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Fund Development, Philanthropy
Collecting Donor Stories
Simone Joyaux
Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE is recognized internationally as an expert in fund development, board and organizational development, strategic planning, and management. She is the founder and director of Joyaux Associates. Visit her website here.
How's that going?
Like an apple a day… A donor a day.
Call a donor. Tell her thank you. Ask her why she gave. Another day, another donor. Call him. Tell him how you used his gift. Ask him why he first gave.
How many donors stories has your organization collected? How many conversations do you have with donors every month? How many donor interviews have you conducted this year?
How many donor stories do you tell? In your newsletter. In your annual report. On your website. At your fundraising events.
Here's a story that hospital colleague sent me this year:
"A donor of modest annual gifts – someone I've known here for 25 years – had been in the hospital last week. I called her at home to see how she was doing.
"After sharing her positive experience, she told me she has arranged to leave most of her estate to the hospital. She said she was doing so for two reasons: One, because she believes this is an excellent hospital. And two, 'because when you call me to see how I'm doing, I know that is the real reasonyou're calling, not to bug me for money.'"
Just imagine… The donor actually knows that this development officer genuinely cares about her. The donor knows that this development officer doesn't see her as a means to an end.
Just imagine . . . This development officer realizes that giving isn't about money. This development officer isn't even looking for a gift.
What do your donors say about you?
She told me one day about her giving. I was writing a chapter in a book that is scheduled for release in 2011, called Philanthropy in 7 Words.
"Giving is about making meaning," my friend told me. "And we can't make meaning if we don't empower ourselves." That was the focus of our conversation, empowerment.
"How sad," she said to me. "How sad not to feel like an actor, an agent of something in one's own life and in one's own world."
So she gives. She gives to empower herself and to empower her son and daughter. She gives to empower all the disempowered. "Making the gift is making meaning. I demand to be an actor, an agent of change in my own life and in my own world."
This story is a keeper, forever. What stories do your donors tell you? What stories do you save forever?
Good fund development is about stories . . . the donor's stories, your client stories, stories about impact and making a difference.
Nonprofits are in the business of storytelling. How about this: Your job is to tell "stories that are too good to check." Thanks to Neal Conan on NPR's "Talk of the Nation."
Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE is recognized internationally as an expert in fund development, board and organizational development, strategic planning, and management. She is the founder and director of Joyaux Associates.
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Don't get me wrong: exit tickets can help students summarize or apply their learning from a class, and honest data can inform your planning for the next day, indicating which students understood the material and which you might target for intervention because they need more time. Some teachers are masters of the exit ticket and use them with great proficiency.
But not me. Confession time: I'm not a big fan of exit tickets.
Maybe it is just the name that irks me. I mean seriously, do high school students need a ticket to exit the room? I feel like the name puts up walls and just challenges our more defensive students to say I'm leaving with or without your cutely-designed, well-thought-out little ticket. Further, when asking students to rate their confidence on the question posed or the lesson in general you can bet your new LeBron's there are students who will say they are more confident than they are because….. hmmm, let's see: they don't want more practice because they are already struggling and that feeling of discomfort is, well, uncomfortable. Also, many of our incoming students aren't accustomed to classrooms that focus on growth over assessment. They don't see "not there yet" as a step on the ladder.
What I am really a fan of is seeing what my students know at the start of class the next day… or several days later. Or longer. This method is consistent with many of the retrieval practice approaches outlined in Make It Stick, Learn Better, Mastermind. Depending on the topic and where my class is in the unit, there are several strategies I would employ in my anti-exit ticket strategy. Whether you want to check in on what your students recall from the lesson yesterday, or last week or last September…..here are a few strategies you might try.
3 Facts Students list 3 facts from the lesson/topic. Once you check all students have completed the task, have them combine their responses in a shared Doc (or poster paper, or paper, or the chalkboard. Hey, we're teachers we can figure it out!). Later in the day, other classes can compare their fact sheets to those created by earlier classes. Did they miss anything? What would they add/change?
Problem Solvers Pose a question from the lesson yesterday that requires students to apply the information to synthesize a response. Use a whiteboard (No whiteboard? Use chalk on a lab table or a piece of paper) to show your solution and explain your reasoning. Twist: Jigsaw this! Let's say you have six table groups of four. Pose 4 problems. Each member of the group goes to the question number table to work on the problem then reports back to the group. Keep everyone accountable: Tell the students you will take one completed problem set from each table and you will choose….. randomly!
Question Set Choose 5-10 multiple choice questions.. preferably a combination of old material and new. I like to use TestWizard for this purpose. Depending on your goals, you can have the students work independently or in groups. Frequently, I will put them in groups for this. If you keep in mind that the goal is to learn and not evaluate at this point, group discussions about relevant questions can help learning!
Edpuzzle Find a video that relates to your topic and embed questions requiring students to apply what they learned. Also… if I had to kick it old school with an exit ticket, this would be my go-to option.
Brain Dump On a whiteboard, Google Slide, or plain old piece of paper, write down everything you can recall from the lesson/topic….without looking at any materials. Words, phrases, diagrams, models….. it's all good. Literally just have them purge their memories. Allow about 3 minutes for this. Then have the students combine compare with a partner. If you're feeling ambitious or the students are struggling, you may want to have the partner groups share with another partner group. We call this think-pair-pair-share but I'm sure there's a catchier name out there somewhere (feel free to comment on it, show-offs).
Summary Sheets Similar to the brain dump and the facts, this requires about 5 minutes for students to sketch out a summary of what they learned. Equations, diagrams, and models are at a premium here.
Create a Question Have students create a multiple choice question using the material from the previous class. Blake Harvard at The Effortful Educator provides an excellent template for this in his blog post, Maximizing the Effectiveness of Multiple Choice Qs. This method doesn't merely ask the student to pose a question and come up with the correct answer. This strategy engages students with the incorrect choices as well, asking them to consider which incorrect choice was the trickiest and why, write a new question where the incorrect choice is now correct, and relate an incorrect choice to a previous unit of study or lesson. When the students have created their question and analyzed their choices, they can exchange with another student, complete their question and then compare answers. In this case, students are reexposed to multiple topics just through two questions. Check out my activity here.
And of course, all of these can be modified to keep it interesting for your students. For example, turn answering questions into a Grudge Ball game. Turn your 3 Facts into charades or Pictionary. Use FlipGrid or SeeSaw instead of a shared Doc. Have students make a 3-minute screencast about the lesson instead of a summary sheet. Kids need variation, so think of this as like a P90X approach to teaching. Mix it up, build skills, keep it interesting. This all depends on having teachers who can adapt to the needs of their students. Sometimes you need to take the metaphorical temperature of the class and have the intestinal fortitude to say hmmm, well I planned to do this as a Google Doc but today seems like more of a Pictionary day. Teachers, this means you may need to step outside of your carefully crafted plans and just respond to the needs of your students at that time. (And, oh, I am so eagerly awaiting the opportunity to post my thoughts about lesson planning!).
Why wait until the next day for this anti-exit ticket? Three reasons.
We don't want students just to regurgitate information at the end of a lesson. Let's face it: some kids have excellent short-term memories but they don't understand a lick of what they are saying.
Some of our students need more time to process the information, link it to their prior learning or experience, and build those connections within their brains.
A lot can happen in 24 hours. I am much happier to see a kid "get it" the next day rather than the same day. This shows a greater likelihood of long-term retention. As discussed in Mastermind, our memories are like boxes in the attic. If we don't take them out and dust them off periodically, they become lost in the clutter.
I hope maybe I've encouraged one or two of you out in the nether nether of Internetlandia to consider ditching the exit ticket and giving these strategies a try. I'd love to hear what you think, so please comment, Tweet , Insta, or email me about your experiences with the end of the exit ticket and whether or not you observe any impact on retention.


