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Here are area events happening now through the end of the month:
20-24 Wednesday-Saturday 7pm, Sunday 2pm. The newly formed Fitchburg Theater Company presents Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Outdoors on the beautiful campus quadrangle of Fitchburg State University. Admission will be donation-based, "Pay What You Can." Patrons are encouraged to bring their own blanket or chair. Parking is available in any lot on campus. For more information, visit www.fitchburgtheater.org.
21 Thursday 6:30pm. Strawberries and Champagne and Concord Band Kick-off. Sip champagne and linger at Fruitlands on the longest day of the year at this free Members-only summer kick-off at the tent. Stay a while to enjoy the Concord Band's first concert of the season, Music for the Solstice, starting at 7:15. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com or 978.456.3924 x289. For more information, visit www.fruitlands.org.
21 Thursday 7:15pm. Summer Concert Series with The Concord Band. Join Fruitlands for the 27th year of the Concord Band! Bring a picnic dinner or purchase food from The Harvard Lions Club. Perch on the hillside for a concert of classic Americana music and spectacular sunsets. Admission is per car: $10 for museum members, $15 for nonmembers. Gates open for your picnicking pleasure at 5:30. No rain dates. For more information, visit www.fruitlands.org.
22-24 Friday-Saturday 8pm Sunday 2pm. Theater at the Mount. Father of the Bride. You are cordially invited to a June wedding at TAM. This hilarious comedy is about a father who is overwhelmed by all of the turmoil – not to mention finances – caused by his daughter's out of control wedding. Wedding planners, florists, dress makers and pretty much everyone and everything that goes with a wedding invade his home as the wedding plans get bigger and more outrageous by the day! $20 ($15 matinee) $10 children. mwcc.edu/tam/shows/
22 Friday, 3–4:30 pm. Live entertainment at the Westminster Farmer's Market at Academy Hill, Westminster. History teacher Keith McLinden revives folk/rock classics by Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and many more along with contemporary songs and jazzy/bluesy/flamenco instrumentals on acoustic guitar.
22-24 Friday-Sunday. Zoar Outdoor DemoFest. Co -Sponsored by The Outfitters Shop at Zoar Outdoor and the Paddling School at Zoar Outdoor, this event is an opportunity to try out boats and gear on the river. The weekend is full of mini-classes and gear demos on the Deerfield River for beginner to advanced paddlers. Contact email@example.com for information and registration.
22 Friday 5pm. Blacksmith demonstration at Westminster Farmer's Market Academy Hill Road Westminster. For more information visit www.WestminsterFarmersMarket.com.
22 Friday 8pm. The Flatlanders. Live music at The Bull Run Restaurant Shirley, MA
23 Saturday. GoBig Training Day Jumptown Orange, MA. GoBig Training Day. These days will be "team for a day" events to improve big way skydiving skills. Day will consist of safety talk, more extensive than usual dirt dives, and video debriefs, plan on making 5 skydives for the day. This is not a walk-up event, you must pre-arrange your participation. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more info.
23 Saturday 8am-10:30am. Solstice Party 2012 Beer Breakfast at the Gardner Ale House. $11 Breakfast Buffet and 12 oz. beer. First 75 guests receive a Beer Breakfast Commemorative 12 oz. glass. Plus a performance by Millers River Morris Men at 9am. For more information, visit www.gardnerale.com.
23 Saturday 9am-noon. Rose Ledge Photo Hike with Beth Reynolds. The striking, rocky ledges, blooming mountain laurel and a visit to a porcupine den will provide plenty of photographic opportunities for hikers exploring one of the most scenic places on Northfield Mountain. Photographer and teacher Beth Reynolds will coach participants on shooting quality images while packing light, so bring only one camera, a light weight tripod and one or two lenses. The group's focus will be on learning to pay attention, reading the light and sharing in the observations of other group members to create better photos. Northfield Naturalist Beth Bazler will share information on mountain laurel, rocky ledges and the other plants and animals, who love this beautiful habitat. Wear a hat, long pants and sleeves and bring bug repellant, so we can take time and shoot comfortably. There is a fee of $10 per person and the event is for ages 12 and older. Pre-registration required by calling 1-800-859-2960.
23-24 Saturday–Sunday, 11 am–3 pm. Carnival Weekend at Davis Farmland, 145 Redstone Hill Rd., Sterling. Tackle an inflatable obstacle course, test your luck at carnival games, noodle blast a farmer, and enjoy crafts for kids of all ages. There's Popcorn, sno-cones, and so much more! It's fun, fun, fun at farmland. Call 978-422-MOOO. www.davisfarmland.com/farmland/farm_calendar.html..
23 Saturday 10am-noon. Open House at the Gardner Museum, 28 Pearl St., Gardner. According to author Lewis Carroll, "it's always teatime!" At the Gardner Museum, we have taken Carroll's quotation to heart and are presenting "Tea and Comfort." The exhibit will highlight antique and vintage tea pots, tea cups and tea accessories and hand-made antique quilts. Local quilters will be on hand to demonstrate their skills. Also, walking Tours of the Gardner Uptown Historic District. Tours begin outside the Gardner Museum, 28 Pearl St., Gardner. Free.
23 Saturday 10am-3pm. Community Art Experiences with Andy Moerlien at the Fruitlands Museum. Free with Admission. Join in the creative process with Artist-in-Residence Andy Moerlein. This is an outdoor event. Heavy rain or risk of lightning cancels. Visit fruitlands.org/events/DIYArt for more information.
23 Saturday, 11:30 am–2:30 pm. Old-fashioned picnic on Templeton Common, Routes 2A and 101, Templeton. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy a summer's day in a picturesque setting. Part of Templeton's 250th anniversary celebration, the day will include kids' games, entertainment and more. For details visit www.templeton250.com.
23 Saturday, 1 pm. Civil War Encampment demonstrations at the Narragansett Historical Society, 1 Boynton Road, Templeton. For details visit www.narragansetthistoricalsociety.org.
23 Saturday, 1–5 pm. Summer Stroll in downtown Leominster. Come "stroll" down memory lane as we celebrate the Leominster of decades past. Parade, classic cars, music, food, sidewalk sales. Visit www.leominsterevents.com.
23 Saturday, noon–2 pm. Tea Party (afternoon social) at the Gardner Museum, 28 Pearl St., Gardner. A tea party social will feature beverages, finger sandwiches and desserts. There will be live music. Adults $6, Children $3.00. Call 978-632-3277.
23 Saturday 8pm. Heather Maloney, The Rafters, Elizabeth Lorrey. Live music at The Bull Run Restaurant Shirley, MA.
24 Sunday. The 106th KESAJUHLA (Summer Festival) sponsored by the Finnish Center at Saima Park and the Raivaaja Foundation will be held at the Finnish Center at Saima Park, 67 Scott Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420, off Ashby State Road, Route 31. For information call Maija at 978-582-7717 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, visit www.saima-park.org.
24 Sunday. Groton Greenway River Festival. The Groton Greenway Committee is bringing back this FREE EVENT celebrating the Nashua River! Everyone is welcome! Includes free canoeing, live music, children's activities, environmental exhibits, and the famous cardboard canoe race!
24 Sunday, 9 am–5 pm. Rose Show at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. Call 508-869-6111 or visit www.towerhillbg.org.
24 Sunday 12pm-5pm. Old Fashioned Lancaster Community Day at the Lancaster Community Center, 39 Harvard Road, Lancaster. The following artists will be performing: 12pm-1pm Perry Desmond-Davies, 1:15pm-2:30pm Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli, 2:45pm-3:45pm The Rafters, 4pm-5pm Kim Jennings.
24 Sunday, 1-3 pm. Opening Reception for the 77th Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft at the Fitchburg Art Museum, 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. Call 978-345-4207 or visit www.fitchburgartmuseum.org.
