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Warthog Update – Visiting (1708)
Huell Howser visits the Los Angeles Zoo where he gets an update on the warthogs he covered in his old Videolog series from 1983. Huell discovers that the Warthogs have been moved to a different zoo for breeding, but finds the opportunity to shed light on the importance of an endangered warthog species known as Continue Reading »
Protected Beach- Huell's Whale Adventure Special (2)
Episode #2 is a tour of a protected beach. It all took place in San Ignacio Lagoon halfway down the Baja Peninsula on the Pacific side. It's here the mammoth gray whales come like clockwork each year to birth their calves. The winter migration down the coast from Alaska is a journey of more than Continue Reading »
Anacapa Island- California's Golden Coast (105)
Anacapa Island, one of California's Channel Islands, is located 14 miles off the coast from Ventura. From the ocean, Huell finds that ocean waves have eroded the perimeter of the island, creating steep sea cliffs towering hundreds of feet in height and exposing the volcanic origins of air pockets, lava tubes, and sea caves. Once Continue Reading »


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Dr. Sapana Majmudar manages Serene Dental in Fermont, California. Describes as gentle, fair and friendly by her patients, Dr. Mahmudar is a firm believer in conservative treatments when it comes to giving patients a smile makeover. We made sure to highlight her use of advanced technology and services through a professional and modern website design.
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When you enter the website, you are immediately welcomed by a goofy image that highlights some of the office's standout achievements. With more than 20 years in the dental industry and over 25,000 procedures done, Dr. Majmudar understands the importance of patient satisfaction.
The website is simple but professional that makes for a great first impression. The navigation toolbar at the top of the website is easily accessible and displays the different promotions and services available. The homepage holds Dr. Majmudar's mission statement as well as multiple patient education videos about the different dental procedures available. To top it all off, we created a personalized logo that stands next to the office's title.
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The majority of the website is spacious and uses a clear white background to allow optimal readability. Over calls to action, the widgets turn blue. Blue and white work well together to not only complement the specialty, but to also help add a bit of flair into the mix of things. The little features matter – especially on healthcare websites. Adding just a hint of blue creates a sense of hope and wellbeing to the viewer.
Elements of Design
When it comes to Dr. Majmudar, there is no need for fancy aesthetics. When you have over 20 years in the dentistry industry, you can afford to trade glam and glitz for patient education. The navigation menu features several educational patient videos under the learn more tab. When you click on any of the services, in particular, you are redirected to a new web page where the service is broken down more in detail.
Educating and informing your patients can a long way in building a trustworthy relationship. Gaining the trust and commitment of the patient is the initial, and most important step of the process. To keep up with all the information on the website, we used square borders to frame everything accordingly. As stated earlier, the wide white background lends itself nicely for optimal digestion.
When something looks appealing or different, we tend to gravitate towards it by nature. When visitors first enter the website, they will notice an interactive chat menu available for them on the right side of the web page. This allows patients to send a direct message to Dr. Majumudar herself! Not only does this add a hint of distractibility and flair to the website, but it also can also be a great way to engage new or skeptical patients.
Marketing Aspect
Connecting with your patients on a more personal level can truly make the task of seeing a dentist much easier. No one likes a doctor who is boring and unrelatable! Dr. Majmudar made sure this was not the case with her website.
The testimonials on her website feature her credibility and diversity as a doctor. There are also links to her Facebook page and Google page on the top banner as well. Dental work is far from cheap; dentists know this as well. Dr. Majmudar made sure to help her patients by providing special promotions on her website. There are promotions and service discounts for both returning and new patients!
Blogging and educational videos are also two innovative ways to generate increased web content and user engagement. When patients get a sense of reliability and trust from your website, they are more willing to commit to swinging by the office. To top it all off, the California veterans understand how important it is to keep patient information secure. As a result, they have incorporated SSL Security in their website. This means that patient information will be inaccessible to hackers around the world.

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"I am God and not a human;
I am the Holy One, and I am among you."
(Hosea 11:9)
"God's Presence"
A Devotional by Max Lucado
From "Grace For The Moment"
Before you read any further, reflect on those last four words, "I am among you." Do you believe God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know He is in the midst of your world. Where you are as you read these words, he is present. In your car. On the plane. In your office, your bedroom, your den. He's near.
God is in the thick of things in your world. He has not taken up residence in a distant galaxy. He has not removed Himself from history. He has not chosen to seclude Himself on a throne in an incandescent castle.
He has drawn near. He has involved himself in the carpools, heartbreaks, and funeral homes of our day. He is as near to us on Monday as on Sunday. In the schoolroom as in the sanctuary. At the coffee break as much as the communion table.


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- Eye irritation, pain, redness, or itching
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Drug InteractionsIn general, this product is unlikely to react with other medications (see Zymar Drug Interactions).
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National Library of Medicine (US). Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB. Accessed November 19, 2010.
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Mumbai: Last seen in Alia Bhatt starter Mulk, Rajat Kapoor is all set to do a double role in his next. The actor will be seen in dual characters in the film titled RK/RKay.
Sharing more details about the project, a source associated with the film says, "It is about two individuals who look similar — doppelgangers. One is RK, while other is RKay."
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The film which is set in Mumbai is currently in the pre-production stage. It will be shot and readied by the end of the year. The casting for the female lead is still on.
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Mike Sutton
is was a reader in criminology at Nottingham Trent University who used google, in order to track down the provenience of certain quotes that are often attributed wrongly. He now thinks he has sufficient evidence to conclude that both Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace plagiarized Patrick Matthew (1831. On Naval Timber and Arboriculture) and stole Matthew's idea of evolution through natural selection from it.
But what if some crucial source was missing from Google Books and any other online archive? What if a common predecessor was the hidden source of similarities between Darwin and Matthew?
Hutton (1726 – 1797)In 1794, James Hutton published An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from sense to science and philosophy (Edinburgh: Strahan & Cadell).
1. This is not digitally available either by Google Books or any other online archive. However, Paul N. Pearson published a short retrospective on it in Nature (2003, vol. 425, p. 665) and delivered as supplementary information: The full text of Hutton's chapter from The Principles of Knowledge and other relevant extracts from Elements of Agriculture.
2. It is a large, metaphysical treatise about the question how experiences (from mere sensations to conscious cognition) become knowledge and eventually science.
