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This week is was stitching busy. Sumptuous surfaces online classes by SharonB started this week. I am trying to absorb the lessons on designing and looking at other students work till now.
I have progressed some more on my border. The zigzag lines between the kutch work need to be worked with chain stitch. Other than kutchwork and chain stitches, the other stitches are herringbone filling, rope stitch from TAST challenge in the centre, arrow head stitch, cross stitch variation in the centre of the flowers [?].
After choosing the colours I have started piecing the block for the first hussif.
I started with TAST challenge stitch feathered chain sampler. I'll post my progress.
Others progress can be seen on SharonB's blog here. It is worth seeing Sharon's progress on her hussif sewing caddy.

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Two competing proposals for a neighbourhood forum in the Stamford Hill area will be discussed at the Council's Cabinet on Monday 24 November. The meeting will be at Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, from 6pm
The fact that there are two competing applications demonstrates once again that there is no consensus regarding planning in the area. Unfortunately, given that the rules of accountability of 'Neighbourhood Forums' are very weak, it would be possible for one section of the community to dominate a forum to the exclusion of other sections.
Fortunately the Cabinet Report (available here) recommends that both proposals are rejected and that the alternative inclusive Area Action Plan is progressed.
Planning Watch supports this position and we are asking our supporters, if you have not already signed, to sign our petition urging the Councillors to reject both of the competing forums.
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With just a few days before the vote, we need as many people as possible to sign the petition (because we don't want the Council to think we have gone away, and we know that supporters of the proposed forums will be seeking to convince the Cabinet to reject the report). So please forward this email to friends and neighbours and ask them to sign the petition.
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Interactive Look at Top 11 Indicators of a Warming World
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Climate scientists are 95 percent certain that the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are causing the climate to change. From 1901-2012, temperatures have risen 1.6°F. While this temperature change is the most commonly cited climate change indicator, there are numerous others that also show what climate change looks like. They range from rising seas to melting glaciers and ice sheets to changing ecosystems. In the above graphic, you can view 11 of these indicators and see how they've changed as the Earth has warmed.
These indicators are discussed in-depth in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, the first part of which will be released Sept. 27. The reports, which come out every five to six years, provide a comprehensive snapshot of how the planet is changing. While there are questions about the direction the IPCC should go after this release, the indicators discussed in the report clearly showcase how the planet is changing.
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zelda shares his magnum opus - an exceptionally thorough Gauntlet guide, aimed specifically at new players.
He starts with several guidelines for deck construction in Gauntlet, explaining how to choose a suitable spread of mana costs (or mana curve) and when you should prioritize completing your mana curve over simply choosing the most powerful cards. After providing a cheat-sheet of important rules for piloting your deck, he ranks the viability of all 12 generals and proceeds to evaluate every single card in Duelyst.
Each card is given a 0-100 rating and a short paragraph of justification - faction cards that work best with a particular general have two separate reviews, along with modifiers for each general to show how useful different Neutral minions are with that general. Although exclusively picking the highest-rated cards and ignoring your mana curve is a very bad idea, these ratings help new players to filter out the most relevant cards and provides a solid foundation for new players to learn about Gauntlet.
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Will 'Batman vs. Superman' Feature Bat Drones?
Are Warner Bros. executives leaking information about Batman vs. Superman on social media? The idea seems particularly unlikely, but it's one that's gained a certain amount of currency online after Daniel Alter, a producer with ties to Warners, tweeted out what may have been a spoiler for the Man of Steel sequel.
On Friday, Alter -- who has produced The Apparition and is said to be developing a Johnny Quest project for the studio -- tweeted about his excitement for the 2015 superhero slugfest:
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Can't wait for #BatmanvsSuperman.. #batfleck semi-retired/not speaking to Robin anymore.. Controlling drones from the batcave.— Daniel Alter (@DAlter007) November 15, 2013
The snippet was immediately jumped on by the Internet as a sign of what's to come. While it's possible that Alter has some insider knowledge on the much-anticipated 2015 feature, however, it's just as likely that this was Alter's hoped-for elements for the movie, based on the "older, semi-retired Batman" information that's been officially released.
Certainly, both the "not speaking to Robin anymore" and "controlling drones from the Batcave" elements come from well-known comic book storylines -- most noticeably, Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come -- which means that this could be drawn more on "wish list" thinking than anything actually in the movie.
Whether or not Alter's speculation turns out to be true -- my money is on "not," but we'll see in 2015 -- the reception of his tweet has proven one thing: People are apparently interested enough in finding out more about this movie that they'll read into anything hinting at revelations. Here's hoping the enthusiasm lasts for the next couple of years.
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10 toys every kid wanted in 1976
Stretch Armstrong, Cher and Muhammad Ali were the hot dolls forty years ago.
Toys come and go, and the brands and names may change, but one thing is certain: Kids love dolls, action figures and outer space. Forty years ago, Snoopy and Star Trek were household names, just as they remain today. You could say the same for Cher and Ken. However, there were also passing fads filling the toy store shelves in 1976, action figures for trendy television characters.
Here are 10 of the hottest toys that hit stores in the Bicentennial year.
1. The Cher Doll
Who had the power to outsell Barbie in '76? Super diva Cher, of course. Mego's posable, long-haired Cher was the best-selling doll of that year. Fashion designer Bob Mackie created the toy's wardrobe. Sunburn Sonny sold separately.
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2. Stretch Armstrong
The hottest figure of '76 was undoubtedly Kenner's Stretch Armstrong, the rubbery blond muscle man in the black Speedo. Pumped full of corn syrup, the latex-skinned stud hit toy stores in the Bicentennial. The craze had died by the end of the decade, though his counterpart, Stretch Monster, came out in 1978.
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3. Bionic Woman Wrist Radio
The Bionic Woman made her television debut at the start of the year, and soon toy stores were filled with Bionic Woman everything. There was a doll, complete with outfits like demin pantsuit and tennis apparel; a Dome House; a Bionic Beauty and Repair Station; and this nifty wrist radio. What better way to listen to one-hit wonders like Starland Vocal Band? Take that, Apple!
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4. Muhammad Ali Boxing Ring Set
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots met rope-a-dope when the Greatest launched his Boxing Ring playset. As the fine print stated: Figures not included. Those awesome little Alis and Joe Fraziers would cost you more than the $17.99 retail price for the ring.
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5. The Green Machine
Big Wheels and Hot Cycles were ubiquitous, but the Green Machine was a rare and cherished beast. Originally sold by Marx (and now manufactured by Huffy) this sweet, "low-slung" tyke trike swerved with stick steering on the rear wheels. Riding one felt like operating a futuristic cycle.
6. Now-Look Ken
Ken's stiff blond locks got a very of-the-era upgrade with this brunette "dry look." That blow-out perfectly matched his camel-colored leisure suit.
7. Star Trek Phaser Battle Game
Though the series was a decade old, and though a big-screen return was still a few years off, Star Trek continued to sell. And for quite a cost. The asking price of $49.88 (about $200 in today's cash) was rather steep for zapping red silhouettes of Klingon ships. The game play was not unlike the field vision tests at your optomistrist.
8. Snoopy Scooter Shooter
Evel Knievel was cool, and his stunt bike was the hot toy of the early '70s, but did that daredevil have a cute bird as his co-pilot? Nope. After launching a few Snoopys off the ramp, you were probably hungry for a Snoopy Sno-Cone from the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine. Though that toy was not introduced until 1979.
9. J. J. Arms
Now here is a hard one to explain to younger generations. J. J. Arms was (and still is) a real-life private detective with metal hooks for hands. The amputee appeared on television and earned his own toy line. The '70s were wonderfully eclectic.
