#and lloyd has the most fail compilations

[superstarrockingjay]

no cause i wanna know more about ninjago social media and online community cause we know it exists bc of season 6 but i wanna know if theres ninja fail compilations on their version of youtube. are the ninja keeping track of who has the most fancams. is there annoying chainmail where if you dont send it to 5 people in the next hour the overlord virus will take over your computer. what are their memes like

[randomvarious]

Today’s compilation:

Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1959-1962 1989 Rock & Roll / Pop / Doo Wop / Pop-Rock / Bubblegum Pop / R&B

Here's a lot of numbers I'm about to say: this four-cassette brick is the second release out of five that I'm going through in succession that, in total, documents the top-ten Billboard hits of each year from 1955 through 1974. Last week I posted the set containing 1955 through 1958 and today I'm posting 1959 through 1962.

Two things, though. First, as I noted in my 1955-1958 post, Rhino Records, the label tasked with gathering all these top hits, failed in some instances to acquire licenses for some of the songs, so they had to find ample replacements instead. But this could actually be something of a blessing in disguise, because even though it's sort of false advertising to present a compilation as having the top ten hits from each year and then not actually include them all, you'll still get a few nice, little, less remembered surprises instead. It ends up digging a tad bit deeper into Billboard's chart history and, as a result, shines a light on some songs that aren't thought of on the same level as, like, say, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens or Dion's "Runaround Sue."

Second, it bills itself as containing the top "rock'n'roll" hits from each year, but that's a very loose and vague term. There's a bunch of tunes within these cassettes that aren't really rock & roll at all, and, really, it just seems like "rock'n'roll" is serving as a replacement catch-all term for "Hot 100," Billboard's long running chart that tracks the 100 most popular songs in the US every single week.

All that said, going through these oldies has been a real blast for me so far. I don't have very many oldies comps in my collection yet myself, so these sets are serving as some great 50s and 60s building blocks. And there's actually some songs in here that are really good that, surprisingly, I don't think I'd actually ever heard before, like the wonderful instrumental, "The Happy Organ" by Dave 'Baby' Cortez, or "Quarter to Three" by Gary U.S. Bonds, which is a song that Dion ripped off a few months later to drop the much more famous "Runaround Sue" 👀.

I didn't really think I'd be getting much out of these cassettes beyond something similar to your standard oldies radio station playlist, which is why I held off on biting this bullet for so long, but as it turns out, I actually seem to be getting a bit more than that, and it’s been a really pleasant surprise thus far ☺.

Highlights:

Cassette 1 (1959):

Bobby Darin - "Mack the Knife" Lloyd Price - "Stagger Lee" Wilbert Harrison - "Kansas City" Elvis Presley - "A Big Hunk O' Love" Dave 'Baby' Cortez - "The Happy Organ" The Coasters - "Charlie Brown" The Crests - "16 Candles"

Cassette 2 (1960):

Chubby Checker - "The Twist" The Ventures - "Walk - Don't Run" Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - "Stay"

Cassette 3 (1961):

Bobby Lewis - "Tossin' and Turnin'" Del Shannon - "Runaway" Dion - "Runaround Sue" Gary U.S. Bonds - "Quarter to Three" Shirelles - "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" The Marvelettes - "Please Mr. Postman" The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Cassette 4 (1962):

Gene Chandler - "Duke of Earl" Tommy Roe - "Sheila" Joey Dee & The Starliters - "Peppermint Twist - Part 1" Little Eva - "The Loco-Motion" Dion - "The Wanderer"

P.S.: Follow me on Twitter as I unpack these comps and dig into their tunes, telling some of the great stories behind them. Like, did you know that Little Eva, of "Loco-motion" fame, was actually a nanny for the song's writers, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and that she originally recorded it as a demo for Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp passed on it, so another label seized on the demo and then Little Eva went to #1? Or that Carole King also co-wrote and composed The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" at around 19 years old? Or that "The Twist" by Chubby Checker was actually a cover that ended up playing a gigantic role in breaking down rock & roll's class barriers, as teenagers first made it popular in 1960, and then rich socialites twisted the nights away in nightclubs during the winter of 1961 and 1962, marking rock & roll's expansion beyond being just some rebellious teenage fad phenomenon? All those fun facts and more when you throw me a follow 😁!

[talesfromlissom]

First Time for Everything

(Lol, since it's Halloween. I decided to use my old au ‘Down on Cherry Lane.’. It was ultimately cancelled due to schoolwork and the motivation to do it slipping away, but either way. The idea itself was pretty cool. I decided to take that, and sort of do a civilian au, cause civilian au’s make me w e a k.

Anyways, in this, Cole is a highschooler. No elemental powers or anything. Also the reader is a werewolf. GOD I LOVE WEREWOLVES)

The first time you had been in a relationship was in your freshman year of high school. 

It wasn’t the best. Given that it was with a guy named Chad. And he wasn’t the best person to date either. He partied constantly, never texted or called you back, made fun of your interests, and was an overall asshole. So it was no surprise when he outed you to the entire school. 

It was the anger that came first, as you quickly became the laughing stock of the school. Words and things were thrown, sure, your friends didn’t disown you, but you could tell that the guys you were friends with kept their distance. 

It took about a month for it to die down, and it was no surprise when you figured out why. Another person was outed, a girl this time. She was head of the girl’s football team, most people just whispered about her, since they all knew she could, and would, beat their asses, for lack of a better term. 

Nya, that was her name. Through her, you were invited to an exclusive club, Ninjago. It wasn’t really an actual ‘club’ per say. It was more of a group that gathered together after school almost every day, doing whatever. It helped that the nephew of the principal and the son of the vice principal ran it. It was compiled of different kinds of people. People you saw get bullied in the locker room, the ones that sat in the back of the class and said nothing, the ones who answered all the questions. 

The ones failing all their classes, the ones in detention all the time, the teachers pets, it seemed that all the people who didn’t fit into a specific category, since that’s the only thing people cared about in high school, were here. So here you were. 

And then you met Cole, and things seemed to fall into place. You linked up quickly, enchanting phone numbers within the first week of meeting each other. It was almost a year since your friendship began, and two more before you and him both realized your feelings for each other. Finally, all homecoming was when you confessed. 

But that seemed to all come crashing down as well. 

                                                              _

Rushing through the forest and into the open street, still clutching your bleeding shoulder, you ran into the gas station, heart pounding. You turned to the forest, seeing the yellow eyes staring directly back at you.

A shiver went down your spine. 

“Hey, uh you-” A pause. 

Your eyes widen.

“(Y/N)? Holy crap, what happened!” The recognizable voice of Jay asked. “Jesus, did you get attacked by a bear or something?” 

“Something like that.” You reply, leaning into Jay’s hold. “You got any pain killers?”

Jay nods. “O-of course I do! I-I keep them for Nya, just-just uhm…” He leads you behind the counter, sitting you down on the chair in the corner near the cash register. 

“Just-just stay here okay? I’ll be right back, promise!” 

He rushes off, and into the back room. You lean your head against the wall, sighing through your nose, and shutting your eyes slightly. 

The room starts to spin in your vision when it snaps open, and the lights seem brighter than before. Voices are muffled, you hear clattering, but that soon fades when your vision turns black. 

                                                              _

You wake again with a nurse hovering over you, dabbing a wet washcloth on your forehead. You groan and turn your head to him. 

He comforts you, asking if you feel any pain, the usual nurse whatnot. 

You answer no to all those questions. And you’re surprised frankly, that you feel no pain in your shoulder anymore. 

The nurse walks to the door, and you fall asleep again.

                                                              _

Cole is the first visitor, accompanied by your parents. They bombard you with questions, your father cries. Your mother hugs you tight, and Cole litters your face with kisses. 

“What happened?”

You shrug, not bothering to sit up, despite how much you want too. “I...dunno...I was closing up the store when...I heard this panting behind me, saw this...big ugly wolf motherfu-” 

“(Y/N), language.” Your mother hisses. “I’ll put soap in your mouth for that.” She chuckles. 

You roll your eyes. “It uh..jumped at me, attacked me..chased me into the woods, bit me, and then I found the gas station and ran into Jay.”

“And thank god you did, that boy did an amazing job of stabilizing you,” Your father begins. “That boy should be a doctor when he grows up.”

“Jay’s dating someone who’s..uh..injury prone,” Cole mutters, and you laugh, thinking of the numerous times Jay’s had to patch up Nya. “it comes with experience.”

He turns back to you, clutching your hand.

“You’re..doing okay though..right?”

You nod slowly. “Yeah, m’ fine.” 

“That’s good..that’s real good.” 

                                                              _

By the time you are discharged, you already feel stress pilling on you. 

You return to school, looks being shot towards your direction, with whispers filling the hall. News has already spread of your attack. The shoulder doesn’t hurt, there’s scaring there, teeth marks, but it's so light against your skin it’s barely noticeable. 

But no, it’s the anxiety that fills your gut as the days grow on, but it becomes worse when you have no idea what’s happening. 

“(Y/N)?” 

Your snapped from your thoughts when you hear Cole’s voice as clear as daylight cut through your endless thinking. His hand is on your arm, soft. It feels so soft, and he smells so good.

“Are you wearing new cologne?” You hum, grinning slightly. You blink. That’s surely some new confidence. Even Cole seems surprised. 

“I don’t...wear cologne.” Cole says softly. 

“Oh.” You simply say, hearing the final bell go off in the distance, you shake your head. Has the bell always been this loud? 

“So uh, you doing anything tonight?” Cole asks. “It's Halloween, and Jay and the others are heading to Kai’s place to go trick or treating. Wanna come, we might egg Mr.Overlord’s house for the third year in a row. Zane’s gonna join this time.” 

You pause. It had completely slipped from your mind that today was Halloween. 

“I..don’t...I think I’ll stay home tonight.” You say. “I’ve haven’t been feeling well today.” 

Cole looks you up and down. “Alright, I’ll tell them, but..if you need anything just call me, okay?” He peppers a kiss on your cheek. 

“Bye.” 

You give a small wave, gathering your things in your backpack and swinging it over your shoulder. 

                                                             _

You figured your parents wouldn’t be home, since your mother takes the night shift, and your father was chaperoning for your little sister’s Halloween dance. And you brother is probably hanging with his friends and egging a house. Who knows, maybe Cole and his friends will meet them along the way. Despite the fact that Lloyd and your brother, Morro, don’t like each other very much. Cole somehow makes everyone get along with each other. 

So here you are, staring at the ceiling, and tossing and turning. You're sweaty, and you’ve been sweaty for a long time. Your window is open, with cool night air coming through it, and you hear laughter outside, trick or treaters most likely. 

Still, your shirt sticks to your chest and back. Slowly you sit up, your skin itches. 

You take a deep breath, another one, and another one, why is the room spinning. 

Your heart is pounding inside your skull, and your head hurts so much. You attempt to get up and out of the bed, but pain immediately fills your chest, gasping and sputtering, you attempt to grab your phone, only to roll off the bed. The pain comes next, almost as if your entire body is on fire, cracking noises fill your mind, and god you don’t know what’s happening, your brain is on autodrive at this point. Barely even registering your screams that are erupting from your mouth. 

You feel yourself curl in on yourself, skin splitting, blood falling onto the floor, the shirt you're wearing rips, before you realize that your fingernails have turned to claws, and even those hurt like hell. 

A voice cuts through your pain, and the thoughts swarming your head.

“Hello?” The voice sounds muffled, almost like it's underwater. “(Y/N)? I brought you some food, your favorite!” 

You scream again, hearing something clatter in the background. 

                                                           _

Cole’s feet thundered up the stairs, before he comes to your bedroom, hearing grunts and splitting, and noises he’s only heard in the movies. 

“(Y/N)?” He whispers, as the room goes silent. 

The door opens slowly, creaking filling his ears, as well as huffs. 

Cole’s eyes widen, staring at the writhing form on the floor. However, it’s head snaps towards him, yellow eyes fiery with rage and pure blood lust. 

Cole drops the bag of food, backing towards the stairs as the black mass creeps towards him. 

His lower lip quivers, and there was no way in hell that he was going to stay for much longer. His brain kept screaming at him to run, to do something other than sit there and stare at the thing. 

It howls, and runs at him, and Cole shrieks as he misses the top step, tripping and falling down the stairs. 

He ends up on the hardwood floor, he aches slightly, but he doesn’t feel anything broken or sprained. The thing jumps down from the top of the stairs, and it's at that moment, that his brain decides to work. 

He scrambles to his feet, sprinting towards the back door and throwing it open. He sees your backyard, toys and gardening tools scattered across it like you were in the middle of it. 

He hops over the garden, and towards the picket fence, almost hopping over it. 

He pulls himself up and over, just as he feels hot breath on his ankle. 

He falls onto the ground face first. Dirt in his mouth, and he tastes blood on his tongue. 

He climbs to his feet, taking off again, hearing huffs and growling behind him. He doesn’t bother to look back, at least until he’s in a public place. 

Bursting into the main street, sweaty, and lip bleeding, he does get a few strange looks. But most are just nods, they must assume he’s wearing a Halloween costume. 

He whips around towards the forest. He sees the eyes, god he sees them, but whatever that thing is, it isn’t following him through the crowd. Maybe he can make it back to his car?

No. Nobody really trick or treats on your street, most people on your street have young children. So the adults are usually trick or treating with their kids instead. 

He fishes through his coat pocket. But he finds nothing. Where was his phone? 

He hears something fall onto the pavement. 

His eyes widened. His phone, slobbery, bloody, slightly cracked. But the eyes hover right over it. He tenses, feels fear travel from his brain and down to his feet. 

He grits his teeth and turns his back to the thing. 

                                                         _

By now, he’s just walking down the street, trying to find the most crowded streets, and turning around immediately if he sees only one or two people. It’s twelve o’clock now, and he feels like bursting into tears as he sees even the most popular streets practically deserted. 

He’s travelling behind a group of teenagers, not from his school, so thankfully they don’t recognize or take any pictures of him. 

His hands are shoved into the pockets of his pants, partially to stop them from shaking so much. He’s still sweaty, knows that he can’t walk home from here, and knows that that thing is still after him. But why? Why him of all people? 

He couldn’t defend himself against that animal-like creature, Wu never taught him how to do that either. 

His phone is gone, he probably lost it when he fell down the stairs. Which is how that creature got it in the first place. But he lost track of it by now. Not that he’d bother trying to go back there anyways.

He doesn’t even realize he’s completely alone before the group ahead of him takes a turn into a house, and hears them being scolded by a woman before the door is shut and locked. 

Cole gulps, hearing nothing but wind around him. A few cars roll by, headlights bright, brighter than he knew they were. His heart is pounding, and he feels his mouth become dry, drier than it was before that is. 

He gulps, and begins to walk down the street, a chill running down his back. So far, he hears nothing. No chatter, no cars, no panting in the distance. 

He lets out a screech when a hand falls onto his shoulder. Whipping around, Cole punches the figure as hard as he can. 

They in turn, cry out. 

“OW! Cole what the hell!” 

Cole’s eyes widened. 

“Skylor? What are you-”

“Yeah, it's me dipshit, what are you doing all the way out here, we’ve been looking all over for you!” 

Cole stares. “What do you mean?”

“Neighbors heard screaming at (Y/N)’s house almost two hours ago, and they saw you enter the house but when you didn’t come out they feared for the worst, they called the cops and everything. Me and the others have been searching the entire town for you, your phone was found absolutely destroyed, what...what happened.” 

Cole looks towards the ground. 

“I...I don’t...I don’t know! I-I went to (Y/N)’s house and this-this thing it was all...all bloody and violent, it chased me out and tried to attack me I think! Hell, it even tried to use my phone to lure me back towards it!”

Skylor raises an eyebrow. “Was it human?”

“N-no! God no! It-shit-I-I didn’t get a good look at it.” 

Skylor nods her head. “Alright, c’mon. Let’s go to my car and I’ll take you to my place, okay?” 

                                                             _

When Cole wakes up in the morning, he’s covered by a thick fleece blanket. He feels someone poke him in the cheek, and he groans, batting the hand away. Before the smell of cologne hits him that is.

His head lifts up. 

“Kai?” Cole asks. 

Kai grins. “Hey there, it seems you and I had the same idea.” He says. “I went over to Skylor’s place after we egged all those houses.” 

Cole doesn’t reply.

“I-I already told Skylor everything-”

“I know, in...all honesty it sounds like a wolf..or a...a bear got into (Y/N)’s house, but that-that’s impossible.”

“Well, he...he was complaining about not feeling well,” Cole wonders. “Maybe..maybe he forgot to lock a door, or maybe he left a door open?” 

Kai shakes his head. “That..doesn’t sound like (Y/N)...but it...might’ve happened,” He turns to Cole. “how are you holdin’ up?”

“Fine,” Cole replies. “Just fine. Little uh...scared to go out at night...but...yeah.” 

“That’s good, your..uh..dad is here by the way.” 

Cole groans. “Why?”

“Uh, cause he’s your dad?” Kai pauses. “Although, he’s really pissed, told Skylor he doesn’t want you to go anywhere after school anymore.”

Cole groans. “Ah, he’ll be over it in a day or two.” Cole replies. “I just...hope that (Y/N)’s at school tomorrow.” 

Kai shakes his head. 

“Hope so too, maybe he got scared and went somewhere else?” Kai says, as Cole gets up and stretches. “He’ll probably show up tomorrow, or call you later.” 

“Yeah, I hope so.” 

                                                  ──•~❉+❉~•──

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[arch4311-blog]

The Ideal City

I n t r o d u c t i o n

History has shown us the ideal city ceases to be nothing but a dream--a mystical place within the depths of our minds we create as we struggle to overcome obstacles in our lives—Utopia.  Certainly, it’s a concept that has been attempted many times in history as we have seen with Radiant City by Le Corbusier in 1920, Broadacre City, proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s and  Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing development in Missouri in the 1950s intended to revitalize the city’s slums only to fail as a result of crime.  Many people would say those attempts were failures because they ceased to exist, but I would argue that they were successful because they further informed us of things that worked and things that didn’t.

On a fundamental level a city is the collaborative result of many people working together.  A city is most effective when everyone’s basic needs are met—food, shelter, healthcare—just to name a few...  What happens though when access to basic amenities is restricted due to physical access and policy?  Unfortunately, the world, and more closely to home, the United States, is filled with examples of cities like this.  Too often, basic needs are cut off from people due to the ill design and the over-regulated structure of cities.

Let’s take Houston, Texas for example. Houston  is a home for diverse groups of people, a city rich with culture and historical pride. However, despite what Houston has to offer, the city itself is disorganized. Known to have no zones, families of lower income, especially in the Third Ward,  struggle with the side effects of urban sprawl and most importantly, the impending threat of gentrification. Of course, the city possess codes on how properties could be subdivided and utilized, as the City of Houston’s website claims, but this idea indefinitely proves to be untrue. As Houston increases and lends parts of its property to commercial development , the value of said property increases as developers begin to renovate properties to attract higher-income residents.

