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Our DBT Skills group is a 3-hour group that happens once per week. Clients work together through the different skills modules including: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence based therapy style which focuses on problem solving and acceptance-based strategies to achieve the client’s goals. This style of therapy teaches how to live in the moment, cope with stress in healthy ways, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others.
Issues: Addiction, Anxiety, Borderline Personality (BPD)
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On September 15, 2021, at the OGC Member Meeting, the OGC Agriculture Domain Working Group (DWG) conducted a survey during their session that showed that more than half of the responders see the future of smart farming lies in decentralized cloud environments. The landscape of organisations participating in the Agriculture DWG session represent multi-level platforms and hundreds of heterogeneous data sources, interests, social habits, and legal regulations. In addition to this diversity, the high levels of fragmentation, weak cooperation, and traditional heritage that are characteristic of agriculture and livestock farming will, according to the McKinsey reports, stay in the tail of the digitized sectors. At the same time, agriculture is targeted as one of the Common European data spaces that shall allow for a free exchange concerning privacy and governance regulations.
The FAIR data principles that form the core OGC mission, and are realized by our open standards and the open data initiatives that use them, are ideally suited to addressing these challenges. Although the technical interoperability that OGC is focused on forms only one dimension of the problem known as the social-technical-semantic dimensional space, the possibility for stakeholders to connect disparate systems with each other is recognized as the key enabler for generating and exploiting required knowledge. Therefore, one of the key activities within the OGC Innovation Program is testing the standards, verifying their potential for adoption, and resolving interoperability issues with world-class experts. A particular challenge is that they have to be built vertically compatible with policies, user behaviors, and semantics. Cybele and similar projects are therefore an optimal frame to develop, test, and verify the required standards and technologies as they target bringing solutions to the market that address the many legal and business considerations.
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These requirements align with OGC’s efforts in conceptual modeling and abstract specifications, but also in the development of the OGC Definition Server. One of the ideas behind OGC's work on the definition server is to support standardization by providing a tool to organize and manage standards-related ontologies. One of the initial use-cases was a reference host of the taxonomies that could be used to improve the quality of the observations gathered by the social sciences.
Currently, the OGC Definition Server is multi-purpose and built around the triple store database engine RDF4j with customized VocPrez front-end and a number of ingestion, validation, and entailment scripts. The validation and entailment are exploiting the potential of the SHACL Shapes definitions for TBox models of the entities, and narrows down the variations in conceptual models as to ground base common features of the instances and infer any not-explicitly defined second-order relationships (predicates). That meaningfully simplifies the A-Box definition of the instances. For example, reverse predicates (like next vs previous), other ontology relationships (dependency as skos:narrow or dcat:partOf) can be unambiguously inferred without explicit definitions or verified for inconsistencies.
In practice, that is a step forward in defining the bridge between conceptual and logical models. The concepts can be expressed as instances of various ontological classes and interpreted within various contexts, while their minimum definition can be translated into entities, relationships, and properties.
Currently, it is hosting several types of definitions covering:
● Register of OGC bodies, assets, and its modules
● Ontological common semantic models (e.g. Cybele, Demeter)
● Dictionaries of subject domains (e.g. PipelineML Codelists)
Content of the core is incrementally growing as the data produced during several projects, like Cybele, Demeter, e-shape, GEOE3, or CLINT, is added. For the agriculture domain, it provides a Common Semantic Model allowing mapping to the various standards/ontologies including FIWARE, Saref4Agri, INSPIRE, FOODIE, ADAPT, AGROVOC, EU standards, ISO standards. Containing also the model of the standards like Topic 20: Observations and Measurements, and the dependencies of SensorThings API, it shall be possible to define the reference model(s)’ profile, encodings, and code lists. Such precise definition is currently unachievable without specifying target encoding schema, which has to be produced manually with not-insubstantial effort. Ideally, precise models of the APIs shall reach the level known from plug-and-play hardware devices that quickly become accessible for nearly everybody.
What may be even more important in the future is linking the reference model to the external ontologies. Doing so can greatly improve the quality of the knowledge produced based on the collected data. Verifiability of the research outcomes and explainable AI are just two examples where a clear log of inferences and unambiguous semantic compatibility of the data will play a key role. Contextualization of the information is not a new problem: the Frame concept was proposed in 1974 (M. Minsky), but today’s increasing amount of data, coupled with the increasing capabilities of artificial inferring has brought the problem to the forefront of common data spaces’ integration.
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HtrA1-dependent proteolysis of TGF-beta controls both neuronal maturation and developmental survival.
Auteur : Launay S, Maubert E, Lebeurrier N, Tennstaedt A, Campioni M, Docagne F, Gabriel C, Dauphinot L, Potier MC, Ehrmann M, Baldi A, Vivien D
Année : 2008
Journal : Cell Death Differ 1350-9047
PubMed Id : 18551132
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signalling controls a number of cerebral functions and dysfunctions including synaptogenesis, amyloid-beta accumulation, apoptosis and excitotoxicity. Using cultured cortical neurons prepared from either wild type or transgenic mice overexpressing a TGF-beta-responsive luciferase reporter gene (SBE-Luc), we demonstrated a progressive loss of TGF-beta signalling during neuronal maturation and survival. Moreover, we showed that neurons exhibit increasing amounts of the serine protease HtrA1 (high temperature responsive antigen 1) and corresponding cleavage products during both in vitro neuronal maturation and brain development. In parallel of its ability to promote degradation of TGF-beta1, we demonstrated that blockage of the proteolytic activity of HtrA1 leads to a restoration of TGF-beta signalling, subsequent overexpression of the serpin type -1 plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) and neuronal death. Altogether, we propose that the balance between HtrA1 and TGF-beta could be one of the critical events controlling both neuronal maturation and developmental survival. | <urn:uuid:becc6bd7-faa3-4d6e-987b-5b30567caa52> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.bb-c.fr/publication/htra1-dependent-proteolysis-of-tgf-beta-controls-both-neuronal-maturation-and-developmental-survival/ | 2022-10-06T01:43:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337680.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005234659-20221006024659-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.814521 | 352 | [
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If you have a large collection of old printed photos, you can digitize them using a scanner attached to your computer. However, the easiest and cheapest way is to use a photo-scanning app like Google PhotoScan, Microsoft Office Lens, or TurboScan to help scan, rotate, crop, and add filters to your photos.
Despite the benefits of using an app, be aware that it may not be the best choice in every situation. The main drawback is that the overall picture quality and resolution achieved through a mobile app won’t compare with what you can get from a dedicated scanner. You also won’t have access to advanced settings like output file type, color mode, resolution, size, brightness, and contrast with an app.
Instead, a mobile app comes in handy if you want to scan a collection of photos quickly and don’t need top quality or resolution. You also won’t need to deal with connection issues or tricky scanning setups; just point and scan. Here are several photo scanning apps and a look at how they work.
Google PhotoScan promises glare-free scans, automatic cropping, and smart rotation to keep your images straight and level. Download the free app for Android(Opens in a new window) or iOS(Opens in a new window) and open the app. Line up the photo you want to scan and press the shutter button. The app then displays a white circle in each of the four corners of the photo.
Move your phone horizontally to make contact with each of the circles, one after the other. But try not to tilt your phone; keep it level. After you’ve made contact with all four circles, tap the thumbnail in the lower right to view the scanned image.
At the screen showing the scan, you can rotate the image, adjust the corners, or delete the image to try again. Tap the Share icon, and you can share the scanned image via email, messaging, or other apps and services.
When done, tap the left arrow in the upper-left corner to view the image. Tap the left arrow again to capture another scan.
Microsoft Office Lens
Microsoft Office Lens is designed to scan paper documents, business cards, whiteboards, and photos. Download and install the free app (Android(Opens in a new window), iOS(Opens in a new window)), open the app and set the type of scan to Photo. You can also adjust the flash by turning it on or off, or setting it to automatic.
Tap the shutter button to take the scan, then tap the orange circle to move to the next step.
From the photo editor, tap Add if you wish to scan another photo. You can experiment with different filters by tapping the Filters icon or adjust the corners and sides of the scan by choosing Crop. Tap the More icon to access additional features.
Rotate the image by tapping the Rotate icon, or remove the scan by tapping Delete. Tapping the Ink icon will allow you to draw on the photo and selecting Text will let you create text over the image. When finished, tap Done.
At the next screen, you can save your photo to your camera’s photo library or to Microsoft OneDrive, or save it as a Microsoft Word or PowerPoint document. You can also share the photo via Outlook, Mail, and other apps.
With TurboScan, you can scan documents, business cards, index cards, and photos. Available for Android(Opens in a new window) and iOS(Opens in a new window), the free version restricts you to just three scans. A $4.99 in-app purchase removes this restriction, so you can scan an unlimited number of files.
TurboScan offers a healthy array of options and settings, allowing you to set default page size, default filename format and output (including PDF and JPG), and enable the flash to on, off, or automatic.
To use TurboScan, position your photo and press the shutter button. You can also set up the app to take scans automatically once you have the photo lined up and take three photos of the same scan so you can choose the best one.
At the next screen, tap the Frame command in the upper left to crop your photo, then tap Done when finished. At the next screen, you can brighten or darken the image, rotate it, or delete it and try again. When done, tap Next. At the next screen, tap the Pencil icon to name the photo or change the size. You can also add a date stamp. Tap Done.
Tap the Share icon to share the photo via email, messaging, or different cloud services. You can also save the photo to your Photos library, copy it elsewhere, or print it. Tap Done to save the photo to the TurboScan gallery.
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Diwali events in Jersey City
The biggest and one of the most significant festivals in Indian culture, Diwali is celebrated around the world by Indians. This festival is accompanied by firework displays, prayers, diyas, and the families come together to enjoy the celebration of ‘ triumph of good over evil’. Here we have included all the fun family Diwali events in Jersey city.
Diwali is traditionally celebrated over a period of 5 days and marks the return of Lord Ram and his wife ‘ Sita’ after defeating Ravana..
Each state and faith have different ways of celebrating Diwali but the common theme of food and fireworks remain consistent.
Families and friends come together during this time and nights are spent playing card games. Bazaars are lit up with lines of Diyas and array of sweets . Savory items also see a tantalizing line up and gifting sweets and other items is part of the culture. The entire atmosphere gets lit up not only by the lights of Diwali but the excitement in everyone’s eyes, the smell of delicious food from the kitchen and star studded sky.
If you are missing the Diwali atmosphere and the fun you so much yearn to have and started looking for events, we bring to you the top 5 places to head to for this Diwali events in Jersey city.
SCA Festival of lights – Diwali 2018 : Jersey city
Dates : October 21st 2018; Time 12PM-6PM
Venue : City hall ,280 Grove st, Jersey city NJ 07302
Hosted by : Saraswati Cultural association of New Jersey
Website : www.scaofnj.org
This event tops our list of Diwali events in Jersey city. The Saraswati cultural association of New Jersey was founded in 1991 to promote cultural awareness amongst the diverse community in the tri- state area. They have hosted successful fun filled Diwali events in the last few years. And if the super successful last year event at Exchange place is the benchmark, this is one Diwali event not to be missed. It’s a free event with Live music, many cultural performances, raffles , activities for kids and many other attractions accompanied by traditional, mouthwatering and delicious food. Head here for a star studded night and a fun evening and enjoy this Diwali event in Jersey city.
Biggest Surati Lights of Diwali 2018
Dates – October 24 at 7:30PM- Oct 28 at 2AM
Venue – Art House productions, 262 17th street, Jersey city, New Jersey 07310
Hosted by : Surati for performing arts and education
The Surati for performing arts Diwali 2018 , is one of the most elaborate and promising Diwali festival. Spread over 4 days it promises to be the culturally relevant, fun filled largest festival in the area. And in case you are thinking of where to find Diwali events in Jersey city do check the event details.
The line up of the events are very interesting and entertaining beginning with Rimli Roy’s “RAMAAVAN” – A Musical – An original Broadway style production bringing the Ramayana alive on stage through theater, drama & songs.
The mega event also includes Diwali Ethnic Bazaar and street fair with many vendors and activities making it a fun event.
And finally the 4 day event includes the Diwali Spectacular –Indoor gala style Diwali party which will entail a fashion show, cash bar, kids hang out , live entertainment. And this is one place not to be missed in Diwali events in Jersey city.
The Gold Diwali – The corporate Diwali hosts & Burgeon Jewelry event
Dates – Nov 4 , 6PM onwards
Venue – Liberty House, Jersey city
Hosted by Burgeon Jewelery this is the longest running tri state diwali event ( 13 years ). This year the Mayors office is felicitating honoree for women empowerment .
The event comes with a 4 hour open bar and dinner follows. DJ& Dance to glamour up the event. Planned out event for children with stories, Rangoli etc to get the little ones engaged and happy. The event costs $75 per adult and $30 for children (2-12)
Sparkles Annual Diwali party – 2018
Dates – Nov 3 , 8PM -12AM
Venue – W hotel, Hoboken.225 river St, Hoboken , New Jersey
Hosted by – Sparkle events
Hosted by Sparkles Events ,2018 Diwali party is their 6th event. If you are looking forward to a glittery night complete with glamour, unadulterated Diwali entertainment and an evening to remember– just head to the Sparkles annual party. The venue is the charming W hotel in Hoboken. The event includes a sumptuous 3 course buffet and non stop entertainment, DJ &Music . Raffles and giveaways to keep the excitement going and return favor for every family, just an an icing on the cake. The kids breakout rooms and caretakers on premise for kids is a sure shot delight. This could be your choice for Diwali events in Jersey city
Diwali cruise on the Hudson
Dates – Nov 3, 6:00pm onwards
Venue : Starts from Harbor lights yacht,2430 FDR drive, New York, NY 10010
Website – www.diwalicruise.org
Although this option is not in Jersey city, but we could not skip this different and luxurious star studded choice
The Diwali cruise on Hudson is a chance to celebrate Diwali in style aboard an ultra luxurious cruise. They have a special Diwali festival on 3rd Nov . This yacht party is for 21 years old and above and offers a star-studded, fun and beautiful evening with celebrity DJ performance and a cash bar. Food is available on premise. The dress code is trendy and chic just like the experience that promises to be one of its kind- Diwali on a cruise.
Diwali on the Hudson
Dates – November 14 2018
Venue- Hudson Terrace, 621 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036
Hosted by – Desai foundation
This venue is also not in Jersey City, yet when its noted by eminent columns, we should make a mention of this event in our line up for Diwali events 2018.
Featured in the The New Yorker, Fast Company, Thrillist & one of India.com – Americas‘ “Diwali Events You Must Check Out in NYC” , If this is said about Diwali on Hudson hosted by Desai foundation , then you know this event will be outstanding and in demand. Diwali on the Hudson is turning 5 this year and in such short time they have managed to get their event noticed by celebrated publications. They boast of an all night-sponsored bar, Indian cuisine and top class entertainment. A must go place for Diwali event.
We bring to you top places to go for Diwali events in Jersey city, and you are sure spoilt for choice. Celebrate Diwali in style. May this season bring in prosperity, health ,wealth and happiness.
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Nina Nuñez, director of compliance and institutional assessment, and Vanessa Richardson, executive director of student affairs, have been accepted to the 2020 Harvard Macy Institute course, “A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education.” As Harvard Macy Scholars, Nuñez and Richardson will learn to apply systems thinking in assessment programs that can support the continuous quality improvement of students, faculty, and curricula at academic health science institutions.
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Comparison of scanning laser tomography and polarimetry in nerve fiber measurements
S. Kremmer, F. Fanihagh, J. M. Selbach
Purpose: Recently, different scanning laser techniques (scanning laser tomography SLT and polarimetry SLP).have been introduced to measure nerve fibers in glaucoma. A main problem to compare the results of these different devices was to find a proper allignement and to compare measurements exactly at the same locations. Therefore, we developed a new computersoftware.
Methods: We examined 100 eyes of five different examination groups (20 normal young patients, 20 normal old patients, 20 normal tension glaucoma (NTG), 20 beginning primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), 20 advanced POAG ). Beside standard ophthalmological examinations, SLP (GDx 1.0.14, LDT USA) and SLT (ToppSS 3.0.16, LDT USA) were performed. We developed a new computer software which allowed to import/export tomographic data into the polarimetry device followed by allignment procedures enabling evaluations at the same locations. We compared SLP and SLT measurements along peripapillary circles at four different distances of the optic disc margin. For statistical analyses, Wilcoxon signed ranks test was used.
Results: There was a significant statistical difference (p<0.0001) in the SLT and SLP data of all five groups.
Discussion: The reason for these differences may be due to the fact that in SLT not only nerve fibers but also all other tissues (e.g. blood vessels, glial tissue, etc.) are measured whereas in SLP nerve fibers are assessed. Therefore, SLT and SLP measurements should not be equaled especially at pathological conditions e.g. glaucoma.
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Mr HUSIC (Chifley) (17:08): I had not intended, initially, to speak on the Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021. But, in reading through the material that supports this legislation, listening to colleagues and understanding what is proposed here, I feel it's a responsibility of parliamentarians to get up and basically ask the Australian people whether or not they're in favour of a system that would allow—and not just in terms of mum-and-dad investors being potentially ripped off, which is a serious concern, as has been described already—this creep that is occurring, where we see the dilution of accountability and transparency.The creep that I refer to is occurring in behaviour within government, within the federal government itself. Whenever they are required to disclose what they are up to, how they make their decisions or the quality of their decision-making, they always now default to stonewalling, refusing to disclose information and making it harder for the public to understand. Look at the way that freedom-of-information requests are being managed. We'll see it potentially on display next week when the other place holds estimates and we count the number of times ministers or those representing them use the old technique of taking a question on notice—not answering a question but giving the default position, 'We'll take it on notice.' At some point down the track they'll reveal what's going on.
An honourable member: Within the same year.
Mr HUSIC: Within the same year, hopefully, but usually they'll attempt to hide the information. We see them claim, for example, that they want to bring in a national integrity commission. That claim was made two years ago. We still see nothing. When the framework is proposed, it is so weak it's probably weaker than the paper it's written on. We see all these efforts building up, and now they want to extend it to corporate Australia and they want to do it through this bill. They want to make it easier for directors to not have to be accountable for the decisions they're making.
Through the eighties—and we've also seen in recent times—we saw some major corporate collapses and we saw some pretty bad business behaviour. I absolutely do not believe that all corporate or company directors behave in that way. In fact, many are horrified by it. And, in fact, the propositions that are being put forward in this bill are being resisted by many in the business community because they know exactly what this will do. The reason I speak today is that I don't want to see those corporate collapses re-emerge in this day and age. Lessons are there to be learnt, not to be unlearnt so that we go back and make the same mistake. We cannot see that for those companies, those investors, those shareholders, those employees, those supply companies, those small businesses, those contractors—all those who earn their living from the proper functioning of these firms. We cannot see them affected because of a corporate collapse that may have resulted from the actions of a few directors who knew something was not right in what they were doing—who knew that, if how they had intended to operate was disclosed, it would not have met expectations within the business community. If those companies collapse, there are a lot of people who lose out, and they don't get back what they put in. We know it. We know what happens: the big creditors get looked after, but it's all the other, smaller ones, this whole string that appears after that collapse, who lose out—and it's particularly the employees, who I speak for today, the workers of those businesses, who will lose out.
We shouldn't have it that the government has to underwrite it through the mechanisms we have to cover those redundancies. The taxpayer should not be required to step in and fund those redundancies because those firms collapsed. The reason I speak today is that I feel strongly about these types of measures—the dilution of what the Howard government brought in. I don't make a habit of cheering on legislation brought in by that very conservative government, but, on this, they were right. They were right where they said that companies and company directors are required to disclose publicly any information that (1) was not generally available and (2) a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or value of a company's share price. Further, they were right where they said, if a company or a company director failed to comply with those obligations, they could face a civil penalty action; they would be held accountable for their action or, importantly, their inaction.
Again, as the Labor leader has said, we have sought to support, in the course of the pandemic, a number of regulatory and legislative measures designed to assist. We did that then, but we do not agree with—we actually oppose—any suggestion that this regime that was brought in temporarily be extended. We don't think it's good, and schedule 2 of this legislation would make that permanent. Companies and directors that fail to disclose price- sensitive information either at all or in a timely fashion are only liable to shareholders for that failure if the company or director acted with knowledge, recklessness or negligence. The thing is this: that is going to be very difficult to establish. It is very hard for people outside of the firm to know that.
The government's own explanatory memorandum says that this is about reducing the amount of time entities and officers must spend on an assurance that they have complied. They're basically admitting that they are watering down everything required for compliance, transparency and accountability. This is not good for corporate Australia. This is not good for working Australians. If this leads to corporate collapses—we have seen the type of behaviour that creeps in and sets in—it's not good, long term, for the economy. It will potentially stifle investment flow. It will potentially make it harder for companies to raise capital. It will potentially make it harder for companies to grow. From a business perspective, it's bad.
As I said, I don't think any working Australian should suffer as a result of the type of corporate collapse that might be triggered because of the bad behaviour that this is starting to let creep in. This is wrong, and they should not pay for that. All those people that we know who went through One.Tel, Ansett—
Mr Stephen Jones: Crown casino!
Mr HUSIC: Yes, Crown casino. It's not the government and their corporate crony mates who pay that price. They get off; they escape. But what about the mums and dads—not only the shareholders but the employees
—with mortgages, with families to raise, with bills to pay? This is so wrong. They should hang their heads in shame. It's one thing for it to be temporary; it's another thing for it to be permanent. It is not right at all.
We should speak strongly on this. We should say we can do better. We should indicate that there is something right in accountability and transparency, not just for the 'Aha, gotcha!' moment but because of the teachable experience, the fact that we can do better and the fact that people know that they can't break the boundary; they can't go beyond the boundary and break the rules. We cannot have the crony capitalism that this will trigger. I emphasise this: we have to draw the line now on the way this government is starting to continually default, refusing to be accountable, refusing to be transparent and allowing big government or big business to get away with that type of bad behaviour. It's not good for our community. It is definitely not good for our nation. | <urn:uuid:2d1a7c3d-1578-4cb3-9cee-3134648b3742> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://edhusic.com/news/speeches/treasury-laws-amendment-2021-measures-no-1-bill-2021/ | 2022-09-30T22:27:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335504.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930212504-20221001002504-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.979202 | 1,584 | [
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Are Russian nuclear threats real and dangerous?
The addition of 300,000 reserved Russian soldiers will escalate the conflict
New Delhi: Russia's war in Ukraine has not only escalated this week on the ground but on September 21, there was a war of words between the Presidents of the US and Russia, respectively, in their separate speeches.
In a national television address, President Putin announced that partial mobilisation of the country's military is activated, and reservists will be sent to Ukraine as part of Russian forces. Putin added that it was a necessary step to ensure Russian territorial integrity. It may activate 300,000 reserved Russian soldiers, further escalating the conflict.