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Washington s Spies
Written By Alexander Rose
Author : Alexander Rose
Publsiher : Bantam
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Summary : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront ...
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It is that happy time of year again when we celebrate the birthdate of one of Mommy and Gavin's favourite singers, Bing Crosby. This year we reach back to the 1938 Paramount release, Sing, You Sinners. The National Board of Review placed this comedy/drama/musical among its Top Ten Films of the Year along with such titles as Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Michael Powell's The Edge of the World and Frank Borzage's Three Comrades. Sing, You Sinners was directed by Wesley Ruggles, the Oscar nominated (Cimarron) younger brother of actor Charles. Ruggles directed two earlier Crosby vehicles, College Humor in 1933 and Mississippi in 1935.
The story and screenplay for the movie is by Claude Binyon, the former Variety reporter whose work in movies includes classic screwball comedies like True Confession with Carole Lombard, The Gilded Lily with Claudette Colbert, Mississippi starring W.C. Fields and Bing, and Dreamboat with Clifton Webb. The cinematography by Karl "Sunrise" Struss is almost as sumptuous as his work on Waikiki Wedding, which has the effect of almost hypnotizing me.
Elizabeth Patterson (Intruder in the Dust) plays the widowed Daisy Beebe raising her three sons in the straitened circumstances of the Depression. Her son David played by Fred MacMurray (The Absent-Minded Professor) is a sensible, hardworking fellow who is delaying his marriage to girlfriend Martha Randall played by Ellen Drew (Christmas in July, Stars in My Crown) until his mother and youngest brother are secure. The kid brother is played by 12-year-old show biz veteran Donald O'Connor (Singin' in the Rain). What is holding David back from his dreams of matrimony is a combination of the times and layabout brother Joe played by Bing Crosby (Rhythm on the River). It isn't that Joe won't look for a job, it is that he can't keep a job. There is always something Joe would rather be doing and...he does it.
Unlike musicals or operettas where the characters express their emotions in song (Why don't we do that more often?), the songs in Sing, You Sinners are performance pieces and presented as such. The opening apprises us of the fact the Beebe boys have been encouraged in musical endeavours by their mother as we see them singing Shall We Gather at the River at a Sunday morning church service. At first their performance is somewhat lackadaisical, but a stern look from Mother Beebe puts some life into the number.
The more popular crowd pleasing tunes are by composer James Monaco and lyricist Johnny Burke, both members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and recipients of multiple Oscar nominations. First up is the peppy I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams sung by the Beebe trio at a road house. David (Fred) on clarinet, Joe (Bing) with a guitar and Mike (Donald) with an accordion. David is against the whole thing. He's philosophically opposed to singing about violets while a bunch of geeks jump up and down. Doggone it, he's a man! Mike also fears for his carefully built-up reputation helping to train race horses during the summer. Joe claims to be in line with his brother's way of thinking, but "the man offered them ten dollars".
Sometime later hard working David can't get away from his mechanic's job to take his girl Martha to a lecture on seals. He gives the tickets to Joe because if you can't trust your brother with your gal, then who can you trust? The dry lecturer is played to perfection by Irving Bacon and fans will rejoice in his comic turn. Joe makes Martha cut out early and they head to a night spot where the bandleader Harry Barris (Bing's Rhythm Boys pal) prevails upon the popular Joe to sing for the crowd. Bing's number is Don't Let That Moon Get Away and it is a hit with folks. In fact, it is so much of a hit that strangers keep sending free drinks his way. Joe is feeling no pain when he drives home, tries to move in on Martha and gets a sock on the jaw from David.
The writing is on the wall and Joe decides to head to Los Angeles in search of his fortune. He actually finds said fortune at the race track and his run-in with a fellow bettor played by Tom Dugan is hilarious. Joe sends back home for Mom and Mike, giving David and go-ahead to marry Martha. The family was misled into thinking Joe had bought a swap shop business, but they soon discover that Joe is the proud owner of a race horse named Uncle Gus, played by six year old Ligaroti, purchased by Bing and Lin Howard from Argentina. Joe even has to borrow a dollar from his mother to pay the stable boy Filter played by Paul White. Mrs. Beebe is upset, but they all keep the secret from David until he and Martha show up and the truth is out. Race horse aside, there is only one dependable way for the Beebe boys to make money and we next see them at a nightclub crooning a little ballad called Laugh and Call It Love.
A night club turns out not be the healthiest environment for the youngest Beebe boy. A gambler who frequents the place threatens young Mike into throwing the big race in which Uncle Gus is expected to improve the family's fortunes. John Gallaudet plays the gangster and he's a nasty one. The finale of the movie features an exciting horse race, and a very disturbing scene when the gambler goes after Mike. Rest assured, the Beebe's stick together and Mother Beebe gets her way.
"I would see him (Bing) on the screen in between shows and, like everybody else, I always thought he was a friend of mine. So when I met Bing, he was extremely nice. Had a wonderful smile. And he never said too much to me on the movie. He was very, very patient with me. I was a very small child at twelve and I was riding this big goddamned racehorse and I was scared to death of this horse. There was one scene down at the track, an exposition scene, where I tell him I've been bribed, I've got the money and I feel awful, I'm letting the family down. It's a long scene and Bing is in front leading me on the horse and he's pumping me and at the same time reassuring me not to be worried. We get right down to the end and I blow my lines. So we turn the horse around, all the way back, and it was a cold day at Santa Anita, and we have to start again with all the crying and everything. I blow the line again. We must have done that forty times. And Bing never complained, not once. I told him, "I'm so sorry, my mind just can't get his." He said, "Don't worry about it, kid, you'll get it, we have no place to go." We had a lot of fun on that movie. He treated me like a pal."
Bing was pleased with the picture and the role of Joe Beebe. Critics noted that Crosby was indeed an actor and the star himself even commented that perhaps he could do more than sing. The movie was a popular success and ideas were floated around that the Beebe's would make a profitable series of pictures, much like the Hardys over at MGM, but nothing came of it. Nonetheless, we have Sing, You Sinners with its appealing cast, funny and frightening situations, and songs to entertain us.
Isn't it ironic that Donald replaced Mickey Rooney in this movie and decades later, Mickey would try to replace Donald (unsuccessfully) in the final FRANCIS film? My Dad collected Bing Crosby records, including the "Bing in Hollywood" series from Decca. I knew the songs to this movie by heart years before I ever saw the film!
Hollywood careers are full of those twisted ironies. It is delicious.
It must have been such a kick to see the numbers performed that you already knew so well. Donald, Fred and Bing made quite the trio.
As talented as O'Connor was, it doesn't surprise me that he learned a few things from his time with Crosby.
True. The best are always open to learning more.
I have seen clips, though, and I love the exchange between Donald and Bing.
In some ways the movie is what you expect from the opening, and in others it takes a dark turn. Ultimately, it is memorable.
I love what Donald O'Connor says about working with Bing. What a beautiful thing it is to be reassuring and patient to a kid in a situation like that.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this film. As is often the case with your blog, I hadn't even heard of this title before, but you've really piqued my interest. Sounds like a great cast and an interesting plot.
I'm glad that if it comes your way you will give the movie a chance. The musical numbers will stay with you. On paper the three seem like an unlikely trio, but it really works.
YouTube is like shopping. There's always something you kick yourself about not buying/watching. Hopefully the opportunity will come around soon.


