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Following on from December's webinar entitled PhD students take on openness and academic culture, we asked our speakers to summarise their talks by offering a few key takeaways, which you can find below. This may be useful for those who missed it or wish to share with colleagues. You can also access the full audio recording and slides.
We also asked speakers to respond to the many questions that were posed by attendees via the webinar chat. You can find those questions and answers directly under the takeaways.
OASPA is very grateful to the speakers for all of the work and time they have given to this webinar – in preparation, on the day, and after.
Key takeaways
Gareth O'Neill (@gtoneill)
Gareth O'Neill, a doctoral candidate in theoretical linguistics at Leiden University and a consultant on Open Science for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), began by talking about the PhD perspective on academic culture, and Open Access policies such as Plan S.
- Open Science should enable researchers to easily share and benefit from research
- Openness is a spectrum: not all research outputs must be fully or immediately open
- Researchers should be made more aware of the practices/benefits of Open Science
- Researchers need training/support in key practices like Open Access and FAIR Data
- We should open all of the research life-cyle including publications, data, and software
- We are publishing too many articles and should publish less and also publish data sets
- We should move away from impact factors/journal brands to new encompassing metrics
- Reseachers should be rewarded for Open Science practices in funding/career evaluation
- Early-career researchers need leadership from the senior researchers on Open Science
- Open Science practices like reviews should not negatively affect early-career researchers
Noémie Aubert Bonn (@naubertbonn)
- Current research assessments are seriously problematic and may even threaten the integrity of science
- Research assessments overvalue outputs and ignore processes. They also tend to focus on extraordinary and positive findings, to look at individuals rather than teams, and to be based on competition, thereby discouraging scientists from being realistic, collaborative, and open.
- The disruptive practices which benefit success but threaten integrity often become part of the research culture, while important practices which benefit good science and quality without advancing researchers' careers rarely survive the academic cycle.
- ECRs are especially vulnerable. They face high pressure and high demands while benefiting from low resources and low employment security.
- Rather than questioning what is asked of them, ECRs tend to feel that leaving academia is a personal failure. Knowing that 80-90% of ECRs will have to leave academia, we must tackle these perspectives and change the way we assess scientists.
- How can we change the research culture without increasing the vulnerability of ECR?
Nadia Soliman (@Nadia_Soliman_)
Nadia Soliman (Imperial College London) has returned to academia having served in both the regular and reserve of the British Army for over ten years. She spoke on Leadership in Academia, and how this relates to publishing.
- ECRs are being pressured into publishing against their ethics because of threats relating to job security
- We are not assessed on research merit but on journal title.
- Experiences of leadership development within the British Army enables recognition that the cultural change required requires robust leadership at every level
- The change required is to move from a culture that incentivises individualism to one that is more team-orientated and outward focused.
- Academics should believe and understand that they are "in service of others". Unlike the Army, academics do not have a values and leadership code to refer to for guidance
- Academic Leadership Code – a document that articulates our values (the guiding principles) and the types of leadership behaviours to uphold those values:-
- Values; academic freedom, scholarly excellence, mutual respect, collaboration, integrity
- Leadership behaviours; lead by example, develop others, build teams and collaborations, strive for team goals, do the right thing
- Three values pertinent to open access publishing and changing research culture:
– Scholarly excellence Improving the quality of research is a reason for open access publishing. It can increase transparency, reproducibility, academic rigour, and shorten the timeframe of publication and dissemination. The "Natural Selection of Bad Science", Smaldino and McElreath 2016, shows that selecting for high output leads to poorer method conduction and increasingly high false discovery rates. Need to move to a culture that rewards understanding
– Collaboration Collaborative working is an increasing feature of academic research that allows us to tackle the most ambitious problems by sharing knowledge and resources. Information access is key to global development
– Integrity Academics should be honest, fair, transparent and accountable, stand up for what is right and uphold moral and ethical values. This is necessary if doing so may hinder career progression. Maintaining integrity shows that decisions are based upon the greater good and not for personal gain
- Everyone at every level has a responsibility to drive change
- Everyone has agency and can lead by example regardless of their position – it is in our gift!
- Need funders, institutions, and individual researchers to work together
- Ideas:
– Funders: incentivise OA publishing
– Publishers: equitable fees for OA
– Institutions: DORA signatories
– Researchers: publish OA, publish and review on preprint servers, submit to and review for journals working towards improving incentive structures
Questions received via the webinar chat channel
Answers from Gareth O'Neill (GON); Noémie Aubert Bonn (NAB); Nadia Soliman (NS)
Q. Pressure to publish vs pressure to publish in open access: some South African researchers are still very wary of the open access route re quality and peer review quality – some associate open access with predatory publishing. Do you have any comments?
GON: Many researchers do seem to associate Open Access with predatory publishing but this is simply not correct. Predatory venues can be, but are not necessarily, Open Access. It is instead important that researchers know how to identify non-predatory venues for Open Access. This can be done with the help of 'white lists' of journals such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or journals following peer review guidelines such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Q. Open access funding for the humanities is problematic, so Plan S needs some adapting perhaps?
GON: The humanities indeed come with their own issues related to Open Access. Many humanities scholars tend to publish monographs or book chapters as opposed to journal articles. Plan S currently does not address Open Access books due to the complexities and costs involved. Plan S has, however, taken the humanities into account by allowing potential exceptions to default CC BY licences on publications in the form of CC BY-ND licences. This allows humanities scholars to greater control translations into foreign languages and interpretations of their written texts.
Q. How can someone be believed to be supportive of something (open access) without knowing what it is or what it means? Is it not possible that, once they understand what it is their level of support would change? Has there been any measurement of a change in open access sentiment before and after understanding what it actually means?
NAB: That's a very good point. There is a serious educational gap, especially with more senior researchers who hear of Open Access through scandals of predatory but do not fully grasp the concept. I do not know of any measurements or study per se on attitudinal changes after explanations of the true meaning of open access, so I think you raise an important target for education and future research. The issue I have seen however, is that universities are reluctant to mandate training for senior researchers, and university administrators and Integrity Officers repeatedly told me that it is very difficult to involve senior researchers in training (not all of them of course) without making the training mandatory. I think this is something that needs to change. Dynamics and possibilities are changing, and we all need to learn in the process. If we manage to ensure that senior scientists also participate in training, then I think we will be on solid grounds to change.
Q. CC BY requires a reuser to indicate whether changes were made. Is this understood?
GON: This is correct. CC BY allows users to "copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format" and "remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially" so long as they "give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made" and do this "in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use". The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms if you follow these terms.
Q. What can healthy competition look like?
NAB: I have been wondering about this too. In my project, when discussing competition, most people start by saying 'Competition is necessary to advance science, but…'. Yet empirically, I found very little support for this position compared to the damages that competition does to science and scientists. To me, I think the key resides in the scale of the competition. At the moment, especially in the biomedical sciences, competition is on a person-to-person basis. We compete with everyone around for grants, for priority of discovery, for topic ownership, for recognition… So that means that we compete against teams at the international level, but also the sister institution, the department next door, and even within our team, for that position of tenure or that prestigious grant we all want… I think this 'micro competition' is the essence of the problem we have at the moment. Conversely, I was talking with some physicists in the OAA conference from the Max Planck Institutes the other day, and I understood that in physics, competition works differently. There, the strong and fierce competition lives between big teams who are trying to resolve the same scientific question. Normally, these teams are built from multiple institutes and countries, and they compete to solve a scientific question as fast and as reliably as they can. This, to me, can be healthy competition. You detach the individual from the equation, and you work together – not unlike the army by the way! – towards a common goal to advance science faster than the other team.
