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Thoughts and insights to develop yourself, lead your people, and ultimately see your job as more than work.
Matt Dubin
Rethinking our Relationship with Work
For any relationship to succeed, it must be tended to, cared for, prioritized, and reexamined from time to time. This takes effort and constant conversation. With this in mind, It's time for us to reexamine our relationship with work and rethink work-life balance. The digital revolution has drastically changed the way work is accomplished, where work can be done from anywhere at any time, and we can instantly connect with anyone around the world. Work can infiltrate our vacation time, and researching our upcoming vacation can be done while at work. A work team can communicate completely virtually yet still function at a high level. We are in an always on culture, and there's no turning back.
We are also in the knowledge economy, where the output, or product of work relies on the capabilities of the mind. This allows people to create an intangible service (knowledge that can be offered anywhere at any time). There has been a substantial increase in the filing of United States patents in the last 20 years, indicating that the production of knowledge and intellectual capital is on the rise. These massive shifts in the modern workplace have forever altered how work is done and our relationship with the very concept of work.
The End of Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is traditionally the term that is used to refer to the relationship between one's life at work and their life outside of work, which includes time with friends, hobbies, and anything else that one considers to not be work. This balance refers to a clear distinction between work and life, with an invisible boundary separating the two. However, separating work and life has a faulty premise. It implies that work is a detached entity from our lives, which sets a negative precedent for how people should view their relationship with work. If work is something to simply get through in order to make time for 'life,' there is an inherent implication that work cannot play an essential role in the happiness, fulfillment, and meaning of one's life. If work and life are separated, then what do we call all of the hours we spend working? Is this not considered life? Language is powerful, and the term work-life balance sets a tone about what work's role should be in the context of one's broader life.
Integrating Work and Life: A Return to Our Roots
Interestingly, the balance, or separation, of work and life, was not always the case. Before the industrial revolution, work and life blended together more seamlessly: People worked in their communities, near their homes, as farmers, craftsmen, and other vocations. When civilization shifted from the agricultural to the industrial economy, the main priorities of work became productivity and efficiency. Adam Smith envisioned work as large tasks being divided into a series of smaller ones, where each individual would be responsible for one step in the manufacturing process and endlessly repeat this step. Deriving meaning, happiness, or fulfillment from work was not of significance.
As the industrial economy now shifts to the knowledge economy and relies on the complexity of the human mind, with its capacity for intellectual thought, creativity, and imagination, peak performance and innovation cannot be divided into a series of small tasks. It relies on people to see work as a source of engagement and meaning in their lives, where they feel challenged and have a sense of purpose. For people to reach their full potential, work must be seen as an integral part of life. Psychologists Hogan and Hogan wrote an article about work life integration in 2007, and explained it as the following:
"The goal of work-life integration is: to have a satisfying, healthy, and productive life that includes work, love, and play; that integrates a range of life activities with attention to personal and interpersonal development; that fosters the psychological skills necessary for an expansion of energy associated with multiple role engagement; and that permits the construction and experience of a meaningful life defined by reference to unique wishes, interests, and values."
The concept of work-life integration has been gaining steam in recent years (you can read more about it here and here). The main challenge we face moving forward is how to harness it correctly. Our development as individuals depends on engaging with the different roles of our lives whole-heartedly, spiritually, and intellectually. However, work-life integration gone awry can mean we are constantly working no matter what else we're doing and constantly feeling burned out and stressed.
Work-life integration done successfully means fully absorbing oneself in whatever role being engaged in, not constantly doing two things at once. It can mean allowing ourselves to still be professionally creative outside of traditional working hours and setting aside an hour at the end of the night to work through our ideas. It can mean not checking our work email when out to dinner with friends so we are authentically connecting with the people we care about. It is up to each of us to figure out how to best integrate our work with the other aspects of our lives, but we should no longer think of them as separate.
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Gut enzyme could open door for creation of universal blood donations
A woman donates blood to help hospital meet the high blood transfusion demands after a bad outbreak
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) - An enzyme found in gut bacteria could convert type A blood into universal type O blood, a scientific feat that would significantly boost blood supplies, a new study suggests.
"Blood type is determined by the presence of antigens on the surface of red blood cells; type-A blood has the A antigen, B has the B antigen, AB blood has both antigens and O blood has none", said lead researcher Stephen Withers, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of British Columbia.
"It looks like it completely converted to O", Withers said. If the antigens injected into an individual doesn't match the antigens already in the body, the immune system attacks and kills the cells - rendering the donated blood useless and even harmful.
The researchers presented their results today at the 256th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
For years researchers have been scrambling to find ways to adjust donated blood to a common type, however, they have not yet been able to find an efficient selective enzyme that could do the trick while still remaining safe and economical.
When lacking in blood for transfusions, going with your gut might do the trick. O blood, however, has no antigens, which makes it very valuable. Type A has A antigens, type B has B antigens and type AB has both.
Of the four basic blood groups, only type O has no antigens. "If you can remove those antigens, which are just simple sugars, then you can convert A or B to O blood".
As an example, the very same team announced back in 2015 that enzymes used by Streptococcus pneumoniae could manage this.
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti launch event at Gamescom 2018
So those are the cards, which usher in what looks to be quite a hike in performance over the 10-series GeForce cards. This GPU is based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture and is created to succeed the popular GTX 1080.
Withers is now validating the enzymes with colleagues at the Center for Blood Research at UBC and testing them in larger-scale studies.
Researchers in the United States said the transformation is up to 30 times more efficient than previously studied enzymes and will soon start work on clinical trials. This is why group A blood must never be given to someone who has group B blood and vice versa. Gut bacteria are known to derive some of their energy from breaking down these sugars, Withers said.
One workaround this issue is to turn other types of blood into O-type.
"The other big key: our enzyme works on whole blood", he said.
"We don't seem to see any other sugars cut off by this enzyme".
Previous research uncovered a similar process for type B blood, but Withers said making this work with type A blood was much more important, given how common the blood type is. "As far as we can tell, we're only cutting off the A antigen".
The researchers started by looking for enzymes that can help them achieve their goals. So, in one fell swoop, they grabbed the DNA blueprints for everything those microorganisms might make - including, it turned out, enzymes that help the bacteria pluck sugar-studded proteins called mucins off the walls of the digestive tract.
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Kafkapriccio – Oct. 17, 2010
Aventa Ensemble
Bill Linwood, conductor
Phillip T Young Recital Hall, Victoria BC
Deryk Barker, Music in Victoria
It is not given to everybody to see the funny side of Franz Kafka's The Trial. One who did was undoubtedly Orson Welles in his 1962 film of the novel; not only did he interpolate humourous lines into the screenplay (Interrogator: Do you enjoy pornography? Josef K: I don't even own a pornograph), but when the film was showing in Paris, he and star Anthony Perkins attended incognito and apparently laughed their way through the entire movie. The serious French crowd was not amused at this "disrespect" showed to the great director.
Judging by his Kafkapriccio, Poul Ruders is also capable of finding the humour in Kafka. Certainly there were passage which had me chuckling and even, at a couple of points, laughing out loud.
The work is derived from Ruders' 2005 opera Kafka's Trial and, like the opera, comments on the author's life as well as his (unfinished) novel.
Although the music is almost completely tonal, it could have been written at no other time; Ruders may, at times, invoked the spirit of older composers (Charles Ives came to mind a couple of times) but he never sounds derivative or old-fashioned.
Among the frequently hair-raising faster music, such as the klezmer-inspired (the composer's own description) opening section (which was enormously enjoyable) there were many moments of delicious lyricism and great beauty.
With the exception of Louis Ranger's surreptitious move from one side of the stage to the other, in order to play his trumpet directly into the open piano, Ruders' score eschews anything in the nature of a gimmick. And yet his music sounds fresh and grips the attention from beginning to end, an end which was simply gorgeous.
For an encore (almost the first time Aventa have ever done so) Linwood and his players once more raced through that opening, klezmer section – and it was every bit as exciting and humourous the second time around.
Kafkapriccio (is there a not-so-subtle reference to Strauss's last opera there, I wonder?) was the culmination of an exceptional evening, even by Aventa's own standards.
Ana Sokolovic's Géométrie sentimentale, which opened the programme, was the only Twentieth Century music on the agenda. Comprised of three linked sections – the outer sections enlivened with a sense of humour and separated by a lyrical, slower central section – it shows a composer of eclectic sensibilities: the first part I noted as "Michael Nyman meets Stravinsky" while the last summoned up images of Messiaen and (in?) Tin Pan Alley.
Klaus Ib Jørgensen's Chuva Obliqua (Slanting Rain), receiving its first performance on Sunday night, is, we are told, the second part of a trilogy An Encyclopedia of Rain (shades of Michael Palin's The Testing of Eric Olthwaite: "It were always raining in Denley Moor – 'cept when it were fine").
As with other music of Jørgensen, Chuva Obliqua is something of a tough nut to crack. The violent opening puts the audience on notice that this is not going to be "easy listening" by any stretch of the imagination.
The music is clearly of considerable difficulty for the performers too and, except for the close, seemed to have three basic moods: violence, repressed violence and subdued violence; the connection to rain of any kind, slanting or not, rather escaped me.
The close, though, was something else: virtually every player suddenly produced what I believe were plastic food containers with rubber bands stretched inside them, which they proceed to play pizzicato.
This produced a strange, unearthly sound which, for me, was certainly worth hearing, even if the more violent music had not entirely convinced.
But then I strongly suspect that Jørgensen's music does not yields its true depths on a single hearing.
The great tragedy of Sunday's concert was that André Ristic was stranded in Belgium, having had his passport stolen, and could not return to Canada in time to attend the premiere performance of his Six apparitions de Lénine sur un piano.
Inspired by what would seem to be one of the very few Salvador Dali paintings I have never seen, Six apparitions is the "Scherzo to end all Scherzos", full of pounding, lilting and loping rhythms, and with a significant solo piano part (the always-superb Miranda Wong), it was tremendously exciting and laced with humour (which seemed to be the keynote of the evening).
One of the great joys of attending an Aventa concert is that one can be sure that not only is one hearing music one is highly unlikely to hear otherwise, but that one is hearing it as well-played as it can be.
For, as I have observed so many times before, Bill Linwood once again directed performances of total conviction, fearsome accuracy and tremendous energy.
A fabulous evening.
Black Box Music
Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen and Norwegian percussion sensation Håkon Stene joined Aventa for the North American premiere of Simon's "Black Box Music".
For more videos of Canadian and international repertoire visit: Aventa on Vimeo
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OUTSIDE BY DESIGN
THE PODCAST about the business of creativity in the outdoor industry
Season 3 Episode 5: Re Wikstrom & Backcountry
Outside by Design is back! Re Wikstrom, professional photographer and senior photographer at Backcountry.com, shares her insights on getting women involved in action sports, what it means to be an artist, and being a photographer in the age of social media. Re's been singlehandedly furthering the careers female athletes in the mountains since before it was cool. Leave a comment or review to let us know what you think and stay tuned for new episodes every Thursday!
Follow Re: @rewikstrom
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Ep 3.5 Transcript
Lisa: Hey, thanks so much for listening to Outside by Design. I am your host, Lisa Slagle and I own Wheelie Creative, an outrageously fun outdoor agency. As well as Wheelhouse Workshops where we teach action sports photography workshops to women to help get more women involved in action sports.
Thanks so much for listening to Outside by Design by the way, we are seeing an increase in listeners and a lot more hype around the podcast. It's season 3, we're putting a ton of time and effort into it and it shows, so thank you so much for your shares and your likes and your reviews on Stitcher and wherever you get your podcasts, I really appreciate it so much.
Enough of that shameless promotion and plugs. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty. Today I'm talking to Re Wikstrom and if you don't know Re Wikstrom, you need to know Re Wikstrom because she is a living legend in the ski industry. She's a professional photographer who has helped elevate so many women in ski photography. When no one was doing that, she's like the first woman to really get out there and mindfully go capture images of women and help women get into magazines and you know before social media took over and everything was purely editorial Re was there pushing and working and taking photos and slinging photos to magazines. And Re is a freaking legend. She's professional, she shows up with a force. I really admire Re's creativity and problem-solving., calmness and thoughtfulness. She's just all around an absolute badass and just excellent person. She also is the senior photographer at Backcountry.com when she's not shooting on her own for Re Wikstrom. So she will rock your world. I promise this podcast is great.
She talks about creativity, social media change, knowing your craft. This is an excellent one for anyone who works in editorial or any marketing managers or any photographer or aspiring. I cannot even begin to encapsulate Re. She's just fucking phenomenal. Give it a listen.
Lisa: Hey, thanks for being here today.
Re: Thanks for having me.
Lisa: Yeah, so tell us where you are what you're doing and kind of yeah, where are you recording from today?
Re: Well, I'm recording from my small home office in Utah, in Salt Lake City.
Lisa: Cool. So tell us, you know, just a little bit about yourself. Obviously, you're an amazing photographer and you do a lot for women's outdoor and helping women get you know, the publicity and the shots everything but how would you describe what you do and who you are?
Re: Well, I think I just basically describe myself as an outdoor sports photographer. It really started with ski photography. But now that I've been working at Backcountry for so long. It's really branched out into almost everything outdoors. I've been at it for, I don't know, a minute, a good grip of time at this point. I've had some time to experiment.
I moved out to Utah in January 2004. I just wanted to be a ski photographer at the time and then later that fall ended up getting a job with backcountry.com. And so I've done... sort of a like that was my ski bum job, but I'm still there. Let's see. So yeah, I've sort of simultaneously pursued both my own personal sort of freelance. Mostly ski photography and some bike photography and then just working full-time at Backcountry, working full-time on the side. Yeah, so I guess that's where I'm at and how I describe myself.
Lisa: What are you doing specifically at Backcountry for the listeners who don't know.
Re: So specifically I work on our creative team. I've had, you know my title sort of changes every few years, but currently the title is senior photographer and photo manager. And so I basically specialize in our marketing photography mostly when it relates to outdoor and action sports. I used to shoot a lot more studio stuff, but the team grew a little bit and we brought in another photographer who has taken over more of the studio specialty. So it's mostly outdoor, which is awesome - can't complain about that.
Lisa: Absolutely. And so what does that what does that look like for you, do you plan the locations or does Backcountry pick the locations? How does that work?
Re: Well, so that's interesting. It really just kind of changes year to year. We have, you know, sort of different company goals and direction and leadership and so it really really varies. I used to, there were times when I've been, you know, full... like I'm the producer and the assistant and the photographer and the coordinator and the PA and then we've had other times where we've had more robust teams where we've been a little less involved in some of the planning and locations. I've had so many shoots going on where it's like, okay, just tell me when to show up and I'll be there and give me a brief and we'll shoot it. So it really it's just kind of changed and varied over the years. I mean in some ways it's been kind of exciting to get, you know, a good experience being in all realms and aspects.
Lisa: What's the coolest place you've gotten to go for Backcountry to on a photo shoot?
Re: For me it's a toss-up there. We did a big production down in Chile a couple summers ago and then I also covered a vendor event up in Northern Sweden. I think I'm sort of biased towards Northern Sweden because I'm half Swedish and that was just like really on a personal level a little extra cool, you know going to the motherland and you know being up in the Arctic was... I don't know. I think that's just pretty special place. And then down in Chile we were down in the Araucaria region for like... I don't know if you've ever heard of the monkey puzzle trees, but they're they're pretty amazing. So you're down in like the land of volcanoes and these crazy trees that look like a mix of old-growth rainforest and like a desert succulent. But they're giant and it's really cool.
Lisa: That sounds incredible.
Re: I highly recommend if you can make it down there. Check it out.
Lisa: Yeah. So are you shooting athletes in those situations or like ambassadors or what? Like what kind of is it action or lifestyle?
Re: It's pretty much everything. So specifically for Chile that was one of our big winter productions. We took down, in this case, four employees to do the shoot, ones that had some experience shooting shooting Action Sports before but the others were just employees that rip and so we kind of wanted to go that direction for that shoot, but there's other shoots where we do bring in more professional athletes. There have been times when we bring in models. That's a little more rare and then we brought in ambassador's and you know for lifestyle needs will do it again. Just depending on the project. Sometimes it's Ambassador. Sometimes it's models. Sometimes it's employees. When we're talking about Backcountry anyway, yeah.
Lisa: How about yeah, let's talk about Re Wikstrom photography. What do you got going on there? And what's your favorite thing to shoot? Where do you focus?
Re: Yeah, so my my focus is ski photography mostly some mountain bike photography and in addition to that, I almost exclusively focus on women. Just female athletes and giving them more support in the media and trying to kind of foster... I mean, I think it's been really really cool to see like what happens if you get a crew of all women together because when I was younger and looking at ski media, especially I mean, bike media you look it up like. These guys have their crews but it's all dudes or you know, maybe there's one woman in the mix but I sort of came into this with a bit of a personal hypothesis of like, hey, what happens if that crew was all women? Can we inspire younger generations to like come up and create some all-female crews, you know, does this happen? How long does this take, is it feasible, are there enough women out there?
Lisa: How have you seen that change throughout the years?
Re: I mean, I'm certainly seen… I see so many more women, I feel like, getting involved in outdoor sports in general. I see so many more women just out on the skin track, out on the trails. But then I think there's also been... especially with the rise of social media because that's only been happening, I'd say for like half of my career really. It's been really cool to see women step in and say hey well, maybe the traditional model wasn't supporting women so I can do this myself and I'll put it out there, you know, maybe the companies aren't going to back us, but I can back me.
Lisa: Yeah, I think as ski history has evolved, I think that you hold a really important place in ski history in America from the media side, especially because you did help elevate women in a time when no one else was doing that and you went after that. Did you you know that was going to be such an important role or was that just something that you wanted to do because you thought it would be fun or were you trying to solve a problem at the time?
Re: Yeah for me, it was definitely like a problem-solving situation. Like I saw a hole, I saw something I didn't like and rather than complain about it, I just wanted to do something to help change it.
Lisa: That's just so true to what happened. I think it's just amazing.
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Lisa: I think that's a really valid point about Instagram and social media it coming in and giving people an open platform to kind of change the way of the game. How has, how has social media changed your process as a photographer or has it?
Re: Well, I think I'll date myself again. It's been interesting to me because I didn't I didn't like grow up and start with social media and I you know, I came from a background where the magazines held all the power as far as the trends and like just telling people like this is what's going on. These are the people that are doing rad things and these are the greatest photos and these are the people you should be paying attention to. And so I think it's an interesting shift and I don't think we're done with the shift. I think we're kind of in a weird transition right now, and I don't know what's going to happen. But I think it would be interesting to see. I think there's certainly opportunity for more... I don't know models to start of spring up from this. It's certainly been interesting in the way of, you know, athletes are getting pressure from their sponsors to provide them photos for social media, but nothing gets written into a contract that says like, okay, well, we're going to like pay for for a photographer to work with you to get the photos and then maybe you get into this weird place where an athlete's like, well, I have to give photos to my sponsor and so I need you to give them to me for free. But then for the working photographer that's trying to you know, simultaneously have a career but also promote athletes you get into a bit of a weird place. I think you know industry wise for photographers to social media is this like just hungry machine that needs photo after photo after photo, but because of the nature of a social and web platforms people believe that photos should be cheap or free. And then there's there's photographers that are maybe newer and they're like, "oh, well, I'll give away my photos because I want to get my name out there." But you know, ultimately it hurts the entire industry because the more photographers give away photos for free the less photographers can make money and so, you know some photographers that may be driven away from continuing to you know, do their craft maybe or they just keep it to themselves.
