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Book Excerpt: For Laff's Sake by Atilola Moronfolu09:30:00
Exactly How?
Jamiu was a very curious lad. It is a wonder that he is still alive as Curiosity has yet to kill him, like it did the cat. Because of this, he knows many things a child of his age has no business knowing. In fact, the shape of his ears has been quite altered, because adults keep pulling it anytime he's caught pulling one of his eavesdropping stunts. But it seems the more his ears are pulled, the longer they get, and the longer they get, the more they prickle for more juicy information. His family and friends had tried hard, but could find no solution for his eavesdropping habit.
Jamiu lived with his parents in a one-room apartment. On a particular day, some of his family members had come from his village in Ekiti for a family meeting. Because of Jamiu's special gift of eavesdropping, they sent him to play with his cousins in his uncle's house, two streets away. Unfortunately for Jamiu, he had forgotten to take his rubber ball before leaving home. Jamiu could however not imagine having to play with his cousin, without the aid of a rubber ball to kick around, so he decided to go back home, just to 'get his ball'. Whether Jamiu intentionally or unintentionally left his ball at home is a fact that nobody would really find out till the end of time.
When he got home, the meeting had already started, and the door had been locked. Jamiu saw the ball he came to pick, right in front of the door, but the sound of the muffled voices coming from inside the room was too appetising for him to resist. So in his usual manner, he settled comfortably at the door, and pried his long ears at the hole of the door knob to do what he knew how to do best, looking around to make sure he wasn't caught by anyone.
What he heard was best imagined.
"So Mama Jamiu, as I was saying, Tayo, Jamiu's real mother is back at home with me. She has long recovered from her mental illness, after Baba Elewe Omo, the native doctor she has been with for the past eight years, concluded her treatment." Jamiu's grandmother started.
"That is good news mama mi[1]," said Jamiu's father.
"That is not all," Jamiu's grandfather interrupted. "She has requested for her child to be brought to her."
"No o, baba mi[2]. That is not possible. How can I send Jamiu to go and live with an ex-mad woman? I would never do that."
"And who turned her mad? Ehn… tell me, Baba Jamiu, who turned her mad? Is her condition not as a result of your shameless act? I don't know what you were thinking when you decided to take your own biological daughter, and impregnate her. Now, you refer to her as an ex-mad woman." His grandmother scolded.
Outside the door, Jamiu's mouth was wide-opened. So his father was not just his father, but his grandfather. And he had a sister he never knew about? His conscience told him that this was the time for him to pick his rubber ball and leave, but he just couldn't get himself to remove his ear from the knob-hole. There seemed to be an invisible glue on his ear.
"Mama mi, please, let the past be past. Let us stop passing blames around. It's been ages."
"How can the past be past? Ehn… tell me, how can it?" His grandfather interjected. "If only you had gotten rid of that abomination you call a child like I wanted? But no, you had to insist on having the child, because your wife never gave you a male child. Jamiu would always remain in your life, so it can never be past."
"Well, Baba Jamiu, let us just return the child to the real mother. She is asking for the child, so let's return him to her. That is why we have called this meeting, to determine whether we should send Jamiu back to his mother."Jamiu's grandmother explained.
"Though, I have a feeling she will try to kill him once she gets hold of him alone." His grandfather said.
Jamiu shivered. What were they thinking, contemplating sending him to live with a woman whose level of mental stability was in doubt?
"Well, we will have to take a vote on that." For the first time, the woman he had always assumed was his mother for the past 10 years finally spoke out.
What? His mother was asking for a vote? Wasn't she supposed to be putting an end to all these nonsense? How can she watch them take him from her to a woman that might end his life in a matter of days? He really couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Well, that is it. We are all in favour of sending Jamiu back to Tayo. The decision has been made. First thing tomorrow, he will follow the two of you back to Ikere Ekiti." His mother said.
"But let's think about this again, Tayo might really kill that child." His father expressed concern.
"Yes, we know, but we are not sure that will really happen. Besides, we cannot use what we are not sure about to keep the child away from his real mother."
"Okay. We will have to risk it then." His father finally agreed.
So they were even ready to gamble with his life. He looked around again to make sure he had not been sighted by anyone. The corridor where he was stooping was painfully quiet.
"So let's even think about it," his uncle started. "If that happens, I mean if she kills Jamiu, if Baba Elewe Omo's treatment did not really work on her, how do you think she go about the killing?"
Jamiu's ears pricked. What? They had sold him out, and even decided to go further by discussing the mode of his death. This is rubbish. These people are insane!
"I think she might tie him up, and cut his body parts bit by bit, making sure he is still alive till she gets to the vital parts." His grandmother started.
And they are even going along with the conversation.
"She might just soak him in a bath tub filled with water, and pass electricity into it, till he's shocked to death." His uncle added.
By now, Jamiu was shaking uncontrollably, he never thought he came from the loins of a deranged person, and his family members were comfortably speaking about his death. His whole family seemed to be as deranged as they had described his biological mother to be.
The voice of his father interrupted his thoughts…
"She might just land a blow on his skull. But that doesn't sound interesting enough to someone who is a psycho." His father explained.
"She might use a screwdriver to gorge his eyes out first, and let him bleed for 3 weeks, then poke him on the side, and let him bleed to death, letting his blood drip into a bucket… drip, drip, drip."
By now, Jamiu had started pissing in his pants. He thought of whom to run to, but no one came to his mind at that moment. All the people he trusted were right there in the room, talking about his death as if they were planning how to distribute aso ebi[3] for a party.
"Well, let's think well. In my own opinion, she might just do it the Clifford Orji style – Kill him and eat him. That is the way mad people like to do it." His mother said, like she had just discovered gold.
