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Kenneth Gentry offers "serious studies for serious Christians" in a broad range of theological and exegetical issues from a Reformed theological perspective. Some of the key issues for which we have educational materials include: Calvinism, reformed theology, Presbyterianism, eschatology in general, postmillennialism, preterism, the Book of Revelation, theonomy, six-day creation, presuppositionalism, predestination, lordship salvation, infant baptism, the Christian worldview, Christian education, the Christian and alcohol, and more.
We have produced in-depth materials critiquing and rebutting dispensationalism, hyperpreterism, the framework hypothesis, paedocommunion, exclusive psalmody, charismatic phenomena, annihilationism, and other popular views.


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A perfect week.
Do you ever look back at your college days and think, "How in the world did I survive that?" I'm not talking about too many nights at the bar, I'm talking about balancing leadership positions, multiple jobs, and too many credit hours. Sometimes I look back and think, "I wish I was still that good."
Because, if I was... I wouldn't be so tired.
Don't get me wrong, my life is completely worth being tired.
Last week was interesting, to keep state it simply. T was in Dallas for work, so made a mini road trip to Dallas after delighting in a few peaches in Stratford. Not a day passes that I'm not thankful for my amazing job that allows me to work from home every now and then, or in this case work poolside in Dallas.
After a few fun days in Dallas, including a Darius Rucker concert, I woke up in the 4 o'clocks Wednesday for a too-early road trip back to Oklahoma City. Our church group meets at our house each Wednesday, so early to bed wasn't an option. Courtney's surprise birthday party followed Thursday evening and an Avett Brothers concert Friday. I had a fun work event on Saturday, catching some zzz's wasn't an option then, either.
With all that said, Saturday night I wanted nothing more than to curl up in my faded Oklahoma State sweat pants and watch a few hundred episodes of the Golden Girls.
But, as a proud big sister, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to watch my little sister run barrels while people watching with my little brother. So, I pulled a pair of starched jeans from the closet and headed to a small-town rodeo.
Wait. Hold on. I feel obligated to confess my love for starched jeans. If I'm going to wear boots, I need my jeans to have the ability to stand by themselves. It's odd, I know, but I feel as strongly about this as I do that spending more for quality high heels is better than mostly everything else.
I love more than anything that after a long busy week of urban living, I can sit in the stands with my dad (yes, those are our boots and starched jeans) and talk his ear off about things that don't really matter while he says all of four words.
He didn't even roll his eyes when I snapped this picture. It's a Christmas miracle, really.
My little brother, one of my favorite people in the entire world, is going to be a high school senior. I can't begin to explain how much this blows my mind. This picture taken around 9 p.m. when the sun was still glaring heavily into our eyes and the temperatures were still in the triple digits. Honestly, I don't care how gross we look because my brother is smiling and this never happens. This, too, is a Christmas miracle.
I will trade all the quality nights of sleep in the world weeks like this. Weeks incorporating everything I love about life - rural, urban, family, T., adventures, family, friends - are exactly how I want to live my life.

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In the Bible wine is the fermented juice of grapes. The claim by some, that the wine God gave Israel to drink was non-alcoholic, is spurious and not attested to by biblical scholarship. While the Bible does condemn drunkenness, it does not condemn the use of wine. In fact,
God himself provides "wine which makes man's heart glad" just as He gives "food which sustains man's heart" (Ps. 104:14.15). He promises His people that, if they will obey Him, He will bless them with an abundance of wine (Deut 7:13, 11:14, Prov. 3:10. etc.). He threatens to withdraw this blessing from them if they disobey His law (Deut. 28:39, 51; Isa. 62:8). The Scriptures clearly teach that God permits His people to enjoy wine and strong drink as a gift from Him. "You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires, for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household" (Deut. 14:26). Under certain circumstances it is even commanded of God that wine and strong drink be given (Pr. 31:6,7). And since wine was used in the worship of God (Ex. 29:40, Lev. 23:13; Nu. 15:5,7,10; 28:14), the Bible says wine is something that cheers God as well as man (Jud. 9:13). G.I. Williamson, Wine in the Bible and the Church
Dr. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, recently wrote an article calling for Christians to completely abstain from alcohol as the only godly course of action in a culture severely damaged by drunkenness. He said, "In my estimation, there is only one cure for this problem we have and it is not moderation. The only answer is total abstinence."
I believe the cure for drunkenness is not abstinence or moderation, but the gospel itself.I believe the cure for drunkenness is not abstinence or moderation, but the gospel itself. But I understand his concern. We should all be concerned about our culture's view and abuse of alcohol. But is abstinence really the best response? The best way of showing people the kingdom of God? As long as there has been wine there has been drunkenness. Yet God never commanded abstinence of his people. In fact, while the nation of Israel was made to look unique/holy in many ways, distinguishing them from the rest of the world through civil laws, God never called them to be teetotalers. Drunkenness was condemned as sin, but wine and strong drink were portrayed as gifts from God meant to be enjoyed.
Does God want us to commit ourselves to "total abstinence?" The answer must be "no" if we believe that Scripture is sufficient concerning all faith and practice, since abstinence is nowhere commanded. Rather, I believe the power of the Gospel is not seen in fleeing what God gives us to enjoy, but in using such gifts rightly, and not abusing them. In a culture of gluttony and drunkenness, the more powerful testimony is not extra-biblical law, but the fruit of the Spirit, of which "self-control" is a part. Self-control is precisely what our culture has lost, and the temperate use of alcohol by God's people demonstrates the counter-cultural Kingdom ethics and the power of God more profoundly than "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch."
The truth is I respect those who abstain from drinking alcohol. At our church there is a sizable percentage of people who do not drink for one reason or another, but do not argue this is the path God expects all people to follow. At the same time there are those who do drink moderately at our church, and no drama erupts even when gathered together at a wedding reception where both habits can been seen. We even have former addicts in our church, and though some of them may abstain, they do not expect anyone else to do the same.
What troubles me is not that Dr. Graham believes abstinence is a good option, but that he believes it is the only option and that Baptist Press gives this sort of thing attention. I doubt that we will see an alternate view in the BP headlines any time soon.
Some great material on this topic is listed below, some of which is available online for free.
Hearts Made Glad: A Tribute to Wine, St. Anne's Public House [audio journal] Wine in the Bible and the Church, G.I. Williamson [available as pdf] God Gave Wine, Ken Gentry Drinking with Calvin and Luther, Jim West


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Luke DeCock
Another big game from UNC's Luke Maye, perhaps provoked this time
Theo Pinson isn't entirely sure who said it, or whether Luke Maye even heard it. He can only infer that Maye did by what happened next. Someone on N.C. State dismissed Maye as a threat, and would the Wolfpack ever come to regret it.
"One of them said, 'You can guard him, he's not that athletic,' or something like that," Pinson said. "He just started cooking after that. There's two people I wouldn't talk junk to: Joel Berry and Luke Maye."
A year after Maye launched a thousand gifs with his shot-fake that left Omer Yurtseven hanging in the air, helpless, Maye returned to the scene of the crime to do N.C. State even dirtier. He set a career-high with 13 points at PNC Arena last year; his 33-point performance – making 12 of his 14 second-half shots along with 17 rebounds – was the difference in a 96-89 North Carolina win that saw the Tar Heels withstand a 19-0 N.C. State run in the first half that sent the building into an unrestrained frenzy.
It was Maye's third 30-point game of the season, all in the last 32 days. It's possible he's getting better as the season wears on. He's averaging a double-double. He's outscoring Berry. He's fourth in the ACC in scoring and second in rebounding.
So that's where we are at this point in the season, somewhere we never could have imagined being when Maye was a little-used freshman, or even during his sophomore year, even after the shot that beat Kentucky.
Is Luke Maye the second-best player in the ACC?
