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BP16: See You All In Prague
Posted on January 28, 2016 Leave a Comment
After Budapest and Zagreb, Prague is going to host the next "business + practice" (bp) translation conference on April 15th and 16th. bp16 is not only a great opportunity for freelance translators to network and relax in a gorgeous city, it also offers dozens of informative sessions on topics related to our industry.
And there is one more reason why I feel excited about bp16: I have had the honour of being invited to present one of the sessions, and to talk about a topic I have been working on for many months and feel passionate about. It will be an absolute pleasure to share my ideas at this popular event and to hear what others have to say. And I hope to meet some of you there too!
Here are some details about my session:
Translation in Transition
The only constant is change, both in life and in business. Not only is change inevitable, it is essential to our renewal, sustainability and continued success. Yet, we resist change as we instinctively fear chaos and uncertainty. To adapt and thrive in a world that is evolving at an ever-increasing pace, business owners such as translators and interpreters need to overcome this fear and to develop vital skills in change management.
This session will explore change from three different angles: the technological side of change (what is changing and how fast), the human side of change (how we react to it and how it affects our performance) and the business side of change (when to start something new). Understanding these key aspects will help translators and interpreters future-proof themselves and deal more efficiently with the changes our industry will inevitably undergo.
For the full conference programme please click here.
See you in Prague!
Podcast with Paul Urwin: Coaching and the Future-Proof Translator
Posted on November 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
On Friday, I had the honour and the pleasure of being interviewed by Paul Urwin of 100 Percent Translations. In this lively and engaging podcast, we talk about coaching for translators and about the Future-Proof Translator webinar series, which starts on December 1st. What can we do to adapt to changing market conditions? To find out, simply click here to listen to the interview.
Why machine translation creates so much anger and how to deal with it
Posted on November 18, 2015 4 Comments
Earlier this week, I came across a number of posts and comments on social media in which the authors expressed anger towards changes that have been happening in the translation industry. While the authors had valid reasons to feel angry, I couldn't help but feel disturbed by the intensity of their emotions and by the tunnel vision and barrier to dialog that it momentarily created.
I read these posts and comments while I was preparing slides for a presentation I am going to give in London on Saturday for the Interpreting Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists: "Reinventing Yourself: How understanding the change process can help you take the leap". I would like to share one of the slides with you, as I think it will help you understand what many of us are going through at the moment.
The model that I would like to share with you was developed in the 1960s by a psychiatrist named Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Dr Kübler-Ross specialised in the study of grief. She identified the five stages of emotions which are experienced by people who are approaching death or dealing with the death of a loved one. Her model was widely accepted and it was found to be valid for other forms of losses, as well as situations relating to change (for instance, the loss of a job or of a familiar way of doing things). Her model has been used as a change management tool by businesses across the world.
The five stages identified by Kübler-Ross are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. It's important to note here that people don't go through these stages in an identical, linear manner but often move back and forth between the stages, and sometimes skip some of them.
The first stage is denial. This stage of shock is a natural defence mechanism which helps us deal with disturbing news. It is usually quite short, from a few seconds to a few days, depending on the situation. Any longer than this, and you may find yourself clinging to the past and out of touch with reality.
The second stage is anger. This can be experienced as irritability, frustration and short temper. This is the stage where we look for someone or something to blame.
Then comes the bargaining stage, where you might start thinking about ways to postpone the inevitable. For instance, when people pray, they will often say things like "I promise I will do this or that if you save my son/daughter/family/business."
The next stage is depression, which can be experienced as sadness, fear, loss of motivation, low energy, etc. This is the lowest point in the process and, as with all the other stages, the amount of time spent here varies from person to person.
Some people can get stuck in a particular stage. When this happens, they cannot see a way forward. For example, if you are stuck in anger, you are likely to go round and round in circles complaining about your situation, and you won't be able to see a constructive way out. Talking to someone, in some cases a professional, will help.
The final stage, once the previous stages have been processed, is acceptance. Acceptance doesn't mean that you agree with the change that has happened. For instance, you may still believe that machine translation is a bad thing for our industry. However, you accept that it is here to stay and that it will continue to develop. You are prepared to reinvent yourself to adapt to the new situation – which doesn't necessarily mean that you will embrace MT or any other form of technology. Successful businesses continuously reinvent themselves to adapt to new market needs and demands. As businesspeople, we need to do this too and it doesn't have to be as daunting as it sounds.
Understanding the Kübler-Ross five stage model helps to manage change both in our personal and in our professional lives. It helps us to understand that the emotions we are feeling are perfectly natural, while enabling us to determine whether we are stuck in a particular stage.
I will discuss this model as part of wider change-management model in module 2 of the Future-Proof Translator, which I will be presenting with eCPD Webinars on December 1st, 8th and 15th. In module 1, I will give you an overview of the technological changes that are happening in our industry, while in module 3 we will discuss our options (not all of them involve technology) and the best time to reinvent oneself.
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Future-Proofing Your Career As A Translator
Posted on September 27, 2015 Leave a Comment
On May 10th 2015, I published a blog post entitled "What does the future hold for translators?" Based on a talk about the future of our profession that had made a considerable impact on me at the 2015 ITI Conference in Newcastle, it received over 600 views in just four days, and has since been viewed over 1,000 times.
I recently had both the honour and the pleasure of writing a guest post for eCPD Webinars about what happened next. Click here to find out how people reacted to my original post and what you can do to future-proof your career as a translator.
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Riding The Wave Of Technological Change As A Translator
Posted on September 14, 2015 Leave a Comment
While the aim of new technologies is to improve our efficiency and productivity as professional translators, could the ever-increasing speed at which new solutions are released be detrimental to our performance? And what can we do to ride the wave of technological change more effectively? Find out in my first contribution to newly launched online magazine Slator.
The Future-Proof Translator Webinar Series
Posted on July 27, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Future-Proof Translator is a series of 6 webinars designed to help translators prepare for the changes our industry is facing. As the pace of progress continues to increase, the aim of this course is to help participants adapt more effectively and with more confidence to the changes ahead, whether or not they choose to embrace the latest technologies.
Part One (first 3 modules) is offered in partnership with eCPD Webinars, a leading provider of professional development courses designed to help language professionals develop their careers and run their businesses efficiently and profitably. Participants will have the opportunity to register for Part Two (3 modules) directly with Coaching For Translators.
For more information about the course, and to take a proactive step towards securing your future as a translator, please visit www.thefutureprooftranslator.com.
The Translator's Second Curve
Posted on June 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Business commentator and social philosopher Charles Handy based the idea for his latest book – The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society – on the sigmoid curve that describes the normal lifecycle of products, markets and organisations. He developed the Second Curve metaphor to help individuals and organisations manage their transitions more smoothly and more effectively in a world where technological change is occurring at an ever-increasing rate, as is the case in the translation industry.
