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Since when did anyone need permission to write their own programming language anyway?
Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?
Dude, that Joel WTF picture is totally going on my wall at work. Another good one:
"Some of them are based of other languages, like Lua a super small scripting system or python but others are created by hand. Companies like Garagegames.com, IDSoftware and Unreal who have crafted their own or taken from an existing one and crafted it into something they needed."
id Software and Epic Games (the company behind the Unreal engine) started working on their products long before Lua, Python, etc. became serious alternatives to creating your own scripting language from scratch. UnrealScript in particular goes back to 1998. Had things been different, I strongly suspect that those companies would have leveraged existing languages.
Repeat after me: "Joel Spolsky is the new John C. Dvorak".
I dont think Wasabi is as fully fledged a language as Joel would like us to believe. I seem to remember him writing about creating a tool to generate php apps from their existing asp codebase when he decide to support unix servers. At the time it was decribed as a fairly simple system that took advantage of the polish notation they used in their codebase to do a good job of spitting out a php app from their codebase, and only their codebase (not a generic asp-php compiler). I reckon wasabi is that tool, and at some point they wacked a precompiler onto it and now it generates both asp and php from the souped up asp files. This is all just a guess, but I reckon any competant asp programmer would probably recognise 90% of the code in wasabi, and could figure out the quirks by looking at the wasabi source, and then the generated asp source. So a new hire probably would not have quite the uphill struggle you imagine.
"id Software and Epic Games (the company behind the Unreal engine) started working on their products long before Lua, Python, etc. became serious alternatives to creating your own scripting language from scratch. UnrealScript in particular goes back to 1998."
What? Do you realize that Python is older than Java? By 1998 Python was quite mature. In 1998 Google was using Python for its web crawler, Zope was making an impact and the seventh international Python conference was happening.
The reason Python wasn't used back then was partly for speed considerations. Games were CPU limited and memory was scarce. Python may seem like it has a small footprint now, but it wasn't that small back then…especially in games.
That said, I think Lua is a better choice for game scripting. These days "scripting language" is sort of a misnomer as far as Python is concerned IMHO (despite its roots as one).
joel can do or say anything he wants. im no more impressed by any of your comments than his.
also, it would be great if some of the folks who 'know better' could post links to all the kick-ass software they've written so we can all check it out. not that we would notice their mad skills anyway.
its about the application, and how well it works and solves the problem. your genius code can be rewritten or scraped at any time by the next guy. writing a bug tracker doesnt seem like the greatest contribution of the 21st century anyway, i dont know what you expect from him.
Your argument against Wasabi seems to boil down to the fact that it's "beyond the pale," "insane," etc. These don't sound like actual arguments to me; they're just assertions.
FogBugz is a shrinkwrapped web app installed on customer's own servers. It was originally written in VBScript way back when that wasn't the worst idea in the world. Given our business constraints, spending two months writing a compiler that could preserve our code base, improve the language we used day-to-day, and continue to produce source code for our customers that runs on their platforms was the best business decision, even if it might make your head explode. Even if, as you claim, installing a PHP/.NET/Java Runtime at a customer site is everyone else's business model, that doesn't help us because our code is in VBScript and has been for many many years. We could port the VBScript to PHP/.NET/Java by hand, or we could spend two months writing a compiler. The latter decision took less work (a couple of months) and produced better working code that runs on all our customers' machines without modification. I'm confident it was the best business decision, and I apologize if 50,000 programmers don't understand it and their heads explode and 100,000 bloggers run around saying I've jumped the shark.
I think Sean O'Donnell and Des Traynor hit the nail on the head. Wasabi seems to be simply a way to support more platforms without hiring more programmers, and if it only took 2 man months to create, that's an excellent trade off compared to having to double or triple your developer team.
If so, it is zero-risk because you can always take the generated code as a new base and quit using Wasabi and it will be as if you've never used it in the first place.
It seems to be simply a more sophisticated front end to a "common, or garden" code generator, a well worn concept used all over the place.
If Joel had called it a "code generator" (albeit with compiler-like interface) instead of a "compiler", would people have been so astonished?
Hmmmm, I hope Joel keeps blasting off at the mouth because I can't help but think someone at 37 signals is going to get an idea -
"Hey, let's write a bug tracking application."
I'm confident it was the best business decision
Obviously, it's your business, and you can run it how you see fit. However, the people reading your advice might get the idea that they should run their business like this, too:
spending two months writing a compiler that could preserve our [VBScript] code base
But it didn't merely preserve the VBScript code base. Wasabi is a superset of VBScript. VBScript is the output of Wasabi. Your code is now written in Wasabi: a new, proprietary language.
I'm not against VBScript. I'm against new one-off proprietary languages in a world of rich existing language choice.
Your argument against Wasabi seems to boil down to the fact that it's "beyond the pale," "insane," etc
My argument against Wasabi is this: when a developer decides the right solution to their problem is a new language, you don't have a solution. You have an even bigger problem.
So fine, Wasabi was a nice two-month fix for an immediate problem your customers faced. A few years later, at least to this outside observer, it doesn't seem like such a great long term-- or even medium term-- solution.
I know you prefer the Raymond Chen school of backwards compatibility to forced death-march upgrades. And I don't disagree with that. But sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to drag you customers-- and your business-- into the next century.
You said it yourself,Joel:
Should you write your own compiler? Maybe, if you're doing something that's different enough from the mainstream and if there's no good off-the-shelf technology for your problem.
Is FogBugz that different from the mainstream? Were there really no good off-the-shelf technology solutions for the defect management problem? You considered and rejected .NET in 2002 purely on the basis of timeline. What happened to the plan outlined here:
- wait until it's OK to require CLR,
- port existing "business logic" classes to C#,
- keep current web forms in ASP,
- and create new web forms in ASP.NET.
So my question is this: is it Wasabi forever?
That plan was for CityDesk, not FogBugz.
Let's put it this way. You have these constraints:
(1) Six years of code already written in VBScript
(2) Needs to run on customers' Windows and Unix servers
(3) Minimize tech support costs
(4) Many customers refuse to install new runtimes on their servers, either because of IT policies or out of stubborness
What would be your solution?
rereading my (old) post about .NET, it looks like when I wrote that way back when, I thought we'd port FogBugz to .NET.
Since then, we added Unix support for FogBugz, so I don't think all the things I thought then still apply.
Right now, we could conceivably move to .NET by using the Wasabi compiler to generate C#, and require our customers to install Mono on Unix. (Still requires Wasabi, but we would throw it away when we were done with the last step).
I'm still curious to hear your business decision.
Has anyone actually used FogBugz? If so, you will run very fast in the direction of a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/"JIRA/a or something like it.
Well, well, doesn't it feel good to have a chance to pick on Joel? Makes you feel you are really somebody, doesn't it?
Sorry guys but when I see someone that has rightfully gained the respect of millions, do things that I don't understand or I find odd, I'd rather think that there's something I'm missing in the picture.
My bet is that Joel knows extremely well what he's doing.
Let's put aside the practical\business gains that Wasabi gave to Joel. Writing your own special-purpose language is only a first step in the process of gaining know-how for what's called Domain Specific Languages.
I've seen private special-purpose languages successfully used to generate huge C++ programs (250K lines) that do the job at hand in blazing speed, from a significantly smaller and easier to maintain source base (5K lines).
Yeah, I imagine if you are a Lisp or Ruby die-hard guru you could do the same thing in maybe 10K lines, but
(1) I BET the code will not be one tenth as understandable and maintainable as the one in the specifically tailored domain specific language.
(2) If you got yourself a new programmer you'd still have to train her to almost-guru level too before she would dare touch the code. In the private language case the language is tailored to the problem, so the code is simpler, so the new hire does not need to reach guru level to work with it.
(3) You'll never get the speed of C++.