There's no debate about Marvin Bagley III being No. 1. He's a legitimate phenomenon, even more so considering he's supposed to be a senior in high school right now, not dominating the best college basketball league in the country. Duke keeps losing because Bagley is not seeing the ball enough, not because Bagley isn't doing enough when he has it.
Beyond that, Maye keeps making his unlikely case. There are more talented players in the ACC, a bunch of them on Maye's own team, even. But it's hard to argue with this kind of productivity, and Maye continues to push his own personal productivity boundaries.
These aren't garbage baskets, either, open dunks off guard penetration or put-backs. In one second-half sequence, Maye threw in a running 3-pointer almost offhandedly, then drove the left baseline for a layup on the next possession.
"I just continue to try to play my game," Maye said, about as self-promoting as he ever gets.
"If he's not going to give himself credit, I'm going to give him credit," North Carolina's Cam Johnson said. "He played a great game, and he's a tremendous player."
In a game that saw 11 players finish in double figures, with defense largely optional – North Carolina's 19 turnovers were self-inflicted as much as they were provoked by N.C. State's defense – no one thrived more than Maye. Yurtseven's utter inability to deal with Maye left N.C. State's best player pinned to the bench for the final four minutes when the Wolfpack was trying, futilely, to chip away at a deficit it could never actually close.
Asked about N.C. State's defense, especially coming off the issues in last week's loss at Virginia Tech, N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts kept coming up with to the same explanation.
"I go back to it," Keatts said. "Luke Maye had a tremendous day."
You couldn't ask for any more than this, with the building full and Keatts in his red blazer and Roy Williams watching his team endure a 19-0 N.C. State run late in the first half with his arms crossed, only to reward, yet again, his timeout-hoarding with a 7-0 run in response. N.C. State went punch for punch with North Carolina all afternoon but just couldn't get a rebound or a stop in the latter portions of the game.
Maye was a big reason for that. He had struggled against good teams, piling up numbers against bad teams, but he had a solid 15 points in Thursday's win over Duke and followed that up with a new career-high Saturday.
It has taken a while for North Carolina to get to this point, where the Tar Heels are starting to figure things out, how to play small, how to best use the unusual skill sets of Maye and Johnson. There may be more growing to do, but they have come this far, even if Saturday they got an unexpected push that got the best out of Maye, and by extension everyone else on a day they needed every bit of it to beat N.C. State.
Sports columnist Luke DeCock: 919-829-8947, firstname.lastname@example.com, @LukeDeCock


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Over 6,000 attendees pre-registered for the inaugural Apps World Germany show in Berlin this weekSteve Wozniak
[BERLIN] Apps World will be descending upon the CityCube, Berlin this week (April 22-23, 2015) for two days of networking, live hackathons a buzzing exhibition and more! Over 6,000 attendees have pre-registered for the two day event which features 200 speakers from across the industry including Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak and more than 150 exhibitors.
The show is set to feature content covering everything from HTML5 & Mobile Web, Mobile Strategy & Marketing, Mobile Payments & Banking, TV & Multi-Screen Apps, Gaming Apps, Connected Car, Cloud andEnterprise apps as well as Developer and Android Workshops. The five free to attend tracks have proven to be a huge success in both London and San Francisco and are set to be a popular feature at the premier Berlin show.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak headlines a stellar speaker line up which features notably industry faces including Peter Molyneux, Founder, Lionhead Studios, Ian Livingstone, Co-Founder, Games Workshop, Ulrik Nehammer, CEO, Coca-Cola, Ben Phillips, Global Head of Mobile, MediaCom and many more.
Ian Johnson, founder of Apps World said: "We're excited to be launching the inaugural Apps World Germany show in Berlin this week. We have seen a fantastic response with over 6,000 pre-registered to attend the event and this is no doubt down to our superb offering covering the entire apps ecosystem and stellar speaker line up."


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Scented Oil (organic)
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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, which was launched back in August 2016 in China will be getting a new exclusive version tomorrow in China, and the phone will be called as 'Exclusive version,' according to a leak coming from Chinese media.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 exclusive version will feature 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, and for the first time, Xiaomi is launching the Note 4 with 4GB of RAM in China. To recall, Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 4 with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage in India for Rs. 12,999 and the company are planning to launch the same variant in China as well.
Furthermore, the price of the new phone is expected to be just 200 Yuan (approx. Rs. 1600) more than the Note 4 variant with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. Other than this change, there won't be any changes to the phone's hardware.
Xiaomi RedMi Note 4 Key Specifications:
- 5.5 inch Full HD IPS screen
- MediaTek Helio X20 deca-core SoC
- Adreno 506 GPU
- 13 Megapixel rear camera with dual LED Flash
- 5 Megapixel front camera
- 4,100 mAh battery
- 32GB /64GB internal storage options, can be expanded
- Android 6 Marshmallow with a layer of MIUI 8
The original Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD display, Helio X20 deca-core SoC, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front-facing camera, and a beefy 4100mAh battery. For India, Xiaomi has gone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC that can last easily two days with a single charge.
The 'Exclusive version' of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 will go on sale in China from tomorrow according to the source. The phone will be available to purchase via JD.com and Xiaomi's official website.


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Large flange in assembly welding. To avoid in the condition of bearing or bearing welds, try to eliminate the influence of external forces of weld bead and prevent deformation of the flange. Take the following measures:
(1) when conditions permit, the horizontal barrel level in roller frame assembly welding flange. After welding flange in the mouth of the first welding flanges outside the mouth. Welding current and voltage shoulds not be too big, in order to reduce the accumulation of heat.
(2) when necessary, can give the flange stiffened plates equipped with process closed to resist deformation trend. Stiffened plates removed after welding process. And the welding scar left by the bridge polishing.
(3) when the cylinder is in vertical position assembly welding equipment flange, should try to support cylinder, the flange in a suspended state, giving the function of weld bead is not affected by tube weight force.
(4) if necessary, can be used on the bolts in the flange fixed another companion flange, then the normal assembly welding flange. After welding to remove companion flange.
In short, as long as the welding process to take appropriate measures before four, even if again big, again weak flange can also ensure that will not happen deformation during welding.
Source: Yaang Pipe Industry Co., Limited (www.yaang.com)


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Keep fabric, whether it is a shirt, the baby's pajamas or a small cloth, close to your skin long enough for the material to pick up your scent. Then, place the item in the child's crib or put the pajamas on the baby. Watch the child carefully if you place a shirt or blanket in the child's crib to keep the baby from choking. In just a few hours, you can provide your child with additional sleeping comfort.
- Wear the worn shirt
Wear the shirt for at least a few hours so that the fabric picks up your natural scent. For greater intensity, sleep in the shirt for a few nights so that your scent saturates the shirt. You can also do this with the baby's pajamas or a small cloth. Wear the small items close to your body for a few days so that they smell like you.
- Place the shirt in the baby's crib
Place the shirt near the baby in the crib. Place smaller articles of clothing between the mattress and the fitted sheet in the crib. This allows your baby to smell your natural scent while sleeping, which brings the infant a sense of comfort.
- Exercise safety precautions
Make sure that the child is secure in the shirt. Arrange the fabric to prevent it from becoming a choking hazard, by keeping it snug and away from the child's head.


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5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs?During the period that the research took place, few bloggers, online communication experts or political commentators explicitly discussed technical aspects regarding how we actually can measure the impact of campaign blogs on political elections. The only reflection that explicitly dealt with this subject was produced by Todd Zeigler, Senior Vice President of the Bivings Group, on the company's blog, The Bivings Report. Discussing the performances of the 2006 contestants' official campaign blogs, Zeigler (2006b) raised the following question: "How influential/successful are the campaign blogs?".
In an extension to his own question, Zeigler writes:
"How many people are reading them? How many people are linking to them? How well networked are they? Are they working? These questions are pretty much impossible to answer in an academically defensible way: we'd need access to the logs of all the campaign blogs to answer adequately. We're left picking through anecdotes" (Zeigler 2006b).
