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With VR World Congress now just a few months away, Opposable VR is happy to announce the next wave of speakers and exhibitors for April's standard-setting conference!
Among the new collection of speakers are key players from the likes of IBM, London's Royal Opera House, Aardman Animation and many more. As ever with talk choices for VRWC, the field is incredibly diverse, with speakers stemming from a huge range of industries and backgrounds.
The topics being covered are equally diverse. From an investigation into how VR can change opera and ballet from Tom Nelson, Creative Producer at the Royal Opera House, to a seminar on how to make VR experiences more accessible from Ian Hamilton.
Other talks include discussions on WebVR, creating VR experiences for museums, 'designing the future' with IBM and more. Opposable is incredibly proud to feature each of these unique and intriguing speakers.
We're also proud to add three new exhibitors to the VRWC expo. Ultrahaptics will be bringing their world-leading haptic feedback system to the expo, giving guests a chance to try their incredible button-free haptic technology – and see how it fits alongside VR. Noted by media brands across the globe as one of the most innovative and exciting growing technologies of 2016 and 2017, we're incredibly excited to see what Ultrahapics have on show!
Shared VR specialists Igloo will also be bringing their incredible 360 projection 'igloo' with them to the conference, allowing guests the opportunity to see how VR can mean more than just a solitary headset.
Returning exhibitor Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE), meanwhile, will be showing how their students are embracing VR for future applications - making it a great booth for inventive, edgy VR design and new ideas.
The new lineup joins the likes of Microsoft's Mike Taulty and Peter Daukintis, Dr Wendy Powell of the University of Portsmouth, Catherine Allen from the BBC as well as Tom Carter of innovative haptic-specialists Ultrahaptics.
Find the full speaker list below:
Tom Nelson, Royal Opera House - Can VR change opera and ballet?
Tom is Creative Producer at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. His work encompasses digital firsts, live streaming and exhibitions. Recent projects include 360-degree initiatives, World Ballet Day and The Opera Machine – an award winning online experience taking viewers behind the scenes.
He will be talking on how VR can build audiences for opera and ballet, with reference to case studies already created such as the Nutcracker in 360 and Nabucco 360.
Resh Sidhu, Framestore VR - Creating magical experiences: Behind the scenes with Google Daydream and Warner Bros Fantastic Beasts VR
Resh is Creative Director of Framestore VR studio and one of the most well-regarded names in Virtual Reality, her most recent work is the groundbreaking Fantastic Beasts VR experience launching on Google's Daydream Headset.
Framestore VR took fans of the wizarding world on a Fantastic Beasts virtual reality experience in the most immersive mobile VR experience built exclusively for Google Daydream. Resh will share the lessons learned, the creative process from concept to reality, while sharing the challenges and solutions they found to deliver this award winning experience.
Sheelagh Carew, IBM - Designing the future of VR
Sheelagh Carew is Product Designer for IBM, Ireland. She is the UX lead designer on products throughout the various stages of product development from user-research and frameworks to help teams solve end-user problems at the speed and scale that modern enterprises demand.
This workshop will take guests on a journey to reimagine the world in VR. Guests will be immersed in the IBM Design Thinking framework that will guide and enable them to collaborate, gain empathy, and create innovative VR experiences for our daily lives.
Dan Efergan, Aardman - Trying To Connect
Daniel Efergan is the Group Creative Director of Digital at Aardman Animations. What this actually means is he gets to spend lots of time doing fun things like making games, forming playful communities, and messing around in the murky bits between storytelling and interactivity.
Aardman will be dissecting their projects to look at how emotional connections between audience and story are established in VR, and how genuine mastery of this new medium is a long way off.
Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh, Virtualeap - WebVR: jumpstarting the industry from the ground up
Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh is the co-founder at Virtuleap, a sandbox for creative developers to showcase their VR concepts to the world, which is currently running the world's biggest WebVR Hackathon. He is also the Amsterdam Chapter Lead at the VR/AR Association and the European Partner at Edoramedia, a games publisher and digital agency with its headquarters in Dubai.
Amir will be speaking on how WebVR's role in jumpstarting the VR industry is paramount during the hype cycle stage.
Emily Smith, Alchemy VR - Virtual Reality: Taking museum visitors on extraordinary journeys
Emily Smith is Director of Marketing and Business development at Alchemy VR and Atlantic Productions where she manages the strategic marketing, corporate communications and commercial and cultural partnerships.
Alchemy has worked with the world's leading Museums to use VR to deliver insight into important objects. In her talk, Emily and Alchemy's latest partner will discuss how they collaborated to produce the most dramatic experience to ever come out of the studio.
Armando Kirwin, Milk(vr)
Armando is Cofounder and Director of MILK(vr), a full service studio designed to support creative innovators in their leap into the art of virtual reality storytelling. Armando was previously an EP and Head of Post at VRSE (now Here Be Dragons), and has completed over 20 VR films.
Ian Hamilton - VR & accessibility
Ian is an advocate and consultant working throughout the games industry to raise the profile and understanding of accessibility.
In this talk, Ian will look at VR-specific barriers for people with impaired vision, hearing, cognitive and motor ability, and how to overcome them through design, ensuring as many people as possible can benefit from all that VR has to offer.
Thomas Bible, Thomas Bible Audio - Making the most of VR Audio
With more than 16 years of experience, Tom Bible has had Audio Lead roles on Oculus Story Studio's Emmy award-winning Henry, Dear Angelica, Robo Recall, Star Wars: 1313, and the Monkey Island: Special Edition series
Based on his experience with Oculus Story Studio's Henry, Dear Angelica and Epic Games' Robo Recall, Tom will be talking about some the best ways to work with audio in VR, including some best practices and pitfalls of different approaches.
Panel - Inside the immersive web: pioneers of WebVR
Virtualeap - Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh (host)
Samsung - Diego Gonzalez
Freelance - Fabien Benetou
LucidWeb - Thomas Balouet
Vizor - Antti Jäderholm.
Ultrahaptics is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology. By using ultrasound to project sensations onto a hand, Ultrahaptics is pushing through an era of change and allowing people to feel and control technology like never before.
From invisible buttons and dials that you feel when you need them, through to tangible interfaces that track your hand, this elegant and simple technology was created using complex mathematics yet is based on human nature.
Igloo designs, develops and delivers immersive 360º projection technologies. Stepping inside one of their projection domes is like stepping inside a giant VR headset.
Because they accommodate anything from 5 - 500 people, it's a shared experience. Their technologies have been covered by many of the world's best-respected media.
Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE)
Based at Bath and Bournemouth Universities, the CDE is an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training funding doctoral researchers. Their researchers work closely with and in some of the most exciting high-tech companies in the world.
The researchers and students at the CDE have provided some groundbreaking work involving virtual reality, some of which will be on display at VR World Congress.
Tickets for VR World Congress 2017 are available right now, with full three-day delegate tickets (which will grant you access to all of the speakers and exhibitors above) currently available for £300.
We hope you'll be joining us and our new speakers and exhibitors from April 11th - 13th for VR World Congress 2017!


