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A new survey of professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) has found that, regardless of whether they felt the role was a good fit, almost eight-in-10 (79 percent) respondents are unlikely to accept a job offer if they were treated poorly during the recruitment process. The survey, conducted by the Futurestep division of Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY), demonstrates how critical it is for organisations to place a strong emphasis on the candidate experience during the recruiting process.
Whilst just over a tenth (14 percent) would remain a customer of a company if they had a bad experience as a candidate, over half (51 percent) would actually be likely to urge their friends and family members to stop being a customer. What's more, a quarter (27 percent) would consider taking to social media to share their bad experience as a candidate applying for a job.
"By failing to employ an effective and informative environment during the hiring process, businesses face alienating top candidates, but potentially loyal customers too," said Pip Eastman, Managing Director, APAC Regional Solutions, Futurestep. "This means wasted money, time, and potential loss of revenue too through customer loss."
When asked what would aggravate them most during the recruiting process two issues came out on top. Whilst more than two-fifths (44 percent) said not hearing back from the recruiter or hiring manager would aggravate them most, almost a third (32 percent) pointed to people being rude during an interview. This is particularly important when considering that respondents are often looking for guidance and support from recruiters and hiring managers during the recruitment process, with nearly a third (30 percent) claiming they do not believe recruiters give them the tools and tips they need to land a job.
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Make your own bone broth with these key ingredients !
We have included in this pack some Welsh Wagyu Beef and Rose Veal Marrow Bones, Ribs and Sinew (for collagen). This is a perfect mix for a tasty bone broth or stock, so simple to make. A slow cooker is especially useful for this purpose but you can also use your oven. In fact, we think the bones give a better flavour if roasted first before adding into the water, but that is a personal choice. Here is a simple recipe idea for your broth, you can use some, or all, of the following in your broth and you will need a large stock pot or slow cooker.
Beef bones, carrots, onions, celery, garlic, bay leaves, whole black peppercorns,whole star anise, cinnamon sticks, apple cider vinegar.
Take the bones and place them in a deep oven tray, mixing in the veg (carrrots, onions and celery) Quantities can vary, depending on how much flavour / stock you wish to produce but you can be pretty ad lib. Roast for about half an hour on Gas Mark 7 or 200 degrees C and then give the bones and veg a turn over, followed by another 20 or so minutes. Simply add to the stockport with all the herbs and spices, and cover with water. You can deglaze the roasting tin by adding a little water to get all the lovely bits up - and pour those in too. Bring to the boil, at which point you can skim off any fat or foam that you can see, and then simmer for a very, very, long time!
I leave my slow cooker on all day, but you can simmer on the hob for 4 - 6 hours and get a similar result, but keep covered and top up the water constantly. When you are satisfied that the broth has finished stewing, you can strain it through a fine mesh strainer and then discard the bones and vegetables. You can always use the meat from the bones (if there is any) to make a soup.
You can cool the broth down at the end of this process by adding a couple of handfuls of ice cubes, and when cool refrigerate. The fat will solidify and separate from the jelly like broth when cold, and you can then easily remove it (or leave it if you are happy). The remaning liquid can form the basis of soups, be used as stock or as a "beef tea" drink which will be very filling and can help with diet control. You can store it for up to five days in the fridge or freeze it in batches.
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What is the plural possessive form of the word "British"? I believe British is both singular and plural. Is that right? I could get around the possessive problem by using "The British empire's...", but how would I do it with just the one word?
Since British is also an adjective, there may not be a need for a possessive form. Saying the British's sense of irony seems less British than the Britons' sense of irony and many British people might only say the latter for a particular small group, while for the population as a whole may prefer the British sense of irony – Henry Feb 15 '19 at 0:54
Please give an example sentence in which you would use it. You will find that any such example is contrived and would be expressed differently in English. – David Feb 15 '19 at 20:35
It appears as if you're asking about this meaning of the word British
the natives or inhabitants of Britain
In that case, it's a mass noun, meaning you cannot say "a British," in the same way that you cannot say "a water" or "a sugar." In other words, it's a singular noun, but it represents multiple things.
Janus Bahs Jacquet has pointed out that if British is a noun, it must be plural, since we would say, "The British are coming" not "The British is coming." Furthermore, "what [British] really is is an adjective modifying a deleted head noun, and as such, it can also be singular, and it can also be countable, though a generic head noun (one) will usually be supplied in that case."
The possessive form would be the British's, but this looks and sounds a little awkward, so it's probably best to avoid it. You could use the British people's instead.
This ngram, the British's, the British people's suggests that the British's popularity is rising and the Bristish people's is falling. This is surprising, but it might suggest that there's more support for the British's than I realized.
