Studies with intact and lysed gastric microsomal vesicles demonstrate that there are two pNPP (p-nitrophenyl phosphate)-and one ATP-hydrolytic sites within the gastric H+, K+-ATPase [(H+ + K+)-transporting ATPase] complex. Whereas the ATPase site is located exclusively on the vesicle exterior, the pNPPase sites are distributed equally on both sides of the bilayer. Competition by ATP for the pNPPase reaction on the vesicle exterior suggests that both ATP and pNPP are hydrolysed at the same catalytic site present at the outside surface of the intact vesicles. However, a biphasic inhibition of the K+-pNPPase (K+-stimulated pNPPase) by ATP in the lysed vesicles suggest the pNPPase site of the vesicle interior to have very low affinity (Ki approximately equal to 1.2 mM) for ATP compared with the vesicle exterior (Ki approximately equal to 0.2 mM). Studies with spermine, which competes with K+ for the K+-pNPPase reaction without inhibiting the H+, K+-ATPase, suggest there are two separate K+ sites for the pNPPase reaction and another distinct K+ site for the ATPase reaction. In contrast with the K+ site for the ATPase, which is located opposite to the catalytic site across the bilayer, both the K+ and the catalytic site for the pNPPase are located on the same side. The data clearly demonstrate that the pNPPase is not a manifestation of the phosphatase step of the total H+, K+-ATPase reaction. The K+-pNPPase associated with the Na+, K+-ATPase also has properties strikingly similar to the gastric K+-pNPPase system, suggesting a resemblance in the basic operating principle of the two ion-transporting enzymes. A unified model has been proposed to explain the present data and many other observations reported in the literature for the ATPase-mediated transport of univalent cations.


My oldest nephew and his sweetie went on a ski trip. Her words at the end of the trip went like this, "What was I thinking? That I could take up two slim sticks, and slide real fast down a mountain and not have problems?" That's after her injury was looked at again by a physician at home.
Oh beloved, this walk of faith is not a simple tiptoe through the tulips. It's no weekend fun day either. It's wonderful! It's supernatural! But just as Dorothy and Toto met trouble along the way, we too will have our share. There is no slide through life. But what makes this life tolerable, joyful and bearable is who goes with us. When we go through stuff, you and I never have to face it alone. And when we get to enjoy life, it's a gift from the Throne Room!
God wants to encourage you today, beloved, to take some chances this year. Do something you've dreamed of doing. Follow God without holding back. Trust Him without reservation. Let Him lead you out of everyday and sliding through life to doing something you know won't succeed unless He does it for you!
God also wants you to know that your prayers are like signed legal documents. They are delivered to Him and signed by the Blood of the Lamb. God answers prayer. You don't have to be afraid to give the big stuff to Him and you don't have to worry about bugging Him with the little stuff. His guarantee includes – He hears your prayers, He considers His will, He plans the best answer and He will deliver it at the right time. Your guarantee is simply to trust and obey. Your life is not the sum of accidents, injuries, troubles or other disasters. Your life is living proof that God is with you in the ups and downs and wherever you may go!
God loves you and He's for you! Bust out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. Burst forth from natural to supernatural! This is your year for impact, victory, pure joy and more. Run to the Lord this morning, thank Him for Jesus, Holy Spirit and life everlasting. And live today abandoned to the One who loves you most and has you in His hands always.
I Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.
Matthew 28:20 …And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.


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Originator Dr Sheldon Bacon
Originating Organization Southampton Oceanography Centre (now National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
Project(s) WOCE
Originator's Identifier A25CTD010
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Height 9.3 m
Sea Floor Depth 3171.2 m
RRS Discovery 230 CTD Data Documentation
CTD profile data are presented from the FOUREX cruise Discovery 230, as reported by Bacon et al. (1998).
Instrumentation and Methodology
Instrumentation Summary
The CTD profiles were taken with Neil Brown Systems MkIIIb/c CTDs (Deep01 and Deep02) mounted beneath a bottle rosette. Both CTDs are MkIIIb instruments converted to a MkIIIc format. Deep02 was specially modified to accept data from two FSI modules: one Platinum Resistance Thermometer Module FSI OTM-D-112 s/n 1325-011592, and one Conductivity Module FSI OCM-D-112 s/n 1333-011592. These mount on a specially modified 10 litre GO water bottle. The CTD was fitted with a dissolved oxygen sensor, a Chelsea Instruments fluorometer s/n 88/2050/95, a Chelsea Instruments Transmissometer s/n 161/2642/003, and a Simrad altimeter (model 807-200m).
Lowering rates for the CTD package were generally in the range 0.5-1.0ms-1 but could be up to 1.5ms-1. CTD data were logged at 16 frames per second. The CTD deck unit passes raw data to a dedicated Level A microcomputer where 1 second averages are assembled. During this process the Level A calculates the rate of change of temperature and a median sorting routine detects and removes pressure spikes. These data are sent to the Level B for archival. The data are then passed to a Level C workstation for conversion to Pstar format and calibration.
A total of 143 stations were occupied. The first 135 stations were occupied using Deep01. For the remaining stations, 136 - 143, Deep02 was used. No CTD oxygen data were measured using Deep02.
The 1 second data passed to the Level C were converted to Pstar format and initially calibrated with coefficients from laboratory calibrations followed by a number of calibration corrections. The up and down cast data were extracted for merging with the bottle firing codes, thus the CTD variables were reconciled with the bottle samples. Final calibrations were applied using the sample bottle data. Finally, down cast data were extracted, sorted on pressure and averaged to 2db values.
The data were worked up to WOCE standards by the data originators before being supplied to BODC.
BODC Data Processing
No further calibrations were applied to the data received by BODC. BODC were mainly concerned with the screening and banking of the data.
The CTD data were received as 2db, pressure sorted, down cast data. Parameters were pressure (dbar), temperature (its-90), salinity (pss-78) and oxygen (µmol/kg). BODC have not received the fluorometer or transmissometer data.
The data were converted into the BODC internal format (a subset of NetCDF) to allow the use of in-house software tools, notably the graphics editor. Oxygen was converted to umol/l. Spikes in the data were manually flagged 'suspect' by modification of the associated quality control flag. In this way none of the original data values were edited or deleted during quality control.
The temperature, salinity and oxygen data from cruise D230 required little flagging and just a few points were set suspect. Profiles 093 and 102 were cold with low salinity. The oxygen profile for 001 has an unusual feature at ~2000db that has been flagged suspect.
Once screened, the CTD data were loaded into a database under the Oracle relational database management system. The start time stored in the database is the CTD deployment time, and the end time is the time the CTD was removed from the water. Actually these times are more precisely the start and end of data logging. Latitude and longitude are the mean positions between the start and end times calculated from the master navigation in the binary merged file.
Bacon, S. et al. (1998). RRS Discovery Cruise 230. Southampton Oceanography Centre, Cruise Report No. 16, 104pp.
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a major international experiment which made measurements and undertook modelling studies of the deep oceans in order to provide a much improved understanding of the role of ocean circulation in changing and ameliorating the Earth's climate.
WOCE had two major goals:
Goal 1. To develop models to predict climate and to collect the data necessary to test them.
Goal 2. To determine the representativeness of the Goal 1 observations and to deduce cost effective means of determining long-term changes in ocean circulation.
