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The third day of this enriching conference challenging perceptions and reminding us of the issues of diversity and race, kicked off with a phenomenal keynote speech from Dr Rowena Arshad. Dr Arshad is currently Head of Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES).
"A Diverse Teaching Workforce – Wishful thinking or is strategic game changing needed?" (Rowena Arshad)
She started by saying that people like ourselves, those gathered in the room at the time, do not need to justify why we do what we do – preserve social justice. Yet, she says, trying to diversify the teaching force is akin to watching soap opera on TV – you can miss a few episodes but the plot never changes. In other words, nothing much has changed in years. Each decade, people lobby to make a difference, but this comes to little, if any, fruition.
In the UK, we are not talking about immigrant populations such as refugee or new to English populations (although we certainly do have those as well): most people have been here for a few generations. In the main, the populations are long staying and there are no acculturation issues. They do not have citizenship or nationality issues, yet the teaching profession is not the profession of choice. Some will say it doesn't pay enough, it's not for them or that that's not where their ambitions lie or might having concerns about discipline issues at schools. Perhaps it's down to their own experiences or having been racially excluded. They might look at the predominantly white British homogenous workforce and think… is it for me?
Workforce, Dr Arshad says, remains mostly female and mostly not diverse. This does not reflect the pupil population – diversity spreads, including in Scotland, well into rural areas.
Dr Arshad proceeded now to speak about her own life experiences related to the issues. She remembers, when she started working, that people were greeting others (white people), but not herself. In such cases, she started to make excuses for them – thinking it was because of her gender, her age or other characteristics. In other words, she points us to how the person affected by such processes can end up blaming themselves for their situation whilst, too often, such go unchallenged. (Note: I recommend that you search Google Scholar for the terms "blatant racism" and "subtle racism" – in Dr Arshad's situation that would be the latter and the subtle racism would present itself as omission or avoidance of a person rather than direct (blatant) accusations or defiance of a person. There is an excellent paper by Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) on this issue. Please see the end of this post for the reference to it.
When Dr Arshad was a lecturer, she noticed that diverse students on their teaching placements appeared to have problems there. Some were actually going through some overt racism difficulties from school staff. She described how she took one of her students to a trade union and the student in question was successfully transferred from one school to another. And yet, twenty years later, more recently, the same story repeated itself. Same school. Same headteacher.
When she became the dean, the position she holds currently, she began to press these issues. She now has the confidence to speak unapologetically about the race issues. She tweets about racial and equality issues. In fact, earlier this week, she tweeted a link to an Independent article entitled Lack of ethnic minority headteachers is 'scandalous'. That is not just Scotland – that's all over the UK. Have a good read of this article at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/lack-of-ethnic-minority-headteachers-is-scandalous-9431969.html
She says that now, thanks to her hard work on these issues, BME (Black and Ethnic Minority) students are now coming forward with advice for university practices improvements and bring stories of being 'othered'. The applications to the University's diversity courses have grown (internationally) in numbers recently as a result. She started asking questions at the University management level about internationalizing their curriculum. Asking how they can benefit international students? How can they better develop supports for international students? She has ensured that their recruitment panels are composed of people who think about diversity and race issues.
She tells her students that they are the people who make all other professions – probably one of the best descriptions I've ever heard of why teaching and studying are so important! At the University of Edinburgh, she is building a team of lecturers, creating a critical mass, for the changing of the curriculum. Student teachers need to be helped so they can see themselves as the agents of change – at present, the continue to see themselves as efficient / effective teachers (the discourse very much present in almost any official publication in the education field you can possibly think of, indeed!) through teaching techniques and strategies, but not through social change. In her own School, she continues hearing people complaining how "there is too much social justice in the curriculum" (sic!)
She believes that when people talk about diversity, they don't actually think about race. She referred to an ESL professor from the University of Texas who says that white people are not "conditioned to think about race". Thinking back to my Polish growing-up time, I cannot possibly disagree with this – this feels very true. In my experience and memory of popular discourses, race was most frequently talked about in terms of "the others". Dr Arshad asks, therefore: how can this homogenous workforce be expected to widen the diversity approach lens if the non-homogeneity is not part of their lived experience? This reminds me of a teacher with whom I have worked in Scotland, who was actually terrified of dealing with a child with little English from non-Scottish background – this was not a part of her lived experience at all!
Dr Arshad notes that BME communities tend to be blamed for the situation and no moves are made to remedy the situation ("Oh, their parents do not encourage them to become teachers…", "Oh, they do not have ambitions…"). She argues that we need a teacher education programme that will not only teach the required technical skills, but attend to the critical and epistemological areas: one that will change teachers' dispositions. Linear forms of learning need to change (i.e. the placement of teachers with one mentor only) – if we want individuals to change, we need to put them in a position when such preconceived notions are challenged and disrupted.
She calls on the governments to stop being silent about these issues – otherwise, the complacency remains. She calls on all of us to be the warriors for tolerance, equality and peace.
I hope that you will be such a warrior yourself.
Pettigrew, T.F. and Meertens, R.W. (1995) 'Subtle and blatant prejudice in Western Europe', European Journal of Social Psychology. Vol. 25(1) pp.57-75
Teachers with international background crafting their professional identity (Hafdis Gudjonsdottir, Karen Run Gisladottir, Samuel Lefever, Robert Berman – NordForsk Researchers Network – presented by Prof Gudjonsdottir from the University of Iceland
In this presentation delivered by Prof Gudjondottir spoke of the experiences of diverse background teachers within the Icelandic education system. She reported on the study exploring the stories of those teachers, aiming to develop an understanding of how they draw on their cultural resources in their teaching, how they develop their identities and respond to the diverse social and cultural background of their students.
In speaking about various personal and cultural resources that diverse teachers might draw on, Prof Gudjonsdottir referred to:
- personal resources of teachers shaping their practice (Connelly and Clandinin, 1999)
- cultural resources as tools for teachers to make meaning and act in the world (Wertch, 1998)
- teachers' use of their past experience to inform practice (Connelly and Clandinin, 1999)
- teachers' practice is shaped in response to different contexts and mediated by their personal values, beliefs and cultural orientations (Monzo and Rueda, 2003)
The study found the following as common obstacles the immigrant teachers have found:
- languages
- cultural beliefs and values
- race or ethnic background
- religious beliefs
- different educational system
The study was conducted using narrative enquiry method with six teachers with immigrant backgrounds – four in primary schools and two in secondary schools in Iceland. Learning the language was found to be one of the main challenges – perhaps unsurprisingly so. The teachers said that in Iceland you need to speak Icelandic to get a good job, sometimes they were learning words by heart at home, every evening.
