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The new Pandante has a great feature called "casino cards." Each gambit (each time you start a new hand), you visit a new casino in the Pandalands which has slightly different rules.
Here's three of them:
Jokers Wild Resort. This is probably the most beloved casino amongst everyone I've played with, even though it's so simple. Before the gambit starts, you find the Joker in the deck, then make sure it's one of the initial three community cards (the "Splash"). There's a fun factor in all the versatility in making hands the Joker brings. It counts as any color and any number.
Bountiful Bamboo Tavern. This casino lets everyone draw a card, then discard a card after the normal snack phase during the Splash, and then again after the snack phase during the Paws. Everyone is a bit more likely to make a difficult hand here.
Triple Play Parlor. Players normally get to do up to 2 abilities, but here you can do 3. There's a lot of different things that happen because of this. Some players go for an even more difficult hand than usual and then use their extra ability to draw a card to try to hit that hand. The Raise ability is really powerful in Pandante though. One of the reasons you don't raise all the time is you're just so constrained by having only 2 abilities. So with 3, you're more able to fit a Raise in. The same goes with Peek. It's always great to look at a card from another player's hand, and you're more likely to be able to fit that into your plan at the Triple Play Parlor.
All three of these casinos are very simple. It's good to keep things simple so that even non-gamers can understand what's going on. I want to show you one of the more complex casinos too though.
There are usually 6 abilities to choose from during the ability phase and you can do up to two of them, including the same one twice if you want. At the Oracle's Dreamery, there's 2 new abilities, so you have 8 to choose from in total.
Rearrange is a tricky ability. If you do Rearrange, then Draw, that lets you get the best of 3 cards when a simple Draw, Draw would have only let you see 2 cards. Rearrange then Add acts similarly. You'll choose which of 3 cards you want to add to the community cards, rather than only getting 2 options with Add, then Add. Furthermore, Rearrange then Add or Draw is better Draw+Draw and Add+Add for another reason: you get to see all three cards before you make your decision of which one you want. The normal way to do things means you have to decide each action as you go.
You also end up knowing the top TWO cards of the deck. Will the next player even bother to Draw or Add, when you already know what card is there and had some say about which card it is? If they Draw, you'll know what's in their hand! Being the Oracle really gives you an information advantage here! It's likely that other players will have to Rearrange before Drawing or Adding just so they can dig deep enough in the deck to actually get to a new card.
Tie-break is another interesting ability. It's fairly common to have players tied for the highest claimed hand in Pandante. For example, two players each claim they have a rainbow straight. When you really have the hand you claim, it's sometimes pretty hard to get a better hand than that by using Draw or Add. But if you use Tie-break, you don't need a better hand. You'll automatically win against anyone with the same hand who didn't use it. Also, if you really do have your hand, this gives you a big advantage against people who don't have it but who are trying to draw into it. They'll need to spend their ability slots on improving their hand, but you can use your abilities on powering up your Tie-break so that you win anyway, even if they do match your hand!
There's a lot going on in the Oracle's Dreamery. The abilities it offers are optional though, which makes it nice for new players who want to see how other Pandas use Rearrange and Tie-break.
Pandante is on kickstarter right now. If you already have the game, you can get casino cards and lots of other new things in the expansion. If you don't have it yet, all this new stuff is built right into the new base sets. Check it out now.


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What does looking up at the Empire State Building have to do with masculinity? And what does any of this have to do with the current environmental crisis?
Le Corbusier and other architects actively employed the archetype of the male nude in their construction. Naked and unadorned, modern forms of architecture demonstrate masculine features different from more elaborate and clothed forms evoking feminine traits. The male nude embodies masculine ideas of rationality and strength, illustrated in architecture by the cold and logical elements of stone, steel, and glass and epitomized in modern skyscrapers. The building elements themselves evoke the "manly" environments that produced them. From steamy, soot-covered foundries molding molten metals and to sizzling and clammy factories sheeting glass, these materials conjure up masculine environments that necessarily drag social values attached with the materials along with them. Austere. Productive. Legitimate.
Moreover, skyscrapers, by employing a vertical rather than horizontal orientation, privilege masculine traits by organizing the gaze of the viewer. Skyscrapers and other vertical structures demand the upward gaze of the onlooker, affirming their authority and legitimacy in the city landscape and perpetuating qualities attached to modern masculinity. Horizontal structures, on the other hand, invite the view inward. As a result, intimacy, openness, and warmth are commonly associated with these buildings.
Architecture is not a benign idea simply to facilitate shelter for our many activities. Rather, it is a curated social space, powerfully enacting, performing, and normalizing engrained facets of masculinity and femininity. It is easy to see how ideas of legitimacy, productivity, and control flow from skyscrapers, by way of modern masculinity, to build and reinforce the extraction economy (with the reciprocal active as well) currently driving the global environmental crisis we are seeing climax today.
This does not mean that in order to address the environmental crisis we must tear down all skyscrapers. Nonetheless, I believe it is important to understand what these structures mean. The underlying ideas communicated by our physical structures should be used to redefine masculinity into a positive force, not reinforce a negative one.

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Gabriel Abrantes is a Lisbon-based filmmaker. His work, both solo and created in collaboration with other artists, like Benjamin Crotty, was recently the subject of a retrospective, "Friends with Benefits: and Anthology of Four New American Filmmakers", at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. I went to a program called "Slow Learners", which was a series of ambitious, funny, off-putting early projects from Abrantes and Crotty. In his introduction, Abrantes explained that they got the title "Slow Learners" from Thomas Pynchon's first collection of short stories, "Slow Learner," and that both sets of sophisticated juvenilia are characterized by "awkward, dumb moves." This early work is energetic and genuinely inventive, a set of five early short films, all shot on 16 mm film stock.
They are: Olympia, parts I and II, Visionary Iraq, Too Many Daddies, Mommies, and Babies, Liberdade, and Baby Back Costa Rica. Olympia is a very funny and transgressive riff on Manet's painting of the same name. The first half is an incestuous psychodrama between a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her off-screen brother (Abrantes), and in the second half; a lonely prostitute (Abrantes) is comforted by his maid (Widloski in blackface). Visionary Iraq is a reality TV inspired satire of geopolitics made in an art gallery in Portugal Abrantes and Crotty play all the roles, and incest again rears its head as a narrative component. Too Many Daddies, Mommies, and Babies is a burlesque melodrama about environmentalists sacrificing the rainforest that they may have a child.
Liberdade is a 17 minute romantic epic featuring erectile dysfunction and star crossed lovers, an Angolan boy and a Chinese girl. The goal here, Abrantes stated, was to counterpoint a possible post-American future (Angola is a former Portuguese colony which had refused lots of Western aid and had a relationship with China) with the most American love story. It's a visually ravishing work, financed with money from a gallery and, oddly enough, Toyota. The love narrative of the film belied the racist reality, however. Abrantes described the bitter schism between the native Angolan population and the Chinese population. The actress had a bodyguard from the Chinese embassy whose primary duty was to ensure she wouldn't kiss the Angolan boy, and Abrantes reports that she kept suggesting alternatives to the script where he dies. Baby Back Costa Rica is a segment of a larger work. Three girls toss around anti-Semitic slurs in the back of a car, and then it becomes an atonally scored montage of cars and girls and swimming pools. Abrantes' work is characterized by a fixation on melodrama and soap opera, taking genre, twisting it, pushing it as far as possible to expose its political undergirding, while still trying to engross and seduce the viewer. Method sat down to chat about cultural capital, blackface, and queerness.
METHOD: Could you talk about what you were doing when you were 18, what your interests were and how you pursued them? And could you also talk about finding an audience and creating a space for your work within a broader context?
