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Thursday, February 25, 2010

2.25.10 "TODAY"

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The tikesters and I are having an indoor picnic... with a panda, a fish, an owl, and Elmo!

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Shopping in Oslo!

Kort got new shoes! (and he was just a little excited about it.)

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Went to a beautiful Hindu temple surrounded by lily pads. (Bali, Indonesia)

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I did laundry. Lots and lots of laundry. Now, if only it would fold itself...

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We decorate the dolls for Hinamatsuri- the girl's festival coming on March 3rd.

2.25.10 Today my sister's baby is 1 week old.
Today my sister's baby girl is 1 week old. Welcome to the world Baby Brooke!

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Today, blood oranges are in season.

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I bought some cereal (it was on sale), but the only place it would fit was my coat closet!

2.25 "Today"
The inside of my car.

  1. Lola - I love sun flares, but I don't know how to capture them, except by accident!

    Sarah - I've been admiring that picture on your blog ever since I saw it. It's so sharp!

    Tezzie - I'm loving the color pops! :)

    Rikako - Girls' Festival? Tell us more. I love the dolls. :)

    Rebeckah - That bow on Brooke is just as lovely as she is. Precious.

    Kate - LOL!!! How long would it take for you to go through those?

    Emily - Hmm, I don't think I've ever had blood oranges before. I love the colors, though (and the cute little hands holding the oranges). :)

    Cornelia - I love the cheery yellow color!

    Katie - That looks so peaceful.

  2. Buckeroomama: Your picnic looks so colorful and fun. I love that quilt!

    Tezzie: Nice place to shop, lucky! Oslo is pretty!

    Lola: It looks like he could get up to all sorts of mischief in sneakers like those! How did you caputre that sun flare? It's amazing!

    Katie: Wow! The color of the temple, the reflection in the water, the lily pads with their pink flowers...what a stunning shot!

    Sarah: I really *ought* to be doing laundry today. Your washing maching looks nicer than mine though. Can I use that as an excuse?

    Rikako: Those dolls are great! What's the Hinamatsuri festival? Because, if it includes dolls like that, I think I like it!

    Rebeckah: She is absolutely perfect. Congratulations to you and your family!

    Katie: Good sale! That's a lot of cereal!

    Cornelia: Forgive me for stating the obvious, but your dashboard is yellow! I love it!

  3. Oh my gosh! Your daughter is SO sweet Rikako! I ADORE her little face : ).

    That picnic picture is one of my favorite pictures I have seen all year. Just amazing.

    I think all the pictures are so nice! I am not smart enough to remember all the things I loved this morning!

    The temple was GORGEOUS! And those new sneakers on your baby are SO exciting Lola!

    Have a happy day friends.

    Love from SNOWY Pennsylvania : )

  4. Emily, yum! I so miss blood oranges!

    Oh my goodness, ladies. These pictures are amazing!!

    Tezzie, how did you get multiple colors in a black and white shot? My camera will add one color back in I think, but I've never seen multiple. Very cool!

    Katie, oh my gosh! That is gorgeous!

    Rikako, tell us more about Hinamatsuri. I know nothing!

    Buckeroomama, indoor picnics are so fun! What a colorful, happy picture!

    Kate, I love that! Store where you can, right?

    Rebeckah, your niece is so beautiful!

  5. Yay! I'm so glad you think my sun flare is cool! To be honest, my camera was set to "intelligent auto" so it sort of just did all the work for me! (sorry, wish I had a more technical answer other than I was just lazy and cheated ;)

    Rikako - your daughter is BEYOND darling!! I want to go to a doll festival!

    Cornelia - I WANT that car!

    Kate - Mmmmmm....cereal. (and way to go stocking up on food storage! Now we know YOUR kids aren't going to be hungry in an emergency.)

    that temple? - beautiful!
    oranges - mmmmm
    new babies - mmmmm
    indoor picinic - divine
    shopping - yes please!
    in Oslo? - double yes please!
    laundry - pass. (but yay you for being a good mom, Sarah!!!)

  6. More little hands that I love :)

  7. Buckeroomama - Any picnic including Elmo HAS to be a good one ;D

    Lola - Awesome sunflare, and awesome Boy would love those!

    Katie - Tranquil...beautiful...I don't think I've ever seen so many lilypads at the same time!

    Sara - What?!! It doesn't fold itself?...hmmm...that DOES explain the mountain forming in the other room ;D

    Rikako - What a doll ;D

    Rebeckah - Adorable!! I love how her hand is doing the "no pics, please" at the paparazzi ;D

    Emily - Yum!...and beautiful!

    Kate - Was there any cereal left at the store? ;D Way to stock up!!

    Cornelia - that has to be the coolest, funkiest car I've ever seen!

    Nisa - to answer your question about multiple colours in a black and white...While in Photoshop Elements, I do a black and white conversion action in layers...and then while the layer is still open I simply erase over the areas where I want the colour to shine through. Then flatten the image, and voilà, all done! :D

  8. love, love, love. I love taking my little trip around the globe every day!

    Kate, I have to ask. What in the world with all that cereal?? Do you do the Grocery Game? :)

  9. Rikako: My daughter and I just had the best time reading about the Hinamatsuri festival and now she's REALLY excited about moving to Japan this summer. (Did I tell you we're moving to Japan?) She's been really unsure about the move up until now, so thank you SO much for giving me something exciting like this to share with her.

  10. Sorry for my late response.
    I really want to comment daily to each of the photos, but I don't have enough time...

    Well, here's brief description about the Hinamatsuri.
    We pray for the happiness and healthy growth of girls by looking at the dolls. The top tier is the emperor and the empress wearing costumes of the imperial court during the Heian Period(794-1192). We put it away as soon as the Hinamatsuri is over. This is because of an old superstition that families that are slow putting back the dolls have trouble marrying off the daughter.

    Emily-You already found out what the Hinamatsuri is!
    Wow, moving to Japan!? Really??
    Yes, your daughter will LOVE the Hinamasuri, and there are more fun things for her and you out here.
    I hope the life in Japan is enjoyable for your family.
    It is my pleasure to share my Japnese life with you!
    If you have any question, ask me!


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    DG startup in cluster

    891445 on linux. Oracle clusteware.  (dg broker not used)

      We have 2 node rac primary and standby (2 node, but only one node active for managed recovery)

      We have not added the standby database to the cluster, as standby is in read-only active dg setup.

      just wondering, if  we can add this to clusterware, so that it can automatically handle server reboots.

      Also, s there any way to put the db in managed recovery as well ?

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          If the standby is part of the cluster, then configure it to MOUNT automatically on reboot.

          srvctl modify database -d standby_d -s MOUNT

          This will STARTUP MOUNT the instance, but will not automatically start redo apply. The next thing I would do is to configure the DG Broker. With the DG Broker, when the instance is started up, the Broker will automatically start the redo apply for you.


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Instant fame: the 5 Browns piano quintet

Twitter delivered the shocking news of the 5 Browns piano quintet

Twitter is magic for news hungry readers of the latest and the greatest, the free, and the last-minute. Twitter has been magic to confirm someone’s death and the lack of information until articles are published and investigations done. Twitter has been magic for last minute offers or about-to-be sold out concerts.

Today Twitter delivered a shocking piece of news in the classical music world.

The amazing five siblings called the Five Browns, born in Houston and home-schooled in Utah, are virtuoso pianists all trained at Julliard. Their father Mr. Brown confessed to sexually abusing his children and, according to the latest sources, will face 10 years in jail.

Just 10 years?