Zeigler validly raises a relevant point about the complexity surrounding some of the metrical factors that can explain the reach of the content produced on blogs. But it is what he further says that interestingly shows that there are other simpler, non quantitative factors, which also can tell us something about efforts politicians' dedicate to making their blog successful. In an attempt to somehow answer his first question – "how influential/successful are the campaign blogs" – Zeigler (2006b) decides to use the search engine Technorati to look at aspects that can tell us something about how effective the medium is when used as a campaign tool.
The first aspect Zeigler looks at is how the candidates' campaign blogs ranked in the search engine. The paper has earlier mentioned that Technorati ranks the blogs in its database by the number of incoming links. Zeigler (2006b) assumes that links are the most effective way we have to measure the influence of a blog. The two next aspects Zeigler examines are how the main campaign sites rank in the search engine and how many links they attract. While these aspects can give us an indication of how much attention the candidates receive from the blogosphere in general, they will unfortunately not teach us much about the influence of the candidates' blog itself, Zeigler (2006b) argues. The last two aspects examined by Zeigler (2006b) are whether the candidates are doing a good job of actually getting their blog content in the search engine, and whether the candidates have bothered to actually claim their blog in the search engine. Zeigler (2006b) argues that these measurements might give us an indication of how serious candidates are about their blog.
Based on his methodology Zeigler found that:
• "Only 44% of the blogs we looked at had been indexed by Technorati in the last 15 days. And many of these blogs that had been indexed weren't being done so regularly. Seems a lot of campaigns are unfamilar with pinging. • Only 18% of the campaigns have claimed their blog on Technorati. • Generally speaking, these campaign blogs are not linked to that much by other blogs. It was surprising" (Zeigler 2006b).
He concludes that:
(1) "Campaigns haven't mastered some of the technical aspects of blog promotion This is evidenced by the fact that most of these blogs aren't getting indexed regularly by blog search engines and most campaigns haven't claimed their blog on Technorati. If people can't find your posts, they aren't going to link to them.
(2) Campaigns aren't networking effectively with other bloggers I know lots of candidates have conference calls with bloggers. And I also know you can't judge the effectiveness of blog outreach efforts based solely on the results above. However, a lot of blogging is building online relationships one blogger at a time. You exchange emails with other bloggers. You link to them. You comment on their blogs. You add them to your blogroll. Given the results shown above, I can't imagine that most of the campaign blogs are doing a good job at building these sorts of relationship. I suspect a lot of them are operating in a bit of a vacuum.
(3) Campaigns aren't producing compelling content Any successful blogger you talk to will say you earn links by creating good content. Write something great and people will find it and link to it. Click through on the blogs above yourself and see what you think about the content" (Zeigler 2006b).
None of the academic studies reviewed earlier in this paper have considered any of these aspects in the same way as Zeigler does. It should also be noted that many blogs and newspapers are in fact using measurements such as incoming blog links, daily hit rates provided by search engines like Alexa and the number of friends on social media platforms like MySpace and Facebook, as indicators for which of the contestants in the 2008 presidential race that are doing best on blogger outreach (see Easter 2007). There is no reason why future studies should not use measurements like these to test the correlation between online campaigning and electoral success. However, by measuring a blog's reach and incoming links we still do not examine the correlation between voters that read a candidate's blog and people that vote for the candidate operating the blog. We also have to take into account that the aspects Zeigler examines can be proxies for a campaign's overall level of preparedness and organisation. In his analyses of the effects websites had on people's voting decision during the 1996 U.S. congressional election, D'Alessio (1997) (discussed in chapter 4) found that "the more sophisticated and better resourced candidates were more likely to operate websites" (Gibson & McAllister 2005, p. 6). It might also be plausible to assume that campaigns operating a blog in a modern election campaign are more professional and overall better prepared than the average campaign.


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Professionalism: Introduction
Robert A. Raschke, MD
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ
Editor's note: This is the first of a multi-part series on professionalism. The remaining parts will be posted over the next few weeks.
An important event in my career occurred about 20 years ago, late on a Friday afternoon. I was scheduled on call in the ICU for the entire 72-hour weekend, and even though I was just getting started, I was already tired and in a lousy mood. At 5 PM, I got a consult to see a patient in the neuro ICU. He was a 34-year-old man who had attempted suicide by drinking ethylene glycol antifreeze after an argument with his girlfriend. He had initially stabilized from a medical standpoint, but then developed delayed-onset cerebral edema. The team that was taking care of him had unsuccessfully pursued all treatment options. After 8 days of effort, he remained in a deep coma, near brain death. Now, with nothing left to try, and no hope left for a good outcome, they were dumping responsibility onto me just in time for the weekend.
I considered this unhappily as I began to page through his thick chart, trying to suppress my frustration so that I could concentrate, but I was interrupted by the patient's nurse – Terry - before I could get very far. She told me that the patient's mom had just stormed into the unit, and was demanding to talk with her son's doctor - which as of the last 10 minutes was now me. She warned me that the patient's mother was inpatient, accusatory and totally unrealistic about her son's prognosis, but despite all this, Terry acted somewhat relieved that I was there. The impression that she was somehow happy about the situation made me even more angry than I already was.
I had had enough. I really gave Terry an earful– outlining all my suspicions about the bad motivations of the referring team and concluding with my refusal to do their dirty work. Somehow, in my self-centeredness, I expected her to empathize with me. But she didn't. Instead, she appeared to be somewhat shocked and deflated. She listened silently to my rant, then turned and walked away without saying anything.
It took me a few minutes to realize that she had a higher opinion of me than I had of myself. She had thought I was a good doctor– strong enough to shoulder a tough situation– compassionate and empathic for a bereaved mother - ready to take on this challenge and make a bad situation a little better. I had proved her wrong.
I always thought of myself as a good doctor, but I realized then that I really wasn't all that good. I composed myself and tried to reset my thinking. I introduced myself to the patient's mother briefly after explaining that I hadn't had time to review all the records– later, we would sit down and really talk. She actually wasn't as unreasonable as I imagined she might be. It turned out I did have an important job to do in this case– to help a grieving mother come to terms with the death of her beloved son. The next day I apologized to Terry– this turned out to be a good long-term investment, since we continue to work together to this day.
This was an experience that got me thinking about how I could try to become a better doctor. Not by studying in order to get smarter, but by having the proper goals and attitude– the things this series is about. Recounting this story also gives me the opportunity to admit that I claim no special personal legitimacy to write a series for SWJPCC on professionalism. I am pretty lazy at times. I have a temper when I'm under pressure. I can sometimes be hurtful to nurses and residents. There are even a few people who would consider it the height of hypocrisy for me to come off like I know anything about being good. During the week in which I first began writing this section, I did a bunch of very unprofessional things– things I was ashamed of them even as I was proceeding forward with them:
- I got a page about a patient that was deteriorating just as I sat down to a very nice lunch. The patient was a young, otherwise– healthy alcoholic. I decided to relax and finish my lunch before heading up to see him. By time I finished dessert, he had deteriorated and was extremely unstable.
- I had misgivings about a patient's DNR status. I thought the family might rescind the DNR order if they fully understood the clinical situation. But I didn't want them to rescind DNR status, so I purposely avoided talking to them.
- I missed the essential (and not obscure) physical finding of abdominal pain in a patient with septic shock on steroids– a clinical mistake that I've repeatedly lectured others about during Mortality and Morbidity conference. This error delayed diagnosis of a life-threatening bowel perforation.
- I declined a personal invitation to attend the memorial service of a patient that I felt very close to– who had in fact asked me for a hug the last time I had seen her before she died. Instead, I sat at home and watched TV.
So no, I am not an expert at professionalism. But I do care about it. So I am not going to write about the doctor I am, but about the doctor I want to be. Please look at this series in that spirit and do not allow my personal shortcomings to undermine our consideration of this topic.
