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Reggie Watkins was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia and has played the trombone for twenty-four years. After attending West Virginia University for Jazz Performance he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to become a staple on the music scene. There he began playing and recording with various groups.
In 1999 Watkins joined Maynard Ferguson as Trombonist, Musical Director, and Arranger for the legendary jazz trumpet player. On the road with Ferguson, he performed thousands of gigs and educational workshops worldwide. He can be found on many audio and video releases with Ferguson and his band. Reggie is featured Trombonist and Arranger on the 2001 Maynard Ferguson/Diane Schuur release 'Swingin For Schuur'.
In 2003 Reggie was selected as one of only eleven semi-finalists to perform at the prestigious 2003 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition in Washington D.C.
In 2004 Watkins released his first solo CD as Band Leader, Trombonist, Composer, Arranger, and Producer entitled A-LIST. The album features sixteen musicians, all original compositions and arrangements, and is part of "The Maynard Ferguson Presents Series".
In 2008 he joined the Grooveline Horns and began touring with Jason Mraz. In 2009 the group performed on "Saturday Night Live", "The Today Show", at Radio City Music Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, The Java Jazz Festival, The Oxygen Festival, Farm Aid, "The Tonight Show with Conan O'brien" and an extensive world tour.
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FRC's Tony Perkins: Christians Who Voted for Obama Should Repent
President Obama is “hostile” and “disdainful” of Christianity.
That’s according to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. Perkins told Dr. James Dobson, president of Family Talk, in a broadcast last week that he believes Obama has used his position as a bully pulpit that has “created an atmosphere that is hostile toward Christianity.”
Perkins’ comments came after the two, along with Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund, discussed a recent incident in which the Air Force Academy apologized for promoting the ministry Operation Christmas Child on campus. The apology was issued after a former cadet and founder of the Religious Freedom Foundation, Michael Weinstein, complained that the Air Force crossed the line in promoting the charity because it endorses Christian ideas. According to Christianity Today, the Religious Freedom Foundation got phone calls from over 130 cadets after they received a campus-wide email detailing the ministry and Weinstein filed a complaint that forced the Air Force to issue an apology.
“And we’re seeing this (hostility) played out all across this culture. And the courts have been emboldened by this. And now you see the military doing it as well. There’s no end to this as long as you have someone who is the Commander-in-Chief, who is the president of this country that has a disdain for Christianity,” Perkins continued.
Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse which oversees Operation Christmas Child, somewhat agrees with Perkins. He, however, did not say Obama himself was hostile to Christianity, but acknowledged that some in his administration was. In a CNN interview a year ago, Graham said:
“I don't think there's any hostility [from Obama]. But I certainly think there are probably some people under him that would be hostile towards evangelicals.””
“The evangelical community has been disenfranchised in this administration. I think they need to understand that there are millions of evangelicals that voted for President Obama this last election. But there has not been a movement towards this administration, toward the evangelical community at all.”
Perkins told The Christian Post that the administration has coined a new term called “freedom of worship” which is distinctly different from the “freedom of religion” that the constitution guarantees.
“There is a huge distinction between the two. Freedom of religion is the ability to live your life based upon your religious teachings. Freedom of worship is what constitutes 9 to 11 am in most Churches on Sunday morning.”
Perkins went on to explain that the Obama administration is taking away a citizen’s right to live based on religious teachings and that it is evident in recent court cases as well as the military. For example, the health care overhaul mandates Catholic institutions provide health insurance to cover contraceptives.
“That’s strictly against their doctrine,” Perkins said.
“Any Christian that voted for Obama in 2008 should be repenting [and voting differently] in the next election. This administration has been the most hostile toward religious freedom.”
Perkins urges the public not to be fooled by Obama’s campaign rhetoric which will probably ramp up its pro-Christian language just in time for the election.
“Whether you vote Democrat or Republican, disregard the (candidate’s) rhetoric and look at the record. This administration has an extensive record of hostility toward Christianity.”
Correction:Friday, November 18, 2011:
An article on Thursday, November 17, 2011, about Tony Perkins' comment about voting for President Obama incorrectly stated that Dr. James Dobson is the president of Focus on the Family. Dobson is the president of Family Talk, and the founder of Focus on the Family, which he is no longer affiliated with.

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Public sector major Canara Bank is going to open 105 branches and an equal number of ATMs besides 10 Financial Literacy and Credit Counselling Centres (FLCCC) across the country on Friday to mark its Founders' Day.
The Madurai Circle, comprising eight southern districts, would be getting two new branches and six ATMs besides a FLCCC – Amulya – which is to come up near the Anna Bus Stand here. All these would be declared open by the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at New Delhi, according to B.R. Balasunder, Deputy General Manager of Madurai Circle.
The two branches are coming at Gomathipuram and Melur in Madurai district while the ATMs are coming at Jaihindpuram and Peraiyur in Madurai, Allinagaram in Theni, Manamadurai in Sivaganga, Veerakeralampudur and Kayathar in Tirunelveli district.
The Madurai Circle has 125 branches.
Further, the bank would also be disbursing 1,00,000 general credit cards and 50,000 smart cards during the occasion. In Madurai Circle, 10,000 smart cards and 5,700 general credit cards would be issued. A total of 500 self-help groups would be provided credit linkages and 17 new farmers clubs would be formed. A blood donation camp has also been scheduled, he said.
The FLCCCs, being set up under the aegis of Canara Financial Advisory Trust, would impart education on responsible borrowing, educate people on proactive and early savings and provide debt counselling to individuals indebted to formal and informal financial sectors.
He said that the centre would also educate people in urban and rural areas on the various financial products available in the formal financial sector and formulate debt restructuring plans for borrowers in distress.
Retail lending campaign
Mr. Balasunder also informed that Canara Bank would also be conducting a retail lending campaign here on Saturday and Sunday (November 20 and 21). Similar campaigns would also be held simultaneously throughout the Madurai Circle in Kanyakumari, Virudhunagar, Tuticorin, Sivaganga, Tirunelveli and Ramanathapuram.
The campaign would feature stalls for disbursing housing, vehicle and traders loans besides finance for small and medium entrepreneurs and general banking schemes.
Major builders and vehicle dealers would also take part. Legal help desk and Valuers' Desk would also be put up.
A special savings bank account campaign would also be held to offer SB accounts, mutual fund and insurance policies, open demat, trading and CASA accounts.
In Madurai, the campaign would be conducted at MADITSSIA Hall at Dr. Ambedkar Road between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on both days, a press release said.
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Hello everyone, this is my first time posting, looking forward to kitchen talk! I just got the kitchen manager postition at my restaurant. Looking forward to opening 'NOVO' next wed (9/20). We had to close for 9 months to retrofit the building (open for 3 years prior to retrofit). We're the talk of the town with global cuisine and creekside dining. Wish me luck, its gonna be busy!
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On Capital Tonight: UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System are in talks to form a partnership that could create the largest health care organization in North Carolina. But is it a good idea? Will it increase care and decrease costs? We ask reporters Rose Hoban of North Carolina Health News and John Murawski of the Raleigh News & Observer who have been following the story. And we get analysis from health policy experts Barak Richman of Duke Law School, Katherine Restrepo of John Locke Foundation, and Brendan Riley of NC Health Advocacy Project.
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Howell Foundation offers insight into osteoporosis
La Jolla-based Howell Foundation for Women’s Health held a luncheon May 28 at La Jolla Country Club, inviting guests to “bone up” on their knowledge of osteoporosis. Speaker Heather Hofflich, osteoporosis expert and associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSD School of Medicine explained the causes, treatments and recent developments in viewing the disease that affects approximately 54 million Americans.
Osteoporosis, Hofflich explained, is caused by low bone mineral density and poor bone quality. As such, bones become porous and weak, and can fracture or break easily, especially from falls. Hofflich recommends that all women have their bone density screened starting at age 65, and men at age 70. However, she said, anyone who has experienced a fracture after age 50 should also have their bone density screened.
How it’s measured
When bone density is screened, the patient gets what is known as a T-score. “People come in my office all the time and say ‘I don’t know what these numbers mean,’ ” she said. “A T-score of -1 to -2.5 registers bone density as having something called osteopenia. There has been some debate about this term because it’s essentially pre-osteoporosis and while fractures still can happen at this stage, your risk for fractures is lower. T-score of -2.5 and lower is considered osteoporosis.” The number is used as a comparison to the T-score to those of a healthy adult of the same sex and ethnicity.
Patients under age 50 who need their bone density screened are provided with a number known as a Z-score, which compares their bone density to a normal adult of the same sex, ethnicity and age. Z-scores are read the same way as T-scores.
Extended use of certain medications can contribute to osteoporosis, Hofflich said, particularly steroids of more than 5 milligrams a day for longer than three months or long durations of acid-reducing Proton-Pump Inhibitors, such as Prilosec or Nexium, which are thought to reduce calcium absorption.
Other risk factors include age, tobacco products, excessive alcohol consumption, being underweight (less than 125 pounds), previous fractures and family history.
Medications that cause dizziness contribute to falls, which she said is a leading cause of broken bones among those with osteoporosis, especially in the hips and spine. Being mindful of medications that affect stability and removing trip hazards from the home reduces one’s risk of a fall.
Hofflich said the best way to prevent osteoporosis is to increase one’s calcium intake to “safe levels.” Whenever possible, do so from food sources rather than from supplements. “We recommend 1,200 milligrams daily for women over 50 years old; 1,000 milligrams for men over 50,” she said. However, some people take too much calcium in the form of supplements. “I hear people say they eat chocolate calcium chews all day, and I have say no, that’s too much!” she said.
She pointed out that a glass of milk has 300 milligrams of calcium, as does six ounces of yogurt. Leafy greens such as kale, turnip greens and lettuces are also high in calcium. However, excess intake of calcium can contribute to the risk of heart attack if calcium deposits in the heart.
When it comes to calcium supplements, she said there are two kinds: Calcium Carbonate, which needs to be taken with food to best be absorbed, and Calcium Citrate, which does not need to be taken with food. She added the bottle should identify which type of calcium it contains. She also recommends looking at dosage on the bottle, as some are two tablets per serving, others are only one.
Changes in treatment
“In the past, we would take your T-score and if you were a certain age and had a score below -2, you automatically went on medication. Now we look at those that have osteopenia, and say to ourselves ‘they don’t have osteoporosis but they are at risk, so what do we do?’ ” she said. “Someone with a low T-score but with no risk factors might not need treatment, but monitoring.”
With a focus on monitoring, the frequency at which patients are checked depends on the individual, she added. “Medicare suggests screening once every two years; however, if you are on a certain treatment you might be screened every year,” she said. “Studies are underway looking at how often people should screened. If you have osteopenia, you could actually wait five years between screenings.”
There is an osteoporosis education and support group that meets at noon on first Wednesdays at UCSD’s Thornton Hospital, third floor, SDG&E Room, 9300 Campus Point Drive. All meetings are free and open to the public. (858) 657-7236.
■ The Howell Foundation presents luncheons throughout the year to discuss various women’s health issues. The next will be Aug. 5 with speaker Karen Nelson from the J. Craig Venter Institute on “The Human Biome.” Details at howellfoundation.org


