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I wanted to do a nice tribute to Steve Ditko like the rest of our gang, but I never met the man and, honestly, I didn't appreciate Ditko when I first started buying comics and when I finally did, he had retreated into his lair in Manhattan and wasn't putting out comics that I wanted to read. So I never had a "come-to-Jesus" moment when I read a Ditko comic and thought, "Holy cow, this dude is awesome!" It was more that I simply began to recognize how good he was over the years. So I thought, instead of writing about how a Ditko comic transformed me, I'd just show all the examples I used during 2014, when I did the "Year of the Artist" series over at Comics Should Be Good. I did 10 days of Kirby and Ditko that year, because why wouldn't I? So let's take a look at the evolution of Ditko over the decades without me showing any of his work on Spider-Man or Doctor Strange. That's just how I roll!
The first examples are from a story called "Paper Romance!" from Daring Love #1, which was published in 1953. This is the first Ditko comic ever published (it's not the first one he drew, but that one was published after this), and it's about sex, like all comics in the 1950s. Those people were repressed, yo! Liza reads an advertisement in the newspaper that claims you can write letters to them and they will forward them to members of the opposite sex who will then respond. She gets a letter from someone she thinks is a dapper cosmopolitan dude but it turns out it's really the boy next door, and when she finds that out, they, well, they get it on. People liked the sex in 1953!
Liza enjoys kissing Seth, but he's just not the man for her. Oh, Liza, you tease!
Ditko really makes it obvious that Liza is probably masturbating while thinking about "Tom Hamilton." I mean, the people in the 1950s had to get this, right? They weren't that obtuse?
Liza has really hard nipples and a firm grasp on that pitchfork. Ditko isn't subtle, that's for sure!
Seth shamelessly stares at Liza's boobs and Ditko leaves the pitchfork standing straight up while Liza and Seth make out. Um, excuse me, I need to go take a cold shower …
The next story is "A World of His Own" from Strange Suspense Stories #32, which was published in May 1957. It's a short story, so I'm only showing two pages.
These pages are neat because they show Ditko experimenting with some things that would become much more assured when he drew Doctor Strange some years later. The lack of holding lines making the other dimension look less tangible, the coloring making it eerie, and the strange random elements that make it clear this is another dimension are things we'd see in Ditko's Strange masterpiece. It's fun to see him trying stuff like this in print years before it flowered into something else.
The next story is "The Desert Spell" from Strange Suspense Stories #34 (November 1957), so it's very close in time to the previous story (and who knows – Ditko might have drawn this first). It's about a Nazi who wakes up from suspended animation and thinks he can remake the Nazi regime but then drinks more of the serum that put him in suspended animation and falls back to sleep, from which he presumably never wakes up. Both of these examples show Ditko using some interesting techniques with page layouts, which weren't as innovative in the 1950s as they would be in later decades. Ditko, always pushing the envelope!
After Ditko left Marvel in 1966, he drew some stories for Warren Publishing, and that's where the next two stories are from. The first is "Beast Man!" from Creepy #11, which has a famous sequence that I'm not going to show. Instead, let's check out this two-page section where the woman gets menaced by the beast man!
(M-Wolverine asked if I could show the famous sequence. Rob Allen nicely linked to the entire story, but here's the famous part.)
This is a terrific sequence, as we get the first page from the Beast Man's point of view, and Ditko uses angled panel borders to make the POV a bit askew, given that it's a beast man looking out on the world. The hands are great, showing the man's inhumanity, and the way Ditko moves in and out on the woman make it seem like the beast is stalking her by getting close to her and then backing off. The shadow above the girl in the final row of the first page is great, as it creates even more tension, leading to the final panel of the woman, terrified, looking up, which leads to the splash page, which shifts our POV so that we see the Beast Man dropping down toward her, with those torpedo breasts helping the effect of her body bending backward under the irresistible force of the beast. As we saw above, Ditko can be a wildly sexual artist, and the splash page is aggressively sexual, making it even more memorable. The black and white brush work is excellent, too.
Then there's Ditko's story from Creepy #14, "Where Sorcery Lives!" Ditko, of course, drew plenty of sword-and-sorcery stuff for DC in the 1970s, and this is an early example of his work in that genre.
Salamand could easily be a Doctor Strange villain, and Garth is a stereotypical barbarian hero, in that he looks like he grew up on a farm in Nebraska. Ditko's use of ink washes makes Salamand's realm look more esoteric and magical, which works well.
More nice use of ink washes here, as Salamand's realm doesn't look quite real, which wreaks havoc on Garth's mind. I want to know how Salamand got his eyebrows to do that.
More nice work from Ditko. Good perspective work, a strong use of black to imply the noxious smoke accompanying the dragon, and a creepy skeleton. Very typical of the genre, but Ditko does a good job with it all.
The use of washes helps make Salamand's magic look airy, which contrasts well with Garth's down-home solidity. It's practical American weapons versus the mystical Asian weirdness!
Tanya ends up stabbing Salamand, because Archie Goodwin was never too bound by convention and Tanya was able to break free of Salamand's will (his battle with Garth did weaken him, but it's still cool that Tanya was able to win out). The top row is terrific, as Ditko draws both men in close-up, struggling mightily against each other. Very cool stuff.
After this, Ditko did some work for DC, so let's check some of that out! In 1968, we got Beware the Creeper #1, an odd book that isn's quite as beautiful as his Warren work mainly because, I imagine, he had more of a deadline at DC than he did at Warren.
This nice work – the placement of both characters, the Terror and Jurgen; the worry on Jurgen's face; the slanting of the panel adding momentum to the Terror's swing through the window; even the moment Ditko chooses – right before the glass breaks – is meant to heighten the tension. It's well done.
Ditko was never the best at action because his figures were always a bit too angular, but as far as blocking out a fight scene, he was very good at it. This page is laid out well, and while I don't love the lack of fluidity in the figures, the way Ditko moves us through the page is handled perfectly well. Which is nice.
This is a nice panel, showing the chaotic nature of the Creeper and how he can terrorize even the bad guys, as he shows no concern for his own safety and freaks out the Terror, who presumably doesn't want to die and can't believe the Creeper is apparently going to kill them both. That crazy Creeper!
Ditko didn't just work for DC in the late 1960s and 1970s, though. He did some work with Wallace Wood, too, and our next selection is from Heroes, Inc. #2 from 1976. This is Ditko inked by Wood, which is interesting, to say the least.
Ditko's hard lines and Woody's lush inking clash in a good way in this story, as we see here, with recognizable Ditko figures softened considerably by Wood's inks. Ditko, as we've seen, was not adverse to making his comics sexy, but for Wood, comics were sex, so it's not surprising that he makes Ditko's pencils a bit more sensual.
Pop Culture Rule #1: Never trust the woman!
This is a nice drawing, inked well. Sometimes that's all that matters!
More nice work from two masters. We see Ditko faces on the torturer and Cannon, but Wood's inks on Erika make her far curvier than your usual Ditko female (even though Ditko could draw beautiful women, naturally, but they still were a bit more angular than Wood's women, who were all curves). Boy, Cannon has a haircut you can set your watch by, doesn't he?
When Cannon gets chased through the castle by the four assassins, we see things from their points of view. It's nicely done, and it shows the claustrophobia of the castle quite well.
This is a nice sequence, mainly because the shadows in the final row allow Cannon to kill the assassin fairly gruesomely but without showing too much of it – the readers can imagine his face as Cannon hangs him. Ditko does a nice job with laying the page out here.
Moving on, we get Coyote #7 from 1984, in a story that Steve Englehart wrote for Ditko. In this story, Ditko is inked by Steve Leialoha, who's a much different kind of artist than Wood or Ditko. So let's take a look!
Despite Ditko not focusing on any one person in this splash page, we can see Ditkovian touches throughout. Leialoha is a rougher artist than Ditko, and his inks make the work a bit scratchier, which fits the setting (modern Cairo, although Cairo did not look like this in 1984, so it's a bit ridiculous).
Hey, it's Namor, the Sub-Mariner! What's he doing in Cairo?
This is, honestly, a nice inking job, especially the last three panels. Leialoha softens Ditko's pencils and adds a lot of blacks, so Cairo looks a bit more mysterious and spooky. Ditko lays the page out well, and Leialoha does a nice job making it work.
Ditko draws a sexy female, whose name is Sharaia but who looks like a Karen. She's very much a Ditkovian kind of gal, with the slightly large chin and the nice eyebrows. And look at that beautiful inking on the back wall in the final panel. That's good stuff.
This is another nice page, because it shows both the Ditko-ness of it – the figure work in panel 3, the face in the final panel – and Leialoha's solid inking. They made a pretty good team.
I'm going to skip the ninth day of Ditko that I did, because it was Daredevil #264 and it wasn't the best Ditko work, and skip right to Marvel Comics Presents #83 and "The Matchstick and the Moth," a story starring the Human Torch.
I don't have too much to say about this story except to note how nice it looks. It's Erik Larsen inking Ditko, and they also make a nice team. Larsen's cartoony line work softens Ditko's hardness just a bit, even though the Moth is clearly a Ditko woman. On the third page, the final panel is very Larsen-esque, but overall, he simply makes the characters a bit less angular and adds some nice shading, with colorist Santiago Oliveras doing a nice job, too.
So that's some of my old stuff on Ditko. The dude was amazing, and even if you don't focus on his Spider-Man and Doctor Strange work, he was still incredible. I also love that he just kept plugging away for years, doing his own thing and giving no fucks about anyone. You do you, Ditko!