It required effort on their part to negotiate their linguistic and cultural resources in the context of a new different school culture. All of the teachers took their professional development extremely serious and used many opportunities to develop their practice.
The perceived social status of teachers was strong and their working experiences were positive. All the teachers in the study have social capital (self confidence and knowledge) which they were able to use to overcome obstacles. Cultural beliefs, values, race and ethnic background wasn't a hurdle, although at times it was a challenge. Overall, in Iceland, immigrant teachers were found to have generally acculturated well and live successfully in a bi-cultural context.
Prof Gudjonsdottir, jokingly, concluded her presentation suggesting that perhaps the teachers who decide to move to Iceland are already quite adventurous and ready for the challenge in the first places, given the country's location and distance from other European countries.
Connelly, F. M. and Clandinin, D.J. (1999) Shaping a professional identity: Stories of educational practice. Teachers College Press
Monzó, L.D. and Rueda, R. (2003) 'Shaping education through diverse funds of knowledge: A look at one Latina paraeducator's lived experiences, beliefs, and teaching practice', Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 34(1). pp. 72-95.
Wertsch, J.V. (1998) Mind as action. New York: Oxford University Press
Reconstruction and negotiation of refugee teachers' professional role and identity: experiences of regugee teachers in Scotland and England (Dr Emilia Pietka-Nykaza, Research Fellow at the University of Southhampton)
As the title of this presentation suggests, it was about how refugee teachers in Scotland and England negotiate their roles and identities. I was particularly interested in this session, given that the Refugee Week is coming up in around 2 weeks' time. Refugee teachers are known to share similar background with some of their students from ethnic minorities and sometimes may be role models for their students and advocates for their students. But, Dr Pietka-Nykaza reminds us, they do experience forms of exclusion related to diverse institutional and cultural barriers; they experience racism, prejudice and stereotyping.
In the course of the study reported on by the speaker, 21 refugee teachers in Glasgow and London were interviewed. Here are some of the findings emerging from those interviews:
- Being a teacher:
- Elements of refugee teachers' professional identities were very clear in the interviews: some, in no uncertain terms, referred to themselves as "teachers" (meaning they considered this aspect to be the defining one of their identity), spoke of how they had worked in the profession for 20 years, said that they were teachers and should always be teachers.
- Being a refugee teacher:
- they reported the asylum granting processes and refugee experience processes having a knock-on effect on their ability to re-enter the profession: there were problems with their health, their family was not able to accompany them, they didn't have enough money, described their life as "total mess" and everything was new and different to them.
- some of them determined that the above issues needed to be dealt with first before they were even able to think about becoming / re-becoming a teacher in the UK
- Institutional barriers erected by the teaching bodies in the UK:
- admission criteria for the standards for registration as a teacher in Scotland and England made it difficult / impossible to re-enter the teaching profession
- the alteration of their professional qualifications has led to the refugee teachers' feeling that their professional capital was constantly under-valued
- their decisions on whether or not to pursue the teaching profession in the UK depended greatly on whether they thought this was actually realistic; Dr Pietka-Nykaza quoted one of the teachers as saying, "it will take me at least 5 years before I can work as a teacher – thinking of a new profession now"
- Socio-demographics of refugee teachers:
- there was a permanent struggle between the maintenance of balance between their professional aspirations and perceptions of their re-entering their professions in the UK: there was not enough money for the whole family, sometimes the husband would go to the UK first and had to leave the wife behind for a while, one teacher considered himself too old to learn the new language (being 66 years old)
In conlusion, Dr Pietka-Nykaza has pointed to the permanent struggle between the refugee teachers developing their professional roles and how realistic it was for them to return to their professions. They struggled in relation to their age, gender and their family needs and with the barriers because of the UK teaching profession institutional structures (profession admission criteria). Their career paths are not necessarily results of their individual choices, but reflect their different responses to the barriers encountered, opportunities and personal dilemmas.
"Chasing a silver bullet" – teachers and teaching multicultural society (Nihad Bunar, Stockholm University)
At this point, it was time for the last keynote speech at the conference. It was most enlightening talk by Professor Nihad Bunar from the Stockholm University – on the state of provision for immigrant / diverse learners in Sweden. Some of this seems to contradict some of the positive images of Swedish education I have come across in the media in Britain.
Prof Bunar began by drawing a picture of immigration in Sweden for us. 16% of the school population in Sweden are foreign born. 20% of elementary pupils and 20% in pre-schools have a mother tongue other than Swedish. Both large and mid-size cities / towns have become ethnically and socially segregated. Sweden is currently losing ground in international educational achievement comparisons (PISA) and the overall student achievement is declining.
The importance of which school a pupil attends has increased, meaning that school segregation is growing, particularly related to ethnic factors and to 'hidden' factors (expectations, support at home, motivation and peer-effect). There is a huge achievement gap for those newly arrived, and that is even after 7 years at school – when compared to the majority of students in the mainstream.
Next, the speaker drew a picture of the Swedish government's response to these issues. It appears that the entire focus of the new system is on student achievement. The reforms are clearly based on the idea that problems faced by schools originate from lax attitudes and, thus, if achievement levels are to improve, more demands have to be placed on all school actors. The link between an actor's action and consequences have been reinforced and made more transparent (meaning more disciplinary measures). A system of greater accountability and control has been introduced. The system of vouchers, school choice, competition and free schools has been reinforced. (For those of you teaching in England, beginning to sound familiar?) A wide range of measures to enhance teachers professional competencies, principals' leadership has been added.
Here, Prof Bunar began talking about how diversity falls into these reforms. Well – it doesn't look like they do. According to our keynote speaker, the system is completely silent on diversity, anti-racism, anti-discrimination and tolerance. It has stopped talking about them and instead focuses solely on achievement, demands and technicalities. There is no other discourse and no idea present that the presence of more diverse teachers would be an asset to the school system.
