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Oh, no. There's another alarming survey about teens and driving habits. The texting, the cell phones, the speeding and the drinking... Except this time, it's not just the teens behaving badly – it's their parents.
Turns out, the vast majority of parents need to hang up and drive. In a nationwide survey conducted by an insurance company of 1,700 teens, 91 percent report that their parents talk on cell phones while driving, 88 percent say mom and dad speed and 59 percent of teens have seen their parents text while driving.
And teens are paying attention to their role models: 90 percent of teens surveyed admit to talking on cell phones while driving, 94 percent say they speed, and 78 percent say they text behind the wheel.
The bad vehicular behavior doesn't end there: 47 percent of parents are said to drive without seatbelts, while 20 percent of teens say they've seen their parents get behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol and seven percent of parents have been spotted driving after smoking pot.
And, once again, teens mirror their parents' behavior. A third of teens admit to driving without wearing a seatbelt, 15 percent have driven while under the influence of alcohol and 16 percent say they've driven after smoking pot.
As parents, are we a bunch of hypocrites? Our kids certainly seem to think so. The survey, which was conducted by Liberty Mutual Insurance and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), also shows that two-thirds of teenage drivers believe their parents live by different rules than the ones they set for their kids.
The takeaway: Your teens actually ARE paying attention to you, so act accordingly.
"Your kids are always observing the decisions you make behind the wheel, and in fact have likely been doing so since they were big enough to see over the dashboard," said Dave Melton, a driving safety expert with Liberty Mutual Insurance and managing director of global safety. "You may think you only occasionally read a text at a stop light or take the odd 30-second phone call, but kids are seeing that in a different way. Answering your phone once while driving, even if only for a few seconds, legitimizes the action for your children and they will, in turn, see that as acceptable behavior."
So parents, let this serve as a reminder that little (and not so little) eyes are watching your every move and getting ready to mimic you perfectly the second they get behind the wheel.
Dana Macario is a Seattle-area mom who's resolving to be a better driver, after last week's traffic ticket.
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The Swinging Pig Bar is Rockingham's favourite bar, with a great Aussie style beer garden and featuring a huge range of local and imported beers.
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If you're an undergraduate or a postgraduate student who would like to experience life as a student in Berlin for one or two semesters, our Study Abroad Programme is for you. At SRH Hochschule Berlin, we offer course paths that build on and enhance your studies. You'll study alongside our current students to ensure you get the most from this cultural, social and intercollegiate experience. Depending on your level and course of study, you'll have the option to select modules that fit with your course or programme at your home university.
Why study abroad in Berlin?
Study abroad is all about adding value to your time as a student, and enjoying a truly dynamic, life-altering experience. You'll travel and live in another country, interact with people from different backgrounds and experience a different way of life. You'll get to know yourself better, gain greater confidence in your decision-making processes and immerse yourself in a new culture, all while enhancing your career prospects.
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- "A CityRecorder Gala" with Martin Bernstein in the Chapel
- Hotel Elefant – New York Premieres from Brown, Castillo, Narveson, Villarreal, and Volness in the Chapel
- "Radiance from the North" – St. Bart's Choir and Music of Ešenvalds, Gjeilo, Leifs, Sandström, and Grieg in the Church
- Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field Performed by Marilyn Nonken and Stephen Marotto in the Chapel
- Buster Keaton Comedies Screened to Live Organ Accompaniment in the Church
- Annual Holiday Events in Church and Chapel Including "A Joyous Christmas Concert," "Adoration of the Magi," and "A Concert to Usher in the New Year"
(Download above photos in hi-res: St. Bartholomew's Church, St. Bart's Christmas concert, St. Bart's Chapel)
Great Music at St. Bart's, the concert series produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF), for the past seven years has presented music in St. Bartholomew's Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York located in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The magnificent 1918 Romanesque-style church features a portal designed by Stanford White and a grand Byzantine-style interior – and two of New York's unlikely but outstanding concert spaces: the 150-seat chapel, an intimate and acoustically brilliant space that is perfectly suited for contemporary chamber music, and the majestic 1,000-seat sanctuary – outfitted with comfortable chairs enabling flexible seating – whose Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ is the largest in New York City and one of the finest examples of the American Classic Organ in the U.S.
The 10 events of the 2017-18 season of Great Music at St. Bart's continue the programmatic focus initiated by MMPAF Artistic Director William K. Trafka (Director of Music and Organist of St. Bart's): to embrace a wide range of music in programs that shine in St. Bart's spaces.
Events in St. Bart's Chapel launch with the season-opening event presented in conjunction with Gotham Early Music Scene and Amherst Early Music's CityRecorder workshop: a performance by the young recorder phenomenon Martin Bernstein. The maverick new-music ensemble Hotel Elefant performs music by Kaija Saariaho and New York premieres of new works by Hotel Elefant composers Hannis Brown, Patrick Castillo, Jascha Narveson, Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Kirsten Volness. The acclaimed pianist Marilyn Nonken and cellist Stephen Marotto perform Morton Feldman's 1981 Patterns in a Chromatic Field, one of the composer's most intricate chamber works. In addition, the Apple Hill String Quartet makes a return to the series, and the Dorian Wind Quintet performs an evening of jazz; music by George Gershwin, Gunther Schuller, and Lalo Schifrin.
The season's events in the main sanctuary of St. Bart's include a concert by the St. Bartholomew's Choir led by William Trafka titled "Portals To the Divine: Radiance from the North," music by Northern European composers: Latvian Ēriks Ešenvalds, Norwegian Ola Gjeilo, Norwegian Edvard Grieg, Icelandic Jón Leifs, and Swedish Jan Sandström. The third annual silent film screening to live organ accompaniment by St. Bart's Associate Director of Music and Organist Jason Roberts features three short comedies of Buster Keaton. And the church is the setting for such beloved holiday events as the annual "Joyous Christmas Concert," "Adoration of the Magi," and "A Concert to Usher in the New Year." (The full season schedule follows below.)
All regular tickets to Great Music at St. Bart's are priced between $15 and $40, with discounted tickets for students and seniors available for all events. Admission to the "A Concert to Usher In the New Year" is free.
Rounding out the St. Bart's musical offerings is a free component: the ongoing Midtown Concerts, a series of free weekly early music programs that run from September through June.
William K. Trafka has been the Director of Music and Organist of St. Bartholomew's Church since 1995. Prior to that, he served as St. Bartholomew's Associate Organist for 10 years. He leads St. Bartholomew's Choir and St. Bart's Singers and is the Artistic Director of the Mid-Manhattan performing Arts Foundation, overseeing the programming of Great Music at St. Bart's. He also programs and conducts St. Bartholomew's annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music.