Joel is actually exposing his business secrets just to keep us amused, informed, interested and sometimes even enlightened. Be thankful for it.
First, let me say that I do not agree with the blanket Joel-bashing that's going on in the comments. That certainly was not the intent of my post, and that's why I spent the entire first paragraph defining how important Joel has been in setting the tone for all the tech bloggers to follow him. As Des Traynor said above:
[…] even when he is wrong he is entertaining, and half the fun sometimes is in coming up with counter arguments in my head. […] either side of this Ruby stuff he had written 3 great management articles, and an impressive guide on people management (recruitment etc), so the quality is there, just ignore the posts that could be perceived as flamebait.
Joel has always been an outspoken proponent of the "Programmer's Bill of Rights". However often we may disagree with him, Joel absolutely nails this part, and evangelizes it in a way that few other notable tech writers do. Plus he's funny:
That said, the whole Wasabi and dynamic language saga makes me feel like I just walked through a sewer. It's not the kind of grand, intelligent softare lifecycle plan I'd expect out of a smart company like Fog Creek. That's why it's so jarring.
i like joel's writing, i love citydesk, never used fogbugz.
citydesk is so close to doing exactly what i needed (except one, unfortunatly, key feature) its amazing. I've ended up writing my own version to add a few bits I needed.
I wish it was as 'polished' as citydesk.
some of the more recent posts may have lacked some of the flair of the others but are still worth reading (i think).
as for the whole 'wasabi' thing (read 'Good Omens', it also has wasabi in it). well having written my own scripting language before (not a very good one but it works) there are perfectly valid reasons for doing it.
specifically when you spend 10 hours developing it, to get to the point you can code 'x' in 1 hour. if you do that every day the time to write the language is nothing, a throw away. especially if its 'in-house' and doesn't need the wide scope and capacity of .net etc.
i save time every day through my script language, since it does what I need, in this case i can write a report to query a database, pull specific data, sort it correctly and drop it into an excel template with one line of code. which i need only write once. it takes a few seconds to run that report. the development time was worth it, plus the language is easy to expand.
I'd think the abaility of wasabi to output a program into a windows or unix environment is worth doing, it sounds very much like writing a compatability library into an IDE, instead of calling it the IDE uses it to write whatever you want.
presumably if it just supports fogbugz, well its sort of like writing a big library to do the actual work, once you have that framework what you actually write in doesn't matter, the library does the work.
also if it pays the bills, i'd argue that in a deep meaningfull way… how you do it doesn't matter.
I'd love to work for a company like fogcreek, bar the minor facts that:
a, i'm in the UK
b, I'm not good enough at software development…
but I'll keep reading what joel writes, and blatantly pinching ideas as required, which explains a lack of writing on how the company actually runs…
"(1) I BET the code will not be one tenth as
understandable and maintainable as the one in the
specifically tailored domain specific language."
Be careful when making such bets against Ruby or
at least take a look at the couple of DSLs written in it.
Joel is actually exposing his business secrets just to keep us amused, informed, interested and sometimes even enlightened. Be thankful for it.
Pff. Joel is writing for Joel. It doesn't really matter if we're here or not.
What would be your solution?
I think Wasabi forever is unsustainable.
Customers will have to absorb a little pain (install Mono or .NET, new version teething pains) in exchange for a little sugar (nice new features). I guess I'd have to balance the work effort vs. the sales upside of a new, rearchitected version of FogBugz.
we could conceivably move to .NET by using the Wasabi compiler to generate C#, and require our customers to install Mono on Unix. (Still requires Wasabi, but we would throw it away when we were done with the last step).
I've heard mono's UNIX support for C# and ASP.NET is quite good.
Again, it's your business. Not mine. But I think that's clearly the way to go. You'll probably have to refactor a lot of the generated C# code to get it to look like code human beings would write (or even a traditional ASP.NET app; not sure if that's a goal or even desirable in these circumstances). But that's still a heck of a lot less work than a total rewrite in another language. Which, based on the contents of your prior posts, I'm 99.9% sure you would never approve anyway.
At least with C#, new programmers' heads are a lot less likely to explode while working on FogBugz. It might also open up some extensibility points for community-written C# plugins, etcetera.
Reading this is somewhat akin to listening to a bunch of Grannies yacking about a friend who's dared to suggest blue rinse doesn't look quite as good as everyone says and chose pink rinse instead.
Seems that the real mistake Joel's made was to dare to say anything but "it rocks" about Ruby.
A valid criticism might be he's based is concerns on second hand sources, although that Ruby has performance issues above and beyond what you'd expect for a dynamic language is something like an accepted wisdom.
But it strikes me that performance wouldn't be the biggest issue for running FogBugz on Ruby: bigger (given earlier posts) would be that customers need to install something else (mod_ruby, mongrel, lighttpd / FastCGI, whatever), that they're not already using, to allow the app to run. Beyond that, there's really nothing (technical) that justifies the lynch mob cries of "lunatic".
"You couldn't possibly have heard it, but that was the sound of fifty thousand programmers' heads simultaneously exploding. Writing your own language is absolutely beyond the pale."
If we did a straw poll of those 50,000, what percentage do you think we'd find have written some kind of HTML templating language that ended up being Turing complete? What about the really smart guys who hid SQL behind their ORM api, then invented their own object query language, looking suspiciously like SQL then run around na ked whooping "mini languages rock!"?
Given that Wasabi seems to be a superset of VBScript, it may well have been relatively easy to implement. It's easy to find freely available VBScript grammar rules, you can use as a starting point ( for example a href="http://www.notebar.com/GoldParserEngine.html"http://www.notebar.com/GoldParserEngine.html/a - at the bottom). And being a superset of VBScrip eliminates 99% of the language design questions. It's "just" a matter of adding cool functional language features - and Joels not the only one e.g. a href="http://chumsley.org/jwacs/"http://chumsley.org/jwacs//a
"1. I don't see how Wasabi-- a language that, per Joel, compiles down to VBScript on Windows-- could actually be faster than Ruby."
To me it's not entirely clear if Wasabi is directly executable or whether it only produces VBScript / PHP that you execute.
But if it is directly executable and it's executing under .NET, it could very well be faster than Ruby (as in C-Ruby). The Phalanger guys, who re-implemented PHP from scratch to run under .NET (are they nuts?) claim significant performance gains: a href="http://www.php-compiler.net/Benchmarks.htm."http://www.php-compiler.net/Benchmarks.htm./a
And from everything Joel's said, Wasabi isn't actually shipping to customers - it's the generated VBScript / PHP that ships. So if it is executable and slow, it's only annoying the developers.
"2. If performance is so critically important in this section of the code, why wouldn't Joel simply build that section of the code in a compiled language and call it from the other language? Am I missing something here? Is there some law that states all code for a web application must be in the same exact language?"
Yes you're missing something and yes there is a law: if customers have to install something non-standard, think carefully. To grasp that point, you really need to look at something like this: a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/saxy/"http://freshmeat.net/projects/saxy//a
"The primary goal of SAXY is to provide PHP developers with an alternative to Expat that is written purely in PHP. Since SAXY is not an extension, it should run on any Web hosting platform with PHP 4 and above installed."
These guys re-implemented a PHP C extension in PHP because they couldn't rely on it being always available. Kind find a thousand more examples of that nature…
And Joel states the aim of platform independence - that compiled libary needs to work under Win32 / IIS and LAMP. So what are be talking here? Some C that can be compiled both into COM component and a PHP extension? For drawing graphs? Writing Wasabi starts to look like a walk in the park by comparison.
"3. Justifying any language choice based on one tiny section of the code makes no sense whatsoever. […] How does this make any business sense whatsoever?"
It's generating a chart right? Who likes charts most? Managers and bean counters - you know - the kind of people that control budgets / pay for software. Go figure.


