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[Article] Arantza Etxeberria; Charles T. Wolfe (2018) Canguilhem and the Logic of Life. Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (pp. 47-63).
[Chapter] Charles T. Wolfe (2017) Boundary Crossings: The Blurring of the Human/Animal Divide as Naturalization of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy. In: Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine (p. 147).
[Article] Charles T. Wolfe (2017) Models of Organic Organization in Montpellier Vitalism. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 229-252).
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[Book] Normandin, Sebastien; Wolfe, Charles T. (2013) Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800--2010.
[Book] Wolfe, Charles T.; Gal, Ofer (2010) The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science.
[Book] Wolfe, Charles T. (2005) Monsters and Philosophy.
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Domenico Colotta, a professional expert in the field of institutional relations, follows Carmelo Cutuli at the head of Assocomunicatori, the Italian National Association of Corporate Communicators.
"First of all I would like to thank former President and founder of 'Assocommunicatori' Carmelo Cutuli and the board of directors. My commitment, with the contribution of all members, will be to strengthen relations with representatives of institutions and companies in the sector, with ideas and projects that can be a reference point for the world of communication. So declared the Association's new president Domenico Colotta.
The former President Carmelo Cutuli, currently at the head of the confederal sector of Communication of Confassociazioni, wished Colotta and the new executive "to honor the ambitious objectives that Assocomunicatori has proposed, while ensuring, at the same time, its renewed commitment as a senior member of the board of the Association".


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Wow! So much style and attention to detail! You won't want to change a thing in this stunning South End home! Walk into an oiled pine enclosed porch, which is the perfect place to kick off your shoes and even snuggle with a book. A vibrant stained glass door welcomes you to the main house. The living room has brand new maple wood floors and a cozy corner gas stove for chilly winter nights. The main floor full bath has an antique claw foot tub and beautiful penny tile flooring. The kitchen and dining room has been updated with new flooring and shiny stainless steel appliances and even has laundry on the main level. Upstairs is a 3/4 bath and 3 bedrooms including a master with double closets. Step out back and find a fully fenced, deep back yard with a detached garage, shed, garden space, chicken coop and awesome fire pit sitting area with large boulders for extra ambiance. Enjoy the new City Market only a couple of blocks away, as well as Oakledge Park and all the other delights of living in the south end! This home has it all!
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|Listing Status Closed
|Contract Date 11/01/2018
|Days on Market
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|Original Price $525,000
|Closing Price $380,000
|Property ID 057-4-059.000
|Span 114-035-19812
|List Price $425,000
|Total Rooms 8
|Year Built 1935
|Lot Size 0.160 Acres
|Taxes $5,232
|Type Residential
|Stories 2
|Road Frontage 45
|Bedrooms 3
|Style Historic Vintage
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|Full Bathrooms 1
|Finished 1,320 Sqft
|Construction No, Existing
|3/4 Bathrooms 1
|Above Grade 1,320 Sqft
|Seasonal No
|Half Bathrooms 0
|Below Grade 0 Sqft
|List Date Sep 6th, 2018
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|Interior FeaturesCeiling Fan, Lead/Stain Glass, Storage - Indoor, Laundry - 1st Floor
|Equipment & AppliancesWasher, Refrigerator, Dryer, Range-Electric, , Gas Heat Stove, Stove - Gas
|Master Bedroom 14'1 x 8'11, 2nd Floor
|Bath - 3/4 10'7 x 6'6, 2nd Floor
|Bedroom 10'5 x 8'6, 2nd Floor
|Bedroom 8'7 x 16'4, 2nd Floor
|Living Room 18'2 x 14'3, 1st Floor
|Bath - Full 7'2 x 5'3, 1st Floor
|Dining Room 16'10 x 9'9, 1st Floor
|Kitchen 15'2 x 7'2, 1st Floor
|ConstructionWood Frame
|BasementInterior, Unfinished, Interior Stairs, Full
|Exterior FeaturesFence - Full, Garden Space, Porch - Enclosed, Shed
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|House Color White
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UBS Financial Services offers advice beyond investing; our priority is helping clients meet all of their financial goals. We are committed to listening to clients, assessing concerns and developing a clear action plan to make sure their assets are working toward achieving what matters most. The Indianapolis office is UBS's largest in the state with 67 employees. Our goal is to continue making UBS the best firm for advisors to join, serve their clients and grow their businesses.
8801 River Crossing Blvd., Suite 400, Indianapolis, IN
Company Facts
Square Footage: 19,516
Employee Count: 67
Year of Buildout: 2017
Vendor Facts
General Contractor: John Amos – Clune
Architect / Interiors: Elvis Cale – Verderame | Cale
Furniture: Steelcase
How does your space drive productivity, collaboration and connectivity?
With roots dating back to the mid-1950s, UBS has a rich history in Indianapolis. After 20 years in our previous location, we designed a new office space that improves both our employee and client experience. The space celebrates collaboration while also focusing on health and wellness. This helps execute our mission to be the firm of choice for high-net worth clients and the advisory teams that serve them.
The 20,000-square-foot space state-of-the-art facility includes many health and wellness features, including stand-up desks for each employee and two treadmill desks where employees can walk
throughout the day. A large seminar room can be used for in-office yoga sessions.
An open floor plan and team suites allow senior leadership, financial advisors and members of our sales team to easily converse and collaborate throughout the day. Our teams see value in
working together and by removing office walls that traditionally segment employees, our office space allows for more free-flowing conversations, idea sharing and ultimately, increased productivity for our clients.
A modern kitchen area with ample seating, healthy food options and a refillable water bottle station encourages employees to share nutritional meals together.
Our open stairwell invites clients and employees to take the stairs rather than ride the elevator and three terraces encourage getting outside for fresh air. Employees can run or walk on a mile-long path surrounding the building. Bike racks are accessible for those who bike to work and locker rooms with showers make it convenient to exercise at any point during the day.
All of these wellness initiatives help our employees make their working hours productive and rewarding, while delivering world-class wealth management advice to our clients.
What is the one thing that is unforgettable when someone walks through your space?
Visitors coming to our office for the first time often comment on the number of employees who are standing at their desks rather than sitting. While some employers offer stand-up desks for select employees, UBS took the investment further by providing all 67 employees with an easy-to-use stand-up desk. Employees can also routinely be seen taking conference calls at our treadmill desks. Many employees correlate improved mental health, physical wellness and job
performance with their ability to walk on treadmill desks throughout their work day. These features also create a buzz of activity and increased energy that often results in idea generation and collaborative problem solving.
When employees feel their employer cares about their well-being, they are more engaged. Providing our employees flexible and collaborative work stations demonstrates our commitment
to their mental, physical and social health.
How does your space tell your company's story and reflect its brand?
At UBS, we strive to create superior value for our clients, shareholders and employees. We want to stand out as a winner in our industry for our expertise, advice and execution, our contribution to society, our work environment and our business success. Our clients are at the forefront of that vision and their needs were made a priority while designing our office.
