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Vitreoretinal surgeons continually strive to integrate technological advancements into their practice. The introduction and improvements in microincisional small-gauge instrumentation have revolutionized vitreoretinal surgery. Since its introduction, retinal surgeons have progressively shifted toward microincisional, transconjunctival small-gauge technology.1,2 Small-gauge surgery allows effective treatment for a variety of vitreal, retinal, and macular pathologies while lending itself to improved patient comfort and faster symptomatic and visual rehabilitation.
Dutch Ophthalmic and Alcon provide commercially available full complements of small-gauge instrumentation, including high-speed vitrectomy probes, forceps, scissors, endolaser probes, and new light sources, whose usage has expanded to include complicated vitreoretinal pathology (Figure 1). Bausch + Lomb and Synergetics have 27-gauge instrumentation pending. As such, a looming question on the horizon is whether smaller than 27 gauge is possible. In this article, we explore this issue and provide our conjectures to this theoretical question.
In 2002, 25-gauge vitrectomy was introduced by Fujii et al.3 The transition from 20 gauge to 25 gauge represented a substantial savings of time by almost eliminating the need to construct incisional wounds and by greatly reducing the need to suture them. Using these smaller-incision transconjunctival approaches, the average duration of surgery is shorter and less traumatic than 20-gauge surgery, leading to statistically significantly better and faster postoperative recovery, as well as increased patient comfort while maintaining successful outcomes.3,4
Excessive flexibility and the flow limitations of early iterations of 25-gauge instruments were problematic. Eckhart et al developed a 23-gauge platform that permitted greater instrument stability and more expedient core vitreous removal.5 The introduction of 25+-gauge instrumentation further improved rigidity.
Drs. Stallman, Chin Yee, and Walia are from Georgia Retina, PC, in Atlanta, Georgia. The authors report no disclosures related to this article. Dr. Walia can be reached at email@example.com.
In 2010, Oshima et al introduced 27-gauge vitrectomy with an incision size of 0.40 mm to facilitate improved wound construction and self-sealing and prevent leaking and potential hypotony, vitreous prolapse, and endophthalmitis.6 This system also enabled one-step trocar insertion that provided additional benefit for cases with thin scleras, specifically young and myopic patients.
The 25+ gauge and 27-gauge instruments have improved stiffness and provide improved access to small spaces to facilitate dissection and allow work close to the retinal surface (Figures 2 and 3). These factors highlight the notion that smaller is better and lead one to wonder not only whether it is possible but whether there is added benefit to ultramicroincisional surgery.
The question posed is essentially whether further size reductions would be advantageous. While 23-, 25+-, and 27-gauge instruments are here to stay, the need for further miniaturization of sub-27 gauge is debatable. Size matters, but have we reached a point of diminishing returns? The engineering feasibility to create even smaller instrumentation certainly may be possible; however, the clinical outcomes and applicability may not necessarily warrant it.
One significant advantage to small-gauge instruments is that the distance from the port to the tip of the vitrectomy handpiece is less. This permits more usage as a dissection instrument and more precise removal of preretinal tissue and membranes. Numerous techniques have been reported with use of the 27-gauge cutter to grasp and peel the internal limiting membrane. Theoretically, sub-27-gauge cutters may obviate the usage of picks, scissors, and even forceps.
However, numerous obstacles seem apparent. An obvious initial obstacle is that of flow rate through sub-27-gauge instruments. In vitreoretinal surgery, Poiseuille's law always prevails (Figure 4). This delineates that the flow rate is related to the radius to the fourth power of the lumen radius. A substantial reduction in the flow rate through sub-27-gauge instruments would undoubtedly be a hindrance. However, innovation in vitrectomy cutters and infusion compensation technology with new-generation vitrectomy machines may potentially mitigate this pitfall, as has been shown in the past with the transition to 27-gauge surgery.
Regarding cutters, a twin-duty cycle (TDC) cutter, available in the DORC product line in 23, 25, and 27 gauge, represents a new generation of vitrectomy cutters for efficient and safe removal of vitreous and also provides constant flow independent from cutting speed at a duty cycle of 92%. This modified cutter design incorporates a larger rectangular aperture in the inner tube of the cutter and a blade with two sharp cutting edges, increasing the amount of vitreous that is cut in a single motion. Double cutting speed reduces traction on surrounding tissue and offers increased aspiration flow up to three times more than the normal rate, with faster cut rates than larger-gauge cutters. Reduced "surge" turbulence at the aspiration port results from constant opening of the aspiration port (Figure 5). In 27 gauge, two TDC speed options are available, one with a maximum of 6,000 cuts per minute (CPM) and another with a maximum 8,000 CPM. This TDC cutter design delivers an effective cut rate of up to 12,000 CPM or 16,000 CPM, respectively.
Intraocular pressure and aspiration flow rates are important considerations in vitreoretinal surgery, as intraoperative hypotony can result in undesired choroidal detachment and disastrous suprachoroidal hemorrhage. Newer-generation vitrectomy machines utilize built-in infusion compensation technology to allow a temporary increase in infusion to prevent hypotony, while at the same time avoiding the need for continuously elevated IOP. This counteracts higher infusion and aspiration pressures that are typically necessary using larger-gauge cutters to remove vitreous. Aspiration flow rates with both the DORC 25-gauge and 27-gauge TDC cutters are maintained constant without a decrease as probe cut rates are increased, measured in balanced salt solution (BSS) at a vacuum level of 550 mmHg (Figure 5).
Other limitations to sub-27-gauge instruments would be rigidity and limitation in illumination. Historically, the smaller-gauge instruments have increased shaft flexibility that limits access to the anterior retina. Noncontact wide-angle viewing systems have far less reliance on maintaining an axial position throughout surgery, and access to the anterior and peripheral retina is facilitated by rotating the eye using pressure on the instrument shafts.
The Alcon Constellation system has improved this by increasing the stiffness throughout the shaft and using a proximal sleeve that stabilizes the instrument at the trocar interface (Figure 2). Shortening of shaft lengths has also been implemented to increase rigidity, but places limitations in range and reach to the posterior pole, limiting their use for cases requiring limited vitreous dissection. In regard to illumination concerns, the advent of high-intensity LED illumination, as provided with the DORC EVA system, compensates for reduced transmission through smaller probes and is safe without ultraviolet and infrared toxicity, which may enable enough illumination in a sub-27-gauge system. Additional illumination can also be compensated for by implementing chandelier illumination, which can potentially overcome limited light transmission through a sub-27-gauge setting.
Another overall challenge is the economics of implementing another surgical platform. Most retina surgeons currently already use a small-gauge platform. Surgeons in an ambulatory surgery center would be faced with the financial burden of incorporating this new technology. In the setting of a surgery center, the economics favors reusable instruments. Sub-27-gauge instruments would be exquisitely delicate and, even with the most conscientious staff and autoclaving process, very susceptible to breakage. Thus, the complement of instruments would almost certainly be disposables. The fixed and variable costs associated with incorporating sub-27 technology would unquestionably pose a financial burden. In the current practice environment, surgeons are becoming progressively less able to invest in newer technology that does not carry a distinct, proven benefit.
If sub-27-gauge instrumentation is on the horizon, will it need complementary pieces to be successfully incorporated into clinical use? In addition to simply size, will smaller instruments be able to incorporate newer technologies? Several other technological advancements in vitrectomy instruments have been reported, and the possibility of incorporating these in a sub-27 gauge could be promising.
Bausch + Lomb is awaiting the release of the new "hydrotome," an instrument that utilizes hypersonic liquefaction in lieu of the conventional guillotine cutter through a single needle on a continuously open port. The needle is mounted on a piezoelectric transducer element that vibrates harmonically to create a cut rate of approximately 1.7 million cuts per minute.7
The University of Leuven in Belgium recently announced a robotic system to utilize an ultrathin 30 µ custom microneedle to cannulate retinal veins.8 Precision-geared, antitremor robotic-assisted surgery may also couple with sub-27-gauge instrumentation. Incorporating such technology may be difficult, as seen with the difficulty of transitioning fragmatome technology from 20 gauge to smaller gauges, but it could be an avenue to further any sub-27-gauge instruments.
Additionally, other vitreoretinal surgery explorations may be furthered by incorporating sub-27-gauge instrumentation. For instance, suprachoroidal surgery and suprachoridal drug delivery may be enhanced with the use of sub-27-gauge probes. There may be a trend in the future toward office-based vitrectomy and compact systems geared toward portability that may facilitate sub-27-gauge instrumentation. Several prototypes are in design and usage, including the SurgiCube system, which enable office-based sterile work environments.9 In an office-based setting, sub-27-gauge instrumentations may assist with any transition to office-based vitrectomy for minimally complex pathologies.
Vitrectomy surgery has benefitted from numerous improvements since its introduction. Size matters, and small-gauge surgery has been one of the most revolutionary advancements our field has undergone. After an initial learning curve, surgeons have become comfortable employing 25- and 27-gauge instrumentation for routine use.
Is it possible to go smaller, or have we hit a wall of diminishing returns? Our practice routinely uses 25-gauge instrumentation in our ambulatory surgery center. We feel that with TDC cutter technology, 25-gauge instrumentation provides exceptional surgical efficiency and superior outcomes by balancing flow, rigidity, and incision size. We are presently reluctant to conclude that sub-27 gauge will provide additional benefit, and it may not represent a continued advancement in vitreoretinal surgery. RP
- Teixeira A, Rezende F, Salaroli C, et al. 27-gauge system for primary vitrectomy to treat rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;55(13):1103.