President Putin blamed the United States and its allies for engaging in "nuclear blackmail," Putin said, "I want to remind you that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have."
Russian President's warning came when Ukraine forces were advancing and pushing Russian troops out of their areas. Russia's military faces setbacks and troops are demoralised as the war enters the eighth month.
In response to Russian President Putin's veiled threat of using nuclear weapons in retaliation, US president Joe Biden rebuts in his speech at the UNGA that Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates the doctrine of the UN charter. Biden asked the world to see Russia's outrageous acts for what they are - saying no one sought conflict apart from Moscow.
Putin, in his speech, warned, that the territorial integrity of Russia cannot be compromised and added that all available means to protect the people and land will be used: "This is not a bluff, he had lots of weapons to reply."
The Russian mobilisation was the first order in Russia since World War II. Russia has around Two million reservists and can be called for duty in an emergency.
Putin clarified that only military reservists, primarily those who served in the armed forces with specific military experience ann occupational specialities will be called.
Ukraine's counter-offensive in recent weeks has changed the contours of the war. Earlier this month, Ukrainian forces made a rapid offensive in the northern region, regaining over 1100 km of territory from the Russian troops. Ukraine also has been pushing the southern Kherson region, although with limited gains. Ukraine conflict has entered nearly the eighth month since the start of the Russian military operation. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced, and around 6,000 Indian medical students were evacuated from Ukraine.
Many experts believe that weak Russia may be the more dangerous and use all its power when most of the western world is boycotting Russia and slapping sanctions. In his address, Vladimir Putin renewed his nuclear threats accusing the West of engaging in "nuclear blackmail" against Russia. "I am referring
to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia," Putin said.
US President, on September 16, in an interview to the CBS "60 Minutes," US TV show with Scott Pelley, spoke about Ukraine's war and the dangers it could bring.
The interviewer asked the President, "As Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner…, and I wonder, Mr President, what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons."
"Don't. Don't. Don't. You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II," Mr Biden said.
Russian political scientist Sergei Markov, speaking to BBC Radio 4's issued a warning in light of Putin's speech. Accusing Britain, as well as US President Joe Biden, of being "fully responsible for the war in Ukraine" and suggested that Russia could launch nuclear warheads that "could kill a lot of people in the western countries."
Western leaders and military officials derided Putin's speech on Wednesday, saying the mobilisation was a desperate move indicative of Russia's invasion not going to plan. In a statement, Britain's defence minister Ben Wallace said Putin had "sent tens of thousands of their citizens to their deaths, ill-equipped and badly led."
Putin's latest speech has been described as a gambler's throw by Robert Fox, Defence Editor at the Evening Standard, who claimed Putin was worried about the pressure coming from extreme people.
Meanwhile, in a broadcast, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to continue to resist the attempts to carve up his nation. "We enjoy the full support of our partners in this," he said. "So let's maintain the pressure. Let's preserve unity. Let's defend Ukraine. We are liberating our land. And we are not showing any signs of weakness."
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According to People, the couple had planned a ceremony for their first child, August Philip Hawke, this upcoming Saturday. However, once the couple learned that one of their anticipated attendees is in self-isolation after being exposed, they decided to postpone the event.
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Rahul Gandhi holds consultations with Uttarakhand Congress leaders
Amid talks of change in the organisation of the Congress in Uttarakhand, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday
New Delhi: Amid talks of change in the organisation of the Congress in Uttarakhand, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday held consultations with leaders of the state, as the party has to appoint new legislature party leader and a new state president.
Rahul Gandhi met Harish Rawat, Navprabhat and Karan Mahara on Monday to discuss the issue of party organisation in the state. State in-charge Devendra Yadav was also present during the meeting.
The point of discussion was, that after the demise of Indira Hridayesh, who can be the leader in the state assembly and who could lead the state organization.
Former Congress minister Navprabhat did not divulge the details of the meeting with Rahul Gandhi but said, "its a consultation process within the democratic setup of the party."
Congress leaders are said to have discussed regional balance in the state which has dominant two regions -- Kumaon and Garhwal. While Brahmins and Thakurs are dominant in the state, Scheduled caste has sizeable population.
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A Look Back at Britannia Turnbull’s 150th Year of Removals
What a year for Britannia Turnbull’s Removals. It has been a year of celebration as the oldest Leeds based removal company reached 150 years old. Established in 1867, Turnbull’s of Leeds has a proud history which we have celebrated in many ways including a look at what was happening in 1867 when Turnbull’s Removals of Leeds born. This was a great insight in to the history of the removal company and gave everyone on the team a sense of pride delivering a service 150 years in the making.
Here are three other ways that we celebrated our 150th birthday.
After having over 200 vans featuring in the fleet down the years, Britannia Turnbull’s invested another £100,000 on a brand new Scania van. The huge new van is a world away from the horse and cart that was first used by the company for removals when it was first operating in the 19th century. The brand new vehicle proudly shows off the British Association of Removers (BAR) accreditation that the company continues to hold.
Office Manager, Fay Chapman, said at the time, “In 150 years of history Turnbulls has got through quite a few removal lorries – but it’s still always exciting to get the latest, most up-to-date models. Despite the slowing property market, it has been a busy year for the company and the time was right to make an investment in a new vehicle, to allow us to continue to grow as we enter 2018.”
Turnbull’s Removals has a proud history within the city of Leeds and beyond to look back on. It was the belief that having a Turnbull’s removal van outside your home while moving was a sign off affluence way back when. But the true highlight for the removal company was helping Sir Edmund Hillary’s kit to the Himalayas for his first expedition to the summit of Mt Everest in 1953. An endorsement that we are extremely proud of.
The nostalgia continued as we had a look at some previous items, objects and images from our history including a 1931 flyer.
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Scanvaegt SVA270 Flex automatically applies SSCC-labels on 2 adjacent sides of the pallet and it can also apply the labels in several variable heights on the pallet, while the pallet remains in one and the same position.
The unique design of SVA270 Flex where the applicator-arm is driven by a servo motor, makes it possible to move the applicator-arm in several axes and levels, horizontally as well as vertically.
It's possible to program up to 32 different application heights, shifting per pallet.
The elevating-range for application can be within e.g. 700 mm or 1,400 mm or according to individual requirements.
Automatic barcode quality check
The SVA270 Flex, using a Intermec Px6i labelprinter, can be equipped with automatic barcode control system, that checks the readability of the barcode and if the labels have identical numbers.
With the servo motor the SVA270 Flex has achieved a compact design with a foot-print of 660 x 1,190 mm, making it easy to integrate the system into existing pallet conveyor lines.
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As Tech Giants Hit the Hill, Associations Offer Takes on Political Ad Regulation
With concerns about political ads hitting a peak due to the believed Russian influence on the 2016 election, three of the largest technology firms are making their voices heard on Capitol Hill this week. Also speaking up: two major trade groups with a stake in whatever legislation Congress creates.
With internet giants—and particularly their advertising practices—under scrutiny on the Hill this week, associations that represent the sector are making sure their voices are part of the conversation.
This week, officials with Google, Facebook, and Twitter spoke in front of congressional committees, with the goal of explaining their companies’ roles in allowing political ad buyers to spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, which is widely thought to have been negatively affected by Russian influence.
Also taking part in congressional hearings this week was Randall Rothenberg, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s president and CEO, who testified before the Subcommittee on Information Technology of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the issue of modernizing political advertising rules.
Rothenberg spoke in favor of such changes.
“We fully support modernizing, clarifying, and reconciling any contradictions in these rules—as many states have already done with respect to their electoral advertising rules—to require click-through, hover over, and similar types of disclosure,” he said, according to his prepared remarks [PDF]. “Enhancing the existing framework by clarifying the responsibility of publishers, platforms, and advertisers in making available these disclosures to the public would create greater legal certainty across the industry and provide valuable information for FEC investigations.”
In comments to NPR’s Morning Edition, Rothenberg noted that the talk of regulation around political advertising on digital platforms suggests “an inflection point in the history of the internet,” one that highlights a recognition within the tech world that “people can get hurt from bad communications in the same way they can get hurt from bad grains in food or bad parts in cars.”
Before the tech giants spoke in front of Congress on Tuesday, the Internet Association (IA) offered its take on the issue, outlining a set of principles intended to encourage equal accountability among all players, as well as the roles that publishers and advertisers hold in ensuring this transparency.
“A solution to this problem will only be effective if every participant in the ecosystem works together to address it,” the group emphasized.
But IA recommended taking care in putting in place such solutions, explaining that if not implemented properly, they could threaten normal online communication.
“Legislation or regulation should improve transparency and disclosure of online election advertising without creating requirements that would discourage legitimate stakeholders from actively engaging in the political process or limit political speech,” the association’s principles, detailed in a news release, stated.
A GeekWire report suggested that IA’s principles statement helped to contextualize the somewhat tepid comments by the executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter—in particular Facebook’s refusal to officially support the Honest Ads Act, a bill proposed in the House and Senate last month as a solution to the political advertising issue.
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Bio: He has been playing plucked instruments since his youth through self-education. His musical instruments are: oud /Arabic lute/ (عود), saz (bağlama), psalterium, kithara and cobza. Although Vajk got in contact with music already as a child, he was 16 when he took an oud in his hands for the first time. He decided to learn to play the oud while listening to Anouar Brahem.
He got acquainted with playing music primarily through the language of folk and early music. He attended the Summer Early Music Academy of Szentendre and the Győr Lute and Guitar Festival for years, later performing here as well. By now his own music has developed but he can no longer be tightly associated with any of the genres. Improvisation is especially important for him. European music aesthetics, oriental technique, contemporary composition techniques and the early music world of sound all determine his work. He regards music and art in their universality.
Stepping on the path of music, he has participated in different folk, early music and world music formations from the start. He performed with violin artist Csaba Ökrös (1960-2019), multi-instrumentalis Sándor Szabó, and was a guest player several times with Úzgin Űver as well. He won a Trafó special award in 2008 with his old band Kobza Vajk Group (2008-2013) with which he opened a new path to oriental and contemporary folk music in Hungary.
He has performed with his oud in front of audiences in Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, Munich, Cracow, Vienna and Salon de Provence. Between 2006 and 2007 he travelled through Turkey for months. Since 2008 he has been joining Thomas Gundermann (master of Moroccan bagpipes from Munich) for a few concerts almost each year. Their album entitled The Awakening of Nautilus was published in 2012. He often has concerts with singer-musician Laura Weixelbaum and Kobza vajk Trio, -Quintet. One of the most important spiritual markers of his work and concerts is getting to know the Infinite within us. He invites and takes his audience to this meditative journey.
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Today, social media introduced me to Alton Sterling during his brutal, involuntary final moments with Baton Rouge police officers.
More times than I can count since Trayvon Martin’s murder, friends, family, and colleagues have reached out to me through a helpless, angry, inspirational, curious, loving, or hopeless “what can I do?” message or phone call.
Hours after watching Sterling’s death, I read a law school friend’s post on how we can process police and vigilante killings that are widely publicized. He inspired me to pull this list together. This list is in no way comprehensive or exhaustive, but rather entry steps to further connect people to each other in tangible ways.
1. Love, study, struggle.
With a partner or a group of people, study issues that you care about and want to change. Read a book and discuss it once a month. Create a WhatsApp group or GroupMe to drop articles or music that are related to the topic. Attend an event where you and your group can listen to a speaker on the issue. Learn all sides of the debate. Over the course of the month or year, you and others will become more empowered to challenge problems with what you will learn together. If you do not know where to start, there are some reading and art lists on the internet that are really good, such as theBlack Lives Matter Syllabus (Frank Roberts),Lemonade Syllabus (Candice Benbow),Radical Political Action Reading List (compiled by Rekia Jibrin; additions by #ReclaimHarvardLaw students) and theBlack Radical Tradition Reader (various authors).
2. Locate your local prosecutors.
Who is your local district attorney? Have they held police accountable for their illegal actions? Are they making efforts to reduce and eliminate mass incarceration? Research how organizations have held prosecutors accountable. For example, Black Lives Matter Cleveland stopped the reelection of the prosecutor who did not charge the police officer who killed Tamir Rice. BYP100 and Assata’s Daughters ousted Prosecutor Anita Alvarez through their#ByeAnita campaign after she covered up Laquan McDonald’s killing by Chicago police officers.
3. Raise Hell.
Protest matters. Hellas. Social media is great for sharing and spreading information, but attending street protests, vigils, and demonstrations can help bring greater awareness to an issue and connect you with other people who are concerned about the issues you care about.
4. Film the police.
Try to find local “Cop-Watch” organizations to give you tips on how to legally and safely film the police when you are stopped or when you see someone else being arrested or harassed. Remember Walter Scott. Eric Garner. Now, Alton Sterling.
5. Consider joining an organization.
A group of people who are regularly committed to taking on social justice issues has more power than one individual trying to work alone. These groups can also provide a healing, learning, and protective space after people witness traumatic experiences. Research different groups, talk to members, and learn about the track records of the organizations that you might be interested in before joining.
6. Challenge narratives.
Do not feel obligated to respond to every (or any) comment or statement that you hear or see that attacks victims of police brutality, especially following police or vigilante killings. Think about different ways to communicate your response. For example, sometimes a phone call or lunch with a friend is better than a Facebook argument that leaves issues unresolved. Consider creating a space and inviting people with different viewpoints to discuss a topicand problem-solve. Brainstorm ideas. Or, just feel free to vent. Main point: there are many ways to have dialogue if you feel comfortable talking about a topic, but do not feel obligated.
7. Connect with movement lawyers.
What lawyers are showing up to help out the movement? Learn about the type of work that they are doing, and how they can support some of the work that you are interested in. Have you heard of theNational Lawyer’s Guild? TheBlack Movement Law Project?Law For Black Lives?The Advancement Project? These are a few organizations that have been working across the country with organizers and protestors on police brutality issues.
8. Take care of yourself.
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INDIANAPOLIS (October 6, 2018) - enVista, a leading global consulting and software solutions firm, today announces it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry. BiTA's members include Google, FourKites, FedEx, SAP and Uber Freight among dozens of other global brands. enVista will bring its deep expertise in providing global freight audit and payment visibility and end-to-end supply chain optimization.
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enVista is a leading global consulting and software solutions firm enabling enterprise commerceTM for the world's leading manufacturers, distributors and omni-channel retailers. enVista is uniquely experienced in both optimizing supply chain efficiencies to drive cost savings, and unifying commerce to drive customer engagement and revenue. These comprehensive capabilities, combined with enVista's market-leading Unified Commerce Platform, and the firm's ability to consult, implement and operate across supply chain, transportation, IT, enterprise business solutions and omni-channel, allows mid-market and Fortune 100/5000 companies to leverage enVista as a trusted advisor across their enterprises. Consulting and solutions delivery are in our DNA. Let's have a conversationTM.
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If you don’t know me personally, you might not know that the writing I do here on A Love Letter to Food isn’t my only writing. Not by a long shot, actually. I’m a freelance writer–and not in the sense of one-off articles published here or there. Writing is my main gig, my bread and butter, my livelihood. I spend anywhere from 15 to 30 hours a week cranking out content for a number of publications and private clients (and probably would do more if I weren’t also a wife and mom to three school-aged kids).
As a licensed nutritionist, I primarily focus on nutrition, health, and wellness writing. I’ve been fortunate enough to land articles (and sometimes recurring work) with respected sites like Eat This, Not That!, Healthline, Verywell Fit, Greatist, and–coming soon!–Eating Well and Prevention. I also do quite a bit of parenting and spirituality writing for publications like Today’s Parent, Busted Halo, Aleteia, and Amendo…because I’m more than just a nutrition professional. I’m a mom and a Catholic Christian. I figure my writing can reflect all of these facets of my identity. And so far, I absolutely love this career path.
Quite honestly, before now, I’d never had a career I really liked. I’ve been an adjunct German professor, children’s museum tour guide, a secretary, a YMCA customer service rep, a substitute teacher, and–a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away–an ice cream scooper at Cold Stone Creamery. In each of these positions, I was always seeking more: more opportunity, more money, more ice cream (Ha! But seriously.). But now, with my freelance writing career, I find there’s no limit on my achievement or how far I can go.
I’ve written on this blog before about how this nutrition freelance writing journey began. In fact, it’s one of my most popular posts! Check it out for practical tips on getting started. But now I wanted to share some of the reasons this is such a rewarding career. Whether you’re considering dipping a toe or taking the plunge into freelance health and wellness writing, I hope this list offers some encouragement that propels you forward. (Or, if you’re looking for a writer, visit my Work With Me page.)
Here are five things that make freelance nutrition writing an awesome career.
Let’s say I want to meet a friend for lunch or need to pick up my kids on an unexpected early release day at school. No problem! The freelance career means that I make my own schedule and can roll with the punches of unexpected schedule changes. (Which we all know happens often, especially with kids.) If need be, I can get my work done at night or on weekends. Heck, as long as I have my laptop and internet access, I could even leave the country. I sure wouldn’t mind tapping away at a window overlooking the Eiffel Tower!
2. Recognition and Purpose
One of the saddest things I ever heard from colleagues when I was interning as a diet tech at a local hospital was, “We don’t actually know if the doctors read our notes.” Wait, what? You don’t even know if all the work you’re doing charting on patients actually does anything for their care? Major NOPE moment for me. (In addition to the fact that the dietetics office adjacent to the cafeteria that smelled like dirty mop water and overcooked tater tots.)
Personally, I want a job that I know actually makes a difference to someone, somewhere. Even though I might not know my readers’ names or how my writing impacts their lives, I believe that creating trustworthy nutrition and health information has a certain nobility and purpose. That means a lot to me.
Raise your hand if you like making money. Yeah, that’s what I thought.
The nutrition industry is notorious for grossly underpaying its professionals. I happen to know that several employers in my area start their NDTRs at under $15/hour. And when I worked for a health and wellness non-profit–one with a top-notch national reputation, mind you!–I literally made minimum wage. For most of us trying to make an actual living, this is not sustainable. And as nutrition professionals, our knowledge isn’t worth such low compensation!
That’s why I love freelance writing. In a given month as a writer, I make anywhere from four to seven times what I made for around the same number of hours at a non-profit. Yes, skills and experience matter for scoring higher pay, but I don’t have to attend seminars or trainings or even necessarily obtain my RDN. I just have to research well and communicate well.
I’ll be honest…I never had a boss I loved. Several companies I worked for were oozing with hierarchy, which, when you’re at the bottom, can be pretty discouraging. (Or, to be more blunt: It sucks.) Plus, I’m not crazy about getting micromanaged. (True story: I once had a manager write me a note that said, “Write a note that says…” and then wrote the entire thing herself.) But I really don’t mind working for myself!
As a freelancer, I can pitch whatever publications I have the guts to approach, set my own hours (see #1, Flexibility), and go after as much or as little work as I like. I work in tandem with clients and editors, but I’m in charge of my own career.
5. Minimal Hassle
Long commute? Mandatory meetings? Dress code? Nope, nope, and nope. There are definitely some things I miss about working in an office setting with fellow co-workers, but I sure do love not having to deal with a lot of the hassle.
If you’re a dietitian or diet tech, I’d be willing to bet you face another hassle: wondering whether your patients or clients actually listen to you. Your training qualifies you to be an expert on all things diet-related, but is that high-cholesterol patient really going to take your advice and stop eating burgers and fries five days a week? Maybe, maybe not.
The beauty of putting your writing out into the universe is knowing that, very likely, you won’t get pushback about it. You won’t have to hound anyone about counting their carbs or cutting back on sodium. You’re simply creating solid health information–and you can feel good about that. Rest assured that plenty of eyeballs will see your work. Whether or not the owners of those eyeballs take your good advice and translate it into practical change isn’t up to you. For me, that’s a relief. People change on their own timeline, not mine.
Convinced yet that freelance nutrition writing is a great career? I wish you all the best! Don’t forget to check out my post on how to get started with freelance health and wellness writing, or like A Love Letter to Food on Facebook for more tips!
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(2017-09-04) The Director General (SA & SAARC), Dr. Mohammad Faisal, summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. J.P. Singh and condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces in Chirikot Sector (Kakuta, Nullah and Polas Villages) on 02 September 2017, resulting in the shahadat of an 8 years old girl, Momina, resident of village Polas. Despite calls for restraint, India continues to indulge in ceasefire violations. In 2017 to date, Indian forces have carried out more than 700 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, resulting in the Shahadats of 30 innocent civilians and injuries to 113, as compared to 382 ceasefire violations in 2016.
The deliberate targeting of civilians is indeed deplorable and contrary to human dignity and international human rights and humanitarian laws.
The Director General urged the Indian side to respect the 2003 Ceasefire arrangement; investigate this and other incidents of ceasefire violations; instruct the Indian forces to respect the ceasefire, in letter and spirit and maintain peace on the LoC. He urged that the Indian side should permit UNMOGIP to play its mandated role as per the UN Security Council resolutions.
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- Get a conformation of the molecule you are interested in.
- Optimize this geometry until you find a local minimum and calculate the charge density distribution at that point.
- Generate a formatted Gaussian checkfile.
- Generate a cubefile.
- Use Jmol for rendering.
Get a conformation
As you work with a specific molecule, I’m sure that you have plenty of conformations at your hands. In principle, there are numerous ways how to obtain the necessary Gaussian input file, but I like to use vmd’s force field toolkit for this purpose. In order to start this way, you have to have a PDB file. Fire up vmd and select “Extensions”->”Modeling”->”Force Field Toolkit”. Select the tab “Opt. Geometry” and define both input and output files. A click on “Write Gaussian Input File” will do the obvious. (Of course, writing the input file by hand is a possibility, as well. In particular, as PDB and GAU are quite similar formats. But I personally tend to forget about the linebreaks…)
For testing purposes, you may use this Gaussian input file (which is for hexyfluoroethane)
%chk=basecheck.chk %nproc=8 %mem=4GB # MP2/6-31G(d) Opt=(Redundant) SCF=Tight Geom=PrintInputOrient Density=MP2 Pop=Full <qmtool> simtype="Geometry optimization" </qmtool> 0 1 C1 -0.23199999332427979 0.7289999723434448 0.0 C2 0.23199999332427979 -0.7289999723434448 0.0 F3 0.23199999332427979 1.3519999980926514 1.0920000076293945 F4 0.23199999332427979 1.3519999980926514 -1.0920000076293945 F5 -1.5709999799728394 0.777999997138977 0.0 F6 -0.23199999332427979 -1.3519999980926514 -1.0920000076293945 F7 -0.23199999332427979 -1.3519999980926514 1.0920000076293945 F8 1.5709999799728394 -0.777999997138977 0.0
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Now Gaussian should work on this input file for about a minute. The “Opt=Redundant” keyword does optimizations in internal coordinates (see Gaussian manual for details). “SCF=Tight” sets a strict convergence criterion for the geometry optimization and “Geom=PrintInputOrient” is not that hard to understand. The more interesting keywords are the last two: “Density=MP2” is responsible for calculating the charge density from the MP2 simulation data. This is set just to be sure that you actually use a compatible representation (and not i.e. SCF). Of course, both “MP2/6-31G(d)” and “Density=MP2” can be adjusted according to the manual to fit your requirements. The last keyword “Pop=Full” tells Gaussian to dump all population related data to the checkpoint file which is defined in the first line of the sample input file. Otherwise Gaussian will not retain this information.
