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In April, ABCNews reported that "The Simpsons" was under fire for its response to criticism over its depiction of its characters. (facebook.com/TheSimpsons/File)
Anyone who has grown up with the Simpsons knows that the show's golden years are widely disputed to be somewhere between the 13th and the 23rd season. Although this debate may last forever without being resolved, it is clear that the Simpsons was one of the first adult-targeted cartoons based on satire.
In April, ABCNews reported that The Simpsons was under fire for its response to criticism over its depiction of its characters. One character in question is one of the show's oldest cast members, an Indian man named Apu. You can watch the trailer for the TruTV documentary here:
These days, being offensive can be likened to committing murder, especially with the new generation of those with left-leaning ideology, sometimes with extreme liberalist views. Ironically, the extreme left in America -- where the show originated -- seems to have gone so far left that they have accidentally turned right. Here's a handful of jokes and satirical interpretations that most probably wouldn't fly with current youth. Spoiler warning!
1. "Hello Moe, you sister's being raped."
This episode aired in September of 2014 during a crossover special with Family Guy. It is easy to see why people would misinterpret this jab, even before the era of the #MeToo movement.
Playing out the different joke wavelength, Stewie's darkness quickly put a cloud over Bart's lighthearted humor. If you reacted to the joke the way Bart did (standing there, deadpan), then congratulations, your morals are in check. Would this somewhat tongue-in-cheek joke work in 2018? It's unlikely.
2. "Moneybart" Couch Gag of South Korean Sweatshop
This episode was aired in October 2010 and featured a couch gag sequence that depicted the animation studio as a sweatshop that also endorsed animal cruelty and child slavery. While the studio that animated the Simpsons -- which is based in South Korea -- found this offensive, this is actually an important joke to make.
If there is anything The Simpsons creators know how to do and do it well, it's social criticism of their own characters. Fans of the show who own The Simpsons merchandises definitely stop, think and remember that there are places in the world that still commit such atrocities even today. Would this joke work in 2018? Maybe.
3. "What've you done, my maguppies became gazongas!"
This episode aired on Nov. 24, 2002 and featured a mix-up between Marge Simpson and another patient. The mix up results in Marge's breasts becoming -- you guessed it -- large. The sexualization that followed even had WatchMojo talking about how uncomfortable it made them. At the end of the episode, Marge uses her ample bosom to save her son, her husband and his friend from an enraged elephant -- and from getting shot.
Today this joke would amplify the following issues, at least on social media: medical malpractice, the vanity in plastic surgery and women objectification. It is up to the viewer to decide which they are offended by.
4. Homer's Night Out
This episode aired at the show's beginning on March 25, 1990, and has Homer being ridiculed for being made fun of for dancing next to a sexy and talented belly dancer. Marge then throws Homer out of the house as a result. Those a part of the MGTOW movement today would take this as justification for labeling women as crazy housewives. While housewives in return, would most likely feel Marge was justified in her action. There is no winning in this argument.
5. Eight Misbehavin'
A decade prior to Natalie Suleman's "octomom" sensation in 2009, an episode of the Simpsons aired on Nov. 21, 1999 tells the story of grocery store-owner Apu and his new wife Manjula, who gives birth to octuplets.
Today, Apu's shocked reaction may be seen as offensive by those struggling with the real-life problem of caring for many children at once. As offensive as it is, the reality that the joke derives itself from is a common occurrence in poorer parts of the world.
Maybe there is something out there that will make even the overly sensitive laugh. Although it seems the majority are of the sentiment that the "Current-day Simpsons is a limping, damaged, animal. The Simpsons of yore however, featured hilarious jokes, brilliant writing and visual gags and will continue to stand the test of time ..." said YouTube review channel WhatCulture. (asw)
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FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) - The Ferguson Commission report is recommending sweeping changes to address racial and economic gaps in the St. Louis area. The Commission released the report Monday.
The 198 page report is called, "Forward Through Ferguson, A Path Toward Racial Equality." The report is very direct and upfront. It says, "We know that talking about race makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But make no mistake: This is about race."
The Commission was set up by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to study the underlying social and economic conditions of the unrest that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown last year.
The Governor, commission members, elected officials and community leaders gathered at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley to officially release the report.
The Commission study makes the observation that quote, "The law says all citizens are equal, but the data says not everyone is treated that way."

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Harrington House, Henrietta Way, Coalport, Telford, Shropshire, TF8
5 bedroom detached house for sale
5 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
Terraced Area
Large Garden
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�Georgian style entrance door to reception hallway with built in cloaks cupboard and easy access to cloakroom leading from hall.
�Pleasant open plan kitchen breakfast area,with show piece kitchen and space fortable and chairs.
�Good sized utility area, with internal door to garage.
�Good sized dining room across from the kitchen.
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�Guest bedroom with shower ensuite.
�Further bedroom.
�Superb first floor sitting room with featured log burner, double aspect windows and views to front and rear, with doors leading to roofed terraced area,with staircase leading down to gardens.
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�Master bedroom with ensuite shower room.
�Pleasant landing area with windows overlooking gardens to the rear
�Two further double bedrooms
�Family bathroom.
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�Ample parking leading to garage.
�Landscaped gardens, with extremely generous garden to the rear, with terrace area with rural gorge views.
This bespoke and exclusive development of 12 properties is situated in the historical area of Coalport which was famous for the manufacture of Coalport China and links with the industrial revolution era of Ironbridge and surrounding area in the famous Severn Gorge. Coalport China was sold worldwide and put the small hamlet of Coalport on the map.
Nearby, are two public houses/restaurants, footbridge to Jackfield and the Boat Inn and Maws Craft centre, the Silkin Way pedestrian pathway leads to Telford Town park some 6 miles away, riverside walks with an abundance of wildlife.
The historical town of Ironbridge is approx 2 miles distant which is a World Heritage Site, Blists Hill open air museum approx 1 mile and Telford Town centre approx 6 miles with major departmental stores and railway station. M54 motorway link onto M6 and M1 respectively.
From Ironbridge follow Waterloo Street, along the riverbank road down towards Coalport. Pass the Shakespeare Inn and the Coalport China museum and the development lies on the left hand side of the road. Sat Nav - TF8 7HZ
From Ironbridge follow Waterloo Street, along the riverbank road down towards Coalport. Pass the Shakespeare Inn and the Coalport China museum and the development lies on the left hand side of the road. Sat Nav - TF8 7HZ


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Data from European Academy of Neurology (EAN) - Curated by EPG Health - Date added 05 July 2019
Statin use reduces mortality and stroke risk in dementia patients, new study shows
(Oslo, Monday, 01 July, 2019) The use of statins is significantly associated with a reduction in the risk of mortality in dementia patients, new research presented today at the 5th European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress has shown1.
The study, which analysed 44,920 Swedish dementia patients from the Swedish Dementia Registry2 between 2008-2015, found users of statins had a 22% lower risk of all-cause death compared to matched non-users.
The research also demonstrated that statin users had a 23% reduction in the risk of stroke, which is three times more likely in patients with mild dementia and seven times more likely in those with severe dementia3.
The protective effect of statins on survival were strong for patients younger than 75 years (27% reduction) and in men (26% reduction) but women and older patients also benefited (17% and 20% reduction respectively). Patients with vascular dementia – the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease – also saw a 29% lower mortality risk.
"Survival in patients in dementia is variable, and previous studies have identified many factors associated with survival and risk of stroke in these patients", commented first author Bojana Petek, MD, from the University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. "However, the effect of statins on these two outcomes is not clear. The aim of this study was to analyse the association between the use of statins on the risk of death and stroke in patients diagnosed with dementia."
Commenting on their research, lead author Dr Sara Garcia-Ptacek from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, stated, "This is a cohort study, which means patients were not randomized to a treatment like they would be in a clinical trial. For this reason, we can only show an association, and not definitely prove that statins caused this decline in mortality. However, our results are encouraging and suggest that patients with dementia benefit from statins to a similar extent than patients without dementia."