It's an interesting ecosystem. Right, and a lot of people don't think about the full ecosystem when they think about, "Hey, can I just use this photo for free," right. At the same time though, I also want to support the athletes. It's like, well, my mission is just to put more inspiring imagery of women out there into the world. And so there does need to be a balance and you're working with athletes you're all working on spec. You do also have to have some give and take there and you do need to support them. And I think we're still kind of working through the implications of like... do you post the photo now, or do you save it and post later? And like what is the impact? Is it better to post it now, but if you're trying to make money so you can afford your gear and say you can afford to be out there working. With athletes we need to work on the the career model, I guess.
Lisa: Yes. I definitely think that that part of the industry is broken right now. And it puts so much pressure on athletes. It makes athletes feel awkward because they have to ask for free things from photographers or they have to go out and try to learn camera skills or get their buddies to do it and so it's like this very stressful aspect now that comes with being a pro athlete that didn't used to even be a thing.
Re: Mmhmm.
Lisa: So that's that's interesting and pretty unrealistic.
Re: Yeah. Yeah, because in some cases, you know, it's sort of just taking the photographer out of the equation entirely. So then where does where does that roll go? Does it exist anywhere? And then just socially I mean I think there's so much pressure just in terms of how you portray yourself on social media for a lot of companies. And you know, I think we're still wrestling with is this fake? Is this real? Does it feel authentic and is it right for me? Is it not right for me? And I think still so much remains to be seen.
Lisa: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see where it goes and you know, from the agency side too, from where we're coming from at Wheelie. It's a very interesting dynamic where brands will hire us kind of as a blanket like, just take care of everything for our catalog just do the photos do the design. Here's the product. And sometimes they'll have us go find people that are on brand and then suddenly most of my days are spent acting as a casting agency. It's just this very interesting thing where I never thought I'd be like sourcing models and you know trying to figure out who looks best in a scene together and like curating human beings. So I think it's it's a really interesting dynamic and kind of fun to navigate and I yeah, I just don't know where it's going to go.
Re: Yeah, it's an interesting one because you want to be... for the most part right you think of social media is telling stories if you want to tell authentic stories, but then when it is just marketing you want to craft it a lot more specifically, but maybe we should be more open to using people that don't portray that you know that look that we're used to like the stereotypical look. You know, and maybe if we could get the industry as a whole to open their eyes to using real people. I feel like it would benefit everybody and then you know athletes too.
I think I've had a really interesting time with the rise of the social media ambassador where that tends to be more of just someone who's got a lot of followers. I mean and don't get me wrong. I think some athletes have... I don't know navigated that and they're like they do have a bazillion followers. Some of them they're just not as into the self-promotion and that's where in the past it's been great to have a sponsor that is doing the promotion of their athletes, but then we've gotten into this world of well, we don't want to do athletes anymore. We want to do real people that just use social media. But eventually those people need to... like it goes in a cycle, right? Because eventually those people are going to say well, hey, you're not paying me anything. You're not paying me very much to be an ambassador. And I need to really just focus on my actual, you know job because a lot of those people have been you know, they've got a full-time job and then they do sport on the side, right? It's been cool to tell their stories, but you can only use that for so long. And I think hopefully… I don't know my theory really is that the athletes are going to come back into favor, but it's going through this interesting cycle right now because they have so much more valuable insight when they can be like out testing your gear, involved in R&D. And then they can focus on being an ambassador for your brand and for the sport and if they're out there inspiring, you know, the younger generations that's going to help growth, right, but when they're not inspiring those younger generations, then we just see things shrink, right?
Lisa: Yeah. That's that's key for sure, is making sure that the decline of skiing. And you know the less interest in snowboarding and you know how to how to make it look fun because nothing is more fun than skiing and just you know keeping that joy alive I think is incredibly important.
Re: I know you're so right.
Lisa: Yeah. So, how do you work? You know, what as far as creativity goes? Do you tend to contact an athlete and go out and shoot something mindfully or do you just kind of go out and see what an athlete is inspired by? What's your process for when you're not shooting for Backcountry, but when you're shooting for yourself, what does that look like for you?
Re: I mean for me first and foremost, it's finding some women athletes that are just really stoked to get out and shoot some photos and make some magic and then we'll kind of take it from there. You know, I've worked with some some women in the past where you know, maybe one day it's like hey, I want to go hit this are and I'd love for you to come shoot it and so we do go out with a little something kind of premeditated other times, you know, because you're dealing with Mother Nature and the weather a lot of times. You're just letting that dictate. What you can do on a given day, I think certainly, I probably go through sort of phases of like, oh, I'm going to kind of think along these lines this year. You know, I want to kind of think more this type of shot this year.
Or the past few years. I've been trying to shoot a bit more inbounds as well as backcountry touring because I think you know, we've seen so many accidents in the backcountry and I was like, well, I wonder why can't it look fun to ski in bounds with a bazillion tracks around you right? Because you've got the classic obviously, it's beautiful when it's fully fresh and untouched and there's a reason that those photos are so sought after. But I just wanted to challenge myself to figure out well, how do we make inbound skiing when the resort is open look fun? And so yeah, just sometimes I'll give myself sort of self-imposed projects like that. Other times it's like hey, it just dumped three feet and we just want to go shoot blower pow.
Lisa: I think that's a very interesting point to bring up that. Oh, yeah, why should why shouldn't we embrace the resort rider because that is what helps get people into skiing. You don't just go immediately into the backcountry.
Re: Yeah, and so I'd say that's kind of more what I'm doing locally around here then you know, if it's a if I'm on a trip with someone not in Utah, then it becomes more about the story of the place and the day and the location and trying to capture, you know, what does it mean to ski in this place? At least that's how I tend to look at things.
Lisa: That's yeah, that's wonderful. I haven't really thought about that. That's a good point. Do you think most magazines are publishing very little inbounds content?
Re: Yes, I would say so. I would, I don't know. I should probably do an audit but I would say the majority of photos end up being shot outside the resort boundaries. Even when you're you know, doing a story on a resort a lot of times you'll end up, you know, hiking out of bounds to shoot photos. I mean not always, but a lot of the times because that's where you're going to find less people interfering and less tracks, better snow, like I don't argue those fact, it's the reason we do it. I do it, you know, but for some of my shooting I just wanted to sort of challenge myself to the inbounds.
Lisa: Yeah, that's cool. That's really cool. Post-production, on that end, do you like editing photos or dislike editing photos?
Re: Generally, I really enjoy it. But I do find that I need I need a good balance of screen time to not screen time. And so I do sometimes struggle a bit with having a full-time job with Backcountry and then kind of balancing the time to edit my personal work. Because like there's you know, I'll spend you know, weeks of eight hour days working on the computer and then it's kind of the last thing I want to when I get home
Lisa: Absolutely.
Re: But overall I do love it. It's just a matter of having the right like time and balance to work on And sometimes it's fun when I can't get to photos right away because it's it's kind of like going back to you know, shooting film process where he'd send your rolls off and you wouldn't get him back for a few days or maybe it takes you a week to because you're like collecting a few rolls. And that to me was always like Christmas getting your photos back because you're like, oh, I hope that worked out and you know, maybe you forgot about one or two photos that were in there and you're like, "oh! Surprise!"
Lisa: Totally.
Re: So I don't know, in some ways it can be good. Yeah, I try to look at the bright side.
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Lisa: So a lot of women listen to this podcast because we do feature so many women. So what is your advice to any ladies that want to get into the creative side of the outdoor industry?
Re: My biggest advice is to know your craft and be passionate about it. It sounds really simple, right but I think when you're really excited about what you do that that translates to anybody and they're not going to look at you as like male or female. They're just going to look at you as a person who is just really really, really excited and stoked on the work that you do and when you're that excited about it, you're going to put the effort into it. And if you put the effort into learning it the best that you can, I mean, obviously, right, people want to work with talented people, right? You don't want to hire someone who's like just bought their first camera, you know, so learn your craft be as expert as possible and just make sure you're really excited about it and I think that translates better than anything.
Lisa: Absolutely. What's your definition of showing up as a pro? What does it mean to be a pro to you?
Re: Oh, you asked this one in our panel, didn't you?
Lisa: Yeah, I'm obsessed with this because everyone has such different styles and I work many photographers and I'm just like, huh? Everyone's different.
Re: Ah, yeah. It's an interesting question. I mean I think showing up as a pro is, I mean, especially if you're doing a paid photo shoot, but even if you're not even if you're just asking an athlete to go out and work with you, I mean, I don't know be professional about it, right like show up with all your gear, show up with a plan and be dedicated to your plan and don't slack off all day. Unless.. there's always a caveat. I mean, sometimes you got to read your crew. And if you're not on a commercial shoot, right, if it's a day where you're out working with some athletes that you're just building a working relationship with maybe it is a day to kind of have more fun. Right but I think you can still be professional and have fun. Gosh, I feel like I should have pre-planned this one.
Because right, you're like what does it mean to show up as a pro? And I'm like, well, it means to be professional. Thanks, Re. I don't know. I mean, I think I'm gonna have to work... maybe we can come back to that. I got to work on some better some better verbiage here.
Lisa: Yeah, I think I think it's really interesting. You know, like as an agency we have a special project where it just makes more sense to hire a photographer and then send someone in-house we hire a lot of photographers and they all bring their own personality as well as their own process into our creative process. And and so it's interesting, you know, trying to... there's no way to like just blanket integrate photographer because everyone is so different every scene of the ground and ambassadors are all different. So it's really something I find interesting is like, what is a commonality between like when it really becomes professional situation and I think... communication is a really big one.
Re: Yes.
Lisa: Absolutely. And I think like when photographer show up and they aren't physically fit enough and like the athletes have to carry their gear or things like... I'm not into that, you know, so I think there's it's it's tough in outdoor because you have to have this physical aspect to your job as well as creative and it can be a lot totally.
Re: Yeah. Yeah, this is I mean, you've got a you've got an interesting perspective on it coming from a place of hiring many different photographers. Yeah, I think yeah, something that just popped into my head to is to just take what you're doing seriously, but I think whether it's a commercial shoot or working on spec that's something that I do naturally is take it seriously. And when you're especially working in an outdoor environment, especially in the backcountry, especially if you've got athletes that are pushing their limits, you've got to take that seriously because, right, missing communication can be a dangerous situation. And obviously that's not what you want. It's not what anybody wants. It's not good for anybody, getting paid or not getting paid but communication certainly huge.
Lisa: Yeah.
Re: I always tell my crew like I want just a good positive mental zone as well. Like even if a shoot is like going... if it's tanking, right, like like you said the last thing you want to do is let on that you think it's tanking because it will tank so much faster and it's like so much harder to recover from right to something's going wrong. You still need to keep it all super positive. And work through it. That is one of my biggest, biggest tenants. It's like rule number one, positive mental vibes zone.
Lisa: Yes.
Re: You were there. We went over that. Rule number one. Along with rule number one, always zip your backpack.
Lisa: I break rule number one all the time.
Re: That's one that you'll learn. You'll learn.
Lisa: Always, and then mountain biking I transitioned to using a fanny pack. Now, I'm always leaving my fanny pack open.
Re: Oh my. seems real dangerous. Living on the edge.
Lisa: Yeah. I'm lucky I still have a cell phone.
Re: Back up camera. Hmm.
Lisa: Yeah, I think I'm curious. I imagine you'll always work in the creative industry because you probably just can't help it. That's just the way you are.
Re: Exactly. Yeah. I mean, we, I think we touched on the definition of what it means to be an artist back in the winter. And I came across this definition in the last year where someone was defining being an artist as, well, "You're an artist if you can't not do something," right and I feel like I can't not shoot photos of women doing awesome things. And previously I was like, oh, I'm just I'm a photographer. I didn't think of myself as much as an artist. And so it was really it was just really awesome revelation for me again, like seems so simple, but. It was really awesome to kind of have that revelation of like, oh, maybe I am an artist. Maybe that's okay. Maybe I can call myself an artist, you know, I don't have a gallery. I'm not like selling fine art prints at least not right now, but maybe I should because, to me this is my craft and this is something that I can't live without doing. I don't know and feel like I'm living my best life, I guess.
Lisa: Yeah, do you ever... do you ever feel like there's like a potential for burnout because you have done such a great job just fusing your passion with your profession. Do you ever get burnt out or is it just something that stokes itself and is it just the way that you are and always will be?
Re: Yeah, I can't say that I've hit like a real burnout, especially when it comes to shooting with with women like every time I'm out there with my camera shooting women doing rad things just being awesome, you know just being rad examples of humans. I'm stoked. I've never ever felt burnt out about that. I will say that I have had some experience just having too much work lined up back-to-back. Where I have gotten burnt out and it's not like it's not burn out where I'm like, oh, I don't want to do this anymore. It's just like, oh, I need some life balance. I need some sleep. I need to let my body rest. I think that probably comes with, well not probably, definitely comes with age. You recognize more that you need a little more rest and recovery time when you're out doing such physical work. I mean, I think everybody does whether you're at a desk job or whether. Doing physical work, but especially physical work. You need to let your body rest, so it's not really like work burnout, but you do need feel good recovery balance time and I definitely learned that the hard way.
Lisa: Do you find yourself caring more about like nutrition and good food when you used to?
Re: Yes, definitely. Although I think I always cared I just wasn't educated as much about it. So I've definitely been taking more strides to educate myself about it in the last maybe four years or so and some of it too I think is just we as a society didn't realize how bad we were treating our bodies based on our diet. You know, what you refer to as the American industrialized diet right full of processed foods full of sugar and you know, we didn't fully understand the detriment of that diet. So we've got a lot more just studies coming out now so that we can be more informed and understand more.
Lisa: Oh, yeah, like oh hot pockets are bad for you.
Re: Yeah. There's like sugar hiding and everything and eating fat does not make you fat but eating too much sugar will will make you fat, right. And we need more protein to operate especially, you know, as an athlete or with an active job and especially women need more protein than most of them realize.
Re: That's been a big thing trying to up the protein intake.
Lisa: Want to know something hilarious? I have a twin sister and for years, I'm a vegetarian and I talked about protein a lot. Apparently, she's had a drinking game going with her boyfriend for like years because every time I say protein like because talk about it way too much. I just found out, it's been going on for years.
Re: That's amazing.
Lisa: So they're making fun of me this whole time.
Re: Hopefully they're learning in the process. That's funny.
Lisa: Yeah, cool. Well, thank you so much for being on the podcast.
Re: You're welcome. Thank you!
Lisa: They can find you on Instagram and @ReWikstrom. I'll put links in the show notes and your website, which is ReWikstrom.com. Easy.
Re: That's right. I got in early.
Lisa: Yeah, awesome. And yeah, thank you so much for being you.
Re: Oh, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to even do this podcast. It's amazing.
Lisa: Alright, thank you so much for tuning in to Outside by Design. I told you Re was a heavy hitter and she just is, man. I have so much respect for Re.
Tune in next week when a really fun episode comes out. I enjoyed it. It's heavy because I'm speaking with my friend and partnership manager for Camber Outdoors. Her name is Sallie Hoefer and Sallie. Sallie doesn't bullshit. Sallie is a very intellectual person and a deep thinker and that comes across in the podcast. Here's a sneak peek. Please tune in next week. It's a really good one.
Sallie: God. So I won't name any one in particular but I look at some people's feeds who I love but I'm just like, come on. There's five men on there and one woman and they're all white. And guess what, you're missing a half of the country, more than half of the country when you're only marketing it to this group of people. And if people can't see themselves in your ad, they're not going to be compelled to buy the product or to look into the product more or to like your feed or to start following your feed. So to Brand managers and marketing people out there. It's the right thing to do to show a diverse group of people in your branding but more than that: It's really good business.
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The Latest Mission U.S. Game Teaches Students About Immigration
Thanks to Glenn Wiebe, earlier this week I learned that one of my favorite U.S. History games has added a new component. Just about one year after Mission U.S. added A Cheyenne Odyssey they have added City of Immigrants. City of Immigrants is the fourth game in the Mission U.S. series.
City of Immigrants is set in New York City in 1907. Players take on the role of a fourteen year-old Jewish immigrant named Lena Brodsky. Lena is from Russia and she arrived in New York after her older brother who came to New York a few years earlier and sent money home to buy passage for family members. Lena is now trying to earn money to send home so that her parents can come to New York. Throughout the game you meet other people in Lena's life in New York who are faced with tough choices just like she is.
City of Immigrants could be a great game for middle school students and some high school students to play to learn about the challenges that faced immigrants to New York in the early 1900's. What I really like about the game is that players meet the various people involved in Lena's life. Meeting those people could help students understand the community dynamics common to immigrant neighborhoods at the time.
The Mission U.S. games are available to use in your web browser. Some of the games will work on iPads and Android tablets. The Mission U.S. website offers an educators section that includes printable lists of vocabulary terms, writing prompts, and post-game discussion prompts.
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Reid: Moment of madness cost us
And Baggies right-back reveals Popov has apologised to team-mates as well as fans
STEVEN Reid has urged his team-mates to stop shooting themselves in the foot following Goran Popov's unnecessary sending-off in yesterday's 1-0 defeat by Tottenham at The Hawthorns.
The Macedonia international left the Baggies with ten men, with the game goalless, after seeing red in the 48th minute for spitting in the direction of Kyle Walker.
Popov later said sorry to his team-mates and apologised to fans via a team-mate's Twitter account as he does not have his own.
And Reid insists Albion must cut needless mistakes out of their game if they are to return to the kind of form which saw them record four-successive Premier League victories in November.
"At the start of the second half we shot ourselves in the foot and we were up against it with ten men against a team with the pace and power of Tottenham," said Reid.
"In recent weeks we've been shooting ourselves in the foot by going one and two down which makes it difficult.
"Yesterday, at the start of the second half, Goran's let us down with the red card.
"He's apologised and he's let us down, so what more can I say?
"He's got a suspension now and we've got Ridgey [Liam Ridgewell] to come in and fill that gap.
"I can't stress how difficult it is when you go down to ten men.
"It's just a moment of madness and it happens in football - but as I say we can't keep shooting ourselves in the foot like that.
"We need to give ourselves a better opportunity to stay in the game."
Reid has now urged his team-mates to dwell on the positives from the game against Champions League-chasing Spurs.
"The atmosphere in the dressing room is pretty positive to be honest," he added.
"We've fought well, we created chances and we feel if it was 11 against 11 we could have gone on and got something from the game.
"It's more positive than it has been in previous weeks and all we can do is get back to training and hopefully dig ourselves out of the run of form we're in.
"In recent weeks we've been doing that and yesterday was a much better performance -- but once again it's disappointing to lose.
"We're confident in the dressing room with the performance and I think in the first half we were outstanding, and we dealt with everything they threw at us.
"We also had a few chances ourselves.
"I don't think we need to dwell on the defeat, it's disappointing, but there are plenty of positives from the game, especially first half, and we've shown glimpses of the early season form."


