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You know when an ingredient starts showing up in the beverages of your local juicery that it’s a trend that won’t go away anytime soon. Lately, it seems like activated charcoal is everywhere.

Activated charcoal, also called activated carbon, is made by heating carbon-containing material in an airless environment. 1These materials often include wood, coconut husks, lignite, rye starch, and coal. 2 The material is then activated using oxygen or other common chemicals. It’s a black, thin-grained solid.

The reason why activated carbon or charcoal is so popular is its ability to attract substances (such as dirt and oil from your pores) like a magnet, and then quickly absorb them.

History of Medical Use

The blackened material has been used as medicine for thousands of years. The first recorded use of activated charcoal was in 1500 BC. Egyptians used activated charcoal for intestinal issues and for purifying wounds. 3 Famous doctors of the ancient world, including Pliny and Hippocrates, used it in many medical instances. 4 In World War I, soldiers used it in gas masks.5

Recently, activated charcoal has enjoyed a resurgence. Here are some of the ways activated charcoal can work – and some of the ways it can’t.

Activated Charcoal as an Antidote to Poison

In hospital settings, activated charcoal is often used in cases of poison ingestion or drug overdose. It works by absorbing toxins in the gastrointestinal tract before the bad stuff can get into the bloodstream. 6 However, for it to be the most effective, activated charcoal must be taken within one hour of the poisoning or overdose. (This is probably why charcoal is all the more present in emergency rooms.)

Can Activated Charcoal Rid Your Body of Toxins?

Since activated charcoal can absorb toxins in the case of poisoning, you might think it would be beneficial as a whole-body cleanse. Unfortunately, there’s no evidence it can work this way. Some people also claim activated charcoal can help cure a hangover. This is false, since a hangover occurs long after you drink alcohol, and activated charcoal must be taken within one hour of toxin ingestion. 7 Also, activated charcoal can bond with many types of chemicals in your body, including vitamins. 8 If it removes vitamins from your body, taking activated charcoal for a cleanse could end up leaving you less healthy. Your body is an amazing machine that already does a great job of detoxing on its own. 9

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Beauty Applications

There are no scientific studies to date that have proven the effectiveness of activated charcoal in skin care. 10 Still, some claim that activated charcoal skin cleansers and masks can help clear acne, including blackheads. For hair, activated charcoal devotees add the black powder to their regular shampoo to take away dirt and buildup. It’s also said to cure dandruff and other scalp conditions. This makes sense, because the black substance has been shown to “suck out” grime, oil, and other toxic elements.

Plus, activated charcoal is unlikely to cause irritation or an allergic reaction, so there’s little harm in trying it for your skin or hair.

You can make your own activated charcoal facial mask at home. Most recipes also include bentonite clay, a substance made from volcanic ash that’s said to be an amazing skin purifier. Mix 1½ teaspoons bentonite clay, ¼ teaspoon activated charcoal powder and 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar or honey. Put this mixture on your face and leave it there to harden. After around 15 minutes, remove the mask with warm water. No time for DIY? Many skin masks containing activated charcoal are available commercially.

Brushing your teeth with it is said to make teeth whiter. Many dentists disagree; in fact, some are advising patients not to use it on their teeth because it may lead to enamel and tooth deterioration. 11

Does Activated Charcoal Reduce Intestinal Gas?

There is some evidence it can reduce intestinal gas – and some evidence it can’t. A 1981 study found that supplementing with it led to less flatulence after a gassy meal. 12 A study from 1986 found that activated charcoal led to less bloating, cramps, and gas for study participants in the United States and India. 13 However, a 1985 study concluded that activated charcoal did not affect gas. 14 A more recent study conducted in 2000 found that activated charcoal did not reduce flatulence. 15 Clearly, more research is needed to determine if activated charcoal is a relevant remedy for intestinal gas. If you’re interested in taking activated charcoal for gas, talk to your doctor.

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Activated Charcoal’s Effect on High Cholesterol

There is some evidence that activated charcoal supplementation can help with high cholesterol. A 1989 study from the University of Helsinki in Finland found that taking activated charcoal helped reduce cholesterol for patients. The supplements were also well-tolerated. It should be noted that this was a very small study of just 17 patients. 16 Consult your doctor before taking activated charcoal for high cholesterol.

Warnings and Interactions

Activated charcoal, like any supplement, can interact with other types of medicine. If you take activated charcoal orally, do so under your doctor’s supervision. Tell your doctor all of the medicines you are taking, including supplements and herbal remedies. People with some medical conditions should not take activated charcoal. This includes recent surgery patients, those who have intestinal bleeding or those with a hole in their intestine.

Though it’s not a cure-all, activated charcoal has some medicinal benefits that allow doctors to help remedy overdoses, and it’s a featured ingredient in beauty products everywhere, from masks and cleansers to bar soaps and shampoos. Will you give it a try in your beauty regimen?

For more helpful health news, keep reading:

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1.”Charcoal | Michigan Medicine”. N.p., 2017. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

2. Derlet, Robert. “Activated Charcoal- Past, Present And Future”. N.p., 1986. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

3. “University Of Kentucky Center For Applied Energy Research – Carbon Materials – Carbon History And Timeline”. N.p., 2017. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

4. “University Of Kentucky Center For Applied Energy Research – Carbon Materials – Carbon History And Timeline”. N.p., 2017. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

5. Derlet, Robert. “Activated Charcoal- Past, Present And Future”. N.p., 1986. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

6. Landau, Elizabeth. “The Facts Behind Hangover Remedies”. N.p., 2010. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

7. Landau, Elizabeth. “The Facts Behind Hangover Remedies”. N.p., 2010. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

8. Gavura, Scott. “Activated Charcoal: The Latest Detox Fad In An Obsessive Food Culture”. Science-Based Medicine. N.p., 2015. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

9. Johnson, Amanda. “Thetruth About… Detox Diets”. N.p., 2006. Print.

10. Friedman, Molly. “Blackened Beauty: Charcoal And Its Purifying Properties Are The Latest Health Fad”. N.p., 2014. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

11. News, Fox. “Dentist Warns Against Charcoal Teeth Whitening Trend”. Fox News. N.p., 2016. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

12. Hall RG Jr, et al. “Effects Of Orally Administered Activated Charcoal On Intestinal Gas. – Pubmed – NCBI”. N.p., 1981. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

13. Jain NK, et al. “Efficacy Of Activated Charcoal In Reducing Intestinal Gas: A Double-Blind Clinical Trial. – Pubmed – NCBI”. N.p., 1986. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

14. Potter T, et al. “Activated Charcoal: In Vivo And In Vitro Studies Of Effect On Gas Formation. – Pubmed – NCBI”. N.p., 1985. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

15. Di Stefano, M. et al. “Non-Absorbable Antibiotics For Managing Intestinal Gas Production And Gas-Related Symptoms”. N.p., 2000. Print.

16. Neuvonen PJ, et al. “Activated Charcoal In The Treatment Of Hypercholesterolaemia: Dose-Response Relationships And Comparison With Cholestyramine. – Pubmed – NCBI”. N.p., 1989. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.

