professor who does not keep students happy has failed and he or she will be savaged in the customer satisfaction surveys sometimes described as "student course evaluations".[9] Making intellectual demands or seeking to apply standards would tend to make consumers unhappy and both have, therefore, been abandoned.
Students are as pathetic as one might expect. The typical North American university student is an uninspiring blend of monumental sanctimoniousness and near-incomprehensible ignorance. Two examples will suffice.
Dr. Terry Castle teaches literature at StanfordUniversity. Her primary academic interests are lesbian literature and the Great War and its literature. In one article she noted that, in a term paper, a student asserted that Virginia Woolf was "traumatised" when she saw the damage that trench warfare had wreaked on the English countryside.[10]
Between 1975 and 2005 I taught in the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario. My main teaching responsibility was Constitutional Law. One year a student concluded the final examination with this statement: "George Eliot was imprisoned for being a homosexual".
The other defining characteristic of today's universities is repression.[11] One might assume that the essence of a university is openness in thought and expression. Such an assumption would be utterly wrong. Canadian universities are closed and fearful institutions which actively enforce uniformity on their members. Free thinking is neither encouraged nor tolerated. Universities have imposed regimes of repression on themselves.[12] Repression reached unprecedented depths under the government of the Honourable Robert K. Rae, P.C., O.C., Q.C. which ruled Ontario from 1990 to 1995. In October of 1993 that government issued two secret ukases: Framework Regarding the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in Ontario Colleges and Framework Regarding the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in Ontario Universities. These were to apply to all conduct both on and off university and college campuses and defined "Harassment" as "one or a series of vexatious comments . . . that is known or might reasonably be known to be unwelcome/unwanted, offensive, intimidating, hostile or inappropriate". The two "frameworks" would effectively have prohibited the discussion of anything involving human beings at Ontario universities and colleges. Neither document was made public, so there was no opportunity for discussion of them.[13] The people of Ontario freed themselves from the Rae government, but repression still thrives in the universities.
Queen's "University", towards the end of 2008, revealed a plan to take thought control to unimagined depths. It announced that it would establish a cadre of students to spy on other students. These weasels, to be given the chilling and vacuous title, "dialogue facilitators", would eavesdrop on the conversations of other students and, were anything blasphemous or heretical to be said, intervene to steer the conversation in an acceptable direction. I had thought thirty pieces of silver was the going rate for this kind of work, but the "dialogue facilitators" were to do much better than that. Each was to receive free tuition, room and board and other benefits.[14]
A. Historical Overview
The education of Canadian lawyers began in imitation of English models. The basis for such education as occurred was apprenticeship supplemented by lectures from practitioners. Control over legal education was firmly in the hands of the profession.
From early on, universities had been free to offer degrees in law. The only question was whether the profession would recognise these degrees. In the 1940s, legal academics, all of whom had studied in the U.S., began to challenge the profession's control of legal education.[15] The profession was eventually forced to recognise university law degrees. The kind of legal education offered in the university law faculties was a slavish imitation of American models. Even after making this concession, the legal profession in Ontario continued to play an active role in legal education. The profession operated a law school from its Toronto headquarters at Osgoode Hall. For some reason, Canada seems to have decided to follow the American approach of producing lawyers in the thousands.[16] By 1970, six Ontario universities - Ottawa, Queen's, Toronto, Western Ontario, Windsor and York (in 1968, the profession abandoned legal education and the OsgoodeHallLawSchool moved to YorkUniversity) operated law schools.
At this moment, there are, in Ontario, 40,000 lawyers. That number grows by about 1,000 per year. In 2008 serious consideration was given to opening a seventh law faculty at LakeheadUniversity.
Even after it surrendered control and bid farewell to its in-house law school, the Ontario legal profession continued to play a role in legal education. Legal education began at a university law faculty. Having received a law degree, the aspiring lawyer enrolled in the profession's Bar Admission Course (B.A.C.). The B.A.C. had two components: a period of articled clerkship and, then, formal instruction offered by the profession. At the end of the B.A.C., candidates wrote qualifying examinations. Those who passed, and met other criteria, were then formally admitted to the practice of law.