"That is it, Mama Jamiu, you are a real genius." Everyone chorused.
What? They were praising his mum for discovering the best way to kill him? Tears ran down his eyes uncontrollably. This was indeed the worst day of his life.
"I wonder why the Clifford Orji style didn't even occur to me before." His grandfather said.
"Now, since we have agreed that she might eat him, how do you think she might eat him? Roast him, fry him, or boil him?" His father asked.
"I think she will roast him. Like most mentally imbalanced people, she would most likely be too impatient to boil or fry." His grandmother explained.
"Since it is Jamiu meat, she will boil him first, and then fry him. I have eaten a guy called Jamiu before, he was sweeter when we fried him."
What? Jamiu thought. His uncle was a cannibal and a psycho too? By now, he was crying silently. His whole world had just crumbled right before him.
"No, she is my daughter. I know her well. She used to love boiled meat when she was young. I think she will just boil him and eat him." His mother argued.
"I disagree," said his uncle. "Fried Jamiu meats are sweeter. She will fry him."
"No, she will roast him. Mad people are impatient." His grandmother emphasised.
"I know her best, I am her mother. She will boil him, trust me."
And so the argument continued
"Boil him… Roast him… Fry him… Roast him… Fry him… Fry him... Boil him…" It seemed the argument was never going to end.
By now, Jamiu had shit in his knickers. "The end has finally come for me," he thought.
Suddenly he heard the voice of his grandfather continue.
"I really don't think we should argue too much about this. We can just try it out now. Let's divide him into three parts, and roast one part, boil one part, and fry one part. It would not take too long for us to get started and accomplish that, since he is at the door, where he has been standing, listening to us all these while."
They suddenly opened the door, and Jamiu fell in, all smelly, wet, and teary-eyed.
All his family members looked at him, and erupted in uncontrollable laughter.
"Well, Jamiu, I am sure no one will ever have to explain to you the dangers of eavesdropping after today." His grandfather said in amusement.
You can purchase the kindle version and hard copy from amazon, or download the soft copy from Okada Books on your android device for just N200 if you are in Nigeria. The hard copy is also available on createspace.com
About the Author
Atilola Moronfolu is a multi-faceted entrepreneur. She is a Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers,Writer, Editor, Spoken word artist, and popular writing blogger on atilola.blogspot.com. She also edits books for fellow writers and bloggers and gets them ready for publishing. Transiting from consulting into the literary world, she has made giant strides in a very short period. She is the author of Antonyms of a Mirage, the now popularly trending collection of Drama, Prose, and Poetry in Nigeria. Read on: atilola.blogspot.com.
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According to sources close to the incident, Rutgers officials knew of coach Mike Rice's abusive behavior long before their November 26 viewing of the now-ubiquitous video of him physically pushing players. An upperclassman—who remains anonymous—approached the school's officials early in 2012 to report the suspicious behavior. According to a 50-page report compiled for Rutgers, athletic director Tim Pernetti was so cognizant of the abuse that he had personally chastised Rice, sat in on his practices to monitor him, and even mandated he see Rutgers's sports psychologist. Pernetti was forced to resign as athletic director on Friday after the startling video exposed the cover-up.

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger....Amendment V
Since the time of the drafting of the Fifth Amendment, there has been a debate over which constitutional protections are applicable to courts-martial. The text of the amendment exempts only the requirement of a grand-jury indictment. Though it was universally understood at the time of the Founding that jury trials did not apply to courts-martial, there is no such textual exception in the Sixth Amendment. An earlier draft presented to Congress did specifically exclude military trials from the jury guarantee, but that version was rejected. Perhaps the Framers believed that the exemption to jury trials was so universally recognized, it would have been redundant to have specified it.
During the Virginia ratifying convention, Anti-Federalists Patrick Henry and George Mason feared that the lack of a bill of rights would permit Congress, as Henry stated, to "inflict the most cruel and ignominious punishments on the militia," implying that it might be a device to establish a national standing army. But it does not necessarily follow that the Fifth Amendment was intended to apply to military defendants. Nonetheless, in contemporaneous British practice, the protections against double jeopardy and self-incrimination were accorded to defendants in military trials. Early in the eighteenth century, Sir Matthew Hale even declared that the military should not be subject to courts-martial during peacetime. How much of British practice should be carried over into the legal obligations of the American Constitution is difficult to discern. The Framers are virtually silent on the matter.
It seems clear enough that the Framers intended Congress to have plenary authority to define the rules regulating the armed forces (Article I, Section 8, Clause 14) at least in relation to the executive, and perhaps to the judiciary as well.
Subsequent to the ratification of the Fifth Amendment, the courts left it to Congress to define offenses against the military and the manner of their being adjudicated. Judicial review of decisions of military tribunals was very limited. In 1950, the Supreme Court, in Johnson v. Eisentrager, held German nationals, confined in U.S. Army custody in Germany after their conviction by military commission of violating the laws of war, had no right to the writ of habeas corpus to test the legality of their detention. In the course of reaching that conclusion, the majority reasoned that enemy aliens have no greater rights than Americans and that "American citizens conscripted into the military service are thereby stripped of their Fifth Amendment rights and as members of the military establishment are subject to its discipline, including military trials for offenses against aliens or Americans." The Court further emphasized that the military has "well-established...power...to exercise jurisdiction over members of the armed forces...." If the military tribunals acquire "lawful authority to hear, decide and condemn, [then] their action is not subject to judicial review merely because they have made a wrong decision on disputed facts." On the other hand, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (1950), supplemented by the Manual for Courts-Martial, affirmatively grants due-process rights essentially comparable to those in a civilian court, such as the guarantee of counsel, protection from self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and being advised of rights before interrogation; and the Court of Military Appeals (renamed the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in 1994) has held that service members are entitled to all constitutional rights except those that are expressly or by implication inapplicable to the military. United States v. Clay (1951); United States v. Jacoby (1960).
