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Gorillaz launch new AR/VR app to host largest ever listening party
Justin Kahn	- Apr. 11th 2017 12:55 pm ET Twitter icon @justinkahnmusic
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The Gorillaz have released a brand new iOS/Android app to coincide with the release of the cartoon group's new album this month. Humanz – the fifth studio album from Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett as the animated hip-hop/pop group – will be releasing on April 28th with a number of interesting marketing tie-ins and companion products. One of which is the new augmented reality Gorillaz app designed to take you into the dark and strange world of the titular animated super stars…
Working in conjunction with B-Reel, Hewlett's artwork is being brought to life using a combination of real world, augmented reality, virtual reality and 360 environment technologies. Fans of "the World's Most Successful Virtual Band" will be able to explore the Gorillaz House for the very first time along with what is described as a wealth of exclusive content. Based on the success of AR experiences like Pokemon Go, the developers wanted to give fans a unique and "voyeuristic viewpoint" into the lives of 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel. Some reports suggest the content is a little bit thin at this point, but the devs say more will be added post-launch and users will receive notifications when that happens.
B-Reel is also encouraging users to give the app a try with with one of those Google Cardboard headsets.
Here's the trailer: "Step inside the hallowed halls of the Gorillaz house…"
For the very first time, all your pressing questions will be answered – where does Noodle find her inner chakra? What does 2D do on his time off from being a world famous frontman? When will Russel take his vibe to the streets? And what, exactly, is in the forbidden depths of Murdoc's lair?
The Gorillaz will also be inviting fans through the app to the "largest ever geo specific listening experience" known as the Humanz House Party. The event will be the first time fans will be able to hear the new album in its entirety and is said to be bringing people together from more than 500 different locations.
2D and friends have already released some of the lead tracks from Humanz to the official Gorillaz YouTube channel including a real banger with Vince Staples and "Let Me Out" featuring Mavis Staples and Pusha T along with others. The 360 YouTube Spirit House Video is a nice teaser to what you're going to see in the app.
In other Gorillaz news, Hewlett is also said to be taking charge of a new TV show starring the cartoon hip-hop group. While details are still being held close to the chest at this point, it sounds like we will be getting a full 10-episode series at some point.
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"I want to wish all those who observe the festival of Sukkot a chag sameach," Friedman said.
Ambassador Friedman joins Jews for priestly blessing at Western Wall September 26, 2018 (Marc Israel Sellem).
United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman joined thousands of Jews for the priestly blessing at the Western Wall on Wednesday.
"It's a great privilege for for me as a kohen to be able to bless the people of Israel, the nation of Israel, from this wonderful vantage point from the kotel hamaaravi. This is the third time I've had the chance to do this," Friedman said. "I want to wish all those who observe the festival of Sukkot a chag sameach."
The priestly blessing is a prayer recited by the priests who are believed to be direct patrilineal decedents of the first high priest Aaron, the brother of Moses.
This is a practice that has continued even after the destruction of the Second Temple and recited by the Western Wall every year during the interment days of Passover and Sukkot.
The text used for the blessing can be found in Numbers 6:23–27. The same blessing is customarily also recited by parents to their children on Friday night before the Shabbat meal.


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Shinshiniyot b'not mitzvah to precede farewell
Rotem Rapaport (L) and Ron Benacot cherish their year as Israeli emissaries to Tucson. (Courtesy Weintraub Israel Center)
June 14, 2019 / Debe Campbell, AJP Assistant Editor
Weintraub Israel Center's shinshiniyot (Israeli teen emissaries), Ron Benacot and Rotem Rapaport, will be called to the Torah as b'not mitzvah Saturday, June 15 at Temple Emanu-El. "I had my bat mitzvah when I was 12," said Benacot, "but where I grew up in Israel, it's not common for… Read more »
Adopt-A-Bee program at Tohono Chul to support National Pollinator Week
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Tohono Chul is holding its fourth annual Adopt-A-Bee program. The whimsical program, which allows participants to "adopt" and name a native bee, helps Tohono Chul communicate its passion for preservation and conservation. Adopt-A-Bee aims to increase awareness of the various native bee species in Southern Arizona, and to promote… Read more »
Local First Arizona's 'Independents Week' offers savings
Local First Arizona will celebrate its annual "Independents Week" June 29-July 7. During Independents Week, LFA encourages Arizonans to "go local" by supporting as many locally owned businesses as possible. For the entire week, consumers can use LFA's Golden Coupon for 20 percent discounts at hundreds of participating businesses… Read more »
JWV Memorial Day poppy sales fund programs for vets
May 17, 2019 / Debe Campbell, AJP Assistant Editor
Marking this Memorial Day, you'll find members of the Friedman-Paul Post 201 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America offering traditional red poppy flowers for donations at Safeway supermarkets across Tucson. The post uses funds raised from twice-annual poppy sales to host monthly bingo sessions… Read more »
Father's Day Council Tucson to honor Federation's Mellan
Nancy and Stuart Mellan and their blended family at their 1992 wedding. (Photo courtesy Nancy Mellan)
May 17, 2019 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Executive Editor
The Father's Day Council Tucson is holding its 25th Annual Fathers of Year Awards Gala next month, and the Jewish Federation's Stuart Mellan is among the honorees. Mellan, JFSA president and CEO, is one of seven men who will be celebrated on June 1 for their success in combining… Read more »
Bio reveals adventures of refugee from Nazis
Kate Stewart, the lead archivist at the Arizona Historical Society in Tucson, profiles the life of librarian Ruth Rappaport in her first biography, "A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport," released this spring by Little A Publishing. Rappaport grew up in Nazi Germany, reading banned… Read more »
Chorus to present 'Bless Our Show(tunes)'
Ari Slater, left, and Sean Cronin after a Reveille Men's Chorus outreach performance in November. (Photo courtesy Ari Slater)
Ari Slater will be lifting his voice as part of the Reveille Men's Chorus when they present "Bless Our Show(tunes)" this weekend. Slater, office assistant at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, says he started out singing for fun at the Thursday night piano bar at the Dusty Monk,… Read more »
Yom Hazikaron event to remember the fallen
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Yom Hazikaron, Israel's official Memorial Day dedicated to fallen soldiers and victims of terror, will be observed in Tucson on Tuesday, May 7 with song and remembrances at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, 6:30-8 p.m. Enacted into Israeli law in 1963, Yom Hazikaron traditionally is observed by the sounding… Read more »
Festivities will focus on children, families
Jewish Family & Children's Services of Southern Arizona serves the whole community and all ages. (Photo courtesy Jewish Family & Children's Services)
Jewish Family & Children's Services of Southern Arizona is hosting a free, family-friendly event, "Celebration of Caring for Tucson's Children" on Sunday, May 19, from 12-3 p.m. at the Scottish Rite, 160 S. Scott Ave. Children of all ages are welcome. There will be food and music for parents… Read more »
Nissel lecture to explore meanings behind Holocaust melody, 'I Believe'
Rabbi Menachem Nissel
