#Communcations Authority

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overcooked 𖦹 LN4

PAIRINGS: lando norris x female!reader

SUMMARY: play overcooked they said, it’ll be fun they said.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: i just can’t help write about the idea lando playing overcooked, so i did. hope you’ll enjoy this! :)

REMINDER: this is purely fiction, the way how the character is portrayed in my story does not reflect the person that is portraying my character in real life. always separate fiction from reality, and do not repost or copy my work in any way.

WORD COUNT: 1k

WARNINGS: typos and ferrari strategy meme

Lando’s twitch stream was in full swing, and the chat was buzzing as you settled beside him, controller in hand.

“Alright, babe, let’s see how well we work together,” Lando teased, flashing you that signature grin. You rolled your eyes, already sensing that this game of overcooked might be more than what you bargained for.

You both dove into the first level, the kitchen chaos unfolding on the screen as you both tried to chop, cook, and serve orders with as much coordination as two people shared a life, but perhaps not a kitchen.

“Lando, the onions! You missed the onions!” You shouted, pointing at the screen as the virtual kitchen teetered on the brink of disaster.

“Relax, I’ve got this!” Lando replied, but his character was already running into walls, the pot burning on the stove. You could feel the frustration bubbling up, your competitive nature kicking into high gear.

You took charge of the kitchen, barking orders like a seasoned chef, while Lando scrambled to keep up. “Chop the onions faster, Lando!” You yelled as the kitchen timer ticked down. Lando, flustered, accidentally tossed the onions into the trash instead of the pot.

“Oops,” he said, trying to suppress a laugh.

“Oops?” You shot back, incredulous. “Lando, we’re running a restaurant, not a garbage disposal service!” The twitch chat exploded with laughter, and Lando couldn’t help but chuckle as well.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity of trying to manage orders, avoid fires, and stop Lando from accidentally throwing perfectly good ingredients into the trash, you both managed to complete the level. The result? Two stars. You stared at the screen, eyes narrowing.

“Unacceptable.” You muttered, “this is unacceptable!” You declared, your voice suddenly dropping into a perfect Gordon Ramsay impression.

“Oh look, baby we got two stars! That’s not bad!” Lando said excitedly as he pointed on the screen.

“Not that bad? Are you kidding me, Lando?” You snapped, fully embodying the spirit of Gordon Ramsay. “We were all over the place! No communcation, no strategy. Honestly, what was that—your best effort? Do you want to serve that to people? Do you?!”

Your sudden intensity caught Lando off guard, but before he could say anything, you were now pacing back and forth in front of him. But before he could say anything, you were off on a tirade, launching into an elaborate explanation of your strategy. You gestured wildly, pointing at the screen, completely absorbed in your monologue.

“Okay, listen. First, you need to stay on your side of the kitchen. I’ll handle the chopping and the prep work—because clearly, you’re incapable of doing both without setting something on fire. We need to streamline the workflow. I’ll chop, you’ll cook, and we both plate. But!” You pointed at him, your expression deadly serious, “no more improvisation. We need to stick to the plan. No more running around like a headless chicken.“

Lando blinked and nodded at you, clearly taken aback by your sudden switch into full-on chef mode. He opened his mouth to respond but then quickly shut it, his eyes darting between you and the camera that was still live streaming every second of your tirade. The chat was exploding with messages, his fans throughly entertained by your unintentional transformation into a culinary dictator, and Lando knows better than to interrupt you when you’re in the zone.

“And another thing,” you continued, pointing to the screen like you were delivering the world’s most important TED talk. “Timing and synchronization is crucial. We need to strategize and work like a well-oiled machine, not a circus act, okay? I handle the chopping, you’ll cook, and we both plate. We’ll divide and conquer!”

The chat exploded, the fans losing it as she continued, hands flying everywhere in wild gestures. Meanwhile, Lando was trying his hardest not to crack up, the corners of his mouth twitching as he watched her go on.

“Babe…baby,” Lando finally managed to interject, struggling to keep a straight face. “You realize we’re live, right?”

You froze, eyes widening as you remembered the twitch stream, the hundred of his fans who had just witnessed your unhinged rant. Slowly, you turned to the camera, a sheepish grin spreading across your face.

“Oh…hi, chat,” you said, your voice suddenly much softer, the intensity draining from your expression. “I’m sorry for that. That was not very demure, very cutesy, and very mindful of me.”

Lando burst out laughing, nearly doubling over as he clutched his stomach. “I think you’ve been watching too much Hell’s Kitchen, love. Gordon Ramsay has become your new personality,” he teased, pulling you back down and sat you on his lap. You groaned, burying your face on his neck, as he put an arm around your waist, but even you couldn’t help laugh at yourself.

“Come on, let’s get you that three stars.” Lando said as he chuckled again. You settled down beside him and gave you a kiss on your temple.

The rest of the stream was just as chaotic as when you both started playing the game, filled with rage, frustration, and hilarious uncoordination. Orders were still missed, pots were still burning, and Lando’s character even managed to fall off the kitchen at one point, but you were both too busy laughing to care. By the end of the game, you hadn’t earned a single three-star rating that you had intentionally wanted, but the stream had been a massive hit, and the chat was flooded with memes of your intense strategy session.