The only Article III court appeal permitted by the Uniform Code of Military Justice is to the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari from decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Nonetheless, federal courts will review cases collaterally, primarily through the writ of habeas corpus. Until 1953, such collateral review centered on the question of whether the military tribunal possessed proper jurisdiction. Hiatt v. Brown (1950). Review remained highly deferential. For the civilian courts to entertain a petition on a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner must be in actual military custody, and he must have exhausted all available legal remedies within the military justice system.
In 1953, the Supreme Court opened a new avenue of appeal. In Burns v. Wilson (1953), a decision that remains highly controversial, a plurality of the Justices declared that military courts had the same responsibility as civilian courts "to protect a person from the violation of his constitutional rights." But the Justices also stated that the requirements of military discipline may result in an application of constitutional rights different from those accorded to civilian defendants. Finally, the Justices stated that civilian courts could review claims de novo, but only if the military courts had "manifestly refused to consider" the petitioners' assertions of error.
Subsequently, Rasul v. Bush (2004), relying on Burns and other cases, read Eisentrager narrowly and held that the federal habeas statute now confers federal district court jurisdiction to hear challenges of alien detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. However, the Court explicitly did not decide the substance of those rights and limited the habeas extraterritorial reach to Guantanamo Bay, which it said had a unique relationship to the United States. At the same time, in Rumsfeld v. Padilla (2004), the Court, on jurisdictional grounds, avoided ruling on the extent of the President's power to keep a U.S. citizen in military custody as an enemy combatant; but in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) the Court decided, without a majority opinion, that the government must give a U.S. citizen held in the United States some type of hearing at which he can contest the facts on which the government decided to treat him as an enemy combatant.
Since Burns, federal courts have applied its positions in differing ways. Some courts are not deferential to the military courts' findings on issues of constitutional law and will review such claims. Others will only review claims that were not given full and fair consideration by the military justice system. In sum, either through the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or court decisions on collateral review, the law now grants persons within the military system of justice their basic due process rights.
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Great example of why despite all the ruminations and navel gazing about social media stuff, Twitter this and Facebook that, great content will always be the boss.
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Great Facebook application for the new film How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about journalist Toby Young's adventures in NYC with Vanity Fair. The book was very funny so I hope the film does it justice.
Deface your friends, un-friend them, cheat at scrabble and lots of other things to undermine social networking. First Facebook app I've got excited about in a while. Sorry, Emily 😉
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Think you've got the next Gorilla inside you? Do you have Heidi's in your sub-consciousness? Or could you bring a fresh take on a global issue? Creativity doesn't always reside in the creative department. And here's your chance to prove it and win a luxurious Cannes trip so you can be demanding, eccentric and quaff litres of fine wine and worse.
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The competition is open to everyone from one man bands to global goliaths and is being judged by some of the most well-known big cheeses in the industry. So how about it?
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the composer's native town, whose work an international movement of lovers of music has been committed to for more than a hundred years. Richard Wagner, who found his Valhalla in Bayreuth and lived his final days in Venice, was born in a place to be for music. Secular or religious, choirs and orchestras, Gewandhaus, opera or operetta, conservatory and new music schools, university (choir & orchestra), radio or house music, jazz, techno, wave and gothic, this city sounds.
Following the Bach era, then the both devastating and awakening experience of the Liberation Wars, Leipzig developed as the capital of romanticism. Mendelssohn, Schumann, Grieg and Lortzing lived here. The predecessor of the International Association of the Wagner Societies, the Richard Wagner Verband deutscher Frauen, was founded on 13 February 1909 in Leipzig, then Germany's third largest city.
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Jeff Herman did not go to school to become a sexual assault lawyer. Herman decided to change his path after he met a mother whose 4-year-old autistic son has been sexually abused by an employee at his school. Herman took on the case and did all the investigating himself. In the end, he found out that the 4-year-old boy was not the only child in the school that had been abused by the employee. There were over 20 other children who had been sexually touched by the man. The man was able to get the job because the school failed to do a background check on the man when they hired him thus putting their students in danger. Go To This Page for additional information.
After Jeff Herman's first sexually abuse case he found out that many other people have endured the same type of abuse. He represents all people, but he has a strong desire to bring justice to children who have been abused. He realizes that children who are sexually abused may grow up still scared and afraid because of what was done to them. Jeff Herman teaches people how to deal with people who have been abused to ensure that they can heal properly. He encourages parents to teach their children about sex crimes to provide that if they are abused, they can let someone know so that the predator can be charged in the offense that they have committed before they hurt someone else.
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MMOs are a strange beast. They are designed to make you play as much as possible, yet addictiveness does not always equal fun. In the field of pyschology, there are several kinds of rewards systems, and the one that seems to be the most successful is the random reward introduced at a random time. Sometimes you click the button, and nothing happens. Sometimes you click and get the food pellet. It's this mechanism that fuels the slots in Vegas, and when you walk away empty, as is statistically inevitable over a long enough stretch of time, you tell yourself that the overall value was the experience itself, since you come away with nothing tangible. MMOs take away your time and they never deliver a discreet conclusion.
I played a ton of Dark Age of Camelot shortly after it launched, and I find myself reminded of it negatively every day that I play World of Warcraft. To discuss the differences in favor of WoW would be an article in itself, but I'll try to keep to the main points.
First, let's talk about The Grind. In a traditional persistent online RPG, you advance your character by killing an endless string of monsters, and by doing "FedEx" quests where you get some money and/or experience points by delivering an arbitrary item from Point A to Point B. As your character advances, his or her progress begins to slow. It takes longer and longer to get to the next level, because you need more and more experience points each time, yet the experience returned from monsters and deliveries does not scale accordingly. Yet you feel compelled to continue because at Level X you get a really cool spell or other ability that's supposed to make the game more "fun."