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namespace q
{
namespace video
{

	class Buffer : public util::Noncopyable
	{
	public:
		virtual ~Buffer() {}

		enum class Usage : uint8_t
		{
			STATIC,			//rarely updated
			STREAM,			//updated often
		};

		//Reallocated the buffer with the size and usage specified
		//Calling with size 0 deallocated the buffer
		virtual bool		allocate(size_t size, Usage usage_hint) = 0;

		//Returns the current size of the buffer in bytes
		virtual size_t		get_size() const = 0;

		//Returns the usage hint
		virtual Usage		get_usage() const = 0;

		//Returns if the buffer is currently locked for reading.
		//If it's locked, calling lockForReading is guaranteed to return a valid pointer
		virtual bool		is_locked_for_reading() const = 0;

		//Locks the buffer for reading.
		//Fails if:
		//			- the buffer is locked for writing or consuming at the moment
		//			- not supported by the platform.
		// If the buffer was already locked for reading, it's guaranteed to return a valid pointer. IT also increments the lock counter
		virtual uint8_t const*	lock_for_reading() = 0;

		//Unlocks the buffer. If was locked multiple times you need to call unlock the same number of times
		//If not locked, no side effects
		virtual void		unlock_for_reading() = 0;

		//Returns if the buffer is currently locked for writing.
		//If it's already locked, calling lockForWriting is guaranteed to return a pointer
		virtual bool		is_locked_for_writing() const = 0;

		//Locks the buffer for reading.
		//Fails if the buffer is already locked for reading, consuming at the moment
		// If the buffer was already locked for writing, it's guaranteed to return a valid pointer. IT also increments the lock counter
		virtual uint8_t*	lock_for_writing() = 0;

		//Unlocks the buffer for writing. If not locked it has no side effects
		virtual void		unlock_for_writing() = 0;

		//Returns true of the buffer is locked for consuming. This usually means rendering.
		//Both writing and reading locks will fail while the buffer is consumed.
		//Usually a buffer is locked for consuming from the moment it's rendered until 3 frames after
		virtual bool		is_locked_for_consuming() const = 0;

		//Returns true if the buffer is locked for reading, writing or consuming
		bool				is_locked() const;
	};

	inline bool Buffer::is_locked() const
	{
		return is_locked_for_consuming() || is_locked_for_reading() || is_locked_for_writing();
	}

}
}

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#ifndef DBOBJECTS_COMMON_DBLANGUAGE_H
#define DBOBJECTS_COMMON_DBLANGUAGE_H

