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Mason Dining is committed to sustainability and providing healthy and fresh selections for the Mason community. Mason is a participant of the Healthier Campus Initiative, by the Partnership for a Healthier America. The initiative aims to curb obesity by delivering healthier options and promoting more opportunities for physical activity to improve health. Mason has committed to having a nutritionist available to all students, as well as more healthy options at each meal such as fruits and vegetables, additional calorie labeling, and more outdoor and indoor physical activity options. Other highlights of its sustainability efforts include:

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  • promoting recycling and waste minimization;
  • implementing energy and water conservation measures;
  • recycling all kitchen oil waste;
  • incorporating trayless dining;
  • using reusable serviceware; and
  • promoting a reusable mug program.

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Raising your self-awareness about eating less meat and having a more plant based diet, eating locally, checking food labels, and purchasing third party certified products such as certified organic, Fair Trade, or Marine Stewardship Council are some of the ways you can make a positive impact on the planet. Buying locally produced foods helps support the local farmers and economy, while also ensuring foods have not traveled hundreds of miles to arrive at your local supermarket.


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Cannabis buds are covered in glandular trichomes that produce resins the contain cannabinoids like THC and CBD, and terpenes. A plant’s terpenes are part of what give it its unique characteristics like smell and taste. CBD and THC aren’t the only "active ingredients" in cannabis. There are over 100 terpenoid compounds in cannabis, many with bioactive properties that contribute to the overall effects of cannabis through the "entourage effect". Terpenes can influence the medicinal qualities of cannabis and work in synergy with cannabinoids to improve their therapeutic effects. Terpenes are thought to contribute to the anti-anxiety, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and sedative effects of cannabis. Terpene-only supplements have been receiving a lot of attention since they also have medicinal properties of their own and can act on the endocannabinoid system without the help of THC or CBD.

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We are planning on starting a Parent Teacher Organization for next school year of 2019-2020. We need to come up with a plan and goal for the PTO. There will be a need to make some form of constitution for the group and we are looking to get as many parents as are interested to join us! Our goals for the Parent Teacher Organization are threefold:

  •  Identify ways for GSL, and this PTO, to support parents and their families
  • Identify ways for this PTO to support the faculty and school in best serving the children and families of the school.
  •  Develop set of guidelines and criteria for the PTO to abide by and direct their attention to on a yearly basis.

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Apply ‘Blackbox Thinking’ to your guitar teaching.

This book is one of the best I have read and I’d say essential reading for anyone in business or really anyone trying to develop a system or process where they want to reduce the risk of failure. This of course applies to pretty much everyone. As a guitar teacher you don’t want your students failing and you don’t want your business failing. In Blackbox Thinking the author Matthew Syed uses a number of examples to make his point.

He begins with Elaine, a 37 year old mother of two young children who goes in for a routine operation for a sinus problem. The surgery was considered safe and relatively simple. The surgeon had 30 years of experience and it was performed at a reputable hospital in the UK. Unfortunately a series of errors resulted in Elaine being deprived of oxygen for 20mins and after 13 days in a coma eventually died. Her husband Martin was told that it was an accident that couldn’t be helped.

A report found that in the US alone 44,000 to 98,000 people die annually in hospitals from preventable medical errors. A Harvard professor estimated that approximately one million patients are injured per year from medical errors. Medical errors are the 3rd biggest killer after heart disease and cancer.

Syed then makes the comparison to aviation telling the story of how flying went from extremely dangerous in 1912 when 8 out of 14 US airforce pilots died in crashes. That meant you had a greater than 50% chance of death from flying if you were an airforce pilot. It continued to be around 25% deaths for a number of years. Today the odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 8 million.  In 2012 there were 36.4 million flights worldwide and a total 210 deaths. 1 accident per 2.4 million flights. Every plane now has two blackboxes fitted. In the event of an accident the blackboxes are opened and the data analysed for clues.

Then there is the ‘scared straight’ program originally ran at Rahway State Prison. The idea was to take teenage offenders to the prison to meet some of the worst inmates in the hope of scaring them. It seemed like a good idea but was later found to have the opposite of it’s intended effect. Instead of scaring juvenile offenders into going straight it actually made them less fearful of prison and more likely to end up there.

The main points to the book were to point out firstly how success is largely about avoiding mistakes and secondly that most mistakes are avoidable but we need to be willing to admit our mistakes, analyse how and why they happened and to take steps to fix them. Even better, make the process of analysing mistakes a part of your culture. In the case of flying the blackbox allows air crash investigators to retrace the steps of the pilots to uncover errors and then find ways to prevent those same errors occurring again in the future. They are also have a policy of not penalising pilots for mistakes as long as they don’t try to hide them. Aviation has done an amazing job of reducing accidents to the point that flying is now the safest mode of transport. Healthcare on the other hand still continues to struggle with thousands of people dying every year from medical errors.

As guitar teachers we need to think about how we approach teaching. Most guitar teachers are not paying attention to their errors or worse, they are not admitting their mistakes. A great example are guitar teachers whose students fail to progress or quit before achieving any level of competency on the guitar. I am not saying that every student who takes up guitar and fails to progress is the fault of the teacher. What I am saying is in many cases teachers are responsible for the student’s failure. At the very least the teacher is partly to blame but in most cases the teacher takes no responsibility.

The problem when teachers don’t accept at least some of the responsibility is nothing changes. We can’t become better guitar teachers if we are not willing to look at our failures. By analysing failure rather than dismissing it as unfortunate or out of our control or as someone else’s failure or worst of all, knowing we made a mistake and then covering it up we don’t can learn how to avoid the same mistakes in the future. Instead of reactively looking to shift the blame we should gather the facts and look at ourselves openly and honestly.

When I was operating multiple guitar schools with approximately 20 teachers working for me the easy option was to blame the teachers I hired when things went wrong. Of course they were partly responsible but making them solely responsible without analysing the problem made me an accessory. By analysing each student as they did in aviation especially dropouts without blame I was better able to understand the problems and make changes to avoid them repeating those mistakes. Ultimately what you are aiming for are systems that make it almost impossible to fail. In aviation they redesign planes and procedures for pilots, crew, engineers, air traffic control etc. At G4 Guitar we redesign the teaching method and teacher training whenever we see mistakes happening. This is a never ending process by the way.

Here are 9 additional takeaways from the book.

  1. Most people fear failure but failure is an opportunity to learn. See failure as a good thing.
  2. Fail fast and often so you learn faster. Run experiments.
  3. Beckham mastered ‘Keep me ups’ after 3 years of daily practice failing thousands of times. Successful people seemed to embrace failure as an important part of the journey to success.
  4. Random Control Trials (RCT’s) are the best way to determine if something is working.
  5. Marginal gains. Work on small gains in different areas for cumulative effect.
  6. Counter-factual. The unknown facts that can’t be known because you can only look at what did happen rather than what could have been. Eg. Would you be happier today if you chose a different career?
  7. The ‘narrative fallacy’ leads us to believe a series of facts are all related and part of one story. You see this play out in conspiracy theories. Treat each event separately and when you see a connection test your theory.
  8. Quantity trumps quality. Produce more to evolve faster. A good example is song writing. The more you write the more likely you are to produce something great.
  9. A premortem, is a strategy where you imagine your mission has failed, and then you  try to determine what went wrong.

