Life was breathed into the New Urbanism movement when Seaside was built. Seaside embodies a return to the right concepts of community development for the right reasons, manipulating the physical form of a neighborhood to counteract the ravages of sprawl. But is there more to it? Are there concepts lying beneath the surface that help to ensure the success of New Urbanism?
Feng Shui has been in existence for centuries, and in its essence, is the relationship of a person to their environment. For an individual this relationship is most apparent within the individual space—the home and the rooms within the home. Evidence suggests that adjustments to this environment can have dramatic and immediate effects on the persons who inhabit the space. It follows that this relationship should be valid on a larger scale and that logically the physical form of a neighborhood will affect its residents.
energies are accentuated. The Form School interpretations of Feng Shui concepts, relative to neighborhood development, can be expressed and consolidated into six categories, Balance and Harmony, Connectivity, Community, Street Design, Supportive Ch'i, and the Application of the Bagua.
So what happens when these Feng Shui categories are applied to a New Urbanist neighborhood such as Seaside, compared to conventional neighborhoods?
In a community, Balance and Harmony are expressed through maintaining a balance between the built and natural environment and creating buildings at low heights to complement and harmonize with the land. Balance is further achieved when residential uses are complemented with shopping, recreation and institutional support. While this clearly describes Seaside, other 1980's neighborhoods had few if any provisions for mixed use to provide balance. Further, twenty-five years ago there was less interest in green space or in specifically providing a balance between the built and the natural environment.
Connectivity is expressed through architectural form that is sensitive to the natural landscape, sidewalks that connect the individual elements within the neighborhood, and street systems that connect the neighborhood to other neighborhoods. New Urbanism focuses on connectivity through sidewalks and adherence to the pedestrian shed—a well documented departure from neighborhoods that preceded it. In Seaside, walking paths connect all aspects of the community. Seaside is also well connected to WaterColor, its neighbor, and to other communities along the shore via County Road 30- A.
Community is expressed through signage that denotes and celebrates the uniqueness of the neighborhood, the physical closeness of structures, variety in housing types, and the existence of porches [outdoor rooms] and other gathering places that enable community to naturally occur. While many conventional neighborhoods have houses on larger lots which feature closed, uninviting garage doors as the primary architectural element, Seaside boasts houses with generous inviting porches and many intimate public spaces where people can gather to share meals, recreation and communication.
The Feng Shui of Street Design is generally expressed through a relative balance of curved and straight streets and the appropriate use of each to control the movement of ch'i through the neighborhood. Ch'i tends to move slowly on curved narrow streets, and conversely, too quickly on wide straight streets—often resulting in accidents. Many conventional neighborhoods have wide streets with no parked cars or strategic vegetation to slow things down. The clear open path invites speeding as the ch'i energy moves too quickly. In New Urbanism, a focus on reduced street widths helps to mitigate the rushing ch'i—slowing it down so that fewer accidents occur. In Seaside, on County Road 30-A, the ch'i is slowed by narrowing the street width and providing traffic calming measures.
Supportive Ch'i is expressed through healthy vegetation, the presence of life-giving water in some form within the neighborhood, buildings with inviting entrances, and the proper management of necessary clutter, such as trash collection, utility and HVAC equipment.
Bagua (pronounced bah-gwah) is the map that illustrates the location of the universal energies that affect every aspect of our lives. The Bagua can be applied to a room, a house, a building, or a neighborhood. It provides guidance as to how the functions within a community can be energetically enhanced through intentional siting of the built environment to align the use with the specific energy that supports that use. An example would be the placement of a Community Center in the gua that represents the energy of community, or a bank placed in the wealth gua.
When we refer to the Bagua, we generally mean the figure. If we wish to speak of one part of the Bagua, we use the term gua. There are nine guas in Feng Shui that correspond to the primary energies in our life. The normally 8-sided Bagua is often expanded into a square (Figure 1) so that the placement over a room, house, or tract of land is more easily achieved.
The Self/Career gua is located in the center of the bottom of the chart and supports the energy of self, and the life purpose of the people who reside in the space. In this gua, the ch'i is generated that supports vocation.
The Wisdom/Knowledge/Self Cultivation gua is located in the bottom left corner. Following Self, the energy here supports the ways in which we are able to improve and better understand ourselves through the acquiring of knowledge, and hopefully the resulting wisdom.
heritage, as well as friends and community affiliations. Since this gua deals with ancestry, it also represents the past.
The Wealth/Prosperity/Power gua is located in the upper left corner of the chart and supports the ch'i that influences finances, as well as the myriad of things that represent prosperity to us.
The Fame/Reputation gua is located in the upper center of the chart and supports the energy that represents how one wants to be known or remembered, how we feel about ourselves, and what we would like to accomplish in this life.
The Relationship gua is located in the upper right corner of the chart and represents the energy that supports relationship, not only romantic liaisons, but also relationships with friends and business associates.
The Creativity/Children/Legacy gua is located in the middle right side of the chart and supports the energy that represents the future and those things to which we give birth, meaning not only our children but also those things that we create with our minds and our hands.
The Helpful People/Travel gua is located in the lower right corner of the chart and supports the energy that represents helpful people, referring to all those who assist us in our lives. All aspects of travel are also included in this gua.
The center of the Bagua connects all of the other eight guas and is represented by the yin-yang symbol . Health related issues are addressed and reinforced in this area. Good health is a result of good ch'i flowing through all the areas in our lives, and all of these areas being in balance.
The center is also the intersection of all of the individual guas, and speaks to the balance achieved when all of the individual areas are in harmony. For example, Career is directly related to Fame/Reputation, and balance between the two is essential for success. A similar relationship exists between Family/Community (past) and Creativity/Children/ Legacy (future). Wealth/Prosperity is seldom achievable without the assistance of Helpful People, as our ability to be helpful is frequently tied to the willingness to share our prosperity. The ability to make a Relationship successful is based on the Wisdom gained through experience, and a large part of Knowledge is frequently a result of our experiences in Relationships. Thus the center of the Bagua is pivotal as a representation of the balance of all of the guas, and health and harmony are the results.
Before the Bagua can be applied, the mouth of ch'i must be determined. Typically, the entrance to a site will be fairly clearly demarcated by the ingress from the highway. Once identified, the Bagua is overlaid on the site and forms within each of the guas are examined to determine their effect on the people in the development. Generally, sites are anything but square, so applying the Bagua will allow the planner to see if guas and the associated energies are missing, and to determine how big an issue this could be for the people there.
In the case of Seaside, where County Road 30-A passes through the space creating two entrances, the mouth of ch'i is a bit more difficult to ascertain. The mouth of ch'i is where the energy naturally enters a space. Generally, with a house, it is the front door, but there can be confusion if more than one entrance appears on the front of the house. It requires the planner/reader to look for other clues to determine or intuit where the ch'i energy comes in. An examination of a map will generally help. The source of the greatest amount of ch'i entering this development is water energy from the ocean, and for that reason the mouth of ch'i appears to be on the ocean side. This means that the Central Square and beach shopping area are in the Self/Career gua, making this the natural entrance to the neighborhood. Beyond the intense energy from the ocean, this conclusion is further supported by the physical street entrance to the Central Square area, which seems to define the Self of the neighborhood.
The application of the Bagua to Seaside reveals many subtle connections. The Feng Shui is read by overlaying the Bagua on the plot. Then each gua is examined to understand what it contains and how the activity of the people in the development might be affected.
Seaside is especially curious because of its shape. One notices immediately that the Wealth/Prosperity area is almost completely missing. Since Seaside is potentially a retirement community, wealth is less of an issue, since that has already been achieved by the owners of the residences. The wealth ch'i is more of an issue for them where they currently live. As far as the visitors who lease these houses are concerned, they are not in Seaside long enough to be dramatically affected by this missing energy. But more important is the ocean to the south of Seaside, constantly projecting water ch'i (water symbolizes financial resources) across the community and easily making up for the missing gua.
Of particular interest is the mouth of ch'i, in the Self/Career area which includes, most notably, the market, the post office and the amphitheater. This is balanced by the gua directly opposite, Fame/Reputation, which contains in its center the chapel. When we think about what Seaside represents as the "poster child" for New Urbanism, the market area in Self/Career speaks to the marketing of this newly revived concept in planning. The post office, dead center in the gua, indicates communication about Seaside, and the post office is surrounded by the amphitheater, suggesting amplification of that communication. What planner has not heard of Seaside? Furthermore, the form created by the shape of the buildings surrounding the Central Square seems to embrace the amphitheater as it embraces and supports the ideas being communicated. The Feng Shui of these guas could not have been more perfectly designed to communicate to the world the story represented by Seaside.
The Self/Career gua typically represents how we come into the world. The birthing of New Urbanism through Seaside, and the subsequent communication of the concept to the world is further enhanced by Fame/ Reputation as the model has gained understanding. Many devout New Urbanists wave their banner with an almost religious fervor and reverence, signified here by the chapel. On the map, we also observe the shape of Forest Street as it transects this gua. It curves outward, its form suggesting an expansion of the ideas of Seaside, being pushed out into Fame/Reputation with the chapel. This energy of this expanding form also helps to offset the missing part of the gua.
One disturbing feature is the cemetery in Fame/Reputation. Feng Shui teaches that people should never live near death energy. Early Feng Shui teachings warned about living near churches, which seems odd, but the issue had to do with the cemetery attached to old churches, not with the church itself. Currently there is no person buried in the Seaside cemetery, only Bud, the Seaside dog. But the plan is to actually use the cemetery at some point, which could have negative consequences, not only for the health of residents in the contiguous houses, but for the development as a whole. Consider the impact of death and decay energy on the Fame and Reputation of Seaside!
The Street, Robert's Way, in Helpful People/Travel and Creativity/Legacy, speaks to the way that Seaside's founder, Robert Davis, created the community (his way) with knowledge gleaned from his travels, all of the helpful people who assisted with the intense creativity of this endeavor, and the legacy of Seaside which will certainly live on.
The naming of streets is significant as well, especially where cities that were models for Seaside were used as street names. Savannah, Georgia as a resource runs through Helpful People/Travel and Creativity/Legacy. In Wisdom/Knowledge, the resource of Natchez, Mississippi is indicated as a source of knowledge for Seaside. Ruskin, a reference to the 19th century father of Arts & Crafts, is used for two streets, and Ruskin Place is Seaside's Artist Colony. Its location in Health/Balance denotes the importance of balancing Art with all the other disciplines.
About half of the relationship gua is missing. Relationships are less of an issue in a transient beach community, and the missing area implies that strong community relationships are probably not formed here. A relationship with good health is indicated by the tennis courts and sports areas within the gua. Interestingly, the relationship to the past is indicated not only in the use of the vernacular Florida cottage as the basic house form, but specifically in this gua, through the naming of Venice Circle. In the book Seaside, reference is made to a Venetian neighborhood as an historic guide in the use of harmonious proportions to create a pleasurable and humane environment (Brooke, 2005).
One important point that should be noted is the presence of fences. In the original charter, picket fences are required, with the caveat that there can be no duplication of fence design on any single street. In Feng Shui, fences tend to gather ch'i and keep it from dissipating. So the positive, supportive ch'i from the ocean is held and maintained surrounding each residence.
This evaluation of Seaside can be a bit more complete because Seaside itself is so famous, providing the ability to research and confirm the results of applying the Bagua to the physical form of the community. But we are applying Feng Shui to a community that already exists, and serving merely to confirm that the application of Feng Shui has a degree of validity. What would happen if we were to apply Feng Shui principles to a community in the planning stages? Feng Shui is wonderfully adaptive. The plan that would support the management of ch'i energy for a community of young professionals would be very different from that of a retirement community. In the former, focus could be placed on the physical form of the Wealth/Prosperity gua, and in the latter Health/Balance would be more important. The point is that the lives of the people living in a community are affected by the physical form of the community itself.
New Urbanism is making people and planners look at neighborhoods from a different perspective by challenging the status quo of everything from alleys to zoning. By examining how people want to live, rekindling their need for community and connectivity, and questioning why things have to be the way they are, more livable and sought after communities are being developed. New Urbanism is a major step in regaining a human focus in planning.
Planning with Feng Shui principles is the next step. It will allow a planner to take what is already known, and elevate it to a higher level of sensitivity and understanding. Deliberate encouragement and manipulation of the natural life force energy can affect the well-being of the inhabitants of those settlements, and can lead to greater harmony, a stronger sense of community and a higher quality of life.


