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Create graphs on SAP HANA Cloud

This blog is an introduction to the graph capabilities of SAP HANA. It follows “Start Working with SAP HANA Cloud“. Start there to learn how to create your own SAP HANA cloud instance and develop with SAP Web IDE Full-Stack.

Our goal is to create a graph workspace that represents routes travelled between airports by different airlines.

In computing, a graph database uses nodesedges, and properties to represent and store data.
The graph describes the relationships(=edges) between the different entities(=nodes) and all the properties of these relationships and entities.
The relationships allow data to be linked together directly and retrieved in one operation. Graph databases hold the relationships between data as a priority. Querying relationships is fast because they are perpetually stored in the database.
Relationships can be intuitively visualized using graph databases, making them useful for heavily inter-connected data.
Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database, they can be very flexible, as data does not have to reside within pre-fixed schemas. Users can add or remove properties from nodes and edges as they go.

SAP HANA is not a NoSQL database. All data in SAP HANA reside within a schema. So how do we manage to offer graph capabilities ?
Here is the secret : all data are stored in the vertex table (set of vertices) and the edge table (set of edges). Vertex attributes match to columns of the vertex table. Edge attributes match to columns of the edge table.
One of the vertex attributes (the vertex key) uniquely identifies vertices.
One of the edge attributes (the edge key) uniquely identifies edges.
The edge table contains two additional columns referencing the source vertex and the target vertex of each edge.
Now, I call them tables, but they do not have to be physical tables. They can be based on views which aggregate several different tables without data replication. They can also be based on virtual tables which access data stored in another database.

Relational storage allows all the functions of SAP HANA to be applied to the graph data: access control, backup and recovery, etc. It also allows all SAP HANA Graph functions to be applied to the graph data stored in relational format coming from business applications. SAP HANA Graph provides a dedicated catalog object, which is referred to as a graph workspace, for defining a graph in terms of the existing SAP HANA tables.

Here is an example with articles and their authors :

SAP HANA’s native graph engine

  • Property graph model embedded in a relational model : full transaction properties (ACID)
  • Built-in functions : shortest path(1-1, 1-all, top k) and strongly connected components, Neighbors, Breadth First Search
  • Support for pattern matching using openCypher
  • GraphScript to develop custom graph algorithms
  • Graph viewer, SAP HANA Database Explorer

  • Store and analyze connected data in real-time
  • Combine text, spatial, and advanced analytics with graph intelligence
  • Tightly integrated in SAP HANA operations (security, backup/restore, scale-out, import/export etc.)

This blog is based on the official documentation for SAP HANA Cloud.

Create an edge and a vertex table

We created 2 tables with .hdbtable files in our database module in the previous tutorial.
These two tables will become our edge and vertex tables.

Start by importing some data. You can find all files on GitHub

Insert data in csv format for airports and routes.

Import that data to tables with .hdbtabledata files

Build your project and you will have data within your two tables. You can check them in the Database Explorer.

Create a graph workspace

Now that you have a vortex table(AIRPORTS) and an edge table (ROUTES), you can create a graph workspace with a .hdbgraphworkspace file.
Airport code will be the key for airports.
Route ID will be the key for routes, and each route will have an origin and a destination.

Once you build your graph workspace, you can use all HANA graph algorithms on your data.
Let’s start by exploring our data through the Database Explorer.
By clicking your graph workspace, you can see an overview of the edge and vertex table. Press the mark on the upper-right to explore the graph.

Explore the graph algorithms

This opens a graphical view of the data, from here you can see the details of each node and edge by clicking them and filter the data.

You can test algorithms directly within the graphical view of Database Explorer on SAP HANA, on-premise. This features which is not yet available on SAP HANA Cloud as of April 2020.

You can use the Shortest Path algorithm to find the shortest path between two airports. By selecting the weight column, you can choose between distance and time, for example.

You can find all nodes which are related to a particular node with the Neighborhood algorithm. You can set up the depth of search, and whether it searches for incoming or outgoing edges.

Find clusters within your data with the Strongly Connected Components alogrithm. In this case, all airports are interconnected, so they form one big cluster.

SAP HANA supports two languages to perform graph computation : GraphScript and openCypher.

I prepared a procedure using the LANGUAGE GRAPH in a .hdbprocedure file.

This takes the origin and destination airports as input, and outputs the total number of segment, the total distance, the total duration and routing. It uses the shortest path algorithm to compute the most efficient path between nodes.

In the database explorer, right-click the procedure and select “Generate CALL Statement with UI”.

This opens a UI where you can input the parameters. In this case we’ll run the procedure from Dubai to Paris.

There is one stop in Amsterdam, and you can see the airline, distance and duration for each flight.

In order to find nodes related to any particular node, you can use the Traversal Breadth-First Search algorithm.
In this example, we compute how many airports have direct flights to Atlanta, how many airports are connected through one transfer, or two transfers.

Pattern matching with openCypher

SAP HANA supports openCypher for pattern matching. Let’s use Cypher to match this pattern : All flights from A to B, with filters on : the country, the distance and the altitude of the target, as well as a custom filter.
In openCypher, nodes are represented within parenthese : (a)
Edges are represented as arrows : -[e]->

We select all flights coming from the United States, to any destination within 4000km, with an altitude less than 50m.
We add a custom filter : the airline name must contain Airline, but the search is fuzzy, which means that similar words such as Air line or Airlines are also returned.

		MATCH (a)-[e]->(b)
		WHERE = ''United States'' AND e.distance> 4000 AND b.altitude < 50 AND SYS.TEXT_CONTAINS(e.airlineName, ''Airline'', ''FUZZY(0.4)'')
		RETURN a.airportCode AS airportCodeFrom, b.airportCode AS airportCodeTo, e.airlineName AS airlineName, e.distance AS distance, b.altitude AS altitude
		ORDER BY b.altitude, e.distance DESC

Let’s see another example of openCypher. We match 3 different patterns in one query.

MATCH (a)-[e1]->(b)
MATCH (b)-[e2]->(c)
MATCH (c)-[e3]->(d)

Then we apply filters to search for flights from NTE to PDX.

	MATCH (a)-[e1]->(b)
	MATCH (b)-[e2]->(c)
	MATCH (c)-[e3]->(d)
	WHERE a.airportCode = ''NTE'' AND d.airportCode = ''PDX''
	RETURN e1.airlineName AS airlineName1, b.airportCode AS transferAirportCode1, e2.airlineName AS
airlineName2, c.airportCode AS transferAirportCode2, e3.airlineName AS airlineName3

Use case : Supply chain risk analysis

Who is affected when a supplier shuts down ?
Which supplier was responsible for quality issues ?

These are some questions that customers answer with SAP HANA graph. In this use case, the customer stores purchasing data, engineering data, and sales data in different systems. To support risk analysis, the data is consolidated in a single SAP HANA system.

SAP HANA Graph is used to support a global “where-used list”, essentially providing cross-system “reachability analysis”. Which customer depends on which suppliers?

The graph has around 250k Nodes (supplier, material, customer) and 1 million edges (supplies, is-used-in, purchases). The impact analysis implementation with GraphScript takes about 10 lines of code using build-in BFS traversal operation with filter conditions. There is no data redundancy, the graph is based on views.