As Lando ended the stream, he leaned over and kissed you on the lips, still chuckling. “We may not be the best team in overcooked, but I think we’re the most entertaining,” he said, his eyes twinkling with amusement.

You rolled your eyes, but a smile played on your lips as you rested your head ok his shoulder. “Yeah, well, next time we’re getting three stars. I don’t care how long it takes.”

“Deal.” lando replied, wrapping an arm around you as you both relaxed, your own competitive sprit finally at peace—for now. “And can I say, it really turned me on when you started yapping.” His eyes wiggling, suggesting something that you knew fully well as you slapped him playfully on the chest.

“Oh shut up you.” You both laughed.

The kitchen might have been a disaster, but at least your relationship had survived the heat—well, barely.

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[ann-archive]

subject: John Durham Peters

Greetings,

Have you ever heard of John Durham Peters?

I have, although only recently. I had read only bits and pieces of his first book Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Something more intriguing to me however, is his book: The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media.

The first chapter, humorously called In Media Res (WHICH IS A BANGER SONG FROM LOS CAMPINSINOS BTW) is the name of the narrative device for when the narrative begins in the middle of the plot. Using the literary technique as a title references how the author intends to delve into the mechanisms of communication through the method of story-telling. In addition, the technique itself encourages interaction, and therefore encourages communication, with the media as it captivates the audience and immediately draws their attention.

In the introduction, Peter's writes how

"Media … are vessels and environments, containers of possibility that anchor or existance and make what we are doing possible."

He makes a statement on how media is not confined to institutions that share information, as media within human history exists far before this point of time.

I agree with this statement grately as it puts an elitism unto modern society and discredits the civilisations that came before us and assumes that there was not a means of meaningful communication through physical representations before the invention of the establishment. In addition, it discredits existing people groups that do not interact with large corporations or government institutions.

The author, still in his introduction mentions other means of modern communication such as social media, television, newspaper, radio. Notably, the majoity of modern communication is done through a digitial means. Regardless of methodology, Peters states how:

"Media always concentrate power along all three civilizational axes." These three acis are materiality, sociality and power.

In a review from Niall P. Stephans, from Framingham State University, he describes how:

"Peters considers media not only as human-made artifacts but as the entire infastructure underwriting our existence."

The reviewer continues to describe the book as being "more philosophical rather than administrative." I agree with this take immensely as out very own interactions with media is up to interpretation and persona bias. It all depends on the individual.

While I do not go that into depth into this book, or the authors thoughts, I am far more captivated in this book far more compared to the other communcation book.

Be well,

Ann A.

[earlysunshines]

ramble about everything, na author!!! i really love when you just talk about the things you like :))

remember when we talked about love? when you wrote a lot! i was happy to read everything and re-read!

and your spanish is good, author!! i think even better than mine, i never studied spanish i just do some improvisation with my portuguese lmao

#latinas!!

now... a theme to ramble about... maybe, friendship? im having some thinking about my close friends... bc one of them changed her view on things and she's more... idk living on the edge? she said something that it's on my mind for a long time and i feel kinda uncomfortable, but it's my fault too, i didn't open up to her about what im really feeling and i don't think she knows anyway...

i just avoid conflict to be honest and I think this time ill have to speak my mind, but i feel kinda pressure to do so

man... im overthinking!

hahaha my love ramble was just a whole brain dump LMAO

i had to dig for the spanish in my memories i swear, i forgot so much.

anyways let me ramble ab the thing you sent!

friendship hmmm i've also been thinking ab my close friends. if she said something that made you uncomfortable i think it's best that you talk it out with her, make sure both sides are heard and always know that communcation is very important!! with that being said, make sure you convey your ideas and actually process them, not just spit them out and create a false resolution. i avoid conflict too, but it's really important to communicate if this friend is very close to you.

a couple of years ago i was stuck with friends that didn't really fit with me; my old friends were too judgy and i didn't like being around people like that and couldn't really be myself. i distanced myself from them and ended up branching out, because of them i hadn't really done that much, and branching out led me to such amazing friendships. i think a lot of my current, stronger friendships are thriving bc i can express myself freely and not feel judged, and if i have a problem it's not hard to express--but also there aren't many problems bc my friends and i are pretty tight and connected.

i think friendships are really important becasue they can lead you to your platonic soulmates, twin flames, etc. i have a couple friends at the moment that I love so much, and i'm very grateful for them. little ramble: i think the purpose of life is to build great relationships--but with that being said it doesn't have to be romantic. I think platonic friendships are so so sos so important and it's very important to work out difficulties for people that are worth doing it for if ykwim.

friends are so important and imo, many people you build relationships can be much mroe valuable than family/blood ties.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."

Thomas Paine

Or try mud-wrestling with a true expert. You get dirty and your opponent has all the fun...

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: Survive The Night by Riley Sager

I am a big fan of Riley Sager, so of course I had high expectations for his latest release. I think this book has been out in the US for a while now because I’ve seen it doing the rounds on Book Twitter and BookTube. I don’t think I’ve actually read a review of it but as an auto-buy author, I was always going to be reading this book anyway!