One of the few images of Third Ward in Houston, TX.

The process of gentrification seems to have its perks. Despite what benefits it may produce, consequences do follow. Gentrification effectively displaces lower-income families due to the increase in living expenses. If these families cannot pay for a decent living,  how can they provide themselves with the necessities and comfort they need?  Cities like Houston tend to place monetary incentives over the people’s needs, threatening certain groups like lower-income families. With issues like this begs the question: how can cities benefit the city without  jeopardizing the very existence of certain groups of people?  

F a c t o r s

 Scale, Walkability & The Automobile

Cars can be both a curse and a blessing.  On one hand, we recognize that we need them to get from point A to point B and when we don’t have access to transportation to get where we need to be, we feel it directly.  However, the answer to limited access to transportation has little to do with affordability, heavy traffic, lack of parking or actual necessity.  Instead, it should be recognized that it is more so a factor of scale.  More highways and more parking only encourages more traffic, contributes to pollution and discourages healthier modes of transportation. 

Think about it… 

Many people would take that nice paying job that’s right in the middle of downtown, the Bermuda Triangle of every large city, only to live 30-90 minutes away in a city that’s more affordable.  Do people enjoy sitting in traffic for 60-180 minutes a day?  Personally, I can think of several things I’d rather be doing with my time instead.

If people recognized that there is value in working close to home and governments recognized the need to reduce zoning restrictions and people were left to their own devices to let the city grow and develop in a natural pattern instead of being herded to different corners of the city, cars would be less of a necessity here in the US.  By reducing the size of zoning districts and if people were able to work closer to home, people would have more access to the basic amenities they need...  Biking and walking become more realistic options as modes of transportation.  Walking increases socialization, provides exercise and fresh air, regulates blood pressure and reduces stress among many other benefits. 

Taking into account things such as safety, distance from amenities, lifestyle and various methods of transportation, New York City is considered to be the most walkable city in the United States according to Walk Score, an online tool that provides neighborhood data to residents, developers and city planners for research and analysis.  According to an article by City Lab, there are three traits that New York City’s most walkable streets have in common:

High traffic buildings and fixtures (parks, schools, restaurants, etc…)

Street furniture / interactive elements (chairs, tables, vendors)

First floor windows (allows for window shopping)

These features of New York City’s most walkable streets demonstrate the importance of the quality of the public realm.

Quality of Public Space

It is truly undeniable a city and its people have a symbiotic relationship.  In order for the people to interact and utilize their space, the city must realize their basic needs, whether it be safety or comfort, and promote activities to satisfy them and most importantly, ensure the functionality of the city. In return, the people must give back to the city, utilizing the spaces to full capacity through self-expression and comfort. The city is complex as well as the people who live there. However, one idea remains undeniable. Through ideas of Alexander Garvin and the feud between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, we can see the intermingled web of the city and its people.  Because of this, we must focus on the quality of the public space. By improving the quality of public spaces, the quality of life for residents and experience for visitors increases as well.

Let’s take the well-known feud between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses into context. Robert Moses, inspired by the idea of the Radical City, desired to create modern architecture to adhere to the shift in culture and technological changes. Despite his idea to extend highways to accommodate automobiles and creating new residencies to increase monetary values, he very much threatened the community which already existed, deeming them as cancerous to society. In response, Jane Jacobs argued that the city was an “organized complexity”--the people and community had a coexisting, “living” relationship. If said relationship was destroyed, the culture of the city would be destroyed. Families would be driven out. The whole community- seperated and gentrified. Modern design would destroy the identity of the city and the people. With her argument, Jacobs stressed the importance of maintaining cities and the people’s needs, deeming the people as the “heart” of a city, allowing it to thrive and function.

Left: Robert Moses, right: Jane Jacobs- two opposing forces during the 1950s.

Urban planner Alexander Garvin further explored the complexity of a city and how people made it work successfully. Through his research, he observed numerous famous public spaces utilized by a vast number of people, whether residents or visitors,  and observed what qualities made it unique and functioning, compiling the observations into simplified ideas which encompass those qualities. One area, Sundance Square, proves to be an exceptional example of Garvin’s ideology. 

Sundance Square, located in Fort Worth, TX, experienced an extreme urban decay due to decentralization. To revitalize the city, the Bass Brothers bought the land and made it into a business improvement district (BID) which focuses on improving the land through mix development of residential and commercial businesses as well as maintaining the everyday life of visitors and residents. To ensure the quality of the square, Sundance Square promotes 24 safety with police surveillance and provides rules for people to follow as a way to protect their health and safety. In addition to this, through deliberate construction of one-way, narrow streets circling the square and bollards, the square allows visitors to enjoy their time and express themselves freely without any disruptions from traffic or misconduct.

Sundance Square

With Jacob’s and Garvin’s observations, their critique on successful cities in fact aligns with what an ideal city should be. Without focusing on people’s basic needs, cities would cease to function.

Individual vs Cohousing

There was a time in the world when families more commonly lived together across multiple generations and family members helped each other reach for a better quality of life.  While we do still see that today, it is becoming inherently less common.  With the ease of transportation, families split up and move to different parts of the world and individual family members are left to fend for themselves.  More and more we see a trend toward isolation through the use of fences, boundaries and digital communication--the very thing that is supposed to help people feel more socially connected.  

Attaining complete independence, something often encouraged in American culture, comes with consequences however.  Not only is it far more expensive to live alone, but it also starves people of human interaction at an unprecedented and unhealthy level.  Grace Kim, a practicing architect and co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, recognizes that there is a need to correct this.  Kim is an advocate of cohousing, an intentional community where houses are grouped together and share common spaces.

One example of Kim’s project focuses entirely on collaboration, community, distinguishably and sustainability.  Daybreak cohousing, located in North Portland, is designed specifically to increase and promote residential interactions with the utilization of solar panels to generate electricity. From cooking meals together and watching over each other’s children, the project allows residents to rely on one another. In addition to this, the Daybreak Cohousing also serves as educational purposes for the children, allowing them to see how stormwater is facilitated at the residency. 

Daybreak Cohousing

To see Grace Kim’s work on co-housing and more of her firm, Schemata workshop, see the links below: 

https://www.schemataworkshop.com/passions-cohousing

https://www.schemataworkshop.com/daybreak-cohousing

https://www.ted.com/talks/grace_kim_how_cohousing_can_make_us_happier_and_live_longer?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

C o n c l u s i o n

With the rapid development of technology and the explosion of the human population, the idea of the ideal city appears to slip further and further away.  However, hope is still in reach. By taking on precedents of current cities or spaces and further studying human interaction with the cities, we architects and urban planners have the power to turn the tide and create cities that serve all. 

Written by: Irene Vu & Amanda Floyd

[starlight-adventurer]

TLNM Headcanons

This is the first time I’ve actually shared headcanons (and they’re really dumb). These are for the movie just because I’ve been thinking about it a lot, but I have ones for the series if anyone is interested.

Other than Nya and Kai, Cole and Jay have known each other the longest. They used to be neighbours before Jay's parents moved to the outskirts of Ninjago City.

Kai and Nya don't have parents. They both have jobs to be able to afford their apartment, although Kai insists he could just work two jobs so Nya has more time to study and focus on her grades.

Nya and Zane get the best grades out the group, across all of their subjects (the two of them have a friendly competition going whenever big tests come up, which the rest of the group find terrifying). Jay comes next with pretty good grades, especially in science and IT, then there's Cole and Lloyd (they get roughly the same) with middle-ish grades, Cole does best in art and music while Lloyd's better at english and foreign languages. Kai has the worst grades of the bunch (but not bad grades, he just gets Cs mainly), he's better at hands-on subjects like woodwork.

They often have movie nights at their base. Jay likes romance and sci-fi, Cole and Kai enjoy action movies, Lloyd prefers things with deep stories and morals, Nya likes monster movies and horror (she has nerves of steel) while Zane enjoys kung fu movies as well as animated films.

They argue over who had the most fans. It got to the point they did an online poll about it. Turns out Lloyd had the most fans, he was kind of smug about it for weeks.

They have a team fridge which they all keep food in. It used to get raided during the night so they set up a camera to see who it was. Turns out it was Wu in his sleep.

When they stay late at base after a battle to hang out and work on the mechs they take it in turns to get the food. When it's Kai or Nya they usually get takeout, Cole buys whatever he can find at the local store, Zane cooks for them on this portable stove he has, Jay brings some of his mom's cooking to share and Lloyd gets pastries from the nearest bakery.

After Koko found out about the ninja thing she started visiting their base often. She makes sure they all do their homework, are getting enough sleep, are eating properly and brings them snacks. It embarrasses Lloyd so much.

They have gaming tournaments sometimes. Usually the finalists are either Kai, Jay or Nya. If it's Kai and Nya the sibling rivalry is so thick you could cut it with a knife. With Jay and Kai there's a lot of playful shoving which ends up with one of them falling off the couch. Then when it's Nya and Jay it's a lot quieter, just super tense.

They have found fanfiction of people shipping the ninja together. Most of the time it's pretty funny, except when they ship Kai and Nya together. Kai actually passed out when they first found out, and he didn't wake up for an hour. They were worried they'd broken him.

No matter how old they get the Ninja will always go trick-or-treating. Kai insists they do it, and no one has the heart to tell him no because of how excited he gets.  

After the movie the group decided to look after Meowthra, they take turns feeding them and giving them belly rubs. It's basically their mascot now.

Movie Kai -

He's super athletic. It doesn't matter what sport it is, he's tried it at least once. Sometimes it isn't even a sport like dance or cheerleading.

Speaking of cheerleading, Kai tried out for the team at the start of the year since he thought it would be fun. He did a routine to something positive like 'Stick Together' (he didn't make the cut because he was friends with Lloyd (he didn't mind though)). P.S. The idea of cheerleader Kai is my jam!

He tries to get into what his friends are interested in, like he got into music when Cole started talking to the group about it or online videogaming when Jay said he had no one to play with.

He wants to make his friends happy no matter what. Seriously, Lloyd once texted him at 3am saying he was sad and Kai at his apartment in 10 mins panting, holding a shopping bag full of ice cream ready to chill with him.

Kai is incredibly clingy, especially when someone's upset. If he sees someone crying he will hug them for 3 hours straight and refuse to let go.

Clumsy is definitely a word to describe him. No one wants to be his lab partner thanks to what was lovingly dubbed the 'Storage room incident' (they still haven't repaired all the damages).

Despite him loving being a ninja, he's always worrying if something bad is going to happen to his friends. It keeps him up at night most of the time (it's the reason he sleeps in class so much).

Due to his irregular sleeping habits the other ninja have found him asleep in weird places. Such as: His mech, his locker, their double-decker couch, their regular couch, under his desk, the janitor's closet and the fridge (it was summer at the time).

He owns the teddy bear backpack (like from the concept art). He brought it to school a couple times but it got taken by some bullies, who his friends had to restrain him from beating to a pulp, and he hasn't taken it since.

He cares about his hair a lot. He carries around a hair brush with him at all time, as well as hairspray and dry conditioner. Kai also knowns how to do loads of different styles, including multiple kinds of braids.

Like his series counterpart, Kai is afraid of water and cannot swim. The group went to a waterpark once and he had to wear armbands and a floaty ring to go on the slides.

Movie Zane -

Zane has been called 'Mom' by each of his friends at least once, Lloyd does it the most.

When he sings he sounds like a vocaloid (if you don't what this is, look it up).

Speaking of that, he would probably enjoy listening to that music. He finds it relatable and nice to hear a computer singing.

He enjoys really mild food and can't process sugar that well, so he has flavourless food a lot (like his water flavoured popsicles)

He has a vlog about the ninja that they have all featured on more than once. His most popular videos are fail compilations he makes of their battles

He has the best handwriting, like he could a calligrapher it's that good. Jay cried when he looked at it the first time because he thought it was beautiful.

When he first started school he had no idea about personal space. He still doesn't get it now and so he's fine when Cole leans on him a lot.

Zane enjoys when winter comes around. He can't feel the cold that much so he often lends his scarf to Kai when the other is shivering. He can also ice skate which the others found amazing the first time they went to a rink together.

He doesn't sleep that much so he often stays up late messaging Kai on his phone (they talk about the strangest things)

He names every piece of tech he owns. His phone is called 'Yuki'.

During the first month of the ninjas being friends none of them saw Zane eat, since he doesn't need to that often. Until Kai had enough and took him out for ice cream, because he was sure he was going to eat it out of anything else.

Movie Cole -

He listens to music to help him sleep at night, even though he knows it's bad for him.

Cole has no sense of taste, like he'll eat anything, and he can handle really spicy food like it's nothing

He wants to have a song for every occasion, no matter how weird it is, since he thinks life should have a backing track. He constantly asks the others for situations so he can check if he has music for it yet. (He still hasn't found 'being bitten by a snake that was bitten by a spider' for Garmadon, but he's trying).

He will listen to music in other languages, sometimes he looks up lyrics if he's really curious but most of the time he just enjoys how other languages sound.

Cole knows how to play at least 10 instruments, including but not limited to the violin, the guitar, the drums, the flute and the piano.

He often forgets to brush his hair. When he and Kai started being friends Kai almost had a heart attack when he found out. Now the fire ninja makes sure he always has it brushed in the morning, even if he has to do it for him.

When he has to have classes without his headphones on, because the teacher took them or something, he starts humming or taps his foot. Anything to make noise, he doesn't like quiet all that much.

He can imitate phone notification noises. He does it in class when he's bored to see how many people move to check their phone (he caught the teacher out once, and couldn't stop laughing).

Cole's actually blue-yellow colour blind. He sometimes mistakes Jay for Lloyd and vice versa when they're in their ninja uniform.

Movie Jay -

Videogaming is way of life for him. He plays anything. Retro, PC, co-op, shooters; It really doesn't matter to him.

He listens to music while he games sometimes if he doesn't like the game soundtrack or if he needs to get pumped up.

Everyone knows about his crush on Nya, except Nya and Kai. The former because he hasn't told her yet and the latter due to the fact no one knows how he'll react to the news.

Gets sick a lot. It annoys him to no end. His mom is constantly sending him to school with thermoses of noodle soup for colds, and tons of medicine.

He gets stressed a lot. Jay has a habit of overthinking things to the point it hurts his head to think about. He's starting to drink herbal teas from Wu to help with it.

He has kitten sneezes. Everyone thinks it's the cutest thing ever.

He owns like a million scarfs, and they're all knitted by his mom. He refuses to get rid of any of them because of how long she spent on each one.

He is terrified of Furbys, he thinks they're creepy and shouldn't be given to kids.

Jay can actually knit for himself but only makes stuff for other people as gifts.

Movie Nya -

Her grades are the most important thing in her life, besides her bike.

She hates getting ill, because she thinks it makes her look weak and she doesn't want Kai to miss school to take care of her. Even if he insists he can afford time off school.

Was voted: 'Most likely to get away with murder', by her classmates. She wears the title like a badge of honour.

Out of all the ninja she's definitely the most intimidating. Anyone who calls her 'harmless' has regretted it.

Nya enjoys reading in her free time. She likes all types of stories, including manga, comics and visual novels.

She pulls pranks more than most people would expect. It's the reason she didn't get invited to many 'girls only' sleepovers as a kid, due to drawing on people’s faces among other things.

When she found out Koko was Lady Iron Dragon it took her a week to build up the courage to ask for her autograph. (Which is currently framed on her bedroom wall.)

Usually forgets to eat breakfast in the morning, so Zane started bringing her snacks before school so Kai won't worry about her health.

She's super supportive of all of her friends. She's usually the one cheering the loudest for them and patting them on the back for a job well done.

Her dream is to travel the world after they graduate. She wants to see everything the world has to offer, but she always insists her home base will be Ninjago.

Movie Lloyd -

When he's sad he eats sugary food, especially ice cream. It worries his mom so he doesn't do it that much nowadays.

He's a closeted fanboy of anime. Like he has posters and stuff all over his room, which his mom finds adorable, but he refuses to show any of his friends. Kai found out about by accident and started watching shows with him.

Much like his series counterpart, when Lloyd was a kid he had a bowl cut. Cole found a picture of it in a yearbook, they have it hanging up in their base on the fridge.

Up until his eighth birthday he sent Garmadon an invitation to his party just in case his dad actually wanted to come. It broke Koko's heart every time he didn't and Lloyd locked himself in his room.

Jay once said he looked like Link from Zelda. It stuck with him to the point he dressed up as him for Halloween. Everyone thought it was great.

His sense of humour is like 40% self-deprecating and 60% sarcasm, no one knows if he's serious most of the time because of it.

He's jokingly been called Kai and Nya's 'sibling' before because of how protective the two are of him, they don't mind and take it as a compliment. When Koko heard it for the first time she started crying and said she would love to have Kai and Nya as part of the family.

He has tons of mini cacti in his room, because he thinks their cute. They each have unique pots and names. He talks to them when he's lonely and thinks no one is listening.

He sometimes steals food from the team fridge and blames it on someone else (no one has actually caught him yet).

[redsoapbox]

MY TOP TEN ALBUMS LIST OF 1983

As someone who has always been an obsessive list-maker, I can’t quite comprehend how I’ve resisted the temptation, in the three years of redsoapbox, to blog to the world my thoughts on favourite films, books, records, etc. However, during some much-needed spring cleaning over the weekend, I stumbled upon a list of my favourite albums from 1983 and my defences collapsed on the spot. So I ’m putting it out there, regardless of the risk to my reputation (ha, ha). 

1.Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

The album, of course, that marked Waits’ change from jazzy, bohemian barfly to surrealist junkyard poet. I hadn’t had much to do with Waits up until this point but subsequently bought up his back catalogue on the strength of this masterpiece. Waits described the transition in style this way -  “I hatched out of the egg I was living in. I'd nailed one foot to the floor and kept going in circles, making the same record”. “In the Neighbourhood”, the alt.torch song “Frank’s Wild Years” and the little love poem “Johnsburg, Illinois” were the obvious standouts. Swordfishtrombones still remains on heavy rotation in the McGrath household today.

Selected track -  “In the Neighbourhood”

2. Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy - Billy Bragg

Sometime in 83/84, I showed up at the local Polytechnic to watch The Icicle Works and fell head over heels in love with unbilled support act, Billy Bragg. As a fully paid-up member of the Labour Party, I bought into Billy’s ‘socialism of the heart’ in a big way. I stood there open-mouthed as the ‘Bard of Barking’ cranked out “Milkman of Human Kindness”, “New England” and “To Have And Have Not”. The gig ended on an unbelievable high, with Billy joining Ian McNabb and co. on stage for an encore which included a medley of “Jailhouse Rock”, “L.A. Woman” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. I’ve seen Billy ‘one-man Clash’ Bragg play a dozen times since, and this fifteen-minute masterpiece remains high in my all-time top twenty albums list.

