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Blog Post | The Populist Challenge and the Domestic Turn in Diplomacy Author: Andrew F. Cooper The drama over Ukraine with respect to the Trump administration’s attempts to initiate an investigation into the affairs of Joe Biden’s son brings the central challenge facing diplomats to the fore. Looking back to the post-Cold War era, diplomatic practitioners in general – and American diplomats specifically – were held in high esteem. Individual high-profile US diplomats, from Richard Holbrooke through to Michael McFaul, were lauded for their robust promotion of democracy and liberal norms. Diplomats as suspects Under the weight of the forces of populism, what we now see is a stigmatization of the diplomatic machinery and the institutions at the core of the established - albeit eroding- international order. Unlike classical nationalists, populists do not differentiate between insiders and outsiders, but between the elite and the people. No less than other foundational institutions such as courts and central banks, diplomacy and diplomats are deemed suspect as elevated globalists disconnected from domestic society. To be sure, populism has always been a feature in parts of the world. For the most part, however, this phenomenon was associated with frustrations within the Third World/Global South. Bursts of populism in countries such as Argentina or Venezuela drew academic interest, but they did not leave any systemic impact. With the success of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, this is no longer the case, a situation magnified by the influence of Narendra Modi in India and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. In mid-2016, the sharpest illustrations of anti-diplomatic/anti-foreign ministry sentiment came from forces that still could be construed as outsiders: whether in the former UKIP (now Brexit) party of Nigel Farage or Marine Le Pen of the French National Front (now the National Rally). In the first stages of both the Trump administration and Theresa May’s government, the challenge to diplomats and diplomacy remained overshadowed by other features. Although Rex Tillerson directed his attention to cutting resources to the State Department (including public diplomacy) it was only after he left that the gates opened up to the full-effect of populist forces. In similar fashion, although Boris Johnson proved an erratic UK Foreign Secretary, Theresa May relied heavily on Olly Robbins, an experienced practitioner, as her Europe Adviser and Chief Negotiator. All of this has changed with the tightening grip of the populist ethos in both the US and the UK. The British government’s foreign policy is increasingly personalized around Boris Johnson’s leadership, amid rumors that he may still appoint Farage as UK ambassador to the US. The Ukraine drama has revealed in explicit detail how career diplomats were sidelined or completely removed by political appointees and shadow practitioners, above all Rudi Giuliani If associated with key personalities, the larger forces behind their success merit sustained analysis beyond this blog, or indeed the special issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (HJD) to which I contributed an article. As I referred to, one of the main causes of the systemic challenge to diplomacy and diplomats is the process of dis-intermediation. That is to say, a process in which diplomacy and diplomats appear to be disconnected from the interests and identity of their domestic societies. This dynamic in turn is exacerbated by the ability of hyper-empowered individuals to tap into this feeling of neglect and frustration. Using both traditional and social media, these individuals push to make a direct and emotional appeal to their supporters. Diplomats and diplomacy must now adjust to these new conditions. Optimists, of course, can argue that the Trump and Johnson challenge is an aberration that will pass. At least in Western Europe and Canada, at the national level, this attitude is reinforced by the impression that the ascendancy of populism has stalled. Yet, across the spectrum of countries that have been in the forefront of innovative and progressive forms of public diplomacy since the end of the Cold War, it is clearly not ‘business’ as usual. Even countries that have blunted the populist challenge such as France, Canada, and New Zealand rely very heavily on individual leaders (Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern) – as opposed to professional diplomats – for their international branding. Such a dependence plays into the impression that diplomats have lost their salience. Consolidating the client base The only reliable and authentic path by which diplomats and the institution of diplomacy can regain standing is to convince their citizens that they are valuable. In many ways, this approach is highly instrumental in flavor. As highlighted in the HJD in a number of recent issues, demonstrating value relies on transactional elements: whether a greater focus on commercial diplomacy or on consular activity. Such activities help consolidate the client base for diplomats as well as diplomacy. Yet instrumental purpose cannot be the only way forward. On 31 October, I was one of the speakers at an event in Berlin on Cultural Diplomacy in the Age of Populism, co-organized by the USC Centre on Public Diplomacy and the Embassy of Canada to Germany. This is an important topic as the cultural and diplomatic communities face the same perceived images of being embedded, not only with elitism but also pluralism: another anathema for populists. Expanding the ambit of culture, widely defined, offers one important route for pushing back on the emotional attraction of populism: with a renewed orientation towards linking public diplomacy to the promoting of aspirational narratives about the dreams of members of domestic society in all of its rich diversity. To use various Canadian examples, public diplomacy must tap into not only the narratives of famous authors such as Margaret Atwood, who appeared in October at the Frankfurt book fair with a strong message concerning literature as a vehicle for engagement, or celebrities such as Drake, with his message of a diverse ‘We The North’. Canadian public diplomacy can equally capitalize on the inwards and outwards projection of stories from aspirational immigrants. Of course, a concerted push back against populism cannot be accomplished by cultural means alone, especially with an emphasis on proxies rather than professional diplomats. Nonetheless, such a creative linkage is indicative that diplomacy can no longer be a mere outward-directed activity. If diplomacy is going to be revitalized at the core of the international system, there must be a domestic turn: a form of animation that embeds its machinery and institutional expression in everyday societal life inside as well as outside national boundaries To read Cooper’s HJD article on Adapting Public Diplomacy to the Populist Challenge press here. Andrew F. Cooper is a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. He is a recent recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award of the Diplomatic Studies Section in the International Studies Association.

Flora Palaestina is the botanical description originally adopted by Linnaeus in the 18th century of plants growing in the area of the Holy Land. Floristic exploration of this region extends back thousands of years with the earliest recorded descriptions by Theophrastos in the 4th Century BCE. Many botanists since then, particularly in the last 150 years have contributed to this body of knowledge. Flora Palaestina is an integral part of the traditions and culture and a vital contributor to its economy for millennia. A wide variety of uses are recorded including as food, medicines (human and veterinary) cosmetics, spices, perfumes, dyes, agriculture and as raw materials e.g.in building, basket and rope making, clothing etc. Medicinal plants are particularly prevalent with estimates that some 30% of local species have medicinal activity. The region also contains some of the world`s most important wild progenitors of domesticated crops including wild barley, wheat, oats, garlic, peas, lentils and chick peas, the original source of much of the world`s food supply. Information on the ethno-botanical and economic uses of Flora Palaestina are derived from both a verbal tradition passed down through generations in Arab Palestinian communities and from historical texts in a variety of ancient languages. Despite this rich legacy and its multicultural importance many plants of Flora Palaestina are currently threatened. Environmental degradation, climate change, urban development and an accelerating loss of wild habitat have resulted today in some 102 species (5.2%) of species to be classified as on the "Red List" of endangered species. In addition, at least 18 species have become locally extinct in the last 50 years (Ali-Shtayeh and Jamous, 2018). The unique traditional knowledge of plant use transmitted through generations is also rapidly disappearing as traditional healers are replaced by medical clinics and local village economies once dependent on plant use for local industry are replaced by modern industrial development and commercial imports. The current research project builds on earlier programs carried out by the investigators over number of years devoted to preserving the historical and traditional uses of Flora Palaestina and conserving individual species in limited domestication formats. The TAPHM database has enabled BERC to develop traditional ecological knowledge profiles of Flora Palaestina, and use this information as a basis for the focused scientific screening of selected plants against diseases including infections (bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal), cancer and Alzheimer’s with successful results indicating the value of this method (Ali-Shtayeh, Jamous, & Abu Zaitoun, 2015). In conjunction with preserving traditional knowledge of plant use, BERC has also undertaken domestication programs of selected species. These measures have contributed to conservation of a number of regional plants, trees and shrubs, including rare and endangered species, the reintroduction of several locally extinct species once common to the area and establishment of a small seed bank. BERC has established Botanical Gardens and programs for a wide range of endangered and threatened plants and their habitats and through its research unit carried out extensive applied research aiming at plant conservation and ethno pharmacology using advanced technologies. These studies include extensive ethno-botanical research on the use of local medicinal plants in Traditional Arabic Palestinian Herbal Medicine (TAPHM). Based on these findings BERC has developed an Arabic language web-based database (www.berc-taphm.com) on local ethno-botanical use in the Palestinian population . BERC has also surveyed over 600 plant species growing in Palestine (West Bank) for potential bioactivity (medicinal value) using the versatile Screens-to-Nature (STN) technology (Ali-Shtayeh, Jamous, & Abu Zaitoun, 2015) developed, under the auspices of the Global Institute for BioExploration (GIBEX) (www.gibex.org) supported by the EU. Much original information arising from 12 STN assays targeting infectious diseases, metabolic disorders (diabetes and obesity), and general health protection (anti-inflammatory/antioxidant). The project aims to: - create an ethno-botanical website of the native plants of Palestine (Flora Palaestina) in order to preserve and make publicly available the traditional and historical knowledge of their use. - evaluate the plants of Flora Palaestina for their economic potential based on ethno-botanical use and existing phytochemical research data. - domesticate and conserve genetic diversity of selected wild species of Flora Palaestina in ex-situ cultivation sites based on their economic potential. Ali-Shtayeh M. S., and Rana M Jamous R. M. Updating the Plant “Red List” of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip): Conservation assessments and recommendations. Journal of Biodiversity & Endangered Species 2018, 6:4 DOI: 10.4172/2332-2543.1000228

What can a well-run shoe store teach you about your own online business? If you’ve ever bought anything from the mega online shoe store Zappos, or if you’ve so much as heard them mentioned, the word that comes to mind is probably service. But there’s more to the Zappo’s secret sauce than free shipping and some nice people on the phone. They embody three important lessons that any blogger, online marketer, or small business owner can learn … and start finding customers that don’t just like you, they love you. Let’s look at each, and how you can apply them to your business. 1. It all starts with passion and purpose You might think it would be hard to imbue a shoe store with meaning. But Zappos does it. A lot of companies have a mission statement. Nearly all of them are lame. Instead of another dreary statement about “synergy” and “excellence,” Zappos lives what they call their core values, which include things like “create fun and a little weirdness,” and “be humble.” It all originates with founder Tony Hsieh’s insatiable curiosity and penchant for doing work he loves. What Zappos does comes from their culture — and that culture is grounded in those core values. The two cannot be separated. Without their core values, Zappos is just one of a million e-commerce sites. With them, they become something remarkable. We have an environment where we empower our employees to do what’s best for the customer with minimal policies and hoops to jump through in order to do it. It’s about giving them a purpose to their job as opposed to just answering questions and taking orders. ~ Maura Sullivan, Senior Manager of Zappos’ Customer Loyalty team Whether you’re running a company of one or one hundred, you need to have some values beyond “I need to book three new clients this week.” Integrity and a sense of purpose are highly attractive to customers, and they make your business a lot more enjoyable to run. 2. Everything is customer service Every action you take — the design of your web site, your content, how you answer email — communicates something to your customer. About serving her. About helping her. It’s about under-promising and over-delivering. At Zappos, the customer loyalty team is empowered to regularly go above and beyond to make the customer feel important and special. This can mean a care package, random freebies thrown in with your order, or anything else they feel like doing. Again, Sullivan says, Our employees don’t have to be passionate about shoes, or anything else we sell, but they need to be passionate about service and helping people. That’s where great customer experiences come about — being able to help someone, it can change their day — even if it was just a pair of shoes. When you bake surprise and delight into your business model, people talk about that. A lot. This is the secret to being a truly remarkable business. Accomplishing the unexpected is the norm. When you see everything you do as service (and therefore, as marketing), everything you do will become just a little better. And customers will notice. 3. Keeping a lean state of mind Some web startups are run like the former Soviet Union. Lots of rules. Lots of processes. And not much reward for going outside the lines. And then there are those Fortune 500 companies that function like family businesses. (Some of them still are.) The difference is mindset. Unencumbered by organizational bureaucracy, Zappos’ employees are free to do the work they signed up for. Sure, they’ve got manuals and policies, but those only exist to help employees help customers. Being this nimble is a choice. And, admittedly, it can be a challenge at times, especially for a company the size of Zappos. So how do they do it? Communication is key, especially when making a change or something that will affect the day to day. In a company that is constantly reinventing and redefining itself, making sure everyone is up to date and on the same page is crucial. Stay nimble. Stay flexible. And as you reinvent and redefine yourself, communicate with the people who need to know about it — your customers, and your employees if you have them. You may even want to go the Copyblogger route with your business plan, and start talking to your customers before you have something to sell. Make sure those lines of communication are open. This is as important on the day you start as the day you sell your business to Amazon for umpty million dollars. What’s compelling about Zappos is their focus on connection. From the “top” down, it’s all about relationships. They make sure passion and purpose are the fuel for all the work they do, and they never forget that the business lives or dies on how well they serve the customer. You can do the same. How about you? Is there something you admire about Zappos that you’d like to do more of in your business? Let us know about it in the comments. About the Author: Jeff Goins is a writer, idea guy, and online marketer. You can connect with him on his blog Goins, Writer or follow him on Twitter @jeffgoins. He is currently working on his first book. To read about his journey from blogger to book author, check out his eBook Every Writer’s Dream: How to Never Pitch Your Writing Again.

I guess you could say she fergalicious def, fergalicious def, fergalicious def, def-def-def-definitely didn’t want to be married to Josh Duhamel anymore. Or you could say Fergie and Josh have called it quits. Whichever works best for you (for me, it involves singing “Fergalicious“). People magazine says Fergie and Josh confirmed the news by releasing a joint statement earlier this afternoon. According to their statement, things haven’t been fergalicious in the Duhamel household for a while. Apparently they split up earlier this year. “With absolute love and respect we decided to separate as a couple earlier this year. To give our family the best opportunity to adjust, we wanted to keep this a private matter before sharing it with the public. We are and will always be united in our support of each other and our family.” So basically, unlike Josh Duhamel being asked to turn off his phone on a plane or Fergie’s ability to control her bladder, their divorce might not get messy. Fergie and Josh’s family includes a four-year-old son named Axl. This isn’t even Fergie’s first big breakup of the year; back in June it was revealed by will.i.am that she’s no longer a Black Eyed Pea. There’s no word on what caused Fergie and Josh to split up, but E! News was quick to remind everyone of the many divorce (and cheating) rumors that followed them around through the years. So maybe Fergie was sick of inspecting Josh’s dick with a black light every time he returned home from “work.” Or maybe Josh just couldn’t take another phone call from Kim Kardashian asking if Fergie is there and can she please explain to her what MILF stands for again, because she forgot. Here’s Fergie arriving at LAX last week without her wedding ring on:

Dubai has a taxation system that is hugely favorable for its residents. Yet, if you have shifted to Dubai with a new job and are wondering about income tax filing for salaried professionals, you need to consult a firm like GCC Filings that will help you out with all aspects regarding taxation, company incorporation, setting up a business in Dubai, VAT and so on. Dubai is a major city in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) and there are a few global agreements or laws which cover the country overall. In some scenarios, every Emirate can establish their own specific regulations as well. Individuals working in Dubai will not be taxed on the basis of their individual or personal income. However, people should be aware that in spite of not having tax liabilities on their personal earnings in the UAE from salary, they may be required to pay taxes in other countries where they draw part of their income from, or even in their home countries. Key aspects for Income Tax Filing for Salaried Citizens in UAE There are no individual taxes in Dubai and it is basically only corporate taxes that entities need to pay along with VAT which is a major tax payable by businesses. Property taxes apply for selling or buying properties and if you have lived for a minimum of 12 months in the UAE, then you may be eligible for foreign earned income exclusion if the USA is your home country. This means that you will not have taxes payable till a certain threshold. You can extend the filing date with extension for filing sometime later once you have been outside your home country, the USA for a year. This is dependent on how much you earn or your rental/housing costs and family situation. Those USA natives earning up to $105,000 annually in Dubai can get their whole income exempted under the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion policy on their IT returns. Additionally, since tax exemptions on salaries are provided by the laws of the UAE, this will not be taxable in India. Income earned in UAE and similar countries, with which India possesses tax treaties, will be exempted completely. If the status of a salaried professional stands at resident Indian, then income that is earned abroad will be taxed on India. Yet, taxes will be payable solely on the income earned in India if he/she is an NRI (non-resident Indian). The Indian income may be salary that is received in the country, payments for services that have been provided in India, rent from house property in the country and capital gains upon asset transfer in India. Interest earned from savings bank accounts or fixed deposits in India is also taxable under this law. The UAE only imposes corporate taxes on foreign banks and oil companies. Excise tax is applicable for specific items while VAT (Value Added Tax) is imposed on most goods and services. VAT was unveiled on the 1st of January, 2018, at 5% and has revolutionized the taxation system in the UAE.

DFA chief tweets order for immediate filing of new protest against China MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine foreign secretary has ordered via Twitter the immediate filing of a diplomatic protest against China after Chinese coast guard ships reportedly strayed near a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., who is accompanying Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a visit to Russia, issued the usually confidential order Wednesday to his officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs via the social network. Relations between the Philippines and China have vastly improved under Duterte, but territorial rifts have remained a thorny issue. The Philippine military chief and other officials have reported new activities by Chinese coast guard vessels at the Second Thomas Shoal, where Filipino marines keep watch aboard a long-grounded navy ship. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a strategic waterway where U.S. navy ships and aircraft have patrolled for decades. Locsin tweeted: “Do I have to fly home to file the goddamned diplomatic protest myself? That’s the military speaking. Not some friggin’ civilian media outlet. File now!!!” There was no immediate comment from Chinese Embassy officials in Manila, but they have claimed in the past Chinese sovereignty over the shoal and most areas of the South China Sea. Chinese coast guard ships have guarded the shoal from a close distance since 2013 in a quiet standoff with a small contingent of Filipino marines manning a rusty but still actively commissioned navy ship that Manila deliberately grounded in 1999 after China seized the nearby Mischief Reef five years earlier. China has demanded the Philippines pull out the World War II-era tank landing ship, the BRP Sierra Madre, and also warned Manila from undertaking construction in the area, a rich fishing ground. Manila has refused to withdraw its navy ship and has protested past Chinese blockades of Philippine vessels transporting fresh supplies to the marines stationed at the shoal. A team of Associated Press journalists allowed to travel aboard a small Philippine navy-manned resupply boat with other reporters in 2014 witnessed how one of at least three Chinese coast guard ships warned the boat by radio to back away from what it said was Chinese territory. When the Philippine vessel persisted, a much larger Chinese coast guard ship maneuvered dangerously close to block its advance. The Philippine vessel, however, managed to move through rocky coral outcrops and reached the Sierra Madre. Under Duterte, Chinese and Philippine officials have held talks to avoid such dangerous encounters, which have eased but continue to happen from time to time. A Philippine official told the AP that a Philippine resupply vessel was blocked anew by a Chinese ship at the shoal in May. The official said Chinese coast guard ships did not mean to block Philippine resupply vessels en route to Second Thomas Shoal but wanted to check from time to time to ensure they’re not loaded with construction materials. The Philippines strongly opposes such Chinese inspections of its ships in the vicinity of the shoal and will protest any such attempt, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to speak publicly about the issue. /kga Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.

Good night messages for wife: If you are a husband and looking for new and lovable messages to wish your wife at night, then you are at right place. No need to worry anymore and start feeling relax because the journey of searching has ended and the beautiful and fancy sharing good night messages for wife are given below. Have a look at these and use these to show the real virtue of your married relation. Good Night Messages for Wife Listen to me carefully, the night has come and you should stay at home and enjoy this night at the highest point. You can see that I am taking inhalation but cannot count this because I am busy in missing you. No matter, how much long this night is, I promise you that I will miss you when going to sleep and after waking up. My dearest personality of this world, my wife I love you and care about you. Good night and sleep tight! At each night, I used to hug you in my dreams. I know it is also possible in reality, but dreams have their own taste. My wife and my love, you are the reason when I see the moon every night. Actually, I judge who is most beautiful and the answer is surely you. I want to go for the flight of sleep just with you. I will enjoy and relax with you on this flight. Good night my dear wife! Dreams are more interesting than reality because it allows me to see you during my sleep too. Good Night SMS for Wife No one can advise me as professional as you give me. With the passing of time, I am getting involved in you and enjoying my nights with you. Night is night and every next night is the same as the previous one. The difference is in our desires and increment of love for one another. Whenever I think about you, I feel alarming because I think that what would happen if I lose you in my life. Good night my love! I want to live with you in this life and after our death. I want to sleep with you in this world and after the life of this world. No issue that how we are spending our lives because the night allows us to come close one another and find enough time for relaxation. My wife, you look gorgeous when you are sleeping on my bed. I want to see you in all stages and conditions of my professional and personal life. Good night and go to sleep as early as you can. As night is asking to you when you will sleep? So reply with a smile and sleepy eyes that you will sleep early! I am waiting for you and feeling sleepy and you can check my conditions. So, I am requesting me to come and sleep with me.