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Lieutenant General José Mena Aguado, said that the armed forces may have to intervene should the new statute exceed the limits set by the constitution. Mena claimed that the military was empowered under the constitution to do so: "...if those limits were exceeded, which at the moment luckily seems unthinkable, Article 8 of the Constitution — the armed forces, including the army, the navy and the air force, have the mission to guarantee the sovereignty and independence of Spain and to defend her territorial integrity and the Constitutional order".The Lieutenant General was immediately put under house arrest as a military leader is prohibited from making a public statements on political opinions. While a military coup is unlikely in an EU country and the constitution doesn't support this it does seems to show an underlining extreme dislike in Spain for the idea of a separate Catalan nation. Nationalism and greed are possibly the 2 most driving forces in the world. These are also the 2 forces involved in the Catalan Spain divide. Spanish people feel like the Lieutenant General feel Spain can not be split. They also want to keep the tax monies rolling in from Barcelona. Catalans see themselves as Catalans as different to the rest of Spain. They also want to see their tax stay within their region. So what can this teach Iraq. Spain is a prosperous and peaceful country relative to Iraq. Yet tensions between different factions dominate politics. Europe has never been more divided yet also it has never been more peaceful. Why? When you do not give a people their own say, their own land, their own independence they will do all in their power to obtain it. When they do have all these things they will do all in their power to enhance it. Catalan nationalism is predominantly non violent because the people are predominantly prosperous. This limits them to peaceful needs. The more you have to lose the less you are willing to do. In Iraq the country is clearly divided into Kurdish Sunni and Shiite areas. These are basically different "tribes". Where as the French, German, Belgium, "tribes" have their own lands and independence the Iraqi "tribes" do not. The oil is in the North and the South not the middle. But greed is not strong enough to keep a country together nationalism is going to break it apart until each "tribe" has its independence. Until they are separate like the EU countries will their greed make them realise that they will work best together. Whether or not each tribes desire for independence can be fulfilled in a federal Iraq is another question. But I think until America realises like Spain that somethings are just not going to stick together forever Iraq will not be peaceful.
Monday, February 06, 2006
What can Iraq learn from Spain and Catalonia
Ask any random person in Barcelona what football club they support and they will say Barcelona. Rarely do you hear anyone say they support the other Barcelona primra League side Espanyol. The reason for this is the Barcelona Football club's crest includes the Catalonia flag and the word Espanyol means Spanish and the crest has a crown. Barcelona football club has always been the symbol of Catalan nationalism. When Franco was in charge of Spain he tried to kill of Catalan identity. The language was banned in public and even calling a kid Jordi was banned as St Jordi was the patron saint of Catalonia. But all this has changed Catalonia nationalism is free and on the rise. Last September the Catalonia parliament passed a bill to declare Catalonia a nation but still part of the spainish state. This was forwarded to the Parliament in Madrid. Luis Rodriguez Zapatero the Spainish Prime ministers government is propped up by regional parties. This gives the Catalans a lot of power in parliament and they are not afraid to use it. The bill that was sent to parliament is likely to pass with some modifications. Although the above measures are supported in the polls. All is not well. From Backseat drivers
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I just had to round out the week with another great photographer, J. Savage Gibson. Kim and I go on and on about lighting and composition and angles and colour but when you see beautiful photos it's those things that are so apparent. Josh's work is subtle. These aren't pictures that scream "look at me look at me". Instead they draw you in with their order, refinement and relevance. Don't miss his b&w portfolio…. lovely!
I love that there are dogs and cats in several of the photos. Makes the spaces seem less set-up-for-a-photo-op
the space in these photos is lovely – so airy and light. And I LOVE the treatment of the panoramic photos in the first shot – that's definitely something I'd love to use somewhere in the Inn. It's great to see historic pieces being used in modern ways that make sense.
The dining room with green wicker chairs and its clear glass windows is so gorgeous. It will be a delight to have meals there with friends and family, so airy and fresh looking. Good capture by J. Savage Gibson
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St Catherine's College runs an extensive visiting student programme. The College welcomes students from across the world and offers them a chance to be part of a world leading institution. Those selected for our Visiting Students Programme enjoy an academically rich experience with each Visiting Student receiving small group (or one to one) teaching in their chosen subject.
Registered Visiting students are formally recognised by the University of Oxford allowing them many of the same privileges available to Undergraduates, such as access to libraries, membership of the Junior Common Room (JCR), and access to societies and sports clubs. More information about the facilities available at St Catherine's College can be found here.
The University of Oxford does not award a degree or other qualification for time spent as a Visiting Student. However, St Catherine's College provides written tutorial report transcripts for all courses undertaken and a record of achievement. The home university from which the Visiting Student comes is then able to credit that student appropriately towards the degree it will award.
All junior members are subject to the authority of the College Dean and are required to obey College and University regulations.
Studying in Oxford
St Catherine's College offers to those joining as Visiting Students the opportunity to choose from the widest variety of tutorial courses offered by any college in Oxford. To provide you with an illustration of what subjects have been taken in the past by registered visiting students please see here. The list continues to grow as our students' requirements and interests change. Double and triple major applicants can be assured that their academic needs will be accommodated. It would be very useful if those students making applications provide a personal statement or statement of purpose in which they describe what they would like to study and why, whilst they are in Oxford.
The Tutorial System
Tutors are assigned in advance of our Visiting Students arriving in Oxford. Students meet with a tutor on a regular basis, typically singly or in pairs. Each student is expected to produce written work for every tutorial for which reading lists are provided. Tutorial discussion revolves around or springs from the prepared written work. Students normally take two tutorial courses a term, a primary course of eight tutorials and a secondary course of four tutorials. It is possible to replace the secondary course with an additional primary course extending over two terms. Tutorials are supplemented by lectures. In addition to the College undergraduate library, students have full access to the University's main research library, the Bodleian, and may have access to departmental/faculty libraries.
Applicants should select subjects according to their own preferences and the requirements of their home universities or colleges.
Lecture lists for all subjects are available on-line from the faculty for applicants to consider. They demonstrate the breadth of subjects taught at Oxford. Visiting Students are welcome to attend all lectures that are open to matriculated undergraduates. This widens the scope of study for each student and provides them with the opportunity to investigate new subjects.
Grades and Credits
At the end of each term tutors provide reports of the term's work together with a grade calculated in accordance with normal Oxford standards. St Catherine's College can forward these reports and grades directly to the student's home college. St Catherine's College does not award credits or other formal qualifications. It is the responsibility of students to make proper arrangements in advance of coming to Oxford to ensure that their home colleges award credits for the work done at St Catherine's. (US colleges normally award one semester credit for each tutorial hour; thus students normally qualify for up to 12 semester credits for each term's work.)
At the end of the student's stay with us we give each student an official sealed certificate as a record of their time with us.
Apply to Catz
St Catherine's College welcomes applications from students who have completed at least two years of college or university who wish to study in Oxford as non-degree students. Michaelmas term runs from early October to mid-December; Hilary term from early January to mid-March; and Trinity term from mid-April to late June. Applications are accepted for one, two or three terms although maximum benefit from study at St Catherine's clearly accrues to those able to come for the whole year.
Applicants will need to submit:
- A completed application form (see below) including their full name, address, date of birth, and the number of years they have attended at university/college.
- US candidates should include their GPA rating (it is unlikely that a place will be offered to anyone with a current GPA less than 3.7) and, where appropriate, SAT/ACT scores. Candidates from other countries should send an equivalent evaluation.
- A current college transcript.
- Two letters of academic recommendation.
- Two samples of written work (not more than 20 pages).
- A statement, not exceeding 200 words, of their academic goals and reasons for wishing to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
- A passport photo and a copy of the applicant's passport details page.
- A tutorial preference form on which they can indicate their proposed tutorial choices of study.
- English Language Proficiency certificate (if applicable). All teaching at Oxford University is carried out in English (with the exception of some language-specific teaching) and tutors must be convinced that you have sufficient fluency in written and spoken English to cope with your course from the start. All non-native English-speaking applicants must satisfy Oxford University requirements. More information about English Language requirements can be found here. We will not make an offer until we have sufficient proof of your English language proficiency.
We welcome applications for the Registered Visiting Student Programme for 2023-2024. Please use the application form listed below and if you are interested in Computing Science please the other application form. The deadline for applications for 2023-2024 is Friday, 27th January 2023. The application should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Additional fees are applicable for those taking laboratory-based courses. This includes Computing Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics. They are £2,296.60 per term for 2023-2024. This will enable Registered Visiting Students to participate in laboratory/practical sessions run by the University.