The second part of the grind is "downtime," the amount of time it takes to recover from each monster (or "mob") encounter. When I played DAOC, it typically took every ounce of my resources to defeat an enemy that would give me respectable experience. Then I would sit down and wait while my energy bars slowly refilled. Then you'd have to wait awhile for the next batch of monsters to spawn again, and you'd typically be competing against other players and "camping" this same spot all day long.
Now, imagine an MMO where your experience is a string of quests where you're rewarded with a cool item, recipe, or a decent amount of pocket money. A game where the grind is virtually eliminated--a game where downtime is relatively nonexistent, where enemies respawn rapidly and dynamically according to how many players are in the local area; where you can use a healing spell, or bandage yourself, or eat some food, or all three, before diving right back in again. Your character's death doesn't result in the loss of many hours of experience points, or one of your items, or any money (although there is item decay, so whatever you have equipped currently takes a 10% durability hit). When you die, you resurrect as a ghost who moves quickly, runs on water, and cannot be harmed on its way back to its body. You can also have a player resurrect you in a matter of moments, even after you have entered ghost form. This is a game that understands Fun.
Welcome to World of Warcraft.
WoW has been described widely as a "newbie-friendly" game, but after playing since the closed beta phase that started back in Spring of this year, I can honestly say that WoW is friendly to everybody. Everything from the colorful art style to the endearing player animations, to the countless quirks of personality makes WoW an inviting experience. Blizzard's passion for gaming joy is infectious, and its sense of humor disarming.


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The Field Marketing Manager is responsible for developing and managing field demand generation programs and campaigns to drive and nurture leads, and accelerate existing opportunities and will work closely with Japan sales team and the corporate marketing team to roll out field marketing programs aligned to sales priorities and revenue target. This position will participate in multi-function teams and report directly to Japan Senior Marketing Manager.
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The selected candidate must be self-directed, collaborate well with colleagues, have initiative and critical thinking skills, be flexible with a can-do attitude and flair for creative problem solving, as well as with the ability to manage and execute numerous projects simultaneously. Key responsibilities for this position include:
- Develop and manage field marketing programs to drive opportunity generation and pipeline acceleration including demand generation campaigns, field events, trade shows, digital programs, Direct mail, telemarketing, sales collateral and partner programs
- Work cross-functionally to oversee the timely execution of the field marketing programs and collaborate with sales development and sales
- Collaborate with the global Account-based Marketing Program to create and gain consensus for marketing programs in alignment with sales priorities
- Source and manage local vendors for marketing program execution including direct mail, telemarketing, digital programs and third-party lead generation programs
- Develop, plan and execute marketing activities to drive sales pipeline, build channel partnerships and strategic alliances
- Track campaigns and report metrics as well as overall ROI to the internal stakeholders
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- Manage sales tools and collateral needs and deliverables for the region including printing, translation, presentation, datasheet and brochure, etc.
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- Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) required
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- Experience of using digital and social channel to drive business growth. Technology interest is highly preferred
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- Ability to work with varied groups including executive management, customers and internal teams
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Many people are fans of the late Elvis Presley. I have friends in that camp and so I have a large collection of Elvis stamps. I was asked to make a birthday card for a friend's daughter for her birthday. I knew she is an Elvis fan (she even named her son Elvis), so I decided to make her a personalized Elvis card. Lots of people love campy, or quirky, collectibles, and I remembered I had a Elvis lamp stamp that I thought would be fun for her as she has a great sense of humor.
Stamps: Viva Las Vegas, A Muse Artstamps
Paper: White Deckled Card, Gina K Designs
Ink: Memento Black, Archival Black
Misc.: Copics, Wink of Stella, Tim Holtz Index Labels, Memory Box Die
Elvis was known for this costumes and so I decided to add Wink of Stella shine to his jumpsuit stars for a bling effect.
This was a lot of fun for me to make. I love it when I can make an unusual card that will bring a smile to someone.
Until next time!
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Elvis - The Lamp
5 comments:
- Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...
What a fun card for your Elvis-loving friend!
- Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 9:21:00 AM EDT
- MiamiKel said...
Brilliant! This is a perfect card for the Elvis fan! You always have the perfectly themed posts :)
- Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 10:11:00 AM EDT
- Arnoldo L. Romero, MLA said...
I love it! It has that campy/quirky feeling of much of the Elvis memorabilia I've seen. As a matter of fact, I felt that Graceland had that same feeling when I visited it during a trip to Memphis a couple of years ago. LOL! Have a blessed week my friend.
- Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 6:09:00 PM EDT
- Judith @ Lavender Cottage said...
Gosh, I didn't know there were Elvis stamps - great card! Personalizing it makes it special.
- Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 10:41:00 PM EDT
- Marcy said...
Wow, my mom would love this Elvis image! She is a huge Elvis fan...just so funny how he is a lamp! You always have the most unique images. Fantastic card!
- Friday, April 25, 2014 at 9:41:00 PM EDT


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When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness—often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system—have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. In Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders, Teresa Gowan vividly depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy. Gowan shows some of the diverse ways that men on the street in San Francisco struggle for survival, autonomy, and self-respect. Living for weeks at a time among homeless men—working side-by-side with them as they collected cans, bottles, and scrap metal; helping them set up camp; watching and listening as they panhandled and hawked newspapers; and accompanying them into soup kitchens, jails, welfare offices, and shelters—Gowan immersed herself in their routines, their personal stories, and their perspectives on life on the streets. She observes a wide range of survival techniques, from the illicit to the industrious, from drug dealing to dumpster diving. She also discovered that prevailing discussions about homelessness and its causes—homelessness as pathology, homelessness as moral failure, and homelessness as systemic failure—powerfully affect how homeless people see themselves and their ability to change their situation. Drawing on five years of fieldwork, this powerful ethnography of men living on the streets of the most liberal city in America, Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders, makes clear that the way we talk about issues of extreme poverty has real consequences for how we address this problem—and for the homeless themselves.