Congregation Chofetz Chayim and the Southwest Torah Institute will host author, educator and historian Rabbi Menachem Nissel at a fundraiser Sunday, May 5 at 5:30 p.m. Nissel will present "Messiah: What We Believe, Why We Believe." "This topic holds so much meaning for me," says Rabbi Israel Becker, explaining… Read more »
JHM's 'Help Us! Humor!' to explore comedy, identity
Amelia Bande, Jeanne Vaccaro
In the past year, the Jewish History Museum has continued conversations started by its "Invisibility & Resistance: Violence Against LGBTQIA+ People" exhibit, which was on display in the Holocaust History Center's Contemporary Human Rights space from September 2017 through May 2018. Along with continuing to highlight violence, JHM programs… Read more »
Invisible Theatre's Project Pastime to present musical
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The Invisible Theatre's Pastime Players, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary arts education program for mentally and physically challenged students, will present a free performance of "The Me Inside of Me" on Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at Doolen Middle School, 2400 N. Country Club Road. Pastime Players started as a… Read more »
Commemoration to focus on life before Shoah
The Szabason family in Kozienice, Poland, in 1937. (Photo courtesy Jewish History Museum)
This year's community Yom HaShoah commemoration will mark 80 years since the outbreak of World War II by reflecting on the vibrant and diverse Jewish life that existed in Europe and North Africa before the Holocaust. "On the Eve: Jewish Life Before the Third Reich" will be held Sunday,… Read more »
Federation proposes slate of officers for 2019-2020
The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona's board governance committee has recommended the following slate of officers for the 2019-20 program year: Deborah Oseran, chair of the board; Jeff Artzi, vice chair; Ben Silverman, treasurer/secretary; Shelly Silverman, immediate past chair. Also nominated are Elena Boskoff, Avi Erbst and Scott Sheftel… Read more »
Hadassah brunch to feature two new authors
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Anne Lowe of Tucson and Elizabeth L. Fox of Boulder, Colorado, will present their recently published books at Hadassah Southern Arizona's brunch on Sunday, May 5. In "A Touch of Torah," Lowe shares reflections on being Jewish as she tries to grasp the intricacies of Torah. Inspired by the… Read more »
Lecture to explore Iraqi Jews in Israel
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Tucson talk to explore health risks of Wi-Fi technology
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Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens are friends. But come 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, these two first-time U.S. Open finalists will set aside any affection and battle for their maiden title at a Grand Slam.
Keys, seeded number 15, and unseeded Stephens reached the final after a remarkable day of two semifinals that featured an All-American lineup, a first since 1981 at the Open.
The two matches could not have been different.
Stephens, up against Venus Williams (No. 9), was steadfast in her defense, speedy in tracking down balls, and committed to taking risks that paid off. She defeated two-time champion Williams, 6-1, 0-6, 7-5. Stephens victory and spot in the final is the farthest she's ever gone at any major.
Sloane Stephens showed remarkable tenacity and foot speed, in her victory over Venus Williams in yesterday's semifinal. Photo credit Leslie Billman tennisclix.com.
"I have no words to describe what I'm feeling, what it took to get here," Stephens told ESPN on court, immediately following her win. "It's incredible. American tennis here we are."
Stephens run can only be described one way: magical. At the start of the hard-court season she was ranked No. 957, after having been out for 11 months with an injury to her foot. She is projected to move up to No. 22, at least. "I'm super happy to be in a Grand Slam final," she told the press later, as reported by usopen.org.
The journey for Stephens was arduous. Not only were there months of rehabilitation on her foot, but she had to rehabilitate her mind, as well. Her negativity during matches had become, to some, the number one obstacle in her career. She either needed to adjust or get out of the game. However, the time off opened a route for full recovery.
"[I've learned] that I'm a real fighter. That I have a lot of grit," she said. "Like, to myself, I don't give up. I'm not just going to give it to someone. I'm going to make sure I give everything that I have."
Stephens' and Keys' styles aren't exactly the same. Stephens defends. Keys' is a ball blaster.
"She plays a lot of first-ball tennis, first-strike tennis," Stephens began. "She plays aggressive. I don't do that. I use my wheels more and make sure I get a lot of balls back and make the other person play."
Madison Keys jumps for joy, knowing she'd made it to her first major final after defeating compatriot CoCo Vandeweghe. Photo credit Leslie Billman tennisclix.com.
Keys victory over CoCo Vandeweghe yesterday was a blowout. Vandeweghe and her team got caught in traffic, truncating her warmup and siphoning valuable time needed to setup her mind for the match. She didn't find her rhythm and her biggest asset, her serve, lacked its normal punch and power. As a result, she lost 6-1, 6-2.
"I didn't really have much to do with anything out there," Vandeweghe told the press, her eyes puffing from crying. "It was more Madison played an unbelievable match."
"I played really, really well," Keys said. "It was kind of one of those days where I came out and I was kind of in a zone. I just forced myself to stay there."
Keys and Stephens may have grown up together on tour, but they've only met once on court: Miami in 2015. Stephens won in straight sets. Saturday's title match trumps the Miami match by a long shot.
"You figure out how to separate your friendship from being on the court," Keys began. "Obviously both of us want to win. I think when we come off the court, we're able to leave what happens there and still have a great friendship off the court."
The fact that these two women will play for the last slam title of 2017 has other ironies. Stephens watched this year's Australian Open from the comfort of a couch as she recovered from foot surgery. Keys had her eye on the competition, too, as she recovered from wrist surgery. Both women broke through at the Australian Open, as well. Keys reached the semifinals in 2015, Stephens reached it in 2013.
Both women have benefited from solid relationships with their coaches. Keys works with Lindsay Davenport, a U.S. Open champion. They first started to work together a couple years back, then Davenport left due to family obligations. However, they were reunited last year. Stephens has had many coaches. She seemed to switch from one to another as frequently as her moods changed. However, two years ago she began working with Kamal Murray. The fit has been an exceptionally beneficial one.
Serena Williams absence has not gone unnoticed by Keys and Stephens. The 23-time Grand Slam champions' spirit seems to have broken ground for them. Serena took the reigns at the Open in 1999, when she won her first slam. She since has won five more titles and Venus has won two. Whether the guard is changing, time will only tell. But there's something in the air in New York this year and it has a distinct red, white and blue feel.
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In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. ... Bible Verse Wall Art
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Lené Levy-Storms' core research concerns communication issues between health care providers and patients. Older adults with their increased risk of having chronic care needs and limited social relationships may depend on formal health care providers for technical assistance as well as emotional support. In 2003, Dr. Levy-Storms received career development award from the National Institute on Aging titled, "Therapeutic Communication during Nursing Home Care." In this five year study, she is focusing on communication issues between nursing home staff and frail, older residents during care.