3. Though Hutton did not apply the term selection to the natural process, he published an early statement of the principle of natural selection as an example of knowledge that has become science, that is, husbandmen do science by applying their knowledge about nature in breeding:
"IN order to illustrate the nature of human wisdom, we are now to examine the conduct of man in relation to the laws of nature; for, where man suits his conduct to those laws, he must necessarily have understood them. But, nobody will dispute that this is science, when man perceives the order of nature, that is, the laws by which things come to pass; and if, upon this knowledge, he shall so shape his conduct, as to attain the end in view, his wisdom will then appear as evidence of his science." (Hutton 1794: p. 497; re-quoted from Pearson 2003, supplementary information)
After more preliminaries about species being made up of individuals with slightly varying traits, this variability having no direction, and natural conditions such as soils and climates being also of an indefinite variety, Hutton stated the principle of natural selection as follows:
"Now, this will be evident, when we consider, that if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race." (Hutton 1794: p. 501; re-quoted from Pearson 2003, supplementary information)
4. Though clearly stated, the principle of natural selection was not combined with the idea of species transformation. On the contrary, Hutton explicitly disavowed a species transmutation theory of his contemporary Telliamed:
"We are not here to indulge in the romantic fancy of a Telliamed, forming fowls of flying fish, and men of mermaids or some aquatic animal." (Hutton 1794: p. 500; re-quoted from Pearson 2003, supplementary information)Benoit de Maillet (alias Telliamed) had speculated about a world that used to be inundated and then subsequently fell dry. Among geologists this idea was referred to as Neptunism and the opposite as Plutonism (or vulcanism).
5. The usage of Hutton (1794) is strikingly similar to that of Matthew (1831) and Darwin (1859. On the Origin of Species):
Hutton 1794
Matthew (1831)
Darwin (1859)
1. adapted to the particular situation and circumstances
|1. adapted to the locality
|1. adapted to their conditions of life
2. organised bodies
|2. organized matter/ being/ existence
|2. organised forms
3. indefinite variety
|3. infinite variety
|3. infinite diversity
Explanatory systemsIf we thought of Hutton's Principles of Knowledge as a construct of ideas that could be illustrated by a complex building, a farm for example, the various rooms and premises of that farm would be enlightened by different mechanisms (switches). But only the stable, where the breeding and husbandry went on, would be enlightened by the mechanism of natural/artificial selection. Further more, none of the breeding going on there or in nature outside of the farm would ever lead to a transmutation of one species into another.
In this picture, Darwin's On the Origin of Species would, instead, be a zoological and botanical garden, but all the buildings and enclosures would be enlightened by one central switch, natural selection connected with species transmutation. Gradualism was also be a part of Darwin's explanatory system, but as the combination of gradualism with natural selection already existed in Hutton's explanatory system, that particular combination was not the new invention then. It was the combination of natural selection with species transmutation that distinguished Darwin's, Wallace's and, yes, Matthew's explanations from those that previously saw natural selection and species transmutation as mutually exclusive.
In the above picture of explanatory systems, Matthew's book would be a village of separate properties, a miscellany of ideas, but not one long argument. A visitor would find the mechanism of natural selection lying around, here and there, in different states of assembly. Passages that can be recognized, in retrospect, as being inspired by the idea of natural selection occur throughout the book (for examples see here and here), but it is not one long argument crafted in order to drive home the message that natural selection transforms species.
A tour through Matthew's villageEntrance hall. The introduction (pp. 1-4) is not about natural selection, but about the importance of the navy for the British empire. It also contains a rants against the degeneration of an entailed aristocracy, at page 3, and this rant contains a footnote ("* See App. B.") that refers to Note B, which was too long to be included in the main text as a footnote. It was therefore put in an appendix of end-notes A to F. This Note B, in turn, starts with an insight about a natural law that must have caught his readers by surprise, as they were probably expecting the rants about the degenerate to nobility to continue. Continue it would, but only after this insight:
"There is a law universal in nature, tending to render every reproductive being the best possibly suited to its condition that its kind, or that organized matter, is susceptible of, which appears intended to model the physical and mental or instinctive powers, to their highest perfection, and to continue them so. This law sustains the lion in his strength, the hare in her swiftness, and the fox in his wiles. As Nature, in all her modifications of life, has a power of increase far beyond what is needed to supply the place of what falls by Time's decay, those individuals who posses not the requisite strength, swiftness, hardihood, or cunning, fall prematurely without reproducing—either a prey to their natural devourers, or sinking under disease, generally induced by want of nourishment, their place being occupied by the more perfect of their own kind, who are pressing on the means of subsistence. The law of entail, necessary to hereditary nobility, is an outrage on this law of nature which she will not pass unavenged [...]" (Matthew 1831, 364-365)Surely, this is not a combination of natural selection with species transformation. If anything it is a naturalistic fallacy, in which Matthew argues that the law of entail is bad, because it is against nature.
Joiner's Workshop. Part one (pp. 5-30) of Matthew's book is about the Structure of Vessels with plank wood being for the skin of ships and timber for the ribs or skeleton. This part contains nothing of interest concerning natural history and what it does contain about ship building has been said to be shallow and derivative.
Arboretum. Part two (pp. 31-105) is about British Forest Trees suited for Naval Purposes, which were: Oak, Spanish Chestnut, Beech, Scotch Elm, British Elm, Red-wood Willow, Red-wood Pine, White Larch. While there is a lot of information about varieties of trees in here, none of it aims at a function of this variability in theory of evolution through natural selection. Instead, it is a rather confused part mixing information about leaf variety, bark variety etc. with the sensitivity of certain tree species to pruning or whether they are suitable for hedgerows, their requirements of soils, measures against dry rot etc.
Philosopher's shed. Part three (pp. 106-137) is called Miscellaneous Matter connected with Naval Timber. This part is not half as mixed up a miscellany as the previous one. Instead it is a rather concentrated lamentation deploring the poor selection regime being followed by tree nurseries. The point is that healthy trees with good heritable traits take the longest to mature and yield seeds, which is why tree nurseries have often chosen the most sickly trees that spend themselves in seeds the earliest for seeds.
"The consequences are now being developed of our deplorable ignorance of, or inattention to, one of the most evident traits of natural history, that vegetables as well as animals are generally liable to an almost unlimited diversification, regulated by climate, soil, nourishment, and new commixture of already formed varieties. In those with which man is most intimate, and where his agency in throwing them from their natural locality and dispositions has brought out this power of diversification in stronger shades, it has been forced upon his notice, as in man himself, in the dog, horse, cow, sheep, poultry,—in the apple, pear, plum, gooseberry, potato, pea, which sport in infinite varieties, differing considerably in size, colour, taste, firmness of texture, period of growth, almost in every recognisable quality. In all these kinds man is influencial in preventing deterioration, by careful selection of the largest or most valuable as breeders; but in timber trees the opposite course has been pursued. The large growing varieties being so long of coming to produce seed, that many plantations are cut down before they reach this maturity, the small growing and weakly varieties, known by early and extreme seeding, have been continually selected as reproductive stock, from the ease and conveniency with which their seed could be procured; and the husks of several kinds of these invariably kiln dried*, in order that the seeds might be the more easily extracted! May we, then, wonder that our plantations are occupied by a sickly short-lived puny race, incapable of supporting existence in situations where their own kind had formerly flourished—particularly evinced in the genus Pinus, more particularly in the species Scots fir; so much inferior to those of Nature's own rearing, where only the stronger, more hardy, soil-suited varieties can struggle forward to maturity and reproduction?" (Matthew 1831: pp. 106-108)While species transmutation is not at issue, here, the degeneration of cultivated trees is lucidly explained in terms of poor regimes of artificial selection on the part of tree nurseries and in comparison with natural selection.