Just adding to that n-gram, "The Brits'" appears to be the most common way to phrase that currently - even if it is slightly colloquial. books.google.com/ngrams/… – user274438 Feb 14 '19 at 17:08
This is not correct, I'm afraid. British as a noun is not a non-count (or mass), singular noun – if it is to be analysed as a true noun at all (highly doubtful), it is unquestionably plural in the sense given here. This is easily confirmed by the fact that it takes plural agreement: it's "the British are a European people", not "the British *is a European people". But what it really is is an adjective modifying a deleted head noun, and as such, it can also be singular, and it can also be countable, though a generic head noun (one) will usually be supplied in that case. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Feb 15 '19 at 16:40
That sounds compelling @JanusBahsJacquet. Seems like you should add that as an answer. – Juhasz Feb 15 '19 at 16:43
I don't think it really warrants a separate answer, because I agree with your conclusion: the British's is in theory all right, but in practice awkward and probably best avoided in favour of the British people's or the Britons' or the Brits'. That is so regardless of which actual word class British itself belongs to. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Feb 15 '19 at 16:51
OK, I'll update my answer to include your remarks about the deleted head, @JanusBahsJacquet. – Juhasz Feb 15 '19 at 17:10
I should note that if you want to talk about British people, the following would also be a correct plural possessive:
The Britons' food preference.
From Merriam-Webster's definition of Briton:
1 : a member of one of the peoples inhabiting Britain prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasions
2 : a native or subject of Great Britain especially : ENGLISHMAN
Briton is often shortened to Brit.
Using this noun can help to distinguish it from British, which could be confused with either the country or the adjective. This noun is also countable and, unlike British, you can say a Briton or a Brit.
So, it may be preferable in some contexts.


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Leah posted on her blog this morning a wonderful short talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talking about where creative genius comes from. Here's a link to the 19-minute video. Consider it my Valentine gift to you!
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Here's my collage du jour from this morning. Some of you won't be reading this until Saturday morning, which is why I'm posting this Valentine on Friday the 13th. Besides, Friday the 13th is always a good day for hearts and flowers!
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I love TED; what a fabulous clip. Thanks, Connie.
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Winter Activities – Cross Country Skiing Trails, Sledding, Ice Skating & Ice Fishing
The Hocking Hills are picture perfect after a snow fall. The ice formations formed from dripping water that freeze to the rock are quite spectacular. Plus the winter is the off season for cabin and lodging rentals. Many places have discounted rates at this time of year which means you save by coming during the colder months.
There is an annual Winter Hike every January and various winter activities are scheduled at the state parks. All the state parks are open year around until dark. Bring your camera and be prepared to get some spectacular pictures during the Hocking Hills winter season. Bundle up and enjoy a walk through the woods.
A trip to the "hills" is the perfect antidote to cabin fever. Bring your cross country skis, sleds, ice skates and ice fishing gear. Then warm up inside next to a cozy fire place.
Lake Logan has two winter sledding areas, allows ice skating and ice fishing. Lake Hope offers sledding, ice skating, ice fishing, and cross country skiing. Old Man's Cave has a sledding trail near their family cabins. You can bring the whole family and make it an annual tradition.
The Hockhocking Adena Bikeway is used for a cross country skiing during the winter. It starts behind the Rocky Boot Outlet store in Nelsonville and ends in Athens, Ohio. The length one way is 17 miles. Make sure you stop and shop at Rocky's before you leave and have a bite to eat at their Boot Grill which offers a Bison Burger or soup of the day.
The Annual Winter Hike
The Annual Winter Hike is every third Saturday in January and follows the six mile Grandma Gatewoods Trail between Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, and Ash Cave. No reservations are required. The start time is between 9 am and 11 am.
Shuttle buses are provided to take hikers back to Old Man's Cave. I have taken the winter hike and loved it. It is an annual event worth putting on your calendar every year. The Hocking Hills are beautiful during each and every season of the year.
Hikers park and start the hike at Old Man's Cave. From there it is a three mile hike to Cedar Falls. At that point hikers are served hot bean soup, cornbread, and hot chocolate. The bean soup is made in huge pots over an open fire. After being fed and rested a bit the trail continues for another three miles to Ash Cave. After spending time at Ash Cave hikers are taken back to the parking lot by bus
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Early this morning, Philippine police confirmed that the severed head found on the southern Philippine island of Jolo on June 13, was that of Canadian, Robert Hall.
Even before the confirmation, the family of the Canadian held hostage since September 2015, last week said they agree with the Canadian government's policy of not paying ransom to terrorists.
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"The DNA samples of the recovered head…matched the DNA profile of Hall submitted by the forensics laboratory of Canada," Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Aranas, director of the Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory Service, said during a press briefing in Camp Crame in Quezon City today.
In recent weeks, the Philippine military had announced that it has stepped up its operations against Abu Sayyaf.
"… a decapitated head of a Caucasian-looking person was recovered beside Mt. Carmel Cathedral, Sanchez St, Brgy Walled, Jolo, Sulu placed inside a plastic bag after receiving information from a concerned citizen. Said decapitated head was turned-over to Trauma Station Hospital, Kampo Heneral Teodolo Bautista (KHTB) for proper disposition," a report from the PNP said earlier this week. "This type of execution by evil groups on innocent people is very unfortunate and deserves the condemnation of civil society and every peace-loving citizens."
Hall was one of the three foreigners snatched by Abu Sayyaf terrorists on September 21 last year in Samal Island. In April, fellow Canadian hostage, John Ridsel was also beheaded by his captors.
The fate of their hostages, Filipina, Mairtes Flor who is Hall's wife, and Kjartan Sekkingstad, a Norwegian resort manager, are still unknown.
"…our family, even in our darkest hour, agrees wholeheartedly with Canada's policy of not paying ransom to those who would seek to undermine the fundamental values with which my father lived his life," the family of Hall said in a letter that also recounted his life and the values he held. "We stand with the ideals that built this country; strength of character, resilience of spirit, and refusal to succumb to the demands of the wretched, in order to satisfy the bloodlust of the weak."