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The keep religion out of schools (NZ) facebook page

I have posted on this page a few times, but they keep removing them for some unknown reason. Their main goal, according to the page, is to “keep religious indoctrination out of public schools”.

I decided I would post here so my posts can not be deleted by them, and perhaps someone will even read them.

I have several problems here, not the least being keeping religious education out of schools;

1. There is no program of religious indoctrination in NZ schools. There is a totally optional extra curricular class called “bible in schools”, in SOME schools.

2. When they say “religious indoctrination” I am assuming they mean “christianity” – however the word encompasses Islam, Bhuddism, naturalism, evolutionism (as opposed to the science of evolution), atheism, etc. So, they can also rule out “keeping religious indoctrination out of schools” being taught in schools.

3. By removing any religious study/education, you are denying children a proper education of the world about them. Religion in all its forms is part of life and culture. Removing it is to force their particular world view (not sure, but I suspect atheists or at least agnostics in charge here), which is in itself a form of indoctrination.

Teaching children about the world about them, all the different perspectives, the pros and cons of the majors should be ESSENTIAL to our education system. What’s the worse than can happen? A child might learn to put others first? That humility and love are desirable traits to have in their lives instead of anger and arrogance? That they might choose to serve their community because they believe in a god of some kind?

What kind of arrogant egotistical selfish person would want to prevent their children, and other peoples children (many of whom have no objection to religious education which is not forced on people) from learning about what other people believe and why, and how this may or may not enrich the world we live in…

honestly.. some people should be banned from the internet (and schools.. and radios..).

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New Masarykovo

I am of mixed opinions with regard to the proposed development of Masarykovo station. On the one hand, it’s a seriously impressive project. Massive in scope, very modernistic, even futuristic, and from what I read it will include some green spaces and solar panels on the rooftops and lots of passive energy saving stuff, which is cool. It will be mostly offices, I guess, but there will be some hotel space as well, which are two things Prague really doesn’t have a shortage of, but they keep adding more and more.
It’s not clear when it will be finished, or even when construction will begin but, in typical Prague fashion, they’ve started by digging a huge hole in the ground, but that’s been there for many months already.
Mostly, from the architects’ drawings, I think it looks cool, but I’m opposed, on principle, to too much modernism in the center. The whole beauty of Prague is the old architecture, from back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and earlier. It’s why I hate the dancing building, and that’s actually further from the center than this.
On the other hand, the front entrance will remain the same and the new construction will extend away from the center, and be built mostly on derelict land, next to the railroad tracks, so nothing of any great historical or aesthetic value is going to be destroyed.
I guess it’s inevitable and it doesn’t matter much what I think about it. As long as it doesn’t disrupt the train schedules.

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Cheerful Giving

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Our Gospel reading today is the same one we read on Ash Wednesday. In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches about almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Always lessons that we need to be reminded of. In the first reading today from 2 Corinthians 9, St. Paul says, “Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

Have you ever known someone who is just naturally generous? Perhaps you are. I can say that I often struggle with this in my heart. I am, by nature, frugal. I often have to question whether I carry that frugality to levels that are greater than they should be. I have a friend that is very naturally generous. Now, he’s not wealthy. But if you were to ever ask him for anything, he would give it to you unreservedly. No questions asked. I wish I could be more like that.

This often carries over into other areas of our lives, including our spiritual giving. (Not that all giving doesn’t have a spiritual component.) If each time you feel as St. Paul says, “sadness or compulsion” when you give, then maybe you need to check yourself. Pray and ask God why you’re having these feelings. Then ask Him to make you a cheerful giver. Because remember…we can never out-give God.

Father, fill us with your spirit of generosity. Help us to be generous and cheerful givers. Amen.

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Last month the Microsoft SQL Server team effectively sounded the death knell for Microsoft’s OLE DB.  I say “effectively” because while SQL Server isn’t the only implementor of OLE DB, it is (or rather was) Microsoft’s flagship for this data access technology.  Since I was both a godfather of the OLE DB strategy and responsible for the SQL Server implementations that have now been deprecated I thought now would be a good time to reveal the overall strategy and why it never succeeded as envisioned.

Before we time travel into OLE DB’s origins let’s survey the current state of data access in SQL Server.  The first person who contacted me after Microsoft announced SQL Server’s deprecation of OLE DB basically said “there goes Microsoft, changing data access strategies again”.   Well, Microsoft does indeed have a history of replacing its data access APIs all too frequently.  But the truth is that OLE DB has been with us for 15 years and, although deprecated, will be supported for another 7.  22 years is a heck of a long lifespan for a technology, particularly one that was only partially successful.  And the truth is that OLE DB is well past its prime, with many other data access technologies (both older and newer) in far greater use.

The reason Microsoft has seemingly changed horses so often on the data access front is because of the rapid evolution that the market has demanded.  Initially SQL Server used the DB-Library API that Sybase had invented (and then deprecated around the time Microsoft and Sybase ended their relationship).  Microsoft had come up with ODBC as a way for Excel to import data from various data sources, but the primary client database actually in use at the time was the JET database inside Microsoft Access and Visual Basic.  A programming model called DAO was provided to access JET.  DAO could access SQL Server and databases supporting ODBC but only through JET’s distributed query processor (RJET/QJET) thus making that access slow.  For SQL Server 6.0 Microsoft created a native ODBC driver for SQL Server to replace DB-Library and for Visual Basic 4 the Developer Division introduced RDO as an object model that lived directly on top of ODBC and thus didn’t have to go through RJET/QJET.  RDO/ODBC quickly became the native and preferred data access story for applications written with Microsoft technology.  When OLE DB came along we introduced ADO as the object model directly on top of OLE DB.  With the introduction of .NET we needed an object model that both was optimized for the .NET world (which could have been just a minor evolution of ADO) but more importantly one that was specifically tuned for the Internet.  This latter requirement was one of the factors that lead the ADO.NET team to create their own data provider model, one of which could be connector to OLE DB data sources.  But for optimal performance they chose to implement a data provider that natively spoke to SQL Server’s TDS network protocol.  Later programming advances, such as LINQ and the Entity Framework, also use the ADO.NET native SQL Server Data Provider.  During the development of SQL Server 2000 it became apparent that SQL Server was at a huge disadvantage when our customers chose to build applications using Java with either IBM’s Webspere or BEA’s Weblogic because we didn’t have a JDBC driver.  I initiated an effort to add a Microsoft-supported JDBC driver to SQL Server’s bag of tricks..  More recently a PHP driver, that actually layers on top of ODBC, was added to SQL Server’s supported data access methods.  So for nearly a decade now the primary ways to write applications that access SQL Server have NOT involved OLE DB!  No wonder the SQL Server team feels comfortable deprecating it.

With that background out-of-the-way let’s time travel back and look at the real OLE DB strategy and why it never achieved its goals.  When I joined Microsoft in April of 1994 there was already a OLE DB effort underway.  In fact the very first meeting I remember attending was an evening meeting of a design team working on the OLE DB spec.  It was an evening meeting because all the participants also had “day jobs” that their management pressured them to work on.  The key driver of OLE DB at the time was the Cairo Object File System (OFS).  Soon thereafter we’d press the reset button and assign a pair of newly hired Partner Architects to the OLE DB effort as their day jobs.  OFS, though still a factor for a while, soon departed the scene.  With OLE DB we were trying to accomplish two things.  One was a vision of Universal Data Access that went beyond relational databases, the other was the idea of Componentized DBMS.    OLE DB was to partially succeed at the first, but fail horribly at the second.

