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Sensing feminism
Alternative organizing
Lynne F. Baxter
Carole Elliott
Deborah N. Brewis
Jhilmil Breckenridge
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clean language
sensory methods
We offer a method for enabling inclusive participation in group discussion: the five senses exercise used by clean language practitioners. The method helped a diverse set of participants with intersectional subject positions articulate their perspectives on feminism in a non-hierarchical way. We describe the basis for the method, the intentions of the session convenor and results from the session. Participants reflect on the method and the responses it evoked. The method is a way of honouring individual perspectives and experiences whilst building connections between people. We think the method is useful for facilitating diverse groups in contexts such as workshops, teaching and meetings at work where the convenor wants to build inclusion and fresh perspectives.
The purpose of this short paper is to discuss an exercise we found useful in communicating our perspectives on feminism. The exercise uses the senses to explore concepts in a metaphorical way. The paper begins by describing the reasons behind choosing the method and then describes how the method unfolds and its theoretical underpinnings. Workshop participants offer their evocations from the exercise in visuals and prose and the results of the exercise are recounted in the central portion of this paper. We propose the method as a way of facilitating the construction of an inclusive, thought provoking, communicative group, and offer it for others to consider in their own work in teaching and workshop convening.
Convening a workshop session – Lynne
Before the workshop began, the organizers were clear in communicating the tone they intended it to have. They wanted the workshop to be open and inclusive and promote dialogue to help build a constructive network for feminist action. The organizers contacted people to convene sessions, including me. They suggested some questions for each session and gave us freedom to structure it as we wanted 'but not too much'. I looked at the timetable and found my name against one of the first breakout sessions after the introduction. There would be around 20 people in the room each with their own intersectional subjectivities and experiences of feminism. At that stage people might not know each other or feel confident about speaking. I had been reading Walker (2014) and thought one of her exercises might be useful to open the discussion in a different way. Instead of asking people directly about what feminism meant to them, I decided to ask in turn how the different senses related to feminism for each person. The method evoked a wide range of contributions and let us gain different insights into something we all care about deeply. Many participants appreciated the method and discussed it more fully afterwards. Other session convenors used it in their sessions. What was it about the method that resonated? The next part of the paper discusses the basis for the method I used, the 5 senses exercise (Walker, 2014: 63).
The method is based on the work of Caitlin Walker who works on projects with groups of people in different organizations such as universities, businesses and schools. One of her tasks at the beginning of a project is to learn people's different perspectives on it. In addition, she wants the members of the group to realise other members indeed have different perspectives about the project. She accomplishes these objectives through the 5 senses exercise (Walker, 2014: 63). It begins by Walker asking people to 'see an elephant'. After some time, she then invites everyone to talk about their elephant. For example, people comment on the size of their elephant, where it was located, what type, what colour and so on. She then asks the group to 'hear music', 'taste a lemon', 'feel velvet' and 'smell smoke', and each time they explore the responses fully before moving on (Walker, 2014: 63). The exercise yields many different perspectives and a variety of connections people make on relatively simple topics. Walker (2014) discussed how it helped people communicate their views more clearly and promoted greater understanding amongst the groups. I thought the method interesting and explored how I might use it at the workshop, mindful of the context and the purpose of the session I was convening.
I decided to tailor the exercise to better fit the workshop aims and session topic. I thought it important to foreground feminism. So, instead of using elephants, music, lemons, velvet and smoke, I asked, 'what does feminism smell like?' and gave some time for people to think and write about what they felt. Then I invited people to discuss what they had thought. We then repeated the process substituting different senses in relation to feminism. Some people were happy to speak, others needed gentle invitations. But overall contributions flowed well, and people seemed to enjoy the process. One person in the group of around twenty seemed annoyed about something, but I learned later it was about one of my personal responses to the exercise that I had shared with the group, rather than the method. My intention was to help people who did not necessarily know each other talk about feminism in an inclusive way. I think overall the exercise succeeded and was pleased when others adopted it or modified their own version for use during their sessions. The 5 senses exercise and Walker's work (2014) are based on a wider approach known as 'Clean Language' that might be of further interest. The next part of my section summarizes the work.
Clean Language is an approach to communication concerned with 'revealing metaphors and opening minds' (Sullivan and Rees, 2008: i). It is based on the late David Grove's ideas, who worked as a practitioner helping people communicate better in a variety of contexts. He did not write many articles and books on his methods, instead people who were engaged with his ideas wrote about them and developed them further (Lawley and Tompkins, 2000; Sullivan and Rees, 2008; Walker, 2014). A key part of his ideas is a defined set of 'clean questions' designed to ask a person their perspective so that the questioner builds on the respondent's language. The questioner does not put words into the respondent's mouth, so the unique perspective is articulated. Walker (2014) described using the questions in a series of contexts, for example helping children who have learning needs in school, students on a degree course learn their coursework better, and developing a new strategy with companies who were struggling financially. The examples of the technique in use (Lawley and Tompkins, 2000; Sullivan and Rees, 2008; Walker, 2014) demonstrated clean questions useful in obtaining ideas and participation. The approach appealed to me as it seemed to equalize group discussion as the questions were ones that everyone could answer. Through exchanging responses people gained insight about themselves and others. A key aspect of Clean Language was noticing metaphors and using them to communicate perspectives, explored next.
Advocates of Clean Language think metaphors are important in communication because they encapsulate and share meaning (Sullivan and Rees, 2008). A metaphor is a way of 'connecting with a pattern that has personal significance' (Lawley and Thompson, 2000: 5). Everybody has their own metaphoric landscape (Lawley and Thompson, 2000: 17). Imaginative metaphors can be expressed in a variety of ways including verbally, non-verbally and in material forms such as drawing, writing and sculpting (Lawley and Thompson, 2000: 16). Grove observed during his practice that people discussed events and perspectives in symbols that included metaphors. The metaphors often drew upon the senses. 'People also see pictures, hear sounds and feel feelings in their imagination when they remember a past event or imagine a future event' (Lawley and Thompson, 2000: 4). Walker (2014), a keen follower of Grove's, developed her 5 senses exercise as a method of voicing people's metaphors. What metaphors did the modified 5 senses exercise evoke in the workshop participants? The next part of the paper recounts some of the responses.