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Mix:UK 07

Not really .Net related, but I have to admit to excitement at the prospect of going to Mix:UK 07 down in London in September.

Interestingly, the social networking aspect is already hotting up, with a Backnetwork set up and a Facebook event starting to draw in the attendees. Will I go as far as to import those attendee contact lists into my PDA to take? Well, knowing my inability to remember and match names to faces, it'd probably be a good thing to do.

Technically, I'm really going to be interested in the Silverlight tracks - right now I'm almost desparate for the Silverlight team to implement the basic forms controls (buttons, text boxes, etc). Whilst better control support is planned, it does seem to be a very large omission from the 1.1Alpha release.

Of course, there have already been some community projects to rectify that deficiency, as well as commercial offerings, but how compatible would these be with Microsoft's own library, and how much effort would it be to back-migrate from a 3rd part library after the fact?

Anyway, roll on Mix and I'll see you in London!

Monday, June 11, 2007

Using a global ProductInfo.cs file

When a project gets beyond a certain size, it becomes impossible to keep the multitude of AssemblyInfo.cs files up do date, particularly for copyright and version numbers.

The solution to this problem is to use a single ProductInfo.cs file that every project links to, which contains the common data that would normally be duplicated across many AssemblyInfo.cs files.

Here are the contents of ProductInfo.cs

using System.Reflection;

using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]

[assembly: AssemblyCompany("My Company Limited")]

[assembly: AssemblyProduct("My Product")]

[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © 2006-2007")]

[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]

[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]

[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("v1.0 alpha")]

// [assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("MyCodeKey.snk")]

 This allows the AssemblyInfo.cs file for any assembly to be pared down to the following:

using System;

using System.Reflection;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("MyCompany.MyProduct.MyAssembly")]

[assembly: AssemblyDescription("Description of MyAssembly")]

[assembly: ComVisible(false)]

[assembly: CLSCompliant(true)]

[assembly: Guid("b76c311c-f681-48d1-b2e0-9f691feb239f")]

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("")]

[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("")]

There are 2 ways to add a link to the ProductInfo.cs to your projects:

1.Drag and drop (the easy option)

This method simply entails dragging the linked ProductInfo.cs from an existing project and dropping it the Properties folder of your project.

2.Add Existing item (an alternative option)

This method includes add an existing item to your project, by right clicking on the project file and selecting Add -> Existing Item from the context menu. Then navigate to the directory containing the ProductInfo.cs file and select the ProductInfo.cs file. Finally (and  this is the clever bit) select the Add Link option from the dropdown attached to the Add button.

I tend to add a solution (virtual) folder called "Solution Items" to each large solution I'm working on and add the ProductInfo.cs file to that. I can then easily drag-and-drop as needed.

When this technique is coupled with automated Assembly versioning, your live becomes much easier!

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Numbers, numbers everywhere - fixing VS2005's Assembly Numbering Limitations

Assembly numbering isn't something that a developer will generally bother too much about - so long as your references are up to date and the code works, what does it matter if the AssemblyVersion or AssemblyFileVersion are permanently locked at Unfortunately, with the complex interaction of class-libraries in large projects, we need to be a bit more deliberate about things.

The two properties in question, AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion, are controlled through assembly attributes in the AssemblyInfo.cs file for a class library. You can find this in the Properties folder of a project.

When you create a new Class Library project, these properties will be set as shown in the following snippet from AssemblyInfo.cs.

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
// Major Version
// Minor Version
// Build Number
// Revision
// You can specify all the values or you can default the Revision and Build Numbers
// by using the '*' as shown below:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.*")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.*")]

Visual studio lets you "default" the Build and Revision numbers using an asterisk (*) in the property. HOWEVER, it ONLY works for the AssemblyVersion property, NOT the AssemblyFileVersion property. This means that whilst your AssemblyVersion can automatically increment, the AssemblyFileVersion cannot.

Fortunately, there's a workaround from Microsoft - an additional MSBuild task that can be added to a project file which causes the two properties to be updated on every build.

Of course there's a downside - setting this up for every project involves adding a line to the .csproj file directly. What follows is a walkthrough of the process.
  1. Install the AssemblyInfo task downloaded from the MSBuild Tasks website.
  2. Create a customised build target file according to the instructions.

    I created a copy in the installation directory, but you can put it wherever you want - just be sure to update the path in step 3 below.

    My customisation was configure the task so that the AssemblyFileVersion had fixed Major and Minor versions, but the Build number represented the day and month the build took place and the Revision number again autoincremented.

    The critical code from the targets file is this:

    You can, of course, configure the task to modify the AssemblyVersion in the same way.
  3. Add the following additional target import to each project file (*.csproj) just after the default Microsoft.CSharp.targets import.

    <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\AssemblyInfoTask\Custom.VersionNumber.Targets"/>

    This is the magic that instructs the compiler to run the AssemblyVersion task each time the project is build.
It's a small chore to update each project, but the result is a much more useful format for the two properties.

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.000214.02")]

The AssemblyVersion build number auto-increments, and the FileVersion includes the build date where before it was just a static value.

There's one slight wrinkle with this method of your project is under source control, however. The AssemblyVersion task it relies on being able to write changes into the AssemblyInfo.cs files just prior to compilation - so if your source control package write-protects files until you check them out, the process will error.

For TFS users, this post on the MSBuild Team Blog gives additional build targets to add to your project file that will check-out the relevant files, and then check them back in again afterwards. It's targetted at automated builds, but is easy enough to modify.

But the simplest method is simple to ensure that AssemblyInfo.cs is checked out before you build by using a pre-build script in each project. The following script works perfectly for TFS-controlled projects (note the quotes, tho', and the use of a relative path for the AssemblyInfo.cs file).
"$(DevEnvDir)\tf.exe" checkout ..\..\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs

Of course, this won't check in the changed files, but that's sometimes a benefit!

The AssemblyVersion MSBuild Task allows fine-grained control of assembly and file version numbers - when this method is linked with that of a ProductInfo.cs solution file (on which I'll blog later), you gain real control over the meta-data embedded into your products.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Wierd compilation error - corrupt lines in FileList.txt

I came across a very strange error last night that flumoxed my for a while.

Compiling a solution, three of the sub projects failed to compile with the following cryptic error:
Files had invalid value "S....."
It turns out that the cause and solution are both quite simple, but neither is obvious.

Firstly, what does "Files" mean in this context?

Well, when VS2005 compiles a project, it reads a file in the obj directory named .csproj.FileList.txt, creating it first if required. This file contains a list of the DLLs and PDBs that will be generated, as well as one named ResolveAssemblyReference.cache, which (I assume) is passed to the command-line compiler used to actually perform the compilation.

As for the "invalid value", this turned out to be a corrupt line in the file, nothing more, so the solution is just to delete the obj\.csproj.FileList.txt file completely, clean the project and rebuild. Job done.

Strangely the only reference I could find to the FileList.txt file was in this posting by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, confirming that this is one of those undocumented "features" of VS2005.


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The countdown continues as we give you our Top 10 New York Country Swag Moments of 2017. Bringing us to favorite moment #2: Luke Bryan Album Release Week.