PHOENIX (Reuters) - The Arizona lawman who bills himself as “America’s toughest sheriff” predicts the New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl and says some inmates will be allowed popcorn as they watch Sunday’s face-off with the Seattle Seahawks.
Joe Arpaio, the 82-year-old sheriff of Maricopa County where the National Football League’s championship game will be played, held an event on Saturday at which he popped the popcorn and forecast the Patriots will triumph 27-17.
He also took a cheeky jab at his favored team over the “deflategate” scandal, in which the Patriots are accused of using under-inflated footballs during their AFC championship triumph against Indianapolis.
Holding up two mock footballs, one for each team, Arpaio noted that the one for New England was softer. “I don’t know if I can blow this up, but it is kinda deflated!” he said with a chuckle.
Arpaio, who was born in Massachusetts, told supporters this week that he will run for a seventh term in office and sought donations for a race he said will pit him against “celebrity lefties” determined to defeat him.
The Republican, who was first elected in 1992, is known for his tough stance on illegal immigration, as well as conditions that opponents have said are too harsh in the county’s detention facilities, including one known as the Tent City Jail.
The sheriff’s office said in a separate statement that the roughly 700 inmates incarcerated at Tent City, as well as all military veterans held in the county’s jail system, will be provided with popcorn to enjoy during the Super Bowl.
Arpaio often cites support from voters for what he calls his “no frills” jail policies, and he says Tent City inmates are fed vegetarian meals that cost just $1 per detainee per day.
“I’ve taken away meat, salt and butter, to save the taxpayers money,” Arpaio said in the statement issued by his office. “So while they will get popcorn for this special event, they’ll be eating it without salt or butter.”
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The New Alphabet/DNA #6: Carrier Bag Fiction
What if humanity’s primary inventions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story? Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding. [publisher's note]
With contributions by Sophia Al-Maria, Laurel Halo, Season Butler, Federico Campagna, Dorothee Elmiger, Ursula K. Le Guin, Enis Maci, Nisha Ramayya, Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin, Jenna Sutela, Anna Tsing, Himali Singh Soin, Anna Haifisch.
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Lavrov: China, ASEAN interested in organization of Eurasian partnershipRussian Politics & Diplomacy May 28, 11:45
MC-21 airliner makes first test flight - sourceBusiness & Economy May 28, 11:00
Putin sends greeting to Border Guard on their professional holidayMilitary & Defense May 28, 10:57
Ukrianian court puts on hold lawsuit against ban on Russian social networksWorld May 28, 6:10
Russia’s Lasitskene wins high jump in Diamond League event in Eugene, USSport May 28, 4:59
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LIMA, November 18. /TASS/. The Russian aviation in Syria is currently engaged only in missions in the provinces of Idlib and Homs to prevent militants of the Islamic State group from crossing into Syria from Iraq, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"Our aviation and the aviation of Syria work only in the provinces of Idlib and Homs in order to prevent the IS from crossing into Syria from Mosul," he said.
Earlier this week, Western media and officials have repeatedly accused Russia of striking civilian targets in the Syrian province of Aleppo.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has called the reports a "common lie." On Wednesday, ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said Russian aviation have not been delivering any strikes on Aleppo for 29 days already.


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What does a feminist Internet look like and what might it entail in the Indian context? Would the Indian woman be the primary beneficiary of a feminist Internet? If yes, which Indian women benefit from it?
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Gender Equality is the lever for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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- Twitter began its roll out of its Twitter Blue blue check verification this week.
- It offers users the chance to pay $8 a month for a blue check verification
- A new Chrome extension uncovers which accounts are genuinely verified and which paid to play.
A new Chrome extension allows you to immediately see which Twitter users have paid for a blue verification checkmark and which were verified prior to the launch of Elon Musk's newly unveiled version of Twitter Blue.
Visually, previously verified accounts and those who have purchased Musk's new $8-a-month Twitter Blue verified check mark look exactly the same. It's only when you go to the user page and click on the blue checkmark that one of two messages will pop up:
The Eight Dollars extension allows users to shortcut the process and see on their Twitter feed which accounts have paid for verification and which have not. Accounts display as "actually verified" or "paid for verification."
The extension saves users the step of having to go to a profile page to check the status of an account.
The verification status also displays on the user's profile page.
Earlier this month, Musk railed against Twitter's previous verified account system, calling it a "lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark."
Musk has said that his Twitter Blue check mark "will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people," but also acknowledged a financial incentive for the push. In a company-wide email to Twitter employees Wednesday night, Musk said the company's financial situation was "dire."
"Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription," he said.
Siince its launch on Tuesday, there's already been widespread misinformation across the site (in one case, a fake LeBron James panicked Lakers fans when he requested a trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers), and Musk himself admitted in a Twitter town hall on Wednesday that it might be "a dumb decision, but we'll see."


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I've made some progress, mostly with mods to the lower hull to clear some space. This boat is tight on space, very narrow.
Have a Novak Xxtra receiver, a mini-speed control and a couple pico servos all roughed in. Going to attempt to use the existing driveline, modified the kit "stuffing box" to allow for regular petro-jelly injections.
I modified the kit bow plane setup to be controllable, and separated the upper hull in this area. Attached the bow section to the lower hull, leaving the rest to be removable.
With some mods to the battery pack, I was actually able to fit the pack from my Albacore (now deceased) into the lower hull. I prefer to find something smaller. Anyone use Li-ion batteries, or am I just asking for trouble??
Do I have pictures? Yes, I've been keeping a rough diary as I go along.
Unfortunately, I will be out of commission for the next month, so the boat will be on hold.

