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Odyssey Setting the Scene and Delivering the Tools
[tl;dr Where will Odyssey lead us? There already are player built stargates! How the colonisation vision could be developed to favour small scale corporations using new exploration technologies and space scapes that are already available in EVE: Let players build acceleration gates and colonise deadspace pockets.]
The Odyssey expansion is less than a month away and will bring an update to the Exploration gameplay in EVE Online. Many of the upcoming features are already available on the singularity test server and the blogosphere is running high with ramblings about the changes. There also are several feedback threads running on the forums, which discuss the things to come. It will be interesting to see how much of the player feedback can still be incorporated into the expansion, which will hit tranquility on June 4th. I am confident CCP will deliver a solid update.
To be honest, though, I think the resource rebalancing part of Odyssey will have the biggest impact of all the proposed changes while the exciting sounding exploration theme seems to come out a bit pale. The pre-fanfest talk about an apocrypha-like expansion has set the expectations on new exploration features quite high. Even new "space scapes" were being hinted at. What we seem to get now is a revamped scanning UI and slightly tweaked and renamed scanning sites. The only feature that really looks like a new game mechanics is the slightly odd looking hacking minigame and the nice idea of container contents spilling out into space once you hacked an exploration site.
Overall CCP seems to concentrate on some technical groundwork rather than pushing for the most exciting content. I hope considerable work went into improving the backend of the game so that they will be able to deliver more spectacular things in the following expansions. I appreciate that this work is necessary and adds value in the long run. On the other hand at some point a spectacular new game mechanics would be nice indeed.
CCP Seagull is in charge of driving forward the vision of what EVE might look like in the coming years. And her presentations at fanfest culminated in introducing the theme of Colonisation as an imaginative hook to think about the future of EVE. Of course colonisation is a classic SciFi theme and certainly something that allows the game designers' fantasy to run wild. So far everything surrounding that vision is very vague. The most explicit proposal shown at fanfest was to allow players to construct a new "kind of stargate" with concept art depicting vast construction sites in space with many ships buzzing around the immense structures, emphasising the ideas of collaboration and of "doing things in space". Stargates as the new backbone of the empire building alliances.
It certainly is an exciting thing, which I dearly hope CCP will go through with. I'll probably endulge myself with fantasies about what could be done with player built stargates in another post. For now let's make a slightly sobering observation:
Players can already build stargates in EVE.
In fact the are doing it quite massively. Those gates are destructible, need a collaborative effort to set up and maintain and even have an upkeep cost. They are the backbone of many an empire in 0.0 space. Only they do not look quite as fancy and they are not called stargates but Jump Bridges instead.
These devices allow to significantly shape the landscape of connections between systems to a degree where the complete topology of a region is changed. As such they are an invaluable asset in the defence of an empire as well as for fast travelling though null security space in general. The large alliances have impressive jump bridge networks that allow quick movement of fleets with a fraction of the jumps that would normally be needed. In fact jump bridge networks might be an important agent in tying coalitions together since they often are a shared resource.
Having said this I think it makes no sense to give players the ability to build stargates to link existing solar systems. It would be much simpler (though not necessarily advisable) to tweak the rules of jump bridges. This puts the use of player built stargates into the realm of developing new, so far unknown solar systems.
But does the game need new solar systems at the moment? Already now people are complaining that large stretches of 0.0 space are underused. Colonisation is a brilliant idea but is the only "new" space to be found in new solar systems?
From Exploration to Field Survey
Let's think about how colonisation could work without having to introduce new systems. Odyssey will give us new exploration tools and incidentally exploration is of course the beginning of every colonisation effort. So how can the new exploration tools be used to enable players to find places that would not only make them some quick money but where they can leave a lasting footprint in the world of New Eden. Maybe even build their small kingdom? How can we develop the explorer into the profession of a surveyor?
An explorer goes out to find new places and wonders. On his heels, though follow the surveyors, who travel into the wilderness to create the maps for the workers to lay down the railway tracks and who layout the streets and the cities that settle along those tracks. In the wilderness he has to decide which is the best path to take. The current exploration mechanics with sites that can be scanned to make them warpable falls a bit short of this vision.
In the real world is the surveyors who change the landscape forever and who are needed for a true colonisation. Only – what would the equivalent of the railway tracks be in EVE Online? And where would they lead?
Deadspace: the New Frontier
Have a look at this quote from the EVE Wiki pages:
"Someone had the bright idea that instead of warping or jumping into Deadspace, it might be possible to use the ancient acceleration gates (the precursors to modern gates) to simply catapult vessels, much like a slingshot, through space. […] At this point everyone ranging from Empires to pirate factions, and even sentient rogue drones, are scrambling to set up various enterprises in Deadspace. These range from recreational facilities for the wealthy and homes for the elderly to naval shipyards and asteroid processing fields."
Before you let players build stargates, let them take part in this business! Let players explore and survey new deadspace pockets and let them build their own acceleration gates to navigate these pockets! Let them set up business in there and let them create a save haven for their corp. The primary function of deadspace pockets could really be to provide a hideout that is not easily found. Recall that a deadspace pocket is a region in space where the normal operation of warp drives does not work. Acceleration gates are used to cross larger distances in these spaces – a technology that is well established and used by many factions in New Eden. The control that the operators has over the gates provides some means of protection against intruders and makes deadspace pockets ideal hiding places.
There could also be some resources in there, like ice, gas clouds etc. Allowing POSes to be set up inside the deadspace pockets would be a good start to provide a basic "home base" but if we talk about building things in space I really do not want to loose all hope on modular star bases. This would be the place where sky-cities could thrive.
The exploration, survey and subsequent colonisation of deadspace pockets could make very nice gameplay. Have you wondered what that blueish, cloudy shapes are that the new system scanner overlay depicts?What if you could triangulate the location of those "clouds" like a surveyor triangulates a terrain feature? I'd like to see these very nice graphics to be used for new and clever game mechanics! What if those shapes are due to irregularities in the space-time fabric? Maybe you need a special kind of ship to do the surveying? Maybe two ships have to operate together to pull off the triangulation accurately enough? What, if you calibrate your acceleration gate properly, it will catapult you inside one of these? To a place where you normally could not warp… Imagine the tension as your corp finally finishes the gate, you provide the coordinates you had to calculate yourself and are shot into the unknown! Were the gate calibrations done correctly? Were the scans accurate enough? You'll only know once you land… and then … What if inside you could find now further pockets of deadspace? A labyrinth of warped space-time… finally a pocket with glimmering Ice…
Hell, we have over 7000 solar systems. Yet we use only a tiny fraction of that space. If you truly want to colonise space, give us access to those locations out there! This is what exploration should be. Not sites that despawn after we have finished a puzzle, but mazes of space time where we can get lost, or hide in.