#include <common/DbObject.h>

namespace DbObjects
{

namespace Common
{

/*!
 * \class DbLanguage
 * \brief Defines PL/SQL language
 * \headerfile common/DbLanguage.h
 */
class DbLanguage : public DbObject
{
    public:
        virtual ~DbLanguage();

        bool isTrusted() const;
        void setTrusted(bool ipFlag);

        virtual void resetData();

        virtual DbObject::Type type() const;

    protected:
        /*!
         * means that it is believed not to grant access to anything outside
         * the normal SQL execution environment
         */
        bool mIsTrusted;

    protected:
        DbLanguage(QString ipName);
};

} // namespace Common

} // namespace DbObjects

#endif // DBOBJECTS_COMMON_DBLANGUAGE_H


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NASA's Nancy Roman Space Telescope will search for alien planets
NASA's Nancy Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's infrared camera. It will mainly be used to search for alien planets in the galaxy.
Besides Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA operates a number of smaller telescopes, such as NuSTAR, which studies X-ray wavelengths, and Swift, which studies gamma-ray bursts. In 2027, another large space telescope will join them when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is launched. Among his various projects will be the search for new exoplanets and the study of dark energy. The space telescope is named after the woman who spent decades preparing the Hubble Space Telescope for research.
Like Hubble, Roman's main mirror will have a diameter of 2.4 meters. Its instruments will, however, have a much wider field of view, including one that will be able to see 100 times farther than Hubble's infrared camera. Thus, the telescope will be able to examine large sections of the sky simultaneously.
Two instruments will be on board the telescope, the coronagraph and the wide-field instrument. Light will be collected by the Wide Field Instrument, a camera that captures light in the visible and near-infrared spectra. By blocking light from very bright sources, such as stars, the coronagraph can better observe nearby fainter objects, such as planets orbiting host stars.
A major area of study for Roman will be exoplanets: Planets outside our solar system. More than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered so far, but that's only a tiny fraction of the total number of planets in the galaxy. As part of his research, Roman will assess the number of exoplanets in the Milky Way and determine whether these planets are distributed differently in systems that have them.
To get a better idea of the planetary systems in our galaxy, Roman will be used in a survey called the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) .
To find exoplanets, Roman uses a particular method. Transit-based exoplanet detection systems, such as NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS, find many exoplanets using this method. Astronomers use this method to observe a star's brightness over time by pointing a telescope at it. Each time a planet passes between a star and a telescope, the star's brightness is reduced. The discovery of exoplanets is based on this method.
In addition to the transit method, Roman will also directly photograph certain exoplanets. The main technique used will be microlensing, which uses the curvature of spacetime caused by gravity. Each time a star passes in front of another, its gravity distorts the light from the background star, and if the foreground star is surrounded by planets, these can also be detected. You can use this method to detect small moons and Earth-mass planets.
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Home deliveries ruled out as Greggs unveils plans for further growth
By Vince Bamford 2017-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
Greggs has revealed a new strategy for growth that includes opening up to 150 new stores this year, but has ruled out a move into home deliveries.
The food-to-go giant today (28 February) announced a refreshed four-pillar strategy to continue expansion of the business, which saw sales rise 7% to £894.2m Pre-tax profit (including exceptional items) grew by 2.9% to £75.1m.
Greggs' bakery staff learned last month that hundreds of jobs were at risk as a result of a major shake-up of its manufacturing and distribution structure, which includes the closure of its Norwich bakery, conversion of its Birmingham bakery into a distribution centre and restructuring its sites in Treforest, Wales, and Cambuslang, near Glasgow.
The activity is the next phase of a £100m investment in Greggs' supply chain that included the previously announced closure of bakeries in Twickenham, Edinburgh and Sleaford and the opening of a new distribution centre in Enfield last year.
Announcing the company's preliminary results, for the 52 weeks ended 31 December, Greggs chairman Ian Durant said Greggs had to ensure all aspects of the business "support our purpose and strategy".
"This has required us to make some difficult decisions, particularly regarding the organisation of our manufacturing and logistics operations, which the board has considered carefully," he added.
"We have highlighted the changes necessary to support the ongoing strategic realignment of the business, including the major investment programme under way to grow our supply chain. This will involve some difficult changes for some of our colleagues, but is essential to support the long-term competitiveness of the business."
His words were echoed by chief executive Roger Whiteside, who described the food-to-go market as "highly competitive and fast moving", adding the UK consumer outlook was more challenging than in recent years due to industry-wide pressures on commodities and labour costs.
But he added that growing consumer disposable income had supported demand for food-to-go despite uncertainty in the economic outlook.
Whiteside said customer footfall remained "challenging" in some shopping locations, which supported Greggs' strategy of reducing dependence on general shopping activity in favour of alternative locations.
Having transformed from a bakery business to a food-to-go business, it was time to set out a new strategy for the future, added Whiteside.
"We have refreshed our plan to reinforce our commitment to putting the customer at the heart of our strategy."
The new strategy comprises four pillars: great-tasting freshly prepared food; best customer experience; competitive supply chain; and first-class support teams. Whitehouse explained how the pillars would drive the business:
'Great-tasting freshly prepared food'
He said breakfast continued to be the fastest growing part of Greggs' trading day. This was driven by customers travelling, and lessened the company's dependence on general shopping footfall. He added that investment in additional coffee machines was speeding up service, and that the company was extending its coffee range.
Demand for healthier choices in food-on-the-go was continuing to grow, with the Greggs Balanced Choice range, offering fewer than 400 calories an item, accounting for more than 10% of total sales.
Hot food was another area of growing demand, and Whiteside said the business was investing in speeding up service and the product range – extended last year to include burritos. Hot soup had been another source of growth, he said.
Greggs has a strong pipeline of new product developments planned for 2017, he added.
'Best customer experience'
Extended opening hours, particularly early in the morning and on Sundays, were meeting increased demand for food-on-the-go, said Whiteside, while the investment in coffee machines, hot food ovens and new systems were contributing to speed of service.
Data capture from the Greggs Rewards customer loyalty scheme was now at a level that enabled the company to analyse behaviour and develop targeted marketing campaigns.
"We have recently appointed our first customer director with experience in digital multi-channel marketing who will lead development of our capabilities in this area," said Whiteside.
Greggs is currently trialling a workplace food delivery service, which it said was a channel with growth potential - but Whiteside ruled out home deliveries.
"Whilst we do not see an opportunity in home delivery, we do believe that a smartphone-based order and collect service for customers offers a future opportunity," he said. "Building experience with customer delivery will enable us to develop this channel, with the initial aim of converting our existing lunchtime platter business to a digital platform."
Greggs grew its estate to 1,764 shops trading as at 31 December 2016, completing 208 shop refurbishments to have 92% of the shop estate now operating in a food-on-the-go format.
In the year ahead, Greggs plans to refurbish another 200 shops, as well as open between 140 and 150 shops and close 40 to 50 shops.
"We will continue to relocate shops to rebalance our estate, increasing our presence in travel, leisure and work-centred catchments," said Whiteside.
'Competitive supply chain'
In 2016 Greggs opened a new distribution centre in Enfield and closed its Twickenham and Sleaford bakeries. Good progress was being made with the extension of the company's bakery in Glasgow, which would enable Greggs to close its Edinburgh Bakery in the second quarter of 2017.
"Alongside this work we have undertaken detailed planning for the subsequent investment phase across our remaining bakery sites," said Whiteside. "In January 2017 we communicated our proposals to staff at each of our sites, including the planned impact of consolidating our manufacturing operations. Overall, our expansion plans will create thousands of new roles in retail and distribution operations, but will result in fewer roles in manufacturing. "
Describing this as a complicated investment phase, Whiteside said transforming the use of space and equipment in the bakery network would take two years to implement.
"This new supply chain platform will substantially improve product quality, our competitiveness and, alongside system investment, complete our transformation from traditional bakery to food-on-the-go," he added. "This is our largest-ever investment in our supply chain."
'First-class support teams'
Last year, Greggs deployed SAP Finance as its core platform for integrated system development, and piloted central forecasting and replenishment in shops.
Whiteside said central forecasting and replenishment would replace shop-based ordering in 2017 and would be the company's largest-ever new system roll-out.
The next phase of systems development would be centralising logistics and manufacturing to replace Greggs' current devolved local bakery operations. The company aims to launch pilots for logistics and manufacturing by this year, with roll-out to other sites in 2018.
Whiteside said 2017 had started in line with expectations, with company-managed shop like-for-like sales up 2% year on year in the eight weeks to 25 February and total sales up 5.8%.
"2017 will be another busy year of change as we continue to progress our investment in better systems and the transformation and development of our supply chain," he added. "Over the medium term we are confident of making further progress as we implement our plan to grow Greggs as a contemporary food-on-the-go brand."
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Dawid Marasek's Zig Zag is a super-fast miniloop GBC module. The module is made of two parallel sections, both transporting at the speed of light their own balls from the base to the top of the module. The M motor animating this tiny module is constantly stressed by sliding arms animated on both sides, and the balls keep on rolling all the time. A definitely psychedelic miniloop module!