The following are the minutes of the Brewster Golf Commission regular meeting held on August 4, 2009. The meeting was called to order at 1:00 p.m. Commissioners present: Bob Weiss Cindy Bingham Jo O'Connell Stote Ellsworth Jeff Odell Rob Harris Joe Shaw, Commissioner Emeritus Staff present: Mark O'Brien, Director of Operations Steve Mann, Superintendent Others present: Jim Foley, Selectmen liaison, Ray Gomez, Nancy Segall, Orin Segall, Jeff Cassidy, and Steve Litwinowich B. Weiss called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. and officially welcomed the two new commissioners, Jeff Odell and Rob Harris. He also congratulated Joe Shaw on being named Commissioner Emeritus. B. Weiss then read a resolution recognizing the contributions over the years of George Flemming, a copy of which is attached to these minutes. S. Ellsworth made a motion, seconded by R. Harris, to accept the resolution as read. Motion passed unanimously. B. Weiss then outlined some goals and procedures for the Golf Commission in the days ahead. J. Odell expressed some concern over not acting quickly in regard to establishing a non-resident fee for the "Pay Now Play Now" program. It was agreed that the Commission will meet weekly and try to have a program for the Selectmen's approval by the end of August. S. Ellsworth made a motion, seconded by J. O'Connell to approve the minutes of the July 7, 2009 Golf Commission meeting. Minutes were approved, 4 in favor, none opposed. R. Harris and J. Odell abstained as they were not on the commission at that time. J. O'Connell made a motion, seconded by C. Bingham, to approve the minutes of the August 3, 2009 meeting. Motion approved unanimously. M. O'Brien read thank you letters from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod and Independence House for donations given. He also read a letter from the Women's 9-Holer's Assn. saying what a great job Sean Cahalane did on their Member/Member event in July. M. O'Brien read a request from the Nauset Girls Golf Team for an event on Sunday, June 6, 2010. M. O'Brien suggested that we have quite a demand for tee times at that time of year, and offered the last Sunday in April as an alternative. J. O'Connell made a motion, seconded by J. Odell to approve this request based on the April date. Motion approved unanimously. M. O'Brien read a request from the WGAM for their Fall Players Cup Team Matches to be held on October 14, 2009. This request was discussed at a previous meeting and M. O'Brien was directed to get more information. He has spoken with the WGAM and feels confident that it can occur with little impact on play. J. O'Connell made a motion, seconded by J. Odell to approve the request. Motion approved unanimously. M. O'Brien read a request from the Women's 9-Hole Assn to allow them to sell raffle tickets on several days leading up to their Rally For a Cure event in order to raise money. R. Harris made a motion, seconded by C. Bingham to approve this request. Motion approved unanimously. M. O'Brien read a request from the Women's 18-Hole Assn to allow them to place a "Donation Bucket" on the day of their Rally For a Cure event. This request was denied as the bucket would be unattended. The Commission indicated that they would approve if they sold raffle tickets as is the case with Women's 9-Hole Assn. M. O'Brien presented requests from the following organizations requesting donation of a gift certificate for a foursome: – American Red Cross, Cape Cod and the Islands Chapter, CapeAbilities, YMCA Cape Cod J. O'Connell made a motion, seconded by R. Harris, to approve the above requests. Motion approved unanimously. The following requests for donations were denied as they did not meet the Golf Commission's guidelines: – Marley Jaye Cherella Memorial Fund, St. Luke's Hospital, Children's Hospital Trust DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS REPORT: M. O'Brien distributed the financials for the FY2009 year end and the July reports. The FY2009 report shows only and $18,000 net return to the Town. Before June, M O'Brien had projected a $68,000 net return to the Town, but June was a disaster as far as weather was concerned, significantly reducing this number. July was off about 5%. Anne LeMaitre – Open rest rooms at Port 10th tee by 6:30 a.m. M. O'Brien said he will remind the cart men to do this. Orin Segall – Sell tee sponsorships to raise revenues for the course. B. Weiss said that this will be looked into. Orin Segall – Sell a junior membership to non-Brewster residents. B. Weiss said this will be discussed during the AFP fee deliberations. Jim Foley said that several people have expressed that the Golf Commission meeting should be held later in the day in order to accommodate those that work. Discussion followed. It was decided to try 4:30 p.m. as a meeting time for the next meeting. In order to meet the goal of having something ready for the Selectmen by the end of August, it was decided to hold meetings on August 11th, August 18th, August 25th, and August 31st. S. Mann reported that the wet weather has caused some disease on the golf courses that is being dealt with. He has watered only twice since May. We are beginning to loose some summer help. There is a new chemical that is much safer to use by Dpont for grub control that we may be trying. We will be removing some trees that shade some of teeing areas in the off-season. A possible plan to move the blue tees forward to the white tee area making it a par 4 and moving the white tees back to the blue tee area making it a better par 5. R. Harris asked about the publicity for the half membership fee deal. M. O'Brien stated that it has been emailed to all of our lists and that we would do some newspaper announcements. S. Ellsworth reported that the meeting with the Realtors scheduled for last Friday did not take place because there were too few properties on their tour. S. Ellsworth reported that the Town of Brewster is further ahead than most Cape Towns regarding wind turbines and that we are looking into participating in a collaborative effort with other Towns. There are several public hearings that will be coming up on the subject in the near future. Ray Gomez, on behalf of the CCMGA, requested a reduced cart fee for the last round of their two week tournament in August since it is a shotgun and players are required to take carts. Discussion followed and it was felt that this would set a dangerous precedent for the other.associations. Request was denied. R. Harris made a motion, seconded by C. Bingham, to adjourn the meeting. Motion was passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m. Mark T. O'Brien

‘Fans and Brands Want to See the Real People’: How Athletes Handle Social Media When I was an intern at Sports Illustrated, the magazine ran an op-ed by a professional basketball player on my hometown team. The story was beautifully written and made me wonder why I’d never seen a piece from this apparently multi-talented athlete before. Later that day, I ran into the story’s editor and asked about the revision process. “Nothing against the writing, but what was published was pretty different from the first draft,” he told me. “We always have a heavy hand when it’s coming from a non-journalist.” I learned a lesson that afternoon about how the world works. Athletes—who have dedicated their lives to their sport of choice, not writing—often rely on behind-the-scenes help when it comes to public communications. If you see your favorite athlete or celebrity’s byline on a surprisingly eloquent piece, well, there’s probably a reason why it’s so well-written. Social media accounts are no different. Having an adviser on the dos and don’ts of Twitter or Facebook is essential, especially when any misstep can instantly go viral. (Yes, those are all separate links. And no, I didn’t forget about J.R. Smith.) For Carlos Tovar, a 23-year-old who resides in Brooklyn, helping athletes shape their social media personas has become an unusual freelance gig. When he’s not working as a social strategist for ad agency Wieden+Kennedy, Tovar runs the social accounts for Brice Johnson of the Los Angeles Clippers and Joel James of the Kumamoto Volters (a team in Japan’s National Basketball League). The three met freshman year at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and stayed close throughout college. (Tovar and James even lived together their senior year.) As the two hoop stars grew their social followings, Tovar began offering guidance after graduation on the intricate and often unsaid rules of social media. “I’ve always enjoyed social media, and once they realized I’d be working in the field, it kind of clicked for them,” Tovar said. “They came to me and asked ‘Why don’t you help us with [our accounts]?'” Cali Swag😂🤔 pic.twitter.com/axSPuWxML3 — Brice Johnson (@bjohnson_23) August 7, 2016 The first step was an education on those aforementioned dos and don’ts. Tovar wanted to make sure the players could recognize the material that could backfire and harm their careers. Unlike my Sports Illustrated example, both Johnson and James create their own content. Although Tovar gets final say on what is posted, the athletes are free to be themselves. “In my perspective, fans and brands want to see the real people, so it’s not a good thing to always have these perfect little posts,” Tovar said. “I give them an understanding of what their fans want to see and tell them to go for it. If they ever post anything that will do more damage than good, I’ll explain to them why it’s wrong, and down it goes.” Such was the case earlier this season when Johnson, out with a herniated disk, accidentally tweeted a promotional message while the Clippers were playing. The post, scheduled ahead of time to endorse Call of Duty, gave the appearance that Johnson was occupied with video games instead of following his team, which wasn’t the case. (The NBA also prohibits players from using social media during games.) Given the injury, Tovar gave Johnson two options: immediately remove the tweet, or follow up with confirmation that he was watching from home while his back healed. Johnson chose the latter and managed to avoid any league scrutiny. The position hasn’t always been easy for Tovar. Besides having to adapt to the time zones of his globe-trotting friends, James’ move to Japan presented its own set of cultural and communicative challenges. “It’s been a ten trillion percent culture shock,” Tovar said. “It was a completely blind move for him.” James’ adventures in Japan have, however, made for some great posts. “Using social to showcase the encounters of a 7-foot-tall man walking around the streets of Kumamoto is hilarious for fans both here and there.” I actually might be too big for this place!😂😂 pic.twitter.com/BercNbImUz — Joel James (@joel_jamesnkz) September 2, 2016 In Johnson’s case, adjusting to life in the NBA has presented its own set of challenges. Hectic travel schedules and constant commitments make it tougher for Johnson to respond regularly, so Tovar occasionally has to figure out solutions himself. (Though he added that “text messages save the world.”) “Instead of nagging, I keep up with the team social feeds to see what Brice is up to,” he said. “If there is a charity event, I’ll ask how it went and something fun that happened. [That helps] bring attention to things worth sharing that aren’t yet out there in the social world.” Social media is an inherently personal medium, so handing the keys to someone else has the potential to get uncomfortable. But it’s certainly easier to enlist the help of a trusted friend as opposed to a distant third party. “At the end of the day,” Tovar said, “it’s about helping some of my best friends make sure they are viewed in the public eye as the guys they really are.”

New Delhi, May 30 : A doctor is "vicariously liable" for his team which assists him in rendering treatment, the apex consumer commission has said while directing the treating doctors and hospital to pay Rs 16 lakh to a couple who lost their daughter, a cancer patient, after she was administered injection wrongly. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) held the hospital and the treating doctors guilty of medical negligence and said that they were liable for the death of the three-year-old girl who was suffering from blood cancer. The commission noted that the girl was administered an injection wrongly which deteriorated her situation eventually leading to her death in July, 2004. "We are of the considered view that the doctor is vicariously liable for the acts of his team which assists him in every sphere in rendering treatment to the patient," said the commission's bench comprising President R K Agrawal and member M Shreesha. "Keeping in view the deposition, the discharge summary, the treatment record and the expert opinion we are of the considered view that there was negligence on behalf of the Hospital and the treating Doctors in administering Vincristine to the Patient intrathecally," the bench further said. Its order came in the case of Arshiya , daughter of a Ludhiana-based couple Prashant and Anjali Sareen, who was being treated for blood cancer in Mohan Dai Oswal Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation Hospital there. She was being treated under Raman Arora, head of the Medicines Department who was being assisted by Vandana Bhambri and Harjit Singh Kohli. He prepared a written protocol of the treatment as per which Arshiya had to be given four cycles of chemotherapy The treatment had to include 11 injections of a chemotherapy drug Vincristine which was to be given intravenously, through veins, and 14 injections of the drug was to be administered intrathecally, via an injecting into the spinal canal As per the complaint, Kohli and Bhambri committed gross negligence, although they knew that wrong administration would prove fatal. It also said that upon reporting the mistake to Arora, he along with the other assisting doctors had said that the medicine would ultimately reach the stomach and it does not matter as to how it was administered. Satish Kumar , one of the directors of the hospital was contacted to take some remedial action, but he said it did not make any difference as the patient was already suffering from cancer and would not live for more than five years, as per the complaint. The doctors had also made Arshiya's parents to buy an injection of Rs 4,80,000 which they later refused to administer saying the patient was too young for the same. The commission said that failure of the doctors to act in accordance with medical standards in vogue and failure to exercise due care and diligence are deemed to constitute "medical negligence". The commission also called as "callous" the argument given by the doctors that the patient would die anyway. It said that since the entire standard protocol was given by Arora and the entire treatment was rendered under his care, he is liable for any commission or omissions by his team who assisted him in rendering treatment. LLP HMP SA

IGN’s massive Gamescom streaming plans include streams in both English and German. From Gamescom’s Hall 7 showfloor, IGN U.S., U.K., and Germany hosts will be hosting in-depth interviews and game demos, showcasing exclusive gameplay, and bringing you reports straight from the showfloor. IGN’s stream will run at various times from Tuesday, Aug. 20 – Saturday, Aug. 24: Tuesday, Aug. 20: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. CEST/3 a.m. – 6 a.m. PT/6 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET in GERMAN/; 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. CEST/7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PT/10:30 a.m. ET – 1:30 p.m. ET in ENGLISH Wednesday, Aug. 21: 11 a.m. – 3p.m. CEST/2 a.m. – 5 a.m. PT/5 a.m. – 8 a.m. ET in GERMAN; 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. CEST; 7 a.m. – 11 a.m. PT/10 a.m. – 2 p.m. ET in ENGLISH Thursday, Aug. 22: 1 – 4 p.m. CEST/4 a.m. – 7 a.m. PT/7 a.m. – 10 a.m. ET in GERMAN; 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. CEST/8 a.m. – 11 a.m. PT/11 a.m. – 2 p.m. ET in ENGLISH Friday, Aug. 23: 2 – 4 p.m. CEST/5 a.m. – 7 a.m. PT/8 a.m. – 10 a.m. ET in GERMAN; 5 – 7 p.m. CEST/8 a.m. – 10 a.m. PT/11 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET in ENGLISH Saturday, Aug. 24: 3:30 – 5:30p.m. CEST/6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. PT/9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ET in ENGLISH; 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. CEST/9 a.m. – 11 a.m. PT/12 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET in GERMAN Conferences at Gamescom 2019 We’ll also be livestreaming Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night showcase on August 19 at 8 p.m. CEST/11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET, which promises to reveal tons of news that we’ll be writing about all day. While we don’t have too many specifics from that show just yet, we do know Death Stranding’s Hideo Kojima will be in attendance, while 2K, Activision, EA, Square Enix, Xbox, and many more are set to be included in the show. Google has also confirmed a Stadia Connect press conference for Gamescom, which will precede the Opening Night live press conference. The last Stadia Connect was held during E3 2019, and revealed Stadia’s price, launch window, and launch games. Games to Expect at Gamescom 2019 Given the presence of a Stadia press conference, expect to see more of the announced games coming to Google’s streaming platform, though we’ll have to wait for the show itself for specifics. And as mentioned previously, Kojima will be on hand to present a new look at Death Stranding, which is being released on November 8, 2019 for PlayStation 4. We last saw Death Stranding at Comic-Con 2019, but you can check out everything we know about Death Stranding to catch up on everything revealed so far. Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have also confirmed Marvel’s Avengers will be playable at Gamescom this year, with the Marvel’s Avengers full gameplay demo set to be released publicly after Gamescom. And Nintendo of Europe has previously confirmed it plans to bring Luigi’s Mansion 3, Pokemon: Sword and Pokemon: Shield, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and much more to be playable at its booth in the showfloor. Stay tuned for more as we learn about the Gamescom lineup, including who we’ll have on IGN’s live show throughout the week. Where to Watch IGN’s Gamescom 2019 Live Coverage You can watch ALL of IGN’s livestreamed Gamescom coverage right here on IGN. Stay tuned to the IGN homepage every day during the show for our livestream, as well as on our many other platforms. Here’s how you can follow the action as it happens: You can also watch IGN’s official stream via Gamescom’s official website throughout the show. Stay tuned to IGN for more details on our live show and Gamescom presence, and be sure to stick to IGN throughout Gamescom to get the biggest news, previews, and gameplay as it premieres.

The Porsche 356 was the company’s first production automobile. It was a lightweight and nimble-handling rear-engine rear-wheel-drive 2-door sports car available in hardtop coupe and open configurations. Design innovations continued during the years of manufacture, contributing to its motorsports success and popularity. Production started in 1948 at Gmund, Austria. In 1950 the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its autumn 1963 debut. It is estimated approximately half of the total production of 76,000 356s still survive. This example is an early [up to July] 1963 356 B T-6 Cabriolet. The vehicle has a non-matching motor, motor is from 1962 1600 S [75hp]. The engine was rebuilt to a higher spec and now boasts 1720 cc and Dellorto carburetors instead of original Solex carburetors. A conversion from the 6 volt electrical system to 12volt was done at the time of the engine rebuild. The brake system was also upgraded from standard 1963 drum brakes to the disc brake system that became standard in 1964 [much more reliable and serviceable]. A complete professional restoration was done and documented between 1987-89. Finished in a gorgeous Silver 936 (circa 1980) and Black Leather Interior, this suitable four seater is just perfect. This is an honest car with period correct Radio and Nardy Wood steering wheel and with a full superb detail this time capsule shows and drives very well. From what we know this is a Vancouver car since new. This 356 comes complete with a set of service history thanks to the previous owner who kept meticulous records - There are no features available Technical Specifications currently not available

On Sunday Tony Abbott announced his government would provide $10 million to upgrade the Brookvale Oval in New South Wales. As the Coalition’s press release puts it, “Brookvale Oval is the only ground between Sydney Harbour and Gosford that meets NRL standards.” Furthermore, “Only the Coalition can be trusted to deliver the Brookvale Oval upgrade and better sporting facilities for the Northern Beaches.” Such is the high stakes of federal politics. Every election carnival has its major attractions – the set-piece debates and the big announcements that consume half a week’s worth of media coverage. Think of Tony Abbott’s corporate tax cut. Or Kevin Rudd’s northern Australia policy. But in between these major announcements, there’s a whole lot of filler. Stadium revamps. Road extensions. Oval upgrades. We’ve grown so accustomed to the stream of spending promises that accompany elections, we rarely reflect on how absurd they are. For these critical few weeks, when Australians decide who is best to lead, the election campaign subordinates the serious task of distributing public revenue to theatrical opportunism. We hope for the clash of political visions. But we get rival groups of travelling salesmen, each trying to one-up the others’ offer. The Brookvale Oval promise has received a bit more scrutiny because the ground is already getting its upgrade – Labor’s Anthony Albanese committed to it a few weeks ago. And the money was already allocated in the May budget. Few of the usual handouts get that sort of attention. Over the past two weeks, Abbott has announced he would, if elected, provide money for an Antarctic research centre, a Hobart Airport upgrade, a netball centre in Queensland, a sports centre in Penrith (also announced by Albanese earlier), and a recreation centre in Victoria. Kevin Rudd would like to be elected so he can hand taxpayer cash to a discovery centre in Melbourne’s east, a sports complex in Launceston, a refurbishment of the Hobart Showground, a gymnastics centre in Mackay, and a natural gas research centre. There’s clear no rhyme or reason to any of these promises. From the outside they seem completely arbitrary; a scatter plot of spending. They’re sometimes handed to marginal seats, but not always. Hopefully they have some internal logic. But it’s hard to imagine a single vote being swung on whether the Brookvale Oval or Hobart Showground gets federal funding. We should distinguish these promises from another group of similarly forgettable announcements meant to reinforce specific messages. Does anybody remember Abbott’s pledge in 2010 to set up an “Office of Due Diligence” in the prime ministers’ department, to vet new spending programs? Of course not. It wasn’t a serious policy suggestion: it was promised solely to remind voters that Labor was wasting taxpayers’ money. The challenge for any opposition is to convert their core argument – the government is terrible – into deliverable policy. Much policy devised during an election campaign is like this. Different again are the big, headline-grabbing infrastructure spends. Take Abbott’s promise to put $7 billion into the Bruce Highway in Queensland or $1.5 billion into the East West Link in Melbourne. At least these are subjected to some public debate, and even – occasionally – a cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate they are actually worth doing. In 2008 the Labor government created an independent body, Infrastructure Australia, to scrutinise such spending. The idea was to avoid pork barrelling. A lovely thought. But the Coalition feels no need to abide by the body’s recommendations. And Labor ignores them when convenient. (The Parramatta to Epping Rail Link in Sydney, a last minute pledge of Julia Gillard in the 2010 election, was never favoured by Infrastructure Australia.) Anyway, minor showground renovations are well below the threshold for Infrastructure Australia, which only looks at “projects of national significance”. That is, it only looks at things the federal government should be doing. If upgrading the only ground between Sydney Harbour and Gosford that meets NRL standards is a desirable use taxpayers’ money, perhaps it could be paid for by state or local governments, whose citizens will directly benefit. But then federal politicians wouldn’t be able to claim credit. The purpose of the pork barrel road show is impressionistic rather than specific. It is spending as white noise – designed to give a potential voters a feeling that a Labor or Coalition government will be generous with federal funding. Not generous anywhere particular, but everywhere. Tony Abbott says he would like to be considered an “infrastructure prime minister”. He’s promising “cranes over cities” like so many storks around a watering hole. The sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” to describe consumption that was valued for the impression it left on others, rather than the utility it bought the consumer. So much of what passes for policy during an election campaign is conspicuous investment – not important for its own sake, but to demonstrate how freely money would flow under the next government. After all, if Brookvale Oval gets its funding, who knows? Maybe your pet project could be next.

April 11, 2011 How Long Will I Have To Wait For My Social Security Disability Hearing? There is still a tremendous backlog of individuals waiting for an Indiana Social Security disability hearing. Indianapolis disability lawyer Scott Lewis spends much of his day explaining to current and future Social Security disability clients that they are in a long line waiting for their day in front of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). Statistically your chances of winning your claim go up when you finally enter a courtroom to present evidence in front of an ALJ, but the Social Security Administration (SSA) is not going to pay your bills during this long wait. So exactly how long does it take to get your disability hearing in Indiana? It depends on a variety of factors. The Indianapolis Office or Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) is currently one of the more lengthy waits if your hearing is in Indiana. There are other hearing offices throughout the state of Indiana that are quicker to get you your day in court. Can you pick where you have your hearing? No, it is assigned a location depending on where you reside. Is there any good news on the horizon? Things MAY be looking up. Indianapolis Social Security disability attorney Scott Lewis has noticed a decrease in the wait time in some cases. In the recent past, Mr. Lewis would tell his disability appeals clients the wait was generally running 18 – 24 months from the date they requested a hearing until they would actually see a judge. Lately, Mr. Lewis has seen individuals receive a Social Security disability hearing in 12 months after requesting a hearing. Does this mean your hearing will be within 12 months of the day you requested it? Probably not. Many factors determine your hearing date including what Administrative Law Judge you are assigned, whether you have an in person or a video teleconference hearing, and other factors. Indianapolis disability lawyer Scott D. Lewis believes the best thing you can do during this wait is to be prepared. Continue to see your medical professionals as needed and keep attorneys or representatives like Indiana disability lawyer Scott Lewis informed of your situation.

The Government has announced plans to tackle unfair leaseholder arrangements, so it's worth understanding the difference between freehold and leasehold property. Over the past twenty years there has been a big increase in the number of houses being sold by developers on a leasehold basis. These sales have seen ground rents being set at much higher levels than previously, and with scheduled increases. In what is considered to be the worst examples, leases include terms to allow the ground rent to double every ten years. New measures announced by the Government will include ban on leaseholds for almost all new build houses, and changes so that ground rents on new long leases are set to zero. They will also make it cheaper and easier for existing leaseholders to buy-out their freehold, and there will be routes to redress for those facing the most onerous terms. We must wait for further details on these changes from the Government but it is worth being prepared by understanding the basis on which a property is being sold. What form of ownership? It’s important to check exactly what form the ownership takes, and then ask the right questions. If it’s freehold, you will own the property and the land it sits on, but there may be other responsibilities that are not so obvious, such as contributing towards maintenance of a private shared access road or other shared estate facilities. If it’s a shared freehold, then you will own your personal space in the property, and generally a share of the land and the shared spaces. Any maintenance is likely to be subject to agreement between all the freeholders, and the cost shared between everyone. If it is leasehold, then you will be buying the right to live in the property for the remaining duration of the lease, with the land, the structure of the building and shared spaces owned by the freeholder, who may be an individual landlord or a property management company. It’s a lease, so how long does it have to run? Leases of between 99 and 999 years are commonly granted and generally the value of a property will reduce as the lease gets closer to the end, but don’t expect to snap up a bargain if you’re looking for a mortgage as lenders are unlikely to make a loan on a property with anything less than 55 years left to run, some lenders requiring an even longer unexpired term. If a property has only a short time left on the lease, you can ask the seller to seek an extension, but expect to pay for the benefit. A lease extension can be requested at any time by a leaseholder. How much is the ground rent? Normally ground rent will apply only if it’s a leasehold property. Ground rent can be a fixed charge or one that will change over time, so check out how much is being paid currently, but look through the small print as well, to be sure there are no big increases on the way. How much are the service charges? Service charges can strike fear in the hearts of leaseholders, even when they have very deep pockets, as all work is likely to be relative to the size and standing of the overall building. Be quick to ask for evidence of the service charge budget and the accounts for the past three years and don’t be afraid to ask around about the freeholder. Are repairs and maintenance up to date? Take a good look at how well things are maintained as you view the property and then check it out against those service charge accounts you’ve asked for. The Residential Team at Hay & Kilner can help on all aspects of property purchases or sales.