- American Society of Retina Specialists Preference and Trends (PAT) Survey 2013. Available at: http://www.asrs.org/asrs-community/pat-survey .
- Fujii GY, de Juan E Jr, Humayun MS, et al. A new 25-gauge instrument system for transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy surgery. Ophthalmology. 2002;109(10):1807-1812.
- Lakhanpal RR, Humayun MS, de Juan E Jr, et al. Outcomes of 140 consecutive cases of 25-gauge transconjunctival surgery for posterior disease. Ophthalmology. 2005;112(5):817-824.
- Eckhart C. Transconjunctival sutureless 23-gauge vitrectomy. Retina. 2005;25:208-211.
- Oshima Y, Wakabayashi T, Sato T, Ohji M, Tano Y. A 27-gauge instrument system for transconjunctival sutureless microincision vitrectomy surgery. Ophthalmology. 2010;117(1):93-102.
- Roberts C. B+L shares developments in vitrectomy. Presented at: Ophthalmology Innovation Summit; August 8, 2016; San Francisco. Available at: http://ois.net/bausch-and-lomb-shares-developments-in-vitrectomy/ .
- KU Leuven. Surgical eye robot performs precision-injection in patient with retinal vein occlusion. ScienceDaily. January 26, 2017. Available at: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170126142844.htm .
- SurgiCube. Available at: http://surgicube.com . Accessed February 1, 2017.
- Franklin AJ, Shah G, Walia H. Minimally invasive vitrectomy surgery using small-gauge instrumentation. Retin Physician. 2014;11(7):45-50.


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scottmo2020: Are you talking about network content or syndicated content being more crisp? I would think that both FOX stations would be broadcasting at 720p and that network content should look identical. Thoughts?
The network content is more crisp than syndicated, which is to be expected. However, on both types of content on Fox22 there are very subtle flashes of this strange pattern. Honestly it has been a month or so since I have checked, so perhaps it is fixed. Even though my tuner shows 720p for both Columbia and Springfield, the Springfield affiliate always looks richer to me.
The Fox network is watched more than ABC anyways, and if they had it full power, they could put a sub-channel on 22. For example, they could have KZOU on channel 22.2 (and even remap it with PSIP to 17.3 if the wanted) so they could have better picture quality on 17.1. They could even try KZOU as HD, although that would ruin Fox's picture quality a bit. I wouldn't complain though.
I just wish that they would upgrade KQFX FOX 22's power. They should put it at least close to KMIZ's.
The Fox network is watched more than ABC anyways, and if they had it full power, they could put a sub-channel on 22. For example, they could have KZOU on channel 22.2 (and even remap it with PSIP to 17.3 if the wanted) so they could have better picture quality on 17.1. They could even try KZOU as HD, although that would ruin Fox's picture quality a bit. I wouldn't complain though.
They don't really need more power to add sub channels. Regardless of transmit power, stations have the same amount of bandwidth to use as they see fit. Higher transmit power would help in the fringe areas like Lake of the ozarks, and fill in gaps such as low lying areas, etc. Back in 2009, they were planning on moving KZOU to 22 but I guess that never happened. At least they don't do like KSPR in Springfield and run two HD channels in the same bandwidth. Both of those channels look like absolute garbage.
They don't really need more power to add sub channels. Regardless of transmit power, stations have the same amount of bandwidth to use as they see fit. Higher transmit power would help in the fringe areas like Lake of the ozarks, and fill in gaps such as low lying areas, etc.
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I know they could add the subchannel now at the lower power and move KZOU from 17.3 to 22.2, but I don't think they'd want to; they'd lose OTA viewers (like those at the lake) on KZOU if they moved it to the much weaker 22.
If 22 had near the same power level as 17, then they wouldn't lose viewers on KZOU if it moved to 22.2. Sorry, that's still not clear, but someone might catch my drift.
Basically, I just hope they one day increase 22's power.
After all, they're saving a lot of money by keeping KMIZ at 120kW, instead of its original plan for 1000kW (that would have been awesome). And then, Fox 22's at only 11.8 kW...
Ah, now I'm getting it! I'm at the Lake, and KMIZ comes in great, around 85% on average. Fox 22 I get in the 50's and it breaks up too bad to watch. If I adjust my antenna just right, I can get Fox 22 in the low 70's pretty solid without many breakups. But when I do that, I'm aiming too far north east for KRCG. Out of all the channels, KRCG is the worst by far, being on VHF and barely running any power. I don't know how well KRCG works for people in Columbia/Jeff, but it is obvious they don't care at all about their OTA people and are all about saving the boat load of money they do by running an underpowered VHF.
I have really given up on the Columbia stations and have gone over to Springfield. KOMU disappeared completely for me when they went back to VHF 8. KOLR 10 is on VHF but they at least tried to increase power. Now KSFX 27 is losing Fox and it is moving to KRBK 49, which I am only a few miles from and can't get OTA! Hopefully they get to full power before September.
KMIZ and KQFX share a tower a bit west of Jamestown. KRCG's tower is on US 54 near New Bloomfield. Since KRCG operates on a VHF channel (12), a VHF antenna would be the proper tool to receive it.
I just wanna watch football....
Select an antenna that would be normally suggested for "long-range" UHF reception. Not much you can buy in this category in a local retail store except perhaps the Antennas Direct C2 or C4 which should be available at Best Buy stores. If you had time to order and can tolerate the physical size, a 4-Bay UHF antenna would give the best odds.
Afraid I've never heard of a "Viper" antenna. Try placing it in a window that faces southwest.
About to move to Columbia. From a location on the southwest edge of town, I've tried indoor reception using a couple antennas (rabbit ears with VHF poles, and the Leaf flat-panel indoor antenna). I can get KQFX at over 90% with the Leaf (but not on the the rabbit ears with UHF loop) but the VHF signal of KRCG is elusive and I have yet to lock in that signal. Naturally, on the Leaf, since it's optimized for UHF, KRCG is showing up at only about 10%. But even the VHF rabbit ears aren't pulling more than 30%. I will probably be living north of I-70 which will be farther from both KQFX and KRCG. I should still be able to get KQFX, so not highly worried about that, but CBS is the broadcast network I watch most so really want to get KRCG and am not paying for cable/satellite. Short of an attic mounted yagi antenna, are there any VHF indoor antennas that others in Columbia have used for reliable KRCG reception?
No issues receiving (nor am I anticipating any issues receiving) KMOS or KMIZ, though with KOMU also on VHF I'm wondering how it will come in north of 70. The Leaf pulls it in at about 70% in SW Columbia. Can also get KNLJ fine but no plans to watch that station.
Great - thank you! I'll give that a try. So an Antennas Direct C2 + one of these? http://www.antennasdirect.com/store/ClearStream2-VHF-Reflector-Assembly.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Columbia_MO_TV shows 13.2 LWN so KRCG could be adding it's first Digital Sub Channel.
The Wikipedia page is probably wrong on this since it has been showing 13.2 for months. According to the LWN website St. Louis has their only affiliate in Missouri.
You do realize that ANYONE can edit Wikipedia articles, I hope.
I moved to Columbia back in August. I live near the intersection of Nifong (actually Vawter School Road) and Scott. I seem to be in a relatively high spot. I bought this Winegard FlatWave antenna when I moved here http://www.winegard.com/get-free-tv/hdtv-antenna/flatwave/. I got everything except KRCG-CBS from the start. The antenna comes with a 15' coax, and I was able to move the antenna around until I found a spot on the wall where I got a signal in the high 20s for KRCG. It's good enough for a steady picture probably 80% of the time. I don't have any problems with the other channels.
There is one oddity about this market that I have never seen before. The PBS affiliate from Warrensburg (sp?) broadcasts in 720p. I thought that all PBS stations were 1080i?!? Also, is there a back story as to why DirecTV carries this channel in 480i? They just lop the sides of the picture off to make it fit 4:3. It's awful, and PBS is one of my favorite channels.
I had not noticed KMOS was 720p but yes, just checked and confirmed that. Interesting. Another oddity about KMOS is they are actually in the Kansas City market, but serve as the PBS affiliate here as Kansas City also has KCPT for PBS. It is possible that DirecTV may regard KMOS as an out of market import ("significantly viewed" rather than local) and not give them bandwidth priority. Not sure on that -- just a theory.
And on KRCG -- that's pretty impressive for the flat wave -- that type of antenna is usually not great with VHF in my experience with a few similar models. KRCG is just difficult to get in Columbia. I have a Winegard FV-HD30 and am on a high hill on the north end of town, almost line of sight to KRCG (if there's anywhere in Columbia that would be almost line of sight to the KRCG tower, I think it would be near my location). But still only about 50-55% signal strength and have to put up with some signal breakup. My wife's parents live near your location, but at the bottom of a hill, and also using a FV-HD30, they only see about 15% signal strength. Their TV doesn't have a chance of locking it in. KRCG really needs to apply to turn up the power or move to UHF -- now that they are under Sinclair ownership, I wonder if Sinclair might invest a little in the station. Also the only newscast in the market not in HD.
I modified a ClearStream 2V for my nephew when he was attending Mizzou two years ago and it worked great for his off-campus apartment. I put the VHF element on an extension above the reflector and rotated it 90 degrees.
KRCG is starting to run some promos for their news team in HD. They might finally be getting close to running their newscasts in high-def.