The UK made a substantial contribution to the international World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project by focusing on two important regions:
Southern Ocean - links all the worlds oceans, controlling global climate.
North Atlantic - directly affects the climate of Europe.
A major part of the UK effort was in the Southern Ocean and work included:
Two surveys, in the South Atlantic as part of the WOCE Hydrographic Programme.
SWINDEX, a year long study of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) where it crosses major topography south of Africa.
ADOX, a study of deep water flow from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
ACCLAIM, a study of the ACC by altimetry and island measurements.
In the North Atlantic the UK undertook:
NATRE, a purposeful tracer experiment to look at cross isopycnic processes.
CONVEX, a study of the deep ocean circulation and its changes.
VIVALDI, a seven year programme of seasonally repeated surveys to study the upper ocean.
Long-term observations of ocean climate in the North West Approaches.
Satellite ocean surface topography, temperature and wind data were merged with in situ observations and models to create a complete description of ocean circulation, eddy motion and the way the ocean is driven by the atmosphere.
The surveys were forerunners to the international Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). GOOS was later established to monitor annual to decadal changes in ocean circulation and heat storage which are vital in the prediction of climate change.
Cruise Name D230
Principal Scientist(s) Sheldon Bacon (Southampton Oceanography Centre)
Ship RRS Discovery

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bet365 confirms Malta expansion but slams 'wholly inaccurate' reports
The governance of bet365 has confirmed that it will open a new operations-led office in Malta, but has downplayed weekend news as 'inaccurate speculation' regarding its motives. The stoke-based enterprise, responded to an article published by The Sunday Times of Malta, detailing that bet365 would move some 1,000 Gibraltar employees to Malta, as it prepares for Brexit impacts. For its …
Microgaming donation aids YGAM Isle of Man expansion plans
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Virtual Grand National available with BoyleSports and Ladbrokes Coral
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UK Government guarantees 'post-Brexit access' for Gibraltar industry stakeholers
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MansionBet sponsors World Pool Masters' quarter centenary
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Lottoland Nigel Birrell slams DCMS for 'judgement with no evidence' on EuroMillions betting
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Gary Lee, Chair
Retired Captain, Cincinnati Police
Don Larrick, Vice Chair
Retired Principal, Three Rivers Elementary School
"As a former Elementary School Principal, I have seen how Character effects our relationships with others and our own success. Nine years ago we adopted the Character Council's "Words of the Month" after an In-Service Program presented by Mary Russell.
We chose the nine words that we feel most impact our young students. As we have practiced these words (Kindness, Cooperation, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Enthusiasm, Patience, Responsibility and Determination) the climate of our school has changed. There is a sense of Cooperation, Caring, Friendliness, a TEAM spirit and discipline referrals have decreased dramatically.
We believe that "Character Matters" and that "Character Begins with Me"."
Matt Goetz, Treasurer
Senior Manager, Bressler & Company, PSC
"I was inspired to join the board of the Character Council after seeing the impact of the character qualities on my life at work and at home. The Character Council is a great means for bringing out the best in all of us through improving our character each and every day. By practicing good character it energizes me to serve the community. The Character Council is truly a resource to learn how each and every one of us can have an impact on character."
Andre Gendreau, Secretary
Director of Pupil Personnel, Hamilton City Schools
"As a school leader, character education and building a culture of character impact many things in the organization. I heard a smart person say, "character education is not just adding something to your plate, it is the plate impacting everything else." That person impressed me enough to implement many of the 49 character qualities in the school but also to apply and have our school designated with the Promising Practices from Character.org. Being a part of the Character Council for the last 4 years has been such a rewarding experience. In a world where we need to be more accountable than ever before to each other, character matters! "
Dolores J. Lindsay, Past Chair
Founder & CEO, The Healthcare Connection
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Professional Development Manager, Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions
"A friend introduced me to the Character Council in 2001, just shortly after its founding. I was instantly attracted to the 49 (at that time) character qualities. The focus on character over the past 19 years has been life-changing – so simple, never easy, and surprisingly powerful through its combination of ethics, excellence, and caring. Now more than ever we need this focus on high character to illuminate our lives."
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"A friend introduced me to the Character Council last year. As a 3rd grade teacher at Heritage Hill Elementary in the Princeton City School District, Character Education has always been a priority in my curriculum. Instilling the importance of respecting and valuing each other, regardless of differences, is critical to the emotional development of every child. What I enjoy most about our organization is seeing the continuation and growth of what I teach in the classroom, to other parts of our community."
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Program Director, Upspring
"I was first introduced to Character Council last year when they had an event at Interact for Health. I learned so much about the organization and the great work that they do around building character in our communities. I am a huge community advocate serving on many nonprofit boards in the region. I've joined the Character Council Board of Directors so that I can assist in building more connections and partnerships in the communities where I have ties."
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Leave root and 1-inch stem on beets. Rub beets with 1 tablespoon oil; wrap beets tightly in foil. Roast beets at 400° for 1 1/2 hours or until very tender. Cool for 15 minutes. Trim off beet roots; rub off skins. Discard roots and skins. Cut beets into wedges.
Cook farro according to package directions; drain. Rinse farro under cold water; drain well. Spread farro out on paper towels to dry out slightly.
Place vinegar and figs in a small saucepan. Cover and cook gently for 10 minutes over medium heat. Remove from heat; cool completely. Place vinegar mixture, thyme, salt, and pepper in a large bowl; gradually add remaining 5 tablespoons oil, stirring constantly with a whisk. Add beet wedges, farro, fennel, zucchini, and watercress to bowl; toss to coat. Sprinkle salad with almonds.
Versatile and hearty enough to be a main course. Will make again!
I made this last night and it was a hit, and very filling as a light, healthy dinner. I did use some substitutions based upon what was in my fridge and pantry (arugula instead of watercress, apple cider vinegar instead of red vinegar) and I added a small amount of feta and reduced the fennel, but I think it retained the spirit of the original recipe. I would recommend this to anyone and agree with the other reviewer who felt this would be a nice salad to make for company. It looked very appealing and tasted just as good. Would certainly make again--I'm not a huge salad fan and this was one that didn't feel like punishment.
It does take time to prepare this dish, with the need to roast the beets, cook the farro, simmer the figs in vinegar, and chop up the rest of the ingredients... but it was delicious and I would make it again. I would maybe halve the fennel next time, as I am not a huge fan of it, but it did add a nice flavor to the mix. I also could not find watercress at my store so I used brussel sprouts (raw) and a little baby spinach to replace the green. Overall I would make it again, for company, it was an impressive salad.


A new "modules" API which allows you to create extension modules for Bing Maps. This also comes with the three following built-in modules.
Directions: This is a simplified API to access the Routes REST API. It provides a very convenient interface, with attractive features such as draggable waypoints which trigger a recalculation of the route, and clickable instructions which causes the map to zoom on the corresponding location.
We advise you to only use our previously existing interface to the Routes REST API if you want to use it without displaying a map.
Traffic: This simple class allows you to display traffic information as a layer on the map.
VenueMaps: This API provides precise information about buildings surrounding an area, and draws their ground footprint on the map.
To demonstrate the simplicity of these new APIs, here is the code for a map allowing the user to search for a route between two locations.