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According to this thing, the Whatever is worth $501,876.06, based on price AOL paid for the various Weblogs, Inc. properties back in the day. Yes, and if I had vested and sold all my AOL stock in 2000, I would be a millionaire now. Money is fun when it's imaginary and pointless. Now I'm off. […]
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The latest on the solar system: a proposal for 12 planets, which would reintroduce Ceres as a planet (ha! Take that, history!), albeit as a "dwarf planet," reclassify Pluto's moon Charon as a planet, and dub both Pluto and Charon as "Plutons," to distinguish them from "dwarf planets," I suppose, although apparently they will be […]

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When the word "wheat" is used in the same sentence as bread or rolls, my mind immediately links with the word "heavy". Nothing could be further from the truth with Not Your Granny's Whole Wheat Rolls. The combination of wheat flour and white flour (2-1) along with a little orange juice in the dough (to mellow any bitterness in the wheat) makes for a unbelievable light, fluffy and delicious experience with wheat that you've never had before.
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Not Your Granny's Whole Wheat Rolls
- 1 packet "highly active" active dry yeast or 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast, or 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast I use SAF yeast.
- 1 cup lukewarm water divided
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter cut into 6 pieces
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 cups whole wheat flour ( I used King Arthuwhite whole wheat flour)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 2/3 cup instant mashed potato flakes*
- 1/4 cup dry milk
If you're using active dry or "highly active" yeast, dissolve it with a pinch of sugar in 1/2 cup of the lukewarm water. Let the yeast and water sit at room temperature for 15 minutes, until the mixture has bubbled and expanded. If you're using instant yeast, you can skip this step.
Combine the dissolved yeast with the remainder of the water and the rest of the ingredients. Mix and knead everything together—by hand, mixer or bread machine set on the dough cycle—till you've made a smooth dough. If you're kneading in a stand mixer, it should take about 5 to 7 minutes at second speed. In a bread machine (or by hand), it should form a smooth ball.
Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl. Cover the bowl, and allow the dough to rise, at room temperature, till it's quite puffy but not necessarily doubled in bulk, about 90 minutes. Rising may take longer, especially if you've kneaded by hand. Give it enough time to become quite puffy. Check the tips below for rising help.
While the dough is rising, lightly grease a 9″ x 13″ pan, or two 9″ round cake pans.
Gently deflate the dough, and transfer it to a lightly greased work surface. Divide into 16- 24 pieces, depending on if you want larger or smaller rolls.
Shape each piece into a rough ball by pulling the dough into a very small knot at the bottom (think of a balloon with its opening knotted), then rolling it under the palm of your hand into a smooth ball.
Place the rolls in the 9″ x 13″ pan, or put eight rolls in each of the round cake pans, spacing them evenly; so they won't touch one another.
Cover the pans with lightly greased plastic wrap, and allow the rolls to rise for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. They'll become very puffy, and will reach out and touch one another. While the rolls are rising, preheat the oven to 350°F.
Bake the rolls for 15 minutes, and tent them loosely with aluminum foil. Continue to bake until they're mahogany-brown on top, but lighter colored on the sides, an additional 10 to 13 minutes.
Remove the rolls from the oven. Serve warm, or at room temperature.
Recipe Notes
-I didn't have instant mashed potato flakes on hand so I used a dried product called potato pearls. Potato pearls need to be dissolved in warm water. I dissolved the potato pearls in the remaining 1/2 cup of warm water called for in the recipe, then added the rest of the ingredients.
-I learned from Frieda this trick for helping bread to rise. Microwave a cup of water for about 2 minutes. Remove the cup of water and immediately place bowl of dough (covered) into the microwave to rise. The heat and moisture from the cup of water will create a warm, moist environment perfect for proofing dough.
-Don't bother heating the orange juice to lukewarm; you can use it straight out of the fridge. The orange juice won't add its own flavor to the rolls, but will mellow any potential bitterness in the whole wheat.
-Brush hot-from-the-oven rolls with melted butter, if desired, for a soft, buttery crust.
For a shiny crust, whisk together 1 large egg white + 1 tablespoon cold water. Brush on rolls just before baking; sprinkle rolls with quick-cooking oats as a garnish, if desired.
-The King Arthur website has oodles of great recipes that will incorporate wheat flour into your cooking. Check it out here.


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"S. M. Dudin's Report on His Trips to Central Asia in 1900 – 1902" in the Archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography
| 18 June 2021
Posted in Archival funds and collections
Tatyana G. Emelyanenko,
Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
"S. M. Dudin's Report on His Trips to Central Asia in 1900 – 1902" in the Archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography
The article presents one of historical and ethnographic sources kept in the Archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography – the report on the first museum expedition to Central Asia organized by S.M. Dudin in 1900–1902. This report is of great importance for studying the cultural history of the Central Asian region and also the emergence of ethnographic museology in Russia. S. M. Dudin's expeditions were the first ones, the work of which was based of specifically developed program of collecting objects, photographs, and ethnographic information for Russian museums. The article describes principal methods and thematic directions of Dudin's expedition work as he states them in his report; it characterizes the structure of the report and the contents of its sections. It focuses on the section dedicated to Sarts, settled Turkic- and -Tajik-speaking population of the central areas of Central Asia (settled Uzbeks and lowland Tajiks), whose culture Dudin described in detail. The article lists those components of their traditional culture which were examined in report: house and house furnishing, food, clothing, adornments, hairstyles, agriculture and husbandry, hunting, fishing, arms and military equipment, pharmacy, children's toys and adults' entertainments, organization and attributes of religious life, etc. The article gives examples of S.M. Dudin's specific methods of collecting and photographing. It underscores several particularly valuable and unique pieces of evidence concerning certain traditional crafts and homemade production, in particular receipts of vegetal and mineral textile pigments, techniques of copper objects making, paper production technologies, which can be used for revitalization and development of modern folk arts. The article also provides little-known facts about the organization of religious life and dervishes' activities, pastime and entertainments of the population and a unique local custom of combining profession of illusionist with preaching.
Archives, historical sources, The Russian Museum of Ethnography, S.M. Dudin, central Asia, Uzbeks, Tajiks, traditional culture.
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ABASHIN S. Natsionalizmy v Srednei Azii: v poiskakh identichnosti [Nationalisms in Central Asia: In Search of Identity. In Russ.]. St. Petersburg, Aleteiya publ., 2007, 303 р.
VISHNEVETSKAYA, V. A. Iz zhizni i deyatel'nosti S. M. Dudina – khudozhnika, sobiratelya, issledovatelya [From life and activities of S. M. Dudin - artist, collector, researcher. In Russ.]. IN: Iz istorii formirovaniya etnograficheskikh kollektsii v muzeyakh Rossii (XIX–XX vv.) [From the history of formation of ethnographic collections in the Russian museums (19th – 20th century). In Russ.]. St. Petersburg, 1992, рр. 84–106.
DMITRIEV, S. V. Shtrikhi k sobiratel'skoi deyatel'nosti S.M. Dudina [Touching up the collecting activities of S. М. Dudin. In Russ.]. IN: Sbornik muzeya antropologii i etnografii [Proceedings of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. In Russ.], vol. 52, St. Petersburg, 2006, pp. 96–106.
PRISHCHEPOVA, V. A. K 150-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya S.M. Dudina – khudozhnika, etnografa [On the 150th anniversary of S. M. Dudin - artist, ethnographer. In Russ.]. IN: Antropologicheskii forum, 2011, no. 15 (Onlin), pp. 608–649.
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Submitted 10.01.2018, published (for citation):
EMEL'YANENKO, T. G. "Otchet S. M. Dudina o poezdkakh v Srednyuyu Aziyu v 1900–1902 gg." v arkhive Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeya ["S. M. Dudin's Report on His Trips to Central Asia in 1900 – 1902" in the Archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. In Russ.]. IN: Vestnik arhivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2019, no. 1, pp. 214-224. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2019-1-214-224