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Are Solar Feed-In Tariffs a Rip Off?
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With the launch of the new UK renewable energy feed-in tariffs, the Government will now be paying every homeowner that installs solar panels and other renewables a guaranteed income in addition to the energy savings they are likely to reap. But some environmentalists are less than happy about it. In fact George Monbiot, who has previously called for a 100% cut in carbon emissions and attacked the much hyped biochar industry, claims that it is "wasteful", "regressive", and that it transfers money from the poor to the middle class. In a post that is unambiguously titled "Are We Really Going to Let Ourselves be Duped by this Solar Panel Rip Off?", Monbiot sets out his reasoning that this is an astoundingly expensive way of saving carbon when compared to investing in insulation, or even building a new nuclear reactor. Besides the sheer cost, argues Monbiot, solar PV is more appropriate for hot climates where peak demand coincides with sunny days—not the UK where it is the precise opposite:
"Solar PV is a great technology - if you live in southern California. But the further from the equator you travel, the less sense it makes. It's not just that the amount of power PV panels produce at this latitude is risible, they also produce it at the wrong time. In hot countries, where air conditioning guzzles electricity, peak demand coincides with peak solar radiation. In the UK, peak demand takes place between 5pm and 7pm on winter evenings. Do I need to spell out the implications?"
Meanwhile Jeremy Leggett—founder of Solarcentury and a leading proponent of solar in the UK—unsurprisingly disagrees. In a response titled Solar Panels are Not Fashion Accessories , Leggett argues that Mobiot's claims that economies of scale are impossible is wrong—and that solar panel prices are in fact coming down dramatically. He also argues that Monbiot has inflated the cost of the scheme, and misrepresented the German government's position regarding dialing back their own feed-in tariff legislation, something that Leggett says was always on the cards as this is how this type of stimulus is supposed to work.
So who's right? There's no doubt that Leggett makes his money from selling solar panels, and so makes a natural (and biased) advocate for solar. And his claim that "the companies who manufacture solar PV in the UK have shown that putting solar panels on all available building surfaces would generate more electricity in a year, under typical cloudy British skies, than the entire electricity consumption of our energy-profligate nation" should obviously be taken with a large pinch of salt.
But Monbiot's case that money would be better spent on insulation or other lower cost measures ignores the fact that huge amounts of Government money is going to these very same measures. Solar is just one technology in our arsenal. And it seems to me like a technology worth pursuing. Just not in isolation.
With the launch of the new UK renewable energy feed-in tariffs, the Government will now be paying every homeowner that installs solar panels and other renewables a guaranteed income in addition to the energy savings they are
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Funds for new path at Battle Recreation Ground and other Rother projects
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Huw Oxburgh, local democracy reporter
Community organisations in Rother could be set to receive grants totalling more than £60,000 if approved by council leaders next week.
Next Monday (March 11), Rother District Council cabinet members are to consider proposals on whether to award money as part of the council's Community Grants Scheme.
If approved, the council would award a total of £61,337, to be split among five local organisations: the Battle Local Action Planning Group; Bexhill Senior Citizens Club; Crowhurst Youth Club; Guestling Parish Council; and Westfield Parish Council.
In a report to cabinet, a council officer said: "The council's Community Grant Scheme makes provision for up to £130,000 per annum to be made available to community groups or organisations that meet the grant criteria.
"A total of £65,831 was awarded during round one of the Community Grants Scheme. A further £1,470 has been awarded through the Small Grants Scheme.
"Should cabinet agree with the panel's recommendation to award the applications above then this will result in a maximum of £61,337 being awarded in round two."
If approved, the council will give grant money of £25,000 to the Battle Local Action Planning Group for a project to create a walking and cycle pathway at Battle Recreation Ground.
The project already has grant funding of £30,000 from Battle Town Council, Lottery funding of £93,118 and an additional £8,022 through local fundraising efforts.
Westfield Parish Council is also to receive £25,000, which will go towards providing a new pavilion for the village's cricket club.
Meanwhile Bexhill Senior Citizens Club will receive £4,875 to build an accessible toilet within its club building, Guestling Parish Council will receive £4,984 to improve its community playing fields; and Crowhurst Youth Club will receive match-funding of £1,478 towards building improvements.
A final decision on the grants is to be made a cabinet meeting on Monday, March 11.