The updated extension for Bing Maps can be downloaded at this address.


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On writing (or 'on not writing')
July 30, 2011 thesociallinguist	5 comments
Yesterday, I had an unfortunate episode of writer's block, probably the first time since I submitted my PhD that I've properly struck by it. This was particularly frustrating because I've felt in quite good form recently with my writing in that I've managed to put in a couple of funding applications, a conference abstract, a book proposal, a chapter abstract and all of my blogs posts (all… six of 'em) over the past six months or so. So yeah, things were going quite well and then Friday came along and… nothing… My mind was just completely frozen up and every time I looked at the screen I just couldn't find the words. At all. Maybe it's a bit of a mental hangover from finishing my competitive co-operation paper I submitted on Sunday (in which I used the very attractive term 'co-opetition'. It just trips off the tongue, doesn't it?), or maybe it's just changing gear to something completely different. Whatever it is, I hope it runs its course sometime soon and let me get back on it, especially since I just recently found out that I won't be returned as an Early Career Researcher for REF2014, meaning that instead of submitting two 'pieces of assessment', I now need to submit four. Not a big deal and I would have had the four by the end of 2013 anyway, but now that it's 'mandated' by my department, I feel a little bit of pressure on to get it done.
So this current article I'm working on is about orientations towards violence among working-class adolescent males and the most I was able to do was take a conference paper I'd done on it from about 10 months ago and reorganise it into something resembling an article (if only in terms of section headings rather than actual content). I had originally planned to submit it to the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, a very highly respected publication edited by a colleague of mine at Birmingham City University (Professor David Wilson), but since the majority of their publications are focused on the penal industry (stop snickering), I didn't think that my article was a particularly good fit. So, I've decided to submit it instead to the British Journal of Criminology where it seems to fit a bit better. I did get massively excited when I stumbled upon this research centre at the University of Glasgow and was particularly taken by the following quote:
"The tradition of the hard man has tremendous currency in contemporary Scottish popular commentary and in literature but there has been little serious discussion of his antecedents or of the constituents of manliness that have seemingly prevailed in Scottish society."
In my article, this is more or less what I'm investigating: what is it to be a 'man' in contemporary Glasgow today, what role does violence play in the construction of 'tough' masculinity in the city, and how far do adolescent males resist, contest and challenge dominant ideologies of 'tough' masculinity? I'm especially interested in the impact of violence on adolescent male constructions of masculinity because the image of the 'hard man' is such a dominant cultural touchstone for young men (promoted in large part by parents and caregivers). I'm analysing narratives (again) to see how the participants in my ethnography talk about their experiences of violence and what it means to them to be a 'man'. My biggest argument is that violence really is a part of the lives of many adolescent males in Glasgow, but not in the ways we might stereotypically think (especially because I problematise how far violence can be considered the preserve of only 'neds'. And yes, I know the term is an issue, which is why it's in scare quotes).
Maybe, just maybe, by the beginning of the week the fog will have lifted (metaphorically speaking) and I'll be able to make some headway on this article before I have to start thinking about putting together yet another funding application…
Categories: Research Tags: criminology, glasgow, research, violence, writer's block, writing
Sociolinguistics Summer School 3 (part 2)
July 26, 2011 thesociallinguist	Leave a comment
Tuesday and time for part 2 of Sociolinguistics Summer School. We've still got two sessions to run through; Lauren Hall-Lew and Erez Levon.
Lauren's session focused on language and indexicality; that is, how linguistic variation acquires meaning and the kinds of social meanings which are 'indexed' by language. The term was popularised by Michael Silverstein and is now a central tenet of social meaning theory. I'm not going to cover the theory behind indexicality, but you can read this link to learn a bit more about it. Lauren's talk was on her work on Californian English and an area of San Francisco called 'the Sunset District' (an area which is settled by both Asian Americans and European Americans). This area is especially interesting because it demonstrates a range of vocalic variation which is different from other areas of the Western U.S. The usual pattern in the Western U.S. is that the vowels of LOT ~ THOUGHT are merging while GOOSE and GOAT are fronting, and these changes are more advanced among younger speakers. In San Francisco, though, the distinctions between these vowel sets are maintained irrespective of age. Lauren's thesis looks at this in a lot of detail, and her plenary was trying to unpack some of the reasons why Asian Americans and European Americans (particular female speakers) might have different correlational patterns for the three variables.
Lastly, Erez Levon's session finished us up on Friday with a plenary which showed how we might be able to bring together perception and production in sociolinguistic research. Expanding on work by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Erez recorded a speaker and then manipulated a number of features which have been identified in the literature as features of 'gay speech' (including higher mean pitch, more sibilance in /s/ and TH-fronting). Manipulating the recording gave him the following settings:
-pitch -sibilance -TH-fronting
+pitch -sibilance -TH-fronting
+pitch +sibilance -TH-fronting
+pitch +sibilance +TH-fronting
+pitch -sibilance +TH-fronting
-pitch +sibilance +TH-fronting
He then had respondents fill out a questionnaire which tested whether they thought the speaker was neat, friendly, and so on. By being able to monitor which manipulated features the respondent was listening to, he was able to show that changes in their perception of friendliness, neatness, gayness and so on were related to changes in the speech signal. Some of his findings were really interesting, including the negative correlation between effeminacy and friendliness (so the more effeminate a speaker sounds, the less friendly they are perceived), but the biggest thing was that we need to start thinking about how to relate production with perception, otherwise how do we (as sociolinguists) know whether our intuitions about things like social meaning and so on, are right? Thinking about how speech is perceived and accessing that in some way gives more reliability to our interpretations of the speech signal.
All in all, the week was a fantastic success, and the organisers did a great job in bringing everything together in the way that they did. More than anything, though, I was really glad to be around folk discussing sociolinguistic work and hearing about the kinds of research people are working on.
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Sociolinguistics Summer School 3
I didn't have time during it, but now that my holiday is almost over, I reckoned I should try and write down my thoughts on the Sociolinguistics Summer School in Glasgow from a few weeks ago. First thing to say is that the week was an inspiring and intellectually satisfying time (I'm not sure why, but I always feel really pretentious using words like 'intellectually'…). The guest speakers (Devyani Sharma, Jane Stuart-Smith, Daniel Johnston, Erez Levon and Lauren Hall-Lew) all offered insightful and thought-provoking seminar sessions which not only show-cased their own research, but suggested a myriad of future directions for sociolinguistic theory and methodology. I don't have space to go through everything all the speakers covered throughout the week, but I will try and give at least a general outline of the kinds of things they were talking about and
Devyani Sharma kicked the week off on Monday morning by talking about her work on language and ethnicity. Drawing on recent research she's been conducting at Queen Mary, Devyani outlined some of the ways in which ethnicity has been operationalised in the literature over the past 20 or so years, and the way different authors view the influence of ethnicity on language variation and change (e.g. whether it's psychological, identity-focused, and so on). The thing that excited me the most, though, was her attempts at showing how variation unfolds over time (something that's becoming increasingly more important over the past five years or so). Rather than analysing a single variable (or even two or three variables) at the aggregate level (i.e. taking every token of a variable and charting how that variable patterns at a general level), Devyani showed how a range of variables changed between Indian English, Southern Standard British English and Cockney English by using colour-coded lines which showed the increase and decrease of the concentration of that specific varieties variants. Essentially, what Devyani is doing is moving away from a static picture of variation to something more dynamic, and it clearly demonstrated how variables act in concert with one another (or 'clustering') rather than in isolation.