In late 1991, Charlie is dropping out of college and is in need of a ride home to her Nana Norma’s house in Ohio. After posting an advert on the college communcal noticeboard, she meets Josh Baxter, who agrees to drive her. Charlie is wracked with guilt and grief for her best friend Maddy, who was murdered on campus two months before and Josh needs to get back to care for his ailing father -apparently. But as the dark road stretches ahead and the hours tick by, Charlie becomes increasingly suspicious that she may be sharing a car with the Campus Killer. She’s pretty sure she can escape his clutches if she can just survive the night.

Charlie is a Film Studies major and has an obsession with classic film noir. She has the air of a girl who struggles to make connections with people via normal means, which is why she has few friends. I think part of this is to do with the fact that she has been living most of her life inside movies. These films are her escape from the trauma that she has suffered but it has taken her away from reality.

Charlie has hallucinations, which means that she occasionally blacks out and sees the world through a movie-like lens. SIghts and sounds are heightened and she imagines conversations and events that she later finds out were all in her mind. She has no awareness of what really happened in that time, so there are periods of time where she doesn’t really know what’s real and what’s not. This means that although she was with Maddy on the night she died, Charlie can’t be a reliable witness to the crime that killed her friend, which is extremely painful for her.

One thing that Riley Sager is a master at is creating tension. Most of the book is a very intense stressful ride and this only increases when the twists start unravelling towards the end. Like Charlie, I was on edge for the entire car journey because the car was fizzing with anticipation of something terrible. I was expecting things to erupt and they did -but certainly not in the manner I was expecting!

Josh is an incredibly unsettling, suspicious character from the outset and my jaw dropped when he blatantly tricked and gaslighted Charlie. He knew about her mental state and used it to frighten her further. I was terrified of him and felt him more than capable of cold-hearted murder. I was just praying that Charlie would escape him as soon as she could.

Of course, Charlie is very distrustful of herself and she’s aware of what it would look like if she ran around seeking help. I think she is afraid that the fact she has a mental condition will make her words difficult for other people to believe and there’s no doubt that Josh has reinforced that train of thought during the drive. She is much more vulnerable than even she knows and while I could understand her fears about not being believed, I became increasingly frustrated that she wasn’t more proactive about getting out of the situation.

There is some commentary on the horrifically ingrained normality that is violence against women. Even women have come to accept it as a normal part of life and even internalise some of the blame. I love that Sager, especially as a man, decided to address this within a novel that leans on this issue so heavily. It just serves as a reminder that young girls being gaslit, overpowered and murdered by men doesn’t just exist in books and films. It happens every day in our real world and we need to remember that and do all that we can to fight it.

Charlie starts displaying symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome but I really didn’t understand why. She even fully explains that it’s because she senses that they are both lonely but I really didn’t think this was adequate redemption for the way he’d treated her for the majority of the book. I couldn’t get on board with this ‘kinship’ that she felt with him at all because my emotions had been parallel to hers and I really didn’t feel it myself. 

I’m afraid the ending was where it all went downhill. I felt physical anger that things panned out the way they did and it didn’t feel very authentic at all. It felt like a huge betrayal of Charlie and I was left feeling thoroughly confused and bewildered by what I’d read.

Survive The Night is a mostly a very intense, page-turning thriller that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. It’s very dark, very creepy and the twists are very unguessable. However, I think it’s going to take me a while to forgive Sager for that ending. I don’t remember the last time I felt this let down by a book that I really had been enjoying up until a certain point. It’s by far my least favourite of his books but if you like pulse-racing, twisty thrillers, most of it is very enjoyable!

Survive The Night by Riley Sager is available in eBook and audiobook format now and will be published in paperback by Hodder & Stoughton on 23rd December 2021.

[intermundia]

When I was in university, I worked on something called the “Homer Multitext Project,” the tagline of the project was “as many Homers as you please.” I helped edit the digitization of a manuscript called the Venetus A, which is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence. It is vellum, and was constructed at the end of the 10th century CE, arguably two thousand years after 'Homer’ first commited the story to writing.

The text itself is a copy of a copy of a copy etc. of that original written down version of the Iliad, which was probably done somewhere around the 6th or 7th century BC though the exact fixation date of the rest is hotly debated. An unbelievable amount of ink and vitriol have been spilled among scholars, believe me. Anyway, images of this incredible text are available online. Here is an example page:

The lines in the middle are Homer verses, the writing in the margins is called "scolia" and is commentary from generations of readers. THIS is how we have the text of Homer. How did we get this remarkable document?

In order to understand our literary heritage, we need to understand the phenomenon of “composition in performance.” It is simply crucial to understanding Homerica. The seminal work for this is done by Milman Perry (founder of the discipline of the oral tradition) and Albert Lord (professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard), who studied contemporary (1933-1935) Serbo-Croat bardic culture, where non-literate authors improvise the tales from a mental stockpile of verbal formulas (similar to all the Swift-Footed Achilles and Rosy-Fingered Dawns in the Iliad). These bards used stock themes and well-known narrative incidents (the time X hero did Y quest against Z antagonist).

Stories in the oral tradition thus have no definitive text. They are unconscously woven by each author for each audience every time they are retold over generations. Only after the invention of writing were the stories “fixed” into one “true” story of how things went. This was the foundation for my undergrad thesis about different kinds of truth in an oral culture: what is the true, correct story? The rhapsodes believe that they are telling the same story as it was told to them, even though the actual story is substantially different in every retelling. What does it mean to be telling the same story?