Registered Visiting Student Fees 2023-2024
Accommodation and Residence 2023-2024
Registered Visiting Student Application Form 2023-2024
Registered Visiting Student Application Form (Computer Science) 2023-2024
If you have any academic questions please contact firstname.lastname@example.com, Fellow and Director of Studies for Visiting Students and if you have any administrative questions please contact firstname.lastname@example.com, Administrator for Visiting Students.
Visiting Students at St Catherine's College can study a wide range of subjects. Visiting students are encouraged to choose a subject that benefits them academically but is also an area of personal interest. The College would like to give applicants the opportunity to move away from simply choosing a title from a list. Applicants should use their personal statement to describe what they are interested in studying and what they would like to academically achieve here at St Catherine's. It would also be helpful to know how the subjects or topics the applicant wishes to study fit into their degree (if in fact they do) or whether they are taking the opportunity to study subjects because of their own interests. Either approach is equally valid but applicants are required to make sure that their home university is happy with their choices as applicants may wish to obtain academic credit for them.
To provide you with an illustration of what subjects have been taken in the past by registered visiting students please see here.
Several faculties within Oxford publish their course and option syllabi on-line. These represent a valuable resource for those wanting to find out what might be possible to study and importantly in what terms some subjects may be taught.
Applicants are welcome to contact the Director of Studies by email so that they can correspond directly ahead of their application about subject choices. Pre-agreed Zoom conversations are also possible.
Applicants must choose two subjects that represent their first choices and then offer two alternatives for each term.
Visiting students are housed in single rooms within the college alongside matriculated students. The Visiting Student fees include accommodation throughout the term and in the week before and after Full Term. The rooms are provided with bedding and bed linen and a regular cleaning service. Each staircase has kitchen facilities which include a hob, fridge, microwave, kettle and small cupboard space. The fees do not cover any meal allowances. The rooms have connections for laptops as well as wireless connection.
Betty and Donald Keating Scholarship
These scholarships are a tribute to the vision and generosity of Giles Keating (St Catz 1973). They are given in honour of his parents to provide funding to allow academically outstanding students an opportunity to study at St Catherine's as Registered Visiting Students. The fund targets those students who attend universities that demonstrate academic access to students from all sections of Indian society. The scholarship fund has enabled fifteen students over the last five years to study a variety of subjects and to enrich College life with their considerable talents.
Please see the of all the Keating Scholars who have studied at St Catherine's.
|Trinity Term
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|Last Name
|St Xavier's College
|Neuroscience and Genetics
|St Xavier's College
|Genetics and Human Ecology
|H. R. College of Commerce and Economics
|International Relations
|St Xavier's College
|Astronomy and English Literature
|H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
|Management Studies and International Migration
|St Xavier's College
|English Literature and Journalism
|St Xavier's College
|History and English Literature
|H.R.College of Commerce and Economics
|Management Studies and Photography
|St Xavier's College
|International Economics and Philosophy of Science
|H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
|English Literature, Advertising and Economics
|St Xavier's College
|Philosophy of Ethics and International Relations
|H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
|Business Management Studies and Photography
|St Xavier's College
|Journalism, Political Sociology and International Relations
|St Xavier's College
|Economics and Knowledge and Reality
|H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
|Management Studies and Psychology
|H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
|Women, Gender and Economic Development and Indigenous Peoples, Minorities and Human Rights
|St Xavier's College
|Social Policy and British Administrative Systems
|Pune University
|Virology, Practical Bioethics and Photography
|St Xavier's College
|International Politics and Security
|Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
Details of the scholarship, including how to apply, can be found here.
The Thomas and Joanne Peterson Scholarship
The Thomas and Joanne Peterson Endowed Scholarship for Dominican Scholars at Oxford was launched in 2015 at Dominican University of California. Its purpose is to open the Oxford programme to academically outstanding motivated Dominican students, regardless of their financial situations. Mr Peterson recently said "At St Catherine's College, the Dominican students will engage with academic work in a way that is both intellectually challenging and hugely rewarding. Their experiences at Oxford will be life changing."
Peterson Scholars who have studied at St Catherine's College:
- Kylie Walsh
- Donavan Hernandez-Garcia
- Alexander Pollok
- Victor Chan
- Brad Johnson
- Daniel Stockman
- Sophia Stetson
- Jake Quast
- Monica Barry
- Lilly Dubuc
- Jeffrey Farley
- Christina Pathoumthong


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The Liberty Head Nickel of 1913: Only 5 of These Rare Coins Ever Minted
In the world of coin collecting today, one of the most sought after of rare coins is the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel.
With only five that are known to have been struck, this incredibly rare coin became the first to ever be sold for $100,000 in the early 1970's - quite a feat considering that it was worth a mere five cents when it was first minted. Over 25 years later, another Liberty Head Nickel would become the first coin to sell for over $1 million and in less than a decade after that, in 2003, a Liberty Head Nickel sold for $3 million.
Today, we know of three of these coins being held in private collections and the other two have their homes in major museums. What is fascinating is the fact that the Liberty Head Nickel was actually minted between 1883 and 1912 as a regular coin.
Why the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel Is So Valuable
These coins are not considered nearly as valuable as those produced in 1913 due to the fact that millions were produced each year. What makes this particular year's Liberty Head Nickel even more interesting is that the majority of collectors had no idea any were made until 1919 when a man named Samuel W. Brown put an ad in publications related to numismatics looking to buy any Liberty Head Nickels from 1913. Somehow, he knew that a master die had been created at the mint for these coins even though only a test run had been done.
Between 1928 and 1943, the world-famous Texas coin collector Colonel E.H.R. Green held all five of the Liberty Head nickels known to be in existence, but they were eventually sold off. Today, one is held at the American Numismatic Association's Money Museum in the state of Colorado while another resides at the Smithsonian Institute of Washington DC. It is rumored that if one of these coins were discovered today, and was in flawless condition, it could be valued at around $20 million.
Minting the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel
Here is where the story gets even more interesting, though. No one knows exactly why the 1913 Liberty Head Nickels that exist today were made.
There was no authorization for their minting and the Mint itself has no record of them whatsoever. California did receive dies for this coin, but those were to be sent back to Philadelphia and arrived there by the 23rd of December, after which they were most likely destroyed as per the protocol of the time.
As it turns out, Samuel W. Brown worked at the Philadelphia Mint, but no one knew this until the early 1960s, long after Colonel Green had sold his five Liberty Head nickels. Many history buffs today have maintained theories that Brown himself may have been involved in the minting of the coins or had knowledge of them that could assist him in gathering them up, knowing that there would only be five and therefore their value would become incredibly high.
The infamous Liberty Head nickel of 1913 is not a coin that any collector will likely ever see in the wild, but it is certainly one with a rich and colorful history. One was briefly owned by famed coin collector King Farouk of Egypt and was even the subject of an episode of the TV show Hawaii Five-O. All signs point to this coin's value continuing to rise due to its extreme scarcity, and it remains a subject of great interest to collectors from around the world.


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Think of it as a flavor-forward heat experience thanks to its rich ingredients, including avocados, cilantro, ripe chili peppers, bell peppers and parsley. This sauce adds fresh and vibrant flavors with a slight kick to keep your taste buds tingling. Enjoy it as a marinade, sandwich spread, or as a finishing sauce.
Mild to Medium Heat: Great on eggs, tacos, sandwiches, rice, and much more. Mix it with ranch to create a delicious dip or dressing. Use it to complement or substitute mayo in chicken salads, egg salads, and sandwiches.
- Keto Certified, Paleo, Plant Based.
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INGREDIENTS: Onion, Avocado, Green Bell Pepper, White Distilled Vinegar, Water, Cilantro, Parsley, Avocado Oil, Contains 2% or less of the following: Garlic, Sea Salt, Green Jalapeno, Jalapeno Chile Powder, Potassium Sorbate (to retain freshness), Citric Acid, Spice, Natural Flavors.