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Ketanji Brown Jackson Defended People Suspected of Terrorism. Good.
There's a particular richness to Republican senators weaponizing the right to defense counsel as an affront to the Constitution as opposed to something that's pivotal to it.
Billy Binion | 3.24.2022 5:12 PM
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There are likely some areas in which one could take issue with Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's judicial methodology. Unfortunately, the people watching her confirmation hearing learned little about what those might be.
That's partially because Senate Republicans opted to zero in on topics that carry political currency and play well with the cameras but do little to undermine or inform how Jackson would preserve constitutional rights from the country's highest court.
One such example came yesterday during an exchange between Jackson and Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.), who railed into Jackson's role as a federal public defender. During that period, she helped represent clients at Guantanamo Bay, the military prison where the overwhelming majority of inmates are held indefinitely without being charged with a crime, much less convicted.
Cotton: Do you think most detainees at Guantanamo Bay were mostly terrorists or mostly, I don't know, innocent goat farmers?… Do you think America would be safer or less safe if we released all the detainees from Guantanamo Bay?
Jackson: Senator… I'm trying to figure out how to answer that question. 9/11 was a terrible attack on our country, and the executive branch, pursuant to authority that the Supreme Court said it had, designated people as enemy combatants and sent them to Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court also said that anyone that was so detained could seek review of their detention, and as a federal public defender, my role and responsibility was to make arguments in defense of the Constitution and in service to the court that was trying to assess—based on the authority given to it by the Supreme Court—whether or not people were adequately classified, what the legal circumstances were, how these habeas petitions were going to be processed. This was a series of legal challenges in a novel environment that federal public defenders and lawyers across the country were engaged in helping the court to evaluate so that we can understand what the Constitution required in this time of emergency.
Cotton: OK, so no opinion on if America would be safer or less safe if we released all the detainees from Guantanamo Bay?
Jackson: Senator, America would be [safer] if we don't have terrorists out running around attacking this country, absolutely. America would also be more safe in a situation in which all of our constitutional rights are protected. This is the way our scheme works. This is how the Constitution that we all love operates. It's about making sure that the government is doing what it's supposed to do in a time of crisis. As Justice Gorsuch said, "The Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis." The government still has to follow the rules. And so criminal defense lawyers make sure that, in times of crisis, the government is following the rules.
There's a particular richness to a Republican senator weaponizing the right to defense counsel as an affront to the Constitution as opposed to something that's pivotal to our nation's charter. That's especially so when considering Cotton's stated litmus test for a justice, which he outlined at the start of Jackson's hearings: "I'm looking for a justice who will uphold the Constitution," he said Monday. "I'm looking for a justice who understands the Constitution means what it says and does not mean what it doesn't say."
Core to the Constitution, as Cotton knows, is the notion that those suspected of crimes are entitled to an attorney. That should also be at the center of any ideology that claims to care about "limited government" and protecting individual rights. Those rights should not apply only to the people he likes.
Cotton was not alone. In a similar vein, also in contention was Jackson's role in filing an amicus brief on behalf of the libertarian Cato Institute, the conservative-Christian Rutherford Institute, and the bipartisan Constitution Project in support of Guantanamo detainees who had been in the U.S. legally and who were arrested and indefinitely detained on suspicion alone.
"It's so unserious that it can only be received as disingenuous grandstanding," says Clark Neily, senior vice president of legal studies Cato, in reference to Jackson's exchanges with various Senate Republicans who implied that her work as a public defender made her unfit for the Supreme Court. "People who go after her for doing that work ought to think long and hard about whether they really want to send a message to some of the best and the brightest in next generation of lawyers that if you pick the wrong cause—it could be gun rights, school choice, religious freedom—that this is what you have in store for you."
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, attorneys who litigated on both sides of the Guantanamo issue sought to disabuse lawmakers of the idea that Jackson's work should be disqualifying. "The Guantanamo litigation has long attracted the best of the Bar. For the detainees, this includes many of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country; for the Government, it includes some of the most experienced attorneys in the Department of Justice," wrote the cohort, which includes Peter Keisler, who served as an Attorney General under former President George W. Bush. "Reasonable minds can differ about how these questions should have been answered. But securing these answers by orderly litigation in the federal courts, brought and defended by able and zealous advocates on both sides, including in multiple cases heard by the Supreme Court, is the process the Constitution envisions."
For a potential future Supreme Court justice, participating in that constitutional process is not a stain but a virtue—something that Republican senators might concede in most circumstances, had the cameras not been rolling.
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Someone asked me if 2010 has been a good year or a bad year. Like so many other years, this year has had some great highs and lows. But if I had to choose 3 words to describe my year, I'd pick love, food and wine.
I have experienced a lot more this year than most of my adult life. And the three constants in my life were love, food and wine. I fell in love. I got my heart broken. Shattered actually. But even as I go through the process of healing my heart, I'm starting to see all the good that came out of that experience.
So here it goes. My year in review.
I started the year in a difficult place. I had just welcomed the new year with a group of close friends, neighbors, and the object of my desire – or infatuation – along with his girlfriend. The years before we spent New Year's Eve together, sans significant others. This year, my single status was all the more evident. My reliable plus one had his own plus one. Then I started to deal with holiday weight gain and the set of insecurities that followed. I spent the first few months of the year fixated on losing weight. Eventually, I lost the weight and also gained some clarity. I decided not to let myself get to a place where I am so obsessed about my weight.
I realize now that my weight obsession had to do with bigger issues. Control and fear. There are very few things in life within our control and I felt that my weight was one of the few things I could control. My fear over being alone had led me to fixate on my weight. I had to face the fear of being alone. My friend's presence in my space, with a significant other, had made my single reality all the more real.
To be clear, I'm very used to the single life. I've been flying solo for a very long time. But as I get older, and everyone around me couples up, and when I'm the only solo person at a dinner party of 39, I can't help but wonder "what if I never meet someone?" I had to admit to myself that the reality of this "what if" was what I feared most. I had to admit to myself that despite the great facade, I feared ending up solo. Hence this obsession with weight, and losing weight. It had to do with having control of something in my life.
Then spring arrived and I could feel the change in my energy. Coachella might have had something to do with it. After years of saying "I'll go some day" I had actually decided to go this year. And I started to feel the year taking a different turn. Looking forward to something, anticipating something new, was changing the way I felt.
Just around this time, while at Coachella, I heard from Matt, again. I remember getting a text from him couple of months earlier, right around Valentine's day, and wondering what was going on with him. I had heard from him – via text – sporadically over the course of the year. The first time he texted me, I found it odd. I wondered why he was staying in contact after backing out of becoming roommates. But over the course of the following year I got used to getting texts from him every few months. Checking in. And during one of those checkins I finally asked. "What is it you really want?" "Your attention," he answered. Which led to our first date. Followed by many more dates until I stopped counting the dates.
He was to become my first love. The first time I felt real love during my adult life.
He had suggested planning a date at Cinespia with my friends, knowing how much my friends mean to me. The film was Saturday Night Fever. It was one of the many things he did to show me he cared and wanted to be part of my life. He went out of his way to make me happy. Even if it meant going out of his comfort zone and entering my comfort zone full of food, wine and friends. He's an anti-social introvert who went out of his to make me happy. Whether it was socializing with strangers on our 3rd date, planning a date with me +10, or going out dancing, he did things that he knew would make me happy. He showed me how I should be treated. And on a hot summer night, after less than 3 weeks of dating, he said he loved me. It was over a plate of food – full of hummus, grape leaves, pita and homemade guacamole – to accompany the bottles of red wine. I felt the same, and said it back to him.
Food and love were in constant company throughout the year. Whether it was dinner at LudoBites – another one of my loves – or sharing food with those who I loved. Food was an expression of my love. My memories of 2010 were intertwined with food and wine. As my first real love came to an end, I celebrated my birthday and nursed my heartbreak at Osteria Mozza followed by wine at Bar Covell. In the company of my friends, over a glass of champagne, followed by chilled red wine, I felt a different kind of love. It was the unconditional love of friends.
This has been a year full of great events – both sad and happy. It's been a year shaped by loss of life – my grandfather Hakop – and celebration of new life – Henry Hideo. It's been a year full of love, travel, food and wine.
As the year comes to an end, I feel fortunate for the experiences. I experienced love. It was brief but strong. And despite how it ended, I celebrate the love that Matt showed me. He showed me how I should be treated and what I should expect from a real relationship. For that I thank him and I wish him well.
Now I'm letting it go. Letting go of the anger and sadness and making room for love, joy, happiness, and even more food and wine.
I'm definitely grateful for your friendship!
Thank you and cheers to 2011!
here's to more drinks in 2011, at Bar Covell of course.
H says thanks for the shout-out, Auntie Eliza. Much love to you my darling.