It takes –100 ms to aggregate all reachable materials and customers from a single supplier.
It takes 2 seconds to identify/count all customers for all suppliers

Thank you for reading all the way to the end. For those who want to know more :

This project’s code on GitHub
SAP HANA Cloud’s roadmap
SAP HANA Graph reference guide
openSAP – Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph
Developer Tutorial – Get Started with SAP HANA Graph
SAP HANA Academy – Graph playlist
SAP HANA Graph & Hierarchies Jam site

Maxime SIMON

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Blockchain 2020: The hype may be over, but the tech is here

Peter Colin  Legal Technologist at Thomson Reuters

Peter Colin  Legal Technologist at Thomson Reuters

Few tech topics captivated our collective conscious quite like blockchain did in the last half of the previous decade.

Real adoption of this innovative technology has materialized in banking, finance, law enforcement, energy, insurance, real estate, supply chain management, and practically every other business sector.

Where does blockchain’s future lie?

Looking forward into the next 10 years, several blockchain use cases are likely to be dominated by certain key trends.

AML & the international stage

As the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies, anti-money laundering (AML), and international monetary policy will still be front and center for the coming decade. “We’re going to make sure that bitcoin doesn’t become the equivalent of Swiss-numbered bank accounts,” said U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, characterizing cryptocurrency as a national security threat. Not everyone in the current administration shares that view, however, concerns persist over cryptocurrency roles in monetary policy and international affairs.

In the European Union, member nations were required to comply by in mid-January with the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5), extending the EU’s AML and counter-terrorism financial rules to cover virtual currencies as well. Expect more targeted AML statutes targeting those cryptocurrencies that use distributed ledger technology in the U.S, too.

Banks and other financial institutions have learned that by using distributed ledger technology (DLT), their AML or Know Your Customer processes can be more efficiently managed in real time. Not surprisingly, this hasn’t gone unnoticed by criminals. So, in the 2020s, blockchain will likely be used as a weapon against AML efforts, if for no other reason than AML has emerged as the governmental priority for DLT.

Deepfakes & media verification

In 2017, both blockchain and bitcoin were buzzy topics, but neither were as present in American discourse as the term fake news. Now, that has evolved to include deepfake videos and doctored photographs that can deceive even the most discerning mind. With reports already cautioning against such misinformation in advance of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, some expect blockchain to offer solutions to these problems.

Like debunking the fake news and bots in 2016’s election, 2020’s challenge will be verifying images and videos that are truthful and accurate to what they represent. Inserting a watermark into media content indicating it has been verified, then placing that verification on the blockchain — immutable and unable to be counterfeited or tampered with — is an attractive option proposed by attorneys, ethics committees, and state bars.

Startups like Truepic are attracting funding for this purpose, but large media companies have invested in their own blockchains as a way of exploring this technology for verification, aggregation, and other uses. With fake news seemingly here to stay, watch for this technology to do what the law hasn’t and verify the accuracy of the media we’re consuming.

Digital identity

Identity in the 21st century is more than your name, fingerprints, and social security number, or even your birth certificate or passport. It’s your TSA Precheck, Facebook login, and online banking account as well. Your electronic footprint and the data collected from your online behavior are now part of your identity… and are being used by governments and corporations.

The U.S. and other governments are looking at DLT solutions to help people manage their identity and its digital iterations by leveraging encryption technology and tokenization. Some nations are already such protection in practice for of voting, tax collection, and for verifying education credentials and citizenship status. For every positive use case, however, there are surveillance and hackability concerns that may limit how the U.S. deals with citizens’ digital identities. It is a debate that will likely only intensify over the next few years.

If anything is debatable, it’s the future role of cryptocurrency. Electronic currency is old news, with Venmo, Zelle, and digital wallets becoming ubiquitous. Indeed, the last five years saw Gold Rush fever for cryptocurrency with the top ten cryptocurrencies each boasting market capitalization in the billions of dollars. There are thousands of Bitcoin ATMs and Coin Kiosks in the United States, and companies like Microsoft, Subway, and Overstock already accept payments in digital currencies.

Day-to-day crypto transactions remain niche, however. Many U.S. states have no cryptocurrency regulation; and for every Ohio that allows paying taxes in bitcoin, there’s a Washington who doesn’t. Despite anticipation for Facebook’s Libra stablecoin (hoped to be a catalyst for crypto adoption), government scrutiny has intensified, and Libra’s usage within Facebook hasn’t materialized. Facebook has introduced a traditional pay service (Facebook Pay), so watch future Libra expectations increasingly turn bearish.

As these cryptocurrencies became an undeniable force in finance, other governments are looking at state cryptocurrencies or digitizing fiat currencies. We can expect cryptocurrency categorization by federal agencies to be clarified, even though currently, the U.S. government does not have consensus on how to categorize or regulate cryptocurrencies. By 2030, anticipate a consensus to be close if not achieved.

Who will lead the charge?

The United States, Russia, China, and most of the G20 countries have devoted resources to blockchain solutions. The United Arab Emirates, led by its tech-hub in Dubai, aims to be the world’s first blockchain powered government; and the Australia National Blockchain aims to move the nation towards blockchain immersion.

Many industry leaders have pooled into consortia — technology-specific, such as R3 and the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance; or business specific, such as the Hyperledger, Bankchain, TradeLens, and MediLedger. The goal for such co-opetition is to bring standards that lifts all boats, such as a Blockchain in Transport Alliance for supply chain management, or a Blockchain Law Consortium for the legal industry.

Like most new technologies, innovators and leaders in blockchain are not limited to major corporations and governments. The innovative bleeding edge often comes from small countries or nations with developing economies. Singapore, Malta, and Estonia have been leading the curve in international regulations, the Blockchain of Things, and digital identity. Development and investment continue to pour into impactful blockchain projects for real estate, agribusiness, and free expression in Latin America, South America, and Africa.

And while many blockchain creators and business leaders have been millennials and young Gen Xers, Gen Z is already filling the ranks of the startup heads and developers that are building platforms and coding the smart contracts behind DLT initiatives.

By 2030, their voice and presence in blockchain will dominate.

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The most common causes of aviation accidents involve pilot errors and violations of safety protocols. Pilot errors consist of decision errors, skills-based errors, and perceptual errors. Decision errors can happen when a pilot makes an improper decision because of Most Common Causes of Aviation Accidentsmisinterpreting or misusing information. A poor decision like this is all it takes to lead to a serious accident.

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Violations consist of routine violations and exceptional violations. Routine violations happen when a pilot engages in bad habits of breaking or not following safety guidelines for flying. This could mean speeding or driving recklessly. Exceptional violations include things that are extreme violations of the law like drinking while flying or breaching major aircraft laws. Flying a plane while drowsy does not fit any specific category, but can lead to serious and fatal mistakes.

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In the year 2018, there were 1,347 civil aviation accidents with 393 aviation accident fatalities. Aviation accident steps depend on you and your motivation for obtaining enough compensation to fully recover from any damages you suffered. Considering there were around 30 large airline accidents in 2018, filing a lawsuit against a pilot or aircraft company is not uncommon and you are not alone.