Why discuss professionalism in medicine? I've considered the possibility that the age of professionalism is over– that talking about it is like trying to get your kids interested in playing the board-game Monopoly. Technology is the thing nowadays. It's incredibly satisfying to help save a patient's life with ECMO in the ICU. Yet some technological advances increasingly distance us from our patients.
I have heard that when Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816, there was widespread concern about the negative effect it might have on the doctor-patient relationship. Prior to the invention of the stethoscope, doctors placed their ear directly upon the patient's chest to listen to the heart and lungs. At this point in history, the stethoscope actually came between the doctor and patient– a barrier to the intimacy of the physical examination.
In a modern ICU, all patients are under "standard precautions" for infectious disease control– this means doctors and nurses are supposed to wear gloves when we shake their hand. Other infection control precautions require that masks, eye-shields and gowns be worn inside patient rooms. When we employ a proning bed, the patient is totally cocooned– it's is difficult to even see a patient inside a prone bed, much less touch them.
Telemedicine is increasingly incorporated into patient care– this allows a physician anywhere in the world to take care of patients in our hospital remotely, utilizing video cameras. Mobile devices– almost like robots– with a face display video screen for a head, can be wheeled into a patient's room to facilitate electronic interactions between doctors and patients.
The advent of the hospitalist has all but destroyed the traditional continuity of the doctor patient relationship. Patients who are sick enough to land in the hospital are rarely seen by their family doctor. Within the hospital, many doctors (including myself) work shifts– taking care of individual patients only within the time slots of their work schedule. Technically, my responsibility for my patients ends at "quitting time".
More physicians are employed by healthcare systems than ever before. The choices that patients and doctors once made together are thereby increasingly influenced by non-physician administrators. Politicians have increasingly attempted to create financial incentives for doctors to behave as they think we should behave. The very semantics of related constructs such as the "physician report card" diminishes us as a profession, turning us back to a time before we could be trusted to know and do what was best for our patients.
I think it's fair to say that the risk that might lose our professionalism, our humanism, has never been greater than it is at this point in the history of medicine. So there has probably never been a better time to reconsider professionalism as an essential part of being a doctor.
Many of us were taught in medical school about how to "act professional" – maintaining a detached demeanor, not allowing yourself to get emotionally-involved, appearing confident in all situations, etc. That's not the kind of professionalism I'm going to talk about. Sir William Osler once said "the secret to the care of the patient is in caring for the patient" I think that's a much better place to start our consideration of professionalism.
In the next installment we will consider the Oath of Maimonides and how it applies to the practice of medicine in a modern ICU:
"The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures.
May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children.
May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.
Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today.
Oh, God, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling."
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7/8 Odd Time Drumming
Some of the greatest songs ever written in rock, prog, jazz and fusion are in odd-time signatures. The problem is, what sounds good on the ear doesn't always come natural to the body so playing them can be a bit of a challenge. It is, however, much scarier in theory than it is in reality and if you break it down then slow it down you'll be surprised at how quickly you get it.
In this lesson we'll have a go at drumming in 7/8. Out of all the odd-time signatures this one feels the most natural to most drummers so lets head over to the kit and get started:
How To Count
There are a couple of ways to count 7/8. You can count the obvious 'one two three four five six seven' or you can break the seven down into smaller cells 'one two one two one two three' … 'one two three one two one two'. Choose the method that you prefer and stick with it. Forget the notion that there is a best way to count and learn to feel the pulse of the music.
The cells you choose and count will often be dictated by the music anyway which makes your job a whole lot easier. You will basically be leaning on the most important parts of the groove with your bass and snare.
Take a look at the PDF. You'll see twelve grooves, of which the first six are demonstrated in the video (8 bars each). See if you can follow along and when you are ready give it a go. As always start really slow and build up the tempo from there.
There are four empty bars on the PDF. Can you come up with some of your own grooves in 7/8?
Drummers are often too hesitant when it come to playing in odd-time signatures like it's some big thing reserved for the drum gods. It really isn't that difficult if you a) Listen to the music b) Feel the underlying pulse and c) Jam along as often as possible. A little time practicing and you'll be nailing these grooves like cleaning your teeth… fresh and clean!! ;-)
Recommended Listening
Dreaming In Metaphors – Seal
2 + 2 = 5 – Radiohead
Cinema – Yes
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow – by Frank Zappa
Saint Augustine In Hell – Sting
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Stories were always important in our family. My grandmother, my mother, my father, and my aunts, and my uncles were all story tellers. I never tired of hearing the stories about what went on in the Oklahoma hills where my parents grew up as neighbors. My older brothers and sisters loved books. Going to the library on Saturdays was a big event at our house, and my older siblings frequently read aloud to me.
It was that love of stories, I believe, that made me decide early on that I wanted to be a writer. I wrote my first story the summer before I went to first grade. We did not have kindergarten in Oklahoma during those days, so I had to dictate my story to one of my older sisters. I charged each of my siblings, including the one who wrote it down for me, a quarter a piece to read it. That was $1.25, big money for me, and I decided right then to be a writer.
The summer between fifth and sixth grade I talked my two best friends into forming a story club with me. We were to write a story each week and meet at one of our homes each Friday night to read them. My first story was called "Memory Lane." It was a romance, and I thought it was beautiful. I could not wait to get to my friend's house so that I could read it. When I got there, I discovered that neither of my friends had finished their stories. I jerked them out of their hands with, "Here, give them to me. I'll finish them." While we were reading our stories, one of my friends suggested that on the next Friday night we should go skating. The other friend agreed that a skating club would be more fun than a story club.
I went to college at what is now University of Central Oklahoma. After college, I was a teacher of English. In 1969 in Woodstock, New York, I married a young man named Paul Myers. We were married thirty years, when he died of cancer. Paul was my best friend and my partner in everything. Because he was a poet and extremely talented with words, he helped me a great deal with my writing.
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Dexmo: an exoskeleton for you to touch the digital world
Dexmo: an affordable mechanical exoskeleton system with force feedback for you to touch the digital world and captures your hand motion
Dexmo: an exoskeleton for you to touch the digital world
Dexmo: an affordable mechanical exoskeleton system with force feedback for you to touch the digital world and captures your hand motion
If you are interested in what we are doing, please sign up on our website: www.dextarobotics.com
Who are we?
We are a group of hardcore roboticists, with talents in mechanical engineering, computer science, software engineering, embedded systems, communications, design, and web & app development.
On March 26 2014, we founded Dexta Robotics, a robotics start-up that focuses on developing high quality but affordable robotics hardware that lowers the boundary of robotics and virtual reality. We believe that there is a lot of great talent in your creative minds; a lot of interesting projects you want to do. But it can be really expensive and hard to build your own robotics hardware. Our goal is to build this bridge for you.
A year ago, we noticed the lack of affordable hand motion capturing devices in the field of robotics and VR, so we started Project Dexmo. To further increase the sense of immersion, we also started developing ways of adding the force feedback on top of the exoskeleton system. Long story short, after 17 iterations and over 12 force feedback implementation tests, we are proud to say that Dexmo is finally ready for release.
As for our production ability, we are fully aware that a lot of very successful kickstarter hardware projects fail when it comes to production because they only start seeking manufacturing partners after they get the money. At Dexta Robotics, we do it a bit differently. We applied the principle of DFM (Designed-for-manufacturing), meaning we talk with our manufacturing partners before we design our hardware, including Dexmo. We understand what designs are easier and less expensive to produce and what designs should be avoided to reach minimum manufacturing difficulty. We can't guarantee that everything goes perfectly smoothly, but we will certainly try our best to deliver on time.
So far, Dexmo has been covered by:
For media inquiries, please shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and get our press kit.
Live Demonstrations
Live testing and demo of Dexmo controlling Unity hand and Handuino at Oculus Connect and VRPlay China.
Thank you all for testing and commenting on our products!
Palmer Luckey tested it too; however, according to Oculus's policy, he can't comment on the device. But just look at him:
What is Dexmo?
Dexmo comes in two forms: Dexmo Classic and Dexmo F2.