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Third Measles Case Reported At LAX
Filed Under:LAX, LAX measles, Los Angeles News, Measles
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Health officials have reported yet another case of measles involving someone who traveled through Los Angeles International Airport, marking the fourth such incidence so far this year at airports in L.A. County.
The patient in question traveled into LAX on a United Airlines flight on April 3, the L.A. County Department of Public Health reported Thursday.
The patient arrived at Gate 70A in Terminal 7 between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The patients also ate at the B Grill by BOA Steakhouse and walked through through Gate 81 at Terminal 8 between 7 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. that evening.
There have been no other reports of measles linked to the patient in those areas, LACDPH reports. Health officials also emphasized that L.A. County is not in the midst of an outbreak.
"Although L.A. County is not experiencing an outbreak, measles outbreaks are occurring nationally and internationally and exposures related to travel can occur," L.A. County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis said in a statement Thursday. "This underscores the importance for those who are not immunized against measles to get the measles immunization. With two doses of measles vaccine at about 97% effective and one dose about 93% effective, measles immunization is the best way to keep from getting and spreading measles."
Two previous measles cases involved passengers who passed through LAX. The first involved a China Eastern passenger who arrived at LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal on Feb. 21 and departed later that day on a Delta Airlines flight out of Terminal 3.
On March 5, a passenger on board a United Airlines flight arrived at Gate 76A at Terminal 7 and later visited an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location in Santa Monica.
On March 30, a person infected with measles passed through Long Beach Airport, boarding a JetBlue flight at Gate 11, departing at 6:40 a.m. The unidentified person departed on the same flight at the same time on Sunday, but from Gate 7.
Common symptoms associated with measles include fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a rash which usually appears 10 to 21 days after exposure. Anyone who develops measles symptoms should contact their doctor by phone before visiting their doctor's office.
(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. City News Service contributed to this report.)


I have used Elisa thread size 20 in ecru and my hook size 0,75 mm for this table center. I made 64 motifs and also some doilies on my two weeks snorkeling holiday in Egypt this November. The size of this table center is 62 cm x 62 cm (24,3 inch x 24,3 inch).
That is so gorgeous!!! I'm working up the courage to try thread crochet and if mine is only 1/2 as good as yours, I'm going to be thrilled. You are SO talented.
So pretty! It's funny how in the overall picture the eye is drawn to the diamond shape, but in the closer it's drawn to the pretty corner flowers.