Generate a formatted checkfile
As the cubegen tool of the Gaussian suite works on formatted checkfiles, we have to convert the simulation run output. In general, it is a good idea to convert everything to formatted checkfiles as the normal ones are sensible to architecture or version changes.
formchk -3 basecheck.chk base.fchk
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Welcome to #BasBites – your source for bite-size finance and procurement info for your busy life. This blog tackles a war that’s been raging since the beginning of business – the battle between finance and marketing over spend compliance.
I’m in marketing and all too familiar with this epic battle. Just writing it makes me cringe, BUT WHY? Marketers are some of the most creative spenders I know – they constantly live in a world of “not enough” and often do make gold out of a pile of…
So – why the issue? I believe there are two reasons:
Marketing operates so differently from other departments that it’s difficult for finance to understand why marketing can’t just follow processes like everyone else – even if the processes exist in an e-procurement solution that does not effectively get the marketers what they need quickly to do their jobs.
Visibility of return on spend is very difficult for many organizations, especially when dealing with long complex buying processes. We’ve seen a lot of organizations try to tackle the second challenge. Even at Basware, we’ve implemented processes for campaign code creation, naming conventions, tracking URLs, tech stacks and even campaign attribution systems to show the value of our marketing spend. But the fact remains the same – the buying processes within e-procurement solutions must fit with the way marketers (and other departments) already work, or finance will continue to struggle with non-compliant marketers and that return on spend will never be completely visible or accurate.
Marketing is often many small purchases spread out across many vendors (the long tail of the supply chain) that require varying payment terms from due on receipt to NET 30 and so on. Vendors are often used just once, especially when you’re dealing with marketing departments that do a lot of events. Additionally, there are regularly occurring variable costs like online advertising that must be budgeted annually and vary monthly. Layer on top of that the requirement to report spend against the campaign process marketing is using to report on ROI in problem 2 – the frustration and aggravation between marketing and finance just grows.
SO – how do we begin to repair the relationship between finance and marketing – really between finance and budget owners?
Provide spend visibility: Allow departments to spend how and where they need to and tie those expense systems into your backend to allow for proper budget coding. Use the skill set within your AP department to help other departments, like marketing, accurately forecast and plan budgets.
Automate as much as possible: Marketing is using so many systems and tools to manage campaigns, as are many other departments; do your best to architect workflows that integrate those systems within the e-procurement solution to capture the information you need while also reducing the time and effort on the budget owners.
Give mobile access: Making it easy for budget owners to see their spend, approve requests and manage budgets from their mobile phone or tablet will lead to greatly increased adoption of your finance processes and use of e-procurement solutions that drive compliance.
Last but not least, simplify the vendor onboarding process: Whether vendors are used once or multiple times, have large invoices or small, require credit card, wire or check – make the process of adding and managing those vendors easy on the budget approver to ensure compliance and easy for the user to select the vendor they need in the e-procurement solution.
In short, finance and budget owners need to work together and consider how technology can streamline processes and help organizations spend smarter. Read Forrester’s take on automating business processes in e-procurement solutions in The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017, where they note “Basware’s focus on automating process and minimizing manual approvals is an important differentiator, because most of its competitors still emphasize outdated multistep, manual approval chains.” | <urn:uuid:8fe95815-14a4-4f4d-93d6-61498b7e18d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.basware.com/en-us/blog/august-2017/finance-vs-marketing-the-role-of-e-procurement-sol/ | 2022-09-25T17:40:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334591.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925162915-20220925192915-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.950568 | 825 | [
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May 2, 2021 | 7 Comments How I Spent My Summer Winter Holidays From time-to-time people call to ask how we’re doing (perhaps curious as to whether we’ve succumbed to Covid) so here’s a Mazatlán update. We are fine (and hope you are too). We’ve been taking precautions but aren’t hermits. We recently went to a bar in Centro, about a five-minute walk from our house. As you can see, the tables are about 8 feet from each other so we feel comfortable with the occasional outing. When we left the safety of Calgary months ago for the perils of Mexico, well-meaning friends thought we were reckless. Currently our state (Sinaloa) is reporting a 13% occupancy in ICU. One of the gringo-oriented hospitals in Maz had set up a dedicated covid ICU ward but, due to a lack of demand, has turned it back into a regular ward. Given all the talk of new variants in Canada and possible shortages in ICU, I’m sure everyone thinks we’re foolhardy returning to Calgary (May 15). It may be reckless but it will be nice to see our Canadian friends – assuming it’s permitted. On other fronts: Iggy, our resident iguana for a number of years, comes and goes without notice to us; sometimes we don’t see him for weeks on end. More recently he’s occupied his old residence—a cavity clawed into the mortar of our neighbour’s stone wall. Some describe iguanas as laid back but, being more judgemental, I’ve always characterized them as lacking ambition. Iggy is no exception—as the cool dawn air warms, he sticks his nose out and then meanders to the glazed downspout in our terrace. A crossing of 2.65 meters—104 inches—that’s it. Mind you, he retires to his cave each evening, so that’s a total of 208 inches—hardly worth investing in a fitbit. Just so you understand, this daily odyssey is not done in one push. He emerges, progresses a foot or so, stops, savours the vistas, reflects for half an hour as if contemplating an alternative pilgrimage, weighs the pros and cons, and then invariably lodges in our downspout. All this is done with the objective of reversing the process as each day draws to a close. It’s a metaphor for what the rest of the world is doing—staying in a lot—not venturing far afield. On a related matter, we were faced with two iguanas on our terrace recently—one having a long pointed tail and Iggy, identified by the tip missing. Not wanting to scare the visitor off, we gave them some privacy only to discover, from the juxtaposition of their bodies, Iggy wasn’t social distancing. After due consideration we realized some of our assumptions were misguided. Personal Pronouns 2SLGBTQQIA+ Gender pronoun issues—while in the news recently, have not played much of a role in our world until now. We’re having trouble transitioning from he to she when referring to Iggy but we’re making headway on that front each time we see HER. That’s all the news from Maz for this week. Ken P.S. the title has “Holidays” but when we are in Maz we aren’t on holidays any more than when we are in Calgary. They’re both our homes. | <urn:uuid:c17a9be7-ecf2-467a-9863-118076aca71c> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | http://www.kenmartens.com/2021/05/02/maz-miscellany/ | 2022-09-27T00:29:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334974.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927002241-20220927032241-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.953282 | 759 | [
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On Feb. 12, Sergio and Monica Lejarazu arrived at Jumplin, their beloved Austin piñata store, only to find it razed. Amid conflicting reports of what actually happened — their realtor said they were behind on rent, among other complaints. It was rumored the tech company behind the demolition was planning to use the space for a South by Southwest event (they weren’t). One narrative emerged from the dust-up: the locals that had kept Austin so proudly “weird” were becoming a victim of their city’s success.
“The personality and fingerprint of this city is unlike anywhere else,” Dave Grohl told Rolling Stone last November. “The preservation of that needs to be a priority because if you’re not careful, that could be wiped away and you’re left with just a strip mall.”
No small part of Austin’s (literally) changing landscape can be attributed to SXSW, which kicks off its 28th edition today, Friday the 13th, bringing with it several hundred thousand mostly out-of-state attendees for 10 days of all-you-can-withstand panels, official showcases, and unofficial parties across tech, film, and music. Not to mention the enormous cash flow. According to 2014’s SXSW economic impact analysis, the conference and festival brought in $315.3 million to the city of Austin that year through impacts both direct (big brand sponsorships) and indirect (Uber surge pricing). SXSW’s ten days deliver one-third of music’s yearly economic contribution to the city — $1.6 billion in 2013, according to a study that year by local planning and development firm Pegasus.
“Austin’s losing some of the funky, small town character that’s associated with it,” says Charlie Duncan, a fair housing planner at the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service. “A lot of the people coming here seem to be in two main groups: musicians who are generally low-income and just want to take advantage of the vast musical community here, and the other group — very affluent, well-educated people largely involved in the tech industry.” (A recent editorial in the Austin-American Statesman classified the tech industry as part of the creative class, though everyone who Billboard spoke with presented them anecdotally as separate.)
In October of 2014, the Austin Board of Realtors reported that real estate prices jumped 16 percent from the year previous. Duncan tells Billboard he personally was outbid on four offers on houses by a cash-carrying buyer each time, “which is real disheartening,” he admits. Though evidence directly linking Austin’s skyrocketing real estate prices to its burgeoning tech class is hard to pin, it’s not hard to draw comparisons between Austin and San Francisco, which several years ago went through what the former seems to be undergoing.
One San Francisco-based artist, who predicts she’ll be priced out of her home there, told Billboard last summer that the city was being bifurcated into the tech titans and those that serve them as baristas or bartenders. A similar phenomenon may be happening in Austin. The aforementioned Pegasus study, which advocacy organization Austin Music People conducted to support their initiative for a $65 million housing bond (that was approved in 2013, contributing to the construction of the city’s first affordable downtown unit in 45 years, Capital Studios), estimates that most of the 23,800 jobs added from 2012 to 2013 were low-wage.
“As you know, [musicians] aren’t the ones at the top of the corporate pyramid with a seven-figure income,” says Jennifer Houlihan, executive director of AMP. “They’re the ones working for tips of minimum wage and making this extraordinary contribution to the economic health of the city.”
Houlihan is ambitious, to put it mildly. Local musician-related issues she wants to tackle in conjunction with the Austin Music Office (which operates on a budget of $77,000 a year, which Houlihan acidly notes is “still safely under six figures” despite being a $30,000 increase from a year ago, which was “crazy”) include getting safe late-night transit for bands de-loading from bars at 2 a.m., looking at how local music businesses have been affected by the rise of streaming, bringing a vinyl pressing plant within city limits, and a grant program offering $2,500 to musicians who work with local producers, publicists, album cover artists, and the like. She’s also keeping an eye on the Department of Justice’s ongoing review of the consent decrees in Washington, D.C., and what the pending changes might mean for local artist compensation.
Her loftiest goal is to bridge the divide between local artists and those in the tech industry. According to the U.S. Census, 45.6 percent of Austin residents hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, one of the highest rates in the country. But Houlihan points out that such an education isn’t even necessary for a career in tech — consider the rise of weeks-long coding boot camps.
“Obviously we’d love to see prices go down and better health care, but we’d also love to see more opportunities for [musicians] to get a job that pays really well,” she says. “Maybe instead of working 40 hours a week, they can work 25 hours a week as a coder, make the same amount of money, and put time back into their craft and musicianship.”
Bobby Garza, former city council member and now general manager Transmission Events, which books downtown Austin venues Red 7 and the Mohawk, still thinks that’s not quite enough. “If you’re looking at a holistic experience for creatives, what you really want is someone who can find a living through their art,” he tells Billboard. “When you think of the amount of time it takes to produce a good product and the financial pressures of the artist, the quality product Austin trades in is at risk.”
The recently appointed head of the Texas Music Office, Brendan Anthony, doesn’t have such a romantic view. Then again, with a $20,000 quarterly budget drawn from Texas music license plate sales, he can’t really afford one. “Naturally, the cost is going up,” he tells Billboard. “Austin’s grown to become one of the cooler places to live. It was never easy to make a living playing music, and it’s getting more difficult by the day.”
Anthony replaced the well-liked Casey Monahan in the job, who was by some accounts unceremoniously ousted by new Governor-elect Greg Abbott after 25 years in office. “This is a serious blow for Texas music,” said SXSW managing director Ronald Swenson in a statement at the time. “Casey has helped countless Texas musicians and music companies from around the world to bring business to Texas. He’s helped SXSW navigate the waters of Texas state government for decades.”
Anthony seems to have dodged any hard feelings about the ouster. At this early point in his tenure, he’s still making plans, focusing on collecting data to better serve his music-minded constituents and leveraging Texas’ music as “a marketing tool” to bring in-state musician services and revenue generators like publishing and licensing entities. “We’re putting one foot in front of the other,” he says.
Inching along might be a more appropriate metaphor; the state legislature meets once every 18 months, frustrating Garza, who’s trying to make his own mark on the city by working with legislators to ease some of the financial pressures on venues. On top of the disputed 14 percent mixed-beverage state tax vendors already pay (“that really kills your margins,” Garza laments), the recently unveiled Waller Creek development project could drive up property value, in addition to beautifying downtown Austin.
“People have been paying rents that were at or a little above market rates, so if the market raises,” says Garza, “venues are going to get priced out.”
Still, Garza’t take to the notion of “saving” these performances spaces, which in just a few days will be packed with people ordering those expensive mixed drinks. While an initiative with that sort of language is gaining traction on Nashville’s similarly iconic Music Row, he hopes it won’t come to that on his watch.
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Pine Tar & Sweet Tea
by Kerry Freeman
edited by Jules Robin
cover by Fiona Jayde
published by Loose Id
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After playing eleven years in the Minor Leagues, Coach Matt Hawley has returned to his tiny Alabama hometown to lead his old high school baseball team to their first state championship. At the other end of the state, René Días, who left the Major League after one season, is getting his team ready to defend their state title for the second straight year. One is in the closet. The other is between relationships. Neither has any intention of hooking up at the state tournament.
Then they see each other.
Pre-game lust turns into an intense one-night stand neither man can forget, and when their best friends embark on a romance, Matt and René are thrown together again. This time they decide it won’t be for just a single night. But the fear of disappointing his minister father and shaming his family forces Matt to keep one foot in the closet, even as he and René find their lust is maybe something more. He’s going to have to make a choice between between his family and his freedom.
The clubhouse was sweltering, and René took his cap off to wipe his brow. The rows of lockers and wooden benches always reminded him of playing in the majors, where reporters wouldn’t even wait for the players to get fully dressed before accosting them for quotes about that night’s game. He’d never quite become comfortable with holding court while dripping wet and towel skirted. Then again, he’d never quite become comfortable with a lot of things he encountered his one year of major league play.
“Good afternoon, Coach Días.” The umpire walked toward him with an extended hand. “Good to see you again.”
René shook the umpire’s hand. “Good to see you again too. Hopefully you’ve had a good year.”
“A very good year. Thanks for asking.” The umpire nodded at David. “Hello, Coach Reynolds.”
“Hey, Bob,” David said, smiling. “No need to be so formal. We’re old friends by now.”
“Let’s just say I definitely wasn’t surprised to see your team back in the finals.” The umpire smiled. “Gonna be a great series, that’s for sure. Your opposition looks good.”
René’s ears practically twitched at the mention of the team from North Alabama. “Have you met their coach yet?”
“Met him this morning. He’s quiet, seems pretty serious. Nice fella too.” The umpire chuckled. “Speaking of which… Hello, Coach Hawley.”
The gracious greeting René planned stuck in his throat the instant he turned and gazed into a pair of intense blue eyes. René forced himself not to gaze up and down the opposing coach’s tall, tight body, but he couldn’t help following as Hawley slowly licked his lips. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the man had the most incredible wheat-blond hair just begging to be pulled.
David cleared his throat. “Um, Coach Hawley, I’m David Reynolds, Mobile’s first-base coach.” He shook Hawley’s hand. “This is René Días, our head coach.”
René finally remembered he was supposed to talk. “Nice to meet you, Coach Hawley.” René held out his hand.
Coach Hawley wrapped his long fingers around René’s hand and held on to it. “Nice to meet you too. Call me Matt, though.”
“We’ve been looking forward to playing your team.” René smiled when Matt’s grip tightened. “I’ve heard great things about how you’ve developed the team since you took over this year. Congratulations on your first state final.”
“Thank you. This is your school’s third year in a row here. That’s a sure sign you’re doing something right down in Mobile.”
If there was a sure way into René’s good graces, it was to compliment his team. He could think of plenty of other ways the gorgeous Matt Hawley could impress him—most involving them being naked together—but they had a few baseball games to play. René released Matt’s hand and tried to ignore David’s bug-eyed look at his side.
The meeting with the umpire was a formality. They discussed the rules of the best-of-three series and the umpire’s definition of the strike zone, and the coaches gave the umpire their batting order. René concentrated on each word of the umpire’s speech and blocked out the coach next to him. Baseball was serious business, and he couldn’t let Matt, however tasty he appeared to be, distract him. But as soon as the meeting was over, René found himself locked into that deep blue gaze again.
Matt swallowed slowly. “Well, René, it was nice meeting you. Good luck.”
“Thanks.” René could feel his cheeks heat. “Good luck to you guys too.”
Taking two steps back, Matt pulled on his baseball cap and smiled before turning to walk away. René couldn’t take his eyes off the slow sway of Matt’s hips. For just an instant, he imagined digging his fingers into those hips and the kind of bruises it would leave on Matt’s fair skin.
“Down, boy!” David punched René’s arm. “And retract your tongue before you close your mouth.”
René suddenly remembered where he was. “You think he noticed?”
“You’re kidding, right? I would say he noticed you every bit as much as you noticed him.”
“I meant— Oh!” René stared toward the door. “Cool.”
David shook his head. “Son of a bitch,” he muttered as he stomped off. “Biggest game of the year, and now he decides to take the dick out of storage.” He spun around and faced René again. “Just great!”
René jogged over to David and threw his arm around David’s shoulders. “Aww, come on, baby. Don’t be jealous.” He guffawed when David shoved him away. “You’re still my favorite guy, even if you kiss like a girl.”
An extended middle finger was the only farewell David gave him. Still chuckling to himself, Rene pulled his cap down over his eyes, adjusted himself, and walked into the sunlight to begin batting practice.
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By Aaron Kliegman
“Pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage, like a runway supermodel, stops on a dime, poses, tilts her head slightly, and smiles. Camera flashes explode. She … is summoning her inner actress.”
No, that’s not an excerpt from an article in Glamour or Cosmopolitan on a celebrity posing at some glamorous movie premiere.
Actually, it’s a quote from a lengthy profile in the Washington Post, an allegedly serious newspaper, on Stacey Abrams, describing her speaking at a conference center in Atlanta.
Abrams has been the subject of numerous similarly fawning, cringeworthy puff pieces in the past few days. (One article in the New York Times explains how Abrams is “making politics a little less fake.”) As journalist Zaid Jilani said, the media is covering Abrams, an African-American woman, as if she is “celebrity news,” simply presenting her words as fact and “just seeing her as an archetype of demographics.”
Amid this wave of adulation, perhaps most striking is a picture in the Post’s profile that seems, no joke, to portray Abrams as a superhero with a cape.
This praise comes as Abrams wages a very public, rather off-putting campaign to persuade Joe Biden, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, to choose her as his running mate.
Abrams, 46, is certainly not being coy and hiding her ambitions. Indeed, her campaign to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate has recently gone into hyperdrive.
“Yes, I would be willing to serve,” Abrams said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked whether she would be the best running mate for Biden. She told Elle that she would make an “excellent running mate,” adding, “If I am selected, I am prepared and excited to serve.” Abrams also told the New Yorker that she would be willing to help Biden “not only win an election but to govern.” And she recently appeared alongside Biden himself one night on MSNBC.
The story of Abrams’s rise to political stardom is bizarre. For starters, what does she do for a living? It seems like a basic question that shouldn’t be difficult to answer, especially for a high-profile person seeking the vice presidency. Yet it takes a few minutes of research to find an answer, even for someone who writes about politics and policy for a living.
Apparently, Abrams founded Fair Fight, a political action committee that “promotes fair elections” in Georgia and elsewhere. The organization’s biggest donor is billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who donated $5 million — a fact that somehow hasn’t blown up Abrams’s status as a progressive darling of the political left.
Abrams also founded multiple other organizations last year, each focused on advocacy. That she supposedly heads all of them is a strong sign that she does little day-to-day — if Abrams was an actual executive director, then she presumably wouldn’t have time to launch so many groups.
In short, Abrams is a professional political activist. But more than that, her actual job is, to quote Tucker Carlson, “being professionally aggrieved.” Indeed, Abrams has somehow managed to make losing an election not only her chief professional achievement but also a rallying cry and major public issue for Democrats.
Abrams previously worked in the Georgia House of Representatives, a part-time legislature, serving as minority leader (the highest office she has ever attained) for much of her tenure. Then, in 2018, Abrams ran for governor and lost by 55,000 votes — a narrow but decisive loss. Yet, Abrams refused to concede, repeatedly alleging, to this day, that she was the victim of a Republican, racist plot to suppress minority voting.
At the time of the election, however, Georgia was in full compliance with requirements of the National Voter Registration Act. It was easier for voters to register by mail than ever before. In 2014, then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who defeated Abrams in the 2018 gubernatorial election, introduced online voter registration. Residents could even use apps on their smartphones to register. Yes, some voters were removed from voter rolls, but only those who failed to vote in two more general elections after notices were sent out in the mail — in other words, after years of not voting. “Inactive” voters could still vote at their polling place, and people improperly removed from the rolls could still vote with a provisional ballot. Plus, anyone can always re-register to vote.
Georgia actually had the most registered voters in its history in 2018, and voter turnout was quite high. Plus, minorities made up a high percentage of total turnout, especially African-Americans. The Republicans did not steal the election from Abrams; Georgians just didn’t elect her.
Watching Abrams carry her loss as a badge of honor and twist it somehow into a political asset has been strange. Watching Democrats embrace her narrative has been even weirder. But here we are.
Lost in all this chaos has been Abrams’s radical political views and her limited experience.
Take gun control, for example. In 2016, Abrams co-sponsored a bill in the Georgia House of Representatives that would ban assault weapons, large capacity magazines, and armor-piercing bullets and allow the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to “seize and take possession of” them. If Abrams had her way and the bill became law, residents of Georgia would have 90 days to destroy their guns or “surrender such assault weapon or large capacity magazine” to the GBI. As for those who refuse to do either, the legislation would “designate certain weaponry and ammunition as contraband” and “require seizure [emphasis mine] of such” by the bureau.
And the bill expanded the definition of “assault weapons” to include some semiautomatic pistols and shotguns, not just rifles like the AR-15 — which Abrams calls a “weapon of mass destruction” (the same category as nuclear and biological weapons).
When pushed in interviews to explain whether she supports the confiscation of guns, Abrams has dodged the question, simply saying that the bill was about “starting a conversation.”
Abrams, who says she “believes in identity politics,” has also said that illegal immigrants are part of her base of support and suggested that illegal immigrants should be able to vote in elections. Moreover, she has indicated she wants to move toward single-payer health insurance, a policy that would cost tens of trillions of dollars and require historically high tax hikes.