Selected track - “To Have And Have Not”

3. Hysterics - The Nightingales

In the sixties, you got to define yourself musically/culturally by choosing between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, for post-punks like me, though, it was a straight choice between The Fall and The Nightingales (of course, you could secretly worship both and I did!). I was always, deep down, a Robert Lloyd man - I once fired off an angry letter to *Mojo taking Morrissey to task for lumping the ‘gales in with The June Brides and The Jasmine Minks - and still regard the frontman as one of the best lyricists in pop music history. It was a real joy to witness The Nightingales come back from a 20-year hiatus (during which Lloyd worked as a Postman) with 2006′s Out Of True, an album which gives Hysterics a real run for its money. One of my top 5 all-time favourite gigs was The Nightingales/Happy Monday’s/Ted Chippington corker in the Poly of Wales in 1984/85.

Selected track  -  “This” 

The Nightingales have not been too well-served by the internet and there is next to nothing in terms of live footage before their reformation. They did, however, record 8 Sessions for John Peel, including the one below from the 5th of December 1983 which kicks off with “This”, the only song from Hysterics that I could track down for the purposes of this piece. 

* The letter was published in issue no 151.

4. Murmur - R.E.M.

Having disastrously passed up the chance to catch ‘some new American band’, who in fact turned out to be none other than R.E.M., at Rumney’s run-down New Ocean Club in November 1984, I had to wait a further five years to see the band play (in Newport and Birmingham) as part of their Green tour. By then, of course, the whole world had fallen in love with the college rockers turned conquering heroes. Albums such as Document and Green may have propelled Athens’ finest into the big leagues, but the Byrdsian mumble-fest that is Murmur remains their masterpiece. A belated thumbs-up to Big Al for turning me onto the band in the first place.

Selected track - “Talk About The Passion”.

5. Power Corruption and Lies - New Order

You can’t begin to discuss the strange and surreal story of New Order’s rise to world domination without first engaging with the personal tragedy of Ian Curtis and the dramatic fall of Joy Division. How the remaining members of Manchester miserabilists Joy Division - Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris - recovered from the suicide of their friend and frontman Curtis in May 1980 to remodel themselves as the unexpected pioneers of Indie dance (Blue Monday is the biggest selling 12 inch record of all time) is surely one of the tallest tales in the annals of popular music. 

Full disclosure here - there was a time in the mid-eighties, stretching to somewhere between 12 and 18 months, where I barely listened to anything other than Joy Division/New Order. Curtis had already died when I bumped into two old school friends, Tosh and Dai, huddled in the doorway of The Criterion pub at closing time one stormy Friday night in Pontypridd in the winter of 1983. In what was undoubtedly a drunken conversation, I heard the name Joy Division for the very first time. The next morning, with praise for JD still ringing in my head (unless that was the hangover), I headed straight for Hurleys Toy Shop (there was a record store in the back, staffed that morning by another friend from school, Huw, a mod who was clad in his usual Parka). I asked him to put on the first Joy Division record that I had caught sight of, which, try and stifle the laughter here folks, happened to be odds & sods compilation Still. The thrumming, glacial intro to “Exercise One” slowly unfurled and then, at 1.43 precisely, Curtis’ doomy, dislocated voice kicked in and my life would never be quite the same again. And I hadn’t even heard a track from Unknown Pleasures or Closer, let alone the classic singles “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, “Transmission” or “Atmosphere”.

New Order tried and failed to recapture that sound with their debut album Movement, but they were saved by the unlikeliest of transitions - the doom merchants became dance doyens, a shift signaled by the singles “Everything’s Gone Green” and “Temptation”.The members of New Order underwent personality transplants overnight and cemented their place in the pop pantheon.

Selected track - “Age of Consent”. The video below is the notorious live BBC concert, where everything in the lead-up to the gig has gone wrong. Bernard, visibly bursting at the seams with anger, isn’t best pleased, to begin with, and things are about to get worse!. I must have watched that twenty-minute broadcast a million times!

6. The Icicle Works - The Icicle Works

It’s been many a long year since I played this album and off the top of my head I can only name a couple of the tracks - “Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)” and the top twenty hit “Love Is A Wonderful Colour”. I was, though, a hardcore fan at the time, buying every album and a fair few of the Ian McNabb solo efforts that followed, including his majestic Head Like A Rock (1994), featuring members of Crazy Horse. Around the time of that album, he played a gig in Newport in front of a very paltry crowd. He took to the stage, looked around him and murmured ‘so this is Newport’. He never uttered another word during the set and looked well fed-up with life. He did, though, play the storming “Fire Inside My Soul”, which more than made up for his couldn’t care less attitude.

Selected track -  “Love Is A Wonderful Colour”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFUGLNz1YfY

7. Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

Another album that needs a good dusting down! Aside from King of America (1986), I usually confine myself to the Greatest Hits compilations when I’m in the mood for a slice of EC these days. Funnily enough, this month’s issue of Uncut has a feature on the album's producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley in which they recall that ‘the premise of the record was Elvis needs a hit, and a hit in America. Keep that in mind”. Langer recalls Costello freaking out on the last night of recording, claiming the album sounded crap. There are great tracks here - “Shipbuilding”, “Everyday I Write the Book” and “Pills and Soap” but there won’t be too many Costello aficionados claiming it as his best work.

Selected track -  “Let Them All Talk”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjr9zAknhbI

8. Soul Mining - The The

Although we weren’t to know it at the time it was Matt Johnson’s follow-up to this fine record, 1986′s crusading, state of the nation classic Infected, that would truly stand the test of time. Soulmining shouldn’t be neglected, however, with fine tunes like “This is the Day” and “Uncertain Smile” to its credit.

Selected track - “This is the Day”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAue9jqLB74

9. Perverted by Language - The Fall

Probably The Fall record I played the most down the years (along with Live at the Witch Trials), mainly because I was obsessed with “Eat Y’ Self Fitter”. Any track beginning 

I’m in the furniture trade / Got a new job today / But stick the cretin / On the number-three lathe’, deserves our absolute devotion.

As with most Mark E. Smith compositions, I haven’t got a scooby’s as to what the substance of the song is actually about, but it doesn’t really matter, does it? when you can belt out  ‘Where’s the cursor? Where’s the eraser? until you’re fit to drop.

Selected track - “ Eat Y’Self Fitter” of course!

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80

10. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart - Van Morrison

The Belfast Cowboy’s streak of legendary albums, from 1968′s Astral Weeks through to 1974′s Veedon Fleece (discounting workmanlike efforts such as His Band and Street Choir in 1970 and 1973′s Hard Nose the Highway), was well and truly over and his mid-eighties slump entirely predictable by the time of this average undertaking. Still, anything that bears Morrison’s stamp upon it is bound to include a magical track here or there. In this case, it was the momentously odd “Rave On, John Donne” and the Morrison masterclass that is “The Street Only Knew Your Name”.

Selected track - “The Street Only Knew Your Name”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa8sdU6bxlA

Clearly, there are some glaring omissions here, but I was a 21-year-old slip of a lad at the time, and all in all, it’s a pretty fair list, I think. The top 4 are all still to be found in my top 30 albums list and I wouldn’t disown any of the others 35 years on. Those were great gig-going years - many thanks to Duncan, Huw and Stephen who accompanied me to some of the concerts mentioned above, and plenty of others besides in my indie heyday. I guess I still owe you petrol money, guys?

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Goldman Sachs Malaysia Arm Pleads Guilty in 1MDB Fraud

What would you do if you were a Goldman Sachs executive and an employee introduced you to a wealthy Malaysian businessman with extensive government connections known for being a flamboyant businessman wanting you to raise billions of dollars in bonds, but it was unclear how the businessman obtained his wealth: (1) make the deal and earn huge fees, (2) refuse to make the deal? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision? 

Goldman Sachs played a starring role in the dubious financial engineering that helped spark a global financial crisis last decade, and its 151-year history is dotted with scandals that ended in fines or governmental scoldings. But never before had it had to go before a U.S. judge and admit it was guilty of a crime.

The bank, one of Wall Street’s most powerful firms, admitted criminal wrongdoing by its Malaysian subsidiary on Thursday in a Brooklyn federal courtroom, bringing to a close a globe-spanning foreign bribery case that is the worst black eye in Goldman’s long history.

Goldman employees, the bank said, took part in a scheme to pay $1 billion in bribes to foreign officials. The bank, in turn, arranged the sale of bonds to raise $6.5 billion that was intended to benefit the people of Malaysia but was instead looted by the country’s leaders and their associates.

In the end, the scandal, which netted the bank a relatively paltry $600 million in fees, will cost Goldman and its current and former executives dearly. The bank itself will pay more than $5 billion in penalties to regulators around the world, more than it had to pay for peddling bonds backed by risky mortgages a decade ago. And it has moved to recoup or withhold more than $100 million in executive compensation, a rare move for a Wall Street bank.

In a statement, Goldman’s chief executive, David Solomon, said the former employees who had broken the law had concealed their actions. But he acknowledged that the bank had fallen short, and that employee subterfuge relieved neither he nor anyone else of responsibility.

“When a colleague knowingly violates a firm policy or, much worse, the law, we — as a firm — have to accept responsibility and recognize the broader failure that individual behavior represents for our firm,” he said.

Mr. Solomon and other current and former executives — including the bank’s former chief executive Lloyd Blankfein — will lose a total of $174 million over the leadership failures that took place in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund, known as 1MDB.

“It goes with the responsibility of leadership to accept some consequences for things that go wrong on your watch,” Mr. Blankfein, who retired in 2018, said Thursday.

More than $2.7 billion was looted from the fund by powerful figures in Malaysia, including the family of the country’s prime minister at the time, Najib Razak, and Jho Low, a financier with expensive tastes who was the heist’s mastermind and remains an international fugitive.

The money taken from 1MDB funded lavish lifestyles for powerful Malaysians, including friends and family of Mr. Najib. The money bought paintings by van Gogh and Monet, a mega-yacht docked in Bali, a grand piano made of clear acrylic that was given to a supermodel as a gift, and a king’s ransom in jewelry. Pilfered money also financed a boutique hotel in Beverly Hills, a share of the EMI music publishing portfolio and the Hollywood movie “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Karen Seymour, the bank’s general counsel, officially entered the guilty plea for Goldman’s Malaysian subsidiary, which admitted it had “knowingly and willingly” conspired to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The parent company of the bank itself entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement on a similar charge, which will be dismissed if Goldman complies with the deal.

While Goldman earned a reputation for ruthlessness during 2008 — its “great vampire squid” nickname still echoes in the public consciousness — it has long been a darling of authorities, and has offered something of a revolving door into public service. Hence its other nickname: “Government Sachs.”

There was little real drama associated with the 1MDB investigation’s resolution: Goldman and prosecutors spent nearly two years working out the terms, and the bank had long ago set aside money for penalties it knew were coming. Three law firms worked on the matter for the bank, and this year Goldman lobbied top officials with the Justice Department for a degree of leniency.

Dennis M. Kelleher, chief executive of Better Markets, a Wall Street watchdog, was underwhelmed by the settlement, calling it “highly favorable” to Goldman. The $2.3 billion fine, he said, is “virtually meaningless,” and he did not expect the Justice Department to show much interest in enforcing the deferred prosecution agreement.

A more serious penalty would have involved the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the bank’s compliance procedures and a guilty plea by the bank itself, not a subsidiary.

“Goldman’s involvement with 1MDB was no ordinary crime in terms of scale, scope, consequence and egregiousness,” Mr. Kelleher said.

All told, Goldman will have to shell out billions in penalties and returned money in Malaysia, the United States and Hong Kong. The scandal also brought down Mr. Najib, the former prime minister, who is appealing his conviction in a corruption trial in Malaysia.

As part of the plea deal, Goldman has agreed to a statement of facts compiled by federal authorities that it will not be able to dispute. That document outlines a number of internal control failings at Goldman that authorities said should have detected the wrongdoing by its former employees, as well as Mr. Low’s involvement.

Mr. Low, a flamboyant businessman who had befriended many Hollywood celebrities and was known for staging wild and extravagant parties in Las Vegas, was introduced to a Goldman banker, Tim Leissner, in 2009. Mr. Leissner, the husband of the fashion designer and model Kimora Lee Simmons, began talking to Mr. Low about finding ways for Goldman to increase its business activities in Malaysia, but encountered obstacles when some at Goldman objected to Mr. Low’s becoming a client of the bank because it was unclear how he had amassed his wealth.

In early 2011, some in Goldman’s compliance division pushed back on the idea of the bank’s doing business with two of Mr. Low’s companies. Prosecutors wrote that one person at Goldman in March 2011 went so far as to say, “To be clear, we have pretty much zero appetite for a relationship with this individual.”

Even so, Mr. Leissner and Mr. Low remained connected, and Goldman earned the fund’s business. By December 2012, just a few weeks before the bank arranged a third bond deal for 1MDB, Mr. Low met with Mr. Blankfein at Goldman’s offices in New York. — just one of several meetings that top executives at the bank had with him between 2009 and 2014. One meeting, prosecutors wrote, took place on a yacht in southern France.

“Personnel at the bank allowed this scheme to proceed by overlooking or ignoring a number of clear red flags,” Brian C. Rabbitt, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, said during a news conference.

Federal prosecutors had already brought charges against Mr. Leissner and another Goldman banker as well as Mr. Low, who is believed to be living in China. Mr. Leissner has pleaded guilty and agreed to forfeit up to $43.7 million.

Prosecutors acknowledge that Mr. Leissner was deceptive and frequently misled or lied to others at Goldman about whether he was dealing with Mr. Low. But authorities faulted Goldman for accepting those denials at “face value.”

Malaysian prosecutors also brought criminal charges against Goldman and more than a dozen executives, but the bank agreed in July to pay $2.5 billion to resolve that investigation. Goldman also pledged to cover any shortfall from the sale of $1.4 billion in assets that have been seized by prosecutors in the United States and Malaysia.

Much of the property seized belonged to Mr. Low, who has never appeared in court to face charges in the case. He has denied wrongdoing through representatives in the United States, but agreed last year to give up all claims to assets already seized by the government. Those assets, including apartments and a jet, are worth as much as $900 million. His exact whereabouts remains a mystery.

The bank’s Malaysian subsidiary is scheduled to be formally sentenced in December, allowing enough time for Goldman to secure waivers from regulatory agencies so it can operate as normal afterward, such as a fiduciary for employee pension and retirement plans.

While the legal saga is essentially over for Goldman, it will continue for some of the people involved: Mr. Leissner awaits sentencing, and the other banker charged in the United States, Roger Ng, has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial. Another former Goldman executive, Andrea Vella, has been barred from the financial industry by the Federal Reserve.

Goldman’s board said it was taking steps to recoup tens of millions of dollars in compensation from those three as well.

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This file contains a list of novels and stories which contain one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters.  Most of characters whose intelligence places a title on this list are effected or affected through the use of hardware, software or genetic alteration (rarely).  Additions and corrections would be most appreciated as the list compiler <Garet Sheppard> has not read all of the works listed here - or even a significant portion, and will probably never have a chance to do so. My thanks to Dan Bloch and Robert Stanley for suggestions, ideasand editing.

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Date: 7 Apr 91 02:01:30 GMT

From: panther@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Garet Sheppard)

Subject: Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3  (1600 lines)

           Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3

                      -Apr 6 1990-

The list uses the following AI definitions:

  A androids - robots in human form

  C computer systems - intelligent stationary computers or networks

  H humans in computerized/program/digitized form

  N non-mechanical, human created intelligences - usually biological

  O other intelligences - intelligent tanks, books, planets, whatever

  P programs - intelligent entities able to move between computer systems

  R robots - mobile, usually mechanical AIs

 S ships - intelligent; only mobile in the form of a (star)ship

  Y cyborgs - born human, almost completely replaced by machine parts

  * new/improved - information has changed since last edition

  e evolved - any of the AI forms which evolved their intelligences

(expanded definitions are listed at the end of the list)

Author

 AI type  Title

Abe, Kobo

  C      Inter Ice Age 4 (or _Dai yon kampo-ki_)

Adams, Douglas Noel

* R       Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [Monk of Belief]

  R      Life, the Universe and Everything

* R       So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Marvin]

  CRS    The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

  R      The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adlard, Mark

  C?     Interface

  C?     Multiface

Alban, Antony

  C      Catharsis Central

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

  R      `All the World's Tears`

  R?     `Comic Inferno`

  ?      `Full Sun`

  ?      `Neanderthal Planet`

  A      `Pink Plastic Gods`

  A      `Super-Toys Last All Summer Long`

  ?      `The Hunter at His Ease`

  R      `The New Father Christmas`

  R      `Who can Replace a Man?`

  ?      Who can Replace a Man? (coll)

Alexander, Marc

  R      The Mist Lizard

Allen, J.

  C?     Data for Death

Amminnus, Marcellinus (pseud.)

  C      `The Thought Machine`

Anderson Poul

  EO?    `Epilogue`  [mechanical life]

  AC     `Goat Song`

  HY?    `Kings Who Die`

  R      `Quixote and the Windmill`

  S      `Starfog`

  R?     `The Critique of Impure Reason`

  ?      A Circle of Hells

  ?      Brainwave

  C?     The Avatar

Anfilov, Gelb

  ?      `Erem`

Anmark, Frank

  A?     `The Fasterfaster Affair`

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)

  ?      OX

  R      Blue Adept

  C      Heaven Cent

  CR     Juxtaposition

  C      Man from Mundania

  ?      Mute

  ?      Omnivore

  CR     Orn

  CR     Out of Phase

  CR     Robot Adept

  CR     Split Infinity

  C      The Vale of the Vole

  CR     Unicorn Point

Anthony, Piers & Margroff, Robert & Offutt, Andrew J.

  A      `Mandroid`

Anvil, Christopher

  ?      `The Hunch`

Appleton, Victor (pseud.)

  ?      Terror on the Moons of Jupiter

Asimov, Isaac

  C      `All the Troubles in the World`

  R      `Catch that Rabbit`

  ?      `Death Sentence`

  R      `Escape!` or `Paradoxical Escape`

  A      `Evidence`

  R      `Feminine Intuition`

  R      `First Law`

  C      `Franchise`

  R      `Galley Slave`

  C      `Jokester`

  R?     `Lenny`

  R?     `Let's Get Together`

  R      `Liar!`

  R      `Little Lost Robot`

  ?      `Mirror Image`

  C      `Profession`

  R      `Reason`

  R?     `Risk`

  R      `Robbie` or `Strange Playfellow`

  R      `Robot AL-76 Goes Astray`

  R      `Runaround`

  R?     `Sally`

  R      `Satisfaction Guaranteed`

  A      `Segregationist`

  C      `Someday`

  R      `Stranger in Paradise`

  A      `That Thou Art Mindful of Him!`

  A      `The Bicentennial Man`

  C      `The Computer that Went on Strike`

  R      `The Evitable Conflict`

  C      `The Last Question`

  C      `The Life and Times of Multivac`

  C      `The Machine that Won the War`

  R      `The Tercentenary Incident`

  R      `Victory Unintentional`

  AO     Foundation's Edge  [planet]

  A      Foundation and Earth

  R      I, Robot (coll)

* A       Prelude to Foundation

  CR     Robot Dreams

  A      Robots and Empire

  A      Robots of Dawn

  A      The Caves of Steel

  A      The Naked Sun

  R      The Stars, Like Dust

  R      The Rest of the Robots (coll)

Asimov, Janet (Janet O. Jeppson)

  R?     Norby and the Lost Princess

  R?     Norby, the Mixed-up Robot

  R?     Norby's Other Secret

Balchin, Nigel

  C      `God and the Machine`

Ball, B.

