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How can blockchain transform the logistics industry?

How can blockchain transform the logistics industry?

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Blockchain has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years, often mentioned in stories about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. But blockchain is far bigger than cryptocurrencies and has a huge potential to transform the transport industry. Let’s take a closer look.

What is blockchain and how does it work?

Blockchain technology is based on a branch of mathematics called cryptography. The technology uses a chain of protected records to share the details of transactions to all participants in the blockchain and distribute records across a network of computers—thereby eliminating the need to maintain records centrally.

If a record in one block is changed, the records in each block in the chain are changed. This means no-one can alter the data within the blockchain without the permission of everyone else, making this a highly secure technology.

Blockchain and trucking

So, what can blockchain do for the trucking industry? Quite a lot actually. Here are a few of the most important ways in which the technology can re-shape the industry and your business:

  • Faster processes and less administration: Blockchain could eliminate today’s paper-based systems where forms have to pass through numerous channels and approvals, which increase the risk for loss and fraud while creating a massive amount of administration. This would be done through smart contracts—self-executing tasks that are coded through the blockchain and performed when certain conditions are met. For instance, if a trucker reaches a destination or hands over the cargo to someone else along the route, a smart contract could make the everyone in the blockchain aware of the event, and immediately make the shipping document available to the next party and/or release the payment.
  • Minimizing Claims: All of the data that is tracked via the smart contracts gives a lot of insight into the physical movements of, and interactions with the transported goods. This can be very useful in eliminating inefficiencies in dispute resolution. For instance, if a load or the truck is tagged using IoT (Internet of Things) sensors, a blockchain record will show much more information about the delivery such as data about the time and condition (temperature, humidity etc.) of goods throughout the supply chain .This will create an unalterable record as to whether a given load was delivered according to the conditions stipulated in the smart contract.
  • Tracking assets: There is already some good tracking technology being used today but scaling it to increasingly complex demands is proving difficult. Using IoT sensors and truck telematics, blockchain can give shippers, carriers and customers greater insight into vehicle and asset locations, allowing for better load planning and less idle time. The benefits of tracking are not just limited to shipments however. Blockchain can also create an accurate and unalterable record of vehicle maintenance and history which is a big advantage when the truck enters the secondhand market.
  • Better transparency and higher standards: Data stored on the blockchain is easily shared, giving everyone in the supply chain comprehensive track-and-trace capabilities. Companies can use this information to provide proof of legitimacy for a product and also track any problematic shipments—a huge benefit to the food and pharmaceutical business. Transport companies will be able to show customers the standards to which goods were transported in. There is also advantages for the end-user – people can find out more about the products they are buying—whether it is ethically sourced, genuine and kept in the right conditions.

Huge disruption for the transport industry

The benefits I talked about are just the tip of the iceberg. Many more applications for blockchain will emerge as the technology interacts with other innovations. Companies like Walmart are already using blockchain technologies powered by IBM to digitize processes and improve food safety in their supply chain.

Nevertheless, there are certainly a number of challenges to the wider adoption of blockchain in logistics. Standardization, lack of knowledge, legislation and trust in a new technology are just a few of the obvious hurdles.

But the growing demand from society and consumers about how, from where and at what environmental and social cost goods are transported means that blockchain will not just be the next buzzword but a game changer for the logistics industry.

Want to learn more?

I have put together a guide explaining how blockchain can create more efficiency and transparency in the trucking industry, using the example of transporting bananas from Peru to Amsterdam. Download my guide now!

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10 Great, Perfect, Solid-Mithril Ideas For 'Lord Of The Rings' TV Spin-Offs

The Phantom Minas?: Amazon announced it will bring a Lord of the Rings prequel to television. (Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
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The Phantom Minas?: Amazon announced it will bring a Lord of the Rings prequel to television. (Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

On Monday, Amazon Studios announced it had acquired the rights to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to television. The ink's still wet on the contract, so details are sketchy.

We know only that it will be an ongoing, multi-season series that will "bring to the screen previously unexplored stories based on J.R.R. Tolkien's original writings," according to the press release — and that it will be set before the Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of Tolkien's main LoTR saga.

Now: That means it could be an immediate prequel, taking place during the 60 years that stretch between the events of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring — but what if they decide to double down on the pre- of it all, and set it further back in time?

There's no shortage of material. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set at the end of what Tolkien called the Third Age — but he wrote many, many tales set during the First and Second Ages of Middle-Earth. In The Silmarillion, he provided that world's creation myth, and in books like Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-Earth, The Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien, his son Christopher has woven together fragments of stories and poems that build out the world even more.

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The most intriguing passage of the announcement, however, was this:

The deal includes a potential additional spin-off series.

The hunt is on for the series that will be the Maude to Lord of the Rings' All in the Family. The Empty Nest to its Golden Girls.

... The She-Ra to its He-Man.

We have some ideas.

1. The Tom Bombadil Mysteries

Everyone's favorite immortal forest-spirit and his wife Goldberry caper through The Old Forest solving animal-on-animal crimes while singing tra-la-la-la!

It's ... it's less annoying than it sounds, the singing.

2. Hangin' With Mr. Bombadil

Everyone's favorite immortal forest-spirit and his wife Goldberry kick it with some of Arthedain's surliest, most hardened teens. They provide straight talk, and tough love ... and singing. Lots of singing. So, so much singing.

3. CSI: Numenor

Join Nindamos's brilliant but troubled medical examiner as he solves crimes and snippily dismisses his assistant's concerns about rising sea levels.

4. B.O.M.B.A.D.I.L.

Join the men and women of B.O.M.B.A.D.I.L — The Benevolent Order of Merry, Bucolic Agents of Divine-Ish Law — as they defend the Kingdom of Arnor's borders from those who would upset the natural balance, using only their wits. And singing.

5. Survivorman: Rhovanion

Test your survival skills against the Ranger men call Strider, or Longshanks. How does he survive in The Wild? Where did he learn so much Elvish lore about herbs and berries? And why does his hair look so good when he hasn't showered in months? Is that the Numenorian genes or what?

6. Middle-Earth Blues

Learn how the Lost Wizards, Alantar and Pallando, got so lost! This inseparable, constantly squabbling pair of Blue Istari take their magic show on the road, but the risque nature of their double-act — and their in-your-face life-choices — are constantly getting them in hot water with the local constabulary.

7. Project Runway: The Old Forest

Everyone's favorite immortal forest-spirit and his wife Goldberry host a reality competition in which contestants must pretend to take fashion advice from a man who'd wear yellow boots with a blue jacket. Also somehow there's singing involved?

8. Gardenin' With The Ol' Gaffer

The Shire's premiere organic farmer shares tips and tricks for growing pretty flowers and PO-TAY-TOES an' like that, yessir.

9. To The Manor Beorn

Hijinks ensue when Arda's surliest, sexiest were-bear moves in next door to a veddy veddy proper aristocratic lady of Minas Tirith's uppermost tier. It's musk-scented, class-based hilarity!

10. Tom!

In this fish-out-of-water comedy, everyone's favorite immortal forest-spirit is forced to move back in with his mother when his wife, Goldberry, dumps him for a malevolent willow tree. Can Tom make a new life for himself as a claims adjuster, even though his co-workers frown on his singing at the office?

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Knuckleballer Gene Bearden’s 1948 Season

Gene_BeardenRecalling Gene Bearden’s performance as a new big-league pitcher in a game in the 1948 season, Steve Eby of Did the Tribe Win Last Night makes a claim that we cannot regard as strictly accurate: “Bearden used the pinpoint control of his knuckleball to work through the Boston batters, allowing just five hits and no walks in his complete game shutout.”