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Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of significant morbidity and mortality in the United States as well as world-wide. Mammalian heart, including human heart has been considered as a post-mitotic organ composed of highly specialized and terminally differentiated cardiac myocytes. These mammalian cardiac myocytes have traditionally been considered as post-mitotic cells with an extremely low or practically no capacity to divide and regenerate. Recently, it has been shown that mammalian cardiac muscle has limited proliferative potential and restricted regeneration within the damaged myocardium. Hence, it may be beneficial to explore the limited natural capacity of mammalian cardiac muscle regeneration in light of the spontaneous cardiac muscle regeneration observed in the lower vertebrates such as fish and amphibians (cardiovascular genetics). The difficulty in regenerating damaged myocardial tissue has led researchers to explore the application of exogenous embryonic- and/or adult-derived stem cells as well as the endogenous cardiac stem/progenitor cells as possible sources for regenerating myocardium. Using stem cells, it has been possible to stimulate mammalian cardiac muscle regeneration and researchers have investigated the potential of various multi- and/or pluri-potential stem cells, such as MSCs, ESCs, iPSCs and CPCs (cardiovascular differentiation of stem cells). A major issue that remains to be addressed is the extent to which introduced stem cells and/or endogenous cardiac progenitor cells contribute directly to the formation of neo-cardiomyocytes versus their contribution to and/or stimulation of an enhanced local vascular response, which in turn may act as a supportive microenvironment for regeneration. Use of adult stem cells (MSCs/iPSCs) in the stimulation of mammalian cardiac muscle regeneration is in its infancy, and to date, it has been difficult to determine the efficacy of procedures that have been employed. The outstanding question remains whether stem cells derived from the bone marrow or some other location within or outside of the heart can populate a region of myocardial damage and transform into tissue-specific cells and also exhibit functional synchronization (stem cell based cardiomyoplasty). As a result, this necessitates the development of appropriate in vitro 3-D model of cardiomyogenesis and prompts the development of a 3-D cardiac muscle construct for tissue engineering purposes, especially using the postnatal/adult stem cells, MSCs and/or iPSCs for personalized medicine. Restricted myocardial regeneration after tissue injury and shortage of organs for transplantation are the principal constraints of conventional therapies. Organ tissue engineering, including cardiovascular tissues, has been an area of intense investigation. The major challenge to these approaches has been the inability to vascularize and perfuse the in vitro engineered tissue constructs. Attempts to provide oxygen and nutrients to the cells contained in the biomaterial constructs have varying degrees of success. Engineering a tissue of clinically relevant magnitude requires the formation of extensive and stable microvascular networks within the tissue. Since most in vitro engineered tissue constructs do not contain the intricate microvascular structures of native tissue, the cells contained in scaffolds heavily rely on simple diffusion for oxygenation. In addition, the interaction of the cells of the host and construct has not been well characterized (cardiovascular tissue engineering, bionanotechnology). Given these shortcomings, this 'Frontiers Research Proposal' is aimed 'to address how to develop a three-dimensional (3-D) model of vascularized cardiac tissue to study the concurrent temporal and spatial regulation of cardiomyogenesis in the context of postnatal de novo Vasculogenesis during stem cell cardiac regeneration'. The fundamental problem of cardiac repair and regeneration can only be addressed by means of multidisciplinary knowledge and approach. Therefore, this 'Frontiers in Research Topic' is targeted at garnering the cutting-edge knowledge and technical advances in the field of "Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine" and disseminating that invaluable knowledge in a timely manner to greater scientific community. In order to accelerate and/or tackle one of the most fundamental problems facing cardiac therapy, i.e. to repair and/or regenerate the damaged myocardium during heart failure.
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Today's story is The Tale Of The Two Cardcaptors, by Zachycards. I am sure the title makes it obvious what we will be seeing here.
This is a self insert story of mine that was deleted a few years back. But now I have decided to continue my work on it. This is a story of how I wished upon a star one night to become a CardCaptor just like Sakura. Please feel free to leave me a review. But remember that no flaming reviews are allowed at all, under any circumstances.
So we have... one sentence of the barest summary ever, and three sentences of ultimately meaningless fluff. Great start! Shitty reviewers won't be turned away by a request not to be shitty, sadly. All you can do there is ignore or delete as necessary.
It was just another gloomy day for me in New York City as I lay quietly in my bed. I was just about to close my eyes, when a shooting star shot across the sky,
It's a good thing you noticed that while in bed. Well, with the lack of information on where you are, for all I know your bed is a blanket on an open rooftop.
I then closed my eyes tight and said, "I wish I was the brother of Sakura Avalon and was granted the same powers as her when we found the clow book together."
Unfortunately, the shooting star was a sub elitist, and refused to acknowledge the existence of a Sakura Avalon.
When I woke up, I found myself in a very unfamiliar room, but for some reason, it looked very familiar to me.
I'm glad we established that the unfamiliar room was, in fact, familiar.
"W-where am I?" I said/asked to no one in particular as I sat up in the bed that I was sleeping in. What happened next was a shock to me, the alarm clock that rested in between the beds went off, and an all too familiar girl with short auburn hair and emerald colored eyes sprang up from under the covers. "HOEEEEEE! Were going to be late!" Sakura said.
And from this point on, there are zero questions from the currently-nameless protagonist about how he ended up in Sakura's room. Seriously, it moves on as if he were always there and the shooting star section was completely pointless. This is the very next sentence:
And with that, both me and Sakura got dressed into our school uniforms, and headed downstairs for breakfast.
Ah well, we can at least find out what unique interactions another sibling brings into the
"Sakura, Zachary, could you too be any louder?" Tori said in a sarcastic tone. "We weren't that loud" Sakura said to Tori. "You two sounded like small dinosaurs up there" Tori teased. "We were walking normally!" I said in response.
oh good the interactions are exactly the same no change whatsoever
"Hey, I'm lucky, how many brothers get two dinosaurs for a little brother and sister." Tori said. "STOP CALLING US DINOSAURS!" Sakura and I said/yelled in unison.
I get the feeling they're going to share dialogue a lot. A lot.
After Sakura and I had our breakfast and Tori left, we both strapped on our skates, put on our protective padding, and after I helped Sakura up, we made our way down the street to meet up with Tori and Julian.
I wonder if super skating powers was included in the 'have the same powers' wish. Couldn't you have at least went with a skateboard? At this rate, you're just being a Sakura genderswap, Zachary.
-They go to school, which ends in the very next sentence-
After the school day ended, me and Sakura then headed back to our home. But, when we got home, we began to hear strange noises that seemed to be coming from the basement.
From here, the fanfic takes a shocking swerve into horror, and the most Evil Dead-ish of tales transpires.
-And so they decide to check it out-
A few seconds later, me and Sakura were down in the basement. Both of us had our batons clenched in our hands, and, it wasn't long until we came upon a row of bookshelves in the back.
...So wait, is Zachary a cheerleader, too? Why does he have a baton?
It was then that both of us jumped out hoping to see someone, but there was no one there.
You were hoping for a burglar?!
But, as Sakura and I stayed close to one another while looking around, we heard a strange noise. Both of us then turned around and noticed that one of the books on the shelf was glowing. Without hesitating even once, both Sakura I reached for the glowing book and pulled it off the shelf.
You don't need to literally do the exact same things as each other. Like, wow, Zach's mimicking every single thing Sakura does, right down to her skating and cheerleading.
It was then that both Sakura and I dropped our batons and gazed at the book, the book was red and had what looked like a lion type creature on the front cover, chains were on either side of it, and a sun was in front. "That's the same book from my dream" Sakura and I said to ourselves.
Also, yet more copying. Is the plot twist that Zachary was ~The Mirror~ all along or something? Wait, no, that one already exists. Uh... The Shadow? ...Copycat? There we go. Was Zach ~The Copycat~ all along?
-The book opens-
Inside the weird book was a stack of cards, both Sakura and I picked up the top one, the cards name was in English. "The Windy" we both said in unison.
That must be some fucking heavy cardboard is that card requires two(?) ten-year olds to pick it up.
-One localised tornado and card-scattering later-
When the wind finally stopped, both Sakura and I dropped the strange book and sank to the floor. "What is this?" I asked while looking at the card.
Holy crap Zach said something by himself.
A moment later both Sakura and I were staring at a tiny, winged, teddy bear who was rising from the glowing book."Hey-hey-hoo!" It said, while hovering in midair and smiling, "Well, I'm surprised that you two were able to wake me up!""An Osaka accent…?" Sakura and I asked in unison.
Aw, well it was fun while it las- hey wait hold on, an Osakan accent? Are we following the dub or not?!
-I realise I seem to be skipping a lot, but so little content has actually been changed it seems redundant to bother showing the sentences. We skip to their bedroom, after the story itself skips informing Kero what happened to the cards. Skipception. Kero tells them both to help recollect the cards-
"B-but wasn't it your job to keep those cards properly sealed away in the first place?" I asked."Well…" Now Kero was embarrassed, "I accidentally fell asleep.""For how long?" Sakura asked."About thirty years." Kero said."And you call yourself the Beast of the Seal?" I asked.
By now, I'm sure you've surmised that Sakura and Zachary either talk in unison, or split Sakura's dialogue between the two. It makes for extremely riveting story-telling, I assure you.
Sakura and I then got up, and stood by our beds, which seemed to vanish as the magic circle from before formed on the floor under both of us. "Keys of the Seal." Kero intoned. Two small balls of light rose from the keyhole of the book and hovered in front of me and Sakura. "These two kids will carry out the sacred promise, there names are Sakura and Zachary. I command you to bestow them with you magical powers, RELEASE THE POWER!