In terms of students who are new arrivals: there are hardly any attempts in Sweden to figure out what their previous subject knowledge is. Students enjoy their preparatory classes (where they can spend up to 3 years), but after a while they want to attend a real class in order to get grades in all subjects. Some schools are setting up separate schools for newcomers only! Students praise their students in preparatory classes for their pedagogical and, in particular, social skills (Prof. Bunar said that, in his estimation, the teachers there have more social skills than pedagogical: they try to "shield" them from the mainstream schooling claiming that the "poor kids" would be bullied there, but it certainly does not help these children's educational prospects). Does it actually strike you as a type of pre-Swann Report (1985) times in England when children would be bussed to other language provision centres to learn English instead of being socially included in the school? Wouldn't you say that violates the principles of inclusion?
Those students who are enrolled in ordinary classes, experience the "sink or swim" situation (meaning there is no specific provision for them). They experience cultural shame – they won't raise their hand for the fear they would be laughed at and can be ashamed of being who they are. Teachers in ordinary classes pay no attention to newly arrived students' needs and deficiency discourse is prevalent ("they don't speak Swedish", "they're poor", "their parents can't" – speaking only of difficulties). The mother tongues of the newly arrived students is completely abolished in ordinary mainstream classes.
The new to Swedish students believe that it is important to learn Swedish as quickly as possible, are ambitious, but are in need of help and support – pedagogical and social. They need encouragement and they need to feel they are moving forward within the system (rather than spending 3 years in Swedish preparatory classes!). They feel that in order to be accepted, they need to become more "Swedish-like" and less like the cultures from which they come.
Prof Bunar states that the system does not notice and does not confirm an individual child; rather, the children are labelled as newly arrived, unaccompanied, refugee, Somali, Afghan, etc. These characteristics should not be see as the defining aspect of their individuality – yet, sadly, in Sweden, they are. The Swedish system does not deal with their difficulties in schools, but reduces their entire life world to putting them in preparatory schools for several years, depriving them of social contacts with other kids – we're talking 3-4 years here. No attention is paid to their loneliness, exclusion and cultural shame, but the system is happy with physical integration of all the children in the same building.
(For an excellent article about the difference between inclusion and integration, please read this article – I shiver whenever I hear inclusion mistakenly referred to or understood as integration : http://www.gesci.org/old/files/docman/IE_definition.pdf )
In the Q&A session following Prof Bunar's rather gloomy depiction of the Swedish educational system (at least for EAL learners!), Prof Vini Lauder, in the audience, inquired whether the performativity approaches can be seen as violating the rights of a child as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child – as in all of Prof Bunar's examples of the way immigrant children educated in Sweden, the child appears to matter the least and comes last.
What do you think? I think it's a good question!
The Swann Report (1985) Education for All: The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups
Where do you come from Miss? (Alan Benson, London Metropolitan University)
In this presentation, Prof Alan Benson spoke of his study into how immigrant / bilingual teachers' use of the English language (particularly when it's perceived to be a non-standard English) might undermine their status as teachers. His study was conducted on the outskirts of London with a couple of teachers originating from other countries.
First, he drew our attention to the Standard English and language ideology in English schools. Department for Education (DfE, 2012 Teachers' Standards) insists that teachers should use standard English correctly whatever their specialist subject. Prof Benson states that if you don't speak standard English, it might be pointed out to you that you don't use it properly – the status of native speaker is greater than yours, in such cases. On another note of my own, there are still numerous English as a Foreign Language schools in the UK who advertise for their EFL teacher posts stating that only native speakers of English are eligible to apply.
Prof Benson structured his talk around three themes:
- Global Englishes:
- Christophe, in his study, thought he was speaking The Queen's English – but his students considered it 'a dictionary English'
- Dieter, upon coming to the UK, felt completely disabled as he wasn't able to express himself in the way he would've liked to – he felt disabled
- Polycentricity (this concept is about who authorizes your speech)
- Pilvi, a Finnish teacher, following saying Hello. My name is Pilvi in her class, felt tearful – language can operate on various scales and have different centres of gravity.
- Pronunciation:
- Semye complained that his students tried to correct the pronunciation of every word he said. Her power is being directly challenged by native speakers
White teachers have a certain invisible power, Prof Benson claims. They can draw power from being white. An Italian teacher, for instance, might be able to talk about football teams, Lamborghini cars or a Ferrari – concepts known to his / her students. Such knowledge reaffirms their power.
So how do diverse teachers go about developing the authority of speech – in other words, how do they learn to speak so they are respected? In the professor's study, Doina said she'd learned to use specific ways of authoritarian speaking, and Semye found out that if she talked about football first, and then gets the children back to work – that works.
Immigrant teachers might also have to deal with imagined communities in the eyes of native speakers (children in their classes). For instance, Dieter (German) kept being asked by his students if he knew and liked (!) Hitler and could not believe that people were still talking about the World War II.
It was a fascinating talk. This, to me, also links to the idea that seems to persist in the UK amongst many (drawing from my own personal experience) that native speaker is a higher status given to one simply by the virtue of being born a native speaker of English – taking no account of the fact that bilingual teachers might very well be extremely well educated in the English language, but often, this bears no weight. In my opinion, such attitudes bear some resemblance to aristocracy perceptions that they are "better" simply by having been born into a "higher up" family. Education seems to have lower status, then, than being born a native speaker – as exemplified by the very existence of EFL job adverts such as this one: http://www.tefl.com/jobs/job.html?jo_id=60789 , which lists "native speaker" as a "qualification".
Department for Education (2012) Teachers' Standards. Crown
Culturally Responsive Teacher Education Through the Personal Stories of Diverse Teachers and Learners: Researcher Developed Web and Audio Resources (Antoinette Gagne, University of Toronto, and Clea Schmidt, University of Manitoba)
This last presentation at the conference focused on the value of locally-developed resources and showcased some of the resources and websites that were developed through Canada-based projects for culturally and ethnically diverse learners. The two scholars have considered multiple complex identities of diverse learners involving the intersection of:
- Languages
- Cultures
- Ethnicities
- Genders
- Religions
- Abilities
- Sexual orientations
- Socioeconomic statuses
This challenges difference as a deficit and avoids the disadvantage of considering individual through just one lens – as human beings, we are more complex than that. In creation of the resources, they considered intercultural competencies of learners – defined by Deardorff (2008) as the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in intercultural situations using a person's intercultural knowledge and skills.
