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The Sunset Royale is a stunning mid-rise condominium in the barrier island of Siesta Key in Southwest Florida. It is located in the island's idyllic northern side blessed with splendid views of the white sands of Siesta Key and the azure waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Prices of sales-listed condo units at Sunset Royale start in the low $500s. These charming residences offer about 900 square feet of living area, two bedrooms, and two bathrooms.
The Beach Rd. location of the Sunset Royale condominium works to the full advantage of its residents. Just across the channel is the charming Lido Key county park for picnics and fishing. But more importantly, the condo residents are just some minutes away from the Siesta Key beaches. One is the Siesta Public Beach with nature trails, tennis and volleyball courts, a playground, and a picnic area, among other attractions.
Then, there's the relatively more secluded Crescent Beach and its Point of Rocks ideal for snorkeling and diving. Farther down south in the island, shell collecting is generously afforded by the park-like Turtle Beach which has a boat launch, horseshoe pit, and picnic grove.
The quaint local shops and dining places of Siesta Village and Crescent Village, which too both have a post office and pharmacy, are also within easy reach from the community. Moreover, bars and seafood restaurants are plentiful along Ocean Blvd. a few minutes drive from Sunset Royale. These fabulous local attractions include Daquiri Deck, Siesta Key Oyster Bar, and the Lobster Pot.
On Sunday afternoons, just an hour before sunset, residents can partake in a visual and auditory feast at the drum circle in the Siesta Key public beach. For more of such arts and culture festivals, Sarasota City is readily accessible via two bridges linking Siesta Key to the nearby mainland.
The points of interest in the city's downtown include the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and the Ringling Museum of Art, as well as the Marie Selby Botanical Garden and the MOTE Marine Aquarium. St. Armand's Circle and the Westfield Sarasota Square Mall, both a short drive from Sunset Royale, further broaden the lifestyle choices for the condo residents.
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Kantian light
'Light, whether it emanates from the sensible or from the intelligible sun, is since Plato said to be a condition for all beings … whatever may be the physico-mathematical explanation of the light which fills our universe, phenomenologically it is a condition for phenomena, that is, for meaning. Kant's space is essentially a lit up space: it is in all its dimensions accessible, explorable … The world, whose existence is characterised by light, is not, then, the sum of existing objects.' [Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents (1978: translated 2001), 47-48]
I note this as context for the last line of my most recent novel, which is now in paperback, and available from all good bookshops. Also from amazon.
Russian (Martian?) Moon Art, 1929
Scott Eric Kaufman
It's been a couple of weeks since my friend Scott Eric Kaufman died. He was 39. I've been sitting on the notion of writing a blogpost memorialising him for a while, and although I'm (evidently) now attempting just that, I'm still uncertain whether it's a thing to do. It seems an inappropriate forum for registering grief, somehow. And yet one of Scott's greatest accomplishments was to forge an idiom by which brilliant and serious critical work could be done via blogs and other online modes. His critical intelligence was both deep and wide, lively and compassionate and insightful, and although he cornered the market in illuminating analyses of the formal composition of visual texts he had a restless curiosity about a whole range of literary, historical and philosophical matters, and wrote superbly on all of these things. Above all he was funny: a brilliant observationalist with a wonderful gift for comic phrasing. Trust me when I say: that stuff is much harder to write than it looks; and Scott was a natural. If I had to pick one word to describe his mind it would be witty: his deft, capacious and penetrating wit is palpable in pretty much everything he did.
I got to know him when we both blogged for the now-defunct 'literary organ' The Valve and we became friends in the first instance without ever meeting face-to-face—that characteristically 21st-century state of affairs. I wrote him into my novel New Model Army as a minor character (he's the young professor researching the battlefront in a Watchman T-Shirt) and he was so pleased I did it again, in my forthcoming novel. He knew this was coming, but I'm sad that he'll never see it in print now. We met in person when he came over from the States to stay with us a few years ago. His stay was elongated by the fact that that Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull decided to erupt and his return flight was cancelled. He cooked us Southern cuisine and it was delicious. He slept half-sitting-up in an easy chair—we had a spare bed, but he preferred the semi-recumbent posture for reasons to do with the longterm effects of his cancer (in remission at that time, but still impacting his health), the same cancer that eventually claimed him. He joined us when I drove my wife and our kids to synagogue on the Saturday: I think, as a Jew, he was curious to see what an English synagogue looked like. Eventually he was able to return to the States, but I flatter myself that it was during his time with us that he picked up his taste for Doctor Who: he'd never seen the show before, he said, but a little saturation UK telly viewing turned him into a fan. Like all his many friends, I'm desperately sad that he has gone.
Woods of the Suicide: Hughes's "Moortown"
It's clear enough that Ted Hughes was personally haunted by the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath. Her death, and the fact that so many blamed him for it, rode his life, a fact about which he was publicly reticent for many decades, but which he ultimately recorded in Birthday Letters (1999). That collection returns over and again to imagery of wild animals and wraiths and primal forces, and its later poems style Hughes as Plath-ridden from beyond the grave. For instance he records being struck down by her suicide and waking up
upside down in your spirit-house
Moving limbs that were not my limbs,
And telling, in a voice not my voice,
A story of which I knew nothing. ['The God'; Hughes Collected Poems, 1165]
This is just what one would expect, of course. And as Jacqueline Rose's sensitively-pitched study, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1982) argues, Hughes wasn't the only one. In a sense the entire body of Hughes work is haunted, stylistically, thematically, tonally, by that one self-destructive and alter-destructive act of 1963; and the same spectre drifts through most critical discussion of both his and Plath's work. I say so by way of concession, because this blog-post is no exception. I want to suggest a few tentative readings of poems in Moortown (1979; a collection reissued in 1989 under the title Moortown Diary). These poems make no specific reference to Plath, or to anybody or anything outside the detailed day-to-day specifics of a farming life. But I am going to argue that they are haunted by a named wraith, nonetheless
These poems record Hughes' experience as a working farmer in the early 1970s, when he and his then-new wife Carol worked a farm near Winkleigh, Devon. 'Moortown' is the name of the farm. The poems were often drafted the same day as the events they record: 'this sort of thing had to be set down soon after the event,' Hughes wrote, in a note he added for the 1989 reissue. 'If I missed the moment – which meant letting a night's sleep intervene before I took up a pen – I could always see quite clearly what had been lost. By the next day, the processes of "memory", the poetic process, had already started.' The poems are written in a strenuous, vividly descriptive, powerful idiom, raw and direct, with a relentless and indeed wearying repeated emphasis on the sheer physical hardship of working a farm. Here's 'Tractor', one of my favourites:
The tractor stands frozen—an agony
To think of. All night
Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering gale,
A spill of molten ice, smoking snow,
Pours into its steel.
At white heat of numbness it stands
In the aimed hosing of ground-level fieriness.
It defied flesh and won't start.
Hands are like wounds already
Inside armour gloves, and feet are unbelievable
As if the toe-nails were all just torn off.
I stare at it in hatred. Beyond it
The copse hisses—capitulates miserably
In the fleeing, failing light. Starlings,
A dirtier sleetier snow, blow smokily, unendingly, over
Towards plantations Eastward.
All the time the tractor is sinking
Through the degrees, deepening
Into its hell of ice.
The starting lever
Cracks its action, like a snapping knuckle.
The battery is alive—but like a lamb
Trying to nudge its solid-frozen mother—
While the seat claims my buttock-bones, bites
With the space-cold of earth, which it has joined
In one solid lump.
I squirt commercial sure-fire
Down the black throat—it just coughs.
It ridicules me—a trap of iron stupidity
I've stepped into. I drive the battery
As if I were hammering and hammering
The frozen arrangement to pieces with a hammer
And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly
Into happy life.
And stands
Shuddering itself full of heat, seeming to enlarge slowly
Like a demon demonstrating
A more-than-usually-complete materialization—
Suddenly it jerks from its solidarity
With the concrete, and lurches towards a stanchion
Bursting with superhuman well-being and abandon
Shouting Where Where?
Worse iron is waiting. Power-lift kneels
Levers awake imprisoned deadweight,
Shackle-pins bedded in cast-iron cow-shit.
The blind and vibrating condemned obedience
Of iron to the cruelty of iron,
Wheels screeched out of their night-locks—
Among the tormented
Tonnage and burning of iron
Weeping in the wind of chloroform
And the tractor, streaming with sweat,
Raging and trembling and rejoicing. [16 February 1975]
This is characteristic of the collection as a whole: vividly and forcefully written, capturing a sense of the immense inertia and stubbornness of the natural world the farmer is attempting to work, and of the sheer persistence with which the farmer has to attack his/her job. It's also characteristic in the sense that it posits a single figure, the lone man, in a hostile, even hellish environment. We get no sense, reading Moortown, that Hughes had a wife, or other farm workers, helping out. It's just him. And it's him in a world constantly on the brink of collapsing into apocalypse. And that's the key, I think:—what Hughes's poems are most fully about is endurance as such. They are elaborately direct expressions of what Able Seaman Joe Plaice had tattooed onto his knuckles in Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World:
This, I suppose, is the existential 'content' of a lot of Hughes's poetry: the valences of endurance, to which strength, will, myth and sheer vitality are all subordinate. Hughes had a lot to endure, as an individual. The landscapes and events of Moortown are recorded from the actual Devonian environment in which he lived and worked; but they are also a kind of punishing existential frame to the solitary enduring Dasein of a representative human. That statement can't help but look pretentious, put like that, I know. The thing is: what is my pretentiousness an attempt to conceal? Holding fast was not, it turned out, something of which Plath was capable. I don't say so to judge her. Far from it.
The opening poem in the Moortown collection, 'Rain', goes on and on, with an extraordinary, monotonous inventiveness, describing a seemingly-endless world-ending rainfall, 'roof-drumming', 'hammering', the whole world brimming with water. In the central section of this long poem the cows
look out sideways from under their brows which are
Their only shelter. The sunk scrubby wood
Is a pulverised wreck, rain riddles its holes
To the drowned roots. A pheasant looking black
In his waterproofs, bends at his job in the stubble.
The mid-afternoon dusk soaks into
The soaked thickets. Nothing protects them.
The fox corpses lie beaten to their bare bones,
Skin beaten off, brains and bowels beaten out.
Nothing but their blueprint bones last in the rain,
Sodden soft. Round their hay racks, calves
Stand in a shine of mud. The gateways
Are deep obstacles of mud. The calves look up, through plastered forelocks,
Without moving. Nowhere they can go
Is less uncomfortable. The brimming world
And the pouring sky are the only places
For them to be. Fieldfares squeal over, sodden
Toward the sodden wood. A raven,
Cursing monotonously, goes over fast
And vanishes in rain-mist.
It's a heavily alliterative poem, more so than is usual for Hughes: 'brown water backing and brimming'; 'sinks at every sliding stride'; 'cows come close for company'; 'beaten to their bare bones ... brains and bowels beaten to blueprint bones' and the like. We might take this as onomatopoeia, reproducing the hammering and hissing of the rain; or as a gesture back towards a more primal Anglo Saxon idiom. Indeed, I wonder if the overall shape of the poem doesn't hark back further even than that: to Noah's flood, with Hughes keeping a clutch of animals (barely) alive in his ark-farm whilst outside the world succumbs to the remorseless inundation. That might explain why a poem that starts with descriptions of the landscape, and of the cows and calves enduring the rain, ends with the passage of birds overhead, like Noah's dove. That might even be a hopeful sign, signifying that the end of the world can be lived-through, that endurance may pay off. That's the moral of Noah's story too, of course. When catastrophe strikes, as when the woman you love but have betrayed kills herself, or when your next partner, the mother of your child, later kills herself and the baby, what do you do? Grieve, of course; deal with guilt in whatever way you can, I suppose; but most of all: endure. The world freezes as cold as Dante's central hell and you go on. The flood comes, and you struggle through.
But I want to make a different point, and it will involve me in a kind of nominal manoeuvre that may strike you as dubious. Bear with me. The landscape of the Moortown farm is fields (pasture for cows and sheep) interspersed with copses and bordered by a larger stretch of woodland. Woods and fields: it's hardly remarkable. Thousands of UK farms must occupy something similar, landscape-wise. How do the woods figure in the poems? The first distinct image of 'Rain' is
Wraith-rain pulsing across purple-bare woods
Like light across heaved water.
It's a wonderful image: ghostly and luminous and solidly autumnal-wintry ('purple-bare' is very stark, almost bodily so). Then later in the poem, from the passage already quoted:
The sunk scrubby wood
To the drowned roots.
Dead, then, this woodland: as if shot by a machine gun, an almost First World War Western-Front sort of image. Dead in the sense of killed; or dead in the sense of deadly; or perhaps (which would be more disturbing) the latter because of the former.
So, here we come to the portion of my argument I was earlier veiling in the decent embarrassment of pretentiousness. It has to do with names. Names are important for Hughes, whose imagination was of the sort that saw mythic significance in everything, and liked to 'read' animals, landscapes, names and so on. In his lengthy introduction to A Choice of Coleridge's Verse (1996) there's a lot of this. One example to stand-in for many: Mount Abora, mentioned towards the end of 'Kubla Khan' is not a real mountain. So what is it?
In Abora he unites A + B (= Alphabet) + ora, imperative of the Latin "orare", which means primarily "to pronounce a sacred formula" or simply "to pray". The whole heiroglyph, or cryptophone 'Mount Abora' would be automatically deciphered as a rich pun by, say, Coleridge's close friend Charles Lamb, who, according to Coleridge (Notebook) "addeth to the Orphic epithetical polynomy of the Natura Naturata the title of the Diva Diapanta Punifica or the Divine All-puntress, and deemeth the Natura Naturata one great complex Pun, or Pun of Puns."
We can, Hughes insists, therefore 'read off' Mount Abora as 'Mount Alphabeta Oracular Mouth', or 'O Mountain of Alphabet pray for us!'
As if to say 'O Mountain of the Word, pray for us!' Just as we do now. So Mount Abora becomes the sacred mountain of the divinity within utterance itself. [Hughes, A Choice of Coleridge's Verse, 31]
Obvious now he's pointed it out, no? But I don't mean to be flippant. Names mattered intensely to Hughes, throughout his career. As did Plath, of course. It was Plath who gave Hughes his name as a poet, in a peculiarly literal sense. Yorkshire and Cambridge's 'Edward Hughes' became 'Ted Hughes' because of her.
Sylvia had typed up and sent off my manuscript to a Ninety-second Street Y first poetry book competition—judged by Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, and Auden. First prize was publication by Harper Brothers. When it won, Sylvia sent Faber the typescript and a letter with that information in which, in American style, she referred to me as Ted. They replied that Faber did not publish first books by American authors. When she told them I was British they took it. That's how I came to be Ted rather than something else. [from Drue Heinz's Paris Review interview, 'Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71']
What does 'Sylvia Plath' mean? In one sense that's a very large question indeed, of course; and even 'What did Sylvia Plath mean to Hughes' could provoke a book-length study that only scratched the surface. But I mean the question in its more specific sense, as the following answer demonstrates: Sylvia means woodland. Plath (from the Pomeranian German of her father's family roots, Plath/Platt) means 'flat', not in the apartment block sense, but in the sense of 'low lying land', 'flat ground'. So 'Sylvia Plath' means: woodland, fields. In one sense the topography of Moortown is precisely the literalisation of Plath herself. She is the apocalyptic context through which Hughes, the poet-farmer, husband-husbandman, must struggle, and which he must survive.
I'm aware that this may come over as merely pat, a facile attempt to 'decode' the poems. I'd hope I'm not trying to do that. Plath, clearly, was a real person, and Moortown was (is) a real farm. But Plath was also one of the century's most celebrated suicides, and 'Sylvia Plath' is a heiroglyph or cryptophone for the natural world itself, as horizon for the ever-haunted Hughes's living and working and writing and imagining. Look again at that first distinct image of the first poem in Moortown: 'Wraith-rain pulsing across purple-bare woods/Like light across heaved water'. Whose wraith?
Or take a poem like 'Feeding out—wintering cattle at twilight'. I'm going to quote the whole of this, because it's not as long as some of the Moortown poems, and it exemplifies the topic of Hughes, solitary, enduring apocalyptically hostile elements (in this case, a wind so mighty it has got inside the landscape itself and threatens to blow away trees, buildings, everything):
The wind is inside the hill.
The wood is a struggle—like a wood
Struggling through a wood. A panic
Only just holds off—every gust
Breaches the sky-walls and it seems, this time,
The whole sea of air will pour through,
The thunder will take deep hold, roots
Will have to come out, every loose thing
Will have to lift and go. And the cows, dark lumps of dusk
Stand waiting, like nails in a tin roof.
For the crucial moment, taking the strain
In their stirring stillness. As if their hooves
Held their field in place, held the hill
To its trembling shape. Night-thickness
Purples in the turmoil, making
Everything more alarming. Unidentifiable, tiny
Birds go past like elf-bolts.
Battling the hay-bales from me, the cows
Jostle and crush, like hulls blown from their moorings
And piling at the jetty. The wind
Has got inside their wintry buffalo skins,
Their wild woolly bulk-heads, their fierce, joyful breathings
And the reckless strength of their necks.
What do they care, their hooves
Are knee-deep in porridge of earth—
The hay blows luminous tatters from their chewings,
A fiery loss, frittering downwind,
Snatched away over the near edge
Where the world becomes water
Thundering like a flood-river at night.
They grunt happily, half-dissolved
On their steep, hurtling brink, as I flounder back
Towards headlights.
This great wind is also a kind of flood, inundating a world made water, coming down like a tsunami from 'the whole sea of air', making Hughes himself 'flounder'. And it is simultaneously potentially destructive and vital, animating the cows, inspiring 'their fierce, joyful breathings'. But what I want to concentrate on is the description of the wind-shaken forest at the beginning of the poem:
Struggling through a wood.
It's a superb description: trees and bushes set in motion by the wind, like people trying to struggle through a dense wood, except that the people are the wood they are trying to struggle through. As an image its involuted knottiness, its essence of energetic blockage, is neatly rendered in the tangling repetition of its form: wood, struggle, wood, struggling, wood. But what else might it be, in addition to being an account of a wood in high wind? Possibly: a description of Sylvia-woodland.
Here's an illustration by Blake of two arborially rendered forms, Dante and his guide Vergil, struggling through what looks like a wood in motion, one that grows in infernal regions. Blake, like Shakespeare and Coleridge, was a key influence on Hughes.
Dante makes a useful intertext for Hughes' Moortown, I think, because the topographies and landscapes of the worlds of the Inferno are both actual and metaphorical expressions. The Wood of the Suicides, in Canto 13, is a nightmarish Sylva, its self-murderers transformed into trees that shriek with pain and bleed profusely when their branches are snapped (and Dante's imagination adds-in harpies whose job is to keep breaking their branches). Unique in the whole Inferno, these suicides are the only souls who will not resurrect into human bodies at the time of the Final Judgement, so unspeakable was their sin against those very bodies.
Dante's seventh circle contains one wood made up of many suicides. My sense of the topography of Hughes's Moortown is that it is surrounded by several sylvae. Several sylvae, but one suicide, I think. | {
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صالحی, دکتر مهدی, داوطلبطوسی, فتانه. (1393). بررسی تأثیر ساختار مالکیت بر ارزش شرکتهای دارویی پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهران با استفاده از دادههای ترکیبی. حسابداری سلامت, 3(3), 79-100.
دکتر مهدی صالحی; فتانه داوطلبطوسی. "بررسی تأثیر ساختار مالکیت بر ارزش شرکتهای دارویی پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهران با استفاده از دادههای ترکیبی". حسابداری سلامت, 3, 3, 1393, 79-100.
صالحی, دکتر مهدی, داوطلبطوسی, فتانه. (1393). 'بررسی تأثیر ساختار مالکیت بر ارزش شرکتهای دارویی پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهران با استفاده از دادههای ترکیبی', حسابداری سلامت, 3(3), pp. 79-100.
صالحی, دکتر مهدی, داوطلبطوسی, فتانه. بررسی تأثیر ساختار مالکیت بر ارزش شرکتهای دارویی پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهران با استفاده از دادههای ترکیبی. حسابداری سلامت, 1393; 3(3): 79-100.
مقدمه: هدف این پژوهش بررسی تأثیر ساختار مالکیت از منظر تمرکز مالکیت و درجه کنترل بر ارزش شرکتهای دارویی پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهران است.
روش پژوهش: در این پژوهش برای آزمون فرضیههای مطرحشده از دادههای ترکیبی استفاده شده است. تأثیر تمرکز مالکیت بر ارزش شرکت از طریق پنج متغیر بهعنوان معیارهای تمرکز مالکیت بررسی شده است. همچنین، از متغیر کیو توبین برای اندازهگیری ارزش شرکتها استفاده شده است. نمونه آماری شامل 28 شرکت در بازه زمانی 1391-1387 است که در صنعت دارو فعالیت داشتهاند. فن آماری مورد استفاده در این پژوهش از نوع رگرسیون خطی چند متغیره است و برای تجزیه و تحلیل دادههای آماری از نرمافزار SAS نسخه 1/9 استفاده شده است.
یافتهها: یافتههای پژوهش نشان میدهد که متغیرهای جمع سهام سهامداران اصلی، لگاریتم طبیعی جمع سهام سهامداران اصلی، درصد سهام سهامداران اصلی، جمع مربعات درصد سهام سهامداران اصلی و لگاریتم طبیعی درصد سهام سهامداران اصلی به عنوان معیارهای تمرکز مالکیت و همچنین، متغیرهای حقیقی یا حقوقیبودن سهامداران اصلی و درجه کنترل بر ارزش شرکت تأثیرگذار نیست.
نتیجهگیری: به طور کلی، تفسیر یافتههای پژوهش بیانگر این است که بین تمرکز مالکیت و ارزش شرکت در صنعت دارو، از نظر آماری رابطه معناداری وجود ندارد. افزون براین، نوع سهامدار اصلی و درجه کنترل بر ارزش شرکت تأثیرگذار نیست.
Introduction: The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of ownership structure from the perspective of concentration ownership and degree of control on the firm value of the pharmaceutical companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.
Method: Panel data has been used in this research in order to test the presented hypotheses. The effect of ownership concentration on firm value has been done by five variables as ownership concentration criteria. Moreover, Tobin's Q has been used to evaluate firms' value. The statistical sample includes 28 companies during 2008-2012 which have been working in the industrial field of pharmaceutical materials. The statistical model of multivariate linear regression is used in this research, and for analyzing statistical data, SAS Version. 9.1 has been applied.
Results: The results of the research reveal that the variables such as: sum of the share of the main shareholders, natural logarithm of sum of the share of the main shareholders, the main equity capital percentage, sum of the squares of the share percentage of the main shareholders, natural logarithm of the main equity capital percentage as the standards of ownership concentration as well as the variables of reality and legality of the main shareholders, and the degree of control have no effect on firm value.
Conclusion: In general, the interpretation of the findings of the research suggest that there is no meaningful relationship between ownership concentration and firm value statistically. Besides, type of the main shareholder and the degree of control do not have any influence on firm value.
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I have been bulimic for about two and a half years. I am so worried I have done permanent damage to my body. I keep trying to quit but every time I go a few days somethings happens and I fall back into my binge and purge routine.
Will my face swelling go down? And if so how long should that take after I completely stop purging?
Have I done permanent damage to my teeth?
Is it possible that i stretched my stomach, and if i did how can i shrink it back?
When you stopped did you gain very much weight?
Should I tell my mom what I am going through? I used to tell her everything, but this has changed our relationship so much. I feel like I lie to her and disappoint her all the time. If I plan on stopping and I know I can do it, is it worth hurting her like this? I know she would blame herself, and I don't want that. her sister was bulimic and now she is an alcoholic who is killing herself with her diseases. I just don't want her to think I will turn out like her sister.
Thank you so much in advance, I appreciate everything! | {
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for Cannafest Destiny. An event sponsored by MTCIA to help raise funds for legal fees and awareness for the Medical cannabis issue. Commercial Hemp, it's history and future was also talked about in length. I am glad to be having a part in this event in a few ways. I have been able to lend a hand in a few areas. Laying out electric cable for the vendors, parking vehicles, assisting a couple of venders with their booths, and even helping one person in a wheel chair to get from the parking lot to the event area. Not to mention getting a chance to speak to the crowd, both from stage and in person. I was blessed with the chance to speak with so many on a one on one basis. Not just to share where I was coming from but also to listen to them and their concerns. It was real nice that so many of them felt they could open up with their thoughts and feelings. They had questions on a large aray of subjects. While at the same time getting to listen to fantastic music from the many live bands. For those in our state who want to shut these people out, writting them of as nut jobs, pot heads, or scourge, trouble makers or any of the multiple jabs the self appointed defenders of rightousness has had for them, I really feel sorry for what you loose out on. What everyone needs to realize is these are people too. They have families, feelings and ideas as well as everyone else. They have needs and concerns as well as issues of thier own to contend with, which have nothing to do with cannabis. All the nay sayers out there need to do these people, themself and the state a favor and take off the blinders they wear. It has been time very well spent this weekend. I am also proud to say that I do and will support the use of cannabis, Medical, Hemp or otherwise. I will actively fight to promote the cause and freedoms they fight for and would as Governor of Montana, veto anything that hit my desk (that very day) which ever harmed a patient or caregiver.
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by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers 272
Setlists featuring Don't Forget Me
17 Sep 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Citi Field, Flushing, NY, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Aeroplane, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, In My Life by The Beatles + Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreGoodbye Angels, Give It Away
31 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Laugardalshöll, Reykjavik, Iceland
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin + I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Don't Forget Me, The Getaway, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
27 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Lucavsala, Riga, Latvia
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Mommy Where's Daddy, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, Red Hot Mama by Parliament, I Like Dirt, Don't Forget Me, The Power of Equality, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
EncoreAngeles by Elliott Smith, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
21 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Ippodromo del Galoppo di San Siro, Milan, Italy
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Otherside, Dark Necessities, Hey, Fire by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Go Robot, Californication, Charlie, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
30 Jun 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at United Center, Chicago, IL, USA
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Otherside, Dark Necessities, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Don't Forget Me, Go Robot, Californication, Aeroplane, Sick Love, Sir Psycho Sexy, They're Red Hot by Robert Johnson, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
EncoreLet Me Roll It by Wings, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
20 Jun 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Centre Bell, Montreal, QC, Canada
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Fire by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
23 May 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Mommy Where's Daddy, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Tell Me Baby, Go Robot, Californication, Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass, Don't Forget Me, Suck My Kiss, Dreams of a Samurai, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreThat Joke Isn't Funny Anymore by The Smiths, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
27 Apr 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Me & My Friends, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Detroit, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreI'll Be Back by The Beatles, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
19 Apr 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, SC, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Hey, Aeroplane, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
10 Mar 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreLiving Without You by Harry Nilsson, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
18 Feb 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, Around the World, Don't Forget Me, The Longest Wave, Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreThe Only Living Boy in New York by Simon & Garfunkel, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
12 Feb 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Parallel Universe, The Longest Wave, Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreIt's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boyz II Men, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
10 Jan 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Hey, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, Southern Nights by Glen Campbell, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Did I Let You Know, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
18 Dec 2016 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at O2 Arena, London, United Kingdom
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Hey, Look Around, Go Robot, Californication, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, The Getaway, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
14 Dec 2016 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Manchester Arena, Manchester, United Kingdom
MainAround the World, Otherside, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Nobody Weird Like Me, Go Robot, Californication, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Aeroplane, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
8 Dec 2016 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at SSE Hydro, Glasgow, United Kingdom
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Wet Sand, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Watching the Wheels by John Lennon, The Getaway, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
5 Dec 2016 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at O2 Arena, London, United Kingdom
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Otherside, Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, The Getaway, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
19 Nov 2016 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Festhalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
MainCan't Stop, Otherside, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Dark Necessities, Wet Sand, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Parallel Universe, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, The Getaway, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
7 May 2012 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA
MainMonarchy of Roses, Around the World, Scar Tissue, Dani California, Charlie, Look Around, Breaking the Girl, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Can't Stop, Don't Forget Me, Under the Bridge, Me & My Friends, Californication, Suck My Kiss, By the Way
EncoreSir Psycho Sexy, They're Red Hot by Robert Johnson, Soul to Squeeze, Give It Away, Final Jam
30 Apr 2012 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Scotia Bank Place, Ottawa, ON, Canada
MainMonarchy of Roses, Can't Stop, Otherside, Dani California, Look Around, Parallel Universe, Soul to Squeeze, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, I Like Dirt, Don't Forget Me, Factory of Faith, Under the Bridge, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Californication, By the Way
EncoreSuck My Kiss, Meet Me at the Corner, Give It Away
If you know of a concert where "Don't Forget Me" was performed which is not on Setlisting you can add the setlist here. | {
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The Legacy of Fu Bingchang
View Originals
Dushiqiao
At 10.00 there was memorial week. Lou Tongsun made a report.
I discussed the establishment of the primary school with Wu Shangying, Shi Shangkuan and Lou Tongsun. The school would be funded by the Legislative Yuan.
Lou Tongsun told me that Jiang Dingwen said to him that there was still no evidence of the Soviet Union assisting the Eighth Route Army. Jiang Dingwen said that during the resistance war, with regard to the Soviet Union, we should succumb to it. Until the victory of the resistance war we could monitor it. Such a tone was telling of the policies of our country. Lou Tongsun asked me to urge Sun Fo that when he delivered talks or did other things he should pay attention not to be too overtly supportive towards the Soviet Union. I also agreed with what Lou Tongsun said.
I enjoyed staying at my home in the countryside, reading and practicing calligraphy all day. In Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, with regard to National Socialist Party policy, which stressed nation as the most important thing, he strongly stated that Germany was the most advanced in the world, and it should use force to unify and lead the world. Not until then would the world have peace. He also mentioned retrogression from mixed-breeding. What he said was all absurd, and contrary to the evolutionary history of the world. When the culture of the Chinese nation had reached the highest standard, the Germans were still living in pits. Also as for mixed-breeding, no country was more diverse than the United States. Can we say the United States is retrogressive? To mention the purity of human race, Jews are surely the case. Then why was Hitler so contemptuous of Jews? Hitler's theory was one without foundation. The German educational level was always quite high, but I really don't know why they are fooled by him. Probably it is because of Germany's circumstances that it came to a dead end. Germany had no choice but to try reluctantly. Probably it was as Hitler said, that in German education too much emphasis was placed on specific subjects, which gave people specialised knowledge whilst lacking in general knowledge.
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Pinewood Gymnastics Club breathed new life into an old inter-club competition earlier this month.
Pinewood gymnasts (from left) Jack Stannah, Charlie Hart and Henry Leach.
A total of 122 young gymnasts from seven different clubs across the southern region travelled to Pinewood for the first Regional Floor and Vault Competition held in many years.
The gymnasts, ranging from six to 14 years of age, all worked extremely hard, demonstrating their floor routines and vaulting skills to the eager spectators.
The competition organisers, Paul Reeve and Jenny Parkinson said: "It is so important to provide more opportunities for recreational level gymnasts.
"Competitions for those who only train a few hours a week are currently very limited.
"We have been working hard with the region to get these floor and vault competitions up and running so that these children get the chance to showcase their skills.
The Pinewood gymnasts did themselves and the club very proud, achieving an outstanding four gold, seven silver and six bronze medals between them.
This was a fantastic achievement considering they were competing against such a large number of gymnasts in what would have been, for the vast majority of children, their first taste of competitive gymnastics.
Selected Pinewood Results: 1st: Charlie Hart (floor, vault and overall); Hugh Elliott (novice vault). 2nd: Jack Stannah (floor, vault and overall); Esme Kelly (novice vault), Sam Croft (intermediate vault and overall), Luke Westwood (intermediate floor). 3rd: Henry Leach (vault and overall); Luke Westwood (intermediate overall); Charlie Wright (intermediate vault); Hannah Eaves (intermediate vault). | {
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One of the most imposing buildings of the Old City is the one that houses the Town Hall of Corfu. It is located in one of the squares that are formed by the narrow alleyways next to the old, catholic cathedral of San Giacomo (St. Jacob).The Town Hall of Corfu is housed there from the beginning of the 20th century.
The construction of this imposing building began in 1663 by the Venetians and it was not completed until 30 years later, in 1693. The edifice is built of stone, evidently in the Renaissance style, with carved walls. The Town Hall of Corfu even today is adorned by many sculptures, including, among others, the bust of the Venetian admiral Morosini which is accompanied by four children that depict his virtues.
The first function of the building of the Town Hall of Corfu was to house the «Lodge of the Nobles», mainly the officers of the Venetian navy. In 1720 it was converted to one of the most famous theaters in Greece which was named «San Giacomo» because of the adjacent church.
In 1903 it was decided to establish the Town Hall of Corfu there, while the square in front of the building was also named Town Hall square.
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Rising changes commitment from Oklahoma to Red River rival Texas
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Before even arriving on a Big 12 Conference campus, Cameron Rising has crossed the Red River rivalry.
The Newbury Park High quarterback changed his college commitment from Oklahoma to rival Texas on Saturday, less than five months after Simi Valley's Tom Herman was hired as the Longhorns head coach.
"I truly believe coach Herman will bring Texas back to the elite status program it is," Rising said in a statement on his Twitter account. "After much thought and discussion with those close to me, I am full prepared to say that I am committing to the University of Texas."
Rising made the switch on the same day the junior was fitted for a tuxedo for the prom. He spoke with Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, as well as Herman and Texas offensive coordinator Tim Beck, by phone.
The reversal comes a week after Rising, the nation's No. 12 quarterback according to ESPN, attended Herman's first spring game in Austin. He also attended the spring game in Norman, Okla. on April 8.
"When this process began, I was told how difficult it would be for me to choose a school," Rising said. "They were right. I have met so many nice people along the way and I wish all of you the very best."
Rising is the No. 5 quarterback recruit in the Class of 2018 nationally, and No. 52 overall, according to Rivals.com.
He burst on the scene as a sophomore, when he threw for 3,213 yards, 40 touchdowns and one interception in 2015. He was named California State Sophomore of the Year by Cal-Hi Sports and a Sophomore All-American by MaxPreps
He was offered scholarships by Washington State, Cal, Oregon State, Arizona State, Arizona, Michigan, Louisiana State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, North Carolina, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Alabama, Miami, Penn State, Texas Christian, UCLA and Mississippi.
Texas, Oregon, Louisville and West Virginia followed earlier this year, despite a junior season limited to five games because of a shoulder injury. Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, Oregon head coach Willie Taggart and new Texas offensive coordinator Tim Beck visited Newbury Park's campus in January.
Rising announced his commitment to Oklahoma in August, after a whirlwind six-campus tour with his father Nicko and his grandfather James that included Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma and Houston, where Herman was still coach.
"My coach, Keith Smith, told me about this feeling I would get when I found the right school," Rising said. "I thought I found that feeling at the University of Oklahoma — great school, great program, great players, great recruits and great facilities."
But Herman's move to Texas in November immediately threatened that commitment. Both Rising recruits, Cameron and former Buena High and Ventura College offensive lineman Tyson Rising, who is now at Arizona State, visited Herman when he was the coach of the University of Houston.
"From that first meeting, Cam loved Herman," Nicko Rising said. "He was at Houston, but we knew he wasn't going to be there long.
"If I have one regret, it would be not waiting until we knew where Herman was going to go."
Nicko Rising, like Herman, played football at Cal Lutheran University, although they were separated by a few years and were never teammates.
"I didn't really know him," Nicko Rising said. "I knew of him. I recall his name from back in those days. We have mutual friends." | {
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\section{Introduction}
The current activities concerning electro-optical devices in the blue-green
spectral region have led to a significant interest in the electronic and
geometric properties of II-VI semiconductors, in particular of epitaxial
II-VI heterostructures. These materials can be grown on various substrates
in a well defined fashion by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)\cite{c1}. Recently,
the new II-VI compound material BeTe has received considerable attention and
it has been demonstrated that epitaxial layers of high structural
quality can be produced by MBE. BeTe crystallizes in the zincblende
structure and has a number of technologically interesting properties which
make it attractive for the use in opto-electronic devices:
Its lattice constant of 5.627 $\AA$ is very close to that of
GaAs and ZnSe (mismatch smaller than 0.7 \%)\cite{c2}. Furthermore, BeTe has
a large bond energy and a much higher degree of covalency than other wide-gap
II-VI semiconductors such as CdTe or ZnSe which results in an
increased hardness and stability\cite{c3}.\\
For the development and optimization of a material in technological
applications, i.e. for a controlled
band engineering in superlattices and quantum well structures, its
electronic structure and in particular its k-resolved bulk and surface
band structure have to be known in detail. The most powerful experimental
method to determine the dispersion $E(\vec{k})$ of the various occupied bands
along a particular direction in k-space and to obtain
absolute critical point energies is angle-resolved photoelectron
spectroscopy utilizing linearly polarized synchrotron
radiation\cite{c4,c5,c6,c7,c8}.\\
In contrast to other II-VI semiconductors, BeTe has been rarely studied
experimentally up to now and very little is known about its various
physical properties, in particular its electronic structure. Also, theory has
not paid much attention to BeTe and only few band structure calculations
exist\cite{c9}. In this paper we present the first angle-resolved photoemission
study to investigate the k-resolved band structure of BeTe along $\Gamma X$,
i.e. the (100) direction.
The measurements were accompanied by and analyzed with state-of-the-art
first-principles calculations of the BeTe bulk band structure and theoretical
photoemission spectra. This combined approach turned out to be very successful.
We can identify the electronic transitions which give rise to particular
photoemission peaks and are able to provide both experimentally and
theoretically the structure of occupied states in BeTe. Both approaches are in
good agreement with each other. Furthermore, we find that the assumption of
free-electron final states for the photoemission process breaks down in the
case of BeTe. Our results suggest that a much better understanding of the
origin of the photoemission peaks can be obtained with the application of
first-principles calculation not only as a theoretical result to compare with,
but rather as a tool to analyze the experimental measurements.\\
\section{Experimental}
The angle-resolved photoemission experiments were performed at the German
synchrotron radiation facility BESSY in Berlin using linearly polarized
synchrotron radiation in the energy range from 10 to 19 eV using an
UHV system of the Technical University Munich that operates at a base
pressure of better than $1\times10^{-10}$ mbar. The electron analyzer is a
homebuilt angle-multichannel instrument that allows for a simultaneous
detection of
electrons emitted in the polar angle range from 0 to $90^\circ$, for a fixed
azimuth\cite{c10}; its polar angle resolution is $2^\circ$ with an azimuthal
acceptance of $3^\circ$. The combined energy resolution of monochromator and
electron energy analyzer, as determined from the width of the Fermi edge of
an gold sample,
varied from 0.15 to 0.25 eV with increasing photon energy. All spectra
shown below have been measured at normal incidence of the
incoming radiation. Electron binding energies are referred to the valence
band maximum (VBM) of BeTe.\\
The epitaxial BeTe(100) layer were produced by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions in a Riber 2300 four-chamber system
at the university of W\"urzburg. The growth chambers are equipped with
reflection high-energy electron-diffraction (RHEED) instrumentation for in
situ characterization. The GaAs(100) substrate ($8\times8 mm^2$) was mounted on
a special inlay that can be attached onto the 2" sample holder of the
MBE-system or the manipulator of the UHV electron spectrometer. Its temperature
was measured by a thermocouple in contact with the molybdenum block holding
the inlays. Epitaxial GaAs buffers ($500\ nm$) have been used to improve
the quality of the n-doped GaAs(100) substrate surface. A BeTe
layer of 100 nm thickness was grown at a substrate temperature of $300^\circ$
C in a Te-rich regime as confirmed by the $(2\times1)$ reconstruction observed
by RHEED. The strain of the layer is unknown. Other BeTe layers of this
thickness have been found to be partly relaxed. For the present study a fully
relaxed layer has been assumed. One should note, that even for a not fully
relaxed layer no significant changes in the electronic structure (within the
accuracy of our study) are expected due to the small lattice mismatch to GaAs
of $0.7$ \% .\\
After the growth process the samples were transported from the MBE system
in W\"urzburg to the electron spectrometer in Berlin with a specially
designed UHV transfer box that can carry up to 6 different
samples. The pressure in the transfer box that is pumped by an ion getter pump
is better than $3\times10^{-9}$ mbar. After the transfer from the MBE system
to the electron spectrometer at BESSY, the BeTe(100) surface showed a sharp
$(2\times1)$ LEED pattern and there was no
indication of contamination, as judged by Auger-electron spectroscopy.\\
\section{Calculations}
The experimental studies were accompanied by a first-principles calculation
of the BeTe band structure within the framework of the density-functional
formalism in the local-density approximation (LDA)\cite{HKS}.
The electron-ion interaction was modelled by norm-conserving, Be$^{2+}$ and
Te$^{6+}$ pseudopotentials generated according to the scheme of
Hamann\cite{c11} taking into account the partial core-charge correction
in the exchange-correlation energy functional\cite{c12}.
Because the spin-orbit interaction is known to be very important in tellurides,
in particular for experiments probing details of the band structure, we have
explicitly included the spin-orbit interaction in
the hamiltonian after a selfconsistent solution of the Kohn-Sham equations has
been obtained.
A plane-wave basis set was employed with the cut-off of 14 Rydbergs.\\
A rather common practice for the assignment of a wave vector to a measured
photoemission peak is to use free-electron, parabolic bands along
the surface normal as final states for the photoemission excitation process.
In a more sophisticated approach the calculated bands (possibly within some
ab initio scheme) are assumed to be the final states. However, even such
a procedure does not unambiguously explain the origin of measured peaks,
because in the case of a more complicated band structure of the unoccupied
states - and BeTe is such a case - the considerations based on the
energy-conservation principle alone, without
taking into account the transition matrix elements and specific photoemission
selection rules are not sufficient. Therefore, in order to trace back the
origin of various measured structures, we have calculated the
electron-hole excitation rate for BeTe bulk, which gives an essential
contribution to the emitted-photocurrent intensity.
We have calculated the following quantity\cite{c5}:\\
\begin{equation}
I(E,h\nu) \sim \sqrt{E_{kin}} \sum_{i,f} \lambda_f \int dk_{\perp}
| \langle \psi_{\vec{k}i} | \vec{A} \cdot \vec{p} | \psi_{\vec{k}f}\rangle | ^2
\delta(E_f - E_i - h\nu) \delta(E-E_i),
\end{equation}\\
where $\psi_{\vec{k}i}$, $E_i$, and $\psi_{\vec{k}f}$, $E_f$ are the Kohn-Sham
wave functions and energies of initial and final states in the bulk.
$I(E,h\nu)$ is calculated as a function of the binding energy of
occupied states $E$ and incident photon energy $h\nu$;
$\vec{k}=(\vec{k}_{\parallel}=0,k_{\perp})$ for normal emission.