“Control”? Yes, we’ll concede that a good knuckleball cannot be pitched without substantial control over various constituent elements, including how one grips the ball (generally with fingertips, not knuckles). But “pinpoint”? The nature of the knuckleball is to be non-pinpoint, if being “pinpoint” has something to do with zeroing in exactly on a particular small target, like a latitude and longitude within the strike zone. Because of the spinlessness of the pitch, and the air currents and seams and things, no one, including the pitcher, can predict where the knuckleball will end up exactly. The exception might be a knuckleball that doesn’t quite make it as a knuckleball and is therefore predictable and hittable.

Bearden’s rookie season “was all the more remarkable,” according to Wikipedia, “because, five years earlier, he had been seriously injured in battle in World War II.” He played ball before the war, but learned the knuckleball only after it.

Serving in the United States Navy aboard the USS Helena in the Pacific Theater of Operations, he was working in the engine room of the light cruiser when it was struck by three Japanese torpedoes on July 6, 1943, during the Battle of Kula Gulf. Forced to abandon ship as the Helena sank, Bearden fell from a ladder on the deck and sustained a fractured skull and a crushed kneecap; hospitalized until early 1945, he underwent surgeries that inserted metal plates in his head and knee to treat his injuries….

Despite 18 and 17 victory seasons in the Class D Florida East Coast League in 1940–41, he had bounced between three organizations before joining the military. In 1945, just months after his release from the hospital, he returned to baseball and won 15 games in the Class A Eastern League. Promoted to the Triple-A Oakland Oaks in 1946, he learned to throw the knuckleball under manager Casey Stengel and had another 15-victory season. He would become primarily a knuckleball pitcher, although he also threw a fastball, a slider, a curveball, and an occasional screwball. On December 6, 1946, the New York Yankees, who held Bearden’s big-league rights, traded him in a five-player deal to the Indians. has a lengthy article about him by Ralph Berger.

Invited to spring training with the Indians in 1948, Bearden earned a spot on the club. It was not until the Indians’ 12th game of the season, on May 8, in Washington, that he got his first start. Bearden admitted he was nervous but a teammate, third baseman Ken Keltner, gave him words of encouragement. He told Bearden, “Let them hit it.” Keltner told Bearden, “It’s a ten-minute cab ride to center field.” Buoyed by Keltner’s words, Bearden defeated Sid Hudson of the Senators, 6-1. He also won his next two starts, and was off to a larger-than-life season.

Bearden’s winning ways were broken momentarily on May 26 when he lost to Hudson and the Senators, 2-0. Bearden then ran off three more consecutive wins. Then a slump hit him, and he lost his next four starts. The Indians’ manager, Lou Boudreau, still went with him. And Bearden showed his appreciation by winning eight of his next 12 starts…

Sic transit gloria. Those were the key words that described the years following 1948 for Gene Bearden. He never again was able to reach or even approach the heights he had achieved during that giddy season of 1948.

Or as Rob Neyer puts it, “Most knuckleball pitchers age well. Bearden peaked as a rookie.”

According to Eddie Robinson, Bearden peaked so early because his knuckleball tended to foil batters only when they swung at it—and players, figuring this out, began swinging at it less:

Near the end of the 1948 season we were playing the A’s in Philadelphia, and Gene Bearden was pitching for us. Eddie Joost, an intelligent hitter who drew a lot of walks, reached first base. During a brief delay, Eddie said to me, “You know, we’re stupid to be swinging at that knuckle curve Bearden throws, because it’s always a ball.” Joost was right; the pitch came to the plate about knee-high and quickly broke down and out of the strike zone. Word got around, and the hitters stopped swinging at that pitch after the ’48 season. Bearden was never again as effective.

Had Bearden been able to train himself to throw a more accurate knuckleball, his career might have lasted longer. Was part of the problem that he did not use the knuckleball exclusively enough? Many a knuckleballer attests that it is a pitch which requires constant attention and practice, to the extent that it must be by far the most frequent pitch the pitcher throws if he is to be as effective as possible with it. According to Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders, “Bearden was a knuckleballer. But

Bearden wasn’t a knuckleballer the way we think of them now. In those days, a “knuckleballer” relied on the pitch but not exclusively…. Bearden did throw mostly knuckleballs (roughly 80 percent, according to Boudreau [whereas 87 percent of R.A. Dickey’s pitches in a recent season were knuckleballs]) but was known to throw the occasional fastball and slider, too.

Bearden left baseball in 1953 and he died in 2004.

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My name is Gary Knutson and I’m glad you’re visiting. We have a passion for quality grass-fed angus beef and would love for you to give our beef a try.

Gary Knutson

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Our herd is exclusively grass-fed from conception to finish. We take extreme pride in the fact we use no GMO’s, no antibiotics and no added growth hormones. We believe in giving the animals what they were naturally made to consume.

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What makes our grass-fed beef so exceptional? Our high quality beef is a combination of superior genetics and quality grass and hay. We started our herd from one of the most recognized herds for quality genetics in the US. And we’ve done extensive research to perfect our haying process to support the herd.

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Grass-fed beef has a reputation for being tougher due to its leanness. Our grass-fed beef has very desirable marbling qualities. One of the keys to our quality of beef is that we have performance genetics that finish and allow for processing around 18-20 months of age ensuring tenderness and flavor.

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We’re a third generation farm and have never been more excited about our holistic approach to farming. My wife Sandy and I, along with our son Kyle, own and operate 120 head of registered Black Angus cattle and farm 480 acres of land near Volga, SD.

All of our meat is processed at Hudson Meats in Hudson, South Dakota – a USDA inspected locker. Delivery options are available or pick-up right from our farm. Please give us a call to place an order! Call or email us for details on pricing.

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Our latest issue 9 offers 176 matte silk pages jam packed with yarn and lifestyle goodness, exclusive patterns and interviews with talented illustrators, artists and makers. Treat your customers to a true tribute to crochet, knitting, weaving, latch hooking, punch needling and needlework brimming with stunning photography against a backdrop of drool worthy modern interiors.

In Issue 7 We give you the bulkiest issue yet... a genuine collector's item, we've added 16 extra pages with lots of exciting content for you to get inspired. The perfect gift for loved ones or treat yourself to many hours of happy browsing.

In Issue 6 We pack our bags and relax into a long and well-deserved break from it all. Leave enough luggage space for your portable yarn projects, taking a lot of slow time to dream up sunny fiber art pieces. KOEL’s got you covered - whether you’re dozing off on sandy beaches or zipping afternoon cocktails in your favorite watering hole, we’ve made sure that you have the latest modern yarn crafting trends at your fingertips.

In Issue 4 we explore our dark side. Discover gloomy colors to brighten your home. Prepare your own winter stills and muse about your next master piece. We introduce our hand dyed yarns that are just perfect for weaving. Marvel at the work of fiber masters from Germany, France, Australia, the US and the Netherlands who are making waves globally. All you need really to get into a festive mood.

Issue 2 is all about using daringly colorful yarns in your home decor. We take a daring move to introduce some neons into our designs (yes, neons!), experimented with hand dyeing our own yarns (which we will teach you how) and talked to some giants in the industry like Karen Barbé, Arounna Khounnoraj and Hermine Van Dijck. We will also give you a visual feast of spaces that are embracing the yarn movement and the koel-est concept shops around.

