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To save his ailing mother, young Merlin must master the Seven Songs of Wisdom passed down from his grandfather, a legendary wizard. Only then can he journey to the spiritual Otherworld to obtain the elixir he needs. But the quest involves a task Merlin must perform - defeating a vile ogre whose merest glance means death. And even more difficult for the young wizard, he must discover the secret of seeing - not with his eyes but with his heart.
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9 Hours and 59 Minutes Imprint: Listening Library Ages 12 and up Release Date: September 24, 2002
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On-line Continuous Measurement of Particle Size Using Electrostatic Sensors.PowderTechnology:135-136 and 164-168
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This paper discusses the design and evaluation of a new electrostatic sensor for the measurement of the mass median size of particles in a pipeline system. The introduction includes an explanation of several different shapes of an electrode, with the phenomena of particles moving in a pipeline that carries a charge outlined. The elements of a sensor, including the signal conditioning electronic is described. The performances of the electrode are compared in terms of the efficiency and accuracy of waveforms by converting the time domain signal into the frequency domain for analysis. The measurements of particle sizes are obtained by using proven offline specific equipment for measuring particle size. Comparisons are made with online values for particle sizes by using the equation of mass median particle size that has been described. Finally, the experiment results obtained by using measurements of particle size through the offline and vice versa methods are analyses by comparing the performances of design based on both methods. The results show that the electrode with full ring produces a better result.

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Hair transplantation surgery is a procedure where the hair follicles are taken from a donor site (usually the side or back of the head) and implanted on the recipient site that is on the area of baldness. This is a common treatment for men with androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness) where the hair follicles reduce due to the influence of androgenic hormones. It can also help women with female pattern baldness.
Many people have reservations about the procedure but hair transplantation comes with a number of advantages, such as:
1. Natural growth after surgery - The biggest and most obvious benefit of hair transplantation is that it improves your physical appearance and eliminates the problem of balding completely. This is because the implanted hair follicles continue their natural growth process after they have been transplanted. So, your hair does not look artificial. Premature bald spots often result in low self-esteem and self-confidence issues which can be effectively addressed by the surgery.
Uniform distribution of hair follicles. Hair transplantation with latest techniques gives natural distribution of hair and proper coverage to bald areas.
2. Easy procedure and no side effects - The operation is done under local anaesthesia. You will feel no pain throughout the procedure. Very comfortable procedure and you will be awake throughout the procedure. This surgery is done at the level of skin and this is not related to the brain. There is no side effect of this surgery. Today, the surgeons mostly use micro grafts which are placed in such a way that all bald spots are covered with minimal effort.
3. One-time procedure - Hair transplantation is the only permanent solution of baldness. No medical treatment for baldness is permanent. Once hair transplantation has been done, it lasts a lifetime. Since the grafts are made of your own hair, they continue to grow naturally throughout your lifetime allowing you to cut or style your hair as you wish.
Losing of hair at an alarming rate can be a very intimidating sight, especially if you are young. Although it is okay to experience gradual hair loss with age, but a sudden burst of it can hamper your self-confidence and image. Today, due to high levels of pollution and stress, hair loss has become a growing concern among the majority.
Ayurveda states that hair is a by-product of the bone tissue formation (Asthi). Any disruption in the tissue metabolism can severely affect the quality of the hair. It is also dependant on the digestive fire of the body. It is based on the philosophy that people suffer from diseases due to imbalance of energy in the body. When the organic processes in the body are restored to its original state, this energy itself can be channeled to fight diseases effectively. Ayurveda terms consistent hair loss as ‘khapitya’ and it categorized under ‘shirorga’.
Romakupagata/Keshamulagata, also called bhrajaka pitta dislodges the hair from its roots. Sleshma/Kapha along with rakta obstructs the hair roots, which in turn does not allow new other hair to grow.
Other causes include-
- Accumulation of excess toxins in the body leads to ‘pitta dosha’, which obstructs the flow of blood, and other nourishing nutrients to the roots of the hair, resulting in a dry scalp, dry hair, thinning of hair and split ends.
- Iron deficiency in the body does not allow healthy bone growth and deteriorates the quality of hair.
Basti Treatment for hair loss-
Ayurveda first determines the body type or prakriti of every individual, after which hair fall treatment is decided and advocated. Ayurveda is a holistic approach, which diagnoses the core issue of hair fall, eliminates impurities from the body and provides natural remedies to stimulate growth of hair.
Basti is a traditional ayurvedic medicated ‘enema’ treatment where herbal oils and decoctions are inserted through the rectum to improve vata disorders. Vata, present in colon, is the main force behind the elimination of feces, bile, urine and other excreta. However, the bone tissues (asti dhatu) is also another predominant site for colon. The mucus membrane of the colon is the outer covering of the bones (peritoneum) and gives it nourishment. Therefore, basti treatment is effective in curing vata disorders.
There are eight types of herbal oils applied under the basti treatment. However, the following helps in improving hair loss-
- Anuvasana or oil enema is used to cure excess drying of the scalp.
- Niruha- Asthapana or the decoction enema used to clear the vata
- Matra Basti or the oil enema used for daily use heals chronic vata disorders. Besides this, no strict dietary restriction or exercising is necessary.
- Bruhana Basti is applied to provide adequate nutrients in the body and make up for the loss.
Therefore, the Ayurvedic treatment of Basti is a cost effective and highly beneficial treatment to curb excessive hair loss.
Pigmentation of the skin is a medical term to refer to the phenomenon of colouring. Our skin is made up of cells that produce a pigment known as melanin. The colour of the skin largely depends upon the production of melanin. If more melanin is produced, the skin looks darker and vice-versa. When the melanin producing cells are damaged due to long exposure to sunlight, pregnancy or any other disease, pigmentation of the skin takes place. When the skin gets darker, it is called hyperpigmentation and when the discolouration of the skin takes place or white patches are formed on the skin, it is called hypopigmentation.
Skin pigmentation can be tackled by certain home based remedies. Here are some of these remedies:
- Milk and honey face pack: Milk is known to contain lactic acid. A mixture of milk and honey peels off the affected part of the skin. This makes the hyper-pigmented skin lighter in colour.
- Vegetable juices: Some vegetables like tomatoes, cucumber and potato are effective in getting rid of the skin pigments. Cut slices of these vegetables and rub them over the affected parts. The juices from these vegetables lighten the pigmented part.
- Avocado magic: It is advisable to peel off an avocado and apply its juice with honey over the affected area.
- Add Vitamin E to your diet: Include foods rich in vitamin E in your meals. It helps in restoring the pigmented skin back to its normal form.
- Face Mask: There are several face masks available that can work wonder in curing pigmentation of the skin. You can use face packs containing oatmeal, honey, sandalwood, turmeric powder, raw milk, and orange powder.
- Sun screen: It is important to guard your skin from the ultraviolet rays. UV rays lead to pigmentation of the skin. So, apply a sunscreen lotion or cream before stepping out of your home.