Because Biden’s age and mental fitness for office are genuine concerns, his choice for running mate is critically important. Indeed, Biden may just be a caretaker who, if elected, would occupy the White House for just one term, preparing his vice president for the top job. This means Abrams’s campaign for vice president is all the more noteworthy.
The hoopla surrounding Abrams is reminiscent of the media and elitist left’s fawning over Beto O’Rourke during his failed bid for the Senate in 2018. Journalists, Hollywood celebrities, young liberal activists — they all gushed over O’Rourke. They treated him as part rock star and part political savior. (New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has enjoyed somewhat similar, although more short-lived and less intense, treatment during the coronavirus pandemic.)
Democrats and their allies in the media seem to be searching for their next rock star after Barack Obama, jumping from person to person as they see potential. Most Democrats enjoyed the highest of highs during Obama’s presidency and the lowest of lows when he left office. They are desperately trying to recapture that ideological euphoria but can’t find it.
The irony is that Obama left almost no legacy in terms of enduring policies or political transformations. Sure, Obamacare was something, but with the individual mandate gone, it is largely neutered. The nuclear deal with Iran, his other supposedly big achievement, is dead. Obama’s supporters will say he saved the economy from the financial crisis of 2008, but, regardless of the facts, no one will remember the 2009 stimulus package as anything close to FDR’s New Deal in terms of significance. Furthermore, Obama was unable to initiate a liberal ascendancy, perhaps his chief political goal, as Ronald Reagan initiated a conservative ascendancy that lasted for decades.
Ultimately, Obama is more of a rock star, a celebrity, even a superhero to Democrats than anything else — but one who brought political success. Since Obama left office, Democrats have been desperate to find his successor. Abrams is not that successor. As Rich Lowry notes in his latest column, she won’t appeal to working-class swing voters and suburban women. It seems unlikely that Biden will pick her as his running mate. But whether Biden chooses Abrams or not, her political stardom will likely fade quickly as it did with O’Rourke.
Abrams may be good at playing victim and turning defeat into a weapon, but in the end, politics is about winning. After a while, trumpeting one’s electoral defeat loses its appeal. Eventually, Abrams will lose her superpowers. But the quest for the next Democratic superhero will continue.
Aaron Kliegman is a freelance writer based in Virginia. Previously, he was a staff writer and news editor at the Washington Free Beacon, where he wrote analysis and commentary on foreign policy and national security. Aaron’s work has been published in a range of publications, and he has a master’s degree in international relations. Aaron is now writing regular columns for the Inner Circle as a contributor, and I am excited to have him on the Gingrich 360 team. — Newt | <urn:uuid:482b5bc0-fc0c-45fb-8b96-25aaa574aa46> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.gingrich360.com/2020/05/21/stacey-abrams-and-the-democrats-quest-for-their-next-superhero/ | 2022-09-29T18:04:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335362.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929163117-20220929193117-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.97409 | 2,071 | [
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When anyone says Kuala Lumpur, everyone will think of Bukit Bintang, Petronas Twin Towers, KL Tower and all the famous places…
In this blog post, let me share a few hidden gems of Kuala Lumpur… Some I also just recently discovered….
1) Matic Cultural Dance Show
What is a visit to a foreign country if not to discover and catch a glimpse of their culture…
For a FREE peek into Malaysian culture, I daresay you have to head over to MaTiC (Malaysia Tourism Centre) and watch the 3pm cultural dance show which are performed daily except for Sunday & Public Holidays…
Be there at 2.30pm for this one hour show that will highlight a few of the multi ethnic groups of Malaysia’s cultural dances in a 120 seater air conditioned theater….
It’s a spectacular display of colourful and rich traditional costumes and you can also participate at the end and have a photo session taken with them too!!!
Among the dances are the Sewang dance, Chinese Fan dance, Indian classical dance..
Then there is the traditional medley consisting of the Zapin langkah beralun, Orang Ulu dance etc…
For more info check out http://www.matic.gov.my/en/services/facilities-at-matic
Hauntu (Interactive Haunted House) is a blend of live theatre performance, role play and storytelling that comes together to provide participants an engaging experience..
It is not a scary haunted house (like Scream Park Sunday Lagoon), but a real interactive experience with real actors, audience interaction, intricate mazes and interconnected storylines that are centred around a colonial hotel on Merdeka night filled with mystery and the paranormal…
So can you make it out alive or will you die in there??? The choice is yours!!!!!
For more info, be sure to check out https://ihauntu.com/
3) Kwai Chai Hong
Kwai Chai Hong is no longer such a secret… Located in the Chinatown area of Kuala Lumpur, it consists of about 10 restored shophouses — six fronting Jalan Petaling and another four units along Lorong Panggung, as well as a delightful lane with fascinating murals tucked between the two roads of Jalan Petaling and Lorong Panggung….
Kwai Chai Hong is fairly near the Pasar Seni MRT and LRT stations… And got its name from the Cantonese dialect which translates quite literally as “Ghost Lane” or “Little Demon Alley.”
This lane is however not supernatural in nature, so don’t worry… There are at least two theories regarding this name…
One is that migrant workers from China who settled here used the colloquial slang of “kwai chai” (ghost children or little demon) to refer to mischievous children running around Lorong Panggung… And the other theory is that Kwai Chai Hong’s past as an area filled with gamblers, drug addicts, drunkards and those engaging in vice activities led to its nickname, while another story claimed that Lorong Panggung was the hideout of the “Dragon Tiger Clan” whose boss would call his members “Little Ghosts.”
Inside the laneway are six murals depicting the daily activities of early Chinese settlers in the area during the 1960s, as well as a century-old lamp post believed to be the only one surviving from the first set of lampposts installed in Kuala Lumpur when electricity arrived in the early 1900s, as well as displays of the original wooden windows that are no longer fit for use….
While taking great pains to retain bits and pieces of history, the project also incorporated modern technology where visitors can use their smartphones to scan the QR codes on the walls for an interactive and immersive experience…
Kwai Chai Hong is open to the public for free from 9am to 6pm daily.
4) Bingka KL
About 10 years ago, I always thought Malaysia did not have enough good quality souvenirs that represent our local culture..
However it is not so the case nowadays with the popping up of interesting souvenirs…
And one of them is Bingka KL… The founders of Bingka KL took their inspiration from countries like Japan and Thailand, which have a strong cultural identity and which is well reflected in everything they do, from their food to their dressing…. mannerisms… and of course their souvenirs…
Thus Bingka KL was born, inspired to be an amazing and quirky representation of our beautiful culture….
Which are Malaysian-themed hand drawn illustrations printed on tea towels, pouches and bags… resulting in one of a kind pieces that are uniquely handmade in Malaysia..
Personally, I love their designs… And would collect them all if I could and if I had the budget..
For more information, visit www.bingka.my
Crazepop is a Malaysian shop owned by Nurliza Mohd Jonis who specialises in delicious cake pops..
Cake pops, if you don’t know, are basically balls of cake and frosting on a lollipop stick, and normally I do not really like cakepops as they are to sweet or somehow not too palatable but Crazepop cake pops are seriously to die for!!!!
With the tag deliciously designed, Nur show us how she meticulously prepares her cakepops and they are so beautifully designed it seems like a sin to bite into them… And when you bite, I swear these are the most delicious cakepops you can ever have as like I said, I don’t like cake pops… Except these…
She uses pure chocolate to decorate her cakes.. And her cake pops are sooo famous and sought after people order them from overseas!!! And yes, before you ask, she does classes if there is a need or a request…
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KAMPALA, Uganda - Friday, November 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Africa Bureau will launch its campaign to fight HIV amongst young women and girls aged 15-24 in South Africa and Nigeria on the 25th and in Kenya on the 29th of November. This is coming after a successful launch of the same campaign in Uganda about 3 weeks ago.
The campaign dubbed Girls’ ACT (Awareness Campaign Tour) is largely informed by the compelling fact that young women and adolescent girls account for one in five new HIV infections in Africa and are almost three times more likely than their male counterparts to be living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. This is highlighted in the 2013 report of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which states that almost 60% of all new HIV infections among young people aged 15–24 occurred among adolescent girls and young women and 80% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. “These statistics spotlights the disproportion that young women and girls face in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and begs for more strategic and relatable approaches," said Dr. Adetayo Towolawi, Country Program Manager, AHF Nigeria. “It is therefore imperative that we reach out to these young women and girls in an aggressive manner, leaving no stone unturned and no one behind.”
Girls’ ACT, is a multi-institutional drive that primarily aims to; a) scale up HIV/AIDS prevention services in order to curb new HIV infections amongst this population sub-group, and b) ensure that young people living with HIV are enrolled and retained in HIV care for improved health outcomes. “To achieve this, AHF is working together with partners from government, civil society and business, to offer a range of health services including HIV and TB tests, Sexual reproductive health, menstrual health and self-esteem, counseling on gender-based violence, and pro-bono legal services for victims of violation or abuse,” added Hilary Thulare, Country Program Director, AHF South Africa “Together we can empower our communities to ACT against HIV and sexual violence and promote positive living with dignity amongst young women and adolescent girls.”
“Our safe space programs and interactions with young people in Kenya, has given us a great opportunity to understand the needs of young women and girls better, and insights on how best to support them,” said Dr. Wamae Maranga, Country Director, AHF Kenya. “Majority of the girls do not visit health facilities for various reasons, and those living with HIV continue to struggle with self-esteem issues and stigma, which negatively impact their health. Therefore, if we want to get different results, we must do things differently and that is where an out-of-the-box initiative such as the GIRLS ACT comes to bare.”
The GIRLS ACT campaign, which takes the form of a concert-like caravan, aims to bring services closer to communities, targeting young women and adolescent girls from all walks of life, different socioeconomic groupings and dwellings. However, their male counterparts and the general community as key gatekeepers for young girls’ protection will also benefit by accessing HIV/AIDS related information & services as well as other connect services.
“Young women and girls are a major focus for us at AHF right now. We want to see them live healthy lives and make informed decisions about their health, so we can break the cycle of new infections,” said Terri Ford, Chief of Global advocacy and Policy. “We cannot afford to be complacent about this and to see how the GIRLS ACT has gained so much buy-in and huge followership, is proof that we need young people at the heart of these interventions. We have to keep them alive and well”!
Speaking on the success of the campaign in Uganda, AHF Africa Bureau Chief, Dr. Penninah Iutung shared thus “At the Uganda launch, Girls ACT was well received by stakeholders and partners alike; who have committed to working with us on this project as we move to more districts.” Beyond the strengthened partnerships, the most significant and remarkable outcome from the launch was witnessing young women and girls who had fallen out of treatment, get re-enrolled. That was an absolute indication that we are on the right track”. “We will continue to work closely with young people across our country programs to see what works best for them, in order to ensure they have access to the much needed care and information,” she enthused.
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mperryJune 11, 2020 at 8:59 amPost count: 25
I had my thyroid removed on June 3 rd and felt normal again for about 4 days, then started to decline. I’ve felt emotional and teary and woke up again this morning with anxiety. I feel lethargic and down again. I started thyroid replacement on Wed. so have been on it 2 days. I wasn’t on any replacement after surgery for about a week. Just calcium and another calcuim/vitamin D medication.
My question, is this normal? Most have said they felt better after surgery. I did initially. I feel like I am going backwards.
How long does it take to feel normal?
Thank you. Just feel like I am on a rollar coaster.Liz1967June 11, 2020 at 1:35 pmPost count: 305
Do not take any calcium within 4 hours of taking your thyroid replacement. It interferes with absorption. You do not start thyroid replacement right after surgery because surgery can cause a release of thyroid hormone and you could be hyperthyroid if you added replacement then. Surgery itself, of any kind, is traumatic to your body and general anesthesia affects some people in odd ways, altho that wears off pretty fast. You could be suffering just from the aftereffects of the surgery itself. After all, you did just have your throat cut open! Be patient with yourself. Right now you have no idea if you are taking the correct amount of replacement and will not know that until your first TSH in a few weeks. This is hard to explain, but thyroid hormone has a half life of 7 days, meaning half of the first pill dose will still be in your system a week after taking it and will not be totally out of your system for a month. So this means the doses accumulate until they reach a steady state. 2 days is not enough to achieve this. You had an influx of thyroid because of surgery, just manipulating the gland, that dissipated over the postop week, probably leaving you a bit hypo before starting replacement. Now it may take a bit to catch up. But catch up you will.mperryJune 12, 2020 at 10:43 amPost count: 25
Thank you for your informative post. They didn’t tell me not to take calcium within four hours of my hormone replacement, but I haven’t anyway, so that is good, but I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t told me, in case I changed my medication regime.
Thank you for the encouragement and all the details about what happens during surgery and how you might be affected. It does help to understand the physiology of it all.
I have been struggling so much with depression for months, it was getting better after surgery and then I went down again. I have never been through such a roller coaster of mental and emotional trauma like this and have it go on and on and on.
Just weary I guess. I want to get out and live my life and have felt so crummy for months. Sometimes it feels like it will not end.
Thank you. I keep trying to believe it will get better. Right now it is as if I am not rational.
Coping has felt monumental.
I appreciate this forum and the encouragement of those who have been through this!KimberlyOnline FacilitatorJune 12, 2020 at 6:11 pmPost count: 4262
Hello – as Liz1967 noted, your body needs some time to heal, and you will need some time (a few weeks) to figure out if this dose of thyroid hormone replacement is right for you.
Thyroid dysfunction itself can mimic symptoms of depression or anxiety disorder, but sometimes there *is* another underlying condition that can benefit from separate treatment. This is an older video (link below), but one of our most popular on “The Emotional Aspect of Graves'” – hopefully, it will be of interest.mperryJune 17, 2020 at 2:06 pmPost count: 25
Thank you for all the great info and support. I DID start feeling better Saturday, which was 4 days after taking hormones! This week has been so much better. I feel like a “real” person again! LOL I am now one week on hormones! A night and day difference from where I was!KimberlyOnline FacilitatorJune 17, 2020 at 4:49 pmPost count: 4262
This is great news – thanks for the update!
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Systemic racism, discrimination and trauma play a huge role in the ongoing mental health struggles that many people face each day. We at The Therapy Centre stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. With the ongoing tragedies faced by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized minorities in our country and abroad, we believe that it is our duty to stand with and listen to those who are fighting for change.
Below is a list of resources for those who may be looking for support and for those who want to learn more.
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Multicultural concerns cover a broad range of issues such as race, religion, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation and disability.
Typical symptoms of multicultural concerns
- Feeling marginalised or misunderstood.
- Issues around identity and acceptance.
- Feelings arising from migration displacement.
- Feeling of low esteem.
How Neu Practice will help with multicultural concerns
Sometimes we can face issues due to our differences from the society we are living in.
In couples or at work and in relationships we face not being understood and bring with us a complexity that impacts how we feel. This can be a confusing period. It is hard to navigate who we are sometimes when we feel we are at odds with what is around us.
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Ronnie O’Sullivan was sent tumbling out of the 2019 World Snooker Championship on Tuesday after falling victim to one of the biggest ever Crucible shocks.
The world number one and pre-tournament favourite fell in an incredible 10-8 reverse against James Cahill – the first amateur player to ever qualify in Sheffield.
Debutant Cahill, who also caused a sensation when he ousted Mark Selby in the opening round of the UK Championship in December, rarely flinched with the winning line in sight.
On just one really noticeable occasion did the 23 year-old suffer from clincher’s disease, when he missed an almost straight red in the penultimate frame while on a break of 62.
But O’Sullivan, who blamed poor health for his defeat, failed to pounce and Cahill took that frame on the black followed by the next with a composed clearance to triumph.
The young Englishman’s success undoubtedly ranks among the most eye-catching Crucible shocks of all time.
But what other unexpected results have memorably wowed spectators at World Championships in the past?
The Biggest Crucible Shocks
Tony Knowles 10-1 Steve Davis (1982)
For perhaps the most obvious that springs to mind, you’d have to go all the way back to 1982 and just the sixth edition at the Crucible Theatre.
Steve Davis, the undisputed best player in the world and the reigning champion after his maiden glory twelve months earlier, was again the heavy favourite.
But opponent and relative newcomer to the scene Tony Knowles didn’t shy away from the challenge, thrashing Davis in spectacular fashion with the “Nugget” managing to claim just a single frame.
Knowles, of course, would go on to reach the quarter-finals that year and the last four three times during the decade, but nobody ever predicted that initial outcome.
I don’t think so Dave, a lot of talent out there beyond the top 16. Whatever happens today I think the biggest ever still remains Tony Knowles turning the Nugget over 10-1 in’82.
— Fin Ruane ⭐️ (@finsnookercoach) April 23, 2019
Stuart Bingham 10-7 Stephen Hendry (2000)
After dominating the 1990s by claiming a record seven world titles, there was no reason to believe that Stephen Hendry’s time at the top was coming to an end.
Even though there were the likes of young trio Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins, and Mark Williams to compete with, Hendry was still only 31 and was the pre-tournament favourite for an eighth success in 2000.
Nobody told debutant Stuart Bingham, who compiled eight half century breaks in ousting the reigning champion 10-7.
At the time a complete unknown, Bingham would 15 years later of course go on to lift the prestigious silverware himself.
Bingham Hendry 2000
Wasley Ding 2014
— Chris (@BOff147) April 23, 2019
Michael Wasley 10-9 Ding Junhui (2014)
In 2014, Ding Junhui entered the World Championship in the form of his life.
The Chinese number one, who had predominantly struggled in Sheffield, was arriving on the back of a record-equalling season in which he captured five ranking crowns – including the penultimate event of the campaign in Beijing at the China Open.
Yet, with the added attention came the extra pressure and Ding wasn’t able to handle it as he came up against Michael Wasley, who was ranked well outside the top 64 at the time.
Wasley was 8-6 down but fought his way back to force a decider with a gutsy 103 century break and duly prevailed in a marathon, edgy final frame to once again shatter the hopes of an expectant nation.
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Naja is an established vessel of Christ Jesus who is dedicated to her prophetic ministry led on Youtube with weekly videos teaching what the traditional church denies. She helps thousands all over the world struggling in the area of spiritual warfare and in need of deliverance from demonic oppression. She believes in the teachings of Jesus related to the fivefold ministry which recognizes the Teacher, Apostles, Prophet, Evangelist, and Pastors.
After being rescued from the new age/ new thought movement filled with practices of idolatry, witchcraft and the occult, her life has been totally surrendered to the work of the Kingdom of God and bringing others to the body of Christ. Ordained as an Evangelist in early 2022, has pushed her even further into her purpose, although the role of Evangelist had already been established since 2020. Her personal testimony is now over 300k views and soon to be aired on the 700 club to share worldwide in hopes of spreading truth regarding the deception of satan that’s currently rapidly gaining popularity.
"Naja's willingness to share her story literally helped save my life & see the truth about witchcraft & new age"- Kamaya
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Discover Your Oasis
Each treatment is done with authentic Ayurvedic Herbal Oils and 2 synchronized therapists.
If you would like to book for more than 1 person, the treatments will be done consecutively and not at the same time.
Synchronized Warm Oil Massage and Steam Bath — The Cornerstone of Ayurvedic Rejuvenation
Two classically trained therapists anoint you with potent herbal oil, and working in synchronized movements, preforms a vigorous and deeply satisfying massage. Followed by a detoxifying steam bath in our traditional rosewood steamer. Sublime!
The Queen of Ayurvedic Oil TherapiesAfter a brief oil massage, you are sent to the realm of bliss as warm herbal oil is continuously poured on your forehead and scalp in a rhythmic manner.
The Oil Therapy of the Maharajas In a synchronized fashion, two therapists continuously bathe your entire body with warm, herbal oil including swedana, or sweating, for elimination of impurities and absorption of nutrients.
Herbal Therapy for Muscles Toning and Weight Reduction Utilizing the Ayurvedic formula, Triphala, and herbal paste is blending and massaged onto your body by two therapists using synchronized movements. The repeated motions over the hair follicles and skin tissue promote the breakdown of fatty deposits. Very stimulating!
Traditional Steam Therapy
'Sweda’ means sweating and is a simplified ayurvedic treatment that involves detoxing the system with steam.
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Shazam MOD APK
Table of Contents
- 1 Shazam MOD APK
- 1.1 How do you utilize Shazam?
- 1.2 Some of Shazam’s standout features
- 1.3 Shazam MOD APK version includes
- 1.4 Shazam MOD APK
- 1.5 APK Shazam MOD
- 1.6 Freely use the premium version’s world-class features.
- 1.7 The upgrade now includes both of the most often used languages.
- 1.8 Search for all of your favorite music without being interrupted by advertisements.
- 1.9 Recommended
- 1.10 Shazam Shazam MOD APK
- 1.11 Shazam APK and MOD for Android
- 1.12 Shazam MOD APK Final Words
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How do you utilize Shazam?
If Billy Batson wishes to become Shazam, he says the god’s name and becomes a powerful deity. The Shazam app cannot transform you into anybody, but it does have tremendous magic that can help you figure out the name of any song in a flash, similar to how Billy was transformed into Shazam.
On the home screen, you press the app icon and let the phone go near the source of the music; it will listen and provide results that include the song title, artist name, and album name. Of course, you must enable Shazam to record for it to hear the music you want, and your callphone must be connected to the internet.
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Shazam will appear.
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The Dark Mode
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Get recommendations for the trendiest music.
If you browse to the Discover category, you will receive recommendations for music that you may like based on the history of the songs you search for.
Shazam functions even when there is no internet connection. You will, however, be restricted to a few characteristics, and the results will be less precise than when you search online.
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Sync the lyrics
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Listen to music on Spotify, YouTube, or iTunes.
When you’ve found your favorite song, you may listen to it on leading mobile music applications like iTunes and Spotify. If you want to view the official music video for the song, please listen to it on YouTube. There’s no need to spend time looking for and inputting characters when Shazam can swiftly and efficiently connect you to a world of music.
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Shazam can help you remember the names of all your favorite songs with a single click.
Have you been captivated by the music you heard at the Shopping Mall and wanted to know its identity without contacting the Control Room? If so, you are on the perfect spot since we’re now offering the Shazam app. For those unfamiliar with Shazam, it is an Android software that allows you to learn the name of your favorite music by hearing it via your phone’s microphone.
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We’ve covered all of the capabilities available in the official Shazam app, but there is simply no Android version that does not need online payments! Furthermore, Shazam provides you with a service that no other developer currently provides. So you can’t eliminate a few annoyances, such as enabled Analytics, a few advertisements, and a single language interface that most smartphone users find intolerable.
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The upgrade now includes both of the most often used languages.
Shazam MOD APK is a modified version of Shazam’s official app that includes all of the capabilities that the regular version lacks. Languages are the first and most coveted quality. Using the original version, you can only utilize the English app UI. However, the Shazam MOD APK gives you two options: English or Russian. Download Shazam MOD APK and start enjoying easy streaming for all Russian music streamers superman/shazam!: the return of black adam!
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Search for all of your favorite music without being interrupted by advertisements.