Anyway, composition in performance is how human communcation WORKED for all of human history before writing. We sat around campfires are retold the stories that had been told to us, as best as our memories could do it and as best suited for who we were trying to entertain and/or educate. The characters belonged to everybody who wanted to tell the story of Achilles or Diomedes or whoever—nobody owned them, they could be put in new or recombined scenarios whenever the teller had the inspiration to do so.

Fanfiction is the same. Intellectual property law is stifiling what is our basic human instinct. Characters, once they enter the culture, belong to everybody. They are our culture, not the property of Disney or whoever. As someone who writes fanfiction, I'm just doing the same thing as the rhapsodes. I'm composing in the Star Wars mythic universe as I remember and understand it, but improving it and recontextualizing it to tell the story I want to tell for the readers I want to entertain and maybe educate about how I think the world works and how we should handle it. That is our cultural tradition.

So, imho fanfic is the inheritor of our oldest and deepest cultural tradition. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, have a great day!

[postingattheendofsociety]

The Future of Communication

Face-to-face communication is becoming increasingly outdated. Or, at least, that’s an idea that has been growing increasingly popular. Caroline Tagg, in her book Exploring Digital Communcation: Language in Action wrote that ‘one consequence of the way in which social media pervades our lives [is that] we are forgetting essential conversational and interactional skills (according to popular media accounts).’ (Tagg, 2015. P.78) The idea that social media is pushing us into a recluse lifestyle is growing steadily more popular.

This idea is flawed. It necessitates the understanding that face-to-face communication and internet-only communication are separate things. And that isn’t true. In the age of the Covid-19 virus, it couldn’t be more apparent with the rise of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and - to a lesser extent - Skype and Discord, that face-to-face communication across the internet is growing increasingly popular.

Even social media platforms entirely dedicated to face-to-face communication are emerging. Omegle, a site where strangers are paired with each other to communicate, implemented a video mode in 2012. This allowed users to communicate with each other at random, or to be paired based off of a specific subject matter to discuss.

Even more recently, a large step was taken towards creating a fully face-to-face social media system through the internet. VRChat is a 3D space accessed through virtual reality where people can meet up, communicate, play games, and generally socialise and meet new people. You can friend specific people, message them, coordinate get-togethers in-game, or just go around meeting people from all over the world. Though people’s actual faces are rarely used as their avatars, the VR motion controls ability to display body language is a monumental step forward.

[User KarashuHD sings Can’t Help Falling In Love, by Elvis Presley in a VRChat karaoke lounge. This was recorded and uploaded to Youtube by user NadditionVR.]

Facebook acquired VR technology development company Oculus in 2014. In 2019, as news website Little Black Book reported, ‘Facebook announced it was building Horizon - a virtual reality sandbox universe - that builds on previous social VR attempts.’ Facebook is the first large SNS company to begin investing in VR technology as a platform for a face-to-face social media network.

[Horizon uses an avatar creation system which limits the possibilities for customization. This would prevent users from using explicit or non-human avatars like what is possible in VRChat.]

The future of VR is hopeful. Soon, technology will develop further to the point of allowing facial expressions. At that point, the line between social media and face-to-face communication will be more greyed than ever. The future of communication is not one where face-to-face interaction is dead, nor is it one where the internet pushes us to control what elements of ourselves we show to others through funnels of text. The future of communication is one where social media allows us to form communities outside of the limitations of physical location, and where people can display or hide as much of themselves as they desire to.

    References

Tagg, C., 2015. Exploring Digital Communication : Language in Action. Taylor & Francis Group. ProQuest Ebook Central [online], Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/anglia/detail.action?docID=2011257. [Accessed 10/03/2021].

Naddition [screen name], 2018. [VRChat] Funny Karaoke night with Naddition, Macrackle & ReesesSkater. [video online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sxQmVLpzHU&t=1s. [Accessed 10/03/2021].

[author unknown], 2020. Meaningful Meetups: Virtual Reality Is the Next Social Media. [online]. Available at: https://www.lbbonline.com/news/meaningful-meetups-virtual-reality-is-the-next-social-media. [Accessed 10/03/2021].

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Turiya Communications wishes you a very Happy National Public Relations Day 2020

As the world combats the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an increased amount of talks and discussions related to healthcare, hygiene and safety. Today, on the occasion of National Public Relations Day, our co-founder Sandhya Sutodia chose to spoke about how public relations is transforming the healthcare industry.

She said: "Today public relations is no longer a mere agent of publishing pharmaceutical information and projecting medical achievements. Rather, it plays an integral role in bridging the communcation gap between medical professionals, patients, medicine companies, other authorities, media and stakeholders as well."

April 21 is a red-letter day in the history of Indian public relations as it is on this day that our country observes the 'National Public Relations Day' since 1986. Turiya Communications LLP would like to take this opportunity to thank every PR professional and communication specialist for their relentless hard work and effort.

[snicketstrange]

The "R" letter to Lemony was actually sent by the real R

This is part 6 of Strange Interpretation by Jean Lúcio from Brazil.

To understand this text, it is necessary to read some of my previous texts.

I will now continue the explanation of my theory about R's letter to Lemony. I believe the true sender of this letter is the real R. I would not say that believing this is essential to understanding the rest of my theory. However, I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I feel the need to present the succinct result of my concentrated thoughts. 