Potemkin village within. Part four (pp. 138-359) is a Notice of Authors who treat of Arboriculture. Now, this is the biggest part of Matthew's village, the Potemkin village within. Notice of authors means that Matthew picked the nits out of earlier publications on tree planting etc., and let the authors look stupid, but he also picked the cherries and let them look like his own insights. And he did not care whether the nit or cherry in question was about coppice, pruning, soil preparation, ploughing, transplanting trees, curing diseases, whether slow or quick grown wood is better for naval purposes etc. Needless to say that some passages in this part have also been inspired by the idea of natural selection, whenever it suited Matthew's agenda of denigrating a predecessor. But these passages do not combine natural selection with species tarnsformation and, like rubies in the rubbish, they are hard to find.
The maze. The Appendix (pp. 363-381) is a collection of end-notes A-F that were too long to be included in the main text as footnotes. Notes B and C are on the topic of natural selection, the rest is not.
The exit. After this collection of end-notes, another appendix to the appendix (pp. 381-388) is appended. This is where Matthew clearly combines his idea of natural selection with that of species transmutation, nowhere else.
"Is the inference then unphilosophic, that living things which are proved to have a circumstance-suiting power—a very slight change of circumstance by culture inducing a corresponding change of character—may have gradually accommodated themselves to the variations of the elements containing them, and, without new creation, have presented the diverging changeable phenomena of past and present organized existence." (Matthew 1831: p. 382)
"the progeny of the same parents, under great difference of circumstance, might, in several generations, even become distinct species incapable of co reproduction.
The self regulating adaptive disposition of organized life may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting only the situations to which they have superior adaptation and greater power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action, it regulates the colour, the figure, the capacities, and instincts; those individuals of each species, whose colour and covering are best suited to concealment or protection rom enemies, or defence from vicissitude and inclemencies of climate, whose figure is best accommodated to health, strength, defence, and support; whose capacities and instincts can best regulate the physical energies to self-advantage according to circumstances—in such immense waste of primary and youthful life, those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard of perfection and fitness to continue their kind by reproduction." (Matthew 1831: p. 384-385)
The visitor to Matthew's village first saw the foyer with pomp about the navy and the British empire, but including also an irritating side-chamber with a rant against entailed nobility as blundering against a law of nature he may or may not have heard of before. That visitor then went into a workshop, where a joiner showed him the craft of ship building. From there he got into an arboretum displaying the British forest trees suited for ship building. Next he stumbled into the shed of a philosopher deploring the poor job of the nurserymen that manage the arboretum. And from there he reached the Potemkin core of the village, a bewildering array of claims on Matthew's part. Will he ever have gotten through that Potemkin village and made his the exit through appendices?
ConclusionIt is a false abridgment to talk about the 'discovery of natural selection' or the 'discovery of the mechanism of evolution' as if natural selection had not been known before 1858 or 1831 for that matter. As shown above, the ideas of species transformation and of natural selection were old but thought to be mutually exclusive, before they have been combined in a way that turned natural selection into a mechanism for species transformation. The new idea was to combine them in a way that natural selection was no longer preventing species transmutation but promoting it.
This particular combination can also be found in the appendix to the appendix of Matthew's book On Naval Timber and Arboriculture. But there the similarities between Matthew's and Darwin's explanatory systems already end. Where Darwin's is one long argument to drive home the message that natural selection can transform species, Matthew's is all sorts of arguments on a miscellany of topics.
The other parts in this series (6 parts so far) can be found under the label 'Patrick Matthew.'


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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dear Friends, Colleagues, Partners, and Users of Cappasity,
The year 2018 was successful for all of us, surpassing the most ambitious of expectations and paving the way for new, exciting prospects.
This year we revamped our brand — starting from the website and ending with the new version of the Easy 3D Scan software, the UI of which we are now fine-tuning.
Easy 3D Scan v1.5.0 in action:
We launched pilots with leading U.S. and European brands. The press releases are coming out soon! Today I feel one hundred percent sure when saying that the Cappasity platform is on its' path to becoming the leading solution for 3D product imaging.
In 2018, we circled the globe many times, sharing our ideas, meeting with clients, signing new deals. Recently we were in adidas HQ, and now you can view a four-minute video with our updated pitch.
We launched an important and complex infrastructure update — now our enterprise clients can easily access the 3D analytics tool, Cappasity.AI. In 2019, we will expand its capabilities. We can now also demonstrate visible progress with the solution for VR / AR, and 2019 will be the year for some AR surprises — I personally look forward to the day when we can provide retail clients with the solution compatible with ARKit.
In 2018, we carried out an extremely challenging R&D, and now you can expect the Cappasity mobile application premiere shortly. We plan to fill the niche for fashion and marketplace solutions.
CAPP tokens have been successfully used on the platform, and we have worked out a plan that will expand the audience of paid platform subscribers through tokenization. Of course, we still have many steps ahead, but the blockchain will be used not only to make payments but also to store the copyright database for the created content. We will help our customers to protect their copyrights.
But how can a platform exist without third-party developers? On our GitHub, you can find the API, frameworks and soon we will add SDK to create CMS modules. We are now working on plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine. Cappasity is building an ecosystem around 3D imaging!
We were warmly welcomed in France and other European countries, so it's hardly surprising that we are planning to expand our presence in Paris in 2019. In addition to France, our focus is expanding to the UAE and Germany.
In 2018, we formed a killer sales team, and today I am happy to announce that we have 400+ companies in the works. And we are just getting started!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you for being with us!
Kosta Popov, Cappasity CEO


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10 lessons from 20 years of PR business
Clients will come and go. Keep your long-term focus on keeping your foundations strong, and your agency will survive.
This article first appeared on PR Daily in September, 2015.
My agency, Peppercomm, observed its 20th anniversary this month.
In two decades of living la dolce vita in the wonderful world of PR, I've learned many, many lessons.
Here are my top 10:
1. Treat your agency as your most important client. Like baseball managers and football coaches, PR firms are hired to be fired. It may take a week, a month, a year or a century, but you will lose that cherished anchor account. Maintaining a robust new business pipeline is absolutely critical. The best way to do so is to create a dedicated, in-house agency marketing team that's constantly creating new and provocative content.
2. Experience your client's brand from the outside in. Too many PR firms take whatever research the client provides as gospel. Don't. Instead, put yourself in the client's stakeholders' shoes and experience the organization from the outside in. That additional insight will enable you to correctly identify exactly how the client's key message(s) should interact with the audiences' wants and needs.
3. It's all about the people. Lots of agencies trumpet their blue-chip list of clients in their various trade advertisements. Others take great pleasure in enumerating the number of awards they've won over the decades. Both are nice. Yet neither will occur unless you create a culture that attracts, and retains, the very best talent. People attract clients that enable the firm to produce award-winning campaigns.