In our debut issue we talk to contemporary fiber celebs such as Tamara Maynes, reveal exclusive patterns by Purl Soho and many other in the know designers, introduce you to easy to master craft techniques, take you on a global tour to find hidden gem supply shops and much more.

Enjoy KOEL!

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Texas A&M University-Texarkana has been named to Online College Plan’s list of “50 Most Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degree-granting Colleges.”

The list is compiled from data from the National Center for Education Statistics, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Education, for all institutions of higher learning that offer online bachelor’s degrees. The information is based on reported net yearly average price.

A&M-Texarkana ranked 30th among the institutions included on the list, which specifically mentioned the university’s online Registered Nursing to Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.

The article also noted A&M-Texarkana’s use of distance education tools and resources, including the Blackboard learning management system, interactive videoconferencing and Texas A&M System’s course exchange portal.

“I’m pleased, but not surprised, to hear that we made this list,” said Dr. Rosanne Stripling, provost and vice president for Academic and Student Affairs at A&M-Texarkana. “Our efforts to improve the quality of instruction in all of our online course delivery while keeping increases in tuition and fees at a minimum has been a deliberate effort over the last few years.”

A&M-Texarkana also offers online master’s degrees in Business Administration, Instructional Technology and Nursing.

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Sparkle and Shine Challenge

Hello everyone!!  I’m here today with the Sparkle and Shine Challenge!!!  How exciting is this!!!

Since its the 15th of the month, its time for our new challenge!!!

Here is the inspiration photo that guided us this time around:

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Now take a look at my take on this photo:

You color my world

I had so much fun creating this card.  I received some new craft goodies and couldn’t wait to give them a try.

Check out these cute Tombow Yo-i Crayons.  Oh, they tickle me with cuteness.

These crayons are water-soluble and super easy to use.  They move across the paper with easy.  They can be used on any surface.

Here is how I created this card:

I cut a piece of Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper to 4.25 by 5.50.

Then I embossed the watercolor panel with Stampin’ Up! Chevron Textured Embossing Folder.

After that, I used the Tombow Yo-i Crayons and water to add color to the pattern on the paper.

Put the panel to the side and worked on my sentiment from WPlus 9 Color My World Stamp Set.  I love this stamp set.  It is fun and playful.  It goes perfect with my Crayons.

My color palette (SSS)

These colors moved across the cutting board with easy.  The colors were super vibrant as well.

Once I was finished with the sentiment.  I used a circle die to cut out the sentiment and a piece a Recollections Heavyweight Black Cardstock.

I adhered them together with Tombow Extreme Adhesive.

I added them to the card front with 3M Foam Tape.

To finish the card off, I add some Your Next Stamp Black Gumdrops for my bling.

Nice and easy!

That fun!!

What do you think?

Now its your turn to give this challenge a try!! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!

Our sponsor for this challenge is Right at Home!!

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The winner of this challenge will receive a $15 gift card to their online store and will be asked to be our Guest Designer for the next month.

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Kemp Named Phillips 66 Co-Big 12 Player of the Week

Jan. 3, 2006

DALLAS — University of Kansas senior forward Crystal Kemp was named Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Player of the Week by a media voting panel for games played during the holiday break, the conference office announced Tuesday.

Kemp shared the honor this week with Oklahoma freshman Courtney Paris, who was also named Big 12 Rookie of the Week. The honor was the second for Kemp this season and the second of her career. She was also was voted Player of the Week for games played Dec. 5-11.

During the holiday period, Kemp led the Jayhawks to victories over Creighton, Pepperdine and La Salle. Kemp averaged 22.7 points and 8.7 rebounds in that span. Behind Kemp’s play, Kansas improved to a perfect 11-0 in non-conference play for the first time in program history.

The Topeka, Kan., native posted 16 points, eight rebounds, two steals, two blocks and an assist while playing 39 minutes in a 63-52 win over Creighton. After the holiday break, Kemp missed her career-high by one point as she finished with 27 points, nine rebounds, one block, one steal and one assist in 38 minutes of action in a 73-60 win over Pepperdine. Two days later against La Salle, the Topeka, Kan., native pumped in 25 points to go with nine boards, three blocks and an assist in a full 40 minutes.

Kemp played all but three minutes in the three-game span. She shot 49.1 percent from the field and 94.1 percent from the charity stripe. She has scored 20 or more points in four of the last five non-conference games.

She becomes the first KU player to win two Big 12 POW awards in a single season since Lynn Pride did so in 1999. Kemp is the only two-time winner in the Big 12 so far this season.

2005-06 Phillips 66 Big 12 Weekly Honors
Date – Big 12 Player of the Week
Nov. 21 – Sophia Young, Baylor
Nov. 28 – Kiera Hardy, Nebraska
Dec. 5 – Lyndsey Medders, Iowa State
Dec. 12 – Crystal Kemp, Kansas
Dec. 19 – LaToya Davis, Texas Tech
Jan. 3 – Crystal Kemp, Kansas and Courtney Paris, Oklahoma

Date – Big 12 Rookie of the Week
Nov. 21 – Courtney Paris, Oklahoma
Nov. 28 – Courtney Paris, Oklahoma
Dec. 5 – Takia Starks, Texas A&M
Dec. 12 – Shalee Lehning, Kansas State
Dec. 19 – Takia Starks, Texas A&M
Jan. 3 – Courtney Paris, Oklahoma


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Criticism of Boris Johnson cannot distract from a focus on ideology

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The tone of our debate over the government’s coronavirus response has again shifted further towards criticism becoming more ‘acceptable’. There has been a sense among many that it is inappropriate to highlight the myriad failures during a public health crisis. But the Sunday Times investigation has helped to dispel the myth that politeness should be prioritised above necessary scrutiny. The detail that has most caught people’s attention is the absence of Boris Johnson from five COBRA meetings on the virus. “He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends,” one adviser told the paper.

Michael Gove offered an unusual defence of the Prime Minister on the Sunday shows. He described “one or two aspects” of the report as “slightly off-beam”. He also said “the idea that the Prime Minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the coronavirus is grotesque”, which is strong language to use when nobody is denying that Johnson missed the meetings. Labour’s health spokesperson Jonathan Ashworth called it “possibly the weakest rebuttal of a detailed exposé in British political history”, and suggested that the PM was “missing in action” in the early stages of the crisis.

The fact that Johnson missed meetings is important. Such an attitude has consequences, and some of the charm of his persona will have rubbed off. But the left must not lose sight of the way that elites work. In a crisis where the ruling party has made fatal decisions, Boris Johnson as a character who has already served a crucial purpose – securing an 80-seat Tory majority – may then become politically expendable. What must be kept in mind is that ideology led to lack of preparation for a pandemic, and ideology will inform next steps. These underlying factors should not be forgotten in favour of holding one individual accountable.

Keir Starmer has a difficult task on his hands, as he tries to weigh up the options for styles of opposition and their results for both country and party. John McDonnell implicitly slated the path chosen so far by the new Labour leader when he tweeted that it is “not opposition for opposition’s sake” to call out the government’s failures on testing and protective equipment. That these urgent demands need to be made powerfully and repeatedly is clear. We are now hearing concerns raised over the latest change in guidance on PPE, which health workers say has not been issued on the basis of science but due to inadequate supply. Hopefully the appointment of a new ‘tsar’ to coordinate PPE manufacture and distribution – a move that Unite called for on LabourList – will prove helpful.

With schools not set to reopen until at least the end of May, the BBC is stepping up with a new virtual education offer. It will feature Jodie Whittaker of Doctor Who, Professor Brian Cox leading on science topics, Danny Dyer on Henry VIII… and former Labour Treasury minister Ed Balls teaching maths. Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning.