Dexmo Classic is a wearable mechanical exoskeleton that captures 11 Degrees of your hand motion.
It senses three degrees of freedom of motion for the thumb, and both the split and bending of the other four fingers. One embedded IMU sensor will allow Dexmo to also output its orientation along x,y,z axis.
(A video of dexmo working with Razer Hydra)
Dexmo F2 provide you with digital force feedback (on/off only) for your index finger and thumb that allows you to feel a digital object on top of hand motion capturing. We managed to combined all that into one single device.
Dexmo F2 achieves feedback by braking the joint using our patent pending technology: a miniaturized joint gear-disk braking mechanism.
When a collision is detected(either by the collision detector in a program or by a pressure sensor in real life), a signal is sent back to the device, then the actuators activate and brake the joint, the exoskeleton locks, preventing the finger from further bending inwards, thus creating a normal force on the user's fingertip.
Here is a video showing how the force feedback unit operates.
What can you do with Dexmo
For Roboticists
Dexmo can be used for controlling a robotic hand, also providing you with a better sense of presence by simulating a force feedback when an object is hit..
or controlling a robotic arm,
or something a little be more advanced..Like controlling double robotic arms performing a remote bomb disposal task.
For VR developers and Gamers:
With Dexmo F2, we can take VR to its next level, it adds a sense of touch to gaming and now you can now feel the size of a digital Object. (However please note it provides digital force feedback, meaning on and off only, you can't feel softness, yet.)
Dexmo will come with some out of the box example game for you to play with. So even if you are a gamer with no experience in programming, you can still use dexmo, and you will be one of the first group of gamers to explore the possibly-next-gen gaming experiences.
or sizes of other different objects,
You can interact with the digital world more naturally, without the limit of space since Dexmo is wireless
or play everybody's favorite game: the Surgeon Simulator.
For Makers and Artist
The 11 channels of the analog output of Dexmo can be used to control a lot of things.
You could use Dexmo for hacking all sorts of RC devices. The picture above shows a modified RC tank being control by Dexmo. (We took apart its original controller and wired it to a micro-controller and Bluetooth receiver.)
From as simple as lighting control.
to as complex as tuning music for music production,
or interactive art.
With appropriate position tracking methods, you can also use Dexmo to play a virtual piano.
Or other very useful tasks like translating sign languages. (The above demo was only for demonstration purposes. so we only wrote the program to recognize this one line.)
Futuristic: due to its exoskeleton nature, we couldn't make it small, so we made it cool. (We've removed photorealistic rendering images of the industrial design due to Kickstarter rules. However, we are actually working on that deisgn.)
Robust: It doesn't break easily, and it works even next to a strong magnetic field because Dexmo does not use magnetometer.
Affordable: Instead using of expensive sensors like IMUs and flex sensors, Dexmo uses inexpensive rotational sensors, along with injection molded plastic parts, the cost of the device can be greatly reduced.
Dexterous: Dexmo has a special curved exoskeleton design to ensure it doesn't block any of your hand motion, so you can make a fist, or split your fingers even while wearing it.
Wireless: It transmits data though Bluetooth serial ports, you can easily hook it up to your computer and mobile devices.
Dexmo Support:
For roboticists and makers, you can get the raw data from Dexmo using our provided Arduino library. Or you can also use our Dexmo SDK from your host computer.
For VR developers, Dexmo comes with a very easy to use SDK, which contains a few examples with our built-in hand regeneration algorithms that help you pick it up easily. You can use Dexmo along with any positioning tracking methods of your will, and Dexmo also provides special support examples for perception neurons by Noitom and the STEM system by Sixense.
CEO & CTO of Sixense at Oculus connect. After OC, we met again at one of Sixense's offices in Los Gatos.
We are very good friends with the Team Perception Neuron ( Noitom) as well, and have visited their headquarters in Beijing multiple times to discuss about our further cooperation.
If you still haven't got your perception neurons, click the link below for registration.
The advantage of using Dexmo with Perception neurons is that, you only need the 10 pps kit to have a full upper body motion tracking, since a pair of dexmo can do the job of 14 pps for your hand motion capturing.
An early stage test of Dexmo with Perception Neurons will be posted soon.
Dexmo also works with various optical solutions; however, special support is not included by Dexmo SDK, so we will leave this for you to explore :)
Development of Dexmo
In the past year we have developed 17 prototypes of Dexmo and tackled countless problems, and now we are finally proud to say that Dexmo is ready for release.
Here is a brief history of how Dexmo was developed.
Team members:
Dexta Robotics:
We are a group of hardcore roboticists, with talents in mechanical engineering, computer science, software engineering, embedded systems, communications, design, and web & app development. So far we have five engineers: Aler Gu(谷逍驰), Frank Zhang(张逸飞), Rijn Bian(卞远哲), Annan Ma(马安南), Weize Sun(孙维泽).
Please also allow us to briefly introduce our partners as well.
XIVO Design Firm(+-△○ ):
XIVO was founded by three super creative Industrial designers that had each won a Red-dot design award and a lot of other design awards. They are very passionate about designing. The designers for Dexmo was listed above.
Rone Design Firm:
With over 16 and 20 years of experience respectively, the CEO and MD manager of Rone Design Firm will be assisting on Dexmo's production, employing a strong team of structure engineers.
Risks and challenges
We met a lot of obstacles during our design phase, thankfully we overcome all of them after all. Just to give you an idea, here are a few out of the hundreds of problems we met:
1. The fitting problem:
Making a wearable product is hard. Different people have hands of different sizes, if Dexmo is not designed properly, people will feel very uncomfortable wearing it. We spent a lot of time an energy to over come this issue, by using the replaceable linkage bars, open hand design along with adjustable strips, Dexmo can fit your hand perfectly.
2. Miniaturized braking system :
Force feedback was a big issue, we started with a frictional braking design and it was very hard to find a motor with the right torque and size we needed. So we started exploring other methods of creating force feedback, at the same time, we talked to a lot of manufacturers to verify the capital needed to make them, and to make sure the small pieces we designed can be made.
3. The hand model generation algorithm: We spend a lot of time to work out the proper kinematics for finger motion regeneration. A lot of tests were done to improve the motion of our hand model, so they look more natural.
4. Is it true that the more data you get the better? As you may have noticed, in our past prototypes, a few actually look rather bigger than our latest Dexmo. They were built for testing the essence of knowing the exact end coordinate of you hands. Dexmo Beta had 16 DOF(5 more than the current Dexmo), and it has a full linkage design that goes all the way to the tip of your finger. With all the information of that kinematics chain, we can deduce the end position in terms of coordinates. However, we then realized it isn't that essential to have those data even though we could. Reason being, is that we are actually only using our hands to control and avatar hand with a fixed size, so we came back to the design of 11DOF dexmo.
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Hullo, Pictish Trail, here!
It's been a busy couple o' weeks up here at Lost Map Towers. Lots going on. So much so that i've not been able to update the website properly with juicy news items … BUT, if you've signed up to our mailing list you will have been receiving weekly emails from our WayPoints team, with updates on everything that's happening. If you've not signed up, you should do so! (clicky here, later on: http://lostmap.com/mailinglist). Every subscriber gets a free Lost Map download sampler. Ooh.
My exciting news is that Pictish Trail has just been signed to Moshi Moshi Records - the London-based label, birthing ground to Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Slow Club and current home to Sweet Baboo, Hercules & Love Affair, The Wave Pictures amongst others. I'm over the moon about it all - releasing your own music on your own label can be an exhausting task, and so it's a big relief to have the Moshi team on board to help me along. Moshi are giving Secret Soundz Vol.1&2 a full release (on double vinyl, double CD and download) - across the UK and beyond, on June 9th … and there'll be a brand new album in 2015. Ayeee.
Now, this absolutely doesn't mean that i'm no longer involved with Lost Map - if anything, it gives our label a chance to reach some new folk. Pictish Trail music will still be available to buy through the Lost Map site, and all PT news and gig information will be up here too. (Well, when i can find the time to blimmin' write it!).
