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Joanna Wheeler and Danny Burns
Whose knowledge should really count in decisions about the future of development? As members of the post-2015 UN high-level panel meet today for the first time, we want to know how they can be sure the decisions they take will be informed by the perspectives of those most affected by poverty.
For policymakers to really understand the complexities of lives led by people who are marginalised and living in poverty, they need to experience in a real way the choices that people have to make on a day-to-day basis. For example: what are the risks a woman living in a city slum has to negotiate to go to the toilet? Why can't people with disabilities access their local health clinic? Why do some children in rural Uganda have to give up school to get clean water? What happens when your village is swept into the sea by coastal erosion and all of the land behind it is owned by someone else?
The high-level panel, which is co-chaired by Liberia, Indonesia and the UK, will make its decisions based on how members of the panel understand poverty and its causes. And yet, the experience of poverty is very distant from the lived realities of most of the members of the panel. There are many 'experts' in development, but those that have the most important knowledge, rooted in direct experience, are the people that live in poverty themselves. Yet these people are systematically left out of decisions on global development structures.
To help address this, the Participate initiative (a global collaboration between the Institute of Development Studies and Beyond 2015) invites members of the high-level panel and senior decision makers in the post-2015 process to join our programme of 'immersions' in order to come face to face with these realities, and to enter into dialogue with members of communities living in extreme poverty.
An 'immersion' involves living, eating, sleeping and working with people living in poverty for a number of days and nights. The process gives decision makers the opportunity to relate to people on a personal level and to learn firsthand from their experiences. It can offer unexpected insights into the realities faced by communities living in poverty.
Participate will also organise a 'ground level-panel' which, like the high-level panel, will deliberate on the future of development. The participants will be dwellers of city slums, pastoralists who walk with cattle across bush lands in search of water, refugees from war, and small farmers whose crops have failed in response to climate change. Mirroring the high-level panel, the ground-level panel will produce their own recommendations.
The Participate initiative is working with civil society organisations and NGOs to draw together an extensive body of participatory research in more than 25 countries, to ensure that a future development framework reflects the priorities of those directly affected by poverty and injustice. We hope to create spaces for people living in extreme poverty to pose their own questions and share perspectives based on their own experiences about how sustainable change is possible.
As Co-Directors of this initiative we are excited about supporting a different way of engaging with global policymaking processes. We've launched Participate in response to substantial criticism of the current Millennium Development Goals (MDG) framework – that the process of designing and implementing it was driven by a development elite, and as a result had very limited ownership, failed to engage with crucial issues, and adopted an approach that often further marginalised very poor people. By ensuring marginalised people are a central part of the post-2015 process, we hope to ensure a new framework doesn't make the same mistakes again.
Joanna Wheeler is a Research Fellow and Danny Burns is the Team Leader for the Participation, Power and Social Change research team at IDS.
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Coffee juggernaut Starbucks plans to open 50 shops in India in a megabucks deal with the nation's giant conglomerate Tata.
Tata Starbucks Ltd., as the venture is known, is banking on a fast-growing upper class with disposable money to spend on lattes.
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He said the partners would initially invest $80 million, with the first outlet to open in Mumbai or New Delhi by September.
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text: Health Information Iron Woman by Christie MathesonEn Español (Spanish Version)Tell us about some of the obstacles you've had to face in recent years. | What else happened? | So no racing for a while? | Did plan B work? | Did you get back into serious training? | The physical recovery from the accident must have been difficult. | What kept you motivated? | Did you have to skip Ironman? | So you did the race. How did it go? | How did you spend the weeks leading up to it? | And then you had to get the biopsy. | What was the treatment for the cancer? | Did you have time to get back into shape? | Did you get the radioactive treatment after that? | How did the treatment affect your body? | Since then, have you gotten back into training and racing? | Are you in training for Ironman 2002? | Are you thinking about the 2004 Olympics? | What are your other goals now?Karen Smyers won the first triathlon she entered in 1984 and has been hooked ever since. In those days, she was working full-time, training during lunch, and often getting passed during the bike portions of races. A few years later, she had sponsors like Trek and Nike and was crushing her competitors. In 1995, she won Hawaii Ironman and followed up with a third place finish in 1996. Then, in 1997, her real challenges began.After a string of painful and life-threatening accidents and a bout with thyroid cancer, triathlete Karen Smyers is back in training and thinking about her next Ironman. But racing comes second to the most important thing in her life: her family.Tell us about some of the obstacles you've had to face in recent years.I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the fall of 1999. But I'd had a string of mishaps before that.What else happened?In June of 1997, the day before I was supposed to fly out to races in Monte Carlo and Germany, I took down a storm window and it shattered. A big piece of glass went through my hamstring. I went into the emergency room and they repaired the hamstring, and I woke up with a giant cast on.So no racing for a while?I needed four to six months of rehab. But there was a silver lining—[my husband] Michael and I wanted to start a family and this seemed like a good opportunity. We went right to plan B, despite the cast!Did plan B work?Jenna was born in May of 1998. While I was pregnant I was able to rehab my leg completely. I went back to training during the pregnancy, and swam up until the day she was born. The labor took 48 hours and ended in a C-section—another surgery. But my pain threshold went up after that labor.Did you get back into serious training?I did a few races that summer. But in August, I was out on a training [bike] ride and was hit from behind by an 18-wheeler. I broke six ribs, separated my shoulder, had lung contusions, and a lot of road rash. That was scary—it occurred to me how close we came to not having a mom for Jenna. She was only three months old, and I was still nursing.The physical recovery from the accident must have been difficult.The ribs and the separated shoulder just healed eventually, but it was very painful for a few weeks. Poor Michael had to take care of both Jenna and me. I had a really good physical therapist, and we started working with the shoulder right away. I wanted to get back as soon as I could.What kept you motivated?Our sport got into the Olympics for the first time in 2000, and I wanted a shot at making the team. I was having a great season. But in September, about a month before Ironman, I got bronchitis and had some swollen glands around my throat—so I had an ultrasound. They found a lot of nodules and thought it might be cancer.Did you have to skip Ironman?I needed to get a biopsy before we could be sure it was cancer. Thyroid cancer is very slow growing and fairly treatable, so my doctor told me it was fine to put off the biopsy until after Ironman.So you did the race. How did it go?I finished second. I was leading until eight miles into the run. But that was my first time back after two surgeries and the truck accident, and I was very happy. After the race, I knew I had to deal with the biopsy. It was scheduled for three weeks after Ironman.How did you spend the weeks leading up to it?I decided to go to one more race, in Mexico. The race was draft-legal, which means you ride in a pack. A girl crashed right in front of me, and I went head-over-heels and broke my collarbone.And then you had to get the biopsy.I got back, and I had to go to my biopsy the next day, and the result showed thyroid cancer. And the Olympic trials were now four months away and I had a broken collarbone.What was the treatment for the cancer?I had surgery to remove my thyroid right away. There was cancer in six lymph nodes, and they removed those, too. Then they recommended radioactive iodine treatment. But since the iodine treatment really zaps your strength, I decided to wait and do the treatment after the Olympic trials.Did you have time to get back into shape?I rehabilitated the collarbone and got back into training. It was good to have an impending goal. I didn't have time to sit around and mope. I got in pretty good shape for the Olympic trials—just not good enough. My swimming held me back. But it was still worth the journey—and it was great to be part of our first Olympic trials.Did you get the radioactive treatment after that?I went in June. I had very high absorption of the preliminary radioactive iodine, and they saw that I had a few more lymph nodes that needed to be removed. I raced all summer between treatments, but I was having a hard time training, and I didn't do very well.How did the treatment affect your body?I was low on energy, I felt very sluggish and kind of sleepy. My savior, absolutely, was exercise. I kept making myself go out and swim or run and if I kept going, after ten or fifteen minutes I would wake up. My metabolism would kick in and I'd feel good the rest of the day. But overall, I didn't feel good for a long time.Since then, have you gotten back into training and racing?I came back in 2001. I had a pretty good year. I won our national championships, just a couple weeks before my fortieth birthday. Then I went back to Ironman last year and got fifth, which wasn't too bad, all things considered.Are you in training for Ironman 2002?I am training and racing but the primary goal right now is to try to have another child. I think my child-bearing years will run out before my competitive years do. I'm taking it month by month.Are you thinking about the 2004 Olympics?I'd be lying if I said it doesn't pop into my head now and again. The way I'm swimming, it's just not an option. But it could eventually come back. It's already much better than it was last year.What are your other goals now?I want to see how long I can keep going. I'm much more careful and conservative, but I think I can get a lot out of myself athletically and keep my life in balance. And someday I'd love to break the 80-84 age group record at the Ironman.Interviews were conducted in the past and may not reflect current standards and practices in medicine. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how this condition is diagnosed and managed today and what treatment approaches are right for you.RESOURCESThyroid Cancer Survivors' Associationhttp://www.thyca.org/Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety Research Pagehttp://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/USA Triathlonhttp://www.usatriathlon.org/Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. 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Whenever I have a leftover loaf of hearty French or Italian bread lying around, I always love to cut it up and do something creative with it. Sometimes I'll make bread crumbs or croutons, or maybe garlic bread or panzanella, but on weekends there's nothing better than French toast.