The lifecycle of every product, service, organisation or market can be divided into 4 phases over time. The first phase, called the Inception Phase, often starts with a dip which corresponds to an initial period of learning and investment. In the case of an individual starting a translation business, this initial dip can include a period of training and experimenting, as well as the purchase of office equipment, software applications and professional memberships. During this phase, a freelance translator is likely to spend more money than they earn.
All going well, the Inception Phase is then followed by a period of Growth during which the product, service or organisation improves, becomes more and more efficient and strengthens its reputation. Our freelance translator feels energised and confident as more and more work comes in.
The sigmoid curve then reaches a third phase called the Maturity Phase. At that stage, individuals and organisations often feel comfortable and remain unaware of the fact that stagnation is setting in as their product/service reaches a plateau. In the case of our freelance translator, this could mean working full-time, with no capacity left for new clients, hence no growth.
The curve finally enters a phase of Decline, which can be caused by a number of factors, including obsolescence, the introduction of new products or services by competitors, a shift in the needs of the market and new technologies. Our freelance translator could for instance be superseded by a competitor who charges less, is more up-to-date with the latest terminology or uses technology that is better suited to the clients' needs.
According to Charles Handy, there's no need to worry about the Decline Phase in the sigmoid curve, as there can always be a second curve, ie a chance to start a new growth cycle with a new product or service or new business practices. The key, however, is to start this new cycle before the first curve peaks, when there are enough resources available to cover the initial dip in the new curve. Taking risks and initiating a change is much more difficult in a state of decline, when time, money, energy and confidence levels are falling.
In the case of our freelance translator, a second curve could mean subcontracting to other freelancers before reaching full capacity, when there's still time available for networking and getting to know potential partners. Here are a few more examples of possible second curves for translators (not all of them will apply to you):
- Starting your freelance business while you're still working for an employer
- Looking for direct, premium clients while agency work is going strong
- Launching a new service (cultural consultancy, copywriting, etc.) while your reputation as a translator is still growing
- Investing in continuing professional development (CPD) to learn about new technologies while your current work practices are still viable
- Switching to machine translation post-editing to make the most of the growing globalisation and localisation market before your clients demand it
The most successful businesses are the ones that follow the concept of the Second Curve and keep reinventing themselves – Apple is a very good example. But the problem with this concept lies in the difficulty of knowing when the first curve is about to peak, as people don't tend to think about change in times of growth. "First curve success can blind one to the possibilities of a new technology or a new market, allowing others to seize the initiative" (Charles Handy, The Second Curve).
The secret of continued growth and success is to monitor where you are on the sigmoid curve and to identify the ideal point of transformation. This is all the more critical in today's fast-evolving global markets. As Charles Handy puts it in The Age of Paradox: "The world is changing. It is one of the paradoxes of success that the things and the ways which got you where you are, are seldom those that keep you there".
When in the past did you start a new curve? When did you miss a turn? Where on the sigmoid curve are you currently standing and what will your next curve be?
How coaching can help:
The aim of coaching is to increase people's awareness and help them take positive steps towards a successful future. A coach will act as a sounding board and allow you to explore new ideas before putting them into practice. They will remain impartial and non-judgemental while you discuss the reality, as well as the consequences, of taking certain actions. The decision whether or not to start a new curve will always remain yours.
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The Translator's Stretch Zone
Posted on May 18, 2015 1 Comment
When it comes to adapting to new situations or achieving new goals, many people believe that they have a Comfort Zone (where they feel safe and confident) and a Panic Zone (where they feel scared, insecure and/or overwhelmed). In reality, we all have a third, in-between zone called the Stretch Zone, a place where we feel energised, challenged and motivated to take action.
Our Comfort Zone and our Panic Zone couldn't be more different (one feels good, the other feels bad), yet they share the same danger: stagnation — the former by leading to complacency, the latter by causing paralysis. Our Stretch Zone, on the other hand, is the zone where we take manageable risks, learn new things and grow. It's the zone where change happens.
Many translators, whether they're new to the industry or wish to expand their business, give up on their big goals too soon because of the sense of panic they feel when they think about what they're trying to achieve. In other words, their "End Goal" is in their Panic Zone.
If you find yourself in that situation, the best way to avoid this sense of panic is to focus on the steps that are going to take you safely and efficiently to where you want to be, ie your "Journey Goals". These steps will guide you through your Stretch Zone, where you will be able to feel more in control, learn new skills, and increase your confidence.
For instance, if your end goal is to work for direct clients and you've only worked with agencies so far, your journey goals will include updating your LinkedIn account, researching potential clients, creating a website, networking, etc.
Each time you'll reach a new journey goal, your Comfort Zone will expand, pushing your Stretch Zone outwards, until it eventually includes your end goal. Your end goal will gradually seem less scary and easier to achieve.
Take a moment to think about what you're trying to achieve as a freelance translator. What would a 10 out of 10 look like? Write it down on a piece of paper. How do you feel about this goal?
Now think about the different areas you will need to focus on in order to reach that goal? Write them down on your piece of paper. Which area will you need to focus on first? How do you feel about this journey goal? If it still feels too scary, how could you break it down into smaller steps?
How Coaching Can Help:
Coaching can help you break your goals down into manageable steps. Your coach will act as a sounding board using effective listening and questioning skills to support you through your Stretch Zone. They will help you stay focused and in control, thus allowing you to reach your goals more quickly and more efficiently than if you were doing it alone.
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The Translator's Guide To Finding And Targeting A Niche Market
Time Management For Translators – Time Log Exercise
Coaching Tips For Translators (Video)
Success Mindset For Translators (Tess Whitty's podcast)
To keep up-to-date with my latest posts and announcements, please feel free to use the links on this page to subscribe to my blog, follow me on Twitter and like my Facebook page. I look forward to seeing you there!
What Does The Future Hold For Translators?
Posted on May 10, 2015 22 Comments
Tech Comm expert Stefan Gentz talked about the future of our industry at the 2015 Institute of Translation and Interpreting Conference, which took place in Newcastle, UK, last month. His "10 facts about the future the translation industry cannot afford to ignore" were received with mixed reactions, including criticism about the one-sidedness of his presentation and his bias towards machine translation.
Although I'm not a fan of automatic translation, I was surprised by some of the comments I heard at the conference as I hadn't expected Stefan's talk to be about anything else. As a freelance translator affected by the emergence of MT and post-editing, I wanted to learn more about that side of our industry and what it holds for our future. The aim of this article is to present the key messages I took away from the talk.
Stefan isn't a translator himself, which means that it wasn't possible for him to connect with his audience on that level. Instead, he used humour and told us how, as a kid, he believed he would grow up to become a cowboy; and how things didn't turned out that way – a familiar experience for many of us. Through his personal story, he described how reality often differs from our expectations, thus inviting us to consider an alternative future for ourselves and for the translation industry.
