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RadicalxChange: An Academic Agenda
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Visiting Research Scholar, Julis- Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
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Radical Markets was, for me, less an academic or even popular book than an attempt to launch a social movement. Its success in doing so makes the most fruitful academic response likely somewhat different than for other books. In this piece I discuss some of the most productive avenues I see for general academic development around the growing RadicalxChange movement and highlight several specific problems to which I think economic, legal and other academics could fruitfully contribute.
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society is an unusual book in many senses.1 An academic conference on such an unusual book will itself be a bit odd, even awkward. To embrace rather than shy away from this, I am offering an unusual response to the excellent contributions to the symposium. Rather than respond directly to the pieces, I am instead taking the opportunity to layout some of the ways in which the book and the response to it have been unusual and use this to highlight what I see as some of the most productive channels for academics interested in engaging with and building on the material to do so. My hope is that these thoughts can be useful in helping to build the growing Ideas and Research track of the RadicalxChange movement that has emerged in response to the book.2 I have every reason to believe that Eric's perspective on and goals for the book were quite different from mine, so in what I write I speak for myself (and perhaps, to some extent, for the RadicalxChange movement) alone.
I. Intentions and Outcomes of the Book
Radical Markets is a popular economics book more heavily influenced by relatively obscure economic theory than any I can remember recently. It is a work of political philosophy deeply concerned with entrepreneurship, the practicalities of contemporary politics, and economic trade-offs. Much of it is legal and institutional history, yet it imagines institutions that diverge sharply from the familiar. It is, to my knowledge, the first attempt to use approximately optimal mechanisms to ground a broad social philosophy, and yet it justifies this philosophy by reference to a range of values usually absent from mechanism design theory. Each chapter opens with a science fiction vignette,3 and yet many of the policies the book advocates are live issues in corporations and governments around the world. In other words, Radical Markets was a strange beast.
More than anything, for me, the book was intended to be the spur for a social movement and as such, if successful, the book itself was more a step on a journey towards that rather than a final product. And, perhaps predictably given this, the book met with mixed success along standard metrics. While most reviews were favorable, they also mostly saw the book as pie-in-the-sky and it was largely ignored by most of the mainstream press. It sold reasonably well for an academic crossover, but it was not even close to the sort of popular phenomenon that books like Freakonomics4 or Capital in the Twenty-First Century5 were. And, as the submissions to this conference mostly reflect, its average reception among academics (particularly in the conservative fields from which Eric and I hail) was quite mixed: intrigued, for the most part, but largely dismissive and disengaged.
And yet, measured in terms of my primary goal, the book succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. This was, as indicated by the discussion above, decidedly notbecause of mass appeal. Instead, there were several intense communities of interest that dived deeply into the book and built community around it. The most prominent of these is the blockchain community, where sentiment analysis indicates that the book has become a central narrative and where, at the most important conference in the area, participants sang a song about the book in early November.6
Yet while the blockchain movement has become a motive force, many other (though sometimes overlapping) communities of interest have emerged. Students at many of the dozens of universities I have spoken at have started campus groups around the ideas. While most, especially more-established academics have reacted skeptically, a passionate younger generation of graduate students and some more established thinkers have responded enthusiastically. European economists and technocrats, always skeptical of existing economic structures but steeped in economic theory, have been quite enthusiastic. While the general popular reception of the book has been tepid, one of the ideas (Data as Labor) has exploded in the popular imagination (though only occasionally linked to the book) and has become a central policy frame. More broadly, in several areas and countries, policymakers and political leaders have engaged seriously with the ideas and I have been involved in a range of consulting activities thereabout. Several kinds of artists found the combination of political ambition with science fictive imagination in the book empowering and are working on projects around the book.
Most tangibly, based on my best attempt to track it, several billion dollars of capital have been invested into start-up and corporate projects around ideas in the book and ideas building closely on it and probably a hundred start-ups have formed or pivoted around ideas from the book. About half of this activity is within the blockchain space, but much of it stretches well beyond. At the same time, as of this writing, I know of almost a hundred local organizations with on average a couple dozen members each that have formed in the few months around the "RadicalxChange" (RxC) movement (more on this shortly). To help catalyze interaction and coordination between these various elements, in August 2018 I created a non-profit RxC Foundation, for which roughly fifty people around the world volunteer ten or more hours of their time each week helping to coordinate activities and build towards a conference in March 2019 in Detroit.
Reflecting these sources of interest, the RxC Foundation/movement has four "tracks": Ideas and Research, Entrepreneurship and Technology, Arts and Communications, and Activism and Government. Clearly the track most aligned with the present event is Ideas and Research, which comprises mostly academics, as well as some public intellectuals, though from a significantly broader range of fields that are represented in the present symposium. The chair of that track is historian Ananya Chakravarti, whose contribution to this conference is somewhat representative of the excellent work beginning to come out of that trajectory.
II. Potential for Academic Contributions to the Movement
Being a social movement rather than a specific policy proposal, an academic theory, a model, or other usual object of academic discourse, RxC may at first be disorienting for academics to engage with. Such movements often elicit, in their early stages, academic engagement that ends up being relatively unproductive both for the academics who produce it and for the movement to which it responds. There are many historical examples, but most illuminating recently is blockchain.
During its early years (2009–2014), there was limited engagement beyond simple dismissal from most of the academy (computer science and cryptography were something of an exception to which I return below). Let me be clear, I was personally very much in that camp. As the prominence of the movement grew (2014–2016), the attitude turned from dismissal to attempts to prove why blockchain was either evil or could never succeed. Once the movement achieved an outpouring of success (2017–2018), institutions have now begun to spring up within academia showing why the success of blockchain was inevitable and/or taking its prominence for granted and studying various properties or potentials of it.7
While perfectly reasonable academic work, this sort of engagement undermines the chance for academics to be agents for positive social change: to influence blockchain in a positive direction, to contribute to its development, or to correct its weaknesses. This latter sort of engagement is actually very common in computer science and engineering academic fields, but not much, at least for such bold and innovative movements, in economics, sociology, law, and other broadly social scientific fields.
This follows from a broader social trend that we briefly discuss in Radical Markets, namely that radical technological innovation is widely praised and accepted in our culture, but radical social innovation is not.8 I believe this set of attitudes has had quite dire social consequences, leading to extreme imbalances that are dangerous to social stability. This concern seems to be broadly shared by the blockchain movement, which has focused far more on social technology, organization and centralization as a social principle than on its specific technological substrate. A dedication to the importance of radical social change, treated as a technology grounded in cutting edge social science, is at the core of RxC. This makes engagement by social scientists and even the emergence of a field of social technology crucial to the movement.
I also submit that that RxC offers a unique opportunity to social scientists that should attract their engagement. In particular, the typical opportunity that social scientists and legal scholars have to impact public policy come in the form of what Alvin Roth has called "whispering in the ear of princes": quietly and in technocratic language, poorly understood by the broad public, giving advice to functionaries and the organs of power.9 This is naturally worrying to those among us who believe in democracy and are skeptical of princes, as it tends to naturally place social scientists in a structural role that runs against at least populist politics and perhaps democracy (as opposed to technocracy) more broadly. This role is, however, relatively new: the political economists of the nineteenth century and even thinkers like Professor Friedrich Hayek and Professor Milton Friedman engaged heavily with the public and played critical roles in creating social movements.10 RxC offers an opportunity and pathway for social scientists and social theorists interested in engaging in such a democratic spirit to match with other social forces interested in hearing from and working with them to reimagine the basis of legitimacy.
So, let's for the moment imagine you are an academic social scientist or theorist interested in engaging with, contributing to, and harnessing the RxC movement. What are some ways you might be able to engage through your academic work? In fact, there are dozens of productive channels, and I will do my best to summarize a few here.
The most obvious direction, and one I will dwell on at some length below, is to participate in filling the endless list of lacunae that exist in the RxC paradigm. The majority of ideas I now discuss in my talks did not appear in the book and I today think about half of the book was off or missing important elements. As many of the contributors to this symposium have highlighted, RxC is a reasonably novel set of ideas viewed as a broad paradigm and there are many design questions yet to be addressed that social scientists and theorists have much to add to.
Yet there are many other ways to usefully contribute, some modeled by contributions to this symposium. For example, Ananya's contribution shows how the paradigm can be articulated within an academic field (history in her case) in a manner that allows the movement to gain from historians' insights, analogies, and the historical experience with alternative institutions that can help us learn which ideas in what forms are likely to succeed.11 Another, related effort is to extend the set of disciplinary, philosophical and cultural languages in which RxC and related ideas can be expressed and analyzed, towards which Lily, Salomé, and Zoë's piece makes an important contribution.12 Identifying new applications, especially ones that are ripe for sympathetic, small-scale, and vivid experimentation is another important area, one to which Daniel contributes in this symposium and to which Simon de la Rouviere has been one of the most useful contributors.13 A final crucial area that sympathetic social scientists and theorists can contribute is important problems that seem ripe for an RxC approach that are not addressed by existing ideas, as Lee does in her contribution with the issue of geographic spillovers and zoning.14
Another crucial category of contribution, perhaps better suited to those who are not yet fully sold on the paradigm, is identifying novel potential failure modes of these mechanisms and, most helpfully, identifying potential patches for these failure modes. Vitalik Buterin and other leaders in the blockchain community have made particularly valuable contributions on this front.15 An additional avenue for only modestly sympathetic participants to contribute is to highlight areas where even the small-scale experimentation planned is likely to be disastrous or tarnishing to the project in ways that may not be clear. Jaron Lanier has been quite useful in this regard. A final area that requires little buy-in to the framework is clarifying and testing the scope conditions for the ideas to be worth implementing or that determine the optimal setting of various policy parameters, much as Charlotte, Daniel, and Karine's,16 and Katrina's papers do.17
Might even those who really dislike the whole paradigm still have something to add? Clear, distinct alternative paradigms of the scope and ambition of RxC have been extremely valuable to the movement, as they provide sharply articulated alternatives positions to argue against. I have been writing a series of "Why I am not an X" blog posts for the RxC blog, and in these, I usually focus on a specific thinker who exemplifies a school of thought or has a particularly coherent ideology.18 Most of these have not arisen from the academic world, but from the work of the Niskanen Center in the capitalist center, of reactionaries such as Curtis Yarvin and nationalists such as Julius Krien on the right, and of the statist school articulated by Matthew Bruenig on the left. While all of these are in different ways antithetical to the RxC worldview, they have been extremely useful foils and sparring partners for RxC ideas. They have clarified the intellectual terrain and the feasible clear alternatives to the RxC paradigm. There are probably academic contributors who could offer clearer or more fully articulated versions of these visions.
III. Some Important Open Questions
Let me conclude with a focus on what I see as the most extensive and clearest place I see an opportunity for academic contributions: building on and filling the endless gaps in the RxC paradigm. As with any new approach, we are only at the very start of understanding the contours of how these ideas should be worked out and applied in different areas of society. Within the proposals in the book, there are numerous issues, from the micro to the macro, yet to be worked out. A simple list seems the most straightforward way to proceed:
Is there some way for citizens to reveal in a reasonably incentive-compatible way the time-to-eviction in the common ownership self-assessed tax (COST)? Are there significant inefficiencies created by the inability to reveal this, or does the persistence created by partial perpetual property rights mostly account for this issue?