Thing is, I tend to think big, bready slices of traditional French toast are just too heavy for breakfast. That's why I love this idea of cutting up bite-sized cubes of day-old bread, soaking them in egg, milk, cinnamon and vanilla, and bubbling 'em in a pan with a little butter. The smell is incredible and the taste is light, fluffy, moist and full of all the French toast goodness you know and love.
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The Linn Drum was actually three drum machines designed and originally built by Roger Linn. The first, was called the Linn LM-1, from 1980. Prince used this one all over the 1999 and Purple Rain albums. Next was the LinnDrum (or as some people called: The LM-2,) from 1982. This was used during Prince's Purple Rain tour. You can clearly see it in a lot of pictures off to the side of the drummer. And the Linn 9000 came out in 1984. It was able to sample your own sounds. It failed miserably.
The first two pretty much revolutionized the music industry. It was the first machine to sound like an acoustic drum kit. Never before could a singer complete an album as if it was a band, by him or her self. It was crudely sampled @ 28-35kHz and had no MIDI interface. There were kits built later on that you could retrofit MIDI to a LinnDrum. Prior to the Linn machines there was the Roland 808 which was, and still is, huge. But it sounded nothing like acoustic drums. It never intended to. The Linn Drums intended to. The smart drummers out there bought one and learned how to program one. It's amazing how many Top 10 songs used one. It's most notable for it's fast shaker, it's open & round bass drum and it's deep, resonant and ever-so-slightly-behind-the-beat snare drum. In recent interviews Roger Linn said he wished he cut out a little bit of the lag in the snare sound. But I think that's what made the machine so human. No machine has ever come so close to having a "feel."
- Don't Lose My Number (Phil Collins' No Jacket Required)
- Part-Time Lover (Stevie Wonder's In Square Circle)
- Shock The Monkey (Peter Gabriel's Security)
- Rock Me Amadeus (Falco's Falco 3)
- Human (The Human League's Crash)
- The Safety Dance (Men Without Hats' Rhythm of Youth)
- Drive (The Cars' Heartbeat City)
- Little Red Corvette (Prince's 1999)
- Bang The Drum All Day (Todd Rundgren's The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect)
- Last Christmas (Wham!'s All-Star Christmas)
A lot of these songs used the Linn LM-1 or the LinnDrum sequenced with other drum machines or acoustic drums overdubbed, FYI. What's amazing it that each one of these songs pretty much used the same samples. If you listen to these songs, one can hear how drastically a engineer can change a sound, by using compression or reverb or whatever, in the mixing process.


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Why the actor is so angry, and why Infowars is involved in the story
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Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Following the controversy caused by Charlie Sheen's wild and rampaging appearance on The Alex Jones Show, it's necessary to understand why the actor is so angry, if only to set the record straight on a number of issues that have been misconstrued by the establishment media, as well as explaining why Infowars and Alex Jones are involving themselves with the machinations of the entertainment industry.
Firstly, Charlie Sheen is clean. Alex Jones spent considerable time with the actor recently and personally witnessed the fact Sheen is off the alcohol, is regularly exercising and is more focused than ever before. The impact of coming off a 6 month burnout and the endorphin rush that this causes undoubtedly contributed to Sheen's over the top behavior during the interview, but this behavior came as a result of Sheen's anger reaching boiling point.
Sheen even went to the extent of providing Radar Online with a urine sample to prove he was clean – the sample came back negative and Sheen passed the drug test. Sheen also passed a blood test conducted by doctors on behalf of Entertainment Tonight.
Why is Sheen so Angry?
Why is Sheen so angry? While Sheen was recuperating from his personal troubles, he had to keep his mouth shut as people who he thought were his friends ceaselessly attacked him with complete disregard for Sheen's well-being.
Sheen was told by his studio not to complain about the cancellation of four Two and Half Men episodes, and the actor kept his word as he prepared to go back to work and film the final four episodes of the season. However, during this time he was subjected to several vicious personal attacks, not least of which by writer Chuck Lorre, who while Sheen was recovering, taunted him with vanity cards displayed at the end of Two and a Half Men episodes about how he should "outlive" Charlie Sheen, along with other vanity cards run on separate TV shows that insulted Sheen for being "dead inside". Lorre proudly displays these insults on his own website.
The media has completely missed the fact that Lorre cast the first stone. While Sheen kept his mouth shut and was trying to get himself together, instead of getting support he was getting constantly attacked.
Before Sheen appeared on The Alex Jones Show, Alex talked to the actor in order to get an idea of what Sheen wanted to discuss on the program. As we highlighted in our promo article for Sheen's appearance, we expected Sheen to address some of the "myriad of exaggerations, misinformation and outright falsehoods about his life that have been whipped up by the establishment media in recent weeks."
Alex Jones was not prepared for what was to follow, as Sheen vented his anger in a number of different ways – some strange, some offensive, and some hilarious. This kicked off a global media firestorm that continues to rage as Sheen now prepares to appear on ABC's "20/20".
Obviously, Sheen doesn't really think Thomas Jefferson is a "pussy" and that he and Alex Jones are ninja warlocks or vatican assassins. The interview was partly serious, partly dark satire and partly dark poetry. Indeed, the interview has attracted so much attention that Sheen's use of the word "winning," as a jab against his detractors is fast catching on as some of kind of new viral "Chuck Norris facts" style cultural motif.
As is to be expected, the establishment media seized upon Sheen's comments and instantly began smearing the actor. Sheen was ludicrously dubbed "anti-semitic" for using Lorre's birth name. As Sheen points out in the ABC interview, "So you're telling me, anytime someone calls me Carlos Estevez, I can claim they are anti-Latino?"
While Sheen tries to get his life back on course he will continue to be attacked by the corporate media and his own colleagues for two primary reasons. Firstly, to have someone as outspoken as Sheen enjoying the platform of the biggest grossing television show in America is dangerous for the establishment. We saw this when Sheen came out for 9/11 truth. Secondly. it appears likely that CBS and Warner Bros. Television are trying to force Sheen to quit so they don't have to fire him and buy out his contract.
For the sake of everyone who works on the show, we hope everybody can get together and work everything out. There has been enough vitriol from both sides and it's time to sit down and come to an understanding.
Sortie Into the Matrix
As to why we are talking about a Hollywood actor's career troubles when massive revolts are spreading the globe as the planet verges on the precipice of chaos, the answer is simple. For a start, we never expected Charlie's interview to turn into such a gargantuan spectacle to the point where it became the number one news story in America.
However, neo-liberal Soros outlets like Media Matters and many others have attacked Infowars and Alex Jones for inserting himself into the Sheen controversy in order to generate attention and publicity for Jones' websites. Far from being an underhanded tactic, we are proud of this fact and have openly stated that this was our goal after the Sheen story went supernova….winning!
By making such a sortie into the matrix, we are able to reach out to dumbed-down TV heads who would never have had their interest peaked otherwise. Indeed, we are already receiving numerous emails from Two and a Half Men viewers who are experiencing sudden revelations in political awakening, having been asleep for years.
We are harnessing the power of the global entertainment industry, which is so detrimental to our society and culture, and using the establishment's tactics as a weapon against the establishment itself.
In saying that, Jones has been a close personal friend of Sheen for no less than six years and his primary concern was for Sheen's well-being, which is why he spent considerable time with Sheen long before the controversy erupted.
But don't think for a minute that we're going to waste such an opportunity to bring millions of new potential Infowarriors into the fold by disguising the antidote of truth inside a package of shiny, media friendly, celebrity gossip – we'd be fools not to.
This is an information war. We need to stop preaching to the choir and extend an olive branch to the millions of Americans who are locked inside the matrix with no knowledge of how to escape. By using the global juggernaut of the entertainment industry and people's obsession with celebrities, itself a contrivance of the establishment, we can awake millions more would-be zombies from their slumber.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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MM's 2000 (2K/K2) album Holy Wood according to Wiki is probably named after something Aleister Crowley wrote in a poem.
"The term "Holy Wood" was once used in a poem by Aleister Crowley, to whom Marilyn Manson frequently refers. It is also used as a mockery of Hollywood, as per the imagery in the album's cover art.Wiki
A google search revealed AHA! contains the words holy wood.
MARSYAS. I teach the royal road of light.
Be thou, devoutly eremite,
Free of thy fate. Choose tenderly
A place for thine Academy.