The Browns’ official website is down due to traffic overload. There are several Facebook pages.

Twitter is capable of delivering shocking news. Bad news travels faster than good, unfortunately. As a pianist, I am shocked and very sad.

Visit youtube (below) to find more clips of this amazing quintet – playing multi-hand piano duets — on 5 pianos!

Speed to market: how fast to get a gig?

How long does it take to get a concert? If you find the right person, it could be immediate. If you persist and if you have the right contacts … you can also get a full house if you’re not careful!

Musicians who can sightread, improvise, or have memorised works they can readily perform don’t need a lead time to prepare for a concert performance.  Yet concert engagements don’t happen overnight. There is a certain lead time to book a concert and a lead time to get the audience.

I interviewed a classical music aficionado last Friday about his house concert series as material to add to my ongoing research on house concerts and salon concerts. Towards the end of our phone conversation, I mentioned that classical guitarist Robert Bekkers was going to be in town. Would he care to organise a concert in his home?

His first reaction was very positive. Yes! He would love to. When I told him the date, he withdrew and said he could not manage to organise his schedule and home to make it happen. He would prefer a month to 6 weeks notice.

Indeed, if you have to turn your home into a concert venue, you do need time to clear up and clean up. If you have a full-time job, you do need to make space to organise a concert event in your free time.

Undeterred, I googled to find other candidates.

That Friday 11th February 2011, I e-mailed a non-profit organisation that had put on such intimate classical music concerts for raising funds for the cause they’re championing.

Before I went to bed, I noticed I had received an e-mail reply.

The very next morning, I was woken up by a call from the lady in charge. We spoke for over 40 minutes about the possibilities of collaborating. I told her that I was the gateway to some of the best musicians on the planet.

On Sunday, I sent her links and material she could use to convince the new board members about doing a concert.

On Monday, she had her board meeting.

On Tuesday, she e-mailed me to ask if the Mr Bekkers was available the following Wednesday to give a concert. She would get her real estate advisory council to find a suitable location.

On Wednesday, I replied that indeed he was available and happy to give a concert.

In less than 12 hours, she and the chairman of her real estate advisory council had not only found a venue but also managed to get half the tickets sold.

How’s that for speed to market? If everything is in place, a gig can happen overnight.

Robert Bekkers gives a solo concert in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday 23rd February 2011 at 7 pm.

Twitter for musicians

Twitter is more than a broadcasting medium though many musicians may think so. Here is a journey from experimentation to practical implementation to discover just what Twitter does and can do.

When I got alerted to Brian Reinhart’s article “Music and Twitter” via twitter, I just had to tweet back that I intended to write a blog about it.

Not that I’ve become an expert at Twitter after over a year of tweeting — I joined the Twitter community like I did with Facebook and LinkedIn because I was curious and that I thought everyone else was doing it. The “kiasoo” nature in me pushed me to get a free Twitter account. Kiasoo means afraid to lose out in the Chinese Hokkien dialect.

I decided to follow those that I knew had a Twitter account. I tweeted this blog and everything else I thought was interesting. When others started following me, I reciprocated. It was flattering to get followers. After awhile, I couldn’t keep up. I no longer reciprocated.

I did not know the rules of Twitter, only that I wanted to make sure the number of people following me were more than the number I followed. In other words, I was still a performer — I wanted more people in the audience than on stage. I wanted to blast out my latest thoughts, concert reviews, future concerts, video clips, audio clips, and everything else that musicians use to get attention.

I thought of Twitter as a kind of broadcasting medium, the same way I initially thought of Facebook and blogging and websites.

Twitter is more than that.

When I started tweeting for Price Rubin & Partners, I noticed that tweeting was no longer a game or a personal experiment. There had to be a rhyme and reason to spending time online dreaming up messages and truncating them to the 140 character limit.

When tweeting on behalf of an organization, you are communicating the values of the group — not just yourself. You cannot be whimsical and say something as personal as “I had to pay an overdue fine for library books I didn’t get to read.”

I asked myself the following questions:

  • What is the purpose of having a Twitter account?
  • What is there to gain from the Twitter community?
  • What information do I want to know that I can’t get elsewhere?
  • What do I want to see when I sign in my Twitter account?
  • What kind of attention do I want to attract?
  • What kind of followers do I want to have?
  • What kind of messages should I send to attract those followers?
  • How often should I tweet — without the risk of being “unfollowed”?

In two weeks, I doubled the number of followers. The number that I’m following now is more than 6 times the number that’s following me. But this is not a numbers game.

It’s about relevance.

I want to deliver relevant content in a timely matter. And when I check my Twitter radar screen, I want to see my own “newspaper” of news, gossip, reviews, interviews, opportunities, etc from orchestras, opera companies, classical radio stations, performance art series, artists with interesting opinions, etc. If I see anything I’d like to share, I’ll retweet it.

I should think other Twitterers are doing the same. Maybe not. Maybe they are like me a year ago, still getting their egos rubbed and tweeting into a void of noise.

Useful advice and tips for musicians on how to use Twitter:

Any other good tips? Please LEAVE A REPLY on the comment section alone. Thanks in advance.

Music for learning foreign languages, art for spatial intelligence

Why cutting arts education funding is detrimental in the long run

Through twitter, I found a blog that embedded the following video clip that spells out why we must not continue to cut funding to arts education. They are essential for creativity and for our capacity as human beings and not mere data processors.

It also explains why the musician friends I know are multi-lingual. Pick up a musical instrument when you’re young and open your world to a tonal propensity for foreign languages. Take art classes and develop your spacial intelligence.

Count down to guitar solo concert tour

Robert Bekkers, guitarist, prepares his three week solo concert tour of Boston to Phoenix in February.

Five hours before Dutch guitarist Robert Bekkers boards the airplane for his trans-Pacific and coast-to-coast red-eye (overnight) flight from Maui to Boston, he finishes a hearty meal at the cafeteria of Maui College famous for its award-winning Culinary Academy. Every Monday to Thursday between 11 am and 1 pm, Paina Meals at $5 a plate are served. Today he chose the more expensive $7.90 swordfish with purple potato as a send-off meal. He knows that there will be NO complimentary meals served on Hawaiian Airlines and Delta Airlines for the long journey.

Guitarist Robert Bekkers at Maui College in Hawaii
Guitarist Robert Bekkers at Maui College in Hawaii

An e-mail from the concert host in Wells, Maine brings a reality check:

“As the day draws near, I’m praying for NO MORE SNOW! We’ve had so much with more expected, and I’m concerned about parking. There is just no more room to push the mountains of snow that have accumulated around the driveway.”

That concert of “Guitar meets Piano” will take place on Sunday 13th February, a day of travel for Robert Bekkers on the Boston T-line and the Amtrak. Before then, he will have given two house concerts in Boston. Valentine’s Day on Monday 14th February will be another day of travel, by Amtrak from Wells, Maine to Boston and then the Peter Pan coach to Manhattan.

What he brings to these concert hosts and their guests are three new CDs he produced in Maui: a solo guitar album and two live recordings of his Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo concerts in Maui and at Duke University. He hopes and expects the sale of these CDs to support this 3 week tour of Boston, Wells, Pelham, Houston, and Phoenix.

Salon concerts: another name for house concerts

What is in a name? Home concert, house concert, salon concert, huisconcert, … does it make any difference if it’s established or not? How much can you charge and still get people to attend a concert in your home?

First I used “home concerts” for live foreground music that gets performed and heard in one’s home. In Dutch, home is “huis” — pronounced like house in English. When I moved to the Netherlands, I used “huisconcerten” or “house concerts” instead of “home concerts” to promote concerts in the home.