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50 years married! What an honor to photograph this lovely couple and their vow renewal! They celebrated their anniversary with friends and family at Deer Creek Country Club in Jacksonville. We captured portraits of everyone on the green before they renewed their vows in a beautiful afternoon ceremony after which they had a first dance and dinner at the clubhouse.


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8 Ways to Eat More Veggies!
Nutrition Coach Amy Joshu shares great ways to get in your 5 servings on vegetables a day! Get these nutrition tips, delicious healthy recipes and more from nutrition coach, Amy Joshu at https://fueledbyhellabella.com/.
Smoothies are packed with sugar if all you include in them is fruit, but you toss spinach, carrots, avocado or beets, and without compromising the flavor you have a nutrient dense drink that will sustain you for longer. Balance this with berries or banana, almond milk, Greek yogurt or protein powder and your favorite nut butter and you won't even know the spinach is there.
2. Throw veggies into your morning eggs.
Not a smoothie person, but love eggs? Whether you make a scramble, omelet, quiche, or frittata, vegetables are easily added into the mix. If veggies sound terrible first thing in the morning, try mincing (chopping them into itty-bitty pieces) spinach or broccoli. Sprinkle them in without sacrificing too much taste or texture of your beloved eggs. Then you will start your day with a serving of greens!
Pureed veggies just may be the sneakiest way to grab another serving of vegetables for you and especially your kids! Add pureed pumpkin, sweet potato, tomatoes, or carrots to thicken up sauces and soups, or hidden in hamburgers or meatballs. If you make your own pasta sauce, puree cauliflower and greens into it! You can also jazz up store bought sauce with these additions.
Cauliflower is one of the most versatile of the vegetable world. It takes on the flavor of almost anything it is mixed with or cooked into! Grab a bag of riced cauliflower add it to literally anything and everything. Bulk up your quinoa or rice portions, mix it into burger patties or eggs. You can even completely substitute rice or pizza dough with cauliflower.
5. Substitute pasta for veggie noodles.
Spaghetti squash, zucchini, carrot, sweet potato can all be transformed into a nutrient dense noodle option with the amazing spiralizer kitchen tool! Don't have a spiralizer at home, never fear. Spiralized noodles can also be found in the produce and frozen section of most grocery stores.
6. Sneak them into your baked goods.
The obvious options are carrot muffins and zucchini bread, but what about sneaking in an extra serving of spinach into chocolate muffins or brownies. Not only are you satisfying your sweet tooth, but getting in a little more nutrients without even realizing it!
Sometime you just want something crunchy and salty, but ditch the greasy potato chips for some home-baked, nutrient-packed vegetable goodness. This can come in the form of paper thin crispy Kale chips or potato chip replacement options such as sweet potatoes, beets, carrot or zucchini. Easy to make, just thin-slice you veggie of choice drizzle with oil and toss them in the oven.
8. Lettuce Wrap your sandwich, burrito or burger.
Turn these typically carb heavy dishes into a lighter option with more nutrients. Try different types of lettuce such a butter lettuce, Romain leaves or collard greens! Add cucumbers, sprouts, or extra tomatoes and before you know it you have a salad free serving of veggies. The possibilities are endless.