On Tuesday, Jane Stuart-Smith talked about the Glasgow Media Project. This is an on-going ESRC-funded project which aims to understand why Glaswegian (and Scottish English more generally) appears to have 'English' features such as TH-fronting ([tuf] instead of [tuθ]), R-vocalisation ([bʌd] instead of [bɪɹd]) and L-vocalisation ([pipo] instead of [pipəl]). Those uninitiated to the ways of the IPA, that's tooth, bird and people respectively. Generally, Scottish English shouldn't have these kinds of features, but it does (or at least, Glaswegian does, other parts of Scotland are lagging behind somewhat). Traditional ways of modelling how a sound change spreads (such as the wave model and the gravity model) don't work, primarily because these models rely on people moving to a particular area and acquiring a feature (thus it spreads via face-to-face communication), or through some sort of 'locale strength' with larger cities demonstrating more of an influence on smaller cities (the Gravity Model is one explanation as to why London is so linguistically and socially influential). But in Glasgow, these models are flawed because they people who are leading these changes (working-class adolescents) don't move, and they don't particularly recognise London (or other large English cities) as sites of influence. Jane's work offers an alternative explanation based on the influence of the media, in particular, broadcast media, because it's one thing that working-class Glaswegians (especially those who are the most advanced innovators) actually watch (and one important programme is EastEnders). But Jane's argument is that it's not simply passive viewing that causes someone to acquire a feature, but rather it's active engagement with the programme (almost to the point of treating the programme and its characters as 'real'). Moreover, if a speaker does acquire a feature a character uses on the programme (whether it's TH-fronting or whatever), then that speaker has to integrate this feature within their already existing linguistic system. It's not enough for me to watch EastEnders, hear an instance of TH-fronting, and then all of a sudden I'll use that feature all the time. Instead, I have to have an active engagement with the show, and then that feature has to be integrated into my existing system. Jane's work is really important primarily because it challenges existing sociolinguistic theories on how a sound change spreads, and it has important implications for how we understand the influence and effects of media on language variation and change.
Daniel Johnson on Wednesday changed the pace a little bit by focusing on methodology, primarily the use of statistical analysis in sociolinguistics. He did amazing work with the stats programme R. Now, I've never used R before (I'm an SPSS person myself), but after seeing Dan's plenary, I'm more and more convinced that it's what I should be using. The main thrust of his argument was that we shouldn't be using fixed effects modelling for analysing sociolinguistic data, primarily because fixed effects models give too much weight to individual token counts and speakers. So, you might end up having 10 speakers (5 males and 5 females) and 100 tokens, but those 100 tokens are spread unevenly across your sample (so it could be something like 3 7 12 8 4 6 25 5 15 15). Using fixed effects models might give you a statistically significant result of gender, but it could also be because your data is skewed towards the male speakers. Mixed effects models, on the other hand, attempt to balance this skew out and give you a more realistic picture of how the data is behaving. To drive home his point, he took a bunch of data and analysed it first using F.E. models and then M.E. models which showed just how much can be hidden using F.E. models. Really fantastic stuff and very good methodological issues were raised throughout his talk. Basically, though, we should all be using M.E. models if we want a truly accurate picture of our data, but F.E. models are also good so long as you know what the limitations of the approach are.
Ok, this is getting a bit long, so I'll save Lauren Hall-Lew and Erez Levon's work till Tuesday, but I should wrap with a quick word on the post-graduate student presentations. In a nutshell, they were fantastic. Clear, concise, professional, and high-quality, and all confidently delivered with style and panache. And seriously, that's not hyperbole, they were all really brilliant, and it assured me that the future of sociolinguistics is bright and sunny.
P.S. Oh, and I gave a talk as well on getting a career in academia which is here. Thanks again to Lynn Clark for helping me figure out what to talk about!
Categories: Research Tags: Cockney English, glasgow, Jane Stuart-Smith, language variation and change, psychological identity, sociolinguistics summer school, variable patterns
Competitive co-operation
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So week 1 of annual leave is done and dusted (Wales is an amazing country and well worth a visit by the way). This week, I tackle the second half of my annual leave wherein I'll be stuck in Birmingham for the whole week. Alas, I've now come to terms with my current urban abode and I'm actually quite looking forward to mooching around the city and 'chilling out' (I think I'm now too old to be using this phrase…).
It'll also give me a little bit of time to focus on getting some writing done, and I thought that since there's been little in the way of 'sociolinguistic' chat thus far on the blog, I should try and remedy that somewhat (otherwise I should rename the blog to something like 'doesnttalkmuchaboutlinguisticslinguist.com'.
One of my areas of research is urban adolescent male language use, specifically Glasgow (although I do have plans to move my research to Birmingham adolescent male speech). The bulk of my PhD thesis centered on providing an acoustic analysis of speech data and relating differential patterns of variation to particular group membership. I collected all my conversational data during a three-year ethnography of a high school in the south side of Glasgow and it was on this data I did the acoustic analysis. Since the data was conversational, though, the adolescents I recorded talked about a variety of things, including their home life, what they wanted to do when they finished school, what they thought about the local area and so on. One day we were talking about fights that had happened between them and whether it had affected their friendships or not. As we were talking, there was a fascinating exchange between two of the participants. I've included part of the excerpt below ('translated' into Standard English):
Phil: So I- I really really wasn't crying.
Nathan: Aye, I wasn't saying you were crying,
but it did look like you were crying.
Phil: No, it's think it's just cause my eyes,
it looks like I'm crying.
Do I look as if I'm crying now?
Nathan: No, but I did see something.
At the time of writing my thesis (in 2009), this section of data formed about three pages of my ethnographic discussion, but it always stuck in my head because of its inherent contradictibility. In line 2, Nathan says 'I wasn't saying you were crying' and then IN HIS NEXT TURN says the complete opposite thing ('It did look like you were crying)! While we can argue as to whether there is an internal inconsistency here or not (in formal logic terms), I would argue that Nathan's second turn here does something interesting in the context of the conversation which requires further investigation. This excerpt had always puzzled me and even though I wrote about it in my thesis, I didn't have time to give it the attention it deserved. After I submitted, I put together a conference paper for a conference in Helsinki last year and over the past six months or so, I've been working this conference paper up into an article.
Basically, my argument (so far) goes like this:
In general folk-linguistic ideology, men's speech is considered competitive and women's speech co-operative (see Jennifer Coates' work in this area for substantiation of this claim). Over the last 15 years or so, however, this dichotomy has come under increasing scrutiny for its lack of sophistication in accounting for the complexity of situated language use. Importantly, work from Penelope Eckert, Jacqueline Guendouzi and Deborah Tannen has argued that speakers don't simply draw on resources from one pole or another, but that utterances can be orientated simultaneously towards both (cf. co-operative competition in Eckert's article). Much of the work in this area has been on female speakers, but very little attention has been paid to how male speakers might exploit strategies which cannot be easily correlated with competitive or cooperative.