GA: Ok, so the first question—during high school I was mostly painting, I did a few videos, but mostly I was very dedicated to painting, with an extremely strenuous output of like 200 paintings a year, something like that, something very crazy. And then I went to Cooper Union. I was still mostly painting but also starting to do some installations and some other stuff, trying to explore different mediums, etc. I started getting into video, and it's only senior year, when I'm 21, that I started getting into film, and 16 mm, and that I started approaching cinema in a more serious way, and then it became very dominant very quickly. That's primarily due to Jim Hoberman, who was my film history teacher at Cooper. I took two courses with him and they were pretty fundamental. One was a general history course. He went from Birth of a Nation and Melies forward The other course was specifically on film noir. His reading of it was that it was a thinly veiled metaphor for the Cold War or anticommunist feelings. I think those two courses were really formative for me, they got me thinking about how these mediums or genres or forms were consciously or unconsciously political. Whether they were thinly veiled anticommunist propogranda, or vice versa, yknow?
I really wanted to work with cinema as this political machine. I got very interested in figuring out how or why art was meaningful. Are you just painting paintings and putting them in a museum or a gallery? Maybe they're funny, and then they'll get sold and funneled into this economic system that has no sort of political resonance. Or it does only in that it's upholding an elite, in some way.
METHOD:What's really interesting is that you're not using cinema to talk about X thing, but you're looking at the forms of cinema and finding what's meaningful or resonant within those.
GA: There's a book that really influenced me that, that's like a huge tome of sociological theory, called Bourdieu's Distinction. He analyzes everyone's cultural habits or tastes, like what you're willing to say in terms of how many composers you know. And so he goes through whole swathes of people and does sort of a census. He sees what sort of concerts people like or what sort of music people like, and he makes graphs that say "if you earn under ten thousand dollars, under twenty thousand dollars, thirty thousand, etc, what are your tastes? And how do you express those tastes? He asks like a poor factory worker, "what kind of music do you like?" The guy will list some things, and then Bourdieu will ask ask what classical composers they like. The worker will only list five, but he knows the average is actually greater. The guy working in the factory is worried about mispronouncing Tchaikovsky or something, so he'll actually limit his knowledge. Then there's the bourgeois ambition to state that you know more. You might only know ten, but you'll try to pretend that you know 15 by saying "ah you know that Russian one who did the Nutcracker".
METHOD: That's so interesting. You don't have the shame of messing up, you know that if you screw up you're fine.
GA: Exactly. And this is really inspiring and also really soul crushing. It made me very afraid of myself and everyone around me, but it also made me realize just how consciously we're using this cultural capital and these cultural artifacts that we put up on our walls at home, the couches we buy, whatever it is—where we choose to live. It's part of this game of domination, of keeping people poor and keeping people rich. It's the old Hegelian game of the master and the slave, and that's how identity is created. Somebody needs to hit someone else on the head for there to be two identities. I think my films in some sense—that's why I grabbed the history of nude painting or the history of blackface, to take those forms and fool around with them and twist them. I see myself as a disrupter of these trends, I try to misuse the codes, I try to scramble the code or whatever. Like I'll take this Manet painting and I'll treat it disrespectfully but also in a very weird queer way.
METHOD: That's interesting because when I watch your work and work like it, like say a Jack Smith movie or something, I understand that there's disruption but I also take tremendous aesthetic pleasure from all of the beautiful games being played intellectually. Do you think it can be both things? For example, the helicopter shot from Liberdade, where Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes is playing—on the one hand it's aware of the legacy and meaning of the tropes it's working with, but on the other hand it's also so fundamentally satisfying and beautiful.
GA: yeah yeah yeah. And also—this might be because we're two privileged white guys in New York, but we're not disgusted by that building (that the helicopter shot of the two lovers floats away from), we find it fascinating, that sort of National Geographic "Ah look the crazy way people live" or whatever. But I think that is questionable about us. And I hope, the kind of movies I'm doing now—I hope I don't censor myself too much, because then I think things become a bit lame. But I do want to be a bit more responsible with that stuff, where if I'm doing a move like that, I'll have to make the twist stronger or harder, have something else in the film. A part of that helicopter shot we didn't show—there were babies on that last floor. Without their parents, hanging out, five year old kids or whatever. And if you show that it's extremely scandalous. I think what you're asking about is this love/hate thing, which I often play with, and it's one of the most satisfying things. Like, I love that Manet painting. I think it's absolutely brilliant. I treat it with the utmost respect. In some ways this is masochistic, like I'm trying to criticize myself. I'm criticizing myself and where I come from.
METHOD: But also where you come from opens up this vast variety of tools, extending through time and space. This huge amount of things you can access because of your context.
GA: What do you mean?
METHOD: Because of going to Cooper Union and your access to these extensive painting and art making resources, you're able to pull on these cultural touchstones and reference these things and you're able to know who Douglas Sirk is and who Jack Smith is and know who Pasolini is.
GA: yeah yeah, of course. I think this has been an attitude I've gotten at Cooper, that I've tried to develop since, which is this love of amateurism, which is "ok I don't know how to make movies, I'm gonna have a more radical or irresponsible or innovative approach to filmmaking because I didn't go to film school, I didn't learn the 180 degree rule or the 30 degree rule, etc. Continuity wasn't an issue, acting wasn't an issue. I didn't know anything so I was free to experiment. This comes from having painted for so long, I got to a very stale place where I was very good technically at painting. I could paint photorealist stuff fairly well. The content wasn't that bad, but at a certain point technique overwhelms your capacity to explore different paths. I tried to do that with cinema. I'm always trying to find something that I don't dominate so I can explore more.
METHOD: Also, with cinema, because there are so many avenues and so many components to putting together a movie, there's such a multiplicity of ways to fail interestingly. (Flipping through notes) This page just says, "What's up with the blackface?" What is up with the blackface?
GA: I think there were two things going on. To start at the more generally, I think that move, which is obviously a provocative, transgressive, punk, art school brat move, has aged poorly, especially in the current political climate. Considering race relations in the states and the Black Lives Matter movement, I think it's much more scandalous now. Ten years ago, when they showed it in New York, I remember there wasn't even the minimum of scandal that it's provoking these days, and understandably. I think also, I was 21, y'know?
At the same time, what I was trying to do—I had this vision of history as… an antiwar film or antiwar piece of music can then be used to promote war. For example, Apocalypse Now is supposedly an antiwar film, but it's screened by the US Army for troops going to Iraq. There's videos of them cheering as the helicopters come to drop napalm. So there's this irony that the intended function no longer works. Another example—antiwar Beethoven symphonies used as Nazi marches. I saw this as liberating. Both of these are negative examples. But I thought I could do it the other way as well. So I took this blackface, this extremely racist tradition at the heart of the birth of cinema. Because what really interested me about movies is how emancipatory they were. Originally they were made for the upper classes in New York, but the upper classes totally rejected them, they thought it was too much machinery and that wasn't too classy. So cinema got relegated to Nickelodeons on the lower east side. You'd pay a nickel to see two people kissing, or a woman lifting her dress to show her leg. I was like "ok, so this is the people's art of the 20th century." This is amazing, but it comes with all these artifacts of burlesque theater, which is an extremely racist tradition, with lots of blackface. So let's use this racist tradition that is the birth of cinema, and then link it to Birth of a Nation, and then let's twist it. Let's queer this tradition, and misuse it to a point where it loses the original function of being racist. I think it worked 10 years ago, but maybe less now, which is curious. Queering blackface to the point where it no longer works.
METHOD: Like in Too Many Daddies, Mommies, and Babies, there's burlesque environmentalism, where you're expressing this concern but using all these extreme distancing techniques, but they become moving. Like in the birth scene—everything's red and it goes on for so long but it becomes genuinely affecting. Do you think about affecting people in that fundamental emotional way?