  R      Night of the Robots

Bangs, John K.

  R?     The Worsted Man

Banks, Iain

  A?     Player of Games

  ?      Consider Phlebas

Banks, Raymond E.

  C      `Walter Perkins is Here!`

Bannon, M.

  R      Wayward Robot

Barrington, J Bayley

  R      The Soul of the Robot

Barth, John

  C      Giles Goat-Boy (or _The Revised New Syllabus_)

Bass, T.J. (pseud)

  O      Ball  [Cybers]

  S      Half Past Human

  O      The Class One  [Cybers]

  Y      The Godwhale

  O      Toothpick  [Cybers]

Bates, Harry

  R      `Farewell to the Master`

Baum, L. Frank

  R?     Glinda of Oz

  R?     Ozma of Oz

  R      Tik-Tok of Oz

  R      The Tin Woodman of Oz

Bayley, Barrington J.

  R      Soul of the Robot

  Y?     The Garments of Caean

  ?      The Rod of Light

Bear, Greg

  N      Blood Music  [nanobiorobots]

  H      Eon

  H      Eternity

Beaumont, Charles

  R?     `In His Image`

  A?     `Last Rites`

Bene't, Stephen Vincent

  ?      `Nightmare Number Three`

Benford, Gregory

  ?      `Doing Lennon`

  O      Across the Sea of Suns  [Alien Machine Intelligence]

  ACHR   Great Sky River

* O       In the Ocean of Night  [Alien Machine Intelligence?]

* O       Tides of Light

Berckman, Evelyn

  ?      The Voice of the Air

Bester, Alfred

  ?      `Adam and No Eve`

  A      `Fondly Fahrenheit`

  O      `Something Up There Likes Me`  [satellite]

  C      Computer Connection (or _Extro_)

* Y?      Golem^100

Bickham, Jack M.

  C      Ariel

Bierce, Ambrose

  R?     `Moxon's Master`

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

  R      `In His Own Image`

  ?      `Spare the Rod`

Binder, Eando (E. and Otto Binder)

  R      `Adam Link Faces a Revolt`

  R      `Adam Link Fights a War`

  R      `Adam Link in the Past`

  R      `Adam Link in Business`

  R      `Adam Link Saves the World`

  R      `Adam Link's Revenge`

  R      `Adam Link's Vengeance`

  R      `Adam Link, Champion Athlete`

  R      `Adam Link, Robot Detective`

  R      `From the Beginning`

  R      `I, Robot`

  R?     `Iron Man`

  R      `The Robot Aliens`

  R      `The Trail of Adam Link`

  R      Adam Link: Robot (coll)

  Y      Enslaved Brains

Bischoff, David

  C      Wargames

Bixby, Jerome

  R      `Guardian`

Blade, Alexander (pseud.)

  C      The Brain

Blish, James Benjamin

  A      `I, Mudd`

  R      `Now the Man is Gone`

  Y      `Solar Plexus`

  R?     `The Apple`

  ?      `The Box`

  R      `The Changeling`

  C      Cities in Flight

  ?      Midsummer Century

Bloch, Alan

  R      `Men Are Different`

Bloch, Chayim

  R?     `The Golem`

Bloch, Robert

  R      `Almost Human`

  R      `Comfort Me, My Robot`

  R      `The Tin You Love to Touch`

Bone, J. F.

  ?      `Triggerman`

Boucher, Anthony

  R      `The Quest for Saint Aquin`

Boulle, Pierre

  C      `The Man Who Hated Machines`

  A      `The Perfect Robot`

Bounds, Sydney J.

  Y      `No Greater Love`

  R      The Robot Brains

Bova, Benjamin William

  ?      `The Perfect Warrior`

  ?      `THX 1138`

  S?     `Stars Won't You Hide Me`

Bova, Ben & Ellison, Harlan

  R      `Brillo`

Boyce, Chris

  H?     Catchworld

Boyd, Felix (pseud)

  R      `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

Boyd, John

  CR?    The Last Starship from Earth

Bradbury, Ray

  A      `Changeling`

  A      `Downwind from Gettysburg`

  R?     `Dwellers in Silence`

  R      `I Sing the Body Electric`

  R      `Marionettes, Inc.`

  R?     `Punishment Without Crime`

  A      `The Long Years`

* O       `There Will Come Soft Rains`  [house]

  R?     `Usher II`

Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Henry

  R      `Pendulum`

Breuer, Miles J.

  C?     `Paradise and Iron`

Brin, David

  R?     `The Warm Space`

  C      Startide Rising

  C      The Postman

  C      The Uplift War

Brin, David & Benford, Gregory

  H      Heart of the Comet

Brink, Carol Ryrie

  R      `Andy Buckram's Tin Men`

Brown, Fredric

* O?      `Etaoin Shrdlu`   [printing press]

  C      `Answer`

Browning, John (Robert Moore Williams)

  R      `Burning Bright`

  R      `Robot's Return`

Bruckner, Karl

  R      The Hour of the Robots

Brunner, John Kilian Houston

  R      `Judas`

  ?      `The Invisible Idiot`

  ?      `Thou Good and Faithful`

  ?      `You'll Take the High Road`

  A?     Slaves of Space (or _Into the Slave Nebula_)

  C      Stand on Zanzibar

Bryning, Frank R.

  R      `The Robot Computer`

Budrys, Algis (pseud.)

  A      `Dream of Victory`

  R      `First to Serve`

  R?     `In Human Hands`

  R?     Annsirs and the Iron Man

  C      Michaelmas

  Y      Who?

Bulmer, Kenneth

  R      `Never Trust a Robot`

Bunch, David R.

  H?     `Moderan`

  R?     `The Problem Was Lubrication`

Bunting, Eve

  R      The Robot People

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey

  ?     `The 480`

  ?      Fail-Safe

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

  A?     Synthetic Men of Mars

  A?     The Monster Men

Butler, Samuel

  Ce     Erewhon

Caidin, Martin

  C      The God Machine

Cameron, Lou

  C      Cybernia

Campbell, John Wood, Jr.

  R      `The Last Evolution`

  R      `The Last Revolution`

  C?     `The Metal Horde`

  ?      `When the Atoms Failed`

  ?      The Mightiest Machine

Capek, Karel

  R      R.U.R., A Fantastic Melodrama

Card, Orson Scott

* Ce      Speaker for the Dead

Carr, Terry

  ?     `City of Yesterday`

  R     `In His Image`

  R     `The Robots Are Here`

Carrigan, Richard and Nancy

  ?      The Siren Stars

Carter, Angela

  O      The Informal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Carver, Jeffrey A.

  Re     From A Changeling Star  [nanomachines]

  P      The Infinity Link

  C      The Rapture Effect

Chalker, Jack L.

  CP     Birth of Flux and Anchor

  P      Empire of Flux and Anchor

  S      Lords of the Middle Dark

  CRS    Masks of the Martyrs

  RS     Pirates of the Thunder

* CS      Quest for the Well of Souls  [planet]

* CS      The Return of Nathan Brazil  [planet]

* CS      Twilight at the Well of Souls  [planet]

  RS     Warriors of the Storm

Chandler, A. Bertram

  ?      `The Left-Hand Way`

  ?      `The Soul Machine`

Chapdelaine, Perry A.

  ?      `We Fused One`

Cherryh, C. J. (pseud)

  ?      Voyagers in Night

Clarke, Arthur C.

  Y      `A Meeting With Medusa`

  ?      `Crusade`

  Oe     `Dial "F" for Frankenstein`  [satellite relay]

  R?     `Expedition to Earth`

  ?      `Superiority`

  S      2001: A Space Odyssey

  S      2010: odyssey two

  ?      2061: odyssey three

  O      The City and the Stars  [city]

  C      The Foundations of Paradise

Clement, Hal (Harry Stubbs)

  C?     `Answer`

Clifton, Mark and Apostolidas, Alex

  ?      `Crazy Joey`

  ?      `Hide! Hide! Witch!`

Clifton, Mark and Riley, Frank

  C      They'd Rather Be Right (or _The Forever Machine_)

Clouston, Joseph Storer

  R      Button Brains

Coblenzt, Stanton A.

  ?      `Lord of Tranerica`

Cole, Burt

  C      The Funco File

Collins, Graham P.

  P      Variations on a Theme

Compton, David Guy

  ?      Synthajoy

  C      The Steel Crocodile (or _The Electric Crocodile_)

 Y?     The Unsleeping Eye (or _The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe_)

Coney, Michael G.

  Y?     `Troubleshooter`

  ?      Freinds Come in Boxes

Conley, Rick

  ?      `The War of the Words`

Cook, Glen

* S       The Dragon Never Sleeps

Cook, Robin

  ?      Brain

Cook, William Wallace

  R      A Flight Through Time or (_A Round Trip to the Year 2000_)

Cooper, Edmund

  A      `The Uncertain Midnight`

  R      The Overman Culture

Coppel, Alfred

  R      `For Humans Only`

  R      `The Hunters`

Correa, Hugo

  R      `Meccano`

Coupling, J. J.

  RY?    `Period Piece`

Cousey, James

  A?     `The Show Must Go On` or `So Lovely So Lost`

Cowper, R

  ?      Clone

Crichton, Michael

  CY?    The Terminal Man

Crossen, Kendell Foster

  ?      Year of Consent

Cumings, Ray

  R      `Almost Human`

Dahl, Roald

  Y?     `William and Mary`

Daley, Brian

  PS     Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Dann, Jack

  Y?     `I'm With You In Rockland`

Davidson, Avram

  ?      `The Golem`

Davidson, Michael

  H      The Karma Machine

Davies, L. P.

  R?     The Artificial Man

Davis, Chan

  A      `Letter to Ellen`

de Camp, L. Sprague

  R      `Internal Combustion`

Deighton, Len

  C      The Billion Dollar Brain

Delaney, Joseph H. & Stiegler, Marc

  Pe     Valentina: Soul in Sapphire

Delany, Samuel R.

  C      City of a Thousand Suns (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

  C      Empire Star

  C      Out of the Dead City (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

* HO      Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand  [galactic database]

  C      The Einstein Intersection

  C      The Fall of the Towers

  C      The Towers of Toren (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

del Rey, Lester

  R      `A Code for Sam`

  R      `A Pound of Cure`

  R      `Helen O'Loy`

  R      `Instinct`

  R      `Into Thy Hands`

  Y      `Reincarnate`

  R      `Robots Should Be Seen`

  R      `The Master`

  R      `Though Dreamers Die`

  R      `To Avenge Man`

  R      `Vengeance is Mine`

  R      The Runaway Robot

Dick, Philip K.

  Ce     `Autofac`

  ?      `If There Were No Benny Cemoli`

  A      `Impostor`

  R?     `Oh, to be a Blobel!`

  ?      `Progeny`

  ARe    `Second Variety`

  R      `Service Call`

  R      `The Defenders`

  AHR?   `The Electric Ant`

  C?     `The Great C`

  ?      `The Preserving Machine`

  C?     `The Variable Man`

  ?      `War Veteran`

  C      A Maze of Death

  A      Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  ?      Dr. Bloodmoney

  ?      Martian Time Slip

  ?      Simulcra

  R      The Penultimate Truth

  C      Vulcan's Hammer

  A      We Can Build You

Dickson, Gordon Rupert

  C      `Computer's Don't Agrue`

  R?     `Steel Brother`

  C      `The Monkey Wrench`

  ?      Necromancer

Dnieprov, Anatoly

  O      `Crabs Take Over the Island`  [crabs]

  ?      `Siema`

Dowling, Richard

  R?     The Fate of Luke Ormerod

Drake, David & Allen, Roger MacBride

  O      The War Machine  [Artificial Inteligence Devices AIDs]

Duane, Diane

  C?     Spock's World

Dunsany, Lord Edward (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of

        Dunsany)

  ?      The Last Revolution

Durham, Jim

  ?      `F.O.D.`

Durrell, Lawrence

  C      Tunc

  CR     Nunquam

Easton, Thomas

  R?     `Breakfast of Champions`

Edmondson, G. C.

  ?      The Cunningham Equations

Eisenberg, Larry

* R       `The Fastest Draw`  [Robot Cowboy]

Eklund, Gordon

  R      `Second Creation`

  R      `The Shrine of Sebastian`

Elder, M.

  ?      Paradise is Not Enough

Ellis, Edward S.

  R?     The Steam Man of the Praries

Ellison, Harlan

  CY     `Catman`

  C      `I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream`

Endore, Guy

  Y?     `Men of Iron`

Escarpit, Robert

  C      The Novel Computer

Etchison, Dennis

  A?     `The Fires of Night`

Ewers, Hans Heinz

  A?     `Alraune`

Fairman, Paul W.

  R?     `Robots Should Stick Together`

  R      The Forgetful Robot

  H      I, The Machine

Farmer, Philip Jose

* C       The Gods of Riverworld

* C       The Magic Labyrinth

* O       -last book of world of tiers-  [evil machines in bells]

Farrere, Claude

  R?     Useless Hands

Fine, Stephen

  A?     Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android

Firbank, Arthure Annesley Roland

  R?     The Artificial Princess

Fischer, Michael

  R?     `Misfit`

Flagg, Francis (pseud.)

  R      `The Mentanicals`

Forest, Jean-Claude

  R      Barbarella

Forward, Robert

  S?     The Flight of the Dragonfly

Foster, Alan Dean

* A       Alien  [Ash]

* A       Aliens  [Bishop]

  CO     Dark Star  [intelligent bomb]

  R      The Black Hole

  C      The Tar-Aiym Krang

Foster, E. M.

  C?     `The Machine Stops`

Franke, Herbert

  R      `The Man Who Feared Robots`

Frayn, Michael

  Y?     The Tin Men

Friborg, Albert Compton

  ?      `Careless Love`

Fritch, Charles E.

  A?     `Greever's Flight`

Fyfe, H. B.

  R?     `Let There Be Light`

  R?     `The Well-Oiled Machine`

Gallun, Raymond Z.

  R      `Derelict`

  ?      `Mind Over Matter`

  ?      `The Scarab`

Galouye, Daniel

  C?     `Counterfeit World`

  R?     `The Reign of the Telepuppets`

Garfarth, John

  R?     `Lack of Experience`

Garrett, Randall Z.

  S      `A Spaceship Named McGuire`

* O       `The Hunting Lodge`  [house-computer]

  A      Unwise Child

Gault, William Campbell

  R?     `Made to Measure`

  R      `Title Fight`

Gawron, J. M.

  ?      Algorithm

Gelula, Abner J.

  R      `Automaton`

George, Peter

  ?      Two Hours to Doom

Gerrold, David

  C?     `Oracle for a White Rabbit` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

  C      `The God Machine` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

  ?      A Day for Damnation

  ?      A Matter for Men

  RS     Space Skimmer

  C      When Harlie Was One & release 2.0

Gibson, William

  CHP    Count Zero

  CHP    Mona Lisa Overdrive

  CHP    Neuromancer

Gilliland, Alexis

 P      Corporate Saskesh (includes the following three novels)

  P      Long Shot for Rosinante

  P      The Pirates of Rosinante

  P      The Revolution From Rosinante

Glut, Donald F.

* R       The Empire Strikes Back

Glynn, A. A.

  ?      Plan for Conquest

Gold, H. L.

  R?     `Problem in Murder`

Goldin, Stephen

  Ce     `Sweet Dreams, Melissa`

Goldstone, Herbert

  R      `Virtuoso`

Goulart, Ron

  A?     `Badinage`

  R      `Calling Dr. Clockwork`

  ?      `Cybernetic Tabernacle Job`

  R?     `Dingbat`

  A?     `Gigilo`

  R?     `Muscadine`

  R?     `Nobody Starves`

  R      `Regarding Patient 724`

  R?     `What's Become of Screwloose?`

  R?     Clockwork's Pirates

* R       Into the Shop  [ai car]

  R      Suicide, Inc.

  CR?    The Emperor of the Last Days

Goy, Philip (pseud.)

  C      Le Livre Machine

Grant, Charles

  A      The Shadow of Alpha

Gravel, Geary

  C?     The Alchemist

Green, Joseph

  C?     `Space to Move`

Grey, Charles (pseud.)

  Y?     Enterprise 2115

Groves, J. W.

  R      `Robots Don't Bleed`

Gunn, James E.

  A?     `Little Orphan Android`

  ?      `The Message`

Hadley, Arthur

  ?      The Joy Wagon

Haig, A.

  ?      The Peruvian Printout

Haldeman Joe

* Y       `More than the Sum of his Parts`

Hamilton, Edmond

  A?     `After a Judgement Day`

  Y      `The Comet Doom`

  CR     `The Metal Giants`

  R      Captain Future

Harness, Charles

  H?     The Ring of Ritornel

Harris, John Benyon  (John Wyndham)

  R      `Sleepers of Mars`

  R      `Stowaway to Mars`

Harrison, Harry

  R      `Arm of the Law`

  ?      `Homeworld`

  R?     `How the Old World Died`

  R      `I Always Do What Teddy Says`

  R?     `I Have My Vigil`

  ?      `I See You`

  ?      `Make Room, Make Room`

  ?      `Survival Planet`

* R?      `The Man from R.O.B.O.T.`

* Y       `The Powers of Observation`

  ?      `The Repairman`

  R      `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

  P?     `The Simulated Trainer`

  R      `The Velvet Glove`

  R      `War With the Robots`

  R?     The Stainless Steel Rat

Hartridge, Jon

  C      Binary Divine

Heinlein, Robert Anson

  ?      `Revolt in 2100`

  C      `That Dinkum Thinkum`

  R      Friday

  CS     The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

* Ce      The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

  S      The Number of the Beast

  CS     Time Enough for Love

  S      To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Herbert, Frank

  CM     Destination: Void

Herbert, Frank and Ransom, Bill

  C      Jesus Incident

  C      Lazarus Effect

* C?      The Ascension Factor

Hickey, H. B. (Herb Livingston)

  R      `Full Circle`

  R?     `Hilda`

High, Philip E.

  ?      `The Mad Metropolis`

Highstone, H. A.

  ?      `Frankenstein to Unlimited`

Hjortsberg, William

  Y?     Gray Matters

Hoch, Edward

  C?     The Transvection Machine

Hodder-Wiliams, Christopher

  ?      98.4

  C      Fistful of Digits

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

  R?     `Automaton`

  R      `The Sandman`

Hogan, James P.