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Round 7: P90X / X2 Hybrid, Days 57 – 61: Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)

mcdc7_tennis_elbowYesterday was another milestone, in two senses: 1) it was day 60, so it marks 2/3 completion of this round, and 2) I lost my first singles match of the Spring season.

The match went 3 sets. But my tennis elbow was persistent throughout. This condition came up last fall and has persisted despite minor efforts to alleviate, including 3 weeks off between rounds at the beginning of the year. Now, in the first quarter of 2013, the condition has gradually worsened to the point were it’s a constant ache and I’ve resigned myself to making a doctor’s appointment.

This is discouraging, to say the least. I am three-quarters done with what has been a very good singles tennis effort this Spring. Everything I’ve read on the subject says the ultimate cure lies in basically avoiding activity that causes the pain for up to a year. Since the activities that cause the pain are tennis and P90X/X2, this has the potential to seriously cramp my style (to the extent that I have any “style”). Already in this round I have radically reduced weights on hammer curls, twist grip kickbacks and lateral arm raises. I’ve replaced wide grip pull ups with chin ups and towel pull ups with regular pull ups. But this, combined with ice and Advil, has proven insufficient to remedy.

I hope whatever path the doctor puts me on will allow for arm related activity, even if I’m back into using bands. But the pain has finally crossed the threshold that I know something has to change or it will only get worse.

That said, I will still continue with this regimen and play tennis until my appointment next week. However, I will be much more liberal reducing or eliminating moves that cause any pain to the area. Of note: foam rolling the affected area does eliminate the pain for a period of time.

For the record, I don’t blame P90X2 or P90X for causing this condition. I believe the onset was poor technique on the court: too loose a wrist on the backhand and insufficient follow-through on the forehand.  But once the pain started, anything that stressed the area, including some of the moves in my routines, just exacerbated the problem.

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5 Reasons That You Aren’t Getting Any Better At Singing [And How To Fix It]

5 Reasons That You Aren’t Getting Any Better At Singing [And How To Fix It]

As a voice teacher, I’m always super open about the struggles I went through as a beginner singer. Sure, that might not make you think of me as some “magic singing guru” because I’m actually human; but this really puts me in the unique position to tell you that YES, it really IS possible to go from “zero to hero” as a singer, even as someone who wasn’t a naturally gifted singer to begin with. In fact, going to singing teachers that were simply “great singers naturally” is one of the main reasons that I had such a hard time learning how to sing – after all, how can someone teach you to improve at something when they didn’t have to learn it themselves?

As weird as it sounds, I eventually went to an Opera coach with my goal of singing hard rock and heavy metal – and you might think that I’d go to a “rock guy” for this, but the amount of voice coaches out there I’d been to previously that just told me to “push chest voice higher” to sing like Chris Cornell and Layne Staley really made me question whether any of those type of singing teachers really knew what they were talking about – and the truth is, while they were great singers themselves, most of them didn’t know the first thing about helping ME become a better singer.

The coolest thing about my coach was that he could WAIL, and I’m mean absolutely WAIL – like Chris Cornell, like Layne Staley, like James Hetfield; with zero effort, no veins popping out and no tomato-red-face like trying to push a watermelon through a keyhole – and most of all, as a booming baritone singer like me, he simply wasn’t yelling in chest voice – freedom, control and resonance were the key.

Along with showing me that there really WAS an easier way to sing, he took me through all of the reasons that learning how to sing had been so difficult for me – and that’s what I’m going to share with you now;

5 Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Better As a Singer

You’ve been taking singing lessons, you’ve bought courses – you’ve absolutely scoured YouTube dry for “the secret” to great singing; but no matter what you do, you’re just not getting any better as a singer, and let me tell you why

#1 – Full Voice Isn’t Chest Voice (you’re pushing chest voice too high)

This one was tough for me to grasp, because it just seemed so obvious to me that my chest voice “sounded good” and my head voice “sucked” – ergo, my favourite singers have obviously worked out how to take their chest voice higher that was possible in my baritone singing voice.

The key here is actually to identify why and what you enjoy about your chest voice; the resonance, the ease, the volume, the power and the character (most likely) – and then develop and improve each of these aspects in your head register and your mixed voice. Over time, you’ll learn that the mixed register sounds just as powerful and cool as your chest voice – and in fact, that many of your favourite singers like Chris Cornell and Layne are really leaning more towards head resonance in much of their singing.

This was a mind blowing revelation for me – so I spent many years developing my head and mixed register with great success, and now I’m much, MUCH closer to my goals of matching the range and power of guys like Chris Cornell and Layne Staley than I ever was before in the days of “sing as high as possible in chest voice” style training.

One of the main “tethers” and connection points between each of your registers is actually forward placement – sometimes know as “the singer’s formant”. If you want to develop a ridiculously powerful and extensive vocal range, then your first step is developing placement.

Especially for lower-voiced guys like me that don’t have that natural “tenor range” built into their untrained voices, placement has been a particular game changer for me. If you’ve got a BIG voice like me naturally, then placement is your new best friend.

#2 – You’re speechy

This one can be particularly tricky when there are vocal methods out there specifically designed to make you “sing like you speak” and “speech level singing” – which if you understand the workings of the vocal mechanism, plus the elements that make up your accent and speaking voice, you’ll realise isn’t actually healthy or helpful for your voice.

In short, great singers are “accent neutral”, and your speaking voice (and obviously mine too!) is heavily pronounced and accented. The key here is to develop pharyngeal vowels instead of “mouth vowels” as it were by developing Open Throat Technique – or in relation to The Four Vocal Fundamentals; Height In The Vocal Tract.

Terms like Open Throat Singing can be really confusing, especially when they’re used as Marketing Terms by those pesky YouTube gurus who just want to sell you their three-part-course at $200 a pop, but as you can see – learning how to sing really IS a lot more easier than you’ve been thinking, especially when someone like me just SHOWS you how it’s done rather than trying to confuse you with tricky terms and Italian words.

Open throat singing is easy – you just need to develop the first of The Four Vocal Fundamentals; height in the vocal tract.

#3 – Pleasant Singing Takes Ugly Practice

Say what now? One of the reasons why you’ve been lacking in progress is that you’re trying to SOUND cool rather than SING well; and these really are two different things.

Concepts like Placement, Twang and Brightness really do start off as quite ugly sounds in your voice when you begin practicing – but obviously over time these frequencies balance out within the vocal tract to build a healthy, happy and great sounding voice.

For now, don’t be too scared of ‘sounding bad’ and instead focus on the pure intention of each of the exercises you’re practicing. If your lip trills sound like Eddie Vedder belting – then you’re obviously doing them wrong. If your vowels are pronounced or sound rolled like Layne Staley – you’re doing them wrong (for now). And if you’re loud, loud, LOUD – then you’re practicing incorrectly.

Great singing starts with small, often ugly sounds – don’t get too caught up in how cool you want to sound or how your favourite singer sounds; you’re just not there yet (and that’s okay!) – keep at it and focus on a pure resonant singing voice for now.

#4 – You’re a Cherry Picker

I’ll admit it, this was me for a VERY long time. I went from teacher to teacher, course to course and method to method picking the things that I “liked” and then tried to piece them together into a Frankenstein method than brought me undone time and time again.