In the USA, I noticed people using “salon concerts” — and decided to investigate this further.

When I google “salon concerts” I get what looks like an established concert series called Salon Concerts. There is a link to a nice article called “Chamber music finds its modern home.” Scrolling down, I see that the ticket price begins at $40.

How much to charge for house concerts? This is the question many hosts and performers have asked. If Salon Concerts can charge $40 and get a full house, why can’t anyone charge $40? Instead, I’ve heard reactions such as

I can’t charge my friends.

I can’t expect people to pay more than $10.

The economy is bad. People won’t come if we charge more than $10.

Let’s make it free and ask people to donate.

How much do we charge to make sure we get a full house? If we charge too much, we get empty seats.

If we change the name of house concerts to salon concerts, create a professional website, get media attention, can we then charge more than $10 per person? Maybe then, it becomes affordable to run a concert series from the home.

Download the 14-page paper presented at the International Cultural Economic conference in Copenhagen, 2011: “House concerts for art music: multiple stakeholders, audience development, and sustainability

Longevity of a composition

The longevity of a composition depends largely on the willingness of performers to study and play them. There are piano clubs and pianists eager to try multi-hand piano duets.

The alliance between composers and performers is an interesting one. Composers want their works to be performed and heard. Performers want to play pieces they like, but they don’t always get a chance to perform them for various reasons.

How often does a new piece get performed after its premiere?

Are composers satisfied that their works get performed just once?

As a composer, I would say no. I want to hear my works over and over again. I want different musicians to play them. I want to different interpretations of the same piece. I want feedback. I want my work to circulate like a virus.

As a performer, I want to play a new composition more than once. After all, it takes time to study a new piece. Unless I don’t like the piece and I’m “forced” to play it, I would say, give me another chance to play it again.

The longevity of a composition is the question at stake here. Just how long is long enough?

Through extensive search and research, our piano guitar duo has found original works for piano and guitar by obscure composers. When we play them, we realize why they are no longer performed today. They have either gone out of fashion or the acoustics made it impossible to play (on modern instruments).

Does a composer’s fame and status depend on the longevity of his/her works?

The late composer/pianist Robert Avalon, Houston (2000)
The late composer/pianist Robert Avalon, Houston (2000)

One of the reasons I wanted to ask composers to write multi-hand piano duets is that I want to introduce such pieces to pianists. I saw the joy of playing at a sight-reading piano workshop in November 2010. The pianists didn’t want to stop. Luckily I had brought enough music.

There are piano clubs where members help organise concerts and soirees. They take turns playing solo works they have been working on. They share and discuss the music they love.

Another way of sharing is to play together, such as many hands on an instrument, not one person at a time.

Like fashion, some music gets out of date. I am eager for music that has not yet been written.

So I set about writing music for many hands. How many hands can play on one piano? There’s the inside and outside of the piano. Why doesn’t anyone play there?

Contemporary music is full of interesting techniques: clusters, minimalism, chance music, polytonality, serialism, …… I haven’t seen enough of these incorporated into piano duets.

The longevity of a composition depends largely on the willingness of performers to study and play them. Composers, let’s look for musicians that are eager to try new music.


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October 2, 2016 Shena Lowe

Simple Is Hard: Designing a Digital Health Content Experience for the #1 Children’s Hospital in the U.S.

How creating an optimized health content experience for the website of the #1 children’s hospital in the U.S. became a study in simplicity.

I’m often reminded of the famous quote from Steve Jobs:

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

It’s no surprise this is always ringing in my ears. You see, in our office, you’ll hear the short form of this – “Simple is hard” quite a bit.

Simple, Responsive Design Is What We Do

For us, like Jobs, there is a tireless drive to keep pushing until something is so streamlined, so intuitive, so clean, and oh so pixel perfect in all that we do. Our refresh of the Conditions and Treatments section for Boston Children’s is no exception. Sure, there’s plenty of health content online, but for the worried mom or the tired dad who reach for the Boston Children’s website to understand something as complex as medical conditions and treatments, this one’s for you.

With simple alpha sorting, search, and filters for separating Conditions and Treatments, this health content is easy to navigate and read whether you are on your mobile, tablet, or desktop. We added dynamic pages to pull in related hospital Programs & Services so you can request an appointment or find a doctor right there, as you browse, where you’d expect to find it. And we did the necessary development and editorial work to optimize every page of this health content for search engines – so this relaunch can capture localized traffic from Google, Bing and Yahoo too.

We know parenting is hard. And finding answers to your questions about raising healthy kids is even harder. We get it…but moreover, we get you.

We hope this optimized health content experience on the childrenshospital.org website helps users make sense of an overwhelming sea of health content online. Because, while it’s hard to create simple digital experiences, it’s the simplest experiences that make consuming difficult information easier.


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A charitable fund associated with Evanston-based NorthShore University Health System is suing a near northwest suburban school district, alleging the district accepted foundation grant money to open school-based health care clinics, but then chose to close the clinics after less than a year in operation, essentially wasting the foundation’s money.

On May 12, the North Suburban Healthcare Foundation filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Niles Township High School District 219, demanding the court order the school district to return $1.3 million the foundation awarded to the district.

The high school district includes Niles North, Niles West and Niles Central high schools, all in Skokie.

According to the complaint, the Foundation agreed in 2014 to partner with District 219 and Heartland Health Centers to open school-based health clinics at both Niles West and North high schools. The clinics were to be operated by Heartland Health Centers, a group that operates clinics in 10 locations on Chicago’s North Side, according to a press release issued by District 219 when the grant was awarded in 2014.

Court documents indicated the school district would provide $500,000 annually to help fund operations at the clinics.

The complaint said the agreement called on the district to spend the $1.3 million awarded by the Foundation to renovate and furnish spaces within the two high schools for the clinics.

According to the District 219 release, the school-based clinics would provide “physical exams, school and sports physicals, immunizations, evaluation and treatment of injuries and illness, chronic disease management, reproductive health services and weight management.” The clinics were also intended to “provide behavioral health services, including individual therapy, crisis evaluation and management, and family counseling,” the district release said.

At the time, the Foundation said one of its foremost priorities in helping the school district establish the clinics was to “support programs that promote improved access to quality healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured in our service area” and particularly to “the most underserved segment” of the local population, “young adults.”

According to the court documents, the Foundation said it exists to provide financial support for programs and organizations boosting community health care services in the area served by NorthShore’s Skokie Hospital.

The clinics opened in July 2015, and the lawsuit said the district “achieved substantial savings” of more than $500,000 per year by being able to eliminate “seven full-time equivalent positions on account of the addition of the Heartland staff present at the school-based clinics.” Further, the lawsuit said, clinic reports indicated the clinics provided care to more than 660 students from July 2015-Feb. 2016.

However, the lawsuit said the school district voted on April 5, 2016, to “terminate its partnership with Heartland and to close the school based health clinics after less than one year.”

The Foundation said the decision to sever ties with Heartland and close the clinics “is a breach of the terms of the Grant” awarded to the district by the Foundation.

According to the lawsuit, the Foundation warned the district before it moved to close the clinics that the Foundation considered the closures to be a breach of contract. And on May 2, the Foundation “demanded the return” of the grant money “within seven days.”

The lawsuit said the district refused to refund the money, saying “the Board of Education is not liable to pay the Foundation any amount and rejects your May 2 demand.”

The Foundation is represented in the action by attorneys with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath, of Chicago.

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The city of Chicago has filed suit against Equifax in the wake of the credit monitoring company’s massive data breach.