We use ripe, creamy Hass Avocados to make Kumana - yes, the actual fruit - not just the oil.
You want to add flavor, not sugar, right?
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What about taste?
Kumana is a great sub for mayo as a sandwich spread or in a chicken, egg or tuna salad. It's also a great sub for ketchup in burgers, eggs and hot dogs. We offer three flavors, with our mildest being our Original and Spicy Mango. Want something to sub out a Spicy Mayo or Ketchup? Opt for our Hot.
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In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead scores and stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
- Runtime: 15 min
- Released: 27 Jun 2019
- Genre:Short, Music
- Starring: Thom Yorke, Dajana Roncione, Frida Dam Seidel
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- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Definitions: Contextualization
Jonathan Dodson: "Contextualization is the intentional process of communicating the historic gospel and teachings of Jesus in contemporary cultural forms. [3] This may result in churches gathering in white tents or rodeo arenas, to hear how the grace rebuffs bootstrap religion among country folk in rural areas of Texas (also known as Cowboy churches). Alternatively, it may...Keep Reading


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What does it take to feel alive?
Warm sun, a fresh breeze, the breath of God.
Peace, quiet, the creak of a floor,
chiming of a bell in the distance,
the tinkling of a cat's bell.
The fragrance of a morning rose and fresh coffee.
The purr of a fan, the taste of a peach
the drone of a bee,
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He is here.
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Moving energy into the future
In the past decade, the approach to constructing, maintaining and managing energy transmission has undergone significant changes that better serve electric customers.
While reliability remains the priority, it is not the only issue driving the need for investment in electric transmission system infrastructure.
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1. Something Sparkly
Ornaments are relatively inexpensive ranging from $1-$3. You can find beautiful ornaments at dollar stores and thrift stores. I found these beautiful Christmas cupcakes at Family Dollar for $2.50 per four pack. Great value and they are so adorable. Your guests can add them to their family Christmas tree and always remember your special event. They can also double as a unique seating place card.
2. Greenery
Little potted plants are the perfect favor. You can find small potted succulents or ivy like the Sliver Bell Ivy pictured above at your local market, plant nursery or home improvement store for about $2. I love the idea of adding the touch of green to your event and sending something home that can bring some cheer on those cold and dark winter days.
3. Sweet Treat
Very small boxes of specialty chocolates are always a hit. Your favor probably won't make it past the car ride home. I suggest visiting your local chocolate tier to select your chocolates. You can even create your own gift boxes of four that will cost you about $2 per person.
4. Get Crafty
If you know your party will have little guests, provide a small craft to keep them busy. Your adult guests will appreciate this more than any other favor you could offer. Keeping their kids occupied, so they can enjoy the evening will have them thanking you all night long. Plus the kids have a nice little take away to share. I suggest these little Gingerbread men from oriental Trade for $6 per set of 12.
5. Thanks for Poppin in
Popcorn in small takeout boxes is another great favor. You can buy gourmet popcorn in bulk or make your own. Ordering take out boxes on Amazon is super inexpensive. Depending on your quantity of guests you can make this favor for under $2 a box. Another thing to consider is setting up a little popcorn bar where guests can create their own popcorn mix. Set out popcorn seasonings, chocolate candies, and nuts to let your guests personalize.
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While Rip Curl's involvement in competitive surfing was clearly evident by the mid-1970s, Warbrick and Singer were determined that the company should not embrace the new money-wise sport and neglect surfing's roots.
Both men were firmly committed to the philosophy of "The Search", the cornerstone of soul surfing. Even as Rip Curl grew, they took pains to ensure that they weren't dragged kicking and screaming from the surf to oversee the business. They had their priorities right, and they made sure that Rip Curl did too. They spent a lot of time in Bali, surfing the recently-discovered breaks of Uluwatu and Padang – in those days the pre-eminent equipment testing laboratory for the world soul surfing elite.
Thus, as Rip Curl underlined its position as the number one surfing wetsuit company through sponsorship of some of the best surfers in the world, the company also maintained its involvement with surfing's roots by supporting soul surfers like Wayne Lynch, Michael Peterson, Cheyne Horan and Tom Curren.
Warbrick and Singer also spent a great deal of time involved in their own "search", launching expeditions to little-known island groups and far-flung coasts, often taking with them the surfers at the cutting edge. By the end of the 1970s, Rip Curl had become, in every way, the surfer's company.
This strong identity with the sport, however, did not detract from Rip Curl's commitment to the technology of its products. By 1977 the company was producing wetsuits for windsurfers, sailors and water skiers as well as surfers. Each division required a different technological approach and a completely different marketing strategy. Rip Curl took on these challenges hand in hand with its export drive and eventual establishment of Rip Curl International.
Instead of making wetsuits in Australia for export - a costly and difficult exercise in itself - Rip Curl would sell its technology, designs and ideas. The product itself would be made under licence in the country where it was needed.
In 1981 Rip Curl established its first corporate Licensee, Lowers, in Southern California, within walking distance of its namesake - one of America's most famous surf breaks. The formula was a success and in 1985 a new company called Frogs began making Rip Curl products in Hossegor, on a stretch of France's Atlantic coast renowned for its grinding hollow beach breaks.
Today, nine corporate Licensees make and sell Rip Curl products in USA, France, South Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile. Surfers in the most remote corners of the planet can be seen using Rip Curl products. Maybe they have never heard of Torquay, maybe not even Bells, but they share the spirit of The Search, and pursue the dream that recognises no borders and needs no translation.
Working in close proximity to the best surf still makes as much sense as it did when Rip Curl was "Born at Bells". It means Rip Curl can never lose touch with its roots... And 28 years on, Rip Curl offices around the world are still empty on some days. Those special days, when it's clear and cold, there's a brisk wind, not too strong, but coming straight off the land. And a six foot swell – made clean and straight by its long march.
Some days, only one type of work needs doing...
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Sensory analysis and market research as tools for the launch of new products
Any creation of a new product or improvement of an existing one must necessarily entail a prior investigation that justifies the new project. The success of the project is based on a global and integrated vision, since it affects a multitude of departments or areas. (Marketing, R + D + I, logistics, operations, quality, etc.)
When we focus on the sensory attributes of an agri-food product, the key to its success lies in its intrinsic attributes (color, aroma, taste, visual appearance, etc.) and extrinsic attributes (price, packaging design, brand image, etc.). .) meet the needs of the consumers to whom we want to sell the product. To understand these needs, the integration of Sensory Analysis (tasting) and qualitative market research techniques is essential.
The Sensorial Analysis or consumer test allows to deepen and quantify the intrinsic characteristics of the products, determining consumer preferences, level of acceptance, etc.
Group dynamics and in-depth interviews allow consumer groups guided by an expert moderator to provide extensive information about their attitudes and thoughts towards the products.
The combination of Sensorial Analysis with Qualitative Research Techniques is a tool that provides numerous benefits in the following strategic aspects:
OPTIMIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS: Needs not covered, key ingredients, assessment of flavor, aroma, texture, etc.
COMPARISON WITH COMPETITION / BENCHMARKING: Strengths and weaknesses of the products against the competition, comparative formats, modes of use, etc.
PACKAGING DESIGN: Information most valued in the packaging, preferred preparation modes, level of understanding of the list of ingredients and nutritional values, etc.
NEW USES / PRODUCT CONSUMPTION: Modifications made by customers to our products, new ingredients, new ways of preparation, etc.
PRICE POLICY FIXATION: Valued price / most valued, potential market for gourmet / high-end products, etc.
BRANDING / BRANDING IMAGE: Level of valuation and memory of the brand. Most frequent associations.
DETERMINATION OF PROMOTION TOOLS: Determination of the supports with the greatest impact on our target, more efficient means for communicating the strengths of our product, etc.