From a game development perspective I could imagine that this would have many advantages for CCP. A lot of assets are already available, notably the acceleration gates themselves. That they provide an interesting game mechanics for PvP has been shown in Faction Warfare. There are certainly many interesting parameters that could be tuned to make them player-controllable. From a backstory point of view this would make a lot of sense. Everybody is using acceleration gates – why not capsuleers? I imagine that the gates and sites could be well made to scale in order to offer something for any corporation from the 10 man industry corp to large alliances. In 0.0 sec you could install effective bridgeheads which are harder to track down than a POS at a moon. In contrast to fully fledged stargates, acceleration gates should be something a small corp might be able to obtain. It would be available in high security space just as well as in null sec. It might even enable smaller groups to build themselves a safe haven in hostile space. If the gates come in different sizes, with different ranges or mass capacities the system could be made to scale with the needs of an alliance as it grows.
Finally, deadspace complexes with player built structures and acceleration gates could make great sandboxes! One only has to look at the tremendous praise the neverwinter foundry gets from the open beta testers of the game to realize that gamers like to build dungeons for other people to get into.
All this would certainly give the designers a few things to chew on. How hard should it be to discover other people's acceleration gates? Maybe they appear on scan whenever they are used? Once you find them… How hard should it be to destroy or reinforce them? Can you use an enemy gate? Maybe everybody that uses the gate needs to carry a key in his cargo. A key that will drop when you blow up his ship…
Space around us is far from empty. Let's grab the tools that are already available and colonise it!
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Craig Gilbert looks at the careers of Priebus, Ryan, and Walker:
They led the "Cheesehead Revolution," the GOP's audacious conquest of Wisconsin. They offered a model for bridging Republican frictions between establishment and base. They became national figures. They ran into Donald Trump. They suffered. They bent to his rise.
Now one (Priebus) has left the stage. Another (Ryan) says he'll never run for office again. And the third, Walker, faces the headwinds of a Trump presidency with negative approval ratings.
Via Remember GOP's Cheesehead Revolution? As Ryan leaves, Wisconsin's national influence wanes @ Journal Sentinel.
These men came to cooperate and collaborate with Trump. Cooperation is humiliation, collaboration is degradation. Whether their assistance came from weak principles or unprincipled ambition, to draw close to Trump is to draw close to wrongdoing. Thousands of years – literally – of moral and ethical teaching make this clear.
Nationally, the focus should be on Trump, His Inner Circle, Principal Surrogates, and Media Defenders.
State and local officials (no matter how proud, entitled, and presumptuous) shouldn't be exempt from the same necessary critique of their connection to Trumpism. See A Local Problem Before It Became a National One. These scheming few, with their empty rhetoric and jargon, were part of that which paved the way.
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Desperate for a leader or at least a visible public figure who doesn't humiliate the entire movement, conservatives have recently rekindled their love for Margaret Thatcher. One of the Iron Nitwit's quotes has been making the rounds lately, popping up on t-shirts and bumper stickers hawked by people who lack the creativity to come up with their own slogans: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Interesting logic. Let's run with it.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels became something of a hero for the Cato Institute crowd while igniting a fierce controversy here in the Hoosier state when he announced a plan to auction off the rights to Indiana's toll roads. For a one-time payment of $3.8 billion dollars, the state surrendered the rights to a Spanish transportation conglomerate for 75 years. The system was making $160,000,000 in revenue annually. Indiana drivers (and long-haul truckers serving the state) have noticed no change in quality of the road conditions, which is good. They have noticed that all of the tolls have doubled, which is bad. So everything's the same except that the state no longer makes money from the endeavor and it costs more for the same services.
In Chicago, Mayor Daley and the county board are in the midst of an orgy of privatization as they desperately try to un-bugger municipal budgets that are bleeding red. Daley leased the city parking meters to Morgan Stanley for $1.16 billion – and rates immediately quadrupled. This is in addition to the 99 year lease on city parking garages that Da Mare sold Stanley for $563 million in 2006. And in September the city accepted a $2.52 billion bid on Midway Airport from a Citigroup-led team of investors.
As municipal governments across the country run out of revenue, this kind of cannibalization of assets will only become more common. Minnesota legislators are suggesting a "garage sale" of municipal assets starting with the airport, and in Texas they think that privatized roads are about the greatest idea since beer helmets. All of these transactions follow the exact same pattern: state surrenders revenue-generating asset to private bidder, private bidder forks over some up-front cash, and the costs to end users, i.e. you, double or triple.
Basically it's a payday loan. Only worse. And the problem with this strategy, as Ms. Thatcher would no doubt point out in the interest of ideological fairness, is that eventually you run out of shit to sell.
Only two kinds of people take out payday loans: the desperate and the phenomenally stupid. These state/local governments are among the former (and perhaps the latter, but for different reasons). I think they realize that the assets they're selling could produce more revenue over the life of the leases than the pittance they receive up-front, but…they need money now. As each dollar one borrows from Check-and-Pawn Express takes three or four future dollars out of one's wallet, each asset sale deals another blow to states' ability to generate revenue in the future. Draw your own conclusions about how pathetic it is that our governments are now responding to the same incentives, and in the same way, as the urban poor.
I see no conservative tears being shed over this future-mortgaging exercise in fiscal irresponsibility largely because, as usual, it is only the sacred ideology that matters. The Free Market is better than public ownership; so was it written, so shall it be. Why bother worrying about the fact that Chicago could make ten or fifteen times as much profit over the 99 years for which they've sold off city assets. Like a starving person, they can no longer conceive of a future and are beginning to digest their own organs in a desperate effort to get through the next minute, the next hour, or perhaps the next day.
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I have no illusion that what I say today will register over the important news that will be coming out of the Democratic Convention in North Carolina. But I want to respond to the Republican Convention and the party line the Republicans have been repeating.
Romney at the Convention told his people that "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise…is to help you and your family." In other words Romney made fun of the single largest threat to the American way of life, coming in hurricanes, droughts, floods and the spread of serious diseases, suggesting if we didn't already know it that the basic Republican position on the seriousness of the environmental threat is denial and ignorance.
But the basic Republican attack on Obama is that his policies have failed the economy. They've been pillorying him, saying the economy hasn't gotten better, and Obama is at fault.
In fact, however, we have not had the economic policy Obama wanted. The Republicans were quite plain about this – they viewed their number one priority as defeating Obama. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told the National Journal two years ago that "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." To do that, they embarked on a strategy of defeating anything and everything he tried to do from judicial appointments to economic policy. The more something might be a source of pride and credit to Obama for doing a good job, the more vociferously they would oppose it, even policies they once supported. Understand what that meant. The national interest was out the window. They deliberately embarked on a program of disloyalty.
With respect to the economy, that meant that the Republican House vetoed each and every pro-growth policy Obama wanted. He has not been able to take any significant pro-growth policies since the Republicans took over the House.
Before he was sworn in, he decided that the patriotic thing to do was to back the only thing on the table, the Bush bailout. There were many flaws in that policy and many ways that stabilizing the financial sector could have been done better, but Obama supported the Bush proposal in the interest of time. And it helped. Then in Obama's first two years he turned the auto business around and had a small stimulus approved despite strong opposition from the Republicans. That stimulus also helped.