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1. Clothespin Gift Toppers: How fun are these DIY clothespin toppers? Add a little glitter and a cute miniature tree or creature, and your present will be good to go. (via Creature Comforts)
2. Paper Toppers: Sometimes all it takes is a few extra sheets of scrapbook paper to make fun and unique gift toppers. Our personal fave? The mini tree, of course. (via The House That Lars Built)
3. Gingerbread Topper: Have your gift and eat it too. Well, maybe don't actually eat your gift, but this gingerbread topper is totally edible. (via Eyes on the Details)
4. Paper Straws, Pom Poms and Honeycombs: This is the prettiest set of gifts we've ever seen. DIY these toppers using paper straws, yarn and a couple candy canes. Yep, it's that easy. (via Country Living)
5. Gift Toppers That Pop: Want to learn how to make toppers that pop? Check out this video tutorial and you'll become the ultimate gift wrapper in no time. (via Brit + Co)
6. Berry Gift Topper: Bring a touch of nature to your box using twigs and berries. Secure with hemp for an extra-natural look. (via Rue Rococo)
7. Glitter Letters and Polka Dots: For the girly girl in your life, add a glitter initial to the top of an already adorable package. Want to know a secret? Those polka dots were DIYed with wine corks. (via La Crema)
8. Paper Snowflakes: Remember when you learned how to make paper snowflakes in elementary school? Well it's time to refresh your skillz, because they make the perfect finishing touch to your present. (via Giochi di Carta)
9. Pom Pom Toppers: You don't always have to use traditional holiday colors to wrap a present. Go for a pastel style using mint and light pink pom poms. (via Style Stek)
10. Clay Tags: We're loving the chic vibe of the gold wrapping paper with contrasting greenery. DIY clay gift tags to add a personalized touch. (via Vitamini Handmade)
11. Shrinky Dink Gift Tags: LOL. How fun are these gift tags? We're pretty sure no one will pick up the wrong present when it has their face on it. (via And We Play)
12. Bon Bons and Fresh Greenery: Use an assortment of fresh-colored ribbons and stems to wrap presents as epic as these. We obviously have a sweet spot for the bon bon one. (via Oh Happy Day)
What's your favorite unique way to top off your perfectly wrapped present? Let us know in the comments below.


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Design of Transparent Anodes for Resonant Cavity Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells
AuthorsSergeant, Nicholas P.
Hadipour, Afshin
Niesen, Bjoern
Cheyns, David
Heremans, Paul
Peumans, Peter
Rand, Barry P.
KAUST Grant NumberKUS-C1-015-21
Online Publication Date2012-01-03
Print Publication Date2012-02-07
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AbstractThe use of an ITO-free MoO 3/Ag/MoO 3 anode to control the photon harvesting in PCDTBT:PC 70BM solar cells is proposed. At first sight, the fact that these anodes possess reduced far-field transmission compared to ITO may seem to be a disadvantage. But, despite this, we show that by carefully tuning the resonant optical cavity we can enhance the external quantum efficiency close to the band edge of PCDTBT, resulting in high photocurrent and power conversion efficiency on par with ITO. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
CitationSergeant NP, Hadipour A, Niesen B, Cheyns D, Heremans P, et al. (2012) Design of Transparent Anodes for Resonant Cavity Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials 24: 728–732. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201104273.
SponsorsWe would like to thank St Jean Photochemicals (Montreal, CA, USA) for providing the PCDTBT polymer. This publication was partially based on work supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors thank Prof. M.D. McGehee, Dr. P. Catrysse and Prof. S. Fan for insightful discussions. N.P.S. acknowledges the financial support as a Francqui fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.
JournalAdvanced Materials
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The Region Where the Air Is Music
I wrote my first song with lyrics, "U.V.A.," when I was 19. I had been wanting and trying to write a song for years by that point, but when I sat down to play my guitar that day (2/24/89, in case you're wondering), I had no idea I would actually write one.
I started tinkering around with some songs I already knew (probably by Elvis Costello or Billy Bragg) but grew bored and soon realized I didn't want to play anything I typically played. I came to a full stop, looked at my still left hand resting on the fretboard, and started strumming. Liking what I heard, I opened my mouth to see what would come out. Two hours later, the song was finished.
This is the point at which I should have said (and maybe did say) "Man, that was easy." I was more preoccupied, however, with one central question: where in the fuck did that song come from? I don't mean the raw material, because that much I knew all too well: a girl, longing, and all that that entails. After looking at her across rooms, sending her anonymous love letters (complete with epigrams of Romantic poetry and the just-coined phrase "unrequited visual affection"), writing a terrible short story about her, phoning her pretending to be someone else, and finally telling/showing her who I was, I stuck it all in a song.
What I mean is, how did this song come leaping out of me? Answer: I don't know. I didn't know then, and I don't know now.
This same process has repeated itself many, many times over the last 21 years, and one running theme that became apparent early on was my propensity to horde song titles and write a song based on one of those horded titles. Below is a list of some of the songs I've written title first, from whence they came, and about what they are (as Yoda would ask), at least as far as I can recall.