Affecting around 10 million people in Europe, dementia is the leading cause of dependency and disability among older people across the continent4 . The number of cases is expected to double by 2030, largely due to the ageing population. The prevalence of dementia increases exponentially with age, affecting 5% of the population over 65, and up to 50% by 90 years of age3.
1. Statins, risk of death and stroke in patients with dementia - a registry-based study. Petek B, Villa-Lopez M, Winblad B, Kramberger MG, von Euler M, Xu H, Eriksdotter M, GarciaPtacek S, presented at the 5th Congress of International Neurology in Oslo
2. The Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem): www.svedem.se
3. Journal of Internal Medicine. 2017. Management of acute ischaemic stroke in patients with dementia. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/joim.12588
4. WHO Europe, Dementia. Available at: http://www.euro.who.int/en/healthtopics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/areas-of-work/dementia
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Renzo Piano is the famed Italian Architect enlisted to design the 300,000 Sq Ft Academy Museum on Whilshire Blvd in California.The building will host a collection of film memorabilia including set designs, costumes, props and interactive installations. Over 140,000 films, 10 million photos, 42,000 original film posters and 10,000 production drawings.
The original building was constructed in 1938 and has been vacant for the last 20 years. Once again the building will be part of the evolving urban LA scene.
Renzo Piano's workshop has worked on the designs for the museum's two buildings since 2012 and should be completed in 2019.
A new spherical addition will accommodate a 1,000-seat theater and a dome-covered terrace with views of the Hollywood Hills. Across the campus, long-term exhibitions presenting the history of movie-making will be accompanied by a program of temporary installations dedicated to specific movies, genres or directors. As well as the large theater in the sphere – designed for events, premiers and presentation – a smaller 288-seat auditorium will host screenings. Restaurants, shops and education spaces will also feature.
"The millions of people around the world who make and love movies will be able to come to the epicenter of film-making and experience the magic of this art form," said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson."They'll see firsthand the vast collections of the academy and the work of our members. And, they'll be able to do that all year – not just on Oscar night."
(Excerpt from designboom.com)
Concept Drawings
Site Plan
Floor Plan
Art Adviser- Will Kopelman enlisted architect Gil Schafer of G. P. Schafer Architect to help him realize his vision for his four- bedroom duplex on Park Avenue. Prior to enlisting Shafer's help to reconfigure the duplex into an expansive family zone, the formal dining room, cramped kitchen, butler's pantry, and laundry room were organized into smaller rooms. "It was a rabbit warren," Schafer notes, "totally opposite to the way families live today."
"I wanted to make the kitchen the centerpiece," Kopelman continues. "It's where I make the girls breakfast in the morning and cook their dinner at night. It's where we watch our movies, and it's where I do a lot of work, right at the dining table. I wanted a space that could handle all of that.
In the multi-family zone between living rooms there are large steel-and-glass doors that were installed to allow light into the entry way but to also keep sound travel to the rest of the apartment.
A 15-foot-long 17th-century tapestry depicting the coronation of Charlemagne that Kopelman snagged at auction in London before realizing it was too fragile to be unmounted and rolled up and so had to be crated flat for shipping and then craned in through the windows of the 10th-floor duplex.
A 1977 Triumph Bonneville 750 motorcycle stands like a sculpture in one corner. "When I had my children, I decided I didn't want to ride anymore, but I didn't want to sell it—it came off the production line the same year I was born!—so there it sits."
There's plenty of storage, including a cupboard specially designed to hold cereal boxes at kid-friendly height and a built-in wine cellar for the grown-ups. "I wanted to make the kitchen the centerpiece," Kopelman continues. "It's where I make the girls breakfast in the morning and cook their dinner at night. It's where we watch our movies, and it's where I do a lot of work, right at the dining table. I wanted a space that could handle all of that.
The master bedroom is swathed in a custom hand-painted wallpaper by Gracie. Bed by RH; bedding by Ralph Lauren Home.
Starting this year with a little tude. I think it will do me some good!
I discovered French Designer Isabelle Stanislas after reading a article announcing that her company So-An was one of the three designers asked to bid to redecorate Paris's iconic Élysée Palace, the official residence of the presidents of France since 1873.
Isabelle's roots between Morocco, France and Israel have transcended in her mix of work from interior design and architecture to furniture. She is inspired by the permanent balance between the respect of the history and the daring of the modernity. Her first major commissioned job was to reinvent a private mansion at the young age of 22.
Isabelle is truly an inspiration and a designer I will continue to follow throughout my career.
"To invent is not to question everything: it is to use the light and the space of what already exists and to project them into the present. Heritage is not condemned to live behind the window of the past. If we respect it, if we understand its codes and its values, then we can marry it to modernity without distorting it. After all, the past, the present and the future have always been the three sides of the same scalene ".
I had no idea that Restoration Hardware had a location in Napa Valley until my good friend Shalia send me a snapchat of her visit to this amazing place. She told me I would fall in love with it and she was most definitely not wrong.
This RH location is one-of-a-kind integrating food, art, design and wine all on one property. After seeing the below you will be just be just as in love as I am.


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Emmy and The Incredible Shrinking Rat
Jonell, Lynne. 2007. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. Art by Jonathan Bean.
"Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good."
It continues, "She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days. Of course no one can keep this kind of thing up forever. But Miss Barmy had told Emmy that if she were a good girl, her parents would probably want to see her more often: so Emmy kept on bravely trying. So far it hadn't helped." (1)
This might have been a very dull story. Really. If Emmy had kept on being good. Kept on trying. Kept on striving. Fortunately, for the reader. Emmy chose to listen to a Rat. Not just any rat, mind you, though appearances can be deceiving. She met The Rat in school; he was the class pet. One day he tells her, "Try being bad for once. You might like it." (4) (Yes, he tells her. A talking rat. That shouldn't really surprise anyone, right?)
This book is most unusual. But it's fun. It's smart. It's funny. It's magical. This is just a fun little fantasy for anyone and everyone who's a kid at heart. And there's a sequel. I'll be getting to that one soon I hope!
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The iPhone X. Wow, that's a nice looking mobile phone! It's certainly a huge step up from anything Apple has ever created before, but it comes with a rather vomit-inducing price tag. In the US it'll cost $1000, in the UK it'll set you back £1000, and here, where I'm writing from, in New Zealand, it'll take $1799 big ones to get you that phone. Before you go and say "he's just an Apple hater" or "take the Samsung out of your arse"…I'm actually the proud owner of an iPhone 6, iPad Pro, iPod, and a MacBook Air, but I won't be buying the iPhone X, simply because I can think of far better things to spend my money on.
I started to think about what the money for an iPhone X could get you in the travel world. So, if you're working hard, trying to save up for the big gap year to NZ and the iPhone X is tempting you, have a read of these 5 things that might change your mind.
Let's start with the obvious. In this day and age, the money for an iPhone X can get you to New Zealand and back. A study by kiwi.com found that flight prices were at an all time record low. On average in the United Kingdom, it costs people just £8.18 per 100KM to fly. That price is about comparable with the cost of driving your car, possibly slightly cheaper. Now is the best time to go on your overseas adventure.
The £1000 that it takes to get you an iPhone X will get you a flight with a pretty great airline too. Flights with Emirates from London to NZ in June 2018 are going for around £700. That leaves you another £300 to spend on something else! Brilliant. Have a look for yourself at kiwi.com.
So, think about the memories an iPhone X could give you, then think about how an adventure to New Zealand could change your life. I know which one I would choose.
New Zealand is a country that is made for a road trip. While you cruise through mountains, traverse around lakes, and take in the beauty of the place, you'll find yourself feeling at one with nature. That's why the next NZ adventure you can buy with the money for an iPhone X is this 14 day, Wellington to Queenstown trip, designed by the legends at Roady. This one's called "Razzle Dazzle" and guess what?! This one will only set you back $NZ1399. So, again, you've got another $400 left over! This Roady is still under construction, but the team have plenty of others to choose from at www.roady.co.nz.