The resources included:
- classroom scenarios involving English language learners – ESL scenarios presenting educators with challenges to consider and potential solutions
- DiT – Diversity in Teaching website with resources (http://wordpress.oise.utoronto.ca/diversityinteaching/)
- ESL Infusion website (http://eslinfusion.oise.utoronto.ca/Home/index.html)
- This includes a particularly amazing section with Voices of Immigrant Teenagers in Canada – videos (http://eslinfusion.oise.utoronto.ca/Home/ESL_Video_Resources/index.html) – these can be used for the purposes of social inclusion of learners in mainstream schools; they are videos starring diverse teenagers expressing their feelings in their own words. Here, students are talking about how they feel in schools when surrounded by Canada-born students.
- There was also a religious and social clubs in high schools project: in the Christian club, for instance, students realized that having Christianity in common (but not their nationalities) helped them recognize and build bridges between their other differences
- There is also the Voices of Immigrant Parents project
- There were also videos were produced locally and all self-funded of immigrant teachers – aiming to improve the understanding about internationally educated teachers (for jurisidictions and school leaders: who they are and what experiences they might have.
All in all, a fantastic set of resources that can easily be used in other parts of the world!
Deardorff, D.K (2008) 'Intercultural competence: A definition, model and implications for education abroad'. In: Savicki, V. (ed) Developing intercultural competence and transformation: theory, research, and application in international education. Stylus.
The Conference concluded with a few speeches, summing up the enormous amount of knowledge, issues and reflections on the state of things related to diversity, immigrant teachers and children across the countries represented by the scholars and speakers. We all walked away from it armed with a feeling of common goal – being the warriors for tolerance and inclusion of diverse teachers and children in our schools. We felt empowered and I strongly believed to be the challengers of the current state of things, wishing to fight for the higher status of immigrant / international teachers and in doing so, wishing to better the lives of our children. We commented on how the results-driven culture of performativity in so many educational systems in different countries has been noticed to be interfering and taking away from the inclusion of ethnic minorities.
We hope that our efforts will lead to the greater inclusion of EAL / ESL children and their teaches in the educational systems across the world, but also believe that it might be a never-ending dedication as there will always been something more to do.


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Historical Plantation Yields
Yields and expected turnover average values for data collected in Europe for the black perigord truffle, suggest that truffle plantations produce between 20-90kg per hectare of truffles per year at an average wholesale price of £850/kg. This is a large range and it is important to realise that the figures take into account old plantations, plantations with much lower planting densities and those in less-than ideal conditions. However, the full spread of plantation productions within our geography is 0 – 200kg per hectare.
Plantations can also take from 4 – 12 years to produce a decent yield. The figures detailed in the table below take into account a slow rise to maximum yields and are based on the full recorded production range and a wholesale value of £850 p/kg. This was the median price through season 2010/11, with a high of £1300p/kg.
Individual Tree Production
A single brule (tree root system) can produce 10kg of truffles and some plantations can get 200kg a year per hectare, but at the same time there are trees and plantations that never become productive.
Years of Production
Expertly, maintained trees would be expected to have a viable production life of 50+years.
Realising Returns
The prices stated above are prices achieved in the wholesale markets of France and Spain. The value for this in the hands of the consumer, you in the case of a tree owner receiving their crop directly from us would be considerably above this. An example is the Gourmet Foodstore in the USA, currently selling fresh winter truffles from France for up to $1,872.00 p/lb which, equates to a kilogram price in sterling of £2,592.00 (correct as of 29/02/2012). Also for sale at this price with the Fine Food Specialists of London.
Maximising Rewards
We will be pursuing a direct sale approach with as much of our crop as possible, forging direct relationships and selling product online to consumers and in conjunction with a global partners cooperative. This should bring price realisation benefits for us over the figures above. The table below shows an indication of values that we feel can be achieved per tree, 5 stand and 10 stand basis.* "Direct to Retail" is based on £1,050/kg and "Direct to You" is based on £1400/kg. Please contact us if you would like to discuss these points in greater detail.
* Nothing here indicates or offers a guaranteed achievable price or crop yield. Figures stated are entirely for illustration purposes. TruffleFarms.com or Truffle Farms Europe Ltd cannot be held liable for a failure to achieve an anticipated financial or crop yield return.
Returns & Benefits
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text: One-electron outer-sphere redox couples, such as cobalt metal-organic complexes, represent an interesting alternative as redox mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells since they show weak visible light absorption and available redox potentials may lead to higher open circuit voltage values. Here, we have studied the effect of using different substituents on bipyridyl and phenanthroline ligands in cobalt redox shuttles, giving the following complexes: Co[tris(4,4'-dimethoxy-2,2'-bipyridine)(PF6)(2)], Co[tris(4,4'-dichloro-2,2'-bipyridine)(PF6)(2)] and Co[tris(4,7-dichloro-1,10-phenanthroline)(CF3SO3)(2)], displaying a range of CoII/CoIII redox potentials from +0.37 to +0.79 V vs. NHE. The regeneration kinetics of the organic dye D35 was found to depend systematically on the redox mediator potential, which was explained using Marcus theory. The mass transport of cobalt mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells is highly dependent on the porosity, effective surface area and roughness of the mesoporous TiO2 films. Therefore, films with different TiO2 pore sizes were prepared and investigated to gain an insight into the topological effects of TiO2 film preparation in order to obtain optimum solar cell performance.


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According to the latest set of statistics from Kantar Worldpanel, the iPhone 5s and 5c are each performing remarkably well in different countries and are helping to strengthen Apple's overall market presence. In Japan, where the Cupertino company is not traditionally known to be doing spectacularly, the company's October market share soared to a whopping 76.3% thanks to the decision of NTT Do Co Mo—the country's largest mobile carrier— to carry the iPhone. Driven by the popularity of the high-end iPhone 5s, the Cupertino giant's smartphone shares also rose significantly in the US, and was able to perform relatively well in Britain.