A bright and inviting lobby with local artwork welcomes clients as they walk through our doors. A coffee bar, located directly in front of floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto a terrace and lake, offers clients a comfortable place to sit and relax. Meeting rooms are strategically located in the front of our office, symbolizing our commitment to put the needs of our clients first.
Achieving our mission would not be possible without the valuable contributions of our employees who spend many hours at the office. Our new amenities help make that time as productive and rewarding as possible. A healthy environment with an open floor plan, shared
meeting spaces and the latest in technology helps us achieve employee satisfaction while also delivering world-class wealth management advice to our clients.
How does your space engage your employee base?
UBS wants wellness and work-life balance to be front and center for our employees. Our new office space eliminates the unnecessary stress of choosing between working and being healthy. Wellness programs are often linked to greater productivity, less absenteeism and a reduction of long-term health care costs. These factors help contribute to a healthier workforce that strives to achieve success for our clients.
A modern-day wellness room, set off from the rest of the office, gives employees an opportunity to take time away from their busy schedule and relax or meditate during the day. The room also provides an ideal space for nursing mothers who are seeking privacy and comfort.
From guest speaker seminars promoting brain health to volunteer functions benefiting our local children's hospital to lunch parties celebrating March Madness, our space provides many opportunities to engage our employees.
"Sustainable Performance" remains one of UBS' key principles. our teams focus on the long-term and work to provide consistent returns to our clients. By showing our employees we care about their needs, and providing them a collaborative work space with health and wellness features, we hope to attract and retain top talent to serve the needs of our clients.


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The Leinster Property Auction. Folio DL9590 comprising a compact farm located approx. 3 miles North West of Letterkenny town. Land quality varies from top quality arable land to a portion of rough grazing land. A gravel surfaced roadway dissects the farm giving good access to all fields. For sale by public auction through www.leinsterpropertyauction.ie.
Offered for sale in its entirety or in various lots as follows;
LOT 1: 24.67 acres of prime arable land. Presently used for silage production. A stone built traditional 2 storey farmhouse, vacant for a number of years, occupies a prominent site within this lot.
LOT 2: 18.642 acres of meadow land laid out as 3 fields adjacent to the river Lennon. This is good quality flat holm land.
LOT 3: 39.342 acres of rough grazing land.
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Please note that we are no longer accepting proposals for these RFPs. Proposals were due in April. Awards will be announced by the end of May 2019.
Please review each RFP for a detailed timeline. General timeline overview:
All proposals are due to the SWC on April 25, 2019.
Questions will be accepted via email only to firstname.lastname@example.com through April 22. All responses will be posted on this RFP Q&A page.
An optional bidders' conference will be held on March 7 at 10:00 AM. We ask that interested bidders RSVP for the conference by March 4 by emailing email@example.com, and submit questions in advance so that we can accurately prepare. RSVP and advance submission of questions is not required.
The Spokane Workforce Council is pleased to announce the release of $3.39M through four new Requests for Proposal (RFP):
The following documents apply to each RFP:
The SWC is soliciting proposals to identify three operators for the WorkSource Campus, with one at each of the following locations: WorkSource Spokane, Next Generation Zone, and EnVision Center. Agencies can bid on one or more operator positions. Operators should be goal-driven, visionary, inspirational and highly professional leaders willing to achieve our vision for cutting-edge, functionally integrated service sites. In general, each operator will be responsible for the management of their respective site, with the WorkSource operator additionally responsible for (1) functionally or directly leading talent solution services, and (2) supporting the SWC with coordinating affiliated WorkSource service locations in Spokane County.
The following documents apply to this RFP:
The SWC is soliciting proposals to identify a consortium of providers to deliver Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult and Dislocated Worker (DW) services at WorkSource Spokane in a manner designed to meet the needs of local employers. Unlike typical Adult and Dislocated Worker program Requests for Proposal, this RFP is designed to identify a consortium capable of offering WIOA Title I services in a functional team model, which is accomplished by grouping services by service level – Basic Career, Individualized Career, and Training – rather than by program or agency.
The following documents apply to this RFP:
The SWC is soliciting proposals to identify a consortium of providers to deliver WIOA Title I Youth services at the Next Generation Zone in a one-stop career center model. This RFP is designed to identify a consortium capable of offering WIOA Title I Youth services in an integrated environment where education, career skills training, community and employment resources are co-located to provide wrap-around support to young adults.
The following documents apply to this RFP:
The SWC is soliciting proposals to identify a consortium of agencies to offer talent solutions services, also known as business services, on behalf of the Spokane WorkSource System and the SWC. Services will be delivered at our new Talent Solutions Center, which will open in March or April 2019 at 140 S. Arthur St. Suite 300B, Spokane, WA. It is the goal of the SWC that the talent solutions team strive to be a national leader in talent solution services.
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The most advanced email marketing services offer custom workflows where you can specify triggers based on actions (such as opening an email or making a purchase) or on inaction (such as ignoring emails). With these services, you can also set up a series of emails (such as tutorials) to be sent to segments of users, and you can pause or stop a campaign at any time. You can also move contacts into new segments once they have completed tutorials.
CTR is the number of clicks on your CTA button, versus the total visitors to that landing page or ad. If 1000 people visit your landing page/view your ad, and 650 people click on the CTA, your CTR is 65%. A high CTR depends on a number of factors, chief among which are the value proposition on your page/ad, your CTA's placement, and the relevance of your content vis-à-vis your target audience.
ToFu: Leads at the top of the funnel need awareness. They know nothing about what you offer and what domain you operate in, so you'll need to create a conversation around both these focus points—without selling your product up front. If you sell CRMs, you attract ToFu leads by talking about how SDRs (sales development representatives) can do their job better using CRM software. Blogs, ebooks and guides are content types that work well at this stage.
Office Autopilot plans all start at above $200 a month. These are the top 10 autoresponder and email marketing tools on the market today. You have options all the way from free to several hundred dollars a month, from basic functionality to complex analytics and shopping cart integration. The one you pick depends entirely on where your business is and what it needs.
Nurturing a lead involves careful and consistent communication with the lead, as you try and convert them into your customer. If you're in SaaS, the problem statement could look like this: somebody just signed up for my product, so 30 days from now, how do I get them to sign on the dotted line? You use a tool like email. Well-compiled emails, sent at regular (but unobtrusive) intervals, have a very good chance of gaining your reader's mindshare and making them invested in your product. With each interaction, you take a step towards bringing the lead closer to your business.
Whether you're dealing with consumer or business leads, successful lead scoring depends on a number of factors, such as high-quality content, well-defined buyer personas, relevant interactions, and involvement of the sales team. Lead generation software can be a useful tool, as often includes automated lead scoring. Learn more about how to generate leads on the blog.