Growing up in a small waterfront community in Queens, New York, our founder Stephanie wasn’t always a big country music fan.  Although a lover of music and live events in general, Stephanie enjoyed everything from Pop to R&B to EDM. It wasn’t until attending her first Luke Bryan concert a few years ago that Stephanie discovered her true love for country music.

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As an events manager for In Good Company Hospitality, Stephanie began curating “Country Night” events back in 2014. After the success of several country music themed events, Stephanie saw the audience she was tapping into and truly discovered her niche. This is where the idea of New York Country Swag would stem from.

Today, Stephanie credits that first Luke Bryan concert as where it all began for New York Country Swag. Fast forward nearly 5 years later to where things truly came full circle when Stephanie and the New York Country Swag team had the privilege of covering Luke Bryan’s Album Release Week. Bryan’s busy NYC week included a Close Up With Luke Bryan for Pandora, an intimate show at Nash FM’s Stage 17 and his early morning set live for Good Morning America at the brand new Opry City Stage.  For more about our Luke Bryan filled week click here.

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SEC uses mock website to warn investors about cryptocurrency

Sometime you have to act like a huckster to catch a huckster.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday made like an excitable late-night infomercial announcer as it amped up its battle to warn investors against possible too-good-to-be-true crypto-asset come-ons.

“The SEC Has an Opportunity You Won’t Want to Miss: Act Now!” the regulator screamed in an announcement on its site. The SEC also set up a mock initial coin-offering Web site — — to show investors just how alluring pitches for bogus ICOs can be.

Like real ICOs, the SEC’s mock site features fake celebrities touting the wonders of the bogus digital assets.

One fake celeb, @boxingchamp1934, endorses the Howeycoin with an enthusiastic, “I’m all about the HoweyCoins — this thing is going to pop at the top!”

“We embrace new technologies, but we also want investors to see what fraud looks like,” SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said, noting that the rapid growth of the ICO market has been “fertile ground for bad actors.”

More than $5 billion had been raised in ICOs in 2017, up from $256 million the year before, according to data from CoinDesk.

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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with Microsoft after Amazon claimed President Trump caused it to lose out on the lucrative deal.

Amazon, which along with its CEO Jeff Bezos has been publicly derided by President Trump, had been considered the favorite to win the government contract.

When it was awarded to Microsoft in October, the e-commerce giant filed a suit the next month alleging it was because of interference from Trump.

The injunction puts a freeze on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, project, which aims to allow the US military to use artificial intelligence to beef up its fighting capabilities as well as improve communications with soldiers on the battlefield.

The Pentagon declined comment on Thursday, but Defense Secretary Mark Esper has denied there was bias and said the Pentagon made its choice fairly and freely without external influence.

Earlier this week, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, said it was seeking to depose Trump and Esper in its lawsuit over whether the president was trying “to screw Amazon” over the contract.

Amazon also seeks to question other officials involved in the decision and alleged that Trump had a history of inappropriately intervening in governmental decisions.

The judge’s decision to block the deal from moving forward was sealed by the court, as was Amazon’s January request for the injunction.

Microsoft VP of communications Frank Shaw said in a statement that the company was “disappointed with the additional delay,” but expressed confidence that things would work out in the tech giant’s favor.

“We believe the facts will show they ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft,” he said.

Amazon didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Shares of Amazon were down 0.4 percent Thursday afternoon at $2,151.38, while Microsoft was down 0.5 percent at $183.87.

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Julius Vogel was the dominant political figure of the 1870s, serving as colonial treasurer and premier on several occasions, and launching a massive programme of immigration and public works.

Born in London of Jewish–Dutch parentage, Vogel worked as a journalist and editor in Australia before settling in Dunedin in 1861. Elected to Parliament in 1863, he became Colonial Treasurer in William Fox’s government in 1869.

To revive the faltering economy, Vogel initiated a bold 10-year programme of public works and large-scale assisted immigration, funded by extensive borrowing on the London money market. The success of this policy depended on the rapid and cheap acquisition of Māori land by the Crown. Vogel and his supporters were certain that Māori and settlers would be reconciled after the recent New Zealand Wars once Māori – and their land – were fully integrated into the European economy.

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(Illustrations by Dawid Ryski)

Illustrations by Dawid Ryski

On a windy afternoon in Williamsburg, Elise Goujon was explaining Brooklyn to five French tourists. Bundled in a fur-trimmed coat, a long scarf and a knit hat with a big, fluffy pom-pom, she reached into her tote bag and pulled out an iPad. On its screen were four cartoon depictions of the stereotypical Brooklyn man: beard, plaid flannel shirt, thick-rimmed glasses. “Alors,” Ms. Goujon said, pausing for effect. “Les hipsters.” The tourists chuckled knowingly as Ms. Goujon, standing at the corner of North 6th Street and Bedford Avenue outside New York Muffins, went on to list a few cliché signifiers, which included bulldogs, graphic design and, of course, fixed-gear bicycles.

Ms. Goujon, 31, hails from Nantes, a city on the Loire River known for its buttery cookies (and King Henry IV’s famous edict). But as the founder of New York Off Road, a three-year-old company uniquely devoted to giving French-language tours of Kings County, she has branded herself as an expert in all things Brooklyn chic—and demand for her services is high. Ms. Goujon, who was recently featured on a segment in the weekly French TV news program 66 Minutes, has tapped into the swarm of French sightseers now circulating through Brooklyn, the Gallic fascination du jour, in ever-increasing numbers. Last year, she guided about 1,000 French men and women through the boutique-lined, graffiti-strewn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick.

french students“C’est très, très Williamsburg,” Ms. Goujon said last week, leading her contingent inside Space Ninety 8, which is owned by Urban Outfitters and right next to an American Apparel. She brought them to the Brooklyn Art Library, Mast Brothers Chocolates and Cafe de la Esquina, a Mexican restaurant situated inside an old-fashioned diner car, where she explained the very American notion of the “refill.” But it wasn’t so much a historical tour as it was a cultural odyssey.

The explorers included one expat who lives on the Upper West Side but had seen Ms. Goujon on TV. A young couple in their 20s were in from Marseille, staying in Times Square. “It seems very cool,” one of them said of Williamsburg. “It seems to have a lot of funny shops.” Anne Polini, 58, a manager of contemporary artists in Paris, tagged along with her husband, Philippe Risoli, 62, who is something of a celebrity in L’Hexagone, having hosted the French versions of Jeopardy! and The Price is Right. They had been to New York 15 times, they said, but never stepped foot in Brooklyn. “From France, we heard it’s the new up-to-date subquarter,” Mr. Risoli said of the borough, his English slightly shaky. “So I wanted to verify.”

As the Brooklyn safari continued, Ms. Goujon, who recently moved to the Williamsburg waterfront from the East Village, brought the tourists to Heatonist, a newly opened hot sauce purveyor and something of a novelty to the French, who don’t really do hot sauce, or understand it. Samples were had. Noah Chaimberg, the owner doling them out, stood behind the counter, smiling affably in a black baseball cap with a flipped brim and a red beard matching the sauces on display. “French,” he said, “is like the second language in Williamsburg.”