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Eco-friendly cleaning with cream of tartar – Good for baking and cleaning, it turns out

 Cream of tartar? Before I could commit to cleaning with it, I wanted to know what this stuff even was. What is that weird white powder that hides in the back of every spice rack? Well…   Cream of tartar is a potassium-based … Continue reading

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Homemade Shampoo and Conditioner

Hair Shampoo: • Our scalp secretes oil, which makes hair look greasy • Air borne dust sticks to the scalp • Lack of hair care leads to – – Dandruff – Headaches Shampoo made using baking soda: (If you have … Continue reading

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I Travel Because…

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This year I am working with Allianz Travel Insurance to help provide new content and as a new travel partner. I’ve long taken out travel insurance on my trips and, from experience, it’s an important aspect of the travel experience. But today’s post isn’t about insurance, no, instead they asked me to tackle a thought exercise in this sponsored post that at first blush seemed easy but what has been an important challenge.

This year Allianz is talking all about the question, “I Travel Because…” We all have different motivations for travel, some are long term and others short term. For me this has been an oddly difficult question, because it’s so firmly ingrained in who I am as a person that I’m not sure I can really separate out the reasons. I’m thankful for this topic though because it provides me the opportunity to fully explain who I am; a digital mission statement of sorts.

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From the earliest days, I have always been totally consumed with learning more about the world. The walls of my room growing up were covered in flags of the world and my shelves littered with items friends and family gave me from their own trips abroad. I read everything I could get my hands on and throughout my childhood was preparing for a life of international experiences. I was that kid reading the Gorbachev biography when everyone else had the Hardy Boys under their arms. Finally, when I was 17 I had the opportunity to spend a month in Paris and it forever changed who I am as a person as well as the track of my life. In both undergrad and then graduate school I focused on international relations with a firm eye on entering the Foreign Service and becoming a diplomat. I sat for, and passed, the tests involved but then, right at the critical moment, I made a strange decision. I decided to take my name out of the Foreign Service placement process.

From an outside perspective it doesn’t make any sense, but for me it was perfectly logical. While I did indeed want to see the world, I also knew that moving from one remote outpost to the next every few years was not for me. Today I call myself a traveling homebody and even if I didn’t know the term for it then, I felt it. I wanted a home, I wanted roots, I wanted to meet someone and so for those reasons and more, I set my eyes on Washington, DC to find a different path.

The problem with changing the course of one’s life on an impulse is a certain lack of preparation. I was in DC without a place to live or a job, and so I started blanketing the city with resumes. I wasn’t in the position to be choosy, and I took the first job offered, but there was one problem. It wasn’t in my life’s calling of international relations, it was in domestic US policy. I’d always hated domestic politics and avoided it throughout my education. But there I was with little recourse, and so I started working in the government affairs department of a large nonprofit association.

In DC parlance, government affairs is a kinder way of saying lobbyist, and that’s what I became. In life, being comfortable can be a dangerous place to be. I found myself in a career that I may not have wanted, but I was good at it, it paid me a salary and health care and frankly it was easier to stay in it than it was to leave. I switched jobs a few times until, 12 years later, I found myself serving as Director of Government Affairs at an admittedly young age. From the outside it would appear as if I was doing just fine in life, I was following the tracks like a good soldier and that was that. But I was miserable, however I didn’t know why. The funny thing about life is that being unhappy in one aspect necessarily affects all others and it gets to the point that you don’t know what started the process of misery in the first place. It was only through good fortune that I came to realize the mistakes I had made.

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I started my blog a few months after taking an extraordinary journey in the Galapagos. Even though I wasn’t working in international relations, my love of seeing the world certainly hadn’t diminished and I used every available vacation day to see as much of it as I could. The Galapagos was different though, the adventure was so incredible it fully reawakened that long dormant part of my soul and there was no going back.

I maintained both the blog and my normal career for a couple of years, but it soon came to the point where I wasn’t doing either very well. My boss at the time suggested I go follow my passions and so I did. Although I was deeply upset and terrified at the time, it turned out to be what I needed in order to start living my true and authentic life.

Since then I have somehow managed to create a job from the ether, maintaining my same standard of living but also living out my life’s passion to see the world and to explore. I don’t know why I was born this way, but there’s no denying how much I deeply love learning about new places and people and I finally understand that while my career may evolve over time, this will always be the focus of my life.

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So, to answer the question “I Travel Because…” is a bit of a challenge for me. Sure, I like to travel for fun and relaxation, but I also like to travel for cultural immersion and to grow as a person. But it’s so much more than that. I travel because I know I simply have to. For me it’s a basic part of my life, just as having a roof over my head and a bite to eat. I travel because I have to, I have no choice, it feeds a longing my soul feels so deeply that it has consumed me for more than 40 years. Everyone is different, everyone has a different focus in life but for me, this is it. It’s not about bragging how many places I’ve visited or having nice luxury experiences, far from it. No, it’s about integrating myself into the global community and it’s about education. I remember once as a 6-year old I got really upset one day. When asked the reason, I angrily replied that there was no way I could ever know “everything” and it frustrated me. I was upset that there were dusty corners of world knowledge off limits to me, and I set about addressing that problem. I suppose that’s the real answer then to this query. I travel because I want to know, I want to understand what makes the world tick, what makes people do what they do. I want to understand our global history and where we came from to better understand who we are today and where we might go in the future. If there’s a nice beach along the way that’s fine but, ultimately, it’s so much more than that.

This was a long, personal and thoughtful post which probably means not a lot of people will read it. There are no bullets, quizzes or flashy clickbait headlines, and that’s fine. My work in travel has never been about short term gain, instead I’ve been solely focused on encouraging others to get out there and better experience the world so they too can join me on this wonderful lifelong journey to better appreciate the planet we all call home.

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ARC Giveaway ~ Secret of the Souls by Terri Rochenski

J. Taylor Publishing are giving away FIVE ARCs of Secret of the Souls by Terri Rochenski!

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Secret of the Souls

Thrust out of their homes by a human High Priest on a vengeful mission, the Natives of Derlund no longer have a place to call their own. One escaped capture, however, and now she, Hyla, is the only one who can save her people.

For, Hyla, though, saving her nation isn’t her ultimate goal—returning to the Pool of Souls is. Becoming its Guardian and preserving their faith is her heart’s desire. The perils of her current journey, though, could leave her unable to fulfill that dream.

To find her way back to the Pool, Hyla must live among dangerous, powerful humans willing to defend the Natives, and must submit herself—her Talents—to them. While her protection is paramount, plots to end Hyla’s life will push her to her physical and emotional limits.

On the edge of sanity, her courage tested, and convictions nearly broken, Hyla’s final test of loyalty to her faith comes with the death of one she could have loved.

Readers will experience Hyla’s spiritual and self-discovering journey once more, in this latest addition to the Pool of Souls duology.

And J. Taylor Publishing is giving away FIVE ARC copies.

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Nope, so long as you are willing to leave an honest review* by October 12th 2014, you are eligible to enter.

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About Terri Rochenski

Terri started writing stories in the 8th grade, when a little gnome whispered in her brain. Gundi’s Great Adventure never hit the best seller list, but it started a long love affair with the fantasy genre.

Today she enjoys an escape to Middle Earth during the rare ‘me’ moments her three young children allow. When not playing toys, picking them back up, or kissing boo-boos, she can be found sprawled on the couch with a book or pencil in hand, and toothpicks propping her eyelids open.