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INDIANAPOLIS—IFD firefighters battled a large fire at Indianapolis Industrial Center Recycling Plant on Indy’s southside Saturday morning.
Firefighters were dispatched to 3000 Shelby St. at 8:09 a.m. on reports of heavy smoke and visible flames coming from a building.
The first fire unit arrived to the scene at 8:31 a.m. and they discovered heavy smoke coming from single story metal structure.
The building is the Indianapolis Industrial Center Recycling Plant that decommissions product and recycles it. It has been at that location since the 1920’s according to the building owner.
Firefighters aggressively attacked the fire and 28 IFD units were dispatched to the scene.
IFD reports that approximately 75 firefighters were on the scene.
Firefighters got control over the fire at 9:42 a.m.
IFD and IMPD fire investigations rule the fire accidental and believe it to be sourced from a 5t wheel parked inside the structure. The exact cause is still undetermined.
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The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said on October 22, someone said they found hidden cameras in the bedroom of a minor female known to 48-year-old Robert Wayne Roady of Roseburg.
When Roady, a Roseburg VA police officer, was interviewed, he reportedly admitted to placing the cameras in the room of a 14-year-old for sexual purposes.
During the course of the investigation, two other minor victims were identified, DCSO said.
Roady was arrested and lodged in the Douglas County Jail on nine counts of invasion of personal privacy in the first degree. Additional charges are being considered.

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His Highness the Aga Khan, has opened a new garden in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada in a move that continues his global greening initiative. The Garden was a gift to the University of Alberta from His Highness the Aga Khan, celebrating over 40 years of partnership between the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the University of Alberta.
The Aga Khan Garden is the 11th such park or garden developed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) – an agency of Aga Khan Development Agency around the world. The creation of parks and gardens has been an important part of AKDN’s work particularly in several rapidly urbanising cities in the developing world, including Cairo, Egypt, Bamako, Mali, Kabul, Afghanistan and Delhi, India.
The Trust’s overall objective is the improvement of the quality of life, whether through the physical, social, cultural or economic revitalization of communities. It includes the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, the Aga Khan Music Initiative, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, the on-line resource Archnet.org and related programmes.
The Aga Khan Garden at @UAlberta's Botanic Garden is a beautiful gift to the people of Alberta. Everyone, from families who have been here for generations to recent immigrants, will find moments of peace, calm and reflection here. And even a little fun. #ableg #ualberta @akdn pic.twitter.com/gwFAbIOVG6
— Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) October 17, 2018
Construction of the Garden, which was recently completed, marked both the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation and the Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee – 60 years since he became Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslim community.
The Aga Khan Garden brings to life the principle of pluralism, of which His Highness has been a life-long advocate. In the 4.8-hectare Mughal-inspired space, traditional Islamic landscape design takes on strikingly contemporary features. Garden elements from some of the world’s best Muslim architecture — including the Taj Mahal and Humayun’s Tomb in India – are interspersed with distinctively Canadian features, from Alberta’s wild rose beds to Canadian-quarried stonework.
Designed by landscape architect, Thomas Woltz of the world-renowned landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz in collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (an agency of the AKDN), the Garden provides a stunning example of Islamic landscape architecture — exploring the beauty and boundaries of vegetation, light, water, geometry, symmetry, adaptation and human scale. The serenity of nature is highlighted in each of the design elements including secluded forest paths, granite and limestone terraces, still pools that reflect the prairie sky and a waterfall that tumbles over textured stone.
It is expected that the addition of the Aga Khan Garden will more than double the number of annual visitors to the University of Alberta Botanic Garden (from 75,000 to 160,000), benefiting the local economy and adding significantly to the architectural and cultural landscape.
The Garden is one of numerous initiatives developed by His Highness in Canada for the benefit of all Canadians, including award-winning architectural landmarks such as the Aga Khan Museum and Aga Khan Park in Toronto, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat and Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa, and the Ismaili Centres in Burnaby and Toronto.
AKTC is re known for creating such green spaces which have turned to be a major success not only in creating ecological clean zones but also luring in investment and trade in areas like tourism and recreation. In 2005, the creation of the 30-hectare (74-acre) USD $30 million Al-Azhar park, undertaken in the historic district of Cairo by the AKTC turned the tide for Cairo, one of the lowest ratios of green space to urban population in the world – an area the size of a footprint per inhabitant, according to one estimate.
Egypt’s capital, has a population of 17 million, and Al-Azhar Park therefore provides much-needed leisure and recreational space while functioning as a “green lung” in the heart of the city.
The project was designed as an agent for economic development, and has become a case study for creative solutions to a spectrum of challenges facing historic cities, including ecological rehabilitation all over the world.
The project included the excavation and extensive restoration of the 12th Century Ayyubid wall and the rehabilitation of important monuments and landmark buildings in the Historic City. It also encompassed an extensive social development programme, including apprenticeship arrangements, housing rehabilitation, micro-credit and health care facilities.
Al-Azhar Park is listed among the 60 of the World’s Great Places by Project for Public Spaces.
In East Africa, Aga Khan has expressed his desire to uplift the Nairobi City Park amid drawbacks. When the Aga Khan visited Kenya in April 2018, he had a further talk with President Uhuru Kenyatta on the park. They discussed enhancing the quality of life of Nairobi residents by increasing the green spaces in the city through a project to restore Nairobi City Park to its original glory as the “Green Jewel of Nairobi” as quickly as the enabling conditions and instruments to conclude this partnership can be achieved.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in 2012 between the Government of Kenya, the then Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture, the City Council of Nairobi and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to collaborate in the rehabilitation and restoration of the Nairobi City Park to international standards in terms of architecture, landscape and horticulture.
The primary objective of the collaboration and project was to rehabilitate and redevelop Nairobi’s City Park as major metropolitan park which would be recognised internationally for excellence in restoration, environmental practices and financial self-sustainability. The project was to create a prototype of urban park rehabilitation in Kenya and restore the City Park such that it complements and enhances the existing environmentally important areas and will become an attraction of great repute.
The agreement foresaw collaboration through environmental improvements, landscape architectural conservation and enhancement and creation of new facilities. These activities were meant to improve the quality of the site, making the environment safe for visitors to the City Park and provide the necessary infrastructures by respecting the natural and cultural heritage of the City Park and the people of Kenya.
However this project did not kick off as local politics continued to hamper its development. However,when Aga Khan met President Kenyatta, the project lifeline was rekindled.