In its filing Sept. 28 in Cook County Circuit Court, the city leveled counts against Georgia-based credit reporting bureau Equifax Inc., under the city’s Consumer Fraud, Unfair Competition or Deceptive Practices Ordinance. The city noted, from March 7 - July 30, Equifax “left at lest 143 million individuals’ sensitive and private information exposed and vulnerable to intruders by relying on certain open-source code (called ‘Apache Struts’) that Equifax knew or should have known was insecure and subject to exploitation.”

The city said Equifax failed to avail itself of patches, workarounds or other remedies for the identified vulnerability, such as data encryption or additional security data, and as such should bear responsibility for allowing its servers to be improperly accessed between May 13 and July 30. The city estimated in its complaint that, of the 143 million people whose data was compromised, 5.4 million are Illinoisans.

The complaint cited Illinois’ Personal Information Privacy Act, which required Equifax to provide Illinois residents timely notice of the data breach. In addition to not announcing the vulnerability until Sept. 7, the city said Equifax still has not provided disclosure notifications to Chicago residents as required and specified under both state law and city ordinance.

Formal allegations include failure to give prompt notice of data breach and two counts of failure to safeguard personal information — one as an unfair business practice and one as a deceptive practice. According to the complaint, statutory fines for violating the city ordinance for each of those three counts are between $2,000 and $10,000 per day for each violation involving potentially millions of Chicago residents.

According to the complaint, any violation of the state’s Personal Information Privacy Act automatically “constitutes an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Act,” and further that any such unlawful practice under the state fraud law is legally considered a distinct violation of the municipal ordinance. In addition to the statutory fines, which compile daily, the city also argued it is entitled to equitable relief, including restitution of $10,000 for each day Equifax has not properly notified a Chicago resident of the breach.

The city further alleged Equifax further committed deceptive practices by offering “complimentary identity theft protection and credit file monitoring” when enrollment in those services required people to sign agreements waiving rights to participate in class action or individual arbitration and that the services were subject to automatic paid renewal after the first year. Violations of that nature are between $2,000 and $10,000 per day per offense.

The city said it also is entitled to restitution of $10,000 per day for the deceptive practice claim, following the same chain wherein violations of the state law double as violations of city ordinance.

In addition to a jury trial, the city also wants the court to issue a preliminary and permanent injunction forcing “Equifax to use adequate security measures to protect its websites and computer systems from attacks by hackers and to prevent future unauthorized access of Chicago residents’ sensitive personal and financial information.”

With its legal action, Chicago has now joined San Francisco and Massachusetts on the list of state and local governments suing Equifax, ostensibly on behalf of their residents.

In articles published elsewhere, Chicago city aldermen have indicated damages for violating the ordinance could run well into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the aldermen have held out hope such a windfall could help City Hall balance its budget.

Representing the city in the complaint is the city’s Department of Law.

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Viraaj n Venky and Appy n Grappo

Posted in Brands, Media by Saurabh Garg on 19 May, 2009

Mid-Day - Fizz Article 15-05-09

Mid Day spoke to Raj about Appy Fizz and Grappo Fizz. And here is the link to the world’s first friendship election if you havent voted yet. And btw its Viraaj Braganza and Venkatraman R.

Eye Bank Association – If you are …

Posted in Brands, Media by Saurabh Garg on 4 May, 2009

On popular demand, here is the creative for Eye Bank Association that has won at Goafest 2009 and got an in-book at D&AD 2009. The works are titled Hindu, Christian and Parsee respectively.

EyeBank Hindu

Eyebank Christian

Eyebank Parsee

And if you havent pledged your eyes as yet, you might want to send that coupon to Eye Bank Association Kerala, CBM Opthalmic Institute, Little flower Hospital & Research Centre, Angamally – 683 573, Kerala.

Creativeland at D&AD

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 4 May, 2009

We got three in-books at D&AD this year. By far the best performance by any other Indian agency (afaqs report, Campaign India report). India got total of 9 in-books this time.

Our work for Eye Bank Association (in the Direct/Writing category), Indiana Motors (in Graphic Design/Stationery category) and Car Mall (in Graphic Design/Stationery category) got the in-books. Too bad we dint get a metal. May be next time? Anyways, a complete list of in-books and winners is available here on the D&AD website (pdf, 141 KB). Food for inspiration and may be some envy?

10 at Goafest

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 6 April, 2009

The team came home with 10 metals from Goa. 2 silvers and 8 bronzes. Work for Appy Fizz (posters and print), Eye Bank Association (print and copy), Coffee, Books & More (print and copy) and Green Cross Society (print and illustration) won us these 10 metals across categories.

Here is a low-res image of trophies (from Viraaj’s phone).

10 at Goafest

More pics from Goafest 2009 on Viraaj’s Facebook here. Also, Campaign India did an exhaustive coverage of the fest. You might want to check it out (here).

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Raj’s film for Pantene at NYF 2009

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 14 February, 2009

Raj spoke about the film on his blog last week only.

via afaqs

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The Week profiles Raj

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 4 January, 2009

Raj is in the list of the new age CEOs, says The Week. Here is a scanned copy.

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What we did in 2008

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 18 December, 2008

Campaign India just released their Agency Report Card. They profiled 32 Indian agencies in it and here is our scorecard. They said …

The agency began its south operations this year, starting an office in Kochi. They have also set up Creativeland Asia Lab, an ideas laboratory that will look at conceptualizing ideas related to all aspects of communications. Creativeland made two key appointments as well, hiring Neil Flory as executive creative director and bringing in Sudheer Krishnan to head their south operations. Their work for Parle Agro got them shortlisted at Cannes this year.
Although the breadth of work may be small as compared to larger traditional agencies, the work done this year has been fresh and clutter breaking, especially their work for Parle’s Saint fruit juice and that for
Campaign Score: 6

For the same, we gave ourselves 8 on 10. Here is what we had to say …

2008 has been a good year for us. We moved to a larger office – a two-storied villa with a courtyard and a terrace. We got ourselves our own canteen, treadmill, coffee & soup machine, fus-ball table and in-house doctor. We went to Cannes. We launched Fresh Pick and sponsored a deserving college student’s trip to Cannes. Together we all went for one ‘new-year’ breakfast, two offsite workshops and one movie. We opened our second office in Kochi. We laid foundation for India’s first Creative Lab. We got seven new accounts. We got on board 30 new people. We got two buy-out offers. We got at-least one resume a day. We picked up something or the other at every award show we entered. We changed our office timing to 8.30 – 5.30. We stayed away from politics and drugs. We missed lesser deadlines. We spent lesser office-time in meetings, debates and boardrooms. We spent more office-time doing work. We spent a little more time with our family.

Vikram and his “bling” thing

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 14 November, 2008

Vikram, who has this uncanny knack of getting himself featured in all awesome publications, has done it again. This time, for his patent pending and trademark applied open-shirt-over-a-t-shirt look. Here is the clip …

BTW if someone is keen on sending him wishes and/or flowers, drop a line ;P

Neil Flory @ Creativeland Asia

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 10 September, 2008

Neil joins us from Sydney and all of us are very very excited to work with him. Here is the official press release.

Neil Flory, who, years ago, made news when he became one of India’s youngest creative directors, is coming back to India; as ECD at Raj Kurup’s Creativeland Asia.

Raj Kurup, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, says, “Neil and I go back a long way. He is one of the most talented creative people I have ever known. An exceptional human being, and a great professional. I’m extremely delighted to have him on board. This is a great day for Creativeland.”