Companies considering the use of an email marketing program must make sure that their program does not violate spam laws such as the United States' Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM),[9] the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, or their Internet service provider's acceptable use policy.
Expired Listings. "These are listings that realtors had on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and they didn't sell. I personally love these because they tend to be more frustrated already, having not sold with a realtor. This will many times translate into immediate appointments opposed to the 'for sale by owners' that need some time typically. Where do you get expired listings? It used to be that you had to work with someone that was licensed to get them. Now there are services that offer them so it's super easy to get a constant feed of them."
If links and looks are set, begin interacting with the page. Abandon it, adjust the window size, convert. Are error messages appearing when they're supposed to (if, for example, you don't input all the form's required info)? Is your CTA button working? If you abandon the page, are you retargeted with ads? When you resize the window, does your landing page respond accordingly?


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Believe it or not but physical and mental health go hand in hand. Being in our optimal health takes work on all aspects of life. Beginning our day with the appropriate nutrition affords the ability to have clear thoughts, energy and free from aches and pains associated with a poor diet. In addition, to focusing on ones diet getting the right amount of physical exercise allows the body to stay in optimal condition. It also helps to move chemicals around in the body needed for energy, digestion and mood control.
Those basic behaviors done daily help to restore the body and keep the system working as intended. Think of our bodies like an automobile. You can't just get into your car day in and day out and drive it. Maintenance and fuel are essential to keeping your car in good condition. The body is our personal vehicle that requires nurturance and care.
How to care for our bodies as the foundation of optimal physical health which lead to ideal mental health.
Eat Enough Nutrient Rich Foods
As I mentioned above food is at the heart of our existence. I don't mean this in a mannerism that suggests overeating but rather getting enough of the good stuff. No mystery here – get enough green stuff which is infused with essential vitamins, water to help the body keep hydrated and able to keep things circulating, and food that helps increase energy.
Almonds are full of magnesium and vitamin-B which are essential to good energy levels.
Popcorn which is a great whole grain snack that is packed with fiber and no blood sugar crash associated with other snack foods.
Peanut butter is high in good fats and protein which equates to satisfaction. It also helps to maintain stable blood sugar. Look for natural versions that are likely to have less added sugars.
Salmon is great for boosting the brain as it contains omega-3's which are known to reduce depression and improve your mood. Salmon has some great health benefits aside from mood management such as being a good source of protein which keeps you full and can lower blood pressure and bad cholesterol.
Bananas are a great healthy snack that are filled with fiber, vitamin B6 and potassium. These supplements help one to stay full and help muscles to recover from a workout as potassium is sweat out during a workout and a banana will help to quickly replace what is lost which may help reduce muscle cramping.
Kale contains an amino acid known as L-tyrosine which has been identified as helping keep you alert and fiber which helps keep you full and keeps blood sugar stable.
Oatmeal is high in fiber, which again equates to satiation and lasting energy. In addition, the fiber content contributes to maintaining stable blood-sugar levels and will help you maintain energy making this a perfect breakfast choice.
Pistachios combine protein, fiber and good fats making for a perfect snack or an on the go filler to help reduce poor food choices. Though they are delicious make sure to not overeat these filling luscious nuts as they are calorie dense meaning just 25 of the total up to 100 calories.
Hummus is a great filling dip as the main ingredient is garbanzo beans or chickpeas, which are a great source of protein and fiber. Again fiber and protein help you to stay full and stabilize blood-sugar that helps boost energy.
Greek yogurt provides sometimes double the amount of protein that is in a regular yogurt. Alone it is a great source of energy and will keep you full but be careful of the toppings that may make your snack even more delicious as yogurt can become very unhealthy if not properly paired with nutrient rich extras.
(Resource: https://www.everydayhealth.com/fitness-pictures/energy-boosting-foods.aspx#11)
Workout At Least 30 Minutes A Day
Exercise has been known to help reduce depression, anxiety and stress. Working out helps release important endorphins, help reduce inflammation in the brain, promotes relaxation and can serve as a good distractor. Tense muscles associated with stress and anxiety can also be relieved through regular exercise.
In addition, exercise has other great benefits such as the same feel good endorphins released when exercising also has been know to improve concentration and mental sharpness as well as stimulating growth of new brain cells ultimately slowing down the age-related mental decline. When we feel good and look good our self-esteem is likely to follow – exercise is a great booster in that department. You don't have to work out and become a body builder but small gains such as a reduced mid-section or increased stamina can help to enhance ones sense of self. Instead of reaching for drugs and alcohol when adversity hits, exercise is a healthy way to manage stressors while maintaining a health immune system and cutting the impact of the stress felt.
(Resource: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/healthy-living/the-mental-health-benefits-of-exercise.htm )
Get At Least 8 Hours Of Sleep
Obviously sleep helps our bodies recover from daily activities. In addition, sleep helps our mind consolidate memories, which help to preserve our minds abilities as we age. Listening to your body is vital, for example if you are extremely fatigued on your day off take a nap, your body is asking for it. Sleep disorders have been linked to many mental health disorders and may impact the severity of the disorder with sleep deprivation. Monitoring sleep and making vital changes may make a world of difference in your mood and overall well being.
- Lifestyle changes such as reducing or monitoring caffeine intake can help improve sleep quality. In addition, alcohol and nicotine impact the sleep-wake cycle. Alcohol affects the nervous system as acting as a depressant, however once it wears off so does ones fatigue. Thereby, drinking during the day may produce unneeded naps or dosing off which essentially affects the sleep cycle at night.
- Physical activity brings on fatigue and helps overall sleep quality.
- Sleep hygiene is how one cares for their sleep patterns. It has been thought that insomnia is learned by poor habits such as a haphazard bedtime, using the bedroom for more than sleep and sex, and sleeping with the television or lights on. It is recommended if you are suffering from a form of insomnia to use a technique known as sleep restraining where you stay awake longer ensuring fatigue before going to sleep and restricting daytime naps. Also, getting into a habit of relaxation techniques can help to reduce stress associated with bedtime allowing sleep to come on easier. Some forms known to work are meditation, guided imagery, deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation.
(Resource: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/sleep-and-mental-health )


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The other day I sat down with a friend of mine who is working on a game design to talk about design in general and the tabletop gaming industry as a whole. He was wondering about the next steps to take toward publication once his design is in the place where he's ready to show it off. He was interested in my journey, successes and failures. My first game was Fleet, co-designed with Matt Riddle. We design all our games together if you're unfamiliar with our work. Dan Patriss from the Geek Allstars started calling us the Fleeples at some point and that's kinda stuck, so that's us. Fleet was pitched and signed the old fashioned way by submitting it online through publishers' websites using the "submit game ideas here" button. I suppose the real old fashioned way was a game agent or something / someone who would champion your game and walk it physically into Hasbro or one of those bigger companies. That was back in the old, discolored family photo days though, when people went to chain Americana restaurants and watched live TV, and shaved, and scored fantasy football from the paper. My brother had one of those leagues in high school. Our old fashioned way will start with the internet. Good old sitting at home eating pretzels half clothed, surfing websites and sending emails around in between watching drumming instructional videos on YouTube. I don't drum btw. Where were we? Ya, right, so Eagle-Gryphon was the first to get back to us, and Fleet was born. Thanks internet. But that led me to thinking about our other success paths too and what advice would I give someone new who certainly has limited time and probably limited travel budget, cause who doesn't?