A collective writing recounted - Deborah
The following piece of writing is an interpretation of the responses from one group of participants to the exercise described above. We began with a period of quiet reflection, during which time some people sat to think; some wrote down ideas, and some drew pictures. Lynne invited us to consider each of the senses in turn. I, and others, took notes during the discussion that followed, as each participant called out to contribute the images, words, phrases and emotions that had come to mind for them. Afterwards, we teased out the commonalities and differences in the metaphors that we held about feminism; we discussed our feminisms. Based on my notes and a visualisation contributed to by Annette Risberg using the online tool 'padlet', I have written the text below. This text attempts to convey the essence of what was co-produced through the exercise, faithful to the Clean Language approach. However, it is inevitably transformed to a degree by my own embodied response to the session and the way in which I have written the multiple responses into a single, poetic text. The synthesising of the contributed images into a narrative structure shapes the meaning of each; the images are positioned and therefore understood in relation to one another. This transition from individual to relational perhaps mimics what we collectively attempted to achieve in the room. The text below aspires to represent the collective writing that was produced by the workshop participants; it is a text with many authors:
Feminism feels like comfort, like soft, strong corduroy. I can run my fingers across its texture to feel the grooves of experience that make it both supple and tough. It is the satisfaction of bursting, of bubble-wrap pop pop. We burst upward, into the air with gravity-defying lightness. And yet, it is courage. It is risk. We find it in the opening of one's eyes: it is found in the moment at which I see the edge…and jump. Some of us are pushed. Feminism feels like heat. A rage born of cause that binds a community. A community that jostles, we are not all smiles, but we embrace.
Feminism looks bright, light – feminism is vivid; being visible. Its imagined futures are brightly coloured, colourful with the intersections of experience. That feminist of the future looks like Rosie, reimagined, who is riveting to us now in her multiplicity, as a collective. Feminism looks like women: this is good and this is bad; for feminism to look like women is to liberate and to constrain us.
Feminism smells like ozone...its mountain-fresh air is utopia. The roses and lilies drift gently in. Feminism at once feels like sweat, like cup after cup of strong, black coffee. Bitter. Urgent. Feminism is a scented memory of welcome; of homecoming: it is free tea served from paint-peeled hatch windows in old village halls.
Feminism tastes like staunch coffee, of stout. It is pungent as blue cheese and pickles, or marmite between two thick slices. One learns to appreciate it; to find it fine. There is a sweetness there – of chocolate, perhaps honey. It coats the palette, soothes. It is quenching like water flooding in after a long thirst.
Feminism sounds like chatter, the buzz of voice. It is chanting, enchanting. Mmmmmm. I hear a common language uttered – we need only shorthand to feel ourselves heard. And still it is shouts of opposition – an alarm bell cuts through the consensus; it is the alarm bells that bring us together and which simultaneously threaten to drive us apart. A deafening thunder rises, is sustained by our energy, our resistance. The thunder breeds the desire for silence – we search for a place in which we can hear, we can listen. Be still and transform. Allow ourselves, allow each other, to hear the sweeter music that was always, a possibility, somewhere.
It strikes me, as I read this synthesised text, the metaphors used by participants ranged across more and less culturally-embedded experiences and imagery. For example, the 'old village halls' and 'blue cheese and pickles' directly evoke a national context (in these cases, British), whilst 'thunder', 'chatter' and the feeling of jumping over an edge appeal more universally to the human experience. In the context of exploring 'feminism' as concept and movement, the text reminds us to reflect on the specificity of our experiences, differing histories of oppression, and varying contemporary concerns. Whilst the metaphor-based method helped to create a space in which we, the participants, could both appreciate diversity and connect to one another across differences; privilege and marginalisation likely still played a part in the dynamics of the group. The Clean Language approach may have additional value to scholars and teachers who seek to engage with the ways in which for example race, disability, age, sexual identity, class, and global location, simultaneously inform our experiences; through seeking to elicit a range of metaphors and using these as a springboard to discuss and/or problematise the privileges of, and intersections in, our shifting social positionings (see Anthias, 2002; Holvino, 2012).
Reflections – Jhilmil
At the end of the activity, we brainstormed together as a group. As the handwritten notes show, on green and white paper, consciously or unconsciously choosing colours for progress, we were trying to take some of the collective ideas and energy towards a plan for the future – a 'feministo', as opposed to a manifesto, deliberating thinking of ways to rethink masculinity, leverage some of the privilege a lot of us have, and see how we could move towards a more credible voice, while keeping the very real threats and dangers of being co-opted into the very 'system' we were trying to change.
Figure 1: Pictures from the workshop
We thought it important to have deeds, not words and discussed ways, possible toolkits, to collate achievements and share progress with the group. We also discussed ways to garner national and international support, including the trans femme sector, which is increasingly coming out of the margins and can be an important ally and a powerful sisterhood. We also discussed the importance of the right language and language to include intersectionality, being hyper sensitive to stay away from 'othering' and create more inclusion, even within this space[1].
Concluding thoughts – Carole
It is important to note that we finish writing this piece some ten months after the workshop. Since that time, we have separately and collectively engaged in other forms of activism or participated in conferences with more traditional formats and concerns. If many of us committed to attend the workshop because we fear the consequences of a rise in populist politics to feminism, the intensification of moves to quash legislation that previous generations of feminists fought for in a number of jurisdictions has only intensified our fears. Yet we carry the hope that the emergence of different forms of feminism, feminisms that are purposefully intersectional, will continue to encourage resistance and action.
Our individual responses to the questions proposed by Lynne's exercise illustrate how we each sensed feminism differently even though it is core to our values. Were the exercise to be used amongst a more disparate group then the responses would inevitably be different, and potentially challenge our feminist values. But the method helps us to move away from conventional ways of communicating our beliefs, values and relationship to gender inequity.