There’s tons of great vocal methods out there – just make you commit and stick to the method of your choice.

The funny thing about all those courses that I “hated” when I was younger; they didn’t help me sing better, so they OBVIOUSLY SUCK, right? – I’ve revisited many of these courses and some of my notes from the early 2000’s when I was heavily into vocal training, and you know what? A lot of it really makes sense! It’s not that the information was wrong, it’s just that I wasn’t able to interpret or apply what I was being taught in a way that was practical for my voice. If you’ve bought a singing course, and your confused as hell or you feel like you’re not getting anything out of it – then contact the person that made the course and ask them a shit-ton of questions as to why you’re not seeing progress and how you can improve the exercises you’ve been given.

#5 – You’re using advanced concepts without the foundation to back them up

I’m a total open-book about advanced concepts like Vowel Modification and Compression; they’re not some “vocal teacher secret” that should be kept shrouded in secrecy – however, they’re also not the be-all-and-end-all of great singing; they’re simply a tool to help you master and improve The Four Vocal Fundamentals, in particular “Height In The Vocal Tract”.

If you’re unable to sing with a forward placement, then trying to modify your vowels is pointless. If you’re not initially forming each vowel with space in the tract first – trying to modify them can be a risk to your vocal health.

Great singing is all about a rock solid foundation and building a strong house – not just putting throwing roof tiles up in the air and hoping for the best.

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I personally spent YEARS chasing my tail as a singer jumping from one method to the next, and trying to find the next “advanced” technique or “secret” that was going to change my world – but the truth is, there’s actually only FOUR things you have to do to become a better singer right now;

  • Height In The Vocal Tract
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Among Others: extraordinary, magic story of science fiction as a toolkit for taking apart the world

I've been wandering around for a week reading Jo Walton's Among Others, trying to think of how I'd describe it once I finished, and now I've just finished and I'm still stumped.

So let me start with some adjectives. "Indescribable" for a starter. But more like "indescribably wonderful." And also "compassionate" and "sweet" and "magical." "Highly recommended" comes to mind.

Now, let me tell you what this is all about. Among Others is the diary of Morwenna Phelps, a Welsh teenager whom we really meet just after her twin sister, Morganna, has died in an unspecified but terrible way. It's 1979, and Morwenna and her sister see fairies and do magic, and have done all their life. Their mother is a terrible and evil witch, and the death of Morganna is somehow related to a spell that they did together to protect themselves — and maybe the world — from her.

And here's the important part: this is not a soppy book. Morwenna talks to fairies and does a kind of Earth-magic, but she isn't angst-ridden, she isn't treacly, she isn't mystical and spooky. She is, instead, a playground anthropologist, an outcast child who has Jane Goodall's keen eye for schoolyard social order.

Morwenna has been crippled by the accident that took Morganna, and she has left her mother, left Wales, and gone to Shropshire to live with her father, Daniel, who ran out on the family when she was a baby. Her father may be a a child-abandoning bastard, but at least he isn't her mother. But her father's posh half-sisters are determined that Morwenna should go away to an exclusive girl's boarding school, and so off she goes, keeping touch with her father only through letter-writing and visits home at the holidays.

Morwenna's greatest companions now are her books, science fiction and fantasy. It's one of the strange charmed moments when many cross-currents are whipping through the field, and great and bad books from The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy to Thomas Covenant are seeing print. Through sympathetic librarians and interlibrary loan — and magic — Morwenna discovers a million new literary worlds and strange and challenging ideas.

This is one of the places where Walton does something that made my head spin. For though Morwenna's life has much that makes her unhappy, from her family to her pariah status to her gamey leg, these books are not an escape for her. She dives into them, certainly, and goes away from the world, but she find in them a whole cognitive and philosophical toolkit for unpicking the world, making sense of its inexplicable moving parts, from people to institutions. This isn't escapism, it's discovery.

This is such a remarkable trick, for Walton is retracing the intellectual progress of a clever, strange child with so much rigor and evocative language that you feel, really feel the mind-opening power of fantastic literature and the communities that sprang up around it.

And the magic is tremendous, because Walton's heroine manages to make magic seem like it does in dreams, a nearly formless thing without rules that vanishes if you look at it too hard, a thing that is impossible to tell apart from coincidence, except you know it isn't.

I'd rank this with such great stories of nerd awakening as Pinkwater's Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars, but less comic, more serious. It is an inspiration and a lifeline to anyone who has ever felt in the world, but not of the world. It is a beautiful book.

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Bond academic wins international award for fraud detection research

June 29, 2016

Bond University academic Dr Adrian Gepp has received the American Accounting Association’s 2016 Best Dissertation Award in the Forensic Accounting section.

Dr Gepp’s research paper – Improved Models to Detect Fraud in Financial Statements – resulted in the development of cutting-edge computer modelling techniques that can automatically classify financial reports as either fraudulent or legitimate.

His program has the potential to be used by regulators and fraud investigating agencies, as well as corporate Boards and company investors to improve early detection of fraudulent accounting practices.

“I am honoured to receive this award from such a prestigious organisation and very excited that my work is being recognised on the international stage,” said Dr Gepp, who is Assistant Professor of Statistics at Bond Business School.

The cost of fraud today is estimated at 5% of corporate revenue, with a single financial statement fraud scheme routinely costing companies more than $1million. Headline-grabbing fraud cases such as HIH and Harris Scarfe are potent indicators that the detection of such corporate misconduct needs to be improved with better detection aids.

As such, Dr Gepp’s research has been well received by the industry, with presentations to the Brisbane Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Queensland Police Service’s Fraud and Cyber Crime Symposium, Bond Business Links and numerous industry events all receiving positive feedback.

“One of the key criteria for the American Accounting Association award is ‘impact on practice’ so it has really reinforced the importance of my research and strengthened my motivation to continue researching in this area,” he said.

Dr Gepp is also the lead organiser of the 4th Forensic Accounting Teaching and Research Symposium which will be held at Bond University from 13 to 14 October this year.

“Forensic accounting is an emerging field of study that is being influenced by a rapidly changing digital world,” he said.

“The object of the Symposium is to share information on all areas of research and education, as well as highlighting recent developments and innovations.”

The Symposium is designed for a broad range of professionals working in all areas of forensic accounting, research and education – accountants, lawyers, law enforcement, academics and so forth.

“Speakers already confirmed include partner and head of KordaMentha’s Brisbane-based forensics team David Van Homrigh, former Queensland Auditor-General Len Scanlan and former Commissioner of the New Zealand Securities Commission, Bond Professor Keitha Dunstan,” said Dr Gepp.

“We are also calling for submissions embracing a multi-disciplinary approach to forensic accounting – ranging from fraud prevention and the potential for fraud presented by cloud computing through to fraud in not-for-profit organisations and the psychology of fraud and corporate misconduct.”

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Doc Of Pages: Seven Reasons Why Doctor Who is a Literary Hero

Doctor Who is essentially a literary character. It is just a happy galactic coincidence that he got lost on the way to a book and ended up on our tellies. He is more than welcome.

When the default position of most TV and movies is, if the going gets tough, get violent, The Doctor has always ploughed a more unfashionable furrow. He wins not by having the biggest gun, but by having the biggest ideas.