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The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah has an opening for a postdoctoral research associate in the general areas of tropical and mesoscale meteorology with a focus on improving understanding of deep convection and its organization around the world. Our research group typically uses remote sensing and in situ observations from satellites (notably TRMM and GPM), surface sites, and aircraft. Involvement in field campaigns, past and future, is encouraged. A successful candidate will conduct original research, write manuscripts for publication, participate in professional meetings, and collaborate with faculty and graduate students at the University of Utah and other institutions under existing or future grants from NASA, NSF, DOE, or other sponsors.
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Global trade has bigger problems than Donald Trump
Recent debate surrounding global trade has focused on the impact of tariffs and counter-tariffs imposed by the US and some of its trading partners. A less discussed and much more significant story is that global trade is starting to show signs of weakness.
07 June 2018
In recent months, US trade policy has taken centre stage as President Trump gripes about large bilateral trade deficits. More generally, America is grappling with concerns about China's state-directed 'command' economic model; China's national champions are supported 'unfairly' by its government, while foreign competitors allegedly find it impossible to compete fairly. This creates an inevitable tension that shows no sign of abating - and neither do headlines about tariffs and trade wars. But are these really the biggest threats to global trade? For investors, it's extremely important to keep these issues in context - and despite the dramatic headlines, there may be bigger things to worry about.
Trade spat may be here to stay, but headlines are overblown
When it comes to the impact of evolving trade policy, it's worth understanding the headline numbers. For example, reports that Donald Trump will impose a 25 per cent tariff on $50bn of Chinese goods certainly sounds significant, but this tax would account for barely 2 per cent of US imports from China. It would account for comfortably less than 1 per cent of China's total exports and represents effectively nothing in terms of US or China GDP.
Another example is steel. Headlines suggest that Trump will impose a 25 per cent tariff on steel, with Europe, Canada and Mexico not getting exemptions (and possibly imposing counter-tariffs). Again, the practical implications of this are smaller than they may seem at first glance. The US imports just under $0.5bn of steel from each of Canada and the EU. This is practically a rounding error relative to the $300bn of total goods imports from Canada and $450bn from the EU. The overall macroeconomic impact would be even less.
Indeed, while headlines are likely to continue to flow over the coming months, we would likely need to see counter-tariffs and subsequent escalation several times larger than these before they even start showing up in the US growth-inflation mix, not to mention the rest of the world.
Broader backdrop gives investors more to worry about
But if investors may sleep soundly in the knowledge that these trade wars are unlikely to have a devastating impact on the global macro picture, there is plenty more to keep us awake at night. In our view, global trade is mostly driven by a small number of interrelated factors, including global growth (and China's in particular), the tech cycle, commodity demand and arguably the US dollar.
First, and perhaps most importantly, overall global growth is showing signs of slowing. We are seeing some signs of a peak in trade after the 2016-17 recovery, and this has clear implications for trade. For example, the Baltic Dry Index, a key global shipping cost index and helpful leading indicator for trade, has fallen meaningfully from the beginning of this year. The global manufacturing PMI suggests that new export orders have fallen dramatically since their peak at the turn of the year, this month giving the weakest reading since August 2016.
Over 50 signals expansion, under 50 signals contraction. Source: Bloomberg, Fidelity International, May 2018.
The tech cycle rumbles on, but looks increasingly frothy - it too shows some signs that a peak may not be far away. Semiconductor prices are starting to flatten, for example, after a significant run-up. Korean exports (a key bellwether for global trade) have been almost entirely supported by its isolated 'boom' in semiconductors - which means trouble if the tech cycle does run out of steam.
Another source of concern is the US dollar. Its weakening was a large boon for global growth, commodity prices and emerging markets, but as the US Federal Reserve continues to tighten monetary policy forcefully - while central banks in Japan and the UK continue to drag their heels - it is possible that this one-way trade is over.
All of these factors are likely to weigh on commodity prices, which generate a large proportion of global trade and are disproportionately important for emerging markets (which in turn are disproportionately important for trade and economic growth). While all eyes are currently on rising oil prices, other commodities are not keeping pace. The CRB Raw Industrials Index rallied 25 per cent from its 2015 lows as global trade surged but has been flat since mid-January. China's Producer Price inflation has been negative in recent months, in contrast to the strong run seen over the prior two years.
Implications for investors
When it comes to concerns about global trade, it's clear that US tariffs are not the only show in town. In fact, they pale in comparison to broader macroeconomic dynamics which are starting to assert themselves. What does this mean for investors? It's impossible to predict the course of trade policy, but it's clear that we are likely to continue seeing some dramatic headlines over the coming months. When allocating capital across global markets and asset classes, it's as important as ever to look beyond rhetoric and news flow to understand what's really driving global trade.
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Argentina's players inflamed their country's rivalry with England by unfurling a banner claiming sovereignty of the Falkland Islands before beating Slovenia 2-0 in a friendly international at La Plata, north of Buenos Aires.
The banner declared 'Las Malvinas son Argentinas' (the Malvinas are Argentinian). It is often put on show before Argentina's games but the proximity to the World Cup brought new attention. The Falklands have been ruled by Britain since 1833.