Lynne adds a reflection: As a convenor I welcomed the many responses the exercise evoked. I felt excited by the workshop yet nervous about my role. I worried that people might get caught in comparing perspectives and experiences instead of sharing them and building connections to create activism. We had to find a way of acknowledging people's deeply felt intersectional positionings while building connections. The method seemed to reduce the impact of hierarchies. On a personal note I had researched and thought through the method carefully beforehand but not, as would also be the case in teaching, rehearsed my own answers to the senses questions or prepared to be directive. When the participants reflected to develop their responses I also considered mine, and was surprised at what emerged, especially as we progressed through the senses. When we are in facilitating roles there is a tension between controlling and allowing the process to unfold. I did know what I wanted to happen next in the session but being able to join in like a participant helped me not foreclose responses or rush the process. Building connections and energy can be killed by overly controlling mechanistic processes. The workshop organisers reshuffled groups for every session, and it was interesting to see how the exercise morphed accordingly. Like the contributions, each convenor had a different take on the method.
Back to Carole: The Clean Language method creates the potential for a space where nobody holds 'more' knowledge or experience. If facilitated sensitively, it subverts hierarchical power structures, where either knowledge, experience, or assigned gender can be used as a basis to dominate others. For feminism, and feminist activism in particular, conceiving the method as a metaphor can be productive in thinking how we engage with others who do not share our perspectives. The method's call to use our senses to reflect on a concept or idea, evokes emotional responses, which would otherwise be difficult to make explicit, or regarded as irrelevant to an activist context. This can also inform how we engage in other social movements, particularly in situations where individuals do not engage in conscious reflection about their behaviour within collectives (Collins, 1981), which are also shaped by emotions (Jasper, 2014). Developing a better understanding of how individual emotions interconnect and form within spaces of organizing (Callahan, 2013), raises awareness of how these interconnections can have both positive and negative consequences.
In conclusion, our engagement with the Clean Language method helped us to connect in a way that did not let us hide behind the other identities we brought with us into the room. It was simultaneously exposing and liberating to engage in a dialogue that was not, at least in part, shaped by previous conversations embedded in utterances (Bakhtin, 1986) formed in relation to other power structures. For feminism and feminist activism, we believe the method creates spaces in which we can engage in courageous conversations about new forms of resistance and renewal that draw strength from the diverse experiences of feminists, and from intersectionality.
[1] Further photographs of the notes, original materials may be viewed at this padlet, including a series of impromptu feminist placards that were created at the end of the session to call for action: https://padlet.com/lynne_baxter/lpt4dvsczbxb.
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Callahan, J.L. (2013) '"Space, the final frontier?" Social movements as organizing spaces for HRD', Human Resource Development International, 16(3): 298-312.
Collins, R. (1981) 'On the microfoundations of macrosociology', American Journal of Sociology, 86(5): 984-1014.
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Lynne F. Baxter is a Senior Lecturer in Management Systems and Head of the Organisation Behaviour Theory and Technology Group at The York Management School, UK. She uses sensory qualitative methods to research diverse forms of technologies in organisations including information systems, medical devices, quality improvement and supplier management programmes. Currently her empirical work centres on investigating the development of a cancer detection technology using rhythmanalysis. She is developing her interest in organisational corruption, prompted by supervising four successful PhD projects on public management corruption.
Email: lynne.baxter AT york.ac.uk
Carole Elliott is Professor of Human Resource Development at Roehampton Business School, University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests include the relationship between gender, diversity and leadership learning. Her current empirical projects include an examination of gender and diversity in the business school curriculum, and multi-modal investigations of media representations of women's careers and leadership.
Email: carole.elliott AT roehampton.ac.uk
Deborah N. Brewis is Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies and researcher at the University of Bath, UK. She is interested in the dynamics of power, knowledge and affect involved in the management of the 'self' in and around work, and in building solidarity communities. In particular, she interrogates the way in which the self is managed through concepts that 'organise difference', such as equality and inclusion. She is currently working on empirical projects in these areas with diversity practitioners, digital social influencers, and in higher education. Deborah engages in interventions of 'writing differently', both in her own practice and through critical-creative collaborations.
Email: d.brewis AT bath.ac.uk
Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the Founder of Bhor Foundation, an Indian charity, which is active in mental health advocacy, the trauma informed approach, and enabling other choices to heal apart from the biomedical model. She advocates Poetry as Therapy and is working on a few initiatives, both in the UK and India, taking this into prisons and asylums. She is working on a PhD in Creative Writing in the UK. For the last three years, she has also been leading an online poetry as therapy group for women recovering from domestic violence.
Email: jhilmilbreckenridge AT gmail.com
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His main working areas are food , biomass , energy systems , input-output-analysis and sustainable consumption . He is responsible for the SimaPro centre and the data-on-demand service of ESU.
He is in the editorial board of the "Int. Journal of LCA" and works as a reviewer for several other scientific journals. He works as a special expert for several organisations e.g. Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt , United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC , CEN TC 383 standard (GHG accounting on biofuels), UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative, Swiss law on tax exemption for biofuels.
Niels Jungbluth studied environmental engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. He made his diploma thesis during a six month stay at the TATA Energy Research Institute in New Delhi, where he prepared a life cycle inventory for cooking fuels in India . Between 1996 and 2000 he worked on a Ph.D. project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich at the chair of Natural and Social Science Interface. His Ph. D. thesis on the environmental consequences of food consumption has been awarded with the Greenhirn Price 2000 by the German Öko-Institut. In this thesis he investigated food consumption patterns by means of life cycle assessment.
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Who hasn't been standing once in front of the supermarket shelf and asked oneself if the organic carrots from Italy or the cauliflower from the own country is the most ecological choice for the next meal, and then, finally, has decided to buy the delicious asparagus from the USA? Food is one of the three most important consumption fields regarding total environmental impacts. The extent of environmental impacts depends on various factors. It is not easy for consumers or even for experts to account for these impacts. Niels Jungbluth has conducted several projects in the last 25 years aiming to facilitate such judgements. The presentation will show several aspects for investigating the environmental impacts of food production and consumption. It also show which strategies should be followed to reduce these environmental impacts.
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PARIS — On the eve of the Paris Air Show, Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said Sunday the biennial aviation showcase comes this year at "a defining moment" for the jetmaker.
"We come to this air show focused on safety," he added. "I'd say we come to this air show with a tone of humility and learning."
The usual business of the show will take a back seat to an intense concentration on steadying a company rocked by the 737 MAX crisis.