$\lambda_f$ is the inelastic mean free path of final states and $E_{kin}$
is the kinetic energy of detected photoelectrons, which is in our calculation
taken as the excess energy of the final states over the vacuum-level energy.\\
It should be noted that although the above expression complies with the
energy conservation rule and takes into account the transition-matrix elements
as well, it includes only rather approximatively
the presence of the surface of the solid and the many-body effects
in the initial and final states. In particular, the surface effects are
very important. First, the surface gives rise to
the presence of surface states and resonances, which usually show
up in the photoemission spectra as $h\nu$-independent peaks. Such states
are neglected in our first-principles calculation and we will therefore
focus on the identification of bulk peaks in the experimental spectra.
Second, final states of photoelectrons are scattering states with a proper
free-electron-like character far outside the surface\cite{c5}. For such states
the $k_{\perp}$-conservation rule does not apply and non-vertical transitions
are present. Moreover, these states can have their energies within the
excitation gaps in the solids, leading to unexpected and dispersionless
photoemission peaks\cite{c15}. Assuming a common, three-step
model of the photoemission experiment, Eq.(1), in which
the bulk states are taken to be the final states, can be viewed as
an approximation in which the transition probability through the surface
barrier is neglected. In order to comply - at least partially - with the
surface barrier transition probability and the specific photoemission
selection rules, we have allowed only for those final states in Eq.~(1),
which are symmetric under all $C_{4v}$ group-symmetry operations, i.e. have
no nodes along the normal to the surface symmetry axis\cite{c16}.\\
As far as the many-body effects are concerned, they show up in several ways
as well. First, they lead to energy shifts of occupied and unoccupied bands.
This effect is to a large extent included in our calculation via the empirical
shift of conduction bands. A comparison with a calculation done within
the GW approximation\cite{HL} shows that
a rigid shift of bands is a good approximation in the excitation-energy
range relevant for our measurements\cite{c17}. Second, unlike for the
independent-particle theory, which has been applied in Eq.(1) above, the
binding- and excitation energies of quasiparticles within a dynamic many-body
theory are not sharp. The quasiparticle states are described by spectral
functions which - although possessing distinct peaks - are continuous
functions of energy. Electrons and holes have finite lifetimes, which lead
to an important relaxation of the energy- and momentum conservation rule.
We are including this effect via replacing the delta functions in Eq.(1) by
the Lorentzian functions of a width given by the imaginary part of the
self-energy, which has been calculated within a GW approximation\cite{c17}.
Finally, the finite mean free path of electrons, which appears in Eq.(1),
originates from the imaginary-part of self-energy and the velocity of excited
electrons\cite{c17}.\\
A proper theory of the photoemission should be ideally a {\it one-step} theory,
in which all the surface and many-body effects would be fully included.
Our aim is to obtain as good as possible an understanding of the origin
of the measured photoemission peaks on the basis of a relatively simple
bulk calculation, with an approximative account of surface and many-body
effects. The success of our approach will be discussed in the next Section.\\
\section{Results and Discussion}
The calculated band structure of BeTe with the experimental lattice constant of
5.627 $\AA$ is presented in Fig.~1. Our calculation shows that BeTe is an
indirect semiconductor, with the minimum of the conduction band at the
$X$-point. The LDA absolute gap is 1.62 eV, which is about 1.1 eV smaller than
the experimentally reported values of 2.7 eV\cite{c18} and 2.8 eV\cite{c1}.
This is a typical error due to the Kohn-Sham formalism and the
LDA approximation. A GW-calculation, in which dynamical, many-body interactions
are to a big extent accounted for, gives a value of 2.6 eV for the absolute gap
in BeTe\cite{c17}. Considering the LDA error of 1.1 eV, a value of 4.45 eV
is obtained for the direct gap at the $\Gamma$-point (see also Fig.~4 below),
which is in very good agreement with the experimental value of $4.53 \pm 0.1$
eV as determined by ellipsometry\cite{Wagner}.
The calculated spin-orbit splitting at the valence-band
maximum at the $\Gamma$ point is 0.96 eV. The calculated effective masses
in the neighborhood of the $\Gamma$-point are $0.34$, $0.23$ and $0.40$ in
units of the free-electron mass $m_{el}$ for the heavy holes, light holes and
the spin-split-off band, respectively.\\
For the experimental determination of the bulk band structure of BeTe along the
$\Gamma X$ direction, we have measured photoemission
spectra for the (100) surface at normal emission for photon energies between
10 and 19 eV. These spectra are depicted in Fig.~2 with the binding energy
scale referenced to the valence band maximum (VBM), which is
determined by the peak position of the feature with the lowest binding energy.
Overall the spectra show a number of well defined maxima that disperse with increasing photon energy, i.e. kinetic energy of the outgoing photoelectron. For four peaks the positions
of the peak maxima are indicated with different symbols. These
peaks are assigned to direct transitions from the occupied to the unoccupied
bands of BeTe. Note that the assignment given in the figure is not in
all cases unambiguously derived from the spectra but is also partly based
on the comparison of experimental and calculated spectra (see below). In
addition to these bands there is a peak at $E_B=-5.5$ eV that remains
unchanged in position as the photon energy is varied. For $h\nu > 15$ eV
two additional peaks are observed between binding energies of 0 and -2 eV (each
indicated with d) that are not assigned to direct transitions between bulk
bands; they show some dispersion away from the energetic position of the
valence band maximum; their origin will be discussed below.\\
For a detailed interpretation of the spectra in Fig.~2, the different peaks have
to be assigned to k-conserving transitions from occupied bands to unoccupied
bands. The kinetic energy and the momentum of the electron in the vacuum are
related according $E_{kin}=(\hbar^2/2m_{el})(k_\perp^2+k_\parallel^2)$, where
$k_\parallel$ and $k_\perp$ are the components
of the momentum of the electron in the vacuum, parallel and perpendicular to
the surface, respectively and $m_{el}$ being the electron mass. The parallel
component of the momentum is conserved (modulo a reciprocal surface
lattice vector $\vec{G}_\parallel$) when the electron crosses the surface,
and can therefore be directly determined from the momentum in the vacuum.
To determine the perpendicular momentum inside the crystal, we must know the
final state bands along the (100) direction. The simplest approximation to
the final state band is the free electron approximation. The potential step at
the surface is usually taken into account by introducing the inner potential,
$V_o$, as the zero for the energy scale (see eg. Refs. 4-8). For normal
emission, the parallel component vanishes ($k_\parallel=0$) and one
obtains the electron momentum perpendicular to the surface as:\\
\begin{equation}
k_{final} = \frac{\sqrt{2m_{el}}}{\hbar}\cdot\sqrt{E_{kin}+V_o} + G_B,
\end{equation}
with $G_B$ being a reciprocal bulk lattice vector. While the assumption of a
free electron parabola as the final state with the inner potential $V_o$ as an
adjustable parameter is widely used in the analysis of photoemission spectra,
there is no general justification for using this simplified approach and its
applicability has to be verified for each system separately. Its success
depends on the kind of a solid and the energy range of the final states.\\
In a more sophisticated approach one can analyze the measurements with the aid
of a first principles calculation of the band structure of BeTe. The need of
this kind of approach is strongly suggested by the dispersion of the unoccupied
bands in Fig.~1, which is far from having a free-electron-like shape. Before
the analysis was done, the unoccupied bands from the LDA calculation have been
shifted by 1.1 eV to higher energies in order to fit the experimental absolute
energy gap of 2.7 eV. However, even with the assumed first-principles final
states a determination of the initial states is not straightforward. Due to
a complicated shape of the dispersion of the conduction-bands in BeTe there
are in general several bulk excited states which could be final states
for a given photon energy.\\
In order to obtain an unambiguous interpretation of the experimental spectra,
we use an even more stringent criterion, namely the direct comparison of
experimental and calculated photoemission spectra for increasing photon
energies. For this purpose we calculate the electron-hole excitation rate for
BeTe bulk, which determines to a large extent the emitted photocurrent
(Eq.~(1)). Fig.~3 shows the calculated bulk contribution to the
photocurrent (solid lines) along with the experimental spectra. The calculated
curves were rescaled in intensity. Overall, the agreement between calculation
and experiment is very good, in spite of the applied approximations.
The energetic positions of most of the peaks are very close to maxima in the
experimental curves and the overall shape of the spectra is well reproduced.
By evaluating Eq.~(1) and analyzing the theoretical spectra in more detail we
are able to trace back the origin of particular photoemission peaks in Fig.~3.
The dotted line stems from the transitions from the lower
spin-split occupied bands, the dashed line represents only the transitions from
the upper bands (light and heavy holes together). The solid line is sum of
both.\\
The experimentally determined valence band structure of BeTe between
$\Gamma$ and $X$ points is presented in Fig.~4 along with the calculated bands
of Fig.~1. Only those unoccupied bands are depicted, which due to their
symmetry properties could be observed in normal emission (see Ref.\ 15). They
are shifted upward by 1.1 eV to correct for the LDA error (see above). The
experimental data points have been obtained from the photoemission spectra
in Figs.~2 and 3 using
the calculated final states by determining the $k_\perp$ value from the
intersection of the unoccupied band with a horizontal line (dotted lines in
Fig.~4) for the corresponding kinetic energy. In the following we will discuss
the spectra in detail and will give the assignment of the various peaks in
Fig.~3 that leads to the experimental band structure in Fig.~4. The four rather
strongly dispersing structures that have been assigned to direct, band-to-band
transitions, have been labeled with full and empty circles and squares. In
addition there are some non dispersive features. Note that the same symbols are
used to indicate the peak position in Figs.~2 and 3 and the binding energies
in Fig.~4.\\
Both the experimental and the calculated curves in Fig.~3 are rather
sensitive to the photon energy. Up to photon energies of 11.5 eV, the
most intense structure in both experimental (full circle) and
calculated spectra (dashed curve) is close to zero binding energy.
It corresponds to transitions from the uppermost occupied states (heavy
and light hole bands) around the $\Gamma$-point.
At around 12 eV, a peak around $E_B=-1$ eV becomes the dominant
structure in the experimental (full square) as well as in the
calculated curves. From the calculation (dotted line) we conclude that
its origin are transitions from the lower spin-split bands close to
the $\Gamma$-point.
Starting around $h\nu=13$ eV, an additional intense peak (at
about $-2$ eV) can be clearly identified in the calculation (dashed
line) as well as in the experiment (open circle).
This peak is also present at lower photon energies (albeit with much
lower intensity) and exhibits strong dispersion as the photon energy is
increased, from $E_B=-0.5$ eV at $h\nu=11$ eV to close to $-3$
eV at the highest photon energies.
It is assigned to transitions from the upper occupied band in an
intermediate $k_\perp$ region between the $\Gamma$ and $X$ point to
final state band 4 in Fig.~4.
Beginning at $h\nu=14$ eV the peak at $E_B=0$ eV (full circles)
exhibits a shoulder that develops into a clearly dispersing peak,
which has the largest intensity in the calculation (dashed line). It is
attributed to transitions from the upper occupied bands along
$\Gamma X$ to final state band 5.
A very similar behavior is seen for the band at $-1$ eV (full squares,
dotted line): Starting at $h\nu=15$ eV a shoulder is observed
at the high binding energy side that disperses to higher binding energy
as the photon energy is increased. It is assigned to transitions from
the lower occupied band to final state band 5 in the first half of the
Brillouin zone. \\
As a next step we will discuss the origin of the two only weakly dispersing
peaks (indicated with d) between binding energies of $0$ and $-2$ eV, in the
experimental as well as the calculated spectra for higher photon energies.
Based on the calculation we assign them to transitions from the upper and the
lower occupied band close to $\Gamma$ to different final states: Due to their
short lifetime the final states are significantly broadened
(from about $0.25$ eV to $3$ eV for excitation energies between $10$ and $40$
eV\cite{c17}),
and therefore transitions close to $\Gamma$ are observed throughout the photon
energy range studied owing to the existence of various final state bands
between $8$ and $16$ eV (bands 3-6) and the high density of occupied as well
as unoccupied states in the neighborhood of this point. It is worth noting
that the presence of almost non-dispersive features around the valence band
maximum is rather commonly observed in photoemission experiments for other
II-VI, III-V and elemental semiconductors\cite{c7,c19,c20}. A first and most
often assumed interpretation is that these peaks are due to
surface states. This is a plausible interpretation and the fact that our bulk
calculation for larger photon energies ($>16$ eV) does not reproduce the
experimental spectra as well as for lower energies seems to approve this point
of view. First of all, there is no direct emission from
bulk states in this energy range. Secondly, for higher photon energies the
inelastic mean free path of excited photoelectrons is smaller and therefore,
the experiment could be more sensitive to the surface region. Moreover, in the
case of CdTe (100) surface, calculations of the surface electronic structure
predict a surface resonance in this energy range\cite{c21}.
On the other hand, a rather universal character of this feature, showing up in
many systems with different geometric and electronic structures of the
surfaces, as well as in the results of our strictly bulk calculation, seem to
indicate the many-body (broadening of final
states) origin of this feature. Our assumed rigid shift of the empty bands is
certainly a worse approximation for higher bands than lower\cite{c22}, which
together with the neglect of the scattering character of final states could be
responsible for the poorer agreement between our calculation and experiment for
higher photon energies. It is possible that both effects play here a role and
on the basis of our experiment and calculation we cannot
make a definitive statement about their relative weight. The existence of
surface states for BeTe(100) will be a subject of a future study\cite{c23}.\\
At this point we want to come back to the rather strong sensitivity of both
the experimental and calculated spectra to photon energy below $h\nu=14$
eV and show that in this photon energy region the assignment of experimental
peaks to particular transitions has to be performed with great caution:
This becomes evident, if we analyze in more detail the behavior of the
dispersing structure denoted with full circles in Fig.~3, which corresponds
to transitions from the upper occupied bands. For $h\nu=10$ eV the final
states for this structure are provided by the unoccupied band 3
in Fig.~4. Increasing the photon energy to $11$ eV, the final states are given
by the empty band 4 and the full circles in Fig.~3 show a dispersion towards
the zero binding energy which is reached at $h\nu=11.5$ eV. Strictly
speaking, the final state energy for the full circle structure at
$h\nu=11.5$ eV is a small fraction of electronvolt {\it above} the
calculated (and shifted) LDA band 4 in Fig.~4. However, due to the lifetime
broadening (see above) of this band this transition is still very pronounced,
as is clearly seen in the calculated spectrum of Fig.~3. For $h\nu=12$
eV, the final state energy lies between final state bands 4 and 5 around
the $\Gamma$ point in Fig.~4. Nevertheless, the lifetime broadening allows to
observe a peak with a binding energy somewhat below the VBM and clearly smaller
intensity; it is of the same origin as the weakly dispersing peaks at higher
photon energies (see above) and is therefore also indicated with "d" in Fig.~3.
The second time the VBM is reached at $h\nu=12.5$ eV in both
experiment and calculation. For this and higher photon energies the intensity
of the peak (indicated with full circles) increases, which is related to the
fact that now the strong transitions to the empty band 5 occur. The behavior
of the peak at $-1$ eV binding energy (full squares) can be understood along
the same lines.\\
We next discuss the peak that is marked with open squares and which is first
observed at $E_B=-2.8$ eV for $h\nu=12$ eV and disperses to higher
binding energy as the photon energy is increased. For the highest photon
energies it merges into the non-dispersing peak at $E_B=-5.5$ eV. This
dispersing feature is assigned to
transitions from the lower occupied band in the second half of the Brillouin
zone, i.e. closer to the $X$-point into unoccupied band 3. While the binding
energies in calculation and experiment are in nearly perfect agreement for this
structure, the experimental intensity is larger than expected from the
calculation. For bulk initial and final states with no spin-orbit interaction
and our nominal experimental setup ($\vec{E}$ vector of the photon field in the
surface plane) these transitions are symmetry forbidden. By considering the
spin-orbit interaction, the selection rules are relaxed and emission from the
lower band is allowed, the transition amplitude being however very small. One
reason for the pronounced, experimentally observed intensity of this peak could
be a non-perfect experimental setup, i.e. due to the integration over an angular
range of 3 degrees and a possible misalignment of the sample that should
however be smaller than 5 degrees. To simulate this situation, the calculation
in Fig.~3 has been performed with the light incoming to the sample with an
angle of 5 degrees with respect to the surface normal. Another reason of the
enhancement of the intensity of this peak could be the larger inelastic mean
free path $\lambda_f$ of final states corresponding to this transition as
compared to peaks of lower binding energy. Since the inelastic mean free path
of excited electrons shows a characteristic minimum at about $50$ eV and the
final states in our experiment correspond to the rather steeply descending part
of the $\lambda_f$ versus excitation energy curve, this many-body effect
also turns out to be important here. We have included in our calculation this
effect as well, but nevertheless, the experimental intensities remain still
larger. It cannot be excluded that the final states relevant for these
transitions couple stronger to free-electron states outside the sample and could
be easier detected than our bulk calculation can predict.\\
Finally, we discuss the strong dispersionless structure at $E_B=-5.5$ eV that
is observed in the experimental spectra. A similar, non-dispersive structure
has also been observed in other II-VI semiconductors and is usually
interpreted as originating from indirect transitions from
a high-density-of-state region around the $X$ point\cite{c24}. This
interpretation is very plausible, because the binding energy of $-5.5$ eV
agrees very well with the band structure calculation. In our calculation of
photoemission spectra from the bulk band structure, no indirect transitions are
allowed and therefore a dispersionless feature is not observed. One
should, however, mention that a contribution from a surface state, which has
been proposed for various other compound semiconductors in that energy range,
cannot be completely ruled out.\\
\section{Summary and Conclusions}
We have investigated the band structure of BeTe along $\Gamma X$ using
angle-resolved UV-photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretically determined
photoemission spectra based on a LDA band structure calculation. The agreement
between the experimental and calculated spectra is very good and allows
a detailed assignment of the various photoemission peaks. The experimentally
determined band structure of the occupied bands that has been
obtained using the calculated unoccupied band structure is in excellent
agreement with the calculated occupied band structure as is evident from
Fig.~4. This is a strong indication for the fact that the LDA band structure
of both occupied bands and unoccupied bands when
corrected by a uniform shift, is a good
description of the electronic structure of BeTe in the excitation energy
range relevant for our experiment.\\
We want to mention that an interpretation of the experimental photoemission
spectra of BeTe(100) based on the assumption of free electron final states
does not lead to meaningful results\cite{c25},
at least in the photon energy range applied in the present study. This is
immediately obvious from the inspection of the unoccupied bands in Figs.~1
and 4. None of the bands can be approximated by
a free electron parabola and therefore the interpretation based on this
assumption necessarily has to fail. However, we would like to stress here
an even more important aspect of this problem: with a proper choice of the
inner potential $V_o$, which plays the role
of an empirical parameter for the assumed free-electron final states, one
could obtain a plausible picture of the occupied band structure. The case
of BeTe shows, however, that the assignment of the origin of
photoemission peaks in such an approach would be for many photoemission
features different from the correct assignment obtained within our
first-principles scheme.\\
The assignment of the various peaks in the experimental spectra is considerably
simplified by comparison to the calculated ones. This is particularly
true for peaks that have only small intensity. An other
important point that we would like to stress and that has been often neglected
in the past is the broadening of the final states that leads to non-dispersing
or only weakly dispersing states due to transitions close to the $\Gamma$-point
in the calculated as well as the experimental spectra. For BeTe these effects
explain the weakly dispersing peaks close to the valence band maximum
for high photon energies, although other explanations
cannot be excluded.\\
\section{Acknowledgments}
This work was supported by the BMBF through grant 05 622 WWB and by the
DFG through SFB 410. We want to thank H. Koschel for his assistance and
Prof. D. Menzel and Dr. W. Widdra for the cooperation and support when
using their photoelectron spectrometer. The calculations have been performed
at the Leibnitz Rechenzentrum in Munich.
\par
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On Dec 23, 2016 attack happened. More than 200 million data enrichment profiles were found for sale on the darknet. The seller claimed the data was sourced from Experian and whilst that claim was rejected by the company, the data itself was found to be legitimate suggesting it may have been sourced from other legitimate locations. In total, there were more than 8 million unique email addresses in the data which also contained a raft of other personal attributes including credit ratings, home ownership status, family structure and other fields described in the story linked to above. The email addresses alone were provided to HIBP. On Jun 08, 2017 only breach discovered.
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1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.3And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.4So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.5And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.6And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.7And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?10And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?11Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.14In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.15And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.16So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:17And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:18And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.19And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.20And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.25And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
1A Song or Psalm of David.
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
over Philistia will I triumph.
2And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.4And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.5And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.6For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.7And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.8And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.9And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
How did the Israelites become devoted to destruction like the nations they were driving out?
How did God reveal Achan's sin?
What consequences have you experienced for sin in your life?
How does the voice that came out of the cloud impact your relationship with Jesus?
Consider how sin may be affecting your marriage, family, and church. | {
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The powers and pitfalls of "We"
We.
"We" is a force that is often used for tremendous good. "We", when working together in unity, can encourage one another to heights of achievement that alone we'd never consider. The sense of community that "We" brings can be God's healing touch for the brokenhearted. Yep, "We" can often get things done that no "I" could ever do.
At K-Colorado (soon to be Camp Kivu) - we work hard to provide a place where young men and women can be part of a global community of world changers. That's because we believe strongly in the creative power of "We".
Yes, I believe "We" is perhaps the most powerful human force in the world - both for good, and unfortunately, for "not so good".
Huh - what was that? How could "We" be a bad thing?
Well, we all know about the really nasty instances where "We" went badly astray. Hitler's Germany and the more recent Rwandan genocide both come to mind. The rampant and oft-reported problem of gang violence is another example.
But there is a more subtle and I'd say more difficult problem with "We". That is, "We" can make change impossible.
Family Systems Theory uses the term "homeostasis" to describe this "We" pressure to remain the same - to stay stuck together even though saying "I" would be more beneficial to everyone involved.
For example - have you ever made a decision against your better judgment just to "keep the peace" - perhaps in your family or in your group of friends? Have you ever seen a "leader" knuckle under to the demands of the group rather than take a stand for her own life-goals?
And perhaps nastiest of all - have you ever seen members of a church, a business team or even members of your own family "sabotage" the leader who attempts to say "I" in the face of the homeostasis - when he tries to define his goals apart from those of the group?
I've seen all of this junk - and sad to say - I've been involved in some of it myself. But years ago I made a concerted effort to just say "no" to this kind of behavior - and I still strive to rid my life of it.
Good leaders must learn to continually define themselves and their life-goals over against the surrounding togetherness pressures. But they must do this while remaining connected to the groups and families to which they belong and of which they lead.
Otherwise - there's no way the group or family will make any progress. Such a team will remain "stuck" - never achieving anywhere near what they could with a properly differentiated leader.
So let's continue to work on clarifying our own life-goals while teaching others to do the same. This may mean that you end up leading your group or family to a totally new place.
Would that be so bad? :)
Father, help me to help others clarify the gifts and goals you have placed in them. Help all of us to value progress over "peace at any cost" in the groups you've given us to lead - so that we may fully complete our part of your Great Project to renew and rebuild the world.
by Mike Aleckson
Dustin said...
I very much appreciate this type of thinking. There are some things that a group should not centralize their decision making for. I for one find it pretty easy, in most things, to be different and not really care about what others think. For me, the most challenging thing is to stay connected.
Mike Aleckson said...
Yep, Dustin - staying connected is the trick for me too...
BTW - one more congrats to Heather on her new job!
Fighting for Narnia said...
Then where does staying connected come in?
Excellent Caleb! How do we stay connected while still clarifying, and ultimately pursuing, our own life goals? And what will the result be? If I clarify and pursue my life goals, won't those following me just leave me altogether?
Stay tuned - we'll discuss this in our get-together tonight, and I'll write on the subject here later this week.
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O.I. Corp. wins Wyle contract w/ potential value of $1.8M
By Ruth Mantell
Published: Feb 3, 2006 3:31 p.m. ET
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- O.I. Corp. oico on Friday said it has entered into a contract with Wyle Laboratories Inc.'s life sciences group. O.I. said the contract has a potential value of $1.8 million. Under the contract, O.I. will assist Wyle to develop a total organic carbon analyzer for use on the International Space Station. O.I. expects to complete the project by the end of the third quarter. | {
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Palliative care is about improving the quality of life for patients living with life-limiting illness.
The specialist palliative care team at SASH provides support for patients with progressive, non-curative illnesses.
Patients are generally seen on the wards, although they can be seen in other settings within the hospital.
The team does not make home visits. These are undertaken by specialist palliative care teams in the community.
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We take referrals from any healthcare professional, from patients themselves and from relatives, via the telephone numbers provided above. However, we do need the agreement of the patient and the treating medical team to become involved in care.
The hospital palliative care team work from 9am-5pm, 7 days a week.
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If you are a patient or relative at home and need out of hours palliative care advice, please contact your community palliative care team, out of hours GP and/or your district nurse in the first instance.
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Can They Survive Us?
Costa Rica's biodiversity is remarkable, especially for such a tiny country. More than 500,000 species of flora and fauna are packed within its 51,100 km2 of territory. One of them is the crocodile.
These ancient reptiles, that outlived the dinosaurs, inhabit the tropics of Australia, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The species has been reported in 17 countries of the region. Costa Rica is home to one of the world's biggest populations of American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus).
Crocodiles of Tárcoles River
9 Croc facts
There are 14 species of true crocodiles in the world.
The American crocodile is one of the only 2 species to commonly live and even prosper in salt water. The other is the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
Crocodylus Acutus are large animals. They are not common, but some mature males can reach almost 6 meters (19 feet) in length and weight up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds).
Due to their metabolism, crocodiles can spend long periods of time between meals and up to 2 hours without breathing.
A feature they share with other reptiles is that the sex of the crocodile is determined by the nest's temperature during incubation.
In order to control buoyancy, and to aid in digestion, crocodiles swallow stones.
In the past, the species has suffered overexploitation and habitat loss. Nowadays, Crocodylus acutus is a protected species.
Although not so aggressive as other species, Crocodylus Acutus may attack if threatened, disturbed, or taken by surprise.
Some species have even killed and consumed humans. Specifically, 2 of the species with more attacks reported are the Australian and African varieties, respectively.
Tourism and crocodiles
Tico crocs inhabit several national parks: Santa Rosa National Park, Carara National Park, Corcovado National Park, Cañas, Tortuguero, Taboga and the Tárcoles River near the Pacific coast. Many countries like Australia, Thailand, India, and China, to name a few, take advantage of their croc populations to boost their tourist trade. Costa Rica is no exception. People just love to see these apex predators going about their business.
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters"
A well-known spot for croc watching is the bridge over Río Tárcoles. It is on the Pacific side of the country and it is hard to miss. You have to cross it on your way to Jaco or Manuel Antonio. Additionally, several tour operators offer croc safaris or river tours to see the "cocodrilos" in Tárcoles. The animals congregate near the bridge in large groups, to bask in the sun or to be fed by visitors. And that is when things get complicated.
Bridge over Tárcoles River
In order to entertain the tourists, some tour operators and shop owners feed the crocodiles from the bridge and from the boats. This totally illegal practice is called baiting. It has an effect on the crocodiles; after a while, it modifies the animals' behavior. When they start associating people with food, animals in general, lose their natural instinct of being scared around humans and can become very aggressive.
As all crocodiles are carnivorous, they are potentially dangerous to people. The ones in the Tárcoles have proven so several times and attacks and deaths of humans have happened.
To make things worse, the incidents do not circumscribe to the Tárcoles. Costa Rican beaches are among the favorites of surfers from all around the world. On many of those beaches, crocs and surfers have had many nasty encounters. A couple years ago, a surfer lost part of his leg on Tamarindo. The attack was widely reported and tourism, a huge job generator in Costa Rica, has been affected for that reason.
Feeding a Fierce Crocodile
On the other hand, Río Tárcoles is not the best of places to take a dip. Not only because of the huge reptiles, but because of pollution. The river has been dubbed "the most polluted river in Costa Rica". It drains most of the San José metropolitan area. Contaminants, like agrochemicals, raw sewage, and fecal matter, come from the commercial activities in the urban area as well as from the farms and industries along its course.
The river also carries lots of trash like bottles, appliances, mattresses, tires, and plastics all the way from San José to the sea. Studies indicate that this situation is having negative effects, not only on the river's health but on the crocodiles' as well.
Apparently, there is none in sight yet. Although experts from the Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (SINAC), the public body in charge of studying, monitoring, and controlling wildlife, are conducting studies to determine what to do, everything indicates that the growing interaction between humans and crocodiles is the main cause of the attacks. Meanwhile, several measures are being taken to face the croc issue.
Culling the crocodile population and/or relocating the most aggressive animals. These measures have been tried before with a varying degree of success, not only in Costa Rica but in many other places where wildlife and human beings clash.
The least favored measure is to set limits to the human activities that affect the crocodiles' habitats. It is easier said than done. Educating the public is the best bet as we tend to believe we have the preeminence in everything and do not respect wildlife.
A serious mistake, especially when you mess around with powerful animals like these, could easily cost your life and limb. It is necessary to understand that once we enter the crocodiles' domain, we become part of the food chain.
SOURCEGilberto Barrera
croc facts
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Sinac
Tárcoles River
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Shipping & Payment
==================
The basic configuration is done. We can now proceed to let potential customers buy our merchandise.
During the checkout process, they should be able to define how do they want their order to be shipped,
as well as how they would pay for that.
Shipping method
---------------
Sylius allows configuring different ways to ship the order, depending on shipping address (the **Zone** concept is essential there!),
or affiliation to some specific **Shipping Category**. Let's then create a shipping method called "FedEx" that would cost $10.00 for a whole order.
.. image:: /_images/getting-started-with-sylius/shipping-method.png
Payment method
--------------
Customer should also be able to choose, how they are willing to pay. At least one payment method is required - let's make it "Cash on delivery".
Before creation, we need to specify the payment method gateway, which is a way for processing the payment
(*Offline*, *PayPal Commerce Platform*, *PayPal Express Checkout* and *Stripe* are supported by default).
Gateway selection:
.. image:: /_images/getting-started-with-sylius/gateways.png
:scale: 55%
:align: center
|
Payment method creation:
.. image:: /_images/getting-started-with-sylius/payment-method-creation.png
.. attention::
*Psst!* You can find integrations with more payment gateways if you take a look at some `Sylius plugins <https://sylius.com/plugins>`_
Great! The only thing left is creating some products, and we can go shopping!
Learn more
##########
* :doc:`Shipments </book/orders/shipments>`
* :doc:`Payments </book/orders/payments>`
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Diane Kelly begins a new series with Dead as a Door Knocker, featuring apprentice house flipper Whitney Whitaker and her cat Sawdust. Whitney is an experienced carpenter and property manager, but the house on Sweetbriar is her first attempt at rehabbing a house. With the help of her cousin Buck, she dives into the project, dealing with one disaster after another. But a corpse in the flower bed might just be too much—especially since Nashville police detective Collin Flynn thinks Whitney just might have her own motives for putting that corpse under the topsoil. Every bit as enjoyable as Kelly's previous series: the Death and Taxes series featuring the hilarious misadventures of IRA special agent Tara Hollway and the Paw and Order series featuring accidental K9 officer Megan Luz and her furry partner Sergeant Brigit. I'll be looking forward to the next installment.
Nancy Cole Silverman's Shadow of Doubt is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Carol Childs, a radio station news reporter in Los Angeles. When her neighbor, a talent agent, is accused of murdering the head of her agency (who is also her rather controlling aunt), Carol jumps to her defense, while balancing her relatively new job, her young teenage son, and her FBI agent lover. The "Hollywood Bathtub Murders" soon become a sensation; the case involves agents, actors, scandal, bath salts, and more than a touch of Hollywood noir. An entertaining beginning to another series from Henery Press.
The Crossword Murder is the first in a long-running series by Nero Blanc (a husband-and-wife writing team). I downloaded it because (a) I love crossword puzzles, (b) it was the first installment, and (c) it was on sale. I'm not sure it lived up to my expectations. The story was a reasonably engaging mystery, and I particularly enjoyed the budding (but very low key) romance between the two protagonists, private detective Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham. The book includes several crossword puzzles (which can be downloaded and printed from the OpenRoad Media site, but beware—some of the answers on the site are in error, although they are correct in the back of the book), but I found those too much tied into the narrative to be entertaining as independent puzzles.
The Big Chihuahua is the third outing for apprentice private investigator Geri Sullivan and her talking (but only to her) Chihuahua Pepe, stars of Waverly Curtis' Barking Detective series. This time around, Geri and Pepe go undercover among the followers of Dogawanda, a cult devoted to the Way of the Dog, with a leader, as you might expect, devoted largely to herself.
The object of Geri's investigation turns up dead, and someone from her past turns up very much alive. Geri's boss, Jimmy G (who only refers to himself in the third person) comes along, hoping to score enough moolah to avoid eviction from his office.
A talking Chihuahua assistant private investigator is a pretty silly premise, but Pepe is such a charmer (and mostly level-headed Geri is a lot of fun, too) that I enjoy the series. It runs to five books, and I have two more stashed on my Kindle.
You will have noticed by now, if you are a regular visitor, that I enjoy cozy mysteries. Here are three I've read recently, two new (to me, anyway) series and one I've been reading for quite a while.
Rock Bottom is the first in Jerusha Jones' Imogene Museum cozy mystery series. I picked it up after seeing it on one of the several ebook sales emails I get every morning—I couldn't resist the idea of a heroine who is the curator of a small town museum. Meredith Morehouse has left Seattle to live in a fifth wheel RV and run the museum in a small town in the Columbia River Gorge. The museum is a beautiful but old mansion—most of the plumbing in the fourteen original bathrooms has been disconnected for fear of leaks—and the globe trotting owner, Meredith's boss, has just shipped another mysterious collection of crates from Europe. All is well with Meredith's world, until her graduate student intern, Greg, vanishes somewhere between the museum where he works on weekends and the university where he studies anthropology.
In a bit of a switch for a cozy mystery, Meredith doesn't stumble over a dead body among the exhibits (although she does wonder about those chamber pots that insist on switching places when no one is watching). Instead, the story focuses on Greg's disappearance, while Jones introduces a range of supporting characters who will, I presume, play their parts again in the six following books. The action doesn't really heat up until fairly late in the book, but I enjoyed the build-up and the characters and setting—mystery fans will appreciate a dog named Tuppence rescuing a cat named Tommy—and I'm sure I'll be reading more of the series.
Here's another new-to-me series by Waverly Curtis: The Barking Detective. Yep, another dog detective, and this one is a talking chihuahua. In the first installment, Dial C For Chihuahua, down on her luck recent divorcee Geri Sullivan adopts a chihuahua, part of a shipment of tiny dogs sent to Seattle from Los Angeles, where the fad for purse pups has apparently run its course.
Imagine Geri's surprise when little Pepe starts talking to her—and she understands every word. Well, nearly every word—her Spanish isn't that great, so Pepe switches, mostly, to English. Geri has bigger things to worry about than possible sanity questions. She's almost out of money, desperate enough to apply for a job with a private detective of questionable repute. In between recounting wild stories of his previous careers (as a search and rescue dog, a bull fighter, a circus performer, and a starlet's pet, the last one possibly true), Pepe proves to be a surprising asset in the detecting business.
Given the ridiculous premise, Waverly Curtis (actually a two-person writing team) did a dog-gone good job of pulling me into the story. Pepe is such a charmer, dragging Geri into one loony situation after another (not to mention his swaggering interactions with other dogs), that I'll be following his further adventures.
A Touch of Magic is the seventh novel in Annabel Chase's charming Spellbound paranormal cozy mystery series, continuing the humor that runs through these tales of Emma Hart adjusting to her new life as a witch. This time around Emma tackles the case of the murder of a vampire mayoral candidate, helps a teenage nymph accused of animal cruelty, and uncovers some secrets about her own background. All the familiar characters are back, as the remedial witches try to create inventive spells of their own, with the expected—or rather unexpected—results.
So many fun and entertaining series! How will I ever catch up with the ones I've started when I continue to find more? | {
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From M-Pesa to Legal Tech: Is Africa's legal services sector ready to grow and innovate?
The interface of law and technology and its impact on the delivery of legal services globally has grown imperceptibly yet consistently over the last decade. Technology is facilitating cross-border legal services, helping firms reach a larger client base and providing consumers with a broader market of legal specialists and tools with which to access legal advice and information. Internally, law firms are slowly realising the benefits of technological tools to manage their business processes and deliver better value to their clients. | {
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The following is a list of ecoregions in France as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Metropolitan France
The ecoregions of Metropolitan France are as follows:
Terrestrial ecoregions
Terrestrial ecoregions of Metropolitan France are listed by biome. All them are in the Palearctic realm.
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Atlantic mixed forests
Cantabrian mixed forests
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
Western European broadleaf forests
Temperate coniferous forests
Alps conifer and mixed forests
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests (Corsica)
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests (Corsica)
Freshwater ecoregions
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc
Central & Western Europe
Italian Peninsula & Islands (Corsica)
Marine ecoregions
Marine ecoregions of France are listed by marine province. All of them are in the Temperate Northern Atlantic realm.
Northern European Seas province
Celtic Seas
North Sea
Lusitanian province
South European Atlantic Shelf
Mediterranean Sea province
Western Mediterranean
Overseas France
This is a list of all terrestrial ecoregions of France's overseas departments and territories.
Nearctic realm
Boreal forests/taiga
South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens (Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
Neotropical realm
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy)
Windward Islands xeric scrub (Martinique)
Mangroves
Guianan mangroves (French Guiana)
Lesser Antilles mangroves (Guadeloupe, Martinique)
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Lesser Antillean dry forests (Martinique)
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Guianan moist forests (French Guiana)
Leeward Islands moist forests (Guadeloupe)
Windward Islands moist forests (Martinique)
Afrotropical realm
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub (Bassas da India, Europa Island)
Temperate grasslands and shrublands
Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands (Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul)
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Comoros forests (Mayotte)
Mascarene forests (Réunion)
Australasian realm
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
New Caledonia rain forests (New Caledonia)
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
New Caledonia dry forests (New Caledonia)
Oceanian realm
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Fiji tropical moist forests (Wallis and Futuna)
Marquesas tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
Society Islands tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
Tuamotu tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
Tubuai tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
Antarctic realm
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra (Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands)
References
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: A.I. Will Not Save Us From Phishing
Phishing is by far the biggest security threat to any organization. It's the most common source of attacks and has been at the root of spectacular cyber incidents like the Sony hack and the Petya ransomware attack. Due to the grave danger that phishing poses, remedies are highly sought after. Lately, companies have turned to machine learning and artificial intelligence, the supposed solutions to all societal problems, to combat phishing.
It's a seductive proposition: AI-based products promise flawless security – "it's a machine, it doesn't make mistakes!" - alongside convenience, since they automate the process. One implementation of this is Microsoft's Office 365 "Advanced Threat Protection" security, which checks emails for words and phrases that could hint at malicious activity, such as impersonating legitimate companies (e.g. Apple or Microsoft) and sentences asking for payments or password resets.
However, researchers at Avanan revealed on June 19th how hackers can bypass Microsoft's tool by adding random words to the email body at font size zero ('ZeroFont'), which will appear to the scanner as unstructured, non-malicious gibberish. To the recipient, the ZeroFont text is invisible, thus creating an entirely different email.
You read that right! A technique used by students to pad their assignment papers is enough to fool a cutting edge algorithm.
This is not the first time scammers have duped algorithms using simplistic methods: a few weeks earlier, Avanan also discovered that something similar was possible with URL links.
It is likely that hackers will continue to study how these bots function and find new ways to fool them. These criminals are creative, adaptable and unpredictable, whilst the machine defender is uncreative, inflexible and predictable. As such, these tools could lead to more breaches, as they teach consumers to switch off their scepticism whilst the AI serves up scams as "trusted messages".
Luckily, there are simple behaviours and habits that humans can learn to spot phishing attempts. For example, it is not possible to change the font in the sender address field. Therefore, one look at the sender lets you to identify a phishing mail, even if it slipped through the filter.
In order to truly protect yourself against phishing, learning ways to spot a phishing mail rather than relying on a machine will prove to be more sustainable. It takes humans to outsmart other humans.
Philipp Blaas
Co-founder, social engineering specialist and amateur philosopher.
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Apply for 2019 artist residency
Above: Photos: Christopher Shipley, Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies / Co-Director, MICA Artist Residency, Brittany, France.
The Alfred and Trafford Klots international program for artists in Brittany, France
Application deadline: February 1, 2019
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
1300 W. Mt. Royal Avenue
www.mica.edu
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is now accepting applications for the 2019 session of The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists in Brittany, France.
The selection committee seeks four to eight artists whose mix of media, approaches, styles and focus will create a dynamic and collegial community. The residency is open to all practicing visual artists regardless of affiliation or citizenship who are not students at the time of application.
Session dates: Saturday, June 1 to July 27, 2019
Awards announced: March 1, 2019
The eight-week Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists is held in the medieval riverside village of Léhon, which is graced by a medieval abbey, gardens and the ruins of the oldest fortress in Brittany on a hill overlooking the village. Léhon is a short walk from the city of Dinan, which holds the coveted designation "Cité d'Art et d'Histoire," and is close to Dinard, St. Malo, Mont Saint Michel and Rennes. The fishing villages and beaches of the Emerald Coast are also nearby. Our artists have free access to the Léhon abbey and its gardens.
Competitive residencies are open to all practicing non-student visual artists and artist-couples (both must be accepted). In particular, we are looking for artists who can use the specific character of our residency experience productively.
Complete and detailed information, including the online application form, is available here.
Meet MICA
Founded in 1826, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is the oldest continuously degree-granting college of art and design in the nation. The College enrolls over 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies students from 49 states and 65 countries in fine arts, design, electronic media, art education, liberal arts, and professional studies degree and non-credit programs. With art and design programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News and World Report, MICA is pioneering interdisciplinary approaches to innovation, research, and community and social engagement. Alumni and programming reach around the globe, even as MICA remains a cultural cornerstone in the Baltimore/Washington region, hosting hundreds of exhibitions and events annually by students, faculty and other established artists. For more information, click here.
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore
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Non-Sovereign Revolutions? Thinking Across Puerto Rico & Hong Kong
Hong Kong and Puerto Rico seem worlds apart. But recent global protests show there are deep commonalities as people organize against austerity, inequality, and the legacy of colonialism.
That was the topic of a recent panel this month at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The panel featured five experts, two from Puerto Rico, two from Hong Kong, and one from Taiwan.
The purpose of the event, according to organizer Wilfred Chan, was to "hopefully get toward some kind of shared vocabulary, or even interesting new avenues for inquiry."
The panel positioned itself as part of a larger global discussion about building frameworks for community, political futures, and consciousness raising.
"As activists we should really think about in what ways a community is born," said panelist Dr. Wen Liu, a professor of gender studies at SUNY-Albany. "It happens through action, through practice, through care."
"How to rethink that whole global system is the question," panelist and CUNY anthropology professor Dr. Yarimar Bonilla said. "To decolonize the decolonization movement."
Hong Kong and Puerto Rico are both former outposts of global colonial powers that were later annexed by different rising global powers. Hong Kong became rich, and more unequal, thanks to its strategic position as a nexus of global capital. The city currently functions as an interface with China as it reemerges as an economic superpower.