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You may have noticed them, gawking at graffiti in Bushwick, busying themselves with Airbnbs in brownstone Bed-Stuy, carousing in Carroll Gardens. The French have always loved Manhattan—its manic energy, its enormousness reflected in movies and TV shows—but over the past few years, French tourism in Brooklyn has skyrocketed. Although no numbers exist to document the recent outer-borough influx, according to the city’s tourism organization, French visitors are particularly “intrepid,” and like to travel to out-of-the-way neighborhoods. In 2014, the city absorbed about 734,000 French tourists, up nearly 200 percent from 2005, and it’s a sure bet a lot of them made their way across the East River.

They are looking for a kind of artisanal aesthetic, an atmosphere satirized to excess but heralded un-ironically by the French press, which has lately been covering Brooklyn with strangely fetishistic rigor. “Pour un supermarché associatif à Paris, façon Park Slope!” a headline on a French website declared in December, presenting the Park Slope Food Coop, established in 1973, as news to French readers. Le Guide du Routard, the French equivalent to Lonely Planet, recently added Brooklyn to its New York guide. Last fall, the Parisian department store Le Bon Marché devoted its annual theme to Brooklyn style, installing, for instance, fake water towers. The Brooklyn vibe has seeped into Parisian life, as well. Food trucks abound, as do Brooklyn-branded bars and cafés, which only increase the desire to see the real thing.

Brooklyn style at Le Bon Marché in Paris. (Photo courtesy of Jaoven Ricoeur)

Brooklyn style at Le Bon Marché in Paris. (Photo courtesy of Le Bon Marché)

It isn’t entirely clear why, or when, this happened. Brooklyn—or that loose agglomeration of neighborhoods like Fort Greene, Cobble Hill and Prospect Heights, whose working-class, minority roots have been largely erased—has become a synecdoche for some vague yet alluring notion of the alternative life. This, despite the fact that those aspects of the borough the French admire—bakeries and coffee shops and cheesemongers and specialty stores on every corner, for example—are basically a simulacrum of French quotidian existence.

What makes the fascination with Brooklyn particularly curious is that the French are supposed to have the savoir faire, the sophistication for which we’ve always admired them—and they are supposed to be annoyingly proud of it, sniffing superciliously at us boorish Americans and our pizza and burgers and Cheez Whiz. We have always had Manhattan, Chicago, San Francisco—the great American cities—but, well, they have always had Paris.

But apparently that isn’t the case anymore, if it ever was. “What Brooklyn did better than what we did in France is the cool aspect,” said Nicolas Dutko, a restaurant owner from Paris who is in his early 30s and lives in Greenpoint—that historically Polish neighborhood—going on to list a few of the hip bakeries, chocolatiers and old-fashioned bars that have dominated the borough over the past couple of decades. “In France, all those places exist, but they are not cool.”

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At the same time that French tourism in Brooklyn has exploded, so too has French emigration to the borough, due primarily to the proliferation of French dual-language programs and the ease of American social mobility. What started out as an after-school endeavor subsidized by a grant from the French government has morphed, since the first program was established nine years ago at P.S. 58 in Carroll Gardens, into a constellation of dual-language elementary and middle schools.

There are 10 such schools in New York, with 65 teachers and 1,500 students, making it the third-largest program in the city, behind Spanish and Chinese. Seven of those programs are in Brooklyn. They have lured an inordinate number of young French nationals—chefs, artists, teachers—to the borough, so their children will be more likely to get in. (Typically, French nationals in the corporate sector live in Manhattan, opting to send their children to the Lyçée Français, a famed French private school on the Upper East Side—though one observer noted that French financial types are beginning to trickle into Brooklyn, too.) The French Embassy estimates that about 75,000 French citizens live in the New York metropolitan area, and since the early aughts, the French community in the city has seen an increase of about 45 percent.

P.S. 110, in Greenpoint, is one of the latest additions to the French dual-language program. (Photo courtesy of P.S. 110)

P.S. 110, in Greenpoint, is one of the latest additions to the French dual-language program in the city. (Photo courtesy of P.S. 110)

Those figures may be overblown, but the Frenchrification of Brooklyn is impossible to deny. On a recent morning in Greenpoint, for instance, outside P.S. 110 on Monitor Street—one of the newest additions to the French immersion program—a cavalcade of Francophone parents dropped their kids off for the day, gabbing away with typical joie de vivre. “We’ll just completely ignore the American parents who don’t speak French, saying ‘hi’ and kissing each other on both cheeks,” said Claire François, 35, a mother living in the area from the suburbs of Paris.

Fabrice Jaumont, the education attaché for the French Embassy in New York who has lived in Greenpoint since 2001—and the man behind the dual-language expansion—said the French infiltration of Brooklyn began in earnest after 9/11, when the borough’s cozy confines and tree-lined streets seemed safer—and then cheaper—than menacing Manhattan. Soon enough, Carroll Gardens, a historically Italian neighborhood, was boasting a slew of French restaurants along Smith Street, like Bar Tabac, Banania Café and Café Luluc. The Bobos of BoCoCa had landed—a flurry of flâneurs—and from there they spread their Gallic tentacles into the restaurant scene, the tech sector, the entertainment industry.

Carroll Gardens' tree-lined streets are now teeming with French people. (Photo by Kaitlyn Flannagan)

Carroll Gardens’ tree-lined streets are now teeming with French people. (Photo by Kaitlyn Flannagan) Kaitlyn Flannagan

In the past decade or so, French establishments have rather seamlessly spread throughout the borough. There is The Invisible Dog, a performing arts space in Boerum Hill established in 2009; Le Gamin, a restaurant in Greenpoint, opened in 2010; a Frenchman owns Dough Doughnuts in Bed-Stuy. “The glory days of French dining in New York are coming back,” said Amadeus Broger—a Swiss-Tibetan who recently opened a French restaurant called L’Antagoniste on Hancock Street and Malcolm X Boulevard—referring to the legendary Midtown restaurants like La Caravelle and Lutèce.

The French have assimilated well into their Right Bank environs. “French, in educated America, is now a class marker,” the linguist John McWhorter wrote two years ago in The New Republic, and to the borough’s class-conscious bohemians, the French are a welcome addition. They are also a relatively wealthy one. According to the Census Bureau, the median income of French households in New York is about $84,500. (The citywide median is around $50,400.)

Most French people in Brooklyn will tell you that the borough feels like “a village,” that it’s somewhat “European.” “In Paris, in the Ninth district, we have a street called Rue des Martyrs, and we could say that it looks like some street in Brooklyn,” said Laetitia Gazel Antoine, a 45-year-old with four kids who moved to Carroll Gardens about two weeks ago from the City of Light, and works for a startup. “For example, you will have specialized dessert shops.”

What nobody seems to mention is that the French have been partially responsible for transforming Brooklyn into a bobo bastion, or at least refining Brooklyn’s gentrified neighborhoods in their own image—the opposite of the way, say, American commerce transformed the Champs-Élysées. Americans have always regarded French gastronomy and haute couture as signs of the good life, but to the French those are merely signifiers of la vie typique. And so the current Gallic fascination with the borough could just be the French looking vainly at themselves in the mirror.