First off, a public service announcement: Make a great game. That's the most important thing. Make a super great game. Test it. Work on it. Test it more. Etc. Do that until it's the best possible game you can make. The market is heavily crowded right now, so figure out what's special about your game and make that stand out. Your game needs a hook or else it's gonna get lost in the noise. Matt and I have done our best over the years here, and some of you will no doubt take exception to the notion that our games are all great. But we thought they were. And the publishers and playtesters did too, so we did do the work. (Some of them aren't great as it turns out. I didn't say this was easy right?)
Ok, you have a great game. It's special and worth publishing. Let's get to it. Let's maximize your time and other resources and get this baby sold. Where have others found success? I'm glad you asked. Here are the paths we've used:
The Internet – This is gonna be any form of sitting at home networking without pants on. Or in public on your phone. Hopefully with pants on. Emails, Twitter, Facebook, publisher website submissions, BGG, Slack, Instagram, God forbid Reddit, etc. Our preferred self-marketing platform is Twitter (@pinchback21 @mdriddlen). Gamers, publishers, artists, and designers are all over Twitter. And they're nice. It's a fun community over there, and for some reason it's slower to spiral downward into the depths of despair like Facebook groups can. I love the tweets. I have a problem most likely. But so does everyone else. So use it.
Shockingly enough, the rest of the options past the internet require you to actually leave your house and talk to people. This might be uncomfortable, but it's super important. Having great games is probably only 60% of the job. Being someone publishers want to work with is HUGE. So you have to get out there. That means conventions big and small. The reality is, the more you do the in-person work, the more effective your online work becomes. It's a positive feedback loop. Oh hey, I met that woman in person, she was cool. Follow on Twitter, follow back, networking ensues.
Unfortunately, I'm only going to be able to rate the conventions we've attended, but from talking to many designers, I will be able to at least comment on the other big ones and slot them into where they probably fall as far as bang for the buck time and money spent once we're all done. Also, I'm from North America, so that's my paradigm.
So here we go, the Fleeples spend 6 years going to conventions. Here's the basic breakdown:
Origins - Where gaming begins! – This one is easy. Go to Origins. You'll see once I crunch the data. It's the perfect blend of big convention that still feels small enough to be manageable. And publishers have time for you. See below. And then go to Origins.
Unpub (Prime) – The big Unpub in Maryland, formerly some cafeteria in Delaware. The little Unpub minis across the world are worth it as well, but please do go to the big one in Maryland. Trust me. This is the convention where a thousand or more random strangers willingly show up to play all our prototypes. You did not read that incorrectly. This actually happens. I can't believe it either. It's a miracle, and it's beautiful.
Protospiel - Similar to Unpub in that it's meant for designer testing, but in my experience it's more designer on designer vs the general public. The Michigan one has good attendance from Mayfair usually because it's in their backyard. And we met Matt Loomis at Protospiel who's now one of our best designer friends, so that was worth it. If you haven't bought Seikatsu yet, take a break and go pick it up. And we're back. So ya, we've been to the least amount of these in all honesty. Not because we didn't enjoy it, but because of limited time and resources.
Gen Con – Gen Con is a beast. As a gamer it's absolutely my favorite convention of the year because I love the massive crowds and the spectacle. But what about as a designer? Wait and see.
Grandcon – Slash insert your own local 1-3 thousand person convention. Prezcon, Salt Con, Dice Tower Con, whatever you have. Ours, Grandcon is pretty well represented by smaller publishers and some other medium sized ones too. These are fun as gamers and can be super good for designers. You can catch a publisher and hang out all night at one of these. Don't sleep on smaller local cons. Also, cool story, a couple years ago Tom Vassel was just wandering around the Grandcon game room and randomly stopped to show our buddy and his wife how to play a game they were setting up. I thought that was really cool. Smaller cons are awesome.
Cons we haven't been to yet but should be attending IMO:
Essen Spiel
BGG Con
More thoughts below after the ratings.
So here is the portion of our program where because I think it'll be fun for me to write, and hopefully informative for you to read, I'm going to go through our game signings and assign credit to the method of how we signed them. Then we'll total them up, rate the options, and you can plan your strategy accordingly. Away we go!
Fleet– Old school internet as mentioned above.
Eggs and Empires – Internet was telling us over and over that no-one wanted another blind bidding game cause they all had Raj and that was plenty. Libertalia wasn't out yet either mind you. We heard about that one after E&E was in production. So nobody wanted more blind bidding, but I packed this proto in my backpack as we headed to Origins. Eagle-Gryphon said, "I love Raj, sure send me a proto!" Later that night we played at the bar with DiceHateMe and they loved it too. Now two people wanted it! Eagle-Gryphon was technically first, so we went with them. Point, Origins. This is going to become a pattern.
Floating Market / Morocco – Emails with Eagle-Gryphon and meetups at Unpub for both of these. That is a nice rhythm btw. "Ya that sounds interesting, see you at Unpub!" has worked a lot for us. So half point internet and half point Unpub times 2 games.
Fleet Wharfside – Point Internet. The easiest game we ever sold. We got an email from Eagle-Gryphon. "Hey you should do a Fleet world game for our new small box card game line." Well we just so happen to have one ready. Done and done. This is our most under-rated game btw. Go play it. It's legit fun.
Monster Truck Mayhem – Yes this failed twice on Kickstarter and is most likely dead forever. BUT, it's my favorite game we've ever done, I got paid an advance, and it RULES. So take that. Point Unpub. I think it was signed before the first 5 minute race was over. You know why? Cause it brought the house down. Just like it does every time. Poor MTM. We need time travel so we can figure out where we went wrong here and fix it. Shoulda been a hit. But point Unpub. (I think it was the price…..)
Goonies – One of our friends in the industry introduced us to another friend who is Albino Dragon who needed a card game for Goonies. Initial friend was an Origins / Gen Con friend, then Albino was all internet. So probably third points due, but I'm not doing thirds, so half internet and half Gen Con cause it needs it. Origins will be fine, trust me.
Back To The Future – Pandasaurus introduces us to IDW over the internet. We meet and finalize at Gen Con. Half point for both. I like the game btw. I feel bad that it's 30% tougher to "do" stuff than everyone else wanted. It's hard to know how difficult to make a game. Us and the testers loved it. You probably don't. Sorry.