At the same time, Puerto Rico's diminished strategic importance to capitalist interests throughout the 19th and 20th centuries led to its current precaritized and pauperized state.
The comparison is noteworthy because Hong Kong has long been held up as a model for others to follow for prosperity and freedom.
"In Puerto Rico, we're told we should be more like Hong Kong in terms of wooing more financial capital and of having a stronger economic base," Dr. Bonilla said.
The impetus behind the event was the newly formed Lausan Collective. Organized on WhatsApp in July in the wake of the Hong Kong protests, the group came together to talk and create space for perspectives that were largely absent in mainstream discourses around the city's political unrest.
"There's a simplification about what's happening that tends to reinforce a lot of the binaries of East vs. West, or freedom vs. democracy," Chan told the audience. "And these stories are more complicated than what you often see on the front page of the newspaper."
The panelists noted how online left-wing discourse around the Hong Kong protests is often disappointing and wrapped in dated binaries, like the "tankie narratives" – that Hong Kong protesters are just another Color Revolution backed by the U.S. – that lead to a loss of solidarity with leftists around the world.
Meanwhile, the protests in Puerto Rico are often ignored or forgotten, perhaps due to its poverty or because of its current status as part of the United States, even if that status is unsettled.
In addition to expanding the discourse around Hong Kong, Lausan Collective seeks to connect with and form solidarity with other oppressed and colonized peoples around the world.
Questions raised during the panel included:
What does it mean for different sites to erupt in protests at the same time? Can we think about similarities in terms of their methods, practices, or challenges? And also, in the way questions of sovereignty and possibilities are being articulated?
What happens when you are a place that doesn't have nation-state sovereignty? How do you imagine your future? What kind of ideals or models can you look to? What statehood means? What is the nation? What is a state?
What can a people do? How can they cope in a space where sovereignty will not necessarily liberate them?
"What I've written about before is the search for a non-sovereign future, which does not mean a search for a future without sovereignty, but a search for something other than the Western model of sovereignty," Bonilla said.
With emerging movements, clearly articulated political ideology is often absent. To catch a glimpse of the possibilities or potential futures, Bonilla says we need to look for "emerging structure of feeling."
This means not only asking why people are mobilizing, but also looking at art, music, dance, memes, any form of cultural expression.
For example, panelist Jun Pang brought up the protest slogan "Restore Hong Kong." Pang – a researcher based in Geneva but who's worked for various Hong Kong NGOs around migrants' and women's rights – raised the question, what does "restore" mean in the context of Hong Kong's history?
"We can't be talking about restoring our British colonial history because that was also an oppressive regime," Pang said. "But then also the word restore gestures towards more than just colonial nostalgia and more than our desire to return to a period before the protests. It's also a response to grief, loss, and also a posture of hope in response to previous disappointments and unrealized possibilities."
Even if a movement fails, it's important to remember it created new possibilities and socialities, the panelists said. In Puerto Rico, it's currently unclear how they will move forward after successfully removing the governor. Protests still rage in Hong Kong, but what follows if protesters' demands are met is unknown.
And that's okay.
"There is also another form of power within, that was built on the streets [of Puerto Rico] in July," said panelist philosophy professor Dr. Rocío Zambrana. "This power of interrupting. This power of saying no. And without necessarily knowing just yet what political future is available."
Watch the entire conversation recorded live here:
LIVE: Non-Sovereign Revolutions? Thinking Across Puerto Rico and Hong Kong at CUNY Graduate Center!
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The life of Salvador Cabañas has taken a bizarre turn. The Paraguayan footballer was shot earlier this year and has not played football since. The question is if he ever will. On top of that, the club of Cabañas, Club America, has not paid the player for months.
On the 25th of January Cabañas' life changed completely. Before, he was a high scoring striker from Mexican Club América (66 league goals in 4 years) and the national team of Paraguay (44 caps and 10 goals). Then he was shot in the head when in a bar.
The 30-year old Cabañas survived, although the doctors were not able to remove the bullet from his head. Playing at the 2010 World Cup was impossible for the striker. At the moment he is still recovering in a special clinic in Argentina.
Cabañas is not only fighting to recover from the shooting incident. A new fight has started, because Club América has not paid him since April, according to his agent José María Gonzalez and his wife Maria Alonso Mena. 'I think his wages have not been paid for almost five months, as well as the clinic', said Gonzalez.
Immediately after the shooting incident Club América publicly promised they would pay for Cabañas' treatment during the time that he was under contract. The club did pay for his treatment in Mexico and also or his transfer to the clinic in Argentina.
FIFPro supports all players that have trouble getting paid by their clubs. It is totally irrelevant whether a footballer gets injured while on a pitch, or a training field, or in his private life. Normally a club has the obligation to respect a player's contract even if that player is sick or had an accident. | {
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Die römisch-katholische Kirche in Aserbaidschan ist eine sehr junge Missionskirche.
Im 14. Jahrhundert brachten Missionare den römisch-katholischen Glauben nach Aserbaidschan. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es eine Gemeinde in Baku, die aus Polen, Russen und Deutschen bestand. Der einzige Priester wurde Anfang der 1930er Jahre getötet, ein Jahr später die einzige Kirche zerstört. 1997 kam ein slowakischer Priester nach Baku, um eine Gemeinde zu gründen.
Zwischen 2000 und 2002 von 150 auf 200 Gläubige gewachsen, wurde sie am 11. Oktober 2000 zur Mission sui juris und den Salesianern anvertraut, welche dort mit zwei Priestern und einem Laienbruder wirken. Das ganze Land (die Landesfläche beträgt 86.500 km²), bildet eine einzige Missionspfarrei, die in Baku ihren Sitz hat. Weiter befindet sich dort ein Jugendzentrum und ein Obdachlosenheim der Sisters of Charity. Papst Johannes Paul II. besuchte 2002 Aserbaidschan. 2007 wurde eine römisch-katholische Kirche eröffnet. Am 4. August 2011 wurde die Mission sui juris zur Apostolischen Präfektur erhoben und der Salesianerpater Vladimir Fekete zum Apostolischen Präfekten von Aserbaidschan ernannt. Der Mission sui juris gehören heute circa 400 Mitglieder an, nach anderer Quelle 580 Mitglieder.
Aserbaidschan und der Heilige Stuhl unterhalten diplomatische Beziehungen. Der Sitz des Nuntius, der auch für Armenien und Georgien zuständig ist, befindet sich in Tiflis. Nuntius seit 2022 ist der Pole Marek Solczyński.
Siehe auch
Christentum in Aserbaidschan
Liste der römisch-katholischen Diözesen
Apostolische Präfektur Aserbaidschan
Weblinks
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Dino Melaye urges PDP to allow APC bury itself amid fuel price controversy
Amid whirlpool of controversies generated by the recent hike in the price of premium motor spirit popularly known as petrol, Dino Melaye has issued a caution note to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The former lawmaker, in a tweet on Friday, September 4, urged the opposition party to step the slow gear in its response to the "mistakes" of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government.
The flamboyant senator, who represented Kogi West in the eighth National Assembly (NASS) before losing his senatorial seat to Adeyemi Smart in 2019, also claimed that APC is "speedily heading to the departure lounge."Melaye raised an eyebrow against some of the policies of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government, warning PDP not to "interrupt" the ruling party which he said was heading towards "departure."
The former senator further emphasised that the ruling party is burying itself with the recent decisions taken by the president.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. My advice to PDP. Allow APC to bury her self. APC is speedily heading to the departure lounge," the former lawmaker said.
Earlier, Melaye vehemently decried the federal government's order for the increase of petrol price to N151.56 per litre which has already taken effect in some states.
He described the move as wicked and insensitive and went on to say that at a time like this, the decision will affect Nigerians negatively.
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The Spot: A losing candidate re-enters the…
The Spot: A losing candidate re-enters the fray, and the costs of not wearing a mask
Kevin Mohatt, Special to the Denver Post
Activist Jenn Beverly raises a sign calling for justice for Breonna Taylor at a rally on the steps of the Capitol in Denver on Sept. 23, 2020.
By Alex Burness | [email protected] | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 24, 2020 at 4:39 p.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2020 at 4:40 p.m.
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Last night, protesters gathered in downtown Denver over the fact that no officers are being directly charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Similar demonstrations took place in many other cities.
Just as the world's eyes are currently on Taylor's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, so, too, will they soon (or soon-ish) turn to Colorado: three separate investigations — at the city, state and federal levels — into the Elijah McClain case are underway now. We don't know when they'll be finished, or what they'll say, but there are millions of people who feel very personally invested in the outcome.
One of those investigations is being conducted by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. After months of protests that thrust McClain's name and story into the national spotlight, Gov. Jared Polis tapped Weiser in June to head up an independent investigation into McClain's death, which followed a violent, late-night arrest on the side of a quiet road in Aurora a little over a year ago, and for which no officers have been charged.
That move by Polis was very clearly a direct result of protests that exponentially increased public visibility into and outrage over McClain's death. What is also very clear is that if the various ongoing probes don't lead to charges being filed, these officials will face enormous pushback.
I'm interested in the timing of these probes, since it's quite possible that whichever one delivers results first could blunt the impact of whatever comes of the following two. In any event, Weiser's report will be closely watched, and I'm particularly interested in it because he is the only elected official personally responsible for investigating this case. Given the enormous global interest in the case, it strikes me that that this very well may be the — or, at least, a — defining moment of Weiser's first term in office, and possibly of his political career.
Separately, and speaking of Weiser, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1990s, and I spoke with him about her on Friday night, as news of her death had just broken. You can read what he said here.
We wrote plenty this week on RBG's death and the political consequences of it. Scroll down for links if you missed that coverage. Also, Justin Wingerter has an update out of CD3; Saja Hindi writes on immigrant voters and a ballot measure that targets them; and Conrad Swanson writes about mask-wearing as Colorado braces for a possible third wave of increased coronavirus cases.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks during a news conference July 24, 2020, in Greenwood Village. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday stressed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power after President Donald Trump declined Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer to Democrat Joe Biden if he loses in November.
Capitol Diary • By Saja Hindi
Immigrant advocates raising their voices
With 40 days until Election Day, immigrant rights groups have been making a big push to get more of their supporters involved and registered to vote. For many Colorado groups, it's not just about federal policies that could affect them but also about state ballot measures that they're working to defeat.
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, or CIRC, is hosting remote events, focusing on issues that affect immigrants such as DACA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement treatment of detainees. They're releasing endorsements of candidates and issues, and they're trying to engage immigrants and other voters of color.
The group's goal is to make contact with 1 million voters across the state before the election, an organizer told me.
Various other groups are also working to ensure their voices are heard in this big election year despite the challenges of the pandemic.
On Wednesday, activists launched a campaign — virtually, of course — to oppose Amendment 76, which asks voters to approve a measure saying only citizens can vote in elections, reiterating what's already in law.
Proponents of the measure say the amendment will make sure the state can't change its policies to allow noncitizens to vote, but opponents say measures like this one cause fear among immigrants and further racism and xenophobia.
Immigrant rights groups are also engaging on issues beyond those on the ballot. On Tuesday, they protested Denver newcomer Palantir Technologies — a company that has a history with ICE.
More Colorado political news
A state board is considering changes to names of some Colorado mountains and bodies of water because of racist symbols.
Colorado and the U.S. Postal Service settled their lawsuit over voting mailers.
23,600 state workers will be furloughed because of COVID-related budget problems.
Federal elections • By Justin Wingerter
Losing candidate forms a new PAC
After James Iacino lost a Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District on June 30, the former Seattle Fish Co. CEO took a step back to assess how he could make a difference in politics. Then he turned his campaign committee into a political action committee.
Cry Freedom PAC — named after a Dave Matthews song about anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko — will focus on western and southern Colorado and "push back against the increasingly dangerous rhetoric being espoused by elected officials and candidates," Iacino wrote in an email to supporters Monday. He provided more details in a phone interview this week.
"This election cycle, we're working in (the 3rd District), at the county level in Garfield County, and at the state level we're looking to do some work on the initiatives that are coming up. But I do see this carrying on into the 2022 statewide elections," Iacino said.
"Garfield County in particular has important races all up and down the ballot, from county commissioners to state Senate to Diane's race and Hickenlooper's," he added, referring to Diane Mitsch Bush, who defeated him in the 3rd District primary, and U.S. Senate candidate John Hickenlooper.
Expect to see direct donations to candidates in some cases, but also digital and mail ads. Rural issues and rural voters — especially farmers and ranchers — will be priorities, he said.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Tuesday it has booked $631,000 in fall TV ads for the 3rd District. It's the first time the DCCC has gone on air in the district since 2012, according to a DCCC spokesperson.
More federal election news
Sen. Cory Gardner will almost certainly vote to confirm a Supreme Court justice this year, he announced Monday. A few days before, he was noncommittal on it.
Last year, Hickenlooper said he would consider expanding the Supreme Court if "basic civil rights" were at risk. On Tuesday, he didn't want to discuss it.
The postmaster general disagreed with President Trump on mail voting on a call with Colorado's Jena Griswold. Listen to the audio here.
Gardner released an ad Wednesday that references Hickenlooper's well-known 2010 shower ad. Hickenlooper released an ad about the Supreme Court and other topics.
Cook Political Report changed its rating for the Gardner-Hickenlooper race from a tossup to leaning Democratic.
A music festival, "Hick-a-Palooza," will raise money for Hickenlooper, The Know reports.
Mile High Politics • By Conrad Swanson
Wear your mask for the sake of your gym
It seems elected officials are running out of new ways to say it, so let's try this as bluntly as possible: Wear a face mask.
Not just over your mouth. Cover your nose, too. And try to remain at least six feet away from others while you're out and about.
If you don't believe the scientists, believe that you could get your favorite business in trouble for failure to comply.
No fewer than 157 Denver businesses have been cited since July for either staff or customers failing to follow pandemic-related rules, according to a list from city officials. The businesses range from restaurants and bars to liquor stores, hotels and fitness clubs. Some were shut down because of the violations.
For example, last month, Fast Performance, at 4650 Leyden St., was ticketed and closed because 9 out of 10 customers weren't wearing face coverings while working out in the same room. That was after an inspection two days earlier that found 8 of 10 employees weren't wearing face coverings. Fast Performance was scheduled to reopen today.
Some hotels have been cited for selling alcohol past the state-mandated last call, and a number of restaurants have been cited for having employees without masks working in the kitchen. Other venues violated large-group restrictions … the list goes on.
The longer the virus sticks around, the more those restaurants, fitness clubs, hotels and other businesses suffer.
And the city has already been hit hard. As Mayor Michael Hancock released his proposed 2021 budget last week, which assumes a $190 million tax shortfall, he reiterated the need for Denverites to continue following best practices. The city is facing historic tax shortfalls because of the economic impact of the pandemic. Less money means fewer services, including cutbacks in large-item trash pickups, the continuing closure of recreation centers, and employee furloughs across the city.
The budget shortfall is the estimate if the virus remains manageable. A substantial uptick means more budget slashing. And that's just the financial side. People are dying. Colorado just surpassed 2,000 deaths from the virus, which has claimed 200,000 lives nationwide.
This week Gov. Jared Polis warned of a possible third wave of the virus. The uptick is so notable around colleges that the University of Colorado Boulder announced it would shift classes online for at least two weeks and Boulder and Denver are both ratcheting up restrictions near campuses.
Doctors, public health experts and government leaders all agree that following the rules is the way to keep schools, jobs and the economy going.
More Denver and suburban political news
Denver's emergency reserve fund is well below what it had been in the spring and isn't enough to cover the entire $190 million shortfall expected for Denver's tax revenue next year — even if city budget officials were willing to use it all.
Denver officials proposed millions more in cuts for next year's budget Tuesday alongside even more unpaid employee furloughs and smaller investments in social services and changes to law enforcement practices.
On Monday, the Regional Transportation District opened what will likely be — at least for the foreseeable future — the last major rail corridor in its 2,342-square-mile service area.
3rd Congressional District
Colorado Attorney General
Diane Mitsch Bush
Elijah McClain
Jena Griswold
Michael Hancock
Phil Weiser
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Ava DuVernay Will Direct a Limited Netflix Series About the Central Park Five
'Bible Answer Man' Hanegraaf Explains Why He Left Protestantism
Ava DuVernay works so hard and has so much energy that it wouldn't be surprising to find out there's an energetic glow around her bed when she sleeps (if she sleeps?). In addition to the upcoming adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time she's been working on, Netflix has now announced that she'll be tackling a miniseries on the true, tragic story of the infamous Central Park Five, which she'll be creating, writing and directing (see? The woman never sleeps.)
"I had an extraordinary experience working with Netflix on '13th' and am overjoyed to continue this exploration of the criminal justice system as a narrative project with Cindy Holland and the team there," DuVernay said in a statement. "The story of the men known as Central Park Five has riveted me for more than two decades. In their journey, we witness five innocent young men of color who were met with injustice at every turn—from coerced confessions to unjust incarceration to public calls for their execution by the man who would go on to be the President of the United States."
The Central Park Five is the name given to five Harlem teenagers—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise—who were wrongfully arrested for the rape of Trisha Meili in 1989. They were exonerated in 2014 and paid a settlement by New York City. Their story has been back in the news lately after a 1989 full-page ad in NYC's four major new papers re-surfaced that called for the boys' execution. That ad was written by now-President Donald Trump, and he has since refused to acknowledge their innocence.
"This is one of the most talked-about cases of our time and Ava's passionate vision and masterful direction will bring the human stories behind the headlines to life in this series," said Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix. "After powerfully reframing the public conversation about criminality and injustice in 13th, Ava now turns a new lens to a case that exposes deep flaws in our criminal justice system."
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Foster care system looks to faith community for help
Sarah Bruyn Jones Staff Writer
In an era of faith-based initiatives, the state is trying to form stronger partnerships with local churches in hopes of finding the needed community support for foster children.
But it is slow going.
In the fall, the Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources in partnership with the Heart Gallery of Alabama hosted a "clergy coffee" to try and impress upon religious leaders the need for community help in caring for neglected children.
That netted one pastor and his wife willing to register for the mandatory classes that foster parents must take. This month, Jon and Amy Quitt expect to welcome their first foster child into their Northport home.
"Personally, we feel such a call that this is what we are supposed to do," Amy Quitt said. But the duo also plans to get the church community involved. Jon Quitt is pastor of Vineyard Community Church in Tuscaloosa.
"You know God tells us to care for widows and orphans," he said. "Corporately, as a church, we need to do a better job of that."
But little else emerged from the fall clergy event.
Still, DHR workers are holding out hope that the faith community -- and Christian churches in particular -- will step forward to fill some of the gaps in caring for abused and neglected children. And they hope that by taking small steps, something bigger may come.
"Every family needs a support system, be it family, friends or church," said Judy Young, director of the Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources. "Last fall, I contacted a pastor to see if he and his church were willing to assist a certain family. ... It actually worked very well."
It was also the first time she had personally reached out to a church community to help guide a family through a trying time," Young said.
"Ten years ago, we would never have thought to do that," Young said.
Now, DHR doesn't just welcome help, it's begging for it.
"We know we can't do this ourselves," she said.
So far, all the movement has been in baby steps.
"There is a tiny bit of momentum, but I don't think there is a huge movement," Jon Quitt said.
Some things have been in place for years. First United Methodist Church has long offered an end-of-the-year banquet for foster children and foster families. That church and others have also been instrumental in collecting Christmas presents for foster children.
Other churches have assisted with daycare needs, clothing and food. Among the network of foster parents, there are a handful of churches that are often mentioned. Advertisements in Sunday worship bulletins have been a staple in attracting foster parents.
"People usually think about fostering and/or adopting for at least 18 months before they ever pick up the phone and call us," said Gail Cornett, supervisor of the resource unit at the Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources. "So we think the trick, or the key to recruitment, is steady information going out. Reading it in a church bulletin is a big part of that."
The problem is the number of people signing up to be foster parents continues to dwindle, down to 46 foster homes from 65 a decade ago.
Young is interested in devising new ways to attract faith communities. She would like to tap into the newly formed Compassion Coalition, a clearinghouse of Tuscaloosa's emergency response and social services resources.
While the group is still in its infancy, William Scroggins, a founding member, said members would be open to hearing about DHR's needs. Scroggins said the coalition board has not discussed foster care, but he was sure that the members would be open to learning more.
"The mission of Compassion Coalition is to coordinate, facilitate and connect resources in times of disaster, but also to meet the current needs of community issues," Scroggins said. "And of course, the foster child thing is a crucial part of our community needs. … In some cases that's a disaster itself."
While getting on the radar of agenda-setters within the religious community is important, Young said she is also simply looking for good volunteers. For instance, transportation is often an issue for many parents trying to reunite with their children. While DHR offers to pay mileage and can insure drivers, it can't find people willing to volunteer as chauffeurs.
Quitt said that logically, Tuscaloosa churches should be able to make a difference. With about 350 Christian churches in the county and 259 foster children, Quitt said each church could make a difference.
"If every church would step up and be faithful, there wouldn't be an orphan problem in Tuscaloosa," Quitt said. "Right now, it's just about raising awareness. But it needs to be about more than that."
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PEC 5th class annual result 2019 will be announced on 31st March. PEC releases district wise results on 30th March but they are officially announced on the 31st March by every participating district of Punjab respectively.
The official online gazette of 5th class results 2019 will be available at our website on 31st March. The students will be able to receive their results by name and by roll number search. Punjab Education Commission announces the results of 5th class 2019 for all districts collectively on the same day. Ever since PEC's establishment in 2002, PEC 5th class and 8th class results are religiously announced on March 31st without delay and change. The school wise results along with names of position holders are given to official Punjab Education Commission office in Lahore. All the candidates of Bawalnagar board can check online PEC 5th class results here on our website. We get the official PEC results gazette from officials first hand. The results will be available here before anywhere else on the web.
Punjab Education Commission was solely established to ensure uniformity of education for 5th and 8th classes in Punjab. For almost 18 years it has done its prescribed duties very well. An annual report on the basis of Punjab Education Commission Annual results is prepared every year to conclude the yearly performance of districts. This report will later be available for public reading as well. The students can download pdf of their results from our website. PEC ensures there is no room for mistakes in annual results. But if the students have any reservation regarding checking of their papers, they are allowed to recheck their annual results by complaining online on its official website. You can download gazette from our website and assess if you want to ask for rechecking. | {
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Q: My far apart villages are becoming one village Note that this is Minecraft Bedrock, the latest non-beta update (as of 4/18/20) which I believe contains everything in 1.15
This question is not a duplicate of other iron golem farm related questions because it uses the updated mechanics and presents a unique problem related to job site blocks and how they define a village.
My problem
On the Minecraft wiki it is stated that a village is defined as a radius of 32 blocks from either the village center or the farthest Point of Interest block, whichever is further. This gives a minimum radius of 32 blocks. I have a villager breeder and an iron golem farm both of which are more than 64 blocks apart but they seem to function as one village
beds and bells
From the wiki "A village center is the northwest bottom corner of a point-of-interest (POI) block, which can be a bed pillow or bell, or workstation and bell if there are no beds.". Given that my iron farm and breeder both have beds, I believe mt village centers are defined by my beds or bells and those centers are more than 64 blocks apart.
job site blocks
My farthest job site block in my iron farm is exactly 64 blocks away from my farthest job site block in my villager breeder. The beds are even further apart due to the design of the iron farm. Even if I had no beds the centers would still be more than 32 blocks apart and thus should not become the same village because the centers don't come within the 32 block radius of each other. The circles may intersect but neither center should be inside either circle. My understanding is that the circles can overlap, but they only form one blob when both "centers" are within 32 blocks.
what I've seen
*
*my villager breeder spawns cats whereas my iron farm does not
*sometimes villagers from the breeder will link to job site blocks on the iron farm.
job site linking problems
The wiki says that villagers search a 48 block radius for job site blocks. Given that my breeder villagers are always 64 blocks or more from the job site blocks of the iron farm, I don't know how they're linking.
conclusion
My question is why does this happen? Is the wiki correct for the bedrock edition? Is this that bug where villages expand forever: MCPE-46581? What is the real radius I should take into account when making iron farms and villager breeders? Just how far away can villagers link to job site blocks normally and what should I do to fix this?
Update
Before fixing anything cats would not spawn at all in either the breeder or the iron farm. Villagers would link to the beds in the breeder or the iron farm
I removed the bell and beds from my breeder and my iron farm still did not work. Cats spawned between the two farms when they should have spawned in the iron farm due to the presence of beds. Villagers still acted the same
Not until I removed the job site blocks at the breeder did the cats finally start spawning in my iron golem farm. Now the villager breeder is effectively removed. The villagers in the breeder suddenly wanted to move to the iron farm despite being more than 64 blocks from it.
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Bebe Neuwirth Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
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Birth Place :
Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Childhood And Early Life
American actor, dancer, and singer Bebe Neuwirth were born Beatrice Neuwirth on the 31 December 1958 to Lee and Sydney Neuwirth in Princeton, New Jersey.
Bebe Neuwirth graduated from Princeton High School (1976) and then enrolled at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts (1977).
Initially working as a dancer, she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company. In 1980, she made her debut on Broadway playing the role of Sheila in a production of A Chorus Line.
Bebe Neuwirth was also in Little Me (1982), Sweet Charity (1986) and Chicago (1996). In 2010, she played the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway production of The Addams Family.
A breakthrough television role came with her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin in the television series Cheers (1982-1993). Other television roles also include All Dogs Go to Heaven (1998), Deadline (2000), Hack (2003), Frasier (2002-2003), Will and Grace (2004) and episodes of Law & Order (1999 plus 2005-2006), Star Trek: The Next Generation and Bored to Death (2009-2011).
Neuwirth also appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy. Films she appeared in include Green Card (1990), Tadpole (2002), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Game 6 (2006) and Fame (2009). Recent television work includes three years portraying Nadine Tolliver in the CBS drama series Madam Secretary (2014-2017). Blue Bloods (2014-2018) and The Good Fight (2018).
Bebe Neuwirth won a 1986 Best Actress Tony Award for her portrayal of Nikki in Sweet Charity and 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Velma Kelly in Chicago. In 1990 and 1991, she was awarded a Primetime Emmy: Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Lilith Sternin in Cheers. She also was awarded the Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for Tadpole (2000).
Bebe Neuwirth married Paul Dorman in 1984, and they divorced in 1991. Her current partner is Michael Danek.
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DPAs Continue to Make the Headlines
Blog WilmerHale W.I.R.E. UK
Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) continue to polarise opinion and garner critical attention in both the US and the UK.
Earlier this year, US Senator Elizabeth Warren labelled DPAs a mere "slap on the wrist" for companies found to have engaged in large scale financial wrongdoing. The UK's fledgling DPA framework has also come in for strong criticism.
Speaking at the GIR Live conference on 21 April 2015, Lord Macdonald QC (the former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales) described the UK's process as presenting companies with "an awful lot of risk and not very much promise". This echoes the views of practitioners who have questioned whether the UK's framework offers companies an attractive alternative to the threat of litigation, particularly in view of the high threshold that exists for establishing corporate criminal liability.
Notwithstanding these criticisms, the SFO has made it abundantly clear in recent weeks that a number of companies are already currently engaged in the UK's DPA regime.
Speaking on 20 May 2015, Ben Morgan (the Joint Head of Bribery and Corruption at the SFO) stated that the SFO had issued its "first invitation letters giving corporates the opportunity to enter into DPA negotiations." Mr Morgan's statement was supported by comments made last week by the Director of the SFO that he expects multiple DPAs to be concluded in the next six months.
DPAs were introduced into the UK legislative framework last year but the process for companies looking to benefit from such an arrangement differs markedly from the approach taken in the US, not least because of the central role afforded in the process to the UK's judiciary.
For more detail on the process through which DPAs will be offered, arranged and, if breached, terminated, see WilmerHale's practical guide, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, A Practical Guide.
Lloyd Firth
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Americans across country help feed federal workers as shutdown enters second month
Originally published January 23, 2019 at 4:52 am Updated January 23, 2019 at 2:03 pm
Tim Carman
WASHINGTON – They are the workers whose jobs serve the people of the United States. But as the partial government shutdown enters its second month, with no apparent end in sight, thousands of government employees now are relying on the people of the United States to help them feed their own families. It's like one giant government bread line – except for government workers.
The outpouring of support has been widespread and creative, high-profile and grass-roots. For every relief kitchen opened by José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen – the celebrity chef and humanitarian recently said more kitchens are coming after the first one debuted last week in Washington – there are countless small markets and programs.
Restaurants and chefs, of course, have been giving away free or discounted food, including a cruise line in Florida that has opened a pair of boats to federal workers so they can dig into a free lunch buffet. But now farmers markets, food banks and other organizations are finding ways to help workers who haven't received a paycheck since December.
Federal workers rally Friday at the Philadelphia International Airport. (Matt Slocum / AP)
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A farmers market in Greensboro, North Carolina, is matching every dollar that a federal contractor or furloughed employee spends, up to $50, essentially extending supplemental food stamp benefits to government workers. A relief agency in Philadelphia is, for the first time in its history, enacting a disaster plan to help feed federal employees. The Capital Area Food Bank, which usually helps low-income residents in the Washington area, has expanded its assistance to include "pop-up markets" at Giant Food stores to pass out free groceries to furloughed feds. Even a nonprofit health-care system in southern New Jersey has started an emergency food drive.
The website My FED Benefits has created an interactive assistance map to help workers in every state find programs to support them through the shutdown.
On Jan. 13, a few Washingtonians teamed up to launch one of the more creative relief efforts: PayItFurloughed.com is a site that allows anyone to buy furloughed employees a beer at one of three District breweries. It was developed by Mess Hall food incubator founder Al Goldberg, food writer Nevin Martell, web and app developer 3Advance, and publicist Erick Sanchez. To date, more than 3,850 beers have been donated from people far and wide, including those living in Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands and elsewhere, Martell said. Just as important, more than 1,550 of those quaffs have already been enjoyed.
PayItFurloughed is designed not only to express compassion to hard-pressed federal employees but also to help small craft breweries, which can't bottle or can new beers because the government doesn't have the resources to approve labels, Martell said. The Washington breweries currently involved with PayItFurloughed are 3 Stars, DC Brau and Atlas Brew Works.
"Buying someone a beer is such an American thing to do," Martell said. " 'You're having a bad day? Let me buy you a beer.' "
Martell said that he and Goldberg – who invested a total of $1,000 in the project – are looking to expand PayItFurloughed to other cities and regions, probably starting with the suburbs around Washington, where other small breweries could participate. Purchased beers will remain available for a week after federal employees receive their first back paycheck, Martell said.
If any remain after that, Martell added, the beers will be put "on virtual ice until, unfortunately, we go through this all over again."
And speaking of expansion, Andrés released a video over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend to say that World Central Kitchen will be expanding the #ChefsforFeds relief program that launched last week at ThinkFoodGroup's test lab at 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Late on Tuesday, Andrés offered a few more details on Twitter. The expansion, he said, would include more than 30 eateries in 12 states, plus the District and Puerto Rico. The expansion will help World Central Kitchen exceed the 6,000 to 8,000 federal workers that the nonprofit and its partners have been feeding each day in Washington.
Nate Mook, executive director of World Central Kitchen, said Wednesday that the nonprofit has already activated food trucks and restaurants in several areas, including Little Rock, Arkansas; Cincinnati; Puerto Rico; and Los Angeles. What's more, he said, some celebrity chefs and restaurateurs have signed up for duty in their respective towns. They include Rick Bayless and Stephanie Izard in Chicago; Spike Mendelsohn in Washington; Ming Tsai in Boston; and Andrew Zimmern in the Minneapolis area.
"A lot of folks have been reaching out and saying, 'How can we support? What can we do? We're seeing what you guys are doing and we're inspired.'" Mook said during a phone interview with The Washington Post. World Central Kitchen, Mook added, is trying to take a strategic approach to opening kitchens, mobilizing them in cities with a large concentration of furloughed workers.
In the meantime, Mook said World Central Kitchen, its partners and volunteers have prepared and served thousands of hot meals a day from a tiny lab kitchen in the District. The menu changes daily but typically includes a sandwich (such as a Philly cheesesteak with grilled onions and peppers), a bowl (such as a sesame rice bowl with edamame, carrots and broccoli) and a hot soup (such as butternut squash puree). The line of federal workers seeking sustenance often snakes down Pennsylvania Avenue and up Seventh Street NW, Mook said. Furloughed employees are seeking not only food but also basic goods – diapers, pet food, groceries – at a resource center that World Central Kitchen has set up in the former 701 restaurant, which recently closed.
"These are breadlines in Washington, D.C., in our nation's capital in 2019," said Mook. "It's kind of surreal to see all these folks standing out in the cold to get a hot plate of food."
The round-the-clock efforts of nonprofits, chefs and volunteers stand in stark contrast to a government still apparently helpless to end the shutdown. In his weekend video, Andrés, the Nobel Peace Prize nominee, wrapped his address by trolling the president.
"This is our action to make sure nobody will be hungry, President Trump," Andrés said. "What are you doing about it?"
Worth noting: Martell, of PayItFurloughed, said two people from Mexico have donated to the cause. Mexicans may not fund the border wall that has been the flash point behind the longest government shutdown in history. But they're willing to buy a few beers for the government workers who have been impacted by this skirmish over a wall.
This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com. Read it here.
The Seattle Times does not append comment threads to stories from wire services such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff. You can read more about our community policies here. | {
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Debt is a scary word in itself, so it's only understandable that those suffering with the burden of debt will feel anxious and confused as to what can be done to rectify their issue. Evidently, it would be simple to say to seek help, but not everyone is as forthcoming with their financial problems, or even know that there is help available. In fact, it has been reported that two thirds of Irish people are suffering in silence when it comes to their financial affairs.
Why Are So Many Struggling?
While it can be easy to assume that those who are in financial distress are wreckless with money, it can simply be because there isn't enough of it to go around. It isn't unusual for many to keep their financial concerns to themselves, often assuming that it's their problem, so only they should deal with it. Similarly, there are those with good intentions of rectifying their current situation, but just don't know where to turn when it comes to locating the help.
Embarrassment can also be an underlying factor, as there can sometimes be a stigma attached to those in debt. However, if we're not able to take advantage of the help available, and we're not able to deal with the problem ourselves, then the problem is only going to get worse. While not dealing with debt may only mean a series of overdue letters to some, others may have their home and car secured with finance, so could end up losing their lifestyle and livelihood.
When you take into account that two thirds of Ireland are struggling with debt, it's likely that many of those people may not be aware of the benefit that debt management can offer. People can also suffer from a series of ailments that prevents them from dealing with their financial problems. As such, a professional solution is needed to ensure that everyone understands their financial commitments, while making sure that are dealt with fairly.
A debt management company will also be aware of what can be done to reduce your level of debt. Facing this alone can sometimes result in a series of dead ends.
Another reason that so many in Ireland can suffer from debt is due to the fact that different bills fall on different dates. This can be confusing to many people, so it's not always because money isn't available, it just wasn't available at the right time. As well as ensuring your commitments are met each month, you will only have to make one monthly payment in most instances, giving you more control of your finances as a whole.
Allowing a debt management company to look at your finances can also help freeze interest on some loans and credit cards, meaning that you're paying less each month as a result.
Being in debt can be a worrying prospect, but with so many others in the same boat, we can be more confident in asking for help and shrugging off the shackles of stigma. Anyone can fall into financial hardship, so there's no reason as to why anyone shouldn't be able to seek help should they need it. | {
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We all love our pets – right? Despite our love, it can be frustrating when our hardwood floors, carpets, and area rugs are constantly damaged by pet stains and odors. Fortunately, protecting your home from pet stains, and engaging in Pet Stain Removal, doesn't have to be difficult. In this article, we're going to walk you through eight impressive stain removal tips that will improve the comfort of your home without breaking the bank.
1. For machine-washable items, use baking soda.
If your Pet Stain Removal is focused on a machine-washable item, such as a t-shirt, a blanket, or a pillow, add one pound of baking soda to your regular detergent and wash as usual. Air-dry the affected material. If this process isn't enough to remove the stain(s) altogether, wash the item again with an enzymatic cleaner like Shout Pets or Clorox Urine Remover.
2. For carpeted areas and furniture, work quickly.
Leaving pet stains on your carpet or upholstery is perhaps the worst thing you can do. For effective Pet Stain Removal, start the process as soon as you see, smell, or witness the stain being made. Begin by absorbing as much of the mess as possible with a thick layer of paper towel. Next, rinse the zone with cool, clean water. Blot the area dry. You'll still want to have the area professionally cleaned in a reasonable period of time, but you've averted disaster for now.
If a stain has been set on your carpet or upholstery for some time, try using a high-quality pet odor neutralizer. You can also purchase a carpet cleaner. Or, to make your life easier, give our team a call at (888)-512-2055. At On Time Steam Cleaning, we're happy to help.
3. For wood or paint damage, consider replacement.
If a particularly bad pet stain has reached your wood or paint, we suggest removing and replacing the layer or varnish or paint. There are few ways to properly clean these materials without professional assistance. Even then, it may help to paint over the afflicted area with new, pet-friendly supplies.
Not looking to repaint? Try enzymatic cleaners on washable paints and/or wallpapers. On rare occasions, they may respond to the treatment.
4. Stop stains before they occur by setting boundaries.
The easiest method of Pet Stain Removal is stopping stains before they start. You might not be able to stand the idea of keeping your pet away from expensive, comfortable area rugs – but this is the best way to ensure your rug remains clean.
Set boundaries for your pets. Where are they allowed and where are they forbidden to go? Think smart. You want your pet to roam in easy-to-clean areas like the kitchen or bathroom, but you don't want your pet to roam in your carpeted office or living room.
5. Have your family search for stains together.
If you aren't sure whether your home has been infected with pet stains or not, have your family search each room for signs of set-stains. Red flags could include an odd smell, discoloration, or pet hair. You'll likely find these stains in areas where your pet regularly spends time. Once you find the stains, eradicate them by getting in touch with a professional steam cleaning service like On Time Steam Cleaning.
6. Have affected areas steam cleaned regularly.
Do you notice that certain areas of your home are more affected by pet stains than others? Have these areas steam cleaned at least once every twelve months? Lower this number to once every six months if you have more than two or three pets.
7. Find the right eco-friendly product for your home.
If you feel strongly about using eco-friendly products in your home – but haven't been able to find the right pet stain and odor remover – consider our very own cleaner: On Time Vet's Trust Pet Odor Remover. Our On Time's Spot Out Spot Remover may also be helpful when it comes to eradicating pet stains. We take great pride in our cleaners and their ability to make your home sparkle. Order online today to receive your first bottle.
8. Consider certain types of animals.
If you haven't decided on a pet yet, but have concerns about pet stain removal, consider focusing on pets that have a lower stain risk. For example, hypoallergenic dogs don't shed, eliminating unnecessary pet odors. Guinea pigs remain in cages, containing the mess to a single area. Cats are often the biggest pet stain culprits. We don't suggest bringing home a kitten if you have concerns about your furniture and ongoing stains in your home.
These eight Pet Stain Removal Tips should help you during the cleaning process. For answers to additional questions, contacting our team at On Time Steam Cleaning. Our professionals are certified, prepared, and interested in making your home as comfortable as possible. | {
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I believe I found a bug, it's related to zapata.conf file generation.
Apparently when you install your analog card (like Sangoma A200) the script forgets to include zapata_additional.conf in zapata.conf.
This causes several issues like call recording not working and no internal cid.
Where should I report it?
The bug report is on the main page of this site at the bottom left.
For your problem, did you force the rewriting of the zapata conf file in hardware detection menu by selecting the rewrite zapata conf file option ? | {
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Archuleta County resident seriously injured in explosion near Allison
Blast apparently occurred while lighting water heater pilot light
By Herald Staff Report
Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 1:05 PM
Updated: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020 7:47 PM
Colorado Highway 151 was closed briefly Friday near Allison to allow a Flight For Life helicopter to land. A patient was ultimately taken by ground ambulance to Mercy Regional Medical Center, but the helicopter flight crew assisted with care.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
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Medics responded Friday to a water heater explosion about 3 miles north of Allison near the La Plata-Archuleta line.
The blast near Archuleta County Road 988 reportedly injured one person, causing third-degree burns. Los Pinos Fire Protection District took the patient to Mercy Regional Medical Center. No further information about the person's identity or condition was immediately available.
A Flight For Life helicopter responded to the scene, but the patient was ultimately taken by ground to the hospital. The helicopter landed on Colorado Highway 151. The Southern Ute Police Department also responded to the call.
"From what we know so far, they were lighting a pilot light on a water heater and it blew up," said Chief Tony Harwig with Los Pinos.
The explosion was reported about 10:45 a.m. at a Quonset hut on private property being used as a meat shop.
Los Pinos responders said the explosion blew out the back wall of the building, with some building materials landing up to 50 yards from the building. It started a small ground fire, but people at the scene put it out with a garden hose, Harwig said.
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Burns suppers are all well and good — but how about getting personal with the man himself?
While we can't promise the reincarnation of the original bard, we can suggest a trip to The Shed to see Tram Direct's Rabbie the Man. The show is back with stage and screen actor Colin McGowan — who made his film debut in Peter Mullan's NEDS — at the helm.
As Rabbie the Man, Colin delves beyond those beloved verses to unveil Burns' loves, political views and fights against the injustices of the day.
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Home Month 05-May Roland Garros * May 22-June 11, 2023
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At the end of May, the world's top tennis greats, and especially Rafa, compete at the French Open in Paris for the second Grand Slam of the year and the only one played on clay. Stade Roland Garros includes Philippe-Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen and Simonne-Mathieu, plus 17 outside courts, providing maximum tennis viewing for tennis fans during the two week event. Recently, RG implemented three day matches and 1 Night Match, as well as a a retractable roof on Philippe-Chatrier, so no more rain delays! The French Open started in 1891, and after switching several venues, it has been played at Stade Roland Garros since 1928.
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Roland Garros French Open Schedule and Tickets
Roland Garros tickets are available to the public, though as expected with any Grand Slam, the demand is far greater than the supply. The Roland Garros website (rolandgarros.com) sells their tickets over several phases and through various places.
Premium Tickets – earliest on sale through their site. These packages include perks like an indoor lounge overlooking the courts, food and drinks, player meet and greets and other upscale freebies.
Agencies – Roland Garros sells their tickets via hand-selected partners, who mostly offer very upscale vacations to the French Open, but also offer individual tickets. The official recommended agency will depend on your country and they are all listed on the RG website.
Individual Tickets – on sale February 23, 2023 (premium packages) and March 15, 2023 for single tickets. You must first create your account on the RG site and hopefully, you will score them within the first few on-sale hours. See https://www.rolandgarros.com.
Resale Tickets – at the end of April, ticket owners can resell their personal tickets or packages through the official exchange. Thanks to this resale service, new tickets can be sold at any time until the last day of the tournament, at the official price, with a guarantee of receiving authentic tickets. Keep an eye on the website.