Q. Can any of you point us to research with those who have left /burned out of academia?
NAB: There are some excellent reports out there, some personal experiences shared on Science and Nature News, in newspapers, or in blog posts, and some scientific articles showing the extent of the problem. Unfortunately they're not all open access…! (and I think it is a real problem since their audience also involves researchers who left academia!).
In any case, here are a few examples:
- Powell, K. (2016). Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories. Nature, pp. 446-449. → A news feature about the personal experience of three ECRs who are fed up with the pressures of early career life.
- Levecque, K., Anseel, F., De Beuckelaer, A., Van der Heyden, J., & Gisle, L. (2017). Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students. Research Policy, 46(4), 868-879. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.008 → Reports on PhD students' mental health in Flanders, Belgium. One of the first to make a big boom, it was covered extensively in the news and media afterwards.
- Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018). Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education. Nature Biotechnology, 36, 282. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4089 → Similar to the above through an international survey. The short article also points to university reports on the topic.
- Woolston, C. (2017). Graduate survey: A love–hurt relationship. Nature, 550(7677), 549-552. doi:10.1038/nj7677-549a → Results from a Nature survey which also shows the high prevalence of stress and depression
- And some other resources about the problem more generally:
- Anonymous. (2010, December 18). The disposable academic. The Economist.
- Maher, B., & Sureda Anfres, M. (2016, 26 October). Young scientists under pressure: what the data show. Nature, pp. 444-445.
- Woolston, C. (2019). PhDs: the tortuous truth. Nature, pp. 403-407. R
- The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention. (2019, 13 November). Nature, pp. 257-258.
- Anonymous Academic. (2018, 22 June). I just got a permanent academic job – but I'm not celebrating. The Guardian.
Q. What are the key drivers that will make academic institution leadership effect a sea change in research culture? Must they be internal and external, or just external (e.g. Plan S etc.)?
NS: All stakeholders: , institutions, funders and researchers alike have a role to play in the improvement of research culture and we need all stakeholders to be involved and work collectively. However, the cynic in me believes that the greatest change will largely be dependent on funders. Money talks. It is my opinion that funders have the most power to make these changes and hold research groups and more broadly institutions accountable.
Q. I think it would be interesting to hear from attendees and speakers' examples of academic institutions they know are making a change and demonstrating leadership.
NS: There are many examples of academic institutions signing up to policies to instigate positive change e.g. DORA, UK Reproducibility Network, however what I am not aware of is how well these policies are implemented and adhered to and whether institutional leaders have structures in place to hold researchers accountable. Academics operate in small silos and it's a concern of mine that it is perhaps easy for individual researchers to not comply and there are no ramifications for not.
Q. We've heard a lot about open access articles today, but what can do to help encourage researchers to publish an open access book? Thank you!
GON: Publishing books in Open Access is more complicated due to a typical focus on print copies and the higher costs involved compared to journal articles. Publishers should develop transparent business models that keep book prices reasonable and offer print-on-demand services. Publishers should also allow authors/institutions to retain copyright and publish books under an open licence as well as provide transparent information on their Open Access policies. PhD candidates should especially be encouraged and supported to publish theses in Open Access.
Q. Do Early Career Researchers feel they are encouraged and supported to join editorial boards? I ask because that is one channel to bring change into the culture of a journal and ultimately the publisher. But the same barriers may apply here for ECRs as they face in career progression and other areas of work.
NS: This is not something I am aware of ECRs being invited to do. I have been invited to the Editorial Board for BMJ Open Science however, this is a progressive, new journal that shares the values that we have discussed. I agree that it would be a good opportunity to drive cultural change and it is a shame that it does not seem to be common place as ECRs will have a lot to offer and perhaps that is underestimated.
Q: Along the same lines, do ECRs feel that they have any opportunities to contribute to university library discussions and decisions about contract negotiations with ?
GON: Early-career researchers are typically not involved or consulted by their university libraries in discussions about contract negotiations with . This is usually left to experienced librarians and senior researchers at the university and may not be surprising given the closed (and often secret) nature of such discussions and contracts. Early-career researchers should be timely informed about such discussions and be consulted for their opinions on the terms of the contracts including copyright/licensing, journal article pricing, and the selection of journals.
Q. What is your sense of how seriously universities are taking research culture? Many in the UK have now signed DORA, which is great. But are they actually backing it up with concrete action?
NAB: I think that's an important point, and although I don't have an answer, I have a few personal opinions. The first thing I can say is that the term 'Universities' involves a LOT of people, some of whom are aware of current issues in the culture while others are not. As a general rule, when we talk about 'Universities' I think we mean the leaders and directors of the institution (At least in the interviews I conducted for my PhD, that is what I aimed for, placing deans, director of research, and directors of doctoral schools as representatives of the 'university').
But what I noticed in my interviews is that even within these groups, some are fervent supporters of open science, integrity, and FAIR metrics, while others thought open access journals were all predatory and believed impact factors were the most reliable indicator of individual paper quality. Adding to this complexity, 'Universities' are not only guided by these leaders. In many cases, these institution leaders mentioned that even if they wanted things to change for the better, researchers (who are also part of the institution) were not always willing to embrace the change. As a result, I really cannot say what 'universities' think, nor what they take seriously.
What I can say is my personal view of the changes that are currently happening. Initially, when I started seeing universities sign DORA, I was doubtful, even a bit worried sometimes because it seemed like it may be just for show with no concrete actions planned. But I am starting to believe that standing up publically forces universities to rethink their actions. For example, in the Netherlands, all universities signed DORA and the research organisations and associations have now decided to change the way they evaluate research careers and profiles (I especially like their consideration of 'team science'). In the case of the Netherlands, the actions were planned in advance and signing DORA was only part of the process, but I think it sets a strong and positive precedent. Only time will tell how these changes will move things forward worldwide. Still — although it may be the 'wishful thinking' of a PhD student talking — I feel confident that there are now enough activists to ensure that universities who signed DORA take actions towards it.
Q. How aware/concerned are your ECR colleagues about these issues? Are they optimistic about genuine change or do they seem resigned to the current system?
NS: My ECR colleagues are aware and concerned. We are optimistic though pragmatic about the timelines for change. Cultural change takes time. We are not resigned to the current system but understand that it exists and are trying to operate responsibly around it/within it while maintaining our values, advocating for change (including challenging our superiors) and changing our own behaviours too.
Q. Are the speakers aware of other means of assessing researchers' work, besides getting published in journals? Are they for example aware of Rescognito?
NS: This looks great, thanks for sharing. I had not heard of it. The Graduate School at Imperial is offering a webinar, "Alternative Ways to Measure your Research Impact". It is really important and useful for researchers to consider other means of assessing research work and being more broad in what we consider success to be and how we measure it.
GON: The report on the 'Evaluation of Research Careers Fully Acknowledging Open Science Practices' (2017) at the European Commission offers an innovative Open Science Career Assessment Matrix (OS-CAM) with a range of options for rewarding researchers doing Open Science.
Q. What should we be publishing? Are we not already publishing too much?
NAB: It makes me think of Doug Altman's well known quote: "We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons". Indeed a relevant question, which I think opens the question on whether we are mixing up our objective of 'sharing knowledge' with the objective of 'publishing'. Is publishing still the right way to share knowledge? Sorry, that is not an answer at all. Just a few out-loud thoughts for an interesting question.
GON: The objective to publish sadly outweighs the objective to share knowledge as researchers are currently rewarded for the number of articles they publish in branded and high impact factor journals whereby their future careers relies directly upon their publishing activities. We need to move away from this perverse focus on one aspect of the research lifecycle and publish our methodologies, data sets, and software code. We also need to move away from branding and impact factor and instead reward researchers for other research and Open Science activities.