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In his episode analysis of faith in the twentieth century, Believe Everything, Luther Blissett identifies three strands of atheist thought. The 'responsible' atheist - who attempts to recognise the challenges of religion's collapse - is contrasted with the 'irresponsible', who simply ignores the social consequences. A third category 'which overlaps both of these extremes' (pg 27) is the militant atheist. Blissett positions writers including Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins as militant atheists, due to their enthusiasm for describing the negative impact of religion on social and political behaviour.
In the final, fragmentary chapter, Where God Resides Yet, Blissett addresses the problems of creativity. Within literature, he argues, 'the artist still holds the status of God, converting natural signs into icons and symbols and insisting on a system that delivers meaning' (pg237). While the influence of religion within political and social systems has been eroded, the notion of a creator-God, Blissett concludes, is manifested in the novel and the theatrical performance.
He does, however, suggest that Beckett's Waiting for Godot is an attempt to challenge the author's divine agency: replacing the omnipotent deity with a gnostic, hostile or absent God (pg 345). Unable to completely remove traces of his presence, Beckett draws attention to this failure by placing absence at the centre of the narrative.
Grant Morrison, however, takes this process a step further. In Animal Man, he presents himself as a fictional character within the narrative, effectively enabling the protagonist to address his 'God'. While Morrrison's work repeatedly returns to metafictional meditations - The Invisibles repeatedly merges Morrison's autobiography with the melodrama of the story - it is only in Animal Man that he presents a direct analogy between the artist and God.
Using Blissett's terminology, both Beckett and Morrison are 'responsible', attempting to reconcile the absence of God and the demands of artistic creativity.
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With February around the corner and love in the air…we are proud to shout about our Project Manager who openly admits her love for Health & Safety?
Scene2 Senior Project Manager Laura North speaks out….
"I love my job…I love making lists and especially using my highlighter to cross things off it!
Every project has its own list and every list should have Health & Safety as a key focus. Risk assessment, method statement, installation manuals, materials fire certification, tool lists (including; first aid kit, accident book and sub-contractors safe handling declarations) all need completing for each project and despite having worked in many locations on multiple occasions, most of our projects are bespoke and have never been built before so the RAMS are new too!"
Laura comments that, following recent national events that have hit the red light on Health & Safety, Scene2 have found attention to health & safety in projects is becoming an increasingly crucial part of each job.
"It has obviously always been essential that health & safety is adhered to on all projects and we have always insisted it's done properly. Increasingly, our clients are seeing it as a necessary component to ensuring a successful campaign and not just red tape for us all to cut through. For example, in Exhibition Stand design and production, one of our industry sectors, the UK exhibitions industry attracts in excess of 13 million visitors annually which makes public/visitor safety a priority in the execution of any project. We are experts in producing giant props for exhibitions, which usually means we build very tall things! Ever changing rules and regulations make due diligence an increasingly important part of our role within a project."
Scene2 Director, Susan Walker says "In our experience of working in the big UK venues like NEC & Excel, our clients who make the space bookings and then approach us to design and build their stand, are overwhelmed by the paperwork that they are given to complete. Where clients have engaged us to design, build and install their stands we can do this at no extra cost."
Laura goes on to say, "We are proud to offer to take the headache away as part of our service to clients. Each show's rules and regulations differ but the headache remains in taking the time to read everything thoroughly to ensure compliance. Even with my 7 years' experience, I can take more than a couple of hours to read through the forms, associated notes and guidance documents thoroughly, which to the inexperienced eye, can seem a minefield of information. We have the time and expertise to fill out all the forms and, some may say sadly, I actually enjoy it!"
Laura has given her top tips to consider:
Laura North has been Project Manager for Scene2 for 7 years and has led the team in successful execution of experiential projects and exhibition stands for clients including World Vision, JWT, Frukt, SP Group, Itsu, Kudox, ALUK, YouTube and Café Pod
Would you like to know what it's really like to work at Scene2?
Find out with this blog written by our newest Project Manager, Katy Lister. Katy joined Scene2 5 months ago to become the 6th member of the team.
"I have been a member of the Scene2 team for just over 5 months. I know there are plenty of companies out there who say 'no two days are the same', but in this role I have really found this to be true!
I spent my first day chasing the order of some chromed geese, and within my first few weeks I was unloading a giant teapot, researching how to make plastic prop chickens and goats for World Vision, and ordering astronaut helmets to be worn with fairy wings and a pink tutu for an experiential photo opportunity.
The Scene 2 workshop is a weird, wonderful and fast-paced environment and every week we seem to be starting work on a new project. I love that we take ideas from our clients, and build them into a practical reality. My role as Project Manager, is really varied and make the job so stimulating. Being a project manager at Scene2 is really hands-on. As well as account management, we also get involved in the production side of things and will often be painting, washing or sanding something.
In 2017, Scene2 had a record number of projects so there was never a dull day. Coming from a theatre background, I have always loved immersive shows where the line between audience and performer are blurred. This is what I love about the experiential stands that Scene 2 build.
There are two main highlights so far in my time at Scene2…
The first was the installation of our Giant Mirrored Cube in Bournemouth, which we built for the Open University #OUReflect, via their agency Reverb. I loved how this project seemed to change with every installation, this time with the seafront and fun of the Bournemouth Pier reflected in the mirrored cube.
The second highlight was a giant 360 booth surrounded by a star-scape. Inside was a camera spinning 360 degrees around the participant's heads to film the experience. Of course, after it's installation, the team and I had to have a quick go before leaving!
One of the best things about working at Scene2 is the fun-loving, friendly people. The family-run business often feels like an extended family, which creates a great working atmosphere. Plus, the Scene2 team has skills over and above all the bespoke event production building that they excel at. This is a team that produce eggs from their chickens, honey from their bees, homemade jam and bread and it wouldn't be unusual for our lunch hour to break out into a full knitting circle! The Scene 2 team just can't stop creating even in their spare time.
Scene2 is a really great place to work."
With the New Year quickly approaching Scene2 are looking forward to working with more exciting brands, receiving new opportunities and forever pushing the boundaries of what is possible for your experiential activation.
Looking back over the past year it has brought a record-breaking number of projects through our doors and with that has been a noticeable shift in the presence of experiential in conventional marketing avenues. As more brands are recognising the power of this non-traditional stream and becoming advocates due to the success of their own activations, we have certainly seen a higher demand for our production abilities.
We've had some very exciting projects this year, including; a full 360' photo capture pod for a phone launch to highlight its awesome camera resolution; a life-sized snow cave made from fiberglassed polystyrene with an internal greenscreen experience placing the individual into a chilling scene of a new movie…..
and a set of iconic red umbrella domes that popped up on UK city streets for a special Valentines event. A normal working week is never the same twice for us at Scene2 and this has helped us develop the required strategies to turn crazy concepts and ideas into a reality.
The big question we are all asking ourselves now, is 'What might next year bring?' Hopefully, even bigger and more wildly creative projects that we can be proud to put our name to and wow audiences!
The world of experiential although now established, is still at the beginning of its possibilities and predictions for 2018 suggest that the buzzword for this year is going to continue into the next with VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) popular additions for integrated stands. Perhaps digital innovation will start to become a prominent element to many of our builds as the accessibility to tech makes it an effective way to captivate people's attention and achieve higher numbers of online participation. It is, however, important to remember the core beauty of Experiential; collective participation of people in one real, physical space. VR, after all, is a very solo experience which isn't always easy to project to the wider audience watching.
We love taking on the impossible and I hope that the New Year might bring some of the old classics back to the workshop such as giant models of well-known products. Our giant lipstick towered Kings Cross station last year, stunning passersby on their everyday commute…..
and a recreation of Roald Dahls giant BFG grandfather-clock table featured in the beautiful Lancaster House. Whatever we're challenged with, I have no doubt that Scene2 will continue to reach and exceed both our client and brand expectations to maximize customer engagement.