It is hard to remember that back in the early 90s when things like OFS and OLE DB were conceived that relational databases were still in their youth and not very widely accepted.  Most corporate data was still stuck in hierarchical (IMS) and network (Codasyl) databases or flat files (VSAM, RMS).  Vast amounts of data was stored on the desktop, usually in tools like Microsoft Excel.  The most popular data store for applications on the desktop was Btrieve, an ISAM-type offering.  Microsoft also realized that email, then still in its infancy, would turn out to be the largest information store of all.  Microsoft Exchange was envisioned as a mail system on top of OFS, but ultimately implemented its own (again distinctly non-relational) store.  And many people thought that Object Databases were the wave of the future, though ultimately they never achieved much success outside the CAD/CAM/CAE world.  So it seemed clear that Microsoft needed a data access strategy that would work across the relational, object, and legacy data worlds.

One  proposal was to extend ODBC to handle the new requirements however this approach was ultimately rejected.  Since this was before my time I don’t understand exactly what happened, but what I recall being told was that they tested the extensions out with other companies involved with ODBC and found significant resistance to them.  Deciding that if the industry wasn’t going to accept the idea of extending ODBC they might as well go for a more optimal solution, Microsoft went down the path that lead to OLE DB.

Beyond better legacy data access, the fact that Microsoft was working on non-relational stores makes it kind of obvious why we thought we needed OLE DB.  But we can take it to another level, we thought that even in the relational world we would evolve to add more object and navigation capabilities.  And we would implement this by creating a componentized DBMS that let an application use various capabilities depending on its needs.  There would be a Storage Engine, Query Processor, and one or more Navigation Engines.  In the most primitive form the Navigation Engine would implement SQL’s Cursors, but in an extended form it would be an in-memory database that projected data as objects that you could access via pointer chasing (ala Object Databases).  An application could go against data in the database directly with ISAM-style access against the Storage Engine, or it could use the Query Processor to access data in the Storage Engine or other stores, or it could use a Navigation Engine (or other unconcieved of components) for additional capabilities.  It was this strategy that really drove Microsoft down the OLE DB path, and this strategy that never came to fruition.

By 1994 Microsoft had realized it wanted to be a serious contender in the database arena but had not finalized its strategy for doing so.  In preparation for this the company had negotiated a split with Sybase giving us rights to an older version of their source code, joint ownership of things like the TDS protocol, and freedom (for both parties) to pursue our respective strategies.  While the SQL Server team had launched an effort to build the first independently developed version (SQL95 aka SQL Server 6.0) of the product, there was tremendous debate going on around how to proceed in the long term.  The organization behind the JET database engine in Access (also known as JET-RED) had embarked on an effort to create a new JET-compatible Server database known as JET-BLUE (fyi, it is JET-BLUE that is used in Microsoft Exchange and not JET-RED; most people just say JET and don’t realize they are different).  However there was no query processor being built to work with JET-BLUE and no customer for it other than Microsoft Exchange.  The Exchange team, faced with delays in OFS, had opted to build their own interim store using JET-BLUE for the low-level database capabilities.  This “interim” store is still in use today.  The discussion throughout 1994 was do we take JET-BLUE and build a full new RDBMS around it or do we start with SQL Server and basically gut it and replace its insides while maintaining a highly compatible exterior.  There was a lot of back and forth but ultimately we decided that if we were going to succeed in the Enterprise that evolving the SQL Server product was the more likely route to success (because we had a large customer base and it was popular with Enterprise ISVs).  This didn’t sit well with the SQL Server team, because they realized we were forcing them down a risky re-write path while they preferred a more straightforward evolution of their code base.  And it really didn’t sit well with the JET-BLUE team, whose leader (one of Microsoft’s earliest employees) made one last appeal to Bill Gates before the strategy was finalized.  As everyone now realizes the strategy to go with SQL Server was both chosen, and did succeed.  But it ultimately doomed the vision of a componentized DBMS.

Work started in 1994 on design for a Query Processor (QP) for the new componentized DBMS, and after we made the decision that SQL Server would be our future product focus we moved the QP team to the SQL Server organization.  But it wasn’t until we shipped SQL Server 6.5, a minor update to SQL95,  in the spring of 1996 that work on re-architecting and re-writing SQL Server got fully underway.  The internal architecture was to follow the componentized DBMS idea and use OLE DB to connect its components.  While it largely did this, the choice to gut and build on an existing product introduced some realities that hadn’t really been anticipated in the original plan.

There were two factors that the componentized DBMS idea hadn’t fully taken into account.  The first was rapid innovation in Query Processor technology that made the then state-of-the-industry split of responsibilities between the Storage Engine and Query Processor obsolete.  The second was that it didn’t account for all the aspects of a traditional Relational Engine that didn’t fall into the Query Processor or Navigation Engine categories.  For example, OLE DB said nothing about management interfaces across the components.  Two other factors would also come into play.  The first was that we couldn’t rewrite all of SQL Server in a single release and so we’d have to maintain some legacy code that violated the new architecture.  The second was that to maintain compatibility with older versions of SQL Server and to exceed its performance we’d have to violate the architecture.  Although we thought both of these two later factors would be temporary, they ultimately contributed greatly to abandonment of the componentized DBMS idea.

As we re-built SQL Server (Sphinx, later known as SQL Server 7.0) we did use OLE DB internally.  The Query Processor and Storage Engine do talk to one another using it.  In one regard this architecture proved out nicely in that we were able to add Heterogeneous Query directly into the product.  There is a lot of unique connection and metadata management work, but once you use OLE DB to materialize a Rowset to an external data source the Query Processor can just party on the data without regard to if it came from the Storage Engine or an external source.  But that is about the only part of using OLE DB internally that I can point to as a success.  For all the things that OLE DB doesn’t cover we had to use a lot of private interfaces to talk between the Storage and Relational engines.  And then there is that rapidly evolving Query Processor things.  It turned out we could never allow access directly to the Storage Engine (SE) because the QP ended up (for performance reasons) taking over responsibilities that had previously been in the SE.  For example, the maintenance of Referential Integrity.  Or for a later example, materialization of the Inserted and Deleted tables used by Triggers.  We’d debated doing this in SQL Server 7.0, but for expediency went with the traditional solution.  In the latter the way these virtual tables are created is for the Storage Engine to scan backwards through the Log file.  However, as you get to higher performance systems the Log becomes your key bottleneck and so removing these backward scans is an important performance boost.  So now the Query Processor could look to see if an update would cause a Trigger to fire and build in to the Query Plan the creation of the inserted and deleted tables along the way.  But this also meant that you could never allow an application to directly update a table through the Storage Engine if a Trigger existed.  As we put all our energy into building SQL Server 7 and then SQL Server 2000 these various realities pushed the componentized DBMS idea further and further away from ever becoming a reality.