In markets such as France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, the iPhone's performance is slightly less impressive than that of its major competitors. Factors contributing to this trend include the dominance of the Android platform, which Kantar suggests accounts for nearly 70% of the European market, the low amounts of handset subsidies, and the growing momentum of Windows 8.
A more comprehensive view of the changes in Apple's smartphone market share–relative to those of others–can be seen in the table below (source: Kantar).


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23/02/2018 00:00
Maayong Pag-abot (warm welcome) in the Children's Village Ate Lisa! As a social work student she is going to spend her practical semester here in order to support our local social worker. We are looking forward to a good cooperation and a wonderful and enriching time.


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#6771 closed enhancement (fixed)
-me_method renamed to -motion-est ???
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In the latest daily builds the command Set motion estimation method name has been changed from
-me_method renamed to -motion-est
Any good reason for this? Not intended bug/typo?
This kills about any FE available for Windows.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by Atarikid
On a side note: me_range is still the same. So in the end renaming me_method is not keeping consistency at all.
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by oromit
It was deprecated two years ago via 4b6b1082a73907c7c3de2646c6398bc61320f2c6
And as master recently had its major version bumped, it was automatically disabled.
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by Atarikid
I see. So basically you now have to use -motion-est instead?
I also noticed many options of -me_method or not available for -motion-est, is this correct?
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by oromit
Those are the options that are under that deprecation flag:
You should have been using the new options for the past 2 years.
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by jamrial
- Component changed from undetermined to avcodec
- Priority changed from normal to wish
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
Replying to Atarikid:
I see. So basically you now have to use -motion-est instead?
The global field in AVCodecContext and the corresponding global option "me_method" were removed as oromit mentioned. For the sake of consistency, i've just added a "me_method" alias for the motion-est option in libx264 in 7bbe33b0526723f0a20c27e3b8d03b186b27fdf6, which i assume is the encoder you were using.
Replying to Atarikid:
I also noticed many options of -me_method or not available for -motion-est, is this correct?
The global me_method had a lot of values that might or might have not been used by some encoders. libx264 only used the ones listed for motion-est, and that's what's available now.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by Atarikid
Thanks for explanation and adding the alias.
But sooner or later I will need to change my script anyway. :-)


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David Whiteley
Owner - Whiteley BPS Planning Ventures LLC
Executive Director - Eastern Interconnection Planning
Collaborative Former Executive Vice President - North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
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Happy New Year! The first meeting of 2013 - and a ladder competition - the second print one, the theme this time being "Music". The judge this evening was Roger McCallum from the Woodley Camera Club (got a battle against them in a few weeks' time!) - so who would be saying "Thank You For The Music" at the end of the evening - or even "If music be the food of love....etc, etc"!
It's amazing isn't it how wide the interpretation of "Music" can be - that's one of the joys of these competitions - seeing how imagination and creativity can be stretched. There were, as expected, some really superb images in both the monochrome and colour sections with Roger providing throughout good, detailed comments spiced with a dry humour (we now know which image to sneak in to the forthcoming battle don't we!!!). This all made for a good entertaining and visually stimulating evening.
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The monochrome print leaderboard showed Tony Bates and Brian Jolley jointly in third place with 36 points, John Sexton coming second with 37 and, in first place, Nigel Farmer scoring 39 points.
In the colour section, Nigel Fenner and Brian Jolley shared second place with 37 points each, the winner being John Sexton who scored the maximum of 40!
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Chaos Sorcerer Lord (Metal) (Manticore)When subjected to his power, all before this Sorcerer Lord are sliced, diced and desiccated .
Those Champions of Chaos who seek mastery over the magical arts are known as Chaos Sorcerers, and they are madmen and malcontents all. Chaos Sorcerers wield the wild energies of entropy itself, reshaping reality to better serve their whims and those of their dark masters. A word and a gesture from a Chaos Sorcerer can strip a man's flesh from his bones, force a lover to murder his beloved, or cause a regiment of soldiers to burst into flame. They are amongst the most awful and depraved of all servants of Chaos, for they long ago sold their souls in exchange for the heady elixir of pure power. Where many of the world's Wizards, such as those taught by the Colleges of Magic in Altdorf, glean their arcane skill from long years of painstaking research, a Chaos Sorcerer's understanding of the Winds of Magic is instant and innate. However, without the patience and wisdom that such study brings, a Chaos Sorcerer lacks due wariness and respect for the ultimate dangers of magic, and so begins an inexorable descent into deformity and madness. Many are the paths that lead to this ultimate fate, but most often, the Chaos Sorcerer seeks to expand his magical powers or harness more of the occult by simply bartering away another fraction of his soul, losing a little more of his humanity in the process. Before long, the aspirant feels his whole body and mind twist and alter, and as the gnawed remnants of his soul are finally devoured, he is plunged into the whirlpools of insanity, leaving behind nothing of the man who was.
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├ Bonus vs Elephants0
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- Arcane Conduit
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Soy Protein Ingredients Market Growing Demand to Impact Revenue Share during 2014-2022
According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, "Soy Protein Ingredients Market by Type and Application: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014-2022," the soy protein ingredients market was valued at $7,506 million in 2016, and is projected to reach at $12,205 million by 2023, registering a CAGR of 7.2% from 2017 to 2023. The soy protein concentrate segment accounted for more than half of the total market share in 2016.
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Monthly Price Analysis of Cassava Derivatives in Rural and Urban Markets in Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria
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Faculty Senate Defeats Motions Regarding NCAA Action
The Penn State Faculty Senate defeated two motions attempting to send statements of disapproval to the NCAA over the sanctions dealt after the Freeh report was released.
Faculty senators met at 1:30 in 112 Kern and made an effort to cut out much discussion and get right to the voting – one representative from the School of Nursing said their feelings toward the NCAA sanctions and Freeh report had been talked about 'ad nauseam.'
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- How do college access, affordability, and completion vary by race, ethnicity, and income?
- How much do students borrow, and can they repay their loans?
- What are national completion rates for part-time and transfer students of color?
- How many non-completers from a particular college never re-enroll, and how many transfer to finish their degree at another institution?
- Which students go on to succeed in the workforce?