There’s pretty much nothing that Neil hasn’t done in the last decade and a half. At 24, he was creative director at Enterprise Nexus. He has worked in five cities in three countries, in big networks and boutique creative hotshops. He has worked on above the line, below the line and everything in between. He has won almost everything that there’s to win in advertising. Here’s the list in brief.

2007: Cannes, Clio, Asia Pacific Adfest, Media Spikes, World Press Awards
2006: Cannes, One Show, London Internationals, Communication Arts, Singapore Creative Circle
2003: AAAI Awards India,
2001: Cannes, Clio, Abby Award,
2000: Clio, Asian Direct Marketing Awards, Echo

Along the way, Neil explored other areas of creativity too. He designed and made fish tanks that were featured in Inside Outside. He runs a clothing label for which he designs t-shirts and jeans. He spends all his free time making music. And, is also writing stories for kids.

After all this, the process of creating an ad still gets him excited. A good idea gives him goose bumps, like it did when he started out.

“Coming back to India was never part of my plans. But the opportunity to join Creativeland Asia was something I couldn’t pass up”, says Neil.

“I love everything that Creativeland Asia stands for. There was a time when Raj and I would go to a bar every Saturday, and make plans to start an agency. On paper napkins. An agency that truly believed in creativity and thinking, and didn’t just throw it around because it sounded cool. Creativeland is that dream and so much more.”

“Neil’s coming on board will only strengthen the team and the creative output at Creativeland. His international exposure will be of tremendous value”, adds Vikram Gaikwad.
“Neil’s mandate”, says Raj “is to continue the good work and take the creative output to the next level and make it world-class.”

More news and analysis on Campaign India, AgencyFaqs, exchange4media.

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Raj Kurup on London International Awards Jury

Posted in Media by Saurabh Garg on 19 August, 2008

Raj is one of the three prominent Indian AdMen on the jury of the London International Awards 2008. Raj along with Santosh Padhi and KV Sridhar are on the jury panel of Integrated Media and Television and Cinema. While he is away judging (probably the most difficult job ever), we plan to flick books off his bookshelf.

By the way Raj has finally agreed to start a blog of his own. Check it out here.

Source: Khushboo Tanna at AFaqs


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An Unexpected Journey

Sometimes life has a way of finding you, and sending you in a particular direction, even when you aren’t even looking. That is how Creative Life Publishing came about. After working for several years in the field of education, including an opportunity to teach philosophy, ethics, and early American history as an adjunct instructor, my life took a turn back to more domestic duties.

In 2002 my husband and I traveled to China to adopt our daughter Gracie, and in 2005 we returned to China to bring our youngest daughter, Annie, home. With one toddler and one pre-schooler keeping me busy, I was quite content to hang out at home with our kiddos.

During those years I discovered the amazing opportunities available for creative engagement through the internet with other artistic / literary folks. That’s where my journey into writing, editing, and publishing really got started.

All along the way I experimented with various artistic expressions, from designing and creating children’s boutique clothing, to art journals, to blogging . . . and then I expanded on all of those avenues.

After our girls were in grade school, in 2010 I was asked to help with marketing an online Christian women’s magazine, Ruby Women. Since I was already working at home and had been doing quite a bit of writing and marketing of my own blog and eBook patterns for children, it seemed like a pretty good way to connect with other women, so I said, “Yes!”

Before too long, however, the original editor of Ruby Women magazine contacted me to tell me that she was no longer going to be able to continue with the magazine for health reasons, and wondered if I would like to take over the entire project. By that time, I felt confident enough to give it a try and that was the beginning of my unexpected journey to writing, editing, and publishing.

There is so much more to this story, including the opportunities to work with writers from all across the USA as well as writers from many other English-speaking countries. I am honored to have this opportunity and look forward to helping other writers discover the treasure of their stories. Isn’t it time for you to tell your story?


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Dermagist {Review}

Everybody wants to achieve beautiful, healthy skin. I mean who wants to have dry flaky skin on their face? Well, Dermagist is a company that sells "Miracle Cosmeceuticals for Beautiful Skin". I was excited to be able to have the chance to review products from Dermagist because their products range from Acne to Anti-aging, to Skin Brightening and daily beauty. I have dull skin at times so I was sent the Skin Tone Correcting System!

What I reviewed:

Skin Tone Correcting System
A two-part system that targets spots, discoloration and dull, uneven skin tone.   Step one accelerates the process by deeply exfoliating dead, dull skin cells.  Step two penetrates to help brighten, and even the tone of the skin.  This kit is the ULTIMATE in evening skin tone, and zoning in on dark spots and blotchiness of all types.  Plus, the products are the most powerful Brightening product we could formulate, so your skin will glow with youth after every application.

Aspects that stand out to me:

-no harsh chemicals
-improves skin tone.
-cleans and removes dull skin.
-can improve the sign of wrinkles and line.
-effective yet gentle
-a little goes a long way with these products
-no dry skin with this kit!
-Comes with a 30 day money back guarantee! If you don't like it...return it. Which is great because these prices

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Germaine Greer
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English reformer, author, educator. She championed the sexual freedom of women in "The Female Eunuch," 1970; however her book "Sex and Destiny," 1984 was called anti-feminist by critics.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping and collusion. When Washington said he could not tell a lie, his father must have answered, 'You had better learn."
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You," "Still in Melbourne, January 1987," 1989.
R: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
A: In "Times," 1 Feb 1986.
N: "Sex and Destiny," ch. 14, 1984.
K: From an Internet collection of quotations.

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Red Death Blog Tour | Blog Tour

December 14, 2016

Today, I am helping Author Jeff Altabef launch his new book Red Death!

I was giving this book free for review and I really enjoyed it, so I hope that you all like this post, the review of Red Death will be premiering soon!

To celebrate, we've got prizes, sales and more! Check it all out below, and don't forget to pick up your copy of Red Death. If you love action packed YA adventures, or Jeff's other YA books like the Chosen Series, we know you'll love this title too!

Bookish Christmas Gift Guide 2016

December 11, 2016

In today's post I thought that I would share a Bookish themed Christmas wishlist for those of you looking for ideas of what to ask for this Christmas or for anyone shopping for a Book Lover!

3 Highlighters that I Want To Own

December 06, 2016

Today I have a short post on some Makeup Highlighters that I would love to try. I actually don't have many highlighters at all so this is really just me wishful thinking.
In the run up to Christmas I thought I would do more wishlist style posts so that people can get some good ideas for gifts for friends and family. I hope that you enjoy this post and find it useful!

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6 Indie Wax Sellers That I want to Buy From | Christmas Gift Guide

December 04, 2016

I thought that I would share another post about Wax Melts or Tart melts or Tarts or whatever they are called today. I have recently been checking out some independent sellers on etsy and Instagram and as it is the Christmas season, I thought that I would share a post about buying wax melts from these vendors, who make their wax melts by hand and work really hard to produce them. Buying from Independent brands and sellers is important to me as you are directly helping someone and not just endorsing a huge company.

I think that these wax melts will also make brilliant gifts for those who are looking for presents for friends! They are very affordable, but thoughtful and fun!


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Easter Treats!

This year will be Amelie’s first proper Easter (last year she was still drooling and unable to move from wherever I plonked her) so I feel the pressure to make it extra special. I don’t want her to consume TOO much chocolate so I’m going to scatter around a combination of chocolate eggs and other goodies for her to find. No doubt she will be more interested in the chocolate than the other treats but at least I’ve made an effort. So here’s what I’ve done:

I bought these plastic fill-able Easter eggs from the $2 shop and I’m going to fill them with healthy(er) treats like sultanas and also things she can play with like fabric flowers and paper confetti:

To mark the occasion I also made her a bunny with her name and the year on the back. It was easy to make, all you need is some Sculpey (or something similar), some alphabet stamps and a chocolate mold. The tutorial on how to make him can be found here.