For many years, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the governing body of the Legal Profession in the Province of Ontario, had been under pressure to complete its withdrawal from legal education, that is to say, to abandon the taught component of the Bar Admission Course. In 2001, the Law Society set up something called the Task Force on the Continuum of Legal Education. This body, which reported in 2003, did not review the entire continuum of legal education. Its purpose was to provide cover for the profession's complete abandonment of legal education. This has been achieved. Legal education is now entirely the province of the universities, the profession's role being restricted to the administration of licensing examinations.
B. Decline
As we will see, University legal education has sunk to astonishing depths. When one observes a dismal current reality, there is a tendency to assume that there once existed a golden age. The best that can be said is that there was, in the 1950s and 1960s, a bronze age. During this period, some Canadian law faculties managed to reach the level of second-rate American law schools. Since it began in imitation of American legal education, Canadian university legal education was much affected by changes in fashion emanating from south of the border. In the 1960s, the members of the U.S. legal academy began to persuade themselves that teaching law as a coherent and articulated body of knowledge to be mastered and assimilated by prospective lawyers was no longer sufficiently exciting. They began to study and to teach law as if it were a social science. There were those in the Canadian legal academy who believed that the new fashion had not been embraced on this side of the border with sufficient alacrity. Professor Harry W. Arthurs, a former Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School and future President of York University, chaired a committee set up to investigate these matters. In its report[17], the committee argued in favour of a fuller and speedier adoption of the latest American fashion.
For many years the exportation of American approaches to legal education was an element of U.S. foreign policy.[18] I assume that the many Canadian law professors who are mindlessly[19] and reflexively anti-American are unaware of this history.
The final, fatal fashion began to develop in American universities in the 1970s; this was post-modern feminism. It, like the other fashions, inevitably seeped across the border.
C. And Fall
The starting point in understanding post-modern feminism is its nihilism[20]. Every existing institution, relation, idea or precept was seen as fatally tainted by patriarchy and, thus, cried out to be extirpated. The nihilism became fused with an obsessive solipsism based in pseudo-science[21]. Nihilism and solipsism were merged in a poisonous cocktail that spurred feminists to an all-out war on the law and on legal education. Legal education suffered terribly during this assault. A small industry, dedicated to making vicious and idiotic attacks on legal education, developed. The Canadian Bar Association set up a "Task Force" to study gender equality in the legal profession. The task force was chaired by Bertha Wilson, the first female judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. Its report[22] presented a paranoid fairy tale version of Canadian legal education.
As might be expected, feminist writing spurned the accepted norms of scholarly behaviour[23]. A vast literature of ideology masquerading as scholarship was produced. As is generally true of the work emanating from the Canadian academy today, writing by law professors tends to be abstract, parochial and trivial. Canadian legal "scholarship" reached its post-modern nadir in an article[24] written by Professor Alan Hunt of the Department of Law, Carleton University. In this article, Hunt openly attacked truth, logic and objectivity. In her magisterial work, Who Stole Feminism? How Women have Betrayed Women,[25] Christina Hoff Sommers demolished many feminist fairytales. Prominent amongst these was the "Rule of Thumb" fraud. Feminists convinced themselves, and many others, that, up until the 19th century, English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick, provided the diameter of the stick was no greater than the diameter of his thumb. The law school where I taught ordained that any male professor who used the phrase "rule of thumb" in a class would, thereby, be guilty of sexually harassing female students.
For general criticism of feminist pseudo-scholarship, the reader may consult my The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined our Law and our Democracy[26]. Legal education stumbled along, getting worse and worse, until the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto decided to finish it off.
D. The Commodification of Legal Education
In 2001, the Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law decided to transform it into a "truly great global law school". As part of achieving this goal, annual tuition fees were to be raised to $20,000.00 and beyond.[27] The decision of the Law Faculty to pattern itself after a Wal-Mart outlet had certain, predictable consequences. Once committed to selling its product, the first hurdle along the path to becoming a lawyer, for the highest price possible, the Law Faculty found it necessary to divide the plunder amongst its proprietors. At the same time as the outrageous increase in fees was announced, it was also announced that the enhanced revenue would be used to offer higher salaries to professors.