25 Monday 6:30pm. Summer Kick-off with Ellen Allard at the Fitchburg Public Library. Join FPL for a musical evening with Ellen Allard as we begin our special activities for the summer in the Garden Room of the Youth Library. This program is free and open to all who love to sing and move to music! No registration is required. For more 27 Wednesday 2-6pm. Stanley Park Fitchburg. Fitchburg Parks Week. Get Up, Get Out, Let's Move. Percussion Deminstration, Riverfront Children's Theater, Bocce Clinic, Zumba, etc. Free to the public. For more information, go to www.ci.fitchburg.ma.us or call (978) 829-1818.
27-30 Wednesday-Saturday 7pm. The newly formed Fitchburg Theater Company presents Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Outdoors on the beautiful campus quadrangle of Fitchburg State University. Admission will be donation-based, "Pay What You Can." Patrons are encouraged to bring their own blanket or chair. Parking is available in any lot on campus. For more information, visit www.fitchburgtheater.org.
28 Thursday 11am. Summer Storytime: Legend of the Raven. Free with Admission. Near this time of the summer solstice, come learn about the Native American Legend of the Raven, and discover how the raven stole the sun. This family program will be held by Fruitlands Early Education teacher, Larissa Fagundes. A craft will also be available - all materials will be provided. Limited to 30 children. RSVP requested. EMail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 978.456.3924 x239. For more information, visit www.fruitlands.org.
28 Thursday 7:15pm. Summer Concert Series with The Concord Band. Join Fruitlands for the 27th year of the Concord Band! Bring a picnic dinner or purchase food from The Harvard Lions Club. Perch on the hillside for a concert of classic Americana music and spectacular sunsets. Admission is per car: $10 for museum members, $15 for nonmembers. Gates open for your picnicking pleasure at 5:30. No rain dates. For more information, visit www.fruitlands.org.
28 Thursday 8pm. Slaid Cleaves. Live music at The Bull Run Restaurant Shirley, MA
29 Friday, 3–4:30 pm. The Smile Makers at the Westminster Farmer's Market at Academy Hill, Westminster. Original music with complex rhythmic song structures, seamless vocal harmonies and poetically crafted lyrics.
29 Saturday 8pm. Air Traffic Controller. Live music at The Bull Run Restaurant Shirley, MA.
30 Saturday. Deerfield RiverFest. This annual festival takes place in the town fairgrounds just east of Zoar Outdoor. Lots of paddling vendors, music, raffles, and demonstrations to raise money for the non-profit river conservation organization American Whitewater. For information contact American Whitewater.
30 Saturday. The fourth Nashua River Brewers Festival at Riverfront Park in historic downtown Fitchburg. Taste the finest in local craft beers and listen to great music along the banks of the Nashua River. For only $10 in advance ($15 day of the event) you get a free collectible tasting glass and a free beer ticket. Additional beer coupons $1. This is a 21+ event - bring blankets or lawn chairs and enjoy the music. Angry Johnny and the Killbillies, The Allstonians and Camden will be performing. See www.beersforgood.com for the latest information and tickets. This is a charitable event. All proceeds to benefit the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center food pantry, Meals on Wheels, and Fitchburg Civic Days.
30 Saturday 10am-11:30am. Clematis: Queen of the Vines at Tower Hill Botanic Gardens West Boylston, MA. For more information, visit www.towerhillbg.org.
30 Saturday noon-3pm. Spectacular Summer Salads at Tower Hill Botanic Gardens West Boylston, MA. For more information, visit www.towerhillbg.org.
30 Saturday, 2–4 pm. Tea in the Historic Garden at the Narragansett Historical Society, 1 Boynton Road, Templeton. Visit www.narragansetthistoricalsociety.org.
30 Saturday 7pm-9pm. Firefly Watch. Join Northfield Mountain staff and visit a firefly meadow on a summer evening for a memorable experience. Become immersed in the world of fireflies, a world filled with imposters, femmes fatales and poisonous blood. Learn about this amazing insect with its variety of flash patterns and colors as well as how to get involved in an exciting citizen science project sponsored by the Boston Museum of Science. The program begins indoors with an introduction to fireflies and Firefly Watch and then continues outdoors for the summer ritual of watching fireflies. This free event is for ages 12 and older. For more information please visit www.mos.org/fireflywatch.


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The Older Iowans Legislature is a statewide non-partisan, non-profit volunteer organization. Its members advocate for state legislators and the Governor to sign legislation that will result in an improved "Quality of Life for Older Iowans".
The Older Iowans Legislature places special emphasis on the frail elderly; those citizens who have contributed much to our society, but have exhausted their resources and in need of assistance to lead meaningful lives.
Please take a look at our web site and join our efforts to pursue quality of life for our elderly.
Find out about us, and how to contact your local OIL representative.
Get involved and get on our mailing list.
Get contact info for your local officials and tell them you support OIL's legislative goals.
We Have Our Bills for the 2019 Iowa General Assembly as enacted on September 25, 2018 by the 2018 Session of the Older Iowans Legislature
The gavel has come down on the 2018 session of the Older Iowans Legislature and our delegates to the annual OIL session on Tuesday, September 25 enacted four OIL Priority Issues/Bills that the Older Iowans Legislature will advocate to members of the Iowa General Assembly in January 2019 on behalf of Iowa's older adults.
ELDER ABUSE LAW: Iowa is one of a few states that does not have a specific criminal Elder Abuse Law so the members of the OIL Senior Rights Committee recommended to the "body as a whole" that the Older Iowans Legislature should advocate for an Elder Abuse Law based on the proposed legislation supported by the Attorney General's office during the 2014 legislative session of the Iowa General Assembly. Delegates to the 2018 Older Iowans Legislature voted this as our number one OIL Priority Issue/Bill for advocacy in 2019.
The formal bill writing process for this OIL Priority Issue/Bill and for the three other OIL Priority Issues/Bills described below will be completed during October and November 2018.
IOWA CARE ACT: Delegates to the 2018 Older Iowans Legislature voted to advocate for passage of the Iowa Care Act as expressed as an OIL Priority Issue/Bill. The members of the OIL Workforce/Caregiver Committee proposed that the Care Act should have the following stipulations:
The Older Iowans Legislature joined with AARP and other organizations in a publicity campaign advocating for passage of The Care Act in the 2017 session of the Iowa General Assembly. There was strong support for The Care Act then but it fell just short of the necessary votes for passage.
FUTURE READY IOWA: The Older Iowans Legislature will be advocating for the expansion of the Governor's Future Ready Iowa program to include the direct care workforce such as Certified Nursing Assistants. The OIL Workforce/Caregivers Committee recommended the expansion of the Future Ready Iowa program to help address the recruitment, training and retention of health care professionals and support staff in all settings at a time when Iowa is facing a severe workforce shortage as the number of older adults living in Iowa is rapidly increasing. The 2018 session of the Older Iowans Legislature enacted Future Ready Iowa as one of our OIL Issues/Bills.
HOME MODIFICATIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS: The Department on Aging, AARP and the Older Iowans Legislature just completed a statewide survey of Iowa's seniors titled Aging in Iowa Survey: Discovering What Matters and the results of the survey revealed that the most important issue for Iowa older adults is "aging in place" in their own homes and communities. So subsequently, the OIL Quality of Life Committee discussed and recommended a proposal to OIL delegates regarding home modifications, which would provide for the capability of older Iowans to remain in their own homes. This OIL Priority Issue/Bill includes:
This enacted OIL Priority Issue/Bill for home modification is in sync with the beliefs expressed by the directors of state agencies and legislators who spoke to the delegates to the 2018 Older Iowans Legislature. All the speakers to the 2018 OIL session expressed the belief that it is cost effective to have Iowa older adults "age in place" instead of being institutionalized.
The adoption of these four (4) OIL Priority Issues/Bills by delegates to the 2018 Older Iowans Legislature is the kickoff of our 2019 advocacy for all of Iowa's citizenry to have a "quality of life" as they age. The Older Iowans Legislature will be sending these OIL Priority Bills to the Iowa General Assembly and to the Governor by January 2019.