- Take up some exercise: A key to a healthy skin is a good lifestyle. One must exercise regularly to maintain proper blood circulation throughout the body. Proper flow of blood keeps the skin healthy and free from pigmentation.
- Avoid consumption of alcohol and cigarettes: The consumption of alcohol and cigarettes leads to generation of toxins in our blood stream. This is harmful for our skin.
- Cocoa butter: It has nourishing and de-tanning effects on the skin. Use a cream that contains cocoa butter extracts on daily basis.
- Oil massage: Certain oils like olive and almond are good for treating damaged skin.
Below given are some of the common products used in medical treatment of hyperpigmentation-
- IPL (Photofacial) - Treatment with intense pulsed light, or a Photofacial, is frequently recommended by doctors to treat hyperpigmentation.
- Chemical peel - A TCA peel or deeper phenol peel are also used to treat hyperpigmentation.
- Laser Peel - A variety of laser resurfacing treatments may be performed to reduce hyperpigmentation. CO2 lasers and fractional lasers are popular choices for skin resurfacing.
- Topical skin lightening products - Products containing skin lightening ingredients, such as hydroquinone, retinoids, kojic acid, and Vitamin C are often used to reduce hyperpigmentation.
Medical treatment is combined with procedures to get faster results
Ageing is the only inevitable truth. However, it does not mean that it has to be reflected on your body. Skin loses collagen as you grow older and collagen is the element in your skin which keeps your skin tight and firm when you are young. Loss of collagen leads to skin sagging.
The causes behind ageing of skin can be both extrinsic as well as intrinsic. The main classifications of the causes are:
- Biological: This is an intrinsic factor which relies on the genes of the body and hence, it is out of our control. Naturally, with age, the regenerating capabilities of your body gradually lose pace due to the various hormonal changes that occur over time. A healthy lifestyle can go a long way in helping your skin look as young as possible.
- Environmental: Being an extrinsic factor, environmental factors that cause the skin to age can be controlled. Some of these factors, such as pollution, harmful rays of the sun, stress and unfavourable weather conditions are capable of damaging the skin. Sun exposure i.e. exposure to the UV rays of the sun, is deemed to be the primary reason behind skin ageing.
- Mechanical: Repeated behaviour over an extended period of time, such as frowning, squinting, smiling, etc., can cause grooves to be formed on the skin. These grooves may be permanent and hence, contribute to ageing skin.
How do you treat it?
A holistic approach is extremely vital for the treatment as well as control of ageing skin. The quality and features of skin differ among individuals and hence, the needs of the skin will vary too. Due to this reason, depending on the skin types and needs of the person, the skin care routine needs to be specialised and focussed.
To facilitate a specialised approach to ageing skin, a thorough analysis would be conducted by the dermatologists to understand what the skin needs and accordingly, diagnose the causes and symptoms of ageing skin. The diagnosis will allow the dermatologist to estimate the severity of the skin problem. This analysis will help the doctors to determine the adequate approach to address the ageing skin. A combination of services and technologies would be recommended based on the analysis. This combination would incorporate methods such as collagen building (with foods such as berries and dark green veggies), micro derma peels and skin tightening, as well as effective home skin care products which can be used to boost the skin’s beauty. The proposed approach would work to fill wrinkles, boost collagen and tighten sagging skin to make the skin look as natural as possible.
One of the effects of ageing is the double chin that is caused due to extra fluid or fat under the chin. It could also be due to increased weight, sagging skin, or merely genetic. Given that it produces an aged appearance, people with double chin are constantly trying to find ways to hide it. There are two main muscles in the neck area, and toning them helps to remove the double chin appearance. There are grooming tips like specific kinds of clothes, hairstyle, and makeup to conceal it. There are also some exercises which are believed to reduce the prominence of the double chin. However, these are temporary measures, and for a permanent solution, surgical correction is the only method of choice.
Some of the new methods to get rid of the double chin are listed below with some important additional details. Talk to your surgeon and understand what to expect before going ahead with the surgical correction.
- Kybella: Approved by FDA, this is the new wonder drug to correct double chin. With no surgery involved, all it takes is about half an hour. The area is injected with a local anaesthetic and then Kybella. This contains deoxycholic acid, which is an enzyme that the body also produces naturally. This helps break down fat cells and so after a couple of weeks, the double chin gradually begins to literally melt away. Depending on the desired results, repeat injections might be required at monthly intervals. There could be mild swelling in the initial couple of days, which will subside shortly. The result would be a more defined chin line, producing a slimmer appearance.
- CoolMini: This involves freezing the fat and massaging it to remove the double chin. This is a form of chin sculpting and is preferred in people with good skin tightness. Results will be evident in about 1 to 3 months.
- Skin tightening using infrared light: A beam of infrared light is aimed at the double chin which causes tightening of the skin by stimulating the underlying collagen and elastin layers.
- Chin liposuction: In people with excess fat deposition, chin liposuction where the excess fat is suctioned off is a good treatment option. This is a time-tested method and produces results more immediately than the above-mentioned procedures.
Subsequent to any of the above procedures, it is better to make some lifestyle changes so that the double chin does not return. Weight management and regular exercise can go a long way in preventing recurrence of the double chin. Speak to your doctor to draw up a weight management plan and an exercise regimen that can help in the same.

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Protesters in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, demonstrated on November 5 against reported government proposals to begin privatizing major public departments, including the country's main energy utility. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
A rescue operation is under way near Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore to save dozens of people thought to be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory.
The roof of a factory has collapsed near Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 18 workers and leaving about 150 trapped under rubble.
The European Union's law enforcement arm arrested 29 in Spain and Poland in raids targeting a migrant-smuggling operation that brought Pakistanis to the EU and forced them to work in slave-like conditions.
Pakistan's media regulator has directed private television channels to restrict coverage of 72 organizations with links to militants or risk losing their license to broadcast.
An unidentified gunman has killed a journalist in the northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistan cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan and his second wife have decided to part ways and are filing for divorce, the couple said October 30.
Pakistani authorities are racing to send relief supplies, including blankets, tents, food, and pneumonia vaccine to earthquake victims before winter weather sets in.
People living in Pakistan's remote Upper Mohmand region are beginning to rebuild homes damaged by the October 26 earthquake. But many have yet to receive any help from government aid agencies which are struggling to reach the area.
Many earthquake survivors in Afghanistan and Pakistan were spending a third night without shelter in plummeting temperatures on October 28, as rescuers struggled to reach remote mountainous regions.
The day after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit south Asia, relief efforts were underway and residents were picking their way through the rubble in Pakistan's Swat Valley. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by "heavy fire" along the border with Afghanistan.

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Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's prolonged late career flowering shows no sign of abating with the creation of yet another epic work, following on the heels of his monumental Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012), Great Lakes Suite (TUM, 2014) and America's National Parks (Cuneiform, 2016). For his inspiration he takes the story of Rosa Parks, one of the heroines of the US Civil Rights Movement, famed for her role in the pioneering 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and draws on it as a basis for his meditations upon the Movement and where it led. For the first time he uses song-form to amplify his feelings.