“It’s a vicious circle,” joked Gaetan Rousseau, 43, the French-born producer of the now-discontinued sitcom Taxi Brooklyn, the first foreign TV show to receive tax credits from the state. He has lived in Brooklyn since 2005 and moved to Gowanus last year. “French people are attracted to French people.”

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Of course, the Americans and the French have always had a kind of warm fellow feeling, Iraq War contretemps notwithstanding: Our revolution inspired theirs, but we might not have won ours were it not for the Marquis de Lafayette, who incidentally has an avenue named after him in Brooklyn, 10 blocks north of L’Antagoniste. And the French gave the U.S. the ultimate housewarming gift to celebrate its centennial, Lady Liberty, who has welcomed millions of immigrants to New York Harbor, where the southern tip of the Manhattan skyline looms majestically.

french woman copyBut that fondness, until now, had never translated into a desire among the French to seek out adventure in the New World, in contrast to that expat cohort of Americans who have, almost continuously, colonized the trendier arrondissements of Paris (and beyond) since the turn of the century. In fact, the French have always been stubbornly sedentary when it comes to moving around the world, despite a colonialist past. “One of the things that made the French Empire difficult to maintain is that very few French people wanted to live outside their own country, whereas the Brits liked to live in India and South Africa,” said Edward Berenson, the director of the Institute of French Studies at New York University.

In the late 1600s, a few thousand Huguenots came to New York, settling in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens and the Hudson Valley after Louis XIV repealed the Edict of Nantes, which had granted religious tolerance to French Calvinists. But aside from that, the French don’t have many foundational stories to account for their presence in New York (aside, perhaps, from Verrazano, who was sailing for the French when he steered La Dauphine into Upper New York Bay in 1524 and discovered Manhattan).

Now, however, they are getting one—sort of. “I grew up listening to all those stories from my grandfather, when the Americans came to liberate the villages in Normandy, and maybe I had fantasies about that,” said Thomas Brodin, 38, a front-end developer and web designer from Normandy who lives in northern Greenpoint. Whether or not this French invasion will last to another generation is impossible to tell, though it is persisting—a French dual-language high school is coming soon.

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Last week, Ms. Goujon, the French guide, led the five sightseers down to the Williamsburg waterfront, which is the most popular part of the tour, given the unobstructed view of Manhattan. “For French tourists, it’s kind of magic,” she said. “It’s like a postal card. It’s like, we’re here.”

“Ça, c’est beau,” Ms. Polini, the art manager, said as the skyline came into view on a slightly foggy day. Behind her, construction on a new, glass-heay waterfront condominium was clanking away. Her husband, Mr. Risoli, was equally taken. “I saw in many movies this view of Manhattan from Brooklyn” he declared, “and I wanted to see for myself.”

Ms. Goujon held up her iPad again to reveal a rendering of a building planned for the Domino Sugar site, with a rectangular hole in the middle, looking somewhat like La Grande Arche de La Défense in Paris. But the tourists’ attention was to the west.

As the tour concluded, the young couple from the South of France, hopping aboard a ferry for Dumbo, said they planned to return, at a later point in their New York vacation, to the stores they had visited. Mr. Risoli and Ms. Polini, who were also staying in Times Square, said they were considering coming back, as well.

“I understand it’s another way of life than in Manhattan—it’s very quiet, very spacious, it’s the place to be,” Ms. Polini said. She paused for a moment, looking out across the East River. “It’s very strange.”

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In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people.

The Unist’ot’en Camp has been a beacon of resistance for nearly 10 years. It is a healing space for Indigenous people and settlers alike, and an active example of decolonization. The violence, environmental destruction, and disregard for human rights following TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) / Coastal GasLink’s interim injunction has been devastating to bear, but this fight is far from over.

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Willard Aldrich tells a story about his sneaky Labrador retriever. The dog would stay off the furniture when Aldrich and his wife were around, but as soon as they left the room, he would climb into one of their chairs until he heard them return. It was the telltale dog hairs and the warm chair that gave him away.

What’s a pet owner to do? Animals can’t be reasoned with—they have no moral sense. So Aldrich decided to wire the chair with a mild electrical current. Sure enough, during the night he was awakened by a yelp as the dog ran into another room.

Now, that Labrador didn’t love its owners more because they disciplined him. But the disobedience stopped.

Our relationship with God isn’t exactly like that sneaky dog’s response to the Aldriches. We do make conscious moral decisions. But God disciplines His children when they disobey Him (Prov. 3:12). He wants us to obey Him out of our love for Him. But when we rebel, He lovingly provides correction in terms we can understand.

The choice is ours. We can obey God because we know disobedience will bring discipline—or we can obey Him because we love Him and desire to please Him.

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The Ten Most Popular Hotels in Florida

June 20th, 2012

Tempo Miami
Tempo fashions itself as a “Rock Resort” of sorts, and it lives up to that name. All of the luxury furnishings are designed with a more modern, vibrant look than other hotels in Florida. Here, there is an emphasis on sleek designs, and the awesome Rock Resort Spa, located directly on the premises. The Tempo is a five star hotel, yet has a number of options that can suit most budgets.

Hilton Bently
This is a hotel that definitely has the luxury traveler in mind. The hotel is comprised entirely of suites, with different types of suites available for different budgets. The rooms are all furnished with European furnishings, and there is a lot of Italian marble throughout the building. The big reason for the popularity of the Hilton Bently is its proximity to everything you could ever want to see on Miami Beach. Read the rest of this entry »

Orlando’s Top Ten Corporate Retreats

June 13th, 2012

InnerWork Team Expeditions
InnerWork has been providing great corporate retreat options for quite some time now, and they offer the most customizable trip of any in the Orlando area. Your retreat can be shifted and geared toward the exact principles you’re trying to get across through sending your employees to a retreat in the first place. This control over the value of the trip is a big part of why InnerWork is so successful.

Marywood Retreat and Conference Center
This is an interesting place to consider for your corporate retreat, especially if you are a corporation with a faith-based mission statement. The interesting thing about Marywood Retreat and Conference Center is that it allows you to have a relaxing, team-building experience in a beautiful setting that comes with a gentle guidance of religious faith. This may not be the perfect choice for everyone, but it is definitely something to consider. Read the rest of this entry »

Corporate Entertainment Ideas in Dallas, Texas

May 30th, 2012

Whatever variety of corporate entertainment an organization desires is available in Dallas, TX’s. An elegant evening meal and dance to present awards and recognition or a fun and entertaining team building venue can be booked any time of year for visiting VIPs or local firms.

One of Dallas’s newest event centers for both corporate and social occasions is Ashton Gardens. Their event specialists assist with theme suggestions, meal planning, audio/visual needs, and set-up for the venue. The experience their people provide keeps the event moving smoothly, impressing all in attendance with the excellent food, the quality technology available and always first-class service.