How can we deal with debt and bankruptcy effectively in the COST? Is forced refinancing really the answer?
Are there superior mechanisms for revealing complementarities within the COST other than simple self-bundling? Can self-bundling facilitate the exercise of monopoly power based on large assemblies of assets that are used to block credit-constrained potential purchasers?
Is there a self-revealing way to allow inspection periods? Are inspection periods even necessary?
What would happen to the financial system if the COST were implemented? To what extent would debt continue to exist? Would stock markets and the like be needed or would they be directly replaced by the COST system? Would bubbles and speculation be significantly mitigated?
What is a good way to represent substitutable preferences rather than complementary ones within a COST system?
How should the COST revenue be divided? The formula in the book is completely arbitrary. Given that much control over assets is likely to be partly collective, likely the distribution of revenue across different collectives should be roughly in proportion to the chance of their being the efficient purchasers, but is not clear how to operationalize this. And should this be implemented by a single global COST system or a series of hierarchical leases that could allow for increasing restrictions on use to deal with, for example, spillovers?
How finely should tax rates be set to match different asset class properties? And what should happen when different assets with different properties are bundled together?
Is there a satisfactory, petition-based agenda-setting mechanism for QV that can largely avoid the problem of strategic agenda manipulation?
To what extent can the uniqueness of identity necessary for QV and other voting systems be established without requiring a central credentialing authority?
When communities have extra-system means to coordinate (using social pressure, norms, religion, etc.) how (if at all) should QV be adjusted to avoid its "solving the free rider problem too well" by allowing coordinated groups more power than uncoordinated ones?
How do partly common values settings compose with partial private values in their effect on the values of QV?
What is the optimal representative system based on QV? Are there self-revealing indicators of the optimum, in the spirit of Liquid Democracy? Or are there too many spill-overs in terms of common values information acquisition?
How should deliberation and prediction markets most effectively be combined with QV?
Yet many of the most interesting questions, the broader ones of social philosophy, build not just on the book per se, but instead on ideas developed by the movement since, in particular the idea of "Liberal Radicalism" (LR) that I developed with Vitalik and Zoë.19 This builds on QV to develop a system of optimal matching funds for public good provision that suggests a system in which traditional forms of organization, like corporations and governments, could be replaced by voluntary/charitable organizations funded with matching funds provided by revenues from, for example, a COST. Such a system opens a wide range of possibilities:
What would a system of insurance based on LR look like? It seems it would overcome selection issues, but there would be no need for it to be a single payer system either as different citizens could select into different insurance contracts.
What would replace a system of nation-states in a LR world? Could there be a variety of organizations that control assets in a hierarchically related way and trade them under different versions of COST at different levels of this hierarchy? What rules would efficiently be provided at each level?
Would most goods be consumed as some form of public good under LR? Would even the family be operated through LR?
Can a truly efficient public goods mechanism like LR be used to move beyond a purely individualistic conception of morality? Can it create a duality between communities/groups and individuals?
What would migration look like in an LR world, how does this relate to the Visas Between Individuals Program (VIP) system, and how does the LR vision change how we should think about the VIP? If there are no nations, do different jurisdictions simply choose their own rules of inclusion/exclusion and simply must pay a price on this to the rest of the world through the COST?
Can LR entirely eliminate antitrust law by outcompeting monopolies? Or does a role remain for antitrust and countervailing power?
These are obviously challenging and often very broad questions, and some of them are a bit "inside baseball" in the sense that they may not be easy to fully parse without some familiarity with the relevant ideas. They are also a very small subset of the relevant questions. But I believe all are critical to the development of the paradigm, and given how much these ideas are being applied, even a reasonable first pass at any of these could have a quite significant impact on the development of RxC and its applications. I hope some academics will have an interest in engaging these questions, to which we could very much use answers.
1. See generally Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society(Princeton 2018).
2. See About(RadicalxChange), online at http://radicalxchange.org/about/.
3. See, for example, Posner and Weyl, Radical Markets at 80–83 (cited in note 1).
4. See generally Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (William Morrow 2005).
5. See generally Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century(Belknap 2014) (Arthur Goldhammer, trans).
6. Felipe Gaúcho Pereira, Visions of Ether(Token Economy, Nov 16, 2018), online at http://tokeneconomy.co/visions-of-ether-590858bf848e (visited May 6, 2019) (Perma archive unavailable).
7. For a comparison of academic blockchain projects, see Wesley Graham, An Overview of Academia & Blockchain (Berkeley Blockchain, Nov 5, 2018), online at http://blockchainatberkeley.blog/an-overview-of-academia-blockchain-8fe832892d9c (visited May 6, 2019) (Perma archive unavailable).
8. Posner and Weyl, Radical Markets at 270–76 (cited in note 1).
9. Alvin E. Roth, Laboratory Experiments in Economics, 2 Econ & Phil 245, 261 (1986).
10. Famously, Professor Hayek published a condensed version ofThe Road to Serfdom in Reader's Digest. See generally Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom(Institute of Economic Affairs 1999) (Reader's Digest condensed version). Professor Friedman also had a long-running column in Newsweek. See, for example, Milton Friedman, "No" to More Money for the IMF96 (Reader's Digest, Nov 14, 1983).
11. See generally Ananya Chakravarti, A History for the Future:Radical Markets and the Work of History, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 12 (2019).
12. See generally Zoë Hitzig, Lily Hu, and Salomé Viljoen, The Technological Politics of Mechanism Design, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 95 (2019).
13. See generally Daniel Hemel, Audits, Markets, and Patents, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 78 (2019); Simon de la Rouviere, Radical Markets in the Arts(Medium, Oct 21, 2018), archived at http://perma.cc/A8VC-4B26.
14. See generally Lee Ann Fennell, Property Attachments, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 55 (2019).
15. Vitalik Buterin, On Radical Markets (Vitalik Buterin, Apr 20, 2018), archived at http://perma.cc/4G7T-H9GB.
16. See generally Charlotte Cavillé, Daniel L. Chen, and Karine Van der Straeten, A Decision Theoretic Approach to Understanding Survey Response: Likert vs. Quadratic Voting for Attitudinal Research, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 22 (2019).
17. See generally Katrina Wyman, Property in Radical Markets, 87 U Chi L Rev Online 125 (2019).
18. See E. Glen Weyl, Why I Am Not a Capitalist(RadicalxChange, Jan 14, 2019), online at http://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-01-14-j73qnz/ (visited on Feb 7, 2019) (Perma archive unavailable); E. Glen Weyl, Why I Am Not a Statist (RadicalxChange, Jan 28, 2019), online at http://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-01-28-5ixa34/ (visited on Feb 7, 2019) (Perma archive unavailable).
19. See generally Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig, and E. Glen Weyl, Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design for Philanthropic Matching Funds(Working Paper, Dec 31, 2018), archived at http://perma.cc/HDA9-CLBK.
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Condor Gold raises £5.242 million. Lead Investor Ross Beaty
Condor Gold {AIM: CNR} announced a placing of 8,293,443 Units at a price of 62p per Unit together with a proposed Director's subscription of 161,290 Units to raise in aggregate gross proceeds of approximately £5.242 million.
Lead investor Ross Beaty invested £1 million.
Condor Gold plc
Condor {AIM:CNR}, is pleased to announce a placing ("the Placing") of 8,293,443 Units at a price of 62p per Unit (the "Placing Price") together with a proposed Director's subscription of 161,290 Units ("Director's Subscription") to raise in aggregate gross proceeds of approximately £5.242 million.
The Placing has been undertaken by the Company with institutional
and other investors. The completion of the Placing and proposed Director's Subscription is conditional, inter alia, upon admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM.
Each Unit comprises one ordinary share of 20p each in the Company ("Placing Share") and half of one share purchase warrant of the Company (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant, which is unlisted and fully transferable, will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one ordinary share at a price of 93p (which is at a 50% premium to the Placing Price) for a period of 24 months from the date on which the shares issued pursuant to the Placing are admitted to trading on AIM (the "Closing Date").
The Company is pleased to announce that Ross Beaty has subscribed for £1 million worth of Units and will increase his shareholding to 8.74% in the Company's share capital on a post placement undiluted basis. Mr Beaty is a Canadian mining entrepreneur with a successful track record of both building mining companies and developing mineral deposits for sale.
Background to and reasons for the Placing
The net proceeds of the Placing and proposed Director's Subscription amounts to approximately £4.9 million. It will be used for general working capital purposes and to continue with the strategy to fully permit Mina La India in Nicaragua for a 2,800 tpd processing plant with capacity to produce 100,000 oz gold p.a., secure the surface rights for the rural land that host and surround the future mine infrastructure and continue work to demonstrate the significant exploration upside of the 2.4
million oz gold resource at 4.0 g/t gold at La India Project via scout drilling on new exploration targets that have never been drilled and expand some of the existing resource areas.
Details of the Placing and proposed Director's Subscription
The Company has conducted the Placing as principal. A total of 8,454,733 Units (comprising of 8,454,733 ordinary shares and 4,227,364 Warrants) have been placed with placees and are proposed to be subscribed at the Placing Price to raise gross proceeds of GBP 5,241,934.46.
The completion of the Placing is conditional, inter alia, upon admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM. The Placing Price of 62 pence per share represents a discount of 4.6% percent to the closing price of 65 pence per share on 17th February 2017.
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In addition, the Company advises that one director of the Company, namely Jim Mellon, intends to subscribe for a total of 161,290 shares on the same terms (the "Director's Shares") for a further sum of £99,999.80 following the announcement of the Placing.
Application is being made for the Placing Shares and Director's Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"), such Admission is expected to occur on or around 28th February 2017.
On Admission the Placing Shares and Director's Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company, including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared after the date of their issue.
Following Admission of the Placing Shares and Director's Shares, the Company will then have 61,365,382 ordinary shares of 20p each in issue with voting rights and admitted to trading on AIM.
This figure may then be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Special note concerning the Market Abuse Regulation
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR"). Market soundings, as defined in MAR, were taken in respect of the Placing, with the result that certain persons became aware of inside information, as permitted by MAR. That inside information is set out in this announcement. Therefore, those persons that received inside information in a market sounding are no longer in possession of inside information relating to the Company and its securities.
A further announcement will be made shortly.
– Ends –
For further information please visit www.condorgold.com
Mark Child, Executive Chairman and CEO Condor Gold plc
About Condor Gold plc:
Condor Gold plc was admitted to AIM on 31st May 2006. The Company is a gold exploration and development company
with a focus on Central America.
Condor completed a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) and two Preliminary Economic Assessments (PEA) on La India Project
in Nicaragua in December 2014. The PFS details an open pit gold mineral reserve of 6.9 Mt at 3.0 g/t gold for 675,000
oz gold producing 80,000 oz gold p.a. for 7 years. The PEA for the open pit only scenario details 100,000 oz gold
production p.a. for 8 years whereas the PEA for a combination of open pit and underground details 140,000 oz gold
production p.a. for 8 years. La India Project contains a total attributable mineral resource of 18.08 Mt at 4.0 g/t for 2.31 M
oz gold and 2.68 M oz silver at 6.2 g/t to the CIM Code.
In El Salvador, Condor has an attributable 1,004,000 oz gold equivalent at 2.6 g/t JORC compliant resource. The
resource calculations are compiled by independent geologists SRK Consulting (UK) Limited for Nicaragua and
Ravensgate and Geosure for El Salvador.
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the
Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.
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You're missing quite a few types of glassware for quite a few styles of beer. A chalice/goblet is not used for the same reasons as a tulip, likewise a snifter. Also there's a stark difference between using a pint and a pilsner. Also, weizen glasses are shaped that way not for head containment, but for bottle containment when you properly pour a weizen (cover bottle with glass, invert, slowly draw bottle out, reserve head in bottle, swirl, pour atop).
I like a short glass too, those small juice type glasses, about 6 oz.They are good for the standard American lager, ale or pilsner, light or regular. These are especially good for can beer, maybe even add a little ice now and then, especially on a hot summer evening.
I've been collecting as I go. I picked up a few guinnes pint glasses when I was in Ireland, I buy this cool flip-top bottles cases here in Germany that come with collector glass, I've got 4 that way.. 2 weizen glasses and 2 glass mugs. I got two realllllly cool tall weizen mugs from a brauhaus here in Germany, and that's it so far. Think I'm gonna hit up the brauhaus again and get a couple more. Got some cool growlers from there too. You may like to check beer boot glass, das boot beer glass, personalized beer glasses and Logo Beer Glasses.