Let there be an holy wood
Of embowered solitude
By the still, the rainless river,
Underneath the tangled roots
Of majestic trees that quiver
What Crowley is on about here is, as usual, quite inscrutable to me. The introduction (of this edition) by Israel Regardie however recounts some fascinating history about this spectacularly interesting man.
Relevant to the current sync web being explored in these pages we read:
Crowley, on his way to the Himalayas, stopped off first
in Ceylon, ostensibly to meet once more his former teacher,
Allan Bennett. However, while in Ceylon, they both settled
down to an intense practice of Yoga under the supervision
of Shri Parananda, the former Solicitor General of Ceylon.
This bout of Yoga practice culminated for Crowley in an
illumination known as Dhyana.
When he came to write AHA! this Dhyana was described at
some length. A part of that writing is:
The adept secures his subtle fence
Against the hostile shafts of sense,
Pins for a second his mind; as you
May have seen some huge wrestler do.
Resistless as the whirling world,
He holds his foeman to the floor
For one great moment and no more.
So-then the sun-blaze. All the night
Bursts to a vivid orb of light.
There is no shadow; nothing is,
But the intensity of bliss.
Being is blasted. That exists."
Groovy then, as this means Crowley wrote part of "AHA!", the likely inspiration for MM's "Holy Wood" (2K dated) album title, in reference to experiences he had while journeying to the Karakorum. The mind boggles when we stop to consider that, as has been explored in the synchromystic videos, Crowley meditated in the Great Pyramid one year after a failed attempt at summiting K2. K2 has been sighted by Ralph Ellis (see "K2: Quest of the Gods") as a location directly decoded from the architecture of the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid refrencing for some, as yet unknown, reason the second highest peak on the planet. Which Crowley was the first at seriously attempting to climb! Does anybody else's jaw drop when considering these facts? Mine does...
The Crowley pyramid event would shortly be followed by his reluctant dictation of "The Book of the Law". This thing contains the "Grid Page" which synchromysticly entrains with Robin Tunney and seems to be a map pointing at K2/2K and the millennial 911 Stargate Mega-Ritual (See Tunney Trilogy).
In my mind this shows a non-local intelligence initiating the entire human species into the new Aeon through the 911 event, a simple elegant metaphor for the realization of cosmic consciousness in humanity and end of history. Yippee!
Yes, people died and I do acknowledge that. Yet it happened the way it did, none the less.
In 1904, during his visit to Cairo, he could not register at the
hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Aleister Crowley. That would have been far
too prosaic. Instead, he chose Prince Chia Khan (pronounced Hiwa
Regardie gives us another amazing sync wink while discussing The Beast 666's less pleasant egoic traits. Crowley thought of himself as a Khan! (See the "Why 2K" videos and the Armand Van Helden post for Khan syncs.) As the Mongolian empire, at points, controlled the land on which K2 sits and one such leader was a KK/Kublai Khan himself, this is all becomes transmuted into pure synchromystic gold.
2000's (2K/K2) Marshal Mathers LP (MM) featuring Marilyn Manson (MM/2K) and Eminem (MM/2K)
Marilyn Manson feat. Eminem
Marilyn Manson (MM) and Eminem (MM) both K2 resonators. These artist can synchromysticly be thought of as millennial initiators (both having careers peaking on or around 2K) entraining with the forces of the new Aeon leading up to the opening of the 911 Stargate.
Our universe is alive and well and we are waking up to how it communicates with and through us.
Check out Christopher Knowles brand new Wyrd New Jersey- The Tree of Death post for some tantalising synchronicities between A.C related work we posted on the same day.


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Book Review: Winning by Losing
Relying on outmoded ideas about success and failure stands in the way of your ability to innovate, compete and stay ahead of the curve.
Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation
By Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes
Free Press, June 2002
144 pages, $22
You can practically hear the crystals and wind chimes playing in the background: "Success, failure—who is to say?" "The biggest regrets in life are for the risks we didn't take, not for the ones we took and lost." Ignore that New Age noise. They distract from the far more important point of this book, which is this: "Relying on outmoded ideas about success and failure stands in the way of your ability to innovate, compete and stay ahead of the curve." Or, to reduce the idea to a bumper sticker you may have seen: "If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." That's the central argument put forth here by Farson, in his follow-up to Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership, and Keyes, author of Chancing It: Why We Take Risks.
The reasons people are too tentative at work are obvious. Rare is the corporate culture that rewards failure, so there is little incentive for employees to stick their necks out. And the problem, ironically, is worse at successful companies, the authors contend. "Doing too well breeds an excess of self-imitation. A culture of caution follows. In such a culture there is no reward, and much penalty for taking chances." The result is that successful companies ignore the next big thing, whether it is Western Union in the 19th century ignoring the telephone or IBM Corp. overlooking the PC until the 1980s.
How can you make companies, and the people who work inside them, more adventurous? The authors offer an intriguing and paradoxical solution: In order to stop demonizing failure, we need to stop deifying success. "Stressing winning inhibits daring. Those who take genuine risks know that failure is the norm, success the exception," they write. To prove the point, the authors turn to the most unlikely of sources: successful sports coaches. Their key witness is pro football's Vince Lombardi, the man frequently cited as the poster boy for the belief that the only choices are victory or death. Lombardi's true position was actually quite different, as the authors noted: "I have been quoted as saying, 'Winning is the only thing,'" says Lombardi. "That is a little out of context. What I said was, 'Winning is not everything, but making the effort to win is.'"
The authors' argument is that if you concentrate less on winning as the ultimate aim, you will be able to focus on the things you have to do to be successful. The result, as UCLA's John Wooden, perhaps the greatest college basketball coach of all time, explains in the text, is that winning then becomes a by-product.
The authors put in references to how corporations can change their attitude toward taking risks (although they could have included more). They haul out the oft-told tale of how Jack Welch, when chairman of GE, sent TVs to every member of a team that created a new lamp design that didn't work out, to encourage them to try—and perhaps fail—again. That's the approach the authors hope to engender companywide.
Still, it is clear that they don't have much faith in the average board of directors suddenly encouraging more mistakes. That's where the New Age stuff comes in. Since they have little hope that encouragement to fail will come from on high, their idea is to encourage change at the grassroots level by tying the need for experimentation to the personal growth of every employee.
Will the authors succeed? Since organizations by definition are risk adverse, they probably won't. And that's too bad.
Paul B. Brown is the author of 13 business books including the international bestseller Customers for Life. Doubleday will publish an updated version of the book, written with Carl Sewell, this fall.
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Madrid based architectural office Artectura and the painter Eduardo Zamarro were assigned to give a new look to the A Guarda port! The aim of the project was to make the port a significant place for a stroll at the waterfront, for sightseeing, for sweet winter, summer, and all year round memories by the sea! Another aim was for the waterfront to be seen from Galicia village.
What was sought by the design team was that the project 'Breakwater' will come as the fourth front of the port. The first and last idea by the design team for 'Breakwater' was to paint a giant canvas with the base colors as if it were a pixilated image of the waterfront village; the painting would act like a kind of "digital mirror."
Various shades of blue would appear within, which would be merged with the shades of blue created by the sky and the sea. The colors and the design would actually "break the line of the Breakwater." According to the designers, they wanted to give a feeling and a new dimension to the canvas with the base colors, so they decided to paint the shadows of passers by on the prepared "canvas." By doing this, the design team brought life to the canvas and homage to the passers by.


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Feast or Famine Fertility
No single nitrogen fertilizer program is ideal for all lawns, grounds, athletic fields or golf courses. The type and amount of nitrogen fertilizer used and the timing of your applications will depend on the turfgrass species, soil type, management, use of the turf and yours and your clients' expectations.
By Peter Landschoot, Pennsylvania State University
Cool-season turfgrass species differ in the amount of nitrogen (N) fertilizer needed for optimum performance. Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass typically need 3 to 4 pounds of N/1,000 square feet per year, whereas fescues respond best to about 2 pounds N/1,000 square feet per year. If you fertilize Kentucky bluegrass with only 1 or 2 pounds N/1,000 square feet during the entire growing season, it will usually become light-green, thin and more susceptible to disease damage (rust, dollar spot and red thread). On the other hand, if you fertilize with fine fescue turf more than 4 pounds N/1,000 square feet per year, it can become more susceptible to drought, heat stress and leaf spot diseases. Therefore, you must identify the species you are managing and adjust your nitrogen fertility program accordingly. In turf containing mixtures of species, you can design your nitrogen program to favor the desired species (see Table 1, page 16).
Turfgrass cultivars also vary in their nitrogen needs. Unfortunately, seldom are there absolute recommendations for individual cultivars because nitrogen needs have not been determined for most new cultivars and many turf managers have no way of knowing which cultivars are present in lawns.