Ashton Gardens’ culinary team prides itself in preparation of original recipes consisting of the highest quality, fresh ingredients. Then their service staff takes over with 5-star pampering for every guest and anticipating their every need ensuring the event’s success. They have all-inclusive pricing packages that eliminate surprises for the corporate budget. Read the rest of this entry »


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Valid User Consent Collection with Ogury: GDPR Compliant By Design

Valid User Consent Collection with Ogury: GDPR Compliant By Design

Apr 25, 2018

Vanessa Gentile

Since 2014, Ogury has empowered end users to make informed choices about their mobile data. Accountability and end users’ rights have been our focus since day one, long before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became central to conversations about user consent collection and personal data sharing.

Fast forward to today, at the dawn of a new era of regulation and stringent new standards for protecting user privacy, and Ogury customers can be secure in the knowledge that all of our products are GDPR compliant by design. Below is an overview explaining how this is the case; how Ogury processes user consent collection, how data is used, and the choices we present to users. But first, some background.

What is GDPR?

GDPR is a piece of legislation that protects the data privacy rights of EU citizens. It enshrines the following rights into law from May 25th, 2018:

  • The right to access data and to have any errors corrected
  • The right to portability (or to be given data on request)
  • The right to erasure (or to be ‘forgotten’ on request)

For any company that serves customers within the EU and deals with user data, it will still be legal to track individuals through properties such as websites and apps. However, in order to do so, companies must now obtain explicit consent from every individual by asking them in a clear and understandable way. Additionally, companies must give users the ability to opt-out of having their data collected on request.

While GDPR is a law set by the EU, it applies to any company that deals with the data of EU citizens. This includes companies based outside of the EU, including the USA, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In short; if you serve users based in the EU, then GDPR applies to you.

The penalties for misuse of data post GDPR are potentially severe, running up to €20m (approx. $24.7m, £17.4m) or 4% of annual revenue, whichever is greater. In the face of numbers like these, it pays to ensure your data provider is watertight when it comes to GDPR.

How Ogury collects data

Integrated with thousands of apps, Ogury collects raw signal data only after explicit user consent has been granted. We use a clear and straightforward consent notice written in plain English, as well as German, French, Spanish, and Italian where required. This has been the case since the company began operating in 2014, making Ogury a pioneer in user consent collection and consented data.

More to the point, Ogury is one of the very few providers in the market today to not have to make significant changes to its collection policies in order to comply with GDPR or any other data regulations. Additionally, the company’s founding principles are aligned with those of GDPR, including lawfulness, fairness, transparency, accountability, and accuracy. It’s for these reasons that Ogury and its products are truly GDPR compliant by design.

How Ogury uses data

Once collected, our state of the art machine learning engine interprets these mobile signals and generates unique, high-quality anonymized mobile user and journey data. The app publishers, brands, and advertisers who work with Ogury use this data to target relevant advertising to users like never before and to boost the overall results of their campaigns to record levels.

The data we generate is device-level, first-party behavioral data (apps installed, apps usage and web browsing), context data (device type, ISP, connection type) and some personal data (email address, IP address). Ogury’s mobile data is unique in depth, recency, and accuracy, and is not available anywhere else.

Personal user data is never passed on to any third parties. The data drawn is linked to the individual user’s Android Advertising ID identifier, which is pseudonymous and is not linked to any identifiable data such as names or phone numbers. Consequently, Ogury does not hold this kind of information.

A clear opt-out choice for users

In addition to the opt-in consent notice, Ogury provides users with the opportunity to opt-out of its data collection at any time. Every ad served by Ogury displays a link to a dedicated online opt-out form, which can also be accessed directly through this link. Users can alternatively reset the AAID (Android Advertising ID) on their device, or change their device settings to ‘opt-out of interest-based ads’.

Not giving consent does not have any negative impact on the user, other than that they do not receive our targeted, recommended ads. If users do not opt-in, Ogury does not collect data. It’s that simple.

Other providers have relied on somewhat questionable legal grounds regarding user consent, such as ‘implied consent’ or ‘legitimate interests’. As such, there are many examples of companies that have collected data without properly informing users and obtaining long-term consent. We are proud to say that Ogury does things differently.

Should you have any specific queries relating to Ogury’s data generation and collection, please consult our privacy policy, or contact us directly via

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When a lot of information is a bad thing

This week at work, we had a few days where one of our two entrance doors were out of order. The sensor on it was faulty, and it led to the door being temperamental as to whether or not it would detect if people were nearby to automatically open. So we switched the electronics in the door off, and put up a sign apologising to customers that the door was out of use, and to ask them to use the other door, barely two paces away. The miniature social experiment I observed afterwards when I had a few slow starts in the morning, or in the evening was quite interesting. While I didn’t collect any data or anything like that, it was still amusing to see the results that followed:

  • People walked up to the broken door, found it didn’t open, and walked off, assuming we were shut – we had to run out the door telling them that we were open, it’s just the first door they tried was faulty. Most of the time they looked at the other door, noticed the sign, and laughed at themselves for not noticing it and came back in.
  • Some stood in front of the inoperative door, waited a couple of seconds looking at the sensor or doing some kind of ritual dance (ignoring the sign on the door), then walked over to the other door.
  • People walked past the operating door that opened for them, stood a few seconds at the broken door, stepped back to wave at the sensor, then walked back through the open door.
  • Some weren’t paying attention whatsoever and walked straight into the broken door, expecting it to have already opened.
  • Finally, one or two who couldn’t get in the broken door, walked through the operating door, then told me that the broken door was in fact broken. Depending on their tone with me, I either politely thanked them and said that we were expecting someone in to fix it soon; or told them we were aware of it, and gestured toward the big sign stuck up in the middle of the door.

I’m pretty sure there were other anecdotes surrounding the broken door for when I wasn’t working the till, but overall I had to laugh at the amount of different reactions to the broken door, but more importantly how many people ignored the sign that was stuck onto the door explaining the situation. It then got me thinking possible reasons why the sign was ignored – as I said I don’t have official data to back this up, and I didn’t ask any of the customers why they didn’t notice the sign, so it’s all speculation purely on my behalf.

Some people may have been distracted in their thoughts, just purely not looking at what’s on the door, and just expecting it to be a door that opens for them. After all, that’s what automatic doors are supposed to do, especially when they’ve worked that way for many years and all of a sudden it just doesn’t. However, the main conclusion I came to is that we have a lot of information already on our doors that’s only really applicable to a small percentage of the time. We have signs stuck on the doors explaining our opening times, what services we provide in-store, what cards we process, signs to tell customers that we do have an online store that does deliveries to the customers’ homes, and even some others that I can’t remember right now. While we thought that a sign in a colour scheme that didn’t match the overall theme of those other signs, as well as a big, red CAUTION at the top of the sign would get people to take notice, I was still surprised at the amount of people that didn’t acknowledge it. To them, it was likely just another sign on the door that most likely wouldn’t have affected them as they went for their fortnightly shop in our store.

So what does this little real life anecdote have to do with anything in terms of gaming? Not an awful lot, but considering I’ve spent pretty much no time this week in games, I thought I’d try to link something up between the two. I got to thinking about UIs and the amount of information they can present in games, how some UIs can just be full of pretty looking fluff that is there to please the eye (as pictured above – after all, why not if you’re going to be looking at it for multiple hours per day). Some are just clogged up with information in that you may as well be playing a text-based game. Some can be minimalistic so that only the important information is right where you need it.