RESOLUTIONFOR SENIOR LIVING COORDINATING COMMITTEE: In addition to the above four Priority Issues/Bills, delegates to the 2018 Older Iowans Legislature also passed a resolution that the Governor create a Senior Living Coordinating Committee composed of the Directors of the Departments on Aging, Human Services, Public Health and Inspection and Appeals, two Senators and two Representatives and four citizens, to develop a coordinated strategy for meeting the needs of Iowa's older adults.
AWARD TO OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE FOR OLDER ADULTS: One of the highlights of the 2018 session of the Older Iowans Legislature was the awarding of the Lahoma N. Counts Award to Representative Dave Heaton for his continued advocacy for older adults during his years in the Iowa House of Representatives. Representative Heaton is retiring after 24 years of service in the Iowa House of Representatives.
OIL delegates re-elected the following officers:
On a personal note, I would like to thank our speakers, state departments' staffs and the representatives of other organizations, the committee chairs and most of all, the OIL delegates for making this annual meeting such a success.
Helene Magee
Chair, Chair Older Iowans Legislature
Speaker of the House, OIL Session September 24-25, 2018
Here are a few photographic highlights of the 2018 OIL Session...
AARP Iowa, the Older Iowans Legislature and the Iowa Department on Aging will have a better understanding of the biggest challenges when it comes to aging in Iowa as they begin to prepare for the next legislative session.
The three organizations are working together to ask residents of all ages for their thoughts on what Iowa can do to improve the quality of life for its older population through a brief online survey posted on the Department on Aging's website at www.iowaaging.gov/content/2018-aging-iowa-survey-discovering-what-matters. With the information gathered from the responses to eight questions, the groups hope to discover what really matters to older adults and their caregivers and develop policy to take to elected officials next January.
"The more information available about aging needs, the better prepared the Department and its partners will be to develop innovative, collaborative approaches to help improve the quality of life and care for older Iowans," said Iowa Department on Aging Director Linda Miller. For those interested in becoming even more involved in addressing aging issues in Iowa, the survey also includes a link to learn more about the Older Iowans Legislature (OIL), a statewide, non-partisan organization whose members advocate for state legislators and the Governor to sign legislation that will result in an improved quality of life for older Iowans.
Each year, OIL members meet at the Iowa Capitol to discuss and determine the priority issues impacting the state's growing aging population. This year's Annual Meeting will take place on Sept. 24-25 and leaders intend to use the results of the survey to inform their legislative agenda this year. "The Older Iowans Legislature urges its members and friends, as well as all of Iowa's seniors, to participate in the survey. The results will play a major role in the discussion of aging issues at our Annual Meeting, which will be held in the House Chamber of the State Capitol," explained OIL Chair Helene Magee.
The delegates to the annual meeting can use the survey information to ask questions of department heads, legislators and the candidates for governor to determine where they stand on the challenges facing the state to help meet the needs of a growing aging population, according to Magee. The survey takes approximately five minutes to complete and is available online through Sept. 21, 2018.
The Iowa Department on Aging (IDA) is an executive branch agency dedicated to making Iowa the premier state in which to live and retire. To meet that goal, the IDA works closely with the Iowa Commission on Aging and Iowa's six Agencies on Aging to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective system of long-term living and community support services that helps individuals maintain health and independence in their homes and communities. More information is available at www.iowaaging.gov.
The Older Iowans Legislature is a statewide, non-partisan, non-profit volunteer organization that pursues quality of life for older Iowans by voicing their needs to the general public, all governmental bodies and service providers, and by providing opportunities for older Iowans to learn and participate in governmental processes to help solve problems facing seniors.


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I finally saw this "Juno" movie everybody's been raving about. And now I understand it's strange power over all of my friends. I'm so ready to go out and buy some converse shoes and a telephone shaped like a hamburger. Because that's what quirky people do.
The music of Juno is just as quirky as the movie itself. None of the singers try too hard, lest they be perceived uncool. In fact, rather than singing many of the artists seem to talk melodically. The instrumentation is all kept to an absolute minimum.
Kimya Dawson, who scores six songs on the soundtrack, serves to remind us that even though the world is totally messed up, we can still revel in its quirky pleasures. On "Loose Lips", she tells us that even if we want to cut, burn, or kill ourselves, to remember that she loves us. "Call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead. Send me an IM, I'll be your friend." Aww, that's so sweet.
The Juno soundtrack has been in the iTunes top 10 for...well basically forever now. Pick up your quirky copy this week.


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Apr 28, 2014 11:42 AM CST
|Hi. I received some left overs from cleaning out the chicken coop from a friend. Should I let this compost some more, or can I put it right on the vege garden?
Apr 28, 2014 1:06 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
|Definitely let it compost. I've experimented with using chicken litter that hasn't aged, and it literally killed my plants. Moreover, the area I added the litter to refused to allow anything to grow at all. A year later, that spot finally grew weeds and I knew it was ready for use!
Pile that litter somewhere and do add other material to it to help the composting process. Grass clippings, leaves, the usual. Next year it'll be a really good addition for your garden.
Apr 28, 2014 2:18 PM CST
|Thanks! Is it because it is too nitrogen rich?
Apr 28, 2014 4:30 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
|The high nitrogen in fresh manure is definitely the primary problem with using it straight away like that.
Apr 30, 2014 9:32 AM CST
|What if I mix it in with some almost finished compost in my compost bin. How long should I wait to use it then?
Apr 30, 2014 9:34 AM CST
Garden.org Admin
|If it was me, I'd wait the same time regardless. The other reason being: there may be pathogens in fresh manure, and aging it gives those pathogens a time to die.
Apr 30, 2014 9:35 AM CST
|Thanks! I definitely should have waited to do anything with it until I asked on here. Last night I mixed it in my compost.
Apr 30, 2014 9:37 AM CST
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|I wouldn't use it on vegetables. Sparingly on ornamentals. @Horseshoe may have some extra thoughts, if he's around at the moment.
Apr 30, 2014 9:44 AM CST
|Ok. It is not much. I can probably sift most of it out and spread over a large area of ornamentals I have.
Apr 30, 2014 11:29 AM CST
|I am sure Dave's advice is correct. However I routinely spread chicken manure mixed with shavings directly on my roses - on top of the rather thick layer of assorted mulch. Apparently by the time the manure filters down to the roots, all the bad is gone.
Apr 30, 2014 1:16 PM CST
|"I wouldn't use it on vegetables. Sparingly on ornamentals. @Horseshoe may have some extra thoughts, if he's around at the moment."
Ditto what Dave said. It's not just the too-much-nitrogen but also the potential pathogens that might carry over on your veggies, especially those veggies where we eat the foliage (lettuces, greens, chard, onions, etc.) So yes, enjoy the moment(s) and let that poop age a bit, it'll do ya justice. (The only manure I put directly into the garden w/out composting is rabbit.)
Apr 30, 2014 2:41 PM CST
|One thing - by mixing it with almost finished compost, you've inoculated the fresh poop with huge numbers of microorganisms that specialize in digesting compost and each other.
You probably speeded up the rate at which pathogens are consumed, at least somewhat.
Just because it ISN'T complicated doesn't mean I can't MAKE it complicated!
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As someone who knows little about association football I was fascinated to read your two-page spread by Tim Lewis about the revival of Liverpool and Everton football clubs, the decline of Manchester United and the effects of their changing fortunes on the wider economies of their cities ("As Manchester mourns, just 30 miles away Liverpool gets set to rock again", News). However, it would seem that in having two clubs, the city of Liverpool has an unfair advantage over Manchester. Wouldn't it be a good idea if the Premier league allowed another club to be set up in Manchester, say in the depressed eastern part of the city, where it could pour millions of pounds into the local economy and make a point of employing local people and companies? And perhaps this team could play in sky blue in order to distinguish it from the famous "Red Devils" on the other side of town? Would it be possible for Mr Lewis to raise this idea with the relevant authorities on your behalf?