Showing themselves to be equally lacking in integrity, the other Ontario law faculties brought their fees into line with those at the University of Toronto. Given the wretched quality of the "education" being offered, fees at this level are both extortionate and fraudulent. If tuition fees were to bear any resemblance to the inherent quality of what was being purchased, they would likely be set at the level of $12.00 per year. As befits organisations modelled on Wal-Mart, the demands of marketing began to shape the work of the law faculties. Once again, the University of Toronto took the lead. The Faculty of Law decided to change the name of the first law degree from the traditional LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws)[28] to the American J.D. (Juris Doctor). The other law faculties tagged along.
For more than half a century, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law made its home in Flavelle House, a handsome Edwardian structure on Queen's Park Crescent. This site provided one of the few vistas in Toronto that might have been described as graceful. But, by 2008, Flavelle House was no longer good enough for a "truly great global law school". In an act reminiscent of the architectural vandalism which ravaged much of Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s[29], the old building was to be pillaged and replaced. Drawings of the proposed new building can be found on the Law Faculty's website.[30]
The new building will be, in my opinion, contrived, pompous and arrogant and, thus, an ideal home for the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto.
E. How low can you go?
Freedom of expression is a universal human right. . . .
Freedom of expression is the primary freedom, an essential precondition to the exercise of other freedoms. It is the foundation upon which other rights and freedoms arise.[31]
That is definitely not a formulation with which Canadian law professors and law students would agree.
Richard Moon is a law professor at the University of Windsor. He recently published a book called The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression.[32] One might have thought that a person who would take the time to write a book about freedom of expression would support it, but apparently not. Moon emphasised the "social character" of freedom of expression and warned of the dangers that might arise from its exercise.
Expression can cause fear, it can harass, and it can undermine self-esteem.[33]
I have difficulty accepting the idea that those words could have been written by someone over the age of five, let alone by a professor at an institution which calls itself a university.
Towards the end of 2007, a group of students at the Osgoode Hall Law School joined others in complaining to a number of "human rights" commissions that certain articles published in MacLean's were "islamophobic".
Christie Blatchford and Peggy Wente are the only Globe and Mail writers for whom I am able to feel respect. Wente expressed her shock at the fact that law students would attack freedom of expression.[34] She revealed, unfortunately, a complete lack of understanding of law students, a group generally hostile towards freedom of expression. The complaints percolated along, reaching a dismal apotheosis in April of 2008. Barbara Hall, who chairs the Ontario Human Rights Commission, dismissed the complaint to her commission, on the ground that the Commission lacked jurisdiction to deal with the content of MacLean's.[35]
The law students were not satisfied. Three of them wrote a triumphal letter to the editor of the National Post.[36] They whined that the Ontario Human Rights Commission had dismissed their complaint on a "technicality". The signatories to the letter identified themselves as "OsgoodeHallLawSchool graduates". As one might expect, the letter demonstrated that these graduates knew no law whatsoever. Only a person absolutely ignorant of Canadian law could describe want of jurisdiction as a "technicality". The letter showed clearly that the Osgoode Hall graduates were not capable of constructing an argument. The only intellectual facility they had mastered, it appears, was that of repeating slogans.
The leading figure amongst the law students was one Khurrum Awan. On the weekend of 7 and 8 June 2008, he attended a conference in Toronto organised by the Canadian Arab Federation and took the opportunity to issue a declaration of war against freedom of expression in Canada.[37] As one might expect from a "graduate of the OsgoodeHallLawSchool", the declaration was long on passion and the shouting of slogans and short on knowledge of the law. It would be tedious to address anything other than the more egregious errors.
i. Section 319 of the Criminal Code establishes the offence of "wilfully promoting hatred". The section was carefully drafted so as to minimize restrictions on freedom of expression. In particular, a prosecution may not be instituted without the consent of the "Attorney General".[38] Khurrum appeared to believe that "Attorney General" meant the Attorney General of Canada, whereas, in fact, it means the Attorney General of the province.
ii. Khurrum Awan criticized MacLean's for not belonging to the Ontario Press Council, whereas membership in the Council is open only to newspapers, which MacLean's is not. He appeared to believe that the Ontario Press Council has the power to "... condemn the journalist, condemn the publication, direct them to publish a letter to the editor.", when, in fact, the council has no such powers.[39]
iii. Khurrum Awan appeared not to understand that the law of civil libel in Canada does not recognise group defamation.[40]
For many years I taught a course called "Media Law"[41]; the central concept in this course was freedom of expression. Students were hostile towards freedom of expression. Whenever I argued in favour of it, the students' reaction was exactly what I would have expected had I been advocating sexual relations between adults and children.