In fact, to help promote the Secret Soundz release, i'm taking two of the Lost Map label roster on the road with me throughout May. Monoganon and Tuff Love will be joining me on a tour of the following towns …
Sat May 3rd - Brew At The Bog, Bogbain, Inverness
Sun May 4th - The Big Beach Ball, Aberdeen
Mon May 5th - Spirit of Speyside Festival, Elgin
Wed May 7th - The Redd Suite, Dundee
Fri May 9th - Night & Day, Manchester
Sat May 10th - Prince Albert, Stroud
Sun May 11th - St Dominic's Social Club, Newcastle
Fri May 16th - Old Bookshop, Bristol (evening show)
Sat May 17th - Old Bookshop, Bristol (matinee)
Sat May 17th - South Street Arts, Reading
Sun May 18th - Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
(all day event, with Josie Long + Caught By The River)
Mon May 19th - Junction 2, Cambridge
Wed May 21st- Tin Music & Arts, Coventry
Thurs May 22nd - Railway, Winchester
Sat May 24th - Old Continental, Preston
The London show is particularly special, as it's an all-dayer, from 3pm til 11pm - with live music, comedy, spoken word and DJs spread across three rooms in the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. We've named the event Lost Map's Island Hop! - and, as well as sets from the Lost Map roster, we'll have our good buddy Josie Long curating the comedy (with a set of new material on the theme of 'islands'), and our pals at Caught By The River are gonna provide performances from some contributors from their forthcoming print issue … which is on the theme of (you guessed it!) islands! There's also going to be some VERY SPECIAL musical guests, but more info on that to follow soon :)
In other news … last Wednesday we announced (via The Quietus) the line-up for our Eigg event, the newly rechristened Howlin' Fling! - which is taking place over the 18th - 20th July, up on the island. It's three days of music, and the line-up is like some crazy dream! Can't quite believe it's all come together!
It should come as no surprise that we'll have the entire Lost Map collective there - Rozi Plain, Seamus Fogarty, Tuff Love, Kid Canaveral, eagleowl, Monoganon, Randolph's Leap … and, er, yours truly of course.
I'm TOTALLY over the moon to have Steve Mason on the bill, playing with his full band. From his work with the Beta Band, through his King Biscuit Time, Black Affair and SteXis releases, to his recent stuff under his own name, he's constantly messed about with the conventions of song-writing, and created a back-catalogue of truly original pop from another dimension. A huge inspiration.
Great songs and original expression are what it's all about, really. Just as every act on the Lost Map roster sounds distinct and different to the next, every effort has been made to make the Howlin' Fling! line-up as diverse and as singular as possible. Beth Orton and Sam Amidon possess two of my most favourite voices on the entire planet, so to have the pair of 'em join us on Eigg is blimmin' mind-blowing! HOLY SMOKES! Add to that Jens Lekman, Alexis Taylor, The Phantom Band, Gulp, Meursault … ooooft! Even RM Hubbert's singing these days. Some beautiful vocal chords amongst all that lot. We should start a campfire choir.
Jings, i could go ooonnnn and on for days about every act playing. If you've got a ticket, I'm very much looking forward to freaking out with you all to Luke Abbott, Golden Teacher, Operator and Eugene Tombs. Parrrtaaaaaayy!
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL LINE-UP: http://thequietus.com/articles/14716-howlin-fling-festival-lost-map-the-pictish-trail
ANYWAY ... right, that's a lot of news for you today. Got an amazing video from Randolph's Leap coming very soon, a total treat for the eyeholes and earballs.
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Stargazing Pods Installation Complete
Friday 22nd March 2019
The Stargazing Pods at Alton Towers resort is set to open on 12th April 2019, and it would appear the new accommodation is ready for its first guests. All of the pods have now received door mats along with room number above the doors.
This unique accommodation is in a camping style with the toilet, shower, baby change, and accessibility facilities all located in a facilities block in the pod camp.
Each pod has two single beds, and a double bed and that is it. Being branded as "minimalistic themed pods" all you get is a bed and a toilet block down one end of the camping site.
Sleeping a maximum of 4 people these won't be any good for large groups. Unlike the hotels where some rooms can sleep a family of 4 or 6. Reception for the Stargazing Pods is using the old Treetop quest reception building. Treetop Quest closed a few years ago after being used for two season and then being closed due to budget cuts.
Stargazing Pods Mid February Update
Sunday 17th February 2019
Work on the stargazing pods at Alton Towers looks to be almost complete with paths to the pods being layed yesterday, more of the standard pods have been installed since we were last on site. However, we're yet to see the premium pods arrive on site. We're starting to wonder if they got scrapped in favor of more basic accommodation. Work on the factories block also continues along with what we expect will be a small car park for disabled guests. With the new accommodation set to open soon, there's still lots left to do until everything is ready.
Stargazing Pods Christmas Update
Saturday 22nd December 2018
Work on the star gazing pods is progressing nicely at Alton Towers, more pods have been installed since our last visit along with grass starting to be put down alongside some of the pods. Lighting poles have also started to be installed around the camp site. With no toilets in the pods the toilet block is the only place to shower and use the toilet, the roof of the facilities building has started to go up with tiles waiting on the ground.
One thing thats been installed or moved since we last visited the park is a time lapse camera. We don't remember seeing once in the past but we expect footage from this will be used on the parks social media channels.
Stargazing Pods Update
Saturday 1st December 2018
Over the past few weeks, more of the Stargazing pods have been installed. Along with grass being laid in-between some of the pods. The toilet and facilities block is progressing nicely, we expect that in the next few days a roof will be adde
Stargazing Pods Installation Begins
Friday 2nd November 2018
Stargazing Pods have started to be installed over at the Stargazing Accommodation center. Directly next to the Enchanted Village this new accommodation will be the cheapest in the Alton Towers Complex. Identical to the pods installed inside the park these rooms are stripped back and have no toilets or showers. All toilets and showers can be found in the facilities building being built down one end of the site.
The more premium pods with a roof light hatch are yet to be seen.
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Juan Felipe Herrera Brings Poetry and Inspiration to Shasta College
Juan Felipe Herrera, US Poet Laureate and activist, took to the stage of the Shasta College Theatre Wednesday evening to share a varied selection of his poems and stories. An energetic speaker, Herrera engaged the audience with a lively blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and heartfelt messages of community and creativity.
The author of thirty books, Herrera is also a former California Poet Laureate and retired professor from UC Riverside. His appearance at Shasta College came just six days after he began the second term of his tenure as US Poet Laureate.
Herrera's appearance was arranged through a partnership between the Shasta College Foundation and The McConnell Foundation, as part of the ongoing Community Speakers Series.
Herrera began his presentation with words of gratitude and encouragement: "Everyone here has a beautiful voice. That is my message. I am here to promote and support and be with you in the creation and expression of your beautiful voice."
He read a wide selection of his poetry, some of which came from his newest book, Notes on the Assemblage. His poems often combined English and Spanish while playing with many different rhythm and spacing techniques. At times, the poems could catch the audience off guard, either from an unexpected turn in style, or by the poet's sly humor.
"We're always questioning things in creative writing," said Herrera. "We want to kind of take them apart and put them back together again, like molecules. Like interesting atoms from another planet. We want to put the atoms from this planet – and atoms from that planet – together."
Herrera shared many of his personal experiences, from his young life as the son of migrant farm workers to his recent exploration of the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate. He drifted across the length of the stage, occasionally adopting different voices as he acted out various vignettes and conversations. At one point he produced a harmonica and wove the music in with his storytelling, as a way of showing his connection with the songs of his past.
Herrera described the humble beginnings of several great creators of famous literature, saying, "We all begin scribbling. We all begin jotting. We all begin just exploring the language and words that we love."