The cool thing about "Razzle Dazzle" is that you've got your car hire, your accommodation, discounted attractions, an E-Book Travel Guide and Roady support throughout the trip. All for the price of one phone?! What's the world coming to?
This one may not be completely relevant, but, I just wanted to highlight how many quality Lonely Planet New Zealand books you can get.
I've just looked on their UK website and have found it for £16.99. So if you do the maths, that means that with the £1000 it takes to get an iPhone X, you can buy yourself and your friends 58 Lonely Planet guides to help you get around NZ. So what are you waiting for, go and order them! Click here to get you straight there.
New Zealand has the rather unimpressive statistic that it has almost as many cars as people. Though, that still isn't very many compared to other countries, it's a lot on a per capita basis. What that does mean though, is that you can get one for a bargain when you're here on your working holiday.
At Turners, they auction off hundred of cars every day, all across the country. You might be saying, "surely we can't get a car for $NZ1799". Well, my friend, you most certainly can, and a relatively good one at that.
I've put a search together through Turners and edited the price to be a maximum of $NZ2000. There's plenty to feast your eyes on. Take a look at my search here. There's a 1998 Honda CRV going for $NZ1500 at the moment. Who wouldn't want to cruise around the worlds most beautiful country in the worlds most marvellous car? Think about that, just think about that.
Stray provides arguably the most comprehensive hop on hop off bus network in New Zealand. Their aim is to take you off the beaten track and get you lost in the real New Zealand. They've pretty much nailed that.
The "Maximus" is their pass that gets you almost the entire network. You have 12 months to complete it, and can jump on and off as many times throughout the network as you want. You can get all of this joy and excitment for $NZ1749. That's $50 cheaper than the iPhone X is going to cost you. For real die-hard Apple fans, they may only have that phone for a year, then get the next one when it comes out. So you get a years worth of fun out of both, but I think you get far more for your money by getting on the Stray Bus. In fact, I think you could get far more for your money if you chose any one of the 5 things highlighted in this article. But, the decision is up to you, and you alone. Good luck!


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'Nek Minnit': This viral video changed Levi Hawken's life
The man behind this infamous meme has revealed how his life was almost ruined by his sudden brush with fame.
A broken scooter and a throwaway line went viral and made Levi Hawken famous. The artist and the skater talks with Russell Brown on the eve of a documentary debut about that minute and that fame.
At its essence, street skating is a matter of deriving function from form — interrogating built space in search of planes and edges, inscribing shapes the original designer never saw, finding a physical solution, the NZ Herald reports.
In a scratchy video shot in 1991, a skinny kid in baggy jeans and a blue beanie grins at the camera.
"I'm Levi Hawken," he squeaks. "And this is my section."
For the next few minutes, over a pop-punk soundtrack, the kid flies and grinds and falls over the city, over steps and seats and the fixtures of concrete carparks. When he nails it, he thrusts his hands in the air. When he doesn't, he picks up his skateboard, rubs his tailbone and tries again.
In another video, shot 18 years later, the skinny, squeaky kid is a grown man pointing his skateboard — short board, hard wheels, the most difficult and dangerous way to do this — down central Auckland's Liverpool St, a short road so steep you feel like you need a handrail just to walk down the footpath.
"Oh my GOD!" a spectator yells as he flashes past.
He nails it. Like the kid who's pulled off a trick, he raises his arms in triumph, relief and recognition of the cheering onlookers, before skating back and flopping theatrically on the hill he's just bombed, where he's mobbed. Someone hands him a beer when he gets up and he faces the camera and, flushed with adrenaline, dedicates his feat to Bridey Gallagher Hawken, his recently departed grandmother.
The descent of Liverpool St took 12 seconds — the same length of time as the clip someone took from a DVD. The one in which Hawken, clowning around in a city skate park, looks down at a broken scooter and jokes: "Left my scooter outside the dairy. Nek minnit …"
Hawken is used to being on camera. He's been captured in action hundreds, maybe thousands, of times and his life spans pages of YouTube search results. But fate decreed that it would not be any of those videos that defined him in the public consciousness but the 12-second joke that got way, way out of hand.
When "nek minnit" exploded in 2011, Hawken was, he says, "down in Dunedin just kind of minding my own business and doing art and skating — and that happened."
There was little to indicate his life was about to change. Colin Evans' independent skate video South in Your Mouth, had premiered the year before. A clip from the DVD was uploaded to YouTube under the title Negg Minute in May and attracted little attention outside the skate scene. But in August, another YouTube user posted it as Nek Minnit and the world went mad. By the end of the year, the clip had been viewed 1.6 million times and "nek minnit" was New Zealand's sixth-most-searched term on Google. And it didn't stop.
"I've met so many people and it's made a lot of people happy," reflects Hawken, "but you know what it's like, you see famous people and you think they're happy and they're not."
On the internet, people speculated about his appearance: he had leukaemia, he was "retarded", he had a meth problem. He actually has a genetic disorder called ectodermal dysplasia, which affects his skin (he has hardly any sweat glands), hair (white and wispy as a child, long gone now) and snaggled teeth.
He was bullied about it at school and having that come back hurt a bit. But becoming a meme created another problem: he lost control of a reputation built up over two decades of absolute dedication to his craft. Was that more upsetting? Hawken pauses a long time before answering.
"It was upsetting. Well, not really upsetting, but … you have all these things you want to do and you think of how they would play out and then something happens and catches you off-guard. It wasn't so much that it was out of my control, it was that all these other people were controlling it and using it. I was really worried about what I was going to have my persona and my credibility assigned to."
He hasn't shied away entirely from "nek minnit" fame. He's accepted a number of commercial jobs that play on the meme, including NZTA's Dilemmas drink-drive ad, in which he is referred to as "The Nek Minnit", and he owns the relevant trademarks, "not so much so I can do things with it but just actually for my own protection. I've just had to focus on who I am and going back to what I do."
He stopped talking about it in interviews. But this year, he decided to tell the story on his own terms. The short documentary Meme Me, which premieres in the 2019 Loading Docs festival, is directed by Hawken's old friend Stjohn Milgrew, who has been photographing Hawken and his friends "since we were teenagers in Aotea Square".
The film's visual style is distinct from the clatter and action of most skate videos — high drone shots emphasise the beauty of hill-skating and the magic and threat of gravity. It's inescapably about Hawken's experience of bequeathing a phrase to the national lexicon and becoming public property in the process. But it's just as much his attempt to put it to rest.
At the age of 43, Hawken still skates, lately on the team of the American company Sector 9. But when he gets up in the morning, he drives from his home in Sandringham to a high-ceilinged workshop perched below Scenic Drive in the Waitākere Ranges to do something he's done almost as long as he's been riding a skateboard: make art.
For a long time, his work was pretty much what we'd recognise as skate art, loose and full of colour, and it often appeared on public walls. But lately it's as if all the concrete he rode is flowing back out of him.
Hawken makes brutalist garden sculpture, cast in concrete from the same urethane his wheels are made of, which isn't a coincidence. He calls his designs "solves" — the same word used in street-skating culture for working out a way to navigate a buttress or a bench. He's interested in exposing function and letting it force the design — like street skating in reverse.
The style emerged, ironically, at the same time "nek minnit" was brewing. In 2011, Hawken designed and led the painting of a 45m mural in the Leith river tunnel in Dunedin.
The artist and poet Hana Aoake wrote that the work "highlights Hawken's active engagement with Modernist conventions and abstraction, as it reflects aspects of German expressionist Franz Marc and a kinetic embodiment of the theories of Kandinsky. The work is innately autonomous and can also be likened to a tomb, with the sharp lines of a hawk acting as a memento mori for both his late grandfather and close friend who died earlier this year. In this way the lines appear to me to resemble hieroglyphic symbols moving your eye across the wall like an archaeologist studying an ancient inscription."
It was created not with spray cans, but brushes. And it's grey.