GA: We definitely want to touch people. This feature length movie Fort Buchanan, which is screening at 7, was inspired by this Lifetime show Army Wives, about the women who stay back when the men go to Iraq. And they're all drinking their Chardonnays out of like extra large goblets, American style. My collaborator Benjamin Crotty took a lot of the dialogue from that TV show and translated it to French, and then made it queer, like some of the Army wives are guys, or whatever. He's making this thing, which is a super meta comment on American TV, American imperialism, and translating it into the Old World, France or whatever, and a lot of the jokes are about how it doesn't work. Army Wives in French is a flop. But I know with Ben, I helped him a little bit on the script, giving notes or suggestions. His huge hope was to have a moving scene. You would get attached to these characters. Within this fiction, stylized, meta way of making movies, at heart he did want people to be laughing or to be touched. So I do think that's very—that is our ambition. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want people to be aware that there is an apparatus, while simultaneously being eaten by the apparatus and forgetting it. Which is a hard game to play. I think I'm getting further and further from it. It comes a lot from our love of 70s meta authors or whatever. Like Barthelme or Pynchon, how they're always fooling around with that. But we do want to touch people, at the end.


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With the political battle over the government shutdown still raging in Washington, it's worth noting the shutdown is already having a serious adverse impact on hundreds of small communities across the country. Republicans may be suggesting they will agree to lift the debt limit — averting widespread economic chaos — which would obviously be a big relief. But that might be coupled with a protracted government shutdown that stretches deep into the fall, the potential damage of which should not be underestimated.
Much of the focus of the government shutdown's damage has been on the inconvenience of closed government offices and lands. What's less remarked upon is how damaging the shutdown of federal lands, especially national parks, has been — a sign of the hidden ways it is changing American life. The recreation economy is large, and shuttering our most popular attractions is causing serious damage to communities and the nation as a whole.
One place this is manifesting itself is in Utah, the home state of Tea Party Senator Mike Lee, one of the architects of the government shutdown strategy. Not long ago I was in Moab a small town (population about 5,000) in eastern Utah that depends on tourism for its lifeblood. There are two national parks nearby, Arches and Canyonlands, as well as a state park and lots of Bureau of Land Management land.
Moab has been quite innovative in its self-promotion. They've got a small tax on hotel rooms, and half of the proceeds are returned to the local Moab Area Travel Council, which promotes the area as a travel destination around the world. The success of this and many other efforts can be measured not just by the steady growth in visitation to both parks. Unfortunately due to the shutdown, the National Park Service databases are offline, but roughly speaking Arches has grown from a few hundred thousand visits 20 years ago to over a million last year.
All this visitation provides a good economic foundation. In addition to the standard lower-paying service jobs (like maid or cashier) there are better-paying, more skilled jobs as well taking people out into the country (like river guide or mountain bike trainer). Moab is only one small town, of course, but measurements of the overall size of the "recreation economy" have been quite large. A study commissioned by the Outdoor Recreation Association (a lobbying group) found that recreation generates $646 billion in consumer spending and supports 6.1 million jobs directly.
So with the national parks shut down, Moab and many towns like it across the country have been taking it right on the chin. This is still the high season in many places, especially in the desert where it's cooled down. What's worse, thousands and thousands of international visitors are learning that the United States cannot be trusted to accommodate their desire to hand our country piles of money:
International tour groups in the midst of weeks-long planned tours were trying to cope with the closures, and tourists, many of whom were making their first-ever trip to the U.S., were left confused and frustrated, Syrett said.
"There's a lot of frustration, a lot of shock and frustration," he said.
Having just started what was supposed to be a two-week vacation spent enjoying some of the Southwest's signature national parks, German travelers Christian and Ana Peters spent Tuesday scrambling to build a new itinerary and trying to understand why partisan differences in Washington, D.C., should affect national parks in Utah.
All that grinding work of decades building up these places as excellent places to visit (which they are) is being shot to pieces in a matter of weeks. The seriousness of the issue is perhaps best demonstrated by the news that the Utah state government is going to pay for the parks to be reopened temporarily, with the hope that the federal government will eventually repay them. Utah is probably the most Republican state in the entire country, and the fact that they're willing to shell out $167,000 per day to keep their parks going is telling:
Utah taxpayers will loan the federal government $1.7 million, enough to keep five national parks — Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef — and Natural Bridges, Glen Canyon and Cedar Breaks national monuments open for 10 days. The Legislature, which will meet in special session Wednesday, can approve funds to keep the areas open beyond that time.
"The people who make their livelihood off tourism and travel, this is a godsend for them. They've been decimated," the governor said.
Very sensible of them, and reportedly some other states are making similar plans — or at least that's what states that can afford it are doing. But this shouldn't have to happen. Not only are we completely ignoring our many chronic long-term problems; these political disputes are delivering body blows to our strongest assets. It's worth underscoring for the umpteenth time that this is no way run a country.


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"In the book's German and English editions, the text cited the example of a male prostitute, implying homosexual sex, in which a condom would not be a form of contraception. The church opposes contraception on the grounds that every sexual act should be open to procreation.
But questions emerged when the book's Italian edition, excerpted by the Vatican newspaper on Saturday, used the feminine form of prostitute.
On Tuesday, [Vatican spokesman] Father [Frederico] Lombardi said that the Italian translation was an error, but that the pope had specifically told him that the issue was not procreation but rather disease prevention — regardless of gender.
'I personally asked the pope if there was a serious, important problem in the choice of the masculine over the feminine,' Father Lombardi said. 'He told me no.' Father Lombardi said that he had spoken directly with the pope at least twice since Sunday and that Benedict had personally approved a statement he released on the condom question, indicating how adamant the pope was.
Benedict's papacy has suffered from frequent communications missteps. But this time, it appeared that the pope was sending an intentional message. Father Lombardi said he had asked Benedict if he had recognized the risk in publishing a book of interviews in a complex media landscape where his words might be 'misunderstood.'
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This is less than half what's claimed and if you go to the text and graphics test, which prints five identical pages and so reduces the processing time – it still only cuts a second off the completion of the job and ups the print speed to 16.7ppm.
More interesting is a comparison with another laser printer, the Kyocera Mita FS-4000DN, reviewed a couple of weeks ago. That claims a top speed of 45ppm, and yet produced our test prints in almost identical times to this HP machine. Where the HP didn't do as well was in its duplex speed, where it completed our 20-side test piece in 1:23, over 30 seconds slower than the Kyocera Mita. The HP machine is around £150 cheaper, though.
The LaserJet P3005x has three different graphics modes, known as FastRes 1200, ProRes 1200 (141lpi) and ProRes 120 (170lpi). In theory, print quality should get better and better as you go from FastRes to ProRes and increase the lines per inch. In practice, results showed not a lot of difference with, if anything, the FastRes 1200 print being the favourite. This print certainly had the least suggestion of any banding across the image – though all three prints were good.
Subjectively, the HP machine is not noisy, so it was quite a surprise when we measured its sound output with peaks of up to 60dBA. This is again during paper feeding, the Achilles heel of all printers, in sound terms.
The simple consumable regime keeps running costs low and there are two capacities of cartridge, one offering 6,500 sheets and the other 13,000 sheets, both at 5 per cent usage. With the high-yield cartridge typically costing around £120, you end up with a page cost of 1.54p. This is a good figure for a machine in this price bracket, though it doesn't compare well with the Kyocera's costs, coming in at under a penny per page.