4. Don't try to be all things to all people. I learned this lesson the hard way. In Peppercomm's formative days, we'd take on any client willing to pay us a fee, however small. As a result, we accepted work without learning the proper industry knowledge, made mistakes and did nothing to embellish our little-known firm's image. We were seen as just another generalist. Today, we're laser-focused on being the very best firm in four discrete areas. Unless you're running a global holding company that must be all things to all people, focus on a few, key areas of competency.
5. Avoid growth for the sake of growth. Thanks to the dotcom bubble and clients' mistaken perception that our firm's name indicated we were technology specialists, Peppercomm grew by more than 100 percent for three consecutive years. In fact, our growth became so uncontrolled that we were literally hiring anyone who could walk and chew gum at the same time. Today, we're far more selective in choosing clients with whom to partner. We put quality, service and profitability far above growth for the sake of growth.
6. Beware the superstar hire. Over the years, we've decided to bite the bullet on a few occasions and hire a recognized industry expert who possessed impeccable credentials and a Rolodex chock full of new business leads. In almost every instance, the superstar flamed out. Sometimes it was because she simply couldn't deliver the goods. More often, we ended the relationship because the superstar simply didn't fit in our culture. Today, we're much more focused on identifying up-and-coming superstars from within our agency's ranks. Fresh blood and new thinking is great, but your workplace culture should trump any and all superstar hires.
7. Talk is cheap. I'll never forget the year 2006. It was arguably our worst ever. That's because we bet on what two clients had told us. One said he wanted to become Peppercomm's largest account, and was ready to sign a $10 million contract. The other promised us he'd triple our budget within a month. As a result, we hired seven new staffers to handle the incoming business. The first client was fired. The second moved to the agency world. Neither delivered on his word, and we were forced to undergo a painful downsizing.
8. Take the road less traveled. From day one, we embraced a different, quirky culture that was neither warm and fuzzy nor perk du jour driven. Instead, we embedded stand-up comedy training as a key component in our management development. We did so because it improved presentation, listening and rapport-building skills while creating a unique culture. Many in the industry scoffed, believing PR was a far too serious business for comedy. Today, we're routinely hired by clients and non-clients alike to stage comedy workshops for their employees, and Crain's New York Business named us the number one business in all of New York. Different is good.
9. Plan to fail. The only way to continually grow your expertise and suite of service offerings is to test market new products, services and ideas. We're done so to a fault, and suffered quite a few false starts over the years. But, we've also pioneered a number of service offerings that I won't bore you with at the moment. To innovate, you must foster a risk-tasking culture that allows for failure (as long as valuable lessons are learned from those mistakes).
10. Look around the corner. Clients prize agency partners who can help them see around the corner, determine what's next and push the appropriate boundaries. We've been able to deliver on that need by creating an innovation committee whose sole charge is to uncover what's next, brief our respective account teams and enable the latter to surprise and delight clients with fresh, forward-looking thinking.
A final word to the wise: While my lessons learned aren't necessarily applicable to your business, PR firms should be like snowflakes. We should each have our own distinct look, feel and POV. Sadly, far too many agencies are doing exactly what they did 10 years ago. And, that's a recipe for disaster.
Steve Cody is a co-founder of Peppercomm.
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As we reported earlier, Pandora will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the single letter symbol "P". By doing so, it becomes the first Silicon Valley consumer Internet company to join the exclusive one-letter stock ticker symbol club.
That club was once reserved for the big blue-chip industrial companies: Chrysler (C), Ford (F), Sears (S), U.S. Steel (X), and Woolworth (Z). Of that list, only Ford and U.S. Steel remain. Chrysler was acquired by Daimler and lost the C to Citibank. Sears lost the S to Sprint Nextel. Woolworth went out of business.
Of course, there are already several tech companies in the single letter club. Agilent Technologies (A), NetSuite (N), Sprint Nextel (S), and AT&T (T). But none are pure consumer-based Internet companies.


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Hi, I am using DiffMerge to compare configuration files located on different servers and I frequently need to start new comparisons and change the IP address in the file path. Each time I modify one character in the path, the application freeze for a couple of seconds. For the moment, I paste the path in Notepad, modify it, then put it back in the dialog, but a it's bit tedious.
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I think I've recreated what you are seeing. I will get a bug logged for the developer.
In the meantime, using the browse button might be faster.
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The hang problem is being caused by the "auto-completion" feature
enabled on the text fields. This causes the familiar list of choices to
appear below the text field as you type. This feature is provided by
the OS. It looks like when you are editing in the network server
portion of the pathname, Windows is going out and looking for a
server (with that incomplete name). Editing in the filename portion,
doesn't hang, for example.
So I'm not sure there's much I can do about the problem (other than
disabling the auto-complete feature). Sorry.
Perhaps you could try cutting/pasting the network name rather than
typing the new name.
Also, the pathname fields in that dialog do accept DROPS, so you might
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More than £1million compensation has been paid out to former workers of a Belper factory that went into administration last year.
An Amber Valley housing provider has teamed up with volunteers to save a children's centre.
We report on the appeal of a father and two sons who killed two teenagers and a baby in a revenge arson attack.
We get to know a Belper social group, which has been a fixture in the town for more than 50 years.
Brand new circus show for adults Cul De Sac fronts up our entertainment section GO with details on what to do and where.
And the Belper Town boss's frustration at his team's performance despite a healthy win against Rugby Town dominates the back end.
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More can be done to automate the creation of Reminders. For example, you could create a Trigger to create a Reminder using an AutoEntry Form whenever you create an Event or a ToDo that has a particular Code or whenever you mark a particular kind of record Done. Or you could include reminders in Schedule Chains. However you create them, they give you more protection against getting uncomfortably close to deadlines.


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Stage Management and Technical Theatre
B.A. ; 3 years full-time ; 16 places
To apply to this course, click on the relevant Apply Link below
EU Applicants
Read the information about how to apply, then apply directly to CAO.
Non-EU Applicants
What is the Bachelor in Stage Management and Technical Theatre degree?
This three year honours degree course offers practice-based training to students who are interested in a career in professional theatre, TV and film. It has been enhanced to provide increased opportunities in specialist areas within stage management and technical theatre (e.g. sound, lighting and construction), increased professional placements and a Capstone research project relevant to a student's choice of specialism. Classes on production management, design (set, lighting, costume and sound) and managing your own freelance business will also be introduced during the final year.
Stage Management and Technical Theatre: The course for you?
Students who undertake this course will need to have a keen interest in stage management, production management, lighting, sound, construction, prop making, costume or set design. This is an intensive course requiring a commitment on average of 35 hours per week, 38 weeks per year.