"I got all this paint donated to remove graffiti," Hawken explains. "It was around the time of the Rugby World Cup and they started painting everything grey in Auckland. And Aotea Square was gone and to me Auckland was just going through a real weird phase. I was pissed off about the grey. We also did a big skate event and we built all these ramps and I painted them all grey. Like a protest — but at the same time saying, 'Okay, you want grey? I'll do my art out of grey.'"
When Hawken says "Aotea Square was gone", he means Terry Stringer's iconic sculpture Mountain Fountain, which was removed from its place in the square (and later relocated at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell) so the roof of the civic carpark could be strengthened. The work features in the documentary as a nexus of Hawken's passions — both a fixture for teen skaters to "solve" and an inspiration for his art.
"I think Terry Stringer was a little bit annoyed that everyone loved skating it so much. The engineers came in and made it a lot more robust than he intended it to be — which actually made it perfect for skateboarding. I still follow his work. And I have met him. We teed up an interview for Manual magazine for an article about Aotea Square, but I was a lot younger and I think was a little bit too bouncy and excitable about his monument. And he just wasn't very excited.
"I saw it as, he designed this thing and they put it there and that was one level of art. And then we came and skated it and that was a second level of art — because you had to solve it, in how you were going to go skate on it. Then someone could take photos of you solving it and that's the third level of art."
Hawken's own next level is his current residency at the Waitākere studio of commercial sculptor Simon Lewis Wards (he makes the wall fixtures of giant jet plane lollies you'll see in design stores). Before this, he was landscaping, toiling in and around the gardens of the southern slopes of Herne Bay, where he grew up, before it all gentrified.
"The funnest jobs were usually in Remuera," he says of the landscaping. "The old money. They'll bring you a cup of tea and let you use the toilet. New money, they're suspicious and making sure everything's locked."
He doesn't know if he'll make a living as an artist but lifelong motivation surely counts on his side. Andrew Moore, director of the New Zealand skate documentary No More Heroes, captured the first videos of Hawken in action for his Yeah Bo series in the late 1980s and recalls him as "just totally into it. Every day, I'd see him somewhere skating. He'd enter all the competitions. Just a real little skate rat."
Hawken also hung out every Saturday at the Blue Tile Lounge skate shop, helping customers as if he actually worked there. Eventually the owner gave him a job, and then — after he scored a surprise fourth place at the street skating nationals — a place on the Blue Tile Lounge team. From there, Hawken skated professionally in Melbourne, where he fronted a low-budget skate TV show and commentated at competitions, and in the US. These days, he's known best for his downhilling and longboarding. He is, says Moore, "a student of skateboarding".
Back in the day, Moore nicknamed the kid "Bart", after Bart Simpson. It's a name Hawken still relates to. When things went mad, he muses, "at least I had the Simpsons' wisdom to guide me."
For the future, "I'd really like to be able to travel a lot more and skate a lot of amazing hills. I just want to keep making art — and building things that can be used. I want to make products and really like making them by hand."
And if the art doesn't work out as a living, he'll go back to landscaping.
"There'll be a job there — it's really hard to find labourers these days. Everyone wants to be a YouTube celebrity, I think."
MEME ME launches on Thursday, August 29 as part of the 2019 Loading Docs collection and can be viewed online via nzherald.co.nz and www.loadingdocs.net
This article originally appeared on the NZ Herald and is republished with permission.


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Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Moth's topic in Architecture...I've got the exact same question! Also wondering whether there's any way to control the format, e.g. number of decimal points, of a function such as the area of a polygon used to delineate an occupancy space, other than the global setting for area quantities. In other words, I may wish to have my standard area units to be square feet with two decimal points, but wish to have my occupancy tag only display whole square feet (no decimal points).
Zoom - Fit to Objects not working
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Markus Barrera-Kolb's question in TroubleshootingI did look and see that the shortcut assignment for the Fit to Objects command was correct, so likely something else in the workspace is indeed corrupt. I've customized a lot, so I definitely don't cherish the thought of re-creating it. Do you know if there's a way to print out a summary of the customizations? Thanks!
Zoom - Fit to Objects not working
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Markus Barrera-Kolb's question in Troubleshooting...just brought over my old workspace and now it's not working again. When I switch back to one of the default workspaces it works—I'll have to see if I mistakenly added a conflicting shortcut; otherwise perhaps the workspace is somehow corrupt?
Zoom - Fit to Objects not working
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Markus Barrera-Kolb's question in TroubleshootingMarissa—with a fresh VW user folder it does now work. Thanks! Now to copy over my workspace, plugins, and re-configure my preferences and palettes...
Zoom - Fit to Objects not working
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Markus Barrera-Kolb's question in TroubleshootingYeah, unfortunately it's not working at all on my end. No matter what the view, render mode, or Navigation Graphics settings...
Zoom - Fit to Objects not working
Markus Barrera-Kolb posted a question in TroubleshootingI'd hoped that SP3 would remedy this, but for me Zoom > Fit to Objects is still not working (running VW Arch 2019 under Windows 10). Anyone else encountering this? I'd spoken with a tech a while back who confirmed that it was a known issue under SP2. Basic functionality whose absence definitely impacts my workflow negatively!
DSelectAll not working in 2019?
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to Markus Barrera-Kolb's topic in VectorscriptThanks, Julian – don't quite know how I've used VW for over 10 years without knowing that! Now I can forget all about that silly script... Cheers, Markus
DSelectAll not working in 2019?
Markus Barrera-Kolb posted a topic in VectorscriptI've been using a simple script for years now to de-select all objects, which is particularly useful when I'm zoomed in or working in 3D with no empty space to click on in order to de-select objects (works nicely with a <shift><cmd><A> keyboard shortcut). However, this script no longer works for me in 2019. I've tried re-compiling it, double-checked that the DselectAll VS function still exists, and re-assigned it in my workspace, but it still doesn't work. Any pointers? Thanks... Cheers, Markus PROCEDURE DeselectAll; BEGIN DSelectAll; END; RUN (DeselectAll); Deselect All.vsm
Thanks Raymond - looks like a restart did it! Odd enough, given that I'd already restarted it prior, but I guess you never know... Cheers, Markus
I'd been using a script with VW2017 and VW2018 that set the view to normal perspective and the render mode to OpenGL, in part because I'd found that if you activated the flyover tool while inside a group, the default view and render mode were ignored, and also because there's a small lag before you can use the SpaceNavigator 3D mouse after activating the flyover tool. The script worked great in '17 and '18, but now I'm getting this error with it in VW2019: Error on line=3: PERSPECTIVEOPENGL DOMENUTEXTBYNAME – Menu cannot be found. Projection. Here's the script: PROCEDURE PerspectiveOpenGL; BEGIN DoMenuTextByName('Projection',5); DoMenuTextByName('OpenGL Render Chunk',1); SetPref (1320,False); SetPrefReal (127,6.0); END; RUN (PerspectiveOpenGL); Any help is appreciated – thanks! Cheers, Markus Perspective+OpenGL.vsm
It looks like collinear (colinear?) constraints only act on the centerline of wall objects. Given that one of Vectorworks' weak points, IMHO, is the difficulty in keeping multi-story building envelopes aligned – who here hasn't spent way too much time chasing down those horizontal lines between walls that somehow just won't stack perfectly? – it would be great to be able to apply the collinear constraint to walls based on specific wall components, rather than just the wall centerline. If all exterior wall types were exactly the same this wouldn't be an issue, but the fact is that almost every project has at least a foundation wall type and an above-grade wall type, if not more, and these are usually different thicknesses. This feature would allow you to make sure that, for example, the exterior face of the concrete foundation wall would always align with the face of stud above...