HP's LaserJet P3005x is a no-nonsense, workgroup printer with a high duty-cycle of up to 100,000 pages per month. It gets on with the job quickly and efficiently, but for this you have to pay over £600, up front. Print quality is good, even for graphic images which tax most mono lasers. The quoted speed of 33ppm is fanciful, but even at 15ppm, you won't have to wait long from most print jobs.
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We are delighted to announce a special 6 Nations Wales v England preview dinner with BBC rugby pundits Jonathan Davies OBE and Jeremy Guscott. The event in support of Velindre will be held at the four star, AA accredited Parkway Hotel & Spa, Cwmbran on Thursday 9th February 2017.
Jonathan represented Wales in both rugby codes, and went on to become one of the greatest players Welsh rugby has ever produced. A free running fly-half he first made his name at Neath RFC, then starred for Wales and Great Britain. Jonathan has since gone on to become a television rugby commentator and a hugely respected media personality.
Known for his smooth running style, Guscott the "Prince of Centres" was often considered one of the finest ball-players of any rugby age. He gained 65 caps for England and was instrumental in defeating the mighty Springboks during that famous Lions tour in 1997. Jeremy now works full-time for the BBC as a pundit on their Rugby Special, Scrum V and 6 Nations programmes.
The dinner will commence at 7.30pm and will include a sumptuous three-course dinner and preview of the forthcoming Wales v England 6 Nations encounter. There will also be a charitable raffle and auction.
Tables of 10 are available from £400+VAT. A quantity of individual covers on shared tables of 10 are also available from just £40+VAT per person. We also have a limited number of Platinum tables available at £750+VAT. You will receive a selection of fine wine along with prime location seating for the main event.
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Education Next released their annual survey titled "The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Public thinking on School choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more." The results from some of the questions have caused shock waves throughout the school choice community.
For the first time in their annual survey support for charter schools have dropped below 50% - indeed it didn't just drop, it cratered from 51 percent to 39 percent, a 12 percentage point drop in support.
Vouchers, the other tool that the school privatizers like to deploy, also continues to be highly unpopular among the public - Democrats and Republicans alike.
The majority of the general public does however support increasing funding for public schools, by a very wide margin
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{Editor's Note: I know it's been awhile since I've done a Roam+Board, and I've got a list taller than the Burj Khalifa lying in wait. The first R+B of 2013 goes to---opening the envelope---a resort I was a guest of (and HIGHLY recommend) while in Dubai last month.}
What There are times when photos overhype a hotel. This is not the case for the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, completed in January 2011. The scale, stature and sizzle of this 405-room resort sends you into a Nirvana-like state with every glance---and that's just the lobby. Oversized silk drapery, regal velvet seating, Anatolian carpets, triangular arches and ornate chandeliers {the size of my living room} grace the space.
Situated on the Western Crescent of Jumeirah Palm Island, every room has a view. Dripping in more velvet and fine everything, the bedrooms also shine on the inside. Gold-leaf walls provide the backdrop for my evening throne which makes the intricate wooden cutout above the bed glow. I go to sleep dreaming about serenading the Middle East atop a flying carpet.
Yet, I almost miss the bed because the bathroom is so decadent; it stops me in my tracks. Clad in light grey marble, the vanity is decorated with a pounded copper sink and lit by twin and twinkly Moroccan lights. Two stairs lead to the bathtub, and into another world. Big enough to bathe a baby elephant, the bath area is a room unto itself topped in a golden dome. I consider sleeping in the tub one evening---because I can.
The rest of the property---which you can see featured in MI4---is the city below your throne's perch. Twelve restaurants, a spa, a beach, an infinity pool and a 29-seat screening room provide substance and distraction in your Ottoman-inspired kingdom.
Where Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a 40-minute drive from Dubai's Airport {DXB}.
When It was 26-degrees C when I visited in early December, so you can imagine summer is s-c-o-r-c-h-i-n-g---it's the desert after all. Visiting in the winter, spring and fall means less sweating and more savoring.
Who/Why Dubai is SO international it's as common to eat beside a relative of Dubai's ruler {Sheikh Mohammed}, as it is to lounge at the pool beside a Brit, Russian or Japanese.
Cost Rates start at $250 per night and include WiFi. Note: it's a 20-minute drive to leave the man-made palm island, but taxis are cheap. In fact, a common local saying is "gas is cheaper than water."
More Dubai Dubai in 30 Photos SEA ---> DXB Nonstop, Flying High With Emirates First Look :: Dubai
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Normally when we go out to the Eurobike show the sum total of our riding ambition is to nick a few of the Nextbikes they bring for the week and roll into town for a Pizza. But this year the Media Days bit of the show (where you ride bikes in the mountains) and the show bit of the show (where you traipse round the halls fuelled by various pork products) were a day and 180km apart. So, we thought. That sounds like a nice ride.
And then we bumped into Ollie from Hunt Bike Wheels and Transcontinental 2015 winner Josh Ibbett, who had a similar plan. Except theirs involved going into Lichtenstein for a coffee, as they hadn't been to Lichtenstein before. And neither had we. So we all decided to ride together. And I made a video. And here it is.
Highlights of the ride included:
- Going down the 25-odd hairpins of the Bielerhöhe Pass (pic at the top), especially rewarding as the climb up the other side is really pretty easy, with about 30km of false flat valley road and only about 3km of actual climbing
- The all-you-can-eat buffet at the house of cheese
- Chasing the one-legged guy into Bregenz
- A cold Weissbier at the end in the sun
On the other hand, there was:
- A very damp start which meant wet feet until gone midday
- The wholly unnecessary climb out of Lichtenstein which was brutal in the 27° afternoon heat
- Getting to Bludenz too late to catch the sprint finish at the Tour of Austria, that we didn't even know was on
On balance though, a great day out. Thanks to Simplon for letting us ride the bikes back to the show. You can read Stu's review of the Pavo Gran Fondo Disc here; we haven't reviewed the Simplon Pride yet but Davey really liked it and we'll certainly try and get one in for a longer-term test.
Anyway, that's it really. Enjoy the vid!
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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"Opening up access to 18,000 acres of public land through a 40-acre parcel like this is one of the crowning achievements for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and our members," said David Allen, RMEF president and CEO. "It's a true payback to our members who put so much time and effort into the organization and it lets them have access to some of the most incredible country in central Montana."
"Bob Torstenson would be so proud to know resources he provided to us are directly responsible for this project and many projects that will follow like this. And I mean directly responsible. We did not sell this back to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for the same amount we bought it for by design. The state didn't have the budget and we didn't care. That's not what it was about. We were glad to take a loss, quote-unquote, on paper because the gain is so much bigger on the ground, and all in the name of the Torstenson family. I know Bob Torstenson would be extremely proud his legacy will live on in a piece of property like this," said Allen.
After the unveiling of a sign marking the occasion, many of those on hand headed up the trail to make their way to the Lewis and Clark National Forest—the first time in years such a hike was even possible.
"This project is pretty special to me because it's really the first true access project I've been involved with at the Elk Foundation in my 6-plus years of being here," said Allen. "This is the first one I can actually reach out and touch and say we did this with our resources and we did it immediately and we opened up 18,000 acres of public land that was otherwise pretty inaccessible."
The entire project came together and was finalized in just a matter of weeks, and marks a blueprint of what is to come.
"There are projects like this across the West and we're out looking for them and we're going to make them a high priority to keep his hunting culture alive and make it easier and better for the hunter-members of ours and the nonmembers who really support our wildlife system and believe in public land hunting. This is critical to us and something we should all be proud of," Allen added.