Canadian law recognises two broad categories of libel -- civil libel[42] and criminal libel[43]. The Criminal Code[44] sets out three forms of criminal libel: seditious libel; blasphemous libel and defamatory libel. On the final examination in one year, students were asked to assess the constitutionality of the three criminal libel offences. One carried out this analysis and concluded with the deathless observation that, if a criminal offence is successfully to withstand judicial scrutiny based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it must be "carefully circumcised".
Anyone wishing to get a sense of the true awfulness of law students may visit a website[45] operated by Osgoode Hall students. The content of the website, as might be imagined, consists largely of incoherent, self-serving whining.
There are two phrases which can be used to describe every law faculty in Canada. The phrases are: "feminist seminary"[46] and "psychotic kindergarten"[47] It is outrageous that public funds continue to be spent on feminist seminaries and psychotic kindergartens. Why have Canadian law faculties been transformed into feminist seminaries and psychotic kindergartens? The answer is straightforward. Many in the legal profession and in the legal academy have allowed themselves to be persuaded that lawyers should be actively involved in the pursuit of a chimera called "social justice". Consequently, the work of the law faculties has been reoriented towards the production of a cadre of "social justice" activists. This will explain why indoctrination has become the primary activity in the law faculties.
Canadian Lawyer is a monthly magazine for lawyers. Each issue contains a section called "4 Students".[48] A recent issue contained a report on a symposium on "innovation in legal education" which had been held at Ryerson University in Toronto. One prominent lawyer/activist observed, "I believe that the law schools can be a pawn (sic) for social transformation", and continued, "… the first is that we in law school do not teach perhaps the single most important skill in learning – relative to becoming transformative to society"[49]. And you wondered why law students are illiterate.
Current levels of homelessness are a disgrace in a country as wealthy as Canada. I have a two-step plan for freeing Canada at once of two major social ills. This is the plan.
Step One: Close every law faculty in Canada; and
Step Two: Hand the premises of the former law faculties over to homeless people.
The books in the law libraries would serve a much more socially useful function as cooking fuel than they do being gawped at by illiterate students.
Robert Martin is a Professor of Law, Emeritus, The University of Western Ontario. In addition to Western, the author has held law teaching appointments at universities in France, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius and Tanzania. He wishes to thank Melanie Rhora for her very capable assistance. From 1997 to 2007, the author was a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
[1] Canadian secondary schools emphasise "self esteem" over content, producing, as a result, graduates who are poorly prepared for university. See, Michael Zwaagstra, "Promoting Failure in Canadian high schools", National Post, 25 September 2009.
[2] See, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation, New York, Tarcher, Penguin, 2008.
[4] Janice Tibbetts "Post-Secondary Grads Slipping Down the Literacy Scale" National Post, 25 February 2008. It is probably time to accept the fact that we live in a post-literate culture. See also, Kathy Dobson, "University Graduates who cant read", Globe and Mail,27 March 2009.
[5] Susan Jacoby, "The Dumbing of America", Washington Post, 27 February 2008. On 23 March 2009, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), which represents professors in Ontario universities, released a report in which it cited "declining quality' in Ontario's universities. As would be expected from a Canadian organisation whose menbers' livelihoods depend on public funds, OCUFA believed spending more money would fix everything. See also, Margaret Wente, "We pretend to teach 'em; they pretend to learn", Globa and Mail, 18 April 2009.
[6] Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons, Harper, Collins, Toronto, 2004 presents a chillingly accurate portrait of the cultural, intellectual and moral cesspool that is the contemporary university. For a series of incisive and thoughtful articles on the abysmal state of the academy, see The New Criterion, vol. 26, no. 9, May 2008. Anyone who might be inclined to doubt my assertion about students should consult The Varsity, the student newspaper at the University of Toronto for 27 November 2008-
[7] A substantial majority of the students in the first year at a Canadian law faculty will have one undergraduate degree. For many years, I taught a large first year class in a Canadian law faculty. Seeing these students' written work was, invariably, a shock. They appeared to write English at what was, in my considered opinion, a Grade Five level.