By now Smith's music is an entirely sui generis amalgam of jazz and contemporary classical modes, scripted in his own unique language of Ankhrasmation. To realize his vision Smith calls on a cast of collaborators old and new. Drummer Pheeroan AkLaff has been a fixture of Smith's work since their first recording together in 1976, and he often provides the unifying link between sections here. He also constitutes part of the Janus Duo with the subtle electronics of Hardedge. Joining Smith on trumpets in the Blue Trumpet Quartet are fellow seasoned brassmen Ted Daniel, Hugh Ragin and Graham Haynes.
Responsible for much of the melodic information, as well as more extreme textures, is the RedKoral String Quartet who have worked with Smith since Ten Freedom Summers. Finally, and most importantly for the oratorio form which Smith co-opts here, are the ethnically diverse Diamond Voices of Min Xiao-Fen from China (who also plays pipa), Carmina Escobar from Mexico and African American opera singer Karen Parks who give wings to Smith's words.
Smith's composerly voice remains evident throughout the 15 parts of the composition, tracked into seven cuts, in which the songs alternate with instrumental sections. His writing possesses a cinematic quality with elements reappearing throughout the work. The trumpets often seem to act as chorus, recalling like Smith in multiple guises, the string glissandos that seem to evoke a dream world, while the electronics stay unobtrusive and lower case. It's notable that the additional layers of meaning entailed by the multimedia aspects of the piece as detailed in the liners (video, dance, staging) are by necessity missing from this CD realization as they would augment the experience even further.
"Prelude: Journey" introduces the main characters, moving from the Blue Trumpet's stirring fanfares, along with akLaff's roiling drums to the jostling bow work of the string quartet, and then onto the understated electronics of Hardedge. While there's a hint of collage in how Smith juxtaposes or overlaps the ensembles, the progress from one to another is smoothly achieved, as is the way in which he manages the tension between dissonance and serenity.
Similarly well-integrated are recorded samples from a selection of Smith's band mates and fellow AACM members at the outset of his career: saxophonist Anthony Braxton, violinist Leroy Jenkins and drummer Steve McCall. In fact it would be easy to miss the short excerpts (20 seconds in Braxton's case) so adeptly does Smith weave them into his narrative.
"Rosa Parks: Mercy, Music for Double Quartet" twins the trumpet and string quartets in a whirl of awakening strings, and choral brass, who deliver Smith's beautiful lines with verve and poise. "Song 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott -381 Days of Fire" follows, sung by Xiao-Fen in the company of the strings, before her pipa ripples against ascending violin. It's a powerful and emotive section, featuring an affecting melody, sad but with an ultimate undercurrent of triumph.
There's grit too in the assertive sawing and bombastic martial percussion of "Song 4: Change It!." In a rousing call to action, Karen Parks bends Smith's words concerning democracy melismatically to fit the contours of the music. Smith sets Rosa Parks own words to a forceful rhythmic backing with soaring interludes in "Song 5: No Fear." It's the string players who get the most extended turns in the spotlight. For just one example take Shalini Vijayan's virtuoso violin excursion of multiple string sounding, impassioned sustains and high thin notes on "Vision Dance 3: Rosa's Blue Lake." Smith utilises Karen Parks transcendental voice for the culmination of his oratorio to sing the crowning "Song 7: Pure Love."
All the soloists and ensemble sections are identified in TUM's customarily sumptuous and exemplary packaging, helping to make this a deeply immersive experience.
Prelude: Journey; Vision Dance 1: Resistance and Unity; Rosa Parks: Mercy, Music for Double Quartet; Song 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott - 381 Days of Fire; Song 2: The First Light, Gold; Vision Dance 2: Defiance, Justice and Liberation; Song 3: Change It!; Song 4: The Truth; Song 5: No Fear; Vision Dance 3: Rosa´s Blue Lake; Song 6: The Second Light; Vision Dance 4: A Blue Casa; Song 7: Pure Love; The Known World: Apartheid; Postlude: Victory!
Wadada Leo Smith, composer, trumpet; Karen Parks, vocalist; Min Xiao-Fen, vocalist; Carmina Escobar, vocalist; Shalini Vijayan, violin; Mona Thian, violin; Andrew McIntosh, viola; Ashley Walters, cello; Ted Daniels, trumpet; Hugh Ragin, trumpet; Graham Haynes, cornet; Pheeroan akLaff, drum-set; Hardedge, electronic.


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Colombia’s coffee producing Quindio department is looking to make a splash in the tourism sector through the development of infrastructure and a strong campaign to attract investors.
Located in Colombia’s mountainous coffee region, Quindio department played host to around 550,000 tourists in 2012, according to a departmental spokesperson for tourism. According to Jerillee Mendoza Giraldo, head of tourism promotion for Quindio, there are also several ambitious ideas and projects designed to further bolster a tourist sector that has emerged as a productive source of income for the department.
“The installment of tourist signs, a coffee cultural landscape project aimed to structure this tourist feature and receive international promotion, a campaign to strengthen the number of investors, and a national tourism promotion project [are some of the current projects in the works],” Mendoza told Colombia Reports on Thursday.
Given the economic issues plaguing the coffee sector, it should come as no surprise that the department is looking to strengthen its tourist infrastructure.
“Tourism is the most important sector for economic diversification of the department, but there has not been an official study of the sector to determine its economic impact on[economic] activity in the region,” said Mendoza.
Quindio Governor Sandra Paola Hurtado Palacio is likewise motivated to expand tourism. Earlier this week the governor organized a conference at the British embassy in Colombia’s capital of Bogota. The purpose of the conference was to attract interest in the department from foreign investors who would bring capital, employment and new economic opportunities to the region.
Quindio department is already fast becoming a hotbed of tourist activity. Whether it’s the quaint town of Salento, the Cocora Valley with its stunningly tall wax palms, or the glaciated volcanic peaks in Los Nevados National Park, Quindio clearly has plenty to offer. The area is also a mecca for outdoor sports enthusiasts, offering plenty of opportunities for hiking, biking, rafting, kayaking, and mountain climbing.
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In a rural part of Denmark, a cavernous warehouse holds vast vats of bacteria -- what a transatlantic corporate partnership is hoping will be the solution to the cement industry's huge emissions problem.
Denmark's concrete manufacturing giant IBF and U.S.-based start-up Biomason together aim to show that a new kind of cement mix, based on naturally occurring phenomena, can avoid the huge energy requirements and high carbon dioxide emissions that have characterized cement production for centuries.
To achieve its strong, cohesive properties, traditional concrete has long relied on a type of cement called Portland, which uses limestone as a base. When that limestone is heated, carbon dioxide is released as a byproduct. Specific types of bacteria, in the right environment, can mimic the crucial properties of Portland cement, but with the carbon cycle reversed. The bacteria draw in carbon dioxide, then convert it into calcium carbonate.
This kind of chemical transformation is what allows coral reefs to grow and solidify underwater. And teams of biologists, technicians and engineers collaborating in Ikast, Denmark, and North Carolina plan to replicate that process -- with a few tweaks.