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Texas on the Fly (Day 2 of 4)….. Guest Post by Tony Wheeler
Day 2 dawns with Okey and I on the San Marcos River about 45 minutes South of Austin. The San Marcos is one of the most beautiful and mysterious river I have ever been on. It is born several miles upstream of our put-in all at once from a giant spring in the town of San Marcos. Its water is the color of turquoise. It is a small meandering little river lined with big Cyprus and Pecan trees. It is choked with woody debris.
We are fishing with Judson Cole (Hell 'N Back Outfitters). Judson's raft is a nicely outfitted bright lime green Super Puma. It is narrow and perfect for the smaller San Marcos. I must admit I got a little bit of boat envy. That narrow boat would be perfect for the Top Gauley or the Down Elk.
Judson insisted I leave my fly rods in the car and we fish his Echo six weights that were really perfect for the nature of the San Macros. The bad case of tendonitis in my casting elbow did not object to the lighter rod.
We are into fish immediately right at the put-in.
Within 30 minutes Okey and I boat a smallmouth bass, a largemouth bass, a Guadalupe bass, and a smallmouth-Guad hybrid. In addition we are into smallish sunfish continuously.
Before 11:00 a.m. I feel a breeze on the back of my neck and I can literally feel the barometric pressure change.
"Ruh-roh Shaggy"
Sure enough the breeze turns into a blow and we never catch another fish the rest of the day.
Trout on the fly are push overs. I can catch trout under the worse conditions. Not so for bass on the fly. They are moody and sensitive to change.
We have a nice river side sandwich lunch complete with comfy camp chairs, a folding table, and Halloween Cookies. I provide the ice cold Lone Stars.
We finish early and since we are in the neighborhood I take Okey for a stroll around the historic downtown section of Lockhart with an early dinner in Blacks BBQ again.
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Swedish female duo, Anna Haupt and Terese Alpin, set out in 2005 to prove the male masses wrong with the 7-year long development of their Industrial Design Thesis project: The Invisible Bicycle Helmet. Drawing inspiration from an impending city-enforced law on bicycle helmets, and their creative self expression and sense of style, Anna and Terese were determined to counter this imposition by creating a helmet that put safety first, but that also kept the boundless beauty of the fashion-forward metropolitan woman in mind. Through passionate determination, and a unfaltering belief in their abilities, dreams, and their product--despite the countless number of people urging them otherwise--Anna and Terese have successfully surmounted disparate gender boundaries in technology and product development. Check out the article on this duo in Forbes (Forbes Woman) by Denise Restauri.
Their product is poetic, smart, graceful. It tells a poignant story of utter determination and self-belief in the face of doubt and resistance. Go ladies!
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This event is part of Tellit Festival's 'The Quest' - a search to find best unknown true-life storytellers in the UK. We'll be showcasing some of our favourite storytellers from Natural Born Storytellers for this unique event.
We've all learned something from our adventures and misadventures. Let us regale you with the heart-warming, tragic and hilarious stories behind some of life's valuable lessons.
Our shows are friendly. open, intimate and honest and the stories moving, life-affirming, shocking, captivating or just plain hilarious. It's different to a comedy show where the expectation is laughter... here laughter comes, but it's a part of a whole breadth of other emotions and reactions to the stories and it makes for a rich, fulfilling evening's entertainment.
Come on down and experience one of the friendliest and most memorable nights London has to offer. We'd love you to get involved, whether it's telling a story, suggesting a new theme or just coming down to watch the night, there is something for everyone at Natural Born Storytellers...
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The Swiss economy is generally favorable to the success of small and medium enterprises. The economic situation and foreign competition, however, remain negative factors, according to a study of Credit Suisse . To remedy this, SMEs rely on new technologies .
overall, these companies believe that Switzerland remains a favorable implantation place its framework conditions, said Thursday the large bank. But the current economic climate highly concerned.
The strength of the franc seems to weigh even for most 2,000 SMEs interviewed by researchers at Credit Suisse as part of their annual survey SME success factors.
Many exporting industrial companies had lost competitiveness due to the appreciation of the franc between 2010 and 2011. the abolition of the minimum rate by the SNB in January 2015 aggravated the situation and "all SMEs have probably not fully absorbed the shock," explain the authors of the study.
the weakening of export sectors has also had the effect of weakening demand inside, they continue.
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by branches, the transport sector are the most reserved about the benefits of the Swiss economy . Their complaints were infrastructure and regulation, said Emilie Gachet, an economist at Credit Suisse, in a telephone press conference.
SMEs oriented towards the domestic market, like the branches of business services , health or information technology, are the most positive way around.
micro-enterprises, employing fewer than ten people are also pessimistic. For the authors of the study, it may be that the less favorable financing conditions for them than for the biggest problem and to recruit highly skilled workforce explain this view.
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what the study finds surprising is that despite the signs of recovery, SMEs are skeptical about the future said Ms. Gachet. It is possible that the companies surveyed fear the arrival of new negative factors.
In this case, it could be for example the application of the initiative against mass immigration, has -t she noted. It is also possible that all SMEs have not yet taken all the measures to counter the strong Swiss franc, she said.
56.5% of the SMEs surveyed, Switzerland suffers compared to the foreign competition, high production costs. traditional industry companies, those sites abroad or export more, are often the most pessimistic about it.
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to fight against the disadvantages of the Swiss economy, almost a quarter (23.8%) of companies cite relocation. But a large majority (72.3%) is also focusing on the introduction of new technologies to gain competitive advantage.
More than a fifth of the SMEs surveyed already use strongly or very strongly. This is mainly self-organized production systems or big data analysis. Ups, SMEs and larger companies specializing in information and communication are the most advanced in this area.
Switzerland has more than half a million small and medium companies. These companies with fewer than 250 employees account for over two thirds of employment. Credit Suisse conducted its survey between March and April 1942 with one of them. (ats / nxp)
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Barcelona recently updated it's law concerning the flow of traffic -- motor, two wheel and pedestrian. A few of the major aspects of the law that effect bicyclers are: being allowed to ride in the middle of a lane, having to stop at red lights, not being allowed to use lanes reserved for buses and taxis, being prohibited from riding on pedestrian sidewalks smaller than five meters wide, having to use bike lanes when they are physically separated from the street (if they are not physically separate, then it's optional) and having to have functional bells and lights.
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Bicing, bicycling and the law in Barcelona
I think many people believe the law is an improvement over what existed before, but there are still many concerns. One of mine is not being allowed to use the bus/taxi lane. On a street like Via Laietana that means having to ride in the middle lane, with taxis and buses whooshing by to your right and passenger vehicles and trucks zooming by on your left. It's a little nerve racking!
Then there is the fact that the bikes available through the Bicing public transportation program often have bells and lights that are missing or broken. I mentioned that to a Bicing staff person the other day and the response was, "Don't worry, the police won't fine Bicing users for that. They understand that it's not your fault." OK, but what about the reason for requiring lights and bells -- safety!
Anyway, below is my translation of parts of a report about some of these issues from today's El Pais. The article was drawn from a reporter's one hour observations of a busy Barcelona intersection.
"Motorcycles, cars, parking, driving, unloading, walking... Some of everything can be found in the C/ Consell de Cent bike lane between C/ Pau Claris and C/ Roger de Llúria. Last Tuesday between 11.30am and 12.30pm saw the frantic business day activity of every kind of vehicle, including bicycles - the only ones that, in theory, should be using the bike lane -, and often causing them to leave the lane in order to negotiate obstacles in the shape of parked vehicles. In the hour observed, it was not only motor vehicles that violated the traffic code, but also cyclists who did not respect the ordinance -- red lights were run and sidewalks less than 5 meters wide were ridden on.