I believe that the real "R" purposely missed the color of the car in the staging and the position of the car. I believe she used a kind of Duress code. In the minutes of the VFD meeting partially printed in chapter 3 of the UA, there is a record of a speech of R, which is spelled out. "Someone migth, for example, forget crucial information regarding the exact location of the automobiles we use to store necessary files and convey messages." The person who underlined this passage, wrote the following at the edge of the page: "an interesting idea ..." I believe R thought this was an interesting idea to use as Duress code. After all, she knew the Snicket family would be sure that R would never forget the location and color of the car. In the letter found on page 83 of the UA, R states that he would never forget the location of the secret Jeep. Now notice what Lemony first thought of when reading the letter as described in her personal notes:

"The Jeep outside the Orion Observatory was of course not navy blue but black, and parked in the northwest corner, not the southwest." She would never forget this The real R was tested on this information every month for more than seven years. IS SHE TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING? "

In addition, in the letter's contents, there is evidence that R used secret codes based on books. All the books that are quoted in the letter are among those cited in chapter 10 of the UA: Charlotte's Web, Green Mansions, Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer. In chapter 10, the excerpt from Carlotte's Web makes reference to crickets that sing: "Summer is over and gone", Over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying. "Among the books cited in chapter 10 of the AU, there is a book called "Mamba du Mau: A Snake that will never kill me." In this book, the author (Uncle Monty using an anagram as a pseudonym) explains that Mamba du Mal and garden crickets can be trained to alert people. If crickets or Mamba du Mau say, "Summer is" for instance, they are communcating a coded version of the phrase "Enemie are nerby. "

If they say the phrase "Over and gone" they actually mean "probably in disguise" and the word "dying" as a code for "Beware of arson".

So when R talked about crickets in the winter, it's likely she was sending the message to Lemony: "Enemie are nerby, probably in disguise." Beware of arson. This knowledge about codes using books is not widespread on the side of Lemony's enemies. Most of them do not like to read. That's why secret codes using books are so safe.

The other book cited by R is Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer. This is a book that was written solely to keep secret documents between pages 302 and 303, also according to chapter 10 of the UA. Thus, in saying that this book was lost, R is claiming that she lost important documents in the fire of her house. All sides of Shism know the secret of this book, so I can not use it here as an argument to defend the authenticity of the letter of R. However, I am in the process of understanding the secret code hidden in Green Mansions. I have not yet reached a final conclusion, but I know that this is one of the books cited in Chapter 10 of the AU. At the moment, I think the way to decode this code is similar to the Verse Fluctuation Declaration. The difference is that the coded words are omitted. In chapter 10 of the UA, there is an excerpt with some words omitted from Green Mansions.

It is written thus:

"It is a cause of great regret to me that this task has taken so much longer to time than I had expected for its completion ... A darkened chamber, the existence of which had never been suspected in that familiar house ... the only thing that would have to do with it would be that it would have to be the same as that of the serpent. untold chapter in a man's life for imagination to work on. "

To find out what was written in the gaps, I went to the original work. There I found the following text in the first gap:

"It is now many months-over a year, in fact-since I wrote to Georgetown announcing my intention of publishing, IN A VERY FEW MONTHS, the whole truth about Mr. Abel. , and I had hoped that the discussion in the newspapers would have ceased, at all events, until the appearance of the promised book.It was not so at this distance from Guiana I was not aware of how much conjectural matter was being printed week by week in the local press, some of which must have been painful reading to Mr. Abel's friends "

I found this passage so significant! If you replaced the name Mr Abel by Mr Snicket, that whole section would make sense in the subject of the letter.

When I read I was surprised. The excerpt talks about book publications, about dubious newspaper information, about how the character's friends were concerned about this information. The passage talks about a trip abroad, specifically for South America. And as we know, the Prospero travels to South America, at least to Peru. It seems very much that all this was planned by Daniel Handler, and if that was the case, my admiration for him increased a lot. 

But this is just a hypothesis.

Anyway, I want to finish this text, showing that there are evidences that the letter of R was actually written by R.

The information described in the letter regarding the Masked Ball is very similar to the other information we have about what happened on the Masked Ball. Lemony does not deny that he left several disguises in the hands of R. And most important, R wrote: "Your typewriter is gone, and the bright blue accordion, with I belive you told me your third favorite.

The author of the letter knew about the blue accordion, and that this was Lemony's third favorite. This is very personal information, and hardly an impostor would know that. Lemony does not say something like, "I believe this letter comes from an impostor because I did not leave any disguise at her house." He also does not say, "I believe this letter comes from an impostor because my third favorite accordion was not that blue." So, everything leads me to believe that the R letter is authentic. 

Although I have not completely convinced you of this, at least you must believe the following: if by chance this letter comes from an imposter, this impostor forced R to pass specific information to him or her. This impostor knows what happened on the Masked Ball, and by writing about what happened in the Masked Ball, the impostor is not lying. Lemony at no time denies the events described in the letter. And what I need for my theory is just the proof that these events really happened.

And for you to know this, it will help you understand what I think about when that Masked Ball happened in which Lemony was captured using a bullfighter costume. I will speak about this in the next text.

Please comment !