10. Fairchild Channel F
Before Nintendo, before Atari, before them all, there was Fairchild's Channel F "Video Entertainment System." This home gaming console was the first cartridge-based system offered to the American public. When Atari launched the following year, Fairchild renamed its machine. In 1976, this TV arcade would set you back $149.95, with the "video-carts" running an extra $19.95 each. Dropping nearly a grand for some virtual backgammon seems rather insane today.


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|The love birds of this story.
It is time for a love story.
This love story was once known as wide as the world was then. But the world is wider now and it thinks wiser. In fact, it is no wiser now than then. Just more cynical and judgmental. So it is good to remember great loves of yore.
This is a true story and so, though it begins with "once upon a time," we can fix that time to about 400 years BCE.
The story starts in a place not too far from here: Milas, Turkey. Or Mylassa as it was known then.
There, a girl was born. A princess. Every great love story has to have a princess. She was born to Hecatomnus, a great ruler. He was a satrap, as they were called.
Satraps were governors of the Persian Empire. This was at a time when the Persian Empire was vast and vibrant. It stretched to the borders of India in the east, it included Saudi Arabia and Egypt to the south, and north into parts of modern day Russia.
The Persian Empire ended at the shores of modern day Turkey. Across the Aegean was their cantankerous neighbor (Which neighbors weren't back then?) and sometimes enemy, Greece.
Greatness is created by friction, by conquering challenges, by being amidst great discord and creating therefrom great opportunity. And it was on this border of two great nations that Hecatomnus ruled.
He was a clever general and an even smarter diplomat. He was ordered to build an army and subdue an uprising in Cyprus. He had ships built and went to war at sea, but lost the battle. Later, it was rumored, he had funded his enemy's war coffers.
But his loyalty was never questioned and despite the defeat, he was awarded a substantial overlordship of the largest Greek settlement in Asia Minor.
Hecatomnus was fascinated by Greek culture, even while he fought them by land and by sea. Perhaps what propelled him to greatness is that with one hand, he saluted the Persian Empire and with the other shook hands with the Greek people. A practice in diplomacy that might do the powers of today some good.
Hecatomnus had four children. Two daughters and two sons. One was the princess of our story.
Her name was Artemisia, a name whose meaning derives from the Greek meaning of "Great Mother of Nature." To be exact, she was Artemisia II. Her father had named her after a great queen: Artemisia I who lived about 100 years before.
This was no mere arbitrary choice.
Artemisia the First performed so admirably as the only female commander for the Persian king Xerxes in a battle against the Greeks that Xerxes presented her with a jar. That jar was handed down through lineage and ended up in the hands of Hecatomnus.
Hecatomnus had such grand hopes for his daughter that, in addition to bestowing his daughter with the name of Artemisia, he gave her the jar as well.
We can assume that Artemisia was raised strictly but with lack of want. Surely, she would have been trained in combat and military strategy. She would have learned several languages, math and geography, and we know for a fact that she was a scholar of botany and medicine. For our story, we are going to imagine her as beautiful. Long black hair, which she would braid for battle. Smooth, defined facial features which she would work to her advantage. Woe betide the arrogant politician who confused her beauty with lack of brains.
For such a daughter of promise, Hecatomnus arranged a marriage. It was the only way to ensure the family's dynasty and his vicarious dreams for his daughter.
Luckily for Artemisia, she loved the man chosen for her. He was strong and he was handsome. This we don't have to imagine. There remains a statue of him. His name was Mausolus.
Certainly, just as important as his long, wavey hair and his trim, stylish beard, he was smart. Mausolus was a brave soldier of the highest rank.
He even had the diplomatic intuition of her father: Mausolus made good friends with the Spartan king Agesilaus. He had a "xenia" with him; a formal acknowledgement of mutual hospitality. How he achieved this is not quite known, but in order to have created this xenia, the two must have met and bonded.
Finally, this brave, smart commander was destined to succeed her father, Hecatomnus.
In almost every way, Mausolus was like her father. And why shouldn't he: Mausolus was Hecatomnus's son, the brother of Artemisia.
This marriage of siblings was the marriage arranged for them. This marriage was also both of their deepest desires.
Soon after the death of their father, the couple moved their headquarters from Mylasa to Halicarnassus, or, as it's known today: Bodrum, this town in which Jennifer and I are now living.
They had considerable challenges as new rulers. To the south, Egypt had gained independence and the Persian king wanted it back. To the north, the ever-troubling Cadusians were waging rebellion again.
With the Persian king's desire for control, ever-greater authority was granted to Mausolus and Artemisia. Greece became nervous that Mausolus and other satraps would use their newfound power to independently invade Greece.
While the brilliant couple kept Greece guessing, they built their empire at home. They reinforced Halicarnassus and glorified the city with marble and statues. This was a lively city back then with a Roman-style amphitheater, an active harbor and trade probably much like the modern day Thursday and Friday markets of today.
The couple spread the wealth to other cities as well. In particular, he fortified and rebuilt Greek cities. Always a clever strategy in winning the hearts and minds of your weary neighbor. Mausolus' success in war and diplomacy in his region of Persia made him so powerful and so independent that he became a sort of king himself. He was signing treaties and in some references was actually called king.
The two were busy, to be sure. But let's imagine the lovers' evenings. This part of the world can be truly magical. The waters are so clear you can see down 20 feet and count the minnows. The air is so pure it seems as if it springs from a well. Growing on trees are mandarins, pomegranates, apples, pears, and olives.
Artemisia and Mausolus would have reclined on a couch, overlooking the Mediterranean bay, feeding each other slices of juicy mandarin. Playing as if they were the first and only lovers in a game of senses. The setting sun would be steeping the white city in sanguine hues of pomegranates and passion.
"It could only ever have been you," he would say.
"It was always and will ever be you," she would whisper back.
But as soon as they exchanged those words, they began to echo in Artemisia's mind.
Ever? Would she be able to enjoy his love for ever and ever? She said it would always be him. But how could she make sure.
The next morning, while Mausolus was in conference with his advisors, she called her own council.
"I want a tomb built for Mausolus in Halicarnassus. I want you to employ the best Greek architects. I want it to be understood that this tomb will be and ever be the most grand tomb to protect and honor the everlasting soul of my husband and your ruler."
And so it was designed.
A tribute in marble that was massive and solid. The designs presented to her showed a tomb grander than any ever built.
"Not enough!" was Artemisias' response. She was consumed now, by the urge to impress upon her brother, her husband, her lover the depth, the near-pain of her love for him and everything for which he stood.
The architects showed her new designs. They doubled the height. On top of the tomb was a new level. It had ten columns on every side of the square tomb. In between each column was a statue. At the ground level, the base was widened; a stairway was created up to the tomb. The stairway was flanked by lions. The walls had bas reliefs, depicting scenes, for example, of the battle of the centaurs with the lapiths, and Greeks in combat with Amazons.
"Not enough!" screeched Artemisias as she dashed the drawings from the table.
She was becoming ever more desperate. What was she feeling? That the weight of marble in balance with the heart is never enough? Or was it the impending finality of legacy?
Her conflict was this: If permanence is achieved more securely through matter than word of mouth, then how much matter grants how much permanence?
The architects returned. They added a new level of equal height to the last two. This one was a pyramid, with steps narrowing to a platform. On top of the platform was over-life-sized chariot drawn by four horses. Inside the chariot rode the figures of Mausolus and Artemisias.
|No one knows exactly what the Mausoleum looked like. No sketches remained. Only a few descriptions by travelers is all we have. So there are a few renderings, but all are based on few facts and mostly imagination.
Presented with this, Artemisias looked at the chariot, focused on Mausolus and fell silent. Whoever had drawn this had done a superb job of rendering his strong jawline, his bold face, his thick wavy hair.