At a press roundtable in a central Paris hotel, he defended Boeing's handling of the criticism that's engulfed the manufacturer since the second of two deadly air crashes three months ago and said that by reemphasizing its commitment to "safety, quality and integrity," Boeing will come out of the crisis "a better and stronger company."
Although there's no timetable for the MAX to return to the air, Muilenburg expressed confidence that aviation safety authorities around the world are moving toward an agreement to clear the airplane.
"We see the regulators converging," he said. "We will take the time necessary to make sure the airplane is safe."
Boeing is mobilizing a team of technicians to help airlines get planes out of mothballs and primed for flight — "tail number by tail number," he said — as soon as regulators give their approval for commercial service to resume.
For Boeing, the MAX crisis will dominate the 2019 Paris Air Show, which opens Monday at Le Bourget on the outskirts of the French capital.
"This air show is different," Muilenburg told journalists. "We anticipate some widebody orders that you'll be hearing about through the week. But that's not our focus."
"This really is a defining moment for Boeing," Muilenburg said. "It's given us pause. We're very reflective. And we're going to learn and we're going to stay true to our values."
Muilenburg defended Boeing's refusal to clearly and publicly accept any blame for the accidents that killed a total of 346 people in Indonesia last October and in Ethiopia in March, saying the company is constrained by the protocols of the international investigation.
"That has been difficult," he said.
Instead, he said, Boeing is proactively making changes to the flight control system implicated in both crashes — known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
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Muilenburg repeated his now-standard formulation that a detailed company review of the MCAS design and certification has concluded that everything "was done to our original engineering standards, our certification standards." Then he added: "That doesn't mean it cannot be improved."
"Rather than looking backward, we are looking forward," he said. "What can we do to improve MCAS?"
Boeing's software fix will change how the flight control system operates, so that it is activated by two sensors rather than just one, it moves the jet's tail a more limited amount, and it activates only once, not multiple times.
"All of those improvements to the MCAS software, we are confident that they will result in a safe airplane," Muilenburg said. "We believe that with the updates we are making, accidents like we saw will not happen again."
We continue to seek information on the design, training and certification of the Boeing 737 MAX. If you have insights, please get in touch with aerospace reporter Dominic Gates at 206-464-2963 or dgates@seattletimes.com.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other regulators worldwide are carefully reviewing not only the MCAS software fix but also Boeing's design and certification process, he said.
Any changes recommended for the certification process will be applied to the forthcoming 777X jet that is expected to fly for the first time this summer. "We will certainly implement any improvements we find," he said.
Asked about the Department of Justice criminal investigation into the MAX, Muilenburg said he couldn't comment beyond that the company is cooperating with all U.S. and international reviews and investigations.
"I cannot provide any details," said Muilenburg. "We are fully supporting any government inquiries."
Dominic Gates: 206-464-2963 or dgates@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @dominicgates.


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By using a quality assurance plan, the level of quality for your deliverable will have a documented path to being recorded. This part of the overall quality project plan is the documentation of the processes and methods needed to make the determination if your deliverable is within the required specifications. These specifications are set in the business case and approved by the stakeholders and must be abided by.
To create a quality assurance plan, the use of a project management template is the fastest and easiest path to follow. These preformatted documents are designed with the latest trends from industry so your plan will be as current as possible. This allows for greater detail to be placed in the plan that follows the path for the best possible accuracy when this document is applied to your project.
The task that is assigned to the quality assurance plan is to develop all the necessary tools for the project team to make all of the necessary inspection required of the deliverable. This can be as simple as the color of it or dimensions. The more complicated the deliverable is, the larger the number of inspections and types of inspection of it will be required.
The quality assurance plan also has to create a way for all of these inspections and test results to be judged and recorded. This allows for the results to be analyzed and a determination if the deliverable meets the criteria set forth by the business case. It also is evidence that can be shown the stake holders and customers of the level of quality the deliverable has reached. These results can then be used for determining the waste produced by the production line and also the possible profit potential of the revenue stream.
What the quality assurance plan will bring to your organization is a path to ensure your deliverable is marketable and to what target audience it might be appealing too. This level of quality will help to determine the price at which it can be sold which is directly related to it profitability.


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The University of Carolina offers 78 Bachelor's, 112 Master's, 68 Doctorate and 7 professional degree programs through its 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences. The schools offers programs in the field of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Education, Pharmacy, Continuing Education, Global Public Health, Business, Government Information and Library Sciences, Summer Programs, Law, Media & Journalism, Medicine, Nursing, Social Work. The academic experience at the University of Carolina prepares one to make a difference in the world.


Dear Sad Designer: This is a tender situation for you, but as a designer for many top celebrities, you must realize that your work is not for everyone. And surely you don't think your mentee was obligated to choose you as her dressmaker?
If she wanted to walk down the aisle looking like Dolly Parton's backup singer, then you would not be the person for that particular job. She might have thought she wouldn't be able to afford you. Or perhaps she didn't want to put herself (and you) in the awkward position of being your client, as well as your mentee.
See how awkward this whole situation is now? If you had made her dress, this dynamic might have been much worse.
Communicate with her about this, but do so with the understanding that she is not responsible for your hurt feelings.
Dear Amy: I've wanted to see my best friend from the West Coast for several years, so I invited her to come and stay with me on the East Coast, near where we both used to live.
She suggested a girls' weekend with a third mutual friend of ours who lives nearby. This is someone I have also been friends with a long time. That was fine.
She then also invited a third friend of hers from the Midwest, a woman who is perfectly nice, but whom I've never really enjoyed spending time with. They booked plane tickets before discussing it with me.
Now this other "Midwest friend," who was planning on coming east for a wedding, is arriving a day early. I'm not keen to take another day off work to entertain her (it is already during a crunch time). Is it OK just to let her be on her own for the day? Should I say anything to my best friend?
Dear Bummed: Of course it is OK to let this person be on her own for the day. She is an adult. It also sounds as if – since she is coming to town for a wedding – she won't actually be around very much.
A "girls' weekend" does not mean that you are tasked with providing entertainment for everyone – it implies that everyone will do her bit. You don't say where she is staying, but if your friend reflexively invited this additional person to be your houseguest without asking, then – yes, you should definitely speak to her.