What impact does integrity have on a leader’s performance? Does a leader’s character impact the organization the leader is leading? According to recent research conducted by KRW International, CEOs noted for their integrity led their organizations to higher levels of performance than those CEOs with lower integrity scores. * Employees were asked to rate their CEOs on integrity, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion. And those CEOs with higher marks led their companies to higher returns as compared to the CEOs with lower marks. The Harvard Business Review article that reports the research declares, “The people who work for you will benefit from the tone you set. And now there’s evidence that your company will too.” The world is longing for leaders who are filled with integrity, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion. In essence, the research says that people benefit from leadership that is Christian in nature. People want to know they can trust their leaders, that their leaders are not self-focused and self-absorbed. No one benefits from a self-absorbed leader who makes decisions in light of his own interests instead of those he has agreed to lead and serve. As Christians, we “shine like stars in a culture that is crooked,” and we shine like stars because we are “blameless and pure” (Philippians 2:15). People benefit from leaders who take deep responsibility for their roles, who steward their assignment with great care, who take seriously the opportunity they have been given. As Christians we are to work with all our hearts at whatever we do because we are ultimately accountable to more than a board and more than a supervisor. We ultimately serve Him (Colossians 3:23). People benefit from leaders who forgive, who allow teams to make mistakes, learn, and develop. An unforgiving leader stifles innovation and intensity as people live in fear of making mistakes. As Christians, we are commanded to forgive others as God has forgiven us in Christ (Ephesians 4:32). We should be the most forgiving leaders on the planet because we are in awe of God’s forgiveness toward us. People are much more willing to follow leaders who love them, who care for them and not just their productivity. And as leaders care for their people, the team is much more likely to be healthy. As Christians, we have been rescued by our compassionate and merciful King, and as we follow Him, we are to “put on heartfelt compassion” (Colossians 3:12). No one should outpace the people of God in living and offering these values to the world around us. As Christians, we should not be men and women of integrity because it wins but because we belong to Him. Yet as we are, those around us will benefit. * Source: Harvard Business Review, April 2015

Upon entering our office, our receptionist will welcome you as a member of our family. We will request that you complete our patient forms located in the New Patient Center. This paperwork provides us with your health history and information on your condition. Next, you will have a consultation with Dr. Lauterbach to discuss your health-related problems, concerns, and potential treatment options. This initial visit is designed for Dr. Lauterbach to learn more about you, your condition, and expectations to determine how chiropractic care can meet your goals. After your consultation, Dr. Lauterbach will perform a complete chiropractic examination testing your reflexes and flexibility. Other standard neurological, orthopedic, postural, and physical tests will be performed as well. However, nothing will be done in our office without your consent. Computerized Surface EMG We have invested in non-invasive State of the art technology that will Objectively help us... - Detect areas of Nerve Disturbance or interference - Document and monitor your results and progress - Deliver the appropriate Chiropractic Care Four important factors to consider before the tests are administered: - Do the Insight Millennium tests hurt? Absolutely not. There are no needles, electric shock, or heat whatsoever. They are receiving important information from your Nervous System. - Why does the Chiropractor administer these tests? Our purpose is to detect and pinpoint abnormal nervous system function that is not seen on X-ray's or MRI's. These disturbances lead to subluxations and the Insight helps to locate areas of spinal dysfunction. The 3 tests used in my office are 1) SEMG- which measures muscle activity and the amount of electric current present, which looks at the motor system. 2) Thermography-measures skin temperature differences in the spine which measures the autonomic nervous system of the body. 3)Pulse Wave Profiler- measures heart rated variability, skin conductance, and pulse rate. - Why is it important to monitor the results? As a Chiropractor I want the best results for my patients Health and Wellness. Periodic progress exams help us to determine how your nervous system is responding to Chiropractic care. The advanced technology allows us to look at function and not necessarily focus on symptoms. - How will this test benefit me? For years a major concern of the public has been "why do I have to keep coming in if I am pain free?" or "how do I know if i am getting the proper adjustments?" Now you are able to actually see the changes, (see below for examples of a comparison of initial scans vs. re-scans) and it will be easier to understand the amount and type of care you are receiving. Because of this technology, we can provide a tailor-made program to meet your specific needs. - In most cases X-rays or M.R.I.'s may have been performed elsewhere, we will help in the process of obtaining these for Dr. Lauterbach to review. If new X-rays are necessary we can quickly obtain them through Martha Jefferson Out-Patient Services. Report of Findings: Second Visit Once the information is collected and examinations are performed, Dr. Edward Lauterbach will give you a detailed report of all findings and answer any questions including: - How can you help me? - How often do I need to come in? - What will my treatment cost? After reviewing your health history, goals, and examining your spine and SEMG reports., Dr. Lauterbach will discuss recommendations and notify you if your condition requires care with other providers. Dr. Lauterbach will provide the best treatment and wellness program for your needs. Our Technique is known as Traditional Chiropractic (Diversified Adjusting) We Are gentle yet effective, never forcing or thrusting to hard. Years of experience and thousands of Chiropractic adjustments will assure you that you are in good hands with Dr. Lauterbach. Our office also utilizes Physical therapy modalities such as Interferrential Muscle Stim, Ultrasound Therapy, Heat, Trigger Point Therapy, Acupuncture, Massage and more! No other office comes close to what we offer in one location. After Completion of your initial teratment program, the doctor will suggest a wellness program to incorporate outside of treatment. If you are in pain when you first come into our office this may include: ice or heat application instructions, certain activities or positions to avoid, and at home exercises and/or stretches. If you desire, our wellness team will work with you also to create healthy habits and routines for your lifestyle. Every person is unique, therefore everyone requires a customized wellness plan. The purpose of our wellness program is for you to achieve good spinal alignment, have a healthy diet, exercise, and maintain a positive mental state.

With Facebook, Instagram and Twitter constantly stealing the spotlight of the nonprofit social media world, LinkedIn can often get overlooked. In fact, many organizations underestimate the powerful influence of LinkedIn. As its slogan would suggest, “world’s largest professional network,” LinkedIn can be an extremely beneficial marketing and outreach tool for your nonprofit. Although the site began with a focus primarily on for-profit businesses, it has since grown to become a social networking platform for for-profit and nonprofits alike. Here is a screenshot from LinkedIn for Nonprofits, describing exactly how you can use this platform to power your nonprofit. No matter your nonprofit’s size, cause, or location, LinkedIn can help drive your mission, expand your network, and grow your brand. Overview of LinkedIn Landscape As of April 2017, LinkedIn reports to have 500 million users, although it’s likely that only half of those are active users. In fact, the amount of hours that users are engaging on LinkedIn are shown below: - 47.6% of users use LinkedIn 0-2 hours per week - 26% use it from 3 to 4 hours a week - 12.2 % use it for 5-6 hours per week (that is nearly 1,400 minutes per month) Although user engagement is lower than that of Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, LinkedIn is a great resource to use for different kinds of tasks such as researching people and companies, reconnecting with past business associates, and building network relationships with individuals who may influence potential customers. So how can you be best utilizing LinkedIn for your organization? Establish your Digital Presence First thing’s first: you must establish an identity by creating a company page or profile for your nonprofit. Be sure to upload a photo (your nonprofit logo works just fine) and include up-to-date information about the organization (address, social media links, website URL, etc.). The key is to complete your profile 100% so it is more likely to show up in related searches. Similar to your nonprofit's other social media platforms, this is your digital storefront. As a nonprofit, you want to make sure your viewers experience the authentic, real, and cause- oriented voice of your organization. Your nonprofit’s LinkedIn page is a great place to post: - Job/volunteer opportunities - Noteworthy news - Blog posts Your company page helps your organization to gain visibility, formal credibility and highlight your mission within a professional network. Get Your Staff on Board Once your page is all set-up, it is time to start building relationships and networking with others on the LinkedIn platform. Start connecting with the people who are already the strongest advocates for your cause - your nonprofit's board members, volunteers, staff, donors, etc. Make sure to ask those who are staff members or volunteers at your organization to list you as their employer or volunteer on their own personal Linkedin account. That way when anyone searches their individual profile your nonprofit gets some publicity as well! A great way to engage and connect with influencers, leaders and those passionate about your cause is through the groups feature. Before starting your own group, make sure there isn’t one already created under the same topic. This prevents there from being numerous groups within the same focus. It is beneficial to participate in both local groups as well as international ones that relate directly to your nonprofit organization. By contributing to (or creating a new) group you're generating a space for discussions related to your cause and connecting with other nonprofit professionals while at the same time encouraging your supporters to be online advocates for your organization and its services. This will ultimately expand your network, get your voice heard, and allow you to reach a variety of new connections. Just as you would with any other social media platform, it is important to be consistent and active on your LinkedIn page. Your connections and followers are depending on you to regularly generate content that sparks interest and interaction. One of the most effective ways to establish authority and reputation on LinkedIn is through producing high-quality content. You want your articles to be educational and professional, yet enjoyable to read. This way your connections will share, comment, and initiate dialogue about your cause. Many professionals today use LinkedIn as a news aggregator, a way to keep up with what’s going on in the industry. By providing your public with your nonprofit's news, accomplishments and industry insights you are showcasing your leadership and adding value to others within the field. To sum up LinkedIn allows your nonprofit to expand its horizons. Different to other social media platforms, on LinkedIn, you have the opportunity to connect with more than just your friends or immediate acquaintances. In case you missed it: As always, if you would like to share your own personal experiences using LinkedIn for your nonprofit, please comment below or feel free to reach out to us at Elevation. If your nonprofit hasn’t jumped on the LinkedIn train, now is the time!

While Kasey Musgraves was shining on the red carpet during the CMAs on Wednesday night, Amazon was releasing a new trailer for her upcoming Christmas special. This marks the first Christmas event for Prime Video, and it will feature Kacey and special guests Camila Cabello, Zooey Deschanel, Leon Bridges, Kendall Jenner, James Corden, Lana Del Rey, Dan Levy, and Troye Sivan. The big event premieres on November 29th, and it’s called “The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show.” You can already add the show to your watchlist, so you don’t forget, and you can find it right here for free on Prime Video. Amazon described the Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show as “Equal parts heart-warming and cleverly absurd, Musgraves pays tribute to holiday specials of the past whilst also reinventing just what a Christmas special can be, with a magically modern twist.” Performers for the evening include Fred Armisen on “Silent Night,” Leon Bridges on “Present Without A Bow,” Camila Cabello on “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” James Corden on “Let It Snow,” Zooey Deschanel on “Mele Kalikimaka,” Lana Del Rey on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” and Troye Sivan on the world-debut of “Glittery.” The Radio City Rockettes will also join Musgraves during her number “Ribbons and Bows.” The special event will be accompanied by an official soundtrack available on Amazon Music and other DSPs beginning November 29th. In the announcement, Musgraves added, “I can say without a doubt that this project is unlike anything I’ve ever done before,” states Musgraves. “What started as the small seed of an idea one night over a year ago has turned into something I’m so proud of. Some truly brilliant comedic and musical guests are featured in the show – as well as my own Grandma. My vision was to bring my old Christmas album to life visually and create a modern and fashionable, fresh take on a classic format. It’s a nostalgic, Wes Anderson-inspired reimagining of the holidays. It’s heartfelt, funny, and most of all, real. I can’t wait to finally share.” Subscribe to Daily Updates and never miss a headline. Slanted sometimes uses affiliate links and may earn a commission if you purchase items through those links.

Your Idaho Falls & Rexburg Foot & Ankle Specialists Our Foot and Ankle Services A fracture is a partial or complete break in a bone. Fractures in the ankle can range from the less serious avulsion injuries (small pieces of bone that have been pulled off) to severe shattering-type breaks of the tibia, fibula or both. Diagnosis of Ankle Injury Following an ankle injury, it is important to have the ankle evaluated by a foot and ankle surgeon for proper diagnosis and treatment. Idaho Foot & Ankle Center has same day appointments for your foot and ankle injuries. It is recommended to be seen within 24 hours of your injury. If you are unable to visit our office, go to an emergency room and then follow up with IFAAC’s foot and ankle surgeons as soon as possible for a more thorough assessment. The affected limb will be examined by the foot and ankle surgeon who will touch specific areas to evaluate the injury. In addition, the surgeon may order x-rays and other imaging studies, as necessary. Symptoms of Ankle Injury An ankle fracture is accompanied by one or all of these symptoms: - Pain at the site of the fracture, which in some cases can extend from the foot to the knee. - Significant swelling, which may occur along the length of the leg or may be more localized. - Bruising that develops soon after the injury. - Blisters may occur over the fracture site. These should be promptly treated by a foot and ankle surgeon. Inability to Walk - Inability to walk; however, it is possible to walk with less severe breaks, so never rely on walking as a test of whether or not a bone has been fractured. Change in Appearance - Change in the appearance of the ankle—it will look different from the other ankle. - Bone protruding through the skin—a sign that immediate care is needed. Fractures that pierce the skin require immediate attention because they can lead to severe infection and prolonged recovery. Treatment of ankle fractures depends on the type and severity of the injury. At first, the foot and ankle surgeon will want you to follow the RICE protocol: - Rest: Stay off the injured ankle. Walking may cause further injury. - Ice: Apply an ice pack to the injured area, placing a thin towel between the ice and the skin. Use ice for 20 minutes and then wait at least 40 minutes before icing again. - Compression: An elastic wrap should be used to control swelling. - Elevation: The ankle should be raised slightly above the level of your heart to reduce swelling. - Immobilization. Certain fractures are treated by protecting and restricting the ankle and foot in a cast or splint. This allows the bone to heal. - Prescription medications. To help relieve the pain, the surgeon may prescribe pain medications or anti-inflammatory drugs. When is Surgery Needed? For some ankle fractures, surgery is needed to repair the fracture and other soft tissue-related injuries, if present. The foot and ankle surgeon will select the procedure that is appropriate for your injury. Idaho Foot & Ankle Center IDAHO FALLS OFFICE 1540 Elk Creek Dr. Idaho Falls, ID 83404 MON 8AM-5PM | TUES 7AM-3PM WED-THURS 8AM-5PM | FRI 8AM-12PM 393 E 2nd N Rexburg, ID 83440

No man wants to ponder the possibility of hair loss. No, I take that back. No person wants to consider hair loss in their future. Because as we all know, woman can suffer from hair loss as well. Whether it’s genetic, hormonal, related to diet or stress, it certainly can happen. Why do you think Rogaine for women is sitting on the hair-care shelf in every drugstore? It’s a prominent issue. The funny thing about hair loss is that someone always has some new and “improved” hair loss solution. Unfortunately many of these are utter flops. Remember the spray-on hair remedy? What in the world were men thinking? Better yet, who came up with such a tacky concoction? Can you imagine what would happen if a guy used this product and his date decided to run her fingers through his dew? Yikes! I’d hate to be there when that happened. Then there was the more recent Procede hair loss remedy. I think this one is still advertised today. But, don’t get your credit card out just yet. It’s probably safe to assume that thousands or even millions of men have tried a number of hair loss treatments. I recently read a piece on the Procede hair loss solution. This one was advertised on infomercials, like many of them are. I believe it claimed to give you fuller, thicker hair and darken your scalp. This of course creates the illusion of a fuller head of hair. Hmm, sounds pretty bizarre if you ask me. And lastly, it washes and conditions your dew as well. Now, does the Procede hair loss treatment actually work wonders, or is it another gimmick? This answer will probably vary depending on whom you ask. I read one man’s negative comment on the Procede hair loss treatment, which stated that it caused his hair to fall out in clumps. Yousers! That’s a pretty heavy remark. It would definitely discourage me from trying the product. Another gentleman stated that it made his hair look fuller and richer, but it did not grow his hair back where it was lost. Obviously the results will vary. Take care of your hair! This is one thing that you can do without products such as Procede hair loss remedy. Eat right, take a multivitamin, try Omega 3s, exercise, and get plenty of water and sleep. These are crucial measures that any person can take to keep their hair looking great. Ask your family doctor if you’re experiencing hair loss.

How a Key Reversal Bar Pattern Can Alert You to a Potential Trade Learn to trade this high-confidence setup by Vadim Pokhlebkin Updated: September 11, 2014 Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of our Trader's Classroom service and one of our most popular instructors. This article is part 5 in our 6-part series, Find Trading Opportunities in Any Market. You can browse all articles here. In this lesson, you will learn how a popular chart pattern can identify a trade setup and what will turn the setup into an actionable trade. Too often, people take a "ready-fire-aim" approach to trading -- which is obviously a backwards way of doing it. A trade setup is different from a trade trigger. Today, we'll talk about what turns a setup into a trigger. A trade setup that I'm always on the lookout for is a double close key reversal outside bar combination. A double close key reversal forms when prices make a new extreme, yet close above or below the prior two closes. The outside bar portion of this formation is self-explanatory: The current bar's high and low are above and below the previous price bar's high and low. It is important to remember that this bar pattern is a setup only -- and not a signal to immediately take a trade. For this formation to become tradable, it must prove itself by trading beyond the key reversal bar's high or low. If the high of the key reversal bar is penetrated, then the low of the key reversal bar may act as an initial protective stop for longs and vice versa for shorts. By employing these guidelines, your trading style becomes one of ready-aim-aim-aim-fire. Watch this video for more: Watch Introduction to the Wave Principle Applied In this free 15-minute video, EWI Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy explains how to take the Wave Principle and turn it into a trading methodology. You'll learn the best waves to trade, where to set your protective stop, how to determine target levels, and more. No datasource selected or available.

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Imagine a world of rapid change and confusion—one with less understanding and empathy than the world of your youth. Sounds a little discouraging, doesn’t it? In many ways, that imagined world is the world of today for our children. With the flicker of a screen or the tap of a finger, our children and teens can access nearly anything they can think of in a matter of seconds. Yet something sad and ironic has happened in this Information Age. Our young people—though gifted with the digital capabilities of instant access—have lost precious opportunities to experience authentic connections within their communities and develop critical thinking skills in the same way previous generations once did. Today’s youth feel less empathy for others, have underdeveloped analytical abilities, and experience little self-reflection. Although this well-documented increase in the negative effects of technology sounds bleak, there is a great deal of hope we can harness as parents and educators. And one of the most potent antidotes presents itself in the form of a slim spine and a multitude of pages. This unassuming antidote is a book. Nothing can do for us what literature does. Nothing can be a substitute for a good book on a rainy day. No movie, videogame, or Netflix binge can do for our children’s hearts and minds what a book can do, and the newest research in brain science and cognition proves it. Books increase our children’s vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and empathy like nothing else can. While television, scrolling social media feeds, and texting stimulate our minds passively, reading is the only comparable pastime that stimulates our minds actively. Reading builds brain matter like nothing else can. Our brains and hearts do miraculous things while under the influence of a good book, and that is why one of the best gifts we can give our children is the love of reading—be it for learning or for pleasure. Giving a child a book gives them a brighter future and a bigger heart. It is no wonder some of our brightest minds cite “reading voraciously” as their primary influencer in their lives: think self-taught theologian A.W. Tozer, businessman Warren Buffet, or tech-giant Bill Gates. Spend time with a gripping novel, and you will see it is no wonder God made sure to put his likeness and sovereign design down on the page and why storytelling has been embedded in mankind’s very nature since Homer’s The Odyssey… and before. In our English department at CCS, we understand the gift of a good book, and we are dedicated to equipping your child with the experiences they need to ignite a passion for reading. We cultivate a meaningful summer reading program that rivals other top schools, offer summer English bootcamps to refine skills, design relevant outside reading lists for the school year, and select timeless novels for class study. But this endeavor to foster the love of reading is not ours alone; we invite you to come along beside us, no matter the age of your student. We want to create a reading revolution at CCS, and there are some practical ways you can go on this journey at home, too. Here are several: - Stories Over Screens Have a dedicated screen-free night once a week. Or a screen free hour if your schedule keeps you busy. Turn off the television, shut-down your phones, and unplug your devices. Instead of screens, everyone curls up with a good book. Talk together about what’s happening in your book and how you connect with the material. Share favorite quotes or lessons. - Bring Books Back Plan weekly or monthly visits to the library or bookstore. Help your child explore their literary interests and select a book or two they will read that month. Check out something for yourself while you’re at it. - Read for Yourself Let your child see you reading. There is suggestive power in the behavior you model. If your child sees you falling in love with a good book, research tells us your child is much more likely to do the same. The earlier you cultivate this love of reading the better, and it’s never too late to start. - Read Together Read together early and often. With your little ones, reading a book or two before bed is one of the best things you can do for your child’s developing brain and sense of security. The latest research proves that preschoolers who were exposed to more books as toddlers were more empathetic and intellectually developed than peers who were not. If your children are older, get a family book club going or start a friendly competition to see who can read the most books in a given period of time. Want to learn more? Check out these links.