[norsesuggestions]

An absurd, but true story, about the swedish early 19th century writer Carl Love Almqvist

Noted swedish author Carl Love Almqvist attempt to get rich via befriending an old rich noble man, that NO ONE liked, and then apperntly getting sick of waiting for him to die (so he could steal all his money) so he started to try to murder him via putting big chunks of arsenic into his

Wine

And

Porridge

But these chunks were so big that the very instant these arsenic filled food was given to the old noble man he was like "so this cant be eaten", so zero arsenic the old man ate

Meanwhile Carl Love Almqvist had been going to all doctors he knew, trying to make them give him enough opium to kill a man. With the excuse "ah, i am writing a murder mystery book, and I just need to see how the murder poisin would look like"

None of the doctors fell for this

Later, the children and heirs to the rich noble man (who is still alive! No worse for wear!) , actually visit their father and they realise something is a bit off yeah. Large sums of money has been given to Carl Love Almqvist from their fathers accounts. And the papers saying so look. Suspect. Forged

Anyway long story short. With this Carl Love Almqvist, perhaps swedens most obvious attempt at murderer, gets accused of this crime of attempt murder. Carl Love Almqvist, like an Innocent person, flees sweden and never return again.

Although to note, as the podcast that o learned this on mentioned, "his escape from justice would never been possible just a couple decades later. He was lucky he lived in pre industrial sweden, were a letter of warrant of arrest took half a year to reach another city because there had been heavy snowfall that winter."

That. He took his sweet time escaping sweden. He hung for months in another city in sweden than stockholm (all these murder attempt stuff happened in stockholm) and because communcations were so slow, no one in that city knew he was wanted for attempted murder and money forgery

Anyway anyway somehow he escaped justice and lived out his days outside of sweden.

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An hileroius episode of historiepodden when they go through this story. Highly rec it!

[vohalika]

So, that happened. Again.

You know, it makes a lot of sense that Caleb would be naturally suspicious of someone who has been through a lot and now wants to prevent anyone else falling victim to what she has suffered. It’s basically the opposite approach of what he does with his trauma and backstory. He is projecting, and Beau was perfectly justified in calling him out on that, if not very eloquent in doing so.

Also, it makes just as much sense that Beau would take offense to Caleb declaring himself the moral authority on this matter after she tried to get him to work against the system that abused him and broke him and he didn’t really seem to be into the idea. And due to what we know about the Cobalt Soul and Beau’s Secret Lesbian Fight Club, of course Beau would have an easier time to believe that people might actually be earnest in their intentions of working against organizations that harmed them etc.

Neither of them are wrong in this situation. Cali being on Caleb’s side doesn’t help with the actual issue that causes friction here, though, and that is indeed the fact that Caleb and Nott just do not communicate with the rest of the group, and then shove the others into situations they probably wouldn’t have agreed to be in.

They’re their own little sub-group in the group in a way the others just aren’t, and that breeds mistrust and leaves the others feeling like they’re constantly locked out of the loop. Technically they all came together as sub-groups, but Molly and Yasha split up and hang out with other people, Jester is open with everyone, and while Fjord and Beau usually hang back and snark about things, it’s not like they make their own secret plans or advertise the fact that they’d fuck the rest of the group over for the sake of one particular person. Caleb and Nott are just not very good as team players.

(And before we get into that again, Caleb is very good at casting buffs and helping the team in that way. They work well with the others in combat, until and unless they use secret commandos to do their own thing. Again. They’re good to work with in that regard, but the thing is, being team players in combat just helps their odds of survival as well as anyone else’s, and I really think that’s a different ball game entirely. Gameplay and Story Segregation, in a way.)

It’s not even that this particular instance was especially unreasonable of them, or anything. A lot more reasonable than stealing from the High Richter was, in any case. But when Caleb pulled out the bowl after the fact and told everyone, including the party he had called together to back him up against Cali potentially reacting poorly, to go along with a plan he had come up on his own without talking to anyone else about it first except for Nott. Which pulled out the rug from everyone else and forced them into a situation I don’t think any of them would have wanted to be in.

Just... Having a conversation before finding the bowl would have helped. Determining whether the group trusts Cali before assuming that no one did because Caleb himself didn’t would have helped. Just, determining a general group policy before counting on everyone else to back you up. That’s the poor communcation the others are upset about.

It’s just getting a bit annoying that this is the... Second drastic and fourth general occasion on which this has happened, and every single time Caleb could brush it off due to being, in a way, exonerated by circumstance. Stealing from the High Richter had no consequences because shit exploded afterwards anyhow. Originally keeping the loot to himself only got him a sexy wall-pinning moment with Molly because he came around afterwards. The entire situation with the Orb was resolved without a major fight because of Jester being who she is. And now Cali is on his side, and Caleb gets to tell himself that he has totally communicated his intentions with everyone, without addressing the fact that it miiiight have been a little late and also bad form.

I really hope they manage to address this sooner rather than later, in a way that Caleb understands and doesn’t get to talk and rationalize his way out of. Because this is getting tedious.

[williamjworld]

Poster designs

This week, I did some more drawings for a final piece of the “Typography project” when I went home to see my parents last weekend.

When I got the drawings done I scan them for photoshop filling the whites spots using primary colours (Red, Blue, Yellow) for the poster design.