It wasn’t just SQL Server’s difficulty with implementation of the concept that caused the death of the componentized DBMS plan, it was its success in the market and the acceptance of relational databases throughout the industry.  Basically it became more important to have a great RDBMS, and extend it as needed, then to componentize.  Without spending any more time on this point, let’s just leave it with the idea that this key force behind OLE DB was effectively dead.

So what of the Unified Data Access part of the OLE DB strategy?  Well that was more successful but also had three flaws, plus had run its course.  It ran its course because the success of relational databases meant that the need to access other database sources dimished fairly rapidly.  One flaw is related to the componentized database flaw, which is that the non-relational database solutions that OLE DB envisioned never really took off.  Another is that it was too related to the COM world and thus anyone who had to target platforms other than Windows couldn’t fully embrace it.  And the final one is that interop vendors basically followed the same strategy with OLE DB that they followed with ODBC.  They put a OLE DB interface on a lightweight Query Processor and then used a proprietary interface between their Query Processor and drivers for different data sources.  It was their QP and Drivers that turned every data source into a relational data source, thus eliminating any differentiation between OLE DB and ODBC for accessing that data.  OLE DB’s unique advantages in this space were thus never fully exploited.

OLE DB has had other issues during its life of course.  It is a rather complicated architecture, partially because it was intended to do so much and partially because it was designed by a committee and then had to be rapidly reworked.  The architect who did a lot of that rework admitted to me years later how that was the one piece of work in his career that he was embarrassed about.  Also a lot of OLE DB components we shipped as part of a package called MDAC, were caught up in multiple controversies such as a lockdown of who could update things shipped in Windows.  We wasted a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how and when updates to OLE DB could ship, how to maintain compatibility between versions, etc.  But I think these tactical issues account for far less of OLE DB’s limited success than the failure of our original strategic imperatives to take hold.  Without those OLE DB became a solution looking for a problem.

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4 Responses to OLE DB and SQL Server: History, End-Game, and some Microsoft “dirt”

  1. Wow. Thanks for posting this. I wrote an OLE DB SQL Server client (in C++) for our Java product back in the day and it was pretty painful to try to understand how to use OLE DB correctly.

    It’s always great to read the behind the scenes stuff that went on.

  2. Dave Campbell says:

    Hal, I’m enjoying reminiscing while reading through your blog. One of the first coding tasks I took on when I moved over to SQL Server was to write an OLE-DB interface to the Sybase storage engine. Jeff Coffler and I added a hack to wire up the new QP to this thing with a “set qjet on” statement. As part of this I wrote a little interpreter for OLE-DB row accessors which would evalulate nullability and and column offsets statically and would optimize and block transfer contiguous fixed columns for example. It was blazingly fast. Quite a bit faster than the one Gordon Smith wrote for the production implementation as I recall. Lots of fun…

  3. Raghu Ram says:

    Great posting – gives a good historical perspective to a decision that was made and rightly so…

  4. Ph X says:

    Thank you for the article! You mentioned that OLEDB was not used much for object DBs, but how about modern NoSql? Could they benefit from OLEDB if the driver was available?

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UMS company carries out a phased rebranding. The mobile operator is updating its brand and brand positioning in accordance with new lines of business. In 2019, UMS will operate under the brand name Mobiuz.

Telia Company and Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), jointly owned by Telia Company and Turkcell, have agreed to sell their 75 percent holding in the leading Kazakhi telecommunications operator Kcell JSC, to the telecom operator Kazakhtelecom JSC, a company controlled by the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan through the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna.

Telia Company sells its interest in Ucell (FE Coscom LLC) to the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Assistance to Privatized Enterprises and Development of Competition for USD 215 million on a debt free basis. The U.S. Department of Justice has been duly informed about the transaction.

MTN South Africa and Ericsson have announced South Africa's first 5G customer trial, deployment with a fixed wireless access site at technology company Netstar’s headquarters in Midrand.

October 15, 2018, Moscow - PJSC "VimpelCom" (Beeline brand) and LLC Elster Metronika report on the successful launch of a pilot project to create a system of smart metering of electricity. The project was implemented on the basis of the network of the new standard of the Internet of things - NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things).

[Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2018] VimpelCom (Beeline brand) and Huawei held a demonstration showcasing the latest fifth generation (5G) mobile connection technologies. The Moscow Museum exhibition hall was used as the demonstration zone and the dialogue between the speakers was conducted using a hologram - a digitized image transmitted through Mixed Reality glasses (MR).

PJSC VimpelCom (marketed under the Beeline brand) and Ericsson have signed a two-year strategic partnership agreement to develop 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

MTS infrastructure offering is expanding further, with the launch of the first Russia-wide network for IoT services and devices in LTE standard based on NB-IoT technology (Narrow Band IoT). We have already successful launched NB-IoT network services in 20 Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Vladivostok.

Mobile World Congress Americas -- Nokia and Sprint will show the first live demonstration in the U.S. of a 5G New Radio (NR) connection over a dual mode-capable Massive MIMO radio, bringing this revolutionary technology one step closer to reality.

SOWETO – 07 SEPTEMBER 2018 – Comsol Networks, a leading provider of enterprise-grade wireless infrastructure, and Samsung South Africa have lit up Vilakazi Street in Soweto with a live 5G pilot network.

Comsol has access to the largest tranche of contiguous 28GHz in South Africa, making it the local front-runner for 5G services.

Bellevue, Washington — July 19, 2018 — In yet another first, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today launched its Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) service nationwide. T-Mobile is the first to launch NB-IoT in the U.S. and first in the world to launch NB-IoT in the guard bands for optimal efficiency.

The trial will test and highlight the impact of IoT solutions for city residents and nearby services, businesses, and infrastructure.

Industry partners, MTN South Africa and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), have validated the technological prowess of fifth generation (5G) wireless technology in the first demonstration of its kind in Africa – a live feed from a car on a skid pan at the Gerotek testing facility in Pretoria, mounting terminals in a vehicle on a live 5G network trial, using 100 MHz of spectrum in the 28 GHz band, the audi

June 4, 2018, Astana. Kostanay became the first city in Kazakhstan, in which Beeline launched a new generation network for smart devices. As part of the memorandum with KazTransGas (the main supplier of natural gas in the region), the cellular operator is implementing a joint project that will allow remotely recording gas meter readings using the NB-IoT technology.

[Durban, South Africa, May 23, 2018] In a global first, MTN SA have successfully commercially deployed Huawei’s CloudAIR 2.0 solution to share spectrum between 2G, 3G, 4G and NB-IoT radio technologies in the 900 MHz band.

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Moscow, Russian Federation (27 April 2018) — Public Joint Stock Company “MegaFon” (LSE: MFON), a pan-Russian operator of digital opportunities (“MegaFon” or the “Company”), announces the completion of the acquisition of a 100% stake in Neosprint LLC (the “Acquisition”).

TORONTO, April 16, 2018 /CNW/ – Canadians are one step closer to 5G, the next evolution in wireless that will change the way they connect to the world around them. Today, Rogers announced a multi-year network plan that includes working with Ericsson, a North American leader in 5G deployment.

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Last week, the Ministry of Transport of Russia came up with an initiative to replace GPS equipment on Russian aircraft for GLONASS equipment. The initiative of the Ministry of Transport is caused by disruptions in the work of GPS, said a member of the expert council under the Government of the Russian Federation, Andrei Ionin.