Dr. Levy-Storms has approached this problem in three ways. First, she has devised a way to code open-ended comments from nursing home residents about their interactions with staff into indicators of perceived emotional and instrumental support. Second, she has adapted audio and video-based measures of communication between providers and patients in medical care settings to that of the nursing home setting. She is in the process of linking the residents' perceived support to the nursing aides' communication behaviors. Nursing aides provide the most care to residents of all nursing home staff. Third, she has been piloting a communication training program to improve the way nursing aides communicate with residents during care.
Dr. Levy-Storms has B.S. degree in psychology from UC Davis, a MPH in biostatistics and PhD in public health. From 1998-2000, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Gerontology and a fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. In 2000, she joined the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics as an assistant professor. At that time, she also became an associate director of the UCLA/Borun Center for Gerontological Research, an appointment which she continues to hold. The Borun Center is based at the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda, CA and focuses on applied research to improve the quality of life of older adults in long-term care settings. She now holds a joint appointment with Medicine and Social Welfare.
Dr. Moon's areas of research interest include social welfare policy, program evaluation, and gerontology.
As a principal investigator on a five-year inter-university consortium research project funded by the California Department of Social Services, she recently completed an evaluation study of the implementation of family preservation and support programs in California.
Her recent research activities also include "Evaluation of the API Dementia Care Network," funded by the Alzheimer's Association of Los Angeles, "Evaluation of General Relief Time Limit Policy in Los Angeles County" and "Evaluation of the 'Community Empowerment Project: Domestic Violence Prevention in the Korean American Community,'" funded by the California Department of Health. Dr. Moon, with Dr. Young In Song at California State University, Hayward, is a co-editor of two books, entitled Korean American Women Living in Two Cultures and Korean American Women: From Tradition to Modern Feminism.
Dr. Moon is also active in gerontological research, particularly, in the areas of elder abuse, mental health, and service utilization. Currently, she is a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar, funded to study "Cultural and Non-Cultural Factors in Elder Abuse Assessment and Intervention." Dr. Moon and her colleagues completed a study, titled "A Multicultural Study of Attitudes toward Elder Mistreatment and Reporting," funded by the National Center on Elder Abuse.
She was a co-principal investigator with Dr. James Lubben on a four-year study funded by the National Institute on Aging that examines social supports and long-term care use among elderly Korean and non-Hispanic white Americans. Dr. Moon has published 55 articles, book chapters, research reports and monographs.
Dr. Moon is serving as the director of the Department's Ph.D. program.
Moon, A. & Benton, D. (2000). Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 8 (3/4), 283-303.
Moon, A., Furman, W., Hawes, R., Potts, M., & Ortiz, E. (2001). The California Family Preservation/Family Support Program Statewide Evaluation Study. Report submitted to California Department of Social Services, Child Welfare Service Policy Bureau.
Moon, A., & Evans-Campbell, T. (1999). Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 11(3), 1-23.
Moon, A., Lubben, J. & Villa, V. (1998). The Gerontologist, 38(3), 309-316.
Fernando M. Torres-Gil's multifaceted career spans the academic, professional, and policy arenas. He is a Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy at UCLA, an Adjunct Professor of Gerontology at USC, and Director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging. He has served as Associate Dean and Acting Dean at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and most recently Chair of the Social Welfare Department. He has written six books and over l00 publications, including The New Aging: Politics and Change in America (1992) and Lessons from Three Nations, Volumes I and II (2007). His academic contributions have earned him membership in the prestigious Academies of Public Administration, Gerontology and Social Insurance. His research spans important topics of health and long-term care, disability, entitlement reform, and the politics of aging.
Professor Torres-Gil is more than an academic. He has an impressive portfolio of public service and national and international recognition as a leading spokesperson on demographics, aging, and public policy. He earned his first presidential appointment in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the Federal Council on Aging. He was selected as a White House Fellow and served under Joseph Califano, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), and continued as a Special Assistant to the subsequent Secretary of HEW, Patricia Harris. He was appointed (with Senate Confirmation) by President Bill Clinton as the first-ever U.S. Assistant Secretary on Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). As the Clinton Administration's chief advocate on aging, Torres-Gil played a key role in promoting the importance of the issues of aging, long-term care and disability, community services for the elderly, and baby boomer preparation for retirement. He served under HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, managing the Administration on Aging and organizing the 1995 White House Conference on Aging, in addition to serving as a member of the President's Welfare Reform Working Group.
In 2010 he received his third presidential appointment (with Senate Confirmation) when President Barack Obama appointed him as Vice Chair of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that reports to the Congress and White House on federal matters related to disability policy. During his public service in Washington, D.C., he also served as Staff Director of the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging under his mentor, Congressman Edward R. Roybal.
At the local level, Torres-Gil has served as the Vice President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and a member of the Harbor and Taxi Commissions for the city of Los Angeles. He currently serves Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as an appointed member of the Board of Airport Commissioners. At the state level, he was appointed by former Governor Gray Davis to the Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Veterans' Homes and by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.
He continues to provide important leadership in philanthropy and non-profit organizations as a board member of the AARP Foundation, and he is a former board member of The California Endowment, National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California and the Los Angeles Chinatown Service Center.
In addition to his appointment in Public Policy, Thomas Rice is Distinguised Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management.
Dr. Rice previously served as the UCLA campus as Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel from 2006 to 2011 and as Interim Dean of Public Health in 2012. As Vice Chancellor he was responsible for overseeing the promotions, recruitment, and retention of faculty at the campus level. He also served as Chair of the Department of Health Services from 1996 to 2000 and 2003 to 2004.
Dr. Rice is a health economist, having received his doctorate in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. His areas of interest include health insurance, competition and regulation; physicians' economic behavior; and Medicare. He was lead author of a book about the U.S. health care system, for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, published in 2013. The fourth edition of his book, The Economics of Health Reconsidered, was published in 2015. He served as editor of the journal Medical Care Research and Review from 1994 to 2000.
Dr. Rice was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He was chair of the AcademyHealth Board of Directors in 2005-6, and previously he had been awarded its Article of the Year Award and its Young Investigator Award.


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On This Day in Gaming: Super Metroid
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It is not often that one game spawns an entirely new video game genre. While many developers have attempted to capture the "magic" needed to spur such iconic titles, most fall short. Modern examples include Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, FromSoftware's Dark Souls series, and even Nintendo's Wii Sports. Although highly innovated, each of the aforementioned built upon previously established genres. So what does it take to create an entirely original concept? And what kind of legacy can such a title leave behind? Perhaps no game is a better answer to these questions than a title released 26 years ago today: Super Metroid.
On This Day in Gaming is a series that honors the anniversary of the most iconic video games in history. We analyze director and studio development decisions while also reminiscing on the enduring legacy that continues to influence the industry.