SH Rigby
Neoliberalism's day is done
John Naughton is, to my mind, right in his opinion that neoliberal capitalism is likely to exacerbate the impact on unemployment of the new machine age ("It's no joke – the robots really will take over this time", Discover, New Review). When it was first propounded in the 1950s and 60s, neoliberalism arguably served as a useful counterfoil against communism. However useful it was in the mid 20th century, neoliberalism is helpless, even counterproductive, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Global issues, such as climate change, inequality, poverty and increasing unemployment and underemployment, arise from market failure and therefore cannot be addressed by a political system that relies on efficient markets, as neoliberalism does. It is time to move the policy debate on from outdated political/economic prescriptions.
Kevin Albertson
Manchester Metropolitan University
The solution to rail misery
Rail fares in Britain are contributing to the cost-of-living crisis, with season tickets now the largest monthly expense for many people, costing even more than the mortgage or rent ("Cautious or bold: which path will Miliband take to election?", News).
Just as Labour has pledged to freeze energy bills and reset the market to secure a better deal for customers, so it will be necessary to reform the rail industry to secure a better deal for passengers.
Train companies walk away with hundreds of millions of pounds every year, despite running monopoly services and benefiting from £4bn of public investment in the rail network every year. These profits are even helping keep down rail fares on the continent as many of Britain's rail services are run by subsidiaries of the state railways of France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Yet the not-for-private-profit model that works so well on the East Coast line has shown how there is a better way to run Britain's rail services. As well as making over £1bn of franchise payments to government, East Coast reinvests all of its further profit to benefit passengers.
A commitment to extend this successful model to the rest of the rail network, as existing contracts come to an end, would mean that hundreds of millions currently lost in private profit would be available to fully fund a bold offer on rail fares.
Labour parliamentary candidates: Nancy Platts, Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven; Andrew Pakes, Milton Keynes South; Wes Streeting, Ilford North; Clive Lewis, Norwich South; Polly Billington, Thurrrock; Rowenna Davis, Southampton Itchen; Tristan Osbourne, Chatham & Aylesford; Uma Kumaran, Harrow East; Lisa Forbes, Peterborough; Veronica King, Elmet & Rothwell; Jamie Hanley, Pudsey; Richard Burgon, East Leeds; Clair Hawkins , Dover & Deal; Will Martindale, Battersea; Adrain Heald, Crewe & Nantwich; Neil Coyle, Bermondsey & Old Southwark; Jessica Asato, Norwich North; Thangham Debbonaire, Bristol West; Lara Norris , Great Yarmouth; Cheryl Pidgeon, South Derbyshire; Joe Riches, York Outer; Josh Fenton-Glynn, Calder Valley; Alex Sobel, Leeds North West; Stephanie Peacock, Halesowen & Rowley Regis;
Cat Smith, Lancaster & Fleetwood; Todd Foreman, North East Somerset;
Rupa Huq, Ealing Central & Acton; Ruth Smeeth, Stoke North; Mike Le Surf, South Basildon & East Thurrock; Deborah Sacks, South Norfolk; Peter Smith , South West Norfolk
Don't roast Elizabeth David
I was mystified by Fergus Henderson's attack on Elizabeth David (In Focus, last week), suggesting that she was somehow responsible for promoting a fashion for non-local, out-of-season ingredients. Here's what she actually wrote in the preface of French Provincial Cookery: "A flourishing tradition of local cookery implies genuine local products; the cooks and housewives must be backed up by the dairy farmers, the pig breeders, the pork butchers, the market gardeners and the fruit growers, otherwise regional cookery… retreats into the realms of folklore."
Those words were written in 1960. Ms David subsequently published two enduring classics about English food, Spices, Salts and Aromatics in the English Kitchen and English Bread and Yeast Cookery, many years before the current fashion for "English" and "local" began. And, incidentally, French Provincial Cookery includes recipes for pigs' trotters, black pudding, knuckle of pork, shin of beef, oxtail, lambs' brains, pigs' kidney, calves' liver, calves' kidney, calves' sweetbread, calves' head, and goose giblet stew.
Graham Finnie
Sidcup, Kent
Do get real, Playmobil
My five-year-old daughter and I were pleased to see your article on Playmobil ("Always the little people", Magazine). However, it doesn't mention the lack of positive Playmobil models for girls. The majority of "girl" figures are pet owners, mothers and wives. Boy figures get to ride horses and have adventures. Girls can save the world from baddies, too, y'know.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America, most distinguished master president, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Donald Trump. Get ready to make America great again: we are about to get down to some bumpin' Trump Funk, a new genre of popular concert music pioneered by the lively robot. TRUMP THE FUNK OUT is a set of seven funk, hip-hop, and pop tunes, with our commander in chief as the lead vocalist. Now, Trump may not be as sexy as Adam Levine nor Katy Perry, but for what he lacks, he makes up in charisma, stamima, and vocal agility. You'll laugh, you'll cry, but please remember to tweet out #music2MAGA.
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The new Sony NW-E player are not as hot as the Sony NW-S series that is supposed to be coming.
The NW-E002F, NW-E003F and NW-E005F come in six different colors (pink, lime green, blue, violet, silver and black) and feature a 28 hour battery life.
Supported music file formats of these new Sony music players are AAC (non-DRM), MP3, WMA (non-DRM), and ATRAC. The Sony NW-E002F player has a total capacity of 512MB, comes in blue and will cost around $70. The NW-E003F player with 1GB comes in silver and pink and will cost around $100. The Sony NW-E005F player has 2GB, comes in black, violet and lime green (exclusively at Sony Style stores) and will cost around $130.
More details in this Sony press-release.


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When tackling a major initiative like an acquisition or an overhaul of information technology systems, companies rely on large, diverse teams of highly-educated specialists to get the job done. These teams often are convened quickly to meet an urgent need and work together virtually, collaborating online and sometimes over long distances. Appointing such a team is frequently the only way to assemble the knowledge and breadth required to pull off many of the complex tasks businesses face today. When the BBC covers the World Cup or the Olympics, for instance, it gathers a large team of researchers, writers, producers, cameramen and technicians; many of whom have not met before the project. These specialists work together under the high pressure of a "no retake" environment, with just one chance to record the action.
Our recent research into team behaviour at 15 multinational companies, however, reveals an interesting paradox: Although teams that are large, virtual, diverse and composed of highly educated specialists are increasingly crucial with challenging projects, those same four characteristics make it hard for teams to get anything done. To put it another way, the qualities required for success are the same qualities that undermine success. Members of complex teams are less likely — absent of other influences — to share knowledge freely, to learn from one another, to shift workloads flexibly, to break up unexpected bottlenecks, to help one another complete jobs and meet deadlines and to share resources — in other words, to collaborate. They are less likely to say they "sink or swim" together, want one another to succeed or view their goals as compatible. Consider the issue of size.
Teams have grown considerably over the past 10 years. New technologies help companies extend participation on a project to an ever greater number of people, allowing firms to tap into a wide body of knowledge and expertise. A decade or so ago, the common view was that true teams rarely had more than 20 members. Today, according to our research, many complex tasks involve teams of 100 or more. However, as the size of a team increases beyond 20 members, the tendency to collaborate naturally decreases, we have found. Under the right conditions, large teams can achieve high levels of cooperation, but creating those conditions requires thoughtful, and sometimes significant, investments in the capacity for collaboration across the organisation.
Working together virtually has a similar impact on teams. The majority of those we studied had members spread among multiple locations — in several cases, in as many as 13 sites around the globe. But as teams became more virtual we saw that cooperation also declined, unless the company had taken measures to establish a collaborative culture.