But once the Republicans took over in 2010, nothing. Not one dime to move the economy forward. Not one dime of what Obama wanted to do for the economy. The only stimulus came from the Fed. But the Fed is very limited in what it can do. When the economy goes into depression, its resources are simply inadequate. But Bernanke took flak from the Republicans for doing too much! So the economy has been crawling back too slowly to put people back to work. Plainly for all the rhetoric, the Republicans don't care about jobs.
That's not Democratic policy. It's not Obama policy. It's Republican policy to defeat anything that would lead to jobs. But they are obviously too ashamed of what they did to take credit for it. So either they think that the economy is doing great or they better start apologizing for their own economic ignorance. They can't have it both ways, unless of course we turn our minds off and let them.
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The Battle of Long Tân took place on August 18, 1966, in a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. It is regarded as the bloodiest and fiercest battle of the entire war.
On its 52nd anniversary, one Australian soldier who fought in that battle was amongst a gathering of 150 who attended the commemoration service in Belmore Park.
Walter Buckland was one of the lucky boys that day in 1966 who were not killed or wounded. How many Long Tan Days he will be able to attend no one knows, but it will not be many.
The number of Vietnam veterans at this year's ceremony was well down on last as all are over 60.
Absent as well were several family members who had previously attended almost every Vietnam Veterans' Day commemoration and laid wreaths.
The absences were a sad reminder of the passing of time and lives since the 1960s -70s when Australian forces were engaged in this conflict.
Reverend Norm Wakefield mentioned the mental scaring that many of those who served suffered. Post traumatic stress was not really recognised back then and it is only now with personnel returning from other military service that the condition is being recognised.
Many of the young lads, who volunteered or were conscripted and served in Vietnam were shunned by society on their return from service despite the fact that they were simply doing what they had been directed to do by the government of the time.
Also attending the Goulburn service were representatives of the Queanbeyan RSL Sub-branch.
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The Flash hit the crescendo of its season in the musical crossover with Supergirl, "Duet." All the time travel shenanigans were left behind and instead we saw actors we love shine as talented singers.
It's always a risky proposition when a series does a themed episode, but The Flash was as perfect as possible in its execution of its first musical. It hit all the high notes with laughs, heart, love, and tears. The song selections were spot on for the scenes and for the actors singing them. Each of those performances are going to be fan favorites for a long time.
The setup of the episode was the aftermath of Kara getting whammied, Mon-El and J'onn bringing her to Earth-1's Star Labs, though the Music Meister playing around with Barry to just whammy him too felt a little contrived initially. That may have been because everything else about the hour was so strong. Still, when reviewing the entirety of the hour, it actually made perfect sense and worked since Music Meister was controlling everything from the start. It was his plan and he worked it flawlessly.
Grant Gustin (Barry) and Melissa Benoist (Kara) were as charming as ever together. It's an absolute delight whenever these two get to work together. With both Barry and Kara breaking up with their significant others prior to "Duet," the story could have successful put them together romantically for the hour, but it was about the exact opposite. These two friends worked together to save themselves and to find where their true hearts belonged. It was touching to see how they navigated the problems in their own love lives through the musical.
In last week's "Into the Speed Force," Barry pushed Iris away after she forgave him and said she wanted to be his wife. His decision didn't make much sense, especially if he only had a limited amount of time left with his love. That outcome worked given the events of "Duet" and offered a much more romantic reunion for Barry and Iris.
Millie and Tommy's West Side Story provided the backdrop for both Barry and Kara to work through relationship woes and come to terms with what happened and accept that their love is more important. As Barry said, "All that matters is that they're together." In that moment, Barry realized that being with Iris was the most important thing. And, for Kara, she explained why Cutter's son kept Millie a secret, "Maybe you'd understand why he didn't tell you before now." That was eye-opening for her as well. She didn't listen or try to understand why Mon-El didn't open up about his past.
Barry and Kara's self-realization during these scenes were palpable. It changed them and allowed them to see outside of their own pain about what happened with Iris and Mon-El. The question then became a matter of whether their loves could save them or not.
Outside of Barry and Kara figuring out the script for the musical, there was a standout musical moment: "Super Friends"! It brought a smile to your face, didn't it? The rhyming, banter and charm between the two was amazing. And, the Superman impression! All the songs were great, but this original song written by Rachel Bloom & Tom Root was pure joy.
The Music Meister ended up an unexpected villain when it turned out he really was there to help Kara and Barry. Most villains are out to cause as much mayhem as possible and in a reversal of that, Music Meister believes in the "good guys" and wanted to mend two broken hearts. So love ruled! Kara forgave Mon-El and they returned to National City. However, it wasn't quite as simple for Barry and Iris. He had to forgive himself and decide to move forward despite Iris' possible tragic future.
Barry did it in style, though, by serenading Iris with an original song, "Runnin' Home to You," written by La La Land songwriters, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. That is how you make up with the woman you love, and it's an even better way to propose. Barry got his marriage proposal right this time. He did it for the right reason and by singing his heart out to Iris. Swoon.
The Flash musical episode is definitely the best episode so far this season. The premise worked with the Music Meister having an agenda and following through to his conclusion. With all the heartache and suffering the superheroes go through day in and day out, it was time for them to get a little happiness and love in their hearts.
Rating: ★★★★★ Excellent
— "It's like the Wizard of Oz."
— Music Meister: "If you die in here, you die out there."
— Barry: "Everything's so simple when I'm running."
Kara: "– Or flying."
— You go, girl! Such an empowering moment for all the girls out there watching when Kara insisted on kicking in the door.
— Barry: "What the hell is going on?"
Millie (Iris): "All right, you caught us."
— Tommy (Mon-El): "We're in love."
Kara: "Ugh, gross."
— The snow made it look even cooler.
— Cisco's reaction to J'onn's transformation into Martian Manhunter … awesome!
— Barry: "Dads?"
Millie's Dads: "You got a problem with that?"
Barry: "No, I love musicals, so…"
— Kara: "And if you're not there in time you, you can just go back in time and give it another shot."
Barry: "I'm actually not supposed to do that anymore."
— Barry's "more famous cousin" reference and impression FTW!
— Music Meister: "Love is about… letting yourself be saved. It's not just about saving other people. Even if you are superheroes."


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Today I was reading a write-up on one of the O'Jays songs. Eddie Levert had mentioned that he had grown weary of the message songs by that point.
The O'Jays did have some really great message songs along with some great ballads and love songs.
So I'd like to ask you all: what O'Jays' songs would you have liked to have seen the Tempts cover? And does anyone know if the Tempts covered any O'Jays song live in concert?
Here is my list:
1. Back Stabbers - Dennis principle lead
2. Put Your Hands Together - Dennis principle lead
3. For the Love of Money - Richard Principle lead
4. Darlin' Darlin' Baby - Richard principle lead
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Occurred on November 22, 2018 / Del Norte, Colorado, USA
Info from Licensor: "Four years ago we got Clyde our turkey. My friend, Ronnie, teased me about wanting to have Clyde for Thanksgiving. So I set the table with a highchair four years ago and I put a plate there and brought in Clyde and said: 'Okay Ronnie, we decided to have Clyde for Thanksgiving dinner.' Now it has become our family tradition."