Living in the shadow of an industry star is as difficult as it is stifling. How can a video game director top that level of work? Such is the case with Super Metroid's Director, Yoshio Sakamoto.
After designing a series of arcade hits, such as Donkey Kong Jr. and Balloon Fight, Sakamoto wanted to expand his abilities. It just so happened that Nintendo was also looking to expand its library of first-party games. With Shigeru Miyamoto's Mario and Zelda series, Nintendo already had a strong presence in the platforming and adventure genres. What the company lacked was "a pure action" game; hence, the Metroid series was born.
While the original NES game sold more than 2.7 million units, Metroid was hardly as successful as Miyamoto's Zelda and Mario games. In fact, the game proved more popular overseas than in Sakamoto's native Japan. Thinking the series was isolated to one game, Sakamoto decided to move on to other projects, such as Kid Icarus and Balloon Kid. Even when Nintendo greenlit a Game Boy Metroid sequel, Sakamoto was not interested in contributing.
It was not until the spring of 1991 that Sakamoto realized the international popularity of the original Metroid game. When his boss, Makoto Kano, pitched the idea for a Super NES Metroid title, Sakamoto hesitated. However, during a routine business trip to Nintendo of America, the staff took Sakamoto to several Seattle-based shopping centers and introduced him as "the guy who made Metroid."
The response shocked Sakamoto. Americans were so excited to meet the man behind their favorite game. In fact, even non-gamers knew about Sakamoto's work and were equally impressed. Inspired by the fan's reaction, Yoshio pitched the idea for Super Metroid to Nintendo. Although it took 18 months for the company to approve the project, the rest is history.
Yoshio Sakamoto's primary goal with Super Metroid was to create a "true action game" and expound upon the lore of Samus Aran. Needless to say, Sakamoto accomplished this feat and so much more.
2D Exploration. Until Super Metroid, few games attempted to create a massive, two-dimensional world. Several tried, including Zelda II; however, none achieved the scale of the SNES Metroid. The expansive world of Ceres coupled with an in-game map proved that exploration on a two-dimensional plain was not only possible but also captivating. This feat was the sole inspiration for the most important indie game of all time: Cave Story. The success of Cave Story proved that indie developers could make games that fans enjoyed while also saving money by developing in a two-dimensional space.
Ability Progression. Whereas most games relied on items or experience points for advancement, Super Metroid embraced abilities as its primary means of progression. This choice temporarily blocked off parts of the map until players earned new abilities. While controversial at the time, the mechanic encouraged gamers to explore. Modern indie hits, such as Hollow Knight and Ori and the Blind Forest, were heavily inspired by this mechanic.
Environmental Storytelling. Perhaps the game's most important legacy is its method of storytelling. From the opening cutscene of Ridley stealing a baby Metroid to Samus defeating Mother Brain, not a single word is spoken. Instead of written narrative, Super Metroid relies on its environment to tell a compelling story, which Sakamoto describes as "cinematic presentation." From epic boss battles to Samus Aran's salvation at the hand of the baby Metroid, the environment tells a harrowing tale. Modern classics, such as Shadow of the Colossus, Dark Souls, Inside, and many others, cite Metroid as inspiration for their cryptic and cinematic storytelling.
While Sakamoto initially sought to create a "true action game", he ultimately blended the best elements from the shooter, platformer, and adventure genres.
Shooter. Make no mistake. At its core, Super Metroid is a shooter. But unlike most shooters at its time, the game uses a wide range of weapon types to defeat enemies. While Samus is initially armed with a standard cannon, she can also acquire a variety of missiles and environmental charges. This array of weapons leads to creative boss battles that combine platforming patterns with elemental weaknesses.
Platformer. The wall jump. Several games attempted to incorporate this mechanic; however, Super Metroid made it "game-breaking". Players who mastered this skill could bypass certain abilities to reach new areas and battle bosses. Few games prior to or afterward even tried to embrace this type of ability. In addition, the game utilized swinging physics and bomb jumps as additional means for Samus to navigate the world of Ceres.
Adventure. Finally, the world of Ceres would not be complete without a sense of exploration. Prior to Super Metroid's release, games relied on lock-and-key mechanics to block players' progression. Super Metroid flipped this mechanic on its head by instead using abilities to sequester portions of the map. As Samus earned new platforming abilities, the game enticed players to try these new abilities on previously visited areas. As Samus' abilities opened new portions of the map, players were filled with a sense of wonder and achievement. This same feeling could not be accomplish with a simple lock and key.
No game retrospective would be complete without a short list of fun facts. Below is a list of our Super Metroid favorites:
Sakamoto originally planned for Samus to both scream and be fully naked upon death. However, he later removed the scream and gave Samus her iconic "zero suit" attire.
Samus is based on the actress Kim Basinger. Sakamoto had a secret crush on Basinger after seeing the film 9 1/2 Weeks.
Super Metroid was meant to be the final game in the Metroid series. Until Retro Studios took over development of Metroid Prime, Sakamoto had no desire to create another game.
The crescendo to Yoshio Sakamoto's masterpiece was a new genre. And not just a new genre but a name that perfectly embodies his legacy: "Metroidvania".
And there you have it. The story behind one of the most important action-adventure games of all time. But we want to know what you think. Did you play Super Metroid during the SNES era? Let us know in the comments below or the social media links on the right. Also, be sure to check out our other news items on Pokemon, Modern Warfare, Capcom, Blizzard and more.
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28/06/2017 ESMA35-36-885 Product Intervention- General Statement Innovation and Products, MiFID - Investor Protection Statement PDF
This statement provides an update on the European Securities and Markets Authority's (ESMA) work in relation to the sale of contracts for differences (CFDs), binary options and other speculative products to retail investors.
ESMA has been concerned about the provision of speculative products such as CFDs, rolling spot forex and binary options to retail investors for a considerable period of time and has conducted ongoing monitoring and supervisory convergence work in this area. In this context, ESMA has previously published a number of Q&As on CFDs and other speculative products[1] to foster supervisory convergence, having established a CFD Task Force in July 2015, and also issued a further investor warning on the sale of CFDs, binary options and other speculative products in July 2016[2].
However, ESMA remains concerned that these supervisory convergence tools may not be sufficiently effective to ensure that the risks to consumer protection are sufficiently controlled or reduced. ESMA is therefore discussing the possible use of its product intervention powers under Article 40 of MiFIR to address investor protection risks in relation to CFDs, rolling spot forex and binary options.
ESMA is in the process of discussing the possible use of its product intervention powers under Article 40 of MiFIR, the possible content of any such measures, and how they could be applied. However, ESMA can confirm that the measures being discussed for (i) CFDs and rolling spot forex and (ii) binary options include proposals that take into account a number of measures that have been adopted or publicly consulted on by EU National Competent Authorities. These measures include leverage limits, guaranteed limits on client losses, and / or restrictions on the marketing and distribution of these products.