If we take the data excerpt from above, it is very difficult to pin-point whether Nathan is being competitive or co-operative. On the one hand, he is offering a face-threatening act which calls into question Phil's emotional fragility (cf. 'crying'), but on the other, he immediately mitigates (and in some senses withdraws) his accusation. Before we get into why this particular pattern might exist, we have to take a slight detour through some background info.
One over-riding tendency in language and gender research is that the gender of the speaker tends to influence the kinds of interpretations offered on the data by the researcher. It's often something (generally) unconscious, but researchers are only human and are influenced by their own assumptions and preconceptions of the world in which they live. Being aware of this goes some way towards reducing the impact of this, and an article by Deborah Tannen on gossip among male university undergraduates is an excellent example of the kind of analysis which can be done when 'another set of eyes' looks at the data (in this article, Tannen reanalyses some data originally collected and analysed by one of her students). With this in mind, we might be tempted to see Nathan's contributions here as wholly competitive and face-threatening since this fits in with general ideologies surround male language use. He's trying to get one up on Phil by calling into question his sense of 'tough' masculinity and his turns seem to suggest a rather competitive stance. The other alternative is that the turn is fully co-operative, but then why would Nathan say that it did look like Phil was crying? Surely if it was co-operative, Nathan would have framed this exchange differently? This is all fine and dandy, except that I don't think that this is the full story.
The other other alternative is that (like the work of Eckert and Guendouzi), it is reductive to think of language use in terms of 'competitive' or 'co-operative' (why should it only be one or the other?). Instead, we should think of Nathan's turns here as 'polysemous' (that is, meaning one thing and another simultaneously) in that it is 'competitively-co-operative'. By doing so, Nathan achieves two aims at the same time: 1) challenge Phil's claim to 'tough' masculinity and 2) mitigate his contribution in order to maintain the friendship. In some senses, the participants here are 'playing a game' and both are aware of it. We have to take into account the fact that the participants are friends and are unlikely to go the full way of competitive dialogue (it's risky, it could escalate etc etc), and the exchange here is testament to this fact.
Competition works (on some level) by the individuals involved in the competition co-operating in the endeavour. If I'm playing a game of football or rugby with people (competitive) and I decide I don't want to play or be involved any more (co-operative), then the game ceases to be (or at least, I stop being a part of that particular interaction). I reckon that something similar is happening in this excerpt.
My thinking still needs a bit of refinement before I hit the 'submit to journal' button, but I think I'm on the right track here. Now I just need to drag myself out of my post-Wales bliss and get cracking on trying to finish it this week!
Categories: Research Tags: adolescent males, co-operation, competition, glasgow, narrative analysis
The wonderful world of trains
July 4, 2011 thesociallinguist	2 comments
Occasionally, you'll sit on a train knowing that the universe has smiled upon you. You think back on your journey to the station, where you arrived 15 minutes early, remembering the pleasant breeze which blew as you walked in the July sunshine. You are a picture of calmness and serenity, comforted by the knowledge that you haven't overlooked some important detail nor left a vital piece of equipment in the house. By any measure, it has been the perfect start to your trip, as you settle down into your seat which was reserved several weeks in advance, clutching the tickets which were delivered directly to your house.
Sometimes, maybe a minute before departure, you'll encounter a whirlwind of feverish activity as someone rushes up to the platform and jumps into the train. The passenger (let's assume he's a male for the purpose of this story), is hot, sweaty, disheveled, red-faced and panting, but with a faint smile of victory on his face. He looks around and finds an empty seat, collapsing in a heap of bags, suitcases, and laptop cases, and breathes a quiet sigh of relief. And then, as he looks up at the 'This train stops at…' sign in the carriage, you might catch the brief look of panic which crosses his face. Instead of being reminded of the comfortable and familiar names through which he will whizz on his way home, he is faced with a dizzying collection of weird and exotic places he doesn't recognise. Coleshill, Nuneaton, Hinckley, Narborough. Leicester.
The sudden realization that he's on the wrong train hits him like a ton of bricks. As he frantically gathers up his things, he hears the sound of the three beeps which herald the the train moving off. With one last desperate lunge, he tries to stop the door from slamming in his face, but it is to no avail.
The train starts to trundle away from the platform, leaving this poor, hapless sap stuck standing by the door and looking like a fool.
This mistake could be a costly one. It might cause him to miss the train he was scheduled to get. It might take him over an hour to get back into Birmingham. It might mean having to wait two hours to get the next train to Glasgow.
Now, if you were in this situation, you might experience a combination of feelings in watching this drama unfold in front of you. Sympathy. Amusement. Perhaps even an element of schadenfreude. But probably the most prominent feeling might be relief that you weren't the one in that position.
The next time you do see that man, though, spare a thought for him and try your best to stifle your laughter if you can. He's most likely incredibly embarrassed and doesn't really know where to look, and knowing that everyone is staring at him isn't going to make things any easier.
And for the record, that story isn't about me. Honest.
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LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / December 22, 2020 / CLS Holdings USA, Inc. (OTCQB:CLSH)(CSE:CLSH), the ''Company'' or ''CLS'', a diversified cannabis company operating as Cannabis Life Sciences, today announced the impact of its latest contributions to the Arbor Day Foundation. Through the combined effort of 20 participating companies, 115,386 trees were planted in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia. CLS' contribution to this total was driven by its subsidiary, City Trees', Buy 1 Plant 1 campaign, wherein every 1:1 THC:CBD product sold is accompanied by a donation to the Arbor Day Foundation.
With the number of trees planted through this latest combined effort, over 258,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide will be sequestered - the equivalent of taking 55,840 cars off the road for one year. CLS is proud to have contributed to this total, and anticipates continued growth of this contribution in 2021.
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Plans under way for new police station: Mendon Board of Selectmen OK $12K for architects
Andrew Lightman / Daily News Staff
MENDON -- Selectmen are again putting together plans for a new police station.
Calling a new station the town's most urgent need, selectmen authorized architects to develop a conceptual plan at a cost not to exceed $12,000. Selectmen said they hope plans for a new police station will be ready to present to the public at a special Town Meeting later this spring.
"We need to deal with this immediately and effectively," said selectmen Chairman Dennis Shaheen. "This is a no-brainer."
Last May, voters rejected a $2.7 million debt exclusion override to build a new 9,300-square-foot police station behind the current one.
The current station, located next to Town Hall, has been cited several times for violations by the Department of Public health. Last summer the state gave Mendon partial approval for its holding cells for men after volunteers built a 20-foot wall separating the bathrooms to comply with state regulations.
But Shaheen said Mendon is sending officers to watch its female, juvenile and overflow prisoners in jails in Milford, Upton and Hopedale, costing the town about $165,000 in overtime. Now there are concerns those towns may begin charging police detail rates for their officers to watch Mendon's prisoners, Shaheen said.
"This could easily balloon to over a quarter million dollars per year in overtime," Shaheen said. "We're wasting this money. We need to address this problem."
While Selectman Sharon Cutler disagreed with Shaheen, saying the town should build a combined police and fire station, the board unanimously agreed to spend the money to explore building a new police station on the Fino property.