It's essentially 3D printing with a biological base. This spring, the two companies intend to start cranking out industrial quantities of polished concrete tiles that will lock up carbon for the length of their product life spans.
The tiles are made in small batches, but before they are shipped out to expectant customers in Denmark, the Netherlands and the U.K., teams of specialists must spend the coming weeks ironing out any remaining production wrinkles.
Unlike testing software, the sheer physicality makes this drive for consistent production "horrendously difficult," according to Biomason's Chief Operating Officer Bert Bruggeman. "This is not going into a file and changing code. This is like, 'I need to change a machine. I need to change the biology,'" said Bruggeman, an electrical engineer who previously helped oversee production of the Model 3 at Tesla. "You've got to change real things, which then takes time."
Biomason's founder and CEO Ginger Krieg Dosier knows this all too well.
"If you try hard enough, you'll figure it out," became a mantra during months spent developing the first successful prototype.
That initial experimentation took place in her spare bedroom while she was lecturing at an architecture college in the United Arab Emirates.
"I think it was just stubbornness," she said of her early decision to launch the business. "Also just the fact that the world needs this."
Cement helped drive industrialization and without it, Dosier likes to say, humanity would be stuck living in 18th-century cityscapes. But innovation since then has not been fast enough, she insists, and Biomason's aim is to shave off a quarter of global cement production's carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
In Denmark today, roughly 1,760 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent are created for every ton of cement produced, in large part due to the intense heat involved in its creation. To reduce those emissions requires either more renewable energy -- in a country where half of all electricity is already generated from wind or solar -- or else the input materials must be altered. Biomason is focused on the latter. Dosier says the decision by IBF to invest so significantly in the partnership with her firm has helped facilitate conversations with other would-be collaborators around the world in recent months.
The potential market for the product is significant, particularly in a country like Denmark, where a changing regulatory environment is encouraging innovation in the construction industry. In January, government rules began to mandate that large new buildings hoping for permitting approval must meet low annual carbon emission thresholds – including during the construction phase -- and those new limits that will continue to ratchet down regularly over the next several years.
A generous dusting of snow covered the solar paneled roof and walkway as Biomason's top local technician Ole Dinesen arrived on a recent morning. He crunched alongside concrete-loaded pallets, assorted masonry and a jumble of gleaming metal pipes before entering the vast green warehouse filled with construction workers, forklift drivers and machine operators.
Tall with short blond stubble and an earnest demeanor, Dinesen passed a piece of paper taped to two large vats near the entrance, marked as "fertilizer production" for the bacteria. Another sign read "feeding the bugs," and in this tank, a kilometer of pipes will automatically dispense regular doses of culturing material that helps bacteria grow. The bulky containers are like giant Petri dishes that will be endlessly topped up by culturing material dispensed through vast Whip-it style nozzles.
Wood chips and recycled rainwater from the roof will help create the warm, moist environment that's necessary to help grow the right bacteria. They in turn form the basis for a cement-like treacle that will bind together the concrete's other ingredients -- sand and small rocks -- delivered by truck to one end of the building's production line.
Upon arrival, the rocks and sand, known in the industry as "aggregate," will get heated in gunmetal gray silos that can carry 27 tons of material. In the center of the room stands an enormous blender, where the aggregate will be combined with the biologically produced cement.
It's a similar mixing process that can be found across several existing warehouses on IBF's vast campus, but here it will avoid the addition of typical Portland cement. The blender can churn out more than 1600 pounds of combined concrete each cycle, dumping the mixture in a steady stream from a conveyor belt onto a slab below, where heavy blue and orange machinery will flatten and shape each tile.
The company estimates some 783 trillion bacteria will be required for each production cycle. Once dried, the tiles must be sanitized to kill off any that remain. A large, canary-yellow machine then uses roughly 1.3 gallons of water each second to polish the tiles before they are packaged up. It's the last step of a three-day process.
The production for this new creation requires relatively few changes to the hardware used to make traditional cement, but the concrete it ultimately produces will emit far fewer carbon dioxide molecules. The longer-term business strategy, Bruggeman added to a soundtrack of drilling and clanking, is for Biomason to replicate this in similar concrete manufacturing plants elsewhere, earning technology transfer fees and royalty payments calculated by volume.
Biomason has won backing from several venture capitalists, including a $65 million funding raise last year that saw participation from the parent company of Danish health-care behemoth Novo Nordisk, San Francisco-based Celesta Capital, 2150 and Hartree Partners. Among their earliest customers is department store giant H&M, and Dinesen said the firm is also prioritizing partnerships with local architects who can market their concrete products to customers looking to create buildings or projects with smaller carbon footprints.
But whether these new materials can be insured is key, according to Tim Broyd, a professor at University College London's Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. The industry mind-set is famously conservative, he says, and "someone has to underwrite that cost of risk."
The kind of product Biomason is currently developing will be useful for concrete placed underfoot – like driveways or flooring, according to Broyd -- but will not work well for tall buildings, since the concrete it is helping produce lacks the sufficient tensile characteristics.
Biomason's Bruggeman acknowledges that as with any new kind of building material, significant technical challenges remain before the cement can be used interchangeably with existing, carbon-intensive cement. He says the decision to start with an attractive tile product that is not structurally significant is designed to avoid entering the kind of competitive marketplace where early cost pressures would squeeze the fledgling company's margins too aggressively.
The initial customer revenue may help build the kind of financial runway, Bruggeman adds, that will eventually help Biomason enter "bigger environments -- evolving and adapting" its cement technology to become an ingredient in stronger concrete mixes that are eventually used to build walls, roofs and other load-bearing structures.


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A good activist can sort wrong from right while acknowledging subjectivity and nuance. Are children capable of this?
One way to teach civic engagement is to lead with values, rather than specific issues
The children’s sections at bookstores tend to be outfitted with the trappings of fantasy. I’ve seen many dressed up like treehouses or castles with cardboard turrets topping bookshelves. No matter the motif, the effect is the same: Books, children are to understand, are a chance to escape reality and its many limitations.
But lately, the books on display have been sending a different message. Children’s literature, like everything else, has become increasingly politicized, with a hard-edged focus on the here-and-now. I can buy a board book called “A is for Activist” for my toddler, and for my kindergartner, there are a whole slew of titles to choose from, including the recently published “What Can a Citizen Do?” by Dave Eggers. Gender equality, racism, poverty, immigrants’ rights, political engagement, it’s all there, vying with those anachronistic castles and whimsical foliage for relevancy.
We have a couple of these books, and while I appreciate the historical and sociological lessons some of these books contain, I felt torn about their application.
Yes, I want my children to understand injustice and the mechanisms through which it persists. I want them to be able to identify when they or their friends are being treated with small-mindedness and have the tools to reject it. Most of all, I want them to know that we all share the responsibility of fixing what is broken in our world.
Still, despite all this, and the fact that I’ve spent much of my professional life pushing for change, I’m hesitant about mixing children with activism. My biggest fear? Their certainty. I don’t want them to grow up sure of their righteousness and that if they are the good guys, well, the other guys must be bad. I worry about how tribalistic America is becoming, the degradation of our civil discourse and the us vs. them, zero-sum thinking that has found its way into debates, large and small. I hear toddlers refer to President Donald Trump as a “monster,” and although I’m not a fan of his policies or demeanor, I cringe. I really don’t want to help perpetuate this for another generation.