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Danger! Passive Voice August 2009
Typical advice given writers is not to use the passive voice. What makes such advice problematic is that most of the people giving that advice generally fail to recognize the passive voice.
The most common misconception is that the passive voice involves all forms of the verb to be. Actually, it's rather depressing seeing how often such statements are made by writers, editors, and agents.
The passive voice refers to a sentence in which the subject receives the action, whereas the active voice refers to a sentence in which the subject does the action.
To be the recipient of an action doesn't necessarily mean that a sentence is weak or unworthy. For example,
Jack was murdered.
The above is in the passive voice, and I consider it among the more dynamic three-word sentences. Not only that, but it would be difficult to rephrase in the active voice and keep the sentence interesting. For example,
A party or parties unknown murdered Jack.
The sentence is in the active voice, and it is dull. In any given situation, the passive voice isn't necessarily worse nor the active voice necessarily better. More important, in terms of writing, the key question is, How important is your subject?
Of course, it is easy to go wrong with the passive voice. For example,
The door was opened by Jill when . . .
The above is passive and weak (unless one is really focused on doors). The simplest usage of the active voice is better:
Jill opened the door when . . .
For the given sentence, adding a gerund would help suggest an action leading into another action:
Jill was opening the door when . . .
Note that both the passive (The door was opened . . .) and the active (Jill was opening . . .) feature the verb to be. It leads to a somewhat simple rule: The passive is formed by the past tense of the verb to be plus the past tense of a helper verb. Combining the verb to be and a gerund maintains the active voice. For that matter, the past tense of the verb to be by itself is also in the active voice:
Jerry was in the kitchen.
All my examples feature simple sentences; it can become much more complex; but the structure is the same.
To conclude, fearing the passive voice because it is the passive voice is silly. The passive voice can be used with dramatic effect, especially for suggesting an element of mystery. In terms of number, most sentences of anyone's writing will be in the active voice, but the passive - at the right moment - can give a little something extra.
To denigrate the passive voice because of the word passive makes as much (or as little) sense as recommending perfect tenses for perfect writing.
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Larger farms, but fewer growers
'It's happening to everybody': Stats paint stark picture of apple orchard consolidation.
Ross Courtney // November 7, 2019
John and Sherry Kuntz pose in front of the site of their third-generation fruit orchard in August in Chelan, Washington. A year ago, the Kuntzes sold their share of the business to some nephews who may use it for wine grapes and vacation rentals and have been removing trees. The retired couple kept at least one tree of each variety for nostalgia's sake. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)
Though technically retired, John Kuntz still spent the 2019 fruit season getting up at 4:30 each morning to tend to what's left of the orchard he sold last year. Either he was hanging nets over his few cherry trees, thinning his apples or fixing water lines amid the holes and stumps of removed trees on his hillside apple orchard overlooking Central Washington's picturesque Lake Chelan.
Kuntz, a third-generation grower, and his wife, Sherry, still have their pretty view and a few hobby trees, but they are one of many small-acreage apple growers in the United States who have sold their farms, making way for the insatiable march of consolidation. Orchards are few and large, and the trend is toward fewer and larger.
"It's happening to everybody," said Kuntz, 71.
Indeed. None of this is surprising, but the latest ag census by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals stark new figures for a trend that dates back decades. In 2017, 35 percent of the apple acreage in the United States was on farms of 500 acres or more. In 1992, those farms represented only 15 percent.
The numbers deserve some caveats. The census counts growers with a fraction of an acre — hobbyists with just a few trees in their yard — as farms, skewing the acreage weight. Meanwhile, farming families face myriad decisions; trying to compete with larger farms is just one of them. But the curve has been moving for the past 25 years, indicating many growers are leaving the business because they have to, not because they want to.
"People don't necessarily exit a business because they don't like it, they exit the business because they can't make a profit from it," said Jon DeVaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association.
A single Rome apple dangles from a branch below the graft union of an old tree long ago grafted over to Galas. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)
The association, which lobbies on behalf of the fruit industry, finds the numbers frustrating because new regulations seem to disproportionately affect small growers, even though lawmakers typically express fondness for small farms. For example, when payroll rules become more complex, growers with human resources departments can more easily comply. New food safety requirements are expensive, so larger farms can better afford to implement them.
"You can't say you like one thing, but hurt that thing with policies," DeVaney said.
Simple economics also drive much of the consolidation, said Karina Gallardo, a Washington State University agricultural economist who writes a production cost and enterprise budget study about the fruit industry every four or five years.
Her latest version is scheduled for release this fall, so she declined to discuss hard figures. But she said she has noticed a spike in the costs of production this go-round. Land prices, trellis systems, equipment, labor and all the other factors sometimes called "inputs" are rising quickly, more quickly than noted in her previous report in 2014.
"That investment is becoming difficult for smaller growers," she said.
Take netting for example, she said. Sunburn netting once was an experimental idea, but it's becoming the norm now as climate changes and research show the advantages for sunburn-sensitive varieties such as Honeycrisp.
Labor prices also have spiked. As domestic workers become harder to find, more growers are using the H-2A program, which typically adds about 25 percent to labor costs, she said. Growers who use H-2A workers must pay the federally mandated Adverse Effect Wage Rate, or AEWR, for contracted and local workers. In 2016, the AEWR was $12.62 per hour. This year, it's $15.03. That's a 20-percent jump in three years. Growers who don't use H-2A have to keep pace with their pay rates to compete for workers, as well.
Big stores and small towns
Desmond O'Rourke, a global tree fruit market analyst from Pullman, Washington, said consolidation among retailers is part of the explanation. Bigger grocery chains typically purchase from a few large suppliers that deliver apples 12 months a year. That prompts packing firms to partner under unified sales firms. In the 1980s, Washington had about 100 sales desks; today, about 10.
Those big stores, such as Costco Wholesale Corp. and Walmart Inc., demand a lot from their suppliers, often holding their own audits for food safety, worker treatment and environmental concerns. Then, the global industry's shift to proprietary varieties leaves small growers out. Companies that own rights usually want to deal with larger, more capitalized farms that can efficiently produce the required volumes to meet commercialization goals.
O'Rourke recalls packing sheds up and down the Columbia and Okanogan rivers through North Central Washington. "Virtually all of those are gone and so is the employment in the community," he said.
The effects go beyond just the farm, O'Rourke said. Consolidation drains rural economies of jobs, influence and a sense of community.
Rise of the big apple farm: Even as the total acreage of apple orchards in the U.S. has decreased by 35 percent in the past 25 years, bigger farms are making up a much larger share overall — especially farms with more than 1,000 acres. (Source: US. Department of Agriculture. Graphic: Jared Johnson and Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)
Each family's decision is personal amid all these forces.
John and Sherry Kuntz have two sons who have jobs off the farm and weren't that involved in the business anyway. John had worked construction full time for most of his career, helping his brother, Norm, and his mother, Lenore, tend to the family orchard on the weekends.
His grandparents planted their first orchard around 1900 in the Wenatchee, Washington, area. His family moved to Chelan in the 1960s and cleared the sagebrush to start the Triple K Ranch. At its peak in the late 1980s, it covered about 75 acres, packing most of his fruit at some of the Chelan-area cooperatives that themselves have shifted and morphed through consolidations over the years.
Last year, for his final crop, Kuntz received $5 per box in returns for his Galas, but he traces the downfall way back to the 1989 Alar scare. The industry overall recovered, but his family struggled to afford planting new varieties, upgrading systems and otherwise keeping pace with the modern demands of horticulture.
So, last year he sold the property to two of his nephews who have plans for vacation rentals or wine grapes, or a combination thereof. He is helping them uproot trees, move a drain field and otherwise prepare the ground for its next life. He kept one or two trees of each variety, just to share fruit with his friends and family members.
"It's been in the family for over 100 years, so yeah, yeah I miss it," he said. •
—by Ross Courtney
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City Council approves 'just-cause,' a cutting-edge worker protection law, for the parking industry
by Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Updated: May 16, 2019
Service Employees International Union field representative Marcus Garland, right, and other members of SEIU Local 32BJ protest in support of parking attendants outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Center City Philadelphia on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. City Council just passed two bills that aim to protect the low-wage workers' jobs and improve working conditions.
TIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia just got a lot closer to becoming the first U.S. city to enact a worker protection bill on the cutting edge of labor-oriented anti-poverty laws being considered around the country.
It's the latest in a series of bills to protect low-wage workers that Philadelphia City Council and the Kenney administration have championed.
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The "just-cause" bill, focused on the parking industry and approved by Council on Thursday would require employers to provide an appropriate reason for firing an employee. A similar bill, focused on fast-food workers, is being considered in New York.
The union organizing parking lot workers in Philadelphia, SEIU 32BJ, pushed for the bill as well as one focused on minimum staffing levels, because of what workers described as arbitrary and unfair firings. (It's the same union behind the New York bill.) Seven parking workers from two companies, for example, said they were fired in the last 10 months after speaking out about working conditions and low pay.
The bill would cover about 1,000 parking workers, according to an estimate by the Keystone Research Center.
The bill was fiercely opposed by the parking industry, which said it was already under tremendous stress from the city's parking tax and other business taxes. Not unlike the workers, parking lot operators organized through the Philadelphia Parking Association to rail against the tax last fall.
>> READ MORE: Is Philly's parking tax too high? Garage owners blame it for rising cost of parking
Critics also said the just-cause bill was a gateway to turning Philadelphia into a "just-cause" city.
"Right now, it's the parking industry," said Marjorie McMahon Obod, an employer-side labor lawyer at Dilworth Paxson. "Next time it could be hospitals. ... It could be all industries that service Philadelphia."
"At-will" employment, where workers can be fired for any reason or no reason, is the standard in every state in the country except Montana. (Federal law and many state and city laws, however, protect workers from being fired for reasons related to their identity, including age, gender, and race.)
On the other hand, virtually all union contracts include "just-cause" language.
The vote for the "just-cause" bill was 12-4, with Democratic Councilman Henon, Republican Councilmen Brian O'Neill, David Oh, and Al Taubenberger voting against. The vote for minimum staffing was 13-3, with O'Neill, Oh, and Taubenberger voting against. Councilman Allan Domb abstained from both votes.
Councilwoman Cherelle L. Parker, who has received $4,000 in campaign contributions from 32BJ since January 2018, introduced both bills at the end of April. Since 2018, she's also received campaign contributions from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce ($4,500) and Joseph Zuritsky, chairman of parking operator Parkway Corp. ($3,000). Both are opposed to the bill. She vowed at a hearing earlier this month to also help the parking industry with its tax woes.
>> READ MORE: 7 groups chased Council members around City Hall to make a plea for more labor enforcement funding
Mayor Jim Kenney still has to sign the bills. In his testimony at a Council hearing earlier this month, Kenney's deputy mayor for labor, Rich Lazer, said the mayor "supported the intent" of the just-cause bill.
"To be clear, [this bill] does not protect problem employees, and it does not stop employers from rightsizing a workplace, if that's what the economics dictate," Lazer said. "It provides workers who may be aggrieved with an opportunity to let their voice be heard.
"All of this aligns with Philadelphia's long-term goals around inclusive growth," Lazer said.
Another major concern, if Kenney signs the just-cause bill, is enforcement: The city's small enforcement unit, housed in the Mayor's Office of Labor, has a big task ahead of it, as it will begin implementing the city's new "Fair Workweek" scheduling law next year. Labor activists and groups are currently pushing for the office to get more funding.
Philadelphia Media Network is one of 21 news organizations producing Broke in Philly, a collaborative reporting project on solutions to poverty and the city's push toward economic justice. See all of our reporting at brokeinphilly.org.
Posted: May 16, 2019 - 3:52 PM
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Viggo Mörck / motion - design - illustration
As part of the team at B-Reel I worked on this mixed-reality mobile experience for the launch of the Gorillaz album 'Humanz'.
The App features an unique blend of real world, AR, VR and 360 environments. Allowing fans to immerse themselves in the world of the Gorillaz.
I worked on 2D animation of characters and objects. Retouch and integration of 360 environments as well as editing of promotional content.
This App received 1 Gold and 2 Silver lions at the Cannes festival.
Project Case study
Character animations were limited to 64 frames and distorted to fit in the 360 environment.
Jaguar / Gorillaz Trailer
Google - Inside Abbey Road
As part of the Stink Studios team I worked on this interactive Google experience that showcases Abbey Road's incredible history.
I was responsible for User Interface and Gadget animation. Integrated video loops, microphone animation and content editing.
View the site here:
https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en
Inside Abbey Road - Case study
Inside Abbey Road - Site screen capture
KUAFU
Kuafu is an interactive story based on the Chinese myth with the same name. It is the powerful story of a giant that one day decides to catch the sun and inevitably, fails to do so.
I helped my very talented friends at lin.bert to model, rig and animate the Kuafu giant for this experimental VR project.
It required a lot of data export and texture map experimentation to get Kuafu to come alive in his Virtual Reality.
Kuafu - VR Screen capture
Truls Mörck
Based on my ink drawings I designed this album cover for my brother's self titled debut album.
https://open.spotify.com/album/
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Nike - Woman's race
I edited and animated this personalised film for Nike Woman's Race.
Each film brought to life every runner's experience from start to finish - packed with personalised data to celebrate their 10K achievement.
The race took place in 6 European cities, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, London, Berlin and Stockholm, and each location had it's own animated city scape.
Personalised footage from each race were also edited and graded onsite at every location.
This project was made at Stink Studios.
While working at Stink Studios I animated and was part of the creative team behind this 'Real-Time ads' campaign for Twitter.
The campaign was showcased on digital billboards all over the UK as well as on digital platforms such as Youtube and Spotify.
Each morning all copy was updated with the latest trending topics on Twitter.
Escalator panels
Real-Time online advert
John Frieda - Shades of Me
John Frieda - Shades of Me is a mobile-first campaign that let's users create their own personalised film.
By selecting their hair colour and granting permission to their Instagram or Facebook photos, users are immediately served a highly personal film, and a collection of corresponding John Frieda products.
I was part of the Stink Studios creative team and responsible for editing, grading and animating the personalised films.
Personalised video edits
Google - Performing Arts Case study
While working at Stink Studios I created this case study for Google cultural institute. Explaining their Interactive Performing Arts experience.
Nickmusic
A series of all in crazy TV bumpers created at B-Reel for Nickelodeon's kids music channel Nickmusic.
Nickmusic - Ed Sheeran
Nickmusic - Nick Jonas
Nickmusic - Tunify
Google & Sainsbury's - Food Rescue
Food Rescue is an app that helps people save food that otherwise might have been wasted.
We created this film to help explain the app. Animated by me and illustrated by my friend Bertrand Carrara.
This project was made at B-Reel.
Ray-Ban 75th Anniversary
We start out in the year of Ray-Ban's birth, 1937 and chronologically progress up the street to today. Characters, costumes, street furniture and photo treatments progressively evolve throughout the decades and takes the user on an immersive journey in time.
To create this fictitious street we started out with a tremendous library of photos taken in New York. Followed by a two day shoot of all of the characters, with a great level of attention to detail to be true to the style of each decade. We recreated stores, shop windows and street signs and added time-specific street furniture, cars and characters.
After some intense weeks of cutting out, retouching and putting together hundreds of elements, we ended up with a street almost 50,000 pixels long, that spans over 8 decades.
My Role: Part of the creative team, design, motion design and retouch.
Made at B-Reel.
Ray-Ban 75th Case study
John Lewis - Christmas campaign
The 2015 John Lewis Christmas campaign tells the story of a magical connection between a little girl, and a Man who lives on the Moon.
As part of the campaign Stink Studios created an app that uses augmented reality to bring the moon to life. By pointing your phone at the Man on the Moon image on John Lewis packaging and shopping bags, users can unlock a 3D interactive moon that releases daily facts and animations in the countdown to Christmas Day's full moon.
I was part of the creative team at Stink Studios and were responsible for 2D and 3D animations for both the App and In-store display.
Augmented Reality Moon
In-Store display animations
abc Networks
Style frames made for an abc-Networks rebrand pitch at Loyalkaspar NYC.
Every year Samsung hosts a space at Milan Design Week.
For their 2014 exhibit B-Reel were invited to create an installation. "Flows: Journey to the Future" which celebrates the brand's dedication to design and innovation.
We envisaged an exposed structure intertwining Samsung products with light, digital content and sound to represent a journey from the present into an artistic presentation of the unwritten future.
The installation comprises three main sections:
Five products from Samsung's home appliances range are deconstructed, revealing the hidden design within familiar objects.
The various elements become a motion piece displayed across multiple screens.
This represents the progression of technology and ideas, and how we combine these to create the solutions for tomorrow.
This is the culmination of the installation and works as an expression of Samsung's ability to challenge limitations.
Visitors are invited to interact with the stream of particles and shape the streams with their hands using Leap Motion controllers.
My Role: Part of the creative team & motion design.
Final installation
Initial installation sketch