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import numpy as np
import pytest

import elfi
import elfi.examples.ma2 as exma2
from elfi.methods.parameter_inference import ParameterInference

def test_no_model_parameters(simple_model):
    simple_model.parameter_names = []

    with pytest.raises(Exception):
        ParameterInference(simple_model, [])

@pytest.mark.usefixtures('with_all_clients')
def test_smc(ma2):
    thresholds = [.5, .2]
    N = 1000
    smc = elfi.SMC(ma2['d'], batch_size=20000)
    res = smc.sample(N, thresholds=thresholds)
    dens = smc._prior.logpdf(res.samples_array)
    # Test that the density is uniform
    assert np.allclose(dens, dens[0])

    # Test that weighted mean is computed
    w = res.weights
    assert w is not None

    samples = res.samples_array
    means = res.sample_means_array
    assert np.allclose(means, np.average(samples, 0, w))
    assert not np.allclose(means, np.mean(samples, 0))

    # Test result summaries
    res.summary()
    res.summary(all=True)

    res.sample_means_summary()
    res.sample_means_summary(all=True)

    # Ensure prior pdf > 0 for samples
    assert np.all(exma2.CustomPrior1.pdf(samples[:, 0], 2) > 0)
    assert np.all(exma2.CustomPrior2.pdf(samples[:, 1], samples[:, 0], 1) > 0)

# A superficial test to compensate for test_inference.test_BOLFI not being run on Travis
@pytest.mark.usefixtures('with_all_clients')
def test_BOLFI_short(ma2, distribution_test):
    # Log discrepancy tends to work better
    log_d = elfi.Operation(np.log, ma2['d'])

    bolfi = elfi.BOLFI(
        log_d,
        initial_evidence=10,
        update_interval=10,
        batch_size=5,
        bounds={'t1': (-2, 2),
                't2': (-1, 1)})
    n = 20
    res = bolfi.infer(n)
    assert bolfi.target_model.n_evidence == n
    acq_x = bolfi.target_model._gp.X

    # Test that you can continue the inference where we left off
    res = bolfi.infer(n + 5)
    assert bolfi.target_model.n_evidence == n + 5
    assert np.array_equal(bolfi.target_model._gp.X[:n, :], acq_x)

    post = bolfi.extract_posterior()

    distribution_test(post, rvs=(acq_x[0, :], acq_x[1:2, :], acq_x[2:4, :]))

    n_samples = 10
    n_chains = 2
    res_sampling_nuts = bolfi.sample(n_samples, n_chains=n_chains)
    assert res_sampling_nuts.samples_array.shape[1] == 2
    assert len(res_sampling_nuts.samples_array) == n_samples // 2 * n_chains

    res_sampling_metropolis = bolfi.sample(n_samples, n_chains=n_chains, algorithm='metropolis',sigma_proposals=np.ones(2))
    assert res_sampling_metropolis.samples_array.shape[1] == 2
    assert len(res_sampling_metropolis.samples_array) == n_samples // 2 * n_chains

    # check the cached predictions for RBF
    x = np.random.random((1, 2))
    bolfi.target_model.is_sampling = True

    pred_mu, pred_var = bolfi.target_model._gp.predict(x)
    pred_cached_mu, pred_cached_var = bolfi.target_model.predict(x)
    assert (np.allclose(pred_mu, pred_cached_mu))
    assert (np.allclose(pred_var, pred_cached_var))

    grad_mu, grad_var = bolfi.target_model._gp.predictive_gradients(x)
    grad_cached_mu, grad_cached_var = bolfi.target_model.predictive_gradients(x)
    assert (np.allclose(grad_mu[:, :, 0], grad_cached_mu))
    assert (np.allclose(grad_var, grad_cached_var))


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It was 1909 when Wilbur and Orville Wright finalized what the entire world had been waiting for—the Wright Military Flyer Model A. This new mode of transport would take the world by storm and completely reshape the future of military tactics and warfare. This was the first plane ever to be used for military purposes, by any government in the world!
Of course, success doesn't always come easy, and there were several hiccups along the way for the Wright brothers and the U.S. Army Corps. One of the very first test flights in 1908 quickly turned catastrophic when the plane malfunctioned mid-air and plummeted to the ground, killing the Army's official observer, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge and severely injuring Orville Wright as well.
As terrible as this event was, the Wright brothers became more determined than ever to bring further progress to the United States military. Their invention came at a time when many nations were battling to develop new strategies of military advancement.
This revolutionary new airplane ran on a chain-driven, 4-cylinder engine that produced 32-horsepower. The double propellers on the front were known as "twin pushers." The final test flight lasted approximately one hour and twelve minutes at 42 mph—breaking the world record for the longest flight with a passenger. This earned the Wright brothers an additional bonus while also securing a spot for their names in history books all over the world!
The successful completion of the Wright Military Flyer Model A, its testing phases and the concluding sale to the U.S. Army Corps, propelled the United States to the brink of a very exciting, yet unchartered territory. Over 10,000 wide-eyed Americans clamored to watch the test flights and to personally witness the final transaction of $30,000 to the Wright brothers for their part in an epic shift in history. One of these people was none other than President William Howard Taft. What an amazing time this must have been for the people of America!
The plane was eventually dubbed the "Model A" and was primarily used for pilot training from 1909 through 1911. Though it's life-span was somewhat short, it's legacy will forever be of great importance to the United States. Not only did the Wright brothers push through the limits of their day to help the security of the United States, but they also provided new insight and technology for future aviation initiatives.