She fell silent. And workers in the hills fell into mining marble.
Then, one day, the feared inevitable happened. Mausolus died. Her lover. Her husband. Her brother. The son of her father. Her life.
She retreated into the room overlooking the Mediterranean and had the construction begin.
Her enemies tried to take advantage of her mourning. They attacked. But they underestimated her. The protected harbor she and Mausolus had built and her cunning in warfare proved them fatally wrong. She defeated the attacks. And with that victory earned herself the title of Queen Artemisias II.
But at night, she could not avoid the defeat she felt in her heart. She mourned as passionately as she had loved. She sat on the couches overlooking the Mediterranean. She turned toward the pitcher of water placed next to her. She poured herself a glass of water. From her pocket, or perhaps it was from a vile she wore as necklace, or some marble box she would refill on secret, moonlit visits to the tomb, she scooped a spoon full of her brother's ashes, mixed them into her drink and swallowed him. Imbibed him. Brought Mausolus back to life by making his ashes her body.
Every day, she drank her love, her brother, her family, back into herself.
Was it the ashes or the grief which killed her? We cannot know, but merely two years after Mausollus' death, her body was burned as well and her ashes placed in the tomb.
The work she had architects begun, continued. They were so impressed with the tomb she had commissioned, they continued at no pay. Just for the honor and glory of being part of such a massive monument to love.
Soon word spread. All throughout the known world, travelers came to see the tomb to Mausolus. It became known as the Mausoleum.
And so are all grand tombs known today. So who is to say that her insistence on marble instead of words wasn't the exact right way to immortalize their love?
In fact, so well known became the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus that it became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
And yet, ironically, in full circle, barely anyone can remember any of them. And I wonder how many can name the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
To add insult to injury, the Mausoleum no longer exists. Alexander the Great got to admire it when he invaded the city 20 years after the siblings died. And it is known that it stood for over a thousand years from various reports surviving from those days. But sometime in the 13th century, it suffered major damage from an earthquake.
When the Knights of St. John arrived in 1402, it was already in ruins and the knights pillaged the site for decorative reliefs and building blocks for their castle.
Every 25 or 50 years, another addition was built onto the castle and the Mausoleum was raided again until nothing was left but the foundation.
Surrounding residents took their share of the stones as well, every time they built a house. In fact, Tina and Hermann, who are renting their home to us are convinced that some of the large marble blocks in their courtyard could only have come from the site, which is only a few streets away. How else, they ask, would such huge, fine pieces of marble end up in an otherwise brick and mortar home?
Sometime, on a sunny day -- it is about sixty degrees here during the day this time of year -- I will sit on one of those stones in th courtyard. With me, I'll have a collection of poetry and I will look up something by Edna St. Vincent Millay. She is the literary chanteuse of passion. I will read and let myself be transported.
Sometime, on a sunny day -- it is about sixty degrees here during the day this time of year -- I will sit on one of those stones in th courtyard. With me, I'll have a collection of poetry and I will look up something by Edna St. Vincent Millay. She is the literary chanteuse of passion. I will read and let myself be transported.
Perhaps this one:
And you as well must die, belovèd dust,
And all your beauty stand you in no stead;
This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head,
This body of flame and steel, before the gust
Of Death, or under his autumnal frost,
Shall be as any leaf, be no less dead
Than the first leaf that fell, this wonder fled,
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.
In spite of all my love, you will arise
Upon that day and wander down the air
Obscurely as the unattended flower,
It mattering not how beautiful you were,
Or how belovèd above all else that dies.


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"Creativity is a little like alchemy — it's equal parts fact and fiction, pragmatism and mysticism. What's bizarre is that it's often through the most repetitive, simple, seemingly mindless actions that the magic of creativity erupts."
— Carol Lloyd in "Creating a Life Worth Living"
When we are developing as artists in our respected fields, the initial steps is learning the basics and practicing them over and over again. Whether it is scales on the piano, the perfect pitch down the middle of the plate, drafting a business plan or the fundamentals of essay writing. For me, it is sitting down at the laptop and writing SOMETHING every day.
It is through the daily practice, rituals that we have instituted to guide us to our muse, that we lay the foundation for creativity to burst forth. According to Lloyd, "you will learn to be in the present, wait for the ideas, appreciate your daily life and feel the adventure you are living now."
Establishing a routine or a launch pad for your daily creative endeavors is like turning your "closed" sign around to "open" to begin a work day in a store. It is a shift in the gears to say, "Let's begin." This launch pad can be writing in a journal, having your morning coffee while watching the sunset, playing with your cat or meditation. It should be something that opens the door for self-reflection and a start to your day. It's the routine part of the practice that fuels the creative burst.
My favorite example of this is the opening lyrics of one of my favorite classic rock songs, "More Than a Feeling" by Boston.
"I woke up this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away"
According to the group's website, "More Than a Feeling" is about the "power an old song can have in your life." The lyrics express the author's discontent with the gray skies and how turning on "music to start my day" can evoke a memory. While the memory was of a lost love, you can see how one can use tools in their world to spark a feeling, a thought or even a song.
What is your creative routine? What is your unique mixture of routine and creative passion?


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Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893–1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets—soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
Year of the Locust A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past
The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
-Lesley Poles Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
I fought the English troops at Gallipoli for an Ottoman country that no longer exists-even though I continued living on the same land.
-Umbashi Muhammad Ali Awad, Palestinian officer in the Ottoman army from the village of Anabta who fought in Suez and in Gallipoli
Soldiers' diaries, particularly those from World War I, have been a constant reminder of the horrors of war. A large stock of such memoirs have reached us from the ranks of the Allied forces, particularly from British, French, American, and Anzac soldiers, as well as from Austrian and German soldiers fighting for the Central powers. Much less material has been available from the Ottoman side, particularly from the Syrian provinces. This book analyzes the Great War from the perspective of three ordinary soldiers who fought on the Ottoman side, as expressed in the newly found diary of Private Ihsan Turjman and journal of Lieutenant Aref Shehadeh, both of Jerusalem, as well as in the published Turkish diary of Mehmet (Muhammad) Faqih of Mersin. It explores two important ways in which the Great War impacted the Ottoman Empire. First, it examines how the experience of the war transformed the consciousness and the living conditions of the people of the Arab East (Ottoman Syria)-a shift that historians sometimes describe as the onset of Arab modernity. Second, it looks at what Falih Rifki, the Ottoman essayist and modernist, called-with the benefit of hindsight-the "Turkish problem" in Syria: namely the inability of Ottoman constitutional reform to create a multiethnic domain in which the Syria (including Palestine) would become an integral part of the empire. The crucial time for both these transformations was the short but critical six-year period between the constitutional revolution of 1908, with its project for a representative, multiethnic state, and the collapse of this project under the dictatorial regime of Jamal Pasha.
While the events discussed in the diary in the second part of this book center in the city of Jerusalem and show the war's impact on the urban population, they also had a significant impact on the region as a whole. Jerusalem, we have to remember, was the administrative and political center of a huge Ottoman province, the Mutasarflik of al Quds al Sharif, which comprised more than half of what became Mandate Palestine. Its ashraf and notables were a critical elite with a major influence on Ottoman policy in Istanbul as well as in Jaffa, Hebron, and other regional centers. The devastation felt by the city during the war-food shortages, disease, pauperization, and mass deportation-was repeated throughout the region in various degrees. The city was the crucible in which the breakdown in the normative system, and the subsequent rupture with the region's Ottoman past, was first experienced; from there, the turmoil engulfed the rest of the country.