SATISFACTION OF THE CONSUMER: Level of consumer satisfaction after the consumption of the product, purchase intention, customer loyalty, etc.


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PET Scans Now Identify Brain Disease In Living NFL Players
A group of researchers from UCLA are using PET scans to recognize chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living NFL players. The scans show the presence of tau proteins linked to CTE. Before this, identification of the presence of this protein, which is also linked to Alzheimer's disease, could only be confirmed via autopsy.
Scientists from UCLA used a brain-imaging tool that was originally developed for examining neurological changes linked to Alzheimer's disease. They put to work a chemical marker they made named FDDNP, which binds to deposits of amyloid beta "plaques" and neurofibrillary tau "tangles" (telltale signs of Alzheimer's) – then they viewed it using a PET (positron emission tomography) scan. The researchers were able to identify where in the brain these irregular proteins built up. Participants received intravenous injections of FDDNP, while the researchers then performed PET brain scans and compared them to those of healthy men with comparable BMI, education, age, and family history of dementia. The scientists discovered that in comparison to healthy men, the NFL players had increased levels of FDDNP in the amygdala and subcortical regions of the brain – the areas that control emotions, behavior, memory, and learning. Participants who had a greater number of concussions had higher levels of FDDNP.
Study author Dr. Jorge R. Barrio, a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said, "The FDDNP binding patterns in the players' scans were consistent with the tau deposit patterns that have been observed at autopsy in CTE cases."


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Blacklisting comment spam
Everyone's talking about it. Everyone's getting it. The evil that is comment spam: blog comments and/or URLs which link to off-topic and usually questionable sites, posted with the sole purpose of improving a Google ranking.
I've been hit a few times recently, once by a huge HTML comment containing masses of links, similar to email spam. More common manifestations are short, innocent looking comments posted with a dodgy URL, and rogue entries on my referrers page.
Well it's time to nip it in the bud. To start off, I've time-limited how often someone can post a comment – this should prevent the kind of robot attack which results in dozens of spam comments to the same post.
Following Simon Willison's lead, I've also implemented a blacklist technique. Any comment or referral I judge to be spam will be deleted, and the offending domains will be blacklisted. Any future comments that contain links to those domains will be refused and the poster's IP address logged. My blacklist is available at blacklist.txt. You are welcome to grab a copy of that file once every 24 hours and use it as part of your own comment spam prevention system. As a growing decentralised web of trust, other good folks have also been posting their blacklists:
If you start using a similar system, drop me a line and I will use your blacklist as well. Please don't merge other people's blacklists into your own public list. If I find non-evil URLs in someone's blacklist, I will unsubscribe from it, so all your hard work may be undone by someone else's carelessness or maliciousness.


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When taking gluten out of bakery foods, it's important to understand the functionality that is being replaced. Jeff Casper, R&D director, Cargill, Hopkins, MN, and Bill Atwell, PhD, retired Cargill researcher and consultant, Champlin, MN, look at the many factors involved. They recently collaborated on a new book about gluten-free product development and processing published in 2014.
Baking & Snack: The presence of gluten enables proper kneading, gas retention, finished texture and keeping quality. So, how does the formulator compensate for these functions without using gluten?
Bill Atwell: Gluten provides cohesion to doughs, and when you replace it, you need to use gums. You need a way to hold the mass together, especially with bread doughs.
When it comes to gas retention, wheat gluten is unique in its ability to inhibit the flow of gas through and out of the dough. You need something to do that in gluten-free doughs, and gums can provide that function, specifically xanthan and guar.
When dough expands, it needs to set in the oven in that expanded state to form bread. Gluten and starch provide that function in a conventional bread. When baked, the starch becomes gelatinized, pulling water away from the gluten. The gas cells in the dough expand, and the dehydrated gluten strain-hardens and becomes brittle. The cell walls eventually break and release the entrapped gas, and the gas-discontinuous dough becomes gas-continuous bread. This reaction has to occur, and both gluten and starch play key roles in setting structure. With gluten-free, starch and gum have to provide this function.
As far as texture, gluten provides the chewiness characteristic of many baked goods.
When it comes to keeping quality, there's a different mode of staling with gluten-free foods, and starch plays a much more dominant role. You will have more issues with brittleness and chalkiness. Emulsifiers can be used to soften the crumb and delay firming, as is done in cake products.
Jeff Casper: Keeping in mind the differences between cookie and bread doughs, the function of gluten is very different in each. In cookies, the functional requirements of gluten are not as high as in bread, and so you can more easily develop structure by using a composite flour. Cookie doughs don't need the gas-holding capabilities of bread doughs.
Among Cargill's ingredients, which ones do you recommend for gluten-free baked foods? Why?
Mr. Casper: For Cargill, this is a broad question. Cargill offers a wide portfolio of ingredients for gluten-free products. The Cargill Texturizing Solutions business has a portfolio of hydrocolloids, blends, modified pregel and cook-up starches (tapioca, etc.) for achieving optimal texture and eating quality. All of these ingredients are tools that when combined into a composite flour system can be leveraged to the functionality of gluten.
The more you understand gluten, the more you can strategize to replace it. It is important to understand what functionality you are going after. Formulating without gluten gets down to fundamental rheology: how to create a strain-hardening material that replaces gluten. You want something that looks like and eats like bread, but there are multiple paths to achieve this.
Considering gums, guar and locust bean gum are synergistic with xanthan gum, and this synergy between hydrocolloids is used quite a bit in gluten-free products. You can blend gums for synergy to improve the rheological behavior over that of a single gum.
There are other ingredients that can be helpful. For example, inulin can be critical to quality and nutritional value. There has long been criticism of gluten-free diets that they lack fiber. Inulin has the added benefit of being multifunctional. It plasticizes the batter and provides a prebiotic fiber source. It also softens the crumb of gluten-free breads and contributes to finer grain in breads.
Another such ingredient is maltodextrin. It has similar functionalities to inulin but is not a fiber source. It has same ability to make the bread crumb finer in texture. Cargill has inulin and a range of maltodextrins that can modify the quality of gluten bread.
Gluten-free whole grain ingredients are also becoming more prominent as the nutritional profiles of starch based products are scrutinized. Cargill's Maizewise corn flour is an example. It works well in cereals. Through Horizon Milling (now Ardent Mills), we also have gluten-free baking bases for cookies, breads, and muffins. These bases are fairly flexible so they can be used to make multiple products through simple bowl additions or process changes. These bases are great for operations that do not wish to maintain large numbers of ingredients.
What aspect of gluten-free formulating do users of your ingredients find the most difficult to navigate? Why?
Dr. Atwell: Bread is the most difficult case. And of all bread products, among the most difficult are bagels and soft pretzels. These need a good bite, which depends on the chewiness of gluten.
Gluten has a very high molecular weight, which is necessary to provide elasticity and hence the chewiness in the final product. Gums are much lower in molecular weight than gluten. Consequently, it is very difficult to provide chewiness in a gluten-free product Gluten is a huge molecule, and most other gum and protein ingredients are much smaller.
Mr. Casper: In selecting hydrocolloids and their usage level, you will be going after certain rheological properties. There are also regulatory limits to usage levels in baked foods, for example, with guar. Balancing these constraints with desired functionality can be tricky.
Among the Cargill modified starches, you can use either cook-up or pre-gelatinized styles. Determining the right modifications and starch source requires some understanding of your process and desired finished attributes, and they have an impact on costs. The expertise of the supplier is important, especially when working with gluten-free.
What advice do you have for someone attempting their first gluten-free version of a baked food or snack already in their company's product line?
Dr. Atwell: We started working with gluten-free in 2007, and we divided the work between cookies and batters vs. bread-like products. Our advice is to work first on cookie applications. They're the easiest. Batter-based items will need some added functionality to substitute for that of gluten, but you can still get pretty far.
The big problems are with bread. A fundamental understanding of the bread system helps, but gluten-free bread systems are even more complicated. It's a learn-as-you-go situation.