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Sometimes our companies make mistakes. In this video, learn how and when to apologize to your customers, and the different types of apologies for different situations.
- There is an old out of date rule floating around in the contact center world that says never apologize to a customer. This rule is wrong. Not only is it okay to apologize, but in many cases you owe it to the customer. The important thing is to know when to apologize, and how to do it right. Let's say a customer sends your company this email about a stay at your hotel, and missing rewards points. It looks like a glitch in the system caused the problem, or maybe it was human error.
Does this situation call for an apology? How do you know? The face-to-face standard is a good method to use when deciding if an apology is necessary. Just ask yourself, if I were sitting across the table from this customer, and I could see him face-to-face, would I apologize? If the answer is, "Yes, I would," then you should apologize in the email. But remember, apologies need to be sincere, so don't just wantonly apologize for every tiny hiccup or minor bad feeling a customer reports.
If you do that, you'll cheapen your apology. In fact, too many apologies can actually increase the volume of emails to your contact center because customers may think you're pushovers for refunds or compensation. Okay, how about some practice? Let's play a quick round of the customer service email game, Am I Sorry? In this game I'll give you a customer situation, and you choose whether to apologize. Ready? Here we go. You work for the county government's building permit department.
A customer emails to complain that she's been waiting six months to receive a home improvement permit. The county had promised her that they would process her permit request in no more than three months. So, should you apologize? Yes, if your department didn't fulfill their promise, you should apologize. Here's another one. Your company sells hand-crafted wooden toys. A customer who loves your toys emails you to say he's angry that you don't sell children's furniture.
Should you apologize? No, don't apologize. Your company has done nothing wrong. It's simply that you're a toy company that doesn't make furniture. Okay, one more. A customer called your company to get help with a product update. Now he's sent an email to complain that the technical person he spoke to was rude and impatient. Should you apologize? Yes, apologize, but don't fall all over yourself. There's a chance that the phone agent wasn't rude or that the customer is exaggerating.
So remember, it's okay to apologize when your company did something wrong, or when your company caused some bad feelings. Use the face-to-face standard, be thoughtful and sincere, and you'll go a long way toward making the customer happy.
- Determine what to include in an email response to a customer.
- Name three statements that should be included in an apology letter.
- List three ways to demonstrate sincerity in a customer service email.
- Identify the best way to evaluate and improve customer service emails.
- Apply techniques learned in the course to rewrite current templates.
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People, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status, may suffer from an undiagnosed mental illness. Mental health is a serious issue and needs to be addressed more often. Mental health matters just as much as physical health. Our mental muscle should be valued, trained, and exercised just as our physical muscles. The objective is to eliminate the notion "it is not ok to seek counseling or therapy because it makes one looks "crazy" or otherwise". It takes tremendous gumption to allow yourself to become vulnerable and break out. Breaking Free aims to empower the African American community and aid in them discovering, seeking counseling or therapy makes you brave, strong, and courageous. Counseling and therapy enable an individual to reflect on the conflictions in their lives, share their narrative, and properly heal. The time to keep quiet is no more.
Mental health is not a main topic of discussion within the African American community leaving the community in great distress to several secrets, underlying pains, and regrets. There are many traditions and conversations viewed as "taboo" within the community such as sexual assault by a relative or family friend that is covered up, victims of domestic violence whether they are the witness or actual victim, policy brutality, or a person's visible mental state. These all have lasting effects on the individual and can alter their mental state. The fear of being ridicule is significantly high which results in a lot of individuals to suffer in silence. Generationally, the African American community is bred to be people of strength, perseverance, and faith to overcome obstacles regardless of how detrimental the treatment may be. It is time the community become comfortable with being uncomfortable, ask the hard questions, get the facts and become self-sufficient to be the best "YOU" you can be.
The ABC'S of Breaking Free
Breaking Free believes the African American community is in dire need of additional supportive services to eliminate the barriers they encounter in effectively accessing quality mental health care. Through the work of Breaking Free, access to and use of the program services aim to enhance and improve an individual's mental health outcome. Some of the services Breaking Free will provide are:
- Counseling: Breaking Free will provide our clients with therapeutic support. We offer in-house individual and family counseling. These counseling services broaden our therapeutic reach and help us ensure the mental health needs of our program participants and their families are being met.
- Case management: Breaking Free provides multi-level intervention for case management services to the African American community. These services include risk screenings, group education sessions, one-on-one counseling and support, and available resources within the community.
- Fitness and Wellness Center: To provide education on nutrition and physical fitness which heavily attributes to a healthy mental state.
- Social Work Services: Social Work is a professional and academic discipline which seeks to improve the quality of life and well-being of an individual, group, or community. Our Social Work team has several years of experience providing professional and knowledgeable services. Licensed Master Social Workers and bachelor's level social workers within our program collaborate with all entities involved with the client in order to ensure the highest quality services are provided.
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DJ Esco and Future are certainly not strangers, the two have been collaborating since the beginning. This time around the duo link with Schoolboy Q for a sneak peak into Escos' forthcoming album, Kolorblind. The coolest DJ in the world is dropping his sixth project this Friday, just in time for your weekend. "Code of Honor" features Future on the hook with him and Q each spitting a 16 over a bouncy, synth heavy beat. If this track is indicative of what's to come on Kolorblind, we should be in for a treat. This one is available for purchase or stream via iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. The music video is also a work of art, peep that below and let us know what you think!
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Bachelor of Science in Accounting
The Bachelor of Science in Accounting provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge in financial and managerial accounting within a business management context. The program is designed to equip students with outstanding analytical, technical, and critical thinking skills, and to support them in the decision making process through innovative and effective learning methodologies, and exposure to real-life situations.
1. Accounting Program Learning Goals
The goals of the program are the following:
- Business Education: Students will be competent in accounting
- Communication skills: Students will be able to clearly articulate their propositions
- Entrepreneurship: Students will develop core capabilities in innovative and creative thinking for the creation of social and economic value
- Multicultural Perspective: Students will be aware of the impact of culture in business decision making
- Business Ethics: Students will be able to adhere to professional ethical standards
- Leadership and Teamwork: Students will exhibit knowledge and skills in leading others
- Critical Analysis: Students will be able to solve problems in a business situation
2. Accounting Program Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Report accounting information accurately
- Use accounting knowledge and skills in improving business processes and creating value
- Make valid decisions based on accounting information
- Clearly articulate their understanding through oral presentations
- Write and present persuasive statements for the execution of a business proposition
- Define and identify entrepreneurial opportunities, and propose business plans for new products
- Assess the cultural impact on a business strategy
- Discern and define the ethical responsibilities of a business
- Work effectively in teams
- Demonstrate knowledge of leadership concepts
- Accurately analyze a situation taking into consideration contextual factors
- Propose solutions considering implications
3. Career Opportunities
Graduates may pursue a career in areas such as Accounting, Auditing, Financial Control, Accounting Management, Financial Analysis, Payroll Management, and Budget Analysis. Graduates will be qualified to work in all industries, not-for-profit organizations and government entities.


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As a business owner, a fresh graduate, or simply any job seeker, having the right headshot on social media will bump you towards the front of the line for an interview and bolster your overall professional brand.