As I see it, a good activist should be confident but willing to listen, able to actively sort wrong from right while acknowledging subjectivity and nuance. Are children capable of this?
Parents can set the tone
Parents shouldn’t avoid political conversations with their children, according to Dr. Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, even if their children aren’t quite ready for them.
“You want to wait until a child has the developmental capacity to understand nuance and gray zone. The problem is that when the material is so out there, they are hearing about it anyway,” Saltz said.
When you cede your child’s political education to a schoolmate who calls our president a monster, “you are not getting to be … the voice that is guiding this aspect of the development of their moral compass and their value system.”
Children aren’t likely to learn about nuance from their peers or the media, Saltz explained. So parents might be the first and only line of defense when it comes to educating their children on how to approach political fault lines with sensitivity and open-mindedness. This can be conveyed in both how we talk about politics and the kind of activism we encourage in our children. Bringing them to a respectful march can be a meaningful and transformative learning opportunity; an angry march might only make them feel upset and helpless.
“I wish parents were thinking about how to help their children see much more in gray than we are currently doing,” Saltz said. Today, Americans are anxious, and “when people become more anxious, the defense is to become more black and white – it has more certainty in it. This filters down to children. If their parents are [thinking in black and white], it is pretty hard to expect anything different from the child.”
Discussing activism can help instill values
One way to teach civic engagement without going neck-deep into the good guys vs. bad guys paradigm is to lead with values rather than issues.
Political education should come from “inside-out,” explained Alexandra Styron, author of “Steal This Country,” a guide to activism for tweens and teens. “Instead of imposing a sense of anger or activism, let’s first talk about what we care about as a family. And now that we have established that, what can we do to make the world a better place for us and the creatures we care about?”

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Awhile back, I drove past a sun-tanning salon sharing a property line with a cemetery. The salon posted a sign that, in my opinion, was positioned too close to the cemetery’s property line. The sign read: “Walk-ins Welcome.” Obviously, the owners failed to communicate the message they intended, but did their part to lighten up the normally somber atmosphere around the cemetery. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was right when he said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.”
Without a doubt, George W. Bush received a lot of flak over what some viewed as ineptitude in communication skills, but anyone can be made to look like a chump if everything he says is scrutinized under a host of antagonists’ microscopes.
It’s quite entertaining to observe the grace now bestowed upon President Obama by the same people who had nothing positive to say about Bush. Obama has had his own share of gaffes -- with and without his most beloved teleprompters. Mainstream media have pretty much overlooked occasions when Obama has lost his bearings like the time he said he had visited all “57 states”. Or his verbal slip-up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he said he saw “fallen heroes” (dead people) sitting before him in the audience, or when he mispronounced the word “corpsman” as “corpse-man” during a prayer breakfast.
Innocent communication blunders by our leaders are funny, and should not be turned into character assassination tools by the mainstream media or by overweight, BVD-adorned, middle-aged basement-dwellers (bloggers).
Liberals also criticized Bush for the way he communicated his foreign policy and claimed the world loathed us because of it. Bush’s strong-armed approach effectively protected us from another 9/11 for nearly a decade. Bush understood that pansy-bottomed diplomacy antics like bowing and apologizing foster disrespect, and do little to promote America’s image globally. Communicating niceties like “please or thank you” may not compute in the minds of those living in a part of the world where the chopping off of body parts aptly communicates just punishment for theft.
As good as that moment was, the taking out of Osama bin Laden did not sound foreign policy make. Peace has not come to the Middle East from the marginalization of our long-term ally Israel while buddying-up to her enemies. Nor has it come with the betrayal of former friends like Egyptian ally Mubarak. Diplomacy has not reduced the saber-rattling of Iran’s trigger-happy nut job Ahmadinejad.


East Suffolk ‘super district’ to lose 35 councillors but save up to £200,000 a year
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Nearly half of the councillors in east Suffolk will lose their seats at the next election – as the area's two main authorities merge into one unit.
Suffolk Coastal and Waveney have agreed on a councillor cull, cutting their total numbers from 90 to 55, saving taxpayers nearly £200,000 a year.
Keeping all the councillors on the new 'super council' was never an option with 90 being
too unwieldy, but the cut will mean the newly-elected East Suffolk district councillors will have larger ward populations to serve.
Councillors currently represent around 2,100 voters on average, though there are variations – up to 2,500 per councillor in some urban areas – while under the changes each councillor will represent around 2,600 voters.
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Details of how the new council could look have been revealed for the first time in a 137-page document outlining the two council's proposals for electoral changes.
They started working on the project ahead of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) because of worries over timescales, afraid the work could not be finished in time for the May 2019 elections when the merger should be complete.
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- 2 New policy unveiled for commemorative benches across district
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Boundary commission officials will announce their version of the arrangements, having examined the councils' proposals, in July ready for consultation.
In a report, Waveney councillor Mark Bee and Suffolk Coastal councillor Geoff Holdcroft, of the members working group, explained the complexities of agreeing new wards where population forecasts have had to be made and some places will share councillors with neighbours in future.
They said: 'One of the first exercises was to agree a forecast of the electorate.
'The LGBCE requirement was that data for the review should be based on a five-year housing forecast expected in each polling district area by 2023.
'Nothing beyond this period can be considered for a review. Furthermore, this data had to be submitted by January 31. This deadline was met and the information has been accepted by the LGBCE.'
The council said its proposals reflected local views 'working with the geographical constraints of the nature of the district, in terms of boundaries and pockets of population'.


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A new bill filed by Republican lawmaker Tony Tinderholt seeks to imprison women who get abortions, and his statements regarding this proposed piece of legislation couldn't make his intentions of wanting to punish sexually active women clearer. Don't believe me?
"Right now, it's real easy. Right now, [women] don't make it important to be personally responsible because they know that they have a backup of 'Oh, I can just go get an abortion,'" he said in an interview with the Texas Observer. "Now, we both know that consenting adults don’t always think smartly sometimes. But consenting adults need to also consider the repercussions of the sexual relationship that they're gonna have, which is a child."
The bill (HB 948) would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses human rights, effectively making abortion murder.
"A living human child, from the moment of fertilization upon the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum, is entitled to the same rights, powers, and privileges as are secured or granted by the laws of this state to any other human child." — HB 948
There is no mention of the roles of these hypothetical children's fathers in Tinderholt's bill. However, Luke Macias, a spokesman for the Texas representative, told the New York Daily News that men who aid in the "conspiracy" to aid a woman in terminating her pregnancy — including talking to an abortion doctor or transporting a woman to an abortion clinic — would be held responsible.
With these details being completely absent from from Tinderholt's bill, however, there is not concrete evidence that women would not bear all the responsibility if this proposal were to become law.