Herrera spent most of the evening showcasing his signature style of wit and humor. In one particularly rousing instance, he led the audience in a call-and-response style reading of a piece where he asked the crowd to chant the words of the poem back to him.
He did not shy away from more serious topics, however. One of the longest poems of the night was written for the victims of the June nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. Another was dedicated the memory of his friend and fellow writer Victor Martinez, who died in 2011. At one point, Herrera also told the story of one of his earliest memories, conveying the shock he felt as he watched some of his young friends being dragged out of their house and taken away by the Border Patrol.
When these moments of gravity came up, Herrera used them to convey his recurring message of compassion and unity. He emphasized the role poetry can have in helping people through times of hardship and how beneficial poetry is for both writer and reader.
For Herrera, a poem is, "like when you put your arm around your friend who's having a hard time."
In an interview with The Lance, Herrera offered some advice to aspiring poets.
"Be as free and experimental and wild as you can, because poetry is that place, it is the core of your explosive self. It's not the shell of who you are, it's the core of who you are. … Remember that poetry is a gift. It's a gift to you and it's a gift to others. Let that move you. Give your poem to people. Give your poem to someone who is hurt, or just give your poem to the world and it will be received."
The first Community Speaker Series at Shasta College ran from 1967-1972. It was revived in 2015, thanks to a joint effort between the Shasta College Foundation and The McConnell Foundation. The series has featured past guests such as former Secretary of Homeland Security and current University of California system president Janet Napolitano, author Rick Bass, and author Pam Houston.
The revitalized series, helmed by Scott Thompson and Nancy de Halas at the Shasta College Foundation, aims to invite speakers with a talent for inspiration and a dedication to others.
"It's kind of our own version of Ted Talks," said Kathryn Gessner, a writing professor at Shasta College and liaison for the guest speakers. "The question we wanted to answer is: 'How can we improve our community? … How can we be unified?' … Each one of our speakers has given us an idea, and gotten people actively involved here in Redding and in the larger community."
She praised The McConnell Foundation for their support of the students of Shasta College, saying, "We are really indebted to The McConnell Foundation for being our partners in this. … This is an extension of their vision: offering something really special to the North State."
When asked about the decision to invite Juan Felipe Herrera to speak as part of the series, Gessner said that it was an exciting "bit of serendipity."
"We want to provide something different to the campus and community … a voice that we haven't heard before."
"He has high status as Poet Laureate," said Shasta College professor Paul Calkins, who introduced Herrera before his presentation. "And also he has a storytelling manner which is extremely accessible, warm, and friendly. It's unusual to find that combination in any speaker."
Gessner further commented, "He has been one of the best Poet Laureates we've had. He has been so inspiring to so many people."
As for the future of the speaker series, the members of the Shasta College Foundation seem both optimistic and excited about the types of individuals who could someday be brought to the campus. The consistent theme of the series is community change, as well as providing a lasting positive experience for those who attend the lectures.
Gessner believes that participants will leave the Speaker Series presentations and feel inspiration resonating within them: "We get information, we get motivation, we get ideas, and we take that along with us."
This sentiment echoes the words of Juan Felipe Herrera: "We need freedom of thought at all times. … We need to connect on a historical, cultural level, which we have kind of forgotten, and we also need to connect on a technological level. Both. We cannot leave one for the other. … Otherwise we're going to shrink. We're gonna peel off like an old apricot. We don't want to do that. There's always new horizons."


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The removal of Lawal Musa Daura as the Director-General of the Department of Security Service, DSS, by Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, left his kinsmen in Daura area of Kastina State in rude shock, DAILY POST has learnt.
Daura was removed on Tuesday by Osinbajo following his alleged involvement in the illegal invasion of the national assembly complex by men of the security agency.
Both President Buhari and the sacked DSS boss hail from Daura community.
Our reporter observed that there was disquiet in Daura following the 'sudden' ouster of the DSS boss in absence of the President.
It was gathered that some youths had gathered in Kanfawa village to protest against the removal of their kinsmen by Osinbajo but were advised by a respected monarch in the town to sheathe their sword and 'accept the presidential decision in good faith.'
A source hinted that as soon as the news broke out, some political leaders stormed the palace of the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, for a meeting which lasted for about four hours.
The meeting was to reach Buhari, who is currently holidaying in London for a possible reversal of the decision, but met brick walls.Read More


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Published Poetry
Café Schilling. Chapbook. Tower Point Press 2019: Portland, Oregon. Out now! Use the Contact page to order your copy. $10 including shipping.
"Globe." MOJAVE HEART. September 2019.
"Saint Jezebel." BONE & INK. August 2019.
"mid-august, Tower Point Lookout." MOJAVE HEART. June 2019.
"Payette River Blues." TRAMPSET. May 31, 2019.
"Cerro Pelado Blues." SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW. Winter 2019. Issue 54.2 Print. Order it here.
Three poems: "Two Movies by Tarantino," "Black like your bra" and "Waiting For Wonder Woman." THE CHIRON REVIEW. Fall 2018. Print. Order your copy here!
"A Fire Lookout Manual." MOJAVE HEART REVIEW. January 2019.
"Saint Lilith" and "Saint Cain" Bone and Ink. December 2018.
"Moth Man." MANZANO MOUNTAIN REVIEW. Halloween! 2018.
"A pair of crows," "Fire lookout with monsoons," and "Ode to the southwest wind," up now at MOJAVE HEART REVIEW. July 2018.
"let's go" and "fucking Barcelona" originally appeared at COLDNOON, February 2018. Now up at my blog!
"The hunter down the road." MIDWESTERN GOTHIC. Summer 2017. Print. Order here. Now up at my blog!
Four more poems: "Your love" and "The day before the wedding" and "lv, Heather" and "In the morning your husband calls." ZOMBIE LOGIC REVIEW. August 2017.
"Cerro Pelado Blues: Chorus V." Santa Fe Literary Review. Fall 2017. Print.
Three poems: "Pop Caps In The Asses of All Rhetoricians," "Poem For Jaz," and "metalheads." ZOMBIE LOGIC REVIEW. June 2017.
"Leaving Barcelona." TOPOLOGY MAGAZINE. 10 May 2017.
"In the solitary confinement of my mind." SICK LIT MAGAZINE. March 2017.
"Mid-July Tripod Lookout." RATTLE #55 Spring 2017. Print. Order here.
"she is." DIRT #2. January 2017. Boulder, CO. Print. Now up at my blog.
"Walking Barefoot In The Grand Canyon." GRAPH(feeties) #2. Tucson, AZ. January 2017. Print. Now up at my blog.
"No Questions." ENTROPY. October 2016.
"Moon Girl." PHANTOM DRIFT. Issue 6, Fall 2016. Print. Order here.
"I wish" and "Last day at the tower." DIRT. April 2016. Print.
"Fire Lookout Villanelle." HIGH DESERT JOURNAL #22. March 2016.
"Teaching Philosophy." WRITING ON THE EDGE. Volume 26, #1. 2016. Print.
NSFW sestina. HORROR SLEAZE TRASH. February 2016.
"What Comic Books Taught Me." BARROW STREET. Winter 2015/2016. Print. (Now at my blog!)
"Slayer, Detroit 1992." ENTROPY. December 2015.
"Blue Nude." SNOW MONKEY. June 2015.
"A frame." CLACKAMAS LITERARY REVIEW. Spring 2015. Oregon City, OR. Print.
"Oh to be in Puerto Rico!" CAMEL SALOON. February 2015.
"for her and her cat" and "Medusa." DEAD SNAKES. January 2015.
"Pornographic Sonnets #2, #5, and #7." HORROR SLEAZE TRASH. October 2014.
"Sitting Naked" and "Nebraska." HOBO CAMP REVIEW. Spring 2014.
"Your love" and "The One." DEAD SNAKES. February 2014.
Three poems up at HORROR SLEAZE TRASH. December 2013.