When that was done, I import it to Indesign to set up with the poster design, with the letter exchange document.

Letter Exchange

A design festival for people who use type

7th – 9th June 2019 Cinema Teatro Sarti Via Scaletta 10 Faenza

Italy

Letter Exchange is the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. The conference will be held in Faenza, a medieval city in the north-east of Italy, home to an ancient tradition of design and craftsmanship.

Conference Speakers

Sarah Hyndman A British graphic designer, writer and public speaker, Sarah Hyndman asks lots of questions, has become an accidental specialist in multi-sensory typography and is known for her interest in the psychology of type. She is the founder of the innovative Type Tasting studio; driven by her passion for changing the way we think and talk about typography. Sarah is also known for her thought-provoking and highly entertaining typography workshops, events and books including Why Fonts Matter and the type dating card game What's Your Type?

Laura Meseguer A freelance graphic and type designer from Barcelona, Laura Meseguera’s studio works for international and domestic clients but also in self-initiated projects. As a typographer and type designer, she has specialized in all sorts of projects involving custom lettering and type design, for branding and publishing. Her design approach is to create unique solutions for every assignment, based on the concept, the content and the context, always in close collaboration with art directors and designers. She designs and produces typefaces which are distributed through her own digital type foundry Type-Ø-Tones, that is also a member of TypeNetwork. She is the author of TypoMag: Typography in Magazines, published by IndexBook, and co-author of the book “Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla”, published in Spanish by Tipo, and translated into Polish, Portuguese, English and soon in Chinese. She is a board member of the ATypI since 2017. She also teaches type design and typography in different schools. Laura’swork has been featured in several publications and exhibitions such as Graphic Design Now. She also holds awards from the ADG-FAD (The Art Directors & Graphic Designers Association, Spain), and TDCs for her typefaces Rumba Lalola and Qandus.

Ken Barber Ken Barber is the typeface design director and chief lettering officer at font foundry and design studio, HouseIndustries. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Ken has also been honored by the New York Type Directors Club, Association Typographique Internationale, and Design Museum London. In addition to teaching at The Cooper Union in New York City, he regularly leads workshops on the practice of hand-lettering. Ken co-authored House Industries: The Process is the Inspiration (Watson-Guptill, 2017) with Andy Cruz and Rich Roat.

Lance Wyman Design legend Lance Wyman creates graphic systems for cities, events, institutions, and transit systems. Fifty years ago, his groundbreaking identity for the 1968 Mexico Olympics helped establish the modern practice of environmental design. He is a member of AGI, an SEGD Fellow and a recipient of the AIGA Medal. There are three major books published on his work.

Veronika Burian and José Scaglione Choosing and using typefaces has become increasingly complex in recent years. The different kinds of licenses, the large number of fonts on offer, and the variety of pricing structure and language support on the market result in ascenario where type users can get easily lost. In this presentation TypeTogether’s founders, Veronika Burian andJosé Scaglione will discuss how to curate high quality, flexible, and scalable typeface libraries. Learn how to go about selecting and combining fonts, how to judge language support capabilities in an increasingly global market, and how to use typeface customization as a powerful graphic design tool.

Toshi Omagari Toshi Omagari is a type designer at Monotype. He studied typography and typeface design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, where he graduated in 2008, and went on to obtain an MA in typeface design at University of Reading in 2011. Since he joined Monotype in UK, he has released a number of revivals of forgotten classics such as Metro Nova and the Berthold Wolpe Collection. He has also been involved in many aspects of multilingual typography and font development, including work on various scripts including Greek, Cyrillic, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Arabic.

Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA in Baltimore. Her latest exhibition is The Senses: Design Beyond Vision (April–October 2018). She recently published Design Is Storytelling with Cooper Hewitt.

Workshops

Playing with a Heidelberg: Damiano Bandini’s letterpress workshop Damiano Bandini loves letterpress, and movable type. This is why he still runs an old letterpress workshop in downtown Faenza, carrying on the passion and knowledge handed down from father to son. La Vecchia Stamperia isa historic workshop (Bottega Storica dell’Emilia Romagna): everything started in 1920, so this workshop has been printing movable type on paper for more than 90 years – and counting. He has one of the largest collections of very rare metal block-prints and unique artistic wood type in use.

One day workshop, 5thth June 2019, 10.00am

La Vecchia Stamperia

Via Giulio Castellani 25

Faenza (RA)

Straights and Rounds

Richard Bailey and Bruno Maag will explain an effective and efficient approach to designing a typeface (family).

Participants will learn how to define the requirements, aesthetically, technically and linguistically, and how to set up

the design process.

Bruno began his career with an apprenticeship as a typesetter at Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland’s largest daily

newspaper. He then studied Typography and Visual Communcations at Basel School of Design under Wolfgang

Weingart and Andre Gürtler amongst others. After graduating, Bruno emigrated to England to work for Monotype

where he established their ‘custom type department’, creating fonts for the New Yorker magazine, and others.

Recent highlights are fonts for Rio2016, multilingual type for Nokia and HP, and a lovely serif font for luxury hotel

brand Faena. He is currently investigating type and emotion, with a special interest in the physiological aspects.