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If you encounter memory line errors, including Memory MgrNew.c,Line:4128 Invalid handle, do the following.
A lot of these fatal errors lead into loops which can only be broken by doing a warm (up-arrow) reset. However, upon the next reset/restore/sync you get the fatal errors again.
This usually means that something is screwy in the Palm's version of the .ini file, the Preferences. Either delete the data ("Saved Prefs" with zCatalog or DBExplorer on the Palm, not forgetting the backup "Saved Prefs" on the desktop if you have to restore (otherwise you are back to square zero). You might want to first try selectively deleting as well. Use PrefMgr or Preference Editor for this. Both solutions usually concern the "Saved" prefs. Don't mess with the HotSync or PalmOS prefs unless you WANT all your memos and apps in the UNFILED category, or want to delete your hotSync name.
This "solution" usually saves me a hard reset, especially after a playing around with hacks or IR apps (I have about 15 running) screws something up big time. Unfortunately, against the blinking cursor splash screen error (e.g. Oops...installed all four files in the PalmIR enhance Zip. Baaad.), this won't work since a warm reset doesn't get you anywhere.
If this error message does not go away, it might be due to problems with the DRAM. Pull the batteries out (and prey you have backups of you data) then press the reset button on the back. Now wait 5 mins (sometimes longer).
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J Cancer 2016; 7(11):1465-1471. doi:10.7150/jca.15736 This issue Cite
Prognostic Value of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Low Pre-treatment Epstein-Barr Virus DNA: a Propensity-matched Analysis
Hao Peng1, Lei Chen1, Wen-Fei Li1, Rui Guo1, Yuan Zhang1, Fan Zhang1, Li-Zhi Liu2, Li Tian2, Ai-Hua Lin3, Ying Sun1, Jun Ma1✉
1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, People's Republic of China.
2. Imaging Diagnosis and Interventional Center, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, People's Republic of China.
3. Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, People's Republic of China.
✉ Corresponding author: Jun Ma, MD, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 651 Dongfeng Road East, Guangzhou 510060, People's Republic of China. Telephone: +86-20-87343469 Fax: +86-20-87343295 E-mail: majun2sysu.edu.cn. More
Peng H, Chen L, Li WF, Guo R, Zhang Y, Zhang F, Liu LZ, Tian L, Lin AH, Sun Y, Ma J. Prognostic Value of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Low Pre-treatment Epstein-Barr Virus DNA: a Propensity-matched Analysis. J Cancer 2016; 7(11):1465-1471. doi:10.7150/jca.15736. https://www.jcancer.org/v07p1465.htm
Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the prognostic value of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) with low pre-treatment Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA in the era of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).
Methods: Data on 1099 locoregionally advanced NPC patients treated with IMRT were retrospectively reviewed. Propensity score matching (PSM) method was adopted to balance influence of covariates. Patient survival between NCT and non-NCT groups were compared.
Results: The cut-off value of pre-treatment Epstein-Barr virus DNA (pre-DNA) was 1550 copies/ml for DMFS (area under curve [AUC], 0.655; sensitivity, 0.819; specificity, 0.445). For the 145 pairs selected by PSM, the 3-year distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS) and locoregional relapse-free survival (LRRFS) rates were 98.6% vs. 93.7% (P = 0.101), 95.8% vs. 94.4% (P = 0.881), 91.7% vs. 87.5% (P = 0.309) and 94.4% vs. 95.0% (P = 0.667), respectively. Multivariate analysis did not identify NCT as an independent prognostic factor (P > 0.05 for all rates), and stratified analysis based on overall stage (III and IV) and N category (N0-1 and N2-3) also got the same results.
Conclusion: NCT was not established as an independent prognostic factor, and it should not be used in locoregionally advanced NPC with low pre-DNA.
Keywords: nasopharyngeal carcinoma, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, Epstein-Barr virus DNA, prognosis.
Peng, H., Chen, L., Li, W.F., Guo, R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, F., Liu, L.Z., Tian, L., Lin, A.H., Sun, Y., Ma, J. (2016). Prognostic Value of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Low Pre-treatment Epstein-Barr Virus DNA: a Propensity-matched Analysis. Journal of Cancer, 7(11), 1465-1471. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.15736.
Peng, H.; Chen, L.; Li, W.F.; Guo, R.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, F.; Liu, L.Z.; Tian, L.; Lin, A.H.; Sun, Y.; Ma, J. Prognostic Value of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Low Pre-treatment Epstein-Barr Virus DNA: a Propensity-matched Analysis. J. Cancer 2016, 7 (11), 1465-1471. DOI: 10.7150/jca.15736.
Peng H, Chen L, Li WF, Guo R, Zhang Y, Zhang F, Liu LZ, Tian L, Lin AH, Sun Y, Ma J. 2016. Prognostic Value of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Low Pre-treatment Epstein-Barr Virus DNA: a Propensity-matched Analysis. J Cancer. 7(11):1465-1471.
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Overwatch Apex, or simply Apex, was a competitive esports tournament series in South Korea for the video game Overwatch run by South Korean cable television channel OnGameNet (OGN) from 2016 to 2017. The tournament was contested mostly by South Korean teams, although several Western teams were invited to compete throughout most of its seasons. After four seasons, Apex was expected to continue operations as Overwatch Contenders Korea, but after Blizzard Entertainment, the owners of the Contenders, opted to use a different broadcaster for the Korean Contenders league, OGN shut down the Apex series.