Dear Amy: The letter from "Speechless" rung my bell. Speechless described a workplace dynamic that sounded like the middle-school cafeteria, with some older workers basically ignoring and bullying a group of newer workers.
I'm an HR professional, and have seen this type of dynamic. I thought your recommendations of how to integrate the two groups were useful, but additionally, all workers should be told that there is a zero-tolerance policy toward any bullying behavior. It can create a truly toxic environment not only for the perpetrators and their victims, but also for their colleagues.
Dear Rep: Comparing a bullying dynamic at work to life in middle school is often meant to be droll, but it is no laughing matter.


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Darmstadt, Germany, September 19, 2016 — Merck, a leading science and technology company, has introduced a set of Steritest™ Symbio Pump systems accessories that accelerate and streamline sterility testing workflows.
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Merck has set the standard for reliability and convenience in sterility testing since its first filtration device was introduced in 1974. The new Steritest™ Symbio Pump accessories make Merck's latest sterility testing systems even more reliable, safe and easy to use within any type of testing environment.
The range of Steritest™ Symbio Pump accessories includes products for sample handling, filtration, waste management, and transport and incubation.
Merck is a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and performance materials. Around 50,000 employees work to further develop technologies that improve and enhance life – from biopharmaceutical therapies to treat cancer or multiple sclerosis, cutting-edge systems for scientific research and production, to liquid crystals for smartphones and LCD televisions. In 2015, Merck generated sales of € 12.85 billion in 66 countries.
Founded in 1668, Merck is the world's oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company. The founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed corporate group. The company holds the global rights to the Merck name and brand. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the company operates as EMD Serono, MilliporeSigma and EMD Performance Materials.


With the power of Pinterest, I found an old article from the New York Times highlighting how a Flight Attendant packs 10 days worth of clothes in a carry on.
Everyone knows at least in the back of their mind that rolling your clothes works better than folding when packing in a tight fit…. but 10 days? Day-um!
I have a few posts for you all next week, but comments won't be approved until after Mother's Day as I'll have some Mom time, and a new niece to catch up on by the time I return to the states!
She is definitely a professional, but she takes way, way, way too much stuff. Her bags must weigh a good 20+ pounds!
Better to bring a capsule wardrobe with tops that can layer/mix/match with the bottoms. You can travel for weeks at a time this way, especially if you wash your clothing along the way. And your bag will be a lot lighter and fit in the overhead bin.


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Inside NYP: Dr. Steven J. Corwin
From Resident to President & CEO.
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Health Matters spoke with Dr. Steven J. Corwin about his early career aspirations, current leadership role, and his plans for NewYork-Presbyterian's future.
You talk a lot about the importance of putting patients first. What inspired you to pursue a career in medicine?
Dr. Corwin: Well, I grew up in a Jewish household in White Plains, New York, at a time when the dream of every Jewish mother was for her son to become a doctor. But aside from that, my grandfather on my father's side died at the beginning of the Great Depression, of complications from rheumatic heart disease. When I was 11 years old, my grandfather on my mother's side died of a heart attack. So I was intrigued by the idea of becoming a cardiologist. I felt that being a doctor would be something useful, and something that, both from the standpoint of learning about medicine and taking care of people, was very attractive. I was fortunate to be guided by a high school chemistry teacher to apply for a National Science Foundation Fellowship at Roswell Park in Buffalo. I did some research there in prostate cancer in rats. That propelled me to get into the six-year medical program at Northwestern, so that's how my career started.
What led you to NewYork-Presbyterian?
I was a New Yorker by birth, and I wanted to go into internal medicine. Actually, my first choice, going into an internship, was Massachusetts General (in Boston). Ironically, I didn't match there. I matched at Columbia. When I matched for cardiology fellowships, I also got rejected by Mass General and ended up doing my cardiology fellowship at Columbia. So sometimes failure's a good thing.
How does being a product of NewYork-Presbyterian inform your approach as CEO?
First, I got unbelievable training in internal medicine at Columbia. I've always felt that places like ours, and certainly Weill Cornell as well, we train great residents. We train people to be terrific doctors. I don't think that doctors are interchangeable widgets. I think that there are great doctors and not-so-great doctors, just as there are great composers and not-so-great composers, or anything else in life. So, it made me really appreciate the value of teaching hospitals, and in particular the training that I received.
Second, when I grew up in medicine, in the '80s and early '90s, New York was going through a very tough period. The New York Hospital, now our Weill Cornell campus, was losing $50 million a year, and they had turned things around. A little bit later, Columbia was losing $50 million a year. They had just turned it around by the time of the merger. I lived through that time at Columbia when people were wondering whether the hospital was going to close, whether it could pay its bills. That made me realize how fragile these places can be and how important financial solidity and stability is. Without that stability, you can't invest in people, you can't invest in resources, you can't invest in new capital. For example, I went to one of our school-based clinics today, the JFK clinic. It's a terrific clinic, and they do a number of great things. We subsidize them. The patients have Medicaid or no insurance. A lot of people are undocumented. We provide great care. That costs money, and when you're struggling financially, you can't support those types of endeavors.
Then finally, places like ours take care of everybody. I've said many times in town halls, "We're an elite institution, but we're not an elitist institution." I had that experience as a resident and as a fellow of taking care of very poor patients. A human being is a human being, and a sick human being is a sick human being. It doesn't matter at that point whether they have means, or they don't have means. Your obligation as a physician and as a healer is to take care of them. As a community that heals people, we have an obligation to all the communities that we serve. I learned a lot through those years, and hopefully I've transferred some of that to what I think our value system, collectively, needs to be.
"A human being is a human being, and a sick human being is a sick human being. … Your obligation as a physician is to take care of them."
— Dr. Steven J. Corwin
What value do you believe is critical to success?
We have to start with respect for each other as human beings, respect for the jobs that we all do. That's why I feel so strongly about the [NYP RESPECT] Credo. I think that fundamentally the basis of caring for people is empathy, and empathy derives from respect. The respect has to be amongst each other as well as toward the patient.
Could you talk a bit about your vision for NewYork-Presbyterian, its six campuses and regional hospitals?