"When I Grow Down" – A friend of mine and I were walking in between classes when she saw an unctuous frat boy we both disliked and said, "I like Barry SO much. When I grow down, I want to be just like him."
"Bowhead" – As I once said to introduce this song, I wrote this while trying to learn the Greek alphabet off shirts in Perry Cafeteria.
"Beneficial Neglect" – This was the title of a paper my wife wrote in grad school. The song itself is about the one and only day I ever spent in daycare. And what a traumatic day it was.
"Going Dutch Means You're Ugly" – I'm proud to say I just thought this phrase up out of nowhere, all by myself.
"Mullet Boy Enumerates" – While watching TV one day, I witnessed a local commercial that featured a mullet-sporting dude who was counting off on his fingers the benefits of whatever business he was hawking. Almost reflexively, I said out loud, "Mullet boy enumerates." Months later, while consulting a list of titles to select one for a newly written song (which ended up being called "Life-Size Stencils"), I found "Mullet Boy Enumerates" atop this very same list and vowed that I was going to write this song tonight, by gum. So later that night, I picked up my guitar, said "here goes," and wrote the song in 30 minutes. It was coming so fast that I had to write the lyrics down on a notepad lying nearby; I used one sheet from the notepad for each of the song's verses, and I still have them as mementos (hear it at http://www.myspace.com/thepersiansms).
"Tomorrow Wants to Extend" – This is one crazy story. Back when I taught freshman comp, in the midst of a grading marathon, I leaned back in my chair, resting my head, looking up at the ceiling. Except that, due to my location in the room, I ended up looking not at the ceiling but at the backside of a student's folder (at the bottom of a stack of research papers, probably as yet ungraded), the lower third of which extended out beyond the shelf, which is why I could see it at all. On the folder's backside was (nay, is – I still have the folder, am looking at it right now) written the following, in this layout:
Florida Power & Light
Wants to extend
I must have sat there for five full minutes staring at that phrase, wondering how a selfish, smug, agnostic fool like me could deserve such a gift. I still wonder, actually (hear it at http://www.myspace.com/thepersiansms.)
"Spasmatron" – Thank you, Alec Eiffel, thank you, for discarding this gem of a song and title into my grubby mitts. When Alec and I were in Men from Nantucket, he offered me the music to a song called "Spasmatron," the vocal melody and lyrics for which he apparently no longer liked. The music kicked unholy ass, so I wanted to do something with it. After months of nothing at all, inspiration struck on my way to the Gulf Coast for a vacation. Following a pit stop in Hattiesburg, my family and I piled back in the car and headed south. My wife and daughter went immediately to sleep, and my mind started looking for something to do. For reasons unexplained, Alec's song leaped to mind, and all of a sudden (or, as an old redneck boss of mine used to say, "all of the sudden"), words started coming. Fast. By the time we got to the hotel in Biloxi, I had written every word and sussed out the entire vocal line and had, in fact, been singing it all softly to myself for miles so as not forget what I'd wrought (no pen or paper, no confidence in my ability to use pen/paper and traverse Highway 49 safely, no desire to awaken the ladies). The nanosecond we got up to our room, I grabbed the hotel stationery and wrote down the words, and then I called our answering machine at home (no ubiquitous cell phones at that point, kiddies!) to make sure I'd remember the vocal melody. The song exists in more or less that very form to this day and is, in fact, one of the Persians songs people seem to like the most. Sadly, I no longer have the hotel stationery or the recording of my frantic late-night, long-distance phone call (hear clips of this song at CD Baby and iTunes).
"So Help Me Something" – I earlier called myself an agnostic, though the older I get "atheist" is a more apt description. My irreligiosity can be petty, and one manifestation of this is my tendency to avoid saying the word "god" in any oath or adage (I find replacing "god" with "Bob" to be particularly rewarding, partially in honor of one of my heroes, Guided by Voices founder Bob Pollard – "In Bob We Trust," "A Mighty Fortress Is Our Bob," etc.). Yet one day I subconsciously decided to replace the deity with an all-purpose placeholder, and out popped "so help me something," followed in close succession by the vocal melody and the song's structural idea (chorus first and immediate). All this came so fast I sang into the VoiceNote function on my cell phone for safekeeping and then spent several weeks fleshing out the rest of the song's details. (BTW, I posted about this song on the Persians' myspace blog – you can read that at http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=44061880&MyToken=ffaca06d-b665-4b77-b27c-70499250f78fML; scroll to the entry for May 26, 2006.)
"Orange Is for Eyebrows" – My Persian drummer's younger daughter is a hellacious artist, and one of her drawings had this phrase as its title. What I like most is that such a sunny creation helped spawn a most malevolent-sounding song. Yar.
"That Kind of Funny" – This is a weird one too. While listening to They Might Be Giants' fantastic "kids'" album No! for the umpteenth time, I started focusing on just why I find these songs funny. During the very first song, "Fibber Island," I homed in on a couplet that had always caught my attention: "Here on Fibber Island we have mittens in our hair / You might need to stare to see the mittens in our hair." I find this pair of lines hilarious but not in a knee-slapping, ow-my-face-hurts kind of way; something about the bald-faced repetition, coupled with the question of whether these lines even can legitimately be said to rhyme since they're mostly composed of the same fucking words, made me say out loud, to absolutely no one, "It's funny, but not that kind of funny." Later that night, I sat down to play guitar, and this song came pouring out, a slacking, smartassed tale of two people on the outs who crumple to an end over a cynically metaphoric card game. Probably one of my better compositions all around (hear it at http://www.myspace.com/johnbrocatomusic).