No wonder he is such a pin-up for readers.

And that lies at the heart of this great show: ideas. Take, for example, the Weeping Angels. They are the most unnerving beasties the Doctor has encountered since he returned in 2005. And yet on screen they are static. They only move when we turn away or blink. Their monstrosity lies in the unseen recesses of our heads.

These are ideas that sparkle like nebulae.

To mark The Doctor’s return to our screens this weekend here, in no particular order, are seven reasons why the Doctor is as much a literary hero as a televisual one.

1 – He is a book sniffer

All the best people are. And in the 2008 episode, Silence in the Library, set inside the biggest collection of books in the universe, we discover it’s the smell of books that keeps them alive for millennia to come.  New technology be damned. To quote The Doctor: “Books. People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century. By now you’ve got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books.”

2 – He has provided the ultimate articulation of why public libraries are vital

We’ve all been there. Trapped in an isolated Scottish house with a werewolf, kung-fu monks and Queen Victoria, The Doctor finds time to wax lyrical on the power of books:  “You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”

3 – He is a fanboy

When confronted with Charles Dickens the 900 year-old Time Lord, who has seen the rise and fall of galaxies, rebooted the universe, and been to the end of time itself, acts just like we would. Basically, turning into a big ball of gush:

4 – He is responsible for Miss Marple and Murder on the Orient Express.

Well, not The Doctor specifically, but his companion Donna Noble in the 2008 episode The Unicorn and The Wasp. Whilst battling a (frankly silly) intergalactic wasp, Donna lets slip a few spoilers of Christie’s future career:

5 – He inspires great writers

The character of the Doctor is so compulsive, great contemporary authors want to put words in his Gallifreyan mouth. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy writer Douglas Adams was a script editor in the 1970s, penning a season long story arc called The Key of Time for the Fourth Doctor, and Neil Gaiman has long been a fan. He said: “Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science-fiction. At best, Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic, about this wonderful man in this big blue box, who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere there’s a problem.” And he went on to write one of the best episodes in recent years, The Doctor’s Wife, where The Doctor meets the TARDIS in human form. Apparently it is us, humans, that are bigger on the inside:

6 – He gets wrapped up in myths

In 1963 the BBC commissioned Doctor Who as an educational series. The grand idea was he would travel around time and space, visit great historical moments, inform the youth as you go. That lasted only five episodes until the universe’s most homicidal pepper pots, the Daleks, were introduced. But that public service reflex lingers on. The Doctor has encountered countless literary figures from history, including half the cast of The Iliad in 1965’s The Myth Makers and a gallery of fairy tale characters in 1968’s The Mind Robber:

7 – Forget Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon, et al – The Doctor is the man behind Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Code from 2007 had great fun playing with Shakespearian mythology. It featured the famously lost play, Love Labours Won, had The Doctor planting a seed for the world’s most famous six word musing on existence, and provided a subtle nod to Sonnet 57, aka the one in which Shakespeare might profess his love for another man. All this in family, prime time entertainment. Glorious bookish stuff:

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The papers in this volume explore key challenges in identifying, building, and linking competences within and between organizations. The first paper describes a facilitated process through which managers may identify an organization's current competences and assess which of its capabilities may constitute the 'core' of its distinctive competences. Subsequent papers elaborate basic issues in building organizational competence, including balancing the exploration of new competences and the exploitation of current competences, creating strategic options through competence building, linking the capabilities of alliance partners to target and build new competences, using product architectures in building and maintaining competences, the recursive nature of competence building processes, and the nature and role of management processes in competence building. A final paper analyzes the intellectual structure of and influences within the competence-based management perspective.
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The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf

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The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain's relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in both the Gulf and Britain, this book examines how Britain's Political Resident in the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf, protected British interests throughout the region, and managed political relations with the dozens of Arab rulers and governors on both shores of the Gulf. James Onley looks at the secret to the Gulf Residency's effectiveness - the extent to which the British worked within the indigenous political systems of the Gulf. He examines the way in which Arab rulers in need of protection collaborated with the Resident to maintain the Pax Britannica, while influential men from affluent Arab, Persian, and Indian merchant families served as the Resident's 'native agents' (compradors) in over half of the political posts within the Gulf Residency.

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Assisted Revenge

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Age is but a number so at 59 years of age and after raising my family i was watching a Bon Jovi concert that took me back to a part of my youth that I had missed. I first got the idea of this book as I was watching a Bon Jovi concert fron Madison Garden. A neighbour was also watching it with me and I started putting the song titles into sentences. As an avid Bon Jovi fan, I had collected all their albums and a lot of DVD concerts. I have all of the band members individual works; even before they became the Bon Jovi band and all of David's musical soundtracks. From the first sentence I was able to create this book using just song titles and then followed this book with other books from different artists song titles of different genres of music. i enjoy writing these books and my daughters enjoy reading and editing them for me.


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Forbidden Distraction: A Bachelor of Shell Cove/Fiery Fairytales Crossover Novella

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Siera London is a bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. She crafts stories of diverse characters navigating the challenges and triumphs to find lasting love. Intelligence, wit, emotion, drama, and sensual romance are between the covers of every Siera London novel. Siera lives in California with her husband, and a color patch tabby named Frie.


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Carnegie's Maid

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From the author of The Other Einstein comes the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.

Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home.

If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie requires skills she doesn't have, answering to an icy mistress who rules her sons and her domain with an iron fist. What Clara does have is a resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for, coupled with an uncanny understanding of business, and Andrew begins to rely on her. But Clara can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future -- and her family's.

With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid tells the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist into the world's first true philanthropist.

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The advantages of outsourced bookkeeping

When your business reaches a certain size, outsourced bookkeeping offers many advantages over hiring a bookkeeper to do the work in-house or doing the work yourself.

Keeping your financial records up-to-date is essential for the success of your business. Your time is best spent doing what you do well, not managing the books. Outsourced bookkeeping takes this job off your to-do list, allowing you to run the business more effectively, improving your overall bottom line.

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Congratulations to Alicia Keys! The singer just landed her first magazine cover since the birth of lil Egypt last year.

Inside the magazine Alicia finally gives her take on being married to Swizzy. Check out a few quotes below:

On music, marriage and motherhood:

“Falling in love is such a force, but this is a whole other level of magic.”

“I was very closed for a long time. But I feel so open now. To feel open like this means you’ve found the center in yourself. You’re not hiding; you’re not worried about anything. Everything’s going to be just fine.”

Everything is gonna be fine til Swizzy knocks up the next broad. We hope she’s right!

On dedicating a song to her mom:

“In the past, I’ve written mostly from my own perspective. But I just wrote a song for my next album that was inspired by a conversation I had with a man who was expressing how indebted he feels to God. He said, ‘I owe God.’ Now, what an interesting thought. And as much as I believe in God, for me that translated into how much I owe my mother for who I am. So I went home and I wrote I Owe You. It’s dedicated to her…”

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Where Your Company Comes Together

What is an Intranet, and why does your company need one? Internet expert James Robertson may have coined the most succinct answer to that question. “An Intranet is an internal website that helps employees get stuff done,” Robertson, author of Essential Intranets and two other books on Intranets, wrote.