Cow Tiger Santa Claus – A ridiculously fun little travel game that I love Jason Tagmire forever for publishing and making beautiful. Half point internet. Half point Unpub.
Wasteland Express Delivery Service – My favorite story ever. Pandasaurus sees us Tweeting about it, then travels to Unpub that very weekend just to play it with us. Insert Minis and Game Trayz. Everyone wins. Half point to internet and Unpub.
Ladder 29 – Played it at Origins with Jason Kotarski of Green Couch Games. He wanted it. It's a beautiful thing. I wasn't technically pitching btw. It was, "Hey you want to play this game we're working on?" The lesson here is to get out of the house. Go network. Become friends with publishers in person. That's the key. I hid the million dollar secret right here if you're still reading. Become friends with publishers in person. That's what you need to do to sell games. Other than make great games. Do that first. (Also, that secret isn't really worth a million dollars. Probably low thousands if you're really lucky)
Legends of Sleepy Hollow – Point Grandcon! I was just hanging out and talking about this cool idea we had with DiceHateMe, and Chris emails us the next week. "Let's do this together!" This project has been super fun. Nice job Grandcon / your local con.
Beta Colony – Coming late 2017 or early 2018 from Rio Grande. This is the result of relentlessly pitching them games every Origins and Gen Con for years on end. Half point to each.
The Way Of Kings – Coming 2018 from Mayday. Point Unpub. Get out and become friends with publishers! They just might ask you to make a game based on The Way Of Kings. Wonderful things happen when you make good friends. We were even joking the night before about how I had no game to pitch them so I wasn't pitching them! Then they asked us to do this. And it's a super fun game too. You want to play this one. Trust me.
Songbirds – Coming 2018 from German company. Who is affiliated with the American company we pitched at Origins. Have you bought Origins tickets and hotel yet?
Trollstigen – Our partner design with Scott Almes, tentatively planned for 2018. Deal done. Not announced yet, but shocker, Origins!
Fleet Dice – Half point internet and Unpub. Coming 2018.
New blind bidding system game – Coming 2018. Point internet. Can't wait to share more.
So, to my friend the budding, new North American game designer, how can you best spend your time and resources? Here's the scores:
Internet 6.5
Origins 4.5
Unpub 4.5
Gen Con 1.5
Grandcon 1
So this is great news for the new designers on a budget! Look at how much you can get done from the comfort of your own home! Let's break it down further:
Gen Con - First off, Gen Con is by far the most costly and logistically challenging convention in North America for most to attend. As I said earlier, as a gamer it's absolutely my favorite experience of the year, but from the prospective of selling game designs it's completely a waste of time and money that could be spent better elsewhere. Go if you want fun, but don't expect it to be your primary method of selling your game designs. The reason is simple. Publishers are too busy selling actual games and having huge meetings with partners to take real time to hang out. This is the big North American selling and showcase con. Look what we did. Buy what we did. Here's what's coming. Not a planning "Show me your proto" con. You might get a quick pitch here and there, but really you'll get "Get back with me later." At one of the better, design-selling cons you should be at.
The Internet - I love you so much, eat cold pizza and check fantasy baseball scores while sending out vague design tweets, The Internet. BUT, the reality is we made ONE blind sell on the internet. Every other internet point was based off of a previous relationship made in person or supported by a closing in person at a convention. The internet does not work large scale alone. It's the best, but you have to support it with those hard earned real life relationships. So when you're new, you get out and use the internet, but don't expect a huge windfall of success there until you put in the leg work in person.
Unpub – Go to Unpub. It's amazing. It's my favorite people in the world. Creatives holed up in a big room for 3 days working on their passion projects and a thousand strangers ready to test those ideas. It's such a high being in that atmosphere. AND it's super supported by publishers. You go there to make your games better, but secretly you want to sell some games too. Don't tell Darrell. But he knows.
Origins – The greatest little big con in North America. It's 50% the wild spectacle fun of Gen Con and every bit as productive as Unpub. Publishers have enough time to sit down with you. They're not yet quite losing their minds over Gen Con plans, but they will be soon. Meetings are slower and meaningful. Designers hang out playing protos until late at night. Origins has it all. Except 200 people in a random room off in the middle of nowhere playing some dead CCG at 4am, 1200 people playing Pathfinder on the second floor, and a 20 foot balloon dragon. You gotta go to Gen Con for those things.
Grandcon – Slash your own local con, would seem to be a waste of time with only one sale, but consider the fact that your local con is by far going to be the cheapest and logistically easiest con to attend. And even though sales for us haven't been as high as Origins or Unpub, the networking at Grandcon is a huge plus. Every chance you get as a designer to bank into the positive equity of the industry is momentum toward your goals of making and selling games. Because of the low barrier to entry, it's almost like a freebie to attend the local con, and anything you get out of it is gravy.
Protospiel – There are multiple chances to attend these throughout the country, and in similarity to local conventions, these events have a low cost, low logistical burden and produce positive networking opportunities as well as great chances to work on your games. I wouldn't expect high sales here, but I would recommend attending as possible.
BGG Con – So here is where I talk about a couple conventions I have never attended but have talked with plenty designers who have. BGG Con from what I can tell is a major resource that we are missing out on by not attending. It's late in the year, which accounts mostly for why we can't attend with the holidays right around that time, but being late in the year has the tremendous advantage that publishers are ACTIVELY looking to set up their next year at this time. I have heard of a LOT of deals getting done at BGG Con and it pains me that we don't attend. The thing that no-one can predict here though is how PAX Unplugged will affect this in the future being a competitor in the same time slot now. Publishers seem to be splitting resources in 2017 and going to both, but for how long? Which one should designers prioritize? I have no clue. My gut tells me that based on the muscle behind PAX, if I could go to only one in 2018 between the two, I'd strongly be considering PAX Unplugged pending the reviews from this year.
Essen Spiel – If you're just starting out and live in North America, attending Essen Spiel is the furthest thing from your mind. The cost simply wouldn't be worth it without any existing relationships to leverage once you're there. For me and Matt, I believe at some point we need to start attending if we wish to further push our designs into the European market. Songbirds coming out in 2018 from cool German publisher is a great start, but we could get SO much more done going in person and making some friends.
UK Gaming Expo – From what I've heard, this one sounds a ton like Origins, big con feel, but with intimacy too. If someone wanted to chime in here, that would be helpful. If it's anything like Origins as far as publisher accessibility, then prioritize accordingly if this one is in shooting distance of you.
There's some other big industry events too that are most likely way past what would be profitable for a first time designer to attend. Events like NY Toy fair, The GAMA Trade Show, Nuremberg Toy fair, etc. These generally are not rookie conventions; they're more industry business events.
So there it is, the Fleeples guide to new designers maximizing their time and resources in order to sell some game designs!