At St. Bart's, he has conducted the premieres of several works including David Conte's September Sun and Missa Brevis, James MacMillan's Since it was the day of preparation (New York premiere), and Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi (New York premiere of the orchestral version) as well as works by Ēriks Ešenvalds and Neely Bruce. As an organist, he has performed on concert series throughout the U.S. and Germany and has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Fairfield Academy of Period Instruments. He has also served on the faculty of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, as Adjunct Professor of Sacred Music.
Great Music at St. Bart's is produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) corporation established to cultivate, promote, sponsor and develop the understanding and love of the performing arts as presented at St. Bartholomew's Church. The corporation sponsors performances of music, dance, drama, and other performing arts as well as the exhibition of works in the film and fine arts genres.
St. Bartholomew's Church was founded in January 1835. Its present building, a Byzantine style structure with an iconic dome, designed by Bertram Goodhue and completed in 1918, has had a vital presence in New York for close to a century. St. Bartholomew's also became a force in the musical life of the city and the wider church: Legendary musicians such as Leopold Stokowski, who went on to a career as one of the world's great conductors, Harold Friedell and James Litton have served the church as Organist and Choirmaster. For many decades, a world famous weekly series of Evensongs featuring performances of the great oratorios by St. Bartholomew's Choir was offered free of charge, stressing the parish's commitment to inclusion by ministering to a wide community. Great Music at St. Bart's, an outgrowth of these Evensongs, still offers the greater New York City community top shelf concert performances at very reasonable ticket prices.
Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 7:30 pm in the Chapel
The Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation in conjunction with Gotham Early Music Scene and Amherst Early Music's CityRecorder workshop present the young recorder phenomenon Martin Bernstein, with Elliott Figg, harpsichord, in a program of 17th century music and poetry in the intimacy of St. Bartholomew's Chapel. The program will include love songs of Giulio Caccini, shepherd's laments of Sebastien de Brossard and instrumental works of Nicolas de Grigny and Nicola Matteis.
Martin Bernstein is a student of recorder virtuoso Nina Stern. After graduating from Hunter College High School, he studied at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Reine-Marie Verhagen, where he also worked extensively with Han Tol. He is currently a student at Harvard University.
Tickets: $25 general admission
Friday, November 3, 2017, at 7:30 pm in the Church
Jason Roberts, St. Bartholomew's Associate Director of Music and Organist, will provide live, improvised accompaniment on St. Bart's famous Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ to three short comedies of Buster Keaton. Convict 13 (1920) features Keaton as a golfer who is mistaken for a convict. In The Boat (1921), Buster and his family sail into the Pacific Ocean in a homemade vessel that is barely seaworthy. And in Day Dreams (1922), Buster tries to win the hand of his girl by "making it big" in the city.
Over the past three years, Jason Roberts has improvised the organ accompaniment to St. Bart's screenings of The Wind starring Lillian Gish and the Buster Keaton classics Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The General.
Tickets: $20 general admission, $10 for students and seniors
Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 7:30 pm in the Church
St. Bartholomew's Choir, Boy and Girl Choristers, Chamber Orchestra
Jason Roberts, organist and conductor
William K. Trafka, conductor
A beloved New York holiday tradition, this concert combines the choral forces of St. Bart's, New York City's largest pipe organ, and a chamber orchestra for a concert of Christmas favorites. The Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols and carol settings of Ešenvalds, Chilcott, Willcocks and others are performed in the candlelit splendor of St. Bartholomew's Church.
Tickets: $100 Angel Club Seating, $40, $25; students and seniors receive a $10 discount
Friday, December 15, 2017, at 7:30 pm in the Chapel
Jeff Morrissey, baritone
William K. Trafka, piano
Singer Jeff Morrissey and St. Bart's Music Director William Trafka present their popular Christmas program inspired by the elegant paintings found in the South Chapel of St. Bartholomew's. In 1919 Ethel Parsons Paullin and her husband Telford created the beautiful Adoration of the Magi and the 13 medallions surrounding it depicting subjects connected with the Nativity of Christ. This program brings the artwork to life, weaving passages from the Bible with Polish carols and ballads from the Southern Appalachian Mountains as well as works by Nin, Ramirez, Grainger, and Michael Head to present a visual and musical telling of the Christmas story.
Tickets: $25 general admission, $15 for students and seniors
Sunday, December 31, 2017, at 11:00 pm in the Church
William K. Trafka, organ
In an annual St. Bart's tradition, William Trafka, Director of Music and Organist, performs works by Bach, Guilmant, and Mendelssohn on St. Bartholomew's grand Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, one of New York's greatest musical treasures. Trafka's own transcription of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man will be played at the stroke of midnight.
A free champagne reception will follow the concert.
Admission is free
Saturday, February 3, 2018, at 7:30 pm in the Chapel
The contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant, lauded by Time Out New York as "megatalented" and "one of New York's fastest rising new-music outfits," makes its Great Music at St. Bart's debut. Their program juxtaposes music by Kaija Saariaho (Nocturne, Oi kuu) with the New York premieres of new works by Hotel Elefant composers Hannis Brown, Patrick Castillo, Jascha Narveson, Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Kirsten Volness.
Named for the scene of a chance meeting in Austria between Strauss, Mahler, Puccini, and Schoenberg in 1906, Hotel Elefant has achieved renown for celebrating the dynamism and diversity of the contemporary music landscape, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Bang on a Can Marathon.
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 students and seniors
Sunday, March 4, 2018, at 2:30 pm
Since its founding in 2007, the Apple Hill String Quartet – Elise Kruder, Colleen Jennings, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Rupert Thompson, cello – has earned praise around the world for its concerts presenting interpretive mastery of traditional repertoire as well as for new and commissioned works by outstanding composers. As resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, the Quartet is featured in the summer concert series at the Center in Nelson, New Hampshire. Apple Hill's innovative outreach program "Playing for Peace" focuses on social change and conflict resolution through music.
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 students and seniors
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 7:30 pm
St. Bartholomew's Choir
William K. Trafka, conductor
Five choral works by Northern European composers offer a testament of faith and a glimpse into a transcendent world: the Requiem of Icelandic composer Jón Leifs (1899-1968), Stars and Only in Sleep of Latvian Eriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977), works by Norwegian Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) and Swedish Jan Sandström (b. 1964), as well as music of Norwegian Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), all performed in the noble Romanesque architecture of St. Bartholomew's Church.
This concert has been made possible by a generous gift from Robin Henry.