It occurs to me that Zachary is very lucky that Cardcaptors is not a magical girl show with actual transformations. Though with how this has been written so far, I expect
It was then that both of the two light balls expanded, as did the keys, each forming a baton like staff. I caught the blue colored one, while Sakura caught the pink colored one when we were told by Kero to grab them. "All right! It's the birth of two CardCaptors!" Kero cheered. As the circle faded and the room returned to normal, both Sakura and I examined our staffs and turned to Kero, expecting him to say something.
But instead, he was stuffing his face full of pudding.
Hahaha, oh Kero.
That's it for chapter 1. Might as well cover the next chapter so we can finish the first episode, I suppose? With any luck there'll be "original" content I can actually comment on.
It had only been a few minutes since Kero dubbed me and Sakura as "CardCaptors." And although Kero said that we were both the right people for the job, Sakura and I still felt a little dismissive.
Jeez you two could be a little more impressed that the Osakan-but-possibly-English-speaking plushie that lived in a magical book gave you both mystical staffs.
It was then that Sakura and I heard a loud noise that sounded like a bird screeching. Sakura and I then ran to the window, and upon looking out the window, we noticed a giant blue bird flying in the sky.
I love it when things are exactly what they say on the tin.
"What is that?" Sakura and I asked Kero as he approached the window. "It's a Clow Card" Kero said. Sakura and I gulped; we both knew then what we had to do.
Show that you're capable of acting independently from each other?
-They run out to combat The Fly-
Sakura and I then reached down our shirts and pulled out our respective keys. "Oh key of clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite, RELEASE! Sakura and I chanted in unison.
This story is going to kill the word 'unison' for me I swear to Clow.
"You distract the bird, and I seal it?" I asked. "Sounds like a plan to me" Sakura said in response while smiling.
Oh wow they're actually going to try and do different things? Of course Zach is the one that gets the glorious sealing role, but hell, it'll give me something to moan about!
It was then that Sakura approached the giant bird. But, while I wasn't looking, the bird spread its wings and took off into the sky, and, little did I know was that Sakura had jumped onto the bird and was taken along for the ride.
...Why were you not looking at the giant bird creature in the first place? Surely that thing requires your full attention?
-And so he uses Windy to bind the bird and Sakura falls to the ground-
It was when I was kneeling beside Sakura that she finally woke up, "uh…What happened?" Sakura asked. "You almost got hurt when I bound the Fly card with Windy, but thankfully I was able to catch you in time" I said. "Thank you Zachary" Sakura said as she smiled at me. "Your welcome" I said as I helped her up.
Thank you for recapping the last few paragraphs, Zach. Glad we have you to keep the events in order, we'd all be lost without ya.
It was then that we turned our attention back to the bound Fly card, and Kero then flew right beside us. "There is one thing that both of you must know before sealing the card, both of you will have to swing your staffs down in unison, or else the capture won't work." Kero said. "Right!" Sakura and I replied in unison.
Could have mentioned that wee tidbit five minutes ago, Kero. Seems like an incredibly important detail to hold back until after one of them almost cracked their skull against the pavement from a fifty-foot drop.
About a few seconds after that, nothing happened, but a few seconds later, one half of a card materialized on the tips of our staffs. The Fly card spirit was then split in half, and then one half of it went into both of our card halves.
The air was filled with the agonised, heart-rending screams of The Fly as it was violently torn in twain by the cardcaptors' cruel magic.
It was then that Kero landed in front of us and said, "both of you will need to write your names on the card so that it won't escape."And with that, Sakura and I wrote our names on the bottom of the Fly Card with Sakura's name below mine.
"Why don't the both of you try it out?" Kero asked after Sakura and I were both done writing our names on the card. "What can the card do?" Sakura asked.
Clue's in the name, Sakura. You're silly, not braindead.
"I think I got a pretty good idea" I said as I crouched down and picked up the Fly Card.
Oh but of course Zachary can figure what a card called The Fly can do. Such a genius.
Sakura and I then once again raised our staffs, swung both of them down at the same time, and tapped the Fly Card at the same time. "FLY!" Sakura and I yelled out in unison,
So, like... is the card still in two halves, or do you both just use the exact same card now...?
and after the one word was said, both of our staffs grew wings on the top. Sakura and I then got on our respective winged staffs, and then, after a few seconds, we took off into the sky. "This is awesome!" Sakura and I said in unison.
And stop speaking in unison goddamnit.
"I knew I could count on you two CardCaptor Sakura and Zachary" Kero said. "Hold on, we haven't agreed to anything yet" Sakura and I said in unison as all three of us flew across the sky.
Ahem. And with that, that's chapter two finished, and so am I.
Phew, that was... incredibly bland, to be honest. For the most part, it's a copy-paste of the dialogue, with the only changes being either "Self-insert speaks in unison with Sakura like they were creepy ghost twins" or "Zachary and Sakura swap lines that Sakura herself would have spoken herself anyway". Also, Zachary just... goes along with the 'sucked into Cardcaptors' thing ridiculously easily. Like, not even a passing thought like "what the fuck how", he's just instantly fitting in. Well, 'fitting in'. It made the intro with the shooting star extremely pointless if it plays into absolutely nothing.
According to a paragraph I skipped at the beginning of the story, this is a re-upload after some assholes humiliated the author. Obviously, that really sucks and shouldn't be done, regardless of the story's quality. Not to sound like some special exception or anything, but if all you can bring to a story is blind hatred... why should anyone give a shit about your opinion? Explain why a story doesn't work in detail, and how it could possibly be improved, and maybe the author can actually write something better?
Or, y'know, bash your keyboard in frothing rage, I'm sure that's fine. Us intellectuals like to provide some snark and sophistication to the proceedings, myes. *Swirls wineglass*


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In Building a Dog. Oh, Make that a Cat we discussed how to measure development impacts relative to demands that would take us off our roadmap. We needed to say no. We needed to construct the numbers that would say no for us.
Your manager made you build the cat anyway. Now what?
Well you have to sell that cat, but worse, you are only set up to sell to dog people. The cat project actually cut into the dog you have to sell to dog people. Selling the cat means selling to cat people. Sure there are a few dog people that have a cat, there are a few dog people that have a hamster, or a full blown zoo on their hands, so cross-selling the cat to your install base is possible. Cross selling will generate revenues sooner, than your efforts to sell to cat people. The cat certainly was a matter of leveraging your company's economy of scale. But, cat people never heard of you.
The cat market exists, so the usual marketing approach will work, but it will take time. You have to cross the Chasm. Moore's chasm is really about waiting around until your marketing gains traction. Press releases and advertising generate a market slowly. The cross selling to your installed base of dog owners will help in the short term.
Selling to an install-base, to existing customer, is supposed to happen at a cost of sale 60-90% less expensive than selling to new customers. This is the reason for retention marketing, but to make it work, you have to sell in a manner that realizes these results. This complicates you sales compensation, sales force structure, and marketing. You actually end up marketing and selling to your install base differently than to your prospects. If you don't differentiate, you won't capture your increasing return.
I used the Triangle model to show how marketing and sales realizations are built from the application they are dependent on. We'll start with the cat. I omitted the campaign to cross sell to dog owners from this first diagram.
The development effort ended up being divided between effort on the dog application, and effort on the cat application. Starting with the cat application (yellow-orange) at the base of the development triangle, marketing (light brown) is shown as a triangle projecting through the application as it realizes a touchpoint collection that will be exposed to the market. Similarly, a sales (blue) training program is likewise projected through the application as it realizes it's touchpoint collection elements.
Then, I've drawn a plane (dark red/brown) connecting the marketing touchpoints with the sales touchpoints to represent the product's interface with the market. Then, I've drawn the market as a volume projecting from the market interface plane. The customers (yellow) are shown at some distance from the market interface. In between the customers and the market interface, the chasm (clear) appears.
The dog diagram is significantly more complicated, because the undelivered functionality gives rise to undelivered marketing and sales training components. So the marketing and sales training projections are shown as being divided in two parts: marketing delivered (light brown) and undelivered (gray), and sales training delivered (dark blue) and undelivered (light blue). Likewise, the installed-base customers are divided into those that were not impacted by the undelivered functionality (red) and those that were (blue). The prospects are likewise impacted by the undelivered functionality (clear), because some prospects, Unaddressible Customers, are not in the market without that functionality.
While not quantifiable in the sense of bits, a product manager can determine the cost of the cat marketing effort, the degree of cross-selling possible, the dog customers that could not be gained due to the loss of functionality, lost marketing and sales training effort, the effectiveness of sales to retained customers, the loss of retained customers due to the absence of promised functionality, and the effects of growing the dog business a slower than intended. Plenty of number can be had on the operational end of the cat and dog fight.
If you want a cat, put it on the roadmap. Then, enable the organization to succeed at both the cat and the dog by growing a cat organization, so the dog doesn't pay. Then, once the cat organization is staffed build and release cat version 0.1. Don't switch animals in the middle of a roadmap. And, once you have more than one product, the technology layer will need its own independence, rather than having its development tied to either the dog or the cat. You are building a pet store after all.


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When you're a fashion designer known for grunge, cutting-edge styles, and sleek street-style offerings, you're obviously going to propose to your partner in the most amazing, outlandish and unique way possible, right?
Um no, not if you're Marc Jacobs, and you're proposing to your soul mate. In that case, all you need is a little old flash mob and a Chipotle restaurant.
That's right – the renowned designer got down on one knee at the fast food chain Wednesday night to propose to his model/candle maker boyfriend Char Defrancesco, on Defrancesco's birthday no less. But it was still completely memorable and special, because Jacobs orchestrated an entire flash mob of their friends before popping the big question.