Nitrogen fertilizer programs will vary with soil quality and type. Turfgrasses growing on sites where much of the topsoil has been removed prior to establishment or in sandy soil usually require more nitrogen fertilizer than turf growing in good quality topsoil. This is due to the low amounts of nitrogen found in poor-quality soil and the fact that nitrogen is more easily leached from sandy soil. Improving poor-quality soil with the addition of organic amendments, such as good-quality compost, can improve soil quality and add nutrients, thus reducing nitrogen needs. Use of a slow-release nitrogen fertilizer on turf growing in sandy soil can help avoid nitrogen leaching when compared to equal amounts of quick-release nitrogen fertilizer.
Management practices, such as mowing and irrigating, can significantly influence the amount of fertilizer needed by turfgrasses. By returning grass clippings to your lawn, you can reduce nitrogen fertilizer needs by up to one third compared to collecting clippings and removing them from the site. Turf that you frequently irrigate during the summer months will use more fertilizer than non-irrigated turf because it is growing and producing new tillers.
Turf use will also determine the amount of nitrogen needed for good turf growth. For instance, turfgrasses growing in high-traffic areas, such as athletic fields, usually require more nitrogen for better recovery from wear than low-traffic areas. High-use athletic fields may require up to 5 pounds of nitrogen/1,000 square feet during the growing season to help with turf recovery from wear. In these cases, make sure you can mow frequently because high amounts of nitrogen will force rapid leaf growth. Turf used along roadsides (to create a buffer between lanes on highways) or turf growing on steep banks for erosion control generally receive little or no fertilizer because aesthetics are not a primary goal and you usually keep mowing in these areas to a minimum.
Ultimately, users will have different expectations concerning the function and appearance of turfgrass areas. Thus, nitrogen fertilizer programs will vary according to these expectations. Be sure to educate users on the possible outcomes of applying unusually high amounts (more mowing and reduced stress tolerance) or low amounts (thin turf and increased susceptibility to certain diseases) of nitrogen to turf.
The number of nitrogen fertilizer applications that you make during the growing season is just as important as the amount and type of fertilizer you use. To maintain high-quality turf, you should apply fertilizer two or more times per year. If you make only two applications, you usually need to use higher rates of nitrogen (1.0 to 1.5 pounds N/1,000 square feet per application). In this case, fertilizers containing slow-release nitrogen sources are desirable because the nitrogen is released gradually over extended periods and burning of turf foliage is less likely.
In most cases, nitrogen fertilizer programs involve more than two and as many as five applications per year. These programs allow more flexibility with respect to application rates and nitrogen sources than two-application programs because there is less time between applications. A four-application-per-year program, for example, can involve rates less than 1.0 pound N/1,000 square feet per application. These lower rates allow use of quick-release nitrogen sources. They also allow more uniform green color and growth throughout the growing season than two-application programs.
The best times of year to fertilize cool-season turfgrasses in northern climates are in late summer (late August to mid-September), late fall (early to late November), and mid- to late spring (May to early June). In some cases, two spring applications may be desirable — one in early spring (March or early April) and another in late spring (late May or early June). Nitrogen fertilizer applied to non-irrigated turf during periods of heat and drought in mid-summer can lead to turf injury. You can apply low rates of nitrogen to irrigated turf (i.e., golf course fairways and athletic fields) during mid-summer to promote limited growth and recovery from divots and wear.
|Cool-Season Turfgrass Species
|Amount of Nitrogen Required each Growing Season* ( lb/1000 sq ft )
|Creeping bentgrass
|3 - 6
|Kentucky bluegrass
|3 - 4
|Perennial ryegrass
|3 - 4
|Annual ryegrass
|2 - 3
|Tall fescue
|2 - 3
|Fine fescues (creeping red, Chewings, hard, and sheep)
|2 - 3
|* Use rates in the high range for turf grown in infertile soils, when clippings are removed from the site, and in high traffic areas. Rates in the low range can be used for turf grown in fertile soils and when clippings are returned to the turf.
The most important time of year to fertilize turfgrasses is late summer. Nitrogen is extremely important at this time of year because it promotes recovery from drought and heat-related injury sustained during mid-summer. Late summer and early fall is the time of year that cool-season grasses manufacture and store carbohydrates for use in winter and the following spring. Carbohydrates are used by turfgrasses for leaf, root and rhizome growth; disease and stress tolerance; and protection from winter injury. Nitrogen applied during late summer will stimulate foliar growth, but not to the extent that occurs following spring nitrogen applications. Thus, you can use slightly higher rates of nitrogen (1.25 to 1.5 pounds N/1,000 square feet) for late summer applications, provided that some of the nitrogen is from a slow-release source.
An application of nitrogen fertilizer in late-fall can serve as a replacement for an early spring application. Late fall, in this case, is when leaf growth slows or stops, but before soils are frozen. In most areas of the northern United States, late-fall fertilization should take place in November. If done correctly, late-fall fertilization will provide early and noticeable turf green-up in spring with less leaf growth compared to an early-spring fertilizer application. Excess leaf growth is often associated with high rates of nitrogen applied in early spring. You should avoid late-fall fertilizer applications when soils are frozen because the nitrogen remains on the surface and is subject to runoff into streams and lakes where it can cause pollution problems.
The main disadvantage of late-fall fertilization is that, in some situations, nitrogen leaching may occur. You should not perform late-fall fertilization on sandy soils with quick-release nitrogen fertilizers. Slow-release nitrogen sources, such as IBDU, natural organic or sulfur-coated urea, are ideal for late-fall applications mostly because their nitrogen is not as likely to leach as quick-release nitrogen sources.
If you do not make late-fall fertilizer applications, you may need to consider applying some nitrogen fertilizer in early spring. Because high rates of nitrogen applied to turf in early spring will produce excess leaf growth and force plants to use up valuable food reserves (carbohydrates) needed for root growth, stress tolerance and disease resistance, you should use lower rates of nitrogen. Typically, rates of 0.5 to 0.75 pound N/1,000 square feet will allow early-spring green-up of lawns without excess leaf growth. Since 0.5 pound N/1,000 square feet in early spring will not supply enough nitrogen to carry the turf through the summer months, you will need to also make a late-spring application in late May or early June and rates can vary from 0.75 lb to 1.5 pounds N/1,000 square feet. A fertilizer containing slow-release nitrogen is desirable at this time of year because it can supply small amounts of nitrogen to turf well into the summer.
By Grady Miller, University of Florida
Nitrogen (N) is the key element for turfgrass growth and is the fertilizer nutrient most often applied by homeowners and professional turf managers. Nitrogen provides an aesthetic as well as a functional role in turfgrass culture. When applied properly, nitrogen helps ensure the darker green color most people prefer, and at higher rates it can promote rapid recovery of worn turf areas. Excessive nitrogen application leads to excessive shoot and leaf growth, reduced root growth, low plant-carbohydrate reserves, increased susceptibility to environmental stress and some diseases, coupled with potential negative environmental implications. To most effectively use this nutrient, you need to have a good understanding of how nitrogen is involved in both plant and soil. So, how much nitrogen is enough? How much nitrogen is too much?
The amount of nitrogen that you should apply to turf is not an easy question to definitively answer without looking at the big picture. A general response is that you should apply nitrogen at the rate necessary for healthy grass, without excesses that could be lost in the environment. Therefore, the appropriate rates of nitrogen should be based on turf use and condition, knowledge of how a given turf responds and nitrogen carrier for a given grass. The recent trend has been to reduce the total yearly amount of nitrogen applied, especially on golf course greens and fairways.
Most grasses require a minimal amount of nitrogen to maintain a reasonable turf density. Warm-season species that fall into this category are centipedegrass, carpetgrass, bahiagrass and buffalograss. These grasses often are put in areas intended to be low-maintenance or areas where minimal turf quality is acceptable. Medium- to high-maintenance turfs, such as those found on golf course tees, fairways, greens, athletic fields and some highly manicured landscapes, typically require different warm-season grass species. The warm-season grasses most commonly used include bermudagrass, zoysiagrass and St. Augustinegrass (landscape uses). Because these grasses are used in very visible areas, or receive a high-degree of human contact, their yearly N rates are typically higher.
Turf that periodically receives heavy wear requires appropriate nitrogen rates and application timings for adequate recovery of turf density. The relationship between timing and amount is very important for turf when you desire controlled growth. Fertility programs for these high-use turf areas are often more sophisticated than with general turf. Due to their seasonal use, you should place the emphasis on increased growth rates to recover during part of the year and apply just enough nitrogen during other parts of the year to maintain modest growth.
The most effective way to promote recovery of worn turf areas is to use fertilizers with water-soluble nitrogen sources. Apply them at low rates (0.25 to 0.5 pound N/1,000 square feet) every 2 to 4 weeks during the most active period of growth. If you have areas of extremely high wear (e.g., on football fields between the hash marks, golf tees, etc), treat these areas separately. Spot treating worn areas also does not put as great a strain on your fertilizer budget.