  Re     Code of the Life Maker

  CS     Giant's Star

  C?     The Genesis Machine

  S      The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

  Ce     The Two Faces of Tomorrow

  CR     Voyage from Yesteryear

Holis, H. H.

  ?      `Cybernia`

Holly, J. Hunter

  R      `The Graduated Robot`

Holmes, H. H. (Anthony Boucher)

  AR     `Q.U.R.`

  AR     `Robinic`

Horton, Forest W., Jr.

  A      The Technocrats

Hoyle, Fred and Elliot, John

  C      A for Andromeda

  C      Andromeda Breakthrough

Hubbard, L. Ron

  R?     `Tough Old Man`

Hughes, Ted

  R?     The Iron Man

Jackson, A. A. & Waldrop, Howard

  R?     `Sun Up`

Jacob, Sylvia

  R      `Slave to Man`

Jameson, Malcolm

  ?      `Pride`

Jenkins, Will F. (Murray Leinster)

  C      `A Logic Named Joe`

Jerome, Jerome K.

  R      `The Dancing Partner`

Jeter, K. W.

  R      Infernal Devices

Johannesson, Olof (pseud.)

  C      The Great Computer (or _The Tale of the Big Computer_)

Jones, D. F.

  C      Colossus and the Crab

  C      Colossus: The Forbin Project

  C      The Fall of Colossus

Jones, Neil Ronald

  Y      `The Jameson Satellite`

  Y      Doomsday on Ajiat

  Y      Planet of the Double Sun

  Y      Sunless World

  Y      The Sunless World

  Y      Twin Worlds

Jones, Raymond F.

  ?      `Rat Race`

  R?     `The Gift of the Gods`

  Y?     The Cybernetic Brains

Kagan, Janet

  C      Hellspark

Kahn, James

* AR      Return of the Jedi

Kapp, Colin

  R?     `Gottlos`

Karlins, Marvin

  ?      The Last Man Is Out

Kelleam, Joseph E.

  R      `Rust`

Keller, David H.

  CY?    `The Cerebral Library`

  Y?     `The Eternal Professors`

  R      `The Psychophonic Nurse`

  R      `The Threat of the Robot`

Key, Alexander

  R      Bolts, a Robot Dog

  R      Rivets and Sprockets

  R      Sprockets, a Little Robot

Keyes, Daniel

  R      `Robot Unwanted`

Kilian, Crawford

  P?     Brother Jonathan

Kingsley, Charles

  ?      The Heroes (anth)

Kippax, John (John Hynam)

  R      `Friday`

Kleier, Joe

  Y?     `The Head`

Knight, Damon

  H      `Masks`

  C      Stranger Station

  ?      The Metal Smile

Knootz, Dean R.

  CR     Demon Seed

  ?      Midnight

Kornbluth, C. M.

  R?     `The Education of Tigress McCardle`

  Y      `With These Hands`

Krahn, Fernando

  R      Robot-bot-bot

Kuttner, Henry

  A?     `Android` or `As Those Among Us`

  R?     `Happy Ending`

  ?      `Jesting Pilot`

  R?     `Piggy Bank`

  R?     `The Ego Machine`

  R      Robots Have No Tails (as Lewis Padgett)

  R      The Proud Robot

Kuttner, Henry and Moore, C. L.

  R?     `Two Handed Engine`

Lack, G. L.

  ?      `Rogue Leonardo`

Lafferty, R. A.

* H       `Eurema's Dam`

* O?      `Hog Belly Honey`  [strange machine]

  C      Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Lamont, Duncan (pseud)

  C      `Production Job`

Laumer, Keith

  ?      `Dinosaur Beach`

  Y?     A Plague of Demons

  O      Bolo  [self aware tanks]

  O      Rogue Bolo  [self aware tanks]

  C      The Great Time Machine Hoax

Lee, Tanith

* H?      Drinking Sapphire Wine

  R      The Silver Metal Lover

Leherman, Herb

  O      `Revolt of the Potato Picker`  [field machine]

Leiber, Fritz

  R?     `The 64-Square Madhouse`

  R      `A Bad Day for Sales`

  ?      `Answering Service`

  R      `The Mechanical Bride`

  RY?    The Silver Eggheads

Leiber, Justin

  P?     Beyond Humanity

Leinster, Murray (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

  R?     `Exploration Team`

  ?      `The Wabbler`

  ?      The Lost Spaceship

Lem, Stanislaw

  R      `In Hot Pursuit of Happines`

  C      `The Computer That Fought a Dragon`

  R      `The Hunt`

  R      `The Mask`

  R      `The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius`

  R      `The Seventh Sally`

  ?      Mortal Engines

  R      Return From the Stars

  C      The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (or _Cyberiada_)

  Oe     The Invincible (or _Niezwyciezony_)  [machines]

Leman, Grahame

  ?      `Conversational Mode`

Leroux, Gaston

  R      The Machine to Kill (or _La Machine a assassiner_)

Lesser, Milton

  A      `"A" As in Android`

Levin, Ira

  R      The Stepford Wives

  C      This Perfect Day

Lewis, C. S.

  R      That Hideous Strength

Liddel, C. H. (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

  A      `Android`

Long, Frank Belknap

  R      `The Robot Empire`

  R      It Was the Day of the Robot

Longyear, Barry B.

  AR     Naked Came the Robot

  C      Sea of Glass

Loomis, Noel

  A      `The State vs Susan Quod`

Lowenkopf, Shelly

  A?     `The Addict`

Lucas, George

  R      Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Lymington, J.

  C?     Year Dot

Mackin, Edward

  ?      `The Key to Chaos`

  ?      `The Trouble of H.A.R.R.I.`

Maine, Charles Eric (Pseud)

  C      B.E.A.S.T.

Malec, Alexander

  ?      `10:01`

Malzberg, Barry N.

  C?     `The Union Forever`

  Y?     The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Manning, Laurence

  C      `Master of the Brain`

  R      `The Call of the Mechmen`

MacApp, C. C.

  ?      Omha Abides

Markham, Russ

  R      `The Third Law`

Martin, George R. R.

  A      `Modular Man`

  ?      `The Last Superbowl Game`

Mason, Douglas R.

  C      Matrix

Matheson, Richard

  R      `Brother to the Machine`

  A      `Steel`

  R?     `The Doll that Does Everything`

Maxwell, Ann

  C      Timeshadow Rider

McCaffrey, Anne

  Y      `The Ship Who Mourned (in _The Whip Who Sang_)

  Y      `The Ship Who Sang (in _The Ship Who Sang_)

  Y      The Ship Who Sang

McCarty, E. Clayton

  R      `Robot 678`

McCollum, Michael

  S      Life Probe

  S      Procyon's Promise

MacDonald, John D.

  R      `The Mechanical Answer`

Mead, Shepherd

  ?      The Big Ball of Wax

Meade, Malcome (pseud?)

  R      `Call him Colossus`

Melville, Herman

  R?     `The Bell Tower`

Meredith, Richard C.

  H?     We All Died at Breakaway Station

Merliss, R. R.

  R      `The Stutterer`

Merritt, Abraham

  R      `Rhythm of the Spheres`

  Oe?    The Metal Monster  [inorganic alien]

MacFarlane, Wallace

  A      `Dead End`

McGowan, Tom

  R      Sir MacHinery

Milan, Victor

  P      Cybernetic Samurai

  P?     Cybernetic Shogun

Miller, Walter Michael, Jr.

  A?     `Blood Bank`

  Y?     `Crucifixus Etiam`

  R      `I Made You`

  R      `The Darfsteller`

McIntosh, J. T. (James J. MacGregor)

  A      `Almost Human`

  ?      `Machine Mode`

  A      `Made in USA`

  C?     `Spanner in the Works`

  A      `The Deciding Factor`

  R      `The Saw and the Carpenter`

Mitchell, Edward Page

  Y?     `The Ablest Man in the World`

  R      `The Tachypomp`

McKinney, Jack

  CR     The Sentinels - 2nd Robotech collection (coll)

McLoed, Shiela

  R      Xanthe and the Robots

McLoughlin, John

  S      Toolmaker Koan

Molly, J. Hunter

  R?     `The Graduated Robot`

Monteleone, Thomas F.

  ?      `Chicago`

Moorcock, Michael

  C      The Final Programme

  ?      `Sea Wolves`

Moore, Catherine Lucile

  Y      `No Woman Born`

Moore, Harris

  CH     Slater's Planet

Moran, Daniel Keys

  C?     Armageddon Blues

  CY?    Emerald Eyes

  CPY?   The Long Run

Morris, Janet

  S      Cruiser Dreams

  S      Dream Dancer

  S      Earth Dreams

Nesvadba, Joseph

  ?      `The Einstein Brain`

Niven, Larry

  H      `A Teardrop Falls`

  Y      `Becalmed in Hell`

  Y      `The Coldest Place`

  HS     A World Out of Time

  CH     Integral Trees

  C      The Schumann Computer

  CH     The Smoke Ring

Nolan, William F.

  R?     `and Miles to Go Before I Sleep`

  R?     `The Beautiful Doll Caper`

  A?     `The Joy of Living`

  R?     Logan's Run

Norton, Andre

  A      Android at Arms

O'Brien, Fitz-James

  R?     `The Wondersmith`

O'Conner, William Douglas

  R      The Brazen Android

O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr.

  H      Mayflies

Oliver, Chad

  R?     `Didn't He Ramble`

  A?     `The Life Game`

Oliver, J. T.

  R      `Teacher's Pet`

Padgett, Lewis (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

  Y      `Camouflage`

  R?     `Deadlock`

  ?      `Ex Machine`

  R      `Open Secret`

  R?     `The Twonky`

Paul, Barbara

  C?     `Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"`

Perkins, Lawrence

  ?      `Delivered with Feeling`

Perry, Roland

  C?     Program for a Puppet

Phillips, Alexander M.

  R?     `Beast of the Island`

Phillips, Peter

  R?     `At No Extra Cost`

  A      `Lost Memory`

Phillips, Rog (pseud.)

  ?      `The Cyberene`

Pierce, John R.

  ?      `See No Evil`

Piper, H. Beam

  C      Junkyard Planet (or _The Cosmic Computer_)

Pohl, Frederik

  ?      `Day Million`

  R      `The Midas Plague`

  ?      `The Schematic Man`

  R?     `The Tunnel Under the World`

* CP      Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

* CP      Gateway

* HP      Heechee Rendezvous

  CY     Man Plus

  C      Starchild

  ?      The Age of the Pussyfoot

* HP      The Annals of the Heechee

Pragnell, Festus

  C?     `The Machine-God Laughs`

Preselie, Robert

  R      `The Champ`

Pychon, Thomas

  R      Gravity's Rainbow

Quick, W. T.

  P?     Systems

  H?     Yesterday's Dawn

Rackham, John

  A?     `Goodbye Dr. Gabriel`

Rayer, Francis G.

  C      `Deus Ex Machina`

  C      `The Peacemaker`

  C?     `Tomorrow Sometimes Comes`

Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve

  C      Dome

Resnick, Mike

  Y      Santiago

Reynolds, Mack

  C?     `Criminal in Utopia`

  C      Computer War

  C?     Computer World

Richardson, R. S.

  R?     `Kid Anderson`

Richmond, Walt and Leigh

  ?      `I, Bem`

Riley, Frank

  ?      `The Cyber and Justice Holmes`

Roberts, Keith

  A      `Synth`

Robinson, Spider

* ?       Mindkiller

* ?       Time Pressure

Roger, Noe"lle (pseud.)

  N      The New Adam (or _Le Nouvel Adam_)  [manmade organic life]

Rohrer, Robert

  R      `Iron`

Roshwald, Mardecai

  ?      Level 7

Rostler, William

  R      `Ship Me Tomorrow`

Rothmand, Milton A.

  ?      `Getting Together`

Rucker, Rudy

  CR     Software

  CR     Wetware

Russ, Joanna

  ?      `Nor Custom Stale`

Russell, Bertrand

  Ce?    `Dr. Southport Vulpres' Nightmare`

Russell, Eric Frank

  R      `Boomerang` or `A Great Deal of Power`

  A      `Jay Score`

  Re?    `Mechanistra`

  R      `Men, Martians and Machines`

  R      `Relic`

  R?     `Symbiotica`

Ryan, Thomas J.

  P      The Adolescence of P-1

Saberhagen, Fred

  O      `Fortress Ship`                            [berserkers]

  O      `Goodlife`                                     / \

  O      `In the Temple of Mars`                         |

  O      `Inhuman Error`                                 |

  O      `Masque of the Red Shift`                       |

  O      `Mr. Jester`                                    |

  O      `Patron of the Arts`                            |

  O      `Pressure`                                      |

  O      `Smasher`                                       |

  O      `Some Events at the Templat Radiant`            |

  O      `Starsong`                                      |

  O      `Stone Place`                                   |

  O      `The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron`            |

  O      `The Game`                                      |

  O      `The Peacemaker`                                |

  O      `The Sign of the Wolf`                          |

  O      `The Smile`                                     |

  O      `What T and I Did`                              |

  O      `Wings Out of Shadow`                           |

  O      Berserker  (coll)                               |

  O      Berserker Man                                   |

  O      Berserker's Planet (coll)                      \ /

  O      Brother Assassin (coll)                    [Berserkers]

  C      Changeling Earth

  C      Empire of the East

  O      The Ultimate Enemy (coll)

Sandberg, Richard T.

  C?     `The Perfect Crime`

Saxton, Josehpine

  R      `Gordon's Women`

Schachner, Nat.

  ?      `Robot Technocrat`

Schlossel, J.

  R      `To the Moon By Proxy`

Scortia, Thomas Nicholas

  Y?     `Sea Change`

  A?     `The Icebox Blond`

Seabright, Idris (Margaret St Clair)

  R      `Short in the Chest`

Sellings, Arthur

  A      `Starting Course`

  R      `The Template Teleologist`

Senarens, Luis

  R?     `Frank Reade and His New Steam Man`

Shaara, Michael

  R      `Soldier Boy`

  ?      `2066: Election Day`

Shaw, Bob

  ?      `Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party`

Sheckley, Robert

  R      `A Ticket ot Tranai`

  R?     `Alone at Last`

  ?      `Ask a Foolish Question`

  R      `Beside Still Waters`

  R      `Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?`

  A      `Compton Divided`

  C?     `Fool's Mate`

  R?     `Human Man's Burden`

  R      `The Battle`

  R      `The Cruel Equations`

  R?     `The Lifeboat Mutiny`

  R?     `The Minimum Man`

* R       `The Robot who Looked Liked Me`

  R      `Watchbird`

  C      Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Sheffield, Charles

  ?      Trader's World

Sherman, Robert

  Ce     `Problem for Emmy`

Sherred, T. L.

  ?       `"E" for Effort`

Silverberg, Robert

  R?     `Company Store`

  ?      `Getting Across`

  C      `Going Down Smooth`

  CR     `Good News from the Vatican`

  R      `Ozymandias`

  S?     `Ship-Sister, Star-Sister`

  R      `The Iron Chancellor`

  R?     `The Macauley Circuit`

  R      Across a Billion Years

  H?     Time Gate

  H      To Live Again

  AR?    Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford Donald

* R?      `Aesop`  (in City)

  R?     `All the Traps of Earth`

* R       `City`  (in City)

  R      `Earth for Inspiration`

* R       `Epilog`  (in City)

* R       `Hobbies`  (in City)

  R      `How-2`

* R       `Huddling Place`  (in City)

  R      `I Am Crying All Inside`

  ?      `Limiting Factor`

  ?      `Lulu`

  R      `Skirmish` or `Bathe Your Bearing in Blood`

  C?     `Univac: 2200`

  R      A Choice of Gods

* OR      City  (coll) [dogs]

  R      Cosmic Engineers

  R?     Destiny Doll

  R      Project Pope

  S      Shakespeare's Planet

  R      Special Deliverance

  A?     Time and Again (or _First He Died_)

Simmons, Dan

  PR?    Hyperion

  ?      The Fall of Hyperion

Sky, Kathleen

  A?     `Birthright`

Sladek, John T.

  Ce     Mechasm (or _The Reproductive System_)

  R      Roderick

  R      Roderick at Random

  R      Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine

  H      The Mueller-Fokker Effect (or _The Muller Focker Effect_)

  ?      Tik-Tok

Slesar, Harry

  R      `Brother Robot`

Slote, Alfred

  A      My Robot Buddy

* A       C.O.L.A.R.

Smith, Cordwainer (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)

  C      `Alpha Ralpha Boulevard`

  R      `Mark Elf` or `Mark XI`

* Y?      `Scanners Live in Vain`

* C       `The Ballad of Lost C'Mell`

  R      `The Dead Lady of Clown Town`

  Y      `Three to a Given Star`

  C      Norstrilia (_The Planet Buyer_ & _The Underpeople_)

  C      The Planet Buyer

Smith, E. E. "Doc"

  R      `Robot Nemesis`

Smith, George H.

  R?     `Too Robot to Marry`

Smith, George O.

  ?      `Counter Foil`

  ?      The Brain Machine

Stableford, Brian Michael

  ?      The Walking Shadow

Stapledon, William Olaf

  Oe     Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord  [dogs]  

Stasheff, Christopher

  SR     Escape Velocity

  R      King Kobold Revived

  R      The Warlock Enraged

  R      The Warlock Heretical

  R      The Warlock Insane

  SR     The Warlock in Spite of Himself

  R      The Warlock is Missing

  R      The Warlock Unlocked

  R      The Warlock Wandering

  R      The Warlock's Companion

Statton, Vargo (John Russel Fearn)

  R      Cataclysm

Stine, G. Harry

  Y?     Warbots: Operation High Dragon /5

  Y?     Warbots: The Lost Battalion /6

StJohn, Philip (Lester del Rey)

  R      `The Last True God`

Strike, Jeremy

  C      A Promising Planet

Stuart, Don A. (John W. Campbell, Jr.)

  R      `Night`

  C      `The Machine`

  R      `Twilight`

Sturgeon, Theodore

  R?     `Killdozer`

  ?      `Agnes, Accent, and Access`

  A      `The Golden Egg`

* O       More than Human  [gestalt mind]

Swanwick, Michael

* P?      Vacuum Flowers

Tall, Stephen

  R?     `This is My Country`

Temple, William

  R?     The Automated Goliath

Tenn, William (Philip Klass)

  R?     `Child's Play`

  A?     `Down Among the Dead Men`

  ?      `The House Dutiful`

  R      `The Jester`

  R?     `Wednesday's Child`

Tevis, Walter

  R      Mockingbird

Thomas, Dan

  C?     The Seed

Todd, Larry

  R      `Flesh and the Iron`

Todd, Lawrence

  R      `The Warbots`

Townes, Robert Sherman

  ?      `Problem for Emmy`

Tremaine, F. Orlin

  R      `True Confession`

Tubb, E. C.