[8] See, James E. Cote and Anton L. Allahar, Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007 and Howard Woodhouse, Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.
[9] Several Canadian newspapers and magazines conduct annual "rankings" of universities. These, it seems to me, are best understood as elaborate customer satisfaction surveys. Current students and recent graduates are surveyed. It does appear that, the larger the number of happy customers a given university has, the higher its ranking will be.
[10] Terry Castle, "Our First View of the End of the World", The Chronicle Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 November 2004.
[12] For general background, see Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1987 and John Fekete, Moral Panic: Biopolitics Rising, 2nd ed., Montreal, Robert Davies, 1994; for a specific case study, see Robert Martin, "Speech Codes in Action" (1995) 44 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 65.
[13] I was the first person to be publically critical of the "frameworks". See Robert Martin, "Ontario Universities should refuse to adopt Minister's vile 'anti-racism' policies", The Lawyers' Weekly, 17 December 1993. Bob Fulford wrote a critical article. See, Robert Fulford, "Defending the Right to be Offensive", Globe and Mail, 2 February 1994. The universities "framework" was dropped after this article appeared, but the one for colleges remained in effect.
[14] Joseph Brean, "Queen's new dialogue monitors", National Post, 19 November 2008.
[15] The process is described in C. Ian Kyer and Jerome E. Bickenbach, The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers and Legal Education in Ontario, 1923 - 1977, Toronto, The Osgoode Society, 1987.
[16] William Watson, Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1993, p. 267.
[17] Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law, Law and Learning, Report to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1983.
[18] See, The Most Dangerous Branch, Note 26, pp. 70-71.
[19] See, Kent Roach, September 11: Consequences for Canada, Montreal and Kinston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
[20] Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "From Separate Spheres to Dangerous Streets: Postmodernist Feminism and the Problem of Order", (1993) 60 Social Research 235.
[21] Carol Gilligan, In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge, Mass., HarvardUniversity Press, 1982,
[22] Task Force on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession, Touchstones for Change: Equality, Diversity and Accountability, Ottawa, Canadian Bar Association, 1993.
[23] See, as examples, Bruce Feldthusen, "The Gender Wars: Where the Boys Are", (1990-91) 4 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 66; Diana Majury, "Equality and Discrimination According to the Supreme Court of Canada" (1990-91) 4 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 407 and Hester Lessard, "Equality and Access to Justice in the Work of Bertha Wilson", (1992) 15 Dalhousie Law Journal 35.
[24] "Living Dangerously on The Deconstructive Edge", (1988) 26 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 867.
[25] New York, Simon and Schuster, 1994.
[26] Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. This volume, in Chapter 10, contains an extensive analysis of the fraudulence of Canadian Legal Education. See also, Robert Martin, "The Meteoric Rise and Precipitous Fall of Clara Brett Martin: Thoughts on the Misuse of History", (1995) 4 Inroads.
[27] Sarah Schmidt "University of Toronto Law School Looks at Raising Tuition to $25,000.00" National Post, 12 December 2001.
[28] I should note that, in 1967, I received the LL.B. from the University of Toronto.
[29] See, Eric Arthur, Toronto: No Mean City, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1964.
[30] www.law.utoronto.ca
[31] Robert Martin, Speaking Freely: Expression and the Law in the Commonwealth, Toronto, Irwin Law, 1999, p. 685.
[32] Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000.
[33] Ibid., p.4.
[34] M. Wente, "Who's fuelling the prejudice?", Globe and Mail, 6 December, 2007.
[35] Joseph Brean, "Ontario rights commission dismisses complaint, sort of", National Post. 10 April 2008.
[36] 10 May 2008
[37] Joseph Brean, "Muslims told to insist on equal voice in media" National Post, 9 June 2008.
[38] Media Law, note 41, pp. 221-224.
[39] Ibid., pp. 19-21.
[40] Ibid., pp. 154-156.
[41] Robert Martin, Media Law, 2nd ed., Toronto, Irwin Law, 2003. See 3rd ed., 2009.