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Google Services and Analytics collect data such as music suggestions and preferences from your smartphone through Android apps such as Shazam! It often seems unsafe since Google has complete control over our data! Stop worrying and get Shazam MOD APK! The patched version is no longer linked to Google Services and has removed analytics, so your data is safe from both Apple’s Shazam and Google’s Android!
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Shazam is a must-have software for everyone who loves music. Aside from the music search tool, it also helps you recall the songs you’ve looked up, similar to Google’s search history. Shazam’s capabilities are all designed to assist music lovers in discovering their preferred musical genre. We can all agree that it would be a pity not to hear our favorite songs.
Shazam MOD APK Final Words
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GMC Baseball Roundup for Friday, May 20
EDITOR’S NOTE: Games will be added to this roundup as results are reported, so please consider refreshing or revisiting this page throughout the night.
Sayreville 10, Woodbridge 7: Pete Soporowski went 3-for-4 with one home run, two doubles and three RBI while Kyle Richards went 3-for-4 with two runs for Sayreville (11-13). Chris Hauber went 3-for-3 and Connor Johnson added two RBI for the Bombers. Kyle Mortensen went 3-for-4 with one home run, two RBI and two runs for Woodbridge (17-9).
Middlesex 8, Oratory 0: Jared Venutolo went 2-for-4 with two RBI and three runs while Jack Hnylycia went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run for Middlesex (12-11). Mike Lavenia scored three times while Zach Adams, Tyler Dymon, Andrew Pollara and Michael Schweyher each drove in one run for the Blue Jays.
Old Bridge 9, Mater Dei 3: Zach Attianese went 2-for-3 with two runs and one RBI for Old Bridge (12-12). Joe Papeo drove in three runs and Tam Giasi drove in two runs for the Knights. Carlos Lopez allowed one run on three hits, no walks and struck out three over five innings.
Carteret 8, Plainfield 6: Justin Colon allowed no earned runs, three hits, two walks and struck out five over five innings for Carteret (15-10). Josh Pena drove in two runs and scored once for the Ramblers.
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Discover Your Genius
1. What area of life do you think you might be a “genius” at?
2. When you think about your future, what kind of career do you think might be really fulfilling for you? What made you pick that?
I DARE YOU…
Brainstorm a list of five adults whose opinion you respect who know you fairly well. Email, facebook, or text them this question:
I have been tasked with asking several people who know me well and whose opinion I value the following question: “What do you think are my biggest strengths as a person?” Would you please email me or message me a response by (pick a date that’s no more than 3 days). Thank you so much for helping me discover more about myself.
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DESCRIPTION FROM THE BOOK JACKET: The only thing I knew for sure was that I had issues. Lots of issues. No wonder my mood ring kept changing! It went from black for tense to pink for uncertain to white for frustrated. I kept waiting to see blue, the color for calmness and peace, but no such luck. With all the craziness in my life, I couldn’t see blue if I looked at the sky.
MY TWO CENTS: Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel, by Diana Lopez, is an excellent middle grade novel for a teen book group or for an individual read.
Author Diana Lopez remembers what it’s like to be a middle school girl. Rarely have I read a book that made me feel so connected to my eighth grade self. The excitement, the fear, the boys, the uncertainty of everyone’s confidence, the loyalty of friends, the changing body, Lopez gets it all. On top of that, she shows us that kids deal with real problems, too. Our kids face real problems, like having a parent with cancer.
The book opens with Erica’s (Chia’s) mom buying bathing suits before their summer vacation. Mom shows Erica and her younger sister, Carmen, nine new bikinis. Then she throws the bottoms away. Soon the girls learn their mother has breast cancer and is due to have a mastectomy. Summer vacation plans have changed.
Before the surgery, the family makes a pilgrimage to La Virgen de San Juan del Valle. Each member of the family leaves a special object as an offering, prays for God and La Virgen to help mom, and then makes a promesa. The promesa is a thank-you promise to God and La Virgen in acknowledgment of their help and healing.
This is where I fell in love with Erica’s character. Erica takes her time deciding what her promesa, or promise, will be. While at the shrine she discovers el cuarto de Milagros, or the miracle room, “where people share stories and make offerings.” It is here where Erica sees a newspaper article and a picture of the Race for the Cure. Erica’s promesa is to walk the 5k and raise money for breast cancer research.
Erica returns to school in the fall to face many challenges in her eighth grade year. Throughout them her mood ring changes color. Erica relies on the ring to tell her what she is feeling instead of listening to her heart. Her friends, the Robins, remain a constant support throughout the story. Erica deals with boys and homework, then goes home and deals with her mother’s illness, all while trying to work on her promesa. Erica takes on the role of an adult covering most of the house chores and taking care of her younger brother as her mother recovers from surgery and then faces radiation treatment. Very quickly Erica starts missing assignments and her grades, especially in math, plummet. When a counselor calls a meeting with the family at school, Erica finally shares what she has been struggling with. When at last her teachers and her parents are on the same page, Erica gets the help she needs.
The book concludes with Erica and many of her friends completing her promesa. She trusts herself to know and understand her own feelings. She does not rely on her mood ring anymore to tell her how she feels.
TEACHING TIPS: The two most beneficial ways this book could be used are through book talks and book clubs. If a teacher or librarian book talks this book, students will gravitate toward it. Most of the readers will be girls, but I think that’s what it’s designed to do. Even as an adult reading it, I felt the same kinship and recognition I had felt when I read Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret when I was eleven years old. It’s about a girl growing and changing and dealing with the trials of middle school. The only difference is that students will also recognize the struggle of a family dealing with cancer, and we get characters from diverse backgrounds, which all our children need.
The second way I see this book being effective is for a teen girl book club. Again, the driving force for me was the honesty with which Erica (Chia) looked at her friends, her family, and her challenges with school. All girls will recognize this. They will see themselves and their friends in this book.
In a Social Studies and Language Arts classes, teachers can use the book as a launching point for their own students’ service projects as well as a geographic study of San Antonio. You may visit the church of La Virgen de San Juan del Valle on line at http://www.olsjbasilica.org/ There are links to the history of the church, as well as information on pilgrimages and pictures of the basilica – including the mural that Erica describes seeing.
Teachers may even create math problems from the book. How much money did Erica raise? How much do local teams in Race for the Cure raise? Was Erica’s achievement similar to this or greater?
An awareness of breast cancer and the organizations that raise money for research may also be used in an extension of science curriculum.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: You may visit the author website for Diana Lopez at http://www.dianalopezbooks.com/Home_Page.html She does have teacher resource links for her middle grade novel Confetti Girl and her young adult novel Choke. (None were listed for Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel at the time of this writing.) A talented writer living in Texas, Lopez has two writing awards under her belt. She spent time teaching at the middle school level and currently teaches at the university level. She continues to find stories in the pages of life and we look forward to reading more!
Kimberly Mach has been teaching for sixteen years and holds two teaching certificates in elementary and secondary education. Her teaching experience ranges from grades five to twelve, but she currently teaches Language Arts to middle school students. It is a job she loves. The opportunity to share good books with students is one that every teacher should have. She feels privileged to be able to share them on a daily basis. | <urn:uuid:818bf779-8176-48f9-8eaa-df42b2bf0d4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://latinosinkidlit.com/2015/03/26/libros-latins-ask-my-mood-ring-how-i-feel/ | 2022-10-06T10:53:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337803.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006092601-20221006122601-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.965506 | 1,298 | [
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Even as the Jerusalem Municipality and police step up their efforts to crack down on terror in the capital through the aid of surveillance balloons, Arab rioters attacked a Jewish car on Wednesday right by the Jerusalem District Court - for the second time this week.
The Arab assailants launched a barrage of rocks on the car on Salah e-Din Street, near the Jerusalem District Court in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood located north of the Old City, and just south of Hebrew University's Mount Scopus Campus.
None of those in the car were wounded by the potentially lethal attack, although damage was inflicted on the vehicle. Police forces have begun a search of the area to try and locate the perpetrators.
As noted, an identical attack took place earlier this week on Monday, on the same Salah e-Din Street right near the Jerusalem District Court.
The target in that case was a family car, driven by a couple with their seven children aged from six months to ten years old. Fortunately the young family did not suffer physical harm from the onslaught of rocks, although their car was damaged.
Jewish cars have been regularly coming in for rock attacks in a repeating cycle of ambush attacks in and around the capital.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Monday revealed in the Knesset that rock attacks in Jerusalem were numbering 200 per month before Operation Protective Edge - since Hamas's terror war the attacks have spiked to 5,000 a month.
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been encouraging what one of his officials has termed the "Jerusalem Intifada," calling for violence in a manner almost identical to former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's calls for the 2000 Second Intifada. | <urn:uuid:b147e6d8-2198-45a5-b7cd-c993d7de4b6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/186744 | 2022-10-07T18:34:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338244.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007175237-20221007205237-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.972536 | 344 | [
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Enjoy playing Meikyuu Jiin Dababa for FDS on RetroMania. The Nintendo Famicom Disk System has become a generic symbol for many gamers. Many gaming masterpieces were released on this console, still helping gamers have a good time. However, not all fans of video games do it legally…
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ST. LOUIS, MO (October 19, 2021) – It’s never too early to practice energy conservation, and Ameren Missouri wants families to take that message to heart during Energy Awareness Month. This October, families are encouraged to teach young children simple ways to save energy around the house, not only as an opportunity to instill a sense of personal responsibility, but also to help cut home energy costs.
“I know firsthand how much electricity kids can consume. The energy required to power their tablets, video game systems or even room lights can quickly add up,” said Tony Lozano, director of energy solutions at Ameren Missouri. “Teaching children to take responsibility of their unused devices and general energy usage when they are young will make it easier to maintain low home energy bills into the future because energy conservation will become second nature.”
To help get kids in the habit of saving energy around the house, Ameren Missouri encourages families to consider introducing these fun and thoughtful activities:
“No parent wants to constantly remind their kids about turning off unused lights and electronics,” Lozano added. “Implementing these family friendly energy saving tips can make saving electricity a fun and engaging experience. When kids are having fun, they’ll be more likely to repeat the activity.”
For more home energy efficiency resources, visit www.AmerenMissouriSavings.com.
About Ameren Missouri
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2 million electric and 132,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern Missouri. The company's service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities, including the greater St. Louis area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri. | <urn:uuid:13e1fc50-a169-477d-83be-274948c42921> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://ameren.mediaroom.com/2021-10-19-How-to-never-again-ask-your-kids-Did-you-turn-off-the-lights | 2022-09-27T05:55:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334987.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927033539-20220927063539-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.929851 | 417 | [
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Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Gustav Klimt: The Tree of Life (500 pieces)
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Gustav Klimt: The Tree of Life. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference.
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Are you looking for some recipe inspiration? In this list, you will find 10 vegan autumn recipes to get into the fall atmosphere – yummy, super easy, and quick to make! Give them a try!
Autumn is right about the corner. And what better way to celebrate than with some flavorful recipes?
Autumn is one of my favorite seasons because of many reasons. The leaves turn orange and beautiful, I can start layering my clothes and the selection of fruits and veggies is simply amazing. Think about cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, spinach – and the list can go on and on.
And because I love cooking with fresh seasonal produce and because I want to help you get into the fall season atmosphere, I decided to share some amazing recipes with you today. So, in case you’re ready to get all cozy and warm and indulge in some stews, pies, and cream soups, take a look at the list below!
I compiled this list with 10 yummy recipes because I want to offer you a boost of inspiration for the upcoming autumn months. You will find everything you’d wish for below, from hearty stews to apple desserts, cookies, flavorful soups, and everything in-between. Plus, all the recipes that you’ll find below are super easy to make, I promise!
I hope you’ll find enough inspiration here for your next autumnal meal, as I tried to add recipes for each and every taste! 🙂
Click on the linked titles in order to access these amazing vegan autumn recipes. Here we go:
Vegan Autumn Recipes
For me, stews are the ultimate comfort food during autumn and winter. And out of all the stews I tried recently, this vegetarian Irish stew is definitely one of my favorites! If you love veggies and hearty meals and if you’re a fan of the English cuisine, then I urge you to give it a try!
Pumpkin is another sample veggie during fall and even a symbol of it. If you’re craving a savory pie, then this pumpkin pot pie should be your choice! This recipe is vegan, yummy, and very easy to make, which makes it absolutely perfect for a chilly autumn evening. So what are you waiting for?
Let’s talk about desserts as well! For me, nothing yells “It’s autumn, baby!” more than a hot slice of apple pie, one of the most famous American dishes of all time. This vegan apple pie looks superb and it’s extremely easy to make. Not to mention it’s healthy as well, which makes it one of the best vegan autumn recipes!
Ah, what better way to start an autumnal menu than with a delicious cream soup? This butternut squash soup is completely vegan and it’s bursting with amazing flavors. Think of butternut squash, celery, garlic, cinnamon, smoked paprika, chili powder – all these make an incredible combo! 🙂
If you’re not a fan of creamy butternut squash soup, no worries! Here’s an amazing alternative: hearty beans soup! This recipe is extremely easy to put together and the result is guaranteed to make you fall in love. Plus, beans are super filling and delicious, so what’s not to love here?
Cookies are one of the best and easiest desserts to make, regardless of the season! But these vegan pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips are ideal for any autumn month. They’re comforting and very easy to make and they go perfectly with a big cup of coffee, tea, or even hot cocoa, why not?
Here’s another delicious apple dessert for you: vegan apple strudel. Strudel is a traditional German sweet made with puff pastry and apple and cinnamon filling. I guess you already know that apples and cinnamon make the best combo which, in my opinion, is ideal for autumn! One of the best desserts in this list of vegan autumn recipes!
Other than cookies, muffins are another great dessert that can be made all year long. They’re super versatile and extremely easy to make and you can try countless different recipes to find the one that suits your preferences! For example, these vegan pumpkin muffins are ideal for this season and can even work well for breakfast!
This is another German dessert with apples: apple streusel cake. This can be translated into “apple crumble cake”, as streusels cakes are pretty basic cakes, but with a top layer made of crumbles. This dessert is, again, super easy to make and will make for the perfect sweet treat or breakfast!
Let’s end this yummy list in style with another amazing stew. Here’s how to make a sweet potato stew with cauliflower! Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite fall veggies and they can work it tons of recipes, both sweet and savory. But this stew has to be one of my faves of them all! | <urn:uuid:14298eb2-df38-461f-aae6-68de610a74fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://gourmandelle.com/vegan-autumn-recipes/ | 2022-09-29T21:39:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335365.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929194230-20220929224230-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.931913 | 1,039 | [
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Founder & CEOPeter Schroer
MilestonesFounded 2000 Partnered 2013 Exited 2021 (Acquired by GI Partners)
Other InvestorsSilver Lake Goldman Sachs
Status - Exited
Open Source Product Lifecycle Management
Aras is a developer of a product lifecycle management (PLM) platform designed to improve the lifecycle processes of enterprises with complex products and procedures.
Aras’s platform combines enterprise open source technology with an advanced model-based service-oriented architecture to deliver a highly scalable, flexible and secure PLM suite. Aras’s platform has an open architecture that easily adapts to changing business practices, instead of forcing compromise to fit its software. The platform provides PLM solutions to support global product development, systems engineering, multi-site manufacturing, supply chain operations and quality compliance. This enables product teams within large enterprises to manage growing product complexity and fast-changing processes easily and efficiently. | <urn:uuid:1ed97558-dcda-4f2a-aecf-e5401e61cc7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://bluecloudventures.com/portfolio/aras-corp | 2022-10-01T05:21:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335530.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001035148-20221001065148-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.876208 | 212 | [
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As the Breath is...
This poem has been around the block a few times. Sitting in a bar in Trois Rivières in the 1980s, during its annual poetry festival, a few poets, including me, were asked to compose a brief poem on a handmade paper coaster and then read it to the audience.
I had always been interested in line lengths in poems, usually referred to as beats, feet or breath. I always liked the measure of breath. Breath is best. It made sense that the measure of a line of a poem (an oral form) be measured in breaths not feet. I had also been working with dancers to whom breath was a concern. People take breath for granted. It’s an automatic function. The dancers made me conscious of its actuality and necessity. So breath was floating in my brain. And after a few glasses of wine or beer, not sure, I came up with the first draft of the poem.
When it came to reading it, I decided to “breathe” the poem. This is how and when the poem “as the breath is…” first had life breathed into it.
I had performed it a couple of times over the years before I met Carolyn Marie Souaid, another poet. I don’t remember why or when exactly she agreed to do it with me, but I remember how much richer the poem became. The texture, the meshing, the lyrical, the cacophony, was enriched because of her participation.
Recently, BV (Before Virus), Carolyn & I went into Studio Sophronik to record some poems. “as the breath…” was one of them. The sound engineer, Greg Fitzgerald, who was used to recording music, didn’t know what to make of the poem. But he liked it. He asked if I would allow him to play with it. I have always liked collaborations, so I said, “of course.” A few days later he sent me an mp3 of it. I was blown away. The reverb, echo took it to another level. I listened to it a couple of times and filed it away, feeling that I would like to be able to perform this live.
Then came the plague. I knew that performing it live was not going to be possible. The option was online. For that I needed visuals. I had a bunch of photoshopped images that seemed to fit the bill. However, it would require the animation of stills. My go-to videographer, Martin Reisch, thought it might be too complicated to do in these isolation conditions. He suggested that he go through his archives and find appropriate clips to collage together and synch it to the audio. Again, the collaborative sensibility kicked in and I agreed.
So, to make a short poem long, the videopoem, “as the breath is…”, (a day in the life and death of breath) is a collaboration in isolation brought to fruition by the plague. “as the breath is…” is an artifact of this time.
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In a rapidly changing world, the geography department aims to inspire pupils about the wonders of the amazing planet they live on and equip them with the skills to go out and discover how it works and how they can make it a better place
The department is housed at the far end of the main school building in the "old Headmaster's house" and comprises of two large teaching rooms, two 6th Form teaching rooms, a shared ICT suite with its own cluster of networked computers and the departmental office. The school's automatic weather station is located at the school's playing fields, with data accessible via data logger and modem to the school itself and to the Met Office, which takes the data on an hourly basis as part of its UK-wide observational network.
Geography is a compulsory subject for the first three years at Bablake, and an option at GCSE and A level.
At KS3 the department aims to give pupils a solid grounding in a range of geographical topics with an emphasis on building the skills necessary for study at GCSE and A level. In Shells, pupils study the following units: ‘Making Connections’, ‘Exploring Britain’ and ‘Weather and Climate. In Second Year, the theme is ‘Our Fragile Planet’ investigating topics such as Antarctica, Plastic Pollution, Recycling and the Globalisation of Fashion. In Third Year, the theme is ‘Our Hazardous Planet’ studying Conflict, Crime and Natural Hazards. After Easter Third Year pupils embark on the GCSE course (OCR ‘A’), whether or not they opt to continue with Geography (though the vast majority do).
The GCSE course encourages pupils to think like geographers through the study of geographical themes applied within the context of the UK and the wider world, aiming to inspire a passion for geography and an interest in the subject and world around them beyond academic achievements, and for the rest of their lives. Pupils will study in depth the diverse and dynamic geography of the UK, gaining an appreciation of the changes to the UK’s geography and the processes which drive them. This includes the study of natural landscapes which define the UK, the people of the UK and the environmental challenges which it faces. The complexities of the planet are considered and the interconnections that take place in the wider world, including the study of key ecosystems, people of the planet and environmental threats to the world. Geographical skills are embedded throughout the course, always contextualised within the geographical content. Pupils develop critical thinking skills as they learn how to formulate enquires and arguments through their study - skills which are honed during a two-day compulsory residential fieldwork course in Shropshire.
At A level we teach the Cambridge International specification - this is intended to help pupils become confident, responsible, reflective, innovative and engaged learners. It provides the opportunity to study contemporary events and issues, which students will be able to relate to events in the real world in which they live. Cambridge International qualifications are international in outlook, but retain a local relevance and are highly respected by universities and employers. The A level course includes a study of topics familiar to our own GCSE students such as Hydrology and Fluvial Geomorphology, Atmosphere and Weather, Rocks and Weathering, Population Dynamics, Migration and Settlement Dynamics. In the second year of A level, students study Coastal Environments, Hazardous Environments, Environmental Management and Global Interdependence. We run a four-day residential fieldwork course in Yorkshire to contextualise the physical geography studied at A level.
Throughout the school, the department has the following aims:
- to stimulate student curiosity, interest and enjoyment in the world around them
- to encourage pupils to have an open, enquiring mind and be independent thinkers and learners
- to perceive Geography in the context of a wider body of knowledge, vocabulary and skills
- to provide a basis for lifelong study, and the pursuit of personal interest in the subject even beyond school
In recent years, a good number of A level Geography students have elected to study the subject at university, with several taking up places at Oxford to read the subject. There are a wide variety of university courses that our A level students have followed ranging from Aeronautical Engineering to Medicine, Law and Marketing - there really is no career that does not benefit in some way from a background in Geography - employment rates amongst Geographers are amongst the highest recorded of any graduate subject.
The department has organised several expeditions to Iceland in recent years and runs residential fieldwork courses to FSC Preston Montford, Shropshire and the Cranedale Centre in Yorkshire. Selected pupils often undertake geographical research projects as part of Symposium, and the department organises visits to conferences, lectures (Ranulph Fiennes) and participates in local heats of the GA ‘Worldwise Quiz’.
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Timetable for our 2022 Festival!
|10:30||11:45||Taster Session: ‘Gazing Inwards: Exploring Characters’ Emotional Landscapes’ with Michael Donkor and a Q&A|
|11:45||12:00||Networking chat via Zoom|
|12:00||13:15||Conveying Identity with Dara Kalima, Ella McLeod, and Joelle Taylor|
|13:20||13:40||Networking chat via Zoom|
|13:45||15:00||Lunchtime Readings: Narrative with Beth, Neel, Stephen|
|15:15||16:45||Building Brand Identity: A Panel on Small Presses with Angela/Stephen, Sharron, Chiara and readers|
|17:15||18:45||Psychology of the Author and the Self with Lauren Foley, Sunny Singh, and Julia Armfield|
|19:45||21:00||Headline Reading: Elise Valmorbida|
|11:00||13:00||Masterclass: ‘They f*** you up, your mum and dad: Writing about Dysfunctional Families’ with Beth Miller|
|13:30||15:00||Open Mic |
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Our 2022 lineup!
Italian Australian author Elise Valmorbida has published journalism, poetry, short stories, three non-fiction books and four novels including The Madonna of the Mountains, which has been translated into several languages and in 2019 won Australia’s biggest literary prize for fiction. Elise is also an award-winning indie film producer and script consultant. Her latest work is The Happy Writing Book, an inspirational guide to creative writing and wellbeing, fuelled by her 20+ years of experience as writer-teacher.