The recently introduced bipartisan, bicameral College Transparency Act (CTA) would allow the creation of a secure, privacy-protected postsecondary data system that would help students and families, policymakers, institutions, and employers make informed choices by providing better information about college access, success, costs, and outcomes in a transparent, user-friendly way.
Join the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) on Monday, April 1st from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. for a panel discussion on the need for student-level data to improve student success. The conversation will include student, business, and institutional perspectives:
- Drew Scheberle, Senior Vice President, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
- Julie Carpenter-Hubin, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning, The Ohio State University
- Sarah Henry, Student, University of Iowa; Director of Legislative Affairs, The Association of Big Ten Students
- Mamie Voight (moderator), Vice President of Policy Research, Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
The event is open to the public and will be held in Rayburn 2253. Lunch will be served.


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Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder that causes a strong urge to move your legs. This urge to move often occurs with strange and unpleasant feelings in your legs. Moving your legs relieves the urge and the unpleasant feelings. People who have RLS describe the unpleasant feelings as creeping, crawling, pulling, itching, tingling, burning, aching, or electric shocks. Sometimes, the feelings also occur in the arms. You use natural remedies and herbs to help ease some of the discomfort of this disorder.
Low iron can be a factor with those who suffer from restless legs syndrome. Therefore, increasing your iron intake can help. There are a variety of foods that are good sources of iron, including clams, chicken, beef and pork liver, turkey and seafood such as clams, sardines and shrimp. Fortified breakfast cereals are good sources of iron, as are cooked beans and lentils and potatoes with skins on.
Calming Tea can help calm restless legs as well as aid in sleeping. These botanicals are natural sedatives and can help you relax while soothing stress and helping you sleep better.
Blood Circulation Tea : improves circulation in the body ensuring that the legs receive their share of the blood.
Walking before going to bed can reduce nighttimes restless legs syndrome symptoms. Exercise tends to change chemical balances within the brain that can help create restful sleep.
Stop Using Caffeine and Tobacco
Caffeine can increase the "jitters" and can make restless legs syndrome worse than it needs to be. In addition, smoking can reduce circulation. It is not recommended that people who have RLS smoke.
Other Tips
Vitamins and minerals such as E, B12, zinc, magnesium and folic acid can be helpful. Daily Liquid Multi Vitamins are absorbed fast. Taking a multivitamin supplement can give you the vitamins you need to keep certain symptoms at bay.


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Ramadan is coming to a close. I was thinking of this holy month. Of what it means to me. If I had learnt anything more of myself from it this year. I even typed 'spirit of Ramadan' online, hoping to read posts of what that means to other Muslims. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that without a doubt, the most impact an individual has personally had on me this Ramadan is Mr. Sim Siak Heong, who is a Malaysian Chinese and a Catholic. Through his actual actions. Not just words, or prayer, or advice but through actual deed.
67-year-old Mr. Sim was the victim of a terrible road bully incident earlier this month, where he had accidentally hit the new Peugeot car of 30-year-old Siti Fairrah in a car park in Kuantan, Malaysia. She not only got out the car and heaped abuse on him like some crazy thug, and demanded cash on the spot, but hit his car repeatedly with a steering lock.
Thankfully it was recorded on video. It was very painful for me to watch the video as I can't help but feel really bad as a Malay and a Muslim. I also felt angry that a senior citizen was abused so badly. I actually had to pause the video several times and considered closing the page, but I forced myself to watch it till the end. I am glad for the existence of the video recording. I look at it as a valuable lesson and reminder of what can happen if I experience rage at someone but fail to control it and rein it in.
Each time I watch the video, I am reminded yet again of how lacking my character is compared to Mr. Sim's. Because he forgave her, but as for me I don't know if I could, if it had happened to me, or worse, a loved one especially an elder relative of Mr. Sim's age. And amazingly, not only did he forgive her, he expressed sadness when she was subsequently charged and punished by the courts, saying that she did not deserve the punishment. I read in this article that he said:
"I feel sorry for her. She doesn't deserve it at all."
"I have forgiven her and I urge the public to do the same. There is no need to condemn her anymore."
I hope the person who took the video pats him or herself on the back for doing such an important public service. It's because of the video, which understandably outraged a lot of people, that the police pursued the case. Siti Fairrah was fined RM5,000 and ordered to do 240 hours of community work after she pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage to Mr. Sim's car.
Kudos to the Malaysian police as well for still going ahead and taking action against her despite the saintly Mr. Sim declining to lodge a report, even when the police advised him to do so. And to the general Malaysian public online regardless of race and religion who condemned the road rage incident. And yes, to Siti Fairrah as well, for admitting what she did was wrong and for apologising to Mr. Sim publicly.
I'd like to put here an excerpt from a beautiful post I came across on a site called Islamway.net, as I was surfing around online finding and reading what 'spirit of Ramadan' means to other people.
Ramadan is a celebration of God's guidance to humanity, through the Quran, which is a guide for doing good and a warning against evil. In order to bring the soul into harmony with the Quranic ideals of belief and virtue, fasting is prescribed as a way for individuals to come closer to God and to lift their souls to new heights of piety. In doing so, the entire human body is able to transform itself into an agent of positive moral and social change that seeks to replace miserliness with generosity, anger with patience, revenge with love, and war with peace—in effect, replacing good with evil in the world.
Of course, kindness and forgiveness are for all times, not just Ramadan, but I feel that's when we Muslims, as we fast, are more reminded to think and do more for the lesser off and to reflect on our character.
When I say 'spirit of Ramadan', I am also referring to virtues like patience and calm that Mr. Sim had displayed when confronted with such an ugly face of road rage, and the provocation it challenged him with.
I think it's such a beautiful thing when we are taught these virtues from people of other religious faiths or even people with no religious faith as well. It reminds us that there must be mutual respect. Because at the end of the day, life comes down to treating everyone else the same way we ourselves wish to be treated. That sounds so easy and logical, it sounds so easy to remember, yet strangely and unfortunately it's apparently so easy for some of us to forget.
The following video is the Astro Awani interview of Mr. Sim from where the image above was from. It's in Malay.
I just sighed in sadness when I watched it. Damn, what a terrible thing to have happened to such a kind soul.
"I am a Catholic. In our religion, and in all religions, it teaches us to love the ones who wrong us."
– Sim Siak Heong
Thank you, Mr. Sim.