The truth is that LinkedIn demands professionalism – Facebook doesn't. While Facebook lends itself mostly to maintaining personal relationships, LinkedIn is the conduit for professional networking. While it may be appropriate to post a selfie on Facebook, LinkedIn demands a more professional portrait.
Consider these tips regarding the professional headshot:
1. Background – Establishing a neutral background ensures the focus is on you and not surrounding context. A light, consistent color will do just fine.
2. Attire – Dress for the job you want, for recruiters and potential employers can view your headshot at any given time. Your appearance speaks for itself, so keep jewelry and personal artifacts to an absolute minimum.
3. Hair – Stick with natural hair colors and clean-cut looks. Although the job industry is evolving, the majority of employers are going to have a preference for a more classic appearance.
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AI Scientist - Natural Language Processing Focus
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Requisition Number: 151310
Position Title: Data Scientist II
External Description:
We are EA—the world's largest video game publisher. You're probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don't know how we're committed to creating games for every platform—from social to mobile to console—to give our consumers that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your creative genius, be inspired by those around you and ignite your path in any direction you choose.
The Challenge Ahead:
The EADP Data Group is responsible for developing a new unified Big Data pipeline across all franchises at Electronic Arts. This platform will incorporate data collection, ingestion, processing, access and visualization all built on a modern, cloud based tech stack with best-in-class tools. The Data Group will provide the tools and platform which powers the future state of game development, marketing, sales, accounting and customer experience.
We are looking for developers who are interested in working on a large scale distributed data system from the ground up for one of the most creative, innovative companies in technology.
What an AI Scientist does at EA
- Research, develop and evaluate highly innovative AI applications for contextual dialogue generation, speech generation, NPC behavior, chatbots, knowledge representation, and conversational interfaces
- Develop algorithms and extract essential insights from EA's rich store of data to empower intelligent agents within the EA ecosystem
- Create scalable solutions for problems in the gaming domain
- Work closely with the core development teams to deploy AI applications seamlessly as part of production systems
- Research and implement novel AI and NLP approaches for new problems.
The next great EA AI Scientist have
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, or related fields (focus in NLP or ML a plus)
- Experience having developed novel AI algorithms, and major journal and conference publications
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Strong programming skills
- Experience with large-scale data and distributed systems – Experience with Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Tensorflow a plus
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and MPP databases
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What's in it for you? Glad you asked!
We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefits packages, tuition reimbursement, and 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make excellent games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that thrives on creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the "work hard/play hard" credo every day.
Community / Marketing Title: AI Scientist - Natural Language Processing Focus
Company Profile:
Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.
EEOText: EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
Date Opened: 2018-07-17 04:30:17.36
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EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status or veteran status. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law.


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Demetrice Smith currently resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband and four children. She is an entrepreneur, mentor, community activist, mental health advocate, worshiper, servant, teacher, and an ordained Elder at her local church.
Not only is Elder Smith dedicated to the spreading of the Gospel, she is also the owner of several businesses and believes "Business empowerment is essential for success in any community; having the right skills and tools in your toolkit can make a huge difference in social, personal, and economic success."
Demetrice Smith received both her Master's and Doctorate in Business with an emphasis on Leadership.
Near completion of her first book, Dr. Smith discusses the devastating presence and impact of mental illness on children from a child's perspective. The book, loosely based on her own personal journey of dealing with depression for 30 years, starting in 3rd grade, follows the life of her main character, Casey. The book series peeks into the day-to-day life of a middle schooler dealing with overwhelming issues and the feelings of sadness they bring that ultimately lead to early childhood depression when not managed appropriately. Casey is an extremely talented, bi-racial, pre-teen who has trouble managing all he faces and on top of all that, he's hiding a secret which deeply impacts his life and relationships up through high school. COMING FALL 2018!
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Community Builders are leaders of the world, they move people. They play a major role in driving humanity forward.
Here's to the Community Builders,
Introducing to you the 'Spirit of Community' symbol,the Community Builder's action symbol.
Can you see what's special in this symbol? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about it!
Here's a hint, can you trace the C & B?


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Do I Really Need a Project Manager for My ERP Project?
March 20, 2018
Starting an ERP project? We share five reasons why we recommend having a skilled project manager for your next ERP project in this blog!
Dynamics 365 License Name Update
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On July 1st, 2017, Microsoft will be updating a few of the license names for their Dynamics 365, Enterprise Edition licenses, to better align with the functionality that comes with


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The Revell Aztecs set contains figures suitable for an Aztec army and "close enough" for Mixtecs or Zapotecs (IV/48), Chichimecs, Toltecs (III/58), or Triple Alliance (early IV/63) armies. The whole army is arrayed here.
In doing some research on the army, I noticed an unusual uniform in the Codex Mendoza, which was adopted from the Huaxtec. It was worn by veterans who had captured two prisoners — such a veteran is called a Cuextecatl.
The conical caps were made of Epoxy putty and secured to their heads by a "pin" of wire. There is a similar uniform in the Osprey book on Aztec armies which is depicted as black with white polka dots and identified as a "Mixtec warrior-priest."
I later visited Mexico in 2005, and had the luck to be caught in hurricane Wilma, which decided to stop for three days right over the region were vacationing…but I managed to bring back a small model of an Mayan god, whose name I now forget, which became the altar for the temple I scratch built below, to use as the Aztec camp,
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14 years, my love. That's how long I've loved you. I want you to know that I see you. I really really see you. And I know I don't always let you see me. Like, really see me.
Author: Danielle
"I'm in."
There's a lot of misperception when it comes to the word, crisis. I imagine some people envision it like a glass being knocked over and shattering on the floor into a million pieces. It's obvious. It's loud. But that's not always case.
Take this sinking boat and point it home.
The past 75 days have been dark. I've been drowning. Unlike past storms, this one hasn't cleared. 75 days ago an old friend of mine took his own life.
Lonely is her favorite place to be.
Sometimes she's lost, sometimes she's broken. Sometimes she's closed, sometimes she's open. Sometimes she's stone cold, at times she's on fire. Mostly, she's everything I desire.
The Happiest Place on Earth.
This is just one of the things Plus sized people need to think/worry about. Not everything is designed for anyone who exceeds the average size. This includes movie theatre chairs, airplane seats, products with weight limitations (including rides) and just about anything that requires you to "fit" where someone smaller can.
I have a good father and his strength is what makes me cry.
You're not perfect and I know you've be the first to admit it. None of us are. But the lessons you've taught me and the strength you continue to exude have truly provided me with an exceptional life. I hope you know that.
Please don't stop the music.
Thirteen years creates a lot of memories. They play in my mind like a song you haven't heard in years but when it starts to play you know every word by heart. The lyrics tell the stories of love, heartache, tragedy, and miracles. And the rhythm keeps me moving in the darkest of times.


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Despite Doctor Shortage, Money For Medical Residencies Not Restored In State Budget
"It was just a question of the affordability," said state Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer, noting that the budget doesn't anticipate enough revenue to fully fund everyone's priorities.