Part of running a business is keeping your expenses down. If you have high overhead, it can quickly eat up revenue that would have been profit. One of these expenses is certainly printing costs. Thankfully, there are ways to make your printing expenses more manageable. Below is a list of four ways you can better manage your printing costs.
One way to bring down printing costs is by avoiding inkjet printers. It's no secret. Printer ink, for whatever reason, is exorbitantly expensive and has remained so for decades. Laser printers, on the other hand, use toner. While toner cartridges may not be cheap either, there are many great benefits to toner over ink. It allows for faster printing, and a toner cartridge is able to print far more pages than an ink cartridge. Overall, if you print a lot of pages in your office on a daily basis, you'll certainly want to go with a laser printer and copier.
Another thing you may want to do to better manage your printing costs is to stop outsourcing your print work to third party printing companies. For example, if you need to print out labels for your product, you can do this in your own facilities in exchange for a rather reasonable investment. Simply purchase your own label printer and start printing out the stickers on your own. You'll find that the job isn't that difficult and doesn't require the expertise of an outside company.
One thing many people don't know about is the draft mode option available on most printers. When draft mode is selected, a printer will not print out the full matrix of dots that it normally does when draft mode is not selected. Instead, it only prints out some of the dots.
This produces a slightly dottier and lighter appearance to the text on a printed page. However, it will still be very readable. This can be a great option to save on ink or toner when printing out documents in the office that will likely shortly find their way to the recycling bin.
Unless you need to print out something particularly important, you should print out all your documents in black and white as a default. Printing out documents in colour takes much longer and requires more electricity. Colour ink and toner is also an added expense and can make replacing your cartridges more of a hassle.
A good idea is to invest in a cheaper black and white printer for most of your printing needs. You can have a second much smaller colour printer for those few times you do need to print out in colour such as when you're trying to impress clients or business partners.
If you need help managing your printing needs, please contact us at info@officetechnology.ie. We can more than likely find the best printing solutions for you and your business.