In accordance with Article 40 of MiFIR, any intervention measures must be approved by the ESMA Board of Supervisors and can only come into effect from 3 January 2018 at the earliest[3].
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The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed the following individuals to serve as chairs of its standing committees:
Hannelore Lausch, Executive Director of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), Germany, will chair the Market Data Standing Committee;
Cyril Roux, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI, will chair the Investment Management Standing Committee; and
Merel van Vroonhoven, Chair of the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), Netherlands, will chair the Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee.
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109.53 KB Dear Members of the European Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your election or re-election as a Member of the European Parliament and as a member of this important committee. Call it a "Single Capital Market" or "Capital Market Union", the financial regulatory reform in the European Union (EU) in the last five years has made solid progress and is a decisive step towards the aim of completing the single market in financial services. This is not only a necessity to tackle failures exposed by the financial crisis, it is also a crucial part of realising the overriding objective of securing economic recovery in the EU. However, it will only reach its full potential if the single rule book is applied consistently and supervised adequately so that all stakeholders can benefit from it in daily practice. ESMA plays a key role in achieving this objective, by enhancing investor protection and by promoting stable and orderly financial markets in the EU. Since its inception three and a half years ago, ESMA has contributed to the creation of an EU single rulebook by developing technical standards and guidelines, and by assisting the European Institutions, and the European Commission in particular, in providing technical advice on such areas as: over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, hedge funds and private equity, short selling, high frequency trading, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), investment advice and financial information. In the last 12 months, ESMA finalised 22 technical standards and pieces of technical advice to the European Commission, as well as seven sets of guidelines, in order to complete the legal framework in areas such as Credit Rating Agencies, prospectuses, market infrastructures, European Social Entrepreneurship Funds and European Venture Capital Funds. 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ESMA has successfully developed a regime of direct supervision at EU level. We supervise 23 credit rating agencies by conducting thematic investigations, on-site visits, analysing the information CRAs provide to the public and by monitoring the implementation of remedial action plans. In June this year, ESMA concluded its first enforcement action and issued a public notice censuring Standard & Poor's Credit Market Services France SAS and Standard & Poor's Credit Market Services Europe Limited (S&P) for failing to meet certain organisational requirements. EMIR brings more transparency to derivatives markets by introducing mandatory reporting to trade repositories (TRs). Since November 2013, six repositories have been registered and are now supervised by ESMA. Since reporting under EMIR went live, derivatives trade data has flowed into the repositories: as of 30 June 2014, more than 1 billion new trades have been reported to the TRs. Regulators now have access, or are in the process of establishing access, to derivatives data which should help in providing a clearer picture on the risks associated with those markets. On identifying risks to investor protection and stability, ESMA has substantially improved its data and intelligence gathering capabilities. Risks in securities markets are, for example regularly, identified and reported on in ESMA's Trend, Risk and Vulnerabilities Report. Concerning the convergence of supervisory practices we have employed a range of instruments, including Q&As, opinions and peer reviews. Regarding peer reviews, we have strengthened our methodology, including the more frequent use of on-site visits. More generally, with the reform of financial markets moving from legislation to implementation, supervisory convergence will become a higher priority in ESMA's activities and we will increase our resources allocated to this area. That brings me to the last topic I would like to raise, which I also brought to this Committee's attention last year, the need for a stable budget. Today, our funding comes from a combination of the EU budget, levies on the financial market entities that we supervise directly, and the Member States' national competent authorities. We are concerned that an increasing budget contribution from national competent authorities might pose undue difficulties to their functioning. This would run counter to the reinforcement of securities markets regulation and supervision at both EU and national level as envisaged in the regulatory reform programme. ESMA's funding should guarantee its independence and not create potential undue influence. Therefore, we believe that the co-legislators should consider increasing the funding ESMA receives from financial market entities which require ESMA's intervention and to increase the Union's share in ESMA's budget through an independent budget line directly adopted by the co-legislators. Thank you for your attention.
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In preparation for this months faculty meeting, we had to read the first chapter in a book about social emotional learning. While there were a dozen or so teachers who were outraged over this, I wasn't one of them. I don't think it is terrible for a building principal to ask the teachers in the building to read a book in the interest of developing as professionals. I actually think that having a staff who has a common experience with one book can be powerful.
I'm not going to lie. I work full time and my husband does too. We have two teenagers with very active lives. I waited till the weekend before to do my reading. After the original ask, the principal emailed us and asked us to answer the first two comprehension questions. This wasn't a big deal. There was space to respond right in our book. So, I took a couple of hours on Sunday to read the chapter and respond to the questions. I absolutely did resent the fact that I had to do this when what I really wanted to do was to plan for the coming week and beyond. It may not have even been a couple of hours of reading but it sure felt like it. Anyway, I still don't think it was a terrible idea.
On Wednesday, the day before our big meeting, we received a third email with a link to a google doc asking us to now type in our responses to the comprehension questions. There was no way I was getting that done in advance of the meeting.
At the meeting we sat at tables where all grades were represented by a teacher and where there was a special educator. We had a decent conversation about the text and what resonated for each of us. One thing that was obvious to me was that every teacher at my table had done their reading. Only one of us had posted to the Google doc at the time of the meeting. At the end of the meeting, we were reminded to get our thoughts in the doc. UGH. Here it is three days after the meeting and I was kind of hoping that this request would just go away. It isn't going away. Apparently, this is an important doc that will crystalize this experience. It is awesome because we can return to it again and again to remember the experience of reading this book together.
I'm feeling cranky. I don't want to key in my response. The chapter was dry. It was kind of painful to read. Yet, the response I wrote was pretty personal. I didn't mind sharing it at my table. I'm not feeling like I want to type it in that doc. I don't get why we have to take the homework this far. Is it to prove that we did the homework?
I really do get that I wouldn't have to spend time complaining about this if I had spent the time it took me to write this post to just type my response into the doc. I get it.


Essentially, this means that even if you go through the necessary steps with a patient's healthcare insurance and your staff is granted the authorization they need in order to perform a service, there is still a chance that the claim you submit is denied.
Prior authorization denials can be very frustrating, especially when you went through appropriate process. So what are some easy ways to ensure payment when obtaining prior authorization?
Within every healthcare insurance's health plan policy, there is likely a "Summary Plan Description" section.
That section is extremely important because healthcare plans only reimburse for covered services. Covered services are those services that are defined by the healthcare insurance company as medically necessary.
In order for a claim to be eligible for payment, the claim must meet all conditions outlined within the Summary Plan Description. If the procedure or service is not outlined within that section and performed, that claim be denied.
Timely filing limits are a pesky, ever-looming deadline that your healthcare organization must consistently stay on top of and understand.
Let's say your healthcare organization went through all of the necessary steps involved with prior-authorization and was approved to conduct the service or procedure. The patient comes in, the procedure occurs, and the insurance claim is made.