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Factory Tour: Lokar Performance

Lokar Performance Tour

“Quality…Plain and Simple,” is the catch phrase coined by Lokar Performance. Every package from them has these words on it, and they live by them. Every time we have utilized a Lokar part on a build, the fitment has always been a bolt-in application never requiring massaging or tweaking. In short – we love Lokar Performance products and wanted to take a better look at what makes Lokar have such quality parts.

For over two decades Lokar has been making parts of the highest quality. One September day we decided to drop in on the folks at Lokar to see their facilities located in Knoxville, TN and see what they were all about. Just driving to their factory we could already see this was a company that is very proud of who they are and what they make. The entire parking lot was black as could be, bushes and grass landscaped to perfection and the building itself was impeccably clean. Right off the bat we were impressed and we hadn’t even stepped foot in the door!

Once we did enter the door we were greeted with a huge smile and a friendly handshake from Mike Waldo. Starting off with the showroom, we saw a few spotless Hot Rod’s and their Goolsby built ’69 Camaro. We commented on how clean everything was and Mike told us that “every Friday, every single employee is responsible for cleaning our entire facility from top to bottom.” That level of cleanliness was exemplified everywhere we looked.

Mike took us right to the action – a building across the parking lot where they make 100% of everything they offer, right there in Tennessee. We have to admit, we thought maybe the offices were clean, but the dirty work would be, well dirty. Upon entering the manufacturing building we saw that exact same level of cleanliness, organization and precision we had seen everywhere else. Every machine and floor was spotless – if you dropped a cookie on the floor you could pick it up and eat it without worry of getting sick. Seriously, the level of cleanliness was unparalleled from other places we have been. A true testament to the quality and pride Lokar has for itself and its products.

Walking around Mike showed us all over their facility. We were impressed to see how everything was done there at their facility from the R&D, testing, manufacturing, shipping and everything in-between. Heading back into the offices we were able to catch up with Brian Downard, an industry veteran. Chatting with him it was apparent that he’s somebody that not only cares a great deal about the company he works for, but the industry itself. We chatted about the future of our industry along with if there were trends we saw that he could make parts for.

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The offices of Lokar Performance.

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Aune – Marxism and Rhetorical Theory

Aune, James Arnt. “Cultures of Discourse: Marxism and Rhetorical Theory.” Rhetoric and Marxism. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Inc, 1994. 539-551. Print. Polemic Series .

James Arnt Aune began his essay from the position that rhetorical theory could benefit by filiing in the gaps between it and Marxism and questioned what Marxist rhetoric would look like in times past and at the time he wrote his text. He claimed that if in fact Marxism had been silent about rhetoric, which he asserted, then rhetoric had been just about as silent about Marxism.

One major difference between rhetoric and Marxism Aune noted was that the while he claimed the term “ideology” had attained quasi-conanical status in rhetorical criticism, Marx’s central focus was on class struggle; this focus Aune posited had been “thoroughly ignored” by rhetorical scholars.

His major critique is that rhetorical criticism was not as productive as it could or should be because scholars hadn’t “seriously” examined the root of how capitalism has affected the theory and practice of rhetoric: “The ambiguous position of academics within the class structure of advanced capitalism makes ideological criticism appealing but scarcely more useful politically than when the Frankfurt school invented it in the 1930s” (540).

To this end, Aune focused on the repression of rhetoric in Marxist theory and the reading of the history of theories of public argument in Marxist terms in order to present the beginnings of a theory of Marxist rhetoric. To do this he identified limitations of both Marxist traditions that specifically address communication, and rhetorical studies’ emphasis on ideology.

On page 549, he concluded and summarized the main themes of his overall argument in the context of some of his theses toward a Marxist rhetorical theory:

  1. “By foregrounding the role of labor in constructing our human world, a Marxist approach to communication may help revitalize the criticism of public discourse.”
  2. “By foregrounding class struggle rather than public consensus, a Marxist rhetorical theory may be better able to explain broad historical shifts in rhetorical practice and pedagogy than do existing alternatives.”
  3. “Traditional rhetoric, in privileging common sense as a starting point for the construction of enthymemes, may provide a needed corrective to Marxism’s tendency to view the common sense of a culture merely as a rationalization of that culture’s relations of domination.”
  4. “Uniting Marxism’s traditional concern for economic democracy with traditional (if at times ambiguous) concern for political democracy may provide a narrative structure for a new politics, one that views revolution as a struggle against racial, sexual, and economic oppression and against the specialized languages of expertise, which have characterized “liberal” reform in this century. Marxism needs to correct rhetoric’s avoidance of the category of labor in the construction of the social world, while rhetoric needs to correct Marxism’s one-sided focus on labor at the expense of other forms of domination.” (549)

Aune’s main argument is “…that a revitalized conception of traditional rhetoric, one informed by Marxist theory and practice, may be of some use in advancing, in not the Revolution, at least the humane practice of public argument” (549).

“What Marxism has taught us, in admittedly flawed ways, is that human beings have the potential to build a heroic society. What students of rhetoric and communication can give Marxism is a more human way of bridging the critique of ideology with political action. The ultimate point is that audiences, when presented with the contradictions inherent in their social systems, have a choice about the ideological narratives to which they will subscribe or which they will create. That these narratives will not be limited to the banal yet frightening ones of the White House or the Kremlin depends on our ability to extend our imaginative range. As Marx (1975) himself wrote, “Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself” (p. 240).” (550)

Edbauer – Unframing models of public distribution: From rhetorical situation to rhetorical ecologies

Edbauer, Jenny. “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.4 (2005): 5-24. Print.

In this article, Jenny Edbauer further expanded the theory of rhetorical situation by urging readers to rethink notions of public and location that had been thought of as static and fixed. She situated her own assertion that rhetorical scholars and pedagogues might benefit from using the framework of a rhetorical ecology as opposed to the traditional rhetorical situation among Lloyd Bitzer’s theory of rhetorical situation and its critiques. According to Edbauer, Bitzer and the critiques all work to “create a body of scholarship that stretches our own notions of “rhetorical publicness into a contextual framework that permanently troubles sender-receiver models.” Additionally, she drew upon scholarship on public communication to demonstrate the limits of oversimplified communication and rhetorical situation models that examine either sender- receiver-text, or rhetor, audience, context as discreet, objective elements.

Edbauer also drew on Louise Wetherbee Phelps to argue that rhetorics should not be read as elemental conglomerations, but as always in a state of flux. For Edbauer, there is no fixed location, but exigence is an amalgamation of processes and encounters. Contrary to Bitzer and some of his critics, like Richard Vatz, exigence is not located in any element of the model (8). Edbauer asserted that “indeed, that we dub exigence is more like a shorthand way of describing a series of events. The rhetorical situation is part of what we might call, borrowing from Phelps, an ongoing social flux” (9). Instead of using the terministic screen of conglomerate elements, Edbauer advocated for using a framework of affective ecologies that recontextualizes rhetorics in their temporal, historical, and lived fluxes: “While one framework does not undermine the other, I argue that this ecological model allows us to more fully theorize rhetoric as a public (s) creation.”

Edbauer explicated how this ecological shift can unframe or expand the way in which we understand rhetorical production. She highlighted how the Latin root of “situation”, situs, implies a “bordered, fixed location” (9) and the incompatibility with embodied and networked nature of rhetoric: “the social does not reside in fixed sites, but rather in a networked space of flows and connections” (9). Edbauer discussed Margaret Sylverson’s emergent ecological process of writing as an example of a rhetorical ecology framework applied to composition that doesn’t just focus on the “writer” “audience” or “text” at a time. For Edbauer, this also has real implications for the classroom:

“Bringing this logic into the realm of our own rhetorical pedagogy, we are reminded that rhetorically-grounded education can mean something more than learning how to decode elements, analyze texts, and thinking about public circulations of rhetoric. It can also engage processes and encounters. Not “learning by doing,” but “thinking by doing.” Or, better yet, thinking/doing—with a razor thin slash mark barely keeping the two terms from bleeding into each other” (22-23).

Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha – The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation

Perelman, C., and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1969. Print.

In this classic text on argumentation originally written in French by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha, the authors presented a “new rhetoric” that reintroduced argumentation into rhetoric and reason. The two asserted their theory of argumentation by establishing its link to Greek rhetoric and dialectic in order to break with Cartesian concepts of reason and reasoning which they claimed had defined Western philosophy for the previous three centuries. The exigence behind their argument is that traditional logic and reasoning alone cannot help resolve all disputes (and they never have); to this end all available means need to be explored. Under Cartesian logic, claims that are not self-evident could/ would be considered false, but Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha argued against this reasoning and for the exploration of the plausible:

“…the post-Cartesian concept of reason obliges us to make certain irrational elements intervene every time the object of knowledge is not self-evident. Whether these elements consist of obstacles to be surmounted-such as imagination, passion, or suggestion-or of suprarational sources of certitude such as the heart, grace, “Einfuehlung,” or Bergsonian intuition, this conception introduces a dichotomy, a differentiation between human faculties, which is completely artificial and contrary to the real processes of our thought.” (3)

The consideration of these irrational elements, nor argumentation are “new” to rhetoric; however, Perelman and Olbrechs-Tytecha posited that these elements had been neglected to the detriment of rhetorical theory and criticism. They wrote: “The effect of restricting logic to the examination of the proofs termed ‘analytical’ byAristotle, together with the reduction of dialectical proofs-when anyone felt they were worth analyzing-to analytical proofs, was to remove from the study of reasoning all reference to argumentation” (509). Their text is an attempt to reduce and further reduction of proofs to formal logic.

In this treatise on argumentation, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha put forth numerous technichal elements of argumentation which they said only scratched the surface. A major takeaway is that argumentation is audience-centered, not form-centered and as such:

  • has the goal of persuading a “universal audience” which is a construct of the author’s mind (the audience can legitimately be treated as universal because “for legitimate reasons, we need not take into consideration those which are not part of it” (31).)
  • is more influenced by ethos (18)
  • dictates that the presumption and “burden of proof” are dictted by the audience, not the question or rhetor (105-106)
  • relies on the “community of minds” or what Burke would call identification (14)
  • uses strategies associated with sophistry, like dissociation (the constant constantly detaching from or adding “appearances” to notions in order to appeal to their audiences) (412)

Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha acknowledged that their theory of argumentation and with these proofs that fall outside of formal logic sound sophistic, and would typically be dismissed as a “misleading form of reasoning” (512); however, they argued that “absolutist epistemology” has not served us as well as desired.

“Only the existence of an argumentation that is neither compelling nor arbitrary can give meaning to human freedom, a state in which a reasonable choice can be exercised. If freedom was no more than necessary adherence to a previously given natural order, it would exclude all possibility of choice; and if the exercise of freedom were not based on reasons, every choice would be irrational and would be reduced to an arbitrary decision operating in an intellectual void.” (514)

“The theory of argumentation will help to develop what a logic of value judgments has tried in vain to provide, namely the justification of the possibility of a human community in the sphere of action when this justification cannot be based on a reality or objective truth. And its starting point, in making this contribution, is an analysis of those forms of reasoning which, though they are indispensable in practice, have from the time of Descartes been neglected by logicians and theoreticians of knowledge.” (514)

Vatz – The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation

Vatz, Richard E. “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. Eds. Sally Caudill, Michelle Condit, and John Louis Lucaites. New York: Guilford Press, 1998. 226-231. Print.

In this follow -up and critique of Lloyd Bitzer’s theory of rhetorical situation, it is clear that Richard Vatz also wants to see rhetoric recognized and valued as a discipline, but for different reasons and through different means. For example, Vatz concluded that “It is only when the meaning is seen as the result of a creative act and not a discovery, that rhetoric will be  perceived as the supreme discipline it deserves to be ” (161). Vatz argued that the notion that a single rhetorical situation can be found in a given event is a myth. He continued to go against Bitzer’s (1974) theory of rhetorical situation which relied on the understanding that the situation or event itself contained meaning and called the rhetorical discourse into existence.

Vatz main critique of Bitzer’s theory is that it reflected a Platonic worldview that not only assumed a “clear” meaning and exigence, but also a “clear” and “positive” modification that should be taken in a rhetorical situation. Vatz used Burke and sociologist Herbert Blumer to demonstrate the subjectivity in all rhetorical situations. Contending that the  world  was not  a  plot  of  discrete  events, he wrote, “the world is a scene of inexhaustible events which all compete to impinge on what Kenneth Burke calls  our ‘sliver of reality'” (156). In any given situation, according to Vatz, a rhetor must take two steps to communicate: 1) choose what facts or events are relevant and 2) translate the chosen material to make it meaningful (157). That being so, Vatz argued that “[n]o theory of the relationship between situations and rhetoric can neglect to take account of the initial  linguistic depiction of the situation” (157).

Vatz further distinguished his theory from Bitzer’s and explicated what the implications for rhetoric are:

“I would not say “rhetoric is situational,” but situations are rhetorical;  not “…exigence strongly invites utterance,” but utterance strongly invites exigence; not “the situation controls the rhetorical response…”  but the rhetoric controls the  situational response; not “…rhetorical discourse…does obtain its character-as-rhetorical from the situation which  generates it,” but situations obtain their character from the rhetoric which surrounds them or creates them.” (159)

Vatz contended that this distinction in the treatment of meaning and rhetoric would determine whether rhetoric was perceived as “parasitic” in relation to disciplines, such as philosophy and the sciences which make and/ or discover meaning, or thrived at the top of the disciplinary hierarchy as the creator of meaning.

Bitzer – The Rhetorical Situation

Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. Eds. Sally Caudill, Michelle Condit, and John Louis Lucaites. New York: Guilford Press, 1998. 217-225. Print.

In this foundational text, Lloyd Bitzer made the case that rhetorical stuation had not been adequately attended to by theorists, including Aristotle. Bitzer asserted that prior theorists have focused on the method of the orator to address the rhetorical situation, or ignored it completely. He then unfolded his theory of situation. He stated that this essay, originally given as a lecture at Cornell University in November 1966, should be understood as an attempt to 1) revive the notion of rhetorical situation, 2) provide an adequate conception of it, and 3) establish it “as a controlling and fundamental concern of rhetorical theory” (3). Bitzer concluded by drawing comparisons between the role of science in an imperfect world and the need for rhetoric in an imperfect world. He provided the exigence for his own theorization and argument regarding rhetorical situation and argued for the importance  and relevance of rhetoric as a discipline beyond the understanding that it is merely the art of persuasion, which he asserted was necessary to warrant justification as a practical discipline:

…rhetoric as a discipline is justified philosophically insofar as it provides principles, concepts, and procedures by which we effect valuable changes in reality. Thus rhetoric is distinguished from the mere craft of persuasion which, although it is a legitimate object of scientific investigation, lacks philosophical warrant as a practical discipline. (14)

Bitzer distingushes rhetorical situation from context:

Let us regard rhetorical situation as a natural context of persons, events, objects, relations, and an exigence which strongly invites utterance; this invited utterance participates naturally in the situation, is in many instances necessary to the completion of situational activity, and by means of its participa-tion with situation obtains its meaning and its rhetorical character. (5)

Bitzer contended that rhetorical situation should be given priority because of the strong role of plays in a wide range of rhetorical discourse:

So controlling is situation that we should consider it the very’ ground of rhetorical activity’, whether that activity is primitive and productive of a simple utterance or artistic and productive of the Gettysburg Address. (5)

Prior to the creation and presentation of discourse, Bitzer said there are three constituents of rhetorical situation: exigence (an imperfection marked by urgency, an obstacle, something waiting to be done); audience (persons capable of being influenced – even one’s self); and constraints.