Task: read and translate into Russian in written form. Sociology is one of the social sciences. It occupies a prime position among a group of these sciences or disciplines, which include also anthropology, economics and political sciences. The subject-matter of sociology is behavior of people as social beings. Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. The scope of sociology is extremely wide, ranging from the analysis of everyday happenings with people in the street up to the investigation of global social processes. Among the aims of sociology there are such as: discovering the basic structure of human society, identifying the main forces that hold groups together or weaken them, learning what conditions transform social life. And still in the world there are different approaches to sociology. For some people sociology is the scientific study of society and social behavior. For others it is a guide for ordinary people to understand what is happening to them and how their social world operates. Both approaches are to be considered actual and interdependent at the present historical moment. A common sense question so what? should be used by a sociologist who is taking part in a research. Almost everyone has some specialized knowledge of a social situation: a family, a work setting or a life style. The sociologist is respectful of this common sense knowledge and often depends on it. However, in the majority of cases it can be fragmentary and uncritical. Sociological research is to be more critical and more systematic. It is quite evident that for this reason sociology must often go beyond the categories of everyday life and must invent new categories to interpret events and experiences in a fresh light. In order to understand how people behave and how they change it is always necessary to see it as a part of a broader social process. That is why sociologists closely study social context which helps a lot in interpreting things. Sociology studies men and groups in action. The acting person is a specific human being who pursues goals, interprets experience, responds to opportunities and confronts difficulties. The sociological emphasis on context and action points out to the concreteness of human experience. There is no abstract being called man, there are only particular persons who live their own lives in historical time. Awareness of plurality is essential for sociology. It studies the general and the particular, the abstract and the concrete. Human interaction is another focus of sociology. A human being always interacts with his social environment. From his setting he derives aspirations, satisfactions, anxieties and social identity. 1. A human being always interacts with his environment. 2. studies men and groups, in action. 3. study involves close analysis of the sources of change. 4. The aim of sociology is to discover the basic structure of human . 5. Sociology is one of the social . Ex. 5. Mark the statements that are true. 1. To understand how people behave the social context must be closely observed. 2. Sociology never goes beyond the categories of everyday life. 3. Some aspects of society are well known to most people. 4. Sociology studies animals and plants in action. 5. Awareness of plurality is essential for sociology. 6. Sociology is a probing discipline. Ex. 6. Answer the questions on the text. 1. What kind of science is sociology? 2. Who is respectful of common-sense knowledge of a social situation? 3. What can be said about an abstract man? 4. To understand how people behave and how they change, the social context must be closely observed, mustnt it?

INFOTECH: KSS Technologies Commits to Building Technical Cisco Skills Recent Gauteng Business News - Data Science: the Next Frontier in Business Differentiation - Gartner Survey Reveals Investment in Big Data is Up But Fewer Organisations Plan to Invest - Tognum AG Welcomes New Majority Shareholder - Jasco Expands East Africa Presence with Opening Of New Kenya Office - Zuma's Lawyer Reported to KZN Law Society This program is part of Cisco’s strategy to accelerate business development and growth opportunities for its channel partners in emerging markets where technical resources are scarce. GTAP trains associates and experienced professionals as network consulting engineers, project managers, customer support engineers, system engineers, and account managers. KSS Technologies commitment to Cisco’s GTAP KSS Technologies Technical Services Manager, Johan Van Zyl, says KSS is committed to Cisco’s Talent Acceleration Program and to building Cisco skills in Southern Africa. “We employ these candidates on a 12 month contract and their performance is constantly monitored by Cisco as well as ourselves.” “KSS interviewed 20 potential candidates and earmarked two candidates for the GTAP. David Mashego is doing the Network Consulting Engineer/Unified Communications certification and Nkateko Silaule is doing a Network Consulting Engineer/Data Centre Network course,” he says. The 3-Step Process of KSS Technologies GTAP GTAP is a three-step process – recruit, train, and enable graduates to work in Cisco and Cisco ecosystem partner service delivery organisations. This talent development model has proven itself effective time and time again, as GTAP continues to deliver the highest quality of talent back to the business. This learning environment accelerates not only their ability to achieve various Cisco certification levels, but also sharpens their professional skills and tests their knowledge absorption through a series of Technical Review Panels. “Furthermore, regular performance reviews are held with these candidates to monitor their progress on the program. After this contract period we would like to employ them on a permanent base,” concludes Van Zyl of KSS Technologies. Business News Sector Tags: Infotech|

Wilder Foundation’s Community Equity Pipeline helps young leaders of color navigate the state capitol By Adam Wahlberg Walking the grounds and wandering the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol, one can’t help but be awed. Its white marble exterior, influenced by the neoclassicist Beaux Arts movement in France, is capped by a three-layer dome inspired by St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. A gilded copper sculpture of a four-horse chariot looms high above the southern entrances, and six classical figures representing six virtues sit just below it. Inside, visitors can view 38 governors’ portraits and the paintings Father Hennepin at the Falls of St. Anthony and Attack on New Ulm. While taking in the results of the building’s $272 million renovation, it’s also hard not to notice the Eurocentric nature of the place, which mirrors the demographic makeup of its elected members. Seventy-nine percent of Minnesota’s inhabitants identify as Caucasian, as do a whopping 92 percent of its state representatives. In 2017, in fact, there were just 16 nonwhite legislators, and that’s the highest number in the body’s 149-year history. It’s no wonder people of color often feel unwelcome—and, as a result, too often feel ill equipped to participate in their democracy. With the goal of chipping away at the institution’s exclusionary veneer, the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation rolled out the Community Equity Pipeline (CEP) in the fall of 2015. A 10-month training program intended for young leaders of color, it’s designed to provide instruction regarding legislative sausage making, as well as give participants the opportunity to work hand-in-hand with lobbyists and lawmakers. (The Citizens League’s Capitol Pathways Program also offers experiential internships at the legislature. It focuses on college-age students with leadership potential.) Those selected for the program are neither political neophytes nor newcomers to the business of advocacy. Typically between the ages of 18 and 30, they are often executive directors or officers from various Minnesota nonprofits. It’s just that, for the most part, they don’t have a lot of experience with the capitol’s nooks and crannies. “What we want to do is help leaders avoid the first couple years of mistakes that people make when they’re advocating,” says James Chang, the legislative programs lead at Wilder Foundation. “We want to fast-track them to be effective.” Formal instruction includes direction on how to read bills, analyze budget proposals, and navigate the often byzantine day-to-day. Each apprentice is also matched with a lobbyist and a legislator and then encouraged to spend a significant chunk of time observing the gears of government turn. For many participants, like Chuayi Thao, director of Achievement Plus, an education nonprofit, the program is akin to a mind-altering field trip. Even though the Hmong American woman grew up in the Twin Cities and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2001, she hadn’t spent much time at the capitol and, as a result, found its physical plant disorienting. Even having a chance to practice seemingly mundane tasks during the 2017 session, like navigating the area’s various parking ramps or finding a committee hearing, was edifying. “I was talking to family members, and many told me they had never been to the capitol, even though we’ve lived here a long time,” she explains. “It’s historically not been an inviting place to people of color.” State representative Rena Moran can relate. When she was elected in 2010 as part of the first class of black legislators from St. Paul, she felt out of place. “The people I saw didn’t look like the community that I represent,” she says. “And this is a problem because legislators make decisions based on those who come [and testify] before them.” Moran agreed to mentor the young people who took part in the program this past year and, when they came to her with questions, tried to provide personal insights on the vagaries of the political ecosystem. “The goal is to help people feel comfortable in a space that can feel uncomfortable,” she says. Once everyone is up to speed on the process and comfortable with the campus, CEP participants begin to play a role in the way laws are debated and shaped. That’s where Wilder’s volunteer lobbyists, like Paul Spies, come into play. Spies, director of the School of Urban Education at Metropolitan State University, also serves on the Coalition to Increase Teachers of Color, which he helped form in November 2015. He understands how frosty the capitol can be to someone who isn’t a professional lobbyist, no matter his or her demographic makeup. “It’s a closed culture,” he says. “That’s just the reality.” Still, Spies believes there are ways to invite oneself into the process and gain some self-confidence. Before the session began, he shared the teacher coalition’s legislative agenda—which emphasized funding for such things as paraprofessional-to-teacher programs, loan forgiveness, and hiring bonuses—with the CEP participants. Spies then explained the various ways a person or organization can create and leverage opportunities to help achieve goals, including attending hearings, working media contacts, holding events, and taking meetings with allies in the house and senate. One of the coalition’s champions, and a CEP co-mentor with Spies, is Rep. Fue Lee, who agreed to talk to Wilder’s program participants about the power of forming alliances, particularly when they need someone to sponsor a bill. “It’s about getting in the door and connecting with lawmakers,” says Lee, a Hmong American man from Minneapolis. “It’s tough. It takes a while.” Many of the teacher coalition’s provisions passed into law, giving those they interacted with in CEP a sense for the look and feel of success. “Funding for more teachers of color, that’s an issue with a lot of support among Democrats,” Lee says. “But with Republicans in the majority, we thought it could be more effective for Democrats to stay in the back seat and have a Republican take the lead.” For Thao, the experience was prima facie evidence that politics is like forming any other kind of social network. You need to reach out, make connections from connections, allow people of differing experiences and opinions to find expression, and learn to lean on one another when challenges arise. “We had so many meaningful conversations during the program, with legislative figures and within the cohort,” she says. “Going forward these will be relationships that I can rely on to keep my energy up when advocating, just knowing others care about your issue. The key will be to keep coming back.” The leaders at Wilder are encouraged by the success stories that have already emerged from their pipeline. This past year in particular, Moran sensed that the group had bonded and found a sense of strength. “I think they learned that they have a lot of power in their own experiences and voices, maybe more so than they realized,” she says. Another class began orientation on September 5, 2017, and Wilder believes that as one cohort follows another, long-term relationships will be forged, commitments will be deepened, and a lasting influence on Minnesota’s state capitol will result. “The capitol is a small, tight-knit community, and a lot of the same folks are there year after year. We want our people to have that same kind of continuity,” Wilder’s Chang says. “I’ve been delighted by how quickly these cohort members came along and how much more they want to learn. We’re already looking forward to next year.”

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Some time ago I was poking in my box of old components. I was searching something else, but I stopped when a few of nixies came up into my hand. Once upon a time (a long, long time ago) I have mined them from an old calculator. I remember... Thirty years ago 6 nixies were a small treasure. He who was able to construct nixie clock with TTL logic, he befit into category "old hand". Nixie light was somehow warmer. A few minutes later I was tuned in the mood of vacuum tubes. Curiosity came to my mind. Would these old bulbs have operated? Now you can construct such clock easy. Just take one microcontroller... Because I was interested in possibility of microcontroller programming with high-level language in the same time, I decided to play a little. I tried to construct easy nixie clock. The clock will have 6 digits and time setting will be done by means of a few buttons. I will try to use the most common types from widely used microcontroller families of miscellaneous producers. I will write the program in C language. Nixies need high voltage for operation. I wanted to avoid dangerous mains line voltage. The supply voltage for the clock must be safe 12 V. As the main target of the construction was toy, this instruction is not subtle construction with mechanical details and specified case. You can modify the clock to your taste and qualification. The described clock accomplishes these results: |Time display:||HH MM SS| |Alarm display:||HH MM --| |Time mode:||24 hours| |Time accuracy:||+/- 1 second/day (depends on XTAL trimming)| |Supply voltage:||12 V| |Supply current:||cca 100 mA| The multiplex mode is natural solution for device with 6 digit display. Most of blocks in the block diagram are clear. Somewhat special is converter TTL/high voltage for nixies. Anode drivers are based on high voltage NPN and PNP transistors. I took the driver here. TTL IC 74141 ensures BCD decoder and high voltage driver for individual digits. Perhaps it will be difficult to come by 1 piece of it (I don't know if 74141 is produced still). But if you discovered nixies, 74141 could be near :-). In time of TTL logic fame the 74141 was almost exclusive alternative. So try to find one. Nixie need voltage about 170 V. It would be useless to design special circuit for voltage converter. There is a lot of IC for step-up (boost) converters. I selected low cost and widely available MC34063. The converter circuit is almost copied from data sheet. Just only power switch is strengthened by T13. Internal switch is not suitable for such high voltage. I use choke coil as inductor for converter. Diameter is 8 mm and length is 10 mm - see the picture. Efficiency of the converter is good and output voltage is relatively safe. The output voltage decreased to 60V at output current 5 mA. R32 is current-sense resistor. Power supply for logic is linear regulator U4. There is a place for reserve accumulator (3.6 V - NiMH or NiCd) in the schematic and on the board. Diodes D7 and D8 are Schottky type and R37 must limit charge current in compliance with accumulator. Accumulator, D7, D8 and R37 are not necessary if your clock will serve just for fun. The final schematic diagram is here: Buttons for clock setting are connected via diodes. If logic "1" is present at exact position appropriate button is tested. The small piezoelectric buzzer is connected to microcontroller output as a bonus function. Use small switch for shutting up this disgusting morning alarm. The hammer will serve as well, but it is final solution :-). The component bill is here, PCB is here... ... and circuit layout is here. Click on the picture for 600 dpi picture (save it and print). Actually every microcontroller with appropriate number of pins can control such simple device. Minimal number of pins is: All microcontroller manufacturers design specific families and types. Pin configurations of individual types are various. I tried to design universal PCB for several microcontrollers. There is 20 pin socket on the board. You can adapt it for miscellaneous microcontrollers with a change a few wire jumpers. Types tested by me are listed below. You can try additional types. Processor option is advantageous. Amateur of electronics applies one microcontroller family usually and his hobby corner is equipped with programmer and tools for this family. It can be problem to use microcontrollers from other manufacturers. You can choose your favourite processor below. Ready for use is type, source and binary code, development tools and programmer. |Capacitor C1,C2:||22 pF| |Programmer:||Janus Kit (Czech only)| |Note:||10M SMD resistor parallel to crystal| |Capacitor C1,C2:||22 pF| |Setting:||Internal oscillator 4 MHz - I/O RA6, MCLR OFF, WDT OFF, LVP OFF, BROUT OFF, CP OFF, PWRUP OFF| |Programmer:||E.g. here (Czech only)| |Development tools:||HI-TECH PICC-Lite™ Compiler + PSPad| |Note:||Warning! IC is reversed in socket| |Capacitor C1,C2:||15 pF| |Software:||attiny.zip + supplement (see bottom page)| |Setting:||Crystal oscillator 8 MHz, RESET ON| |Development tools:||AVR Studio 4 + WinAVR| |Note:||Add SMD R and C to RESET pin (e.g. 10k and 100n)| |Capacitor C1,C2:||22 pF| |Programmer:||PAtmel or here| |Development tools:||SDCC + PSPad| |Note:||Add SMD R and C to RESET pin (e.g. 10k and 100n), pins with asterisk connect through SMD resistor 3k3 to +Ub| If you compare source code for individual microcontrollers you can see that code is very similar. Differences are in port access, function definition for interrupt and in HW dependent part. Source code consist of 2 sections. Function main() is responsible for port setting and starts timer for interrupt. After that it scans pressing of buttons and sets appropriate time or alarm. There is compared time with alarm in the main loop and handled buzzer as well. The second part is timer interrupt routine. Interrupt is called over every millisecond (it depends on timer capabilities). Interrupt routine increments time variables and drives display digits. The status of buttons is tested also. Start component mounting and setting in operation with power supply. Mount U4 and components around. Check voltage 5 V for U2 and cca 4,6 V for U1. The next step is high voltage converter mounting. Use R36 to set the output voltage to 170 V. If the range of trimmer is insufficient change the value of R33 slightly. Insert U2, transistors and resistors for anode drivers and nixies. Connect U2 inputs to GND and in sequence separately connect R25 - R30 to +Ub. The nixie in this position would light. As the last HW test connect pin 19 of U1 to GND - buzzer will beep. You can find source and compiled program for microcontroller in the appropriate ZIP file. After microcontroller is programmed check carefully every pin of U1 position and fill up needed wire jumpers and tin junctions. See the pictures for microcontrollers above. If the microcontroller is correctly programmed and connected the clock would start to operate. You can set the time and alarm. Warning! There is one more button position on PCB (spare button for future expansion :-). Check clock accuracy. If the accuracy is out of your expectation change slightly value of C1, C2 (add small parallel capacitor or choose new value for C1, C2). Clock accuracy will improve. Small 8bits processors are ready for high level language programming already. C language is not primary intended for small microcontrollers. But you can use it very well for common applications. An assembler will be better for difficult tasks with time critical locking or with maximum load of processor. Free or limited version of C language SW tool will be sufficient for most hobby constructions. Programming in C is similar for various microcontrollers. You have to know hardware functions (registers and function of peripheral) of your favourite type. Be careful in bit manipulation - C language is not equipped for specific bit operations - e.g. see source code for ATtiny. Are you finished? So, tune into the mood of vacuum tubes and see... ... old times are coming... :-) The nixie clock design is ready for your modifications. Čestmír Hýbl made his own program modification for ATtiny2313. His page is here. Users of other microcontrollers can draw inspiration from his source code. If you prefer counting your life in 12-hour cycles (and you want to know if your lunch is before you - AM; or you are after lunch - PM :-), then see Adam Jacob's modification. You can choose 4 nixies clock here or 6 nixies clock here. Or get inspiration for your design from him... Adam Jacobs thinks, that not only nixies are adorable. That's why he modified clock for other display. You can download his modification for vacuum fluorescent display here.

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Separate names with a comma. Discussion in 'Poetry' started by Aqdas, Aug 16, 2005. I read somewhere that Sayyidina Hassan radiyallahu ta'ala anhu reached an age of about 120 years. Mawlana Saeed Asad said that this quatrain of Hassan ibn Thabit radiyallahu ta'ala anhu was recited in front of the Prophet sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam. Hence, they are the 'aqeedah of Rasoolallah sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam himself. Meaning, the Prophet sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam did believe no mother gave birth to anyone like him, he was free from defect and that he had been created as he would have wished. I just came across this e-book, alhamdulillah it is a nice effort ! may allah reward the author , aameen. Blessings on the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Qadri On Pg 63 this is incorrectly attributed to sayyidina Hasan-ibn Ali alayhis salam while it should actually be Hassan ibn Thabit :ra: Wa ahsanu minka lam tara qattu aini Wa ajmalu minka lam talidin nissa'u Khuliqta Mubarra' an min Kulli aibin Ka-anna-ka qad khuliqta kama tasha'u And I have never seen anyone more strikingly handsome than you And no woman ever gave birth to anyone more nobler than you O Holy Prophet! You have been created free from all defects It is indeed as if you have been created just as you wished it also has Imam Ahmed Rida's salam at the end.

The 5 categories of women you’d definitely find any ladies Okirika spot. 1) The Low Esteemed Aunties. These ones will not go home with any cloth unless you fine mouth that cloth for an hour. Even if they look like milipids in a suit in that clothe, once you say, “ahh this cloth too fit you”, they are going home with it. No second guessing. 2) The snatchers. These set of people will keep moping until you bring out the nicest clothes from underneath the barrow or bag, and just when you drop it to stretch for 2seconds, fiam! They grab it, nothing you say will make them leave it. Unless you are in the mood to fight, you’d just have to drop it. 3) The “Never rich enough” people. These set are just, simply put; annoying. They’ll see you picking clothes, which makes it obvious that you are a buyer like them, but they’d go ahead and ask, “Sis na how much she/him dey sell? “ When they are done wasting time, they’d ask the seller how much the clothes they picked is worth. Once they are told the price, no matter how cheap it is, they’d find a reason to just drop it and leave. Always screaming, “Ahh no be the price wey I expect. 4) The bats. These ones are bats because I have a feeling that they don’t see in the afternoon. You are on the same barrow with them, going through the same sack of clothes, but they’ll keep exclaiming, “Hey Sis na only you dey see fine clothes here o. I no dey see anything. How you dey take see them?” 5) The Hoarders. These ones want every clothe in the sack, even when they have only 500naira to spare. They’d hoard all the clothes and dare you to touch them. Just when you are tired and decide to leave, you’ll see them trailing you almost immediately. To your greatest shock you’ll find out they only took one top out of the 15tops, 5jeans, and 6 gowns they held so tightly before. If all your clothes are pre-ordered from the designers, then you might want to skip this post. You won’t understand what we are talking about. The rest, gather around. I know Boutique shoppers will be like, “Excuse you?” But una follow nah. The difference is, your is selected, washed, ironed and sprayed with perfect line perfume. -written by Onyinye Ndupu Nun

Apple launched its premium “Apple News+” subscription service a few days back in the US and Canada. In addition to Apple News Plus, the company announced exciting services like Apple Card and Apple Arcade. Talking about Apple News Plus, it provides access to over 300 popular magazines, leading newspapers, and digital publications. Apple is currently offering a 30-day trial of News Plus so users can try it out for free. While opting for a free trial, Apple seeks your permission to automatically renew the Apple News+ subscription. This way Apple will automatically charge your linked credit card and renew the subsequent subscription. In case you don’t wish to continue after the 30-day trial period, you must cancel the subscription before the next billing date. If you fail to do so on time then your News+ subscription will be renewed and you’ll be charged $9.99 per month in the US. The cost in Canada is $12.99 per month. How to Cancel Apple News+ (Free Trial) Here’s how you can cancel your Apple News+ subscription during the trial or later. - Open the “Apple News” app on your iPhone or iPad. - Tap on the “Following” tab at the bottom. - Now tap the “Cancel Free Trial” button. Note: The service will end immediately if you cancel the trial. However, in case you cancel a paid subscription then it should continue to work till the next billing date, we aren’t sure about it though. - Go to Settings on your iOS device. - Tap on your name in the top left and open “iTunes & App Store”. - Tap your Apple ID at the top and select “View Apple ID”. - Open the “Subscriptions” tab. - Choose “Apple News+” from the list. - Now tap “Cancel Free Trial” or “Cancel Subscription”. Tap Confirm. That’s it! Your subscription will be cancelled with immediate effect.

Technical Operation Engineer is on a mission to manage all aspects of technical operations to ensure all Sea services and platforms (Shopee, AirPay, and Garena) are running healthily 24/7 and to provide supreme user experience to our customers. As a part of this team, your tasks include but not limited to setup and maintain monitoring systems, design and build high availability service architecture, manage huge numbers of servers using automation tools and build up operational platforms. - Setup, manage and maintain Sea product (Shopee, AirPay and Garena) applications and services; - Participate in product system design, optimization and capacity planning; - Setup and maintain monitoring of technical performance and statistics of Sea (Shopee, AirPay and Garena) products; - Communicate and coordinate with Product Managers, Developers and Infra team; - Perform regular and ad-hoc server-side deployments, releases and troubleshooting; - Prepare routine operation documentation. - Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields; - Extensive and hands-on knowledge with Linux operating system (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.); - Knowledge of Computer Network (TCP/IP, DNS, etc.), Computer Organisations and OS; - Hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Bash, Python, Lua; - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to thrive under difficult and stressful situations; - Good time management skills to work efficiently; - Passion and high sense of responsibility for work; - Fast learning ability and a good team player; - Detailed-oriented, cautious and prudent; - Open to fresh graduates who are passionate about technical operations of internet products. Skills below are optional but preferable - Experience with automation tools like Ansible; - Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.; - Experience with load balancing tools like LVS, Nginx, Openresty or HAProxy; - Experience with container technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos; - Experience with High Availability system design and Server Deployment Process; - Experience with DevOps.