The hero of our story is Ihsan Hasan Turjman (1893-1917), a common soldier in the Ottoman military headquarters in Jerusalem. His life was short and uneventful-he served as a clerk in the Manzil (Commissariat) and briefly as a foot soldier in Nablus and Hebron-but his observations on the impact of military events on his relationship to his city and his nation are without parallel. The power of wartime diaries lies in their exposure of the texture of daily life, long buried in the political rhetoric of nationalist discourse, and in their restoration of a world that has been hidden by subsequent denigration of the Ottoman past-the life of communitarian alleys, obliterated neighborhoods, heated political debates projecting possibilities that no longer exist, and the voices of street actors silenced by elite memoirs: soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. By the third year of the war, the diaries of such ordinary soldiers project a desperate search for normalcy in daily life-a normalcy that was experienced in prewar Ottoman Palestine but seemed to elude its citizens for the next hundred years.
The Great War brought about a radical break with the Ottoman past in the whole Arab East, not only in the established constitutional regime but also in the system of governance, local administration, and identity politics. In the popular memory of peasants and city folk alike, 1915 was the Year of the Locust (?am al Jarad). Even four generations later, the locust invasion continues to evoke the combined memory of natural disasters and the manmade devastation of war. These events erased four centuries of a rich and complex Ottoman patrimony in which popular narratives of war and nationalist ideology colluded. An anti-Ottoman rewriting of history took place simultaneously, and in the same abrupt manner, both on the Turkish side (in the guise of modernizing the state and making it geographically manageable) and on the Arab side (in the sustained annals of nationalist historiography). The erasure replaced four centuries of relative peace and dynamic activity, the Ottoman era, with what was known in Arabic discourse as "the days of the Turks": four miserable years of tyranny symbolized by the military dictatorship of Ahmad Jamal Pasha in Syria, seferberlek (forced conscription and exile), and the collective hanging of Arab patriots in Beirut's Burj Square on August 15, 1916.
This book deals with the totalizing and transformative nature of the Great War. The war was totalizing not only in the manner in which it molded soldiers' work and living habits but also in its impact on the daily lives of civilians, creating an atmosphere of continued panic and uncertainty and disrupting daily patterns of behavior. This anxiety often took the form of persistent concern about food, clothing, and the availability of essential commodities such as kerosene and tobacco, as well as fear of arbitrary army actions (arrest, transfer of populations, and conscription of older people as the war progressed). This period also saw the first systematic censorship of the press and of people's private mail.
In a related process, the Great War had transformative effects on social norms. In the absence of adult male household members-who either were conscripted or perished at the front-many families suffered extreme poverty, famine, and disease. People were driven to drastic measures that undermined traditional normative behavior. Begging, theft, and prostitution became daily features in the streets of Jerusalem. The war ultimately helped redefine the nature of the state and its relationship to its subjects. In Palestine the war was a watershed that separated the country from its Syrian expanses and brought British colonial rule, creating new borders, new citizenship, and new forms of national consciousness.
About the Book
"A must-read for both researchers and the general reading public. Both the familiar reader and the new visitor to the subject can learn a lot about a crucial period in the modern history of Palestine."—This Week In Palestine
"Tamari's reproduction of the diary in English, the extensive context that he provides, and his analysis . . . comprise a major contribution to the field of social and cultural history of twentieth-century Palestine."—Arab Studies Journal
"This book is an impressively thoughtful, layered, and well-documented study of key aspects of a pivotal moment in the evolution of modern Palestinian society. . . . A precise and well-done history."—Farid M. Al-Salim Middle East Journal
"The value and significance of the volume to scholars and students of the late Ottoman period and early Palestinian national history is without question. . . . The writing is compelling and engaging, thanks to Tamari's artful, smooth translation. . . . Reading Turjman's diary brings . . . real pleasure."—Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University Jrnl Of Palestine Studies
"An unparalleled window into everyday life in [Jerusalem during the First World War]."—William Armstrong Hurriyet Daily News"This remarkable book provides us with unfiltered access to a long-gone world in the form of the World War I diary of a young Palestinian soldier from Jerusalem. Salim Tamari's introduction masterfully examines the revelations provided by this and other wartime diaries. This rich portrait of the massive changes that transformed Palestine during the war, the first of many during the 20th century, will be a revelation to most readers."
"Both a gripping personal account of three little known years in Palestinian history and a rich reconstruction of the enormous social changes taking place in Jerusalem during World War I."
—Roger Owen, author of State and Power and Politics in the Middle East
"Nothing underscores the Ottoman Empire's bifurcated and contradictory position as both empire and target of European colonialism as eloquently as the Arab soldiers' diaries ably discussed by Salim Tamari, who presents one such diary in detail. Spanning a broad spectrum of issues, from war horrors to national awakening, from regional politics to gender relations, this first-hand account of World War I by a young enlisted Palestinian is an important contribution to the ongoing Arab reassessment of the Ottoman past."
—Irvin Cemil Schick, Istanbul Sehir University
"Tamari's remarkable sleuthing makes available, for the first time, the private writings of Ihsan Hasan Turjman, a common soldier in the Ottoman army and an astute observer of the multifaceted changes triggered by the war. Lucid, rich, and deeply insightful, Year of the Locust not only illuminates the fluid nature of personal and collective identity in this critical period of Palestine's history, but also resonates widely with people's experiences in other regions within the Ottoman Empire."
—Sibel Zandi-Sayek, author of Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880
Table of Contents
List of Figures
1. The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine
2. The Diary of Ihsan Turjman


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 Wizard |skills = Vast mastery of Magic
 Ability to create doubles of himself
 Ability to turn himself and other people into a painting
 '''Later in the story:'''
 Gains Ganon's God-like Dark Powers |hobby = Watching beautiful things (mostly the paintings that he makes out of people). |goals = Gain the Triforce and become a God (succeeded, but then later failed)
 Rewrite the universe following his own designs (failed). |crimes = Metamorphosis of victims into paintings
 Murders, assaults and attacks
 Abduction of the sages to resurrect Ganon
 High treason to Princess Hilda and Lorule
 Attempted take-over of the universe |type of villain = Magical God-Wannabe}} {{Quote|A fiend? How easily you stoop to petty insults. My name is '''Yuga'''. And I have come here seeking nothing less then... ''perfection''.|Yuga introduces himself to Link.}} {{Quote|What, have you come to challenge me again? I don't have time to coddle would-be heroes. But since you insist...I will oblige.|Yuga to Link}} '''Yuga''' is the main antagonist in ''The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds''. He is the counterpart to [[Ganondorf]] in Hyrule's sister world Lorule. He pretends to work for [[Princess Hilda]] until the end of the game, where he fuses with [[Ganon]] and betrays her, intending to take over the universe. ==Biography== ===Background=== Yuga worked as a high-ranking adviser to Princess Hilda for many years, alongside Ravio, Link's counterpart in Lorule. As Hilda was struggling to prevent the destruction of her dying kingdom, she eventually discovered that Lorule needs a Triforce to sustain itself. Indeed, in the beginning of time, the Loruleans destroyed their own Triforce to stop the wars for its control that almost destroyed their world. Yuga ventured into the Lorulean Sacred Realm and discovered the existence of Hyrule and its Triforce. Hilda and Yuga then decided to steal the Hylian Triforce and restore Lorule to its former glory (though Yuga had more selfish reasons). However, Ravio disapproved of their plan and left, hoping to find someone brave enough to stop their ambition. Yuga then heads to Hyrule and sets into motion the conflicts between both worlds. ===''A Link Between Worlds''=== [[File:Yuga art.png|thumb|Yuga in ''A Link Between Worlds''.]] Yuga is first seen in the Sanctuary, where he abducts the Priest's daughter Seres by turning her into a painting, after effortlessly defeating the Captain of the Guard. He is confronted by Link but he avoids his strikes by turning into a wall painting, leaving him to knock himself out on the wall, and departs. Link and Yuga meet again in the Eastern Palace, where he turns Sage Sahasrahla's disciple Osfala into a painting and abducts him. He reveals that he is after the descendants of the Seven Sages who sealed Ganon into the Dark World. (In this timeline, Ganon killed Link during the final battle of ''Ocarina of Time'', forcing the Seven Sages to banish him themselves.) Yuga plans to use them in order to revive Ganon, who was sealed prior to the game. Link battles Yuga and emerges victorious, but the revengeful wizard turns him into a painting and leaves him here. However, Link gained a magic bracelet from Ravio that enables him to turn back to normal