"Are You Wearing Argyle?" – I spent many, many undergraduate hours scribbling song lyrics inside notebooks while sitting in core courses devoid of all pedagogical objective. I'm semi-proud to say I've carried this tradition over into alleged grown-up life, using worthless "meetings" as opportunities to forge things from the smithy of my soul, etc. So it was that one day I sat in a meeting with my legs stretched out in front of me (we were in an auditorium), and I happened to get a peek at my argyle-patterned socks. For reasons I will probably never understand, I instantly had this vision of a Tim Gunn-type maven standing over me asking, with barely contained derision, "Are you wearing argyle?" I actually laughed out loud, and then I quickly sobered up and commenced to writing the song, which was finished by the end of the meeting. I even had tiny chord-change notations above the lyrics so I'd remember what I wanted my hands to do (hear it at http://www.myspace.com/johnbrocatomusic).
"Mallory-Free" – Wife said to sister-in-law, "So, how's your brother doing?" Sister-in-law said, "Oh, he's fine. He called me the other day to tell me he's officially Mallory-free." And I just sat there, outwardly mute but writing and strumming decisively inside (hear it at http://www.myspace.com/thepersiansms).
The "Sparkler" songs – This, in my not-so-humble opinion, makes for the best story of all. The music and ethos of Dayton, Ohio's Guided by Voices (defunct since 2004) have had an incalculable influence on me, and one of my favorite direct effects comes from the 1996 GBV documentary Watch Me Jumpstart, in a scene where Bob Pollard discusses how he's been writing songs his whole life (3000 total is his estimate at that point) and what the process is like. Pollard says when he was in high school, he used his yearbook to create bands and their oeuvre: he would cut out (with scissors!) head shots of people and put them together, and then he'd create album covers and liner notes, and then – for me, this is the critical part – he'd create song titles for the albums. And then he'd write those songs, which is supposedly how some of the best GBV songs came to be.
I cannot describe how much I love the idea of this process, and from the time I heard it I wanted to do it myself. So, while driving around in the summer of 2006, I got behind a car with a bumper sticker that read as follows:
I thought two things: (1) What a stupid bumper sticker (yeah, like every other one's a peach); and (2) What a kickass album title. I chewed on this for a few days, wrote down the bumper-sticker phrase, and (cue the Magic, the Mystery, the Honeydew Feeding) tried to let my mind pick the band name that would appear above and the song titles that would appear below the album title. I honestly don't know how to explain the "tried to let my mind pick" thing; it's sort of like seeing it on paper (through the, um, mind's eye, etc.), but it most definitely involves a lack of effort – if I push too hard, the good stuff gets blown away. After 30-40 seconds of faux-clairvoyant not trying, what I had on the page was as follows:
Sparkler – Get In, Sit Down, Shut Up, Hold On
1. Welcome
2. Being a Saint
3. Pony-Stolen Sickness
4. Sometimes a Ghost Is All You've Got
5. Football Blood
6. At Five in the Morning
7. Whose Notepad Are You?
8. Swing on By
9. Nobody Said You Couldn't Say…
10. Lifetimes of Bionic Shyness
11. Harrumph
This I liked, but what happened next was even better. I've always let the muse come to me; this time I wanted to get all up in her ambrosia-sucking grill and shit. I made a solemn vow I would actually force myself to write these songs. (The only other time I'd forced myself to write was a country song called "Me and My Kind," which went rather well.)
A week or 10 days probably went by before I could make time to attack this little project with the available time I hoped it would require. When the night came, I walked into the practice room, set down the Sparkler list in front of me, turned on my amp, strapped on my guitar, looked at the first song ("Welcome"), and began. About two minutes into the song, I stopped to turn on my recorder, because what was coming out seemed so good I was afraid of losing it all. I restarted "Welcome," this time with the "record" button pressed, and when I was finished I began "Being a Saint," again while recording. I performed these steps for every song on the list. After three hours, nine of them had discernible, sustainable content and structure, and six of them were damn near finished. I was amazed but cautious, since I was all too aware that a few hours could show me how good the new songs weren't. Mais non – I woke up the next morning (unable, by the way, to remember from memory how any of those tunes went) and was ecstatically surprised to find that I thought all of the nine near-songs were keepers. Hell, more than that, really – I thought they were badass. Still do.
If memory serves, in two weeks I was totally done with the damn-near-finished six; I then made completed demos for my brother Persians, as always, and – happy day! – they liked them. We have since played them live many times. Some of these are available in raw demo form at http://www.myspace.com/johnbrocatomusic.
Since Sparkler, I've repeated this process several times in head and on paper but haven't written the songs yet. My two favorites are below. The first is a band name inspired by GBV, whose song titles and lyrics provide me with a limitless supply of ideas: Kicker of Elves, my handle on this blog, is a GBV song title; I also occasionally gig as Ex-Supermodel, another GBV song that features a loud snore and the repeated lyric "So I write music for soundtracks now"; and the documentary title Watch Me Jumpstart is also a very excellent GBV song.