As for diversity, the challenging tasks facing businesses today almost always require the input and expertise of people with disparate views and backgrounds to create cross-fertilisation that sparks insight and innovation. However, diversity also creates problems. Our research shows that team members collaborate more easily and naturally if they perceive themselves as being alike. The differences that inhibit collaboration include nationality, age, educational level and even tenure. Greater diversity also often means that team members are working with people that they know only superficially or have never met before — colleagues drawn from other divisions of the company, perhaps, or even from outside it. We have found the higher the proportion of strangers on the team and the greater the diversity of background and experience, the less likely the team members are to share knowledge or exhibit other collaborative behaviours.In the same way, the higher the educational level of the team members is, the more challenging collaboration appears to be for them. We found that the greater the proportion of experts a team had, the more likely it was to disintegrate into non-productive conflict or stalemate.
So how can executives strengthen an organisation's ability to perform complex collaborative tasks — to maximise the effectiveness of large, diverse teams, while minimising the disadvantages posed by their structure and composition?
To answer that question we looked carefully at 55 large teams, identifying those that demonstrated high levels of collaborative behaviour despite their complexity. Put differently, they succeeded both because of and despite their composition. Using a range of statistical analyses, we considered how more than 100 factors, such as the design of the task and the company culture, might contribute to collaboration, manifested, for example, in a willingness to share knowledge and workloads. Out of the 100-plus factors, we were able to isolate eight practices that correlated with success — that is, that appeared to help teams overcome substantially the difficulties that were posed by size, long-distance communication, diversity and specialisation. We then interviewed the teams that were strong in these practices to find out how they did it. In this article we'll walk through the practices. They fall into four general categories — executive support, human resources practices, the strength of the team leader and the structure of the team itself.
At the most basic level, a team's success or failure at collaborating reflects the philosophy of top executives in the organisation. Teams do well when executives invest in supporting social relationships, demonstrate collaborative behaviour themselves and create what we call a "gift culture" — one in which employees experience interactions with leaders and colleagues as something valuable and generously offered, a gift.
Investing in signature relationship practices. When we looked at complex collaborative teams that were performing in a productive and innovative manner, we found that in every case the company's top executives had invested significantly in building and maintaining social relationships throughout the organisation. However, the way they did that varied widely. The most collaborative companies had what we call "signature" practices — practices that were memorable, difficult for others to replicate and particularly well suited to their own business environment.
For example, when Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) chief executive officer, Fred Goodwin, invested 350 million pounds to open a new headquarters building outside Edinburgh in 2005, one of his goals was to foster productive collaboration among employees. Built around an indoor atrium, the new structure allows more than 3000 people from the firm to rub shoulders daily.
The headquarters is designed to improve communication, increase the exchange of ideas and create a sense of community among employees. Many of the offices have an open layout and look over the atrium — a vast transparent space. The campus is set up like a small town, with retail shops, restaurants, jogging tracks and cycling trails, spaces for picnics and barbecues — even a leisure club complete with swimming pool, gym, dance studios, tennis courts and soccer pitches. The idea is that with a private "Main Street" running through the headquarters, employees will remain on the campus throughout the day — and be out of their offices mingling with colleagues for at least a portion of it.
To ensure that non-headquarters staff members feel they are a part of the action, Goodwin also commissioned an adjoining business school, where employees from other locations meet and learn.
Indeed, the RBS teams we studied had very strong social relationships, a solid basis for collaborative activity that allowed them to accomplish tasks quickly. Take the Group Business Improvement (GBI) teams, which work on 30, 60, or 90-day projects ranging from back-office fixes to information technology updates and are made up of people from across RBS' many businesses, including insurance, retail banking and private banking in Europe and the United States. When RBS bought NatWest and migrated the new acquisition's technology platform to RBS', the speed and success of the GBI teams confounded many market analysts.
BP has made another sort of signature investment. Because its employees are located all over the world, with relatively few at headquarters, the company aims to build social networks by moving employees across functions, businesses and countries as part of their career development. When BP integrates an acquisition (it has grown by buying numerous smaller oil companies), the leadership development committee deliberately rotates employees from the acquired firm through positions across the corporation. Though the easier and cheaper call would be to leave the executives in their own units — where, after all, they know the business — BP instead trains them to take on new roles. As a consequence any senior team today is likely to be made up of people from multiple heritages.
Modelling collaborative behaviour. In companies with many thousands of employees, relatively few have the opportunity to observe the behaviour of the senior team on a day-to-day basis. Nonetheless, we found that the perceived behaviour of senior executives plays a significant role in determining how cooperative teams are prepared to be.
Executives at Standard Chartered Bank are exceptionally good role models when it comes to cooperation, a strength that many attribute to the firm's global trading heritage. The Chartered Bank received its remit from Queen Victoria in 1853, while the Standard Bank was founded in the Cape Province of South Africa in 1863. Standard Chartered was formed in 1969 through a merger of the two banks and today the firm has operating groups in 57 countries, with no home market.
It's widely accepted at Standard Chartered that members of the general management committee will frequently serve as substitutes for one another. The executives all know and understand the entire business and can fill in for each other easily on almost any task, whether it's leading a regional celebration, representing the company at a key external event or kicking off an internal dialogue with employees.
While the behaviour of the executive team is crucial to supporting a culture of collaboration, the challenge is to make executives' behaviour visible. At Standard Chartered the senior team travels extensively; the norm is to travel even for relatively brief meetings. This investment in face-to-face interaction creates many opportunities for people across the company to see the top executives in action. Internal communication is frequent and open, and, maybe most telling, every site around the world is filled with photos of groups of executives — country and functional leaders — working together.
The senior team's collaborative nature trickles down throughout the organisation. Employees quickly learn the best way to get things done is through informal networks. For example, when a major programme was recently launched to introduce a new customer-facing technology, the team responsible had an almost uncanny ability to understand who the key stakeholders at each branch bank were and how best to approach them. The team members' first-name acquaintance with people across the company brought a sense of dynamism to their interactions.
Creating a "gift culture". A third important role for executives is to ensure that mentoring and coaching become embedded in their own routine behaviour — and throughout the company. We looked at both formal mentoring processes, with clear roles and responsibilities, and less formal processes, where mentoring was integrated into everyday activities. It turned out that while both types were important, the latter was more likely to increase collaborative behaviour. Daily coaching helps establish a cooperative "gift culture" in place of a more transactional "tit-for-tat culture".
At Nokia, informal mentoring begins as soon as someone steps into a new job. Typically, within a few days, the employee's manager will sit down and list all the people in the organisation, no matter in what location, it would be useful for the employee to meet. This is a deeply ingrained cultural norm, which probably originated when Nokia was a smaller and simpler organisation. The manager sits with the newcomer, just as her manager sat with her when she joined, and reviews what topics the newcomer should discuss with each person on the list and why establishing a relationship with him or her is important. It is then standard for the newcomer to actively set up meetings with the people on the list, even when it means travelling to other locations. The gift of time — in the form of hours spent on coaching and building networks — is seen as crucial to the collaborative culture at Nokia.
Focused HR practices
So what about human resources? Is collaboration solely in the hands of the executive team? In our study we looked at the impact of a wide variety of HR practices, including selection, performance management, promotion, rewards and training, as well as formally sponsored coaching and mentoring programmes.
We found some surprises: For example, that the type of reward system — whether based on team or individual achievement or tied explicitly to collaborative behaviour or not — had no discernible effect on complex teams' productivity and innovation. Although most formal HR programmes appeared to have limited impact, we found that two practices did improve team performance: training in skills related to collaborative behaviour, along with support for informal community building. Where collaboration was strong, the HR team had typically made a significant investment in one or both of those practices — often in ways that uniquely represented the company's culture and business strategy.
Ensuring the requisite skills. Many of the factors that support collaboration relate to what we call the "container" of collaboration — the underlying culture and habits of the company or team. However, we found that some teams had a collaborative culture but were not skilled in the practice of collaboration itself. They were encouraged to cooperate, they wanted to cooperate, but they didn't know how to work together very well in teams.
Our study showed that a number of skills were crucial: Appreciating others, being able to engage in purposeful conversations, productively and creatively resolving conflicts and programme management. By training employees in those areas, a company's human resources or corporate learning department can make an important difference in team performance.