Richard Bailey’s background is in corporate services, but since joining Dalton Maag he’s diversified into developing the design service offering and improving the client experience. Recent highlights include Ducati, USA Today, andAmazon. Richard holds the position of Operations Director, and is based in Dalton Maag’s London office.

Two day workshop, 6th-7thth June 2019, 10.00am

Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza (1st Floor)

Via Manfredi 14

Faenza (RA)

Sign Painting with John Downer This class will focus on rendering a few particular styles of capital letters and scripts that were commonly used in European sign painting during the 19thth and 20th centuries.

Two day workshop, 6th-7thth June 2019, 10.00am

Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza (2nd Floor)

Via Manfredi 14

Faenza (RA)

The Original Champions of Design with Bobby Martin and Jennifer Kinon Join Original Champions of Design partners Bobby Martin and Jennifer Kinon and the OCD team for a behind-the- scenes look at their process, their work and their love of type. Since the branding and design agency was founded in 2010, OCD has partnered with a wide range of clients such as the Girl Scouts of the USA, Prospect Park Alliance, The New York Times, the National Basketball Association and The Studio Museum in Harlem to ensure their growth and creative goals. Evening talk, 8th June, 5.oopm Cinema Teatro Sarti Via Scaletta 10 Faenza

Micro Typography with Tânia Raposo In this 1 day workshop you will acquire typographic skills on the micro level — how to solve intricate typographic hierarchies, and how to fine-tune long passages of text. You will learn how and when to use various kinds of dashes, get acquainted with OpenType features and get to know all the strange characters in your glyph palette.

One day workshop, 8th June 2019, 10.00am

Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza (1st Floor)

Via Manfredi 14

Faenza (RA)

For further information and to register for the conference visit the website at www.letterexchange.com

I haven’t decided which is best to use for a final piece, I’ll think about that tomorrow.

[dailyjobz]

Ministry of Communcation National Highway Authority NHA Paid Internship Program January 2020

Ministry of Communcation National Highway Authority NHA Paid Internship Program January 2020

Ministry of Communcation National Highway Authority NHA Paid Internship Program January 2020

Ministry Of Communcation National Highway Authority Nha Paid Internship Program January 2020

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Drones for Good: Mapping for the Kenyan Red Cross with Altohelix

image courtesy Altohelix

Bringing drone technology to the gobal communities who may benefit most is difficult.  Challenges range from regulatory hurdles, communcation issues, extreme weather, to community acceptance: but aerial imagery and mapping can provide stunning benefits to remote populations.

At the Pix4D User Conference in Denver this week Hyun-June Choi, CEO of Canada’s Altohelix, took us inside their mission working with the Kenyan Red Cross.

Altohelix first worked with the Kenyan Red Cross to develop some clear short-term goals: mapping areas of disaster risk; crop monitoring for food security; and aerial video and photography for communications and PR efforts.

Kenya experiences extreme weather cycles – and in some areas, the floods and the rains consistently cause loss of homes, crops, and lives.  “They have a constant cycle of floods and drought – and the cycles are getting worse,”  says Choi.  As a result, the Kenyan government is working to resettle some communities who get flooded every year: a critical and immediate need for aerial data.

image courtesy Altohelix

No Regulations

Mapping areas for resettlement to ensure that they are out of the flood plain and appropriate for new construction was Altohelix’ first mission.   But they immediately ran into a roadblock: “The first thing we had to do was to overcome regulations,” says Choi.  “Kenya does not allow any civilian drone operations.   The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) is still drafting the drone regulations for the country, and Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) are the only ones officially allowed to fly.”  Altohelix was able to work with the Kenyan government and KDF to receive permissions: they were accompanied by KDF personnel on all of their flights.

Training and Operations

image courtesy Altohelix

Knowledge transfer was part of the mission, and Altohelix did 5 days of ground school and 5 days of flight training.  They used Mavic 2 Pro aircraft, the cheapest, most available and most practical tool for the job.   Then it was time to execute: but, as Choi explains, conditions weren’t ideal. “No cell phone, no electricity, no wi-fi, no paved roads,” says Choi.  “It was challenging. ”

Using imagery from the Mavic 2 Pro and Pix4D for processing, the team created a digital surface model (DSM) of the proposed resettlement area, to ensure that the area was out of the flood zone and safe for new construction.   “The project showed the full extent of the flood damage, and the changing landscape,” says Choi.  “With a single flood, the entire shape of the river bed changed.”  It’s a model that simply couldn’t be created with satellite imagery, Choi points out: “Satellite data resolution is just too low.”  As a result of that mission, the Kenyan Red Cross constructed 5,715 new shelters, replacing the weather vulnerable traditional huts destroyed by the flooding.

Next Steps

image: courtesy Altohelix

That mission has smoothed the way for expansion of the program, which has now been approved.  The Kenyan team plans to purchase more equipment and expand into new missions.  “We’ll execute more operations,” says Choi. “We’ll purchase Pix4Dreact [real time 2D mapping], Pix4Dmapper, a Wingtra One [fixed wing drone] and sensors, and we’ll make improvements to the SOPs [standard operating procedures.]

The team has already expanded operations to monitor the rapidly expanding refugee camps in the western part of the country and evaluate drought conditions.  They are providing critical data for decision makers when many lives are at stake.  It’s a job that only a drone can do – and Altohelix is helping the Kenyan Red Cross to do it.

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