Sheetkickers – Daze of Wine and Poses
1. No Thunder
2. As You Were
3. Time Is In My Side
4. Hallowed Ground
5. Respectable Neighbor Society
6. Sunstroke
7. Have You Ever Made a Mistake?
8. Be There When the Lights Go Out
9. Shorten It Up
10. Daze of Wine and Poses
11. Ask Around
12. There Is a Better Way
This second example just popped out last week. While reading Cormac McCarthy's biblically awesome Blood Meridian, I stumbled upon several pristine phrases that I wrote down for future use, including "drygulch phantom," "deputation of spastics," and "Whitneyville colts." This last phrase, which refers to a famous make of Old-West gun, really stuck in my head as a badass band name, and this badassedness peaked to a point last week where I spewed forth the following.
Whitneyville Colts – Berate This Place
1. Ancient Jazz
2. Berate This Place
3. Conqueror Worms (Are At It Again)
4. Dams Have No Soul
5. Executioner's Revenge
6. False Confessions
7. Get 'Em While They're Warm
8. Happy for Me, Sad for You
9. I Can't Explain No Satisfaction
10. Jesus Was a Tenor
11. Knock-Knock (Give Me Back My Underwear Blues)
12. Left at the Y
13. Malediction Forbidding Morning
I envision Whitneyville Colts as equal parts Johnny Cash, Josh Homme, and the Drive-By Truckers. I fully plan on recording these songs this coming summer.
OK, all done now.
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Excellent post! I love explorations of the creative process. :) I've got no musical talent, but I do write fiction on occasion, and I'm definitely familiar with the "where'd that come from?" feeling. Sometimes I'll go back and read some stuff I wrote, and am amazed that it came out of my brain, 'cuz it sounds unfamiliar. (Unless it sucks... then I know I'm responsible for it. :) ) It sounds a bit schizzy, but sometimes I think there's some subconscious library of stuff already written in my mind somewhere, and I just got lucky to access it and read it onto the paper. Occasionally I'll wake up in the morning with some funny little phrase or plot idea in the forefront of my mind, like dream-residue. I keep a notebook by the bed to write that stuff down. And, like you hoard song titles, I hoard story titles. I don't have a story for 'em, but some things pop into my head and sound like they could be used for something later ("Laughing In Church," "A Good Year For Vultures," "Let's Go Sleep In The Ocean," "Downbound Angel," "Premeditation Blues" etc.) Anyway, I especially like the Whitneyville Colts titles... I look forward to hearin' those sometime. :) And I'm digging the Sparkler etc. stuff that I hadn't heard before. Good work! :)ReplyDelete
Wow... cool post. I was always convinced (though now, not necessarily so much so) that the songs that were birthd near-whole like Pallas Athena from Zeus' swol'ass headbone were the Muse singing thru me. Still happens from time to time, that lightning-bolt immediacy of an almost-complete song concept, but not often enough; + working on the craft of songwriting is still near-torture for me...ReplyDelete


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Galaxystrife is a cool multiplayer online space game about battle spaceships. Fly your ship through the galaxy shooting down all your opponents before you end up getting shot from all directions. Collect different kinds of weapons and power-ups to become unstoppable and do your best to reach the top of the scoreboard. Each time you kill an opponent you will earn some points, so aim as good as possible and find the weapons that suit you the best. Have fun with Galaxystrife!
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Manage your online student account with Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris by using myupsi.upsi.edu.my. From this page, you can use MyUPSI portal, online student services and even access your vendor account (if you have one). Sultan Idris Education University or UPSI is a public university located in the town of Tanjung Malim, Perak in Malaysia. It was established in 1922 as a teachers college and today, it is one of the oldest functioning institutions of higher learning in the country.
The history of UPSI as we know today dates to when it was known as a training college for Malay teachers. It is named after the late Sultan Idris Murshidul Azam Shah – the 28th sultan of Perak. Back then, students were required to complete a three-year course of training that consists of traditional skills and arithmetic. Later on, the training period was extended to 5 years and more subjects were added. Get more information about the university on myUPSI.edu.my.
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Frankie Drake Mysteries heads to season two
CBC has commissioned 10 new episodes of the detective drama, produced by Shaftesbury.
Frankie Drake headed to U.K. channel Alibi in 2018
CBC and Shaftesbury also revealed additional cast, including Rebecca Liddiard, and directors for the female-led detective drama.
CBC greenlights Shaftesbury's Frankie Drake
The female-led period detective drama, created by Murdoch Mysteries scribes Carol Hay and Michelle Ricci, goes to camera this summer in Toronto.


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Adding a map to your event can be done from the add map section. Maps can be any image you choose, from this section you can
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The upload section of the add map page simply allows you to upload an image of the floor plan or area map itself. To do this, simply drag-and-drop and image to the upload section.
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The map title is the what will display in the app, this title will also be used when setting a 'Map Point'
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EDITOR'S NOTE: College Relations is publishing a monthly series of news articles, features and Q&A interviews highlighting various departments on campus in an effort to assist the faculty and staff in gaining an increased awareness about and understanding of each other's roles and responsibilities.
The November Q&A is with Dr. Nathaniel Gallegos, chair of the Business department.
Q: What are your duties as chair of the Business department at CSC?