However, let's say your organization hasn't established ways to ensure your claims are submitted within their timely filing limits and the claim doesn't get submitted for more than 90 days after the date of service. Well, as it coincidentally turns out in this example, that patient's healthcare insurance has a timely filing limit of 90 days after the service was rendered meaning your claim is denied.
Luckily, there are a few simple tools and practices out there that these struggling healthcare organizations can take advantage of that will instantly help them submit claims within their timely filing limits.
This one may seem like an obvious reason but can sometimes be complicated, especially when referring patients to multiple specialist doctors.
As an example, let's say that a patient comes to your healthcare organization and needs specialty service that your office does not perform. In this case, the patient will need what's referred to as a referral. A referral is required by the patient's healthcare insurance in order for the specialty service to be covered.
Before the specialist can perform any procedure on that patient, they are responsible for prior authorization. Once the specialist performs the necessary prior authorization, they are responsible for filing the claim.
In some cases, a mix up can occur and the original healthcare organization, the one who referred the patient to a specialist, may file the claim. That scenario is usually attributed to human error but, nonetheless, results in a denial.
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will a compassionate petition now get no-platformed ?
So – for anyone with a humanitarian conscience against all the barbarity of British border policies in recent time, it's a no-brainer to have to support this petition, against a deportation to Iran of an autistic person.
At the same time I don't like this page's publicly patronising and insulting description of one of the person's condition. I think it's an example of the type of bad description of autism that its scene is struggling to discourage. Don't you?
SO WHAT DO THE NO-PLATFORMERS IN LAST WEEK'S RAGGED UNIVERSITY CRISIS NOW MAKE OF THIS, hmm ?!
Are they going to back it or no-platform it?
This post does not yet say this is a bad organisation. It says it needs to show the public that it is not a bad organisation.
Autistic Mutual Aid Society is the relatively recently formed group, who started the present no-platforming crisis in Edinburgh around a Ragged University event on autism that was going to feature some nonconsensual medical ideas – for discussion. But the momentum for hunting RU from venue to venue could be watched happening by personal hotheaded decisions prompted in reaction to messages, so it was not all organised, had a life of its own.
AMASE has its own event on Jul 10 (tomorrow at time of posting), one of its sessions of public education on autism, directly clashing in time with RU's event after taking over the time slot at the first venue that under their lobbying cancelled on RU.
Folks who choose to attend the AMASE event, or otherwise to support AMASE, need to find out from it whether it is, or is not, going to be a damagingly purge-happy dictatorship, that instantly rejects or falls out with folks who its leaders have any difference of view with. That would be a corrupt character of control and forced sameness, not a character of mutual aid.
On Jul 4 to 6 both of AMASE's leadership couple quickly accused me of hostility to them, just because I told that venue, Lighthouse bookshop, on its Facebook page, that on its own stated grounds for not wanting to host RU's event it must also adopt a position of not hosting any autism events promoting Autistic Pride Day. Which, you remember, is a thing with directly hateful origins, invented by a high-control and purge-happy group that is gone but whose leadership couple are still seeking influence for other projects through which they could damage more spectrumites with rejection and control experiences.
The ethical line I drew at Lighthouse was against ANY autism events promoting APD, organised by ANYONE – see that's quite impartial. Of course an ethical curb that applies to everyone would apply to AMASE, but that is no more than equal imposition as their no-platforming of the medical ideas is an imposition on another organisations including any I'm attached to. So if they don't like it, they don't like sauce for the gander.
Because AMASE's imminent event on is not promoting APD (and thanks to AMASE for saying so !), my action has nothing to do with its meeting. So it can't possibly be an act of hostility to the meeting or to AMASE.
This reply was given promptly. Yet AMASE's leaders have not yet acknowledged this common sense, not yet withdrawn the stance of accusing me of hostility to them by taking that action. To accuse hostility for a step that does not attack their meeting or them at all, and to leave a common sense reply unacknowledged and leave the hostility charge standing, WOULD BE AN ACT OF PERSONAL DISTANCING AND PUSHING AWAY, of intolerant hostility by them, therefore of quick-fire PURGING. It's a corrupt tactical hostility for group control. Instant falling out with a person for a difference of view on one item. To lead any autistic group in that way is emotional danger to all and exploitation. AFF's history and collapse illustrated so.
So THIS POST WILL BE DELETED IF AMASE itself posts or otherwise gets in touch to acknowledge the common sense, and to state consequently that we are not on hostile terms. If it does that, it will show it does not push folks away as soon as they have a difference with the leadership on one issue. It will show it is not purge-happy and not going to turn out the same harmful and disastrous way as Aspies For Freedom ! THIS IS IN THE BALANCE RIGHT NOW.
There is a controversy happening at present around a discussion event billed to be held in Edinburgh by the Ragged University project. This is a project for grassroots community education by sharing of personal learning insights; "everyone is a ragged university." It works democratically by having folks give talks with discussion. Personally built up knowledge can also be written about on its website.
Key point is that there is discussion. The talks are not speakers from on high coming and laying the law down. Nor does what they say have the authority of being the project's view – it's always just their own view, their own perceived coming from their own learning. SO IT IS NOTHING AT ALL LIKE the cases where a big name speaker comes touring in to give an offensive speech that a targetted population group have no access to answer.
An effort is happening, to do that dictatorial PC practice of no-platforming, to a proposed talk about a rather wacky medical theory about autism. To lobby every venue that gets gets booked to hold it, to cancel and disown it.
Certainly the speaker's ideas, written as if all autism was non-verbal! don't match at all the lived experience of verbal able autistics, and our history going back way before modern medicine and including Isaac Newton as one of us. A conspiracy theory attributing autism's existence to aberrant medicine and appearing to believe it has only existed since the 1970s! – does not match at all the scene's experience at all levels of ability: after all it was exactly the more severe levels of autism that were known from long before that. Folks affected and their families are entitled to find the theory insulting. But that reaction, itemising the idea's demerits, can be given in reply to it, both in website posts and in discussion. When given at a grassroots level, not by some remote big speaker, it can be replied to and discussed and autistic experiences not matching it can be pointed out. The discussion process itself is educative. So, to try to gag the talk from ever being given at all, is not educative or democratic.
Ragged University has several writings by aspies on its site. It is very clearly visibly not anti-autistic. It has been treated with sinister undemocratic hooliganism, by the arrogance of a few folks, on hearing of the controversy from peers, acting spontaneously self-prompted to hunt RU from venue to venue! to prevent it from holding this discussion, which as a result will be held in a park – THAT ACTION DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ALL AUTISTICS.
It creates the democratic problem of who should have the power to inflict the gagging or draw the lines of offence against what can be discussed? Law against direct incitement to hate already sets a line against talks that would do that. That is the answer to anyone who argues, would we then have to allow talks on fascistic theories about race? Hate is socially excluding and hence anti-democratic. Short of hate, excluding ideas becomes anti-democratic, because works against the accountability and analysis of ideas.