Turkcell’s (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL) subsidiary lifecell obtained the largest spectrum per subscriber in a recent license tender. lifecell will ensure high-quality and affordable connections for 4.5G subscribers throughout Ukraine.

OTTAWA, March 19, 2018 – Today in Ottawa, an exciting new initiative was launched that will lay the groundwork for the first fifth generation wireless, abbreviated 5G, pre-commercial network platform in Canada with ENCQOR (Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor in Québec and Ontario for Research and Innovation).

Amsterdam, 6 March 2018- VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a leading global provider of connectivity and internet services headquartered in Amsterdam and serving more than 240 million customers, announces that Kyivstar, its wholly-owned and market-leading business in Ukraine, has acquired the following spectrum in the 1800 MHz band suitable for 4G/LTE:

“It is satisfying that we are able to announce a joint agreement with Turkcell to sell Azercell in Azerbaijan.

The process of digitalisation of Cuban society had a very significant moment in 2017. By 2018, one of the fundamental challenges of the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba, ETECSA, already announced, is the implementation of a mobile data service for Cubans to have Internet in mobile phones.

Kazakhtelecom JSC completed the first stage of the project on building the largest M2M/Internet of Things network in CIS based on LoRa, Zigbee and LTE technologies –Top-management of multiservice company informed about this on MWC 2018 in Barcelona.

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Tatarstan in March of this year will begin testing mobile communication of 5G in Innopolis, and also in Kazan. This was reported by the agency "Tatar-Inform" with reference to the Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Roman Shaikhutdinov.

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Pillow Talk

I'm finally back from my blog-vacation
took a bit longer than I've initially planned

But I'm fresh and energized and full of ideas
so I hope that it was a good thing

To begin with I'm showing a new crochet pillow
and my niece Dana - didn't she grow while I was away?

creativejewishmom/sara said...

Great to see you on Craft Schooling Sunday Amalia! Love the pillow and funny enough, just got back from a trip to Hadera today and was crocheting the same little granny squares in the car......very likely for a lampshade cover, but that could change! all the best looking forward to seeing what else you have been up to!

Borgmästaren said...

Beautiful pillow and nice setting for the photos - both your lovely little curly niece and the raw bench.

handmade by amalia said...

thanks! it was a very sunny day, as you can see, in November!

handmade by amalia said...

thanks! I'm really impressed with the work you're doing over there!
aren't these little squares addictive? I could do them all day, given the chance :-)

MJ said...

Yay, you're back! We missed you! ♡
I love the pillow and your niece! So lovely xo

MJ //

handmade by amalia said...

Hello MJ! Great to hear from you!
a kiss

MJ said...

And thank you so much for your sweet comment! Made my day! ♡

Esther said...

Hi, Amalia!!!
I´ve missing you! I´m glad you´re back.
Your pillow is beautiful, and your niece Dana too. She´s very tall!
It´s fine to look theese bright and summer colours. Madrid is grey, cold and rainy now.
Thanks for your comment in my blog. Cornelio monkey is my last work for the moment. I´m very busy now, and my blog is in a break. I hope be back soon.
A big, big kiss, Amalia.

handmade by amalia said...

my pleasure! comments are the best :-)

handmade by amalia said...

Oh, no, Esther! Are you taking a break just as I'm coming back?
It will be my turn to miss you and your beautiful blog :-(
Take care and I hope that you get some sunshine soon, we have a lot
A kiss and a hug for you

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Grief / American FootballThe Midget and I watched a film on the subject of grief yesterday evening. It was about American football which is a sport where they use their hands.

I shan’t pretend to understand the sport, or my sister’s interest in it. But like Quidditch and the MotoGP it’s infiltrated my life. My limited interpretation tells me it’s not a game of half measures. The culture of American football appears to be all-or-nothing. You’re in or you’re out. The key succeeding appears to be making sure everyone knows what their role is and making them perfect that role.

I’d make a terrible American football player. It’s not just that I don’t want to dress up in pads and a helmet that smell of sweat and blood. And it isn’t that my two X chromosomes make me comparatively physically weak. I’m hopeless at the cheering and the jumping up and down, I’d be uncomfortable with the level of prescription, and I’d be a bore on the bus as I get travel sick and hardly know any lyrics suitable for a sing-along.

There is part of me which dearly believes that if I would just pay more attention to the music and follow the rhythm to which others seem to wave their arms, legs and life, I’d fit in better and things would be easier. Maybe I wouldn’t find myself in a different country to the people I love struggling for a sense of belonging with my dreams of the future turned up-side down. I know though, this is a lie. Every time I try to control the situation and make people happy I have the opposite effect. I’m not the sort of person who can sit on the sidelines. I’m going to fight to play the game by my rules. I always do.

Control, and believing you have it, are apparently vital to well-being according to my current psychology reading: Me, Myself and Us by Brian Little. I figure the sort of control you have matters. For me, it matters that I have control over how I spend my time. I dislike a sense of urgency and the pressure that goes with it. I dislike doing things just because someone else, some-when, thought it was a good idea. For some it’s control of knowing things are moving in the right direction. The bank balance is creeping up and the job title shifts a little every now and again to accommodate the inevitable and necessary change in time. Grief happens when something suddenly snatches way our sense of control.

In the first few minutes of the film, almost the entire American Football team was killed in an aeroplane crash. The story was how do you rebuild a team and community. The grief is overwhelming and yet the remnants of the team that remain keep pushing forward. Not smoothly, not elegantly, but with fits of anger and bursts of uncontrollable rage. Grief hurts. It is individual and incomprehensible. Success had to be redefined because you can’t win matches when you’ve lost your team. You can’t be strong without a solid foundation and the foundation – the talent, the coaches, the faith – had gone.

The Midget is on a winning streak. I can see it in her grin, in the twinkle in her eye and the tone of her enthusiasm for life. It delights me to see her so happy. I’m less stable. I’m haunted by grief so my successes need to be smaller. They include recognising my pain and voicing it. Accepting I’m never going to know the lyrics of the songs being played on the bus and that’s okay. Knowing I’m a thousand miles away and most often alone but that’s where I want to be. Trusting the love in my heart isn’t a bad thing sent to cause me trouble but is my greatest strength.

Bad days are those where I can’t see how my actions can resolve my problems. When someone dies, gets diagnosed with a terrible illness, hurt or betrays you, you inevitably feel helpless. As much as you say ‘this isn’t my fault’ or ‘I couldn’t have done anything’, you can’t actually change the situation. The only thing you can do is choose to respond to the situation with faith.

The college football team lost a lot of matches in the years following the plane crash. When you suffer a significant knock back you can’t just jump back on your feet. The rebuild is a long slog. The team though was rebuilt, and as the credits of the film rolled round, the later eventual successes (the putting the ball beyond the right line and the winning of shiny things) were recognised as the result of the long stint of grunt work.

[The film was ‘We are Marshall‘ and is based on a true story. Yes, there was a delay between writing and publishing.]


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Ashwin was traded from Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) forward of the IPL 2020 auctions in December final 12 months. A veteran of 139 IPL matches, Ashwin has picked up 125 wickets at an financial system price of 6.79 runs per over.