I think we have a profound obligation to deliver the best care we can to everybody who comes through our doors, and I think we have an opportunity in the region as a whole to deliver a high level of care. We're not going to be perfect. No one is, but that's what we should strive for, and I think that we have a critical mass of talent where I think we can provide the very best care. The fact that our 30-day mortality statistics as measured by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) are the best in the country, that shows what we're capable of. I feel strongly that with the resources that we have, with the talent that we have, we have an obligation to deliver the very best care. You know, it's the "your mother" test.
The "mother test?"
If your mother were in the bed, would you want her to come to NewYork-Presbyterian? I think the answer to that, by and large, is yes. Now we're saying, "If your mother was in that bed, would you come to any NewYork-Presbyterian facility in the region?" And I think the answer to that should be, "Yes. I'm going to trust in them, and I'm going to trust in that brand. I'm going to trust that they have the best doctors, the best nurses." … When I get a letter from families and from patients saying, "I knew I was safe when I came to your hospital," or "I can't believe that every interaction I had in your hospital throughout my stay or my daughter's stay, or my husband's stay, was a positive interaction, that people really cared about me. That the housekeeper who came in to clean my room every day asked how I was feeling," that makes you feel good.
How does our partnership with two Ivy League medical schools — Columbia and Weill Cornell — make NewYork-Presbyterian unique?
I think that teaching institutions in general are unique. There are 400 institutions in the country out of 5,000 or so that are teaching hospitals. Of those 400, probably 30 or 40 are major academic centers, so you're already talking about a relatively small slice of the pie. What makes those places special? You have an ability to coalesce talent that is unmatched. The great academic medical centers in this country can bring together talent that few places can. The fact that we have two such medical schools, to me, was always, "How can we, as three partners working together, do something truly unique, and develop something truly unique?" I think that our ability to say, 'We've got these two great medical schools. We've got great physicians. We have a great value structure, and we attract the very best people who exhibit those values.' I think that's unique. I'm hoping, and I believe, we can scale that in the region. But that's our challenge as a hospital.
Given the uncertain health care climate, how do you expect NewYork-Presbyterian will face those challenges?
First, I think that we've got a terrific product. We deliver great care. Number two, I think we've got a great mission. I think people realize … I hope they realize, that we take care of everybody. Thirty percent of the patients we care for are Medicaid patients, and our employees feel strongly about that. Third, I think we've got a terrific board. I think we've got a very philanthropic community, and I think that we manage the institution well. I'm confident that we'll be able to navigate these choppy waters. Am I concerned about it? Of course. I think that creating deficiencies of insurance, paying states less in the way of Medicaid monies, taking away insurance from people, is a real problem. It breaks your heart when somebody can't receive treatment because they're uninsured, or they won't go to a doctor because it's going to break the bank. People need to realize that 40 percent of Americans cannot afford a $400 unexpected expense.
What do you enjoy most about coming to work each day?
I think we're a special place with a special mission. The people who have preceded me, the people who will succeed me. … This is a very special job. We're stewards of a great institution. The New York Hospital was founded in 1771. Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons is the second oldest medical school in the country. Columbia Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1868, so I don't want to be the guy who ruins 230 years of history. I think you feel a profound sense of obligation that you really want to deliver the place into the hands of your successor, better than it was before. I know that Dr. (Herbert) Pardes felt that way when he handed it over to me, and I will feel that way when I hand it over to my successor, because it's a special place. It's a unique place. And it's a place worthy of working hard for.
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There was a head-spinning moment in Germany last week: News emerged that a rabbi had been criminally charged for performing his religious duties. Rabbi David Goldberg of northern Bavaria, who shepherds a 400-member community, is the first person to run afoul of a ruling by a Cologne judge earlier this year that criminalized circumcision, a basic religious rite.
There is some precedent outside of Germany for such a ruling. In 2001, a Swedish law sparked a protest from Jews and Muslims by requiring that a medical doctor or anesthesia nurse accompany registered circumcisers, and that anesthesia be applied before the procedure. The law is still in effect….
The ban by the court in Cologne, however, is the most troubling. For decades Germany has been an example of how a nation can take responsibility for its previous crimes. It is very moving to see Germany's Holocaust memorial in Berlin, just two blocks from the country's parliament. But the circumcision ban deserves universal scorn.
Twin warnings about the Church of England becoming irrelevant "" or even sinking into near oblivion "" are being sounded in the North.
And the oblivion forecast comes from Bishop of Manchester Nigel McCulloch.
He sounds the grim message in the September issue of Crux, his diocesan monthly.
The doyen of Anglican Church leaders in the York province declares: "We are in a missionary situation.
Organised in conjunction with the British Paralympic Association and the English Federation of Disability Sport, "Courage and Faith: The opening service for the London 2012 Paralympic Games", was not part of the official programme, but was billed as an "act of worship", "part of the Christian response" to the Games. Lord Coe was unable to attend, and most of the current Paralympic athletes were too immersed in training to appear….
The wheelchair athlete Anne Wufula-Strike contributed to a sense of living faith, giving her personal testimony to sport as a means of witness: "God sees me as perfect. . . He uses me and has a purpose for me." She went on to describe how sport could also educate and empower people, especially in the developing world, to fight the stigmatisation of disability and "to be included in their communities".
The US television network NBC was branded an embarrassment yesterday for its coverage of the Paralympics as athletes, sports chiefs and disability campaigners called for better recognition by international broadcasters of the world's second largest sports event.
Fierce reaction to the widespread blackout beyond Britain of the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday night came after a record number of people tuned in to watch the critically acclaimed event live on Channel 4.
The host broadcaster reported a peak audience of 11.2 million viewers, its biggest for more than ten years.
Conversely, NBC will wait until September 16 before screening its 90-minute special on the Paralympics, including edited highlights of the show.
…a mine is a difficult place to learn or teach a principle. As a schoolboy I went down a coal shaft as a guest of the Chamber of Mines, which wanted to encourage children to become mining engineers. For an hour we plummeted into dark heat and noise, passages of shivering wooden pillars, rock ceilings sloping almost to the floor that wept hot water. We passed men bent over their clanging and clattering drills who could not even stand up straight where they worked. To go in and come out of such a place, each day of a short life, was, I suspected, placing too much strain on the human heart. One could do it only if one didn't know that, in 2011, three Lonmin executives earned the same as the combined salaries of 3,600 rock-drill operators.