and to become a painting at will. Yuga then casts a spell that makes impossible to enter or exit Hyrule Castle, keeping Princess Zelda at his mercy, and sets out to abduct all the descendants of the Seven Sages. With them all in his power, he returns to the castle and turns Zelda into a painting, only to be confronted once again by Link, who gained the Master Sword and used it to enter the castle. Link defeats the soldier-monsters that Yuga conjured from paintings to stall him, and defeats him once again. [[File:YuGanon.PNG|thumb|left|250px|Yuga Ganon]] Furious, Yuga retreats to Lorule and proceeds to resurrect Ganon through the Seven Sages' descendants' power and merges with him, becoming [[Yuga Ganon]]. Yuga Ganon scatters the paintings of the descendants all over Lorule, within dungeons guarded by powerful monsters, and attacks Link who followed him. Yuga Ganon overwhelms Link with a shockwave of reddish black dark energy. Just as Yuga Ganon is about to strike down Link, Princess Hilda appears and restrains him with her magic. She then sends Link to collect the Sages in order to gain the Triforce of Courage, and become powerful enough to face Yuga Ganon. However, it is revealed when Link returns to Lorule Castle with the Triforce of Courage that Princess Hilda manipulated him to gain the Triforce for herself. She takes the Triforce of Wisdom from Zelda's painting and calls forth Yuga Ganon to take the final Triforce from Link. After Link defeats Yuga Ganon, Hilda demands him to hand over the Triforce of Power but the demon wizard reveals his plan to seize the Triforce for himself to remake all worlds in his image. He then proceeds to turn Hilda into a painting, which he absorbs to steal the Triforce of Wisdom. [[File:Yuganon2.png|thumb|right|250px|YuGanon, with the Triforce of Wisdom.]] Now having two pieces of the Triforce (and a new look), he sets his sights on Link's last piece to claim his "place among the gods". Still, Yuga Ganon is finally destroyed by Link, sending Ganon's soul back to the Dark World. Ravio then barges in and convinces Hilda that they cannot doom Hyrule even with Lorule at stake, for this destructive conflict is exactly what Hilda's ancestors wanted to prevent by destroying their Triforce. Overcome by remorse and sadness, Hilda returns Link and Zelda to Hyrule, where they promptly wish to their Triforce to restore the Triforce of Lorule, saving both worlds. ===''Hyrule Warriors''=== [[File:Yuga (Zelda).jpg|thumb|left|250px]] Yuga is a playable character in ''Hyrule Warriors Legends'', the extension of the popular cross-over of ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Dynasty Warriors''. However, he plays no part in the game's storyline and is here as an appeal to fans. He fights with a painting frame, which he levitates with his signature his paintbrush-staff, imbued with the Lightning Element. In spite of his unusual weapon, he is very fast and powerful and can prove deadly when used right. [[File:Yuga (Hyrule Warriors Legends).jpg|thumb|right|250px]] He attacks by swinging his painting frame to strike diagonally, or to make it whirl around him in a boomerang-like fashion, and can conjure up to three painting frames as projectiles that cause blasts of energy. He can conjure a rune that paralyses the enemies trapped in to strike them with thunderbolts, conjure up to four fire blasts around him from the ground at once, and conjure Yuga Ganon's trident from paintings to blast his foes with devastating lightning attacks. ===''Super Smash Bros.''=== ====''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U''==== While Yuga himself doesn't appear at all in any capacity of the game, Ganondorf has a palette swap that resembles Yuga's color scheme. Music associated with Yuga-Ganon's Battle (Hyrule Castle), is also present in the Wii U version of the game. ====''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''==== Yuga appears in ''Ultimate'' as a primary shield-type Spirit. He can be obtained by either defeating him in a "World of Light" exclusive Spirit Battle, which is against an Inkling and a second, larger Inkling once the first is defeated, both having increased power to their Splat Rollers, or by summoning him using cores from Vince, Gharnef, and any neutral-type. ==Personality== Yuga is extremely conceited, self-absorbed, and scornful. He despises almost everything and everyone besides himself, regarding them as inferior and ugly. He considers himself perfect and never hesitates to trample everything he does not like, considering turning people into paintings an improvement. The only one he seems to respect is Princess Hilda and still, he regards her as a tool. He acts in a regal and dignified way, which is contrasted by the spiteful insults he directs towards everyone he talks to, including those who bested him in battle. More than everything, Yuga is treacherous and power-hungry. He only obeys Hilda because it serves his own agenda and betrays her as soon as he no longer needs it. His narcissism and disgust for the world are such that he wants to become a god and remake everything in his own image. He is also quite cowardly, as he always flees when defeated while stating to be "bored" instead of admitting defeat. He even tends to stomp his foot when he pitches a fit, when Link manages to hit him with his sword enough times in battle. While Yuga betrays Hilda after merging with Ganon, and while his ultimate goal is very similar to that of Ganon himself, the game keeps referring to him as Yuga, making it quite clear that he remains in complete control. Indeed, he keeps calling Link "worm" and keeps raving about beauty and ugliness after merging, and Ganon's influence only shows in his newfound liking for destruction. Moreover, reading Ravio's journal in Hero Mode confirms that Yuga always intended to betray Hilda and remake the worlds in his image. ==Powers and Abilities== Yuga is a highly powerful wizard, whose power comes from a staff that emits rainbow colored paint-like energy, making it look like a paintbrush. His signature ability is to turn people, himself included, into two-dimensional paintings. However, anyone turned into a painting becomes unable to move, while this allows him to merge with the walls and "live" in there just like in the real world. He is also able to create paintings on the wall around him, bring paintings into existence, materializing the things drawn and animate life-like portraits, to raise impenetrable barriers, to travel between dimensions, to create replicas of himself, to make things levitate, to call forth servants and to cast a wide variety of attack spells. He is also repeatedly shown to be able to absorb the bodies of others along with their Tri-force, which he uses to gain Ganon's Tri-Force and powers as well as to steal the Tri-Force of wisdom from Hilda. He seemingly must Subdue them first, as he is shown turning Hilda into a painting before absorbing her. it is unknown whether gaining a piece of the Tri-force is necessary for this process. After merging with Ganon, Yuga gains Ganon's incredible strength, fighting skills and dark power, increasing his might dramatically. Yuga's staff turns into Ganon's iconic trident and he gains even more dangerous attack spells. He becomes able to teleport, and use the energy of darkness. His power increases even more after stealing the Triforce of Wisdom, so he gains even more powers like levitation, energy balls and the invocation of inflamed butterflies, but fortunately this is still not enough to defeat Link. ===Boss Battles=== ====Eastern Palace==== The first battle against Yuga is pretty easy. The wizard is fought in a room with a large chasm in its centre. He conjures a lightning blast from the wall before him, summons two soldier-monsters, and turns into a painting to escape as soon as Link gets too close. (Destroying the soldiers provides health or items.) Link must keep away from the chasm and fire at Yuga with his bow to stun him, so as to slash him with his sword or keep firing arrows until he awakes. The more Link wounds him, the faster Yuga becomes, and he will start to cast two lightning spells at once. ====Hyrule Castle==== Yuga can pose quite the challenge here, so it is best to be prepared. Like [[Agahnim]], he creates two doubles of himself to fight, and the three of them alternate between their normal aspect and their painting transformation to confuse him. Yuga and his doubles attack at the same time, by conjuring his lightning blast, by making fiery blasts erupt from the walls in succession and by summoning soldier-monsters. (Link can exit the lightning blast's area of effect before it is cast, or hide behind one of the two pillars. Once again, destroying the soldiers provides health or items.) Link must track down the real wizard (the one with the glowing staff) in and out the paintings. Striking Yuga stuns him and leaves him open to attacks. Striking a double turns it into a soldier-monster that must be dealt with and prompts Yuga to attack, but he will restore both doubles upon emerging back from the wall. The more Link wounds him, the faster Yuga becomes, and the bigger his spells' range gets, making them harder to dodge.) ==Trivia== *Yuga is very likely the Lorulian counterpart of [[Ganondorf]], as both of them are Gerudo males and have ambitions to obtain the Triforce and rule the world. However, while Ganondorf is muscular and relies on his own magic, Yuga is quite feeble and relies on his magic staff. ==External links== *[[w:c:Pure-Evil-Wiki:Yuga|Yuga on the Pure Evil Wiki]] ==Navigation== {{Zelda Villains}} [[de:Yuga]] Templates used on the current version of this page: Template:! (view source) (protected)Template:PE Approved (view source) (protected)Template:Quote (view source) (protected)Template:Underline (view source) Template:Villain Infobox (view source) (protected)Template:Zelda Villains (view source) Return to Yuga (Zelda). Retrieved from "https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Yuga_(Zelda)" Edit summary Preview Mobile Desktop Show changes


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Scene: A 3-storey Victorian terraced house in Lancaster, in the North West of England, looking towards Lancaster Castle and with the hills of the Lake District visible in the distance to the North.