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DarkHorizons.com reports that the delays and legal wrangling on the Hobbit movies appear to have yielded Peter Jackson as the director instead of just producer, which means abandoning his plan to direct one of the Tin Tin movies. Fine with me.
And an upside to Joss Whedon directing the Avengers movie in 2012 is that Nathan Fillion, who was not picked to play Captain America, will reportedly play Ant-Man. I'm smiling with amusement at that thought already — even though he'd make a fairly convincing spouse-abuser, if they get into that disturbing subplot from the comics.
And while we're talking about his wife, the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne), let me add that despite growing up in New England, it took me decades to get the ethnic joke inherent in the combination of her codename and wealth/social status.
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Dan Hand said...
According to Wikipedia, however, the Wasp premiered in June 1963; whereas, the acronym WASP was reputedly coined in a 1964 book by sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, of the University of Pennsylvania. "Van Dyne" would not have been a very apt choice for a White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant character's name, regardless. Now, of course, the term has become essentially an epithet, and so expansive as to take in almost anyone of White-European-Christian descent– except, of course, Iberians.
Jacob T. Levy said...
According to Wikipedia, the acronym was first used in 1957. Baltzell popularized it. And it was always a partly-unkind word. (Which is not the same as "epithet," a word that doesn't actually mean "those racist words I like to say.")
The old-line old money Dutch of the mid-Atlantic states– the Vanderbilts and Roosevelts, say– were absolutely always part of the category, which was always kind of a jokey reference to the old-line Protestant elites, not a precise ethnic marker. Van Dyne is clearly meant to be part of that social world, and, yep, I've always thought she had a wickedly funny pun name.
"Anglo-Saxon" is a make-believe ethnic marker anyways; no one's ever been disqualified from it by virtue of being upper English aristocracy, even though that might make them majority-Norman in ancestry; or a member of the royal family, and so modern-German in ancestry.
On the planet Earth I inhabit, WASP is still limited to Protestants. It's had slight category creep to include Scandinavians, but those from Orthodox and Catholic countries are still outside of it– and, to people with creepy racial views, Italians and Greeks and Poles and Russians are often still seen as suspiciously Ethnic.
So, Professor Levy, do you believe that the creators of the Wasp comic-book character, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, had read Andrew Hacker's 1957 article in the American Political Science Review (51:1009-1026)? Or, did they instead get their idea for the comic-book character's name from Erdman B. Palmore's 1962 article in The American Journal of Sociology? Regardless…
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an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned : old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet "dirty."
• such a word or phrase as a term of abuse : he felt an urge to hurl epithets in his face.
• a descriptive title : the epithet "Father of Waters," poetically used for the Mississippi River.
If you have not heard "WASP" used as an epithet, Professor, you really need to get out of the office more often. I have heard it frequently used as such– as well as a catch-all for (the aforementioned) White-European-Christian Americans, including Roman Catholics. I myself have been lumped in with WASPs many times– and it is neither because I come from a socio-economically elite family nor because I come from one that abjures the Holy See. Whether or not any professional academics use it in such an overly broad sense, it is used in such a sense by the hoi polloi, and even by well-educated pundits, on the planet Earth that I have inhabited far longer than you have. As that same Wikipedia entry states (in its main body, not in a footnote):
Sociologists William Thompson and Joseph Hickey noted the impreciseness of usage.
"The term WASP has many meanings. In sociology it reflects that segment of the U.S. population that founded the nation and traced their heritages to [...] Northwestern Europe. The term [...] has become more inclusive. To many people, WASP now includes most 'white' people who are not [...] members of any minority group.[3]"
Roman Catholics are no longer treated as a minority group in American society. Along with being by far the most populous religious denomination– more than four times as large as the next largest denomination, Southern Baptists– Catholics are about half again as numerous in the United States as all of its Mainline Protestants combined, with the once-dominant Episcopalians barely mustering two million members now, a fraction of one percent of the current American population.
Would you say that I, as a half-Slovak (along with being Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, German and Alsatian) from a devoutly Roman Catholic family (including a priestly brother, down in El Salvador, who is a dual citizen of here and there) would be "often seen as suspiciously Ethnic [sic]"– or would you prefer merely to go on insinuating (for a third time now) how incorrigibly and creepily racist I am? (My favorite word from my two years of university Italian comes to mind; but, Todd might recognize it from the mean streets of New York City….)
By the way, Professor, if it is so clear that your comic-book heroine's name was meant to be "a wickedly funny" play on the ethnic acronym, why do you suppose that it took the brilliant Todd Seavey decades even to notice it?
Todd Seavey said...
I'll field this one: Todd failed to notice because growing up in New England meant that pretty much everyone except Jacob was a WASP, so the category barely ever crossed my mind (Jacob's from New Hampshire — like my father, who never saw a black person with the naked eye until he was a teenager).
Also, clearly, some of us WASPs are not all that bright, though comics are pretty sophisticated, so I think I can be forgiven if they sometimes went over my head (and by my teenage years, I'd drifted away from Marvel toward DC, so I should note that for a long time I didn't really think about the Wasp, either).
But despite the somewhat homogeneous ethnic background in which I was raised in Connecticut, let the record show I never felt a tribal sense of violation at the thought that the Wasp might breed with "Africanized" bees.
For what it's worth, the acronym was used in the New York Times, a source Lee and Kirby might well have read, as early as 1962. Even if they didn't read it, that suggests that it was in semi-popular circulation before the 1964 book.
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Absent more compelling evidence– like, say, a claim from one of the two gentlemen who created the Wasp character that they were deliberately making such a deep sociological implication– I am fairly sanguine that William of Ockham, if he had he been living in the mid-1960s, as I was, would have been quite content to assume that they had chosen "the Wasp" because it was in keeping with the insect motif of the Ant-Man himself. Beyond that, wasps have a narrow portion, the petiole, that could be seen as analogous to a woman's naturally narrower waist.
At any rate, I believe that there were far fewer non-WASPs in comics back then than there were in New England when you two were growing up there in the 1970s et seq. (I first visited there, from Indiana, in August 1979, and I saw plenty of non-WASPs who caught my eye– especially at Todd's alma mater, which is where I stayed during the three days that I was in New England with my travel-mates, two of whom were attending a Math-Psych convention there.) Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were rich WASPs, as I recall (the only comic that I can recall buying was a Batman one, just before the television series began on ABC, in January 1966); but, even now, I do not believe that either bats or robins have any particular sociological implication(s) about the respective characters' demographic particulars. Sometimes a wasp is just a wasp, as Dr. Freud might have noted (and actually have been correct, for a change)!