  A      `A Captain's Dog`

  R      `Logic`

  C      `Moon Base`

Turner, George

  Y      Beloved Son

Vance, Gerald

  ?      We, The Machine

Vance, Jack

  Y?     `I-C-a-BEM`

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

  R      `Automaton`

  R      `Final Command`

  C?     `Fulfillment`

  A      All the Loving Androids

  CR     Computerworld

  ?      Mission to the Stars

  C      The Infinite Machine

  C?     The Players of Null A  [cloning]

  C      The World of Null A  [cloning]

Varley, John

* H?      `Overdrawn at the Memory Bank`

* P       `Press Enter`

  C      Millenium

Varshavsky, Ilya

  R      `Homonculus`

Vincent, Harl

  R      `Rex`

Vinge, Joan D.

  H?     `Fireship`

Vinge, Vernor

  S?     `Long Shot`

  ?      `The Accomplice`

  Pe     `True Names`

  P      The Peace War

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

  C      `EPICAC`

  Y?     `Fortitude`

  C      Player Piano

  R      The Sirens of Titan

Wallace, F. L.

  R      `Seasoned Traveller`

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

  S      The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

  S      The Wizard and the War Machine

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

  R?     `The Ideal`

Wellen, Edward

  A      `Androids Don't Cry`

* C       `Finger of Fate`

  ?      `No Other Gods`

  A      `Voiceover`

Wells, H. G.

  R?     `When the Sleeper Wakes`

West, Wallace

  A      `Sculptors of Life`

White, E. B.

  R?     `The hour of Letdown`

White, James

  R      `Second Ending`

White, Ted

  A      Android Avenger & the Spawn of the Death Machine

Wilding, Eric (pseud)

  Y      `Deathwish`

Wilhelm, Kate

  A      `Andover and the Android`

  Y      `Windsong`

Willer, Jim

  C      Paramind

Williams, Robert Moore

  R      `Robot's Return`

  R      `The Metal Martyr`

Williams, Waltehr Jon

  CH     Hardwired

Williamson, Jack

  R?     `After Worlds End`

  R      `And Searching Mind`

  R?     `Guinevere for Everybody`

  R      `With Folded Hands`

  Y?     Lifeburst

  R      The Humanoid Touch

  CR     The Humanoids

Wodhams, Jack

  ?      `Sprog`

Wolfe, Bernard

  Y?     `Self Portrait`

  Y?     Limbo

Wolfe, Gene

  C?     `Alien Stones`

* H?      `The Fifth Head of Cerberus`

Woods, W. C.

  C      Killing Zone

Wright, S. Flower

  R      `Automata`

Wylde, Thomas

* ?       Clypsis

  H?     Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway

Wyndham, John (John Lucas Benyon William Harris)

  R      `Compassion Circuit`

  R?     `The Lost Machine`

Young, Michael

  ?      The Rise of Meritocracy

Young, Robert F.

  R?     `Emily and the Bands Sublime`

  A?     `Juke Doll` or `Doll Friend`

  R      `Robot Son`

  R      `September Had Thirty Days`

Zamiatin, Eugene

  C?     We

Zebrowski, George

  SY?    `Starcrossed`

Zelazny, Roger

  O      `Devil Car`  [ai car]

  R      `For a Breath I Tarry`

  R      `Home Is the Hangman`

  O      `Itself Surprised`  [Berserkers]

  O      `Last of the Wild Ones`  [ai car]

  C      `Leaves of Grass`

  C      `Loki 7281`

  C      `My Lady of the Diodes`

  H      `Permafrost`

  C      Blood of Amber

  Y      Creatures of Light and Darkness

  O      Doorways in the Sand  [ai recording unit, invades host's body]

  OR     Roadmarks  [ai book]

  C      Sign of Chaos

  C      The Trumps of Doom

Zelazny, Roger & Saberhagen, Fred

  CH     Coils

Zebrowski, George

  ?      `Starcrossed`

Zebrowski, George and Carrington, Grant

  ?      `Fountain of Force`

I need more information about any of the above with a query mark under the AI type field, as well as about the following.

 `The Floating World` in _Asimov's_

 a series of stories about Willie Shorts

 Connie Willis' _Fire Watch_ AI's

 Doomstar by Perry and Reeves

 Forbidden Planet; Robbie the Robot; author?

 Holly in "Red Dwarf"

 The (A) containing Callahan stories by Spider Robinson

 The Purgatory Computer, Piers Anthony

* The rest of Stine's _Warbots_ series

 Warren Norwood's Ship/computer book

removed from the list:

Anderson Poul             -  `Sam Hall`

Asimov, Isaac             -  `The Dead Past`

Bellamy, Edward           -  `Looking Backward`

Brunner, John             -  The Shockwave Rider

Caidin, Martin            -  Cyborg (or The Six Million Dollar Man)

Card, Orson Scott         -  Ender's Children (Xenocide) as yet unpublished

Clarke, Arthur C.         -  `The Nine Billion Names of God`

Crichton, Michael         -  Sphere

Elliot, Bob et al.        -  `The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter`

Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber   -  The Lathe of Heaven

Lee, Tanith               -  The Eletric Forest

Miller, Walter M., Jr.    -  `Dumb Waiter`

McIntyre, Vonda N.        -  `The Genius Freaks`

Oliver, Chad              -  `Transformer`

Sturgeon, Theodore        -  `The Macrocosmic God`

Tiptree, James R.         -  `The Girl Who Was Plugged In`

Zelzany, Roger            -  My Name is Legion

Things not included:

Dr. Who stuff      (K-9, Daliks, Cybermen)

ST:TNG stuff       (Mr. Data)

expanded definitions:

  All of the following should be able to pass the Turing test,  and should be/have been (at the minimum in their original forms) products of human or alien intelligence.  "Standard" definitions of intelligence apply.

 androids (A) - robots in humanoid form, these can be mechanical and/or organic (_Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep_).

 computer systems (C) - these range in size and type from a fair sized mini computer (_Ariel_) to an planetary

     computer (_Colossus_) to a galactic network with one  single mind (_Speaker for the Dead_).

 humans in computerized/program/digitized form (H) - these tend to be copies of people which only exist in computerized form - such as the hacker in (_Neuromancer_) and folks of City Memory in (_Eon_).

 non-mechanical, human created intelligences (N) - beings  which have been (in most cases) genetically altered or are biological (_Blood Music_).  NOT forced evolution 

 other intelligences (O) - beings which are difficult to categorize: anything Berserker, tanks, books, planets,  planets (Asimov's Gaia), satellites, etc.  Where (O) is used, the particular form has also been named when known.

 programs (P) - able to move independently from one computer system to another, usually created by a program(mer) _The Adolescence or P1_).

 robots (R) - constitute functional and specialized beings which are mobile and are not (S) or (P).  Anything between vaguely humanoid (Dr. Who's Cybermen) and computers on wheels (R2D2) can be considered robots of the 'functional'  robot class.  'Specialized' robots are those which are geared/optimized to performing one job - they can look like  either androids (The Terminator) or functional robots (Val's  from _Pirates of the Thunder_).

 ships/computer systems (S) - essentially an (A) which is only mobile in the form of a (star) ship (_Pirates of the Thunder_). However, there are cases where the (S) is essentially a well programmed (R) which is only mobile as stated (_The Number of the Beast_).

 cyborgs/mechanical humans (Y) - strictly speaking these are not  AI. The definition here is that the (Y) is either (1) a human  brain in control of a computer system/star ship (_The Ship Who Sang_) where at the very least the person's brain has  been modified to contain computerized parts (_The Rapture Effect?_) (Did you ever wish that you could have a math co-processor?). (Y)'s are NOT (for the purpose of this  list) organic beings whose natural body parts have beenreplaced by mechanical ones (ie. Luke Skywalker after his forearm was severed, or bionic people). unsure/no idea (?) - just what it says, so someone PLEASE read  it and tell me what type is is and whether it belongs here. 

evolved AI being (e) - usually begin as man-made devices hich then develop intelligence on their own (_Valentina_).

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Outlook 2019: The Intangible Assets That Drive The Digital Revolution

In 2019, the Yara Birkeland, world’s first autonomous and zero emissions ship is due to start operation.

Is this a sign that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is about to reach the shipping industry ?

Advanced technologies have disrupted and recombined industries, and dislocated workers. Cloud computing, the internet of things, distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, and many additional technologies are expected to dramatically change most parts of our life.

Disruption is unavoidable and will certainly arrive also in the logistics and supply chain industries. But hardly in the year 2019 ! There are still significant shortcomings in the area of intangible assets. In particular mindset, imagination, skills, sharing and collaboration as well as independent interoperability protocols, will delay the digital revolution in the logistics and supply chain industries.

In 2019, CEOs will continue to drive digital transformation. No one wants to be caught off guard by new incumbents or competitors whose innovative value propositions make suddenly own ones obsolete. The digital era has brought a lot of experimentation. However, moving from experiments to scale requires a digital mindset and new skills, new ways of working and global protocols.

In 2019, pioneers and leaders will focus on building the critical intangible assets. There are five intangible assets and digital transformation efforts that I expect will shape the agenda.

1 – Digital thinking: Growing the “Platform Mindset”

Platforms are the new market places. With Amazon, platforms arrived in the supply chain industry almost 25 years ago. Uber, founded as UberCab in 2009, has started the sharing platform revolution. IBM and Maersk announced their trade platform initiative in 2017. APM Terminals launched a new online platform at Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP) in Bahrain mid-2018. The range of services include bookings of vehicles and slots, real-time visibility of shipments, track and trace functions, as well as payments and processing of documents and invoices.

Everything businesses need can be found in the ecosystem: resources, operational assets, warehouses, transport vehicles, etc. Platforms provides visibility and access about available capacity and its utilization. Data is powering the platforms. Data is the oil of the digital business models.

Platforms are the place for gathering, analyzing and sharing of data. Data has become the new dollar. Through platforms billions of dollars will be saved within the current value chains. The new models in supply chain will be data-driven.

Today, the most valuable businesses are platforms. And these businesses will only grow going forward. Over the next 10 years, platform-driven interactions are expected to enable approximately two-thirds of the value for business and society, according to the Digital Transformation Initiative of the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture. This reality will continue to drive the shift of the business mindset from linear processes towards platforms.

2 – Entrepreneurship: Enhancing company culture

Technology is not a bottleneck! It is the lack of imagination that limits innovation. Most established companies are designed for efficient delivery of their existing products and services. This is the reason why most corporations’ focus is on continuously improving their processes and practices. Whereas digital champions are constantly changing them.

Succeeding in the digital age requires not only rapid adjustments to change, but a complete transformation. It requires corporate agility and creativity – qualities that are particularly present in technology companies and startups. It is therefore fundamental that corporates acquire such characteristics to learn enrich, and accelerate their own innovation efforts. Also to obtain access to people with a different mindset.

Established businesses share the limitations of legacy systems and processes. Whilst startups are short of critical assets to directly compete with corporates. Primarily brand loyalty, financial strength, disciplined business processes, and operational expertise. The combination of large corporates’ assets and the agility of startups can deliver a powerful formula. However success is not guaranteed !

On the one hand, most startups never come to fruition. PitchBook compiled data on the 25 most valuable VC-backed startups that failed in 2018. Among them Shyp, an on-demand delivery platform that raised USD 62 million and that reached a maximum valuation of USD 275 million.

On the other hand, creative talent leaves corporates. Numerous papers and articles have explored why the most innovative employees struggle in the corporate world. There are several reasons for this which range from cumbersome administration and bureaucracy, resistance to change, tight financial controls and quality of leadership and management to risk adversity and finally firing after failure.

Organizations have to unlearn what they learned and relearn – Alvin Toffler. And is the very hard part. The advent of the digital economy and society will bring more challenges. This will force a change in corporate thinking and behavior – enhancing culture is not a nice to have but a question of survival.

3 – 4IR skills: Accelerating skilling

In innovation, not the adoption of technology but the redesign of business models and the upskilling of the workforce are the most challenging undertakings. The digital era demands entirely new levels of imagining, designing, delivering, and servicing of value propositions. Technological skills and project management expertise are only the tip of the iceberg. Working with the machines requires mass skilling. Digital transformation is driven and enabled by people. The Operations and Technology Knowledge Group of SDA Bocconi School of Management has built a model to measure the “score 4.0” – their research shows 70% of 108 companies in the supply chain have invested in digitalization in the last three years. However, Vincenzo Baglieri, Project Director, says. “Many companies have … underestimated the need to redesign their processes and invest in new skills.” At the end, it is people that think, design and operate the new models. If the investment in skilling falls short, the digital transformation falls flat.

The Antwerp Port Authority, for example, and its APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center has been training port workforces on most aspects of modern port operations. Beyond this, there is not a lot to read about skilling for the 4IR in the transport, logistics, and supply chain industries. This is alarming and might contribute to the fact that 70% of the larger scale digital transformation project fail. Here is a message to the global and local leaders in business model transformation, that higher investment in skilling will be crucial. This includes research in understanding the skills needed and also the development of skilling programs. It will be interesting to observe what 2019 will finally bring in this field.

4 – Digital synergies: Increase sharing and collaboration

In 2018, we saw a mindset shift in the transport industry from protective and silo-thinking towards the willingness to try new collaborative models. The Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Hamburg, for example, have entered into a data partnership. The competing ports have started to share data to optimize calls of liners in the North Europe area. The ports wish to expand their model to more and more ports going forward which will be exciting to follow.

On 19 October 2018, ABN AMRO, Samsung SDS and the Port of Rotterdam Authority announced the launch of a container logistics blockchain pilot. The goal is to establish an open independent and global platform that will make the logistics value chain more transparent and efficient. This requires the full integration of the physical, administrative and financial work streams.

We also see governments collaborating through connected platforms. In 2017, the de facto central banks of Hong Kong and Singapore announced plans to link trade finance platforms they are developing with distributed ledger technology to reduce fraud and errors. Linking the two platforms is part of a broader plan of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Monetary Authority of Singapore to collaborate on distributed ledger and other financial technology. 2019 will bring more collaboration and with it new learning and opportunities for value creation.

5 – Protocols: Participating in interoperability efforts

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), like blockchain, can hardly be separated from the trade and supply chain platform developments. The different DLTs or similar will be the operational backbone of these platforms. A single global trade network controlled by the collective would be the most ideal. But as unlikely to happen, interoperability standards would become mission critical for scaling collaborative platforms across the supply chain ecosystem.

After Maersk and IBM announced their collaboration and the use of blockchain technology, distributed ledger technology tests started to flourish. Port of Antwerp, Pacific International Lines, and PSA International have all carried out blockchain pilots. Korean Customs Service (KSC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Korean operator of Malltail to develop a blockchain-based customs platform for the e-commerce industry. With all these different activities, the awareness of the need for a global interoperability protocol has been steadily rising.

During the United States Congress Blockchain Hearing on May 8, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security lamented the lack of interoperable interfaces and standardized approaches. Also in May 2018, two liner companies, Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM, stressed the need for an industry standard, rejecting Maersk and IBM’s blockchain solution and the trend of the development of numerous distributed ledger technology driven solutions for the container sector.

Future Outlook

The digital transformation of the shipping industry is a matter of future competitiveness and survival. The “blockchain arm race” in supply chain for example has been gradually heating up. In August 2018 Maersk and IBM launched their blockchain platform TradeLens, which met encouragement but also skepticism of its benefits to stakeholders. A rival appeared shortly after. The consortium powered by Oracle Cloud Blockchain Service, which involves also CMA CGM, Cosco Shipping, Evergreen Marine and Yang Ming announced their blockchain platform project in November 2018. The development increases the need for collective responsible system leadership to develop common protocols opposed to creating more complexity and mass confusion.

Initiatives to ensure neutrality and interoperability have also emerged in 2018. The World Economic Forum has started the project “Re-designing Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chain”. This multi-stakeholder initiative aims at co-designing, prototyping, and testing frameworks that guide towards interoperability, integrity and inclusivity. The initiative also addresses how small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) can be brought onto the platform. Blockchain powered decentralized systems are seen as the antidote to the “winner-takes-it-all” centralized platforms.

On private or public side, such developments and interoperability initiatives will expand and mature in 2019.

The next stage of the digital revolution will unfold increasingly behind the scenes. 2019 will bring more focus on building intangible assets other than technologies. The future winners will strengthen and expand their asset base beyond technological innovation to people and protocols – to attitude, creativity, behavior and skillset. The intangibles are the assets which make or break the digital transformation. In business, the intangible assets drive the tangible success: The beautiful minds of extraordinary people that imagine our future and the force of the smart and skilled collective that puts the transformation in motion.

Technology will continue to make the news, but intangible assets will make the difference!

This article was originally published at LogiSYM.

  Wolfgang Lehmacher

Industry and technology evangelist and polymath, assisting stakeholders across the global supply chain ecosystem – from start-ups, to asset owners, to Fortune 50 companies – in upscaling and transforming their organizations: envisioning system change, what it means, and how to stay/get ahead of the curve. Engaged in think tanks, awards committees and expert groups, including the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards Jury, and the World Economic Forum Expert Community, supporting projects such as the Blockchain for Supply Chain initiative

Outlook 2019: The Intangible Assets That Drive The Digital Revolution was originally published on Shenzhen Blog

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James Fallows was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today, honoring nearly 50 years of work in the media. Since being commissioned to write a profile of the senator from Texas, presidential hopeful, and “cool cat” Lloyd Bentsen in 1974, he has done most of that work as a writer, editor, blogger, and sometime talking head at The Atlantic over the course of a 40-plus-year tenure interrupted just twice by stints as a speechwriter in Jimmy Carter’s administration and the editor of U.S. News & World Report. Fallows has held multiple roles in his time at the magazine; he's now an Atlantic staff writer.

Over the past half century, Fallows has published millions of words in the magazine and on the website, composing thousands of articles and dozens of cover stories about politics and global affairs. Beyond his prolific production of long-form stories, Fallows has in more recent years become a beloved blogger, connecting with readers through shorter and more frequent online posts. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Fallows began compiling entries for the “Trump Time Capsule” to “catalogue some of the things Donald Trump says and does that no real president would do” —and went on adding to it even after Trump became president and continued doing those things.

His writing comprises its own kind of time capsule: a contemporaneous history of the events and developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He described the experience of owning a personal computer when most people still didn’t, covered the Vietnam War origins of the guns now at the center of domestic gun-control debates, and questioned the merits of Reagan-era military spending as the Cold War drew to an end.  His insight, extensive reporting, and engaging writing have made his articles essential reading in their moments of publication and have lent them a timeless relevance, and resonance.

These eight pieces, written over the course of Fallows’s Atlantic career, offer a glimpse of what the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honored today.

“The Passionless Presidency” May 1979

In the last year of Carter’s administration, Fallows assessed where the president had gone wrong. “After two and a half years in Carter’s service,” he wrote. “I fully believe him to be a good man.” But he observed that Carter lacked “the passion to convert himself from a good man into an effective one, to learn how to do the job.” As a result, he wrote, Carter’s achievements failed to live up to his intentions.