Ticket Resellers – while these sites are not "officially" approved by Roland Garros (they actually make a big deal out of not buying from resellers), they do allow those who REALLY want to watch an opportunity to buy tickets. These are also VERY reputable companies, with excellent customer service and 100% guaranteed tickets. Our recommended reseller site is Viagogo.
New in 2020! Roland Garros is the last Grand Slam to add a retractable roof, so no more rain delays! Philippe-Chatrier, Suzanne-Lenglen, Simonne-Mathieu and the court 14 all also have lights, so play will continue through completion in the evening.
New in 2021! – RG now has both Day and Night matches.
New in 2022! – The Grand Slam Board, made up of representatives from all four Slams, announced there will be a trial of a 10-point tie-break played at 6-6 in the final set at the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open, beginning in Paris this year.
Visiting the French Open at Roland Garros
A few tips about the French Open, especially as compared to other Grand Slam and tennis events:
Our recommended reseller site is Viagogo.
The new retractable roof and lights on Court Philippe-Chatrier ensures all scheduled matches play through to the end, regardless of when the sun sets.
New in 2021! Night Sessions. You can get a "RG Day + Night" ticket for a Day then Night session OR use it for a night session and the following day session
Kids Day at RG is Saturday, May 27, 2023
Qualifying Rounds – tickets are minimal (€11) but you must reserve them online (no tickets are sold at the stadium). Qualifying matches are played on Courts No. 6 to 15 from May 22-26, 2023.
Show Courts: Philippe-Chatrier (New retractable roof), Suzanne Lenglen, Simonne-Mathieu (formerly Court No. 1). The 21-acre tennis complex consists of 20 tennis courts, including 3 stadiums – Court Philippe-Chatrier with a capacity of 14,840 people, Court Suzanne Lenglen with a capacity of 10,068 people, and the new Simonne-Mathieu, which can accommodate almost 5,000 tennis fans.
Ticket Limit – there is a 4 ticket maximum per person (for individual tickets) for the entire tournament. One person can buy two tickets for 2 different days. Or a group of 4 can purchase 4 tickets for one day. But if that same group of 4 wants to go on two different days, they will need two people and 2 credit cards to make the purchase.
Rounds – the first round is 3 days of tennis, all other rounds are 2 days (except the finals)
Grounds Pass: Courts 3-18. If you are able to attend Roland Garros during the first week of main draw play, a grounds pass can be a great value. In a tournament jam-packed with 128 players per singles draw, pros ranked as high as the top ten may play their first round or two on the outer courts.
Showing ID – you MUST show a photo ID that exactly matches the name on your ticket. Read the ticket guidelines carefully, as you may be required to bring your passport to the grounds.
The Legends Trophy is a highlight of the French Open. It hosts history's tennis greats in a fun and less competitive atmosphere. If you've never seen your favorite players when there is slightly less pressure at stake, it is a blast to see them let their guard down and play with each other and the audience.
Roland Garros Tips for Attending
Check out all our great Roland Garros Tips for Attending. We offer you our top Roland Garros tips, having just gone to set up the tournament while it's still fresh in our minds.
We learned tons of insider information on the best seats, dress code, where to eat at the stadium and afterwards, getting to Stade Roland Garros, catching the greats on the practice courts, trying for autographs and much more. Here are our top Roland Garros tips and make sure to also check out this great article by Kristin definitely worth reading: Roland Garros: 5 Tips for Enjoying a Day at the French Open
2023 Details:
Qualifiers – May 22-26, 2023
RG Kid's Day – Sat May 27 (usually the Saturday before the start of the tournament)
1st Round – May 28-30
2nd-4th Round – May 31-June 5
Legend's Trophy – ??
Quarters – June 6-7
Semis – June 8-9
Finals – June 10-11
French Open Ticket Options – Our recommended reseller sites include StubHub and Viagogo.
Gentlemen's and Ladies' 1/4 Finals will now be played exclusively on the court Philippe-Chatrier. In 2020, the schedule for the Gentlemen's semi-Finals will change. The light and the retractable roof on Philippe-Chatrier will garantee both matches can be played to the end, even after sunset. Semi-final 1: from 3pm, Semi-final 2: not before 5:30pm.
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Roland Garros French Open Hotel Picks
Roland Garros is located in the 16th Arrondisement next to Bois de Bologne, the huge park on the western edge of the city. The easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to get there is on the Paris Métro. For ultimate convenience, stay in a top Paris neighborhood served by one of the Métro lines (#9 and #10) with direct service to stations near Roland Garros
Champs Elysées Hotels on the Right Bank, Métro Line 9
Choose a hotel near the Franklin D. Roosevelt station to be within a one-minute walk of designer shopping and famous restaurants along Avenue des Champs-Elysées. Splurge on the 5-star Hotel Marignan or 4-star Hotel Mathis, or select the affordable Best Western Plus Elysée Secret. Hop on Line 9 to the Michel-Ange Anteuil station, a five-minute walk from Roland Garros.
Latin Quarter Hotels on the Left Bank, Métro Line 10
Pick an upscale hotel close to the Odéon station such as Relais Saint Germain, the Holiday Inn Paris Notre Dame, or Hôtel Louis 2 to experience the Latin Quarter's charming bistros, elegant boutiques, andchurches dating back to medieval times. Take Line 10 to the Porte d'Anteuil station, about a four-minute walk to Roland Garros.
Walk to Roland Garros
Molitor Paris – MGallery by Sofitel – great pool
Villa Escudier – includes continental breakfast
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Stade Roland Garros
2 Avenue Gordon Bennett
Show Courts: Philippe-Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen, Simonne-Mathieu (formerly Court No. 1). The 21-acre tennis complex consists of 20 tennis courts, including 3 stadiums – Court Philippe-Chatrier with a capacity of 14,840 people, Court Suzanne Lenglen with a capacity of 10,068 people, and the new Simonne-Mathieu, which can accommodate almost 5,000 tennis fans and is surrounded by a lovely greenhouse garden.
The most shade on all the courts, with the sun behind you, are on the South and West sides of the courts. The South will get more shade in the early afternoon and the West the later part of the day. On Philippe-Chatrier, Tribune Lacoste is the south side and Borotra the west.
Roland Garros Philippe-Chatrier Court Seating Map
Stade Roland Garros Grounds Map
Suzanne Lenglen Court Seating Map
Simonne-Mathieu Court Seating Map
Paris Popular Activities & Things to Do
Paris, often referred to as "The City of Light," is a stunning backdrop as one of the world's premiere centers of fashion, food and architecture. If Paris has always been a dream destination for you, what better way to enjoy all it has to offer while also watching our tennis greats play at one of their favorite tournaments? When you're not enthralled at Philippe-Chatrier, prepare to shop at world class specialty boutiques, dine at traditional bistros as well as high end modern eateries, take romantic walks through some of the world's most charming gardens and experience truly iconic monuments.
Prior Roland Garros Dates:
Originally May 24-June 7, 2020, rescheduled to September 20-October 4, 2020
Emily G February 13, 2019 At 9:49 am
Question from a first time attendee: I'm a huge Rafa fan and my mom and I are coming in from the states because we've never seen Rafa play live on clay. I will be there in the first week, hoping to see his second round match (so, a very good chance he will still be in). I don't want to buy our tickets until a couple days out to ensure we will see him play.
Will we have issue buying tickets that close and/or paying a lot more? Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Hi Emily!!! Great question. It all depends on who is playing and how well they're doing going into the tournament. If Rafa is flying through the clay season (Rome, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Madrid) like he did last year and it looks like he's on his way to win #12, and Djok, Fed are both playing….then of course tickets are going to be harder and more expensive to get. However, if anyone drops out or gets injured (G-d forbid!), then tickets will easier and less expensive to get. My advice (and there's no guarantee) is to evaluate after Barcelona and before Rome.
Zenia April 17, 2019 At 4:12 am
On March 20, 2019, I bought 2 tickets (1 on Suzanne Lenglen court & 1 on the new Simonne Mathieu court) because I couldn't decide which stadium would be better. All tickets for Philippe court were sold out for this day (and the 2 days after wee 400 euros each) once I got to my place in the queue 🙁 I don't know if it makes sense to keep both of these tickets to have access to more matches, or if I should sell one. Are these seats OK? I don't mind sitting in the sun, a chair with a backrest is preferred but I can sit on benches if necessary. I haven't heard much about the new court (Simonne Mathieu). This is my first time at the French open and I'm a big tennis fan, I happen to be in Paris during the tournament.
Court Simonne Mathieu – Access M5 – Row 2
Court Suzanne-Lenglen – Access L6 – Row 26
Any advice?? Thank you for your help!
Tennis Event Guide April 18, 2019 At 12:45 pm
Update 2019: Hope you had as much fun at Roland Garros as we did! For anyone else reading this, I would NOT recommend buying tickets for two show courts at the same time. You'll miss half of each the matches, and since they don't let you enter during play, sometimes even for a 2 sets at a time, you'll miss so much action.
All three show courts have proper seats with backs and we have added seating maps for all of Roland Garros above, as well as pictures of all three show courts on our Tips for Attending Roland Garros page.
Hi Zenia:
That's a really good question. I can't speak to your specific seats, because the seating charts don't show "Access" as you have them listed. However, I can tell you the shadiest parts of both stadiums are the South and West sides. It's unfortunate you won't know who is playing which courts until it's too late to sell the other ticket, so you'll have to make that decision for yourself. There's really no way to make a recommendation either way. Enjoy RG!!!!!!!
Esteban Pessi February 6, 2020 At 4:50 pm
Hola, estoy por sacar boletos para semifinales….me recomendas sacarlo ya antes que sigan aumentando, o esperar mas a la fecha, gracias.
Tennis Event Guide February 8, 2020 At 2:05 am
Hi Esteban: Running this through a Spanish Translator (thanks, Google!), I believe the question is "Hello, I am about to get tickets for the semifinals …. you recommend me to get it out before they continue to increase, or wait until now, thanks."
If you want to go, buy tickets. I assume you are asking about pricing and whether you should wait. Prices will increase until the event, assuming there is less availability as tickets sell, which is likely. However, if you wait until the tournament and the big players are not playing for whatever reason, like Rafa, then prices will go down. No matter how you approach buying tickets, it's a gamble and you'll never have a precise answer.
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Fresh Off the Boat: The Asian American Race Conversation We Never Had
May 19, 2015 • Nadia Kim • Americans of color, Asian Americans, Asians, media, racism, stereotyping
Phew, it got renewed. Thank goodness Fresh Off the Boat, only the second Asian American sitcom in US television history, will live on. Why am I so relieved? I'm not Taiwanese American like the main character Eddie (I'm ethnically Korean), nor did I move from a gritty Chinatown to a well-heeled suburb. But I didn't have that much in common with Mr. Miyagi or Kumiko either, the Japanese-descent coach and paramour of Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso – but, boy, did I identify with both. The simple reason is that, despite some familiar stereotyping, I'd barely seen Asian folks, let alone human-like ones, until the Karate Kid franchise seared my preadolescent eyes. The sad truth is that I could say the same about Asian American family life almost 30 years later, that the trembling glee with which I watched and rewound Karate Kid post-homework matches the rush I feel today when I swipe my iPad for Fresh Off the Boat after a long day's work.
I'm relieved because nearly a decade after Karate Kid, the first Asian American network sitcom, Margaret Cho's All-American Girl (1994), was swiftly panned and canceled for failing to compel viewers like myself – effectively an Asian-faced blip on America's radar. I'm relieved because I'm with Eddie Huang, the brash chef and restaurateur whose memoir is the inspiration for Fresh Off the Boat, when he says about Asian Americans: "Culturally, we are in an ice age … We don't even have the wheel."
To trace the source of my anxiety and relief, we must ask, Why did it take nearly 70 years (a television ice age) to get Fresh Off the Boat, and why would a so-called successful minority agonize over its content and fate anyway? The answers aren't obvious because, frankly, America, we've never even had our conversation on race. Yes, we've seen the tragic limits of the race conversation for Black America. Need we say more than Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, or Freddie Gray? But at least the conversation's not a mere idea frozen in time. Moreover, a tête-à-tête requires a back and forth, but on Asian ethnics we've mostly had America's monologue about a "model minority" who has done so well in life that racism's a non-issue. A model minority therefore gets no seat at the race relations table. Nor did Asian Americans get a spotlight in our more multicultural pop culture after the Civil Rights Movement.
Where did the model minority stereotype and its silencing, disappearing properties come from?: immigration laws that favored educated Asian professionals, academic writing ("model minority" was coined by a fellow sociologist–see Chou and Feagin for this and related issues), and a 1980s' conservative agenda to dispel the racism argument to gut civil rights enforcement, anti-poverty programs, and affirmative action. Asian American success, conservatives alleged, proved Blacks and Latinos could no longer cry foul. Still today, fact tanks like the Pew Research Center inadvertently bolster model minority myths with controversial reports declaring "The Rise of Asian Americans."
Make no mistake, there's a kernel of truth in the model minority stereotype, but it's a stereotype nonetheless. Asian Americans are a diverse, internally unequal group. Second, the model minority feeds and hides a more pernicious stereotype of the threatening "foreigner;" that is, it pats Asian Americans on the head for being a good kid "like us" but spurns her for being "the foreigner" who outsmarted teacher, then denies her the right to cry racism because, hey, look at all those rich and happy Asians.
Examples include the World War Two mass incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans despite the majority holding US citizenship and no evidence of any anti-US activity among this threatening "model minority." In 1980's Detroit, two laid-off White US auto workers saw a threatening, model Japan in Chinese American Vincent Chin, murdered him with a baseball bat, yet a night in jail they never spent. More recently, Bill Clinton's Chinagate scandal prompted the Democratic National Committee to wage a racial witch-hunt of sorts for "foreign" donors within its Asian American constituency. Examples of race-based nativism against other successful Americans abound: Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, Mirai Nagasu, Korean merchants in the LA unrest, Judge Lance Ito, South Asians since 9/11, Jeremy Lin.
Because the model minority myth implies that race doesn't matter for Asian Americans at the same time that it feeds stereotypes of threatening competitors, Asian Americans effectively live a paradox of being racially invisible and visible as "forever foreigners." Chef Huang claims the show completely ignored this struggle. But other millennials and this Gen X-er say yes and no. I was grateful to feel my youthful Karate Kid rush when I saw myself in Eddie, both invisible and clearly foreign at school and reliant on Black American hip hop for an Asian American voice. Dad Louis got my sympathy when he worried that he wasn't "American" enough for his chophouse, so hire a "White face" he did. When Jessica perceived their vandalized billboard as a "hate crime" against "sneaky Asians," I said, "Thank you! Finally!" To be sure, I cringed, at times, at Eddie's brothers for verging on model minority poster children and at Jessica for too much Tiger Mom foreignness and exoticism. But I'm now exhaling relief that I'll get to see more Asian American life on a box that had rarely shown it because we were a "model minority" of foreigners. So yes, this show is finally our wheel. But we shouldn't expect one wheel to go everywhere. Until the struggles and diversity of Asian America grab the spotlight, I take comfort in knowing that Fresh Off the Boat has helped start, and will continue, a conversation that America didn't know it was supposed to have. Let the ice thaw.
Nadia Y. Kim is a sociology professor at Loyola Marymount University and author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA.
Law Partner Tracks & Asian Americans: Struggles to Affirm Positive Self-Identity
March 9, 2014 • Edna Chun • Asian Americans, Asians, backstage racism, law, multiracial, stereotyping, systemic racism, white elites, whites, women of color
Helen Wan's The Partner Track is a newly published novel that paints a vivid picture of life inside a corporate law firm and the internal struggles and challenges of a female, Asian-American lawyer seeking to become partner. The book illuminates the ways in which minorities and women are still viewed within hierarchical, white male-dominated organizational structures and highlights the particular embarrassment that can result from being singled out to personify the firm's diversity initiatives. In situations of high competition, minority and female status can even be seen as a threat, since some may mistakenly presume that such status confers advantage.
Ingrid Yung, the protagonist in the novel, is a descendant of immigrant parents from Taiwan, who knows how to speak Mandarin, but prefers to separate herself from identification with her ethnic roots in the presence of a competing, yet socially awkward attorney from mainland China. The nuances of her relationship with her parents are delicately portrayed. Ingrid's mother addresses her on the phone as "Ingrid-ah"—perhaps reflecting the difficulty in enunciating the syllables in American names. Ingrid's parents sacrificed much for her success, and are justifiably proud of her groundbreaking accomplishments. As her mother declares, "Nobody bosses my Ingrid around." It is this unmistakable sense of pride and independence that accompanies Ingrid as she confronts repeated incidents that question her identity, her right to be at the firm, and her competence.
Without revealing the twists and turns of the plot, the most telling revelation comes when Ingrid realizes that it was not hard work that would land her a partnership and that her mistakes would count more heavily than for others. As Ingrid reflects (p. 238):
I had completely bought into the myth of a meritocracy. Somehow I'd actually been foolish enough to believe that if I simply kept my head down and worked hard, and did everything, everything that was asked of me, I would be rewarded. What an idiot.
The novel also chronicles with subtle humor Ingrid's interactions with the firm's diversity consultant who has been hired after a tasteless, racialized skit at the firm's corporate outing. Later when Ingrid is singled out at the firm's diversity event designed to repair the damage from the skit at the outing, she is unwittingly made the poster child for the diversity initiative and later suffers consequences for her required participation.
Ingrid describes her valiant efforts to stay at the corporate law firm for eight years, hoping that "all of these little humiliations and exclusions amount to something." As she reflects,
More than anything, I wanted, once and for all, to shake that haunting suspicious that, while my record impressed and my work made the grade, I was ultimately not valued (p, 164).
The themes of the book underscore the research perspectives shared by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin in Two-faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage.
This study identifies the spatial nature of modern-day discrimination based on the review of the diary accounts of 1000 college students. Based on this extensive research data, Picca and Feagin conclude that performances or comments made by white actors in the frontstage when diverse individuals are present significantly diverge from closed-door backstage performances that occurred when only whites are present. Similarly, Ingrid struggles with her own identity as she gains glimpses of the backstage while she is simultaneously paraded as a model of diversity in the frontstage.
Yet at the same time, there are hopeful notes sounded in Helen Wan's beautifully narrated story. The novel has much to offer in terms of charting the progressive pathway toward a self-affirming identity for women and minority professionals and leaders. And as Alvin Evans and I highlight in The New Talent Acquisition Frontier, from an organizational perspective, talent is the most important strategic asset necessary for success and survival in a globally interconnected world. As a result, empowering diverse and talented employees and eliminating the spatial separation between frontstage and backstage performances are essential steps in the attainment of social integration and genuinely inclusive workplaces.
Amy Chua's "Triple Package": Success Formula for Some?
March 2, 2014 • Edna Chun • "model minority", African Americans, Americans of color, identities, immigration, inequality, methodology, social change, stereotyping, systemic racism, white privilege, white racial frame
Is success monolithic and limited to certain groups? Attributes of success cannot be monopolized by certain groups, cultures, ethnicities, or religious groups. Most people that are successful, in fact, appear to have characteristics in common and these characteristics are not driven by their membership in certain groups. The premise of the American democracy is based on the notion that all can succeed through hard work and access to opportunity. In Outliers, the Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell observes:
Nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Yet according to Amy Chua and Jeb Rosenfeld in their new book, The Triple Package, the combination of three cultural characteristics has led to the success of eight groups in America (Chinese, early Cuban exiles, Indians, Nigerians, Mormons, Iranians, Lebanese and Jews): 1) a superiority complex; 2) a sense of insecurity; and 3) impulse control. In fact, they assert,
all of America's disproportionately successful groups have a superiority complex; in fact most are famous for it" (p. 72).
This superiority complex, they state, is "deeply ingrained" (p. 83). And strikingly, the authors do not support these sweeping statements with research findings or empirical sources of evidence.
Chua and Rosenfeld's thesis has distinct Orwellian overtones by suggesting that some groups have what it takes to be more equal or successful than others. As NYU professor Suketu Mehta points out in an article titled "The 'Tiger Mom Superiority Complex'" in Time Magazine,the book represents "a new strain of racial, ethnic, and cultural reductivism," a sort of "ethnocentric thinking writ large" or what he terms "the new racism." And, he adds, "I call it the new racism—and I take it rather personally."
The Triple Package touches on some important themes, but also suffers from a number of critical flaws. Most importantly, the book does not address the nature of structural discrimination that is reflected in disparate historical, economic, and social realities for minorities through the predominance of what social theorist Joe Feagin calls the "white racial frame." According to Feagin, this frame is comprised of racial stereotypes, racial narratives, racial images, and racialized emotions that shape how many whites behave and interact with all Americans of color. Systematic, structural forms of exclusion of minorities have pervaded access to housing, education, distribution of economic resources, and job opportunities.
Arguably, the sense of superiority of any group is affected by forces of social oppression and the internalization of these forces has an impact on the psyche of affected individuals. Chua and Rosenfeld have correctly identified the fact that blacks have been systematically denied access to a group superiority complex and bear a significant cultural burden by susceptibility to stereotype threat. However, the omission of African Americans from the chapter on impulse control seems to do a disservice to hardworking African Americans who have been highly successful.
Second, the co-authors' emphasis is on immigrant success. Factors in immigrant success, however, are not representative of the American population as a whole. For the most part, the legal immigration system has provided upper and middle class individuals the opportunity to emigrate to the United States. Take, for example, the fact mentioned by Chua and Rosenfeld indicate that 65 percent of Iranian Americans are foreign born. They also distinguish between the success of the first wave of Cuban immigration between 1959 and 1973 which included an influx of mostly white middle and upper class professionals "at the pinnacle of a highly stratified society" (p. 37) with the later wave of Cuban immigrants who were black or of mixed race or mostly poor. As the authors observe, these individuals were not successful in business and are absent from Miami's power elite. Yet rather than cultural factors, the racism and classicism evident in the treatment of second-generation Cuban immigrants represent powerful structural, social influences in their relative lack of mobility and success.
Third, the authors assert that the Triple Package is a cultural explanation of group success that does not include education or hard work as core components. In their view, education and hard work are dependent and not independent variables. This dismissal of education flies in the face of Horace Mann's view that education is
a great equalizer of the conditions of men,–the balance wheel of the social machinery" that "gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men.
Or to put it in a more contemporary framework, as Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of the Lumina Foundation points out, "college-level learning is key to individual prosperity, economic security, and the strength of our American democracy."
And, in Chua and Rosenfeld's view, America previously had the Triple Package culture, but,
in the latter part of the twentieth century, something happened. America turned against both insecurity and impulse control (p. 208).
As a result, the authors indicate that to recover the Triple Package, Americans would have to recover from "instant gratification disorder" (p. 218).
The basis for these statements is not explained, documented, or footnoted. In essence, individuals from oppressed groups, no matter which group, have similar aspirations and wish for a better life and to be part of the American dream. These aspirations are not driven by cultural characteristics and can be advanced through education, hard work, and structural and opportunity mechanisms that facilitate individual progress. Due to the lack of evidence offered for the assertions of the Triple Package, the book essentially provides commentary on a very complex subject rather than scholarship and, as such, lacks credibility. Should certain groups accept the unsupported premises of this book, self-fulfilling prophecies could set in, and public opinion and debate could be affected by unverified statements that are not grounded in empirical data or social science research.
Prescriptive Racial Stereotypes of Asian American Leaders
December 14, 2013 • Edna Chun • "model minority", academic, Asian Americans, education, stereotyping, white elites, white racial frame
In an article entitled "Why So Few Asians are College President," Dr. Santa J. Ono, President of the University of Cincinnati, indicates that he finds himself among a very small group of Asian American leaders in higher education: only 1.5 percent of college and university presidents are Asian American and 3.4 percent are administrators in higher education. By contrast, Hispanics comprise 3.8 percent of presidents and African Americans hold 5.9 percent of these roles. This pattern also holds true for the corporate sector, such as the low representation of Asian Americans as corporate officers and members of corporate boards.
Why are Asian Americans so underrepresented in leadership roles? Ono suggests two major factors at play: cultural differences deriving from home environments that value preferences for indirect communication, emotional restraint, and an egalitarian view of power as well as contradictory perceptions about Asian Americans such as being conspicuous but self-effacing, hyperambitious but timid. Frank Wu, Chancellor of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, similarly points out that the model minority myth transforms positive qualities into negative attributes: intelligence is seen as lack of personality, family-oriented as clannish, and hard-working as unfairly competitive.
Ono, however, points to significant new research by Jennifer Berdahl and Ji-A Min at the University of Toronto that sheds light on the particular barriers Asian Americans face in leadership roles. Berdahl and Min distinguish between descriptive stereotypes or generalized beliefs about what members of different racial groups are like and prescriptive stereotypes which, when violated, are likely to provoke social disapproval and backlash. Since East Asians in North America are often descriptively stereotyped as relatively competent, cold, and nondominant, Berdahl and Min identify "nondominant" as a prescriptive stereotype that, when violated, causes negative consequences in the workplace. As a result, when East Asians remain in subordinate, nonleadership roles, and do not try to assert their own viewpoints or ideas or take charge, the competitive threat to valued resources they pose is neutralized. Through a series of four studies, the research findings reveal that not only did East Asians report more racial harassment at work than other employees, but, more importantly, those individuals that violated racial stereotypes were more likely to be the targets of such harassment. Berdahl and Min report that the negative responses to dominant East Asians did not depend on gender and appeared to be unique to this racial minority group.
This promising line of research on prescriptive stereotypes helps explain the hurdles faced by Asian Americans in their efforts to attain leadership positions and how these stereotypes can influence their ability to break through the so-called "bamboo ceiling" or what Sylvia Ann Hewlett calls "the marzipan layer" just below the upper rungs of power.
The notion of prescriptive stereotypes can also apply to the challenges faced by other racial minorities and women when they violate expected stereotypical behaviors and experience backlash. As Santa Ono notes, unconscious bias may be more difficult to address in academe where intellectual fairness and rigor are already presumed to be present. In this regard, he aptly suggests that academe focus some of its energy, acuity, and empathy toward tearing down existing social and psychological barriers to success, "particularly those all the more imposing for being invisible." Perhaps greater understanding of the influence of prescriptive stereotypes will provide the opportunity for reexamination of the impact of subtle, unconscious bias on organizational processes and allow us to develop truly inclusive definitions of leadership capabilities.
Issues of Bias: UCLA's Minority Faculty
October 26, 2013 • admin • academic, African Americans, Americans of color, education, racism stress, stereotyping, systemic racism
[The following analysis was sent to us by an experienced academic administrator.]
A Los Angeles Times article published on October 18, 2013 notes that an independent investigative report conducted at UCLA found instances of overt and covert racism involving minority faculty members. This information was gathered by an investigative review team appointed by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Scott L. Waugh, under the direction of Chancellor Gene Block and involves findings from interviews with eighteen faculty members in individual interviews as well from ten written statements submitted after a Town Hall meeting. The external review team consisted of a panel of experts including former California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, UCLA Professor emeritus Gary Nash, Bob Suzuki, former President of Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Maga Jackson-Triche, former UC Davis Professor, and attorney Constance Rice.
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The findings of the report include the identification of conflict involving a racial component in two UCLA departments, two reports of egregious incidents of bias experienced by UCLA faculty members, and three reports of perceived bias in hiring, advancement, and retention.
The academic department is the cultural environment that shapes how minority and women faculty are supported and welcomed, the way conflicts are resolved, and how power is distributed. The department chair sets the tone in the academic department, but the makeup of faculty in a given setting, such as the predominance of long-serving tenured faculty, also impacts the departmental dynamic.
Case in point, the study highlights allegations of systematic exclusion of minority and female faculty in what is called "Department A" that ranged from telling junior faculty of color that they would not attain tenure, to discriminatory remarks such as "I thought Asian women were supposed to be submissive." A white faculty member who was tenured and subsequently left the department indicated that he had spoken out against such conduct, been retaliated against by the department chair through a recommendation against a merit increase in pay, and he then retired rather than continue in that atmosphere.
In "Department B" two faculty members alleged that the department was divided along racial lines, indicating that they had experienced incidents of bias or discrimination by other faculty members, including senior faculty. One faculty member indicated what he perceived to be a clique of Caucasian male professor who ran the department, and said he had personally witnessed senior faculty use racially or ethnically insensitive language.
Incidents of racism noted in the panel's findings include the report of a Latino faculty member in the health sciences, who indicated that shortly after his hire as a fully tenured faculty member, a senior faculty member in his department, upon encountering him for the first time in the hallway, asked in a loud voice in front of a group of students "What is that fucking spic doing here?" When the Latino faculty member reported it to his assistant dean, the assistant dean, although sympathetic, advised him against going to the dean since it would cause more trouble. The Latino faculty member feels threatened by the senior faculty member, and also believes that the individual left a screwdriver in his mailbox in 2010.
The majority of incidents identified to the reviewers involved process-based discrimination in hiring, advancement, and retention. Faculty members believed that they were denied advancement due to bias and discrimination, usually through an unfavorable letter from the department chair or dean and a negative departmental vote.
Recommendations for action in the report include the need for: 1) adequate training of UCLA employees, including faculty, on what constitutes biased or discriminatory behavior; 2) review of UCLA's policies and procedures for clarity in how to report incidents of perceived discrimination and the subsequent investigative process; and 3) a centralized Discrimination Officer to address incidents of alleged bias, discrimination, and intolerance. The Discrimination Officer would have independent authority to conduct fact-finding investigations as a core responsibility of the office, would plan education and training, and ensure appropriate followup and recordkeeping. In essence, the Discrimination Officer would create the needed infrastructure to address informal and formal complaints and implement proactive and preventative measures to address forms of covert and overt discrimination.
The UCLA report highlights the importance of a framework of structural components that support an inclusive environment within the decentralized organizational environment of university departments. Recent research on academic departments finds a high degree of variability in the climate and interactions within academic departments that can be strongly influenced by the leadership of the dean and department chair.
Given the decentralized structure of universities with varying micro-climates and cultures, the experiences of women and minorities within departments can reflect very different realities depending on how power is operationalized through leadership, demographic makeup of the department, and intradepartmental interactions. The steps UCLA is taking are important by not only calling attention to the persistence of forms of subtle and covert discrimination, but also in creating the clear and unequivocal leadership expectation for an inclusive work climate throughout the university that supports the progress and contributions of diverse faculty and staff.
Race and Emotional Labor In the Workplace: A Prelude for Violence?
September 23, 2013 • Darron Smith • African Americans, black boys and men, racism stress, stereotyping, systemic racism, urban, violence
The pattern is fairly clear for those who are paying attention. The recent rash of mass killings in the past 15 years seem to be predominately committed by young, white, middle-class males living in mental isolation and painted as "outcasts," many having a history of early childhood trauma. Routinely, these young men felt unloved, underappreciated and invisible; some were bullied, tormented and chastised for being "different." There's another similar pattern of violence emerging in black middle-class males where isolation, doubt, and despair exist exerting more emotional labor to cope with constant microaggressions and other power dynamics working to undermine their character and dignity.
African Americans are routinely branded as incompetent, insubordinate, and incapable of measuring up to an unattainable white standard. Many professional black men find themselves having to defend their credentials and right to exist in the workplace as an equal on a daily basis. In a forthcoming publication on workplace mistreatment among physician assistants (health care providers) by Smith and Jacobson, black PAs were found to experience discrimination at a rate of forty times that of their white counterparts. In other words, for every one white person that felt discriminated against in the workplace, there are forty blacks that feel similarly. Taking this idea a step further, where three white providers report feeling undervalued and mistreated, there are 120 black Physicians' Assistants (PAs) that report similar experiences. The shear magnitude of mistreatment in this context underscores the daily hassles that black Americans face. These experiences do not dissipate; they accumulate within the souls of black folks, always teetering on that one tipping point. Everyone internalizes his or her experiences differently. Some suffer in silence, only to have it play out in the form of physiological disease and early death. Some take this pain and frustration out on themselves and those closest to them, causing strife in their home life. And others still, without social support of any kind, eventually turn to random acts of violence, mayhem, and even murder.
The nation experienced another tragedy as innocent victims fell at the hands of a seemingly deranged man with no known cause. Aaron Alexis, a civilian contractor for the Navy, reported similar accounts to Christopher Dorner with feelings of shame and disrespect at the hands of Whites. Beneath the carnage of unimaginable hurt and suffering of the families who lost loved ones at the hands of Alexis, of those physically and emotionally wounded by the actions of Dorner, and of those forever scared by the terror of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo lies an early desire for humans to connect, to be loved, and to feel as though we matter in life. These distraught men and many others like them, driven to kill innocent people in a fit of rage or despair, just as Klebold and Harris did at Columbine High School in 1999, are a reflection of our deep and unresolved inequalities as a society. As we overly pathologize the suspects, we fail to go deeper into the structural and unequal institutional arrangements in society that make these men feel as though they have been singled out for exclusion in the first place. Though the actions and reactions of these young men are deplorable and even considered evil by many, it does not discount the origins of their despair—our unequal society.
American racism imposes constraints on the material conditions of life by limiting access to society's valued resources, which are the fundamental building blocks of good mental health and social well-being. When opportunities to fully participate in society as co-equals are denied or restricted because of arbitrary and superficial differences in melanin, some black Americans, understandably, crack under the constant pressure of having to measure up to white societal standards and norms of a community where the rhetoric of colorblindness prevail. Though most do not see murder as the outlet, black men in America from all socio-economic strata can relate to Christopher Dorner and Aaron Alexis in at least one important way, their persistent frustration working in a predominately white and hostile work environment where people of color are made to feel devalued in a supposedly equal society.
Most Americans refuse to talk about race, believing it does not exist the workplace. Yet, corporate America is teeming with unexamined white racial attitudes that Blacks must reconcile in some particular way. Because black men have largely been shut out, left out, locked up and left behind, there is very little else to turn to but one's pride. We humans care a great deal of what others think and feel about us. The threat of being shamed and humiliated are often the trigger for violence, particularly in African Americans who are more vulnerable to these shame-producing and debilitating effects.
The degree of social isolation and exclusion that Dorner and Alexis both professed is a reality for many black people, especially black professionals, who know all too well about the difficult and isolated experiences they encounter in white spaces. Ignoring the perceived experiences and lived realities of subaltern peoples and seeing them as less competent than their white counterparts has been shown to result in a higher probability of mental health disorders among Blacks. So maybe it was mental illness and reports of schizophrenia that drove Alexis to commit these unspeakable acts. And maybe it was also the pressure of being black and male in a society of white domination and group entitlement that at least contributed to his collapse. These very public displays of mental corrosion by black men are a growing cancer in our society, a scourge that, in part, stems from deep systemic inequalities. And just maybe, we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to efforts of stopping these horrific and tragic events.
Dr. Darron Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Follow him on twitter @drdarronsmith.
"All My Babies' Mamas": Black Caricatures in the Media
January 19, 2013 • admin • African Americans, Black women, media, stereotyping, systemic racism, white elites, white privilege, white racial frame, women of color
On January 15, 2013 the Oxygen network released a tentative statement about discontinuing the production of All My Babies' Mamas. This reality TV show would peek into the life of the not-so-well-known U.S. rapper Shawty Lo who currently has 11 children by 10 different women, a 19 year-old girlfriend, and is rumored to have another baby on the way by his ex-girlfriend Jai Jai. Thankfully, on January 16th the network canceled the show after receiving almost 40,000 signatures from Change.org. In response to the cancellation requests, Oxygen V.P. Julie Rothman said, "[this show] is not meant to be a stereotypical representation of everyday life for any one demographic or cross section of society. It is a look at one unique family and their complicated, intertwined life." Yet, Rothman's statement leaves lingering questions. With all the unique families out there, why did Oxygen choose this family? Why didn't Oxygen pursue a celebrity like Bill Clinton for a reality show? The focus could be upon Clinton's many extra-marital affairs.
In the media, Black families have become representative of dysfunction. Americans have been laughing about stereotypical "Black people" for so long, such comic relief has become an addiction that many, like Julie Rothman, defend. Black parents often find themselves at the receiving end of media-based jokes about Black families. "Baby Daddy"/"Baby Mama" labels have become an omnipresent symbolic representation of broken Black families. The portrayal of unmarried Black mothers becomes yet another way in which dominant group values are juxtaposed against marginalized identities. These so-called "Baby Mamas" are most often caricaturized as being poor- but gold digging- welfare recipients who want nothing more than money, child support, and the latest hairstyle. Media portrayals frequently present uncaring mothers who leave their children in abject poverty while they go to receive beauty treatments or find another man to victimize in an effort to acquire more child support. These deleterious stereotypes become crystallized and reinforced through what the media decides to broadcast and rebroadcast to the public. For a more thorough discussion about media stereotypes of African Americans (see The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America by Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Now back to Shawty Lo. There are men from various racial/ethnic backgrounds in the U.S. who father children out of wedlock, including Levi Johnston (the father of Sara Palin's grandson) and Clint Eastwood. Eastwood has seven children by five different women though he has only married twice. Yet a show called "All Clint's Babies' Mamas" ridiculing Eastwood would never occur to reality show producers. And the mothers of Eastwood's children would not become sideshow attractions to his extra-marital exploits. Why? Because he is White + Male + Affluent and in the U.S. we humanize those who fit these intersecting categories regardless of their transgressions. Shawty Lo represents those who are Black + Male + "Ghetto" and persons who fit these intersecting categories tend to be reduced to the transgressions they make.
In "Al My Babies' Mamas" the mothers of Carlos Walker's (aka Shawty Lo's) children are cast as laughable, sideshow attractions in a nation where the disproportionately high number of Black single mothers is no laughing matter. In 2011, it was estimated by the Annie E. Casey Data Center that 67% of Black children grow up in single parent households; and 38.4% of children in Black female-headed households live in poverty according to 2011 statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. Given Julie Rothman's claims above, why didn't Oxygen take the more humanistic route of creating a documentary on the struggles of single mothers instead of a reality show that ridicules them? A documentary would do a far better job of presenting lives that are "complicated" and "intertwined". "All My Babies' Mamas" would have only served to keep African Americans wrapped in and warped by age-old dehumanizing stereotypes.
Nicole DeLoatch is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park. L. Janelle Dance is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska and a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
Mocking Mexican Americans: Young White Women
December 6, 2012 • Maria Chavez • education, Mexican, Mexican Americans, racism, stereotyping, white privilege, white racial frame, whites, women, youth
In this week's edition of Inside Higher Education, Scott Jaschik reports on a picture taken of a group of Penn State Chi Omega sorority sisters mocking Mexicans. It is offensive enough that the picture depicts the group dressed in spaghetti western attire, but even more despicable are the signs featured in the picture:
"Will mow lawn for weed and beer" and "I don't cut grass, I smoke it."
What does this say about the collective views this group has of Mexicans? We have expectations about where certain groups belong based on generations of ethnic and racial stereotypes and societal stratification that are illustrated in this example. These views not only shape our expectations about one another, but also impact the way we treat each another.
For example, Washington State Supreme Court Justice Steven Gonzalez writes about the experience of being mistaken as a criminal defendant in a federal courthouse. He states:
Let me mention for example attorneys of color who are sometimes in criminal cases mistaken for the defendant by the participants. How do we respond to that? Sometimes we are overly formal, by making sure that we're dressed particularly well and that our speech is particularly professional, just to let people know who we are because we're not always given the benefit of the doubt. I remember when I was a federal prosecutor I was traveling with my wife to Texas and we went to the federal courthouse in Laredo, Texas. I was curious, I thought I'm part of the federal family, so I'm going to go in and see what a different federal courthouse looks like. When I went into the courthouse I started getting tailed by security; they followed me through the courthouse, and when I walked into a courtroom the clerk said, "Defendants sit to the left." That was the first thing she said to me as I walked in. And I realized that out of my suit, I looked to them like a suspicious person or a defendant in that context.
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Being out of his suit is only part of the story. The other part is the fact that there are negative stereotypes about Mexicans and Mexican Americans that follow us wherever we go. Latino professionals universally encounter these challenges as I highlighted in my book on Latino lawyers. The notion that we should be mowing lawns, drinking a beer (presumably under a cactus), or working as maids/custodians has certainly impacted my life both personally and professionally. The impact of the views represented by the Chi Omega sorority picture penetrate into all aspects of Latinos' lives and certainly bring to mind many memories of my own experiences.
Some of mine include being asked for a my social security card during a routine traffic stop for speeding (it took me years to stop carrying my social security card), or being asked for a "green card and an ID" before being allowed to go into a club or being asked rather aggressively by an older woman at a health club I used to belong in, to bring her some water while I was sitting down on a bench waiting for my daughter to finish tennis lessons. (The coach teaching the lessons recognized what was going on before I did and turned to the woman after she'd asked me for water for the third time and tells her he'll get it for her when he was done giving his lesson). These examples pale in comparison to the examples I've experienced as a professor. I am not alone. It has been recently documented in a book on academic women of color, Presumed Incompetent that cover topics from campus climate to tenure and promotion as experienced by female faculty of color.
At the heart of all these examples is the way Latinos continue to be stereotyped by others as so grossly illustrated in the Penn State Chi Omega sorority example.
A Troubling Video: Bashing China Again
November 19, 2012 • Edna Chun • Americans of color, Asia, Asian Americans, Asians, capitalism, political parties, politics, stereotyping
As a byproduct of the recent presidential campaign, a troubling and explicit depiction of China as the primary source of America's recessionary loss of jobs and economic woes reached a new level. A video presented by in stark black and white tones by the Citizens against Government Waste (CAGW), a fiscally conservative non-profit organization, creates a sense of impending doom by portraying America's future failure to China's economic insurgency. Set in Beijing in 2030 A.D., this politically-based video is in Chinese with English subtitles and shows a meeting of Chinese citizens held in Beijing led by a Machiavellian-like Chinese leader. The sinister-looking leader attributes America's failure to spending and taxing itself out of a great recession through enormous "stimulus" spending, massive changes to healthcare and crushing debt. He derisively declares, "Now they work for us," while the Chinese audience laughs appreciatively and gleefully.
This explicit calling out of China as the principal reason for America's economic woes occurred on several fronts during the campaign and was bipartisan in nature. As Zachary Karabell, president of River Twice Research, points out in his article, "Don't blame China for America's decline", the Obama administration has intensified pressure on Chinese trade and investments that have made it difficult for some American companies such as solar panel installers to compete. And in the town hall debates, Mitt Romney declared emphatically,
On day one, I will label China a currency manipulator which will allow me as President to be able to put in place if necessary tariffs where I believe they are taking unfair advantage of our manufacturers. So we are going to make sure the people that we trade with around the rules are playing by the rules.
Karabell points out also that this trend has occurred in other presidential campaigns: in 1992, Bill Clinton accused President George H.W. Bush of coddling Chinese dictators, while in 2004 John Kerry called corporate leaders "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for shipping jobs to China.
What is worrisome about this anti-Asian virulence is the possible return to historical animosity toward Americans of Asian descent that expressed itself in Anti-Asian legislation and actions over more than a century. Recall the so-called "yellow peril" ascribed to the influx of Asian immigrant labor to the West coast in the 19th century and the resulting Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that that sprang up in response and was not repealed until 1943. Or the wholesale internment of 100,000 Japanese Americans in camps during World War II.