Stefan went on to share facts he believes translators cannot afford to ignore. Quickly abandoning his light-hearted tone in favour of a more provocative one, he displayed a series of bold statements on large red screens. His key messages were as follows:
- Translation is now global. People buy and sell translation online, and most translation will happen in the cloud within 10 years' time. We need to think and act globally.
- Clients want faster translation. They're no longer prepared to wait. We need to fulfil that need through the use of translation technology.
- Clients also want cheaper translation, some even want it for free. Many of them need hundreds of thousands of words translated and simply can't afford to pay the full price. Their prime motivation is cost reduction, not quality. We need new business models.
- Translation has become an embedded sub-process. We have to embrace technology and the tools that are available to understand how our clients manage their content and to fulfil their needs.
- 3 trillion gigabytes of data are produced every day. This represents a huge potential for translators, but we've already lost 99% of our market opportunity to Google and Microsoft because we're not developing fast enough. Google translates more words in 1 minute than all human translators in one year!
- Without translation, there's no global business. We need to become more confident and to make a strong story of our business. The translation industry has a future, but we need to change because the world is changing.
By the end of the presentation, the mood in the audience had shifted. Some felt inspired, some were angry, while others felt that machine translation had nothing to do with them. As a translator specialising in IT and software localisation, I recognised the changes Stefan described in his talk. The introduction of MT and post-editing started to have a noticeable impact on my work a couple of years ago, and led me to add a new direction to my career.
Like me, you may not like the growing role that MT is playing in our industry or its effect on the quality of our work, but Stefan has a point: the world is changing, attitudes are changing, and the future of our profession will depend on our ability to transform what many perceive as a threat into a new opportunity. This is all the more feasible as MT doesn't have to replace high-quality, human translation. Despite the disproportionate size of its potential market, it can simply coexist alongside it – a point Stefan should perhaps have stressed more during his presentation.
But apart from the "gold mine" the MT market could represent for translators, I believe there are two main reasons why we should reclaim it from companies like Google and Microsoft. The first one is that, although automatic translation isn't currently producing the quality of work humans can, it will improve fast. I once heard someone say that it will be another 40 years before machines can translate like us. I disagree. I believe that MT will be of an acceptable standard within the next 10 to 15 years, at least in a number of fields. While of course I'm not an expert, I'm basing this estimate on the speed at which I've seen technology evolve over my 15-year career as a translator, and on conversations I've had with researchers and scientists in my hometown, Cambridge, aka Silicon Fen.
The second reason why I think we can't afford to let Google and Microsoft take full ownership of the MT market is that, if we're not careful, these companies will transform the way consumers view our services without us having a say in the matter. Microsoft's corporate vice president Gurdeep Pall recently said "Translation is something we believe ought to be available to everybody for free". Business models that include free products and services not only make sense for large companies, they're something consumers have come to expect, especially the younger generations. "Freebies" are rapidly becoming the norm. Gmail and Facebook are free, linguee.com is free, this article is free. Business models are changing. We will need to change too.
Stefan's talk really opened my eyes to the size of the MT market, as well as its impact on the future of our profession. While I strongly believe that specialisation and "premiumisation" are our best tools when it comes to making it as successful translators, I don't think we can afford to boycott or even neglect machine translation. We can't afford to let Google and Microsoft turn our profession into a freebie for all. To respond to new trends and fulfil new needs, we will need to adapt, be creative, and develop business models that make the most of the latest technologies. These could include free, standard and premium levels of service, or translation services provided as part of a diversified offering. New, innovative ideas are needed.
With his cowboy story, Stefan encouraged us to drop some of our expectations about the future and consider new alternatives. But if our attitudes towards machine translation are to change, we may need a stronger narrative. Perhaps an inspiring "David and Goliath" story – the translation industry versus the software giants of the Internet. Maybe then will translators consider the latest trends and technologies as weapons for renewal, growth and continued success.
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The Translator's Business Priorities Wheel
Posted on April 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Translator's Business Priorities Wheel is based on a tool which is widely used in coaching: the Wheel of Life. It helps you to measure your current levels of satisfaction in key areas of your life (in this case, your work life), and enables you to identify the areas you need to address first in order to achieve better results and a better balance.
The Translator's Business Priorities Wheel contains 8 sections that represent various aspects of your translation business. The figure above is provided as an example only, and you may wish to use your own categories. For instance, you may wish to break the Clients category into Direct Clients and Agencies, or to rename it Sales or Customer Service. You may also wish to group Marketing, Online Presence and Networking into one single category. The structure of the wheel is up to you.
How It Works
1- Creating the wheel: Get a blank copy of the Translator's Business Priorities Wheel here. Once you have downloaded the file, label the 8 sections of the wheel according to your top 8 categories.
2- Outside each section/category, write down what a "10 out of 10" would look like, i.e. your goal. Be as specific as you can.
3- Rate your level of satisfaction with regards to what you have achieved so far in each category. Zero means "not satisfied" and 10 means "highly satisfied; I have achieved my goal". Connect the lines to form an inner wheel. This will give you an overview of the balance you have achieved so far between the various areas of your translation business.
If the tyres on your car looked like this, how bumpy would the ride be?
4- Interpreting the wheel: Your aim is now to have all categories scored evenly, above 7 and as close to 10 as possible. If some categories are scored lower than 7, investigate how they may interact with each other in order to identify the area to address first.
For example, in the figure above, the translator felt that she had reached a plateau in terms of her productivity. The wheel helped her to identify CPD as an area she needed to tackle first. Her low score in that category could be linked to her low score in the Admin Work category, which could be linked to her productivity having plateaued.
5- Taking Action: Once you have identified the category to address first, determine the action you will need to take in order to get one step closer to the goal you wrote down for that category. How are you going to do it? When are you going to do it?
In our example, the translator decided to spend time online the following morning to search for the next available Project Management course for translators.
6- Committing: On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 meaning "Not committed at all" and 10 meaning "Totally committed", how committed are you to taking the action you identified in step 5? What will be the benefits of taking that action?
I hope you have found this exercise useful. To keep up-to-date with my latest posts and announcements, please feel free to use the links on this page to subscribe to my blog, follow me on Twitter and like my Facebook page. I look forward to seeing you there!
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The Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee wishes to remind all those in the creative industries sector of the deadline for getting applications in for the Creative Industries Innovation Fund. The deadline is Thursday 5 February 2009 at 4pm.
Mr Barry McElduff MLA, the Committee Chairperson said:
"I would like to remind all those people who are thinking of applying to the Creative Industries Innovation Fund of the impending deadline of Thursday 5 February 2009.
Applications to the Fund, Launched in October 08, can be made by sole traders, partnerships, businesses incorporated as companies or sectoral bodies.