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Barclays Bank is working with Amazon for a London Click and Collect trial that, if successful, could roll out across the nation (reports Finextra).
Customers of Amazon, which has a sizeable bicycle and P&A retail offering, will be able to order items online and pick them up from branches of the bank. Barclays has 1,500 High Street outlets nationwide.
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Drawing on testimony from women survivors of the sex trade, German feminist activist, Manuela Schon, writes about mechanisms women use to survive prostitution and why exiting can be so hard, why we need to hold the perpetrators accountable, and how prostitution has a key role in maintaining male supremacy and the second class status of all women and girls. The article was first published in German on the Abolition 2014 website. The English translation is by Elisabeth Lauer. Read More
The Ever Increasing Concentration of the Sex Industry in Germany
Francine Sporenda interviews Manuela Schon about the legalised sex industry in Germany and the impact of new regulations. Manuela is a sociologist and political activist in Germany. She co-founded "Abolition 2014 – Für eine Welt ohne Prostitution" and "LINKE für eine Welt ohne Prostitution." She is a blogger at the radical feminist blog "Die Störenfriedas." Read More


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text: The Ratnagirishwar Temple is a temple which was created as a tribute to its presiding deity, Lord Shiva. The name Ratnagirishwar can be translated into the Lord of Ratnagiri, which is another name for Lord Shiva. This temple is located in one of Chennai's rather affluent suburbs, called Besant Nagar which is located near the coast of Chennai. This means that this temple is blessed with a very pleasant climate as well. There is a great influx of devotees to this temple on a regular basis and the number of devotee's increases by a great degree upon the two major festivals which are celebrated here. The first of these is the Maha Kumbh-Abhishekam celebration and the other is the Maha Shivaratri festival, both of which are attended by a large number of devotees who spend all day here, immersed in the various rituals which form part of these celebrations. These rituals are performed as per the customs and formalities prescribed by the Vedas.


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|Bernolákova 1, Bratislava
Ľudovít Jendreják, Ferdinand Konček, Iľja Skoček, Ľubomír Titl, Georgi Tursunov
1961 – 1967
On a site intended for German-language schools during the war years, a university dormitory of two thousand beds was created in the early 1 960s – a symbol of the distance that Slovak architecture travelled over just under two decades from traditionalism back to modernity. Composed of two three-tract blocks, the dormitory is built of concrete panels using the system BA, connected by a glass passageway. With their own toilet, washbasin and shower, the rooms were originally designed for two persons. Attached to the eleven-storey blocks is a lower wing with a dining hall, social area, swimming pool and exercise room. Despite the free asymmetric composition, the building creates a cultivated sense of proportions when approached from the square. The entire architectural idea is founded on the refined combination of the stereotomic accommodation blocks and the tectonic structure of the large areas of glass in the lower sections.
ŠVANIGA, Juraj: Internát na Legionárskej ulici. Projekt 2, 1960, 6, p. 247 – 250.
Vysokoškolský internát na Legionárskej ulici v Bratislave. Projekt 9, 1967, 8/9, p. 203 – 206.
KUSÝ, Martin: Architektúra na Slovensku 1945 – 1975. Bratislava, Pallas 1976. 288 p.
DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002. 512 p.
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Dr. Clarke currently serves as an Ambassador of Jamaica in the area of Economic Affairs and he has previously served as a Senator in the appointed Upper House of Parliament in Jamaica where he focused on legislation concerned with economic, financial and business issues.
He is Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra of Jamaica, a non-profit that empowers youth in Jamaica through classical music education and a member of the board of directors of the YOA Orchestra of the Americas.
Dr. Clarke has a D.Phil. in Numerical Analysis from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics also from Oxford University and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the West Indies.
Clarke is on leave from the Dialogue until the end of his term in office.