Today, most companies already have an Intranet. But if your Intranet is more than a couple of years old, or not being updated frequently, you might be surprised to discover how the modern Intranet has evolved and at the capabilities that can be added to even the simplest site.

Does anyone use your Intranet? Can you tell?  What’s most used? What’s not used at all? Is the page layout done in a way that highlights your most popular and/or most recent content?  Is it dynamically interspersed with project work?

Wellington Street Consulting designs and builds Intranets for its clients employing SharePoint modern communication sites and a variety of relevant hub sites.

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With a modern Intranet you can: create links to every other page or service any employee would need to complete their daily tasks, communicate with others internally via secure chat, connect and share documents with Office 365 Teams members, and more.

For example, employees might connect with the HR department to

  • Obtain HR forms and information
  • Choose and set up healthcare enrollment
  • Submit vacation requests
  • Turn in expense vouchers and more

Your Intranet might also be used to aggregates news and alerts from across the company

  • Get news from the UK office
  • View photos from the company outing in Miami
  • Receive alerts about where to park during the repaving of the Burlington office
  • Get weather alerts, and closing updates
  • Access instructions for working remotely or from home

By adding SharePoint Hub sites to your Intranet you can display the latest news and documents from across all of the Teams each user belongs to in a single location. That enables them to identify and address high-priority items quickly.

Why use SharePoint for your Intranet site?

  • Ease of updating
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  • Make it easier and faster for people to find what they’re looking for

A SharePoint-based Intranet simplifies many tasks, making it easier to

  • Integrate data from multiple sources in one place
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  • Create a comprehensive company directory – powered by Active Directory  – that automatically populates in relevant locations. Or ask about our proprietary directory app that lets you track people who don’t have access to your tenant.

Your Intranet provides a direct link for employees to everything that’s going on in the company. It can help to ensure that everyone in the company is on the same page, with access to current news and direct links to almost everything they might need. Your Intranet can increase efficiency, improve communications across the organization, and save you money. Are you ready to improve how your company works through a modern Intranet? Contact us to find out how easy it can be.


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Bow River Capital is pleased to announce the acquisition of Songbird Properties, LLC (“Songbird”) by Bow River Capital Real Estate Fund I, LP (the “Fund”). Songbird is a residential portfolio of 45 rented single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums located in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties (Colorado). This part of Metro Denver offers a high quality… Keep Reading

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Native Plant Demonstration Garden begins to bloom!

Volunteers have been hard at work to make a dream come true at the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center.  What started out as a thicket of vines and trees has now become the beginnings of a trail meant to show visitors the types of plants native to north Texas.

Troops of scouts, Texas Master Naturalists, Prairie & Timbers Audubon members and other volunteers cleared a 300-foot path, created garden beds, and put in native plants throughout the trail.  Additionally, signage was placed along the trail to show which plants would be used by birds and butterflies.

On July 25th, a ribbon-cutting ceremony welcomed the garden to the ever-expanding improvements at Brockdale Park.  Scout Troop 1020 presented the color guard, the Mayor of Lucas, Bill Carmickle and BPRC Executive Director spoke and then cut a ribbon of cedar branches.

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Erich Neupert cut the cedar ribbon to welcome visitors

Plans for the future include expanding the number of plant beds, adding benches and increasing the signage along the path.

Signage explains the use of native plants

Thanks to the Henry Robert Fund, Prairie & Timbers Audubon, Rockwell-Collins, the Armstrong and Schoeffel families as well as Troops 25 and 1020, Blackland Prairie Master Naturalists, the Blythe Family and Chuck Hummel Tractor work for all their time and donations to complete this wonderful addition to Blackland Prairie Raptor Center.

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Author: BradyGirl_12
Pairings/Characters (this chapter): Bruce/Dick, Alfred, Steve/Diana (Diana does not appear in this chapter), Ollie/Dinah (Dinah does not appear in this chapter)
Fandoms: DC Comics, MASH (Chapter 3)
Genres: Angst, AU, Challenge, Historical, Drama
Rating (this chapter): PG-13
Claim: For my 2017 Bruce/Dick Bingo Card.
Prompt: AU Retcon
Pattern: Row A (Straight/Vertical Line Bingo) (3/3)
Prompt Count: (8/9)
Warnings: Author Chooses Not To Warn
Spoilers: None
General Summary: Dick is drafted into the Army during the Korean War, and he and Bruce must adjust to that hard fact of the Cold War.
Chapter Summary: Dick is shipped over to Korea.
Date Of Completion: June 20, 2017
Date Of Posting: October 15, 2017
Disclaimer: I don’t own ‘em, DC does, more’s the pity.
Word Count (this chapter): 1338
Feedback welcome and appreciated.
Author’s Notes: This AU is set in the pre-Crisis On Infinite Earths Earth-2. The Golden Age heroes lived on that Earth, and that included the Dynamic Duo. Earth-2’s Dick Grayson never split from Bruce, but he gradually made a life for himself away from Gotham. The retcon part comes as he winds up getting his Greetings from Uncle Sam.
Note: The incident in Dick's letter happened to my father. Pretty shocking for a 17-year-old from Massachusetts training for combat in Korea. Also the training camo scene. The Irish-American was my father. Welcome to the South!
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“War destroys young men’s bodies and minds. It crushes the souls of those left behind.”

General Sam Lane
U.S. Army
February 6, 1953 C.E.

February 1, 1953

Dick finally got his orders to ship out on February 1, 1953. Roy would be with him as the entire squad was kept together. They were members of the 7th Infantry Division, with many layers between squad and division.

Bruce had followed the progress of the war, particularly after Dick had been drafted, and now read every newspaper article he could and watched every newscast, though news programs of the day were only fifteen minutes long, and you could see more footage in movie theaters than on TV. He went to a lot of movies.

Dick began sending letters home, written on Victory paper and giving Alfred and Bruce a good picture of what South Korea was like these days. He wrote to each man, who often shared parts with the other.

& & & & & &

February 16, 1953

Dear Bruce,

Korea is a very exotic country. I love the architecture in cities like Seoul, though a lot of it’s destroyed by now. The people have been suffering since June of 1950, and it shows. Seoul has seesawed back and forth between North Korea and U.N. forces. There’s sewage running in the streets and hordes of orphaned children scavenging for food, often fighting homeless adults.

The countryside is little better. Most of the farmers’ huts and villages have been burned, but some still stand. These who don’t go to the cities are living in caves and deep in the mountains. Hunger is everywhere, as the crops can’t be planted or harvested.

We got a couple of veterans mixed in with us, ‘veterans’ being guys our age having been here about six months ahead of us. Vic Stone is one of those guys, and gave us the rundown about the countryside, though we saw a lot for ourselves, even just ten days in-country.

I’m afraid that we’ll have to rebuild this country from the ground up. There’s barely anything left. The Koreans suffered under the Japanese for years, and now this war. Hopefully it will end soon.

& & & & & &

Dick was a good correspondent, so the letters kept coming on a fairly regular basis. He proclaimed a desire to undergo paratrooper training after his combat duty.

“Paratrooper training!” Bruce read, exasperated.

“Master Dick always did like the air, sir,” Alfred said dryly.