All together now: Awwwww.
Anyhow, the crew did a little shoulder shimmying to Prince's "Kiss," completely taking Defrancesco by surprise. Although it's still unclear if they enjoyed their burritos before or after the proposal, we don't even care – free guacamole for all because he said yes.
Luckily, we get to see all of the cuteness thanks to social media, where both Jacobs and Defrancesco posted a video giving the basic highlights of the evening. The edited video opens with little B-roll of a New York based Chipotle restaurant, and ends with a random "Okay, okay, go get Chipotle," declaration from an unseen woman. Of course, the actual proposal and dance takes place in between. Oh and kisses, did we mention there were hugs and kisses?
To be honest the whole thing kind of reads like it was sponsored by Chipotle, but really, who cares? If we had any say in the whole thing, these two would be getting free burritos for the rest of their lives. Or at the very least Chipotle should offer to cater their wedding, extra queso and all. "Get ready for the all time gag!!!!" Defrancesco wrote on his own Instagram account. "Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen."
As if weddings didn't make us hungry enough already. Congrats to the Mexican-fast-food loving couple!


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Interim manager indirect procurement for six months in Germany and Austria
- Project status
- • Cancelled
- Project start date
- Not specified
- Project posted
- 10 May 2016 16:20
- Project duration (approx.)
- 6.0 Months
- Budget (approx.)
- €1000 / day
- Industry
- Consumer Goods & Services
- Area of expertise
- Procurement
- Consultant location
- On-site
- Location
- Germany
- Languages
- English (Essential) , German (Essential)
Objectives and Key Deliverables
The client is Europe's leading kitchen specialist. The operation consists of developing, manufacturing and selling kitchens.
The client operates one production facility in Herford, Germany and one in Linz, Austria. The client is looking for an experienced procurement manager who can come in and during six months quickly identify and implement cost savings in the area of indirect procurement.
The interim head of indirect procurement will report to the Purchasing Director in Sweden and to the MDs in Germany and Austria.
The client expects substantial cost savings to be identified and implemented.
Identification and realization of cost savings related to indirect procurement/purchasing.
Procurement manager with experience of indirect procurement.
Fluent in German and able to spend significant time on location in Herford and Linz.
Ability to hit the ground running.
Action- and results oriented.


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Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Societyin the Western World
On November 29, 1935, Berenice Abbott photographed Henry Street, on New York's Lower East Side. Two rows of tenements dominate the picture, their façades an indecipherable hieroglyph of messy fire escapes, mismatched cornices, car-wash signs, and posters. In the background, far beyond them, rise three skyscrapers, tall and pale. The vertical city, modern, massive, and stark, overwhelms the melancholy disorder of the low tenement street. Yet traditions cling to the steel frames of these immense buildings. Their crowning pinnacles are garlanded with columns, obelisks, and moldings: em-bodiments of the new, they still claim the aesthetic protection of an an-cient architectural code. And Abbott's mesmerizing black-and-white image, mechanically produced and modern as the movies, also harks back in its composition to an ancient source, the New Testament Book of Revelation: "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her bridegroom." When skyscrapers and tenements confronted one another in Abbott's viewfinder, old images provided her striking iconography. The age-old conflict between heavenly and earthly cities, Utopia and Dystopia, still framed the visual drama that she set in the black-and-white New York of the Thirties.
A new exhibition, created in collaboration by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the New York Public Library, sets Abbott's image and many more in their millennial context. Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World traces the history of Western culture's protracted effort to imagine—and sometimes to create—a perfect society. Ranging widely in time and space, the show draws an explosive energy from the dramatic projects and projectors it describes. It bursts through the bounds not only of the Gottesman Exhibition Hall but, literally, of the library itself. To reach the twentieth century, perhaps the richest part of the exhibit, one must climb to the Edna Barnes Salomon Room on the third floor, and the final segment exists only on the World Wide Web.
Utopia confronts the visitor with an extraordinary range of images and experiences. Downstairs, lush medieval illustrations of Eden, glowing with ripe fruit and populated by charming animals, and sixteenth-century maps of Thomas More's imaginary land, Utopia; upstairs, Life's panoramic photos of Levittown and a replica of the murderous female robot created in Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Downstairs, meticulous Renaissance and eighteenth-century plans for real and ideal cities, microscopically detailed posters describing the new systems of weights, measures, and dates of the French Revolution—not to mention the steps of a Shaker dance and the white vest of the Saint-Simonian entrepreneur Father Enfantin, its buttons set in the back to force him into cooperation with his fellows even when dressing. Upstairs, Raymond Loewy's teardrop-shaped airplanes and passenger ships of the future and Soviet posters of a New Society being created are set off, dramatically and terribly, by dark, tiny photos of life in a Stalinist labor camp and handsome color portraits of modern voluntary communities from around the world.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 16, 2016) - CKR Carbon Corporation ("CKR" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CKR)(FRANKFURT:CB8) is pleased to announce the start of underground exploration at the past producing Aukam graphite project in Namibia. This next phase of work will focus on delineating resources in support of an application for a mining license in early 2017.
Initial work included the surveying of the underground adits and open pit at the past producing graphite mine. Two adits were surveyed, the lower adit extends into the hillside for a total of 165 metres with two of the largest stopes, each over two metres wide, occurring near the end of the adit (see map at http://www.ckr-carbon.com). The upper adit, located 27 metres above the lower adit extends into the hillside for 75 metres. Both adits end directly below the open pit, which is located approximately 30 metres above the upper adit and 57 metres above the lower adit. This suggests that graphite veins observed at surface in the open pit, extend 57 metres down dip to the stopes in the lower adit. Recent mapping and sampling of the veins in the lower adit (see News Release dated July 12, 2016) indicate that they continue below the level of the adit suggesting further exploration potential.
CKR is also in the process of making the underground workings as safe as possible prior to undertaking exploration to adhere not only to Namibian safety regulations, but also to best practice in the global mining industry. Loose hangings in the open stopes of both adits have been barred down under the direction of a mining engineer. Larger blocks unable to be manually barred down will be blasted to complete the process of making the adits safe. In preparation for the blasting, blast holes have been prepared in both adits, and the explosive magazine from the historical mining activity is being rehabilitated.
Blasting will begin once explosives arrive on site initially with the remaining bad hangings in the adit, followed by clearing the winze area at the back of the lower adit (this will open access to a lower level), and finally in the open pit to ensure all loose material is down from the stopes. Much of the material that has been barred down and that will be blasted is from graphite veins in the old stopes. This will be sorted and added to the graphitic material stockpiled from our recent bulk sampling program. Recent assays of chip channel samples of vein material from the lower adit resulted in values of 18.34% Cg (carbon as graphite) to 56.06% Cg (see news release dated July 12, 2016).
Once the adits have been made safe, detailed mapping of the exposed graphite veins will be undertaken and results used in planning an underground drilling program. The program will aim to delineate resources down dip of the lower adit to be included in the application for a mining permit.
The technical content of this news release was approved by Roger Moss, Ph.D., P.Geo, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About the Aukam Project
CKR has, through its wholly owned Namibian subsidiary Micron Investments PTY LTD, an option to acquire 63% of the Aukam graphite project from Next Graphite Inc. by meeting certain milestones and making cash payments. It also has the option to buy an incremental 10% of Next's remaining interest in the License for a cash payment of US$185,000, subject to agreement by Next The project is located on 34,082.15 hectares in southern Namibia close to the port city of Luderitz. The property hosts three underground adits which were mined periodically between 1940 and 1974. Five dumps from the historical mining occur on the property and 73 composite samples taken from the lower three dumps were assayed and averaged 42% Cg. While these composite samples were selected from a much larger screened sample of the dumps, they are not considered representative of the mineralization on the property as a whole.
CKR recently completed a bulk sampling program at Aukam, and has a letter of intent to sell the graphitic material produced during the program. CKR is currently undertaking studies to support an application for a mining license. The company maintains high safety and environmental standards and has a comprehensive strategy of social engagement.
About CKR Carbon Corporation
CKR Carbon Corporation is focused on high quality, natural graphite suitable for use in lithium-ion batteries, graphite foil and other value-added high growth technology applications. We only select projects requiring low capital and a short time to market. The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol CKR and has 33.2 million shares outstanding.
For more information: visit the website at www.ckrcarbon.com.
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and by those made in our filings with SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com).
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I thought I'd ease into the New Year by sharing a couple of links to recent pieces on the current state of metal, and its subculture, that I found interesting and thought-provoking. Without further ado, here they are, along with some short discussions of my main takeaway from each piece.
Deconstructing: Alcest's Shelter And Metal In A Post-Deafheaven World by Michael Nelson at Stereogum
I appreciate that many readers are probably sick of reading about Deafheaven, Alcest, and the wider blackgaze trend, at this stage. But there's a lot of good points in this article about the place of those bands within the context of black metal history, as well as the self-reflective tendency of metal, especially black metal. It also finds room to consider the difficulties of effectively marketing bands like Alcest, who have historical ties to metal culture but don't really exhibit those influences in their sound any more. That association with metal can place bands in a kind of limbo, where mainstream publications group them with "extreme"-sounding bands (if they even pay attention to them at all), limiting their exposure to non-metal fans who might appreciate their sound in of itself. Heavy metal review outlets are then left to pick up the slack, discussing something that falls outside their usual sonic parameters.