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The other day, a reporter asked me, “What is narrative, anyway?”
I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull).
I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the human condition (as I said, it was early and …).
Then it occurred to me that we throw the word “narrative” around pretty freely these days. Yet here was a veteran, sophisticated reporter who was keenly interested in producing this thing she heard everyone talking about, but honestly wasn’t sure what it meant.
At that moment, I wished I could have been like Woody Allen in “Annie Hall” when he trots out Marshall McLuhan to demolish a movie line bore. I could have said, “Well, let’s ask…”
So I did the next best thing, which was to ask a lot of smart people — reporters, writers, editors, authors, teachers — for their answers.
Over the next two columns, I’ll share their responses. I hope you’ll contribute yours, too, and join our virtual roundtable discussion.
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I think of narrative as storytelling: that is, as a way of ordering events and thoughts in a coherent sequence that makes them interesting to listen to. It therefore has a strong oral heritage. The sequence doesn’t have to be strictly chronological, though it can be; it can include digressions and flashbacks and foreshadowings, just as a story recounted around a campfire can. But because narrative is powered by events, its goal is not essentially analytical or critical — though, like many stories (especially in traditional genres — folktales, fairy tales, fables), it can contain substantial moral lessons.
— Anne Fadiman
Editor, The American Scholar
Author, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down“
“Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”
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Narrative is the dirt path that leads us through the impenetrable forest, so we move forward and don’t feel lost.
— Wade Rawlins
Raleigh News and Observer
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What we are doing is telling stories. The strict definition of “narrative” is seldom used as Fitzgerald used it in the “Great Gatsby.” Fitzgerald had a character tell us a story from his point of view. We tend to write in the third person from the omniscient point of view, thus story telling.
A story told using:
- Character. In which a personality is revealed or changed.
- Scenes. A place described where an action occurs.
- Time. Used to define the limits of the story and around which action is organized.
- Technique. The use of descriptive writing and dialogue.
- Purpose. A theme or development which is of interest or importance to the intended reader.
Skillfully done, the story unfolds allowing the reader to meet the characters as they encounter problems with which they deal in a place and time the reader experiences with them.
— Joel Rawson
Executive Editor, The Providence Journal
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“Narrative” means any technique that produces the visceral desire in a reader to want to know what happened next.
— Bob Baker
Los Angeles Times
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For me, “narrative” is a tool I use sparingly in telling a story.
Andre Dubus taught me the difference between narrative and scene. An example of narrative, inelegant narrative, is an old movie, where they superimpose a calendar over a bustling background, and show the pages flipping off to indicate: time passed.
When teaching narrative I use a short story from Richard Yates’ collection “Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.” The story’s called “Fun with a Stranger.” I don’t have it here right now, but in a simple, elegant paragraph he captures the passage of an entire school semester, then breaks into a new, short pararaph to seamlessly transfer into scene.
Scene tightens time. To write a scene you need to capture the details of setting and the nuance of character. (Good character capturers include dialogue, action, and what you and Tom Wolfe call the status details.)
Sometimes the phrase “narrative journalism” confuses me, too, for it is an inexact phrase. I consider what I do, what a lot of us write, as storytelling journalism. Much of journalism does not tell a story, nor is it intended to; many newspaper pieces have no more ambition than to present information. Tobias Wolff rightfully says “information is the death of story” which means that as far as storytelling goes, much journalism is dead at birth. The stuff is useful to people who want that information: Red Sox 3, Tampa Bay 2; it does not tell a story. Sometimes people don’t want to make the effort to read a story, to be cajoled and led along; in these instances journalism, as opposed to storytelling journalism, is the right format.
Storytelling journalism employs the techniques of fiction: point of view; time; scene (which includes setting, characters, dialogue); and narrative. Yet it remains true to the tenants of journalism: accuracy; honesty; integrity of intentions.
The short answer I’d give your questioner is the above paragraph, substituting Storytelling Journalism with Narrative Journalism, though if I had my way we’d all change “narrative” to “storytelling.”
— Gerald Carbone
The Providence Journal
“The Wrong Man,” with Cathleen F. Crowley
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Story. A narrative moves forward by dramatic and chronological sequence.
It may just move forward all the time or may move back and forth, but the reader assumes that it has a starting point (conflict) and an ending point (resolution).
Between the starting and ending point there is dramatic action. Characters act (and dialogue is action) and react. The action and reaction changes them in a way that is significant to them and to the reader.
Narrative does not (usually) tell the reader about the story as traditional journalists do but as novelists and screen writers do. The narrative writer reveals the story so the reader watches and comes to the reader’s own conclusions about the significance of the events the reader has observed.
Show, don’t tell. Mark Twain: “Don’t say the old lady screamed — bring her on and let her scream.”
— Donald M. Murray
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Obviously terms everyone uses, but no one can quite define (but everyone is eternally pressed to define) are about vast, various, blind-men-feeling-elephant sorts of concepts.
I get asked that “What’s narrative?” question all the time, and given the name of our slice of the Nieman Foundation, I’ve been pressed on it. When first starting the program, in jest, I tried to evade what I knew would be coming by suggesting that we should call ourselves “The Nieman Program for ‘Contactful’ Journalism.” Journalism that doesn’t act like the reader is a robot or doesn’t know and feel and snicker and get wild. Perhaps the question you’re really being asked is a more truculent one: “What’s up with this narrative stuff?”, a question that denotes factions and dis-ease with the clear movement toward more narrative in news coverage, the quest for a definition is simply a conversation starter.
Anyhow, here’s my official answer: At a minimum, narrative denotes writing with a) set scenes, b) characters, c) action that unfolds over time, d) the interpretable voice of a teller, a narrator with a somewhat discernable personality, e) some sense of relationship to the reader/viewer/listener, and f) all arrayed to lead the audience toward a point or realization or destination.
To comment on each of these:
a) Set scenes: Lots of unpracticed narrative writing simply is haphazard or naive about painting physical location — objects fly about, are near and far, we’re inside and outside: I call it ‘Chagall-like description.’ It’s easy and quick to set readers down IN a scene, and it’s requisite for narrative, at least for engaging narrative.
b) Characters: If the standard (and much lamented, by most everyone on your list) news-voice is the voice of a beneficent bureaucracy, the speech of informative sentinels on the walls of the city, issuing heads-ups to citizens (“A fire yesterday at 145 Elm St. destroyed … Damage is estimated at … “), it is a voice that eschews investigations of character. Persons, in the world of news-voice, are citizens, not characters. They have addresses, ages, arrest records, voting district and precinct locations, official hospital conditions, and military statuses. These are ‘civic traits.’ Narrative is about people doing stuff, and to some extent, and in the right places, must reach past civic traits if it is to cover real folks’ real stories well.
c) Action that unfolds over time: This is the very essence of narrative construction, the I-Beams of narrative on which all else leans, hangs, depends. It also offers a non-topical way of organizing material — arraying it chronologically, as it’s experienced by a character in a setting, crossing outline categories, but following experiential ones. Most narrative articles/books represent a sensible truce in the struggle between chronological and topical organizational principles.
d) Voice: … which is only possible if the reader/viewer/listener is so engaged by the strong voice of the teller that the …
e) Relationship with audience: … reader willingly follows the teller through unset topical digressions, shifts gladly and interestedly to other settings and characters, and back, and if the reader then starts assembling in mind …
f) Destination: … a sequence of subtextual comprehensions that work toward the reader’s engineered discovery that the story has a theme, purpose, reason, destination — that it’s worthwhile to ingest it.
— Mark Kramer
Director and Writer-in-Residence,
Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
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As editors of “River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative,” my co-editor and I spend half of our time explaining what we mean by “river teeth” and the other half explaining what we mean by narrative. I like to define narrative the old-fashioned way, as a “telling.” “Here’s what happened to me. Let me tell you about yesterday. Here’s what it was like growing up the way I did.” All we need to do is take a look at how many people and groups of people — a lot of them historically marginalized — who use narrative in its less structured essence, whether this is the narrative of a slave life, the narrative of … fill in the blank.
I like David James Duncan’s definition of what a narrative can be: “What we want from a writer is a canto (Old English “fyttte” : fit), which was originally defined as a burst of bardic energy sufficient to satisfy an audience (a reader).”
Maybe that’s all we’re ever talking about.
— Joe Mackall
Co-editor, River Teeth
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I always thought it was telling the reader or viewer a story through you own eyes sort of like the character Sarah Jessica Parker plays, Carrie Bradshaw, from “Sex in the City.”
— Ruth Bashinsky
New York Daily News
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At least the reporter didn’t ask, “Well, what is news, anyway?”
I agree that narrative is, put simply, just storytelling. It’s what I do when my wife asks me how golf went and I describe how it was that I nearly birdied but eventually bogeyed the last hole of the day, shot by shot, with insertions about the weather, the conditions, my state of mind, the unfairness of life, how I set out to reduce my stress and wound up creating it. Some of this I render for her in pictures. Some I cannot. But it’s all still a tale, a yarn, a story, a narrative.
Which, in a way, is to say that narrative is not always show rather than tell. Sometimes the writer needs to step back and explain what’s going on, what something technical or complicated means, or why something in a minimal context is important in a broader sense. I read narratives now and then that I recognize as great writing, but the writer never deigns to tell me what it all means, or why she’s telling me what she’s telling me, or why he took me wherever he took me, and so I move on to the sports section where all the many tiny narratives within the “stories” aren’t so opaque (I know what it means when Notre Dame loses to Michigan, 38-0. The apocalypse is near!).
Sometimes it’s just easier, and faster, to tell something rather than show it. (Say you’re writing a tale of how Alan Greenspan came to the conclusion that the Bush tax cuts were all wrong. It’s hard to show tax cuts. Sure, you can illustrate their effect, but at some point you’re gonna have to stop and tell me what the hell they are. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a hell of a story here, although it would take a better reporter than me to get it.)
Although it borrows method from literature — plot, character, theme, conflict — it’s really more like documentary film. We strive to show all that we can, but now and then the viewer/reader needs to have things explained. I’m writing a narrative now that involves an intense disagreement between two powerful interests over how best to remedy a particular social ill. I have lots of sharp pictures (or at least I think I do) of characters doing things in conflict with each other. But their disagreement involves rather esoteric arguments that defy “show” but lend themselves to “tell.” So every now and then, alas, I have to look into the camera and speak.
And what I say when describing that bogey can only be shown on HBO.
— Bryan Gruley
Wall Street Journal
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— Craig Matsuda
Los Angeles Times
Here’s what I’m getting out of the great attempts to define narrative: That some get at the question by an inventory of the required elements of narrative: scenes, dialogue, character, point of view, and the like. That helps enormously. But it’s also necessary to define what those tools are designed to create: I agree with those who say “experience.” A narrative or story is a form of vicarious (or substitute) experience. The story transports the reader to a place and a time not otherwise available to the reader. We can problem climb another step up: What’s the purpose of such vicarious experience: maybe empathy, understanding, catharsis. Here’s another way to climb this step ladder of narrative:
1. What special tools do I need? (Scenes, etc).
2. What am I trying to make? (Stories)
3. What is the effect of stories? (Vicarious experience)
4. What’s the value of such experience? (Human
— Roy Peter Clark
The Poynter Institute
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I agree that we bandy this word about without a clear shared sense of what it means, and at the risk of sending writers off for weeks or months of frustration.
I tend to use the term carefully. Mostly, I talk about “storytelling,” or use other story descriptives (profile, explanatory, etc.) that help define the basic approach or goal of a story. Then we talk about weaving “narrative elements” into those stories.
A true narrative, as I understand it, requires 1) core character, 2) facing core conflict, and 3) resolving same through a forward-moving plot.
That leaves many, many great journalistic stories off the list.
But narrative elements … character, scene, dialogue, description, action, tension, etc. … can enhance almost any story, no matter its form.
That said, I haven’t had my Red Bull yet today either.
Many of the great journalistic narratives of recent years (done by fellow travelers Jon Franklin, Tom French, Tom Hallman, etc.) require considerable use of reconstruction. In the days post-Jayson Blair, I’m wondering if we need to reprise our discussions about where the line is drawn on reconstruction and credibility. You all at Poynter hosted a great session a few years back. Has our thinking changed? Do we have ways to signal to readers that a piece is true when we all admit we weren’t actually there?