Stage Management and Technical Theatre @ Trinity
This degree course is specifically designed to train technical staff for the theatre, TV and film industries. Through a series of skills based courses, placements and professional development programmes the course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to realise a professional theatre production. The practical training during the degree course will be complemented with a range of classes including theatre history, principles of stage management and principles of theatre technology. Led by dedicated and experienced theatre technicians and stage managers these classes will reflect best practices in professional theatre.
Graduate skills and career opportunities
Stage manager, assistant stage manager, lighting operator, sound operator, costume supervisor, scenic and prop maker in local, national and international theatres.
Stage management and theatre technician jobs with theatre companies touring nationally and internationally.
Technical jobs with companies that support the theatre, TV and film industries such as PSI and Avcom.
Your degree and what you'll study
Year one is designed to introduce students to practice-based training in all technical departments including lighting, sound, prop making, scenic art, costume, set construction and stage management. Core skills based classes in theatre skills, theatre technologies and theatre studies will be complemented by practice based learning on in-house productions.
Year two will see students apply the skills learned from their first year to a series of theatre and film productions, directed and designed by professional practitioners. Each student will have the opportunity to become a head of department and work alongside their peers to deliver a full production.
In year three students will undertake work placements with prominent theatre companies, festivals and industry related companies in order to further develop their chosen area of specialism. Capstone research projects will be assigned according to the preferred career choice of each individual student. Further opportunities as head of department on shows and internal projects are offered in this year.
Adam Moore-White, Stage Management and Technical Theatre Student, 2018
"I have been studying stage management and technical theatre at The Lir Academy for the past three years and am now coming towards the end of my training.
The Lir is a fantastic environment to learn new and further develop pre-existing skills. The atmosphere is welcoming and supportive. I have always been fully encouraged to succeed and take brave steps in new directions that I might not have considered before. I came to the course with an interest in and some training in lighting and stage management and am leaving not just with a vast knowledge and skill set in those areas but also in sound, construction, scenic art and costume. Costume was a new subject for me in first year, but since then it's become a big part of my college experience. I chose to specialise in costume for my dissertation and have taken the role of supervisor for four shows while at The Lir.
Without the support and encouragement I received from the tutors I don't think I would have explored the world of costume, a place where I now really feel at home.
I would highly recommend anyone with an interest in working backstage in theatre to consider this course."
Course Details
3 years full-time
Number of Places16
Admission Requirements
For general admission requirements please click here
This is a restricted entry course. Applications must be submitted by 4 February 2019.
Entry is by interview and everyone who applies will get an interview. Applicants should prepare a portfolio highlighting their theatre, festival, concert or other relevant experience to date. Interviews will be held between February and April 2019.
To apply to this course, click on the relevant Apply Link below
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Klassen, F. (2016). Convergence of Architectural, Visual and Climate Data. Proceedings of Eco-Architecture 2016, 6th International Conference on Harmonization between Architecture and Nature, July 13 – 15, 2016, Wessex Institute, UK and University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Klassen, F. (2015). Matter, Material and Making: Creative Research Practice in Architecture and Design. Proceedings of Making Research/ Researching Making ADAPT-r International conference September 10 – 12, 2015, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, 120-126.
Klassen, F. (2010). Weathering Architecture. In Arium: Architecture + Weather, J. Mayer & Neeraj Bhatia (Eds.). Hatje Cantz Publishers, 284-289.
Klassen, F. (2009). Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture. Hong Kong (self-published)
Klassen, F. (2008). Malleable Matter and Atmospheric Substance. Proceedings of Ambience 08: Smart Textiles International Conference, June 2-3, 2008, The Swedish School of Textile, University College of Boras, Sweden.
Klassen, F. (2008). Architecture and Integrated Technologies. In Beasley, P., and M-Ladly (Eds). (2008). Mobile Nation Anthology, Waterloo: Riverside Architectural Press.
Klassen, F., & R. Kronenburg. (Eds.) (2006). Transportable Environments 3, London: Spon Press. (Includes edited version of Malleable Matter article from Transportable Environments 2004: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Portable Architecture & Design, April 28-30, 2004, Ryerson University, Toronto, 54-69.).
Klassen, F. (2006). From the Bazaar to Space Architecture. Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture. V.4. Issue 3, 256-269.
Klassen, F. (2006). Malleable Matter: Adaptable and Responsive Space. Proceedings of the Adaptables 2006 TU/E International Conference on Adaptable Building Structures, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 3-5.
Klassen, F. (2003). Transformable Personal space within a communal setting: Housing for the homeless. In Kronenburg, R., J. Lim, and W. Y. Chii (Eds.). 2003. Transportable Environments 2, London: Spon Press, 44-49.
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Module ASB-4601:
Research Methods
Module Facts
Run by Bangor Business School
15 Credits or 7.5 ECTS Credits
Semester 1
Organiser: Prof Kostas Nikolopoulos
Overall aims and purpose
To provide the student with knowledge of intermediate and advanced qualitative and quantitative research methods, and provide a basis in research methodology.
Course content
Describing and summarising data; Probability and probability distributions; Principles of statistical inference; Correlation and regression analysis; Regression models for panel data.
Assessment Criteria
thresholdNo major omissions or inaccuracies in the deployment of information/skills; Some grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements; Integration of theory/practice/information present intermittently in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives.
goodMuch of the relevant information and skills mostly accurately deployed; Adequate grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements; Fair integration of theory/practice/information in the pursuit of the assessed work's objectives; Some evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills. High Standard: Very good performance; Most of the relevant information accurately deployed; Good grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements; Good integration of theory/practice/information in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives; Evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills.
excellentAn outstanding performance, exceptionally able; The relevant information accurately deployed; Excellent grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practice elements; Good integration of theory/practice/information in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives; Strong evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills.
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic statistical concepts, basic ideas of sampling and statistical inference.
- Demonstrate a good foundation in research methods and techniques that can be applied in writing reports.
- Obtain data from primary and secondary sources, and carry out investigations using summary statistics, graphs, techniques of exploratory data analysis, correlation and regression.
- Formulate feasible research questions and strategies; and assemble, select and present the results of data analysis and data modelling.
- Demonstrate computer skills for data analysis and modelling, and use statistical computer packages.
Assessment Methods
|2-hour written examination at the end of Semester 1
Teaching and Learning Strategy
|A weekly 2-hour lecture.
|One 1-hour practical session per week.