Of course, this situation isn't necessarily a bad thing, or destined to limit bands' success and exposure. Deafheaven, after all, were the crossover hit of 2013, with rapturous mainstream attention for Sunbather and review scores averaging higher than any of the year's other big-name, big-hype releases. It might be that this represents a watershed moment, where metal-inspired music reaches new heights of critical approval and wide exposure. In any case, it seems likely that 2013 was the year things changed for extreme music. I can't wait to see how things develop in the coming months.
The Best Metal Albums of 2013: Introduction by Adrian Bergland at Basement Galaxy
This piece, quoted in the Stereogum article above, similarly approaches 2013 as a watershed moment, though Bergland is somewhat more equivocal than Nelson in his opinion on the state of metal. I disagree with a number of his positions, not least his critical stance on Deafheaven and the idea that the necessary quality of metal's sound is "power", rather than extremity. (Regardless of one's opinion on Sunbather, it is absolutely an "extreme" album in its sonic contrasts and the emotional heights it reaches. Whether this makes it metal is of course another story.)
But Bergland's contention that metal has, on the whole, ceased to really innovate as a genre is certainly one I can broadly agree to. In a simile I feel is cannily accurate, he states that metal today is essentially "a musical genre like the blues, like country, one that has a good niche set for itself and is still capable of thrilling music, but is essentially a relic. There is plenty of creativity on display within the confines of those genre boundaries, but the days of true innovation, recordings that irrevocably alter the genre, seem over." This informs his opinion of Sunbather as the album where "extreme music" severs any ties from metal genre signifiers, frees itself to explore uncharted territory. Of course, this lack of real innovation doesn't mean we can't enjoy metal any more. It's just that we might have to stop expecting a game-changing new direction from music operating primarily within the heavy metal genre, and simply enjoy the product that continues to be made for what it is- variations on a well-established theme.
Metallic Grotesquerie: Sequel Interstitial (Between-quel?) by Bayou Horns at Post-Zeitgeist
Anyone who's read my series of articles on metal, patriarchy, misogyny and other related themes knows that I owe a great deal to the Post-Zeitgeist blog. Its author Bayou Horns consistently approaches the genre with an in-depth, critical eye and in the process illuminates aspects of it that might not be immediately obvious. In particular, previous posts at the site dealing with metal's relationship with shock and misogyny have been invaluable to my own work here at shamelessnavelgazing.
Post-Zeitgeist had unfortunately been quiet in recent months, owing to its author's external commitments, but this piece from late November picks up pretty much where earlier discussions of grotesquerie and misogyny in metal had left off. Bayou Horns takes as his starting point the posting of a particularly grotesque album cover on the MetalSucks site, and its subsequent criticism and defence in the comments section. This allows for a deconstruction of the various arguments you often hear in defence of such artwork from metalheads ("Freedom of speech!" "Satire/subversion!" "Genre trope!" ad nauseum), which are ultimately revealed as essentially hollow inanities. In their place, Bayou Horns offers a considered critique of the use of grotesquerie in metal, and how the subversive potential of these topics is often squandered by bands content to rehash once-shocking ideas and presentations. This isn't exactly a new subject for the blog, but it's always enlightening for me, at least, to read the site's take on these subjects. I sincerely hope Bayou Horns can find the time and energy to update semi-regularly this year, and provide us all with more reflective, thought-provoking pieces such as this.
(These earlier Post-Zeitgeist pieces, which I have quoted in my previous work, may help add some helpful context to the most recent link. Death Metal: Grotesquerie, Fetish and Misogyny is the preceding article to the piece above; Extremity in Metal: a Buddhist's Perspective sums up a lot of my feelings on the current limits of extreme metal, and how a considered, reflective approach could allow for this music to reach new heights.)


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Keith Jones & The Makeshifts
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Keith Jones and the Makeshifts are a 1950's rock and roll band from Cincinnati, OH. We specialize in a style that is similar to Bill Haley and tend to lean more toward the swing side of the music. We pride ourselves in authenticity in look and musicianship, from our suits and amps to our upright bass and hair style. Our current incarnation was formed in 2010, and we have toured most of the Midwest and East side of the United States.
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Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
February 1, 2016
The following is being distributed at the request of The Rooms Corporation:
Commemorating Our First World War Story
First World War Education Program Receives Funding from BMO Financial Group
This afternoon, the Honourable Brian Tobin, PC, OC, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and Vice-Chair, BMO Capital Markets, and Victor Pellegrino, Senior Vice-President, Atlantic Provinces Division, BMO Bank of Montreal, presented a major donation of $1,000,000 towards The Rooms Where Once They Stood We Stand Capital Campaign for First World War Commemoration.
"BMO Financial Group has had a long history of meeting the financial needs of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Following the bank crash in Newfoundland in the 1890s, the Bank of Montreal was the first bank to lend assistance to the province and made the greatest contribution by lending the Newfoundland government sufficient funds to meet interest payments and to resume construction of the railway. Over 125 years later, BMO continues to meet the financial needs of Newfoundland and Labrador and support the people and communities in which it operates."
- The Honourable Brian Tobin, Vice-Chair, BMO Capital Markets, BMO Bank of Montreal
BMO was one of the first corporate supporters of The Rooms with a contribution to The Rooms opening ceremonies in June of 2005. Shortly thereafter, BMO became its first corporate sponsor, establishing a long-term partnership for education and outreach. Together, The Rooms and BMO have reached hundreds of schools and thousands of school children, enhancing the education experience in public schools across the province. Today's major contribution cements this tradition of education and outreach enabling The Rooms to deliver education programs about Newfoundland and Labrador's involvement in the First World War both at The Rooms and in schools across the province.
"On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the most formative event in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador, we are honoured to have BMO Financial Group join us in our efforts to commemorate the First World War. Their contribution will help preserve the memory of our fallen ancestors and their remarkable story ̶ giving our students an understanding of the significance of the First World War and how it relates to their own history."
- Tom Foran, Chair of The Rooms Corporation and Co-Chair of The Rooms Capital Campaign
In 2017, BMO Financial Group will celebrate its 200th Anniversary. To celebrate this historic anniversary, BMO is honoured to lend its support to The Rooms First World War Education and Outreach program. In doing so, BMO has contributed directly to the province's 200 schools, touching the lives of 70,000 students or more and has supported a milestone event in Newfoundland and Labrador's history.
- BMO Bank of Montreal has presented a major donation of $1,000,000 towards The Rooms Where Once They Stood We Stand Capital Campaign for First World War Commemoration.
- Funding will be used to create a province-wide education initiative.
- Additional information on the Where Once They Stood We Stand Capital Campaign can be found by visiting www.therooms.ca .
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SGA: Financial Affairs Committee
Meeting Agenda
October 23rd, 2017
Opening Remarks/Committee Updates:
Meeting with Organizations:
Event Appropriation Applications
The Black Student Union
Name of Event: Veteran's Day Breakfast
Event Date: 11/9/2017 Application Date: 10/19/2017
Location: Ohio Room
Total Cost of Event: $1,000
Number of Members Attending: 75 people
Description of Event: The Veteran's Day Breakfast is to honor the men and women who have lost their lives protecting The United States of America. We would like to serve them breakfast and provide small American flags with yellow ribbons to symbolize our appreciation to them.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: The Veteran's Day Breakfast will symbolize that the the Black Student Union does not stand against the American flag or the United States military in light of the Colin Kaepernick protest. It will illustrate our support of peaceful protest and the love of our country that supports our melting pot of a nation.
Itemized Cost: Breakfast food-$550 – $300 donated from Student Experience – would like $300 from us
100 Flag Pins-$60
100 Yellow Ribbons-$50
Promotional Materials-$200
Flyers and Advertising-$100
Fundraising: Fall Bake Sale in the Maag Library, we raised $75
Community Service -We are currently working the campaign for Carla Baldwin who's running for a seat as a city judge.
-We volunteered in the 20017 Non-violence parade and also plan on contributing to the 2017 homecoming parade.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Jaylin Archie
Total Number of Members: 100
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana suggested $300 from chartwells and $410.
The suggestion appropriation is $410 from the general fund for their flags, ribbons, pins, materials, advertising and $300 from chartwells for food.
Student Nonprofit Leadership Organization
Name of Event: 90's Night Out
Event Date: 12/8/17 Application Date: 10/11/2017
Location: Suzie's Dogs & Drafts
Total Cost of Event: $680.00
Number of Members Attending: We are expecting between 100-150 people.
Description of Event: The 90's Night Out event is a restaurant takeover that will take place at Suzie's Dogs & Drafts downtown on December 8th, 2017 from 7pm until 11pm. The event is a fundraiser to raise money for the Pay it Forward Initiative that takes place in the Spring where SNLO gives away $2000 to $3000 to a local nonprofit. The event is open to the public.
Throughout the course of the event, we will be selling raffle tickets to our three themed raffle baskets and have a DJ who will be playing 90's themed music. From 9pm to 11pm, we will have teams competing against each other in an epic Lip Sync Battle, featuring 90's music. The three teams who win the event will be presented prizes.
In order to participate in the Lip Sync Battle, students must purchase a ticket. Tickets will be available for $5.00 per individual or $10.00 per team. We are requesting $500 from SGA to purchase 50 team tickets to encourage student participation.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This event will bring YSU students to the Youngstown Community and strengthen our growing relationship with the local area. While also selling our Youngstown themed raffle baskets, it will promote local businesses in the area as well. The event may be one of the final opportunities of the fall semester for students to be together before winter break.