Voters authorized the town to buy that 76 acre parcel on Rte. 16 through a ballot question at the November elections. While selling the idea to the public, selectmen proposed the $3.49 million property could be partly developed for municipal uses, such as a new police station, in addition to other commercial and residential uses.
While the town is still trying to finalize the purchase, Shaheen said the Maguire Group, hired to design last year's proposed station, will create rough drawings for the Fino property.
"So they will come up with a conceptual plan for the land down there and how it will look," he said.


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Spanish city councilors call to declare Israeli officials 'persona non grata'
After anti-Israeli moves in the Spanish cities Oviedo and Valencia, the city of Pamplona joins the chorus of condemnations against Israel's 'oppressive policy against the Palestinian people,' calling for a series of measures to be taken against Israel.
Itamar Eichner|Published: 06.20.18 , 21:54
Councilors at the city of Pamplona, the capital of the Navarre province in northern Spain, have called on the Spanish government to stop its arms trade with Israel and on their municipality to declare Israeli officials as "persona non grata" until Israel stops its "oppressive policy against the Palestinian people."
The resolution passed by the heads of the factions in the Pamplona municipality also expressed support of the Palestinian right of return and the Palestinians' right to hold a peaceful protest "which has been suppressed with force by the Israeli army."
The Pamplona municipality condemned the IDF for killing at least 100 Palestinians and wounding thousands during the "non-violent" "March of Return" demonstrations and offered its support and condolences to the families of the victims.
The resolution also called on the European Union's governments to increase the pressure and impose sanctions on Israel to force it to stop its "aggression" against the Palestinian people.
They further slammed the US decision to move its embassy to "occupied Jerusalem," describing this move as extremely dangerous and in contravention of international law.
The resolution passed despite receiving no support from the Socialist Party, which holds the majority in the municipality. It was backed by the Basque Nationalist Party, the radical left-wing Podemos Party, and the Communist Party.
The resolution still needs to receive the approval of the municipality plenum.
Israel's Embassy in Madrid condemned the resolution, reminding Pamplona that "The Kingdom of Navarre was the last of the peninsula to expel its Jews, and the Pamplona City Council the first to declare us persona non grata. Navarra 1498: Jews out - Pamplona 2018: We're forbidden from entering."
Navarra 1498: judíos fuera - Pamplona 2018: nos prohíben la entrada.@PamplonaIruna @josebaasiron @fcjecom #judíos #Israel #Pamplona #Navarra pic.twitter.com/7Jibfja6fa
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The Pamplona resolution is the latest in a broader trend that the Israeli Embassy has been witnessing in Spain in different aspects—municipal, cultural and academic—which is gaining momentum in light of recent events in Gaza and political changes in the country: the dismissal of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy by a vote of no confidence and the appointment of a new leader, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (SWP).
The socialists, in order to survive, have to keep the support of their coalition partners—the radical left-wing Podemos party, which has been at the forefront of all Israeli boycott initiatives in municipalities all across Spain and is demanding a tough line against Israel from the government.
Recently, the city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain's Asturias region, decided to cancel a concert of Israel's NK Orchestra, citing political reasons. Oviedo also cancelled an Israeli ballet performance.
The municipality of Valencia, also governed by a left-wing coalition made up of the Podemos party and the SWP, has approved at the beginning of the month a decision to declare itself as a place "clean from the Israeli apartheid," which will boycott Israel both culturally and economically.
During the vote, 17 out 33 municipality members supported the decision, while 16 opposed. The official proposal expressed solidarity and complete support for the Palestinians while vehemently criticized Israel.
Pablo Iglesias Turrión, the leader of Podemos—the third largest Spanish party—told a TV station that Israel is a criminal state, "Spain needs to act more decisively against an illegal state like Israel...Our party defines the existence of Israel as illegitimate," Turrión asserted.
ACOM, a pro-Israeli group in Spain, said that Turrión's sentiments are anti-Semitic since his party does not call any other state besides Israel as "illegal." The organization announced they have filed a lawsuit against the municipality of Valencia.
The Spanish courts, including the Supreme Court, have dismissed 16 anti-Israeli boycott decisions that were passed at a municipal level. Additional seven municipalities have reversed the decision voluntarily.
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How Higher Education Got Criminalized – OpEd
January 9, 2023 January 9, 2023 Prakash Kona 0 Comments
By Prakash Kona
If I were not a firsthand witness to the criminalization of higher education, I would not be in a position to write about it. I am a witness to wholesale corruption in teaching appointments which involve bribery and the use of political influence, heads of institutions sitting in selection panels and appointing their partners and personal favorites for various positions, falsifying of administrative records without fear of consequences, manipulations in admissions, use of public funds for expensive lawyers to indulge in lying and deception, the bribing, bullying and blackmailing of teaching and non-teaching staff into servility, influencing and buying of journalists so that no news comes out, harassment and intimidation – all of this happening with the blessings of higher-ups in the political party heading the government, while the devil declares its loyalty to Power with a capital P.
In all of this criminalization there is a dark side where the supposedly marginalized are in cahoots with establishment politics. Such complicity with power cutting across political ideologies by those who claim to be "weak" and "backward" is rarely admitted and even more rarely spoken or written about. This suits the agenda of the status quo which needs people from sections of the population who could pose a threat to the government, as they speak from the position of the disadvantaged. Those who happily surrender their individuality and self-respect for monetary and other benefits do so in order to preserve their interests.
The broader context to higher education getting criminalized is that corporatization of the economy in effect meant making ethical compromises, not simply because of the introduction of the profit motive into the life of the mind, but because education became intertwined with economics, money occupying a central place, instead of learning for learning's sake. Learning for profit's sake became the new dictum. You can't be learning something that does not translate into money in one form or the other. Learning for a job's sake, I understand. But if you've to learn just to make money, whether for survival or to have a comfortable life, it means that the knowledge will never translate into an authentic person. That explains the emotional quotient of doctors, IT professionals, legal experts and bureaucrats who acquired positions without the required amount of empathy.
I don't understand courses like Business Administration. You need to have a business in order to make sense of a degree that qualifies you for administration. How can you be working for a company and have a degree in Business Administration? A degree in Hotel or Tourism management is another of those pointless degrees where whatever little is learnt could easily be garnered through taking a job in a restaurant or as a tour guide. I do not think everyone needs to go to a university in order to acquire norms of civilized life such as self-restraint and basic human decency or the language and awareness that will prevent you from being exploited and abused. These things can be learnt through apprenticeship without wasting time and money in the university. In other words, higher education has been overrated and unfortunately countless youngsters with degrees are walking the streets of the world without employment opportunities along with the tragic realization that whatever they were taught at the university has no immediate relevance to their daily life.
While corporatization has created quite a few pointless degrees, what happened is that the very concept of education that stood for learning, got diluted. In the process academic leadership went for a toss; in private institutions we have "yes-sir/madam" teachers and administrators who endorse whatever the institution expects of them without questions. In public universities, the academic leaders tend to be incompetent, completely indifferent to the future of the institution and corrupt, doing whatever it takes to hang on to the seat for as long as possible. The semblance of order in private institutions is only because of the fear of getting kicked out. Change in a real sense would mean striking a balance between institutions offering the freedom to ask the right questions that lead to more platforms for inclusion and the socialization of the young to non-abusive, non-patriarchal and gentler forms of living.