This anthology isn’t the best Halloween movie ever, but some of the stories are too good to miss out on this season. So, let me tell you which ones you just have to see. Written and directed by Dave Parker, this terrifying tale is about an urban legend known as “Sweet Tooth”. Sweet Tooth was once a simple child who wanted candy, but his parents wouldn’t let him have any even though they let him go trick-or-treating. One Halloween night, he finds out that instead of giving him the candy, his parents have been eating it themselves. So, he kills his parents and eats the candy right out from inside them. And now you must leave a candy bar out for Sweet Tooth or he’ll take it from inside you. It’s an original tale with nice innovation and awesome effects. Definitely worth the watch. THE NIGHT BILLY RAISED HELL This was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman so we were expecting more, but sadly, this is not the story to cling to from this anthology. Simply said, it’s about the devil playing a prank on a little boy. But no one is likable, there are no rules and the story is not a nice one. Skip it. The third story written and directed by Adam Gierasch, is our favorite. It stars Tiffany Shepis as one of four adults who suddenly find themselves under attack from several children. You don’t know why at first, but believe me, the motive is stellar. It followed rules, had terrific effects and even the Freddy Claws was incredible for a change. THE WEAK AND THE WICKED This story, filled to the brim with wonderful actors, is about a young man, Jimmy (Keir Gilchrist) being chased by a gang of young people (Grace Phipps, Booboo Stewart, Noah Segan). They tortured him when he was a kid (Jack Dylan Grazer) and know they’re at it again. But things aren’t always as they seem. Especially on Halloween. You’re pulling for Jimmy and since the story follows fabulous rules, you won’t be disappointed. THE GRIM GRINNING GHOST This is another urban legend story. This one is about Mary Bailey, a ghost who doesn’t like to be seen. She’ll approach you, cackling behind you, and you musn’t turn around or bad things will happen. Of course, in the story a woman’s car breaks down and while walking home she hears the cackling behind her. The story is scary, original, has a good cast and great effects. The worst of the stories is about a husband and wife. The husband is being abused by his demon/witch/somethingorother wife. All she wants is a child, but he’s afraid she’ll be mean to the child, too. In the end though, we don’t completely know what she was, what really happened or why. It was stupid. THIS MEANS WAR Dana Gould and James Duval play neighbors who are at war over Halloween decorations and decorum. Gould wants to spook a few kids and give out candy, while Duval wants to party hard and drive the young kids and parents away. The whole story is about them fighting, verbally and physically. I didn’t like it all and DJ didn’t like it much. FRIDAY THE 31ST This story, written and directed by Mike Mendez, is about a young woman dressed as a slutty Dorothy running from a serial killer. As a matter of fact, that’s only the beginning, but what happens after that is the real story. It’s a bit over-the-top, but DJ really enjoyed it. THE RANSOM OF RUSTY REX Two men (Sam Witwer and Jose Pablo Cantillo) decide to kidnap a rich man’s (John Landis) son. However, it doesn’t go as planned in more ways then one and that is all I can tell you. It’s funny though in a dark way. It followed rules, had great specials and an awesome story. Don’t skip this one. Kristina Klebe, Pat Healy, Cerina Vincent, Greg McLean and John Savage star in this story about a pumpkin that eats people. Actually, it’s more about a pumpkin apocalypse. It’s also darkly humorous, with good Freddy Claws, a great cast and really amazing special effects considering it’s about a pumpkin that eats people. Adrienne Barbeau ties all the stories together as a radio DJ. Isn’t that just perfect. My score: 59. DJ’s score: 60.

|Preparing Neopia for the Meepits ||Issue: 480 | 4th day of Awakening, Y13 |Jhudora: Always So Dark?Was Jhudora always evil?| |Gallery ExpensesOne of the biggest hardships to endure as an extreme collector is the funds needed to support your habit! | |A Dash of Good Neopian Karma is What We Need!Many Safety Deposit Boxes are getting close to weighing tonnes! Chocked full of items which we hardly look at, and will likely never use! | |When Zombies Attack: A Guide for You to SurviveNote: No zombies were harmed in the making of this guide. Really. | |Making Your Story FlyHow are you supposed to write a good story if you don't care what happens to your characters and you don't like the plot? | |ALARM! Enemy Observed! Read Now to Be Safe!Your everyday villain: Now a guide in how to defeat that big, bad Boredom!| |Toddlers' Treats: A Guide To Feeding Your Baby NeopetI've taken my beloved baby Usul on a culinary tour of Neopia, sampling food from every land in a bid to find more tasty options for our toothless tots. Here's a list of some of the interesting toddler tidbits we found!| |How Not to Eat BorovanWe love hot chocolate. We love asparagus. What about borovan?| |Making the Most of the Faerie's Ruin Prize ShopI can help you with one huge aspect of the plot point store: turning your plot points into neopoints.| |A Crime in Plain SightThe crime? Vandalism. The objects? Portraits of famous Neopians. The suspect? Unknown. Also by ali_goth |Why Jhudora is the Best Faerie EverFirst of all, Jhudora actually LIVES in Faerieland, unlike those deserters, Illusen and Taelia. | |The Shenkuu ZodiacOn a recent trip I met with Linae, a pink Kougra, and she told me, in greeting: "The Year of the Kougra was exciting, but the Year of the Cybunny is going quite well. I have a feeling it will be even better!"| |Three Myths of Jhudora - Debunked!It's time to see Jhudora in a whole new light.| |Zafara Day Gift IdeasIt may come as a surprise to some owners that Zafaras wouldn't enjoy just ANY item. Yep, can you believe it? Also by xbebedawlx Search the Neopian Times "Evil Poker" by draconis "Got the snacks?" Fiona asked, and Jhudora popped up from behind the counter, holding up a large tray set with bowls of peanuts, cans of soda, and as a centerpiece, a large crystal bowl filled with mixed potato chips. "It's just the three of us," Von Roo said in a dry, menacing voice as he looked at the tray, and Jhudora nodded. "I know, I know," she said as she placed the tray on the poked table and sat down between them. "Pity," Fiona said in a musing voice. "Poker isn't quite..." "Sil! What are you doing?" The cloud Shoyru looked up from the picnic table he sat at, Neodeck cards spread out in front of him.

We’re all aware of natural foods and importance of non-toxicity in food pigments and packaging, but probably don’t pay half as much attention to organic fibers or fabrics. We don’t eat fabrics, so who cares right? Well, it’s high time we did. Apparel we and our kids wear are in constant touch with out bodies and the first step is awareness about how many chemicals we’re moving around in. Then onwards we can address the problem and try fix it. Toxicity in fabrics often goes unnoticed behind colorful designs and fast fashion designs that we try to keep up with. Plus the apparel industry is not as regulated by FDA rules as the food industry and gets away with much in the name of fashion trends. Manmade fibers have been tested and linked to multitude of health and skin problems, most significant of which are skin rashes, allergies, respiratory problems and itches. Synthetic fibers even absorb body sweat in a different way as compared to natural fibers and fabrics. Cotton, hemp, jute, wool, linen, cashmere and silk are the most commonly used natural fibers. Over the past half century, natural fibers have been displaced in our clothing, household furnishings, industries and agriculture by man-made fibers with names like acrylic, nylon, polyester, chiffon and polypropylene. Their success can be attributed in a big way to low cost and ease of wear. Unlike natural fibers harvested by farmers, commonly used synthetic fibers are mass produced from petrochemicals to uniform strengths, lengths and colors, easily customized to specific applications. Plus clothing made from synthetic fibers do not require special care while washing or ironing before wearing them, making them an easy choice in today’s fast paced world. But fast, cheap and easy is not always a good option. Whether it’s fast food or fast fashion, it’s harmful to us and our kids always undercuts the benefits. Natural fabrics provide a natural pattern of ventilation for skin hence for multitude of reasons will always be a better choice. In addition to being healthier, natural fibers also ace in protecting the planet with sustainability and biodegradable fabric compositions which are recyclable. Small farmers and small-scale processors focussed work ethos ensures, that natural fibers are of major economic importance to many countries and vital to the livelihoods and food security of millions globally. In terms of fashion, planet and it’s people are fairly new to the entire context of eco-fashion, starting from ethics of how fibers are made, to who made them and whether they were made ethically and fairly and leading towards a change in fashion styles which are more aligned to a worldwide view of ethical sustainable fashion sensibilities. We hope to be the catalysts for this change in fashion and hope you will join us in our journey. “Free your food from toxic ingredients and your clothes from toxic chemicals” If you agree with this viewpoint, kindly take a few moments and let us know via comments in section below. If you feel a little deeper and would like to join our movement towards creating a change in fashion industry towards ethical, sustainable fashions, please write to us at: firstname.lastname@example.org and we would love to discuss further. Always remember, immortal words from Gandhi a few decades ago – ‘Be the change you want to see in this world’ Thanks for your time,

The project is part of the 10th edition of Holstebro Festuge (Festive Week) 2017, created by Odin Teatret: The Wild West – Roots and Shoots: Re-think. The Wild Island is a project of participatory art: -an artistic installation on the river of the Danish city of Holstebro, a platform-stage made by six wooden rafts (each of 3,5m x 4,5m) built by the local scout groups. The platform will host works of local artists. -a community event that involves citizens, local associations, schools, scout groups, local and international artist groups. Every day different guests will populate the island from 5pm at 6pm. The theme of the next Festuge is the Wild West and the conceptual red thread of our Island will be the Wild Man; the wild side present in each of us, linked to instinct, to the totemic animal, the wild human still present in pagan rituals, in rural communities of various countries of the world, full of symbols which have the power to connect man with nature, with life cycles and seasons, sowing and harvesting, with the four elements. A wild man who exorcises fears and regenerates, blesses the community events. The Wild Island with Isadora Pei (Italy), Alice Williams (Australia), Marcelo Miguel (Brasil), Luis Alonso (Chile) and Ulrik Skeel (Denmark) Four fugitive poets are stranded on a raft. On their flight, they took with them whatever they were able to save. The raft is a refuge for their poetic imagination but also a prison on the water. They try to escape from the daily reality by throwing themselves into a chain of incongruous and ludicrous actions. A commotion happens when, every day, a local poet joins them with the latest news from the literary world and the newspapers. Surrounded by people who watch them as if they were wild animals, they communicate with the rest of the world by means of flying horses and bottle mail. Finally, they are rescued by Holstebro Boy Scouts. But they prefer to resume their flight in search of wildness and the alternative Nobel Prize. The project is coordinated by Isadora Pei Wild Island Project – Holstebro Festuge 2017

I finally got my hands on the LG G4 and unboxing this new bad boy was a pleasure. First off, the LG G4 is a huge improvement over last year’s LG G3, which in my opinion had one of the best smartphone cameras with its laser-focus and 4K with OIS. The LG G4 has pretty much all of those features from last year with a 16MP back camera (from 13MP last year) and F1.8 lens (from F2.4 last year) touted as the fastest camera lens for a smartphone ever. The LG G4 comes with a 3000mAh battery, which is plenty to go for a full day and its removable battery allows the user to easily go for days with multiple batteries and external charger, probably the best way to keep your batteries last longer also. For charging, the G4 comes with a 5V 1.8amps AC adapter, which doesn’t support fast charging like many of the competition but since it has removable battery, it’s not all that bad. Of course, the camera lens with F1.8 is what makes the LG G4 stand out above the rest. In my initial photo/video tests, the F1.8 edged out the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in clarity and brighter photos with its faster lens. As we have expected before, the G4 does live up to its promise and F1.8 does what it says. Curved screen? Yes, the LG G4 actually has a curved screen! Not as curved as the G Flex 2 but if you place the phone face-down on your desk, you will certainly see some gap and the curved screen. It’s definitely a cool factor and does help out in viewing angles, especially when playing games or viewing videos in landscape mode. Not as pronounced as G Flex 2 but this was definitely one of the cool features that I liked about the G Flex 2. While Samsung has decided to go with no removable battery, micro-SD card slot, LG has kept its battery/storage advantage in-tact. This could be number one reason why Samsung users may start using LG G4. The feel of LG G4 is similar to last year, very good. The curved back makes it very easy to hold and fits naturally to the curve of your hands and fingers. There’s nothing we can complain about the feel of this device, and I am looking forward to the leather back also soon. The G4 has gotten slightly fatter this year. It is slightly wider and taller than last year’s LG G3 but other than that, the design has remained nearly the same. I see nothing wrong with this, LG always had good ergonomics and design I couldn’t complain about with very little bezels. The LG G4 introduces one of the most advanced manual mode for a smart camera. You can control everything from ISO, shutter speed and white balance manually. Also the ISO starts at super-low 50 and goes up to 2700. The shutter speed control will also help you add great effect for night shots by slowing it down. Did we mention a histogram and on-board exposure meter just like on a DSLR? Those two features make the manual mode on the G4 most advanced ever. The only thing missing? If LG would have added the manual mode to its video recording, it would have put the last nail in the coffin as the best smartphone camera ever. But no, manual mode only works for photos, you will get automatic ISO/shutter/white balance for video recording. Still, LG G4 comes out on top probably as the smartphone with best camera this year in my opinion. LG G4 supposedly comes with the brighter LCD than last year. Upon actual testing with my LUX light meter, I found that the LG G4 is actually 20-25% less brighter than last year’s LG G3 with brightness of 372 lux at full brightness setting (compared to 422 lux on LG G3). You can check out our HighOnAndroid LUX page here. (You can see with the naked eye that the LG G3 on the right is brighter than the LG G4 on the left.) Performance on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor is very breezy. Although we only scored 44,234 on Antutu (it could be because we did the test right after unboxing and the phone was still hot, most users report around 48K), there’s absolute no lag in running many apps and multi-tasking. The G4 runs flawless through most tasks/apps and you will not have any performance issues on LG’s UI, which is near stock Android and with little bloatware. Now, the benchmarks come nowhere close to HTC One M8 or Galaxy S6/S6 Edge but LG G4’s camera abilities and removable battery/micro-SD card certainly make up for it. If you want the fastest smartphone in the world right now, I think you would be better off with Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge but if you wanted the fastest camera lens on a smartphone (in other words, the best camera), without a doubt it’s the LG G4. I tend to take a lot of videos and having removable battery/micro-SD comes in side-by-side with 4K video recording as you can easily extend the recording times by swapping out extra batteries/micro-SD cards. Samsung has really fell out of the practical boat with its Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge and LG G4 is the new smartphone for people who care about practical things, not just copying the hell out of iPhone. Overall, I am very impressed with LG G4. It’s certainly not perfect (as no phone ever is) but the F1.8 rear camera is as good as it gets if you want to take professional-quality photos with your smartphone. I should have a full review on the G4 soon but in the meanwhile, it’s definitely a “go”! Join the HighOnAndroid VIP Fans List for free help from Max and discounts on Android accessories.

It’s winter here in Mayotte. There’s a cool breeze in the evenings and when we went snorkelling yesterday, the water had a little chill to it. Back in the Metropole, where we’re heading now for the summer, it’s much hotter, up in the mid-thirties. Poor Mrs. B. – she’s been yearning to escape the heat all year. Having grown up in the frozen hills of Wales, I’m all for a bit of warmth myself – 32° is about right. But I digress: the point is, there’ll be people visiting, things to do in house and garden, life in both its chores and joys to resume. Furthermore, having taken a three month break from Perfume Island (sequel to One Green Bottle), now’s a good time to get back to it and work on draft number three with fresh eyes. So although I’ll be posting over the next three months, it won’t be as often: no more Sunday Poem, for example, and no more Thursday Interview (hopefully both will be back in September). Now is a good time to take stock as well – this blog is six months old. Still a toddler in many ways, but old enough to give rise to a few thoughts. Clara at expatpartnersurvial did a good post recently about that six-month milestone, and Itchy Quill, at a similar stage, gives a thorough account of 12 good reasons for blogging. Both bring up some excellent points which I won’t repeat here. So just a few remarks: - If it hadn’t been for blogging 101 and 102, I’d never have made it this far. There were two aspects to those courses: the advice from the Word Press team, and the support from other bloggers. Both were vital in giving the blog an impetus I’ve so far managed to maintain. Along the way, I’ve come across a whole host of other blogs with totally different content, many of which I now read with eagerness. Many thanks to everyone who’s helped to make the blogging experience so enriching! - The blog has settled into something I wouldn’t have been able to predict at the start. Probably because I didn’t have a clear idea of where I wanted to take it. Which goes to show it’s perfectly OK not to have a clear idea – stick at it, and an identity will eventually emerge. - All the same, I started this blog with a purpose. Now, I’ve just been nominated by Matt at thebookblogger2014 for the Encouraging Thunder award. For various reasons I don’t normally do awards but I’m happy to accept this one, firstly because it’s Matt (thank you, Matt!) and secondly because there’s nothing I have to do except enjoy the award (I’m enjoying it), thank the person who gave it you (done) and state your purpose in blogging. Well, the purpose was to build a ‘platform’ in order to promote OGB. I just didn’t know how to set about it, other than knowing what not to do, i.e. bang on about it non-stop. So if you do have an aim of that sort, blogging can only be an indirect means towards it. Blogging, in fact, becomes an aim in itself and product promotion is embedded within it, part of a whole. - Nonetheless, a blog can (some might say should) have a focus. Thus there are blogs specifically devoted to food, photography, inspirational quotes, health, blogging itself (e.g. how to attract followers) and marketing. The focus attracts people with similar interests, and if they find your content useful (you offer advice, for example) your indirect product promotion may be more effective (only may, because it doesn’t necessarily follow that if you offer tips on book promotion, say, people will rush to Amazon to buy your own book). Well, this blog is pretty unfocused – precisely a result of not wanting to overdo the product promotion part, it flits from one topic to another as the fancy takes me. The blog, then, isn’t the platform, it can only be one part of it. So I’ll also use the months ahead to figure out more clearly how the platform as a whole can work coherently. So there you go – the accumulated wisdom of six months blogging. Maybe in future, when the blog’s fully grown, I’ll bore you stiff rambling on about my wealth of experience in building an author platform. Now, there’s something to look forward to, eh?

I recently moved from CVF to Intel parallel Studio XE Version 126.96.36.199. Unfortunately the results for my program differ following the compilers and it seems to be related to the floating point representation of numbers. The difference arise when assigning a single precision variable in a double precision variable. With the Intel Fortran compiler it looks like there is an extended precision applied to the single variable. I am looking for a way to get rid of the extended precision but could not find any compilation arguments achieving this (my application calculates the transient behavior of a Gas Turbine and end up crashing with Intel, I need to align exactly the calculations to understand the crash). The bit of code where I observe a difference is doing an simple interpolation using single precision parameter. For the example below the value calculated is 1.001070 (this is a single precision parameter and all 7 significant figures are shown). According to the web sites http://www.binaryconvert.com/result_float.html?decimal=049046048048049048055048 and https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html, the binary approximation of this single is 1.0010700225830078125. When assigning the calculated single 1.001070 to a double in CFV I get 1.00107002258301,this is the expected result. However when run with Intel the double get assigned to 1.0010702610015869. In Intel Fortran, if I manually assign the single to 1.001070 then the double get assigned to the expected value of 1.00107002258301. This leads me to think that when the single variable is calculated in Intel FORTRAN, it retain some extended accuracy. To support that I write the single and double with additional precision and they both match. I tried to add the following compilation arguments without any success: Is there any option that would make my single precision variable (REAL*4) to stick to 32bits? double precision DRRNRAT double precision CWRE REAL*4 X, F OPEN(72,FILE='C:\Temp\test\Debug\test.txt',Access = 'append',Status='unknown') ! Manually assign a value of 1.001070 to a single F = 1.001070 CWRE = F ! assign a single in a double write(72,*) 'Case 1:',F,CWRE ! displays Case 1: 1.001070 1.00107002258301 write(72,"(f18.16)") F ! displays 1.0010700225830078 write(72,"(f18.16)") CWRE ! displays 1.0010700225830078 ! Calculate a value of 1.001070 in a single and then assign to double DRRNRAT = 1.16039185201801 X = DRRNRAT ! assign a double in a single! V(1) = 1.000000 V(2) = 1.200000 V(3) = 1.500000 FT(1) = 1.000000 FT(2) = 1.001300 FT(3) = 1.002600 DO 360 I = 1 , 2 K = I + 1 DO 360 J = K , 3 F = FT(3) ! assign a single to a single, this shows as 1.001070 in debug CWRE = F ! assign a single to a double write(72,*) 'Case 2:',F,CWRE ! CFV displays Case 2: 1.001070 1.00107002258301 ! Intel displays Case 2: 1.001070 1.00107026100159 write(72,"(f18.16)") F ! displays 1.0010702610015869 write(72,"(f18.16)") CWRE ! displays 1.0010702610015869 end program test Many thanks to anyone who can explain how to fix (or what I am not understanding if FP representation) There is the compiler option /real-size:32 I'm not sure how that will react with code having explicit declarations of double precision variables. Sorry. Good luck.

A wonderful review from the last show Thank you Jodie.... Went to the Ellington Jazz bar tonight and what an awesome band. So good to hear good blues - good for the soul Frequently described as a must-see artist for true blues lovers, Kerry brings a wealth of experience to the stage, having performed live for over 30 years. He has also written, arranged and recorded his own original blues music, which has receives airplay and acclaim across Australia and the USA Welcome to my web site. Here you can have a listen to my music and download , find out where I will be preforming and check out photo's or video . Venue managers and promoters or if you would like a private booking you can contact me through this site . If you have a question relating to my music or when and where I might be playing please feel free to contact me. Hope to see you soon at one of my show's Thank you for visiting my site, and your support ,and supporting Blues and live music. for private shows, live music venues , Music Festivals , Solo and with Full band .Please contact through the contact page above. You are visitor number: 4997 Returning to The Duke of George for a Sunday Blues session , Looking forward to playing a live show again , music from the greats in blues and a few new originals ,, Tickets will be online and at the door, hope to see you there .. numbers at this will still be limited so hope can get in .. cheers Kerry B . General admission $15 We are back at the wonderful Ellington Jazz Club Bringing the band with guest artist , Mark Constable on harmonica playing a selection of songs from the greats in Blues starting with some Acoustic style blues through to electric blues it as always be a great and even better if you can join us .. see you there cheers Kerry B General admission $10 Playing a selection of songs from one of the most prolific blues songwriters of our time, Willie Dixon. Willie Dixon’s songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of his most famous compositions includes “Hoochie Coochie Man“,”I Just Want to Make Love to You“, “Little Red Rooster“, “My Babe“, “Spoonful. These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians worldwide.