Brown Does Not Restore Money For Medical Residencies
Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget plan released Thursday does not restore $33 million for medical residencies in areas facing significant doctor shortages, disappointing state lawmakers and doctors' groups. Last year's budget added $100 million over three years to the Song-Brown Workforce Training Program, which helps pay for doctor training in underserved areas such as East Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. (Faust, 5/11)


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Having Injectables doesn't mean you need to look like you've had "something done". It shouldn't be noticeable if you have your Injectables done properly!
When you see overly taut skin and over-the-top lips it is purely an example of excessiveness. The ultimate goal is to maintain a natural appearance whilst rejuvenating your looks – not making you look like a different person!
Cosmetic Injectables are non-surgical products and treatments which are used to help with the skin's overall appearance and reduce facial wrinkles and lines. The first type is Anti-Wrinkle Injections which assist with relaxing the facial muscles that cause the lines in the first place, and the second type are dermal fillers which plump out, or 'fill' the wrinkles.
There are many types of treatment options available with Injectables whether it be wrinkle reduction and prevention, enhancing your lips or even chin/cheek sculpting. Injectables can help you achieve your goals of a more youthful appearance.
Now that you know WHAT Injectables are all about, it's time to delve more into who can have the treatment and what to expect at your treatment!
Who Can Have Injectables?
Men and women alike can benefit from Injectables and the chronologic age to start these types of treatments is usually irrelevant. Each individual person needs to be assessed based on their medical history, overall condition of the skin and the appearance of lines and wrinkles on the face.
A good guideline on the time to start treatments is to look at the actual wrinkles or lines themselves. Look in particular at a line that forms when you make an expression, for example, when you smile, look at any lines around your eyes, and look at whether those wrinkles or lines linger even after you have stopped smiling. If the wrinkle is still slightly visible, it can be a good time to start Injectables treatment. This basic test can be completed for any expression area on your face.
Many patients these days are starting their Injectables treatment as a preventative measure – some before the wrinkles have a chance to start showing up, but the decision to start Injectables treatment is entirely a personal choice.
Does The Treatment Hurt?
Injectables are mostly administered with a needle so you may feel a little pinch as the needle is inserted into your skin however the injections themselves aren't usually too painful for most patients.
How Often Do I Need To Get A Treatment Done?
Long term commitment leads to greater results when considering Injectables treatment as the lines and wrinkles don't get a chance to keep recurring if you keep up your treatments.
In saying that, some patients can have considerable success in maintaining a youthful appearance with minimal treatment. Each patient is different and advice from our Cosmetic Injectors is always tailored to the individual.
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10 January 2008 Edition
Health apartheid "biggest reason for Taoiseach to resign"
"We have been hearing renewed calls for the resignation of the Taoiseach. His financial affairs as raised at the tribunals and the doubts about his tax compliance are serious but they pale into insignificance compared to the public-private apartheid in our health services over which he has presided as Taoiseach since 1997.
"The survey by the Irish College of General Practitioners and the Irish Cancer Society shows that the majority of GPs consider that the ability to pay for private treatment always or usually affects access to referral services. They report longer waiting times for public patients seeking cancer investigation procedures. The scandal is compounded by the fact that only one third of patients with acute symptoms requiring urgent treatment received an appointment on the day of referral.
"Another especially worrying aspect of this survey is lack of a clear definition within the health system of what constitutes an 'urgent' patient requiring immediate investigation and the poor communication between GPs and the hospitals to which their patients are referred.
"Once again the apartheid in our health services has been exposed. Over a decade of Government under Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach has not only failed to eliminate this two-tier system but actually reinforced it. This is despite the commitment made in the 2002 Fianna Fáil election manifesto to bring about 'the end of the two-tier health system'. The Taoiseach has failed the people in this regard and maintained a system that is grossly unjust, unequal and inefficient. On that basis alone he should resign."


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Nicole Kidman: The Portrait of a Lady | Eyes Wide Shut | Dogville
Film Actresses & Global Classics
In this series I offer my reflections on actresses and their most compelling performances in (mostly) classics of global cinema.
Nicole Kidman as Grace, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
In the morass of hackneyed filmmaking that clutters global screens, the derring-do of Dogville restores the honour of art, reminding us that without risk vitality is lost, be it in cinema or life itself. By filming on a bare stage, Lars von Trier staked his film on the strength of its writing and the effectiveness of its acting. If Dogville succeeds so brilliantly, then, it is primarily due to the quality of von Trier's screenplay (praised by, among others, Quentin Tarantino) and to Nicole Kidman's acting (and that of the whole cast). In considering the work of the actress, we must bear in mind Dogville's formal specificities. The film is a fable (or parable, if you prefer), and so the premise of psychological veracity implicit in its naturalistic acting is complicated by the artificiality inherent in the fable. In playing Grace, then, Kidman's challenge was to maintain a constructive tension between naturalness and artificiality: under Lars von Trier's direction she walks this tightrope brilliantly, displaying in equal measure dexterity and aplomb. Von Trier wrote the film for Kidman, and he says of her performance: 'I think she's incredibly good in the film, a real asset. I was asking her to do things in front of the camera that were pretty demanding, and she just did them' (Trier on von Trier, ed. Stig Björkman. Faber & Faber, 2003; p. 249).
What is the dramatic premise of Dogville? It goes like this. Into the sleepy hamlet of Dogville USA, a stranger appears, preceded by gunshots. Her name is Grace. Turns out she's a fugitive, on the run from gangsters. Tom, a would-be writer and the town's resident thinker, is bent on 'morally rearming' Dogville. He wants to 'refresh folks' memory of what this country has forgotten', and he wants to do so by 'illustration'. What ails the town, in his eyes, is that 'the people of Dogville have a problem with acceptance'. For them to see this, what they really need is 'something to accept, something tangible, like a gift'. And thus Grace becomes the gift that enables Tom to conduct his exercise in illustration, his social experiment aiming to reveal that the citizens of Dogville have lost the ability to receive.
Udo Kier, Jean-Marc Barr & Paul Bettany, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Paul Bettany & Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Grace needs a refuge, Dogville needs a lesson and Tom needs an illustration: this is the film's dramatic premise, the tripartite accord that drives the film forward to the riot of revenge that is its ending. Note that as co-experimenters Tom and Grace are complicit, and so their conversation with each other is far more intimate and frank than is their talk with the rest of the town. This split that separates Grace and Tom from the other people in Dogville poses a second acting challenge for Kidman: she is called upon to collude with 'insider' Tom while preserving her status of 'outsider'—in other words, to walk another tightrope.
In terms of dramaturgy, the gradual escalation of Grace's abuse at the hands of the citizens of Dogville, culminating in her enslavement and subjection to systematic rape, is psychologically coherent and artistically compelling. More problematic, in the eyes of many, is the ending, where the once-all-forgiving Grace ferociously enacts her vengeance. Lars von Trier himself has said: 'My biggest problem with the story was trying to explain Grace's change of attitude at the end. Admittedly the people of Dogville, who have long exploited her, become more and more demanding and cruel, but I still had trouble explaining Grace's conversion'. And: 'Grace acts good-heartedly, but she isn't – and will not be – a 'gold heart' figure. She has to possess a capacity for something else. I tried two or three tricks to get it to work, but I don't know if it does.' (Trier on von Trier, ed. Stig Björkman. Faber & Faber, 2003; p. 252).