Our hero (why not?), balding, slim, spectacled (Aldi £2.49) sits at a pineish dining table in the living room, fingers poised over a tiny netbook. Sitting on an old Ikea bentwood chair to the side of him is the interviewer. Taking a notebook and pen from a large and serious-looking leather bag the interviewer turns towards our hero and says:
Interviewer: So, tell me Kevin, what are you reading at the moment?
Our Hero: (turning and removing spectacles) Well, Michael, I've just finished reading …..
Interviewer: Let me stop you there, Kevin. You just called me Michael.
OH: That's right, Michael.
I: But my name isn't Michael.
OH: (Puzzled) Sorry. I thought all interviewers were called Michael.
I: Not this one.
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assitance, class, debt, employment, entitlement, Food, Food Stamps, Healthcare, job, middle, Politics, poor, Poverty, SNAP, taxpayer, Wal-Mart, Walmart, Welfare, working
Fact: "In December 2006 the Tacoma News Tribune reported that new numbers from the state showed that Wal-Mart still accounted for the largest number of workers receiving benefits from the state's Medicaid and Basic Health plan. The number for Wal-Mart was 3,194–far ahead of number two McDonald's with 1,932."
Fact: "In March 2006 the Philadelphia Inquirer published a report on data it obtained from the Department of Public Welfare on the percentage of workers enrolled in Medicaid at the ten largest employers in the state. Wal-Mart was at the top of the list, with 15.8 percent of its workforce (7,577 individuals) enrolled. Giant Food Stores was second with 11.8 percent (2,244 workers)."
– full list of states from goodjobsfirst.org
Claim: "Paying Wal-Mart workers a living wage more would kill jobs and/or raise prices unsustainably."
Video: What if Wal-Mart paid employees enough to avoid food stamps?
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Question: Man! I just found out about your Veronica Mars Armchair Casting Couch Director challenge and am so upset I missed my chance to cast my vote for Jimmy Kimmel. Oh well but give it up: Who won?
Answer: After tallying all 1,042 votes, Falcon Crest's Lance Cumson won by a mere chest hair. Here's the final breakdown:
Lorenzo Lamas: 25%
James Marsters: 23%
David Hasselhoff: 17%
Corbin Bernsen (with a rug): 13%
Don Swayze (brother of Patrick): 7%
Andy Hallett: 5%
A. Martinez: 4%
Rick Springfield: 3%
Chris Sarandon: 2%
Others receiving multiple votes: Rob Lowe, Tim Daly, Adam Baldwin, Michael Ausiello (I love you guys!), Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Ontkean, Kato Kaelin, Dale Midkiff, Jeremy Piven, Mark Hamill, Peter Reckell and BSG's Richard Hatch. Now for the $4 million question: Will exec producer Rob Thomas go with AA readers' first choice, Lamas, or pull a Buffy trifecta and side with runner-up Marsters? Or might he pick someone else altogether? Well, I just sent him this list yesterday, so give the poor guy a few days to make some phone calls. I'll (hopefully) have an update for you in next week's AA. Thanks to everyone who played!


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Far East Hospitality Trust Latest DPU up 3.1%
Far East Hospitality Trust should not be new to readers here as I've blogged about this stock on several occasions. I first wrote about investing in the hospitality industry back in April 2017 in this post. I went on to invest in CDL Htrust and Far East Htrust thereafter. Both have been performing well since then and providing good and stable dividends for the past few years.
Let's focus on Far East Htrust. This company has done well in its latest results which prompted CIMB, OCBC and DBS to write and cover the stock the past few days. Net property income went up 13.9% Q on Q with DPU up 3.1%. With this good set of DPU, dividend yield is now about 6.5% for this stock.
For hospitality stocks, it is important to look at the RevPAR which is the revenue per available room. For Far East Htrust hotels segment, this has gone up 7.5% due to an uptick in overall market demand, the positive impact from the addition of Oasia Hotel Downtown to the portfolio and the recent renovation of Orchard Rendezvous Hotel (formerly known as Orchard Parade Hotel). Average occupancy has also increased from 85.4% to 86.2%.
For its serviced residences segment which has not been performing that well previously, there are also signs of improvements where Revenue Per Available Unit (RevPAU) also increased 7.5% and average occupancy increased from 78.2% to 84.3%. This increase was driven by online bookings from the leisure segment.
Far East Htrust has enjoyed 4 quarters of consecutive DPU growth. It is trading at 0.8x price to book value which represents a discount of 20% to book value. I've invested additional 7000 shares in this hospitality trust at $0.61 back in December 2018. Besides the newly acquired Oasia Hotel Downtown, they also just newly opened Outpost hotel at Sentosa which will further strengthen the DPU growth in the future.
|Newly opened outpost hotel Sentosa
I believe Far East Htrust will continue to do well moving forward. In fact, this is just the beginning of its growth story which I've waited 2 years for it to materialise. This stock is now the 2nd largest in my portfolio which is paying good dividends with potential for growth in the near term. Singapore Tourism board also recently released its tourism statistics which shows that visitor arrivals to Singapore has hit an all time high due to the Trump Kim Summit and the release of Hollywood movie, Crazy Rich Asians which was filmed in Singapore. This has put Singapore in a good light and attracted many tourists to come to Singapore for holidays.


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The age at which a person may marry without parental approval. The age at which a female is legally capable of agreeing to sexual intercourse, so that a male who engages in sex with her cannot be prosecuted for Statutory Rape.
A person below the age of consent is sometimes called an infant or minor.


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by Darren Murph,
Could you tell a few auto shows were going on in California? In case you've somehow overlooked it, a number of automakers are showing off some swank new in-car connectivity options, and Dodge is striving to elicit even more fluids from your saliva glands by showing off the Dodge EV. We initially heard about this mythical automobile back in September, and now the very Viper-inspired whip is wowing onlookers in LA. The all-electric plug-in boasts mid-mounted batteries, a 268-horsepower engine, a 150-mile range and a 0 to 60 time of under five seconds. Have a peek at what you'll be attempting to finance "as early as 2010" down in the read link.