"And tomorrow." ARSENIC LOBSTER 2013 'Best of' Anthology. Print edition. Fall 2013. (See below)
"Flamenco Dancer." THE ICONOCLAST. Fall 2013. Print.
"Blue Oranges." DEAD FLOWERS Volume 2, #5, page 11. December 2013. (link to electronic copy of whole December issue)
"Unless love." SNOWMONKEY. November 2013.
A haiku at A HANDFUL OF STONES. November 2013.
"The man visits the cafe almost every day." BLACKLISTED. Fall. 2013.
"Then there's pussy" and "Just hours" at BOYSLUT. November 2013.
"If I made popcorn." FULL OF CROW. October 2013.
"Three poems." DEAD SNAKES. October 2013.
"I had time." ELBOW PADS Volume 2, issue 3. October 14, 2013.
"The Jazz Blues." GUTTER ELOQUENCE MAGAZINE #28. October 2013.
"The Southern Cross." HOBO CAMP REVIEW #15. Autumn 2012.
"And tomorrow." ARSENIC LOBSTER #29, Summer 2012.
"Dale." HOBO CAMP REVIEW #14. Summer 2012.
"Christmas in Merica." ELECTRIC WINDMILL PRESS #4. Seattle, Washington. February 2012.
"Zombies!" NEW ERA: Mid-Michigan's Culture Zine #2. Fall 2011. Now up at my blog.
"Marisa, hitchhiker, Payson to Phoenix, July 2007." THE CHIRON REVIEW #96. St. John, KS. Autumn 2011.
"For the 792 male readers of poetry in the United States." PEARL #45. Long Beach, CA. Print.
"Question!" HURON RIVER REVIEW #10 2011. Washtenaw Community College. Ypsilanti, MI.
"Individual Coming Together" and "My Love For You This Fire" SNOW MONKEY February 2011.
"New York" and "The Frida Kahlo Blues." CLOCKWISE CAT #19 Winter 2011.
"Mountain Poem For A Woman Who Died Climbing." and "Hemingway." BELLOWING ARK: A LITERARY JOURNAL. Fall 2010.
"Song for girl in window." HURON RIVER REVIEW #9. 2010. Washtenaw Community College. Ypsilanti, MI.
"My tattoo." CELLARROOTS. Eastern Michigan University. Ypsilanti, MI. 2010. (now up at my blog)
"The girl/La chica." THE ANEMONE SIDECAR. Spring 2010. Now up at my blog!
"Oh I don't know" and "The special ring decoders of our youth." SNOW MONKEY. October 2009.
"The ghost of Frank O'Hara." RATTLE #32. Los Angeles, CA. Winter 2009.
"Proposal." SNOW MONKEY April 2009. (second poem down)
"Who's that man?" ABZ #4. Huntington, WV. Spring 2009.
"Even my mother." thINK. Spring 2008.
"You might." RATTLE #29. Los Angeles, CA. Summer 2008. Now up at my blog!
"Blue Dancers" and "What Nothing Reveals" THE HAT #7. 2007.
"For cigarettes." BLACK HEART. April 2007 Toronto, Ontario.
"Balthus." THE PURE NO NONSENSE No. 1. East Lansing, MI. January 2007. (Now up at my blog)
"The grass and cows..." and "The cornfields covered..." THE HAT #5. 2005.
"In China" THE DUNES REVIEW Volume 8, Issue 2, Traverse City, MI. Winter 2004. Print. (Now up at my blog)
"Leaving" MANZANITA QUARTERLY Volume 5, Number 1, Santa Fe, NM. Autumn 2002. Print. (now up at my blog)
AFTER, poetry chapbook: Snake Mountain Press, Santa Fe, NM 2002.
"Passing Influence." FENCE Literary Magazine New York, NY. 2001.
"Poem for Nan" SALONIKA Literary Magazine New York, NY. 1999. Print. (Now up at my blog)
"Woman in a Restaurant." THE CHIRON REVIEW St. John, KS. 1998. Print.
"Going Greyhound" PEARL 1997 Los Angeles, CA. (now at my blog)
Café Schilling. Chapbook. Tower Point Press 2019: Portland, Oregon. Out now! Use the Contact page to order a copy! $10 including shipping.
What Nothing Reveals. Ann Street Press 2010: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
After. Snake Mountain Press 2002: Santa Fe, New Mexico. (chapbook)
As yet unpublished, seeking homes:
Fire / Mountain
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Case 1
"The judge sentenced the man to an effective fine of 100 euros and a damage compensation of 65,651 euros. The man from Harelbeke was acquitted for distributing music and movie files for profit."
Case 2
"A soldier of 48 was condemned to a prison sentence of eight years for molesting seven children in the nursery of his wife in Klerken. The offender must also pay more than 37,000 euros as damage compensation to the victims and their parents."
I'm very sorry, but a society with the opinion that the damage inflicted by putting some music and movies on the internet is significantly higher than that caused by sexually abuse of seven children is not my society. The moral values of Belgium-Europe are clearly not mine anymore.
Sources: http://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/algemeen/harelbekenaar-moet-65-651-euro-schadevergoeding-betalen-voor-uploaden-muziek-en-films/article-4000053728245.htm and http://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/algemeen/pedofiele-militair-uit-klerken-krijgt-acht-jaar-celstraf/article-4000053689604.htm


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We are now open for submission for 2020!
May 15, 2019 - Early Bird Deadline
June 15, 2019 - Regular Deadline
July 15, 2019 - Late Deadline
August 15, 2019 - Extended Deadline
September 1, 2019 - Notification Date
October 2019 - Event Start Date
Best International Feature
Best International Short
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Nordic Narrative Feature
Best Nordic Narrative Short
Best Nordic TV Pilot
Best International TV Pilot
Best Male Actor
Best Female Actor
Best Director
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Rules and Terms
Short documentaries and narratives short films are preferable programmed if under 22 min and no longer than 45 min.
Feature films are 45 min and up.
International films compete against other narrative international films.
Nordic films are films shot in the Nordic countries or if the majority of the spoken language in the film is from any Nordic or Scandinavian country. You can also qualify for the Nordic submissions if the Director or Producer is from a Nordic or Scandinavian country, please e-mail us for more details. If you are unsure, please submit in the Nordic category and our programmers will make the judgement of moving it to a different category if needed and notify the submitter.
We accept any films completed after January 1, 2017.
Films that have debuted online or been official released outside of a festival are ineligible. For Nordic Feature Films, a limited release in the nordic country of origin will be considered on a case to case basis.
Please submit subtitles on all work except English narratives.
NIFF does not demand a world or national premiere requirement however we are always appreciating a premiere of some kind, please see below.
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Rough cuts of films will be considered as long as the completed version will be ready by August 15, 2018. If your film is a rough cut, please label it as such and list what needs to be completed.
All films are viewed by the festival programmers and/or the jury. Each film is viewed and rated by a industry professional, and will move on to the next stage based off of those ratings. Our programmers and jury will make final decisions and notify filmmakers accordingly.
All decisions are final and feedback for individual films is not available.
All films will screen at the festival in DCP or BLU-Ray at the Victor Borge Hall Cinema at Scandinavia House. We will nominate according to categories listed above and select the winning film in each category in the official selection. Winner is entitled to use to laurels on poster and all marketing material. DCP's, Blu-Rays and awards can be picked up our shipped towards postage up to no later than one month after the festival.
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- NIFF reserves the right to screen or not screen the films selected in the Official Selection.
- Regardless of their winning status, winning filmmakers who can't attend the Awards Ceremony in New York, will only receive laurels. We reserve the right to decide which nominated films that will be a part of the screening program based on the quality of their showcase Blu-Ray or DCP as well as program scheduling. Winners will be announced online and in press. The festival has the right to work with any institution and partner festivals for all kind of cooperation, including joint events or promotions.
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The festival Management reserves the right to make changes in the profile of the festival, if it becomes necessary to do so due to circumstances beyond his/her control.
The duration of this agreement shall commence as of the date of submission by Owner.


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