— Jacqui Banaszynski
Seattle Times, University of Missouri
“Six Paths to Story”
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What is narrative?
I don’t use the word much any more because I’ve found that too many writers aren’t quite sure what it means. To me it means “storytelling” … nothing more, nothing less. So mostly I use that word now. Nearly everyone seems to understand what THAT means (although too few people seem to know how it’s done.) I don’t think it requires definition, but in case it does: “Storytelling” relates a series of connected events, using chronology (what happens next) as the main organizational element. Pure storytelling (or narrative) requires a theme (a central point or message). And it requires the classic character/problem/struggle/resolution structure that is part of every story from fairy tales to Melville to the “Sopranos.” It also requires a narrator — a speaker or writer who takes control of the material, shapes it, and relates it in an appealing and personal voice. Finally, storytelling (or narrative) elements can be inserted in articles that are not pure narrative from top to bottom. For example, a well-told anecdote in the body of a block organization story is a form of narrative or storytelling.
— Bruce DeSilva
The Associated Press
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Didn’t Jon Franklin say narrative is simply “chronology with meaning”? Characters and theme add up to meaningful.
I appreciate Bruce’s DeSilva’s remarks on the term narrative. My boss doesn’t like it when I use the word. Call it “storytelling,” she says, because narrative is unfamiliar to many people and for some it has bad connotations. I find, though, that people who avoid or are unfamiliar with the term frequently “don’t get it.” Some are just learning, others are resisters and think of people who use the term narrative as effete. I try to draw these folks out with some questions so I know if I’m dealing with ignorance or prejudice.
— Dick Weiss
Deputy Metro Editor / Writing Coach
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Dad’s Write Stuff”
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We can use many, many words to describe narrative — and perhaps we should — because it is bandied about, too often used loosely or incorrectly. But I usually come back to just two words that are easy to remember — and which emphasize the two most important elements: “Chronology with Meaning,” in Jon Franklin’s phrase.
Because a narrative is not simply what-happens-next, plot and action … It is storytelling in which the writer/narrator makes sense of the action for you. The writer has the authority, grounded in reporting, to interpret.
I like what Nabokov wrote: “The term ‘narrative’ is often confused with the term ‘plot,’ but they’re not the same thing. If I tell you that the king died, and then the queen died, that’s not narrative; that’s plot. But, if I tell you that the king died, and then the queen died of a broken heart, that’s narrative.”
— Jan Winburn
The Baltimore Sun
“In Search of Story”
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Here’s my humble attempt: Narrative simply means storytelling, with a sense of character, time, and place. Narrative journalism goes beyond the mere facts of traditional news writing to tell a human story. The story line flows from the lives, thoughts, and emotions of the people at the center of that story as they face changing circumstances. A narrative has a thoughtfully arranged thematic development. The story continues to enlarge from beginning to end, almost like a flower unfolding in the sun, until an epiphany or sense of understanding is revealed at the end. Style is an important element of narrative writing, as well: The stories should be written with sensitivity, depth and grace that raise them above the ordinary.
Narrative journalism is often described as nonfiction written with the techniques of fiction, but I don’t think that’s an adequate explanation. The inviolable rule of narrative journalism, of course, is that everything must be absolutely, verifiably true.
— Matt Schudel
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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I’d say narrative is a chronology that goes somewhere.
My thinking is heavily influenced by Jon Franklin and Don Drake.
Here’s what they said in “The Journalist’s Craft”:
Jon Franklin: “Narrative is a simple thing, at bottom: chronology with meaning.”
Don Drake: “You might say that a narrative is an anecdotal lead that keeps on going until the end, unlike conventional stories with anecdotal leads, which are to storytelling what a stripteaser is to sex. An anecdotal lead excites, but the story never delivers what it promises.”
— John Sweeney
Wilmington News Journal
co-editor, “The Journalist’s Craft”
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For me, it’s storytelling in the simplest and most complex ways.
I don’t think it works without some mystery and suspense, and with a concept seldom talked about in this biz — movement.
Movement is accomplished by having a sense of the reader’s experience, and knowing where and when to tuck in details without disrupting the gradual but smooth unraveling of the story.
— Steve Lopez
Los Angeles Times
“What Do You Do With All the Pots?”
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Narrative — whether we’re talking about an intricately, creatively structured story or the oft-damned inverted pyramid — is merely a thread that combines words and facts in a way that keeps the reader reading. A good narrative is a fast read because each sentence is a transition sentence. This creates flow which, combined with fact, makes a story absorbing until the end.
Much was made of the fact that the movie “Memento,” (a landmark deconstruction of narrative) was filmed backwards — with the opening scene the last event of the movie, and the last scene the first event. But the narrative itself moved forward — the story was tight and linear and had a beginning that hooked you and an ending that stunned you, despite the dazzling construction.
— Mark Fritz
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, 1995
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A narrative is a factual story told with fictional techniques. Example: Taking note of scenes and details that wouldn’t make it into a more traditional story. “Alone in her office late at night with only a goose-neck lamp for illumination, the city manager furrowed her brow over the budget for the coming fiscal year … “
A narrative isn’t just writing, it’s reporting through all of one’s senses.
A narrative is a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
A narrative is a story about a person or group and how that person or group changes over the course of the story.
A narrative does not depart from the cardinal rule: Make nothing up or you’ll be out of here and working at the Sunglass Hut so fast it’ll make your head spin around.
A narrative doesn’t have to be “A Year in the Life of ___,” nor does it have to take up four open pages after jumping from the front page.
A narrative is a journalistic form that has fallen into considerable disfavor in the wake of our craft’s ceaseless, self-flagellating credibility crisis.
A narrative reveals character through action.
A profile can be a narrative if it gets into how the subject changed over time and what the turning points in his or her life were. A profile of Howard Dean that states his positions on issues is not a narrative. A profile on where Howard Dean came from, what about that time and place informed his character, what his views are and how he came to hold them can be a narrative.
A narrative is a grandiose and outdated appellation that makes those who write them look like prima donnas and those who don’t look like overworked hacks.
— Patrick Beach
“The First Son”
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Entire books, many of them, have been written to explain what narrative is. Here’s a brief overview I just wrote for a writing textbook I’m revising for Bedford Books, “Convergences.” I can’t explain narrative in 25 words or less or even in a neat punch-line quip. But maybe this would interest you.
Storytelling appears throughout all cultures and is an inseparable part of human life. Our brains seem to be “hard-wired” for constructing narratives, for putting events in sequences, for selecting details, for reporting our experiences to others. We begin doing these things in very early childhood, practically as soon as we learn to speak.
The stories we tell also help us construct identities, both for ourselves and our communities. As Harvard historian Drew Gilpin Faust puts it: “We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose purpose and meaning on experiences that often seem random and discontinuous.” If that is the case with individuals, it is equally true for cultures and communities, who share stories in the form of myths, legends, and historical narratives. Understanding ourselves and the world we live in is many ways dependent upon understanding what we do when we relate a story, whether through words, pictures, or movements.
We naturally see our lives in terms of stories. In much of our conversation we spontaneously narrate the events of our day: this happened, then that happened, and so on. Such informal, everyday narrative consists of a string of events connected chronologically. This is the simplest and most common form of narration. Although we may imagine our life as a story, it should not take a lifetime to tell it! In narration, knowing what to leave out is as important as knowing what to include. Anyone who has listened patiently to a long-winded friend laboriously relate a story has often casually expressed an important criticism of all narration: “Please, get to the point!” we want to say, as we try to stifle a yawn. Our long-winded friend gets lost in details, often interrupting the flow of events to include yet another detail, one that may have no bearing on what happened. Worse, some incidents suggest completely irrelevant details so that the storyteller becomes “sidetracked.” We all know people who cannot tell us about getting a flat tire without first telling us how they bought the car.
Effective storytelling is not a matter of simply repeating a continuous sequence of events (x happened, then y, then z) but of selecting events that lead to something significant (x happened, which resulted in y, and that culminated in z). Skillful narrative, then, is not so much sequential as it is consequential. This is what we normally mean when we say a story has a plot. A plot is a deliberate shaping or staging (see the introduction to Chapter I), of events to achieve a particular effect: suspense, surprise, intrigue, a sudden illumination or transformation, a moral. The renowned British novelist E. M. Forster made a useful and much-cited distinction between plot and story in his classic study of fiction, “Aspects of the Novel” (1927): “‘The king died and then the queen died’ is a story. ‘The king died, and then the queen died of grief’ is a plot. As you can see in this very brief example, one is sequential and the other consequential.
A plot deals with the causes and consequences of the events, and adds to the story’s level of artifice. For example, we can tell a child an artless, rambling bedtime story that we make up as we go along. But if we want our story to have the impact of surprise or to make a moral point, we usually need to know our ending in advance. Plots — as we know from many films and detective stories — can be elaborately constructed.
Although narrative and story are commonly used interchangeably, we can best consider narrative as the overall construction of a story. As we know, the same story can be told any number of ways. Deciding how to tell a story forms the basis of narrative art: should we begin at the beginning or start at the end and proceed backward? Which events should we select and how should they be arranged? Should we establish a strict time period or not worry about gaps in time? Should we report multiple points of view or focus on a single perspective? Anyone who undertakes a screenplay, a novel, or cartoon confronts these decisions, whether consciously or not. “All my films have a beginning, a middle, and an end,” said the French director Jean-Luc Godard, “but not necessarily in that order.”
Narrative structure can be found everywhere: in jokes, lab reports, historical accounts, personal essays, songs and ballads, news coverage, comic books, movies, sitcoms, and ballets such as the Nutcracker that tell a story through dance. Some television commercials are mini-narratives lasting only a few seconds without dialogue or commentary. Even photographers find ways to work with sequential storytelling methods as Nora Ephron dramatically shows in her essay “The Boston Photographs.”
— Robert Atwan
Series Editor, “Best American Essays”
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Narrative, to me, is telling a story.
It is using the techniques of classic storytelling as the structure for news/feature reports.
Narratives return journalism to the simplistic, yet complicated, state of telling stories.
— Karen Dunlap
The Poynter Institute
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I still have to ask myself that question. What is a narrative anyway? As a reporter, I really don’t know. I’m guessing that most reporters always try to write with voice (one of those narrative characteristics) and lots of detail. The narrative forces you to find a theme or a thread of the day and weave it through the entire story (which is something a lot of reporters already try to do). The narrative forces you to consider every single possibility and angle as the beginning of the story (like most stories). The narrative allows you to use more source-to-source dialogue (like most stories … you hope). For me, a narrative is a narrative when everyone else says it’s a narrative. For me the reporter, I’m just trying to write the best story for the readers. To be honest, Chip, I’m not smart enough to figure anything else out.
— Demorris Lee
Raleigh News & Observer
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Narrative is what I come up with when I put my niece to bed and she says, “Tell me a story.” I tell her a story, I don’t tell her an article.
— Janet Rae Brooks
Salt Lake Tribune
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Narrative? Good question. I’ve been accused of writing narrative newspaper stories, but no one has ever asked me to define the term.
Let’s see: A story that follows a central character or characters, usually through adversity or difficult circumstances, along a dramatic arc that closes (in most cases) with a clear resolution. In the case of newspaper narratives, somebody usually ends up dead, or at least indicted.
— David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times
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I see this as a two-parter: defining narrative and doing it. Defining it seems fairly easy: For journalists, a narrative is a piece presented in storytelling form instead of report form.
Knowing how to do that is harder. Chapters and books, many by people in this group, have been devoted to that question. But I think the essence is finding a way, without any compromise in accuracy or any other journalistic value, to dramatize what is meaningful and special by telling a story that makes it as hard as possible for a reader to stop reading.
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University of Maryland
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A narrative is not just telling the reader what happened, but putting the reader there.
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The Providence Journal