Q. How can we change the research culture without increasing the vulnerability of ECR?
NAB: I think Nadia's response in the webinar was truly relevant: teach leadership to young researchers. Although I am not so familiar with leadership training, I also believe that we need to change ECR training. For instance, I have noticed that we generally teach ECRs what the rules are (research integrity training) and how to succeed in science (training on networking, publishing in high impact journals, writing compelling abstracts, writing convincing grant applications, etc.). I have myself followed both types of training many times, and I realise that they tend to create a conflict. On the one hand, there is a part of academia telling us what we should do to be 'good researchers' and to conduct research with integrity (report all findings, avoid spinning abstracts, pre-define hypotheses, be transparent and thorough, target open journals, etc.). On the other hand, there is a part of academia telling us on how to strategically make our way up to the top (build a strong network of important people, place positive findings in evidence, target journals with high impact factors, etc.). That leaves us with a conflicting view of how science works (and it is conflicting indeed). This conflicting view then tends to discourage those who are adamant about integrity, and can encourage them to leave academia.
So, back to Nadia and to leadership training. I also think that training needs to be re-thought and to play a role into it. I think that we need to teach not only how to be a 'good' and a 'successful' scientist, but that we actively need to discuss this conflict with young researchers, and provide them with tools, the strength, and the resilience to become activists in making science better.
That being said… I also think that training should not be our focus. Telling ECRs that impact factors are inadequate and preprints are important is not going to go far with a supervisor who thinks the opposite. Similarly, telling independent ECRs to ignore impact factors but continuing to fund research on impact factors is not going to help them move ahead and survive to be able to change the future scientific culture… In this regard, training can add to the burden of ECRs — a burden which is already high enough with the precariousness and pressures of their position. Consequently, I believe that the first thing that needs to happen is a change in research assessments. If assessments change, practices will change, and if practices change, cultures will change.
NS: I absolutely agree with Noemie's sentiment. While I believe that ECRs require leadership training to better equip them for the rigours of academic life there is a training gap amongst more senior researchers that needs to be addressed too. Leadership development is a process and should be instigated at the early career stage and revisited throughout an individuals' career progression and woven into the fabric of everything that we do. This should empower and equip more researchers (ECRs and senior academics alike) to make the changes necessary to improve academic research culture. And of course, leadership development is just one intervention required to bring about change; funding, infrastructure, policies and direction are also needed…
Q. What would encourage young researchers to build resilience and become activists of open science?
NS: I don't believe it's a lack of resilience that discourages ECRs from becoming activists of open science. We are all products of our environment and many ECRs won't have been introduced to open science concepts through their teaching or research programmes. Many ECRs who have, are avid activists and are leading the way. This educational/information gap and ability to follow open science practises needs to be addressed. Perhaps one of the most effective ways for this to be achieved is for funders to include open science practices as conditions of grants and for institutions to provide training in their undergraduate and graduate programmes.
GON: There is a serious lack of training and support for early-career researchers on Open Science from both their supervisors and institutions. Most early-career researchers I have talked to are overall positive about Open Science but do not understand enough to engage fully in the debate and practise the different aspects of Open Science. For this very reason, we developed a free online training course on Open Science for representatives of our national associations of early-career researchers at the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc). We are now seeing these representatives get actively involved in discussions on Open Science both online and in their respective countries and engaging other early-career researchers.


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In the minutes of November 3's HTML WG meeting, the chairs decided against adding a <data> element and the dropping of <time>, and elik commented that the <time> element would be improved.
We spoke to Opera's Bruce Lawson about the latest developments in the saga. "It's right that the <time> element has been reinstated. Most web developers were opposed to its removal, because it was easy to understand, standardised a format for times and dates – information that is on a huge percentage of blogs, news and information sites – and was already being used in the wild by millions of sites," he said.
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George Petrides: Hellenic Heads
On ViewEmbassy of Greece in the US
May 9 – June 10, 2022
Washington, DC
In the West, the notion of "Greekness" has long been contested in ambiguous and paradoxical racial terms. This is particularly so in societies touched by the vestiges of the British imperial project, whose cultural arbiters continue to demonstrate (read: the British Museum, with its expropriated Parthenon Marbles) an intense preoccupation with a historicized and Orientalized Greece. Thus perceived, members of the Greek diaspora are coded as paragons of whiteness—that is, until they aren't—when the complexities of cultural, linguistic, and historical difference appear to get in the way.
The Greek American sculptor George Petrides seems well aware of these kinds of world- and identity-flattening perceptions and, in his exhibition Hellenic Heads—currently on display at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, DC—he appears to most deftly navigate exonymic presumptions of "dual loyalty." Petrides's sculpture thus exists within a wider rubric of art addressing co-descent and transnationality. Uniquely, though, his sculptures also function along the more pointed tangents of cultural exchange. In other words, these Hellenic Heads do work at the crossings of artful diplomacy and a seemingly self-guided ancestral tourism.
That said, Petrides—who was born in Athens and has spent half his life in New York City—makes clear on the record that he has always been invested in his roots: his grandmother escaped the burning of Smyrna in 1922, and his parents survived the 1940s Nazi occupation of Greece, along with the civil war that followed. In this vein, Petrides's work, at its most interesting, references and revisits episodes in Greek history beyond the certainty of "mere" antiquity.
The acutely-titled Life During Wartime (2022), for instance, is a sculptural self-portrait invoking the spirit and hard-won daily life of the Greek civilian circa mid-twentieth century. Lay conversations about Greek art inevitably circuit a classical ideal that indexes Greece as a monolithic foundation of Western culture. While Petrides's sculptures pay clear homage to this formal classical model—as well as to its neoclassical acolytes, like Rodin—the artist uses them as simple starting points for a broader conceptual dialogue between himself and history. (While they are different mediums, the relentless expression and elongated figuration in Wartime nonetheless call to mind the painterly technique of the Mannerist El Greco.)
And so, naturally, Wartime possesses no archaic smile. Worked through a highly original and sequenced creative process—one that combines both digital 3D printing technologies and traditional handiwork—Petrides's sculptures bear a kind of stoic neutrality. It is one that allows chronologies to be transposed rather than simply revealed, even amid conceptual drama. In this case, Wartime serves as a poignant reminder that structures bleed: what is now modern Greece has been subject to varying hegemonies since the end of antiquity. These imperial conflicts and exchanges saw their ultimate culmination in Greece's War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, which witnessed the (re)birth of a consolidated national identity.
Thus meeting modernity, Petrides's other sculptures are ironically laconic in every sense. Heroines of 1821 (2022) scans as a panegyric to a plural and equal Greek society; it is a gesture that is at once hopeful and romantic as it is deliberate. A bust sculpted from a live model (Petrides's fiancee), Heroines feels written almost for the part, evoking something closer to eleutheria. Like most of the other Heads, Petrides's Heroines stakes a grounded political neutrality, one that carefully avoids political—but not civic—reference. (While name-checking most of Greece's history, the exhibition seems to steer clear of potentially sensitive territory, like the 1967–74 Regime of the Colonels, along with the restoration of democracy, the Metapolitefsi.)
The arts have always played a salient role in the broader currents of soft power, and it is clear that such programmatic choices are made in an effort of maintaining a kind of apoliticism in the face of wider Hellenic interests. But history is always political; it is the written word made flesh. This year marks the centennial of the Greek genocide, one of many such atrocities at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. This moment deserves recognition as commemoration of revolt against empire.
In this way, there is something almost deconstructive, even decolonial, about Hellenic Heads. As pointed as these other mentioned historical absences may be, they bring a subtle discontinuity that actually helps further animate the sculpture work. The sculptures themselves, as formal and referential as they are, are cautiously celebratory. And while the Greeks have now—in the words of Noel Ignatiev, "become white"—it should be remembered that the ancient Greeks themselves saw their culture as only one end of the linguistic, rather than racial, spectrum.