Tickets: $35 general admission; $25 students and seniors
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at 7:00 pm
The Dorian Wind Quintet – Gretchen Pusch, flute; Gerard Reuter, oboe; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Adrian Morejon, bassoon; Karl Kramer-Johansen, horn – is known worldwide as one of chamber music's pre-eminent and longest continuously-active ensembles. They have been responsible for 40 commissions of wind music from major composers; their commission of George Perle's Wind Quintet No. 4 won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1986.
At St. Bart's, the quintet will perform a program of jazz works including Gershwin's Three Preludes, Gunther Schuller's Blues, Billy Childs's Fugue in Perpetual Motion, and Lalo Schiffrin's La Nouvelle Orleans.
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 students and seniors
Sunday, May 13, 2018, at 3:00 pm
Marilyn Nonken, piano
Stephen Marotto, cello
Patterns in a Chromatic Field is a late work (1981) by Morton Feldman (1926-1987). This 80-minute odyssey offers an opportunity for contemplation, as cello and piano explore different degrees of stasis and patterns of harmony and color. Patterns in a Chromatic Field reflects Feldman's lifelong fascination with the Abstract Expressionist painters. "My compositions are not really 'compositions' at all," Feldman said. "One might call them time canvasses in which I more or less prime the canvass with an overall hue of music."
Marilyn Nonken has been recognized as "a determined protector of important music" (New York Times), and "one of the greatest interpreters of new music" (American Record Guide). Since 2006, she has been Director of Piano Studies at NYU's Steinhardt School, where she is currently Associate Professor of Music.
Boston-based celllist Stephen Marotto, a member of Sound Icon and the Contemporary Sinfonietta, has performed internationally at venues including the Banff Centre, SoundSCAPE (Maccagno, Italy), and the Summer Courses for New Music (Darmstadt, Germany). His wide-ranging musical interests include contemporary chamber music, improvisation, and electronic music, and he has coached with the Arditti and JACK quartets.
Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 students and seniors
Tickets are available through the Box Office at St. Bartholomew's Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York, NY, and are available by phone, 212-378-0248, and online.


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Boys Varsity Golf · State Bound Boys Golf ready for Prairie View
Event: 2018 82nd Annual IHSAA Boys Golf State Finals Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 – Round 1 Wednesday, June 13, 2018 – Round 2 Location: Prairie View Golf Club – 7000 Longest Drive, Carmel, IN 46033 Phone: 317.816.3100. Website: http://www.prairieviewgc.com The golf course rated for the IHSAA State Championship and it is a 74.3 rating and a slope of 135.
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Boys Varsity Golf · Boys Golf ready for Thursday's Washington Regional
Event: 2018 IHSAA Boys Golf Sectional 4 Date: Thursday, June 7, 2018 Location: Country Oaks Golf Club, 5064 US-50, Montgomery, IN 47558. For additional course information, etc. go to: www.countryoaksgolf.com. Host: Washington High School Time: 7:30am CST/ 8:30am EST Feeder Sectionals: Attica, Evansville Mater Dei, Indianapolis Crispus Attucks, Linton-Stockton, Martinsville, Vincennes Lincoln. Medal Play: Sectional will be conducted as a
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Event: 2018 IHSAA Boys Golf Sectional 24 Date: Friday, June 1, 2018 Location: Eagle Valley Golf Course, 10350 Petersburg Road, Evansville, IN 47725 Time: 7:30am Participating Teams: Boonville, Bosse, Castle, Central, Day School, Harrison, Mater Dei, Memorial, Mt. Vernon, North, North Posey, and Reitz. Stoke Play: Sectional will be conducted as a 18-hole stroke play. Advancement: Sectional to Regional Top 3


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The Global Asia Studies major is a 36-credit double-track multidisciplinary program. Students follow either an Asian languages and cultures track or a Comparative Asian studies track. This program advances a cross-cultural understanding of Asia and the world and develops competent bilingual area specialists and professionals for graduate school, for government and international organizations, or for employment in a globalized economy.
The BA in Global Asia Studies offers a wide array of classroom experiences. Along with stimulating lectures and seminars, students will encounter small-group intensive language studies, supervised independent research assignments, as well as technology-based instructions. One signature specialty of this program includes many interdisciplinary film-centered courses that provide a unique opportunity to view and study rare Asian feature films and documentaries.
In addition, the program gives students the opportunity to participate in diversified curriculum activities to gain bilingual knowledge, work experience and skills, and the professional networks needed to succeed in today's competitive job market. The program works closely with Pace's History department, Office of International Programs and Services, and Confucius Institute to develop regular exchange programs with universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea, offering students many ways to spend a semester or a year abroad.
The program involves full-time faculty members from various academic disciplines such as History, Modern Languages, Literature, Economics, and Communication Studies. The breadth and depth of different disciplines and faculty expertise will provide a well-integrated academic structure for students to study a rich array of Asia-related topics.
Independent research in Global Asia Studies allows students to work closely with faculty on student designed topics or on current faculty research projects. Similar to internships, independent research is a valuable part of the education, providing experience critical to future employment and graduate work. Students in our program have presented papers at regional and national scholarly conferences and have published articles on such topics as "Korean War Brides," "Wikileaks on US-China Rivalries over Taiwan," and "Russian-Chinese Border Relations."
Students who major in Global Asia Studies will find numerous opportunities awaiting them in global business, international law, government, medical science, higher education, and cultural and technological exchange. Recent graduates were awarded fellowships to pursue their graduate education in China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Recent graduates have been awarded fellowships to pursue their graduate education in China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
The Global Asia Studies program helps students attain internships in New York City's Asian cultural institutions to combine academic knowledge with practical experience. Students leave their internships with new connections in the community, professional skill sets, and a deepened understanding of diasporic Asian cultures.
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German manufacturer GROHE relaunched its classic, newly streamlined Atrio collection during Milan Design Week 2018
At April's Fuorisalone, held during Milan Design Week, industry leading Düsseldorf-based sanitary fittings manufacturer GROHE officially launched the redesign of its signature Atrio collection faucets at its Milan showroom. The line, comprising 35 products for basins, showers, tubs, bidets and kitchens, expresses GROHE's design philosophy by distilling the range's previous design into its most essential elements. Retaining the seven-degree spout angle, lozenge shape, curving faucet, ergonomic crossed tap handles and the industry's only base with a single measure (identical in diameter from spout to bottom), the redesign is a "move to a more contemporary style segment, necessary for the product to remain competitive and relevant," according to Michael Seum, GROHE's Vice President of Design.
The former design of the Atrio collection married contemporary and cosmopolitan aesthetics, while the new iteration leans firmly towards the contemporary. The design employs a single circle geometry, new symmetrical detailing and an attention to scale and proportion that also pays homage to the previous design. The hardware is flexible enough to slot in seamlessly with any design scheme, whether it be the industrial-cosmopolitan look of concrete and stone, the slick finish of marble, a playful eclecticism or the warmth of wood-heavy naturalism.