In one hour the balance of bike lane infractions was as follows: 14 vehicles parked in the bike lane, 3 taxis dropped off and collected passengers, a large number of motorcycles (too many to count) drove along and 12 motorcycles stopped for the light inside the bike lane. Violations by bicyclists were: four bicycles ran the light, four others rode circulated along the sidewalk. And a pedestrian also decided to walk along the lane. By type of vehicle, the results were: 29 of motor vehicles invaded the bike lane, 9 bicycles violated the ordinance and one pedestrian walked in bike lane.
During that 60 minute period, only one police officer came by -- one of those who patrols on a bicycle. He gave a warning to a bicyclist who was riding along the sidewalk and ticketed a car parked in the bike lane.
The biggest danger occurred when more than one van or car was parked, causing cyclists to zigzag continuously and dangerously. A total of 33 bicycles had to leave the lane to avoid parked vehicles, with all the danger this involved. Actually, more than a few opted to stop and wait to exit the bike lane until no cars or motorcycles were coming.
The number of infractions counted by this newspaper in an hour along one city block demonstrates that vehicles do not respect the bike lane and invade it constantly, putting cyclists at risk. And it also it provide evidence that reality far surpasses official figures. According to data provided by the Guardia Urbana, between January and September of this year -before the new ordinance took effect - the following infractions were reported: 1,295 for parking in a bike lane, 15 for stopping in a bike lane, 1,674 for driving in a bike on a motorcycle, 493 for driving in a bike lane on a moped, and 34 for driving in a bike lane in a four wheels. This newspaper requested from Barcelona City Hall the number tickets issued for the same infractions since the application of the ordinance, but received no response. Lacking concrete data, the Bicycle Club of Catalonia (BACC) believes that the ordinance is being applied to bicyclists above all.
"The most frequent bike infraction is running a red light. But the same zeal is not seen in sanctioning vehicles that invade bike lanes", stresses Diana González.
This worries cyclist organizations because of the growth of users of this means of transportation due to the appearance of the Bicing program. Before Bicing's establishment, there were some 40,000 bicycle trips each week day in Barcelona. Now there are more than 70,000."
And I'll close by adding that that number is sure to keep growing.
If you'd like to read the complete article in the original Spanish, click here.
Hasta luego amig@s,
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Hawk Lands Selective Position at Global Insurance Company
Monday, April 24, 2017
by Elizabeth Krakoviak '17
London, New York, Bermuda. For SJU graduating senior Morgan Bui, these locations aren't just travel destinations, they are global markets that she will have the opportunity to work in through her new position at international insurance company Validus, beginning this summer.
The finance and risk management & insurance double major was offered a job at Validus after executives witnessed a presentation she gave during her Property and Casualty course, taught by Michael Angelina, executive director of the risk management & insurance program. Validus selected Bui and eight other students from the class to fly to Bermuda last fall to present their research to the executive board. The company then invited Bui and fellow SJU student Andrew Grieco '18 to London during spring break for the VEMG 2017 Conference, an annual two-day event attended by the highest ranking Validus employees. The pair, who were the first students invited to attend VEMG since its inception, presented the products they created during their fall semester course and led break-out sessions with CIO Mary Kotch, focusing on how the company can attract, maintain and develop millennial talent.
According to Bui, Validus generally only hires highly experienced professionals due to the firm's specialized industry. However, company executives were so impressed with the senior's two presentations that they offered her a position in March.
"To be surrounded by the top 10 percent of a firm and be actively recruited is humbling," says Bui. "It was overwhelming in some ways. I feel very thankful that the firm is willing to invest their time and energy to mentor and train me."
Bui will take a position at the New York Office of Validus in the World Trade Center where she will spend the next one and a half to two years as an underwriter trainee developing various types of insurance policies including cyber, energy, terrorism and political unrest. She will have the opportunity to rotate throughout the global company's numerous international locations such as London, England; Pembroke, Bermuda; Sydney, Australia; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This will not be her first opportunity to work abroad, however. Bui received the 2015 St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia Scholarship to study abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland during her junior year.
"Morgan has a special balance of intelligence, a solid work ethic and a strong yet soothing presence," says Angelina. "Her in-class and industry presentations were well-delivered, leaving many industry executives wanting to hire her on the spot. In addition to her academic achievements, she is a caring person and is always there to help her classmates and cheer them on to success."
As one of four members of the Spencer team, an SJU risk management & insurance group sponsored by the Spencer Foundation that competes in national case competitions, Bui will present at the Spencer RIMS Risk Management Challenge. The competition will take place at the end of April at RIMS, the annual risk management and insurance professional conference. The team received the opportunity to present after their proposal for PayPal was selected as one of the top eight out of 24 projects.
"I believe our proposal represents the future standard of the risk management approach in the industry, and I am incredibly excited to present it to the judges," says Bui.
In addition to participation on the Spencer team, the Fairfax, Virginia, native has immersed herself in her four years at SJU with many activities and leadership positions, including being an orientation leader for two years and being one of only four leaders out of 60 to be selected as a captain. She is the executive vice president of SJU's risk management & insurance fraternity Gamma Iota Sigma, a member of SJU's co-ed business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi and a Summer Scholar. One of seven cousins in her family to attend SJU, Bui also received the Dean's Scholarship, a prestigious four-year full-tuition scholarship.
Despite all of the hard work Bui has done in her past four years of college, she credits SJU for a great deal of her success.
"[This job offer] was a culmination of the past four years at St. Joe's where I've built so many friendships and relationships that have really fostered my growth as a student, as a friend, as an aspiring professional," says Bui. "It's a testament to St. Joe's because we are a community that thrives off of uplifting each other. I wouldn't have received this job offer without the support of the people around me."


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Our 1962-64 Chevy Nova, 5-Lug Steering Arm set are made to precise specifications. No more hunting endlessly through junk yards to obtain these items to finish your front disc brake conversion. When converting a 4-lug vehicle to 5-lug disc brakes, modifications to the lower control arm turning stop are required to obtain proper turning radius of vehicle. Includes 1/2" mounting holes to be used with disc brakes
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Sedation Dentistry for Adults and Kids
At Woodland Family Dental, we are committed to making sure you get the high quality dental care you need by offering our patients a variety of sedation dentistry options. It is our priority to make sure you receive the best dental care in a comfortable, gentle environment. We offer a full array of comfort solutions to ensure you get the treatment you need to keep your smile healthy for life.
Quality dental care should not hurt or cause anxiety, which is why we provide treatment that our patients can trust. You can relax during your visit as our doctors always uses the latest treatment techniques to ensure your peace of mind. We deal with many patients who have dental anxiety or haven't been to the dentist in a long time, and our office is judgment-free!
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If you suffer from dental anxiety, Dr. Welton may recommend oral sedation. These anti-anxiety pills tone down activity in the parts of your brain that cause you to feel anxious or afraid. This allows Dr. Welton to get more of your treatment done at once, while you are in a peaceful, sleep-like state.
Remember, if you take oral sedation, you cannot drive before or after your appointment. Bring a friend or family member with you to make sure you arrive and get back home safely following your appointment.
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Unfortunately, dental anxiety can keep many patients from visiting the dentist for checkups and much-needed dental work. If dental appointments make you anxious, Dr. Welton can administer nitrous oxide (commonly known as "laughing gas") to help you feel more at ease during your visit.
At Woodland Family Dental, laughing gas is administered using a mask, allowing you to feel more at ease within minutes. Nitrous oxide leaves the body quickly after the mask is removed, and it does not leave you feeling drowsy afterwards. If you are feeling anxious about an upcoming visit, ask about nitrous oxide. Most of our patients are good candidates for this treatment, and it is safe for children!