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The efficacy of a communication skills training programme was shown through a randomised trial. Oncologists (N=160) from 34 cancer centres were allocated to written feedback plus course; course alone; written feedback alone or control. Each clinician had 6 - 10 interviews with patients videotaped at baseline and 3 months postintervention. Analysis of videotapes revealed improvements in the communication skills of clinicians randomised to training (n=80) compared with others (n=80). A 12-month follow-up assessment is reported here. Robust Poisson conditional analyses of counts of changes in communication behaviours revealed no demonstrable attrition in those who had shown improvement previously, including fewer leading questions, appropriate use of focused and open-ended questions and responses to patient cues. Additional skills, not apparent at 3 months, were now evident; the estimated effect sizes corresponded to 81% fewer interruptions (P=0.001) and increased summarising of information to 38% (P=0.038). However, expressions of empathy (54%, P=0.001) declined. The overall results show that 12 - 15 months postintervention, clinicians had integrated key communication skills into clinical practice and were applying others. This is the first RCT to show an enduring effect of communication skills training with transfer into the clinic.
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How To Attract Anything Using A Digital Vision Board
Based on the principles of the law of attraction, a vision board is essentially a collection of images, quotes, and other objects that serve as visual representations of your goals. Creating one can be a helpful way to get clear on your dreams so you can start the work of making them a reality.
Even if you're not much for crafting or just don't have a lot of photos or art supplies lying around, you can still make your own vision board digitally using a website or app. Trust me—I tried it.
How I made my online vision board:
First, I figured out what I want to manifest.
It's important to get really specific when visualizing your future. It needs to feel real and possible! First, ask yourself what you want to invite into your life, and once you're sure of what you want the board to be about, you can begin thinking about what will go on it. I, for instance, wanted my board to represent inner peace and living in alignment with my highest self.
As spiritual author Shannon Kaiser previously told mbg, "I create vision boards during each new transition in my life to realign and focus my intentions. I use words combined with photos. The goal is to have them work together to tell an inspiring story."
Then I chose my app/website.
Next, do some digging to find a website or app for digital boarding that looks good to you. I saw lots of recommendations for Canva, so I went with that one. There, I found templates for different board layouts and chose one that allowed for lots of different images while still looking orderly and uncluttered.
Next up: Finding content for the board.
Here's where it starts getting fun! Start visualizing your intention—what does it look like, feel like, smell like? Choose quotes and images that align with what you see and feel. To represent my highest self, I chose images including but not limited to a community of like-minded people, yoga poses, other spiritual symbols, and some of my favorite quotes.
The fact that your search isn't limited to physical images you already have makes this extra exciting, as you can find pretty much anything on the internet.
Finally, I brought it all together.
Once you've got some inspiring board content picked out and downloaded to your own computer or phone, you can begin arranging your board. Have fun with it and take your time. You'll know it's done when you look at it and smile, feeling a sense of inspiration.
Now I'm thinking about how I can use it daily.
The cool thing about having a digital board is you can access it anytime. Maybe you download the final product and save it as your phone or computer background. Or, if you want to bring your board into the physical, you could even consider getting a large print of it to place somewhere in your home, such as an altar space. From there, allow the board to inspire you to take action toward your goals.
How to work with an online vision board.
Visualization and intention setting are powerful ways to start aligning with the reality you're looking to create. Neuroscientist and author of The Source, Tara Swart, Ph.D., highly recommends vision boarding, though she prefers to call it action boarding—because your board should inspire action.
"However small," she says, "it's about doing something every day to move toward those goals. It's about acting and keeping with what you put on your board."
And according to reiki master and author of Burning Bright Kelsey Patel, "If we don't have a clear direction of where we're headed or where we want to go, it can be very easy to get caught up in things that aren't actually good for us. Creating a vision board is a powerful way of getting to know yourself and what it is you truly want to manifest and call into your life," she previously explained to mbg.
The bottom line.
Creating my online vision board was a simple and super-fun process. While I love a good craft sesh, it was rewarding to get hyper-specific with images that I wouldn't have been able to access IRL. If you're looking to get creative and invite abundance into your life, a digital vision board may be just the thing for you, too.
Sarah Regan is a Spirituality & Relationships Editor, a registered yoga instructor, and an avid astrologer and tarot reader. She received her bachelor's in broadcasting and mass communication from State University of New York at Oswego, and lives in Buffalo, New York.


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Online recruitment dipped across most sectors last month but demand for HR jobs remained the same, new data has revealed.
The Monster Employment Index – a monthly analysis of job opportunities collated from jobs boards and corporate career sites – saw a fall in the number of job vacancies advertised online by five points to a reading of 121 in April.
However, the index, where 100 is the baseline, found that online recruitment remained steady in HR at 78 – the same reading as March – and HR continues to lead all sectors in annual terms.
Most industries experienced a decline in online recruitment activity, but research and development and healthcare/social work managed to buck the trend by registering increases of four and 10 points, bringing their respective readings to 109 and 345.
Worryingly, hospitality and tourism registered no change month-on-month, yet rises in online job opportunities in the sector are typically seen at this time of year as employers boost staff levels to prepare for busier spring and summer months.
Other consumer-driven sectors including arts, entertainment, sports and leisure and sales declined, but demand was still substantially higher than in April 2009, the index showed.
Julian Acquari, managing director at Monster UK and Ireland, cautioned that the state of economic recovery in the UK remained fragile, but added that conditions across the country and across sectors were not "uniform".
He said: "Unemployment actually fell in London more than in any other region during the three months up to February, and we are seeing online recruitment in London trend relatively favourably.
"Elsewhere, retail sales were seen increasing from [last year's] levels in April, something that is set to continue throughout May, likely driving hiring trends in the sales sector."
The results come after the monthly Report on Jobs by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and professional services firm KPMG. It found that permanent staff appointments in April remained strong, despite easing on the previous month, where they grew at their fastest rate in nearly 13 years.


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My dad was an artist when I was little. I started to play tennis and we needed more money to pay for my lessons and travels. So my dad quit what he loved doing to make more money for the family. He used to draw these little people and make oil and watercolor paintings. He had exhibitions in London and Berlin before he gave it all up for me. Now it's my turn to revive his passion and collaborate on the new pin series we decided to call Asilda World. The series will feature little people of various professions, similar to the work of Irving Penn who photographed people of various professions in Paris, New York, and London.
Pilots deserve so much respect for taking on this profession. It must be an exhilarating and lonely profession, dangerous and patriotic. Our little pilot is more old school, but it's amazing to think that so much lies in the hands of one or two people.
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CARDAMOM IN A CLASSIC. Pictured is a loaf of Banana Bread with Cardamom and Jaggery in London. In small amounts, cardamom has delicate floral and eucalyptus notes, which brings out the best in the more traditional ingredients in banana bread and makes for a fragrant treat. (Meera Sodha via AP)
From The Asian Reporter, V26, #13 (July 4, 2016), page 13.
Cardamom lends fragrant twist to banana bread
By Meera Sodha
The Associated Press
Banana bread is a time-tested American classic, perfect for making in advance for picnics, gifts, and for using up ripe bananas. And given its all-American status, it's a perfect way to start (or end) July 4th.
Here's a variation with an Indian twist — cardamom, which often grows next to bananas in Kerala. In small amounts, cardamom has delicate floral and eucalyptus notes, which brings out the best in the more traditional ingredients in banana bread and makes for a fragrant treat.