"The elegance of the Atrio collection gives interior designers, architects and consumers more flexibility in terms of what type of bath environments they can do," says Seum. A diverse array of finishes and colours completes the Atrio range's new look, and includes several GROHE SPA colours and finishes – a SuperSteel matte finish ideal for light marble, concrete and medium woods; Brushed Hard Graphite, which evokes a vaguely masculine, urban aesthetic that pairs well with black-and-white schemes as well as concrete and light woods; and the classic, resilient Chrome ranging from matte to high shine, in a range of colour options.
Complementing Atrio's look is GROHE's cartridge technology and integrated jet regulator that ensures a flat, constant water flow equally suited to homes, businesses and the hospitality industry. Adds Seum: "The longevity of the product, the elusive qualities that go into making any iconic design, is not just about the visual work, but also lives in the craftsmanship which is applied to make the design a reality."
GROHE showed its flagship product in its freshly re-imagined Via Crocefisso showroom, and the immersive special courtyard installation created for Fuorisalone. The black experience cube allowed visitors to immerse themselves in an abstract multimedia experience, enhanced by video, music and water elements, making the venue for the new collection a full sensory experience.
The former design of the Atrio collection married contemporary and cosmopolitan aesthetics, while the new iteration leans firmly towards the contemporary
Other GROHE bathroom classics on display at the showroom included the eight Spa Essence Colour line for faucets and showers; the super-slim, minimalist Lineare faucet; shower-heads ranging from the sleek and ultra luxurious personal SPA AquaSymphony, PureRain and ActiveRain Rainshower SmartActive and the easy installation Euphoria. Also on show were ceramics lines including the Euro, the geometric Cube and classical Bau series; kitchen solutions including the Blue Home faucet system, which delivers still or sparkling chilled and filtered water from the source; the Red boiled water delivery system; the semi-professional 360° Eurocube faucet; and the latest in smart-home technology solutions.


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Numark PT-01
Listen to your records anywhere, anytime with the sweet, little Numark PT-01 portable turntable. This battery-operated turntable has a built-in speaker and carrying handle; plus, it's feathery light. Excellent output options and even pitch and tone control make this an A-list product for any vinyl junkie. And since it has its own phono preamp, it's a good option for those who want to rip vinyl onto a PC. While it may not replace your main setup, the Numark PT-01 is a deal at about $75 online.
The Numark PT-01 and the more expensive Vestax Handy Trax are targeted at those who relish the idea of listening to wax at a record store on their own gear. However, the PT-01 is affordable enough for anybody interested in records, and it's portable enough to shuttle between the living room, picnics, the office, the studio, wherever. The built-in mono speaker isn't loud, but it's sufficient for intimate gatherings. Attached to powered speakers and a hi-fi stereo system, the PT-01 sounded excellent. While their sound doesn't match the deftness, solidness, and audio quality of our much heavier Technics, the Numark reminds you why vinyl is still audio king. (Is the better sound quality offered by turntables worth dealing with their old-fashioned quirks? Make Some Noise.)
The player can spin at 33rpm, 45rpm, and 78rpm and includes an adapter for 45s. The delicate tone arm features auto start/stop and a replaceable stylus; of course, you can also lock it down during transport. The small 7-inch platter includes a felt mat and can accommodate 12-inch records; felt "buttons" in four corners away from the platter protect larger records from abrasion. The platter is pretty stable--you can even scratch on it--but the 12-inch record protrudes a few inches past the unit's footprint. You'll find the controller knobs in the lower-right corner. Here you can adjust volume, tone (remember tone?), and RPM, as well as alter pitch by plus or minus 10 percent. Throw another PT-01, battery-powered speakers, and a mixer into the fray and you have yourself a battery-operated party.
Nestled down the back right of the unit are cool output options: 1/4- and 1/8-inch headphone outs, as well as a master stereo RCA out. You'll also find the AC port and the power switch. Underneath the device is a battery compartment that accepts six D cells; they'll add considerably to the unit's weight, but in general, the Numark remains light. We'll update this review with our own battery tests, though Numark hasn't published any claims.


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Veteran Actress, Sandra Achums Welcomes Baby Boy In Germany - Photos
Sandra Achums, once a household name in the movie industries back then has given birth to another baby boy. The good thing about Sandra is that she left the industry to go get married and she has long ago relocated to Germany where her hubby is based and she is blessed with kids.
In fact, the actress has just welcomed another baby boy whom she has named Ryan, as she shared the good news some days back.


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Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Machine Learning & IBM's Watson are changing the world. In this episode, Bret Greenstein, (formerly) IBM's Global Vice President for Watson IoT Offerings, discusses the future of AI as well as the capabilities and impact of Watson, IBM's supercomputer. I had the pleasure of meeting Bret recently at Kennedy Space Center…Read More
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A Russian power company has cut off electricity to some of the country's navy bases in the dead of winter.
It has been a cold winter in Russia's Far East with night-time temperatures regularly dropping to minus 15 degrees and colder. But that has not stopped the Dalenergo Company from cutting off the electricity and heat to some of Russia's Pacific Fleet bases.
They owe us more than $120 million rubles for heat and electricity, Dalenergo spokesman Mikhail Tsedrik says. And, he adds, since the military has given no guarantee or time frame for payment of the debt, the power had to be cut off. 120 million rubles equals $40 million.
A spokesman for the Pacific Fleet said that the navy had not yet been able to determine how many bases were affected, but that military readiness has not been compromised. The spokesman said, "besides, each unit has an autonomous source of energy."
The power company said that between five and 10 military bases have had their power cut off near the far eastern city of Vladivostok. The Pacific Fleet, like much of the Russian military, has fallen on hard times and has often struggled to stay afloat in the lean years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
President Vladimir Putin has vowed to revitalize the military and promised to pour millions into modernizing forces. But from all indications those long-term plans are not likely to satisfy the power company.
Yury Ignatov heads the Vladivostok office of Dalenergo.
Mr. Ignatov said that since there has been no response from the Russian military, his company is going ahead with plans of their own. He said his office has informed the Pacific Fleet that unless something is worked out, and soon, the electricity will be cut off to all the bases in the Far East starting Friday.


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Last week three academics published a paper in Areo magazine. Their write-up begins ominously enough — "something has gone wrong in the University" — and proceeds to sketch out a familiar picture: The left has taken over and destroyed the humanities, leftists' work isn't scientific, it's politically-motivated, they bully Universities into promoting their agenda, it's all based on ideology. It's all turned to shit. You won't believe what they'll publish.