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Tea Partiers Can't Comprehend Pro-Choice Texans, Gandhi, Among Other Things
The North Texas Tea Party has been making some interesting commentary about the thousands of Texans who came out in opposition to Senate Bill 5 last week as a way to rally their base in the next round of the War on Women at our capitol. This group, following in the footsteps of Perry and Dewhurst, are going to great lengths to delegitimize the diverse coalitions of pro-choice Texans with a few key messages they are repeating in press releases, social media, and talk radio.
They want to deny the existence of pro-choice Texans and dehumanize the group as a mob, all while employing their usual misrepresentation of history and the legacies of revolutionaries who have come before.
The North Texas Tea Party is working to convince their base that the opponents of anti-women legislation couldn't possibly live within the same borders as they do. They are now claiming that our supporters are being bussed in from out of state.
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It's one thing to disagree, but another to be in complete denial. The far-right is so afraid of their inevitable demise that they believe the best way to challenge this is to deny that pro-choice Texans even exist.
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13727/tea-partiers-cant-comprehend-prochoice-texans-gandhi-among-other-things .
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Ilsa (55,863 posts)
1. Claiming it's an invasion is
the only way to really rile up anyone with a libertarian ideology. Typical: more lies from the GOP.
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2. Yes, buses means people from out of state, because
everyone in Texas can just walk down to the capitol building.
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Mon Jul 1, 2013, 01:36 AM
mbperrin (7,672 posts)
3. And their demise IS inevitable. Nothing can grow on total negativity.
They're doomed, and thanks to gawd, they'll take the Republican Party with them. We're at a moment like the Whigs becoming the Republicans.
Be interesting to see what comes next.
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 01:37 AM
ashling (25,738 posts)
4. They are idiots . . .
but idiots can be dangerous.
Everybody who is there take care.
I'm afraid we can't be there,
but Melodie and I are with you in spirit. . .
but we will be with you in spirit
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 07:09 AM
hobbit709 (41,694 posts)
5. Teabaggers can't comprehend how to spell words of more than one syllable
They have problems with cat if you spot them the c and the t.
The only thing they know is what they see on Faux News and it's been proven that your mind burns less calories watching TV than it does sleeping-in other words, while watching TV your brain goes into shutdown mode.
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 08:18 AM
TxDemChem (1,875 posts)
I can't believe these people. Well, actually, I can. They are nuts. I'm sorry, but if you have to lie to get support, there is a problem. And denial of a problem leaves you wide open to self-destruction. Let them continue to believe their own bullshit.
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 12:03 PM
Gothmog (86,109 posts)
7. Some of the comments on Juanita Jean's site are great
Response to Gothmog (Reply #7)
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 03:18 PM
Arkansas Granny (27,432 posts)
8. Juanita Jean's place is great. As you may know
we've had our own problems with state legislature this year. They passed abortion restrictions over the governor's veto, so now the state has to pay to defend the bills in court. Our tax dollars at work.
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Tue Jul 2, 2013, 11:15 PM
Texas Rose (2 posts)
9. Want to force transparency from an untransparent tea party Republican politician?
We have an extreme tea party Republican in Rosenberg, TX named William "Billy" Benton. Very typical in a "do as I say, not as I do" sort of way. He is very big on "transparency" for others but not so much for himself.
He recently asked for an item to be considered by the city council to the effect that the city only send city-related emails to his personal email address. He thinks that if emails are sent to his personal email, they can't be accessed by the public via an open records request. I think it would be an interesting experiment if some of the good folks here tested his theory and sent the city secretary an email asking for open records access to Benton's personal emails that are related to city business. That is literally all you have to do. This will trigger a situation where he has to deny access to personal email which will automatically escalate the question to the attorney general's office, where I'm sure he will enjoy a protracted legal battle if he wants to keep his public emails private. I know for a fact that he has sent city-related emails from his personal email account so the city will be forced to react.
Send the email to: email@example.com or call 832-595-3340
The agenda (item #9) where he asked for city-related email to be sent to his personal address can be found here: http://www.ci.rosenberg.tx.us/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5740
Response to Texas Rose (Reply #9)
Tue Jul 2, 2013, 11:28 PM
TexasTowelie (76,961 posts)
10. Welcome to DU!
I'm not from your immediate area so I probably don't have the standing to make that request.
Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)
Tue Jul 2, 2013, 11:41 PM
Texas Rose (2 posts)
11. Location doesn't matter
Anyone can. Location doesn't matter in the least. People from out of state could do it. It's illegal for the city to ask why the requester wants it. They just have to provide it.
Transparency is a beautiful thing.


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We're finally in July, which means there's less than 18 days to go till we get to gorge ourselves on the latest Batman outing from Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises hype machine is in full swing with more unseen footage and a stab at a viral site.
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Something I've noticed while watching the latest raft of Dark Knight Rises trailers is just how good the music is -- truly atmospheric. I just hope it's as good in the actual movie. Considering Prometheus didn't quite live up to my incredibly high expectations, what's the betting DKR will live up to the hype? My money is almost on yes, but I'm sitting on the fence until I get eyes on it myself on the 20th. In the meantime, jump on over to the Gotham's most wanted site to turn your ugly mug into Batman, Bane or even Catwoman -- pointless, but mildly amusing. [ComingSoon via TotalFilm]


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Homicide Cases are Never Closed
By: Joseph L. Giacalone ©2010
Anyone can ask for a cold case to be reexamined. However, investigators would prefer that it came from a family member or someone that had information to further the case. When a case is reexamined it tends to bring up all of the unpleasantness and emotions from the event, so a nonfamily member, i.e. friend, media, etc., should reach out to the next of kin first. Once the investigator hears from the family, the inquest will be started.
Nothing begets more action than a well-written letter to the agency head. These letters must contain as much accurate information about the incident as possible, such as:
• Who you are, how to contact you and why you want the case reexamined
• Date and time of the event
• Location of the event
• Name of the victim (including nicknames), date of birth, last address, etc.
• Copy of the death certificate or what hospital the victim went to – if applicable
Perpetrators don't realize the wheels that are set in motion when they choose murder as a means to fix their problem. Detectives understand what is at stake. They are sometimes the sole voice and advocate for the victim, a job that they take very seriously. For this reason, homicides are never closed, so nothing ever needs to be reopened, just reexamined. Many, if not all police departments, have at least one member dedicated solely to investigating cold cases.
The requester must understand this next important point: cold case detectives will take the request seriously, however, the request may not warrant a new investigation. If solvability factors do not exist, such as DNA, physical evidence and/or witnesses, the case cannot move forward. The case will remain on the shelf with the hopes of new developments in the future.