Format
Every season of Apex was contested by 16 teams from both Korea and invited non-Korean teams, aside from season four, which had no invited non-Korean teams. For the first season, 64 South Korean teams advanced from an online qualifier to an offline qualifiers, with the top 12 teams advancing to the main league, and the following 12 teams after that qualified for Overwatch Apex Challengers, a promotion tournament for the second season onwards. Seasons began with group stages, followed by playoffs. Each match in the season was a best-of-five series, aside from the finals, which was a best-of-seven series.

History

Formation
On September 16, 2016, OnGameNet, a South Korean cable television channel that specialized in broadcasting video game-related content and esports matches, announced that it would be hosting a 16-team Overwatch league called OGN Apex. A total of 1,531 people from 230 South Korean teams signed up for the online qualifiers of first season.

Inaugural season

Twelve South Korean teams, Afreeca Freecs Blue, MVP Space, BK Stars, Luxury Watch Blue, Rhinos Gaming Titan, Flash Lux, Mighty Storm, KongDoo Panthera, Kongdoo Uncia, RunAway, CONBOX T6, and Lunatic-Hai, qualified for the main league. Additionally two North American teams, Team EnVyUs and NRG Esports, and two European teams, Rogue and Reunited, were invited to compete in season one. English broadcasts featured the casting duo Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles and Erik "DoA" Lonnquist. The league's inaugural season began on October 7, 2016, with the group stage of the tournament. Following the group stage, an eight-team, single elimination tournament took place. The finals, which took place in Ilsan, South Korea on December 3, 2016, saw Team EnVyUs defeat Afreeca Freecs Blue, 4–1.

Continuation
Several changes were made for the second season of Apex. The league added a double-elimination bracket between the group stage and the playoffs, and the top four teams from the double-elimination bracket advanced to the playoffs. Additionally, teams were allotted one timeout in the middle of a match. The second season was contested by twelve South Korean teams, three North American teams, and one European team. Of the South Korean teams from the first season, MVP Space, Rhinos Gaming Titan, and Mighty Storm did not qualify, while MVP Infinity, Meta Athena, and Afreeca Freecs Red qualified for the group stage. The Western teams invited were Team EnVyUs, Fnatic, Cloud9, and Misfits. The season began with its first group stage on January 17, 2017, in Seoul, South Korea.

The third season followed the same format as the second, with the twelve-team group stage, eight-team double-elimination bracket, and a four-team playoff. The league introduced a new rule in which teams were allowed to substitute players between maps; with this rule change, many teams increased the number of players on their roster from six to seven or more. English casting duo Mykles and Lonnquist departed from Apex to prepare for Blizzard Entertainment upcoming Overwatch League. The league reduced the amount of invited non-Korean teams from four to two. Returning South Korean teams from Season 2 included Lunatic-Hai, KongDoo Panthera, Afreeca Freecs Blue, RunAway, KongDoo Uncia, Luxury Watch Blue, BK Stars, and Meta Athena, while qualified teams from Challengers included Mighty AOD, X6-Gaming, CONBOX Spirit, MVP Space, Flash Lux, and Rhinos Gaming Wings. The two invited Western teams were Rogue and Team EnVyUs. Season 3 began April 28, 2017.

In May 2017, Blizzard Entertainment announced plans to launch Overwatch Contenders, a "development league" in North America and Europe. Following, OGN announced that no international teams would be invited to compete in Apex for its fourth season; instead, OGN cancelled Apex's promotion and relegation event and invited the top five teams from the Challengers league. Season 4 was contested by MVP Space, Meta Athena, KongDoo Uncia, Flash Lux, Afreeca Freecs, ROX Orcas, Meta Bellum, LW Blue, Lunatic-Hai, RunAway, KongDoo Panthera, NC Foxes, LW Red, GC Busan, X6-Gaming and CONBOX.