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Home / R&D News / 2019 / Genetic mutation could lead to new pain treatments
Genetic mutation could lead to new pain treatments
Doctors have identified a new mutation in a previously unknown gene which scientists believe must play a major role in pain signaling, mood and memory — boosting hopes of new treatments for chronic pain.
A 71 year old Scottish woman has experienced broken limbs, cuts and burns, childbirth and numerous surgical operations with little or no need for pain relief.
In a report published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, pain specialists as UCL London describe how they found two notable mutations in the patient's DNA. Together, the mutations suppress pain and anxiety, while boosting happiness and wound healing.
The first mutation found is common in the general population. It dampens down the activity of a gene called FAAH. The second mutation involved a missing chunk of DNA. Further analysis showed that the "deletion" chopped the front off a nearby, previously unknown gene the scientists named FAAH-OUT. The researchers think this new gene works like a volume control on the FAAH gene.
Scientists are hopeful that understanding how the new gene works could lead to gene therapies that mimic the effects seen in the patient.
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Researchers look to "magic mushrooms" to treat depression
New trials have shown the drug psilocybin - the active ingredient of magic mushrooms - to be effective in treating depression, and U.S. cities are starting to decriminalize it.
Novartis taking new approach to cancer — stopping it before it starts
Bucking an industry trend to search for a cancer cure, Novartis is exploring ways to prevent the disease from developing at all.
Scientists develop microrobots for targeted drug delivery
A team of scientists has created a type of microrobot that can swim through the body to deliver treatments to diseased tissue.
GMO houseplant filters carcinogens
Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant — pothos ivy or devil's ivy — to remove chloroform and benzene from the air.
Experimental HIV vax works in primates
Scientists at Scripps Research have published new research that shows that their experimental vaccine strategy works in non-human primates.
Philanthropist donates $200M towards Harvard biomedical science
A foundation headed by philanthropist Len Blavatnik has given Harvard Medical School its largest gift, $200 million, with the overarching aim of transforming new medical discoveries into patient treatments.
Scientists make discovery they believe could lead to full-proof cancer treatment
A team of researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a kill code embedded in every cell in the body that's designed to combat cancer.
Researchers use cancer drug and antidepressants to fight untreatable 'brain-eating' infection
Cases of severe infections from the amoeba N. fowleri are rare — but there's currently no way to stop the disease and it is almost always fatal.