What's better than a darling swim cover up? One that is versatile, of course! This cotton off-the-shoulder swim cover up features a chest ruffle flounce, pom-pom trim detail and an elastic neckline and waist. Don't just wear it off-the-shoulder, wear it like a one-shoulder dress or even under the arms! Measuring approximately 29″ from top of garment to hem on size small, this is one cover up you can take from a sunny summer day to a starry summer night.


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INDIANAPOLIS (October 20, 2014) — Klipsch, a leading global speaker and headphone manufacturer, recently participated in an exclusive vinyl listening event in partnership with Classic Album Sundays, an organization dedicated to sharing the stories behind noteworthy albums and orchestrating in-depth vinyl listening sessions, and men's fashion designer John Varvatos. Klipsch's Heritage Series La Scala speakers delivered the audiophile-quality sound to ensure a powerful, detailed and emotional experience.
In Toronto on October 17, the private session brought together the city's local tastemakers and influencers to enjoy Led Zeppelin's album "Led Zeppelin II". Presenting the album was renowned music producer Eddie Kramer, who has worked alongside acts that include Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and more. Kramer also took over Klipsch's Twitter account that day, answering fan questions for those who tweet with hashtag #AskEddieKramer.
"Klipsch is proud and honored to have been a part of this grand event," said Matt Sommers, vice president of marketing for Klipsch. "The whole package was ideal. Our loudspeakers are exceptionally suited to the immaculate reproduction of quality audio, due to their high efficiency and sensitivity. The Varvatos brand is a perfect fit for our 'No Bullshit' attitude. Classic Album Sundays always provides a one-of-a-kind experience with in-depth interviews and amazing gear. Having a studio master like Eddie Kramer walk us through producing Led Zeppelin classics like 'Whole Lotta Love', and then hearing the track played on our legendary speakers, was the ultimate rock 'n' roll experience. This session was mind-blowing."
As a partner of Classic Album Sundays, Klipsch's Heritage Series La Scala speakers also power its monthly vinyl listening sessions at Brooklyn nightclub Baby's All Right. The brand has also served as the presenting sponsor of Classic Album Sundays' special vinyl listening sessions at this year's Camp Bestival and Bestival music festivals in the UK.
First launched in 1963 as founder Paul W. Klipsch's second product introduction, the La Scala is a fully horn-loaded, three-way speaker. It provides Klipschorn-like performance from a smaller cabinet that does not require a corner location. To ensure the utmost quality, the speaker is still hand-built upon order at Klipsch's Hope, Arkansas manufacturing facility.
For more information on the Klipsch brand and its products, please visit www.Klipsch.com.
About Klipsch Audio Premium Speakers
For over 65 years, Klipsch has designed premium speakers for those who are passionate about great sound. Company founder Paul W. Klipsch started this legacy in 1946, and it continues today with sheer commitment to innovation and delivering the world's most powerful, detailed and emotional sound reproduction. Today, the brand's diverse product portfolio encompasses home theater, professional cinema, installed whole-house contracting, commercial, computer speakers, soundbars, wireless portable speakers and headphones. As one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, Klipsch continues to be the high-performance brand of choice for audiophiles and home theater aficionados around the world. Klipsch Group, Inc. is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX).