Pre- and Co-requisite Modules
Pre-requisite of:
Courses including this module
Compulsory in courses:
- N3CH: MA Banking & Finance (Chartered Banker) year 1 (MA/BFCB)
- N3AB: MA Banking & Finance year 1 (MA/BIF)
- N3AV: MA Finance year 1 (MA/FIN)
- N3CP: MA Finance (10 month) year 1 (MA/FIN10)
- N3BE: MA Islamic Banking and Finance year 1 (MA/IBF)
- N3BB: MA Banking and Law year 1 (MA/LBANK)
- N2AQ: MA Management and Finance year 1 (MA/MANFIN)
- N4AK: MSc Accounting and Banking year 1 (MSC/ACB)
- N4AJ: MSc Accounting year 1 (MSC/ACC)
- N4AG: MSc Accounting and Finance year 1 (MSC/ACCFIN)
- N3AX: MSc Banking and Finance year 1 (MSC/BANKFIN)
- N3CK: MSc Banking & Finance (Chartered Banker) year 1 (MSC/BFCB)
- N3CM: MSc Finance (10 month) year 1 (MSC/FIN10)
- N3AJ: MSc Finance year 1 (MSC/FINANCE)
- N3BF: MSc Islamic Banking and Finance year 1 (MSC/IBF)
- N3CB: MSc International Finance year 1 (MSC/IF)
- N3CQ: MSc International Finance (10 month) year 1 (MSC/IF10)
- N3CC: MSc Investment Management year 1 (MSC/IMGT)
- N3CR: MSc Investment Management (10 month) year 1 (MSC/IMGT10)
- N3CD: MSc International Banking year 1 (MSC/INTB)
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PHILADELPHIA — While reality can slap the Flyers down now and then, the nightmare of their prior season life has put them in the unenviable position of chasing only an elusive playoff dream.
While their first two periods Wednesday night produced 40 minutes of nationally televised humiliation, the Flyers molded a comeback much like the one they've put on for the past couple of months. But the ending was all too real.
For this downsized dream, they fell short of the Washington Capitals 5-3.
For the longer-view comeback attempt from a brutal first half of the season, they've managed to keep the bubble from bursting. But falling short there may be inevitable, too.
"It stings," Scott Laughton said. "It's tough, when we're playing good hockey like that for so long, we come out (like that), and especially at home with a good crowd.
"It was loud ... and we got walked over in the first two periods. Then it's too late trying to come back."
The only loud noise in the second period was a fine sampling of Philadelphia booing, quite a natural result of the Caps pushing a two-goal lead to a five-wide margin via three goals in the space of 3 minutes, 5 seconds of early second-period ugliness.
Along the way, recently hot veteran goalie Brian Elliott had his ego bruised, enough to knock him back to the bench with the score 4-0. In came recent acquisition Cam Talbot. In came gloriously skilled center Nick Backstrom – down the slot and all alone.
So the first shot attempt Talbot saw made the lead 5-0.
"You can't do that against a team like that," Laughton said of the defending Cup champion Caps. "They're too good, they're too skilled. They were skating, making plays, walking right through us and we watched them play. That's what happens against a team like that. You can't come back when you're watching teams like that. Not our best effort, especially at this time of year."
Which brings us to numbers: The Flyers took that 5-0 deficit and ran with it, perhaps fueled only by pride. Claude Giroux set up promoted defenseman Phil Myers for the first goal of his career with just 12 seconds left in the second period.
Then Giroux did the honors himself, scoring only 10 seconds into the third. It officially qualified as a potential comeback when Laughton tipped home an Andrew MacDonald drive at 7:48 of the third to cut the deficit to two...
And then the comeback died when newbie Caps coach Todd Reirden called his players over to instill a little verbal reality into their dreamy eyes.
"I think that took a little bit of the wind out of their sails," Reirden said of his timeout's effect on the Flyers. "So, I thought that was important from a strategy standpoint, to take the momentum out of their game. Now, what I said to the players was, we have to get back to playing how we were."
Any hopes of a miracle comeback for the home team on this one game night against a Capitals team that will be on hand for two of the remaining 15 Flyers games were also hampered by the respective absences of scoring-capable stars Jake Voracek (took a puck off his knee) and Nolan Patrick (took a puck off his head).
Not enough firepower for miracles on this night.
And for the longer-term perspective, not enough time for the Flyers to complete what would be a rather miraculous comeback from being 16 points out of the playoffs. They remain seven points behind current wild card teams Pittsburgh and Montreal with precious little time left.
Hence "the position" they find themselves in now.
"There's obviously minimal room for error at this point for us," MacDonald said. "It's obviously not realistic to say we're going to win every single game. These divisional games are pretty important. It's kind of a missed opportunity for us. Luckily, we still have some games we can look forward to and they're pretty important games."
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Reports are out that the NHL is pondering the Flyers as one of the teams that would open next season in Europe. Reports out of the Czech Republic had the Flyers indeed playing in Prague for what is likely two games against the Los Angeles Kings at the start of the season.
The league is expected to make an announcement later this month.
Asked about that, team president Paul Holmgren said Wednesday, "We're not in a position to say anything."
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The Flyers' goals with 12 seconds left in the second period and 10 seconds into the third period marked the first time in club history that they'd scored in the last 15 seconds followed by the first 15 of a period. ... No change in the status of Voracek and Patrick. Voracek still has to be cleared by a test Thursday but he and Patrick are expected to practice and probably play on Long Island Saturday night. ... Myers on his first NHL goal: "Obviously it's nice to see the puck go in, and we sort of built off of that and played well in the third. But the way we played in the first two periods, that can't happen, especially in a big game like this."


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Christian Formation at St. Leo the Great Church
Welcome to St. Leo the Great Church! We thank God for the work He is doing in all of us, drawing us closer to Himself in faith and love. Through formation and education we wish to support you in your efforts to cooperate with His wonderful grace that is bringing His salvation, healing and growth in your life and the lives of those dearest to you.
Where does God first work in our lives? The home! The home is the primary place of faith formation! Religious Education classes are supplemental to home life and Sunday Mass! Families who participate in our programs are encouraged to be supportive members of the parish and examples of faith to their children. Parents are urged to take advantage of the many opportunities throughout the year for adult faith formation as well.
Religious education programs at St. Leo's are designed for both children and adults. Our programs depend on the generous commitment of stewards (volunteers) who are willing to share their faith with others. The average commitment from catechists and classroom aides is about three hours per week; two hours of preparation and one hour with the children. Catechists are also expected to seek certification to teach in the Diocese of Rochester by attending at least one catechist training class a year. The Diocese of Rochester also requires that all teachers and stewards take the two hour training entitled Creating a Safe Environment.
Children's programs enable the community, and particularly its parents, to live out the mission of passing the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to a new generation of believers. Through caring, activities, witness and instruction, young people are guided toward a mature living out of their baptismal promises to reject sin, profess their faith in the Blessed Trinity and follow the footsteps of Christ. The whole life of the parish serves as fertile soil so that the seeds of faith planted by home life can grow!
Our programs for children and youth include instruction using the Faith and Life Series for those in grades pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade, Edge Youth Ministry for grades six through eight, Life Teen Youth Ministry for those in high school, adult faith enrichment and preparation for the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist and Reconciliation.
Opportunities for Faith Formation:
Religious Education schedule will be updated soon
Summer Intensive Religious Education: 9am to 3pm over one week in summer and attendance at Family Faith Formation Sessions during school year.
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You see those two nuts up above? That is a picture of us taken with the automatic feature of my camera just after we had climbed Roseberry Topping in North Yorkshire, England. It was taken in 1993. I could never do it again now.