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Jonathon Banks was just 30 years old and still fighting his own battles in the squared circle when his trainer and mentor, Emanuel Steward, was stricken with colon cancer.
That's when Banks — who had zero experience as a trainer — was approached by the heavyweight champion of the world, Wladimir Klitschko (also trained by Steward) to step in as his coach while the iconic Hall of Famer recovered.
When asked why he thinks Klitschko sought him out, Banks can only laugh. "Honestly, I have no idea," he said.
We had a compelling and candid conversation with Klitschko's trainer on Sunday's Ringside Boxing Show, during which Banks talked in-depth about the level of intimidation he felt trying to fill the shoes of one of the greatest trainers of all time. Banks also talked to us about his early days at Kronk Gym (where he began training at age 15), the differences between boxing and training, and multiple other topics.
Our interview with Johnathon Banks is preceded by Paul McLaughlin's report on the UK boxing scene, plus expert analyst from Travis Hartman, Rizwaan Zahid, and John J. Raspanti, who analyze rumors about three exciting match-ups — Wilder-Ortiz, Porter-Garcia, Kovalev-Barrera, and Charlo-Lubin. They also talk about the disturbing personal tailspin of former middleweight king Jermain Taylor.
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We may not get to see our 2020 favourites take to the stage, but that doesn't mean we can't reminisce on our Eurovision favourites. This series is aimed to discover the team's favourite entries from the 21st century, from 2001 to 2019.
In collaboration with ESCDaily, we will be reviewing some of their 21st Century favourites, while over on their site, you will find their reviews of our favourites!
Below our reviews, you will find a poll where you can vote for your favourite Eurovision entry from the 21st Century.
Anita Reviews Dennis' 21st Century Favourite
Antique – (I Would) Die For You | 3rd place, 147 points (Final)
I have to admit, I have a pretty vague recollection of this song. I could pick it out if it started playing, but I wouldn't be able to recite a single line of the song. I might have to revoke my membership in the Eurovision fandom because of this, because this Greek entry is the one that everyone still talks about, even though it's been almost 20 years since it was performed on the Eurovision stage.
Now that I've heard this song again, I can see why it did well at Eurovision. I love the mix of traditional Greek instrumentation with the catchy pop beat. The chorus is undeniably catchy, and easily the highlight of the song. The staging is slick, but perhaps could have been improved with more movement. Overall, this is a decent entry from Greece, but I have to say that I prefer Helena's winning entry in 2005.
Joshua Reviews Brandon's 21st Century Favourite
Antique – (I Would) Die For You | 3rd place, 147 points (Final)
This entry is timeless. It says a lot about a song when it feels just as relevant almost 20 years later. What stands out in this track is the Greek instrumentation, blended seamlessly into a pop song. Maybe the staging was a little static, but it let this great song shine. Arguably, Greece deserved to win in 2001, so it was only fair that Helena Paparizou returned in 2005 and took out top spot!
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CBRAIN: Canadian Brain Research And Informatics Platform
Project Overview
Advances in neuroimaging over the past several years have provided researchers with unprecedented access into the inner workings of the brain. Such data can be collected non-invasively from human subjects so that dynamic changes in brain and behavior can be captured during normal development, aging, learning and plasticity. However, the collection and analysis of such detailed information requires an enormous amount of data and processing capacity. Dr. Evans and his team have developed the Canadian Brain Imaging Research Platform (CBRAIN), a web portal that provides researchers with the tools to overcome the large-scale data processing challenges of neuroimaging. The platform connects 300+ researchers in brain imaging centres across Canada and around the world, enhancing the ease with which researchers can share complex 3D and 4D brain imaging data collected from large multi-centre research projects. The platform is currently being used to uncover the underpinnings of key neurological disorders impacting society, including autism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Beyond this, CBRAIN provides a framework that can be configured to accept and analyze data from any discipline, in line with Dr. Evans' ultimate goal of establishing Canada as a global hub for "big data" research into the normal and abnormal brain.
Principal Investigator
Alan Evans , Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University
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Faisal Beg, Simon Fraser University
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A man who faked qualifications to land a job in charge of the driving standards of paramedics who attend 999 calls has been sent to prison for three years.
Simon Macartney earned more than £200,000 in wages during four years as the driving standards manager at South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), after falsely claiming he had been a police traffic officer.
At his sentencing hearing on Friday, Guildford Crown Court heard his dishonesty was "truly staggering".
Macartney, of Woodham Lane, New Haw , was found guilty of one charge of fraud and a further offence of making or supplying articles for use in fraud, following an eight-day trial.
Sentencing him on Friday (March 23), Judge Andrew Goymer said: "I am bound to come to the conclusion that the evidence in this trial and the jury's verdict shows that he has been thoroughly and persistently dishonest from start to finish in this case."
He went on: "In 2011, when he applied for the job, he made false representations about his driving qualifications and then, when he was challenged by colleagues as to whether he did truly possess the qualifications, his reaction was one of bluster, evasion and stonewalling and then complaining about the behaviour of other colleagues who were, according to him, harassing him.
"Most people would think that an honest person in that situation would simply produce their qualifications. There could be no better way of silencing critics on that score.
"But what the defendant did was to resort to producing false documents, in some cases qualifications from a colleague who he had known when he was a special constable in the Surrey Police , and other documents he had obtained."
The judge said the offence had called into question public confidence in the ambulance service, which people had a right to believe had employed people qualified to do the work they were paid for.
"The dishonesty of this defendant, when one listens to the evidence, is truly staggering," he said.
The offence was, however, out of character for a man who had volunteered as a first responder, and as a special constable with Surrey Police for many years, the court was told.
Another mitigating factor was that the crime did not put the public directly at risk, as Macartney's role was managerial and he did not drive vehicles he was not qualified to, the judge said.
He told the defendant: "It gives me no pleasure to have to sentence a man like you with your positive record and the many things that have been said in your favour.
"As I have said, this was serious offending, and it is not the type of offending that can be overlooked."
The judge also singled out SECAmb for criticism, saying their system of checking employees' qualifications was a "disaster waiting to happen", and something Macartney had taken advantage of.
The process used by the trust "left much to be desired" and "was thoroughly lax", the court heard.
Staff did not demand to see original proof of qualifications after jobs were offered to applicants, and no records were kept of what documents were added to professional files when, and by whom.
Michelle Rhodes, a specialist fraud prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Macartney created a web of lies to make sure the trust believed he had the experience and qualifications needed for such an important job.
"He maintained these lies throughout his employment, frequently referring to his time as a police traffic officer when he had actually been a civilian police staff member.
"The CPS presented evidence of Macartney's many falsified driving certificates and the jury has found him guilty."
A SECAmb spokesman said: "Mr Macartney was suspended when we were made aware of these allegations before he was dismissed in May 2016.
"Our counter-fraud team, RSM, carried out a thorough investigation ahead of the trial. We welcome the decision of the court following this detailed and lengthy investigation."
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The letter Q, not an easy one to find many songs for. That's why this is a bit of a mish mesh of different songs. None of these songs are necessarily life long favorites, but they just sound nice. From tango music all the way to French chansons: like always I'm taking you on a trip around some of my favorite songs in my music collection.
Que Vendra – Alfredo Marcucci, Lo
Yes, tango music. I have quite a strange taste in music sometimes, but when the music is good, it's good and that's all that matters. I forgot how I came across this song, but I remember loving it straight away.
Queen Charlotte Of The Hyenas – Chucky Danger
This track never fails to put a smile on my face. And that's why it belongs in my list of favorites. It's as easy as that.
Queen of the City – Joshua James
I came across Joshua James via one of my indie playlists and I immediately liked what I heard. Queen of the City is one of my favorites as it has quite the earwurm chorus. I also love the vocals on this.
Queen of Tomorrow – The Twilight Hours
Another easy listening track. This sounds like something that could have been released in the 90s, but it wasn't. It's a track from 2009, but sounds like a toned down version of Smashmouth or dare I say Counting Crows. This song is definitely in the same vein as those bands and I love it exactly because of that throwback quality.
Quelqu'un m'a dit – Carla Bruni
We started this post with tango music and we're ending it with French singer songwriter. Before Carla Bruni became the first lady of France she was not only a model, but she also released a few albums. A few of those songs made it onto my playlists and this song in particular has been a standard in my music collection.


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9th October 2019
9th October 2019
In 2013, Lord Jackson introduced the Whiplash Law Reforms, this was the first step in limiting potential fraudulent claims.
The reforms included stopping the ability of claimant solicitors to recover their success fee (a fee to compensate the risk of 'no win, no fee' agreements) from defendant insurers, meaning this fee was only recoverable from claimant damages. He introduced the fixed costs, meaning claimant solicitors were only able to recover on average £500 in costs, his aim was to limit the appeal of fraudulent claims from people looking to make a 'quick buck' after a small bump.
Now, when the Civil Liberty Bill is in force there will be even more limits on which cases in which claimant solicitors will be able to assist injured parties. The Bill limits any Road Traffic Accident claims under £5,000 in value to the Small Claim track, meaning the costs recovered are unlikely to be profitable enough for solicitors to provide assistance. Currently this limit is £1,000 in all types of personal injury claim.
With the average whiplash claim being in the region of £2,000 - £3,000 this means the majority of road traffic accident claimants will be unable to seek legal advice in their claim.
The Bill has been delayed currently to April 2020 as the MOJ are introducing a 'litigant in person portal'. This will be an online portal for an injured person to submit their claim. This idea is of course full of problems in itself, it assumes that the general population will have the knowledge and access to a computer and the internet, again limiting justice for those most vulnerable to potential under settlement of claims. It assumes the general population are able to self-diagnose their injuries and predict when they will recover and how their injuries may affect them in the long run.
It assumes the general population will be aware of everything they are able to incorporate in their claim, for example, I find claimants are generally surprised to learn they are able to claim for care and assistance provided by family members, for telephone calls to insurers, doctors, car hire companies, for travel costs to medical professionals and at what rate they are able to claim.
If the Bill does allow for an independent medical assessment in these cases, it poses the question of how the appropriate medical expert will be sourced and funded, potentially putting more limits on a claimant to potentially fund this cost themselves
Unfortunately, the fundamental belief of access to justice for all is slowly being chipped away and those who can afford to pay privately for expert advice and advocacy will without doubt be in a better position widening the already growing social class gap.