Note also in the present-day example the lack of accountability ascribed to American corporations who have chosen to outsource work overseas, in search of cheap labor and greater profitability. While clearly the Chinese Communist government represents the antithesis of American democratic practices toward its people, the "rise of the rest" as Fareed Zakaria puts it in The Post-American World means that globalization is creating a new and highly competitive economic playing field. Tom Friedman in his famous book, The World is Flat notes that the current phase of globalization will be driven by a diverse group of individuals likely to be non-Western and nonwhite. In Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education, Alvin Evans and I describe globalization as a catalyst and mandate for remedying underrepresentation and achieving greater inclusion in our American institutions.
In Karabell's view, American prosperity "will not be determined by decisions made in Beijing" but by "how American approaches the global economy of the 21st century." He concludes:
If the U.S. focuses on nurturing the optimism, drive and skills that yield . . . results in the 20th century, it will thrive; if Americans obsess about looming threats from the East, it may indeed enter the economic twilight. The choice is ours.
In this era of globalization, the strength of our demographically diverse nation lies in our ability to rise above the distinctions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability to achieve success. When mischaracterizations and exaggerations occupy our mindsets and airwaves, then we are less able to draw upon the strength of our representative democracy, the capabilities of our diverse citizenry, and our capacity for innovation. | {
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It's hard for me to find a 70s song that is both intensely fun and danceable, while not being as cliche and overused as Saturday Night Fever or Staying Alive. What song is at that perfect intersection of that Venn diagram, while also having possibly the most '70s video of it ever? Nancy Sinatra's – yes, daughter of Frank–These Boots Are Made For Walking.
The song's lyrics are ostensibly a list of observations how her loved one has been touching things he shouldn't be touch, and by his touching what he shouldn't be, it's causing problems:
You've been a messin' where you shouldn'ta been a messin'
You keep lying when you oughta be truthin'
And you keep losin' when you oughta not bet
You keep samin' when you oughta be a changin'
You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin'
And you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burned, ha!
So that description reminds me of someone other than that one particular oh-too-common type of boyfriend, that one particular oh-too-common type of client: the Meddler.
We've all had a client or two or many who is The Meddler. It's the person who when he was a kid, pressed every button on the remote control nonstop until it broke. Now, all grown up, the one who never learned the very emotionally complex art of Delegation. Who hires the experts and then immediately distrusts any decision or advice of him. The one who has to feel in control. The one who is too scared to let go even a little bit because, without his hands on the ship, it's all so likely to collapse.
(I mock such people with love; I used to be among their ranks!)
But the song makes a powerful point (my hands just mistyped the penultimate word as "powerpoint" which is a funny typo these days.) It's not just that the Meddler won't delegate and won't trust anyone else. It's that he goes a step further than that: he insists on putting his hands in every little detail. The Meddler is, in fact, to use the more commonly accepted business parlance, the bane of every employee's existence: the Micromanager.
Let's recap the above lyrics and see if they apply to micromanaging clients or bosses:
Yup. They put their hands to mess with, say, your Google Ads campaigns.
Yup. They always deny that they're making big changes, just saying they're "taking a look" or doing "minor tweaks" when really they're doing transformational and even suicidal changes to the accounts.
Yup. They keep on micromanaging and meddling to the point of failure of the whole project. (For which, of course, the consultant or PPC takes the blame and is inevitably fired!).
Yup. They keep on doing the same thing again and again, rather than changing their behavior to learn from their past mistakes. In fact, they consistently get the wrong lesson from the mistakes: they think that they just "made the wrong tweak" last time, rather than considering the possibility that the whole fact that they're making tweaks like that could be wrong in and of itself.
Yup. The Micromanager thinks Google Ads accounts are merely toys to be "played" with.
Yup. They really have convinced themselves that they won't get burned.
This song is a great reminder that the one whose personality is to meddle, will always meddle – be it in relationships or in ad campaigns. So thus the converse of that is also true: those who have a karmic tranquility and stoic strength to face insane clients, can probably use the same karmic tranquility and stoic strength when dating the likes of Nancy Sinatra.
But what happens to those meddling micromanagers? Nancy Sinatra constantly repeats the famous chorus:
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
What's notable about that is it's a threat. This isn't a song about how "you touched what you shouldn't touch, and that gave you a disease from which you're going to die a slow and painful death." (That's the song that I want to sing to meddling clients who fiddle with their Google Ads accounts and then TANK IT completely, not realizing their little changes destroy the campaigns. They are worthy of a painful death only after those who were condemned by Dante to the bottom rung of 9th circle Hell: those who listen to sounds from computers and phones in public without using headphones.)
She says she's going to punish him… but does she actually ever punish him?
Not in the song, at least. Even at other points in the song, she makes other threats, and still has no indication that they will be carried through:
I just found me a brand new box of matches, yeah
And what he knows, you ain't had time to learn
I will not comment here on people who make threats but never carry through on them, other than I myself am distinctly not of that particular tribe.
But here's the thing: this is how most digital marketers, PPCs, and in fact, most professionals are. They put up with clients treating them terribly, with clients sabotaging their very work.
If there's any lesson I've learned from my many interviews with people about disastrous client experiences ( https://clienthorrorstories.com ), it is that most people stick around toxic relationships until far, far too long after the toxicity has become apparent even to them. Perhaps the larger risk is just the addiction to the high you get from being in the toxic relationship, a high so hard to fight that the professionals stay with them until there's really no other option but to quit. Perhaps Roger Palmer said it better: "Might as well face it, you're addicted to love."
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Columbus Blue Jackets News: ACQUIRE D ADAM BOQVIST, 2021 FIRST AND SECOND ROUND PICKS (12TH, 44TH), 2022 FIRST ROUND PICK FROM CHICAGO FOR D SETH JONES, 2021 FIRST ROUND PICK (32ND) AND 2022 SIXTH ROUND PICK
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Adam Boqvist
COLUMBUS, OHIO – The Columbus Blue Jackets have acquired defenseman Adam Boqvist, first round picks in the 2021 (12th overall) and 2022 NHL Drafts and a second round pick in the 2021 Draft (44th overall) from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for defenseman Seth Jones, Columbus' first round pick acquired from Tampa Bay (32nd overall) in the 2021 NHL Draft and Columbus' sixth round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, club General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced tonight.
Boqvist, 20, was selected by Chicago in the first round, eighth overall, in the 2018 NHL Draft. He has registered six goals and 23 assists for 29 points with 20 penalty minutes in 76 career NHL games with the Blackhawks. In 2020-21, he notched 2-14-16 and 14 penalty minutes in 35 outings. He made his NHL debut in 2019-20, tallying 4-9-13 and six penalty minutes in 41 games with the Blackhawks. He also added 1-5-6 and 10 penalty minutes in 15 outings with the American Hockey League's Rockford IceHogs.
The 6-0, 179-pound native of Falun, Sweden registered 20-40-60, 12 penalty minutes and nine power play tallies in 54 games with the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights in 2018-19. He was named to the OHL's Second All-Star Team after finishing second among leauge defensemen in goals, third-T in power play goals, sixth in points and 11th in assists.
The blueliner also played in the Swedish Hockey League, collecting 0-1-1 in 15 games with Brynas IF in 2017-18. He racked up 18-22-40 in 43 contests with Brynas' junior team during that campaign.
Boqvist has represented Sweden at several international tournaments. He collected 1-3-4 in five games with the country at the 2019 IIHF World Juniors. He was also named Best Defenseman at the 2018 IIHF U18 World Championships and helped the country capture bronze after leading tournament blueliners in goals and points with 3-3-6 in six outings.
FULL ADAM BOQVIST STATS
Jones, 26, has posted 65-221-286 and 194 penalty minutes in 580 career games with the Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators since making his NHL debut in 2013-14. The Arlington, Texas native, who joined the club in a trade from the Predators on Jan. 6, 2016, notched 50-173-223 in 381 career contests with the Blue Jackets from 2016-21. He owns the franchise records for defensemen in career assists and points and ranks second in goals. The 6-4, 213-pound blueliner posted 5-23-28 while playing in all 56 games for the Blue Jackets in 2020-21. He was originally selected by Nashville fourth overall at the 2013 NHL Draft.
Seth Jones (megasportsnews.com photo)
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package chunker
import (
"bytes"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"testing"
"github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis-sdks/go/pkg/digest"
"github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis-sdks/go/pkg/uploadinfo"
"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp/cmpopts"
)
var tests = []struct {
name string
blob []byte
wantChunks []*Chunk
chunkSize int
}{
{
name: "empty",
wantChunks: []*Chunk{&Chunk{}},
chunkSize: 3,
},
{
name: "one",
blob: []byte("12"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{&Chunk{Data: []byte("12")}},
chunkSize: 3,
},
{
name: "one-even",
blob: []byte("123"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{&Chunk{Data: []byte("123")}},
chunkSize: 3,
},
{
name: "two",
blob: []byte("12345"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{
&Chunk{Data: []byte("123")},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("45"), Offset: 3},
},
chunkSize: 3,
},
{
name: "three-even",
blob: []byte("123456789"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{
&Chunk{Data: []byte("123")},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("456"), Offset: 3},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("789"), Offset: 6},
},
chunkSize: 3,
},
{
name: "three",
blob: []byte("123456789"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{
&Chunk{Data: []byte("1234")},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("5678"), Offset: 4},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("9"), Offset: 8},
},
chunkSize: 4,
},
{
name: "many",
blob: []byte("1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!"),
wantChunks: []*Chunk{
&Chunk{Data: []byte("1234")},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("5678"), Offset: 4},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("90ab"), Offset: 8},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("cdef"), Offset: 12},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("ghij"), Offset: 16},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("klmn"), Offset: 20},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("opqr"), Offset: 24},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("stuv"), Offset: 28},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("wxyz"), Offset: 32},
&Chunk{Data: []byte("!"), Offset: 36},
},
chunkSize: 4,
},
}
var bufferSizes = []int{3, 4, 8, 100}
func TestChunkerFromBlob(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for _, tc := range tests {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromBlob(tc.blob)
c, err := New(ue, false, tc.chunkSize)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
var gotChunks []*Chunk
for _, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks, gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, diff)
}
})
}
}
func TestChunkerFromFile(t *testing.T) {
execRoot := t.TempDir()
for _, tc := range tests {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
path := filepath.Join(execRoot, tc.name)
if err := os.WriteFile(path, tc.blob, 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
for _, bufSize := range bufferSizes {
if bufSize < tc.chunkSize {
continue
}
dg := digest.NewFromBlob(tc.blob)
IOBufferSize = bufSize
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromFile(dg, path)
c, err := New(ue, false, tc.chunkSize)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
var gotChunks []*Chunk
for _, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks, gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker buffer size %d gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, bufSize, diff)
}
}
})
}
}
func TestChunkerFullData(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for _, tc := range tests {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromBlob(tc.blob)
c, err := New(ue, false, tc.chunkSize)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
gotBlob, err := c.FullData()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.FullData() gave error %v on blob %q", err, tc.blob)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.blob, gotBlob, cmpopts.EquateEmpty()); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("FullData gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", diff)
}
})
}
}
func TestChunkerFromBlob_Reset(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for _, tc := range tests {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
for reset := 1; reset < len(tc.wantChunks); reset++ {
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromBlob(tc.blob)
c, err := New(ue, false, tc.chunkSize)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
var gotChunks []*Chunk
for i, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
if i == reset {
if err := c.Reset(); err != nil {
t.Errorf("failed to reset: %v", err)
}
break
}
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks[:len(gotChunks)], gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, diff)
}
gotChunks = nil
if reset >= len(tc.wantChunks) {
continue
}
for _, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q , expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks, gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, diff)
}
}
})
}
}
func TestChunkerFromFile_Reset(t *testing.T) {
execRoot := t.TempDir()
for _, tc := range tests {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
path := filepath.Join(execRoot, tc.name)
if err := os.WriteFile(path, tc.blob, 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
for _, bufSize := range bufferSizes {
if bufSize < tc.chunkSize {
continue
}
dg := digest.NewFromBlob(tc.blob)
IOBufferSize = bufSize
for reset := 1; reset < len(tc.wantChunks); reset++ {
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromFile(dg, path)
c, err := New(ue, false, tc.chunkSize)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
var gotChunks []*Chunk
for i, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
if i == reset {
if err := c.Reset(); err != nil {
t.Errorf("failed to reset: %v", err)
}
break
}
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks[:len(gotChunks)], gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker buffer size %d gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, bufSize, diff)
}
gotChunks = nil
if reset >= len(tc.wantChunks) {
continue
}
for _, wantChunk := range tc.wantChunks {
if !c.HasNext() {
t.Errorf("%s: c.HasNext() was false on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("%s: c.Next() gave error %v on blob %q buffer size %d, expecting next chunk %q", tc.name, err, tc.blob, bufSize, string(wantChunk.Data))
}
gotChunks = append(gotChunks, got)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.wantChunks, gotChunks); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: Chunker buffer size %d gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", tc.name, bufSize, diff)
}
}
}
})
}
}
func TestChunkerErrors_ErrEOF(t *testing.T) {
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromBlob([]byte("12"))
c, err := New(ue, false, 2)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
_, err = c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave error %v, expecting next chunk \"12\"", err)
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err == nil {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave %v, %v, expecting _, error", got, err)
}
}
func TestChunkerResetOptimization_SmallFile(t *testing.T) {
// Files smaller than IOBufferSize are loaded into memory once and not re-read on Reset.
execRoot := t.TempDir()
blob := []byte("123")
path := filepath.Join(execRoot, "file")
if err := os.WriteFile(path, blob, 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
dg := digest.NewFromBlob(blob)
IOBufferSize = 10
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromFile(dg, path)
c, err := New(ue, false, 4)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
}
got, err := c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave error %v", err)
}
wantChunk := &Chunk{Data: blob}
if diff := cmp.Diff(wantChunk, got); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", diff)
}
if err := c.Reset(); err != nil {
t.Errorf("failed to reset: %v", err)
}
// Change the file contents.
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("321"), 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
got, err = c.Next()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave error %v", err)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(wantChunk, got); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("c.Next() gave result diff (-want +got):\n%s", diff)
}
}
func TestChunkerResetOptimization_FullData(t *testing.T) {
// After FullData is called once, the file contents will remain loaded into memory and not
// re-read on Reset, even if the file is larger than IOBufferSize.
execRoot := t.TempDir()
blob := []byte("12345678")
path := filepath.Join(execRoot, "file")
if err := os.WriteFile(path, blob, 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
dg := digest.NewFromBlob(blob)
IOBufferSize = 5
ue := uploadinfo.EntryFromFile(dg, path)
c, err := New(ue, false, 3)
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t.Fatalf("Could not make chunker from UEntry: %v", err)
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if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.FullData() gave error %v", err)
}
if !bytes.Equal(got, blob) {
t.Errorf("c.FullData() gave result diff, want %q, got %q", string(blob), string(got))
}
if err := c.Reset(); err != nil {
t.Errorf("failed to reset: %v", err)
}
// Change the file contents.
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("987654321"), 0777); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
}
got, err = c.FullData()
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("c.FullData() gave error %v", err)
}
if !bytes.Equal(got, blob) {
t.Errorf("c.FullData() gave result diff, want %q, got %q", string(blob), string(got))
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All Odisha Inter college badminton tournment for boys is Organised by Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. CHSE published the programme for conduct of inter college Boys Badminton tournament of the council for the session 2012-13. The all Odisha colleges are requested to send their team under the age of 19 (nineteen) as on 31.12.2012 to the organizing zone as per the fixture.
For more details of Inter College Boys badminton tournaments click here. | {
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I always thought the statement is stupid but i was wrong. I actually do it for her. Although it may not be something crazy.
Like drinking wine even though i know i will have rashes later.
Feeding her in a Mahjong game.
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I spent most of the day questioning my motivation wondering why I would think about changing my career questioning my sanity. I asked myself the hard questions digging deep to get to the heart of the matter. What I found out surprised me.
I realized that the fear of failure and humiliation was no longer big enough to hold me back and keep me from trying. I want to grow and expand and experience things I have never experienced. I want to know what it would be like to write and publish a book, and go after my dreams and do the things until now I've only allowed myself to dream about. Despite the very real possibility of rejection and failure, I want to at least try.
I want more in my life than just the familiar. I don't want to go through motions anymore. I used to think that my motivation was fame and the recognition and adoration that comes with that, but that is just fantasy and I really have no control over whether my ideas are accepted. However, I do have control over what I get out of the experience; I have control over whether or not I write the book and publish it, and I have control over what I get out of the experience. There is so much opportunity for growth in leaving Japan and trying something completely different and out of my comfort zone.
That's why I am doing what I am doing, and when in doubt that is what I am going to tell myself. Just by making the decision to change, and giving myself permission to follow my heart I have succeeded and no matter what I am guaranteed to gain something awesome from this experience, win or lose, sink or swim, I get to finally live, and isn't that what were here to do?
My family and I spent the day in the country side. The International Club that we belong to had a family event. It was the first event we attended since becoming members. It was really fun. The place where the event was held was so lush and green. The drive on the way there was quiet and peaceful. It was great to look out the window and see all the rice fields, and the longed necked grey and white cranes gracing several fields. The landscape was idyllic. The traditional Japanese houses with grey tiled roofs nestled against beautiful green mountains.
The park at which the event was held was a patch of land next to a river and a small wood. You had to walk across a bridge to get to the picnic area. The water was so cool and clear with soft, flat stones on the river bed. Several children were playing in the shallow river, and my daughter, who loves the water, was soon playing along side them. In no time, she had acquired a fishing net from some older children who had welcomed her in their quest for life, and she had a blast dipping her net in the water in an attempt to catch a frog or small fish. Her new found friends had caught a frog and were keeping it in a blue plastic bucket. I watched as my daughter excitedly took the frog in her hands squealing as it jumped free from her grip.
As my daughter disappeared around the bend to return the frog, I watched as a group of toddlers clad in bathing suits waded through the water. One in particularly made eye contact with me, and instead of the usual deer-in-the-headlights reaction I get from children his age, he smiled and reached out his hand to me. I returned his smile and lightly touched his palm to mine in a gentle high five. It was an instant connection, and I was taken aback by the encounter.
Everyone at the park, including the large group of about fifty people from the club were so open and friendly. The little boy's mother came to check on her little son and stopped to chat with me for a bit. Surrounded by the lush green of the Japanese country side, I felt as if my soul were being recharged. I dipped my hands in the cool water and found the refreshing waters invigorating. It was like being in a dream.
It was a lovely day. The sky was thick with clouds which promised rain, but luckily for us, that rain did not come until the end of the day. It came down in a sprinkling as we made our way to our car, and by the time we got home it was pouring. As I clutched my little son in my arms, covering him with a towel against the rain, I thought of how much I loved the Japanese country side. It was so green. The mountains are at least three or four different shades of green. I could gaze at them all day.
I will miss the green the most when I leave Japan. I will carry it with me in my memory for the rest of my life. Today couldn't have gone better. It reminded me of what I love about Japan. Today, I realized that it will be hard to let go of the place I've called home for more than ten years of my life. Today leaving Japan felt like more than a notion; it felt very real. I can feel myself pulling away, saying my goodbyes and preparing for the day my family and I will leave this island country, return to my husband's and my home country, and start a new chapter in our lives.
Bright is the way ahead. It is full of possibilities and wonders I am eager to experience. There are also so many more unknowns than I have ever faced in my life thus far. By committing to following my calling, I am surrendering completely to my path letting my intuition take me where it will and letting go of the how concentrating only on the what and the why. We are venturing into uncharted territory although we will be returning to familiar ground. Yellow is the color I see ahead of me, but now I see green, the color of life and abundance. If I had not lived in Japan, I don't think I would have had this life affirming color in my pallet. There is nothing like it in Colorado where I grew up.
I am filled with gratitude for all that Japan and my time here has taught me. It has brought me to my life's purpose and it has prepared me for what lies ahead. Two years ago when I was desperate to flee Japan, the color I saw was a washed out shade of grey, but now I will remember Japan as green, deep and lush and teeming with life. Japan is ever green. It is the place of my awakening, and for that I will always be grateful to the people who helped me grow, and the experiences that led me to my truth.
As I am becoming more grounded and clear on my calling, I am compelled to take stock of the things to which I will say "yes," and that to which I will say "no." My list is below. What things are most important to your life?
10. Learning-this means learning a new skill every month; this month, I'm going to learn how to cook high protein, healthy foods using healthy fats and lots of veggies.
My husband and I want different things for our daughter and to a lesser degree our son, who is still an infant. We grew up with different ideas of family and we come from different generations. How are we going to make this work?
I imagine as with everything else in our marriage, we will talk about it digging deep to the heart of the matter finding out the need that lies behind each image we have of a good childhood for our children. I am not discouraged by these differences; I'm just happy now that I know that they exist.
We have only just realized that how we imagine our children's childhoods is different. I think this is because before I started caring about what I really thought rather than aiming to please, I never really articulated or more importantly knew what I wanted. Now that I am asserting my needs, my husband and I are finding out that our needs clash.
Until recently, I usually deferred to my husband's wishes. It is not that he is overbearing or controlling, quite the contrary, he has always asked me what I think, and until recently, I always thought I agreed with him. However, for a long time, I have not been happy living in Japan, and it is emotionally painful to raise my children so far from their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I always imagined that my children would have close relationships with my siblings, their spouses and children, and my parents, and likewise with my husband's siblings, their spouses and their children, and his parents. I imagined we would not only be emotionally close but also close in proximity. Every time we have decided to stay in Japan for one or two more years, I have felt torn between staying the familiar albeit less desirable life in Japan and pursuing a life worth living. I now realize that it is because I never wanted to raise children far from family.
This desire to be close to my family is a little ironic if you've read my About page..You know that the family in which I was raised was not very nurturing, but I am still very close to my parents, especially my mother, and my siblings, especially my older brother who has shown me nothing but love and respect my whole life. Although the low nurturance environment in which I grew up is responsible for a lot of my emotional scarring, my siblings, parents, and cousins are not the same people they were when I was growing up, just as I am not the same person I was when I was growing up. I love them no matter what and I want them in my life.
Part of learning to love myself is meeting my needs. This entails recognizing them and acknowledging them and honoring myself by meeting those needs with out judgment. I love and need my family, and I am no longer willing to sacrifice what precious little time I have remaining with them, especially my parents and my parents-in-law. The dream I have had of my children growing up along side their cousins has been deferred for too long, and I am anxious to get back to the States before the older generation passes on.
My husband is not so eager. In fact, he is dreading the idea of being close to his father, who was physically and emotionally abusive to my husband most of his life. Even now, his father says mean and nasty things to him about his weight and the fact that he doesn't have a "job" because child rearing is not a respected occupation in our culture especially for men. Going back is to my husband like serving an interminable prison sentence.
That is where we are at the moment. I certainly do not want to drag my husband back against his will, but I do not wish to stay in Japan any longer than my current contract. I see my daughter suffering from lack of attention and affection, and although my husband and I do our best to give her what she needs, it is hard for me to admit it, but we are not enough. It takes a village to raise a child, and we don't have one. Living in a foreign country as an illiterate adult with sporadic support is very stressful, and it has taken its toll, which is sadly in the form of my daughter's peace of mind and sense of attachment. This has become a price I am not willing to pay.
So we stand at a crossroads. My path goes to the left and my husbands fades into the darkness. He is fully aware of what he does not want, but not so clear on what he does want. He is also less hopeful and optimistic about the future. We are at a stand still holding onto each others hand neither willing to let the other go.
When one spouse is growing and expanding and the other is stuck, where do they go? Does the one that is expanding halt their growth to accommodate the one that is stuck? Is self sacrifice the answer? I am leaning towards a resounding "No." On the other hand, I want to stay married and I want him to want to grow and expand. However, as I'm sure many of you know, these things cannot be rushed. We must heal in our own time on our own terms, or we are not truly healing.
For now, I must wait. There is still time. My contract isn't up until the end of March. We are in couple's counseling so we have a guide to help us navigate areas of our marriage into which we have yet not ventured. I am hopeful. I have faith in my husband whose potential is boundless and whose talents are many. He has a wonderful heart and capacity to love unconditionally. He is my life partner, and I intend to stay with him for as long as I can.
There is so much potential for growth in this endeavor. As long as we believe in each other, I'm sure we will emerge from this stronger and closer than ever. I am open to where ever this part of the journey will take us. What wonders lie ahead?
There is a woman in my Zumba class who moves with ease and grace of a professional dancer. She seems to know all of the teacher's moves, and I often follow her when I lose sight of the teacher or have a hard time following him. I always appreciate her presence because she has become a kind of reference point when I get lost in the teacher's fast and at times elaborate choreography.
Today in class, I felt the need to approach her. My wise inner voice told me that I should strike up a conversation with her. I believed she would be a great person to help keep our Zumba class going. Some of you may not be aware of the fact that my Zumba class has been canceled and my gym will no longer be offering the class starting in July. My friend and I have been talking about the loss and are trying to find a way to save the class, but most of the other class members are not confident that we can keep the class going. This is mostly because they do not believe our teacher will be able to continue teaching us. This is of course possible, but that doesn't mean we can't go on without our teacher. The lady with the red shoes knows the dance steps to each song the teacher plays; she could be our teacher, or if not a teacher; she could be a point of reference. So, I thought to myself, tonight, I'll talk to her after class.
The end of class came, and we all piled out of the studio bowing and thanking our teacher as we exited. I saw an opportunity to talk with her, but a group of people merged in front of me, and I lost my chance to approach her. She didn't go into the locker room like most of us but instead went down the stairs. I assumed I had lost my chance and resolved to talk to her next week. I went into the locker room and got my stuff and made my way down the stairs, all the while thinking to myself how nice it would be have talked to her.
When I got to the locker where my street shoes were, I went into my purse to get the key, but it was not there. That was odd because I always put the locker key in the same place. Determined to find it, I rifled through other parts of my purse, moving from time to time to make way for people going for their shoes. I was getting frustrated and a little panicked when who should show up in front of the locker just above mine but the lady with the red shoes.
What are the odds? Before tonight, we had never crossed paths after class before. Seizing the opportunity, I told her how impressed I was with her dancing, and we talked for a few minutes. She mentioned how sad it was that our class was going to end soon, and I told her that we were trying to continue the class in another location, and she seemed genuinely interested. After she left, I looked in that same pocket in my purse that I had empty before to find the locker key exactly where I had left it.
As I made my way to the station, I felt a sense of gratitude for the opportunity that I was given to talk with Itsuko, the woman with the red shoes. Now something has begun. I have no idea what will come of our little exchange, but it was nice to be able to talk to her. Whatever made that possible, be it god, fate, the universe, or simple chance, I am grateful for it.
For awhile now, I've been a little flighty. I've been really excited about finally finding a emotional healing process that works for me, reaffirming my dream, and giving myself permission to leave Japan. I think I have been experiencing the heady euphoria that comes with a discovery that gives you a new lease on life. It is akin to the giddy lightheartedness that comes with being in love for the first time. I was so full of hope and I believed in magic. Everything was possible, and the universe was unfolding before me moving to make my dream a reality.
Well that's all over now. The honey moon is officially at an end and reality has crept in to bring me down to earth. At first, I was really afraid of this new sensation. I was afraid that once the excitement of finding the answer to my question would give way to the familiar depression that usually comes after a false start. However, that was not the case. Instead of feeling depressed, I feel, well, grounded. I feel certain of my decisions and I feel more comfortable in my own skin. I'm L'Shawn and that's finally okay.
Being grounded is a new and unfamiliar feeling for me. I am getting used to it slowly, but with every passing day, as the sensation remains, I feel more at ease with this new state of mind I have begun to adopt. I find that I am not as hard on myself for mistakes and the times when I slip back into old habits. I am more forgiving, and I dwell on unpleasant emotions less often now. I allow myself to be annoyed, irritated, angry, sad, apprehensive, and frustrated. I no longer let these emotions define me.
Now I am interested in pursuing certain things because of how they will contribute to my personal growth rather than how they will comfort me or take away my pain. I am no longer afraid of emotional pain, and I no longer believe that experiencing emotional pain somehow is indicative of a fundamental flaw or broken-ness. I now firmly believe that I cannot be broken as I am energy and therefore I can never be destroyed. This belief is life affirming and liberating. However, instead of feeling elated, I feel a deep sense of calm, and my mind is starting to quieten. It's definitely a state I can get used to.
At the same time, I know that I am dynamic, and although I feel grounded today, tomorrow I might feel uneasy or elated again. It's all part of the human experience. For now, I will continue to work on my health, my mood, and my perspective, with the knowledge that it is all part of the lesson I have chosen to learn in the course I call life. I wonder what new challenges I will face, and how they will change me and those around me.
I read these words in the article "The Five Lies You Tell Yourself That Keep You From A Better Life Experience" on HuffPost Women, and it gave me pause. Why did it give me pause? Why did this person's opinion cause me to question every big decision I've made recently? It's because I'm guilty of telling this lie; it is precisely because I believed I am special that I was able to get behind the idea of leaving Japan, changing my career, and writing a book. So, I was thinking, if I'm not special, how is any of that going to pan out?
Judging from my reaction to reading and believing these simple words, I discovered that I have a core belief that seems to be holding me back even as it appears to be motivating me to follow my passion. The minute that belief, "I am special," was called into question, I immediately began to doubt the legitimacy of my desire to change my situation. I started to feel foolish about the idea of writing a blog, telling my story, or anything that gave the impression that I was extraordinary. A closer examination of my motivation to do these things revealed a little arrogance on my part; something that was very difficult to recognize. However, as with most emotions that arise, I took this sense of disillusionment at the idea that I wasn't special as an opportunity to explore the source of my motivation, and the origin of my belief that success only comes to those who are special.
First, I'd like to explore the idea that success only comes to those who are special. Where did that idea come from? I believe that it came from years of observation. Think about it? Whenever successful and influential people like Bill Gates or Albert Einstein are discussed it is almost in the spirit of awe. These people got to where they did because of something extraordinary about their personalities. They are described as extremely intelligent, or extraordinarily talented. It isn't just through grit alone that contributed to their success. When I see articles explaining a certain number of personality traits that successful people have, or delineating the healthy habits of self-made millionaires, it gives the impression that there is something essential about these people that if imitated by us not so special people can help us succeed. This was the interpretation of my observations of successful people, but a closer examination of this perspective reveals a fundamental flaw.
Although I see these successful people as special, in interviews and biographies, it is rarely the case that these people see themselves as special. They are just following their dreams, and doing what they want to do with their lives. What I should have taken from the stories of these successful and influential people is that they believe in their own abilities and follow their desires and that coupled with hard work and dedication to their life's work that is what makes them seem special. If that is the case, then anyone can do what the people I admire do and have done. I can do it. I don't have to have some extraordinary talent or personality trait that magically makes it possible for me to be successful. I only need to follow my passion, commit to it, and do whatever I can to make my dream a reality.
I also question my concern with success, which in most cases relates to being influential and famous. This preoccupation with fame is a concern because it is not something I want to want. Only shallow people desire fame and I don't want to be shallow. Furthermore, being famous is not something I feel I have control over, so it is not something with which I should concern myself. The idea of being famous is tied to the idea of being special. The former is a phenomenon beyond my control and the latter is a delusion. Neither of these ideas serve me or contribute to my growth.
So, I agree with article's author Lisa Schmidt. I am not special. There is nothing to guarantee success, and there is the possibility that I may not see my dream come to fruition in my lifetime, but it is not the destination that matters, it is the journey. I think about what I can gain if I step out of my comfort zone and dare to put myself out there. I could learn some things about myself and the world outside of my reality bubble. When I think about the personal growth that can result from pursuing a dream that I have had for so long, I am filled with joy. More importantly, I think about the reason I am even pursuing the dream, and it isn't for fame and fortune, it is to make a contribution to the world thereby helping to make the world a better place. | {
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A group plan is usually less expensive than an individual strategy. So for these who have the privilege of utilizing a team strategy, it provides you the opportunity of having to pay reduce rates than otherwise. This gets to be even more true if you're overweight, a smoker or older.You can deliver down your well being insurance coverage premium by asking for and evaluating estimates from at minimum five great insurance estimates sites. This easy process could effortlessly conserve you hundreds of dollars.In the United States, approximately twelve,000 kids are born every yr with defects related to fetal alcohol syndrome. It isn't recognized just how a lot alcohol the mother has to consume to cause FAS, that is why if you are expecting or thinking of obtaining expecting, you should Drinking Alcohol Forever totally. Don't be fooled into considering this one consume gained't harm the baby. Liquor passes through the placenta from you to your baby. When you drink your baby beverages also.It's a hard job, yes, but it is feasible. Although there is no uniform and surefire method used by everybody, right here are a couple of suggestions to maintain you on track. There recommendations ought to not be comprehended as the only means to attain your objective of quitting liquor, they are simply reminders of the things you ought to do and those temptations and hurdles you ought to look out for.Today, my life in on goal and I feel much more "successful" than at any time. There are many things that look very various in my life and might not be noticed as ahead movement, but I know in the depths of my coronary heart that my lifestyle is much more blessed than at any time before by practicing these principles in each area of my lifestyle. Thank you, Dr. Chopra!A popular resolution is to Drinking Alcohol Forever. I always discover this fascinating as athletes think it to be a magic bullet: if they quit consuming alcohol, certainly they will be leaner, fresher and quicker—no query!So, the large query is can mattress bugs trigger anemia? In an easy to comprehend question let me say yes they can. In this post I will delve into what anemia is, how to understand it, how to deal with it, and just how can these parasitic blood suckers cause anemia.From the time I was about 8 years previous, my mother and father each drank. It wasn't poor at initial, but with the classic problems starting to surface, it go progressively worse. My mother and father were the common "functional alcoholic". They got up and went to function everyday and maintained the basics.The fact that you are looking for ways to easy way to stop drinking recommend that you are earnest and it connote that you have the urge to give up. In the absence of this type of cravings, it is totally impracticable for any person to overcome alcohol habit. Your urge is what will prompt you to take a quantity of violent actions that will maintain liquor at bay. Allow's examine some of the steps you can consider instantly to end this difficulty.Great advances have been made in current occasions regarding each the diagnosis and thus the treatment of various conditions. Circumstances like drug and alcohol addiction and ADHD have been investigated in great depth.Several weeks before your nose job, you will have to quit using medication that thins the blood, this kind of as aspirin products. You'll also have to Drinking Alcohol Forever. Your surgeon will give you a checklist of dos and don'ts that they want you to follow. If you strictly follow the directions, you'll be less most likely to have issues after surgical procedure. The evening prior to the surgical procedure, you'll be instructed to clean with an anti-bacterial soap. You won't be able to consume the next working day, so have a great food and attempt to get some relaxation.Despite the chance of mind harm brought on by his 2001 motorbike incident or the madness brought on by intense drug and alcohol addiction, the blame has to fall squarely into the exact same fingers that brutally stabbed his spouse to death. It's not honest to let Valero become a victim, a martyr. There are as well many innocent victims in this situation to seriously think about him 1.Individually, I can't stomach it correct now.Young individuals who consume turn out to be very 1 dimensional. They do not turn out to be fascinating people. They don't develop a wide variety of passions or hobbies. They have desire to hang around with anyone who seems different, so they truly restrict the sorts of things they talk about or do. They basically remain caught where they are at the age they began drinking. This whole thing reminds me of a book I read by Robert Bly called The Sibling Society. This book talks about a society with no vertical eyesight. The only gaze that the individuals have is a horizontal 1. This indicates that people can see only these who are in their immediate see.I also experienced to discover that the bad things, which occurred in my lifestyle, did not come from God but from the individuals I lived with, who chose not to adhere to God. I also had to discover that life is for experience. The great and poor experiences educate us. They lead us towards our possible and our lifestyle mission. Many of the bad things, which occurred to me, assisted me learn and develop and to help others. The truths I have learned can assist you as well. | {
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A better description would probably be: Precision Tactical Long Range Rifle. This discipline has all of those aspects involved. It will enable the hunter to develop the skills and confidence to take shots that they may have once thought to be too far or difficult and it will make the practical rifle shooter more capable to shoot quicker and get better hits.
Precision: The size of the target will usually be 1-3 MOA (1" at 100 yards equals 1 MOA, 3" at 300 yards is also 1MOA). Target acquisition and engagement will be fun and challenging. Most targets will be reactive.
Tactical: Decision making and problem solving is a natural part of this match. Shooting positions will vary greatly from prone, freehand, kneeling, seated as well as shooting off of and from a variety of surfaces, off of and through obstacles, uneven and inclined surfaces and so forth.
Long Range: Distances will vary from 100-870 yards. Some stages will see the shooter engage targets at multiple distances within a single stage.
The Match will consist of 8-10 stages or strings of fire on either paper and/or steel targets. These stages will consist of 4-10 rounds each normally. Paper stages will see targets engaged between 100-500 yards. Steel stages will use a variety of steel targets of varying sizes at 200-870 yards. The round count will be 50-75 rounds possible with usually around 60 rounds per match.
Rifles for these types of matches are usually a low recoil type. This is because it allows the shooter to better see their impacts to make corrections on follow up shots as well as to get back on target quicker. Rifles seen at these matches have ranged from .223 to 30-06. Magnum calibers are inappropriate for various reasons like the heavy recoil causing damage to targets as well as the shooter after 60 rounds. Scopes are typically tactical style with calibrated reticles and turrets.
Match appropriate ammunition will be centerfire rifle cartridges using lead core ammunition. Bullets containing a steel core or any steel alloy will not be allowed (if it sticks to a magnet it is not approved) to limit damage to steel targets.
The match will be conducted on Range 9 and will be held on the 4th Saturday of each month except for the month of December. The match will setup at 7am and begin at 8am. | {
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Mosaic Company reported lower sales volumes but higher sales revenue for quarter
Late spring planting and rail bottlenecks in Canada affected its earnings.
By Tom Meersman Star Tribune
May 7, 2018 — 8:58pm
Helped by higher prices for phosphate and potash, net sales for the Mosaic Company rose by about 19 percent during the first quarter of 2018, although adjusted earnings were negatively affected by the late spring planting and other weather-related issues.
The global fertilizer company based in Plymouth said Monday that its net sales during the quarter were $1.9 billion, compared with $1.6 billion last year.
Mosaic CEO Joc O'Rourke said the company expects the positive momentum to continue because of improving market conditions and strong operational performance. In addition, O'Rourke said in a statement: "Our excellent progress on the transformational initiatives at Mosaic Fertilizantes is expected to generate substantial earnings growth in the second half of 2018."
Mosaic is one of the world's largest fertilizer companies, mining potash and phosphate and processing those minerals into crop nutrients. Its largest potash operations are in Saskatchewan; its biggest phosphate mines are in south-central Florida.
Earlier this year the company completed its acquisition of Vale Fertilizantes, the fertilizer unit of Brazilian company Vale SA. Mosaic agreed to purchase the business in December 2016 for about $2.5 billion to strengthen its presence in South America.
The company reported net earnings of $42 million, with earnings per share of 11 cents, compared with a net loss of $1 million and earnings near the break-even level in the first quarter of 2017.
Adjusted earnings per share were 20 cents, less than the average 28 cents expected by analysts.
Net sales in the phosphate segment were $866 million, up from $839 million last year. Average sales prices of $431 per ton were higher than $369 per ton a year ago, but delayed spring planting in North America and idling of one of the company's Florida plants shrunk phosphate sales volumes from 2.3 million tons to 1.9 million tons.
Potash net sales totaled $404 million for the first quarter, down from $414 million last year at this time.
Affecting that market were logistical challenges, the company said, which included a rail bottleneck in Canada as potash shipments competed with Alberta oil for train shipments.
O'Rourke said that delays in new fertilizer supply coming to market, combined with strong demand and improving farm economics, "bode well for Mosaic's future." The company raised its 2018 adjusted earnings forecast to between $1.20 and $1.60 per share, from its previous estimates of between $1 and $1.50 per share.
The company's earnings report was released after the stock market closed on Monday. Its stock traded up slightly for the day to close Monday at $27.56. | {
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Is your skin feeling a little worn by the winter weather? If your heels, elbows, and hands are rough enough to cut someone then it's time to lotion up! Instead of rushing to the nearest health and beauty aisle, how about making your own coconut oil lotion?
This coconut oil lotion is perfect for achieving soft skin without subjecting your body to the chemicals and unnatural ingredients found in many store bought products. The beauty and health benefits of coconut oil are numerous and this is just another way to take advantage of this awesome ingredient.
To top it off, this homemade recipe for beauty for coconut oil lotion is easy and cheap to make. Feel like kicking it up a notch? Pair this lotion bar with a homemade DIY Lip Gloss and you'll be on your way to feeling good and looking great without breaking the bank.
1. Melt coconut oil, almond oil and beeswax in a microwave safe bowl by heating in 30 second increments, stirring in-between, until the mixture is liquid and smooth.
2. Stir in the Shea butter until melted.
3. Add essential oils a little at a time. Start with 10 drops of each and then add more until desired scent is reached.
4. Pour hot liquid carefully into a silicone mold.
5. Allow lotion bars to sit overnight.
6. Remove from the mold and store in a cool, dry place. Remember that coconut becomes liquid in warm temperatures.
After you try out these coconut oil lotion bars you won't be able to get enough of coconut. Trust me. After you moisturize your skin, consider moisturizing your hair with this DIY coconut oil hair mask.
For more homemade recipes for beauty and beauty tips be sure to follow Freebie Finding Mom's DIY Beauty Tips Pinterest board and read my other DIY beauty recipes.
You can find it on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=shea%20butter&linkCode=ur2&tag=monandsavhel-20&url=search-alias%3Daps&linkId=MP3OKOULU6S7JPEY.
I bought some at Hobby Lobby.
I would like to get more natural recipes for oily skin… And solution for pimples.
Tried this recipe. There was way too much beeswax. They turned out so hard they did not deposit any oil on my skin. Are you sure about this measurement?
Hi! Yep, that's the correct amount that we used. It is hard but it melts on your skin. You can remelt it an add another 1/4 cup coconut oil, almond, and she then pour back into mold to reset.
Love it!! Can i use other oil instead of almond oil?? Extra virgin olive oil for example. And I can substitute the basil oil for another one??. Thanks in advance.
Yes you sure can! They beauty of diy beauty products is that you can customize to what you have on hand or your personal preferences.
Hi, I just tried this recipe and the consistency is not working for lotion bars.
Or there is way to much beeswax or too much shea butter but when you try to wash it off wont come out!
How can I fix the mix I already made?
Hi Vanessa, I think this is truly personal preference. I have very dry skin on my shoulders and upper arms and I use these regularly and enjoy the thickness of the lotion. This is meant for after shower not to be washed out and it will absorb into your skin as the day goes on, if you already have oily skin it may not be for you. You can add a bit more oil to your mixture, remelt and pour into molds again. Hope this helps!
Is there an alternative substitute for almond oil? I'm allergic to nuts and would love to try this out, but obviously I'm held back by the almond oil.
I also have an allergy issue with the almond oil. Someone mentioned olive oil, but I am interested in other suggestions.