Bitzer also outlined six features of rhetorical situations:

  1. Are called into existence by a situation/ invitation (9)
  2. Invite a response that fits the situation (10)
  3. Dictate the purpose, theme, matter, and style of the response.
  4. Are derived from “real” situations and exigencies, not “sophistic” ones (11)
  5. Exhibit structures which are simple or complex, and more or less organized (11)
  6. Come into existence, then either “mature or decay or mature and persist — conceivably some persist indefinitely” (12)

Corkery – Rhetoric of Race: Critical Pedagogy Without Resistance

Corkery, Caleb. “Rhetoric of Race: Critical Pedagogy without Resistance.” Teaching English in the Two Year College 36.3 (2009): 244-57. Print.

In this article, Caleb Corkery explicates how he uses rhetorical theory and critical pedagogy in his composition classroom. Corkery uses rhetoric as a non-threatening lens and shows his students how racial arguments have been asserted and defended throughout U.S. history. The goal is to demonstrate that racial identities are in fact constructed. Through this approach, Corkery asserts that he helps to position his students along side the author and text which allows the necessary emotional distance to “properly” engage with the text. Corkery suggests that targeting white students and/ or white identity, or “subordinate students” is a set up for failure – a mutually beneficial inquiry should be the goal.

Using rhetoric provides the text to interrogate and ensures a focus on language:

Composition instructors are in a unique position to connect the inspiration for critical pedagogies to individual awareness. Applying rhetorical skills to the arguments that have historically divided races in this country forces white students to reconcile, on their own, the evolving construction of white supremacy with the “unraced” status of whites today. A critical approach that centers on rhetorical theory is also more appropriate for a writing course, as might argue Soles, Harris, and O’Dair, who warn that critical pedagogies in composition courses neglect their duty to language study (in Beech 182).


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OXFORD CITY 1 (Tshmanga 14p)

WOKING 2 (Little 29 Bradbury 90)

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Entry £10 (includes £2 discount as an Oxford United season ticket holder)

Programme £2

As an Oxford United supporter any trip to Court Place Farm involves an element of “What could have been” about it. So convoluted were the club’s attempts to move from the Manor Ground that back in 1993 I actually managed to convince my degree tutor that there was enough in the subject to make it my dissertation. It may have helped that the tutor was a season ticket at Enfield FC…

What you see here could have been so easily United’s, the application the club made for a 30,000 capacity stadium here in the late 1980’s was turned down on grounds of scale and potential disturbance, although quite a few United fans grumbled that the local Councillor for Marston was John Power, and he was a City fan!

Now the fact that even the recently-expanded Court Place Farm has an altogether more modest capacity of 2,000 shouldn’t be ignored! But not withstanding that it does seem a little ironic is that the main stadium is used as much by Oxford United’s non XI teams as it is by Oxford City.

Older Oxford City fans will no doubt hark back to a rivalry with United, although these days its hard to imagine a rivalry when the larger side is concerned only with Swindon Town! The roots of that old rivalry are from back in 1949 when local Boxing promoter Vic Couling, convinced that professional football could be supported in the city, offered to help City go professional, was rebuffed and headed up the hill to Headington United. The newly semi-pro club entered the Southern League in 1949/50 and became Oxford United in 1960. The rivalry foundered as United replaced Accrington Stanley in the Football League 2 years later- to younger United fans City had stopped being relevant.

The roots of Oxford United having a stake in Oxford City’s home lies with City’s takeover by the American businessman Thomas Guerriero, who bought a 50% stake in the club in April 2013. His back story of success in Wall Street in his twenties seemed too good to be true, and the local Ice Hockey club the Oxford City Stars, had already rebuffed his approaches a year earlier.

It all ended up with Guerriero clearly interested in the name to enhance his online learning scam (Oxford City University anyone?), and with him employing a team of salesmen in Florida to cold-call elderly savers and sell them shares in a valueless business. It was the classic “Boilerhouse Scam” and it all came crashing down and in May 2016 Guerriero started a 12 year prison sentence for fraud in Florida, leaving City with outgoings far above anything a part-time club could possibly support.

The club tried, and paid down some of a £1.5 million debt, but eventually the strain became too much for MD Colin Taylor, in July 2016 he was found one morning in the stand at Court Place Farm. He’d tragically committed suicide, for crimes committed by others.

Eventually in late 2016 Oxford City faced the virtually inevitable winding up petition. The club were minutes from extinction when the then Oxford United chairman Darryl Eales saved the club. He made a personal donation to help pay down the debt, and paid for the installation of the artificial pitch at Court Place Farm. A joint venture trading company was formed owned 50:50 by City and United to take over the lease on the main stadium facility. These days if United want to hold a fans meeting, its held here rather than at Grenoble Road,  but I do wonder what the situation is now that Eales is no longer involved at United? It’s worth knowing any hiring charges at Oxford United’s “home” at Grenoble Road go to stadium owner Firoz Kassam, not United.

But with all that troubled history, I’d fully expected City’s league position to have suffered, gates here aren’t big despite some creative pricing, and the days of expensively paid and located Spanish players are over. But with a reduced wage bill credit must therefore go to the management team here, City are comfortably mid-table and United have looked enviously at former Milton Keynes striker Kabongo Tshimanga. Another player to watch is midfielder Josh Ashby. Once of Oxford United, his future in the full-time game looked assured until he was the victim of a quite dreadful challenge in an Oxon Senior Cup tie away at Kidlington. His knee was badly damaged and he was released at the end of last season and he makes City’s midfield tick.

That said I’m fairly convinced that the irony of both Woking goals being scored by Oxford United assets wasn’t lost any Oxford City fan.  I’m sure also that Woking are more than aware that both Armani Little and Harvey Bradbury have been told they won’t be offered new contracts by United for next season.

It was a game of expectations. City are pleased to be surviving at this level, Woking were top and are targeting a return to Premier Division football at the earliest opportunity. They were well supported too, I suspect their fans made up over half the attendance. If this game was anyone’s season in microcosm it was City, taking the lead against a far better resourced side. Little’s equalising free kick was worthy of a bigger stage, but Bradbury’s smash-and-grab winner 7 minutes into 5 minutes stoppage time was a choker to the home fans who clearly thought City were worth a point.

But anyone who ever met Colin Taylor, or the likes of John Sheppard must be thankful that despite everything Oxford City are still in existence and seem to have worked through the majority of their problems.


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Oh Baby: The Complete Baby Registry Checklist

Oh Baby: The Complete Baby Registry Checklist
Hi everyone! It’s your Team LC editor Ilana with the latest post in my new Oh Baby series. I’m expecting my first in September, and today I will be sharing a comprehensive baby registry checklist…

A couple weeks ago, I shared a few of my favorite adorable baby gifts in this baby shower gift guide. But as promised, today I am sharing some of the more practical items for new mamas and daddies to consider. What you will actually need depends on many factors like your lifestyle, budget, and where you live. But I find it really helpful to have a comprehensive list in front of me that I can consult and then narrow down if necessary.