Written by Christina Hedges – Project Manager
With theatrical roots in the sparkle of pantomime and a past history working with the Christmas decorations specialists James Glancy Design, Scene2's Creative Directors Andy Dixon and Susan Walker have over 20 years experience in designing, building and installing eye catching schemes. This includes grottos with a twist, interactive sampling stands and giant bauble displays.
In this blog, Scene2 shares 5 of our favourite experiential Christmas campaigns to serve as inspiration for planning your own.
2016 saw John Lewis take their famous Christmas campaign to new levels of customer engagement with the use of Virtual Reality and an experiential in-store experience in 12 stores across the UK. Working alongside Pretty Green as their production partner, Scene2 is very proud to be part of this magical campaign.
Scene2's brief was to recreate the experience of the TV advert using Virtual Reality technology via Oculus Rift. We built a themed retail space that could be fully merchandised by the John Lewis team. Named "Buster's Garden", you could see, experience and interact with all the animals from the TV advert.
In 2015, Cadbury put £10 million behind its Christmas campaign and created the biggest ever advent calendar. 24 trucks. 24 doors. Opening daily in 24 different locations. Bringing joyful festive surprises to the nation on the countdown to Christmas. #cadvent
#IfCarlsbergDid…..In December 2015, our beer of choice Carlsberg owned Christmas with a 27 foot tall Christmas tree erected overnight on London's South Bank.
But this was no ordinary Christmas tree. This particular Christmas tree was decorated with beer bottle baubles and had a tap for dispensing FREE refreshing Carlsberg. The baubles that adorned the tree also doubled up as beer glasses. This great idea doubled up as sampling and outdoor experiential marketing.
The more you play – the more the snow falls. During the January grey days of 2013, Scene2 worked alongside Cake & Havas to banish the back to work blues & get Londoners living young again post-Christmas holidays.
Creating an interactive, kinetic experience with an Evian branded playground, Scene2 built and installed a swing set and seesaw into 2 London locations. A perfect, wintry setting for a Christmas campaign.
Covent Garden claimed their 2007 as the best-ever Christmas experience for visitors, to this iconic London landmark. The vast market space featured handmade decorations adorning the walls of the market building created by film set designers. There were 12 weeks of performance programming including the amazing Heliosphere, StrangeFruit from Australia and the Gay Men's Choir. There was also a foodie Christmas night market.
Feeling inspired?
Whatever your plan is for an Experiential Christmas, Scene2 are the experts.
We've created everything from large scale shopping centre decoration schemes, (under the direction of Paul Dart @ James Glancy Design) to retail and window displays in Selfridges, Harrods and flagship stores in Oxford Street, London. Giant scale is always our speciality from festive building wraps to themed sampling stands and bespoke interactive grotto concepts.
Experiential Christmas is high on the agenda in 2017 with brands and venues looking to enhance the Christmas feel-good feeling, which will translate into sales without overpowering commercialisation.
With this summer's festival season upon us, Mel Wakely shares her top 10 festival brand experiences EVER…
So, what makes a successful festival brand experience? Probably the most important thing is to ensure that the experience is enhancing the festival experience in a non-spammy way. Festival-goers are happy to have brands at the event so long as what they bring to the party adds lots of value to their experience.
Agency: Sense Marketing
Production: Scene2
Reinforcing the Timberland Earthkeepers brand amongst the festival crowds, Scene2 up-cycled a couple of skips and a 45ft shipping container, transforming them into "Sun Terraces & a Power Camp" for festival-goers.
Visitors to the "Timberland's Earthkeepers Power Camp" queued to jump on either a log-roll or an exercise bike to generate power to the stand. In turn, boiling kettles and smoothie blenders were activated and visitors were rewarded for their hard work with a refreshing drink on the sun terrace above while an integral retail area gave opportunity to shop.
This 45ft shipping container was converted into this hugely popular experiential interactive 14m x 5m outdoor space. Our transformations did not end there. Dotted around the vast festival campsites were "Timberland's festival Recycling Sundecks" which stood out as landmark meeting points. Eye-catching and resourceful these converted skips held eco-credentials to make us feel good about ourselves too.
EE created an activation designed to solve one of the biggest festival headaches for anyone (with a mobile phone): getting internet coverage. The activation took the form of a full size 'charging bull' in the company's brand colours, which acted as both a double-speed wi-fi hotspot and Power Bar charging station. The bold use of distinct brand colours meant the bull could be spotted and located from far away.
Agency: Frukt
Production: Bearded Kitten
This creative activation really tapped into the fun, dressing-up vibe of family-friendly Camp Bestival. The experience encouraged festival-goers to customise their own Energizer head torch with various futuristic arts and crafts bits and bobs. Once completed, they could have their picture snapped in a rocket frame before exiting through a wormhole tunnel. Crazy, but brilliantly on brand for Camp Bestival's audience.
Client: We Are What We Do
Production: Scene2 Ltd
Litter is a problem that needs sorting at any festival. This genius idea solves the problem in a theatrical and engaging way that also encourages people to recycle. Winner!
Client: Heineken
Agency: WhyNot
In 2015, Heineken brand Strongbow launched a 12-metre high tree pop-up at both Isle of Wight and Parklife music festivals. The unique activation included a bar, seating, a photo booth, face painters and an apple-shaped DJ booth that hosted a number of top acts. The tree was designed to be seen from any part of the festival and even featured a light laser show at night.
Agency: Blend Bureaux Amsterdam
This is another brilliantly executed idea providing a much-needed service for festival-goers… clean clothes.
Wranglers Laundromat offered free laundry services to all Lowlands' visitors including free fashionable Wrangler overalls to wear whilst their clothes were being washed.
Production Agency: Scene2
World Vision leads the way in bringing new and exciting ways to connect with their causes and supporters. At Scene2, we are proud to be the 7th year of producing the "Journey of Hope" experiential build and tour logistics.
One of the most successful tour dates was Camp Bestival, which created record sign ups for sponsorship and donations.
Family-friendly activity at the mud huts includes drumming workshops, bead making & face painting. Visitors can enter into the huts and see how children live in Sierra Leone and the changes that World Vision can make to their lives
Production Agency:Ground Control
This activation from Virgin Trains targeted festival-goers planning to travel to No. 6 Festival in Wales using public transport. The promotion offered them exclusive priority fares on Virgin Trains services – an industry first.
Virgin Trains created an exclusive train for festival goers which ran from Crewe to Bangor featuring live entertainment, face painting and a bar.
Last, but certainly not least, is one on my favourite brand activations from BMW MINI.
A PR Stunt from agency Cunning during the launch of the new MINI gave us "Fetish" MINI!
So clever was the idea and fabulous the costume, that the organisers of London Pride, invited MINI to lead the parade, even though the brand was not there in any official sponsorship capacity whatsoever!
So far 2017 is proving to be another great year for experiential marketing.
The constant evolution of technology and the massive growth in social media usage has been harnessed brilliantly by experiential events to make them an even stronger way to communicate a brand's messages.
Scene2 are proud to be part of the team behind three amazing examples of integrating social media and technology into a live experiential event experience:
If Carlsberg did Chocolate…..Experiential PR stunt for Carlsberg with Blackjack – See case study HERE
Kat Von D Beauty Product launch for Kat Von D at Debenhams with 1000 Heads – See case study HERE
John Lewis Christmas 2016 experiential in store tie-in with TV advert with Pretty Green – See case study HERE
Scene2 predict that live experiential events that embrace technology will grow in number as consumers embrace social media including Facebook Live and Periscope. Experiential events will be able to amplify further their reach by tapping into these technologies and reaching people wherever they are.
Below are some of the key trends to watch:
It will become crucial to involve a live internet element at an event in a way that allows attendees to see, touch, feel, and engage with the brand. This might be as simple as taking a selfie at the event and tweeting or posting on Instagram (eg our production for Kat Von D) to actually buying from a live pop up.