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of “Ezochi”; the region now known as Hokkaido. Our latest Ki Gallery exhibition, PIRKANOKA-EZO, by Akira Tanisugi, celebrates some of the most scenic regions in Hokkaido, known as “pirkanoka”.
"Pirkanoka" is the Ainu (Hokkaido indigenous language) word meaning 'beautiful shapes'. It is also the word given to locations in Hokkaido which are officially recognised as natural scenic landscapes with rich Ainu culture. These locations are protected by the government and are considered important cultural property.
To the people living in Niseko, Mt Yotei is unarguably the most enchanting landmark around. Whilst enjoying spring skiing and the view of Mt Yotei, discover more of Hokkaido's beauty by visiting our exhibition. Here are some of the beautiful shapes in Hokkaido, featured in the photography exhibition at Ki Niseko.
Katsuyama, otherwise known as Kutunnpuri is located in Nayoro City. For the indigenous people, it was once an important spot for prayers and served as a landmark for hunting.
The Golden Mountain (Pineta Ior Shipe) is located in Ishikari city. It is the birthplace of the young hero in the Ainu folktale, Poyaunpe. In the legend, a young boy fought against the God of sea to save villagers from destruction. In present day, the mountain is said to continue to act as a guardian for Ainu people.
The almost vertical cliff was once a battlefield and was considered a scared place where festivals for the gods were held.
These are only a few of the beautiful shapes dotted around Hokkaido. To see more of these come visit our Ki Gallery featuring a photography exhibition by Akira Tanisugi. The exhibition is from 22 February until 6 May, 2018.
Interested in more events in May? Come to our Golden Week Festival.