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Ferrari just reported a third quarter sales sales uptick of nearly 11 percent, which it attributes to demand for its V8 powered Portofino. Sales of the V12 Superfast rose 7.9 percent. The best-selling three cars in the U.S. are big trucks – the Chevy Silverado, Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram 1500. These are not being produced at bayonet-point, via mandates – and the people buying them don't need their palms greased as inducements to buy them.
Contrast this with the sales of electric cars so far this year – of which there were none.
A number of them did change hands, it's true. But to describe the exchange as a "sale" is to abuse the language, akin to referring to Bruce as "her."
Each one must be given away at a net loss. This includes most especially the Tesla3, which the company falsely proclaims is "selling" well. Tesla is taking in money, perhaps. In the manner of Tony Soprano.
But it is not making money selling cars.
Not if you exclude the money paid to Tesla by its enforcer, the government – or the money which others are forced to pay the government but which the government so generously exempts Tesla from paying. These latter – the various "tax breaks" received by the "buyers" of Teslas and other EVs – are considered by some to be innocuous, even desirable because (so the argument goes) the government is simply refraining from taking.
The problem is that the government still takes from others and by doing that – but not doing it to others – the government is advantaging the one at the expense of the other. It is analogous to your neighbor being exempted from being forced to pay the property tax on his home. Meanwhile, you have to pay – and probably pay a bit more – in order to make up the shortfall.
Your neighbor gets to build an addition to his place.
It is hard to divine the full extent of the EV's plugging-in to other people's pockets, but we can get a general idea:
"Zero emissions"/Carbon Credits – This is a payment made by a manufacturer of standard cars to the manufacturer of electric cars in order to avoid having to actually make electric cars. The buyer gets credit for not making them . . . in exchange for cash.
It is an extorted payment, made under duress, to comply with "zero emissions" production mandates, which require every company selling cars in that state to sell a certain number of "zero emissions" electric cars or else be denied permission to sell any cars whatsoever in that state.
California has had such a mandate in place for years and it has been used by Tesla to subsidize its otherwise not-viable business with the money earned by viable businesses. If the carbon credit system did not exist, Tesla would probably not exist – or would have folded years ago.
Sales of non-electric cars have been subsidizing the development of EVs via nonconsensual wealth transfers – which are fundamentally mo different than the way Obamacare mulcts the young, healthy and responsible for the benefit of the old, sick and irresponsible.
CAFE – The government has been decreeing that vehicles must average "X" miles-per-gallon since the 1970s, which has distorted the car market in numerous ways most people are unaware of.
CAFE – rather than changing market tastes – caused the extinction of the large, rear-wheel-drive sedans and wagons with big V8s that were commonly bought by average people pre-CAFE. These were reincarnated in the form of large, V8 SUVs (which for a time were held to a much lower CAFE standard; this provided an end-run around the CAFE mandate in favor of the market).
CAFE also subsidizes EVs – by imposing another de facto production mandate.
Since electric cars use no gas, there is an artificial, at-gunpoint incentive (CAFE is not a voluntary program) to add more EVs to the lineup, in order to bump up the overall average mileage of the company's lineup of vehicles.
The real reason for the otherwise inexplicable announcements by so many car companies that they will shortly be adding EVs to their lineups is not because of market demand but because they feel the tip of the CAFE bayonet in the small of their backs.
The mandatory minimum which each car company's fleet was required to average increased slowly and incrementally for decades – until recently.
In the last year of the Obama presidency, a fatwa – a decree handed down by a federal bureaucracy – announced that the current standard would be almost doubled to 50-plus MPG by the mid 2020s.
There is no known way to achieve compliance with such a standard without lots of EVs. And this is one of the main reasons for the sudden "commitment" to EVs.
This time, the subsidization of EVs will come directly from the buyers – whose choices are being artificially and coercively winnowed down to only EVs – or a diminishing number of non-EVs, the prices of which will become exorbitant via federal fines and price-padding by their manufacturers, to offset the losses incurred by the artificial tide of EVs.
IC No-Go Zones – In Europe, which is a big market and also the home market of several major brands such as VW/Audi, BMW and Mercedes (as well as Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo) laws have been passed forbidding the use of non-electric cars in certain areas, such as downtown areas of cities – rendering cars which are not electric cars essentially useless to their owners.
This is another legislated inducement that favors EVs using force – by forcing people to not use (or buy) cars which aren't electric. It is also another means by which EVs are subsidized – at gunpoint – via the offices of government. People are forced to either buy the EV – which costs substantially more than an IC-engined car – or pay more for the remaining non-IC cars, which are used to subsidize the EVs.
While the U.S. hasn't yet got IC No-Go Zones, the odds are high that they will appear in Leftward-controlled areas such as CA and even if they don't, the fact that they already exist in Europe – where all those major brands are headquartered – effectively forces those manufacturers to build the EVs and attempt to "sell" them everywhere – including here.
Consider it Obamacare on wheels.
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The world sees prosperity as having a big house, and lots of nice cars. They see money and women all around you as prosperity. They look to icons like Micheal Jordan, Hugh Hefner, or Snoop Dog as what it means to be successful. Others look to politicians, or kings of finance like warren buffet. What is prosperity from God's point of view?
1 Thessalonians 5:22-24 22Avoid every kind of evil. 23May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
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God is interested in WHOLE person prosperity.
- He wants you to get born again and filled with his Spirit. That's spirit prosperity.
- He wants you to have a renewed mind and knowledge and wisdom and understanding.
- He wants you to have healing and health, long life, wealth, and protection from attacks of the enemies of your life and calling. That's body prosperity.
What purpose does prosperity hold for God's people?
First of all, the earth was created for man not for God. He created it for us. He gave all things for us to enjoy. In this fallen world we are to make disciples of all men, preaching and teaching the Kingdom of God. This is hard to do without money. You can only reach so many and so far without money for travel, to print bibles and materials, to reach more.
I heard the story of Warren Buffets niece who was cut off from the family fortune because she offended his way of doing things. The reaction of all who heard the story was the same. "How awful! that rich man cutting off his niece from the fortune of the family. It was considered horrible that he gave little to his family and made each person even his sons work their own money…" Why? Why is this SO BAD.
The bible says that a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. Everyone instinctively knows that a rich man holding his wealth from his own family is an evil thing. But how much worse would it be if the God of heaven and earth, the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and has streets made of Gold was holding out on his family. It was be an evil thing for God to live in total wealth and have his kids purposefully scrounging dumpsters. Far be it from God to do such a thing!
Those who are of God and not living in or on their way to living in his full prosperity and provision are those who are those who are ignorant of his Promises. Usually do to traditions of Men that taught it was holy to be poor, when the bible specifically and consistently calls poverty a curse.
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Home Phone setup and correctly filtering your hardware
If you're plugging in a telephony device into a socket without a modem, skip steps 1 and 2.
- Take one end of a phone cable and plug it into your modem's ADSL socket.
- Plug the other end of the phone cable into the port labelled ADSL on your line filter.
- Using another phone cable, plug one end into the appropriate socket on your telephony device (please consult the device's manual if you're not sure which socket this is).
- Plug the other end of the phone cable into the port labelled PHONE on your line filter.
- Plug the filter into your wall socket to finish.
Appendix - More information
Which devices need to be filtered?
- A modem that's sharing a wall socket with any of the devices listed below
- All telephony devices including telephones and fax machines
- Foxtel Digital units (these are plugged into a coaxial socket AND a telephony socket)
- EFTPOS machines
Modems that aren't sharing the same wall socket with another telephony device should not be filtered. Simply connect the ADSL port straight into the wall socket using an RJ-11 phone cable.
Does the plug fit?
If your home has the older 600-series wall sockets (typical plug is a yellow square with 3 prongs), you'll need to purchase an adapter that allows you to plug in a modern RJ11 phone cable. These adapters can be bought at all good electronics and computer stores.
Do I need a Central Splitter?
- If you have more than three telephony devices or a Monitored/Back to Base Alarm system, you'll need a central splitter.
- Please contact an licensed cabler who is registered with an ACMA-accredited registrar about installing a central splitter. This is an electrician who is properly licensed to work on telecommunications cables.
- Without a central splitter, it is likely that you will suffer phone and/or internet dropouts caused by interference between your modem and telephony devices.