Beth Miller is the author of six novels, the most recent of which, The Woman Who Came Back to Life (2022), will be published in six languages. She has also published two non-fiction books: For the Love of Shakespeare (2016) and For The Love of The Archers (new edition out in 2022). She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brighton University, and teaches creative writing at various places including for Arvon. She also works as a writing mentor and book coach.
They f*** you up, your mum and dad
This year’s Masterclass session is ‘They f*** you up, your mum and dad: Writing about dysfunctional families’ and will be given by the novelist Beth Miller. Suitable for both new and practised writers, this intimate session will see Beth explore how to construct family dysfunction and the impact it has on characters. Through this workshop, writers will gain a better understanding of how to realistically present dysfunctional families in a way beneficial to their stories!
Working with a selection of exciting contemporary works by authors from Deborah Levy to Caleb Azumah Nelson, Michael Donkor will take you through lively creative exercises. These will help enrich, deepen and animate moments when your characters are involved in complex self-reflection.
Question and Answer Session
Panel – Conveying Identity
The subject of ‘identity’ is both factual and elusive. It intertwines social constructs and ideology with how one chooses to represent their self both on a personal level and in a wider societal context. But how do writers tie these debates around identity within their creative work? What can words, characters and story say about these conversations about what makes us individual but also what makes us human? Join us for this exciting panel where poets and YA authors come together to discuss the poignancy of this in their work and their experiences of the world.
Dara Kalima, also known as The Community Poet, is a Bronx, NY resident who started writing at 9, dedicated herself to the craft at 16, and locked into her voice at 25. She holds both a BA and MA in theater. She is the founder of Black Authors Collaborative and serves as vice president of Poetix University, an international home for all poets. She co-hosts Word2Wordz a monthly poetry focused podcast. Kalima has performed on stages across New York and made her international debut in 2018 when performing in Scotland. She has also performed her poetry Off-Broadway. Kalima explores the concepts of love, equality, and healing all through lived experiences and personal observations. She has authored four books, Black Man, Black Woman, Black Child (2015), Casualty of Love (2017), Two X Chromosomes with an Extra Shot of Melanin (2019) and Still Laughin’ (2021).
Joelle Taylor won the T. S. Eliot Award in 2022 with C+NTO & OTHERED POEMS. Prior to the pandemic, she completed a world tour with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, a poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre; and the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press.
Ella McLeod is a writer, poet, performer. She graduated first in her year at Warwick University. She won Shoot From The Lip spoken word poetry competition in 2017 and has since worked as a spoken word poet and actress, and as an Assistant Producer for Somethin’ Else, now part of Sony Music Entertainment. Ella also created and narrated Celina and the Spider, a series of three family-friendly storytime sessions with HOME Manchester. She is a proud South Londoner and lives in Peckham with her partner, Michael, and their cat, HRH Princess Persephone. She loves Hwa ramyun noodles, romantic faerie fiction, big dresses, Shakespeare and poetry from the Harlem renaissance. She has 14 tattoos. Her debut novel Rapunzella, or, Don’t Touch My Hair, will be published in July 2022.
Panel – Psychology of the Self and the Author
The self is somewhat a psychological entity which can be studied, unpicked and understood. Why do we do the things we do as people and how can past events affect who we are today? As writers, a part of our ‘self’ tends to be involved with any creative work we produce. Why is that? How do we choose which parts of our self to explore and how does being an ‘author’ create a whole separate part of the self to explore in connection to our work? Join us as we delve into the works of three wonderful writers who explore the representation of the self in many forms, and how they explore their connection to the theme as authors.
Sunny Singh is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at the London Metropolitan University.
She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels Nani’s Book of Suicides (2000), With Krishna’s Eyes (2006) and Hotel Arcadia (2015), as well as Single in the City: The Independent Woman’s Handbook (2001), a groundbreaking exploration of single women in contemporary India, and Amitabh Bachchan (2017), a pioneering academic study of the Indian superstar.
Her essays, short stories, book chapters and columns are published worldwide in key journals, anthologies and media outlets. She is the founder and director of annually awarded Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize and the Jhalak Art Residency. Singh is currently finalising a collection of short stories examining aspects of armed conflict over the past century as well as a monograph on Indian cinema. In her various roles, Singh is a champion for inclusion across all aspects of society, advocating an intersectional, decolonising approach to building radical global solidarities. In her various roles, Singh is a champion for inclusion across all aspects of society, advocating an intersectional, decolonising approach to building radical global solidarities.
Julia Armfield is a fiction writer with a Master’s in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. She lives and works in London with her girlfriend who is fine and their cat who is garbage. Her work has been published in Granta, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon Magazine and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Prize 2018 and was the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. Her debut collection, salt slow, was published by Picador in May 2019, and by Flatiron in the US. salt slow was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020 and was shortlisted for the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction 2020. Her story ‘Longshore Drift’ won a Pushcart Prize in 2020.
Lauren Foley (she/her) is Irish/Australian and bisexual. Her stories are published internationally. She has Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and is chronically ill and disabled; the majority of her writing is dictated. In 2016, her story ‘K-K-K’ won the inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize with Overland Literary Journal and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year in 2017; and nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Lauren was awarded a prestigious Next Generation Artist’s Award in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2018, and subsequent Artist’s bursaries. She is the recipient of two Varuna Fellowships, two Tyrone Guthrie Residencies and a Cill Rialaig Residency. Her creative nonfiction piece ‘I Don’t’ is published in, The Art of the Glimpse, 100 Irish Short Stories, ed. Sinéad Gleeson. She won the 2021 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, nonfiction category. Lauren’s debut short story collection—Polluted Sex—is published by Influx Press.
Panel – Creating Brand Identity
Angela Szczepaniak is the author of The Nerves Centre, Unisex Love Poems (an illustrated novel-in-poems), and The QWERTY Institute (visual fictions), which details the lives, inks, and deep-C adventures of a variety of fonts as they wade through awkward social situations. She is a Lecturer and Programme Director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.
Lunchtime Readings on Narrative
Our Lunchtime Readings session returns this year with work from some exciting authors. Masterclass session runner, Beth Miller and Brand Identity panelist Dr Stephen Mooney will be treating us to a reading from their works with a Q&A. This will take place alongside a middle section involving Surrey’s own Distinguished Writer in Residence Neel Mukherjee who will be in conversation with fellow writer and teacher Paul Vlitos.
Reading High Salvage
Reading High Salvage
The much-loved Open Mic will be returning for SNWF 2022, this time chaired by the brilliant Sharron Green! All writers and writing enthusiasts are welcome to join us again this year to share their work, and to hear from other authors of all calibres from around the world. Sign up by clicking here!
The Surrey New Writers Festival is an annual event run by the University of Surrey’s School Literature & Languages (SLL).
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This is an INSTANT DOWNLOAD of a set of 2 matching prints of the timeless and iconic Eulychnia Desert Cactus featuring soft shades of moss and mint greens that I photographed in a garden I was exploring.
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Celebrating 40 Years Dedicated to the Free Flow of Information
Frank D. LoMonte
Director, Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
We should be living in a renaissance era of public regard for government transparency. Hollywood recently presented its most prestigious Academy Award to a film, “Spotlight,” that reaches its dramatic crescendo with a judge’s decision to unseal a court file. Access to public records exposed the Flint, Mich., water-contamination crisis and brought trigger-happy police officers to justice in Chicago.
And we should be living at the height of cheap and instantaneous access to information, with the digitization of vast warehouses of public knowledge, and communications transitioning from paper to instantly reproducible electronic messages, spreadsheets and databases. Information that once took weeks to retrieve from warehouses straight out of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” now lives in a universally accessible cloud.
That these promises are as-yet unrealized is the unfinished mission of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, which this year celebrates four decades of service to the cause of liberating civically useful information for the public good.
As the nation’s preeminent academic think-tank dedicated to the public’s right-to-know, the Brechner Center has the responsibility of thought leadership toward modernizing the culture of government to match its technological capabilities. It’s not enough that, in the oft-quoted words of futurist Steve Brand, information wants to be free. The people who hold the information under lock-and-key must want it to be free.
With fewer “learned intermediaries” to bring the public essential civic information, information must be pushed out to citizens directly, as well as to strapped news organizations that no longer reliably can yank it out.
Since the demoralizing 2016 election campaign in which “fake news” entered the popular vocabulary, tens of millions of dollars have poured into New York and Washington, D.C., to fortify an embattled news industry against incursions on fundamental press freedoms. That’s important and valuable. But the news that most affects people’s daily lives doesn’t happen inside the beltway. It happens in Topeka and Tallahassee, in courthouses and school-board chambers, where secrecy too often persists unchallenged. Serving journalism’s “99 percent,” the thinning ranks of information providers whose watchfulness makes a functioning democracy possible, is our enduring mission at Brechner.
It is not enough just to study, document and publicize these problems. The Brechner Center commits itself to developing pro-transparency public-policy solutions and bringing together stakeholders to create positive change.
In accepting the 1965 Alfred I. duPont Foundation award for his prescient commentaries on racial injustice, broadcaster Joseph L. Brechner, for whom the Center is named, delivered remarks that could have been written today, as America’s news infrastructure faces existential threats from outside and within.
“Freedom spoils without its use. The right of criticism, protests and debate is a cherished American heritage. Intelligent free men have a right and responsibility to speak freely; and silence or neutrality of opinion in times of vital issues may be as great a danger to the perpetuation of our democracy as any external or internal subversion.”
Entering our fifth decade of public service, we at the Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the late Mr. Brechner’s charge, to ensure that all Americans can effectively participate in self-governance and feel empowered to do so.
To mark the Brechner Center’s 40th anniversary, we asked some distinguished alumni who’ve come through the Center’s doors across the decades to contribute to a “virtual symposium.” We invited them to address (1) the place of the Brechner Center in the history of the open-government movement, or (2) a contemporary access issue on which informed leadership can move public policy in a favorable direction. You’ll see in the accompanying essay series that there is neither a shortage of challenges nor a scarcity of thoughtful leaders within the extended Brechner Center family dedicated to meeting them. | <urn:uuid:95f6bf9c-5c4f-48de-8184-c3d6ec6b32cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://brechner.org/brechner-home-2/40th-anniversary/40-anniversary-intro/ | 2022-10-05T05:22:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337537.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005042446-20221005072446-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.918814 | 896 | [
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A bisexual woman has released video of the homophobic abuse she says she endured when she was targeted at her home.
Dannie Andreeva, a 20-year-old media arts student at Plymouth University, has shared a video of the encounter she had on her doorstep.
She says a religious man knocked on her door to air his views about people who are gay.
To her horror she was told it is fine to be gay until you act it out and then it’s a sin, and being gay is just as bad as stealing, lying and cheating.
It is the second time Dannie says she has had the man knock on her door.
She does not know who the man is or which church he belongs to, and has not reported the incident to the police.
However, she hopes by putting what happened to her on Facebook it will make people more aware of the prejudice the LGBT community still encounter and the hate it spreads.
Dannie said: “The more people who hear about this the better because this person is going around in my neighbourhood spreading this view of his religion.
”It’s horrible to think that someone can represent so much of a religion with so much hatred in him.
“He first came to my door last year and was speaking about his views of being gay, and said being gay is like having a bad microchip.
“I didn’t tell him I was bisexual, but I did say I wasn’t comfortable with him being at my door.
“I then went away to university and I’ve come back and on Thursday at about 4pm he was back again with another man who was very quiet.
“I don’t know if he was knocking on every door but I decided it was the right time to pick him up on his views, and this time I filmed the conversation.”
After airing his views, she said he then tried to show how he was accepting of gay people.
Dannie said: “He said, ‘this morning I saw a lesbian and said hi to her’. What an honourable gesture you did; do you need to be appraised?
“It’s also the fact he only refers to her as a lesbian like you wouldn’t say ‘oh so today I said hello to a straight person’. We need to stop labelling people.
“Accepting someone’s love shouldn’t be defined by whether or not they’re attracted to the same sex. And it certainly doesn’t give anyone the right to say what is right and wrong with you.
“This nit picking and hatred needs to stop right now. Your self-love and acceptance is more valuable standing against any comment out there.”
Dannie has also highlighted the reaction the LGBT community endures during one of her university modules.
A GoPro camera attached to a friend who was following her was used to show the reaction she and her girlfriend received while walking through the streets of Plymouth holding hands.
She said: “What we captured was some people looking like they had been personally offended while other we caught smirking, pointing and things like that.”
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I don’t think professional copywriting is expensive.
But I would say that, wouldn’t I?
Many see it as an optional extra to their business’s marketing strategy, but it’s essential.
I think the problem most people have is that writing is something everyone can do. But that doesn’t mean you can write commercially.
Several years ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who was high up in a local shipping company. While discussing copywriting, he said ‘why would I need you to write about my business when I know it better than you do?’
He hit the nail on the head: ‘…I know it better than you do’ is the exact reason for using a professional copywriter.
Writing from the outside
When you’re in a company, it’s challenging to remove your corporate blinkers and see what you do from a customer’s perspective.
You’re too hung up on what you do and how great you are at it to consider for one moment what your service or product means to your customer.
As a result, all your marketing materials shout about your company, and none give a hoot about your customer.
That’s why they don’t bring you in the return you want.
OK, using a copywriter will increase your costs, but what does that matter when your website and marketing materials bring in extra business? Copywriting is an investment, not an expense.
But why does it cost so much?
Getting back to the elephant in the room, professional copywriting is expensive.
However, there is an excellent reason for that.
On top of the experience and expertise you’re hiring, the initial draft you see is not the first one written.
Every word has been considered and re-considered to make sure it’s right. The sentences have been written and re-written until they create the perfect effect. Your industry would have been researched within an inch of its life to make sure your content and message stand out. The needs of your customers have been probed and the benefits you offer investigated to the eighth degree.
Copywriting is a painstaking business that only another copywriter can appreciate.
So remember, when that initial draft hits your desk, it’s not the result of ten minutes of work.
Instead, it reflects years of experience, hours of research and days of writing and re-writing until its perfect in every way.
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Rosewood Apartments, Haridwar
The Rosewood Service apartments are designed keeping in mind the concept of a home away from home. The intent was to create a development with 44 all-in-one rooms, with all appropriate facilities including a self-sufficient pantry. Designed in a manner, that the ground floor is completely dedicated to common activities, as a result, the upper floors have absolute privacy. There are multiple common facilities such as the conference room, library, TV room, gym & also a restaurant. Each space has been designed for interiors as per its functionality. The reception area has been designed to ensure that the visitor/ guest are comfortable with substantial seating space along with a pleasing ambience. Evoking an Indian ethos, at the entrance, the traditional tree of life pattern is crafted in laser-cut jaali. Amalgamating this with a more contemporary notion of arts and crafts, a customized 3-dimensional artwork offsets the entry space, behind the reception table. The restaurant has been designed keeping in mind the multi-purpose use of the space as it could be also used for banqueting. It has plenty of natural light and the use of bright colors in the fabric add brightness to the room. The conference room is designed to be more formal, with the furniture design to be flexible for multiple types of arrangements. The interiors of the rooms are designed to be reminiscent of home styling and are laid out in three different types of configurations – twin room, double room and suites. Each room is brightly done up with high ceilings and large windows that bring in ample daylight. The contemporary interiors include a combination of wooden & tile flooring and a complete modular kitchen equipped with all appliances. Further, through use of wall paper, painting and lamps, the room gets augmented with warmth and character.
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Payment processor develops comprehensive business management tool for agents and independent sales organizations (ISOs)
PHILADELPHIA (June 10, 2013) — CardConnect™, a fast-growing payment processing company that helps more than 50,000 U.S. businesses accept billions of dollars in transactions each year, today launched CoPilot, a business management tool for independent sales organizations (ISOs) and agents.
“CoPilot brings every aspect of running a successful, growing ISO to each agent’s fingertips,” said Angelo Grecco, Senior Vice President, ISO Sales at CardConnect. “It can be accessed virtually from any device – desktop or mobile – and provides one place to track everything in your portfolio, from merchant application processing to risk monitoring, reporting and customer service.”
CoPilot offers the following features:
- Online Application with Digital Signature – New merchant applications can be filled out, submitted and signed online. Merchant processing applications are available for all First Data platforms, including Omaha, Nashville, Cardnet, Memphis and North.
- Interactive Reporting Module – Our reporting system allows ISOs to monitor their sales office’s production through various performance metrics as well as view consolidated settlements, deposits and statements for their entire merchant portfolio, regardless of the First Data platform used.
- Transparent and Customizable Residual Reporting System – Often a complicated and tiresome process, Residual Reporting through CoPilot provides ISOs an easily digestible look at their – and their agents’ – monthly residuals.
- User-Administration Dashboard to Control Employees’ Access – CoPilot allows ISOs to control which modules their employees can access, ensuring complete privacy and organization of merchant sales teams.
- CardConnect CRM – Targets and leads can be tracked before agents even start a merchant application. Once a merchant application is submitted, agents can then track as it flows through the approval process.
- Risk Monitoring – Agents can view chargebacks, losses and ACH-transfer rejections in real-time.
- Real-Time Authorization Data from CardConnect Gateway – Access authorization data flowing through the CardConnect Gateway for real-time transactional information.
- Customer Service Ticketing Center – Through an automated ticketing center, agents can handle merchants’ requests on the spot and reduce the time it takes to resolve issues.
- Ability to Private Label CoPilot for Registered ISOs – CoPilot can be branded to any ISO’s name, colors and graphics. The CardConnect Brand Center allows ISOs and agents to access logos, templates, customizable sales sheets and brand guidelines online.
CardConnect (www.cardconnect.com) is a full-service provider of electronic payment technology and processing services for merchants, independent sales organizations (ISOs) and financial institutions. It helps more than 50,000 businesses across the U.S. accept billions of dollars in bank card transactions each year. CardConnect offers a comprehensive line of solutions for credit and debit cards, gift cards, electronic check conversion, verification and guarantee, as well as terminal services, online Payment Gateway Solutions, ERP Integration and PCI Compliance. Founded in 2006, CardConnect is one of the 10 largest independent sales organizations (ISOs) of First Data Merchant Services, the world’s largest electronic payment processor. | <urn:uuid:6451b294-8481-440a-9968-26eb8ac5c109> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.cardconnect.com/media/cardconnect-announces-launch-of-copilot | 2014-04-16T08:02:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609521558.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005201-00013-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899512 | 698 | [
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By Chaz Kangas
By Katherine Turman
By Phillip Mlynar
By Harley Oliver Brown
By Abdullah "T Kid" Saeed
By Matt Caputo
By Devon Maloney
By Chris Chafin
Rawkus Records, which built a niche nurturing rap acts with small, loyal followings like Company Flow and Sir Menelik, is supposed to be a bulwark against the materially obsessed, dumbed-down styles that rule radio. But who wants to stay underground forever? Certainly not Rawkus, now approaching full throttle in its effort to package "independent" hip-hop for mainstream audiences. Where a year ago it figured that Mos Def would replace Co Flow's El P and remain Rawkus's franchise player for the foreseeable future, some of his thunder has been stolen by the stunning popularity of Pharoahe Monch's "Simon Says," a hit in the Funkmaster Flex and Tunnel territory normally owned by the DMXs and Mobb Deeps. It's a triumphant hour for independent hip-hop, and a decisive one. As is clear from the two artists' solo debuts, Monch's Internal Affairsand Mos Def's Black on Both Sides, the tension between art and commerce, between hip-hop as meal ticket and Zen-like way of life, is as pervasive as ever, even within the same family.
Over three albums with Organized Konfusion, Monch developed a reputation as one of the game's elite "verbal cinematographers," so good he made stuttering sound fresh. But frustrated by "selling wood in the hood," as he puts it in "Simon Says," Monch aimed his solo project toward the streets, and aided by the endorsement of Busta Rhymes, scored a surprise hit. The rest of Internal Affairscompletes Monch's hardrock makeover: "No Mercy," featuring the criminally ignored M.O.P.; "The Ass," a playful battle of the sexes with Apani B; and another potential Tunnel buster, the bouncy, kinetic Busta Rhymes duet "Next Shit." While Monch's transformation into a commercial MC violates his inadvertent underdog image, his kamikaze cadence and thematic inventiveness remain intact. The extended sports metaphor "Official" is vintage Pharoahe, with references both obvious and sneaky ("not a Wolverine, but still hold claws like Chamique"), but the best one is on "Right Here," where he warns, "you get ate twice like Lynn Swann" (get it? 8 twice?). If there's not as much of the Monch diehards have come to expect, it's because being a hero wasn't paying the bills. At the end of the day, he's just Troy from Southside Queens: "I'm saying, god, I'm just trying to eat." On this mostly self-produced album, he cashed in, but he did it his way.
Perhaps because he's already paying the bills, Mos Def feels freer to break with industry formula, and Black on Both Sidesis as challenging-and rewarding-a debut as hip-hop has seen in years. Think of it as an answer to Lauryn Hill's Miseducation. Both albums teach love, but where the bulk of Hill's lessons begin in the intimate realms of heartbreak and betrayal, Black on Both Sidesfocuses on the political and spiritual health of Mos Def's intertwined communities. He opens by asking: "If hip-hop is about the people and hip-hop won't get better until the people get better, then how do the people get better?" The underground presumption that something is wrong with hip-hop is controversial enough in these heady times of platinum sales, but Def's answer is the real kicker: a sweeping manifesto of unconditional love for self, Black history, the Black community, his beloved Brooklyn, and especially hip-hop culture. Like Baldwin, Def believes that "the inability to love is the central problem" facing humanity at the end of the century. That's why the L-word appears more often here than on any other hip-hop album this side of P.M. Dawn.
Not that loving gets in the way of being an ill MC. An actor who's appeared in Spin City, Visa, commercials, and the forthcoming feature film Where's Marlowe?, Def commands an exceptionally versatile flow, to the point where he'll slip into someone else's style for a while, and he has a sense of the dramatic that never slips into bombast. Moreover, he's aware of enough of his audience to give the people a little of what they want as well as lots of what they need. In between the experimental Gil Scott-Heron? and Roy Ayers?style soul jazz meditations "Um," "Love," and "Climb," Def includes some treats for the casual fan. There's a Hot 97?ready duet with Busta called "Do It Now," a "Brooklyn" tribute that nods to Biggie by jacking the "Who Shot Ya?" instrumental, and an ode to a sexy Taurus. But even in "Ms. Fat Booty," Def's good home training shines through-it's the down-low hound underneath the poet's exterior who gets humped and dumped in the end. "Rock and Roll" is the track that people are most likely to love or hate, due to its strident reclamation of the rock tradition in "Black" music and vice versa ("I am rock and roll they just ain't let you know"). I love it for saying John Coltrane is rock and roll, for bigging up Bad Brains and Fishbone, and yes, for that Minor Threat impersonation in the third movement.