Tinderholt, who's been married five times to four different women and who has had at least one restraining order against him granted to one of his ex-wives, explicitly admitted to feeling disapproval toward what many women suspect is the root of the anti-abortion movement's passion: female sexuality. Despite saying that "consenting adults need to also consider the repercussions" of not acting "smartly," Timberholt focuses his attention on women.
He gives no consideration to women who become pregnant despite being on birth control; accidental pregnancies caused by defective condoms; or men who refuse to use condoms. Regardless of his spokesman's claim that men would be held accountable under the law, Tinderholt did not bother to include the consequences men would supposedly face into his bill. Surely, someone as invested in the prevention of abortion as Tinderholt would be aware of all the ways in which many men help women obtain these services, which makes it difficult to believe that the absence of repercussions for these men in HB 948 is the result of an oversight.
Fortunately for the women of Texas, the bill is almost certain to be found unconstitutional, not just because of its inconsistency with Roe v. Wade, but also because it directs attorney generals to disregard "any contrary or conflicting federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, or court decisions" that would override Tinderholt's proposed law.


Characteristics of a Distributary Channel-Levee-Overbank System, Tanqua Karoo
A complex of distributary channel fills (termed here “distributary channel system”), exposed on the Bloukop farm, shows a complex internal architecture, comprised of seven individual channel fills, levee, and crevasse splay deposits. This distributary channel system is embedded in overbank deposits that reflect times when distributary channels were active elsewhere in the basin. Two types of channel fill illustrate the downdip morphologic changes of the individual feeder channels within a distributary channel system. The vertical stacking of each channel type within the outcrops reflects both the updip/downdip shift of the center of sheet sand deposition and its lateral movement within a sheet sand lobe.


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August 23, 2019 @ 6:00PM — 10:00PM
Party with live music and food benefiting Strengthen • Grow • Evolve
Join FilmScene and The Englert Theatre to say so long to summer and enjoy a community get together at Big Grove Brewery. Our organizations will be giving out swag and around to answer any and all questions about our efforts to build the greatest small city for the arts. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Strengthen • Grow • Evolve campaign through Big Grove For Good.
This event is free and open to the public.
However, a $35 Supporter Ticket can be purchased as a show of support for the campaign. The ticket includes a Big Grove dinner and one drink item. Up to $25 of the ticket is tax-deductible.
Families (up to two adults and children under the age of 18) can also purchase a Family Ticket which includes dinners and 4 drink tickets.
For donors above $2500: You are invited at no cost, to eat, drink and celebrate our successes. Please encourage your friends to join you!
As of 8/23/2019 at 9:30 am tickets are no longer available online, but you can purchase those at Big Grove the night of the event!

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The Classic Series wall switch is an updated design for integration into existing systems. It presents an appealing, modern look with its LEDs and screwless cover. Various button configurations and color options makes the Classic a popular choice for homes and small businesses.
Available in configurations of 4, 6, 8, 12, 18, & 24 buttons, with and without LEDs. Laser Engraving is optional.
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Part I. Youth Sport Basics Chapter 1. Overview of Youth Sport Types of Youth Sport Patterns of Participation in Youth Sport Barriers to Youth Sport Participation Organizations That Support Youth Sport Wrap Up Learning Aids Chapter 2. Evolution of Youth Sport When and Why Was Sport Introduced Into Schools as an Extracurricular Activity? How Did Nonschool Youth Sport Become So Popular? What Does Title IX State, Why Was It Necessary, and How Did It Change Youth Sport? How Did Little League Baseball Become So Popular? Why Do Grassroots Youth Sport Programs Lack National Organization and Support? How Have Changes in Parenting Philosophy and Practice Influenced the Evolution of Youth Sport, Particularly the Decline of Free Play? Wrap-Up Chapter 3. Philosophy and Objectives of Youth Sport The POPP Sequence: From Philosophy to Action What Should the Objectives of Youth Sport Be? Tension Points in Youth Sport Philosophies and Objectives Consequences of Developmentally Inappropriate Philosophies and Objectives Palm Community Model of Youth Sport Examples of Youth Sport Philosophies and POPP Sequences Wrap Up Learning Aids Part II. Maturation and Readiness for Youth Sport Participation Chapter 4. Physical Growth and Maturation Growth Maturation Physical Growth and Maturational Influences on Sport Opportunities and Performance Wrap Up Learning Aids Chapter 5. Readiness for Learning Skills and Competing What Is Readiness? The "Mountain" of Motor Skill Development Sensitive Periods in Motor Skill Development Cognitive Readiness Is Earlier Better? When Should Kids Start Organized Youth Sports? Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 6. Motivation and Psychosocial Development Why Do Children Participate in Youth Sport? Competence Autonomy Relatedness Wrap Up: Provide Kids a Motivational FEAST Learning Aids Chapter 7. Modifying Sport for Youth Why Should Sport Be Modified for Youth? Why Do Adults Resist Youth Sport Modification? What Changes Should Be Made? Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 8. Teaching Skills to Youth Athletes The Five-Step Teaching Cycle Instructional Strategies to Maximize Learning Wrap-Up Learning Aids Part III. Intensity of Participation in Youth Sport Chapter 9. Physical Training and Young Athletes Positive Effects of Physical Activity and Training in Kids Negative Effects of Over-Intensity in Physical Training in Youth Physical Training Guidelines for Young Athletes Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 10. Talent Development in Sport Talent Development Basics How Is Talent Identified, and When Do We Decide Who Is Talented? The Relative Influences of Practice and Innate Qualities on Sport Expertise What's the Best Way to Develop Sport Talent? Specialization in Youth Sport Categorizing Sports Based on Specialization Demands Tips for Nurturing Talent and Well-Being in Youth Athletes Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 11. Stress and Burnout in Youth Sport Stress as a Process Demands (Stressors) Faced by Youth Athletes Young Athletes' Assessment of Demand(s) Young Athletes' Responses to Stress Outcomes From the Stress Process Flow: The Ultimate Goal for Youth Sport Participants Burnout in Youth Sport Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 12. Injuries in Youth Sport Youth Sport Injury Basics Overuse Injuries Physeal Injuries Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes Concussion in Youth Sport Legal Duties and the Emergency Action Plan Wrap-Up Learning Aids Part IV. Social Considerations in Youth Sport Chapter 13. Cultural Competence in Youth Sport Continuum of Cultural Competence Gender and Youth Sport Reasons for Gender Differences in Youth Sport Race and Ethnicity in Youth Sport Sexual Orientation and Youth Sport Disability and Youth Sport Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 14. Coaches and Youth Sport Coaching Education and Certification Recruiting Youth Sport Coaches Evaluating Youth Sport Coaches Building the Youth Sport Coaches' Skill Set Youth Sport Coaches' Meta-Skill: Communication Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 15. Parents and Youth Sport Foundations of the Parent-Child Relationship Three Roles of Youth Sport Parents WANTED: Positive Parent Behaviors in Youth Sport Understanding Parent Traps Parent Education in Youth Sport Strategies for Coaches in Interacting with Youth Sport Parents Suggestions to be a Better Youth Sport Parent Wrap-Up Learning Aids Chapter 16. Moral and Life Skills Development in Youth Sport Understanding Terms Related to Moral Behavior in Sport How Sportsmanship and Moral Behavior Are Learned Enhancing Sportsmanship, Moral Development, and Life Skills in Youth Athletes Wrap-Up Learning Aids
Robin S. Vealey, PhD, is a professor in the department of kinesiology and health at Miami University in Ohio, where she has worked for more than 30 years. She has dedicated nearly her entire adult life to youth sports, whether as a coach, administrator, educator, researcher, or consultant. She is internationally known for her research on the psychological aspects of youth sport and coaching effectiveness. Vealey, who has authored three books, has won several professional awards throughout her academic career, including being named a fellow by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and the National Academy of Kinesiology. She previously was president of AASP, is a certified consultant in sport psychology as recognized by AASP, and is on the U.S. Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry. In addition to serving on numerous journal editorial review boards, Vealey is a past editor of The Sport Psychologist. In 2011, Vealey was named to the Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame after a stellar playing career in women's basketball. Vealey went on to serve as a collegiate volleyball and women's basketball coach and an athletics administrator. She currently enjoys playing golf and continues to remain active in various sports as a sport psychology consultant for youth athletes and teams. Melissa A. Chase, PhD, is a professor in the department of kinesiology and health at Miami University in Ohio, where she has worked for two decades. She specializes in research about coaching efficacy and self-efficacy in children interested in increasing motivation and effectiveness, and she has presented her research across the United States and internationally. She was named a fellow by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and SHAPE America and is a certified consultant in sport psychology as recognized by AASP. Chase was the founding editor of the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, which is an official AASP publication. Before becoming a professor, Chase gained experience as a physical education teacher at both the elementary and secondary school levels while coaching various levels of basketball, cross country, track and field, and volleyball for several years. She enjoys running and watching her teenage children participate in youth sports.