The former KXIP captain had courted controversy final season when he ran out Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Buttler on the non-striker’s finish earlier than the ball was bowled.

Also referred as ‘Mankading,’ the dismissal drew criticism from some for being towards the Spirit of Cricket and the Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting stated within the lead-up to this season that he is not going to permit such a observe at Delhi.

Ashwin responded by saying he had an “interesting” chat with Ponting on the contentious topic and later revealed the contents of the chat the place Ponting urged a 10-run penalty for the batting aspect each time a batsman tried to steal floor on the non-striker’s finish, which Ponting stated was  “basically cheating”.

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One of these days I gotta get myself organizized

No, I’m not becoming a real life Travis Bickle, nor am I uploading another post of quotes that I like.

I really do need to get myself organised.

It’s more than a month since my last activity on WordPress.  For several months I’ve been posting nearly every Thursday; each month saw at least four offerings from little ol’ me.  So what happened?

It was the middle of May and I had to work late one Thursday night.  I actually finished at 1 am on Friday morning, slept a few hours and was then back in work that same Friday morning.  After work, and up until dusk on Sunday, I was busy with ripping down my old garden shed and putting up a new one.  So, no posting activity that week.

At least the new shed looks good

From then on, I started to find that things happened to me rather than be controlled by me.  It has become clear to me that I am not controlling my life so much as I should do.  I have never been well-organised and this has got to stop.  It’s affecting my health.

Every week, I’ve being feeling increasingly rough each day when I’ve awoken and Monday was spent in the bathroom emptying the contents of my stomach rather than going to work.  It’s a good job I have made some improvements to my diet and my weight already this year as I dread to think how bad I would be if I hadn’t.

Enough already, I must take control of my life.

No, this has not been a complaint against life but rather a confession of my own failings.  Life has treated me very well over the last few weeks when I consider how badly I’ve been pursuing my life.  I gotta get myself organizized.

24 thoughts on “One of these days I gotta get myself organizized

  1. I know the feeling. :/ It feels like there’s no one in the driver seat, just feeling overwhelmed by work, schedules, obligations, with no time to do the things I really want or need to do. 😮

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  2. Hey there Harry! I was wondering where you were! Good to see you back! The topic of organizing is also a challenging one for me as well! I can so relate! There are some things we can’t control but others are well within if we take action! Your shed does look really good! Hope overall that you and family are well in spite of how matters may appear…

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    1. Thank you, Chanel.

      I need to react better to those uncontrollable things and my organisation will be better.

      I remember my first manager in my first full time job telling me that I wasn’t well organised. He was, and still is, right.

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      1. Well good for him!! Some people just have that natural gifting or maybe it’s OCD!! Lol! It didn’t make one better than the other for you have skills that your old boss couldn’t light a candle to!! I use to look at my stifles of being unorganized as such a flaw and wasted time beating myself up on the matter. But now that my true gifts are aging through, that weakness stays where it belongs.😊

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  3. Hi Harry, I hope you are able to find discipline and get the life on track. It doesn’t feel good when things go meandering randomly. A change of surrounding or a break or meeting someone who can help you get better will be a nice thing to do.

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    1. Thank you. We’re going to paint it brown in the summer.

      We haven’t decided whether or not to put up shelves under the windows like we did with the previous shed. We’ll see how we feel.

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    1. Thank you, Emz. You will see more of me again from now on.

      I’ve had a quick look at your blog and see that you’ve had some amazing changes in your life. I wish you every happiness. You deserve it.

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  4. Perhaps I could offer an idea, try with a notebook. Get a small notebook and a pen and keep it with you wherever you go, when you feel like you’re lost you write your current thoughts in a notebook right away. It’s what I do when I get into a bad period in life and it helps summing up life and taking actions 🙂

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  5. You know its kinda hard to get on wordpress for me. Not exactly a opera mini friendly site and it keeps popping my replies where I didn’t put it.
    Decided to try the wordpress app on play store but it goes through my data like I go through cheese and pig meat lol.
    I do feel sometimes I neglect my online friendships though so for me I will be back a bit too if you’ll have me.

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Tea, Biscuits and Eternity

12 Apr

Wycliffe Associates President, Bruce Smith, is in Papua New Guinea. He tells a lovely story of the struggles of the men and woman working on the Old Testament Translation for the Folopa people.

He starts with a story of rats…reminds me of our last post!

You can read his blog here.

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  1. CaroleWickliffe

    April 13, 2013 at 12:17 AM

    Thank you for sharing — our staff would have a lot to say about the poor rat. I tell them the only good rodent is a dead rodent — when the come into my house. I am glad the are no snakes fighting with the squirrels in our attic. But then again that would take care of the problem then what to do about the snakes! LOL

    So encouraging to see your mom with dirt and plants in front of her 🙂

  2. Ron

    April 12, 2013 at 3:43 PM

    Conjures up some interesting memories … although as you know, I was never in PNG, but the rest of the story … yikes. Bless you all!

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Fernando Ravsberg*

Hotel Pernik in Holguin, Cuba. Photo: Amauris Betancourt/radioangulo.cu

HAVANA TIMES — “Hotel Pernik, Holguin. How can we help you?”

“I need to book three rooms.”

“Look, sir, we’ve been instructed not to make any more bookings at the front desk. You have to do it through an agency.”

“Havanatur, good morning.”

“I need to book three rooms at the Hotel Pernik in Holguin.”

“Unfortunately, the system’s down and we can’t do any bookings at the moment.”

“Hotel Pernik, Holguin, so-and-so speaking, how may I help you?”

“Yes, I called the hotel and they told me I had to make my bookings through an agency. We went to Havanatur and they told us your system is down and that they can’t make any reservations at this time. Could you tell me how I can book my rooms, then?”

“Havanatur can’t make any bookings at this hotel, see. You have to call Isla Azul in Holguin and make your booking through them.”

“Good morning, Isla Azul, so-and-so speaking, how may I help you?”

“I need to book three rooms at the Pernik in Holguin.”

“How many people will be staying at the hotel?”

“Three people.”

“Then why do you want to book three rooms?”

“Because they want to stay in separate rooms.”

“It’s not a question of what they want to do, but how the hotel can accommodate them.”

“There are no “buts”, sir, we have many booking requests right now. It seems all of Havana is sending people down here. They don’t stop coming, we can’t keep up.”

“Let’s see if we can understand one another. They will pay you for three rooms, but they have to be separate.”

“That’s not the way things work. We decide how to accommodate the guests, and they have to share a room.”

“Look, sir, that’s what we can do for you now. Should I book you the room or not?”

“I’m actually not sure, because two of them are foreigners and I don’t think they’ll be too happy about having to share a room.”

“You should have said so at the start. If they’re foreign, then there’s no problem. We’ll book three separate rooms for them.”

“Great. What’s my booking number?”

“I can’t give it to you now, the hotel system is down.”

Cuba’s hotel, transportation and tourism infrastructure in general leave a lot to be desired in terms of efficiency.

These conversations may seem like a joke, but they’re absolutely true. We could say they are part of the everyday, “magic realism” of socialism (perhaps not as “real” as Soviet socialism, but certainly a lot less “updated” than we would want).