Athletic fields often experience heavy use in the late fall and early spring, when turf growth is minimal. To encourage turf recuperation during these periods, fertilize worn areas a little later in the fall and a little earlier in the spring than less-trafficked areas. Remember to use lower rates because the turf is not as efficient at utilizing the applied nutrients. If the warm-season turf is overseeded with a cool-season grass, such as annual or perennial ryegrass, apply 0.2 to 0.3 pound N/1,000 square feet every 2 to 3 weeks to maintain density and color. Cool-season grass, such as the ryegrasses, do not need as much fertilizer during their growing season as most high-maintenance warm-season grasses. No fertility program can prevent turf loss in areas subjected to excessively high traffic, but reasonable nitrogen use, combined with good cultural practices will help ensure healthy turf all year.
Nitrogen application rates also depend on the soil type and weather conditions. In Florida, it is not unusual to use 7 to 10 pounds N/1,000 square feet annually on native soil bermudagrass, depending on location and winter overseeding. This is due to Florida's sandy soils and long growing season. In more northern areas that have heavier soils (more silt and clay) and a shorter growing season, turf managers should use appreciably less fertilizer. Regardless of location, the general rule is that the maximum nitrogen rate per application should not exceed 1 pound N/1,000 square feet. With the introduction of better controlled-release fertilizers this rate may be increased, but it is generally not recommended.
Your decisions regarding N rates should always include consideration of environmental ramifications. Applied nitrogen may be taken up by the plant, stored in the soil or thatch, lost to the atmosphere or lost to the groundwater. Nitrogen in excess of that taken up by the plant reduces the efficiency of the applied nitrogen and you should avoid doing that. Soils that are high in sand content are more prone to leaching; therefore, you must manage them to reduce the risk of nitrogen movement. Research substantiates that controlled-release fertilizers reduce N leaching in turfgrass. If you use a soluble nitrogen source, you can minimize the potential for nitrate-N leaching by applying it more frequently at a reduced rate, either by split-surface applications or fertigation. One of these programs is especially necessary where sandy soils are close to surface or groundwater resources.
Peter Landschoot, Ph.D., is associate professor of turfgrass management at Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pa.) and Grady L. Miller, Ph.D., is associate professor of turfgrass science at the University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.).
The following sample fertilizer programs are designed for medium to high maintenance lawns growing under environmental conditions and soils found in the northern U.S. These programs are only offered as examples and may or may not be suitable for your particular operation.
|Dates of Application
|Nutrients*/1000 sq ft
|May 1 - June 10
|1.0 to 1.25 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source**)
|Aug. 25 - Sept. 20
|1.0 to 1.5 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source)
0.5 lb phosphate
0.5 lb potash
|Nov. 1 - Nov. 30
|1.0 lb nitrogen (50% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source)
0.75 lb potash
|* If soil test indicates high or excessive levels of phosphate and potash, omit from program and use nitrogen sources only. If soil test indicates phosphate and potash are needed, use fertilizer with high proportions of each nutrient.
|** WIN = water insoluble nitrogen, CRN = controlled release nitrogen, coated nitrogen sources can include sulfur-coated urea or polymer-coated nitrogen.
|Dates of Application
|Nutrients*/1000 sq ft
|May 1 - June 10
|1.0 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source**)
|Aug. 25 - Sept. 20
|1.0 - 1.5 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source)
0.5 lb phosphate
0.5 lb potash
|* If soil test indicates high or excessive levels of phosphate and potash, omit from program and use nitrogen sources only. If soil test indicates phosphate and potash are needed, use fertilizer with high proportions of each nutrient.
|** WIN = water insoluble nitrogen, CRN = controlled release nitrogen, coated nitrogen sources can include sulfur-coated urea or polymer-coated nitrogen.
|Dates of Application
|May 1 - June 10
|Nutrients*/1000 sq ft
|1.0 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source**)
|Aug. 25 - Sept. 20
|1.0 lb nitrogen (20% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source)
0.5 lb phosphate
0.5 lb potash
|Nov. 10 - Nov. 30
|1.0 lb nitrogen (50% or more as WIN, CRN, or a coated nitrogen source)
0.75 lb potash
|* If soil test indicates high or excessive levels of phosphate and potash, omit from program and use nitrogen sources only. If soil test indicates phosphate and potash are needed, use fertilizer with high proportions of each nutrient.
|** WIN = water insoluble nitrogen, CRN = controlled release nitrogen, coated nitrogen sources can include sulfur-coated urea or polymer-coated nitrogen.
|Warm-Season Turf
|Nitrogen Requirement Pounds N per 1,000 ft
|General Turf
|Golf and Sports Turf
|0.0 - 0.2
|0.1 - 0.5
|0.0 - 0.2
|0.2 - 0.4
|0.0 - 0.3
|0.0 - 0.4
|Common bermudagrass
|0.2 - 0.4
|0.4 - 0.7
|Hybrid bermudagrass
|0.4 - 0.6
|0.6 - 1.5
|Seashore paspalum
|0.2 - 0.4
|0.4 - 0.8
|St. Augustinegrass
|0.2 - 0.8
|0.2 - 0.3
|0.3 - 0.6
|Note: general turf includes lawns, amenity turf, general grounds, and utility turf continued from page 18
For any fertilization program the goal is to promote turf density and color without promoting excess top growth. In order to reach this goal you must match your fertilization program to the growth characteristics of the turfgrass you are dealing with. Growth characteristics differ between cool-season and warm-season turfgrasses (see Figure 1). Cool-season grasses, as the name implies thrive in cooler temperatures and slow down in summer. They exhibit rapid growth in spring, followed by a summer lull when temperature and heat stress is high and a more moderate growth spurt in the fall when cooler temperatures return. Warm-season turfgrasses, on the other hand, do best at higher temperatures. Consequently, as temperatures increase, so does growth of warm-season turfgrasses.
Based on these growth characteristics, it's important that you differentiate fertilizer timing between cool- and warm-season turfgrasses. Fall is the ideal time to apply nitrogen fertilizer to cool-season turf. Turf needs nitrogen in the spring as well, but you don't want to encourage excess growth at a time that the turfgrass growth is already at its peak. Conversely, for warm-season turfgrasses, you should apply nitrogen fertilizer on a more regular schedule throughout its growing season, without letting up in summer.
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The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, their foremost and super-cereal authoritative body on the matter, released phase two of their four-part report they compile every so often to make recommendations to policymakers the world over about how much the world is warming and what to do about it. As Jeff already noted this morning, this latest issue is replete with dire warnings about food security and declining crop yields, economic shocks, drought and water supplies, regional conflicts and war, and etcetera. So, in a nutshell, the same type of catastrophic warnings that progressive environmentalists have been prophesying for decades now, without any such calamities coming to pass.
The IPCC has several available explanations for the pause in warming we've been experiencing since the late 1990's (and indeed, the panel hotly debated how best to present that information to the public in their first chapter of the report released last fall, ahem), ranging from particles from volcanic eruptions blocking out the sun's heat to the accrued warmth currently residing within the depths of the oceans — but the point is, climate science is an extremely complex and nuanced science with a million different factors going into it, and we don't quite know what we don't quite know. That's not to say that climate change isn't a serious problem and that human activity couldn't be some of the impetus behind it, but when climate scientists and globalist bureaucrats make huge, sweeping, and obviously politicized conclusions that they insist are absolutely beyond dispute and that the science is therefore "settled," they kind of discredit their own cause, no? Like when, say, they dismiss one of their own as "fringe" for daring to step outside the very tiny box they have decided is the only way to think about climate change? Via the Financial Times:
Two of the world's leading climate researchers have clashed over a report on the impact of global warming and rising sea levels. The chief author of the study by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said an economist drafting a key chapter had made "meaningful errors" that had to be fixed and was on the "fringe" of the scientific community's thinking.
Chris Field, professor of environmental studies at Stanford University in California, made the comments about Professor Richard Tol of the University of Sussex in the UK, a senior author of the report's chapter on climate change's economic impacts.
Professor Tol revealed last week that he had asked for his name to be removed from the study's summary – the most widely read section of the IPCC report – because he believed it was too "alarmist" and included "silly" statements about the vulnerability of people in war zones to climate change. …
"When the IPCC does a report, what you get is the community's position. Richard Tol is a wonderful scientist but he's not at the centre of the thinking. He's kind of out on the fringe," Prof Field said.