Bombshell, a film about the Fox News scandal, is currently as sensational as the events on which it is based. The film, by award-winning director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph, has the industry abuzz after having been nominated for a string of awards. South Africa’s very own Charlize Theron, who shines in the role of Megyn Kelly, has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), while Margot Robbie has been nominated as Best Supporting Actress. The winners will be announced at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on 5 January 2020. Both actresses were nominated in the same categories by the St. Louis Film Critics Association, as well as the Critics’ Choice panel and the North Texas Film Critics Association. Critics’ Choice nominations were also received for Best Hair and Make-up and Best Acting Ensemble. The 25th Critics’ Choice Awards will take place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on 12 January 2020. Nicole Kidman was also nominated as Best Supporting Actress by the North Texas Film Critics Association. The film, which was well received by critics from the outset, has also been nominated for several other awards, including Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Feature-length Motion Picture, Best Special Effects Make-up in a Feature-length Motion Picture and Best Contemporary Hairstyling in a Feature-length Motion Picture at the 7th annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS) – the awards ceremony will take place on 11 January 2020. Bombshell has also been nominated for the Humanitas Prize in the Best Drama Feature Film category. The winner will be announced during the 45th Humanitas Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton on 24 January 2020. Furthermore, the Hollywood Critics Association (LAOFCS) has nominated Charlize Theron in the Best Actress category and Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker in the Best Hair and Make-Up category for their outstanding work in the film. The 3rd Annual LAOFCS Awards Ceremony will take place on 9 January 2020 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. Bombshell is based on the real-life chain of events of the Fox News scandal, which saw multiple women accuse former Fox News CEO and chairman Roger Ailes (played by John Lithgow) of sexual harassment. It offers a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time.

I've been giving a lot of thought lately to how I feel about different structures for web apps. Specifically, in this case, the "structure" I'm thinking about is the "client-server" balance in the app itself and the associated method of data access. That is something that is starting to seem really right to me. Even if it did nothing else, having an architecture like that forces you to think in terms of "services" instead of just data access - once you've written a model layer that provides REST services with access and validation rules enforced, then you have a single interface that can be used by browser-based Angular apps, mobile and desktop apps, and remote applications and services you didn't write. There's also no reason you couldn't write a server-side app that consumes those services, continuing to build XPages apps that don't use the normal data sources. This is sort of what my framework has evolved towards, just with a first-among-equals twist where the XPage app gets direct Java access to the same objects REST serves up. Once you have this sort of setup, the answers to what your data-access and client UI frameworks should be both become "whatever". Want to write your REST API in Node and consume it in XPages? Sure, go ahead. Decide later that you'd rather have the data served up by Rails? Can do - the XPages side wouldn't need a change if the API is the same. Similarly, if you want to swap out XPages for Angular served up as static files or, god forbid, a PHP app, the way is smoothed. Even though it starts as a small thing - switching from accessing data "directly" on the server to always thinking about that REST-API abstraction - this really seems compelling to me. Not so compelling that I've actually written any non-test apps this way yet, but I've opened the door for myself with my framework.

To talk about animal rights, we must first recognize that the phrase has become a politically loaded term, used in unhelpful ways by extremists. Extreme animal rights activists have from time to time said and done some outrageous things. Anti animal rights extremists have also said and done outrageous things. But as with most volatile issues, if we are willing to tune out the extremists and look past the inflammatory rhetoric, the rest of us can probably find some common ground. I suspect most of us can agree that the abuse of animals is wrong. Animals in our care should have adequate food, water, shelter and be protected against physical harm. But does habitat destruction- which causes the loss of food, water and shelter- constitute abuse? Is all human use of land wrong? Or are some human changes to the earth acceptable, even beneficial? What about experiments on animals? If the outcome of the experiment is the death of the animal, should we allow that? But on the other hand, what if human lives are saved by the research? How do we understand human life in relation to gorilla life? Or robin life? Or carpenter ant life? Is it even possible for us to objectively decide these things? So even if we start with common ground, such as the abuse of animals is wrong, the ethical problems become difficult very quickly. This issue requires some careful thinking on our part. We need to do it, the moral and ethical decisions are too important to leave to the extremists. But I don’t think there are clear, simple answers to these ethical problems. Apes may require different “rights” than say lizards. But how do we know? Historically, what we have “known” about animals has changed dramatically. Only a few hundred years ago, philosophers and scientists seriously debated the question of whether animals could feel pain. We used to think animals couldn’t communicate with each other, couldn’t learn, couldn’t feel emotions. Today we have learned that animals do communicate, learn and feel emotions. In light of our growing knowledge about the lives and experiences of animals, any conclusions we draw today are necessarily provisional. New information will necessitate our continued rethinking about animals and our relationship with them. Part of thinking this through for Christians involves trying to understand the will of God in all this. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that it is very easy for us to confuse our will with God’s will. We need to think carefully. We need to talk and listen carefully to each other. We need to listen carefully for God. Often Christian discussion about our responsibility towards animals centers on the “dominion” command in Genesis 1:26. Historically dominion belongs to royalty. It implies power and control. In human hands the exercise of dominion has resulted in abusive power and exploitation. Additionally we humans bear the image of God. In the ancient near east, images of gods were understood to contain in some way some of the characteristics and presence of the god. Christians have understood what it means to bear the image of God in a variety of ways, some helpful, some not so helpful. But mostly we believe that in some way, we are God’s agents in the world. This doesn’t mean that God isn’t involved and has left everything up to us. It does mean than we carry an important responsibility as the image bearers of God. One of the ways we have missed the mark is that we have used the example of human kings to shape our idea of God. We have chosen a false image to bear. We should look first to the God revealed in Scripture and most importantly for Christians, to God revealed in Jesus Christ. What does this kind of dominion look like? Its the kingdom where the hungry are fed and the sick are healed. Its the kingdom where the king lives for his subjects. ( John 13:12-16, Luke 22:24-27, among others). Its the kingdom where all of creation can flourish. When we think about how God is in relationship with us-loving, self giving, self sacrificing – what does mean for our relationship with the rest of creation? Some major rethinking about our “privileged” status. Some major rethinking about our use of animals. Some major rethinking about the desirability of progress. Some major rethinking about what it means to be the people of God. The discussion is beginning. Think about how often we hear and read about green technology, carbon footprints, sustainable energy, organic foods and yes, animal rights. It is important for people of faith, any and all faiths, to be part of the discussion. We need to come to the discussion having thought carefully and theologically. But not to convince everyone else they must follow our religious beliefs. We must do our theological thinking so we understand, as clearly as we can, why the discussion is important and what we have to contribute to the conversation. I’d like to know, what do you think? In some earlier posts, “God and Dog” , “God and Dog and Genesis” and ” In the Image of God: What it means to be human”, in particular, I also offer some Christian rethinking about our relationships with animals.

It’s not as if you can ask your horse to step on your bathroom scale every time you suspect she’s lost weight. That would make your job as a horse owner a lot easier, but unfortunately, most private horse owners have to care for their horses’ health without the advantage of a horse-sized scale. Scale or not, keeping track of your horse’s weight and knowing when she needs weight gain horse feed is something you should be doing regularly. For many horses, weight loss is slow and subtle. Their riders don’t realize what’s happening until their health is already in trouble. To avoid that situation, you should evaluate your horse’s weight on a monthly, and even weekly, basis. If you determine your horse is losing pounds, you’ll need to start her on a quality weight gain horse feed. How to Tell if Your Horse is Underweight It’s hard to spot physical changes in your horse when you spend time with her every day. Fat and muscle slips away slowly, and you can’t always trust yourself to notice. The best method for determining a horse’s ideal weight is to evaluate her Body Condition Score (BCS). Your horse’s BCS is based on a scale of one to nine, with one being emaciated and nine being extremely overweight. According to Henderson Equine Clinic, the horse you like to ride for fun or put in shows should have a BCS of a five or six. Racehorses usually fall around the four mark. To determine your horse’s BCS, there are six areas you need to evaluate: the neck, withers, loin, tailhead, ribs, and behind the shoulder. To earn a BCS of five, a horse’s neck should blend smoothly into the body and the withers should be rounded. The horse’s back should be level, and there should be fat around the tailhead that feels slightly spongy. You shouldn’t be able to see your horse’s ribs, but they should be easily felt when you press on her sides. An underweight horse will have an accentuated neck and withers that are more pointed than rounded. Their tailhead will stick out, and you might be able to see individual vertebrae. If you can see your horse’s ribs, that’s as good a sign as any that she’s losing weight. Study this BCS system chart to accurately evaluate your horse. Determine Why Your Horse is Losing Weight If your horse has a BCS of four or lower, you’ll need to invest in a high-quality weight gain horse feed. But before you do, it’s important to determine the cause of your horse’s weight loss. If it’s a medical issue, it needs to be addressed immediately before you consider horse weight gain feed. Horses should see an equine dentist about once a year to make sure their chompers are healthy. If your horse is experiencing infection, inflammation, or ulceration, chewing on food will be extremely painful. Watch your horse to see if she drops food while chewing as if she’s trying to avoid a painful area in her mouth. Other signs of dental issues include foul-smelling breath and facial swelling. Schedule a dental checkup for her to solve the issue and help her gain the weight she lost. Internal parasites can wreak havoc on your horse’s health as they steal your horse’s nourishment. Bloodworms, tapeworms, and botflies can cause weight loss as well as loss of appetite and itching. You’ll need to get rid of the parasites before your horse can gain weight again. Life for a horse isn’t all frolicking through fields and hanging out with friends. They experience stress in the same way humans do. Loneliness, boredom, nervousness, and fear are all emotions that can lead to stress-related weight loss. Consider factors in your horse’s environment that could be causing her stress, and come up with a game plan to make her more comfortable. How to Help Your Horse Gain Weight Once you’ve identified the cause of your horse’s weight loss, it’s time to get busy rectifying the problem. Being underweight for too long can cause serious nutritional deficiencies and health concerns. It’s important to note, however, that an extremely emaciated or starving horse needs immediate veterinary attention. Feeding too much food to a starving horse will cause more problems than it fixes, and it needs to be done the right way. If your horse is only moderately thin, you can handle the weight gain process on your own. Increase Your Horse’s Forage Forage is the single most important part of a horse’s diet. To gain weight, try increasing your horse’s roughage to 2.5% – 3% of her desired body weight. For example, if your horse currently weighs 900 pounds but you want her to weigh 1,000 pounds, she should consume 25-30 pounds of hay a day. Make sure to offer quality hay and pasture to ensure she’s receiving calories and nutrients and not just fiber. Choose the Right Weight Gain Horse Feed To supplement your horse’s diet and help her gain weight, you’ll also want to look into bolstering her fat content. Fats are the safest and most efficient way to put on the pounds. When looking for a weight gain horse feed, look for a product that contains high amounts of fat as well as additional vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Your horse will need those nutrients to build and sustain muscle. Stabilized rice bran is an excellent options for horses that need help maintaining a healthy weight. It’s an additional energy source you can feed that horses generally enjoy. It’s high in fat and increases calorie intake without greatly increasing the amount of food. Renew Gold from Manna Pro is formulated for horses of all types that need extra energy without the risk of high-starch hyperactivity. The recipe combines high fat stabilized rice bran with coconut meal, flax, and fermented yeast to support muscle growth and maintenance. It allows your horse to gain weight without you having to spend money on extra feed. Add a Fat Supplement Another option to help your horse gain weight is a commercial concentrate formulated for balanced nutrition. Concentrates offer valuable calories to thin horses. It’s important, however, to always follow the instructions on the label. Feeding too much of a concentrate in a single meal can cause health issues. The Equine Fat Supplement from Manna Pro is a concentrated energy source rich in vitamin E and linoleic acid. It’s flavored so even the pickiest eaters gobble up their food. Add it to a horse’s regular meal multiple times a day to help them gain weight. Starting your horse on a diet of weight gain horse feed or a fat supplement will work to gradually increase their calorie intake and allow the body to put on much needed fat and muscle. Don’t expect to see noticeable results right away, however. It will take up to two months of consistent work to improve an underweight horse’s BCS. If your horse is considerably underweight, it could take up to six months to get her to a healthy number on the scale. Keep track of her progress by taking monthly pictures and regularly evaluating her body condition. If you don’t notice improvement in a few weeks or notice other health issues, don’t hesitate to contact a veterinary professional.

Ted talks and so do bee scientists. Maybe you know Ted. TED, actually with capital letters, stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and the TED Talks are a series of conferences with great (entertaining) speakers. The talks are filmed and then loaded to the TED Talks website, which has over 1,500 talks (by speakers such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Richard Dawkins, and a number of Nobel Prize winners) where anyone can watch them for free. Actually, the non-profit, Sapling Foundation, that hosts TED talks has released the talks into the Creative Commons, making them available for public use with a few restrictions. You can see a really great TED Talk by Marla Spivak, one of the smartest of all bee researchers, at this link. Her 15-minute TED Talk lists three or four reasons bee colonies die off. Two of her explanations are basically aspects of the same thing – fundamental changes in agriculture, the other two are chemicals and pests. So, here is a bit more detail on Marla Spivak’s list of the killers of bees. Very briefly (please watch her short video, Marla is a great speaker), the culprits are 1) diseases and pests – especially varroa mites, for transferring viruses and for beeing the bloodsuckers they are; 2) monoculture, which includes the collapse of the family farm and the loss of natural habitat, and has created ‘food deserts’ where only one meal is served (at most) for just a few weeks of the year; and, 3) chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and the break-down chemical compounds of these complex molecules. You can see these are inter-related. Farming changed, leading to huge efficient monoculture enterprises where pests proliferate unless controlled by chemicals while varroa weakens the bees so they are more vulnerable to the problems brought by chemicals and poor nutrition. The result? Not so good for honey bees.

What Makes a “Brave Writer”? A brave writer is a person who has discovered that the risk to write is worth it. A brave writer is a person who knows that s/he has lots of words inside and that after getting some of them out for this writing task, the supply hasn’t been exhausted and there are plenty more for next time. A brave writer discovers that writer’s block is a condition that plagues even the most prolific writers, and then writes to unblock (or goes for a walk, or takes a shower, or jumps on a trampoline). A brave writer already lives inside each of us, but some have been coaxed into hiding until a safe space opens the way to take the writing risk. A brave writer writes what s/he wants to write and finds ways to “tweak” assignments so that they bend toward the writer’s strengths and interests. A brave writer tells the true truth—choosing to generate insight rather than parroting someone else’s. A brave writer explores a variety of writing voices and genres, knowing that content can be shaped for many different audiences. A brave writer doesn’t start from scratch every time, but freely repurposes previously completed writing as raw material for new writing projects. A brave writer sometimes writes poorly, hates writing, resists revision, gets hurt feelings, and wishes someone else could do the writing for him or her. A brave writer knows that weak writing efforts are a part of a life’s work of writing. A brave writer throws away some of his/her original writing. A brave writer discovers that a trusted creative partner is a fantastic resource and learns to ask for writing feedback. A brave writer relishes “having written” when it all comes together. A brave writer is not always a good speller or typist or punctuator, but is responsible to ensure that final drafts have been edited to ensure those features are in place. A bunch of brave writers live in your house already. They simply need to be coaxed to express themselves, and supported as they do. Becoming a brave writer takes about ten years—the span of time it takes to be a fluent wordsmith, idea generator, speller, grammatically sound sentence-builder, fluent typist or handwriter, and insight cultivator. Take it a year at a time, a writing project at a time. Become the brave writer you wish to see in your children, and live from that risky-self-expressing space. Your kids figure out what it means to be an adult by looking at you. If they see that being an adult means being a brave writer, they will be much more likely to want to be one too.

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Four-guard lineup rejuvenates UCLA men’s basketball’s offense Freshman guard Jaylen Hands has recently re-entered the starting rotation and injected some life back into UCLA men’s basketball. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff) By Hanson Wang February 2, 2018 1:13 am For the first time in a while, UCLA men’s basketball returned to having fun. There was a Kris Wilkes fast-break windmill dunk – routine by his standards – and a between-the-legs alley-oop pass from Jaylen Hands to Wilkes in the same game, minutes apart from each other. The freshman guards riled up both the crowd and their teammates, and even coach Steve Alford’s levity shined full-on in the postgame press conference. A four-guard starting lineup that has played to the strength of the Bruins’ perimeter-heavy eight-man rotation and subsequently reinvigorated their offense. “I liked how that four-guard lineup looked,” Alford said. “Whether we stay with that, how long we stay with that … (I put more onus on) how do we start games, how do we finish games.” For now, at least, the four-guard lineup seems to be working after Alford harped on his team’s sluggish starts during its recent three-game losing streak. Colorado, Oregon State and Oregon combined to outscore UCLA by 15 points in the opening five minutes of each half. But then Hands, who started the first five games of the season before suffering a foot sprain and ceding his spot to redshirt sophomore guard Prince Ali, replaced senior forward GG Goloman in the starting lineup versus Cal last week. The Bruins have been plus-7 points over the same interval in the two games since, but that doesn’t mean Alford has completely eschewed the two-big man lineup. In the first halves against the Bears and the Cardinal, UCLA’s four-guard lineup spent about the first five-and-a-half minutes on the floor – that number rose to the first six-and-a-half minutes of each second half. But after that, the Bruins transitioned back to its typical three-guard, one-forward and one-center lineup by subbing Goloman in for Ali. In that rotation, Ali and Hands substituted for each other, as did Wilkes and freshman guard Chris Smith while redshirt sophomore forward Alex Olesinski spelled Goloman and senior center Thomas Welsh. Against Stanford, Goloman was a spark plug once he hit the court. He pulled down an offensive rebound on his first possession and converted a layup while getting fouled on his second possession. “He got back to doing the things we needed him to do defensively,” Alford said. “At (6 feet 11 inches), we’ve got to have him continue to be a bigger rebounding force and that’s what he’s working on.” As for Hands, he was already playing more minutes on average coming off the bench than either Goloman or Ali. The freshman averaged a steady 24.6 minutes in the 14 games he didn’t start, while Goloman and Ali averaged 23.6 and 24.2 minutes per game respectively over the same span. “It’s different in both areas, off the bench and coming off and starting,” Hands said. “But the main goal is to win, so as long as we’re winning I’m cool with whatever.” Still, there are some questions concerning the lineup’s durability and defense. Wilkes typically guards the opposing power forward in man-to-man defense or half of the baseline in UCLA’s 3-2 zone, and he’s shown that he isn’t quite comfortable in that role yet. The freshman picked up two fouls within the first six minutes of each first half against Stanford and Cal, sending him to the bench and forcing Smith into early-game action. Following the win over the Bears, Alford said the lineup switch can’t get Wilkes out of the flow having to defend players three or four inches taller than him. That wasn’t the case versus the Cardinal – Wilkes scored 18 points on 6-of-7 shooting and made both of his 3-point attempts. “He picked up quick fouls, but he was really efficient,” Alford said. “Regardless of fouls, if he did get out of rhythm, he got back in rhythm because those are two games that he was really, really good.” Defensive rebounding could also be an issue after Cal registered 19 offensive boards and Stanford recorded nine. UCLA ranks No. 10 in the Pac-12 in defensive rebounding percentage during conference play. But over their last three games, the Bruins rank dead last at 67.6%, meaning opponents get offensive rebounds on nearly one-third of UCLA’s defensive rebounding opportunities. Meanwhile, USC ranks No. 5 in the Pac-12 in offensive rebounding percentage during conference play. “We just have to go in there and attack the ball,” Holiday said. “Box out, rebound and just fight. Obviously, USC’s pretty big, so we’re gonna have to do that a lot this game.”

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Haute Cuisine is so called skillfully prepared food that tastes as good as it looks. The presentation is the main part of high-level cuisine. Usually gourmet costs big bucks to get what they want. We all know that Haute Cuisine refers to French Cuisine, but history repeats itself (old is the new new, what’s old is new again) That’s why a lot of American restaurants present remixed fast food as Haute Cuisine. Will these fast foods taste any better? That’s a good question, but as we said before, the only thing that matters is the LOOK! The simple white plate makes a bunch of junk foods look more aristocratic, fancy and toothsome! Last, but not least role in this crazy food fetish belongs to Instagram as the most powerful media of our time. Some people eat with their eyes before the food even touches their lips, so no wonder this idea turned into a trend. Whoever stands for this chefjacqueslamerde Instagram account he should be given a credit. Seriously, this man made something from nothing, and his creativity will knock you sideways. Addiction to fast foods is the dark side of every second person in this world, so don’t be surprised about this new insane idea that’s turning fast food into Haute Cuisine. Let’s be honest, junk food never looked so delicious! It may sound harsh but people eating it, snobs all over the world hit the Instagram account of this guy, and they are ready to sell a soul to the Devil just to see one more post. But let’s come back to ingredients. In this case, gourmet ingredients are unnecessary, but plating is the most important point over here. Chicken nuggets, burgers, tacos, anything you want can be turned into culinary delights and sell like hot cakes. Not only hipsters are nuts about this new food fetish, people all over the world enjoy this work of art. Now fast food fans can be proud of their fancy meals, and the society won’t judge them for no reason because these well plated items are nothing but an art. If someone ever ask you if can we consider fast food as Haute Cuisine? The answer is obvious, YES WE CAN!