1. Work the internet like a boss. Prioritize Twitter, BGG, and maybe one other positive site of your choice.
2. Attend Unpub (Prime) – The one in Maryland
3. Attend Origins
4. Attend your local Con
5. Continue working the internet now more focused since you know some people from meeting them face to face.
6. Rinse and repeat 1-5 and mix in as many other conventions as you can afford time and money wise.
Oh, and make sure to start by making a great game. With a hook. Every publisher wants a game with a hook right now! Why would someone buy your game? Answer that question and let the publishers know the answer when you're telling them about your game.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to post your own experiences and advice below. Remember, most of all, to have fun. We're making games after all!


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Today and tomorrow tour six local xeriscaped gardens and learn how to create your own at this annual event sponsored by the Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs and the Colorado WaterWise Council. Tickets are $15 -- available in advance at King Soopers on West Uintah Street, North Academy Boulevard, Austin Bluffs Parkway and Cheyenne Meadows Road -- and can be purchased on the tour date at either 3106 Templeton Gap Road or at the Colorado Springs Utilities Xeriscape Demo Garden at 225 Mesa Road. Details and photos are available at www.coloradogardenclubs.org.
Hold on one minute there, nerds: When I say "Potter's Games," I'm not talking about competitive Parselmouthing or the 100-meter Patronus-off. (That stuff doesn't really exist. Sigh.) What does exist, though, is clay, and they'll be competing like mad with that stuff today in Manitou Springs at ClayFest. Competitive events include largest thrown pot, fastest throwing, blindfolded throwing, tandem throwing and hand building. Witness your favorite potter take home the gold. The (regrettably non-magical) festivities are happening from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Soda Springs Park in Manitou Springs, and interested potters can register to compete by heading over to
Also today, celebrate Juneteenth at the Doubletree Hotel at the World Arena (1775 E. Cheyenne Mountain Blvd.) or at Fountain Park (corner of Fountain and Institute, next to Hillside Community Center). The free park event will feature food, entertainment and a celebration of the life and times of former vice-mayor Leon Young, from noon to 6 p.m. The Junteenth Expo at the hotel will include dinner, an awards ceremony, exhibitions and entertainment by jazz saxophonist Plas Johnson, best known for his purring contibution to Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme." Reservations are required for the Expo; call 528-1954.
Spend your Sunday surrounded by undulating tummies, but this time not at Wal-Mart. The Magdalia Festival, the Springs' first belly dance get-together, goes on all day today at the City Auditorium (221 E. Kiowa St.). Events include a workshop, public vending of costumes, swords, jewelry and art, open stage performances and an evening performance featuring Morocco, New York's own belly-dancing guru. Admission for the afternoon events is $5 and the cost of the evening performance is $15. Call 632-1111 for more information.
Tonight at the Gold Rush Palladium in Cripple Creek (209 E. Bennett), catch the Kingston Trio, who'll be Tom Dooleying all night long. These aging folksters emerged from the North Beach scene in 1957 on the forefront of the folk movement to conquer the nation with sizzling banjo licks and pretty melodies. Head over to
- Plas Johnson celebrates Juneteenth at the Doubletree World Arena.
www.ticketweb.com or call 866/468-7621 to buy tickets, which will run you $20 to $29. The doors open at 4 p.m. for a 5 o'clock show.
Salsa 'til ya Drop (tango and swing too) tonight, starting at 6, at Rum Bay (20 N. Tejon St.) to raise money for Diabetes Community Outreach in the Pikes Peak region. The Diabetes Resource Network wants you to party and to get tested for your personal risk of diabetes. They will be attempting to break into the Guinness Book of World Records for most people risk tested for diabetes in one day. DRN will be risk assessing downtown from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Rum Bay gives salsa lessons from 7 to 9; and local dance studios will give salsa, tango, swing, cha-cha and rumba demonstrations throughout the evening.
The Pikes Peak Farmers' Market at Memorial Park starts today and runs through Oct. 7, 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., every Monday and Thursday except Labor Day. Teach your kids to love their veggies; bring 'em along for a shopping spree.
Cipriano Vigil, the premier authority on the historic music of New Mexico, along with daughter Felicita and son Cipriano, will demonstrate Spanish corridos, relaciones, valces, polkas, redondos and other popular Spanish music forms made popular in the Southwest as far back as the 17th century, tonight at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (off of 30th street, next to Garden of the Gods). This outdoor concert -- bring blankets or lawn chairs -- starts at 7 p.m. and is free. Bring the whole family; Vigil has been proclaimed "a living treasure of folk music" by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.
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WWE NXT 09/19/18 Recap
Deonna & Dakota take on Lacey & Aliyah, Jaxson Ryker debuts, and Dunne and Ricochet have a near classic.
WWE NXT 09/19/18 features the first ever "champion vs. champion" match when WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne faces NXT North American Champion Ricochet. Does someone leave a double champion? Or does the Undisputed Era create an expected "no contest" result? Also on tap for tonight? Deonna Purrazzo teams up with Dakota Kai to take on Lacey Evans and Aliyah. Lastly, will the Regal Commission continue the interrogations about the Aleister Black attack? Let's find out!
WWE NXT 09/19/18 Recap
WWE. Then. Now. Forever. We open with a dramatic video package for tonight's "champion vs. champion" match.
Standard NXT opening credits and we're taped (originally taped 08/23/18) from Full Sail. Mauro welcomes us to the show and the crowd chants "NXT" as they do.
Dakota Kai's music hits and she's out first for her team; Deonna Purrazzo entering last for the babyface team. Aliyah is out first for the heels and continues to get a heated reaction from Full Sail for whatever reason. Lacey Evans rounds out the entrances.
Match #1: Dakota Kai & Deonna Purrazzo vs. Aliyah & Lacey Evans
Relatively standard tag team action here. Aliyah and Evans do the "behind the ref's back" double team spot and otherwise just work over Deonna to set up a hot tag to Kai. Dakota goes on a run, but the finish comes when Evans blind tags herself in, Kai rolls up Aliyah, and eats a Women's Right from Evans. Lacey covers and picks up the win. The finish sequence looked great and is more proof that Evans is one of the more improved NXT talents of 2018. I still don't know what Aliyah has done to upset Full Sail so much. Every time she's in she gets a "Aliyah sucks" chant. Are they just upset she's been there for so long and has never really done anything? This is like "Bo Dallas in 2013" levels of ire from Full Sail for no real reason I can find.
Verdict: Thumbs Up – Decent enough action and Evans is on a bit of a roll lately so I wasn't too surprised to see her team pick up the win.
Meanwhile, Velveteen Dream is backstage being interviewed by "the press". I guess he's softened to giving interviews all of a sudden? Dream mentions the WWE Network and that he beat Gargano. They ask Dream about the person behind the Aleister Black attack and Dream calls them out for having access to the Dream but asking about someone who isn't the Dream. More classic stuff from Dream.
Later tonight? Champion vs. Champion!
Up next? Jaxson Ryker of the Forgotten Sons debuts.