The good news, as rational optimist Matt Ridley explained in the WSJ this weekend based on leaks of the IPCC's latest report, is that the UN actually did actually take a slightly more conservative stance this time around with making precise predictions and admitting to some of the vast areas of uncertainty to which climate science is prone. Even while it exaggerates the amount and causes of warming, the IPCC did get a little more cautious with the effects, Ridley writes:
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will shortly publish the second part of its latest report, on the likely impact of climate change. Government representatives are meeting with scientists in Japan to sex up—sorry, rewrite—a summary of the scientists' accounts of storms, droughts and diseases to come. But the actual report, known as AR5-WGII, is less frightening than its predecessor seven years ago.
The 2007 report was riddled with errors about Himalayan glaciers, the Amazon rain forest, African agriculture, water shortages and other matters, all of which erred in the direction of alarm. ..
It puts the overall cost at less than 2% of GDP for a 2.5 degrees Centigrade (or 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature increase during this century. This is vastly less than the much heralded prediction of Lord Stern, who said climate change would cost 5%-20% of world GDP in his influential 2006 report for the British government. …
The forthcoming report apparently admits that climate change has extinguished no species so far and expresses "very little confidence" that it will do so. There is new emphasis that climate change is not the only environmental problem that matters and on adapting to it rather than preventing it. Yet the report still assumes 70% more warming by the last decades of this century than the best science now suggests. This is because of an overreliance on models rather than on data in the first section of the IPCC report—on physical science—that was published in September 2013. …
And the group's dislike of dissent hardly breeds confidence in their methods or their motivations. As I've said before, these guys would be doing themselves a huge favor if they would just abandon the catastrophe-or-bust alarmism strategy on which they've been relying for years and the subsequent recommendations that require the world's economies to conscientiously contract to save the planet — rather than more marginal and growth-oriented ideas that could actually convince more people to get on board.


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Telephone harassment? Use a voice changer
Often, for a woman who lives alone, a call is not necessarily bringing good news or the warm sound of a friendly voice. On the contrary, as we can see from the growing number of stalking cases anywhere in the world, sometimes at the other end of the line there can be a molester, often a known person, such as a persistent ex boyfriend.
In such cases, change phone number may not be enough, in addition to being very uncomfortable (for example, to communicate your new number to friends, acquaintances, relatives and business associates). So instead of running away from telephone harassment, security technology offers the opportunity to defend yourselves in a more subtle way, without having to hide.
In fact, if you can not avoid phone calls, the best way to make them stop quickly is to use an electronic voice changer, which is a device that, when connected to your home phone or mobile phone, would electronically modify the human voice through an algorithm which works on the voice's frequencies, with the result of transforming, for example, the voice of a woman in that of a man and vice versa.
Thanks to the voice changer, you can change your voice to make people believe that the person who picks up the phone is a child or an elderly person, a boy or a girl. All this in an absolutely natural way, because the algorithm does makes the voice "metallic", and the person at the other end of the phone can easily be led to believe that they dialed the wrong number or that the person they are looking for is no longer there.
Thanks to this voice changing device, you can avoid not only phone stalkers, but also dodge pressing creditors, telemarketing companies trying to force you to buy products that you do not really need, and so on. For more information on how it works, we recommend that you visit the Endoacustica website.


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Welcome to the second half of a conversation between Rob Kroese, author of Mercury Falls and Mark A. Rayner, the scribbler behind Marvellous Hairy. You can find the first half of the conversation at Rob's blog, Mattress Police. Check it out and then return her for the rest of our electronic chat.
Rob Kroese: I assume you're a bit more scholarly in your efforts. I believe I read that you're a university lecturer, in fact. What do you lecture on? And how is lecturing different from teaching or professing? Is your lecturing related to your writing, or is your writing an escape from lecturing?
Mark Rayner: Actually, Marvellous Hairy was delightfully research free, unless you count watching movies and going to whiskey tastings as research. (Though I had studied A Midsummer Night's Dream in university, and I've seen the play a number of times, so I didn't have to do much there to draw on the structure, themes and characters in the play.)
I teach in the Faculty of Media and Information (or FIMS, at The University of Western Ontario), and I'm a lecturer, not a professor, because I don't have a PhD. This sometimes makes me feel like I'm the retarded cousin of the family, but I seem to be hold up my end of the conversation with my fully PhuddeD colleagues. And my students seem to enjoy the courses I teach on website design, digital imaging and information architecture despite my lack of a doctorate. I find the intellectual opportunities at FIMS appealing, and teaching is a lovely escape from the solitary insanity of my writing life.
On the topic of whiskey and drinking alone, do you use any kind of stimulant/ depressant/hallucinogen while writing, and if so, can you hook me up? Seriously, though, what's your writing process?
RK: I believe that fiction should be a reflection of real life, and frankly I can't get through either without some chemical augmentation. My writing process probably doesn't even qualify as a process. It's like the zyphoid process. I could explain it to you, but afterwards you'd be like, "Wait, how is that a process?"
I just write. I start at the beginning. Or the middle. And then I write some more. Then, when I get bored, I make something expode. Then I try to explain to the reader why something just exploded. I throw in some references to Creedence Clearwater Revival, Occam's Razor or linoleum. Once I have about fifty pages, I realize that thirty pages of it is unusable dreck and delete it. Then I write 30 more pages, which are probably also dreck. This continues until I have a novel.
How about you? Marvellous Hairy feels a little more organized than Mercury Falls, like maybe you kind of knew where you were going when you started writing. Do you use an outline? Also, you seem like such a normal, level-headed guy. What drives you to write bizarre novels about people turning into monkeys?
MR: Really, I seem like a normal level-headed guy? I must be a better actor than I thought.
Marvellous Hairy started out as one of those three-day novel contest manuscripts. You're allowed to write an outline before you start, so I did a plan for a complete novel, including the subplot and so on. Then I got into day two of the contest, and I ended up under my desk, hugging my knees to my
chest and sobbing. (Somewhere in there a lot of scotch was consumed.) And most of the outline got ejected. The manuscript had many good scenes in it, but that's all they were. Luckily, I had that original outline to go back to, so I could flesh out the first draft. And I definitely knew how the story was going to end before I started. The book I'm working on now started without an outline, and it is just scary not having one. However, I've since gone back and figured out everything but the end. I'll probably just have some guy in a God suit come in tell them all they're going to Hawaii, where one of them will wipe out on a surf board and nearly die. (It's because of the cursed linoleum tiki doll.)
Given your process, how many drafts for MF? I like CCR by the way, so those references didn't go over my head. What's the deal with linoleum?
RK: It's funny how few readers realize that linoleum is an archetypal element of storytelling that goes all the way back to Homer. I think it was Homer, anyway. It might have been the dad from Family Guy.
I'm actually reading Angela's Ashes right now, and there's a big linoleum component in that book, but did everybody give Frank McCourt shit for that? No, he won the freaking Pulitzer. Page 179: "Declan tells me sit in front of him and if there's any blaguarding he'll break my feckin' neck for he'll be watching me as long as he's prefect and no little shit like me is going to keep him from a life in linoleum." See, linoleum, right there. That's what that whole book is about. If you don't believe me, look it up.
As for how many drafts of Mercury Falls I went through. I was actually doing some cleanup on my computer the other day, and I found something like forty different version of Mercury Falls, from various stages in the process. It's a ridiculously inefficient way to work, but I don't know how else to do it. I just don't think I could write from an outline, because my characters would deviate from it at the first opportunity just to spite me.
Incidentally, the very first version was about the planet Mercury falling out of its orbit and destroying civilization on Earth, but then somebody told me they already did that on Thundarr the Barbarian.
So what's the new book about?
MR: I'm actually working on two right now. The first project I'll get finished is another fabulist satire. (I DO love that my publisher came up with that term, because now I can describe what I write in one easy phrase — who
cares if it is made up? I mean, science fiction was made up. The term "novel" was made up . Did you know that originally novels were called romances until Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein? And someone said, "you know this isn't really very romantic. Especially the part where Victor strangles the Mother Superior with her own entrails. We should really come up with another term for this kind of thing." The Church wanted to call them Satanic Verses, but the publishing industry favoured something a little less likely to force them into hiding for the rest of their lives, and more reflective of the fact that they didn't rhyme, and the meter sucked. Yes that was a "u" in favoured. Deal with it.)
So anyway, the first project is about the coming toaster uprising.
The second project is a little out of my usual comfort zone. It is a historical memoir. Not a memoir of my own life — that's far too dull to serve as a topic, so I'm writing the memoir of Emily Chesley, a long overlooked Victorian speculative fiction writer who lived in my home town of London, Ontario. I am the "acting" secretary of The Emily Chesley Reading Circle, and we have been meaning to edit her papers into a coherent narrative for some time, and I have volunteered to do it. The Circle's activities can be followed at their website: emilychesley.com, if anyone is interested.
How about you, what's up next for, Diesel? Or are you going to go by Rob Kroese now that you're a famous author of Satanic Verses (or Demonic Drivel,
as some of your critics have bleated)?