Political understanding between India and ASEAN started on a low profile after the disintegration of the erstwhile Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. After several decades of neglect, India-ASEAN relations have started to gain momentum in recent years. The post-Cold War global strategic developments have impacted the relationship between India and ASEAN, leading to significant improvements in relations. Today, both sides are well-placed to expand their cooperation. They do not have any bilateral territorial disputes, security fears or any sort of conflicts.
The political understanding to transform the partnership into a strategic one is reflected in the increasing frequency of high-level official visits from India to ASEAN and vice versa. The last one decade has witnessed an enormous rise in the frequency and intensity of contacts between India and ASEAN at the highest levels of government and among officials and non-officials. This emerging trend has highlighted an increased awareness on both sides of the massive potential for enhancement of multilateral cooperation encompassing political, economic, defence and security.
It is clear that the nature of the India-ASEAN relationship has undergone a significant transformation from benign neglect to constructive engagement. The relationship has seen an upward trajectory after the successful formulation of India's Look East Policy in the early 1990s. The Look East Policy has been vital to India gaining strategic weight in Southeast Asia and beyond. Increasing understanding between India and ASEAN has enabled the partnership to gain endurance and comprehensiveness. Both India and ASEAN have made remarkable progress in their engagement but still a lot needs to be done for further growth and deepening of mutually advantageous relations. Today, ASEAN nations have become an inevitable partner for India and vice versa, and will continue to be in the coming decades. Going by the current trend, the future of India and ASEAN cooperation in political, economic, technological and military spheres holds great prospects.
Dr Mohammad Samir Hussain is a post-doctoral fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
1 Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, "ASEAN-India Political Cooperation: How to Reinforce a Much-Needed Pillar", IFRI Center for Asian Studies, March 2013, p. 12.
2 Sujit Datta, "India and ASEAN: A Framework for Comprehensive Engagement", Institute of Defence and Security Analysis, New Delhi, available at http://www.idsa-india.org/an-jun-1.html.
3 Thongkholal Haokip, "India's Look East Policy: Its Evolution and Approach", South Asian Survey, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2011, pp. 249-50.
4 Sukhdeep Singh, "India and the ASEAN Since 1991: Challenges and Prospects ", Ph.D Thesis Submitted to the Department of Political Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, November 2011, pp. 133-34.
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Q: How can I implement a 1st person camera view? I'm following this tutorial right now: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/roll-ball-tutorial/moving-camera?playlist=17141
I've managed to implement a 3rd person camera view button, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do the same for a 1st person camera view. Below is a camera control script that I attached to the main camera:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class cameraControls : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject player;
    private Vector3 offset;
    public bool thirdPerson;
    public bool firstPerson;