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National Storytelling Week teaching resources
To celebrate National Storytelling Week 2015, we'd like to entice you and your class into the world of make-believe, of pirates, faraway lands, fairy tales and graphic novels, inspiring everyone to share their own stories in the process. This collection of teaching resources, shared by teachers, for teachers, is freely available on TES to help you enrich the lives of your pupils through the power of storytelling.
Story telling inspiration and ideas
Interviews with authors
A series of short video interviews with famous writers to inspire your pupils during National Storytelling Week.
Storytelling masks
Bring traditional stories alive with these colourful masks.
Story word mats
Help pupils to develop story writing ideas with a range of themed word mats.
Story starters
Use these visual prompts to encourage pupils to come up with imaginative short stories.
Creative writing prompts
Stimulate short creative writing tasks with this set of prompts.
Writing a fairy tale
Familiarise pupils with the features needed to write an effective fairy tale with this useful guide.
Story genre guide
Key overviews of major genres to help pupils develop their own stories and understand genre conventions.
Story mountain
A visual structure for pupils to follow to help develop their own stories.
Fairy tale project
A colourful, active learning and task-led project for pupils to explore the world of fairy tales.
Creative writing imaginative stories
Resources to inspire creative story development.
Inspire Storytelling
A simple and short PowerPoint allowing pupils to make decisions about the story pathway.
Character description
Help pupils to widen their vocabulary and write better descriptions with this helpful writing aid.
Story cards
Character, setting and dilemma cards to use for story telling activities.
21st Century storytelling - digital stories
Story writing
An introduction to plot, characters and themes for effective story development.
Developing digital stories
An entire scheme of work for developing multimedia stories.
Graphic novels
A guide to help students develop their storytelling through the medium of graphic novels.
Tale Time Stories
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Height : 5. 11"
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Crimes : CHILD PORNOGRAPHY/REPRODUCE/SELL (2 Counts)
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Lite Rock's Christmas Choir Spotlight : Arthur Rann Elementary School [AUDIO/VIDEO]
Lite Rock welcomed 25 students from Arthur Rann Elementary School today as... the featured "Christmas Choir Spotlight" on the Lite Rock Morning Show.
Chorus Director Jeremiah Paton brought the sixth grade members of his chorus to sing for us as they prepare for their Holiday Concert on Tuesday, December 4th at Arthur Rann Elementary. This was the first visit to Lite Rock for students from Arthur Rann and I hope we can make it an annual event!
Click play below to listen to the Arthur Rann Elementary School Chorus sing "May all Children."
During the holidays, I am once again welcoming in schools from all over South Jersey to sing songs of the season. The Lite Rock Christmas Choir Spotlight is brought to you by East Coast Roofing, Sing and Windows.


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Official Website of Ema Shin
Copyright © 2017 Ema Shin, All rights reserved.
Exhibitions & Workshops
Workshop at Calligraphy Summer School in Winter 2018
Ema is holding two workshops at the SSiW presented by the Calligraphy Society of Victoria.
Create a One-of-a-kind Artist Book - 3 days
Wed 4 - Fri 6 July 2018
Multi Colour Japanese Woodblock Printing - 2 days
Sat 7 - Sun 8 July 2018
University College, Parkville, Melbourne
Please check more info
Conspicuous Presence
Guest Curator Program for International Women's Day
Curated by Women's Art Register
21 February - 10 Mar 2018, Wed-Sat, 12-5pm
Trocadero Art Space
Suite 1, lvl 1/119 Hopkins St Footscray, 3011 Australia
Woodblock Print & Embroidery Workshop
Fri 11 & Sat 12 May 2018
Bookings Essential
please book at Kimono House website
Level 2 'Nicholas Building'
37 Swanston St Melbourne
Open House - 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial
Curated by Glenn Barkley
14 Oct - 10 Dec 2017
Touring Nationally 2018 - 2020
Tamworth Regional Gallery
466 Peel St, Tamworth Australia
Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries 2017
Ema's small tapestry "Soft Alchemy (Lily)" has received the first prize of Kate Derum Award.
9 August - 29 September 2017
Australian Tapestry Workshop
262-266 Park Street
South Melbourne
Ema's mixed media print work is exhibited at this international print exhibition in Portugal.
1 Aug - 30 Sep 2017
Côa Museum in Foz Coa City
Please find out the details
One day Workshop at Kimono House
Saturday 12 August 2017, 10am-4pm
Level 2 'Nicholas Building'
37 Swanston St Melbourne
Cost: $135 including materials & use of tools
Bookings Essential please visit Kimono House website
"Victorian Craft Award 2017"
Ema's work is in the short list of Victorian Craft Award 2017.
The Victorian Craft Awards, presented by Craft Victoria, is Victoria's largest biennial exhibition of craft artists, showcasing excellence and innovation across all mediums.
3 June - 08 July 2017
Please find out the venue and more at Craft website


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Concerts at In the Venue
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Atari GEMDOS FAT implementation has some restrictions -- the most notable being that on TOS versions 1-3 a cluster must not be bigger than 16384 bytes. (Bad choice of a signed int16 to hold the cluster size.) Other limits are described in the following document, section 9.3:
http://info-coach.fr/atari/documents/_m ... _Guide.pdf
HDDRUTIL when partitioning a disk will try to work with these limitations when you select to create a TOS-compatible partition. Partitions created by other tools (like on the PC or Mac) will obviously not adhere to the limits, i.e. they might not work even if a partition is smaller than the maximum size of 512 MiB supported by TOS 1.04 - 3.06.
Enter BigDOS: it replaces GEMDOS and thus allows accessing bigger partitions and partitions created by non-Atari-aware tools. BigDOS -- though being 20 years old -- is by no means obsolete, even with the newest versions of HDDRIVER. See its FAQ: http://hddriver.seimet.de/en/faq.html
Imho it would be a nice improvement to HDDRIVER if Uwe Seimet developed a BigDOS replacement. Or the BigDOS author could be persuaded to open-source his work.