In the years since 1994, South Africans chose money, and faith in the growth of gross domestic product, as our country's story line. It is a strange twist to the narrative that many of the northern mines, despite good platinum prices, are almost unprofitable.
The Clergy Project is a magnet for charlatans and cowards who, by their own admission, openly lie to their congregations, hide behind beliefs they do not hold, make common cause with atheists, and still retain their positions and salaries. Is this how atheists and secularists groups intend to further their cause? They are getting publicity from the media to be sure, but do they think it will win them friends?
Ministers struggling honestly with doubts and struggles are in a different category altogether. Doubt will lead to one of two inevitable consequences. Faithful doubt leads to a deeper embrace of the truth, with doubt serving to point us into a deeper knowledge, trust, and understanding of the truth. Pernicious doubt leads to unfaithfulness, unbelief, skepticism, cynicism, and despair. Christians "" ministers or otherwise "" who are struggling with doubt, need to seek help from the faithful, not the faithless.
Christianity has little to fear from the Clergy Project. Its website reveals it to be a toothless tiger that will attract media attention, and that is about all. The greater danger to the church is a reduction in doctrine that leaves atheism hard to distinguish from belief. And the real forces to fear are those who would counsel such a reduction.
Kenyan Christian and Muslim leaders are calling for calm in the coastal city of Mombasa after two days of violence over the killing of a militant Muslim cleric.
Churches were torched, vandalized and looted by Muslim youths who were protesting the 27 August killing of Sheikh Aboud Rogo, a cleric the American government has accused of aiding the al-Shabab militants of Somalia, allegedly linked to al-Quaeda. More than eight Protestant and evangelical churches were targeted.
A grenade was hurled at police officers who were trying to save a Presbyterian church. Three officers and a civilian were killed and 14 others injured.
O Son of God, who by thy lowly life hast made manifest the royalty of service: Teach us that it is better to give than to receive, better to minister than to be ministered unto, after thine own example, who now livest and reignest in the glory of the eternal Trinity, world without end.
I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure. For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit. Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Earlier this month, the Most Rev. Brian Marsh, presiding bishop of the Anglican Church in America, blessed the Bible at a Sunday ceremony that included the Rev. Art Bennett, vicar of Christ Church in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Deacon David Moody of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Charlestown and Wendy Baker, museum director at the Fort at No. 4.
Baker said Tuesday that the Bible and other prayer books enhance the museum, since religion played a vital role in the daily lives of people in the 18th century.
In… [British Columbia], if you blow .08 or beyond, you can avoid the justice system "" and a criminal record "" if you fit certain criteria. Conditions include not having killed or injured anyone or caused property damage as a result of your actions. If you qualify, you can opt for administrative sanctions over the courts.
If you choose this path, you have to go through a rehabilitation program, which could lead to treatment for alcohol abuse. When the person is given the right to drive again, it can only be in a car outfitted with an ignition interlock system, for a minimum of one year. The device prevents the car from starting if the driver's blood alcohol level is above a certain limit.
Peter Berger once commented that if India is the most religious country in the world, and Sweden the least religious, then America is a nation of Indians ruled by Swedes.
A leading Catholic human rights activist in Pakistan is calling for charges to be dropped in the case of a young, special needs girl accused of blasphemy.
Peter Jacob, executive secretary of the National Commission for Justice and Peace for the Church in Pakistan, told Aid to the Church in Need that he strongly doubts the allegations leveled against Rimsha Masih.
She is accused of burning 10 pages of the Noorani Qaida, an Islamic booklet used to learn basic Arabic and the Koran.
What even a translator of genius can never give us, however, is the original author's true likeness. Even the best translation is a darkened mirror, in which one glimpses only a partial figure moving among shadows. At times the mirror becomes very obscure indeed, at others delightfully bright; but at no time can any translator permit us to meet the artist face to face.
The problems of translation have been in my thoughts a great deal lately, for a variety of reasons. The most trivial of these is that I have been dipping into foreign versions of some of my own books, as well as I can, and sighing at the frequent accidental deformations of meaning. It is not that I feel myself greatly aggrieved by the mistakes I find; the texts in question are not exactly deathless masterpieces to be dithered over reverentially by their poor translators. I have, however, begun to wonder whether such distortions of meaning are not inevitable.
If nothing else, seeing what has become of my own words at the other end of the linguistic alembic has begun to make me doubt the profit in the whole enterprise of translation, even as I grant the necessity of that enterprise.
A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow's two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels.
Terry Dorsett, director of the Green Mountain Baptist Association, has a new perception of the homeless because of the gift to the association's mission offering for starting new churches and meeting church financial emergencies. Dorsett has asked the financially able among the association's 35 churches to match the donation.
"I think we tend to think of homeless people just as being a bunch of addicts and people with problems," Dorsett said. "And then while that does describe many homeless people, there's a whole subculture of homeless Christians who obviously don't have those problems and they're just trying to live for the Lord in a different lifestyle setting than most of us might choose.
The economy continues to weigh on pastors, with a new survey showing that nearly two-thirds say it has affected their churches negatively.
I find it very disturbing that one of the first trips by Egypt's newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, will be to attend the Nonaligned Movement's summit meeting in Tehran this week. Excuse me, President Morsi, but there is only one reason the Iranian regime wants to hold the meeting in Tehran and have heads of state like you attend, and that is to signal to Iran's people that the world approves of their country's clerical leadership and therefore they should never, ever, ever again think about launching a democracy movement "" the exact same kind of democracy movement that brought you, Mr. Morsi, to power in Egypt.
The role of deacons in Australia has had a seismic shift in the past 20 years and the Church needs to review, clarify and educate Anglican leaders and members about this distinctive ministry, starting with a revision of the Ordinal, Bishop Tom Frame said in Melbourne recently.
Dr Frame, the Director of St Mark's National Theological Centre in Canberra, said he was increasingly of the view that the distinctiveness of the diaconate would be protected and preserved by a change in the Church's approach to ordination. There was no Biblical warrant or scriptural injunction for the custom that candidates destined for priesthood be ordained deacons first.