Moves like that drive A&Rs nutter, but they're also the stuff of greatness. Cuckolded by indifference to his more experimental efforts, Monch played it safe and won-for now. It'll be interesting to see, in a year or five, which is the more esteemed album. I'll bet on Black. | <urn:uuid:dc5cf9f9-e68e-42e0-94cd-1438ff65412d> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-11-09/music/mos-testifies-monch-eats/ | 2014-04-16T10:04:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609521558.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005201-00013-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968865 | 1,254 | [
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EDIT: I have made a lot of corrections for this pattern, I hope that will solve any issues people have been experiencing.
This is a long title I know, but it says what it is. My second ever pattern. Again it's a simple flat knit arm warmer pattern using the supple rib, but I really didn't know what else to do with the yarn. I used 2 balls of the knitpicks "shine and twist" in grass, I'm not a green fan (yeah, why did I buy this yarn?) but I love the ribbing and the way the yarn really shows off the stitches.
Once again, people are free to use the pattern for personal or non-profit use.
Done in supple rib pattern.
K1 = Knit one
SI1 = k next stitch, but don't slip it off the left needle, then purl same st and next st tog
size 4 needles
size 5 needles (optional for loose bind off)
2 balls of Knitpicks, shine and twist (60% Pima Cotton, 40% Modal) 110 yards/50 grams ball
Gauge: 6 sts per Inch on size 4 needles
The following pattern is knit in the flat. HOWEVER, it could easily be adapted to knit in the round (no sewing or nasty joins to worry about). Just cast on maybe 45 or 48 stitches and knit the pattern in the round. Just remember that row 2 would be knit instead of purl, and you will still need to make a hole for the thumb (where you could turn the knitting and knit flat for the length needed for the thumb - approx 2", then rejoin the knitting in the round for another inch and cast off). I have not tested this in the round so I do not take responsibility for any knitting disasters, if anyone has suggestions for the round pattern, let me know.
PLEASE NOTE, this is SI1 (si1) instruction - see key above. NOT to be confused with SL1 (sl1, slip one)
Row 1 (right side): K1, *SI1, K1; rep from * to end
Row 2: Purl
CO 52 sts.
Rows 1-12: K in supple rib for 12 rows (6 repeats of pattern)
Row 13: K1, *SI1, K1; rep from * to end
Row 14: Next row P2tog, P to last 2 sts, P2tog (50 sts)
Row 15: *SI1, K1; rep from * to last 2 sts then SI1.
Row 16: P2tog, P to last 2 sts, P2tog. (48 sts)
Rows 17, 19, 21, 23, 25: K 1 *SI1, K1; repeat from * to last 2 sts; then SI1
Rows 18, 20, 22, 24: Purl
Row 26: P2tog, Purl to last 2 sts, P2tog (46)
Rows 27, 29, 31, 33, 35: *SI1, K1; repeat from *; then K1
Rows 28, 30, 32, 34: Purl
Rows 36: p2tog, purl to last 2 sts, p2tog (44)
Row 37: K1, *SI1, K1; rep from * to last st, K1
Row 38: Purl
Rep rows 37 and 38 until piece measures approx 10 inches, cast off loosely, I use size 5 needles.
Sew up edge leaving a 2" gap where you want your thumb (try it on to check), I put the gap about 1" from the top.
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One of my friends has the Hamann front lip, it actually looks really good. It came with his car when he bought it and I have no idea where you can find one. They're not even listing e36 products on the Hamann site any more.
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I'm a little late to the party, as usual, but this is a topic that means something to me. I'm sure you've all seen the countless posts around our writing blogoshpere about the gentleman, Wesley Scroggins, who would like to see Laurie Halse Anderson's novel, Speak, banned from public schools in his state, Missouri.
Before I go on please take a look at Laurie's own post, here.
I'm not going to go into the specifics of why he thinks the book is filthy and immoral, or why he calls two scenes containing sexual abuse "softcore porn", partly because I haven't read the book but also partly because it doesn't even matter to me what this book is about. Okay, it does matter a little, because from what I hear it is a powerful, poignant and important story, especially for young women, of which I am raising two. But I don't want to get into any of that. I just want to talk about banning books and censorship in general.
Censorship is a bit like diet pills. It doesn't work, and when it is carried out it does more harm than good. At least it does to society, though it can be very good for sales. I would now like to list some books that were at one time banned. I'm only going to include books that I have actually read because I would like to illustrate how important a book can be in a person's life.
1984 - George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Ulysses - James Joyce
And last but certainly not least:
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Think about the irony of that last one for a second. A book about not only banning, but actually burning books. And they wanted to ban it. Hell someone somewhere probably burned it.
Now take a look at the entire list - there are obviously other great classics that people tried to ban, but these are the important ones that I have read - think about what our lives would be like without these novels. It's difficult to fathom.
I left comments on every blog I saw that talked about SPEAK this week. The point I tried to make was that banning books doesn't work. You may as well try to ban knowledge. It is my humble opinion that literacy and literature are both basic human rights. I allow both my daughters to read any book they find an interest in. If I am concerned about the content I make sure to read that book myself, so that we can discuss it together, as a family. If my daughter wanted to read Lolita I would be a little concerned about where she heard of it, and why she was curious about the story, but I would not forbid her to read it. She is 14 so I might try to encourage her to wait a few years, until she would be able to understand it better, but I would not forbid it.
It is our current culture of fear, abstinence and censorship that gives real power to the evils of the world. Hermione Granger said it rather well when she said fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. Rape, incest, and sexual abuse such as what occurs in Speak, or takes place in Lolita, or in countless other novels do exist in real life. They are terrible things, sometimes destroying people's lives for good. But to pretend they don't exist, to sweep them under the carpet as if your child's bible study group, and her crucifix and her willingness to practice abstinence are going to protect her from all harm is the epitome of ignorance.
There are horrible things and horrible people out there in our world, in our society. To pretend that they don't exist, or to be unwilling to acknowledge them only lends more power to the vice grip of control they hold over good and decent people.
I would like to say to mister Wesley Scroggins and to the school board of the county in which he lives: please don't ban Speak. Please don't ban any books, whether they cover tough topics that make parents uncomfortable around their kids or simply have some fun fantasy story elements that contain the black magic known as witchcraft, don't censor them. Please just make sure that any child who does read these books and has tough questions about their topics doesn't have to find an answer to them alone. It takes a village.
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This isn’t really news. But the fact that, for some reason, it is news makes it news to me. You feel me? Tom Cruise is happy! Yea! Why is there a story on that? Why did his friend and Rock of Ages director, Adam Shankman, need to tell a newspaper that? In the past Tom has had no problem letting the world know his happiness levels (remember the couch episode?). So either Tom is most definitely ecstatic to have the Katie Holmes years behind him or he’s trying to repair his crazy ass image. His last movie tanked. He’s finishing up with All You Need is Kill. Oblivion should be coming out soon. If those two movies bomb is Tom’s career finally over?
I guess not if he’s happy.
“They are incredibly happy,” Shankman said. “I’ve just been emailing with him. He’s coming back. He’s shooting in London and seems as happy as a clam. I know he sees his daughter. Katie seems really happy. You just fight through all the noise. And it’s noisy.“
Oh, so I get it now. Tom Cruise is happy again AND he sees Suri Cruise. Even though she’s papped in NYC every day with her mom he still sees her, OK? Skype should not be disregarded as a valuable parenting tool!
I’m just messing with you Tommy. I’m sure this little reassurance from Shankman has nothing to do with the Life & Style lawsuit that’s going on right now. The one we all hope gets nice and dirty so we can listen in on all the spilled secrets. But I have no doubt Tom Cruise is just cruisin’ along. It’s what he does. Ever since the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes’ split he’s worked like crazy so I doubt he’s given himself time to even recognize the fact that he’s alone again. Let’s see how happy he is when he’s at home with nothing to do. Or do you think Scientology will have a new wife for him by then? Is that what this crazy filming schedule is? Is it just keeping him busy and buying him time until the next one comes along? Sounds about right to me.
Is Tom Cruise happy or is he just saving face? Can he recover if these upcoming movies fail?
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Price is always a variable when it comes to developing a website for our clients. We do a lot of work for small businesses and all small businesses have budget constraints that make them sensitive to every dollar that they have to spend.
Because the cost of a website can vary so much, it is helpful to identify the items that can raise the price, before getting into the specifics. If your goal is to keep costs down, you need to consider the following:
Content Management Systems
A content management system (CMS) is software that allows you, the website owner, to make edits to your website without the help of a website development expert. A good CMS is important for websites that need a lot of updating. If your site will remain relatively static, you can do without a CMS. If that's the case, you might be able to save money by opting out of a CMS, but it may cost money down the road when you look to update your website.
All websites need to be hosted, which simply means that you need to rent server space so that your website is visible online. Hosting is now cheaper than ever and a good mid-range, small website hosting plan can cost between $20 and $60 per month, depending on a few variables. You can go as cheap as $5 a month, but quality can suffer when you go that low. Take into account hosting costs before you move forward with the development of a website.
When you combine some operational elements of your business with your online presence, you can save a ton of money. For example, if you pay $100 a month for time-clock software and your website development team can add that feature to your website for $600, you have saved $600 for the year and you have consolidated your software so you only have to use one service instead of two.
These are not the only areas that can contribute to pricing. Don't be afraid to ask your website development team about other ways that they can help your business save money.
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After two years of helping out with the Southeast Showdown in Anderson, South Carolina, at the Anderson County Fairgrounds, John and Allison Fulmer decided to take over the show's third annual gathering. A few days before the show, two hurricanes threatened to hit Florida on the same day and make their way up the East Coast - straight for the show site. It was possible that this could ruin the turnout but, fortunately, didn't affect it at all. On Friday, the second hurricane hit Florida hard, and luckily for the show, the storm's path tracked to the east of the venue.
Saturday morning started out rainy, but cleared up before 10 a.m., which worked out well because this was about the time the competitors started showing up. Once the rain had quit, the weather was perfect for checking out the nearly 300 rides that showed up from all over the region. After the day events wound down, the DJ announced that the night events were starting around dark at Twisted Metal Works, a custom shop right behind the show grounds. The DJ continued the party well into the night as people made a few passes to see who could throw the most sparks. They had a cover charge for this after party, but it included the cost of food, drinks, and beer.
Sunday's events started out with cloudy skies and wind that stayed around for most of the day. The conditions kept the heat down and kept sunburns from getting worse. Weather wise, the show went well considering one of the year's biggest storms was moving up the East Coast. After all the awards were done and the Best Truck Award was handed out to David Burke for his S-10 Blazer with a polished motor and a full patent leather interior, John and Allison began discussing how to make the '05 show better.
Plans for the '05 show have already been made; this time the show will be held before hurricane season. The dates have been set for July 23 and 24, 2005 and will be back at the fairgrounds. But be prepared. The show will be even more packed with things to do. For more information, check out www.southeastshow down.com or e-mail [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:87fc8ace-f6b1-4c3f-88b9-51d3503508c1> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.minitruckinweb.com/events/south/0509mt_2004_southeast_showdown/ | 2014-04-19T02:36:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535745.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00077-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978255 | 449 | [
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The Assemblage of Cheating: How to Study Cheating as Imbroglio in MMORPGs.
The Fibreculture Journal, 16.
In this paper we ask the question, how can we define cheating in Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)? It is important to clarify immediately that what is at stake here is the way we study the phenomenon of cheating, how we conceptualise it and how we research it in MMORPGs. In particular, the focus is the difference between defining, or reducing, a phenomenon to its essential traits as opposed to defining it on the basis of the process that has generated it (see for discussions Latour, 1987 and 2005; Lash, 2002; DeLanda, 2002 and 2006). The rationale behind the opening research question is that much of the literature has defined cheating in online games via a restricted set of essential traits: in particular, as the player(s) actions that modify the game to obtain unfair advantages over other players. On the contrary, we propose that cheating should be conceptualised as what unfolds – the result(s) – from the empirical interrelations of several elements that compose MMORPGs, and not just from player behaviour. We provide a new perspective on cheating in MMORPGs, which suggests that cheating is the result of a dynamic process and interrelations between a range of elements.
In this paper, we study cheating by using the concept of assemblage as proposed by DeLanda (2002 and 2006), following Deleuze and Guattari (1987). This concept takes a realist stance emphasising that social and natural phenomena should be conceptualised as the dynamic result of the empirical and historical relations among empirical elements, rather than thorough listing their essential traits or making timeless classifications. In this paper we analyse the following elements of MMORPGs and their relationships (but we are aware that the list is not necessarily conclusive): the game architecture, the game code and the game legal documents. Moreover, we focus on how these elements are interleaved with players, games companies and also companies offering cheating solutions. For us, cheating in MMORPGs possesses a mobile and permeable boundary where these different elements, and the players and companies strategies embedded in them, compete and / or cooperate – always in some form of relations with each other – in the process of stabilising or destabilising what is cheating in MMORPGs. We support this proposition by mainly providing empirical examples from ongoing research of the online game Tibia (http://www.tibia.com), a 2D, medieval fantasy MMORPG developed and distributed by CipSoft, since 1997. Tibia has an estimated 300,000 players and is played on more than 70 servers in Germany and the USA.
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BEREA, Ohio -- Jimmy Haslam didn't sound like a man ready to blow up the whole Browns organization the minute he takes over for Randy Lerner during his introductory press conference.
The team's new owner, who spoke for about 25 minutes in Berea today, complimented team President Mike Holmgren several times, referring to him as a "future Hall of Famer'' and a football legend.
"I sense there is a strong feeling here that Mike and the team have things headed in the right direction,'' he said. "I think we have to listen, learn and observe...I think they'll be successful over time.''
Haslam also said, "There's no reason this can't be a winning franchise. Everything is here. If they don't, I'll accept the blame. It's our fault we didn't execute like we should. Every other piece is in place.''
Haslam, who stood throughout the press conference, addressed a number of other topics during the session:
• He'll go to Family Night at the Stadium on Wednesday so he can meet fans. "I think it's important to be there,'' he said.
• He also said he'll probably sit in the stands for the first exhibition game.
• He said he'll probably sell naming rights to the stadium and that the winning culture of the team is more than just logos and colors.
• He said he first heard that a team was coming available in May. He was "fired up" when he found out later it was Browns.
• He said both Randy Lerner and Norma Lerner called him after the deal was complete.
• He said the first owner that called him was Robert Kraft, who invited him to New England to learn everything about the business. He told the Plain Dealer he'll take Kraft up on his offer and go to New England next week to get started.
• He said, "We're 100 percent committed to making the Browns a winner again. I understand the spirit of the city rises and falls with how the Browns do and it's our job to keep it up.''
• Cavs owner Dan Gilbert tweeted: "Welcome J. Haslam to Cleveland...you will not find a more loyal and passionate fan base anywhere. Stay close to them.'
• On his goal: "We have one mission and one mission only -- to bring winning back to Cleveland.
• On Lerner: "I've developed a very close relationship with Randy. His mother Norma called me this morning to congratulate us. I can't say enough nice things about the Lerner family and Randy.''
• He said he had lunch with coach Pat Shurmur today and can sense the excitement everyone has in the building. During practice, he talked to a number of players, including Brandon Weeden, Colt McCoy, Trent Richardson and D'Qwell Jackson.
• He told Richardson, who's Alabama team was an SEC rival of Haslam's beloved Tennessee, "I'm glad you're on my team now.''
• On whether the approval vote will happen sooner than the Oct. 16-17 owners meeting in Chicago: "I have no idea. I’ve heard speculation it could happen sooner, but in our minds it will happen when the regular league vote happens in October and we’re going to focus that way.''
• On splitting time between here and Knoxville, Tenn. "Our main home will be in Knoxville. (His wife) Dee is leaving as soon as the press conference is over to go look at homes here in Cleveland. We’ll split our time between Knoxville and Cleveland. I’m still going to be CEO of Pilot Flying J, it’s a big company and I spend a pretty good amount of time running that. We’ll take whatever time necessary in Cleveland to do two things, one to bring a winner back here and number two, to become part of the Cleveland community.''
• On his takeaway from being a minority owner of the Steelers: "Even though I understand the rivalry between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, I get it. Our main goal is to return that to a real rivalry. The Rooneys are everything you’ve ever heard and read that they are. They’re class people, they do things right.
"I take no credit for the four years that we were there, but two Super Bowls, won one, playoffs three years, and they do things the right way. They have the Steeler way of doing things; we will now have the Browns way of doing things. They build through the draft. Those are the things I’ve learned there. I’ll also say this, I have absolutely no trouble wearing orange and brown now. I took my Steeler watch off yesterday and put my Browns watch on today. We’re fired up.
"Art and I talked yesterday and we’ll remain good friends. The last thing he says is, ‘I’m going to have to learn to hate you on Sundays.''
• On making football decisions: "I think it will be a learning curve. (Holmgren) won a Super Bowl and he's going to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's a legend. I'll ask a lot questions and learn it first. I'm a believer in collective wisdom. Five sitting people sitting around the table is better than four.''
• On naming rights and other culture changes: "Will we have naming rights? Probably at some time. Will we change the uniforms? I don’t know. But it is a marketing world we live in. let’s be realistic about that. I don’t associate that with culture though. I think they’re distinctly different. People may agree or disagree, but that’s our philosophy.
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Analytical Writing for Science and Technology
Copyright © 1996 by T. M. Georges.
How to Use a 'Marketing' or 'Top-Down' Approach to Your Writing
Lessons 5 through 8 help you answer the basic questions about WHAT TO SAY. This means deciding who you're writing to and what specific job you want your writing to do. The answers to these questions determine how you organize your paper or report and how you select and arrange the details you have to present. Lesson 8 contains checklists to help you answer the most important questions about seven specific writing tasks.
In this Lesson:
- Why are you writing?
- Start by deciding what results you want
- Your commitment to your readers
- Get a clear picture of who you're writing to
- What are you selling?
- Three wrong reasons for writing
WHY ARE YOU WRITING?
Your first step in figuring out WHAT TO SAY is deciding what purpose you want your document to serve. In this chapter, you will learn how to begin any writing task by identifying that purpose and deciding exactly what outcome or response you want from your reader.
The only practical purpose to have in mind as you write is to bring about some specific change in the mind of a specific reader or class of readers. Perhaps you want to get your proposal funded, to make some change in organizational policy, to instruct someone on how to use your latest gizmo, or just to get your point of view accepted by the scientific community.
Maybe you don't think consciously in those terms. Do you usually start a writing assignment by asking yourself what do I want to say? If so, this chapter will get you started thinking instead in a new direction: what does my reader want and need to know?
START BY DECIDING WHAT RESULTS YOU WANT
Business people call this a marketing approach. They have found that the most successful products and services are the ones that are the most carefully tuned to the genuine needs of the marketplace. The impact of Japanese automobiles in the American marketplace gives you an idea how effective this strategy is. Designing efficient transportation makes more sense than selling masculinity symbols.
Systems engineers call the same process another name: top-down design. The most effective and reliable hardware and software designs are built around a specific end product or user need. This is called a top-down approach because the total system can be viewed like an organization chart, in which the end use (systems people call it the functional requirement) is at the top, and the supporting modules represent the subtasks and problems that must be solved to make the system work. This strategy became so successful during the space program that structured design and top-down development have become the buzzwords of the decade in the systems engineering community.
So how can this proven strategy be applied to your scientific and technical writing tasks?
YOUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR READERS
Ask some basic questions before you start
Start by asking yourself some simple questions about who you are writing to and the effects you want your writing to have. Then ask what you need to do to get that response, and then break down that task into problems and subproblems you need to solve to accomplish that task. The questions may be simple, but the care you take in answering them determines how successfully your document will be designed and the impact it will have.
With this approach, you'll learn to view your writing more actively -- as a way to get the results you want by giving your readers what they want. This means learning how to anticipate their needs as well as their responses to what you write. Because most scientific and technical writers fail to understand the basic needs of their readers, most scientific and technical writing says far too much and wastes both the writer's and the readers' time with useless information. They think it's safer (and easier) to just write everything than to discriminate and analyze.
These people forget that one of the things all scientific and technical readers want is to get through their reading as efficiently and painlessly as possible. (Don't you?) That's your first responsibility to your readers. So one of your first objectives, no matter what your subject matter is, is to help them do that. As you will find out in Part Three of this book, this means analyzing and interpreting what you have to say and telling them what's important and why without forcing them to wade through swamps of undigested data or seas of technical jargon.
But for now, let's concentrate on WHAT TO SAY. We'll get to HOW TO SAY IT in Part Three.
GET A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHO YOU'RE WRITING TO
Here's an exercise to start you thinking about the people you write to and the responses you want from them. In the spaces below, fill in the names of three audiences you most frequently write to (individuals or groups of people). Identify people by name if you can. Include a variety of your writing tasks, such as memos, reports, proposals and journal articles:
AUDIENCE NO. 1
AUDIENCE NO. 2
AUDIENCE NO. 3
Next, fill in the responses you want from these people. If you can, tell exactly what you expect them to do in response to your writing:
AUDIENCE NO. 1
AUDIENCE NO. 2
AUDIENCE NO. 3
Finally, write down the responses you actually get from these audiences:
AUDIENCE NO. 1
AUDIENCE NO. 2
AUDIENCE NO. 3
If the responses you want don't match up with the responses you actually get, then you need to pay more attention to finely tuning your message to those particular audiences.
WHAT ARE YOU SELLING?
Whenever you write, you're really selling something -- perhaps a product, yourself, or just an idea. If you're successful, you convince your readers to "buy" your product. You're happy and they're happy.
Some people, especially scientists, object to a sales approach, probably because of the bad taste that modern advertising has left in their mouths. They dislike "manipulating" people, believing that everyone should simply present his ideas in an "objective" way that leaves others "free to choose" among the possible alternatives.
Scientists and engineers, more than business people, tend to adopt a passive attitude about their work. It's as though they're saying, "I shouldn't have to sell my work; it speaks for itself. My business is knowledge, not manipulating people." Although a few scientists are able to build successful careers on this ivory-tower strategy, most soon find their advancement blocked and their work ignored unless they are able to orient their outlook toward those who might ultimately use their results.
The truth is that, unless you're a hermit, it is impossible to avoid influencing others. Everything you do has some impact on those you contact. If that impact is not well thought-out and planned, a person's response is likely to be assembled from random combinations of his predispositions and accidental details of your actions. For example, a weak, noncommittal memo to your boss might cause him to decide that you have few convictions and to ignore your ideas.
So would you rather have some random, unplanned influence or the specific influence you desire?
To get some practice designing documents for a specific audience and purpose, find a recent sample of your own professional writing and write its title here so you'll know later which one it was, if you come back to it.
Now answer the following questions about it:
1. Why did you write it?
2. What particular person or class of people was it addressed to?
3. Exactly what level of knowledge and experience does this reader have in the subject you are writing about?
4. Did you make any effort to find out exactly what your audience expected from you when you wrote this?
5. Can you form a clear picture of a particular reader and hear that reader saying something while he reads your paper? What is he saying?