It all comes down to personal taste and how you can process the information on your screen: If you feel like being an air traffic controller while you game, then go and give yourself a ton of information to process; if you don’t want to just be presented with a whole load of boxes displaying information, go and download kgPanels to make your life on WoW a little easier on the eye; if you know your keybindings through and through, and have a good sense for your class and the game, go for the minimalist approach and just have what’s important at that time for you. I’m personally the first kind of player – for those that have seen my UI in one of my earlier posts everything’s kind of… There. Since my burnout of WoW, the UI’s only gotten more deprecated, though I have scaled the ability buttons down and moved a few things around here and there from when I was raiding on Nagrand. It’s very messy, I’m well aware of it, but it’s what I’ve gotten used to and I’m pretty sure I’d be lost going for a different approach. I could cut it down to the minimalist UI like the one below, but as I’m an altoholic, I’d be lost having one UI for my Druid(s) and knowing the exact keybindings etc for them, but then on alts I’d forever be wondering what button does what.

However, I know my faults when it does come to me and my UI – adding new things to it. I’m so used to how my UI looks 95% of the time, that when I add a new WeakAura for a specific boss fight, I have to add a sound or make my character say something so that I actually do notice it. I know it took me more attempts than I’d like (as in, not fixing the problem straight away after the first fail) on Malkorok heroic to notice a ball spawning underneath my feet in the first 30secs, because I’m too focused on how much time left I’ve got on potion, trinket procs, engineer tinker proc, Celestial Alignment, Incarnation and matching those to DOTs, Starsurge procs, and when CA runs out to start casting Wrath instead of Starfire for a few casts, that I end up not watching the small ball that barely poked out of my big Boomer butt. I love the first 15-30secs of a fight as a Moonkin, don’t get me wrong, but put a subtle change to the fight in that time period and I will either screw up that crucial early DPS pace or the fight mechanics. As another example, on Fallen Protectors we all had to make speech bubbles for when we were affected by Sha Sear. It’s going to be fun to purge all those WeakAuras and make new ones when WoD hits, that’s for sure.


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11 June 2009

A Presumption of Openness

Public bodies should automatically release all information that does not need to stay secret, the information commissioner is expected to argue.

Richard Thomas, who is stepping down, will say all but the "crown jewels" should be released without waiting for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

He will add that the MPs' expenses row was a "coming of age" for openness.

Well, it ain't going to happen overnight, but the fact that the "o"-word is flavour of the month - even arch open data fan Sir Tim Berners-Lee is being brought in to advise - should mean that more will get done in the next few months than in the previous decades. What we're aiming for is nothing less than a presumption of openness for government.

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Tim Berner's Lee is asking for input from bloggers on what needs opening up. Which is interesting.

A while ago I thought it would be nice if there were an open source program to allow Linux users to cram for the driving theory test.

I decided to contact the DSA to see what terms I could get their data on (they license it to 3rd parties for inclusion in their software). I told them I wanted to create a GPL program using their video clips, theory test example questions and the highway code.

I found that the information that you and I pay for with our taxes is both released in closed formats and not available on terms that would have allowed release under the GPL for the benefit of other people who paid for it with their taxes. I was also pointed at this page on Crown Copyright.

Beyond the very important work to open up the running of government to public scrutiny, there is a slew of crown copyright data that could have immense benefit if it were released in a way that allowed it's use in FOSS software.

I personally would love to make use of Ordnance Survey data. The amount of potentially very useful software that could be created by allowing access to this kind of data in an open manner would be immense.

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Smoke Rings

fractal tangle

My office is lit by a small lantern and smells faintly of tobacco even though I haven’t smoked for years. Strange, I think, how it’s still a source of temptation. I look up from piles of paperwork to see my animus slouched in the chair opposite. Just as I expect: legs apart, elbow resting on the desk, cigarette burning continuously. He wears the white linen suit I gave him with effortless style considering his lack of respect for convention. I imagine him firing me a disapproving look for working so late, but I can’t quite bring his face into focus.

“I sent you a load of new material,” he says.

“Yes, thank you; it’s great.”

“You haven’t written it down yet.”

“I’ve been working! You know, on the day job that keeps us sheltered and fed?”

My animus does not understand the concept of ‘day job’. Nor does he understand timing, completion, suppression, or putting things in boxes.

“What about the ‘personification of chaos’ stuff I sent last week?”

“I love it, but it’s exactly that: chaos. It’s raw. Sculpting ideas into something coherent enough to share takes time.”

He is silent for a while, as though considering my words carefully. I go back to my paperwork, only looking up again when he says:

“Time is pliable, you know.”

“It’s bendy, and it’s dispensable. You can make it disappear entirely.” When I don’t respond, he reassures me. “It’s ok; I’ve got your back. While I’ve been hanging around waiting for you to keep your end of the creative flow going, I’ve learned a new trick.” He blows four perfect smoke rings in my direction. “Climb in.”

“Climb in where?”

“Well, you’ve missed it now. Hold on; I’ll do it again.” He comes around to my side of the desk, spins me round on my chair to face him, and crouches at my feet. As he takes another long inhale, I get a clearer glimpse of his face. Not only does it feel as real as my looming deadlines, it feels like home. Chiselled cheekbones, light stubble, pale grey eyes. And then four more perfect smoke rings, right in front of my nose. I stare at him through their centres, and they absorb me completely.

It’s safe inside the rings. Snug. And yet, to my amusement, I appear to have been stretched. My feet are an immeasurable distance away, but I can just about see my navel. It looks more like a shallow kink in a piece of string than part of a human body. My animus is here too, in a form identical to mine. We coil around one another in a double helix, held together – or apart – by vibrating rungs of stardust. And, sure enough, there is no time anymore. No space, no light. Only ideas. I feel them nibbling at my centre, and I paint them by creating ripples in the void until they begin to look like smoke rings.

I blink several times as they dissolve, my eyes stinging, and my office materialises once more. There is no more work to be done today. The piles of paperwork are complete, I have summoned an odd little piece of automatic writing, and the fragments of tomorrow’s project are floating into place at the back of my mind. I stand and straighten my white linen suit. In a split second between pursing my lips and blowing out the candle in my lantern, I see there are words written in shadow on the wall: There’s Always Time to Daydream.

I didn’t want to do one of those ‘sorry I haven’t updated in a while’ posts. I thought, if I’ve got time for that, then I’ve got time to be creative with it, and this was the result. It was, in part, inspired by the experimental vignettes over on Writings from the Couch: a blog I recommend checking out if you haven’t already.

The new book is coming along great and will be in the hands of beta readers very soon. Cover designer and editor have been hired, so all being well it will be published at the end of summer. More details to follow… Also, if you haven’t checked out my first book yet, here’s a handy link to all the online stores where it’s available. You can also e-mail me to get a signed copy direct at if you like. A huge thank you to everyone who has already read it and left me lovely feedback and reviews, you’re the best!