I don't intend to dwell on the bigger issue of the progressive decline of ethical standards along with the related decline in original thinking. No person who is not honest with him or herself could ever be creative in the real sense of the term. Fame and money in the form of prizes and sales mean nothing before the pursuit of the truth. My point is how bare minimum academic standards have been brought down to the level of zero because of the contempt that the semi-literate class in power has for anything that looks like an objective, truthful understanding of the world. What they fail to realize is that every great invention, discovery and production of knowledge took place through a right understanding of how things work. The scientist is an artist who examines nature and the artist is a scientist who observes social behavior.
Therefore, corruption and dishonesty at the level of higher education can be disastrous for the entire order. Broadly, fraud in an academic setting falls under a tentative definition of white-collar crime. Often this has little to do with political ideologies and more to do with the greed and ambition of particular individuals and members within institutions who are a part of a coterie or mafia working to defeat academic goals and replacing them with vested interests. The criminalization of higher education has different facets to it. What is common to all the facets is that money in one form or another is foregrounded at the expense of thought.
While the prostitution of the mind for material gains is more or less an accepted fact of life, what makes it worse is that every other crime is given a shade of lightness in order to disguise the moral vacuum that institutions have been reduced to. The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime uses the term "white-collar crime" in two different senses: one of them "refers to the corrupt, exploitative, and socially harmful acts of respectable and powerful individuals and organizations" and another "refers more broadly to economic crimes that involve deception" (4). White-collar crime is a reality because there are individuals who are "corrupt, exploitative and socially harmful." Such individuals often enjoy political support simply because one of the items in the corporatization of higher education always meant the suppression of any discussion related to meaningful change. "A majority of offenders hail from middle-class backgrounds and have some level of higher education, are married, and have stronger ties to community, family, and religious organizations than traditional street offenders" (Handbook 119). Sometimes there are reasons for "street offenders" breaking the law such as personal or social background; but no excuse is good enough for white-collar criminals, when they happen to occupy higher positions.
What is strange is that in countries like India corruption has been normalized because of the fundamental dishonesty of the average person on the street. Most people in fact approve of corruption-based success to such an extent that nobody feels that there is anything wrong in it. Corrupt people are admired, seen as respectable and surrounded by well-wishers looking for a favor. When the corrupt stand on platforms and speak about moral values, the thunderous applause they receive is mind-boggling. There is a context to it:
"A considerable element in the trivialization of white-collar and corporate crime lies in the fact that politicians who set the tone and to a large extent dictate the decibel level of the response to such illegalities depend very heavily on campaign contributions from people and organizations that supply the roster of white-collar criminals. There is a folk saying about not biting the hand that feeds you or, in white-collar crime terms, "Don't defeat the elite."
Whether called "white-collar crime," "economic crime," or "abuse of power" or given some other label, higher forms of political, professional, and business delicts typically are complex, obscure, and somewhat esoteric. Unlike street offenses, there never has been, or likely will be, an annual tabulation of the extent of such behavior." (Handbook 42)
The context can certainly be changed provided there is a willingness to call the spade for what it is – a tool for digging. Where injustice and exploitation are the norm, more or less everyone becomes complicit in keeping the inequality going. In one of my favorite Brecht plays, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the legal system complements the powers that be. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. As one of the characters puts it: "The judge was always a chancer! Now the chancer shall be a judge!" Establishment politics needs to bank on institutional support, mostly from the universities, media and courts of law.
By trivializing white-collar crimes, universities create the base that offers justification for the corruption and abuse of power happening both in and outside the government. If higher education is a part of the status quo to begin with, for one to expect change through learning (which is a real possibility) means that we create avenues for sharing information and ideas in truthful, non-violent and accommodative ways. When educational institutions are corrupted it also means that the legal and other institutions such as the media are severely damaged making it impossible for common people to find expression for their concerns. Once the majority of people are voiceless and powerless, they have only one alternative left, which is to resort to "any means necessary," to use a phrase popularized by Malcolm X. That's how colonialism came to an end; that's how colonial forms of oppression will come to an end.
Van Slyke, Shanna R., Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen. Eds. The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime. OUP, 2016.
Brecht, Bertolt, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Trans. Eric Bentley, 1983.
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One of Entertainment's biggest contributors is Mr. Bruce Nahin, Co-founder and former CEO of the well-known Chippendales, member of the Producers Guild of Americans SAG/AFTRA as well as lecturing and mentoring at the prestigious UCLA.
Mr. Nahin practiced law for over 30 years and specialized in Entertainment Law, particularly live music and entertainment.
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Mr. Nahin also belongs to Entertainment Support Services as a partner which serves as a firm that provides various services in consulting for Production Development and Business Affairs to TV, Film and Music.
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The Paradise Project at the Edinburgh Fringe
Third Angel & mala voadora present
The Paradise Project
/ Projecto Paraíso
8 – 30 August 2015 (not Weds 12, 19 or 26)
NORTHERN STAGE at SUMMERHALL
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Every day they come in and try again.
The Paradise Project is a show rebuilt - slightly differently - each time it is presented. Of all the shows we've made, perhaps this is the one where the process, form and subject matter all seem to intertwine the most.
Two companies create a show about two people whose job, it appears, is to come up with a better way for people to live together. A better way to be people, together. Some days they make progress. Some days they make new discoveries. Some days it all falls apart. But every day, or so it seems, they come in and try again.
photo: José Carlos Duarte
I say 'so it seems', because it feels (to me, at least) like we discovered these two people doing this job, and, as a collective of two companies, we then began to figure out the rules of their task. Each time we revisit them, it feels like we learn something new about them, and their endless work. As we constructed their environment in Warwick Arts Centre back in February, sound designer Ivan Mack and I began to wonder if there weren't actually many of these rooms, with many pairs of humans, trying to figure out a new set of rules to live by.
Each time we build a new Paradise Project (so far, anyway), it is a different combination of performers. Although there isn't a defined female role or a male role, so far there has always been a man and a woman.
For our Edinburgh construction, I am delighted to announce that The Paradise Project will be constructed by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick. We have worked with Jerry a number of times over the years, going back to Where From Here in 2000, and he joined the Project at Warwick Arts Centre in February. Stacey we are currently working with on the next incarnation of Labour Intensive. We're really excited to see how they do this job together.
You can read more about the making of The Paradise Project on this blog, and in an article in Contemporary Theatre Review.
Members of The Paradise Project team have other shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, too, all of which are well worth checking out:
Chris Thorpe is performing in Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead Yet? and his solo piece Confirmation, made with Rachel Chavkin.
Lucy Ellinson is in The Christians, part of her on-going collaboration with The Gate Theatre.
Jim Harrison will also be looking after Forced Entertainment at Summerhall.
Mark Maughan is Associate Director of Made In China's new show, Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me.
And I am a mentor on Daniel Bye's new show, Going Viral.
Chris, Dan and I (and many others) are also guest contributors to Here Is The News From Over There, this year's Border Ballad-style piece from Northern Stage.