One poster against allowing this talk suggested effectively that talks should be vetted for being scientific before they are allowed. The loudest voices against spiritual/paranormal types of idea often want scientific vetting of what is allowed to be heard: but exactly that is not scientific, it places establishment science cult-like beyond challenge and turns it into doctrine exactly like a religion.
Some of the folks trying to prevent this talk had no ethical problem with observing Autistic Pride Day, which is directly associated with hate. As all followers of this site will know well, Autistic Pride Day was invented by a movement that treated many autistics hatefully, and whose leaders started out with a line against harmful medicine but rapidly betrayed that line and proudly made connections themselves with medical voices in favour of drugging us. So what do you make of being okay with Autistic Pride Day with its hateful background, but trying to censor a grassroots discussion event where wacky ideas about autism can be answered and their demerits said in discussion?


worked on my van and brought my air-conditioning back to life!
Thank you so much sweet son, you are my HERO!!
While he worked, Clara and Murray played and it was such a beautiful day!
Warm and sunny, perfect for playing outside.
I took a few photos to share with you.
Look at this sweet girl, she's growing so very fast it makes my head spin!
She looks like she's soaking up the sun and just loves it!
Clara loves critters, animals, bugs, lizards, caterpillars, whatever!
And just look at precious Murray!!!
He's growing like a WEED!!!!
And that smile? Can you say "mischievous"???
but they just loved it.
Beautiful vintage roses...how can you go wrong?
Seems doing something creative lately has been just about like pulling teeth!!!
I really love making stuff!
I don't know. I can't even explain it.
I've FINALLY finished a little something!!!
This is another fabric journal slipcover.
It fits beautifully over your standard composition notebook.
Just fold both covers completely back and slip it on!!!
Fill it up with prayers, notes, thoughts and when it's full?
Just slip the fabric cover off and slip it onto a brand new notebook!
I tried something new on this one too.
figured I could wing it from there.
The only thing I changed is that I did NOT use a glue gun.
which is like a cold glue gun glue.
why did it take so long????
Thank you so very much for visiting my blog.
I love my blog friends and treasure you so!
was one of the hosts of his youth group's annual fund raiser!!!
so fits the part as the HOST with his best buddy Logan!!!
I was able to go Saturday and it was just WONDERFUL!!!!
He also performed in a skit....of course, you had to be there but it was funny as all get out!
Noah's on the left, Logan on the right ~ they really do perform so well together!
Did I mention that Noah is a HAM??
Our sweet, sweet boy and his best bud.
This youth group has been so very wonderful for Noah.
he just loves doing stuff with his youth group!!
for all that you do for our precious children.
truly are jewels in your crown!!!
but sure hope to soon!!!
we will live in Heaven with Him for eternity!!!
I wish I didn't think so much about what I NEED to do.
and doing things you really LOVE doing.
washing bed linens, cleaning out clutter from closets, etc. an on and on and on.
I come from a long line of "do your chores first, then do what you enjoy" folks.
Well....that seems to create a lot of inner turmoil for me!
Because those "so called" chores are NEVER ENDING!!!
I would NEVER get to the good stuff.
And sometimes it paralyzes me.
that need to be taken care of so guess what???
So I guess I need to address this issue so I can create again.
Do you understand where I coming from?
glass half empty, glass half full?
I always, always have to stop myself!!!
Let's take a look at the half FULL glass...OK?
I am an eternal optimist and please Lord, let me remain so!
I always, always want to be an optimist!!!
and you love what I make with it.
what a precious gift from Heaven above.
good Lord, how did that time fly by so fast???
that the ivy grows on. Hopefully they will grow fast and look wonderful soon!
I also found a pretty ivy plant to go in the terra cotta pot on our iron table too!
a gift I won from Martha of MJ Ornaments on Facebook!!!
now they hang in my studio! Thank you so much Martha!!!
She's old enough now to really enjoy it and is absolutely FEARLESS!
Wishing you a WONDERFUL Monday precious friends!!
making a re-usable journal cover.
and used again and again!
with the black and white speckled covers, right?
I created a pattern and this is my very first one!
the journal cover and place it onto a new notebook!
I just added this sweetie to my Etsy store!!!
EVERYTHING is so very green!!!


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2020 'B'laster Instructor Of The Year' Winner Announced
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Congratulations to Ed Martin from Pickens Technical College in Aurora, Colorado!
For the second year in a row, B'laster Corporation and Tomorrow's Tech have partnered to make one of the most difficult choices ever: naming a champion in the Instructor of the Year competition.
The challenge comes down to the fact that there are so many fantastic candidates and amazing teachers out there. If you're a student, you know the great ones. If you're a colleague, you can identify a winner immediately. If you're one of the candidates? Well, you might not think you're anything special. You're just doing your job.
On behalf of B'laster and Tomorrow's Tech, let me assure you – doing your job is EXTREMELY special.
During the 2019-2020 school year, we searched for the best of the best among all of the great mentors, recognizing the auto instructors at high schools, vo-tech programs and community colleges who think who takes an unconventional approach to education, works a little too hard and most importantly, is committed to educating the best future technicians. We feel the Instructor of the Year is far from your typical educator.
Congratulations to Ed Martin from Pickens Technical College in Aurora, Colorado, who has been named B'laster's Instructor of the Year for 2020. Ed's inspiring story was featured in the August, 2019 issue of Tomorrow's Tech. You can read it here. It's a powerful message that explains how Ed wanted to pay the industry back for providing for his family for nearly 30 years.
The original story involved Ed's cancer diagnosis, his inspirational determination to continue to do the best he could every day despite it and his commitment to meeting the intellectual and physical needs of his students.
I had a chance to check in with Ed Martin recently to get an update on his classroom, his condition and his commitment.
The new reality of Coronavirus and school closures has meant that Ed has been unable to attend to his student's physical needs by providing meals as often as he did, but he says he continues to check in on them as much as he can. "If any of you have anything that you need, let me know and I'll try to meet that need for you. I've still been able to do some of that, but not in the former role I had."
Ed believes the food program was having a significant impact on his students' lives.
"I was seeing absences go down. I was seeing students were no longer coming in late. They were more engaged in the classroom and the shop because that physical need was met in their life. They weren't thinking about where their next meal coming from?" I think it made a profound difference on the auto program. I don't just offer it to my students, it's every student in the auto program. Anywhere from 75 to 100 students a day would take advantage of that."
Martin continually talks about the passion he has for his career and how he works hard to instill it into his students.
"The minute you walked into my room, I wanted to make sure the students knew that I had a passion about cars. My room is full of automobile memorabilia and metal signs – It's like a man cave exploded in my room. It's all automotive.