In the research, PricewaterhouseCoopers emerged as having one of the strongest capabilities in productive collaboration. With responsibility for developing 140,000 employees in nearly 150 countries, PwC's training includes modules that address teamwork, emotional intelligence, networking, holding difficult conversations, coaching, corporate social responsibility and communicating the firm's strategy and shared values. PwC also teaches employees how to influence others effectively and build healthy partnerships.
A number of other successful teams in our sample came from organisations that had a commitment to teaching employees relationship skills.
Supporting a sense of community. While a communal spirit can develop spontaneously, we discovered that human resources can also play a critical role in cultivating it by sponsoring group events and activities such as women's networks, cooking weekends and tennis coaching, or creating policies and practices that encourage them.
At ABN Amro we studied effective change-management teams within the company's enterprise services function. These informal groups were responsible for projects associated with the implementation of new technology throughout the bank; one team, for instance, was charged with expanding online banking services. To succeed, the teams needed the involvement and expertise of different parts of the organisation.
The ABN Amro teams rated the company's support for informal communities very positively. The firm makes the technology needed for long-distance collaboration readily available to groups of individuals with shared interests — for instance, in specific technologies or markets — who hold frequent web conferences and communicate actively online. The company also encourages employees that travel to a new location to arrange meetings with as many people as possible. As projects are completed, working groups disband but employees maintain networks of connections. These practices serve to build a strong community over time — one that sets the stage for success with future projects.
The right team leaders
In the groups that had high levels of collaborative behaviour, the team leaders clearly made a significant difference. The question in our minds was how they actually achieved this. The answer, we saw, lay in their flexibility as managers.
Assigning leaders who are both task and relationship oriented. There has been much debate among both academics and senior managers about the most appropriate style for leading teams. Some people have suggested that relationship-oriented leadership is most appropriate in complex teams, since people are more likely to share knowledge in an environment of trust and goodwill. Others have argued that a task orientation — the ability to make objectives clear, to create a shared awareness of the dimensions of the task and to provide monitoring and feedback — is most important.
In the 55 teams we studied, we found the truth lay somewhere in between. The most productive, innovative teams were typically led by people who were both task and relationship-oriented. What's more, these leaders changed their style during the project. Specifically, at the early stages they exhibited task-oriented leadership: They made the goal clear, engaged in debates about commitments and clarified the responsibilities of individual team members. However, at a certain point in the development of the project they switched to a relationship orientation. This shift often took place once team members had nailed down the goals and their accountabilities and when the initial tensions around sharing knowledge had begun to emerge. An emphasis throughout a project on one style at the expense of the other inevitably hindered the long-term performance of the team, we found.
Team formation and structure
The final set of lessons for developing and managing complex teams has to do with the makeup and structure of the teams themselves.
Building on heritage relationships. Given how important trust is to successful collaboration, forming teams that capitalise on pre-existing, or "heritage," relationships, increases the chances of a project's success. Our research shows new teams, particularly those with a high proportion of members who were strangers at the time of formation, find it more difficult to collaborate than those with established relationships.
Newly formed teams are forced to invest significant time and effort in building trusting relationships. However, when some team members already know and trust one another, they can become nodes, which over time evolve into networks. Looking closely at our data, we discovered that when 20 per cent to 40 per cent of the team members were already well connected to one another, the team had strong collaboration right from the start. It helps, of course, if the company leadership has taken other measures to cultivate networks that cross boundaries. The orientation process at Nokia ensures that a large number of people on any team know one another, increasing the odds that even in a company of more than 100,000 people, someone on a companywide team knows someone else and can make introductions.
Nokia has also developed an organisational architecture designed to make good use of heritage relationships. When it needs to transfer skills across business functions or units, Nokia moves entire small teams intact instead of reshuffling individual people into new positions. If, for example, the company needs to bring together a group of market and technology experts to address a new customer need, the group formed would be composed of small pods of colleagues from each area. This ensures key heritage relationships continue to strengthen over time, even as the organisation redirects its resources to meet market needs. Because the entire company has one common platform for logistics, human resources, finance and other transactions, teams can switch in and out of businesses and geographies without learning new systems.
One important caveat about heritage relationships: If not skillfully managed, too many of them can actually disrupt collaboration. When a significant number of people within the team know one another, they tend to form strong subgroups — whether by function, geography or anything else they have in common. When that happens, the probability of conflict among the subgroups, which we call fault lines, increases.
Understanding role clarity and task ambiguity. Which is more important to promoting collaboration: A clearly defined approach toward achieving the goal, or clearly specified roles for individual team members? The common assumption is that carefully spelling out the approach is essential, but leaving the roles of individuals within the team vague will encourage people to share ideas and contribute in multiple dimensions. Our research shows that the opposite is true: Collaboration improves when the roles of individual team members are clearly defined and well understood — when individuals feel that they can do a significant portion of their work independently. Without such clarity, team members are likely to waste too much energy negotiating roles or protecting turf, rather than focus on the task. In addition, team members are more likely to want to collaborate if the path to achieving the team's goal is left somewhat ambiguous. If a team perceives the task as one that requires creativity, where the approach is not yet well known or predefined, its members are more likely to invest time and energy in collaboration.
At the BBC we studied the teams responsible for the radio and television broadcasts of the 2006 Proms (a two-month-long musical celebration), the team that televised the 2006 Football World Cup and a team responsible for daytime television news. These teams were large — 133 people worked on the Proms, 66 on the World Cup and 72 on the news — and included members with a wide range of skills and from many disciplines. One would imagine, therefore, that there was a strong possibility of confusion among team members.
To the contrary, we found that the BBC's teams scored among the highest in our sample, with regard to the clarity with which members viewed their own roles and the roles of others. Every team was composed of specialists who had deep expertise in their given function, with each person having a clearly defined role. There was little overlap between the responsibilities of the sound technician and the camera operator, and so on. Yet the tasks the BBC teams tackle are, by their very nature, uncertain, particularly when they involve breaking news. The BBC clarifies team members' individual roles with so much precision that it keeps friction to a minimum.
The successful teams we studied at Reuters worked out of far-flung locations, and often the team members didn't speak a common language. (The primary languages were Russian, Chinese, Thai and English.) These teams, largely composed of software programmers, were responsible for the rapid development of highly complex technical software and network products. Many of the programmers sat at their desks for 12 hours straight developing code, speaking with no one. Ironically, these teams judged cooperative behaviour to be high among their members. That may be because each individual was given autonomy over one discrete piece of the project. The rapid pace and demanding project timelines encouraged individual members to work independently to get the job done, but each person's work had to be shaped with an eye toward the overall team goal. Strengthening your organisation's capacity for collaboration requires a combination of long-term investments — in building relationships and trust, in developing a culture in which senior leaders are role models of cooperation — and smart near-term decisions about the ways teams are formed, roles are defined and challenges and tasks are articulated. Practices and structures that may have worked well with simple teams of people, who were all in one location and knew one another, are likely to lead to failure when teams grow more complex.
Most of the factors that impede collaboration today would have impeded collaboration at any time in history. Yesterday's teams, however, didn't require the same amount of members, diversity, long-distance cooperation or expertise that teams now need to solve global business challenges. So the models for teams need to be realigned with the demands of the current business environment. Through careful attention to the factors we've described in this article, companies can assemble the breadth of expertise needed to solve complex business problems — without inducing the destructive behaviours that can accompany it. Harvard Business ReviewSidebar:
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Femto is the God Hand king, so ...
What are you talking about ... ?
My theory is that Griffith did so to further his position as the savior of mankind, using Falconia as a safe haven
However this is where it gets interesting to me, The Abyss contains the Idea of Evil and the God Hand. We at least see the God Hand right after the merger, perhaps then manifesting them in this world. If that's the case the perhaps he did so not only to further his position in the minds of the humans and the apostles, but maybe he truly wants to rule everything (THE WORLD). To gain control over everything he would have to overthrow the God Hand himself. Its certainly not out of character for him and if time can be seen as a spiral perhaps this is is something that's happened similarly in the past.