Bread Pudding with Gingered Brandy Pears and Caramel Sauce I am keen on recycling in the kitchen, making the most of leftovers in an interesting or sometimes better form than what I started with. A perfect example is bread pudding. So many varieties, sweet, savory and a staple in restaurants with mountains of bread to recycle into croutons, crumbs, dressings and puddings. Oftentimes drenched in a boozy bath of hard sauce to make it appeal to the adults in the room. Both my husband and father have made tall, custardy puddings with that tender creamy interior, a sprinkling of raisins and a toasty, crunch of the just right browned top. This is the kind of pudding that whispers comfort and has found its way to my breakfast bowl as often as my dessert plate. As a dessert though, it is rarely described as elegant, nor very pretty to look at if your personal filter isn’t set to nostalgia mode. A recent article by Gail Monaghan for the Wall Street Journal reminds us, “Whether you call them “Winnie-the-Pooh desserts,” as I do, “nursery desserts” or simply “comfort food,” soft and creamy puddings call out to the kid in all of us.” But, what if you could image a more sophisticated take, layered flavors and decidedly adult sensibilities without the heavy liquor? That was the question that lead me to this. |How pretty is that?| A silken bread custard, layered with tender pear slices that have been gently simmered in a ginger, brandy tea to infuse those bright flavors, topped with a creamy caramel sauce. Served warm, this is our new nostalgia. |Poached pears add a bright fruity surprise.| Bread Pudding with Gingered Pears and Caramel Sauce Prep Time 1 hr 15 minutes Cook Time 1 hr to 1 hr 15 minutes 1 loaf day old french bread, cubed, most of crust removed 1 quart milk or 2 cups milk 2 cups half and half 1 ½ cups granulated sugar 2 tablespoons vanilla ½ teaspoon ground cardamom ¼ teaspoon ground coriander 1 ½ tablespoons butter, cubed 2 tablespoons sugar in the raw 3 comice or other firm pears, peeled and sliced 1 ½ cup brewed ginger tea 2 tablespoons brandy 1 teaspoon lemon 1 tablespoon honey Butter 9” x 13” baking pan. Place bread cubes in large bowl, pour in milk and soak for 1 hour. Pre-brew 2 ginger teabags in 1 ½ cups boiling water for about 10 minutes. Bring the tea, brandy, lemon and honey to a low boil in a medium size pan. Add in pears and lower temperature to a simmer. Cook for 15 minutes. Cool and set aside. Preheat oven to 325° In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla and spices. Pour over the soaked bread cubes and stir to mix thoroughly. Pour into baking dish. Remove poached pear slices from liquid with slotted spoon and arrange on top of the wet bread pudding mixture. Sprinkle pears with raw sugar (this will give a sparkly glaze) and dot with butter pieces. Bake for at about an hour to an hour and a half until custard is set and top is golden. Your time might vary. Cool at least 15 minutes before serving. Drizzle with caramel sauce. Salted Butter Caramel Sauce With just a cup of sugar, heavy cream and some butter (and a bit of steady stirring this wondrous concoction is yours!) Salted Butter Caramel Sauce recipe from Jamie Schler’s Life’s a Feast Blog used with permission and joy. (Thanks Jamie!) For the Salted Butter Caramel Sauce (Caramel au Beurre Salé): 1 cup (200 g) granulated white sugar 3 ½ Tbs (50 g) salted butter 1 cup (250 ml) heavy cream Melt the sugar in a medium-sized saucepan over medium-low heat and cook until completely melted and caramel in color. Lower the heat to low and whisk in the butter in about 3 or 4 additions. Continuing to whisk, add the heavy cream in a slow stream; the caramel may foam up, but keep whisking, as it will calm down once all the cream is added and will turn to… a smooth caramel. Once it is smooth and creamy, remove from the heat and allow to cool at least to tepid before serving.

I’ve been watching the rollercoaster ride of cryptocurrencies very carefully for the last year, and it only struck me today that these are not currencies … yet. Apart from a few novelty vendors and merchants who put bitcoin on their websites, I don’t see many others accepting ether or XRP, and when I have tried to spend any crypto it has proven to be inordinately difficult. So why do we call these currencies? Because eventually that is the hope. The hope is that one or two of these currencies, with bitcoin being the one that the punters are backing, will break out and become fully usable. Right now, it’s interesting however. Who spends bitcoin? When I ask this question, I often get the reply: don’t think of bitcoin that way Chris; think of it as like Gold, and you can’t spend Gold in a supermarket, can you? A fairly stupid reply as Gold doesn’t claim to be a currency. In fact, when I try to find out if anyone is running around using cryptocurrencies to pay for anything, I can’t find any stats or people talking about using it. In other words, these are assets, not currencies. As assets they are far more interesting. Adam Ludwin, the CEO and founder of Chain, explained it well in his superb blog response to Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraud last year . Here’s my definition: cryptocurrencies are a new asset class that enable decentralized applications. If this is true, your point of view on cryptocurrencies has very little to do with what you think about them in comparison to traditional currencies or securities, and everything to do with your opinion of decentralized applications and their value relative to current software models. Don’t have an opinion on decentralized applications? Then you can’t possibly have one on cryptocurrencies yet, so read on. And since this isn’t about cryptocurrencies vs. fiat currencies let’s stop using the word currency. It’s a head fake. It has way too much baggage and I notice that when you talk about Bitcoin in public you keep comparing it to the Dollar, Euro, and Yen. That comparison won’t help you understand what’s going on. In fact, it’s getting in the way. So for the rest of this note, I will refer to cryptocurrencies as crypto assets. So, to repeat: crypto assets are a new asset class that enable decentralized applications. I saw Adam talking about this at a recent conference and he mentioned that following this reply to Jamie, he was about to go into a meeting when his phone rang with a number he didn’t recognise. “Hello Adam Ludwin”, he said as he answered the call. “Hello Adam, this is Jamie Dimon”, said the caller. It’s true, Jamie did call Adam and said his blog was a fantastic overview of what bitcoin and cryptocurrency really is, and helped him understand it much better. That’s progress for you. Meanwhile, if you did want to use your bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies, here’s a few places you could use it: You can even buy a gold cast of Nelson Mandela’s hands if you feel so inclined so yes, there are lots of places to use bitcoin.

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TRANSITS is the state of the art, high-quality training to Computer Security and Incident Response Team (CSIRT) personnel. GÉANT runs three TRANSITS open-registration workshops a year: two basic level courses, TRANSITS-1 and one advanced course, TRANSITS-2. Amongst all three, the advanced workshop is the one of a special kind. It further builds and develops the CSIRT competencies by providing a hands-on experience to the participants. Creating this hands-on experience is not an easy and it calls for a superhero. It is my pleasure to introduce Brunolf Kleve of SURF (aka SURFnet). At SURFnet, Brunolf manages a technical infrastructure that is used for workshops and hands-on technical training events. This environment provided a perfect learning space for the TRANSITS-2 workshops. One of the key challenges of using this infrastructure is to ensure the synchronisation and speed operation of the in-class software so that participants go through an identical learning experience. To address this challenge an imaging solution is used. Imaging helps to create a homogenous virtual learning infrastructure and in the context of TRANSITS-2, it was used when participants were tasked to practice their skills of traffic flow monitoring and forensic discoveries. Imaging requires a great deal of preparatory backstage mastery, and this is where Brunolf comes in. In the course of the past years, he has been working very hard to prepare and set up working learning infrastructure in advance of the TRANSITS-2 trainings. In addition to that he has always been available to problem-solve and support events in real time. Brunolf himself comments ‘Sometimes I had to work late to find a solution for these issues and I am proud that I always managed to fix these issues. In the worst case, I had to create a workaround. By that no workshop was cancelled due to technical issues our site.’ Looking forward as the technical learning class at SURF faces decommissioning, we can only express our biggest gratitude and thanks to Brunolf for his dedication and support to TRANSITS. We are also grateful to SURF for hosting us for so many years. I am sure this is not the end of our collaboration, but only a transformation. What’s next the time will show, but for now BIG THANKS from the TRANSITS training team!

Crews have begun work on Cypress Creek Middle School, being built on the site where Cypress Creek Middle High School now operates. A new Instructional and Performing Arts Center, which will provide educational opportunities and entertainment, will rise on the same site. Both are slated to open in fall of 2020. Pasco County Schools gave Pasco-Hernando State College the land where the performing arts center, IPAC, will be built. The state college is paying the construction costs for IPAC, and will oversee its use. But, the new facility will benefit middle school through college students, through the programs it offers. In a recent interview with The Laker/Lutz News, representatives of the state college and the school district provided details relating to IPAC and the new middle school building. The middle school project — at roughly 190,000 square feet, will take much longer to build than the 35,000-square foot performing arts center. At the middle school, “they’re working on the site work. The foundation work is ongoing right now. Everything is on schedule for completion in July of 2020 for an August 2020 opening,” said Mike Gude, the school district’s director of construction services. Cypress Creek Middle will have a capacity of 1,691 students, making it the largest of the district’s middle schools. Safety and security will be first and foremost, with a single point of entry, controlled access and a fence around the school, Gude said. “We designed our middle school to be very much compatible with the IPAC (performing arts center),” added Ray Gadd, deputy superintendent for Pasco County Schools. “We have a black box theater. A beautiful state-of-the-art black box theater. We also have an orchestra room. Dance. Chorus,” Gadd said. Dr. Stanley Giannet, vice president of academic affairs and faculty development at PHSC, said the performing arts center will serve an important academic role. “It’s called the Instructional and Performing Arts Center, the IPAC. The reason we have instructional there first is because in addition to a community-type events space and a performing arts space, the primary responsibility is to provide educational opportunities for our students, both dual enrollment students, students who will pipeline from the school district to PHSC, and community students, who wish to partake in the program,” he explained. The state college will be using space within the performing arts center to provide courses to support a new Associate of Science degree in digital design and multimedia technology. That new program was based on a needs analysis, and takes advantage of the fact that some programs are already offered in these areas at Wesley Chapel, Wiregrass and Cypress Creek high schools. “It’s a natural extension,” Giannet said. Plus, there’s a documented need in the community for employees with these skills. “This is a high-wage target industry,” Giannet said. The skills learned in this program can be applied to the performing arts, but also transferred to jobs in other industries, he said. Students also will be able to take courses to support an Associate of Arts degree, which they can transfer to a four-year degree, he said. Students will be able to take dance, theater and music classes as electives toward their associate’s degree, Giannet said. To get the associate’s, students would need 36 hours of general education, but the remaining 24 could be acquired at IPAC, focused on the performing arts. Campus could draw regional events The performing arts center is considered to be an extension of the state college’s Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, which will be under the direction of an administrator who will report to Kevin O’ Farrell, provost of the Porter Campus. The community also will have access to a new performing arts venue, and the campus could attract national or regional thespian festivals, or other kinds of performing arts events. The 444-seat performing arts theater, the 150-seat black box theater at the middle school, and the arts classrooms available on campus provide a set of resources that could be attractive for such events, Gadd said. Plus, the site has plenty of parking to support such events, after school hours. The black box theater might prove particularly popular with local theater groups, Gadd said. “One of the advantages of the black box in the middle school is that it might be more amenable to some community theater activities, because I think the IPAC center is going to be like an anthill — it’s going to be very busy,” Gadd said. The combined state college and school district resources on the campus create the potential for increased economic development, additional educational programs, and a new entertainment venue for the community, Gadd said. Gianett noted that the center will be a source of revenue for the college, too. “We’ll have professional troupes, professional shows that we can bring in,” he said, and there will be opportunities for groups to rent the facility for events. The theater also will provide another place for the school district to offer plays and other events. Working together on this project has helped the district and state college develop a greater level of collaboration, said Gadd, who not only serves as the school district’s deputy superintendent, but also sits on the state college’s board. The dual role offers a vantage point that allows him to see areas where the district and college can leverage the resources of the individual organizations, through collaboration. Construction is expected to begin on the performing arts center around June of this year, and the project is expected to be completed by July of 2020, said Tony Rivas, associate vice president facilities management and administrative services for the state college. O’ Farrell said a request is being made to the Florida Legislature for some additional funding for the project. “One of the final pushes that we’re making this legislative session is for an additional $2.5 million,” he said. “We had $15.5 million for the facility,” he explained. Because of the partnership between the state college and the school district, the site for the arts center has been secured, and it is almost ready for construction, O’ Farrell said. If additional money can be secured for this project, it would go to enlarge the interior space in the arts center’s foyer to accommodate breakfasts, receptions and community gatherings. Published February 13, 2019

Weekend Reading — The second page of Google search On the Hunt for Japan’s Elaborate, Colorful Manhole Covers Street art. How to simplify your design 👍 This article itself is well designed, with 21 illustrated examples and just the right amount of text. Rules for Autocomplete If you're doing any work on autocomplete UI, this is a fantastic list: - Exact matches always come first. If the user types in an option exactly, other options must always go below the one matching what they typed. - Besides exact matches, prefix matches come first. If I type “Fr” I want “Fresno” not “San Francisco.” - After prefix matches, it can fall back to substring matches. Starting with substring matches would almost always be the wrong thing to do since users start typing words at the beginning not somewhere in the middle. Speak Human "Generate human centric microcopy for all purposes." Dawnstar Australis 🤔 I believe I just overheard a software bug being described as an "unexpected user story" Tools of the Trade Announcing Lucet: Fastly’s native WebAssembly compiler and runtime The future of serverless is instant startup, and running code in the same metro area as the user: Lucet is designed to take WebAssembly beyond the browser, and build a platform for faster, safer execution on Fastly’s edge cloud. WebAssembly is already supported by many languages including Rust, TypeScript, C, and C++, and many more have WebAssembly support in development. Karl Stratos Well, that explains it … Request’s Past, Present and Future Good bye request. You did great for Node developers everywhere. 👋 Jeff Forcier I feel ya: Also: examining old image files marked as 'wallpapers' which are almost literally postage stamp sized on a modern (not-even-HiDPI!) display is, uh. It makes a body feel old, is what. clean slate True, true: [inserting row in excel] Excel: copy font format from the row above? Me: no I’ll handle it Excel: and copy border from below? Me: no why? Excel: idk :/ Me: *typing number* w-why did you make 31,320 a date? Excel: it’s my birthday :) Samsung just unveiled the widest computer monitor you can buy Apropos Excel, you can now view spreadsheets thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis wide! Nicolas Goutay 👇 Web Performance metrics explained in a single tweet each. Good, quick reference. amy nguyen "this whole interaction is why i am still on twitter" Lines of Code Sindre Sorhus I support this linting rule: The prevent-abbreviations rule encourages you to write variable names like e. Of course, all of this is configurable. You can even use it as a general variable name blocker/replaces. Default replacements: https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn/blob/2f8f3d38e1c8058ac9bacb8bc318a66cda006307/rules/prevent-abbreviations.js#L17-L172 In the end, the biggest time efficiency happens between the ears: The "writing" part of the code should not be the constraint. I personally spend much more time thinking about code than writing. Jason Karns 😭 (the responses are funny as well) Bought a mechanical keyboard with more resistance so my code will be strongly typed. Sebastian McKenzie I'm going on 30 years … This has been my debugging strategy for the past 10 years and I don't see it changing Meowlivia_ How to ace a job interview: Interviewer: Tell me about a time when you had to solve a difficult problem Me: I had a bug in my code and couldn't find any helpful answers on stackoverflow. I persevered and eventually found the solution from a link on the second page of Google search Kent Beck 👍 I couldn't agree more: If there’s one lesson I would like the next generation of developers to learn, it is to spend less time doing hard things and more time making hard things easy. Customers benefit from the former. Customers and peers and we ourselves benefit from the latter. Aaron Patterson The Big Sort: I like to take bad code, mix it with good code, turn it in to AAA rated technical debt, then sell insurance on the debt cyberglot "most tech discussions in a nutshell" Sophie Alpert How is that not "a product team"? Product needs ops and infrastructure to work, roadmaps and design specs by themselves don't deliver value to customers. anyone have a good name for the combined roles of - software engineering - product design - UX research - product management? “eng” sounds like just coders; “product” can sound like PM only (and excludes infra work). “tech”? something else? On second thought, this is a much better name jimthe.dev: A group of these people is called a Jira. None of the Above Katie Mack "#TimeManagement" Kimberly Blessing ☎️ This is the friendly thing to do: I practically weep anytime anyone uses the one tap format (DIAL-IN,,CODE#) in a calendar invite. TrinaCharlotte "I hate everything" sophy wong "My new USB cable from @adafruit is reversible on BOTH ENDS! I could do this all day!" Your AirPods Will Die Soon "The surprisingly short life of new electronic devices" Mine barely hold charges, and incidentally, started failing a week before Apple announced the 2nd generation AirPods 😤 The first iPhone prototype A look at Apple’s red M68. The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All The NYT predicts personal email lists making a comeback. I certainly hope so, Weekend Reading readers. Meanwhile, Google wants to make email interactive. Scientists rise up against statistical significance A must read for anyone doing research, whether into medical treatment or A/B testing link colors. Using P < 0.05 as a pass/fail test can easily lead to the wrong conclusion: It is ludicrous to conclude that the statistically non-significant results showed “no association”, when the interval estimate included serious risk increases; it is equally absurd to claim these results were in contrast with the earlier results showing an identical observed effect. There's no silver bullet, we need to be statistically literate: Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. … But eradicating categorization will help to halt overconfident claims, unwarranted declarations of ‘no difference’ and absurd statements about ‘replication failure’ when the results from the original and replication studies are highly compatible. 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By Kevin Collison A proactive approach to encourage making affordable housing part of the redevelopment boom anticipated along the planned streetcar extension route is on track for City Hall. The proposed Midtown Affordable Housing PIEA Plan was endorsed recently by the board of that development agency and is expected to be reviewed by the City Plan Commission in October. If ultimately approved by the Kansas City Council, it would provide more generous tax incentives to developers who include affordable units in projects located within several blocks on each side of the planned streetcar route between downtown and UMKC. “Affordable housing is a germane topic that’s on the front burner,” said David Macoubrie, executive director of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority. “We started a conversation…to talk about how we could make a more effective impact with the PIEA’s limited resources in anticipation of the streetcar expansion. We thought it would be an area where we could generate the highest number of (affordable) units.” The Midtown Affordable Housing Plan also would reinforce the Streetcar Authority’s application for the $151 million in federal funding needed to extend the route. Federal transportation officials want communities to demonstrate a willingness to create socially-beneficial spinoffs on transit investments as part of their funding application, said Tom Gerend, executive director of the Streetcar Authority. “Affordable housing is one of many components in our evaluation,” Gerend said. “Anything we can do to align local policies with the objective of locating affordable housing opportunities in the streetcar corridor is advantageous to us.” The PIEA is asking the city to allow it to offer up to the maximum property tax abatement allowed by state law, 25 years at 100 percent, for developers who follow the guidelines of a proposed city affordable housing ordinance being considered by the Council. Currently, the PIEA, like other development agencies, is restricted by the city to offer a maximum property tax abatement of 75 percent for 10 years and 37.5 percent for 15 years. The affordable housing legislation currently being considered by the Council would require any residential developer seeking city tax incentives to reserve at least 15 percent of the total number of units in their project as affordable housing. The city would define affordable as units available to households with incomes at or below 80 percent of the median income for all Kansas City households. Rents, including utilities, could be no more than 30 percent of an eligible household income. The median household income in the city was $50,136 in 2017, according to the Census Bureau. An affordable apartment meeting those city income guidelines would cost about $1,000 per month including utilities. Developers already are buying properties in anticipation of the streetcar extension on Main. Work is well underway on a $34 million redevelopment of the historic Netherland Hotel and adjoining Monarch Storage buildings at 38th and Main. Rents in that project are expected to be about $600 per month for a 375 square-foot studio, $1,000 for a 577 square-foot one-bedroom and $1,500 for an 825 square-foot two-bedroom apartment. Macoubrie said the PIEA has been considering the Midtown Plan for about a year, and has had discussions with developers, taxing jurisdictions and city elected officials. He said the area included in the plan is roughly four- to five blocks or walking distance from the planned streetcar route. “It’s an area that would be good to provide workforce housing for people in the service industry working in downtown, the Plaza and ultimately Midtown,” he said. Macoubrie said the proposal would not affect the property tax surcharge planned for Transportation Development District created to fund the streetcar extension. “The TDD levy, as well as any CID’s, stay intact and are not abated,” he said. While the proposal calls for developers to be able to receive up to the maximum incentive, Macoubrie believes most of the property tax abatements would be 10 years at 100 percent and 15 years at 50 percent. The PIEA official said his agency believes that without an enhanced incentive package, developers will not be able to afford to do projects that meet the city’s goals for affordable housing. “Without that exemption, projects won’t pencil out,” he said. “It’s a step in the right direction that can be used to leverage other incentives.” Don’t miss any downtown news, sign up for our weekly CityScene KC email review here.