The constant evolution of technology and the massive growth in social media usage has been harnessed brilliantly by experiential events to make them an even stronger way to communicate a brand's messages.
Live events will just be the start of the campaign. Live event content will be re purposed to be used for social media campaigns where attendees can share "digital" memories with attendees and non-attendees alike to extend the life of the event.
Live streaming services like Facebook Live can add an additional element to and complement the event without taking away from people's desire to attend. Live streaming tools can help increase engagement and build excitement around the event and any future ones. It would be a brilliant tool for a road show style event.
Some brands are already doing this – see John Lewis (link). Consumers want to be fully immersed in the brand experience but increasingly they also want to direct their own experience within the environments that have been constructed for them. Brands will start to think of more and more innovative ways in which attendees could use their smartphones to help them navigate through your event, or how the digital landscape that you want to leverage translates into the physical world of your event's architecture or music. Or by using tech such as Virtual Reality to bring to life your brands messages.
This is the way we see brands continuing to move forward in 2017 and beyond.
2016 saw John Lewis take their famous Christmas campaign to new levels of customer engagement with the use of Virtual Reality and an experiential in-store experience in 12 stores across the UK. Working alongside Pretty Green as their production partner, Scene2 is very proud to be part of this magical campaign.
Scene2's brief was to recreate the experience of the TV advert using Virtual Reality technology via Oculus Rift. "We built a themed retail space that could be fully merchandised by the John Lewis team. Named Buster's Garden, you could see and experience all the animals from the TV advert.
It was important to ensure that the technology was built in seamlessly to the set, with TVs into topiary walls and using the trampoline structure to house the VR experience. Unfortunately health and safety said no to the bouncing element!
To further enhance the experience we built 3D printed character masks (a fox and badger), which encased phone operated VR headsets.
Finally, we showed-off our amazing logistical skills with a faultless 12 store install in one night!" – Andy Dixon – Creative Director
The "Buster's Garden" experience is at John Lewis Oxford Street and other stores around the UK until 23rd December 2016. Check it out!
To find out more about working with Scene2 for your next experiential marketing project, please contact Andy Dixon or the team at Scene2.
Christina Hedges – Production Assistant, gives a behind the scenes, sneaky peak, at Scene2 this week.
Giant props are right up our street, so when we were asked to get involved with set elements for the
opening of the BFG film this weekend, we jumped at the chance.
In the workshop, the giant footprint is underway and looking great.
I learnt what Jesmonite is and does, and how its being used with the footprint.
The grandfather clocks are being modified to create the table legs for the giant's table.
We are working on the logistics for the baby grand piano and are expecting delivery
within the next few hours. The cost of this was much more than expected as it isn't
a simple load, and actually rather heavy!
We are excited about the installation this Sunday, with only 1.5 hours to get it all into place it will be all hands on deck.
The #tasteoflondon foodie wonderland has welcomed the Itsu experiential stand to its five day festival of eating, drinking and entertainment in the heart of London.
Scene2 enjoy working with Itsu and are proud to have installed their experiential stand at Regents Park this morning, ready for sampling the delicious Itsu range.
Scene2 Project Manager, Laura North said "Taste of London is the world's greatest restaurant festival and we are proud to be working once again with our Itsu friends at such a great event. We have installed this fully modular, eye-catching, experiential exhibition stand many times and are proud of how stunning it always looks"
The Itsu stand can be visited at Taste of London from 15th-19th June 2016 at Regent's Park, London.


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Now that the first AD FS server is setup and federated with Office365, additional servers can be introduced into the AD FS farm. The process itself can be repeated on one or many more servers depending on user base load balanced against the number of servers needed in the AD FS farm to support it.
1. Build the Azure virtual machine
2. Install the AD FS 3.0 role
3. Add the secondary AD FS 3.0 server to the AD FS Farm
- Azure account is setup
- Directory Sync is activated, setup and running
- Valid SSL certificate is available (with private key)
- VPN connection setup from Azure to your on-premise network
- Primary AD FS server is setup (see previous post in this series)
Setting up the Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
Click New -> Compute -> Virtual Machine -> From Gallery
Select Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Click Next
Enter the Virtual Machine Name
Select the Tier
Select the Size
Click Next
Choose the Cloud Service that the first AD FS Server is installed in (setup earlier in the BLOG series)
Verify Subnet
Choose the Availability Set that was created when we provisioned the first AD FS server
Click Next
Click Next
Wait for the Virtual Machine to be provisioned and then continue
Connect to the Virtual Machine over RDP
Add the Virtual Machine to the Domain
Installing the AD FS 3.0 Role on the Virtual Machine and Importing the SSL Certificate
Please reference this BLOG post on how to install the AD FS 3.0 Role on the virtual machine and then import the SSL certificate
Setting up the Primary AD FS 3.0 Server in Windows Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On
Adding the Secondary AD FS 3.0 Server to the AD FS Farm
Open Server Manger
Select AD FS
Click More… where it says Configuration required for Active Directory Federation Servers at…
Click Configure the federation service… action on the Post-Deployment Configuration
Select Add a federation server to a federation server farm
Click Next
Enter credentials for a user that has domain administrator permissions. This is used to complete the install, it's not used as the AD FS service account
Click Next
Specify the Primary Federation Server
Click Next
Select the SSL certificate that was imported earlier (the same certificate that was installed on the primary AD FS server)
Note: Since I am using a multi-name certificate, the name of the certificate does not match my AD FS farm name. In production I always recommend that you use a single name certificate to keep things simple. If that's the case then the certificate name should match the AD FS farm name e.g. sts.domain.com
Click Next
Select the AD FS service account (the same account that was used in the setup of the primary AD FS server in the farm)
Enter the password
Click Next
Click Next
When the pre-requisites are completed
Click Configure
We now have a two node AD FS server farm setup in Windows Azure. Keep in mind that you have to continue to the next post to setup load balancing for the servers. This too will help greatly with regards to the number of devices users can now use to access their organization's Office 365 resource. Be sure to view Expanding Office 365 with Enterprise Mobility Suite on Microsoft Virtual Academy as a great next step.


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We aim to serve food that is responsibly created from the farm to the plate.
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Believe in the individuals need to be just that, that's why we don't tell our employees to wear any kind of uniform, in fact the only clothing restrictions we put in place are those laid down by Government sanctioned Health & Safety rules. We think people work best when they feel valued as people, so we try our best to accommodate any requests for holiday and time off. Everyone in our company from the manager down to the waiter on his/her/their first day has the same rights when it comes to how they should be treated and we try our best to ensure that these rights are upheld.
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Operating as an independent business has plenty of benefits when compared to working for a bigger company. From our base in the South West we are able to source nearly 90% of our ingredients locally so that we can provide our customers with high-quality food whilst also supporting the local farmers and businesses that have made this area so special to set up shop in. Everything from our dairy produce, meat and even our bread is sourced locally so our menu doesn't compromise on flavour or on ethics.
Reducing waste and emissions
Many see the food industry as being synonymous with waste, but we don't believe the two necessarily have to go hand in hand. Our custom built stock ordering system ensures that we never over-order any one product and although this often leads to us selling out of certain meals, it also means that out waste is kept extremely low. We aim to use recyclable materials as much as possible, work on a paperless admin system and also pride ourselves on our low-energy usage – it also gives us an excuse to dim the lights for an extra romantic vibe throughout the evenings.


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Month: July 2017
Essayist: "…You Should Care About Other People"
I appreciated how Kayla Chadwick's quote from her essay on compassion and politics rose above the fray to draw an insightful observation. I came across it via Twitter. When Ronald Reagan granted Rupert Murdock citizenship in ~1985 to purchase an...