Tom – totally agree with you. Without being able to have a single overview of the issue data where one can also edit & amend it, the system is just too unwieldy and cumbersome. And this should be completely separate from the title block and data field setup. Again, we're now using our own sheet-specific record fields for our issue data so we can manage it all using a worksheet – see attached. Works well for us, but it's regrettable that we don't get something like this 'out of the box'. Cheers, Markus
Issues with Active Document / Window Selection
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to elarsonld's question in Known IssuesI've encountered this as well, with the added gem of, on several occasions, having VW suddenly undo multiple drawings steps without the ability to redo them. Each time after this has happened I then noticed that the information displayed in the OIP referred to the other open project. Cheers, Markus
Date in Title Block
Markus Barrera-Kolb replied to MattG's topic in General DiscussionWe're still using the Data Stamp (Dims/Notes tool set) within the title block definition (Layout) for this – seems to work OK. Cheers, Markus
...I can't imagine that the intent is for surface hatches to only align with their respective textures when in Top/Plan view rather than in a 3D view, or am I misunderstanding? Here's the file with an extrude I just created in Top/Plan view, with no H or V offset, and the hatch still doesn't align with the texture, regardless of the map type. I think this whole feature is either buggy as all get-out or insanely difficult to use correctly. Wish it'd get fixed! surface hatch alignment 2.vwx


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China slashes red tape to expedite scientific progress
China has been taking gradual steps towards becoming one of the global leaders in scientific research. The research output in China has increased sharply since 2002, making it the second largest producer of scientific papers globally. To increase the pace of scientific progress, the country has invested heavily in research, and is currently next only to the US in terms of total spending on R&D. However, the government has realized that it is not getting sufficient returns for the investment that it has made in research and innovation. Consequently, the country has, for some time, been making efforts to reform its existing research system to set the country on track towards achieving maximum impact in science and technology.
In a series of new developments in this direction, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council announced a national strategy for innovation-driven development earlier this month. This strategy is directed at stimulating mass innovation and pledged greater investment to this effect. At a recent national conference on science and technology, Chinese President Xi Jingping declared that China should establish itself as one of the most innovative countries by 2020, a leading innovator by 2030, and the global leader in science and technology by 2049. At the same conference, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged the need to boost passion for and vision in science and technology, and to provide scientists and researchers with an environment conducive to innovation and progress. In a move to do away with all barriers that hinder scientific progress and harness the potential of researchers and scientists, the government announced that it would do away with red tape in science and research funding.
Science funding in China has all along been weighed down by outdated administrative rules and regulations. There is still a gap between China and the developed nations when it comes to management of research and funding. China's rules for granting research funds are too rigid, making the country less attractive to first-class talent. Additionally, the procedures for acquiring funds are bureaucratic and time consuming, and reduce the productivity of scientists and researchers. These problems have long burdened universities and dampened the enthusiasm of scientists. The upcoming measures to cut down administrative barriers aim to boost potential and achieve innovation, as well as improve total factor productivity.
Let us take a closer look at the proposed changes as per the amended regulation:
1. Red tape in research funding slashed: Research funds will be granted under fewer administrative procedures. There will also be more flexibility in the way the funds can be used. The new regulation stresses the need for a professional finance system so that researchers can focus on research and are not burdened by administrative procedures.
2. Universities granted more autonomy and support: Universities, colleges, and research institutes will have more autonomy over their research and development projects. Universities will be given more freedom in purchasing equipment for research purposes. Apart from long-term financial assistance, financial support will also be given to universities, institutes and companies for setting up laboratories and Science & Technology centers that facilitate research.
3. Financial rewards for researchers increased: Proportional limits on service fees (or financial rewards) for researchers will be completely removed. As per the amended regulation, financial rewards for researchers have been raised from the previous no more than 5 percent to no more than 20 percent of direct expenses (after deduction of equipment procurement cost). Also, all participants in research projects, including graduate students and visiting scholars, will be eligible to get paid.
4. Travel reimbursement for researchers made easy: Travel reimbursement for researchers in China has all along been a hassle, and there have been rigid rules in this regard with complicated requirements such as invoices. The new regulation will make travelling for field work and conferences hassle-free for researchers. Universities will be allowed to create their own regulations regarding travel reimbursement, so that researchers are not burdened by invoice procedures on business trips.
Universities and government institutes have commended the new regulation, saying that it will help solve some of the crucial problems that have plagued universities and hindered progress in research. Academics feel that this move will help motivate researchers and generate the desired passion and enthusiasm for research and innovation that is the need of the hour.
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I'm about halfway through Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody. It's a great book so far and should be required reading to anyone who assumes that installing a wiki will automatically create some sort of community. But on page 42 was something very quotable which I wanted to share:
"his [now typical organization hierarchy] management system was designed to produce "such information, to be obtained through a system of daily reports and checks, that will not embarrass principal officers nor lesson their influence with their subordinates." If you have ever wondered why so much of what workers in large organizations know is shielded from the CEO and vice versa, wonder no longer: the idea of limiting communications, so that they flow only from one layer of the hierarchy to the next, was part of the very design of the system at the dawn of managerial culture."
I love that paragraph and the assertion that the hierarchal organization chart used by industry today, on principal, follows the OSI Model. The idea of social networks, collaboration, sharing, self-organizing, web 2.0, wikis, and other latest buzzwords conflict with this at a core level is interesting. Also, I would suggest that practiced data security models today rely on this OSI data encapsulation and without access control and data protection built into these web 2.0 products then little can be done to secure them.
One final thought: the person who creates a blog platform for organizations that lays out ACLs based on the companies org chart and creates communities based on peer levels as such will be have a nice hybrid platform for transitioning companies who are struggling to get out of the old hierarchy.


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Whether you have a large business or a small one, SEO gives your website which is your face on the internet the required visibility.


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Untameable – art installations and film screenings
In the media
Article: Exhibition celebrates life and work of writer Barry Hines
September 2018 event
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave. Artists Anton Want and Patrick Murphy showcase research on Barry Hines.
With art installations, film screenings and talks.
See also: Untameable – talk
Anton Want has collaborated with artist Patrick Murphy to create a collection of new artworks celebrating the work of writer Barry Hines. Working within the same South Yorkshire communities and landscapes that informed Hines' rich, descriptive writing and deep understanding of people and place, the artists engage with the universal themes raised in his work to present a contemporary interpretation of a changing social landscape.
Anton Want is a British artist and photographer. He has received international recognition for his work during a 32-year career encompassing publication, artist commissions and exhibitions, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Patrick Murphy is an artist, designer and curator. His work is exhibited internationally and held in public and private collections.
David Forrest is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. David is the co-author (with Sue Vice) of Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond; the author of Social Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics; and the co-editor of Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain, and Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs.


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I'm lying on my back, looking up at the sky. My knee feels broken. I'm not sure if I can get up. I'm suddenly glad for the downward slope of the railroad embankment; if I'd collapsed on the tracks, I might have been run over. And that would definitely have ended the day on the wrong note.
To my right is a Tupperware graveyard; vessels of food and water set out by well-meaning office workers to feed an army of vagrant cats. A gray tabby looks at me curiously, sniffs and continues eating. I'm not dead yet, she must be thinking, not yet food. To my left: woods. Behind me are the railroad tracks I've just crossed in search of my third geocache of the day. The cache I'm now certain I'll never find. The cache that broke me.
The signal from my GPS led into a parking garage, then behind a suburban office building, and then up onto the railroad tracks. Then, perhaps misreading the signal, I thought I might be headed to the elementary school even further south, but I realized my mistake and headed back. Now the signal seems to be coming from a flat, open area to the west, just down the hill from the tracks, down the hill from where I lie motionless, immobile and broken.
I should give it up. I should go home, ice the knee and thank the deity nothing more serious befell me on this adventure, but I'm too intrigued to call it quits. There's something about geocaching that awakens a primordial instinct, a deeply repressed longing to explore. Memories return of lazy summer days staring at pictures of pirate maps, wishing you could find an old piece of parchment with an "X" on it; wishing that "X" took you somewhere new and secret; wishing you'd find, under the "X," a hidden treasure, left there for you by some other adventurer willing to share, tying you into his secret world with a slender thread only you and he can see, invisible to the rest of the world.
As a child that dream fades quickly. No one really hides treasure for you to find, you realize. And if you try to hide it yourself, you'd already know where it was. If you're lucky enough to have children to play with, making maps soon gets tedious. They're either too easy or too hard, and either way, the TV always seems far more interesting to your erstwhile fellow explorers. Perhaps there's a lesson there. Perhaps they know treasure hunting is hard work. Perhaps they're the smart ones.