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Thomas Grant Jr. of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat reports that the Falcons were among a dozen NFL teams that had representatives present for South Carolina State's pro day this past Wednesday.
Per Grant, cornerback Phillip Adams and safety Rafael Bush received the most attention on the day as both ran 40 times around 4.40 seconds.
Also wide receiver Oliver "Tre" Young posted 40 times that averaged 4.50 seconds unofficially and a 36-inch vertical leap. Running back William Ford did 16 bench reps and had a 32-inch vertical. He did not run the 40 or any other agility drills due to coming off recent knee surgery.


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Central bank secrecy datapoint of the day
I've moaned on many occasions about the secrecy of the Federal Reserve, which can and should be much more transparent than it is. But Bloomberg's latest story on secretive Fed lending is a helpful reminder that while the Fed is opaque by US government standards, it's positively crystalline by global central-banking standards.
The subject of the story is the set of unlimited swap facilities that the Fed set up during the crisis with the world's big central banks. Any time they wanted to lend out dollars, they could borrow as many dollars as they wanted from the Federal Reserve, putting up their own domestic currency as collateral. At the peak of the crisis in December 2008, the Fed had lent out as much as $586 billion under these facilities, most of it to the European Central Bank.
Bloomberg's problem with this is that once you've followed the money to the ECB, the trail goes cold — the ECB won't say which banks it lent those dollars to. Because while the Fed has revealed the names of the banks that it lent money to under various programs, no other central bank has followed its lead.
The ECB won't publicly disclose names of borrowers under any circumstances and doesn't share the identities outside the 17 euro-area central banks, a spokesman wrote in an e-mail…
The Bank of Japan, which tapped 3.9 percent of the aggregate swap dollars according to the GAO, has no plans to publicize borrowers' identities and declined to comment on whether it shares the names with the Fed, a spokesman said. The Swiss National Bank, which accounted for 4.6 percent, "as a matter of principle" doesn't publish counterparties, said Walter Meier, a spokesman.
The Bank of England doesn't publish details of individual financial institutions' use of its facilities.
Placed in context, then, the Fed's secrecy and resistance to releasing information makes a bit more sense: it's just doing what central banks all over the world do. Dean Baker is quoted in the Bloomberg article as saying that "U.S. policy makers should encourage international standards for disclosure through talks at forums such as meetings of the Group of 20 nations." But you can be sure that any such encouragement would go nowhere, since all these central banks are independent and would start screaming about how their independence was being compromised if politicians started telling them what to do.
Besides, the Fed was hardly enthusiastic about releasing the information that we've seen so far.
Personally I think it's vital that the public be able to see charts like this one, showing the degree to which individual banks were saved by central bank lending; the case for secrecy — which always for some reason includes the word "stigma" — is pretty weak. Has anybody ever tried to quantify this "stigma" effect? By all means put a two-year delay in before the lending is revealed. But letting the public know what you did during the course of a crisis two years ago is an important part of the accountability that any central bank has to the country or currency area as a whole. And if you think the Fed is bad on such matters, it's worth reminding ourselves occasionally that every other central bank is significantly worse.


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The company is celebrating its 30th anniversary and has come a long way since I first started the business, as we continue to grow and expand. We're excited to be opening in Mt. Juliet and look forward to being part of the community here
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 09, 2013
The possibility of a good night's sleep every night sounds, well, like a dream come true. The team at Sleep Outfitters believes a good rest is the start of a healthy lifestyle. Their new store is opening at 300 Crossing Lane, Unit 105, Mt. Juliet, TN, with a commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles.
The grand opening and ribbon cutting celebration will be presented in collaboration with the Mt. Juliet – West Wilson County Chamber of Commerce on May 17, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Refreshments, giveaways and door prizes will be provided at the opening. Store manager Rachael Knight Gullette will be on hand to answer any questions about the mattress lines.
Sleep Outfitters may be new to the Mt. Juliet area, but it's a part of the fast-growing parent company, Innovative Mattress Solutions. "Sleep Outfitters is growing because we guarantee comfort and value, and we carry an outstanding selection of America's best brands," said Kim Brown Knopf, Chief Executive Officer, Sleep Outfitters. "The company is celebrating its 30th anniversary and has come a long way since I first started the business, as we continue to grow and expand. We're excited to be opening in Mt. Juliet and look forward to being part of the community here."
The new Sleep Outfitters showroom features name-brand mattress sets from Sealy, Stearns & Foster, Beautyrest and Tempur-Pedic. Sleep Outfitters also carries many new and innovative sleep systems, including latex foam and visco-elastic foam. They also offer complete beds, electric adjustable beds, bed bug protectors, sheets and pillows.
Sleep Outfitters makes it easy to outfit people for a healthy life. Their 120-day comfort and price guarantee will help everyone rest easy, knowing they have 120 days if they find a better price on the same product or they're not comfortable sleeping in their new bed. Financing options are available.
About Sleep Outfitters, Mattress Warehouse, Mattress King and Innovative Mattress Solutions
The team at Sleep Outfitters, Mattress Warehouse and Mattress King, as part of the parent company Innovative Mattress Solutions based in Winfield, WV, believes a better night's sleep is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. Their comfort promise helps customers rest easy, knowing they have 120 days to make a change if are not comfortable sleeping in their new bed.
For sleep tips, lifestyle motivation, and to learn about specials, visit and like Sleep Outfitters, Mattress Warehouse and Mattress King on Facebook and follow Kim Knopf's daughter, Karrie Knopf, at her Pillow Talk Blog. To learn more, visit their website.