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An excellent solution that will help you maintain your carpeting clean and health-friendly for a long We rely on the steam cleaning method which can be used for the sanitisation of carpets of various fabrics and sizes. Prices start at only £24 for the cleaning of a single bedroom carpet.
Available for landlords, tenants and real estate agents. The customer can choose whether the service will include carpet cleaning or not. Suitable for residential properties of any size and character. The starting price is set at barely £87 for the cleaning of a studio flat.
Includes regular and one-off home cleaning. The cost of this service varies from £9.5 to £12 per hour and it depends not only on the number of hours for which you have booked us but also on the hour and the day of the visitation. Regular cleaning jobs are done on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.
Covers not only ovens but also smaller cooking appliances like microwaves, hobs and extractors. We are equipped and trained to clean ovens of any brand, size and model including a small oven (for just £43) and a double oven (for only £63). We will clean your cooker on the inside and on the outside.
With our hot water extraction machines we'll make every fabric come back to life and for an office chair it will cost you as little as £5 per chair. We can also add scotchguard to protect the fabric from any more unwanted spillage.
The solution that will allow you to quickly clean your home after a house refurbishment. Involves the use of high-performance, heavy-duty cleaning machines and it is executed by trained cleaning experts that have CSCS card holders.
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What does it mean to win #itsaknockout? Jeff Burgess tell us #winnerPublished on: 30/03/2017
With this year's It's A Knockout fast approaching (Sun 9 July 2017) we spoke with Jeff Burgess, team captain of last year's winning team 'Din's Dynamos', to get his thoughts on our ridiculously fun fundraising event!
Why did you choose to take part in It's A Knockout 2016?
My wife Denise was cared for and passed away at Wirral Hospice St John's so it will always be a special place to myself and my family. It's A Knockout was the perfect event for us to all come together as a family and raise some money for the wonderful place and people that cared for Denise. The fun nature of It's A Knockout is exactly what she was about and she would have been there in spirit laughing and cheering us on.
You all raised a brilliant £920, how did your team go about fundraising your sponsorship?
We made a team JustGiving page then shared it with all our friends and family through our social media accounts. We also received paper sponsor forms from the Hospice which we took in to our workplaces. We were overwhelmed at how supportive everyone was and had exceeded the minimum sponsorship in no time.
What was your favourite part of the day?
The highlight for me was the Jungle River, it was hysterical seeing people flying through the foam and scrambling to get up the slippery slope. Oh and winning, of course!
How did it feel to be crowned winners?
Absolutely amazing! It was a real sense of achievement for us all knowing that we had come together as a family for Denise and won it for her. We were all a bit emotional to tell you the truth.
What would you say to other teams considering taking part this year?
Go for it! It's brilliant fun and will have you laughing from start to finish, foam and bouncy inflatables – what's not to love!! You don't need to be super fit for this one, just willing to give it a go and a sense of humour is a must! It really is a great day and knowing you are raising money for such an excellent local cause whilst having fun at the same time means everyone is a winner!
To find out how you can sign up a team to this year's It's A Knockout competition, please call our fundraising office on 0151 343 0778 or email email@example.com with your contact details.


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Burritt Room + Tavern hosts "Sunday Spirits", a celebration of exceptional whiskeys, bourbons, and other spirits. On select Sundays, Burritt Room welcomes master distillers and experts to bring their rare releases and high-end bottlings to be enjoyed by aficionados and novices alike. With paired snacks and small plates, guests will enjoy a flight of showcase spirits and hear from experts on the process that makes them so exceptional. Specialty cocktails featuring the spirits will be available for purchase.
In our second Sunday Spirits celebration, we raise a glass to exceptional Scotch, with ultra-aged Alexander Murray & Co scotches, including our own Burritt Room Private Cask Single Malt. The showcased scotches include the Highland Single Malt, a 53-year old full-bodied Scotch finished in ex-sherry casks. Expert William Lipp will be on hand to discuss these notable spirits.
Available for sale will be custom Burritt Room branded barrel staves and tasting glasses. Guests who purchase the glass and bring it into Burritt Room on future dates will receive 25% off whiskey flights in 2017. While supplies last.
Sunday, August 27, 6 PM- 8 PM
$65 Per Person
Alexander Murray & Co. Burritt Room Private Cask Glenallachie 12 Year Cask Strength
The youngest of the pours, this Scotch comes from Central Scotland, and is light in color, with fresh aromas of grass, stone, and herbal tea.
Alexander Murray & Co. - Bunnahabhain 28 Year Old Single Malt
Distilled in 1988, this spicy, fruity, and complex expression comes from Islay, one of the southernmost Scottish islands off the west coast and the Bunnahabhain distillery, founded in 1881.
Alexander Murray & Co. - Glenturret 34 Year Old Cask Strength
Alexander Murray & Co presents a fine expression of Highland single malt from Glenturret Distillery. Situated in Crieff, Perthshire, just off Loch Turret, Glenturret Distillery is one of the oldest – and smallest - in Scotland, officially producing whisky since 1775.
Alexander Murray & Co. - Highland Single Malt, 53 Year Old
Alexander Murray & Co presents a fine expression of single malt from the Highland region in Scotland, with a rich raisin and leather aroma and full-body with notes of dried fruit and molasses. Matured in ex-bourbon casks, this single malt was finished in ex-sherry casks.


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I'm in Canada and the system (2.5.2) has a second line for the addresses that some of my customers use (and my Canada Post application misses!) for things like their apartment number or sometimes there are countries WITH suburbs and they then happily fill it in - if we don't catch this Canada Post won't see it! ...now reading the earlier thread about this topic (Address Format and Address Line 2) from 2011 I see mention where this is a UK/US/AU switch - and I have no idea where this 'switch' is to turn it off.
Seems to me that Suburb should be Address Line 2 in any case, and not dropped as the other thread suggested "Only came to light due to upgrading data, from older releases. Another database table to ignore/convert during upgrades." - addresses can get pretty complicated around the world.
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The Story of Gender … Our final blog post.
It has been over a month now since Nupur and I left Delhi. The distance of time and space has given us the opportunity to really reflect on the project – the decisions that we made, where we succeeded, where we failed and what we finally achieved.
Initially, we were motivated by the gang rape of a woman that took place on 16 December 2012 in Delhi. We were also motivated by the mass activism and dialogue that ensued as a result of the rape. Nupur and I were determined to be part of it. We wanted our work to contribute to the dialogue and we wanted to create work that was truly meaningful. We left for Delhi inspired and motivated.
And when we got there we very quickly realized that making work that meaningfully responded to sexual violence was a lot more complicated than we had anticipated. Making this sort of work required a deep understanding of the underpinning complexities. If the work was to be really meaningful it had to consider amongst many things class, caste, tradition, religion, family, patriarchy, masculinity, femininity, social norms, education, cultural norms and so forth.
Through the Integrated Development Education Association (IDEA) NGO we met journalists, activists and NGO representatives working on human rights, masculinities, sexuality education and gender. These meetings reinforced our insight about the complexities involved. And with each meeting, the ideas that we had for our project became more and more daunting and overwhelming.
Then something happened. As we considered all these terms and constructs (social norms, masculinity, caste, etc) they started to flatten, their meanings started to collapse. They started to appear as forces in themselves as though they weren't linked to or about people. I don't think at the time we really articulated this 'flatness' of the terms but it is only now in hindsight that we are able to express that this is what we were responding to.
On reflection, we think it was this 'flatness' that was the catalyst in helping us define what the project was going to be about. We knew it was not going to be about finding solutions. And we knew it was not going to be about demonstrating our understanding of the underpinning drivers of sexual violence. What we wanted was for the project to be a record of how the complexities of gender (a complexity that underpins sexual violence) had been internalized in men and women's lives. We wanted the record to act as an accurate reflection of who we are as a collective.
We decided then that we were just going to listen, record and discover.
So we started collecting stories from men and women within the urban middle class of Delhi. The narratives we collected were not opinions or analysis or ideas about gender, they were stories and memories about lived experiences that contributed to the constructions of gender.
We collected stories from men and women from the urban middle class. We decided on the urban middle class for a number of reasons, the primary reasons being that although sexual violence occurred across class and caste, the responses to it were primarily targeted towards people in the lower classes. And given the short amount of time and limited resources we decided to reach out to communities that we were able to access with reasonable ease. We hope in the future to broaden our scope of focus to reach across India and beyond.
When we started to log the stories we were collecting, we continuously bumped against the terms and constructs that overwhelmed us initially. Except now they had a particular dimension that we could see and understand; they were now attached to people and their values, hopes and anxieties.
We then decided to edit the stories into 1 – 1.5 minute mini narratives. We mapped these mini-narratives along certain threads and themes. By doing so we were able to illustrate how certain abstractions are reified and experienced. For example when we looked at the idea of protection, we found that men were encouraged to assume the role of the protector of women (sisters, mothers, daughters, Aunts) and women are encouraged to assume that they needed to be protected by men. This idea is reflected in individual behaviours, in social constructions and even at the institutional level (an example of this is in an earlier post where I wrote about the Women's Only car on the Delhi subway). So in mapping the mini-narratives along themes like 'protection' the listener can hear how protection is experienced from various perspectives: enforcement, reception, and observation.
We will be developing an online platform to act as a repository for these mini narratives. We will meta-tag the mini narratives in a number of ways to allow the listener to curate them so that they get only the stories that they want to hear. For instance if they would like to hear a seamless stream of stories across age groups and genders along a specific theme, they will be able to get it. An example of this is if the listener would like to only hear about the first sexual experience of women and men aged 28 that is what will be played to them. The listener will have the opportunity to save what they curated so others have a chance to listen to it as well. The online platform will also give the listener the opportunity to contribute to the repository of mini-narratives so that their lived experiences can be heard alongside those of others.
We believe that when experienced as a whole, the repository of stories will show us the ways in which we have come to internalize constructions of gender with both harmful as well as beautiful consequences.
We are very keen to expand the collection of stories in the repository so that they are more reflective of the diversity of India. Additionally, our aim is to continue to collect stories, but to reach beyond India into other cultures and regions around the world.
We new that the collection of stories and the construction of an online repository for the stories would be a long-term endeavour and we wanted to do something as well that was a little more immediate and that referenced our observations.
One of our observations (as mentioned in an earlier post) is that we felt that men largely occupy the public spaces in Delhi. We saw men hanging-out on the streets together chatting, drinking tea, and watching the street. We rarely saw women doing the same. The women we saw appeared to be heading to a destination, they appeared to always be en-route to somewhere else and we seldom saw them 'hanging-out' or drinking a tea or having a chat on the street.
So we decided that our intervention would be a comment (or gentle confrontation) of what we saw as the male public face of Delhi. We photographed women in the middle of innocuous gestures and pasted these photographs in predominantly male dominated spaces in a particular neighbourhood of Delhi. We named this project Adda Baazi which when translated from Hindi means making a habit of hanging out.
The responses to our intervention were really affirming. A number of people (both men and women) felt that we were bringing to attention a norm that they hadn't noticed. The most affirming response we received was from a group of young women who upon looking at the documentation of the intervention, went to a male dominated teashop and sat down and had tea. They felt supported in doing so.
We have created a website for our final report for the Maharam Fellowship. We will share that with you shortly.
Nupur and Bathsheba.