I’m also sharing some of my personal product picks below. While I did quite a bit of research (including asking other mamas), I haven’t put any of these items to use yet since my due date isn’t for another 8 weeks. Once baby comes, I’ll have to let you know which items I actually got the most use out of and which items I ended up feeling like I could live without.

Whether you’re having a baby or even plan on having a baby someday, you can pin this comprehensive list on Pinterest as a resource. And if you have a friend or family member who is expecting, be sure to pass along the link!

Oh Baby: The Complete Baby Registry Checklist

  • Crib.
    We went with this gorgeous, midcentury modern looking crib from Pottery Barn Kids (which you will see in my nursery reveal on the site in a few weeks!)
  • Bassinet or Co-Sleeper.
    All babies just sleep in cribs, right? False! There are several baby bed options, especially at the beginning when you are doing lots of nighttime feedings and might not want to trek back and forth to the nursery. If you have a nursery all set up but want the baby closer by at the very beginning, consider a bassinet or Moses basket in your bedroom. A co-sleeper is another great option for those early weeks. Co-sleeper styles vary, but the idea is that they safely allow baby to cuddle up as close to you as possible—either in between your two pillows or butting up next to it. The Arm’s Reach Cambria Co-Sleeper, which goes right next to your bed, is on my own registry.
  • Bedding.
    This includes fitted crib sheets (3-4), waterproof mattress pads (2), and swaddling blankets or sleep sacks (3-5). (All my mama friends love Aden + Anais swaddling cloths and swear by the Miracle Blanket for swaddling made easy). Quilts or baby blankets are mostly just decorative at the very beginning.
  • Hamper and Storage Bins.
    My hamper and storage baskets are from Lauren’s fair trade shop The Little Market. They are handmade by women artisans in Senegal, and they are simply stunning.

  • Stroller.
    When it comes to big-ticket items like strollers, I recommend going to a local baby store and giving them a test drive. I did this and discovered the new Britax B-Agile 4 stroller and B-Safe infant car seat. The car seat gets top safety ratings, and the stroller was by far the easiest to maneuver and collapse. I also love the look and features of the Stokke and Bugaboo strollers if you have a little more to spend. But for its price point, the Britax was my favorite.
  • Travel Crib.
    A travel crib isn’t just for big trips. If you plan on taking the baby to the grandparents for the night or even being in someone else’s house during naptime, it’s good to have a comfortable and familiar spot for baby to sleep. We registered for the Baby Bjorn Travel Crib Light. It’s a bit of a splurge, but your little one can use it until they are three years old and it’s known for being super durable and easy to transport.
  • Baby Carrier or Wrap.
    The Ergo Carrier seems to get high marks from every mama. I’m also a big fan of Solly Baby wraps, a literal mom and pop business that I actually discovered on Instagram!
  • Bouncer/Lounger and Swing.
    Both bouncers and swings are ways to keep your baby occupied when you need your hands free to do something else. If you’re wondering what the difference is, bouncers tend to be more portable and often contain no electronic parts, whereas swings are generally larger—making them harder to transport (even from room to room)—and use electronic parts to gently rock the baby. Some people recommend getting both a bouncer/lounger and a swing, since they do serve different purposes and it’s hard to know which one baby will take to best before trying them out. But if you have a smaller space or are on a budget, I recommend starting with at least a bouncer. I love the bloom Coco Go Lounger because of its sleek design, extremely portable design (it folds right up into a carry case!), and hidden vibration unit that helps to soothe baby. If we do end up purchasing a swing too, we will probably go with the 4Moms Rockaroo, which takes up so much less room than traditional baby swings.
  • Play Mat/Activity Gym.
    I started off thinking that all activity gyms were unsightly plastic monstrosities that I was just going to have to learn to deal with. Then I discovered this sleek wooden gym from Plan Toys. I plan on using it with this soft and adorable play pad.

  • Bottles.
    Your own feeding checklist will of course vary depending on whether you plan to breastfeed, pump, use formula, or a combination of the three. But most mamas want to have a few bottles on hand at the beginning either way. I’m starting off with couple bottles from Lifefactory (I love their water bottles for grownups and eco-friendly stance!) and a couple bottles from Comotomo (they are soft and squishy, and said to mimic breastfeeding better than any other brand).
  • Pacifiers.
    Natursutten pacifiers are on my list because they are made of 100 percent natural rubber, free from any harmful chemicals, and are committed to sustainability.
  • Nursing Cover.
    The Poncho Baby nursing cover is made of 100% organic cotton, it’s super lightweight and breathable, and makes it easy to view baby while keeping mama completely covered.
  • High Chair.
    The Stokke Tripp Trapp chair looks more like something you’d find at Design Within Reach than Babies ‘R’ Us (and it even has a permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC!). But of course looks aren’t everything… It’s also one of the first high chairs designed to give your little one proper ergonomic support at the dinner table, and can be used from 6 months all the way to 3 years old.

Bath and Diapering

  • Infant Tub. Pretty much every mama friend I asked recommended the Puj Infant Tub. It collapses flat and is made out of a soft, comforting material.
  • Diapers, Diaper Cream, Baby Shampoo, and Body Wash. For all the baby ‘toiletries,’ I’m turning to Babyganics and The Honest Company. Using gentle, natural products is important to me and both of these brands are ones you can count on in that respect.

Health + Baby Care

  • Baby Monitor.
    I like the idea of a video monitor instead of a traditional one with only audio. This one from Levana also has an intercom feature so you can talk to baby.
  • Humidifier.
    We have this Crane cool mist humidifier on our registry. It’s sleek, modern, and comes in lots of fun colors.
  • Healthcare Kit.
    You can make things easy by buying a whole pre-packaged baby healthcare kit like this one from American Red Cross. But make sure it includes a really good thermometer, baby nail clippers or scissors, and bulb syringe—which are the items you will use most. You may want to supplement your kit by purchasing these items separately.

  • Other than a few inexpensive plain white cotton pieces, you probably won’t need to register for any clothing items. This is everyone’s favorite item to pick out and gift you with at your shower!

And an etiquette tip… You don’t need to put every single item listed on your actual registry for your friends and family to see. Some things (ahem, thermometers that go places other than the baby’s mouth) are just better left purchased by the parents themselves.

UPDATE: Click here for some updated tips about this post!

Mamas: Do you have any must-haves that you’d add to this list?

Let me know in the comments.

xo Ilana
Team LC

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Top State Department official Patrick Kennedy sought a “quid pro quo” with the FBI that would have allowed him to change the classification markings on Clinton’s emails.
Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law,1856
This phrase signifies verbatim, what for what. It is applied to the consideration of a contract. See Co. Litt. 47, b; 7 Mann. & Gr. 998.

Black's Law Dictionary, 1st Edition, 1891

What for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than the mutual consideration which passes between the parties to a contract, and which renders it valid and binding.
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Quid pro quo

1) In general
Latin for "something for something." An exchange of acts or things of approximately equal value.

2) In employment law
Sexual harassment in which a boss conveys to an employee that he or she will base an employment decision, e.g. whether to hire, promote, or fire that employee, on the employee's satisfaction of a sexual demand. For example, it is quid pro quo sexual harassment for a boss to offer a raise in exchange for sex.

Illustrative caselaw
See, e.g. Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2009) (generally) and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998) (regarding quid pro quo sexual harassment).
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