My impressions were that Femto is indeed considered as King/leader of the god hand? Is this not accurate?
I remembered the God Hand referring to him as king. Which the DH translation uses the phrase "king of longing."
Also, I'm going off the notion that Griffith had the Crimson Beherit, the Egg of the King which qualifies him as a God Hand member.
About the Crimson beherit, do we have any idea of where it could be now? Not sure if it is important or not, it just struck me as it is.
Oh, btw, my first post here, so Hello to everybody!
That's a mistake in your reasoning. Acting like the savior of mankind is just that, an act. It serves an ulterior goal we're not yet aware of. But Femto didn't provoke the merging of the worlds just so he could be more of a hero to the people. Rather, all the conflict against the Kushans and the triumphant return of Griffith as an otherworldly, unstoppable savior was carefully engineered by the Idea of Evil for a single purpose: to lead Ganishka to do what he did. Which is to absorb a huge amount of "evil" and bring it back with him into the world. That was what it was about all along. That's what they (Griffith, the God Hand, their master) wanted. Ganishka was played like a fool, as were all the others.
I suppose I was trying to put to reason why it was Griffith is massing all of these people.I don't want to go with the mass sacrifice theory because it seems like a lot of work building himself up to the world, when we the reader know that hes got bad intentions. I suppose its all in the air regardless because there's this looming plan for the world.
If you comply with the idea that Void is a constant in the God Hand and the other members rotate
I cant see guts going from God Hand to God Hand taking them down one by one.
EDIT: Just having read from the lost chapter to get a better grasp on the idea. I read this:[...]That salvation line leaves me very curious to see where this all goes..
Yeah, that doesn't seem too likely to me either. Not that I'd mind though, would certainly be entertaining to see.
Well, keep in mind it's the "Idea of Evil", so its concept of salvation may not be the same as that of the average person. And the Lost Episode was removed from the story anyway, so everything in it should be taken with a pinch of salt. Only true until proven otherwise by the rest of the story.
Nope. Maybe it went back to its true master, maybe it's laying around somewhere, waiting for a time when it might be of use again. Who knows.Hey there! Welcome!
I wonder if somehow the crimson Beherit, if put into the right hands, could be used has a weapon against the god hand someday.
Nope. Maybe it went back to its true master, maybe it's laying around somewhere, waiting for a time when it might be of use again. Who knows.
How about SK returning on the place where the Eclipse occured to get the Crimson Beherit? I wonder if there's a connection with the sword he uses for the attack on Femto.


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Let's see: we've got quantitative easing, low interest rates, and lackluster growth. What could possibly make the dollar rise?
John Shin has some ideas.
Shin, a currency strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been looking for both short-term and longer-term factors that could take the dollar higher, and he has found that they all tie back to the trade balance.
For starters, Shin cites is the payroll tax. BofA economists expect the elimination of the payroll tax cut to put a dent in consumer spending. And while that will curb demand for U.S. goods, Shin says it usually has double the effect on imports. So ironically, lower consumer spending could actually be good for the trade balance.
Longer term, there is a more powerful factor: what Shin calls "the continually brightening domestic energy production picture." Increased shale oil output helps even the trade balance both by reducing the need for U.S. spending on foreign oil, and it helps the dollar even more directly by reducing the need for governments selling oil to the U.S. to diversify their reserves away from the dollar.
The shift in energy production is unlikely to have a meaningful near-term impact on the dollar, Shin says. Still, over time, "oil may evolve away from being a fundamental USD- negative force into a more neutral or positive one."
More generally, if the FX markets stop being regularly buffeted by headline risk and by worries about externalities like the Italian elections, fundamental factors like trade balances will play an underlying role in supporting the dollar, Shin says.
"Should there be increased normalization in FX and asset markets in general, US external imbalances have some possibility to morph into more of a neutral or positive force rather than remain a constant negative weight on the dollar."
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C: Did he put on a pound yet? My mom is still anxious about seeing B's ribs, so it's cookies, squares, lasagna and ice cream. I'm just happy he's finished with no long term injuries (we hope) and that he wasn't hit by a car. Fortunately Victoria is cooler and dryer than normal this summer so he has lots of time to recuperate. Three days later he is still generally tired, and it's like an Ironman, finishing is kind of anti-climatic.
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Alexander Bartleet
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Question – When is a piece of junk not a piece of junk? Answer – when it is an artwork by Alexander Bartleet. To recognise the artistic ...
Question – When is a piece of junk not a piece of junk? Answer – when it is an artwork by Alexander Bartleet. To recognise the artistic and creative value in various manufactures, objects and even junk takes a creative eye, a special talent.
Up and coming young Auckland artist Bartleet has this ability in spades. He has turned objects such as old phones, toys, electronic components, bits of wood, metal and plastic into intriguing and stunning artworks. In his second exhibition of artworks created with found objects, the design and finish of the assembled artworks by the artist is something to behold. "I enjoy identifying hidden qualities of an object. I use thousands of objects to inspire new shapes and textures. I enjoy removing objects from their typical function and appreciating them for their shape and aesthetic qualities." says the artist.
In 2012 he experimented with various metallic finishes where the objects appear as cast gold, brass, aluminium, or even rusty blocks or assemblages. Arts critic John Daly-Peoples says "Ultimately Bartleet is involved with transformation, turning raw material and simple ideas into something else. He has turned the detritus of life into expressive virtuoso creations of significance."
Although the works appear to be randomly assembled or created, closer scrutiny reveals a painstaking process whereby each item is carefully fixed in place, bestowing the once discarded object a certain immortality not usually given to such short-lived consumer items. Often the most valuable collectibles of the 20th century ironically are now those which were thrown away due to their low value and proliferation. Baseball cards, advertising material, old toys and other consumables – they are appreciated now for their inherent design features or reflection of social and cultural history. Already viewers wonder at the rapid obsolescence of items Bartleet has incorporated into his artworks such as old cell phones, computer parts, toys, and other items that have not been seen in homes for decades. Bartleet says "Discarded objects make us realise how fast we are moving. It brings back memories when you see your old cassette player but is also shocking to realise how fast we move on and forget them.". While the artist has no desire to emulate the famous King Midas, he is making huge strides as an emerging and innovative young New Zealand artist.
These objects the artist has re-invented not only stir up some fond (or not so fond) memories but make for fascinating viewing. All that glitters may not necessarily be gold but in this case, it is most certainly fine art.
I am attracted to things that uncover evidence of their past. In particular surfaces that become blemished and worn over time, exposing sediments, histories and provenances. This fascination has its origin in the cliff edge at the bottom of my garden. These surfaces instilled a curiosity in layered strata that expose past events and processes. Alex Bartleet, 2010
2006 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Auckland University of Technology
2007 Graduate Diploma in Advertising Creativity.
Solo Exhibitions:
2012 Metal, Warwick Henderson Gallery
2011 10,000 Objects, Warwick Henderson Gallery
Group Exhibitions:
2013 Auckland Art Fair
2011 Auckland Art Fair
2010 Summer Catalogue 2010-2011
2010 Emerging Artists, Warwick Henderson Gallery.
2010 Casey Trust, NZ Emerging Artist Exhibition, Dunbar Sloane.
2010 Surface Tension, Tauranga Art Gallery.
Awards and Achievements:
2003 Encouragement, Main arts Award.
2007 Emerging Artist, Mazda Art Award.
2008 Team McMillan Emerging Artists Awards. Emerging Artist Award.
2010 Finalist at National Contemporary Art Award 2010 – Waikato Museum
2010 Finalist Waikato Society of Arts New Zealand Painting & Printmaking award 2011
Reviews & Publications:
Art New Zealand – Article 144 Summer 2012-3 "Metal Head"
December 06 / January 07 NZ Art Monthly Review.