"I had my own personal collection of over 400 die-cast vehicles in glass display cabinets in my classroom and out in my waiting area. I try to ignite that love right away, from the first day with them."
But Ed realizes not everyone feels the same way, so he tries to help each student find that individual passion.
"I tell them, 'I am here to teach you automotive. But it's also my job to help you identify your passion – if I can help you identify your passion, you'll never work a day in your life. If your passion is auto repair, great. You're going to be fitting in great here. But, if it's not, let's find out what it is. In the meantime, you can learn something about your vehicle.'"
Ed's diverse class is made up of half high school – either juniors or seniors – and half postsecondary. "I've had students as old as 78 years old in my class. There's something about having that mix of ages and life experiences to where they really seem to bond. The older and the younger bond together, and they share those life experiences. I just try to help move that along in that direction and support that."
Ed says his teaching plans are still up in the air for next fall.
"I'm not alone when I say we all know that the real learning takes place when they get their hands on a car and when they're filling out those NATEF task sheets. I've propositioned my school with a proposal to have about a month's time during the summer to bring the students in who missed this last half of the semester. With small groups of four of them at a time, we can keep them socially distanced, and I can work with them on the hands-on. I want to help my students learn those hands-on skills that they've missed of the last month or two. We were in basic electrical, so voltage drop testing and things like that will be on my list of things to do with them, to get them back up to speed.
"As far as the fall, it's still unknown whether we'll be meeting at school, or it'll still be online. For a lot of this, it's just been learning how to do something all over again. For me, all the challenges I've been through in the last 10 years, just becoming a teacher and trying to keep up with my own health challenges have helped me realize that there's going to be a way. I'm going to be able to teach these students somehow, some way. I'm not giving up on them, and I'm not giving up on myself."
Ed says he has had additional surgeries to continue battling the cancer.
"I felt like I was being stabbed in the jaw with a knife all the time – it was because of a bone infection. Once they got rid of that, the pain got better. I always know that things will get better. I just had that attitude that it's going to get better. I just make it work.
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Ed Martin says it may seem cliché, but the saying is true.
"I don't know exactly what it's going to look like six months from now, but I'm hoping it's back in the classroom, back in my shop. When there's a will, there's a way."
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Interview: Nikolai Tolstoy says "monarchy is a fundamentally natural institution", explains why
Editor's note: This interview was originally published in February 2017.
This is the third of five articles spanning my discussion with Count Nikolai Tolstoy. The first and second segments are available on-line.
Story by Joseph Ford Cotto
What is so great about monarchism, anyway?
America gets along just fine without it -- if you ignore the latest Gallup report that Congress has an approval rating of 28 percent, which is the highest said number has soared in nearly ten years.
"If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind," the late South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts said. "If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs."
Smuts knew the truth behind these words firsthand. He served in the late 1930s and early '40s, a time when the British Crown was being subsumed by Dutch-descended nationalism. Most of his country's voting populace ignored his advice, got its wish of a sovereign republic, instituted Apartheid to maintain power, ultimately saw this fall apart, and now is faced with a 'nonracial' government largely defined by varying degrees of black supremacism.
This is to say nothing of the tribal conflicts that plague South Africa today -- all of which are glossed over by the promise of republican ideals.
"This war would never have come unless, under American and modernising pressure, we had driven the Habsburgs out of Austria and the Hohenzollerns out of Germany," Winston Churchill told during 1945. "By making these vacuums we gave the opening for the Hitlerite monster to crawl out of its sewer on to the vacant thrones. No doubt these views are very unfashionable."
Did Britain's most famous World War II prime minister not know what he was talking about?
"Anyone who fears that by becoming a republic we would condemn ourselves to a presidency held by a perpetual succession of superannuated politicians .... is an optimist," The Independent's Gordon Medcalf pointed out in 1997, with Tony Blair's anti-monarchist Labour Party having just attained power.
Medcalf continued: "The alternative nightmare scenario looks not to the European model but to the American, where the essentials for election to the presidency appear to be ruthless ambition, access to vast wealth, reckless promises of patronage and preferment, effective control of a big slice of the media and a plausible TV manner.
"We don't know when we are well off."
Could any serious political observer look at our partisan duopoly and say Medcalf is wrong? Could any serious person claim that America's system of government works well for even a bare majority of the citizenry?
"Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all," Aristotle declared. This ancient wisdom gels with the opinion of Margaret Thatcher who, after her prime ministerial tenure ended, remarked that "(t)hose who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."
Her statement takes on special significance when the perspective of Lord Russell, published in The Spectator amid Blair's ascendancy, enters consideration: "The monarchy is a political referee, not a political player, and there is a lot of sense in choosing the referee by a different principle from the players. It lessens the danger that the referee might try to start playing."
Here in America, the Supreme Court and lower federal judiciary are our referees. How apolitical are they?
Count Nikolai Tolstoy is the International Monarchist League's chancellor, having held this position since 1987. His career is very much a continuation of the family business -- writing. He has produced much about history and politics, putting down the pen to stand for office on four separate occasions. Though he never won, his anti-globalist ideas certainly did with the triumph of Brexit last year.
Tolstoy recently spoke with me about many topics relative to monarchism -- specifically its role in the present day. Some of our conversation is included below.
Joseph Ford Cotto: Even in present-day America, as children, many dream of becoming knights, kings, or princesses. As they get older, however, aspirations for monarchy fade. One could say that all people are born monarchists as monarchical systems are, in base form, an extension of the traditional family unit and the relationships therein. Do you have any thoughts on all of this?
Count Nikolai Tolstoy: I entirely agree. The monarchy is a fundamentally natural institution, given that it places a family at the heart of an otherwise arid political system. No one supposes, or is intended to suppose, that the monarch is more intelligent than his subjects. He succeeds by a natural process reflecting that experienced by every family in the land. The intense interest felt by the public in its royal family intensifies the instinctive feeling that the nation itself is a family writ large.
Cotto: At root, what would you say drives the negative perceptions of serious monarchies among the American populace?
Tolsoty: My experience is of necessity limited, but most Americans that I meet admire our (British) monarchy, the Queen of Canada being after all their nearest foreign head of state. Of course, the republican tradition in the USA is far too deep-rooted for Americans to think of replacing it with what could only be regarded as an alien system.
Although a convinced royalist, I accept that there exist republics whose institutions are so deeply rooted in their national history as to make any radical change revolutionary and harmful. I am thinking in particular of such long-established republics as Iceland, Switzerland, and the USA.
I suspect those Americans who resent the British monarchy feel an hereditary system to be 'unfair'. I suggest that the chance element in heredity is no more unfair than selection of a head of state by semi-secret jockeying among political schemers. Where the primary function of a republican head of state is confined to representing the nation, it is hard to see that this is in fact achieved.
I doubt, for example, that anyone in Britain or the USA beyond a handful of diplomats and journalists has the faintest idea who is the current president of, say, Germany or Italy.


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