Nevertheless, if you're like me, you've harbored a secret desire to revisit those piratical dreams, scouring the hidden places, Conrad's white places on the map, to find the treasure only you know is there. If only someone would hide something and then provide a map.
Enter: geocaching.
The Invisible Thread
To the geocacher, the world you can see is just the beginning. A cache could be found in practically every thicket, behind every structure or even down the hall from your office. Their world is webbed with invisible threads, tying them to the caches they've found, the caches they've hidden for others to find and the one's they're sure are there but haven't yet discovered.
In geocaching parlance, people who don't geocache are called "muggles," a reference from the Harry Potter novels to people who don't use magic. It's an apt allusion. The ability to walk into the woods and, in a matter of minutes, find a capsule no larger than your thumb must involve magic. And if you adhere to Clarke's law that advanced technology effectively is magic, then geocachers, tracking hidden objects using satellite locators, really are wizards.
When I first heard about geocaching, I was a muggle. I didn't want to be a muggle. I wanted to be a wizard. So I bought a hand-held GPS unit for just over $100, created an account at geocaching.com, entered my ZIP code, wrote down the coordinates of a few caches near my house and went caching. I figured, at the very least, I could increase my number to one. Worst case, I'd fail miserably, but still have an interesting story to tell.


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I'm doing facial rigging but I need a blendshape to correct some bad deforming in the eyelash.
It wasn't working so I figured I'd isolate the problem by simplifying as much as possible:
A single sphere with a single joint and a single morph.
But when I import it into Unreal, I get a weird mess:
at +1
and at -1.
It not only goes off to the wrong side, but it also is twisting for some reason.
Anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it?


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Sleep Apnea Channel
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Information on Sleep Apnea
Some of the sleep apnea information covered in this article includes an overview of the condition, the common symptoms, and the possible complications of untreated sleep apnea. This disorder is more common in men than women, and in people who are overweight or obese.
Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. These episodes usually last 10 seconds or more and occur repeatedly throughout the night. People with sleep apnea will partially awaken as they struggle to breathe, but in the morning they will not be aware of the disturbances in their sleep.
The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), caused by relaxation of soft tissue in the back of the throat that blocks the passage of air. Central sleep apnea (CSA) is caused by irregularities in the brain's normal signals to breathe. Most people with sleep apnea will have a combination of both types.
The hallmark symptom of the disorder is excessive daytime sleepiness. Additional symptoms of sleep apnea include:
- Restless sleep
- Loud snoring (with periods of silence followed by gasps)
- Falling asleep during the day
- Morning headaches
- Trouble concentrating
- Irritability
- Forgetfulness
- Mood or behavior changes
- Anxiety
- Depression.
Not everyone who has these symptoms will have sleep apnea, but it is recommended that people who are experiencing even a few of these symptoms visit their healthcare provider for evaluation.
Sleep apnea is more likely to occur in men than women, and in people who are overweight or obese.
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Index What is Adoption? Who Needs Adoption? Who can Adopt? How do you go about Adopting? How long does Adoption take? When will I be adopted? Who will support us after Adoption? Tick a box and help a child today Every Child Deserves a Family life What is Adoption? Adoption is a legal process that permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities for a child or children from the family that s/he has been born into to another family who have been chosen for them. Adoption is for life, so choosing adoption for a child is a major decision. It affects not just the children themselves, but also their birth families and their adoptive families. An Adoption Order will eventually be granted by Court, but before this can happen several other professional workers are involved: • A Social Worker to assess the adopters, and prepare them for the arrival of their new child. • A Social Worker to work with the child to prepare him for meeting and moving into a new family. • A Guardian ad Litem who is appointed by the Court and is an independent worker for the child. S/he will talk to everyone involved and report back to Court. • An independent counsellor to work with the Birth Family if they want this. • A Court Judge to hear and grant the Adoption Order. Every Child Deserves a Family life Who Needs Adoption? There are children in Northern Ireland needing adoptive families now. Some are babies or very young children, while others are older and may have started school. Some children have a brother or sister and they need to livetogether. These children have not had an easy start in life. They have been separated from the families that they were born into and are living with foster families. Many of the children have suffered neglect or abuse, and may have delayed development or behavioural issues to deal with because of this. All of the children need a new family of their own. They need the love and attention of parents who are fit and healthy and full of life. Most of the children will still need to have information about their birth families, and may need to meet up with birth parents and siblings occasionally. Some may need to see other relatives such as grandparents or previous foster carers. We have been placing children for adoption for many years, and we know how much children can develop and flourish in the right family. We have also seen how much it can mean to a family to have a new child to care for. Every Child Deserves a Family life Who can Adopt? All kinds of people can adopt: You could be married or single, of any religious background, a first time parent or an experienced parent whose children are past the early years stage. You might be approved by another Agency and waiting to adopt. Adopters need to be healthy and fit, so you will be asked to have a medical examination. If you have a health condition, we will need to discuss this with you in case it is relevant to your making an application. If you are having fertility investigations or treatments, these will need to have ended before an assessment for adoption can begin. You will be given time to come to terms with your feelings about this before starting into the emotional issues involved in an assessment to adopt. We will also need your permission to carry out a Police and Social Services records check, as the legislation requires this. Anyone living with you aged 10 years and over will also have to have these completed. If you have children we will meet with them as part of the assessment process. If your children are to a former relationship we will usually need to speak to your previous partner also. If you have any worries or queries about your own situation, we would be very happy to meet with you to talk these over. Every Child Deserves a Family life How do you go about Adopting? We will give you information about adoption and the opportunity to meet with an Adoption social worker. If you and the Agency agree that adoption is right for you, you will be invited to complete an application form. With your permission, the Agency will complete a Police and Social Services check and request any relevant information regarding infertility, while you will need to have a medical examination. If these are satisfactory we will begin the assessment. If there are issues, we will discuss these with you before deciding if we can continue. The assessment will be a succession of interviews exploring the strengths and challenges which you can bring to becoming an adoptive parent, and the needs of children in adoption. You will also attend a Preparation Course. We will interview the personal Referees whom you have nominated and your employer if you work with children. If you have children we will meet with them as part of the assessment. If they were born to a former relationship we will usually need to speak to your previous partner also. When the assessment is complete you can read it before it is presented to the Adoption Panel. They will make the final decision about approving you as adoptive parents. If you are not approved we will explain the reasons for this. Once you are approved you will be reviewed every six months, but you may be matched with a suitable child/ren before that time. Every Child Deserves a Family life How long does Adoption take? Express interest – complete information/referral sheet Information pack sent within 5 days – response requested 2 months Attend Information event Initial meeting with adoption social worker If all parties agree, invited to complete application form Attend training course Statutory checks, medicals & references Assessment/homestudy report commenced with social worker Adoption Panel considers report – applicants invited to attend Agency Decision (within 7 working days of Panel) Approved as 'suitable to adopt' and available to be matched with a child depending on a suitable child becoming available Every Child Deserves a Family life 8 months When will I be adopted? Once you are approved as adoptive parents, your Social Worker will keep in touch with you to share information about suitable children. You will get details about health, background, and the reason that adoption has been chosen. If you are interested in finding out more, you will be able to speak to the child's Social Worker and others who know the child. You can also get additional medical and developmental information from the Agency Medical Advisor. If it is agreed that you are the right parents for the child, a Matching report will go to an Adoption Panel who approve the placement. Introductions will be organised between you and your new child, and a date agreed for moving in. Learning to live together is a big adjustment and will take some time. Your Social Worker will visit every week for at least six weeks, and the child's Social Worker will also visit. Informal support is always available and there are formal monthly reviews to see how things are going. After a few months we will talk to you about applying to Court and will help you to complete your application. A report is written by both Social Workers, and a Guardian ad Litem is appointed to independently assess the child's welfare. On the day of the Adoption Hearing, you will all go to Court to hear the Order being granted, and later on you will be able to get a Certificate in your child's new adoptive name. Every Child Deserves a Family life Who will support us after Adoption?" Once you have adopted you are not on your own, our Post Adoption Support Worker can offer you a supportive and non-judgmental service. If you ask for help and support this will be viewed as a strength not as a problem. We can provide help for adoptive families in talking about adoption, dealing with concerns about school, addressing behavioural issues etc. We also run or can access ongoing training information sessions and workshops. We will support your adopted child in dealing with information about their past and understanding their identity. We can give you information about other services available. We can help you to prepare for and participate in birth family contact, and can also assist with indirect contact by exchanging letters with birth family members. We know that parenting any child is demanding, but for adoptive parents there may be additional challenges. Some children in adoption have ongoing needs coming from their early experiences, especially those who have joined their new family when they are older. We know that caring for children with extra needs is a lifelong commitment, and we expect that families parenting a child through adoption may need help at sometime during their childhood. Every Child Deserves a Family life Tick a box and help a child today" I would like to make a one-off donation now I would like more information on becoming a regular donor to Family Care Society I am interested in helping at a fundraising event for Family Care Society I am interested in holding a one-off fundraising event in my area for Family Care Society I would like more information on leaving a legacy to Family Care Society Names: Address: Town: Postcode: Country: Telephone: Email: PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN TO: FAMILY CARE SOCIETY, 511 ORMEAU ROAD, BELFAST, BT7 3GS, NORTHERN IRELAND Every Child Deserves a Family life
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I have updated the three news and access Web pages, see the table of contents for the links. I apologize for not updating things since about Thanksgiving, and I can only say between the Thanksgiving Day Holiday and the New Year's holiday life and work got away from me. I'm slowly getting back into the photo guide and the history of the NP from 1890-1920, so you can expect more updates and new or updated Web pages over the next few months.