When investigative leads dry up and a series of new investigations roll in, the case is placed on the shelf waiting for the day when a FRESH look can be taken. Family members and interested parties have to understand that in general, an investigator needs one or more of the following in order to evaluate the case:
Forensic/DNA advancements
Relationship changes
Eyewitness finally comes forward
Has a new charge or an ax to grind
Forensic/DNA advancements
Developments in Forensics and DNA testing are occurring rapidly. What wasn't even a thought yesterday is a reality today. The use of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Familial DNA has allowed investigators to develop suspects on an otherwise hopeless case. Investigators spend most of their time locating evidence and hope that it wasn't lost or destroyed. Once evidence is secured, it can be resubmitted for testing. In many jurisdictions, evidence can be found in two places: (1) the police department and (2) the medical examiner's office or counterpart, i.e. coroner.
Relationship changes
Husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, and friends often have a falling out. A disgruntled lover can be a treasure trove of information. Sometimes, these breaks in relationships bear enemies that often cooperate with the police – even when there is a strong dislike or distrust of the police. As the old maxim goes, "The enemy of my enemy, is my friend."
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What makes someone finally come forward after 30 years? Guilt or they are no longer fearful of coming forward. Someone knows the information that would be needed to solve the case, but either out of fear or something else refuses to step forward. However, over time, that guilt eats away at a person subconscious and forces the information to the surface.
Perpetrators, or witnesses that have been holding their secrets back, eventually find themselves on their deathbed, maybe sooner than they thought. In order to clear their own minds and to "make it right" they come clean and provide useful information in cold cases.
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The best "luck" that a cold case detective can have is when a potential witness or friend of the perpetrator finds himself in trouble with the Criminal Justice System and wants to play, "Let's Make a Deal." There are some people that purposely withhold useful information because they know that someday it may be their ticket out of trouble. Remember, the district attorney is the only person that can promise a "deal" for cooperation.
Cold case investigations are extremely difficult to solve – there are good reasons why the case is cold too begin with. I am frequently asked what can I do? Besides remaining patient, the family member has tools available to them that didn't exist a few short years ago. Social media sites can play an integral part in helping detectives with the case. Recently, a case in Nassau County, New York, spurred new investigative leads after a posting on the victim's Facebook page. Whatever type of venue that is chosen for the memorial page, it must have the capability for visitors to post comments.
Investigators in the past have had luck identifying suspects when they showed up at the gravesite and/or crime scene on anniversary dates, so why wouldn't they do the same things at a virtual gravesite and/or crime scene page? The social media page can play to the behavioral side of the killer. Hopefully, a well-crafted page will induce the perpetrator to inject himself back into the investigation in order to make himself feel relevant and powerful again.


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A group of high school students recently visited Clemson University to learn how to program the robotic arms they built in a dual-enrollment class at Denmark Technical College.
The visit gave the students an opportunity to work with Clemson engineers and to tour campus. The eight students are enrolled in a Denmark Tech mechatronics dual enrollment class and are from Denmark-Olar High School, which is in rural area of South Carolina more than three hours from Clemson.
The full-day visit was aimed at helping develop the nation's manufacturing workforce, the central mission of the sponsor, Clemson's Center for Aviation and Automotive Technological Education Using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES).
For Stephen Mason, the trip was a chance to introduce high school students to his alma mater. He received his Bachelor of Science in engineering technology with a concentration in mechanical and manufacturing in 1986 from Clemson. (The program evolved and became a part of industrial engineering.)
Mason now serves as Denmark Tech's associate vice president of economic and workforce development.
Like the students under his supervision, Mason arrived at Clemson from a small, rural high school. A large university like Clemson is competitive, he said, but his students can do it.
A Clemson graduate student told the Denmark Tech students that some of his work was the same as what they are doing, Mason said.
"I'm going to make sure to use that tomorrow to remind them, 'This is the same stuff that you can do, right here that you're doing now,'" Mason said.
The Denmark Tech students arrived on campus with some basic programming knowledge. Clemson's faculty members and graduate students helped them take it a step further and learn to write their own commands for the robot to follow, said Stephen Cotton, the instructional design coordinator for CA2VES and its sister organization, the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development.
"This is a small way for us to help develop these students and also showcase engineering opportunities here at Clemson," he said.
The Denmark Tech students were quiet when they first arrived but soon loosened up, Mason said.
By mid-afternoon, they were working elbow-to-elbow on the robotic arms with Clemson engineers in the Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building.
"The way they are listening and getting involved, I think I'm seeing success right now," Mason said.
Clemson and Denmark Tech officials are exploring how they might expand the collaboration, potentially making the visit a recurring activity.
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Mauro on Stewart
Tony Mauro at the National Law Journal has another piece up from his digging through the Potter Stewart papers, this time on the Justice's friendships with President George H.W. Bush and Professor Larry Tribe, and their thoughts about what could have been.
Stewart died in 1986, so he never saw his friend George make it to the White House in 1989 – but Mauro finds that he did follow his friend's 1980 Presidential run and VP nomination quite closely:
Stewart clearly had a keen interest in Bush's electoral fortunes, collecting news clippings about Bush testing the waters for a 1980 run for the presidency, which turned into a campaign for vice president with Ronald Reagan at the top of the ticket. Stewart corresponded with Christopher Phillips, apparently a strategist who was urging Bush to stress his moderate views and not give in to pressure from the right that was fueling Reagan's success. "My great fear is that even if the views stated in your memorandum are fully understood and completely accepted, the house may be irreparably late," Stewart wrote. Stewart even shared his views with Powell, who wrote Stewart, "These are views you and I have shared. It may indeed be too late now."
Indeed, for the Court, it was too late. Under Reagan, Stewart and Powell's moderate conservatism–political and jurisprudential–began its decline towards today's near-extinction.
And from Stewart's "Tribe" file:
In May 1969, after Nixon appointed Warren Burger as chief justice, Tribe wrote a letter to Stewart mourning the demise of a shared hope: that Stewart would be elevated to the position instead. "I had so hoped things would turn out differently," Tribe wrote. "For you — and for the country — I am sorry." Stewart's reply note did not deny the ambition.
This note from Tribe seems at odds with The Brethren's prologue (see pp. 10-13), in which Woodward and Armstrong write that Stewart declined President Nixon's overtures to elevate Stewart to Chief Justice. Perhaps Stewart, now known as a significant source for The Brethren, fed Woodward and Armstrong this story for pride's sake. Perhaps Tribe did not know about this meeting. Or perhaps Tribe was lamenting the underlying reasons why Stewart felt compelled to decline the President's offer – "why"s that may have been lost forever in the fires Tribe told me about at the Kagan hearings and reiterated to Mauro:
Laurence Tribe remembers watching Potter Stewart, the U.S. Supreme Court justice for whom he clerked in 1967, feed his office fireplace around Christmas time.
Stewart was burning some of his Court papers, recalls Tribe, the Harvard law professor and now senior counselor at the Justice Department. "He told me that it was an annual affair."
What papers did Stewart destroy that year? "I promised him I'd remain forever silent, and it's a promise I feel bound to keep," Tribe said.
Read the whole piece over at Law.com.