P.S. As to that included link to "The New York Times" archive, Professor Levy, only the first of those 27 citations was to a story published prior to the debut of the Wasp, in June 1963. Who wrote that article, from Sunday, March 18, 1962? Why, it was coincidentally written by someone named Andrew Hacker! Do you suppose that that might have been THE Andrew Hacker, the noted political scientist and public intellectual, Professor? (I, for one, am not going to expend $3.95 to prove what is already obvious; "Res ipsa loquitur!" as we used to say in law school. Nor will I pay that to see whether the author ever used the acronym "WASP" in it, as well as the full phrase "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.")
If Dr. Hacker's using the phrase and/or the acronym in one article in "The New York Times" in 1962, in addition to his aforementioned usage in that professional journal article, back in 1957, qualifies to you as proof, or even a reasonable suggestion, that the term was "in semi-popular circulation" in the United States (or even in New York City) prior to the Wasp's premier, in June 1963– which is the real issue, after all– then I really would need to question your professional judgment as an academic social scientist!?!
Complicating matters, I suspect later writers (like Stan Lee, often Jewish New Yorkers) had the pun in mind regardless of whether it was in Lee's at the outset, given how often her wealth and status as a somewhat vapid heiress were emphasized (even as she was surrounded by plenty of other millionaire characters who didn't act quite as entitled).
But her atoms were scattered in battle recently and then sent by Thor to an alternate dimension, leading to this sad, strange summary of her fate (as discerned by her husband, Hank Pym, a.k.a. Ant-Man) from Wikipedia:
Using dimensional technology, Hank Pym established a headquarters known as the Infinite Avengers Mansion in a realm called "Underspace." He soon deduced that this was the dimension to which Thor sent the dying Janet Van Dyne. Janet was transformed into a massive celestial entity, with the Mansion seemingly residing within her eye.
Well, I will give them all this: They are a lot more original than the Bard ever was! Now, you just need to pick up the Joe Papp mantle, Todd, and start an annual "Avengers in the Park" series. What comic role would be best for, say, Al Pacino next summer?
Pacino should be Kang to Peter Coyote's Immortus.
That would attract some attention.
pulp said...
Gentlemen–thank you for providing the most intelligent and well-documented argument concerning comics/popcult ephemera that this casual spectator has seen in quite some time.
For the record–I think Stan Lee would likely have been aware of the veiled reference to WASP in its mildly pejorative sense. He was a serial reflector of contemporary tastes and trends. If not– a lucky connection that we can benefit form today. Afterall, those two (and, to be fair, it was really mostly Kirby) had a string of hits not seen often in the blackened-thumb field of comics.
Pacino could be Willie Lumpkin.
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Import He Is a Dragon could become China's best-selling Russian film ever.
Jason Bourne and Ice Age: Collision Course both open on Tuesday, August 23 and could revive China's box office fortunes.
The big-screen adaptation of TVB's production Line Walker repeated in the top spot for a second weekend as China's anemic summer box office slipped to its lowest weekend total since mid-June.
Line Walker (使徒行者), a HK-China co-production, dipped just 38 percent in its sophomore frame for a weekend tally of RMB 112 million (US$16.9 million) and has now grossed RMB 481 million ($72.3 million) in 11 days of release. The performance is a rare bright spot in a summer dominated by domestic films meeting steep second-weekend drops due to poor word of mouth.
Summer 2016 has also seen a slight resurgence in Hong Kong-produced crime thrillers, a genre that has fallen out of favor among Chinese mainland moviegoers in recent years. Cold War 2 (寒战2), released in early July, grossed RMB 678 million ($101.2 million).
He Is A Dragon (他是龙), a rare Russian import, took third place this weekend with RMB 45.3 million ($6.8 million). The fantasy film flopped domestically, but became a viral hit with Chinese netizens after a pirated version hit websites earlier this year, mostly thanks to the presence of young heartthrob and model Matvey Lykov.
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Confirmed speakers include the Reverend Ronald English, with the Charleston Black Ministerial Alliance and Katonya Hart, with the NAACP West Virginia.
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When five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the VRA in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder case, they made it easier for states and localities to revert back to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of black, brown, Native American and Asian American people. Since the decision, a number of states have implemented laws that disenfranchise voters, and disproportionately impact young people and communities of color—including voter ID laws, gerrymandering and voter purges.
Earlier this year, Congress introduced the Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 4), which would restore our ability to prevent racial discrimination in voting so that we can build the truly representative 21st century democracy we deserve.
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Western Reserve Academy's Hayden Hall is named in honor of Dr. Joel Hayden, headmaster from 1931 until 1946, credited with making music an integral part of the curriculum at the Academy.
Hayden Hall was built in 1878 as a warehouse for Straight and Son, owners of cheese factories township-wide, a business that provided much-needed employment for the community at a time when it was experiencing a severe economic depression. The company's offices were in the Pentagon Building, located next door to the south at the time. The cheese factory ventilating system began at the foot of College Hill and extended through one thousand feet of tile to the basement of this building, ending in the cupola.
The building was later used as a feed mill by Samuel Rideout, from 1889 until 1905.
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During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Dec. 10, Oscar-winning actor Olivia Colman did what she does best and accidentally delivered a hilariously shady comment at comedian Jack Whitehall that left the audience in uncontrollable giggles.
Norton always seems to attract serious acting royalty to his show and last Friday was no different. Colman and Whitehall were joined by Wicked's Cynthia Erivo on the big red seats. During his interview, Whitehall plugged his latest movie, Clifford the Big Red Dog.
"This is a breakthrough role for you Jack because you have an American accent," said Norton. Jack smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, I was doing an American accent." However, Colman had a couple of questions for the comedian.
"What, in that clip?" she asked, to which Whitehall replied, "Yes! Olivia!" He went on to joke that he could "feel the Oscars buzz fizzling away!"
What Colman meant by her question, the actor had Norton, Erivo, and the studio audience in an uproar of laughter.
Whitehall explained that Colman and his fellow panellists might not be able to pick out a regional dialect in his accent because he wanted to include them all. "You see, what a lot of actors do when they're doing an American accent is they tend to just go for one region of America and commit to a single American accent," he said. "I decided with this role that I would take it around all 50 states, sometimes in the same scene."
Shortly after the broadcast, the clip made its way to Twitter and fans were LIVING for Colman's blunt delivery. "Reason 13424 why we love Olivia Colman…" one person wrote. Another said, "I need a whole show of Olivia just accidentally roasting people."
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