And so what's new? Well, Mt. Rainier NP has experienced numerous storms and has experienced minor but signifcant road and access closures. The Nisqually Entrance and road to Longmire closes occasionally from flooding between the Kautz Creek bridge to the new Kautz Creek channel east of the rest stop. The road from Longmire to Paradise closes daily and only open after snow removal, if possible.
The Longmore Visitors Center and Longmire Inn are open when accessible, and the Jackson Visitors Center is open weekends and holidays when the road is open. Everything else is closed. The Carbon River Road is closed before the NP entrance and access in the NP is restricted due to flood damage to trails, so you need to call ahead or be flexible if you're going there.
As of January 12 there is over 8' feet of snow at the Paradise snow course station (southeast of Paradise) and as much as 1-2 feet down to about 3,000 foot elevation. Snow will accumulate lower as storms go through as January to March is when the majority of the snow happens and only rarely melts.
So that's it for now. I'll keep you posted.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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The Right Side of History
New York state lawmakers voted 33-29 to legally extend marriage rights same-sex couples. Now the sixth state in America treats its citizens as more important than dogma. Good people across the state of New York won't allow the godly to settle for bigotry and moral poverty.
God, not Albany, has settled the definition of marriage, a long time ago. -Senator Ruben Diaz, the lone Democrat opponent
Everyone that fought for this bill should be joyous that we continue to write our own history.
Here are some of my past posts on same-sex marriage. Feel free to search around the blog for others.
Homophones, Homosexuals, and the Essence of Marriage
Judge Walker: A Modern Jeremy Bentham
It's All About Tradition, Right?
(photo: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times)
Wanna get arrested with me?
Simon Romero for the New York Times reports on this Venezuelan penitentiary:
[T]he prison for more than 2,000 Venezuelans and foreigners held largely for drug trafficking looks more like a Hugh Hefner-inspired fleshpot than a stockade for toughened smugglers.
Bikini-clad female visitors frolic under the Caribbean sun in an outdoor pool. Marijuana smoke flavors the air. Reggaetón booms from a club filled with grinding couples.
(photo credit: Meridith Kohut)
I'm Tempted Too
Nicholas Kristof's newest column asks, "Why Pay Congress?" if they're just going to act like children and shut down the government while other government workers don't get paid.
If we careen over a cliff on Friday and the American government shuts down, hard-working federal workers will stop getting paychecks, but the members of Congress responsible for the shutdown are expected to be paid as usual.
That's partly because Congressional pay is not subject to the regular appropriations process, and partly because of Constitutional concerns.
Kristof's using this issue to generate anger at our irresponsible elected officials more than to make a principled stand on a Constitutional question. So it's not what his column is about, but I think his title question deserves a bit more of an answer than the vague, "Constitutional concerns." Populist anger often vents over paying the crooks that run the joint, so why not cut them off or lower their pay?
That populist anger is (no surprise) misplaced. Turns out Congress and the President get healthy paychecks for different populist reasons. This helps weaken the influence of bribes and prevents Congress from using the purse strings as political weapons to influence votes. More fundamentally, without compensation only independently wealthy or crooked politicians could serve. A living wage, in theory, allows common people to govern. This American custom contrasted directly with the British, misnamed, House of Commons.
Sadly, the expense of campaigns has made this ideal mostly a theory. I have a lot of reservations about this, but the Founders' logic should make us consider the public funding of campaigns.
But, geez, they really really make me want to cut off their paychecks.
"Arcane theological points from the ninth century"
Last week's New York Times Magazine carried an engrossing story about Yasir Qadhi, a controversial and conservative Islamic cleric in America.
In the West, jihad is often depicted as a self-contained, violent cause. But in Qadhi's world, it exists within a panoply of complex and overlapping issues. The most immediate question is not whether to fight overseas but how to make peace living in the pluralistic West.
Debates pivot on arcane theological points from the ninth century, a time when religious empires reigned, not secular nations. Classical scholars reference a world divided between dar al-Islam, the land of Islam, and dar al-harb, the land of war. But which land is America?
"It is an awkward position to be in," he wrote of his situation. "How can one simultaneously fight against a powerful government, a pervasive and sensationalist-prone media and a group of overzealous, rash youth who are already predisposed to reject your message, because they view you as being a part of the establishment (while, ironically, the 'establishment' never ceases to view you as part of the radicals)?"
His position might not only be awkward – it could be futile. Is Salafiya Islam compatible with America? Can Qadhi and others like him be persuasive to young Muslims that are disposed to radicalization? I'm not hopeful if the solution is to win a 9th century theology debate.
(photo: Andrea Elliott, Eric Owles, Josh Williams/The New York Times)
Distractions of Attentive Government
Public safety is a proper role of government. I can empathize with those concerned with limiting the dangers of distracted driving even if I'm skeptical of the effectiveness of new laws to prohibit distractions such as cell phone use. But even if you agree that government should pursue such goals, today's New York Times story on "distracted pedestrians" reminds us that sometimes we'd be better off with more inattentive legislators.
That is the theory of several lawmakers pushing the latest generation of legislation dealing with how devices like iPods and cellphones affect traffic safety. The ubiquity of interactive devices has propelled the science of distraction — and now efforts to legislate against it — out of the car and into the exercise routine.
In New York, a bill is pending in the legislature's transportation committee that would ban the use of mobile phones, iPods or other electronic devices while crossing streets — runners and other exercisers included. Legislation pending in Oregon would restrict bicyclists from using mobile phones and music players, and a Virginia bill would keep such riders from using a "hand-held communication device."
Politicians' imagined need to solve every problem becomes pernicious when they don't weigh the consequences of their own action. As much as I'm receptive to the libertarian critique of nanny-state government, the need for personal responsibility, and the state's misallocated focus on trivial problems like exercisers' music I think their emphasis is sometimes misplaced.
Governments shouldn't not ban ipods because it's runners own fault if they get hit by a car or because government inherently shouldn't treat citizens like children but because the state needs to be sure their attempt to solve one problem won't be replaced by other problems of indeterminate repercussion.