Itemized Cost:
Marketing Materials:
50 Quarter Cards + 50 Scrunchies + 100 Stickers + 30 Lanyards = Estimated $200.00
Food Vouchers (for title sponsorships): 8 x $10 = $80.00
Merchandise: 40 t-shirts x $10.00 per t-shirt = $400.00
Fundraising: Last year, we planned the 90's Bar Crawl which brought in a little over $1100. We have also done restaurant takeovers at Texas Roadhouse and Chipotle. We have also sold raffle baskets every year to promote the Pay it Forward Initiative. In the spring, we will be selling Downtown Youngstown Discount Cards in partnership with Youngstown CityScape.
Community Service: Every month, members in SNLO plan a group community service project. In September, we participated in the United Way Day of Caring and volunteered at a food pantry in Girard. We also volunteered at Oh! Wow for Silly Science Sunday. We are planning to volunteer at Mill Creek Metroparks at Fellows Riverside Garden's Pumpkin Walk at Twilight. In the past, we have additionally volunteered at Mission of Love, Habitat for Humanity, and Guinathon.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Unsure
Contact Person: Tabitha Richmond
Total Number of Members: 27
FA Member Suggestions:
Carson $250 for tickets to their event.
The suggestion appropriation is $250 from the general fund to defray the cost of their tickets to their event, 50 tickets at $5 a piece.
Youngstown State Hip Hop Team
Name of Event: Showcase at Edinboro
Event Date: 11/18/17 Application Date: 10/12/2017
Location: Edinboro University
Total Cost of Event:
$530 $400
Number of Members Attending: 17
Description of Event: This showcase will be the first opportunity for the hip hop team to showcase their talent and represent YSU. We will get the chance to meet and network with other teams in the area. This event is a great way to get experiences as we begin working towards attending competitions.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: The experience can give us the chance to learn from others and bring those skills and techniques to better the team and teach other students hip hop.
Itemized Cost:
1 van $101 x 2 days= $202
1 van $102 x 2 days= $202
gas est. $2.35/gal x 20 gal (for both vans)=$95
* vans must be kept for 2 days due to enterprise hours.
2 mini vans – $268 total
$60 per van and $20 extra for the car gas
Fundraising: raffle to win candy and gift cards, chocolate bar sales
Community Service: Making tie blankets for children in the orphanage. Teaching dance to kids at the boys and girls club.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Christchianna Goldner
Total Number of Members: 17
FA Member Suggestions:
Mark suggested $330 for the van rentals.
The suggestion appropriation is $330 from the general fund to defray the cost of van rentals and gas.
Student Recreational Advisory Committee
Name of Event: Namaste in the YO
Event Date: 11/12/17 Application Date: 10/13/2017
Location: WATTS Center
Total Cost of Event: $1,500
Number of Members Attending: 300
Description of Event: Namaste in the YO is an event created to bring together the Youngstown community in order to promote positivity and holistic wellbeing. Our goal for this uplifting event is to provide a sense of stress relief and mindfulness development for all those attending. We will also be collecting nonperishable food items to help out the YSU Student Food Pantry in terms of monetary and non-perishable donations. The event will be held at the WATTS center on the beautiful campus of Youngstown State University. Last year, we had over 150 members of the YSU/Youngstown community attend and this year are striving to elevate the participation considerably.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: "Namaste" means the light in me honors the light in you. In naming this event, we envisioned it to bring together YSU students and surrounding community members in an uplifting environment fostering togetherness and positivity. The free community yoga class, open to all ages and fitness levels – will provide holistic and mental wellness, as well as physical wellness to all who attend.
Itemized Cost: Parking ($5/car) x projected 100 community members = $500 charge-back
Security fee $50
30 shirts for committee members at $12 shirt = $360
Other event materials (decorations, signage, giveaways) $600
Fundraising: Selling t-shirts for defray event costs, business vendor tables at the event cost $20/table ($10 going to the food pantry, $10 for event costs), and community donations
Community Service: SRAC is active in community outreach,
volunteering for HOBY
Endure for the Cure annual obstacle course race raising money for local causes
SRAC recently had presence in the Nonviolence parade
YSU Student Food Pantry collections
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Jasc Romeo
Total Number of Members: 20
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstaining.
Justin is suggesting $500 for parking and security.
The suggestion appropriation is $500 from the general fund to defray the costs of parking and security with one abstention.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Name of Event: Province Pi Leadership School
Event Date: 11/17/17 – 11/18/17 Application Date: 10/15/2017
Location: University of Akron
Total Cost of Event: $600.00 (We have covered the registration of our brothers and are only seeking funds for hotel rooms for the night of 11/17/2017)
Number of Members Attending: 20
Description of Event: The Leadership School for the Pi Province of the Kerr Region of Sigma Alpha Epsilon comprised of chapters from local schools such as University of Akron, Kent State, Toledo, etc.)
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This event will help our brothers become better leaders which will help as they spread their leadership throughout campus through involvement in other student organizations/events.
Itemized Cost: 5 Hotel Rooms x $120.00 per room = $600.00
Fundraising: We recently had our Pig Roast as well as fundraising at Cedar Point and we are currently planning a restaurant takeover.
Community Service: * 4 Brothers volunteered for an event help by one of our alumni (Wings & Wheels)
* 10 Brothers volunteered for a parking event held by the Boy Scouts of America
* 6 Brothers volunteered to help with a memorial 5K/dog walk
* 3 brothers volunteered to help with move in day on campus
* 8 brothers volunteered helping with a horse show at Buckeye Horse Park in Canfield.
We are currently planning to help with giving out candy on Halloween at the Parks at Boardman.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Malik Matlock
Total Number of Members: 32
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana suggested $400.00 for the hotel fees.
The suggestion appropriation is $400 for the general fund to defray the cost of their hotel fees.
Armed Forces Student Association
Name of Event: Student Veterans of America National Convention 2018 (NATCON 2018)
Event Date: 1/3/18 – 1/7/18 Application Date: 10/18/2017
Location: San Antonio, TX
Total Cost of Event: $1,700.00
Number of Members Attending: We are planning on sending two of our registered members to the conference.
Description of Event: The Student Veterans of America National Leadership holds a convention once a year for the various chapters across the Nation to meet. This conference provides chapters with a way to learn from the National Leadership and other successful chapters on how to grow as an organization and various methods for engaging with the Universities and communities around them.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: By us attending this event we can support change across our chapter. We have newly elected officers who are trying to grow our program and become more involved with the community. But, we need members to do this. This event will provide our chapter with new methods to increase enrollment from our current 11 active members out of 396 student veterans on campus. It will also provide us with information to help bridge the gap between regular students and student veterans. It will also provide us with new ways to engage the community and other organizations on campus.
Itemized Cost: 2 x Round Trip Plane Tickets $900.00
Hotel for 4 nights $600
Taxi, Food, Incidentals $200
Fundraising: We have a t-shirt sale planned for November, we are also voting on other ideas at our next meeting which is on October 24th.
Community Service: We participate with Recipes of Youngstown. They do a local cook book and we provide set-up, help during and tear down support.
We also work with the St. Johns Episcopal Church to make meals for Veterans once a month.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year:
No Yes
Contact Person: Tom Ericksen
Total Number of Members: 11
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana suggested $1,700 for their event.
Justin suggested $1,500.
The suggestion appropriation is $1,500 for the costs of their hotel and plane tickets.
Association for Computing Machinery-Women's Chapter
Name of Event: LAN-Party+
Event Date: 11/11/17 Application Date: 10/18/17
Location: Kilcawley Center: Chestnut Room
Total Cost of Event: 248.88 + tax
Number of Members Attending: 50 students
Description of Event: The LAN-Party+ event is an opportunity for students to relax and hang out with fellow students who are interested in and play video games. Each student can bring their own laptop, gaming consoles, or event board games to play with others.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This event will help bring students together. It gives them an opportunity to take a break from their schoolwork and come together with fellow gamers to share a fun evening. It is also a good opportunity for freshmen (as well as other students) to meet others with similar interests, and possibly even make some new friends.
Itemized Cost: Chartwells Catering: 8 pizza's at $12.00 each = &96.00, 3 pounds of Lay's Potato chips at $6.99 per pound = $20.97, 2 pounds of Pretzels at $4.99 each = $9.98, 3 dozen assorted cookies at $7.25 per dozen = $21.75, 2 dozen brownies at $7.25 per dozen = $14.50, 30 bottles of water at $1.99 per bottle = $59.70, 2 12-packs of canned soda at $12.99 each = $25.98, Total = $248.88
Fundraising: ACM-W participated in a coding program at local high schools over the summer. We are not currently planning any other fundraising events at this time.
Community Service: -ACM-W co-sponsored a NEO-ACM panel in September
-ACM-W participated in OHWOW! Science Center's Silly Science Sunday
-ACM-W participated in coding programs at various high schools over the summer
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Unsure
Contact Person: Kaitlyn Glodde
Total Number of Members: 19
FA Member Suggestions:
Mark suggested $250 from chartwells.
The suggestion appropriation is $250 from chartwells to defray the cost of food.
Youngstown State Men's Club Lacrosse
Name of Event: Fall Scrimmage
Event Date: 11/12/17 Application Date: 10/11/2017
Location: Allegheny College
Total Cost of Event:
$300 $360
Number of Members Attending: 19
Description of Event: This is the first and only opportunity our lacrosse team has in getting some actual game playing time in before our season starts come springtime. This is a friendly competition between us and Allegheny University's club lacrosse program. The cost asked for will help cover the costs of the travel vans, as well as gas. This is complying with the newer rules of club sports regarding mass travel. We will be providing the funding up front and hope to be refunded. Thank you.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This event could be a positive reinforcement towards excitement for our spring season. With a hoped 10+ games with 5 of those being at home, we hope a win in this scrimmage will encourage the student body to come out to our games for a fun, fast-paced, and exciting spectacle that is our lacrosse games. In short, we hope this will lead to an increased awareness in our team and the sport of lacrosse was a whole.