Disbandment
In late 2017, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Overwatch Contenders would operate in seven regions globally, and that Overwatch Apex would be re-branded as Contenders Korea. OGN had planned to run a fifth season of Apex before it was rebranded to Contenders; however, in December 2017, Korean news outlet Sports Chosun reported that Blizzard had sold the Contenders Korea broadcasting rights to television channel MBC. In January 2018, OGN announced that they would be ending the Apex tournament series and would not be a part of Contenders Korea, confirming that Blizzard had sold the broadcasting rights in an interview, stating, "We did our best and agreed to most of Blizzard's conditions on continuing the competition, but we were notified that Blizzard was preparing a competition with another broadcast. Until that notification, OGN had been preparing for the next season, so we are very regretful."

Seasons summary

Legacy
The first Overwatch Contenders Gauntlet, the premier tournament in the Contenders series, took place at the OGN Giga Arena, the venue that hosted the Apex tournament. In the Overwatch League's 2021 season, the league produced a hype video for one of their matches that was reminiscent of the videos that OGN produced for Apex.

References

Esports competitions in South Korea
Apex
Defunct esports competitions

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Woman who can collapse at any moment due to a rare heart condition is denied benefits
5,000 sick and disabled people died awaiting benefit repayments after 'scandalous' DWP error
DWP slammed over rising number of benefit underpayments
Jobcentre staff to target homeless people in new £3m government scheme
Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions
Free period products to be made available in all schools and colleges in England
Stroke care facing a 'ticking time-bomb', says charity
Charity exposes 'glaring employment gap' for people with epilepsy
Young family with disabled child left homeless after benefits blunder
Pregnant homeless woman left to sleep on hard floor
Family of Jodey Whiting seek fresh inquest into her death to examine role played by DWP
One in five adults have experienced child abuse, research shows
Cutting Local Welfare Schemes Would Make Tens Of Thousands Homeless
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NewsWelfare Weekly Editor - 16th January 2020
"That 5,000 disabled people were denied the proper support to live independently before they died is scandalous."
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New government scheme is designed to combat stigma and tackle 'period poverty'.
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Gail Ward was told that she did not qualify for PIP payments, despite living with a potentially life-threatening heart condition.
Charity warns that the number of stroke professionals in the UK is at a worryingly low level.
Citizens Advice demands 'fundamental overhaul' of Universal Credit system
"We need to see significant changes to the way the Universal Credit is designed and delivered to ensure it supports the people who need it."
Thousand of people could be made homeless if government funding for local welfare schemes is removed, warns the Local Government Association (LGA).
New research from the LGA reveals that local welfare assistance schemes have helped a staggering 94,000 people at risk of becoming or remaining homeless.
Councils say the Government's £172 million annual funding for these schemes provides 'vital support' to families at risk of losing their homes. Removal of the funding would mean crucial support may no longer be available to tens of thousands of people.
Over a quarter of local welfare spending was used to help people facing potential homelessness in 2013/14.
If councils are forced to reduce the amount they spend on local welfare schemes, due to Government funding cuts, an estimated 50,000 people would be at increased risk of life on the streets.
The Government's decision to end funding for local welfare 'safety net' schemes in April would be an 'expensive mistake' and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, warns the LGA.
LGA analysis shows that for every £1 spent on local welfare, more than £2 is saved by helping people avoid becoming homeless. According to the LGA, providing accommodation to those at increased risk of homelessness would cost taxpayers an additional £380 million per year.
Local welfare schemes were introduced in 2013 to replace crisis loans and community care grants. The LGA says the schemes have offered a helping hand to hundreds of thousands of people facing crisis or entering a time of transition. This includes people at risk of becoming homeless, providing food to struggling families and helping care leavers find accommodation for the very first time.
Crisis support and community grants have been funded by central Government since 1987. The final decision of whether or not to scrap funding in 2015/16 will be made by Government ministers next month.
Council leaders and charities are urging the Government to reconsider the decision to terminate funding for local welfare assistance schemes.
Local authorities have already seen their overall funding slashed by 40% since 2010 and argue they would unable subsidise local welfare support.
Cllr David Sparks, Chair of the LGA, said: "Local welfare funding has been used by councils to provide crucial support to people facing personal crises in their lives and prevent problems from escalating.
"This money has helped keep a roof over the heads of thousands of people facing the threat of losing their homes. In doing so it has also saved the public purse many millions more which would have to have been spent finding new homes for people who lose their own.
"Government's decision to withdraw this funding is an expensive mistake which will not only lead to a reduction in support for those who need it most, it will also cost taxpayers millions more in the long run.
"Local safety net schemes have been funded by government for almost 30 years. At a time when councils are tackling the biggest cuts in living memory, many local areas simply cannot afford to keep these schemes going if government withdraws the funding.
"Government should not renege from its responsibility to those in most need. It needs to review this decision and fully fund local welfare."
Jon Sparkes, Chief Executive of the housing charity Crisis, said:
"For people facing or trying to escape homelessness, Local Welfare Assistance can be the final safety net – a small amount of money that makes a huge difference at a time of crisis.
"Today's report clearly shows the damage that will be done if this funding is cut. On top of the human cost of homelessness, it makes absolutely no economic sense.
"Homelessness shatters lives and it is hugely expensive for the state to pick up the pieces. We stand alongside the LGA and others in urging the Government to rethink its decision to cut this vital lifeline."
Welfare Weekly Editor - 18th January 2020
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Restaurant Games - It's all about cooking and serving people!
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Welcome to Restaurant Games, the best place to play restaurant, cooking and management games online. All the games are free to play online and we try to keep the site updated all the time with fresh games. Restaurant games are usually a combination between cooking games and management games, in which you have to prepare as fast as possible food and to serve as many clients as possible or to run different restaurants, bars or fast foods. Most of the games published here are created in flash and to play them you need the latest flash player version installed.
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On a supposedly clear night, I look up. I see nothing but the moon. Then I use my telescope. Still, nothing.
How much light pollution do you have in Malè? Is it really that high you can't see anything?
I'd wait for the new Moon and find the darkest spot I could (so sky is at its darkest).
With your telescope you can maybe try to spot some planets.
Even standing under a lit porch light as I leave for work, I can make out the Big Dipper and Orion constellations. North star is easy to find, as is Arcturus, Vega, Pleiades, Pollux and Castor, Cassiopeia, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all easy for me to see with naked eye. Many more, just have to know where in the sky to look.
With a 20 cm reflector, faintest I've seen in a clear night is Stephen's Quintet down at Mag 13+. With an UHC filter, lots of the large emission nebulae - the brighter ones like Cirrus are fairly spectacular, for the fainter ones the joy is in the hunt. A couple of quasars - here the joy is only in the hunt, they're pretty boring visually.
It's flat-out impossible that you see *nothing* but the full moon with a telescope - I can easily see the brighter stars through thin clouds with 99% light extinction with mine where I can't see anything with bare eyes any more.
If light pollution is very bad, consider using a filter which blocks the streetlight spectral lines.
If it's a toy telescope (no offense intended) then you will see very little.
How the viewfinder on that scope ? That's very important. You need to be able to point the scope!
And od course, you need to identify the planets in the sky first. Easy to do with a star map (or app ) for your location and date.
Best bet for casual observing is a good pair of binoculars. Easy to carry around and they don't have to be expensive.
Also get a smartphone app like Google Sky or similar and your phone will point you towards the various objects in the sky. Before smartphones, it was way more difficult to do this; now it's so simple people take it for granted.
Well, here in Dallas, I've generally found that enough of the faint stuff is washed out by light pollution that observation with binoculars is less than easy: the average angular distance between the things you can see is greater than the width of the binocular's field of view by a fairly large margin, so random observation doesn't work: you basically have to be able to see something by naked eye to know where to point the binoculars.
The OP may be running into similar issues with his telescope: He's trying to observe randomly, and his FOV is too narrow relative to the angular distance between objects that aren't washed out.
For sure the full Moon was really blinding Thursday evening. It rose though the haze/pollution layer, looking enormous and yellow for more than an hour. I took my car and when I had it in my field of view, the reflected light was strong enough to dim everything else and I told myself "Hey, what's that ?? What object can fly, be round and emit so much light ?". Took 5 good seconds to understand it was the good ol' Moon.
LOL I have night blindness sorry for being unfairly ambiguous. Wow I <3 cameras! Makes the invisible visible :D.