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Why not allowing people with a visual disability to have a smartphone that they can find aesthetically pleasing not through vision, but through touch?
The moveable pins work as outputs as they move up and down individually to create a message in braille or an icon with texture. They as well work as inputs since they are also buttons that can be pressed to either select an option or type a message. By this it is possible to simulate a touch screen that doesn’t need sight.
The aim is beauty and pleasure through textures, as well as an up-to-date smartphone for people with a visual impairment.
Textura explores a new, unseen side of simplicity and minimalism.


Jon Anderson and Jean-Luc Ponty’s long-awaited collaborative CD/DVD is coming soon. We’ve got details on tour dates, too.
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Released on July 24, 1976, ‘Olias of Sunhillow’ makes clear why Jon Anderson soon turned to solo projects, and why Yes would ultimately move on, too.
Yes’ “Sweet Dreams” may have a decidedly non-progressive rock feel, but it is one of the stronger compositions on 1970’s ‘Time and a Word.’
An inventive and frenzied drum part from Bill Bruford helps propel Jon Anderson’s “Then” into the upper echelon of early Yes songs.
‘Time and a Word’ opens with “No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed,” a Yes song which doesn’t quite sound like Yes.
Yes knows a thing of two about survival. As such, it seems only fitting that the last song on their debut is so titled.
Has Yes finally hit upon a successor to Jon Anderson who diehard fans will accept? Keyboardist Geoff Downes thinks so – and here’s why.
A promising-but-still-transitional composition from Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford and Chris Squire, “Harold Land” points to bigger things from Yes.
“Yesterday and Today,” from Yes’ 1969 debut album, finds the world’s greatest progressive rock band sounding anything but progressive.
Released this week in 1971, ‘The Yes Album’ was their big-bang moment, a project where the full scope of Yes’ genius began to take shape.


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By Alissa Arunarsirakul // February 11, 2020
Los Angeles has always been known for sunny beaches and celebrity culture, but now we have a new gift on the horizon: Ry. The rising pop charmer balances a hectic college schedule with the free time he devotes to honing his musical craft, and we are eternally grateful for his dedication. With several songs already recorded, Ry plans to release a few singles over the coming months–with “Hard Seasons” being his second.
We’ve all had low moments, and Ry’s here to let us know that there’s always sunshine after rain. “Hard Seasons” features the sweetest vocals that’ll melt your heart as you appreciate Ry’s honeyed lyrics. Amidst the blissful acoustic strumming, Ry sings about how music has been his crutch even in his darkest times.
On “Hard Seasons,” Ry reflected,
“‘Hard Seasons’ came as a surprise. We were in the middle of writing another song and the chorus came out of nowhere so we rode the wave. The song is about the consistency that music gives me with the comfort of having something positive to lean back on.”


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In a heatproof bowl, combine the hot Simple Syrup with the hibiscus tea bags and let steep for 5 minutes. Discard the tea bags and let the syrup cool. Transfer the syrup to a jar, cover and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.


Chapter 5. Setting Up a Drawing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Determining the unit type
Setting the drawing size
Working with drawing scales
Adding a titleblock
Understanding system variables
Often, the first step after you start a new drawing is to set its size and unit type. These and other setup options are discussed in this chapter. The entire process of setting up a drawing is essential for ensuring accurate results. You can save most of these settings in a template to avoid having to re-create them each time you start a new drawing.
Choosing Unit Types
One of the first tasks in setting up a drawing is to choose the unit type. Units define how objects are measured. You can save the unit type in a template.
The Initial Setup dialog box allows you to specify your industry and a template. These can affect your units. For example, if you choose the Architecture option on Page 1 and a template suitable for your industry on the last page, whenever you start a new drawing, your units will be architectural. You can change these settings at any time by choosing Application Button
The coordinates that you use in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT are measured in units that can represent any real-world measurement, such as inches or millimeters. A surveyor or city planner might even use miles or kilometers as the base unit. However, different disciplines have customs that express units differently, and ...


text: Humanities › History & Culture The Wives of Anthony the Great According to Eleanor G. Huzar Share Flipboard Email Print Bettmann Archive / Getty Images History & Culture Ancient History and Culture Rome Figures & Events Ancient Languages Greece Egypt Asia Mythology & Religion American History African American History African History Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century Women's History View More By N.S. Gill Ancient History and Latin Expert M.A., Linguistics, University of Minnesota B.A., Latin, University of Minnesota N.S. Gill is a Latinist, writer, and teacher of ancient history and Latin. She has been featured by NPR and National Geographic for her ancient history expertise. our editorial process N.S. Gill Updated August 23, 2018 Mark Antony was a womanizer and it could be said that his decisions were made by his wife, which was considered improper behavior at the time. The Roman emperors Claudius and Nero ran into trouble later for similar reasons, so although Antony's third wife Fulvia had what may have been good ideas, Antony was frowned upon for following them. Antony's debauched lifestyle was expensive, and so by an early age, he had accumulated tremendous debt. It is possible that all his marriages were carefully conceived to provide money or political advantage, as Eleanor G. Huzar argues in "Mark Antony: Marriages vs. Careers," from The Classical Journal. The following information comes from her article. Fadia The first possible wife of Antony was Fadia, the daughter of a rich freedman named Quintus Faius Gallus. This marriage is attested in Cicero's Philippics and letter 16 to Atticus. However, it is an implausible marriage because Antony was a member of the Plebeian nobility. His mother was a 3d cousin of Caesar. The marriage may have been arranged to help with Antony's 250 talent debt. Cicero says Fadia and children were all dead by at least 44 B.C. If he actually married her, Antony probably divorced her. Children: Unknown Antonia In his late 20s, Antony married his cousin Antonia, a proper wife, to help his career. She bore him a daughter and they remained married for about 8 years. He divorced her in 47 B.C. on a charge of adultery with Publius Cornelius Dolabella, husband of Cicero's daughter Tullia. Children: Daughter, Antonia. Fulvia In 47 or 46 B.C., Antony married Fulvia. She had already been married to 2 of Antony's friends, Publius Clodius and Gaius Scribonius Curio. Cicero said she was the driving force behind Antony's decisions. She bore him two sons. Fulvia was active in political machinations and although Antony denied knowledge of it, Fulvia and Antony's brother mutinied against Octavian (the Perusine War). She then fled to Greece where Antony met her. When she died shortly thereafter in 40 B.C. he blamed himself. Children: Sons, Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Iullus Antonius. Octavia Part of the reconciliation between Antony and Octavian (following the mutiny) was the marriage between Antony and Octavian's sister Octavia. They married in 40 B.C. and Octavia bore their first child the following year. She acted as peacemaker between Octavian and Antony, trying to persuade each to accommodate the other. When Antony went east to fight the Parthians, Octavia moved to Rome where she looked after Antony's brood (and continued to do so even after divorce). They remained married for five more years during which time they never saw each other again. Antony divorced Octavia in 32 B.C. when the confrontation that was to be the Battle of Actium seemed unavoidable. Children: Daughters, Antonia Major and Minor. Cleopatra Antony's last wife was Cleopatra. He acknowledged it and their children in 36 B.C. It was a marriage that was to be unrecognized at Rome. Huzar argues that Antony made the marriage in order to utilize Egyptian resources. Octavian wasn't very forthcoming with the troops Antony needed for his Parthian campaign, so he had to look elsewhere. The marriage ended when Antony committed suicide following the Battle of Actium. Children: Fraternal Twins, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II; Son, Ptolemy Philadelphus.

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This is one of those shows that has garnered a lot of its popularity courtesy of its bigger sister series franchise, Slayers and while the look of Lost Universe is very much on par with that of the other superior Kanzaka effort, the sad fact is that Lost Universe is definitely lacking in many departments.
While the show is a flip-side to everything that Slayers is, it differs greatly in several regards. The most notable is the timing of the show, but I'll get into that a little later.
For right now, Lost Universe is more or less an alternate universe story in contrast to Slayers, where in the universe of Lost Universe the names of characters come from the Black World instead of the Red World, and the super-power beings are represented as massively powerful Lost Ships... did you catch all that?
The series is based on the light novels by Slayers creator Hajime Kanzaka, and the novels did have some success, though it was largely due to the popularity of the Slayers series.
From a story stand-point, Lost Universe is riddled with many false starts, and bounces back and forth rather clunky-like between the action, the drama and the bits of the show that are intended to be funny. Combine that with the monumental production issues during its creation, and it's a wonder the series wasn't canned before it saw the light of day.
Some of the initial footage of Lost Universe was destroyed in a fire at the studio, and the scenes were hastily redrawn, resulting in sub-par quality for those replaced parts, not to mention the forth episode animated by the Korean based, San Ho Studio which used poor character charts for their drawings and the result was awful.
Beyond all that though, the story is solid, even if it has these flaws. Though, once we push past the Japanese market and move it to the North American distribution, it takes an even worse turn.
The dub is terrible, most likely one of the worst I've heard in years; and despite the fact that this anime was licensed and distributed during an anime surge in the American market, it failed to receive a proper dubbing and script. The resulting English version inserted hysterical laughter during the commercial eye-catches, and throughout the entire dub, it seems as if the characters are screaming and yelling everything they want to say, despite the intensity or refrain on the moment. It was to the point that I ended up watching the show subbed for a vast majority.
Probably the best parts of Lost Universe, is Megumi Hayashibara as Canal—the sentient holographic AI of the Sword breaker Lost Ship—and her singing. Aside from the, this is one of those shows, whose heart was in the right place, but failed to reach its dream.