- Yahoo! News Singapore – Police probing woman in road rage incident – 16 July 2014
- Astro Awani – Bullied senior citizen willing to forgive and forget – 16 July 2014
- Yahoo! News Singapore – What road rage woman showed us – 21 July 2014
- Hype Malaysia – Kiki charged and fined RM5,000 for misbehaviour – 23 July 2014


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Splinter Cell Blacklist is the next action-packed installment of the popular Tom Clancy series: Splinter Cell. And, it appears that this next title is going to be THE title to pick up.
It's hard to believe that the this whole sneaking craze started ten years ago. The first Splinter Cell was 97% sneaking around and 3% shooting. Well, Blacklist is a different beast from the original. New tools like "Killing-In-Motion" system allow players to attack head-on, while decreasing the players whereabouts. This is done through lighting-quick attacks, where players can strategically mark enemies furthest away from Sam to be executed fast, while he engages in close-quarters-combat with the closets targets in one quick strike. The feature looks impressively fluid, but who knows what the learning curve might be to achieve truly smooth interaction with the targets, I mean A.I.
Splinter Cell also follows with a new storyline and setting: the modern world. It's yet to be seen if this will be another "me-too" game set in the modern era, but I'm willing to bet that this game isn't just cashing in on the modern era style of game due to lack of originality.
Use all new weapons and gadgets to take down the new terrorist and get to the bottom of "The Blacklist" threatening U.S. assets.
Splinter Cell Blacklist will launch in North America on August 20 for XBox 360, Playstation 3 and Windows-based PC and will be rated M, for Mature. Watch the full-fledged Inauguration trailer below.


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Eating local when you're dining out isn't as easy as it used to be, even if you're eating only region-appropriate food. As The Atlantic points out, try ordering oysters in Savannah, where they are traditionally caught, and you're more likely to get farm-raised oysters from New England. And the apples in your New England apple pie were probably grown in New Zealand.
But there is still one local treat which is rarely found far from where it was produced: Louisiana alligator. If you think that going green is synonymous with eating local, then the last bastion of green eats might be the bayou.
Take Insta-Gator Ranch, a gator hatchery in Louisiana, which harvests eggs from wild alligators and then raises them for everything from watchstraps to boots. And of course, for eating too. According to Insta-Gator rancher Jon Price, the best gator meat is in the backstrap and underneath that giant snapping jaw. But it's meat from a gator's powerful, swooping tail which typically supplies the classic Louisianan deep-fried snack, gator-on-a-stick.
Most locals claim that gator tastes like chicken (surprise!), and it can be served just like any other meat. In New Orleans, that typically means in a gumbo, deep-fried or ground into a sausage. You can try snapping your jaws around some more adventurous dishes too, such as Alligator Beignet Lacoste, Alligator Sauce Piquant or Alligator Primavera.
In order to stay loyal to their local ways, Insta-Gator Ranch also gives back to the swamps from which it takes by re-introducing many of its grown gators back into the wild. Half-hearted eco-tourism is also good business for the ranch, and for a small fee you can play with the babies. (Not your typical petting zoo.)
In a world with an international economy and a daunting, unnavigable food chain, it's a funny notion that the one place you can still go to know what you're eating is the swamp.
Thumbnail photo: minds-eye/Flickr


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120821 – Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia – 10 events from 21 August 2012
Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
– 10 events from 21 August 2012
Click on the links for details of the events …
Fri 10 – Sun 26 August 2012: Darwin, NT
Official Opening Fri 10 Aug
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographer Jagath Dheerasekara, human rights defender
This traveling exhibition is a collaborative project with
* the Manuwangku (Muckaty) Traditional Owners,
* the Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) and
* Amnesty International.
Presented by the Environment Centre NT
in association with Darwin Festival
"It is a testimony to the resilience of the community
and captures the determination of people bound
together through a common struggle to keep their
traditional land free from nuclear waste.
Muckaty, called by its Traditional Owners as Manuwangku,
situated 120 km North from Tennant Creek is a
country in the Northern Territory targeted for the
building of a federal radioactive waste storage facility."
Event details: http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/2012-program/manuwangku-under-the-nuclear-cloud/
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/sa/event/29216/
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/51721
Event: 20 August to 14 September 2012: Yeelirrie-Leonora, WA
Walkatjurra Walkabout – Walking for Country
A one month walk from Yeelirrie to Leonora
" … is a celebration of Wangkatja country, a testament to
the strength of the community who have fought to stop
uranium mining at Yeelirrie for over forty years, and a
chance to come together to continue share our commitment to
a sustainable future without nuclear. It is a chance to
reconnect with the land, and to revive the tradition of
walking for country."
"This walk will be lead by the Walkatjurra Rangers,
in partnership with Footprints for Peace,
Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA),
the Anti Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA)
and the Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA)."
Event details: http://walkingforcountry.com/
Event details: http://www.nuclearfreefuture.com/
Event details: http://nffcampaign2011.footprintsforpeace.net/?p=69
Event: Wed 22 August 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Building Bridges 2012
NT Intervention & Income Management
Presenters: Aunty Daphne & Sue Gillett
Koori Radio: Indig. Voices for Info & Culture
Presenter: Lily Shearer
Organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney
Event details plus extra info: http://indymedia.org.au/building-bridges-2012-aunty-daphne-sue-gillett-back-to-the-future-22-aug-12
Event details: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/index.php/building-bridges-2012
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29523/
Brochure: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/images/downloads/building_bridges_2012.pdf
Background info on Aunty Daphne & Sue Gillett: http://stoptheintervention.org/uploads/files_to_download/Facts-Info/BB-22-8-12-Aunty-Daphne-Sue.pdf
Event: Sat 25 August 2012: Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW
Walk As One forum
Organised by Caritas Australia
"Indigenous communities are over-represented
among the world's poorest and most marginalised.
How can we walk in solidarity with Indigenous
Peoples to challenge this injustice?"