Itemized Cost: The total cost of each rental van (15 person rental transit van) from Enterprise out near the Youngstown regional airport is an estimated $140 a van. Including gas and extra rental fees, as this event is 80 miles away. The cost is being covered by our own account we have through YSU, but being this is a club sports event, we hope to get refunded by SGA. If refunded, we would then take the steps with Tessa in order to complete travel forms.
3 rental vans = $180 (60 a piece) x2 for days
Fundraising: We recently fundraised through both Barry Dingles in Austintown as well as Buffalo Wild Wings in Boardman. In the future, we are planning more restaurant takeovers and possibly another raffle.
Community Service: As of now, we have not yet participated in community service. We are currently looking into getting more involved in any and all volunteer opportunities.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Richard Koewacich
Total Number of Members: 20
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstained.
Mark suggested $360.
The suggestion appropriation is $360 from the general fund for van rental fees with one a bstention.
Racquetball Club
Name of Event: MERC Tournament #2
Event Date: 11/11/17 Application Date: 10/12/2017
Location: University of Purdue
Total Cost of Event: $960
Number of Members Attending: 10
Description of Event: This is a racquetball tournament at Purdue against many different colleges
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: We continuously show respect and sportsmanship to all universities we compete with, giving a positive image to the YSU community. Funding will help YSU students get outside of the university and make connections with others.
Itemized Cost: Hotel: $100 x 2 nights x 3 rooms = $600
Van: $60 x 3 days x 2 vans = $360
Fundraising: I am in the AMA and plan to join fundraising efforts together.
Community Service: I am the community outreach VP for AMA, and plan on joining in that effort as well.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Rhen Weaver
Total Number of Members: 17
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstained.
Mark suggested $360 for vans.
The suggestion appropriation is $360 from the general vans for vans with one abstention.
Men's Club Volleyball
Name of Event: Volleyball Tournament
Event Date: 11/14/17 Application Date: 10/13/2017
Location: Stambaugh Stadium
Total Cost of Event: $540
Number of Members Attending: 96
Description of Event: We will be holding a tournament in Stambaugh Stadium hosting other colleges and universities to compete against each other.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This will benefit the student body and YSU because we are exposing our university to other colleges and the open public by hosting this. We are showing that our university is organized and capable of holding events like this effectively and smoothly.
Itemized Cost: $300 for security
$240 for physical trainer
Fundraising: Draw 4's Co-ed Tournament
Community Service: Volunteered at high schools and middle camps/practices before school seasons have started. These camps and practices take a lot of time out of our day.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Josh Howard
Total Number of Members: 11
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstained.
Mark suggested $240 for the trainer.
The suggestion appropriation is $240 from the general fund to defray the cost of trainer with one abstention.
YSU Equestrian Team
Name of Event: Findlay Horse Show
Event Date: 11/3/17 Application Date: 10/17/2017
Location: Findlay, Ohio
Total Cost of Event: $1,673.56
Number of Members Attending: 11
Description of Event: Team member will compete on unfamiliar horses in horsemanship and reining against many other colleges and universities in the region including the University of Findlay, Tiffin University, Lake Erie College, the University of Akron, and many more. The team member will have the opportunity to compete for individual and team awards both at the competition and for the overall season.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: It benefits YSU by bringing awareness to the surrounding area of our diverse club sport programs. It benefits the student body by providing students with the opportunity to compete in collegiate level competitions against other competitive colleges and universities in this region of the country while providing an educational and rewarding experience to work toward a common goal as individuals and as a team.
Itemized Cost: Hotel rooms: 4 rooms x $98.39 per room = $393.56
Entry Fees: Reining: 140 per show x 3 riders = $420
Horsemanship: 70 per show x 8 riders = $560
Coach Fees: $300 per day x 1 day = $300
Fundraising: We are having a restaurant takeover on the 26th of October. We are also planning on having raffle baskets and doing more restaurant takeovers.
Community Service: We are planning on doing community service during the spring semester.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Jessica Flynn
Total Number of Members: 11
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstained.
Mark suggested $980 for horseman fees and entry fees.
The suggestion appropriation is $980 from the general fund to defray the cost of horsemanship fees and entry fees with one abstention.
Men's Club Volleyball
Name of Event: Case Western Volleyball Tournament
Event Date: 11/12/17 Application Date: 10/18/2017
Location: Case Western University
Total Cost of Event: $300
Number of Members Attending: 11
Description of Event: The Men's Club Volleyball team will be traveling to Case Western University to play in their home tournament.
How will this event benefit YSU and the student body: This benefits the body because we are representing the body of YSU through competition and brings publicity back to our university, especially if we win.
Itemized Cost: $150- enterprise van $125- entry fee $25- gas
Fundraising: We ran a fundraising tournament at the beginning of the month and also a tshirt fundraiser.
Community Service: We are involved in helping schools during practices and camps improve their skills in the sport of volleyball.
Applying for future appropriations within this academic year: Yes
Contact Person: Josh Howard
Total Number of Members: 11
FA Member Suggestions:
Montana abstained.
Mark suggested $125 for entry fee.
The suggestion appropriation is $125 from the general fund to defray to cost of entry fees.
Student Literary Arts Association
FA Member Suggestions:
Carson suggested $500 for photography and catering.
The suggestion appropriation is $500 from the general fund to defray the cost of photography and catering fees.
Ross – Absent
Blake – Absent
Monday, Oct 23rd, 2017 4:00 PM
Academic Affairs
Order of Business
- Shuttle reserved for transportation to Board of Elections for voting
- Last Lecture
- Winner is Dr. Jerryson
- Reserve cookies and tea/ lemonade with Chartwells
- Reading Program
- Met with Dean of Students on Wednesday
- Bi-weekly schedule starting November 3rd
- Scheduling meeting with Dan and Dr. Dick (Chair of Geological and Environmental)
- Please send Ernie class recommendations if you haven't already
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Monday, Oct. 23th, 2017 4:00 PM
Assessment & Enrichment
Order of Business
Call to Order:
- Roll Call: Korinne Sackela, Lindsay Heldreth, Isabel Stoeber, Alicia Herman, Kenna Rearick, Teddy Everett
- Absent: Emma Kovacs, Faraz Anwer, Dominic Lattanzio
- Old Business
- New business
- Little Free Library
- Abandoning this project
- Apply for a grant to put books in existing libraries?
- Resourceful books for the existing libraries (I.E. GED prep books)
- YSU/Student ID Deals and Discounts
- Updated lists to Kenna
- Informal questionnaire
- Please respond to the survey to identify times available for tabling
- Parking Survey
- Still being generated and will send with Emma to assessment office
- Almost finalized
- What do you want to get out of this committee? What are your goals for this university and SGA?
- Sexual assault awareness and prevention
- Student organization printing
- Clearer visibility for building hours, lab hours, dining hours, etc on our website
- Dining
- Water fountains
- Advertising campus services more clearly
- Sexual assault awareness and prevention
- Little Free Library
- Ideas/Discussion?
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Monday, October 23, 2017 4:00 PM
Student Life
Order of Business
- Roll Call
- Present: Sara O'Kane, Olivia George, Megan Jones, Sam Kulifay, Jenna Roesch, Nina Frattaroli, Jaylin Archie
- Absent: none
- Unfinished Business
- Old Business
- Homecoming-October 28
- Infographic – hand out throughout the week!
- Logistics – soda & pop (Mo), speaker (Sam K), games from Rec (Mo)
- Student Org Spotlight
- Nov 27-Dec 1
- Dec 4-8
- Homecoming Event
- Coffee and Hot Chocolate
- Tuesday Oct 24 from 9am-12pm
- International Coffee Hour—December 1 from 3-5 pm @ YWCA
- Student from Finland
- We present on his behalf
- Activity? Food?
- Crash Day-Nov 3 and 17 from 8-10am
- Still need volunteers
- Homecoming-October 28
- New Business
- SGA Christmas Party
- Dates – December 8, 2017
- Time – 6 – 8 PM
- Food — Chipotle
- Games – board games, gift exchange, letter Secret Santa, musical chairs, heads up seven up, Holiday themed ad libs, Holiday themed karaoke, dress someone as a tree, Ugly Sweater Contest, Twister, ornament decorating,
- SGA Christmas Party
- Ideas/Discussion
- Adjournment
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Domestic child sex trafficking (DCST) is a rising and multifaceted issue within the U.S. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), through funds from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, developed training and judicial practice tools with the goals of identifying and servicing victims of DCST. The NCJFCJ created a curriculum to specify ways to identify victims of sex trafficking, explain the trauma experienced by victims, and develop appropriate intervention and treatment. With this knowledge on child sex trafficking, judges make more informed decisions. The first DCST Institute was held November 2014. The NCJFCJ evaluated the Institute with a pre-post survey to assess any changes that occurred in knowledge, attitude, and anticipated practice changes. Results demonstrate positive change in all categories following the Institute.
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Research Evidence Classification: Promising Direction
The DCST Institute was evaluated in terms of its effects on knowledge acquisition of key topic areas, identification of red flags, and decision-making in a mock case. In accordance with the NCJFCJ Policy Statement on Evidence of Effectiveness, the DCST Institute has been classified by NCJFCJ research staff as a Promising Direction using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Continuum of Evidence of Effectiveness, specifically as it relates to the outcomes identified above.