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Are any galleries and/or museums displaying NFTs?
Beyond the art world, I would like to know what other real world applications are possible for NFTs going forward
Great questions Nicole and Darcy
What do you envision as some of the coolest applications that will come out of NFT technology that don’t exist already or are in their infancy now?
Is there any interest in historical digital work from the 80’s? Also can you talk about the environmental impact of nfts?
Clarification: do you convert your art to nft or do you have to create digital art to them convert it to nft?
great questions melanie and sabina
Will this session be recorded and sent out later?
So is Replicator technically a “smart contract” that includes a PNG and the code that generates new PNGs? What is the actual container that is distributed for Replicator?
Got it, Ryan!
QUESTION: What's keeping NFTs from becoming the 21st Century version of the 17th Century Dutch "Tulip Mania"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
So over my head. What can I buy with the ETH?
great questions ron and jenny!
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If I were to purchase a digital art piece, does the artist relinquish all rights to further enhance those images and would I have the right to further enhance the image/images myself?
got it all!! thank you
$440 Million so far
1.What do you suggest as a first step or first test for an artist interested in minting/selling a piece? 2. What is the biggest risk that you think we should be cautious about?
also interested in a discussion about the environmental impacts
Tim and Leah, YES AND YES
All of you, this is amazing thank you
What does that mean for intellectual property rights if you create an NFT using a work created by another artist? Such as the Keith Harring example you mentioned.
China’s Bitcoin Miners Will Consume as Much Energy as Mid-Sized Country within Three Years http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/environment/china-bitcoin-miners-09552.html
Are there local crypto/art meetups or groups to meet others in the space?
Def can skip my Replicator question
Thank you, Ryan! I was just wondering about that
Except the environmentally acceptable generation used in some Bitcoin could be used elsewhere.
what about a children’s picture book being minted by the author/illustrator? might that be marketable?
Thank you for sharing so much and so well. Such great information.
Thank you so much. So informative
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2013 Titans Season Rewind: DL
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A few months ago a poetry series at El Museo del Barrio (peripherally located on 5th Avenue in El Barrio/Spanish Harlem) called “Spic Up/Speak Out” got so many folks riled up that El Museo caved just a week later and changed the name of the series. Apparently, the s-word has not lost its temporary currency as a revived slur, since last night, Taller Boricua, which might now be considered the “authentic” museo del barrio, held a panel discussion called “(Dis)empowerment: Addressing Controversial Subjects in Contemporary Latino Art,” to address a controversial work (“Round the Way Girl: Cultural Osmosis for a Native Gringa”) that foregrounds the word “spic” in what some considered offensive fashion.
The artist, Melissa Calderón, was present, and explained that the work was about her “disconnection with being Puerto Rican.” She had grown up in Throg’s Neck, a member of the “first” Puerto Rican family on the block of what is often considered an intolerant bastion of the “white” Bronx, and her only experience with being Puerto Rican was going to La Marqueta (in El Barrio/Spanish Harlem), eating alcapurrias, and going back home. By the time she got to high school, she was so “disconnected” that when she was finally “faced with Latino girls” she felt rejected.
“…I was sort of trying to find these moments of being able to connect with them and seeing this sort of icon of the earring and the closeness that they had, I wanted that, I wanted to feel a part of that and here I am, sort of crazy young stupid high school girl thinking that this was the way I was going to get to be Puerto Rican.”
The panelists were respectful but at times skeptical. La Bruja felt the sting of the word, but didn’t want to be part of censoring it, expressing ambivalence about taking part in the Spic Up, Speak Out series at El Museo del Barrio. Marcos Dimas and Nitza Tufiño outlined the experience of the original “Nuyorican”artist and the sense of social responsibility. Miguel Luciano cautioned artists about how discussions that Puerto Ricans/Latinos have “in house” should be distinguished from what is presented to the mainstream.
Things got heated when the sculpture was defended by Wanda Ortiz and Calderón. Ortiz, who called herself an “Alterna-Rican,” said of “Round the Way Girl,”
“I saw this as high brow/low brow, in an educated formal art discourse. It’s the elevation of a difficult word and elevating what would be considered low brow jewelry, underclass, very negative and put this other thing, which is pain on top of this symbol of upper echelon Latino iconography… To me as purely conceptual, dealing with identity politics as a conflicting discourse I found it succinct and effective.”
Papoleto Meléndez, with poetic frankness said that embracing the word spic was like “embracing buckshot that’s been shot at you with a shotgun.”
Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, who had to leave early, reminded us that Puerto Rican author Pedro Juan Soto published a colleciton of short stories called “Spiks” with illustrations by the great Lorenzo Homar. But, for him, “the old question ‘What’s in a name’ comes back. And what’s in a name has to do with history, prejudices, stereotyping, social consequences. Not just a question of labeling something post-spic. The prefix post is very tempting and seductive. I understand the irony behind this and I like irony but I don’t know if the majority of the audience seeing this will see it ironically.”
I felt disconnected from Calderón’s disconnection. If a connection existed, I muttered aloud, there is no issue with the use of the word. It was the message conveyed by the disconnection that disconnected me. “This was my disconnection from my own culture,” said Calderón. “It was me feeling from other Latinos that I was not good enough. This was being brought on to me from other Latinos. This is the internal racism that goes on from other Latinos, the internal classism that goes on, because I did grow up in a middle class neighborhood.” So then, it was a “classist” attitude from the girls that didn’t accept her that provoked this?