[42] Ibid., pp. 144 to 209
[43] Ibid., pp. 69 to 76
[44] Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, c. C-46
[45] www.lawiscool.com
[46] Robert Martin, "Paleofeminism", Books in Canada, March 2008
[47] To view a psychotic kindergarten, visit the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa website (www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca) and click on "law and social justice".
[48] I can only surmise that the editors of the magazine gave that title to the student section because they believed that law students would not be capable of deciphering a complicated word like "for".
[49] Jeffrey H. Waugh, "Law schools as engines for social change", Canadian L awyer, 8 December 2008.


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A Mom's Birthday
Among my mom's many talents is her ability to express herself in writing.Unfortunately, she's a shy writer. That said, I am not afraid to publish her musings (with permission, of course) for all of you to enjoy.
I've been saving today's poem because it provides an all-too-relatable theme for many of us on our birthdays. When life is challenging, birthdays feel like a burden and meaning seems irrelevant.
I love how my Mom responds to her feelings (spoiler: she doesn't trust them), and I hope today on her __ birthday (far be it for me to say!) she doesn't have a clogged toilet or hayfever.
I spent the day feeling sorry for myself, Lord.
The toilet clogged, the kids yelled, I spent three hours weeding, and had hay fever all afternoon. Besides which I had to face the fact that 34 years have gone by and not a great deal has been accomplished.
In other words, I don't seem to be worth much.
But then I consider the sacrifice you made in becoming just like me. You must have had days like this too.
You faced them because you cared about me. Not just humanity, but the five foot, six-inch brown-haired (well, almost) nearsighted short-tempered person my children call "mom."
The union which brought me into being could so easily have occurred earlier or later, uniting some other sperm with that egg and creating someone other than me. But you wanted me, Lord.
Forgive me for denying the worth of that gift to yourself.
Since you accept me as I am, I'll accept me too.
- Gail Fletcher
Happy Birthday Mom - - You are most dearly loved!


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So. This week was supposed to be Alien.
And then I read the script for Alien.
And then I went NOPE.
My nerves and sleep are rather important to me and the script for alien was SO intense, I couldn't even imagine what the movie was like. I have to be mentally in the right place for one of those intense suspenseful somewhat gory films. I'm very rarely in that type of mental space.
So I switched to Ghostbusters! (1984)
For those who don't know what Ghostbusters is, it's about three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service. (imdb.com)
The script was pretty easy to read. By that I mean it was pretty easy to follow what was going on. I noticed many of the gimmicks were shortened or cut from the film. For example, Janine had some longer, funnier lines when she's attempting to hit on Egon.
I have some very specific notes about the beginning of the film. Ghostbusters did a very neat thing there. I'm not sure what the technical term is for the shot, but I think they used a dolly zoom in the very first sequence of the library. Coupled with dramatic music playing at the same time, it helped set the mood that we might see some spooky things in the movie!
Here's the notes I took on that specific part:
There were also some neat, gimmicky kinds of shots and sequences. Like, when the busters go on their first call. The shot where the car is leaving the station is sped up and just feels humorous. How did they set up that? Maybe it's the silliness of their blaring vehicle and the deadpanning of Bill Murray.
Which, I realized what a deadpan was in this film. For those who don't know, deadpanning is saying something humorous while affecting a serious or expressionless manner. Bill Murray is a master of this.
Another thing I noticed was the use of alternating camera angles to incite confusion and mild panic. For example, the scene near the beginning with the librarian (1:40-2:00). The library cards are flying out of the case. The camera angles alternate in a well timed rapid succession.
I think this technique is used frequently to increase tension. Another film example might be How to Train Your Dragon, in the end battle scene. Toothless and Hiccup attack the Red Death dragon from multiple angles in a similar rapid succession.
Something to keep notes on! I might and probably will use that technique on a future project or two. :)
The next Cinema Studies will be on His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, 1940s version). I LOVE this film and can't wait to watch it again!


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This blog is a follow up to the "Lonely Road" blog I wrote last week, if you didn't read it, go check it out here first.
That blog got a lot of feedback and conversations going and I felt like there was a resounding echo that kept coming up, so I wanted to share some more thoughts on it.
When we decide to go after our dreams we often find excitement at first followed by a serious drop off. I touched on this in the other blog. We have friends and family or significant others who are encouraging at the starting line and then somewhere along the journey it seems as if they are just waiting for you to get a "real job" or to get serious.