Like many Indians, I add jiggery for sweetness. It is an unrefined sugar made from the sap of date palms or sugarcane. It has a deep caramel flavor to it, a cross between molasses and fudge that adds a richness and great color to the bread. Jaggery can be found in cakes or cones at Asian food stores or online, but if you can't find it, it can be substituted with Muscovado sugar.
This recipe makes for a moist bread with lots of flavor. The only thing you'll need to remember is to leave a little room for dessert.
Editor's note: Meera Sodha is an Indian foods expert and author of Made in India: Recipes from
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Banana Bread with Cardamom and Jaggery
Start to finish: 1 hour 20 minutes (20 minutes active time)
Servings: 10
1 stick butter, unsalted
1 cup jaggery, grated (or substitute Muscovado sugar)
2 cups white flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cardamom
A pinch of salt
2 tablespoons milk
2 large eggs
1 cup mashed ripe bananas, plus 1 banana for decoration
The best bananas to use are ripe bananas that have black speckles on them and are soft to the touch. They'll be sweeter and more flavorful. This banana bread can be eaten as is, or served with butter, yogurt, or whipped cream.
Butter a loaf tin (approximately 9" x 5"). Preheat the oven to 350º Fahrenheit.
Put the butter and grated jaggery into a pan and melt over a very low heat. Stir until well mixed with the consistency of melted chocolate, then remove from the heat and leave to one side to cool.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, cardamom, and salt and leave to one side.
In another bowl, add the mashed banana and milk, and whisk in the eggs one by one. Add the jaggery-and-butter mixture. Whisk again until properly mixed.
Gently fold the wet ingredients into the flour mixture until mixed together then pour the batter into the tin. To decorate, slice the remaining banana lengthways into 1/4 inch slices and place over the top of the batter. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool before slicing.
Nutrition information per serving: 310 calories (92 calories from fat); 10 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 68 mg cholesterol; 165 mg sodium; 53 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 29 g sugar; 4 g protein.
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The Art Angle Podcast: Can Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration?
This week, we're joined by Rahsaan Thomas, a prisoner at San Quentin and co-host of the Ear Hustle podcast, to discuss art, empathy, and how he's working to change the system from the inside out.
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week's biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.
Right now, more than 2 million people are living behind bars in prisons across America. California's San Quentin Prison is currently at 117 percent capacity. And with the coronavirus pandemic running rampant, many prisoners are in immediate danger.
These problems are a major preoccupation of Rahsaan "New York" Thomas, the co-host of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Ear Hustle podcast, co-founder of Prison Renaissance (which connects prisoners to people outside), contributor to multiple national news outlets, and staff writer at the San Quentin News.
Thomas has also just curated his first exhibition, "Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice From Prison," an online exhibition on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
He is also serving a sentence of 55 years to life in San Quentin.
On this week's episode, Thomas calls in from San Quentin to discuss how art and empathy can transform perspectives on the penal system, from inside and out.
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March was a great month for us. You can read all about it here!
Athena is my rescue mare and came from a rough place. You can read all about how I found her, how she overcame a deadly leg injury, and our journey to the 2018 PtHA World Show HERE.
April and May was a little slow and turbulent for Athena and I. Athena was sore off and on, and we could never quite pin point what was causing it. Some days we would ride for about 30 minutes and she would come up lame or sore at the end of our ride, and when I got off her and gave her a 15 minute break she would be walking fine again. Other times she would come up sore immediately while lunging, or just walking a little off. We played with time off, bute, stretches, vet visits and nothing seemed to really tell us what was going on. She would be fine for a few days, up to two weeks then become sore again. It was very frustrating and upsetting. I got her adjusted and she had some acupuncture work done. We reevaluated my saddle fittings. Everything came back normal.
Since she was all over the place soundness wise, I made the decision to pull from a few shows. It really sucked pulling from some of the larger ones because we worked SO hard, but Athena's health and wellbeing will always be my first priority.
One day she just magically didn't get sore anymore. We have a few theories as to what might have caused it, but ever since she has been back to her normal, sweet and sassy self! Thank goodness!
(She can go from elegant and the epitome of beauty to goofy in a flash! Love this horse!)
Her soreness made us put our normal training on hold. During this time she had lots of spa days, massages, and cuddle time. During this time I realized how Athena and I are so similar. She is so sensitive and intuitive. She is truly is my mirror, and however I am feeling is instantly reflected in her. If I am calm, she is calm. If I am upset and frustrated, so is she. It sounds cheesy and cliché, but she has really taught me how to reel in my emotions and remain calm.
(Does this braid make my butt look big?)
She is a perfectionist and gets so upset when she gets it wrong or doesn't understand. She thrives on praise and positivity, which alone is her most effective training technique. She hates to be left alone, and although she can be sassy and stubborn sometimes she is the sweetest mare and loves with her whole heart. She truly is my equine soul mate, and as cheesy and cliché as it sounds, I have really grown as a person because of her.
(Athena and I had a photoshoot with Lauren Blaha Photography! Check out her work y'all!)
Once she was fully ok again, we started concentrating on her canter. To be able to get a hunt seat horse to pick off and canter correctly requires a lot of strength. You could totally jam on a horse, rush them and get them ready within a few weeks. They probably will last a couple show seasons then retire due to injuries. If you want to do it in a safe and healthy way it takes time. So we worked on getting her used to cantering with me on her back. At first it felt like we were racing around the arena. Every few days I could feel her soften up a little more, and then a little more a few days later.
(Athena has been doing this thing where she chases my car and whinnies when she sees me come/leave. Makes leaving the barn that much harder!)
Finally, Sherry tasked me with the hard task of getting Athena to canter off from the stand still and walk.
Holy, freaking cow. It was SO hard! I worked and worked on Athena's cantering, between getting her to canter off my leg, to getting her soften up, to getting her to listen to my legs while we were cantering. I worked for weeks and weeks, and was getting so frustrated at times trying to teach Athena to canter off. She would get fussy, I would try to push her through it. In June we had one of our worst days. I left the barn almost in tears and was so insanely frustrated. I almost wanted to give up (almost, haha). The next day I came out and saddled up. She was a tad fussy with the canter then all of a sudden I felt everything click and she did it. She finally cantered off! The first time it happened I praised her like she won the world show. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Then the other direction too. Once she figured out what I was asking, she was EXCITED to try it. Not going to lie, I was crying big, happy tears. It was one of my proudest moments I had with Athena!
(We were obviously so excited! Haha)
Training your own horse is really, REALLY hard and frustrating sometimes. It is a long, slow process (when done correctly), and some days it can be tempting to give up. But when you have those amazing breakthroughs, it is the best feeling in the world. Training Athena myself under the guidance of Sherry Stewart has been by far one of the hardest and most rewarding experiences of my life.
I am so blessed to have Sherry as my trainer. She is the best and she blows me away with her horsemanship every time we have a lesson. Towards the end of June, we took Athena to one of Sherry's good friends, Rickey Moore from Valley Hill Farm. I was pretty nervous, but there was no need to be because Rickey was SO friendly!
He was a little apprehensive because Sherry told him on the phone we had this rescue horse with a lot of talent. People have a totally different picture when you say rescue horse, then off steps Athena haha. We loaded her off the trailer, got her saddled. Rickey found out about her past, and my hip surgery, and watched us intently as we warmed up. Long story short, he was blown away by Athena! He fell in love with her and her movement. He said he would have never known that she was a rescue and that I was a no name, injured rider. He gave us a few pointers, and then said something that blew me out of the water. Like Sherry, Rickey honestly believes she has a shot at the Pinto World Show! He was amazed by her, and said we were doing the right things and to keep doing what we were doing. Take our time and we would have a World Champion that we could continue showing for the next 10 years. I was floored!