We believe wine lovers around the world should be able to afford good pinot noir and chardonnay wines from Oregon. Our label provides delightful Oregon pinot and chardonnay at affordable prices well below what one would expect to pay for wines of this quality.
Pinot Noirs are noted for their bright pinot colors, delicate fruit flavors, and lingering finish. The 2013 Pinot Noir is a blend of grapes from three lower-elevation vineyards in the north Willamette Valley noted for producing grapes with stone fruit (peach, nectarine), berry, and spice flavors. As with all Domaine Verdant labels, the wine-making style: is one of minimal intervention. Then wine was aged 15 months in French and American oak barrels.
Tasting Notes: Stone fruit up front, red summer berries and cherries in the middle, and spices on the finish. Lingering and satisfying mouth-feel. Alcohol 13%.
Chardonnays offer a wonderful spectrum of chardonnay flavors, with generous tropical fruit and a spicy, lingering finish that are remarkable in any chardonnay – and truly extraordinary in a chardonnay at this price. Originating in a higher-elevation Willamette Valley vineyard, our OHV 2014 Chardonnay was aged 10 months in French oak.
Tasting Notes: Intense spice (starfruit, cloves, cinnamon) upfront, tropical fruit (mango, persimmon) in the middle, with a clean, lingering multi-spice finish. Alcohol 13.5%.


Participants in the Five Days with Mom program take a break on a hot summer afternoon.
Our parish participates each summer in a week-long program where we house the children of moms who are incarcerated in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, New York. During the day our guest-kids visit and play with their mothers. In the late afternoon they return to their host families from our parish for supper, relaxation, and a good night's sleep. This program has been shown to improve the lives of the women prisoners immensely and to reduce recidivism once they have returned to their families.
Our parishioner, the Rev. David Pople, involves our parish in supporting this worthwhile weekend ministry in local men's prisons. David and the Kairos team visit, talk, and pray with the inmates, and he sees lives turned around as a result of the efforts of the team to bring faith in God inside prison walls. Our parishioners of all ages write notes, decorate placemats, donate Bibles, and pray for the participants. There is opportunity to get more deeply involved as well.


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INSIDE ATLAS.ti October 2018
Jörg Hecker
Director of Business Operations ATLAS.ti
Welcome to our October newsletter! As always, we have gathered some exciting news for you. As you know, ATLAS.ti has a strong presence in educational and research institutions, but also in conferences, congresses, and important international meetings. This month, we are visiting a healthcare center in Taipei to disseminate expertise of using ATLAS.ti for medical research. Our interests are always with people who want to make the world a better place, and therefore we are excited to have trained and certified more than 250 expert trainers around the world who can spread knowledge and help within our international communities!
Also of note: We recently released a new update, ATLAS.ti 8.3, with new features and improvements.
Last but not least, read our Best Practice article to learn how to take advantage of auto-coding in ATLAS.ti Cloud. And don't forget to participate in our two-minute survey which will help us gain insights for new features of the software!
ATLAS.ti now counts on more than 250 certified trainers!
We are proud to announce that we currently have 254 certified trainers all around the world! More and more users are interested in learning to use ATLAS.ti, and we thank our certified trainers for all their great work.
Are you interested in teaching ATLAS.ti, too? Then apply to join either our student trainer program or the professional trainer program.
ATLAS.ti 8.3 for Windows and Mac just released!
We never stop making our software better, and therefore we have just released the new version 8.3 for Windows and Mac. This is a FREE UPGRADE for all ATLAS.ti 8 license holders. Be sure to update as soon as possible by running the Live Update to profit from many new features, such as transcript import, new network functions, a tool for finding redundant codings, and much more. To find out more about all these features check out What' s new in ATLAS.ti 8.3.
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The full version history is available here.
ATLAS.ti product specialist Dr. Susanne Friese to hold trainings in Taipei
Our product specialist and one of the most prolific and experienced trainers of ATLAS.ti, Dr. Susanne Friese, was invited by the director of the Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre (CG-MERC) in Taipei to hold several ATLAS.ti trainings in October. The newest edition of her book '"Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti", due in March 2019 will also be available to read there. Find more information here.
ATLAS.ti team on hand at international workshop in Chile
From October 16th-19th, the 2ndInternational Workshop: Research in Imaginaries and Representations, will be held in Concepción-Chile in the Universidad de Concepción. As the opening of the event on the 16th, the ATLAS.ti Latin America team will be holding an all-day workshop on ATLAS.ti 8.3 for Windows. ATLAS.ti is currently one of the main sponsors of the event, making it the preferred software for researchers in the field of imaginaries and social representations. More information can be found here .
First official ATLAS.ti teaching lab to open in Latin America
The Humanitas Congress will be held from October 29th to November 1st and will bring together experts to discuss the future of the human sciences. The congress will take place in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil, and it includes the first meeting of Brazilian ATLAS.ti users. The ATLAS.ti team will give several basic and advanced workshops in an environment conducive to the launch and official opening of the first laboratory in Latin America for the teaching, practice and analysis of qualitative research data with the support of ATLAS.ti. This laboratory will be the first of several spaces that will receive official certification for the teaching and dissemination of ATLAS.ti in several Latin American countries in the future. For more information and registration, click here.
We are inviting all users to participate in our survey about the types of data you typically analyze and the kinds of documents you mostly use during the analysis. Help us better understand your needs and determine the next big step in your analysis journey with ATLAS.ti. To participate, please follow this link (in English - a Spanish version of the survey is is available here.) Don't worry, it only takes 2 minutes!
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In this issue of ATLAS.ti case studies, we interview Dr. Majid Ghasemy, a Senior Lecturer and Global Higher Education Network (GHEN) coordinator at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Dr. Ghasemy is also a Certified ATLAS.ti Professional Senior Trainer, and today he is sharing some creative applications of ATLAS.ti with our community.
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Sometimes dreams are very personal, and not everyone's cup of tea, but when you can transform yours into something magnificent that can be appreciated by all, you know you have a flair for design.
This stunning French Provincial style home by Luxe Home Designs by Mimi, was Mimi and her husband's dream, having been inspired by the style from their travels overseas. Set high on a hill in the beautiful Hunter Valley NSW with sweeping views and every detail throughout the home considered, this home is truly magnificent. Not only has it met all the desires of its owners, it won the very prestigious 2018 HIA-CSR Hunter Housing Award for Custom Built Home.
To achieve the classic elegance of the French style, attention to every architectural detail must be made. Intrim's timber mouldings were used throughout the home to help achieve the final look and add texture, style and character to the home.
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Bergen International Festival 2019 English catalogue FiB Katalog EN 2019 lowres single pages - Page 73
FE STIVITIE S m H Å KO NS H A L L E N B ER G EN I N T ER N AT I ON AL FEST I VAL 2019 07 3 Philharmonix DATE / TI M E Sunday 26 May at 19:30 D U R ATI ON 1:30 including interval A DDI TI O NA L IN FO R M ATI O N Noah Bendix- Balgley with friends performes a Crescendo-concert in the University Aula, Thursday 23 May at 19:00, SE E P. 6 4 . Noah Bendix-Balgley and Christoph Traxler also performes at Lysøen Saturday 25 May at 11:30 & 14:30, see p. 58. TICKET Standard: 500/530 Senior: 450/477 Under 30: 190 FiB Fordel: 400/424 BT Fordel: 375/397 The Vienna Berlin Music Club  ot everything in the Philharmonix' N programme is classical. But everything has class. Classical music is not supposed to be fun, right? And yet, every concert of the Philhar- monix is a living, grooving, finger-snapping testament to the contrary. Surprise! Classical music at its most refined can be a jolly good time. This unique ensemble brings together three members of the Vienna Philharmonic, two Berlin Philharmonic soloists, one of the most versatile Austrian pianists and an improvising and singing violinist for a deliciously heady cocktail of classical, klezmer, Latin, even pop music and yes, good old fun. Sting, Queen, Grieg and Tchaikovsky are all just as likely to be performed at a Philharmonix concert. see on the playbill of their legendary orche- stras. With their signature blend of the "hig- hest philharmonic quality and unrestrained joy of music-making" (Kurier) Philharmonix are synonymous with 'entertainment'. The Golden Rule of the Philharmonix' programmes: Anyt- hing goes, as long as it's fun. Philharmonix Noah Bendix-Balgley violin Sebastian Gürtler violin Thilo Fechner viola Stephan Koncz cello Ödön Rácz double bass Daniel Ottensamer clarinet Christoph Traxler piano Supported by Herman Friele Together the seven world-class musicians get to play the kind of repertoire one would never WWW.FI B.N O/EN 07 3
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Time for Jurgen Klopp to look elsewhere for leadership?
smashley Nov 25th 2017
If there is more energetic, more passionate manger in the Premier League than Jurgen Klopp then I haven't seen it yet.
Kenny Dalglish came out this week and claimed that the German was cloned to be a Liverpool manager such is his philosophy, work rate and desire to be successful at the club – something you will only understand if you see the man at close quarters that Dalglish clearly has.
It got me thinking about his on field general and if he offers similar attributes on a weekly basis…I think you know the answer to that question.
I have never been convinced by Jordan Henderson and believe the very fact that he was given the captains arm band as somewhat insulting. It seems that he was only given it on the basis of seniority when Stevie Gerrard decided to move on, in much the same way that Gary Cahill was given the captaincy from John Terry at Chelsea.
There is no leadership on the pitch at Liverpool and I wonder if Klopp should be looking for someone who mirrors him on the pitch.
In truth if we park the captaincy for a minute, I ask the question as to whether Jordan Henderson is good enough to be a top six club midfield within the Premier League? He possess some assets, but the player lacks the box-to-box drive that Gerrard possesses, rarely contributes assists and is probably the quietest players on the field who offers little vocal support or encouragement – especially when we are up against it.
As previously discussed as a holding midfielder he leaves the defence horribly exposed and doesn't have the intelligence to change anything on the pitch – with the defeat against Tottenham the prime example of this. Klopp needs a leader out there and in Henderson he has no one.
I know there are rumours that we are looking to sign Van Dijk in January who perhaps could fill that void; however, I think we also need to attempt to sign a genuine leader to bring into the midfield that can drive this team forward.
We were so blessed having Stevie G for many years, but since him and Carragher moved on we have a gaping void when it comes to leadership on the pitch. Harsh as it may seem to strip Henderson of the captaincy, I think Klopp may find his job a lot less stressful with someone else delivering home his instructions on the field of play. Henderson in my view has had his chance and failed, therefore there should no longer be any room for sentiment if we want to move up to the next level.
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Vendetta: Storie di MafiaFrom May 24th To June 2nd, 2018
Vendetta: Storie di Mafia
By Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Contemporary Ballet
From May 24th To June 2nd, 2018 At 8 P.M.|Approximately 2 H 20 min including a 20 min intermission
At Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
iPhoto: Sasha Onyshchenko | Dancer: Hervé Courtain
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Impulse and Passion
After a 12-year career as a dancer, Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is equally at home in dance, theatre, opera and musicals and now pursues collaborative projects all across the globe. More than 40 companies have sought her out, including none other than the New York City Ballet, in 2016.
With this new narrative ballet, Vendetta: Storie di Mafia, created specifically for the dancers of Les Grands Ballets, she enters the all-powerful world of the mafia, the perfect setting for an exploration of the human psyche and its violent impulses: passion, love, anger, greed, jealousy and frustration. Along with the beauty and power of movement, this performance teems with intriguing characters, storylines and dramatic twists, delivering more than a few surprises along the way. A definite must-see!
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Ivan Cavallari's pick
"How could an Italian fail to bring you intrigue and passion in his first season? You will find plenty of suspense in this work from Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. This action-filled piece will bring you into the underworld of gangsters and feuding families, and come with all the exciting twists that make for a thrilling night at the ballet." Ivan Cavallari, Artistic Director
The music of Vendetta : Storie di Mafia
Music licensing: Music Rights Clearance
Emergence (Machinations, 2011) 1:25min, by arrangement with Zachary Mitchell, publisher and copyright owner.
Elizabeth Bay (Abandoned City, 2014) 5:40min, By arrangement with G. Schirmer, INC. publisher and copyright owner.
Touch of Evil (Touch of Evil original motion picture bande sonore / soundtrack 1998) 3:31min
Bach Suite Trumpet (Beginners bande sonore / original soundtrack, 2012) 2:42min
Peter Salem
(composed exclusively for Vendetta, Storie Di Mafia):
By arrangement with Peter Salem, composer and copyright owner.
"She's not just dancing. She transmits, with a grace coupled with a rarely seen power, the emotion necessary to the viewer to dive into this story from today, yesterday and once upon a time." Franco Nuovo parlant d'Anya Nesvitaylo, ICI Radio Canada
Various Musical Pieces
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From October 11th To 28th, 2017
The Rite of Spring and The Firebird
From June 7th To 9th, 2018