In this case, it is not even clear pedestrians distracted by technology is what is causing the uptick in fatalities. The increase is contained to just "the first six months of 2010" among a national drop going back years. News flash: people listening to music and talking on their phones while on a jog isn't that novel. So banning the activity might not only do very little to solve "the problem" but any minor benefit might result in less exercise, less efficiency, and less enjoyment. Can anyone in America really argue right now that our problem is too much excerise?
Don't Pray? Don't Tell.
That there are no atheists in foxholes is a myth. Veteran Kathleen Johnson tells us why religious coercion is bad for the military.
In both combat theaters, I recall endless and constant mandatory prayer circles being held by small units before military operations at which unit members who elected not to participate risked harassment, rebukes from their peers and supervisors, and even punishments. I recall dining halls decorated with bible verses, units adorned with bibles, and meetings started with Christian prayers. I recall the panic in a young soldier's voice when he called me to tell me how his approved social meeting of military atheists was intentionally disrupted by an Army officer (a self-described "prayer warrior") and that he was receiving threats against his life.
The Moral Landscape Released
I have no trouble admitting I'm a Sam Harris partisan. Everything he does I find I love. So it should be no surprise that I'm excited for his new book released today.
I previously covered some of the debate surrounding his thesis here.
Both The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post published excerpts from The Moral Landscape.
Many people worry that there is something unscientific about making such value judgments. But this split between facts and values is an illusion. Science has always been in the values business. Good science is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; good science is the result of scientists making their best effort to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument. The very idea of "objective" knowledge (that is, knowledge acquired through careful observation and honest reasoning) has values built into it, as every effort we make to discuss facts depends upon principles that we must first value (e.g. logical consistency, reliance on evidence, parsimony, etc). This is how norms of rational thought are made effective. As far as our understanding of the world is concerned—there are no facts without values.
Just as there is nothing irrational about valuing human health and seeking to understand it (this is the science of medicine), there is nothing irrational about valuing human well-being more generally and seeking to understand it. But whether morality becomes a proper branch of science is not really the point. Is economics a true science yet? Judging from the last few years, it wouldn't seem so. And perhaps a deep understanding of economics will always elude us. But does anyone doubt that there are better and worse ways to structure an economy? Would any educated person consider it a form of bigotry to criticize another society's response to a banking crisis? Imagine how terrifying it would be if great numbers of smart people became convinced that all efforts to prevent a global financial catastrophe, being mere products of culture, must be either equally valid or equally nonsensical in principle. And yet this is precisely where most intellectuals stand on the most important questions in human life. (from The Daily Beast)
Imagine that there are only two people living on earth: We can call them "Adam" and "Eve." Clearly, we can ask how these two people might maximize their well-being. Are there wrong answers to this question? Of course. (Wrong answer #1: They could smash each other in the face with a large rock.) And while there are ways for their personal interests to be in conflict, it seems uncontroversial to say that a man and woman alone on this planet would be better off if they recognized their common interests — like getting food, building shelter and defending themselves against larger predators. If Adam and Eve were industrious enough, they might realize the benefits of creating technology, art, medicine, exploring the world and begetting future generations of humanity. Are there good and bad paths to take across this landscape of possibilities? Of course. In fact, there are, by definition, paths that lead to the worst misery and to the greatest fulfillment possible for these two people — given the structure of their brains, the immediate facts of their environment, and the laws of Nature. The underlying facts here are the facts of physics, chemistry, and biology as they bear on the experience of the only two people in existence.
As I argue in my new book, even if there are a thousand different ways for these two people to thrive, there will be many ways for them not to thrive — and the differences between luxuriating on a peak of human happiness and languishing in a valley of internecine horror will translate into facts that can be scientifically understood. Why would the difference between right and wrong answers suddenly disappear once we add 6.7 billion more people to this experiment? (from The Huffington Post)
Kwame Anthony Appiah at The New York Times has a pretty tepid review.
Harris often writes as if all that matters is our conscious experience. Yet he also insists that truth is an important value. So does it count against your well-being if your happiness is based on an illusion — say, the false belief that your wife loves you? Or is subjective experience all that matters, in which case a situation in which the husband is fooled, and the wife gets pleasure from fooling him, is morally preferable to one in which she acknowledges the truth? Harris never articulates his central claim clearly enough to let us know where he would come down. But if he thinks that well-being has an objective component, one wants to know how science revealed this fact.
Also, right as this book hits stores, Sam debates Mark Oppenheimer, NYT columnist, at The Economist over the motion: "This house believes that religion is a force for good."
I'll be purchasing my copy tomorrow and hope to share my thoughts with everyone soon. I'm also going to try to see Sam at Tufts and/or Harvard soon. In the meantime go out and buy the book. Harris is an incredibly clear and exciting writer; even if you end up disagreeing you'll be sure to enjoy the experience.


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Most of our students have headed home to relax for the summer. But here are four of our courses that let you do awesome things during the vacation.
As a media student, dissertation is a compulsory task to complete the degree. The flexibility of media research project is very high, from topic to methods, you are more than welcome to choose according to your interests. I picked my dissertation topic based on the Umbrella Revolution happened in my home country – Hong Kong.
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Last Summer I was presented with a scary gift. In this video I share the three steps I took to get over the fear, and even enjoy what I was doing.
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Last Summer, for my birthday, my parents and brothers gave me a ticket to abseil down the Orbit - a 262 feet high freestanding sculpture in London.
They thought I'd love it because I enjoyed climbing at a local outdoors centre….where the wall is around 10 feet tall.
I was mildly terrified at the thought of dangling from a rope 200+ feet above London's Olympic Park, but, not wishing to seem ungrateful, I swallowed my emotions, smiled, and began to think of a plan to get over The FEAR, which was….
Step 1 - Look for evidence of success
A quick Google revealed that many, many people had successfully completed this abseil, including a granny. If she could do it - I could. And I was relieved to see the event was run by Wire & Sky - a few years earlier I'd strolled/bounced over the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), an experience which they also run, and I'd loved.
Step 2 - Visualize success
I've never dangled from a rope that high up, and I've never worn a full body harness - so it was pretty hard to visualize what this experience would be like. But I did know what it's like to lean back and trust a harness and rope system to take my weight. And I found YouTube videos of helmet cam footage of other people doing the abseil, so I could get an idea of what the view would be like.
Step 3 - Break the challenge down into small steps, then stay focused just on the next step
The only time I deviated from this plan was as we drove alongside the Orbit and my husband announced 'wow that's a lot taller than I remember' - thanks for that. I was flooded with The FEAR. But, as I was in charge of navigation, I had to switch my attention to finding the right lane, and directing my husband to the car park.
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View of the village nestling in the valley.
Many of the charming older buildings in the village had interesting doors.
Potted plants are very popular here in this village.
Beautifully presented house with potted plants.
A street with steps in the village.
A street in the village.
The village mosque. Also I was fascinated by the house on the left with such a v..
The crumbling old buildings, neglected and overgrown.
The late afternoon winter sun casts a beautiful light on the landscape around Ag..
Rural landscape at Agios Theodoros
Landscape at Agios Theodoros
Beautiful landscape around Agios Theodoros.
Village supermarket at Kalavasos.
Kalavasos is very interesting traditional cypriot village. Here is a picture of ..
A typical narrow, crazy paved street in Kalavasos, a traditional cypriot villag..
A typical crazy paved street in Kalavasos, a traditional cypriot village.
Village house in the village of Kalavasos,
A very old stone building in the village of Kalavasos,
A very unique and creative back garden in the village.
The landscape around this village is stunning
This landscape is close to Kalavasos, on the way to the dam.
A view of the village and landscape
A view of the landscape from a doorway as a flock of sheep run past.
A street in the charming village of Agios Theodoris, about 6km from the coast.
A street in the charming village of Agios Theodoris, which is about 6km from the..
Old buildings on a street leaving the village.
Derelict old buildings in the village.
Derelict house.
Deserted house, falling to decay.
Landscape view at Agios Theodoros.
Agios Theodoros landscape.
Landscape at Agios Theodoros.
Village view
The landscape at Agios Theodoros is quite beautiful..
A child's car was just standing outside this old building
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