This is Awesome
For some exceedingly brief weekend reading, check out this letter to and from Justice Sotomayor. While you're at it, see who won a reply-race between Presidents Clinton and G.H.W. Bush.


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'Chicago' rough but loveable in Denver
August 13, 2004
"CHICAGO" IS A remake of a reporter's 1926 play, re-created as a musical in the early 1970s by the dark genius of Bob Fosse, the modern musical theater's great stylist. Something of a flop in its own time, the deeply cynical show — a satire on law, lawyers, criminal justice, modern fame and the media — didn't find an audience until the equally cynical 1990s.
Like the Clinton years, something of a triumph of style over substance, "Chicago" remains a primary artifact of the bedazzled period in which it became popular. The only plausibly innocent criminal defendant in the show, an immigrant, is briskly hanged.
The Denver Center production is offered by a new road company that has some strengths. Bianca Marroquin, an explosive new talent, is a divine Roxy Hart, always exploitive, eternally beguiling and, in a weary way, even a little fond of the husband she deceives. Marroquin is electric on stage, perfect in her role. She far outshines her criminal counterpart Velma Kelly, played in this production by Broadway veteran Brenda Braxton.
The lawyer Billy Flynn is Gregory Harrison, who played in seven seasons on "Trapper John, M. D." Harrison has a nice voice to go with his array of TV and stage credits, but is less dominant in his role than other Billy Flynns I've seen.
Flynn is a lawyer no less manipulative than his fame-obsessed clients, working the media as hard as he works the criminal justice system. For all this, one suspects, Harrison might just be too nice of a guy.
The Fosse touch is revealed not in the leads but in dance. There is both a male and female dance corps, the women good and the men better. Several of the dance pieces were still a little ragged, with Fosse's usually metronomic arm and hand movements scattered instead, as if the chorus was waving. This apart, the dance was effective. Recent productions of "Chicago" are usually dominated by tap, but in this, there was only one tap number. But there were other lovely moments, some pure Fosse, of a constrained, inward-looking style involving tight, precisely synchronized dance movements.
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Carol Woods triumphed as Momma Morton, the corrupt, favor-swapping jailer who is the sole representative of law in the show. Her raucous, cynical "When You're Good to Momma" is the very spirit of the Clinton years, praise to the doing of seamy favors. Woods' presence is massive, her voice seductive and rough. Roxy's husband, Amos, is brought to life by Ray Bokhour, though not so memorably as Wayne Kennedy at the Boulder Dinner Theatre.
Megan Johnson told me she has seen both the Boulder and the Denver productions and much preferred the one in Boulder. And Johnson is right — the Denver Center's revival lacked the fire of the Boulder offering, the sheer force of which, with the right cast and on the right night can lift the show above the seamy and make it a story of big, if unworthy, dreams.
But if you haven't seen "Chicago," this is a nice introduction, and will do until Boulder Dinner Theatre does it again.
John Bromley is the director of the President's Leadership Program at the University of Northern Colorado.
"Chicago" showtimes are through Sunday at the Bonfils Theatre at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $20-$60, call (800) 641-1222.


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Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $100,690,961 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00002) to contract FA8682-18-C-0009 which provides for design, development, integration and testing of subsystem design changes for the wings/chines to the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range baseline missile. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2023. This award is the result of sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds will provide funding for the contract. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.
The Air Force is slated to have an operational capability with the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon by late 2020, and with a separate and more advanced capability six months after that, according to service acquisition chief Will Roper.
Speaking with reporters at the Pentagon on Feb. 6, Roper said he's "very happy with where we are on hypersonics," and said the HCSW will make its first flight "by the end of next year" and achieve "EOC"—or Early Operational Capability—a year after that. HCSW is based on technologies developed for the "conventional prompt strike program," he said, and "that's flown successfully." He called it a "lower-risk design."
Lockheed Martin got a $928 million contract for HCSW last June, and in August nabbed a contract worth up to $480 million for the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, design work.
Roper characterized ARRW as "six months behind" the HCSW. It is being developed in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
"It is a more advanced design; more risk," Roper observed, but the partnership with DARPA is intended to "push" the Air Force to go faster than it usually does in introducing a new capability. Roper noted that he and DARPA conducted a review of the project last week and he pronounced it as "doing very well." He's pleased the Air Force has a "low risk/high risk" approach to hypersonics, and he's also told program managers they have license to fail in the interest of learning and moving the programs forward.
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Hudson, New Hampshire, is awarded $225,034,247 for firm-fixed-price delivery order N0001919F2701 against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-17-D-5517) to procure 9,999 additional Lot 7, full-rate production units of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II. The procurement of the additional APKWS II weapons will upgrade the current 2.75-inch rocket system to a semi-active laser guided precision weapon in support of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the governments of Nigeria and the Netherlands. Work will be performed in Hudson, New Hampshire (70 percent); and Austin, Texas (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2020. Fiscal 2019 procurement of ammunition (Army, Navy and Marine Corps and Air Force); and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $225,034,247 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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Tom Odell is coming from UK. He begins his carreer with his debut album "Long Way Down" and the first samples leave us waiting for more. Odell has said that his lyrics are inspired by his inability to sustain a relationship more than 6 months...I don't wanna know what his exes will do when they will figure this out. You can watch the dark music video of "Another Love" here.
Of Monsters and Men-King and Lionheart
Of Monsters and Men is a six-piece indie-folk band from Iceland. You can easily compare them with Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. They formed in 2010 and they became famous between the fans of Indie music right away. Their first album "My Head is an Animal" includes some interesting tunes like "King and Lionheart". Great: lyrics_voice_music_clip. You can watch them all here!
Ben Howard-Keep Your Head Up
He is the man. Ben Howard stole my heart and he sings to me every morning, while I am going at my work by bus. He was born in 1987. He built his audience step by step... He chose the members of his band judging by how much they love music. If you listen to his whole album "Every Kingdom" you will catch yourself smiling cause you are pretty sure he is smiling too at the moment. "Keep Your Head Up" is a song that motivates you to stand up and start doing things. Watch the music video and read the lyrics here!
She, Elena Tonra, got started solo! But now they became a trio with Igor and Remi. "Daughter" is an indie-folk band from London. Elena and her masterpieces hide some deep meanings behind lyrics and metaphors. The drums and the guitar complete a dark scene, a crime scene as she says in her song "Candles". Their first full album "If you leave" just got released and you can have a first look of their music video "Still" and the lyrics here.
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Home remedies for face Blemish :
Skin blemishes or zits are tiny spots or discoloration of skin that you get as a result of boils, pigmentation, suntan, pimples, acne, itching, rashes and other skin problems. Blemishes are really embarrassing. Here we list some easy home remedies for making your skin spotless with the help of daily use items. These zits remedies are effective for curing all types of skin blemishes, acne, scars or spots due to any other reason.
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- Take two teaspoon of gram flour and add a pinch of turmeric.