Bruce shook his head.

& & & & & &

It was March when the letters stopped coming. Bruce and Alfred read in the newspaper about the Battle of Old Baldy. It was a godforsaken hill in a godforsaken war, and Bruce hardly slept. He haunted the library by the fire when he wasn’t out patrolling, and the criminals of Gotham wondered if Robin’s disappearance had anything to do with the rage of the Bat these days.

Bruce shivered by the fire every night, rereading Dick’s letters and hardly daring to pray. The fire crackled and Bruce felt ice-cold, his fingers stiff and clumsy as he handled the precious letters. Alfred would sometimes bring him tea when he wasn’t trying to sleep, and a few times sat with him, saying nothing, but his presence was a comfort.

They finally received a letter from Dick a week after the battle.

& & & & & &

April 1, 1953

Dear Bruce,

Well, we had our first major battle, and Roy and I survived. Sorry I can’t give details. The censors would chop up this letter.

Just letting you know I’m fine. So is Roy. If I never hear a Chinese bugle again, it’ll be too soon.

& & & & & &

The Battle of Pork Chop Hill was next. Bruce learned through contacts at the Defense Department that the 7th Infantry was involved.

“The Chinese are making a huge push,” said Steve Trevor over the phone.

Bruce’s heart sank. “How big a push?”

“One of the major pushes of the war.”

& & & & & &

“Sir.” Alfred stood in the doorway of the study. He looked bone-white and his hand was trembling. He held a piece of paper. “Telegram, sir.”

Bruce felt his blood run cold. He accepted the telegram. “Thank you, Alfred.” He was surprised that his voice was steady as his hand was shaking.

The words We regret to inform you swam before his eyes. He tried to read the rest.

“He’s M.I.A., sir.”

Missing in action. No body. There was still hope.

He got on the phone to Steve again, who promised to do what he could to find out information.

The grandfather clock in the next room sounded loud in the sepulchral quiet of the Manor. Bruce stared out at the gardens, the day overcast in the way of early April. He allowed himself to imagine Dick in the gardens, smiling and laughing and enjoying the flowers that he helped Alfred maintain.

Beauty surrounded by beauty.

Hours crawled by, and then the phone rang, loud and jarring. Bruce snatched up the handset.

Bruce…Roy is…”

Empathy flooded Bruce. “What, Ollie?”

“He’s M.I.A.”

Bruce closed his eyes for a moment. “So’s Dick.”

A sad sound drifted over the phone. “I’m sorry.”

Bruce opened wet eyes. “Me, too.”

“I was going to call Steve, but I suppose you have already?”

“Okay.” A pause. “Dinah’s really broken up. How’s Alfred?”

“Oh, you know, stiff upper lip.” While his heart’s breaking.

“Yeah.” Ollie sighed. “Keep me in the loop, okay?”

“I will.”

After he hung up, Bruce stared out the window.

& & & & & &

“Diana’s on the ground in Korea. She’s busy on Pork Chop Hill, but promised to search for Dick and Roy and their missing squad when she gets the chance.”

Steve’s call had been yesterday. He promised to call Bruce and Ollie the minute he heard from Diana.

Bruce went through his paperwork by rote. Patrol was the same way. He was hollow inside, desperate to keep a spark of hope alive.

He heard from Steve three days later, but Diana had found no trace of the squad.

& & & & & &

Bruce drifted through the days, keeping Gotham safe while his heart ached. He drove himself relentlessly until he tumbled into bed one night, exhausted.

& & & & & &

He awoke, the ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall matching the rhythm of the ocean’s waves. He sat up, the space beside him in bed empty. He rolled out of bed, dressing in jeans, a Harvard sweatshirt, and sneakers. He glided down the shadowed hall, down the staircase, and out into the cool spring night.

He walked down the path to the beach, his way illuminated by bright moonlight. A light winked in the lighthouse as the waves lapped against the shore.

He saw Dick skipping stones across the water. He walked toward him with his hands in his jeans pockets. Dick turned and smiled.

“Hey, Bruce.”

“Hey, yourself. What’s up?”

“Oh, just enjoying the night. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”

“You’re beautiful.”

“Oh, pshaw.”

“You are.”

Dick kicked off his sneakers and waded into the surf. He was wearing jeans and a bright, yellow T-shirt.

“Come on in, the water’s fine.”

Bruce took off his sneakers and followed Dick. The water felt cool on his skin.

Dick dove and broke the surface, diamonds cascading down his hair and T-shirt. He broke Bruce’s heart.

“I love you,” Bruce said.

“I love you, too.” Dick’s smile was impish, though a little sad.

“Why are you sad?”

“Because I can’t stay.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t know.” Dick flashed a smile and touched Bruce’s shoulder. “It’s just a dream. Nothing to worry about.”

“Is this just a dream?”

“I think so.” Dick began to backstroke. “What are you doing on the 4th of July?”

Bruce swam aimlessly. “Probably a barbecue in the backyard. Not interested in going to the city. We can see the fireworks from here.”

“You can.”

Dick drifted away with a sad smile, dissolving into the moonlight.

He should be in sunlight.

“Dick, wait! Don’t leave me!”

Bruce lunged for his lover, but Dick was already gone, leaving behind only a trail of sparkles on the water.

& & & & & &

Bruce wept.

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I Didn’t Just Survive… I Grew!

Today is a great day!

I am at home, finally enjoying some rest and relaxation after an insanely busy week. Yesterday’s event was a huge success, and I feel like breathing a giant sigh of relief—relief that it went well, relief that it was well attended (by nearly 400 people), and relief that it is over! It was fun and totally worth it, but I’m ready for things to slow down a little bit… well, at least for a couple of weeks before I head out on my next adventure to Africa!

But I don’t want to get ahead of myself here. With Spring FX just freshly behind me, I feel like now is a really great time for a bit of self-reflection. As I look back on this week, I can see some genuine, measurable growth that has taken place in my life. Here are a few examples:

  • I prioritized rest. When I have hosted these events previously, I have often worked late into the night, practically around the clock, to get everything done. This week, I chose to let go of a few things that didn’t matter as much so that I could focus on my top priorities. I think I was in bed between 10:00 and 11:00 every night leading up to the event, which is unheard of for me! To me, this shows that I am not only learning to prioritize rest, but I am also learning to prioritize my mental health. And that’s pretty cool.
  • This week I had a few very hard-to-replace volunteers cancel on their commitments because of unfortunate circumstances that were well beyond their control. These were not just any volunteers, but people I would consider among some of my most trusted allies. They wouldn’t take cancelling lightly, and so naturally I completely understood that these were extenuating circumstances. Nonetheless, in the past, having to figure out how to adjust to these massive changes in the middle of such a hectic week would have put me over the edge anxiety-wise. But since I had written a few times this week about choosing to navigate “curveballs” well, I felt I had to stick to my word. Instead of letting anxiety take over, I chose to trust that God would provide and it would all work out in the end. And guess what… it did!
  • Last night, after the event, I was genuinely so pleased with the outcome. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I tend to be very critical of myself and fixate on the one thing that went wrong, even if the event was 99% perfect. But last night, as we drove home, Ryan asked me what I liked and didn’t like about the event. I actually found it genuinely difficult to think of things I didn’t like! Everything went so smoothly, and I wasn’t beating myself up over the little things that weren’t “100% perfect”. To me, this is another great success and an example of how I am growing to love and appreciate myself more and more.