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[Watch] The 1975 - "Facedown"
Manchester band The 1975 are gearing up for success. They've been getting some attention for their track "The City" which you can enjoy below, but they've also teased with a more sombre number titled "Facedown" which is taken from their forthcoming EP. That EP goes by the same name and is set for release on the 6th of August via Dirty Hit. Being a Manchester band it's nice to see them getting more attention and I'm pretty sure that following the EP 2012 will lead to bigger things for these guys. Enjoy the tracks and watch this space.


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IC-MedTech is a company supported by anonymous donors and investors. It was founded in 2004 by Tom Miller and since that time the company has raised $20 million to support related research and development.
Tom Miller, Founder/CEO
Tom Miller is a successful engineer and serial entrepreneur. He's been responsible for innovative chemical research and applications development in both industry and medicine for more than 35 years. Tom founded IC-MedTech in 2004 and is committed to finding new, less toxic treatments for cancer and other diseases. The company has developed intellectual property for small molecules as primary and pan-adjuvant therapies treating cancer, inflammatory and genetic diseases.
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Dr. Coutts brings over 37 years experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry employing both small molecule and biologic approaches to drug development. Dr. Coutts has expertise evaluating technologies and business plans and providing technical diligence for development and licensing. His primary expertise is in chemistry and biochemistry, with experience in allergy, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and cancer.
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This is the fourth installment of Fall of the Designer. If you've missed the first parts of the series, head over and read Part I: Fashionable Nonsense, Part II: Pixel Pushers and Part III: Conformist Responsive Design.
Passions were ignited with the release of Squarespace Logo, a tool that enables small businesses to easily design a logo with a simple drag-and-drop interface. This was echoed when Tailor Brands built a competing tool for making free logos and Canva built their own logo generator. Many were similarly concerned upon the announcement of The Grid, a tool that is purported to automate web layouts and designs.
Some designers propose that these tools devalue the skills they have spent their professional careers developing and worry that clients will no longer value visual design when significant portions of it become automated. While discussing the phenomenon of free logo design, Sacha Greif of Sidebar.io and Discover Meteor raises one potential argument about where this mindset could originate:
I think a lot of the objections to that tool can be summed up as: "we think our clients are too dumb to distinguish between a free 5-minute[s] logo builder and professional design services…Which means that either A) you're wrong, and you need to stop thinking that just because someone isn't a designer automatically means they have the IQ of a potato or B) you're right, and you need better clients.
Greif gets at part of the issue. It is to be expected that designers have to educate their clients, in the same way that doctors educate their patients. Clients hiring designers ostensibly do not have expert design IQ—otherwise why hire a designer in the first place? Any particular client could have a range of experience in design whether in design theory or in their understanding of good technical execution, but ultimately they hire a designer to bolster their capabilities.
Either way, most clients understand that a well-designed brand and product are of immense value, but do not necessarily understand the value of the design process itself. Clients can be expected to be experts in their own field, but cannot be expected to be so in the area of design. It is therefore important we discuss this gap in expertise on the part of the client, because a compromised design does no good for a client or their customers. It is in everyone's interest that designers maintain the integrity of their work.
Some, like the reputable Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swissmiss criticized the outcry about Squarespace Logo:
The never ending stream of snarky comments on the new tool that helps anyone create simple 'logos' made my heart sink. What is it with the design community so quickly lashing out at other creators?
The truth is that in the long term, for many if not most designers, Squarespace Logo, The Grid and similar tools that automate design are a threat. They are certainly not immediate threat, but still a sign of things to come.
Even the most acclaimed designers can face pushback from clients about their judgement. Consider that the esteemed Paul Rand was expected by Steve Jobs to provide him with multiple options for the NeXT logo. Rand was forced to convince Jobs that one option would suffice. In other words, he had to convince Jobs of the integrity of his process and judgement. The apocryphal story of Paula Scher and the Citi logo is similarly illuminating. Scher had to persuade Citi to use a logo that she had drawn on a napkin in mere seconds. Her logo has since proven itself to be an iconic mark.
It can take years, decades or even a lifetime before even the best designers stop receiving improper challenges to their process. This will continue to be the case as long as design is a balancing act of subjectivity and objectivity. What made Rand and Scher better able to argue the value of their process and output was not only their high status, but also crucially that they had a repertoire of valid responses to client feedback in their back pockets. This confidence in their work and, more importantly, in their process rightly inspired the trust of Apple and Citi, their respective clients.
It appears that many of those complaining about cheap and automated solutions do not have the vocabulary to assert their design expertise in the context of client relations. When clients say 'my nephew could do that job in 20 minutes' these designers may not be equipped with a good response to that assertion.
Getting such pushback from clients is not just a struggle for designers lacking in expertise. Ever since the artificial constraint of flat OS platforms like iOS 7, established designers like Ged Maheux, the cofounder of the Iconfactory, have been experiencing significant flack: "Clients will push back and say 'why is this costing so much if it took so little time?'" Maheux has a response:
You're distilling down the design, you're getting to the essence of the icon, which is a good thing. It's a really good thing. There's nothing to hide behind. You can't hide behind textures and effects and cool perspective. You have to communicate, and that means that you have to think about what you design before you do it, and that takes time. The final render can be a 20 minute job. It's now more of an exercise in branding than it has been before.
I disagree that what icon designers were doing in the past was "hiding" or not communicating. And the prior work of the Iconfactory was just as much, if not more, an exercise in branding than it is post-flat design. But of course these are the words of Maheux, someone seasoned in client services, with over 20 years of experience making icons for projects up to and including the icon sets that make up operating systems. He is someone who is now, more than ever, told his services are overpriced for their value.
Maheux, like his predecessors Rand and Scher, is prepared with a response to tough clients who challenge his process. Unfortunately due to the flat design movement, the icon design industry has experienced a palpable sense of loss in the past few years. It heavily contrasts with what Maheux's colleague at the Iconfactory, Corey Marion, had to say about prospects for the icon design industry in 2001: "A lot of jobs creating fewer icons that take more time." Back then, it must have been inconceivable that in a decade's time clients would be so forcefully urging icon designers to slash prices.
While Iconfactory had previously been responsible for crafting system icons for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, now icon design is such a low priority for Microsoft, and the industry at large, that they decided to produce their Windows 10 icon designs internally. The icons have since been leaked, and describing them as an affront to icon design could only be considered generous. Thus the apologists now hear their cue:
Microsoft isn't thinking about icons or aesthetics right now. The company is focused on putting in all the top features insiders are requesting, it's focusing on Universal Apps that could potentially be a game changer if implemented correctly. The beautifying comes later.
After receiving many inquiries into whether the Iconfactory was responsible for the hideous Windows 10 beta icons, Maheux wrote a press release to clear the air. Not wanting to have the Iconfactory's name further tarnished by association, he answered the question of whether the Iconfactory had designed the icons. His answer was: "Nope."
It should be unsurprising that clients both large and small react with hostility towards visual designers after the emergence of flat design. Anyone with their eyes open will recognize that material costs for producing design continue to shrink towards almost zero once a designer has a computer, a subscription to a visual design program and a few drawing implements. Additionally, the cost of labor for producing designs remains relatively low compared to development. Clients are not stupid: they understand that a significant value-add that allows visual designers to charge a premium is that they offer visually sophisticated products.
These sophisticated designs, by their very nature, require significant expertise in aesthetic technique. Since the beginnings of graphic design, expressive designs have been highly desired by clients who wish to display a quality visual brand as an indicator of their company's health and status. The artificial constraints that OS makers have imposed through flat design have utterly demolished this synergy between designers and clients and have instead produced an antagonism. As Maheux points out, with flat design, clients are often absolutely right when they estimate that the design will be "a 20 minute job." The problem for designers is that most of these 20 minute jobs hardly require an expert to produce.