Jeff Reifman / July 28, 2017
Fifth Anniversary of Woman's Marriage to a Corporation
Today marks what would have been the fifth anniversary of Angela Vogel's marriage to my corporation, Corporate Person. On July 17th, 2012, King County granted their right to marry and then took to Facebook later to tell the couple that...
Jeff Reifman / July 17, 2017
Lightweight Mac Imaging Editor Acorn 6 Released
Acorn 6 – The Image Editor for Humans If you've ever waited a longtime for Photoshop to load, you know it's not the best for lightweight mac image editing. I've been a longterm user of Acorn 4 and 5. And,...
Jeff Reifman / July 10, 2017
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Flock of Dimes plays Granada Theater on Tuesday, Aug. 29.
In much of her creative life, Jenn Wasner walks the line. She volleys between two primary projects: Wye Oak, the two-piece band in which she's partnered with Andy Stack for 11 years, and Flock of Dimes, the solo project she's touring now that operates as a creative foil to Wye Oak. Flock of Dimes' first album, 2016's If You See Me, Say Yes, got its start in Wasner's bustling hometown of Baltimore but wasn't completed until she uprooted to a quieter space in Durham, North Carolina.
Wasner has a theory about art that places artists into two categories: healers and destroyers. In her work, she aims for the overlap.
"There is art that is meant to confront and reinvent existing culture. When someone is truly visionary in that realm, they're hard to know what to do with, but it's an important part of progress," Wasner says. "I think of healers as people who make art that is unabashedly beautiful and brings people a sense of peace. I don't think there's anything wrong with inhabiting either space completely, but I think it's possible to have a bit of both. That's what I'm shooting for."
In 2012, Flock of Dimes released a handful of singles, then fell into a four-year silence (Wye Oak released two albums in the meantime) until If You See Me, Say Yes, a self-produced album on which Wasner played nearly everything. It was intended as a creative outlet during Wye Oak's breaks, as well as a personal challenge to expand her technical capabilities.
If You See Me is a healer's record documenting the development it took to come to fruition. "I can tie my own laces / find the solace I seek in other places," Wasner sings on lead single, "Semaphore." But there are glimpses of the esoteric throughout — lilting vocals where a straightforward pop melody is expected, electric beats against orchestral sweeps.
"Neil Young is someone whose songs rest in tradition, but he always integrates something a little rough or challenging, to kind of take someone's hand and lead them in the direction of something they wouldn't have been open to otherwise," Wasner says. "Those are tendencies I want to emulate, bringing people into the fold and then challenging their perceptions of what is possible from that space."
On a less granular level, If You See Me, Say Yes also challenged assumptions of what's possible for Wasner.
"A big part of how it unfolded was to prove what I'm capable of," she says. "A lot of people are just like, 'Oh, well she's just a singer,' and there's so much more that goes into what I do than that. It was frustrating to have that reduced to something that didn't feel like an authentic representation of who I am."
When Wasner's summer tour with Sylvan Esso wraps, there's a new Wye Oak album in the works, a process she's looking forward to because of — not despite — her newfound artistic independence.
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"One thing I took from making a record pretty much entirely on my own is that I can't wait to make one that's as collaborative as possible," Wasner says. "It sounds great on paper, but when you're in that position, sometimes it's like, 'Oh my God, someone tell me what to do.'"
Beyond that, expect more collaborations and solo work. This time, with the pressure of self-actualization off the table, perhaps those dividing lines will blur a little more.
"At this point, it almost doesn't matter as much to me whether people get it," Wasner says of her solo work. "It feels like I can relax because I did the thing I set out to do."
Sylvan Esso with Flock of Dimes, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave., sold out, granadatheater.com.


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The New Nokia 3310: Publicity Stunt Or Best Selling Mobile Phone?
There it was, the moment we've all been waiting for! At day zero of the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, the new Nokia 3310 got announced. Throughout the past month, the Nokia 3310 was arguably the most discussed and anticipated phone.


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Have you heard that saying "if we don't change directions, we'll likely end up where we are going?" Are you a forward-thinking person seeking the real facts and solutions on issues like energy production, food safety, banking and finance, social justice, and mind control?
Come to the Architects of the New Paradigm Conference the weekend of January 16th in San Rafael. Meet leading visionaries Foster and Kimberly Gamble the creators of the movie Thrive movement, Catherine Austin Fitts, Joel Garbon, Daniel Sheehan, Richard Dolan, and Ron James. George Noory will be there too.
This is a rare opportunity to network and get involved with people who are really making change happen during this jam-packed weekend of lectures, intensives and panels, hosted by Ron James of I-Volve TV.
The Architects of the New Paradigm Conference, The A-N-P conference – is the weekend of January 16th at Embassy Suites in San Rafael.


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And the "clever people" part of that is the secret to [Atlas Shrugged's] popularity – at least in the US (it's never really made any impact anywhere else in the world, and only really came to the rest of the world's notice as the Internet made the idiosyncracies of local cultures more readily available. Most people in Britain, for example, have still never heard of it). It says that if you think you're cleverer than everyone else around you but you don't make as much money as a plumber or a welder, it's not because the plumber or welder has a more useful skill than you, it's because you're being held down by evil looters. On the other hand if you, as a computer programmer or an advertising copywriter or a politician, are making more money than them, that's because you are a supergenius who really deserves even more, because the looters are still holding you back.
Of course, to anyone who feels even the slightest resentment about their position in life (and who has no basic empathy or understanding of social structures), this is a perfect excuse for every failure and justification for every success. It's even better than blaming black or Jewish people for those purposes, because you can draw the lines however you want. Obviously you are one of the productive people, and obviously whoever you dislike is one of the looters. I'm OK, you're a leech who should be killed for the improvement of humanity.
Andrew Hickey on Atlas Shrugged.
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Dance troops, singing, audience participation and over the top performances can only mean one thing, pantomime returns and Peter Pan at Milton Keynes Theatre is a cracker.
Following the traditional story, it sees children flying to Neverland to fight the evil Captain Hook.
It is a long awaited return to the theatre for Bradley Walsh and he doesn't disappoint with many jokes from beginning to end.
However the show is almost stolen from them by dance troop Flawless who were exceptional throughout and gave us a very different take on pirates.
Underneath it all was the malignant threat from David Bedella's Captain Hook who gives a performance to get you booing in a good way.
There is plenty of fun to be had in this show with songs from many different eras and there are jokes for both the adults and the children.
Overall, Peter Pan at Milton Keynes is a fantastically enjoyable show and one ready to put you in the festive mood.
Review by Steve Mills
Peter Pan is performed at the theatre until Sunday January 11.


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February 10, 2016
Signature Flight Support must divest Landmark FBO operation at Scottsdale
After BBA Aviation acquired Landmark Aviation this past fall, it would mean the company would eventually became the sole FBO operator at Scottsdale Airport, owning both the Signature Flight Support and Landmark Aviation operations in Scottsdale.
As expected, the situation has been reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, which has directed BBA to divest the Landmark operation at Scottsdale Airport (along with five others) as a precursor to receiving regulatory clearance.
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This is the best Premier League team for Gameweek 29: Does your club's star man feature?
EXPRESS SPORT brings you the Premier League team of the week based on statistics.
Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the table after their 2-1 win over Stoke.
Hull's 4-0 defeat to Everton means they are still stuck in the relegation zone alongside Middlesbrough and Sunderland.
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Lola Group Selects Altair's HyperWorks CAE Software
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Lola Group has chosen Altair's HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite of advanced software to streamline their product design process.
"Our design processes will be streamlined through the use of Altair's superior simulation and composite optimization technology," said Paul Rennie, senior composites engineer, Lola Cars International Ltd. "Altair has proven that its composite ply optimization and analysis simulation capabilities deliver significant commercial advantages. This is a key part of our design philosophy."