Stellan Skarsgård & Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman and James Caan, Dogville, Lars von Trier
For me, the ending is very effective; the feast of vengeance works because, consistent with the entire film, it takes place in the register of fable. Those who see the film as a morality play twist themselves into a pretzel trying to account for the ending. Indeed, by what morality can mass murder be justified? None. And yet, if in our heart of hearts we all know that 'revenge is a great narrower of the mind', that it 'excites and oversimplifies in one fell swoop', that it 'answers the two essential questions—what has happened? and what is to be done?—with militant certainty' (Adam Phillips, In Writing: Essays on Literature, Penguin Books 2017), we also know that Grace's 'militant certainty' is not the outcome of a narrowing of the mind and oversimplification. On the contrary, her long dialogue with her father and her solitary walk before making her decision show us how richly she has reflected, how her feelings and thoughts evolved before finally converging on the decision that Dogville must die. Dramatically, this is the most highly-charged moment in the film, and to render it Kidman conveys at once a fierce determination and an existential lassitude: thanks to her performance, it works brilliantly.
It was while listening to a recording of 'Pirate Jenny' (Brecht/Weill, The Threepenny Opera) that von Trier decided he wanted to make a film about revenge. What got him going in particular was the line, 'And they asked me which heads should fall, and the harbour fell quiet as I answered, All!' (Trier on von Trier, ed. Stig Björkman. Faber & Faber, 2003; p. 244). In the same interview, he goes on to add that he thought 'the most interesting thing would be to come up with a story where you build up everything leading to the act of vengeance … Women's vengeance is considerably more interesting to deal with than men's. It's more exciting. In some strange way it seems that women are better at embodying and expressing that part of me. The feminine part of me, perhaps! I find it easier to excuse myself and my thoughts if I allow them to be expressed through a woman. If I expressed the same thing through a man, you would only see the brutality and cruelty' p. 244 and 253-54). Those viewers tempted to see the film as a thesis would do well to bear these remarks in mind. Indeed, art can never be reduced to any other discourse, and one can only be thankful that von Trier has such trust in his artistic instincts.
Grace after the destruction of Dogville
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Watching Dogville, I am struck by how beautifully Kidman maintains Grace's aura of innocence throughout the film, inflecting it just enough to register experience at the end (all the more impressive as Lars von Trier had the camera harnessed to his body and, while operating it, would speak to the actors, obliging them, as Kidman remarked, 'to put oneself into a state where one can hear his voice without letting it distract you' (interview in Le Monde, 21 May 2003). Maintaining this quality of innocence at just the right pitch for every scene is a great challenge, and Kidman's success in meeting it contributes greatly to making Dogville work so well as a film about the 'innocent other', the stranger who enters a community and, by his/her very innocence, disrupts it and shows it its true face. In this, Grace has something in common with the Visitor (the Terence Stamp character) in Pasolini's Teorema. A comparison with Jesus Christ is equally evident and, were one to pursue it, one would have to address the theme of the scapegoat as developed, in particular, by René Girard. The comparison I'd like to pursue here, however, is that with Billy Budd, the hero of Herman Melville's 1891 fable, Billy Budd, Sailor.
In Billy Budd, Sailor, the community is the captain and crew of a warship and the 'other' is Billy Budd, a sailor of exceptional innocence and beauty. Claggart, a sailor of higher rank than Billy, comes to despise Billy precisely because of what sets him apart: his implicit appeal to what's best in people, his unselfish concern, alien to calculating egoism. When, before the captain, Claggart falsely accuses Billy of plotting mutiny, Billy can't get the words out to defend himself (he is prone to stuttering), and ends up throwing a punch that inadvertently kills Claggart. The captain calls a summary trial, Billy is found guilty of the murder of a superior, and is promptly hanged. It is my contention, then, that the two fables, Billy Budd, Sailor and Dogville, make the same point: the immaculate hero or heroine, no less than the vile villain, bears the mark of Cain. Good-hearted Grace, the 'beautiful fugitive', is a cousin of Billy Budd, the handsome sailor of unselfish concern.
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Hannah Arendt in her book, On Revolution, asserts that we can learn from the poets that 'absolute goodness is hardly any less dangerous than absolute evil, that it does not consist in selflessness'. If Melville and von Trier both make this point, the difference is that Melville confronts absolute goodness, goodness beyond virtue (Billy Budd) with absolute evil, evil beyond vice (Claggart) whereas von Trier, while leaving open the possibility that Grace's goodness is absolute, 'complicates' it with the argument, advanced by her gangster-boss father, that it is in fact extreme arrogance. If some will have felt this all along, it is only at the end of the film that it is voiced, with Grace's father saying, for example, 'You have this preconceived notion that nobody can possibly attain the same high ethical standards as you, so you exonerate them. I cannot think of anything more arrogant than that. You, my child, my dear child, you forgive others with excuses that you would never in the world permit for yourself'. Kidman, here, has to show via her body/voice the struggle taking place in her mind. As the whole scene is filmed entirely in close-ups, she uses her face to portray the growing doubt about her own convictions, her advances and retreats in the battle with her conscience.
There is no Claggart figure in Dogville. The film shows how the citizens bond together in both evil and good. Nevertheless, it casts a cold eye on how these 'good citizens' self-righteously go down the slippery slope we recognize as 'the banality of evil', the group dynamics that lead them to enslave and dehumanize Grace. Thus, all the men who rape Grace keep a clean conscience because, as the narrator puts it, 'since the chain had been attached things had become easier for everyone. The harassments in bed did not have to be kept so secret anymore, because they couldn't really be compared to a sexual act. They were embarrassing in the way it is when a hillbilly has his way with a cow, but no more than that'.
Ben Gazzara & Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Von Trier does not only highlight collective responsibility, however; he also uses his gift for irony to show individual responsibility. Take Chuck's wife, for example, of whom the narrator says, 'Now that Vera had received proof that it was in fact Chuck who'd forced his attentions on Grace, she was meaner than ever'. Kidman, in playing the understanding victim of the citizens' vileness, again has to walk a tightrope, this time one with the viewers' pity for her suffering on one side and their contempt for her passivity on the other. Again, she walks this high wire with dexterity and aplomb, leading us to question our changing responses to Grace and thereby fulfill the Brechtian ideal of spectators at once emotionally engaged and intellectually aware.
Nicole Kidman, because of her vast range and versatility and the radiance of her feu sacré, is, as I've said, the finest actress, in my view, in English-language cinema today. The three films I've discussed in this essay all draw fully on her talent. My fervent wish now is that she make more films that are worthy of her, for to date (August 2018) there are pitifully few in her filmography.