I seem to have aged about 30 years in the past 16 years.
Down at the end below is a farther-out view of Roseberry Topping. It's just over 1,000 feet high so that qualifies it as a "mountain."
You can drive all around North Yorkshire and when you are up high, you can see Roseberry Topping off in the distance. It's the greatest place. There are bluebells all throughout the woods going down the side of it.
The local residents have gotten together over the past few years and have improved the pathways going up to the top. There was some graffiti on the stone at the top, too, which I didn't really approve of, but that happens everywhere these days.
We made it up to the top, and that's the first and last mountain I have ever climbed.
I miss that place so much. I don't know if we will ever get back there, after retirement. But I can always hope…
Bex at the
Summit of Roseberry Topping
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It's been a long time since my last post. After my orientation I was without internet for nearly a month! When you are a foreigner living in another country, you have to have certain types of identification to get things such as cell phones or internet. So, I had to apply for my Alien Registration Card. It took a month to get it back from the immigration office.
However I now have it as well as a shiny new iphone! I'll try to update everything that's been going on since then.
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by Jean Jeffress, OPC volunteer
Greetings friends, fans, and lovers of the Oakland Peace Center. Some of you may remember a couple of years ago I interviewed, and then wrote articles highlighting staff members of the Oakland Peace Center. Okay, even if you don't remember, we're doing it again for this edition of the OPC newsletter. I interviewed and had a fantastic conversation with Alexandra Candia, who has been the operations manager at OPC since last December.
Alexandra became connected to the OPC through her friend, Kristy Higares, the former operations manager at OPC. Alexandra said she was not necessarily looking for a job when Kristy sent her the information about the operations manager position that she would soon be leaving, but Alexandra thought that the position played to her strengths as an organizer. The organization itself—its work, mission, and values—appealed to and interested Alexandra.
The Oakland Peace Center has so many different member organizations and so many pieces to the work it does as a collective. Alexandra says she's
helping to bring it all together in a cohesive way, in a way that helps us further our mission and share our values, and proceed further by achieving more grants and being able to do more of the work we do. I feel really comfortable in helping to bring all of those pieces together in a cohesive way even it that translates to spreadsheets and budgets and things like that.
Oakland Peace Center is in very capable hands with Alexandra at the operational helm—balancing budgets and providing support at a systems-level to help OPC function more smoothly and sustainably into the future.
And, OPC is lucky that Alexandra chooses to spend her time with them, because she is a person who does not need any more things to do. As she said, "that could be its own interview what I do outside of here." Alexandra's skillset is not limited to managing the operations of a multi-faceted non-profit. She is a dance instructor and has been dancing and teaching dance in the Bay Area and the Brazilian dance community here for over 15 years. She currently teaches dance to adults in the Mission District of San Francisco and to children in grades 3 to 8 at Melrose Leadership Academy here in Oakland. She also is also one of the directors of a group of dancers who have participated in San Francisco's Carnava every year for the past 30 years. This dance company Fogo na Roupa—Portuguese for "Fire in the Clothes"—provides free dance and percussion classes throughout the Spring and raises money for costumes so that the youth Alexandra teaches can participate in Carnava. Carnava is at the end of May, so Alexandra is very busy right now.
In addition to dance, the other big and very important piece of Alexandra's life is costume design. She owns and operates Candia Designs Costumes and is currently in the middle of designing 150–200 original dance costumes for dancers and dance groups. Even outside of the Carnival season, she does freelance costume design all throughout the year for dancers nationally and internationally. And, on top of all that, she does marketing and accounting for Tiny Elephants Event Production, a boutique event planning company. She is a person of remarkable talent and focus.
At the heart of all that Alexandra does is a desire to make a positive impact on the lives of people in the communities in which she lives, works, and cares about. The work she does with children has a long-lasting force for good on their lives. She says,
"I see the impact. [There are] kids that are in college that I taught when they were 6 years old and I have kids in 8th grade [who] have already participated in Carnival for 7 years. So, it's really special. And there are people in their mid-20s who I knew when they were teens [and] they're still with us.
She goes on to say about her work at OPC,
to be able to be behind the scenes and helping [with] these other individuals like Sandhya or OPC's programming and events and the things that they do, helping those go further and making an impact with various populations of people; that was important to me.
Alexandra enjoys her growing relationships with the OPC staff and while she is on the OPC campus 2 days a week, she is also able to work remotely which is good for her given her busy life. She is getting to know Sandhya better and values the one on one time they spend together just about every week.
Alexandra is a wonderful and valuable addition to the staff at the Oakland Peace Center. Be sure and say hello to her when you get the chance.
You can reach Alexandra at firstname.lastname@example.com.
We're really proud of what's been happening in these walls and across the Bay during the OPC's last fiscal year. Check it out here!
In the Wake of The Quiet Hours: A Community Ritual on Grief, Dying, Passages, Leaving, Displacement, Perseverance, Preservation, Learning and Loving
by Marvin K. White
Paying homage to black funerary practices; artist and professor Angela Hennessy and The Oakland Peace Center's Artivist-In-Residence Marvin K. White, hosts free community grieving and performance rituals.
A black boy is not a broken bottle.
A black boy is not a unlucky cat.
A black boy is not a bus stop.
A black boy is not an ant colony.
In the midst of displacement and gentrification, historically black funeral homes rarely close. In fact, large funeral conglomerates are buying up historically black-owned funeral homes. Black people have always sat with the dead, have always meditated on death as we mourned the loss of loved ones and community folk. And now it's a get-rich-quick scheme.
A black boy is a powder keg.
A black boy is a revolution.
A black boy is a sister city.
A black boy is not a puddle.
In the Wake of The Quiet Hours… is a monthly, site-specific community container and grief ritual. It is now more important than ever to hold space for our collective grief, disbelief and fear. "The last one", the last shooting of an unarmed black person, the last killing of a black or brown trans woman, the last young woman forced into sex trafficking, was not "the last one".
A black boy is not a snapped tree.
A black boy is not a flash flood.
A black boy is not a run over skunk.
A black boy is not a Newport.
The "Quiet Hours" are facilitator-led meditations, conversations, and rituals that collects the grief, that the people in Oakland carry, gives space for it to be spoken, whispered, cried, broken and learn from it. We offer those in attendance, a "Quiet Hour" (silent meditation centering on the attendees historic and contemporary, past and present, deaths, passages, and losses. We then move into the "Wake", where those gathered read the names of their dead that they are carrying with them and introduce them to the other people's dead that they carry with them. Mothers, fathers, friends, victims 400 miles away and 400 years ago have all been brought in. The evening concludes with the "Visitation", where storytelling about the names entered into record become transformed into lessons and strategies of survival, resilience and love.
A black boy is not spearmint gum.
A black boy is not a briquette.
A black boy is not a double yellow line.
A black boy is not a dropped grocery bag.