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- While adding a teaspoon of curd, make a smooth paste.
- Apply this pack to your face and other effected areas with blemishes daily for a few days for getting rid of acne scars and other skin blemishes.
- For every dark skin are skin blemishes, dry some lemon and orange peels by storung them in a dry place.
- Make a powder of them.
- Mix this powder with rose water and curd
- Apply this on skin areas with blemishes.
- When milk cream is added instead of curd, it becomes effective remedy for skin discoloration.
- Make a paste of finely ground almonds and yogurt.
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- Apply this evenly on skin blemishes, acne, scars etc.
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POTATOES As The Remedy for Face Blemish:
- Apply juice of raw potatoes on skin blemishes.
- Sulfur, potassium, phosphorous and chlorine present in potato juice.
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Neckam, Alexander (DNB00)
NECKAM or NECHAM, ALEXANDER (1157–1217), scholar, was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in September 1157, on the same night as Richard I. His mother was chosen to be Richard's foster-mother, and she suckled both the children together. Neckam received his early education at St. Albans, and is sometimes called Alexander de Sancto Albano. While very young he is said to have had charge of the school of Dunstable, dependent on St. Albans Abbey. He went to the university of Paris and became a member of the school of Petit Pons, then lately founded, and famous for its subtlety in disputation. By 1180 he was a distinguished teacher at the university (Du Boulay). He was sometimes in joke called 'Nequam' (wicked) by his contemporaries. Returning to England in 1186, he seems to have again had charge of the Dunstable school for a year, and then to have applied for the mastership of the St. Albans school. In answer the Abbot Warin is said to have written punningly to him, 'Si bonus es, venias; si nequam, nequaquam,' to which he replied in the same spirit (Gesta Abbatum S. Albani, i. 196; if this story is to be received at all, this version of it is of better authority than that quoted by Tanner from Boston of Bury). He is supposed to have been prior of St. Nicholas, Exeter, but of this there is no proof. Having become an Augustinian canon, he was, in 1213, chosen abbot of Cirencester. It is asserted that he visited Rome with the Bishop of Worcester [see Grey or Gray, Walter de, archbishop of York], but this is unlikely; for in his 'De Laudibus Divinæ Sapientiæ,' written towards the end of his life, he speaks of the approach of old age as a bar to such a journey. He was a great deal at court at some period of his life. He died at Kempsey in Worcestershire in 1217, and was buried at Worcester (Annales de Wigornia, sub an.) His nickname, Nequam, was so frequently used that he is called by it in the record of his death and in the epitaph said to have been placed on his tomb (Wright, Biog. Lit. ii. 450).
His range of learning was wide, and he wrote much and on various subjects. Both in prose and verse he wrote better Latin than was then common, and he shows a considerable acquaintance with the ancient Latin poets. Two of his works have been edited by T. Wright in one volume in the Rolls Series of 'Chronicles and Memorials.' They are both on natural science. The one entitled 'De naturis rerum' is in prose, and exists in four manuscripts, two being in the Royal Library in the British Museum, and the other two at Magdalen and St. John's Colleges, Oxford. It was a popular work, and is frequently quoted, as by Sir Thomas de la More [q. v.] (ap. Chronicles of Edward I and II, Rolls Ser. ii. 309; Geoffrey le Baker, ed. Thompson, p. 22), and by John Brompton (ed. Twysden, col. 814). It presents a highly interesting picture of the notions about natural science then held by men of learning, together with many quaint stories and illustrations. The other work in the same volume of the Rolls Series is his 'De Laudibus Divinæ Sapientiæ,' taken from a single manuscript in the Royal Library in the British Museum. It is in elegiac verse, and is a paraphrase of the prose work, with some fresh matter, and with the stories left out. It was evidently written late in the life of the author, who says that he purposes to offer the book to Gloucester Abbey, and in case refusal there, to St. Albans. Neckam is sometimes said to have penned another elegiac poem on the monastic life, entitled 'De Contemptu Mundi,' which is found in several manuscripts, and has been printed with St. Anselm's works. It is more probably by Roger Caen. His translation of 'Æsop's Fables' into elegiacs has been published (Ward's Cat. Romances, ii. 351), and six fables have been printed from a Paris MS. in Robert's 'Fables inédites,' vol. i. Other poems, as one 'De Conversione Magdalenæ,' known by name, are perhaps lost. Neckam also wrote treatises on grammar, some of which are extant. Of his learning in this direction Roger Bacon said that, though 'in many things he wrote what was true and useful, he neither has nor ought to have any title to be reckoned an authority' (Opera Inedita, p. 457). Grammar seems to have been his favourite pursuit, and when writing on other subjects he sometimes notes some derivation which now appears strange. He also wrote a kind of vocabulary in the form of a reading book, entitled 'De Utensilibus,' of which there are manuscripts in the British Museum (MS. Cotton, Titus D. 20), and at Caius College and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Some extracts from this have been printed by Wright. His other works are commentaries on parts of scripture, theological tracts and sermons, and commentaries on Aristotle, Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' and a portion of Martianus Capella.[Wright's pref. to Neckam's De Naturis Rerum, &c. p. 503 (Rolls Ser.); Wright's Biog. Brit. Lit. ii. 449–59; there is nothing additional in the short notice in Morley's English Writers, iii. 196; Bale's Scriptt. Cat. pt. i. p. 272, ed. 1587; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. (list of works); Hardy's Cat. Mat. iii. 57, 58 (Rolls Ser.); Du Boulay's Hist. Univ. Paris. ii. 427, 725; Hist. Litt. de France, xviii. 521; Peter of Blois' Epist. 137; Gesta Abbatum Mon. S. Albani. i. 196 (Rolls Ser.); Annals of Tewkesbury, an. 1217, of Dunstable, an. 1213, of Worcester, an. 1217, ap. Ann. Monastici, i. 63, ii. 40, iv. 409 (Rolls Ser.)]


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I can across three fun videos on sabermetrics. The first is a collage of things including excerpts from a 60 minutes piece on sabermetrics. The tunes are not bad either.
This is actually not a bad introduction in Sabermetrics with spots on some of the luminaries of the field. In fact it is the first video I had ever seen of Bill James. I disagree with Sparky Anderson that Bill James is a "fat little bearded guy who knows nothing about nothing". Although he does have a beard.
The second video is a just totally hilarious. I played it three times and I laughed for the whole thing! I need to find a time to say to someone "because my brain is so big and I am so much better than you". Classic! This cartoon is part of a series and may not really teach you anything, but it is funny.
The only thing that is better than beer and the swedish bikini team is sports and sex. So there is, of course, a video that features Nikki Benz explaining Sabermetrics to a couple of guys preparing for their fantasy baseball draft.