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Gabriel was born in Brazil, lived in Colombia and arrived in the U.S. 6 years ago, where he now works as a GCD at FCB NY, overseeing work for FDA and Amtrak. He has won 80+ international awards for brands like Sharpie, Valspar and Kolcraft. He is also a lefty, which doesn't really mean anything other than his handwriting is, you know, far from ideal.


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At Princeton, we don't get out much, but we should. And the number reason why we should is Mastoris.
To quote from a local New Jerseyan, Mastoris is the quintessential New Jersey diner experience. Buses full of old timers travel miles down 295 to eat there, and high schoolers rowdy-up the dining rooms. Which are numerous: there is a room with a marble floor terrace, a room styled as a traditional diner with swivel chairs at the bar and checkered tiling, a smokeless smoky barroom with a giant moose head…and then, there are the less-than-exceptional rooms like the one they seated my friend and me. But you can't have everything. Our room looked like a Holiday Inn lobby with an Ikea painting of a ship on vapid waters and with these huge booths that made it impossible to see any other tables. Carrel-like perhaps? My friend proposed that they were designed so that no one around you could see how much food you ordered and actually ate. Which was a disgusting amount. No shame.
So, we sit down, get a giant menu that includes more than 100 different sandwiches, and then the waitress brought us small cups of water and plate full of dessert. I guess one could call it "bread," which isn't that weird to have pre-meal, but one loaf of bread was filled with cinnamon and the other was filled with a grated-up cheesecake substance. That makes it sound horrible but it was delicious in a gross, self-hating sort of way.
But regrets did not stop after devouring the two loaves. Oh no. They were just the beginning. Next came our soup: vegetable broth with vegetables. Very standard "I got this is a box and heated it up" sort of thing. Ate that. Started feeling full. Then I thought, shoot, I still have a burger coming that is served with coleslaw, french fries, and a pickle. And I wanted pie. Hmmm.
Burgers: horribly amazing. My friend ordered the "breakfast burger," which is like a breakfast burrito but a burger. It consisted of mad meat topped with cheese, egg, and bacon. I had the "Amish burger" because why the hell not. It had similarly mad meat, Canadian bacon (but, real talk, are there Amish people in Canada?), cheese, and a singular tomato slice. So, clearly, that with slaw and fried potatoes made a healthy meal, right? I felt like a Norse lord after the hunt with the grease from multiple layers of meat dripping down my chin, only to mop it up with a french fry. I didn't actually eat it like that but it is good imagery.
About a quarter way through the burgers, my friend and I promptly keeled over and died a sad, sloppy death. But, if we hadn't had died, we might've order a piece of peanut butter chocolate cake to go and ate it later despite the fact that the burger still sits with me to this day.
Mastoris: go there but be prepared i.e. don't expect to leave the multiple dining rooms alive. Also, request to sit in a cool room.


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SERIES OVERVIEW — Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want … and what they're trying to make us settle for.
Part 1: A very good but little-known late speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Other America" was delivered at Stanford University (California) on April 14,1967–10 days after his great (and somewhat better-known) speech, "Beyond Vietnam."
Here King goes beyond mere "civil rights" and speaks forcefully on the larger issues of growing economic inequality and an out-of-control Military-Industrial Complex.
Credits: The somewhat condensed audio recording was produced in 2008 for the radio program, "DC37 Radio"–apparently the predecessor of the "Building Bridges" show. Thanks to producer Ken Nash.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "What, me worry?") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Notes: You can download this installment of New World Notes also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes522-TheOtherAmerica
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Segment 2,
Hedges's stunning speech from 2013. Melville's novel Moby Dick is a metaphor for the US today.
The relentless pursuit of an insane goal: that's Melvile's Captain Ahab on the ship Pequod, and that's corporate capitalism today. On the Pequod, the pursuit yielded repression and then destruction of ship and crew. That's where the world today is heading. Only mutiny by the crew could have saved the Pequod, and only nonviolent rebellion by citizens can save the U.S. and the planet's ecosystem.
Credits: I have condensed Hedges' talk substantially. He delivered it (under a different title) at Moravian College on October 22, 2013. A video of the complete talk is available on YouTube.


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Much care must be taken while applying for a work visa abroad. The choice of the immigration agents can sometimes be very critical for your overseas dreams.
Nurses from Telugu states are landing in Saudi Arabia jail owing to their fake experience certificates. While verifying the certificates of work experiences of the nurses, authorities in Saudi Arabia found that these were forged. This includes one nurse form Bowenpally.
The authorities have said that applicants for work visa must take care while filing their documents. The nurses, on the other hand, are blaming the recruitment agents. The Ministry of External Affairs has revealed that many of these nurses are suffering in prison as the investigation is incomplete.
It has been found by the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health that recruitment agents based in New Delhi have given the fake certificates for work experience. These have sub-agents in Kerala and Hyderabad. This was done to enhance their prospects for hiring and demonstrate more number of years of work experience, added the Ministry.
The nurses who have been caught are charged with forgery and lodged in jails across Saudi Arabia. Even though some nurses were found to be blameless, the Ministry chose to deport them by terminating their services. A nurse from Secunderabad's Bowenpally was released only after she completed the sentence, as quoted by the Times of India.
Dr. Ramesh Reddy Medical Education Director of Telangana said that many nurses go abroad upon completion of their degree in Nursing to the Gulf or US. As they lack practical instruction, they get lured by fake agents and produce forged work experience certificates.
Sometimes these nurses also get duped in terms of their pay packages. To avoid these scenarios, the nurses must avoid a non-registered recruitment agency, said Mr. Reddy. Only those recruitment agents that are authorized by the External Affairs Ministry of India must be chosen by the nurses.
While applying for a work visa abroad, only the authentic work experience certificates must be furnished. The immigrant aspirant nurses must also get information from their seniors who have already immigrated overseas. They can thus verify the credibility of the recruitment agent and the authenticity of the employer, said Dr. Ramesh Reddy.
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They arrived 9.00am on a Thursday morning dressed in their training gear ready to put us through our paces. I was soooooo tired from staying up late from the night before, enjoying my peaceful sleep when I was woken up by a loud knock at my door. I was asked to get dressed in my gym clothes to meet the rest of my peers in the training room. I thought "oh boooooy!!"This looks serious!! Nether-the-less I got involved. It was fantastic. It started with warm ups, followed by squats and burpees, then press ups and a few rounds of boxing. The training finished me off!! I really enjoyed it. After the first session I felt empowered and motivated. Funny enough! Myself and the rest of the residents involved in the project didn't need a wakeup call after that morning. The following week, we were dressed and ready before 9-00am. The routine was great and the boys really looked after us. I can honestly say that the Airsports programme really changed me and my focus on health has now changed. I feel fitter and fabulous; I have more energy these days. I plan to use it wisely by continuing my new training regime and putting the skills they taught me into practice. For more information on Airsports and what they do please see the link below: http://www.airsportsnetwork.com/
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CHICAGO – "When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way … " And there is no more appropriate way to lyrically pay tribute to a classic staging of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical, "West Side Story." There is a new staging currently at Lyric Opera of Chicago, which runs through June 2nd, 2019. Click here for more details and tickets.