The following statements were kind of the overarching themes that have been shared with me since the last blog post.
"You're not really going to do that forever are you?"
"Come on, give it up!"
"You don't make enough money"
"What will you do if XYZ changes, fails, stops working with you?"
"How will you pay the bills?"
"You spend so much money on gear and not us!"
"You've changed"
These statements cut deep. Real deep. They go to the very core of who we are because they are statements that essentially question the very thing we feel wired to do. The thing that we feel deep down that we must do in life is being questioned by the people that love us the most. The people we look to for support quickly become reasons why we stop chasing the dream and get a "real job".
I don't think it comes from a place of discouragement or hatred or disapproval at its core.
They are uneducated in what you actually do.
What I've learned is that most people that I feel like don't support me, actually do support me, they just are uneducated in what I do.
I get asked all the time, "Who have you worked with?" "Do you have any songs on the radio?" - the list continues of questions that circle around people trying to find some common ground.
What I do is master albums. I help bands and artists finalize their music and help them have a product that's ready for release to the public. I am the frosting on the cake, I am the safety net and last set of ears to help improve the product. Within this, I study RMS levels, LUFS levels, frequency charts, compression ratios, attack times, release times, Red Book standards, DDP, UPC code, convertors, sample rates, bit rates, MP3, WAV, MFiT, digital encoding, gain staging, shelfs, parallel compression, cables, and the list goes on.
The majority of people who work in the music industry don't even know what I do, yet they need me for every song that ever gets heard.
Now lets take our friends and family and significant others. Let's assume they do love and support us at the core. They have no idea what I am talking about. It might as well be a foreign language. My work is essentially so unknown and hard to follow for the "normal" person that there is next to nothing for us to relate to.
It's easy to ask Bob who works at a real estate company what he does. We all know what a real estate company does, we all need it, we all understand where it fits in society. It's easy to support Bob because it's tangible, easy to understand, easy to lay down a foundation and create a relationship, and this is great. We love Bob, he sold us our house......
But with entrepreneurship or starting out on a new dream it's all unknown. It may feel like people don't support us simply because they have no idea how to connect with us. What I have learned is that I have to help educate everyone around me in what I do. I have to break it down and take it back to the beginning. I have to explain what I do in order to help people connect with me. This is something we take on when we decide to go after things that are unknown to people.
I heard a quote once that "professionals educate and amateurs get frustrated". This rings so true.
When I made this mind shift to focus on educating people instead of getting frustrated when it felt like there was a lack of support it changed everything. I started to let people watch what I do. They may not understand what I am doing from a technical standpoint but they can hear the difference from where we started to where we ended.
I think for a lot of people they view entrepreneurship as kind of a fly by the set of your pants thing. That all you do is sit in a coffee shop or wake up late or take crazy risks, which may all be true. But what they don't know is what you're doing at the coffee shop. What may look like hours on Instagram may be target marketing, what looks like waking up late could be a result that you're an artist whose show doesn't start till 10pm on a weekday, that taking what looks like a crazy risk is actually very calculated and normal. People don't understand why I would ever pay $3,000 for a piece of gear.... It seems foolish. But if I educate them on what it does and show them the difference then all the unknowns and fears of how and why I do what I do goes away.
The key to getting the support back and laying down some foundation again for those relationships that seem unsupportive is to educate. Sit down and explain to them what you do. If they don't even want to know that or give you ten minutes to help them understand you as a person better then you may need to make peace with that and find new people. Not everyone will be a raving fan nor is it their job to be. But we have a responsibility, as entrepreneurs to help educate, to understand that we may be super far along in our journey and that people are just trying to play catch up. I often forget how far I have come and have to often be reminded that what I know now, what comes easy to me, is really a result of spending years and years on it.
So if you resonated with the lonely road, hopefully this helps equip you to maybe get some support from those that do love you, but just don't understand you.
Now go, educate!


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The Twenty-seventh Alaska State Legislature extends a round of applause for the talents and entertainment of Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse in Anchorage.