Athena and I face a lot of negativity when it comes to going to the World Show. To have two phenomenal trainers truly believe that you can do it, and are working their tails off to get you there is beyond amazing. I am so, so grateful for them both. They are honest, hardworking, and so dang knowledgeable. I hope to be half the horsemen that Sherry and Rickey are one day!
Thank you for reading and being so supportive of Athena and I!
Read more about our journey together by CLICKING HERE! You can read how I found her, how we overcame an injury that most said she wouldn't recover from, and how she went from an aggressive and scared rescue to a stunning and loving friend and show horse!
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Herbert London: Trump's Vision For The Middle East
President Trump arrived in the Arabian desert hoping to realign the politics of the Middle East in the aftermath of a failed Obama policy. For eight years Obama tilted in the direction of Iran believing that the influence of the Shia could balance Sunni dominance. The so-called nuclear deal with Iran was a geopolitical manifestation of this policy perspective. To put it simply, the policy didn't work. In fact, it led to the wide spread belief that the U.S. tacitly endorsed the Shia Crescent or the imperial Iranian design.
President Trump hinted that this has to be corrected. With his May 21, 2017 speech, there is no doubt the U.S. will push back on previous policy and offer Saudi Arabia and other regional Sunni partners a reliable counter-weight to Iranian ambitions.
In previous documents produced by the London Center for Policy Research a Gulf States Red Sea Treaty Organization was proposed. Mr. Trump has called it an Arab NATO. As the president noted in his speech the nations in the region have a primary responsibility to attack terrorism and the state sponsors of terrorism. He noted perspicaciously that the U.S. would not invest major troop deployments for this mission, but the U.S. will engage with its allies in logistical support, sophisticated arms, special forces when necessary and intelligence on enemy movements and strategy.
More than anything else, the president offered assurance that the U.S. stands behind its allies. When, during the Obama presidency, President al Sisi noted that "I love America, but America doesn't love me," he meant the U.S. was an unreliable ally that makes promises, but doesn't follow through. Specifically, he made reference to the Apache helicopters promised to Egypt but undelivered.
While presidential visits of this kind are invariably accompanied by hyperbole, this mission was indeed historic since it has already instilled in Saudi Arabia and Egypt confidence building measures missing from erstwhile diplomatic conversations.
Some critics contend this Middle East gambit was designed to offset the political troubles dogging the Trump team in DC. However, the trip was arranged well before the press powder keg exploded. From the outset of his presidency, Mr. Trump vowed to reset the global war against terrorism. He also wanted to alter a perception he is intolerant of Islam.
Clearly there is a lot of work to be accomplished between announcements and an actual defense condominium. At this stage, inflated expectations have to face the bright light of regional realism. After all, there was a Middle East defense pact (CENTO) organized by President Eisenhower that lacked muscle and influence and, eventually, evanesced. There is also the Russian alliance with Iran and Hezbollah that could put a monkey wrench in Sunni planning.
A Sunni pact has as its target the Iranian influence in the Levant. But there are other goals as well. It is the Trump administration belief that Russia can be peeled from the alliance with Hezbollah and Iran. After all, why should Russian policy be determined, in large part, by Iranian imperial ambitions? Should this gambit be successful, Iran will be isolated and far more amenable to negotiation.
What the Trump visit to Saudi Arabia has done is open the region to a variety of options ignored by the Obama team. For eight years the Sunni states lived with apprehension. Shia goals would be realized with a complicitous United States cheering in the background. That view – true or not – has been interred. Clearly good will is not policy. It remains to be seen how the alliance plan can be realized. However, Trump's visit was a symbolic triumph.
It is instructive that King Salman of Saudi Arabia greeted President Trump at the Riyadh airport, a gesture he did not extend to Mr. Obama. At this time, hope springs eternal. In a modest way, American leadership has been restored – at least for the time being. Now the pressure is on to translate the blaring trumpets and booming cannons of a state visit into policies that are sustainable and yield regional stability.
Herbert London is President of the London Center for Policy Research, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of the book The Transformational Decade (University Press of America). You can read all of Herb London's commentaries at www.londoncenter.org
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NORTH YARMOUTH, Maine, -- 1/17/16 -- Dakota Butte, 16, of Jefferson, Maine pulls his arrows out of the target at Lakeside Archery in North Yarmouth as part of the 10th Fire & Ice Burn Survivors Winter Camp put on by the Portland Firefighters Children's Burn Foundation. Portland area firefighters served as camp counselors - bringing child victims of burn trauma to the Camden Snow Bowl, Lakeside Archery and several other regional locations for group events and personal support activities.
Fire and Ice started in 2005 with four burn victims and nine counselors. This year there were 23 youth campers from all over New England participating in a three-day event. Campers came together by doing series of activities in which they become close friends. "These kids have all been through similar traumatic experiences," said Portland Firefighter and counselor Sheldon Gregiore.
A first-time youth camper (whose identity is being kept anonymous) said, "All I can say is, burned people rule!"
For more information, register or donate visit: http://www.maineburnsurvivors.org.
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{I'm pulling for the name Spencer or James, or any name with the nickname of Jack.}
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Gosh she looks so good. Can Kate ever NOT look good? I don't think so.ReplyDelete
NOOOO you missed the whole thing?! I would have nearly cried. lol. It was so exciting. I just so happened to wake up at 4am and check my phone so I knew she was in labour. And the waiting for the birth announcement was so freaking exciting. Twitter was on fire! At least all the moments are on youtube for you to see.
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hahaha awww.... kinds funny that you thought it would happen while you were flying .ReplyDelete
Noo!!! I'm laughing and mad on your behalf... and laughing a little bit more! On the plus side, you will always remember where you were when you missed it!!
I can't believe you missed it. YOU of all people!!! They need to give you a private visit just because you were on a flight. I'll text Kate and let her know...ReplyDelete
My mother was obsessed with the royal family and passed it onto me, so I've been obsessed for 27 years, lol. I almost cried yesterday when they walked out! I'm loving the name, too! But, I wish Spencer would have been added to honor Diana.
P.S. - I'm a new blogger and so far, I'm loving your blog! <3
yay can't wait for your pics of china dear !ReplyDelete
Yes it is fun to follow their lives. Did you see the tweets? Hee hee someone said the British have the royal baby and we have Honey Boo Boo. Too funny! Yes not sure what happened with the giveaway. Does raflecoptor not work with Mac computers?
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Same sorta thing happened to me! I was following along all day and then happened to step away from my computer for twenty minutes and then I see all of these messages and tweets and fb statuses that it was a boy ugh!ReplyDelete
you're so funny haha! I can't believe she just gave birth! she doesn't even look like she was preggo for the last 9 months!ReplyDelete
girl, i understand. i seriously love that royal family and want to be besties with kate! i was totally pulling for the name, george, go so i was pretty excited when they announced it :)ReplyDelete
love this post! totally made me smile xx
I know it! I was at work and my office had a little party. and George?!!? i love it. and i won the office "guess the name" competition! hahah. we are all just as obsessed as you!ReplyDelete
We can't believe that the royal baby didn't wait for you!! :-) And did she not look stunning when she came out of the hospital? I've never seen a new mom look that awesome after JUST giving birth. We have to admit that we aren't in love with the name George. We are hoping that he goes by Alexander at least. :-)
Hope you are enjoying your trip!
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The role of research at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is to produce new forms of knowledge.
These forms can be expressed in a variety of ways: from the design of spaces, objects, buildings, urban environments, urban strategy, and images, to a carefully curated exhibition or the writing of a compelling story or scholarly text.