Our three heroic protagonists are here to save us: Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian. Three academics concerned only (of course) with the poor state of research in fields that they don't work in. After a year of work, the blazing success of their counter-offensive may as well had the full scale 'Mission Accomplished' banner.
The gambit was simple: They'd write papers of such obvious awfulness that any member of the public would be horrified to even see the titles, and get them published deep in enemy territory. Journals of the hard-core identitarian left. Journals about 'decolonising' history. Journals about activist feminism. Journals about poetry therapy. You can hear the world's eyes narrowing all at once.
Their papers would whip together some hacky understanding of contemporary humanities lingo, a sense of how to gather literature in a topic, and how to torture a cheap political point. Which, to be fair, is as good a method as most of us academics get. Of the papers that got accepted, the two getting the most chortles among the sensible media dad juntas of Twitter are 'An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant' (Translated: "We went to Hooters") and "Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria and Transphobia through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use."
It takes only a few seconds for your questions to bubble up. They mention some papers got rejected. They decry the politics of the 'identitarian' left but go in hard with a political mission. They use names of the fields they're targeting interchangeably and confusingly, then they give them a new name: Grievance Studies. But put all that aside, who doesn't like a good hoax? We love a good hoax! We can even give it a chunky hashtag, #SokalSquared (a reference to the infamous Sokal Affair, the original iteration of "making academic journals look silly by having them publish a silly thing.")
Three intrepid academics just perpetrated a giant version of the Sokal Hoax, placing scores of fake papers in major academic journals. Call it Sokal Squared.— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) October 3, 2018
The result is hilarious and delightful. It also showcases a serious problem with big parts of academia.
Is there any idea so outlandish that it won't be published in a Critical/PoMo/Identity/"Theory" journal? Helen Plucrose et al. submitted a dozen hoax papers to find out. https://t.co/TTDLuIQN9p via @areomagazine— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 3, 2018
I'll say it, bluntly. The grievance study disciplines are fraudulent to the core, intellectually, scientifically and ethically. And the core disciplines of the humanities are disappearing down the same rabbit hole. https://t.co/ltKhYIIlu8— Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) October 5, 2018
Those useless left humanities academics have been duped again, it's another win for rigorous, rational liberalism! Writing for Mother Jones, Kevin Drum begged us not to forget this incredible revelation, and demand change from the academy. In the Atlantic, Yascha Mounk concludes "we can't ignore the uncomfortable truth these hoaxers have revealed."
You'd expect a huge range of defensive responses from the humanities academic milieu, but the more looking I did, the more resigned and sad people seemed. The plain fact is, the war against the humanities was won decades ago. In Reagan's time, conservative student groups monitored left-wing staff for making any anti-American statements in the classroom. Thatcher did the same in the UK. Firings for saying the wrong thing were routine then, and they're routine now. David Horowitz famously capped off decades of right-wing activism on campuses with the 2006 book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. The conservative Turning Point USA, drawing funding from Republican power structures and donors, follows the same old model; watch for any sign of left politics on campus, put it on a watchlist, deny you did anything wrong. Jordan Peterson famously tried the same move, and denied it was political. How's that for collective unconscious?
The plain fact is, the war against the humanities was won decades ago.
The seething venom from the powerful right-wing for anybody that looks like they own a paperback by a French philosopher is not really aimed at the campus itself, though. Like the very public mocking of 'safe spaces' (did you know these basically don't exist?) or turning one tiny student union experimenting with alternative clapping techniques into a crisis, the real campus is just a staging ground for the war that's raging over the fantasy of the long-dead University. Milo Yiannopoulos has to be invited to burp out the n-word at your school, you see — otherwise that's censorship. The adjunct professor who protested the demolition of Palestinian homes? Yeah, we bricked her up in her office. Don't ask again.
Universities have been able to close down most of the programs specializing in what we used to call 'high theory' (a better term than Grievance Studies, I'd say), even when they were well-run and popular. Even when they made money. It became suspiciously cool, suspiciously fast for humanities academics to admit they hated reading the classics of left-wing cultural studies. It's no exaggeration to say most now don't do it at all — or it's treated as a vestigial limb. Many of us now working in these places will readily admit — some things have survived to be genuinely better. Fewer cult movements around feverish writers, and more tactical work around big social needs. Great.
But so, so much is vastly worse. Waves of very political budget cuts, very political interference, and workplace regulation regimes that chase away talented people and keep the academy distant, disempowered, and limp. Academic journals are a industrial model of publication run by huge indifferent corporations mostly using the free labor of grad students. For some, you pay hundreds to publish yourself. Or you pay hundreds to have your work in public.
Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Boghossian will tell you that the crisis in the humanities they've ginned up is very current and real, but things get real curious when you scratch the surface. Jason Wilson's piece in the Guardian from March outlines how the right-wing outrage machine draws in media hucksters and funds right-wing campus activists alike. In that piece, Boghossian is quoted as saying that the target of his hoaxes is "all disciplines infected by postmodernism, and women's studies and gender studies in particular." That's right — hoaxes, plural. Last year, Boghossian and Lindsay employed the same tactic with a fake paper that argued the penis is less of a physical organ than it is something "a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity."
Sensing a theme yet? Their long-running, multi-year media circus, based upon a deeply-held well... grievance, resonates with the broadly-held suspicions that some of the stuff that happens on campus is a bit crap — and anything remotely feminist comes first. Because looking around at the world in late 2018, gender doesn't seem to be any kind of problem for anybody.
But — and I say this confidently — nobody in the humanities actually reads journals the way they do in science. You search journal databases by keywords. You read one paper from a new journal issue. You use what works. You skip over the paper that's obviously rushed. You know that, in many areas, much more effort goes into book chapters. You know that some journals barely peer-review at all. This includes science journals, where hoaxes have also been perpetrated.
The hoaxers know all of this very well; they're anything but stupid. The goal is plainly obvious: They don't want these fields to exist. They want them off campus. One of the weirdest and most telling parts of their manifesto lament the influence of Robin DiAngelo's 'white fragility' concept which has moved from academic work, into several books, and has found its way into street protests and activist movements. They warn against doing useless work, but definitely don't make popular work either.
Besides, if there's a crisis in the humanities, everything else is on fire. Science's emerging 'replication crisis' — the inability for many academic scientific results to be repeated — is monstrous in scope and consequence. Huge chunks of economics work are bought and paid for to support the status quo. The hits keep on coming.
uh oh! pic.twitter.com/rT7wnS6VOh— 🎃Anthony Scary-mucci🎃 (@itsbirdemic) October 4, 2018
The humanities are still a real ten-ton headache for the right. Despite the vanity of the few surviving true believers, the real threat is from each year's incoming students. They want to study pop culture, they want to study film, they want to study videogames (God forbid), they still want to study literature and poetry and paint — and yes, they want to study gender. More than many inclined to left activism on campus even know. Students want answers in a disintegrating world. They want what ideas about race and class and gender can provide. Amongst it all, they often want something punchy and threatening — something useful.