Many tourists come to the country hoping to plunge into this fantastic, Caribbean isle, but most like to look at it from the outside, without the wheels of bureaucracy grinding their vacations into bits with absurd resolutions and restrictions.

Cuba faces the imminent challenge of increased tourism from the United States, one of its closest and most profitable markets. It is estimated the inflow of US tourists that are to visit Cuba in the coming years could double the total number of tourists currently traveling to the island.

These are demanding people who must be handled with “silk gloves”, if the country wishes to see them return. Failing this, this market will have been ruined in a few years and the country will lose a historic opportunity to make a leap forward in the industry.

Growth will continue to be slow for the time being, but, as soon as Washington authorizes tourism in Cuba, many US citizens will travel to the island to see with their own eyes this small and strange country that survived the hostility of eleven US presidents.

There are practically no true, luxury hotels in Cuba.

In the beginning, the allure of the forbidden will suffice to draw hundreds of thousands of people to the island, but much more than the country’s natural beauty, Cubans’ educational level and general safety will be required to make them come back and become regular visitors.

This will be difficult to achieve while tourists find that many suites in a 5-star, seaside hotel have broken ACs, the ice-machine is broken and that the foreign manager of an establishment has no choice to but wait tables owing to personnel shortages.

For decades, we heard speeches in Cuba warning of the dangers that the island’s proximity to the world’s greatest military power entailed. Now, the Americans are finally coming, but they are coming in peace, and it would be very ironic if the country were not prepared for this.
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25 thoughts on “Cuba: The Americans Are Coming!

  • Your children will likely have those degrees and serve me drinks at an AI resort

  • Gordon never has a point except to brag about his “Cuban children”

  • Why did the Revolution seize the assets of the 100% Cuban owned Bacardi rum distillery? They paid their workers better than the average wages. They even supported the rebels fighting against Batista. Blaming the Yanqui capitalists was an excuse. But it was not reality.

  • At 71 years of age and having studied the Cuban revolution for some 45 of those years, I think I have a good idea of the history.
    Not being bound to capitalism or the GOUSA , I have the independence of mind to come to rational conclusions .
    Further, as an anarchist, ( anarchism is firmly based on direct democracy) I most certainly have no love for the totalitarian economic and electoral systems of Cuba either .
    The Cuban revolution did not occur because the people were well off. .
    Poverty is the cause of a great many rebellions ; witness the “Arab Spring” countries and the latest country in which the government was turned out: Yemen .
    It has a 50% unemployment rate .
    Capitalism, like religion poisons everything it touches because it instills an acceptance of totalitarian systems .
    Because I support democratic institutions and you support totalitarian institutions , I doubt we’ll ever have much meeting of the minds.
    Deal with that.

  • Actually John your post is incorrect. You really should read up on Cuban history and the actual conditions that existed prior to the revolution instead of just making crap up. You can read up on the UN figures if you wish at your own convenience

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Stacey May Fowles is a novelist, essayist, and reviewer. She is the author of the novels Be Good (Tightrope, 2007) and Fear of Fighting (Invisible, 2008), and her essays have been widely anthologized in collections like Yes Means Yes, First Person Queer, and Nobody Passes. Her most recent novel, Infidelity, is out now with ECW Press. She is a regular contributor to the National Post, and currently works at The Walrus


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The Year in Aliens

The popularity of the Storm Area 51 meme could easily be read as a cry for help—as though if we save the aliens from the government, they can, in turn, save us from ourselves.

Muna Mire is a writer and producer in Brooklyn.

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What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2019? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the issues, big and small.

It started off, as the best things do, with a shitpost.

It was the end of June when 21-year-old college student Matty Roberts created a Facebook event that would ultimately birth a viral meme turned national security threat. What later came to be known as Alienstock started off as an event page entitled: “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” Area 51, of course, is the highly classified U.S. military base located within the Nevada Test and Training Range that has long been the subject of conspiracy theories regarding state secrets related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life. The action was set for the weekend of September 20.

It struck a chord.

In a matter of mere days, more than a million Facebook users pledged to attend what was essentially pitched as a civilian-led raid on a highly classified United States Air Force facility. A spokesperson for the Air Force warned Roberts and would-be raid-goers not to attempt to illegally access the military installation. The military even sent troop reinforcements, coordinating with local law enforcement to put up extra barricades surrounding the base. Roberts quickly changed tack and began to discourage a raid, promoting Alienstock as a counterculture festival instead.

But the die had been cast. At the peak of Storm Area 51’s virality, some 30,000 people were anticipated. Due to the sheer number of people publicly stating their intent to participate, the media began to echo the panicked tone of the Air Force, reporting on the story as an impending catastrophe rather than what it was: a shitpost. Two separate rural Nevada counties declared states of emergency. In the end, 6,000 or so people showed up and pitched tents in the desert for the “festival.” Alienstock was light on programming (attendees mostly participated in DIY activities like hatchet throwing) but included a stage and a DJ.

Before Alienstock escalated to the level of a national panic, though, it was a meme that reached saturation point across social media. Lil Nas X, himself a viral sensation by virtue of his megahit “Old Town Road,” released a version of the song featuring guest verses from Billy Ray Cyrus, Young Thug, and Mason Ramsey (a.k.a. the Yodel Boy). The music video for the song, which was released in July, was an animated depiction of the four squaring off with soldiers outside of Area 51. Upon gaining entry, the group links up with the aliens inside who are (obviously) cool as hell.

What was it about this particular shitpost that so many people found compelling? Why did millions of people—most presumably in jest—sign up to storm Area 51? The answer lies in the meme itself. The goal was never to invade a military base or to steal state secrets. It was far kinder. Most people participating in the Storm Area 51 meme, myself included, wanted to do one thing: liberate the aliens. In that specific online moment, it felt good to hit retweet on every single joke about freeing the aliens I saw. One tweet amongst the thousands exemplifying this allegiance to the aliens features a video of internet personality Rickey Thompson dancing erratically with the caption: “Me distracting the guards at Area 51 so the aliens can escape.” It had a hundred thousand likes.

Arguably the most infamous instance of mass media-incited panic around extraterrestrial contact is the 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. On Halloween night, CBS aired a live performance of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel adapted for radio by Howard Koch and performed by Welles. The broadcast took the form of a typical radio program, interrupted by live news bulletins announcing the arrival of invading aliens, culminating in a Martian attack on Manhattan. Thousands of listeners panicked, calling in to the station and local police precincts. The CBS building in New York was mobbed by a swarm of uniformed officers demanding that Welles stop the transmission and announce it was fiction. Executives stalling the cops barely bought them enough time to finish the hour-long show.

H.G. Wells derived his concept for War of the Worlds from a thought experiment his brother put to him: what would happen if aliens colonized England the way England colonized Tasmania? Would the fate that befell the Indigenous Tasmanians befall the English? More astute observers of Storm Area 51 have pointed out that the meme arrived at the precise political moment when the news cycle revolving around migrant children being separated from their parents and caged under President Trump had reached peak hopelessness. Even on the (perhaps unconscious) level of language, the meme betrayed the collective urge to compel the government to show mercy, particularly to children whose home countries have been made unsafe directly through U.S. interventionism. After all, the federal government refers to immigrants as “aliens” and issues “alien numbers” as a banal matter of bureaucracy. I should know, I have one.