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STEEP, William Erven - (2007 Co-Chair of United Way of Chatham-Kent, Served 2 terms as President of United Way of Chatham Kent, Served as Board |member for the Sydenham District Hospital, Wallaceburg, Retired International Representative for United Steel Workers, 1st vice President of Chatham-Kent Labour Council - Co-Founder of Labour Gardens, Chatham.) William Erven "Bill" Steep of Wallaceburg and formerly of Brantford passed away peacefully at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Chatham Campus on Friday, October 26, 2018 at the age of 77. Bill is the son of the late William and Gertrude (Schwichtenberg) Steep. Beloved husband of the late Elizabeth "Liz" (Gellner). Loving father of Lisa DeBusschere (Anthony). Dear brother of Beverley Mason (Mike), Cathy Playfair (Jim), Cindy Vertlieb (Jerry), Tom Steep (Gloria), Mike Steep, Jim Steep (Diane) and brother-in-law of Suzanne Chalmers and the late Kathy Salter (Clayton). He will be missed by his many cousins, nieces and nephews. The celebration of Bill's life will be held at the HAYCOCK-CAVANAGH FUNERAL HOME , 409 Nelson Street in Wallaceburg at a later date. If desired, remembrances to the Labour Gardens, Chatham or the United Way may be left at the funeral home 519.627.3231. Online tributes may be left at www.CavanaghFuneralHome.ca13311240
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Heavy raindrops, stronger wind, worry on your face
Lightning flashes
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You turn to me, we trip and fall, me on top of you
Another flash
You tense
You hold me
Holding me you kiss me hard, tremble then it hits
Kisses turn to passion and you strip me in a blitz
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Article in the Mindscape Section of the January 2018 Issue of Stayfit Magazine by Vinesh Sukumaran
One of Google's philosophies listed in the "about" page of their website is "Fast is better than Slow". Google calls this one of the ten things that they know to be true. That might work perfectly for a corporate giant like Google, but not necessarily for human beings.
I have a friend who went on a weight-loss mission last year. His goal was to get MBA admissions into a B-school in the U.S., and after that, his immediate goal was to drop to below eighty kgs. He was 103 kgs when he started and had never dieted in his life, ever. So when he started walking about 10 kilometres every day and went on a strict diet, his body responded phenomenally well. He dropped exactly 24 kgs in two months. It was an incredible success story despite the fact that the suits and other clothes that he'd gotten stitched to take to the U.S. were loose and dangly by the time he left. Here's what happened when he got to the U.S. His workload increased, academics and deadlines took priority, and since he was on a student budget, he succumbed to the quickest escape route of eating junk food. Suddenly there was no time to even sleep, let alone walk or exercise. The long and short of it is that he put on about half the weight he had lost in about six months and the rest of it thereafter. If this trend continues, he'll soon be heavier than he ever was.
'Fast is better than slow' is a great philosophy for the speed of website searches, automobile performance or Amazon deliveries. In the case of health and wellbeing, it rarely works. Of late, I've been suggesting to anyone who's on a weight-loss programme to just focus on losing 1 kilogram a month. This will ensure that in two years you lose 24 kgs, and this is exactly the kind of weight loss that sticks. What a lot of people don't realise is that a crash diet, quick-fix exercises or workouts and the related plunge in bodyweight are like stop-gap arrangements. To become slim and fit requires you to become a different person – a person with different habits, behaviours and a new mindset. Sudden changes that happen often impact just the physical dimension but leave the mental side of the person untouched. On the contrary, when you lose weight progressively, it means that you've been working out regularly; you've stood the test of time as far as your new diet is concerned, and you've made fitness and exercise a way of life rather than a short-term arrangement.
Now that's just one example. There are tonnes of others. In the travel industry, there is the whole phenomenon of quick travel and package trips. In my view, that's one of the worst ways to see a country or a city and also to approach travel in general. It only works for those for whom visiting places is more of a tick mark than an experience. I recently met someone who went on a package trip to ten countries in fifteen days, and when he was showing me the photographs of his trip on his phone, even he could barely decipher one place from the other. In many of the big cities, people are accustomed to rush out of bed in the morning, rush through their morning chores and breakfast, rush to work, rush through their workday, rush back home in the evening, rush to the gym if they're lucky, rush through their workout and get back home to rush to bed. This rushing mindset and lifestyle is the opposite of enjoying life. I also see a lot of people wanting to get rich fast and retire fast, as if work life is a horrible dungeon to quickly escape from.
The real solutions lie in slowing down. As you start imbibing this idea of living a slow and relaxed life, do it slowly. Don't rush into the idea of slowing down. Start by doing one activity every day slowly. Maybe have your coffee tomorrow morning slowly. Very slowly. Make sure you really enjoy every sip of it. Once you've done that, don't be in a hurry to add two activities the next day. Stick with a slow morning coffee every day for a month. If you catch yourself naturally doing a few other things slowly during the month, then good for you. But don't push it. After a month, add another activity. Maybe you can take a slow walk around your block after dinner or read a book slowly before going to bed. Do this for a month and then add one more activity. If you do this, you'll begin to notice that you're also learning to give yourself time in other areas of life. If you want to go on a diet, don't change your entire diet overnight. Start with one small change. If you eat four slices of bread, two fried eggs and some butter and jam every morning, then just start by reducing the quantity of butter to half of what you normally eat. Then you can reduce two fried eggs to two boiled eggs. Then keep progressively changing things till you reach your ideal diet.
This is what the 'Slow Is Better Than Fast' philosophy is all about. If you were reading this and thinking that one month is too long of a time or one activity a day is too less of a change, then you are exactly the kind of person who might need this approach the most. Life is not meant to be a speed test; it's meant to be a slow and ornate experience of our existence.


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Many believe that love is sweeter the second time around. If you are looking for signs whether or not your ex boyfriend still has feelings for you, then maybe you are still willing to work out your differences and give your relationship a second chance. I can think of a few of relationships from circle of friends who have been in for a second time around and most of them did feel sweeter and stronger, some are now happily married. The relationship breakup has made them to flourish as a reunited couple by accepting each other's faults, learning from their mistakes, being open and honest, having less doubt and expectations and more romantic connection.
While it's quite difficult to identify if your ex still has feelings for you, you can take a look at these credible signals, but be sure to think about it very carefully if you really want him back for all the right reasons.
- If he keeps reminding you about your good or funny memories together. When your ex shared nostalgic conversations with you including the every detail of your past, it means that he still loves you and regretting the bad things that pushed you apart. If he's having a hard time coping up and constantly calling you to talk about your old relationship or how such a romantic relationship went wrong, he obviously wants you back and trying to test your reaction.
- Trying to be friends and make time for you is one of the typical things that people do when they choose to breakup and aiming to get their ex back. Most of the time, he tries to keep you around and still choose to hang out with you just to see you. This can be painful especially if you are trying to move on. Stay friends if you think his intention is genuine and not just to feed his ego.
- If he brags about his accomplishments. Has your ex keeps mentioning about his new accomplishments like getting a job, new hobbies or finishing an academic training? It could be that your ex is still hoping to grab your attention and wants you to be proud of him. And yes, he is making an attempt to win you back all over again.
- He's drinking a lot and drunk dialing/texting you. Drinking may be his attempt to get over with you or get the courage to say things that he can't express when he is sober. You may receive a lot of calls and text messages from your ex when he's drunk to pour his heart out.
- He gets jealous when you are flirting with someone else. Does your ex get angry when he sees you flirting with other guy? Or did he ask you if you're dating anyone? If you see irritation all over his face every time you are talking with an opposite sex or he acts aggressive toward another guy, it's pretty certain that you still have a big space in your ex's heart.
So does you ex showing some of these signs? If you ex boyfriend still love you, you have strong feelings for him too and you are both willing to make necessary improvement in yourselves, then do your part and take action now before it's too late.


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Mark Valentine is probably a record collector. I offer this opinion because he pretty much nails the atmosphere of second-hand record shops in 'Goat Songs'. His narrator stumbles across - or is lured by? - an obscure album by one of those Sixties groups who were into mysticism, folklore, and mind-bending antics.
Like the previous story, 'Goat Songs' is about the enchantments that music can weave. The title refers to the album title, the group being Satyr. The climax of the story is, of course, the playing of the record. But before this we have learned that the 'hero' is a lost soul, living in a van with his record collection, often going without food so he can buy more. So when the final track on the album does not start the reader half-knows what is coming - the absolute release from the bleakly mundane that music so often promises, but so rarely delivers.
I'm making good progress with this collection and will provide more review fragments soon.


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