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  1. This piece became very real to me as I kept reading and imagining. I once read a piece by a Freudian psychoanalyst on a conversation with his anima, which appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Jung. There is much here in the images between the words. And thank you very much for the kind mention of my blog. Your imaginative work has inspired me to keep going.

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  2. LOVED IT. cant help but wonder, though, does the protagonist take up smoking again? It seems to end with the protagonist and their anima becoming one again, so does that mean the protagonist was smoking the entire scene? I imagined it kind of like Fight Club, when the gun is not in your hand, Tyler, the gun is in my hand.

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    1. Thank you, I’m so pleased you enjoyed it. I was thinking that the protagonist caught a vague smell of tobacco which awakened something in her unconscious, and the rest was her daydream. So when the ‘smoke rings’ dissolved the room returned (almost) to normal. I do like your interpretation though, and I always hope to leave my stories open enough that the reader can bring a bit of himself to the outcome.

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  3. This week, my goal is to get caught up on all of the blogs I have not read. I started with yours, and am I ever glad I did. You always inspire me, Caroline. Your imagination needs to be protected at all costs because what comes from it is pure genius. As always, extraordinary story. I purchased your book today…can’t wait to dive in!! Have a great week! 😊

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Accreditation Decisions for Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

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CHICAGO—May 10, 2016The American Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) today announced accreditation decisions made at its April 16-17, 2016 meeting.

  • Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dothan, Alabama – received continuing provisional accreditation.

  • Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Smith, Arkansas – received the following:

  • From April 17, 2016 through June 30, 2016 – pre-accreditation with permission to recruit but not to admit students or offer instruction.

  • From July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2021 – provisional accreditation;

  • Campbell University – Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, Buies Creek, North Carolina – received continuing provisional accreditation.

  • Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lynchburg, Virginia – received continuing provisional accreditation.

  • Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indianapolis – received continuing provisional accreditation.

  • Ohio University-Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio – the accreditation of parent was extended to its additional location in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.

  • University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, Texas – received the following:

    • From April 17, 2016 through June 30, 2016 – pre-accreditation with permission to recruit but not to admit students or offer instruction.

    • From July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2021 – provisional accreditation.

  • West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, West Virginia – received continuing accreditation.

The COCA is recognized by the United States Department of Education as the accreditor of colleges of osteopathic medicine. Accreditation from the COCA signifies that a college has met or exceeded the Commission’s standards for educational quality.

Information about accreditation decisions is provided pursuant to 34 CFR 602.26, issued by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Pre-accreditation is the initial recognition status awarded by the COCA. Pre-accreditation is reviewed annually, with an on-site visit when indicated. Initial pre-accreditation is awarded following receipt of a feasibility study and an on-site visit to determine that prerequisites have been met and that the developing college of osteopathic medicine may be expected to attain the next level of accreditation status— provisional accreditation—within the five-year term of pre-accreditation. Colleges holding pre-accreditation may not recruit, accept applications from or admit prospective students. Pre-accreditation status also does not establish eligibility to participate in federally funded student financial aid programs.

The COCA grants provisional accreditation to new colleges of osteopathic medicine through the time of graduation of the first class. The COCA reviews schools with provisional accreditation annually to assess the academic progress of first, second and third-year classes up to their time of graduation. Initial provisional accreditation is awarded when a college is able to demonstrate that it will be able to initiate instruction by a specified date.

Continuing provisional accreditation is awarded based upon demonstrating that a college is meeting the standards for accreditation for each class of instruction being offered.

Initial accreditation is granted if the accreditation standards are clearly being met or exceeded at the time of graduation of the college of osteopathic medicine’s first class. Accreditation status is the highest level of accreditation awarded, and confers all rights and privileges of accreditation.  Accreditation status is reviewed within a seven-year survey cycle of self-study and comprehensive on-site evaluation.

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We are officially one!

30 November 2018

And just like that, two former territories - Australia Eastern and Australia Southern - are now reunified as the Australia Territory. Photo: Cazeil Creative

By Bill Simpson

The new Salvation Army Australia Territory has been officially launched with at least four new initiatives to achieve the National Vision of transforming the country one life at a time with the love of Jesus.

International leader General Brian Peddle launched the Australia Territory at a spectacular ceremony at Melbourne’s Convention Centre on 30 November.

The Australia Territory will officially begin from 1 December, replacing the two former territories – Australia Eastern and Australia Southern.

It is the first time since 1921 that Australia has been a single territory.Photo: Bruce Redman

Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd were officially appointed territorial leaders at the launch by General Peddle, who commended everybody associated with The Salvation Army for their contribution toward achieving one territory.

In response, Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd announced:

  1. The release of at least $2 million in the first six months of 2019 to enhance innovation at the front line of mission through an Innovation Fund. The funding would serve as a catalyst to fresh and creative expressions of mission with ongoing contributions to the fund in the annual budget provision.
  2. Funding of up to $5 million to be allocated from the annual Red Shield Appeal doorknock to assist corps and centres actively involved in local mission. The amount to return to each area will relate directly to how much is raised in the doorknock locally.
  3. A review of the approaches to and effectiveness of creating vibrant corps and communities of Christian faith in 27 areas across six divisions, looking at each area opening new corps and faith communities in the next three years.
  4. An intentional commitment to establish a Gen Z-focused faith community (people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s) in each state capital city in the next two years.

Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd encouraged Australian Salvationists to see “the new thing” that God had already begun to do in The Salvation Army in Australia.

They acknowledged there had been pain felt by many impacted as the move to one territory occurred and they expressed gratitude for those who had continued to serve faithfully in their roles.

The Tidds reminded Salvationists of the words of Catherine Booth, “There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”

“Let us clearly understand that God’s ‘improved future’ is an improved future not just for us, not just for The Salvation Army, but for ‘still others’,” they said.

The comments of the General and Territorial Commanders were featured in a colourful showcase of The Salvation Army’s current work in Australia through music, dance and drama at the Melbourne event.

The night opened with a moving recognition of Australia’s Indigenous heritage through a traditional Welcome to Country by Aboriginal elders Uncle Norm Terrick and Uncle Vince Ross (pictured right), who is The Salvation Army National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council chairperson.

Australia’s progression through immigration to become one of the most multi-cultural and multi-faceted countries in the world was portrayed in a “parade of nations”.

Examples of modern-day mission in the Australian Salvation Army, as exemplified in the National Vision Statement, were shown through personal stories of lives changed in all states and territories.

Immediate reaction from people attending the Australia Territory official launch was positive.

Cairns (Queensland) Corps Officer Major Ben Johnson said: “I think it’s really exciting. I think it’s going to give a lot of people a lot of hope.”

Copper Coast (South Australia) Corps Officer Captain Karen Armstrong was impressed with the announcement regarding some Red Shield Appeal doorknock funds being applied to local corps and communities. “I can see so much potential there,” she said.

  1. I am looking forward to what will be achieved as we work together as one territory,reaching out to those whose needs are great with the love of Jesus.
    I pray that many souls will be lead to the Lord!🙏🏻
    Although I am unable to do much physically due to physical disability and age,I will continue to pray and trust in what our amazing God will do as we all work together in one accord!

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