2009 Seen the Century, 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, Warwick Brown, p. 20.
Oh, the Relief! A review of the work of Alexander Bartleet by Warwick Brown. www.nzartmonthly.co.nz
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Required Background
Before discussing the process of creating such animats in games, it seems appropriate to list what skills are required to develop AI. This book assumes the reader has a few years of programming experience, but creating AI is an interdisciplinary process. The AI part of the software sits at the crossroads between the game engine and the AI data; the AI engineer also mediates with the other programmers and designers.
An important skill needed by an AI developer is programming knowledge. AI can get relatively complex in places, but a reasonable knowledge in programming can help significantly. In fact, most programmers would be able to produce rudimentary NPCs without much AI knowledge. That said, programming is rarely the bottleneck of an AI developer.
In this book, the theory behind the algorithms is described in pseudo-code for the sake of simplicity. As such, it's possible to implement them in almost any language. Because the code available on the web site is C++, most of the programming idioms focus on that language.
Computer Science
Most programming skills are accompanied with elementary knowledge of computer science. Being comfortable with data structures (for example, lists, trees, and graphs) and basic algorithms is a tremendous help for creating AI, too. Don't worry, however; the necessary principles are covered by the book.
Math is essential improving as an AI programmer. Just like 3D programmers need knowledge of geometry to push the application programming interface (API) to its limits, mathematical understanding enables AI programmers to integrate cutting-edge theory from academia, and to optimize the theoretical aspects of each algorithm. It is possible to avoid the math by relying on pseudo-code and example implementations, but a more permanent solution requires that you not shy away from theory. This book gives ample opportunities for dedicated readers to understand the theory and make a step toward academic papers.
Software Engineering
Designing an intelligent system that can control a creature in a complex 3D world is no easy task. Applying common design patterns to the problem certainly helps simplify the system. This book explains the design patterns commonly used in AI and how they can be adapted to different problems.
Game Engine Architecture
Preliminary steps need to be climbed before the actual AI development itself can start. This generally involves preparing the engine architecture so that it can support AI. In most cases—especially when human players are already supported—this job is straightforward.
As a good framework is in place, it's actually possible to code AI without knowing too much about the underlying game. Chapter 4, "FEAR: A Platform for Experimentation," presents the framework used as the basis of this book, which is extremely useful from an educational or experimental point of view.
In a professional environment, groups of developers work together to build the game architecture. Experienced developers (those who know best?) can thereby assist the integration of the AI in design and implementation. AI developers can rely on other programmers to assist them when necessary.


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WWE learned two lessons last night. Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder, and too much of a good thing can eventually lead to it becoming a bad thing. And unfortunately, everything else during its three hour running time was completely forgettable as the show failed to build upon the momentum gained last week. With the show desperately struggling to fill out three hours with an excessive amount of replays, having one of the most underused Divas on their roster attempt to sell Subway sandwiches in the middle of the show, and long winded promos from every McMahon family member except the one fans actually want to see, this episode of Monday Night Raw suffered from quick and forgettable matches that did very little to move things along.
Let's start off with the beginning of the show. Triple H kicked things off by discussing what took place last week. If you watched SmackDown (of course you didn't), then you would have noticed that he received a huge amount of canned boos from the crowd. This was their attempt to keep him a heel leading up to Wrestlemania. Well, it seems like it worked considering he received more organic boos this time around. But that didn't help get Reigns over with the crowd as his insults thrown at the number one contender was met with indifference. Triple H got over as a heel extremely well because he knows how to talk to the audience. He also has his history as a top heel to back it up. But he simply could not convince the crowd to join Reigns' pity party as silence was the only reaction Hunter received while doing his best to get the crowd to consider his actions last week as despicable rather than entertaining. And just as things seemed to be going nowhere, Dean Ambrose showed up to save the day.
Ambrose and Triple H immediately proved to be far more entertaining than Hunter's current feud with Reigns. Ambrose has become more popular than ever since his altercations with Brock Lesnar. His Scrappy-Doo "Let me at 'em" persona has paid off in a big way. It's completely believable that he would walk up to Triple H and insult him to his face regardless of the outcome. And fans were completely behind him for it. The back and forward between the two was a perfect way to set up the main event, but even Ambrose couldn't get the crowd to react to Reigns when name dropping him. So despite the opening and closing segments of the show serving as a way to set up Triple H beating Ambrose next week as a way to push his feud with Reigns along, it only made fans wish for Ambrose to win the title next week instead. But that means Triple H will have to step down from main eventing Wrestlemania, and we know that's not going to happen.
Everything else, especially Stephanie McMahon's promo, was forgettable or downright awful. The Undertaker's entrance was longer than his time on the mic before leaving, Vince received an indifference reaction from the audience before telling us nothing new, the matches were mostly short and uninspired, and replays dominated the entire show. On the bright side, Ryback looked incredible. I've always been a fan of his, and felt he matched everything WWE looks for in a top star. His aggressive ending to the match was more shootfighter than professional wrestler. I think he might actually be on to something with his new gimmick. I just hope WWE doesn't kill it off before it has time to grow. Because it was obvious this episode that WWE desperately needs to build new stars as soon as possible.
Overall, this episode of Monday Night Raw was more disappointing than bad. Without Ambrose, the show would have fell apart completely. But he's only one man, and WWE is thankfully not willing to shove him down our throats excessively like they've done Reigns in the past. His segments felt organic, and the crowd reacted to them extremely well. But the appearances of Ambrose at the beginning and end of the show left the rest of the running time of the show feeling a little like filler. I understand that Shane O'Mac can't make an appearance on every episode of Raw leading up to Wrestlemania. And to be honest, that's probably for the better. But we didn't need individual promos from both Vince and Stephanie about Shane. That could have easily been condensed to one segment, and The Undertaker could have had his own time to truly speak on his upcoming match against Shane. Instead, the show felt like it was in a frozen stasis while waiting for both Roman Reigns and Shane McMahon to return.
I can't use this episode to judge WWE's current product. After openly acknowledging some of their issues, I can't imagine that they're going to continue to ignore them afterwards. This was simply an awful followup to an incredible episode before. Hopefully, this was just an misstep and not a preview of the road to Wrestlemania. Because it would be a shame if Raw remained a show filled with quantity over quality leading up to the biggest show of the year.


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Confirmed: Darth Vader to return in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One
Report doesn't say which actor voices the galactic man in black or dons the iconic cape and helmet in the film, out in December, which stars Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen and Forest Whitaker
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Cinema's ultimate villain, Darth Vader, is set to make a comeback with a menacing appearance in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, industry magazine Entertainment Weekly reports.
The first stand-alone Star Wars story, Rogue One is set just before A New Hope – the original film in the blockbuster series – and stars Felicity Jones alongside Mads Mikkelsen and Forest Whitaker.
EW said on its website it would reveal "never-before-seen characters while also reintroducing a few classic ones" in the new issue, out on Friday.
"We're confirming a big one on our cover: the galactic man in black himself, Darth Vader," it added.
Rumours of a Vader return in British filmmaker Gareth Edwards' contribution to the Star Wars canon began to circulate in April with the release of the first trailer.
The 100-second teaser featured a retread of John Williams' familiar Star Wars score, including a snippet of the infamous Imperial March, used to signify Vader's approach.
EW writer Anthony Breznican told ABC's Good Morning America the trainee Jedi turned Sith Lord "kind of looms large over the plot, even when he's not necessarily on screen".
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EW did not say which actor had been hired for Vader's latest big screen outing, which is due to hit cinemas in the United States on December 16.
The character was voiced in the original trilogy by James Earl Jones, now 85, while 80-year-old David Prowse donned the iconic cape and helmet.
Felicity Jones, 32, who was Oscar-nominated for her role opposite Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything , plays rebel Jyn Erso, who has notched up a string of convictions for forgery, assault and theft.
She is sent on a mission to help investigate "a major weapons test" – better known as the Death Star in development – and find out how to destroy it.
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