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Prisms, e.g.
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Region largely in southwest Poland
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Future tense of "is"
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Calm-inducing drug
Stop nursing gradually
Actress Dana of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
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Takes out of a needle, as a filament
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Old-time anesthetic
Thanksgiving side dish
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Hauls (away)
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Fr. holy woman
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Danson of "Ink"
Do as told
Bark shrilly
Gold, to Pedro
Flock watcher in old Ethiopia?
Luxury Swiss watch brand
Cleared a path (for)
Pugilist from Xerxes' empire?
Ski course
"Scandal" network
Perfect-game pitcher Don
Kin of PDQ
Superman's evil "mirror image"
Flaring dress
Bit of advice from a British crown dependency native?
Neighbor of Chile: Abbr.
Big name in sports drinks
Cold zero-calorie drink
Ones eating lavish meals
Go quickly
Woody of film
Really coming down (like it's doing in this puzzle?)
Hocking site
Private chat
Not operated nationally, as a lottery
Volleyball player on Prime Minister U Nu's team?
Barley bristle
Cover with concrete
Says no to
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The folks
Research facility on Mount Everest?
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Film with Buzz Lightyear
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Hard, yellow cheese
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To register for a DLD workshop or webinar, you must be a current staff member, Friend, or Board Member/Trustee of a library in CT. If you are an unemployed librarian in CT, please contact Steve Cauffman (  or 860-704-2223) to register.

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Why is it so hard to focus?

Before you read this, I think that it’s fair to warn you that this could possibly be the worst blog ever written. If I were you, I would just stop reading now and spend your time doing something a little more productive instead. I knew this wasn’t going to be a good blog even when I woke up this morning. I have spent all day trying to come up with something to blog about and have come up with bagel. Due to my lack of inspiration, I have put this blog off all day. Instead I have searched through Pinterest, done a little online shopping, worked on various craft projects and even went to the gym. You know it’s bad when even going to the gym becomes a better option. So here it is, eleven o’clock at night, and I cannot procrastinate writing my blog any longer. So here it is, possibly the worst blog of all time.

When I think about it, my inability to write an interesting blog today all comes down to what time it is in the semester. This is that time when we’ve all been in school for way too long without an adequate break. Right now I am completely burned out on school. I can’t write one more stupid paper, read one more boring book, or fill in one more pointless lab write up. What I really want to do is just lie on the couch and watch scary movies. And Thanksgiving break is still a month away!!! I am fairly sure that I am not going to make it. I think that my trouble completing school work is also due in part to all the way more fun things going on right now. Halloween is soon, the first substantial snow has just fallen, and formal is next weekend! Yup, preparing for a fraternity formal is pretty much consuming my life right now. I mean, finding the absolutely perfect dress is way more important than blog writing. And then there’s the cooler I’m painting; that cooler is consuming my life. If I put half as much effort into my school work as I have into this stupid cooler I would have straight As.

If you’ve made it this far through this horrible blog, then props to you. And hopefully I can make it to Thanksgiving break and write some better blogs between now and then.

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Homepage_slug_pdf-cover-for-web The August issue of Cultural Anthropology features a Retrospectives collection on “Sovereignty,” edited by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. In her introduction, Kauanui reflects on how the concept of sovereignty has occupied a tentative and emergent role in anthropological work, tacking between distinct localizations and epistemological frames. Yarimar Bonilla underscores how sovereignty, as a... More...

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The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being (Part I)

FACT: All Asian Americans are Asian by definition, but not all Asians are Asian Americans. The truth is that most Asians aren’t. While they may share an ethnic heritage, as well as many cultural similarities, Asian people who were born and raised in and reside in an Asian country have vastly different wants and needs and priorities than those who were born and raised in and reside in North America [and other non-Asian countries].

I wanted to start out with that quote for two reasons.

First, because it’s stolen from my co-writer’s post last Friday, which was a really good post you should read.

Second, because I think it does a good job of establishing the complicated and sometimes uncomfortable nuance that goes into addressing identity politics. Which is what we’re going to be talking about today and in the weeks to follow.

More specifically, we’re gonna be talking about White people.

We’ll probably cover my use of this specific gif sometime later…

Before we dive in, I just wanna make something clear.

Race is a social construct – a series of categories that we’ve made up and ones we’ve made up only very recently in the scope of history. The fact of the matter is that there’s no actual place you can draw a dividing line when it comes to human beings and there’s no good reason you’d want to.

Not that it’s ever stopped us.

For better or worse, we have divided the world up into so many arbitrary categories, and those divisions have played and continue to play a major role in today’s culture. In spite of what some folks might suggest, ignoring racism doesn’t make it go away, and if we want to end the unspeakable hassle that is identity politics, we’re going to need to start by actually addressing them.

And here at Culture War Reporters, I think we’ve done a decent job. Continue reading

All Asian Americans Are Asian, But Not All Asians Are Asian American

Just to start with, I honestly don’t think anyone expected to see Scarlett Johansson mercilessly gunning down Asians in two separate movies:

Lucy (2014) – “You speak English?” *BLAM*

Ghost in the Shell (2017) – Well, at least they’re armed this time.

That’s a bit of a tangent, but still relevant as this was sparked by the live-action Ghost in the Shell adaptation, which premiered in theatres across the country today. It’s also worth starting things out with a diversion, if only because I didn’t want you to get into a breakdown of the title a split second after reading it.

FACT: All Asian Americans are Asian by definition, but not all Asians are Asian Americans. The truth is that most Asians aren’t. While they may share an ethnic heritage, as well as many cultural similarities, Asian people who were born and raised in and reside in an Asian country have vastly different wants and needs and priorities than those who were born and raised in and reside in North America [and other non-Asian countries].

For the purposes of clarity I will be referring to the former as “Asians”, and the latter as “Asian Americans”.

With all of that being said, it should be obvious that Asians and Asian Americans also have very different views when it comes to their shared representation in Western media. Continue reading

The K’un-Lun of Netflix’s Iron Fist [Within the Larger Context]

Technically my posts are supposed to go up on Friday. As loyal readers may have noticed, and much to my chagrin, my tendency as of late has been to put them up on Saturday, and sometimes even Sunday. This is one of those very rare instances where I’m glad I took some time to get to a particular topic.

See, this Thursday I came across the Comic Book Resources headline “Finn Jones On Iron Fist Criticism: ‘Danny Is Not A White Savior’”, which I ended up clicking on against my better judgement.

The actor begins by empathizing with those who might be upset about Netflix’s latest upcoming Marvel project, saying:

“I understand where this frustration comes from. I understand the need for more diversity in television and films, especially for Asian actors. I understand that frustration. I agree with it, and I stand in solidarity with that voice.”

I filled my lifetime quota for Well-Meaning White Person™ responses with Tilda Swinton last year, though, so there’s only so much Jones’ attempts at allyship could do to affect me. What really riled me up, to the point where I was going to lean hard into the style of my co-writer Gordon’s profanity-laden rage posts, was what he mentioned a little later on:

“People from all over the world, all different cultures come from K’un-Lun, so it isn’t just this Asian-specific culture. You have people from Brazil there, you have people from Europe there. It’s a multicultural intergalactic alternate dimension.”