To help move from bench to bakery, what do formulators need to know about processing gluten-free doughs made with your ingredients?
Mr. Casper: Make sure you set expectations around what you can achieve without gluten. You can have higher expectations for cookies than for batter-based and bread applications.
Gluten-free versions will process differently on equipment than standard baked foods. You should expect to work with a new process setup in developing these products. Often, equipment you've worked with before won't do the job with gluten-free that it does with standard formulations.
For one thing, the dough's degree of hydration will change. Water hydration properties of gluten should not be underestimated. Gluten-free bread dough really falls between a batter and a dough, which we outlined in our AACC handbook, "Gluten-Free Baked Products."
When extruding gluten-free bread doughs, you will be dealing with a sticker material. Cleanout programs will also have to change.
If you're producing cookies, you can do it on a standard processing line without too much trouble. The same can be said of batter-based items. But for breads, the dough is very different on a rheological basis from standard doughs.
We have a gluten-free cookie mix, to which you add water and shortening only, that can be run through a standard wire-cut machine. And there are similar cake and muffins mixes. But for gluten-free bread, because gluten is the structuring agent in standard products, the process will be much different. You're looking at a more batter-like mixture, and typically, it will be extruded rather than divided.
Mixing gluten-free doughs can be simple: just hydrate and mix to ensure a uniform material. But what ends up happening is, because of the rate of hydration of the various starches, flours and hydrocolloids, you have limited working time. These doughs may stiffen over time, and the bubbles are not as stable as when gluten is present. You'll see uneven air pockets, created during depositing. Another problem is collapse during proofing or baking.


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Business Case - Awingu
"As a start-up, we don't have money nor time to spare. Strand gets that!"
Top qualities
- Entrepreneurial
"Our employees need to be entrepreneurial. I expect the same of my recruitment partner."
- Quality wins
"I prefer three valuable candidates over twenty mediocre ones."
- Trust
"Doing face-to-face business in a transparent way nurtures trust. Plus it creates the right expectations for all parties involved."
- Perceptive & insightful
"Insight in the needs and doubts of candidates raises our chances of winning over top talent."
"You need a recruitment partner who is 'on top' of the process and who delivers. Strand does just that. It is no coincidence that the first candidate for a second vacancy was a perfect match once again."
Christof Debaes - VP Operations Awingu
Wanted: flexible, high-tech engineers
Christof Debaes: "Software engineers who master both Linux and Windows are rare. On top, they must be flexible enough to adapt to the 'fickle' growth path of a start-up. A today can evolve towards B tomorrow. We strongly value a sense of initiative and an entrepreneurial mindset both in-house as well as on-site during the integration of a solution at one of our clients. Every time I meet a candidate I wonder: 'Is this a person I would send to my client?'"
Searched for & found: exceptional quality
Christof Debaes: "The very first professional Strand proposed started at one of our clients on his first day on the job. He was a strong candidate; found, screened and hired in only a couple of weeks. Without having to go through 100+ resumes! As an employer, you are looking for the best of the best. You need a recruitment partner who is 'on top' of the process and who delivers. Strand does just that. It is no coincidence that the first candidate for a second vacancy was a perfect match once again."
Why does Strand succeed?
Christof Debaes: "They play the game correct for both the client and the candidate. Our Strand consultant informed us about the needs and doubts of the candidate so we could anticipate accordingly during the interviews. Moreover, we were only provided with talent that fits the required hard and soft skills. On top, Strand believes 200% in the profiles it provides. Anything less is a no go. As a start-up in full expansion, we don't have time nor money to spare. Every investment needs to be spot on. Strand Associates Consulting gets that!"
About Awingu
Awingu is a 'workspace aggregator'. They provide access to corporate software and data through advanced web technology. The only thing a user needs is a browser. Awingu's solution is integrated via partnerships with SAIT, Econocom, Proximus Nextel ... As a relatively young cloud computing company, Awingu already built quite a reputation thanks to its drive for innovation and high-quality service.


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Description: This Coursebook aims to cover industry best practices across all areas of new product development that are of interest to persons responsible for directing and managing innovation at the corporate and business-results levels. This is the material that underlines GGI's 3-Day Product Development Best Practices (PDBP) Summit that will be first offered to the public in the year 2007. This is a data-intensive document that is consistent with GGI's industry reputation in the quantitative aspects of product development and innovation.
The first section of the Coursebook takes a historical look at the revolutions in business processes from the shortening of delivery and manufacturing times in the 1970s and 1980s through the current product development revolution. It also contains information about costs of weak development processes, pipeline management, product steering committees, process management and portfolio management. The second section discusses hurdle rates, risk, capacity and team management, process maturity and process control, and innovation management.
The third section covers intellectual property management, product definition, technical and design review, and metrics and measurement. The Coursebook also provides two case studies, the first in instrument development and the second in integrated circuit development.
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Day Two
Hurdle Rates
Risk Management
Capacity Management
Team Management
Process Maturity & Process Control
Innovation Management
Day Three
Intellectual Property Management
Product Definition
Technical Review & Design Review
Metrics & Measurement
Case Study: Instrument Development
Case Study: Integrated Circuit Development
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An amusement park or theme park is a group of entertainment attractions, rides, and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large numbers of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, usually providing attractions meant to cater specifically to certain age groups, as well as some that are aimed towards all ages. Theme parks, a specific type of amusement park, are usually much more intricately themed to a certain subject or group of subjects than normal amusement parks.
Amusement parks evolved from European fairs and pleasure gardens, which were created for people's recreation. World's fairs and expositions were another influence on the development of the amusement park industry.[1] Amusement parks have a fixed location, as opposed to travelling funfairs and carnivals.
In common language, the terms theme park and amusement park are often synonymous. However, a theme park can be regarded as a distinct style of amusement park. A theme park has landscaping, buildings, and attractions that are based on one or more specific themes or stories.[2][3] Despite many older parks adding themed rides and areas, qualifying the park as a theme park, the first park built with the original intention of promoting a specific theme, Santa Claus Land, in Santa Claus, Indiana, did not open until 1946.[4][5] Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California, built around the concept of encapsulating multiple theme parks into a single amusement park is often mistakenly cited as the first themed amusement park, but is instead the park that made the idea popular.


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The electorate are engaged at some level in a fictive transaction, where we know that what we intend to buy is indeed a counterfeit.
It is, it seems, a good time for nostalgia. It is received wisdom that this is what support for Donald Trump in the United States has meant, just as the victory of Euroscepticism on the other side of the Atlantic sets off trains of thought involving cricket, country pubs and warm beer, toasted crumpets and ruddy Morris men.
The figureheads of Brexit – Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and now the newly-appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson – are self-consciously figures of British political nostalgia. As James Meek has written, perceptively, Rees-Mogg the politician embodies a 'steak-and-kidney pudding Edwardian Britishness'; a performance that is consciously meant to evoke a lost time on the edges of cultural memory. With his simultaneous invocation of nanny and the Morris Minor, the Victorian age and the 1920s, Rees-Mogg is a perfect embodiment of what the French critic Roland Barthes famously termed a mythology.
Barthes famously uncovered complex and interlinked strains of masculinism, pro-imperialism and French nationalism behind the images of the tricolour and a plate of steak frites. Farage too is a floating signifier who would be of interest to Barthes one suspects – a protean figure whose continual reanimating presence evokes both the hearty City trader culture of the 1980s, the sitcom hinterlands of the 1960s and '70s (a pre-EU Britain of Carry On films and heavy public smoking) and a blurrier and much older vision of Merrie England. Both the slogans of Trumpism and the Leave camp – 'Make America Great Again' 'Take Back Control' – involve the idea of return. We are going back somewhere in this vision, even if we're not sure exactly where that is.