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The strain itself originates from Bulldog Seeds in Amsterdam. This is a world famous strain for potency and flavour. An 80 indica strain, it packs about 20% THC levels. The genetic origins remain a mystery to this day. But the affects are far from unknown. This is one couch locking powerhouse that will rid you of all pain, mental or otherwise. Although, very pure and high in THC, Bubble Gum Kush has almost no CBD at all. They offer packages of shatter from as cheap as $35 dollars up to around $200 dollars. Until recently you would have to visit a dispensary in North America. However, they now finally offer their exquisite creations directly from their website to your front door. Try some shatter today and get a far more superior high. You will never smoke a joint again. That is a guarantee. Enjoy!
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This gallery has a collection of unusual custom scenes.
I love when a customer asks me if it's possible to create a certain subject matter with the Art of Boomerang. Approximately half of my work was inspired by the challenge to create something new. I have on file countless designs and subject matters that I have been working on over the years that may already be a good fit for your home.
My terms are simple: we discuss size, colors, complexity, and number of boomerangs to come up with a price. First, I receive a 25% deposit to get started. Upon completion and customer approval of sketches/drawings I receive an additional 25% deposit. The remaining 50% balance is due upon delivery of the final completed scene. Each new design is signed and dated with the number 1 as the original design. I also go through a great deal of trial and error to test the boomerangs to ensure that they actually return and are reasonably durable and safe. It is my joy to help with installation.
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If Blood Should Stain the Wattle (The Matilda Saga, #6)
By Jackie French
Read by Edwina Wren
Jackie French HarperAudio
It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for Matilda Thompson to face her ghosts and the life that took a young girl from the slums of Grinder's Alley to being the formidable matriarch of Gibber's Creek. During this period of extraordinary social change and idealism, modern Australia would be born. And although the nation would dream of a better world, it would continue to struggle with opposing ideas of exactly what that better world might be. Jackie French, author of the bestselling To Love a Sunburnt Country, has woven her own experience of that time into an unforgettable story of a small rural community and a nation swept into the social and political tumult of the early 1970s. A time that would bear witness to some of the most controversial events in Australian history; and for Matilda, a time that would see her vision made real, without blood spilled upon the wattle. PRAISE FOR TO LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY 'a book about love of country that is heartwarming and heartbreaking, and hard to put down' --The Advertiser, 4 stars
It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'.
As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for Matilda Thompson to face her ghosts and the life that took a young girl from the slums of Grinder's Alley to being the formidable matriarch of Gibber's Creek.
During this period of extraordinary social change and idealism, modern Australia would be born. And although the nation would dream of a better world, it would continue to struggle with opposing ideas of exactly what that better world might be.
Jackie French, author of the bestselling To Love a Sunburnt Country, has woven her own experience of that time into an unforgettable story of a small rural community and a nation swept into the social and political tumult of the early 1970s. A time that would bear witness to some of the most controversial events in Australian history; and for Matilda, a time that would see her vision made real, without blood spilled upon the wattle.
PRAISE FOR TO LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
'a book about love of country that is heartwarming and heartbreaking, and hard to put down'
--The Advertiser, 4 stars
Author Bio: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperAudio


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In addition to ACMA requirements, for equipment also in scope of Australian electrical safety regulations, suppliers have additional obligations under the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council (ERAC) Electrical Equipment Safety System (EESS) and must act in accordance with the Equipment Safety Rules of the EESS.Before any equipment is sold a supplier must be registered on the EESS. Certain higher-risk equipment types, including external power supplies, must receive safety certification and be registered to the supplier. Compliance records and declarations of conformity must be prepared and RCM labelling affixed.
Compliance International can support safety certifications and provide services as authorised officer for the purposes of Responsible Supplier registration and as Authorised Representative for the purposes of Electrical Equipment registration on behalf of suppliers.
Compliance with minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) is mandatory for a range of products in Australia, including the external power supplies often supplied with telecommunications, radio and information technology equipment. Such equipment must be registered with the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) regulator on the basis of acceptable test reports.
Equipment in Australia must be labeled with the regulatory compliance mark (RCM) to demonstrate compliance with technical standards for telecommunications customer equipment, radiocommunications devices, electromagnetic radiation, and electromagnetic compatibility mandated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). Labeling must be backed up by compliance records, which include Declarations of Conformity made by an Australian legal entity. The compliance records are held by an Australian supplier or agent and are subject to audit by the ACMA and ERAC. For nearly 20 years Compliance International has supported conformity assessment in Australia for some of the world's best known names in telecommunications equipment through our Australia office. We can help you achieve compliance in Australia with our turnkey solution that includes preparing and maintaining compliance records and serving as local declarant without having your own presence in Australia.
In addition to ACMA requirements, for equipment also in scope of Australian electrical safety regulations, suppliers have additional obligations under the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council (ERAC) Electrical Equipment Safety System (EESS) and must act in accordance with the Equipment Safety Rules of the EESS. Before any equipment is sold a supplier must be registered on the EESS. Certain higher-risk equipment types, including external power supplies, must receive safety certification and be registered to the supplier. Compliance records and declarations of conformity must be prepared and RCM labelling affixed. Compliance International can support safety certifications and provide services as authorised officer for the purposes of Responsible Supplier registration and as Authorised Representative for the purposes of Electrical Equipment registration on behalf of suppliers.
Compliance with minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) is mandatory for a range of products in Australia, including the external power supplies often supplied with telecommunications, radio and information technology equipment. Such equipment must be registered with the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) regulator on the basis of acceptable test reports. Compliance International can help you complete GEMS registration as part of our turnkey solution in Australia.
Labeling must be backed up by compliance records, which include Declarations of Conformity made by an Australian legal entity. The compliance records are held by an Australian supplier or agent and are subject to audit by the ACMA and ERAC.
For nearly 20 years Compliance International has supported conformity assessment in Australia for some of the world's best known names in telecommunications equipment through our Australia office. We can help you achieve compliance in Australia with our turnkey solution that includes preparing and maintaining compliance records and serving as local declarant without having your own presence in Australia.


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How to install and configure printers on Linux (cups and foomatic-db)?
Following hardware's are proven to be working with cups and foomatic-db.
apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"
Now we add root or any other user to lpadmin group. lpadmin group owns printing preferences.
Now wer restart cups service just to make sure everything is ok.
If you haven't started or restarted cups already, this is the time to do it.
[ ok ] Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 04a9:173b Canon, Inc.
Now you can print from Linux.
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After that when i went on the link – http://127.0.0.1:631/ in Iceweasel, it simply says unable to connect.
Please let me know what went wrong here.
Have you checked the following things??
1. Check your browser network settings.
Also try reinstalling cups server.
Let us know how it went. Good Luck.
Package cups is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Search for "20 things to do after installing Kali" which should lead you to another blackmoreops page.
Too early in the morning and not enough coffee inside of me yet.
Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.
Do you run apt-get update first?
This is great, i couldn't get it to work, I finally got my printer added, think I should be able to actually print something now, thanks so much!
See "systemctl status cups.socket" and "journalctl -xe" for details.