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Executive Care founders Mila and Lenny Verkhoglaz ran the home care company for nine years before they launched franchising in 2013. These days, the award-winning brand...
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The much-heralded launch of Centre's newly redesigned website in January was met with great fanfare by users on and off campus. And in less than six months it has already seen its one millionth visitor. By comparison, Centre's site averaged 1.3 million visits during the previous calendar year, while the new site is on pace to reach two million visits in its first year.
Visual and Web Designer Ryan Lanigan joined the communications office in April 2013, bringing with him a wealth of design education and experience, and made redesigning Centre's website his first order of business.
"The main goal of the redesign was to create a site that functioned as an intuitive tool for prospective students to learn more about Centre College," Lanigan says. "To that end, it was important that the site be responsive so that it is easily viewable on mobile devices, as well as the most popular desktop browsers, without compromising our visual standards."
Centre's web presence was rebuilt from the ground up. In the best practice of the day, the College's previous website had been designed around static pages, meaning that the same prebuilt content was generated each time a page loaded. Changing technologies have made possible the use of dynamic content, allowing for web pages to be generated on the fly. Some of the advantages include a much more functional website that is easier to update by users who don't have an extensive knowledge of website development and the ease with which content can be updated. Fresh content brings people back more often and helps with search engine optimization (SEO). Dynamic websites also allow for the use of content management systems (CMS), so that changes can be made globally within and across all documents, keeping content as current as possible.
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Increased visits are a useful indicator of a successful and more navigable web presence, as well as acknowledgement that Centre's prominent position as a national liberal arts college is reaching a broader audience via its website.
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On Improving the NCAA Tourney: Part IPosted by Brad Jenkins (@bradjenk) on March 28th, 2017
Last June the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) empaneled an ad hoc committee whose stated purpose was to provide the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Selection Committee a perspective from men's basketball coaches and their teams regarding selection, seeding and bracketing for the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA has in recent years become increasingly receptive to considering and making changes, and as this year's event reaches its climax, we decided to offer some specific recommendations to bolster the best three weeks in sports. Let's focus today on improvements to the selection and seeding process.
Bye Bye, RPI
Whenever the subject arises of improving the primary metric that the Selection Committee uses, there is one recurring response: Either dump the RPI altogether, or dramatically limit its influence. The good news is that we may finally be headed in that direction. A month after the NABC formed its committee and began communicating with the NCAA, the following statement was made as part of an update on the current NCAA Selection Committee:
The basketball committee supported in concept revising the current ranking system utilized in the selection and seeding process, and will work collaboratively with select members of the NABC ad hoc group to study a potentially more effective composite ranking system for possible implementation no earlier than the 2017-18 season.
Moving away from the RPI as the primary method for sorting teams into composite tiers would be a huge step toward improving the balance of the field. We have heard committee members for years make the point that a school's RPI ranking is just one factor of many on its resume. But then the same committee members turn right around and cite that team's record against the top-50 or top-100 — or its strength of schedule rating — all of which, of course, are derivative of the RPI. That means that the outdated metric is still, even now in an environment of Big Data, a highly significant influence on how teams are judged. The real harm occurs when the RPI results in entire conferences being overrated, which leads to those member institutions likewise being over-seeded. Placing five to seven teams well above their proper seed lines can have a substantial negative impact on the overall balance and corresponding fairness of the entire NCAA Tournament. Here are three recent examples.
In each of the above scenarios, the conference's RPI rating — and therefore the rating of all its members — was considerably higher than the rankings of the two most respected metrics in the business: Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin. When the committee seeded schools from those three conferences, it was clear that they relied too heavily on the RPI's evaluations, placing their teams several slots higher in the bracket than they deserved. And probably not coincidentally, those teams very much underperformed over those three years. In fact, that lousy 4-7 performance from the Pac-12 in the 2016 NCAA Tournament was achieved entirely against lower-seeded opponents. This isn't to say that the Pac-12 wasn't a very good conference that year, but it was obvious to nearly any observer that it didn't boast seven of the nation's top 32 teams (how it was seeded).
The good news is that we appear to be moving away from the RPI-centric model. In late January of this year, representatives of the NCAA hosted a meeting which can be generally described as an NCAA Tournament Analytics Summit. The meeting included some of the best college basketball ratings experts around, including Pomeroy and Sagarin. Pomeroy in particular came away impressed and encouraged about the process that future selection committees may be inclined to use to evaluate and compare teams, and the hope is that a new and improved methodology can be put in place in time for the 2017-18 NCAA Tournament selection process.
Location, Location, Location
Switching to a straight-up composite ranking derived from multiple metrics, however, won't completely fix things. We would also like to see the committee take another step to incorporate game location in its evaluations of selection and seeding. Currently, a school's win-loss record in road and/or neutral-site games is the focus when a team's performance away from home is evaluated, but that fails to consider the strength of those opponents in those particular games. The solution here is to adjust how we rate a team's schedule based on both factors — quality of opponent and location of the game. According to KenPom, beating the 90th-best team on the road is about equally as difficult as defeating the 50th-best team at a neutral site or the 20th-best team at home. So let's just come up with an arbitrary number — maybe 25? — that we add or subtract to an opponent's rating to determine the true difficulty of each game. As an example, if a school plays the 40th-rated team at home, that game becomes adjusted to a difficulty rating of 65. KenPom already does something similar in giving an "A" rating to a game played against a top 25 team after the contest is adjusted for location.
To see how much this could impact things, just look at Oregon State's 2015-16 schedule. Using the RPI as its sorting tool, the committee observed that the Beavers compiled a 4-8 record versus the top 25 teams in college basketball. Had they instead used KenPom's adjusted top 25 — a more accurate assessment of schedule strength — Oregon State's record would have been a less impressive 1-8 against the top 25. And it almost assuredly would have lowered Oregon State's placement on the #7 seed line.
Open Hearts and Minds for the Little Guys
Perhaps the biggest problem for the committee each year is how to assess the teams that play in non-power conferences. With so few opportunities for resume-enhancing wins using the current methodology, those squads are at a distinct disadvantage. The solution is for the committee to consider other evaluation tools when its standard method does not give enough information. For example, here is a situation that occurred during the 2016 selection process.
The committee chose Tulsa and Temple ostensibly because they owned more top-50 wins, but those two teams also had numerous more chances to play top-50 opponents. Since St. Mary's and Valparaiso didn't have those same opportunities, the committee should have utilized another metric to properly consider them. This methodology should also apply to seeding — making Wichita State (KenPom top 10) a #10 Seed in this year's event was extremely unfair to both the Shockers and the other teams in their pod (i.e., Dayton and Kentucky). This inherent availability problem in evaluating teams from mid-major leagues is only going to get worse as several power conferences move to 20-game league schedules and further limit opportunities for the teams from the other leagues to schedule tough non-conference games.
Two More For Consideration
Up until several years ago, the committee valued teams' recent performance more than an overall season's results. We would like to see a return to that protocol, although in a slightly different way. Rather than simply considering schools' win-loss records in their last 10 or 12 games, the committee should find a way to equalize the metric. Conference tournament play at the end of the season can create several extra contests for some teams but not others, thereby removing key data points from a month ago for the teams that end up playing more games. We'd instead like to see the committee start with a fixed date of review (maybe February 1, or perhaps when it releases the top 16 overall seeds in mid-February) and then consider performance adjusted for game location in the same way described above. The logic for putting slightly more emphasis on recent play is simple: Teams develop differently over the course of the season (some get better; still others get worse), but it is the March version of that team, not the November one, that will be competing in the Big Dance.