I’m so thankful. It is such a gift to be able to reflect on this week and witness the growth I have experienced in my life. But I’m not about to take the credit. I don’t think any of this growth would have been possible without God giving me the strength and courage to face my mental health struggles head on and pursue genuine life change. So above all, I am thankful to Him for giving me what I need not only to survive, but to blossom into a new creation who is braver than before.

PS – Here are some photos of the event, as promised!

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    • Talasi Guerra says:

      Haha! I know, I’m an extreme introvert as well and even I had fun! Someone told me afterwards that the event was really special for them because they felt I was just full of joy and free from angst and stress. That was some really great feedback to get! Someone else is noticing my growth too!

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Through the Faded Reflection (Fix Your Eyes on Jesus)

Nothing speaks to my heart like a good object lesson—particularly when that object lesson comes to me out of the blue, almost as if God were downloading it straight from his heart into mine as I take in the world around me.

Let me give you an example from a recent experience. I was sitting alone at my kitchen table one evening. Ryan was out for the night and Avra was asleep in her room. I had decided to take advantage of the quiet moment to spend some time in prayer.

Now, I don’t know if you have a “spot” at your kitchen table, but I do. It is where I sit every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. More often than not, it is where I set my laptop up when I work from home. And on this particular occasion, it is where I was sitting as I began my quiet time with God.

On the wall directly across from my spot is a large window. And as I sat there speaking and listening to God, a quiet impression came over my heart that prompted me to get up out of my seat and wander over to this window. I sat down on a stool in front of it and did my best to tune in to that little voice inside saying, “Look out the window. What do you see?”

It was a dark, winter evening and I had bright lights on in the house, turning the window itself into more of an enormous mirror. Naturally, the very first thing I saw was my own reflection, and quite clearly at that. But I quickly noted that if I changed my gaze, I was able to see outside into the dark night.

The light from my window illuminated the nearest neighbor’s fence and the trees along their fence line. But if I looked even harder, I could see beyond the trees and into the backyard—though barely because everything was so black. Finally, as I focused harder still, I was surprised to find that through the space between the houses, I could actually see all the way across to the other side of the cul-de-sac where my eyes caught sight of a tiny red light shining in the distance.

As I focused on that little red beam, I realized that my reflection in the window had effectively disappeared. In fact, the further away I focused my gaze, the less I found that my own likeness in the window was blocking my view. But as I fixed my eyes on nearer objects, my reflection became correspondingly visible. Sometimes I could only see it slightly, while other times it was more prominent. But one thing remained consistent—when I truly focused my eyes on that distant light, I sort of forgot about seeing my reflection altogether.

And then, in the midst of this simple evening experiment, God downloaded the lesson into my heart:

“Your reflection disappears when you are focused on the right place.”

It hit me like a ton of bricks. I realized that over time I had turned my gaze to myself instead of keeping my eyes fixed on Jesus. So many of my actions and choices in life, though seemingly good, were often being influenced more by my own aspirations, plans, and desires, than by the will of God.

I know that God was asking me to quit looking at all that stuff. Instead, he wants me to turn my gaze towards him and to focus it harder and harder through the remnants of my fading reflection until he is all I can see.

“Your reflection disappears when you are focused on the right place.”

Do you ever find yourself slowly losing sight of the most important things in life? Do you ever catch yourself focusing more on your own reflection than on God and his perfect wisdom?

If you’re anything like me, then the answer to those questions is a resounding yes. Whether it’s our ambitions, our problems, our families, our busy schedules, or even our leisure activities, it can all get in the way and reduce our ability to focus on Jesus. Instead we end up focused on ourselves, running in any and all directions without an end in mind, oblivious to what we’re missing all around us.

The truth is that I haven’t been entirely focused on the right place lately. I’m so thankful for this beautifully personal object lesson from God, and I am ready to transfer my gaze to the only person who can help me see clearly.

“And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” – Hebrews 12:1b-2a (NIV)

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Fortunately for me, the 3 of us competitors were partnered with Double Dogs bartenders that could help us craft the cocktails. The first round of the competition was the vodka round. We created:

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  • 1 part blue Curaçao
  • 1 part ginger beer
  • muddled lime
  • garnish with pineapple and cherry

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The second round was the whiskey round, and we created something that I was particularly a huge fan of. I also give myself a lot of credit for the extra clever name. ;]

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  • 1 part tonic
  • Splash of orange juice
  • pineapple-jalapeño simple syrup
  • cayenne pepper rim with lime garnish

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    • 2 parts Stiegl grapefruit beer
    • 1 part champagne
    • muddled raspberries and mint,
    • strawberry, mint, lemon twist garnish

Towards the end of the competition, we made tiny versions of our cocktails so that customers could come up and donate to taste our creations. All donations went directly to the Nashville Humane Association.
The cocktail olympics were a blast. I had so much fun being a part of something that was for a great cause and the staff at Double Dogs were so wonderful.
After the judges tallied their scores, they gave out medals. I received bronze, which was still a win in my book (even though it was technically last place) because I really had no idea what I was doing. All in all, it was really fun to pretend to be a bartender for the evening while raising money for the Nashville Humane Association. cocktail12
Hope you all have a great weekend!

I was recently invited to come out to taste and preview the upcoming cold brew that will be released at Dunkin’ Donuts as of August 1st. It was held at the location on Elliston Place in Midtown on Thursday evening. As you can imagine, when I received an email asking if I’d like to come out with a P.S. that asked “What’s your favorite kind of donut?” it was a no-brainer. They were speaking directly to my heart and my stomach.
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Last Thursday I was invited, along with other Nashville bloggers, to come out to the brand new Double Dogs location in Sylvan Heights. We got a sneak peek of their upcoming menu items and got to taste all kinds of delicious appetizers and entrées along with having the distinct pleasure of drinking from their open bar.
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I brought my friend Trisha along as my +1 and she managed to snap a photo of me in my blogger element, a photo of me taking a photo of food, how meta. We sampled a little bit of everything they had on display, which worked out perfectly because there’s no way we would have been able to just choose one menu item. Everything looked delicious and everything was delicious!

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My favorite dish was the homemade chicken pot pie, which is served as an iron skillet filled with a golden brown pastry shell that’s stuffed with piping hot chicken, fresh vegetables and a rich cream sauce.. I’m such a sucker for southern comfort foods, and this was one of the best dishes I’ve tasted in a long time. I probably could’ve eaten the whole thing, but opted for trying more than one thing and not hogging all of the pot pie. I’m telling you, you HAVE to go here and try their pot pie ASAP!

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The service at the event was incredible. Every staff member that came by to check on us was attentive, polite, and very friendly. They even offered Trisha and I beer samples to find out which we’d like to go with our food. The managers, trainers, wait staff, and bartenders were top-notch with their customer service. I cannot wait to go back with my husband and enjoy their patio and watch football on their TVs.

Check out the brand new Double Dogs location in Sylvan Heights at 40th Ave and Charlotte Pike. You can even bring your furry friend along!

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