Do you have to use silicone molds? Cause i have plastic ice trays and hate to go buy silicone molds if I can use the trays I have.
Your ingredient lists include almond oil, but it is not mentioned in the directions. Was it supposed to be included before microwaving??? I guess I'll find out how it works without because mine are already in the mold.
Is there anything else I could use to substitute the beeswax? Another type of wax maybe such as soy wax?
This is my second time trying to make this recipe and my beeswax won't melt?!?
Is there a trick to this or something I'm missing?
coconut bar sounded interesting, but comments of it being hard and not coming off seems counter productive. Should wash off. Also approx. what is the cost of ingredients and how many bars of soap will you make using this recipe. Thanks.
It's a lotion bar, not soap. Do you normally wash off your lotion?
Hi They came out great, what temperature do you store them?
I found by microwaving the beeswax by itself first helps the process. Microwave for three 20 minute spurts in the microwave, checking it and rotating it each time. Then add the other ingredients. Hope that helps!
I think you mean 20 SECOND spurts.
I love this recipe! I would love to try it, though the video commercials were painful as I was trying to read it.
On what temperature do you store them? My melt too fast on skin and I tried to put more beeswax but it didnt work.
I made these this weekend and they turned out perfectly. I made a makeshift double boiler with my pyrex measuring cup and a pan of simmering water to get the bees wax to melt. I used my immersion blender too which helped break up the pellets even more. It takes some patience but it finally all melted. I added some of my soap coloring and added some soap glitter for about half of the batch. It makes a lot. I added a darker green halfway through too so I have 2 colors. I did coconut lime scent. I think they melt perfectly on my hands. Thanks for the recipe! | {
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Steve Almond
By The Rumpus Book Club
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Steve Almond about his new book, Against Football, One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, the complicity of fans in the violence of the NFL, the sports media's role in the discussion (or lack of one) and the difficulty of leaving a sport you've loved your whole life.
This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month The Rumpus Book Club hosts a discussion online with the book club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview. To learn how you can become a member of the Rumpus Book Club, click here.
This Rumpus Book Club interview was edited by Brian Spears.
Amanda: Well you've completely turned my world upside down too.. I'm driving to LA on Saturday to watch my beloved Fresno State bulldogs get clobbered by USC. It's killing me… Have you been to a football game since you started this book? How did it feel?
Steve Almond: No, I haven't even seen a game. Actually, I've seen some highlights and clips and stuff as "research." But I'm really trying to go cold turkey on watching because I would feel like (an even bigger) hypocrite if I tuned in. Especially my insistence that we, the fans, are the ones responsible for building and empowering the Football Industrial Complex.
J Katz: Is there a tipping point? What if someone offered you Super Bowl tickets?
Amanda: I appreciated your recommendations in the epilogue… But you need a weaning off treatment plan for fans : /
Ben: I've never been a football fan, not even much of a TV sports fan, but I watched part of a game after reading the book and experienced a sort of ghoulish interest.
Steve Almond: But as wretchedly judgmental as that sounds, I don't want you to feel Amanda that I bear you any ill will. I get how AWESOME it is to watch the game. And I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction. So maybe the next edition will have a weaning plan.
And for the record, I wouldn't go to the Super Bowl for anything. It feels like the most corrupt event in the world. It's just like capitalism having this big violent porn orgasm. And yes, the money shot is actual money.
Brian S: I moved on to another sport, personally. I've become a big fan of soccer in the last 2-3 years. And I've returned to baseball.
Amanda: Thanks Steve. Please just don't kill baseball for me : )
Steve Almond: Baseball's next on my list! Kidding. The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business. I chose to focus on football because it's, like, five times more popular and profitable than any other sport and because I happen to love it so much and hate myself for loving it.
J Katz: Especially with the new idea of having the halftime band PAY to perform.
Brian S: I'm with you on the Superbowl. I could see going to a playoff game, maybe, but the Superbowl is just too much. And the story that hit this past week that artists who want to play the halftime show will have to pay for the privilege just drove home how much of a behemoth the NFL is.
Steve Almond: Yes, asking Katy Perry et al to PAY to play is a great example of the NFL's insane entitlement. But we're the ones who give them all that cultural power.
Ben: I wasn't aware of the tax-exemptions for NFL—that's interesting and unexpected.
Brian S: And, I'd argue, it's one of the least defensible in terms of the toll it takes on the human body and the lengths the league has gone to to extort money from state and local governments.
Ryan: Great book Mr. Almond. I loved it. I hated it. I hated you. I loved you and agreed with many of the things you wrote. Listen to The Herd everyday. While I don't have my season tickets anymore, I enjoy the social aspects of having friends over every week to watch the game.
Steve Almond: And Colin Cowherd, how ever lame his reasoning often is, did bring up this point about the NFL's power the other day. The guys who report on football and comment on it aren't dumb. They just don't want to start to complicate their lives by turning the thing they love into something morally complex. And neither does Amanda. And neither do I, really. But the more you look at football—the totality of it—the darker it gets. I honestly didn't mean to write such a long book. It just kept expanding as I learned more about the game.
Ben: If the moral complexity became sufficiently real to them, would they have to give it up?
Steve Almond: I hear you, Ryan. And for the record I'm going to be pretty miserable this season, because one of my favorite things in fall was watching games with pals of mine. We're a bunch of dads with little kids and we're all stressed out and guilty all the time and football was a kind of refuge for us. And I'm really and truly gonna miss that.
Ben, you've put your finger on the purpose of my book. I'm really trying to see what happens if people start to think of football in moral terms, if we connect the consumption of the delicious product to the moral cost of it to all of us. Amazingly, that's really never been done in the case of football. It's like there are all these damning aspects to the game, but we simply ignore them because we're so much in the thrall of the game. And yes, fans behave pretty terribly at games, I'm sure. But why wouldn't they? You're watching a game in which the whole point is the knock people senseless.
Ryan: Question about the fan "behavior" before/during games. Any thoughts on the terribleness of it all? One of the reasons I gave up my tickets was I couldn't in good faith take my kids to the games anymore.
Brian S: And you add in alcohol, not a great mix.
Ben: War continues to have moral complexity, but we haven't exactly given it up because of that. Football serves some deeper needs perhaps?
Brian S: Ben, we haven't given up war, but we (aka the US public) has gotten way less willing to accept large numbers of casualties, and so we don't get involved in big wars so much anymore.
Andrea: My husband and I have been holding some rather animated breakfast debates, which is okay because our Cheerios needed a little enhancement. One point that I could not readily counter involved the enhancement of the local economy. Any thoughts? I also was not quite clear on the tax-exemption point. I was told that players pay our city wage tax, but I never really followed football, was just asked about funding a stadium.
Steve Almond: So Andrea, the way it works is that the NFL and owners use the massive popularity of the game to get local politicians to pledge public monies to build stadiums. But the public doesn't see any return from those investments.
Andrea: Oh, that I understood and found quite shocking.
Steve Almond: As for the question from Ben about football serving deeper needs, it absolutely does and has from the beginning. Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today. It also offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."
Maggie: I didn't grow up watching sports but now I live in the land of college basketball (Durham, NC) and spent a few years bartending. I realize that sports (in general) are the easiest way to talk to anyone. I now maintain a passing interest in the sports that are always on around me for that reason. What would you want your bartender/barber/barista etc to say to you each fall, instead of "how about those raiders?"
Frances: OK—old lady here. What about the social aspects of being at your kids' soccer and baseball and hockey games? We didn't allow our kids to play football (over 30 years ago) but we went to all their other games and enjoyed the social aspect.
I am eager to lend the book to my 95 year old father who played football at small college over 75 years ago. In a leather helmet.
Steve Almond: Frances, I think it's great that you're going to give the book to your dad. My whole intention was to have people give the book to fans they knew, because it's the non-fans, or the reluctant fans who are going to have to take the lead in starting a larger cultural discussion. I honestly believe that. There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.
Andrea: It is the added stadium jobs and enhanced business (enhanced sales tax). Is the tax-exemption on just a specific level, such as federal? Or does it apply just to the accepted "members," such as owners, commission, etc.?
Ryan: It was incredible to be reading this in Colorado as talk radio discussed if Wes Welker should retire after his 3rd concussion in less then a year. Most were in favor of him continuing to play. Screw the long term consequences.
J Katz: Obviously, a $10 billion industry (and growing) is not going away. Do you foresee any changes to make it a safe sport. New cutting edge helmets, with impact sensors.
Ben: I certainly don't understand why, but it would seem that making the game safe would also make it even more clearly pointless.
Brian S: I think the threat to the NFL is something that making the game "safer" won't fix. The problem is that more parents are refusing to let their kids play Pop Warner and high school football, and without those kids to fill the pipeline to the college ranks, the NFL won't have future players. It feels a bit to me like boxing, which was huge when I was a kid in the 70s and is almost an afterthought now.
Michelle: Are fewer kids really playing? I don't see that in my town or in the poor areas around me.
What has been the personal response you have received from those pals you mentioned and your family to your book? And do you follow scores and the sports talk? I know you don't watch games but I'm wondering if you have completely amputated football from your life.
Ryan: Any thoughts on the HUGE push the NFL is making to welcome women and mothers into the flock so to speak with the breast cancer month and the new "heads up" gatherings they are holding in each NFL city?
Steve Almond: Mr. Katz, I'm sorry to say that I don't believe the sport is going to get much safer. For two reasons. First, physics and physiology. The basic facts are that mass times acceleration equals force. And the brain is a soft organ inside a hard skull. You can't come up with some helmet to transcend that. You just can't. Because if you could, it would be in use right now, given all the money at stake. But more fundamentally: Roger Goodell and his henchmen know that VIOLENCE SELLS. It's what we fans WANT. And they're going to continue to give us what we want as long as it makes them money. So it's really up to us to turn away from the game until it becomes less violent. Two-hand touch, anyone?
Brian S: Michelle, yes, the national numbers for Pop Warner have declined for the last 3 or 4 years running.
Frances: We were among a large group of parents who did not let our kids play football and I have seen that in my small upscale town for 30 years. I think there really is a lot less football.
J Katz: Any notable sports figures jump behind your cause? Any high profile support?
Steve Almond: Okay, so re: Michelle's question—what I suspect is going to happen in the next few years is that fewer kids from wealthier areas are going to play, because their parents are going to say, "No way! I sent my kid to school to make his brain more active, not less!" And that will increase the trend that's already in effect, which is that the sport is promoted and even worshipped in areas where there isn't a lot of other economic opportunity for young boys. That's maybe the sickest part of all this, and the reason I find Obama's response to football so sickening.
Michelle: That's the population I serve as a nurse and I can tell you they see sports as the main way out.
Amanda: Steve—I don't think the book was 'long' at all—I think the writing was excellent. You were concise and well-organized and it made for a very persuasive book that I could give to any football fan and HOPE they would understand. I have already bought my college football season tickets this year, but it will probably be the last year I do that.
Steve Almond: In response to the Heads Up stuff and targeting moms—the NFL folks are SMART. They know they have a huge problem with women, who see the brutality of the game as much more troubling than man (as a rule). And so they want to target that population and neutralize a potential protest bloc. But I think the moms of America should just rise up and call bullshit on the whole fucking thing. Honestly. And as many dads as can muster the courage should join them.
Maggie: I felt like some of the issues you discussed could be applied to sports culture in general. Football is clearly more violent than say basketball, but there's still a certain amount of tuning out the real world to follow something that one can make sense of. Do you follow other sports and if you do, do you think abstaining from football will just lead people to another distraction?
Amanda: I just had a disturbing talk with my secretary today. Her 7th grade son had to choose between being in band and football this year. He chose football. I tried to explain to her that he should choose band. Her response was 'no way! Band will never make him any money. Football could.' She didn't even seem concerned about that possible brain damage. So in her case it seems like Obama is spot on—you can tell people not to smoke, but they still will…
Brian S: Not to mention that the chance her son will ever make money at football is thousands to one.
Mike S: Isn't the opportunity problem really more a society problem than a football problem? If kids can only escape crushing poverty through football and you take away that sport, basketball, baseball, etc. will replace it. But it's really the lack of opportunity that needs to be addressed.
Steve Almond: Mr. Katz asked about other high-profile folks who have publicly criticized football. Buzz Bissinger is one guy who's been pretty brave. So has Gladwell. He gave a very ballsy town down at UPenn calling on students to boycott football. But at the same time, I saw an interview with him recently where he said that he still loves the pro game and watches it. It's a strange thing. Fans really can't cut the cord.
Amanda: Exactly!!! It's so ridiculous.
Kim: MLS also does the breast cancer awareness campaigns. Goalies dressed in pink.
Hi Steve! Our boys don't play football in Swampscott, but it is big here. There will have to be a lot more in the media before parents here refuse to let their kids play, even when they don't like it and know better.
Brian S: I admit, I don't watch the game anymore, but I still read news stories about the Saints, and I know what their record is at any time in the season.
Amanda: Someone mentioned boxing earlier and you briefly mentioned it in the book. Why is it less popular now? Is it possible that it's just because of the rise in popularity of the more brutal alternative—UFC?
Steve Almond: Amanda, but Obama also said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better. Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.
Brian S: I have a theory—Muhammad Ali. He was this god of boxing, and then when he refused to hide himself away after he developed Parkinson's, he really put a face on the damage that boxers took.
Kim: Have you written about Rashard Mendenhall (apologies if he's in the book, I haven't finished). I was so impressed with his decision to retire at 26 and his reasons.
Steve Almond: Kim, yes, I quote Mendenhall at length. He's an absolutely stunning example of someone with real moral courage.
Amanda: I agree with you Steve on the Obama thing. It's no different than politicians sending other people's kids to war, but they probably wouldn't make a statement saying "I would never let my son join the army."
Michelle: To be honest, I didn't get the book's relevance to me as a non-fan who sees football as barbaric and brutal until you brought the stadium issue and financing up. Then I felt like there was a reason I should pay attention. I appreciated that you were able to make it relevant to someone who already agreed with your premise.
Amanda: Brian—interesting idea about Ali. I liked that the book sort of highlighted the fact that these brain injuries and early deaths are sort of a dirty little secret. You would think that the suicides would have swayed more people though…
Steve Almond: Brian, Ali is a complicated figure. But he represents the larger paradigm, which is that we want to see guys who are super-human, who represent a certain kind of grace and omnipotence that we all wish to possess (especially us fat dudes on the couch, with the nachos). So we get off on that vision of hyper-masculinity. But we really disconnect that from what they eventually become. We just don't connect those two synapses in our brain emotionally, even if we do intellectually.
Amanda: I appreciated the stuff that Michelle is pointing out too. I felt like the effectiveness of the book was that it took all these different problems with football—some that I've heard before and some that I hadn't—and put them all together in a way that wouldn't let me ignore them like it's easy to do individually.
Brian S: Amanda, I think part of what happens is that the majority of football players fade into anonymity after retirement, and so when something happens to them, it's a tiny story at most. Easy to ignore.
Ryan: Do you think Simmons will respond on Grantland?
Steve Almond: Yeah, Michelle, I hear you. Part of the problem with the title "Against Football" is that it makes the book seem narrow in its concerns. And for the record, I wanted to call it "This Eager Violence of the Heart." But the truth is that football is a HUGE industry and a form of entertainment that's incredibly influential in all sorts of subtle, but crucial ways. It really is a kind of refuge, for instance, for patriarchal values, the sort that basically feel women exist to serve sexual and/or ornamental purposes. So it was vital to me that non-fans understand that they have a huge stake in this, as well, even if they find the game brutal and absurd.
Ben: How is it that some of us feel completely uninterested by the game and unmoved by its alleged "values," while others find it so immensely important. Does it require early exposure, like religion, to develop loyal fans?
Michelle: Yes, I never got that until we moved from CA where football was not a big deal to a very small midwest town where almost all boys play football and all sisters cheer. I was shocked and disgusted and it has really affected our social circle because it is SO prevalent here.
Brian S: Football and small towns, man.
Andrea: Ben, it is probably for the same reason that some Romans went to the Colosseum and some did not. It is sad that some things just refuse to change.
Steve Almond: Ryan, I have no idea if Simmons will respond on Grantland. I very much doubt it. His whole thing is to be this super-enthusiastic and thoughtful fan and he does it really well. He's likable. I'd love to shoot the shit with him. But Against Football is really kind of nightmare for him and the other guys on sports talk/ESPN. Because the book really questions their culpability so directly, the ways in which they've constructed professional identities founded on a kind of moral blindness. They simply can't look at the dark side of football, and most of all at their collective role as promoters of this denial. What they do every day is minimize the moral concerns by finding convenient scapegoats, giving fans new reasons not to face their own complicity. Heck, I'd love to debate Simmons. Or any of these guys. But there's no way they're going to let me near a studio, I don't think.
Ben: There is no hope for real reform of the game.
Michelle: I also think one issue that was alluded to through the Incognito parts was the emotional abuse rampant in football. I recently walked past a 7-year-old practice and the ways the dad-coaches yelled at the boys was abusive. When I remarked to my husband he said the men he works with (corporate engineers for a big company) love that. The more demeaning a coach is to their son the better. I thought I had fallen into an alternate universe.
Amanda: There were so many parts of this book that just blew my mind. One was that it NEVER occurred to me that it's weird that sports are part of the educational system. It was like a lightbulb—duh! Why in the world should sports be connected with school.
Ryan: The chapter on the Wells Report was really well done. I was sad to see that Incognito is wanted by no less then 4 teams.
Amanda: I found the part of the announcers really interesting too. I loved your point that they basically provide a filter through which we can view and justify what would otherwise be completely unacceptable violence.
Michelle: Yes, that was one of my favorite chapters too!
Steve Almond: Ryan: yes, Incognito is still wanted. Again: capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability. And the same thing goes for Amanda's comment, about the way football has infiltrated our educational system. A lot of the reason for that is that it generates money. And not for the schools, but for the whole complex of people who survive off of football. But when you step back, it's just absolutely psychotic. And a part of me just looks at this as another sign that America's imperial reign is coming to an end. I mean: we've given our high schools and colleges over to a violent game. How much more obvious is it that we've got horrible, self-destructive priorities?
Amanda: Another interesting Raiders side note… I follow Derek Carr on Facebook, who was just drafted to the Raiders from my alma mater, Fresno State. Right after I'd started your book he posted about that concussion he received in the first pre-season game, assuring fans it was no big deal and he'd be back at work in no time. Made me so sad : (
Brian S: I wonder if, as the research on brain injury continues, there will come a time where public schools have to get out of football because they can't find insurers willing to take on the risk anymore?
Steve Almond: Yeah, one thing I'm still hoping to do is to "live tweet" a game, or "live blog" it, or whatever, and rather than providing the sanitized, euphemized propaganda of the corporate announcers, I'd love to point out the facts that really matter, like how many times the injured player has suffered concussions on previous plays and how much the coaches are paid, versus the adjunct professors at their college. Stuff like that. It's my dream gig.
Brian S: If you want a co-host on that, let me know. I volunteer.
Ryan: I think live tweeting a game would be a really fun and insightful read!
Bernsteinn: Did you see the gruesome James Blake head injury when his head slammed into a net post, and are you in favor of helmets in tennis?
Steve Almond: Bernsteinn, as you know, I'm in favor of helmets in all sports, including golf. Next question!
Brian, your point about the medical part of this is sound. I talked to one lawyer who basically told me that high school football (in public schools) was doomed, because it would soon be clear what the risks were and no school would be able to deal with that kind of liability. We'll see.
Shayla: The justification I hear again and again is that football pays for other sports. But then you're simply saying that a poor black kid should essentially kill himself so a wealthy white girl can play tennis.
Brian S: Shayla, on the college level, that's true at a relative handful of schools. Another dirty little secret is that most universities lose money on football. Very few are profitable, and when they are, the university sees almost none of the money.
Guest: I have been away from football as my favorite spectator sport since my career in medicine began. Front page of 8/24 Houston Chronicle: "A Dynasty's Dawn: Katy Football."
Steve Almond: Amanda, I just wrote a piece about Wes Welker, the former Pats receiver who just got his third concussion (that we know about) in ten months. He's probably going to come back and play some more. And to some extent, I understand why. These guys LIVE to play the game. They have a warrior mentality. There's a twisted Christian aspect to this, the idea that the highest good is sacrificing your body for the greater cause. The problem is that they can no longer do so without having to face the reality that they may wind up like Junior Seau or Mike Webster or poor Tony Dorsett. What they need are people around them—strong mothers and fathers and wives, etc.—to pull them back from the fray and offer some perspective.
Amanda: Maybe they should make your book required reading for every kid and parent of kid who signs up for football… Then we could truly say it was assumption of the risk
Andrea: That is an excellent idea!
Amanda: Of course that only covers the medical aspect and not all the other points about the tax exempt status, impact on education system, proliferation of violent culture, etc.
Brian S: I don't know. At this point I'm tempted to say that allowing your kid to play full contact football is borderline child abuse.
Tina: all about high school football here on the Katie prairie. The book has changed me. I'm gonna send the coach your book and he's not the only one.I will be buying dozens of them.
Steve Almond: Shayla, what football is really saying—that is, what we the fans are saying through our support of football—is that the poor kids who wind up mostly filling the rosters exist to perform for us. And we will worship them for their carnal prowess, and even subsidize their salaries. But that's not the same as actually giving a shit about them, as people. Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.
Amanda: And they are starting them younger and younger! My boyfriend's nephew is starting tackle football at age 6!!! I wanted to shake his mom!!
Michelle: Football in a way is another lottery system for the poor. In my opinion. They can be told the risks but being poor sucks and its worth the one in a million shot
Steve Almond: Brian, it's really complicated, though. Because you could say the same thing about gymnastics, or most other sports. And you also run into the crisis of free will and of wanting your child to excel at something and be made to feel good about themselves. I provided that example of my pal Pat in the book. I mean, his kid really LOVED playing football. It gave him real joy. And Pat knows that it's bad for his kid and dangerous. But he also wants his son to be happy. As a parent, that's a real dilemma
Brian S: Yeah, I understand that. I have a 24 year old daughter and two 6 1/2 month old girls, so I know the trouble of denying your kid something they love. But that's also part of the parenting gig.
Michelle: I also think there is no informed consent because developmentally the age these kids start playing is an age of feeling invincible. So I think you are right. It will take the moms and dads and wives!
Steve Almond: Michelle is ABSOLUTELY right. Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods. And to connect the dots a bit, that's why I got so pissed at Obama for endorsing football when asked about it. He of ALL PEOPLE should recognize that football is selling poor communities in this country a false dream. And it's a distraction from the real issue, which is creating equality of opportunity for all citizens.
Brian—you're right. As my friend Karl Iagnemma (the amazing writer) says, "Parenting is the part where it's hard."
Kim: Football practice also starts mid-August for elementary school kids and practices are most days of the week. For any kids that wants to do something—anything—in addition to football, knowing that is a pretty good deterrent. Unfortunately, most kids sports don't trail too far behind, a separate problem, but the argument seems to be more effective for kids than you will get hurt and you might get brain damage.
Amanda: But it just sort of goes along with the belief system of this younger generation—get rich quick schemes (or the NFL lotto) is valued over paying your dues and working your way up. (not trying to sound like an old curmudgeon—I'm 32 so I'm criticizing my own generation).
Brian S: I know it's the case in basketball that the majority of successful athletes are actually from middle-class backgrounds rather than the economically disadvantaged. They're the ones who can get coaching and equipment and such. I wonder if that's the same for football?
Frances: Did his son sneak off to play football at the start? If you never sign your kid up for football will he love it? Or will he love soccer and hockey and the other things you sign him up for?
Steve Almond: Yes, Kim, football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.
Brian S: A very powerful, successful cult.
Steve Almond: The most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.
Guest: And religion has a not for profit status too… but that's a different discussion and book.
Kim: Thinking of it as a cult makes it even scarier.
Ben: I'm against football and religion, and especially invocation of the Deity at games (or in churches, for that matter).
Kim: We also almost never have the TV on a football game. Baseball, basketball yes. I think that input or lack thereof makes a difference.
Steve Almond: Yeah, a lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.
Brian S: Best of luck with the book Steve. Hope it's successful and that it starts a national conversation (as opposed to a bunch of talking heads screaming at each other).
Amanda: Thank you for writing this book Steve. It was brave and necessary. I hope it gets all the media attention and readership it deserves. I think I will be buying several copies as gifts!
Ben: Thanks Steve—also, I liked your comment about the young man's need to compartmentalize with respect to the Italian woman studying gender roles.
Steve Almond: Yes, I wish I could have answered all the questions. And thanks to anyone who read the book and didn't throw it across the room. I would only ask of all of you that you find at least one fan in your life and utz them to read it. If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult. Or something. Onward, together, Steve.
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Captain Heartbreaker
(Havenbrook #3)
Brighton Walsh (Goodreads Author)
Adventure's in Captain Hudson Miller's blood. For the past ten years, he's spent his days in the sky, serving as a pilot for the Army. But where adventure called him away, something—someone—else is calling him home. On post-deployment leave, he escapes to the one place he hasn't been since he enlisted: Havenbrook, Mississippi. Hometown of his momma's peach cobbler, enough Adventure's in Captain Hudson Miller's blood. For the past ten years, he's spent his days in the sky, serving as a pilot for the Army. But where adventure called him away, something—someone—else is calling him home. On post-deployment leave, he escapes to the one place he hasn't been since he enlisted: Havenbrook, Mississippi. Hometown of his momma's peach cobbler, enough memories to last a lifetime, and the only girl who ever left an imprint on his heart.
Mackenna Haven thought she'd have her life figured out by now. Instead, she's a twenty-seven-year-old college drop out who works at her soon-to-be brother-in-law's bar and lives on her parents' land. No husband or kids to her name. Not even a consistent weekend booty call. She's been pretending she's happy working dead-end jobs in an even deader-end town, but she can't stop thinking she was meant for more than this.
After a childhood as best friends and a single weekend exploring more, Mackenna and Hudson haven't seen each other in ten years. But they made a pact that long ago weekend, and Hudson's coming to make good on his promise. Except she has no interest in it or him. After all, he walked away from her once already, and she's not interested in opening her heart and allowing him a second chance at destruction. ...more
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Mar 17, 2020 Stacee rated it it was amazing
I will read anything Brighton puts out, so I don't even care about the synopsis. However, knowing this was Mac and Hudson's story had me extra excited.
I love love loved Mac. She's full of sass and smarts and absolutely underestimates her worth. Hudson is confident and a complete marshmallow when it comes to his Kenna. I loved their history and button pushing and JFC the chemistry.
Plot wise it was good. There's not nearly as much as push and pull as I was expecting and even though each of them I will read anything Brighton puts out, so I don't even care about the synopsis. However, knowing this was Mac and Hudson's story had me extra excited.
Plot wise it was good. There's not nearly as much as push and pull as I was expecting and even though each of them had some second guessing at various times of the story, the love between them was so apparent. I will say I wanted a bit more from the epilogue. Yes, what we got was fantastic, but I was hoping for something a little more set in the future.
Overall, it was the perfection I expect from a Brighton Walsh book. Now I'll just be over here waiting for Nat's book.
**Huge thanks to Bright Publishing for providing the arc free of charge** ...more
Mar 20, 2020 Timitra rated it it was amazing
Captain Heartbreaker was one of my most highly anticipated reads. I've been waiting for this bad boy for more than a year if memory serves me right and I'm happy to report that it was totally worth the wait.
I loved the sexual tension between Mac and Hud as well as their connection that spanned childhood into adulthood. I loved their journey, it was an adventure of self and relationship discovery. It's also hot and sexy with a bit of humor.
I can't recommend this book and series eno Rated 4.5 Stars
I can't recommend this book and series enough. If you love small town romance that centers around sisters I very highly recommend it. I can't wait to read the next book in the series.
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Mar 20, 2020 Stital rated it it was amazing
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OMG, this book.
I love the Haven sisters so much, a Mac is just amazing.
A total badass, with a severe middle child syndrome that just breaks your heart, making you want to scream at and bear hug her at the same time. And Hudson is her perfect counterpart.
Now I really need Nat and Asher's (yeah, I'm calling it!) story ASAP.
5 stars and a tiger-eye marble *Swoon*
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Mar 23, 2020 Irene rated it it was amazing
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Captain Heartbreaker by Brighton Walsh is a beautifully written, heartwarming read and I loved it.
I enjoyed the storyline, it's entertaining from start to end, the characters are likable, relatable and I felt like I was part of their friend group while reading.
Watching Hudson and MacKenna reconnect and work through their feelings and insecurities touched my heart and kept me turning the pages. I loved how even after 10 years their hearts still reached out to the other one, life may have 4.5 stars
Watching Hudson and MacKenna reconnect and work through their feelings and insecurities touched my heart and kept me turning the pages. I loved how even after 10 years their hearts still reached out to the other one, life may have gone on but the strong feelings they share can't be ignored. I loved Hudson and MacKenna together and I was one very happy girl they got their much deserved happily ever after.
Captain Heartbreaker is a beautiful, heartwarming read and a wonderful addition to the Havenbrook series.
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Apr 05, 2020 Jessica Alcazar rated it it was amazing
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Hudson and MacKenna were best friends when they were younger and became something more when they were in high school. But Hudson didn't want the small-town life. He wanted out. He wanted to spread his wings and live. So, he did what any small-town boy does when they want to see the world … he joined the military! buuuuuut he did it without telling Mackenna *sigh* (young people man, what are you gonna do? amirite??).
Well, now it's a decade later and he's home and it just might be time to reevalu Hudson and MacKenna were best friends when they were younger and became something more when they were in high school. But Hudson didn't want the small-town life. He wanted out. He wanted to spread his wings and live. So, he did what any small-town boy does when they want to see the world … he joined the military! buuuuuut he did it without telling Mackenna *sigh* (young people man, what are you gonna do? amirite??).
Well, now it's a decade later and he's home and it just might be time to reevaluate ...
So, listen, two things can happen in these types of stories. Two people can either continue to get in their own way and drag the past thru the entire book or they don't. Brighton wrote this story with more hope and happiness than she did conflict. I just cannot express how much I appreciate that LOL Yes, obviously there was conflict, but it wasn't the central focus of every single interaction with these two. This story had a purpose and that purpose started from the very beginning. She wrote secondary characters that enhanced the storyline. She wrote the quirkiness of a small-town gloriously, especially the busybody syndrome that makes these towns so charming!
It was impossible not to fall in love with both Hudson and MacKenna. Hudson was the total swoon worthy package and then some. Mac was just … gaaaaaaah, I want to hug her and hold her in my heart forever!! These two are the couple you aspire to be in life when you grow up. (author) makes me happy LOL She's not only written a story that made my heart soar, but a series I can return to over and over again! I love this town. I love this family. I love these couples. I just love everything about it, and I love it even more because Brighton is such a great writer! The story was entertaining and realistic with relatable circumstances and characters! THE TOTAL PACKAGE!
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The Captain is finally home!
Mar 22, 2020 Trinity rated it it was amazing
Shelves: arc, 2020
Have I mentioned how much I adore Brighton & Havenbrook? I think that little Mississippi town is where I'll spend a lot of my free time in this new era of stay-at-home. I'd like a Jack & Ginger poured by Mac herself, thanks.
Mac & Hudson. KENNA & Hudson. I have been dying for their story & I am so eternally grateful to be on the list of ARC readers.
What can I say without giving away the entire plot? The sass. The smolder. The sexiness. The bets. The adorable little CB. The life Kenna th Have I mentioned how much I adore Brighton & Havenbrook? I think that little Mississippi town is where I'll spend a lot of my free time in this new era of stay-at-home. I'd like a Jack & Ginger poured by Mac herself, thanks.
What can I say without giving away the entire plot? The sass. The smolder. The sexiness. The bets. The adorable little CB. The life Kenna thinks she's living & the life everyone else sees. (Girl, I feel you. People tell me stuff about me all the time & I have a damn hard time (TWSS) believing them.)
If you're in to childhood best friends who turn into an amazingly perfect couple when they get older, with hilarity, stubbornness, & okay, MAYBE a few rounds of someone cutting onions, do yourself a favor & read this book. It's amazing & I'm already itching for the next trip to Havenbrook.
*I received an ARC of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.* ...more
Mar 24, 2020 Merry Jelks-Emmanuel rated it it was amazing
What a story! Hudson and Mackenna are best friends that turned lovers but when Hudson goes into the military things change for Mackenna. When Hudson lands home it is like nothing has changed between them but can Mackenna trust her heart to him a second time around. This story will warm your heart and have you cheering for this couple to get their happily ever after. I voluntarily agreed to receive an ARC of this book for an honest review.
Mar 26, 2020 Jacqueline Ellison rated it it was amazing
You have childhood best friends who lost their virginity to each other. Then ten years have passed since they have seen each other. He flies a Black Hawk with his best friend and copilot Caleb. Hudson has been a pilot in the Army for ten years. His father died in combat when he was ten years old. His mom and sister own The Sweet Spot Bakery and are getting it renovated. Mackenna is a college drop out who works at her soon to be brother in laws bar. The Willow Tree is the first and only bar in Ha You have childhood best friends who lost their virginity to each other. Then ten years have passed since they have seen each other. He flies a Black Hawk with his best friend and copilot Caleb. Hudson has been a pilot in the Army for ten years. His father died in combat when he was ten years old. His mom and sister own The Sweet Spot Bakery and are getting it renovated. Mackenna is a college drop out who works at her soon to be brother in laws bar. The Willow Tree is the first and only bar in Havenbrook. Her dad is Mayor Richard Haven and he is hard to get along with. I loved them getting to know each other again and find CB in the mountains. This will have you feeling so many emotions from laughing out loud to sadness. Hudson and Kenna have several obstacles they have to overcome. Will they get their HEA ending with CB? I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book. ...more
Mar 28, 2020 Kathy rated it it was amazing
Who wouldn't love the Haven women of Havenbrook... This is book 3 in the series and just as good if not better than the first 2. Mac (McKenna) and Hudson have been friends for as long as they can remember but they are truly so much more. When he comes home form the Army on leave, will they take the next step or will they both shy away from being hurt. This book is written well, and I love all of the characters within the story.
Mar 22, 2020 JAN Edwards rated it it was amazing
I've got to admit the Haven girls own my heart. I adore them all and look forward to each book but THIS ONE is absolutely my favorite! Hudson and MacKenna steal your heart from the very beginning. He wants to do his duty in the military and she's trying to find her purpose in life. Talk about a couple to root for! Brighton's writing always captures you and in these stories of the town of Havenbrook, you can actually picture the town. And. You want to visit! Or maybe move there and find your own I've got to admit the Haven girls own my heart. I adore them all and look forward to each book but THIS ONE is absolutely my favorite! Hudson and MacKenna steal your heart from the very beginning. He wants to do his duty in the military and she's trying to find her purpose in life. Talk about a couple to root for! Brighton's writing always captures you and in these stories of the town of Havenbrook, you can actually picture the town. And. You want to visit! Or maybe move there and find your own Finn, Nash, or Captain Hudson Miller. Happily recommend this book and all the Havenbrook stories. ...more
Mar 19, 2020 Kirstie Ibrahim rated it it was amazing
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I was eagerly awaiting Kenna and Hudsons story after reading Pact with a Heartbreaker and will say that this did not disappoint.........LOVED it!
It was like time hadn't passed between the two best friend lovers. Their banter and their bets are always fun and their chemistry is off the charts. There's some sizzling sex scenes too. I also loved the addition of CB the dog and the other characters are always fun. We get to learn so much more about Kenna who feels that she hasn't amounted to much in I was eagerly awaiting Kenna and Hudsons story after reading Pact with a Heartbreaker and will say that this did not disappoint.........LOVED it!
It was like time hadn't passed between the two best friend lovers. Their banter and their bets are always fun and their chemistry is off the charts. There's some sizzling sex scenes too. I also loved the addition of CB the dog and the other characters are always fun. We get to learn so much more about Kenna who feels that she hasn't amounted to much in her life but hasn't realised just how much she's been there for everyone else and the kind of helper that she is.
I totally enjoyed this and read it in 2 sittings. Now I'm looking forward to Nat's story which I'm sure will be interesting. ...more
Mar 23, 2020 Brandi Sartin lawrence rated it it was amazing
Loved it! Towards the end I got a little teary! Kenna and Hudson has a great friendship and it was stranded/ruined because of their choices. There are some obstacles but can they over come them and CB to be together?
Apr 04, 2020 Valerie rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2020-reads, romance
This is a friends to lovers, second change kinda book. But it's also a figuring your life out kinda book.
Mac feels like she doesn't really contribute to the small town of Havenbrook. A college drop out working at her soon to be brother-in-laws bar, she focuses on all the negative points of her life. The only man she can see in her life is Hudson but he's the adventurous type that needs his army life. So Mac is just stuck.
Hudson hasn't been home since he enlisted in the army 10 years ago. He foll This is a friends to lovers, second change kinda book. But it's also a figuring your life out kinda book.
Hudson hasn't been home since he enlisted in the army 10 years ago. He followed in his father's footsteps and thought to complete his dad's dream of retiring from the army. But he's doing it for the wrong reason and being home, in Havenbrook, has other ideas of what will make him happy floating to his thoughts. But he can't get his Kenna on board. She doesn't want to leave Havenbrook and she's afraid of the long distance relationship.
But life has a way of throwing some curve balls. That's what happens to Mackenna and Hudson. Both need to figure out what they really want. Maybe see what's right in front of their faces. It's a fun adventure to share with them.
Love these characters. I've met many of the secondary characters before in a previous book. It's a charming little town in Mississippi. Everyone in everyone else's business. Everyone loving each other. So fun.
The feel of this books is just happy. Yes, they are working on figuring out their lives but Mackenna and Hudson together just feels right. It felt right being in the pages and a great distraction from my own life.
This is a great author to take a chance on. If you haven't read this series, it's all good. They can be read stand alone. Just good stuff. ...more
Apr 02, 2020 Teresa Mary Rose rated it really liked it
Shelves: adult, contemporary, for-review, 2020, arc, cover-love, re-readable-books
When I finished Pact With A Heartbreaker I said that Mac and Hudson were going to end up being my favorites of the series... and I was 100% right in that assessment. I loved these two so much and this book just had me grinning from ear to ear by the end.
Mac and Hudson are just so great and combine the best friends to more and a second chance trope. What I loved about these two was just how easily they fit and how easy they fell together. Despite all the obstacles in their way, it's hard for them When I finished Pact With A Heartbreaker I said that Mac and Hudson were going to end up being my favorites of the series... and I was 100% right in that assessment. I loved these two so much and this book just had me grinning from ear to ear by the end.
Mac and Hudson are just so great and combine the best friends to more and a second chance trope. What I loved about these two was just how easily they fit and how easy they fell together. Despite all the obstacles in their way, it's hard for them to deny (even though Mac tries her hardest). It's just so easy for them to be together and I love how their friendship just forms such a great foundation for more. And I don't mean to say there is no drama or strife, because there is, but despite all that as a reader them being together just seems so right. There is just a lightness to them when they are together and happy and they bring out the best in one another. Plus, their back and forth is so much fun and their reunion at the beginning of the book is one of my favorite parts of the entire book. This is the kind of book that just leaves you happy. And I wouldn't be me if I didn't take time to appreciate how Mac really grows into herself and her new role because she's a BAMF. And I loved catching up with everyone again. Nash in particular had me cracking up at a certain scene. And I seriously hope we get a book for Nat because oh man she's gonna be a fun one.
All in all, Captain Heartbreaker was everything I want in a romance and just left me feeling happy and light and we could all use a bit more of that right now. ...more
Apr 07, 2020 Thuy Taylor rated it really liked it
After 10 years away, Hudson is back, and he's back for Kenna, his childhood best friend, the love of his life. These two has so much history, chemistry, love, fun with each other, but is Kenna ready for what she's always wanted, and for him to leave her again? The cast of characters were fun, these sisters have such a fun relationship with each other. I enjoyed seeing the cast from the previous book. These two obviously belong together, but MacKenna had a really hard time when he left the first After 10 years away, Hudson is back, and he's back for Kenna, his childhood best friend, the love of his life. These two has so much history, chemistry, love, fun with each other, but is Kenna ready for what she's always wanted, and for him to leave her again? The cast of characters were fun, these sisters have such a fun relationship with each other. I enjoyed seeing the cast from the previous book. These two obviously belong together, but MacKenna had a really hard time when he left the first time. So much time passed by, and she is trying really hard to be cautious, even though its tough because she loves Hudson so much. This was a sweet, steamyyyy, romantic, fun read. I'm curious to see the next story!!! ...more
Apr 03, 2020 Terry rated it it was amazing
Who knew a cock blocker would be so adorbs
Way up in the mountains...way up in the mountains, let me tell ya now, way up in the mountains, imma get orgasms...we hit the summit and he hit my spot and I sang like birds early in the morning. Hudson and Jenna had to get their groove back while h had to help her realize her self worth to her family and the townspeople of Havenbrook.But he only had a couple of weeks before he back because his leave will be over from the Army. This time he needed her to Who knew a cock blocker would be so adorbs
Way up in the mountains...way up in the mountains, let me tell ya now, way up in the mountains, imma get orgasms...we hit the summit and he hit my spot and I sang like birds early in the morning. Hudson and Jenna had to get their groove back while h had to help her realize her self worth to her family and the townspeople of Havenbrook.But he only had a couple of weeks before he back because his leave will be over from the Army. This time he needed her to be by his side. He wasn't going to let the best woman he loves slip away again. She was needed here and he was saving the world. But would come back to her always . It hasn't been anyone since he was eight. Kenna(Mac) was so caught up thinking she was a failure she never thought about the accomplishments she achieved on a daily basis. She never liked taking credit or being the center of attention. I will not give away the story but just know it's really awesome and I'm finally glad it came out and they got their hea. ...more
Apr 03, 2020 Di rated it really liked it
Hudson and Mackenna have been best friends for many many years and when they were teenagers they crossed the line, both having more feelings for the other but then Hudson drops a bomb, he's joined the army, leaving Kenna behind. Now ten years has gone by and even though they have maintained their friendship through letters and texts he hasn't been home....until now....will Kenna keep fighting her feelings and is Hudson back for good.
A great read with steam, laughter, amazing characters and secon Hudson and Mackenna have been best friends for many many years and when they were teenagers they crossed the line, both having more feelings for the other but then Hudson drops a bomb, he's joined the army, leaving Kenna behind. Now ten years has gone by and even though they have maintained their friendship through letters and texts he hasn't been home....until now....will Kenna keep fighting her feelings and is Hudson back for good.
A great read with steam, laughter, amazing characters and second chances. I liked these two and I really really really liked that the author did not mention any past women or men, allowing the reader to either think they had been with others or how I like to think that there was no one else during their time apart. The story flowed nicely and even though there was a bit of drama, it didn't take away from the story. The story had that feel that these two belonged together and with no one else, their interactions, their history....a romantic read. I would have liked a bit more of an epilogue on these two and was a bit disappointed because I liked them that much, I would have liked a bit more on their HEA.