It’s possible that a mass cultural moment obsessed with liberating aliens from our government is an expression not just of our social health as a country that routinely cages children, but also as a species beginning to publicly reckon with the collective crisis of conscience concerning our global health as we face down climate-driven mass extinction. Storm Area 51 could just as easily be read as a cry for help, then—that maybe if we save the aliens from the government, they can, in turn, save us from ourselves. Unfortunately, it’s not difficult to see that little at the core has changed since the brutal colonization of Tasmania inspired H.G. Wells to envision beings from space bringing home the destruction white empire visited upon the rest of the world as just desserts.

This was also a year that saw noted bald billionaire divorcé and real-life Lex Luthor, Jeff Bezos, launch the lunar lander Blue Moon, built by his company, Blue Origin. Blue Origin’s tagline is prominently featured on the company’s website under the subsection “Our Mission”: “We’re committed to building a road to space so our children can build the future.” In May, Bezos pitched NASA and the White House (Trump has stated he intends to send U.S. astronauts back to the moon by 2024). Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has stated its intent to colonize Mars. In September, former front man of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, worked with the U.S. Navy, one of the largest polluters on Earth, to confirm that three F-18 gun-camera videos published on the website for his To The Stars Academy (an outfit dedicated to space research) were indeed “unidentified aerial phenomena”; DeLonge’s group subsequently signed a contract with the U.S. Army. As we approach cataclysm, those in power seem increasingly invested in their future colonizing and exploiting space rather than fixing the problems they’ve caused on Earth.

The question of extraterrestrial life has always lurked just under the surface of pop culture. From time to time, it bursts through into the wider imagination and asks us to collectively imagine what the consequences of contact with aliens might look like. In a very real way, these cultural reckonings have served as a sort of barometer of social health: a way of gauging how we feel about our planet and our species. The beauty of a shitpost-turned-meme like Storm Area 51 is in how the joke gives way to an earnest feeling. Taken literally, a mass civilian raid on a highly secure U.S. military base is not funny. But as a nonliteral expression of a feeling—of allegiance to the Other, of liberatory intent, of collective power—you come away with something else. Knowing full well it’s dumb as shit, in the end, you want to believe.

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Hustle up with your men – Efia Odo advises ladies

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Ghanaian controversial socialite, Andrea Owusu famously known as Efia Odo, has shared some few words of enlightenment with ladies whose sole aim is to date men who have already made it in life.

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Her reaction comes off as a response to the recent trend of the majority of Ghanaian ladies whose goal for dating is to go after rich men all in the name of enjoying the comfort luxury comes with.

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According to the 27-year-old, “it doesn’t work like that.” Sharing her thoughts off her official Snapchat page, she argued that a real man would break bread with a lady who stayed loyal to him when he was at his lowest.

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A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people.

Starring: Chad Allen, Sean Young, Sebastian Spence, Jack Wetherall, Woody Jeffreys, April Telek
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Wired Hospitals? Two Out of Three Hospitals are Missing from Surveys

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social mediaNumber-crunching executives, administrators and business-minded IT folks will love the remarkable detail in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine’s 2012 Most Wired survey of the nation’s hospitals and health systems. The social media and hospital marketing slice of data is important and informative. But this is a big report, so let me guide you a little.

As a point of reference, 1,570 hospitals were represented in the annual survey, or roughly only 27 percent of US hospitals. [Dig into the longer cover story and data at H&HN.] “The Most Wired survey helps hospitals and health systems measure their progress in the implementation and use of information technology, and benchmark themselves against other organizations,” H&HN says.

The survey measures adoption of information technology in four critical areas:

  • Infrastructure
  • Business and Administrative Management
  • Clinical Quality and Safety (inpatient/outpatient hospital)
  • Clinical Integration (ambulatory/physician/patient/community)

Social media data enjoys a small but important breakout for facilities that are leveraging new communications channels that “offer engaging and supportive programs to enhance the patient experience.” Among the uses of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and others, various hospitals report:

  • Offering care management messages,
  • Chats with physicians,
  • Patient portals, and
  • Support for adherence.

The social media platforms that Most Wired hospitals are using…

Facebook is the clear leader in this survey, followed by Twitter and YouTube. Here’s the countdown among H&HN survey participants:

  • Facebook 94 percent
  • Twitter 80 percent
  • YouTube 80 percent
  • LinkedIn 61 percent
  • Blogs 60 percent
  • Mobile web app 38 percent
  • RSS feed 37 percent

Ed Bennett’s Found In Cache List

As you may be aware—if you follow informative numbers like these as we do—Ed Bennett is well known for tracking and publishing hospital social media resource information. [See Found In Cache.] We’ll be watching for his scoreboard later this month when he’ll make a final update of his widely followed Hospital Social Network List.

What’s clear is that social media tools are playing an important marketing and patient service role for many hospitals. But…what we wonder about these numbers is what’s not here. Both the Most Wired information and Ed Bennett’s list accounted for 1,570 and 1,229 US hospitals respectively. (And both are great hospital marketing resources.)

But the American Hospital Association says there is a total of 5,754 registered hospitals in the US; the majority of which (4,985) are Community Hospitals. Notwithstanding that numbers can be confusing, but by either measure, fewer than one in three hospitals are represented here.

Stewart Gandolf
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Stewart Gandolf, MBA, is Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Success, one of the nation's leading healthcare and digital marketing agencies. Over the past 20 years, Stewart has marketed and consulted for over 1,000 healthcare clients, ranging from practices and hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporations. A frequent speaker, Stewart has shared his expertise at over 200 venues nationwide. As an author and expert resource, Stewart has also written for many leading industry publications, including the 21,000 subscriber Healthcare Success Insight blog. Stewart also co-authored, "Cash-Pay Healthcare: Start, Grow & Perfect Your Cash-Pay Healthcare Business." Stewart began his career with leading advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson, where he marketed Fortune 500 clients such as Wells Fargo and Bally's Total Fitness.

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Guest: Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist and author of many books including Your Baby, Your Way where she investigates the overlooked dangers of mainstream birth practices, especially when scientific evidence has been brushed aside in favor of special interests.

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Guest: Dr. Adrienne Carmack is a board-certified urologist and mother of three children. She is an expert in the issues surrounding circumcision and the author of The Good Mommy’s Guide to Her Little Boy’s Penis.

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Student leaders gather for mental health summit

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Students from North Shore and Sea to Sky secondary schools gathered on Grouse Mountain Saturday for a summit devoted to helping youth become community leaders in mental health awareness.

More than 100 youth volunteered to attend the fifth annual Talk at the Top summit, a student-inspired and led initiative that encourages youth to open up and learn support strategies for what was described at the summit as one of the single most important health issues that exists for young people.

“I came out here pretty hesitantly because I wasn’t sure if I was comfortable in a new environment because I wasn’t even comfortable with my own struggles,” said Talk at the Top veteran and 16-year-old student leader Zohrah Khalili when describing her apprehensions about first attending the summit four years ago when she was in Grade 8. “It was pretty turbulent and rocky and stressful.”

“But then I came here and I was honestly blown away because never before had I been invited into this safe-space where people could talk about their mental health and their mental illness so comfortably and casually,” added Khalili, who is now a Grade 11 student at Carson Graham secondary.

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