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It was a beautiful hot sunny Sunday at the pool in our neighborhood and my friend Janie was sitting in the sun watching her little girl swim. She said "Michael you may be getting a call from a friend of mine who's planning her Mitzvah." I said Oh, thank you and we began to chat.
She told me she was at a Bar Mitzvah in NYC the night before and with that tone of political correctness said "it was good" making good a 2 syllable word with a rise and fall. She continued, "The DJ was good…but he wasn't you."
It wasn't one of those trying to stroke my ego things thank goodness. It was just her observation. While I feel grateful that she considers me in this way I'm a bit amazed. I mean they've never really seen me at my best like at a wedding or Bar mitzvah, or in front of 1800 people at a corporate event. Have I really earned it with her?
Each year since I moved to my home town I have donated my MC services for the annual Family Day event and Halloween parties. My neighbors and town folks have only ever seen me do these events with the exception of my next door neighbor who is a professional photographer and has worked for me. At those events I'm doing my best to manage dozens to hundreds of kids from 3 years old to 16 years old, their parents and other adults while still making a great time for everyone.
The night party at Family Day
It's a completely different experience for me than doing a wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Sweet 16 or company event. Plus when people know you, you have to want to find an extra gear to create a sense of specialness and fun, while still maintaining your true self. Each of the previously mentioned events that I do regularly have a focus to them. There's a specific intention and form to the event.
At the neighborhood events it's quite open and the form has to be created from scratch. Plus you never know what's going to happen. There are so many diverse interests and needs. Music that makes kids happy. Music that makes teens happy. Music that makes parents happy. It really requires a powerful focus with a deft touch. So in doing those parties I have often felt more challenged. I have to be less formal, and there's a lot of improvisation going on.
Interestingly it appeared the less formal, more natural and improvisational way of emceeing is in fact the very thing that most people tend to appreciate, love and remember the most fondly.
More on this in just a little bit.
Back to our conversation I said to Janie let me see if I can guess what you experienced: Here's what I've been noticing from the events that we've been hired to be on with our photo booth where we aren't the DJ.
(A brief explanation here, we have a pretty unique photo booth that planners and clients really love. we're often called just to book our booth alone as it has grown in popularity. We get calls from people who don't know that we're a full entertainment company to hire the booth after they've hired another DJ company to perform. In many of these events we have seen companies with the greatest reputations perform. On some gigs if I'm not personally booked I'll be one of the photo hosts and get to see them work.)
So I say to Janie, "this is what I've noticed. Tell me if this is what happened… Let's say the threshold for what the ear can really tolerate is at a "10". The DJ is playing at a "9" right from the get go and the MC in order to be heard above the music is at a "12". And he's not just talking at a 12, he's yelling at a 12. And he doesn't really stop talking."
Janie said, "You're absolutely right! We were out on the dance floor dancing saying I can't believe how *(&^%)(*& loud this is. Even when we went back to the table that's what we were talking about."
I told her it's practically a universal experience at higher end Bar Mitzvahs, well most Bar Mitzvahs as it were. No matter how intelligent, or experienced, or knowledgeable these MCs and DJs are these parties almost ACROSS THE BOARD repeat the same thing. Call it the "Shock and Awe" style of entertaining at parties. Basically it's like a loud carnival carnival barker with pounding dance music bombarding the guests into participating.
As a guest being blasted you're really just reacting and trying to cope with what's hitting you and keep upbeat. As civilized people we usually following the crowd and protocol. Guests for the most part know what's expected of them, and if they don't, well the MC is ordering them so they can just follow the commands. Hey it's a party right? He's there to "create fun".
But they get results: People are on the floor. So it's "successful". Right? Well….depends on what amounts to success for you.
Some folks are easy going, party types and they just go with it. Others will get on the floor but their minds and bodies are not with them. They are following what's expected, but they are conflicted and disconnected. Emotions can range from marginally annoyed to kind of angry. If you watch you will see people going through the motions…swaying to the music but they're not committed. Their eyes are not engaged. It's almost like inside their mind is saying the same thing that my friend Janie was saying, "I can't believe how +*&*&*%$ loud this is. Couldn't he just be quiet…SOOOO LOUD. I want to get away."
It's as if people while being outwardly gracious are internally rebelling. You can see the conflict. They're upset but what can they do? They can't leave. It's a party "I should be enjoying myself." But they go along for the ride because they're supporting their friends or family, and "it's not their (host/hostess') fault" that the entertainment is not enjoyable.. So they try to make the best of it.
Janie listening intently came back with "Oh my god, that's so true. That's exactly right. And we don't constantly need to be taught by the dancers. I felt like I was at a Zumba class. We love to dance we don't need that. I can go to a class by myself. We just want to have fun."
And there's the ultimate irony. The entertainment is actually getting in the way of guests having FUN. We've talked about it a lot at our company, because our goal has always been to create the greatest, most fun, experience you can have at a party, and even beyond that, to create a top 10 experience in a lifetime. And we realized that's just not the best way to get there.
What we have realized is that the companies have taken on the job of "making a party" by producing a "PARTY SPECTACLE" rather than insuring people are engaged, having fun and enjoying themselves. This direction is understandable based on other forms of entertainment: Concerts, Dance clubs, Carnivals, Amusement Parks but when it comes to Bar Mitzvahs and weddings and most milestone celebrations it hasn't served our clients and guests to get to our goal for them.
Janie even said, "If I'm at a club I expect it to be loud and I'm ready for it. I'm there to dance, not talk, but I couldn't even have a conversation." And that's key as well. Part of having fun is being able to converse and connect with others. It seems many DJ Companies have adapted the FIELD OF DREAMS ethos for doing parties…"If we build it they will come." Or more to the point, "If we produce the SPECTACLE they will have fun." But we've realized over time it never really works that well like that.
It's baffling really that even the very top , most well known, higher end renowned companies with tons of clients and praise employ a method of entertaining and engaging guests which is often disengaging. While it's completely effective in producing the spectacle it falls so short of offering an opportunity for real joy:
There's a overpowering element of demand rather than invitation.
Instead of warming people into a celebration, they want to blow them away.
Because we've focused on how to create the best feeling parties we discovered that real joy can't really be forced. Many people turn off being told what to do during normal circumstances.
So during 'free time' or party time, being told what to do is even less welcomed. Joy has to come from a personal place and experience: it's not made or manipulated, it emerges.
When a DJ company is above the threshold of comfortable sound LOUDLY COMMANDING or DEMANDING guests to "party" or do what they say they truly miss the opportunity for the guests to create or discover joy on their own. So even if they are having "fun" or a "good time" it's momentary and forgotten by the time they get home. Real joy though has weight and depth to it. It tends to last and hold on a bit.
While Janie was talking about her adult experience, we see the same thing happens with kids. Kids tend to have a lot of energy. There are some who love the spectacle. But there are many others who don't. Regardless of what they end up doing, what we have seen at these parties and this is nearly 100% is that when the DJ Company starts off HOT and plays at a 9 where the MC is at a 12 this happen:
The very first response from kids and adults is recoiling. They haven't caught up that energy yet. Unless there's something dynamically appealing to entice them, instead of jumping in at the same energy level as the DJ and dancers (if it's a Bar Mitzvah) they noticeably pull back from the PUSH. And yes they may actually listen and get drawn to the dance floor, like a moth to a flame, but they are not really dancing. They're not "into" the party. They could be swaying or moving arms and legs, but they are not in sync, full out dancing with the music, the DJ or the dancers.