RK: Sadly, I think I'm going to have to give up the name "Diesel," because as much as I like it, it was important to me that I have my real name on the
book, so that when my idiot junior high teachers go to Wal-Mart, they'll see that name glaring at them from the end cap and think, "Wow, I guess he DID live up to his potential. Meanwhile, I'm an idiot and I should shoot myself."
Wait, what was the question? Oh, what am I going to do next? Well, I've been thinking about writing a personal memoir. I was thinking of calling it "Not Living Up to My Potential."
MR: Excellent title, though I wouldn't lose sleep about it. If you think about all the billions of people who lived throughout human history, how many could honestly say they lived up to their potential? Buddha? Jesus? I bet if you talked to Christ's junior high teachers they'd say something like: "sure, he's famous and I have to give him credit for the whole turning-water-into-wine thing, but let's face it, he was kind of a non-conformist. I mean you don't get crucified if you play well with others." Obviously, Buddha didn't have junior high teachers. That's just silly. He dropped out of school to explore the "meditation potential" of certain smoke-able herbs.
Not that I advocate that kind of thing. I definitely think all you kids should stay in school. That said, once you're out, I think it's fair to start evaluating success on your own terms. Such as, did I find a good way to end this interview?
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Actually, we WOULD like you to move along to buying a copy of our books. Go to Mercury Falls to see where you can get a copy of the angelic odyssey and check out Marvellous Hairy for the monkey apocalypse.


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Unlike the previous two lists, this list is presented in ascending order of suckitude:
- The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley
I'm not entirely convinced that this book is objectively bad so much as that I am the absolutely worst possible reader for it. Parts of it are not much more than a thinly disguised travel narrative, in which the narrator, his aunt, and an eccentric priest, tromp around Turkey in the fifties--but I don't like travel writing. Those parts of it that have more than a thin dusting of plot are concerned with one of three issues: the narrator's religious crisis and his aunt's attempts to bring Christianity to the heathens; the position of women in Islamic countries and the narrator's aunt's attempts to better it through missionary work; the narrator's crisis of conscience, brought on by an adulterous (and, as it turns out only a few pages before the novel's end, homosexual) relationship. All of these plotlines assume that the readers have a certain perspective--Christian, colonial, homophobic--that I simply can't sympathize with, and Macauley does absolutely nothing to persuade us that these are the correct opinions to hold (in fact, on occasion her unthinking condescension was almost enough to dissuade me from opinions I do hold--I do agree that the misogyny she describes in Turkey is worse than the Western kind, but her arrogant, wholesale dismissal of Turkish culture made it impossible for me to sympathize with her characters on this point). This may have been an enjoyable book for its time and place, but for me it was nothing more than an unpleasant glimpse of a mindset that I want nothing to do with.
- The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
Or, what happens when someone with barely a fraction of his talent tries to emulate China Miéville. So, yes, elaborately detailed fantasy world ruled over by a morally ambiguous aristocracy, with lots of gore and gruesomeness thrown in and a main character who is refreshingly irreverent (refreshing, that is, if you haven't read any fantasy over the last five years). But: the writing is barely serviceable. But: the characters are mostly cardboard cutouts, except for the main character and a few of his friends, who are annoying. But: there are maybe 200 pages of plot in a 400 page novel, and that not particularly interesting. But: the worldbuilding here is almost nonexistent, veering wildly between unthinking acceptance of medieval fantasy tropes and supposedly revisionist innovations on same which clash horribly with one another, so that we end up, for example, with a society in which women can rule, own property, and go to battle, but in which it is still a terrible thing to have an illegitimate child. As far as I can tell, there's nothing here but some inventive creation of alien races and situations, and for the life of me I can't understand why this novel and its sequels have been praised so highly.
- Till Human Voices Wake Us by Mark Budz
I have a review of this dull, poorly written, incoherent novel forthcoming and I don't want to step on it too much, so I'll just sum it up with the SMS I sent Strange Horizons reviews editor Niall Harrison several weeks ago: "I just got off a plane to New York. I had to choose between finishing the Budz novel and watching Evan Almighty. It was a tough call."
- Streaking by Brian Stableford
I'm not entirely comfortable with awarding Stableford the year's biggest turkey spot. On the one hand, clearly I did not read a worse novel than Streaking in 2007. This story about a supposedly preternaturally lucky Yorkshire earl whose luck will turn if he doesn't father a child gets everything wrong. The characters are nonexistent, most of them are stupid, and the minor ones are so thoroughly enslaved to the demands of the plot that they might as well be aliens for all that their actions make any sense as examples of human behavior. The dialogue is atrocious, but only slightly better than the narrative voice, and about halfway through the whole story grinds to halt for the sake of interminable discussions of the genetic component of the protagonist's lucky streak. Not, that is, that the plot was worth paying attention to in the first place--for a novel that clearly seeks to emulate the jet-setting hi-jinks of Fleming and his ilk, it is singularly lacking in tension, and most of the protagonist's problems resolve themselves quite neatly without forcing him to lift a finger.
All that said, some novels are so bad that they go through bad and out the other side into delightful camp. Streaking is almost a parody of itself and of the kind of male wish-fulfillment fantasy it so obviously is. After all, how can you hate a novel that gives us such lines as "his former way of life was coming to an irrevocable end, within a maelstrom of possibilities and impossibilities that was dragging him inexorably along into an unanticipatable future," or "The food for thought she had fed him had given him terrible mental indigestion"? This is bad writing brought to the level of an artform.
- Freedom & Necessity by Emma Bull and Steven Brust
- The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart


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Sports fans, now's the time to take a stand | OPINION
They call it the business end of the year. But for the casual sports fan, it's just the beginning.
It's that time when footy gets serious. So that means footy ramps up in the water cooler chat stakes.
You know how it works.
A colleague you really don't know all that well but who wants to maintain a veneer of care and friendliness, says, first thing on Monday morning: "So, what about those Tigers, then?"
Fear courses through your veins. Tigers? Uh-oh. Which Tigers?
Richmond? Wests? No, wait, is he from the NSW Central West, is it Oberon Tigers?
No, no, maybe he's talking Premiership League rugby in England and it's the Leicester Tigers ...
Or maybe I'm one of those bizarre breeds of sports fans who has a "second team".
What even is that? It's the sporting equivalent of having Vegemite on your morning toast on Monday and then Promite on Tuesday. No, just no. It's one or the other, folks.
There's might be 50 shades of grey, but as soon as you cross the white stripe of the footy field (or netball court, or starting grid, or popping crease) it's black and white.
Exactly how you get to "the one" is one of the great mysteries of the world.
A completely unscientific snap office poll suggests four distinct camps.
The "family tradition" answer figured significantly. To me, that reeks of laziness and blind acceptance. Whatever happened to challenging your parents? In a healthy, respectful way, of course.
It's a bit like deciding your political affiliation because "that's how my parents vote".
Geography understandably plays a part. We have inexorable connections to not just hometowns but to places we've lived. We're tribal beings, after all.
Then there's the almost inexplicable: "Ohhh, I dunno – the colours? The mascot. Not sure, really?"
My favourite is the anti-vote, though it carries trace elements of "underdogism" as well. It's a phenomenon best explained by a colleague whose school principal supported Manly. That drove her to sustained support of the Newcastle Knights ever since.
Not one person volunteered a "second team". And yes, there was an opportunity to do so.
So swinging sports fans, it's the pointy end of the season for you. With finals series starting in major codes soon, choose a team and stick with it.
You never know, it might turn out to be more than a one-season stand.
Janine Graham is a Fairfax journalist.


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Saturday the 28th of April was a night full of excitement for Kentucky Derby Week's kick off, with various artist of from Louisville Fund for the Arts selected to be present their works at the Churchill Downs' opening night.
Event highlights included Awards in the Arts Orange, the Color of Creativity, where artists were encouraged to incorporate orange into their attire for the evening, The Jesse Lees at Plaza Stage, Louisville Crashers at Plaza Stage, 10 live races including the William Walker and performing artists: Acting Against Cancer, Amberly Simpson & Dancers, Bohemian Monkey, Bri Bowers, Casey McKinney, CirqueLouis, DESTINED Dance Company, Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Grant Goodwine, GSA Alumni, Jecorey "1200" Arthur + NadaLoutfi, Juggernaut Jug Band, The Art of Kacy, Kentucky Opera, Kentucky Shakespeare, Kuvebo! West African Drum and Dance, Micah Chandler, Tatiana Rathke + Jennifer Greb, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Louisville, Tyler Robertson and Wheeler Elementary Students.
Andrea Alonso had her work Euphoria exhibited at Millionaire's Row #4.
Great night yesterday at Art[squared] 2018, excellent event to support Children's fine art classes.