Fortunately I’ve since been able to calm down, so let’s take a few steps back and start from the top. Continue reading

Running the Race on The Bachelor [One Year Later]

Almost exactly a year ago today I wrote a little about race and my latest obsession at the time, ABC’s The Bachelor. At that point we were in the middle of its 20th season, which had the very affable Ben Higgins as the pearl of great price 28 women were striving to attain.

While both that show and its spinoff, The Bachelorette, have never had stellar track records as far as racial diversity, things came to a head when Jubilee Sharpe, the final Black contestant remaining, was eliminated on the first day of February [AKA Black History Month]. Cue soundbites from higher-ups that “[they’re] doing a whole lot of tweaks”. Not that that’s anything new, as a lengthy interview that NPR conducted with host Chris Harrison back in 2015 reveals they’ve long been aware of the issue, and that they want to do something about it. Harrison also used the exact words “we really tried” after surmising that a previous previous star was “1/16th Cherokee Indian”, if that’s any indication of what we might expect.

Those of you who follow both shows will be well-aware of the events that took place at the beginning of this week, but before I get into that I want to fill in the gaps between that last post and this one.

So, What Happened After Ben’s Season?

The cyclical nature of franchise means that the The Bachelor premieres every January, with The Bachelorette following not too long afterwards in May. ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee, the man who hinted at the “tweaks” up above, also told reporters at the time that:

“I’d be very surprised if ‘The Bachelorette’ in the summer isn’t diverse. I think that’s likely”

He also made reference to something called the “farm team” which a) I recently found out is sports terminology and has nothing to do with animals or actual farms and b) is the term for the contestants featured on each season of The Bachelor or The BacheloretteVariety notes that the norm is for the next Bacheloron [a gender neutral term for the star of either program that I took from an article I’ll link to later] to be from the previous season’s “farm team”. With that in mind both fans and critics of the franchise saw the 12th season of The Bachelorette as the perfect opportunity to make that much-needed change. Continue reading

The 2016 Evan Yeong Literary Awards

As I say at the beginning of every year, you can look back at the first-ever Evan Yeong Literary Awards in 2014 for a fuller description of my relationship with reading, which in turn led to their inception.

evanyeongliteraryawards2016While eventually I’ll run out of ways to write this, the purpose of the third installment of the Evan Yeong Literary Awards is to shine a spotlight on an artistic medium that has taken a bit of a back seat as screen media becomes increasingly more prevalent, calling attention to a select handful of books I read these past 12 months. In 2015 every pick was objectively a winner, but given the rocky year following it’s no surprise that these awards have their ups and downs.

In 2016 my resolution was, just as it will likely be every year moving forward until it becomes unfeasible, to read more than the year before. That said I was devastated to do the final count to see that I read exactly the same number as I did in 2015. You can check out a full list [with the exact dates of when I read each one] at this link.

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The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Published 1947

Although it’s fallen out of fashion since the time of its coinage in 2015, “woke” is still the most concise way to say “aware of racism and social in justice”. Throughout a novel that could serve merely as a cautionary tale of public transportation Steinbeck communicates time and time again that even though he lived as a person of great privilege, during an era where those privileges were even greater than they are now, he wasn’t afraid to pen several scathing indictments against the very class he was a part of.

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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Published 2012

The fault with this YA novel can be laid at the feet of those who framed it as a solid example of an interracial relationship in the genre. Although the titular Park is half-Korean the fact is that this is not something he personally relates to as a character, and certainly isn’t a factor that others take into consideration when viewing him [save for Eleanor, who gushes over his features in a way that borders on the fetishistic]. Apart from that this book very competently portrays the familial issues that can plague teenagers, as well as the most authentic depiction of how intense young love can be that I’ve ever read. Continue reading

For Your Consideration: Ned Leeds/Ganke in the Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer

Welcome to another installment of “For Your Consideration”, every one of which thus far has covered comic book and video game movies [and this week’s is no exception]. The point of this particular feature was to present just the facts, allowing readers to come to their own conclusions, as well as to cobble together a short post due to a lack of time to devote to a longer piece. The latter is less applicable this time around as this required a lot of research and was not at all published in a timely manner.

Thursday night marked the premiere of the first ever trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as well as the international trailer online. What caught my eye watching it, and what I’m going to detailing below, is the appearance of Ned Leeds, played by actor Jacob Batalon. Below I’ve compiled a timeline that tracks the history of that character, another character named Ganke from the comics, as well as the film franchise’s track record with diversity.

asm18November 1964Ned Leeds debuts in Amazing Spider-Man [Vol. 1] #18. His character is a field reporter at the Daily Bugle, where he meets Peter Parker and Betty Brant, the titular hero’s ex-girlfriend who he will one day marry. In later years Leeds went on to become the villain Hobgoblin for a spell, and was later killed [though you know what they say about death in comic books].

Ned Leeds is, as so many comic book characters at the time, a White man with brown hair and blue eyes.

Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man  (Vol. 2). Written by Brian Michael Bendis, illustrated by Sara Pichelli.

November 2011: Ganke Lee debuts in Ultimate  Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man [Vol. 2] #2. His character is the best friend of Miles Morales, a half-Black/half-Latino teenager and the new hero headlining the title.

As pictured on the left, Ganke is of Korean descent and a larger kid. The character is also shown to be a fan of LEGO blocks, or whatever non-copyright-infringing alternative can be found in the Marvel universe.

April 30th, 2014
 IndieWire former chief creative officer for Marvel entertainment and founder of Marvel Studios Avi Arad is interviewed by Indiewire. When asked if “Spider-Man in the cinematic realm [would] always be Peter Parker” [in reference to Morales ever taking the role] he responded: “Absolutely.” I further covered his comments a week later.

February 9th, 2015: After a two failed Spider-Man films starring Andrew Garfield it’s announced that Sony Pictures would be partnering with Marvel Studios to produce a new film for the character that takes place within the latter’s cinematic universe. President of Sony Entertainment Motion Picture Group Doug Belgrad cements which iteration of the superhero will be webslinging across the silver screen, saying [emphasis added]:

“This new level of collaboration is the perfect way to take Peter Parker’s story into the future.”

barbieriJune 6th, 2016: It’s revealed that fourteen-year-old actor Michael Barbieri has been cast in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming.
ComicBook.com reveals that, according to its sources, Barbieri’s character will be new, and “based off the Ultimate Spider-Man character Ganke.”

As seen on the left, Barbieri is currently not particularly heavyset, and is also not Korean or of Asian descent at all. It’s also worth noting that Peter Parker and Ganke Lee do not currently have any kind of relationship within the Marvel universe as the latter is a stalwart part of Miles Morales’ supporting cast.

June 15th, 2016Likely in response to an article making the rounds that directly states “Marvel Casts Michael Barbieri as Ganke in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming'” director Jon Watts goes on record to deny claims of whitewashing in a couple of tweets:

July 25th, 2016: At Marvel Studio’s film panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego this year three cast members are confirmed for Spider-Man: Homecoming. One of the three is Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds. The actor describes the role he’s playing as being Peter Parker’s “best buddy.”

, while likely not the most reliable of sources, notes that Batalon was born in Hawaii and lists his ethnicity as “Filipino, possibly other”.

November 15th, 2016: In addition to the Comic-Con announcement made several months earlier, Batalon reveals on KHON 2 News, a Hawaiian program, that he will be playing Ned Leeds in Spider-Man: Homecoming. He reiterates that Leeds is “Peter Parker’s best friend in the film.”

December 8th, 2016: As mentioned,  the first Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer premieres on Jimmy Kimmel Live!; the international trailer likewise makes its way onto YouTube.