About Walk As One: http://www.caritas.org.au/act/walk-as-one-indigenous-peoples-campaign
Event details: http://www.caritas.org.au/act/events/event-detail?eventCode=WAO
Event details: http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7463-indigenous-peoples-issues-awareness-campaign-to-be-launched-
Event: 29 August 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Building Bridges 2012
Opening Doors to Policy Participation
Presenter: Carol Barton
What Works & Doesn't in Urban Communities
Presenter: Shirley Blacklaws
Organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney
Event details: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/index.php/building-bridges-2012
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29523/
Brochure: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/images/downloads/building_bridges_2012.pdf
Event: 13 September 2012: various locations internationally
Fifth anniversary of the
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Event details: http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples/DeclarationontheRightsofIndigenousPeoples.aspx
Event: Tue 23 October 2012: Sydney, NSW
Our Generation film screening
Homelands and Homelessness
– Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Organised by Amnesty International
"The panel will address concerns about the
105,000 homeless people currently struggling
to survive in Australia. It will also discuss the
human rights problems experienced by
indigenous persons living in remote Homelands."
Speakers will include:
* Sarah Marland;
* John Dowd AO;
* The honourable Linda Burney MP.
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29438/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews
Event: Sat 10 November 2012: Melbourne City, Vic
2012 Spring Action:
Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Organised by:
Indigenous Social Justice Association – Melbourne
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm
Photos of 27th July Sydney Rally: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51682
Video of 11th August Melbourne Rally: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51877
Event: 10 December 2012: various locations internationally
UN International Human Rights Day
Event: 5-7 December 2012: Gold Coast, Qld
2012 National Indigenous Health Conference
Many Pathways, One Outcome
" … is designed to bring together both government
and non-government agencies who are working
in the field of Indigenous health with the belief
that working together can close the gap between
the state of Indigenous Health as compared to
the health of mainstream Australians."
Event details: http://www.indigenoushealth.net/
– 'Our Generation' Film Reviews
Aboriginal Support Group – Manly Warringah Pittwater:
Our Generation – Showing in London – page 8
Winter 2011: "The Intervention is yet another example of
the appalling treatment the Aboriginal People of Australia
have been subjected to in such a short period of time
compared to thousands of years of survival. Sinem Saban and
Rev. Dr Gondarra supported by the Yolngu people and
cinematographer, Damien Curtis, have created a sensitive
and realistic view of the plight of those who wish to live
a more traditional life in their homelands and of those who
appear to be dispossessed." Christine Waterer
Aboriginal Support Group – Manly Warringah Pittwater:
ASG Information Night: Our Generation – page 6
Summer 2010: "Local resident and journalist, Jeff McMullen
introduced "Our Generation", the film by Sinem Saban and
Damien Curtis which we were there to see. The film explored
in depth the Federal Government Intervention into
Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory. Jeff had
told us that the film's producers were not having any
success in having the film shown on government or
commercial media outlets and they were having to screen it
in local community halls to show the community at large
just what was involved in the Intervention. It is basically
a war on Aboriginal culture. The dispossession of the
Aboriginal people is simply continuing in a new guise."
Carol Gerrard
Our Generation: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/
Aboriginal Support Group – Manly Warringah Pittwater: http://www.asgmwp.net/index.htm
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With the 2019 All-Star Weekend being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Jordan design team brings us some throwback feelings to 1991 when the Hornets hosted the event for the first time.
For us old enough to remember, the blue and red stars, the tripple colored lining and of course the Queen City crown all bring back memories from the Bee-Hive.
All of these details are used together with the black & white palette to take this look into the future.
The army-looking stencil fonts comes from North Carolina as a state being "first in flight" back in 1903 (even if we would count the birthplace of MJ the first of flight as well…).
With the team-picking format being changed from geography to team captains (LBJ & Giannis) picking their teams, the branding has changed from the East/west graphic to the players team logo on the front in black or white and the honeycomb-pattern stars on the sides in red or blue.


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In addition to offering his thoughts on Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar as part of Complex's newly-released cover story with the TDE lyricist, Nas also spoke on the West Coast musician in a separate feature story released by Complex.
The Queensbridge emcee was questioned about Kendrick's good kid, m.A.A.d city album and the pressure the rapper faces on the album's follow-up. He also discussed his debut album Illmatic and its follow-up, 1996's It Was Written.
When questioned about Kendrick competing against and surpassing himself with his good kid, m.A.A.d city follow-up, Nas went on to express his confidence in K-Dot and revealed that there's no way the rapper can mess up on his next studio album.
"But I think he got it. I know he got it," Nas said. "There's no way he can mess it up because the love he has from the game is so large that he can almost mumble on the record and it's going to be in rhythm and it's going to be next level. So he's in a great place because, again, there're so many single artists that the album artist just holds up as a whole different kind of value. And he's that kind of guy. So whatever he does, in my opinion, will be appreciated but at the same time he knows he has to bring it. It's about challenges, right? Life's about challenges. In this game it's about challenges."
Nas later recalled the pressure he felt in his early years due to the immense amount of competition there was in the rap game at the time.
"Oh, for sure," he said. "Because you had Jay Z coming. You had Ghostface's first album. You had Raekwon. You had Mobb Deep. These guys had cornered the rap game off. And also Biggie, and many others. So the competition was severe for me to put out the next record."
Lastly, Nas was asked about comparisons between Kendrick's good kid, m.A.A.d city and his debut album, Illmatic. He stated that it's not fair to compare the two albums since good kid, m.A.A.d city represents a different time and Kendrick endured a different journey to get to where he is today in his music career.
"No, it's not a fair comparison to me because Illmatic represented a different time and a different expression for different reasons," Nas said. "The times inspired the sound of that—the climate of the music business, the rap game, the industry, the year, and life in itself. It's not fair to Kendrick's album either because his album is a brand new expression that represents these times, the sound represents what's happening now, he's changing things today.
"You can compare them because you can compare me and Kendrick in a lot of ways," he added. "But at the same time you have to respect his journey. His journey is his own fresh journey and to compare it with me or anybody else is not fair to him. You gotta respect his music for him. It's cool to compare it but at the end of the day, allow him to have his own lane."
Kendrick has remained relatively tight-lipped when it concerns the details of his next studio album, but did recently reveal that Dr. Dre is working with him on the project.
"One thing about Dre is you can't take the music away from him no matter how much money he has," the rapper said during an interview with KIIS FM in June. "He's always gonna be right there in that studio. That's before the deal, after the deal. He's always locked in there. That's something that I know personally."
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