Great concert at The Jeffersonian with the Louisville Orchestra and art exhibition of talented local artists
Opening night "It's Your World - Art About The Future Of Community"
Exhibition at 1619 Flux: Art + Activism
Very happy for being part of this exhibition, strong artworks and different focuses about the community that surrounds us.
Arts showcase & Campaign Kickoff at Mellwood Art & Entertainment Center


text: Core Electives PiF students have to complete six core electives. The School of Finance offers the following core electives: Course Lecturer Semester Empirical Corporate Finance Prof. Dr. Markus Schmid Fall Empirical Asset Pricing Prof. Paul Söderlind, Ph.D. Fall Market Microstrucutre Prof. Dr. Angelo Ranaldo Fall Topics in Asset Management Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann / Prof. Dr. Markus Schmid Fall Quantitative Behavioural Finance Prof. Dr. Enrico De Giorgi Spring Spatial Econometrics Prof. Dr. Roland Füss / Prof. Dr. Zeno Adams Spring Topics in Financial Intermediation Prof. Dr. Martin Brown Spring Topics in Insurance Economics Prof. Dr. Hato Schmeiser Spring Upon consultation with their supervisor, students can replace at most 4 core electives with advanced doctoral courses of the PEF (Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Finance) of the University of St. Gallen the GSERM (Global Summer School in Empirical Research Methods) of the University of St. Gallen (advanced and research courses) the SFI (Swiss Finance Institute) the Gerzensee Study Programme other credited research universitites and doctoral summer schools. Non-PiF credited courses from the University of St. Gallen include (but are not limited to): Course Lecturer Advanced Topic in Pricing and Hedging of Equity Derivatives Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler Basics in Experimental Research Dr. Labinot Demaj Causal Inference Prof. Anthony Strittmatter, Ph.D. Time Series Methods in Financial Econometrics Prof. Dr. Patrick Gagliardini Computational Statistics Prof. Francesco Audrino, Ph.D. Econometrics of Big Data Prof. Christian Hansen, Ph.D. / Prof. Viktor Chernozhukov, Ph.D. Mathematical Methods in Finance Prof. Enrico De Giorgi, Ph.D. Resampling Methods and Forecasting Prof. Lorenzo Camponovo, Ph.D. Statistical Learning and Applications Prof. Christine de Mol, Ph.D.


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VA Congressional Hearings Announced
Post date: Apr 27, 2011 9:42:17 PM
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - News Channel 5's I-Team has confirmed Congressional hearings will open Tuesday in Washington to examine problems at the St. Louis VA as well veteran centers in Miami and Dayton.
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs calls the hearing "Sacred Obligation: Restoring Veteran Trust and Patient Safety." Sources tell the I-Team that the witness list may include Eric Shinseki, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as representatives from the Inspector General's office and the General Accounting Office.
The I-Team has reported extensively about a series of issues at the St. Louis VA, including the closure of its surgery and dental centers in February after an employee identified spots on surgical trays. The center re-opened a month later after multiple investigations were unable to determine a source for metallic corrosion.
"Closing the surgical suites prevented any patient harm and I'm proud our staff knew to stand up for patient safety," said Rima Nelson, director of the St. Louis VA. "We are always focused on patient safety, and now we are opening back up, fully confident we are providing our Veterans the quality care they earned."
In March, Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan requested congressional hearings into the St. Louis VA.
"Our veterans deserve the best quality care available, period. It shouldn't matter whether they live in St. Louis, or Dayton, or anywhere else," Carnahan said Wednesday. "My focus is on finding solutions that ensure veterans here in St. Louis receive the same top quality care that the VA provides elsewhere in the country, and I hope this hearing helps us take another solid step toward that goal."
In Ohio, Republican Rep. Mike Turner has been pressing for more information as well. At the Dayton VA Center, hundreds of veterans have been tested for potential infections after treatment there by a dentist who allegedly failed to change latex gloves or sterilize instruments between patients for 18 years.


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If you are suffering from "Invalid Binary" issues, and have done everything short of sacrificing small farm animals, try this trick.
If your Entitlements.plist file was generated with an version of Xcode prior Xcode 3.2.3, remove Entitlements.plist and regenerate it using Xcode 3.2.3. You don't need to change any of the options generated on your new Entitlements.plist file, just recompile and submit again. Hopefully this helps someone.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The word was out. The boundaries of our LDS stake were changing. Emotions ranged from fear to thinly disguised panic. Seventy-two-hour emergency kits appeared. Children were brought indoors.
The change would affect 10 wards, 900 families, half a billion offspring and the block-warden assignments so necessary in the event catastrophes less stressful than a stake boundary change should befall us.
Changing boundaries is a big deal for Mormons. We worship geographically. Any choice about where we attend church ends when we move in. It doesn't have to make sense.
For example, there might be an LDS meetinghouse right across the street from your new place, but that doesn't mean it's your LDS meetinghouse. It could be in another ward or even another stake.
If it is another stake, the people you see going to that ward house on Sunday might just as well be attending church on Mars because you're never going to meet them.
Everything has to be taken into consideration when changing church boundaries, including population density, talent, travel, even politics.
When former state Rep. Carl Wimmer, R(squared)-Herriman was in my ward, the stake president caught wind and divided the ward so I couldn't be Carl's home teacher anymore.
And let's not forget emotions. You never want to redistrict two alpha females into the same ward.
All of this is done depending on the strength of your belief by either the Lord himself or a group of really harried guys doing the best they can without the benefit of cursing.
Other faiths don't have to stress about this. If you don't like the way your pastor looks out of his face, you can pick up and go find another church. No questions asked.
Music is awful? Priest is boring? Youth pastor a little TOO friendly? Boom you're gone. There's even a good chance no one will come looking for you.
It's a bigger deal for Mormons. We're required to worship where our membership records are located. Only the Nazis, the IRS and the grocery store industry have done a better job keeping tabs on people.
My LDS Church membership number is 2-9781Z89-01-65-9.
The first number indicates my permissible church leadership level (on a scale of 1-700). The second set is my ward designation and seat assignment. The third set represents the number of women to whom I'm currently sealed.
The fourth group is the number of church callings I've had. The last number is my obedience rating. Nine looks high but that's actually a minus sign in front of it.
Compare my membership number to that of my bishop's: 559-9781A01-01-147-91. There are approximately 400 of these numbers in my ward alone.
It used to be a lot tougher to change stake boundaries. In the old days they relied on study and prayer to determine such a thing but that ended in too many fights. Now they use computers.
All the membership numbers get crunched at church headquarters and new stake boundaries are sent out.
It's a little scary while we wait for it. Will we still be in the same ward as our next-door neighbors? Will we have to say goodbye to the people across the street?
After a lot of fasting, prayer and fretting, the new boundaries were announced in church. We lost 13 families, a pasture, six horses and a barn. But we gained a convenience store.
I'm not very good with numbers. I'm glad someone else had to figure that out.
Robert Kirby can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or facebook.com/stillnotpatbagley.


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Strategy guide maker Prima Guides told visitors to their website that the error-riddled strategy guide for Mortal Kombat likely won't be seeing a second printing to correct the mistakes.
"Economics makes a second printing unlikely, unfortunately," a spokesperson wrote in response to fan's displeasure with the new guide.
Prima will printing corrected character quick reference cards to "dissatisfied customers," according to the site.
"The cards will be complete with all moves, Fatalities and Babalities, and free to anyone who bought the Official Guide or the Kollector's Edition Guide. To receive your copy of the cards, please send your name, address, and e-mail to email@example.com."
The Prima Games team wrote that the inaccuracies in the printed guide, which includes conflicting information within the guide, missing damage information and bad directional control information, were the result of "rapidly fluctuating builds and last minute changes to the final guide".
Mortal Kombat Character Quick Reference Card Reprints and Mortal Kombat Updates [Prima Guides (Thanks, Darius)]


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Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago welcomed four baby trumpeter swans (called cygnets) on June 2 and 3 to two sets of parents. The cygnets are already exploring the zoo's McCormick Swan Pond with their parents.
The young swans will learn all the necessary survival skill at the zoo, including swimming and feeding independently on seeds, grains, wetland plants, insects, and small fish. Then, in the fall, the swans will be released into the wild in Iowa as part of a collaborative reintroduction program with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
"It's amazing to see how resilient this species truly is," said Hope B. McCormick Curator of Birds, Sunny Nelson. "Twenty years ago these birds were nearly extinct and are beginning to make quite the comeback, due in part to reintroduction collaborations such as with the Iowa DNR."
Trumpeter swans are the largest waterfowl in North America. They are easily identified by their black bills, white plumage, and 8-feet wingspans. Usually, trumpeter swans mate for life.
For more info, see the Lincoln Park Zoo website.