How you know this is happening is when the MC and dancers are pushing the energy on a scale of 1 to 10 – at a 9 or 10, but the people actually dancing on the dance floor is at an energy level of 1 to 4. If you watch video of DJ companies it's quite noticeable. You'll see the dancer or DJ really PUSHING their energy out to the kid or adult while the kid is kind of just going through the motions.
We've seen when some companies "miss the mark" it will take them nearly 3 hours to regroup from this hard opening where the guests and kids are actually WITH the entertainment and having a nice dance set. Others really never do get them. There is a dance party but it never really gets to the level of genuine celebration. People do dance…they're on the dance floor, but it just doesn't lift off.
Janie said a mouthful though about having fun. And that's often what's missing from these parties. You get pockets of fun, but since the DJ Company has their own agenda, (we're going to make a great party) to create a spectacle, the fun usually gets overrun in favor or assuring spectacle.
It's ironically backwards. Because if people are having fun it's much easier to lead a party to spectacular places, than to have the opposite happen.
ALONG COMES ELLEN, JIMMY and HUGH just in TIME
It started with Cirque du Soliel. Essentially Cirque really put interaction into shows, and because of that the art was able to be seen and appreciated, and enjoyed on a personable level. Before them it was the Bombast of Barnum and Bailey…"Ladies and Gentleman, Children of All Ages…" but the first Cirque show I saw the most amazing MC who never said a word.
David Shiner started it all in 1990. From Wikipedia, "he was featured in Cirque du Soleil's production Nouvelle Expérience, touring for 19 months through Canada and the USA and playing for another year in Las Vegas. With his antics, including stepping through, on and over much of the crowd and the staging of a mock silent-movie melodrama with four members of the audience, he may be the best-remembered of the Cirque's clowns."
What David Shiner did was have complete command and engagement with the audience in a way that few had really ever seen before. He was stealing people's popcorn. Posing people for photos and then taking their camera and giving it to another audience member 2 sections over while he's being chased by the original camera owner. All this before the main show even started. It was a shining example (no pun intended) of how connecting with the audience can create the most powerful memorable and joyful effect.
Then when he was on stage asking for people (miming) to come up they gratefully obliged. That's engagement. He commanded the stage without speaking a word.
We as a company immediately incorporated this interactive engagement style to begin our parties, and it became the overriding essence for how we did the entire event. In order to engage people you need to ENGAGE with them. Find the place in them that creates desire for them to participate.
Fast forward to 2014 when Jay Leno retires and Jimmy Fallon takes over the Tonight Show. Jimmy began his career on the Tonight Show by talking to the audience, by sharing his true life emotions and desires and keeping that as his tone the entire time. Whether he's joking with a guest, doing a game with a celebrity or doing a hilarious rapping through the ages with Justin Timberlake, it all has a very genuine interactive approach done for the audiences benefit, without a note of the self-congratulatory aspects of show business.
Each show he comes out and greets the audience with joy and appreciation and he starts his monologue by saying, "Here's what people are talking about…." Relating perfectly to his audience. Not here comes the joke style of Jay Leno, Johnny Carson and most of the predecessors. Just completely pulling the formality out of it and sharing his take with folks. Which is what we all do. It's very humanizing.
Colin Ferguson on the CBS Late Night show has a similar style even so much so that he pulls the camera into his face and talks directly to the viewer. This creates an even more intimate connection with us. His style is very appealing and self-effacing which makes him accessible to audiences. It helps that he's also very funny.
But the performance that really announced the changing of the guard style of emceeing was when Ellen DeGeneres hosted the Academy Awards. She turned it on its ear. Her conversational, fun filled turn going out to the crowd with pizza, taking $20 bills from the stars was simply brilliant and gave a call back to David Shiner with the original production of Nouvelle Experience.
Gone was the "look at me" wink of the eye Billy Crystal style or comedic formality of Steve Martin. These new style MCs allow a window in to see the genuine person and then the humor, and outrageousness connect so much more. You can see how genuine, nice and wonderful these people are as humans, THEN you get their talent on top of it.
Ellen's Selfie with Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and the others was spontaneous, live and completely interactive. She didn't know what would happen, she thought she was just going to take a shot with Meryl Streep, but because she had connected with the audience on a human level they all wanted to participate. And she completely had us and them with her.
Hugh Jackman picked up the gauntlet for the 2014 Tony Awards. His 5 minute hopping routine at the opening of the show was inspired. We as guests marvel at what he's doing, and yet when he gets to the opening, he makes fun of it, pointing out his own behind the scenes humanity in rehearsing it. When he sang the nominations and cracked on a note, he just waved it off, and that made him even more endearing to us. He's human. He makes mistakes. He rolls with it. It's live. We go for it. And we willingly go with him.
This is the new evolution of emceeing. Breaking through formality. You can relate to the real person. You see it and enjoy it. This is the style and method that we've (LSNY EVENTS) been engaging in now since 1990 when we first saw David Shiner command an entire crowd of Cirque audience members without saying a word.
We embraced the power of connecting and engaging with people over creating a spectacle for people to have to deal with. We discovered that when you engage with people they find their own fun and joy and the spectacle emerges spontaneously. And their spectacle is more powerful, more joyful and real than anything we can plan and manufacture.
Yes the MC is the guide and leader. But he is there to empower and inspire the fun, the joy and excitement. For me he's not there to overpower, demand it or make it happen from you. He's there to help you find it in yourself. That's the road less traveled by DJ companies big and small but the difference is compelling.
The good news with folks like Ellen, Jimmy, Colin and Hugh and the many more that have been moving in that direction, Ryan Seacrest has been moving in that direction, it will eventually seep in the Bar Mitzvah, Wedding, Sweet 16 and Corporate Event environment. It cannot help but happen. And that will be a great day for parties.
And this style of connecting with people will emerge out to corporate life making companies more accessible and fun places to work. The human engagement model is universal.
In the meantime, we'll keep offering this to our clients, and I'll keep learning and growing to be more available to guests, keep inspiring my staff, MCs and DJs to be open, caring more about the quality of experience that the guests are having over their own self-congratulations. If you would like more information about our company and what we can do for you for your special events, please give me a call.
Until then… Remember you are Extraordinary
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Happy Monday!! I hope you had an amazing weekend! Ollie and I spent it on a mini-getaway in Kelowna to do some wine tasting and get some R&R. It was quite the contrast to the weekend from these photos, which were spent in crazy Las Vegas with my friend Jessica and Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren for the Avicii Concert. We had such a blast and I feel like I've had my Vegas fix for a long time to come.
We stayed at the beautiful Encore Hotel and were truly spoiled. We were set up in the tower suites with room service breakfast each morning, VIP access to the Encore Beach Party on Saturday, VIP access to the Avicii concert that same night and plenty of time to ourselves to roam around the town. It was an insane 45 Degrees Celsius while we were there, which meant we were in the pool at most times. These photos were taken on our last day there and as you can see -- yup, still in my bikini! We had come directly from the pool to take a couple of photos and then I'm pretty sure we went straight back to it. I was trying to will myself not to sweat too much while we were shooting these, but it was a lost cause. My body is not meant for 45 degree weather!
Because it was so scorching hot, I only wore the most minimal of clothing the entire time. I would have been happiest just walking around in my bikini, but you know, not always possible. So when I actually had to put clothes on, this was the next best thing. Both the top and shorts are nice and light and airy and have minimal contact with my skin -- exactly what I needed. Jessica actually seemed to be quite at home in the heat (which made me a little jealous) but not me -- I'm just fine with my mid-20s thank you very much.


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