    void OnGUI()
    {
        // 3rd person camera view
        if (GUI.Button(new Rect(20, 50, 140, 40), "3rd Person Camera"))
        {
            thirdPerson = true;
        }

        // 1st person camera view
        if (GUI.Button(new Rect(20, 110, 140, 40), "1st Person Camera"))
        {
            firstPerson = false;
        }
    }

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (thirdPerson == true)
        {
            transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
        }
    }
}

A: Well, while it might be okay for such a small tutorial:
you should not use the GUI and OnGUI stuff for ingame UI. unity released in version 4.6 (years ago) a better UI system.
you could have 2 cameras, one for 3rd person one for 1st person. when pressing one of your buttons, you disable one camera and enable the other.

based on your edit:
you currently have 2 bool variables there, one for "firstPerson" one for "thirdPerson", thats redundant.
what do you do if both are true? or both are false? just have one variable e.g. "thirdPerson" true -> use 3rd person, false -> use 1st person.
also i see that you have decided to change the cameras position instead of using 2 cameras. this is also is a possible way to accomplish your goal

A: You can use a single camera and change its position based on which viewing angle should be active. Try to attatch two empty objects as children to your player object and add a reference to them in your script (your camera also needs to be a child of your player for this to work). Then drag & drop them from the hierarchy to the inspector and just switch between those positions like so:
public Transform firstPersonPosition;
public Transform thirdPersonPosition;
public Camera camera;

private void GoFirstPerson()
{
    camera.transform.position = firstPersonPosition.position;
}
private void GoThirdPerson()
{
    camera.transform.position = thirdPersonPosition.position;
}

You can basically use them as "waypoints" for your camera to jump to.
//Edit:
If you are having problems with understanding how your code affects your GameObjects during Play Mode just switch to Scene View during play and look at your objects and where they are in the scene. I bet your first person camera is somewhere in your player model because you set its position to your players position.