With the proliferation of images, videos and livestreamed killings of black people, and the ways that marginalized people have been forced to witness the killings, our communities have always had to have meditation practices to move the fear, anger, rage, grief, tears and distrust, through our bodies. We have always known how to meditate because there has always been the killing of black people.
A black boy is not folk art.
A black boy is not a cast shadow.
A black boy is not motor oil.
A black boy is not a "Candy Gold" Camaro's donuts.
In the Wake of The Quiet Hours… is where we gather, where we sit sangha with death, where we embrace the living, and where we leave a little more aligned and reconciled in our bodies, after having lived with and under various oppressions. We know that in front of grief, as well as going through grief, and ultimately coming out of grief, that there is joy. If the community becomes a "wake", then it speaks to itself a vigilance that we have always needed and called upon. We sit with the dead but we listen for joy. We sit to hear what lessons were on their lips as the living became the bullet's dead.
A black boy is not hopscotch.
A black boy is not a Coors can.
A black boy is not sunflower seeds.
A black boy is not a telephone pole.
This, first of its kind community grief ritual, is a "community mind renewal" practice, and it, through the meditations that are created, allow for the din of violence that is anti-black, anti-woman, anti-lgbt, anti-immigrant, anti-homeless, and anti-religious, to be blocked out, for several house, so that we remember that we are here, alive, breathing, surviving, possible, and thriving.
A black boy is not a fire hydrant.
A black boy is not a manhole.
A black boy is not an altar call.
A black boy is not a god.
In the Wake of The Quiet Hours are held monthly at the Oakland Peace Center. They could be as easily held in the busy historic black funeral homes of East and North Oakland. While there is no body, we are mourning the loss of our lives and livelihoods by displacement, state violence, poverty, racism, white supremacy, ageism homophobia and misogyny. our feelings of belonging here. And depending on the wisdom in the room we will also provide to each other resources for how people can engage in resurrection practices: engaging in renters' rights campaigns, collaborating with organizations and community spiritual, social justice & creative activators addressing HIV/AIDS in the Black community, joy in the black community, senior housing access work, organizing, dignity, access, and equity.
Marvin K. White, MDiv, is a graduate of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He is currently the ARTivist in Residence at the Oakland Peace Center. He was the Public Theologian in Residence ('17-'18) at First Church Berkeley and a recent Yerba Buena Center for the Arts "Equity" Fellow ('16-'17). He is the author of four collections of poetry: Our Name Be Witness; Status; and the two Lammy-nominated collections last rights and nothin' ugly fly. He is a highly sought-after preacher, poet and performer. He is articulating a vision of social, prophetic and creative justice through his work as a poet, artist, teacher, collaborator, preacher, cake baker, and Facebook Statustician.
This has been a year of great staff transition and expansion at the OPC. We bid farewell to our communications and development intern Tia Rounsoville who is starting at Mills College, and we bid a partial farewell to our operations manager Aja Minor who will continue to partner with us on our high school internship program through her OPC partner organization InSolidarity. We have a phenomenal new operations manager we hope you'll get to work with in the months to come. And we're grateful that Clidell "Franceyez" Jackson is providing continuity as our facilities coordinator.
When we welcomed our ARTivist-In-Residence Marvin K. White in March, OPC executive director Sandhya Jha interviewed him and shared the interview in that month's newsletter as well as on our webpage. As we welcome our brand new OPC Peace and Partnerships Communicator, Todd Atkins-Whitley, Sandhya has done the same thing. We hope you'll check out Todd's bio on our webpage to learn more about his expertise and gifts in the field; but for now, here's a little glimpse into Todd's vision for his work with the Oakland Peace Center's 40 partners!
SJ: Todd, what got you connected to the work of peace and justice in the first place?
It would not be until late in my life, actually after I became a community organizer, that I realized it was my mother who modeled the work of peace and justice to which I aspire. Her life's work—well into her 80s—was focused on making life better for senior citizens in our community, particularly those on fixed incomes or experiencing poverty. Not only did she advocate for their immediate needs of food, transportation, and companionship, but she also lobbied governments and councils to address systems that marginalized and harmed the elderly and admonished them to care for these most overlooked folks. Her advocacy was done in the secular arena but it was 100% motivated by her faith. She felt those "little old people" (as she called them) deserved to experience peace in the sunset of their lives and that belief, as much as anything, prompted her justice work—even though she would have never called it such.
After spending a couple decades raising my children and working a corporate job, I began searching for meaningful work that would make an impact in society. So I began to show up in justice- and peace-oriented communities—listening, being present, following the lead of others. It would not be long before I was invited to leverage the skills and knowledge I had gained over my life toward efforts that not only responded to folks' immediate needs but also addressed systemic issues that kept people oppressed.
Today, I realize this sense of connection to works of justice and peace simply runs in the family.
SJ: I love that. It raises an important question for me. At the OPC, all of our partners are working on peace, but they are working on it in 40 different ways. What is peace to you, and how do you hope to participate in peace at the OPC?
To be honest, I never really framed the work of peace in the same context as my justice work. You see, I was raised to think that "peace" was simply being nice to others, or being quiet, or meditating—certainly more of a passive, individual, heady pursuit. So even though at times I have thought I was experiencing peace in an interior way, I did not experience it fully until I came to imagine peace, and the work of peace, as a collaborative experience.
OK so—It may sound strange, but I think of "peace" as a sort of energy. Sure, it's energy that must be cultivated within but for me, the work of peace, when done alongside other peace-makers and peace-dreamers, is exhilarating and much more productive. It is that energy—that varied hum of peace—that compels and propels my work among and alongside people committed to cultivating a culture of peace. I feel that energy here with the OPC team and I felt it in a powerful way in our partner meet-up last month!
I guess you could say I thrive on the idea of working among such a diverse community, with as many different practices as there are organizations, in partnership with folks who are committed to this great enterprise we know as seeking and creating peace.
SJ: You've gotten a few glimpses of that community so far. What are your thoughts about how we might be able to move towards peace together, and what's your role in that?
It is important for us to be aware of each others' hopes and dreams and what we're doing to achieve and fulfill them, as well as our movements toward co-creating this peace we aspire to. I also believe a more unified peace is possible—and more realistically attained if not also more lasting—when we're all aware of the intersections of our work. Where are we able to lean into the practice of solidarity, where can we lift together, where can we diversity, where can we learn from one another. And that's how I perceive my role here—communicator, cheerleader, amplifier, evangelist, collaborator—not just for our community here in Oakland but for each member of this incredible collective.
SJ: Thanks so much! Anything on the horizon at the OPC you're particularly excited about?
You mean, besides hearing Alice Walker live?! I am truly excited about getting to know this community and really immerse myself in the culture of peace being cultivated with such intention and great love. And honestly, I can't wait to help bring as much attention as possible to the incredible work being done by the OPC team and the collective of people assembled here.
SJ: Thanks, Todd. Super excited to have you on board.


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