The duties of the chair in the Business Academy are manifold due to the size of the department. The Business Academy has nearly 500 undergraduate students and 200 Master of Business Administration (MBA) students, which combine to about one-quarter of CSC's total enrollment, spread across eight undergraduate programs, the graduate MBA, and supplementary course offerings in the Master of Science in Organizational Management (MSOM) program. We offer nearly 200 iterated courses per calendar year with 13-tenured faculty lines, two instructor lines, and a host of qualified adjuncts. We are graced with additional support with academic advising from Terri Haynes, support from graduate assistants and work-study students, and our office administrator, Emily Snitily, seriously coordinates the whole show.
Furthermore, the Business Academy is accredited by Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and supports CSC's Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation. Needless to say, there are a lot of moving parts involved and it's hard to pin down precise duties as no two days have been the same. In essence, the chair position is almost like a fiduciary oath of accountability to do whatever needs to be done for the betterment of our students, support of our business faculty, and commitment to the miscellaneous grinding gears that are always turning in our business program and institution.
Q: What aspects of business theory and practice do courses in your department cover?
The Business Academy is committed to modern, pragmatic business theory. It's an academic point to enumerate the many flavors of economic theory from leftist institutionalism to the right-most branches of libertarianism or objectivism. These topics have their place, however, CSC's Business Academy is devoted to give business students a toolbox of skills that will allow for effective utility in a technologically dynamic marketplace. Yes, it's important for our CSC business graduates to have the mind to wrestle and contemplate the nuances of advanced economic theories but it's more imperative that our business graduates have the chops to enter a competitive labor market and produce results in their work-product. Our program, our accreditation, and our faculty are devoted to the latter beyond question.
Q: Are courses in your department applicable to most or all types of businesses?
The value of CSC's Business Academy's courses come largely from our commitment to our ACBSP specialized accreditation standards. These standards require continual program level assessment of courses, faculty credentialing standards, proof of faculty continuous improvement, and relevancy of curriculum development. This has all led to national recognition of the caliber of CSC's Business Academy.
Moreover, one must realize that business is the common thread in society today. It doesn't matter if one's job is an accountant, principal, priest, abstract artist, physician, lawyer, academic dean, or a college professor, today's society requires a knowledge of budgets, fiscal controls, management concepts, information systems, and marketing principles. You can't have a yard sale without these skills. Although, one may not need be dexterous with formal double-entry bookkeeping, experimental statistics, financial ratio analyses, business organization law, or pass-through taxation, the deeper investment in one's toolbox of business skills is wisdom and it can only help a learner's career.
Q: How does your department give students real world experience in business?
CSC has an outstanding internship program. Deena Kennell is Director of Internships and Career Services and she works with both our main campus and online students to find internship opportunities and craft the outcomes for fulfillment of the learning objectives. This means a lot for a student who may be on the fence about a given career path. It allows exploration and time-in-job to aid with such a momentous decision.
I will vouch for the internship/clerkship learning method as it was a big part of my own education. When I was in law school, I was uncertain about what branch of law I wished to pursue. I originally had plans of having a consumer practice focusing on criminal and immigration law. However, after doing clerkships and clinics in these areas, as well as taking courses in other areas of law, I found that I preferred transactional law and it further coupled with my prior work in economics and as a business statistician. I naturally found my groove in business law due to familiarity and interest in the subject matter. I may have missed this fork in the career path if I would have labored blindly to my prior choice. The clerkships were commanding to probe, search, and fully flesh out a possible career choice.
Q: How does your department personalize the interactions with students who take primarily or exclusively online courses?
Online courses are a disruptive force to the traditional education model. There is a ubiquity to the change as we are seeing with learning management systems (LMS) being used in K-12 and even Pre-K schools. And the trend will just continue with the advent of big-data and economies of scale in costs, which unbind tethers of location like classrooms and faculty domicile. There is cultural acceptance of this new digital reality. I am pleased to corroborate that CSC has already taken steps to ensure quality and compliance with membership in National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) and Quality Matters programs.
Additionally, as to my personal interactions with our students, it is actually a natural check to the previous question of program growth. To properly ensure a qualitative and quantitative measure of interaction, feedback, and all-around connection, an online professor is limited by time in an asynchronous modality; there's only so much one can do so the time must be spent efficiently. During my first week of an online course, I require introductions in a discussion forum to connect with students. It seems that by about midway through the course, you get to know the students through their work-product, work situations, families, and their voice as it comes across in their work. Again, the quality is negatively correlated to the number of students. The connection to your student expressed through feedback is imperative for course quality and there's no substitute for doing the work.
Thus, here at CSC, our course caps are kept to reasonable numbers and faculty members are limited to the number of individual courses they must prep.
Q: What career paths are open to a graduate with a degree in business?
Anything. A business degree empowers the graduate to do absolutely anything.
Undeniably, one overarching product of a college degree is an ability to think critically. This ability has been largely advocated from courses in a broad, liberal education. There is enormous value in taking courses in science, human diversity, mathematics, writing, etc. … to add to one's toolbox of analyses. But I would further argue that a student's major focuses the analysis further. For instance, an owner of an auto repair shop needs to think beyond just mechanics and car parts to business questions like liability insurance, payment systems, advertising, legal entity choice, and much more of concern to his business. This is the same for a Nebraska corn famer, a rural school principal in Colorado, a Detroit yoga studio owner, a South Dakota beef rancher, or a Silicon Valley start-up. What are the important questions to ask for a business objective?