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Jim Bouton put an end to that. I read Ball Four, Bouton's magnum opus about what professional baseball really was like, when I was 12 or so. That's when I learned that lots of baseball players lie, cheat on their wives, drink to excess, pop amphetamines like Chiclets, have the overall moral turpitude of a creepy guy in a trench coat — and, in that pre-union era, were treated like chattel by short-sighted, cheapskate owners.
The book also was funny. Achingly funny. Stop-and-grab-your-sides funny. But there was a pathos underneath it, as Bouton outlined his struggles to maintain his career as a professional baseball player. He was a knuckleball-throwing reliever who, in the season documented in the book, bounced between the now-gone Seattle Pilots of the American League, a minor league club, and the Houston Astros. He kept a diary of his experience, which became the basis for the book.
When Ball Four came out, you would have thought Bouton was dealing drugs to toddlers based on the amount of outrage it generated. Old-school sportswriters, used to living cushy lives in exchange for not reporting on what players did off the field, looked like fools and acted like bullies in response (a trait shared to this day by the biggest hacks in the field, I'd note). A lot of players went completely ballistic as their trade secrets were exposed and their spouses started asking way too many questions.
And Ball Four became a huge best-seller. Kids like me lapped it up, and so did plenty of other people.
My friends and I all started quoting lines from Joe Shultz, the Pilots' manager. Bouton portrayed him as a good-natured semi-dolt who motivated players by pointing out that, once the game was over, they could all pound some Budweisers in the clubhouse. "Hija, blondie. How's the old tomato?" Schultz once asked a woman he spotted in the stands (or so Bouton claimed).
"Ball Four" was full of gutter talk like that, and pervy acts involving players and baseball groupies. A lot of this could make me a little embarrassed today, but I found it super-fascinating at the time because…well, tween boy.
For example, the fact that players loved staying in L-shaped hotel buildings for the viewing-into-other-rooms opportunities they provided was not something that had occurred to me. Comparing detailed thoughts about women in the stands — or the women they were with the night before — while burning time in the dugout was not the kind of game-only focus I thought my heroes experienced.
The book outlined practical jokes involving Icy Hot balm in jockstraps and talcum powder in hair dryers. Bouton claimed Whitey Ford (I think) once raffled off a ham in the clubhouse, but there was no ham and no winner. This was just one of the risks of a game of chance, Ford explained.
Post-Ball Four, Bouton became a pariah to many players, but a hero to many of us. He parlayed the experience into a post-baseball career as a sportscaster, writer, actor, investor and more. The phony sheen over baseball players — and the owners who abused them — was pulled away forever, to what I'd claim was the benefit of everyone. Sportswriters had to act like journalists instead of team employees.
The game, stripped of this phony nonsense, exploded in popularity. Players banded together and got paid. And a whole new genre of tell-all sports books (none as good as this one, but some nonetheless enjoyable) was spawned.
Bouton died earlier this week. He was 80. I think I'll read Ball Four again if I can find a copy.


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I'm a brazilian living in NY with my wife, my two daughters and my two Jack Russells (dogs). I owned my own design studio for many years, now I'm leading the design at Viacom, working with exciting new products for mobile and TV.
I'm the author of two e-books that together got more than seven thousand downloads, and I'm also behind The Miniature Earth project.
I speak Portuguese, Italian and English
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Media Advisory
Pundits vs. Edward Snowden
Informing public of government spying 'self-indulgent' and 'grandiose'
Journalism attracts whistleblowers. In fact, some reporters need whistleblowers in order to do their jobs. But there are plenty of people working in the media who don't have much use for whistleblowers–and they've been having a field day going after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Washington Post columnist Matt Miller (6/11/13) explained that "what Snowden exposed was not some rogue government-inside-the-government conspiracy. It's a program that's legal, reviewed by Congress and subject to court oversight."
Or to put it another way, it's a program that's secret, that the nation's top spy lies to Congress about, and the Supreme Court refuses to review–because, being secret, no one can prove they're affected by it.
Miller went on:
Daniel Ellsberg says Snowden is a "hero." Let me suggest a different prism through which to view that term. Somewhere in the intelligence community is another 29-year-old computer whiz whose name we'll never know. That person joined the government after 9/11 because they felt inspired to serve the nation in its hour of need. For years they've sweated to perfect programs that can sort through epic reams of data to identify potential threats. Some Americans are alive today because of her work.
As one security analyst put it this week, to find a needle in a haystack, you need the haystack. If we're going to romanticize a young nerd in the intelligence world, my Unknown Coder trumps the celebrity waiting in Hong Kong for Diane Sawyer's call any day.
It's hard to imagine seeing Snowden sitting down with Sawyer anytime soon, but Miller's certainly not alone in speculating about Snowden's motives or psyche.
New York Times columnist David Brooks (6/11/13) writes that Snowden "could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school. Then he failed to navigate his way through community college." And he "has not been a regular presence around his mother's house for years." But it's bigger than that; like Miller, Brooks sees a real threat from people who don't respect authority:
For society to function well, there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret NSA documents, Snowden has betrayed all of these things.
He elaborated:
He betrayed the cause of open government. Every time there is a leak like this, the powers that be close the circle of trust a little tighter. They limit debate a little more.
He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security agencies can't do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods.
He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability, putting his own preferences above everything else.
By that logic, it's hard to see how anyone could possibly ever divulge anything that the government claims to be secret–which might suit Brooks just fine.
In the Washington Post (6/11/13), Richard Cohen managed to insult both Snowden and columnist Glenn Greenwald, referring to "a remarkably overwrought interview conducted by the vainglorious Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian." In response to Greenwald writing that Snowden wears a red hood when he types passwords into his computer, Cohen inventively sneers that Snowden will "go down as a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood."
Cohen doesn't understand the fuss anyway, since private companies like Google have all sorts of intelligence on him. He concludes:
Everything about Edward Snowden is ridiculously cinematic. He is not paranoiac; he is merely narcissistic. He jettisoned a girlfriend, a career and, undoubtedly, his personal freedom to expose programs that were known to our elected officials and could have been deduced by anyone who has ever googled anything. History will not record him as "one of America's most consequential whistleblowers." History is more likely to forget him. Soon, you can google that.