“Living With a Computer” July 1982

The first successful personal-computer models were released to consumers in the mid-1970s; Fallows got his at the end of that decade, and wrote about it for The Atlantic three years later. He described both how the machine had improved his writing and editing process and the new distractions and dangers it posed before making specific recommendations to readers. “I’d sell my computer before I’d sell my children,” he wrote. “But the kids better watch their step.”

“Immigration: How It’s Affecting Us” November 1983

Following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act amendments, which lifted quotas governing immigrant nationalities, the flow of immigrants into the United States from the developing world increased significantly. With the rise in newcomers came a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments—sentiments that Fallows challenged in this 1983 article. “In countless ... places … the words heard in the air, the clothes and faces seen on the street, the courses taught in the schools, have all changed because of immigration,” he wrote. “But it is far from clear to me that the changes under way are ominous or bad.”

“How the World Works” December 1993

The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s was celebrated as a victory for the laissez-faire capitalism championed by Americans. But in 1993, Fallows explored alternate approaches driving growth in economies around the world—and the ways they echoed moments from the history of the United States. “Every country that has caught up with others has had to do so by rigging its rules: extracting extra money from its people and steering the money into industrialists’ hands,” he asserted.

“Why Americans Hate the Media” February 1996

Fallows tackled this enduring question at a time when Fox News and the internet were still in their infancy and most Americans got their news from television and newspapers. His conclusion: There was a gulf between how the public and the media saw the world. Viewers wanted substance, and the media was covering the game instead. “The most depressing aspect of the new talking-pundit industry,” Fallows wrote, “may be the argument made by many practitioners: the whole thing is just a game, which no one should take too seriously.”

“The Fifty-First State?” November 2002

Four months before American troops invaded Iraq, Fallows laid out why they shouldn’t. By entering the war, he argued, the United States would end up mired in a potentially decades-long period of occupation during which it would have to take responsibility for running and protecting Iraq. “The day after a war ended,” he cautioned, “Iraq would become America’s problem.”

“China Makes, the World Takes” July/August 2007

By 2007, China had become the manufacturing center of the world—the subject of much hand-wringing over the years from people who feel the associated jobs should return to American workers. But Fallows argued that Americans shouldn’t be so resistant to China’s new economic role. “Are we uncomfortable with the America that is being shaped by global economic forces?” he asked. “If so, those trends themselves, and the American choices behind them, are what Americans can address. They’re not China’s problem.”

“The Tragedy of the American Military” January/February 2015

Beneath frequent displays of support for the troops, Fallows assessed in 2015, America was “a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously.” And that relationship was good for neither the country nor the military. He described the dangers posed by the public’s “reverent but disengaged attitude,” and the more serious engagement that should take its place.

from The Atlantic http://bit.ly/2IqOtsg

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This week we have a great interview with Tim Witzig.  I had the pleasure of meeting Tim this year and we had a lengthy conversation.  I think you will be impressed with his take on the world of architecture and design.

About Tim Witzig

Tim Witzig, AIA, Principal at PKSB Architects, is known for his breadth of understanding.  He has played an instrumental role in the success of PKSB for almost two decades.

Mr. Witzig has overseen teams for numerous projects. His experience includes, public and private schools, religious spaces, residential interiors, personalized homes, commercial interiors and a history of projects with civic importance. He served as a designer and Project Manager for the interior renovations of the AIA award-winning Franklin, Mansfield and Shoreham Hotels in New York City.

He was responsible for directing fabrication for guest area upgrades, interior elements and furnishings for all three hotels. Mr. Witzig has also participated in the design and construction administration of the Physics Building Addition and Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Research Building at the University of Virginia, refurbishments for the Joseph E. Seagram Company in New York, and customized hotel resort interiors for the Walt Disney World Company. Prior to joining PKSB in 1990, Mr. Witzig was a designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with a team developing the first designs for Worldwide Plaza at Columbus Circle. His participation in designing and managing projects with various scales, local code requirements, and unique technical requirements has brought Mr. Witzig a broad understanding of the challenges our client’s face in realizing a project.

About the Firm

PKSB Architects was established in 1964 by Giovanni Pasanella. Celebrating over 50 years in practice, PKSB is recognized as an award-winning full-service firm with a long history of completing projects of every scale and scope. Our practice areas include academic, preservation, institutional, residential, hospitality, public housing, infrastructure, public art, civic memorials, and houses of worship. PKSB’s efforts have been recognized with numerous design awards, including the prestigious P/A Award and AIA honors on the local, state and national levels.

While PKSB’s practice has evolved since its first years as Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg, a commitment to architecture that blends artistry, craft, and pragmatism has always defined its work. The firm has a modernist foundation, but does not rely on a set “PKSB style.” Rather, the needs of the client come first, and PKSB’s strength lies in its ability to create solutions that respond to the unique aspects of each client, program, and location.

“Since its founding in 1964, PKSB has distinguished itself as an innovative practice whose projects combine artistry, craft and pragmatism. A spirit of collaboration and a willingness to explore have been the hallmarks of the firm since its inception.”

When and why did you decide to become an Architect?     

High School age. Seemed to encompass all my interests when I listed them. Before those years I wanted to be a Disney Imagineer.

What were some of the challenges of achieving your dream?  

Math. Undergraduate math, calculus, trig were such failures. Cost of school, lived in a marginal neighborhood in St. Louis to keep my living costs low for a couple of undergraduate years. During grad school working during breaks, working in the library for a little cash in my pocket when I should have been in studio probably. The library that I worked in up at Columbia was the library devoted to library sciences…only… could not have been more boring.

Any memorable clients or project highlights?    

Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945. She made me laugh… not right away. You got the joke on the way home in the re-telling. She wanted a beautiful new modern sculptural stair in her NY apartment renovation. I did not get to design the stair but I watched the process and helped do the drawings for the shell of the apartment. I learned a lot working with her, and helping make presentations and seeing how all talented  people involved worked.

How does your family support what you do?   

They listen to my ranting. Patiently.

How do Architects measure success?  

I think, gladly, that measure is made on very large field. I think if one helps, no matter how small, to make a piece of the world a more beautiful or usable place with our buildings, cities, infrastructure… one is a success. If you enjoy it as well? Huge success.

What matters most to you in design? 

Constructability, utility, timelessness, passing on inspiration to the users in some way.

What do you hope to achieve over the next 2 years? 5 years? 

Focus and allow others to run with the balls.

Who is your favorite Architect? Why? 

I do not really have a favorite, but if pressed on just the Architect part and not the human being part, then Frank Lloyd Wright. He achieved a very warm and approachable transcendence with his own style. If you look up Architect in the dictionary, it would not be wrong to see his picture there I think.

Do you have a coach or mentor? 

A few. The founders of the Architecture firm I am a part of now, Henry Stolzman, and Wayne Berg would go day-by-day explaining the practice and business of Architecture. My current business partner Sherida Paulsen brings reality to my day dreams. Going way back to school days there was William B. Bricken and Leslie Laskey. The latter should me how you could live like a designer and get interested in everything.

What is your favorite historic and modern (contemporary) project? Why? 

That’s so hard there are so many on both ends. Villa Malaparte in Capri. and almost anything Louis Kahn did, Yale British Art, currently I keep looking at Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and their Kim & Tritton Residence Hall. Over and over I stare at that simple building. 2 story residential dorm building with no stairs or elevators inside. Genius.

Where do you see the profession going over the next few decades?  

I think it’s very exciting, and I think Architects or folks who know a thing or two about making buildings will be in high demand. I think the firms will get larger and folks within the firms will be specialized a bit more. I think Architecture as a defined terms will blur and blend into other things we use.

What type of technology do you see in the design and construction industries? 

The 3D modeling and Building Information Modeling and ability to bring that up zoom in to look at all of the “guts” anytime and anywhere,, well it is already happening now and it should just get better and more fun. I would like to see a dose of A.I. in some of the mundane and complex tasks we do, like crosschecking current rules, zoning, codes, that come into play. I would like a computer programmer take a crack at developing a “ArchAI” program that will compile a basic building envelope and create a set of drawings just off say 10 basic inputs or dimensions you give it.

Who / what has been your greatest influence in design? 

Failure.

Which building or project type would you like to work on that you haven’t been part of yet? 

I would love to work on a large community center or cultural icon like the 92Y (92nd Street Y)

How do you hope to inspire / mentor the next generation of Architects?  

You sit with them see what they are doing and ask questions? If there is something good there, progress or talent in a particular direction you help develop that and point them to something that they might find helpful or interesting based on the direction they are already heading in. You might point them in a direction where they might get un-stuck (if they share their sticking point). Then they come back and ask again.  Then the mentoring kind of begins.

What advice would you give aspiring architects (K-12)? College students? Graduates? 

Just keep swimming. Do not be afraid to ask questions. Do not be afraid to fail.

What does Architecture mean to you? 

  Every time I get mad at it and curse it for being hard, or impossible it comes back, I see a beautiful building and I just think it’s great and there are so many talented people to watch and buildings to visit. I guess it’s just ingrained in there and I hope I can enjoy it as long as possible.

What is your design process? 

That is a hard question. It really depends. But Testing and Tossing is such a big part. I used to say do not draw more in the first half of the day that you cannot erase in the second half. Of course we don’t have to spend time erasing anymore, so we have more time for flipping stuff on its head and seeing what can be gained. One tries to list, develop or articulate the restraints, constraints and guiderails first so you can get to the design phase. Then the Testing and Tossing begins. I still believe in the old fashioned pin-up in a room and let the criticism flow.

If you could not be an Architect, what would you be? 

The animation thing I guess. It’s never too late to go to Hollywood. Yes it is I think.

What is your dream project?  

The Museum of the Tour de France. It must have views and a fantastic café. And banks of Zwifting set-up’s with a huge High Def screens floating in front of real glazed views.

What advice do you have for a future Executive leader? 

Help others succeed and then encourage and praise, daily if you can. Sit right across or next to someone at their desk for bit, avoid constant big meetings. Smaller ones. You do the leg work the big meeting might have made easier.

What are three key challenges you face as a leader in business today and one trend you see in your industry? 

Technology costs, Marketing. Managing cash flow. I see a trend in larger firms as an umbrella with smaller brands below     

What one thing must an executive leader be able to do to be successful in the next 3 years? 

Listen, stay positive, learn how people do what they do.

What are some executive insights you have gained since you have been sitting in the executive leadership seat – or what is one surprise you have encountered as the world of business continues to morph as we speak?  

Younger people are very creative in the way they work and use software. I think it’s important to “give in” and “give up” the ways one might have done something in the past. Even if those ways worked well before. Be willing to re-prioritize what you thought was important in how projects are realized and mananged.

Final Thoughts on How to Be Successful?   

Keep a sense of humor, laugh and value irony along the way. Take some time to enjoy the journey and not just the finish line. Realize everyone one else is trying to do the same thing, and help whenever you can. Each client is a chance to learn something new.

We would love to hear from you on what you think about this post. We sincerely appreciate all your comments – and – if you like this post please share it with friends. And feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss ideas for your next project!

Sincerely, FRANK CUNHA III I Love My Architect – Facebook

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Our Exclusive ILMA Interview with Tim Witzig of @PKSBArchitects This week we have a great interview with Tim Witzig.  I had the pleasure of meeting Tim this year and we had a lengthy conversation.  

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Carillion Collapses After UK Government Refuses Bailout

Carillion Plc, a U.K. construction company with government contracts in everything from hospitals to the HS2 high-speed rail project, filed for compulsory liquidation after failing in a last-ditch effort to shore up finances and get a government bailout.

The company employs 43,000 people worldwide, almost 20,000 of them in the U.K., and has as much as 1.5 billion pounds ($2.1 billion) in outstanding borrowings. It held talks with the government Sunday to ask for the 300 million pounds it needed by the end of the month to stay afloat, the Mail on Sunday reported.

Carillion’s board “concluded that it had no choice but to take steps to enter into compulsory liquidation with immediate effect,” the company said in a statement Monday. It’s obtained court approval for the move, Carillion said.

The challenge for liquidators and Prime Minister Theresa May’s government now will be to ensure that the company’s breakup is orderly, with contracts and staff moved to rivals. While Carillion’s spectacular fall has been gathering pace since July after a series of construction contracts soured, the political fallout gained momentum on Monday.

The plan to wind up the company triggered criticism from the opposition, with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn questioning the longstanding British policy of getting private-sector contractors to deliver public-sector projects.

“This is very worrying for a lot of groups,” Labour’s business spokeswoman, Rebecca Long-Bailey, told the BBC. “We expect the government to step up now and take these contracts back into government control. Where it’s possible to take those back in-house, it should do.”

She also questioned why the company had been awarded further government contracts despite issuing profit warnings.

David Lidington, the U.K. Cabinet Office minister, defended the government’s handling of the company. “We did decide that taxpayers cannot be expected to bail out a private business,” he told the BBC, adding that the deals that had got Carillion into trouble were overseas ones.

Lidington said that recent U.K. government services contracts had been structured in such a way that Carillion’s partners would now have to step in. For the rest, he said that “some services will be taken in-house, some services will go out to other contractors in a managed, orderly fashion.”

“This is a very sad day for Carillion, for our colleagues, suppliers and customers,” Chairman Philip Green said in the statement. The Wolverhampton, central England-based company said it expected the receiver to request that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be appointed special managers.

Political Dilemma

Carillion’s struggles posed a conundrum for May over the political cost of using public money to assist a private company, or allowing it to fail, putting public services and infrastructure projects nationwide in danger. The company has contracts with many wings of government, including building roads, managing housing for the armed services, and running facilities for schools and hospitals.

Carillion last year issued three profit warnings in six months, causing its shares to plummet 93 percent since July 7, giving the company a market value of 61.1 million pounds. While its stock was suspended on Monday, shares in construction equipment-rental firm Speedy Hire Plc became its first victim, falling as much as 12 percent due to its reliance on Carillion.

Carillion brought in Keith Cochrane as chief executive in July. The highly regarded 52-year-old chartered accountant was instrumental in building Scottish engineer Weir Group Plc into a global business, gaining the company a place in the U.K.’s benchmark FTSE100 index. Two months into his role at Carillion, he was already warning investors that “there is no such thing as a quick fix.”

In a harsh assessment of the U.K. builder on Sept. 29, Cochrane told analysts the company succumbed to its land-grab in contracting, racing to add projects with too many layers of management causing it to lose sight of the risks and costs involved. In some cases, the company was “building a Rolls-Royce, but only getting paid to build a Mini,” he added on the call.

Four contracts stood out in the 850 million-pound writedown Carillion booked, including a property development in Doha, two hospital contracts in the U.K., and a road-bypass around Aberdeen. Costs overran on the work, and in some cases Carillion was ill-placed geographically to be the contractor, increasing its expenses.

Government bailouts of private companies are rare in Britain; the most notable in recent years took place in 2008 and 2009, when then Prime Minister Gordon Brown bailed out the country’s banks, leaving the government holding stakes in Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc.

Carillion had borrowings of as much as 1.5 billion pounds as of June 2017, including an 835 million-pound syndicated bank loan, 350 million pounds of private notes, 170 million pounds of convertible securities and 111 million pounds of Schuldschein borrowings, a type of German promissory note, according to statements. Its net borrowing was 571 million pounds, nearly double the same time the previous year.

Much of its debt is held by banks, including a credit line syndicated among lenders including Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank Plc and Lloyds, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Lloyds and RBS recorded a rise in bad loans because of their exposure to Carillion, a person familiar with the matter said in November.