Innovative Mattress Solutions operates nearly 150 sleep specialty retail mattress stores in six states, celebrating 30 years in business in 2013.


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If the Somerville and Cambridge segments are showcases for state of the art linear park sections, the Waltham portions are more mysterious.
New England nature things with special focus on the Bay Circuit Trail, greater Boston, its land conservation facets and outdoor recreation opportunities.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Mass Central Rail Trail. Waltham MA
If the Somerville and Cambridge segments are showcases for state of the art linear park sections, the Waltham portions are more mysterious.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Charles River Link Trail Medfield MA.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Bay Circuit Trail: Callahan State Park.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Urban Aspects: Medford MA Shepherd Brooks Estate.
The Shepherd Brooks Estate is another era's country house owned by the prominent Brooks family.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mystic Link Trail : Mystic Lakes.
The northward lacing of bikeways along the Mystic River watershed clings closely to the charming Mystic Lakes in the passage from Medford to Winchester before arriving at the mouth of the Aberjona River.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Urban Aspects. Watertown Branch Rail Trail Conversion.
It veered away from the Fitchburg Line near Sherman Street in Cambridge and followed Fresh Pond along its eastern side before turning toward Watertown.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Urban Aspects Cambridge MA Alewife Bike Hub.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Bay Circuit Trail: Ipswich MA Prospect Hill to Linebrook Woods.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The Neponset River Greenway Revisited: Dorchester and Milton.
I first began exploring this river last year and readily determined that it is worthy of greater recognition.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Bay Colony Rail Trail Needham MA.
The Bay Colony Railroad was a short line between Newton and Milford MA with a section shared by the Needham commuter rail line.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Mass Central Rail Trail : Somerville and Cambridge.
The Massachusetts Central Rail Trail is easily the most elaborate one of the various spoke trail projects underway.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad was a line that aimed to compete as a way to Albany NY. It was discontinued in 1971.
Sudbury area.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Charles River Link Trail Wellesley MA The Sudbury Aqueduct Part 1.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Mystic Link Trail: Medford MA. Medford Square to Lower Mystic Lake.
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The use of string inverters in US projects over 5 MW in size is expected to grow more than four-fold over the next 5 years, according to GTM Research. Unlike central inverters, the same string inverter can be used on projects ranging in size from just 1 MW to 1 GW. That sort of flexibility is especially important in today's ultra competitive marketplace.
Traditionally, developers of large-scale utility solar power plants used large central inverters for a very understandable reason. "In the past, lower capex leaned toward central inverters for large projects," said Sham Ramnarain, chief engineer of Huawei FusionSolar Smart PV Solution for North America. "With today's innovations and mass production in string inverters, that advantage now leans toward string inverters."
"Today, developers and EPCs have to bid more projects, and they have to bid more variations of projects. Customers are interested in looking at not only traditional and poly modules, but also bifacial and split cells, and there's always interest in looking at fixed-tilt versus tracking," said Bates Marshall, vice president and general manager of Huawei FusionSolar Smart PV Solution for North America, who notes that Huawei typically defines megaprojects as anything above 200 MW.
"In the past, you had to use different inverters for different project designs, and you'd have a file drawer full of designs and optimizations and tradeoffs," added Marshall. "From a velocity and flexibility standpoint, giving EPCs the ability to rely on a string inverter as one universal building block that doesn't change at scale is very appealing."
As much as flexibility is important, this transition to string inverters for solar megaprojects is primarily being driven by economics. Even before Section 201 tariffs were imposed, EPCs and developers faced enormous pressure to drive down project costs.
The tariff decision has only exacerbated those pressures, forcing EPCs and developers to scour the designs and equipment used in projects for savings. Just a few years ago, the capital expense of string inverters was a financial deal-breaker. "You'd get a quote for the inverter and lay out the preliminary design and bill of materials. And when you looked at it in Excel, the stark reality of capex was staring you in the face," said Marshall. "The typical 3-phase string inverter was twice the price."
Thanks to a massive ramp-up in production—led by Huawei, which GTM Research ranks as the largest inverter manufacturer in the world—the capex advantage of legacy central inverters has all but disappeared.
Cost savings related to balance-of-system outlays are also making string inverters more attractive for large projects. Because central inverters were long the standard for large solar developments, EPCs lacked a design methodology suited for string inverters. Huawei has developed a block design approach that divides projects into 3–4 MW sections, each integrated with a medium-voltage transformer.
The result of developing and encouraging best practices around design has driven down cost. "We have pulled out 3–4 cents per watt with block design and technologies such as our cluster rack and integrated transformer to consolidate components, reduce wiring and improve quality," said Marshall.
In the North American market, EPCs generally walk away from projects once they're built. But the long-term project owners reap the O&M cost benefits of string inverters; Marshall estimates a net present value economic benefit resulting from O&M savings of between 5 and 7 cents per watt.
The use of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics also drive reliability improvements and cost reductions with megaprojects. String inverters can collect enormous amounts of data that can be analyzed in real time to pinpoint potential problems.
All of these advantages that come from the use of string inverters in megaprojects are important because they deliver the lower levelized cost of energy that is required in today's utility-scale market. "They provide better economic outcomes that are necessary to meet today's more aggressive PPA requirements," said Marshall. "That is where the rubber meets the road."
—Huawei / Cupertino, CA / solar.huawei.com


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Professor Koen Steemers - Environmental Diversity in Architecture
Koen Steemers will give a presentation on environmental diversity in Architecture
7 Mar 20175.30pmto
7 Mar 20177.00pm
This presentation takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Enviornmental diversity is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Based on research findings, this presentation is an antidote to the misconceptions of 'optimum' environmental performance or fixed criteria, instead embracing the richness of environmental diversity.