And the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin (6/10/13) wrote that Snowden is "a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison," and that
any marginally attentive citizen, much less NSA employee or contractor, knows that the entire mission of the agency is to intercept electronic communications.
If you know that an agency intercepts communications, why wouldn't you assume that it intercepts every communication, Toobin seems to be arguing.
Appearing on CNN (6/10/13) , Toobin explained that there's a proper way to blow the whistle, and this sure isn't it: "There are channels for whistleblowers inside agencies, through Congress, through the courts, not through Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian. That's not what you're supposed to do."
What's the right way to inform the public, then? Toobin says:
Well, the public has a right to know, but the way to bring it to public attention is not to commit crimes. And, yes, it is possible he wouldn't get as much attention if he simply went to the senators, like Jeff Merkley, like Senator Udall, who cared deeply about this issue and are doing it the right way. Instead, he just threw this stuff out to newspaper reporters at the Washington Post and the Guardian, who were more responsible than he was, who actually didn't publish everything they get.
Sure–go to a couple of senators who have long warned that they aren't allowed to say what they know about government surveillance programs, and tell them that you want to share top secret NSA documents about those programs. That would have worked–if Snowden's goal was to be arrested immediately.
There were others, like Time's Joe Klein, who didn't go after Snowden like this–he merely argued (6/10/13) that this was all old news: "First of all, we pretty much knew everything that has 'broken' in the past week."
And in the Washington Post, Walter Pincus (6/11/13) sounded the same notes. He ran through the history: USA Today reported a very similar NSA story in 2006 (5/11/06), the Bush administration responded, public opinion polls seemed to support government policies. In 2008, Congress passed amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and last year there were solid reports by veteran reporter James Bamford (Wired, 3/15/12) about the massive NSA storage facility being built in Utah. So, Pincus writes:
Was there any follow-up in the mainstream media to Bamford's disclosure, or anything close to the concerns voiced on Capitol Hill this past week? No.
That's because the American public at large is more accepting of the government's involvement in their lives — along with Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple–than is Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old who leaked the highly classified NSA documents. He appears to believe the public is unaware, and, as he told the Guardian, knowing "what's happening, you [meaning the public] should decide whether we should be doing this."
So if media don't pursue a given story, it's because the public has decided it's not interested, or tacitly approves of a government policy of indeterminate scope? It's a surprising revelation that this is how the media decide what stories to report.
As Gawker's Hamilton Nolan writes (6/11/13), journalists "have to acknowledge that Edward Snowden did something quite admirable." He notes, "Without Snowden's act, the public's knowledge of what is being done to them in their own name would be much poorer."
That's true, unless you think the public either already knows all of this–or that they shouldn't.


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A standard of care is a medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific. It specifies appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence and collaboration between medical and/or psychological professionals involved in the treatment of a given condition.
Some common examples include:
- Treatment standards applied within public hospitals to ensure that all patients receive appropriate care regardless of financial means.
- Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
1. Diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance. Adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer is "a new standard of care, but not necessarily the only standard of care." (New England Journal of Medicine, 2004)
2. In legal terms, the level at which an ordinary, prudent professional having the same training and experience in good standing in a same or similar community would practice under the same or similar circumstances. An "average" standard would not apply because in that case at least half of any group of practitioners would not qualify. The medical malpractice plaintiff must establish the appropriate standard of care and demonstrate that the standard of care has been breached, with expert testimony.
3. A physician also has a "duty to inform" a patient of any material risks or fiduciary interests of the physician that might cause the patient to reconsider a procedure, and may be liable if injury occurs due to the undisclosed risk, and the patient can prove that if he had been informed he would not have gone through with the procedure, without benefit of hindsight. (Informed Consent Rule.) Full disclosure of all material risks incident to treatment must be fully disclosed, unless doing so would impair urgent treatment. As it relates to mental health professionals standard of care, the California Supreme Court, held that these professionals have "duty to protect" individuals who are specifically threatened by a patient. [Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976)].
4. A recipient of pro bono (free) services (either legal or medical) is entitled to expect the same standard of care as a person who pays for the same services, to prevent an indigent person from being entitled to only substandard care.
Medical standards of care exist for many conditions, including diabetes, some cancers, and sexual abuse.
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New 'Jupiter Ascending' Trailer Puts Mila Kunis Front and Center
A new trailer for Jupiter Ascending reveals the secret history of humanity — and also offers a very different way of viewing Andy and Lana Wachowski's space fantasy.
Compared with earlier trailers for the movie — which was moved to a February 2015 release just weeks ahead of its original July release date — the brand-new spot places more emphasis on Mila Kunis's character as an active participant in the story, as opposed to someone to be rescued by Channing Tatum and Sean Bean.
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In fact, what's notable is that the version of Jupiter Ascending seen in this trailer is one in which Kunis' character is empowered and central to events, rather than the damsel in distress seen in earlier versions. As judged by this preview, Jupiter Ascending will be The Hunger Games in space. Doesn't that just seem like a more fun movie than what was originally advertised?
Jupiter Ascending will be in theaters Feb. 6 2015.
Read more Warner Bros. Sets Release Date For the Wachowskis' 'Jupiter Ascending'
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Imagine a world where all of your thoughts are visible – including to government agencies. This scenario might sound like it's been plucked straight from the pages of a sci-fi novel, but it's not as far-fetched as you might think.
Devices that measure and interpret electrical signals from our brains can already detect things like whether we are drowsy while driving.
In this video for the World Economic Forum, Nita A. Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University, discusses the potential but also the legal and ethical risks of these emerging technologies.
"We are not yet at the point where a little thought bubble above your head is something we can see, but we're getting there," she says.
"Which means the NSA and other organizations can spy not just on your emails and your cell phones but soon potentially on your brains as well."


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CELEBRITY Big Brother's Jemma Lucy has been left questioning Amelia Lily's motives after the singer made a selfless decision during the current task.
The tattooed model, 29, had a feeling Amelia was up to something when the former X Factor contestant, 22, turned down the chance to see her beloved mum in order to allow housemate Sarah Harding, 35, to be visited by a friend.
Housemates have been set a series of challenges in the 'vault' over the past day forcing them to either pick a treat for themselves or forgo that treat to allow someone else to enjoy one instead.
For Amelia, that meant saying no to a visit from her mother so that Sarah could see her friend, Michelle.
Looking visibly torn, Amelia went for the selfless option and gave Sarah the treat.
"It's gonna kill me as my mum's my best friend," she said.
"But I'd like Sarah to have the visit from her friend."
Amelia's mum was standing just outside in the garden, but had to turn around and go home, allowing Sarah's pal to enter the vault for a brief reunion instead.