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Turkish league leaders Fenerbahce's match at Trabzonspor was abandoned on Monday after their players were pelted with objects thrown from the crowd.
The referee had already halted the game twice before deciding to end it 10 minutes into added time at the end of the first half.
Fenerbahce were leading through a goal from Emmanuel Emenike when the game was called off.
Fans continued to clash with police in the streets following the match.
The Istanbul derby between Besiktas and Galatasaray in September was abandoned after supporters invaded the pitch at the Olympic Stadium.

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This year's edition of the downtown-dominating festival has its obvious standouts, like Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, the Brubeck Brothers and Trombone Shorty. But there are many more interesting artists to catch up on and more adventurous music to experience.
* Roxanne Arsenault curates Formats X
* Reel Activism screen The Times of Harvey Milk
* The Peopl’s Comedy: Free Speech
* Mon oncle Anotine at Cinémathèque québécoise
* Syzzors and Blood and Glass at Divan Orange
* Rare Species at Royal Phoenix


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Along Castle Street in Totnes city centre; TQ9 5NU
The first castle at Totnes, beside the lowest fordable location on the River Dart, was a wooden structure erected soon after the Norman conquest, and this endured for around 100 years until replaced by a stronger, stone fort, probably under the command of William de Braose, the third Lord of Bramber. The fort had the traditional motte and bailey design, with a square keep on top of a conical hill of man-made origin, and a walled enclosure (the inner bailey) at the base, containing subsidiary buildings, all enclosed by a water-filled moat. Beyond, to the northwest, was the less-protected outer bailey, now the site of a park.
Totnes Castle was never particularly important and had only limited involvement in conflicts, so it was never significantly expanded, though the keep was replaced in the 1320s after the castle had passed to the de la Zouche family, with a sturdier design using the local sandstone and limestone. Hence the castle provides one of the best examples of the early Norman style of construction, being mostly complete and not subject to the major alterations that were carried out on most other fortifications from this period. About half of the moat remains, now dry, plus the majority of the curtain wall, and all of the walls of the later shell keep, which was much larger than the original, and circular rather than square in outline, with a diameter of 80 feet. Other remains are limited to the stone foundations of the earlier keep tower; there is no trace of the subsidiary buildings in the lower bailey.
The castle is high enough to be seen from many places in the centre of Totnes though is not so easy to reach, being surrounded by narrow streets, some one-way. The closest parking area is just few minutes walk away along North Street. The site is managed by English Heritage, open daily between April and October, and is perhaps a little overpriced, as the site is small and all can be seen half an hour or less. The castle is not particularly photogenic, and the nearby trees and buildings make it hard to obtain a good overall view of the site. Entry is up a short alley on the north side of the castle, past a fragment of the old town walls, and then the entrance booth, to the inner bailey, a grassy area are now used for picnics, beneath the shade of a few large, ancient trees. The bailey is enclosed by a mostly complete, curving wall about 500 feet long, with a modern opening on the north side, above the surviving section of the moat. The two south ends of the wall climb the motte and link with the keep. The south and east sides of the motte, which are crossed by a series of embankments, appear to be inaccessible to the public.
A stepped path ascends the north face of the motte to the gated doorway of the keep, allowing access to the circular interior, which contains the earlier tower foundations but is otherwise empty, though six corbels projecting from the wall to the northwest indicate the previous existence of an interior room. Either side of the doorway, inside the walls, are two short series of stone steps leading to the wall walk, which extends a full 360 degrees around the top of the keep, protected on the inside by modern railings. The battlemented walls survive to their full height, and the regular gaps allow commanding views across the River Dart valley. Some of the upper sections of the walls are pierced with arrowslits, some cross-shaped, others merely vertical. The only other feature inside the keep is an enclosed room, or garderobe, contained within the southern wall, illuminated by two arrowslits, one having been enlarged to make a small window.


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A PE wrapping is often used to eliminate external corrosion of cast iron pipe buried underground on a site. ACID-RESISTANT CAST IRON (AR) Commonly referred to as high silicon iron pipe, acid-resistant CI is an alloy of gray cast iron containing between 14.25 and 15% silicon, and small amounts of manganese, sulfur, and carbon.
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14/9/2017· The narrow production window for compacted graphite iron material (CGI) drastically reduces the possibilities to produce it in small batches outside an industrial environment. This fact hinders laboratory-scale investigations on CGI solidifiion. This work presents a solution to that issue by introducing an experimental technique to produce graphitic cast iron of the main three families
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It is well known that microorganisms tend to form biofilms on metal surfaces to accelerate/decelerate corrosion and affect their service life. Bacillus subtilis was used to produce a dense biofilm on an AZ31B magnesium alloy surface. Corrosion behavior of the alloy with the B. subtilis biofilm was evaluated in artificial seawater. The results revealed that the biofilm hampered extracellular
Phosphorus generally occurs as an iron iron-phosphide eutectic, although in some of the higher- carbon irons, the ternary eutectic of iron iron-phosphide iron-carbide may form. This eutectic will be found in the eutectic cell boundaries, and beyond 0.20 percent phosphorus a …
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Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) process has been used to develop a novel grain refiner Al-SiC master alloy for AZ91E Mg alloys. When the Al-SiC master alloy was added to molten AZ91E alloy, the Al matrix melted and allowed the SiC particles to distribute homogeneously throughout the molten AZ91E alloy. After addition of 0.1 wt.% Al-SiC master alloy to AZ91E alloy, the mean grain size decreased
a. CAST IRON Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. Carbon (C) ranging from 1.8–4 wt%, and silicon (Si) 1–3 wt% are the main alloying elements of cast
SRB have been implied in the corrosion ofcast iron and steel, ferritic stainless steels, 300 series stainless steels (also very highly alloyed stainless steels), copper nickel alloys, and high nickel molybdenum alloys (Videla, 1989). They are almost always
Inoculation with hardenability elements has also been used to improve the property of this cast iron . Grey cast iron is characterized by presence of a large portion of its carbon in the form of graphite flakes. Although grey cast iron is often defined as steel
The microstructure of cast iron alloys is predominantly by melt influenced chemical composition, the inoculation and melt treatment processes conducted prior to casting, and the cooling rate during solidifiion [66, 67].
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Although Ductile Iron and steel are superficially similar metallurgically, the high carbon and silicon levels in Ductile Iron result in important differences in their response to heat treatment. The higher carbon levels in Ductile Iron increase hardenability, permitting heavier sections to be heat treated with lower requirements for expensive alloying or severe quenching media.
Silicon carbide can offer more control over the iron process as it provides inoculation and de-oxidization benefits. Appliions In the foundry industry, metallurgical silicon carbide is used frequently as a carbon and silicon additive in the manufacturing of cast, malleable and ductile irons.
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Sexual harassment has been a societal problem forever. In recent years, many victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace have been silenced by their employers through arbitration agreements. Arbitration agreements take away of a victim’s right to Court and the use of a jury. Thus, not only is their claim being adjudicated by one adjudicator instead of a jury of their peers, worse, the filing is not public and thus no one ever learns of the employer’s misconduct.
In recent years, the Supreme Court of the United States has made rulings making arbitration agreements valid even if they must be signed to obtain employment. This allows employers to take advantage of their employees’ need for work and lack of legal knowledge to strip them of their voice and force them into a proceeding biased towards corporations.
The rise of the #metoo movement, though, has shed light on this issue. And, one of its biggest achievements has just occurred., which is the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, which was passed, on February 10, 2022. Below is a brief Q&A on the Ending Faced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act:
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