*I voluntarily read an advanced copy and expressed my honest opinion* ...more
Apr 03, 2020 Amanda R rated it it was amazing
Thank you to the author for the book in exchange for an honest review.
Mac and Hudson's chemistry leaps off the page from their first scene together in the book. They are best friends but the underlying sizzle is there in leaps and bounds.
Mac feels like her life isn't as important as her sisters, they both have partners, they have real jobs while she fills in for people and works at her future brother in laws bar. Even when people try to tell her that she's more than that she runs, she doesn't Thank you to the author for the book in exchange for an honest review.
Mac feels like her life isn't as important as her sisters, they both have partners, they have real jobs while she fills in for people and works at her future brother in laws bar. Even when people try to tell her that she's more than that she runs, she doesn't like being the center of attention.
Hudson is on leave and he's home for a short time. He can't wait to see his best friend and the woman he loves. He's talked about her so much to his friend Caleb he feels like he knows her. But can Hudson be with Mac for the time he's home and leave her again?
Hud and Mac's relationship spans their lifetime. They were friends then lovers then maybe more than that. They just fit and I love them! This series is awesome! If you haven't grabbed it you should, and leave the author love!
Apr 02, 2020 Reva Parks rated it it was amazing
Hudson and MacKenna were childhood friends, outdoor and nature lovers. They hiked and played in the woods together. She spent most summers at his family's cabin on the lake. But Hudson, instead of going to college with Kenna, decided to join the army in honor of his father who was in the army when he was killed when Hudson was nine. For ten years Hudson has been bringing his mother and sister to wherever he was stationed to visit. Now though, he has come home to small-town unexpectedly for a fou Hudson and MacKenna were childhood friends, outdoor and nature lovers. They hiked and played in the woods together. She spent most summers at his family's cabin on the lake. But Hudson, instead of going to college with Kenna, decided to join the army in honor of his father who was in the army when he was killed when Hudson was nine. For ten years Hudson has been bringing his mother and sister to wherever he was stationed to visit. Now though, he has come home to small-town unexpectedly for a four-week leave. He wants to reconnect with Kenna, but Mac is ashamed that she hasn't accomplished anything with her life even though she has been available for her family. I loved the small-town stories, the way everybody knew everybody else's business, and the way gossip got around. Hudson knows he's still in love with Kenna; will she return his love? lots of feels and action in four short weeks! A good read! ...more
Apr 02, 2020 Raecharmed rated it it was amazing
Hudson and MacKenna were best friends when they were younger and became something more when they were in high school. However Hudson wasn't happy settling in their hometown he wanted to see the world. So he joined the military without telling her. Now years later he is home for the first time since he left and he wants to see MacKenna. MacKenna isn't sure she can trust that Hudson is going to stick around. Is Hudson back to finally build a future with MacKenna? Will Hudson get a second chance wi Hudson and MacKenna were best friends when they were younger and became something more when they were in high school. However Hudson wasn't happy settling in their hometown he wanted to see the world. So he joined the military without telling her. Now years later he is home for the first time since he left and he wants to see MacKenna. MacKenna isn't sure she can trust that Hudson is going to stick around. Is Hudson back to finally build a future with MacKenna? Will Hudson get a second chance with MacKenna?
This is a great story that will draw you in from the first chapter until the end. The chemistry between them is blazing hot. This is a well written and very entertaining story. I would recommend this book to any book lover.
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Mar 30, 2020 Melena Torretta rated it really liked it
I have been looking forward to returning to Havenbrook and getting Hudson and Mac's story since reading their novella Pact with a Heartbreaker. That book told their story at the time when they were about to go to college together until Hudson changed plans. Now 10 years have passed and Hudson has returned home.
The author did a wonderful job capturing the chemistry between them that never died and the challenges and frustrations they will have to overcome. Though they were best friends when they I have been looking forward to returning to Havenbrook and getting Hudson and Mac's story since reading their novella Pact with a Heartbreaker. That book told their story at the time when they were about to go to college together until Hudson changed plans. Now 10 years have passed and Hudson has returned home.
The author did a wonderful job capturing the chemistry between them that never died and the challenges and frustrations they will have to overcome. Though they were best friends when they were younger, they now have to get to know each other as adults.
I highly recommend reading Pact with a Heartbreaker first because it introduces you to these characters and really shows you the connection they had. It was easy to fall back in love with these characters and I was so happy with the conclusion to their story!
Thank you to the author for providing an ARC for an honest review. ...more
Apr 04, 2020 Miki rated it it was amazing
LOVE LOVE LOVE Brighton has done it again!!! I was so excited to have this book come out after being teased by Pact With A Heartbreaker. I couldn't wait to see how Mac and Hud ended up. I laughed out loud and found myself in tears with my heart breaking for them (Mostly Hudson) but tears of joy in the end. Make sure to read Pact With A Heartbreaker first so you have the back story, trust me you won't be disappointed you did.
Mar 31, 2020 Christe rated it it was amazing
Ok so I don't see that he is a heartbreaker but the opposite. She is too scared and broke his heart before but thanks goodness she redeemed herself.
All right now I enjoyed this book, read it in one sitting (for the most part). The characters pull you into the story because of the attraction between them, and the fact that they have a past together. This is so sweet to get a point of view from both main characters. Hudson definitely loves Kenna and she does too, but she is scared which she came Ok so I don't see that he is a heartbreaker but the opposite. She is too scared and broke his heart before but thanks goodness she redeemed herself.
All right now I enjoyed this book, read it in one sitting (for the most part). The characters pull you into the story because of the attraction between them, and the fact that they have a past together. This is so sweet to get a point of view from both main characters. Hudson definitely loves Kenna and she does too, but she is scared which she came to terms with. The book dishes out sweetness, hot and heavy encounters which is a good balance and you don't get lost in one.
I received a free copy of this book and I'm voluntarily leaving a review. ...more
Apr 03, 2020 Charmaine Nouwen rated it it was amazing
Captain Heartbreaker (Havenbrook Book 4) By Brighton Walsh is a wonderful read. Interesting, intriguing and with a roller coaster ride of emotions that you will love and enjoy. Best friend to lovers/ second chance romance story of Hudson and McKenna that you couldn't put it down. First time reader by the author and it won't be the last, well done! I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book
Mar 31, 2020 BP34 rated it it was amazing
This is the fourth book in the Havenbrook Series. Mackenna and Hudson were childhood best friends and it's been ten years since he left her with a broken heart. He's returned for a second chance at love but she's guarding her heart. Love in a small town with realistic characters who are likable. The book is overflowing with emotion and some drama. No spoiler here but do they get their second chance at love. Great side characters and an engaging, heartwarming story. A good book that I read as an This is the fourth book in the Havenbrook Series. Mackenna and Hudson were childhood best friends and it's been ten years since he left her with a broken heart. He's returned for a second chance at love but she's guarding her heart. Love in a small town with realistic characters who are likable. The book is overflowing with emotion and some drama. No spoiler here but do they get their second chance at love. Great side characters and an engaging, heartwarming story. A good book that I read as an arc an voluntarily chose to review. ...more
Mar 31, 2020 Marianela Aybar (Mari Loves Books Blog) rated it really liked it
Oh boy! I was hooked on this from the beginning because I could tell Mac was going to be a force of nature. She is smart and has sass and doesn't just take anything laying down. She was not going to make it easy for Hudson and I am so happy for that. Hudson was just another kind of man and I am glad he didn't give up. I couldn't put this down. The heart and passion and the characters wouldn't let me go. Oh boy! I was hooked on this from the beginning because I could tell Mac was going to be a force of nature. She is smart and has sass and doesn't just take anything laying down. She was not going to make it easy for Hudson and I am so happy for that. Hudson was just another kind of man and I am glad he didn't give up. I couldn't put this down. The heart and passion and the characters wouldn't let me go. ...more
Mar 31, 2020 Lisa H rated it it was amazing
Can you go home again?
Hudson left their little town in Mississippi a decade ago. Now he's back.
Mackenna never left, she's drifting through small town life.
I liked that the author really captured the southern small town. But will Hudson stick around this time? He did ghost on his bestie after they crossed the line from just friends to more once before.
Received from Bad Boy Update.
Mar 31, 2020 Heather Lynn rated it really liked it
Captain Heartbreaker is wonderful. One of the things I enjoy about the series, besides the delightful side characters and small town setting, is the realism of the characters.
Mac and Hudson are delightful and their story is well written, sincere, and simply lovely.
**ARC provided for an honest review.**
May 20, 2020 Nate Brightman added it
This book can be read as a standalone but I really think it's important that you read the novella Pact with a Heartbreaker that lays the groundwork for this book first, if not the first two full length books in the series. This is the story of MacKenna Haven, Mac to her family and friends and Kenna to her childhood best friend Hudson. Mac and Hudson have been friends since they were eight or nine years old. He's a year older than Mac and a year ahead of her in school. They are such good 2.5 Stars
This book can be read as a standalone but I really think it's important that you read the novella Pact with a Heartbreaker that lays the groundwork for this book first, if not the first two full length books in the series. This is the story of MacKenna Haven, Mac to her family and friends and Kenna to her childhood best friend Hudson. Mac and Hudson have been friends since they were eight or nine years old. He's a year older than Mac and a year ahead of her in school. They are such good friends that when they are teenagers they made a pact that they would be each others first. First kiss, first sexual partner and everything in between. But their physical intimacy was meant to share the moment with someone they trust, not to change the dynamic of their relationship from friends to more. So they're intimate but then go back to just being BFFs dating other people throughout high school. They do love each other and they both do secretly yearn for more than friendship. But neither is willing to express those desires to the other. The weekend before they are both set to head off to State for college, Mac's first year and Hud's second, they finally succumb to their desires. They confess their love for each other and spend the weekend banging their brains out. But before they take that step Hud confesses to Mac that he's not going back to State. He's enlisted in the Army wanting to follow in the footsteps of his late father who died in combat. Mac is crushed but she accepts his decision. She tells herself much to Mac's protests that they have to go back to just being friends because trying to maintain a long distance relationship will distract and endanger Hud while he's serving his country. And Mac tells Hud she just can't see herself being in a long distance relationship worrying about what's happening with him on the other side of the world. They agree that in ten years if they are both still single they can try to pick up where they left off this past weekend. After Hud is wounded in combat Mac reduces her communication with him to almost nothing in an effort to protect her heart while telling herself she's trying to protect him. As this story opens its been almost ten years. Hudson has returned home a few months short of the ten year anniversary and Mac is freaking out because she feels in the ten years that have passed she's accomplished nothing of note in her life while Hudson has become a military hero.
I think it has to be noted that this book bears a lot of similarity to the first book in the series Second Chance Charmer. In that book Mac's older sister, the one she's closest to Willow is set to go away to college with her boyfriend (now fiancée) Finn when he disappears without a word only to return to Havenbrook ten years later. The difference is Finn left Willow without a word breaking her heart where as Hud although he waited until the last minute, told Mac of his plans and she was the one who decided to dial back their relationship.
I really liked the Mac character in the first two books in the series. Unlike her two older sisters Rory and Will, she didn't seem to have their daddy issues or the obsess about opinions others had of them as members of Havenbrook's first family that they had and wasn't consumed with trying to win their insufferable father's approval. At the time I had no idea it was because Mac had such a low opinion of herself she felt she deserved the low opinions of others. She was loyal and supportive of her sisters and loud and brash and tells it like it is. But not as loud and brash as their youngest sister Nat who took it to extremes and left Havenbrook and her family behind to travel the world right after high school graduation. But this book puts Mac in a much less flattering light. Mac is a 27-year-old college dropout who failed out of college in her second year. Her failure to graduate college while her two older sisters excelled and graduated with honors seems to play a large role in her lack of self-esteem. She has no real direction in her life. She's works tending bar at her soon to be brother-in-law's bar The Willow Tree (named for her sister) her latest in a long list of low skill minimum wage jobs. Her work life is unfulfilling, she has no love life and hasn't had a serious relationship. She feels unfulfilled and restless and embarrassed. She's more of a hot mess than either of her older sisters. She has a terrible self-esteem image and blames her feelings of inadequacy on everyone else. She believes no one really sees her or if they do they see her as a failure they can't depend upon. She's resentful of the fact that Willow her closest sister and best friend since she's ghosted Hud seems to abandon her whenever she is in a relationship with Finn. No irony there. She feels like Hudson abandon her when he chose to join the military even though she's the one who denied him his desire to be in a relationship and eventually pretty much ghosted him because she didn't want to be in a long distance relationship with a guy who put his life on the line on a regular basis in service to his country. After reading Pact with a Heartbreaker and only a little way into this book I've come to the conclusion that Mac is afraid. Afraid to commit to Hudson and lose him. Afraid to commit to a career and fail at it. She spends much of this book pitying and feeling sorry for herself. And that's a part of Mac I didn't see in the first two books in this series.
As for Hudson's part, I'm not sure what he expects from Mac while he's home on leave for a few weeks for the first time in a decade? She told him they could only be friends while he was in the military and since his plan is to return to duty when his leave is up, why would he expect Mac to suddenly be willing to be more than friends? You'd think the way she'd allowed their relationship to deteriorate to barely a friendship over the past ten years sent a pretty strong message she still wasn't interested in a romantic relationship if he was going to remain in the Army. And Hudson has his own issues. A big part of the reason he wants to remain in the Army and do his full twenty year hitch even though he's tiring of his life in the service and feels his family and Mac pulling him home is because he feels he owes it to his ,father who died before he could finish his. To me that's a motivation that could only be found in a contemporary romance writer's head.
Over all my problem with this story beyond Mac's self-driven, self-perpetuating, self-esteem issues, constant self-doubt and annoying self-pity is so much of it didn't seem to make sense. Even the title Captain Heartbreaker. Hud didn't really break Kenna's heart so much as she broke his. After Hudson returns home Mac runs hot and cold. One minute she's dry humping him to orgasm against a tree and the next she's trying to avoid him. She decides to jump back into a relationship albeit temporarily and almost as quickly backs away from it. (view spoiler)[ I couldn't buy into the story line that when Mac's father has a heart attack she suddenly becomes acting mayor in his place because somebody in the Haven family has to do it. First off, are the Havens freaking royalty who serve as mayor of Havenbrook by Devine Right? Because daddy isn't able to perform the functions of his office one of his children automatically get to sit in the big chair and run the town? Even one who never held a position in town government? If one of them was going to fill the role, based upon the first book Second Chance Charmer, wouldn't that someone be Will? In that book we're led to believe Will is for all intents and purposes running the town doing her father's job, while her daddy plays on his computer when he's not out playing golf. Mac, who has zero experience working in town hall taking the job makes no sense. Nor does the idea that she's so buried in work she's working from sun up to sun down when her father pretty much didn't do anything. And who takes the time to mentor her? Not Willow whom as I said was already doing the job and is her closest sister, but Avery, Willow's BFF and assistant. (hide spoiler)] For all of my complaints about this story I have to admit I had difficulty putting it down until I finished it. Kenna finally gets a chance to shine in such a way that she can't deny the praise she receives and finally finds her self-confidence and a career she can be proud of. She finally realizes that while it can be difficult because of the long separations service members can and do have relationships and families who are willing to put up with the hardships because they love them. Hudson finds a career solution that both allows him to satisfy his need for adventure and to serve his community and be close to Kenna and his mother and sister once he gives up the stupid idea that he owes it to his father to stay in the Army until retirement. There were plenty of good parts to this story but over all it was just okay.
Romance > Contemporary Romance
About Brighton Walsh
Brighton Walsh
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brighton Walsh spent nearly a decade as a professional photographer before taking her storytelling in a different direction and reconnecting with her first love: writing. When she's not lost in her own made up worlds, she's probably either reading or shopping—maybe even both at once. She lives in the Midwest with her real life hero of a husband, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brighton Walsh spent nearly a decade as a professional photographer before taking her storytelling in a different direction and reconnecting with her first love: writing. When she's not lost in her own made up worlds, she's probably either reading or shopping—maybe even both at once. She lives in the Midwest with her real life hero of a husband, her two kids—one taller than her, one not quite yet—and her dog who thinks she's a queen. Her boy-filled house is the setting for dirty socks galore, frequent dance parties (okay, so it's mostly her, by herself, while her children look on in horror), and more laughter than she thought possible. Visit her online at brightonwalsh.com. ...more
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Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Has Died
In this Sept. 25, 1991, file photo, Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, at a House Armed Services subcommittee. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, the first Black man to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later secretary of state, died Monday from complications of COVID-19. He was 84.
Powell, a monumental figure in American foreign policy for nearly 40 years, had been treated for the disease at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement.
"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American," they wrote.
Powell's longtime assistant Peggy Cifrino told the New York Times that Powell suffered from multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that required treatment that depresses the immune system and that made him vulnerable to infections and illness.
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell rose to the highest ranks of the U.S. Army and the federal government, and was considered in the late 1990s to be a contender to serve as the first Black U.S. president.
"I lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor figure. He'd been my mentor and friend for a number of years who always made time for me," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Monday in a brief statement to reporters. "I feel as if I have a hole in my heart."
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Powell's transformation from soldier to statesman began during his tenure in the administration of Ronald Reagan and as a leading member of the defense transition team to the Carter administration. He was later appointed in 1987 as national security advisor.
Two years later, Powell was appointed the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs by President George H. W. Bush and served in the position under President Bill Clinton. At 52, he was the youngest man ever to be named to the post as well as the first commissioned through ROTC.
In the position, he oversaw the invasion of Panama in 1989 and the ouster of its leader, Manuel Noriega, as well as the 1991 Persian Gulf War, although he advocated largely for finding diplomatic solutions prior to combat operations -- a balanced approach demonstrating his interest in foreign policy that made him a likely candidate for a Cabinet position in any future presidential administrations.
After winning the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush chose Powell as his first Cabinet nominee, naming him secretary of state -- a post for which he received unanimous confirmation.
In a statement Monday, Bush called Powell a "great man" and said he and former first lady Laura Bush were deeply saddened by his death.
"Many presidents relied on Gen. Powell's counsel and experience ... He was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- twice," Bush said. "He was highly respected at home and abroad."
As Secretary of State, Powell oversaw the diplomatic effort to organize an international response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., with the Global War on Terror and the invasion of Afghanistan.
In February 2003, he announced at the United Nations that the U.S. intelligence community believed that Iraq had violated international agreements and was building weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons. The speech was the height of a campaign to convince countries to participate in the U.S. invasion of Iraq and ouster of Saddam Hussein, which became a war that spanned eight years and killed more than 4,400 American service members.
No large stockpiles of weapons were ever found in Iraq.
Powell left public office in 2005, joining a venture capital firm as an adviser and penning a best-selling autobiography, My American Journey. He also became more vocal in criticizing the Republican Party and in 2008, endorsed President Barack Obama.
He was born April 5, 1937, to Maud Arial and Luther Powell. He attended Morris High School and later earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York, where he served as cadet colonel of the Army ROTC unit and was named a distinguished military graduate, according to his official Army biography.
He was commissioned in 1958 and after attending Infantry Officer Basic, Ranger and Airborne schools, was assigned to Germany and later Fort Devens, Massachusetts, to serve as a company commander.
While serving in Vietnam in 1963, he was wounded by a punji stick booby trap, according to the Academy of Achievement, and also earned the Bronze Star. He returned to Vietnam in 1968 as a major, serving as a battalion executive officer and later, deputy G-3 with the 23rd Infantry Division.
In addition to posts in Washington, D.C., Powell served in South Korea guarding the Demilitarized Zone, and commanded 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell Kentucky. He was assistant division commander for operations of the 4th Infantry Division, Mechanized, Fort Carson, Colorado; deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Combat Development Activity, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and commanding general of V Corps in Europe.
Among his many awards, Powell earned the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit.
He also holds the distinction for receiving the Soldier's Medal for saving the life of a Medal of Honor recipient. At the site of a helicopter crash in Vietnam, then-Capt. Powell pulled troops from the burning aircraft, including Jack Treadwell, an Army colonel who earned the highest military combat honors for single-handedly capturing six German bunkers during World War II.
Powell is survived by his wife, Alma Johnson Powell, chairwoman of America's Promise, a coalition to improve the lives of American youth; a son, Michael Powell; and daughters Linda Powell and Annemarie Powell.
More than 724,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Unvaccinated Americans are 17 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, but breakthrough cases do occur. Research published in late August found that older adults and those with at least three underlying medical conditions are at risk for more severe cases of COVID-19 even if they have received their immunizations.
-- Patricia Kime can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @patriciakime.
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Time For Some Humility & Dialing Down Your Ambition. Seriously.
Since we're now 1/3 of the way through this 28 days of getting your act together (forgive me, Sarah, I'm used to writing for a G audience), I think it's critical to address the need for humility and dialing down your ambition.
How many people have told me they want to be on Oprah, address audiences of thousands, start a world-famous retreat center? And they flounder, and struggle, and push, exhausting themselves.
One of the hallmarks of the get-it-done-now-you're-awesome industry, or whatever it's called, is this belief that you can do anything and everything. It's an extremely painful, limiting, sabotaging belief.
I'm here to bring you some compassion and mercy and tell you straight up: you can't everything and anything. So don't try to do it all, or you'll remain paralyzed.
In some ways getting your act together is actually totally and completely beyond your control. Let me give you an example.
In 1998 Holly and I were engaged, with a date set for May, 1999. Shortly after our engagement she got sick. Badly sick. Miserably sick. And stayed sick for ten years.
During that time we got married, I figured out how to be the sole breadwinner, we learned a whole heckuva lot about various holistic therapies, and she healed slowly, a day, a week, a month at a time.
Of course, with things so challenging on the domestic front, why not bury myself? I decided to go fully self-employed in August, 2001, launching Heart of Business. 9/11 arrived the next month, with my intended launch day of the new website and everything set for 9/12. It was a little bumpy cash-wise in the beginning, let me tell you.
Holly finally reached 95-98% healthy in 2007, but it was impossible for her to bear children, and, not to put too fine a point on it, we're definitely not thirty-something any more. We wanted family more than anything, so we started the adoption process, and we've been with our twins since the day they were born, November 11, 2008.
In other words, the entire time I've been running Heart of Business, I've either been caretaking a chronically ill wife, going through an emotionally-taxing adoption process, or co-parenting very young twin boys.
Business-wise I've been blessed with ten straight years of growth, which considering all that was going on personally I consider nothing short of miraculous. It's been close to five years now that we've unfailingly been generating five figures of revenue every month. Since 2005 I've self-published at seven different learning programs, most of them book-sized.
We have amazing boys, a beautiful home that thank God we've never missed a mortgage payment even when things were scary-tight, and we're all healthy, if you don't count the flu season-small children collision.
We ended up with a fair amount of debt from the illness years, a previous failed business, and the adoption process, some of which we still have, although we're paying it down in an aggressive manner.
I missed opportunities to develop Heart of Business because I just couldn't leave Holly home sick, or I couldn't leave Holly alone with the kids, or I was just so overwhelmed emotionally and physically I just couldn't do it. Conferences I should've been at to meet others, joint ventures I didn't have time for, creativity that was called for when I had no creativity left in me.
It's been at times frustrating to watch some folks rocket forward more quickly than I could, when I know we have powerful material, raving fans. If I could've been more strategic Heart of Business could be beyond this admittedly awkward stage of low-to-mid-six figures of revenue. This is not me complaining, just admitting the truth of the situation and how my emotions are affected at times.
Just trying to get this article written for Sarah has been a travesty. She asked for it more than a month ago. Instead, in came the flu over four times since early December (thanks, kids), the latest after I came home from a week-long residential course of study that is part of my Masters of Divinity program.
That's right, I was at a week-long nourishing spiritual retreat, came home, spent a wonderful weekend with the family, then Monday night went on a date with my wife to a delicious and incredibly healthy restaurant, and was promptly knocked down AGAIN with the flu. I dropped a dozen balls last week, finally getting this written Monday morning, oy gevult.
We're all in boats on this sea called life, and although we can do our best to steer our little vessels and care for them, we have no control over what the ocean does, where the winds blow us, and what storms, reefs, and hungry sea monsters we encounter.
Look, I'm not trying to scare you, it's just truth. Life happens. You live it. So, what I'm saying is… dial back your ambition a little bit. Let go of thinking you can do EVERYTHING. Let go of the unconscious assumption that you are in charge of your circumstances.
Let me ask you one question: in your plans to get your act together, how much room do you leave for the chaos factor, as my friend and colleague Sean D'Souza calls it? How much room do you leave for the unexpected? All of the the uncontrollable illness, mess, mistakes, and accidents that fill our lives?
I'm going to suggest that you try accomplishing about 50% of what you think you should. Dial it way down, leaving open space for chaos.
We're all just servants, expressions of Source (the Divine, God, love, whatever you want to name that which is), which means, thankfully, that you're not the top boss. With some humility and love you can drop back into your heart, take a nice deep breath, and notice what little thing you can put your hands on and move forward today.
When you ask your heart, which fifty percent gets dropped? And what little thing do you focus on today?
Mark Silver is a business tenderizer and a designated master teacher in his Sufi spiritual lineage. Since 1999 he has worked with thousands of self-employed folks, helping them learn to bring in clients and do good in the world, while at the same time they learn that every act of business can be an act of love. If this resonated with you and you want a hands-on, heart-centered approach on how to move forward, try his free pdf workbook Backwards.
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Retreat fast, attack always from long range, use tagging, dont capture resources, dont lose this bot, its the most useful class in game on most maps.
There is a good strategy by MGBlitz. Get up close -> Enemy focus you -> Retreat -> Enemy focus closest ally -> Repeat. Enemy bot is simply "dancing" and dont attack anyone. There are many ways to resist this strategy (for example, using bot tags), but its really useful beeng unpredictable.
No, Google Play is 6.1.3 at that moment.
UPD. Ok, ive understood. Thanks for help.
Stop, I didnt understand one thing. Is Alpha7 released or its just testing? I cant see it in GooglePlay.
Thanks a lot! It is really working!
Topic: Favorite maps (6.x until new maps are introduced)?
Re: Favorite maps (6.x until new maps are introduced)? | {
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Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) is one of 8 B-vitamins. B12 is water-soluble and found in every single cell in your body.
Vitamin B12 is essential for the synthesis of DNA, RNA and neurotransmitters, the maintenance of myelin sheaths protecting neurons, and red blood cell formation.
Deficiency in B12 results in myelopathy (spinal cord disease), neuropathy (nerve disease), sensory disturbances, imbalance when walking, weakness, and psychiatric problems ranging from cognitive and behavioral problems to dementia.
Cerebral Circulation: Vitamin B12 is needed to regulate homocysteine. High homocysteine levels are linked to inflammation that can lead to blood vessel damage. And possible plaque buildup leading to heart attack or stroke.
Neurotransmitters: Vitamin B12 is a cofactor in the synthesis of neurotransmitters dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Affecting alertness, cognition, memory and mood.
Mood: Vitamin B12 helps increase brain serotonin and dopamine levels. Decreasing anxiety, depression, fatigue and pain.
How does Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) work in the Brain?
How does Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) feel?
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) is one of 8 water-soluble B-vitamins that are absolutely vital to the highly optimized brain. And is essential to every cell in your body including your brain.
Vitamin B12 as a nootropic can improve alertness, energy levels, boost attention span, concentration, intelligence and memory. B12 supplementation can help relieve stress, depression, insomnia and help balance your mood.
Vitamin B12 is absorbed in your intestines from food or a supplement using a process called intrinsic factor. The vitamin is then transferred to transcobalamin II (TC-II/B12) which acts as a transporter.
Foods rich in Vitamin B12 include fish, shellfish, meat (especially liver), poultry, eggs, milk and milk products.[iii] The two best sources by far of B12 are clams and liver.
And Vitamin B12 is light sensitive. If stored in open bins or clear plastic bags or jars, B12 vaporizes and disappears.
You are much safer using a good Vitamin B12 supplement for your nootropic stack. See "Available Forms" for more.
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) boosts brain health and function in several ways. But two in particular stand out.
Vitamin B12 increases cognition. Vitamin B12 is a precursor in the biosynthesis of all major neurotransmitters in your brain including acetylcholine, dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine and serotonin.
Vitamin B12 is an integral part of the one-carbon cycle involved in the synthesis of methionine. This amino acid, methionine donates the methyl group required for methylation to occur.
This biochemical process helps synthesize neurotransmitters, myelin (the sheath that protects neurons), and keeps homocysteine levels in check. Elevated levels of homocysteine have been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.
Even mild Vitamin B12 deficiency has been associated with accelerated cognitive decline. Researchers at Tufts University examined data from 549 men and women enrolled in the Framingham Heart Study.
They focused on scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), which is a short list of questions and tasks used to screen for dementia. The subjects were divided into 5 groups, based on their vitamin B12 blood levels.
MMSE scores declined by 0.24 points per year over the 8-year follow-up period. Cognitive decline was faster in the bottom 2 groups that had the lowest levels of Vitamin B12.
Vitamin B12 helps reduce depression. Vitamin B12 is a precursor in the biosynthesis of GABA and serotonin. GABA is an amino acid and neurotransmitter produced by glutamate in your brain. This inhibitory neurotransmitter prevents other 'excitatory' neurotransmitters from being released. Resulting in an anti-anxiety and calming effect.
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter made from the amino acid tryptophan. This inhibitory neurotransmitter governs the stimulatory neurotransmitter dopamine from overwhelming your brain. Adequate serotonin levels make you feel confident, easy-going, flexible, happy and positive.
One case study out of India reviewed the case of a 57-year-old woman who was given months of anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications. Including 2 rounds of electro-shock therapy before anyone thought to check her Vitamin B12 levels.
This woman's symptoms included anxiety, constipation, movement abnormalities, perceptual disturbances (hearing her name called), lethargy, tearfulness and finally catatonia. She remained depressed, suicidal and lethargic despite her treatment.
Vitamin B12 deficiency usually causes neurological and psychiatric issues in adults aged 40 – 90. B12 deficiency rarely affects younger people. But can be a problem if the mother is deficient during pregnancy.
A B12 deficiency can manifest as disease of the spinal cord (myelopathy), disease of the nerves (neuropathy), sensory disturbances, gait abnormalities, weakness, cognitive and behavioral disturbances and dementia.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can often be caused by Pernicious anemia which is an autoimmune disease that affects the mucous membrane layer of the stomach. This can be a result of destruction of parietal cells, lack of hydrochloric acid, or a failure to produce intrinsic factor.
Parietal cells are required to create intrinsic factor to supply your body with adequate Vitamin B12. When these cells are damaged, intrinsic factor is not produced. And B12 cannot be absorbed for use by your body and brain.
Parietal cell death can be caused by excess alcohol consumption, ulcerative gastritis, H. pylori infection, gastric bypass surgery and even age.
Intrinsic factor is required for Vitamin B12 absorption from food or supplements. If left untreated you experience B12 deficiency even if you're getting B12 from food or supplements.
If you or your doctor suspect Vitamin B12 deficiency and does a blood test, the labs may show B12 levels within the bell curve. But it doesn't reflect how much B12 is actually in your cells.
Pernicious anemia is sometimes passed down through families. This is most common in those of Scandinavian or northern European descent. Grave's Disease, and Addison's Disease. Type-1 diabetes can also cause pernicious anemia.
Review the symptoms of deficiency listed here. Do your research. And if you suspect you may be deficient in Vitamin B12, tell your doctor and take action now. If your doctor tells you it's not a problem, please find another doctor!
Vitamin B12 is a co-factor in the one-carbon cycle that is required for the synthesis of DNA, RNA, neurotransmitters (acetylcholine, dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine and serotonin), and the myelin sheath that protects each of the neurons in your brain.
This one-carbon pathway is involved in the synthesis of the amino acid methionine. This amino acid donates methyl groups for the methylation of DNA, RNA, neurotransmitters and myelin.
Methionine is synthesized from the amino acid homocysteine. Preventing high levels of this amino acid to accumulate will prevent problems throughout your body including neurodegenerative disease.
Cobalamin is also required for the conversion of methylmelonyl CoA into succinyl Coenzyme-A for the myelin sheath that protects your neurons. Problems with this conversion degrades myelin. Causing problems with your central nervous system and damaging axons on the neurons in your brain.
The key message here is to maintain optimal Vitamin B12 levels in your body and brain. Don't be duped by marketers selling Vitamin B12 energy drinks boasting more energy. Or a magic pill to boost memory, or aid in weight loss.
If you have a specific health problem like pernicious anemia or are deficient in this vitamin, then B12 can help. If you maintain optimal levels of Vitamin B12 in your system, supplementing will not increase your energy levels.
Vitamin B12 is a key brain vitamin that plays an important role in a healthy nervous system and optimally functioning brain. Low levels of B12 can definitely lead to poor memory and cognition.
Neurohackers who supplement with Vitamin B12 report a reduction in brain fog and better sleep.
People on statins for cholesterol and metformin for diabetes report a dramatic decrease in pain.
Neurohackers report better focus and mood, colors seem brighter and more intense, energy levels improve, and an overall improved sense of well-being.
If you are Vitamin B12 deficient you may feel a big boost in energy. And feelings of deep exhaustion can disappear within a few days.
Much of the research in Vitamin B12 and B12 deficiency are presented as individual 'case reports' on one person.
One report in French was about a woman with no history of psychiatric problems. But upon admission she was uncooperative, disoriented, had memory and attention problems, a sleep disorder and she looked older than her real age.
This woman was depressed, had a guilt complex, devalued herself, and her movements and speech were very slow. A lab test revealed she had a problem with intrinsic factor.
A study in Stockholm explored the association of low Vitamin B12 and folate levels with the occurrence of Alzheimer's Disease. A population based study sampled 370 non-demented people aged 75 years or older and who had not been treated with B12 and folate.
This group was followed for 3 years to detect the incidence of Alzheimer's. The researchers compared low levels of B12 and folate with people who had normal levels of the two vitamins.
Subjects who had low levels of Vitamin B12 or folate had twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's. And this association was even stronger in subjects with good baseline cognition.
Research shows that people with major depression often have low blood levels of folate and Vitamin B12. Low folate levels are also linked to poor response to antidepressants. And treatment with folic acid and/or Vitamin B12 has been shown to improve response to antidepressants.
Folate and Vitamin B12 are involved in one-carbon metabolism in which SAM-e is formed. SAM-e donates methyl groups that are crucial for neurological function.
Increased homocysteine is a functional marker of both folate and Vitamin B12 deficiency. Increased homocysteine levels are found in depressed patients. One study out of Norway showed increased blood levels of homocysteine were associated with increased risk of depression (but not anxiety).
Vitamin B12 is water-soluble, and considered non-toxic in recommended doses.
A varied diet including meat, seafood and milk products should provide enough Vitamin B12 to prevent deficiency. But vegetarians and vegans cannot get enough B12 from food and should supplement.
Typical recommended dosage for nootropic benefit and optimal brain health is 100 mcg or 0.1 mg of Vitamin B12 per day.
Neurohackers older than 40 and those who have a problem with Vitamin B12 absorption should use 100 – 400 mcg or 0.1-0.4 mg of B12 per day.
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) is non-toxic. So is considered well-tolerated and safe.
Doses as high as 2 mg of Vitamin B12 daily by mouth or 1 mg monthly by injection have been shown to produce no significant side effects.
When high doses of Vitamin B12 are given orally, only a small percentage can be absorbed which likely explains the low toxicity levels.
Proton pump inhibitors and other drugs used to treat acid reflux is known to prevent absorption of Vitamin B12. So you may need to take B12 sublingually.
Antibiotics, drugs to treat gout and metformin to treat diabetes all decrease Vitamin B12 levels or B12 absorption. If you use any of these drugs you should have your levels checked and possibly supplement with Vitamin B12.
Nitrous oxide used as an anesthetic and recreational drug oxidizes and inactivates Vitamin B12. So you should likely get tested and possibly supplement with B12.
Vitamin B12 is available as tablets, capsules, liquid drops, sublingual tablets, sprays and lozenges.
The sublingual tablets, sprays and lozenges are marketed as more absorbable or bioavailable. Some clinical studies do not support this claim but user experience shows otherwise.
Logic tells us that a lozenge or spray absorbed under your tongue gets into your bloodstream and across the blood-brain barrier more readily than something you swallow and need to digest.
Low quality Vitamin B12 supplements, and B12 found in multivitamins or B-Complex formulas, is usually cyanocobalamin. This form of B12 is not well absorbed, and produces a small amount of cyanide in your body (cyanocobalamin).
Methylcobalamin is your better choice if you are deficient in B12, or have the MTHFR genetic defect which reduces your ability to methylate this vitamin.
One good option is using a multivitamin like the Performance Lab® Whole-Food Multi which uses this nature-identical form of B12.
Adenosylcobalamin works better for some who want to avoid the cyanide that comes in cyanocobalamin, and who can't tolerate methylcobalamin.
Hydroxycobalamin is another high quality form of Vitamin B12 that converts to methylcobalamin in your body.
If you test Vitamin B12 deficient, your doctor may encourage you to get Vitamin B12 shots. Especially if you have pernicious anemia, nerve damage or chronic digestive problems like Crohn's Disease or ulcerative colitis.
But research has found that taking oral B12 supplements is as effective as B12 shots.[xiii] And user reviews support this finding.
Note that Vitamin B12 needs to be balanced with Vitamin B6 and Folate (folic acid) for best results if using as a nootropic supplement.
Again, a good option is using a daily multivitamin like the Performance Lab® Whole-Food Multi which contains nature-identical forms of both Vitamin B12 and folate.
We recommend using Vitamin B12 as a nootropic supplement.
Your body does not make Vitamin B12 on its own. So to get its benefits you must get it from food, or take it as a supplement.
We recommend staying away from cheap cyanocobalamin B12 supplements. Go with Methylcobalamin, Adenosylcobalamin, or Hydroxycobalamin.
Vitamin B12 is especially helpful for those dealing with brain fog, fatigue, nerve pain, sleep and memory problems.
Vitamin B12 supplementation is critical for anyone over 40 years old because of absorption issues with B12 from food.
Vitamin B12 is also particularly helpful if you are using proton pump inhibitors for acid reflux, have Type-1 diabetes, or show positive for dementia or Alzheimer's.
The recommended dosage for Vitamin B12 deficiency is 2,000 mcg daily for a week, then 1,000 mcg doses of B12 once per week for a month. Then your maintenance dose is 1,000 mcg monthly.
Remember that Vitamin B12 needs to be balanced with Vitamin B6 and Folate (folic acid) for best results if using as a nootropic supplement.
One excellent option for getting your daily dose of Vitamin B12 and folate is with my favorite multivitamin/mineral supplement – the Performance Lab® Whole-Food Multi.
Thanks for your informative video about B12. B12 deficiency is a big issue, often misdiagnosed and patient recovery hampered by being not treated properly by the medical profession.
I was diagnosed with B12 deficiency a year ago and was given 'loading doses' of 6 shots over two weeks and felt great for a month but then like so many others I've encountered since I crashed, could hardly stand up, very short term memory, couldn't string a sentence together and was showing signs of Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Spinal Cord. Our NHS wouldn't follow their own guidelines of alternate day injections until no further improvement so I ended up having to import my B12 from Germany and have been self-injecting daily since.
I say this because whilst your video was informative, the last point you make about sublinguals / oral supplementation being as effective as injections is just plain wrong and could potentially be harmful for those with B12 deficiency. Oral supplements may alleviate some of the symptoms however they will not fix any underlying issues especially neurological ones, for that you need continual high doses like a waterfall in order for the body to have enough B12 to operate and to repair. It takes many years to get B12 deficient and may take many years to get better, I've heard of people who have been on daily injections for many years.
I looked at the research you referenced for this quote – as well as being 12 years old it is also a very small study and seems to be mostly those over 60 years old and even says in the study that it's not that good research.
I feel perhaps your commercial interests have perhaps got in the way a little here and I urge you to point out to people that if they have neurological symptoms they should be seeing their doctor as not having proper treatment can lead to permanent damage.
I discovered I have suffered my entire life with B12 issues, a lot is making sense now and it seems much of mine is simply down to genes which don't methylate and recycle B12 properly. I've given up gluten again and many of my issues like anxiety have gone, however I still have to inject daily as the damage to my myelin sheath is almost certainly permanent sadly.
Thank you for your work, I hope you understand my concerns.
Steve, I appreciate your input and sharing your experience with us. I based my comment on injections vs. sublingual doses of Vitamin B12 primarily on user reviews and input from other neurohackers.
I found when researching this post and as I mentioned in the video, there are no large clinical trials with large databases for Vitamin B12. Most of what I found were individual case studies.
There is no 'one size fits all' in nootropics. You may be correct that injections are superior to oral or sublingual dosing for someone who is very deficient in Vitamin B12.
And as a side note here, I do not have any 'commercial interests' in Vitamin B12 or the companies who make this supplement. My intention is to share what I've found so hopefully it'll help someone, somewhere in the world get better.
Fair enough, and respect for publishing my comment, hopefully will also help someone, somewhere in the world get better!
I have a severe reaction to the tiniest levels of b12, in any of the 3 separate forms that i've tried (Cyanocobalamin, Methylcobalamin, or Adenosylcobalamin/Hydroxycobalamin). Tension headache, irritability, frustration, anger– all guaranteed.
Even if i open a capsule and sprinkle a few mcg under my tongue, after about 20 mins, I can feel the signature tension headache building behind my eyes. Have you heard of anything like this before?
My boyfriend has the same reaction, which is weird, because I haven't found any similar reactions on the web, and we have totally different ethnic origins.
We are both taking a form of Venlafaxine (SNRI), however, so perhaps that could be the cause of the reaction.
I wanted to try it because I have persistent low energy, headaches, and depression, and I've had a very good reaction to Methylfolate, and would love to go off antidepressants eventually. Perhaps I don't need b12 at all, though.
Henrietta, that is a strange reaction and one that I've not encountered before. But if both your boyfriend and you experience the same reaction and are both taking Venlafaxine it seems we have the common denominator that could be the culprit.
Take a look at the mechanism of action on how Venlafaxine works in your brain. And how B12 works in your brain. And it sounds like the drug is somehow interfering with B12's normal mechanism of action in your brain. It's unlikely the problem is during digestion and anything to do with intrinsic factor because you mention the same problem even when using B12 sublingually.
See if anything in that post resonates with you and try some other nootropics. But please be careful about interactions with anything you try and Venlafaxine.
See, in the first time I take b12 it was in liquid form and the amount por serving( 1 a day) was 2,500 mcg. With the actives Methylcobalamin and Adenosylcobalamin.
But it was too much expensive, so once in solid form is more difficult to absorve but it was more cheap I decide to take 5000 mcg ( one per day ), to compensate the difficult that the body have to absorb the vitamin.
Do I think it's because of that ?
Diogo, you have identified a very important point about bioavailability. Each of our body's is different on how we digest and process everything including supplements. Liquids are generally more bioavailable than powders or other forms. It sound like your body is not utilizing B12 in capsule form as well as in liquid.
But one thing … is the 5,000 mcg you are now using also methylcobalamin?
Yes David, its 80% Methylcobalamin + 20% Adenosylcobalamin.