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Patricia Clarkson as Vera, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Jeremy Davies as Bill Henson, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Chloë Sevigny as Liz, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Željko Ivanek as Ben, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Lars von Trier
Trier on von Trier, Faber & Faber, 2003
By Richard Jonathan | © Mara Marietta Culture Blog, 2019 | All rights reserved
1 thought on "Nicole Kidman Actress 4: Dogville"
What a wonderful, in-depth review. I wholeheartedly agree that Kidman should seek out more challenging roles since she has the ability to fill them so marvelously. I'll be linking this essay in my blog about impressions from 'Dogville'.


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As we took our seats in a booth at the music venue Palms, Crown, the mood was electric. We were all there for one thing, to see highly acclaimed country singer Daniel Thompson and Guitar legend Stuie French pay homage to the 'Man in Black'.
In 1968 Johhny Cash performed an iconic album at Folsom Prison. The first part of this concert experience was a cover of that album in its entirety. The Folsom Prison blues lead the train right around the bend to a great duet of Jackson performed with Camille Te Nahu in place of June Carter. The onstage banter and back and forth between band and 'June' had the crowd in stitches. Add a few cheeky jokes about prison life and the first half of the concert was a joy to take in.
At the interlude we marveled at the vast drink list on offer, and enjoyed watching the bartender create our cocktails. This another tick for this classy venue. I must also make mention of the fantastic atmosphere and amazing acoustics.
The second half of the show was just as exciting as the first. An incredibly moving cover of my all-time favourite song 'Hurt' was a highlight of the night for me. The experience finished with crowd favourite "Ring of Fire".
Daniel and the band hinted at a tour commencing next year – a must for any Cash fan.
Where: The Palms
Where: Saturday May 26 2018
Reviewed by Emma Field


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Three weeks ago I was fortunate to attend a workshop on Infographics presented by Kathy Schrock(@kathyschrock). As expected it involved great information and time to experience creating an infographic as a student would.
Creating an infographic can be a powerful experience for students. It requires many of the 'essential' skills needed to be successful in the 21st century. As I was working through the process with my group we had to:
- Interpret and analyze a data set
- Evaluate what the most important concept was within the data and articulate that in a question
- Determine the best way to present the concept (visually and accurately)
- Select the best webapp to create the infographic in
- Evaluate images that fit the concept, determine how to best use them in the graphic and make sure to collect needed citation information
- Work with a group to efficiently do all of the above in a limited time period (we had 1 1/2 hour to complete the entire project from being handed data to posting and presenting our finished infographic).
Of course we would have liked more time, we found out that it takes a lot of planning and thinking to complete this project. We did finish with a 'bare bones' infographic but it was a powerful experience. It was interesting because it has been a while since I had been in a student's seat, learning something and being expected to produce a product showing what I learned. The last 30 minutes was stressful, we were under a strict deadline. But we did it. As an educator it is important to see projects as a student would, then you can better plan how to best scaffold the experience.
So, why use infographics?
Infographics are a great way to have students present evidence of their learning. It also allows them to grapple with data and present that data in an informative creative way. I like it because it combines logical processes (data) with creative graphic processes to create a visually pleasing graphic representation of the data. It brings different skills together, allowing students to work together and bring in their strengths. In our group the first thing we did was select our roles based on what we were good at. That allowed us to break up the work and then bring it together to create one infographic.
How can I get started using infographics?
My advice is not to be overwhelmed by the scope of using and creating infographics in your classroom. Yes there is a lot of information out there. Like anything new… chunk the information and start out simple.
- Start using infographics in your teaching (exposing students to examples of infographics). This also fits great with UDL and multiple means of representation…
- Give students data related to a concept they are learning and have them practice determining what is the most important point of the data. What is the data telling you? What would be the main question it is answering?
- Select an easy tool that they already use the first time they are asked to create an infographic. If you have GAFE, have them use google drawing. If they have used Glogster before have them use that. Students could even use PowerPoint as the tool. Remember the tool doesn't matter, it is the learning and with infographics it just needs to be a tool that allows students to create a graphical representation using images and text. Start with a tool they know, then branch out.
- Critique: don't forget to have students critique infographics from the web and their peers. What makes the great ones great? What could be added or modified with ones that are hard to follow? Teaching students to critique respectfully allows everyone to improve their craft.
If you scaffold the process like above students will eventually be able to gather their own data, evaluate that data and create their own infographics using a tool of their own choice. Start simple, but think big! That is the potential of using infographics.
Resources: (Check these out to get started, or continue on your journey with infographics…)
What are infographics (nice overview with key information to start)
Kathy Schrock's Infographic Resources


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Yes, I will post the recipe. It's a compilation of recipes, really. They aren't hard to make, but there are more steps than "normal". I've been doing a lot of cupcake baking lately – it's been fun.
But I'm really here to write something else. You know, I'm thisclose to being done with infertility treatment. In reality, *I* am done; someone else is receiving treatment in my place. We'll have a lining check late this week, and I'm just hoping for smooth at this point. Ok, so maybe I'm hoping for perfect. I have a lot of conflicting emotions – some of this is so stressful, I want to throw up my hands. Some of it is very odd – I'm no longer "the patient of record", so I literally and figuratively am at arm's length from this cycle. It's just how it is. But I really am tired, no matter how much I want a sibling, another chance at babyhood, of doing this. I really never thought I'd hit the proverbial wall that I've hit. But I have. So here I am, nearly done. I want this to work, but I can also see a light at the end of this tunnel. I used to be scared of that light because it meant the end of possibility. I'm inching slowly towards embracing certainty about not having more children. It will be okay. Not ideal, but okay.
My other whine of the week – "long and exhausting". I know, I know, I know, I try, I try, I try not to compare. To play that awful pain olympics. But every once in awhile, something gets to me. And I internally wince or even sneer.
There is always someone's story that is worse than mine, worse than yours, worse than you can imagine. Always. So I cringe for me and others when I see someone write about how "long and exhausting" their battle with infertility was. You know, the single IVF cycle that yields twins and frozen embryos. If I'd gotten pregnant with twins after my first IVF cycle, I would have been done 4+ years ago. I probably would have thought it was awful and that I was a light for everyone else, but sitting on this side of it, all it does is show me how infertile I am.
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Glad you're feeling some sense of resolution. "Resolution"–I think that means a state of having things resolved. I can tell from what you've written that the feeling has some merits but will also carry some grief as well. I just realized the IF organization is called RESOLVE, and now it's got me wondering why–beyond an acronym? Maybe the word I should have used is "resignation", and maybe you feel a little bit of both. Stories end with a resolution, and I know how you'd like this story to end. So, I think you have every right to hope for perfect. I'm hoping, too.
I'm still scared of that light, yet it's alluring too. Not that I've given up hoping for you, hoping for a fabulous detour on this last leg.
And with the pain olympics, you're not alone. Honestly.
That light at the end of the tunnel–I know it's a weird but strangely liberating place to be. I hope beyond hope that this yields the second chance at babydom, the sibling, the completion of your family the way you want it (well, you know what I mean) but more than anything, I want you to be happy and feel some peace and some release from this torture.
I'm with you on the pain olympics too, sister.
I SOOOO get you on this! I know the feeling and its good to know that I am not alone when I do get that cringe….