As a Tier 1 public research university, our permanent faculty bring their ongoing research agenda to the context of teaching through advanced-level work. Our collective research interests are diverse and international in their focus, but we often engage city departments and officials around issues impacting the growth of Los Angeles as a case study for a rapidly evolving urban metropolis. While the format of this work can vary — from the Research Studio to a colloquium — across all of our programs, we train future architects and scholars to seek, shape and produce new forms of knowledge in their respective fields.
Research Centers
One of the ways in which UCLA supports faculty research is through Research Centers. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design currently has two: cityLAB-UCLA co-founded by Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman, and directed by Dana Cuff, and xLAB founded and directed by Hitoshi Abe. Depending on grant funding secured each year by individual faculty members, students have the opportunity to apply for student researcher positions to support these creative and scholarly efforts.
cityLAB-UCLA leverages architecture, planning, and design, to address the most critical urban issues facing our cities today. cityLAB recently capped a 10-year effort to double the density of Los Angeles through the design of backyard homes. By co-authoring Accessory Dwelling Unit legislation (AB 229/SB 1069), we doubled the density of California, creating thousands of small residential jobs for architects and builders. In 2019, cityLAB followed up with a study about technology's role in meeting the growing demand for backyard homes, and creative new approaches to ADU design-finance-build.
xLAB is an international think tank initiative that examines architecture's elastic boundaries and considers new possibilities through interdisciplinary collaboration in the study of the future built environment. xLAB encourages partnerships with a range of industries-including business, technology and science-creating a vast network of possibilities that expands architecture's role and potential to serve as an active platform in which to "Research, Test, Share" ideas between fields, people, and places.
Urban Humanities Institute
The UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative (UHI) is a cross-disciplinary teaching and research initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, based within cityLAB-UCLA. UHI integrates the interpretive, historical approaches of the humanities with the material, projective practices of design, to document, elucidate, and transform the cultural object we call the city. Architecture, urban studies, and humanities students are the heart of the program, and over 150 students have completed the year-long Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities.


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Happy Sunday all! What a whirlwind of a week it ended up being…..Work was extremely busy and took up most of my time last week. Add on top of that all the holiday festivities and I had nothing left to post….Yet, I still took pictures of it all LOL. This week I want to share with you all my healthy holiday recipe ideas and I hope to find time for my dailies….The positive side is there are ONLY 4 workdays ~ that is that crazy part too! So much to do so little time.
This weekend we managed to finish the rest of our holiday shopping then celebrated Christmas with my family….I also did some baking to keep up with the tradition!
I am pretty sure I NEED a weekend to recover from my weekend!
Despite how crazy life has been, I did tell myself I was TRACKING IT ALL ~ good, bad or indifferent. It always amazes me at how telling myself I am tracking it all really makes me focus on making better choices.
I finished my week using all my dailies and WPA……celebrating 2 holiday parties, 2 holiday luncheons and a dinner out with The Husband focusing on ONLY the things I really wanted……
The RESULT ~ I LOST 2.0 MORE LBS!!! I'll take it ~ 3.8 lbs in two weeks!
My FANTASTIC Weight Watcher Leader hand made all the cards you see above for all of us…..She is just so thoughtful ~ I am not sure I could've hand glued all those bells on
It's totally going on our fridge for motivation going into Christmas week!
My Weekly Menu is going to look a lot like last week so tomorrow will kick off my Healthy Holiday Series instead. I am even more behind on your emails, comments, etc….I hope to catch up with you all soon.
For now, I honestly need some zzzzzz's……
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The The Buddha Dhamma Sangha website was a vision of Dillon Amila Nipun Ganegoda to develop a site with Buddhist Information that has become a reality after years of development. The objective of this website was to develop an interactive, user friendly and easy to understand website filled with Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha information for individuals interested in Basic Buddhism as well as to individuals learning Advanced Studies in Buddhism. The path Lord Buddha set 2500 years ago for people to attain the highest form of happiness (Nirvana) cannot be followed if one is not properly educated. This site strives to provide this education. Amila became interested in Buddhism when he was studying computer science in Leicester , England . He completed the BSc Honors Computing course in 2002, and continued to pursue his studies in Computing. He is the CEO and Founder of Goldpresman Inc, Quantenova Inc and Brilliunce Inc which specialize in the next generation of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Network Engineering, SAN Systems, Virtual Server Systems, VMware and Hyper-V. His interests from the mid 90's in Website Development led him to use his knowledge to promote Buddhism via the internet. He explored other religions diligently before he decided that Buddhism was the best path to follow. He currently resides in Irvine, California, USA (near Los Angeles).
BuddhaDhammaSangha.com has provided various Audio, Video, Pictures, eBook files and more to supplement the information. The goal of this site is to educate anyone who is interested in Buddhism and following the way of the Dhamma.
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3 September 2015, 09:38 | Updated: 2 November 2017, 15:29
Sir Tom announces a brand new album of songs that have impacted him throughout his career.
He may have been axed from BBC show 'The Voice' last month but it's onwards and upwards for Sir Tom as he returns with a new album 'Long Lost Suitcase' on October 9th.
The musical release is the third album in a trilogy, following on from albums 'Praise & Blame' released in 2010 and 'Spirit In The Room' released in 2012.
Always keen to try something new, the latest album is an accompaniment to Sir Tom's autobiography 'Over The Top And Back' which will be released on October 8th. Some of the chapter titles in the book take a song name from the album.
The song selection on the album are all tracks that have impacted Tom throughout his long career. We can look forward to songs by Willie Nelson, Rolling Stones and Hank Williams.
Here's the full track listing:
1. Opportunity To Cry (Willie Nelson)
2. Honey, Honey (The Milk Carton Kids)
3. Take My Love (I Want To Give It) (Little Willie John)
4. Bring It Home (Sonny Boy Williamson)
5. Everybody Loves A Train (Los Lobos)
6. Elvis Presley Blues - (Gillian Welch)
7. He Was A Friend Of Mine (Dave Van Ronk)
8. Factory Girl (Rolling Stones)
9. I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold)
10. Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone (Eddie Floyd / Alvertis Isbell)
11. Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used To Do (Hank Williams)
12. Tomorrow Night (Lonnie Johnson)
13. Raise A Ruckus (Jesse Fuller)
We can't wait to hear it!


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Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Will the Antichrist Be a Landmark Baptist?