During the break, we get another episode of "Street Talk" from the Street Profits. I guess The Mighty store Ford's chains. I thought it was the Solo cup.
Back from break, we see the finish of last week's main event.
Also, last week? We get this backstage interview with Bianca Belair where she reminds us she's still undefeated. I guess a double count out isn't technically "losing" so… sure.
Up next, some music hits and Humberto Carrillo is out. The Forgotten Sons' music hits next and Jaxson Ryker is out alone.
Match #2: Humberto Carrillo vs. Jaxson Ryker
Absolute squash. Carrillo goes for a springboard, eats a punch, and Ryker puts him away with a slingshot powerbomb.
Verdict: Thumbs Up – A "NXT debut" squash. They've been happening for years.
Meanwhile, the Regal Commission is interviewing Candice LeRae in Regal's office. She maintains her alibi that she was with Ohno and Kairi and didn't see anything. She infers that Ciampa is behind the attack, but Regal says they have no evidence to show that Ciampa did it. Regal asks if she can account for Gargano's whereabouts and Candice says he went to clean up in the locker room after the show and then they drove home together. The plot continues to thicken.
Meanwhile, Dunne is backstage staring at the UK title and Ricochet is backstage staring at the North American title. We're then sent to another hype video about tonight's main event.
During the break, a Keith Lee hype video airs.
Back from break, we see archival footage of EC3 saying he thinks Lars was behind the attack on Black. We also see archival footage of EC3 being taken out by Lars.
Next week? Lars Sullivan "returns to action". Uh, he wrestled last week, guys.
Also, next week? Otis Dozovic takes on Tommaso Ciampa.
Meanwhile, back in the arena, Ricochet is out first for the main event. Dunne enters last. The crowd seems very mixed on who they're cheering for.
Match #3: Ricochet (c) vs. Pete Dunne (c) (Champion vs. Champion Match for the WWE UK Championship and the NXT North American Championship)
So, I went into this expecting no finish so I did not leave disappointed. These two guys left it all in the ring and, excluding the finish, this is definitely one to check out. Dunne works the mat effectively and we see Ricochet, largely known for his high-flying, taking to a mat based game to counter Dunne. Great spots abound as Ricochet is a next-level athlete and Dunne shows his prowess by hanging with someone the caliber of Ricochet. After a series of spots that would have ended a match with lesser men, Dunne and Ricochet are reduced to lying on the mat punching each other. Cue the Undisputed Era for the run in to save us from having to go to a place where someone is a dual champion.
Verdict: Thumbs Up – I figured the one possible outcome that wasn't a "no contest" would be Dunne beating Ricochet, but with the next TakeOver still so far out, Ricochet winning the North American title back at the next taping. There was no way Dunne was going to end his long reign on a weekly episode of NXT. But, I went in expecting a schmoz finish so the finish didn't ruin the match for me.
Post-match, the Undisputed beat down occurs until the War Raiders run out and chase the Era to the back. The crowd chants "both these guys" as refs get each man their respective title belts.
We go off the air on both guys facing off across the ring while the crowd chants "NXT".


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Last Friday (28 September) was Macmillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning, which is their largest fundraising event of the year to support people suffering from cancer. Last year alone, the charity raised over £27million.
Rt Hon Sir David Evennett, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford, attended a coffee morning in Barnehurst Road with his wife, Marilyn. The fundraiser was organised by Anne Rawlings and Hilary Haslam, and in order to increase the funds raised, they also had a stall outside to offer tea, coffee and cakes to commuters en route to Barnehurst Station. Together with their volunteers, they managed to raise £745 on the day, which increased to £830 with subsequent donations.
Sir David commented: "Macmillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning is a brilliant annual event that I am always pleased to be able to support. It is great to see so many people coming together to support such a worthy cause."


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Since Thursday evening, when 23-year-old writer and activist Suey Park sent out a tweet to her 19,000-odd followers—"The Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals has decided to call for #CancelColbert. Trend it."—America's media has been in the grips of some sort of Suey Park-derangement syndrome. Park's call to action came in response to a tweet from The Cobert Report's official account that contained the punchline of a segment from last Wednesday's program. In the bit, Colbert lampooned Dan Snyder, the owner of Washington DC's football team, by comparing the racist name of the team to racist language used against Asians. Dozens of articles have been written about the hashtag campaign. Writers at The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, Time, the Daily Beast, Jezebel, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, the BBC, Mediaite, Entertainment Weekly, and many, many more have all weighed in. Almost without exception (Brittney Cooper at Salon is one of the few) these articles, essays and blog posts agree that Suey Park and the hashtag she spawned are misguided, ill-informed, unable to take a joke, unaware of the meaning of satire and/or just plain stupid.
In addition to the flood of media critiques, Park and others who joined the hashtag have faced a deluge of criticism and abuse from other Twitter users. At some points, dozens if not hundreds of tweets per minute were being addressed to Park. Many followed the script of your typical patronizing mansplainer confronted with a woman he disagrees with and is unable to resist engaging: "Don't you understand what satire is?" etc. But many others contained racist and misogynistic slurs, rape threats, death threats and every other conceivable kind of invective, all directed toward Suey Park.
The mainstream media response to #CancelColbert has been more genteel than that which emerged from the underbelly of the internet. Two exceptions were HuffPost Live and Deadspin. On HuffPost Live, host Josh Zepps came out and said to Park's face what much of the commentariat couched in less offensive language: "It's just a stupid opinion." Deadspin published a post entitled "Gooks Don't Get Redskins Joke," a cravenly cynical ploy to garner traffic and court controversy. (White liberal writers have shied away from criticizing Deadspin, citing the fact that the two authors of the post are Korean-American as some kind of excuse. I don't share their sensitivity. People of color will always find someone willing to pay them money to sell out other people of color. Just ask Amy Chua.)
But for the most part, talented writers have (mis)applied their skills of logic and persuasion to explain why #CancelColbert was a bad idea. I find most of the arguments against Park (and yes I think many of the arguments are aimed directly at Park, even more than at her hashtag) to be fundamentally weak. We have been reminded again and again that Colbert's offensive language against Asians was deployed as satire in order to attack the racism of Dan Snyder, and that the context of the statements are critical to "getting" the joke. This is obviously true, and did not need to be explained to Park, but how this invalidates the concerns of real people who feel real pain when they hear stereotypes about Asians is left unaddressed.
We have been told that, even if Colbert's joke hurt the feelings of some Asian Americans, it was all in furtherance of a greater good—the education of people within his audience who did not realize that the name "Redskins" is an offensive slur until it was compared to anti-Asian slurs. This narrative strikes me as particularly specious. It rests on weighing the education of a group of people who have been hypothesized into existence as more important than the experience of a group of people who are actually speaking out to express their discomfort. If any journalist wants to present evidence of a single person who was moved to change their opinion of Dan Snyder by Colbert's routine, then perhaps we can assign it a social value. I've yet to see any such evidence, and while I would never deny that Colbert's performances are entertaining, there's a difference between entertainment and enlightenment.