He told the annual gathering of Melbourne deacons at Christ Church South Yarra on 7 August that a critical difference between priestly and diaconal ministries seemed to be evolving, with the former's emphasis being on the gathered community (ministry) and the latter being most active with those not active in the Church (mission).
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They'd been there, in a quiet spot along the back wall of Victoria's St. Matthias Anglican Church, for decades "" possibly since the parish opened the doors of its new home in the B.C. capital nearly 50 years ago.
But two elegantly designed wooden armchairs, their origin unknown to clergy or even the eldest members of the congregation, may prove to be the salvation of the financially-challenged church "" nothing less than a "godsend," according to St. Matthias's rector, Rev. Robert Arril.
An antique-furniture buff's fortuitous visit to the church two years ago for a Bible study session has led to the identification of the chairs as rare and valuable Qing dynasty treasures, expertly crafted in 17th-century China before making their way somehow "" thanks to a long-forgotten donor evidently unaware of their significance "" to the Vancouver Island parish.
Ansyaad Mbai's plea for help is also surprising, given the string of successes against Islamist militants that Indonesian security services have notched in recent years. After a blaze of attacks inspired in part by al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, strikes in the United States, the militants in Indonesia are now a battered and diminished force. In just over two years, 33 terrorism suspects have been killed, mostly in shootouts with police, and nearly 200 have been arrested.
Loving God, who didst call Charles Chapman Grafton to be a bishop in thy Church, endowing him with a burning zeal for souls: Grant that, following his example, we may ever live for the extension of thy kingdom, that thy glory may be the chief end of our lives, thy will the law of our conduct, thy love the motive of our actions, and Christ's life the model and mold of our own; through the same Jesus Christ, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, throughout all ages. Amen.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
The idea of a safe zone for refugees in Syria was first proposed several months ago, but the flood of people entering Turkey "" as many as 5,000 a day for the past 10 days "" has ratcheted up the pressure for such a zone's creation.
The UN refugee agency announced on Aug. 28 that as many as 200,000 Syrians may seek refuge in Turkey alone. Turkey says its threshold is 100,000, and it is leading the call for a safe zone so that Syrians can safely remain inside Syria.
But it's complicated and carries risks that make the international community hesitant to implement it. Here are some complications….
My father's health took a major turn for the worse and so we have been scurrying around working on getting him a place to stay. He will be in a skilled nursing facility in the greater Charleston area, and he arrives tomorrow. To say this represents a major change would be an understatement.
Please pray for us and especially for my Dad, Stuart, who turns 80 next month as we all seek to adapt, adjust and let God bless us in the midst of it all–KSH.


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UPDATE, 12:45 p.m. Boone County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Andrea Hayes confirmed that Missouri tailback Derrick Washington has been charged with deviate sexual assault, a Class C felony under state law. A court date will not be set until Washington is either arrested or turns himself into authorities, she said.
Boone County prosecutors have charged Missouri senior tailback Derrick Washington with deviate sexual assault, which under state law is a Class C felony. It�s MU athletic department policy that any player charged with a felony is suspended from team activities until the case is resolved. We'll have more on this developing story throughout the day.


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Jailed Silk Road founder set to auction NFT series
by Owotunse Adebayo
TL; DR Breakdown
Jailed Silk Road founder sat to auction NFT series
The NFTs will be auctioned from December 2 to 8
Twitter users are torn over support for Ulbricht
Non Fungible Tokens, or NFTs as they are fondly called, have been crushing the entire crypto markets, gaining popularity. Although it is not something that has gained massive popularity, the adoption is increasing by the day. In recent news about NFTs, jailed Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht has announced that he will float his NFTs starting December 2. Going by his post earlier today on Twitter, Ulbricht will sell his Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection.
According to further details, the drop is scheduled to drop on the famous marketplace, Superare, and will last from December 2 through December 8. The NFTs, as explained in the post, were arts made by the Silk Road founder, which were minted into NFTs by some of his fans. The arts that make up the NFTs consist of various arts that Ulbricht made while growing up and even after he was convicted and sent to jail.
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The first few arts were majorly comical drawings he made while growing up, with the rest just bits and pieces from his court appearances and all-around art drawings. According to the statement, all the money made from the auction will be put into efforts geared towards making sure that Ulbricht regains his freedom from custody. Some of the funds have also been earmarked to be paid to Art4Giving, a charity organization tasked with helping jailed victims and their families.
Ulbricht has been in the news for bad and controversial reasons after being sentenced to jail in 2015. Before jail, Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road, a dark web marketplace where most activities carried out were illicit. For example, since the marketplace launched in 2011, it afforded all types of users access to legal and illegal stuff provided they can pay with leading digital asset, Bitcoin. The update on Twitter took most by surprise as people have now started to choose sides. While a small part of the population does not support Ulbricht, most users think he should use it to get freed from prison.
According to a user, even though Ulbricht's cause for the auction is good, normalizing Ponzi NFTs is now overreaching as regulators need to do something. Others with the same school of thought think that although there are more immoral things to do, NFTs are also a greater evil than most. Some think that even though those that favor Bitcoin might be against Ulbricht, he was integral in pushing for the adoption of the asset during the early period.
Owotunse Adebayo
Adebayo loves to keep tab of exciting projects in the blockchain space. He is a seasoned writer who has written tons of articles about cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
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Idris Elba joins Taylor Swift in the Cats movie
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The surprisingly good cast of Tom Hooper's adaptation of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is about to get even more surprisingly good, because Variety is reporting that Idris Elba is "in final negotiations" to join what will surely be a big, weird musical. The film version of the iconic Broadway show already has Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, and Taylor Swift, with Elba reportedly set to play the villainous Macavity. For anyone who doesn't already know the plot of Cats, the whole thing can seems utterly baffling, but the basic premise is that it revolves around a group of cats called the Jellicles who band together every year to decide which of them deserves to ascend to the Heaviside Layer, which is sort of like a cat heaven in space where they will be reborn into new lives. The whole thing is inspired by T.S. Eliot's poetry collection Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, which concerns the secret inner lives of various weird felines.
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