While housemates including Derek Acorah praised Amelia's "maturity" and kindness in allowing Sarah to see her friend, Jemma wasn't convinced about Amelia's motives.
Jemma was sure Amelia had something up her sleeve in making the decision.
Ranting to Big Brother in the diary room, Jemma said: "Giving up seeing a family member for someone you don't even like… that's all a f**king game Big Brother!"
She later approached Amelia directly with her suspicions, saying: "I just don't get why you would do that for Sarah."
Jemma faced a similar dilemma in the 'vault' herself: she had to choose between a letter from her sister, Lulu, in Australia or allowing Derek a letter from his wife, Gwen.
Looking visibly upset, Jemma weighed up the two options before selecting to keep her own letter and bin Derek's message.
"I know how much Derek loves his wife and I know that they are very close and he would love his letter," she said.
"Me and my sister are very, very close but she lives in Sydney, I see her once a year if that, sometimes once every two years, so in a way I'm kind of used to not hearing from her.
"At the same time, I like Derek, he's a good friend... but I want my letter, I think.
"Derek will see his wife on Friday, and I wont see my sister until next year, so I would like to take my letter.
"I'm so sorry, Derek."
After making her decision, Jemma set out to find Derek and explain why she'd deprived him of the chance to hear from his wife.
"If Gwen was physically there then there's no chance I would have taken my letter," said Jemma.
"My only reasoning for taking it was I see my sister once a year, if that, and I know Gwen will be there for you on Friday.
"I had to be selfish for one moment and I know you're probably p***ed off with me, but I hope you can forgive me. You see Gwen every day, or whatever..."
Derek cut Jemma off by giving her a big hug and saying: "You don't need any forgiveness. Stop it."
Amelia, meanwhile, may have had second thoughts about her generosity, after grumbling to some of the housemates that Sarah hadn't seemed that grateful.
"It's a lot to sacrifice just for a thank you," she said.
Sandi Bogle told her in response: "We do it from the kindness of our hearts. That's a gift. To be able to be so strong, to do something like that.
"Sometimes you just wish that the person was bit more appreciative."
Elsewhere during the task, Sam Thompson sacrifices seeing his Made In Chelsea star sister Louise so that Helen Lederer can see her husband, while Sandi turns down the chance to see her daughter so that Shaun Williamson can get a letter from his fiancee.
There is a double eviction looming this week, with two housemates leaving on Tuesday night.
Those facing the public vote are Sarah, Chad Johnson, Helen, Sandi, Sam and Jemma.
LOVE AND HATECBB's Chad tells Sarah he LOVES her - just moments after they have an explosive row over fame
ROCK BOTTOMJemma Lucy BEGS to leave the Celebrity Big Brother house because she's getting fat and has a 'spotty bum'
'what am i doing so wrong?'CBB's Sarah breaks down in tears and begs best friend to tell her why she's so unpopular
'they're both weak'CBB's Sam predicts Sarah and Chad will last two weeks in outside world before a 'bitter' break up
'NO CONSIDERATION'CBB's Sandi accuses Chad of stealing food and rants that he 'doesn't care about anybody' in the house
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While I know I've written about query letters and submissions before, I don't think I've ever gone through the full process – including what happens after you sign with an agent. So in this series, I'm going to take you through the whole process in the hopes that it empowers you to go out and find that perfect agent for you!
But before we get into that, I think it'd be helpful to talk about what an agent actually does.
Having a literary agent is more than just being able to get your manuscript in the hands of editors at closed houses (HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, etc.) And while those of you that have been around for a while know that most of an agent's reading time tends to be done on nights and weekends, I think what tends to be a little less clear is what we're doing with our office hours.
A literary agent's job is to shepherd their clients' careers and to advocate on their behalves. This could mean:
- Finding the best editor for their book(s); be it through networking with editors, doing market research, talking to colleagues, and making/rechecking their submission list
- Negotiating better contract terms when an offer comes in.
- Talking to the editor, marketing, etc. if their client is unhappy with some part of the process.
- Working with their client should they have – say – a couple of ideas for the next book and are trying to find the one that makes sense for their long term career.
You may have also heard agents talk about how they spend the bulk of their day handling email. This is what we and/or an assistant are usually emailing about:
- Talking to our clients about their next projects or answering any questions they might have about an offer, contract, editor, publishing house, conference, next steps, etc.
- Following up on advance payments and royalties
- Asking for more information about a book's marketing and publicity plan
- Following up on editorial letters
- Following up with editors on submissions
- Following up on the end life of a book – requesting reversions, making sure an author can get remainders, etc.
- Sending material to sub-agents so that our clients' subrights are shopped in a timely manner
- Sending out new submissions
- Brainstorming titles with an author and/or their editor
- Getting more information about a sublicense and/or thinking and talking about the longer term ramifications of accepting said sublicense
In short, an agent's job is to handle a lot of the business end of publishing, so the author or illustrator can focus on the creating. Now, this is not to say that an author or illustrator can just throw their hands up – you should always know what is going on with your career. But it does mean that – in the unfortunate event that something does head south – you have someone in your corner to fight for your best interests.
Some FAQ's:
Can an agent really get better terms than an unagented author or illustrator? (A.k.a, am I likely to still make more money even if I'm paying 15% to my agent?)
Yes. A former boss once said to me, "An agent only has to do 16% better than an author can do themselves, and the author has already made their money back." (Paraphrased.)
I've been working with this small press and I would feel bad if an agent came in and started asking for stuff. What do you think?
I think that any reputable publisher understands that an agent's job is to do the best they can for their client. If a publisher balks at you for signing with an agent, that is a red flag.
Okay, but why would an editor be happy to work with someone's agent if they're just going to be asking for a bunch of stuff?
Yes, we ask for things on behalf of our client. But an agent also knows what is an appropriate ask – and what is unreasonable. And we're also a third member of this team – author, publisher, agent – that's invested in both the book and the author. If a publisher is investing in an author, they want to know that there is somebody there to help them navigate a long-term career.
You're an agent with an agent – why don't you just do it all yourself?
I genuinely believe in the benefits of an agent and know the hard work I put in for my clients. It'd be silly not to find the same for my own writing career!
Posts in this series:
Working with An Agent: What does an agent do?
Working with An Agent: Step 1 - Writing your query letter
Working with An Agent: Step 2 - Researching agents and submitting
Working with An Agent: Step 3 - Getting the call
Working with An Agent: Step 4 - Responding to an offer
Working with An Agent: Step 5 - Your author-agency agreement
Working with An Agent: Step 6 - After your sign
Working with An Agent: Step 7 - If you decide it's time to part ways...
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