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Kehlani Butterfly Mp3 Download – Kehlani is gearing up to release a new project While We Wait this month and today, she comes through with her new single, "Butterfly." The track serves as the second single off of the project following "Nights Like This" with fellow West Coast crooner, Ty Dolla $ign. Kehlani serves up a smooth, late-night vibe on "Butterfly." The production is simply carried by a guitar lick with a muffled vocal sample sitting in the background while Kehlani shows a softer side before closing things out with a spoken word-type piece.
The release of her new track comes shortly after winning a Grammy for her contributions to Cardi B's Invasion Of Privacy. Her new project is set to drop on Feb 22nd and features appearances from Dom Kennedy, Musiq Soulchild, 6lack, and Ty Dolla $ign.
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Vol. 16, No. 30 - April 24, 2012
Alumna Returns to Give Commencement Address
Grad Week Celebrated Statewide
TOMS Event Calls to Shed Shoes
SIFE Advances to National Exposition
SUB Acquires Student Paintings
Music Groups Collaborate for "The Creation" April 28
Gokhale Recognized by Alpha Sigma Alpha
Markeson Retirement Reception
Faculty Staff Ice Cream Social
Extended Library Hours Trial Period
Of Miracles and Medicine: Problem Cases in Bioethics
China Study Abroad Internship
Lunch-n-Learn Series for Faculty
Language and Literary Conference with Deborah Glaser
SAB Spring Concert: Sara Bareilles
"Of the Month" Award Winners
FAC Enrollment Open
Boiler Shutdown
Grove Retirement Reception
Sweet Internships Photo Contest
ITS Activities
Every Friday is Purple Friday
The Center for International Education has announced that Teresa Borgmeyer, a student participating in the ISEP program in Murcia, Spain for the 2012-2013 academic year, has been awarded the Rotary Foundation International Scholarship.
Tom Capuano, professor of Spanish, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the Summer Institute "Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean," taking place in Barcelona, Spain from July 2-27.
Members of Truman's McNair program received recognition at the 34th Annual Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska (MKN) TRiO Conference in Kansas City, Mo., April 5. Current McNair Scholar Kassi Crocker, a biology major, was awarded the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP) Board of Directors Scholarship. McNair alumna Tajanette Sconyers, currently a graduate student at the University of Missouri, received the MKN Rising TRiO Achiever Scholarship. Another Truman McNair alumnus, Jas Sullivan, received the 2012 MKN TRiO Achiever Award. This award recognizes outstanding former TRiO participants for success in their current field. Sullivan graduated from Truman in 1997 with a political science degree. He went on to earn multiple master's degrees from Southern Illinois University and Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 2005. Currently, he is an assistant professor of political science and African and African-American studies at LSU.
Jas Sullivan with Sylvia Macauley, Truman McNair Program Director.
Janet Gooch, professor and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Education, was awarded Honors of the Association at the Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) 2012 Annual Convention in Osage Beach, Mo., April 12-15. This award is the highest honor the Association can give. In addition, Margaret Hilliard, a communication disorders graduate student, was awarded MSHA Outstanding Graduate Student.
Calli Price, a justice systems major, has had her review of "Security: An Introduction," written by Philip Purpura, accepted for publication. Price's review will appear in the May edition of Security Journal.


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For many years, there has been a duty for schools to promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of their pupils. More recently, the Department for Education has reinforced the requirement for schools to promote 'fundamental British values' through SMSC development:
'It is expected that pupils should understand that while different people may hold different views about what is 'right' and 'wrong', all people living in England are subject to its law. The school's ethos and teaching, which schools should make parents aware of, should support the rule of English civil and criminal law and schools should not teach anything that undermines it. If schools teach about religious law, particular care should be taken to explore the relationship between state and religious law. Pupils should be made aware of the difference between the law of the land and religious law.'
Fundamental British values are defined as follows:
Individual liberty
Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
Each year the children decide upon their class rules and charters and the rights associated with these. All the children contribute to the drawing up of these charters .
We have a school council which meets every month to discuss issues raised in class. Every child on the school council is voted in by their class, following the presentation of their manifesto.
Children have an annual questionnaire where they are able to put forward their views about the school.
The Rule of Law
The importance of laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced at Fleetville through assemblies and through the curriculum.
Pupils are taught the rules of the school, particularly the value and reasons behind rules and laws - that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from authorities, such as the Police, help reinforce this message.
Pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, within the security of a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for pupils to make informed choices. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and through our e-Safety and PSHE lessons, advised how to exercise these safely.
Mutual respect is at the heart of our values. Children learn that their behaviours have an effect on their own rights and those of others. All members of the school community are taught and encouraged to treat each other with respect.
Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs
The Fleetville community is culturally very diverse. There are 24 different languages spoken in our school and we actively promote diversity through our celebrations of different faiths and cultures.
Religious Education lessons, PSHE lessons and Philosophy for Children discussions, reinforce messages of tolerance and respect for others.
Members of different faiths and religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes and the school and the children visit places of worship, both within our community and further afield, that are important to different faiths.
Modelling the British Values
During a House Assembly a key figure was chosen for each house. These figures were not only chosen because they represent of our key values, but also because they promote the British Values. They represent a cross section of people from different backgrounds, who have different faiths and people who have contrasting beliefs; showing our pupils that we celebrate and promote Individual Liberty.
Respecting Each Other
We are lucky that our school community is made up of families from different cultures and countries. It is important to us that our pupils understand to celebrate our difference and learn about each others cultures with respect.
Learning Sign Language
As part of our work on British Values we talk to the children about celebrating differences and showing respect to each other.
During the Year 4 Carol Concert the children sung Deck the halls and accompanied this with sign language.


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My name is Custio Clayton, I am a 26 year boxer from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. I competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games in the Men's Welterweight division, where I finished 5th place after a controversial loss in the quarter finals to British fighter Freddie Evans. Now, I've got my eyes on the upcoming 2014 CommonWealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. I want to bring home the gold for Canada, and show the world how strong a fighter I am.
I've been training at the City of Lakes boxing club since I was 8 years old, and sparring since I was 9 years old. I've had a passion for the sport from a young age, and a desire to get in the ring and compete. I believe it takes a tremendous amount of heart to step through the ropes and enter the boxing ring, and I have always respected each and every opponent I've faced.
I've worked with my coaches Floyd Donovan and Gary Johnson throughout my career, and they have led me to become the fighter I am today. They have pushed me over the years, and I have loved the feeling of getting better each and every time I enter the gym.
I am currently the proud father of two, Cheyla and Kyreece Clayton, and am looking forward to being the best possible fighter and father that I can be. That means dedicating enough time to my training, attending international competitions and boxing tournaments, and continuing to work with the national team to improve both my skillset and fitness. With your support I can focus more time and effort into making my boxing dreams come true. That means Commonweakth gold in my near future, and hopefully one day a belt and ranking as a top professional fighter in the world!
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