I don't know if I can mention here, but, the liquid form I was taken its was from Global Healing Center b12 vegan- safe. ( also with methyl (80%) and adenosyl(20%). The capsule form that im am taking now is from Seeking Health.
Diogo, I'm not sure of the kind of reputation that Seeking Health currently enjoys. I'd check the reviews for that product and others produced by the company and see what others are saying.
If I put the capsule form b12 sublingually, and generate salivary enzymes as the capsule dissolves in my mouth until disappears and pass to liquid form, I will be capable of increasing the absorption through my body, right?
Diogo, taking a supplement sublingually does boost bioavailability. You could likely take the capsule apart and place the powder under your tongue. Not sure what that would taste like however.
thank you for this fantastic article. Your website is a gold mine of curated knowledge!
There seems to be a small typo in the section "Dosage Notes", though. You wrote: "Typical recommended dosage for nootropic benefit and optimal brain health is 100 mcg or 1 mg of Vitamin B12 per day." Shouldn't it be "0.1 mg"? In the video on Vitamin B12, you unfortunately repeat the same mistake (if it really is a mistake) a couple of lines later. So I guess you already corrected this post, but missed one occurrence of the "1 mg".
Lasse, I really sucked at math in school as you can see. And I missed that one so thank you. You are correct about the dosage. | {
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Q: Upload multiple images with croppie-js I have resized the images using the croppie-js which output the images in blob/base64 format in the client side.
What is the better way to accomplish this?
I have tried to upload the base64 format but for validating it (size, format etc) I need to write the all basic functionality which creates a lot of code.
Also, Can we create an image on local and attach to the input file so that it will work in a flow?
A: You would probably have to write an Ajax post request sending the base64 as a blob to your backend once you get the cropped image
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The first two weeks of February are awash with red roses announcing the arrival of the month of love.
Restaurants and fashion shops are making roaring business of the magical St Valentine's Day.
Hagiographers, however, deny the existence of a saint by that name. It is nothing more than a Western European myth, but we are still bombarded almost to the point of suffocation with the voodoo of St Valentine's Day.
It boggles the mind that millions of rand are wasted every year, only to keep an illusion alive. Presumably, this goddess of love goes into a coma the whole year only to spring to life again on the 14th day of February.
Spouses, romantic dreamers, the rich and even students are supposed to descend on shopping malls, jewellers' shops, restaurants, and, of course, florists to buy their loved ones "surprise gifts". All that exercise is supposed to rekindle that mystical flame of love.
Are there no cost-effective ways of enhancing relationships than to indulge in ridiculous antics whose sole aim is to tickle the markets? Your money would be better spent on school fees for poor kids.
As it is, many parents are frantic trying to find money for registration and tuition fees every year in January. They surely could make good use of this misplaced generosity.
It does not bother me if Europeans and Americans are carried away by their superstitions. I, however, do take issue with blacks who allow themselves to be cajoled or emotionally blackmailed into celebrating a costly colonial myth.
The loved ones expect to be showered with expensive gifts, dined and wined in exclusive restaurants. After their dinner at the restaurant, some lovers might still have enough energy to take in a friend's party, where booze, music and dance keep the party lively until the wee hours of the morning.
To maintain sophisticated standards, mqombothi or mbaqanga do not feature anywhere on the programme, they are underclass.
In contrast, later in the year when we celebrate Human Rights Day, Freedom Day, Heritage Day, etc. the St Valentine's Day brigade is nowhere to be found. They will be too busy saving money for Mother's/Father's Day, Christmas Day, students' bashes, etc. What a confused bunch we have become!
The born-free generation is reluctant to attend the "serious" celebrations because they are boring. Why on earth must I attend? I am sure daddy, mom or aunt will represent us. It is so ridiculous to see a black man buying a bouquet of roses or carnations for their partner as an expression of eternal love.
What does that mean to maMokoena or maDlamini? We are just becoming nothing more than cultural "amalulwane"! Imagine royalty Shaka kaSenzangakhona, Moshoeshoe, Hintsa, Sekhukhune or Mswati carrying a bouquet of flowers to the "Ndlovukazi" to show how much he loved her.!
The reflection on St Valentine is meant to provoke a debate about cultural neo-colonialism. Everything white is good, civilised and to be internalised uncritically. That is the nub! We must restore our dignity, identity and ubuntu/botho.
O ye African gods! Protect us from drowning in the mire of neo-colonialism and its cultural appendages. | {
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Home Immigration Pilot program for immigrant entrepreneurs to be made permanent
Pilot program for immigrant entrepreneurs to be made permanent
New Canadians 0
Immigrant entrepreneurs are receiving a leg up from the government of Canada with the new permanence of a pilot program that helps newcomers launch their Canadian businesses.
The five-year pilot called Start-up Visa Program was designed to encourage entrepreneurs to immigrate to Canada. Professionals can apply for permanent residence after their company is accepted into a business incubator program or receives a significant financial commitment from a Canadian venture capital fund or an angel investor group. As the pilot's expiry approaches on March 31, 2018, it's been transformed into a permanent element of Canadian immigration.
"Canadians benefit through the jobs that are created when entrepreneurs come from all corners of the globe to start businesses in this country. By making the Start-up Visa Program permanent, Canada will attract more innovative entrepreneurs who generate new business opportunities, create jobs and equip Canadians with the skills they need for the jobs of the future." – Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
The Start-up Visa Program was largely a success in its trial period launched in 2013. As of July 15, 2017, 68 start-ups launched in Canada resulted in 117 principal applicants being approved for permanent residence. The pilot's entrepreneurs received over $3.7 million in investments for their companies in the first three years of the program.
The incentive for newcomers to create new businesses brought positive results for Canada's economy and created middle-class jobs across a range of industries. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC), Ahmed Hussen, said, "Our Government's Innovation and Skills Plan has identified the nurturing of entrepreneurship and the growth of start-ups as vitally important to Canada's present and future economy. Making the Start-up Visa Program permanent supports that agenda."
"Our Government's Innovation and Skills Plan has identified the nurturing of entrepreneurship and the growth of start-ups as vitally important to Canada's present and future economy. Making the Start-up Visa Program permanent supports that agenda." – Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Now, more than 50 Canadian venture capital funds, angel investor groups and business incubators are designated to participate in the program.
Karla Briones's 'IDEA' for aspiring entrepreneurs in Canada
Express Entry for skilled immigrants
#IBExpoTO – Connecting immigrants to entrepreneurship
Toronto event hears from experts and immigrant entrepreneurs on how to be successful
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The Politburo did it
Unless you've been hiding in a cave, you'll know the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks released a bunch of US diplomatic memos today. Amidst the misbehaving royals and warmongering Saudis lurks an interesting bit of tech detail!
Remember Google's dramatic departure from China earlier this year, after years of gritted-teeth censored operations in the country? At the time, Google said they were quitting in response to a hacking attack against the Gmail accounts of some human rights activists. Well, everyone always suspected that the attack was organised by the Chinese government, but no-one knew for sure. Well, now we do.
The leaks confirm that the attack was co-ordinated by a member of China's central Politburo, as part of 'a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government,'the New York Times reports. Apparently they've been at it since 2002; it was only when they attacked Google mail that someone spoke out a bit.
A tech mystery solved! Perhaps the next WikiLeaks document dump will tell us the secrets of how VHS beat Betamax.
wikileaks,
gmail,
wikileaks reveals politburo behind gmail hack,
google china,
chinese government cyber attack on google
Gmail unveils Smart Labels
Google: 'we dun goofed'
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Rousey was asked about the possibility of her getting inside a WWE ring again. Rousey opted to keep the focus on her friend Shayna Baszler saying it was her night.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal interviewed WWE stars Charlotte Flair, Bayley and Becky Lynch about the possibility of Rousey ever wrestling in a ring for WWE.
Charlotte noted that any attention Rousey can put on the women's division in WWE was a positive thing and again teased a possible confrontation with her.
I am sure she would get an extremely flexible schedule.
a film career thats failing and no interest from ufc will probably sway her.
I'm sure he is heavily considering (and has been) a wwe career and no question her last fight ruined her UFC prospects BUT I don't know if you could say her film career is failing considering her first film or tv role is just barely 3 years ago (late 2014) and since then she has been in a Fast and Furious movie (Furious 7), The Expendables, Entourage and the newer hit show Blindspot. I think most seasoned actors would be okay with those roles in 2-3 years. She also did the voice for the UFC 2 video game as well…plus a net worth of 12 million means if she does go to WWE I would guess it's because she wants to be active in athletic / sports in some capacity.
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Congratulations to our SEQ Area Manager Shane Gesch on winning gold at the Hockey Masters 2018 World Cup in Spain, earlier this month.
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Patch 1.1 GOOD news - It's Live - Yay! Woot! Hooha!
Entering the back seat of the Gladiator plays the animation for entering the front seat.
After 2 years of development Star Citizen has grown and matured considerably. Unfortunately, this hasn't been the case with installing or patching.
However, today with the release of the 1.1.0 build, we are attempting to clean up some of the problems players have been seeing when trying to download and play the game.
We have released a new installer and switched our CDN to Amazon Cloudfront. Over 80% of our Metafile issues will be fixed with this, and it's also the foundation for a future update to eliminate the notorious "Delete your USER folder" fix.
The new installer fixes many small installation bugs, crashes, and bad data errors players were seeing.
The installer no longer defaults a player's install to the "My Documents" folder, but the standard Program Files folder.
With the new CDN, we have done away with the hundreds of incremental patches that were stored on our old provider. These hundreds of patches represented almost 600gigs of possible problems that players could encounter, leading to Metafile errors, Manifest errors, and other squirrely behavior.
After today, there will only be two patches on our CDN; 1.0.3 -> 1.1.0 and Nothing -> 1.1.0. Also, download speed should have been significantly improved with this switch to Cloudfront, as well as many closer locations to download from.
We hope the relatively clean slate and lower error rate will make up for the inconvenience of having to reinstall the game. There are more improvements on the horizon as well. We are working towards a new and significantly cleaner launcher that should make this whole experience more seemless.
We strongly advise players follow these instructions step-by-step to minimize the chance of any unexpected technical issues.
Below are the instructions for how to uninstall and reinstall Star Citizen using the new launcher. These instructions work for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Click the Start button at the bottom left of Windows.
Click on All Programs, then click on the Star Citizen folder.
"Are you sure you want to completely remove StarCitizen and all of its components?
Now we're ready to get the new launcher from our new CDN!
IMPORTANT: You'll need to use Firefox or Chrome to download the new installer. Using Firefox or Chrome, head to https://robertsspaceindus ... tries.com/download to grab the newest version of the launcher. Once downloaded, run the installer to install the launcher. We recommend (but not require) that you install to the default directory provided.
As part of the install, you'll be asked to install and setup DirectX. DirectX is required to play games on Windows.
Please note: As part of the DirectX installation, Microsoft will offer you an option to install Bing Bar. Please know you do NOT need install Bing Bar to play Star Citizen.
You may get a popup at this point asking to Repair or Remove Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 ×64 Redistributable. This is normal… select Repair and click Next and your DirectX install will be complete.
At this point, the Star Citizen launcher is installed, so make sure the checkbox is checked, click Finish, and the launcher will run.
Once the launcher is up on your screen, use your normal RSI login and password to log in and begin patching!
Damn, the Retaliator looks awesome.... still holding on to my Phoenix though. Melted it once and took weeks to get it back, no way am I don't that again!
Picked up a couple of the Mustang Omaga packs from eBay, so have a Super Hornet package on the cheap, as well as Cutlass Red package ripe for upgrading to a Freelancer DUR once they're finally flyable.
I think I'm done as far as purchase for this game goes!
do we need to uninstall the old launcher or is that taken care of by the new one?
You can earn REC in coop vandul swarm too, I'm up for some of that if anyone is game? Though the next time I have free to play SC is Tuesday night and Thursday night.
@Nal ... I'll try to be around Tuesday and Thursday night, follow me (Mara_Jade) on your RSI account otherwise we do not see each other in the match making to invite.
I played around a bit ... like the folding of the hornet wings when you land, but I think they fold to fast. Has anyone tried that landing mode? Can't seam to get any more assistance then before. No special HUD or anything ... just noted that once I was landed on the platform I sometimes had a radar change to the landing platform like in elite, but only once I was landed. Strange!
Only had a chance to play one match, now it only tells me "searching for a match" but does not find any ... can't believe there are no other matches out there !
Has anyone the same problem (checked that my firewall is not blocking anything, but since it worked before and I changed nothing I can't imagine whats wrong now!).
Did you press "N" that apparently engages the landing mode.... then you press middle mouse button while in landing mode to request landing permission, then you can either land manually or press something else (that I cant remember right now) to auto land if you are close enough.
Download was going fine, got to about 95% and ran out of disc space on my 250GB SSD.
Just ordered a 500GB SSD from Scan.
Well I've managed to get the landing working, it's pretty awesome... just shows you how powerful the ships actually are, it's super easy to destroy yourself if you're not really careful. Autolanding works a treat, you just have to get close enough for it to activate.
Multiplayer seems to not be working today, so hopfully they can start fixing it on Monday.
Yeah with my new try I got that landing working too ... did the same thing, except now the radar changed and even autolanding worked. I just hope they make the ships for the PU more robust, otherwise it will be a shame losing your hard earned ship SOOO quick (that is ok for the AC since you have free respawns etc. and makes matches quicker).
Sorry about the multiplayer .. as you said, it seams to be broken and I could not even write in the chat (you where ahead of me there ) .. So for the next try on Tuesday!
I have it downloaded Should be on tomorrow all being well.
Well I just hope they can get the server problems fixed till tomorrow evening ... seams like way more people then expected jumped on to try 1.1 out. Now it seams to crash the matchmaking and server capacities over all.
For me no use to try to get into a match today :/ .. But figured out that now they actually save the changes to your loadout even though you quit Star Citizen.
I believe they tried to fix the server problems today. | {
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East Street Valley was a neighborhood on Pittsburgh's North Side that stretched northward along the historic path of Butcher's Run, once home to residences, shops, industries, and civic and religious institutions. The neighborhood was demolished prior to the construction of Parkway North, causing the displacement of hundreds of residents over several decades.
History
Early history
As the region formerly known as the city of Allegheny grew in the early 18th century from a borough of hundreds to a city of thousands, people including many German immigrants began to settle in the valley between Nunnery Hill and Spring Hill. The corridor became a dense offshoot of Allegheny's Deutschtown section, with residences developing alongside factories and other industrial structures. Mass transit first arrived in the neighborhood in the early 1880s in the form of horse-drawn streetcars operated by the People's Park Passenger Railway Company. By 1907, when Pittsburgh annexed the valley along with the rest of Allegheny, the East Street Valley was home to a school, a lumberyard, a soap factory, a singing society, two meatpackers, three churches, and numerous other small shops and institutions.
"Urban renewal" and the East Street Valley Expressway
Efforts to remake the Lower North Side in the image of a prosperous, car-friendly, "towers in the park" city center began as early as 1939, when a local coalition called the Federation of Civic Bodies advocated for slum clearance, street improvements, and real estate development. Plans coalesced further in 1954 with the publishing of the North Side Study. Again, planners and business leaders expressed their intention to overhaul much of the Lower North Side's built environment in order to remove blight, increase commerce, reduce traffic congestion, and provide more parking. They proposed several new highways, one of which would connect car-owning suburbanites to Downtown Pittsburgh and the North Shore via the East Street Valley. Though it was not explicitly stated within the North Side Study, most if not all of the valley's residents would be displaced by such a highway.
Public planning meetings for the East Street Valley Expressway, as the project came to be known, commenced in 1963 and continued through the decade, during which time a highway cut through the Manchester neighborhood and some 850 families and dozens of businesses fled the wrecking ball in the newly-dubbed Allegheny Center. Government planners thus faced heightened resistance from local residents — especially members of the Highway Emergency and Relocation Team, or HEART, who sought fairer treatment and better recompensation for affected property owners — as well as from historic preservationists, who fought for a route alteration unveiled in 1974 that would spare St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church. There was relatively little remonstration against the expressway itself.
In 1963, PennDOT estimated that there were either 480 or 640 families living within proposed rights-of-way in the East Street Valley. By 1981, 805 families and individuals had been relocated and 134 business had been relocated or closed. Meanwhile, 133 families, 130 individuals, and 88 businesses still required relocation. The turmoil and heartache of relocation for residents, many of whom were working class, was compounded by deindustrialization and rampant unemployment in the Pittsburgh region during the 1970s and 1980s.
On June 16, 1982, nearly three decades after the North Side Study, and just as the fervor for urban expressways had already begun to wane, civic leaders including Mayor Richard Caliguiri, Governor Dick Thornburgh, and Pittsburgh Steelers owner and Northsider Art Rooney celebrated the expressway's groundbreaking. Optometrist and HEART organizer Marty Krauss told a reporter, "I can assure you that the people celebrating today live comfortably. They live in places like Mt. Lebanon or Fox Chapel. They are not threatened by relocation. If they would be, they could get a good attorney."
References
Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh
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No word yet on the possible Creve Coeur location. | {
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court Wednesday charged an air force sergeant and a businessman with stealing two fighter jet engines, which were apparently smuggled to South America.
The theft of the two engines from a military warehouse two years ago was publicized last month by a local daily newspaper, prompting opposition criticism that senior government or military figures may have been involved and the case covered up.
Royal Malaysian Air Force Sgt. N. Tharmendran pleaded not guilty in court in central Selangor state to stealing the engines, said a court official, who declined to be named citing protocol. The charge carries a maximum jail term of 10 years.
In the same court, Rajandra Prasad Kasy, director of a local company dealing in aeronautical products, pleaded not guilty to a charge of helping to conceal the engines, for which he faces up to seven years in prison, said his lawyer Pritam Singh.
The court set bail at 150,000 ringgit ($44,000) for each of the men, the court official said. The next court date is Feb. 11.
The engines, each worth 50 million ringgit ($14 million), were stolen while undergoing repairs, according to Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail. He has said that the stolen engines were shipped toward Argentina before being offloaded to another vessel bound for Uruguay.
The engines are used for single-seat fighter and reconnaissance jets and Abdul Gani has declined to say where they are now.
The New Straits Times first reported the theft of one of the engines last month, fueling criticism of corruption. Lim Kit Siang, a senior opposition politician, has called for a royal inquiry into "rampant kleptocracy in Malaysia," expressing disbelief that a low-ranking staff could pull off the theft.
He said Abdul Gani's claim that no senior military personnel was involved was hard to believe. | {
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Congratulations Fukuchi San! - NAOPF OSS award 2022
Fukuchi San of Sony, one of the key people behind the OpenChain Japan Work Group, has received the 'NAOPF OSS award 2022' from the Japan OSS Promotion Forum. This award was announced on the 24th of November 2022 during the 20th Northeast Asia OSS Promotion Forum.
Fukuchi San is one of the founders of the OpenChain Japan Work Group and has been a tireless contributor to both the local and international community for many years. His formal resume is on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiroyuki-fukuchi-oss/) but his most important resume is visible across his community contributions on our calls, mailing lists and elsewhere.
The OpenChain Project is driven by the community around it, and figures like Fukuchi San have been critical to building the energy and atmosphere to help people work together. His award is well-deserved and is a welcome example of how contributions are acknowledged by the broader open source ecosystem.
Thank you Fukuchi San!
Link to article:
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I am currently healing from a probable cracked rib and from inflammation of the soft tissue around the rib. I picked up a cough right before Christmas. The cough was my only symptom and I did not really consider myself "sick", which meant that I did not take any time to extra time to take care of myself. The reality that Henrik was working his way through a very disturbed sleep phase depleted my reserves even more. My cough worsened significantly in early January and I was unaware that as I worked to clear my lungs I was also damaging my ribs.
It has been about two week since the pain really intensified and I think that I am finally healing. The injury feels very crushing, both physically and mentally. I am mentally very frustrated that such a seemingly minor physical injury can put so much of my life temporarily on hold. Yet in Haiti right now, people are dealing with exponentially more debilitating crushing injuries.
As I strive to look for beauty every day I keep reflecting on a video I found recently on MSNBC. The news report starts with a man standing outside/on top of a pile of rubble that used to be a bank where his wife had been working on the day of the earthquake. He was convinced, six days after the earthquake, that his wife was still alive. He was able to find an opening in the debris and as he called out his wife's name, she finally answered. She was still alive.
The Haitians on site lacked sufficient tools to help reach the woman. Amazingly, a team of firefighters arrived on the scene with the appropriate equipment. Three hours from the time her voice was first heard the woman was extricated from the wreckage. She had miraculously suffered only minor injuries. As she was being slid out of the collapsed building on a stretcher she started singing. After being trapped for six days she was moved to sing. A reporter leaned in and asked her, "Did you think you would live?". She responded, "Live, why not?". Her response has resonated with me ever since.
She sat up and got in a car with her husband and drove off. I just heard tonight on NPR of a teenage girl who was pulled out alive from the rubble today. It has now been fifteen days since the earthquake. I have pain in my ribs. My pain is the result of a cough, not from the world tumbling down around me. Their bodies were crushed. Their minds were left to sort through their physical pain and the unknown. Their spirits persevered. I will hold on to the beauty of their uncrushable spirits.
This entry was posted in Be Well, Gratitude, Inspire, Mindfulness, Watch. Bookmark the permalink.
This entry was posted in Gratitude, Inspire, Mindfulness, Uncategorized, Watch, Wellness. Bookmark the permalink. | {
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 021 Page 0316 W. FLA.,S. ALA.,S. MISS.,LA.,TEX.,N. MEX. Chapter XXVII.
send all the force you can spare to co-operate in the great struggle for opening the Mississippi River.
My means of gaining information from Port Hudson are not good, but I shall hope, even before this reaches Baton Rouge, to hear of your forces being on the way here.
Grierson's cavalry would be of immense service to me now, and if at all practicable for him to join me I would like to have him do it at once.
For fear of this accidentally falling into the hands of the enemy I will not communicate to you my force.
Off Red River, May 11, 1863.
MY DEAR GENERAL: The admiral, as you are aware, has left me in command here and gone down to New Orleans. I have also four gunboats with me; two of them, the Arizona and Switzerland, are up the river, and the Albatross and Estrella are with me. You aide, Lieutenant Crosby, will tell you of our affairs here. It is very certain that there are not over 10,000 men at Port Hudson, and from many sources we hear that they are about to evacuate; that they have already, we hear, sent away two of their heaviest guns and are very much straitened in provisions. A demonstration upon them would, I think, insure their evacuation.
It seems now that General Grant can send you no re-enforcements. If you intend coming down, and I can be of any assistance, I will cheerfully remain to assist in the attack upon Port Hudson; but if this be not your intention for the present, I shall within the coming fortnight run the blockade some favorable night and join the fleet below, as the admiral is very anxious for me to come down.
I send you seven refugees, who are very anxious to join your army. They are very violent Union men, and may be of some service to you as pioneers.
Alexandria, La., May 12, 1863. | {
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package br.com.jgon.canary.persistence.exception;
import br.com.jgon.canary.exception.ApplicationException;
import br.com.jgon.canary.util.MessageSeverity;
/**
*
* @author Jurandir C. Goncalves
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* @version 1.0
*
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*
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The requirement for physicians to participate in Continuing Medical Education (CME) was established in order to create the most competent licensing population possible, thereby enhancing consumer protection. Under California law, physicians and surgeons must complete at least 50 hours of approved CME during each biennial renewal cycle.
Other programs offered by other organizations and institutions acceptable to the Division.
Courses approved by the Licensing Program for Category 1 CME include programs that are approved by the California Medical Association and the American Medical Association and programs that qualify for prescribed credit from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Most California-licensed physicians are required to take, as a one-time requirement, 12 hours of CME on pain management and the appropriate care and treatment of the terminally ill. Pathologists and radiologists are exempted from this requirement. The courses or programs must be presented by an organization accredited to provide CME by the ACCME, the AMA, the IMQ/CMA, or the AAFP. In addition to accrediting CME providers, AMA, IMQ/CMA, and AAFP may also present CME programs that will be accepted.
The 12 units may be divided in any way that is relevant to the physician's specialty and practice setting. Acceptable courses may address either topic individually or both topics together. For example, one physician might take three hours of "pain management education" and nine hours of "the appropriate care and treatment of the terminally ill;" a second physician might opt to take six hours of "pain management" and six hours of "the appropriate care and treatment of the terminally ill;" a third physician might opt to take one 12-hour course that includes both topics. The Medical Board will accept any combination of the two topics totaling 12 hours.
Physicians must complete the mandated hours by their second license renewal date or within four years, whichever comes first.
The 12 required hours would count toward the 50 hours of approved CME each physician is required to complete during each biennial renewal cycle.
In order to ensure that physicians have the requisite knowledge and skills to competently treat California's older population, California law requires that general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent are 65 years of age or older, are required to complete at least 20 percent of their mandatory CME in the field of geriatric medicine.
All other physicians are encouraged to take a course in geriatric medicine, including geriatric pharmacology, as part of their mandatory CME.
The Medical Board is required by law to conduct an annual audit of physicians who have certified that they have complied with Continuing Medical Education (CME) requirements by signing the CME certification statement on their license renewal notice. Under Section 1338 of Title 16, of the California Code of Regulations (CCR), it constitutes unprofessional conduct for any physician to misrepresent compliance with CME requirements.
In addition to fulfilling the CME requirements, you must maintain documentation of your CME for a minimum of four years. These records must include course title, dates of attendance, number of credit hours received, and sponsoring/accrediting agency. These records may be needed if your CME is audited by the Licensing Program.
If you are unable to complete the minimum CME requirements due to health, military service, or undue hardship, you may request a CME waiver. If your application for a CME waiver is denied by the Board, you will be allowed to renew your license one time; however, you will be required to make up the deficient hours over your next renewal period and document to the Board 100 CME hours by the end of that renewal period.
If needed, you should request a waiver approximately three months prior to your license expiration. All requests are reviewed on an individual basis, and may be subject to verification of the physician's inability to comply.
For further information concerning CME and the renewal of your license, please contact the CME Coordinator at (916) 263-2645.
There are a number of educational activities that meet the content standards for CME credit. The following summary, provided by the IMQ (a subsidiary of the CMA), lists just some of the many educational activities that can qualify for CME credit. This information is provided to assist you in finding those options that best meet your needs and should not be considered exhaustive. You may contact the IMQ/CMA, the AMA, the ACCME, or the AAFP should you wish to obtain more specific information about other qualifying educational activities beyond those listed below. Please note that the credit limitations below are those of the American Medical Association (AMA) and not the Medical Board of California.
Self-Study Programs (Enduring materials): Print, recorded audio-visual and internet or computer-based enduring educational material that requires completing and passing an assessment or test, is sponsored by an IMQ/CMA or ACCME accredited CME provider, and provides AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. (Note: Studying for tests is not eligible). Credits for a self-study course are calculated using the average or fixed amount of time required to complete it, rounded to the nearest quarter hour.
Courses (Live Activities): In-person educational activity offered for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from an IMQ/CMA or an ACCME accredited provider such as a hospital, medical specialty society, or medical school. Credit is granted based on the length of time a physician attends the course. Physician faculty may also be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for their learning associated with preparation and teaching of an original presentation but this credit is awarded directly through the AMA. International courses must be offered by a CME-accredited organization.
Internet POC: A limit of twenty (20) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ per year can be earned by completing the three phases of an Internet Point-of-Care (POC) learning activity (1. clinical question, 2. identify sources, 3. describe application to practice). This is a CME activ¬ity structured by an IMQ/CMA or an ACCME accredited provider in which a physician engages in self-directed, online learning on topics relevant to their clinical practice. Each structured Internet POC cycle can be designated for one-half (.5) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME): An accredited CME provider structures a long-term, three stage process by which a physician or group of physicians learn about specific performance measures and assess current practice, implement interventions to improve performance related to those measures over a useful interval of time, and then reassess their practice using the same performance measures. PI CME can be designated for twenty (20) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ when all stages are completed, or if only one or two stages are completed, physicians can receive five (5) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for each completed stage.
Manuscript review: A CME activity structured by an IMQ/CMA or an ACCME accredited provider in which a physician learns through the critical review of an assigned journal manuscript. Each accredited manuscript review, as deemed acceptable by and documented by the journal editor, can be designated for three (3) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ with a limit of five (5) reviews—or fifteen (15) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ per year.
Test item writing: Credit can be earned through contribution to the development of certain high stake examinations (National Board of Medical Examiners or American Board of Medical Specialty examinations) or peer reviewed self-assessment activities. Contributions can include research, drafting and defending potential questions. Accredited CME providers should designate each test writing activity for ten (10) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Faculty Teaching: As of March 2013, faculty can earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for the teaching of medical students, residents and fellows, as long as it meets all of the AMA core requirements for live activities and is certified by an institution that, in addition to being an accredited CME provider (or working in joint sponsorship with an accredited CME provider), is accredited by the LCME (to certify teaching medical students), the ACGME (to certify teaching residents/fellows) or both. Credit is awarded for a maximum of two (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ per one (1) hour of interaction.
The following are educational activities for which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ is awarded directly by the AMA (Physicians who complete learning for the activities listed below can claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ directly from the AMA.
Medically-Related Advanced Degree: A maximum of 25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ may be earned for obtaining a medically related advanced degree, such as a master's or Ph.D., degree in public health or in a clinical field related to medicine. (Note: this credit is not available if the academic program is certified as individual courses for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™).
Published Papers: A maximum limit of one (1) article or 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ can be claimed per year for one (1) article by the lead author (first listed) of a peer-reviewed article published in a journal that is included in the MEDLINE bibliographic database.
Poster Presentations: A maximum limit of one (1) poster presentation or 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ can be claimed per year for one (1) poster presentation that is included in the published abstracts for a conference designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Residency and Fellowship Programs: Residents and fellows are allowed six hours of CME for each month of postgraduate residency or clinical fellowship in a program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Teaching or Presenting a CME Course: A maximum of one-third of the required CME hours may be satisfied by teaching or otherwise presenting a course or program that meets the requirements to offer CME.
Specialty Board Examination: A physician who takes and passes a certifying or recertifying examination administered by a recognized specialty board is granted 100 hours of CME credit for four consecutive years.
Can I receive CME credit for passing a specialty board examination?
Yes, if you take and pass a certifying or recertifying examination administered by a recognized specialty board, you are granted credit for 100 CME hours for four consecutive years.
Does the American Medical Association's Physician Recognition Award (PRA) meet the CME requirement?
To obtain a PRA, a physician must participate in 150 hours of CME, of which 60 hours are approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. If more than 60 hours of CME are obtained to receive a PRA, a copy of the PRA application should be submitted to receive the appropriate amount of credit.
Can I receive credit for teaching or presenting a course that meets the CME requirements?
Yes; a maximum of one-third of the required CME hours may be satisfied by teaching or presenting a course or program that meets the CME requirement.
How can I claim hours for which I have no documentation?
The organization sponsoring the program must provide documentation that includes the participant's name, course title, dates of attendance and duration, the sponsoring organization and accrediting agency name, and hours received. If you are randomly selected for a CME audit and cannot provide documentation supporting your claim, you will "fail" the audit and will be required to make up any missing credit prior to the next licensure renewal cycle. Additionally, you may be charged with unprofessional conduct for misrepresenting compliance with the CME requirements during the license renewal process.
What if I cannot afford the cost involved in taking CME courses?
There are many sources for earning CME credit that are available at low or no cost. Online CME offered by accredited providers is one source. Medical journals often offer CME credits related to one or more articles. Also, local hospitals may offer approved courses for CME credit to all physicians.
I have a California license, but I am currently in the military. Can I be exempt from CME?
Perhaps. The law requires that every military physician comply with the CME requirement. However, reasons of war or being aboard a ship for extended periods of time (several years) which preclude a physician from participating in any CME may be considered. Requests to waive the CME requirement may be submitted to the Board.
I received a waiver for my last renewal period. How many hours do I need to complete by my next renewal?
If a waiver is granted for a renewal period, 100 approved hours must be completed by the renewal period following the waived period.
Should I send CME documentation with my license renewal notice?
No. If a physician is not being audited for CME completion, it is only necessary to sign the self-certification statement on the renewal application form and return it with the renewal payment. If the physician did not receive a renewal notice, he/she should contact the Board's Consumer Information Unit at 1-800-633-2322 to request a new notice.
If I am audited, do I have to show proof of completion of CME courses or programs?
Yes. Documents that are acceptable include: Certificates of completion of CME activities, including in person or self-study programs. The documentation must show the name of the physician as the participant, the title and date(s) of the course or completion of the program, the number of approved CME hours or prescribed credit hours granted for completion, or a copy of the medical specialty board certificate (good for 100 hours of credit).
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Tharsini relishes internship with Stratagem IP
Tharsini Sivapalan, a student at the Institute of Food Research (IFR), wanted to get an insight into intellectual property (IP) law so spent her 12 week internship at Stratagem IP, an intellectual property management company based in Cambridge.
Tharsini undertook her internship from April to July 2016 and during the 3 months gained an understanding of patents and commercialization of IP. "This was a steep learning curve but I really enjoyed it and benefitted from it", she reflects. After grasping the basics of IP, Tharsini's objective was to assist Stratagem with advising and managing the IP portfolio of one their large clients, the IFR, and to work with other patent attorneys on other client cases. Tharsini was trained to become familiar with the publication approval process and this was her main duty during the internship, consisting of logging in all incoming approvals requests, reviewing the publications and providing background information to the senior patent attorney ahead of the deadlines. During the 3 months at Stratagem, Tharsini pre-screened approximately 75 publications for the IFR.
Reviewing the publications included reading the documents to determine the novel inventions and industrial applicability, conducting scientific literature/patent searches in the research area and examining the novelty of the inventions in comparison to the disclosed inventions in the public domain. After reviewing the publications, Tharsini then had to brief the senior patent attorney on the scientific background. "During my 3 months at Stratagem, I had the opportunity to work on other client cases which included reviewing 600 patents. I was also able to get involved in the process of drafting a patent application which gave me an understanding of the process required to protect an invention", says Tharsini.
Tharsini found her internship to be an invaluable experience, developing many transferrable skills, including time management and communication skills. It also gave her the opportunity to master working in a different working environment. "For someone who has been in education for a long time, this gave me an opportunity to experience a 9-5 office job. As a result of this I feel more confident in the idea of getting a job away from lab research" says Tharsini. "The internship has strengthened my self-confidence by working in a law firm with new colleagues. During my 3 months I've learnt how to priortise tasks, meet deadlines and be committed to the work that I undertook. I had opportunities to discuss how the all the attorneys got into their careers and their route to qualification. I've now got a clearer career direction as result of the internship".
Stratagem were extremely happy with the work Tharsini did, saying, "it has been a pleasure having Tharsini here with us at Stratagem. She has done some really useful work for us including contributing to a publication review process for IFR that we will continue ourselves".
Having had 3 months away from the lab, Tharsini now has a different perspective to her project and feels motivated to finish her PhD. She advises students to make the most of the opportunity to undertake an internship away from the lab and to get exposure to another employment environment. "Whilst you're away for three months don't think about research just enjoy the internship and the 9-5 working hours"! | {
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"Stretchy materials hug my body, while soft fabrics like knits and silk blends gently drape over my curves. I love wearing low necklines, pencil skirts, and skinny jeans, especially paired with high heels to add extra length to my legs. I avoid low-rise pants since they make my hips look wider and my legs shorter." Inspired by Abdel Aziz's advice, we've put together an edit of 9 relaxed pieces that best flatter a tall body shape. | {
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Little Motor People is the third album led by cellist Hank Roberts which was recorded in late 1992 and released on the JMT label.
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars. The LA Times' Bill Kohlhaase noted "the highlight here is Roberts' five-part suite "Saturday/Sunday" with its acoustic sensibilities and smart interplay between Roberts, pianist Django Bates and percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan. Moving easily between jazz rhythms, tribal beats and classically influenced passages, the piece marks Roberts as a composer willing to overlook the usual boundaries between jazz and progressive music".
Track listing
All compositions by Hank Roberts except as indicated
" Saturday/Sunday" - 18:58
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen Yip Harburg) - 4:30
"Only Minutes Left" - 4:47
"My Favourite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:19
"Little Motor People" - 10:07
"Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 3:04
"Black as a Sunny Day" (Django Bates, Hank Roberts) - 2:33
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 5:29
"30's Picnic" - 8:40
Personnel
Hank Roberts - cello, vocals, jazz-a-phone fiddle
Django Bates - piano, synthesizer, tenor horn
Arto Tunçboyacıyan - percussion, vocals
References
1993 albums
Hank Roberts albums
JMT Records albums
Winter & Winter Records albums | {
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Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake: An Update
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1. The above results have been reviewed by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors in their meeting held on 28 July 2018 and approved by the Board of Directors in the meeting held on the same day.
3. (a) The CERC notified the Tariff Regulations, 2014 in February 2014 (Regulations, 2014). The CERC has issued tariff orders for all the stations except six stations for the period 2014-19, under Regulations, 2014, and beneficiaries are billed based on such tariff orders issued by the CERC. For other stations, beneficiaries are billed in accordance with the principles given in the Regulations, 2014. The energy charges in respect of the coal based stations are provisionally billed based on the GCV of coal 'as received', measured at wagon top samples in respect of most of the stations barring a few on the grounds of safety issues, for the quantity supplied through conveyors/road and other difficulties. The amount provisionally billed is 21,479.97 crore (previous quarter 18,847.22 crore).
(b) The Company has filed a writ petition before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court contesting certain provisions of the Regulations, 2014. As per directions from the Hon'ble Delhi High Court on the issue of point of sampling for measurement of GCV of coal on 'as received' basis, CERC has issued an order dated 25 January 2016 (subject to final decision of the Hon'ble High Court) that samples for measurement of coal on 'as received' basis should be collected from wagon top at the generating stations. The Company's review petition before the CERC in respect of the above order was dismissed vide their order dated 30 June 2016. Vide order dated 10 November 2016, the Hon'ble Delhi High Court has permitted the Company to approach the CERC with the difficulties being faced in implementation of the order of CERC in this regard and the Company has filed a petition with the CERC. Pending disposal of the petition by the CERC and ratification by the Hon'ble Delhi High Court, measurement of GCV of coal is being done from wagon top samples in respect of most of the stations barring a few on the grounds of safety issues, for the quantity supplied through conveyors/road and other difficulties.
Sales for the quarter ended 30 June 2018 has been provisionally recognized at 21,716.03 crore (previous quarter 19,313.83 crore) on the said basis.
(c) Sales for the quarter ended 30 June 2018 include (-) 85.52 crore (previous quarter 43.97 crore) pertaining to previous years recognized based on the orders issued by the CERC/Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL).
(d) Sales include 20.89 crore (previous quarter 17.49 crore) on account of deferred tax materialized which is recoverable from beneficiaries as per Regulations, 2014.
4. Provision for current tax for the quarter ended 30 June 2018 includes (-) 105.88 crore (previous quarter Nil) tax related to earlier years.
5. During the quarter, revision of pay scales w.e.f. 1 January 2017 has been implemented for the employees in the executive category. Revision of pay scales for workmen category will be implemented through the process of collective bargaining, which is in progress. Pending implementation of the same, provision of 78.77 crore has been made for the quarter ended 30 June 2018 (previous quarter 59.40 crore).
6. The Company has adopted Ind AS 115 - 'Revenue from Contracts with Customers' which is mandatory for reporting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2018. Application of Ind AS 115 does not have any material impact on the financial statements of the Company.
7. For all secured bonds issued by the Company, 100% security cover is maintained for outstanding bonds. The security has been created on fixed assets through English/Equitable mortgage as well as hypothecation of movable assets of the Company.
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The young Blues started their season with a point against Shrewsbury on Friday afternoon as they came back from a goal behind in both halves.
Keighran Kerr had the best of the chances in the early stages for United as he was played through by a combination of passes from Taylor Charters and Liam McCarron. The keeper stood up on both occasions to keep the score at 0-0.
Ward made a good save as Shrewsbury tried to get into the game, before the Blues broke but McCarron dragged his shot disappointingly wide.
It was Shrewsbury who broke the deadlock just after the half hour as a striker was slid into the box. He finished well with a firm shot which flew high into the roof of the net.
United were back on terms on the stroke of half time after a low free kick from Charters was blocked. It ricocheted nicely for Kerr, who was alert in the box, to finish well past the keeper.
It was nip and tuck at the start of the second half before a deep cross was mishit by a Shrewsbury midfielder. It caught Ward unawares as he strayed off his line and it dipped into the back of the net.
Darren Edmondson's side pulled things level for a second time with ten minutes to go as a free kick from the left was initially cleared. Casson got it back into the box and McCarron was there to pop it home as Shrewsbury struggled get it clear.
Speaking at full time, the academy boss said: "We'll come away pleased with the point after going behind twice. Some of our attacking play in the first half probably deserved a couple of goals. But if you don't take your chances when you're on top it makes it difficult.
"Shrewsbury are a good side with some good players, but their second goal was fortunate. It was a cross rather than a shot, but those things can happen in games.
"It was good to see some of the things we've worked on in pre-season come out in a proper game. We've still got to work on composure for one or two players who take the wrong options, at times, but I'm sure that will come as they play more games.
"It's been a difficult few weeks because we've picked up a couple of serious injuries to important players. We've had to re-group and some of the first years are having to step up quicker than we'd probably like, but it's a good learning curve for them."
"We've got lads who were with us last year travelling to Exeter with the first team today as first year pro's, which is a huge lift for our current players," he commented. "They can see if they work hard there is a chance to be involved, and we've seen that lift in all of them every day in training."
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Daughter of officer killed in 9/11 attacks graduates from NYPD police academy
By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
The daughter of a police officer who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks graduated from the New York Police Department Police Academy on Monday, WPIX reported.
Jillian Suarez, 26, said she wanted to continue the legacy of her father, Ramon Suarez, who was killed while trying to save people at the World Trade Center.
"When the confetti came down, I felt him hugging me," Suarez told reporters after the ceremony. "I've always loved law enforcement, but obviously when my dad had passed away, I realized that I wanted to follow his footsteps, and I want to continue the legacy."
Suarez, had turned 9 two days before the terrorist attacks.
Ramon Suarez, 45, and his partner, Mark Ellis, were New York Police Department officers who commandeered a taxi cab and drove it to the World Trade Center after they heard that two planes had crashed into the buildings, the New York Post reported.
Suarez ran into north tower three times, saving an asthmatic woman and then a woman who was seven months pregnant, the newspaper reported. He died during his third trip into the building. Ellis also died that day, the Post reported.
"I know your dad is proud you're wearing his shield today Jillian and so are we," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said during the ceremony. "Congratulations, Police Officer Suarez."
Suarez will be wearing her father's shield number -- 12671 -- when she begins work in New York's Ninth Precinct, the Post reported.
WWII veteran received Ross High School diploma months before he died
Beerhead Bar & Eatery opens in Mason, is fourth one in Ohio
150 custom LEGO models to be on display in Cincinnati Museum Center...
Clark County man killed in motorcycle accident identified
Local Cincinnati Bengals fans singing 'On the Road Again'
Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk | {
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