My bad. I should have asked–before my mutterings set off a roar all around me–who was speaking the word spic in this sculpture? And who was the recipient of the slur? Is “spic” what she thought of the girls that didn’t accept her, and was that what she wanted to embrace? Or was it the girls who were calling her a spic (metaphorically of course), because she was the (middle-class) other? If so, it’s hard to imagine that they were guilty of being”internal classists,” for the same reason that I find the concept of “reverse racism” incomprehensible.
As for the controversial goal of re-appropriating slur words, it’s hard to make sense of “re-appropriating” spic, because the word is dead. It died when Piri Thomas, re-channeled years later by Willie Perdomo, announced, “spic, spic, spic, you ain’t nothin’ but a nigga.” Just when Puerto Ricans were about to be racialized as a “third race,” we opted to be black, and many of us, rightly or wrongly, continue to address each other as [n-word]s. As far as I know, we have not as a people shared that embrace at the apex or our imaginary stoop, sighing at the top of our lungs, “What up, my spic!”
Even Calderón, in a strange attempt to defend her piece as rescuing an iconic symbol that could unite similarly disconnected Latino youth, lamented that the word was being “phased out,” as the audience roared with uncomfortable laughter.
It was not out of fear but curiosity and some disgust for the word that much of the audience had gathered. If the earring had spoken some important truth about the word spic, the hard work of re-appropriation, intriguing but hardly necessary for the survival or our culture or identity, may have begun. But emblazoned as it was with an absence of meaning, it hung over the panel like a logo for a press release, a sensationalist ploy to draw a crowd.
[Post-script: We have to assume it’s unrelated to the “spic” controversy, but at the same time this panel was going on, El Museo del Barrio’s board was announcing that director Julián Zugazagoitia has resigned to take a new job as director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.]
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Wanda is right. The distinction to be made is between an institution (or curator) using the sobriquet and an artist using it in a work of art. The artist is always right–when it’s good art.


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The evolution of priorities and working capital applied to a supply chain is typically based on a metric that points to a rationale of needed change. To achieve this, an organization must discover where to focus energy in order to get the desired outcomes to meet business goals. The purpose of the Supply Chain Total Cost to Serve (SCTCS) formula is to lay the groundwork for high-level direction. In this article, we will cover the idea and basis of what is SCTCS, some useful applications of the formula, and how to manage SCTCS as a metric within your organization.
What is the SCTCS formula? Some people refer to this as the total cost of ownership, but in this article, we explore a deeper model that is more end to end. Some also call this “cost to serve,” but again, the formula being shared here is more robust and different.
All Inbound Costs – All logistics, receiving, inbound equipment, safety, technology, full-time employees (FTE) staff relating to this area
All Costs to Procure – All inventory variance, inventory costs, tariffs, technology, FTE staff relating to this area
All Holding Costs – (Product is stationary) – Storage costs, technology, maintenance, FTE staff relating to this area
All outbound Costs – Outbound assets, routing/last-mile costs, network design, technology, FTE staff relating to this area
All Return Logistics Costs – inventory returning, costs to return, technology, FTE staff relating to this area
= Total Supply Chain Cost to Serve – Includes all the transactional costs associated with the supply chain process, after the sale of goods is complete
Excluded: Sales cost, certain leadership costs (C-Suite), marketing costs, and certain administrative costs. The rationale is that these costs are required to obtain sales and are not related to the transactional qualities of a supply chain process. This formula is dedicated to the supply chain total costs to serve, which focuses on the costs of moving product through the supply chain.
Useful Applications of the SCTCS Formula
These will be based on a specific timeframe, period, quarter or year. Organizations can gather useful information by utilizing the formula in the following ways:
1) Used as a standard metric in total to measure the overall cost dollars of the transactional supply chain.
2) Dividing the SCTCS costs by the total sales dollar amount or reflecting SCTCS totals as a percent of sales dollars.
3) Dividing the SCTCS costs by the number of cases or units sold or reflecting the SCTCS as a dollar cost per case or unit.
Directionally, when you take SCTCS as a percentage of sales, you are understanding how to leverage those costs based on sales. As the costs as a percentage decline with increased sales, you are, in theory leveraging your supply chain costs to manage more sales. Relating the SCTCS to sales, cases, or units helps to keep the relativity of your overall cost number.
Managing this Metric Inside Your Organization
Most of this information is tracked in a company on a high level. It is important to work with your CFO to determine the best use of this formula for your organization. Don’t re-invent the wheel, but use the data collection you already have in place on a high level to gather the course of the SCTCS metric. Then collaborate with your CFO to add on key components that you may be missing to build the right details pertaining to your company targeted outcomes.
Engagement, empowerment, and communication are the secret sauce to ensuring that the rest of the organization is in tune with the power of this metric. Always ensure that this is not the only metric, but rather that this metric sits with other important metrics in balance so that your vision of your supply chain is well-executed. You will need to dive into certain areas of the formula to dig deeper and resolve issues that are driving costs.
As you apply this formula to your organization, it is important to get the view of supply chain teams to create the data. This process drives engagement of the SCTCS metric as a valid tool.
While meeting with teams, be sure to discuss the empowerment process of change or transformation as new ways or new processes are generated to reduce costs. This is important to expedite cost reductions, creating a culture of continuous improvement and achieving desired goals.
Consistent and effective communication is the other important strategy to implementing this metric. Timely and accurate reporting is essential to building trust, and the use of this metric can be a northern star for your supply chain. Effective communication is listening to those empowered to carry out improvements based on data provided by the metric.
In conclusion, the SCTCS metric can be a powerful tool to help your organization get to the next level in your supply chain and creating a dynamic business advantage.
Best Practices to Implementing SCTCS
• Collaborate with your CFO by using your current cost tracking channels to formulate this metric inside your organization on a high level.
• The CFO will offer some ideas on how to dig deeper in certain areas as the SCTCS metric peels back layers of opportunity within your supply chain costs.
• Spend 30 days or less putting this formula together within your organization on a high level to get traction and focused ROI.
• Ensure you have a plan for engagement, empowerment, and effective communication.
• Ensure you have a validation process to build trust in the metric as a solid tool, along with other metrics that balance this metric so that directionally you make continuous improvements over time. Beware of knee-jerk reactions. Taper direction with further observations, communication and collaboration.
Wade Wickus is CEO & co-founder of Link Supply Chains, LLC. He has over 30+ years of experience in the distribution supply chain. He has spoken at several events including CSCMP, SCOPE, and other leading organizations. He has a very popular podcast called “Supply Chains…The Secret Sauce,” found on all major podcast outlets. Link Supply Chains, LLC is one of the fastest startup product information management companies in the USA and has a mission to simplify supply chains, reduce costs, and make B2B communication fun again. Visit www.linksupplychains.com for more information.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of PARCEL.

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