New York-based Douglas Elliman Real Estate has selected Grey as its agency of record following a review.
Grey will be tasked with developing a new global brand strategy, visual identity and digitally-led marketing approach for the real estate brand, which was founded in 1911 and has 113 offices across the country, followed by an extensive brand campaign. The work will touch on each of the regions in which Douglas Elliman operates.
The client spent nearly $10.3 million on measured marketing in 2017 and almost $13.6 million in the first nine months of 2018, according to Kantar Media.
"We are excited to begin working with the team at Grey. They demonstrated a deep understanding of our complex business, our brand's legacy and our vision for the future," Douglas Elliman president and COO Scott Durkin said in a statement.
This is part of a larger effort by the client to expand awareness of its brand, especially in new markets beyond the high-stakes world of New York real estate.
The company previously worked with New York-based AgencySacks. That shop created "It's Time for Elliman," its first-ever broadcast campaign, which broke in early 2017 but has since been retired.
Not sure what our hero does, but he's definitely not a junior account director because that's a really nice apartment.
In November, the NFL ended its 10-year relationship with Grey amidst a creative review which ultimately saw the league select 72andSunny as its new agency of record. The same month, global CCO John Patroulis made his first round of executive hires, 18 months after arriving from BBH New York.
The appointment also follows Grey New York hiring executive creative director Bernardo Romero away from FCB Health's Area 23 last month.


Its a pleasure to work with Christian. He is always striving to create the best design concepts to fit a specific project. Christian is trustworthy, creative and always goes the extra mile for each project. He truly enjoys what he does and it shows in his work.


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You can read the rest of his editorial, as well as a plethora of other stories, starting on page five. Ok. Well, really it all starts on page one.
On top of all the various activities happening in town, we would be remiss if we didn't mention the upcoming Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (SIGLFF). This year marks their 25th year of bringing LGBTQI films and shorts to our fair city. Be sure to check out Chris' look at what this year's lineup has to offer. It's on page 11.
There is so much more in this issue, that I'm going to leave this intro right here. You simply must pick up a paper copy, or go online and check out either the free "flip version," or the free PDF download version, just to see it all for yourself.
As always, we hope you enjoy this issue, but also hope you get out and enjoy all the wonderful things that are happening in and around our beautiful city.