6. What specifically did you want your reader to do differently as a result of reading your piece?
7. Are there any specific responses from your reader that you want to avoid?
8. What do you think it might take to get the response you want from your reader?
9. How will you know if your writing had the effect you intended; that is, what particular feedback mechanisms tell you whether your writing accomplished its objective?
10. How might you change your document to more clearly tell your reader your purpose in writing?
11. Might you have communicated the same message more efficiently, and at the same time provided for immediate feedback, by personally contacting your audience, instead of writing?
Have you ever thought specifically in these terms before you begin a writing task? I assume that when you sit down to write, you have some reason for doing so. Maybe you just feel like getting something off your chest. Or maybe your boss told you to write something. Or maybe you think it's time you recorded some result or thought for posterity. Because none of these reasons expresses a specific outcome, none is really a valid reason for writing.
THREE WRONG REASONS FOR WRITING
In Lesson 2, I asked "Why bother to write clearly?" Here we examine a related question: Why write at all? The wrong answer to this question can get you into a trap that wastes a lot of your time and others' time too. Here are three common wrong reasons for writing:
TO VENT THE URGE
Untold thousands of useless memos are generated every day just because people want to get something off their chest. The same can be said for many journal articles and technical reports. You can prevent this kind of waste by asking before you begin: "Is this really necessary?", "What do I want to accomplish?" or more simply, "Who cares?" Often a phone call or a personal contact will do the job, and probably better. Remember that writing deprives you of the most valuable aspect of any communication -- feedback. Whenever possible, substitute two-way personal communication for one-way writing.
TO PLEASE THE BOSS
Many organizations reward paper generators, both because memo and letter writers get more visibility and because report and article writing is used to measure productivity. But unless you have a better reason for writing, playing this game will eventually get you into trouble, because most of your writing will lack substance and purpose.
TO RECORD YOUR RESULTS OR VIEWS FOR POSTERITY
This may at first seem like a reasonable reason for writing, especially if you've just made some measurements or discovered something new. Many people like to imagine that their work will someday be uncovered and carried on by some later generation. Not very likely. We'll see later, however, that without the focus of a specific, well defined audience, your paper or memo can easily turn into a pointless "memory dump". Your readers will invariably ask, "So what?"
So these are all the wrong reasons for writing. They may have some therapeutic effects on you, but they won't help you get the results you want from others.
LESSON SUMMARY AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
Have a clear, specific reason for writing, whether it's a landmark journal paper or just a memo to the boss. Answer the questions above before you start your next writing assignment, first of all, to help you decide if writing is really what you need to do. Then, if you do decide to write, make sure you clearly understand what you want to accomplish by doing so.
The next step in tuning your writing to your audience is creating the most logical package for your message. In other words, what is the most effective way to organize the information you have to present? Your package must be carefully designed if it is to accomplish your purpose in writing.
Alice: Will you tell me which way I ought to go from here?
Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to go.
Alice: I don't much care ...
Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
-Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
-- End of Lesson 5 --
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Guitar prodigy Noah Benardout will enjoy a month-long residency at the Hard Rock Cafe (6801 Hollywood Blvd.) in Hollywood this July, beginning Friday, July 6.
The first event will have an Independence Day theme, and Benardout will continue to play several shows throughout the month, culminating on Friday, July 27, 2012 with a party in honor of Jimi Hendrix’s 70th birthday.
Support acts for the series include The Suits (July 6th), Haddon Cord (July 13th), Michael Lemmo (July 20th), Chronolung (July 27th) and Brotherhood of the Guitar (July 27th).
The show will begin at 10 p.m. with Benardout taking the stage at 10:45. Admission is free although a $10 donation is encouraged to benefit The Fender Music Foundation & the Jimi Hendrix Park Foundation.
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Brought to life for the first time, the Shellraiser will travel across the U.K. in a series of live events created in partnership with Sky Go, that will also give kids the chance to train as a ninja, test out Flair’s line of action figures and play sets and watch episodes of the hit series.
Kids who attend the ASDA events will learn non-contact martial arts moves from film stunt man Mike Shenton in the Dojo Training Experience to become a fully certified ninja.
“Being able to climb on-board the Shellraiser will be a dream come true for many kids in the U.K.,” says Mark Kingston, general manager and senior vice president, Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products, EMEA and Australia. “The success of Turtles in the toy market to date has been outstanding, but being able to physically bring the property to so many children is only going to take the brand further.”
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Discussion in 'Audio Emcee Hook Ups' started by Ness Lee, Jan 26, 2010.
Love u nigga 4ever
Shoulda dropped by this thread sooner.
RIP PG. hands down one of the illest around.
rest in peace!
Miss you Brandon, thanks for the soundcard back in 2000... you were a whole hearted dude, rare as hell these days. RIP.
One of the best to ever touch the site...
Hands Down The Illest...
In the fall of 2009 I wrote and recorded a remix to Drake's "Best I Ever Had" and sent an unfinished, rough copy to an artist online whose opinion I highly admired. As an artist, I wasn't anywhere near the skill level of the individual aforementioned, so I figured I'd never hear back and I would chalk it up as wishful thinking... However, within five minutes, the artist responded and demanded that I free up a verse for him! He told me that he had recently split up with someone he truly loved and resonated with my song and lyrical content more then he could express. He sent me his recorded verse within the hour and I was awestruck, to say the least. I never posted the song online because he outshined me in every aspect of songwriting and performing, which was expected but nonetheless embarrassing.
I decided against making the material public until I could create something decent and not sound horrid when paired next to his mere four stanzas. Unfortunately, before I was able to polish up my lyrics and presentation, he passed away just a few weeks into the new year of 2010 - at the young age of 27. It's been almost 2 ½ years since his passing and I'm finally ready to share our collaboration.
The artist's name is Brandon Burris, better known by his stage name "Point Game". He was an amazing lyricist, ever-progressing artist, and a down to earth human being with an enormous heart... And that description is an understatement. He was a regular visitor of the website RapMusic.com V3.0 Emcee Battles, where you were sure to know his name even if you weren't familiar with his music. He influenced and inspired an overwhelming amount of artists, and a thread was dedicated to him in honor of his life that was shared with so many of us via forum posts, instant message conversations, mp3 files, and face-to-face relationships. Point Game was an extraordinary individual, and I'm honored to have been given the opportunity to share in his art form. His music, and life, will not be forgotten by the many he was able to touch... RIP.
Quotes from this thread can be found in the video, slightly altered.
^ His verse on that was amazing ....Damn ...I didn't know dude from adam, but homie was a big talent ...R.I.P!
I think about u every day bro.the world needed u fam, but god needed u more. I love u my nigga we gon keep your name alive believe that.
His name sounds familiar but not his stage name. I've never heard his music as well. Either way, he clearly had a lot of fam and I don't think anyone had anything bad to say about the guy. I know how it feels to lose people so close to you so my condolences to the guy's family. I know it was a while ago but that's the kinda shit that takes decades to heal.
missing you my dood, sorry about that track taking longer than expected, some shit with my setup as always..ha...just wanted to stop by and say what's up...see you when I see you...
I found my old iPod the other day, and it has 4 of your songs. Miss your music man. I know you're up there looking down on all of us.. Until we meet again, brother.
Coming by for the first time since selling the site... just to make sure this post is still here.
He is still missed by many.
This is Legacy.
I miss you bro.
wow man. thank you for this story and song bro
yea that PG verse is fuckin serious damn
was syncing my old contacts to my newest phone the other day... musta tapped the 'b' key and whaddaya know... "PG Brandon Burris" number pops up. smh. RIP to a genuine ass dude. i still remember how amped i was when i got that copy of his first album in my mailbox. played that jawn for erybody out here g. RIP.
RIP probably chillin with Biggie and Pac loving the spirit world , u never know.
Miss ya bro.....
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Originally Posted by noreaster
I have that exact 4 wt St. Croix myself. I think it fishes great.
Me too. I was fishing this private spring creek and noticed a big bow tucked under a overhanging sycamore. I'd heard he'd be there from the shop. The angles and tight brush made it hard to get in there with a 9' 5 Helios mid flex needing a bit more line than I had room to cast with. I did have a 8'6 3wt full flex but that was a bit too soft to throw the big streamers I had. I was saving it for dries later that day.
The St. Croix was perfect for the spot. Honestly I was a little skiddish about using it since I hadn't in a while and I didn't want to blow it. It's rated as a fast action, but man it performed well right between that full flex Superfine Touch and that (stiffer) Helios.
Got the fly where it needed to be. I didn't land it but I rekindle a liking for that 4wt right then.
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assigning values in __init__
bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Tue Nov 7 23:45:07 CET 2006
John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:
> But I do like Steve's suggestion that it's better to be explicit
> about each attribute, instead of just accepting a list of numbers
> (but I can't help but feel that for some reason this is better,
> because it's more general).
If you pass a *mapping* of the "I-might-want-to-add-more-in-the-future"
values, then you get both explicit *and* expandable, without an
arbitrary unneeded sequence.
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Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
This is one of those stories where life is stranger than fiction. A young French nobleman is orphaned by a British bullet that kills his father in the Seven Years War. A childless American leader becomes a surrogate father to the orphaned boy, and sends him on a military mission against the British officer who killed his father. You can’t make this stuff up.
Even Americans familiar with George Washington will find new perspectives in this history of Washington and Lafayette. Clary does an excellent job of describing the strategies and battles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. He also adds a new insight through his examination of the close father-son relationship that grew between Washington and Lafayette.
This relationship provided one of the major keys to America’s success. During one year of fighting, ninety percent of the powder and shot used by American soldiers came from France. Though always anxious to twist the British lion’s tail, French support for America was qualified. It was Lafayette’s unceasing lobbying that provided the extra French help America needed. | <urn:uuid:6d4c408e-36e6-4442-9c5f-d1968b7c2f7a> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/adopted-son-washington-lafayette-and-the-friendship-that-saved-the-revolution/ | 2014-04-23T08:17:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223201753.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032001-00477-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967912 | 232 | [
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changes are on the way for several senior housing communities as leaders work
to make them smoke-free.
part of an effort by the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority. Starting Jan. 1,
all 850 units in LMHA's senior housing community will be smoke-free as part of
a new police that bans smoking inside individual units and common areas. Designated
smoking areas will be set up outside.
leaders say they will work closely with residents to help them kick the habit.
are going to work with them, literally bend over backwards trying to get them
to break a habit," said Daniel Sherrod from LMHA. "Because we understand a lot
of our residents have been smoking 20, 30, 40, 50 years and for us to change it
overnight is going to require patience on our part and an effort on their part."
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buildings will create a better environment for residents and staff and reduce
their maintenance costs.
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As I've made mention of several times this week, we're officially past the half way point of the 2012 season. Seems like a great time to unveil The Huddle's first Power Rankings of the season.
It takes a while for teams to show their true identities, and now that we're at midseason, I think we have a pretty good handle on teams' strengths and weaknesses. It's pretty clear what teams are headed toward the postseason and which ones will see the year end in early November.
So let's go ahead and rank all 13 teams in the Daily News coverage area. That includes all 11 teams in Collier County (can you believe just four years ago there were only eight teams in Collier?) and our two south Lee County schools Estero and South Fort Myers.
Last year I tried to get creative and rank teams based on their postseason chances. It did not go over well. People didn't seem to get the fact that just because one team was ranked above another, it didn't mean that team was better. It only meant that team had a better chance of making the postseason.
To avoid confusion, I'm going to stick with straightforward tried-and-true power rankings. I took all our schools and ranked them No. 1 through 13. That means each team could beat all the others ranked below it (in my opinion).
Let me know what you think. Is your team ranked too low? Why? And what team do I have ranked too high?
1. Naples (6-0) - Undefeated and averaging 50 points a game. 'Nuff said.
2. South Fort Myers (6-0) - I was really looking forward to another classic clash between new SWFL power South Fort Myers and traditional power Naples in the postseason. But after the Wolfpack barely survived Riverdale last week. I don't know if that will happen. If South and Naples do meet in the playoffs, Naples should win pretty easy. But they might not meet at all - South could lose in the first round or, worse, could miss the playoffs altogether because of its brutal district schedule.
3. Barron Collier (4-2) - That's right, I have the Cougars ranked above mighty Immokalee. Maybe my view is skewed because Barron has outperformed expectations this year while Immokalee has underperformed. But I'll give the edge to the Cougars because of their relentless defense. Let me point this out - Barron gave up 42 points to Naples, while Immokalee gave up 55.
4. Immokalee (4-2) - The Indians aren't near as good as we thought they would be, but the potential and talent is still there to win a state title. As for being ranked below Barron Collier, the two teams get to settle the battle for No. 3 on the field Oct. 19.
5. First Baptist (6-0) - I know I said I'm doing these rankings on a "Who would win?" basis, and the Lions probably wouldn't beat any of the much larger public schools in the area. Still, I can't rank undefeated First Baptist any lower than No. 5. And who knows? If Neumann could hang with Estero and Golden Gate (in the preseason) a few years ago, maybe the Lions could make some noise against a Lely or a Gulf Coast.
6. Estero (3-2) - I originally had St. John Neumann above Estero. But then I realized the Wildcats, a Class 5A public school that has beaten Cape Coral and Baker this year, likely would beat Neumann pretty easily. P.S. I'm sticking by my prediction that Estero makes the playoffs.
7. St. John Neumann (4-2) - The Celtics have lost a bit of their mojo lately. After a 4-0 start in which it scored more than 40 points a game, Neumann has scored just 13 combined points in two straight losses. Still, the Celts should make the playoffs by finishing runner-up in Class 2A-District 6.
8. Lely (2-3) - In reality, Lely probably would beat Neumann in a head-to-head East Naples showdown. Especially this year in which the Trojans look vastly improved from last year's one-win team. And I think Lely might even make the playoffs. But since Neumann has a better record, I'll drop Lely to No. 8.
9. Palmetto Ridge (1-4) - At the start of the year I thought the Bears had a chance to make the playoffs. All they would have to do is beat Barron Collier for the 6A-12 runner-up spot. Well, it turns out Barron Collier is better than we thought and Palmetto Ridge is struggling a bit to adjust to its new coach, new scheme, new concept, etc. Still, the potential is there for the Bears to have a breakout game soon.
10. Golden Gate (0-5) - The Titans have struggled after losing their quarterback and entire offensive line from last year's playoff team. The good news is Golden Gate can start to climb the power rankings with wins the next two Fridays against Palmetto Ridge and Lely. A victory over Lely on Oct. 19 also puts the Titans in the playoffs for the second straight season.
11. Gulf Coast (1-4) - Talk to anyone in the football community and they'll have good - even great - things to say about new Sharks coach Pete Fominaya. The problem is, you can't turn around a program over night. Especially after the string of injuries that has devastated Gulf Coast's offense. This year's record will not be pretty, but Fominaya is laying the foundation for future success.
12. Community School (3-2) - I like what Damon Jones is doing over at CSN. I said long ago that if the Seahawks ever started a football team they had the athletes, facilities and money to be competitive. CSN is very competitive this year, the program's third season, but they just couldn't beat any public schools, and they're in a district with mighty FBA and kinda-mighty Neumann. That's why the 'Hawks are all the way down at No. 12.
13. Marco Island Academy (0-5) - It might not be fair to include the Manta Rays on the list since they're a first year team playing a partial junior varsity schedule. But technically MIA is a varsity team, so I'll rank 'em. This team is largely sophomores, so expect better days in years to come. | <urn:uuid:4bf6aca9-b782-4c9d-8501-1fd02522e841> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://blogs.naplesnews.com/huddle/2012/10/the-seasons-first-power-rankings-are-revealed.html | 2014-04-16T16:36:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609524259.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005204-00021-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973408 | 1,388 | [
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Anthony Davis, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, was a 2011 graduate of Perspectives Charter School on the South side of Chicago.
Two years ago, nobody knew Anthony Davis' name nor had they heard of his high school, Perspectives Charter School which isn't exactly a basketball powerhouse here in Chicago. But both have been thrust into the spotlight with his ascension in the basketball ranks and no one is prouder of him than his alma mater.
"Today we proudly celebrate the amazing journey of Perspectives' Charter Schools' graduate Anthony Davis. Anthony's selection tonight by the New Orleans Hornets as the No. 1 overall pick in the National Basketball Association draft is the culmination of an incredible year, during which he captured college basketball's most coveted awards,” said Rhonda Hopps, CEO of Perspectives Charter School in a press release.
After relative obscurity and a seven inch growth spurt, Davis joined the Mean Streets AAU basketball program in the summer of 2010 and the rest is history. He received an athletic scholarship from the University of Kentucky and led the team to a National Championship and in the process, took home every major individual award in college basketball and went on to be the top pick in the 2012 NBA Draft.
Davis was an honor roll student at Perspectives and Hopps says that he embodied everything that the school tries to impart on their students.
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Special education has grabbed its share of the spotlight in recent months following the revelation earlier this year of the usage of seclusion rooms within the Lexington Public Schools.
A little more than two weeks after allegations of mistreatment of young students with special needs surfaced, the district’s Special Education Parent Council began discussions about a parent survey. An online survey, which included input from the School Committee and district administration, went live earlier this week, and SEPAC members are hoping responses will come in by Tuesday, Nov. 27.
“This is a chance for parents to be heard,” said Jennifer Yaar, co-president of SEPAC. “If you’re happy, if you’re not happy, if you’re somewhere in between, we want you to fill it out.”
Yaar said the survey, which was sparked by a School Committee request, delves into the discussion about seclusion rooms, but also seeks to go beyond the one issue to find information about general special education services and delivery.
“The survey does touch upon some of the things that had been discussed,” said Yaar, “But we also looked at other issues that we heard from parents that we wanted to get more information about.”
Targeted survey respondents are any parent with a child or children on a 504 or IEP (individualized education program), or those who have had a child in a plan within the past few years.
“We really want to have as valid a result as possible, and to do that we need a whole range of people to respond,” said Yaar. “We want people to fill out the survey regardless of their feelings.”
Yaar said SEPAC hopes to have the results consolidated into a report by December, to be delivered to the School Committee, although it’s unclear how that information will be used.
“We’re trying to gauge parent attitudes toward the services their child is receiving currently,” said Yaar. “The goal of the survey is to guide some discussion around service delivery. “
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Renaissance to buy computer companion maker AlphaSmart for $57m
Educational software maker Renaissance Learning, Inc. , has agreed to acquire California-based AlphaSmart, Inc. , a provider of portable learning devices for K-12 students, for $57 million.
Renaissance, based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, plans to maintain the AlphaSmart
name and operate the...
Renaissance Learning increases net, still plans merger
...tives appear ready to bear fruit."
"We completed the divestiture of our Generation21 subsidiary in the first quarter, and we expect the merger with alphasmart
to close in the second quarter as planned," he added.
Renaissance Learning, Inc. sells research-based learning software, school improvement program...
Renaissance Learning merges with California firm
... Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. - Renaissance Learning, Inc. and AlphaSmart, Inc. announced today the completion of the merger of alphasmart
with a subsidiary of Renaissance Learning, Inc.
Renaissance Learning, headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, provides monitoring systems used by more t...
Renaissance Learning will expand in Dallas and cut back California and Madison
...ine specific functions to its Wisconsin Rapids operation.
As part of its alphasmart
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Case No. IT-98-34-A
Prosecutor v. Vinko MARTINOVIC
CONSIDERING the Statute of the Tribunal as adopted by the Security Council under Resolution 827 (1993), and in particular Article 21 thereof;
CONSIDERING the Rules of Procedure and Evidence as adopted by the Tribunal on 11 February 1994, as subsequently amended, and in particular Rules 44 and 45 thereof;
CONSIDERING the Directive on Assignment of Defence Counsel, as subsequently amended, and in particular Article 19 (A) (i) thereof;
CONSIDERING the Code of Professional Conduct for Defence Counsel Appearing before the International Tribunal ("the Code of Conduct"), and in particular, Article 5, Article 9, and Article 20 thereof;
NOTING in particular Article 9(D) of the Code of Conduct, which requires the surrender of papers and property to which the client or Tribunal is entitled to the accused or replacement counsel, upon termination or withdrawal of representation.
NOTING Article 13(A) of the Code of Conduct, which states, that:
Whether or not counsel continues to represent a client, counsel shall preserve the confidentiality of the client’s affairs and shall not reveal to any other person, other than to members of his team who need such information for the performance of their duties, information which has been entrusted to him in confidence or use such information to the client’s detriment or to his own or another client’s advantage.
CONSIDERING that Mr. Vinko Martinovic (hereinafter "the accused"), filed a request dated 25 April 2003, in which he asserted that he no longer trusts Mr. Branko Seric (hereinafter "lead counsel") and requested that the assignment of Mr. Seric as lead counsel be withdrawn.
CONSIDERING that a representative of the Registry met with the accused at the United Nations Detention Unit on 16 May 2003 and confirmed that exceptional circumstances exist, justifying the withdrawal of Mr. Seric as lead counsel.
CONSIDERING that the accused has officially informed the Registry on 25 April 2003 that he consents to the withdrawal of Mr. Branko Seric as his lead counsel;
CONSIDERING that Article 19 (D) of the Directive stipulates that if the Registrar has withdrawn the assignment of counsel, then the Registrar shall immediately assign a new counsel to the accused;
CONSIDERING that upon the request of lead counsel, Mr. Zelimir Par was assigned as co-counsel to the accused as of 11 July 2001;
CONSIDERING the request of the accused of 5 May 2003 to assign Mr. Par as lead counsel.
CONSIDERING that Mr. Zelimir Par has has officially informed the Registry that he wishes to represent the accused as his lead counsel on 16 May 2003;
CONSIDERING that Mr. Zelimir Par is currently on the Rule 45 list of counsel who are eligible to be considered for assignment of counsel, and that there are no conflicts of interest;
NOTING that a withdrawal of Mr. Seric at this stage of proceedings would not be detrimental to the representation of the accused and would not delay appeal proceedings.
FINDING that the circumstances cited by the accused justify a withdrawal of counsel "in the interests of justice" under Article 19(A)(1).
HEREBY DECIDES to withdraw the assignment of Mr. Branko Seric as lead counsel and to assign Mr. Zelimir Par as replacement lead counsel for the accused, effective as of the date of this decision.
Dated this 19th day of May 2002
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What’s better than a cheap-yet-capable Android phone? One that’s cheap — but running pure Android.
Google quietly launched a Google Play edition of Motorola’s Moto G today, which starts at the same $179 you’d pay elsewhere but runs a completely stock version of Android.
For $179, you’ll get a Google Play Moto G with 8GB of storage. But really, you should just spend the extra $20 to get a more usable 16GB of storage. While it’s not as powerful and feature-rich as the Moto X, the Moto G could be a useful phone for casual smartphone needs or if you just need something use for development testing.
The Google Play Moto G will ship with Android 4.4 “KitKat,” and like other Google Play-edition phones, it will receive Android updates promptly after they’re released. Other Moto G owners will have to wait until Motorola and their carrier approve Android updates.
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