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Nine-time Olympic track and field champion Carl Lewis says he wants a delay of up to two years for the Tokyo Olympics but rejects any bid to cancel them outright.
The 58-year-old US athletics legend told Houston television station KRIV that he backs the calls for postponement by USA Track and Field and USA Swimming due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
"The best part about that is they're creating some solidarity in their message," Lewis said.
"I just think it's really difficult for an athlete to prepare, to train, to keep their motivation if there's complete uncertainty. That's the hardest thing.
"Because it's a health issue, it's beyond everyone's control. I think most athletes are accepting that."
The Tokyo Olympics are set to start July 24 while US swim and athletics trials to determine the nation's two largest delegations for the event are set for June.
Many athletes have struggled to continue training while being forced to stay home to avoid spreading the deadly virus.
"The athletes cannot prepare for an Olympic Games if they don't have an Olympic Trials, if they don't have competition," Lewis said.
"I think USATF, in this case, stepped up. I think they're creating a voice that puts the athletes first and I think the athletes appreciate it."
Lewis called upon the International Olympic Committee to consider pushing back the Olympics to 2022, after the scheduled 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
"If we delay what should we do?" Lewis said. "I think a more comfortable situation would be two years and put it in the Olympic year with the Winter Olympics and then make it kind of a celebratory Olympic year.
"There are some athletes who are right on the edge of retiring that that may hurt, but in reality, you have to focus on what (will best serve) the masses."
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For Lewis, that would mean staging a Tokyo Olympics only two years ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"Two years isn't a big deal, and then two years later we have the summer (Olympics) again. I think that that would kind of give them time to re-prepare," Lewis told the TV station.
"I just think there's a way to put sports in its perspective, understand the athletes' lives and their dedication and give them a second chance they deserve in a way that they can be respected and also have a chance to be the best they can be."
Lewis, an assistant coach for the University of Houston track team, knows the pain of missing an Olympics.
He missed out on the 1980 Moscow Games after qualifying in the long jump and 4x100m relay when the United States boycotted the event.
Lewis said any idea to cancel the Tokyo Olympics outright was wrong.
"That would be devastating and what happens is, then all of a sudden you take the athlete's voice out of the conversation," Lewis said.
"Canceling to me would be a non-starter for the athletes. It's just not fair. If you delay and say this is what we're going to do, then it gives the athletes a chance to make a positive out of a negative."afp


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As law firms recognize the growing importance of an information governance (IG) strategy, they are beginning to think about how they can transform traditional records management (RM) staff into true IG professionals. This shift, which is driven by increasing regulatory demands and pressure from clients for stronger security, is making firms realize that IG requires a much broader set of skills than records management.
For instance, RM roles have traditionally involved the management of physical records and similar low-level operational functions. But IG demands a far more advanced skill set. Not only is there a need for the retention and proper destruction of records, there is ultimately a broader focus that supports the legal practice. This broader focus includes the handling of electronic matter files which requires leveraging document management systems as the primary content repository, expanding data security issues amid increasing regulatory demands, and digitizing physical documents. All of these functions require higher-level staff with a more strategic view and stronger technical backgrounds.
In order to support a strong information governance program, firms need to evaluate their existing talent and develop a strategy for evolving traditional records managers into IG professionals in a way that comports with the desired future IG structure and business plan.
This was the subject of the presentation I gave at the International Legal Technology Conference (ILTACON) alongside Leigh Isaacs, director of Records and Information Governance at White & Case LLP, as well as Jim Merrifield, Information Governance Risk and Compliance manager at Robinson & Cole. In the session, it was our goal to help firms identify a path to transform their resources in line with firms' IG strategy.
As law firms plan their 2019 initiatives, those that are ready to get serious about evolving RM to IG should follow the roadmap below to level up their staff in tandem with developing a holistic IG program.
Start with a thorough assessment of the current structure and staff members.
Before laying the groundwork for an IG program, it is critical to begin by assessing the records and information-related business requirements of the firm and its various practice groups. This context ensures firm-wide alignment with policy and processes, information that should be used to define the desired future state of the IG program. Once you have a vision for the new IG structure, compare it to the current structure. In doing so, assess the steps you will need to take to arrive at the desired state.
Since the design of a firm's IG program directly correlates to available staffing and skills, during this step, firms should also conduct a skills assessment and review performance of current RM managers. Often, a soft assessment is included in the process, which allows team members to express interest in learning more about certain areas. It can also identify individuals who already have skills they were not previously able to demonstrate. The entire assessment will determine the skillset, aptitude and interest RM employees have for supporting the future IG program. It will also help you understand where there are skills gaps so you can plan for the future structure. Armed with details from the assessment, your firm can begin to pinpoint opportunities for transitioning certain RM staff into new or enhanced positions that are more broadly IG-focused.
Design the IG framework and plan for implementation.
With a better understanding of the desired IG structure and skills needed to get to the next level, it is time to move into the operational design and planning phases. While designing the program, collaborate with administrative departments and practice teams to identify key business requirements that the expanded IG program can help to address. These objectives might include improving information management approaches, reducing reliance on paper files or enhancing firm-wide communication. Once your goals are solidified with input from the practice groups, it is time to define the new operational structure as well as the roles needed to support and sustain it.
Once the reorganization has been approved, you can begin developing an implementation plan. This plan should clearly define the mission, vision and goals of the IG program – while ensuring alignment with firm stakeholders. To ensure buy-in for the IG program, make sure the plan addresses all changes that are being made to business processes, organizational roles and structure. For further clarification, consider creating current and future-state flow charts to clarify the changing business processes. Finally, you should align your strategic IG implementation plan with the IT strategy and operations teams to ensure alignment and get buy-in from the C-suite.
Develop the staff accordingly to set them (and your IG program) up for success.
With a solid plan in place, you can begin establishing new roles and responsibilities based on the defined organizational structure. From there, determine the skills needed for each IG position – which could involve a range of skills specific to support matter mobility, increasingly complex matter security requirements, or managing the firm's intellectual property. Once this is complete, create job descriptions for the newly defined positions so existing RM staff, positioned to transition into IG roles, understand what their responsibilities will be.
At this point, it is recommended to benchmark the results from the skills assessment against the job requirements for the new roles. This will help you define a development and training plan for current RM staffers who exhibit the ability to take on more advanced roles. Then, identify the training and potential certifications the staff will need to perform their new roles and responsibilities at the firm. It is possible that the firm will also need to make external hires; if this is the case, work with your HR team to establish a plan for filling open positions in the new structure. For staff who will not be able to level up their skills, develop plans for their transition to a different area or out of the firm. It is critical to take a phased approach to upskilling current employees and handling staff departures and/or transitions.
Implement the new IG framework while managing change.
A new IG strategy is ready to implement once a combination of additional training, new reporting structures and outside hires have been completed. While rolling out the IG framework, determine methods and systems for monitoring implementation progress and gathering feedback from stakeholders and staffers about the initiatives' effectiveness. During the implementation stage, it is important to align technology with the new IG program. When announcing the IG program to the entire firm, demonstrate how the framework supports the firm's overarching business objectives.
Because implementing the new IG framework will shift many of the firm's processes, ensuring a sound approach to change management is key. To do so, create a comprehensive communications plan that includes key messaging, a detailed timeline, defined methods of communication (email, intranet announcements, handbooks, etc.) and clearly identified internal and external audiences who will receive information about the new structure.
Moving from RM to true IG takes time, investment and most importantly, a trained and empowered staff. While it is possible for law firms to develop a new IG framework in-house, the process can be daunting without a trusted advisor. At HBR, we have led many successful IG skills assessments, staffing and organization restructures and change management programs. If your law firm is thinking about the future of its IG program, please contact me at email@example.com.