American maleness
'This country wants nostalgia', mused the poet and musician Gil Scott Heron in 1981, reflecting on the election of Ronald Reagan. The American electorate had voted, he thought, 'to go back as far as they can – even if it's only as far as last week'. In this analysis, the destination of our backwards gaze is less important to this type of politics than the fact that it's backwards we're facing. Indeed, for Scott-Heron, this gaze peered at a fictive, mythologized vision of America, one akin to the B-movie landscape in which Reagan had made his name. Yesterday was, for Scott-Heron, 'the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment', the 'man in the white hat or the man on the white horse'. It is, tellingly, the 'white' cowboy that saves America at the last moment; the figure riding into our vision from out of screen shot is an idealized image of Anglo strength. 'Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros, before fair was square, when the cavalry came straight away and all American men were like Hemingway'. Hemingway's projected vision of white masculinity – the great white hunter – has been undermined since, of course. Actually, it was undermined by Hemingway himself, in his own writing and career. Inscribed into the Hemingway mythos are the elements of its own collapse. It is a self-consciously stagey vision of the hard-shooting, hard-drinking, hard-fighting frontiersman, a hammy performance of American maleness.
The point of this digression is that the complex of signifiers to which Trumpism points – a white masculinity located in the past – is itself inherently unstable. It requires an effort of will to maintain. Reagan, for Scott-Heron, 'acted like an actor' in order to complete his journey from Hollywood to the White House, via the governor's mansion in Sacramento. But ultimately, raps Scott Heron, 'we're all actors in this I suppose'.
In other words, the electorate are engaged at some level in a fictive transaction, where we know that what we intend to buy is indeed a counterfeit. 'Put your orders in America,' Scott-Heron proclaims, 'And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate with the accent being on the dupes'. In a song that's about cinema and authenticity, the Kodak reference speaks of a world in which value can be quickly and cheaply reproduced. Everything about this kind of politics, then, is fake, all is surface; and at some level its supporters know they are buying the cheap copy Rolex. 'We're starring in a B-movie, and we would rather have had John Wayne', sang Scott-Heron in 1981. The point about the B-movie analogy is that the form makes no real attempt to refer to a 'real world' beyond its borders.
Utopian dimension
For the critic Svetlana Boym, a contemporary theorist of the idea of nostalgia, nostalgia 'is not always retrospective'. For Boym, nostalgia – which sits between 'personal and collective memory' – 'has a utopian dimension'. Hence, perhaps, the odd combinations to be seen within the Brexit project: a strange kind of forward-facing hyper-activity and buccaneer capitalism married to a weird collection of historic references: all imperial measurements and Churchill, the Empire and the Divine Right of Kings (Rees-Mogg apparently owns a portrait of Charles I made from the dead king's hair).
Whilst, on the surface, the nostalgic qualities of the 'mainstream', 'populist' right (Trump and his supporters, the Brexit party, and the Brexit-supporting right of the Conservative Party in the UK) would appear to be of a different order to the mythologizing projects of historic fascism, Boym's identification of an innately utopian quality to nostalgia may give us pause for thought. Whether 'palingenetic' (in Roger Griffin's term) or 'sacralised' (to use Emilio Gentile's formulation), fascism has been seen as referring to a monumental past or a pseudo-religious, ritualistic present.
In contrast, the nostalgic contemporary right appears focused on a past that is, at most, a hundred or a hundred and fifty years old. Yet perhaps such distinctions are not so clear: Boym's identification of a 'restorative nostalgia' that wishes to 'return to origins' is interesting here. Boym contrasts this with a more positive form of nostalgia, 'reflective nostalgia', which is aware of the fragility and limitation of idealized memory. 'Restorative' nostalgia, by contrast, Boym argues, rests on concepts of 'truth and tradition' that are apparently mediated through the appeal to a lost home or past greatness: 'take back control', 'make America great again'.
Nostalgia is everywhere in our current moment. Popular television series like Stranger Things and Glow recreate the culture and symbols of the 1980s, whilst restaurants recreate nostalgic tastes and fashion harks backwards. Yet the dangers of restorative nostalgia in the political sphere rest in its appeal to what Boym calls the 'emblems and rituals of home and homeland'.
Taken together, these seemingly innocuous emblems and rituals – foods, images, phrases – may hide a more sinister purpose, providing feel-good cover for dangerous new forms of ethno-nationalism, protectionism and racism. Neo-fascists are nostalgic nowadays; the Italian radical right group CasaPound have reconstructed fascism as what Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Caterina Froio have characterized as a 'hybrid communication style'. Images of Mussolini and Fascist iconography mingle with references to cultural figures sympathetic to fascist ideas, or those who might be termed proto-fascist – Ezra Pound, obviously, but also Marinetti, D'Annunzio, Sorel, Knut Hamsun, Yeats, and Nietzsche. The effect is a strange collage of nostalgic nods to the years of the Fascist ventennio and to 'pop culture'.
Whilst these forms of nostalgia may be very diverse, their presence on the political stage must be interrogated. If 'reflective nostalgia' allows us to enjoy and also question our memories of the past, 'restorative nostalgia' with its attempts to revive a lost, pure, homeland should be resisted in all its guises.
Dr David Barnes is a Senior Fellow at CARR and a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oxford. See his profile here.
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Adam Hawksbee, Deputy Director, discusses the consequences for levelling up if HS2 is scrapped.
Jenevieve Treadwell, Senior Researcher, writes for the New Statesman on the national importance of coastal revival and the political gains supporting this may yield.
Jenevieve Treadwell, Senior Researcher, writes for PoliticsHome on the importance of reviving coastal economies, discussing our recent report Troubled Waters.
Deputy Director Adam Hawksbee writes for the Times on opportunities to address the housing crisis and regenerate coastal communities.
Director Sebastian Payne writes on Starmer's two recent policies that are likely to be rejected by the Middle England voters he needs the most.
Director Sebastian Payne discusses the benefits of rejoining Horizon as the UK steps closer to its Science Superpower ambitions.
Gavin Rice, Project Director for our Future of Conservatism project, wrote for The Critic making the case for national service.
Head of Science and Technology, Allan Nixon, writes for Conservative Home regarding reforms needed in Whitehall to make the UK a science superpower.
Deputy Director Adam Hawksbee writes for City AM about regenerating Britain's towns and if the Conservatives can take advantage of accomplishing that.
Director Sebastian Payne writes for the i about why the Conservatives shouldn't backtrack on net zero policies.
Onward's Director Sebastian Payne writes in The Times about how the public's reliance on the state must be scaled back.
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Over my first two years in Berlin, I moved house seven times and never owned a bed. Buying furniture takes time, money, or both, I reasoned, and moving with furniture is even more work. Instead, I hailed standard yellow cabs to shuttle me between sublets with my possessions in boxes, bags, and suitcases. It seldom took more than one trip.
Like many people, I find it easier to leave than to ever settle down. I believe it's a form of pragmatism. In my early 20s, I made too little money to have long-term plans. I found myself at the mercy of landlords, bureaucrats, and employers who made it clear that any contracts and permits I received were acts of profound charity. I spent these years listless and ready to leave if or when I was told to. I refused to buy furniture because it was more convenient to inherit what others left behind, because someone was always leaving something behind, which meant that I could do the same without thinking about where it came from, or where it was going.
Instead, I nursed a found collection of IKEA bookshelves and cheap wardrobes alongside the detritus from my day-to-day life that lined my suitcases. I honored my bric-a-brac as sentimental and my furniture as functional until it all became too unbearable or illogical to carry it with me. Last summer — my seventh in Berlin — I gave away so much of what I owned that when I most recently moved house, it took the movers under an hour to gather everything I had and bring it to my new apartment, where I have lived alone since last July, and where I intend to stay for as long as I can.