December 8th, 2016: A number of top comments in a thread dedicated to the newly released trailer on /r/comicbooks focus on Leeds’ similarities to Ganke.

“So Ned Leeds is basically Ganke?”

December 9th, 2016: Comic Book Resources publishes an article titled “No, That’s Not Ganke In The Spider-man: Homecoming Trailer”. The second paragraph reads:

“Admittedly it’s a very easy mistake to make. As we see in the trailer, Batalon plays Spider-Man’s best friend and one of the only people to learn his Spider-secret. Ganke Lee, a supporting character introduced in 2011’s “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man” #2, is also the best friend of a Spider-Man and also knows his secret identity. And yeah, both Batalon and Ganke are of Asian descent (Batalon is Filipino American and Ganke is Korean American). To be honest, maybe Batalon should be playing Ganke. But he’s not — he’s playing Ned Leeds.”

The final line hammers that point home, with columnist Brett White writing, “So right now, Spidey’s best friend looks and sounds a lot like Ganke — but he’s not Ganke. He’s Ned Leeds.”

December 9th, 2016: Inverse, the website responsible for the article Watts was likely responding to back in June, publishes another titled “‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Appears to Have Jacked a Miles Story”. Their coverage includes tweets from comic book fans who find the inclusion of Ned Leeds as he appears particularly damning, with one noting:

The article also highlights a moment within the trailer, drawing comparison between it and a moment in the comic books.

Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (Vol. 1). Written by Brian Michael Bendis, illustrated by David Marquez.

To summarize, Jacob Batalon will be appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming as Ned Leeds, Peter Parker’s best friend. He bears a very heavy [no pun intended] resemblance to Ganke Lee, Miles Morales’ best friend in the comics. While the appearance of an Asian character in a major role certainly backs up Watts’ desire for the Queens depicted to reflect being “one of—if not the—most diverse places in the world” what may need to be addressed, by Watts or whoever else, are some fans’ concerns about poaching a POC character from another POC character’s story.

Miles Morales ever making an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has yet to be confirmed, but the question many have been asking since Thursday’s trailer dropped was if Ganke showing up is even possible now that this Ned Leeds exists onscreen.

Our Fascist Overlords (So Far…)

There’s an old Arab quote that roughly translates to “Don’t tell me about a man, tell me about his friends.” i.e, you are the company you keep. In spite of the present efforts for a recount in certain key states, we are still very much bracing for a Trump presidency, and perhaps worse yet, a Trump cabinet. Let’s get to meet our new fascist overlords:

2Ambassador to the United Nations: Nikki Haley

Born to Sikh Indian parents, Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley earned acclaim for her decision to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds. While maintaining a number of hardline positions- especially in terms of immigration- Haley again made headlines with her early criticism of then-candidate Trump. Criticism that earned her calls to be deported.

Deported to exactly where remains a mystery, as Haley was born in America. But as plenty of Trump supporters imagine America to be an inherently white country, they showed no qualms about reminding Haley (and people of color) that their presence in this nation is merely tolerated

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Which makes Trump’s decision to offer her UN ambassadorship surprising, and Haley’s acceptance even more so. But perhaps that’s just to show how much the Republican party has chugged the Kool-Aid. A woman who, simply because of her first name and her skin tone, received calls for her “deportation” is now the international face of the same “siren call of the angriest voices.” Certainly it’s a chilling picture of what’s to come, and enough to silence anyone claiming that the house and senate will somehow act as a counterbalance to Trump’s Fourth Reich. Continue reading


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Impact of climate on Sunderbans famed mangroves

The Sundarbans is a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal which is one of the natural wonders of the world. Located in the delta region of Padma, Meghna and Brahmaputra river basins, this unique forest area extends across Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Patuakhali and Barguna districts. The Sundarbans is the largest forested forest in the world, as the largest mangrove forest in the coastal environment. Sunderbans, which has a population of 6,017 sq km in 10,000 square kilometers,is in Bangladesh. In 1997, Sundarban was recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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  • The mangrove forest cover in the Indian Sunderbans has been depleting alarmingly over the past few decades.
  • The total forest cover of the Indian Sunderbans as assessed by remote sensing studies for the year 1986 was about 2,246.839 sq. km., which gradually declined by 2,201.41 sq. km. in 1996, then down to 2168.914 sq km in 2001 and to 2122.421 sq km in 2012. The loss in the mangrove forest in the Indian Sunderbans is about 5.5 %.

“The continuation of this process in response to climate change and sea level rise poses a serious threat to the carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services of this mangrove forest in future,” authors Sugata Hazra and Kaberi Samata noted”.

Bird eye view of Sunderbans report

  • The mean sea level rise at the Sagar Island Station, measured from 1985 onward till 2010, shows a rise by 2.6-4 mm a year, which can be considered a driving factor for coastal erosion, coastal flooding, and an increase in the number of tidal creeks.
  • It highlights a time series of the erosion of at least 18 mangrove forested islands of the Indian Sunderbans from 1986 to 2012. For instance, the loss in mangrove cover at Gosaba has been about 20%, down from 517.47 sq km in 1986 to 506.691 sq km in 2012.

Significant losses

  • In Dulibhasani West, the loss of mangrove cover has been about 9.7% — from 180.03 sq. km. in 1986 to 163.475 sq. km. in 2012. The mangrove forest cover of Dalhousie, another island, has depleted by 16%, from 76.606 sq. km. in 1986 to 64.241 in 2012. Bhangaduni has one of the highest erosion levels of mangrove forest land, from 40.4 sq. km. in 1986 to 24.9 sq km in 2012, taking the loss to over 37%.
  • Jambudwip, one of the smallest uninhabited islands at the mouth of the sea, also has reduced forest cover from 6.095 sq. km. in 1986 to 5.003 sq. km. in 2012, or about 10%.
  • Other islands like Sajnekhali North, Matla and Bulchery have also suffered significant mangrove loss.

Explanation by head of School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University.

How climate change and sea level rise has contributed to the phenomenon of losing land?

This is because there is less fresh water flow and sediment supply in the western (Indian) part of the delta, so we have starvation of sediment and the rate of sea level rise is higher than sediment supply. Hence we are losing land, including mangrove forest.

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Hadith: 03 June 2014 (04 Shaban 1435)

English Translation of Hadith

Hazrat Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Time has completed its cycle and has come to the state of the day when Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year consists of twelve months of which four are inviolable; three of them consecutive – Dhul-Qa`dah, Dhul-Hijjah and Muharram and Rajab, the month of Mudar (tribe), which comes between Jumada and Shaban. What month is this?” We said, "Allah and His Messenger [SAWW](PBUH) know better". The Prophet [SAWW](PBUH) remained silent for some time until we thought that he would give it a name other than its real name. Then asked, "Is it not (the month of) Dhul-Hijjah?”. We replied in the affirmative.

[Al-Bukhari Volume 7, Book 68, Hadith Number 458]

Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Ar-Rum [The Romans] Ayat 08 “Allah has created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them” The cycle of years and months (that is to say a month consists of 30 or 29 days and a year has 12 months) was completed at the time of creation of heavens and earth.

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Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is a noted African-American funk and soul jazz saxophone player, best known for his contributions to James Brown's distinct sound. He was born in Kinston, North Carolina in a musically-rich environment. His mother and father sang in a church and both his brothers are accomplished musicians (drums and trombones). He and his brother, Melvin Parker, joined James Brown in 1964; in his book Brown says that he originally wanted Melvin as his drummer but agreed to take Maceo under his wing as part of the deal.

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