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On March 15, Australian-born Brenton Tarrant attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people using five guns inscribed with the names of various historical figures and battles. It was not the first time a white supremacist was weaponising the past. Twisted representations of history have driven the far right across the globe – from India to Russia to the United States and all the way to Australia – since its inception. The inscriptions on Tarrant’s weapons and his 74-page online manifesto reflect the popular “clash of civilisations” narrative which reduces history to an epic struggle between Christendom and Islam. In his sick mind, Tarrant surely believes that he, too, is a hero in this imagined war, a crusader on a mission to stop the Muslim “invaders”. The problem is that the historical figures and events he sees as an inspiration, very much disprove the belief that there is a clear-cut tectonic fault line between the Christian and Islamic worlds and that they are in constant conflict with each other. Here are just a few examples of how Tarrant got history wrong. The not so glorious Crusades Tarrant, like his idol Anders Breivik, who in 2011 detonated a bomb in central Oslo killing 8 people before massacring 69 people on an island – most of them teenagers – seems to be obsessed with the medieval Crusades. He is particularly fond of the Knights Templars, the Crusade-era order of Christian warrior monks, which still captures popular imagination, particularly among the alt-right. The order was founded in 1119, 20 years after the first Crusade captured Jerusalem, to protect Christian pilgrims making their way to the Holy Land. Although its members were sworn to reject the personal pursuit of wealth, the order soon came to control vast amounts of money and properties, and when infighting broke out among Christian leaders in the Holy Land, it readily took part. The Templars played a key role in the succession crisis in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 1180s, which ultimately paved the way for Muslim Commander Salah ad-Din ibn Ayyub, known as Saladin, to capture the city in 1187. Throughout the 400 years that the crusades lasted, Christians fighting other Christians was a regular occurrence. In fact, from the very beginning, on their way to Jerusalem, the Crusaders came into major conflict with the Christian Orthodox states they passed through, as they raided and pillaged their cities and villages. In 1204, they besieged and sacked Constantinople, the capital of the Christian Byzantine empire – a brutal act for which Pope John Paul II had to apologise 800 years later. The Crusaders also often “broke religious ranks” and allied with different Muslim forces. The Fatimid ruler of Egypt, for example, backed the Christian army fighting the Seljuq Turks and supported them during the siege on the city of Antioch in 1098. Various Muslim rulers also used alliances with Crusaders to fight each other; the Mamluk commander Mu’in ad-Din Unur, for example, sought help from the Christian principalities when he was attacked by Turkish leader Imad ad-Din Zengi. Throughout the Crusade era, several prominent Muslims and Christians sought to forge friendly diplomatic relations. Usama ibn Munqidh, a Syrian warrior who fought European knights with Saladin, played the role of an emissary mediating alliances between Christian and Muslim rulers; he also wrote extensively about his encounters with Christians, some of whom he befriended. Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, travelled to Egypt in 1219, where Crusaders laid siege on the town of Damietta. Hoping to establish a religious dialogue, he crossed enemy lines and met with Sultan Malik al-Kamil, the nephew of Saladin – a dangerous undertaking for which he is still celebrated today. In his recent outreach efforts to the Muslim world, Pope Francis has often referred to the deeds of his namesake. The Italian connection in the Ottoman fleet In his gun inscriptions, Tarrant also focused overwhelmingly on Ottoman history – apparently being inspired by a number of trips he undertook to Turkey and the Balkans. He makes reference to the 1571 naval engagement in Lepanto, the siege of Vienna of 1683, and conflicts involving the Ottomans in the Balkans, from the 1389 battle of Kosovo to the Balkan wars. The Battle of Lepanto was fought between the Holy League, an alliance which included Spain and Italian states, and the Ottoman navy in the Corinthian Gulf. It resulted in a decisive victory for the League. In modern days, the battle has taken on mythic proportions and is seen by many as the first major defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Christian world. However, Tarrant’s historical reference to Lepanto does not fit neatly into the clash of civilisations narrative. One of the main protagonists in the battle, for example, was Kilic Ali Pasha, one of the Ottoman naval commanders in charge of the sultan’s navy in Lepanto. His real name was Giovanni Galeni, an Italian from the Calabria region, captured as a galley slave, who rose through the ranks of the Ottoman navy to become one of its most famous admirals. He fought quite viciously against his Italian compatriots and although he lost the Battle of Lepanto, he did help the Ottomans capture Cyprus from the Venetians. Muslims fighting Muslims, Christians fighting Christians Tarrant also pays homage to the Polish army which came to Vienna’s rescue during the Ottoman siege of Vienna, celebrating an ostensibly Christian defeat of the Ottomans. But this battle too did not follow the strict logic of a civilisational clash. Tatar Muslims formed an elite part of the Polish troops which drove the Ottomans from the gates of Vienna. Tarrant also refers to the battle of Shipka pass during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, when an outnumbered Bulgarian and Russian force defeated the Ottomans. While the war ejected the Ottomans from historically Bulgarian territories, Russia did not send its army way beyond its borders just to help its Christian brethren. St Petersburg had some serious imperial ambitions for the Balkans, and like western European powers, it had joined the fray to dismantle the Ottoman Empire and claim its territories. While Tarrant celebrates the struggle of Balkan nations, like the Bulgarians and the Serbs against the Ottoman empire, he seems ignorant of the fact that Christian Balkan states fought against each other just as much. The very first war Bulgaria fought after its liberation from “Muslim rule” was against its Christian neighbour, Serbia in 1885-1888. After defeating together the Ottoman empire in the first Balkan war of 1912 (a reference to which was also inscribed on Tarrant’s gun), the following year, Greece and Serbia, along with Romania, turned on their ally Bulgaria and captured some of its territories. And only two years later, Bulgaria would join its former Muslim “master”, Turkey, to fight with the Central Powers against the Allied Powers in World War I. That war and conflict have much more to do with political considerations, self-aggrandizement and greed than with religion or “civilisation” is something that white supremacists like Tarrant consciously or unconsciously ignore. After all, seeing nuance and thinking critically are not among their priorities. To find such level of historical delusion among the likes of Tarrant and Breivik is not surprising, but unfortunately, this type of thinking is not limited to their tight-knit far-right circles. The clash of civilisations narrative is also quite popular among the higher echelons of power across Western capitals. And while seeing civilisational conflict where there is none made Tarrant massacre 50 innocent people, this belief among the truly powerful has killed millions. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.

Date: 11:00am, February 7, 2014 Location: Altschul Auditorium - 417 IAB Speaker: Prof. Susan Crawford, Harvard Law School Abstract: Providers of high-speed Internet access, including Verizon and the cable industry, are arguing that limitations on their activities raise serious constitutional concerns under the First Amendment. The providers, however, are selling the modern- day version of general-purpose two-way telephone services, economic regulation of which has never been thought in the past to raise constitutional concerns. Today, the providers' arguments would likely fail given Supreme Court precedent. But given the absence of either competition or oversight in this market, providers are poised to have the market power to “edit” digital communications seen by users and to force interconnecting networks and content providers to pay tribute, thus becoming more “like” The New York Times for speech purposes. This is a critical time for courts and the FCC to carefully and deliberately explain why the carriers are wrong. Biography: Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at the Harvard Law School (2014). She is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a co-director of the Berkman Center. She is the author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and a contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She also served as a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation. Ms. Crawford was formerly a (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010). As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010); one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011); and one of TIME Magazine’s Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech (2013). Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.

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They will be able to discover Crowe’s instantly recognisable portraits and landscapes, including her series exploring the changing seasons and colours of the Pentland Hills – scenes which have become so synonymous with Edinburgh and with Scottish art. “Lifting the lid on Crowe’s 50-year career, we will showcase over 150 pieces across four floors. It will be the highlight exhibition of 2019.” Crowe was born in Kingston-on-Thames in 1945. She studied at Kingston School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1968, Robin Philipson, then Head of the School of Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, invited her to join his staff. Her appointment at the age of twenty-three marked the start of a distinguished teaching career spanning thirty years. In 1969 she had her first solo show in London, and the following year at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. Since then she has been exhibiting regularly throughout the United Kingdom. In the 1980s and early 1990s, membership of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, and her election as an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and of the Royal Watercolour Society reflected the esteem in which she was held by her peers. She has been the worthy recipient of numerous awards, bursaries, scholarships and residencies including the Sir William Gillies Bequest award and the prestigious Senior Visiting Scholar to St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. In 2000 her exhibition ‘A Shepherd’s Life. Paintings of Jenny Armstrong’ was displayed in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. It was a landmark event in the artist’s career. The public response to her paintings of Pentland Hills’ shepherdess Jenny Armstrong was overwhelming. The exhibition subsequently toured to seven further UK venues. By the turn of the new century, Crowe had already become one of the most respected portraitists of her generation. Early portraits included the eminent psychoanalyst Dr Winifred Rushforth (1982), poet Kathleen Raine (1984) and Member of Parliament Tam Dalyell (1987). Since then commissions have been frequent, ranging from a double portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch (2016) to Professor Peter Higgs (2013). And within the last few months, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery unveiled Victoria’s most recent portrait, of HRH Prince Charles. A book will also be published to complement the exhibition, in partnership with Sansom and Co, featuring a range of authors, from gallery dealer, art historian and critic. The exhibition will also be accompanied by an engaging events programme for adults and families which will be announced at a later date. VICTORIA CROWE – 50 Years of Painting 18 May to 13 October 2019 City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE Admission fee: £6 / £4.50 concessions

Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence Director: Bryan Singer Running Time: 144 mins X-Men: Apocalypse is an American film following the X-Men as they team up from all around the world to defeat the first mutant who ever existed: the all-powerful Apocalypse, who threatens to destroy the human world and replace it with a better mutant planet. Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe came into being in 2008, the superhero genre has undergone an incredible revolution. Nowadays, we’re getting numerous top-quality comic book movies year on year, so when one that doesn’t quite match that comes along, it feels immensely disappointing, which is unfortunately the case with X-Men: Apocalypse. Before I get into why, however, I want to say that this isn’t a terrible film. It’s still got some great moments, the introduction of new characters like Jean Grey, Nightcrawler and Cyclops is great to see, and, had it been released twenty years ago, it wouldn’t seem so poor. However, modern superhero movies are so much more than just bad guys and good guys, and you need far more depth in a story to make an entertaining film. X-Men: Apocalypse, however, delivers a clunky, convoluted plot almost completely devoid of emotional depth, good characterisation or comic relief, and at nearly two and a half hours long, it’s a real slog to get through. My biggest issue with the film comes in the form of its narrative. Although it does improve by the end of the film, the first hour and twenty minutes are very poor. Spanning between Apocalypse’s creation millennia ago and the 1983, where the main story takes place, the film spends far too long flying to and fro around the world establishing various different characters’ back stories, and it turns the film into a mess. Yes, the plot eventually centres its focus in the final act as it heads towards the inevitable final battle, but for a good half of the whole movie, it’s very difficult to get grounded on what’s going on in the greater scheme of things, which is surprising considering how well Singer’s Days Of Future Past managed to handle its even more complex plot. Another problem with the film is that it feels very lifeless. One of the reasons that First Class remains my favourite X-Men film is because it had a sense of fun to it as well as being an impressive action spectacle. Apocalypse does have its obligatory Quicksilver scene (which is brilliant), but apart from that, there’s very little sense of fun here, making it almost as brooding a film as Zack Snyder’s DC movies, which was not great to see. But sometimes, with a degree of emotional depth and intrigue, a superhero film can still pull off a dark atmosphere. Again, however, Apocalypse fails to deliver. Throughout the whole film, there’s only one scene early on with a proper emotional power, which makes the rest of the movie feel very stagnant, so I just wasn’t able to get excited and wrapped up in the story. In the end, X-Men: Apocalypse is a big disappointment. Being a big, action-packed blockbuster that lacks any real intelligence or depth, it feels like it was made for release in 2003, but given the high quality that so many expect from superhero films nowadays, a film that comes across as a very stale, lifeless spectacle just can’t impress. It’s got its moments, but it’s generally a big disappointment, and that’s why X-Men: Apocalypse gets a 6.6 from me.

The wall, and blocks — Under the National Emergencies Act of 1976, the president of the US can declare an emergency for just about anything. As President Trump has considered using that authority to circumvent Congress and build a wall along the Southern border, that near-unlimited presidential power has gotten a lot of attention. Lots of presidents have used emergency powers in the past for, you know, emergencies. Trump’s declaration is categorically different, since the president is using his power to fund a border wall far bigger and more expensive than Congress was willing to pay for. [This is what you get for giving a big idiot a big stick.] More bricks in the wall — Two women who were detained and asked to show identification after speaking Spanish in a convenience store in Montana are suing US Customs and Border Protection, saying the CBP agent violated their constitutional rights when he detained them and asked to see their identification. [This is what you get for giving a little idiot any kind of stick.] Talking about idiots and sticks — Amid a measles outbreak in Washington state that officials have confirmed has spread to at least 51 people and suspect to have spread to over a dozen others, hundreds of people showed up to a rally on Friday to demand the right to keep exposing their kids to the possibility of contracting easily prevented, potentially fatal illnesses. 3D gun printer had a hit-list of lawmakers — A Dallas man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday after the authorities caught him with a partially 3-D-printed rifle and what federal prosecutors described as a hit list of lawmakers in his backpack. Fox News doesn’t want anti-Nazi content on its channel — Fox News has refused to air an ad for the short documentary film A Night at the Garden. The 7-minute movie, which was recently nominated for an Academy Award, explores the terrifying day on February 20, 1939 when thousands of American Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York. [That sick feeling when you see your grandfather giving a Sieg Heil … no, not me, I’m not American.] Sexual assaults still rising at US military academies — Congress is keeping watch and the military has introduced prevention programs. Yet sexual assaults at military service academies keep rising. The leaders of those academies got an earful when they testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee. Threats to life: US teens not sleeping or exercising — That is the unhealthy lifestyle of nearly all US high school students, new research finds. Nanoparticals cause blood vessel leaks — A research group in Singapore has found that nanoparticles can cause blood vessels to become ‘leaky,’ which could help cancer spread in the body. Yes, processed food shortens lives — A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine tracked diet and health over eight years in more than 44,000 French men and women. Their average age was 58 at the start. About 29% of their energy intake was ultraprocessed foods including instant noodles, soups, breakfast cereals, energy bars and drinks, chicken nuggets and many other ready-made meals and packaged snacks. They discovered an increase in early death. Post-surgery more lethal than HIVm tuberculosis and malaria combined — About 4.2 million people worldwide die every year within 30 days of surgery. That’s more than from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Data wars — Older satnavs and such devices won’t be able to use America’s Global Positioning System properly after April 6 unless they’ve been suitably updated or designed to handle a looming epoch rollover. Photo-sharing service 500px announced it was the victim of a hack back in July 2018 — Personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14.8 million accounts that existed at the time. Swiss invites hackers to sort eVoting — The Swiss government is offering bug bounties of up to CHF 50,000 (around $50,000) to anyone who can expose vulnerabilities in its internet-based e-voting system in a test later this month. In good news — India and China are actually managing to get [literally] greener. I know, surprising, right?

Washington D.C., 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 14, 2019 – DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, today announced the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has expanded its use of DT Research GNSS rugged tablets to all 15 of its construction management offices across the state and also use the tablets for biology, geology, roadway and wetland projects. DT Research worked closely with ODOT to design purpose-built rugged tablets that empower state workers to easily collect and transmit geospatial measurements in the field using GNSS Real Time Kinematic (RTK) technologies. “DT Research’s GNSS rugged tablets have enabled us to bring high-accuracy geospatial measurements to workers across the Department of Transportation, which has literally changed the way we work,” said Chris Pucci, Construction Automation Surveyor at the Oregon Department of Transportation. “The tablets have enabled us to save time, reduce costs and improve the accuracy of projects through ‘digital-as constructed’ measurements and real time data capture.” DT Research GNSS rugged tablets will be showcased at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting held January 13–17, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Conference attendees can come by booth #1030 to see DT Research GNSS rugged tablets in action. The tablets have a dual frequency GNSS module built-in, which provides stand-alone sub meter accuracy to centimeter level accuracy with Real Time Kinematics from GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO satellites. The tablets are compatible with existing survey and GIS software for mapping applications and bring together the advanced workflow for data capture, accurate positioning and data transmitting. “We now have essentially created one-person survey crews because the DT Research tablets are so much easier to use than a tape measure and paper to accurately calculate and record measurements during complex construction projects,” said Pucci. “Using the tablets saves us an average of $2,000 for every survey-grade measurement job that does not require a full survey crew.” “In addition, the tablets have provided us with a contract verification system by having highly accurate digital-as-constructed measurements that are delivered immediately and stored forever, which saves the state time and money by avoiding independent re-measurement checks due to billing discrepancies at the end of a project,” added Pucci. The DT Research GNSS tablets can store up to 1 Terabyte of data, making them ideal for field data collecting. Users can avoid down-time with a high capacity hot-swappable battery pack, which delivers 60 or 90 watts for up to 15 hours of continuous mobile communications. The units include Long Range Class 1 Bluetooth, which powers wireless connectivity up to 1,000 feet and 4G mobile broadband. “The simplicity of how the DT Research tablets work is amazing,” said Pucci. “Unlike complex professional survey equipment, the DT Research tablets are a Windows® based mobile device with a user interface that is familiar to workers. In just two hours, I can easily train state workers with diverse skillsets to measure quantity, linear features and volumes for a variety of projects – and they are ready to go.” The tablets run on Microsoft Windows® 7 Professional or Windows® 10 IoT Enterprise and are high performance devices with an Intel® 6th or 8th Generation Core i5 or i7 processor. The rugged tablet is designed for outdoor use with a brilliant LED-backlight, 800 nits sunlight-readable screen and capacitive touch. “We have found the DT Research tablets to be incredibility easy to manage and highly durable– we just turn them on and they work,” said Pucci. “In the three years that we have used the tablets, we have had very few technical support questions and they hold up well in different weather conditions. There isn’t a comparable product on the market at the price point.” The DT Research tablets are military-grade durable devices, yet lightweight – offering the versatility to be used in field-to-office settings. For use in harsh environments, the tablet is fully ruggedized to meet the highest durability standards with an IP65 rating, MIL-STD-810G for vibration and shock resistance and MIL-STD-461F for EMI and EMC tolerance. 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For those who are tired of seeing their hard earned money forcibly seized by the government and redistributed to those who refuse to contribute anything of value to society. Even the staunchest of conservatives and libertarians understands that a civilized society needs to provide some level of support for those who are sick, disabled, or simply going through a rough period like losing a job. Americans are a generous people and for the most part we’re all willing to chip in to make our country a better place. But we can all probably agree that within the social programs designed to provide for the truly needy there also exist hundreds of thousands of people who have made a career out of taking advantage of our good nature and living off government subsistence. These people are able-bodied and fully capable of performing labor of some kind, but like one woman who recently called in to an Austin radio show, they prefer to sit at home because they know they are “still gonna get paid.” I get to sit home… I get to go visit my friends all day… I even get to smoke weed… Our check’s gonna come in the mail every month… and it’s gonna be on time… and we get subsidized housing… we even get presents delivered for our kids on Christmas… Why should I work? But life for people like this woman may soon undergo drastic changes. In the State of Maine, it’s time for those who have been collecting welfare and providing the taxpayers nothing in return to get to work. A law passed in 2008 was put on hold because of the recession and high unemployment, but the governor has reinstated it and is now moving to force at least 6,000 of the state’s welfare recipients to either get a job or go hungry. Mad World News reports: It’s the end of the road for over 6,000 childless, able-bodied residents who have enjoyed regular free food on the taxpayer dollar. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services just told them it’s time to get up and do something to earn their keep or go hungry. The state will now impose a work requirement on welfare recipients without dependents, which must be fulfilled in order to receive food stamps. All adults without a disability must have to actually work for food, volunteer twenty hours per week, or enroll in an employment training program if they want to ensure their EBT card (Electronic Benefits Transfer) is loaded each month. People under the age of 18 and over 50 are excluded from that law. “We must continue to do all that we can to eliminate generational poverty and get people back to work,” Governor Paul LePaige said in a statement on the decision. “We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.” Welfare leeches have experienced a double whammy so far this year. First, an investigation found that free Obamaphone programs are plagued with rampant fraud and are soon to be reformed. And now, if you have two working arms and legs you actually have to get a job to earn money for food. Families and the elderly who receive the benefits will not be affected. The law only applies to individuals without dependents who have no disabilities, like for example, the woman from Austin who enjoys time on the couch smoking weed with her friends all day – weed that’s probably been purchased with your tax dollars. But Maine’s new policy isn’t popular for some people who have gotten used to free money: The entitlement mentality riddled with pathetic excuses for lazy behavior is particularly evident from Maine resident Melania, who whined about how she was particularly disturbed by the news that she would have to do something in order to receive her special “expensive” food. “I was just so upset after I got the phone call. It was a cushion especially for me because I have dietary restrictions; I have a lot of them, and the food is very expensive,” she explained. One commentator pointed out that working Americans who are seeing their paychecks dwindle because of high taxes forced upon them in the name of people like Melania also have restrictions to which they must adhere: “I have dietary restrictions also, I am restricted to the food I can afford.” Maine’s new policy, though unpopular with some, is a common sense requirement for those receiving temporary assistance from the government. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. It’s a natural law of survival.Facebook and Twitter, and follow our friends at RepublicanLegion.com. Become an insider! Sign up for the free Freedom Outpost email newsletter, and we'll make sure to keep you in the loop.

Here are a few of the more common issues that customers have run into when integrating the Apptentive Android SDK in their app. If the text isn’t contrasting with the background of part or all or the Apptentive UI, you may have forgotten to tell Apptentive which type of AppCompat theme your app is using. For more information, please visit our Android Interface Customization guide. Interactions Aren’t Displaying If you are confident that the criteria you have configured for displaying an Interaction when you engage a specific event has been met, check your logs. It could be that the criteria hasn’t really been met, or it has, but there is a problem displaying the Interaction. Criteria Hasn’t Been Met Sometimes you think that the criteria has been met, and that an Interaction you’ve targeted through the “Where” section of the Interaction configuration should display with you call Apptentive.engage() with that Event name. 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Celebrating a birthday this September? You’re not alone! According to data analyzed by Harvard researchers, this is indeed the most common month to have a birthday. September is, of course, also a time of transition—from summer to fall, vacation to the everyday school-and-work routine. So, if you find yourself pressed for ways to celebrate the big day (yours, or that of someone you love), we want to help make it as breezy—and exciting—as possible! Read on as we share a few of our top birthday tips for celebrating Stonewood style. The perfect locale That old real estate saying—“location, location, location”—is just as important when it comes to birthdays! Here in the Sunshine State, there are a great many beautiful destinations to choose from, too. One choice location is a real no-brainer: the beach! Whether you take a drive along the famous shores of Daytona Beach or dig your toes into the West Coast’s famous white sand, a birthday on the beach is a birthday well spent. You can even drum up the fun with beach-themed party favors, like personalized towels or fun novelty hats. You can wrap up your day with a dinner at your nearest Stonewood (perhaps dining on seafood dishes to complete the by-the-water trend!). Another great option is to see a concert or show for the big day—it can even be a surprise outing! Check with your local performing arts center or concert venue’s schedule to see what events are coming up. If you’re by Daytona Beach, an easy pick is the Bandshell Summer Concert Series, which offers free Friday and Saturday night concerts all through September. The classic combination of dinner-and-a-show is a surefire way to celebrate a memorable birthday. If the birthday guest is a nature lover, why not opt for a day of fishing, hiking or exploring the outdoors? The Florida Wildlife Corridor, a chain of natural lands that runs through the state’s entirety, is one worthy destination to consider, as are the local swamps and springs that surround many Central Florida cities. Wherever you roam, you can come back “home” to a beautiful dinner at Stonewood. A group dining room makes the experience that much more personal and comfortable all around! A themed occasion? You can’t go wrong with a fun, themed occasion! This is an especially fun option for those big milestone birthdays. For a loved one’s 21st birthday, for example, you can enjoy a night out sipping on signature cocktails (for fun, flavorful fusions, you can’t go wrong with a drink off our Modern Craft Menu!). Turning 30? A scavenger hunt for 30 things around town can culminate in a delicious dinner out. Of course, themes don’t need to really follow any rhyme or reason. Have everyone wear black and white for an elegant look, or try a birthday that follows the food and style trends of a specific decade, like the 80s—this one’s rich in great, silly hairstyles (think big hair) and fun outfits your guests can don for a great photo op. Gifts for every kind of foodie We can’t forget about gifts! You can never really go wrong with food or drink-focused goodies since these gifts naturally come with good times and cheer. Pick up your birthday guest’s favorite bottle of wine, or have them choose one while enjoying dinner here at Stonewood! Or opt for a kitchen staple they’ll use time and time again. “Food Dice” will let them leave dinner to chance when they just can’t decide on a meal; personalized oven mitts offer a custom, heartfelt touch; and food subscription services (to meals you can make at home, or perhaps deluxe wines and cheeses) ensure they always have a new, exciting dish to look forward to every month. Of course, the ultimate gift might just be a surprisingly simple one: a gift card to Stonewood! The promise of a delicious dinner out is a meaningful way to say “happy birthday,” “I love you,” “I care”… and all those other intangibles that good food can communicate with ease. We hope that these tips help you throw a one-of-a-kind birthday party! For reservations, special requests or ideas on how to make the big day even better, just call Stonewood today—we’re here to help make it a great one.