The night that I moved in, I could hear bar hoppers making the most of the summer evening in the distance. My thoughts turned to the stack of boxes that were still piled up in the next room where I'd abandoned them for a Zoom call shortly after I arrived that morning. As I nodded off, I caught myself apologizing for leaving my things everywhere. With no one to inconvenience, I let go as the sound of the streets pushed me deeper and deeper asleep instead. When I woke up, I dumped every box out on the living room floor and broke them all down, then frogmarched them to the recycling bin.
Now in lockdown, to fill the nameless, anxious void that spans between working and sleeping, I search for second-hand furniture online. It started out of necessity: I surveyed the apartment when I signed the lease, and noted which pieces of furniture would be temporarily loaned to me. Then, I made a list of the things that I would be most devastated to live without. I had brought a bookshelf, a sofa, a desk, a chair, and a clothing rack with me; I decided that replacing the trash cans could wait, and that I didn't need any more lamps for now. I also conceded it was time to give up the bit: After seven years in Berlin, I finally bought my own bed.
Something had changed: "This space is mine," I decided with conviction. I wasn't going to leave. I bought two matching chests of drawers from the 1960s, in which I could decant my suitcases. And I bought a '70s bar cart next, which now only holds a dish of candles and a splinter of sandalwood. I put an offer in on a narrow highboard from the '50s that had just enough storage space for a few binders or files, but it was already spoken for.
On my favorite second-hand furniture sites, the search function is limited, ranking posts only by time published, distance from your area code, and price. Sometimes, you can explore categories and subcategories, but the overlap between disparate branches in the same taxonomic tree is not intuitive to navigate — is a vintage flowerpot an antique (Hobby), an interior decoration (Furniture), or a garden accessory (Garden and Pets)?
Six times a day, I run through a list of search terms that sort furniture by form (sideboard), by function (cabinet), by age ('70s), by taste (mid-century modern), and by the owner's sales pitch (high-quality). I learned a new language for furniture — one that describes its features, its history, and how people understand it. There are no fewer than 12 words in German for a small pedestal on which you can stand a plant, so I learned all of them, and four common misspellings. I hold deep, almost prejudicial beliefs about how much a kitchen table should cost, despite having never shopped for one. I can clock sellers with a penchant for gouging prices by their VSCO filters alone.
My searches follow me, with targeted advertisements blooming across my Facebook and Instagram feeds. One appeals to my values with a bamboo TV console, prioritizing its sustainability over any details on its price, size, or what makes it sustainable. Another ad appeals to my taste, selling designer hairpin legs that upgrade flatpack furniture into thoughtful, considered homeware.
Some people might confuse my labored, inefficient searching for a daily meditation, or a deliberate form of resistance against the attention economy in which competing vendors anticipate my desires to offer something that I might want, or something I should want, or both. This is not the case.
My hunts are furious, and cathartic. I scroll angrily until I reach the timestamp where I last ended. I am powered by adrenaline and cortisol, playing a game of chance, of timing, of instinct, and of last-minute planning that seems so foreign and distanced from the life I've lived since the start of the pandemic. Against the backdrop of the last year of restless, aching sanctions, I can understand why someone would bet their life savings on the word of Reddit prophecies because regardless of the outcome, it is a choice that they can say they made and a decision that was their own. If I see furniture I want, I find a way to make it mine.
On a Sunday morning, in a lull during an otherwise work-heavy weekend, I came across a gorgeous East German sideboard from 1970 with glass windows to show off stemware that I don't own. I acted before thinking, and showed up two hours later with a moving trolley and belt that were comically undersized for the sideboard's breadth and depth.
As the owners helped me load it into the elevator in their well-groomed new-build apartment complex, they told me how much they'd loved the sideboard, and how sad they were to part with it, but their first child was on the way and needed the space. They were happy, they said, to see it was going somewhere it would be well tended to.
They offered me a ride home, but their car doors had frozen shut, and I really couldn't ask them to go so far out of their way for me, a stranger. So I handed over 70€ in cash and stood outside their apartment in the ice and the snow with my sideboard. I called every number in my phone until I made it back to my apartment 30 minutes later with the sideboard in tow. Upon my return, I stood in the hallway, eyeing it and necking a bottle of water as the adrenaline left my body. Then, I returned to my desk and went back to work.
Sometimes, I find furniture that I don't buy because it's too big, too ostentatious, too close to what I own, or too far from my apartment. I post this furniture on Twitter in hopes that someone else can see what I see in it. Recently, two friends sent me a picture of a cupboard in their bedroom. It's their first home together, and the cupboard is one of the many things I found in my searches that will remain with others even if I choose to leave.
As I cycled through commonly misspelled search terms, I came across two blumenständer that had been mislabelled. They went to an author I've never met and a week later, I received a copy of her first book in the mail in return. So many people chased a glass table that I found that when it resurfaced a week later on one of my favorite sites, it was 100 euro more. Its owner hadn't seen its worth until other people did first.
I search for furniture, then send side table recommendations to a man with whom I shared two chaste dates after meeting him on Bumble, and I send furniture I find in London, New York, and Philadelphia to friends in these cities, as well as in cities that I've never visited myself. I search for furniture because it is a way to spend my time (of which I have plenty) and not money, of which I have less and less. I search for furniture because I've made a choice to stay and that choice was my own. I search for furniture because I do not know what I want until I know what I can have.
Nathan Ma is a Berlin-based writer and critic for the Believer, the Baffler, and other outlets.


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A cool Celtic voyage to Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and the Isle of Man. Traditional tunes in innovative arrangements are performed on hammered dulcimer with Irish flute, cittern, guitar, mandolin, soprano sax, Celtic harp, fretless bass, bodhran and hand drums. (52:51 minutes)
Maggie Sansone's latest recording Dance upon the Shore, sees her hammered dulcimer in a variety of different settings. This time saxes, flutes and Arabic percussion joins in the familiar harp, fiddle and strings backdrop. The Eastern flavor and subtle jazz shades make this an album to open the perception of Celtic music far beyond the usual sources. "Down the Hill" pleasantly relaxes while "Tyrone March/Cooley's Reel possesses an arrangement outstanding in its simplicity. Dance upon the Shore is a Celtic/New Age/Jazz crossover that bubbles with life and captures perfectly the spirit of experimentation at its kernel."
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Steeped in tradition yet often wed to the contemprary, few recordings span the gap of generations so gracefully... With unexpected color, rhythmic vitality and a venturesome spirit, she's managed to balance the art and accessibility, past and present, with unusual care and deftness.
~ The Washington Post
Tune List
- Get Up Early (3:29)
- Breton set (5:43)
- Down the Hill (3:42)
- Tyrone March / Cooley's Reel (6:29)
- Skye Aire (3:53)
- Drummond Castle (2:53)
- Humours of Kilclogher / The Sheep Beneath the Snow (7:41)
- St. Kilda Air / Jenny Nettles / St. Kilda Reel (4:51)
- Joe Cant's / John McKeown's / Willafjord (2:44)
- Mummer's March / The Burning of the Piper's Hut (5:16)
- Sergeant Early's Dream / Hills of Ireland / Gusty's Frolics (5:09)


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The Home Time Soft Cotton Sleeping Bag ensures a well-slept night for you and your baby. Worn on top of light or warm sleepwear. Wash on the inside. Made from a single layer of soft, breathable, 100% Pamuk cotton to guarantee comfort at night. Tested to ensure safety against the risks of allergies and irritations.
Comes with a matching hat made with the same soft fabric.
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Approximately 12 states require drivers to purchase no-fault insurance policies. While these policies make it easy to get claims paid after an auto accident, they typically limit the type of compensation you can pursue. Case in point, in some states you are barred from claiming non-economic damages such as pain and suffering. Here's more information about this issue. State Thresholds for Non-Economic Damages The way no-fault insurance (also called personal insurance protection) works, is drivers submit claims for damages and losses related to auto accidents against their own insurance policies rather than chasing after other parties who may be liable for the incidents.
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