Some designers believe they are immune to the impact of flat design. They argue that because they focus on what they believe to be more structural design elements like typography and grids, they are protected. However, even though grids themselves are often only implicit, they absolutely do fall under the purview of visual design, as does typography. When overt graphical elements suffer, many potential clients are not sufficiently informed to value subtler design elements like typography and grids. Accordingly, when budgets tighten for visual design as a whole, it tends to affect most design practitioners, as many visual designers are generalists, particularly when it comes to UI design.
During the early 1990s, there was a sense of alarmism in the field of print design as digital publishing tools and home computers were becoming increasingly widespread. Print designers had to move to a new medium and increase their technical rendering abilities to keep up with the capabilities of the computer. The bar was raised significantly for what qualified as a competitive skill set in producing visual designs.
Today designers are not required to improve their aesthetic capabilities to keep up, but instead to renounce them entirely and instead focus exclusively on implementation. It should come as a surprise to no one that clients will not pay for what is simply not there.
Khoi Vinh recently wrote an instructive article entitled "Is Design Bound to Get Cheaper?" in which he expresses concern that the design industry will increasingly suffer from outsourcing and globalization. Vinh notes the rock-bottom prices that design assets are offered for on sites like Envato and Creative Market and alludes to the threat of cheap foreign labor available on marketplaces like 99designs. Vinh predicts diminished prospects for professional designers when implementation of prepackaged design becomes a plug and play matter. He points out that for many companies today, the calculus of whether to hire a designer goes as follows:
You could argue that this kind of product, in which aesthetics are entirely divorced from utility, is ideal for an arrangement in which lower-wage workers deliver highly polished but functionally meaningless work. A corollary to that would be the assertion that truly in-depth, purpose-driven design will always need to be done in Western markets. Personally, I don't buy that argument—it seems inevitable to me that the sale value of design work will trend down over time.
Prior to flat design, visual design was approached holistically as a key part of an ongoing strategy, and accordingly commanded relatively high compensation and respect as a functionally integral aspect of product design. With the commoditization of visual design, low wages are made to appear ideal for an aesthetic practice that is now seen as largely superfluous. It is entirely understandable that companies have a hard time seeing the value of paying a visual design specialist when they could just hire a front end developer who would most likely work from a modular, preset CSS style guide. Better yet when it comes to native development, a developer can just use the default styling. The result is that the practice of visual design is moving further from the drawing board, a place where expertise is sorely needed.
Vinh continues:
Whether it takes another ten or twenty or thirty years, as technology further shrinks the world and other markets shore up their ability to produce substantive designers, it's my bet that the world at large will catch up with the cozy, affluent market that Western designers enjoy today. The clock of globalization is ticking for us.
It is hardly the only possibility that the rest of the world will catch up with Western salaries. It is equally, if not more, likely that compensation for design in the West will fall to match the rest of the world, except at the largest of companies that can afford boutique pricing and solutions. In the short to mid-term, the industry will consolidate, converging around a few big winners while the middle of the market implodes. If commoditization can happen in the app development industry, it most certainly can happen in the design industry.
In his book, How They Got There, Vinh explains "Once I came to accept that career certainty is now a thing of the past (if it ever existed), I came to a new appreciation for the beauty of career uncertainty" (12). It should be a troubling sign for the industry when a designer with Vinh's experience feels that careers in design are bound to become increasingly insecure. Vinh himself may not have a hard time finding employment, but he is sympathetic to the issues that industry designers may come to face. In his book, Vinh and those he interviews provide insights that often fail to be addressed when it comes to discussions about a field in flux.
Automated tools and outsourcing are not going away, nor should they. It would be ignorant to argue in favor of banning tools that simplify the design process in this way. In fact, when put in the hands of a professional designer, these tools and services can sometimes be quite useful. Ultimately, one must simply recognize this competition for what it provides non-specialists: generic, undifferentiated and often shoddily-made solutions.
Forming a connection between flat design and the economic forces of automation and globalization may seem a strange juxtaposition. It is true that the two are not themselves related, but the quality of design they inspire is quite similar. Moreover, the expectations they set for what qualifies as good design in the minds of clients are similar. Clients cannot be blamed for drawing improper conclusions about the value of design when it is commoditized.
It is not clear what the future of visual design holds. What is clear is that the industry is experiencing a significant amount of turbulence. One would hope that design educators and industry leaders would respond to moments of uncertainty like these as opportunities for education, rather than equivocation. They could offer colleagues the language to confidently and respectfully engage clients who question their design process in the face of subpar, automated and cheap solutions. We could help inexperienced and veteran designers alike educate clients about the difference between cookie-cutter design and the custom-tailored solutions that professional design practitioners offer. One part of this strategy would involve moving towards encouraging designs that are more visually stimulating than the designs operating system makers offer. More generally, this would involve imparting subtle strategies for communicating design's importance to clients. None of this will stop automation or globalization, but it is still a worthy effort to undertake.
Unfortunately, instead of taking a proactive approach to these important matters, what many industry leaders have chosen to do is tell their fellow visual designers to self-sabotage and embrace these changes because they posit these are not threats to anyone but an amateur. On the other hand, if flat design were not a threat to any segment in the design industry, then why has there been so much handwringing about it? Ignoring the major aesthetic and usability implications, why does flat design remain to this day such a compelling topic for discussion when it comes to the business side of design? Upon further examination, the adoption of flat design has caused a profound shift, and it is unwise for designers to ignore it.
We must ask ourselves what it says when many industry leaders are as optimistic as ever about the prospects for the visual design industry in the face of credible threats, both internal and external. It may seem strange, but there is an obvious explanation for why so few leaders seem interested in providing substantive analysis of these shifts. I will explore this explanation in the conclusion to Fall of the Designer.


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Vancouver Prostate Centre scientists were the recipients of five of the twenty-six 2014 Movember Discovery Grants awarded by Prostate Cancer Canada on June 5, receiving three as principal investigators and two as co-investigators.
- Dr. Peter Black: Circulating tumour cells for risk stratification in men with localized prostate cancer
- Dr. Kim Chi: Genomic profiling of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) as a predictive biomarker for patients with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)
- Dr. Yuzhuo Wang: Identification of genes involved in development and progression of neuroendocrine prostate cancer
- Dr. Juan Ausio, University of Victoria (Co-Investigator: Dr. Paul Rennie): Examining the interplay between H2A.Z and EZH2 in androgen receptor dependent and independent signalling in prostate cancer
- Dr. Gerald Krystal, British Columbia Cancer Agency (Co-Investigator: Dr. Paul Rennie):Generation of mesenchymal stromal cells infected with oncolytic herpes viruses expressing immune modulators to treat prostate cancer
Also announced on June 5, the 2014 Movember Team Grant was awarded to a team lead by a team lead by Dr. John Bartlett of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Ralph Buttyan was one of twelve co-investigators on this grant, titled The prostate cancer program project in rapid development of novel diagnostic markers for early prostate cancer (PRONTO).
A full list of the funding decisions is available at the Prostate Cancer Canada website.


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At the Madison Golf Center we make practice fun, no matter whether it is coming to hit a bucket of balls or taking lessons from any of our 3 golf instructors. I don't say that lightly, I have a brother now living in Europe who went behind the Iron Curtain in the 80's to help open it up – and was in Romania the fall of 1989 when the riots have been going, helping behind the lines until the day the Romanian leader and his wife were executed, when they sent him and the 2,000 children involved in helping residence.
However, we have clubs that can be borrowed for your lesson and golf-distinct footwear are not a requirement but will help with your balance (trainers are okay for lessons only). Our PGA certified instructors supply classes for golf newcomers and improvers, in group lessons or as individual tuition to truly advance your game.