Thus, business students' career choices are near inexhaustible with a business degree. Even if one's skills get antiquated and irrelevant, a business graduate understands the economics of disruptive innovation and will willingly retool. Business and economics is like a philosophy, bushido or a tao in that way; it's never about having the right answers, but having the right questions.
Q: What advice would you give to a student interested in a business degree?
I have two points of disjointed advice for any business major: 1) read; and 2) reverse design.
Erudition is my first part of advice. I have read statistical studies on the monetary correlations of the well-read affluent. I dislike these figures. One should read for the betterment of one's self and no other reason. I encourage my students to read. I personally couldn't imagine my life without reading Dostoyevsky's "Brother's Karamazov," Dickens' "David Copperfield," Trollope's "The Way We Live Now," Garcia Marquez's "Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera," Edrich's "Roundhouse," or Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and "Fountainhead." There is such beauty in literature and I assure every one of my students that the contemplation of books will yield dividends to one's mind and will lend to a richer life helping one connect with people and understand business more than years spent in toiling in business schools or in financial firms in skyscrapers.
And the best advice I can think about giving any business major about the future is to reverse design your life. Think about where you want to be for the prime of your career or retirement and design backward at what it takes to get there. Map it out. Plan it. Set up goals and benchmarks. But I caution to never tie assessment of success with the accumulation of monetary assets; this is hedonistic and shallow. Take it from me, it is not worth grinding 70-hours per week, sleeping with a phone under your pillow, to just sit in traffic in your brand new car (that depreciated 10 percent by just driving off the lot), chasing the Nexium for the ulcer with Red Bull for your next deposition for that six-figure firm job. Personally, I have found success measured by walking to work in the mornings, a flexible work schedule to read interesting books, living close to family, attending church every Sunday (yes, sitting in the same pew), working with interesting colleagues, and talking about innovative people and companies that are working in their passions to receptive and intelligent students.
Q: What do you like best about teaching at Chadron State College?
Honestly, the best part of working for CSC is the fact that I have been given this opportunity as chair. My department has allowed me this opportunity and it is indicative that they see me worth the institutional investment. Dean Hyer and Dr. Snare have also allowed me to be a part of many campus committees, accreditation efforts, and included me, amongst many other junior faculty, for input on the future directions of CSC. As Google's head of human resources, Lazlo Bock, said in his book "Work Rules," a vibrant organization will create a safe place for upcoming talent to try and safely fail without fear of negative backlash. I have been chair for only a few months and I swear that it's been jumping from fire to fire. It takes me double the time to do tasks that other chairs could finish blindfolded. Even the amount of correspondence has exploded as my email volume increased from 10 or so messages a day to over 70. It's like drinking from a firehose. However, I have had the fortune of mentorship from Dr. Anderson, Dr. Bruehlman, and Dr. Koza as prior chairs; Dean Hyer is honest and amazingly patient, and Dr. Snare has been encouraging all the while. I love that CSC is actively investing in the next generation of faculty. I know that there are enough people watching that I don't break anything but they are also supporting me to succeed, because as cliché as it sounds, CSC's success is all of our success. That's what I like best about working for CSC.
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CleanSlate UV sees great promise in its product that uses ultraviolet light to disinfect mobile devices in settings like healthcare, food and biotech facilities.
But the Buffalo company argues a competitor, PhoneSoap, has made deceptive claims in marketing materials about its own product.
As a result, CleanSlate on Wednesday filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint against Utah-based PhoneSoap. The complaint claims PhoneSoap has made "improperly substantiated claims" about its new Med+ Ultraviolet disinfection product to potential buyers, including hospital systems.
CleanSlate is essentially concerned that if PhoneSoap's product doesn't perform as promoted, customers will be less likely to embrace ultraviolet light technology as a way to disinfect mobile devices. CleanSlate's CEO, Taylor Mann, said he is also concerned that PhoneSoap is competing for customers using what Mann considers inaccurate information.
"As (ultraviolet) solutions look to replace chemical wipes, we must use testing standards that give a clear comparison and align with a products' instructions for use," Mann said. "The testing done by PhoneSoap on their Med+ device meets neither of these criteria."
It's not clear when the FTC will act on CleanSlate's complaint: The agency is closed due to the partial shutdown of the federal government. A media representative for PhoneSoap did not respond to a request to comment Wednesday on the complaint.
CleanSlate, which also has offices in Toronto, was a $500,000 prize winner in the 2015 43North competition. The following year, the company won $300,000 in follow-on funding from 43North. The business, located on Main Street, now has nine employees.
Mann said CleanSlate first became aware of claims PhoneSoap was making about its Med+ product at a conference last year in Minneapolis.
Mann said he sent a letter to his counterpart at PhoneSoap, Wesley LaPorte, describing his concerns and asking PhoneSoap to make changes to its claims. Mann said LaPorte promised to "soften" the language on PhoneSoap's website.
But CleanSlate claimed PhoneSoap continued to circulate marketing materials containing the claims that CleanSlate objected to, prompting CleanSlate's legal counsel to send the company a cease-and-desist letter. According to CleanSlate, PhoneSoap "continued to make assurance that the aforementioned efficacy claims were no longer being included in marketing materials."
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