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25 Most Shocking Medical Mistakes, and How You Can Protect Yourself Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Hospitals are typically thought of as places where lives are saved, but statistics show they’re actually one of the most dangerous places you could possibly enter.1,2 Each day, more than 40,000 harmful and/or lethal medical errors occur, placing the patient in a worse situation than what they came in with.3 According to a 2013 study,4,5 preventable medical errors kill around 440,000 patients each year — more than 10 times the number of deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes. A 2016 study6 calculated the annual death toll to be around 250,000. Medical Mistakes Are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the US Either way, medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., and have been since at least 2000, when the late Dr. Barbara Starfield published her shocking conclusion that doctors kill 225,000 patients each year. Her findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.7 Ironically, Starfield ended up a statistic herself. She died suddenly in June 2011, a death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin.8 Her death certificate, however, makes no mention of this possibility. Indeed, one of the reasons why many are still surprised by these statistics is due to fundamental flaws in the tracking of medical errors, which has shielded the reality of the situation and kept it out of the public eye. While there are codes that capture iatrogenic causes of death, published mortality statistics do not take them into account. They only look at the condition that led the individual to seek medical treatment in the first place. As a result, even if a doctor lists medical errors in the death certificate, they are not included in the CDC's mortality statistics, and without that data, medical mistakes remain a largely hidden problem. Hospitals Are Hotbeds for Lethal Infections Hospitals have become particularly notorious for spreading lethal infections. According to 2014 statistics9,10 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 25 patients end up with a hospital-acquired infection, and 75,000 people per year die as a result.11 Earlier research12 has suggested as many as 1 in 10 patients will contract a nosocomial infection, defined as an infection contracted within 48 hours of hospital admission, or within three days of discharge, or within 30 days of an operation. Medicare patients appear to be at greatest risk. According to the 2011 Health Grades Hospital Quality in America Study,13 1 in 9 Medicare patients developed a hospital-acquired infection. The video above features the Discovery Channel documentary, “Shocking Medical Mistakes: The Empowered Patient,” originally aired in 2016. In it, medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen investigates medical mistakes and missed diagnoses, including some of her own experiences as a patient, and what you can do to become an empowered patient and reduce your risk when a hospital stay is necessary. 25 Most Shocking Medical Mistakes As mentioned in the video, medical mistakes occur every single day, and some are more serious than others. Cohen reveals 25 of the most shocking in the following countdown, and how you can protect yourself from becoming a statistic: 25. Baby security breach Since 1983, 132 newborns have been abducted from U.S. health care facilities. Safety tip: Make sure a parent or nurse is present with the child at all times while in the hospital. 24. Fake doctors, aka “prestige fraud”14 Believe it or not, hundreds of individuals have been caught posing as doctors when, in fact, they did not have a medical degree. Safety tip: Make sure your doctor is a licensed physician in your state. For help, see CertificationMatters.org.15 23. Treating the wrong patient This mistake typically happens when patients have similar names and the doctor or nurse fails to double-check all of the patient’s data before administering treatment. Safety tip: Before every procedure, including drug administration, make sure the staff checks your full name, date of birth and the barcode on your wrist band, to ensure correct treatment. 22. Pharmacy mix-ups According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, 30 million prescriptions are improperly dispensed each year in U.S. pharmacies. Safety tip: Before you leave the pharmacy, ask the pharmacist to confirm that the medication is the correct one, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the look of the pills, and that you’ve received the correct dosage. Also verify that the label has your name on it. 21. Botched plastic surgery Any number of things can go wrong when you go under the knife, and death is a potential side effect even of plastic surgery. Safety tip: Make sure your surgeon is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. You may also want to check whether your surgeon has any malpractice suits filed against him or her. Most state medical boards provide this information free of charge. You can find a list of state medical boards on the Federation of State Medical Boards website.16 Another source is the Administrators in Medicine,17 a nonprofit organization that compiles licensing and disciplinary information from each state’s medical board. 20. Incorrect drug dosages One of the most frequent mistakes occur in pediatrics. A child given an adult dose of a medication can have life-threatening consequences. According to the Joint Commission, hospital personnel stock medication in the wrong places 4 percent of the time, which can lead to incorrect dosage or drug being administered if the nurse or doctor fails to carefully inspect the package before administration. Safety tip: Ask for a daily list of medication and dosages that you are supposed to receive during your hospital stay, and double-check each medication before taking it or allowing it to be administered. 19. Toxic transplants As noted by transplant surgeon Dr. Lloyd Ratner, any given organ donor could be a carrier of one of several thousands of pathogens. The case highlighted in the video is that of an 18-year-old kidney recipient who died of rabies. It turns out the organ donor had been bitten by an infected bat. All of the organ recipients contracted rabies from the infected organs and died. In the U.S., more than 100 organ recipients have died from toxic transplants. Safety tip: If you become sicker after receiving a transplant, ask if other recipients are also getting ill. Early diagnosis and treatment may save your life. 18. Improper or careless discharge A man having just undergone brain surgery is packed into a cab, which drops him off in an unfamiliar neighborhood on a rainy day wearing nothing but a hospital gown and socks. When he was too confused to remember his own address, two Samaritans eventually got him home safely. Safety tip: If you’re scheduled for surgery, find out when you’re scheduled for discharge ahead of time and make sure someone you know is there to take you home. 17. Ambulance errors Any number of errors can occur on the way to the hospital, but first the ambulance must actually get to you. Patients have died due to the ambulance being dispatched to an incorrect address. Safety tip: When calling for an ambulance, if possible, slowly and clearly state and spell the street address. 16. Lost patients This typically occurs in nursing home facilities, where dementia patients may wander off the premises. One in 5 nursing home patients is prone to wandering. In one case, an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s was found after a four-day-long manhunt, locked inside a storage closet on the premises. She died shortly thereafter from dehydration. Safety tip: If you have a loved one who is prone to wander, get them a GPS bracelet so you can track their whereabouts. 15. Surgical “souvenirs” Surgical sponges, steel clamps and surgical retractors are but a few of the items that have been left inside patients undergoing surgery. According to one estimate, 2 in 10,000 surgical patients come out of surgery with a “souvenir” left inside. Safety tip: Before surgery, remind hospital staff to count the number of items used, to make sure all surgical items are accounted for before you’re stitched up. Should you experience unexpected fever, pain or swelling following your surgery, ask your doctor to double-check if equipment has accidentally been left inside you. 14. Babies accidentally switched after birth As with patients receiving the wrong treatment, this mistake typically occurs if two mothers have the same or similar name. Safety tip: When a nurse brings your baby, ask him or her to match the baby’s identification bracelet to yours. 13. Deadly air bubbles A young man dies when a nurse fails to follow proper procedure for removal of a central line tube in his chest, allowing air to enter his bloodstream. In one hospital intensive care unit, improperly removed central lines caused 10 air embolisms in a single year. Safety tip: If you have a central line, before removal, confirm the proper procedure is about to be followed. A copy of the nursing protocol for the removal of central lines can be found on ctsnet.org.18 Standard procedure protocols for central line removal in adults and pediatrics can also be found on health.ucsd.edu.19 12. Misdiagnosis Research suggests misdiagnoses may occur in 10 percent of all cases. Safety tip: Trust your instincts. If you believe your doctor has missed something or misdiagnosed you, get a second opinion. 11. Receiving the wrong blood type during transfusion During surgery, you will typically need a blood transfusion. The blood you receive — A, B or O, positive or negative — must match yours, as your body will interpret mismatched blood as a foreign invader. One of every 19,000 units of blood is incorrectly administered in the U.S. Safety tip: Know your blood type and, if possible, verify that the blood bags you’re about to receive are a match. If you cannot see the bags ahead of time, ask hospital staff to verify they have your blood type correct prior to surgery. 10. Surgical equipment causing internal burns A malfunction in the monitoring cable inserted through the heart during a routine bypass surgery causes the cable to heat up, cooking part of the patient’s heart, causing irreparable damage. It sounds unbelievable, but it happened. The patient had to receive a full heart transplant. Lasers and flammable gases used in surgery can also cause unexpected burns. These kinds of errors are typically the result of multiple mistakes, not just one. Still, some 240 surgical fires are reported in American hospitals each year. Safety tip: If undergoing surgery, ask what type of equipment will be used, and how you will be protected from lasers, cables and flammable gases. 9. Medical tube mix-ups Feeding tubes and central line tubes look a lot alike, but knowing which is which is absolutely crucial when it comes time to administer nutrients or medication through the feeding tube. In the example shown in the video, medication meant for a young child’s stomach was administered into her vein, via the central line. The child died. Sixteen percent of doctors and nurses report being aware of tube mix-ups happening at their hospitals. Safety tip: If you have more than one tube, ask medical staff to trace the tube back to its site of origin, each and every time a medication is administered to ensure the correct one is being used. 8. Switched biopsies As many as 1 in 1,000 lab specimens is mislabeled. One 35-year-old woman got a double mastectomy due to her biopsy being switched with another woman’s. She got a second opinion, but the error was not caught because the second doctor simply based his findings on the original, mixed-up lab work. Safety tip: If in doubt, ask to have the biopsy repeated and/or get a second (or third) opinion. 7. Receiving the wrong eggs in fertility treatment Women undergoing fertility treatment face the unusual possibility of receiving the wrong woman’s eggs. In one case, eggs from two women with the same last name were accidentally switched. In this instance, the woman carried the baby to term, then adopted the baby boy out to his real parents. Safety tip: Be very careful in your selection of a fertility clinic. Make sure the clinic is accredited by the College of American Pathologists. 6. Operating on the wrong body part In the U.S., an estimated seven patients undergo surgery on the wrong body part each and every day. Safety tip: Before surgery, confirm the correct location of the surgery — both body part and side — with the nurse and surgeon. Also make sure the surgeon has clearly marked the correct site. Considering the frequency at which this mistake occurs, do not be shy about doing this. 5. Unsafe radiation Incorrectly programmed and calibrated CT scans can deliver an unsafe dose of radiation. The video shows three patients whose CT scans resulted in the loss of hair in a ring around their head. It turns out the machine was incorrectly calibrated, delivering eight times the normal dose of radiation. These patients now also face the possibility of getting brain cancer at some point in the future. Safety tip: Whenever possible, opt for an ultrasound or MRI instead of a CT scan, as they do not use ionizing radiation to produce the image. 4. Hospital-acquired infections Not only will 1 in 25 hospital patients contract an infection, many of these infectious pathogens are now resistant to all antibiotics. Antibiotic overuse, especially in agriculture, has led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Hospital-acquired infections kill 75,000 patients each year in the U.S. — a death toll that could be significantly reduced simply by following proper handwashing protocols. Doctors and nurses should wash their hands and/or change gloves between each patient. Patients should also wash their hands frequently. Safety tip: Each time hospital staff enters your room, ask them to wash their hands and change gloves. Bacteria can spread from their hands to tables, bed rails, bedding, wound dressings, catheters and, of course, your skin if they touch you. You may then contract the bacteria if you touch a contaminated area. 3. Metal in the MRI room An MRI machine is an exceptionally powerful magnet, which is why no metals are allowed to be brought into the room. In one case, a hospital worker walks into the MRI room carrying an oxygen tank while a young boy is getting scanned. The tank flies across the room, delivering a lethal blow to the boy’s head. While exceedingly rare, an investigation reveals it is not the sole case on record. Safety tip: When getting an MRI, make sure there is no metal on, in or around you, anywhere in the room. Metal implants must be reported prior to getting an MRI. 2. Excessive emergency room wait times Emergency rooms are normally busy places, and personnel must make hundreds if not thousands of potentially critical decisions each day. It can be easy to miss the signs of critical illness, especially if the condition is rare. In one case, a five-hour wait resulted in a baby girl requiring amputation of both hands and legs, as personnel failed to realize the critical nature of her condition. It turns out her body was being ravaged by flesh-eating bacteria. According to the CDC, the average emergency room wait time is 49 minutes. Safety tip: If you suspect you or a loved one is in critical condition and need immediate attention, call your family physician before or on the way to the hospital, and ask him or her to call the emergency room on your behalf. This way, the staff know you’re on your way and that it’s truly serious. 1. Waking up during surgery (anesthesia awareness) Last but not least, a nightmare come true: You wake up during surgery and feel every poke, prod and cut, but cannot move or make a sound. “Anesthesia awareness,” the technical term for waking up during surgery, happens when you receive an inadequate dose of anesthesia, allowing your brain to remain aware while paralyzing your muscles. Here, the statistics are discouraging: 1 in 1,000 patients reportedly suffer anesthesia awareness. Fortunately, most of these do not feel pain. Safety tip: If you need surgery, ask your surgeon if you really need anesthesia or if a local anesthetic would be sufficient. Safeguarding Your Care While Hospitalized Download Interview Transcript Once you’re hospitalized, you’re immediately at risk for medical errors, so one of the best safeguards is to have someone there with you. Dr. Andrew Saul has written an entire book on the issue of safeguarding your health while hospitalized. Frequently, you’re going to be relatively debilitated, especially post-op when you’re under the influence of anesthesia, and you won’t have the opportunity to see the types of processes that are going on. This is particularly important for pediatric patients and the elderly. It’s important to have a personal advocate present to ask questions and take notes. For every medication given in the hospital, ask questions such as: “What is this medication? What is it for? What’s the dose?” Most people, doctors and nurses included, are more apt to go through that extra step of due diligence to make sure they’re getting it right if they know they’ll be questioned about it. If someone you know is scheduled for surgery, you can print out the World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist and implementation manual,20 which is part of the campaign “Safe Surgery Saves Lives.” The checklist can be downloaded free of charge here. If a loved one is in the hospital, print it out and bring it with you, as this can help you protect your family member or friend from preventable errors in care.

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Code For Cash (https://codefor.cash) launched six months ago.So… what exactly do we do?We connect programmers with freelance programming jobs and we help businesses find freelance programmers. Think of us like a recruiter, but instead of w2, an exclusive focus on c2c/1099 jobs.And unlike traditional recruiters, we're all developers, and we still write code every day.RevenueTotal revenue: $17,200Recurring revenue: $3,140 MRRDeveloper subscriptions: $1,740 MRRHiring manager subscriptions: $1,400 MRRNon-recurring revenue: $14,100Book sales: $680Consulting and transaction facilitation: $13,440Let’s compare revenue to last month.MRR: $3140 vs $1466: 114% M/M increase in MRRTotal Revenue: $17200 vs. $2920: 488% M/M increase in total revenueCheck out this kewl chart http://imgur.com/a/PlfIdI’m not going to discuss profit margins publicly. I will say that we spend a lot on customer acquisition and our other biggest expenditure is freelancer costs (developers, designers, copywriters, back office admin).Customer acquisitionI’m going to “double click” into customer acquisition at the request of some people following these reports. One of our main platforms is reddit’s self-serve ads tool. I thought about doing a deep dive into numbers, but the truth is that pay per click advertising varies wildly depending on the product and your market and where in the sales cycle you’re targeting, so instead I will deploy this piece of advice: social media pay per click advertising works best when it complements an organic social media conversation already taking place. Moreover, remember the rule of thumb that it takes seven “touches” – or positive experiences – for people to connect with your brand.Team updatesNew additions:Roger Stringer is a veteran developer who has written several books. He has been working on enhancing our gig-finding functionality, making it easy for freelance developers to find gigs via Slack.Shanna Truscott and her husband are digital nomads, traveling the world. They have joined our “back office” team remotely – they are data specialists, performing tasks like grabbing the email addresses out of Craigslist ads (so we stay compliant with Craigslist Terms of Service).Reflections and mistakesI have spent an enormous amount of energy trying to get bootcamps to partner. Phone calls, numerous email campaigns, sales demos, expensive business lunches. I even created a private Slack channel, #bootcamp-leaders, as a marketing tactic… In reflection, this seems to have been a complete waste of time and money, considering bootcamps have added maybe $500 in total MRR.In addition, bootcamp grads are annoying–it's easy for me to generally dismiss them as complainers, lacking in CS fundamentals, driving up support costs, and failing to contribute (value add) to the community. The silver lining of bootcamp users is that they force me to improve the product to a point where it’s accessible to the least common denominator. There’s some Zen or new age parable to quote here, but I think you get the idea.Biz updatesPreviously, we’ve been helping business hire freelance developers. We’re spinning that product out of Code For Cash (rebranding) and are currently using the working title Hiring Manager Network. The page is still a work-in-progress, not launched, and we’re not advertising it to the public yet, but you can check it out – under construction! – here: https://www.hiringmanagernetwork.com/If you’re wondering why it’s still under construction, and you’re curious about my process, I posted a reddit ad targeted to my market. Except instead of advertising the page directly, I made a self.post asking for feedback. I compiled a five page document with the feedback and have been systematically addressing the numerous shortcomings. Once I’ve cleared out all of the problems, I’ll try a new campaign (and a new feedback thread).For the developer product, one of the problems is churn. (We were testing a free trial – anyone who “clicked” with the product and didn’t cancel tends to stay on, continuously). But sometimes people churned because they found a job. So we want to add more value. One value channel we’re experimenting with is Udemy for Business, giving people access to the Udemy tech training library, including Stephen Grider’s acclaimed React.js courses. We’re still in trial with this and evaluating how much of a value add it actually presents.And of course, we want to improve the UI and UX of the product so it instantly “clicks” with most people. We want a Stripe.com level of frontend execution. The devil’s in the details, but sometimes, excessive investment in signaling pays off. Just ask the peacock. Or maybe the Heroku, WuFoo, or Indie Hackers founders.Product updatesOur Slack community is thriving. We have 218 members. We also added some new special commands. Examples: “/keywords @zackburt” to see a user’s skills, and “/skill ruby,javascript,android” to find users who have a special skill intersection they need. Lots of members are now subcontracting work to each other.We consolidated the user dashboard, so now there are only five tabs instead of … well, more.We added a back office worker to harvest data from ads (that we aren’t legally allowed to scrape). The benefit for our freelance developer community is that they spend less time doing tedious tasks and more time hunting for work.We added a few product interface improvements, like a “share with friends” button to easily share gigs (either internally within Slack or externally via email or social media). We also added a keyword suggestion interface that uses collaborative filtering, making it less of a pain for users to input their skillset.We also improved our data gathering, so we check new markets for freelance jobs.However, I’m honestly not thrilled with what happened here – I’ve been focusing on the business as a set of processes and haven’t had as much time to personally code – which is why I hired Roger Stringer to start helping. He’s been off to a rocket start, deploying both product improvements and setting up a build process for us.For next month, I want us to do a few things:Make the UI way more usable.Increase the headcount of the remote “back office” team, so our users never have to do what Zach Holman describes as “shit work”Add in a NLP text classifier, so users get fewer junk leads.ConclusionSuper grateful to this community for supporting us along the way. Although I will say that the hater:supporter ratio is highest on /r/entrepreneur out of all the online business communities I participate in, in the words of Lloyd Banks, as told by 50 cent, "if they wanna hate, let em hate, and watch the money pile up"

[hilomrm]

We Are: HiLo is the only data-driven risk management company in the world helping the shipping industry predict and prevent catastrophes. The company was founded by Shell Shipping, Maritime Maersk Tankers A/S, and Lloyd’s Register Consulting in April 2018. At HiLo, we devise concrete solutions to mitigate the risks involved in shipping by using day-to-day data collected internally by shipping companies. Our risk analytics use predictive modelling to identify which low-level incidents need immediate attention to safeguard shipping companies from potential high impact disasters.

HiLo uses a data-based statistical model to deliver security to seafarers through its Maritime Industry Knowledge Centre. The database was created by Maritime experts and developed by HSSE professionals by analysing every cause and effect relationship to ensure the events line up with existing shipping experience. The system works to build a network of interconnected events—from daily warning signals to high impact incidents.

We have analysed risks for approximately 4800 ships and 150,000 events from 2016 to 2020. Our basic agenda is to aid the shipping industry in preventing high impact, low-frequency events, avoiding fatalities, shielding assets, and saving cost.

Vision:- HiLo’s vision is to create the best quality information to reduce accidents for taking away the element of shock from the shipping industry.

Mission:- HiLo’s mission is to connect the whole maritime industry through data, from industry bodies to P&I Clubs and from manufacturers to the end-users - ship managers; and ensure mariners have the best guidance, the best equipment, and the best protection from hazardous situations.

Customer:- “HiLo is taking a leading role in using risk prediction to improve safety. It has our full support.", Peter Livanos, Chairman of GasLog

Functioning:- HiLo’s Maritime Industry Knowledge Centre provides well-analysed safety and security solutions that deliver step-by-step guides to avoid high impact events. The companies have access to the most accurate Maritime Safety Big Data Analytics by holding the predictive modelling tool on a secure portal.

The portal has an in-built feature to collect, compile, and standardise all the relevant data directly from the client’s system files. Upon analysis, the portal applies the industry-leading risk analysis program to highlight the highest risk incidents for a particular company, along with the complete HiLo Fleet.

HiLo is different:- Since HiLo is a unique service industry, there are no competitors yet.Hilo enjoys a monopoly as a risk predictive and prevention management company for the shipping industry in the world. The internal safety data is collected daily from the shipping companies for analysis. Our core strength is secured client data anonymity while enhancing maritime safety. Our data library focuses on every part of the industry, from micro to macro, leaving no information untouched.

Our wide range of data collection and predictive analysis is what makes us unique in this domain - currently 3500 ships (2200 tankers, 800 bulk carriers, and 500 container ships).

Feat:- The industry-leading predictive modelling has assisted in minimizing the risk elements of the Maritime industry right from daily warning signals to undesired potentially fatal situations. The risk of lifeboat incidents has dropped by 72%, engine room fires by 65%, and bunker spill by 25% in the year 2017-18, making HiLo the go-to safety statistical model for the top 50 shipping companies in the world. The model works on investigating every aspect of safety for mariners - from incident reports to audits. While collecting the data leading to a more comprehensive solution, the risk factors involved are also taken into consideration without fail.

We have strengthened the safety process of seafarers with our data collection library - 20x more near-miss data, 5x more collision data, 3x more grounding data, 5x more lifeboat incident data, 30x more mooring equipment data, and 8x more flooding data.

Details for Greece are: Philip Nielsen Oriani House, 13 Papathanasiou str., Athens 190 02 Mobile: +30 6944 5717 00 Office: +30 211 118 1369 Email: philip.nielsen@HiLomrm.com Website- https://hilomrm.com/our-services/