Instead of sinking VBS-week time into an SBC candidacy post, I'm going to write about something I care about: Baptist ecclesiology. Recent Southern Baptist discussions have thrust into the limelight the old debates about Landmarkism. And I'm not complaining. 2006 has been a great year for Baptist Historians—thanks to The DaVinci Code everyone wants to hear from us about Patristic Christianity, and now SBC controversies are giving us a chance to talk about Landmarkism. Two years ago everyone would have yawned and politely walked away from an opportunity to discuss these subjects. It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. Nevertheless, I think that recent talk about Landmarkism has displayed the immaturity of our scholarship in this area. Now is probably the time to mention that I am not a Landmark Baptist, but neither do I believe that Landmark Baptists all have 666 tatooed under their hairline somewhere. First, a few historical facts: Landmarkism emerged in the 1850s. The movement gained steam throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. Although it retained some influence among Southern Baptists up through today, the prevalence and strength of Landmarkism declined sharply within the Southern Baptist Convention as the twentieth century unfolded. I think that virtually every informed historian would agree to these facts. Now, to the disputed stuff. Does anybody know what Landmarkism is? Practically every significant scholarly work has defined Landmarkism differently. We all agree about a core notion of Landmarkism, but from there different researchers are all over the map in trying to pin down what Landmarkism actually was. Yet people throw the term around in blogs today as though we all certainly know what Landmarkism is. For a good review of the issues, see the Wikipedia article on Landmarkism to which I contributed some content. Has Landmarkism become a debate tool with which to bludgeon people? Because the historical theory attached to Landmarkism is so demonstrably false, and because the core notion of Landmarkism (that only Baptist churches are really churches) is so contrary to the spirit of our age, Landmarkism has become something of a slur in Southern Baptist life. So, for example, James Tull and others have labored hard to blame Landmarkism for everything from the SBC's doggoned insistence upon planting churches outside our territory, to the SBC's refusal to join the World Council of Churches, to the inerrancy movement. Landmarkism is easy to knock down, so if you can tie anything else to Landmarkism, maybe you can knock it down, too. Clearly, some of this is going on in the blogosphere these days. Does Landmarkism have ANYTHING to teach us??? In my opinion, Southern Baptists have replaced Landmark ecclesiology with no ecclesiology at all. I would prefer a better Baptist ecclesiology to Landmark ecclesiology, but I would prefer a Landmark ecclesiology to a vacant ecclesiology. Does church membership mean anything? Is there still such a thing as local church autonomy in this day of multi-site Baptist bishops? Is congregationalism biblical? Why didn't our fathers teach us about these things? Because Baptists have dropped ecclesiology out of our lexicons. I see some hopeful signs of a renewed interest in such things. If we are going to think about ecclesiology, we simply must listen seriously to a system of thought that completely dominated Southern Baptist thinking for the better part of a century. We don't have to swallow everything it says, but we'd better at least make sure that we understand it. Is Landmarkism really totally at odds with "historic Baptist ecclesiology?" James Tull thought so, but then James Tull had an axe to grind (yeah....I know...as do we all). He tended to swap definitions of Landmarkism to suit the task at hand. 1851 is not the first occasion in history when Baptists thought that they populated the only New Testament church. John Smythe referred to his Baptist church's closest cousins in "Antichrist" sort of language. Clearly, many early Baptists regarded the Church of England and most of its derivatives as apostate churches. Landmarkism is distinct because it rejected the validity even of immersing churches, but Baptist exclusivism is indeed a substantial and ancient part of Baptist history. Debates over the extent of communion are much older than Landmarkism. Debates over Baptist organization beyond the local church are much older than Landmarkism. J. R. Graves did contribute some important innovations, but Landmarkism also clearly picks up some threads of Baptist thought that reach back to the very earliest days of our movement. Is Landmarkism opposed to missionary cooperation? Lots of people have claimed that the Hayden and Bogard schisms were the result of run-amuck Landmarkism trying to tear down the missionary structure of the SBC. Ergo, Landmarkism is inherently anti-missionary. Nope. Actually, in both Texas and Arkansas the major leaders on both sides of the issues were ALL DIED-IN-THE-WOOL LANDMARKERS. I have the goods. I can document this for you ad nauseum. Landmarkism is no more the cause of dissent for the dissenters than it was the cause of support for the supporters of the SBC missionary structure. Actually, the structure of the so-called "Landmark Baptist Denominations" for sending out missionaries is not so radically different from that of the SBC. Apparently, they're not so very anti-missions as some people like to suggest. If you went to seminary, I know that you were taught something very different from what I just wrote. Before you write off my words, just remember that our separation from the self-titled Landmark Baptist denominations is not that old, as history goes. Your teachers were, at most, one generation away from the actual battles. Some of the wounds were still fresh. Is it possible that not enough time had passed for our analysis of Landmarkism to mature? A crop of new dissertations is coming out in this decade, giving us a fresh look at Landmarkism. I think we've still got a lot to learn about the subject. In the meanwhile, maybe we ought to tone down the recriminations against alleged resurgent Landmarkism in the SBC. Maybe it is enough to say, "That guy believes this, but I disagree," without lobbing around inflammatory labels. The more we use terms like Landmarkism this way, the harder it is to rescue them to hold some authentic meaning.
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New Release (2016R3) of the STD "Integrated" FrameWork!
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Integrated Foundation Classes (2016R3) Released!
"THE" PowerBuilder Classic & Appeon Framework!
Software Tool & Die Inc (STD) is very pleased to announce that they have just released an updated version 2016R3 (2016.3.0.68) of their Integrated Foundation Class library for PowerBuilder "Classic", Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile!The latest version contains the following updates and has been tested with Appeon 2015R2 Server (build 0359.00) and Appeon 2016 Server (build 1080.00) using the official MR (maintenance releases) of PowerBuilder "Classic" versions 12.1, 12.5.1 and 12.6. Testing inside of PB included Win32 (both P-code & M-code) deployments while testing inside of Appeon included latest Web Browsers, latest Apple Tablet/Smart Phone and Android Tablet/Smart Phone deployments.
Release 2016.3.0.68 – Major Release (2016R3) – change highlights …
- Framework was system tested with: PowerBuilder Classic 12.1, 12.5.1 and 12.6; Appeon and 2015R1 (2015.0328.00); iOS 10.02 and Android 7.0.0 (both Smart Phone & Tablet); IE11; FireFox 47.0.1; Safari 5.1.7; Opera 32.0.1948.25; Chrome 53.0.2785.143, Edge 38.14393.0.0)
- Revised the "nc_app_controller_master" NVUO to only open the HOLD window if a Controller type window is being used.
- Added "oe_print_window" event to the "vs_dc_master" DataWindow base class.
- Added "of_get_print_window_status" function to the "vs_dc_master" DataWindow base class.
- Added "IsWindowEnabled" external function declaration to the "nc_application_master" base class.
- Added "mu_application_extension" extension class.
- Added "mu_extension" extension class.
- Added "nc_extension" extension class.
- Added "ns_ds_extension" extension class.
- Added "vs_dc_extension" extension class.
- Added "wn_extension" extension class.
- Added "wn_response_extension" extension class.
- Added "RtlGetVersion" SDK API to the "nc_app_controller_master" base class.
- Various small code tweaks for better performance under the Appeon 2016 product release.
- Revised "of_check_os_version" function in the "nc_app_controller_master" base class to acquire the correct O/S version (PB 12.6 workaround Environment bug).STD would like to thank Novalys Corporation for their support of the Foundation Classes by supplying the VisualExpert product for the framework's documentation.
Please Note: This will be the last version of the STD Integrated framework for PowerBuilder 12.1. The next Integrated framework release will be based on PowerBuilder 12.6 as STD tunes their development efforts to align with the new Appeon PB product (which is being developed on the PB Classic 12.6 code-line).
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Blockchain and AI Have 'Revolutionized' War — India Defence Minister
India's Defence Minister believes blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data will form part of the future of warfare.
As local daily news outlet Times of India reported on Nov. 4, Rajnath Singh highlighted the potential of blockchain, along with big data and AI, in defense operations.
Warfare's new "blockchain paradigm"
Speaking to a range of delegates from 80 countries in Delhi, Singh appeared under no illusion about India's plans to access innovation as the global industry evolves. He explained:
"The role of AI, big data and blockchain technologies has already revolutionized the existing paradigm of warfighting. The defence industry is undergoing a churning to cope and employ these technologies, in order to safeguard the safety and security of critical infrastructure."
India will hold its annual defense conference, DefExpo 2020, in February.
India goes in for blockchain-not-Bitcoin
India has joined the list of countries taking a markedly different stance on blockchain compared to the phenomena it underpins, specifically cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC).
As Cointelegraph reported, a ban on providing liquidity to exchanges has metamorphosed into a legal process that could see cryptocurrency outlawed altogether.
The existing ban has already caused problems, with the police themselves unable to move crypto funds seized as part of law enforcement.
At the same time, blockchain continues to make its way into various facets of the economy. Last week, one Indian state confirmed it was working on dedicated policy updates for both blockchain and AI.
Source: cointelegraph.com
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