We have been told that Colbert's joke was aimed at the abhorrent racism of the name of the Washington football team, and that bringing up the question of racism aimed at Asian Americans is a distraction that will hurt the cause of Native Americans. This is a charge that would be easier to swallow were it not that so many of the writers putting forward this argument have never written about changing the name of the team themselves. Park and many of her fellow #CancelColbert tweeters have a history of engaging in Twitter activism against the team's name alongside Native American activists: See #NotYourMascot as one example. Meanwhile, the idea that Colbert is more valuable to the fight against racism than people of color who are engaging in anti-racist activism on their own terms comes perilously close to a white savior argument that deserves serious scrutiny.
Even if all these arguments against Suey Park were convincing, however, none of them explains why so many members of the mainstream media felt so irresistibly compelled to make them. That's the question that I find most striking about this entire brouhaha. I've spent this past weekend considering the relative comfort and power of columnists at mainstream publications as compared to the 23-year-old activist and asking (in my best Veronica Sawyer from Heathers voice), "What is your damage?" You may not agree with her campaigns or her tactics (I have frequently disagreed with her myself) but do you really need her to shut up so badly?
I think that the real problem most people have with Park is that she has power. Over the past few days, writers with larger platforms than Park have suggested #CancelSnyder and other variations on the theme to much lesser effect. And yet when Suey Park told her followers to trend #CancelColbert, they complied, and kept the hashtag trending for hours.
The power to direct thousands of people on social media and drive a narrative without permission from any editor, publication or other form of traditional media gatekeeper is one that many in journalism wish they had and (I suspect) believe they deserve more than Park. Who the hell is she, after all? Who gave her permission? We are not used to women of color, and especially supposedly submissive Asian women, acting with such brash disregard of their elders and "betters."
I hope that all the writers who took to their platforms to condemn #CancelColbert and Suey Park ask themselves what they had to lose by supporting her, or at least by remaining silent. From where I stand, the distinction between the internet trolls who want Park to be quiet and the media commenters who want Park to be quiet is narrower than the media commenters would want to admit. Park's influence challenges the traditional power structure of a mainstream media born of and endlessly reinforcing a system of white supremacy. The sheer volume of her detractors says more about their fear of losing influence than it does about anything else.


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A Twitter account for the music television network tweeted a photo of Kardashian sporting cornrows (they renamed it "boxer braids") and said, "The A-list are loving boxer braids right now, so here's an easy way to do them yourself:" and provided a link.
The article credits Kardashian for bringing the hairstyle back into fashion as it has been sported by her half-sister, Kylie Jenner, and other celebrities like Hailey Baldwin.
Now, although a scroll through Instagram feeds might show more and more stars donning the hairstyle, there is no denying the fact that Black girls have always been braiding their hair into cornrows for, well, since forever.
And so, the reaction was as expected. Twitter users were up in arms against the affront and implication.
Zaddy (@dontpunishme) wrote, "Y'all taking Black people's BOX braiders, and calling them 'boxER braids'?? For real?" and "If you're gonna swagger jack Black hairstyles at least come up with a better name… But then again when have yall come up with anything original and creative?"
"This is a simple cornrow – not some boxer braid. Smh. Make up your own stuff – for once," tweeted Candace (@claughinghouse)
"…they gonna take black culture then twist it into this ugly mess. Mkay, noted," said akosua (@mamauhh_gif)
Ear Hustle 411 writer, Cee Cee, expressed her thoughts about how MTV UK gave credit to Kardashain for making cornrows popular by saying, "They go from calling Corn Rows to Boxer Braids as if changing the name of the style is supposed to somehow magically change the perception and history of the andocentric braids. Apparently they are trying to white wash the style and promoting Kim Kardashian as the founder of the braided style which was also worn by Hailey Baldwin and her baby sister Kylie Jenner. Although black girls have been rocking this style for centuries it's now the Kim Kardashian hairstyle."
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Campbell Soup Co. (CPB) said that it strongly disagreed with proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.'s or ISS conclusion, and continued to recommend that Campbell shareholders vote on the GOLD proxy card FOR the election of Campbell's 12 director nominees.
Campbell said its Board consists of 12 members, 11 of whom are independent and four of whom have been added since 2016.
Campbell said, "As we disclosed last week, we have had recent and proactive discussions with Third Point regarding our ongoing director refreshment process. As part of those discussions, we proposed expanding our current Board to add two individuals from the Third Point slate who possess relevant industry experience after our annual meeting - including Kurt Schmidt and Sarah Hofstetter. Third Point rejected this proposal. Instead, they have decided to continue this wasteful and distracting proxy fight."
Earlier today, ISS recommended that Campbell Soup Co investors elect all five of hedge fund Third Point's board nominees.
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We can only guess what those who this week fought their way through roadworks to arrive in Oxford late for work or appointments made of our front page story about bus tunnels being dug across Oxford's historic centre.
Through gritted teeth, some may wonder why Oxfordshire County Council is focusing its energies on imagining how not one but up to three bus tunnels could ease Oxford's traffic miseries in 10, 20 or 30 years' time.
The most eye-catching — or should that be eye-watering? — idea is to build a mile-long tunnel that would run under the River Cherwell, the High Street, Queen Street and on to the new transport hub at Oxford's railway station.
The High might be more associated with wine cellars and medieval underground tunnels than a multi-million-pound route for electric buses.
But Oxford Civic Society chairman Peter Thompson, a chartered civic engineer, is right to suggest that any engineering problem can be overcome — so long as you are prepared to pay sufficient millions.
And for this mile-long tunnel across Oxford's historic heart, the scheme could easily reach £500m.
Many will view Mr Ian Hudspeth as bold in putting forward such an idea, others may groan that it would be good simply to see the current works on the ring road completed.
But unlike the vast bulk of politicians, he does at least have his eyes on the long term, recognising Oxford's circumstances mean no ordinary solution is going to be sufficient to end the city's chronic congestion, which is destined to get far, far worse.
Rising population, new house building, business parks and a flood of workers means the issue of our road congestion is not going away.
We are, after all, talking about having to cope with the forecast of 85,000 new jobs and 100,000 new homes planned in the county up to 2031.
But the danger of the county's Connecting Oxfordshire initiative is that it could be seen to smack of desperation.
It has already produced so many potentially multi-million-pound schemes, such as tramways from the city centre to the suburbs, a guided busway to surrounding towns and a monorail.
What next? An Oxford underground system?
Mr Hudspeth readily admits details are lacking, as well as, crucially, the costing.
For him, the key is to get the debate going and keep it going until agreed solutions are thrashed out.
There are certainly signs that, for the first time in a generation, there is big money on offer from the Government.
But the key thing will be to narrow the options as quickly as possible between what is remotely feasible and what is not.