The Anchorage arts community is rich with culture and history, and Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse has been at the center of local theatre producing independent productions since the early 90's. Jerry and Sandy Harper met as actors and fell in love in 1962 in Los Angeles and were mentored by OBIE Award Winner, Rachel Rosenthal. They were core members in the development of Rosenthal's innovative new theatre form called "Instant Theatre" and "Instant Fairytales", influences they brought to Alaska. Their passion for theater and for each other laid the groundwork for the creative performance troupe, Eccentric Theatre. In the mid 1980's, the Harpers inherited the Loussac Building, on the corner of D Street and the historic 4th Avenue, originally owned by Z.J. "Zack" Loussac, Jerry Harper's stepfather. Soon after, it was restored as part of former Anchorage mayor Tony Knowles' plan for a renewed 4th Avenue downtown district. With a $1 million loan, the Harpers created a "cultural mini-mall" that included a bookstore and café under the name, Cyrano's. The northwest corner of the building was occupied by the Anchorage Police Department until the early 1990's. The Harpers converted this space into the 89 seat black box theater of Jerry Harper's dream, bringing Alaskan culture and theatre to life.
Cyrano's has worked with many actors, producers, and technicians from Juneau to Valdez to Fairbanks, always presenting traditional, contemporary, and Alaskan productions that would entertain the local audiences during the cold, long and dark months. Aside from bringing to communities across the state superior works from local talents, they have been committed to enhancing the community by working closely with the University of Alaska's Theatre Department graduates. Nurturing and cultivating regional talent from academic theatre to professional careers remains an important goal of their dedication to the arts and the community. In 2005, UAA renamed the campus's black box theater after Jerry Harper, who died of cancer on April 8 the same year.
Today, the black box theater is simple and charming, providing the best atmosphere to appreciate the vast array of performances on the stage. Alaskans enjoy the convenience of the relaxed atmosphere and find an evening at Cyrano's intimate and affordable, a retreat built into the historic downtown district.
Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse has been recognized in many awards around the state and the Alaska Legislature joins in these accolades with a standing ovation for their influence and consistent quality of stage theatre that has made a lasting impression on the statewide progress of the performing arts culture.


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Tobii Eye Tracking intro
Tobii came to me asking to create a logo animation that were going to be used as an intro for their social media videos. The main platform was Youtube, but they were also looking into Facebook, Instagram and Twitch.
Client: Tobii Eye Tracking
My role: Design & animation
Sound design: Juha Silventoinen
The challenge
The challenge was to create an intro that would work just as well with big productions for Youtube as with everyday social media content. It therefore had to be usable in 16:9 and 1:1. Tobii also creates co-branded videos, and in those cases the other brands' logos had to be incorporated into the intro as well.
The solution
The solution was to create a 6 seconds long main intro (see above) that were to be used primarily on Youtube and Twitch. For social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram a 2.5 second version was made to match the attention span on those platforms.
The main content of the intro is focused around the middle of the composition which enables it to be used in 1:1 social media videos.
Then for the co-branded videos, an extended ending was created, that could easily be added at the end of the chosen intro by the editor.


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DJ Field
DJ Field's musical journey started an astonishing 28 years as an MC with a dub sound system known as the Dub Invaders in Bulawayo. He went on to become one of the leading MCs in Bulawayo before moving to England in 1994 to spread his wings.
One of his strengths has been his enthusiasm and flexibility to bring in new musical genres and delivery styles into his fold. Even though he started off as an MC and has always been faithful to house music, he saw the attraction of becoming a DJ and always moved with the times as different musical genres emerged. He has played jungle, reggae alongside dub and house. When speed garage took hold, he played speed garage. However, around 2000, when deep house emerged, DJ Field was hooked and that has remained his speciality since.
He was one of the first to spread the word about the deep house talent emerging out of South Africa. Much of this he did through Kasiluv, a crew that he created with a cousin to host house events and promote South African house around the UK. Along the way he has shared the stage with DJs such as DJ Fresh, Black Coffee, Glen Lewis, Culoe de Song, Oskido and DJ Chynaman - all well-known house producers from South Africa and the US.
Currently, DJ Field hosts a radio show* on Deeplomatikk Radio, a station he founded in 2014 to promote house music. The station has grown from strength to strength as it has expanded its network of DJs and range of musical genres. And of course, he remains a sought after DJ for club events and private parties.
*Thursdays 8pm UK, 10pm South Africa


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