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A Message From the Mayor
Dear Friends,
Yesterday, I learned that the Municipal League of Metro St Louis has filed petition signatures with the City Election Boards to establish a Board of Freeholders. The petition signatures have been submitted in 3 'batches', and more may be submitted.
The City Election Board is in the process of certifying the signatures received to date - it is not clear when that will be complete, but it could be soon.
Once a sufficient number of signatures are certified, the Mo Constitution gives me 10 days to appoint 9 members, who must then be approved by the Board of Aldermen within the same 10 day period. This is a legal requirement, not optional!
I am committed to nominating a panel of diverse, knowledgeable, caring, and thoughtful City voters, who are committed to providing equitable and enhanced economic opportunities, and safer neighborhoods for all.
If you are interested in serving, please complete the application and return it to email@example.com. You may also mail or bring it to my office at City Hall, Room 200.
For your reference, I have included the state statutes governing the powers and responsibilities of the Board of Freeholders, as well as information about the process.
This is a unique opportunity to serve our City. Please give it some thought and volunteer if you are able. The time commitment is estimated to be 5+/- hours per week for up to a year.
Thank you for your consideration and quick response if you are interested in serving.
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Mayor – St Louis
Published 8/6/2019
State Statutes
Article VI LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Section 30a and 30b
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Powers conferred with respect to intergovernmental relations --procedure for selection of board of freeholders.
Section 30(a). The people of the city of St. Louis and the people of the county of St. Louis shall have power
(1) to consolidate the territories and governments of the city and county into one political subdivision under the municipal government of the city of St. Louis; or,
(2) to extend the territorial boundaries of the county so as to embrace the territory within the city and to reorganize and consolidate the county governments of the city and county, and adjust their relations as thus united, and thereafter the city may extend its limits in the manner provided by law for other cities; or,
(3) to enlarge the present or future limits of the city by annexing thereto part of the territory of the county, and to confer upon the city exclusive jurisdiction of the territory so annexed to the city; or,
(4) to establish a metropolitan district or districts for the functional administration of services common to the area included therein; or,
(5) to formulate and adopt any other plan for the partial or complete government of all or any part of the city and the county.
The power so given shall be exercised by the vote of the people of the city and county upon a plan prepared by a board of freeholders consisting of nineteen members, nine of whom shall be electors of the city and nine electors of the county and one an elector of some other county.
Upon the filing with the officials in general charge of elections in the city of a petition proposing the exercise of the powers hereby granted, signed by registered voters of the city in such number as shall equal three percent of the total vote cast in the city at the last general election for governor, and the certification thereof by the election officials to the mayor, and to the governor, then, within ten days after the certification the mayor shall, with the approval of a majority of the board of aldermen, appoint the city's nine members of the board, not more than five of whom shall be members of or affiliated with the same political party.
Each member so appointed shall be given a certificate certifying his appointment signed by the mayor and attested by the seal of the city. Upon the filing with the officials in general charge of elections in the county of a similar petition signed by registered voters of the county, in such number as shall equal three percent of the total vote cast in the county at the last general election for governor, and the certification thereof by the county election officials to the county supervisor of the county and to the governor, within ten days after the certification, the county supervisor shall, with the approval of a majority of the county council, appoint the county's nine members of the board, not more than five of whom shall be members of or affiliated with the same political party. Each member so appointed shall be given a certificate of his appointment signed by the county supervisor and attested by the seal of the county.
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Section 30(b). Upon certification of the filing of such similar petitions by the officials in general charge of elections of the city and the county, the governor shall appoint one member of the board who shall be a resident of the state, but shall not reside in either the city or the county, who shall be given a certificate of his appointment signed by the governor and attested by the seal of the state.
The freeholders of the city and county shall fix reasonable compensation and expenses for the freeholder appointed by the governor and the cost shall be paid equally by the city and county. The appointment of the board shall be completed within thirty days after the certification of the filing of the petition, and at ten o'clock on the second Monday after their appointment the members of the board shall meet in the chamber of the board of aldermen in the city hall of the city and shall proceed with the discharge of their duties, and shall meet at such other times and places as shall be agreed upon.
On the death, resignation or inability of any member of the board to serve, the appointing authority shall select the successor. The board shall prepare and propose a plan for the execution of the powers herein granted and for the adjustment of all matters and issues arising thereunder. The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services as members, but the necessary expenses of the board shall be paid one-half by the county and one-half by the city on vouchers signed by the chairman of the board.
The plan shall be signed in duplicate by the board or a majority thereof, and one copy shall be returned to the officials having general charge of elections in the city, and the other to such officials in the county, within one year after the appointment of the board. Said election officials shall cause separate elections to be held in the city and county, on the day fixed by the freeholders, at which the plan shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the city and county separately. The elections shall not be less than ninety days after the filing of the plan with said officials, and not on or within seventy days of any state or county primary or general election day in the city or county.
The plan shall provide for the assessment and taxation of real estate in accordance with the use to which it is being put at the time of the assessment, whether agricultural, industrial or other use, giving due regard to the other provisions of this constitution. If a majority of the qualified electors of the city voting thereon, and a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting thereon at the separate elections shall vote for the plan, then, at such time as shall be prescribed therein, the same shall become the organic law of the territory therein defined, and shall take the place of and supersede all laws, charter provisions and ordinances inconsistent therewith relating to said territory. If the plan be adopted, copies thereof, certified to by said election officials of the city and county, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds for the city, and in the office of the recorder of deeds of the present county, and the courts of this state shall take judicial notice thereof.