8-30 August 2015
Jerry Killick & Stacey Sampson
Conceived, devised and written by
Jorge Andrade, José Capela, Alexander Kelly, Chris Thorpe and Rachael Walton
Tânia Alves, David Cabecinha, Fernando Villas-Boas and Lucy Ellinson
With creative input from
Hannah Butterfield and Mark Maughan
José Capela with image editing by António MV and Tiago Pinhal Costa
Eduardo Abdála
and James Harrison
Ivan Mack, Rui Lima & Sérgio Martins
Craig Davidson
Technical Intern
Michael Gooch
Jorge Jácome
Publicity Design
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Production & Management:
Manuel Poças, Joana Santos and Vânia Rodrigues (mala voadora)
Dep Arts and Hilary Foster (Third Angel)
Renske Doorenspleet, Steve Fuller, Peter Marshall, Maria Do Mar Pereira, Ian Stewart, Nathaniel Tkacz and Emilie Whitaker; Daniel Pinheiro; Daniel Worm d'Assumpção; Prado; Matt Burman, Paul Warwick, Ed Collier; Sheffield Theatres; all of the staff at Teatro Maria Matos and Warwick Arts Centre.
A co-production with Warwick Arts Centre, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal and House on Fire, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Supported by Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Largo Residências and Caixas Baratas.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Sectretario de Estado da Cultura and DG Artes.
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Bishop Conaty - Loretto High School is accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association (WCEA) and is co-accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). All schools go through the process of accreditation every 6 years. The WCEA/WASC protocol E3 (Ensuring Educational Excellence) emphasizes Catholic Identity, data collection, and discussion which results in a self-study report of the school's educational improvement plans. The 2014-2015 school year marked an accreditation renewal year for BCLHS.
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Even after having lived in the UAE for almost 16 years, there are still new spots to be discovered. Such was the case when I lately saw some images appear on social media of an abandoned village in the Emirate of Sharjah; close to Al Madam.
The place reminded me a lot about Kolmanskop (Namibia), where the desert had taken over entire houses; providing great scenery for some dramatic images.
On the edge of the village Al Madam in the UAE, one finds a deserted compound, bordering the desert. Not entirely sure how long the place has been abandoned, some of the houses have the sand dunes piled up to the roof.
While testing the new Fujifilm X-H1, I shot a series of images of Nature taking over mankind. In the image below I was particularly attracted by the blue walls which stand in contrast to the warm yellow sand. The completely worn out door frame, which clearly has suffered a lot from the elements, adds a nice touch.
Even after all those years, I'm still intrigued how quickly a desert is changing with the prevailing winds; something that clearly be experienced in places like the above.
A few years ago, I documented another abandoned village in the UAE, which I called, "The village that always sleeps". Click here for a link to the respective blogpost.
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How to Support Your Partner Through a Career Transition
It's about way more than just being a cheerleader
Léa Rose Emery
Léa is a writer and comedian based in London. She writes and speaks about a range of topics including sex, dating, feminism, politics, and addiction.
While it's always important to support your partner, there are going to be times when they really need it. It can be difficult to watch our partner struggle, especially when there's a situation that is genuinely just really hard—like losing a job or transitioning into a new career or passion project. If someone values their career or their work in a way that feels like its an integral part of who they are, any shift can feel seismic. So it's important that you're ready with a supportive shoulder and an open mind if your partner is going through a major change.
That being said, it's not always easy. Admitting that you only have so much agency in a situation, watching your partner feel down, fighting the urge to micromanage—a lot of things can make giving your support complicated. So here's what you need to keep in mind when your partner is going through a large career transition, because it's about way more than just being a cheerleader.
Acknowledge the Bad but Focus on the Good
When we're trying to support someone, it's natural to want to jump to the positives. If someone loses their job, you may want to say, "It's a great opportunity!" or "They weren't good enough for you!" If someone is starting a new passion project or career, you don't want to talk about how scary it is, you want to talk about how exciting it is. But actually, sometimes people just need their struggles acknowledged. Sometimes, just saying "That sucks, I'm sorry," is a great way to make them feel heard. Sure, you should focus on the good and try to get them excited about the future, but you also shouldn't ignore the fact that their scared or suffering.
Ask How You Can Support Them
It may just be easier to just come right out and ask. If you're finding it difficult to support your partner, try just saying "What can I do? How can I help?" Rather than assuming you know what they need, let them be the ones to tell you. Of course, you don't necessarily have to listen to them if you think they're being unreasonable—but it's a great place to start the conversation.
Don't Micromanage
If you're anything like me, you'll be desperate to know what's going on, what their plans are, what the next step is, etc.. You'll want to ask if they've applied for that job, if they've followed up on that job, if they're thinking about getting their own studio, or if they've booked anything yet. Take a deep breath. Take a step back. If your partner has just had a knock to their confidence, they don't need you treating them like you're a parent rather than a partner. Of course, if your they're doing something that's self-destructive or harming you, that's a problem—but if they're just handling the situation differently than you would, that's OK. And, ultimately, it's their decision.
Ask the Big Questions
If they're going through a transition period—whether they're starting a new job, are trying to figure out what to do next, or have pulled a total 180—it's a good time to talk about the future. That doesn't mean putting pressure on them to come up with a five-year plan, it means reassessing what their priorities are, how they're feeling, and if their needs are being met. Unexpected curve balls in your life—especially in your employment—can be a great opportunity to really open things up and calibrate.
See more: Why Being Supportive of Your Partner's Career Is Essential in a Marriage
Set Some Boundaries to Protect Yourself
Even though it's your partner going through this difficult time, it's OK to acknowledge that it's difficult for you too. Having an unhappy partner isn't easy—especially if it's an unhappy partner with a lot of time on their hands, waiting for you to return home from work every day. So make sure that you're protecting yourself. This means making time for your own needs and self-care, rather than spending every moment focused on being a support system. But it also means, in the larger sense, making your needs from your partner clear. If they want to take some time to figure things out and experiment, that's fine—but if you need there to be limits and an end date on that, that's fine, too. Even if they're having a rough time, there should still be room for communication, negotiation, and compromise. Make sure that you acknowledge their feelings and give them the room that they need, but you can also try to create a forward momentum. Most importantly, make sure that you're doing your best to tackle the issues as a team, because that's how you're going to get through it.
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Ne-Yo Wants to Work With Miley Cyrus & Would Like Her to 'Holler' At Him
By Tanya Ghahremani
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Miley Cyrus' new album, Bangerz, is set to feature a ton of collaborations with major artists like Britney Spears, so now the natural question is: Who's next? Luckily for us (I think), E! Online has our answer: None other than Ne-Yo wants to work with Miley Cyrus.
"You know what? Miley is living her life, man, and who I am to judge?" Ne-Yo commented at the recent G-Star Raw show during New York Fashion Week. Finally, someone says it — Miley is living her life, so we should all leave her alone, and let her. If she wants to twerk on Robin Thicke at award shows and spend seven hours smoking weed in Amsterdam, as uncomfortable as that makes the world feel, more power to her; she's the one with a video breaking records on Vevo, not us. Ne-Yo gets it.
E! Online goes on to say that Ne-Yo divulged he'd like to work with Miley (there's no official quote referencing that, though) before exclaiming, "Miley, if you're listening, holler at your boy!"
Sometimes, I feel like an older, out-of-touch person when I read things like "holler at your boy" and try to say them out loud. I'm not cool. But Ne-Yo is, and that's the most important thing right now.