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Tips for Living a More Mindful Life
Five Tips When Starting Your Locs
How to get over a breakup in 24 hours or less
It's time to move on
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Congratulations, you've been dumped.
Feels great, doesn't it? No? Feels bad? Oh. Sorry.
But, hey, you're still here, right? Sort of? We're here to change that with a kick in the face. Here's how to get over it in 24 hours or less.
Nothing good ever happened when someone texted their ex. No chance for redemption or explanation. It will be tempting, and that's why you just have to shut down. Every single device you have, turn it off. Not on silent or airplane mode: off. In these very delicate first few post-breakup hours, the urge to contact your ex via some handheld thingamagig will likely infect you. Don't trust yourself.
Make your tears count
You don't have to be Iron Man. You are allowed to cry; in fact, encouraged. Crying emotional tears is thought to secrete stress hormones from the body! Plus, it lubricates the eyes. Crying is not a sign of weakness, but a stress response that we shouldn't try to hold back. Everyone feels a little bit better after a good cry. Think of it as a cleansing ritual, to free yourself from all the old stress of being in a relationship. Yuck. But here's the thing: for this to work, you can only give yourself one hour to cry. The less time you have to cry, the more time your tears will count. Lock yourself away, let those babies flow, but then, get on with your life.
Block and delete
Are you going to try this "let's just be friends thing"? We strongly recommend against it, even if things ended amicably. When you have enough strength to turn your phone back on, give your former S.O. a virtual mercy kill. It's not mean, but it just helps you to move on when you stop seeing their name with little hearts next to it in your contacts. Delete your old texts, messages, and whatever other ways you used to communicate virtually. You'll be tempted to read over all of those "love you"s and other cheesy crap you used to say to each other. Enough.
Put all your energy into...something
Distraction is the key to getting over it. But it's not just in doing something passive, because your mind will be ruminating while your body is trying to do something else. You need to be fully engaged in an activity that requires mental and physical exertion. Cooking, for one, is a great way to focus. Dancing, too! Sometimes it's better to do external activities instead of internal (like writing or painting), though expressive arts are also helpful when dealing with complex emotions.
Don't talk about it
Hashing out the details of why it didn't work out will only keep you stranded in the past. Instead, talk about other people with other people. Keeping the focus on you will create a cycle of doubt, worry, and rumination. It didn't work out. That's a fact. There's no going back. If your ex-partner wants you, they'll get in touch. But it's your job to take what they said and understand that it's the truth.
Don't let this ruin your outlook on love
"Everything happens for…." you know the rest. It's not you. You're fine. Great, even. Maybe your ex-partner was a nice person, or an attractive person, or a smart person, but that doesn't mean they're the best person for you. Just because one thing didn't work out doesn't mean you're doomed for life. If anything, now you're one step closer to being with the right person!
Being dumped sucks, but it doesn't have to for long. Just keep being you, only accept the best, and take up something new!
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Senior Chases MMA Dreams
While other senior athletes plan to immerse themselves in traditional sports like soccer and baseball at college next year, senior Chris Jimenez has something a little different in mind. After a hugely successful wrestling career at Los Altos, Chris is planning to chase his dream of becoming a professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Over the course of his wrestling career at LAHS, Chris took the league title twice and made several state championship appearances. He said that his favorite Los Altos Wrestling moments were "being the first freshman to take first place at a varsity tournament," winning two league titles, and "being able to wrestle as a whole."
However, when Chris learned that Foothill College (where he will attend next year) didn't have a wresting team, he realized that he would need to seek out another way to continue competing.
"The high school coach from Monta Vista [High School] really wanted me to get into [mixed martial arts]," Chris said. "I never really thought of doing anything like this, so he really kept begging me to go into the class, and I finally went in one day and I started liking it."
After one class at AKA, a MMA gym in Fremont, Chris was hooked. The similarities between wrestling and MMA made the sport something that he excelled at, and its aggressive style drew him in.
"It mixes with wrestling, and then … I just get to beat on people," Chris said. "You know, I've never really punched someone before."
The UFC has recently created a new 125-pound weight class, which has given Chris the opportunity to try to fight professionally. He hopes to be competing in the UFC in two to three years.
Next year, Chris will train twice a day in order to prepare for major fights, which he hopes will help him gain the attention of professional agents.
"Once I get noticed, hopefully the opportunity will come and announce itself," Chris said.
2 Responses to "Senior Chases MMA Dreams"
John Naumovski on September 14th, 2012 8:10 pm
Hey Josh, one correction. Chris didn't make state for wrestling. He did make a few CCS appearances though.
John Naumovski on September 15th, 2012 4:10 am


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Step Inside: Budweiser Stage — Toronto, ON
Toronto music fans have plenty of excellent venues to choose from when they want to scratch that concert itch. But when it comes to outdoor shows, there's only one Toronto music venue that offers an incredible atmosphere combined with all of the convenience you'd expect from modern amenities.
Hands down, the Budweiser Stage is the best open-air amphitheatre in all of Ontario. So, if you hail from Toronto, Hamilton or Ottawa, it's your best option for an outdoor concert. Here's what you need to know about this outstanding Toronto venue.
Here's a look back at some of our favourite moments from 2018! We can't wait to see you this season for our 25th Anniversary ✨🎉
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1. It has the best view in Toronto.
Forget the CN Tower. With its vantage point along Lake Ontario, the Budweiser Stage gives you an amazing view of the city's surroundings. Plus, you get to take in a mind-blowing performance from your favorite acts. Hmmm, awesome concert or a long trip up an elevator? We know what we'd choose.
2. Canadian rock royalty christened the stage.
When the Budweiser Stage (then known as the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre) opened its doors in May 1995, promoter knew exactly how to draw a crowd: Get Canadian rock god Bryan Adams to hit the stage. The gambit worked, as Adams played not one, but two sold-out shows to his adoring fans.
3. It has more options than just lawn or pavilion.
The Budweiser Stage's 16,000-person capacity is split between 5,500 covered seats, 3,500 open-air reserved seats and a grass bowl fit for another 7,000. On top of that, there's a general admission floor area that can seat 1,000 concertgoers.
4. It hosted a "lost" Van Halen live album.
For decades, Van Halen fans have been begging the SoCal hard rockers for two things: One, for the Van Halen brothers to bury the hatchet with David Lee Roth and reform the group under its original lineup (mission accomplished as of 2007). Two, to release the live album the band recorded in Toronto in 1995. That's yet to materialize, but a Van Halen fan can dream. A Van Halen fan can dream.
5. Rush fans know "that feeling" all too well.
Geddy Lee and company had big plans to release their first live album on DVD using footage from two 1997 shows at the Budweiser Stage. Those plans fizzled when technical difficulties sprang up. Although a good chunk of that concert footage would appear in later compilations, fans are still salivating over the possibility of seeing the full shows.
6. It was the site of Drake's OVO Festival.
Hometown hero Drake hosted his OVO Festival exclusively at the amphitheatre for the first four years of its existence. Since then, it has shared hosting duties with other venues, but it has always been a fixture of the annual event.
7. It's not the first venue on the grounds.
The amphitheatre history can be traced back to the construction of Ontario Place, an amusement park situated right next to the lake. The park opened with its own open-air forum in 1971. A revolving stage was later added to the venue, allowing for a unique, completely circular seating arrangement. Today's larger, more modern amphitheatre replaced that structure in 1995.
8. There's no need to grab a bite before the show.
The Budweiser Stage has a whole assortment of dining options, from concession stands to rotating food trucks, to satisfy your appetite.
9. Whet your whistle with local craft beer.
For all those craft beer aficionados out there, you'll be happy to hear that the Budweiser Stage has more than just the tried-and-true Bud products on hand. Mill Street Brewery is Toronto's signature crafter brewery, and for good reason: It's line of organic ales, lagers, stouts and IPAs are second to none. If you have a hankering for craft beer, be sure to mosey on over to one of their stalls.
10. There are tons of public transportation options.
As the largest city in Canada, Toronto does not disappoint when it comes to public transportation. There are plenty of different routes you can take to the Budweiser Stage, depending on where in the city you're coming from. And if you're averse to trains, busses and streetcars, don't worry, there's ample parking to take advantage of, too.
11. Get ahead of the line with VIP seating.
The Budweiser Stage's VIP seating options don't just allow you to pick seats in exclusive locations, they let you get into the venue before everyone else. If you want to grab a primo spot on the lawn without scuffling with crowds, there's a VIP option for that.
12. Get in touch with your inner lumberjack.
Toronto has its fair share of landmarks and attractions: Niagara Falls, CN Tower, the Hockey Hall of Fame, etc. But if you want to check out something equally cool with a lot fewer tourists, check out the Backyard Axe Throwing League. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Book ahead or walk right in to the nearest venue and try your hand at the other Canadian pastime.
If you find yourself in the Great White North and looking for a once-in-a-lifetime concert event, be sure to check out the Budweiser Stage. Among the many amazing Toronto music venues, it's right at the very top of the list.


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Q: SearchFilter Logical Operators AND and Or How to Perform SearchFilter Logical Operator AND and OR Programatically based on the operation selected by user??
If the user gives a select like this "[To]ContainsSubstring'Ram' OR [To]containssubstring'lak'  how to perform it?

A: You can define the individual filters as Expressions and then combine them based on the user's choices.

EDIT: What i am proposing is to create predicates (which i understand are deprecated now and the recommendation is to use Func which is basically the same thing) and then combine them into an expression and apply it to your list that has to be fildered.
An example i found here: Combine Multiple Predicates

What i have done in the past is to combine predicates based on user's choice and then compile them into an expression and then use that as the parameter to the Linq Where extension method.
So, an example (not sure if it will compile wrote it right now:) :
List<Customer> list = new List<Customer>();
List<Func<Customer,bool>> predicateList = new List<Func<Customer,bool>>();

if(/*user choice condition*/)
{
    predicateList.Add(c => c.Name.Contains("test"));
}
if (/*user choice condition*/)
{
    predicateList.Add(c => c.Name.Contains("test") || c.Description.Contains("buyer"));
}
//etc.

Expression<Func<IWorkItem, bool>> filterExpression = c => whereClausePredicates.All(pred => pred(c));
var filteredCustomers = list.Where(filterExpression.Compile());

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