I still like the cartoon better. They had a better script, and they are better actors than the people in Nikki Benz's video
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Friday 25 January
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This small butterfly is dark brown in colour with orange crescents towards the edge of the wings, those on the forewings are absent or very small, and the underside is pale (1). In Britain there is a noticeable white spot in the centre of the upperside of both forewings (1). The caterpillar measures up to 1.3 centimetres in length, and has a green body with a darker green line along the sides (3).
The flight period of this butterfly is variable, but usually occurs between early June and mid-August (4). This species has one brood a year; eggs are laid singly on the upper surface of leaves of the foodplant, and hatch after a week (3). The caterpillars hibernate at the bottom of the food plant or on the ground (4), and complete their development the following spring (3).
Recent genetic studies have shown that single-brooded populations once thought to be northern brown argus occurring in the Peak District, Yorkshire Wolds and north Wales are actually brown argus (Aricia agestis). Populations in Co. Durham once thought to be Durham argus (A. a. salmacis) are actually mainly A. a. artaxerxes (4).
Found in Scandinavia, mountainous parts of central Europe and North Africa. A. a. artaxerxes is found in Scotland and possibly northern England, and A. a. salmacis is found in Co. Durham (4).
Inhabits sheltered areas of free draining unimproved grasslands with patches of bare ground, supporting the main caterpillar foodplant common rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium (4). Preferably there should be light grazing on the site (4).
In the UK this species is classified as Nationally Scarce and protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, with respect to sale only (2). It has two subspecies; Aricia artaxerxes artaxerxes and Aricia artaxerxes salmacis (the Durham argus or Castle Eden argus).
There has been a serious decline in this species around the Durham area, and reductions have also occurred in southern Scotland. More surveys are needed to ascertain the species' status in this area, however (4).
Sheltered unimproved grassland with low grazing levels has been greatly reduced, and persists in fragmented patches. Loss and degradation of this habitat has greatly contributed to the decline of this species. In some cases inappropriate grazing regimes result in otherwise suitable habitat becoming degraded (2); a lack of grazing results in scrub invasion, and overgrazing excludes the species even if the food plant is abundant (4).
Many colonies in the north of England occur in nature reserves where management has successfully been altered for this species. A good example occurred at St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, where in 1992 there was a switch from heavy grazing to selective spring and autumn grazing. The population of the northern brown argus subsequently increased dramatically (4). The Countryside Stewardship Scheme includes management prescriptions aimed at this species; private landowners receive grants for managing their land in these ways (4). The northern brown argus is a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (2).
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text: CULTURE The "Vail Effect": Why Park City Home Prices Are Skyrocketing 9:30 AM PST 1/22/2015 by Gina Barker FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME High-end residential real estate jumps 20 to 25 percent as new resort management gives some residents unprecedented ski-in, ski-out access. This story first appeared in the Jan. 30 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. For 50 weeks a year, Park City is more about the outdoor recreation than the Sundance screenings and soirees — but many of entertainment's heavy hitters still spend time in the mountain resort year-round. Modern Family writer-producer Steve Levitan owns a home in Park City, and Michael Jordan has been a part-time resident of the Glenwild golf course community for years. In late 2013, possible presidential candidate Mitt Romney bought in one of Park City's most elite neighborhoods near the Deer Valley Resort. Read More Sundance: 7 Ways to Get High in Park City "We've always attracted people from the film and television industries, and now a lot more names from the high-tech industry," says Ann MacQuoid, an associate broker at Berkshire Hathaway. Since Vail Resorts announced plans to purchase Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) last year, on top of an operations contract to take over the neighboring Canyons Resort, realtors have seen a significant uptick in both construction and existing home sales, especially for higher-priced homes — a phenomenon they've dubbed the "Vail Effect." Vail revealed plans to spend $50 million to combine PCMR and Canyons by next year's ski season, which would make Utah home to the largest resort in North America, boasting 7,300 acres of skiable terrain — and giving a handful of lucky homeowners the possibility of ski-in, ski-out access to both resorts. Following the announcement, lot prices jumped 25 percent overnight at The Colony at White Pine Canyon, a gated ski-in, ski-out community situated in between Canyons Resort and PCMR. A ski industry proposal, One Wasatch, to link seven area resorts (and 18,000 acres of terrain) eventually could drive prices even higher. "It's still speculative," says Steve Blankenship, a broker with KW Park City Keller Williams. "But we think it would be bigger than the [2002] Olympics were for us in terms of property value." Read More Sundance Unveils Spotlight and Park City at Midnight Lineups Bob Marsh, the Colony's listing agent, says the area "was always appealing for a buyer who wanted that ski-in, ski-out feature." Will Smith has owned there for a few years, and Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz recently completed $2.2 million in construction of a Colony home that was featured in the 2014 Park City Showcase of Homes. "But this new connection to PCMR raises the bar," adds Marsh. "Only a few places in the whole country will have these size lots and the amount of ski terrain offered." Listing prices for high-end homes in the Deer Valley area also are up an estimated 20 percent compared with prices of similar properties in the area sold in the past 24 months, says MacQuoid. After just a year on the market, Los Angeles-based Regent Properties sold more than half of the available Stein Eriksen Residences, a development with ski-in, ski-out access to Deer Valley. Seven single family homes and 25 condo properties priced between $2.5 million and $9.25 million have been purchased since the properties became available through presales 12 months ago. Says MacQuoid, "For the first time in years, there is urgency in the market, and even scarcity." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Gina Barker firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Ten Reasons to Delay Your Early Retirement by Five to Ten Years
This post by Physician on FIRE serves to make you think again about retiring early. Not in a bad way, but in a way that forces you to ask yourself "why am I doing this again, and am I doing it correctly?" You can still retire early but delay it by a few years and execute on your intentions better. Click the link to check out the fun, song-themed reasons!
Rob at Mustard Seed Money decisively settles the question of which is more important for early retirement: a higher savings rate or a higher investment return? It's well-written and there's plenty of evidence to back up his answer. I enjoyed reading it and you will too.
If Money is Not the Motivation, What Is? — an Interview with the Mad Fientist
Paula at Afford Anything interviews one of my favorite personal finance bloggers, the Mad Fientist. Find out here what drives the Mad Fientist!
Dude, Just Effing Do It
Chris at Apathy Ends made one of my favorite posts of the year on one of the last days of the year. It definitely has my favorite title. His ethos here is very familiar to you if you've read my post "Embrace the Suck" (read it if you haven't!). All the advice in the world means absolutely nothing if you don't take action, so put on your big boy or big girl pants and get to it!
The New Tax Law and How It Impacts Your Early Retirement
The Mad Fientist makes another appearance on this week's 5FF! He doesn't post as much as he once did but every time he does, he's dropping gold nuggets on us. This post is exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it. He went through the trouble of figuring out how the new tax reforms will affect you. If that's not enough to motivate you to read it, you must not like money!
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That's all I've got for you this week. Go forth and conquer 2018 as a slightly wiser version of yourself!