One last suggestion for the committee is to change the policy of not counting games played against non-Division I schools when evaluating teams. The stated intent for this rule is to not reward teams for beating up on those overmatched schools, but the opposite is actually happening. Total number of wins is no longer a major factor in the committee's decision-making process, but non-conference strength of schedule most certainly is. Right now, if a team plays a Division II or NAIA school as a patsy game instead of a very weak Division I squad, its overall schedule strength is not negatively affected. It would be much fairer to give all non-Division I opponents a rating equal to the lowest Division I program (#351), and thereby appropriately account for scheduling such games. We'd probably see substantially fewer of those games on schedules in very short order.
In Part Two, which will publish later this week, we will look at some possible improvements to the NCAA Tournament's bracketing process.


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- Jul 13, 2017
Find Your Shoe Size (Printable Brannock Device)
In customer service, we get asked all kinds of questions, but easily the most frequent one is "What size should I order?"
Believe it or not, most people don't really know their true shoe size. The problem is that so many shoe manufacturers don't run true to size – they're either too large or too small. This is why we all own shoes with different sizes.
Here at Samuel Hubbard we understand that it can be tricky ordering shoes online without trying them on first, which is why we strive to produce shoes that are true to size, and unlike other shoe manufacturers, we take the time to perfect every shoe. Hubbards tend to lean towards a roomy, generous fit. Built based on these specifications, our shoes allow for better air circulation around your feet and some wiggle room for your toes.
Now that we've got that covered you're probably still wondering what size you should choose, but don't fret – we have a solution for you.
The most accurate method of determining your shoe size is surprisingly very simple. Remember the old fashioned-looking metal foot measuring tool on the floors of every shoe store? Well, that's actually called a Brannock device and all of our shoe sizes are based off that tool's measurements.
To Measure Your Foot Using A Brannock Device
- First, you'll need make sure the width bar is open to its widest position and the arch length is slid back so your foot can easily fit onto the device.
- Place your foot (with socks on) onto the device with your heel against the back of the heel cup.
- Make sure your toes are flat against the bottom of the device and look straight down.
- Your size is where your longest toe touches the horizontal sizing lines. If your foot is between sizes, we recommend ordering the larger size.
If you can't get to a shoe store to use the Brannock device, that's okay - we've got you covered. We created an online printable version of the Brannock measurement tool.
Click here for Men's sizes or click here for Women's sizes.
Simply print out the Brannock measuring tool and connect the two pages together using the alignment arrows.
To Measure Your Foot Using The Printable Tool
- First, make sure you print the pages at 100% Actual Size. Do not use "Fit to Page" or it will alter the size. When printed correctly the inch markings should match up with a ruler.
- Tape or staple the two pages together using the alignment arrows.
- Place your foot (with socks on) onto the tool with your heel aligned with the printed heel shape.
- Your size is where your longest toe touches the horizontal sizing lines. If your foot is between sizes, we recommend ordering the larger size.
- Alternately, you could carefully trace your foot on paper and look up your size on the same chart in either inches or centimeters.
Measuring Width
Now you know what size to order, but what about width?
For our men's shoes, Medium width is equivalent to a D width and Wide width is equivalent to a EE width. Our women's shoes are currently only available in a Medium width which is equivalent to a B width.
Determining your shoe width using our printable measurement tool is easy - If the inside of your foot crosses the vertical line for your size then you would need to order a Wide width shoe.
Now that you know your true shoe size, it's time to enjoy the comfort of your new Hubbards. We want you to be 100% satisfied with your shoes, so if the fit isn't perfect please give us a call at 844.482.4800. Our award winning customer service team is happy to help. You can reach us Monday through Friday, 8AM – 5PM PT.


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So, it's nearly 'that' time of year again.......Valentine's Day! I thought this year I would try to have some alternatives available for those who like pretty, but not blingy. There are only two of these very pretty Chantilly pendants so drop very big pointed hints to the boyfriend/fiance/husband!!
Chantilly Heart
On the same theme I thought about producing something for girls whose style is a little more punky - again there's only two available, so get in there quickly!! These are called Heart Rocks.
Heart Rocks
Both of these designs are available on my website and nowhere else at all! SlickSilver Jewellery
I'm a bit of an old romantic at heart and thankfully so is my husband! He's an artist and I usually receive a card that he's painted for me which is lovely. We're coming up towards our second wedding anniversary so I do appreciate that that may not always be so, but I hope it is!! We spent our honeymoon in our favourite place of St. Ives and no doubt we shall go back there again around the date like we did last year, even if only for the day. A magical place!
So, girls, what's the most romantic thing that's ever happened to you? I know I'm very lucky, but one of the sweetest things that's ever happened to me was last summer when my husband (he knows my love of all things gadgety) secretly bought me a much desired iPad with my name and SlickSilver Jewellery engraved on it. It wasn't for a special occasion either - needless to say I howled copiously! He aslo leaves me little notes when he goes away, I even found one in the fridge once! He'll kill me for telling you this though!! I'd love to hear about your romantic stories although romance is different in everyone's eyes! I always remember my very dear grandad buying my nan a delivery of manure for her birthday because he knew she really wanted some for her roses! Good thing we're not all the same!!!
If anyone fancies coming to see my work I shall be at Crocadon Producer's Fair, St. Mellion, Cornwall on the 16th Feb so come and say hello and remember to get your hearts!
Have you voted for me in the Craft and Design Selected Awards yet?
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Looking for the best ways to promote your dental practice? Want to stand out from the crowd and build your own brand? No matter your business goals, planning is the key.
New dental practices are opening their doors every single day. Unless you come up with something different, you'll be left behind. To succeed, it's necessary to do things better than other industry professionals.
Start with your marketing strategy. Focus on building a strong online presence, be proactive on social networks, and engage with potential clients. Ask your patients to leave feedback online and recommend your services to their family and friends.
Need help with dental practice marketing? Try these strategies to boost your business and attract new patients:
Give Your Brand a Makeover
First, make sure your brand reflects the personality of your office and tells something about your practice. Think of it as your promise to the customer.
Your brand should reflect your uniqueness and differentiate your business from the competition. Get creative and add new elements if necessary.
Update your logo, marketing materials, and other branding elements. Also, keep your brand consistent across all channels, whether it's social media or your blog.
Target the Right Audience
Statistics indicate that women make up to 90 percent of all dental buying decisions. If you're advertising on Facebook or other social networks, use this to your advantage.
Get in front of your audience by targeting ads to women living in your area.
Facebook, for instance, has huge amounts of data that can provide valuable insights into your target market. Check this information to make your ads relevant and reach more patients.
Make an Offer They Can't Resist
A great way to capture your audience's attention is to offer something they can't get anywhere else. It could be a special discount, a free service, or one-visit treatments.
Create a unique offer with your patients in mind. Consider their needs and pain points. For example, if they have a busy schedule, make your services available over the weekend.
Also, think of what other services you could provide to attract more clients. Holistic dentistry, for instance, is on the rise. Experts say it's the future of dentistry.
Are there any other local practices offering this service? Research the market to determine whether or not holistic dentistry is something that would work in your area. Reward your first 50 or 100 patients with a discount.
Get Creative with Dental Practice Marketing
These are just a few of the many dental marketing strategies you can use. To further increase your chances of success, set up a website and start a blog.
Write about your services and cover the latest dentistry trends. Share your posts on social media, publish content on LinkedIn, and write guest posts on high-authority health blogs.
Don't be afraid to think outside the box and come up with something new. If you do what everyone else is doing, you'll be just another dental practice. Give customers a reason to choose your services.
Getting started is the hardest part. Contact a dental practice marketing expert to help you out. Call us today for a free consultation!